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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inventions Often Turn On Their Creators...

Didn't anyone at the Home Office ever read Mary Shelley or H G Wells? 

The origins of the character are ironic, to say they least. An early iteration of Amelia began life in a counter-extremism video game funded by the UK Home Office and created to deter young people aged 13-18 from being attracted to far right extremism in Yorkshire.

Why would they be? What's been happening in Yorkshire, I wonder?  

Pathways: Navigating the Internet and Extremism is a simple multiple choice format game with basic animation. Its players are taken on a journey as characters at a college. They are invited to make decisions in scenarios including whether or download potentially extremist content or join an Amelia character on a rally organised by “a small political group” protesting against changes in society and the “erosion in British values”.

You released a virtuesignalling hectoring game, one that you really should have known would be subverted by gamers post-Gamergate... 

Certain choices result in a referral under the British government’s Prevent counter-terrorism programme.

And of course, that's exactly what happened!  

However, it is a subversion of the Amelia character that has exploded across social media channels in a way that has astonished even the creators of the original game. Among the plethora of increasingly sophisticated AI-generated iterations are a Manga-style Amelia, a Wallace and Gromit version and AI-generated “real life” encounters between her and the characters of Father Ted or Harry Potter, accompanied by racist language and far-right messaging.

 We live in ....interesting times, don't we? 

'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.

And I Always Thought He Was A Useless Slacker...

...turned out he did do something worthwhile!

In her resignation letter, Baird said Raab had “encouraged her to apply” for her role rather than being reappointed, as her predecessor had been. She did so, but said she was then “brusquely informed” in early July that there would be no appointment from the process, told she could reapply and asked to stay in post until December.

Gosh, he scraped you off his shoe like you were something nasty he'd stepped in, eh, Vera?

“Victims need to be acknowledged in the criminal justice system, not to bend it in their direction, but to give them basic procedural justice, dignity and support,” she said. “Because if they continue to be treated poorly, they don’t recover from a crime we have failed to protect them from in the first place and participation in the criminal justice system collapses.”

Oh, despite my frequent blasts at the criminal justice system, you have to admit, Vera, it does produce the right result more often than not... 

I'd Better Buy All The Popcorn For This One!

People* are furious after the creator of a Instagram page promoting black-owned businesses turned out to be...

A scammer?  

...white.

*blinks* 

Where is this? Oh, I should have known!

The Brighton and Hove social media page which "celebrates indie black business" was started in June this year and has been asking for money through PayPal and Patreon.

The page has been accused of being "misleading" due to its use of the black emoticons - which gave the impression, people claim, that it was being run by a black person.

Instagram users have left dozens of messages underneath an apology from the page, which was put up on Tuesday, along with a picture of its owner, Helen, drinking coffee in Hove.

Jamaican coffee, I hope? Just for the LOLs... 

*Reader, it means 'activists', not real people, who mostly couldn't care less...

Revenge, Best Eaten Cold...

...and washed down with a nice Chianti. Bon appetit, Nigel!