Did corporate finance, produced a film, committed a fraud. Served my time. Write, speak and make films about prisons, justice and crime.
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This is such an obvious wah. Only somebody phenomenally gullible would take seriously such Looney Tunes imagery. They must be pissing themselves laughing in Hereford.
Grenfell described how she was told that soldiers dropped detainees in Afghanistan from forklift trucks “for fun”. She said she asked someone what they did in their spare time in the country and they said they got forklift trucks and “drove really fast then slammed on the brakes so they fell from a height”.
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Reform has just announced Raheem Kassam will not be appointed to a role within Nigel Farage's top team, and will be "returning to the US shortly".
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The Ministry of Justice was told it must disclose data on convictions by nationality.
It is now going to court to block this information entering the public domain.
What are they hiding?
The ruling was unambiguous. The Ministry of Justice must disclose migrant conviction data for 2018 - 2024.
Rather than comply with this decision, the Labour government has launched a legal campaign to continue the migrant crime cover-up.
Donate to help us fight for the truth: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/qleJP…
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What's the 'steel man' response to this? That actually some of them were prosecuted? That there's a good explanation for why they weren't?
Lawyers on the left are generally *insistent* that there is no "two-tier" approach to policing. I'd love to hear this question answered. Because it's a fair question.
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New: Lawfare “persecutions” have led to the biggest exodus from the SAS in its history and pushed it to the point of existential crisis - two prominent veterans tell The General and The Journalist podcast
thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
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My @thetimes column:
In 1908, the Daily Express asked: “Is Britain going to surrender her maritime supremacy to provide old-age pensions?”
Pensions and old age benefits now soak up three times as much as defence.
Serious countries don’t behave like this.
times-comment.com/e484d2f1
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‘How the West lost its will for mass deportations.’ @TheFP thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-c…
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Lee Anderson's letter to Electoral Commission CEO Vijay Rangarajan, threatening a judicial review:
"Your comments strongly align with the specific requests made by the Government’s highly leading letter of 29th August and can be argued to take a pre-judgmental tone as to the conclusions of The Electoral Commission’s review.
As these comments call the operationally independent nature of The Electoral Commission into question, Reform UK is putting the Electoral Commission on notice that its current approach to the review appears to be unlawful.
We would challenge any recommendation made by The Electoral Commission, and subsequent decision, in favour of decreased spending limits on the grounds that its conclusions were coloured by bias arising from predetermination."
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Need to get rid of a base? Give Mauritius money. Need to keep a base? Give Mauritius money. Need to keep the African Union happy? Give Mauritius money. Need to keep the US happy? Give Mauritius money. There is nothing that cannot be achieved by giving Mauritius money
Exclusive: The UK is exploring strengthening ties with Mauritius including helping it access more aid money, in a bid to manage relations after Trump vetoed the Chagos deal for the foreseeable
In a meeting at the UN this week, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Mauritius’ Foreign Minister Dhananjau Ramful that Britain could support it in a range of areas, from trade to accessing climate financing and backing economic and development projects, sources say
Ramful says Miliband pledged “total collaboration” in identifying areas where Britain could provide support to Mauritius
Officials confirm they want to strengthen bilateral ties with Mauritius but stress they are not reopening negotiations over the deal nor offering it new British taxpayer money
One official says it’s essential to keep Mauritius onside given the Chagos deal now won’t proceed until Trump leaves the White House
UK officials are very concerned that in the longer-term, Mauritius could sue Britain or move closer to China, increasing the risk of Beijing interfering with the Diego Garcia base. They still think the sovereignty deal is the best option to secure the base post-Trump
In the meantime the UK needs to keep relations with Mauritius going. The island nation faces a budget deficit and needed the £165 million a year it would have got from Britain over the next three years if the deal had gone through
Even if the UK does not directly offer Mauritius more money, there are ways it could help it access financing such as through British International Investment, a development finance institution controlled by the government, and other international climate financing schemes
With @KB2803 @EllenAMilligan: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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"Reports of violent incidents and harassment on rail services "rose substantially" last year, figures from the rail regulator show."
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It's now been a full decade since the Brexit vote. These are icons of a past Britain which Sir Ed and his supporters find easier to parse.
Mo Farah, whom Davey spent a chunk of his speech wanging on about, has recently moved to Qatar to raise his children in a more explicitly Islamic culture.
He might well be a figure who evokes some of the issues facing Britain, but not in the way Davey thinks. What was on offer here was pure nostalgia for a credulous faithful: exactly what Davey accuses Nigel Farage of peddling.
✍️ Madeline Grant
Article | spectator.com/article/the-fa… | @Madz_Grant
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so true
Britain cannot make women safer by refusing to ask difficult questions about crime and migration, warns @llggeorgia
thecritic.co.uk/why-wont-phi…
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If you assume each arrival will have a lifetime net-fiscal cost of £350,000, then the arrivals just yesterday will cost the British state £273.4 million.
BREAKING: A total of 781 migrants crossed the English Channel on Wednesday - the highest number for a single day this year
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Or to put it another way, the British state's failure to stop the asylum scam yesterday wiped out the entire lifetime tax contribution of about 1000 people earning an average salary.
If you assume each arrival will have a lifetime net-fiscal cost of £350,000, then the arrivals just yesterday will cost the British state £273.4 million.
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Winning one seat, losing Reform ~200, keeping Labour in government and the Tories in opposition.
Seems Restore is quite successfully achieving everything it set out to do.
Important news - a huge MRP poll has put Restore Britain on double digits in 118 seats.
7% nationally, with enormous support in South Wales, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Essex, Kent, all across the North and more.
This is historic progress for a party that is just seven months old.
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Unconvinced that “can you do that in M&S” is a useful standard to which to hold our special forces
EXCLUSIVE: Special forces soldiers believe they are “untouchable” and not all of them are the heroes they think they are, according to a former female civil servant who worked alongside them.
Monica Grenfell, who was employed at the Special Air Service (SAS) headquarters in Credenhill, near Hereford, for three years, said some of the elite troops were “feral” and it was “the nasty characters who really ruled the roost”.
She has given evidence under oath to the Afghan Inquiry and has now been interviewed by @thetimes
thetimes.com/article/5706a8a…
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