Surprised? No, Not At All…

A man is being hunted by police after being filmed launching a racist tirade...

Oh, at last! Took them long enough to start getting t...

Oh, wait. 

...at a pro-Palestinian protester travelling home following Saturday's demonstration.

I might have known! 

The man is heard in the video calling protesters 'scumbags' and saying they need 'eradicating' after confronting a Muslim protester and grabbing her sign whilst travelling on the same train.

The man, who is heard asking others in the video, 'Do you know what day it is?', is now being sought by the British Transport Police following the incident on Saturday.

With a lot more effort, I'm sure, than they'd go after a Muslim pro-terrorist sympathiser. And this one is, of course, playing the victim. 

'I still can't believe speaking up against a genocide garners this much hatred, but I have faith in humanity that we can bring an end to this violence which has killed 11,000 Gazans including 6,000 children.'

Maybe you forgot what started it all, love? 

Lying Liars And The Lies They Tell...

Police have said they are 'powerless' to arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators climbing on memorials unless they start physically damaging monuments - because 'no explicit law' exists.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on! You'd soon manage to find something - breach of the peace or public order is always a good one - if they were a different type of demonstrator. 

Rather than a huge march in London, as has been seen in recent weeks with thousands of protesters converging on the capital, dozens of events are due to take place in different parts of the UK on Saturday.

It has sparked a huge response from police forces, with the Metropolitan Police saying it will stage a 'significant' operation and will not tolerate hate crimes, including offensive chanting and placards targeting the Jewish community.

Yeah, sure, by appealing to find them after the fact, but not, I bet, by wading in and nicking them then and there...

I Don't Think Joan Smith Understands What 'The Basic Job Of The Criminal Justice System' Is...

Some may be the type of case that the police and prosecutors find most challenging, where the accuser and alleged perpetrator are known to each other, and may have consumed alcohol before the attack. I don’t doubt that the assurances now being offered are sincere, but the risk of creating unrealistic expectations is very high.

We live in a society where half the population faces an ever-present threat of sexual harassment and assault at school, at work and in our own homes. But the criminal justice system is so intent on protecting the interests of men and boys accused of rape, it no longer does its basic job of providing justice for victims.

The criminal justice system doesn't 'protect the interest of men and boys' at all; it protects the interests of defendants. Of whatever sex, colour or creed.

It says 'the Crown alleges, and it must prove'. The kind of justice system that Joan seems to want would be one where the mere word of accusation suffices as proof. 

In short, she wants a reversal of the kind of justice system that feminists rail against in countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where a woman's testimony is worth less than a man's...

Civil (Servant) War!

The Mail on Sunday understands the issue has been raised all the way up to Treasury Permanent Secretary Tom Scholar, but has been met with derision by Ministers.

And no, it seems they don't all think that way. Because just down the road in Whitehall...

Iain Bell, deputy national statistician at the Office for National Statistics, said he was learning about ‘my white privilege and how that looks to others’ and expressed regret that a Census question on ethnicity had caused offence.

Elsewhere in his email, he described the vital role of the ONS in ‘shining a light on today’s society’, but added that ‘too often the collection of... statistics is done with only White People in the virtual room’. He signed off his note: ‘Black Lives Matter!’

Is he cheered on by the quislings under him? Reader, not all of them:

...some staff claim his email is at odds with the principle of Civil Service impartiality...

One staff member claimed: ‘The ONS is completely divided and the saga won’t go away. People are in absolute shock that he can stand by the actions of BLM.’

Well, well, well. There may be hope after all.