Oh Dear, Nesrine, Are The Progressives Losing Their Grip On The Means Of Indoctrination?

Adding to the clamouring appetite for sharp challenge is a new information ecosystem where there are now more ways to dispute mainstream accounts of political reality.

Translation: the MSM can’t get away with lies and lying by omission any more…

The process of fragmentation combined with persistent monopoly is one that is mirrored in the media. Over the past two years alone, entire outlets have grown and flourished over what it seems is the media’s inability to adequately capture and express anger over Gaza. From Zeteo (dubbed a “breakout hit”) to Drop Site News, which launched only a year ago, now has almost 400,000 subscribers and closely works with journalists in Gaza, there is a vast appetite for more uncompromising discourse and intimate coverage of the Middle East and complicity on Gaza.

If you say so, Nesrine. But I think you’ll find most people are heartily sick to death of the constant bleating about Palestine.

Still, this has not diminished anger at mainstream outlets because it is understood that these organisations still have enormous reach and therefore power over public opinion, and by extension political outcomes. It is why the New York Times’s reports on starvation in Gaza have been heavily contested by pro-Israeli government voices, as the paper holds huge authority in the one country that has power over Israel.

Ah, one of the many, many fallacies Nesrine labours under is the fallacy that the media shapes public opinion, rather than reflecting it.

But all that residual power, from politics to the media, does not change the fact that something big is up for grabs – the default belief that these establishment institutions deserve their power, whether it can be taken away from them or not.

Nothing of course on how they've been found to have been abusing it? 

The risk now is of a sort of permanent bifurcation. On the one hand, increasingly out-of-control hysteria on immigration empowers ghouls like Farage and makes them and their poisonous rhetoric permanent features of our lives and politics, while rage over Gaza and economic policies constantly clouds the political atmosphere. On the other, a government is caught in the headlights, unable to tackle anything, while also hoping that it’s too big to fail and its opponents too small and diverse to succeed. What if the problem isn’t that the centre cannot hold, but that it can, and in doing so brings about a new, volatile, miserable status quo of escalating rage and impotent government?

Well, since that will provide you with more column inches than you already get, why are you worried? 

Remember When You Read The Newspaper To Be Better Informed?

Who is the woman? On which side is she protesting? Who attacked her? No 'journalist' seems to want to find out. Probably in case they find out she's rentamob who the cops escorted to the hotel to mount a counterprotest...

“Disappointingly we have seen yet another protest, which had begun peacefully, escalate into mindless thuggery with individuals again hurting one of our officers and damaging a police vehicle,” Ch Spt Simon Anslow said in a statement.

 

The cops aren't talking about their mindless thuggery, oh dear me, no! They aren't counting their officer knocking out a protesters teeth with a riot shield, or their police van driver putting his foot down and running over a protester which, following the Chris Kaba case, should be classed as assault with a deadly weapon, shouldn't it?

In an apparent response to allegations that the police had taken a “two-tier” approach that favoured the counter-demonstration, Ch Supt Simon Anslow said: “Unfortunately, across social media we are seeing inflammatory comments which suggest we were supporting and enabling certain protesters.

“This is categorically not true. We police without fear or favour, remaining impartial at all times and have legal responsibilities to ensure peaceful protest is facilitated.”

And less than a day later, Anslow was exposed as a liar in the MSM. I would say 'typical of country bumpkins like Essex Police'  but actually, I think it's now merely typical of the entire country's police farces.

Hey, BBC Verify, Never Mind That Plane Crash, Look A Little Closer To Home!

 

A former police community support officer (PCSO) with an "obsession" for weapons has been found guilty of trying to make a gun using a 3D printer. Zoe Watts, 38, of St Helen's Avenue, Lincoln, was found with parts for a semi automatic weapon, a machete, bladed article, crossbow and bow during a raid on her home on 11 December.

She is believed to be the first person in the UK to be convicted of attempting to manufacture a prohibited gun using a printer. She will be sentenced on 8 August.

Itt's, of course, a man in womanface. I guess that's not the sort of 'disinformation' that BBC Verify cares to tackle. They aren't alone, either, most of the MSM keeps up the fiction that this is 'Miss' Zoe Watts. Thankfully, the prison service declined to go along with this nonsense, banging him up with the other men, to the fury of the transcultists.

Watts was previously jailed in 2021 after she was found with banned weapons and explosive substances and had also made an improvised explosive device.

