Must Be A Day With A ‘Y’ In It…

A Metropolitan Police officer failed to disclose he had been dismissed from another force 21 years ago and barred from joining a third in the latest vetting scandal.

Really, a day when the Met Police doesn’t disgrace itself must surely be coming, but that day is not yet here. 

PC Richard Fieldhouse served for around three years until his lies were uncovered in December 2022. Fieldhouse quit Hampshire Constabulary while under investigation in 2005 for breaches of “honesty and integrity” relating to his handling of a wanted suspect, a gross misconduct panel heard.

In April 2007, he applied to join Surrey Police. However, as part of its background checks Hampshire revealed Fieldhouse had once falsified a statement and been found guilty in his absence.His assessment day in Guildford, Surrey was cancelled and the force subsequently blocked him.

Gosh, what's a wanna-be crooked cop to do? Reader, you guessed it!  

Undeterred, Fieldhouse sought to join the Met in February 2019 after declaring a driving job. Although admitting to working for Hampshire and being rejected by Surrey, he simply answered “no” to a question on his application form that asked whether he had previously been admonished or subject to discipline matters by any previous employer, regulatory or professional body. 

He successfully became a constable in London four months later.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey

Commander Stephen Clayman, who chaired the hearing, said: “Honesty is a fundamental requirement of any police officer."

How about competence? It seems that would be more useful, especially in your HR department. 

It is not known when he resigned from the Met, but on January 27 the ex-officer disengaged with the process and no longer wanted a Police Federation representative. Had Fieldhouse not quit, he would have been dismissed without notice for discreditable conduct. He will be placed on the College of Policing barred list.

So, are we to assume from that, that he wasn’t on it before. What does one have to do?

And Why, I Wonder, Would Anyone Have Cause To ‘Hate The BBC,’, Nihal?

Former BBC radio presenter Nihal Arthanayake, who was at Radio 1 for more than 10 years at the same time as Mills, told ITV's Good Morning Britain on Tuesday: "My first thoughts were obviously with the alleged victim here, without question.

Shouldn't the first thought have been 'Is there even a 'victim' here?; apart from Mills, that is, who appears to have suffered from the BBCs desire not to repeat past mistakes? Full disclosure here - I listen to Radio Two every day, and Mills is a presenter I liked. 

But even if he had not been, his abrupt sacking is looking like an overreaction driven by an over-cautious management, that could backfire if he decides to sue. 

"But also, Scott Mills is a human, he's a person who got his dream job that has now been taken away from him, and his validation, largely, in life, probably was defined by that job. 

Good point, shame it then descended into self pity on behalf of Auntie Beeb.... 

"Therefore, we have to be very careful. There's a current feeding frenzy going on. 

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

"A lot of that is driven by people who just hate the BBC, so they'll use that as a stick to beat the BBC with.

Whu eould that be, I wonder Nihal. Is it it's frequent peddling of obvious propaganda on behalf of those it has decieded are 'vulnerable minorities' instead of groups who want to change British society as it is, or who want to overthow basic principles in favour of insanity?  Is it its strangely partisan approach to what it considers to be news?

"But there is a human being - well, there's two human beings - at the centre of this."

And a lot of humans out there who are no longer willing to fund a national broadcaster that appears to hate them. 

This Isn't Good News Polly!

The news is very good (mostly). The cost of full-time childcare in England for children under the age of two has dropped by a phenomenal 39% since last year, thanks to government funding. This stat, from the 25th annual survey of nurseries by the children’s charity Coram, provides a good opportunity to stop and consider how far the country has come in that quarter-century.

As ever, Polly is, I suspect, on the wrong side of history here.  

In 1995, there were nursery vouchers for a few, but only 4% of children under five in England were in nursery: the right argued young children were the responsibility of families, not the state, and that mothers should stay at home.

And have we blossomed into a paradise as a result of scrapping that policy, Polly? Are children better behaved, women gainfully employed in vital roles? Or has it resulted in the opposite situation? 

Labour’s strong cohort of women arriving in the Commons in 1997, led by the veteran Harriet Harman with her childcare strategy, fought hard to finally add the missing cradle to the “cradle to grave” welfare state.

 When she wasn’t supporting those who wanted to have sex with them, you mean?

In 2003, the Treasury introduced child care tax credits, although more as a way to get women into work.

And now every HR department in every large organisation is chock full of women, and are we better for it?

Then, in 2004, the government extended free part-time nursery places to all three- and four-year-olds in England. That was a giant step – but every step of the way was a fight, and still is.

Free? I don’t think so. 

Since last September, parents have been able to claim 30 hours a week of state-funded childcare for children from nine months old until they start school. This could save working parents an average of £8,000 a year per child. Take note of what campaigners always said would happen: just in the past year, these extra free nursery hours have enabled nearly a third of parents to up their working hours.

Families can also save up to £450 from free breakfast clubs and £500 more in September, when half a million more children will get free school meals.

Free school meals paid for out of taxation aren’t really ‘free’ at all. As they have no choice but to admit:

Early years childcare is neither totally free nor universal. That precious 30 free hours is only during the 38 weeks of term time, so parents have to pay the holiday gap: one week for a child under the age of two can cost about £189. Funding is too low at a time of rising energy and staff costs: many nurseries also charge extra for meals, trips, nappies, sun cream, anything they can think of. Private nurseries, often run by large private equity chains, are in wealthier areas, shunning families who can’t pay for extra hours.

But here is the great perversity that undermines the key social purpose of the nursery movement: early years education does the most good for the most deprived, yet those children are ineligible for the full hours until they reach the age of three. What makes them “ineligible”? The very things that make them deprived; if their parents don’t work or work too little to earn £10,158 a year, the child gets nothing until aged two, and then only half as many hours as the rest.

This year’s report from the charity Kindred Squared found that about a third of children in England who started reception in 2025 were not ready for school. Some of them were still in nappies, not using knives and forks, not able to sit still, barely speaking and unsocialised. Some teachers felt that less time in early years education contributed to these issues.

And so, I ask a question I've already had to ask over at 'Orphans',  why aren't people raising their own children any more? 

Why Did You Stop?

The Metropolitan police has said it will resume arresting people who show support for Palestine Action just weeks after it said it would no longer do so following a high court ruling that the ban on the direct action group was unlawful.

High court rulings? Since when did you pay attention to those? You seen happy to ignore the Supreme Court, after all.... 

After last month’s judgment, the Met police said it would immediately stop arresting people for such offences under the Terrorism Act but would gather evidence for potential future prosecutions. But on Wednesday it said it had “revised” its enforcement approach, describing the statement made immediately after the high court’s decision as an “interim position”.

Something changed, and it wasn't the threat such demonstrations posed, so it must have been pressure on the police to DO THE FUCKING JOB THEY ARE PAID FOR. 

Deputy assistant commissioner James Harman said: “While the high court has found the proscription of Palestine Action to be unlawful, it has confirmed the impact of that judgment will not take effect until the government’s appeal has been considered which could take many months. 

“That means it is still a criminal offence to support Palestine Action. 

How do you get to be a deputy assistant comissioner without understanding the law? 

“We must enforce the law as it is at the time, not as it might be at a future date. We must do that consistently and without fear or favour.”

Yes, you must. So isn't it long overdue for you to actually give it a go?  

