Tweet Of The Month

Post Title Of The Month

 A tie this month! 

First up, David Thompson with this gem:

And then Longrider weighs in with this one: 

Quote Of The Month

 Nick Drew at Capitalists at Work on the immediate collapse of Starmer's small boats 'solution': 

"As our friend Mr Hēméra kindly pointed out BTL yesterday, my vision of a single small-boater being recycled endlessly between France & Dover & back to gain credits for the Frogs under 'one in, one out', may have come true almost immediately. The Beeb led with the story yesterday, although the Graun kept it off their front www page altogether: we can imagine which approach goes down better with ministers ..."

Post Of The Month

 Natalie at Samizdata on how activists poison everything.

Chipping Away Bit By Bit...

 ...at every aspect of history.

Barristers have won the right to go without their famous and historically significant wigs in court after campaigners branded them 'culturally insensitive'. Revised guidance from The Bar Council now allows lawyers to ditch their wigs for criminal cases if it is 'uncomfortable, or impractical'. It comes after black barristers complained the Georgian-style hairpieces - which have been a legal tradition since 1685 - were designed for white people's hair.

*sighs* 

Leslie Thomas KC has called for the wigs to be scrapped and said they look 'ridiculous' on black advocates and are 'fashioned for Caucasian hair'. The senior barrister - who has worked on many high-profile cases, including representing families of victims in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and Mark Duggan's family in the inquest into his death - branded the wigs as 'culturally insensitive'.

Typical lefty lawyer, as soon as he gets his foot in the door he wants to change things! 

There were already religious exceptions, including for lawyers in headscarves or turbans.

But of course, that wasn’t enough - this is the real ‘Metoo’ movement! 

However, ex-Justice Secretary and former barrister Sir Robert Buckland yesterday slammed the decision. He told The Sun: 'This is a nonsense argument that we have heard many times before and which should not be pandered to. Just like school uniforms, wigs are a great leveller.

'They give young barristers the same status in the eyes of court users as more senior colleagues and are also a great way of helping with the security of barristers as few people recognise them outside court without their wigs on.'

None of that matters to the real reason they are pushing for this, of course, eh Reader? 

 

Is That A Typo, BBC News?

 Because to most of us, it matters not at all...

Despite living with one arm, Jess doesn't see herself as disabled, saying the barriers she faces are societal. "If I use a public toilet and the tap has to be held down, that impacts my ability, not because I can't do it, but because the designer hasn't thought about me."

Why would they? They are designing for the majority, not the minority - I'm sure it's possible for someone to design an after-sales option. In fact, they already have - our office toilet washbasins operate by simply sticking your hand under a magic eye on the tap shaft. 

When Jess shared her original experience on LinkedIn, someone messaged her to say his AI app would create an image of a woman with one arm. "I tried to create it and the same thing happened, I couldn't generate the image," she says.

She told the person, but they never replied to her and she says that's typical of conversations around disability. "The conversation is too awkward and uncomfortable so people back away."

Are you sure that's the reason? Is it not simply that they are backing away, rolling their eyes at yet another single issue loon who thinks the world revolves around her problems, and boy, does that get tiresome...

And Once Again, The Taxpayer's On The Hook

When the costs should come out of the pockets of the morons who fired him:

A veteran firefighter who was sacked for throwing away a disabled YouTuber's phone was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has concluded.

The former firefighter had been fighting a blaze near the banks of the Great Ouse in King's Lynn when he was caught on camera appearing to throw the YouTuber's phone over a hedge.

 And why the bosses' sympathy with a moron attempting to hinder the firefighter in his duties?

Mr Evans, who uses a wheelchair and mobility buggy... 

 Ah.

....had been at the scene of the fire in Hardings Pit. A video filmed by Mr Evans, a self-styled journalist, showed the pair get into an argument over his presence at the scene. The self-proclaimed 'auditing' content creator can he heard saying 'I'm press, mate' and that he was 'legally allowed to do it' as the fire chief approached him. Mr Linden told him that he was 'putting himself in danger' and urged him to leave.

And when he didn't listen and continued shoving his phone in the fireman's face regardless, he did what anyone harrassed by these idiotic 'auditors' would do,  

At an employment tribunal last month, Mr Linden - who had served for 32 years - argued he had been unfairly dismissed by Norfolk Fire Service.

Employment Judge Andrew Spencer said: 'In recent years, [Mr Linden] and his work colleagues have had to deal with self-proclaimed social media 'auditors'.

'These individuals attend sites and public spaces to film emergency workers, often uploading the content to social media platforms.

'Some aim to generate online content by behaving aggressively and obstructively, seeking to capture negative responses with a view to posting this online.

'It is possible to monetise the results through social media channels such as YouTube.'

 And just because this fat fuck was also a cripple the fire brigade higherups took his side, more concerned at the image than of the trouble he caused the firemen. Do they not realise if it had gone to court, a jury would have likrely said 'serves the little bugger right' and acquitted?

Judge Spencer found there were procedural failures during the investigation that led to Mr Linden being unfairly dismissed. He said the investigation needed to be more 'rigorous' for a potentially 'career-ending decision'.

Yes, and it should also have been fait. But it wasn't: 

Judge Spencer said that the police fire chief had directed Mr Rowe not to interview members of the crew, who could have been witnesses to the incident. The judge said: 'This was inappropriate - it amounted to a clear instruction to Mr Rowe not to interview potential witnesses to take statements from them. 'It sought to restrict the scope of the investigation. Mr Rowe complied with this. He did not interview the witnesses or take formal statements from them. 'It was inappropriate for the chief fire officer to be giving that instruction and to interfere with the scope of the investigation.'

What brings more opprobium on the fire brigade - a fireman who acts as anyone else would do when faced with a harassing nuisance, or corrupt fire brigade bosses who seek to oust someone by these methods because they know they are the ones in the wrong? 

If Only We The Public Could Make Such A Request...

 ...and have it immediately honoured by the State, by having him deported.

A psychiatrist who treated Axel Rudakubana asked to stop being his doctor because she did not feel safe around his "intimidating and disrespectful" dad. Dr Lakshmi Ramasubramanian, a highly experienced consultant psychiatrist at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust who treated the Southport killer between July 2021 and June 2022, said she requested to stop being his doctor following an "unprecedented incident".

You'll note that absolutely no consequences accrued to him for this behaviour.  

Dr Ramasubramanian said during an appointment on May 23, 2022 Rudakubana's dad Alphonse was "intimidating and disrespectful". The doctor did not confirm the details of what happened during the meeting, but added: "This was the very first time in my entire career as a doctor where I have had to request a change of psychiatrist because of how I was made to feel by a parent.

"It is quite unprecedented in my opinion and I vividly remember the level of distress I went through at the end of the appointment."

Yes, she's the real victim here, not the three little girls the bastards' spawn murdered. God, I'd be ashamed to say something like this. 

The decision was made by the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to move Rudakubana's care to a male psychiatrist because Dr Ramasubramanian did not feel safe to work with the family.

Was a referral to the police never sought?  

