And Yet, They Can’t Do The Same To Dinghies In The English Channel

British forces are now "ready to act" to board and detain ships in Russia's so-called shadow fleet in UK waters, the defence secretary has said.Ministers identified a legal basis in January that would allow forces to board sanctioned vessels, but approval for the military measure was not given by the prime minister until Thursday.

Sounds about right for the current incumbent of Number 10! 

Questioned on why that decision had not come sooner, John Healey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "what operations like this require is training, preparation, understanding discussion with allies [and] a clear legal basis".

Aren't they all things one would expect the navy to already possess, and if not, to be able to practice in peacetime on the hordes invading our country via the Channel?  

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would starve "Putin's war machine of the dirty profits that fund his barbaric campaign".

While Two-tier Kier's sabotaging his own campaign... roll on May! 

Its Funny, Until You Realise You Can't Afford To Drive To Sainsburys...

 

...but we can't blame Matt for that.

Sunday Funnies...

 And amazingly, none is Oliver Reed!

Would You Take Medical Advice From A Charity Like This One?

However, quizzed about the appointment, Endometriosis South Coast said it was 'scientifically inaccurate' to claim only women experienced endometriosis - and that it also affected trans, non-binary and intersex people.

It can only affect people who possess wombs; which is at least possible for the last two but impossible for the first... 

Human rights activist Steph Richards, 73, has been handed the role of parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast, it is reported. Ms Richards, a trans woman who was born male, previously stepped down as the charity's CEO in 2024 following backlash from women's rights campaigners. In her new position she will represent the charity to members of parliament (MPs), while continuing to act as chief executive for trans campaign group TransLucent, which she founded.

And of course, he is referred to as female throughout the news reports. So the MSM is actively participating in the charade.

The charity said that Ms Richards was 'a volunteer in a parliamentary engagement capacity' and was appointed on the basis of her talents. They added: 'The ability to advocate meaningfully for a condition does not require personally having that condition; this standard is applied consistently across healthcare, policy, and the voluntary sector, and we apply it here, too.'

Weasel words, no, we don’t expect the CEO of an amputee charity to be an amputee, but we’d expect him to be human. 

Strange Bedfellows

The Home Office is investigating a company linked to a religious sect based in Cheshire over its use of immigration visas.

Which religion? Glad you asked , Reader…

The company under investigation is linked to the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL), a sect that blends tenets of Islam with conspiracy theories about the Illuminati and aliens controlling US presidents.

Well, I’m shocked!

Followers believe the sect’s leader, Abdullah Hashem, can cure the sick and make the moon disappear. About 100 of his followers live in a former orphanage in Crewe, in the north-west of England.

Why are they here? Because Switzerland were too smart to let them be a drain and a threat in their country, but we weren't. 

The community moved to the UK in 2021, after transferring their headquarters from Sweden, where immigration authorities investigated several companies linked to the sect and issued deportation orders to dozens of its members.

And so now they are burrowed into the country like a parasite: 

Now, immigration officials in the UK are looking into a company linked to the sect over its use of skilled worker visas to bring people into the country.

Skilled? In what? Are we not entitled to ask?  

That's Not Good, We Need More Than 10% Of Them Gone

Labour will be decimated in May local elections, Unite leader says.Sharon Graham tells party to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ after ‘shameful’ handling of Birmingham bin strike.

Yes, I know its the modern definition of 'decimation' being used here, but I'm a pedant.. 

In a speech to refuse workers near a waste depot in Tyseley on Thursday, Sharon Graham said working people were moving away from Labour in droves and called on the party to “wake up and smell the coffee”. “We are in one of the most significant strikes in decades,” she said. “An attack from a Labour council under a Labour government. Labour should hang their heads in shame. They are an absolute disgrace.”

The winners of this are up for grabs, but Dave Paulden's mob are likely to be in with a chance, after all, the effects of the strike are attracting all the big vermin.

The strikes, which could last beyond September, will be a key issue in Birmingham in the May local elections, when all 101 council seats are up for grabs.

One year on from the start of the all-out strike, Unite announced it had voted to cut its affiliation fee to Labour by 40%, or £580,000, over its handling of the bin strikes.

Good timeing, as it turned out!  

The union was fined £265,000 earlier this week after its members were found to have breached an injunction which prohibited blockades of waste lorries at depots. Graham said the fine would be paid for by the cut to Labour’s affiliation fee.

The council are in a no win situation. 

The council said it had “reached the absolute limit of what we can offer”, citing the risk of further equal pay claims being made if it acceded to the union’s demands.

Jimmy, an agency worker, said had been stressful to be on strike for such a long time. He said he had previously been a Labour supporter, but would be voting Reform in the local elections. “Labour, they don’t stand up for the working person any more,” he said.

 They never did, Jimmy, not really.

The council’s leader, John Cotton, said it had been in contact with the union to “end this stalemate” and that he wanted to “get round the table with Unite as soon as possible”.

If he can climb ovrt the mountain of uncollected rubbish outside the council office, that is... 

Boys. The Word You're Struggling For Is 'Boys'.

Transgender girls will be forced to leave Girlguiding by the start of the autumn after the organisation was accused of prioritising their needs over safeguarding.

A long overdue climbdown. 

