I can't believe it's almost a quarter of a century ago. But rather than dwell as usual on the evils that religious fanatics do, time to look at what can be accomplished by ordinary people:
If you want to see the show itself, you can catch it touring, or on Apple TV.
The incident happened when a landlord arrived at a remote property in Gwynedd to collect rent from his tenants. Upon hearing the landlord's car horn, the tenants' dog became aggressive and attacked the landlord, the dog owner, and her husband
Lisa Grant, 56, pleaded guilty to owning a dog dangerously out of control causing serious injury to her landlord, Gwilym Wyn Roberts, in Rhoshirwaun near Pwllheli on November 17, 2023.
Did she get an appropriate sentence? No Reader, of course not....
A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court, upon hearing that Grant herself was bitten and suffered life-altering injuries, handed her an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.
So what? Those are consequences, not mitigation!
The court also heard how a Wales Air Ambulance landed at the scene. The helicopter pilot, Captain Jon Earp, in consultation with a police inspector, borrowed a shotgun and shot the animal four times, as the first shot apparently had no effect.
Everyone who has commented on this story has wondered why the farmer didn't do it himself. I'd like to know too...
Mrs Grant suffered an "awful" injury to her hand which required reconstruction, the court heard. Amy Edwards, defending Mrs Grant, now of Llys Perlysiau, Criccieth, said the dog tore Mr Roberts' trousers and "did nothing more than cut his skin". Ms Edwards said Mrs Grant sustained a significant injury as she tried to regain control of the dog which had never shown signs of aggression before. She was "screaming" as she "attempted to intervene" as the dog attacked her husband.
Ah, the old 'he's never done that before'. Well, thanks to that pilot, he certainl won't do it again.
Mrs Grant is now awaiting her fourth surgery on her arm. Ms Edwards said Mrs Grant could not return to the scene "mentally". She has since been rehoused by Adra housing association and her remaining dogs have been rehomed by the RSPCA.
She has a lifetime ban, so they didn't have much option. The number of other dogs? 37 of them! Speculsatiom on Facebook is that this was a puppy farm.
Captain Earp, the pilot, was officially commended for his actions: "He and the crew and all the emergency services were all put at risk because this dog was dangerously out of control.The judge noted that the dog, named Ricoh, had been "relentless", and Cpt Earp made the "difficult" decision to euthanise him as armed police were too distant at the time.
Yes, as we all know, when seconds count, the police are minutes away.
All the Left wing news outlets were carrying this or some version of it last week:
A rather vicious little hit piece on Graham Linehan in the 'Evening Standard' at the weekend:
Oh how things have changed: now, he’s double billed as an Irish comedy writer “and anti-transgender activist.” Not only has his career has collapsed, but his marriage has failed — outcomes which Linehan himself has admitted were due to his obsessive anti-trans activism.
It start in this 'more in sorrow than in anger' vein, but you can almost feel the disbelief that someone wouldn't be only too happy to swallow the trans cult kool aid practically radiating off the page...
And yet, he persists. This Tuesday, Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence against the trans community through his posts on X. One of his posts from April of this year claimed that trans women who choose to use women-only facilities are violent criminals. He also advocated punching them “in the balls” if calling police failed to stop them from using such facilities.
In a post to his Substack, Linehan defended these posts, saying: “I explained that the 'punch' tweet was a serious point made with a joke”, and that it was about “the height difference between men and women... and certainly not a call to violence.”
The violence is never far away from one side of this though...
Linehan plans to sue the Met over his arrest, with the writer claiming he was “treated like a terrorist for speaking his mind on social media”. His arrest has been criticised by J. K. Rowling, Elon Musk and British politicians such as Robert Jenrick and Jonathan Hinder.
If you separate Linehan, Musk and Rowling from their more recent decisions and ideologies, one thing is clear. They are all very smart individuals. Certain segments of the population might even call them geniuses. So why do they seem so obsessed with being anti-trans?
Maybe because being geniuses, they don’t take kindly to being told that hulking stevedore-framed gentleman over there in the dress is a woman. Maybe they know full well that he isn’t, and never will be? After all, surely only dumb people would ever believe that?
Let’s add some context: Trans people make up around 0.55 per cent of England’s population.
Then why are they always on BBC tv shows, no matter how unwholesome the subject, and forever in the pages of the progressive press ? Why are your fellow journalists writing stuff that makes no sense?
Don’t you find it as strange as we all do?
His only supporters are anti-trans campaigners, who recently raised £100,000 for his defamation case against actor and LGBT campaigner David Paisley. But wouldn’t his life have been much easier, much more successful, had he not chosen to die on this very particular hill?
No doubt it would. I’m sure Rosa Parks would have had an easier life if she’d just given up her seat too..
These are people whose creativity was so expansive, whose humour was so infectious, that they became not only famous, but respected, adored cultural figures. How can a mind so open swing shut with such force and speed?
A much better question would surely be ‘How can this insane cult have captured so many institutions so very quickly?’ but that’s a question that won’t advance a journalist’s career these days…
Police are investigating after a dog died following a park attack in Cardiff.
Oh? That makes a change, usually the lazy bastards are all 'nah mate, dog on dog, nothing to do with us!'. Even when the uncontrolled mutt is a serial killer:
The dog is believed to have been injured by a "sharp implement" in the incident, which happened at playing fields near the St Mellons Tesco on Saturday evening (August 30).
Not a dog killing another dog then. It didn't get the chance, the owner came prepared to defend his pet, as I and others have said is going to happen sooner or later...
A Staffordshire bull terrier was being walked sometime between 9pm and 10pm when it became involved in a fight with another dog who was being walked by an unknown man. During the incident, the Staffordshire bull terrier suffered a head injury, which police said was possibly caused by a sharp implement.The dog was taken to the vet but was put to sleep due to the severity of the injuries.
