Wait, What?!?

 

They are cooking the sushi? Abandon ship, love! 

A National Laughing Stock...

 And Matt's losing no time in summing up the public's opinion of her:

Sunday Funnies...

 I rather assumed they'd be better liars....

Tweet Of The Month

 

Post Title Of The Month

 From Tim Worstall, a universal truth:

Quote Of The Month

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."

Post Of The Month

 Fahrenheir211 predicts a tipping point has been reached....

Pick A Better Excuse...

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! 

And Another Government Rachel Proves Herself To Be A Moron....

And really, one is more than enough!

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! 

“London is not such a fun place any more.”

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.”

Or not. 

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? 

Why Does Anyone Other Than The Criminal Owe You Compensation?

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 Hoped The MSM Had Found Someone Who's Pronouns They Don't Respect At Last...

 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.

Is Nothing Ever Solely Down To People’s Stupidity & Vanity Then?

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? 

This Was Inevitable, Wasn't It?

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

                                                             The awesome power of filters 

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?  

Irrisistable Force, Meet Immovable Object.

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… 

Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin...

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. 

You Can't Escape The Consequences Of Your Own Actions, Anna

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!  

Why Isn't This A Bigger News Story?

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.

 

Unlike most such stories, there turned out to be something to it:

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

Ambush, Why Was Stannis Baratheon Your Favourite 'GoT' Character?

 Oh, no particular reason....

                

I Guess If You’re A Progressive ‘Guardian’ Reader, ‘Pride’ Only Means One Thing

 A 'Guardian' reader take a safari holiday. In the Netherlands. If during term time, no doubt they'' excuse it by saying it's educational....

*sighs*

Sunday Funnies...

 Poor Brendan Fraser - to feature in two is almost a gift!

Atta Girl, Come Out Swinging!

 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.... 

No, I’m Pretty Sure You’ve Crossed All Of Them Already

 

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!  

We Know What The Real Fears Are

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!  

 

Why Would Terrorists Bother, After All?

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…

The Dangerous Wild Animals Act Is A Misnomer

Father, 38, dies after 'being bitten by venomous spider' he bought online just weeks before

Yes, 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!

It Truly Is The ‘Land Of The Free’

Luckily for us, in the land of Starmer:

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!

Oh Dear, Nesrine, Are The Progressives Losing Their Grip On The Means Of Indoctrination?

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? 

Gosh, I Wonder Why?

 

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. 

The NHS Is Not Worth A Candle Anymore....

It's not just wholly captured by the transcultists, but by the 'politics of envy' crowd too.

The British Medical Association strongly advises pupils who want to be doctors that they need clinical work experience to even be considered for a medical degree. But now thousands of children, including those on bursaries – around a third of the estimated 650,000 private-school pupils in the UK – are struggling to find work experience at key hospitals.

And why? One reason. Ideology.  

One would-be medical student from Emanuel School in south London was told by King's College Hospital Trust – their local NHS trust – that pupils from private schools were not admitted on to their courses, even if they lived in the area.And the MoS has learned of another, on a 100 per cent bursary, who 'applied to every hospital trust and GP practice within an hour of her home' including Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Northampton General Hospital and Milton Keynes University Hospital but 'received either rejections or no responses from almost all' because of the school she attends.

Labour'a war on private schools has been enthusiastically taken up by all the big NHS trusts, so they are ensuring where you went to school is the determinining factor in whether they take you on, all while they plaster their hospitals with 'anti-racism' propaganda.

Last night, Gordon West, head of careers at prestigious independent school Stowe, said: 'This young woman is not from a wealthy background at all; she's from one of the highest priority groups there are. 'Policies like King's College don't account for stories like hers. By excluding private-school kids, they also shut out students on 100 per cent bursaries, many of whom come from families with very limited means.' He added that it was a common story for sixth formers desperate for medical experience to be turned away.

Well, it's not like we need home-grown medical personnel, is it? Not when we can import them from the Third World? 

Sources at NHS England said it was for individual trusts to allocate work experience placements.

Labour is a cancer in this country. And it's fully metastasised. 

