Tweet Of The Month

Post Title Of The Month

 Fahrenheit211 on the saga of yet another virtue signalling Left stunt gone wrong.

Quote Of The Month

 Fellow blogger James Higham  from Orphans of Liberty on the selective outrage of the Left: 

"The question for us is which were lies and which plain truth? Which were focussed upon, which allowed to slip by ... and by whom? Who is sufficiently "apolitical", not just kidding themselves that they are so, pursuing all the wrongdoing with equal fervour? 

Who would pursue Kerry, Chappaquiddick and Obama with the same fervour that they'd pursue Nixon and Colson?"

Post Of The Month

 Natalie Solent at Samizdata on the modern misuse of the word and status of 'Victim'...

This Was Inevitable...

 We are, after all, no longer a high trust society, thanks to immigration policies: 

Greggs has scrapped front of store food and drink fridges in a drastic new measure to tackle shoplifting. Customers at the popular bakery chain can usually grab a range of bottled soft drinks, sandwiches and other food items from the shelves themselves. But several branches around the UK have now been fitted with a so-called theft-proof counter, with all products stored behind it, out of reach of diners.

Which stores?  Whereabouts?

The company's shop in West Croydon, south London, is among those which have been renovated and has now reopened its doors to customers in recent days. Stores in nearby Croydon and Peckham, Whitechapel and Upton Park in east London, Birmingham, and Wilford, Nottinghamshire, have also all been transformed.

Hmm, I don't know anything about Wilford, but all those other sites have something in common.... Greggs should announce that they've done it to be more like Gail's.

This Blog Is Old Enough To Legally Buy Alcohol Or Join The Armed Forces Today!

It's my blogiversary​, I've been going 18 years today, so your landlady is taking the day off! Over to you!

Pettiness And Control Freakery, It's Got To Be Carefully Taught..

A school in Leicestershire has sparked backlash after it banned jumpers until October, describing it as "dictatorial". Lutterworth High School, has warned students will not be allowed to wear additional layers. Parents have slammed the move, which came into effect after the Easter break. An email newsletter told parents jumpers were only required as an "extra layer of warmth during the colder months".

This is Britain, and you think you know what are the 'colder months' with any degree of accuracy?  

Parents have said the policy change has resulted in their children coming home wet and cold.

Mother Natalie Navaratne said the decision was a "meaningless" issue.

She's right, it's petty control freakery of the sort that school love to indulge in, rather than tackling the real issues. 

She told The Sun: "My daughter wears the school jumper which is on the uniform list, so I don’t see the reasoning behind this decision."We as parents feel that students are able to make their own decisions on whether they feel like wearing a jumper to school or not."

She continued: "It is very dictatorial. It isn’t unreasonable for me to say that I have ongoing concerns over the leadership style at the school."

Then remove your child, if you feel that strongly. You as a parent should know schools are run by petty dictators who love this sort of thing.

She also said children with special educational needs may prefer to wear jumpers.

Oh, god, the appeal to the modern concept of 'mental 'elf'... 

Sarah Filemar, told BirminghamLive her daughter had been placed in "isolation for the first three days" after Easter break."All the teachers go to school in their jumpers, so why can’t the children?" she added.

Because teaching staff set the rules but don't have to live by them.  

Mr Kirby, issuing an update, apologised to parents on the school's website. 

Bad mistake, never apologise. 

He said: "I communicated a change in the school uniform policy whereby the optional jumper would be removed from the uniform during the summer term. In recent years we have seen a considerable increase in Level 3 (L3) behaviour consequences being issued in relation to uniform adherence when the weather improves."A significant proportion of these issues have arisen from students notwearing their mandatory blazer or leaving it at home and instead choosing to wear the optional jumper, often citing that they are too warm. 

'Choosing to wear the optional jumper' - does no-one teach English in your school? Or understand it? 

"In light of this, the decision was made to remove the jumper from the summer term uniform list, which runs from after Easter through to October half term. This decision was not taken lightly."It was made with the intention of reducing avoidable behaviour incidents, ensuring clarity for students and parents, and supporting a consistent and fair approach for all. Our aim is always to create an environment where expectations are clear and where students can focus fully and maximise their learning.

Brother, if the only behavioral issues you have in your school are pupils obeying the uniform code because they understand what 'optional' means, unlike you, count your blessings! 

"However, I fully recognise that for some families, this change has caused concern, and for that, I am genuinely sorry."

Don't be - you've taught them a valuable lesson for adulthood, which will serve them well in the world of work; Sometimes the petty buraucrats make the rules, and they won't make sense, but you either knuckle down or leave and find a better job.

All The Usual Hallmarks

Three Staffordshire Bull Terriers attacked a woman as she was carrying her six-day old baby who was left with a cut to their head after being bitten and clawed.

Gosh, is it Wales again? 

Jason Stafford, 49, was the owner of the three dogs which became dangerously out of control and latched onto the victim's feet and wrist during the savage attack in Cardiff. The three Staffordshire Bull Terriers have been destroyed as a result of the incident.

Is it a case where the owner did nothing and left it to others to act? 

A friend heard the woman's screams and saw one of the dogs had latched on to her wrist. He managed to get the dogs off of her and she left the area with her baby.

Eventually, Stafford was able to pacify the dogs but the injuries sustained by the victims were described as "appalling".

And is it a case where there have been previous issues with the mutts that, if dealt with properly, would have prevented this attack? 

The court heard there had been a previous incident in December where the dogs had attacked another individual and a safety plan had been put in place, but the defendant had "chosen to ignore" this.

And is the owner a known criminal? 

Among the defendant's previous convictions are offences of affray, robbery and drink driving.

*sighs* And is he hoping to get a lesser sentence? 

In mitigation, Derrick Gooden said  the dogs have since been destroyed and the defendant has been out of trouble for more than 20 years, but has a number of health issues.

And did it work? 

Stafford was sentenced to a total of two years imprisonment. The defendant was also disqualified from having custody of dogs for 10 years.

A classic case which ticks all the modern boxes! 

Oh, Marvellous!

He's an avid cyclist, known for taking swipes at bad drivers. But Jeremy Vine admits his three-point turns aren't always up to scratch - with one scrape costing him £1,000 in damages.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !  

The TV and radio presenter scratched a Land Rover while doing the manoeuvre in a car park.The 60-year-old, who courts controversy online with his videos of dodgy drivers, claimed it was 'microscopic', adding that 'oversized SUVs' have ruined the atmosphere in the Devon village where he bumped the Landrover.

The scratch probably only cost £50 to buff out - the rest was an asshole surcharge!  

Let's Call It What It Is....

'Asian' gang, eh? Can I expect the defendants to be named Akimoto, Kihara, Myung, and Kim?

Mustafa Iqbal, 43, Ziaullah Badsha, 25, Mohamed Arshad, 36, and Jaswinder Singh, 65, face 28 charges between them, including accusations of trafficking for sexual exploitation, rape, supplying drugs and sexual assaults. They deny the charges.