Tweet Of The Month

 

And this is a worr of pure genius:

Post Title Of The Month

 Longrider once again knocks it out of the park with this one:

Quote Of The Month

 Bucko on the most bizarre take on a subject by the Guardian, one which also puzzled Tim:

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole purpose of Britains version of ICE was to single out non-white, foreign born workers? Ok, fair enough, I'm sure there are many white illegals in this country, but if you're looking for illegals in an Indian restaurant, you're not there for the Albanians"

Post Of The Month

 Nick Drew at Capitalists@Work on the subject everyone wants to avoid considering....

The Men Of No Appearance (Except Technical Nationality) Strike Again!

Two men who were arrested over the arson attack on Jewish charity-owned ambulances in north London have been released on bail, the Metropolitan Police has said.

And are they as we suspected? 

The men, British nationals aged 47 and 45, were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and have now been bailed until April.

Well, that hides a multitude of possibilities these days, doesn’t it? 

Cdr Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said there were "strict bail conditions in place while we continue to investigate their suspected involvement in this incident". 

"We continue to work to try and identify all of those involved in this appalling attack and the investigation team is working around the clock to do this," she said.

Oh, so it’s being investigated as terrorism? 

Although the case is not being classed as a terror incident, the Met said the investigation is currently being led by counter-terror officers. The Met previously said the investigation was looking at an Islamist group with potential links to Iran, following unsubstantiated claims of responsibility by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya - The Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand.

Oh. 

Well no doubt all sorts will claim responsibility. Some of them might even be truly foreign.

The BBC has also seen CCTV footage which shows three men approaching the synagogue in February. Members of the Jewish community now believe this could have been a surveillance attempt before the attack this week. The footage, which has since been handed to police, shows a man trying to pull a locked door handle. When challenged, they said they were looking for a local mosque.

Oh,BBC! Bag open, cat frolicking in plain sight! 

Possession Of These Dogs Is Always By Those Who Should Not Have Them....

 Prove me wrong! 

The 31-year-old, who runs a recovery business transporting cars, said he did not come home after being called by police because he was driving illegally after being disqualified from driving - and did not want to be caught.

This is the ongoing trial of Sean Garner, 31, who denies being the owner of the hellhound that ate a pensioner alive despite valient efforts by neighbours to come to his aid:

Courageous members of the public used makeshift weapons - including a broomstick, a golf club and a spirit level - as they attempted to rescue Mr McColl, who was screaming 'Help Me!'. Police had to shoot the dog ten times to neutralise it - nine times with a pistol and once with a shotgun - the court heard previously. Police 'did not take any chances' with the second dog, Malibu, who was shot dead at the scene as well.

And no wonder. Surely only Jim Corbett or Kenneth Anderson have witnessed such a scene of horror, and that not in an English suburban garden, but in a jungle where it is to be expected: 

Prosecutor Birrell previously gave the jury graphic details of the injuries suffered by Mr McColl, who died in hospital a month after the attack. The hound had 'eaten him alive, he said, adding parts of Mr McColl's face were found in the animal's stomach when vets cut it open. 

He said: 'It guarded him as if he were his prey. It had savaged him. 

'There was no food in the dog's stomach, just parts of John McColl's face. And bits of plastic. 

'The dog had attacked Mr McColl and it would just not let him go,' he added.

Always owned by the wrong people, perhaps because there's no right person to own one of these things.When he was called by the police to surrender himself for this atrocity, he sent his pregnant partner to face the music. This tells you all you need to know about the calibre of the man, doesn't it?

As does the lies he relied on to keep him out of trouble:

He also ran an Instagram page called Little and Large Bullies, the court heard, which he used to promote dogs for breeding. Garner has admitted he advertised Malibu for breeding as an XL bully, but he claimed it was because it was easier to sell puppies from that breed.

Reader, it wasn't. He knew what he had, and he knew that there were men like him out there that would want to buy these things. 

Garner denies being the owner of a dog which caused injury while dangerously out of control. He has previously admitted two counts of possessing an XL bully without an exemption certificate relating to Toretto and Malibu. XL bullies were banned in December 2023. 

The trial continues.

I would say its a foregone conclusion, but who really knows with the state of the UK justice system? 

And Yet, They Can’t Do The Same To Dinghies In The English Channel

British forces are now "ready to act" to board and detain ships in Russia's so-called shadow fleet in UK waters, the defence secretary has said.Ministers identified a legal basis in January that would allow forces to board sanctioned vessels, but approval for the military measure was not given by the prime minister until Thursday.

Sounds about right for the current incumbent of Number 10! 

Questioned on why that decision had not come sooner, John Healey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "what operations like this require is training, preparation, understanding discussion with allies [and] a clear legal basis".

Aren't they all things one would expect the navy to already possess, and if not, to be able to practice in peacetime on the hordes invading our country via the Channel?  

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would starve "Putin's war machine of the dirty profits that fund his barbaric campaign".

While Two-tier Kier's sabotaging his own campaign... roll on May! 

Its Funny, Until You Realise You Can't Afford To Drive To Sainsburys...

 

...but we can't blame Matt for that.

Sunday Funnies...

 And amazingly, none is Oliver Reed!

Would You Take Medical Advice From A Charity Like This One?

However, quizzed about the appointment, Endometriosis South Coast said it was 'scientifically inaccurate' to claim only women experienced endometriosis - and that it also affected trans, non-binary and intersex people.

It can only affect people who possess wombs; which is at least possible for the last two but impossible for the first... 

Human rights activist Steph Richards, 73, has been handed the role of parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast, it is reported. Ms Richards, a trans woman who was born male, previously stepped down as the charity's CEO in 2024 following backlash from women's rights campaigners. In her new position she will represent the charity to members of parliament (MPs), while continuing to act as chief executive for trans campaign group TransLucent, which she founded.

And of course, he is referred to as female throughout the news reports. So the MSM is actively participating in the charade.

The charity said that Ms Richards was 'a volunteer in a parliamentary engagement capacity' and was appointed on the basis of her talents. They added: 'The ability to advocate meaningfully for a condition does not require personally having that condition; this standard is applied consistently across healthcare, policy, and the voluntary sector, and we apply it here, too.'

Weasel words, no, we don’t expect the CEO of an amputee charity to be an amputee, but we’d expect him to be human. 

Strange Bedfellows

The Home Office is investigating a company linked to a religious sect based in Cheshire over its use of immigration visas.

Which religion? Glad you asked , Reader…

The company under investigation is linked to the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL), a sect that blends tenets of Islam with conspiracy theories about the Illuminati and aliens controlling US presidents.

Well, I’m shocked!

Followers believe the sect’s leader, Abdullah Hashem, can cure the sick and make the moon disappear. About 100 of his followers live in a former orphanage in Crewe, in the north-west of England.

Why are they here? Because Switzerland were too smart to let them be a drain and a threat in their country, but we weren't. 

The community moved to the UK in 2021, after transferring their headquarters from Sweden, where immigration authorities investigated several companies linked to the sect and issued deportation orders to dozens of its members.

And so now they are burrowed into the country like a parasite: 

Now, immigration officials in the UK are looking into a company linked to the sect over its use of skilled worker visas to bring people into the country.

Skilled? In what? Are we not entitled to ask?  

That's Not Good, We Need More Than 10% Of Them Gone

Labour will be decimated in May local elections, Unite leader says.Sharon Graham tells party to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ after ‘shameful’ handling of Birmingham bin strike.

Yes, I know its the modern definition of 'decimation' being used here, but I'm a pedant.. 

