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Nine arrests as protesters clash outside Islington asylum hotel

Masked protesters had clashed with rivals outside an Islington hotel housing asylum seekers

www.standard.co.uk

Nine people have been arrested after protests erupted outside a hotel in north London as rival groups faced off over its continued use to accommodate asylum seekers.
Police were forced to intervene after brief clashes broke out between both groups outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in Islington. A large group of masked protesters dressed in black and chanting “we are anti-fascist” marched from a side street towards the main demonstration, prompting officers to rush in and separate the two sides. Meanwhile, people believed to be migrants were seen watching from hotel windows as chants and drumming continued in the street below.

 

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ROFL

 

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Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2

Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.

Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.

 

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Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2

Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.

Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.

Now we know where the Pakistanis and Congress got their legacy of rewriting history from.

 

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UK deputy prime minister resigns

UK Deputy PM Angela Rayner resigns after inquiry finds she failed ministerial ethics standards over £40,000 stamp duty underpayment on property.

newsarenaindia.com

The United Kingdom’s deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, resigned the position on Friday after an independent inquiry stated that she did not meet the ethical standards required for government ministers over recent underpayment of tax.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1969766104253005936

 

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BBC Gaza documentary a 'serious' breach of rules, Ofcom says

The regulator says the documentary, broadcast earlier this year, was "materially misleading".

www.bbc.com

The BBC committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, UK media regulator Ofcom has ruled.

An Ofcom investigation into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "materially misleading".

The BBC's director general has previously apologised, saying there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".

Ofcom has ordered the BBC to broadcast a prime-time statement about its conclusions.

 

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Something for Brits to think about:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1989016385410757024

"So, the French manage to produce their own nuclear warheads with nuclear material from their own processing plants, using their own designs, carried on their own designed and built SLBMs, launched from their own nuclear submarines made with steel produced in their own foundries.

AND

Produce another warhead type, loaded on a high supersonic missile of their own design and construction, carried on an aircraft of their own design and construction. And their defence budget is actually slightly smaller than ours.

Make it make sense."

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1997443889125613771

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1997443889125613771

The admiral, who led the Trident value for money review in 2010, called for Britain to pull out of the multi-billion Aukus defence deal with America and Australia to build 12 new nuclear submarines.

“The UK is no longer capable of managing a nuclear submarine programme,” he said.

Dreadnought is late, Astute class submarine delivery is getting later, there is a massive backlog in Astute class maintenance and refitting, which continues to get worse, and SSN-Aukus is a submarine which is not going to deliver what the UK or Australia needs in terms of capability or timescale.

Yo pops ! This news should warm the cockles of your heart & other parts of your insides .

The pommies are about to screw you once again & like it's happened so many times in the past , you Aussies are absolutely going to love it .

Santa has truly come early this year ! Pun unintended .

@Optimist

 

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Yo pops ! This news should warm the cockles of your heart & other parts of your insides .

The pommies are about to screw you once again & like it's happened so many times in the past , you Aussies are absolutely going to love it .

Santa has truly come early this year ! Pun unintended .

@Optimist

Britain's Decline is Real.

I thought that only the Internal Security has been messed up

The ROYAL NAVY was the only bright spot in their Military

At this rate they will dispose their AIRCRAFT CARRIERS in 10 years time

 

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The Comments are Very Interesting

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997922501284745452

 

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The plan would have resulted in “the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history”, according to Rob Potts, the assistant chief constable of Greater Manchester police. Walid Saadaoui, 38, the former owner of an Italian restaurant in a Norfolk seaside town, “hero-worshipped” Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the 2015 Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed, Preston crown court was told.

 

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https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pakistan-news-imran-khan-aide-attacked-in-uk-after-anti-asim-munir-speech-goes-viral-9948101?pfrom=home-ndtvworld_world_top_scroll

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An adviser to jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has been attacked by masked men near his house in the United Kingdom. The attackers reportedly struck Mirza Shahzad Akbar in the face, resulting in fractures to his nose and jaw. He has been hospitalised and is undergoing treatment, according to his supporters.

Akbar, who served as accountability adviser of the Imran Khan government, is a vocal critic of Pakistan's Defence Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and the human rights situation in the South Asian country. His recent speech against Munir went viral, following which Islamabad tried to extradite him from the UK.

His supporters are alleging the attack was carried out at the direction of Munir, labelling it as a case of "transnational repression". Munir's critics allege that people who criticise Pakistan's military leadership are being targeted even outside the country.

 

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UK’s last military helicopter factory ‘weeks from closure’ with jobs at risk

THE UK’s last military helicopter factory is at the brink of closure if ministers do not sign off on a new contract. One of Europe’s biggest defence contractors said that as many as 3,300 job…

www.thesun.co.uk

https://twitter.com/x/status/2011649542308184128

Between these two developments I really can't decide which one pleases me more. The fact that Little Britain is on the verge of losing its only OEM mfg military grade hptrs or the fact that most young women in Little Britain are openly taking up prostitution as opposed to doing it clandestinely like they've been known to do so for generations.

Further evidence Little Britain can't do without a colonial empire to barely survive leave alone leading a luxurious life . I wouldn't sleep well at all at night knowing this , if I were a citizen of Paddyland , Paddy. @BMD

 

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Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows

Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’

www.theguardian.com

The UK’s poorest families are getting poorer, with record numbers of people classed as in “very deep poverty” – meaning their annual household incomes fail to cover the cost of food, energy bills and clothing, according to analysis.

Although overall relative poverty levels have flatlined in recent years at about 21% of the population, life for those below the breadline has got materially worse as they try to subsist on incomes many thousands of pounds beneath the poverty threshold.

About 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago, said the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), which carried out the analysis.

Households on the lowest incomes were still experiencing a cost of living crisis four years on, with millions of people forced to go without food, falling behind on household bills and having to borrow to survive, said JRF.

 

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In an era of ruptured global order, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s much-anticipated visit to China, scheduled for later this week, marks the culmination of London’s “re-engagement” strategy with Beijing, prioritising trade and growth amid escalating geopolitical risks, according to observers.

 

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The BBC issued an apology on Tuesday evening after a Holocaust Memorial Day segment failed to explicitly mention the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, an omission critics called “hurtful, disrespectful and wrong”.During BBC Breakfast, presenter Jon Kay introduced the item by saying the day commemorated “the six million people murdered by the Nazi regime more than 80 years ago”, without specifying that the victims were Jews.The Campaign for Media Standards said similar wording was used by several senior BBC presenters, including Matthew Amroliwala and Martine Croxall, and claimed the corporation had relied on a single script throughout the day.Talk's Kevin O'Sullivan is joined by Campaign Against Antisemitism's Stephen Silverman to discuss.

 

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What did UK and China get out of Starmer's reset visit?

Sir Keir Starmer's visit to China brought agreements on visas, services, healthcare, green tech and finance.

www.bbc.com

Both leaders face economic pressures at home and are seeking new opportunities for trade and investment.

For Sir Keir, the first UK prime minister to visit China since Theresa May in 2018, the trip was a chance to highlight the strength of British firms in finance, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, clean energy and car making.

President Xi Jinping, meanwhile, aimed to show that China can be a reliable partner for Western economies, as US President Donald Trump continues to rattle the global trading system.

Although no sweeping free trade deal was reached, the visit marked a cautious but tangible reset of UK–China economic ties.

Agreements on visas, services, healthcare, green technology and finance, combined with revived dialogue, might lead to better access for British firms to Chinese markets and greater Chinese investment in the UK.