Well, She'll Fit Right In Here

A controversial proponent of natural remedies who has been banned from providing any health services in Australia is due to embark on a series of events in the UK and Ireland despite criticism from scientists, health charities and academic bodies.

Must be the first time in history that Australia has shown better judgement than the UK! 

O’Neill, who describes herself as a naturopath and nutritionist, lectures internationally on “natural self-healing”. She has previously claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate soda, that vaccines have caused an epidemic of conditions including autism and cot death, and that pregnant women with Strep B do not have to take antibiotics.

She sounds like the sort of nutter who'd fit rght it over here - at a Green Party Conference. 

Now experts in the UK have raised concerns in a letter to venues across UK and Ireland where O’Neill, 73, is scheduled to speak.

The letter – which was organised by Dr David Robert Grimes, a science communicator and expert in Biostatistics at Trinity College Dublin – describes O’Neill as “a leading vector of medical misinformation”, adding that she repeatedly made “misguided medical assertions”, gave “unqualified advice” and promoted “abject demonisation of conventional medical treatment.”

Wow, a 'leading vector of medical information', eh? I wonder, does the NHS and the UK Media know they've been toppled? 

The letter notes that O’Neill charges thousands of dollars for retreats and telephone consultations, and raises concerns about the events due to be held at the venues. “At the event, she will spread dangerous health fictions to a susceptible audience, leeching off an illusion of legitimacy afforded to her by the surrounds of your respectable establishment,” it said.

Ah, so it's jealousy, and not concern for scientific accuracy that's driving the perveyors of 'Men van be women and vice versa!' and 'folic acid for everyone!' to speak out... 

Grimes, who has authored a book on medical misinformation, told the Guardian that O’Neill presented as a kindly grandmother dispensing natural wisdom. “Medical misinformation kills, and we wrote the letter because we have seen first-hand the profound and tragic harms that health fictions inflict on vulnerable patients … We hope making people aware of this reality mitigates her ability to inflict harm elsewhere,” he said.

The latest string of engagements includes a five-day retreat at the Cranage Estate in Cheshire in early October. Titled A Taste of Misty Mountain, the event includes lectures by O’Neill with titles such as What Really Does Cause Disease, The Science of Breath and The Immune System, as well as talks by Michael, including one titled Barbara Under Attack. A ticket for the event, which includes a dinner dance, costs £700.

I have better things to spend my money on... 

What Finally Gave The Game Away?

A Wisconsin woman who lives with Bipolar disorder allegedly impersonated a substitute teacher before spewing racist and inappropriate remarks to children. Amy L Jones, 23, is now facing charges of impersonating a public employee and five counts of exposing children to harmful descriptions in her September 24 arrest. Jones allegedly managed to con her way into Rufus King International High School in Milwaukee, a school she previously attended, and struck gold because substitute teachers were working that day to cover absent full-time teachers.

Was it that she seemed more stable than their other teachers? 

Students became suspicious of Jones when she allegedly organized students by race and gender.

Jones also allegedly bragged about having felonies and said she was okay with going to jail, according to police.

Jones was accused of playing rap music extremely loud and then making fun of the children for their weight, looks, race, and finances. She allegedly called one student ‘fatty’ before allegedly asking students for marijuana and vapes.

She should just ask to be hired, she’d fit right in.

And of course, there’s video evidence: 

Videos recorded by students showed Jones cursing and telling a one pupil to ‘shut the f**k up,’ and describing explicit sexual acts to male students. According to documents, a student reported Jones for making racist statements toward white classmates, specifically calling them ‘white as s**t’ and using the phrase ‘white motherf***ers.’

So of course, even a US defence lawyer is going to have his hands full with this one! 

Police arrested Jones and took her to Milwaukee County Jail. Jones seemed proud when cops interviewed her about the incident a few days later.She remains in custody at the Milwaukee County Jail awaiting her scheduled October 20 court date.

Should make it 31st October, frankly. 

Guys, It's Not A Contest!

Canada: 'Let's euhanise the mentally ill!That'll show we are the most deranged and woke nation on Earth' 

Australia: 'Hold my beer, mate, and watch this!'

