https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfphvyAtQ-m/
"I CAN'T BE ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO RAPE A 14 YEAR OLD BECAUSE OF MY RELIGION"
They even know that our justice system is 2 tier !! 😡😡
11/12/2026, 1 engagement
HebrideanUltraTerfHecate
59 year old Hebridean Rad, walked this path since I was 13, you won't get me off it now! Has passion for unsuitable swishy coats, poetry and books, lots and lots of books, and cats, musn't forget the cats. Is known as Esme Weatherwax for a reason.
Creag an Sgairbh
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
"idiot smirk" is right, especially when it gets repeatedly stuck on corners, and yes, I have kicked it downstairs.
https://unherd.com/2026/11/why-the-future-is-henry-the-hoover/
The Dyson represents technological advance for its own sake: expensive products of highly sophisticated engineering, produced at the end of long supply chains in the Far East. The brand increasingly incorporates robotics and AI at every stage from manufacture to consumer use, with online apps for software updates and user personalization. You would not, however, risk kicking it down the stairs. On the other hand, the cheap and needlessly cheerful Henry, as any builder or renovator knows, will accept any amount of punishment with its trademark idiot smirk. Originally designed to clean out commercial boilers, the Henry is a second-order product of Britain’s lost age of heavy industry, still assembled by hand in a Somerset factory. It does one job, sucking up dirt and dust, and does it as well as it needs to do, without communicating its performance, or user data, or its first flickering doubts and anxieties of consciousness, to distant data centres. When it comes to it, I don’t need my hoover to decide what to clean, or how to do so most efficiently, or act as a high-performance showcase for innovation, but just to perform a simple task, well and reliably. It is more reliable, more robust, simply, because it is less complex. If only the British state were a Henry, we would all be in a much better place.
For there is, we are reminded by the barrage of warnings on domestic preparedness for some dread coming event issued by the state with increasing regularity, really only so much we can do, as individuals or households, when presented with the sudden breakdown of complex systems. It is often, rightly, said of much of modern environmentalism that it places the burden of responsibility on the individual consumer, and not on the giant corporations and national governments most culpable for ecological harms, and most capable of resolving them. What is the point, I ask myself weekly, of carefully sorting and separating my household rubbish and trundling it to the street for collection when I know that the likelihood is that it will end up on the far end of the world to be flung haphazardly in a river?
We would all be much safer if they saw themselves as a Henry, reliably and capably performing the basic functions we demand of it, and left the rest to us. But as it stands, and the Government tells us what to stockpile, and warns us in panicked voices not to panic, a level of unnecessary complexity has been added to something that is, at core, extremely simple: keep the lights on, keep the water running, keep the country safe. If the British state is not confident it can do so, then what is it for?
11/12/2026, 2 engagements
https://unherd.com/2026/11/the-war-against-michel-houellebecq/
Michel Houellebecq is in trouble again. Prosecuted in 2002 for insulting Islam, he was acquitted. After Soumission, the novel many of his devotees — of whom I am one — felt was his masterpiece, he had to go into hiding for a time for once more being less than complimentary about Islam. Now, after four years of procedural table-tennis, he is accused of complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a specific group of people, in an interview with the magazine Front Populaire, given in 2022. Houellebecq’s original alleged offence in 2002 was to call Islam “the stupidest religion”: he doesn’t do understatement or subtlety. This time the remark that threatens to get him into trouble is that “when entire territories come under Islamist control, I think acts of resistance will take place. There will be attacks and shootings in mosques, in cafés frequented by Muslims, in short, Bataclans in reverse,” he said, referring to the murderous Islamist attack in Paris in November 2015.
But this prosecution of Houellebecq provokes concerns that go far beyond freedom of expression. In just over 30 years as a novelist writing mainly about the misery of bourgeois French life, he has lifted up a number of stones and allowed some pretty unsavoury things to crawl out from under them. In no particular order these include sex tourism, paedophilia, mental illness, rampant narcissism, family breakdown, betrayal, social alienation, self-hatred, nihilism, prostitution and, inevitably, racism. But then anyone who understands what French society is really like will find none of this surprising. It is not the mark of a happy country when the two people most likely to end up competing in the final round of next year’s presidential elections are Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
But then French writers have often courted trouble for displaying radicalism or for perceived insult. Molière scandalized polite society with Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Flaubert was rude about Norman peasants (and the middle class) in Bouvard et Pécuchet and quite shocking in Madame Bovary; Zola was prosecuted for criminal libel over J’Accuse; Céline was fascist but still one of the most glittering writers in the French canon. Houellebecq has long been in a distinguished Gallic tradition of saying the unsayable, but saying it beautifully; all that is shocking is that a feeble and gutless French state is once more trying to punish him for it.