Have You Tried Acting, Dear Boy?*

Equity has raised concerns about the casting process for an upcoming production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Concert, which casts a non-disabled performer in the title role, Quasimodo, arguably one of the most recognisable characters with a disability

Utter nonsense, yes, of course. But only to be expected from a once-respected organisation these days. 

 *allegedly the advice given to Dustin Hoffman by the great Laurence Olivier, after he said he'd stayed up for three days so he could portray fatigue convincingly in a scene.

Another Demand To Abolish Part Of Human Nature

As dating apps using height filters spark debate on “heightism”, the Blackadder star Tony Robinson has vented his anger at women who feel it is acceptable to comment on men’s height.

He seems to have got quite short about it!  

“Nowadays, you don’t pick on people’s looks, do you? It’s like kind of a new understanding over the last 10 or 15 years, you don’t deride people for what they look like,” the 5ft 4in actor, 78, told Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail podcast, admitting he had seen his shorter than average height as a problem in life.

Oh, Tony, we comment on people's appearances all the time!  Have you been living under a rock? 

The term “heightism” was first coined by the sociologist Saul Feldman in 1971. Dr Erin Pritchard, a senior lecturer in sociology and disability studies at Liverpool Hope University, believes much heightism is subconscious, but that it is ingrained. It has also not benefited from widespread acceptance movements.

Ah, sociologists! Where would we be without them? 

Who said ‘happier’ at the back!? There’ll be detention… 

The US state of Michigan, the US cities Santa Cruz, San Francisco and New York City, as well as Ontario, Canada and Victoria, Australia, are among the few to address height discrimination in civil rights law.

Who wouldn’t have bet on those particular places being the first to fall for this nonsense?  

Prichard said: “We need more voices like Tony Robinson coming out and saying it, to show this is not all woke nonsense, [to] just sort of sit down and listen to what they have to say and go, OK, these are their lived experiences.”

But it really is all woke nonsense - as is any attempt to try to persuade people to ignore their natural instincts and feelings in favour of whatever woke morons think they should believe and feel instead, in pursuits of some abstract concept of ‘fairness’…

I Guess The Motive Wasn’t That Unclear After All?

 But now, they appear to be sure of the motive - so sure they've applied to have his business closed down:

The nameless entrance on Dynevor Road, behind Good Pizza, has been blocked by police tape with a police car parked outside since the shooting. A closure order has been placed on the black door.

Apparently due to the threat of reprisals from his gangster opponebts. 

Mr Ozmen was reportedly part of the Hackney Bombers organised crime group who have been at war with rivals the Tottenham Turks.

Ah, London. so vibrant, so enriched. So much better now than when boring old native Jack 'The Hat' McVitie  was being murdered by boring old native Reggie Kray, eh?

DCI Dave Whellams, who is leading the investigation, previously said: “We continue to appeal for witnesses to come forward following the fatal shooting of Erdal. He was a father-of-one and was deeply loved by his family.”

They always are, Dave. And so very good to their dear old mum. 

And Why Shouldn't They...?

 

Neither is it's head of state, and until Hamas surrenders and releases the hostages, Israel isn't going to stop. From the ‘Guardian’s’ letters page:

The front page of Saturday’s Guardian print edition demonstrated both sides of the genocide in Gaza. The main image showed two western politicians, who could influence their leaders to stop Israel attacking innocent Palestinian people, laughing while they fished for the assembled media cameras, and the main headline was about the planned takeover of Gaza City

’Innocent Palestinian people’, Stuart?  

History will record both men’s participation in this man-made human disaster by the Israeli government, but will either of them actually care?

So says Stuart Finegan,Lewes, East Sussex. Who seems not to be aware that this all started on October 7, when Hamas launched a major terrorist attack. Or knows but simply doesn’t care…

Thanks for playing ‘Out Yourself As a Jew Hater In A Major Newspaper’, Stuart! 

And Then A Stint On 'Strictly'..?

 

Misght as well, eh. Matt?

Sunday Funnies...

 Sadly, too American-centric, so there's no John Noakes up Nelson's Column...

