A statement so plainly obvious that it shouldn’t even have to be said. The governments handling of legacy has been shameful. I told the Secretary of State that on Tuesday in London. The UUP stand by our veterans and former police officers who served their country.

RT @WestHam: Wishing happy Passover to all Hammers celebrating!

Anyone who has been involved in the murder or supports the murder of police officers, has no place commenting on, or should ever have any input into policing.

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If you want to understand how far Britain has sunk, look at the case of Lorne Castle – the Dorset officer sacked for tackling a masked 15-year-old knifeman and telling him to "stop screaming like a bitch." For those who don't know the story: Castle brought down a youth suspected of assaulting an elderly man, carrying a blade, linked to drug dealing, and causing chaos in Bournemouth. The teenager wasn't harmed. The knife fell from his pocket. The arrest was clean. And for this, a decorated officer with a decade of unblemished service was dismissed for "gross misconduct." A country that punishes a man for stopping a knifeman is a country that has lost its mind. This wasn't brutality. It was policing – real policing, the kind that keeps streets safe when they're full of gangs, blades, and feral teenagers who know the system protects them from consequences. Castle was at the end of a ten-hour shift, responding to warnings of gang fights and violent offenders still at large. He did what any sane society expects of its police: he acted fast, acted hard, and removed a threat. That should be praised. Instead, it destroyed his career. The panel didn't care about the knife. They didn't care about the elderly victim. They didn't care that Castle had been awarded for saving a woman from a freezing river only months before. They didn't care that the youth had links to drug crime. No – they obsessed over a single phrase. A fleeting remark. A scrap of rough language in the middle of a dangerous arrest. One sentence outweighed a decade of duty, grit, and courage. That tells you everything about who now runs British policing. Castle wasn't sacked for wrongdoing. He was sacked because the new managerial clergy inside UK policing despise old-school officers. They fear "perception" more than they fear armed criminals. They want constables who speak like counsellors, not men who can handle a blade-wielding thug in a dark street. They have built a system where morale collapses, crime soars, and frontline officers walk on eggshells while criminals laugh in their faces. After Castle's dismissal, drug dealers mocked the police openly: "Touch us and you'll get fired." They understood what the panel didn't – the leadership had handed the streets to them. And here is the heart of the rot. A police force that sacks its bravest men is a force that has forgotten its purpose. A leadership so scared of bad optics that it treats a violent youth with more care than its own officer has no claim to public trust. This is what happens when institutions are captured by ideologues and risk-averse bureaucrats who view policing through the lens of PR, not duty. They would rather sacrifice a good man than stand up to activist outrage or a headline about "rude language." The public saw through it at once. They backed Castle, raised over £130,000, and praised a man their own force tried to break. They understand what the police hierarchy refuses to admit: courage keeps a country safe. Cowardice destroys it. And sacking a man for doing his job is an act of pure cowardice. Castle will appeal. I hope he wins. But the verdict we should fear isn't the one that ended his career – it's the one that reveals what Britain has become. A place where a teenager with a knife commands more institutional sympathy than the officer who disarms him. A place where leaders punish bravery and reward disorder. A place where the state turns its own protectors into targets. This is how a nation decays: not in a single collapse, but through a thousand small betrayals of the people who still hold the line. And Lorne Castle was one of them. "A country that punishes a man for stopping a knifeman is a country that has lost its mind. This wasn't brutality. It was policing – real policing, the kind that keeps streets safe when they're full of gangs, blades, and feral teenagers"

Easy to stand pitch-side talking about spoiling “the flow of the game” when it comes to attending a player with a suspected brain injury, all seems relevant until you stand graveside. Don’t talk Player Welfare is a priority then worry about the “flow of the game” RIP Benjamin ♥️

When oh when will the ridiculous far left wake up and see what’s actually happening here? These masked men grow in confidence as they do as they please and nobody stops them. It will get worse. #OpenYourEyes

Just after watching the Killing Fields documentary. Republicans lament about genocide in Gaza but conveniently won't acknowledge that the PIRA attempted to eradicate the Protestant community in rural Fermanagh. Now they're holding an event to celebrate this thuggery, ureal.

To reiterate: Jews will be banned from an area in the UK because the locals won’t be able to hold themselves and not try to slaughter them.

Start. With. Your. Own. Party.

I’m a brown Arab, and I’m telling you, the so-called “Greater Israel project” is a hoax. Israel has never sought to expand beyond defensible borders. If it hadn’t been attacked in 1948, no Arabs would have been displaced. If it hadn’t been attacked again in 1967, Israel wouldn’t have taken control of the West Bank or Gaza, even though the West Bank is historically Jewish land, known for centuries as Judea and Samaria. If Yasser Arafat hadn’t walked away from Camp David II in 2000, there would already be a Palestinian state. If terrorists hadn’t targeted Israeli civilians, there wouldn’t be a single checkpoint. And if, after Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, the Palestinian leadership had chosen to build a thriving, peaceful city instead of launching rockets, there would have been no wars from 2006 to 2023. Every war, every occupation, every checkpoint has been a response, not a pretext.

I believe Ms O'Neill (formerly Doris) grew up in Clonoe. That's located between Coalisland and Lough Neagh, in east Tyrone. If you have read my blog posts about the attack on Loughgall RUC station, you'll know the terrorists involved were members of the 'East Tyrone Brigade' of the IRA. This was a notorious unit within the IRA, which was involved in numerous murders, many of them blatantly sectarian. Michelle O'Neill's dad was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade, as was one of her uncles and at least one, maybe two cousins. I wrote about one of her cousins, who was killed by the SAS in 1991, along with two other well-known terrorists. They were in the process of trying to commit a murder. One of the terrorists was carrying a tomahawk (an axe), and we have to assume he was going to use it on what would have been the murder victim. That's an example of the type of person operating within the IRA in that part of the country. They were hate-filled, cold-blooded murderers. So, if we are going to indulge in the old nature versus nurture debate and ponder on how much our environment shapes us, maybe Michelle should ask herself if she was in anyway shaped by members of her 'local community' in east Tyrone rather than the British state.

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#fbf to last year’s Nicky Hayden Memorial Ride stopping by the cemetery to say a few words in honor of Nicky before heading back to his statue where the ride began. It’s almost time for this year’s ride which will be June 8th! Please spread the word!! #motogp #rideonkentuckykid

His wish to be identified as Northern Irish is largely to do with the fact he’s Northern Irish.

From now on I don’t want to see any media outlet refer to a man in a dress who rapes, abuses or murders someone as a woman! These are NOT our crimes.