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? 

This Isn't Just Any Male Pervert Wanting To Get His Hands On Your 14 Year Old Daughter...

....This is an M&S male pervert who feels entitled to put his hands all over your 14 year old daughter!

And you thought the worst thing M&S had ever done was those Christmas adverts with Dawn French! 

Marks & Spencer has apologised after a transgender employee approached a 14-year-old girl in the bra section and offered to help. The child's furious mother complained and said it was 'completely inappropriate' for her daughter to be approached by a 'biological male' in the lingerie section, where she was hoping to have a bra fitting.

So, did M&S train a man to perform bra fitting duty? They claim they didn’t!  

The retailer replied and said they were 'truly sorry' and 'deeply regret the distress your daughter felt during her visit to our store'. It added they took her concerns 'very seriously' and wish to make arrangements for a better experience in their next visit, including 'assistance from a female colleague'. An M&S spokesman said: 'We want our stores to be inclusive and welcoming places for our colleagues and customers. 'We have written to this customer and explained that our colleagues typically work across all departments in our stores and customers can always ask to speak to the colleague they feel most comfortable with.'

She didn’t get a chance - the man approached HER! So there are more red flags here than Red Square on Parade Day!

It is understood the employee works across the clothing section and does not carry out bra fittings.

Many respondents on Twitter have been surprised that they were approached, saying they’d had to hunt up an assistant when they needed one. And I concur; though I’ve never had a bra fitting in M&S I’ve shopped there often, and never been approached when needing help, I’ve always had to do the same. Which makes this incident worse, though - this being Scotland, Ayr to be precise - the police were dismissive and simply said all they had to do was refuse the help offered. Clearly, they have no concerns about a man in womanface approaching children. Hell, it’s probably legal up there by now! 

Human rights boss of the charity Sex Matters, Fiona McAnena, told The Telegraph: 'M&S needs to rethink its priorities and remember that women and girls have rights too, and that this man should not be permitted to hang around in the women's underwear department as a matter of common decency. 'This is what happens when a business centres the feelings of men who identify as women, even at the expense of their own customers. It is entirely inappropriate for a man to approach a teenage girl in a lingerie department.'

I guess beyond the Wall it’s only to be expected. Has any area been captured by the trans cult more completely than Scotland?

And Who Is At Fault For This?

Two months after first going to hospital, a 65-year-old woman was dead – and her doctors are blaming the cosmetic creams she used on her face and body for decades. The anonymous patient, from Togo, is one of a string of recent cases reported in medical journals of cancers in black African women linked to skin-lightening creams and lotions, prompting dermatologists to call for better regulation.

“Patients with black skin have a natural SPF of about 15, just by having pigmented skin,” says Prof Ncoza Dlova, head of dermatology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,. “If they remove that melanin [with skin lightening creams], they’re actually removing the natural protection.”

Something must be to blame for this - is it. perhaps, the lower IQ of sub-Saharans? No, of course not, don't be silly! It's us, as always. 

Estimates of skin lightening product use in African countries range from 25% to 80% of women. Lighter skin is often seen as more desirable, in a trend with complex drivers including values imported in the colonial era.

And our infernal inventions, of course:  

While the desire for lighter skin is not new, Dlova suspects the rise of social media over the past decade has led to increased use, pointing to smartphone filters that make skin look smoother and lighter.

You won’t be surprised by the fact the ‘answer’ is the same as it would be in the UK- control and enforced diversity: 

“Marketing, social media and media all have a role to play – fashion, celebrities and all of that. If they use black models who are lighter in skin colour, the message they are conveying is that you are prettier, you can be a model, you are more attractive if you are lighter. So we need to ensure that the advertisements include diverse skin colours when they are choosing their models,” says Dlova.

She also wants to see skin health education in preschools to teach children to be proud of their natural skin, and to get across the message of using sunscreen.

They can barely read and write, now they are supposed to be chemists too? 

What's Wrong With The Danes?

A zoo in Denmark is asking for donations of small pets as food for its predators. 

Good grief, we stopped this nonsense back in  the 18th century!

The Aalborg zoo said it is trying to mimic the natural food chain of the animals housed there "for the sake of both animal welfare and professional integrity" and offers assurances the pets will be "gently euthanized" by trained staff. The zoo in northern Denmark explained in a Facebook post that "if you have a healthy animal that needs to be given away for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us." The zoo points to guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens as possible donations. After being euthanized, the animals will be used as fodder, the zoo said.

How will they be euthanised? No journaliist appears to have asked that question? Most modern methods - as I pointed out at Tim's -  that people would expect would render the carcasses inedible due to the chemicals used. So the 'gentle euthanasia' the zoo promises is a lie. Oh, if only we had journalists who were capable of more than just regurgitating press releases...

And what pet owner wouldn't be present when their pet is euthanised? 

H/T : Blinky via Twitter

Perverse Jury Results...

No, not how a jury can find only one of the two Manchester Airport thugs guilty, despite clear video of the event. A different one:

A mother and father have been found guilty of being in charge of a dog that caused injury while dangerously out of control after their three-year-old son died in a savage attack on a farm.

But don’t start cheering yet, because: 

They were both cleared of gross negligence manslaughter.

How?! 

The prosecution said his parents' negligence meant the toddler was 'alone and unsupervised' when he entered a yard where two large, 'dangerous' and 'powerful' 50kg guard dogs were kept. Although the dogs - a Cane Corso called Sid and Tiny, a Boerboel type dog - belonged to farm owner Matthew Brown, the couple were looking after them at the time and should have known the risks to Daniel, jurors were told.

Indeed, they didn’t need to rely merely on common sense, either, they were specifically warned by the authorities: 

Daniel's parents, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, had also ignored warnings from the RSPCA that the animals were a danger, it was claimed.

Furthermore, the jury heard how Rochdale Council Children’s Services staff visited the farm just three days before the attack and expressed concerns, which included signs of 'neglect' of Daniel and that he was 'in danger' from the dogs. The pair asserted that Daniel was used to being around dogs on the farm and they didn’t regard them as dangerous or aggressive.

