Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors. There is a process, obviously. Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir. Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy. And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent. So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass. Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite. Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

If UK Govt can pick & choose which judges take charge in these cases - then they effectivly control the outcome.

The media would have you believe that the guy in the middle is 'the left' these days

SCOOP: the EU knew there was ground to suspend the 🇪🇺-🇮🇱 Association Agreement already in 2017 Israeli crimes got exponentially worse since. But Germany & Italy – of all countries – continue to prevent EU compliance with the Genocide Convention @euobs ➡️ euobserver.com/221434/strict…

PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE WIDELY OMG. How F*CKING true... and applicable to today. Hannah Arendt on how otherwise "normal" people commit evil. (The banality of evil, using Eichmann as an example.)

An Israeli firm has interfered in elections in Scotland, New York, France, Angola and Togo, using large numbers of fake social media accounts to target politicians who have criticised Israel’s genocide in Gaza, French authorities have found. France’s disinformation watchdog, Viginum, said a private, Israel-based company named BlackCore had coordinated hundreds of accounts to post negative comments about Scottish first minister John Swinney in the run-up to the Scottish parliament elections in May. Swinney is one of the few UK politicians to have described Israel’s mass killings in Gaza as a genocide, saying last year that “it can’t be disputed”. He also led a ban on arms companies receiving financial aid if they supply Israel's military. Viginum said Swinney, the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) and the devolved government in Edinburgh were targeted between 6 January and 8 May, with BlackCore using at least 256 coordinated accounts to post around 1,400 comments. Swinney was targeted 652 times, the SNP 338 and the Scottish government 112. An SNP spokesperson said: “Over the course of the Scottish election campaign, the SNP observed that posts across our social media platforms were subject to an unprecedented level of negative reactions and comments from accounts which appeared to be AI-generated bots.” “Any interference in our democratic process must be thoroughly investigated,” they added. Ross Greer, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, called on foreign secretary Yvette Cooper to summon the Israeli ambassador over the scandal. “Or will she continue Labour's tradition of letting them [Israel] away with absolutely anything?” he wrote on X. BlackCore has described itself as “an elite influence, cyber and technology company built for the modern era of information warfare” that has worked with governments and political campaigns on “cutting-edge strategies, advanced tools and robust security to shape narratives”. Viginum chief Marc-Antoine Brillant said last week that BlackCore had meddled in French municipal elections but its activities were “not limited” to France. Brillant did not say who had been targeted in last year’s New York City mayoral election, but winner Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly called Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide. Before his election, Mamdani said he would enforce an international arrest warrant against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were he to travel to New York.

If you can’t afford to pay a living wage, you can’t afford to own a restaurant

Looks like the Board Of Deputies should apologize for this denial below and the fake ‘refutation’. news.sky.com/story/homes-in-…

Pearson Engineering is the UK subsidiary of Rafael, a weapons firm owned by the Israeli government. Their director is John Hutton, a Labour Party peer. The Israeli military used a Rafael spike missile to obliterate three British citizens working for World Central Kitchen.

Los #ulm5 llegan a la corte en donde los están juzgando por pertenencia a organización criminal. Son cinco activistas internacionales que están siendo juzgados en Alemania por irrumpir y dañar una fábrica de armas de Elbit Systems en la ciudad de Ulm en septiembre de 2025. Con Israel Aerospace Industries y Rafael, Elbit es una de las tres mayores compañías de armas de Israel. Sus aparatos son fundamentales en el genocidio y las guerras de Tel Aviv. Sus abogados lo describen como un “juicio espectáculo” y forma parte de una política de represión más amplia contra quienes emprenden acciones directas en favor de Palestina. La "organización criminal" es @palactionde Palestine Action Deutschland. Sus nombres son: Daniel Tatlow-Devally, Zo Hailu, Crow Tricks, Vi Kovarbasic, Leandra Rollo.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Arrestado en Arizona por llevar una camisetaUn hombre en un gimnasio de Arizona fue detenido por la policía solo por usar una camiseta que decía: “Israel Kills Children” (Israel mata niños) Miembros judíos del gimnasio se quejaron y exigieron su arresto. Esto es el nivel de represión que ya existe en Estados Unidos: decir una verdad obvia y documentada (Israel está matando niños en Gaza) se convierte en “delito”. Libertad de expresión solo existe si no criticas a Israel.