Which if the Staffie owner had control over his mutt wouldn't have happened, but now the police who have failed to deal with dog on dog crime in the past are outraged that someone's done the job for them, and are huntimg this man down with the fervour they usually show for people who tweet that trans women are men...
South Wales Police and the RSPCA are investigating the full circumstances of the incident, and are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. Officers are also asking for the owner of the other dog to come forward
I hope he takes the time to lawyer up, and if arrested, goes 'no comment'.
There’s an obvious way to destroy Nigel Farage’s political momentum. A poll by the research group Persuasion UK, testing various messages, found that by far the most effective line of attack is highlighting his complicity with corporate interests. The message that hit hardest was that Farage’s real loyalties lie with “the rich, the powerful, his mates in big business”, and his “party” (actually a business called Reform 2025 Ltd) “has taken over £2m from fossil fuel lobbyists, polluters, and climate change deniers … He’s not smashing the system. He and his rich friends basically are the system.”
Anyone who accepts this 'argument' must be considered to be someone who hasn't really given any serious thought to the matter. Wouldn't Labour be using it as an attack, would be the first question?
But this is a string Labour cannot yank, as it would pull its own roof down. If there is a defining mark of Keir Starmer’s administration, it is immediate capitulation to powerful lobby groups, especially corporations and billionaires.
Ah, silly me. I forgot this missive came from the man in thrall to the Red Wing of the Labour movement.
It cannot tell us that the role of the hard right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful on to powerless people who have only just arrived here. This would mean mentioning capital, wealth and power: topics it avoids like the plague. In other words, the government has flunked the simplest test for a Labour administration: how to respond to an insurgent hard right.
Are this 'hard right' in the room with you right now, George?
People who approve of Farage will vote for him, emboldened by a Labour party that has told them, in effect, that he is right. People who hate Farage will vote not only against him, but also against a government seen to be handing the country on a plate to him. Unless its MPs rebel and defenestrate Starmer and Rachel Reeves, it is hard to see any trajectory for Labour now, other than electoral wipeout.
Well, give them time, they are surely working their way up to it...
Armed police scrambled to Beveridge Lane, Bardon Hill, in Leicestershire, on Thursday morning after receiving two separate calls about attacks. The first call came in at 6.30am, reporting a man being savaged by two dogs. When officers arrived no animals were found, but a victim was identified.
How hard did they look? The mutts responsible are pretty distinctive, after all.
Hours later, three more people were reported bitten at the same spot and firearms officers, backed by a police dog and handler, were sent in and eventually cornered the pair of huge dogs. The Caucasian Shepherds were seized and taken to secure kennels while inquiries continue.
Why not despatch them at the scene? Was it because they weren't as easy a target this time, not being tied to a telegraph pole?
A teenage girl, 17, and 47-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of being in charge of dangerously out-of-control dogs.
The Leicestershire force said it made a referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct because of a prior report made about the dogs.
Translation: these mutts were a known nuisance in the area and as usual the police pooh-poohed any report that might have meant they had to seize them, because they are scared of critiscism by the 'aww, doggies!' loons. Or perhaps they had seized them before?
Are there any police farces in the country capable of doing their jobs competently?
Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office have said that a mother, identified by the Miami Herald as Nadine Joseph, was standing in line with her child at Security Checkpoint 5 with her crying four-year-old son at around 4am. Alvina Omisri Agba, 23, from Luton, England, then allegedly offered to take the child to calm him down, to which Joseph agreed.ut as soon as she handed over the child, Agba walked away, according to an arrest report obtained by the Herald. The worried mother then raced to follow Agba, and eventually found her sitting on the floor with her son. At that point, the police report says Joseph demanded Agba give her back her son - to which the 23 year old allegedly replied, 'No, this is my child.'
And she seemed prepared to do ehatever she needed to in order to keep it.
The suspect then wrapped her arms and legs around the child, so that the young boy couldn't escape, and when Joseph ten tried to grab her child, Agba allegedly pushed her away. Yet Joseph was still able to grab her son's arms as police say Agba held onto his legs, and the two were trying to wrestle over the child.
Unfortunately fot her, she chose to do this in the US, where they aren't so reticent about preventing mad women by going hands on as we have been conditioned to be over here:
The commotion caused the young boy to scream out, which caught the attention of Natylet Montano, whom Local 10 News reports was working at the check-in counter for Global Crossing Airlines. Montano then sprang into action and grabbed the child so that he would not be hurt, and held the young boy behind the counter. 'Once [my colleague] took the boy to the counter, the lady went inside the counter and we called 911,' GlobalX Air Supervisor Dayanis Ojeda recounted to Local 10 News. Deputies also explained that Agba crawled underneath the counter and demanded that Montano hand over the child, but three men intervened and blocked her path. The suspect then allegedly ran away, but deputies were able to catch up with her and take her into custody.
Whereupon she wasted no time getting in her excuses.
She also allegedly claimed she did not remember what happened when the boy's mother came to retrieve her son from her, but said she 'only did it because God told her to do it.'
Why is no-one looking into the prevalence of mental illness, often expressed in floridly religious terms, in the black popuplation?
Following days of bluster and misinformation, the Deputy Prime Minister finally resigned when a report by the Government’s sleaze watchdog found she had broken the Ministerial Code by failing to ensure she paid the right tax on an £800,000 seaside apartment.
In a handwritten letter, Sir Keir hailed her as the ‘living embodiment of social mobility’ and told her he was ‘very sad to be losing you’.Despite her forced resignation for dodging tax the PM also hinted at a possible future comeback, telling her: ‘You will remain a major figure in our party.’
...and the jury's surely still out on that one, with the damage he's already done to it, and the prospect of a Muslim as Home Secretary, and a failed Mastermind contestant as replacement Deputy Leader.