This was a lie. A blatant one:

The jury were told of a text message she sent to Twigg in the weeks prior to the attack when she said she was 'living in fear', which she said referred to 'a build up of events'. But she admitted wanting to move back to the family home in Blackley, Manchester, and telling a neighbour she was 'terrorised' living at the farm because dogs escaped all the time.

And it wasn’t the only one: 

Mr Elvidge also pressed her on why she’d not mentioned visiting the toilet in her accounts to police. Bedford said she’d just wanted to be with Daniel and 'wasn’t focusing', had felt 'fear' towards police and had suffered PTSD.

From what, we aren’t told. 

The couple were granted bail and will be sentenced on October 10.

But not, I feel sure, to what they deserve. 

Oh Well, Shit Happens....

 That's the sort of verdict we need coroners to be able to bring in for cases like this one:

A man fleeing from police was electrocuted and then hit by a London Underground train which was searching for him, his inquest has heard. Senior coroner Andrew Walker said Transport for London's (TfL) response was "inadequate" after Robert English, 32, was killed in May 2024 when he was walking along the track near Colindale station in north London following reports of a fight. TfL staff had initially turned off the power supply but then restored it after police mistakenly believed Mr English had climbed over a fence that separated the station from a park, the inquest heard.

So they called off the search and normal service resumed... 

A Tube train that had been held stationary then began to search the track and ran him over.

Oh well. The current had got him first, anyway.

Mr Walker said that the train "was not adequately equipped to conduct such a search in darkness and this response was inadequate".

What did it lack, exactly? Headlights? 

The police watchdog ruled in June 2024 that an investigation was not required.

Appropriately, for once. 

'It's Our Culture' Pt 28547

Jermaine Matthews, 39, and Montianez Merriweather, 34, were initially charged with aggravated riot and assault after the massive brawl in the streets of Cincinnati, Ohio, went viral this week. Matthews, however, was hit with three more charges on Thursday - two felonious assault and one assault charge.

Reader, yes, they are exactly who you'd imagine them to be.... 

Outside of court, two relatives of Merriweather told WLWT that the race of the victims had catapulted the case to national attention. 'If it was an African American woman who got knocked out... We wouldn't have been going through all this,' one of the women said.

This might come as a shock to you but assault doesn't have a colour bar, it's still an offense if the victim is black! 

Another woman, believed to be Merriweather's mother Clarissa, said her son is an honor roll student with 'a biracial child' as she denied he was racist. 'He's not a racist,' she said. 'It wasn't like they're thugs... these Russians was walking down the street and on the video he said "you wanna mess with these Russians?"' 

The prosecution thanks you for those words - maybe you need to look under 'T' in this (if you can read):

'He smacked the first guy... my child is in school, he has five kids, he's on the B honor roll in school.'

In school and had five children. Say no more. 

Matthews' attorney Brandon Fox also indicated there were other racial elements at play during the brawl. 'That is the victim that is seen running down the street screaming racial slurs, the n word,' he said, referring to video of the incident.

Words said after the assult do not in any way excuse that act. It doesn't work like that.

Bit Of A Faux Pas...

Alison Hernandez, Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, said: 'In trying to be helpful I responded to an operational question at the Police and Crime Panel today, however, I was not fully up to date with the facts of the investigation. I apologise for any alarm this may have caused. '

The police have operational primacy over these matters. Any investigation will unfold rapidly and I was not in possession of all the facts at that time.'

Whrn I'm asked a question at work, if I'm not sighted on the specific issue, I say that, and promise to get back to the questioner when I do have the information.  

"I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"

 Part of the challenge of new electronic equipment manufactured in China (as they always seem to be) is deciphering the English instructions, invariably written by someone not familiar with the language:

I mean,,, what?!

'Will The Last One To Leave Please Turn Out The Lights'

 

Let's just hope national trasure Matt never leaves....

Sunday Funnies...

 I think Victor Nabokov misunderstood the expression 'butterflies in the stomach'...

What Are We Paying These People For?

Lord Anderson's report described how a Prevent 'intervention provider' met Ali, then a sixth former, only once after his school raised concerns he was being radicalised. Following the meeting at a McDonalds in Croydon in January 2015 the intervention provider described Ali as a 'pleasant and informed young man' in a report. They added that Ali 'does not agree' with extremists including Islamic state and al-Qaeda, and 'has no grievances against the west or other faiths or groups'.

...because it's certainly not 'to keep us all safe from terrorism' is it? 

An unnamed Prevent counter-terrorism case officer – a Scotland Yard civilian police worker - then emailed their colleague: 'He seems to be a great person, are you still all right to do a lesson at his school, do you think it is worth it?'

A 'great person'? That's a value judgement, not one of risk posed by the subject.

Lord Anderson's report went on: 'Ultimately, the intervention provider accepted what they described as a decision taken by others that no further meetings were required.'

‘Not me, guv, big boys did it and ran away!’ 

The 156-page report also said a document describing the intervention provider's contact with Ali was 'overlooked' by the Home Office. It had been sent to civil servants in 2021 but was not provided to a previous review of the case, and has only now come to light. It was disclosed to Lord Anderson only on June 25. 

Where was it? Who failed to provide it? We’ll never find out. 

'I told the Home Office that I considered this a significant matter, and asked that checks be made to ensure that no further sources of relevant evidence had been disregarded,' yesterday's report said. 'The Home Office responded with an assurance that it has conducted a thorough search and that no additional information has been detected.'

And you accepted that assurance? 

And They Will Keep On Failing, Because There Are No Consequences For Failure

Another day, another failing by the State' agents:

Police and social services failings may have contributed to the fatal stabbing of a 'peaceful and loving' musician by a mentally ill teenage girl, a coroner has ruled.

And of course, in that modern day inversion of reality, the mad one with the lethal weapon is the one who is considered the ‘vulnerable’ one and not her innocent victim:

The girl - who was known to be vulnerable and was on a Child Protection Plan - had been flagged as posing a 'high risk' and often 'carried a knife' around with her.