What's Wrong With Children In The UK?

A 17-year-old boy who filmed a 'hero' grandfather as he lay dying on the street before sharing the video on social media has avoided jail.

Is that even surprising anymore? And of course, it wasn't his sole transgression: 

The boy pleaded guilty to sending a grossly offensive, indecent or menacing message at Worthing Youth Court, West Sussex, yesterday. He also admitted possessing cannabis and was given a 12-month Youth Referral Order following the incident on Gladonian Road in Littlehampton, West Sussex.

This incident appears to be yet another case of killer 'children' (for that is how the justice system will treat them): 

Another 17-year-old boy, from Bognor Regis, has been charged with manslaughter. He is scheduled to appear in court again on October 6 for a pre-trial preparation hearing.

Meanwhile, elsewhere:

A 16-year-old girl and two boys, aged 14 and 15, have appeared in court charged with the murder of a man in a seaside resort. Kent Police were called to the Warden Bay Road area of Leysdown-on-Sea, on the Isle of Sheppey, shortly after 7pm on Sunday, following an altercation involving a small number of people.

Alexander Cashford, 49, was confirmed dead at the scene, with the force saying multiple injuries to his body were reported.

What the hell went wrong with our society? 

It Could Be A Lot Of Things But Not 'Racism'...

The historic town of Jumilla was on the frontline of conflict between Muslims and Christians when the Moors were kicked out of southern Spain in the 13th century. Muslim migrants may have felt more welcome in recent years when they have lived largely happily alongside their Spanish neighbours, and enjoyed freedom to worship.

But things have changed.  

But a decision by Jumilla town council to effectively ban religious events from being held at public sports' facilities has threatened to ignite community tensions.Muslims have no doubt that the ruling is aimed at them as it will prevent them from having traditional Eid prayers twice a year at the town's Antonio Ibanez Morales football stadium.

Will they simply say ‘Well, it was nice while it lasted’ and find alternative options? Reader, place your bets:  

Muslim men were talking of little else, and expressed despair at the ruling, as they arrived for Friday afternoon prayers at the town's main mosque.Logistics worker Aouissat El Mamoun, 27, who grew up in the town and used to play football for Jumilla, said: 'It's really bad and I regard it as racist.'

First, it’s not racist as ‘Muslim’ is a belief, not a race, and second, what do the women think of this? Don’t they get a say?? 

Farm worker Adam Salifu, 43, who is originally from Ghana, said: 'This is a peaceful town and everyone gets on with each other, whatever their religion. 'There are people from every country in Africa in my village. Some are Muslim and some are Christian, and we have no problems with each other.'

And maybe the Spaniards have noticed that their town is suddenly full of African men practising Islam and they aren’t all that happy about it?

'What we really need is a new mosque because this one is quite congested. We are looking for some land to build, but the council have not provided anywhere.'

Why should they?  Did they provide any land for the other religions? 

Oh, That’s What It Stands For…

People are getting upset about the sale of a space rock:

Not least the government of Niger itself, which, in a statement, external, "expressed doubts about the legality of its export, raising concerns about possible illicit international trafficking".

 Corruption in Africa? The Hell you say! 

Sotheby's strongly disputes this, saying the correct procedures were followed, but Niger has now launched an investigation into the circumstances of the discovery and sale of the meteorite, which has been given the scientific and unromantic name NWA 16788 (NWA standing for north-west Africa).

Boy, is my face red! 

Not Taking 'No' For An Answer

Recorder Jas Jandu also issued a ten year restraining order and said that Paul could face deportation after the defendant admitted stalking involving serious alarm or distress.

Asish Jose Paul, 26, was warned to stay away from Lutaruta Masiulonyte after he spent six months between July 7 and December 30 last year pestering his former co-worker, showering her with gifts when she blocked his number. The accountancy student, originally from Kerala, India, was given police bail on his arrest and warned not to go back to the zoo. But he returned the very next day to speak with Ms Masiulonyte. Jose Paul was then re-arrested, charged with stalking and given bail magistrates with conditions not to enter the Borough of Westminster or contact the complainant. The stalker headed straight back to the zoo, however, and was arrested once again. He was again bailed with a condition not to go within 50 metres of London Zoo but visited the tourist attraction once more, explaining to Royal Park attendants that he was 'in love' with his former colleague.