A Muslim woman was stripped, left bleeding, and says she was sexually assaulted in a police cell in Salford. You probably didn't hear about it. That's what happens to Muslim victims. Her name is Zayna Iman. She reported it. She filed the access request herself. She put the footage in order herself. She gave up her anonymity so you could know her name. Greater Manchester Police said the footage was corrupted. Then they said it never existed. Hours of it are missing. Her arrest has since been confirmed as unlawful. The footage that does exist shows her carried unconscious into a cell. Jeans removed. Underwear cut off. Left face down and topless. Her medical records documented bleeding from intimate areas. The officers are still serving. Her words. openDemocracy. August 2023. "This inquiry is to mislead the public into thinking the central case, me, is on board with what they are doing. I am not." Her story has been covered for five years. Sky. Channel 4. BBC. The Independent. The Telegraph. The Daily Mail. A victim in every paper. A Muslim woman in none of them. When we are the suspect, our identity is the headline. When we are the victim, it disappears. This is not surprising. Parliament published its first ever inquiry into gendered Islamophobia in January 2026. HC 571. Women and Equalities Committee. The evidence it heard: 1 in 5 Muslim women experienced a hate crime in the last 12 months. 80% never reported it. Hate targeting Muslim women is more likely to contain sexual aggression than hate targeting men. She was stripped while unresponsive and left exposed for hours. Because they are visible. This week the press rediscovered her. Not for her. Because the man who oversees that police force is on a ballot paper. Andy Burnham said he would help her every step of the way. He commissioned a review. She was written out of it. She calls it a PR stunt. Since then, she is still waiting for the footage, and he is on his way to Parliament. He made no public statement on the rally where a speaker said "we need to remove Islam from this building." Last month, on a stage in London, a group stripped off niqabs to chants of "take it off." They called it freeing Muslim women. In a cell in Salford, a Muslim woman had her clothes cut off while she lay unconscious. No one called that anything. Kellie-Jay Keen stood on that stage. She describes herself as a women's rights activist. She said Muslim women live in a "fabric prison" and cannot speak for themselves. She has said nothing about Zayna Iman. A woman with no faith in the headline. A footage file that keeps disappearing. A review she was written out of. A name the press only remembered when it could be used. Five years in a fight she never asked for. Still standing. Her name is Zayna Iman. She is a Muslim woman. Say both. Report: islamophobiauk.co.uk Keep us alive: ko-fi.com/islamophobiauk Substack: substack.com/@islamophobiauk IG: @islamophobiauk

Estan bajando los video de los goles de Iran y todo lo que tenga que ver con ellos en este mundial, EEUU es una maquina de censura... Ya me bajaron uno... va de nuez apoyen #RTMasivo Mientras esten en est aplataforma circulenlos plis #mundialdefútbol2026 #Irán

Updated. Friends of Israel in the UK government: CABINET Prime Minister Deputy Prime Minister Chancellor Foreign Secretary Defence Secretary Education Secretary Business Secretary Work & Pensions Secretary Science Secretary Treasury Secretary N.Ireland Secretary Chief Secretary OTHER MINISTERS Cabinet Minister Foreign Minister Home Office Minister Housing Minister Health Minister Energy Minister Business Minister Transport Minister Environment Minister Culture Minister Solicitor General

Anne Read: "of course I do not class myself as a terrorist. I accept that I am classed as one by a govt that supports terrorist regimes" Trudi Warner: "One of the tricks that authoritarian govts play is to label opponents.. as terrorists" Both women were arrested yesterday.

Reminder to any aspiring Prime Ministers: approving new oil and gas licences is a climate crime. It won't deliver energy security and it won't take a penny off our bills. The only way to deliver cheaper, secure, homegrown energy is to invest rapidly in renewable power.

We have written to the @metpoliceuk yet again concerning the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ last Sunday. We've uncovered additional evidence that properties located within the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim were advertised for sale at the event by Tivuch Shelly Real Estate Agency. 🔗 icjpalestine.pulse.ly/xolwad…

Former home secretary Yvette Cooper was warned that proscribing Palestine Action could prejudice the trial of 6 activists but went ahead anyway. Documents seen by Declassified show the CPS advised Cooper not to proscribe Palestine Action within 6 months of any Filton hearings. declassifieduk.org/palestine…

The sentencing of the Filton 4 as terrorists is a national disgrace and a profound threat to the civil liberties of all of us. My latest for Double Down Newswatch. youtube.com/watch?v=CyaI81XI…

US sanctions. Here it what you need to know. In the clearest words I have on the matter.