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Astonishing opening to @WyreDavies's report on @BBCr4today one the Israeli strike on Qatar. Every single element is grotesquely wrong:

"There's no love lost in Israel for Hamas or its political leadership. Most people in Israel hold them directly responsible for what happened on…

— Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) September 10, 2025

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"There's no love lost in Israel for Hamas or its political leadership. Most people in Israel hold them directly responsible for what happened on October 7."

"No love lost" – as if Israel has some sort of petty squabble with the organisation which committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

"Hamas or its political leadership" – as if there are two wings to Hamas, the military and the political, rather than (as every nation which proscribes it recognises) it being one terror organisation. Not for Davis, it seems.

"Most people in Israel hold them directly responsible for what happened on October 7" – as if there is some sort of question mark over who was responsible, and only a majority in Israel think it was Hamas.

This is the level of the BBC's reporting. For which we are forced to pay under threat of imprisonment.

This is your periodic reminder that the "global community" got really, really mad when Israel arrested Eichmann in Argentina.

— come into my tent (@boom_tentpeg) September 9, 2025

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Also the hostage rescue at Entebbe. Also the bombing of Iraq’s nuclear reactor. Etc. etc..

The BBC – Bowen: Diplomacy in ruins after Israel strikes Hamas leaders in Qatar.

What diplomacy, ffs? This is Hamas: not some kind of liberation movement, as the BBC love to think, but a terrorist group committed to the destruction of Israel. Not people interested in a deal, but people dedicated to an Islamist world-view that has no place for Jews – any Jews – in their vision of Palestine.

Hamas and the rest of them – Hezbollah, the Houthis, Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and their sponsors in the Qatari and Iranian governments  – aren't interested in peace with Israel. They and their predecessors and the surrounding Muslim countries have been fighting for the destruction of the Jewish state ever since its foundation. Peace and statehood have been on offer since 1947 and have been spurned on every occasion.

The Gazans had autonomy and the opportunity for prosperity in 2005 but instead they opted for the genocidal ideology of Hamas, and permanent warfare – enabled and encouraged by UNRWA. It can't go on. Some Middle East countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are, perhaps, beginning to realise this. Not the BBC though.

This paper is just as much fun as you might expect from the abstract. pic.twitter.com/Z7BypqrrZ7

— Jon Pike (@runthinkwrite) September 9, 2025

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We need to preserve these gems for future generations.

This is grim.

Russian officials continue pursuing an anti-Finland rhetoric:

Finland is becoming a hotbed of fascism, and the irresponsible policy of its leadership could lead to a conflict with Russia, Andrey Kartapolov, head of the State Duma's defense committee, said.

According to him, he… https://t.co/vBG9djAgiz pic.twitter.com/xGqy1W4FCW

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 9, 2025

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According to him, he feels "very sorry for the Finnish people, who do not deserve the fate and situation they now find themselves in."

"But if this utterly incompetent policy of Finland's current leadership leads to any tragic consequences, then that will be on their conscience. We know how to defend our interests, and we are prepared for any possible developments," he said.

or white international reporters, now the image of a white woman mingling ‘authentically’ with societies that are arguably some of the most hostile environments for women is a new prestigious symbol.

But yes, read it all.

sand upon thousand of saps slaughtered in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine for no reason beyond the survival and aggrandisement of Kim Jong-un, they're fooling the people in the cruellest way.

Well…what else is new.

This image from Korean Central Television of Kim Jong Un mourning while caressing a coffin containing the remains of a North Korean soldier who died on deployment to Russia was displayed in the background of an artistic performance at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater on June 29 with Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova in attendance.

his deranged, obsessive, anger-filled man. This has been going on for ages….

I am in the throes of writing all this up for the Critic, the magazine where I have a regular column, but wanted to give a bit of a taster here, since that won’t be online for a while. In the meantime you can read an excellent overview of Watson’s career by blogger Stuart Campbell (Wings Over Scotland), another of Watson’s victims, and Stuart’s overview of the similar activities of one of Watson’s associates, Stephanie Hayden. The details are scarcely credible, but I can assure you that the reality is actually far worse — Stuart couldn’t possibly include it all because it would be impossible for anyone to follow.

For now, I’ll just finish by saying that this has been an incredibly dispiriting insight into the state of policing….

s://twitter.com/_CryMiaRiver/status/1965155081038561553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 8, 2025

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Full interview on YouTube here.

Added:

In the (unmissable) full interview, we are watching the ivory tower crumble and seeing the naivety of academia laid bare. Guyatt, like too many academics I’ve worked with in my time working in and with universities, has lost touch with what’s happening in today’s world.

An… https://t.co/CVSZ1HYewp

— Levi Pay (@soppystern) September 8, 2025

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I posted the other day about Cathy Larkman, visited by the police for "deadnaming". Here she is on Talk TV:

"The POLICE force spent 10 months investigating me for calling a transgender activist ‘Fred’ instead of ‘Freda’ on social media."

"Two police officers SHOWED up at my house over three tweets I wrote years ago.@TVKev pic.twitter.com/P1HpHS9kU5

— Talk (@TalkTV) September 8, 2025

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It's the College of Policing we have to thank for the advice to police forces that they should "record all 'non-crime hate incidents' – incidents that are perceived to be motivated by hostility but are not criminal offences". How well that's worked out we can see from the Graham Linehan farce.

And now:

Transgender women are at risk of female genital mutilation, the College of Policing has claimed.

New policing guidelines issued by the taxpayer-funded quango state that trans women could be forced to undergo female genital mutilation, despite them being biologically male.

The suggestion that they might be forced to suffer mutilation specifically intended for young girls has been branded as “insulting” to victims.

It's certainly insulting to our intelligence. They'd need to have the female genitals somehow installed before being brutally removed.

Introduced in August, the guidance states that “as well as women and girls”, these orders protect “any other person who has female genitalia… and is at risk of harm from these practices and procedures”.

This includes “intersex, non-binary, trans men and women, with or without a gender recognition certificate”.

The college is now reviewing the guidance following the UK Supreme Court ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex under the Equality Act 2010.

Oh dear. Maybe it's time for the College of Policing to be excised.