Because They Aren't Coming From War-Torn Countries

 

Garang*, 18, is one of thousands of refugees recently caught in the crossfire of French riot police, who threw teargas and beat them with batons when they boarded dinghies to travel to the UK. He is a victim of a war in his home of South Sudan – and one being fought on France’s northern shores. He borrows a phone from anyone with credit who will let him try to call home, where his family is displaced. Garang doesn’t have enough money on the £10-a-week allowance from the Home Office to make a long-distance call. All he wants is to speak to his mum, to hear her voice, and let her know he is alive and safe in the UK despite the violence he has faced.

How nice of the Home Office to extract some of the money I pay in taxes for the upkeep of the country to gice a criminal a mobile phone... 

On Thursday, stopping more people like Garang from reaching the UK in small boats topped the “to do” list of the prime minister, Andy Burnham, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, when they held talks.

And talk is all they are likely to do about it.. 

How much further can the war on refugees go?

Much, much further, of course - it's hardly a war, it's little more than a skirmish, and we're losing! 

The UK government is increasingly using military terms such as “surge” and “neutralise” in relation to small-boat crossings.

Timr to drop the 'terms' then, and use military forces instead. 

These images have fuelled anger, with some Britons believing that most refugees are shunning other countries to beat a path to our door.

They clearly are, because you've just proved that point, haven't you? Why did Garang not phone his mum in Sudan to tell her he was safe in France?  

In fact, the number of irregular arrivals to Europe in the last year has dropped significantly, and the UK ranks 16th in Europe per head of population for asylum claims. According to this newly released data, a majority of asylum seekers do not arrive in small boats – 41% were already in the UK and held a visa or other leave prior to claiming and 20% arrived by other routes, many likely to be clandestine means, such as lorries.

In other words people lie on entry, or when their visa runs out? Why would we be happy to keep people like this in thr country? If you invite friends over for supper, and they decide they aren't going to leave and annouce their intention to live in your house instead Diane, is that acceptable to you or would you be calling the police to have them removed? 

Nigel Farage and Reform UK have poisoned the public discourse on people fleeing war, people who run because they don’t want to be killed or to kill others.

If they've decided they 'don't want to kill others' it's not for long at all, is it? So many of them find the urge again that the government finds it polically useful not to keep track.

You Mean Progressive Issues, Don't You?

Of course they do, reader, it's the 'Guardian' after all:

A lack of clear vision, low morale, dwindling popularity and financial shortfalls – this may sound like a description of the previous Labour government, but these are also criticisms levelled at the UK’s most powerful arts institution, Tate. Maria Balshaw’s tenure as the first female director of Tate – comprising Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives – lasted nine years and saw as many culture secretaries. One of Sir Keir Starmer’s last acts as prime minister was to approve the appointment of her successor, Jessica Morgan, a former curator at Tate and head of the Dia Art Foundation in New York.

With record-breaking Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin shows currently at Tate Modern, suggestions that Ms Morgan is inheriting an institution in a state of “existential crisis” seem exaggerated.

But, there's this:  

Last year’s redundancies and staff strikes across the galleries showed an institution under pressure. It is a far cry from when Nicholas Serota spearheaded Tate Modern just over 25 years ago on the crest of Cool Britannia and the rise of the Young British Artists.

Looming external challenges include the National Gallery’s recent announcement of plans to ditch its 1900 cut-off, thereby encroaching on Tate Modern’s territory, and the possibility of an end to free museum access in the UK.

Oh, no. How will nuseums cope if people stop coming? Are their other funding avenues they could tap? 

Then there is the increasingly problematic issue of funding. Ms Balshaw was right to take a stand against arts donations from fossil fuel companies.

Really? 

Like the new prime minister, Ms Morgan has been hailed as “an agent of change”. How to make lasting change, without alienating core supporters, while inspiring confidence at home and abroad – all when budgets are tight – is the momentous task facing both.

I think there are more momentous tasks facing people in Btitain today.  

It's Just The 'New Scots' Trying To Fit In....

It’s not exactly the Campbells and the McDonalds, is it?

Three senseless killings in the space of six months, all involving teenagers and bladed weapons, have raised concern over youth-related knife crime in Scotland to a level not seen for many years. The deaths of Amen Teklay, Kayden Moy and John McNab last year left many wondering whether the country was going backwards to the shameful time when Scotland endured one of the worst homicide rates in western Europe.