They are the scourge of the modern commute: passengers who play music or videos out loud. But amid widespread disapproval from fellow travellers, Transport for London (TfL) is trying to appeal to the better nature of “headphone dodgers” by asking them to “be considerate” and plug in.
As opposed to simply being the sort of passengers that don't care about being considerate, in fact, those that view disturbing others as a goal.
Can we see the sort of people they are talking about?
"Oy, mate! Keep the Mantovani down to a dull roar!"
The new posters, which will start to appear on the Elizabeth line this week – and on other TfL services, including London buses, in the autumn – remind travellers to use headphones when listening to music or making calls.
Oh, posters! Well, they solve everything, don’t they?
Seb Dance, the deputy mayor for transport, said: “The small minority who play music or videos out loud can be a real nuisance to other passengers.” The new posters would encourage Londoners “to always be considerate of other passengers”, he added.
I’m sure they’ll be every bit as successful as the ones telling people to always buy a ticket, and not drink alcohol or sexually harass anyone….
A teenage girl brutally stabbed to death by a migrant in a murder that has sent shockwaves through the Netherlands was a highly intelligent middle-class student who had recently graduated from high school, we can reveal.
If she'd been a thicko would it have been less of an outrage?
Known only by her first name Lisa, the 17-year-old had been enjoying a night out in Amsterdam with her friends when she decided to ride her electric bike home to the small village of Abcoude. Around halfway through her journey, she noticed a man was following her, causing her to call the police to alert them she was being stalked and harassed.
But remember, whren seconds count, the police are minutes away.
Within 48 hours a suspect was arrested at a refugee centre, a ten-minute walk from where she was found, held on suspicion of murder – and for the rape of another woman days earlier. And while he has remained in custody for more than a week, Dutch detectives are stumped and still have no clue about his identity. The suspect, believed to be in his 20s, is thought to be an illegal migrant who had not registered at the refugee hostel he was staying in.
There's a system that's working well, then!
One local added: 'What happened to Lisa will probably have a deep and profound impact on the sense of safety and security of parents and girls.'
And what are you going to do about it? Nothing, and carry on importing Third Worlders? Maybe put the same effort into protecting children as you put into protecting cats.
Scotland is known for its rainfall, famed as a lush, green, soggy nation. Not this year. Water levels are way below average after the driest spring since 1964 and a hot summer. The problem is especially acute in the east of the country, where the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) is now introducing curbs on some water use.
I mean, try playing any building/management type sim, keep up the residential zone creation without increasing service capacity, and you're heading for failure!
It said two catchment areas - Ythan in Aberdeenshire and North Fife - had reached significant scarcity, the highest level of alert.
Gosh, it's a mystery to rival Loch Ness, isn't it?
The Red Queen is toast.
An Irish person in Berlin has been hospitalised after being physically assaulted and arrested by German police during a protest against the killing of journalists in Gaza by Israeli air strikes.Speaking in Kerry today, Taoiseach Michéal Martin said he was “deeply concerned” by what he had seen and that such an assault is “unacceptable”.
They said the Irish Ambassador to Germany, Maeve Collins, alongside senior officials in the department “have conveyed our concern about the incident to the German authorities”.
Similarly, the left on Twitter have been jumping up and down about it non-stop. despite the fact video shows she was clearly asking for it.
Here's the "fuck around" part RTE News won't show you.
— 243Cal 🇮🇪 (@243_cal) August 30, 2025
It happens just before Kitty O'Brien found out. #Berlin pic.twitter.com/vTL4icZnQw
The world's a funny old place, isn't it? A woman flies to Germany and gets punched by a man. and the progressives loose their minds. Yet if a woman flies to Paris and gets punched by a man, everyone on the left's utterly outraged if anyone claims that it's not right to let a man punch a woman.
Switzerland may face more scenes of violence next week following two nights of rioting, according to one of the country's top sociologists. Dramatic riots erupted in Lausanne, Switzerland, over the weekend after a migrant teen was killed in a scooter crash while fleeing the police.
Note that: not 'By the police'. But of course, that doesn't matter, any more than it does in the banlieues of Paris.
Much of the anger came from a long-standing view that police in Lausanne are systemically racist against migrants who have settled there. Marvin's death was the third death involving police in less than three months in the city, with seven in the wider Vaud region since 2016. Five of those deaths were of men originally from Africa.
What did they expect would happen when they allowed a large population of immigrants to settle in Switzerland? Had they not seen how it had gone elsewhere in Europe? Having professors of sociology didn't exactly pour oil on troubled waters:
Sandro Cattacin, a professor of sociology at the University of Geneva, told the Daily Mail that he believes Switzerland, ordinarily seen as a beacon of stability on the continent, will see more violence in the coming days. Cattacin warned that pressure groups may see the riots as a chance to latch on and cause their own violence: 'I expect that we will have [riots] again next week. Now you have these other groups, people related to more to more aggressive anti-capitalist positions, who say "OK, that's the moment we can have riots".
We call them 'rentamob', prof!
He added that the only way to dissipate the anger felt by society was to open a dialogue between the police and marginalised groups
What do you expect the police to say:'Obey the law'?
Victoria Adams, 37, was found dead at her flat in Hammersmith, west London, on February 9 after police were called to a report of a man attempting to break into the property in Coulter Road. She was found face down in a bedroom with a black bin bag over her head, which was covered by a pillow.
And the culprit wasn't hard to find. It was could almost be said to have been suicide by naivety.
Ms Adams had suffered at least 10 separate injuries to the back and side of the head from being struck with a blunt object - said to be a mallet which was found with her blood and DNA on it. Her attacker, Apapale Adoum, 39, who was arrested at the scene, had met her on February 6 when he was living in a homeless shelter. She had invited him to stay with her but later wrote a note to ask him to leave.
Adjourning sentencing, Judge Nigel Lickley KC told the defendant: 'The sentence for murder is a life sentence and that is what I will pass on October 24.'
