After Will Smith Smacked Chris Rock In The Face, Panicky Oscar Bosses Raced To Regain Control

During the 2022 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Will Smith slaps Chris Rock

Oscars showrunners went to panic stations as they attempted to keep the Academy Awards on track after Hollywood megastar Will Smith surprised everyone by hitting fellow actor and comedian Chris Rock, live and on stage.

In what will probably go down as one of the most-watched moments in the history of the awards, Will Smith stormed the stage after Chris Rock made a quip about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss, before yelling ‘keep my wife’s name out of your f—king mouth.

With the incident detracting the whole 3-1/2 hour set, showrunners were left with an urgent decision to make. Let the best actor nominee stay in the Dolby Theatre, or can Will Smith, 53, from the event.

Ramin Setoodeh, executive editor of Variety magazine said that in fact, this year’s Oscars producer Will Packer even went to talk with Will Smith after the slap, approaching the actor and his wife at their table in the front row.

Will Packer is probably the person who made the decision to let the Hollywood golden boy remain in the theatre, but two insider sources told a newspaper outlet that producers asked Chris Rock whether he wanted Will Smith removed. The sources said he said no.

Will Smith hit Chris Rock, 57, as the comedian was on stage to present the documentary feature award. With the Oscars broadcast on a short time delay, ABC quickly cut the audio for 20 seconds in an attempt to dodge humiliation.

But having just been hit, Chris Rock was left on stage to conclude his presentation, and it would be more than 10 minutes before ABC eventually cut to a commercial break to remove the building tension in the room.

When they eventually did, Hollywood A-listers rushed to calm Will Smith down, with videos from inside the Dolby theatre showing performers Denzel Washington and Tyler Perry talking to the emotional nominee off stage.

Bradley Cooper was also seen embracing Will Smith, who was sitting just yards away from the stage where Chris Rock had been presenting the award.

After talking to Bradley Cooper, Will Smith returned to his seat and was seen patting his eyes with a white cloth before his publicist appeared quickly by his side.

Behind the scenes, Academy staffers and journalists alike were left dumbfounded. The academy quickly told journalists to avoid asking any other actors about the incident, despite it immediately becoming the main event.

Well, at least we know that Will Smith is human, and now we’ve seen his real personality.

An LAPD spokesman said that the department wasn’t investigating the incident and that Chris Rock would have to file a battery complaint to open an inquiry.

According to a tweet from Variety Executive Editor Ramin Setoodeh, what unfolded between Chris Rock and Will Smith was not planned and didn’t happen in rehearsals the day before.

Chris Rock was afterwards overheard saying backstage that he just got punched in the face by Muhammad Ali and he didn’t get a scratch. Will Smith played Ali in the 2001 biopic about the boxing champion.)

Soon after striking Chris Rock, Will Smith won the lead actor prize for his performance in “King Richard.” In the sports drama, Will Smith played the titular father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

Through tears, Will Smith apologised to the academy and his fellow contenders, but not to Chris Rock, while receiving his award.

Will Smith said that he wanted to be a vessel for love and he received a standing ovation upon winning the Oscar, and he said that he wanted to be an ambassador of that kind of love and care and concern and that he wanted to apologise to the academy.

The Police Respond To A Garden Shed On The Road In Marks Tey, A12

Near Colchester, police respond to a garden shed on the A12

Police were called out to the A12 near Colchester amid reports a garden shed was obstructing the road.

The force control room revealed the weird callout on Twitter at lunchtime.

Traffic maps revealed the incident, close to junction 25 at Marks Tey, caused some delays on the northbound carriageway.

Traffic heading eastbound on the A120 was worse affected, with cars slow-moving as far back as Coggeshall.

The force control room tweeted that officers from Colchester and roads policing were running to information of a garden shed that had somehow made its way onto the A12 in Marks Tey, but that no two calls were ever the same.

The latest traffic maps by the AA show congestion had eased in the area and the shed had been moved off the carriageway.

An AA traffic map was reporting that an object had been in the road, just to the north of junction 25 since 12.45 am.

Additionally, according to the AA traffic map, there seemed to be some congestion on the A12 near Marks Tey, causing delays of three minutes.