The ongoing inquiry is examining his contact with state agencies including the police, schools and social services to see if there were missed opportunities to prevent the attack.

Waste of time - yes, there were, we all know it, and we all know why, because of the softly softly approach to ethnic minority crime and threat evidenced here.

Don't Let The MSM Gaslight You!

 Anyone who doesn't read social media, but just the newspapers, will be reading about the murderous ranmpage of an Afghan asylum seeker in the papers today, or watching on BBC news and will read what they want you to hear:

They make it sound as if he was just accidentally injured in a melee. Which I initially thought was the case. Reader, he was not (watch with caution):

WARNING: GRAPHIC

But spam it all over Owen Jones/James O'Brien/Zarah Sultana's etc. timelines

It's these people that call YOU racist for not wanting these SAVAGES on our streets https://t.co/zRrP56KZOk

— Leftwaffen-Watch ⬜️ (@LeftwaffenWatch) October 28, 2025

This is no doubt the 'sensitive footage' that the fucking useless Met Police don't want anyone seeing, so they can maintain the fiction that the streets are safe from these Third World imported savages: 

I make no apology for linking to the true events here, horrible as they are, because to allow the MSM to characterise this murderous savagery as they do is to live in the world Mark Twain waned us about: 

 

The Same Old Familiar Story...

A knife-obsessed teenager who stabbed another boy to death was unmasked yesterday after a judge locked him up for at least 16 years.

And in a revelation that will surprise absolutely no-one.... 

Mohammed Umar Khan, 15, was named as the killer of Harvey Willgoose, also 15.

'Wow, what a shocker!' said no-one who reads the news... 

Mrs Justice Ellenbogen yesterday lifted a reporting restriction which had prevented the defendant being named. She accepted arguments from the Press that lifting the restrictions would act as a deterrent to potential offenders while increasing public understanding of the scourge of knife crime.

We understand it all too well, Judge, we understand that blustering about strict penalties for knife crime from the Home Sec is always hot air, because in court, when the rubber meets the road, you and your colleagues go softly-softly. 

It can also now be disclosed that Khan, referred to as Umar throughout the trial, was born and raised in Sheffield – hailing from a Pakistani family.

He was in the same year as Harvey, but had only met him the previous September, when he joined All Saints after leaving his previous school because of bullying.

They always have a poor record, these killer kids. Always. And even when the school authorities want to take action, they are often thwarted by others.

He described a difficult home life during his evidence, claiming his mother had mental issues and his father – who was often in Pakistan and absent from the family home – would beat him for minor indiscretions.

Pity he didn't go too far one day, like so many others in these disfunctional families. It would have afforded Harvey the protection so lacking from the State's minions. 

Social services visited the family in December last year after concerns were reported to them that Khan and his siblings were not being fed properly. The referral stated that the children looked skinny and malnourished, did not own pyjamas and had no sheets on their beds. But, after a visit to the family home, social services concluded no further action was required.

They probably concluded that before they ever rang the doorbell... 

In December last year, his mother found an axe in his gym bag and told the school, which called the police. He was then visited by a police officer who warned him about the dangers of carrying weapons. He insisted that the axe was not his.

That's what police do these days - warn. Never act. 

I Already Have A 'Pussy Pass' Tag...

...do I need a 'pony pass' tag now too?

A horse-riding instructor who had a threesome with an underage girl has been jailed for five years while his showjumper girlfriend who also took part has avoided prison. Guy Simmonds, 37, from Monmouthshire, had sexual intercourse with his partner, Lauren Jarvis, 26, and the 15-year-old girl in January last year. Jarvis willingly took part and touched the victim sexually, and afterwards the pair agreed to keep quiet about it.

Then why on earth was she shown such leniency? 

Jarvis was handed a 12-month prison sentence suspended for a year and ordered to complete 15 days of rehabilitation work. She was also placed on the sexual offenders register for 10 years and given a restraining order of five years.

She must have had a solid defence! 

Julia Cox, representing Jarvis, said pre-sentence reports had identified her client as being susceptible to 'suggestibility and pressure' and due to her low intelligence was incapable of living on her own.

Oh, or not! 

'Without that influence and direction as far as Lauren Jarvis is concerned, that offending would not have happened,' she said. 'The pre-sentence report author identifies the vulnerabilities of Lauren Jarvis to manipulation by others and exploitation.

Ah yes, without the man she wouldn’t have been steered wrong! 

Miss Cox urged the court to impose a suspended sentence, adding: 'There will be a detrimental impact upon her family, particularly her mother.'

Well, so what? Doesn’t Guy also have a mother? 

And Exactly Who Are 'Those Who Seek To Divide Us'?

Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv say they will not accept any ticket allocation from Aston Villa should the decision to ban their supporters from next month's Europa League match be overturned.

They must be taking Oscar Wilde's advice and who can blame them? 

A government spokesperson said: "We are deeply saddened Maccabi Tel Aviv have turned down their away fan allocation but we respect their right to do so." They added it was "completely unacceptable" that the match has been "weaponised to stoke violence and fear by those who seek to divide us".

Who was threatening violence then, chum? Who is this mysterious 'those' and why don't you simply tell the cops to crack dowwn on them? 

Nandy said the matter was wider than matchday security, adding it came "against the backdrop of rising antisemitism here and across the world, and an attack on a synagogue in Manchester in which two innocent men were killed".

One of them by your undisciplined armed officers... 

If She Hadn't Topped Herself, No Doubt?

Because she can hardly speak for herself now, can she?

Ms Wallace said: "I can speak for Virginia; I know that she would view it as a victory that he was forced, by whatever means, to voluntarily give them up."

If you're forced to do something, then it isn't voluntary at all. Don't words matter anymore? 

She added: "Prince Andrew was on at least one of those jets that I know of, if not more.

Proving he was in one of the jets is not the same as proving he was in one of the underage girls, now, is it? 

"He has to take sort of the measure of his own moral compass - he said in his settlement with Virginia that he now acknowledges the pain that these women and young girls had suffered. If you really feel it, do something about it."

 Do what? He 's given them a settlement, that was 'doing something about it'.

Conservative MP Jenrick also said Prince Andrew should "leave public life forever" and "lead an entirely private life" 

 He's a Prince and he always will be. It's not a title that can ever be stripped away, it's his by right of birth.

"He has to make his own decisions as to what he feels he should do, but I think that he has behaved disgracefully," Jenrick told the BBC 

"The public are sick of Prince Andrew and the damage that he's done to the reputation of our Royal Family and this country."

And who are you to speak for the country? You're just another failed politician, and they are legion. 

Ouch!

Ouch! Matt can be very cutting, can't he Reader..?

Sunday Funnies...

 Personally, the idea of a  'themed' edition of a sitcom is a scary enough concept, surely? 

Beyond Belief

Karam Abdulkarim-Mohamed, 30, called the guards 'motherf******' after they stopped him at Reading railway station in January. He punched one man twice in the head and spat at the other. Months later, Abdulkarim-Mohamed – who left 'very big problems' in Sudan and now lives at Bournemouth's controversial Roundhouse Hotel – attacked a woman during a separate incident in the seaside town.