Why not pass it immediately? What are you waiting for? More middle class suicidally-liberal white women to write a sentencing report on how the justice system should go easy on him, I suppose...
A Reform council leader’s decision to ban his councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper is a “massive attack on local democracy” and a sign of things to come should the party form the next government, the outlet’s editor has warned.
WTAF? Aren't there other newspapers and radio stations then?
In an unprecedented move, Nottinghamshire county council’s four-month-old Reform administration has said it will no longer deal with the Nottingham Post, its online edition and a team of BBC-funded local democracy journalists that it manages.
Ah, I see. Such an important source for news that when I loaded it up just now (fighting my way through all the adverts), there was no sign of this most important issue:
Nigel Farage is already facing calls to intervene in the row, with local MPs accusing Reform of “rank hypocrisy” over its previous claims to support free speech and transparency.
Yet as many people have pointed out, not spreaking to a particular journalist is no transgression against free speech.
In an interview with the Guardian, Natalie Fahy, the editor of the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire Live, said “This is a worrying sign of potentially things to come if Reform wins the next election. What you’re seeing here in Nottinghamshire is probably a microcosm of how it will be across the whole of the UK if Nigel Farage becomes prime minister. You are just going to see this kind of shutting down of questioning.
You're so far up yourself, Natalie, you must be talking out of the top of your head.
“They need to be answerable to the people who elected them. We don’t take a political stance. We’re not anti-Reform. We’re just trying to find out what’s going on.”
They are answerable to the people who elected them - at the ballot box. Not when they are buying something to line the budgie's cage.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Thursday that authorities did not have any information indicating that school shooter Robin Westman suffered from mental illness despite officers being called to her home twice.
The fact he was disturbed enough to believe he could be a woman wasn't clue enough then?
Mary Grace Westman, the mother of shooter Robin Westman, 23, was a former employee at the Annunciation Catholic Church where the horror unfolded Wednesday morning. The mother has reportedly sought legal counsel out of an abundance of caution in the aftermath of the tragedy. 'She is completely distraught about the situation and has no culpability but is seeking an attorney to deal with calls like this,' Attorney Ryan Garry told Fox News.
She wasted no time jumping on a plane back from Florida only to not answer any qurestions? Why? Couldn't she have lawyered up in Florida just as easily?
She has retained criminal defense attorney Ryan Garry, known for his work with NFL star Colin Kaepernick in cases related to protests at the death of George Floyd in 2020.
Ah, maybe woke lawyers are harder to come by in Florida?
Weaponized drones are being tested inside US schools, flying through hallways with the ability to neutralize active shooters in seconds. Equipped with non-lethal pepper spray, powder pellets, and live video feeds, the drones launch from secure charging stations, six per school, when gunfire is detected.
WTAF? What sort of Robocop induced crazy plan is this? Why not arm the teachers, who are often the first people to raise the alarm about mentally troubled students? Or maybe start dealing seriously with mental illness, instead of considering it 'just a lifestyle choice' that people are free to make?
Jonathan Pearce at Samisdata on Lewis Goodall's attack on inherited wealth and the supposed societal problems it causes:
"Another structure for we lesser mortals is the trust. These are creatures of the English Common Law, and are extensive in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and biggest of all, the US. Trusts remain an incredibly useful tool for ensuring orderly transfer/control of assets by families. If people such as Lewis Goodall are worried that inheritors become spoiled brats and lose a work ethic (if that is his genuine concern, it is a fair one to have), then trusts can, or could, be structured so that a beneficiary only receives payouts from it if certain terms and conditions are met."
Those lefty do-gooders who decry the 'Joint enterprise' legislation are going to have a hard time with this one:
The prosecution says while only one person stabbed Mr Shepherd, the jury should find them guilty of murder via joint enterprise.
'One person may have delivered the fatal blows but the prosecution case is the three are jointly liable as they were acting together in a joint attack,' she said.Is there any evidence they were all in it together? Yes, it's all on camera!
'He was reaching for [the knife]. He was going to use it on Joe, Harrison, or me, or all of us,' he said.
Then why didn't you run away, instead of towards him?
O'Keeffe told jurors the victim's dog was 'being very aggressive', that the pet was 'snarling and barking', and as such, he believed the pet would bite him.
Then why did you incapacitate the man holding the lead that held it under control?
The trial continues.
I hope the lunches are good there. I can't think what else is keeping the jury from rendering the verdict right now!
The government needs to stop children using virtual private networks (VPNs) to bypass age checks on porn sites, the children's commissioner for England has said. Dame Rachel de Souza told BBC Newsnight it was "absolutely a loophole that needs closing" and called for age verification on VPNs.
And just how are they supposed to do that? Given every WFH civil servant and local government drone will be using one?
VPNs can disguise your location online - allowing you to use the internet as though you are in another country. It means that they can be used to bypass requirements of the Online Safety Act, which mandated platforms with certain adult content to start checking the age of users.
And as a result, lead to the closure of perfectly harmless sites like the Eastleigh online discussion forum and a hamster enthusiasts forum!
A government spokesperson said VPNs are legal tools for adults and there are no plans to ban them.
Leaving out the word ‘Yet’ I note…..
Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: "Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it's absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that's one of my major recommendations." She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs "to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography."
Government needs to tell Rachel to get back in her fucking box!
CCTV footage appears to show a group of people with their faces covered walk into the restaurant before pouring liquid on to the floor. Seconds later, the inside of the restaurant is engulfed in flames.
'Going out for a scorching curry' takes on new meaning!
Five people - three women and two men - were treated for burns and smoke inhalation. Two of them were taken to a major trauma centre and three were taken to local hospitals, London Ambulance Service said.Three of the injured are in a life-threatening condition, the Metropolitan Police said.