Despite clear evidence that he ignored all the bail conditions and warnings, the justice system simply kept imposing them...what an exercise in futility. 

Not much there for his defence to work with, so she tried the novel approach of 'Look, there are far worse crimes committed by others':

But Georgina Lane, defending said: 'There is no evidence that very serious distress was caused. 'I am not diminishing the level of distress that was caused, but when one considers the array of offences that come before this court, including violence and threats, very serious distress was not caused.

 Followed by a demand for leniency on the basis 'he'd mad, not bad'::

'The defendant's responsibility is substantially reduced due to a mental disorder and learning disabilities.

'He has suffered a lot in prison and he has learned his lesson. Perhaps it took for him to be remanded in custody for it to hit home for Mr Paul.

'He completed a degree in business administration in India, and he obtained a masters degree in accounting and finance. He has good future career prospects and he hopes to obtain a job as a financial analyst.'

Perhaps he can go work for the Treasury, if - as expected - the Home Office fails to boot him back to India... 

Where's The 'Mystery' Here?

                         

It can only be the identity of the driver, since the story itself holds many clues on why it happened:

Jacob Calland was riding an e-scooter with a friend before it collided with a car in Wythenshawe, Manchester, back in March.

 Illegal scooter, ridden unsafely...

Carly described her son as "very loving, headstrong, and a cheeky chappy".

Translation: A feral nightmare in the neighbourhood.

"He knew what he wanted in life and he was always going to go for it," she said.

 So, a typical modern teenager, brimming with undeserved self-esteem and indulged in this attitude by his family (and by family, it seems the only one eager to ralk to the press is the mother, there's no mention of a father, which could be another clue)

In conversations with Jacob, the mum said she had warned him not to get on e-bikes or electric scooters, because "he didn't have road sense on his feet never mind on something as powerful as these things".

 Another hallmark of the modern teenager, the lack of concept of personal danger. So there's very little mystery here, I feel as if this is a story I've read time and again. Of course, it wouldn't be a modern tale of woe without a demand for someone else to DO SOMETHING! And so, right on cue:

Carly has now called for stricter regulations and safety measures for e-scooters and said "if I can save one life it is going to be worth it".

 Not if its the sort of life this waste of oxygen was living...

Alongside her calls for e-scooter licences and a ban on their sale to children, Carly wants to see more safety equipment on the vehicles. She said: "When we get in a car we have to wear a seat belt. Why when they get on the e-scooters do they just get to go on them with no helmets [and] no safety equipment?"

This little shit clearly ignored all the existing legislation governing these machines, what good would even more have done?

Carly also wants stricter punishments for those breaching e-scooter laws. The heartbroken mum said: "You think it is never going to be you. I thought the same. I never thought that my son was going to die on an e-scooter.

It would appear you never thought, full stop. And you appear to have passed that trait on to your offspring. 

Cover Me! 'Tainted Love'

This month it's Soft Cell's classic, 'Tainted Love' a very different song than the original by Gloria Jones:

 

Just Who Is The Real Victim Here??

A double-decker bus driver who killed a nine-year-old girl when he crashed into her while high on drugs has had his jail term increased.

Yes, it's this one. Four years was the original sentence, which for once woke up our debased justice system administrators:

The Solicitor General referred his sentence to the Court of Appeal, arguing at a hearing on Wednesday that it was 'unduly lenient' and should be increased. Three senior judges ruled the sentence should be raised to six years and eight months, and that Asolo-Ogugua should be disqualified from driving for five years upon his release.

Only five? 

Nonetheless, his lawyer seems to be somewhat confused about who is the victim here - he believes, as he is paid to do some might say, that it's his client: 

Gregory Fishwick, representing him, said the case was a 'tragedy', and that while the sentence 'might be classified as lenient', it was 'not unduly so'. He said: 'He will never forget this. It was a tragedy, one that he will feel forever.'

