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For anyone who needs their soul to be soothed: Vaughan Williams ~ The Lark Ascending youtu.be/ZR2JlDnT2l8
There is a fantastic Van Eyck exhibition at The National Gallery in London. 21 November - 11 April. Showing together all of his portraits.
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Fun Fact:
Lib Dem MP for Piddington @CalumMillerLD has mentioned Gaza 23 times in his posts.
Piddington, not so much.
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There were publicly available photos of this guy standing right next to some of the most senior jihadists in the world, who he worked for. So the UK…granted him ‘asylum’. And then, because that wasn’t good enough, they granted him full citizenship. So to repay them, he went and stabbed an innocent bloke.
Oh and he did that *while* he was being watched by security services (raising the questions 1. Why grant him citizenship if he’s considered so likely to commit a jihadist attack that we have to then get security services to track him endlessly? and 2. If you do bother to track him, why then let him stab someone while he’s being tracked?).
And while all this was going on, he was *also* reported to the UK by Germany for suspected involvement in a plot to murder Jews.
Where to even begin. The people who oversaw all of this are the so-called ‘adults in the room’, btw.
A story for our deranged age.
Suspected Hamas member guilty of UK knife attack bbc.in/4BX8bU5
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Sixty-nine offences. Sixteen burglaries. Sexual activity with a child.
He takes over a family’s flat, changes the locks and STILL avoids prison.
And he gets so much in benefits … he donates to the Labour Party.
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The curious case of Mohammed Alfatih Naim is worrying evidence that Britain really has lost the plot.
His father was a senior Hamas politician.
He’d been a bodyguard for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
He’s been detained in Egypt on suspicion of helping Hamas smuggling.
He entered Britain illegally in 2014.
Yet a year later we granted him asylum.
Then British citizenship.
Facing trial for an altercation with a bailiff at his Brum home, some numpty of a magistrate ruled he couldn’t be named for 100 years.
Thankfully The Sunday Times challenged that, which is why he can now be named.
He is now facing extradition to Germany, where prosecutors accuse him of orchestrating a planned massacre of Jews in Berlin and Vienna last year.
This is how he thanks us for asylum and citizenship.
Which he was given under a Tory government.
But has this Labour one, as it welcomes ‘refugees’ from Gaza, learned any lessons.
Not if we’ve lost the plot.
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Small boat migrant Moustafa Elbohy is facing jail for horrific rape in central London homeless camp. The victim stopped to talk to him because she lived near a 'lovely Middle Eastern community' and liked to hear people speaking Arabic courtnewsuk.co.uk/small-boat…
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BREAKING: Senior policeman, exposed as Admin of large racist WhatsApp group, placed on restricted duties is one of dozens of Muslim police accused of ‘making and publishing racist and derogatory comments about white people’ - nationwide IOPC investigation focusses on 40,000 posts which addressed subjects including ‘white trash at theme parks’ (via @DailyMail) dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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🇫🇷 Today marks 11 years since the Paris Bataclan attacks, where we remember the 130 people who were slaughtered.
On the evening of 13 November 2015, coordinated Islamic terrorist attacks struck the Bataclan concert hall, restaurants and the Stade de France. One hundred and thirty lives were taken and hundreds more were left with lasting injuries.
The barbarity of the attacks were not fully disclosed by the authorities and media.
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A village of 300 people is about to be forced to live alongside almost 1,300 illegal migrant men.
And all because the Government refuses to control the border.
They are choosing to put the public, particularly women and children, at risk. It's totally, totally wrong.
BREAKING
Angela Rayner has approved plans to house up to 1,256 single male migrants at MOD Bicester in Oxfordshire - next to the village of Piddington - despite the overwhelming opposition of the local community
The decision comes after Andy Burnham said that people in more affluent areas of the UK must 'play their part' in housing asylum seekers
Piddington was so incensed that it even held a symbolic referendum on leaving the UK as a protest against the plans. The government has decided to override their concerns
This is the letter sent to Greg Smith, the local Tory MP: 'Application by the Home Office for full planning permission for the temporary change of use of the former defence storage & distribution centre site in connection with the phased provision of non-detained asylum accommodation at MOD Bicester (A-site), Bicester Garrison, Launton Road, OX25 1AE.
'I am writing to inform you that today the Secretary of State has granted planning permission, subject to conditions, for the Home Office’s application described above'
Doesn't sound like a decision has been made yet on RAF Barnham or RAF Linton-on-Ouse
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Fake visa scam exposed as migrants buy fast track Global Talent visa for £100,000.
