It's Who They Are, It's What They Do....

Three years ago, Dr Eithan Haim exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly performing illegal sex change procedures are being on minors as young as 11. 

And was he thanked fot bringing such actions to the attention of the authorities, while the criminals carrying them out went into hiding and tried to cover up what they had been doing? Reader, no. That's what happens in a sane world, and we aren't living in one. 

Dr Kristy Rialon tried to 'destroy' his career by spreading 'malicious' lies about him after he blew the whistle on their program, according to a lawsuit obtained by the Daily Mail. Rialon, 43, posted several 'anonymous defamatory reviews' on Haim's WebMD profile, alleging that he was 'mutilating and raping his patients', the complaint said. In one post, she even pretended to be a patient and detailed how he allegedly raped her, the filing stated.

Strange how what the Left accuse others of doing is always what they turn out to have been doing themselves, isn't it? 

The DOJ, FBI and Health and Human Services department launched an investigation into the allegations in 2024, but the Trump Administration has since dismissed the case with prejudice because it was 'founded on lies, not facts or law.'

Haim's complaint is backed by billionaire Elon Musk and his social media platform X, which the doctor alleged enabled him to 'fight back against an unjust prosecution.'

One to watch, and don't forget the popcorn. 

 

But She Wasn't 'Standing Up For Her Neighbours', Was She?

The mischaracterisation of the Minnesota shooting continues apace:

That a white woman can be killed on camera, with impunity, and be demeaned and ridiculed in her death for standing up for her neighbors shows just how far down the road of violence the nation has gone.

She wasn't standing up for het neighbours, she was standing up fot illegal immigrants that ICE were looking for in order to boot out of the country, a policy many of her neighbours would have voted for after years of Democrat tolerance of them.

It is a road most Americans do not want to continue on – recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates.

I'd like to see the questions that poll was actually asking!  

But to truly stop the damage requires going further – it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make them safe.

Gosh, whatever could have given them that idea? Could it possibly have been all the rapes and murders committed by illegals, perchance? Not to mention the terrorism that was the basis for the very creation of ICE:

Formed in 2003, during the embarrassing and disastrous national excesses of the post-9/11 era – when the nation launched two ill-fated forever wars, and demonized Muslim immigrants – ICE’s mandate was overwrought and ill-considered. Its formation was part of the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which – as illustrated by its name – formally adopted the idea that immigrants were an inherent security threat to Americans.

Well, having launched the biggest ever terrorist attack on US soil it's really no surprise.... And it's not just one political party with that view, either:

In 1986, Ronald Reagan coupled the country’s only amnesty program with a seven-fold increase in border enforcement – beginning an arms race that would shape border violence for decades. But it was Bill Clinton’s 1996 signing of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) set the stage for our current mass deportation system, by making deportation easier, and making more people deportable, even for nonviolent crimes.

Immigrants - even legal ones - are guests in your country and you have the absolute right to set the rules by which they come to rhe country and live there. Who on earth would ever think you didn't?  

Heba Gowayed is an associate professor of sociology at Cuny Hunter College and Cuny Graduate Center and author of the book Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential Victor Ray is the F Wendell Miller associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and author of the book On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

Ah. I see. 

Tweet Of The Month

 January proved an exceptionally rich month.

And the Venezuela adventure was a rich source:

As was the ICE issue in the States...

And then there was The Jenrick Miscalculation (No, not a Robert Ludlum novel, sadly)

Things weren't going much better for Labour...

Post Title Of The Month

 Longrider on a more annoying Tube phenomenon than people who play rap music sans earphones: 

Quote Of The Month

 David Thompson is puzzled once more by the US University contingent: 

"The question “what is queer food?” is, we’re told by Professor Elias, “a question that’s coming up a lot lately.” If only among academics desperate for an angle, an excuse for claiming a salary and wasting other people’s time. Academics much like Professor Elias.

Elias said she does not have a definition for what “queer food” is, but wants “recognition” it exists.

Welcome to the bleeding edge of human mental activity."

 

Post Of The Month

Jonathan Pearce at Samizdata solicits the commentariat's view on the ICE incident in Minnesota.

Oh, Posters, They Make Everything Work Better, Right?

From Monday, GP practices across the country will use posters to promote Jess’s rule, a new system aimed at preventing serious illnesses from being missed and needless deaths. It is named after Jessica Brady, a 27-year-old who contacted her surgery 20 times before dying of cancer in 2020. Jess’s rule urges family doctors to consider a second opinion, conduct a face-to-face physical examination or order more tests if a patient has had three appointments for their symptoms but no diagnosis.

Another piece of legislation named after a victim, and we all know how useful they often turn out to be, don't we, Reader?  

Posters advertising Jess’s rule have been sent to all 6,170 GP practices in England. The system was launched in September but the new posters will boost patient safety by reminding GPs to rethink initial assumptions, ministers said.

Will they? There are posters up in every single place of work, and public areas like train stations, and after the first day, how much notice is taken of them? 

The posters were co-designed by Brady’s parents, Andrea and Simon Brady, NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care. GP surgeries will also receive a letter from Streeting and NHS England’s national medical director, Dr Claire Fuller, stressing the importance of Jess’s rule.

Which will go straight in the bin, because if something isn't backed up by consequences for failure, it's not worth the paper you'e printing these posters on. 

But it seems the case that brought about this entire policy is yet another 'gift' from the Covid hysteria:

Jessica, an engineer for Airbus, contacted her GP surgery about 20 times in six months before her death in 2020, reporting symptoms including abdominal pain, coughing, vomiting and weight loss. Owing to restrictions during the pandemic, she was offered virtual appointments and prescribed medications including antibiotics and steroids. She was also told she may have long Covid. She was finally diagnosed with cancer that had spread throughout her body, but only after her mother paid for her to see a doctor privately.

You gave the NHS the chance to slack off and not treat patients while still getting paid using a bad bout of the flu as an excuse, and this happened. You're not fixing this with posters. 

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent"

Never was that quote by Adam Smith more encapsulated in a modern context than in this revolting case which shows us all how low the justice system has sunk.

