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Raith Al-Tamimi, an Iraqi living in the UK, is one of those rare people willing to state the obvious truth: While the Arab world demands that the rest of the world defend it, Benjamin Netanyahu defends his country and, most especially, his country’s women.The funniest part of the video is watching the female host who, I presume, also lives in the UK, try to defend Muslim nations’ sorry record with their women, only to be overridden by the impassioned Al-Tamimi.Here’s the video and a transcript based on the subtitles:https://x.com/nick_matau/status/2105106820574650791

Green Party members have been told to replace terms such as “mothers and fathers” with gender-neutral terminology under new guidance on inclusive language. The Green party has produced an Orwellian glossary of ‘unacceptable’ language ahead of its conference this weekend. Its new ‘Inclusive Terminology Guidance’ instructs members to stop using words and phrases including ‘elderly’, ‘female politician’ and ‘mothers and fathers’. Also discouraged are ‘able-bodied’, ‘sex-change’, ‘homosexual’, ‘lady doctor’, ‘youngster’ and ‘sexual preference’. The guidance recommends replacing ‘gendered job titles’ with ‘gender-neutral terms wherever possible’. Members should say ‘chair’ instead of ‘chairman’, ‘police officer’ instead of ‘policeman’ and ‘parents and...

The UK government’s “one in one out” deal with France, which was supposed to help deter small boat arrivals, is expected to expire on Thursday, government sources have said. Negotiations to extend the deal have stalled over French demands for a Europe-wide deal instead, and a reluctance to scale up the numbers of people exchanged between the two countries. Flights that remove people who have been already detained under the scheme will continue, but they are expected to end within weeks. A UK government source confirmed that the expectation was that the deal would be formally drawn to a close...

UK PM: Iran behind RAF base incident. Andy Burnham says Britain believes Iran was involved in the RAF Fairford incident, marking the first official confirmation of Iranian involvement in what amounts to an attack on British soil. Trump criticises decision to release suspects on bail.

Andy Burnham has promised that Labour will fight the next general election on a pledge to change the UK's voting system. In his first party conference speech as prime minister, he announced plans for a national commission to explore options for electoral reform. He invited other parties to work with the commission to ensure "everyone's vote counts, and everyone's voice is heard". He has previously supported moves towards a proportional representation (PR) model, telling last year's conference that "PR's time has come". Westminster's first-past-the-post system, under which candidates with the most votes in each seat are elected, has been called...

Five men suspected of plotting a bomb attack on an RAF base were released on bail on Monday after experts found no trace of explosives. Fears of a terror attack were downgraded just 36 hours after the group of British nationals were arrested by armed police close to RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire. Counterterrorism police said they were still investigating whether the men, aged in their mid-twenties and living in London, were proxies for a foreign state. It followed speculation that Iran could be responsible, after the regime issued threats against Fairford because it is a staging post for US strikes...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said unequivocally that a foreign actor was involved in the suspected UK bomb plot at RAF Fairford, hours after the five suspects arrested close to the airbase were released on bail. “What could have happened in the UK over the weekend is a ‌very serious situation,” Rubio said in an interview with Fox News on Monday evening, adding that it “clearly involves the hands ‌of a foreign actor.” Rubio provided no evidence for his claims. The five men, all British nationals from London in their early 20s, were ⁠detained early on Sunday after...

For months, Hamas has been releasing the names of "martyrs," including doctors, aid workers, and "journalists"; that fact has been screamed from the rooftops by independent journalists. More "mainstream" journalists have looked the other way, after spending years peddling the lie that Israel has been targeting journalists for execution in Gaza. Much has been made of the fact, and it is part of the ongoing propaganda campaign against our ally. Now, finally, the story is getting picked up, and the Beeb is "urgently" reviewing its coverage. The BBC has reported the deaths of 53 “journalists” in Gaza who have been...

Shabana Mahmood announced the reopening of a scheme to resettle refugees in the country on Monday. She said the UK can “unlock the inherent generosity of this country” by providing safe and legal refugee routes. She told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that her migration reforms will “come to a position that balances fairness”. The UK resettlement scheme will reopen immediately. Approximately a quarter of refugees accepted are expected to be Palestinians and women and girls from Afghanistan. Hundreds of refugees are expected to arrive in the UK under the scheme and three community sponsorship routes at first. This...

When Nick Freitas walks down a city street in the opening scene of his new documentary, recounting his days as a Green Beret, most viewers might think he’s somewhere in the Muslim world. I certainly did. He’s in Britain. And the transformation he documents there, driven by decades of mass Muslim migration and a political class unwilling to demand assimilation, is one Americans ignore at their peril. Freitas, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, joined me on “Midterm Report” to discuss “The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West,” a film he made with The Heritage Foundation...