Probably, but it’s not going to stick out too much, as every part of the country is afflicted with knife crime and youth culture now. And the stories of the murders will be familiar reading to Londoners.

 A jury at the High Court in Glasgow found them both not guilty. The boys are now aged 16 and 17 but cannot be named because of their age. The 16-year-old said both he and Amen had swords and claimed that he stabbed him in self-defence. The older teenager said he had been standing a distance away and did not attack Amen. There were emotional scenes in court as Amen's family and friends heard the verdict.

Perhaps if the families had spend more time knowing what they were up to, there'd be less surprise at consequences catching up with them? 

On the day of the attack the teenagers took a train to Irvine after discovering through social media that Kayden and his friends were among a large group of teenagers who had congregated there. Cole Turley, 18, admitted the killing, while Jay Stewart, 19 and a 15-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, were found guilty of murder following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. At the same court on Tuesday morning, the judge Lord Scott sentenced both Stewart and Turley to a minimum of 16 years in detention, and the 15-year-old to a minimum of 14 years.

So Scotland is noy alone in this, sad to say. 

They Always Turn On You In The End

No, not another dangerous dog post:

Actor and director Andy Serkis, famously the motion capture artist and voice behind Gollum in the original Lord of the Rings film trilogy, always seemed like a fine dude. And he has done a lot of charity work in his life. Yet in the last few years, he’s seemingly turned into an anti-cancel culture, AI-apologizing doofus who recently responded to criticism about his upcoming Lord of the Rings movie having an all-white cast by saying he isn’t concerned about “politically correct” casting.

The absolute monster! How dare he not genuflect at the altar of woke! 

People had criticized the original Peter Jackson-directed films for similar reasons, so some were surprised to see such a white cast for the new movie. Serkis is aware of the criticism of the past films and his new project, but seemed oddly indignant about it all.

As well he might, says anyone of a normal outlook. But this is Kotaku, which like most of the US based scifi review sites has been swallowed by the woke movement and is hopelessly in thrall to it.

“Yes, there have been criticisms,” said Serkis. “This particular film is somewhat acknowledging that. But I don’t think we will be doing a politically correct just-casting-for-the sake-of-casting-and-ticking-boxes version of the film. So, it’s where relevant basically.”He also suggested that the Hobbits’ home, The Shire, feels “very, very white” and added: “They’re not very concerned about what goes on beyond the borders of The Shire, but they know they don’t want people coming in.”

Sounds familiar... 

This is an especially odd thing to say considering some of the people of color cast in Amazon’s The Rings of Power were harassed so brutally online that Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan (who played Hobbits in the Jackson films) made an effort to defend the cast and calm people down. So Serkis using some of the same language that angry people online used about Rings of Power‘s non-white casting seems gross.

But in recent years, Serkis has repeatedly done and said stuff that has made me go, “When did you turn into a dick?”

Perhaps he hasn't turned into anything? 

Serkis’ 2018 comments about Scarlett Johansson planning to play a trans man (before she dropped out of the project) were resurfaced. And instead of sharing that he had listened to people and learned that, hey, maybe we should try to have better representation, he doubled down on his stance.

I'm guessing the reviewer, one Zack Zwiezen and yes, he looks exactly how I'd pictured him, can't see the trap in that sentence.

“Regardless of the color of your skin, regardless of how tall you are or short you are or what sex you are, regardless of how you identify, you should have the ability to play anything,” said Serkis in that interview.

C'mon, Andy, we all know what would happen if a studio was to cast a white actor (or a woman!) to play Martin Luther King. We all know this only goes one way. 

Serkis also made it clear that he would love to play Voldemort in the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series, joking that he would cut his nose off to play the villain.

HE'S IN LEAGUE WITH THE EVIL ONE*!  And he supports stuff we (the Royal 'we' of course) hate:

But it’s clear he is fine with AI becoming a part of filmmaking. He even recently starred in Young Washington, a movie that features scenes touched up and modified with genAI.

Odly enough, the commenters don't agree, he's getting absolutely bodied in the comment section, so maybe there's hope after all. 

 *JK Rowling of course

And I Bet You Don't Feel As If You Played Any Part In Breaking It?

To call this Saturday the nation’s 250th birthday is to indulge a comfortable fiction. 1776 was a declaration, not a birth certificate – and the founders wrote its claims of human equality while this nation enslaved human beings

Says who? well, 'Jamil Smith is a Guardian US columnist' So you know what you’re in for.

So I’m not in the mood to celebrate “America 250”, and I’m not alone.