A transgender woman who groomed and raped a young girl in Wirral before transitioning has been jailed for 15 years

So a man when he committed the offence, and of course, still a man now.Always a man in fact. Yet described as a woman in every report of this nighmare case, apart from one no doubt accidental slip in the Wirral Globe.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the victim has been badly affected by his appalling behaviour and her former outgoing personality has changed. Jailing the defendant, who appeared in the dock sporting a moustache, Judge Katherine Pierpoint, said, “You groomed her so you could start to abuse her to fulfil your own sexual desires.”

Yes, Reader, a white liberal female judge. You know what to expect from such now, don't you?  

Anthony O’Donohoe, defending, said that a custodial sentence was likely to be difficult for Peers.

He's the defence brief, considering this pervert to be the real victim is his job. It's certainly not, however, the job of the judge: 

The judge said she accepted Peers had struggled with gender identification issues throughout her life. “I appreciate as a transgender prisoner there are issues you will have to navigate during a lengthy prison sentence.”

Those are consequences, Judge.  

This Is What Our 'Justice System' Has Come To...

Mahamad, of Browns Green, denies charges of attempted murder and an alternative of wounding with intent.

Why is an alternative even offered by the useless CPS (here living fully up to their nickname of 'Couldn't Prosecute Satan') when this enricher stabbed the other enricher - who at least had an actual job - twenty-nine times..?

He answered no comment after being arrested by police, the court heard 

Mr Wallace spoke on his alternative of wounding with his intent charge, saying: 'The defendant denies even this was what he intended. 

'It goes with the territory when you are a robber. It was bad luck he got injured while he was intending to rob him. 

'That's what the defendant was saying.'

The defence is actually proffering the argument that this Third World savage considers armed robbery his profession. That he's allowed to do this makes even more of a mockery of our justice system.

If We Haven't Needed It For 10 Years, Why Do We Need It Now?

Ministers will bring in a new “school of government” for senior civil servants to train them in AI and other skills – more than a decade after David Cameron axed the previous college for Whitehall.

Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime minister, will announce the new body in a speech on Tuesday setting out the government’s plans to “rewire” the civil service for modern times. Cameron’s decision to close the previous national school of government at Sunningdale has been widely considered a mistake, with growing fees for external providers.

Considered a 'mistake' by whom? Anyone we should take any notice of?  

Ahead of the speech, Jones said he was determined to “work with the civil service to change the system, promote innovation and build in-house state capacity to get things done”.

Aimed at improving the training of senior civil servants, its programme will include knowledge on economics, finance, policy, leadership and management, commercial, AI, data and digital, programme and project management and delivery.

Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't they have all that already, in order to get to be senior civil servants in the first place? 

His speech, due on Tuesday with a promise to “move fast, fix things”, will build on existing plans to halve government spending on external consultants and reduce departmental administration costs by 16% over the next five years, delivering savings of £2bn a year by 2030.

Aha! That's who consider this a mistake then - the consultants who were suckling at the teat of government! 

In an interview with the Times last week, Jones also suggested he would increase performance-related pay and more civil servants would be “shown the door” if not meeting standards.

Oh, when have I heard that one before?  

Slippery Slope Gets Even More Slippery...

An elderly woman was euthanized within hours of her husband claiming she changed her mind after insisting she wanted to live. 

Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying laws allow patients to request a painless death if an assessor agrees their terminal condition meets certain requirements. 

Patients often wait weeks, but it can happen the same day the application is lodged if judged to be medically urgent by a MAiD provider.

Yet another time when what those pushing a proposal say will never happen happens...

'Many members brought forward concerns of possible external coercion arising from the caregiver's experience of burnout and lack of access to palliative care in an in-patient or hospice setting,' the report noted. Members were also concerned that Mrs B's spouse was the main person advocating and navigating access to MAiD, and there was little documentation that she actually asked for it herself.

In a just world, cases like these would bring to a screeching halt any other such schemes being pushed around the world. But ithey won't, will they, Reader?  

But People With Hammers, Zoe...

...you just cannot tell them something isn't a nail. They just want to use the hammer.

Kemi Badenoch is evolving into one of those politicians who, whatever she says, is not just likely to be wrong, but is likely to say the opposite of what’s right. She says Greenland is not a big deal (a “second-order issue” is how she described it to the BBC) – it is a big deal. She says net zero is too expensive – the opposite is true: net-anything-but-zero is a cost we can’t afford. But her promise to ban under-16s from using social media, echoing Australia’s recent move, is hard to write off completely; people across the spectrum, including Andy Burnham, agree with it.

Which should, for any functional human with two brain cells to rub together, be a sign that it's not something to endorse. 

Nobody who has ever met a teenager, or read the news, will be completely at ease with the role of social media in young lives. There are horrific effects, which have been well documented and inadequately addressed ever since the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017 after viewing suicide and self-harm content online.

We are seriously considering this because one obviously mentally unwell teenager died? No, because people like Zoe's colleagues have realised what an invention that allows worldwide instant communication means for their progressive agenda.

Many platforms, even those that seem anodyne, are purpose-built to spur anxiety, self-doubt, self-harm, anything that delivers attention. We have this completely contradictory environment in which a nine-year-old can’t walk to school alone without turning into grist for a radio phone-in about parental neglect, and yet tech companies with a record of generating emotional distress for profit are allowed access to children’s bedrooms.

 And after all, it's not just young people who are using it, is it..?

Between Gen X miscreants and hyper-credulous boomers, there are generations that pose a greater risk to, and are themselves at risk from, the informational ecosystem. Any thinking politician needs to work out how to deal with them.

Shame we don't have any of those. 

Sympathy Evaporating....

A grieving mother says action should be taken to tackle Britain's e-scooter 'scourge', as she shared photos following her 14-year-old son's death in a crash. Carly Calland posted pictures, including some of paramedics treating her son Jacob, in an effort to 'bring home the reality and seriousness of what happened'.

Well, she's not wrong, these things are indeed a total menace. 

Campaign calls have been backed by Ms Calland, whose son Jacob died in an e-scooter accident in March last year - and she has now shared photos of the clothes he was wearing at the time, after finally having them returned last week. She wrote: 'After a lot of thought, I feel it is right that I share these photos with the public. As is normal in this day and age, members of the public started taking photographs of the scene and started posting on social media straight away.'

Well, you're in good company, because this is the subject of yet another demand for legislation to regulated human nature. So what happenerd to the illegal rider who mowed down your young son while he was walking innocently on the pavement? I mean, that was what happened, right?