 Left them to cause the same in the UK, I presume?

After being set upon by a group of teenagers, he pulled out a pocket knife and waved it at them, then lashed out at three strangers who tried to intervene, striking one woman on the arm. He was arrested for assault, carrying a knife and carrying cocaine.

He seems to have a lot of disposable income for one of those destitute, unfairly-prevented-from-employment that the left wing commentstors are always taking out a hankie for, doesn't he? 

Abdulkarim-Mohamed, whose legal status remains unclear, appeared at Poole Magistrates' Court for sentencing wearing a pair of Nike Air Jordan 4 trainers, which usually retail at £300.

And the great British justice system dealt with him as you'd expect them to... 

He walked out of court, having been given a 16-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay compensation to his victims.

Perhaps they rightly conjectured there'd be little point in sending him to jail? 

He had been studying at a college in London for a period but has been staying at the Roundhouse Hotel, taken over by the Home Office in Bournemouth, for about nine months, and doesn't receive any income from the state.

So where's get get the money to spend on designer trainers and cocaine from? Perhaps HMRC should take up the case, they probably have more teeth? 

His probation officer told the court that sending him to prison would have an impact on his mental health.

So what? 

Defence lawyer James Moore said his client had no money to pay a fine, had never been in trouble before, and was remorseful. He described the knife as a small blade used to cut nails.

Yeah, James, they can kill you just as dead as the large ones, you know... 

With Such Titans Of Law Enforcement On The Case, I'm Sure It Won't Be Long....

 ...before he's safely back behind bars: 

Lammy said officers from the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP) and Essex Police were working together to trace Kebatu, who was jailed for 12 months in September.

Oh, maybe not... 

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said the release was a "level of incompetence that beggars belief".

Not really, Kemi, We're pretty used to it now. I'm sure no-one was even really all that shocked to hear it. I certainly wasn't 

The Prison Service has removed an officer from discharging duties while an investigation takes place.

Want to bet he won't be fired?  

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: "He is now walking the streets of Essex. Britain is broken."

Indeed it is, Nigel, indeed it is... 

Man Up, Juan!

Helicopter footage of the near-30-minute chase was being broadcast on KCBS-TV when the suspect was shown emerging from a van in the Mount Washington neighborhood in an apparent attempt to flee. The man is seen hopping over a divider on the 110 Freeway before a car in the opposing lane speeds by, striking him as the camera had zoomed in.

And modern day male news anchors aren't made of The Right Stuff anymore, it seems... 

'Whoa, wow! Oh my god! Oh no! Oh no!' weekday anchor Juan Fernandez could be heard saying. 'Stay wide, stay wide, he got hit,' said assignment editor Mike Rogers, instructing the cameraperson to pull back.

Surely the possibility for this sort of thing exists with every live police chase? Well, not everyone lost their shit: 

The feed then cut to the studio, where Fernandez was shown with his mouth open and face frozen, with a hand on his cheek. His co-anchor, Suzie Suh, kept her composure to speak to viewers. 'We just saw the person who was being pursued get out of their car and actually get hit by another speeding car,' she said.

The only thing she did wrong was not to look at the camera, shrug, and say 'Shit happens!'... 

Animal control were also called to the scene to remove a dog from the inside the van, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

If the dog had got out and been run over, Pussy Juan's reaction might have been a little more understandable. 

More Troublesome And Dangerous Than Her Mutt....

...unforunately, police couldn't shoot her as well:

A woman insisted that her XL Bully was friendly despite it wreaking havoc on a street and attacking a woman before being shot dead by police. Sophie Zaherali said her dog Ghost was not dangerous and claimed officers wrongfully killed him on Saturday, December 7, 2024.

And she didn't simply confine herself to organising a chavprotest on social media like all the other pitmommies, oh dear me no.... 

The force said officers shot the dog after he ran towards them 'to end and mitigate the risk it posed to the public'. After her hound was shot, Zaherali then posted photographs on social media 'in an attempt to identify the firearms officer involved'. As a result, she was charged with sending by public communication network an offensive/indecent/obscene/menacing message/matter.

Her and her followers have been trumpeting their demands all over Facebook, declaring their desire to get 'justice for Ghost' and latching on to any other mauling case to elicit support from the smoothbrains that revere these killer mutts as 'family pets': 

Firearms Inspector Steve Usher said: 'Dogs are the responsibility of their owners, and they are the ones who will be held responsible for their animal's actions.

'Sadly, in South Yorkshire, our officers have witnessed and attempted to save the lives of people mauled by their own animals. Everyone's safety will always be our priority.'

Stop being so apologetic - you did what was needed and no-one can fault you for it. Ignore these idiots, man up, and do it every time you come across one of these things out of control in a public place.  

Zaherali will appear before the same court on December 16 for sentencing.

She deserves jail time, but in the UK as it stands, she probably won’t see any. 

A Guardian Columnist’s Adventures In The Wild…

.... and it’s pretty much as you’d expect.

At the weekend, I took the well-worn journey from London to Knowsley in Merseyside. I’ve made this trip so many times that I can execute it with military precision, arriving just in time before the train doors close, even with a toddler in tow this time around. My uncle picked us up from the station and as we turned on to the motorway, I saw St George’s flags hanging over us from the sides of bridges. Union jacks circled the roundabout just before we turned off to go to my auntie’s house. Knowsley is Labour’s fourth-safest seat in the UK, but it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency.

Get used to it love, everywhere's going to look like this... 

Someone nearby scrolled through TikTok and stated that the far-right protest in London had 3 million attenders. (Police estimates have put the figure between 110,000 and 150,000.)

For the rest of the weekend, out and about, I asked questions. What did people make of the news? What did they think about what the protesters had to say? Would they vote Reform UK? I wasn’t doing thorough research, and my results wouldn’t stand up in any peer-reviewed study, but I was trying to get a snapshot of a place before it changed beyond my recognition.

And what did you find? Rampent Right Wing attitudes, perhaps? 

I heard two arguments again and again. People were opposed to the boats on a principle of “fairness” that was limited to national boundaries. Some said that they had worked and paid taxes all their lives, and it was therefore unfair that someone who had never worked or paid taxes in Britain should have accommodation and financial support and be able to access the NHS. They felt the UK should get its own house in order before helping others. The second argument was new: the people coming in small boats are young men who pose a threat to British women.

Oh. Well, no, then, just normal people with perfectly normal concerns. That must have been a shock for you. 

Knowsley has never been immune to the everyday racism experienced across the UK – or even its violent outbursts, as with the murder of Anthony Walker in 2005 – but never before have racist talking points been repeated so persistently. The trope about women was straight out of the far-right playbook, post-Rochdale, and has been circulating in Knowsley for the past two years.

They aren't 'racist talking points', though, are they? There’s nothing racist about being concerned at the pace and volume of immigration, nor at the cultures that we are forced to accommodate.

