News about Graham Phillips

PETER HITCHENS: Oh, when will Britain just grow up? We have no funds, yet we spend billions of dollars on arming Ukraine in a dubious war in which we have no national interest. We cannot monitor the beaches off our southern shores, on which strangers land almost every day, but we follow along with the Americans in the belief that we can monitor the Red Sea, as we seek (as far as I can comprehend) to get involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East. Haven't we had enough of these stupid brawls?

The victims of the Post Office computer hack scandal will never be convicted of justice. In some cases, they have lost more than others. Years of what should have been joyful and enriched lives have been stolen. Good names have been stolen and grudgingly recovered years later. Innocent people have been held captive in jail, a crime that is impossible to get out of your mind. Marriages have been torn apart. These ill-treated people in some tragic situations have clearly lost their minds or taken their own lives. I will not participate in the simple call for the removal of the CBE from Paula Vennells, the former Chief Executive of the Post Office. I believe she should be compelled to keep it as a lifelong reminder to her and the rest of us of how justice and mercy have been stangled in this world.

Mr Justice Jonathan Swift, a judge who had been presiding over a lawsuit involving Graham Phillips, who had his assets frozen due to his pro-Russian views, has discovered that his name has been removed from Putin's blacklist. The list includes academics, military, and political figures, as well as journalists who have been deemed anti-Russian by the Kremlin. Mr Phillips, who was once described as a "pro-Russian propagandist" in a Lords debate, is now based in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine. Mr Phillips' barrister responded by saying that direct contact between the judge and the Foreign Office, which is the accuser in the High Court case, meant he could no longer preside over it. Mr Justice Swift denied Mr Phillips' lawyers' allegations that there might have been "internal communications with the intention of influencing my decision." However, he opted to withdraw from the lawsuit, saying: "The overall effect has been to subpoen my ability to handle this lawsuit.'

PETER HITCHENS: In what I believe is one of the most important court cases of our day, liberty fought tyranny in the High Court in London last week. The questions were straightforward. Is it permissible to disagree publicly with the British Government's foreign policy?If not, how much do you have to disagree with it to be in trouble?And can you then be severely punished without a proper trial?

Welcome to UBOP, AIDEN ASLIN. It seems that this is the 1980s roller disco: glitter-balls, fun, and people dancing, but that's the fantasy version. The true UBOP is the Russian acronym for the Office for the Fight against Organized Crime of the Criminal Investigation Department's Organized Crime Unit. And it isn't amusing. It's a madhouse, a torture chamber, and a boutique concentration camp all mixed into a single unit. I had been fighting in the Ukrainian Marines in Mariupol's steelworks and surrendered with hundreds of others when, after two months of resistance, we ran out of ammunition. Now I'd been sent to Donetsk for interrogation.

62-year-old Rev Richard Fothergill (left), who died at the age of 62, claims that the Yorkshire Building Society (right) shut down his account after he accused them of propagating gender ideology during Pride month. In reaction to material on YBS' website, the retired vicar insists that his remarks were a polite rebuttal of transgenderism. However, the building society claims to have a 'zero tolerance policy to discrimination', and that their customer relationships had been'irrevocably broken down.' 'I think they should focus on directing money rather than preaching LGBT beliefs,' Rev Fothergill said.'

Julia Lovett (pictured above with founder Moinuddin Kolia) could not properly respond to her patients' needs without the assistance of her local pharmacy. Her patients - who all have dementia - are often in'very difficult physical situations,' meaning she has a fast access to medical supplies, from dressings to needles. And more often than not, they urgently need medical assistance outside of regular working hours, so Moin's Chemist in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, where Julia lives and works, is open from 8.30am to 11 p.m., plus 6 p.m. on Sunday. This isn't a nine-to-five job, but the pharmacy does not have to run nine to five hours, and the employees are just so friendly and helpful.' Julia, 70, says, "it really lifts the spirits."

People smugglers have discovered that the Channel is actually very simple to cross. PETER HITCHENS: People who are smugglers have discovered that it is not so simple to cross. They are confident that no civilized, law-governed country will do anything to protect migrants if they are to be effective against migrants, as long as they have been put to sea. This disaster, in large part, is the fault of the Blair Creature and his imitator David Cameron. They began a massive migration of economic migrants from Africa and the Middle East with their half-witted military adventures in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. This is likely to stop anytime, but it can also be blocked from continuing here.

HITCHENS: Some of these admonitions are so needless that I am amazed that anyone thought it would be helpful to display them. Some of the instructions are faulty. Surely, it's much better for people to use the stairs than using the lifts. Why shouldn't I or anyone else take the stairs two at a time if we feel like it?But in general, how did we ever manage before station stairs were expensively plastered with warnings so petty and annoying that it would be unfair on nannies to call them nannyish?