The affection is thin this summer: the Pew Research Center found that 69% of Americans were dissatisfied with the country’s direction early this year. That is not ingratitude. Sometimes a sour mood is simply clear vision.

Without the context, this statement is worthless. There's no definition of 'the country's direction' to say exactlt what they were dissatified with - it might as well have been the march of progressive ideas as the return of conservative ones.

Nearly 250 years later, the US is not a finished monument, but a structure still under repair, still contested – and in places being quietly stripped for parts.

Wait for it, wait for it… 

The president tried, by executive order, to read the children of undocumented and temporary residents out of the 14th amendment. The court blocked him, six to three – though only five justices joined the chief justice’s full constitutional reasoning. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, concurring, called the Reconstruction amendments “an anticaste, antisubordination reset”, not “a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery”. The citizenship clause was not a gift the founders left us; it was a repair, built after Dred Scott, slavery and war to overrule a court that had made blood the measure of belonging.

Birthright citizenship is proof that the founding promise did not preserve itself; it had to be rebuilt into the constitution after the country’s own highest court exposed the lie beneath the celebration.

Does this man realise that the Founding Fathers were facing a much different world when they wrote that into the Constitution? 

The victory did not last the afternoon. Within hours, the president called the ruling “too bad for our Country” and told Congress to “start TODAY” on ending birthright citizenship, insisting no amendment was needed. That is not how the constitution works – ordinary legislation cannot rewrite a constitutional guarantee. But he is reaching for a door a sixth justice left ajar: Brett Kavanaugh wrote that Congress could carve out exceptions by statute. A repair can be upheld in the morning and marked for demolition by nightfall.

Repair also means seeing people as people. The court upheld state laws barring transgender girls from girls’ sports, and in the West Virginia case it let the category decide without asking whether excluding one child – who socially transitioned in grade school and took puberty blockers before she ever competed – actually served the state’s stated interests. That isn’t equal protection. It’s permission to discriminate.

The court upheld state laws banning BOYS from girls sport as the voters in that State evidently wanted...but discrimination is a 'bad' word, even when it's the right thing to do to protect the integrity and safety of female sport. 

Celebration will not house people, protect voters or repair what power is trying to break. A country can be taken apart slowly, lawfully, one ruling at a time – and the people taking it apart are not vandals but officials: a president who cancels a housing signing by lunchtime, a court that clears the way for the largest checks, all of it done in the name of patriotism. The answer is not fireworks, and it is not despair. It is to name plainly what is being damaged, and by whom – then to get busy fixing it.

Trump has named it - it's people like you, with an extreme progressive agenda - and he's getting busy fixing it.

Deliberate Uglification

A heritage railway on the edge of Bristol has sparked controversy after it commissioned three of the city’s most famous street artists to cover one of its vintage carriages in graffiti as if it were a New York subway carriage in the 1970s.

Why? Heritage railways have a unique selling point - nostalgia, a longing for the good old days when grafitti would have been unknown? Whywould anyone want to piss all over that? 

But there has been quite the backlash against the Avon Valley Railway when they revealed the project on their social media. The railway operates as a charity, and runs steam trains up and down a former line across the eastern edge of Bristol that was closed down in the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.

The firm attempted to rein in the furore that they deliberately caused for no clear benefit in the first place:

Avon Valley Railway had to reassure heritage railway enthusiasts that the windows of the carriage was covered with latex first so the paint can just be peeled off, that the carriage is yet to be restored by the volunteers at the charity so nothing was damaged - and the paint will actually help protect the carriage until it is restored.

“We were delighted to host ‘Inkie’, ‘Jody’ and ‘Cheo’ to our station site at Bitton,” said Mark Hill, the general manager at Avon Valley Railway.

Why? It's as if Sciaperelli attempted to chase the clientele of Primark...

It's Not 'Too Hard' To Reverse Direction, Actually...

Gaby Hinsliff takes the field to defend anti racism training, because of course she does...

The two families have never met but are bonded both in grief and in a desire to avoid what Webber called “political grandstanding”.

The two families referred to being Hanry Nowak's and Barnaby Webber's, victim of Valdo Calocane. United not just by the loss of a family member, but by betrayal of the establishment in dealing with the crime.