As will the child's family. You know, the family of the real victim here.

Why Is He Still Here?

A 'Hamas-supporting' illegal Channel migrant who was released early from jail is back behind bars after breaching his licence conditions, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Palestinian Abu Wadee was sent back to prison within days of his release under Labour's scheme to ease pressure on the overcrowded prison estate.

*sighs* 

The 33-year-old was initially jailed for nine months at Canterbury Crown Court in May after he was convicted over his illegal arrival in the UK on a dinghy, which he had live-streamed on TikTok.He was released from prison in June after serving around three months, including time spent in custody awaiting his plea hearing.

Pathetic, but sadly only to be expected. 

Sources confirmed Wadee was recalled to prison early last month for breaching his licence conditions. He will now serve the remainder of his nine-month sentence behind bars. It is not known what prompted his recall to jail.

It is known, it's simply not been disclosed to the media. I wonder why?

A 12-month jail term usually triggers automatic removal from the UK, so a court will have to decide whether to deport Wadee.

If it's 'automatic' why is a court deciding? Surely by now it should be glaringly onbious that = whatever those in politics demand - the entire justice sysyem is seeded with do-gooders and Commom Purpose stooges who are carrying out theie instructions to ensure people lose all faith in it.

How Dare People Enjoy Themseves In Summer!

 

'Worrying' for whom? Glad you asked, Reader - it would appear to be the usual NuPuritans and funsponges the progressive press so loves to pander to:

Yuck. “RTDs are booming,” said Steve Young, Bacardi UK’s business unit director, back in May. RTDs? Ready-to-drink beverages, the preferred name for alcopops among those that market them. See also FABs (flavoured alcoholic beverages). Is it just Breezers? Nope. Drinks giant Diageo has launched a new campaign across 20 countries to restore the fortunes of Smirnoff Ice, amid a near doubling in RTD sales over the last decade, fuelled by new brands including BuzzBallz.

How terrible it is that the populace should feel entitled to enjoy themselves in the sunshine! 

How have these RTDs managed to overcome the inexorable decline in alcohol consumption? Gen Z have started drinking again.

Why not? The news is enough to drive them to it, after all! 

Guilty Pleasures…

 One of mine is the ‘Gor’ novels of John Norman.. trashy sci-fi to trivial sword and sandal epics to some, deeply misogynistic tracts to others, I love them, even if they are the literature equivalent of Vesta meals - which I also have a fondness for! - I was delighted to find, just the other day, two new ‘Gor’ novels available on Kindle. So glad to have been proved wrong! So of course, I bought them. Though it has to be said, the cover art is sadly no longer as good as the older books. 

And in catching up with Tarl Cabot's quest to resue his kidnapped old flame, I was swiftly reminded that the author is a philosophy professor writing under a pseudonym and has something to observe about modern politics, even in the pages of trashy sci-fi:

Even at the verable age of 94, he's keenly aware of what is going on in the world today, and doesn't pass up the chance to comment on it on his magnum opus.

There Are Other Mysteries To Uncover, Moira

                                         

It seems to be a source of great puzzlement to Moira that a woman could betray her fellow women so comprehensively:

Maxwell has always formed the dark center of the Epstein saga, a woman who appears to have been exceptionally dedicated to arranging Epstein’s life, facilitating his travel, luring new victims to his homes, and coordinating his sexual abuse over the course of decades. Alleged victims of Epstein recall being recruited by Maxwell in public places – including at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach – and through friends. They say that she inspected their bodies, brought them to Epstein’s homes, talked incessantly about sex, and instructed them in Epstein’s sexual preferences.

But why so shocked? And why so determined to pore over an old case, when there are so many more recent cases to show that there’s no lack of females perfectly willing to screw over other females! You only have to look at the outrage of some man in womanface to find that many of those enabling or just cheering him on aren’t other men, but women. 

It was not her charity, or her father’s publishing, that were Maxwell’s great passions. Her great passion appears to have been for the romantic attention of men – and specifically, her life’s greatest animating goal seems to have been to achieve, and keep, the attention of Jeffrey Epstein.