People in Knowsley are right to want more support. The borough is the second most income-deprived area in England. Over a quarter of working-age adults are economically inactive. It has the lowest GCSE pass rate in the country. Men and women have a healthy life expectancy of around 54 years old. Town centres remain more or less empty following the building of “megamarkets”. As with the rest of the country, people check their bank balances with a sense of dread as prices continue to rise.

And there's no sign of it letting up, with Rachel From Complaints in the driving seat..... 

I asked people what they thought of Keir Starmer. “What has he done? He’s gone after pensioners.” And Farage? “Well, he’s a bit different.” In the absence of any meaningful change or any narrative to grasp on to, the right and Reform UK have shaped the story. One all too easy to believe.

I notice she didn’t ask them about the Green Messiah…. 

I also visited family in the better off – and more diverse – seat of Liverpool Wavertree. Waiting in line for a coffee, I had a chat, and heard that migrants are not to blame for austerity, privatisation and the extraction of money from our local communities into far-off bank balances. Violence against women and girls is a male, not a migrant problem.

Then how can importing thousands of single males from cultures that don’t respect women possibly help? 

Well, It Is A Dead Language

A bereaved woman has said her fight to get a death certificate in Welsh following the loss of her husband had been frustrating, emotional and draining. Afryl Davies, from Cardiff, is calling for the right for birth, marriage and death certificates to be issued bilingually "in honour" of her husband Aled Glynne Davies.

Well, it’s a Labour stronghold so wasting money on minority issues is only to be expected, I guess… 

Cardiff West MP Alex Barros-Curtis is pushing to get a law passed that would also make certificates issued in Wales bilingual by default, as well as giving people in England the choice. Mrs Davies said the change was important for her and her family, as well as "everybody in Wales or beyond".

Remind me again just how small the percentage of Welsh speakers is? 

"He was very passionate about taking the Welsh language to everybody in Wales. That was his mission... that the Welsh language belonged to everybody," she said.

If that’s the case, surely they have the right to say ‘No thanks’ in English? 

The e–Bogeyman Again

Children in the UK should be offered the same protection from voracious social media companies that the Danish government has committed to providing (Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’, 7 October) so that we can put a stop to the immense damage they are wreaking.

What 'damage' ? And if there is any, is it not offset by the good they are doing in keeping children enytertained and in touch? No tool, after all, is ever single purpose...

...we are not alone in wanting action – 70% of the UK public believe that social media companies are robbing children and young people of their childhoods, and want to see the digital age of consent raised from 13 to 16.

70% of the UK public believe all sorts of crazy things, like reality shows being worthehile tv, and Roger Moore being the best Bond. Can we have an example of of what these phones are allegedly doing? And perhaps why it isn't up to parents to choose?  

From disrupted sleep and shorter attention spans to reduced social skills and exposure to radicalised and extreme views, children and young people are being exploited by big tech executives who are making billions as a result.

Ah, I see - all the usual teenage things are blamed on a device so mumsie and popsie (if that latter exists in their life) can have a pop at capitalism. No doubt signing up to this on their own fondleslab, the hypocrites! 

We are calling on our government to raise the age of access to social media to 16, create space on the school curriculum to teach digital literacy, and introduce a windfall tax on social media companies to pay for mental health services that go some way to undoing the damage they have inflicted on children and young people in this country.

No do the Covid lockdown and unrestricted immigration. 

Well, Now He Knows Exactly How They Utterly Fail Those Challenges...

...coulld just have guessed that though, give he was dealing with the useless Met Police:

A Jewish lawyer was questioned by police after wearing a Star of David necklace which officers claimed 'antagonised' pro-Palestine supporters during a demonstration. 

He claims to have been acting as an independent spectator, watching the protest for illegal behaviour by participants and to observe how police responded to challenges on the ground.

Mission accomplished, chum!  

In a statement, police said the man was not arrested for wearing the necklace, but that he had allegedly 'continuously approached the area' allocated to the pro-Palestinian protestors on the evening, which in turn provoked a reaction.

And the fact that the Pally supporters response to the presence of a Jewish man near them was to 'react' bothered them not a jot, of course... 

 The man's defence labelled the officer's statements as 'ignorant' and said he had a 'great deal of concern' with the line of questioning.

As do we all... 

The detective said he did not want to offend by asking the question, adding that it was not a question about the man wearing the Star of David generally but in a 'very niche environment where tensions are high'. He then said that he did not want 'this to become a political debate in an interview'.

This is the calibre of man being appointed as a detective in the Mey Police? 

They rely on the old 'public order' bollocks, of course.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman told the Daily Mail: 'The man told officers he was acting as a legal observer, but his actions are alleged to have gone beyond observing to provoking and as such, actively participating as a protester.

'Over the course of an hour, the man is alleged to have continuously approached the area allocated to IJAN, getting very close to protesters to film them and in doing so provoking a reaction.

'Officers had to intervene on at least four occasions to ask the man to return to the Stop the Hate area as required by the conditions.

'When he failed to do so after multiple warnings, he was arrested. He was subsequently released on bail and the investigation continues.'

The investigation into what, exactly? Whether he's a habitual jewelley wearer? 

There's No Place In The NHS For These People....

An NHS doctor facing claims of antisemitism and Holocaust denial openly called for Jihad on the streets of London and described armed Palestinian fighters as 'heroes'.

We are continually told how the wretched NHS needs foreign workers but seriously, is this the best we can do? 

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a trauma and orthopaedics doctor, has come under investigation over several 'dangerous' social media posts littered with praise for terrorist organisation Hamas and previously said she would 'never condemn' the October 7 attack. She also once described a hospital in north London as a 'Jewish supremacy cesspit'.

Why oh why is she still employed?

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled last month that no suspension was necessary because her posts did not amount to 'bullying or harassment'.

🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ 

But following criticism over the decision by Health Secretary Wes Streeting, the General Medical Council has referred the case back to the MPTS, with a new hearing set for October 23. Now footage has emerged of Dr Aladwan openly showing her support for Jihadist fighters, as one peer and former MP told Daily Mail the GMC must 'get a grip' and suspend her.

And then deport her. 

Last night, concerned advocates called on the GMC to address the 'shameful state of affairs' and urged Met Police to investigate why Dr Aladwan was allowed to freely support armed Palestinian resistance in a public space.

Because the Met Police too are thoroughly captured by the Left and their creatures! 

Last night, Met Police said in a statement it would review why there had been no intervention by officers at the time of the protest, as well as reviewing the material to 'establish whether any offences have been committed.'

I already know - you're terrified of halting these people and treating them like the embedded filth column they are. No, not a typo.

A spokesperson said: 'We can understand why the comments made in this video are a cause of significant concern.

'While the Crown Prosecution Service has previously determined that similar language used at protests did not cross the threshold into a criminal offence, each incident is specific and we would expect officers to intervene and take action so that an investigation can follow.

Ah, blame the Couldn't Prosecute Satan bunch... 

'We will be reviewing this incident to understand why that didn’t happen.

'Officers will also review the footage in its entirety to establish whether any offences have been committed, liaising with our CPS counterparts as necessary.'

Pathetic excuse - ‘Please sir, the CPS wouldn’t let us do anything, we really wanted to, honest!’ 