In a speech to refuse workers near a waste depot in Tyseley on Thursday, Sharon Graham said working people were moving away from Labour in droves and called on the party to “wake up and smell the coffee”. “We are in one of the most significant strikes in decades,” she said. “An attack from a Labour council under a Labour government. Labour should hang their heads in shame. They are an absolute disgrace.”

The winners of this are up for grabs, but Dave Paulden's mob are likely to be in with a chance, after all, the effects of the strike are attracting all the big vermin.

The strikes, which could last beyond September, will be a key issue in Birmingham in the May local elections, when all 101 council seats are up for grabs.

One year on from the start of the all-out strike, Unite announced it had voted to cut its affiliation fee to Labour by 40%, or £580,000, over its handling of the bin strikes.

Good timeing, as it turned out!  

The union was fined £265,000 earlier this week after its members were found to have breached an injunction which prohibited blockades of waste lorries at depots. Graham said the fine would be paid for by the cut to Labour’s affiliation fee.

The council are in a no win situation. 

The council said it had “reached the absolute limit of what we can offer”, citing the risk of further equal pay claims being made if it acceded to the union’s demands.

Jimmy, an agency worker, said had been stressful to be on strike for such a long time. He said he had previously been a Labour supporter, but would be voting Reform in the local elections. “Labour, they don’t stand up for the working person any more,” he said.

 They never did, Jimmy, not really.

The council’s leader, John Cotton, said it had been in contact with the union to “end this stalemate” and that he wanted to “get round the table with Unite as soon as possible”.

If he can climb ovrt the mountain of uncollected rubbish outside the council office, that is... 

Boys. The Word You're Struggling For Is 'Boys'.

Transgender girls will be forced to leave Girlguiding by the start of the autumn after the organisation was accused of prioritising their needs over safeguarding.

A long overdue climbdown. 

Bosses said today all trans girls – those born male but identifying as female – must stop attending Guides, Brownies and Rainbows groups from September 6.

Why not 'immediately'?  They weren't admitted in a staged fashion, after all...but let no one say they are finally doing the right thing, they have had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this point: 

The move follows an announcement in December which stated Girlguiding was no longer accepting trans girls and membership would in future be limited to 'girls and young women'.It came in response to the Supreme Court ruling in April last year that 'woman' in the Equality Act 2010 referred to a biological woman – meaning single-sex spaces should be preserved.

And they were pressured by a mother who objected to her daughter attending with mentally ill males, and threatend to sue. 

In a statement, Girlguiding said it had consulted lawyers, members, its council and board of trustees before making its final decision.

Who no doubt told it; 'You'll lose'. 

Oh, Jonathan, Of Course That's The Point Of Them...

 

Don't you understand? 

Consider this month alone. On 6 March, four men were arrested in London and Hertfordshire suspected of gathering information on potential targets: synagogues and individual Jews. Over the following days, gunmen opened fire on three synagogues in Toronto. The day after that, it was the turn of a synagogue in Liège, targeted by a bomb. On 12 March came the attack on Temple Israel in Michigan, followed the next day by the arrest of four youths on suspicion of exploding a device outside a synagogue in Rotterdam. The next day, a bomber struck a Jewish school in Amsterdam. The day after that, French prosecutors launched an investigation into two brothers said to be plotting a “lethal and antisemitic” attack. Inside their car were found a loaded semi-automatic weapon and a bottle of hydrochloric acid.

The perpetrators carefully not identified. 

And I am thinking of the progressives who suggest attacks on Jews are not, in fact, antisemitism, but merely opposition to Israel. So that, say, a brick through a window of a London shop associated with Jews, blood-red graffiti painted on its walls, is something other than a threat to Jews and Jewish life. That it’s really about international capitalism or tangential associations with a country thousands of miles away.

Well, Jonathan, you won't have to go far to find some of those, will you? the 'Guardian' cafeteria will suffice, after all. 

Is This Police Report To Be Believed?

A 12-year-old boy has been charged with sexual assault after a woman was found with serious injuries at an address in Birmingham.

12 years old? Well, I'm sure no-one will disbelieve the police, will they? I meany they said this guy was 23...

THE FACE OF EVIL

This is the migrant who just stabbed 3 people in Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A woman and two men may have lost their lives because of this psycho

He should never have been here

CLOSE THE BORDERS
NOW https://t.co/1bhuEVw0D3 pic.twitter.com/PhexfY9qFb

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) March 2, 2026

 Being a juvenile, he'll be treated with kid gloves, of course...

The accused, who cannot be named legally due to his age, was also separately charged with intentional strangulation in connection with a woman being confronted in a street last month, police added.

"The boy, who cannot be named due to his age, is remanded to appear before Birmingham Youth Court tomorrow, March 24."

And it's not just boys. 

Three schoolgirls, aged 12, 13, and 14, have been charged after a teenager was 'stabbed five times in her back, back of her neck and arm'. The 14-year-old victim had returned home covered in blood after allegedly being stabbed in a village park in Whittington, Worcester, at around 7.40pm September 21 last year. The child was then rushed to Birmingham Children's Hospital following reports of 'screaming' from neighbours, where it was later confirmed she had no internal damage but was left with scarring.

What is going on with youth crime in the UK?  And when will the authorities get a grip on it?

What is happening to this bloody country!!! My daughter has been informed by school that her TWELVE year old daughter (my granddaughter) has been found on a 'stab list'.

So the son of recent African immigrants, who has only been here maybe a year and has been caught at least…

— ΞlZorillo 🇬🇧 ☩ ✞ (@softlads) March 23, 2026

So Much For The Wisdom Of Crowds, Then

 That's if this is true, and since it's in the 'Guardian', caveat emptor...

Political elites are out of step with the public appetite for net zero, according to analysis that identifies rightwing media narratives as fuelling a false backlash against climate action. Media coverage of net zero is more than twice as likely to be negative than public attitudes and is driving a false perception that net zero policies are unpopular with voters, the analysis found.

They probably are, until the bills start to mount up. 

This echo chamber of elite opinion, the analysis says, has led to a situation where MPs significantly underestimate public support for climate policies and overestimate public opposition to local clean energy infrastructure projects.

As if public suppotrt matters to prospective (and standing) MPs anymore. Of course, the people pushing this theory are the lanyard classes again..

Becca Massey-Chase, the head of citizen engagement at the Institute for Public Policy Research, who coauthored the analysis, said the research showed claims of a voter backlash against net zero were “largely a political myth”.She said: “The British public continues to support climate action.... The real danger is not public opinion – it is elite division and media narratives creating a false sense of risk.”

The analysis, jointly prepared by the IPPR, a progressive thinktank, and Persuasion UK, a non-profit that researches influences on public opinion, noted that the UK’s increasingly assertive far right caricatured net zero as a threat to UK sovereignty.

See?

...a strong core of 40% of voters remain strongly behind net zero, almost double the 24% who are implacably opposed to it.

 Until they have to pay for them, then they change their tune. But by then, the song's over amd the musucians have packed up their instruments and gone home.

"Turn It Off, Sarge, It's Doing The Job Too Well! "

Essex Police has paused the use of live facial recognition cameras (LFR) after a study found they identified more black people than other ethnic groups.

Identified them incorrectly? No, dear Reader, not at all: 

The cameras are mounted on vans and designed to identify people on watchlists if they pass by.They found it correctly identified around half of those on the watchlist, and that it was "extremely rare" for someone to be flagged up if they weren't on the list.

