Well, Why Not? Who, After All, Was There To Stop Him?

Award-winning rapper Ghetts has been jailed for 12 years after killing a university student in a hit and run.

Not just an ordinary hit and run, either. A vehicular rampage that should sutely have attracted a bigger sentence. 

The grime artist was speeding and over the drink-drive limit when he mowed down Nepalese national Yubin Tamang, 20, in north-east London.The musician, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, failed to stop after his BMW hit the 20-year-old in Ilford....CCTV footage showed a "quite appalling litany of incidents" leading up to the fatal collision which was "simply shocking". 

And where were the traffic cops?  The roadside CCTV monitors? Nowhere.

Outlining the facts, prosecutor Philip McGhee said Clarke-Samuel had been drinking alcohol on the evening of Saturday October 18, 2025. He was said to be one and a half times over the legal drink-drive limit and was driving at speeds up to 70mph before the crash.As he drove his BMW M5 at speed back towards his home in Woodford, east London, he failed to stop at six red traffic lights, the court was told. 

He repeatedly veered onto the wrong side of the road, mounted the curb and collided with a motorcyclist and a Mercedes, causing damage.He was going more than 60mph in a 30mph road before he hit Mr Tamang as he crossed Redbridge Lane, Ilford, at 11.33pm.Mr McGhee said: “Mr Tamang was still crossing the road. He could do nothing to avoid a collision. The defendant’s BMW ploughed into him. Mr Tamang was catapulted into the air before crashing down on the roadway. He sustained catastrophic injuries. 

“The defendant nonetheless continued to drive his car along Redbridge Lane East and for around another eight miles, for over a quarter of an hour after the collision, before completing his journey close to his home address at 11.48pm.” The defendant made no call to emergency services and Mr Tamang died in hospital from his injuries two days later.

Bit much for a first offence? Reader, of course it wasn't!  

The defendant had 12 previous convictions for 27 crimes.

And yet, in Britain 2026, was still at large to be a vehicular menace as well as a musical one. 

As he sentenced him, the judge noted the father-of-two's "genuine remorse" and letters of support including from his partner setting out how he had used his career in music to make a positive impact on his community.

How naive was that judge!  

What 'Security Procedures'?

A woman who woke up to a man sexually assaulting her in her hotel bed has said she was "failed" by Travelodge after staff gave him a key card and her room number.

She claimed staff told her Smith, who was known to her, had passed their security checks by providing her name.

I don’t think they quite understand that term…

"I feel like they failed me, it makes me more frustrated that they haven't said 'OK yes we did this wrong'. Instead they've put the blame aside." she said. 

"If I checked-in on my own and the room booking is just for me why would you think it's OK to let someone in in the middle of the night while I'm asleep? "At least wake me up or phone the room or come up to the room. Anything is better than just giving someone a key card. 

I have used Travelodge in the past, but this has put me right off! It’s astonishing that in this litigious society that they aren’t facing a lawsuit. Shouldn’t the H&S Executive be having a word too?

"The hotel said that he passed their security questions. "The only thing he would know about me was my name. "They said he was able to show them text messages, but I didn't have his phone number and he didn't have mine."

After reporting the incident to staff, she was later offered a £30 refund. "I saw it as very insulting. It would have been better if they hadn't offered it," she said. Travelodge has admitted the offer was inappropriate under the circumstances.

They seem determined to burn their business to the ground don’t they? 

Only A Particular Demographic, 'Guardian', Let's Be Honest

If you’re anything like my parents, you probably wouldn’t even understand most of the content that floods my social media, no matter how hard I try to avoid it.

Give us an example, then!  

Here’s a recent example from Instagram: “Do y’all females ever tell ur homegirls ‘Sis chill you letting too many dudes hit?’” Essentially, that means: “Women – do you ever tell your girlfriends that they’re whores and need to stop letting so many guys fuck them?” The reel, posted by a 19-year-old man, appeared on my Instagram feed without me wanting to see it, or ever interacting with any other similar content. The comments that followed were pure misogyny. “Women see body count as a leaderboard and they try to outdo each other,” was one of them. Translation: all women are competitively promiscuous.