New BBC Art History Series Skips Henry VIII Because It Is Too Horrible

Henry VIII, who ruled from 1509 until his death in 1547, imposed the bloody English Reformation and plundered monasteries, leading to his exclusion from a new BBC Two series chronicling 1,500 years of British history, after one contributor called the monarch ‘horrible’ and an ‘a**hole’

Henry VIII will be skipped over in a new BBC history programme chronicling Britain over 1,500 years due to complaints the 16th-century ruler was a terrible person.

According to a newspaper outlet, the eight-part series, called Art That Made Us, plans to investigate tumultuous periods of British history through the lens of art, literature, music and designs but Henry VIII, despite heading up the bloody English Reformation of 1534, will not get a look in.

Field of The Cloth of Gold (pictured), a depiction of an ostentatious meeting between Henry VIII and King Francis I of France in 1520, was difficult to find for an eight-part series called Art That Made Us.

BBC producers invited Jeremy Deller, the Turner Prize-winning artist, to discuss a painting of Henry VIII, called Field of the Cloth of Gold, illustrating a gaudy meeting between the English monarch and Francis I of France in 1520.

However, Jeremy Deller declined the invitation to talk about the painting and the English ruler it represents, criticising Henry VIII as one of the most outstanding scumbags in British culture.

Jeremy Deller said that he hated him and that he was an iconoclast fundamentalist, and was just awful.

The dissolution of the monastic system under Henry VIII, a property grab that saw monks, nuns and friars turfed out of monasteries with all of their wealth being funnelled to the Crown, was a principal reason given by Jeremy Deller for his hatred of the historical figure.

According to the producers of the BBC Two series, Russell Barnes, the team gave up on Henry VIII after receiving Jeremy Deller’s flat out refusal.

Russell Barnes said they believed perhaps Field of the Cloth of Gold would be a truly fascinating picture to look at, but they just couldn’t find an artist who actually wanted to engage with that.

Mr Deller will instead appear on the series to discuss the work of William Morris, the influential British textile designer of the Victorian era.

Speaking about Morris’ wallpaper designs, Jeremy Deller said that they were the great landscape artworks of the 19th century. It wasn’t Turner and Constable, it was those which were then replicated throughout people’s homes throughout the world.

BBC Two’s new series Art That Made Us will start in the 5th century, looking at an Anglo Saxon figurine, the Lindisfarne Gospels and Beowulf.

The last instalment of the eight series show will cover from 1958 to the present day, during which everything from Irvine Welsh’s film Trainspotting to Stormzy’s 2019 performance at Glastonbury was highlighted for discussion.

Henry VIII was one of the most influential men in history, and we should live in an all-inclusive environment where no one is left out, including Hitler, and really, the only reason Henry wasn’t read was that they couldn’t find someone to speak about this particular painting, and it has actually been massively over sensationalised.

The programme is about art history, which is the paintings themselves rather than the subject within the paintings, and I can’t believe that they couldn’t find an expert to talk about it, and not just about Henry but his wives as well because this is was a fascinating period of English artistic history and it shouldn’t be overlooked.

Two of the best periods in British history is the Victorian and Tudor period, and here’s one person who decides the latter won’t feature, but he decided that he didn’t like Henry VIII, therefore he wasn’t going to be talked about.

Perhaps we should apologise to our children on behalf of him? Stuff happened in the past, and if talking about Henry VIII offends anyone they simply don’t have to watch it, but they could at least let others view it that want to.

William And Kate Fly Into A Third Storm In The Caribbean

Her Royal Highness wore aquamarine, the colour of the Bahamas’ flag, as she and Prince William continued their Caribbean tour to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee after their bumpy visit to Jamaica

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have flown into another storm in The Bahamas as islanders piled more pressure on the Royal Family over slave trade reparations amid a growing movement on Caribbean islands to remove the Queen as head of state.

The duo landed in Nassau last night after a bumpy visit to Jamaica that sparked demonstrations and allowed prime minister Andrew Holness to further his campaign to become a republic. A visit in Belize this week had to be rearranged over worries it could be disrupted.