And no-one thought that might be a good enough reason to ensure she didn’t simply wander the streets? 

Just four days before the fatal attack, the girl - referred to as Child A - had gone missing from her home in Three Bridges, Crawley in West Sussex. Police located her but were unable to return her home, because her mother was away in London. Officers decided not to take her into protective custody and instead allowed her to stay with a woman who claimed to be her 'cousin'.

Well, perhaps they didn’t have a good reason to disbelieve th….

Oh! 

However the woman was not a relative and was known to police as a drug user with previous criminal convictions.

*sighs* 

Ms Schofield also said social services had failed to hold an emergency strategy meeting which had been organised when the child went missing.Ms Schofield added: 'It is possible that had these matters been addressed, the perpetrator may not have been in a position to carry out the act which led to Mr Hendrick's death.'

Mr Hendricks said: 'The police and authorities failed, they failed in every sense of the word.'

Yes, as they've done so very many times! And because there are never any consequences for failure, they will keep on doing it. 

Police arrested the girl, who had a criminal record, and she was later judged to be suffering from a 'significant abnormality of mind'. The teenager pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Bristol Crown Court in 2022 and was sentenced to nine years - five in custody and four on extended licence.

Meaning, 'in a town near you, at some point', never anywhere senior judges or police officers live, of course. The risk of her reverting to type is for you to take, never them. 

Another ‘I Don’t Understand. Nobody I Know Voted For Nixon!’ Moment In The ‘Guardian’

 

I’ve worked with the super-rich my whole career. I worked for more than a decade as a lawyer advising high net worth individuals, and many of the people I worked with had assets worth more than £10m.

And now you're writing articles in 'the Guardian'? My, I guess you weren't all that good at it... 

Many of the super-rich have ties all over the world, decamping to homes in the south of France in the summer, or their Alpine chalets for ski holidays. Some have constructed more contrived connections to places like Singapore or Bermuda to reduce their tax bills. But regardless of their undeniable worldliness, the super-rich love living in the UK.There is a prestige to owning property in the UK. A bolthole in London allows you to visit the Frieze art fair in Regent’s Park or sit on Centre Court at Wimbledon. On the practical side, many are enticed by how easy it is to set up and conduct business in the UK. Of paramount concern to certain ultra-wealthy families is that the UK offers peace of mind in terms of affording them refuge from those who might otherwise see them as a target for kidnapping in other jurisdictions.

Is it just me, or is there a faint whiff of envy emanating from this article? 

This hasn’t stopped the Times from publishing endless doomsday prophecies of a wealth exodus on an epic scale. The endlessly repeated trope is that the ultra-wealthy will flee at the first signs of higher taxes, taking their tax revenue and business investments with them, and having the overall effect of lowering growth. However, recent research by Tax Justice Network, with Patriotic Millionaires and Tax Justice UK, discredited previous, similar claims as vastly overexaggerated.

Ah, I see where we are going now.... 

We have an economy in which work doesn’t pay – the income of people who work for a living is taxed at higher rates than that of those who earn money from simply having money.

Any normal person would therefore suggest the answer is to reduce the amount of tax on people, but of course, this is the 'Guardian', and so their solution is to rob from the rich. 

Before becoming a private wealth lawyer, I hadn’t realised that the way the ultra-wealthy earn their income is quite different from the majority of us. While the average person earns money from their daily work, the ultra-wealthy make eye-watering sums simply from owning assets. They generate wealth from investment funds and rent and sales profits from their property empires.

And do investment fund mean that the money disappears? No, it's invested in other businesses! 

I now work with people focused on giving away their wealth.

There's a big need for prople like you? What do you do? Hold their hands as they write a voluntary donation cheque to the Treasury? 

They recognise the privileges they have and acknowledge that they have benefited from a tax system that protects their wealth at the expense of ordinary people. Many of them tell me they see their responsibility of paying higher taxes on their wealth as merely practising good citizenship and contributing to the benefits of living in the UK.

Well, nothing to stop them. The Treasury accepts donations, after all. But of course, it's not enough for those motivated by the politics of envy... 

The moral and pragmatic case for a wealth tax is clear. Those with the broadest shoulders can and should contribute more.

And if they don't want to do it voluntarily, they must be forced to.

Kindness Can Get You And Your Pets Slaughtered...

A common mantra on the progressive side is; 'Be Kind'. It seems innocent enough, but as with everything else from the Left, be warned...

In a tearful statement, a colleague from Mr Brown's law firm told the hearing that the victim would have helped anyone if he could, adding that Naveed had taken away any 'future memories'. She said: 'He wasn't just a 72-year-old-man tragically killed by his housemate, he was a solicitor, a boss, a partner, a kind man.'

Tragically, that drove him to take in a foreign nutcase as a houseguest, who promptly repaid that kindness by killing him. And his cat. 

Habiba Naveed, 35, also said she was 'Jesus' and had been 'sent to eliminate evil from the world' after battering her 72-year-old landlord to death and stabbing his pet cat in the neck. Naveed previously denied the murder of solicitor Christopher Brown, but pleaded guilty to his manslaughter.She also admitted causing unnecessary suffering to his cat Snow by stabbing him in the neck on or before August 15 last year. 

At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Thursday, Judge Sarah Munro KC imposed a hospital order under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act and a restriction order under Section 41 - meaning Naveed can be detained indefinitely.

But almost certainly won’t be, she’ll be released as ‘cured’ soon as so many are, to a location well away from where ever it is that Judge Sarah Munro or any of the senior consultants at her mental hospital live, of course…

H/T : Steve Ludek via Twitter 

Tweet Of The Month

 Some absolute corkers this month!

Post Title Of The Month

Longrider on the climate change alarmists (no, not a typo!):

 

Quote Of The Month

David Thompson on the weird proclivities of the LGBT+ crowd, and their determination that a private life should instead be a public one:

"Madam apparently needs us to know that she is “part of the LGBT+ community,” as if we should not only care but be endlessly fascinated, and insists that she needs “to find a workplace that is LGBT+ community friendly.” Quite what this might mean, practically, is not altogether clear, though the implications that come to mind are somewhat limited in their appeal.

