Never let anyone tell you that journalism doesn't generate change. In November I revealed that Dutch Police reports undermined West Midlands Police's justification for banning fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv from Birmingham. I also spoke to the Mayor of Amsterdam who disputed their account of events in her city involving Maccabi fans. Further scrutiny exposed more inaccuracies. - Their 'intelligence' report cited a football match that never happened. - They were forced to apologise for wrongly telling MPs that this wasn't the result of a "hallucination" by artificial intelligence. - They also retracted claims that the Jewish community backed their decision to ban Maccabi fans. Today, after scrutiny by journalists like myself and @Gabriel_Pogrund and the tenacity of parliamentarians like @NJ_Timothy and @LordIanAustin , some accountability has finally been taken and the chief constable has decided to leave his position early.

From the sentencing remarks - which this foul woman Gyll King would rather ignore - because she's so blinded by her politics:

Description by @libertyhq of what Palestine Action activists did at Elbit Systems as “civil disobedience” is a gross distortion of reality. They caused £1.2m damage, left staff in fear, and one activist attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine.

Incredible contempt for our special forces shown by a member of the governing party.

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more. This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead. Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards. What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning. Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to. I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

While I do accept that @carolecadwalla does know something about journalists harming their own reputations, the idea that she can sit in judgment on @TrevorPTweets is risible - it’s like Erich von Daniken dissing Niels Bohr

Today’s vibe. (You probably have to be both British and terminally online to appreciated this one)

Defence minister blasts Birmingham Lib Dems for allying with Green deputy leader who called Hamas leaders martyrs thejc.com/news/politics/al-c…

Barbara Castle famously never had any time to write anything!

Remember fury over Nick Clegg’s student fee U-turn? Now Lib Dems could face another backlash after pacts with Greens thejc.com/opinion/analysis/r…

Incredible. Given what is going on in defence and the world more broadly this is… quite something.

Jimmy Corry has lived on this Belfast street for 13 years. Now he’s homeless. He’s lost sentimental items forever, including his dad’s possessions. He told me that he shares the anger many feel about the attack on Monday night but that burning down houses won’t solve anything.

Ash described the 2011 riots that saw an Ealing pensioner punched to death by a looter as “taut, tense, purposeful” and added that they showed the “explosive power that can be unleashed when marginalised people see themselves reflected in each other’s struggle”. I suppose it’s ok to torch people’s homes, as long as it’s done by marginalised people?

Quite apt in this case...

"Change medication." Carolin Bohl was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7. In a new article, her mother recounts the harrowing details of her final moments. She also speaks about the humiliation she faced in a room with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and many Free Palestine activists. In response to a post with the quote, Francesca's writes to a mother who lost her innocent child, "Change medication." This is not some random person spreading hate on the internet. This is a United Nations Special Rapporteur, who would rather post a retort to a grieving mother than condemn terrorists who murdered, raped, and kidnapped civilians.