They Will Never Stop Until They Are Made To Stop...By Parents

Primary school children aged just four are being taught about surrogacy when they learn where babies come from for the first time. Reception classes are told that children can have a ‘tummy mummy’ as well as a ‘mummy and/or daddy who will be their parents’ when learning about the basics of reproduction.

 They are four. At four, most children have a hard time learning more important concepts, like not sticking everything they are offered up their nose!

Among ‘key vocabulary’ four and five-year-olds must learn are ‘surrogacy’ and ‘donated sperm or eggs’ in a module titled: ‘Where do babies come from?’

That seems a bit harsh, until you remember that one four year old in class who could pronounce all those dinosaur names correctly. And that had more value to their future life than this nonsense!  

Parents and campaigners say it is ‘highly inappropriate’ to teach these topics to such young children, saying it is only likely to confuse them. They add that the concepts should be introduced only to much older children ‘as part of lessons on thorny ethical issues such as euthanasia and abortion’.

Ball's in your court, parents - take an interest in what's being taught and pull your children from school if you find it's something you don't agree with. 

Helen Gibson, founder of Surrogacy Concern, said she is ‘appalled’ to see surrogacy being taught to such young children and has written to the Department for Education (DfE) to raise concerns.

A letter they will throw straight in the bin. 

The DfE said the teaching material was developed by a private relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) provider and is not compulsory in all primary schools, adding: ‘The RSHE guidance is clear that where schools choose to do so they must make sure they teach age-appropriate topics.’

A very modern response - 'it's not our fault, big boys did it and ran away'. 

The Emergency Services Need The Ability To Blacklist People...

A drunk mother-of-five scratched the inside of a police officer's mouth causing blood to drip down her cheek.

Not just on the one occasion - this fragile flower of femininity makes a career out of it: 

She became aggressive with officers again on January 1, while she was still on bail. She spat at them and hit at least one in the face and another in the chest.

Brooks, of Medway Road in Sheerness, now has 13 convictions for attacks on emergency workers.She also admitted eight other offences in January this year in relation to the incident on New Year’s Day. They were three counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker, three counts of criminal damage, common assault on an emergency worker and one count of threatening behaviour.

So, if you were a visitor to this planet fresh out of the UFO and about to say ‘Take me to your leader’ you’d assume the justice system would crack down hard on this scofflaw this time. But no…. 

Magistrates also heard from a probation officer who interviewed Brooks who said the offences in 2023 happened after she’d been drinking a lot at the party and that she’d been upset as an ex-partner had tried to kill himself.

She also said Brooks had five children and two grandchildren and had borderline personality disorder and depression. She also had a disabled child to look after.

None of those things should be prompting leniency- in fact, rather than mitigation, they should all be classed as aggravating aspects. 

The Chairman of the bench said: “Ms Brooks, you have a shocking record. Thirteen assaults on an emergency workers? Shocking is an understatement and we feel the offences do pass the custody threshold, but can be suspended.

Why? And just because it can, why should it? 

"If you come before the courts again in that time, you will probably go to prison. Spitting at police is just absolutely awful.”

Why would she believe those, when nothing she’s done so far has resulted in jail time? The magistrate’s not fooling her, or me! 

H/T: InspGadget via Twitter

Did Prison Service HR Screw Up Again?

A female jail worker in Georgia has been fired and hit with a string of criminal charges after she was allegedly caught half-naked in her office with an inmate last month - but she insists she's the victim.

Oh oh! Did the US prison service fail to do due diligence on her Social media and miss glamour shots, as so many of ours have in the UK?

Oooh! Guess not!  

Frantz waived her first court appearance on Tuesday, and her bond was set at $30,000. Despite the accusations, Frantz's lawyer claims her client is the one who has been wronged. She was under duress, and she was threatened with her life actually to comply with the demand by the complaining witness,' assistant public defender Jae Kim said in court Tuesday, according to WSB-TV.'My client is the victim of the whole situation and yet she is falsely accused of those charges.'

Good luck with that defence! 

Yes, Because Nothing Urges Children To Read Better Than A ‘Worthy’ Book With A Mission

This year’s Carnegie medals for children’s writing, awarded on Thursday, brought to light an unexpected trend. At a time of widespread public anxiety about the decline in boys’ reading habits and the rise of the toxic influencers of the online “manosphere”, male friendship and masculinity were front and centre on the shortlist.

Well, if preachy literature can’t solve this, what can? We clearly can’t rely on proper parenting, can we? 

The winner, Margaret McDonald’s superb debut, Glasgow Boys, tells the story of the relationship between two looked-after children on the threshold of adulthood who process trauma in different ways. Banjo’s aggression and Finlay’s avoidance could be seen as two models of dysfunctional masculinity. Luke Palmer’s Play, also on the shortlist, tells a story of male friendship which touches on rape culture and county lines drug gangs, while teenage gang membership is the focus of Brian Conaghan’s Treacle Town.

Ah, remember when children’s literature was full of adventures in far-off lands or fantasy worlds, rather than avoiding getting stabbed by the local imported hoodlums? 

Nathanael Lessore won the Shadower’s Choice medal (voted for by young readers). King of Nothing tells the story of Anton, a pre-GCSE hardman for whom reputation is everything. Anton hangs out with a thuggish crowd whose worldview is shaped by gang culture and Tate-like influencers. The arc of the plot – boisterously comic at first, but increasingly moving – shows how Anton’s developing friendship with the uncoolest boy in the school changes his priorities.

Ugh!  

Though the books were judged for their individual qualities, the panel’s chair, Ros Harding, observes a pendulum-swing in publishing. “We’ve gone from children’s adventure books, where it was always the boy as the hero, then there was a backlash against that, making sure that girls could be the heroes as well, which then maybe led to some boys feeling that things weren’t being written for them.” Now, she says, “another wave of books” is addressing that.