 

As there are only so many ways in which tales of one’s sex life can be shoehorned into workplace conversation,I’m assuming Madam expects those around her to continually acknowledge some boutique complications of her all-important “identity” – fabulist pronouns, an imaginary themness, or something similar. Something very much about her, rather the task at hand."

Post Of The Month

Natalie Solent at Samizdata on the Left's problems with sticking to - and communicating - the orders to the troops...

They Just Aren’t Like Us

On the morning of 7 October 2023, the author of the Guardian’s Gaza diary woke up planning to play tennis. “This year I decided to take care of my mental and physical health,” he wrote in his first entry, published six days later. “This means no stress, no negative energy and definitely more tennis.” Instead, with the news full of how Hamas had broken out of the territory, killing 1,200 people, he found himself scrambling desperately for the documents showing he owned his apartment in Gaza City, in the north of the strip. “If our building gets bombed, I need evidence that this apartment belongs to me,” he wrote.

Imagine the stunning narcissism and hatred for a race of people that causes you, on hearing your country has carried out an atrocity, to immediately switch to worrying what effect the inevitable repercussions will have on you personally?

On 13 October, Gaza City’s residents were told to evacuate and head south. “It feels like 1948,” the diarist wrote, a reference to the Nakba (“catastrophe”), when 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from a newly independent Israel.

His diaries were full of questions. “Is the abnormal going to become the normal? Is two weeks of misery all it takes?”

Misery for the Palestinians, he means. Of course. The misery of the Israelis mourning their murdered relatives and the hostages means nothing. 

A gentle man, he looks back at what he wrote at that time and says: “I see all these questions I was asking. I had no answers back then. Now I’ve seen how it turned out. And it was horrible.”

Good. Israel would have been entitled to drop a nuke on the wretched place. 

He’s in his 30s, and one of Gaza’s intellectuals: middle-class Palestinians are known for their education throughout the Middle East.

And this is why unless Israel does indeed end it all with a nuke, it will go on and on. Or this wretched 'country' will be feted by idiots in positions of power in the West in order to appease their imported populations. If this is considered an 'intellectual' one can only imagine what the man in the street is like. 

Or Your Friend's Fishpond....

It was created by the company Zapata, whose CEO Franky Zapata piloted the flight.

His ultimate vision is to provide the "dream mobility" seen in old Hollywood films allowing users to "take off from your garden and land in your friend's garden for a barbecue".

So long as your friend lives closer than 20.6 miles away, that is?

Might Just As Well Announce An ‘All Must Have Prizes’ Badge

Girl guides can now earn badges for activities such as "fandoms", being a "booktivist" and sharing their "guiding sparkle". In total, 72 new badges are on offer, marking an historic update to the youth organisation's offering. The move was a response to girls' requests to broaden Girlguiding's scope to include activities such as environmental conservation and building confidence, according to a statement.

Good grief! 

One young girl told BBC Newsround that, as part of earning the laughter badge, another girl had made animal noises that the rest of the group then had to copy. Brownies (aged seven to 10) will now be recognised for showing a keen interest in folklore or birdwatching, as well as discovering ways to make their voice heard.

But they'd better not make their voices heard about boys joining the Guides in womanface, if they know what's good for them... 

Girlguiding ambassador and TV presenter Angellica Bell said trying the new badges had been "a real blast". She said the organisation helped build girls' confidence "whilst tackling important issues impacting their lives such as online harm, sexism and misogyny".

They only need to read your website to learn about misogyny.

Sounds Like You Skipped A Vital Part Of Lessons To Me

Kelly Ghaisar never thought to teach her son, Bijan, to fear the police. She didn’t see the need.

I never thought that Bijan, a young man of colour, would need to know what to do if he encountered the police. We taught him they were there to protect him, not that he would ever have to protect himself from them.”

Pity you didn't teeach him that when the police pull you over, you stop. I mean, there are even instructional videos on this stuff.

After the accident, Bijan didn’t stop – Kelly doesn’t know why – and the passenger inside the Uber called 911 to report the incident and said that Bijan had fled the scene. The 911 dispatcher put out a call identifying his vehicle and he was spotted by Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya, two DC park police (a federal law enforcement agency) officers, who started a pursuit. They were joined by a police car from Fairfax county, Virginia, which recorded what followed. The park police officers pulled Bijan’s car over, got out of their vehicle and approached him, their guns raised and pointing into his car.

I guess Bijan didn't watch much Chris Rock, because he immediatel floored it! 

In the video footage of the encounter, which Fairfax county police released a few months after Bijan’s death, you can see Bijan’s Jeep driving away and then stopping a second time and Amaya running to the vehicle with his gun drawn, banging it against the window. Bijan drives off again and there is a short chase before he pulls over again and the park police stop in front of his Jeep.

And this being the US, the police promptly fired into the car. I'm sure they wouldn't have done that sort of thing in your ancestral homeland of Iran, eh?

In the seven and a half years since Bijan’s death, Kelly and her family have relentlessly fought the US government for accountability. She says that at every turn it has been denied. “When you are fighting the federal government and they close ranks, there is nowhere to go,” she says. “The park police are federal police. The FBI is a federal department. The courts are there to protect the federal government. There is no way to get justice if the justice department is against you.”

I really doubt Iran's justice system is much better.  I note she's not so disappointed in America that she's chosen to return.

Then Surely, a Better Question Is ‘Why Are They Allowed To Stay In The UK?

A couple sued Waitrose for race discrimination after they came back from an illicit holiday with a tan.

They aren't black, so one wonders how deep this tan was that they thought they could get away with such nonsesnse. Luckily, the tribunal wasn't having any of it.

Peter Hedger and Katerina Dimitrova were sacked from the supermarket for going on an unauthorised trip abroad, an employment tribunal heard. They sued the upmarket retail giant, claiming that they were discriminated against because of their 'tanned skin'.

The tribunal was told the retailer's position was that the couple 'had been dismissed for gross misconduct namely, unauthorised absence'.

