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Features and Comment Editor, The Daily Mail

London
Joined December 2008
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In 'My Booky Wook,' Brand admits to teaching his dog he couldn't come upstairs, enticing him upstairs, kicking him downstairs and then comforting him, for his own sadistic amusement. Childhood cruelty to animals is the sure sign of a psychopath.
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European exploration began long before Columbus. This incredible animated map shows how Europeans explored and mapped the world over 1,200 years, from Viking voyages to the first photographs of Earth from space. Watch the map come to life!
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Hey @grok, if you had to choose one of these special forces units for a mission with just a 1% chance of survival, which would you pick and why?
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Perhaps the best thing to remember when we see riots and arson attacks on historic buildings in France, or hundreds of drug addicts sprawled out on the streets of San Francisco, or thousands of murders per year in America’s cities, is that things don’t have to be this way. There are places in the world that you can visit that are not like this. There are a set of policy choices that we can make at any time that would ensure these things simply don’t happen, if our civilization had the will to enact them
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“Hideous” Brian Sewell
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Am entirely convinced that the last 40ish lines of Paradise Lost are the greatest thing in all English poetry. The depth and emotional weight are incomparable.
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Why was the Jason Arday story broken by a racist blogger and not the mainstream press? Because Times Higher Education was intimidated off the story by a letter from notorious libel firm Carter-Ruck. I'm publishing the letter. Its central claim may be false.
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Been reading the forthcoming book… - genius mother - mystery “speech therapy” - corporal punishment - child sporting prodigy - bizarre illnesses - missing charity cash - marathons, pig’s heads and jobs that don’t exist And much, much more! dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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Here’s a Saturday night treat for you all; Kenneth Williams and Maggie Smith read Sir John Betjeman’s poem Death In Leamington, in front of the great man himself.
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En 1979, un presentador de TV le preguntó a Milton Friedman si no le daba vergüenza defender un sistema basado en la codicia. La respuesta se estudia hasta hoy: «—Cuando ves la mala distribución de la riqueza, tan pocos que tienen tanto y tantos que no tienen nada… ¿nunca has dudado del capitalismo, de si la codicia es una buena idea? —Primero dime: ¿conoces alguna sociedad que NO funcione con codicia? ¿Crees que Rusia no funciona con codicia? ¿Que China no? ¿Y qué es la codicia? Ninguno de nosotros es codicioso, claro. El codicioso siempre es el otro. Los grandes logros de la civilización no salieron de despachos del gobierno. Einstein no construyó su teoría por orden de un burócrata. Ford no revolucionó el automóvil así. Los únicos casos en la historia en los que las masas escaparon de la pobreza son aquellos donde hubo capitalismo y libre comercio. —Pero parece premiar la habilidad de manipular el sistema, no la virtud. —¿Y qué premia la virtud? ¿Crees que un comisario comunista premia la virtud? ¿Un Hitler? ¿Crees que los presidentes americanos eligen sus cargos por virtud… o por peso político? Dime: ¿dónde están esos ángeles que van a organizar la sociedad por nosotros? Yo ni siquiera confío en ti para hacerlo.»
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🧵After some 3 months in Europe, I'm beginning to prepare to go back home. A few thoughts as I reflect on my experience here this summer. First, American democracy is different from what exists in the #EU today, and that shouldn't surprise anyone, but should make us think. 1/10
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BREAKING: Gwent Police has charged eight men over alleged grooming gang activity in South Wales in the 1980s and 90s. Shafaq Mohammed, 58, Syed Mohammed Ashan Taqvi, 65, Mohammed Sheikh Abdul Hannan, 54, Kevin Lawrence, 54, Sheikh Mohammed Tahir Ullah, 73, Aminur Rahman Chowdhury, 58, Shakeel Babur, 58, and Murad Ali, 57 have been charged with a range of sexual offences against children in Newport, Abergavenny and Swansea.
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You’ve got to admit it, Ann Widdecombe was one of a kind. Rest in peace, Ann.
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Louis, 17 ans, a été lynché à mort avec une violence inimaginable, filmé par ses agresseurs hilares, laissé agonisant pendant toute une nuit et retrouvé inerte sur un chantier à Narbonne. Il est le symbole d'un pays à la dérive, miné par un ensauvagement que ni le laxisme ni l'aveuglement de nos dirigeants ne peuvent enrayer. Il faudra oser la rupture avec 30 ans d'échecs si nous voulons rétablir l'ordre en France.
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The social media ban is utterly, utterly disgusting. not because it 'doesn't go far enough' or 'won't keep kids safe' or whatever other 'reason' is given that translates to MORE BANNING PLEASE, but because it is a heinous jackboot in the face of the idea that children are human beings. It is extremely dangerous in itself, cutting off lifelines of all kinds, narrowing their worlds, and massively decreasing knowledge and learning (and its potential) and increasing loneliness. the idea that our kids, banned from even Youtube, which is basically knowledge itself, and the most democratically available, will end up being able to vaguely compete on the world stage with peers who have not been cast back into the iron age by an insane, madly illogical government is preposterous and one of the saddest aspects of this.
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Cracking exclusive
EXCLUSIVE: A multi-millionaire banker descended from royalty has been arrested by police hunting the 'Putney Pusher', the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal. The suspect was detained today at his £1.4million home in west London. A director at a private bank, he is a decorated former British Army officer who served in several major conflicts. His arrest comes nearly ten years after a jogger shoved a female pedestrian into the path of a double-decker bus on Putney Bridge.
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In today’s @DailyMail an essay from my new book, ‘ISLAND OF STRANGERS: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis’. We must not destroy freedom of speech in the name of multiculturalism 👇
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Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it. Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse. It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.
In his final moments, Henry Nowak told police officers nine times “I can’t breathe” and four times that he had been stabbed. In response police officer dragged him across the gravel, handcuffed and read him his rights. It was the last thing Henry heard before he died.
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New Substack essay: THE MURDER OF HENRY NOWAK woes.blog/p/the-murder-of-he…
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Digwa's removal from the country is also quite clearly "conducive to the public good". In the slaughter of an innocent man he demonstrated not a hint of "British values". His mother is an Indian national, he is likely eligible for Indian citizenship, and the Home Office must explore the deprivation of his British citizenship.
Kiran Kaur, the wretched mother of Vickrum Digwa, is an Indian national. She assisted her son in covering up his heinous crime. This evil must be deported from our country and India made to accept her return under the the UK-India Prisoner Transfer Agreement.
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