ISRAEL has made light work of dispatching “selfie yacht” activist Greta Thunberg and others back from whence they came.
Swedish Greta was warned by her own country not to attempt the mission to deliver a small amount of aid to Gaza, which experts say might have been used to feed Hamas fighters anyway.
Reuters‘Selfie yacht’ activist Greta Thunberg was swiftly deported unharmed by plane[/caption]
ReutersSwedish Greta was warned by her own country not to attempt the mission to deliver a small amount of aid to Gaza[/caption]
AFPPassengers of the Madleen Gaza-bound aid boat pictured after the vessel was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters[/caption]
And, as they headed along the coast of Egypt, they were told by Israel not to enter “an active conflict area”.
But they ignored the warnings, the boat was intercepted by the Israeli forces, and Greta and others were swiftly deported unharmed by plane.
If their goal was to highlight Israel’s over-excessive bombardment of Gaza and that aid is being blocked, they have achieved it.
Meanwhile, a couple of thousand miles away, small boat arrivals to the UK are predicted to hit 50,000 people this year alone. That’s approximately the population of Paignton, Devon.
That’s approximately the population of Paignton, Devon.
We have already paid squillions to France to supposedly ‘stop the boats’ and now it’s asking for more.
Judging by recent photos, it presumably spent the first down payment on new phones for gendarmes to idly scroll through Instagram while smuggling gangs loaded up boats right under their noses.
They’ve come up with some vieille merde about how they can’t stop the vessels once they’ve entered shallow water, but what were they doing prior to them entering it? Or do they only work office hours?
Whatever. Lives are being lost at sea because of their pathetic inaction, and the solution is very simple, non?
They don’t need to go near the poor souls risking their lives in these fragile death traps.
They just need to pick off the bloke in the balaclava with the boat keys, charge him with people smuggling and, after he’s served his time, put him on a plane back from whence he came.
Then put his fate on Instagram as a deterrent to others who might also be considering a career in the trade of exploiting human desperation.
DECENT DEMO
GREENPEACE activists in Paris temporarily stole a waxwork of Emmanuel Macron and positioned him outside the Russian embassy with a sign saying “business is business” in protest at him allowing French firms to carry on doing deals with Russia.
Now this is the kind of activism I can get behind.
Ingenious, amusing and hammers the point home, without causing reckless damage to ancient works of art or holding up ordinary people just trying to get to work.
SHAME ON YOU
WHEN the latest victim of this country’s knife crime epidemic was stabbed in north Manchester, he begged for help at a nearby house.
Ibrahima Seck, 14, who later died from his injuries, told the family who invited him in and called an ambulance: “I don’t want to die.”
They said he had tried two other houses before theirs, “but they wouldn’t do anything”.
Whoever they are, shame on them.
A RARE, 200-year-old condom has gone on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Rumours that it came from a Hugh Hefner probate sale are greatly exaggerated.
GettyRumours that the 200-year-old condom on display came from a Hugh Hefner probate sale are greatly exaggerated[/caption]
THAT’S A BIT RICH
Getty‘Financier’ Jho Low has ‘vanished’ after embezzling billions of Malaysian state money[/caption]
GettyLow reportedly paid Leonardo DiCaprio $250k each every time he attended one of his shindigs[/caption]
ANOTHER day, another fraudster who has “vanished” after embezzling billions of Malaysian state money.
“Financier” Jho Low, who was educated at Harrow school, was fond of throwing lavish parties frequented by Hollywood A-listers who seemingly failed to question where the money was coming from.
He reportedly paid Britney Spears $1million to jump out of his birthday cake, and gave actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Megan Fox $250,000 each every time they attended one of his shindigs.
Given Fox’s less than successful movie career, one can see how such easy money might appeal. But why on earth would DiCaprio see fit to be a dancing monkey for a sad wannabe with so few friends that he has to buy them?
Not to mention the fact that DiCaprio flew to Australia “for a few hours” on Low’s private jet before returning to celebrate New Year in Vegas.