11/12/2026, 2 engagements
https://thecritic.co.uk/why-national-service-is-a-terrible-idea/
In particular, entry level opportunities in the work force have been snuffed out by the mono-mania of successive governments for encouraging low-skilled immigration above any and every other policy priority. The graduate visa and the option of in-country visa switching has seen a huge swathe of low or semi-skilled employment categories swamped by people from overseas, with the hiring decisions often outsourced to agencies aimed at immigrants who are looking to justify their presence in Britain. This is about to be exacerbated even further by the Government’s EU youth mobility scheme.
Rather than addressing these issues, or the thorny question of pay compression, a new national service scheme would act as yet another disincentive for sectors such as social care to address the factors that make them undesirable to those with a genuine calling and the right skills and attitudes. It will interrupt the lives of young people who have got a clear idea of where they want to be going, and will almost certainly do little to help those who really do require some intervention. And coming from the likes of Rishi Sunak, it represents a nauseating misallocation of responsibility for the problems we face.
11/12/2026, 2 engagements
https://thecritic.co.uk/cut-the-quangos/
It is therefore astonishing that, as Policy Exchange’s report, Mapping the Quangos painstakingly documents, the British State has chosen to outsource so much of the business of government into over 300 arm’s-length bodies with minimal accountability. These entities, collectively, have extensive powers to regulate the lives of businesses and individuals and spend hundreds of billions of pounds a year, yet they face no market discipline, no accountability at the ballot box and minimal consequences for failure. What accountability methods that do exist are weak, toothless and rarely used. The result has been a public sector that has increasingly lost its way. £700 million for “fish discos” at our new nuclear power station, a hundred thousand homes blocked for “nutrient neutrality”, an ever growing flurry of paperwork that smothers our high streets and financial services. Regulation increases steadily without consideration for the cost to business — or the impact on frontline public services. Even more significant than the costs is the outsourcing of decision-making. Quangos have repeatedly behaved in ways entirely at odds with the broader views of the country – such as when the Sentencing Council sought to impose two-tier sentencing guidelines with differential treatment based on a criminal’s ethnicity, only conceding the point when the Justice Secretary introduced primary legislation.
The outsourcing of decisions to arm’s-length bodies places a profound strain upon our democracy. Voters see manifesto promises go undelivered, or Ministers protesting they can do nothing about issues of concern and conclude that their votes do not matter. In such an environment, voters are increasingly likely to turn to populist parties, of both the left and the right. When people come to believe there is no possibility of change within the system, they begin to wonder whether it might not be better to smash it down. Yet as we have now seen in multiple countries, while populists may at times be right about the diagnosis, they have a mixed record when it comes to administering the cure.
11/12/2026, 2 engagements
https://thecritic.co.uk/telling-the-truth-on-sex-and-gender/
Publishing is awash with books “explaining” why noticing sex is binary is biological essentialism, puberty is assigned at birth, no one had sex categories before colonialism and any male advantage in sport simply isn’t proven yet. It can be harder to argue against this kind of thing than against something which isn’t total bollocks. You can’t just say “that’s total bollocks” (believe me, I have tried). When something sounds completely mad and counter-intuitive — and especially when challenging it might lead to ostracism — people have a tendency to decide they must have missed something. With gender identity ideology, too many people in positions of power have been persuaded not to worry about the detail (or about human females, that passé, wrong-side-of history category). As Sullivan recounts, they were warned that “losing data on sex would affect the ability of scientists and policymakers to analyse and tackle questions such as life expectancy, fertility, childcare, pay and pensions”, but went along with it anyways, accepting “an analogy between gay rights and trans rights in place of evidence regarding the likely effects of removing sex as a dimension of policy in different domains”. How does one get through to such people, now that things have gone so far?
There is an urgency to this. “Once we abandon truth-seeking norms,” writes Sullivan, “all that is left is power.” The left’s untruths about sex being undefinable have created a space for the right to define sex in accordance with their own untruths. As trans activists’ power to bully and confuse people into accepting lies about sex and gender fades, other lies may rush in to take their place. If widespread institutional denial can spread regarding something so unquestionably real as sex difference, why not about something else? What damage has been done to our relationship to truth? Even if you don’t care about women, you should care about this. The threat to science and democracy is real. I only wish we were making this up.
