Should the West be Suspicious of Islam? My full Oxford Union speech.

Iran has declared the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force to be "terrorist organisations" and designated MI6 a "hostile group". The measures, announced by Iran's Foreign Ministry following a decision by the Supreme National Security Council, took effect immediately. Under Iranian law, the Royal Navy and RAF will be treated formally as terrorist organisations, while MI6 falls under legislation covering espionage and cooperation with states Tehran considers hostile. The temptation to laugh is great. Don’t. This is deadly serious. ✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti Article | spectator.com/article/iran-i… | @jonsac

Iran has declared Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force “terrorist organisations” and designated MI6 a “hostile group” — as British authorities confront a growing pattern of alleged Iranian operations inside the UK.

BREAKING: Iran has declared Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force “terrorist organisations” and designated MI6 a “hostile group”. Under the new measures, the Royal Navy and RAF are now formally treated as terrorist organisations under Iranian legislation, while MI6 falls within an Iranian law covering espionage and cooperation with states Tehran considers hostile. The latest escalation comes as two men face prosecution over an alleged Iranian intelligence operation targeting RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire base used by the US Air Force. All this came just days after Foreign Secretary Edward Miliband met Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in New York on 24 September, shaking his hand and posing for a photograph together at the UN General Assembly. The new measures announced today by Iran’s Foreign Ministry today, follow a decision by Tehran’s Supreme National Security Council and took effect immediately. Iran says it is retaliating against Britain for bringing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under the State Threats Act in July, and for what Tehran claims was UK assistance to US and Israeli military operations against Iran, including access to British-controlled bases and logistical facilities. It is an extraordinary inversion of reality from the brutal Islamic regime whose Revolutionary Guards have been responsible for decades for sponsoring terrorism and destabilising activity abroad. Meanwhile, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, a British couple in their 50s from from East Sussex, have been imprisoned in Iran for nearly two years, since January 2025. He is a carpenter and she is a psychologist/life coach. They are now serving 10-year sentences for espionage – charges they deny. Their appeal was rejected, and they remain in custody. Their family met Foreign Secretary Edward Miliband on 27 October and is pressing Britain to go further, including formally declaring their detention arbitrary, granting diplomatic protection and considering action at the International Court of Justice.

Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade. If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade? On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare. There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain. As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again. This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.

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Netanyahu’s speech suggests that Israel and the USA are on course for an escalation with Iran, which will potentially influence coalition negotiations following the election result. Netanyahu is targeting the right-wing factions to encourage them away from aligning with Arab parties towards a right wing coalition.

Netanyahu: we must establish a strong, right wing block. It is forbidden to form a government that relies on anti-Zionist Arab parties. How can you talk about a coalition government when it includes members who serve the enemies of the state? The Zionist majority must wake up and unite.

In recent months, the BBC had to get rid of its Director General, head of News and now to pay £400,000 to a 22 year-long employee who made documentaries there. All at least partly because of its anti-Jewish, anti-Israel lies and falsehoods. It had a senior reporter broadcast fake news about a Palestinian rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza and obstinately say he didn't regret it when he was shown to be wrong, and made a documentary which secretly starred the son of a Hamas minister whose family it paid with money from the license fee.

The BBC has agreed to pay £400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7. Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta. Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as “evil”, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre. When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was “too partial” to oversee it because she was Jewish. She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it. She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings. The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as £400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism. Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.

New details have been revealed about an alleged Iranian-linked plot to bomb Jewish targets in Manchester: prosecutors say the suspects were sent instructions for making a homemade explosive device by a contact believed to be based in Iran. Iranian nationals Rahman Salehi, 34, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, are charged with preparing acts of terrorism. Both intend to plead not guilty. The Old Bailey heard that police allegedly observed the men photographing and filming Jewish sites in Manchester on the eve of Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day. Prosecutors say this was reconnaissance in preparation for a terrorist attack on Manchester’s Jewish community. The alleged targets included the Manchester Jewish Museum and Heaton Park synagogue — where two Jewish worshippers were killed in a separate attack almost a year earlier. Prosecutors allege that the pair were communicating with a third person believed to be in Iran, who sent them a document containing instructions for assembling an improvised explosive device from readily available materials. The two men are due to stand trial in Manchester on 15 June next year.