Witnesses describe horrific scenes.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Rogers, of the Met’s Central Specialist Crime North unit said: “We understand this incident will cause concern within the community. My team of specialist detectives are working at speed to piece the incident together.
“Locals can expect to see a large police presence in the area. If you have any concerns, please speak to those officers on the ground.”
Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy and 54-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out an arson attack at a restaurant in east London.
Two down, more to go?
It was September last year when 24-year-old Kelly was on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to London Gatwick after a trip to Africa. Tucked underneath a blanket and with her headphones firmly on, she quickly fell asleep after a strenuous day of travel. The quiet murmuring of voices from the film playing on her screen helped her to drift off on a packed overnight flight. But two hours before landing, Kelly - whose name has been changed for this article - was woken by the man sitting next to her, sexually assaulting her.
The man in his 60s has now been jailed but Kelly is finding it difficult to go on with her day-to-day life and is locked in a battle for compensation.No, Reader, Not from the perpetrator. And not from the airline, either.
Kelly was initially moved to a cabin crew seat before being moved elsewhere in the cabin until landing. "I had to endure the rest of the plane journey, which was awful," Kelly remembers.
It’s an airplane, love, it’s not like the pilot can just pull over and let you out, is it?
Although Kelly is pleased he has been convicted, she said the impact of the assault on her has been severe. "I haven't been out in almost a year - to events or summer parties with my friends. I can't do that. I'm too scared. I don't want to be touched or looked at. So it's never leaving me. It's literally there every single day before I sleep, I'm thinking about what happened."
And someone needs to pay for that. A normal person would say it should be the pervert who assaulted her, wouldn’t they?
Kelly is now fighting for compensation under the government's Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS).
Ah. My mistake. Of course, it’s the poor long-suffering British taxpayer, isn’t it? Because there’s no way all the (doubtless unpaid) fines levied under the justice system are even covering the administration costs of the scheme, is there?
But when Kelly applied to the scheme for compensation in April her application was refused. A letter from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) - which processes applications on behalf of the Ministry of Justice - said the offence did not occur in a "relevant place" as defined by the scheme. She appealed against the decision but in May was refused again.
The British civil service never met a loophole they didn’t love:
The current rules of the scheme state an aircraft is only considered a "relevant place" if it is a British-registered aircraft within the meaning of section 92 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982. Kelly was told as the offence occurred on a Qatari-registered aircraft, she was ineligible for compensation. She believes this is unfair.
Well, I believe that it’s unfair that you should claim compensation for your ordeal from anyone but the man who put you through it.
I'd have thought the slaughter of innocent children would have done it but no...
It's difficult to imagine a more horrific crime than killing children as they pray in church, so it will be a particular challenge trying to understand the sort of person prepared to do it.
Robin Westman was the 23-year-old transgender woman who is accused of opening fire through the stained-glass windows of the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning during a celebratory back-to-school mass packed with children.
Two children were killed, and 17 others injured, when the shooter sprayed bullets as the young congregants scrambled down in the pews to escape the deadly fire.
No, we aren't going with the neutral 'the shooter' to avoid playing into the fantasy that this was anything other than a man:
Before beginning her onslaught, Westman had reportedly used wooden planks to barricade the church's two side doors shut.
And while each is tragic in its own way, there are common themes among the perpetrators that have become grimly familiar - mental health issues, easy access to guns and an obsession with emulating or surpassing previous mass killers.Westman's victims all attended the Annunciation Catholic School where she was herself once a pupil.
This isn't the first such deranged individual to unleash pent-up male violence on children, either, so why on earth is the 'Daily Mail' referring to it as anything but?
Within hours of the shooting, FBI director Kash Patel announced they were investigating the killings as an 'act of domestic terrorism' and anti-Catholic hate crime.
Call it what it is; another expression of florid mental illness - one that doesn't just go untreated, but is celebrated and pandered to. Even after death.
The enormous popularity of beauty treatments, including dermatological fillers and Botox injections, is not solely an issue for health regulators.
Really?
Wes Streeting’s announcement of new licence requirements for UK businesses, and tighter regulation of higher-risk treatments, is probably overdue. The Chartered Trading Standards Institute recently warned that untrained people have given cosmetic injections in public toilets and hotels.
Look, if you’re stupid enough to let people do this to you, and judging by the results (I saw a woman on the Tube last week with such a pronounced trout pout I was worried if the train braked sharply and she fell face first against the window, she’d have to be pried off by firemen), you are, then I’m not sure why we should be doing any more than regulating it. Apart from the drain on the NHS, of course…
Altering the law in order to exclude such “rogue operators” ought to make high streets and the internet – where many clinics advertise – safer. But councils will need resources if they are to be expected to enforce new rules by issuing licences, checking premises and so on. As in many other areas of economic activity, the law on its own is unlikely to be enough. Mechanisms are needed to ensure that businesses comply.
That’s the case for all legislation, of course, and usually why it fails. But why are people doing this in the first place?
Changing norms and aspirations about appearances, and the way that these are marketed mainly to women and girls, are a cultural and economic phenomenon that requires wider consideration.
Ah, of course, the internet and social media are making them do it. Strange how it’s always something the government and progressives are desperate to control, eh, Reader?
A transgender woman has been accused of sexual assault after she 'concealed male genitalia' during a night with a Snapchat date. Paul Reid, prosecuting, told Teesside Crown Court that Watkin performed sex acts on the man after he arrived at a house in Thornaby, north Yorkshire, a number of years ago.
The MSM still ‘respecting pronouns’ of these transcultists, even as they stand in the dock. Why?
The prosecutor then told the jury that Watkin later contacted her date to reveal 'a massive secret.' Messages sent between the two were read out to the jury. When the alleged victim asked if the secret was that she was pregnant, Watkin replied: 'I'm trans. I'm sorry I didn't tell you.' The man messaged: 'WTF. So you have a d***?' before repeating his question. Watkin added: 'That's why I haven't s****** you.'
