As Jim Rohn once said… “ Reading is essential for those who wish to rise above the ordinary” Visit a bookshop, any bookshop, & browse the contents of intelligent minds. An author has sat down, to firstly think, and then, as idea’s come, to write just for you. #Books📕

DANGER THERE”S AN E-BIKE ABOUT All e-bikes should require registration plates, & riders insurance. They need regulating, inc a drivers licence. Many delivery riders put mums/kids, old people, & the disabled in serious danger every day. @telegraph telegraph.co.uk/money/consum…

Enjoy today. It’s the only today there will ever be. #ThinkPositive

Join over 50,000 people in signing the FSU’s petition to SAVE JURY TRIALS. David Lammy is ploughing ahead with plans to restrict our ancient right to trial by jury. He claims it is the only way to tackle the backlog of 80,000 cases in the Crown Court. He is wrong. The Institute for Government has said his plan would save only 2 per cent of Crown Court time, not the 20 per cent promised by ministers. Judges, lawyers, MPs and victims of crime have all warned against the Government’s proposals, saying they would undermine public trust in the criminal justice system. FSU research has shown that those charged with speech-related offences are almost twice as likely to be found not guilty in a Crown Court trial before a jury than in a magistrates’ court without one. If David Lammy gets his way, more people will be punished simply for exercising their right to free speech. Sign below 👇

Denmark's Bold Stand: When Animal Welfare Meets Religious Tradition 🇩🇰 In 2014, Denmark drew a line in the sand. Every animal entering a slaughterhouse must be stunned before slaughter. No exceptions. No religious exemptions. The reason? To minimize suffering in an animal's final moments. 💔 This meant the end of unstunned kosher and halal slaughter practices that had previously been permitted. Animal welfare advocates cheered. The government was clear: protecting creatures from extreme pain takes priority. 🛡️ But the response wasn't unanimous. Jewish and Muslim communities pushed back hard, arguing that Denmark was trampling on their religious freedoms and centuries-old traditions. Some observers agreed, saying governments should protect both animal welfare AND religious rights. ⚖️ The law's supporters had a counterargument though: stunning animals doesn't ban religious meat production entirely. It simply adds one step—a humane one—before the traditional process continues. Today, halal meat is still produced in Denmark when this requirement is met. Kosher meat, however, is largely imported from elsewhere. 📍 Denmark isn't alone. Other European nations have adopted similar standards, turning this into a defining debate of our era: tradition versus compassion, rights versus welfare. So we ask you: When deeply held beliefs clash with animal suffering, where should society draw the line? Do you agree with Denmark's choice?

These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with. Prison is where they belong. Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.

“Freedom of speech in Britain is under attack. People have shown immense tolerance, but we will not accept the destruction of our liberty in the name of multiculturalism,” writes FSU Director of Case Management @BenBarryJones. According to a 2021 YouGov poll, nearly half the population believes freedom of speech is under threat, while 57 per cent of Britons say they feel compelled to censor what they say — and even what they think. We have a Government that openly shows disdain for the right to free expression, and a Prime Minister who appears uncomfortable with the truth. Read more below 👇

No matter how much the government and the left want us to be ashamed of our history, traditions and culture, we should rightly celebrate our great Great Britain. Happy Birthday Your Majesty.

🚨 WHEN FORMER SPY CHIEFS MI6 START WARNING THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE LISTEN Sir Richard Dearlove did not mince his words. Britain, he says, is being governed by a "bunch of students" who fail to grasp the dangers facing the world. His concern is not party politics. It is national security. And when a former head of MI6 openly questions whether the government understands the scale of the threats ahead, that should concern everyone. Because intelligence chiefs rarely speak this bluntly unless they believe something has gone badly wrong. @TVKev

The behaviour of Police Scotland towards that 12-year-old girl was appalling. Misinformation? 😡 @PoliceScotland

