'We Just Like Losing In Court'

Police chiefs are embroiled in a fresh woke row over official guidance that says biological men who identify as women can ask to be strip searched by a female officer. The National Police Chiefs’ Council and British Transport Police will next week face a High Court challenge after they published the guidance despite last year’s Supreme Court ruling.Women’s rights groups who have launched the legal action say the advice from police chiefs will put female officers under pressure to search detainees who are biological men.

The police refusing to obey the law? Say it ain't so!  

The NPCC guidance says that female officers can refuse to conduct an intimate search of a trans woman detainee.But women’s rights charity Sex Matter, which is bringing the legal challenge, argues that female officers feel that in reality they can’t opt out of their duties, fearing career repercussions. They claim in legal documents this amounts to discrimination and harassment.

It does, because it is!  

The NPCC said the guidance ‘was developed after a thorough process in response to last year’s Supreme Court ruling’ and is ‘explicit that officers will face no career detriment for refusing to carry out a search’.

Yeah, we the public know you are liars, especially when it relates to woke policies, , so don't expect your staff not to realise it too. 

This tweet sums up the situation perfectly:

Let's Blame The Crocodile!

 How dores the BBC, that bastion of truth, choose to headline the story about the lunatic who threw a child inro a crocodile enclosure at a local zoo?

I suppose we should congratulate them on their photo - it is an actual crocodile, the 'Daily Mail' was making do with a photo of an alligator..

Cambridgeshire Police said a 30-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder had been bailed and was "unfit for interview". He reportedly has learning disabilities and had been on a trip to Johnsons of Old Hurst, near Huntingdon, with carers. It is believed the boy was attacked on Thursday by at least one crocodile after ending up in their enclosure.

We all know how he 'ended up' in there, the same way a young boy ended up at the bottom of the Tate Modern all those years ago.... 

Officers said they were called to the zoo at 13:34 BST on Thursday and were working to establish how long the boy was in the enclosure. Police said the crocodiles had not been seized or killed.

Why would they be? The police don't have any facilities to hold them, and they can't be interviwed!

Det Insp Verity McCann said: "Our inquiries are ongoing as we continue to understand the circumstances surrounding this distressing incident. 

"Our thoughts remain with the boy, and his family and specialist officers continue to support them through this difficult time."

I'm sure that's what they are doing, and not making sure they don't make a fuss or take to social media... 

The man who was arrested was from Norfolk, police said, and was not at the zoo as part of an organised group visit.

A witness told the BBC she had seen a man in his late 20s, accompanied by two women wearing lanyards who she believed may have been carers, walking through the zoo about 10 minutes before the incident.

The lanyard classes usually choose opportunities to create multiple harms, not singular, this is the only surprising aspect!

Cambridgeshire Police confirmed the suspect was white British after misinformation shared on social media.

And the 'carers'? What was their nationality? 

One visitor, who wished to remain anonymous, told the BBC... the crocodiles appeared calm and largely motionless during her visit.

They do that, until they don't. The inquest/h&s report is going to tell us more, but I doubt the stated injuries come from anything other than the fall from height.  

Well, Why, Against All Experience, Did You Believe He Would?

More than eight years ago my youngest daughter, Molly, died after being bombarded with suicide and self-harm material on social media. I had hope that Keir Starmer would finally take the measures needed to address the harm Molly was subjected to, but his social media ban for under-16s leaves me desperately worried for the safety of children online.

Why would anyone believe a word the man said? Well, apart from a man who wants the government to raise his child for him I suppose...

Instead of tackling the product safety issues that cost my daughter’s life, he is choosing to take a politically easy route which the evidence shows – and experts warn – will not work, and will leave children at continued risk.

Well, yes. He’s a politician and a beleaguered one at that who will do anything to cling to power, no matter what promises he has made in the past!

Parents are right that action is needed, and is needed now. But two years into this government, the prime minister has failed time and again to take on big tech with the tough regulation he promised in opposition. Starmer also promised me personally that he would implement effective measures to strengthen regulation and finally address the harm caused by social media. He has failed to keep either promise.

He hasn’t, as far as I can tell, kept any promises, unless it’s ones he made to the string pullers behind the scenes who want to see the UK brought low. 

He also promised bereaved parents after the recent consultation on children’s social media use that he would follow the evidence and take the time to consider his response then act decisively. Instead, he has rushed out a ban.

As we have seen in Australia, where a social media ban for under-16s came into effect in December 2025, teens and children are able to circumvent the ban – with 60% still accessing social media.

And they will do the same with this one, if he manages to get it through Parliament, of course. The man who will soon vie to sit in that seat may find that a little more challenging than expected.

Today’s news is giving parents false hope. But in this announcement, the prime minister has abdicated responsibility for product safety, and has failed to put forward a plan for tackling the algorithms that cost Molly’s life and, tragically, will cost many more.

If there's one thing that marks out this man, it's that concern for the welfare of children is little more than skin-deep. 

Just As Soft As In The UK...

A French man has been convicted after his illegally imported pit bull dog killed his six-month pregnant girlfriend.

Don't start cheering just yet... 