As would have been quite clear in their contract - let's hope no taxpayer money was used in this futile attempt, eh? 

Mr Hedger told the tribunal that the situation had come about because neither he nor Miss Dimitrova had anywhere to live. He added that 'neither he nor Ms Dimitrova had worked since their dismissal as it was difficult for them to get work on the same shift, their financial means were not good and they had no income'.

Then off you fuck back to Bulgaria, both of you!

Oh, Yes, We Should Trust These People To Run A No-Jury Court System

Disabled people are being failed by a “fundamentally unfair” and secretive fast-track court system which needs to be investigated by Parliament, a new report has found. The Single Justice Procedure (SJP) was invented a decade ago in a Conservative Party-led cost-cutting drive, allowing magistrates to dish out fines for low-level crimes in private hearings instead of open court.

The SJP system now deals with more than half of all criminal cases - around 800,000-a year - and has recently been mired in controversy thanks to a long-running investigation by The Standard into its deep flaws

And despite the emphasis, it'd not just disabled people at risk.

“The most disturbing aspect of this story is that in ten years, the system has been subject to so little official scrutiny”, the report concluded.“No parliamentary committee has looked in detail at the SJP, the government has published no social research and very little data.”

Well, of coutse not. You don't peek under the carpet when you know damn well what you've brushed under there! 

Last year, the Chief Magistrate had to overturn more than 59,000 criminal convictions for rail fare evasion after it emerged that train companies had spent years bringing unlawful prosecutions through SJP.

It seems that the main cause of this is that our judges and magistrates are not bright enough to understand the system they've preusably been trained to use: 

Teenagers have been unlawfully prosecuted using the SJP system, with magistrates and legally-trained court officials apparently not noticing that defendants under the age of 18 cannot be dealt with in the fast-track courts.

 Anothet good reason to never agree to the removal of the jury system. These people cannot be trusted. And nor can the politicians pushing this.

If He’d Worn A Dress And High Heels, Or A Burkha, They Wouldn’t Have Dared Say Anything

Another day, another school embarassing themself:

A father who wore a gorilla costume for his daughter on her last day of term was left stunned to be told by her 'woke' school his actions were 'a serious safeguarding concern'.

What? It seems they objectted to a face covering as they couldn't tell who was picking up the child! One wonders how they'd deal with a tranny. Or someone in a burkha. I suspect those would be treated rather differently.

It was seven-year-old Addie's last day of Year 2 when Mr Napthine decided to don the gorilla suit as a bit of fun. The dad-of-two, a self-employed horse dentist and farmer, said: 'It's a little village school and I live just opposite it.'The other day I put a horse's head on, so on the last day of school I put on a gorilla outfit.

'Then, I got this snotty text off the school, saying it's a "serious safeguarding issue".' The text, shared by Mr Napthine, read: 'Please do not come into school in a costume or mask. 'This is a serious safeguarding issue. It has also upset some of the children & caused concern for adults.'

The school is unrepentant: 

....the school argued that staff need to be aware of who is on premises at all times and a costume would not allow them to be sure who was walking in....

So there you go, Mr Napthine - you know what to dress as next time.

Says It All, Doesn't It?

 

And no one says it more succinctly than Matt...

Oh, 'Guardian'....

 

...not you too? Thought you aspited to be better than the 'Daily Mail'? A cougar is not a big cat!

H/T: Angry Exile via Twitter

Sunday Funnies....

 They really don't make 'em like that anymore...

What Happenred To Journalism..?

 Yes, this is the BBC, the organisation that will refer unashamedly to a woman (without qualification that they are actually a man larping in womanface), putting inverted commas around the words terror charge, as if that wasn't exactly what it is....

No longer content to report the news, now they openly seek to manipulate it.

H/T : TrailerSwift via Twitter

Get Ready For Starmer’s Next U-Turn

 

What will Keir Starmer and his colleagues learn from the disaster of their attempt to cut benefits?

Nothing! They never learn - every setback is because 'big boys did it and ran away', never because what they were trying to do was wrong in the first instance. 

One policy area in particular is about to return the political conversation to the subject that defined last week’s fiasco: disability. Once again, Labour MPs from all wings of the party are feeling anxious and restless. Campaign groups and charities – not to mention the huge numbers of people who will be directly affected – fear the worst.

Of course they do! It’s how they stay relevant! If they can’t win people to their cause by terrifying them, they will fade into obscurity and who will pay the bills then? 

The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, wants to reform England’s system of provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, or Send.

And it needs it - the growth in special measures for children attending school has been a meteoric rise; either we really are breeding more and more defective children, or there's a perk to the diagnosis of 'special needs' that parents are latching onto. Whichever it is, the sitaution can't be tolerated for much longer. 

A new education white paper will be published in the autumn. Phillipson says the government needs to “think very differently”. She wants to reverse a trend that took root in the Tory years and prioritise the inclusion of Send kids in mainstream schools.

So everyone's education is affected! Just the sort of thing you'd ecxpect from a Labour government, the one's that cannot let go of the failed concept of comprehensive education (except when it comes to their own offspring, of course!)

One of the big teaching unions has already said that without a commensurate increase in day-to-day schools spending, the plans could put “extreme pressure” on teachers.

How totally unexpected! 

There are whispers about families who currently have EHCPs being allowed to keep them, while in the future, kids with similar needs would be waved away, something that threatens a stereotypical two-tier model, another element with worrying echoes of the benefits disaster.

Why not? We already have a two-tier justice system, what better testament to Starmer's (hopefully short) rreign to have an educational sysyem similarly blighted..? Of course, the likelihood is he'll back down when faced with opposition as he's already done so many times.

Look Who's Back InThe News....

I knew we hadn't heard the last of Jonty Bravery:

A man who threw a six-year-old boy from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery has been charged over an alleged attack of two women at Broadmoor Hospital.

It's not known whther they are fellow patients or staff, but why is a madman who cannot control himself ever in the same location as any other people without being restrained, whoever they are? It's not like they aren't fully aware of the risk he poses, is it? If a zoo was run so dangerously and with so many incidents, it'd be closed down by the HSE!