One wonders what the payoff is for those other women…. 

Reporting The News, Or Manipulating It?

 I'm sure you've all scene the story from Friday's 'Daily Mail' about the lunatic who exposed himself on a Tube Train in East London, before being bundle off on to the platform by outraged passengers and arrested by a passenger who happened to be an off duty police officer.

But have you seen how one 'journalist' chosre to frame that news?

But no, there's no agenda here, is there ?

H/T : Far-Right Nan via Twitter

No Criminal Mastermind...

 

...and as Matt knows, the police wouldn't be able to catch her anyway!

Repeat After Me. 'Mail' Typesetters....

 "...i before e except after what?"

Yes, I know they don't really have typesetters any more...perhaps that's the problem!

Sunday Funnies...

 This is why I dread my favourite books ever being made into films...

Would A Man Who Did This Be Treated Leniently By The Justice System?

These days, who knows if this is the Pussy Pass in action or just normal for our debased justice system. I honestly don't know any more...

Mother-of-three Catherine 'Cat' Lloyd, 44, pounced from behind her gate and smashed her victim over the top of the head in a narrow alleyway between their homes in a late-night attack his family say he was lucky to come out of alive. In new CCTV from the night obtained by the Daily Mail, she then smashes him over the head with a wooden bat with the help of her ex-boyfriend whom she had called over to join in.

Nor was this just a single incident, but the culmination of a campaign of terror: 

The horrifying double attack, caught on CCTV, followed a three-year campaign of abuse against the victim's grandparents-in-law in which she made 1am death threats, branded them 'paedophiles' and 'murderers' online and even threw bricks at them.

so why the leniency? Just because she’d reproduced?  

Lloyd - who has two young twin girls and a teenage boy - admitted grievous bodily harm without intent and was sentenced to 10 months in jail this week, but she has been released back onto the streets due to time she has served in custody.

While in custody, she was innocent at least in a technical sense - so why should that time be counted as part of her sentence? 

'It's such a deflation that we've waited all this time, it's finally gone to court, we had all the evidence and we just think where's the justice in that? 'Until the bailiffs come round, she's still got the keys to the place. What's to stop her coming round?

There truly is no justice in that!  

'She's not even in prison anymore. There's a restraining order but that's not stopped her before. There's physically nothing to stop her running back again.'

Which doesn’t stop the police from churning out their pre-written statement of self-congratulation, of course

DCI Lloyd Davis said: 'Catherine Lloyd's behaviour in this case was completely unacceptable.

'Irrespective of any ongoing dispute, violence like this is not the answer. I'm pleased the victim can now move on.'

How can they do that?  

Who Is Running Our Prisons?

Manchester Arena terrorist Hashem Abedi has had full prison privileges restored for 'good behaviour' - despite an alleged brutal attack on guards in April. That reportedly means that he will be able to use the gym again and spend more time outside of his cell, The Sun reported. Other perks as a result of his regime being upgraded from 'basic' to 'standard' are believed to include additional canteen credit and more cash to spend on phone calls - and even a better TV package.

Beacause it appears to be the people who should have no say at all. Has the Howard League for Penal Reform taken a leaf from the general progressive movement and started their own Long March? 

Prison authorities are concerned that he could encourage other prisoners to carry out attacks of their own, a source told The Sun. That raises the question of why Abedi's regime has been relaxed if officials still believe he is an active threat.

Errr, quite! And also the question of why he's not yet been charged with that assault?  

The Ministry of Justice declined to comment. The prisons minister has been approached for comment.

If the prison officer's union calls for a strike, I wouldn't blame them. 

Why Was This Ever Considered Appropriate In The First Place?

A rape crisis charity at the heart of a row over whether trans women can attend support sessions for women has announced it is launching a new service for women which will exclude transgender participants.

It beggars belief that this is news, because who could have ever believed that this would have been considered normal in the first place? 

In 2022 a woman known as "Sarah" told BBC News she was suing Brighton-based Survivors' Network because she felt uncomfortable talking about her own abuse in front of a trans woman who had joined the group.