Christophe Ellul, 51, received a suspended four-year sentence after DNA tests showed his dog, Curtis, was responsible for the 2019 attack that killed Elisa Pilarski.

And of course, he tried to wriggle out of it, as these owners always do: 

Ellul argued that Curtis, brought from the Netherlands, was not aggressive. He also attempted to blame the dogs that had been involved in a deer hunt in the forest for his girlfriend's death. However, DNA tests revealed that the pit bull had carried out the deadly attack.Sixty-two hunting hounds and the couple's other five dogs were also tested to exclude their involvement.

Imagine what that must have cost, in time and money! End that's not the worst of it...

In March, the presiding judge said Curtis now lives 'in a four-square-meter enclosure, fenced to prevent escape, with access to a sunny six-square-meter yard'. A 'plastic bone' is provided for him. His general condition is 'satisfactory,' his 'coat is shiny,' he has 'gained weight' and 'shows no signs of physical or mental suffering,' according to the report.

Yes, that's concern for the welfare and comfort of the killer beast that should already be lying on a slab at the vets awaiting cremation. But not if these idiots can help it! 

Animal activists have called for his pardon, including a petition on Change.org, which has received more than 80,000 signatures urging Curtis to be transferred to an animal shelter.

I would have said that France lacks the sort of soft-brain moron ‘animal lovers’ that would campaign to see a mutt that has killed a person spared destruction, unlike in the UK or US, but I’d obviously be wrong.

More Balls Dropped Than In The World Cup

A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots. The Accountability Project Northern Ireland, a volunteer group formed last summer to monitor anti-immigration activity online, sent dozens of reports to the PSNI between November 2025 and June 2026.

Ooop! 

The Guardian understands a so-called hitlist of addresses has been circulating among far-right groups since August 2025 and was sent to the PSNI in January 2026. The addresses were among the locations targeted during this week’s anti-immigration disorder.

The reports sent to police also cited a Facebook post stating that HMOs in the Glengormley area “will now be treated as fair game and dealt with accordingly”.

Oh dear! Even the hapless Met Police would do better. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd suggest that it was ignored bevause a few weeping asylum seekers bundled into vans ahead of smoking homes made a good impression for Starmer's 'far right' crackdown. 

But I'm not, and frankly incompetence is easier to understand. Especially from these clowns. 

Anti-racist campaigners have spoken of their anger and frustration that months of warnings were not acted on in the runup to the rioting that has seen houses and cars burned, and racist checkpoints set up on main roads.

Wouldn't it be better to point that anger at the authorities who have stoked that local anger by ignoring concerns until a man nearly had his head hacked off by a person who shouldn’t have been in the country? 

Community groups described helping vulnerable families leave areas, while volunteers organised support for minority ethnic students travelling to GCSE exams. Campaigners also reported that some workers from minority ethnic backgrounds were leaving work early because of concerns about travelling home safely.

At some point, will these people ever see themselves as part of the problem, and not the solution? 

A spokesperson for End Deportations Belfast said the strategy used in the riots in Belfast were the same as those used in Northern Ireland since the 1970s. “They were setting up roadblocks and ID-checking cars around hospitals,” they said. “These roadblocks are designed to stretch police resources, and then they go and they commit pogroms in specific areas.”

It’s very different from the 1970s, then the tactics were designed to deal with people who wanted an occupying force out of their neighbourh… 

Oh. As you were.

 

Is This Park Twinned?

 If it is, it must be witn Derry in Maine!

Essex Police rushed to the Chalkwell Park area of Southend, Essex, at around 12.30am today following reports that a young woman had been seriously injured in an incident involving a 'small articulated loading vehicle'. It is understood that a group of people inside the park took unauthorised control of the vehicle and that is how the teenager was hurt.Paramedics took the girl to hospital, where she remains in a critical condition.

Translation for those who don't speak 'official': some little shits stole a fork-lift and ran someone over.  

Chalkwell Park is the same Essex park where a seven-year-old girl was killed by a falling tree in June last year.

Boy, a place to avoid at all times!  

Update: the girl has sadly now died.

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Opines....

...on the subject of water. And a column from the most vapid of the 'Guardian's' stable is always a treat, eh, Reader?

Like many who saw it, I was saddened and shocked at the disregard for animals: people were clambering over nests, and trying to reach an island specially safeguarded for birds. Yet I also wondered what a polarised, emotive debate is going to achieve when, lurking behind the justified anger, is another question about our access to water.

Eh?  

“It’s like nothing is free any more and that’s not fair for us as well. We don’t want to pay for … natural water” – this comment, given anonymously by one of the swimmers to the Times, was telling. There’s a feeling, I think, nationally, that our water no longer belongs to us. It is being cynically polluted, fenced off, or monetised.

Well, too bad, you have to pay for everything worth having in this life! 

It’s great that we are seeing new designated swimming spaces, but demand is only going to increase as the climate continues to heat up.

Maybe, or maybe we'll switch to demanding aircon on the taxpayer's dime?  

