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They should have made this into a film 🤣🤣. I don't usually laugh at kids crying however 🤭. Absolutely hilarious.... i can't believe how relaxed she was.... not like the two lads 😬🤣🤣

Monty is the ultimate success story. He came from humble beginnings… Never knew his dad. Separated from his birth mother at an early age. Started life with nothing. Now he owns a house, two cars, and has a personal chef and chauffeur. Never give up on your dreams.

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89 year old is fined £100 because he does not have a smartphone capable of downloading an App to pay for his parking. This is the UK today. We should demand the ability to pay with cash. pressfortruth.ca/89-year-old…

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If you want to understand how far Britain has sunk, look at the case of Lorne Castle – the Dorset officer sacked for tackling a masked 15-year-old knifeman and telling him to "stop screaming like a bitch." For those who don't know the story: Castle brought down a youth suspected of assaulting an elderly man, carrying a blade, linked to drug dealing, and causing chaos in Bournemouth. The teenager wasn't harmed. The knife fell from his pocket. The arrest was clean. And for this, a decorated officer with a decade of unblemished service was dismissed for "gross misconduct." A country that punishes a man for stopping a knifeman is a country that has lost its mind. This wasn't brutality. It was policing – real policing, the kind that keeps streets safe when they're full of gangs, blades, and feral teenagers who know the system protects them from consequences. Castle was at the end of a ten-hour shift, responding to warnings of gang fights and violent offenders still at large. He did what any sane society expects of its police: he acted fast, acted hard, and removed a threat. That should be praised. Instead, it destroyed his career. The panel didn't care about the knife. They didn't care about the elderly victim. They didn't care that Castle had been awarded for saving a woman from a freezing river only months before. They didn't care that the youth had links to drug crime. No – they obsessed over a single phrase. A fleeting remark. A scrap of rough language in the middle of a dangerous arrest. One sentence outweighed a decade of duty, grit, and courage. That tells you everything about who now runs British policing. Castle wasn't sacked for wrongdoing. He was sacked because the new managerial clergy inside UK policing despise old-school officers. They fear "perception" more than they fear armed criminals. They want constables who speak like counsellors, not men who can handle a blade-wielding thug in a dark street. They have built a system where morale collapses, crime soars, and frontline officers walk on eggshells while criminals laugh in their faces. After Castle's dismissal, drug dealers mocked the police openly: "Touch us and you'll get fired." They understood what the panel didn't – the leadership had handed the streets to them. And here is the heart of the rot. A police force that sacks its bravest men is a force that has forgotten its purpose. A leadership so scared of bad optics that it treats a violent youth with more care than its own officer has no claim to public trust. This is what happens when institutions are captured by ideologues and risk-averse bureaucrats who view policing through the lens of PR, not duty. They would rather sacrifice a good man than stand up to activist outrage or a headline about "rude language." The public saw through it at once. They backed Castle, raised over £130,000, and praised a man their own force tried to break. They understand what the police hierarchy refuses to admit: courage keeps a country safe. Cowardice destroys it. And sacking a man for doing his job is an act of pure cowardice. Castle will appeal. I hope he wins. But the verdict we should fear isn't the one that ended his career – it's the one that reveals what Britain has become. A place where a teenager with a knife commands more institutional sympathy than the officer who disarms him. A place where leaders punish bravery and reward disorder. A place where the state turns its own protectors into targets. This is how a nation decays: not in a single collapse, but through a thousand small betrayals of the people who still hold the line. And Lorne Castle was one of them. "A country that punishes a man for stopping a knifeman is a country that has lost its mind. This wasn't brutality. It was policing – real policing, the kind that keeps streets safe when they're full of gangs, blades, and feral teenagers"

The constant deluge of bad news in the UK has made me decide to have a go at a digital detox for a couple of weeks, no X, no Facebook, no Insta, no ipad and no mobile phone. Will be painful.

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This from @Geoffrey_Cox was titanic - a truly beautiful speech. He outshone those sat opposite. They could only watch. And nervously laugh. This should be seen by every new MP to understand what they do, & every new barrister to understand what we do.

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon. Keith should not be underestimated. Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use. Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service. 8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat. 9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record. 10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment. 11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property. 12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four. 3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith. This system has no inputs. It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago. Keith is not aware he is saving the planet. Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point. It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm. Keith got out again.

“The stupidity of that decision allowing international lawyers of a dubious provenance to determine the national interest of the United Kingdom is a disaster for transatlantic relations.” The special relationship has reached a new low, says @AfNeil.

Veer is finally here! The ambulance has just arrived at the Elephant Hospital campus, and after everything Veer has endured, this moment feels deeply personal to us. The long journey, the anxious hours, the quiet prayers from all of you, they’ve all led to this. As the doors of the ambulance opened, you could see the curiosity in his eyes. He paused for a second. The air was different. The ground felt new. Slowly, he stepped forward, leading with his trunk, sniffing, exploring, trying to understand where he was. There was hesitation, yes. But there was also courage. Watching him take those first few steps into safety is something we won’t ever forget. None of this would have been possible without you, every message, every share, every bit of support that carried him here. Now, Veer’s real journey of healing begins, with us, at Wildlife SOS.

Is the Afghan culture compatible with British values? I’m speaking about this because a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton was taken from a playground and subjected to a horrific sexual assault. A child. In a place that should have been safe. That is why I’m speaking. The only reason the monster was identified is because he used a payment card issued to him to buy her a drink afterwards. That is the reality of what has just happened in this Britain. Between 2012 and 2014 I spent two years in Afghanistan working for the European Union as a hostile environment close protection officer. I worked predominantly in Kabul, but I also travelled from Kandahar all over to Helmand Province. I didn’t learn about that country from headlines. I lived and worked there. What I saw stays with you. I saw women excluded from public life. I saw girls denied education. I worked on projects addressing domestic abuse and sexual violence against women and children, and the resistance to even naming those harms was extreme. Many women had been conditioned to believe abuse was normal. That doesn’t evaporate just because someone crosses a border. That’s why I’m blunt about values. In Britain, women are equal under the law. Girls are children. We have a legal and moral framework that treats women and children as full human beings. Those principles are not optional. When people come to Britain, those standards apply. Any ideology or practice that excuses harm to women or children should be confronted, not accommodated. British values are simple. Women are equal. Children are protected. The law applies to everyone

Wow

The interviewer tries. He really tries. But @rickygervais isn’t having it. Even sneaking in a brilliant current cultural reference, saying ‘I can’t look back about something offensive I might have said, & say ‘Well, sorry about that…I was only 50…” Genius. 🤣

Everything about this was perfect, but my favorite part was the world shaking with that initial paw stomp

Exactly

I laughed more than I should've