11/12/2026, 2 engagements
🙄 https://thecritic.co.uk/evensong-at-southwell/
The reparations fund is Project Spire, a proposal to spend £100M over four years — a figure five times the total repairs Southwell needs. The proposal has come in for heavy criticism, not least Katie Lam, MP for the Weald of Kent and Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. “It is extraordinary that, while historic cathedrals such as Southwell Minster face the very real prospect of having to close their doors, Church of England Commissioners are pressing ahead with their divisive and ahistorical multi-million-pound Project Spire plan.” “The Church describes this as ‘impact investing’, but that is a thin cover for what is, in effect, slavery reparations.” “The Church should be prioritising its cathedrals, parishes, and congregations, not funneling millions into an ideologically motivated political agenda, while national heritage buildings are left fighting for survival.” A legal challenge has been launched against Project Spire by the Rev. Dr. Jamie Franklin, who explained why last month in The Critic. His co-ligitigant in the case is Dr. Bijan Omrani, author of God is an Englishman and Critic contributor, who was outraged by the news:
“How can the Church Commissioners in good conscience spend £100m intended by law for the support of priests, parishes, cathedrals, the cure of souls, on vague NGOs, some overseas, that are nothing to do with their Christian mission, and which have no verifiable connection to whatever the historical impact of slavery might have been (with which the Church Commissioners have been unable to show that they have had any clear and direct connection). It is right that a managerial cadre of international quangocrats are offered the church’s historical endowments whilst choirs are dissolved, cathedrals crumble, and the poor and marginalised here – some of whom might actually have been descended from slaves – are sent empty away?”
11/12/2026, 2 engagements
Cows, by the way, never fuck with the boss cow.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dfg9rMpNV7E/?hl=en
Being chased by a Highland coo. Boss girl Tara knows I’ve got snacks. This is the only way we can get our girls to come in for their health check.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/Dejm9QaNkh7/?hl=en
What do you do when a 1 ton Highland bull is charging towards you? We like our bulls to be very mobile and Cameron Vom Sunderberg demonstrates this perfectly here. Thankfully he’s very quiet and is just looking for a scratch behind his ears
11/12/2026, 1 engagement
Govts needs the money to waste on more tranny and DEI shite instead.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6wydxxg8eexo
Parents expressed concern about the impact on struggling families, while the National Farmers Union (NFU) Cymru said ending the scheme would be "extremely disappointing".
"We should be encouraging children to understand and value the food produced in Wales, not removing opportunities for them to experience it," said NFU Cymru president Abi Reader.
"Education about where our food comes from, how it is produced and the role farmers play in putting food on our tables is important from a young age."
The free school milk initiative dates back to the early part of the 20th Century, and there have been a number of schemes delivering it in various forms over the years.
The Nursery Milk scheme, which allowed children to receive 189ml, or a third of a pint of milk, free each day dates back to the Labour government of 1946.
11/12/2026, 1 engagement
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/world-news/school-bomb-hoax-email-traced-37869166
According to the Italian news agency ANSA, the email was sent from an account at Dayeh University, a private university in Taiwan. The account displayed the name "Liu Fang-chun" (劉芳君) in traditional Chinese characters. Focus Taiwan said an investigation by the university found that a former student's email account had sent a large number of emails and appeared to have been hacked. The account has now been suspended.
11/12/2026, 1 engagement
A woman had to be helped to her feet after she was beaten with a cane for a public display of affection under an Indonesian province's strict Sharia laws. The unnamed woman was among six people subjected to public flogging on Thursday in Aceh, the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia to administer Islamic law. Four people were punished for engaging in intimate public displays of affection, while another two were flogged for gambling. The number of lashes administered ranged from nine to 22. Images captured today showed a woman dressed in white on her knees and grimacing in pain as she was lashed by a hooded 'alogojo', or flogger. Later images showed the same woman being helped off the ground. Separately, a man was seen wincing as he was struck by a wooden rod.
Under Sharia law, the mixing of men and women who are unrelated is strictly forbidden. Caning in Aceh is used to punish a wide range of offences, including gambling, drinking alcohol, homosexual acts and having sexual relations outside of marriage. In August, a woman became the first person to be publicly caned in Aceh for 'committing obscenity live with a man on social media'.
11/12/2026, 3 engagements
Graham King, founder of Clearsprings, has reportedly amassed a personal fortune of over £1 BILLION.