Thought so. The MSM lies all the time, describing men as women, illegal immigrants as 'migrants', and Pakistani Muslims as ‘Asian’… 

And glossing over the fact that they have help in their offending from a race traitor:

A woman, Sarah Gray, 53, from Gronant, faces charges of conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis. Gray is accused of allowing her house to be used by Iqbal for sexual exploitation and perverting justice by washing bedding following a rape, which involved handcuffs, of the 16-year-old girl.

Is there any sign that this is yet another case where the police and courts have failed to get a grip and deal with the issue?  

Iqbal is also alleged to have breached a slavery trafficking risk order.

Gosh, it’s almost as if some cultures are just not law-abiding, isn’t it? 

This Man's Downfall Is Going To Be So Satisfying...

 

...and I can't wait to see how Matt covers it on Friday May 7th! 

Proof That Someone At 'The Guardian' Has A Sense Of Humour...

 ...and it's the typesetter (or whatever the digital equivalent is)!

Sunday Funnies...

 I don't think No 4 reckoned with the WFH epidemic and the rise of Teams...

No! You Can’t Handle The Truth!

Besieged by questions about his war on Iran and his wife’s statement on Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump tried to shift the national conversation back to his immigration crackdown by posting a graphic, distressing video of a woman in Florida being killed last week by a man he described as an “illegal immigrant” from Haiti.

Did he get it wrong? 

The video, taken by a surveillance camera outside a Fort Myers gas station, showed a man identified by authorities as a Haitian immigrant using a hammer to bludgeon to death the woman, who was reportedly a clerk at the gas station. Trump’s decision to elevate such graphic images of a woman’s death by posting it for his millions of followers on Truth Social was startling, but in keeping with a pattern of using shocking video of violence attributed to undocumented immigrants to sow fear about immigration and justify mass deportation.

No, the man was an immigrant though there’s every chance that he was legally in the States, like so many imported by the Donald's predecessor. And so it transpired… 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement that the suspected attacker in custody was “released” in 2022 by the Biden administration and given temporary protected status, although it is unclear whether that information is accurate.

Meanwhile, over in the UK, someone else has a problem with people's free speech:

Sadiq Khan has called on ministers to take significantly stronger action against social media companies that spread disinformation after a study showed a surge in hostile accounts posting falsehoods about London’s crime rates and integration.

In an intervention on what he called “the outrage economy”, the London mayor, who has also written to social media firms demanding change, said a lack of action could prompt more domestic terrorism by people who believe conspiracy theories they find online.

What a world we live in, where people are more outraged about people breaking the Eleventh Commandment (thou shalt not notice!) than any of the other Ten…  

We Don't Need To Stop Women From Competing In Men's Sport...

Last month, the International Olympic Committee announced that transgender women athletes would be barred from competing in all Olympic events in the women’s category – but not the men’s events.

Well, that’s right, they are men, after all. No-one’s suggesting they not be allowed to compete at all, are they? 

The new rules effectively redefine womanhood – but not manhood – as a novel and previously unrecognized category consisting only of those with a specific set of genetic prerequisites.

No, they aren’t doing any such thing, they are simply expecting women to compete with women and men with men, like it was before the madness of transgenderism spread across the globe like a plague. 

To comply with this new requirement, women athletes – but not male ones – will be made to submit to genetic testing, to determine whether their womanhood meets the committee’s standards

Because women aren't trying to cheat their way into men's sport, you idiot! 

The move comes as increased political and media attention to the issue of trans rights and visibility over the past years – along with pressure from the Trump administration – has led athletic federations to ban trans women from sports competitions, a demand that has largely not been made for transgender men in women’s or men’s sports.

See my last point!  

Those who support the bans claim that testosterone, male puberty or male genetics confer an advantage in athletics, and that trans women must therefore be banned in order to preserve the integrity of women’s competitions. This sounds like the kind of argument someone could make without being unreasonably motivated by bigotry; the IOC, for instance, claims that its new ban is backed up by science and evidence.

It is, undeniably, as a fellow columnist points out.

This new insistence that a complicated scientific question is in fact a simple one – and that it is determinative and relevant only for women, and not for men – suggests that something other than a robust commitment to fairness is at play.

No, that's exactly what's at play here. 

It is possible to approach the question of trans participation in sports in a way that respects the dignity and identity of trans athletes and grapples with this range of possibilities.

Dignity? Lady, a man whose decided to play dress-up in womanface so he can cheat at sports hasn't got any dignity to lose.

Women who are not dainty, who are not weak, who are not reticent or passive or demure, will now be accused of being men. They will be hounded, smeared and degraded in ways that arise from transphobia but redound, finally, to more old-fashioned forms of homophobia and misogyny.

No, they'll simply have to take a swab to prove they are women. Far less undignified than peeing in a cup, which they are used to doing for drug testing.. 

Not All Book Bans Are A Bad Thing, Or Even ‘Book Bans’ At All

Those wokies at Reactormag are at it again:

On March 17, the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced H.R. 7661. There is no word regarding when the bill will be voted on, but the vote is expected to occur sometime in the coming weeks. While that bill number may not sound familiar, there’s a good chance you have recently heard it referred to as the National Book Ban Bill.

 Anyone calling it that is lying to you. Deliberately and with malice aforethought 

Though that title is not formally associated with the proposed resolution, it does speak to the concerns many have regarding the bill’s language, intentions, and potential long-term impact.

Formally, what is sometimes referred to as the National Book Ban Bill is being presented as H.R. 7661 or the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.”

Which it is. Be assured, there no Guy Montag going round visiting bookshops and libraries and publishing houses and consigning copies to the conflagration. It's simply to stop gender identity rubbish spreading amongst the educational establishment even further, by cutting off the federal funding for schools that allow that.

It has also been referred to as the “National Don’t Say Gay bill,” a reference to a 2022 statute that triggered significant school policy changes, including legislation that restricted public schools from introducing material in kindergarten through 3rd-grade classrooms that was deemed to be related to matters of sexual orientation and gender identity.

And it didn't work, so they are trying again. 

A sweeping initiative, the Don’t Say Gay bill (formally referred to as the “Parental Rights in Education” bill) established several education restrictions regarding both curricula and school policies that could be enforced via various means (including potential legal action). It required schools to inform parents if their children received any mental health services at school, it allowed parents to have greater access to formerly private documents related to their kids, and it enacted a series of moderation policies that effectively enabled legislators to have greater control over what is (and isn’t) taught to students in those age ranges via funding decisions and similar policies.

The primary purpose of H. R. 7661 is to enable the U.S. government to deny federal funding to schools that use those funds for programs and materials the bill deems to be inappropriate.

Nothing else has worked, so let's hope this does. If parents want their children reading  this rubbish so thet can have the latest must-have accessory just like their Hollywood heros, they are still free to buy it for them, after all... 