So, it worked. The only problem was, it highlighted how many criminals are black. and in today's modern police farce, that's a crime in itself. 

But the study found it was "statistically significantly more likely" to correctly identify black people than other ethnicities. It was also "more likely" to spot men than women.

Well, these days, so many men are pretending to be women, its hardly a surprise!  

Knock Yourself Out, Frances, They Still Exist.

Frances Ryan has found another thing wrong with modern society:

...when it comes to watching films on the platforms, I am one extortionate paywall away from buying a DVD player off eBay and Googling: “Does Blockbuster still exist?”

What’s the problem? 

It is not simply that Netflix and co are killing cinema – although, yes, that is a thing that is objectively bad. It is that the advent of streaming has made watching a movie in your own home more costly, more restricted and often incredibly annoying.

Really? Is this part of Frances' disability then? 

Nowadays, if you rent a film that has recently been released it’ll cost you up to £20, far more than if you saw it in most cinemas – plus you’re paying the electric and heating bills.

Rubbish! I watched 'Zootopia 2' at the weekend, a film that was in the cinema at Christmas, on Disney+, it cost me nothing extra, whate sort of niche vieeing is she after?

When I fancied rewatching Sense and Sensibility recently, it struck me how it had become the norm to have to search through Netflix, Prime and Disney+ to work out which one currently owns the rights to each film. I eventually unearthed it on iPlayer. I think it was quicker for Jane Austen to write the novel.

You can just google that, you know... 

My personal loathing is what I pettily insist on calling Prime’s “double paywall”, in which Amazon blocks off popular films from its own subscribers unless they stump up a £3.49 rental charge on top of the £8.99 we’re already paying monthly.

I just want to be able to rewatch a beloved film without helping Jeff Bezos buy another yacht.

What do you care what he spends his money on? Is that the real issue? 

But Your Story And Experience Doesn't Match Up With It

Bafta-winning actress Wunmi Mosaku says she found parts of herself "I thought I had lost or tried to dim as an immigrant trying to fit in" as she took the best supporting actress prize for her role in the film Sinners.

She's playing a Voodoo priestess, but what exactly in her own history makes this an 'authentic experience'..? 

The 39-year-old, who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Manchester, has drawn widespread acclaim for her role as Hoodoo priestess Annie in the musical horror film.She moved with her family from the historic Nigerian city of Zaria to Manchester when she was a one-year-old baby.

The only thing they would appear to have in common is their skin colour. Isn't that, well, racist? Not to mention cultural appropriation? 

Mosaku said: "I found a part of myself in Annie, a part of my hopes, my ancestral power and connection, parts I thought I had lost or tried to dim as an immigrant trying to fit in."

Not trying very hard, then, clearly. 

Speaking at the winners' press conference, she said: "It always feels good when you feel like your story and your experience is being represented with integrity and creativity. She said she had been pleased to see "the response of black women feeling seen, loved, valued, treasured, and the power of our ancestry and the spirituality".

What a load of bollocks!  

If You're Going to Team Up With A Well-Known IP To Flog Your Wares...

 

...shouldn't you study how it works first?

Sunday Funnies...

 No 20 certainly deserve to do better...

What’s Up With Firearms Licensing In Scotland!?

I caught the BBC documentary on Dunblane last weekend and it raised a few issues I was previously unawere of. 

The first being I'd always assumed that the petition to ban handguns was led by the bereaved paerents but no, the documentary showed it was set uo by three women unconnected to the tragedy except by living in Dunblane, of a type we would now dub 'Karens', who took it upon themselves to run the petition which eventually was succesful in banning handgun despite the official Cullen inquiry not suggesting such a step was necessary. 

The second thing was that there was no mention of the perpetrator 'at the request of the interviwees' and so the programme was rather incomplete. of course, no mention of the perpetrator meant no mention of the culpability of those authorities you were begging for help from!

Then in the week, this story caught my eye:

A gamekeeper who trapped a rare bird of prey in a cage before beating it to death was caught out by a covert surveillance operation.Russell Mason, 49, lured the protected goshawk into a baited trap before battering it several times with a cosh to cause its agonising death.

Mason was previously placed on the sex offenders register after being spotted carrying out a solo sex act in his car by a resident of a sheltered housing complex.

To be a gamekeeper requires that one hold a shotgun license doesn't it?  What are the police doing that they are handing a registered sex offender a firearms licence? Didn't they learn that lesson 30 years ago? 

.

And Hopefully, You've Learned A Lesson...

An experienced magistrate has been given a warning for misconduct after making a 'racist' comment on WhatsApp during a discussion about Winston Churchill. Derek Muhammad JP made the comment in a private message group during an 'intellectual discussion about the complex legacy of Winston Churchill and the colonial history of Britain'.

Oh ho ho. How I love to see people hoist on their own petard...

But, another member of the group complained it was 'racially prejudiced' and left them in a state of 'distress'.

Deploying the ultimate weapon of the once-great British judicial system: 'I'm offended!'

Bedfordshire-based Mr Muhammad, who has been a magistrate for almost 20 years, denied the comment was racist and claimed it had actually been a 'criticism of colonial exploitation'. He added that he could not be prejudiced against people 'with whom he shares ancestry'. But, despite his protestations, Mr Muhammad has now been given formal advice for misconduct.

I wonder if at any time throughout this process he had second thoughts on the wisdom of becoming part of such a captured enterprise as the modern judicial system. I do hope so. 

In Today's 'No Shit,Sherlock! News...

Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions despite the global surge in patients using it for that purpose, a review has found.

No! I’m astonished to find that out! 

Researchers concluded there was “very little evidence for its efficacy” in treating anxiety, anorexia nervosa, psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder or opioid use disorder. Experts from universities in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in Australia and Bath in England undertook the largest and most comprehensive analysis to date of the evidence for using cannabinoids – cannabis-based therapies – to treat substance misuse and mental health disorders.

Well, you could knock me down with a feather!  

Sir Robin Murray, a professor of psychiatric research at King’s College London, said: “While people such as me consider that the therapeutic benefits of cannabis are extremely limited, and the side effects common, the world doesn’t believe this.

Well, you wouldn't be the first (or only) expert who is no longer trusted as you once would have been, but in this instance you should be.

“Bolstered by the claims of the cannabis industry and the rapidly increasing cannabis clinics in the UK, many people are misled into using cannabis to treat their problems. In my view, the UK cannabis clinics operate as drug dealers for the middle class.”

The middle class? I though that they were all on Charlie? Pot strikes me as a lower class drug... 

You Didn't Get This In 'Dixon Of Dock Green's Day...

A Metropolitan Police officer who lied about her newborn daughter’s real father was caught out speaking to her lover by a dog camera in the family home.

Not skilled in surveillance techniques and how to ensure against them then!  

The sergeant’s firefighter husband “did not question paternity” when she suddenly announced she was pregnant in January 2022, a gross misconduct hearing was told.But in June of the following year, he logged on to the “doggy cam” while at work and saw her talking to a male colleague on FaceTime. He overheard the word “daddy”. It later emerged she had sent the love rat policeman a Father’s Day card.

