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"I always delight in...cheating a person of their premeditated contempt."
So find me instead at:
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This from a man who is in a position of power to help reduce more than 40k countrymen and women shoot each other *every* year, and does nothing.
Let him who is without sin etc etc.
Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.
Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.
It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.
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Compare and contrast with this week.
14 Mar 2021
We must not allow the tragic murder of a young woman turn into attacks on men and attacks on the police.
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
May 18
Le décès de Etienne #Davignon nous remplit de tristesse. Sa proximité avec Jacques Delors et la détermination de son engagement pro européen 🇪🇺 font de Davignon une personnalité qui a marqué notre histoire. Il va manquer à nous tous et au dessin européen. @DelorsInstitute
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People mock the EU as “bureaucracy”.
But that bureaucracy turned a continent of borders, currencies and wars into a space where 450 million people can travel, pay, call, study and work almost as if it were domestic.
That is not boring.
That is civilization becoming usable.
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May 10
You would think that with £5 million, he could afford some decent cyber security
May 9
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says a “serious” hack of his computer led to the revelation that he received a £5m undeclared gift
Reform UK is “exploring” its legal options
[@thetimes]
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
May 10
It’s also been a while since I’ve updated the @commonslibrary summary of the UK constitution, which now takes account of a reformed House of Lords, more paid UK Ministers, a new Senedd voting system and much more:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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May 9
Jack McConnell calls for the post of Scottish Secretary to be abolished thetimes.com/article/ac4c13f…
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May 8
Peter Kellner’s 3 early points
1 Reform did less well than last year
2 Labour and Tories did better
3 Greens vote spread too thinly to convert share similar to Lab/Con/LibDem into seats
kellnerp.substack.com/p/yest…
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
You're going to hear a lot about how Reform is now a national party.
It's not true, as John Curtice sets out here. They're doing very well in areas that voted strongly for Brexit and not very well at all in areas that voted strongly Remain @Prosper_UK_
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
May 8
Finally someone has said it.
Political reporting is hard. Impartiality is hard. It should be. But partisan pundits decrying impartial journalism because it doesn’t fit their own bias is a very dangerous road to go down.
Anyway. Carry on.
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
May 7
8th Annual Sir Julian Priestley Memorial Lecture, by Jan Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon & chaired by Leena Maria Linnus
@EPinUK co-Hosted with @euromove
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏰ 17.30 - 21.00 BST
🏠 Europe House
🖥️ Also online
tickettailor.com/events/euro…
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
May 3
Immigration was the single most powerful weapon mobilised by the No campaign. So let’s start with Brexit’s false prospectus and finish with the Boris wave
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🚨NEW SERIES🚨
🇻🇪 Liberator of Latin America: Simón Bolívar vs The Spanish Empire
Who was the man who helped liberate Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia from Spanish rule?
And how did a privileged teenage boy become South America’s great revolutionary?
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The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades on financial markets ahead of public announcements by President Trump, including during the Iran war. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod bbc.in/4vVxjYm
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
.@CER_EU is looking for a new director.
Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below
buff.ly/6LT2jsf
Deadline for applications 22/05/26
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
Mar 17
Thank you Liam McArthur MSP. You were calm, compassionate, coherent and poured energy into the case for assisted dying over 5 long years. You couldn’t personally have done any more. I’m sure thousands of Scots support you.
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
Mar 14
Spot on. We’ve come to fetishise “local representatives” far too much, a symptom of our politics becoming smaller and more parochial. What we need is quality national politicians. If they have to be “parachuted” in, and they spend more time in SW1 than the constituency, so be it.
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John Edward 🌍 retweeted
Mar 13
Here's the hard truth nobody wants to say out loud. 👇🏼
A society works when the middle class and lower middle class have rising incomes and feel aspirational about their lives.
Right now they feel economically desperate.
And that desperation is real and it is valid.
But Trump has provided zero policy solutions. None.
He's an avatar for their anger. I understand that. I genuinely do.
But what they want right now is to wreck the entire system.
The system that produced the greatest economic miracle in the history of the world.
Not tweak it. Not reset it. Wreck it.
And you know who else wants that?
Vladimir Putin.
Our adversaries have one goal: make the British and American people believe their elections don't matter.
That their institutions aren't legitimate.
That the system is rigged against them and their vote is meaningless.
Make them cynical. Make them feel left out. Make them burn it down.
Trump feeds that narrative every single day.
Not because he's a Russian asset.
But because his entire political existence depends on people feeling like the system is broken beyond repair.
And our adversaries are sitting back and watching it work.
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I haven't carried a banknote in at least 4 years. And when I did it had a mouse, a bridge, or a distillery. Who do that bind me together with?
Mar 11
This may seem like a small deal to some, but these reminders of our history bind us all together.
Turner, Turing, Churchill, Austen. In the past it's been Elgar, Darwin, Newton, Adam Smith.
We are losing those small moments in our day to remember what makes this country great.
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