Bravery has been accused of beating Linda McKinlay and Kate Mastalerz at the maximum security hospital in Berkshire on September 30 last year. He is due to stand trial at Westminster Magistrates' Court on November 10, but prosecutor Tina Flannery said Bravery was 'not going to engage' with legal proceedings at today's preliminary hearing.

She said: 'He sends messages via the team at Broadmoor to say it is going to affect his therapy if he attends court.' Defending, Sukh Khalon said he had not been able to meet with Bravery following two thwarted attempts to arrange a legal visit in May and June this year.

As can be expected when dealing with a madman. The judge, for once, isn't going along with it: 

District Judge Paul Goldspring said his scheduled trial will go ahead even if he chooses not to engage in the proceedings.

One to watch in November. 

This Is Ridiculous!

Why is it left to the owner? It's a recipe for disaster!

Simone Ray, 32, has been ordered to pay a surcharge £26 for not complying with a dog destruction order. She pleaded guilty to the offence.

Yes, you read that right - she was expected to comply with the destruction order on her own recognisance - and we laugh at other country's lax laws! An even bigger surprise is that her non-compliance was actually noted and acted on.

It had been imposed by Worcester Magistrates' Court after she was accused of having a dangerously out of control American bulldog.

Then the police should have seuized it and arranged its destruction.  

Ray, of Suffolk Lane in Abberley, has also been given a period of conditional discharge of six months.

The current 'justice system' is simply not fit for purpose! 

Why Don’t They Try Offering Exciting And Absorbing Games Instead?

 

On Tuesday, I spoke to many coders, artists and studio heads who have had games cancelled, staff axed and deals obliterated; several senior developers predicted that the recent savage cuts to staff numbers and game projects will lead to a gaping black hole in the release schedules of many triple-A publishers in late 2026 and 2027. Grand Theft Auto VI was always going to be huge; now it’s looking like the only game in town.

Not for me - that's going to be 'Jurassic World Evolution 3', out on 21st October, and for which I've treated myself to a new gaming laptop! 'Spared no expense' you might say. 😏

An excellent panel discussion entitled Why Cultural Recognition is Crucial to the Future of the Games Industry saw Nick Poole, CEO of the trade body Ukie, welcoming a more positive view of the industry among politicians and policymakers in Westminster. “Three years ago, understanding of games was scant, but just recently there’s been a massive amount of recognition,” he said.

Is this an unqualified good thing? Reader, I say no: 

“Suddenly, politicians are talking to us about the educational reach of games; the power of games for young people as a channel of self-expression; we’ve seen the first games being prescribed on the NHS as a treatment for anxiety and depression – there’s a recognition that the cultural echo of games is far greater than the economic proposition.”

The insidious tentacles of propaganda and wokeism must spread everywhere to bring about the Ptogressives' idea of  future Utopia, and so they set their sights on games: 

On the fears surrounding the use of AI, especially large language models, in game development, Cassia Curran, founder of consulting firm Curran Games Agency, had some positive advice: “The development of AI will mean there’s an abundance of content out there,” she said. “But the way that you can achieve success as a developer will be to lean into the authentic human experience you’ve lived. AI cannot reproduce your feelings or your culture, and these can be reflected in your games. In the era of AI slop, players will be looking for experiences that feel new and deeply human.”

I don’t even want to know the  human experience that the developers of a video game have lived! Why should that matter, anyway? What I’m looking for in a game is; does it work well with few or no bugs? Are the graphics good? Is the subject matter interesting and absorbing?

Lydia Cooke, a PhD researcher specialising in queer game studies, chaired a heartening roundtable discussion entitled Representation in Games: Beyond the Surface. Cooke talked of barriers to representation in mainstream games, where atypical characters are often seen as a commercial risk.

Oh god, make it stop! 

This is not just an industry controlled by CEOs and shareholders, it is a culture and an art form, and it will continue.

It won't continue to sell if games developers keep hiring bloody 'specialists in queer games studies' that's for sure... 

Alexa, Give Me An Example Of Suicidal Empathy…

'Here's simething I found in the media':

Auchingarrich owner Alexa Reid said she could “not under any circumstances condone” his past actions, but said she wanted to give him a second chance. In a statement, she said: “Liam has expressed genuine remorse for his previous actions and a heartfelt desire to change.

What did he do? Well, something that should have disqualified him from working for a wildlife park that's for sure!

But smug middle class white women are the absolute worst in our society:

“He understands the importance of responsible care for animals. 

“We see this as a valuable opportunity for him to give back to the community and the animals, and we fully support his efforts.

“Our team will provide thorough training and supervision at all times as he learns about proper animal care and welfare.

“We recognise the negativity surrounding Liam due to his past actions, but we firmly believe that everyone deserves a second chance.

“Our goal is to assist him in making positive choices moving forward.”

No matter the understandable backlash, she's so convinced of the correctness of her actions she will not back down. Rather like the HR creatutes persecuting nurse Peggie for refusing to change in front of a man in womanface. What is it up there, something in the water? 

Should I only drink bottled on my next visit? 

Not Now They’ve Realised What The Cost To Them Will Be

There’s not much that unites our fractured House of Commons at the moment. But on one issue, politicians from all parties seem to agree: the great British public don’t really want ambitious action to meet net zero goals. They may concur on this – but they are wrong.

Yers, here comes a Guardian columnist to tell us what's reality - in her world.

It was Theresa May who signed the target into law in 2019, with cross-party support. Council elections this spring saw victories for Reform UK, which opposes most net zero policies outright, and argues for an economy based on fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the Labour government has net zero as one of its five missions, yet it, too, seems reluctant to make a positive case for action to tackle the climate crisis. It worries there won’t be enough support for policies such as replacing gas boilers or managing demand for flying, and it has been further cowed by unhelpful voices off from (sic) the former prime minister Tony Blair.

But now the plans are starting to bite and hit voters in the pocket, they are no longer keen to be the guinea pigs for pie-in-the-sky eco-nonsense. 