/facepalm  

When confronted by her husband, the officer said she “had an idea” of the true biological parent - but “wanted an easy life” and hoped her husband “would never find out”. But a disciplinary panel chaired by Matt Simmons heard a midwife nearly gave the game away when she revealed her exact conception date.Officer A tried to convince the nurse this was impossible as her embarrased other half - who attended the 12-week hospital scan - would have been working a night shift so they couldn’t have slept together.Despite their child being born a week earlier than the October due date, he still had no suspicions and agreed there was a physical resemblance.

How naive was he!? 

A devastating DNA test revealed the truth in July.

i wonder who requested it..? 

Mr Simmons found Officer A wilfully provided false information at the Registry Office about her daughter’s father on November 17, 2022 and again on April 14, 2023 after the marriage. After finding discreditable conduct proved at a gross misconduct level, she was dismissed without notice.

Another vacancy at the Met…. 

Let Me Take A Guess? Is It Idiots?

Apparently yes, it’s idiots. Or as we now call them, ‘biohackers and heath optimisers:

Grey-market injectable peptides – a category of substances with obscure, alphanumeric names such as BPC-157, GHK-Cu, or TB-500 – have developed a devoted following among biohackers and health optimisers.

Like 'influencers', a modern-day pestilence spread by the Internet...

Driving While Diverse

A drug driver who ploughed into the central reservation of the M1 before continuing with a missing wheel has been jailed.

Yes, Reader, you guessed it… 

Omar Makhluf, 20, drove for several miles before finally pulling over at a service station near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.The crash happened on the motorway’s northbound stretch after Toddington, Bedfordshire at around 3.30pm on February 16 last year. Despite damage to his car, Makhluf, of Keel Close, Barking in east London drove on three wheels and was then filmed getting out of the vehicle at junction 14 for Newport Pagnell.

Bang to rights! 

When told the grounds for his arrest at the service station, he replied: “I didn’t do dangerous driving.”In police interview, Makhluf struggled to stay awake and yawned while officers questioned him.

That won’t have endeared him to the investigators.

He was sentenced to 22 months and disqualified for four years for this offence and other matters elsewhere in the country. 

I wonder what the ‘Other matters’ were, and why the reporter doesn’t see fit to inform us?

At Last, The 'Guardian' Sees A Problem... .

The prime minister’s spokesperson is right that “only by using a combination of reform, investment and efficiency, can we hope to turn the tide on the backlog and deliver the faster and fairer justice the victims deserve” in the criminal courts (Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote, 9 March). But curtailing the right to jury trial will have a minimal effect on the backlog.

And it's not the curtailing of an age old part of our justice system - in true guardian fashion its the potential effect the ethnic minorities foisted on us that concern them most.

Jury trials are not the cause of the backlog. Furthermore, the government’s proposals will disproportionately impact Black complainants, witnesses and defendants. The random selection of jurors from local communities ensures that they are far more likely to reflect the cultural heritage of people appearing in court.

Who says this is the greatest concern? Why, of course, its one of those who've infiltrated our justice ststem and hollowed it out, of course: 

In 2025, there were only five circuit judges who identified as Black or Black British. Curtailing jury trial is bound to add to what David Lammy described in 2017 as a “chronic trust deficit” towards the criminal justice system.

Nic Madge Retired circuit judge, St Albans, Hertfordshire

Youve done enough, Nic, enjoy retirment. 

Why Do We Need These?

Calls for bleed kits to be installed in every major bus station and on bus routes in areas affected by serious violence have been backed by the London Assembly.

These kits were designed for warzones - that they are wanted in transport hubs tells you all you need to know about the safety of public transport in London these days.

Assembly Members unanimously passed a motion requesting that Transport for London (TfL) to work with the London Ambulance Service (LAS) to ensure the kits will be made available across the network. Bleed control kits help stem severe bleeding from deep wounds before emergency services arrive – a "potentially valuable method of saving lives".

Is it saving valuable lives though? 

The motion is non-binding, which means the mayor is not obliged to implement the recommendation.

Well, surely they’ll agree, since they won’t want their oh-so-valuable diversity killing one another off… 

Elly Baker, Labour's transport spokesperson proposed the motion. "I've heard too often from young people that they don't always feel as safe as they should do travelling," she said. "Passing this motion will show that we are listening to young people and backing the investigation of a potentially valuable method of saving lives."

Yes, let’s not find ways of stopping the stabbing, let’s just make it less potentially lethal when they do it. 

The Vehicle They were in, Obviously ..

OUTRAGE! about a shooting in the middle east, because those Jews have had the temerity to defend themselves again:

A spokesperson for the Israeli police said the Bani Odeh family had been killed during a joint operation with the Israeli military. Forces opened fire on the vehicle when they “perceived an immediate threat” after it accelerated, the statement said.

Asked what threat was posed by four young children and their unarmed parents...

The car itself, obviously which could hace contained a bomb.  Still, I expect Nesrine will get another column out of it.

Might As Well Ask For The Moon On A Stick, Love...

...as ask for responibility in dog owners.

"The owner and the dog had disappeared by the time we got there – there was nothing we could do." Farmer Isobel Connell recently lost eight lambs after a dog chased and attacked them while its owner looked on. Her farm in the Chiltern Hills near Henley-on-Thames has been subjected to even worse attacks - 10 years ago 68 lambs and 19 ewes were killed by two loose Labradors.

Yes, labradors. Despite what some owners believe, your fat sleepy labrador is just as likely to worry likestock, given the opportunity, as the chav down the road's semi-feral xl bully. All dogs descend from wolves after all.

"We have our phone number on all the gates and somebody rang to tell us what had happened," Isobel says. She was told there were a "lot of lambs dotted around covered in blood with a lot of wool loose". She rushed to the scene, but by then it was too late, with the lambs left either dead, dying, or heavily injured. "The dog owner was nowhere to be seen, they'd scarpered," she says. "It's harrowing, and it gets you really, really down."

Get yourself a gun and protect them yourself - you'll never be able to rely on dog owners to be responsible.

 

Such A 'Piece Of Nothing' That You Felt Compelled To Write A Column About It

I refer, of course, to the past that haunts Green party leader Zack Polanski. As his star has risen, so have the number of people ready to share their opinion on why they would never vote for him. I’ve met Greens who deplore his focus on social justice, considering it fatally undermining of the real cause, which is environmentalism. ... But then there are the people who would never vote Green because of that time in 2013, and I’m going to run through the details in full, because a lot of these Green refuseniks are hazy on them; they just know that it happened, and it gives them the ick. At that time Polanski was a hypnotherapist, and a Sun journalist approached him wanting to know if she could “boost cup with mind”.

Ah, it was that cunning 'Sun' journalist that done poor David wrong, is that the line that you're taking, Zoe?

As a twist of fate, then, it is staggering, but as an indication of Polanski’s character, it is a frippery. He wasn’t touting his services as a boob-magician. He was just a hypnotherapist being polite to a client with very strong motivation in that area. I guess the ideal hypnotherapist-later-progressive-politician response would have been: “No, the power of the mind won’t help you here, and anyway, you’re fine as you are and your insecurity is just internalised patriarchal oppression.” But we are where we are, and this story is a piece of nothing.

Well, sure, that's why you've used your column to leap to his defence, with the claim that he's just naive, not a chancer on the make. 'Stand by your man' isn't just a song it's a political statement for you then. 

Playing The Police And Justice System Like A Fiddle...

Stacy Sharples admitted to making up the allegations against ten men many of whom spent hours in police custody and months on bail. She even bragged to one of her victims that the police were 'not pressing charges. I've got away with it. Yet again.' 