There is no way back from this madness without acknowledging hard truths. Calocane was sectioned and discharged four times, and two of his doctors testified that race hadn’t influenced those decisions. But Dr Jonathan Gibson – who saw Calocane four months before the killings, and now believes he should have pushed for his patient to be forcibly medicated – testified that he had been repeatedly told psychiatry was “institutionally racist” and too coercive, especially with young black men, adding that he was “viscerally” aware of the argument and “I do not believe it had no bearing on VC’s care”.

Not do most people. 

If professionals are now questioning their own judgments and assumptions, then that’s healthy and necessary – and I say that as a writer who has had to learn how to do it. But it’s also undeniably difficult, forcing people in already complex, pressured careers such as policing and medicine to work with what can only be described as a bewildering number of mental tabs constantly open – including the idea, expressed in police guidance now being reviewed by government, that fairness isn’t necessarily treating everyone the same.

Give us an ecxample then! 

(Reading a deaf suspect their rights like anyone else is equal treatment, for example, but it’s not fair if they can’t hear you.)

That's clearly the case, because they are physically incapable - so are you saying that black people are physically incapable of obeying the law and refraining from murder!? I can hardly believe it! 

Though a consultant psychiatrist should be capable of exceedingly fine judgments, it’s a big ask of an 18-year-old security guard on minimum wage or a rookie police constable straight out of sixth form. Walking these high wires takes skilled and supportive management, and better diversity training, not less.

Oh, bless them! What sort of 'better diversity training'?  

If any professional has been too squeamish, then the takeaway is that kneejerk assumptions either way are dangerous and need confronting, not that the legacy of the Macpherson report on racism in policing needs dismantling, as Farage is now arguing. The lesson of Henry Nowak’s awful death is not that Stephen Lawrence’s has somehow ceased to matter, but that lessons must be learned from both.

Ding Ding Ding! Lefty Buzzword Bingo in play! 

Well, That's A Turn-up For The Books..!

Bloody misogynist right-wingers, denying a feminist shibboleth like th...Oh hang on, 'Guardian' letters page? Really?

I write about the recent coverage of the Fordingbridge case (Court of appeal to review rape sentences of three teenage boys, 26 May). I experienced a remarkably similar crime over 20 years ago: same number and age of perpetrators, same incident, same court outcome.

Still, I’m worried by some of the discourse for the girls in question and others who have experienced similar. There have been comments in print and social media which, in attempting to emphasise the severity of the crime, have said things like “their lives are ruined” or “they’ll never heal”.

Yes, that’s been the case for some time, why, when the perpetrators are from an identity group, do you want this not to be the case? 

Now, on the one hand, the impact on my life can hardly be overstated. I’ve struggled to make healthy decisions for myself, had a number of harmful coping mechanisms, and spent many years either feeling numb or creating or fabricating problems in the present because, surely, the pain I’m feeling can’t still be a result of what happened. I’ve allowed people to treat me very poorly and struggled to see it, subconsciously modelling a template that had been set.However, to say that my life is ruined? Hardly. I have many wonderful friendships, a successful career in a field I’m passionate about and I’ve travelled the world.

The girls in the Fordingbridge case – and others in a similar situation – are going to need a lot of support, time and space to feel a lot of things (I would advise them to seek out places and people that provide these, and to give time and space to themselves too), but I hope they can know that there is hope for the lives ahead of them.

Its a measure, I suspect, of how cynical I’ve become, that I firmly believe that we’re the perpetrators of this crime white men of Christian Anglo Saxon heritage, not only would we not be seeing members of the lanyard classes writing in to the ‘Guardian’ about it in this fashion, they wouldn’t be published if they did!

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

 

Don't you understand? 

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

The perpetrators carefully not identified. 

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

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

But She Wasn't 'Standing Up For Her Neighbours', Was She?

The mischaracterisation of the Minnesota shooting continues apace:

That a white woman can be killed on camera, with impunity, and be demeaned and ridiculed in her death for standing up for her neighbors shows just how far down the road of violence the nation has gone.

She wasn't standing up for het neighbours, she was standing up fot illegal immigrants that ICE were looking for in order to boot out of the country, a policy many of her neighbours would have voted for after years of Democrat tolerance of them.

It is a road most Americans do not want to continue on – recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates.

I'd like to see the questions that poll was actually asking!  

But to truly stop the damage requires going further – it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make them safe.

Gosh, whatever could have given them that idea? Could it possibly have been all the rapes and murders committed by illegals, perchance? Not to mention the terrorism that was the basis for the very creation of ICE:

Formed in 2003, during the embarrassing and disastrous national excesses of the post-9/11 era – when the nation launched two ill-fated forever wars, and demonized Muslim immigrants – ICE’s mandate was overwrought and ill-considered. Its formation was part of the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which – as illustrated by its name – formally adopted the idea that immigrants were an inherent security threat to Americans.