The company’s reported financial figures are staggering:
£1.2 BILLION in annual turnover £37.7 MILLION in annual after-tax profit £3.5 MILLION in revenue every single day Almost 30,000 asylum seekers accommodated
But that’s not all.
Reports have also highlighted over £60 MILLION in personal cash earnings through share buybacks and millions in payments to a related consultancy. Clearsprings was awarded government contracts originally valued at almost £1 BILLION. So while ordinary British taxpayers foot the bill, private contractors are making enormous sums from the asylum accommodation system.
11/12/2026, 2 engagements
Muramatsu, a former special-needs school teacher who was first elected in 2023, announced the complaint on her X earlier this week, linking to a local news article detailing that Gifu-based LGBTQ+ activist organization submitted a formal request to the council chairperson alleging that her X posts were transphobic. The organization wants the council to establish the circumstances surrounding the comments and determine whether they violated its political ethics regulations. The posts brought to the attention of the council were related to a trans-identified male named Sessai Tanaka, a professional activist from Gifu Prefecture who began identifying as a “woman” around age 60. Now 79, he is known for regularly wearing miniskirts while giving lectures to university and nursing students about LGBTQ+ issues. Tanaka has also been invited to give lectures at women’s institutions, such as the Ogaki Women’s College, where he reportedly spoke about fashion and makeup.
In addition to using the courts to seek financial compensation, Kotomi has also sought criminal penalties for those he accuses of “offending” his gender identity. One case involved a Taiwanese man in his forties whom Kotomi claimed had been convicted of spreading “false rumors” and insulting him on social media. According to Kotomi’s own account, he received a four-month prison sentence and was ordered to pay approximately ¥ 700,000 (approx. $4,300 USD) in civil compensation.
11/12/2026, 4 engagements
West Mercia Police are appealing for witnesses following the attempted rape of a 13-year-old girl in Nunnery Wood, Worcester, on Tuesday, 10 November 2026. The assault took place at approximately 8:15 am while the victim was walking to school along a footpath between Worcestershire Royal Hospital car park and Nunnery Wood High School.
The Incident. An unknown male approached the girl in the woods and forced her further into the trees before sexually assaulting her. She managed to escape and alert a dog walker, who contacted the police.
Suspect Description. Police are searching for a mixed-race or Asian teenager, believed to be aged between 16 and 18. He was wearing all-black clothing at the time of the attack, and police do not believe he was known to the victim.
11/12/2026, 2 engagements
Two migrants jailed for 15 years each after raping intoxicated 17-year-old girl at Manchester Airbnb party.
• Hadi Khangheshlaghi, 25, and Armin Takhfifi, 26, were found guilty of two counts of rape each. They barricaded the victim in a room at an Airbnb party in 2019, where she was intoxicated with alcohol and cannabis.
• The court heard they filmed the assault, laughed, called her names, pulled her hair and treated her as an object while she cried. Her friend entered the room twice, and the attack resumed after the first interruption. The victim was seen on CCTV leaving the building shaking and crying.
• Judge Tom Gilbart sentenced both to 15 years at Manchester Crown Court. He described it as a humiliating and degrading experience that caused severe psychological harm.
• Both are foreign nationals with indefinite leave to remain but not UK citizens, so they may be liable for automatic deportation upon release.
11/12/2026, 1 engagement
The words close your impudent mouth and do what I told you to do work wonders too. Brainwashed muppets.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c962y743y458o
With claims of gaslighting, triggering and disrespecting boundaries, some parents are struggling to understand their teenagers' so-called therapy speak. When Carla Hoskins asks her 15 and 18-year-old sons to revise or do chores at their Hertfordshire home, she says she is sometimes met with: "You're triggering me!" Over in the US, Shannon Salvatoriello says her 14 and 17-year-old sons use similar words, which she says leaves her "feeling very confused". Mental health experts in the UK and US tell the BBC why young people are using terms often heard during therapy sessions in everyday conversation - and give parents tips on how to better understand their teenagers. Mum-of-six Carla says she is sometimes accused of gaslighting by her eldest teen sons - particularly when she asks about friends or school work. "I feel like any time you challenge them or request something is when you come up against this new language," says the 39-year-old. "Rather than just saying, 'Mum, I'm stressed about my exams' or 'I've got a lot on my plate', it's I'm triggering them." She adds: "You can't really ever get to the bottom of anything."