Given the previous convictions that Miss Watts has I would like a report on the issue of dangerousness," Judge Hirst explained.

You could always just take his own words into account, You Honour. 

Liars, Liars, Pants On Fire

There is very little evidence that protections for nature are a blocker to development, the government has admitted in its own impact assessment of the controversial new planning and infrastructure bill.

Is that an unfortunate development? Yes, Reader...for the government:

The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building.

Oh dearie me… 

Ministers say the new bill will speed up housing developments and large infrastructure projects by allowing developers to avoid meeting environmental obligations to protect habitats and species such as barn owls, otters, bats and newts, at the site of their project, by paying into a central nature recovery fund (NRF) which will be used to create environmental improvement elsewhere.

And no, Reader, that isn’t the advantage it may sound: 

Officials admit this nature improvement could be in a different county to the place where the building is taking place, raising fears it will reduce access to nature.

And with Mayor Khant determined to increase urban sprawl to pack in more of his co-religionists at the expense of clean green safeguards, it’s only going to get worse in London. But who on earth is responsible for this lie about the blockers on development anyway?

...the central reason given by the government for the new legislation, that nature is a blocker to development – promoted by prime minister Keir Starmer, chancellor Rachel Reeves and housing secretary Angela Rayner – has been undermined by the government’s own impact assessment.

Ah. Of course. Three people who couldn’t lie straight in bed. 

But They DID Advocate For Unproven Interventions…

As a lifelong scientist, I have always believed that if something is possible, we can find a way to achieve it. And yet, one of the starkest realities we now face is that the world is failing to meet its climate goals.

Well, perhaps the mistake was setting them in the first place? 

Scientists agree we need to bring greenhouse gas levels down to below 350 parts per million by the end of this century to ensure a liveable planet for future generations. Achieving this will require a four-pronged approach: reduce, remove, repair and resilience.

And it'll need everyone on the planet to agree with them and be onboard with it. There's your main drawback. 

Reduction – cutting emissions rapidly and deeply – of course remains a critical priority. But we must also pursue the removal of excess carbon, explore repair techniques to stabilise key ecosystems and build resilience against the escalating impacts we are already experiencing.

Such as? 

One of the greatest challenges of climate science today is that many of the necessary levers to regain control are uncomfortable, even controversial. Ideas such as thickening sea ice to prevent collapse or brightening marine clouds to reflect sunlight may once have seemed extreme. Yet, as we contend with an escalating crisis, we must at least explore these possibilities. We do not have the luxury of rejecting solutions outright before we have thoroughly investigated their risks, trade-offs and feasibility.

Yes, we do. That's always our prerogative.  

As scientists, we must never advocate for deploying unproven interventions.

*cough* Covid vaccinations *cough* 

Any repair or removal techniques must undergo rigorous research and assessment before we evaluate full-scale suitability. However, we must also be clear: these investigations must happen with urgency. The longer we delay, the fewer options remain on the table and the more likely that deployment will happen without the proper due diligence at a point of desperation.

I refer you back to Covid... 

There are also many who object on ethical, political or environmental grounds, often for entirely understandable reasons. We must respect these concerns and ensure that any research is conducted transparently, with input from affected communities and with the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous rights-holders.

What? If a possible solution is found, it's not going to come from some bloody witchdoctor, is it? It going to come from western science.  

Throughout history, scientific breakthroughs have changed the course of humanity when leaders and communities worked together to act on the evidence before them. The Montreal protocol successfully phased out CFCs after the discovery of the ozone hole.

And look how long it took for us to see any success of that project. So, why exactly should we jump at the first mad idea to come along simply because people like you are wetting their y-fronts over climate chsnge? Especially when the so-called answers end up costing people's lives...

I’m Sure The US Treasury Would Be Delighted If You Cut Them A Cheque, Abigail

The sub-heading reads:

"She is one of the heirs to the Walt Disney fortune – and has long argued for rich people like her to pay more tax. Now she is working out how best to meet the challenge of Trump, Musk and the politics of chaos"

She being Abigail Disney... 

“I spend a lot of time trying to think of reasons to be optimistic, because I don’t know how to function without that. And I want to find the energy and the grit for a really long fight. This isn’t just four years … you know, there’s a whole civilisation-level reset to be done. I mean, I heard the other night when Trump spoke, he mentioned that we would get Greenland one way or another. And then there was laughter. Laughter! I just thought, ‘Oh, we have sunk so low.’”