But she's not boasting now, because they finally had enough.

None of the men she accused were charged. Her false allegations cost the taxpayer a 'conservative estimate' of £120,000 due to wasted police, legal and medical time, Bolton Crown Court heard.

She should be fined to pay every penny of that back. 

After Sharples was arrested, she said to police: 'You need to look into my mental health. That's all I need to say. You'll never understand, I had a s*** upbringing. 

'I'm a ticking timebomb, you flip me off and I'll flip back.'

She knows exactly wkich buttons to press. 

Sharples, of Farnworth, pleaded guilty to ten counts of perverting the course of justice. She will be sentenced on March 11.

And whay penaltys will the police face, for having gone along with her claims? 

Mother's Day...

And no one knoes how to celebrate better than Matt! 

Sunday Funnies...

 You can't impove on perfection...

So, We Need To Make The British Countryside 'More Welcoming' For Minorities, Do We?

The group of five, who were all students at the University of Chester, split up for privacy and religious reasons as the sisters, who could not swim, headed for a pool upstream on the Afon Cwm Llan river.

Well, that will please DEFRA I'm sure. 

Oh, wait... 

The men later called out for the sisters, from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, but received no reply. When they reached the pools they noticed the women’s shoes and personal belongings by the water’s edge. They later discovered Hajra, a married mother of two, floating face down in her red dress. Caernarfon coroner’s court heard that they managed to pull an unconscious Hajra on to the riverbank but were unable to find Haleema.

Maybe not, I think the authorities were hoping the minorities would survive the experience ... and maybe the two would have, if not for their religion. 

Hajra Zahid, 29, and her sibling Haleema, 25, were pulled from pools on the Watkin Path, which leads to the summit of Snowdon. They had visited the picturesque wild swimming site and its waterfall at Eryri (Snowdonia) national park, in the Nant Gwynant area of Gwynedd, on 11 June 2025 with three male friends.

Concluding the deaths were accidental, Riley said the sisters had drowned after they were unable to swim to safety. She said: “I extend my sincere condolences to their friends and family. This is an extremely tragic case and my thoughts remain with them.” Riley also “urged caution” to the public about the dangers of entering such pools.

I'm not sure it's a warning that needs to be given to most people...

Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind....

 

The BBC has said it is facing “permanent and irreversible” trends that mean it cannot survive without a major overhaul, as it revealed a stark divergence between the number of people consuming its content and those paying the licence fee. In its opening response to government talks over its future, the corporation said 94% of people in the UK continued to use the BBC each month, but fewer than 80% of households contributed to the licence fee.

Farewell, then - you were once a beaon to the world, but like many a great British institution, you've outstayed your welcome, as Longrider points out.

It said the rise of streaming services and digital platforms such as YouTube had caused blurring and confusion around when the licence fee needed to be paid, suggesting there was “a mismatch” between TV licence rules – based on watching live TV – and the nation’s viewing habits.

Yes, there is - but mostly, it's because  we resent having to pay for you when we want to watch another channel which we have chosen to pay for. If I choose to drive to work, the tube doesn't get to stick their hands in my pocket and rummage around for my spare change; if it wants my custom back, it better be prepared to up its game and earn back my custom.

The BBC is also proposing to host the content of ITV, Channel 4 and other public service broadcasters on iPlayer in an attempt to create a British-based platform that can compete with the likes of Netflix and YouTube.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, eh? Is this going to be instead of the licene fee, or on top of it?

All This Proves Is That The Initial Decision Was Correct...

A teenage couple killed themselves after they were arrested and their infant child taken into foster care, a jury has concluded.

...but now there will commence many hours of well-paid navel gazing, and many hours wasted in meetings of the lanyard classes. And all for what?

The coroner, Brendan Allen, has asked Dorset police for details of how its domestic abuse policies are disseminated to officers after it emerged that the force had been told of allegations of coercive behaviour. Allen has also asked for Warwickshire county council to give more details of what measures it took after a safeguarding review relating to Katie.

It seems to be to absolve those responsible, the teenagers, of any culpability.  

The jury concluded that Jack had had a troubled childhood and had tried to take his life “multiple” times before. The jurors said the alleged offence had been a factor in what happened and the loss of contact with his child after his arrest had led to a “lot of distress”.

Notice how the claim he’d tried ‘Many times’ isn’t challenged yet we’re supposed to believe he suddenly got it right this time?

Assistant Chief Constable Steve Lyne of Dorset police said: “Dorset police has reviewed its actions and involvement in the investigation to identify any learning opportunities. Subsequently, some protocols have been refreshed.” The force said it was considering its response regarding the coroner’s request for more information about domestic abuse policies.

Ah learning opportunities, never the ones they really need, which is to stop employing middle aged neon haired social studies graduates  who waste their time on this sort of thing.

Well, Why Not? Who, After All, Was There To Stop Him?

Award-winning rapper Ghetts has been jailed for 12 years after killing a university student in a hit and run.

Not just an ordinary hit and run, either. A vehicular rampage that should sutely have attracted a bigger sentence. 

The grime artist was speeding and over the drink-drive limit when he mowed down Nepalese national Yubin Tamang, 20, in north-east London.The musician, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, failed to stop after his BMW hit the 20-year-old in Ilford....CCTV footage showed a "quite appalling litany of incidents" leading up to the fatal collision which was "simply shocking". 

And where were the traffic cops?  The roadside CCTV monitors? Nowhere.

Outlining the facts, prosecutor Philip McGhee said Clarke-Samuel had been drinking alcohol on the evening of Saturday October 18, 2025. He was said to be one and a half times over the legal drink-drive limit and was driving at speeds up to 70mph before the crash.As he drove his BMW M5 at speed back towards his home in Woodford, east London, he failed to stop at six red traffic lights, the court was told. 

He repeatedly veered onto the wrong side of the road, mounted the curb and collided with a motorcyclist and a Mercedes, causing damage.He was going more than 60mph in a 30mph road before he hit Mr Tamang as he crossed Redbridge Lane, Ilford, at 11.33pm.Mr McGhee said: “Mr Tamang was still crossing the road. He could do nothing to avoid a collision. The defendant’s BMW ploughed into him. Mr Tamang was catapulted into the air before crashing down on the roadway. He sustained catastrophic injuries. 

“The defendant nonetheless continued to drive his car along Redbridge Lane East and for around another eight miles, for over a quarter of an hour after the collision, before completing his journey close to his home address at 11.48pm.” The defendant made no call to emergency services and Mr Tamang died in hospital from his injuries two days later.

Bit much for a first offence? Reader, of course it wasn't!  

The defendant had 12 previous convictions for 27 crimes.

And yet, in Britain 2026, was still at large to be a vehicular menace as well as a musical one. 

As he sentenced him, the judge noted the father-of-two's "genuine remorse" and letters of support including from his partner setting out how he had used his career in music to make a positive impact on his community.

How naive was that judge!  

What 'Security Procedures'?

A woman who woke up to a man sexually assaulting her in her hotel bed has said she was "failed" by Travelodge after staff gave him a key card and her room number.

She claimed staff told her Smith, who was known to her, had passed their security checks by providing her name.

I don’t think they quite understand that term…

"I feel like they failed me, it makes me more frustrated that they haven't said 'OK yes we did this wrong'. Instead they've put the blame aside." she said. 