Sounds plausible to some, but there’s a catch: this isn’t actually what people want at all. Our research with politicians and citizens shows that politicians consistently underestimate public support for climate action.

Because you've carefully selected those politicians andd citizen to ensure you get exactly the response you need.... 

There is a fundamental disconnect between what politicians believe the country thinks, and what evidence shows is the reality on the ground.

I don't doubt that, but if you think people are willing to swallow the Net Zero nonsense, you've got another think coming. 

Why is it that politicians get this so wrong? The answer lies in who they are hearing from. Think of public opinion on climate and some caricatures are likely to pop into your head. The climate protesters and campaigners, some so committed that they are willing to risk a prison sentence. And at the other end of the spectrum, an equally noisy minority who question climate science, or express deep scepticism about the solutions, whether windfarms, heat pumps or electric vehicles.

Because they've experienced them!  

It’s far from inevitable that climate issues will be dragged down by polarised politics. That’s not what people want. But unless politicians stop assuming and start listening, that’s what may happen.

Sadly, the cheap, green energy promise turns out so often to be just another politician's promise - and we all know how those turn out by now! 

Remember When You Read The Newspaper To Be Better Informed?

Who is the woman? On which side is she protesting? Who attacked her? No 'journalist' seems to want to find out. Probably in case they find out she's rentamob who the cops escorted to the hotel to mount a counterprotest...

“Disappointingly we have seen yet another protest, which had begun peacefully, escalate into mindless thuggery with individuals again hurting one of our officers and damaging a police vehicle,” Ch Spt Simon Anslow said in a statement.

 

The cops aren't talking about their mindless thuggery, oh dear me, no! They aren't counting their officer knocking out a protesters teeth with a riot shield, or their police van driver putting his foot down and running over a protester which, following the Chris Kaba case, should be classed as assault with a deadly weapon, shouldn't it?

In an apparent response to allegations that the police had taken a “two-tier” approach that favoured the counter-demonstration, Ch Supt Simon Anslow said: “Unfortunately, across social media we are seeing inflammatory comments which suggest we were supporting and enabling certain protesters.

“This is categorically not true. We police without fear or favour, remaining impartial at all times and have legal responsibilities to ensure peaceful protest is facilitated.”

And less than a day later, Anslow was exposed as a liar in the MSM. I would say 'typical of country bumpkins like Essex Police'  but actually, I think it's now merely typical of the entire country's police farces.

Oh, This Won't End Well....

A new scheme to detect people who are obsessed with violence before they kill, such as the Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana, should be considered by the government, an official report will say.

Why? It'll merely prove to be as useless (and caputed by the 'welcome all refugees' crowd) as all the others.... 

The report into Prevent, the controversial programme intended to stop people from becoming terrorists, will also find repeated “failings” in the case of the man who went on to assassinate the MP Sir David Amess, the Guardian understands.

How surprising, eh? Bet you didn't see THAT coming, eh, Reader? 

The findings are likely to intensify the campaign by the family of the murdered veteran Tory MP that there should be a public inquiry into what the authorities knew about the dangers posed by Amess’s killer, and whether he could have been stopped. The government has so far resisted that call.

Keep pushing. Starmer will crack in the end! 

The Amess family want an inquiry similar to that into the Southport atrocity, which started hearings this week.

One has to ask why the establishment wouldn’t want one, when it concerns the murder of one of their own? 

As well as those driven to violence by such an ideology, police and the government are concerned about young men consuming a “pick and mix” of horror online and showing levels of interest in violence considered to be worrying.Any new anti-violence scheme would be in addition to Prevent and possibly even include it as a specific element to deal with those where ideology, such as Islamist or far right, is present. Multiple sources told the Guardian that while a new anti-violence scheme may be needed, a lack of money may thwart its setting-up.

Well, maybe they should have thought about this before splashing out on a superinjunction and the importation of thousands of Afghans. 

30 months? Consecutive, or Cumulative?

Last summer, a woman was arrested at Gatwick Airport after she arrived from Nigeria with a very young baby girl. The woman had been living in West Yorkshire with her husband and children, and before leaving the UK for Africa had told her GP she was pregnant. That was not true.

A Nigerian lying? Surely not? What's she doing here, anyway? Turns out she's 'a careworker with leave to remain in Britain'. 

When the woman returned about a month later with the baby, she was arrested on suspicion of trafficking. The case, the second the BBC has followed through the Family Court in recent months, reveals what experts say is a worrying trend of babies possibly being brought to the UK unlawfully - some from so-called "baby factories" in Nigeria.

And what everyone else says is a worrying trend exacerbated by the employment of foreign nationals like 'Susan' in the UK.

She also claimed she'd been pregnant for up to 30 months with her other children.

I hope she means cumulatively...if not., perhaps she should be in London Zoo. 

Arriving back in the UK with the baby girl - who we're calling Eleanor - Susan was stopped and arrested by Sussex Police.

Miracles do happen. 

Ms Coker, who provides expert reports to family courts in cases like this, has nearly 30 years experience as a social worker. She trained in Britain, and worked in front-line child protection in London, before moving to Africa.

Job holder goes where the job is. 

The barrister for the local authority told the court that the baby is "very settled" with her foster carer, taking part in activities in her community and getting medical treatment. When Eleanor is adopted she will have a new identity and British nationality - but she may never know who her real parents are.

Why are we not sending the child straight back on the next plane? 

Ms Coker believes it is likely that more children have been brought unlawfully to the UK from West Africa. She told the BBC she has worked on around a dozen similar cases since the pandemic. In her experience, baby trafficking is commonplace.

Because it works - even when the police catch the importers, the child then gets to stay st British taxpayer's expense! This is invasion on a small scale.

She's Incapable Of Learning...

In a wide-ranging interview with James Naughtie for BBC Radio 4's Reflections, the veteran Labour MP was asked about a letter she sent to the Observer in April 2023 in which she suggested people of colour experienced racism in a different way to Jewish people, Irish people and Travellers. Although she withdrew her comments at the time and apologised, saying "errors" arose in a draft that was sent, she was suspended from the party and only re-admitted just before last year's general election.