What did you expect, applause? 

The film-maker (and the grand-niece of Walt Disney) is speaking to me on video call from her home in Manhattan. She talks with a mixture of speed, eloquence and certainty – partly because her view of Donald Trump and his allies is all about something with which she is well acquainted: wealth, and what it does to people.

She doesn't appear to believe it's done anything bad to her. Only other people. People she disagrees with politically. 

I then mention something she well knows: that Trump’s sidekick Elon Musk is also from a very wealthy background, having started his first business ventures with money provided by his father, and then becoming rich beyond the dreams of avarice. This, she tells me, partly explains the frazzled morals of someone who has just imposed all those cuts to overseas aid, with apparently no regard for the consequences.

Well, those 'consequnces' aren't falling on the people who elected his boss: 

Among the schemes Musk has frozen, Disney points out, was the Pepfar programme, AKA the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, which is estimated to have saved 25 million lives by supplying medicine to people with HIV and Aids around the world. “There are people suffering and dying today because of that cut,” she says. “There are children who have HIV who shouldn’t because of Elon Musk. Now. As we sit here and talk.” She exhales.

And how do the American people feel now their taxes aren't going to people halfway around the world that they have no connection to or responsibility for, or didn't you think to ask them? 

“That natural human proclivity to say, ‘Hmm, that doesn’t feel right’ – he doesn’t have it. Trump doesn’t have it.

Actually, they do, they just think that robbing the US taxpayer to pay for things like this isn't right.  

They’re spending no time in shame, and shame is a righteous emotion. It’s not an emotion you want to live in, but it’s an emotion you want as a motivator sometimes. And where is it? Where’s the shame?”

We got rid of it because you progressives wanted to, remember? 

And by the way, how much tax have you voluntarily paid to the US Treasury, or are you just like all those others who whine that people like you should 'pay more tax' yet never actually do? 

But Stella, What About J K Rowling's 'Independence Of Mind'..?

Oh, really, Stella? Do tell us more...

I think MPs must all have some sort of Altzheimers, because they seem to be incapable of proving themselves utter hypocrites every time they speak...or maybe they are just thick?

Entertainment Or Propaganda?

Stephen Graham has revealed the two harrowing real-life incidents that inspired his new Netflix hit Adolescence, recalling that they made his 'heart hurt'.As an executive producer on the show, which aired on Thursday, Stephen, 51, said the idea for the series came to him from looking at the epidemic of knife crime in the UK.

Did it really?  

'Look, it started when I read an article, and it was an article about a young boy who'd stabbed a young girl to death, and it just, you know, it made me feel cold.

'And then a couple of months later, there was a piece on the news, and it was about a young boy who'd stabbed a young girl to death, and if I'm really honest with you, they hurt my heart.

’Young boy’ is all the description of the perpetrator you’ll get. Note that. 

'And these two incidents were opposite ends of the country. And I just thought, "Why? Why is this happening?"'Not just because I'm a father, but I think any kind of human being with an ounce of moral compass can look at that kind of situation and think, "What's happening? What's going on with society today that we're in?"'

Well, it's certainly made him a few pennies. And the critics are raving about it.  

Co-stars and critics alike have praised Owen, 15, for his chilling performance, and Stephen was so impressed at the young British actor's first audition, that he's since revealed he turned to co-writer Jack Thorne when Owen left the room and said 'I think that's him'.

Strange then, because this is him: 

 So, why cast him? 

And yes, I've had a progressive idiot on FaceBook say he was cast so Graham could play his father, but I thought mixed race families were usually all the rage in TVland? 

So that feeble excuse hardly holds water, does it?

It’s as if Netflix decided to do a film on the brutal mauling death of Ian Price, and showed him being savaged by a pair of cocker spaniels…

More Judges Like This One, Please!

A barrister refused to take a roadside breath test after she was stopped on suspicion of drink-driving on the grounds she had just had cosmetic surgery on her lips.

Rachel Tansey, 44, was pulled over after reports that her silver Range Rover was 'weaving around' a bypass at 20mph. But when police asked the lawyer to provide a breath sample, she only partially put her lips around the tube then cited cosmetic treatment the day before, a court heard.

The mother-of-three – who lives in a £1.4 million mansion in Formby, Merseyside – told officers: 'Do not tell me what I can and cannot do.