Well, having launched the biggest ever terrorist attack on US soil it's really no surprise.... And it's not just one political party with that view, either:

In 1986, Ronald Reagan coupled the country’s only amnesty program with a seven-fold increase in border enforcement – beginning an arms race that would shape border violence for decades. But it was Bill Clinton’s 1996 signing of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) set the stage for our current mass deportation system, by making deportation easier, and making more people deportable, even for nonviolent crimes.

Immigrants - even legal ones - are guests in your country and you have the absolute right to set the rules by which they come to rhe country and live there. Who on earth would ever think you didn't?  

Heba Gowayed is an associate professor of sociology at Cuny Hunter College and Cuny Graduate Center and author of the book Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential Victor Ray is the F Wendell Miller associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and author of the book On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

Ah. I see. 

I Think The Democrats Have Finally Made The Fatal Misstep We've Been Expecting...

...ever since this whole ICE thing started up. I've been expecting someone to go too far and get themselves shot, but I wasn't expecting it to be a white liberal lesbisn mother of three.

 

Maybe I should have...

Video from the scene showed Good apparently ignoring ICE agents' demands to get out of her car, and instead reversing her vehicle as she tried to drive off. The video began with the victim blocking the road with her car until ICE agents told her to move away. She then reversed to head back down the road as an agent tried to open its driver-side door handle before she drove off.

Extraordinarily, Democrat politicians are trying to blame the agents who neglected to be run over, rather than the idiot who decided to try to kill him. Actually, that's not really that extraordinary, when you stop to think about it.  

Mayor Jacob Frey claimed DHS was trying 'to spin this as an act of self-defense.' 'This is bulls**t,' he said at a press conference. 'I have a message for our community, our city, and ICE - to ICE, get the f**k out of Minneapolis.' 'We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.'

They are there to do the job your state has failed to do because like so many Democrat mayors, you've fotgotten who you are there to serve; the citizens, not the illegals.  

Frey highlighted how 'people are being hurt' and 'families are being ripped apart' by immigration officials. 'Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy, are being terrorized and now somebody is dead. That's on you - and it's also on you to leave,' he said.

Meanwhile, Governor Tim Walz asked his citizens to 'remain calm' as he slammed DHS' narrative as 'propaganda.' 'The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice,' he wrote on Twitter. 'Don't believe this propaganda machine.'

Yes, Reader, this Tim Waltz. We can see what the Somalis infesting Minnesota have contributed - massive organised tax fraud on an industrial scale. 

'We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary,' he said. 'They are teachers in your community, they're business owners, they're construction professionals, they are Minnesotans. 'Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait.'

They are nothing of the sort, and you just swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker.  

'What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict.'

No, we are seeing that when confronted, you have no answers. And now even the MSM is realising that.  The President's PR machine has swung into action and is blasting the ball right into the undefenced goal:

She later confirmed ICE operations are still underway in Minnesota in spite of the controversy. 

Vice President JD Vance said agents were going to 'work even harder' after the woman was shot. 

'I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them,' he said.

How refreshing to see leaders standing up for their people and the law and not reflexively cowering before Leftie rage! 

Given The NHS Claims To See Nothing Inherently Wrong With Them Fucking Their Cousins...

..this new revelation shouldn't really come as a surprise:

Britain's leading abortion charity has been criticised for encouraging 'sex-selective' terminations - amid fears these are on the rise among the country's Indian women. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which carries out 110,000 terminations a year, suggests that aborting a baby on the basis of sex is not illegal - despite Government advice explicitly stating it is against the law.

Well, there's a charity that needs stripping of its charitable status then!  

Dame Jasvinder Sanghera, a campaigner against forced marriages, said:'Health professionals need to stop turning a blind eye because of cultural sensitivities or the fear of being accused of racism.'

You don't say... 

DHSC said in a statement: 'This Government's position is unequivocal: sex-selective abortion isillegal in England and Wales and will not be tolerated 

'Sex is not a lawful ground for termination of pregnancy, and it is a criminal offence for any practitioner to carry out an abortion for that reason alone. 

'Anyone with evidence that this illegal practice is occurring must report it to the police immediately.'

Who are as captured as the charity and will be only too happy to turn a blind eye to anthing ACPO may deen a 'cultural issue we shouldn't meddle in'.... 