A clear case of sex by deception, brought in by progressive lawmakers who must surely have realised this was likely to snare unintended consequences in the net, unless they are even more stupid than I thought possible.
'The defendant had concealed from the man that she had a penis, during their brief relationship,' Mr Reid told the jury.
If it had a dick, it wasn’t a chick, MSM.
'The man told the police that if he had known Watkin was transgender, he would not have consented. He said: "I don't swing that way."'
Oh, if only there hade been some clue when you met IRL
And that’s not the most surprising thing about this story:
Watkin, of Thornaby, denies two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual assault by penetration.
Do they mean ‘rape’ ? That would be the more normal charge, but since that’s an act that under UK law can only be carried out by a male, are they manipulating the charges to attempt to maintain a fiction?
The UK’s first transgender judge has launched a case against the UK in the European court of human rights challenging the process that led to the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.
On what grounds?
The retired judge Victoria McCloud, who is now a litigation strategist at W-Legal, is seeking a rehearing of the case, arguing that the supreme court undermined her article 6 rights to a fair trial when it refused to hear representation from her and did not hear evidence from any other trans individuals or groups.
Did it need to, in order to reach a decision?
“The court reversed my and 8,500 other people’s sex for the whole of equality law … We are now two sexes at once. We are told we must use dangerous spaces such as male changing rooms and loos when we have female anatomy. If we are raped we must go to male rape crisis. We are searched by male police, to ‘protect’ female police from, I assume, our female anatomy.
You don’t have female anatomy, sir, even if you’ve had the operation, all you have is a crude, non working facsimile of it. You are a male. You will always be a male. No matter what anyone tells you otherwise.
Meanwhile, in Scotland:A campaign group that won a legal victory on the definition of sex is taking action against the Scottish government over policies it says are “inconsistent” with the ruling.For Women Scotland’s legal battle with Scottish ministers over the definition of a woman ended in the UK’s supreme court, which ruled in April that the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 referred to a biological woman and biological sex.
And they have to take this action because the progressives aren’t giving up:
However, the group said it now had “little choice” but to take further legal action as some policies regarding transgender pupils in schools and transgender people in custody remained in place, which the group said was “in clear breach of the law”.
Laws are for the little people to obey, clearly…
A top transgender surgeon is being sued by two patients who claim their operations left them with deformed genitals.
Eh? Isn't that exactly what all such operations do?
Cetrulo, a renowned plastic surgeon who performed the first successful penis transplant in the United States in 2016, worked at MGH's Transgender Health Program.The lawsuits claim that Cetrulo's 'delayed abdominal phalloplasty' operations on both patients were 'untested and experimental' procedures that resulted in severe complications. According to the court filings, a delayed abdominal phalloplasty is a staged procedure that uses skin from the abdomen to construct a penis. One patient from New Mexico who traveled to Boston for the surgery claimed the operation left him with a 'severely deformed, scarred, and nonfunctional structure that was intended to serve as phallus.'
Yes, and? What exactly were you expecting, madam? A fully functioning member? Surely not?
'While we cannot comment on ongoing litigation, our priority remains delivering safe, high-quality care,' a spokesperson from Mass General Brigham, the healthcare system the oversees MGH, told the Daily Mail.
No. your priority remains charging fortunes to surgically mutilate mentally ill people, having forsaken your Hippocratic Oath long, long ago.
A Labour MP has said she has been subjected to death threats and online misogynistic abuse after a video was shared by a Conservative MP about her position on a national inquiry into grooming gangs.
Anna Dixon, the MP for Shipley in West Yorkshire, said police were investigating the threats and accused the MP for Keighley and Ilkley, Robbie Moore, of disseminating “misinformation” about her stance on the issue.
Such as?
Moore posted a video on Wednesday on social media with the caption: “Shipley’s Labour MP Anna Dixon is ‘misleading public’ on grooming gangs inquiry. “Anna is telling constituents she voted against an inquiry because it was a ‘political stunt’. But a closer look at the facts shows Anna has been dismissing calls for an inquiry since day one.”
Ah. So, is he? Have you actually been calling for and supporting such an inquiry, Anna?
The death threats are horrible but I do find it disingenuous of you to be relying on the “wrecking amendment” argument when you were publicly opposing an inquiry from day one - this is a year before that vote even took place!! pic.twitter.com/uzSiL0afxj
— Shivposter (@Shiv_poster) August 23, 2025
The evidence seems to indicate that you haven't, so all Moore is doing is calling attention to your own actions, isn't he? Are you so poorly ediucated you don't understand the term 'misleading'?
Here, this may help.
Dixon denies the claims and said she only voted against a Tory proposal for a national inquiry into grooming gangs because it included an amendment to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill.
It dorsb't matter why you did, the point is you did vote against it. so it's no use crying foul when someone points that out!
In response, Moore said: “I utterly condemn any threats of violence against elected politicians or anyone in public life … I would urge readers to watch the full video in question, which is not a personal attack and raises legitimate concerns about the MP for Shipley’s public position on a grooming inquiry in Bradford.” He added: “I recently organised a cross-party letter to the prime minister on this issue, signed by 98 MPs from six different political parties, including Labour. Unfortunately, the MP for Shipley was not one of them.
Well, Anna, seems you've passed up every opportunity to support an inquiry that's been given to you.
“We are now in a situation in Bradford where victims and survivors and leading child abuse lawyers are desperately calling for a focus on Bradford in the grooming gangs inquiry, with a sitting Labour peer explicitly saying there has been a cover-up inside Bradford council. “The fact that the MP for Shipley does not and, from her public comments today, still does not unequivocally support a focus on Bradford in this national inquiry is both a newsworthy and legitimate concern.”