Jacob was riding on the back of an e-scooter without a helmet through a busy junction in Wythenshawe, Manchester, on March 19 2025, when the crash happened.

Oh... 

She told the Daily Mail how she wants e-scooters to be legalised, as a step towards better regulating their use - as well as mandatory wearing of helmets and a ban on carrying people as passengers.

Not quite as breathtakingly awful as killing your parents and having the audacity to then plead clemency on the grounds you're an orphan, but certainly in the ballpark. 

Ms Calland added: 'I'm not going to stop campaigning. The government say they'll make changes - I won't allow them not to. It won't be worth their while ignoring me.'

They'll file you in the same box they file all demands from people who want governmemt to save them from the consequences of their own failures, unless they think there are votes in it for them. And I really don't think there are.. 

Yes, They Actually Let A Fox Guard The Henhouse...

The head of a primary school who discussed sexually abusing a child with a mother he met on a fetish website has been banned from teaching for life.

Gosh! I wonder what the school safeguarding team thought about this? 

Paul Brown, the safeguarding lead at Bransgore Church of England school in Christchurch, Hampshire, left in April 2024 due to 'personal reasons'.

Oh.... 

But it has now emerged that he was arrested in July 2023 as a suspected paedophile - although he was not charged.

Why not? Another CPS lazy day, I guess. Or the police failed to secure enough evidence to charge him. 

Brown used a bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM) website Fetlife between June and July 2023, sometimes during school hours.

Gotta have a little something to while away the long boring hours, I guess... 

After police arrested him, Brown claimed he thought it was 'all fantasy' and that Person A's children did not exist.

As likely an excuse as 'the dog ate my homework'... 

Despite the accusations against him, the misconduct panel heard character witness statements. One person wrote to the panel: 'I agree that he acted unwisely and without rational perspective but I don't believe he has ever, or would ever, harm another human being, including a child.' Another wrote: 'I believe that Paul is safe to work with children,' adding that 'Paul has spent his life helping children' and is a 'good man who has had his life's work taken away by this very sad affair'.

Luckily, the panel didn't go along with this. And he showed his utter contempt for the system by his behavior at the hearing. 

The conduct panel heard how, despite the nature of the conversation Brown had with Person A, he did not report the profile to the website or contact the police despite being aware that children were at 'risk of sexual abuse'. Brown did not attend the hearing. In a letter and a statement to the panel dated October 2025 he admitted to 'large parts of the allegations facing him'.

It should come as no surprise that these people seek to put themselves in these positions of access to prey but when caught, they really should face more consequences than this. 

Less Time Than Lucy Connolly Got For A Tweet...

Henge, of Shelton Old Road,Stoke on Trent, was jailed for two years and eight months on Thursday after he admitted attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent and dangerous driving at earlier hearings. He was also disqualified from driving for six years and four months, and told he would have to take an extended retest after serving his sentence.

You might think that a just sentence, until you read what he did to get it: run over someone's dog then assault the owner with his car - a deadly weapon - as he himself acknowledged:

Following Thursday's hearing at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, Det Con Mia Joyce said Hange confessed he "used his car as a weapon" when he was interviewed in custody. 

"Hange showed no remorse before he launched an attack on his victim, who thankfully was not seriously injured," she added.

Unusually, the worthless judge who sentenced this creature isn't named in any of the news reports and nor can I find the case in court listings for that Thursday - probably to avoid the public finding out what other ridiculously lenient sentences they've passsed in their career. 

H/T: The Grift Report via Twitter

And Will Be Full Of As Much Trash...

...and  smell as sweet, eh, Matt? 

Sunday Funnies...

 One for all you movie buff pedants out there! 

Another Lie Brought To Our Attention By The Morons In The Met Police

I'ts a claim that's often used to silence those raising unwelcome attention on problem areas: 'There are no 'no go' areas in the UK'...

Even the cops weigh in from time to time, which is a little awkward for them now: 

 

Scotland Yard has stopped a Ukip march from going ahead in east London over fears of provoking the local Muslim community. 

The demonstration, titled "Walk With Jesus", was scheduled for January 31 in Whitechapel - long home to one of Britain's largest Islamic populations. Metropolitan Police officials said permitting the event in that location would be "reckless" given the potential for violence.

From the demonstrators? No, Reader, of course not!  

Social media advertisements promoted the gathering as a "Christian march", inviting participants to worship Jesus Christ during January, which organisers described as "the month dedicated to the holy name of Jesus". Authorities confirmed the march could take place elsewhere - but not in Whitechapel.

But aren't we always being told by the progressives that Muslims have no issue with Jesus, considering him a prophet in their holy book? Surely they haven't been lying to us, have they?  

After all, they can declare 'no go zones' when it suits them to do so and for the most spurious of reasons:

So I leave you with the words of someome far wiser than I, your humble landlady:

H/T: GBNews via Twitter

You’re not ‘Inspiring’ Anything Except Ridicule!

De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) has become the first UK university to switch to rounded-tip knives in a bid to drive public safety. 

The organisation is exchanging all its pointed blades for safer alternatives to inspire more widespread adoption and reduce knife crime nationwide.

At first, I thought this was another AI 'joke', but a quick trip to the university website sadly disabused me of that hope. 

H/T: Prison Planet via Twitter

Rejoice, Rejoice...

 Your landlady has made it to another year on this planet, the 61st to be exact.  

My, what a lot of candles...

So I have a long weekend to do as little as possible in ☺

For Once, You're Right, Rhiannon - Why Should I Care?

What do James McAvoy and my three-year-old son have in common? Very little, you might think, notwithstanding their shared awareness of the book The Dinosaur That Pooped a Planet. Yet their lives overlap in a more tangible way, because they, along with Benedict Cumberbatch, patronise the same cafes on Hampstead Heath. Both actors have signed a petition protesting against the takeover of four family-owned north London cafes by the Australian-inspired chain Daisy Green. It’s a move that has dismayed the local community, leading to protests, and threats of legal action against the landowner, the City of London Corporation, whose new funding model for green spaces prioritises “income generation”.

You’re probably wondering why you should care, either about what Hollywood actors think, or about this notoriously chi-chi part of London.

Yes, you're right.  

And yet, like them, and like me, you probably have a favourite cafe, one that feels very special.

OK, back to wrong again! My, that was quick. I certainly don't.