Well, Rev, You Know What They Say Happens When You Assume

Letters in tthe 'Guardian' can be illuminating. Here's one from Rev Dr Michael Fox:

Twenty years ago, while making a documentary on politics for the Open University, I interviewed a group of 15-year-olds at a school in Moss Side, Manchester. The school had selected a mixed group of children, half identifying as white British, half as second-generation immigrant. Against my expectations, when discussing immigration, the children of immigrants strongly expressed views similar to those now espoused by Ms Mahmood. “The country is full,” one of them said. I assumed at the time that the children were reflecting the views and language of their parents, with such factors in play as a desire to “fit in” their host country and to identify with the perceived values of their neighbours, a kind of “self-othering” as a natural response to the trauma of migration. Conversely, the white British children were open and accepting of immigrants.

Oh dear, how awkward, Rev! But why, apart from the obvious, did you assume it would be different? 

As a (non-Conservative) son-in-law of a former Conservative home secretary, the late Robert Carr, who took the decision to admit refugees from Idi Amin’s Uganda in 1972, I have always found it unthinkable that some more recent Tory holders of that office have abandoned the compassion he personified in favour of a “drawbridge” mentality.

A drawbridge is something you pull up when you're under attack, Rev... 

Ruining Every Aspect Of The Justice System...

 ...that seems to be David Lamentable's real goal:

Childhood criminal records could be wiped under plans being considered by David Lammy. The Justice Secretary is considering simplifying the current system to prevent people from being affected by petty crimes in later life. It comes after evidence showed that people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s still had offences of street fighting and bike thefts in their youth disclosed to employers.

So not content with plans to ensure the safeguard of a jury of your peers isn't available to you in the future, he wants to ensure that employers can't avoid hiring people they wouldn't hire if they knew their background? 

Rachel de Souza, the Children's Commissioner, previously said judges should have the power to wipe criminal records of people who had 'done their time' for silly crimes committed as a child. Last year a 13-year-old girl admitted to threatening violent behaviour after she kicked a glass door at an asylum hotel. The offence will stay on her record for life and will be disclosed if she works in a job with children.

As it should be, no doubt. In modern Britain, being less than welcoming of the new Predator Classes is the greatest crime of all, isn't it? So much so that the filth will hunt YOU down if you object too strongly:.

so basically what I’m gathering from this is that a brown guy was harassing three women, they lashed out because they wanted him to go away, and now they’re being hunted by the police for doing a racism because they wouldn’t let the brown guy harass them endlessly pic.twitter.com/2t1kOcv0vC

— pagliacci the grinch 🎄🎁 (@Slatzism) December 11, 2025

Oh No, Real People! Help, Help, I Feel Unsafe!

A BBC 'journalist' encounters real people's views:

We were filming an interview on the outskirts of a public park in Falkirk when a woman approached. "Can I just ask why you're encouraging these men to sit in this park?" she asked while recording the exchange on her phone. The man we were speaking to for our latest Disclosure documentary was living in a nearby asylum hotel, where angry protests had been taking place since the summer. The woman said men from the hotel had been following local children, and asked us to take our interview elsewhere.

Oh dear, not the hero's welcome for supporting refugees this BBC wonk expected? 

At this point, a group of asylum seekers who we hadn't noticed playing football nearby appeared over the hill. She told me it was my fault they were there and if "anything happens here, you've got it on your head".The woman uploaded her video to the internet. It was viewed millions of times after being shared by right wing influencers such as Tommy Robinson. She was hailed a hero for standing up for women and children. I was deluged with abuse and warned that I should stay out of Falkirk.

LOL! 

I don't believe my interview with this man, who later withdrew consent for its use, put anyone in danger. But this encounter, and its aftermath, gave me perhaps the sharpest insight yet into the fear some within the town - and beyond – have about asylum seekers in their communities.

It doesn't sound much as if you really learned why that  situation existed, but the folk of Falkirk did their level best to school you... 

Asylum seekers are not generally permitted to work while their claims are being processed and get an allowance of £1.42 a day to live on. With free meals, accommodation and no bills to pay, it sticks in the throats of some. Kevin, a regular protester, told me: "They're getting telly, they're getting warmth, they're getting clothing, they're getting phones, they're getting free healthcare and if you think that's right in our country right now, I don't."

Who could possibly think this was a sensible state of affairs, or one that can be sustained for too long without a backlash from the population forced to pay to give invaders a better lifestyle than they themselves can afford? 