William and Kate meet the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Philip Davis, and his wife Ann-Marie during their Caribbean tour

As they touched down at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, Bahamas, to begin the last leg of their tour, Prince William and Kate were met by members of the military and eight-year-old local resident Aniah Moss, who presented the couple with a bouquet of flowers in front of the Royal Air Force Voyagers aircraft.

They then met the country’s Prime Minister Philip Davis, who gave them a portrait and said their visit to the island was long overdue, and as Kate wore duck egg blue to match the country’s flag, Mr Davis told them that their best wishes were sent to the Queen, and congratulations on her Platinum Jubilee and that he did not think they would see the same again, to which William nodded.

Mr Davis sidestepped any talk of independence and said they spoke about climate change, with the prospective king promising to do all he could to support their work to restore The Bahamas’ coral reefs. Mr Davis said last year that any independence referendum was not on the agenda but acknowledged that could change if voters demanded it. But one of his senior ministers said recently it was his life’s work to be truly independent of Britain.

And on the eve of the Cambridges’ arrival in The Bahamas, the island nation’s National Reparations Committee called for millions of pounds to be paid in reparations for the British monarchy’s role in slavery.

The explosive letter read: ‘They and their family of royals and their government must acknowledge that their diverse economy was built on the backs of our ancestors. And then, they must pay. We, the children of those victims, owe it to our ancestors to remember. We owe it to our ancestors to demand a reckoning and to demand accountability, healing, and justice.

‘The Duke and Duchess may not be compelled to make such a declaration during their visit to our shores. They may not be able at this time to speak on behalf of the Queen and their government. However, they can no longer ignore the devastation of their heritage.’

However, should anyone that’s alive today be accountable for slavery, child labour or any other ills of the past? And is it our place to give reparations to anyone for this?

Slavery from the past is hardly William, Catherine’s or the Queen’s responsibility, and even if they did apologise for it, it definitely won’t alter history, all we can do is learn from it.

It’s time that these countries had their independence, but Royalty will always be associated with the Empire which will always be associated with colonialism, which will always be associated with slavery, although no one has mentioned modern slavery that’s prolific all over the world.

Sometimes the past belongs in the past, but if we forget then mistakes happen over and over again, and all these tours that the Royal Family do are just an endless string of tours, endless changing of outfits and jewellery and out of touch speeches.

Boris Johnson has not been invited to Kyiv

Volodymyr Zelensky

Downing Street announced that despite reportedly being desperate to visit the warzone, Boris Johnson hasn’t been invited to visit war-ravaged Kyiv.

No 10 told reporters that the Prime Minister would consider travelling to the besieged metropolis, but no offer had been received from president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Boris Johnson

It came after Tory chairman Oliver Dowden insisted the Prime Minister had a genuine emotional bond with the suffering of the Ukrainian people and wanted to experience what it was like on the ground.

The comments, in an interview with LBC, came despite security fears over Boris Johnson’s obvious wish to visit Kyiv for face to face talks with Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman told reporters that they would clearly consider any invite should it be made, but there were no plans to travel there now, and it was said that the Prime Minister speaks to President Volodymyr Zelensky on an almost daily basis and that they were doing everything they could, and any requests that were made to continue playing a coordinating role, which they feel is essential to helping Ukraine.

He said President Volodymyr Zelensky hadn’t, at this time, requested the Prime Minister visit Kyiv.

The prime ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic made a trip to the Ukrainian capital last week.

Boris Johnson has been having almost daily calls with the president, which insiders told a newspaper outlet have often been moving and left Boris Johnson moist around the eyes.

The UN’s refugee agency said about 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since the attack started, with millions more forced out of their homes staying in the country.

Mr Dowden, who serves in Cabinet, said that he believed the Prime Minister was desperate to go to Ukraine and has throughout the conflict felt a real, as the British people have done, connection with the suffering of the Ukrainian people and a need for the West to unite in standing up to this threat from Russia which has been exposed to Ukraine.