The broad nature of that language is one of the more controversial aspects of the bill. For instance, it would deny schools the ability to use federal funding for programs, literature, and related texts that include “sexually oriented material” and “material that exposes such children to nude adults, individuals who are stripping, or lewd or lascivious dancing.”

So no more 'Drag Queen Story Time'!  

However, H. R. 7661 would expand the definition of “sexually oriented material” to include material that “involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.”

Good!  

More Suicidal Empathy

 

Gary Freeman, 65, was leading a group of tourists on a guided hike when he brandished his revolver to try to scare off the animal but did not pull the trigger.

If he was only equipped with a revolver, its only use would have been to put it to his own head before the elephant could reach him! 

Judy Connors, from Johannesburg, attended Mr Freeman's safari camp at Klaserie in February, writing on Facebook: 'In the past we have heard Gary speak of his deep respect and love for the elephants. 'He said he would rather be killed by an elephant than shoot one. 'Perhaps this is what I want to believe but there must have been a special bond, soul-to-soul, for this elephant to be the chosen one tasked with his deliverance.'

This is the sort of nonsense I expect from Greens and little children. 

Another friend, Thomas Marshall, said: 'I had the pleasure of joining Gary three times on his wilderness hikes and he was totally at one with nature and told the most amazing stories around the camp-fire. 'The word legend is much abused but he truly was one.'

I wonder in his final moments if he regretted being ‘at one with’ such nature? 

Though he died on April 9, the circumstances of Mr Freeman's death have just emerged and police in Limpopo Province have opened an inquest into the episode.It is understood no action has been taken against the elephant but experts have been called in to study its behaviour and assess its threat to others.

In any era but this one, there would be no question whether or not to cull it.

And Nothing To Do With Activists Like You, Eh?

 

No, the world isn’t going to hell in a handcart. But yes, a good many items are being stolen – in plain view, with apparent impunity – from the shelves at Tesco, M&S and all the major high-street stores.

As a former police officer, having been a chief superintendent during 30 years in the Met and having sat on the London policing board, I often reflect with former colleagues on why we are where we are in terms of policing and public confidence – and how we dealt with shoplifting during our time in the force.

So, you did once do an actual policing role before you became just another race grifter. 

When I was a probationer PC in Tottenham, north London, I regularly attended calls to shops to arrest shoplifters.It was valuable experience for new officers, good for the shops and good for society.

Why did it stop then?   

Where we stand today shows how deterioration and decline has set in, and were you to ask when and how it started and who is responsible, my reply would be unequivocal: j’accuse Theresa May, now Baroness May, the longest-serving home secretary of modern times.

He has a point with some of his reasons, below,  but it seems to me he’s glossing over others:

First, the reduction of police numbers in England and Wales by almost 22,000 officers and more than 20,000 police staff – which included police community support officers (PCSOs) – was plain wrong.

Yes, that undoubtedly didn't help, but having more police is useless if they aren't the right sort to be police in the first place, and there's plenty of evidence that the Met Police in particular are incapable of hiring the right sort.

May’s second offence was the hyper-politicisation of policing, with the introduction of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales in 2012.

Yes, well, the ACPO ranks seem to have accepted hyper-politicisation just fine, as long as they feel the politics run in their favour...

Third on the charge sheet: the introduction of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. This legislation decreed that in England and Wales the shoplifting of goods valued at £200 or less would become a “summary-only offence”.

OK, she's bang to rights here. 

Fourth, May failed to listen to the experts who said that reductions in policing would result in an increase in crime.

Experts? Name names, man!  

Finally, the shake-up of police leadership meant that, for a period, the most senior officers chosen by crime commissioners lacked experience of working in different forces.

It's not their experience or lack of it that concerns most people; it's their wholsale take-over by the enemy within, and  adoption of every left-wing cause going atound, likr BLM and #IBelieveHer (except when it suits them not to). In sort, because they've listened to people like you for far too long. 

How Was He Expected To Know?

A coroner has called for urgent reforms to asthma attack guidelines after a 22-year-old mixed-race man died due to a misunderstanding during an emergency call.

What sort? 

An inquest into his death found that because Mr Barr had a darker skin tone, the emergency call handler's reference to whether he was a 'deathly colour' was misunderstood, despite him being critically unwell, with lips turning blue.

Becoming pale is a common physical warning sign of an asthma attack, as well as a change in colour, dark circles near the eyes, a flushed face, and runny eyes. However, due to Mr Barr's naturally darker complexion, the Coventry coroner concluded that the call handler should have asked questions about Mr Barr's lips rather than the colour of his skin.

But how on earth was he to know the person who was the subject of the call was mixed-race?!?

Don't Want No Short People 'Round Here…

A mum has spoken out after her son was left 'traumatised' following an armed police incident in Tameside on Tuesday (April 14).

It followed reports of a suspected gun at around 5pm. Officers responded and found a group of school-aged teenagers at the scene who had been in the vicinity.

Videos shared on Facebook showed the drama as it unfolded, with several police vehicles at the scene, including armed police. A police helicopter was also spotted circling the area amid the major response.

As you would expect from a report of a firearm…. 

Eye-witnesses claimed they saw youths with a toy cap gun who were understood to be 'firing it' at each other at the McDonalds restaurant. Police rapidly responded after reports were made via 999.

Reports of youths with a cap gun? No, a real one presumably. 

The mum of a 13-year-old who was arrested and surrounded by police with guns has now told of how her son was 'traumatised' and 'woke up screaming' following the ordeal. He had bought the toy gun with friends and was 'playing' with it before officers raced to the scene.

Oh no, a traumatised child! 

The mum, who asked to remain anonymous (Ed: And no wonder...), said her son had finished MMA training when he bought the toy gun. She explained: "He'd finished training and wanted a McFlurry from McDonald's. Before that he'd been to a shop and bought this cheap snap gun that makes a noise."Him and his friends had it, and I don't think they understood it could have been perceived as anything other than a toy. They were playing with it and didn't intend to cause fear. They are only kids.

"It would've been obvious it was just a small silver plastic toy. But then the police came and my son was scared and put it down and tried to run. He was treated like he had a gun and was pushed to the ground and arrested by officers with guns. My son is only small."

Why should the size matter? How big do you have to be to pull a trigger? 

She added: "It's been absolutely traumatising for him. I understand in a real situation the police would have to act on the severity of it, and I don't blame them. But it's clear someone rang the police because they were annoyed with the kids who were being a nuisance or annoying.

So who do you blame, the people reporting it? They may not have been acting responsibly but they may well have been. Surely you can’t expect everyone to know these days if it’s just ‘kids being kids’ as those days are long gone! 

No Longer Accepting Excuses...

The court heard Amber blamed 'immaturity' for the decision to keep driving after her diagnosis, and she has written to Ms Cheema to apologise.

What about the pedestian she nearly killed? 

The judge said Amber was 'in the midst of an epileptic fit' when her driving became erratic, and she 'may not have fully appreciated the very realistic fear of her passenger'. 