The UK used to be full of cafes such as this: often immigrant-owned, and serving a combination of cuisines. On the surface they seem basic, perhaps even a little scruffy. They are certainly not Instagrammable. Yet what they offer – friendliness, inclusivity – is worth more to the clientele than social media kudos.

So why are they threatened? Is it because in Labour's failing economy, they are unsustainable? 

This isn’t just a story about gentrification and the homogeneity that comes with it, but one of social atomisation. As more and more chains dominate high streets all over the country, truly mixed, inclusive spaces become rarer and rarer.

If mixed, inclusive spaces were so desirable, wouln'y these high street chains offer them?  

I know I am not alone in not wanting my local cafe to turn into what so many others have across the UK and beyond: a list of signifiers, part of a corporate, global language that masquerades as friendly and laid-back but is – in its aesthetic and its pricing – tailored only for a certain demographic, and is indistinguishable from a thousand other similar places.

It sounds as though Rhiannon doesn't consider herself part of the demographic that patronises chains like Costa and Starbucks. Is that maybe the real issue. Certainly, every one of these chains I've been in is full of immigrants serving the coffee and cakes, so it can't be that. It has a name, you know - snobbery. Why not use it? 

Where's The Modern Day Keith Anderson To Deal With This Sort Of Thing?

Terrified villagers have been forced to sleep on rooftops or abandon their makeshift homes over fears a rampaging elephant which has killed 22 people will return. The young male, which has one tusk, is still at large in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, around 730 miles east of the Indian capital Delhi. The elephant – thought to be in a mating phase known as musth, a period of increased sexual libido and aggression which can last for up to 20 days – started its killing spree on January 1.

But unluckily for these Indians, there's no longer any capable Scottish Indian ex-Army officer able and willing to sort it out. These are more enlightened times. 

Indian authorities have deployed at least 80 forest officers to find the elephant and tranquilise it.

And then what? Relocate it? A huge undertaking in a Third World country with the typical transport problems they always have. 

The rampage comes as deadly human-elephant conflict is on the rise in India, attributed to rising deforestation, food and water scarcity and increased residential encroachment in areas that were once elephant corridors.

The price of human population explosion is always thus. 

The Star Chamber 2026

Peter Mandelson has issued an apology for his association with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – after declining to do so in an interview broadcast on Sunday.

Now, I hold no brief for this slimy disgraced politician at all, but the hysteria over Epstein is really starting to aggravate me now.  

The Labour peer, who was sacked as US ambassador when details of his support for Epstein emerged in September, gave an interview to the BBC in which he suggested that as a gay man he knew nothing of the disgraced financier’s sex life.

And yes, this is exactly the sort of absurd identity politics that you can expect from  a former member of Blair's cabinet. 

On Monday night, Lord Mandelson apologised “unequivocally” for associating with Epstein after his conviction.

In a statement, he said: “At the weekend, I gave an interview to the BBC. In answering questions about my association with Jeffrey Epstein I did not want to be held responsible for his crimes of which I was ignorant, not indifferent, because of the lies he told me and so many others. 

And if anyone should be able to spot lies, it should be you! But forcing someone to recant a friendship is like something from the dark ages...

“I want to say loudly and clearly that I was wrong to believe him following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered. 

“I was never culpable or complicit in his crimes. Like everyone else I learned the full truth about him after his death. 

“But his victims did know what he was doing, their voices were not heard and I am truly sorry I was amongst those who believed him over them.”

It's ridiculoius that these mea culpas tske up valuable news time and newspaper space, and that they are demanded at all. And why does no-one ever have the courage to refuse to do them?

You Can 'Fool All Of The People, All Of The Time' If They Work For You

Civil service morale rose slightly after Labour took power in 2024, with the biggest jumps in satisfaction in the energy and health departments, an annual Whitehall monitor report will show.The survey from the Institute for Government (IfG) thinktank, due to be published this week, found that morale rose from 60.7 to 61.2% on the civil service employee engagement index.

The engagement index recorded a decade of steady improvement in civil service morale from 2010 to a peak of 63.6% in 2020, followed by three consecutive years of decline from 2021 to 2023.

Most departments’ scores rose slightly in 2024 but the biggest improvers were the Department of Health and Social Care, led by Wes Streeting, and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, led by Ed Miliband, where morale increased by 5 and 7 percentage points respectively.

Is there a 'but' coming? Reader, you know there is... 

Only four departments recorded falls in morale in 2024 – the Foreign Office, HM Revenue and Customs, the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Transport.

Hardly surprising, when you look at the choices on offer on the form: 

The transport department had the largest drop, of three percentage points. This included 13-point falls between 2023 and 2024 for the questions “when changes are made in my organisation they are usually for the better”, and “I have the opportunity to contribute my views before decisions are made that affect me”. The department had falls of 9-10 points for “I think it is safe to challenge the way things are done in my organisation”, “I believe that change is managed well in my organisation”, and “I believe that senior managers in my organisation will take action on the results from this survey”.

It's damning, isn't it?  

We're Just Such An Inconvenience To The NHS, Aren't We?

As ambulances queued in front of Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading last week, corridors full of patients were waiting for a bed on a ward. Emergency department consultant Omar Nafousi was at his wit's end. "We've no space," he told the BBC last week. "This is not what I signed up for when I became a doctor."

Like the appearance of Cheesy Footballs in the supermarkets and Cliff Richard on the sound systems, this is a regular part of winter. 

Currently nearly 4,000 beds in England alone are taken up by patients with flu, Covid and the vomiting bug norovirus, according to NHS England, and the situation is on a similar scale in the rest of the UK. But that is dwarfed by another pressure – the patients who should not be in hospital.

Such as?  

Every day there are more than 13,000 people whose treatment has been completed who are still in hospitals in England, the latest figures from NHS England suggest. Plus there are a further 4,000 around the rest of the UK - which means around one in eight beds are occupied by people who don't necessarily need to be there. Many of these "delayed discharge" patients are older and may be frail and living with multiple health conditions who need support in the community.

This isn't new, is it?  

The issue of delayed discharges is far from new. For years, it has been talked about, if not agonised over, and the NHS started tracking the delays in the early 2010s.

Tracking the delays - not solving them. Doesn't that just sum up the NHS? And now they are thinking the unthinkable.

Yet the problem throws up many deeper questions about the care system, coordination and planning in hospitals - with some doctors even asking whether the NHS is over-treating patients, particularly those at the end of life.