For ‘trans woman’ read. ‘Man in womanface’ as if a rape victim would ever feel comfortable in the presence of such!

The charity, which provides support services for survivors of sexual violence in Sussex, says it will now run a new group for biological women who live as women, alongside its existing meetings that allow trans and non-binary people to take part.

Because the risk of being sued has now got too great, not because they’ve come to their senses, of course!  

Sarah told the BBC in 2002 she had been sexually abused as a child and then raped when in her 20s. She had approached the group for support after coming into contact with the man she said had attacked her. "I was finding it really hard to cope," she said at the time. She said she had found the sessions helpful and supportive at first. She called them a "safe space". However, a trans woman - a biological male who identified as a woman - started attending the support group for victims of sexual abuse and assault. Sarah says the trans woman presented as typically male in the way she looked and dressed, and Sarah felt uncomfortable in her presence. "I don't trust men because I was raped by a man," she said at the time. "I don't necessarily trust that men are always who they say they are." Sarah stopped attending the sessions.

And you’re wise to, because these days, some of them aren’t. And there are other women bound and determined to assist them in this endeavour!

He's Just Proving It Was The Right Sentence All Along...

The trial of an alleged escapee who spent hours on the roof of a high-security prison in his underpants is set to be the first time the stress caused by indeterminate sentences can be used as a legal defence.

Yes, of course, it's the 'Guardian' taking out an onion for a criminal again. 

The 38-year-old has been in jail for 13 years, much of that in isolation, after receiving an IPP sentence for robbing a takeaway at gunpoint in 2011. He says he does not remember the crime because he was drunk and high on drugs.

Just the sort of criminal who should be locked up until he’s safe to live in society, in other words. So who is complaining? 

The case raises once again the issue of IPPs, which 2,544 prisoners were still serving in March despite the sentences being abolished in 2012. The legislation that ended what campaigners describe as a cruel system was not retrospective.

A spokesperson for Reform and Rebuild, a prison advocacy group which is set to give evidence in the trial, said it was “well overdue” for courts to take into account the stress caused by IPPs.“Nobody’s been resentenced yet, but we are looking at human rights. That’s another battle but we will get it. We’ll definitely get it because it’s cruel and inhumane. I think if we don’t keep fighting and jumping up and down, then it’ll just be forgotten.”

Progressive do-gooders, of course! 

Campaigners have made some progress over the years, for example in shortening the licences of those released from IPPs from 10 years to three years. Nichol said this “meant some people could go on holiday with their families and have a life again, because 10 years is a long time after you’ve suffered”.

Shsme their victims often can't do the same, eh? Their suffering rarely ends, thanks to do-gooders like you.

The Cops Aren't The Only Ones Misleading The Public....

Despite the huge interest the incident has caused in Nuneaton, sources have told the Mail on Sunday that Warwickshire Police advised local councillors and officials not to reveal the asylum seeker background of the two suspects, for fear of 'inflaming community tensions'.

Ho hum.... 

No-one involved in the sordid business of earning a few quid from this wretched trade is very chatty:

When the MoS contacted the owner of the property Mulakhil lived in, she said she was 'sickened to the stomach' when hearing about the incident. She said: 'I don't know anything because Serco manage the house completely.' When we asked Serco if they were aware of Mulakhil and Kabir, the company said in a statement: 'We do not confirm individual addresses, nor the names of people in properties we manage.'

But the one that was what let a very large cat out of the bag: 

Gorwan Muhammad Ali, 27, an Iraqi Kurd who lives in the same house as Kabir, said: 'I have not seen Kabir for a few days. The police have come round the house. Kabir came to this country to work.'

So he's not an asylum seeker at all, but an economic migrant. 

Last night, councillors from the Tory party, as well as Labour and Reform – which controls Warwickshire County Council – said they did not know much about the incident, despite the huge interest. They blamed the police for not sharing any information with them. But a source told the MoS certain councillors and officials were informed by the police about the incident, and were advised not to reveal to the public that the two assailants were asylum seekers.

And presumably didn't - until a source spilled the beans to the media on condition of anonymity. So what makes Reform any different from the useless Tories?