He was encouraged by Amber's barrister to spare her a spell in prison, but concluded: 'It was clearly a deliberate choice to disregard the information given to her by her doctor. 'You are fortunate you did not kill people that day, it's as simple as that', he told Amber. 

'You are lucky it wasn't far worse.'

She’s lucky, judge!?! 

Amber, who was on an accountancy graduate scheme prior to sentencing, will serve just over a year in prison before she is eligible for parole, and she is banned from driving for the next three years and four months.

It seems a pathetic sentence given the aggravating factors, but it’s almost astounding to see a prison sentence in a case like this one that it’s welcome.

The 'Complex Reasons Why People Might Have Larger Families'....

... aren't always actually very complex, but may be rather sinister. And something the progressives don’t want to acknowledge.

Clearly, more needs to be done to reduce inequality and deprivation in Britain. Even once the effects of this change have been felt, an estimated 4 million children will remain in poverty.

That’s the Guardian, welcoming the end to the two child benefit cap, the only sensible policy the Tories managed to get through.

But this week’s win should not be taken for granted. Benefits Street-type hostility is still all too widespread in Britain. When Labour was voted in, six in 10 Britons favoured keeping the cap in place – which may have added to the hesitancy around reversing it. That has reduced slightly, but research for More in Common last year found that 49% believed that removing the limit would be a “very” or “somewhat” bad idea, compared with 36% in favour.

That 49% have realised who we are paying to breed.

When ending it was framed as giving every child a good start, support surged.

Proof that you can fool all of the people all of the time. 

Sometimes, huge wins can be short‑lived. Labour must talk proudly about this moment, then build on it.

Yes, please do keep on talking about the disastrous decisions you have been making since you came into office, what’s the worst that can happen?

A Hat Trick!

A woman has died after being attacked by two dogs at a house in Wolverhampton. Emergency crews were sent to Willis Pearson Avenue, in the Bilston area of the city, at about 23:30 BST on Wednesday after reports a woman in her 70s had been injured. She died at the scene, West Midlands Police said.

And at least the taxpayer won’t be on the hook until any trial of the owner this time:

The dogs, not believed to be a banned breed, were later destroyed and had continued to be aggressive towards emergency services at the scene, the force added.

A 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and causing injury resulting in death. He was taken to hospital after receiving hand injuries.

The breed hasn’t been established, but there are clues: 

Mr Wright said the two dogs were 'Rotweiller-like' and very powerful. 

'They were really big dogs,' he said. 

'The other day a bloke was walking down the road with his kid and they turned back because of the dogs. 

'I used to see the guy who lived with Carol walking them, but it was more like them walking him, they would drag him down the road. 

'He had no control over them whatsoever. 

'The two dogs had been there about two or three months.

Maybe Rottweilers, maybe the new monster on the block, the Cane Corso. Maybe some crossbreed. But undoubtedly a risk to the neighbourhood. 

If only neighbours felt confident that the authorities would act on reports of this, the tragedy might have been avoided. But clearly they didn’t. 

This Is Why We Love Social Media!

And why politicians don’t. Stella Creasy is upset. The peasantry are mean to her:

The slogan “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution” holds new meaning in a world where an MP simply singing along to Robyn is labelled a sign of national decline. A tweet celebrating a Saturday night in my own constituency has now been viewed by almost 1 million people – and many more have offered an opinion.

Oh noes! The great British public shouldn't be allowed an opinion! Shut it down!  

Egged on by political opponents and the presenters of GB News, these have included death threats, vile commentary on my appearance and accusations that I’m not fit for office, all because I went to a silent disco.

No, it's because your party is loathed for good reason, as are you yourself. Not for your dancing, for your policies. 

Joy is now seen as something that should shame politicians – as though having frazzled and miserable people in our parliament is good for decision-making.

Your decision making?  It's awful, no matter what emotional state you're in at the time. 

Underlying this is more than just embarrassment about seeing a middle-aged MP dance, it’s a concerted attempt by some to drown out their opponents’ voices through character assassination.

Infamy, infamy, that've all got it in for me!  

Abuse and violence towards politicians is at an all-time high. Every day, MPs trade stories and sympathies about criminal proceedings against those who have harassed them, offices being attacked and poison pen letters, and fears they have for their families and staff.

Yet they do nothing about the causes of it. What did you do when Southend's MP was hacked to death in his office by one of your imports, besides import more of them, while ensuring his daughter's pleas for a public enquiry were ignored!  

It’s not hard to see why making rage-baiting statements is appealing in a world where the next generation will end up poorer than the last. Frustration and fear about the future are widespread and understandable. Politics seems incapable of offering answers at a time when they are needed.

Maybe then we should stop looking to politicians to provide them? 

It is also why dismissing the social-media cesspit misses how behaviour online feeds the real world, as it sets the expectation that we politicians deserve what we get. Since Elon Musk took over, X has promoted conservative material and demoted alternative perspectives.

You've got Bluesky for those.

But public debate and good policy-making only thrive when people can speak freely and listen carefully...

Then stop locking up people for doing just that, and start to argue that people shouldn't be allowed to use the law to silence people arguing against woke policies!  

... it is noticeable that attempts at public shaming are disproportionately handed out to women and people of colour.

Oh, give it a rest!  

If we want to stop politicians being punched, we need to stop using them as punchbags.

Nobodies punching you, more's the pity. We, the public, however, that's another matter... 

This'll Shut You Peasants Up!

Detectives have said they are yet to find evidence that an alleged rape outside a church took place as reported or that any immigrants or asylum seekers were involved. Surrey Police previously received a report that a woman in her 20s had been followed and assaulted outside the church in Ashley Road, Epsom, after leaving Labyrinth Epsom nightclub on Saturday between 2am and 4am.

And the refusal to issue a description (after the Southport affair, supposedly a lesson learned) led to big trouble in little Epsom... 

In a statement released today, Assistant Chief Constable for Local Policing Sarah Grahame said: 'Over the past week, there has been widespread speculation and commentary following a report of a rape in Epsom in the early hours of Saturday. 

'We are aware of the strength of feeling this has created, and of the frustration caused by our limited public comment on the matter. 

'During this time, we have been investigating in depth to establish the sequence of events and to clarify the circumstances surrounding the reported incident. We have reviewed an extensive amount of CCTV footage from the area. 

'We have also been interviewing potential witnesses, carrying out forensics investigations and conducting house-to-house enquiries. 

'To date, we have not found any evidence of the offence as reported but the investigation is ongoing.'

Interesting phrasing, implying something went on - are the police so utterly captured now that they feel confident in publicly labelling a woman a liar, or a slut, rather than admit that there may be a problem with illrgal ethnics from Third World cultures?

Of course, they feel safe to do so because the woman has anonymity. If she chooses to forgo that, this story may not go away.

Professional Journalism...

 Don't expect it from 'The Guardian' where they can't even agree on the name of the whale...

Timmy? Or not?

Oh! No-one told the photo editor!

