Author: Mick Hartley

th and Social Care Directorate, itself funded by — you’ve got it — the taxpayer.

This utter waste of public resources would be infuriating at any time, but in an administration which has imposed the highest rates of income tax in the UK, and at a time of economic uncertainty, it is verging on the criminal. It doesn’t matter how often it is called out; nothing changes.

It’s not merely that taxpayers are funding splinter groups, vanity projects and cultish ideologies at odds with the electorate’s priorities for government, it’s that the SNP has lost sight of what government is for and where its remit and boundaries lie.

who has retrained as a massage therapist and Reiki practitioner, claimed he could not afford to pay the court-ordered maintenance to his wife and children but splashed £14,000 on an Amex card in one month “mainly on clothing, nails, jewellery and restaurants”, got £13,000 worth of tattoos in six months and racked up a £1,000 Milan restaurant bill.

The poor lamb – he was forced to spend all that money because of the deep suffering caused by his gender dysphoria. 

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nationalist resistance. This exploitation of cultural education is a way of embedding ideological allegiance at a formative age”.

In social media posts AIM, based in Cricklewood, north-west London, repeatedly praises the leader of Iran’s theocratic regime, Ayatollah Khamenei, declaring that his books are “an excellent source of knowledge and a great read”, and refuses to condemn Hamas.

It also posted material shortly after the October 7 attacks stating that “the Zionists brought this disaster upon themselves”.

There are now calls for Camp Wilayah to be banned over “urgent safeguarding and counter-extremism concerns” for the children attending.

UKLFI warned that it “is being hosted by a group that openly promotes the revolutionary Islamist ideology of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei”.

It has written to Brent council, where AIM is based, and Hertfordshire council, where Camp Wilayah is to be held, warning councillors: “There is compelling reason to believe that the event may be used as a platform to radicalise children, incite hatred or violence, and glorify terrorist ideology.”

The group goes on to claim that “of particular concern is AIM’s use of social media to disseminate extremist content that is anti-Semitic and conspiratorial”.

One video, titled “Know Thy Enemy” features a speaker describing Jews as the “harshest”, “squatters”, “settlers” and “violent”, while accusing Israel, the so-called “squatter state”, of having a policy of murdering children. It also calls moderate Muslims who may be tolerant of Israel “filth”.

“Other posts glorify and encourage martyrdom and justify Hamas’s 7 October 2023 atrocities by reframing them as legitimate acts of resistance, omitting any mention of attacks on civilians, and likening Gaza to Nazi concentration camps. Countless posts accuse Israel of genocide and liken it to apartheid.”

Lovely.

Will Brent council be taking action here? Well, they've recently announced that they're twinning with Nablus, in the West Bank, "to reinforce and enhance our solidarity with Palestine". So…don't hold your breath.

BREAKING: 1 in 4 Americans say recent attacks on Jews are “understandable.”

A new ADL survey reveals that 24% of Americans either justified or endorsed violence against Jews. The same percentage believe the attacks were staged to gain sympathy for Israel.

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"Hate speech has reached such terrifying heights that a quarter of Americans see no problem with a young couple being gunned down outside a Jewish museum in DC, or a 82-year-old woman burned alive in Colorado."

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MEMRI TV again, and here's Egyptian TV host Muhammad Musa on – ah yes – The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, where it states (in Article 17, apparently) that "We will drown the world in a soccer craze so that the world's nations do not deal with what is important".

More on the obsessive anti-Zionist world of the American campus, with Albany law professor Nina Farnia. From MEMRI TV:

In a June 19, 2025 episode of The Red Nation podcast on YouTube, Albany Law School assistant professor Nina Farnia said that Iran’s war with Israel is “one of the greatest examples of third world national liberation.” She framed the conflict as part of Iran’s broader struggle for national liberation, arguing that Arabs, Palestinians, and Iranians cannot be free as long as Israel exists in the region.

Ali Alizadeh, a U.K.-based Iranian political analyst, warned of “psyops” orchestrated by the IDF and Mossad to portray Iran negatively. Farnia agreed and said people should be prepared for this type of manipulation, adding that many had been effective at calling out such “psyops” following the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood. “From the pen to the sword – national liberation requires everybody,” she said.

It is worth noting that in October 2023, Alizadeh alleged that many of the Israeli victims on October 7 were killed by Israeli forces, not by Hamas or the other insurgents who entered from Gaza.

: 11pt”>Chief constable Gavin Stephens is a central figure in this whole grim saga. 

Certainly Ireland weaponised the police against his enemies. In 2021, after Lisa Townsend stated that biological sex was important in matters such as crime statistics, police searches and prisons, he posted a photo of an officer sitting in a rainbow police car holding a sign saying “TERFy Townsend not fit for office”. Ireland’s message to anyone who crossed him was: come for me and you deal with the police.

Unsurprisingly, his very public vendetta against Townsend deterred potential whistleblowers (as did chief constable Stephens quickly distancing himself from her views).

So has he resigned yet, this Gavin Stephens? Of course not. He's now Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council.

For Townsend, who attended Ireland’s sentencing, it underlines the imperative of police neutrality. Whatever individual officers’ views, they should not parade them at work, nor should forces appear to favour particular interest groups. She notes wryly that this is an urgent matter for the newish head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council — Gavin Stephens. “I don’t think there should be rainbow cars any more than International Women’s Day or autism awareness cars,” she says. “The police force does one thing no other agency can — it arrests the bad guys.”

that the Brandeis Center sees “it as part of a trend that we’re seeing lately with universities very badly treating Israeli students and postdocs.”

The state of American academia…

n ran a piece on reviving the practice, likening its slave-trading fighters to the Companions of the Prophet almost 1,400 years before. At the same time, Dabiq gave specific instructions on how to share the human spoils of war. “Yazidi women and children,” it said, are to be “divided” among Islamic State fighters, all in apparent keeping with Shari’a law.

Nor was that all. ISIS also set up slave markets: which essentially functioned like brothels. One woman was sold 14 times, to 14 different men, and was raped by 12 of them. Some women smeared their baby’s excrement on their bodies to avoid being bought, while others claimed to have periods or professed to be sick. Some fought back. Many received punishment beatings, or were separated from their children and locked in basements amid rising sewage and the boiling heat of the Syrian desert. One woman’s five-year-old daughter was even hanged from a window for bedwetting. No wonder many of the victims describe their plight as something approaching hell.

Despite earnest claims that this is now all in Islam's past, the mindset lingers on.

ISIS are unusual in defending Islamic slavery openly. Yet it is also true that abolition came relatively late in the day. Some of the last nations to abolish slavery include Iran (1928), Saudi Arabia (1962) and Oman (1970). Even relatively secular Turkey only got round to it in 1964, while Mauritania did so in 1981. The fact is that slavery, modern and hereditary, has lingered uncomfortably in parts of the Muslim world. That’s clear enough in the Gulf, where Asian migrant workers from countries like Nepal and the Philippines routinely end up as forced labourers. They may build the skyscrapers, and drive the cabs, and wait the swanky restaurants from Riyadh to Doha. But ensnared by the so-called kafala system, which forbids them from changing jobs without their employer’s permission, they’re also deeply vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. In the UAE alone, there may be 132,000 such workers.