Not Letting This Mutt Have It's 'One Bite'...

A dog has died after being attacked by a Staffordshire bull terrier.

The incident took place on a footpath near Nightingale Road in Pakefield between 2.25pm and 2.55pm on April 8.

I'd imagine owners believe at that time they will be safe to walk their pet without coming into contact with dangerous mutts but not on this occasion.

The Staffy, which was on a lead, bit a cockapoo, also on a lead, when it was being walked along the footpath near the beach.

Officers are asking anyone with any information to contact Suffolk Constabulary quoting the crime reference 37/20460/26.

Odd that the police are taking it seriously, when they usually do all they can to swerve dog-on-dog attacks, but enlightement, as ever, comes from social media below. 

To the comments, where the usual defenders of vicious breeds show up: 

And to Facebook, where the police reaction is somewhat explained by the behaviour of the mutt's owner and the fact it's the THIRD such incident: 

I hope they catch him. Amd shoot his weapon dog in front of him.

H/T: Dave Ward via email

Many A True Word...

 

...illustrated in cartoon form by Matt.

Sunday Funnies...

 Given the title, I half expected David Lammy to make an appearance....

Seems A Strange Decision For An Unpopular PM Who Faces 'Two Tier' Claims...

Prosecutors have vowed to get tough on protesters who spew hate ahead of an unprecedented £4.5million policing operation to deal with rival rallies on Sunday.

Sunday, Mail? It's today, isn't it?  

And everything they say underlines the attitude of the establishent that there's only one concern, despite there being two marches. 

Keir Starmer warned on Saturday of a 'fight for the soul of this country' after the head of the Crown Prosecution Service announced a new hardline stance against those inciting hatred at protests.

Man without a soul (or personality!) is not best qualified to pontificate about it, surely?  

Britain's biggest force is preparing to use armoured vehicles for the first time in a decade as it deploys 4,000 officers to tackle a series of protests on Sunday, including a Unite The Kingdom rally led by far-Right activist Tommy Robinson and a pro-Palestine demo to mark Nakba Day.

Visiting the Metropolitan Police's Command and Control Special Operations Room yesterday, the Prime Minister outlined a 'ramped-up justice system' ready to quickly haul violent offenders in front of judges, saying: 'We're in a fight for the soul of this country, and the Unite The Kingdom march is a stark reminder of exactly what we are up against.'Its organisers are peddling hatred and division, plain and simple.

 And what, peay tell, is the other march peddling? Its not kittens and rainbows, is it? 

Arabic for 'catastrophe', Nakba refers to the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 for the founding of Israel.

Kier has nailed his colours to the mast - this is what he stands for. Not the historic right of the people of Britain to march in support of a cause, but the right of foreign-born 'citizens' and their handmaidens in the lanyard classes to march in support of the overthrow of a foreign country

Eleven foreign far-Right agitators have been blocked from entering the country.

Meanwhile, third worlders come in on boats every day, and who knows who they are or what they stand for? 

You're Answering A Question No-one's Asking

 

The quetion isn't what would they do, it's what would they be and the answer's that they wouldn't be Starmer. And for a lot of people, although they may dress it up for quotes, that's enough. It certainly is for me. Principally, it's punishment. For Southport, the Chagos Islands, Two Tier policing, etc.

Well, You've Only Yourselves To Blame...

Broadcasters must urgently adapt to an existential threat from “creator journalism” that is causing audiences to shun traditional television news, the former boss of BBC News has said.

Because they are more immediate and trustworthy than the MSM?

Deborah Turness, who resigned from the BBC alongside the then director general, Tim Davie, last year, said consumption was “collapsing” for traditional television news, which was facing “a profound moment of disruption”.

She said that a new habit of following personality-led journalism on digital platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Substack was now in the process of replacing traditional news.

Least anyone forget why this useless creature is no longer employed by the BBC: 

In her first intervention since stepping down from the BBC after the corporation’s edit of a Donald Trump speech...

If you're goung to follw someone making up the news, it might as well be the guy down the road. He's less likely to be a nonce, after all... 

They Should Never Have Been Given This Power!

Little Rowan Antolovi, who has a rare genetic eye disorder, is struggling to manage in the classroom because of his failing eyesight. But when his concerned NHS hospital consultant referred him for urgent assistance to help him cope, he was turned away when the local council found out he went to a private day school.

This is of course in Scotland, where gesture politics override even safety concerns, but who gave a local council the power to refuse service on the NHS in the first place?  Weren't we subjected to endless sneering on social media last week at Reform's policy on the NHS, and assured that local council elections had no bearing on it!?

Now Rowan's furious mother Virginia Osborne has accused them of discriminating against a little boy who needs help because 'of a decision we made as parents about where to educate him'. 