Hmmm, I'm sensing that the circles this girl moves in are specifically... ethnic. 

Consider the use of the word “female” in these posts. It is not a neutral term here, it is a term of abuse. It’s used by teenage boys to degrade us and equate us to animals. Boys are never described as “males”, but girls are always “females” – the equivalent of sows or calves, creatures that are less than human. We’re also “thots” (whores), “community pussy” and “bops”. “Bop” stands for “been over passed” and is a derogatory term used by boys to refer to a girl they’ve decided has been “passed around” or had too much sex. Sexual equality has ceased to exist online. It’s absolutely fine for boys to have sex, but when girls do, they are called worthless and referred to as objects. “When community pussy tries to insult me, I just want to beat that bitch up.” That’s a message I saw on TikTok.

And that cements it. Yes, I know the language and culture of this group has spread to the other child cultures, we've all sat on the bus or train convinced that the children we overhear behind us are black by their language, slang and diction, only to be surprised when they get up and move past us to get off to find they are as lilywhite as ourselves, haven't we, Reader?

But this reads like the real thing, and would be consistent with the 'Guardian' ethos of portraying this culture as forever victins of ouside forces:

And what is the effect? If I spend even 10 minutes on an app such as Instagram, I will close it, feeling disheartened and unhappy about being a girl. Using social media has ruined my self-esteem and my relation to being a girl in this world, and nearly every day I feel hatred towards my gender, my appearance, or even teenage boys as a category.

I can’t speak for every girl my age... 

 The 'Guardian' clearly begs to differ.

....but I frequently feel objectified, dehumanised and disgusted by the hate towards women I see online, and I can say with certainty that most of my friends would agree with me.

And what do you and your friends do to reverse the culturre that these boys emulate? Is it 'nothing' because you'd rather blame something else, like technology, rather than shine an unwelcome light on your culture? 

What's Up, Lads, Not As Safe A Target....

...when they are running around and not tied to a telegraph pole?

Six people are believed to have been injured after dog attacks in Leicestershire, police have said.Two dogs - confirmed to be Caucasian shepherds - were then discovered after firearms officers, a police dog and its handler were deployed.

But not USED, despite the obvious danger these thing presented. 

The force added that both dogs were safely removed and are now being held in secure kennels.

Well, its only taxpayer money, after all... 

Why Can't You Do This When They Are Actually Doing The Act?

Fifteen activists from a group which claimed to be behind stunts targeting the Ritz and the Crown Jewels have been arrested over alleged plans for a “mass shoplifting campaign” in London, police say. The Metropolitan Police said members of Take Back Power, which describes itself as a “non-violent civil resistance group”, had been preparing a campaign to steal goods from supermarkets and redistribute them.

Now, you might be asking why the show of force here, and not when people are actually engaging in thieving stuff in broad daylight, Reader? Well, this might provide a clue!

According to the force, activists had gathered at the Quaker Meeting House in Westminster on Thursday evening to take part in “non-violent direct action training”. Officers moved in to halt the meeting and arrested 15 people on suspicion of conspiracy to commit theft.

Clearly, the police fancy arresting unarmed middle class Quaker types having tea and biscuits at a meeting far more than they do rolling around between the shelves of a corner shop with a young fit, potentially infectious dinghy invader. And I’d say who can blame them but then I remember they are paid to do both!

Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman said: "There is a clear difference between lawful protest and criminal acts. 

Cool. it's not just that you fancied an easy arrest, then? 

"This evening's operation tackled a group who we have grounds to suspect were planning to steal from shops in a large, targeted and organised way. 

"Theft is a crime and the public expect the police to deal with it - which is exactly what we have done today."

You're right, we do expect you to deal with it, whenever and whever it happens... or we'll wind up like America:

Oh, too late! 