The Cladhan was once a favoured place for wedding receptions, anniversaries and birthday parties. No warning was given or consultation held with the local community that up to 90 asylum seekers were going to be housed here in 2021.

Of course they weren't consulted, they knew what the answer would be!  And they knew why that would be the answer...

Former Cladhan resident Sadeq Nikzad, from Afghanistan, was jailed in June for the rape of a 15-year-old local girl. Sarah Jane Waugh, part of the Falkirk Pink Ladies group which wants the hotel closed, told us it "killed me to know that that girl's life was ruined". "We shouldn't be walking about in fear," she added.

No, you shouldn't, Do you think the local council executives are walking about in fear? They should be - fear of ther almighty backlash that is coming! 

There is a feeling among some, perhaps based in part on perceptions around how other cultures treat women, that asylum seekers are more likely to carry out sex attacks. Part of Nikzad's legal defence was that he didn't understand what was and was not allowed due to cultural differences between the UK and Afghanistan.

It can hardly be said to be just a 'perception' when everyone can see exactly how women are treated in these alien cultures when they open their morning newpaper... 

A Guardian Columnist’s Adventures In The Wild…

.... and it’s pretty much as you’d expect.

At the weekend, I took the well-worn journey from London to Knowsley in Merseyside. I’ve made this trip so many times that I can execute it with military precision, arriving just in time before the train doors close, even with a toddler in tow this time around. My uncle picked us up from the station and as we turned on to the motorway, I saw St George’s flags hanging over us from the sides of bridges. Union jacks circled the roundabout just before we turned off to go to my auntie’s house. Knowsley is Labour’s fourth-safest seat in the UK, but it felt like a newly minted Reform constituency.

Get used to it love, everywhere's going to look like this... 

Someone nearby scrolled through TikTok and stated that the far-right protest in London had 3 million attenders. (Police estimates have put the figure between 110,000 and 150,000.)

For the rest of the weekend, out and about, I asked questions. What did people make of the news? What did they think about what the protesters had to say? Would they vote Reform UK? I wasn’t doing thorough research, and my results wouldn’t stand up in any peer-reviewed study, but I was trying to get a snapshot of a place before it changed beyond my recognition.

And what did you find? Rampent Right Wing attitudes, perhaps? 

I heard two arguments again and again. People were opposed to the boats on a principle of “fairness” that was limited to national boundaries. Some said that they had worked and paid taxes all their lives, and it was therefore unfair that someone who had never worked or paid taxes in Britain should have accommodation and financial support and be able to access the NHS. They felt the UK should get its own house in order before helping others. The second argument was new: the people coming in small boats are young men who pose a threat to British women.

Oh. Well, no, then, just normal people with perfectly normal concerns. That must have been a shock for you. 

Knowsley has never been immune to the everyday racism experienced across the UK – or even its violent outbursts, as with the murder of Anthony Walker in 2005 – but never before have racist talking points been repeated so persistently. The trope about women was straight out of the far-right playbook, post-Rochdale, and has been circulating in Knowsley for the past two years.

They aren't 'racist talking points', though, are they? There’s nothing racist about being concerned at the pace and volume of immigration, nor at the cultures that we are forced to accommodate.

People in Knowsley are right to want more support. The borough is the second most income-deprived area in England. Over a quarter of working-age adults are economically inactive. It has the lowest GCSE pass rate in the country. Men and women have a healthy life expectancy of around 54 years old. Town centres remain more or less empty following the building of “megamarkets”. As with the rest of the country, people check their bank balances with a sense of dread as prices continue to rise.

And there's no sign of it letting up, with Rachel From Complaints in the driving seat..... 

I asked people what they thought of Keir Starmer. “What has he done? He’s gone after pensioners.” And Farage? “Well, he’s a bit different.” In the absence of any meaningful change or any narrative to grasp on to, the right and Reform UK have shaped the story. One all too easy to believe.

I notice she didn’t ask them about the Green Messiah…. 

I also visited family in the better off – and more diverse – seat of Liverpool Wavertree. Waiting in line for a coffee, I had a chat, and heard that migrants are not to blame for austerity, privatisation and the extraction of money from our local communities into far-off bank balances. Violence against women and girls is a male, not a migrant problem.

Then how can importing thousands of single males from cultures that don’t respect women possibly help? 

Dilemma For The Progressives...

Yay, Diversity!