Yes, pay in to the obscene Ponzi scheme that is National Insurance all your working life, only to find some heir to Harold Shipman is going to consider you a burden to the glorious NHS and ship you off to die... 

Some NHS trusts have bought places in care homes to allow them to discharge patients. University Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust has taken this one step further: it has spent £10m buying and renovating a former care home in the city called Preston Lodge, which opened in July and has more than 50 beds.

And they'll tell you it's all for your own good: 

In Price's view, her own profession bears some responsibility, too. She says about a third of people who are admitted for medical reasons are in their last year of life. "We admit them and end up over-treating them with interventions, scans and pills," argues Price, who is president of the Society for Acute Medicine.

She says for many of these patients, palliative care and managing their symptoms, mainly pain, would be preferable: "Their quality of life would be much better and we would avoid a hospital admission."

I don't know why I'm surprised they are admitting it. 

And I Bet I Know Who Is Looking To See If He Can Implement The Same Policy Here...

 ...I'm sure he'll have his beady, ever blinking eyes on it.

“State media and government spokespersons have already signaled that this is a permanent shift, warning that unrestricted access will not return after 2026.”

Close Enough ForGovernment Work...I Guess

 All the competence you experct from a Labour politician...

They quickly realised they'd become a laughing stock and hastily deleted it.

The ambitious project was announced on Tuesday (January 13), promising significant investment in northern transport infrastructure. Key features include a new Liverpool-Manchester line, major developments for an underground Piccadilly station, and the re-establishment of a Manchester-Birmingham route. Regrettably, the erroneous graphic failed to accurately represent these plans, reports the Manchester Evening News.

That's one way of putting it!  

Writing on social media, Mayor Brabin said: "The government has today committed to upgrade and electrify key rail links across Yorkshire, fix capacity at Leeds, and build a new Bradford station. As Mayors, we worked with Lord Blunkett, to make the case for Yorkshire's Plan for Rail and the government has listened to us."

Did they let Blunkett draw the map, perchance?  

Good, It's About Time!

Penguin breeding has been paused at a London aquarium after animal welfare activists argued the birds were 'trapped in a basement without sunlight or fresh air'.

Merlin Entertainments, which owns Sea Life London Aquarium, held a meeting last month with independent experts and animal welfare groups after a campaign calling for the release of the attraction's 15 gentoo penguins.

Not onto the streets of London, one hopes?  

I took a day off and went to the London Aquarium the year before last, having first visited soon after it opened back in the late 90s. Back then, it didn't have penguins, and was just an aquarium, quite a good one at the time, as I recall. But I found the years had not been kind to it. 

Now, it was clearly targeted heavily at children and school trips, and so full of ‘educational experiences’ with a very definite bent towards eco-mentalism, and the much vaunted ‘largest reef tank in the UK’ was indeed large but very lacking in diversity of fish and corals, being mostly full of the sort of inverts and fish that people just starting out in the reef keeping hobby would be recommended to keep. 

The penguins were a jarring sight - it just seemed wrong, having seen the amazing open air enclosures at London Zoo and Edinburgh Zoo, to see them shut up in such a place.

So on this aspect, I’m inclined to agree with the activists.

Merlin Entertainments has previously said its team of animal welfare specialists and aquarists cared for the penguins in their enclosure every day to make sure they were healthy and thriving, and the enclosure was on the ground floor and not the basement.

Semantics, they still have no natural light and fresh air! 

Laura Walton, co-director at Freedom For Animals, added: 'While we agreed that full release into the wild was, regrettably, not a viable option, concerted efforts will be ongoing to see whether the establishment of a penguin sanctuary for these and other suitable birds could offer lifetime care in a more suitable and naturalistic environment, incorporating natural sunlight and fresh air.'

Maybe London or Edinburgh Zoos should step up and offer them refuge. 

Getting Older....

 

...I don't want to presume, but Matt appears to know it's drawbacks well.

Sunday Funnies...

 No 10 is a little too on the nose right now....

YRCMIU

An NHS ambulance worker who was let go after her wife tried to beat their boss to death with a hammer has won an unfair dismissal claim against her former employer. Paula Smith had worked for the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) Trust for 26 years in the Patient Transport Service, helping to transport patients to and from hospital.

A role for which an elemernt of trust should be a requirement due to dealing with the genuinely vulnerable,  so understandably, her employers declsred her a liability. And a tribunal has declared they were wrong to sack her, just because she was in a relationship with an unstable violent woman.

It's as if risk profiling doesn't matter anymore...

She sometimes worked alongside her wife, Stacey Smith, who had a similar role, though the pair were not guaranteed time off together. But after a years-long dispute over shift patterns, Stacey attacked their boss, Michala Morton, in November 2023. Stacey had lain in wait outside Ms Morton's home in Tameside before bludgeoning her head with a hammer, fracturing Ms Morton's wrist as she tried to defend herself. She then sent a text to an unknown acquaintance, writing: 'I've done it. I've smashed her head in. Oppsie (sic) xx!'

And now Paula's in line for a big payout as a result.  I don't know why anyone does the Lotto these days. 

*You really couldn’t make it up! 

Hard Cases Make Bad Law...

Joe and Kate Duffy were devastated and baffled when the man accused of their daughter's murder walked free from court. They had felt certain that Francis Auld would be found guilty of killing 19-year-old Amanda in Hamilton in 1992. But a jury found the charges against him not proven - one of two verdicts of acquittal which could be returned in criminal trials in Scotland.

But not any longer - for ‘progress’, it would seem. Has ever a word been so misused?

Joe and Kate did not initially understand what the jury's verdict meant – and have now spent more than three decades campaigning for the abolition of not proven.

From 1 January, this centuries-old verdict has been consigned to the history books and Scottish trials will end with the accused being found either guilty or not guilty.

Making Scotland no longer unique. 

A common interpretation of not proven was that the jury suspected the accused was guilty, but felt the prosecution had failed to prove the charge beyond reasonable doubt.

Good luck finding that in a law book. As Joe and Kate were to discover, there was no written legal definition of not proven. Over the years, whenever juries asked, all judges could tell them was that it was a verdict of acquittal, just like not guilty. Research has also shown that some people thought - incorrectly - that the accused could be tried again if the verdict was not proven.