Assuming He Has That Long...

 

Well, Matt's hopeful, at least...

Sunday Funnies...

 It's easy to see where real creativity went...

When The Politics Of Envy Creep Into Journalism

 

How awful, a luxury car no less. Is that the most salient fact about the vehicle? Well, no...

John Bell, 74, was hit by the Maserati Quattraporte - which was allegedly stolen - at the property on Forthill Road in Broughty Ferry at about 13:00 on Monday. 

The driver, 55-year-old Fraser Garden, was taken to hospital for treatment and released before being charged over the collision. 

Garden faces a total of nine charges including causing death by dangerous driving. He is accused of stealing the car before losing control of the vehicle, entering a garden at speed and trapping Bell against a house. 

He is also accused of failing to stop to give his name and address, refusing a blood test and failing to report the collision. 

Garden appeared in court on Tuesday, made no plea and was remanded in custody.

At least he was remanded. In the Met , he'd probably be freed on bail.  

The Answer’s In Your Own Hands…

Police spending on kennels and veterinary bills in England and Wales has more than tripled since the XL bully ban came into force, with some forces recording an almost 500% spending increase since the new law was enacted in 2024.

There's a simple answer, and it’s ‘when you rock up to an attack, shoot the mutts then and there!’ You don’t need a live dog to determine the breed, a dead one will do just fine.

West Mercia police reported the biggest increase, with annual costs rising from £92,383 in 2022-23 to £715,349 in 2025-26, a 674% increase.

Wales again? What is it with that place? 

John Campion, the Conservative police and crime commissioner for the area, said: “Policing is already stretched, and rising costs and growing demand are pushing resources to the limit. The added burden, created by the government and public, of paying for kennelling illegal dogs places even more pressure on already tight budgets.“Kennelling is essential for public safety, but without proper government support these costs risk impacting frontline services.”

No, what’s essential for public safety is the removal of the danger, and that can just as easily be in a garbage bag as in a dog van. It should be already be SOP for any incident where a person or pet has been killed by these things.

Patrick O’Hara, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) tactical lead on dangerous dogs, said he had “not known this type of demand in my 26 years’ service”. “Our kennelling needs have gone up by about one-third since the ban came into force and the demand isn’t slowing down so we’re having to really concentrate on threat, harm and risk,” he told the BBC. “In the short term I think we will continue to see dog attacks as these dogs start to come of age and reach maturity. So I think it’s going to probably get worse before it gets better.”

Or maybe you’ll only have to shoot one or two to get the rest of owners to comply? 

“It does seem like the dogs being kennelled are the dogs which are more dangerous, but it is obviously the case that they’re stuck in kennels and we don’t want that from a dog welfare perspective, and it’s also something that’s sad from an owner perspective,” said Benedict Treloar, co-founder of the Campaign for Evidence-Based Regulation of Dangerous Dogs (CEBRDD).

Why is the welfare of mutts that have killed people and pets even a factor in your deliberations? There are other agebcies to worry about that:

The RSPCA, which did not support the XL bully ban, wants to see compulsory recording of dog bite incidents to help understand the scale of the problem and its causes, with a greater focus on education and prevention, rather than seizing animals.

Yes, they really are suggesting that killer animals be left with the useless owners. Another reason not to give them any money, as if one was needed.

Oh, To Be A Fly On The Wall...

...when someone has to tell The Donald who she is!

Rachel Reeves has stepped up her criticism of Donald Trump’s war on Iran, describing it as a “mistake” that has destabilised the global economy and damaged living standards around the world.“I think it was a mistake to end those [talks with Iran] and to enter into conflict, because I’m not convinced that we are safer today than we were a few weeks ago,” she told an event in Washington.

'So, she's Defence Minister, right? 

'No Mister President, Chancellor!' 

'Well then, what does she know about military matters?'

'As much as she knows about monetary ones, sir...'

“Friends are allowed to disagree on things,” Reeves said. “When you are friends you can speak your truth and deliver that fair message,” she said.

I think you’re about to discover some well deserved ‘truthful speaking’ for the first time in your entirely undeserved life.

Does ‘Set A Thief To Catch A Thief’ Translate Into Greek?

Police in Greece have been recruiting migrants to violently push other migrants back across its land border with Turkey, according to wide-ranging evidence uncovered by the BBC.

Well, they do come to take on the dirty jobs that citizens don’t want to do, after all… 

Our findings reveal allegations of brutality, with witnesses reporting migrants being stripped, robbed, beaten and even sexually assaulted. It has been claimed that mercenaries have been unofficially employed on the border since at least 2020.

That’s a risk factor of being involved in a criminal enterprise like trying to enter a county illegally, the people you are mixing with have no morals, like yourself. 

The Greek prime minister told the BBC he was "totally unaware" about allegations of the use of migrants for pushbacks, while the country's authorities have not responded to our written detailed requests for comment.

You can just feel the simmering rage in the copywriter that those filthy dagoes are refusing to answer the allegations, can’t you? 

Pushbacks - forcing migrants and asylum seekers back across borders without due process - are generally considered illegal under international law.

Ah, international law! And we all know that wrong ‘uns love to rely on that, even though its unenforceable, don’t we, Reader?

"It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late..."

Hundreds of protesters have gone face-to-face with riot police in Epsom as they demand descriptions and CCTV of men suspected of raping a woman.

Someone on Twitter yesterday remarked that of all places, Epsom wouldn't have beeen the place they'd ecpected the revolution to start. But it has to start somewhere.

Protests broke out in the upmarket Surrey town just before 5pm on Wednesday amid a demand for answers from Surrey Police about a reported gang rape, which they claim the force has not released enough information about. It comes after a woman, in her 20s, said she was attacked between 2am and 4am on Saturday, April 11, outside the Epsom Methodist Church on Ashley Road.The force previously said a group of men had followed her after she left the nearby Labyrinth nightclub.

So they have CCTV… 

Several police officers remain in Epsom this evening as the force seeks to 'provide reassurance' to locals.

You’re not providing that anymore, what you’re providing is a reminder of your own irrelevance.

The force also urged people not to speculate about the descriptions of the suspects as they work to identify them.

They didn’t learn a single lesson from Southport, did they; no wonder, with spineless people like this one in charge:

East Surrey Chief Superintendent Mark Chapman said 'I appreciate that this may have caused concern to people in the town centre, and I would like to reassure you that our priority was to ensure the safety of the wider public, as well as the safety of those involved in the protest,' he added.

That’s why you brought out the riot squad in full kit, you know, the one you never see when terrorist supporters are holding up parts of London. 

'We respect the right to lawful protest and will facilitate this wherever possible where it is safe to do so. 

'However, criminal offences and public disorder will not be tolerated, and we will always take robust action against anyone who commits a criminal offence. 

And were there any at this demonstration? 

'Surrey Police works with all those seeking to protest, along with our partners and the local community, to ensure everyone's views can be heard while at the same time encouraging them to always act lawfully.'