Just so you know who this man is, @ZackPolanski believes that someone smashing a sledgehammer into a police woman's back is legitimate and justifiable "direct action". When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Islamic Religious Instruction, Combat Training And Hezbollah Sympathies. Welcome To The Peak District's Spiritual Warrior Camp. Sayed Hussain Makke ran his Spiritual Warrior camp again this month. Same location, Darwin Lake in the Peak District. A camp built around Islamic religious instruction, evidently aimed at young Muslim men, combining wrestling and combat training with theology sold under the language of God-centric masculinity and brotherhood. A year ago a 16-year-old who attended said it felt like Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's late leader, was with us again. Makke has mourned Hezbollah fighters, including a British friend who died serving the proscribed group, and has also glorified senior figures in Iran's Revolutionary Guard. He attended Nasrallah's funeral and praised the size of the crowd as proof the resistance was alive and well. Hezbollah's military wing has been proscribed in Britain since 2008, its political wing since 2019. Supporting a proscribed organisation carries up to 14 years in prison. Alicia Kearns, former chair of the foreign affairs select committee, has been reporting Makke to counter-terror police for months. This week he flew back into the country. Nothing happened. Her message to the Home Office was blunt. Months ago she handed the Government evidence about Hussain Makke. This week he walked into Britain unchallenged. If that is what stopping at nothing looks like, the Government's promises to Britain's Jewish community aren't worth the paper they're written on. Counter Terrorism Policing London's response was a sentence built entirely out of conditional clauses. Reports get reviewed. Reviews get passed on. Nothing closes the loop. When journalists reported on the camp, Makke's response, issued through a legal group, did not deny attending Nasrallah's funeral. It accused the Jewish Chronicle of being an asset of a hostile foreign regime and said British authorities should instead focus on tracking, capturing and imprisoning home-grown Jewish extremists who have served in the genocidal Israeli military. That statement was made by a man about to run a residential camp for teenagers, for the second year running, without having been arrested. And there's a dimension to this that gets lost when every story involving an Islamic preacher gets filed under one heading. Makke is a Shia cleric trained at a seminary in Lebanon under Hezbollah influence, now based in an area of southern Lebanon with a significant Hezbollah presence. He is not representative of British Muslims generally, the large majority of whom are Sunni and have no connection to this. But what he is building, year on year, looks exactly like the organised, identity-based recruitment that has reshaped local politics in towns like Kirklees: discipline, cohesion, a shared sense of grievance and mission, instilled early and reinforced annually. Whatever you think of that model, it works. The institutions meant to be watching for it are, by their own account, still reviewing. That asymmetry is the real story. A man with an open paper trail of pro-Hezbollah statements, openly hostile to British Jews in writing, runs annual camps for teenagers while an MP's repeated referrals sit in a queue. Henry Nowak's case showed what happens when officers are trained to treat a racism accusation as the primary fact requiring response. This is the same reflex from a different angle. A fear of how acting might look appears to carry more weight than a documented paper trail of supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation. Kearns has handed over the evidence. The question, asked directly, is whether anyone will open the file. "Makke has mourned Hezbollah fighters, including a British friend who died serving the proscribed group, and has also glorified senior figures in Iran's Revolutionary Guard."

This was the statement released by Police Scotland after the footage of the incident in Dundee went viral last year. It seems that everything was done to give the impression that the young girl was the aggressor and the migrant couple the victims. A court decided yesterday that it was the other way round. Blatant disinformation. Police Scotland owe everyone an explanation.

What’s it like to be so stupid nobody bothers to follow you. And you mean ‘to literally Satan’ not ‘to literal Satan’. Plus you spit your infinitive. So ungrammatical as well as stupid.

Nope. Twitter/X is not a public good or a service you need to use. Nor is it a monopoly. If you don’t like it, bin it. That’s how consumer choice works. And the market economy.

When I have to take advice on geopolitics from a wedding photographer then I’ll know my career is over. Bye.

Presumably there is a full police investigation @harrow_council ?

Of all the myths that have undermined policing in Britain, perhaps the most pernicious is that polices forces should 'reflect the community they serve'. No, says Joanna Gray: they should be good at their job. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/13/…

What a load of absolute twaddle. Equating Bezos with style is like comparing Gianni Versace with Del Boy! telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

It certainly is, and the prospect of food shortages will grow large unless there is a change toward the UK producing more of its own, rather than covering productive farm land with solar panels which could go on buildings & over roads & railways. #Farms telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…