If that was a reason for throwing out the baby with the bathwater, it was the wrong one: 

That has been allowed in exceptional circumstances since 2011 under double jeopardy legislation, but the method of acquittal plays no part in that process.

So why the push to throw out centuries of Scottish legal tradition, something native born Scots usually rail against?  

Joe explained: "I've never understood why you can have two verdicts which mean exactly the same thing. 

"The only difference in law between not proven and not guilty is spelling. "That's it. Why do we need them? Either you're guilty or not guilty."

Well, now that's indeed all you can be. It's too early to tell if it's been a terrible mistake or not. I know how I'd vote, though... 

What’s Wrong With The Existing Law Then?

A woman who was filmed giving CPR to a man fatally injured in a road crash is calling for photographs and videos of crash sites to be made illegal.

Oh, presumably because the grieving relatives saw it on social media before being formally advised? Well, actually, no: 

I've since spoken to Dominic's family and they learned from the police initially," Ms Ferris said. "But very soon afterwards they received a message saying, 'I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin' and the video attached - of him lying in the street, in the dark, in the rain. "How that must have felt? I can't even imagine."

Once again, 'feelings' are prioritised by the emotionally incontinent and legislation is demanded to soothe them, with no thought for how such legislation is supposed to work.... 

The mother-of-two is calling for legislation to make it a criminal offence to record at such scenes. "Having been in a video in such tragic circumstances, it beggars belief why people want to do that," she said.

I agree, bur what beggars MY belief far more is why you think you have the right to demand new legislation when there's existing legislation, and it works:

There is already a law in place which makes it an offence to improperly use the public electronic communications network. Last month, a woman was arrested over the alleged sharing of images of a pedestrian who was knocked down and killed in Newry city centre.

See?  

I Don't Think You Really Understood The Reference, Did You?

People have joked that I will become the Lord of the Flies,' Knight laughs.

Who he? Oh, sorry:

The 120,000 sq ft facility, based in Lincolnshire, is aiming to breed millions of larvae to feed British livestock and, eventually, humans. The £1.5 million farm, which has its own chief scientist, aims to produce 3,500 tons of insect protein a year using the black soldier fly, a South American species that is the star of insect farming due to its high protein content and ability to compost waste. The harvested protein will go into pet food and this year, thanks to a change in UK law, feed British pigs and poultry. It will also be utilised to produce oils, fertilisers and other products that can be used in cosmetics and medical products. The facility, owned by group Fairman Knight & Sons, aims to feed the flies and their larvae using vast amounts of food waste produced by UK agriculture.It is the brainchild of Julian Knight, a former City financier, and William Fairman, who has been farming for more than 35 years.

Maybe you should have Googled who the 'Lord of the Flies really is, chum. Certainly seems appropriate for someone pushing this slop...

Those Chickens Coming Home To Roost Look Like Vultures....

Scotland Yard failed to properly vet thousands of officers – allowing rapists, racist and violent offenders to join the force. Two serial rapists are among more than 130 officers and staff let in due to vetting failures who have gone on to commit crimes or misconduct, the Metropolitan Police admitted on Wednesday. In a scandal which will raise questions about criminals in uniform across the UK, the Met was one of at least six forces to secretly drop employment checks on new recruits in a rush for extra cash as part of an attempt to find 20,000 new officers.

And not just any old Tom Dick or Harry off the streets would do - HR had a Pantone colour chart of the shades of diversity they'd need to hire to suit the government. 

Details emerged in a bombshell Met recruitment audit which revealed the Home Office [and] National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) were aware that some other forces in England were not taking references' of new recruits despite the obvious risk to the public.

The Daily Mail has learnt that the Met was one of six forces to admit in a NPCC survey that it had 'deviated' from national police regulations during the £3billion Police Uplift Programme between July 2019 and March 2023. But sources said the true number may be higher as some forces failed to respond to the NPCC poll.

Probably because they already knew what those poll results would show.  Scary to think it could be worse than the Met, though:

David Carrick, one of the UK's worst sex offenders now serving 37 life sentences for attacks on 14 women, and Cliff Mitchell, a serial rapist who called himself 'the devil', were among Met officers not properly vetted in the scramble to meet recruitment targets. Mitchell kidnapped and raped a woman at knifepoint in 2023 after being welcomed into the Met in 2020 – despite being previously investigated for six counts of rape against a child. Although there had been concerns about his recruitment, a vetting panel aimed at boosting diversity overturned a decision to reject his application.

DEIhiring is a very very bad idea. It's bad enough when it happens in the Prison Service  

Well, I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle....

Have you ever seen someone walking their pet monkey down the seafront in Sheringham, Holkham or Cromer? For an area that had no registered monkeys living in it as of 2023, an official warning about keeping primates as pets might seem pretty bananas.

You're not kidding. 

But North Norfolk District Council has issued an official statement urging anyone who privately owns a monkey in Norfolk to get a licence before April 6.

The comments, it's fair to say, didn't go as planned.   

Why this legislation in the first place?

 They aim to improve the lives of "intelligent primates with complex emotional, social and cognitive needs that are difficult to meet in most domestic environments".

So are we. Couldn't legislation seek to improve our lives for once? Oh well, I'm sure it won't make anything worse, at least... 

Monkey owners with just one ape to their name must also expand their troop and buy some more primates if they want a chance of getting approved. Under the new law, pet monkeys must be kept in "social groups" unless a vet advises otherwise.

 *sigh* I should know better by now...

In 2023, a survey by wildlife charity Born Free revealed how many exotic licensed animals were living in Norfolk.It found that only one monkey - a black and white ruffed lemur - was being kept as a pet in Nelson's County, in Breckland.

Typical local newspaper - lemurs are primates, but they are not monkeys. 

Relax, They'll Still Be Traditionally Painful When You Step On One In Bare Feet...

People are outraged that technology is being used to improve something again....

Tom Donaldson, senior vice president at the Lego Group, claimed the new smart brick system “brings creativity, technology and storytelling together to make building worlds and stories even more engaging, and all without a screen”.

Some people just seem to want to complain about every change to childhood favourites - I understand why, as so often it turns out not to be an improvement at all, but a response to some snowflake who wants things to be more 'multicultural', but this seems to be a genuine improvement!  

The smart bricks communicate with each other and will even decide whether enough accurate laser blasts have been delivered to achieve destruction. The smart bricks also emit light and play music. At a demonstration of the new toys, a Lego executive explained that, when playing with Darth Vader’s craft, “once in a while you get The Imperial March, just to get the vibe going”.