"If I checked-in on my own and the room booking is just for me why would you think it's OK to let someone in in the middle of the night while I'm asleep? "At least wake me up or phone the room or come up to the room. Anything is better than just giving someone a key card. 

I have used Travelodge in the past, but this has put me right off! It’s astonishing that in this litigious society that they aren’t facing a lawsuit. Shouldn’t the H&S Executive be having a word too?

"The hotel said that he passed their security questions. "The only thing he would know about me was my name. "They said he was able to show them text messages, but I didn't have his phone number and he didn't have mine."

After reporting the incident to staff, she was later offered a £30 refund. "I saw it as very insulting. It would have been better if they hadn't offered it," she said. Travelodge has admitted the offer was inappropriate under the circumstances.

They seem determined to burn their business to the ground don’t they? 

Only A Particular Demographic, 'Guardian', Let's Be Honest

If you’re anything like my parents, you probably wouldn’t even understand most of the content that floods my social media, no matter how hard I try to avoid it.

Give us an example, then!  

Here’s a recent example from Instagram: “Do y’all females ever tell ur homegirls ‘Sis chill you letting too many dudes hit?’” Essentially, that means: “Women – do you ever tell your girlfriends that they’re whores and need to stop letting so many guys fuck them?” The reel, posted by a 19-year-old man, appeared on my Instagram feed without me wanting to see it, or ever interacting with any other similar content. The comments that followed were pure misogyny. “Women see body count as a leaderboard and they try to outdo each other,” was one of them. Translation: all women are competitively promiscuous.

Hmmm, I'm sensing that the circles this girl moves in are specifically... ethnic. 

Consider the use of the word “female” in these posts. It is not a neutral term here, it is a term of abuse. It’s used by teenage boys to degrade us and equate us to animals. Boys are never described as “males”, but girls are always “females” – the equivalent of sows or calves, creatures that are less than human. We’re also “thots” (whores), “community pussy” and “bops”. “Bop” stands for “been over passed” and is a derogatory term used by boys to refer to a girl they’ve decided has been “passed around” or had too much sex. Sexual equality has ceased to exist online. It’s absolutely fine for boys to have sex, but when girls do, they are called worthless and referred to as objects. “When community pussy tries to insult me, I just want to beat that bitch up.” That’s a message I saw on TikTok.

And that cements it. Yes, I know the language and culture of this group has spread to the other child cultures, we've all sat on the bus or train convinced that the children we overhear behind us are black by their language, slang and diction, only to be surprised when they get up and move past us to get off to find they are as lilywhite as ourselves, haven't we, Reader?

But this reads like the real thing, and would be consistent with the 'Guardian' ethos of portraying this culture as forever victins of ouside forces:

And what is the effect? If I spend even 10 minutes on an app such as Instagram, I will close it, feeling disheartened and unhappy about being a girl. Using social media has ruined my self-esteem and my relation to being a girl in this world, and nearly every day I feel hatred towards my gender, my appearance, or even teenage boys as a category.

I can’t speak for every girl my age... 

 The 'Guardian' clearly begs to differ.

....but I frequently feel objectified, dehumanised and disgusted by the hate towards women I see online, and I can say with certainty that most of my friends would agree with me.

And what do you and your friends do to reverse the culturre that these boys emulate? Is it 'nothing' because you'd rather blame something else, like technology, rather than shine an unwelcome light on your culture? 

What's Up, Lads, Not As Safe A Target....

...when they are running around and not tied to a telegraph pole?

Six people are believed to have been injured after dog attacks in Leicestershire, police have said.Two dogs - confirmed to be Caucasian shepherds - were then discovered after firearms officers, a police dog and its handler were deployed.

But not USED, despite the obvious danger these thing presented. 

The force added that both dogs were safely removed and are now being held in secure kennels.

Well, its only taxpayer money, after all... 

Why Can't You Do This When They Are Actually Doing The Act?

Fifteen activists from a group which claimed to be behind stunts targeting the Ritz and the Crown Jewels have been arrested over alleged plans for a “mass shoplifting campaign” in London, police say. The Metropolitan Police said members of Take Back Power, which describes itself as a “non-violent civil resistance group”, had been preparing a campaign to steal goods from supermarkets and redistribute them.

Now, you might be asking why the show of force here, and not when people are actually engaging in thieving stuff in broad daylight, Reader? Well, this might provide a clue!

According to the force, activists had gathered at the Quaker Meeting House in Westminster on Thursday evening to take part in “non-violent direct action training”. Officers moved in to halt the meeting and arrested 15 people on suspicion of conspiracy to commit theft.

Clearly, the police fancy arresting unarmed middle class Quaker types having tea and biscuits at a meeting far more than they do rolling around between the shelves of a corner shop with a young fit, potentially infectious dinghy invader. And I’d say who can blame them but then I remember they are paid to do both!

Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman said: "There is a clear difference between lawful protest and criminal acts. 

Cool. it's not just that you fancied an easy arrest, then? 

"This evening's operation tackled a group who we have grounds to suspect were planning to steal from shops in a large, targeted and organised way. 

"Theft is a crime and the public expect the police to deal with it - which is exactly what we have done today."

You're right, we do expect you to deal with it, whenever and whever it happens... or we'll wind up like America:

Oh, too late! 

H/T:skscartoon via twitter

Are We That Desperate For Vets?

Tudor Herlea downed beer and vodka on a boozy evening before he was stopped by police during a routine drink drive check. Officers then found he was one and a half times the legal drink drive limit, a tribunal has heard.

And it wasn’t his first time, either:  

Herlea, a registered vet who began working in the UK in July 2024 as the lead surgeon for Vets4Pets in Blackpool, was already banned from driving for a speeding offence at the time.

And yet was hired anyway such is the state of our country, and the craven behaviour of our institutions is but one reason!

However, he has been spared from being struck off the official vet register after a panel was told that the Home Office would deport him if he was suspended.

So, that’s a consequence, and surely we can’t be so short of vets that we need to keep this one around? 

It was heard that Herlea committed the crimes in his home country and was convicted at a Romanian court in March 2024 - four months before he came to Britain as a convicted criminal to work.Despite this, The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) still allowed him to work in the UK.

Are all our organisations so totally captured that no matter what, they will continue to inflict diversity on us? 

The Most Horrible Thing I've Ever Seen On The Internet; Conclusion

A dog owner whose XL bullies attacked and killed a man has been jailed for five years. James Harrison Trimble-Pettitt, 33, previously pleaded guilty to having dogs dangerously out of control when Ian Price, 52, was attacked outside a property in Stonnall, Staffordshire, near Walsall, on 14 September 2023.

The video of this incident was the most distubing thing I've ever seen on the Internet - the sheer power on these animals and the utter helplessness of the unarmed people trying in vain to save him.

Judge John Edwards said Ian Price was "utterly overpowered by these young, powerful creatures who ravaged him for 12 minutes". Just hours after his death, then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the XL bully breed would be banned in England and Wales.

He should have ordered a cull of the damned thing, but he had as little backbone as Starmer has proved himself to have. 

The court heard both of Trimble-Pettitt's dogs, named Via and Ares, managed to escape their owner's home through an insecure door and open window, while the garden gate was also left ajar. Prosecutors said the animals attacked Ian Price's face and continued "jumping and biting". Members of the public tried to help the victim with one attempting to use their car and others using wheelie bins to try to stop the dogs. The attack was witnessed by both his wife and mother, with Ian Price eventually falling to the ground in the latter's garden.The court was told Heather Price called police and was heard telling them the dogs were "absolutely ravaging him".