A long-serving and highly decorated ambulance volunteer has been stood down over allegations of misconduct, including claims he failed to provide a vegan meal option for a visiting staff member, sparking community outrage.

What the hell happened to you, Australia? Well, there’s hope: 

Pinnaroo locals in the Murray Mallee region have rallied around station captain Robert Berlin, 70, after he was ordered to hand in his South Australian Ambulance Service uniform following almost five decades of service. Claims circulating on social media allege the Ambulance Service Medal recipient was stood down last week over a series of alleged incidents, including failing to provide a vegan meal option for a visiting staff member.

Good for them. He’s obviously pissed off some utter snowflake, because the allegations are ridiculous. 

Other allegations include frightening staff by knocking loudly on the roller door at Pinnaroo ambulance station, 'speaking aggressively to another emergency team during a critical patient incident', and inappropriately using SAAS facilities.

And his colleagues - all people who give their own free time to this - have rallied round: 

The entire SAAS crew at Pinnaroo has since walked off the job in protest over Mr Berlin's dismissal.

But I fear they might be claiming victory too soon. 

SAAS volunteers vowed to return to their duties once authorities launch an external investigation.

Schoolboy error - wait until the results are known! 

How Should I Know, I'm Just The Guy In Charge?

Alex Norris has been unable to say how many prisoners freed early from jail this week have been tagged, despite previous reassurances from the justice department.

Does anyone really think the civil service, an organisation that loves paperwork and tickboxes like middle-class white women like a bit of virtue signalling, don’t know? Or would be unable to tell him if he was to ask?

In an interview on Sunday, the justice secretary said it was “too soon” to say how many of the roughly 700 male prisoners let out on Thursday had been fitted with monitoring devices.

He means ‘It’s too embarrassing!’, no doubt. 

The government has introduced a “presumption of electronic tagging” for offenders released early from prisons in England and Wales to help manage severe overcrowding.

In other words, the government have lied through their teeth and not a single tv news or major newspaper saw fit to call them on it until it was too late. 

The first wave of releases began on Thursday, with nearly 5,000 prisoners due to be freed in stages over the next year as the Sentencing Act 2026 comes into force. Asked how many of those released so far had been tagged, Norris told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme: “I don’t have that figure today, it only happened on Thursday. You know, there can be a bit of a lag. 

“We don’t have that number. But you know, we’re very candid about who’s leaving prison and when they do.”

And you’ll be equally candid about the number that reoffend, will you? 

Asked if he knew if released domestic abusers have been tagged or not, he said: “It would be too soon to know that, as it was only on Thursday. We’ve been talking to every victim to offer them the chance to say what controls they’d like to see over that individual.

And now it’s too late, some journalists have decided to do some proper reporting, and go to the source: 

Several prisoners released last week told the Guardian that they had not been tagged.

I know, Reader, I’m sure you are shocked too… 

Michael Bogle, a former bus driver who left HMP Wandsworth on Thursday having served 78 days in prison after breaching a 32-week suspended sentence for shoplifting, said he had no idea when he was going to be tagged. “I have an appointment with probation officers on Thursday, but as far I know it could take months before I actually get given a tag,” he said. Bogle, who is taking anti-psychotic drugs and has more than 100 convictions including for common assault and drug possession, was told in prison that he would be housed in a bail hostel and had been promised a place in south-east London. However, he said he had instead been housed in a bed and breakfast facility in north-west London. “I am running out of money, and if I have to shoplift a sandwich to stop being hungry, I will just have to do it,” he said. “I won’t have a choice. But I really do not want to go back to prison – it is a pigeon-infested, rat-infested place and people are dying in the conditions there.”

Clearly not as often, or we wouldn’t have a space issue! 

Prisoners thanked the prime minister as they celebrated walking free from jail on Thursday. One told the press as he left HMP Durham: “Justice system, what justice system? Thank you, Andy Burnham.” A prisoner released from HMP Cardiff after being jailed for burglary said he would “probably be back in the next month or two”.

Who knows, by the time he goes back in, we might have a different PM…? 