Pressed on why Boris Johnson needed to travel to the war zone rather than talking to Volodymyr Zelensky on the phone, Mr Dowden said that he believed that it was both to see what was going happening on the ground and that it was significantly different speaking to someone on the phone versus seeing it in practice, and that no decision had been taken in regard to this, and that it was to experience what was happening there and to see what was happening to the people on the ground.

Or perhaps Boris Johnson is just desperate to do some thumbs up in a jacket and helmet for a photo opportunity without any regard for the danger he will put other people in, and perhaps he shouldn’t be allowed near the place, and if he is permitted to go, all he will be doing is a rotund Frank Spencer show, giving the people of Kyiv a thumbs up, with his roaring Churchillian address.

Volodymyr Zelensky has enough to deal with, let alone having to worry about Boris Johnson getting in the way, and Boris should just continue with his phone calls instead, and let’s face it, who needs a useless sack of blubber, who’s desperate enough to attach himself to anyone’s wagon in a war zone? It’s not a circus Boris, it’s a war, and Boris Johnson needs to stick to his own playpen.

And I’m pretty sure we don’t need to see Boris Johnson act out his boyhood fantasies of wearing camouflage or doing the cringeworthy elbow bumps.

A Doomed Chinese Jet’s Passengers

Chinese recovery teams were today picking through the debris of a crashed China Eastern jet after it inexplicably plunged from the sky into a mountainside yesterday with 132 people on board.

The Chinese Boeing 737-800 crashed into a mountainside with no survivors, and rescue workers speculated that the fire resulting from the collision had killed the passengers and their belongings, before causing damage to the surrounding forest.

China Eastern yesterday grounded all of its Boeing 737-800 aircraft after the incident, in which the aircraft unexpectedly nose-dived and plunged 30,000 feet in two minutes before slamming into the ground at 350 mph.

The incident represents China’s deadliest air crash in almost three decades. The deadliest Chinese commercial flight misfortune was a China Northwest Airlines crash in 1994, which killed all 160 onboard.

President Xi Jinping quickly named for a full investigation following the collision as search teams, firefighters and other personnel descended upon the area in a rural region of Guangxi province.

State media showed uniformed search teams climbing over a scene of upturned earth, blasted trees and scattered debris, including a section of aircraft bearing the carrier’s blue and red livery.

Other crews were shown launching drones, in a search mission complicated by the steep terrain and thick vegetation.

The airline earlier on Monday acknowledged that some aboard the jet, which was transiting from the municipality of Kunming to the southern hub of Guangzhou, had perished, but didn’t offer more particulars.

China Eastern said in a statement late Monday without supplying more details that the company expressed its deepest condolences for the passengers and crew members who perished in the plane wreck.

Families of the passengers and crew members were still waiting to hear more details about the tragedy.

Local villagers were the first to arrive at the crash site on Monday, where the plane sparked a fire large enough to be captured on NASA satellite images.

Hundreds of rescue workers were subsequently dispatched from Guangxi and the neighbouring Guangdong province.

State broadcaster CCTV said China Eastern set up nine teams to deal with the disposal of the aircraft, accident investigation, family assistance and other pressing matters.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and China Eastern both said they also dispatched officials to the crash site.

State media reported all 737-800s in the airline’s fleet were ordered grounded following the collision. The model is the predecessor to the controversial 737 Max model but was considered safe despite a string of crashes over its lengthy history.

We just take it for granted that it’s safe to fly, but it’s not and aeroplanes are just extremely complex machines and anything can happen, and it must have been terrifying for those passengers and crew as the aeroplane went down.

However, we believe that the risk in flying is relative, and that flight is much safer than any other type of transportation, and even though aeroplanes are very well maintained and crews are skillfully trained there are still risks, the same as getting into a car or train.

The Chinese will know and probably say something in due course. Black boxes are designed to endure an impact and fire, but it will take time to sift through the whole wreckage before anyone knows anything.

This was an absolutely horrific plane crash and people lost their lives, but there was no need for such graphical reporting which of course would have added more distress to their families reading those reports.

This entire event was quite shocking and aeroplanes don’t just fall out of the sky, and hopefully, the families of the departed will get the answers that they’re looking for.