Except foreign rapists, who can act with impunity.

Update: he’s going to hold a meeting with protestors at 7:00 today.

If The Name Seems Familiar…

A man accused of murdering a 21-year-old who was fatally stabbed on Primrose Hill has been remanded into custody after appearing in court. Oliuwadamilola Ogunyankinnu, 27, was charged with the murder of filmmaking student Finbar Sullivan who died after the alleged attack at the north London viewpoint on Tuesday evening.

 ….and not just because it’s that losing pick you made from the ‘Scrabble’ bag last time you played, well, it should.

Before he was taken to the cells, Ogunyankinnu told the court: “I didn’t kill anybody, I didn’t stab anybody, they’ve got the wrong person.”

We’ll soon see, won’t we? 

The Explanation Is That Starmer Wants Them Here...

A government source alerted the Mail to the figures and said it was 'insane' that migrants from outside Europe still are coming to the UK via this route.

We all know they are. Why the surprise, unnamed source?  

The revelations have led to calls for an investigation into abuses of the scheme and for the 'backdoor' to Britain to finally be wound down five years after the technical deadline to apply.

Calls by whom?  

Reform UK's home office spokesman Zia Yusuf said the scheme 'has long been a scam on the British people'. He added: 'It is a backdoor for Somalis, Pakistanis and Indians among others to claim benefits in the UK. The government must explain why this scheme is still open five years after it was supposed to close. 'Britain spent £15billion in the last 18 months on Universal Credit welfare for foreign nationals. The vast majority went to EU Settled Status [migrants]... Reform is the only party that will terminate all of it.'

If you get in, and sadly that isn't in the gift of ordinary voters anymore. 

The Home Office said the terms of the EUSS were established in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, signed under the previous government, and that the UK is legally required to continue accepting late applications under the deal. A Home Office spokesman said: 'We have found no evidence that the scheme is being abused in this way. 'The government is doing everything in its power to reduce net migration.'

LOL, of course you are,,,, 

This Is Not Justice

But then, who expects that from the Land of Fruits and Nuts anyway?

A judge has allowed Lil Nas X to enter a mental health diversion program intended to lead to the dismissal of charges of attacking Los Angeles police officers. Judge Alan Schneider told the rapper and singer on Monday that if he sticks to his treatment program and obeys all laws for two years, his four felony counts will be dismissed. 

Break the law and claim ‘Mental. Health issues’  and get a ‘Get out of jail free’ card!

The court found that the incident was the result of his since-diagnosed bipolar disorder and was an aberration from his usual behavior.

Authorities allege that the 26-year-old was walking naked down a street in LA’s San Fernando Valley in August, and charged at police officers who were responding to calls about him. A criminal complaint says three officers were hurt.

Outside court on Monday he told Rolling Stone, which first reported on the diversion agreement, that he is “thankful – just very thankful” and that it “could have been much worse”.

Or better. They could have shot you, for instance .

Woe Is Me!

Angela has two daughters, aged 13 and 10, who both attend their local Girlguiding group in the UK. Like many girls their age, they enthusiastically collect their badges, make new friends and attend the organisation’s large summer jamboree every year.

A lie. She has one daughter, and a son.

But as of September, Angela’s youngest daughter will have to leave Girlguiding because she is transgender.

At 10 years of age, this woman has told her son that he can be a girl. In a sane world she’d be investigated by social services but we aren’t living in one, anymore…

“It’s deeply distressing for all of us. How do you tell a child that the place they once belonged, they’re no longer welcome at? I’m unable to give her a reason that makes sense to her,” said Angela, who did not give her surname due to fears for her daughter’s safety.

It’s pretty simple, actually, you just have to admit you were wrong and you lied to your little boy. 

Her elder sister, meanwhile, is torn about what to do. “It’s a very tricky position for her to be in,” said Angela. “Girlguiding has taught her values of kindness and compassion, and now she’s being told those values have limits and that limit is your younger sister. It’s very difficult.”

Girlguiding will - should!- have also told her that she must always tell the truth, that lying, even for what seems a good reason, is wrong. 

Lily, a Girlguiding volunteer on the GATE leadership committee, said: “We’ve got volunteers who’ve been in the organisation 10, 20, 30 years, who’ve given their lives to this, who’ve built their community in this, and who just can’t bear the thoughts of kicking out young members who’ve done absolutely nothing wrong.

They have indeed done nothing wrong, but you have, haven't you? Like this boy’s mother, you lied to them, in thrall to a poisonous ideology pushed by people that don’t have societal advancement in mind.

“We have had no issues in nearly a decade of being trans inclusive. We also have cisgender men as unit helpers and activity advisers, and there’s never been any objection to any of these men being involved in Girlguiding events.”

Are these men dressing in womenface or are they men?

“Groups are now risk assessing going out in public in uniform. The public perception of Girlguiding just a few short months ago was incredibly positive. Now we’re out and about thinking, is someone going to start yelling at us in the street? All because we’ve been dragged into doing something we don’t want to do,” she said.

You mean obeying the law? If you think that’s ‘something you shouldn’t do’ if you don’t feel like it you fully deserve to be shouted at in the street!

Katie Alcock, a former Girlguider who said she was expelled from the organisation for expressing her concerns about its trans membership policy on social media, said she was pleased the leadership had “seen sense” over the issue. “Finally, the organisation that had expelled me seven years ago was prioritising safeguarding and girls’ rights to single-sex spaces. It’s a pity it did it with such bad grace,” she told the Telegraph.

It’s only to be expected Katie!

“Where was the positive spin in this statement saying it is happy to be fully in compliance with the law and it hopes this will be the start of great things?”

It’s not happy to obey the law, so why would any responsible parent want to send their child?

Lily said: “We know Girlguiding didn’t want to do this but we still want to hold them to account for the decisions they’ve made and make it really clear they are hurting people. 

“At the same time, this didn’t start in Girlguiding headquarters and it won’t finish in Girlguiding headquarters so we do want to make it clear to the government that they absolutely need to step in because so many organisations that want to be inclusive are being attacked with legal threat after legal threat and they just can’t afford to keep defending themselves.”

Good, it’s about time your efforts to be ‘inclusive’ of perversion started to cost you! 

You Should Never Have Been Allowed To Compete In The First Place!

Noa-Lynn van Leuven will be banned from competing in any of the Professional Darts Corporation’s women-only events with immediate effect after a ruling from the sport’s regulatory body stated only biological females can now compete in women’s tournaments.

And he accepted this decisiuon with all the bad grace you'd expect:  

Van Leuven responded on social media on Thursday afternoon, saying she had been “retired” by the decision. “I just got an email,” the 29-year-old said in a post on Instagram. “Apparently, I just got retired, not by choice, but because I am no longer allowed to compete.”

Untrue, you can still compete - in the men's tournaments.

“I have worked so damn hard for years just to get here. I showed up and I competed. I respected the sport every game and every single day.”