Bosses said today all trans girls – those born male but identifying as female – must stop attending Guides, Brownies and Rainbows groups from September 6.

Why not 'immediately'?  They weren't admitted in a staged fashion, after all...but let no one say they are finally doing the right thing, they have had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this point: 

The move follows an announcement in December which stated Girlguiding was no longer accepting trans girls and membership would in future be limited to 'girls and young women'.It came in response to the Supreme Court ruling in April last year that 'woman' in the Equality Act 2010 referred to a biological woman – meaning single-sex spaces should be preserved.

And they were pressured by a mother who objected to her daughter attending with mentally ill males, and threatend to sue. 

In a statement, Girlguiding said it had consulted lawyers, members, its council and board of trustees before making its final decision.

Who no doubt told it; 'You'll lose'. 

Oh, Jonathan, Of Course That's The Point Of Them...

 

Don't you understand? 

Consider this month alone. On 6 March, four men were arrested in London and Hertfordshire suspected of gathering information on potential targets: synagogues and individual Jews. Over the following days, gunmen opened fire on three synagogues in Toronto. The day after that, it was the turn of a synagogue in Liège, targeted by a bomb. On 12 March came the attack on Temple Israel in Michigan, followed the next day by the arrest of four youths on suspicion of exploding a device outside a synagogue in Rotterdam. The next day, a bomber struck a Jewish school in Amsterdam. The day after that, French prosecutors launched an investigation into two brothers said to be plotting a “lethal and antisemitic” attack. Inside their car were found a loaded semi-automatic weapon and a bottle of hydrochloric acid.

The perpetrators carefully not identified. 

And I am thinking of the progressives who suggest attacks on Jews are not, in fact, antisemitism, but merely opposition to Israel. So that, say, a brick through a window of a London shop associated with Jews, blood-red graffiti painted on its walls, is something other than a threat to Jews and Jewish life. That it’s really about international capitalism or tangential associations with a country thousands of miles away.

Well, Jonathan, you won't have to go far to find some of those, will you? the 'Guardian' cafeteria will suffice, after all. 

Is This Police Report To Be Believed?

A 12-year-old boy has been charged with sexual assault after a woman was found with serious injuries at an address in Birmingham.

12 years old? Well, I'm sure no-one will disbelieve the police, will they? I meany they said this guy was 23...

THE FACE OF EVIL

This is the migrant who just stabbed 3 people in Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A woman and two men may have lost their lives because of this psycho

He should never have been here

CLOSE THE BORDERS
NOW https://t.co/1bhuEVw0D3 pic.twitter.com/PhexfY9qFb

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) March 2, 2026

 Being a juvenile, he'll be treated with kid gloves, of course...

The accused, who cannot be named legally due to his age, was also separately charged with intentional strangulation in connection with a woman being confronted in a street last month, police added.

"The boy, who cannot be named due to his age, is remanded to appear before Birmingham Youth Court tomorrow, March 24."

And it's not just boys. 

Three schoolgirls, aged 12, 13, and 14, have been charged after a teenager was 'stabbed five times in her back, back of her neck and arm'. The 14-year-old victim had returned home covered in blood after allegedly being stabbed in a village park in Whittington, Worcester, at around 7.40pm September 21 last year. The child was then rushed to Birmingham Children's Hospital following reports of 'screaming' from neighbours, where it was later confirmed she had no internal damage but was left with scarring.

What is going on with youth crime in the UK?  And when will the authorities get a grip on it?

What is happening to this bloody country!!! My daughter has been informed by school that her TWELVE year old daughter (my granddaughter) has been found on a 'stab list'.

So the son of recent African immigrants, who has only been here maybe a year and has been caught at least…

— ΞlZorillo 🇬🇧 ☩ ✞ (@softlads) March 23, 2026

So Much For The Wisdom Of Crowds, Then

 That's if this is true, and since it's in the 'Guardian', caveat emptor...

Political elites are out of step with the public appetite for net zero, according to analysis that identifies rightwing media narratives as fuelling a false backlash against climate action. Media coverage of net zero is more than twice as likely to be negative than public attitudes and is driving a false perception that net zero policies are unpopular with voters, the analysis found.

They probably are, until the bills start to mount up. 

This echo chamber of elite opinion, the analysis says, has led to a situation where MPs significantly underestimate public support for climate policies and overestimate public opposition to local clean energy infrastructure projects.

As if public suppotrt matters to prospective (and standing) MPs anymore. Of course, the people pushing this theory are the lanyard classes again..

Becca Massey-Chase, the head of citizen engagement at the Institute for Public Policy Research, who coauthored the analysis, said the research showed claims of a voter backlash against net zero were “largely a political myth”.She said: “The British public continues to support climate action.... The real danger is not public opinion – it is elite division and media narratives creating a false sense of risk.”

The analysis, jointly prepared by the IPPR, a progressive thinktank, and Persuasion UK, a non-profit that researches influences on public opinion, noted that the UK’s increasingly assertive far right caricatured net zero as a threat to UK sovereignty.

See?

...a strong core of 40% of voters remain strongly behind net zero, almost double the 24% who are implacably opposed to it.

 Until they have to pay for them, then they change their tune. But by then, the song's over amd the musucians have packed up their instruments and gone home.