Now Is The Time To End This War…

Vladimir Putin should end the illegal invasion of Ukraine and negotiate directly with Ukraine’s wartime president, Volodymyr Zelensky warned, warning that otherwise, it will take Russia ‘several generations’ to recover.

Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Russian aggressor Vladimir Putin to end his illegal attack and negotiate directly with Ukraine’s comic turned wartime president, warning that otherwise, Russia will take several generations to recover.

In an evening video address to the country outside the Presidential Office on Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky also blamed Russian forces for deliberately causing a humanitarian disaster to pressure Kyiv into yielding to Vladimir Putin’s demands.

At the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Vladimir Putin attends a concert commemorating the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea

Appealing to Vladimir Putin to hold direct talks with him as Kremlin troops surrounded Ukraine’s capital, he said that they have always insisted on negotiations. That they offered dialogue, offered solutions for peace. Not just for 23 days of aggression.

He said that he just wanted everyone to hear him now, especially Moscow, and that the time had come for a meeting, that it was now time to talk. It was time to restore territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine. Otherwise, Russia’s losses will be such that it will take them several generations to recover.

Ukraine and the West claim that Russia’s invasion is struggling in part due to fierce Ukrainian resistance, inadequate planning and low morale among Russian forces, and according to one US intelligence estimate, 7,000 Russian troops including four generals have already been killed, more than the number of American troops killed in either the Iraq or Afghanistan wars at 4,825 and 3,576 respectively, and between 14,000 and 21,000 troops have been wounded in the fighting.

The estimated Russian death toll is of a scale comparable to that of the Batte of Iwo Jima, where 6,852 troops were killed and 19,000 were injured during five weeks of fighting Japanese forces in the most intense phase of the Pacific theatre of World War Two.

Ukraine’s military has also suffered heavy casualties, likely to be much higher than the 1,300 troops which Kyiv has confirmed as killed.

According to Ukraine’s military, Russia has lost 466 tanks, 115 helicopters, 914 vehicles, 95 aircraft, 213 artillery systems, 44 anti-aircraft weapons and 60 fuel tanks. Russia hasn’t responded to Kyiv’s latest estimates, and the data couldn’t be independently confirmed.

The Kremlin has insisted that Ukraine renounced any ambitions to join NATO, be neutral along the lines of Sweden and Austria, recognise Crimea as Russian territory and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent territories.

Vladimir Putin’s lapdog Sergei Lavrov said neutrality was taking centre stage and that Moscow and Kyiv were near to agreeing on the wording of an agreement on NATO. But Kyiv vetoed the proposal and instead called for a global security guarantee among Western partners, including potentially Britain, who will support Ukraine if it’s invaded again.

Negotiations are a game to Vladimir Putin, along with his toys of armageddon.

Vladimir Putin has invaded the sovereign country of Ukraine, and the world is standing by whilst Volodymyr Zelensky and his brace soldiers and courageous citizens fight NATO’s war for them.

Ukraine is an old historic autonomous sovereign country of 45 million inhabitants, but now Vladimir Putin is invading Ukraine with his despotic warmongering and perpetrating war crimes that will scorch this earth with his destruction of poor Ukraine.

It’s time for Vladimir Putin, in the finest Stalinist tradition to call back his defeated forces and skedaddle back to mother Russia, but sadly this man loves the cameras and the attention, and of course, Vladimir Putin will not want to lose face, so we can only speculate his next move.

The President of Ukraine Owns A suit, Doesn’t He?

An American entrepreneur and one time Senate candidate was criticised for asking why Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t wear a suit, then doubled down by accusing the embattled Ukrainian president of wearing make-up.

Peter Schiff, 58, who once ran as a Republican for the seat of the US Senator from Connecticut twelves years ago made the remarks soon after Volodymyr Zelensky appeared before the US Senate in his now trademark khaki green T-shirt.

Peter Schiff, who’s the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital bank tweeted that he understood times were difficult, but that doesn’t the President of Ukraine own a suit?

He said that he didn’t have much respect for existing members of the US Congress either, but he still wouldn’t address them sporting a T-shirt and that he wouldn’t want to disrespect the institution or the United States.