'I am doing my very best. It is like asking someone to jump up after a tummy tuck. I cannot do it.'

If - after reading that high-handed attempt at evading consequences - you have an image in your head of just what she looks like, you won't be disappointed.  

After also refusing to submit to a blood test instead due to an undiagnosed phobia of needles, Tansey was charged with failing to provide breath and blood samples. At Sefton Magistrates' Court, she denied wrongdoing, insisting she had only been driving slowly as she had dropped a chicken wrap and been swilling mouthwash.

Ha ha ha ha! Well, no doubt she's seen other judges fall for such lame-ass excuses, so why not try her luck? 

However, she is now facing a possible jail sentence after a judge accused her of trying to 'manipulate the situation' to her advantage and lacking 'any kind of credibility whatsoever'.

Ah, that's why. Not all judges are morons. 

Convicting her of both charges of failing to provide samples of breath and blood, District Judge James Hatton told her: 'From the moment you got out of the car you attempted to manipulate this situation. 'You have tried to delay and delay and delay the officers. You tell the officers that you had nothing to drink. Clearly you had at least something to drink. You are a witness who lacks any kind of credibility whatsoever.'

Round of applause for his honour! 

He bailed her for sentencing, saying a community order was 'likely', but he would leave 'all options open, including custody'.

I wonder what options her firm are holding open? 

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.  

Can’t Do This In The Norfolk Farce…

....all the DNA's the same!

Around half of the Metropolitan Police’s 33,000 officers could be missing from its own DNA and fingerprint databases hampering efforts to weed out sex predators like Wayne Couzens. Scotland Yard bosses are planning a multimillion-pound 12-month project to retake staff biometric data, which is expected to face fierce opposition.

Oppose away! It's a condition of the job, and you've got away with it for far too long. 

It is understood as many as 16,600 current serving officers’ DNA samples and 19,100 fingerprints are not on the force’s systems.

Labour’s Dawn Butler, who wrote to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley with concerns last October, is furious having been reassured that “the majority” of officer DNA profiles are stored.

Sack him, then, Dawn. The blighter's lied to you!

In a letter responding to her inquiry, the Met’s director of forensic services - who admitted “there is currently a gap” - told the Brent East MP: “We intend to establish a robust process to ensure samples are collected from those officers whose samples are not on the database and will seek to do this within 12 months.”

Another year to do what you lied to Parliament was already being done? 

The Dog Is Following It's Nature. Is The Defence Doing The Same?

Another day, another horrifying attack by an XL Bully....

Ms Muru said Ratteray, who also lives at an address in Oxford Street, Leicester city centre, had no similar previous convictions and nothing at all for the past five years. She said the 41-year-old had bought Cookie for Bott, 34, but he was the registered owner of the XL Bully.

Jabeen Naru, representing both Ratteray and Bott, said the couple had properly obtained an exemption certificate for Cookie, who was a "family pet". She said: "Their children were devastated when the dog was destroyed. Mr Ratteray immediately did follow the dog. He did everything he could to bring his dog under control." She asked the magistrates to be lenient to Bott, due to her lack of involvement in what happened during the incident. She said: "She herself suffers with depression and anxiety. I would like you to consider a conditional discharge for Miss Bott."

But the magistrates, who have the power to jail people for up to six months, decided their powers were not enough to deal with the case.Ratteray and Bott are due to be sentenced at Leicester Crown Court later this month.

So, were the magistrates not convinced by the statements made by the defence? According to Facebook, they'd have been right not to be: 

Fighting dogs gonna savage, defence solicitors gonna lie shamelessly. Both are following their nature. Shouldn't the justice system check what they are actually being told told is true?

H/T: Baz via Twitter 

They Can’t, Because The Narrative Is Set

More than 20 scientific experts have written to the UN’s food agency expressing shock at its failure to revise or withdraw a livestock emissions report that two of its cited academics have said contained “multiple and egregious errors”. The alleged inaccuracies are understood to have downplayed the potential of dietary change to reduce agricultural greenhouse gases, which make up about a quarter of total anthropogenic emissions and mostly derive from livestock.

But if they do that, how can they then proceed with the aims of destroying Western agriculture and forcing us all to go vegan? 

