Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.” x.com/travelingflying/status…

"She is a sister....don’t loot here..go there” Is heard as stores are looted in Paris. Speaks volumes.

Bro is high as fцck on US national TV.

The Arab slave trade trafficked over 20 million Africans into the Middle East. But today, there are hardly any Black populations in some of those countries. And it is not because they returned home. No. The reason is far darker than you imagine. The first thing Arabs did when they captured enslaved African men was castrate them. Their testicles were crushed between rocks. Sometimes the penis was cut as well. Thousands died from the procedure. This ensured that these men could never father children with enslaved women. It also meant they could never have children with their own women. They were stripped of their ability to reproduce, denied the chance to build families, and worked to death.

Mirroring riots from the USA, where pallets of bricks were delivered to the centre of disorder. Pallets of glasses bottles dropped into the middle of French riots. Find out who did this, and you're half way to finding the truth.

Every single sentence in your post is untrue. Labour’s 2002 ‘deal’ had very little long-term impact on migrants trying to sneak into the UK by lorry/container/vehicles. It simply moved from Sangette to other routes. Between 2014-2019 55,000 came in that way — an underestimate since many came in undetected and disappeared into society. Unlike boat people, nearly all of whom are counted. So it’s an obvious nonsense to say people weren’t being sent back because nobody was arriving. Tens of thousands were arriving. They switched to small boats when major advances in technology, perimeter defence of lorry/container parks and detection made lorries etc too risky to take. That’s why, from 2018 onwards, the small boat numbers grew fast. Nothing to do with EU, Brexit, Dublin rules, fairy dust etc. Why do you peddle such falsehoods?

Anthony Myers - who has admitted in this piece to working on (fiddled) statistics put out by the BBC on migrant crime - currently works for the Ministry of Justice. That's right, the very department currently going to court to block the publication of crime data has employees previously engaged in lying to the public about the issue.

This beautiful film is around 100 years old. It shows France’s elegant society in the 1920s, capturing the lively boulevards, cafés, and historic landmarks in lovely detail.

My thoughts are with Charlie Latchford. This is awful but now part of a pattern - every underhanded media ploy to paint the party as evil makes these dangers worse. Unsurprisingly the mainstream media doesn’t seem to want to cover this vile incident.