Not That Good A Disguise, Obviously

A rare spider described as a "master of disguise" has been sighted in Cornwall, an expert says.

QED.

Tylan Berry, county spider recorder for the British Arachnological Society, said the "nationally rare" lichen running spider was sighted at West Muchlarnick, a temperate rainforest site near Looe. The "amazing looking" creature with its "incredible colour and camouflage" is "incredibly difficult to spot", he said.

But you spotted this one just fine! So maybe they aren’t as rare as you’d imagined?

They reside in "scattered pockets" between Cornwall and Surrey in the south of Britain, and in the Caledonian pine forests in Scotland. He said: "There is no evidence of the spider living anywhere between these two hugely separated areas."

Or maybe you just aren’t seeing it? 

Well, You're The PM, What Do You Plan To Do About It?

Sir Keir Starmer called the move to block fans attending "wrong", adding "we will "not tolerate antisemitism on our streets", while there has also been criticism from other party leaders.

This is the decision to ban Israeli fans from attending a football match. Why? Well…  

On Thursday, Aston Villa said the city's Safety Advisory Group (SAG) - which advises the council on whether to issue safety certificates - decided that fans of the Israeli club should not be permitted to attend the Europa League fixture on 6 November.On Friday evening the government said it would do "everything in our power" to make sure all fans could attend the match, adding that it was exploring what additional resources were required.

Why would additional resources be required, I mean, over and above those for any other football match? Could it be that there’s a sizeable population here in the UK that can’t be expected to control themselves whern Jews are on the streets being openly Jewish? Apart from the Met Police, that is? 

We all know the real reason for this ban.  

On Thursday, West Midlands Police said it had classified the fixture as "high risk" based on current intelligence and previous incidents, including "violent clashes and hate crime offences" between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans before a match in Amsterdam in November 2024. More than 60 people were arrested over the violence, which city officials described as a "toxic combination of antisemitism, hooliganism, and anger" over the war in Gaza, Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East.

How many of those 60 people were Israeli fans? Or doesn’t that even matter to plod who want a quiet life? 

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the revelation left the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, with "serious questions to answer" about why her department did "nothing" to avert the ban. She said: "This is a weak government that fails to act when required."

Well, you should know, I guess, Kemi.... 

A source close to Mahmood told the BBC that "this is categorically untrue".

Then call your dogs to heel. Unless secretly, you agree with the action they've taken. 

So A Typical XL Bully Owner, PC Croft?

An American XL bully owner will have her dog destroyed after it escaped and attacked a member of the public and their dog. Rosa Tennant, 32, received a warning after her exempted XL Bully escaped from her property in Little Somerford, near Malmesbury in July 2024.

A warning. Wow, she must have been shaking in her shoes. 

Or not… 

But in November the same year, the XL Bully escaped without a lead, collar or muzzle and attacked a member of the public and his spaniel. Wiltshire Police said the attack has left the owner and dog with physical injuries which still remain almost a year later.

PC Paul Croft, from Wiltshire Police's Dangerous Dogs team, said: "During the process, Tennant showed a complete lack of remorse and took no accountability for allowing her dog to escape and attack a member of the public and their dog."

They never do, PC Croft. So maybe allowing them any leeway the first time their bloodsport mutt bites someone is a mistake? 

Following the attack, the XL bully was seized and taken to secure kennels. The dog will be humanely put to sleep.

Should have shot the thing then and there! 

During the investigation, Wiltshire Police established that Tennant had breached the Defra certificate of exemption conditions despite being warned previously by officers that her gate was not sufficient to secure the dog. She had also failed to report the attack to police. Tennant was charged and pleaded guilty to being the owner of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury.

And is her punishment appropriate? Not at all, Reader, I’m sure you’ll be astounded to hear! 

Tennant was sentenced on 03 October to 120 hours of unpaid work. She will also have to pay £477 in compensation and £1,500 of kennel fees.

A fraction of the real cost of managing these people and their misbegotten ‘pets’… 

I'm Laughing...

 ...but frankly, Matt, it feels a lot like whistling past the graveyard.

Sunday Funnies...

 At this point, I just assume they all get it wrong! It saves time...

Yes, There Is A Solution – A Cull

In all, there were 31,920 dog attacks on people recorded in England and Wales in 2024 - a 2% increase on 2023, according to Freedom of Information figures obtained from police forces. And this may not even show the full picture, as three police forces did not provide useable data. All this is despite the XL bully ban that came into force in February 2024.

Because the ban should have been a cull of those wretched breeds, but despite the slant of this article, it hasn’t been totally useless:  

Vivien Lees is the anomaly. She works as a plastic surgeon in Manchester and is one of the only people we spoke to who believes the current system is working. Some of her patients are victims of bad dog attacks. Speaking about the XL bully ban back in April, she said: "We're still seeing serious injuries but some of the worst ones have been less common".

And most of the latest victims have been the friends and relatives of the lunatics that want these mutts, so, there’s that! 

The same thing happened, she said, when the original Dangerous Dogs Act (that banned four other dogs) was introduced back in 1991.

But many others we spoke to believe the law itself is flawed - not only the XL bully ban but the original 1991 law too.

Of course they do.  

The former Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote in a newspaper column, after leaving office, that the original Dangerous Dogs Act had been "rushed through Parliament and has gone down as a model of atrocious legislation". "By trying to outlaw types of dogs, rather than the actions of dog owners and dog breeders, the Act ushered in a nightmare world of pseudo-scientific dog eugenics, where officials would use calipers to measure parts of the dog's anatomy to determine the breed," Johnson argued.

Anything the fat useless blowhard says after leaving office can be ignored. If only we'd ignored him when he was in it. 

Certainly, some of the criticisms of the original law apply equally to the amendment that covers XL bullies - including the point of the view that the most irresponsible owners don't bother to comply with it.

And most useless police farces don’t bother enforcing it or acting on complaints. It's a factor of almost every one of these incidents. 

Thousands of pitbull terriers, banned under the original act, are still in the UK. Even while writing this article, we saw a sizeable XL-type dog being taken on a walk in Leeds city centre, its muzzle pointlessly dangling off its collar despite this being one of the requirements of it being out in public.

And did you alert the police? No? Why not? 

The Worst Thing I Ever Saw On The Internet…

...and the wheels of justice finally grind over the utter scum responsible for it:

The family of a dad killed by XL Bully dogs in a horrific Staffordshire street attack have praised ‘hero’ passers-by who tried to save him.

Their pitifully ineffectual attempts, being both mostly elderly and unaccustomed to - not to mention unequipped for -  the kind of violence needed to deal with an animal attack of this nature, are seared on my mind. I wish I could unsee that short video clip that did the rounds on that day and yet in a way, I wish it was playing on every big screen in the land, so everyone can see what the lax legislation and enforcement regarding ownership of these fearome mutts can lead to.

James Harrison Trimble-Pettitt has now admitted of being the owner of two dogs which when dangerously out of control caused the death of Ian Price.

How did he ever think he could escape it?  