As a kid, who wouldn't want that? What could the objection possibly be?  

...some argue new ‘Smart Play’ technology undermines the Danish construction toy’s gift for harnessing a child’s own imagination.

Well, imagination doesn't seem to be something valued in children anymore, since they might use it in ways policymakers don't like. 

For Once, I Doubt It's The Police Letting Women Down...

Women who report men filming up their skirts are having their ordeals ‘minimised’ by police as figures reveal less than one in six cases result in a criminal charge.

The police don't charge, they just arrest and gather evidence - that's the purview of the CPS.  

Analysis of so-called ‘upskirting’ in the past two years shows police logged almost 800 allegations, yet just 118 ended up in court. Despite new laws being introduced in 2019 to better protect women, critics fear many victims are still failing to secure justice.

Then point the finger at the right culprits.  

Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said police were still failing to take women seriously over the issue, adding: ‘Upskirting is a traumatic violation in its own right, and can form part of a wider pattern of offending that includes rape and other forms of sexual violence. 

‘We’ve long called for non-contact sexual offences to be taken more seriously. However, the reality is that they are often minimised when reported, with police frequently failing to investigate them properly or recognise patterns of offending. 

‘This leads to missed opportunities to prevent further abuse. Upskirting has been a specific criminal offence since 2019, but the low number of prosecutions shows that criminalisation alone is not the solution.’

Oh good grief. Way to paint women as unserious hysterical exaggerators, Andrea! Thanks for that... 🙄

Home Office figures show that in the past two years police logged 772 upskirting offences, of which 118 saw somebody charged and taken to court, while 11 accepted a caution. In 265 cases a prime suspect was identified, but problems gaining evidence meant they were not charged. Another 201 cases were shelved as officers could not track down a suspect, with 17 cases closed after a community resolution was reached, often an apology from the offender.

The police's hands are tied by the need to gather enough evidence to suit the CPS who will only prosecute if it's a slam dunk (or is it's something Starmer is politically interested in). 

The Perfect 'Rebellion' For The Modern Generation...

Fan fiction is democracy in its purest, most chaotic form. It’s the people seizing the means of production. Every “what if?” is a tiny revolution.

Yes, some blue-haired nose-ringed creature leeching off a genuine creative to make up a wish-fulfillment screed is a sign of the times, of course. And it's only fitting the 'Guardian' should consider it worthy of a column. 

Because fan fiction isn’t just rewriting, it’s repairing. It’s giving yourself the closure you need when the author won’t.

How very DARE an author write the story they want to write!  

It’s deciding that pain can end differently, that love can be louder, that characters who were doomed in print get to live this time. It’s literature written by people who refused to move on and sometimes these people spell really badly (and that is completely OK). And yes, it’s rebellion.

No it's not. The people of Iran are showing you what rebellion is. It's risk and heartache and peril, not scribbling a different ending to a classic or popular story because it didn't end the way you wanted.  

Against gatekeeping, against prestige, against the assumption that stories only count when they make money. Fan fiction exists because readers loved something so much they refused to let it die.

Who IS this moron, anyway? 

Urooj Ashfaq is a Mumbai-based comedian, writer and actor.

Ah.  

She Just Wants Needs Publicity...

Zara Larsson slammed Immigration and Customs Enforcement as she declared her love for immigrants, trans people, socialism and even criminals in a furious social media rant.

To which I can only say...

The Swedish pop singer, 28....

 Oh.

...has long been a champion of left-wing causes and posted several furious rants to her Instagram story in reaction to the ICE-involved shooting of Minnesota woman Renee Nicole Good.

All the things that have made her native Sweden the lovely, welcoming, safe place that it is today seems to be what she claims to revere... 

'The reason why my sweet, loving, kind, caring, compassionate, smart, generous, talented, thoughtful man can't come to the US - AT ALL - to visit me ever since we got together almost six years ago is because he has a criminal record. Guess for what! Weed!'

A criminal record is still a criminal record, sweetie, even if you don't think it should be one. And if you're missing him so much, you can always go back to Sweden, can't you?  

I Think The Phrase Is: 'You're Bang To Rights, Son!'

Police chiefs facing scrutiny over a decision to ban fans of an Israeli football team from attending a match in Birmingham have insisted the move was not politically influenced. West Midlands police (WMP) leaders defended their position at the home affairs committee on Tuesday after being recalled to give further evidence over the decision to ban fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a Europa League match against Aston Villa on 6 November.

Just the WMP living down to their reputation, or something more sinister? 

Members of the home affairs committee on Tuesday recalled West Midlands police’s chief constable Craig Guildford, and commanders involved in the decision making, greeting parts of the force’s new testimony before them with outrage.Police said they had intelligence the Israeli fans would be the main perpetrators of trouble, a claim that is disputed.

The one thing guarenteed to irk politicians is when their pets in blue start lying to them. That's something they are free only to do to us, the public who are paying for them. 

The cross-party committee of MPs said parts of the intelligence gathering seemed “one sided”, inflating the threat Maccabi fans may have posed while underplaying the threat to them from those in Birmingham angered by Israel’s attacks on Gaza. They said the minutes from SAG meetings showed pressure coming from two councillors, who said that away fans should not attend the game.

And we can guess who those two councillors were. Or rather, what they were.

As intelligence was being gathered ahead of the game, one document contained claims locals in Birmingham might “arm” themselves.

'Locals' with good old Birmingham names? I suspect not. 

Guildford denied he or the police force were politically motivated to find evidence to justify the ban. “From everything that I’ve read, and the commanders that I spoke to, I do not believe that there was political influence on that decision. 

“Lots of local politicians and local members of the community I’m sure wanted to try and influence it, but I honestly don’t think it was influenced,” he told the committee.

You couldn't lie straight in bed, Guildford. Even if you were to be believed, and we were to accept that you honestly believe that, it makes you a disgrace to the uniform and a total liability due to extreme gullibility... 

And Why Should This Be A Surprise?

 

To the families of the victims, the idea that a woman might have had a hand in the deaths, as reported last week, is an unexpected twist to say the least.

After all, there's even a book about it.

Say What You Want About The Freemasons...

 

...but at least they can spell! 

I Don't Think He's Down To That Just Yet...