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Hamas has explicitly threatened to carry out another October 7-style attack — not only inside Israel, but in Judea and Samaria and abroad. According to Ynet, senior Hamas officials delivered the warning through UN humanitarian coordinator Dr Ramiz Alakbarov, asking him to convey it directly to Israel. Israeli officials reportedly described the message as extraordinary and unprecedented in its bluntness. A document detailing the threat was urgently passed to Israel’s political and security leadership. Hamas said Israeli military operations in Gaza, changes to the “Yellow Line” marking Israeli military positions, and the Palestinian Authority’s cancellation of elections were causing it to lose control on the ground — and warned it could strike “wherever the opportunity arises”. The threat comes as Hamas faces growing military and financial pressure. Israel has intensified targeted operations against senior Hamas figures and members of its elite Nukhba force. Meanwhile, Hamas reportedly needs around 90 million shekels — approximately $29 million — every month simply to pay its personnel. Israeli security estimates put Hamas’s workforce in Gaza at around 30,000 people, from administrative staff and lower-level operatives to members of its military wing, receiving roughly 3,000 shekels each per month. Three years after October 7, Hamas is not hiding its intentions. It is openly threatening to do it again — and potentially far beyond Gaza.

An east London 18 year old has been jailed after providing practical cyber-security assistance to al-Qaeda and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. Yusuf Shah, from Ilford, was only 16 when he was stopped at Heathrow in January 2024 under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. Police later discovered that he had downloaded instructions on making explosives and explosive devices, material on using different weapons, and an al-Qaeda publication containing practical guidance on carrying out terrorist attacks. But Shah was not simply consuming propaganda. On Telegram, he joined groups supporting terrorist organisations and offered his technical expertise. He advised members how to use an untraceable cryptocurrency to donate to al-Qaeda. A payment of $1,376.51 was subsequently made using the QR code and security methods he had recommended. He was also approached to produce a cyber-security guide for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan after being told that a senior TTP official had requested help. Shah produced a document entitled “A Guide on Cybersecurity”, giving detailed instructions on cyber-security and cryptocurrency intended to help the terrorist group operate secretly. Police say Shah had been discussing religion online since 2021, when he was 13, and by the end of 2022 was expressing support for al-Qaeda and TTP. Now 18, he has been sentenced to four years and two months in custody and made subject to a 10-year notification order. This case also leaves some important questions unanswered publicly: • Where was Shah born, and what is his nationality and family background? • What school did he attend? • Did he attend a mosque, madrasa or other religious institution, and if so which one? • Was there any offline ideological influence from clerics, teachers, friends or relatives? • Did his family know about his extremist activity? • Were there earlier warnings from his school, community, social services or police? • Which online figures, channels and communities first introduced him to al-Qaeda and TTP propaganda? • Did he have direct contact with terrorist operatives beyond the interactions already disclosed? • Why was a 13-year-old able to progress from consuming extremist material to materially assisting terrorist organisations without earlier intervention?

What lies at the heart of the conflict? Caroline Glick says the problem with Palestinian nationalism is there's nothing Palestinian about it. Full interview : piped.video/Soahcftkj9o?is=1UFy…

As 'Palestine poppy' goes on sale, isn't it time to free Britain from Palestine? Must every cause be hijacked by Palestinianism?

A recording has been released which appears to show BBC's Jeremy Bowen accusing Israel of genocide. Is that against the BBC's own rules and guidelines?

Green party leader Zack Polanski is totally clueless when it comes to zionism and international law in general.

Will France's riots spread to Italy and the UK?

🚨"I mean in all the footage we can see coming out of France you don't see many French flags." Jonathan Sacerdoti and Peter discuss the riots in France that appear to be spreading across Europe. @petercardwell | @jonsac