A more cynical move by Starmer it’s hard to envisage….

Asked by the BBC's James Naughtie if she looked back on the incident with regret, she said: "No, not at all." She added: "Clearly, there must be a difference between racism which is about colour and other types of racism because you can see a Traveller or a Jewish person walking down the street, you don't know. "You don't know unless you stop to speak to them or you're in a meeting with them. "But if you see a black person walking down the street, you see straight away that they're black. They are different types of racism."

No, they are still racism - the fact one grouping easier to identify than another doesn’t make a difference to that.only an imbecile would think so!

Oh, right, Abbott is exactly that! 

Asked if she believed she had done anything wrong or had said something in her Observer letter that she did not believe in, she said: "I just think that it's silly to try and claim that racism which is about skin colour is the same as other types of racism. "I just... I don't know why people would say that."

Because it’s the truth, though I can understand why that’s a concept you’re unfamiliar with… 

Abbott was quick to withdraw the remarks, which were heavily criticised by Jewish and Traveller groups, and apologised "for any anguish caused". But she was suspended by the Labour Party pending the outcome of an investigation, with leader Sir Keir Starmer saying her letter "was antisemitic" and should be condemned. Abbott was readmitted to the Labour Party in May 2024, just in time for her stand as a Labour candidate in the general election, even though an internal inquiry into her conduct had concluded four months earlier.

So your initial apology was false? And you're dumb enough to admit to that on air?

"I got tremendous support locally. We had a big rally on the steps of Hackney Town Hall. And in the end Keir Starmer and the people around him had to back off because of the support I had from the community."

If this isn’t racial superiority threats to bring people out on the street, what is?  Maybe Special Branch should be investigating?

And so, she's propmtly been suspended again! If only she’d kept her thick racist mouth shut, eh?

Great News! Now Stop Them Dancing At The Notting Hill Carnival Too...

 The forces of woke are in full rout as chickens finally come home to roost:

On Wednesday, the High Court ruled that Northumbria Police, one of Britain’s largest forces, breached impartiality by marching at an LGBT+ event.

 And the news is slowly filtering out as risk-averse Chief Cons fight to throw the lanyard class within their forces under the bus.

On Friday Police Scotland Deputy Chief Constable Alan Speirs said no uniformed officers would march at Pride in Glasgow today - in contrast with the situation last year, when dozens of officers were paid to take part. It is understood that a decision had been taken not to participate prior to the court ruling - but plans for minor ‘engagement’ were dropped after the High Court judgment.

They could see the way the wind was blowing - never let them tell you they didn’t! And now the alphabet mob are being shoe’s out of police stations everywhere, how about the Met Police looking to next month  and considering if having a police officer pictured standing there while some dusky maiden gyrates around him clad only in feathers really says ‘We are impartial’?

Yes, It's All Fun And Games Until...

TOKYO, July 19 — Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered today to the Japanese prime minister’s office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse.

...a 20ft tall ambulatory hydrangea is eating the mailman. 

Konichiwa!

Hopefully, It's Not A Happy Ending...

 

But eho knows, really? Not even Matt.

Sunday Funnies...

 And none of them can hold a candle to Joan Collins and Leoanard Rossiter for 'Cinzano'...

IF He’s 18, I’m A Chinawoman

 …and I don’t think I’ll need to change my name to Ms Wong yet!

Perhaps they mistakenly printed his wright, instead of his age?

Just So Long As That Scent Doesn’t Emanate From A Black Child, Eh?

Britain's top police chiefs today urge their officers to crack down on cannabis. The country’s longest-serving chief constable admits the smell of the drug is a ‘sign of crime and disorder’ which makes even him ‘feel unsafe’.

Why should they do their job when this is what happens when they do?

Sir Andy Marsh, who leads the College of Policing, said frontline officers should ‘do something about it’.He is backed by Greater Manchester Police Chief Sir Stephen Watson and Merseyside Chief Constable Serena Kennedy.

Strsnge that the Metropolitan Police didn't also weigh in, isn't it? 

Sir Andy, who is the officer in charge of police standards, said: ‘In my community, my kids are too frightened to use the bus stop because it always stinks of cannabis.’ He told the Mail ‘policing is about creating an environment that people feel safe in’ and said: ‘I’m speaking from personal experience and people I talk to, if I walk through a town, city, or even village centre and I smell cannabis, it does actually have an impact on how safe I feel.

So, there seems to be at least three sensible coppers in the College of Policing, but I fear they won't get the backing for this that they need. Certainly not in London: 

Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan has called for the decriminalisation of possession when it involves small amounts of the drug.

Madness. 

Oh, Robert, Demanding Again That 'Someone' Do The Job You Failed To Do When You Had The Chance...

A prison officer will be killed if the Government does not “get a grip” of “spiralling” violence by prisoners, Robert Jenrick has warned. 18-year-old Rudakubana allegedly used a kettle in his cell to heat the water before the attack at HMP Belmarsh on Thursday 8 May.

Why does a prisoner - any prisoner, let alone a killer - get a kettle in their cell? Is our prison service so utterly fallen to that long march through the institutions that the comfort of killers, rapists and terrorists is allowed to override the safety of those guarding them? 

I know, rhetorical question…

“I have spoken to officers who say attacks with boiling water are not uncommon. Will he commit today to order the removal of every kettle from high-risk prisoners? Not in June, but now, today. This goes deeper than one review, men like Rudakubana and Abedi glorify violence, they dream of martyrdom, and, still, governors pander to them. “I couldn’t care less if Rudakubana never had a hot drink again, nor would the British public. This culture of appeasement, of protecting the rights of convicted terrorists and criminals over the safety of our officers must end, and it must end now. “

Well, the Tories were in power for how long, Robert? Eleven years, wasn’t it?  Why didn’t they do something about it then ? Is it because they are just as beholden to the progressive outlook as Labour? Or was it in case any of the Afghans they were secretly foisting on us (and keeping it secret) turned out to be vicious criminals, per chance?