One of the signatories to the letter, Jennifer Jacquet, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami, compared the FAO’s complaints process unfavourably with those of a science journal, “where you could at least expect a correction to the article”. The FAO’s “pathways toward lower emissions” study was originally billed as “an updated comprehensive overview” of global livestock emissions and was launched at last December’s Cop28 climate summit. Behrens and Hayek said it inappropriately used their work on now outdated nationally recommended diets (NRDs), double-counted meat emissions, mixed different baseline years in analyses, and omitted the opportunity cost of carbon sequestration on non-farmed land.

It's nice to see some scientists aren't about to let the UN roll over them without a fight. 

MSM Lying To Your Face Again...

Oh noes! A fuully fledged GP? 

Well, Reader, no, actually:

He successfully applied to the Home Office for a highly skilled worker visa to take up a position at an NHS GP surgery in Ilford, east London, called Doctor’s House. The surgery is sponsoring his visa and he began working there on 1 July 2024, as a GP assistant until he completes an exam called PLAB – Professional Linguistics Assessment Board test – that all overseas-qualified doctors must take before they can start to practise as a doctor in the UK.

So he's not yet working as a fully-fledged GP. And maybe never will, if he doesn't qualify. 

Ikram Khan, the practice business manager at Doctor’s House surgery, described the Home Office’s decision as lacking in compassion.

Of course he did... 

Khan said because of Siddiqui’s ability as a doctor and huge amount of experience he had proved to be a big asset for patients.

Only the ones he can talk to? 

“The amount of service Tajwer has been able to provide for our patients has just been incredible. We don’t want to lose him. It would have a terrible impact on the surgery. He is a great asset to the team. But this family cannot be separated. If Tajwer is forced to leave his job here and go back to Pakistan it will be a lose-lose situation for everyone. I understand that ministers want to reduce migration but we thought the new government would be more compassionate than the previous one.”

Stop lying. He cannot be that much of an asset because he's legally unable to work as a GP.  

Siddiqui said: “I’m completely preoccupied by the situation with the visa and am in limbo at the moment.”

And what work he is allowed to do is probably hampered by his preoccupation with getting his family here. 

No, That's Actually 'With The Grain' Of Everything You Did, Kier...

A grieving mother has hit out at Labour's early prisoner release scheme after being told one of her son's killers is to go free – just months after being sentenced.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer yesterday said the decision to release prisoners who have served 40 per cent of their sentence in order to ease overcrowding 'goes against the grain of everything I've ever done', referring to his former role as Chief Prosecutor.

 Absolutely everything he did in his time at the DPP was geared to excusing criminals

The victim was white. The killers were black. As is so very common these days. 

Gordon Gault died after being stabbed during a feud on November 9, 2022 between rival gangs in Newcastle.Eighteen-year-old Lawson Natty, who supplied the machete that killed him, was sentenced to two years and eight months for manslaughter in March.

He had already spent eight-and-a-half months on remand and is to be released in just two weeks under Labour's scheme, meaning he will have served 14 months in total.

All so that there's room to put real dangerous criminals behind bars.  

One Of Those Immigrant Doctors We Are Told Are Needed....

...to prop up the NHS:

Dr Gurkirit Kalkat, 58, called the patient in for an appointment at Thames View Medical Centre in Dagenham, Essex, only to throw himself against the door and begin hitting himself in the chest so he could give a false report to the police. The bewildered patient sat in a chair and looked on as Kalkat shouted: 'Stop hitting me, Ow! This is violence, you're attacking me!', before pressing a panic button to call for help.

Whereupon a receptionist who came to his aid promptly claimed that she had witnessed the assault that never was. 

Police officers were called and took the innocent patient home in handcuffs but the investigation was dropped when Kalkat refused to proceed with a prosecution.

Hand on, why wasn't the doctor and receptionist arrested for wasting police time? 

Inquiries revealed that Kalkat wanted the patient, who had drug issues, struck off the books at his surgery as it was due to be rebranded under a merger with another doctor's practice.

He lied to the patient about having terminal blood cancer to encourage him to register with another GP and even paid out more than £40,000 of his own money to fund rehabilitation treatment. Kalkat was unable to explain why he was paying for the patients treatment out of his own pocket.

Good grief! Even if the actual legal system is seemingly OK with this behaviour, the medical profession had no choice but to deal with it: 

At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester Kalkat of Loughton, Essex was suspended from medical practice for 12 months after he was found guilty of serious professional misconduct. He denied wrongdoing.

That's all? His license should be revoked at the very least!  