BBC undercover report found company using faked art to gain visas for migrants and families.
The Home office are investigating!
How much of this is going on to abuse 'legal' migration rules?
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Angela Rayner. 3,177 objections. One letter of support.
You read them. Or someone did. Cherwell District Council said no. Oxfordshire County Council said no. The NHS said no. The Police and Crime Commissioner said no. Four bodies that answer for that ground, and you overruled every one.
You did it with a power that takes the decision off the council and puts it on your desk. The Home Office applied. You approved. Same government, same signature, same afternoon.
Your reason was that demand remains high. Asylum applications fell 21% in the year to June. 85,891. Demand is falling and you are building.
The Home Office says a final decision to proceed has not been taken. So you granted permission for something your own department has not agreed to do.
Piddington has 358 people. No shop. No pub. No post office. The plan is 1,256 men on its doorstep. 285 villagers voted to leave the country. 26 voted to stay.
You gave them six weeks to go to court, and the merits are not allowed in the room.
You decided. They counted. Six weeks.
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Meet Mrs Robinson, photographed in Bethnal Green, East London, around 1902 by John Galt.
She earned just one shilling (5p) for stuffing a mattress with straw, using heavy striped fabric known as ticking. Hard, poorly paid work that helped keep many East End families afloat.
The photograph was originally titled "Mrs Robinson – a shilling a mattress."
#EdwardianLondon #EastEnd #SocialHistory
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NORD-EST DE LA FRANCE EN 1917 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Des soldats britaniques dans la boue des tranchées...
N'oublions pas leurs soufrances et leurs sacrifices.🧐
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Huge crowds surging through the streets of London, waving Union Jacks and cheering. An incredible film of the Armistice celebrations on 11th November 1918.
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➡️ Whether it be the seafront, parks or just simply on the way to school, there's been horrific attacks on women and girls in the last 5 days in England that have barely made the news...
Saturday 7/11
🔺️Bognor Regis Seafront: A 16YO girl raped in the early hours. A 20YO man arrested. No charges confirmed yet.
🔺️Southampton Common: Woman in her 30s raped in the early hours. 42YO man arrested and bailed.
Sunday 8/11:
🔺️Oxford Hollow Way recreation ground: A woman in her 20s was raped. 33YO man arrested. No charges confirmed yet.
Tuesday 10/11:
🔺️Worcester: Attempted rape of 13YO schoolgirl at 8.15am. No arrests made.
🔺️St Helens: a woman was sexually assalted and strangled in an alleyway. 31YO arrested and charged
These are just the ones I've seen reported.
One thing is for sure, women and girls are not safe in the UK 🇬🇧
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80-year-old Brenda Raymond is fighting for her life after someone sprayed her with flammable liquid and set her alight outside her own flat in Watford.
She was just coming home.
In modern Britain, an elderly woman can’t even walk back to her own front door without being used as kindling. No arrests. Neighbours in shock.
Just another quiet Monday in the new, vibrant, progressive utopia.
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BBC Children in Need is rattling the tin again this Friday. Before you give, it's worth knowing where some of the money has gone.
Charlotte Gill has been through the grants. £15,000 for a Belfast campaign about asylum seekers not being allowed to play semi-professional football. £99,000 for LGBT+ youth sessions in Derbyshire. £45,000 to Cumbria LGBT Pride. £120,000 to the Proud Trust for "transgender, non-binary and gender questioning young people."
People drop their coins in the bucket for disadvantaged kids. NOT to bankroll campaigns and identity politics. Ask where your tenner is going before you hand it over.
ALT Pudsey Bear, the yellow BBC Children in Need mascot with a spotted eye patch, smiling in an office with desks and a computer screen behind him. BBC logo in the corner.
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To the negative commenters here’s some clarification. The average adult (much less kid) could not produce a drawing like this with a tutorial, tracing or otherwise. I've taught many adult students, leading them step by step, demonstrating, and giving feedback. The vast majority would still struggle with this exercise. The point of this post is not that he’s royalty (I couldn’t care less) but that a young person produced an impressive colored pencil drawing. All artists go through a learning process and that doesn’t detract from the art itself. Tutorials, classes, whatever, how else do you learn? In my professional opinion, he has exceptional ability for his age and that should be encouraged.
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We’ve issued an official warning to Lewisham Islamic Centre for “inflammatory” comments, requiring the charity to improve it's handling of speakers and events hosted at its premises.
Read more: gov.uk/government/news/offic…
ALT Official warning notice issued to Lewisham Islamic Centre by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on a dark blue background.