Traitors To Their Country

Protesters clashed with police and flares were set off as cross-Channel migrants arrived in Hampshire on RNLI boats. Police made 12 arrests for a range of offences including assaulting an officer following a protest in Gosport on Sunday night.

Demonstrators had gathered in the town amid reports that authorities were preparing for the arrival of a boat. The dinghy was being shadowed by French rescue vessels until it was met by the RNLI boats in English waters, according to ship tracking data.

Given the government knows exactly what they are importing it's hard to see why they treat the demonstrators like this.

A Government spokesperson said: “The Border Security Command works around the clock to protect our border. We have established contingency plans to make sure we can securely disembark, check and process all small boat arrivals.

Strange interpretation of ‘protecting the border’, that!

“Migrants will be transported to short term holding facilities in Kent where they will be processed as normal and undergo stringent health, security and biometric checks.”

Given they routinely discard all ID just what are you checking them against? And true migrants come on planes with visas - call a spade a spade, these are illegal immigrants!

On Sunday, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said it had deployed officers to Gosport to “support our partners in the event of an emergency at sea”.

Who are 'yout partners'? It's not the general public, is it? The emergency is on land!

Shameful...

Demonstrators clashed and police made 11 arrests amid protests in London on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel.

Only 11?  

Five people were arrested for inciting racial hatred after shouting and chanting slogans calling for “intifada” were heard at what police described as a “spontaneous protest” outside the Board of Deputies in Camden on Wednesday.

And they called it that because of the criticism of them for failing to ban the main march - as if anyone who has seen how the uk Police cower when faced with Muslim agression thought they would.

The Met imposed strict conditions on the central London pro-Palestine march, including requiring the group to form up at Lincoln’s Inn Fields by 12.30pm, take a set route to Russell Square, and complete the rally by 2pm.The Metropolitan Police said the force could not ban a protest planned in the capital but repeated a plea to demonstrators to not go ahead with it.

Funny, because they have no issues banning marches they don't like. 

Later, the Met Police said: “We appreciate that some will think officers should have taken more robust action against protesters wearing face coverings. “During the march earlier, officers engaged with a large number of protesters to inform them of an order in place under Section 60AA of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act requiring them to remove face coverings.During the student march, officers made one arrest under Section 60AA for failing to remove a face covering when required by an officer.

Once they would have got away with this, as most peaple onlt read newspapers, but now everyone has social media and we can see in livestream and full colour just how weak and ineffectual they are. 

Education Secretary Lucy Powell has called on students planning to protest on university campuses “to show compassion and respect for others by moving it” to another date.

Waste of time expecting it from students who probably can't even spell it. 

Well, I Think The Answer Is Staring You In The Face, Gaby

There were seven men in all, and it lasted almost seven hours. What followed, according to the woman at the heart of the Cornell University case that has gripped student campuses around the world, was less a sexual encounter than a grim pack-bonding exercise fuelled by booze and ketamine, in which she was passed around like a blow-up doll.Twenty years old and drunk at a college frat house party, she had reportedly agreed to a threesome with a student she liked, though her lawyer maintains she wasn’t sober enough to consent.

Were the males? Why does no-one ever consider that? 

But it is what allegedly followed – including a crude invitation sent to a group chat of more than 50 of the men’s friends, advertising “free pussy” upstairs if they wanted to join in – that really makes the blood boil. Could so many men really see nothing here to challenge?

All over social media, mothers are posting and swapping advice on how to raise sons who don’t just refrain from rape but who would, if they ever got such a message, realise something was wrong and be brave enough to intervene.

Simple, you bring thrm up with a moral code, but to do that, you have to possess one yourself and dispaly it frequently; No more rooting for a child killer just becauuse you share a sex, because kids will pick up on that sort of thing faster than you realise.

Bringing up our own boys to do better feels like the one practical step any mother can take. Yet it makes me angry, all the same; angry and exhausted. How has rape prevention become yet another thing on mothers’ to-do lists? Where are all the men – the celebrity dads, the sports coaches and the role models…

Mostly parading their sons in womens clothing, at least in Hollywood. 

If fathers don’t know how to raise these subjects – well, mothers are equally mortified, but we muddle through because we don’t want our sons to be a danger to other people’s daughters or themselves.