The people they broke something being the best ones to fix it?  

The explosion in so-called toxic masculinity is taking place at the same time as statistics tell us that reading for pleasure, especially among boys, is on the decline.

I wonder why? 

Novels are empathy machines: they invite you to imagine what it might be like to be somebody else. So they are, at least potentially, an antidote to the misogynistic influence of the manosphere and gaming culture.

if they ever perform that function, it’s usually as a side effect, rather than a main plot objective. Children aren’t stupid, and are really good at sensing when they are being patronised and preached to. 

Not A Tough One For The Jury...

Hope Rowe, 33, from Aldgate, launched the deadly attack on Charlotte Lawlor, 31, at 1am at a property in Stepney Green, east London, September 15 with a knife used to cut a cake. Mother-of-two Rowe hid the blade in her handbag before knifing Ms Lawlor in the chest and she continued to stab at her as she lay dying in a pool of blood.

Rowe denied but was convicted of murder by a jury at Inner London Crown Court and Judge Freya Newberry sentenced her to 22 years in prison.

No pussy pass for you. Hope! Probably due to the nature of the attack. 

Ms Lawlor, who 'just wanted to go home' during the confrontation, was leaving the property to get a taxi home when Rowe leaned around her 'MMA-expert' boyfriend Leigh Holder, 37, and stabbed her in the chest - footage of which was played in court. Jurors saw doorbell camera footage and CCTV from a bus showing Rowe's movements after she fled the party.

She admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility due to her mental health condition and loss of control.

But for once the CPS wasn't buying that. 

Her boyfriend, who has a distinct rose tattoo on his neck, was convicted of perverting the course of justice by driving Ms Rowe away from the scene and helping get rid of the knife which has never been recovered.

Lovely! 

In a statement, the victim's parents said: 'We are happy with the verdict.. We would like to thank the jury for their attention during the trial.'

Better do it fast, then, because if Labour get there way, we might not have them much longer. 

You Know They Would, Too....

 

....Matt always knows what's what!

Sunday Funnies...

 If they do one for TV it'll just have one entry: Game of Thrones final episode of season seven!

I Think The Concept Of 'Treating Yourself' Needs Some Revision...

Pret a Manger has unveiled a new range of 'premium' lunch offerings targeted at hybrid workers looking to treat themselves on office days - including a salmon salad that starts from £12.95.

Salad! Even in this heatwave, that doesn't really meet my definition of 'treating myself'! 

The coffee shop chain, which has almost 500 stores across the UK, says its new range of salmon, chicken and butternut squash dishes have been concocted with its in-house nutritionist to meet growing demand for bigger, healthy lunches.

No demand here from me, vcertainly not for butternut squash, the most tasteless vegetable since avocado. 

But the range of leafy greens and beans 'starts from' £9.95 - rising to £12.95 for the top-of-the-range miso salmon salad. And prices will be even higher depending on location, with airport and train station branches charging more and 20 per cent VAT slapped on if customers want to eat it in-store.

Anyone paying that for a salad they could whip up themselves for a third of the price before they head off to work must be mad. 

Was This Really A Prosecution In The Public Interest?

A burglary victim accused of causing the death of teenager who was fleeing on his stolen bike did what any 'reasonably minded' homeowner would do in the circumstances, a jury has been told.

What did he do? He went after the thieves! 

Dean Barnes, 16, was killed in the early hours of January 24, 2023, when the bike he was riding as a pillion passenger on crashed into a car.

Callum Duncan, 28, was woken around 6.30am on on January 24, 2024, by the noise of a gang of burglars breaking into the shed at his home in Stockport, Greater Manchester.The burglars, Barnes, alongside Alexander Riley, 21, and Adam Norman, 36, fled on his three off-road bikes and he immediately gave chase - reaching speeds of 36mph in his Golf GTi.

 I don't really know what to think about this. Oh, wait, yes I do!

                    

In the chaos that followed, Barnes was forced to abandon the Yamaha PW50 he was riding - commonly known as a 'Pee Wee'. He then got on the back of Norman's, a black a white Husqvarna, which then crashed into another car, causing the pair to be thrown off.

And incredibly, the CPS decided to charge not just the thief drving, but also the theft victim. 

Duncan and Norman are both on trial at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court charged with causing death by dangerous driving, which they deny. Norman, who denies two further charges of causing death by driving while uninsured and causing death by driving while disqualified, and Riley, both of Brinnington, Stockport, have both admitted burglary.

So the CPS could have wrapped this up without the expense of trying two men for the actions of one. 

'He does what any reasonable right minded home owner does in the those circumstances,' Mr Harman said. 'He goes to investigate. 'His motivations are different entirely from those of the burglars.' He said Duncan, 'an ongoing victim of crime' with 'his property at stake', was motivated by two things. 'Firstly, to spook the burglars enough to abandon their activity, allowing him to recover his property,' said Mr Harman.'Second, to get a good enough view of where the bikes are going and have a better idea of those involved and where they are taking the bikes.'

Not his fault at all they proved to be as incompetent at a getaway as they did, is it? 

Mr Harman said it was Norman's 'stupidity and dangerous and reckless actions' that caused the collision and Dean's death - and Duncan was not to blame. But the prosecution maintain that Duncan's 'dangerous' driving also contributed to the fatal crash.

And the jury said 'You're having a laugh, mate!' No wonder Labour want to abolish them.

This Sums Up The NHS, Doesn’t It?

 Private healthcare service: ‘A surgeon with a poor history? Let’s investigate and dispense with his services if we find he’s not up to snuff. We have to protect our fee paying customers’

NHS Trust:’We’re keeping him on, because the real customer is the government, and no matter what, there will never be any adverse consequences for us.’

QED