Indeed it is. And no amount of blustering anf obfuscation is going to get her out of a hole she's dug herself. All she's done by issuing this statement is call attention to her position on grooming gangs. That's Labour for you - their MPs are even thicker than their voters!
Hertfordshire Police were called to Cowley Hill in Borehamwood at about 12:15 BST on Saturday, and a 100m (328 ft) cordon was put in place, with some nearby homes evacuated.
Controlled explosions took place following an assessment by the explosive ordnance disposal unit.
some on social media suggesting these were car bombs, not seen on the mainland since the IRA days:
The force said a 38-year-old man from Edgware, London, and a woman aged 38 from Borehamwood had been arrested in connection with the incident and were in custody. Police said they believed it was a "targeted attack on the victim" which had "caused a lot of concern in the local community".
The victim isn’t named either. Maybe when the accused are charged and the names revealed the MSM will take more notice. It finally made the 'Mail' on Saturday, but very, very far down the screen....
Robert Kovacs, 38, of Edgware, has since been charged with attempted murder, making an explosive substance with intent to endanger life / injure property and doing an act with intent to cause an explosion likely to endanger life / injure property.
Curious case.
H/T: LisaJG via Twitter
A 'Guardian' reader take a safari holiday. In the Netherlands. If during term time, no doubt they'' excuse it by saying it's educational....
After all, what have you got to lose?
A woman who was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers has said she was made to be "Sir Keir Starmer's political prisoner". Lucy Connolly, from Northampton, was released on Thursday after serving 40% of her 31-month prison sentence.
And you'll now see the panoply of State arrayed against her as a result. And every talk show host and comedian and two-bit columnist in the land will have a sly dig, knowing it will find favour with the establishment.
"I, for some reason, seem to have had the most coverage, but there are people that are in equally awful situations that shouldn't be in there," she said, speaking to journalist Allison Pearson, who had campaigned for Connolly's release. "I think with Starmer he needs to practise what he preaches.
He's find that difficult, since what he preaches changes when the wind shifts....
"He's a human rights lawyer, so maybe he needs to look at what people's human rights are; what freedom of speech means; and what the laws are in this country."
Ah, if only it was the human rights of the British people that he cared about, but it's not.
Connolly also told the Telegraph she was "upset and angry beyond belief" after the murders in Southport, and that she knew "how that feels because I've lost a child". "Of course,[the tweet] wasn't my finest moment and I don't, I definitely don't advocate violence or burning anything down or anything of the sort." She said she was considering legal action against the police over a statement that was released by the Crown Prosecution Service after her sentencing, which claimed she had told police in an interview that "she did not like illegal immigrants, external" and "that children were not safe from them".
Good. It's about time ther police were given a bloody nose over their partisanship.
Her comments had been "massively twisted and used against me", she claimed.
It's who they are now, Lucy, it's what they do....
The oddly metallic voice speaking to the ex-CNN journalist Jim Acosta in an interview on Substack this week was actually that of a digital ghost: an AI, trained on the teenager’s old social media posts at the request of his parents, who are using it to bolster their campaign for tougher gun controls.
No parent in their right mind would ever judge a bereaved one.
Rubbish! If that were the case, the tabloids wouldn't exist!
If it’s a comfort to keep the lost child’s bedroom as a shrine, talk to their gravestone, sleep with a T-shirt that still faintly smells like them, then that’s no business of anyone else’s. People hold on to what they can.
But they've not kept it to themselves, have they? They've chosen to use it to push a political viewpoint.
But it’s precisely because it’s so hard to let go that grief is vulnerable to exploitation. And there may soon be big business in digitally bringing back the dead.
So the government can tax them?
But while the legal rights of the living not to have their identities stolen for use in AI deepfakes are becoming more established, the rights of the dead are muddled.
The dead have no rights.
What happens if half of a family wants Mum digitally resurrected, and the other half doesn’t want to live with ghosts?
What always happens, of course. Some lawyers get rich!
Civil liberties and anti-racism groups have called on Met Police to abandon plans to deploy Live Facial Recognition (LFR) at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, warning of “racial bias.”
What they are actually afraid of is justice finally coming for black criminals who thought they had got away with it.
In a letter to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, 11 organisations, including Liberty, Big Brother Watch, and the Runnymede Trust, described LFR as “mass surveillance” that “treats all Carnival-goers as potential suspects.”
It's a large gathering of black people - where else would you ecpect the police to look for wanted black criminals and black runaway children?
The letter states: "There is no clear legal basis for your force's use of LFR. No law mentions facial recognition technology and Parliament has never considered or scrutinised its use,” according to the BBC."Notting Hill Carnival is an event that specifically celebrates the British African Caribbean community, yet the [Metropolitan Police] is choosing to use a technology with a well-documented history of inaccurate outcomes and racial bias."
Are they really saying that they all look alike even to technology? If someone is stopped after an indication and isn't the ewanted person, they can always show ID, can't they?
Police will deploy around 7,000 officers each day during the August Bank Holiday weekend event, focusing heavily on public safety, particularly preventing knife crime and violence against women and girls.
So it Liberty, Big Brother Watch and the Runnymede Trust in favour of violence against women and girls then? Sure seems like it!
Thousands of police officers are braced for three days of carnage at the Notting Hill Carnival this weekend amid concerns over escalating violence and potential crushes. Scotland Yard said 7,000 officers and staff will be deployed each day from Saturday to Monday as they attempt to keep up to two million revellers safe in West London.
The Met clearly didn't manage to do what would have been far more sensible, and move the wretched thing to another, safer and more appropriate location.
So we will now pretend that the threat to safety that mandated expensive and ugly anti-terrorist barriers on the streets has been abated for two days so a bunch of immigrants can have a knees up:
A series of 31 anti-terror concrete barriers were installed on Portobello Road last month by Kensington and Chelsea Council to help deter vehicle attacks in the popular market area of Notting Hill following counter-terrorism guidance issued by the Met. But the council said these 'hostile vehicle mitigation measures' will be removed for two weeks from today to ensure 'people can move freely and safely during the event'.