'We are not rich. We are an ordinary working family as are most at his school. We have saved money for the government by sending our child to a private school.' 

'As a result of our choice we are now precluded from accessing council provision for children even though we have also paid all of our taxes which pay for those services.'

Many funding decisions of local councils seem power-crazed or shortsighted - this is one that seems truly evil! 

 

DEI Kills...

Paramedic Colleen Gibson, who was the first emergency responder to arrive on the scene, is also said to have failed to tell police and fire crews who arrived shortly after her that Saffron Cole-Nottage was within a crucial 30-minute time period when her life might still be saved.

Giving evidence today, Ms Gibson said she had been involved with four previous water incidents before Ms Cole-Nottage's but she hadn't been trained to take command of a multi-agency emergency.

And clearly, unless you are training people to do something, or better yet, recruiting those of that persuasion, you can’t expect them to step up and do it when needed 

The two-week inquest into the death of Ms Cole-Nottage has already heard how a 999 operator didn't establish the mother-of-six was at risk of drowning due to the incoming tide until seven minutes into a call with the teenager who raised the alarm.

The emergency services are always telling us how ‘every second counts’ but when it comes down to the crunch, you’re at the mercy of people unable to act as if it really does. 

Police bodycam footage showed officers who arrived shortly afterwards asking Ms Gibson if anything could be done to save Ms Cole-Nottage and she replied: 'No.'

Why did she say that? Well, that’s a very good question to which the answer was…

Questioned by inquest counsel Bridget Dolan KC about why she didn't tell emergency services colleagues that the opportunity to save the patient's life potentially extended for another 10 minutes, she said: 'I don't know.'

Imagine that - knowing where she is and that she’s giving evidence in an inquest, she couldn’t even come up with a plausible reason! This is not someone who fears for her future job, it seems...

When Ms Dolan told her police 'said that if they'd been told a rescue was possible they would have tried', she added: 'I don't believe that to be safe. I wouldn't be able to reach down into the rocks head-first with the water.' Ms Dolan replied: 'Nobody is saying you should have tried. The police have said if they knew there was a possibility of rescuing Saffron they would have tried.'

You can almost imagine the frustration in her voice, can’t you? How did someone get to be a paramedic while being so clueless and hapless?

Expert witness Matthew England, a nurse and paramedic who sits on a group that advises the Home Office about emergency services working together on incidents, said Ms Gibson should have taken command of the scene as the first responder there. She should also have communicated with Coastguard, police and firefighters there but it 'did not appear very coordinated in terms of what was going on', he added.

You don't say!? And it's not just the on-scene responders who failed:

The 999 call was placed at 7.52pm but it was not until 7.59pm that the call handler established how quickly the tide was coming in. Christopher Strutt, a call handler team leader, told the inquest the fire service should have been contacted by the ambulance service within seconds when it was known that someone's head was trapped. But he said controllers had to go through an algorithm, asking questions prompted by their computer, and were discouraged from raising their own queries until the list was completed. The revelation prompted coroner Darren Stewart to suggest the 'rather clunky' system had contributed to a 'muddled response'.

God forbid anyone uses their own initiative!  

Now. there's often a fair amount of 'Monday morning quarterbacking' anout inquests, it's true. But sometimes, they throw a harsh light on policies and procedures that hamper, and not help. Although this one hasn't concluded yet, I'd  venure to suggest it already has done so, and not to modern Britain's benefit.

Arrogance...Or Playing The Mental Health Card?

A man charged with false communications over an alleged bomb hoax at a Peter Kay show has been removed from court after repeatedly talking during a hearing on Monday. Omar Majed, 19, was ordered to go down to the cells part-way through an 11-minute proceeding at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.

Could go either way, frankly, these days. 

Majed, of Saltley, Birmingham, was charged with allegedly making false communications that a bomb was present in the arena.

And he continued his disruption tactics into court. 

After confirming his address and date of birth at the start of the hearing, Majed was repeatedly asked to be quiet by District Judge Michelle Smith, who was appearing in court via a video-link. District Judge Smith also made several requests for Majed to sit down.

Eh? The judges are now appearing by video link as well as the accused?!  

After Majed shouted that proposed bail conditions for him were "not acceptable", he was taken down to the cells before the end of the hearing. He did not make a plea to the single charge of communicating false information to police and was refused bail.

The judge said she was "satisfied that the case should be dealt with in the crown court" in June.

Did she say which June?  

Thing Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold....

That they do, Yeats, that they do...

A Green councillor in Hackney has quit within days of winning his seat because he was voted in against electoral rules.James Tilden was elected to represent Hackney Central ward with 1,681 votes following the council elections last Thursday (May 7), but his party failed to realise this breached electoral law before making him their official candidate.As a primary school teacher in the one of the borough's community schools, Mr Tilden is legally an employee of Hackney Council. Under Section 80 of the Local Government Act 1972, teachers cannot become a member of a local authority if they are employed by or their job is confirmed by the same local authority.

Meanwhile:

Scotland Yard has been urged by the Tories to investigate Zack Polanski after he admitted he failed to pay council tax while living on a houseboat in east London. The Green Party leader was branded a 'hypocrite' after he apologised on Monday for the 'unintentional mistake' and said he had 'immediately taken steps to pay any council tax' owed. The Conservatives and Labour have both referred Mr Polanski, who is a member of the London Assembly, to the City Hall sleaze watchdog over his council tax arrangements.

Are we uniquely blessed in this country with hapless politicians? What happened to the apparatus of state and local government that’s paid well to oversee the process and stop this sort of thing happening?

Mind you, with the current incumbent of No 10 clinging on like a limpet despite everything, are the Greens really the worst of a bad bunch?

Gosh, Sounds Fun And Not At All Pretentious!

This year’s Venice Biennale has been tearing itself apart for months: countries not showing up, artists getting fired, exhibitions being cancelled, funding getting pulled. There were petitions and protests months before a painting was on a wall. The jury quit in the days leading up to the opening, then Iran quit, then the European Commission quit. There were protests against Israel and Russia during the preview, artists went on strike and artworks were replaced with installations of Palestinian flags. The whole thing was a massive mess of conflicting politics, personal tragedy and unresolvable ideological differences from the very beginning.

And all this without even mentioning that the curator, Koyo Kouoh, died last year and wasn’t able to see her artistic vision through to completion.

And presumably is now rolling in her grave at what's on offer/ 

Kouoh’s idea for her biennale was to chuck aside the ire and invective of outright political art, and focus on quiet, contemplation and healing.

And how, you may ask Reader, is that expressed? As you would expect, considering the source...

A gathering of glazed creatures by Peruvian artist Celia Vásquez Yui transforms another gallery into a little slice of jungle. Among the endless, anonymous abstractions, there are a bunch of great paintings. Mohammed Z Rahman’s tiny images on matchboxes of shells, flowers, condoms, knobs and skulls are excellent depictions of queer heartbreak. Tammy Nguyen uses her huge, complex canvases to expose links between the cold war and Vietnam. Wardha Shabbir takes the tradition of Pakistani miniature painting and blows it up to maximal scale, resulting in some head-spinningly gorgeous paintings of flowers and foliage.

Well, the glazed animals are cute, looking as they do like garden ornaments from the 'Past Times' catalogue...but it can't last!

The Denmark pavilion is a hi-tech sperm bank, Luxembourg’s features a singing turd, Japan’s forces visitors to look after fake babies. There’s a lifesize chocolate Russell Crowe in the Malta pavilion

And then there's the Austria pavilion...don't ask what's in that, for your sanity's sake

It’s brilliantly obscene and vile.

Ah, art. 

The Likeliest Story In A History Of Likely Stories...

A Ukrainian man has admitted setting fire to a car that once belonged to Keir Starmer for £3,000, after telling a court he had been being threatened by a “powerful” Russian-speaking man using the pseudonym El Money.

The Russians were behind it all!

Asked by James Scobie KC, defending, what made him conclude that he meant business, he said: “He told me he is a high-profile person. Maybe he had some connections, maybe he is connected to politics. He said he is like a person with a high status. He just told me he is a person in power.”

So powerful he wasn't up to date on the car ownership. If a thriller writer offered this as a screenplay it'd be laughed out of the Green Room.

The trial continues.

The farce continues, more accurately. 

The Experts Can't Stand To Be Wrong And Worse, Unneeded...

Marine biologists and whale experts have stepped up their criticism of a privately funded operation to release a humpback whale that was stranded for weeks off Germany’s Baltic coast...

They never stopped, from the forst moment it looked as if their advise was going to be ignored. 

... after it emerged that a tracker fitted to the whale was not working.

Seems a strange thing to be so concerned about... 

The whereabouts and health of the young male whale – nicknamed Timmy after one of the sandbanks it was stranded on – remain unknown three days after it was transported in a water-holding barge pulled by a tugboat to waters off the coast of Denmark.

A rescue that the experts all deperately wanted to see fail, bevause fot it to succeed would prove them wrong. 

The rescue initiative, estimated to have cost about €1.5m, was funded in part by Karin Walter-Mommert, the owner of one of the largest racehorse portfolios in Europe.

The whale was first spotted stuck on a sandbank on 23 March near the city of Lübeck, on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, before freeing itself and then becoming stuck again several times.

The environment minister for Germany’s Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state gave the green light for the attempt to save the whale, despite some warnings from the scientific community that it may be too much for the animal.

...whale researcher Fabian Ritter told German media... that if it was not possible to determine if the whale had died then the entire operation would have been in vain.

Au contraire, if it dies out at sea that's better than the huge clean-up operation that would have been needed to dispose of a health hazard on shore. 

The whale was last photographed swimming in the strait of Skagerrak.

And the experts are furious. 

There were also confusing reports surrounding the decision to release the whale. Kirsten Tönnies, a vet who had been on board the Fortuna B, one of two rescue ships accompanying the whale, was reportedly barred from witnessing the second and final release attempts. Tönnies said that tensions had been high between the experts on board and the ship’s crew. She said she disagreed with how the whale was released backward from the barge and with the fact she had been barred from giving the medical all-clear beforehand.

The one thing 'experts' cannot abide - that they aren't listened to. 

They Don't Seem To Have The Same Worries Over Other Procedures....

Leah Spasova, a psychologist from Oxfordshire, spent a decade fighting to obtain female sterilisation at her local trust. She was denied the procedure, which blocks or seals the fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy, with the care board citing potential regret and costs as its reasoning.

Personal regret? When did that start to concern them? 

Now the health ombudsman has found in her favour and criticised the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board for its inconsistent approach.

The investigation found that the ICB had denied women NHS funding based on the risk of 'regret' while not applying the same a criterion to vasectomies. It concluded the policy was unfair as well as inconsistent and based on subjective reasoning.

At last, some common sense. Can we please see it expanded to other procedures?  

Paula Sussex, of the PHSO, said: 'The issue highlighted in Leah's case about the commissioning and managing of services by ICBs is not an isolated one. 'We are concerned that there may be similar wider problems affecting multiple areas of healthcare, and we have concerns that the system is not consistently meeting people's needs and is letting patients down.'

Not consistently meeting people’s needs? The could be the very strapline of the NHS!

Let's Not, After All, Because It's Too Hard...

Schools also know that enforcing such a ban is anything but straightforward. In February, research by Birmingham University found that staff at English schools with “restrictive” smartphone policies – those that require pupils to turn phones off and place them in a bag or hand devices in – spent more than 100 hours a week enforcing those rules. That’s the equivalent of a week’s working hours for three full-time members of staff. Researchers concluded that at a potential cost of £94 per pupil, enforcement was a “huge drain” on already stretched resources. The question then is, will the government increase school funding considering this reality?

This is the mad idea, beloved of authoritarian nut jobs everywhere that smartphones should be banned in school. And having suggested that, its ‘job done, trebles all round’ and onto the next idea, but it seems enforcing that is going to be quite the task. Not that that's their concern, after all.

The problem of enforcement will not magically disappear. Some teachers, too scared or tired of the disruption that will come when they ask for a pupil’s phone, will continue to “tactically ignore” the ping of WhatsApp notifications.

Well, that’s a disciplinary then, isn’t it? Punish all the teachers for the infraction of one, you know it makes sense, eh? 

A head of year working at a school with a “restrictive” smartphone policy told me of the typical reactions of pupils caught with their phones: “denial and resistance”, “verbal abuse” and “serious hostility”. They spoke of one colleague who was forced to “lock themselves in their office” when confronted by a raging student demanding the return of their phone.

Then there were the students who carried multiple phones so that when challenged by a teacher, they could offer up a decoy and appear compliant with school rules.

They've allowed the children to dictate to the adults for so long that this cannot get off the ground. And you can’t rely on the parents, who are often every bit as violent and ignorant as their spawn.

In another school, an assistant head recently told me that a parent, furious at the school’s confiscation of their child’s mobile, called the police.

And it’s all for nothing anyway: 

While schools can curb the use of phones during the day, they are powerless to enforce those boundaries beyond the school gates. Pupils compensate for their daytime sobriety with heavier phone use at home.

It is to laugh… 

Singapore Knows How To Deal With Youths In The Digital Age

A French teenager who allegedly licked a straw from an orange juice vending machine and put it back into its dispenser has been charged with committing mischief and being a public nuisance in Singapore.

Why? For Tiktok 'Likes' of course.

The company that owns the vending machine, iJooz, says it replaced all 500 straws in the machine's dispenser after the alleged incident.

And they aren't prpared to swallow that cost and laugh it off as they would in the West...

If found guilty of both charges Maximilien faces a maximum jail sentence of more than two years and thousands of dollars in fines.

I visited Singapore on holiday many years ago, and found it clean and safe like the UK used to be.

Maximilien is currently a student at the Singapore branch of the Essec Business School.

His lawyers had earlier told CNA that Maximilien's parents had flown over to Singapore and that a representative from his school would be his bailor. His case will be heard again in court on 22 May.

I hope he learned more about business than he evidently did about the culture of the country he was staying in. 

A Reminder...

...of what the local elections should have been all about, courtsey of Matt

Sunday Funnies...

 Spoilers! 

Well, At Least It’s Not The Krays…

A midnight phone call from a High Street crime gang, threatening to kill crime investigator Mandy and burn her house down, was just the start of a campaign of intimidation that would eventually force her and her husband to move home. She faced escalating threats from a Kurdish crime gang, that had been selling illegal cigarettes and nitrous oxide canisters in mini-marts across the UK.

And why do we have Kurdish organised crime in the UK? It’s a good question, isn’t it, Reader? Clearly, our own homegrown OCGs aren’t considered exotic and enriching enough…

Mandy is one of 24 Trading Standards officers who have shared details of the daily intimidation and violence they face from criminal gangs running mini-marts and vape shops, as they try to investigate unfair trading, illegal business activity and enforce consumer protection laws.

In some areas, half of all mini-marts and vape shops, and up to a third of American candy stores are thought to have links to organised crime, the survey results also suggest.

I think that’s what you call a ‘conservative estimate’! 

The UK government told us it was "working with the police, the National Crime Agency and Trading Standards to take the strongest possible action against these criminal businesses".

Oh, good, I feel much safer now the UK Government is stepping up… knowing it’s probably infiltrated by their friends.

Sorry Ted, You're A DInosaur!

Hundreds of rogue police officers face the sack after Scotland Yard used an artificial intelligence spy program to unearth misconduct, corruption and criminality.

Oh, dear...

In an unprecedented crackdown, Britain's biggest force secretly unleashed the AI tool to root out bad behaviour - letting it loose on internal systems which monitor sickness levels, overtime, expenses, entry to buildings and public complaints. The controversial tool was supplied by the US tech company Palantir, which also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump's ICE operation.

Now unleash it on the benefits system!  

Senior officers had been abusing Met systems for years, logging false claims for overtime, scamming systems to get extra days off, lying about working from home and hiding their membership of the Freemasons.

Their union is furious!  

But the move has angered the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers. It called the approach 'automated suspicion', saying: 'Officers must not be subjected to opaque or untested tools that risk misinterpreting unsustainable workload pressures, sickness or overtime as indicators of wrongdoing.'

Good luck with that!  

The Modern Day Scourge Of The 'Influencer'

An influencer has been charged after allegedly headbutting a charity worker who refused to let him film himself handing food to the homeless. The incident, which happened at Homeless Project Scotland's Glassford Street shelter on Thursday just after 11pm, saw an influencer allegedly turn violent after his request for a photo opportunity was refused.

These young folk, with their TikToks, eh?  

A 49-year-old man was arrested at the scene at 11.38pm and then charged in connection to the alleged incident. He will appear in court at a later date.

Isn't that a bit old to be an influencer?  

It is not known who the 49-year-old influencer is, but it is understood that he was staying at the House of Gods Hotel in Glasgow, where rooms start from about £150 per night. The charity claimed that House of Gods hotel staff attended the scene and asked their guest to return.

Wow, that's good hotel service if it includes negotiating a way out of chokey for you!  

The Morning After…

Well, as I write this, it’s 5:15am, I'm just sipping my morning cuppa, and enough of the results are in that we know that, as predicted, Labour have suffered crushing defeat in their traditional heartlands, and Starmer’s political career is now measured in days, if not hours.

 TGIF! 

It's not all good news (it never is), the Green Party looks to have picked up too many seats for my liking, and what replaces Starmer is poroably even worse. 

Update: sadly, my area remaind solidly Labour despite (or perhaps because of?) the huge demographic change it's endured over the recent years?

It's D-Day!

Local elections, and a chance for people to cast a vote to give the people in charge a good kicking. but don't forget! 

Don't draw a cock on your ballot paper - last time, one got into No 10!

And never, ever vote Green!

My polling station is just two streets over, a short walk away so passport in hand I'll take a stroll on this, the last day of my impromptu holiday, and do my civic duty.

Update: A much longer walk than I’d thought - my local one is usually in a school, but the schools are all open, so it had been switched to a church hall several streets away. And to rub it in, on the walk there I passed another polling station in a community hall, much nearer! And inevitably, not the usual polling station means not the usual polling staff, three black women, and when I gave my address the one operating the iPad said she couldn’t find it, until I leaned over and pointed it out on the sheet of streets on the desk in front of her!

Losing Their Long Time Allies...

Migrant workers and the UK’s largest union will carry out a mass leafleting campaign in Shabana Mahmood’s Birmingham constituency to protest against a planned change in immigration policy. The Labour-affiliated Unison union says the changes will adversely affect migrant care workers. About one-third of all care workers and one-fifth of all NHS workers are migrants.

Real migrants, I'd hope, not the modern use of that term. 

Union members hope to leaflet about one-third of the home secretary’s approximately 55,000 constituents in the Ladywood area of the city. Union sources say it is the first time such a large Labour-affiliated union is lobbying en masse against a key party policy.

When even the unions are fed up with you, you know it's all over... 

Although the earned settlement proposals, which have been outlined in a white paper, call for a doubling of settlement time to 10 years, in some cases migrants may have to wait longer than that if they entered the UK illegally or have claimed benefits here.

If they entered the coutry illegally, they should be deported!  

The union is also calling for a change to sponsorship rules for these visas. At the moment, these workers must be sponsored by their employer, which officials say can lead to exploitation. There are calls for this to be replaced with a sponsorship scheme managed by a public-sector body.

Ah, that's the union's real goal - jobs for the public sector boys. 

We Can Start By Being Honest About What They Are...

Yards from the Thames, in the churchyard of All Saints, which dates from the 12th Century, is the final resting place of the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold. In fact, the village of Laleham in Surrey is pretty much as quintessentially sleepy old England as you can still find.

Well, THAT won't do. Have some 'progress': 

So locals whose children attend the Church of England primary here were surprised in recent weeks to find a young Afghan man repeatedly loitering outside, approaching female pupils – and becoming aggressive when spoken to.

 As anyone would be!

According to one group of parents, he spat at them, and seemed to suggest that paying to be smuggled into Britain by dinghy gave him free rein. ‘I’m allowed to stand where I want – I paid £3,000 to be here,’ is what locals say he told them.

Some 'asylum seeker' - isn't that rather a large sum of money in his country of origin?  

Calls to the police followed, and after the asylum seeker ignored warnings, he was last week arrested and detained under the Mental Health Act.

Of course. The only surprise here was that they didn't arrest the complaining parents, too!

Only then did it emerge that the Afghan, in his 20s, had last month been placed in a 1920s semi along with five other migrants, at the behest of the Home Office. The house had been purchased by north London businessman Joshua Grunt, 48, in October for £500,000, who immediately let it out via an agent to house migrants.

However, the local authority, Spelthorne Borough Council, insists it had neither been informed nor consulted over the arrival of any migrants, saying: ‘The Council has written to the Home Office asking for an explanation and an assurance that this will not happen again.’

Waste of paper - they are far more arrogant and entitled than the fake refugee and will do it again sure as the sun rises in the east.

Yet a Daily Mail investigation has found that such sudden arrivals of migrants in villages and towns are about to happen on a huge scale – all over the country – as a direct result of Labour’s promises to close migrant hotels. And the only people celebrating will be those making fat profits as a result. At taxpayers’ expense.

Why are they always referred to by every branch of the MSM as 'migrants' when they are 'Illegal immigants'..?  

How Is It Possible?

Banksy has confirmed that a huge new statue which mysteriously appeared in central London is his work.

Then arrest him. No, not for his tedious sixth form 'artwork' but for arranging its installation in the middle of the most surveilled capital city in the west, which is currently on high alert.

Commentators on Banksy's Instagram site speculated the work was about 'blind patriotism', and walking directly into danger. They also questioned how he had managed to pull off such a stunt in such a busy area of central London. It is located along Pall Mall, near the Athenaeum Club and the Crimean War Memorial.

Throw him in a cell at MI5 and sweat him until he gives up his collaborators. Or we are not serious about security in the capital.

It’s Not 'Jurassic Park', But I'll Take It...

Colossal Biosciences, the company trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth, has set its sights on another extinct animal – the bluebuck. This species of antelope thrived in Southern Africa until just 230 years ago, when it was hunted to extinction for its unique silvery slate–blue skin.

Yes, Reader, if the name rings a bell, it is indeed the same company that attempted to convince the world they had recreated an extinct dire wolf a while ago. But there’s better basis for belief this time: 

The company plans to modify the genes of the bluebuck's living relatives – the roan and sable antelopes – to make a hybrid that closely resembles the extinct species.

Two of the worlds most striking antelope species, and two personal favourites of mine, though sadly rarely seen in captivity in UK zoos, with the exception of Marwell, which has a small herd of roan, and had sable years ago, when I first visited.

Although Colossal Biosciences doesn't have a timeline for the species' return, it is working to find 'rewilding' sites in South Africa where the bluebuck could be released.

Those techniques will not only be useful for bringing back the bluebuck, but also in aiding conservation projects for antelopes currently on the brink of extinction.

And I for one wish them well in this latest endeavour. 

The Man Who Defines 'Anti-Nominative Determinism' Opines...

Yes, James, they do it EVERY BANK HOLIDAY.

The Conservative MP yesterday was seen walking in the field near the site and posted a video on Facebook to demand that action be taken. 'This is why we have got to take action to make sure that building work like this, taking place outside office hours, clearly seeking to game the system, that we are able to take decisive and quick action,' he said.

How many years did the 'Coneervatives' spend in power? And never once did anything about this. 

'Because the local community here knows that this is going to be disruptive to them, and anyone who has tried to get a builder to start work after hours on a Friday on a bank holiday weekend will know that there's something not right about this.'

No, there isn't, but it's as regular as the first bluebell of spring. 

It came just hours after Mr Cleverly suggested there was 'two-tier justice' when it came to applying rules and laws to travellers.

There is. Undoubtedly 

There had been criticism ahead of the weekend that the district council took no preemptive measures, such as placing what is known as an Article 4 Direction, which bans any usually permitted development such as putting up fences, on the land, after it heard of the plan to concrete the field. Others said it could have tried to obtain an emergency injunction banning any development, so if work started it would be a criminal offence.

And what would the police have done? Nothing. The need to gear up like a military force to raid these encampments, and they are too terrified of the accusations of 'racism' to act. 

An insider, who has assisted the traveller community in winning retrospective planning permission, said the recent wave of development was in part caused by some travellers renting out part or all of their sites to migrants and homeless people, a phenomenon recently reported on by the Daily Mail.

Nice try, but painting them as philanthropists isn't going to work. We all know what they are. Even the failed MPs who are trying to pretend they don't,

It’s Not Housing So Much As Who You’re Putting In That Housing

 

Over the week to come, journalists will repeat three things until they, and you, are sick: that local elections fall next Thursday; that the results will decide the fate of Keir Starmer; and that he is set to do badly. But just how badly, and where? Last week, Starmer’s own party dropped a big clue. The most popular politician in Britain came down from Manchester to spend the whole day campaigning in London.

In case you wondered, Reader, they were talking about Andy Burnham. 

As Andy Burnham went from Haringey to Brixton, he rallied Labour’s footsoldiers. “Don’t go into the last two weeks with your shoulders down,” he told them. “Get your shoulders up.” “Ah,” wrote lobby reporters, “now the King of the North is making incursions down south, such is his ambition.” But his visit is more telling than that, and more profound in its implications.

Oh? Do tell! 

...consider Burnham’s itinerary. Lambeth, Haringey, Southwark: these rank among the reddest patches of the UK’s entire electoral map. The country’s last bastion of Labour support, London, is starting to collapse.

I wonder why? I look at the demographics of those area and they aren't falling to Reform any time soon. But the Islam Green Party is in with a chance.

Even as they knock on doors and post leaflets ahead of next Thursday, Labour people have already written off whole swathes of the country. They know they’ll get smashed in Scotland and Wales, where in the assembly elections the governing party will be battling simply not to lose too badly. But London is a different story; even in the wipeout of 2019 it remained deep red.

The Greens look set to bloody Labour Southwark and Lambeth: the training ground of Morgan McSweeney, Steve Reed, Ali McGovern and much of the rest of the faction that runs the Westminster party.

Depends how many of them are in the cells ahead of May 7, doesn't it?  

There is one more bruise the Greens in London keep punching, especially intriguing because it is about policy. Front and centre of their campaign is the need for a fair housing system.

And who for?  That's more the point.

That Tune's Familiar: Parody Songs

As an older woman, this one hits hard! 

A Laughing Stock...

 

...but some deluded fools will still vote for him, Matt! 

Sunday Funnies...

 Surely someone can come up with a app that simulates no 8?

Yes, You Have Been...

...like so many others who have lost loved ones in similar circumstances. And you won't be the last, either.

Relatives of a ‘respected’ dog walker kicked to death by a paranoid schizophrenic today said they had been ‘let down’ by the authorities who allowed his killer to live in the community.

Hard to disagree, 

Gary Carlisle, 62, was attacked at random by mentally ill stranger Jacob Hill, 32, near his home in Preston, Lancashire, early on March 12 last year. CCTV footage showed Hill behaving erratically before approaching Mr Carlisle with his arms outstretched just after 6am.A ‘plainly frightened’ Mr Carlisle, who was walking his dog, named Molly, backed off and ran away. But he was chased by Hill who jumped on his back and dragged him to the floor, Preston Crown Court heard.

Several shocked commuters witnessed the incident, including a female bus passenger who confronted Hill and shouted: ‘What are you doing? Stop.’ In response, Hill headbutted the woman in the face, before police and paramedics arrived on the scene.

Officers twice discharged a taser to incapacitate Hill, who was arrested shortly afterwards.

I'm tempted to suggest they need ones with more voltage. Or to deal with mental cases far more permanently.

In a victim impact statement, read to the court, Mr Carlisle’s sister, Jackie Watters, said their family had been 'let down' by authorities who allowed Hill to live in the community with 'normal people' like her brother. 

‘He has been snatched away from me,’ she said. ‘It feels so unfair. I can never forget those hours sat in the intensive care unit looking at him, stroking him… a man with a swollen head displaying every line, crease and bruise. 

‘The staff said they were the worst ever injuries seen in the ICU.’

 Yes, you have undoubtedly been let down - by people who will never face any consequences for it.

His daughter, Simone Hartley, added: ‘He (Hill) was known to mental health when he did this. ‘Our lives have been toppled upside down but he is okay and is being treated in hospital. 

‘Things need to be different. I do feel we have been let down. Changes need to be made so it doesn’t happen to someone else.’

But they won't be. 

£200000, When These Are 10 a Penny In London?

The crossing features a chicane intended to slow users, but it did not cause them to naturally turn towards the direction of approaching eastbound trams, such as the one which hit Mr Abakah. His father, Frederick Woode, said his 'one wish is that lessons are learned from this' (Reader, He doesn't mean by teenagers on illegal e-scooters, of course..) and 'changes are made before anyone else loses their life'. 

He went on: 'I know nothing can bring Reuben back, but I believe the tram should not have been travelling as fast as it was. 'The crossing should also be altered so that pedestrians like Reuben do not have their backs to approaching vehicles.'

But he wasn't a 'pedestrian', was he? He was a hooded youth riding an e-scooter...

The family's lawyer, Ben Posford of Osbornes Law, said it 'shouldn't have mattered' that Mr Abakah 'didn't look properly'. He told the Press Association: 'That's not how health and safety works, and hasn't done for a very long time. 

'He didn't look until the last minute and he made an error there. From time to time, people are going to make an error. 

And those times double when they are youths already indulging in illegal and reckless actions, like riding e-scooters across level crossings. 

'You have to have health and safety measures in place that account for human error, that account for zoning out.'

And you have to have deep pockets to attract slimy ambulance chasing lawyers, so it's just as well for you he wasn't run over by some ordinary Joe in a Ford Escort, eh? 

His family are seeking damages in excess of £200,000 from Tram Operations Limited (TOL) - a subsidiary of transport giant FirstGroup - which runs London Trams for Transport for London (TfL).

Bingo!  Gimmie dat compo! What is that based on, anyway? Not his worth, or his future earnings...

A Masterclass In Dirty Politics...

The investigation into reports of a rape outside a church in Epsom that led to widespread public disorder will close as police are “confident there was no offence”.

If you thought the main story about dirty politics and public image was around Mandelson last week, think again:  

In an update on Thursday, the force said after a “thorough investigation” it became clear the woman in her 20s suffered an accidental head injury after a night out, leading her to make a confused report.

Perfect excuse not to have to charge her and so draw even more ire from the #IBelieveHer mob!  

Those actions were condemned as “shameful” by Surrey police and crime commissioner Lisa Townsend. “The mindless scenes we witnessed last night where our police officers were targeted with missiles were nothing short of shameful,” she said on Tuesday. She added some of those involved in the unrest had travelled from elsewhere to cause trouble, and warned them to stay away. “I am a firm believer in people’s right to lawful protest, but sadly, some of those present in Epsom yesterday stepped way beyond that line and the type of behaviour we witnessed will not be tolerated,” she said.

I thought the UK police couln't beclown themselves any more - Reader, I was wrong! 

This Is A Public Service Post

 ...just don't ask 'Why?' Or 'Who?'

Because those are awkward questuions for all involved. Again

The Golders Green terror suspect was previously jailed for stabbing a police officer and his dog, it emerged on Thursday. Essa Suleiman, 45, was arrested on Wednesday after two men were stabbed in broad daylight in the Jewish area. Now it can be revealed that the Somali-born British national was jailed indefinitely in 2008 for the knife attack on the officer.

Modern UK, where 'indefinitely' means something quite different to the establishment, and this particular stabby enricher was therefore out and roaming the streets - in London, not Mogadishu! - in barely a decade.

Following his release, the former security guard and interpreter was referred to Britain's anti-radicalisation scheme, Prevent, in 2020 as a potential risk to the public. But within months, his case was closed after it was decided he did not pose a risk of launching a terror attack.

The Prevent program must be the most misnamed in history, time after time it has failed to prevent anything. And now the most useless Prime Minister in human history, with one eye on the upcoming elections that will decide his fate, is trying to reassure the public, or at least one small part of it. 

But make no mistake, no-one has clean hands over this:

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'This man is clearly a danger to the UK's Jewish community. He should not have been walking the streets. We have been importing anti-Semitism and extremism from around the world and it has to end.

We were importing it all through your Party's time in office, under which this man was supposedly 'dealt with' the first time. 

'People like this should be deported where they are not British citizens, and if they have acquired British citizenship they should be stripped of it if they are dual nationals or are eligible to be citizens of another country.'

Yes, they should, so why didn't you, when you had the chance?  

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.