The 32-year-old had fought his culpability on the basis of the dogs escape ‘being due to a momentary lapse in concentration’. But he dropped that argument at trial held, at Stafford Crown Court on Tuesday (October 14).

A 'pet' that you have to exercise the kind of control I will have to exercise in my 'Jurassic World Evolution 3' PC game when it arrives so as not to have disaster unfold is not a 'pet' at all, and is utterly unsuitable for anyone to keep in a domestic setting. 

The police who turned up too late to help and did little beforehand when the mutts were a known menace in the neighbourhood escape any consequences, as usual, even being praised by the dead man's family, something as inexplicable to me as the fact that people are alloewed to keep these things in the first place.

Of the dogs involved in the attack, one died during the incident after being restrained, and another was destroyed via lethal injection by a vet inside the owner's home.

Both should have been gunned down in the street by the armed cops who attended the scene to parade uselessly up and down a cordon.. 

Trimble-Pettit will be sentenced on January 5.

He needs to be made an example of - he should see the same sentence as if he'd murdered Ian Price with a weapon - because that's exactly what he did. 

I Suspect A More Accurate Headline....

 ...would be 'Home Office Has Only 12 Staff Assigned To It's 'One in One Out' Returns Deal'. How much actual work they are doing remains opaque.

But Martin Hewitt admitted to the Commons home affairs select committee the small size of the team dedicated to working on the deal, The Times reports. He emphasised to MPs 'a whole host of other people' are involved in the process too. The official pointed to staff who process migrants selected for removal at the Manston centre in Kent. He also noted those at the immigration detention centre at Heathrow, where migrants are held before deportation to France. And overall, more than 5,000 civil servants in the Home Office and National Crime Agency (NCA) are working on the small boats crisis.

And it's clearly not enough - it's likr trying to bail out a leaky boat with a sieve. But until the government wises up and clamps down on the pull factor, it'll have to do. 

He also told the committee of his frustration that the scheme has been beset by other difficulties too. The official said bureaucratic and legal difficulties have prevented French police officers starting to intercept small boats up to 300m from the coast. He explained the force is still being given specialist training to make sure they are not liable for any deaths which happen in the process.

Perhaps that 'specialist training' needs to be given to NHS staff too? 

Why Do You Stay In An Abusing Relationship?

I mean, surely your training should tell you to get out fast, shouldn't it?

Thank you for continuing to highlight the concerns about the Samaritans charity (Samaritans to push on with branch closures despite volunteers’ objections, 1 October). I am a volunteer in the north-east of England and I and many of our volunteers have felt very unhappy about the proposed changes.

Those 'proposed changes ' being closing premises and expecting volunteers to work from home, unsupported by colleagues when they have a tough day at work. Probably the only organisation pusuing this, when all the others are trying to row back from it and get staff back into the office. 

It is really rewarding being a Samaritan, but can also be very challenging. Volunteers need a high degree of motivation, and this has inevitably been affected by the proposals.

Well, you are volunnteers - stop volunteering.  

Interestingly, in 2021 our chair, Keith Leslie, published A Question of Leadership, which is about leading organisational change. According to the Amazon description of this publication “60% to 70% of change initiatives fail”, caused by the leader’s “inability to fully consider the consequences and magnitude of the situation”. Also it states that change initiatives often overlook the mental health of those involved. I haven’t read this book, but I really can’t understand how its author could consider continuing as our chair when the leadership has run roughshod over the charity’s very core: the volunteers.

Gosh, a 'do as we tell you, not as we do' head of an organisation, who could see that one coming?

I am sure that most volunteers realise that change is inevitable and important. The drastic measures initially proposed do not take into account the dedication, loyalty and hard work that it takes to keep us all going.

We still have no details of the new proposals, but a kinder and more inclusive approach would be greatly appreciated.

Well, don't just whine about it - dig deep and tell yourself what you should tell those on the other end of the phone being bullied and disrespected - pull out, stop co-operating and leave. 

Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud...

A suspended Labour MP said her 'stomach churned' when she saw colleagues wave English flags - describing them as just 'tatty bits of cloth'.

 Another white middle aged middle class woman…🙄

Rachael Maskell was elected to serve the York Central constituency but had the whip removed this year after rebelling against Sir Keir Starmer's welfare cuts.

Ms Maskell told The Sun she is trying to 'build unity and not division' after alleged racist incidents in York.

Funny way to go about it - Do you need to look up those concepts, love? 

Here you go....

No Real Surprises Here...

A [redacted] [redacted] Police officer has been accused of running a mobile spray tanning firm while claiming mental health issues stopped [redacted] from coming to work.

What’s missing? Glad you asked, Reader. Nothing that will surprise anyone:

A female Metropolitan Police officer has been accused of running a mobile spray tanning firm while claiming mental health issues stopped her from coming to work.

The Met have said if the allegations are proven, it would amount to gross misconduct and she could be dismissed from her post.

But only 'could'. Perhaps if PC Jennifer Stowers is lucky enough to belong to an identity group, she'll escape dismissal. 

Gaslighting Is Normal Now In The MSM

It's not confined to nonsense like 'she exposed her penis', oh, dear me no...

The mayor was taken to Bochum hospital, where Stalzer was found to have 13 stab wounds to the upper body as well as multiple hematomas and skull fractures. Despite her extensive injuries, the SPD politician survived the ordeal and was questioned by police - revealing that her life-threating condition was caused by her own child.

No, Reader, not true - she has no children. But like so many middle class white female leftwingers afflicted with suicidal empathy, she adopted two. Both foreigners.

Police initially arrested both children but the pair have been released after the public prosecutor's office decided it would not pursue an attempted homicide charge, downgrading the crime to the German equivalent of grievous bodily harm.

Whut!? 

The 17-year-old's calling the emergency services is considered a 'resignation from the crime' and because neither child is considered at risk of fleeing, they will not be arrested.

Germany is doomed, isn't it? 

About Those 'Untouchable' Black Fare Evaders In London ...

We all know the ones. Wondering why nothing is ever done about it, as you and your fellow commuters pay ever higher fares to TfL year on year? Wonder no more.

The girl and her friend were seen pushing through the barriers after a station employee refused to let them pass for free.

A station employee no doubt of the same ethnic origin? 

An Independent Office for Police Conduct spokesperson said: “The court heard that on 22 September 2024, BTP officers responded to a request for assistance from railway staff after a child pushed their way through ticket barriers at Camden Road overground station.

And that was a mistake, because they weren’t thanked for it.

“After PC Young approached the child, CCTV footage showed the officer restraining her by placing her in a headlock. The child remained in a headlock for approximately 30 seconds before PC Young pushed her back through the ticket barrier and placed his hand around her throat while pushing her up against a ticket machine.

“PC Young handcuffed and arrested the child, and she was later de-arrested at the scene.”

Why? Well, one can only wonder. 

PC Young will also face a gross misconduct hearing for breaching the police standards of professional behaviour and is due to be sentenced on 13 November.

This is a disgrace. 

Clues...

Harry Pitman, 16, died in front of revellers who had gathered to celebrate on December 31, 2023. He was allegedly attacked by Areece Lloyd-Hall, now 18, who had brought a knife with him to the scene.