H/T:skscartoon via twitter

Are We That Desperate For Vets?

Tudor Herlea downed beer and vodka on a boozy evening before he was stopped by police during a routine drink drive check. Officers then found he was one and a half times the legal drink drive limit, a tribunal has heard.

And it wasn’t his first time, either:  

Herlea, a registered vet who began working in the UK in July 2024 as the lead surgeon for Vets4Pets in Blackpool, was already banned from driving for a speeding offence at the time.

And yet was hired anyway such is the state of our country, and the craven behaviour of our institutions is but one reason!

However, he has been spared from being struck off the official vet register after a panel was told that the Home Office would deport him if he was suspended.

So, that’s a consequence, and surely we can’t be so short of vets that we need to keep this one around? 

It was heard that Herlea committed the crimes in his home country and was convicted at a Romanian court in March 2024 - four months before he came to Britain as a convicted criminal to work.Despite this, The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) still allowed him to work in the UK.

Are all our organisations so totally captured that no matter what, they will continue to inflict diversity on us? 

The Most Horrible Thing I've Ever Seen On The Internet; Conclusion

A dog owner whose XL bullies attacked and killed a man has been jailed for five years. James Harrison Trimble-Pettitt, 33, previously pleaded guilty to having dogs dangerously out of control when Ian Price, 52, was attacked outside a property in Stonnall, Staffordshire, near Walsall, on 14 September 2023.

The video of this incident was the most distubing thing I've ever seen on the Internet - the sheer power on these animals and the utter helplessness of the unarmed people trying in vain to save him.

Judge John Edwards said Ian Price was "utterly overpowered by these young, powerful creatures who ravaged him for 12 minutes". Just hours after his death, then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the XL bully breed would be banned in England and Wales.

He should have ordered a cull of the damned thing, but he had as little backbone as Starmer has proved himself to have. 

The court heard both of Trimble-Pettitt's dogs, named Via and Ares, managed to escape their owner's home through an insecure door and open window, while the garden gate was also left ajar. Prosecutors said the animals attacked Ian Price's face and continued "jumping and biting". Members of the public tried to help the victim with one attempting to use their car and others using wheelie bins to try to stop the dogs. The attack was witnessed by both his wife and mother, with Ian Price eventually falling to the ground in the latter's garden.The court was told Heather Price called police and was heard telling them the dogs were "absolutely ravaging him".

And, although they sent armed officers. they failed to use them, sonething we've seen more and more, as they run scared of bad publicity from the boodsport breed fanciers and the sentimental public who haven't seen what damage these things can do. 

Judge Edwards said while Trimble-Pettitt did not intend for them to attack Ian Price, he displayed a "wholesale disregard" for his responsibilities as a dog owner.

We shouldn't regard people who want to keep these breeds as simple 'dog owners' - we should treat then as people who want to own a deadly weapon, because that's what they are. These breeds bear as much relation to the pooch curled in his basket in a normal houshold as your Sunday lunch table cutlery does to a zombie knife.

Thomas Schofield KC, mitigating, said Trimble-Pettitt's fault was one of negligence rather than intention, adding: "He didn't wake up that day thinking he was going to hurt somebody."

Then why did he have not one, but two of these things? 

In his sentencing, Judge Edwards also disqualified Trimble-Pettitt from keeping dogs indefinitely.

And no-one will check for compliance.... 

The Biters Bit

Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt to root out failing officers, the Guardian has learned.

Oh dear!  

The Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, criticised the approach as “automated suspicion”. It said: “Officers must not be subjected to opaque or untested tools that risk misinterpreting unsustainable workload pressures, sickness or overtime as indicators of wrongdoing.”

But it's perfectly OK for the public to be subjected to  

Must Be A Day With A 'Y' In It...

 ...because the 'Mail' fudges an animal story yet again:

What the spokeman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife would have said is'they hunt for mule deer'

Sunday Funnies...

 I maintain no 7 is a far, far better movie than the most recent remake.