One tweeter calling themselves Quoth the Raven replied to Peter Schiff by saying he’d just made one of the worst all-time takes. Quoth the Raven continued that the man was in the centre of a war zone dodging artillery and that he was not going to be rolling around his garment rack with him.

But Peter Schiff was unbowed and replied again by saying he was not in combat on a battlefield. Someone powered his face. Not a hair was out of place, and he was clean-shaven with a trimmed beard. He chose to wear the T-shirt, but he could have easily have picked something less casual.

Numerous other tweeters chose to blast Peter Schiff over his comments, hundreds of whom used far less polite vocabulary.

Jon Cooper, former National Finance Chair of Draft Biden 2016, wrote that he couldn’t believe that the tweet hadn’t been deleted and that Peter Schiff was a complete A—Gap.

The guy is not only in a war zone, where he wouldn’t be able to get a suit pressed and dry cleaned, but even if it were achievable, it was favourable for people to see him as one of them sharing the struggle.

Peter Schiff doubled down on his tweet, later on, responding to Jonathan saying that he wouldn’t have had to press a suit and that he was sure he had a clean suit hanging in the same closet as his T-shirts, and that even if there were no suits available, maybe a long-sleeved shirt with a collar.

Amy Task, an analyst at CBS Sports, was part of the majority who condemned Peter Schiff, sharing that Volodymyr Zelensky was fighting to protect the lives of others, and he was putting his life at risk to do so. That he could have left but he didn’t and that speaks volumes about the man that he is, and that it speaks volumes about the sort of man Peter Schiff is.

Perhaps Peter Schiff should trade places with the president of Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky is fighting a war, and he’s trying to save his country, not look pretty, and which one would you trust most, the one in the T-shirt or the one in the suit?

Let’s face it, rich people are so out of touch with reality it’s scary, and really, what idiot wears a suit while trying to save their country, oh that would be Peter Schiff.

The rich and privileged don’t get the effects of the war, but perhaps that’s because they’re so busy starting them? And Peter Schiff is one of those people who it doesn’t affect because he’s probably never got his hands dirty in his life unless he’s playing with himself and then he probably uses a tissue to masturbate!

Los Angeles DUI Suspect Dies Screaming ‘I Can’t Breathe’ On Terrifying Final Moments

A California father’s harrowing last moments have emerged in harrowing police footage showing him scream ‘I can’t breathe’ while dying as he was held face down on the ground so officers could extract a blood sample.

Edward Bronstein, 38, died on March 31, 2020, less than two months before George Floyd was killed by police in Minnesota, after an altercation during his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence.

He was pulled over for a DUI, but taken to a police station after refusing to give a blood sample, which his family says was due to a fear of needles.

Edward Bronstein started screaming with fear after being pinned to the ground face down shortly afterwards, and died shortly afterwards, with efforts to revive him proving unsuccessful.

The California Highway Patrol had fought to keep the video from going public after the man’s family sued over excessive use of force and civil rights violations, but a federal court judge ordered its release.

An 18-minute video of the detention, taken by a California Highway Patrol sergeant in Pasadena, shows a handcuffed Edward Bronstein, a father to two daughters, rowing with police as they directed him to a mat on the floor of the Altadena station garage and forced him to his knees to take a blood sample he’d refused to give.

He initially argues but starts shrieking with fear after being thrown to the ground face down.

Edward Bronstein can then be heard saying that he would do the blood test willingly as two officers hover over him, and a man can be heard warning him not to resist taking a court-ordered blood sample to determine his intoxication level.

The officer tells him that he could just provide it and still, he didn’t consent and that he was the one bringing the fight, not them.

Edward Bronstein says to an officer that he was not fighting as the officer kept his hand on his shoulder.

The patrolman then says that he should have a seat and provide his arm, otherwise he was going to go face down on the mat and that they were going to keep on going.

Edward Bronstein’s family said that he had a fear of needles.

Officers then swarm Edward Bronstein and haul his legs out from under him, causing him to writhe around on the ground, and five officers can be seen kneeling on him as he yells that he would do it willingly.

