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THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Green Candidate in Crucial Special Election Wants to ‘Decolonize’ British Farming.

The Green Party's candidate in a crunch parliamentary by-election (special election) in Makerfield, England, advocated for British farming to be "decolonized" in order to tackle so-called "white supremacy culture".

The Green Party’s candidate in a crunch parliamentary by-election (special election) in Makerfield, England, advocated for British farming to be “decolonized” in order to tackle so-called “white supremacy culture.” PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Green Party candidate in a key parliamentary by-election (special election) in the constituency (electoral district) of Makerfield, Greater Manchester, previously called for British farming to be “decolonized.” DETAIL: On Tuesday, Sarah Wakefield was selected as the far-left Green Party’s candidate for the Makerfield by-election. After selection, it was revealed that Wakefield’s charity shared a report that called for British farming to be “decolonized.” The report included…Open

NYTIMES (John Yoon and Hari Kumar) - Mamdani Suggested UK Should Return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond. Here’s the Back Story.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York suggested that Britain should return the gem, a symbol of colonial plunder. Here’s the back story.

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Iain Macwhirter) - With Falklands Fracas, Trump Is Undermining His British Allies

There is no upside to pushing the UK back into Europe’s arms. The post With Falklands Fracas, Trump Is Undermining His British Allies appeared first on The American Conservative .

UK Special Coverage With Falklands Fracas, Trump Is Undermining His British Allies There is no upside to pushing the UK back into Europe’s arms. UK Special Coverage In 1982, the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent a naval task force 8,000 miles across the Atlantic to expel an Argentine invasion force from the Falkland Islands, a remote archipelago 300 miles east of the Patagonian coast. The mission was to liberate 2,000 British subjects living there.  It was successful, but the price for Britain was high—255 dead and seven vessels lost, including two destroyers and two frigates. Would any British government attempt anything so audacious today, even if it could somehow find the boats? The Falklands has become a live issue…Open

NPR (The Associated Press) - UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations.