Always Remember Why You're Hired...

Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran's US tour after making pro-Palestinian comments on stage earlier this month.

And predictably, the usual suspects are up in arms about it! 

The artist - whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty - had been the opening act for Sheeran's Loop tour, but was criticised by Jewish groups after saying "Free Palestine" at two concerts and making political speeches. Macklemore stood by his comments on Monday, confirming that he had been cut from the tour and writing in a statement that the real victims are the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Ed Sheeran has not yet commented, and who will replace Macklemore for the rest of the tour is unknown.

And now even more third-rate acts are throwing their toys out of the pram and turning down probably the best chance of paid work to come along in a long time, all to virtue signal over a bunch of Stone Age savages.

The controversy began on 4 September, when Macklemore, a long-time pro-Palestine activist, performed at Ed Sheeran's concert at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. He told the audience: "A big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so that I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very, very dear to my heart: Free Palestine."

All of the remaining support acts on Ed Sheeran's US tour have quit, after the rapper Macklemore was dropped from the line-up for making pro-Palestinian remarks on stage. Among them were Finneas, the brother of pop star Billie Eilish, who said in a statement: "Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed."

Expecting you to do the thing you were hired for (sing) instead of what you want to do (hector concertgoers) isn’t ‘silencing’, you absurd child!

Don't We Have Enough Real Problems In Society That We Have To Imagine More?

One in four people think there is nothing wrong with creating and sharing sexual deepfakes, or they feel neutral about it, even when the person depicted has not consented, according to a police-commissioned survey.

Unfortunate, when the point of the survey was not to find out if it was a real problem after all, but, like so many other worthless studies, to provide cover for what activists want to do anyway. 

The survey of 1,700 people commissioned by the office of the police chief scientific adviser found 13% felt there was nothing wrong with creating and sharing sexual or intimate deepfakes – digitally altered content made using AI without consent. A further 12% felt neutral about the moral and legal acceptability of making and sharing such deepfakes.

What to do, what to do? The answer's obvious - push on regardless. 

Det Ch Supt Claire Hammond, from the national centre for VAWG and public protection, reminded the public that “sharing intimate images of someone without their consent, whether they are real images or not, is deeply violating”.

How very dare you ignorant peasants disagree!  I’ll tell you worthless subjects what you should think!

Commenting on the survey findings, she said: “The rise of AI technology is accelerating the epidemic of violence against women and girls across the world. Technology companies are complicit in this abuse and have made creating and sharing abusive material as simple as clicking a button, and they have to act now to stop it.”

Blaming technology companies for men harassing women is like blaming car companies for enabling getaway drivers. 

She urged victims of deepfakes to report any images to the police. Hammond said: “This is a serious crime, and we will support you. No one should suffer in silence or shame.”

But if you mention a racial or homophobic slur in your texts, don’t expect us not to notice, after all, a hate crime is a tick in the box! 

Yet More Unbelievable Statistics From Pressure Groups

More than two in five sexually active under-18s in the UK have either been strangled or strangled someone during sex, research has found, despite the serious dangers of the practice.

Are you kidding me? What sort of person is making these wild claims!? 

“Choking”, as it is commonly known, has become normalised in young people’s sexual habits, the study by the Institute for Addressing Strangulation (Ifas) showed, with 43% of sexually active 16- and 17-year-olds having experienced it.

Ah. Now the penny drops!  

More than half of people under the age of 35 have experienced it, with nearly a third wrongly believing there are safe ways to strangle someone.

That's pretty believable, at least, the number of dimwits in society is clearly increasing exponentially.... 

In recent years, “choking” has become part of a dangerous drift towards increased violence in mainstream pornography, which was cited as the biggest source of information about the practice among the respondents.

Clare McGlynn, a professor of law at Durham University and the author of Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back, said strangulation in pornography was a recent phenomenon. “Depictions of strangulation and suffocation are brutal and graphic, often involving belts tied around necks, plastic bags over women’s heads, and two hands gripping the neck.” She called for a national campaign to raise awareness of the real risks and harms of the practice, which could occur even when there was no visible injury.

What she's calling for is a national campaign to raaise awareness of her book and her availability for talk shows... 

Oh, Give It A Fucking Rest, For Christ's Sake!

He is widely regarded as England’s greatest painter, but despite his extraordinary output, elements of JMW Turner’s personality have remained a mystery.

 *grinds teeth* Here we go again, a pressure group claiming a famous figure who is no longer around to challenge them...

Now, a groundbreaking BBC documentary delves into Turner’s 37,000 sketches, drawings and watercolours to build an unprecedented psychological portrait, one that raises the possibility that Turner’s singular vision was shaped by childhood trauma and neurodivergence.

And the art historians putting their names and staking their reputations to this hogwash, who are they?  

Among the figures helping to unlock the artist’s life story in Turner: the Secret Sketchbooks, are the actor Timothy Spall, who portrayed him in Mike Leigh’s film Mr Turner, the artists Tracey Emin and John Akomfrah, the Rolling Stones musician Ronnie Wood, the psychotherapist Orna Guralnik and the naturalist Chris Packham.

Oh. 

Packham said: “As with all of the people we suspect of having had neurodivergent traits, from Alan Turing to Isaac Newton, it’s impossible to provide retrospective diagnoses, so we can only offer conjecture about that. But if Turner did have significant neurodiverse traits, I imagine they would have had quite a profound impact on his art and thinking.”

Packham, an ambassador for the National Autistic Society, pointed to Turner’s “exceptional” keenness for detail and his “hyperfocus”, a state of intense, prolonged concentration on a particular task or topic, commonly seen in conditions such as ADHD and autism.

And in great artists. But correlation is not causation. 

Taking 'Representation' Too Far....

One of the most pernicious of modern concepts is that of the desirability of representation.

When she was cast in Wicked, Bode made history as the first disabled actor to play Nessarose; the character is a wheelchair user, but since the stage version premiered in 2003, only non-disabled actors had played the role. Bode is calling on casting directors to follow Wicked director Jon M Chu’s lead to use disabled actors for disabled roles, and also to cast disabled actors in other roles where the character’s physical ability is not specified.

So, we will soon see an actor with one leg playing Ethan Hunt in 'Mission Impossible', or a blind 007 in the James Bond reboot, will we?  

Bode says her experience on the set of Wicked was overwhelmingly positive thanks to the presence of a disability coordinator, Chantelle Nassari, also a wheelchair user, who was tasked with ensuring accessibility on set.

With all these 'co-ordinators' Hollywood requires, it's no wonder the roll of credits is often longer thsn the film... 

However, after the release of the first Wicked film in November 2024, Bode was targeted on social media. Bode responded on TikTok saying : “Not liking Nessa is OK, it’s totally fine because she’s fictional!” : She added: “Aggressive comments and jokes about Nessa’s disability itself is deeply uncomfortable because disability is not fictional, at the end of the day ... It’s not edgy, it’s not funny.”

Bode says she is preparing herself for similar backlash after the release of Wicked: For Good. “Unfortunately, I kind of do expect that [again].” Bode says she hopes that audiences will recognise the character’s motives, her longing for independence, and her desire to be loved. “I understand her deeply, and I wish other people also could see those nuances as well.”

But she's fictional, and so are those aspects, Bode!  

As an indication of progress, Bode points to a key change that the film version of Wicked made to a scene in the stage musical. In the original, Elphaba casts a magic spell on her sister’s ruby slippers, enabling Nessarose to stand up from her wheelchair and walk; the scene has been widely criticised for promoting the ableist narrative that disabled people need to be fixed. In Wicked: For Good, the scene underwent a minor change: instead of being able to walk again, Nessa’s shoes give her the ability to float, a feeling she has been wanting to relive since she fell in love in the previous film.

Well, they didn't have much choice (except to employ unconvincing CGI), did they, having cast an actress genuinely unable to walk, they'd rather painted themselves into a corner. 

She adds: “Disabled characters deserve to be complex and deserve to be not just one thing. It is this weird cycle of disability being portrayed as bad or society sees disability as bad, therefore it’s projected on to disabled people.”

The usual incoherence - if they aren't supposed to be 'just one thing' why the need to shoehorn them into more films? 

Despite such prizes, unawareness about disability persists in the industry. “I do my best to hold a lot of empathy for those that do get it wrong,” says Bode, “We just don’t have any education surrounding disability or the type of language that is appropriate or that we should use.”

'Appropriate language'? Fuck off!  

 

Won’t Somebody Think Of The Poor Supernatural Monsters?

 If you needed more proof that the 'Guardian' can cram virtue-signalling into any subject, here's Hallowe'en: 

There is something sadomasochistic about being a horror fan with a disability. For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to the intoxicating cycle of dread-terror-release that a genuinely frightening horror film can bring – the simultaneous feeling of “I hate this and want it to end” and “This adrenaline rush is making me feel fully alive.” But I have also come to expect certain tropes that I know will make me feel a different kind of dread, which other people in the cinema may not necessarily be attuned to.

Of course not Kathryn, you're special aren't you? 

Guillermo del Toro’s handsome adaptation of Frankenstein, which received a 15-minute standing ovation in Venice this August, powerfully makes the case that we ought not to be afraid of difference. However, given that the story is widely regarded as an allegory for disability, it is disappointing that the film stars only able-bodied performers and that a creature repeatedly referred to as “deformed” is portrayed by Jacob Elordi.

Well, I'm pretty sure Equity doesn't have many actors on its books that are made up of spare parts, so Del Toro didn't really have much choice, did he? 

While the creature is shown to be gentle despite his “obscene” appearance, the audience is heavy-handedly invited to conclude that “the real monster” is his creator, Victor Frankenstein (in case you hadn’t understood the book).

Jeez, spoilers, Kathryn, there might still be one or two people reading the 'Guardian' that haven't read the book. 

Though come to think of it there's probably not more than one or two people reading the 'Guardian' anyway these days, since the begging adverts are getting larger and more obtrusive every week... 

Unfortunately the film then drives home the point about Victor’s moral degradation by making him increasingly disabled – in a departure from the original novel, he is given a prosthetic leg, facial scarring and amputated fingers.

Once again, SPOILERS!  

The portrayal of disability in film generally, especially horror, is famously problematic.

To whom?  

Over the years, progress has been slow but incremental. Film-makers are more cautious about making antagonists explicitly disabled – the BFI has refused funding for films that feature facially scarred villains – but the prejudice presents itself in subtler ways. A number of recent horror films centre around someone who “doesn’t look quite right”, featuring some variation of exaggerated facial features and ungainly proportions.

Because it's ingrained in the human psyche, like a fear of spiders and snakes. 

In Yorgos Lanthimos’s remarkable Poor Things, Willem Dafoe’s prosthetics-assisted “deformed … scary face” (as it is described in the screenplay) and Emma Stone’s character’s intellectual disability are not a sign of moral depravity but are nevertheless presented as “creepy and uncanny”. The saddest thing is that these are some of my favourite films. I have no wish to publicly criticise them, but feeling excluded from them is particularly hurtful.

She says, publically criticising them. We aren't told just what Kathryn's disability actually is, but I'm going with 'being a 'Guardian' columnist or 'mentally retarded'...but I repeat myself. 

He's Just Proving It Was The Right Sentence All Along...

The trial of an alleged escapee who spent hours on the roof of a high-security prison in his underpants is set to be the first time the stress caused by indeterminate sentences can be used as a legal defence.

Yes, of course, it's the 'Guardian' taking out an onion for a criminal again. 

The 38-year-old has been in jail for 13 years, much of that in isolation, after receiving an IPP sentence for robbing a takeaway at gunpoint in 2011. He says he does not remember the crime because he was drunk and high on drugs.

Just the sort of criminal who should be locked up until he’s safe to live in society, in other words. So who is complaining? 

The case raises once again the issue of IPPs, which 2,544 prisoners were still serving in March despite the sentences being abolished in 2012. The legislation that ended what campaigners describe as a cruel system was not retrospective.

A spokesperson for Reform and Rebuild, a prison advocacy group which is set to give evidence in the trial, said it was “well overdue” for courts to take into account the stress caused by IPPs.“Nobody’s been resentenced yet, but we are looking at human rights. That’s another battle but we will get it. We’ll definitely get it because it’s cruel and inhumane. I think if we don’t keep fighting and jumping up and down, then it’ll just be forgotten.”

Progressive do-gooders, of course! 

Campaigners have made some progress over the years, for example in shortening the licences of those released from IPPs from 10 years to three years. Nichol said this “meant some people could go on holiday with their families and have a life again, because 10 years is a long time after you’ve suffered”.

Shsme their victims often can't do the same, eh? Their suffering rarely ends, thanks to do-gooders like you.

By The Time They Are Being Arrested, They Are Surely Already ‘Criminalised’

Black children detained by police are 15% more likely to be “criminalised”, that is charged and put into the criminal justice system, than white children detained for similar types of offences, a study has found.

Who says so? Well, Reader, I bet you can’t guess it’s yet another activist group, can you? 

The report by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), which tackles youth violence, found that black children were 14.8% less likely to be offered diversion, which can include mentoring or counselling, that usually results in them avoiding getting a criminal record at an early age.

aAns is this down to their own actions when confronted? Gosh no, it’s gotta be because the majority white society just has it in for them, eh?  

The authors of the study say they have taken into account the seriousness and prior offending record, and are thus comparing like with like. The racial gap pointed to “systemic inequities”, the report said. The study examined almost 265,000 records of children aged 10 to 17 who were arrested by the Metropolitan police in London, or where a decision was made to take further action after a stop and search.

Well, they won’t be doing tpo much of that in future, I’m sure!  

There is some anecdotal evidence that as black young people mistrust police more, they are less likely to admit their guilt, which is a prerequisite for being accepted for some diversion schemes.

Oh, so the answer is within their own hands, yet they don't take it up? How surprising. 

I Can Live With ‘The Arrogance Of A Few Billionaires’…

...it's the arrogance of activists that worries me far more:

Campaigners in Venice have claimed victory after Jeff Bezos was reportedly forced to change the venue for his wedding celebrations in the city as his guests started arriving on Tuesday for the three-day jamboree. The main reception for the wedding of Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV journalist, was due to be held in the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, a majestic 16th-century building in the city centre. But according to the No Space for Bezos group, the couple relented after activists threatened to fill the canals with inflatable crocodiles to block their celebrity guests from entering.

Disrupting a person's wedding simply (and everyone else in the vicinity) because you envy his wealth isn't 'arrogance', then, according to these clowns? 

The event will instead take place in Arsenale, a historic complex of shipyards surrounded by fortified walls that will be much harder for the protesters to penetrate.

According to local press reports, the venue switch was also due to security concerns after the US joined the war between Israel and Iran, especially because Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, arrived in Venice on Tuesday.

Time these activists were treated as the terrorists they are! 

“We feel as if we scored a victory,” said one activist, who asked not to be named. “The crocodile initiative would have given a bad impression of the city – this is why the venue was changed even if the authorities might try to claim it was because of the war.”

Claiming victory whilst recohnising there were other factors in play shoes you don't even have the courage of your convictions 

“Bezos embodies an economic and social model that is leading us towards collapse,” Greenpeace said, arguing that lifestyles fuelled by “the arrogance of a few billionaires” are devastating for the planet.

Meanwhile, these activists use the products and services provided by those billionairs to organise their pathetic displays with utter lack of shame. 

'We're Not In Kansas Any More!'

A Gaza aid activist has said they were 'violently dragged' onto buses and 'beaten' as Egyptian authorities deported them. Thousands have been arriving from more than 80 countries since Thursday to join the Global March to Gaza protest against Israel's aid blockade on Gaza.

I'm with Longrider here, it's been illuminating to see Egyptian police dealing with these vapid virtue-signalling numpties as they should be treated. I doubt any of them will learn anything from it. though.

This cop looks like we all feel with these activist whackjobs

Uzma Usmani, the sponsorship and logistics lead for the UK delegation of the march, explained to CNN: 'This is just another tool, another way [for] the people to raise their voices, to let governments know that we are not happy.

Unfotrtunatly for you and your fellow UK morons, like this astonishing specimen, they couldn't give a damn whether you are happy or not. They don't even pretend to care, unlike the governments of your own countries. They just do whatever they need to in order to get shot of you.

'We need to take things into our own hands, to raise awareness, to put pressure on all the different governments so that they start taking action.'

There's nothing you can do yo 'put pressure' on these middle eastern governments - you are irrelevant. Itt's long past time you found that out.

Someone Never Learned You Catch More Flies With Honey Than With Vinegar...

Anna Landre, a wheelchair user, was set to travel from London's Liverpool Street station on May 18. Arriving 'several minutes before' her train was due to depart, the 25-year-old said that she had enquired with members of staff about a ramp, vital in order for her to be able to board the train.

I’m not a wheelchair user, nor do I know anyone who is, and even I am fully aware that these things have to be booked in advance.

However, Ms Landre, who lives with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease, was immediately informed that was deemed to be of 'lower priority' than other passengers who had pre-booked a form of assistance.

Describing the interaction as 'very abled-mansplaining', Ms Landre took to X to outline the stressful ordeal, adding: 'I firmly but politely told him that I know the law and did not need a lecture.

 I think we can all imagine how that conversation diatribe went, can’t we, Reader?

'He continued on and I repeated myself and said I was just looking to the next train since they'd failed to bring the ramp for the original one.' To Ms Landre's dismay, the member of staff then outright refused to assist her any further, branding her as 'rude'.

Then, after speaking with another, she presumed to be more senior staff member, the American activist was told that, given accusations of her 'rude' nature, she would be denied ramp assistance by 'any' staff member in the station.

So she’s American, and doesn’t know our customs? Should she get a break? 

Ms Landre, who moved to the UK three years ago …

 That’s a ‘NO’ then!

…after studying in Washington DC, was banned from boarding any trains from Liverpool Street Station and eventually forced to return home. Firmly denying any allegations of rudeness, Ms Landre added: 'I believe this able bodied man did not enjoy a young disabled woman speaking assertively back to him in the same tone he was using.

'And regardless, "rudeness" is not the standard for denial of ramp assistance. Abusiveness is, and I was certainly not that.'

Well, the railway staff in question may have a different view, so maybe we should get their side, eh? 

“No! You Can’t Leave The ‘Tribe’!"

Felicity Hayward, a model and activist, thinks 2023 was a turning point. “Ozempic arrived into our industry, and there was a definite change,” she says. Hayward, who has modelled for Mac and appeared on the cover of i-D magazine, monitors the number of designers using curve models across the fashion weeks in London, Paris, New York and Milan for her report Inside the Curve. At first the drop was slow, but this season, she says, “we’ve started to see a huge decline. New York, which had 70 plus-size models in 2023, had 23 earlier this year. At the September 2024 London fashion week, 80 plus-size models were on the runway, but just 26 this year.”

And why is this an issue? Because she doesn't want anyone to leave the reservation, like all progressives! 

Many models have lost weight, says Hayward. “The girls who used to be a size 16 or 18 are now size 12. It’s really difficult because, on one hand, I don’t want to speak about women’s bodies, but if the only plus-size representation we have are also losing weight, it does feel like the whole industry is turning their back on us.”

Gosh, the fashion industry is fickle? Who knew? 

Even when brands appeared to embrace size inclusivity, Nicholas-Williams says she was pessimistic that they would stick to it. “I was, like, this is going to be something that’s for a short period, and then we’re going to go back to how it was. I didn’t think it would be this soon, and so overtly.”

Oh, well, I'm sure you'll find some way to confort yourself, Felicity...

 

Can We UK Law Abiding Citizens Get One Of These Too?

More than 100 relatives of people who have died after contact with the police in the UK since 1971 have joined plans for a class action lawsuit in pursuit of compensation and justice. The plan for group legal action was announced at the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings, a two-day event in which bereaved families presented evidence to a panel of international experts on how their relatives died and the long-term impact this has had on them.

Great idea, can we, the law abiding section of society, take one of these out against all the BLM-type fakecharities and activists out there arguing that ethnic monoritires shouldn't be held accountable for their actions? 

The findings and conclusions of the event will form the basis of a first-of-its-kind legal action directed at police officers, police chiefs and government departments involved in the deaths. Activist and film-maker Ken Fero, who is helping to lead the action, said: “I think it’s quite revolutionary what we’re trying to do. There has never been a class action of this kind done in the UK before, there hasn’t been a call-up like this one before.

 Ken Fero, as expected, is whiter than I am...

Samantha Patterson, whose brother Jason McPherson died in 2007 after being stopped and searched by police, said: “We’ve explored all avenues. We’ve done campaigns. We’ve written letters. We’ve met with prime ministers, Home Office secretaries, everybody that you would think. Something needs to change.

Indeed! Families whose family member has concealed drugs from a police search then swallowed them while in custody shouldn't be able to whinge and whine that the inevitable death from such action is somehow the fault of the police. 

The tribunal was organised by a collective of campaign groups, including United Families and Friends Campaign, Migrant Media and 4WardEverUK, with the aim of “exposing the extent of the injustice” and placing it on the international stage. It also aimed to highlight the disproportionate impact of police killings on black people, and key themes explored included torture, terror, state cover-ups and black resistance.

'Resistance' to what, exactly? 

Liar, Liar, (XXL) Panties On Fire!

The Louisiana Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit between a middle school librarian and furious parents who accused her of promoting pornography and 'erotic content' to children.

Amanda Jones, the school librarian at Live Oak Middle School, sued the Citizens for a New Louisiana, its leader Michael Lunsford, and parent Ryan Thames for defamation in 2022.

The lawsuit was dismissed that same year, but Jones' appeal reached the state supreme court who overruled the judgment on Friday - sending the case back to the court of appeals to reconsider.

And the usual suspects are OUTRAGED! that she should have to defend herself from the charge of being an activist for perverts, of course.... 

'Before all this, I was just a school librarian, but they wanted to silence me, so I thought I would do the exact opposite and become an activist,' Jones told The New York Times.

Sure, like that's not exactly what you were all along. Why else would you be trying to push this stuff? 

The online abuse triggered Jones to launch the legal battle - as she admitted that two years on, she still can't leave her home to buy groceries because of the alleged defamation.

 Is that the fat jowly face of someone who isn't getting regular groceries?

Jones' lawyer, Alysson Mills, told WBRZ they are looking forward to their day in court and presenting the case to a jury. 'I believe a jury of ordinary citizens, whey they hear what happened to her, they would want to hold the defendants accountable. The First Amendment does not protect falsehoods,' Mills said.

Well, you keep hoping that, Alysson. I don't think you've any more idea of what ordinary citizens want in a library than your client.  

Maybe You’re The One Who’s Wrong About The Value Of His Role, George?

Bob Lambert worked for the Metropolitan police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) in the 1980s and 1990s, first as an undercover cop infiltrating environmental and animal rights protests, then as operational controller of the squad, supervising other spy cops doing similar work. In the course of his undercover assignments, while posing as a radical activist called Bob Robinson, he deceived four unsuspecting women, innocent of any crime, into starting relationships. He stole his identity from a dead child.

*yawns* He used a trick right out of Freddie Foersyth's 'Day of the Jackal'. So what? 

With one of the women, Jacqui, he fathered a child. Two years later, he vanished. She discovered his true identity by chance more than 20 years later, and has yet to recover from the devastating shock. She says she feels “raped by the state”. The person she loved and trusted was a ghost.

Oh, dry your eyes! You're not the first woman to feel betrayerd, and you won't be the last. 

These fake relationships were standard practice in the team of spy cops Lambert ran. The officers used similar seduction techniques, built similar falsehoods about their lives and used similar methods for destroying or abandoning the relationships when they were redeployed. It looks like a refined, state-sanctioned grooming operation. As Helen Steel, another woman deceived by a spy cop, remarked, “there weren’t any genuine moments – they were purely manipulative and abusive. …. it was as if he set out to destroy my sanity.”

The great majority of the people being spied on were peaceful activists who presented no danger to democracy or human life.

Which we know because they were spied on, George. That's the point. 

We love spy series, spy novels, spy films, how do we think these spies really operate? It's not a world of Aston Martins, shaken Martinis and roulette wheels all the time - it's often convincing some dim bird on reception to look the other way while you access the visitor's book. 

None of the spy cops have suffered legal consequences, though activities such as identity theft and entering homes without a warrant are illegal. Their pensions remain intact, they have kept their medals and commendations. On Tuesday at the inquiry, Belinda Harvey, one of the women deceived into an 18-month relationship with Lambert, damned him as a “cruel and manipulative” liar. But the authorities see him differently. In 2008, Lambert received an MBE for services to the police.

As well he should - he did a man's job. The only reason people like you are squawking about it is you sympathise with the 'victims'.  

What Has 'Common Sense' Got To Do With It, Liam?

A foreign paedophile who abused his stepdaughter and two of her cousins has been allowed to stay in Scotland – because deporting him would breach his right to a family life. The man in his 50s, originally from central Africa, was found guilty of vile sex attacks on the three young girls. The severity of his offences meant he was to be automatically sent back to his homeland.

But of course, the intervention of activist judges with warped priorities put the kibosh on that. 

But even though his victims were members of his extended family, his deportation was blocked as he claimed his family life would suffer – despite a judge ruling he ‘continues to pose a risk’. Last night Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Liam Kerr said: ‘The public will be appalled that this dangerous criminal can remain in Scotland.

'Common sense should mean that public safety is always prioritised rather than offenders.’

We don't operate by 'commmon sense' any more Liam. If we did, this man wouldn't be here in the first place. And initially, he wasn't.  

Identified in official documents as ‘MD’, he arrived in the UK in 2008 and claimed asylum but was initially rejected.

Hurrah! Some common se..

Oh. 

Using publicly funded legal aid, he went to court to argue he should be allowed to remain.

*sighs* 

He married a British woman and fathered three children and became stepfather to his wife’s daughter from a previous marriage.

The Home Office said it is challenging the ruling.

It needs to start challenging the activist judges, too. 

Like Killing Your Parents And Demanding Clemency Because You're An Orphan...

The activists who hounded Baillie Gifford out of sponsoring the summer book festivals are now trying to back hastily away from the backlash they are facing, by trying the 'We won but we’ve just realised the consequences of winning. How can we blame our victim for this?' tactic:

Which is quite the bald-faced chutzpah, I think you'll agree, Reader?

“Our first priority is to our audience and our artists,” Hay’s chief executive, Julie Finch, said at the time. “Above all else, we must preserve the freedom of our stages and spaces for open debate and discussion, where audiences can hear a range of perspectives.”

Now you'll have to stump up the cash for that yourselves. Good luck!  

Oh, Really..?

Many families from deprived backgrounds are unable to make the most of NHS-provided diabetes technology because they are unable to afford smartphones, charity workers and healthcare professionals have said.

Well, if you believe this, you've never worked in or visited a foodbank - the 'deprived' tend to have smartphones permanently glued to their hands!