Fundi embodies the growing involvement of black Kenyans in horse racing, changing perceptions of a sport that has been synonymous with the country’s white minority since the British colonial era. “Growing up, that was a sport for other people, not me,” said Muturi Mutuota, who, like many other children in Nairobi in the 80s and 90s, was taken to the racetrack by his parents at weekends. Now, Mutuota, who is in his 40s, is a director at the Jockey Club of Kenya, which operates and regulates the sport. At this year’s Day of Champions, three of the seven trainers were black, as were 10 of the 13 jockeys.

Booo, cruelty to animals:

The deaths of three horses in less than an hour at Cheltenham on Sunday, including Abuffalosoldier, who collapsed as ITV Racing’s reporter in the pull-up area was concluding a post-victory interview with his jockey, brought the track’s November meeting to a miserable conclusion after two days that were full of positivity and promise for the winter campaign ahead.After viewers had seen replays of the incidents in which Bangers And Cash and Napper Tandy died, as well as a freeze-frame of the instant before Abuffalosoldier’s collapse, Patterson said: “Public support is decreasing for horse racing and we have seen welfare improvements come in after our disruption of the Grand National last year which obviously is better for horses in the short term, but yeah, we need to be thinking of phasing this out completely and having a complete ban.”

Gosh, which will win? 

One For My US Readers:Be Honest....

Did you vote for liberals getting tossed around like rag dolls? 😁

Be honest. pic.twitter.com/fnZd8xaLCH

— Mr. Star Spangled MAGA (@4thOfJuly365) September 19, 2025

Because who wouldn't? 

Some context here - whereas we in the UK have left wing politicians who welcome illegal immigration or speak against attempts to remove illegal immigtrants, across the pond they have politicians who actively seek to impede those federal agents attempting to remove illegal immigrants. 

The other difference is that President Trump isn't going to put up with this. And so they take steps to prevent them doing so. And it's glorious to see.

Irrisistable Force, Meet Immovable Object.

The UK’s first transgender judge has launched a case against the UK in the European court of human rights challenging the process that led to the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.

 On what grounds? 

The retired judge Victoria McCloud, who is now a litigation strategist at W-Legal, is seeking a rehearing of the case, arguing that the supreme court undermined her article 6 rights to a fair trial when it refused to hear representation from her and did not hear evidence from any other trans individuals or groups.

Did it need to, in order to reach a decision? 

“The court reversed my and 8,500 other people’s sex for the whole of equality law … We are now two sexes at once. We are told we must use dangerous spaces such as male changing rooms and loos when we have female anatomy. If we are raped we must go to male rape crisis. We are searched by male police, to ‘protect’ female police from, I assume, our female anatomy.

You don’t have female anatomy, sir, even if you’ve had the operation, all you have is a crude, non working facsimile of it. You are a male. You will always be a male. No matter what anyone tells you otherwise.

Meanwhile, in Scotland:

A campaign group that won a legal victory on the definition of sex is taking action against the Scottish government over policies it says are “inconsistent” with the ruling.For Women Scotland’s legal battle with Scottish ministers over the definition of a woman ended in the UK’s supreme court, which ruled in April that the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 referred to a biological woman and biological sex.

And they have to take this action because the progressives aren’t giving up: 

However, the group said it now had “little choice” but to take further legal action as some policies regarding transgender pupils in schools and transgender people in custody remained in place, which the group said was “in clear breach of the law”.

Laws are for the little people to obey, clearly… 

Might Just As Well Announce An ‘All Must Have Prizes’ Badge

Girl guides can now earn badges for activities such as "fandoms", being a "booktivist" and sharing their "guiding sparkle". In total, 72 new badges are on offer, marking an historic update to the youth organisation's offering. The move was a response to girls' requests to broaden Girlguiding's scope to include activities such as environmental conservation and building confidence, according to a statement.

Good grief! 

One young girl told BBC Newsround that, as part of earning the laughter badge, another girl had made animal noises that the rest of the group then had to copy. Brownies (aged seven to 10) will now be recognised for showing a keen interest in folklore or birdwatching, as well as discovering ways to make their voice heard.

But they'd better not make their voices heard about boys joining the Guides in womanface, if they know what's good for them... 

Girlguiding ambassador and TV presenter Angellica Bell said trying the new badges had been "a real blast". She said the organisation helped build girls' confidence "whilst tackling important issues impacting their lives such as online harm, sexism and misogyny".

They only need to read your website to learn about misogyny.