New York psychiatrist Dr Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell agrees this is one of the ways therapy speak has spread to everyday language. She has observed a shift in the way young people talk about their problems - from describing their feelings to giving them labels, she tells BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. "They would say, 'I'm not getting along with my mum'... 'School has gotten really challenging and I'm feeling kind of bad about myself', and then suddenly it was, 'I have attachment issues, ADHD, and depression'." Julia Samuel, a psychotherapist from London, warns young people using medical terms such as anxiety disorder to describe "normal feelings like mild distress" can create a pattern of behaviour and emotions that result in them developing a disorder. "It can give them the very thing they don't want," she explains. "It's the lack of knowledge and the overuse of the terms that can actually harm young people."
11/12/2026, 1 engagement
Every single one of them needs closed down as far as I'm concerned, misogynistic how to beat your wife and we will marry off your child daughter for you hell holes.
An Islamic centre that was given an official warning for hosting "inflammatory, divisive" sermons by the charities regulator is seeking legal advice.
11/12/2026, 1 engagement
JK Rowling has attacked Labour's trans conversion law for 'usurping' the role of parents in children's lives.
The Harry Potter author shared a post on X claiming the new legislation, which outlaws abusive attempts to change people's sexuality or gender identity, could also threaten gay rights.
Critics fear the bill will have a similar effect to Section 28 of the Local Government Act – that banned the 'intentional promotion of homosexuality' – as teachers will be prevented from suggesting children may be happier growing up gay, rather than transgender.
11/11/2026, 3 engagements
https://unherd.com/newsroom/labours-crackdown-on-vinted-and-ebay-has-a-sinister-motive/
And so it proved: Ofcom is now suggesting that, from next March, no one in Britain should be allowed to post on social media without first showing some form of ID linked to their real identity. We’re told that this is all just about keeping 15-year-olds safe from “online harms”. But given that UK police already make 30 arrests a day for online posts, the prospect of the Government forcing every social media poster to link their account to an official ID takes on a more sinister aspect. Labour has now announced further “child protection” restrictions that will likely mandate ID, and this time the measure is targeted at saving teenagers not from mean tweets but instead the comically non existent threat of “grooming” via websites such as eBay and Vinted. The pretext couldn’t be more transparent. Labour might say it’s about child protection, but wouldn’t it also be handy for the digitally-enabled trade in second-hand stuff to be compulsorily linked to individuals’ official identities? A happy by-product of keeping teenagers safe from the imaginary menace of eBay nonces would then be a new capacity to nobble anyone suspected of dodging any amount of tax, however incremental.
Instead of rolling out ever more intrusive surveillance measures, disguised as youth safety, Labour might instead turn its attention to the enormous, growing, submerged economy of people in Britain who ignore the tax regime entirely. Or, even better, ministers might do something about the ever-widening gulf between the amount of tax British citizens are able or willing to pay, and the amount of our money our addict government insists it can’t stop spending.
11/11/2026, 3 engagements
https://thecritic.co.uk/young-people-have-become-social-media-scapegoats/
For the government, it seems increasingly clear that this all represents a slow drift towards digital authoritarianism. Lisa Nandy has already said that a ban on social media for under-16s is a “staging post” to what “must be a very active interventionist state, policing and regulating the online space so that people are safe”. Mandatory ID checks and the banning of anonymous social media presences loom on the horizon. For the rest of us, I think young people are becoming scapegoats. We know that social media has become unhealthy. We know it’s full of gross porn and snuff videos. We know that endless scrolling is wasting our time and lowering our mood.Of course, I don’t deny that such things are especially toxic for the growing minds of the young. But I think that there is some extent to which we focus on young people’s use of smartphones and social media to distract ourselves from our own unhealthy habits. We’re too lazy and dispirited to put our phones down and improve ourselves. So, we imagine that if we kick young people offline, they will read, exercise, commit to charitable endeavours et cetera. It’s a kind of moral outsourcing. Their improvement will purge us of our sins. One problem is that I’m not sure young people will do this. Some of them will find workarounds, because young people tend to have more digital literacy than politicians. Others will just be bored and resentful, especially if regulations have excluded them not just from social media platforms but from platforms for consuming music, videos, games et cetera.
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwp831j6g4dvo
A serial criminal has admitted killing a woman in a street attack in Glasgow.
James Paita stabbed 40-year-old Sandie Butler, from Perthshire, in the chest during the attack in the city's Townhead area on 29 October 2024. The 42-year-old then fled the scene and left onlookers to call for help, but the mother-of-three never recovered. Paita had been due to stand trial for murder at the High Court in Glasgow, but he instead pled guilty to the reduced charge of culpable homicide.
