The secret is to remain silent when you have a lot to say.

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Sir Kevin Sinfield, knighted at Windsor today by the man who surprised him on a pitch in Wakefield last week. Seven challenges, one for every year Rob Burrow wore the 7, more than £11 million, and a friend carried over a finish line. Rob used to say everyone should have a friend like Kevin. Now he's Sir Kev.
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Nothing breeds corruption like lack of oversight. Devolved Government in the UK has been an absolute boondoogle for dodgy deals from Scottish trams and ferries to Sadiq's climate advisers. But the motherlode lies in Manchester if we still have journalists with a nose for a story.
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The Evidence Wasn't Deleted. So Publish It For months, the government's answer to who shaped its new definition of anti-Muslim hostility was simple: the evidence was gone. It never was. Will Garton, director general at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, has confirmed in writing that more extensive searches, including technical work by departmental IT specialists, found that "the underlying Call for Evidence response dataset is still held on Departmental systems." Nick Timothy was first told the material wasn't held. He kept pushing. The department eventually discovered that it was. This isn't some incidental pile of correspondence. The government's own published account calls the working group's evidence gathering "significant" and says the Call for Evidence "forms the basis of the definition that the government is now adopting." If this evidence underpins a definition ministers want organisations across Britain to use, the public has an obvious interest in knowing who submitted it and how it shaped the outcome, personal data protected where the law requires. Questions about the process predate the dataset reappearing. Rayner appointed Dominic Grieve to chair the supposedly independent group despite Grieve having written the foreword to the 2018 APPG report proposing the earlier Islamophobia definition. Akeela Ahmed, a panel member, had publicly championed that same definition. Harder to find among the five members is any voice for the free-speech or secularist case. Sir John Jenkins, a former ambassador the group approached, refused to take part, believing its direction already appeared predetermined. There's also a question ministers haven't properly answered. In June, James Cleverly asked specifically whether MEND, CAGE, the Muslim Association of Britain or the Muslim Council of Britain had submitted written evidence. The government replied that the consultation was open to everyone, that the department hadn't engaged with those groups, and that the working group hadn't met them. Cleverly hadn't asked who they'd met. He asked who had submitted evidence. That distinction matters. An organisation doesn't need to sit across a table from Grieve to shape an open consultation. It only needs to send a submission. That alone doesn't prove the process was captured, even though it might look that way. It does mean transparency matters more, not less, and the records now survive to provide it. Publish the submissions, redact what the law requires, and let the public see who tried to shape this definition. The deeper problem goes beyond Islamophobia. A department built national policy on what it calls a substantial evidence exercise. When an opposition MP sought the material, officials said it wasn't held. Only further pressure and a forensic search found it was. Garton's letter says ministers weren't involved in handling or retention decisions, so there's no evidence yet that ministers ordered anything concealed. There's every reason to ask how an official FOI process missed evidence important enough to justify government policy. The government can no longer claim disclosure is impossible because the evidence vanished. Its own director general confirms it survives. If the process was as rigorous as ministers maintain, publishing it should only prove that. If it wasn't, the public deserves to know that too. The question was never really where the evidence went. It's why, now the government admits it still has it, the country still isn't allowed to see it. "Rayner appointed Dominic Grieve to chair the supposedly independent group despite Grieve having written the foreword to the 2018 APPG report proposing the earlier Islamophobia definition."
Labour’s “Islamophobia” definition was almost certainly influenced by extremists. They covered it up and said all the evidence was deleted. I forced them to investigate. Now their top official says ministers lied, and they do still have records of it. There is zero excuse not to publish it.
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I don’t think this young woman will enjoy the world she is creating. Just a hunch.
DISGUSTING. Students in France desecrate a Church singing an Islamist Rap song with the lyrics “Bataclan, I shot him in the eye […] Only Allah can stop me” In support of the terrorist attack at the Bataclan venue
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100 VIPs on his kill list and he chose a 78 year old little woman. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the vile violent extremists of the far left. RIP #AnnWiddecombe
🚨NEW: Ann Widdecombe murder suspect Joshua Kerry ‘had list of 100 VIPs’ on kill list. Police are contacting those individuals, which include MPs and high-profile people after searching Kerry’s home and charging him with a terrorism offence.
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Brendan O'Neill sums it up
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Well this is pretty amazing. Hope it goes to #1 in the UK.
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News🇬🇧🔥: "My energy market analyses tells me, that the price of diesel in the UK will go to £2.50 to £3/litre this year. On the back of diesel increases, we will see food restrictions, massive rise in inflation, interest rate rises, fuel cuts and economic disaster". What economist Liam Halligan and veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil are discussing without naming it is #agenda2030. They are 100% correct in painting the economic destruction of the UK, however they are 100% to claim that these dystopian outcomes are simply the resultants of 'incompetence'.