Quite why terrorists would bother attacking the Carnival, when they couldn’t possibly cause more terror and disruption than it does every single year, is I suppose the council’s ‘thinking’ here…
Father, 38, dies after 'being bitten by venomous spider' he bought online just weeks beforeYes, Reader, he bought it *removes sunglasses*....on the web! Ahem!
Paying tribute to the dad-of-two, Kayleigh said: 'He was funny, caring, outgoing and such a people person. He was a brilliant dad to our two children and was always the life and soul of the party. 'He had bought five spiders online two or three weeks before and was obsessed with them. 'I think he bought them because he lived alone but he was always terrified of insects (Ed:Spiders are arachnids Kayleigh, so unlikely to have helped there, unless he planned to let them loose to eat any insects bothering him) when we were together. Even though we had split up, we were best friends. He put our children first.'
There's no news item covering this that mentions what species these spiders were, or even whether medical staff have confirmed a bite was the cause of death. But nevertheless, dim Kayleigh is demanding SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!
She added that owning the spiders should require licenses.
Well, tough. It's an oddity that the Dangerous Wild Animals Act of 1976, that regulated the keeping of dangeous animals in the UK, and inadvertantly sparked years of 'British big cat' loons theorising that this was the cause of fortean reports of pumas and panthers prowling the countryside, doesn't regulate the keeping of any invertebrates. Despite some of them being far more potentially harmful, and to far more people (looking at you, palytoxic corals!) than any venomous snake or lizard.
And I can’t see anyone looking to change that, when they’ve proven unable to stop idiots buying dogs that eat them!
The US director of national intelligence says the UK has withdrawn its controversial demand to access global Apple users' data if required. Tulsi Gabbard said in a post on X, external the UK had agreed to drop its instruction for the tech giant to provide a "back door" which would have "enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties". The BBC understands Apple has not yet received any formal communication from either the US or UK governments. "We do not comment on operational matters, including confirming or denying the existence of such notices," a UK government spokesperson said.
You don’t comment, because what could you say, other than ‘Oh shit, we tried it on with the Yanks and they told us to get fucked again’?
In December, the UK issued Apple with a formal notice demanding the right to access encrypted data from its users worldwide. However Apple itself cannot view the data of customers who have activated its toughest security tool, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which prevents anyone other than the user from reading their files.
It beggars belief that the morons in government ever thought they stood a chance at strong-arming Apple - until you look at the morons in government that is!
Adding to the clamouring appetite for sharp challenge is a new information ecosystem where there are now more ways to dispute mainstream accounts of political reality.
Translation: the MSM can’t get away with lies and lying by omission any more…
The process of fragmentation combined with persistent monopoly is one that is mirrored in the media. Over the past two years alone, entire outlets have grown and flourished over what it seems is the media’s inability to adequately capture and express anger over Gaza. From Zeteo (dubbed a “breakout hit”) to Drop Site News, which launched only a year ago, now has almost 400,000 subscribers and closely works with journalists in Gaza, there is a vast appetite for more uncompromising discourse and intimate coverage of the Middle East and complicity on Gaza.
If you say so, Nesrine. But I think you’ll find most people are heartily sick to death of the constant bleating about Palestine.
Still, this has not diminished anger at mainstream outlets because it is understood that these organisations still have enormous reach and therefore power over public opinion, and by extension political outcomes. It is why the New York Times’s reports on starvation in Gaza have been heavily contested by pro-Israeli government voices, as the paper holds huge authority in the one country that has power over Israel.
Ah, one of the many, many fallacies Nesrine labours under is the fallacy that the media shapes public opinion, rather than reflecting it.
But all that residual power, from politics to the media, does not change the fact that something big is up for grabs – the default belief that these establishment institutions deserve their power, whether it can be taken away from them or not.
Nothing of course on how they've been found to have been abusing it?
The risk now is of a sort of permanent bifurcation. On the one hand, increasingly out-of-control hysteria on immigration empowers ghouls like Farage and makes them and their poisonous rhetoric permanent features of our lives and politics, while rage over Gaza and economic policies constantly clouds the political atmosphere. On the other, a government is caught in the headlights, unable to tackle anything, while also hoping that it’s too big to fail and its opponents too small and diverse to succeed. What if the problem isn’t that the centre cannot hold, but that it can, and in doing so brings about a new, volatile, miserable status quo of escalating rage and impotent government?
Well, since that will provide you with more column inches than you already get, why are you worried?
Being a Muslim in a country with a long colonial history, which has also had to deal with terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam, is an everyday challenge.
Well, yes, it would be...
In January 2015, for example, I was as profoundly shocked as everyone else in France by the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo journalists in Paris. As the country mourned, I was invited by a major radio station to comment, but was first asked, live on air, to “dissociate” myself from the attackers.
Why did you have to be asked? Wouldn't any normal person automatically do so?
I couldn’t hold back my tears – because, even with a media profile, I was reduced to the most racist perception of my identity. I was strongly defended that night by others who took part in the show, and received much support online, but I couldn’t help thinking of the millions of French Muslims who, unlike me, would have no microphone to defend themselves against vile accusations.
It wasn't a 'racist' perception - Islam isn't a race. it's a belief. A stupid belief, but then so are many other religions.
...French Muslims present a paradox: we are part of every social sphere, yet many of us have not given up our cultural specificities. And that is precisely what we are blamed for – integration without assimilation. This is why the same government can claim it uses the law to fight against Muslim “separatism” while denouncing the threat of Muslim “infiltration”. Muslims can’t win: we are blamed for being part of the national community and for being outside of it.
Because every time yousqueal that you've 'assimilated' it turn out to be untrue, when you reveal your real allegience.
