đŸ‡ș🇩 Dr Paul Lashmar, Journalist. Emeritus Fellow at CityStGsUoL. Book: Drax of Drax Hall Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto). @paullashmar.bsky.social

Joined January 2009
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Sir Michael, I am amazed you were not included in the King's birthday honours.
This genuinely is the best news I have heard for ages! 🎉 I dare say most of the country is opening a celebratory bottle & cheering! During these difficult times this is the sort of fantastic news that puts a spring in everybody’s step! Thank God for our wonderful Royal Family.❀
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Hussam Ebu Safieh, "İsrail'in rehineler için ölĂŒm cezası" ile öldĂŒrĂŒlecek olan Filistinli doktorlardan biridir (diğer 95 doktor arasında). Onu öldĂŒrmelerine izin verme. Bunu yeniden yayınlayın.
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A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved. B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by
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Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf
Russia was behind arson attacks targeting UK PM Keir Starmer, BBC reveals bbc.in/3Q3lOy1
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Revealed: The ‘Burnham bandit’ who claims to have gone around Makerfield tearing down Andy Burnham placards Rupert Lowe calls him a ‘good man’ before the driver adds he’s planning to tear down another 50 in one evening Burnham’s team has reported to Greater Manchester Police
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🚹 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects. ​They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere ​Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.
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Very important piece of research on the disaster that is Brexit.
Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.
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I suspect that even after an eventual change of regime in Iran, this false hope, betrayal even, that led to thousands more deaths, will not be forgotten.
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Israel destroyed the mausoleum of Simon Peter, apostle of Christ, in the village of Shama in southern Lebanon 1,925–1,995 years years old . Christians of the world, Wake up!!

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PL on 'peace' deal: At the moment the situation with Iran is far worse from a western perspective than it was before the war. It will be interesting to find the real White House background to the whole mess. Did Trump get bad intelligence and advice?
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Though it looks more like a MOU than an agreement. Many key points including nuclear are still not finalised. The vile Iranian regime played Trump.
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“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

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A pregnant Muslim woman was kicked in the stomach in a Co-op car park in Milton Keynes. He called her the “f***ing problem with this place,” attacked her “clown clothes”. Hit her with a wine bottle and bag of ice. Kicked her in the stomach twice after she told him she was pregnant She lost her unborn twins. The judge called her attacker a “shabby racist.” A ‘SHABBY’ racist. Not a TERRORIST. Not a MONSTER. He served under 2 years. He’s been walking free since 2020. Samsam Haji-Ali’s twins are still dead. If he’d been Muslim, this would have led every news bulletin as a terror attack. Thirty worshippers were inside the Zainabia Islamic Centre when a petrol bomb was thrown onto the roof. They put out the fire themselves. These attacks didn’t all happen this week. They happened years apart. That’s the point. People forgot. Our system doesn’t. The Women and Equalities Committee’s first-ever inquiry into gendered Islamophobia, published January 2026 (HC 571), documented over 6,000 verified incidents in 2024 — a 165% rise since 2022. 73% of assaults came after the summer riots. 65% targeted women and girls. The Muslim Women’s Network UK surveyed women before and after the riots. Before — 16% feared for their safety. After — 75%. Home Office figures show anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 19% last year. Muslims are the target of 44% of all religious hate crimes. Only 6% result in charges. The government’s Hate Crime Action Plan expired in 2020. No replacement has been published in six years. They let 3 women dressed in burqas strip off to the chants of “take it off” They let hate marches happen across the UK. Anti Islam murals across Northern Ireland. They proscribed Palestine Action as terrorists. And they still refuse to use the word Islamophobia. The system is broken. Every attack in this post is being mapped. Mosques, streets, workplaces. No stone unturned. Report an incident: islamophobiauk.co.uk Subscribe: lnkd.in/d2frXvig Support us: ko-fi.com/islamophobiauk #Islamophobia #HateCrime #MuslimWomen #Mosque #UK
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If you read, and retweet, one post on Gaza this weekend let it be this
In Haaretz Hebrew, 22 May, former Israeli PM Olmert says he used to think that the mass killing of civilians in Gaza was a result of a "tragic war" & he denied the charges of genocide & war crimes, but now he thinks: it is an intentional annihilation. archive.ph/3vvOi
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đŸš© Lord Heseltine sounds the air raid siren on Brexit crime: Brexit was a “heinous crime” against the British people, led by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and their allies. “Never have so few done so much damage to so many.” The promises have turned to dust. A majority now wants to rejoin. The guilty men should hang their heads in shame.
🚹 Michael Heseltine, “We must create a kind of United States of Europe. ⏰ This is an important historical reminder, Churchill’s vision after WW2 was that European nations had to find ways to bind themselves together so that nationalism, rivalry and the cycles of war that devastated the continent would not return. Heseltine is right, Brexit is a reversal of that post-war understanding: a retreat from collective European strength at a moment when the world is once again becoming more dangerous. “Project Fear has become Project Here.” The warnings about trade friction, reduced investment, barriers with our largest market and economic costs were dismissed as “scaremongering”, but those concerns are now reality pulling Britain into decline. On political accountability, Heseltine asks: where are the people who promised the benefits of Brexit now celebrating its success? If the promises had been fulfilled: lower migration, stronger growth, less bureaucracy, a more powerful Britain, one might expect the architects of the project to be loudly claiming victory. His final point: democracy is not a single frozen moment in 2016. The generations who will live longest with the consequences have the same democratic right to assess the outcome and decide their future direction. Whatever one’s view of Brexit, how can a medium-sized European country maintain prosperity, influence and security in a world increasingly shaped by continental-sized powers and geopolitical competition.
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