Kalkat declined to attend the MPTS hearing and instead filed written submissions via a lawyer claiming it was not 'safe' enough to appear in person due to Patient A's 'volatile' behaviour. The receptionist who was alleged to have witnessed the incident was said to have been 'unavailable or unable' to make a formal statement.

How is neither of them in the dock of a real court? 

The Ones That Didn't Happen...

Holding placards saying “refugees welcome” and “reject racism, try therapy”, people took to the streets in towns and cities nine days after the country was shaken by the fatal stabbing of three girls in Merseyside and the rioting that followed.

Imagine the sort of mindset needed to produce a reaction like that to a horiffic crime? 

Lawyers’ offices shut down, high street shops were boarded up, GP practices closed early and MPs were told to consider working from home as 41 of the 43 local police force areas in England and Wales braced for potential disorder. About 6,000 riot-trained officers were drafted in to tackle the expected rallies and an estimated 30 counter-protests after immigration law firms and refugee centres were listed as potential targets in a far-right chat group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

And they were all played for absolute suckers!  

But by 9pm few far-right protesters were seen at the alleged targeted sites, although counter-protesters remained on the streets. Despite the fears of violence and disorder scarring Britain on a scale not seen since the 2011 riots, in the end counter protestors outnumbered those supporting the far right led protests. In some places counter protestors found that no one else on the other side had turned up.

My Facebook was full of reports rumours that 'EDL youths' with baseball bats on mopeds were roaming the area. That turned out to be a load of bollocks as well, so what next for the immigrant supporters? 

Bottles were thrown at police and objects dragged into the road after around 50 people gathered in the south London borough - but officers said it was 'pure anti-social behaviour' not linked to the protests.

Smaller groups of anti-racism protesters were gathered in backstreets in Sheffield, away from the main counter-demo.

One woman, whose face was obscured, said: ‘We’ve done a good job of scaring them away.’

Ah. Declare victory anyway. What losers. And speaking of losers...

Earlier Nick Lowles, a long standing expert on the British far right, and who now leads Hope Not Hate, told the Guardian that he was sceptical there would be widespread trouble on Wednesday evening.

The expectation was triggered by a list of targets found on social media. Lowles, speaking before this evening said: “I think it’s a hoax, designed to spread fear and panic.”

Well, if anyone should know about 'hoaxes designed to spread panic' it's you, Nick.

Could The Riots Spell The End Of 'Hope Not Hate'..?

Struggling authorities are convinced they are being driven by 'false information on social media':

Chief constable BJ Harrington, the national lead for public order, told the Guardian a range of criminal offences were being investigated, from those committing violence on the streets, to those alleged to be whipping it up: “We are looking at a whole range of stuff. If we find there are people conspiring to commit violence, we will bring charges. “Social media is playing a large part, we are looking at that,” he said, adding it was being used in the “incitement and encouragement”.

He said: “People in foreign countries are putting out disinformation.”

No need to look that far afield, BJ! I wonder when Nick will be nicked?

 

Whoops! 

Couldn't happen to a nicer chap.

The Media Lying To Us Again....

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are displacing healthy diets “all over the world” despite growing evidence of the risks they pose and should be sold with tobacco-style warnings, according to the nutritional scientist who first coined the term.

“UPFs are increasing their share in and domination of global diets, despite the risk they represent to health in terms of increasing the risk of multiple chronic diseases,” Monteiro told the Guardian ahead of the conference in São Paulo. “UPFs are displacing healthier, less processed foods all over the world, and also causing a deterioration in diet quality due to their several harmful attributes. Together, these foods are driving the pandemic of obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes.”

And how does 'The Guardian' choose to illustrate this article? Not with anything any normal person would consider 'food', but rather sweets and snacks: 

Want to see some real ultra-processed foods? Here they are:

Although judging by their continuing presence on the 'yellow sticker' shelves, not enough people are buying it. 

 

Another Police Recruitment Success!

Another triumph for the diversity hiring scheme?

A police officer who lied about being repeatedly attacked by her fictitious ex-boyfriend has been sentenced. Nadia Thurley, 29, a probationary officer with Hampshire police, alleged she had been assaulted 14 times over a seven-month period.

Thurley, who has complex post-traumatic stress disorder, denied perverting the course of justice but was found guilty after a trial.

I'm sooooo tired of seeing 'PTSD' used as an excuse for everything, especially when it's someone who have never been in a war.  

H/T: Insp Gadget via Twitter