They came by night from all over England. Hundreds of men in black, their faces hidden by black balaclavas, descended on the ports of southern England. At dawn on Sept. 5, as many as 200 men seized the rotaries on the approaches to Britain’s busiest port, Dover in Kent. The men in black took the police by surprise. For four hours, they blocked the highway to London and disrupted England’s lifeline to the European continent. The next night, they descended on Southsea, near the Royal Navy base at Portsmouth, Hampshire after a British lifeboat landed a “mega-dinghy” of 140 illegal...

British counterterrorism police said Monday that five men who were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act in an English village near a Royal Air Force base used by U.S. forces had been released on bail. "Following extensive interviews and enquiries, the five men who were arrested are being released on police bail this afternoon. To be very clear, this does not mean the investigation is over," Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, head of the London Metropolitan Police's Counter Terror unit, told reporters Monday afternoon. "To be very clear, this does not mean the investigation is over....

Lord Khan has urged Andy Burnham to start work on rejoining the European Union immediately. The Labour Mayor of London urged the Prime Minister, who has refused to rule out rejoining the EU after the next general election, to do the "heavy lifting" as soon as possible. At Labour's annual party conference in Liverpool, Lord Khan told the i paper: "We've got to start the work now… You can't, a week before a general election, pull out of a hat this rabbit of a manifesto and say we're going to rejoin in six weeks' time. "The heavy lifting, the pitch...

Counter-terror police are leading an investigation in which five men were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and preparation of a terrorist act near an RAF base which hosts the United States Air Force (USAF). The men were detained after police received a report of "three suspicious vehicles" travelling towards RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire at about 00:45 BST on Sunday, officers said. A major incident was declared and an Army explosive ordnance disposal team has been examining vehicles near the base. Eighty-five households in the nearby village of Whelford have been evacuated while investigations continue. Officials believe the incident is...

Andy Burnham and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood were slammed for losing control of the UK’s borders after 1,000 illegal migrants arrived in just three days. Home Office figures show 150 small boat migrants arrived in Monday September 21; 154 arrived on Tuesday September 22, and 781 on Wednesday September 23. It means 1,085 came in a three-day period. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “It does show that Shabana Mahmood has no control of our borders, with these boats making it all the way across undetected. There may be others, as you rightly say. Now, last week was a shocking...

Shakil Uddin, 23, of Oldham, was sentenced to 34 years in prison after being found guilty of one count of attempted murder and arson Ali Abbas, 23, of Normacot, Stoke on Trent, was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of attempted murder and arson, as well as violent disorder, two counts of grievous bodily harm Haris Mahmood, 22, of Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, was sentenced on Friday to 24 years and nine months in prison after pleading guilty two counts of attempted murder and arson Riyadh Iqbal, 23, of Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, was sentenced...

British cops on Sunday arrested five suspected terrorists accused of plotting a van bombing attack at a UK military base used by the US Air Force for its strikes on Iran. Dramatic pictures show the suspects being held at gunpoint while stripped to the waist, after officers suspected they may have been wearing suicide vests for their alleged plot, according to reports. A bomb disposal robot was later seen moving between three vans after chemicals and suspected explosive devices were found during the operation at Royal Air Force Fairford in Gloucestershire, Southwest England, the UK Sun reported. The base, roughly...

Following a series of legal challenges, the High Court in Belfast ruled in the early hours of Sunday that the initial decision by the Parades Commission had to be respected. The Drumcree parade, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, had been given permission to go ahead along the Garvaghy Road in Portadown with restrictions in place. However, that decision was challenged in several different courts in Belfast on Saturday before finally being given the go ahead just hours before the parade is due to take place. The Orange Order, is the...

Andy Burnham has ruled out plunging the country into an early general election, as he prepares for his first Labour conference as Prime Minister. The next test of public opinion at the ballot box will not be until 2029, the Prime Minister also said in a round of interviews ahead of the Liverpool gathering. Mr Burnham said he wants to “draw a line” and focus on helping the public feel “a bit of hope in their lives”, rather than begin another divisive electoral cycle. Several media reports in recent days have suggested close advisers to the Prime Minister are weighing...

Prime Minister Andy Burham has said his government will be "relentless" in working towards stopping small boat crossings completely, but he would not set a date on when that could be achieved. In an interview with BBC South East, just days after two migrant vessels reached the Kent coast unintercepted, he backed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's call for a review into the landings, saying he wanted "urgent answers". Burnham said there would be "no complacency" in the crackdown on the people smuggling gangs behind the operation. "We will not stop until we bear down on every element of this criminal...