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Well we must admit we didn't see that one coming. Source - Wings over Scotland - 12/10/23 Link Although maybe it’s just because over the last few years the concept of an SNP MP having any sort of principles has become so wildly implausible. There’s no doubt that Lisa Cameron’s card was already marked within the party. She was about to be deselected and replaced with this oily chancer (the one on the right, not the lovechild of Frankie Boyle and Kevin Bridges): Grant Costello is yet another from the SNP’s neverending production line of ambitious woman-hating young gay men who’ve never had any kind of job or life outside politics, having previously been the chair of the sexual-abuse-and-bullying-infested Scottish Youth Parliament. Remarkably, he’d already been publicly backed by a number of SNP politicians to oust Cameron as the candidate next year. Cameron, meanwhile, had been ostracised in the SNP chiefly for raising concerns about sex pest Patrick Grady, and as a result the party ...

 The Met's supine response to pro-Palestine rallies has brought back every foolish judgement the force has made   The way officers' actions are perceived is critical for an organisation as besieged as the Met   If the force doesn't work to improve its image, the consequences for law and order could be disastrous Source - CAPX - 11/10/23 Link When the Metropolitan Police was established in 1829, its progenitor, the then Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel, ensured that its ability to maintain law and order and to prosecute criminality rested immutably on the approval and respect of the people. He would repeat ever after the aphorism, ‘The police are the public and the public are the police’. These Peelite principles of policing have seemed at best theoretical over the past few days. In the wake of shocking, violent attacks on Israel by Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, hundreds of pro-Palestine activists gathered at the Israeli embassy in Kensington to celebrate, chanting, ‘Is...

 ‘With the return of high-intensity conflict on the European continent, we have no other choice,’ says French Commissioner Thierry Breton. Source Politico 10/10/23 Link BRUSSELS — Thierry Breton wants Europe to get serious about its defense — including by developing an aircraft carrier and missile defense shield. Speaking at a defense conference, EU Internal Market Commissioner Breton — whose portfolio also includes defense — said the European Commission “must present an ambitious European defense investment program” that makes sure fledgling efforts to build out production of ammunition and missiles can be sustained while also developing flagship initiatives like naval vessels and next-generation missile shield programs. A European defense industrial strategy is planned for November 8, a Commission official said, but Breton said it’s time to start discussing an aircraft carrier vessel to patrol the seas, a so-called Eurodome air defense system and a space-based “European threat de...

 The Labour leader now says all the right things about Gaza. But if Labour had actually won in 2019, would he? Source - Daily Telegraph - 08/10/23 Link Labour's conference buzzes with nice people in suits, the Union Jack is bustin’ out all over, and the fringe is back where it belongs – outside the gates, distributing leaflets about Palestine.  But a part of me cannot forget that only four years ago the crazies ran the show. Keir Starmer served on Jeremy Corbyn’s front bench. He didn’t have to do it; braver men resigned. Yet, all these lovely MPs I now run into – who have little to say and don’t even believe a word of that – campaigned twice to put a “friend” of Hamas in No 10. Journalists are dismissed as parochial for asking if Israel will overshadow this conference. I’d say it casts the theatre of normality into sharp relief. In the worst attack since 1973, Hamas terrorists have slaughtered and kidnapped innocents, defiled their bodies and shared their work on TikTok. Cue t...

 Ismail Haniyeh watched and celebrated the invasion from the safety of his Qatar office Source - Daily Telegraph - 08/10/23 Link Ismail Haniyeh, the leader behind Hamas’ deadliest ever attack on Israelis, watched it unfold on television with delight from the safety of Qatar. Footage from inside his Doha office showed Haniyeh celebrating the attack with other Hamas officials, before they prostrated themselves on the carpet and praised God. In his mind, no doubt, there were plenty of reasons to cheer: this was the single deadliest attack ever launched on Israel by Hamas, one that will define his legacy and perhaps the course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Saturday’s rocket barrage and dawn raids on Israel no doubt required meticulous planning and approval from the highest levels of Hamas’ leadership, both those in Gaza and in the Doha office. But it may also have been coordinated with Hamas’ regional allies, such as Iran and the Lebanese group Hizbollah, who can freely meet wit...

The legendary actor's first GB News show will air this month Source-  GB News 06/10/23 Link John Cleese has divulged the terms of an “extraordinary offer” from GB News as he gave fans an insight into what they can expect from his upcoming 10-part show. The legendary actor said the experience of producing a show for The People’s Channel has been “joyful” as a result of the creative freedom it afforded him. Speaking to Michelle Dewberry, Cleese also took a swipe at the BBC by questioning their creative approach to programmes. The comedy legend urged fans to tune into GB News’ Free Speech Nation this Sunday for an exclusive airing of the trailer for his new show ‘Dinosaur Hour’. He revealed to Dewberry what he was told by GB News when first approached about the prospect of creating the show, which will begin airing on Sunday 29 October at 9pm. “They made me the most extraordinary offer that has ever been made to anyone in the history of television”, he said. “They said, ‘would you lik...

 First Minister needs to work out how the SNP plans to avoid annihilation at the next election ahead of the party's conference Source - Daily Telegraph - 06/10/23 Link Humza Yousaf has nine days to save both his job as First Minister and the cause of Scottish independence following the SNP’s brutal “kicking” in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. His party conference opens in Aberdeen on Oct 15 and delegates will expect him to spell out how he plans to stay in power and take the party into a new independence referendum after such a staggering defeat, for which he will receive most of the blame. But while he has proved a pretty lacklustre leader, he has also been bedevilled by the legacy of Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership.  Her policy agenda, especially gender reform, alienated voters, and the mystery of the “missing £600,000” rumbles on despite a two-year police investigation.  She and her husband have been arrested and freed pending further investigation, as has t...