Lots of photos of the victim, none of the alleged perpetrator, of course. But any clues to what we are dealing with here? 

As Lloyd-Hall approached Harry, he was allegedly holding his trousers and saying 'wot wot wot wot wot'. Amid the scuffle, Lloyd-Hall appeared to swing his right hand down on Harry's shoulder, the court was told.A knife glinted in the light and the sheaf (sic...it IS the 'Mail'!) flew off into the air, capturing the moment of the fatal stab wound.

Just before, a female voice was heard to shout 'mindi' - the Somali word for knife.

I’m getting a flavour here, for sure. And it seems this is a retrial. 

Police and paramedics administered first aid but the bleeding from Harry's neck wound was 'catastrophic and proved fatal', Ms Ledward said.

Lloyd-Hall, from Westminster, has denied murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter. Mr Justice Cavanagh told jurors in the retrial that Lloyd-Hall's defence would be that he thought the knife was covered by a sheath when he struck Harry and that he acted in self-defence or defence of others.

One to watch. 

We Know What It Means, Only Too Well

On Monday, I caught one of those ribbon-rippers in the act. Or should I say ribbon-snippers, because the young woman in front of me was mechanically cutting down the ribbons with a pair of dressmaking scissors. She had clearly come well-prepared that morning. Snip, snip, snip, she went, then stuffed the dangling pieces into her bag. It later transpired that this woman was called Nadia Yahlom, a 'Palestinian-Jewish artist' – I'm not sure what that means – who lives in the local area.

It means, as is so often in these cases, the British taxpayer, me, is unwittingkly bankrolling this antisemitic filth and her equally disgusting husband through our taxes. 

IDENTIFIED

The woman who cut down the yellow ribbons for the hostages in Muswell Hill yesterday has been identified as Nadia Yahalom-Switat (also known as Nadia Yahlom and Nadia Jaglom), an Arts and Humanities Research Council (@UKRI_News @ahrcpress)-funded PhD researcher at… pic.twitter.com/nLt4EIcIIs

— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) October 7, 2025

And as usual, when caught acting as their vile religion demands, the excuse is immediate; 'the Jews are behind it!' 

The husband of a North London woman who cut off yellow ribbons for Jewish hostages held captive in Gaza says he and his wife have been attacked by a group of people 'working for Mossad'.

Followed by the other usual tactic; claim victimhood. 

Meanwhile, a woman who said she was Ms Yahlom's mother told The Times that her daughter had been 'pounded by death threats' since the incident, including at her daughter's school and at university.

Well, there's one way to avoid death threats, and that's 'don't be the sort of evil, brainwashed anntisemitic bitch that destroys others' messages of hope', or if you must be that, be it in a Third World shithole, not Britain. 

Ignoring The Evidence....

Official figures have revealed that more infant deaths are linked to marriages between cousins than drug abuse during pregnancy. Data from the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) linked close relative marriages to the deaths or ill health of 72 infants younger than one-year-old in 2023/24. Meanwhile 27 deaths were linked to substance abuse during the pregnancy.

Well, that sounds like something the government should be taking a stand o...

 Silly me. But then, even the NHS sees fit to ignore it.

The fresh findings come just weeks after the NHS was blasted for releasing fresh guidance that claimed cousin marriage offers benefits such as 'stronger extended family support systems'.

Not if the family doesn't survive, surely? 

A Neat spin On Those Famous Wartime Posters...

 

...as well as the modern TfL ones. Back when we knew our enemy  and it wasn't already behind a desk in Whitehall. That's so Matt.

Sunday Funnies...

 Good you see us Limeys can still kill it on tv...

Self Control Is Free…

In theory, anyone struggling with obesity can - without the expense of a private doctor - get help to manage their weight. Only that's not the full picture.

Well, it wouldn't be, would it - here we go again with 'health equality'....

Thousands of NHS patients are believed to be missing out. And with the NHS tightly restricting access, some working in the field warn a two-tier system around weight-loss drugs is developing - one that's benefitting the most well-off.

 As if eating less and exercising more wasn't an almost totally free option.

"It's scary," says Brad, a tech company worker in his 40s. He has been taking Mounjaro for a year and worries he may not be able to afford to continue. "I've lost 20kg and want to keep using it, but it's a lot of money. It's unfair."

 Have you tried self-control, or is it just that you can't be bothered and would rather take a pill or a jab? 

Nutritionists and GPs I spoke to have also expressed concerns about the broader system, and in particular whether existing health inequalities could worsen. "We cannot allow good health to become a luxury for the wealthiest by limiting access to weight-loss drugs to those who can pay privately," argues Katharine Jenner, executive director of Obesity Health Alliance.

Isn't the Treasury on the hook for enough of the drug companies' moneyspinners, thanks to our profligate PM? 

Crime DOES Pay After All...

 Surely not? Oh, yes, Reader....

Danielle Longstaffe was spared prison last December because she was pregnant, after defrauding her firm out of huge sums.

'Pleading ones belly' is alive and well in 2025... 

At the time, Newcastle Crown Court heard the fraud was to the value of £370,000. Now, at a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing, it was said the benefit figure was £920,285.20p. Her "available amount" was £221,818,50, which she must pay back within three months or face two years in prison in default.

Why only part of it?  

At her sentencing hearing, the court heard she carried out the fraud because she was being chased by loan sharks.

Ah, because presumably they have the rest of it, and since loansharking isn't illegal, cannot be persued for it. 

A judge said he had to have regard to Longstaffe's unborn child while sentencing her and she avoided the prospect of having to give birth in prison when she got a suspended sentence.

Which will become a jail sentence when she fails to pay it back. Because we all know she will.  

It's As Sincere As Anything Else About Him...

The 29-year-old pleaded guilty in April to attempting to kill Kavanaugh in 2022. Boardman said: 'I believe Ms. Roske understands that what she did was terribly wrong. I find her remorse sincere.'

His remorse. When he attempted to kill his victim he was a man, and of course still is and always will be 

Roske's attorneys clarified that while her legal name is still Nicholas, Roske uses female pronouns and goes by the name Sophie. Boardman explained that she factored Roske's identity into her sentencing as well.

'She'? Yes, another white liberal female judge, betraying her sex and her profession  for the sake of a cosplaying man. 

 White liberal women are the absolute worst

How About 'No Thanks!'

Whether it is kombucha, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, or sourdough, today’s foodies are not short of fermented treats to tantalise their tastebuds. But for the adventurous, the menu may be about to get wilder. How about a spoonful of ant yoghurt?

🤢 

Making it does not involve milking any ants.

You don’t say? 

Instead, the unfortunate insects are dropped into a jar of warm milk, which is tucked into an ant mound and left to ferment overnight. The fermenting tradition originating from Turkey and Bulgaria is now being resurrected in the name of science.

Science? We know how to make yoghurt, where’s the need for any more methods? 

“Ants are a somewhat commonly used ingredient in high-end gastronomy in Copenhagen. They’re an ingredient chefs like to play with,” said Dr Leonie Jahn, a senior researcher at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Biosustainability in Lyngby, who supervised the project.