And, although they sent armed officers. they failed to use them, sonething we've seen more and more, as they run scared of bad publicity from the boodsport breed fanciers and the sentimental public who haven't seen what damage these things can do. 

Judge Edwards said while Trimble-Pettitt did not intend for them to attack Ian Price, he displayed a "wholesale disregard" for his responsibilities as a dog owner.

We shouldn't regard people who want to keep these breeds as simple 'dog owners' - we should treat then as people who want to own a deadly weapon, because that's what they are. These breeds bear as much relation to the pooch curled in his basket in a normal houshold as your Sunday lunch table cutlery does to a zombie knife.

Thomas Schofield KC, mitigating, said Trimble-Pettitt's fault was one of negligence rather than intention, adding: "He didn't wake up that day thinking he was going to hurt somebody."

Then why did he have not one, but two of these things? 

In his sentencing, Judge Edwards also disqualified Trimble-Pettitt from keeping dogs indefinitely.

And no-one will check for compliance.... 

The Biters Bit

Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt to root out failing officers, the Guardian has learned.

Oh dear!  

The Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, criticised the approach as “automated suspicion”. It said: “Officers must not be subjected to opaque or untested tools that risk misinterpreting unsustainable workload pressures, sickness or overtime as indicators of wrongdoing.”

But it's perfectly OK for the public to be subjected to  

Must Be A Day With A 'Y' In It...

 ...because the 'Mail' fudges an animal story yet again:

What the spokeman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife would have said is'they hunt for mule deer'

Sunday Funnies...

 I maintain no 7 is a far, far better movie than the most recent remake.

Would there Be A Backlash If A Female Said This?

Reform UK’s Nadhim Zahawi has clashed with a senior Tory after doubling down on his claim that London is unsafe.

It demonstrably IS unsafe, how could anyone claim it isn't?  Anyone who wasn't knowingly trying to paint fears as 'rightwing concerns', that is? 

Mr Zahawi had told how he felt unsafe one morning after coming across a man in one of the capital’s most affluent areas who looked like he hadn’t slept and who he felt might be violent.

And that invited detractors to claim he was imagining things, something they'd never dare to say to a woman who expressed the same concerns. 

Reigniting the row, the senior Reform figure highlighted a report on crime in Mayfair and took a swipe at Sir Chris and Mr Hollinrake. “Both @kevinhollinrake @RhonddaBryant laugh and belittle people who think London is unsafe, only @policylaila @ZiaYusufUK and @reformparty_uk will take our streets, neighbourhoods & country back from the criminals & thugs,” he messaged on X.

 I applaud any such effort, doomed as it is to failure by people who will argue the sun rises in the west and sets in the east rather than admit the truth.

However, plain-speaking Yorkshire MP Mr Hollinrake hit back, posting: “Hi Nadhim, first time we’ve spoken for a while but we were very friendly last time we did. “No - as you actually know - I wasn’t belittling the problems we have in London and other parts of the UK - I was belittling your ludicrous example of a personal threat to you which never was.”

Trust your instincts, Nadhim - if they tell you someone is sketchy, they are probably right. 

Are We Really Employing Such Nervous Nellies In MI5?

A failed asylum seeker sparked a major terror alert after he left a fake stick of dynamite outside MI5's HQ.

A clearly fake stick, that he didn't actually even bother to light. If he'd written 'ACME Explosives' on it, it couldn't have looked any more fake. So why did it spark 'a major terror alert'? 

Did it, in fact, do such? Not that I can gather, I never heard anything about it until this story!

Julian Valente Pereira, a 32-year-old Brazilian national, staged a protest at the secret services central London base at Thames House a day after he had been told he would be kicked out of the UK.

A counter terrorism bomb expert rushed to the scene where it was then discovered Pereira had used rolled-up A4 paper, brown masking tape, and string to create the fake dynamite.

I'm suspecting now that the 'major terrorist alert' has been made up by the MSM... 

Pereira came to the UK with permission to work in July 2018 and has remained in the country illegally since February 2019.

Yes, this is how long it's taken to kick out this loony overstayer...and I fear that as a result of this stunt, he'll be here even longer.  Not because his stunt worked, at least as he hoped it would, but beause now our useless judiciary will shower him with understanding and sympathy:

Pereira has been remanded into custody until sentencing on April 1, and the footage of the incident has now been released by the Crown Prosecution Service.The judge asked for reports on Pereira's mental health and risk of reoffending, and warned that he may be jailed or sent to the Crown Court for sentencing.

Just put him on a plane, FFS!  

'Someone Should Have Saved Me From The Consequences Of My Own Actions!'

Emma Dyer remembers the moment she clicked "buy now" on a set of weight‑loss jabs she found online. She had no medical consultation, no ID checks, and no questions about her history of anorexia and bulimia. "It was just so easy - too easy," she says. "They never asked for my medical history or what medication I was taking. It was like buying groceries."

Except you weren't ordering cornflakes and crackers, and you knew that.

Within days of taking the injections, Emma collapsed on her bathroom floor and thought she was going to die.

She didn't, Reader. She survived to deman ACTION! on her behalf.

Emma had a history of eating disorders. She says she had reached a healthy weight, felt stable, and was working in a job she enjoyed. But a single comment from a customer who she said told her "you looked a lot better when you were skinnier", sent her spiralling.

Oh, well.  

The 40-year-old, from Carlton in Nottinghamshire, said the website she used offered no safeguards. She says it only asked for her body mass index (BMI), which she was able to lie about. "If they'd checked my medical history with my GP, I don't think I would've been eligible," she says. "My BMI was normal. I just wasn't in the right headspace to make a logical decision."

And a website is supposed to know that?  

When the injections arrived back in March 2024, the instructions were "poorly printed", Emma says. Not realising she needed to start on a low dose, she injected a medium one.

So she can't read either. 

She has now decided to share her story in the hope others will think twice before ordering weight-loss jabs online.

I've no intention of thinking even once about ordering medication (after self-diagnosing) from the Internet, thanks. Because I'm not a moron. 

It Shouldn't Be A Competitive Sport!

Every January, thousands of readers log on to Goodreads, Instagram or TikTok and make the same declaration: this is the year I read 50 books. Or 75. Or 100. Screenshots of spreadsheets circulate, templates for tracking pages and percentages are downloaded, friends publicly pledge to “do better” than they did last year.

Why? They aren't, can't be, reading for pleasure. Not if this is what's driving them.  

The appeal is obvious: in a distracted age, reading can easily become crowded out by work, screens and fatigue. Literacy rates in the UK are stagnating: in 2024, around 50% of UK adults read regularly for pleasure, down from 58% in 2015.

What they are describing doesn't seem too pleasurable to me. I love Goodreads for its options to recommend books, and see what others are reading, not for any competitive reducing of reading to a numbers game!

As the UK launches its National Year of Reading, a steady drumbeat of commentary has framed the decline of book culture as a civilisational crisis. Columnists have painted lurid pictures of a post-literate society, in which the shrinking cultural centrality of books represents a slow unravelling of the habits that once underpinned modern public life. In this context, reading targets promise discipline and a sense of progress.

The death of great authors like the sadly missed Dan Simmons at the weekend isn’t helping! 

But do yearly reading goals actually help us read better, or do they risk hollowing out the very activity they claim to protect?

The latter, I fear. What say you, Reader?