Liar. You competed as a woman, knowing full well you weren't one. The fault lies with those who didn't stop you, true, but you yourself bear at least half of the blame. 

He’ll Be First Against The Wall When Skynet Rises…

Last month, a video of William Gude, known online as FilmThePoliceLA, showed him yelling at a Mingo food delivery robot in Los Angeles.

Is this an example of ‘old man yells at cloud’..? 

The video went viral on Twitter and has since been posted on many other social media services and websites, including Reddit and Instagram. In the video, the robot parks near Gude on the sidewalk by a street crossing and asks him to hit the crosswalk button. Gude refuses multiple times before leaving it trapped at the crosswalk. It’s one of many videos posted by Gude documenting such robot delivery drones.

I guess everyone deserves to have a hobby... 

“You want me to press the button for you? You want me to press the button for you, Mingo? F**k you! Press it yourself,” says the man in the minute-long video. “You took a human’s job, and you want me to press the button for you?”

If a robot stole your job, it can’t have been a very good one! 

Food delivery bots have become more commonplace in big cities in the United States. However, these robots aren’t liked by everyone.

Presumably they’re well liked by those that are receiving the food..?

Welcome to the future, where you will soon be replaced by bots to save rich people money, and instead, you will serve the bots, like we see with Waymo paying people to close doors left open on its robotaxis.

Well, there’s an answer to that then, isn’t there? Simply charge an excess fee when you don’t shut the door! 

Another Day, Another Dog Fatality...

 ...and another aspect to watch social media for:

A 19-year-old woman who died in a dog attack has been named locally as Jamie-Lea Biscoe. The fatal attack happened in the village of Leaden Roding in Dunmow at about 10.45pm yesterday. The emergency services were alerted to the scene, where they found the young woman seriously injured.

Family members have paid tribute to Jamie, saying the dog was a ‘seven-y ear-old lurcher’. One woman wrote: ‘She slept on my granddaughter’s bed. It’s devastating.’

These stories are usually  jumped on by pit nutters eager to sing the praises of their bloodpot mutts, and this one's no different of course: 

Of course, 'lurcher' isn't a breed, it's a crossbreed, and travellers in particular often cross sighthound breeds like greyhounds and salukis with bull breeds for poaching, so what went into the animal and where he obtained it from are going to be lines of enquiry. And  indeed, photos of dogs on  the victims social media show two distinct types, one the typical scruffy, lightly built lurcher and another blocky-headed bull breed crossbred animal. If these are the culprits, the death is somwhat more likely. We are now told that the mutt savaged the father too when he attmpted to save the girl.

But ever since the drive to make the countryside more enticing to Muslims, every dog attack attracts these tinfoil hatted loons: 

It's exhausting enough arguing with the pit nutters, I'm not even going to try with these.... 

Species Is The Word, Not Breeds…

 …but this is what we expect from the ‘Daily Mail’ after all…🤷‍♀️

I'm Going To Go Out On A Limb Here...

                                                 

...amd say it's bats! 

Sunday Funnies...

 This is why I switch my brain off when I watch movies...

Shall We Play ‘Guess The Breed’?

 No need, it's (according to social media and other reports), a so-called pocket bully, smaller and not included in the DDA as 'not dangerous'.

The BBC has asked police how old the child was and what breed the dogs were.

And at the time of this report in the BBC, they didn't answer. They did act, at least!  

The force said one dog had been destroyed on the street and another at the house had been seized.

That mutt has also now been disposed of. 

District commander for Redcar and Cleveland Emily Harrison said officers remained at the address and an investigation was taking place. "Understandably this is a distressing and tragic incident, and our thoughts are with the child's family," Harrison said. "I would encourage anyone who has concerns or information to please speak to an officer."

It's a bit late now, the mutts are dead what is there to be concerned about? Other than, perhaps, when the DDA is going to be tightened up to include all strains of this ghastly breed, or when social services are going to begin to demand that possession of these dogs is incompatible with allowing children in your house, and neither of those are anything the police can push for.

Competition: Find A More 2026 Opening Paragraph Than This One!

As a mother of four boys, teenagers riding e-bikes had become one of my biggest parenting fears. But after speaking to friends of William Drake, 16, and Adrian Lai, 15, the two teenagers killed when their dirt bike collided with a bus in Sydney's west this week, that has completely changed. And I think everyone should be more worried about what happens when police get more authority to seize and destroy these bikes.

A middle class woman opens dialogue with some ‘teens’ over the senseless death of two of them during a criminal endeavour, and comes away from it thinking they have a point. 

The following day, a number of their mates agreed to talk to me about their involvement in the growing illegal e-bike culture. I expected regret. I expected a wake-up call. Instead, I was met with defiance. And something far more confronting: fear.

Not, Reader, fear of dying in a horrifying crash. That takes sense, with they clearly lack.  

'What else are we going to do?' one classmate asked me when I questioned whether this tragedy would stop ride-outs. 'How else will we be able to make friends and have somewhere to go?'He wasn't concerned about getting hurt, or worse still, losing his life before it even had a chance to really begin. He was worried about losing his freedom.

The freedom to end your short life in a twisted mass of mangled metal? 

But what struck me most is this: e-bikes are not the real problem.

Not all kids play sport. Youth clubs are dwindling. And now social media, for many under-16s, is effectively off the table.

Oh dear, I’d forgotten this was Australia. Is that ‘unforeseen consequences’ I hear calling?

The young teens I spoke to didn't care what the law says, and they are willing to take the risk of being caught for the thing they love most. That's actually being with their mates, but their logical brains are still developing, and they think it is about the e-bikes. Which means if we ban them without replacing them, they will not stop.

Give them social media so they won't find more dangerous pursuits? Well, it's a theory...

If You Didn't Know The Young Man Murdered At Primrose Hill Wasn't Black...

...the opening paragraphs in the news would clue you in fast:

A musician's son was stabbed to death as a packed London beauty spot erupted into shocking violence. The father of 21-year-old Finbar Sullivan told the Daily Mail of his heartbreak after his son's death on Primrose Hill.Christopher Sullivan, founder of 1980s band Blue Rondo à la Turk, said: 'This is the worst tragedy I could ever imagine. He's my only son... I had him when I was 45. He can never be replaced.'

A father commenting on the death of his son... if you were blind, you'd immediatly know which demographic this was. 

One witness, who asked not to be named, said: 'The park was just so busy, I had gone with my mate after work and it was literally the busiest I have ever seen it because of the weather and it being Easter holidays. 'Then suddenly we heard this commotion from behind us, and a big brawl kicked off – people were throwing punches, people were screaming at others to stop. 

'There were lots of people involved in the fight, most of them looked about 18 or 19.' Police said no arrests have been made.

Typical. always a day late and a dollar short. 

Mr Sullivan said he went to the scene as soon as he heard his son had been caught up in the violence:'It's Primrose Hill, for God's sake... it's like Hyde Park. It's not somewhere you expect this.'

