War Time Belfast 1939-1945. Men waiting to enlist at the Clifton Street Recruiting Office, Belfast. (National Museums Northern Ireland)

When HMS Victory entered service, she was the most powerful warship on Earth.

When she was launched in 1765, she represented the absolute peak of British naval engineering.

Built from around 6,000 oak trees, carrying 104 guns across three gun decks, and crewed by more than 800 men, Victory was less a ship and more a floating fortress.

At 227 feet long and weighing over 3,500 tons, she was one of the largest and most heavily armed warships of her age.

Her hull was so vast that it took six years to build and decades more to fully equip and maintain.

Then came Trafalgar.

On 21 October 1805, under the command of Horatio Nelson, HMS Victory led the British fleet directly into the combined French and Spanish line.

The battle changed European history.

Britain’s victory secured command of the seas for more than a century and confirmed the Royal Navy as the dominant naval force on Earth.

More remarkably, HMS Victory still survives today.

Over 260 years after her launch, Nelson’s flagship remains in Portsmouth, a reminder of what England once built in oak, iron and ambition.

Few nations have ever produced ships with this level of craftsmanship, power and grandeur.

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Pubs in scenic locations are set to get hammered with higher business rates in Rachel from accounts latest mistake...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2210975/britains-country-inns-be-locations-tax

I do hope Tucker Carlson has got good security. https://youtu.be/AHPmW-XKfCM?si=

Is anybody surprised?

https://www.gbnews.com/news/manchester-airport-police-not-face-a-retrial

There will be NO re-trial. Effectively cleared.

Our child got a phone age 11, in 2020 when she was SO lonely and isolated. We'd just moved countries and the local kids were being shits. Within 10 days she "came out" trans. We didn't know WTF was going on but when the school found out they sent us for mandatory "counselling". The 2 psychs (wearing masks on zoom) spoke with such thick Cork accents we didn't understand most of it. They then asked to speak to her alone. I listened at the door. They didn't even ask about the horrible bullying the local kids had put her through, and she spent 15 mins saying "pardon" because she couldn't understand them. Then they told us she was trans and we had to affirm or she would khs. Sent us breastbinding info and sent our GP a letter telling him to refer us to the gender clinic. They put our name down for some bizarre "Big brother" type programme where an adult trans person, a total stranger, with no clinical training, was going to pick her up and take her for an ice cream so she could talk about her feelings. We of course refused, but as the Irish CPS has a horrific reputation for removing kids whose parents don't toe the line, we were deeply uneasy about all of it. We left Ireland shortly after that, returning to South Africa, where the govt does NOT trans your kids.

We found out that she had been groomed online, on her phone on tiktok and other social media, lovebombed by ADULT groomers like Fuzzz99, Jacob Tobia and Jeffrey Marsh (If you think you might be trans, YOU ARE TRANS! Cut off any family that doesn't affirm the REAL you... etc). She begged for blockers and T, which we refused. We did the pronouns and the name change but were very firm that hormones etc were NOT on the table. Natural puberty hit like a freight train. She started wearing push up bras for the breasts she used to tell us she wanted amputated, nails, hair, make up became super NB. Noticing boys, falling in love with her body.

She's now the MOST FEMME creature imaginable, has a long term boyfriend, is fantasising about the names she wants to call the children she told us she was never going to want.

Of the 14 trans kids in the support group we joined in 2022, only ONE is still "trans" and he's a super femme, super autistic "aromantic" and "asexual" gay boy. One of the other girls now has a deep voice and facial hair and is furious at her parents for puttin her on the T she begged for - that she had said she would khs without.

We have been through absolute hell. But thank the Goddess I trusted my instincts and KNEW MY CHILD. It was a trend, a gaslighting cult, an inhuman attack on the family. We were told we were bigots for daring to question any of it. Affirm, affirm, affirm was the only avenue allowed. The mothers have their voices back now and we are NOT GOING TO SHUT UP ANY LONGER.

https://x.com/gingerhaderach/status/2060311956704182379?s=20

Because they've effectively won, their lawyer is now twisting the knife in the officer who kicked out at one of them.

A Deliveroo driver expecting more than just a tip.

Sacked for effectively speaking the truth, muslim coppers complained so she's gone...

https://archive.is/20260529121148/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/29/police-sacked-hate-crime-adviser-warned-muslims-jews/

All our lives we've been browbeaten by the idea that racism is the worst thing a person can be. And we've been told endlessly that we are the racists. Not because we dislike or discriminate against non-white people, but because we are white and therefore guilty by default. We are colonisers, oppressors, privileged, all because of our skin is white and we must apologise for it and atone for it relentlessly.

We get told we're racist for saying, "All Lives Matter". We get put in prison for printing stickers that say, "It's okay to be white" or for objecting when white girls are stabbed to death or raped by Pakistani Muslims.

And yet, despite this constant guilt shaming and gaslighting, time and time and time again what we see is the opposite—non-whites being violent and racist towards white people all the time.

Henry Nowak died because he was white.
Iryna Zarutska died because she was white.
The grooming gang scandal was a series of racially motivated hate crimes against British children because they were white.

But no matter how many cases, how many injustices, how many innocent white victims, or black or brown perpetrators there are, the narrative never, ever changes. It's always, "white people bad, non-white people victims" ... even when they're stabbing us to death. https://x.com/cillianblack/status/2060274957100220790