And what of those 'families' where fathers aren't even in the picture, Gaby? You know who I mean... 

Across the Atlantic, it is now for the courts to decide whether what happened at Cornell meets New York’s bar for prosecution, with the local district attorney – who decided in 2024 not to press charges – reopening an investigation into what he now calls allegations of “heinous and despicable acts”. But it’s already clear that lives were ruined that night; that it was a tragedy, and a preventable one. Precisely the kind, in other words, that parenting exists to stop.

Parenting used to exist to stop it - modern parenting however? 

Just Another News Report With Salient Details Missing…

Armed police officers responding to reports of an assault at a Blackpool address made the grim discovery of a dead dog inside the property, Lancashire Constabulary has confirmed.

Better than a live, angry one, I’d have thought… One that might require special measures.

A cordon was established on Central Drive earlier today (October 3) after officers received a report that a woman had been attacked. Armed units were subsequently deployed to the address amid concerns that the suspect could be carrying weapons, with reports of dangerous dogs being present "inside the property".

 Seems those reports were correct. 

"A thorough search of the property was conducted and a number of dogs were found, including one which was deceased. However, the suspect was not located and arrest enquiries remain ongoing. This is being treated as an isolated incident and there is no wider threat to the public.”

That would be reassuring if not for the fact they’ve studiously avoided not naming or describing the man they are supposedly searching for, not the breed of the dogs. That’s ok, we can all fill in the blanks by now.

If You Need 'Support' To Stay Out Of Prison, That's a Warning Sign It's Where You Truly Belong

The flipchart in the corner of the staff meeting room, deep inside a prison in the south-east of England, tells its own story about what our overcrowded jails are having to deal with, day in day out. Under the heading “Challenges”, it lists gangs, the destruction of cells, prisoners exploiting each other and complex behaviours. Committed, hard-working staff talk about the high levels of psychosis, often combined with drug abuse. They provide examples of people actually committing crimes to go back into jail to get some respite from their chaotic, dysfunctional lives.

To tackle the current prisons crisis in England and Wales, planned changes to sentencing will see almost 2,000 people released early from Thursday and over the following month. It is the first tranche of the estimated 5,000 releases that will take place in phases over the coming year.

Hw of course has two things to focus on, both of which boil down to being soft on criminal excuses, as you'd expect for the 'Guardian':

As a first step, we need to address the staggering increase in people recalled to prison. The power that probation officers have to send someone back behind bars plays an important role in protecting the public, but with recall now accounting for one in seven of the prison population compared with one in 13 a decade ago, it is neither sustainable nor effective.Cases of people being recalled for missing probation appointments because transport was delayed or for moving out of their accommodation to get away from drug dealers and gangs, are too often punished with a return to custody.

There are rules and they expect people to follow them - sounds like they are the only State agents actually doing their job diligently to me. 

Second, we need to focus on the probation service. It is critical to fixing prisons and too often undervalued. Today it is a long way from its original social-work ethos to advise, assist and befriend those once described as clients but now always labelled offenders. The focus is much more on surveillance and compliance.

As it always should have been! 

The services need connecting. Fixing this cannot be achieved by the justice system alone. Public bodies from the NHS to local councils have a role to play in giving people the support they need to stay out of prison.

I don’t require any ‘support’ to stay out of prison, and nor do the vast majority of people, you know.

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far...

The father of one of the teenagers killed in the A66 Middlesbrough crash faces prison today after attacking the celebrant at his son's funeral. Gye Worthy is alleged to have become angered when Paul Maull failed to mention him in a eulogy for 17-year-old Cole - but did not forget the teenager's step-father. Worthy, 40, is accused of shouting insults before assaulting the celebrant (Ed: odd term for a mourner, but then, normal society has much to celebrate with these wastes of oxygen in the ground) and obstructing police officers called to deal with the disturbance at Teesside Crematorium on September 9.

Not unusual with traveller get togethers. Especially funerals.  

Cole's mother, Natalie McConnell, was 'devastated and shocked' by the disruption to her son's memorial, a source close to the family said. Ms McConnell has long been separated from Worthy and both now have new partners.

Lovely people. Salt of the earth.