In 2026 it can be expected anywhere in London. The photos of the scene show just why. and more impotantly who.

Detective Inspector Andy Griffin, from Scotland Yard, said: 'We are following several lines of inquiry. This incident occurred in a busy, public park and there may be many witnesses who can help us piece together what happened. 'We are aware of footage circulating on social media around the time of the incident, and urge anyone who has any information, including photos or videos, which could support the investigation to urgently contact us.'

Maybe if you'd showed up a bit faster and arrested a few at the scene, you wouldn't be playing catch up now. 

Surely They Have Their Hands Full With The Physical Sort?

Activists and lawyers in Africa are calling for urgent action to protect women, girls and boys as digital violence surges across the continent.

Digital violence sounds infinitely better than the usual sort... 

A massive rise in internet users, coupled with huge numbers of people aged under 30, has fuelled an increase in gendered online violence across the continent, according to experts, by giving perpetrators new tools to control and silence women and girls, and influence boys.

Technology is amazing, isn't it? 

A UN Women report in Kenya found that name-calling, blackmail using negative images of women in politics, and other messages were posted online with the aim of spreading fear, and undermining women’s credibility to participate in elections.

Toughen up, sisters!  

The African Union Convention on Ending Violence against Women and Girls was introduced in 2024 and includes digital violence, but according to Sibongile Ndashe, executive director of the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa, it is “regressive”.She said: “We’ve spent a lot of time trying to push back on it because we feel that the convention is not doing what it’s supposed to do in terms of setting out rights, required state obligations and providing clarity [around technology-facilitated gender based violence].”

A charity in Africa fails? Surely it ain't so? I wonder how much British taxpayers money went into it...

When Is Enough Going To Be Enough?

A dog was shot dead by armed officers after a man was attacked earlier today. Armed police officers were called to Hillside at around 10.45am today, April 7, to reports two dogs were on the loose on Lynton Road.A spokesperson for the force said in order to prevent further harm and stop threat to the public, a decision was made to destroy one of the dogs at the scene.The force did not say anyone had been arrested at this time.

Why onlt shoot one loose mutt? Wht not both? When are the police going to shake off the fear of critiscim from the owners and idiots on social media and man up and do the job of keeping the public safe?  

Perhaps because of it's clossness to Wales, a hotspot for aggressive breeds, Liverpool has had yoo mani of these attacks: 

A woman has pleaded not guilty after a vicious dog latched onto a schoolgirl's leg and sank its teeth into her skin. Kerris Gledhill, 16, from Norris Green, underwent surgery after the suspected XL Bully attacked her in the street.Barbara Kukla, 37, of Beversbrook Road in Liverpool was charged by Merseyside Police with owning a dog dangerously out of control causing injury. She appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday, April 7 where she plead not guilty. She will go on trial next March.Following the incident Merseyside Police confirmed a dog had been seized following the attack.

Why wasn't it too shot at the scene?  Meanwhile, in one recent case, it appears the cops didn't shoot enough out of control ill-bred bitches:

The girlfriend of an XL Bully breeder whose vicious dog mauled and killed a "confused" pensioner who wandered into their garden has said her life has been "ruined" thanks to the actions of the victim.

We should, no doubt, expect such from a denizen of Self Pity City... 

Following Garner's guilty verdict, his girlfriend Lauren Lawler made a series of public posts "liked" hundreds of times on Facebook, raging: "The police and this government are the biggest load of vile corrupt people I’ve ever come across."

Living in Liverpool? I doubt that even more! 

Garner, of Dinaro Close in Belle Vale, was remanded in custody. He will return to Liverpool Crown Court for sentence on April 17.

He should do life.  

False Economy? Call It What It Is!

London parents using dodgy Amazon “firesticks” to illegally stream children’s TV have lost hundreds after their bank accounts were hacked.

Why single out London, other than this is the local paper? Surely other areas are as affected? 

Around 40 per cent – or two in five – across the capital became victims of financial fraud, higher than the national average of 32 per cent.

Oh. Maybe it’s the demographics, maybe it’s the higher cost of living that accounts for this? 

Viewers pay on average £13.53 a month, or £162 a year, for illegal set top boxes to watch the likes of Disney+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky and BT. But in Greater London parents say this false economy led to them being defrauded to the tune £1,821 when criminals gained access to private banking details on their phones, tablets or other devices.

Or could it be simple greed.  

BeStreamWise – a cross-industry initiative – says a single illegal app can expose multiple devices within the home, including those used for work emails.

Rob Shapland, an ethical hacker with 16 years’ experience in cyber security, said: “Streaming is a normal part of family life, especially during school holidays and weekends when demand for popular programmes is high. 

“But when looking for ways to keep kids entertained, it’s important to prioritise safety above all else. 

Theres a wealth of activities in London, acres of parks and institutions both free. But they usually require some input, some time, from parents and as we've seen, so many parents no longer want to do that. Which makes you wonder why the had children in the first place. 

“Criminals aren’t focused on what you’re watching – they’re looking for opportunities to access valuable information. 

“Unofficial streaming sources can sometimes open the door to risks such as malware or data theft, potentially putting your devices, bank details, passwords and personal information at risk. 

“Taking a few simple steps, like sticking to trusted platforms and keeping security software updated, can make a significant difference in protecting your data and devices.”

First step being, NOT plonking your kid down in front of the widescreen babysitter in the first place, and it you do, at least pay for it. 

Well, It Was Authentic!

A businessman who stored fish in the bath next to the toilet before using them in ready meals to sell illegally to supermarkets has avoided jail. Stephen Akuoko, 62, had been operating in Watford under the name Tribal Foods for over three years, selling products that had inappropriately long use-by dates and a lack of detail on ingredients.

To people who are from cultures who don't care about such things. We can thank out lucky stars these only contained fish!  

The business was pursued by the borough council's environmental health team due to concerns about the products, but Akuoko proved elusive until a fire at his home on Haines Way in October 2024.

Firefighters were called to Akuoko's flat following a wok fire, and discovered huge quantities of fish in the bath and on the floor of the bathroom next to the toilet.

Akuoko later pleaded guilty to two food safety offences, as the judge blasted him for the meals that were 'unfit for human consumption'.

*bites tongue* 

At St Albans Crown Court last Thursday, he received a two-year suspended prison sentence and a five-year ban from operating any food business.

The mitigation must have been something to behold!  

In mitigation, Aleister Adamson said his client had owned a supermarket for many years until the property's lease expired. He then lost an expensive legal fight and became homeless until he was given social housing.

Of course!  

Akuoko then set up Tribal Foods, which he initially operated from a rented kitchen space before he started cooking from home.

'He was not in receipt of any benefits at that time and was relying on the business, which was not profitable at any stage, to support his basic living needs,' Mr Adamson said.

Apart from the benefit of being housed at the expense of the ratepayer... 

Judge Sheridan praised the 'dogged' efforts of the environmental health team who he said had performed a public service.

Yes, isn't it nice to see a local council doing something useful at last.