IF Kamala Harris wins the US Presidential election, then Labour can have backed a winner.

However sarcastically sufficient, a Harris victory may very well be the worst information on the earth for our floundering Prime Minister.

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As a result of are you able to think about Donald Trump, if he’s the shedding candidate, informing his roughly 63million voters that he solely misplaced due to international interference by the British Labour Occasion?

So whoever wins the US election, it won’t be the UK.

Labour are sending virtually 100 get together activists to marketing campaign for the Democratic candidate in key swing states on American soil. No shock there.

Throughout their lengthy years in opposition, mouthy Labour backbenchers beloved nothing greater than lavishly abusing Kamala’s orange-coloured rival, Donald.

“Trump just isn’t solely a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath,” David Lammy raved in 2018.

“He’s additionally a profound menace to the worldwide order.”

However sending get together activists to America WHEN YOU ARE IN GOVERNMENT is infinitely worse than trash discuss while you had been in opposition.

It’s going to by no means be forgotten or forgiven by tens of millions of Individuals.

It’s astonishing {that a} British Authorities would permit its card-carrying get together members to openly contain themselves in a international election.

Our most vital international alliance is with the US.

Defence. Commerce. The change of intelligence. All depend on the particular relationship that received two world wars.

And all that can be put into jeopardy now — whoever wins or loses the US election.

Essentially the most profitable alliance between two nations in historical past has been put in danger by the reckless actions of a Labour Occasion that acts extra like some spotty teenage campaigner than a severe Authorities that places its nation in the beginning.

‘Proper to go bananas’

Starmer has predictably tried to minimize the controversy by claiming that any Labour activists campaigning within the US can be there as volunteers and can be “doing it of their spare time”.

However that won’t wash.

Trump is livid {that a} international political get together is trying to cease him turning into President.

And he has each proper to be livid.

Simply think about how WE would have felt if American activists had been on the doorsteps throughout our final Basic Election attempting to stop both Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer turning into Prime Minister.

We’d have gone bananas.

And we might have been proper to go bananas.

Donald Trump — who by no means wants a lot encouragement to go bananas — has a legit beef right here, and has filed a proper grievance with the Federal Election Fee, the company that oversees US elections, accusing Labour of “obvious unlawful international nationwide contributions” and “blatant international interference”.

‘King of his cock-ups’

Permitting Labour activists to marketing campaign in a US Presidential election is brainless past perception.

Neglect free Taylor Swift tickets.

Neglect all these newly launched lags singing Starmer’s praises as they get out of jail.

Neglect the luxurious seats at Arsenal.

For Keir, that is the king of his cock-ups.

For all Starmer’s mealy-mouthed denials, this transfer to get Harris elected as a substitute of Trump appears prefer it was sanctioned by the very best ranges of the Labour Authorities.

On condition that our Overseas Secretary as soon as known as Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi”, how might the notion be the rest?

And this silly interference in one other nation’s election endangers every thing from Nato to our economic system.

It doesn’t matter a rattling what you, me or David Lammy take into consideration the Presidential candidates.

The following American President is for Individuals to determine.

This crass campaigning has real-world penalties, comrades.

So thanks loads, Labour.

If Donald Trump loses, he’ll blame the British.

And if he wins, the brand new American President will merely hate us.

Cher a teen? It was Corridor a really very long time in the past…

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IT appears like a lifetime since I first noticed Cher, a bored teenager twiddling along with her lank locks as she lazily crooned I Bought You Babe with Sonny Bono on High Of The Pops in 1965.

So subsequent yr it is going to be SIXTY years since that magical black-and-white second.

So, it was a little bit of a shocker to see Cher flip as much as be inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame in Cleveland, accompanied by younger acolytes Zendaya, and Dua Lipa.

“I’ve a form of love-hate relationship (with the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame),” Cher stated.

“As a result of I assumed, what do I’ve to f***ing do, y’know, to be inducted into this place?”

F***ing good query.

As a result of I don’t know what’s extra startling.

That the bored teenager I noticed on a black and white TV on High Of The Pops is now 78.

Or that Cher has not been within the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame for the final 50 years.

Slave commerce was international

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THE Commonwealth summit in Samoa, a six-day assembly with the leaders of 56 international locations, has rung with the cry of calls for for monetary compensation for the horrors of the slave commerce.

King Charles – who has heroically paused his most cancers remedy to fly to the far facet of the world to attend the occasion – has come underneath stress to apologise for his “household’s involvement”.

However the reparations debate just isn’t actually about apologies.

The reparations debate is all about monetary compensation.

Individuals who had been by no means slaves are demanding cash from individuals who had been by no means slave house owners.

And I might be a extra sympathetic listener to the calls for for reparations if the talk was extra sincere.

To listen to all of the calls for for reparations in Samoa, anybody would suppose that the British invented slavery.

And we emphatically didn’t.

You wouldn’t have to go all the best way again to the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians to search out the slave commerce booming.

The slaves who had been shipped from the Gold Coast of west Africa to the cotton fields of the USA and the sugar plantations of the Caribbean had been bought into slavery by their fellow Africans.

Probably the greatest holidays of my life was in Ghana, spending three weeks with an Ashanti household.

They had been among the many kindest individuals I’ve ever met.

However the Ashanti as soon as had an empire.

And it was constructed on slavery.

Why does no one ever ask any African nation to pay reparations for his or her half within the slave commerce?

Slavery was not an invention of the British – though the British did greater than any nation on Earth to wipe the stain of slavery from the planet.

And if our mates and allies can’t admit that historic fact, then it’s unattainable to see how the Commonwealth can endure.

Chris nice like Ali

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LIKE Muhammad Ali, Sir Chris Hoy will encourage generations but to be born after they face the best struggles of their lives.

Like Ali, Chris was a sportsman who towered above even the very best of his time.

And like Ali, the best way that Chris Hoy is confronting the prostate most cancers that’s killing him will give braveness, comfort and solace to numerous different victims.

Dignity. Guts. Grace. Grit.

And a humanity that enables a soul to depend their blessings.

As soon as in a era an athlete emerges who transcends his sport.

Muhammad Ali was that form of inspirational determine.

And so is Chris Hoy.

AN inquest has heard how Natasha Johnston was strolling eight canine in Surrey in 2023 when she was attacked by an “unknown quantity” and killed.

Now there are calls to legally restrict the variety of canine that may be walked without delay (there’s at the moment no restrict).

Good thought.

Right here’s a good higher thought.

If you’re fortunate sufficient to have a canine in your life – stroll it your self.

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KEMI BADENOCH, odds on to be the subsequent Tory chief, says that Labour won’t be able to name her prejudiced as a result of she is a black girl.

Sadly, that won’t cease them, Kemi.

The comrades imagine that ALL Tories are intrinsically baddies – despite the fact that their get together has by no means in its historical past been led by anybody however an previous white bloke in an ill-fitting swimsuit.