*Crosses Denmark off the holiday list*

As a keen “fermentista”, I found the urge to try making my own ant yoghurt hard to resist. Sinotte and colleagues advise against this: some ants can carry a parasite, a type of liver fluke that is harmful to humans. Plus, red wood ant numbers are declining across wide parts of Europe, making large-scale harvesting of the insect unsustainable.

Yum! At least if you eat fugu while in Japan, you know the chef has been trained not to kill you. 

Ants are not the only unusual ingredient historically used to make yoghurt. In Turkey and other countries, people have traditionally used plant material such as pinecones, chamomile and linden flowers, or nettle roots to kickstart yoghurt fermentations. Investigating these approaches could impart further textures or flavours – with the added benefit of leaving ants unharmed. Nettle yoghurt for breakfast, anyone?

Ill stick to cereal or if I’m at work, McDonald’s breakfast wrap. 

'Disturbing Photos'..? I'll Say!

Back to the death in a car crash of freed Dubai criminal Marcus Fakana, and as Penseivat said there in comments 'Perhaps more information will come out when it's discovered why the driver failed to stop?'. Well, all the police are saying at the moment is that the car was 'of interest', and when they came upon it:

We know this because when a patrol car spotted the BMW parked up on and pulled up, rather than cooperate, Mr Hussen put his foot down and sped off.

 But a trawl through his social media proved illuminating.

People who knew him showed the Daily Mail a disturbing photo which they say gives an insight into Marcus' associations with north London gangs.

 All his photos are pretty illuminating, actually, not just the one the ‘Mail’ has singled out.

They say the boy on the left with his hood up wearing a black balaclava covering his face and making a gang sign is Marcus. Next to him, perched on a kitchen counter in the picture, is a teenager called Tyler McDermott. Shortly after the photo was taken, Tyler, 17, a rapper who went by the name 'Trizz', was murdered outside a recording studio, shot in the head and sliced up with a machete as he lay bleeding on the floor. Trizz was said to belong to a drill rap group called WC8. His crime? He got into a row with a gang from south London at a party when one of the rival group objected to being filmed. Four men – Tyrese Barnett, 20, Leo Reid, 21, Rhys Antwi, 21 and 19-year-old Kalam Bagge – were convicted of his murder.

And then there’s this one: 

Reader, in how many of your 'photos with friends' are you both balaclava-clad? 

Mr Huseen appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates 24 hours earlier on Saturday. He will appear next on Monday, October 13, at the Old Bailey.

That should be an interesting day in court, eh? 

Cover Me! 'I Will Always Love You'

Whitney Houston's incomparable smash hit from 'The Bodyguard', one of the best films of the Eighties, and it's predecessor, Dolly Parton's original recording...

Can't You Resolve This Yourselves?

Stef Reid grew up as a sports-obsessed child, dreaming of playing rugby internationally. But on the eve of her 16th birthday, her life changed forever. Severe propeller lacerations from a horrific boat accident left doctors with no choice but to amputate her right foot.

I didn't want to give up on my goal just because I was an amputee, but life is constantly changing and we have to update our goals instead of forcing them to work in a reality that no longer exists," she says.

And by ‘update our goals’ she means whine about what companies choose to sell. 

Now she's campaigning for big brands such as Nike, Adidas and Puma to sell single shoes rather than pairs.

Surely that should be ‘as well as’ ? 

In part it's about cost - high-end running shoes cost around £200, and when she was competing she only needed one but had to buy two, meaning she wasted hundreds of pounds on shoes she never wore.

Well, maybe set up a swap with someone your size who needs the other one, and recoup some cost? 

But her biggest motivation - is the principle. Many of the big brands proudly display models with blades in their shop windows, but don't sell shoes individually for athletes like Stef.

Stef isn't alone. While she wears two shoes with her day-to-day prosthetic, many other amputees don't.

So she DOESN'T waste money on the other shoe after all!  

And beyond disability, thousands of people whose feet are different sizes are also affected by having to buy two shoes of the same size rather than two singles.

Oh, FFS! Why does the world always have to change things that have worked well for hundreds of years for every whinging minority? 

But I Bet All Their DEI Policies Were Spot On...

An investigation was launched and it emerged that there had been a catastrophic series of administrative errors. Ethan, who was studying geography, should actually have been awarded a 2:1.

This was the sad case of a student who, being told he’d failed in error, killed himself. And really, you have to wonder how someone so emotionally fragile was going to survive in the world as it is these days. 

But the further you read into it the worse the university’s behaviour seems… 

'How could no one have noticed?' asks his mother. 'How did no one care? 'Ethan fell through the cracks in this system and he can't be the only one.'

The coroner agrees:  

An internal report, written by Professor Jill Morrison, pinpointed where mistakes had been made. She concluded that this was a 'systemic' problem, rather than an error by an individual.

But the University tskes a cue from Politicians and Police these days; simply lie and deny. 

Glasgow University has since apologised to the family, saying: 'We are profoundly sorry that this terrible event occurred and understand the deep distress it has caused.' It also insisted that the error in relation to Ethan's marks was an 'isolated one and that no other students have been affected'.

Daring anyone to prove them wrong, which is remarkably easy: 

Tracy is outraged. 'Did they forget we have read the internal report? You don't need a degree to know that a 'systemic problem' is a big deal.' The report makes for devasting reading.

Sadly, this is wasted effort, because modern universities don't care about being competent at the business of running a university, it's no longer what they strive to be good at. Their administration may be shit, but their empty virtue signalling - the real purpose of many universities these days - is always spot on and has all the resources it needs to be on top of the 'job'. 

This Is Rightly Not The Role Of The Police

"We are still going through such a horrendous traumatic time and loss, and we're left alone to navigate it, and it's not OK." Mimi Conder is calling for mandatory police support for families whose loved ones take their own lives.

What!? Why? Well, Reader, because she found it all a bit difficult to cope at the time, and so SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS… 

She has started a petition calling for the introduction of Jason's Law, named after her late husband, so that bereaved families in cases similar to her own can benefit from the guidance of a family support officer (FLO). "I just feel like I couldn't grieve because I was so overwhelmed trying to understand what the processes were," she tells the BBC. Thames Valley Police currently employs FLOs to help explain criminal investigation processes to bereaved families, but this is not applicable in cases of suicide.

Because suicide is no longer a crime. It used to be, but our modern, enlightened society thought that was an outdated view. 

Mimi says she did not expect an FLO to be a "shoulder to cry on". Instead, the family's petition calls for trained officers to "ensure consistent support, communication, and guidance during investigations, inquests, and the immediate aftermath". "If I had someone there... then 100% I feel like I would have been able to process it a lot quicker than I did, or am still doing," she explains.

The police are a law enforcement agency, if a role like this is needed for people who are incapable of navigating the systems and organisations they need to deal with after a loved one commits suicide, it should be filled by another organisation, or charity. 

The government responds to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures.

But not always as you'd hope, so bear that in mind, Mimi...