The well-known bathing ponds on either side of the wildlife pond on Hampstead Heath used to operate on an honesty system. Now you have to pay, and in hot weather the queues are long. At the same time, temperatures are getting hotter and hotter, and city life is becoming less bearable. There are not enough accessible places to swim.

Well, gosh, its almost as if honesty systems don't work anymore when you transition from a high trust society to a multicultural one! 

On the one hand, wild swimming has become totally fetishised, tweely marketed as a middle-class lifestyle choice and a cure-all, and spots where you can swim are more and more swamped. On the other, you have “no swimming” signs but very little clarity about why they are there (at the wildlife pond in Hampstead Heath it’s not made clear why that one, of the three, is off limits, and there was scant information about the birds and their habitat), let alone a proper national conversation about what our rivers, seas, lakes and ponds are for.

As if anyone from the most selfish generation would read it, or care if they did! 

The many campaigns against the pollution of our rivers and seas have been excellent, but as well as those, and teaching children to swim, we should be discussing how we navigate risk and educate people about the potential impact of open water swimming both on human and animal lives. By all means issue more fines – but also put up boards explaining why people shouldn’t swim, just as “no swimming” signs in danger spots should explain the actual risks.

If organisations were to put up signs warning of the danger of drowning, they would get complaints  about them being that most overused modern word, ‘triggering’ and if they were to put up signs noting the prevalence of drowning deaths amongst ethnic minorities , that too would attract campaigners whining that water is racist! 

They can’t win, so the only sensible move is not to play the game!

In some ways, the Hampstead Heath saga reminds me of the visceral response to the felling of the sycamore gap tree: valid anger about the environment or animal welfare escalating to an irrational point, with outraged comments online wishing diarrhoea and vomiting on the swimmers.

As an island nation, swimming is encoded in many of us from a very young age. As people continue to lose their lives, education and investment are more urgent than ever.

Only if the people we were losing were worth saving, Rhiannan.... 

A Telling Phrase...

Travellers have pitched up outside a village hall on the outskirts of Norwich.The group arrived on Wednesday at Spixworth Village Hall which is run by the parish council. Police have been informed, as has the local county councillor.

Here we go again... 

People have been requested not to "antagonise" the group by officials.

WTAF?  

A spokeswoman for the Trustees of Spixworth Playing Field said: "The police and county councillor are aware of the situation, the travellers have been spoken to, and they are aware that they are likely to be moved on. 

"A couple of people spoke directly with them when they arrived and requested that they not make any mess.

 Ha ha ha ha. Good one! Oh, wait, you're serious?

"The police have confirmed that the travellers are known to them and were generally good, if left alone. 

Meaning what? That the police hope they don't have to do their job?  

"The parish council requests that residents don’t antagonise them; they are out of the way at present and will hopefully leave shortly."

What they will leave is YOU, with a big clean up bill! Total cowardice from all authorities involved, it's no wonder people no longer have any faith. 

H/T: Dave Ward via email 

Lead With The Sympathetic, But Bury The Lede...

Vulnerable families including women fleeing abuse are being illegally “dumped” hundreds of miles away by London councils in a practice “ripping at the social fabric” of deprived towns, a Guardian investigation has found.

Well, as this is the 'Guardian', this will come as no surprise: 

Charities described the policy as “inhumane” and accused councils of targeting vulnerable refugees who speak little English and have little ability to understand or challenge the move. If they refuse, they are in effect forced on to the streets.

An Albanian woman who fled a sex trafficking gang in Manchester was unlawfully told to move out of her property in Ealing, west London, to a property 260 miles away in County Durham despite being highly vulnerable and having two young children.

 Their concern, as usual, is all for those who don't belong here in the first place! Including those granted expensive real estate living space in the capital city. 

But the article did contain an interesting titbit about the competence of local councils:

When she raised concerns to Ealing council, officers provided the details of two sex trafficking support organisations it said were in County Durham – except one was based in Durham, North Carolina in the US, and the other in Durham, Ontario, Canada.

Am I going to hell for laughing at this? 

I'm Helping The (Future) War Effort!

'What did you do in the war, lady?' 

'I caught a lot of Pidgeys. Oh and trained the drones that beat the Islamic army back!'

An AI model trained on data collected from users of Pokémon Go will potentially help military drones find their location in war zones. Pokémon Go, a 2016 augmented reality mobile game, allowed players to find and catch Pokémon in the real world using the cameras on their mobile phones, and exploded in popularity. In 2018, the company reported having more than 800m downloads worldwide. A 2021 update to the game introduced Pokéstops, which gave players in-game rewards for scanning real locations using their devices. It required users to opt in and upload the recording. Niantic, which created Pokémon in partnership with Nintendo, collected users’ location scan data before the company sold its gaming division in 2025.

And people are concerned about it, because of course they are!  

Tom Sulston, head of policy for tech policy think tank Digital Rights Watch said the use of civilian data for military ends was troubling.“While they may have disclaimers in their Ts&Cs, we know that most people don’t read vast legal documents when they want to play a video game,” he said. “We need regulators to focus on ‘best interests of the user’ or ‘fair and reasonable’ tests to keep users safe from exploitation like this.

Exploitation? 

Here, mate, look that up and use it properly next time!