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Thomas Hand’s young daughter Emily was abducted to Gaza on October 7. Her mother was murdered. Around 100 people he knew were murdered. Thirty friends and people he knew were kidnapped. And yet, within days, he watched the world’s sympathy move away from the victims of October 7. “That was forgotten within two days. My daughter was kidnapped for 50 days. My ex-wife, who is the mother of my two older kids, was killed. Shot in the stomach, shot in the neck. I have a hundred people that I know that were murdered that day. I have 30 friends and people that I know that were kidnapped that day. But within a few days, yes, we got instant sympathy and shock, shock, horror. But since, before we even went into Gaza, before we retaliated, there were already protests. It’s unbelievable. I don’t believe it.” thetimes.com/world/ireland-w…
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I don’t understand how a political party is allowed to deliberately & wilfully ignore uk law & still legally exist?
'I'm one of seven chairs of Green Party Women and we've all been suspended or expelled because we agree with the Supreme Court judgment on single-sex spaces for women.' ⬇️⬇️
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Times Square billboard honors the 1,200 victims of October 7th ahead of the 3rd anniversary. 🇮🇱 The faces of victims including Shani Louk have been displayed on a giant billboard to remind passers by of the massacre carried out by Palestinian terrorists.
Israel in New York
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Grim. But I'm glad it's out in the open. Now not even hiding in plain sight. Those weasel words of denial won't wash any more. This open declaration of war against Zionism, a belief in Jewish self-determination, espoused by the vast majority of Jews in UK and all the Jews living in Israel, means WE SEE YOU. Clearly. “Sunlight is the best disinfectant”
🚨The Greens have PASSED Zionism is Racism 1022 votes for 813 against Result met with cheers and waving of Palestinain flags.
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Curious that @LBC didn’t want this up anymore. @mrjamesob will no doubt apologize and show contrition 🤦🏻‍♂️🤪🤣
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Follow Max He is doing brilliant work exposing the rot in Academia They are not recruiting on merit.
Statement sent to my by an Oxbridge academic: ‘When I was interviewed for a job in an Oxbridge faculty, I was told by the chair of the job appointments panel that I was “appointable” but that the person who had been given the job had demonstrated “more experience in EDI” (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion). Applying for jobs at other universities [the situation was even worse]. When interviewed for the job in Scotland, I was similarly told that “EDI is one of the core pillars of the university”, before being asked how I would contribute to it. I thought that universities were hiring people to pursue excellence in research and teaching—instead, they are hiring people based upon conformity to the ideological zeitgeist. Universities do not want the best academics or teachers: they want ‘yes men’ who will not cause a fuss and only further entrench and spread the EDI drumbeat.’ ‘More broadly, universities should teach students about how to think in the pursuit of truth. Universities today, however, have descended into [farce].’ Many similar messages coming in. Follow me on here for more updates. Full statement is available using link in next tweet.
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How To Be Wrong
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Would you believe it @LBC
• 6th May 2026, James O'Brien accused Nigel Farage of lying about terrorist attempts to fire bomb his home • Today Joshua Kerry was charged with preparing terrorist acts against Nigel Farage • Today @LBC deleted the 6 May 2026 James O'Brien show from @GlobalPlayer 🧐 #OBINGO
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🚨 SUMMARY: Ann Widdecombe's murder suspect Joshua Kerry has been charged with a terror offence against Nigel Farage - It comes after Counter Terror Police reopened an investigation following Widdecombe's murder into an attempted firebombing at Farage’s home in April 2025 - Farage’s partner Laure Ferrari came home to find the front door damaged with a chisel or a crowbar and an empty can of lighter fuel in the porch, which had been squirted over the door - Farage believes the attacker was disturbed by a neighbour who had three large dogs and leaves for work at about the time the attack happened - Police interviewed Farage and Ferrari and seized 74 hours of CCTV from around the property - Detectives reviewed the footage but failed to identify the suspect and later closed the investigation, telling Farage the cameras had not captured them - When Counter Terror Police revisited the footage after Widdecombe's murder, they found the suspect and their car had actually been captured "over an extended period" - The detective who initially reviewed the footage is now being investigated by the IOPC over a potential "missed opportunity to protect the public" - Tonight, the CPS charged Kerry with preparing terrorist acts against Farage and others following a "hugely intensive" Counter Terror Police investigation
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Here are two career politicians who have never built a business that had to survive on its own. Their entire adult lives have been spent inside politics - drawing salaries, climbing political ladders, and spending other people’s money - without ever running a business, making a payroll, or answering to a customer who could simply walk away.
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We’re going to lose this country because two fully-grown men are fighting like teenage girls
Claremont (Blackpool) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 41.8% (-10.5) ➡️ RFM: 38.2% (New) ◼️ RES: 7.2% (New) 🌳 CON: 5.7% (-15.9) 🌍 GRN: 4.0% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.6% (-10.4) 🙋 Ind: 1.5% (New) No Ind (-14.0) as previous Labour HOLD. Changes w/ 2023.
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True Story 🇫🇷
France burning. Macron silent. EU silent. Labour silent. They’re always silent. They know what they have done. And have no idea how to get out of this horror show.
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