But surely there's an alternative to owning a smartphone for the genuinely poor? Reader, there is...

Although CGMs are compatible with receivers that are provided with the devices, healthcare professionals and charity workers have said when managing type 1 diabetes, especially in small children, using CGM devices with smartphones are necessary.

They might be handier, but are they really necessary..? What do they do that the receivers don't? 

Gillian Adams, a paediatric diabetes specialist nurse at Ealing hospital, west London, said using a smartphone, rather than a receiver, with a CGM device was essential for the management of young children with type 1 diabetes.

“It can be distressing and more difficult for a parent to manage their child’s glucose levels with just a receiver, as they can be anxious when the child is out of their sight, and without a smartphone they have no way of being able to track their glucose levels when they are away from them,” she said. “With a receiver, the child has to have it with them at all times, which means that when they are at school, or at nursery, it is only through a smartphone that parents are able to track their glucose levels.”

Sorry, sweetie, but that really doesn't make them essential or necessary. It simply makes them handier to have. And even if they were essential, is this not something that charities could supply? 

Carolyn Goldhill, the founder of the charity Supporting Children with Diabetes, said it had distributed more than 500 smartphones to families with children with type 1 diabetes.

There you go! 

Report To The Star Chamber Immediately!

While DeKnight stopped short of calling Cebulski racist, he tweeted it did show a 'deep lack of ethics' for the top editors at Marvel Comics.

The 57-year-old offered up a suggestion to his now-former boss, saying Cebulski should reach out to the Asian community and have a 'truly honest discussion' about the controversy.

'At the very least, I think Cebulski needs to sit down with representatives from the Asian community and have a truly honest discussion about his actions,' he tweeted.

His actions? He used a Japanese pseudonym twenty years ago. 

And I bet a lot of people are saying 'So what?' (OK, maybe not Spanish feminists, but who cares what they say anyway?).

Marvel did provide the outlet a statement from 2017 when the initial controversy first took place.

'I'm truly sorry for the pain, anger, and disappointment I caused over my poor choice of pseudonym,' Cebulski said. 'That was never my intention. Throughout my career in anime, manga, and comics, I’ve made it a point to listen and learn from my mistakes, which is exactly what I’ve been trying to do with this misstep.'

However, DeKnight was dismissive of Cebulski's apology, claiming the issue is far more complex than just him adopting a Japanese pseudonym.

'Personally, I’m not looking to destroy the guy's life. But I also don’t think he's fit to be the editor-in-chief, either,' he added on Twitter.

I wonder if all those trans nutters will use this as another reason to attack their hated enemy Robert Galbraith..?

Why? You Get Paid Regardless...

Lawyers for a woman sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter have said they are “appalled and gobsmacked” that she will remain in prison six months after her murder conviction was quashed.

And after all, it's not as if she's innocent, is it? 

Farieissia Martin was convicted of murder after stabbing Kyle Farrell, 21, in November 2014. She was jailed for life with a minimum term of 13 years, but the ruling was quashed last year after judges ruled that new evidence had emerged that was not heard in the first trial and a retrial was ordered.

The Crown accepted Martin’s subsequent guilty plea to manslaughter and on Friday the same judge sentenced the 28-year-old, who has already served six and a half years, to 10 years for manslaughter.

He passed a further sentence of nine months for possessing a mobile phone and a razor blade while in prison.

Sounds like prison is absolutely the right place for her. 

Lawyers for Martin said she was a victim of domestic abuse.

Then she should have left him, and not stabbed him in the chest during an argument.

Harriet Wistrich, Martin’s appeal solicitor for Birnberg Peirce and director of the Centre for Women’s Justice (Ed:Aha! An activist in silk...), said she was “appalled and gobsmacked” at the sentence, comparing the length of the sentence with that of Anthony Williams, who received a five-year sentence for manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility after strangling his wife.

She said Martin’s two children, who were aged one and two at the time of the killing, had been sentenced along with their mother.

Sounds a lot more like the justice system has protected them, doesn't it?