The officer says that it was too late and that they’d not even poked him yet and that he should just relax, but then Edward Bronstein starts yelling that he can’t breathe.

Finally, Edward Bronstein stops moving and officers draw blood from his lifeless body.

A second video, more than 12 minutes long, shows the officer’s and paramedics’ unsuccessful attempts to revive Edward Bronstein.

I would guess this is a major lawsuit for sure. However, there will be nothing gained politically, nor will it be exploited, and you probably won’t see this on America’s corporate media.

The most significant thing here that everyone missed is why didn’t the officers do a breathalyzer test instead, it would have been much easier than using a needle.

But nobody in America cares about this because police brutality is favoured, and nothing will come of this because they have double standards in their justice system, and it seems that now, officers are allowed to go around with syringes and needles, asking offenders for blood samples on the street, and for those people out there that might say that Edward Bronstein should have listened to the officers, well the officers could have equally listened to Mr Bronstein when he said that he couldn’t breathe.

Of course, you shouldn’t drink and drive, and when you break the law you shouldn’t resist arrest, but then when being apprehended you don’t think that you’re going to end up with a death sentence, and that’s before you’ve even been to court.

These officers thought that the only thing that they could do to see if Edward Bronstein was intoxicated was to take his blood when a simple breathalyzer test would have sufficed, and now a man has died for absolutely nothing.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe And Anoosheh Ashoori On Their Way Back To The United Kingdom

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe will return to her husband and seven-year-old daughter Gabriella, who plans to show her mother her new toys.

Richard Ratcliffe said that it was going to be the beginning of a new life.

Mr Ashoori’s family said they could now rebuild the foundations of their family with their cornerstone back in place.

In a statement, they hailed his release and return to the United Kingdom after five long years before thanking those who laboured to bring him home.

A second man, Morad Tahbaz, who has Iranian, UK and US nationality, has been freed from prison but is not yet allowed to leave Iran.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss paid tribute to the amazing willpower and perseverance shown by Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Mr Ashoori, Mr Tahbaz and their families, saying the sufferings they endured must never happen again.

Liz Truss said ministers would keep working to ensure Mr Tahbaz’s freedom.

The government has said it also settled a deficit of nearly £400 million owed to Iran from the 1970s, with the fund’s ring-fenced exclusively for humanitarian pursuits.

Speaking in the Commons, Tulip Siddiq, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s MP said she welcomed home Nazanin after six long years, and can now say to her daughter Gabriella that this time mummy was really coming home.

Paying tribute to Mr Ratcliffe, who watched from the public gallery with Gabriella. Tulip Siddiq said he’d really set the bar high for husbands in his efforts to ensure his wife’s release.

Cuddling his daughter, Gabriella, Mr Ratcliffe told journalists they would really believe the news when they saw ‘mummy’.

He said he wanted to thank people up and down the country for supporting his campaign for her release, which included a hunger strike last October.

He said that it had been such a cruel experience in some ways, but it had also been an exposure to such a level of kindness and care, and he said that this would be a chapter in their lives, but that there were many more chapters to come.

Speaking after hearing MPs speak in the House of Commons, he told the Press Association the family would be away for a couple of days convalescing, doctors and check-ups and so on.

He said on returning to their home, the first thing his wife wanted to do was sit down on the sofa, make a cup of tea, and just be in the living room together, and that he looked forward to pottering around the neighbourhood and being normal again.

So, why has Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe been released now?

The fundamental explanation is that London-Tehran ties are better than they’ve been before, and the International Revolutionary Guard and Iran’s judiciary no longer feel they need Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe for leverage in relations with the United Kingdom.

She was just a diplomatic pawn held prisoner by the Iranian authorities to put pressure on London.

If Tehran wanted to make nice, they would treat her well, give her access to medical assistance, possibly increase the frequency of visits, maybe even allow her a temporary release from prison, but if Tehran wanted to wield pressure on London, then her conditions might deteriorate or privileges might be removed.

The UK paying the historic £400 million debt for tanks sold but not delivered will have made a tremendous difference, and for years, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) proclaimed the two issues weren’t connected, but in practice, the Iranians made them one and the same problem.

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