Another contract shown in court was for DiCaprio to be flown in an “exclusive private plane” to attend another of Low’s birthday parties.
DiCaprio wasn’t to know that the money was being taken out of the mouths of Malaysia’s poor, but he damn well knew that he was taking pointless private plane trips for his own gain while simultaneously lecturing the rest of us about climate change.
What a jet-propelled hypocrite.
FOLLOWING Valerie the dachshund being found alive and well after 529 days lost in the Australian Outback, another dog has survived 36 days on the run.
Amber, a golden retriever cross, evaded traps and thermal imaging to swim, it’s believed, to Brownsea Island off Dorset.
She is thought to have covered 100 miles and entered a “wild mindset” before being caught.
Once again proving the point that dogs don’t need monogrammed coats, organic kibble and a prime position on their owner’s bed or sofa to survive in life.
They’re descended from wolves, and they’re just fine with being treated like animals rather than children.
A CHEAP WAY TO RESOLVE BECKHAM BUST-UP
Instar ImagesBrooklyn Beckham and wife Nicola could kill the family feud story for far cheaper than hiring an expensive crisis management specialist[/caption]
BROOKLYN BECKHAM and wife Nicola Peltz have reportedly hired an expensive crisis management specialist to handle their, er, reputations following reports of a fallout with his parents David and Victoria.
Look kids, there’s a far cheaper way to kill the story stone dead.
Either hop on a plane and be photographed having a cosy dinner with them or, at the very least, post a cutesy family photo with a caption saying ‘miss you guys’ or whatever it is that online influencers say these days.
Job done. Where do I send the invoice?
ORGANISED crime gangs have managed to steal £47million from HMRC by fraudulently posing as taxpayers using phished details.
They stole the money by applying for fake tax refunds.
I’m shocked to the core . . . HMRC gives refunds?
GNOME COURT FARCE
BNPSThe Lorraine Hutton garden gnome case shows something’s gone badly wrong with how we police this country[/caption]
WHEN Lorraine Hutton moved a garden gnome from a communal pathway and accidentally broke it, she put £20 through her neighbour’s letterbox to pay for the damage.
But her neighbour accused her of breaking the gnome “provocatively” and reported her to Dorset police.
Ludicrous enough, you might think.
But 66-year-old Ms Hutton was then interviewed, formally charged with criminal damage, and taken to court in a case funded to the tune of thousands of pounds by the British taxpayer.
After all, there was Ms Hutton’s psychiatric evaluation to pay for, the court costs, and a £55- an-hour Lithuanian interpreter for her aggrieved neighbour.
Fifteen months and three court dates later, she has now been formally cleared and says it has been “an enormous waste of time and public money”.
Quite. In fact, the only person who needs a psychiatric report is whoever decided this nonsense should go to court in the first place.
Meanwhile, according to data from the year ending June 2024, more than two million crimes went unsolved across England and Wales alone – the equivalent of nearly 6,000 a day.
You don’t have to be Sherlock Gnomes (sorry) to work out that something’s gone badly wrong with how we police this country.
NO PLACE FOR VEIL
It’s hard to believe we’re still having the debate over whether to ban the burka in a country where women are supposed to be equal.
It’s already banned in France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Denmark so why are we still dragging our feet?
Perhaps the perspective of a female writer living under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan might help?
Remaining Anonymous for obvious reasons, she has been writing to British author Kate Mosse about her life under the tyrannical regime where women are treated as second class citizens who aren’t even allowed to walk in their local park.
She points out that, back in 1919, reformist king Amanullah Khan ‘initiated a series of reforms, with women’s education and inclusion at the forefront.’ This included the ‘removal of the veil.’
But he was forced to flee when soldiers persuaded the masses that their wives and daughters would become infidels, so women’s rights were sacrificed by the next leader to maintain his rule.
He confined women to their homes, closed girls schools and re-imposed the veil.
This little snapshot from history alone should be enough to convince us that the veil is an oppressive and reductive item of clothing that has no place in a supposedly free society.
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