 

..though Matt may be right, if he has to commit everything else to Greenland and Iran.

Sunday Funnies...

 And not a Banksy among the lot! 

Not At All, It's The Least A Taxpaying Farmer Should Expect...

Mr Jackson told the Daily Mail of the police response: 'It was a little bit OTT (over the top), I must admit.'But nevertheless they did come, but when they got there, the disaster had already happened, and the dog was long gone.'

The police are always a day late and a dollar short in these cases, but at least this time they turned up ready for action. Some detectives would have been good though: 

There was also speculation that the dog in question could have been owned by one of several famous footballers who live in the area. However, Mr Jackson dispelled the rumour, saying: 'I don't think this dog has any connection with him whatsoever.' He believes he is aware of whose dog the real culprit is, however, with three witnesses all reporting the same person. 

He did not reveal who he believes is responsible. Mr Jackson added: 'This dog in question, I think is kept for a status symbol, and it's there to ward people off. 'It's kept for a reason; it isn't a pet.'

 I think we can read between the lines to what breed is under discussion here....

But whether he can get a legal case against the owners may be halted because an update on The Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Act 2025 is due to come into force on March 18, 2026. This act would empower police to enter premises, take DNA and other forensic evidence from dogs suspected of 'worrying livestock'. But this new law comes in exactly three months too late for Mr Jackson.

As always. Police PR Team weren't exactly on the ball here:  

A Cheshire Police spokesperson said: 'At around 1pm Thursday 18 December, police were called to reports that a dog had attacked a number of sheep on a farm on Bradford Lane, Nether Alderley. 

'Officers from the Rural Crime Team attended the scene and found that 21 sheep had been killed by an unknown dog. 

'Armed police also attended the scene, but no firearms were dispatched.'

Eh? You meant 'used' or 'fired'?  

OK, Leo, Let's Ask James Cameron, Shall We?

However, despite the Paul Thomas Anderson's political thriller winning rave reviews and hailed as a 'masterpiece' by critics, when it came to the box office, it received a much more lukewarm reception.

Critics aren't always right. If you can't hook the audience, you're done for;you can't spend rave reviews. 

While it took in an impressive $204.7 million globally, according to Variety the film needed to make around $300 million in order to breakeven, due to its staggeringly high budget - reportedly $175 million - and significant marketing costs.

High budget and marketing costs? James Cameron laughs at these being any kind of obstacle to box office success. And confounds the critics. Long may he continue! Going to watch 'Avatar: Fire And Ash' on the Monday before Christmas was the highlight of the year for me.

I Think The Democrats Have Finally Made The Fatal Misstep We've Been Expecting...

...ever since this whole ICE thing started up. I've been expecting someone to go too far and get themselves shot, but I wasn't expecting it to be a white liberal lesbisn mother of three.

 

Maybe I should have...

Video from the scene showed Good apparently ignoring ICE agents' demands to get out of her car, and instead reversing her vehicle as she tried to drive off. The video began with the victim blocking the road with her car until ICE agents told her to move away. She then reversed to head back down the road as an agent tried to open its driver-side door handle before she drove off.

Extraordinarily, Democrat politicians are trying to blame the agents who neglected to be run over, rather than the idiot who decided to try to kill him. Actually, that's not really that extraordinary, when you stop to think about it.  

Mayor Jacob Frey claimed DHS was trying 'to spin this as an act of self-defense.' 'This is bulls**t,' he said at a press conference. 'I have a message for our community, our city, and ICE - to ICE, get the f**k out of Minneapolis.' 'We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.'

They are there to do the job your state has failed to do because like so many Democrat mayors, you've fotgotten who you are there to serve; the citizens, not the illegals.  

Frey highlighted how 'people are being hurt' and 'families are being ripped apart' by immigration officials. 'Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy, are being terrorized and now somebody is dead. That's on you - and it's also on you to leave,' he said.

Meanwhile, Governor Tim Walz asked his citizens to 'remain calm' as he slammed DHS' narrative as 'propaganda.' 'The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice,' he wrote on Twitter. 'Don't believe this propaganda machine.'

Yes, Reader, this Tim Waltz. We can see what the Somalis infesting Minnesota have contributed - massive organised tax fraud on an industrial scale. 

'We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary,' he said. 'They are teachers in your community, they're business owners, they're construction professionals, they are Minnesotans. 'Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait.'

They are nothing of the sort, and you just swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker.  

'What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict.'

No, we are seeing that when confronted, you have no answers. And now even the MSM is realising that.  The President's PR machine has swung into action and is blasting the ball right into the undefenced goal:

She later confirmed ICE operations are still underway in Minnesota in spite of the controversy. 

Vice President JD Vance said agents were going to 'work even harder' after the woman was shot. 

'I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them,' he said.

How refreshing to see leaders standing up for their people and the law and not reflexively cowering before Leftie rage! 

This Needs To Stop...

Calls to leave the ECHR will double after this, and no wonder:

A double murderer who took a prison officer hostage and demanded the release of hate preacher Abu Qatada has been awarded a £240k taxpayer-funded payout. Fuad Awale was transferred to a special separation unit for dangerous convicts after he and another convict ambushed a jail worker and threatened to kill him. Awale used Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to claim his segregation - designed to prevent him harming officers and radicalising inmates - had breached his right to life.

What Home Sec would be idiot enough not to appeal thi... 

David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, has now agreed to pay £7,500 compensation and £234,000 legal costs after the convicted killer stated he had suffered 'severe depression'.

Oh. Of course. I forgot. 

The High Court has ruled in favour of Awale's appeal to the ECHR, with a judge saying there had been a 'significant degree of interference with the claimant's private life', The Telegraph reports.

I know what you’re going to say, Reader, ‘who was the judge?’ It was, of course, the judge who let Harvey Willgoose's murderer go free early, Justice Naomi Ellenbogan!

Robert Jenrick, Conservative shadow justice secretary, has branded the decision a 'sick joke'. He said: 'Labour are cowing to terrorists and the human rights brigade. They must introduce emergency legislation to carve these monsters out of the ECHR immediately. If they don't, we will as soon as Parliament returns.'

Now, it's being reported on Twitter that he'll 'only' see about £7k of that, the rest going to the bloodsucking leeches  lawyers acting for him. But even that's too damn much! And yes, I get my news from Twitter now, and will do, until the MSM starts doing its job properly.