It emerged Paita already had a string of convictions including for violence, weapons, disorder, drugs and breaching bail.
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
This shoplifting shit is seriously pissing me off 😒
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx4g1gy0nne8o
The owner of a pick and mix shop in East Sussex has said she moved premises because staff felt "very unsafe" due to ongoing thefts. Alison Nicholls, who owns the Rainbows Sweet Shop in Hastings, said "even kids" were stealing after seeing videos of people 'taking whatever they want" from shops. She added that people would still come to the new location for a "bit of five-finger discount", though staff were much happier there.
"We give good customer service [and] welcome everybody, Nicholls told the BBC. "It's really upsetting and offends me [that people steal from us]. "They seem to think they're not doing anybody any harm."
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
🙄 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c95y15830k77o
Author Chloe Combi has said she had heard rumours that there were "real concerns" about David Walliams's behaviour within the publishing industry more than a decade ago.
Combi told BBC News she had heard there were allegations about his "behaviour around young female staff" and says she was told in 2015 to warn schools that he was "not an appropriate booking".
11/11/2026, 3 engagements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cr742jqd0pzqo
The display, at the Buchanan Street steps, aims to raise awareness and challenge misconceptions about who is at risk of rape and sexual violence, and features testimonials from survivors.
Some of the items, which include children’s clothing and those from elderly women, have been donated by women and girls in the city and surrounding areas, some of whom have experienced sexual crimes themselves.
11/11/2026, 4 engagements
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfktPCzOp6e/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&cplk=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Six musicians, three Arabs and three Jews, played a concert at the British Library in London tonight. Their ensemble is called Shesh Besh, it has existed for more than two decades, and it runs a school program in Israel where Arab children learn Jewish songs and Jewish children learn Arab songs. Outside, a crowd chanted “British Library, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.”
The protest was called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the group behind the large London marches of the past three years. It knew who was on stage, because its own statement describes them as “a Palestinian-Jewish ensemble.” It protested them anyway, under the slogan “No Genocide Orchestra.” This is the movement that says all it wants is for Arabs and Jews to live together as equals. Tonight it got to see what that looks like, with an Arab oud player and a Jewish flutist on the same stage, and it accused a library of genocide for giving them a room. The boycott movement has a rule for this. Its guidelines say that bringing Palestinians and Jews together “on the same platform” is “normalization,” and that it should be boycotted. When a movement’s rulebook lists Arabs and Jews making music together as the offense, you should believe the rulebook over the slogans. They never wanted peace.
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
An asylum seeker who committed a sex crime against two girls just days after he entered the country by small boat has been jailed for six years. Mohammed Abbas, 29, who says he is Palestinian, previously pleaded guilty to burglary, trespass on a premises with intent to commit a sexual offence, and two counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.
At the time of his crimes, Abbas was living in taxpayer-funded accommodation provided by the Home Office after arriving on a dinghy from France in March. Cardiff Crown Court heard on Tuesday how Abbas broke into a family home in the early hours of the morning and entered the bedroom of three girls. Judge Lucy Crowther, sentencing, said the asylum seeker posed a "real and imminent" threat to women and girls as she sentenced him to six years in prison with an extended licence period of three years. At around 2am, one of the girls noticed Abbas in the "corner of the room", the court heard. The girl began to scream, waking her sisters, one of whom said she saw Abbas briefly leave the room. The judge said: "When you came back in, you undid your trousers and exposed your penis. "You must have realised then that these were all young women.
11/11/2026, 4 engagements
The shite re the school bomb hoaxes, honestly, someone needs to send these eejits down a salt mine, makes them do some work for a change. Needs enlarging.
11/11/2026, 1 engagement
Says the woman who tried to push the grooming gangs issue under the rug, and told the women assaulted in Cologne it was nothing, such a two faced maggot.
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwm242plggldo
Plans by the Prince of Wales to sell off up to 20% of the Duchy of Cornwall could see more tenant farmers across England asked to buy their farms or move out. Up to 40 farm holdings across Devon, Cornwall, Herefordshire and the Midlands could be affected by the sale, according to the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA). Locals say talks over the future of nine farms on the Bradninch estate in Devon have already caused "distress" for some tenants who fear they cannot afford to buy. A spokeswoman said the Duchy could not confirm the total number of tenants affected by the ten-year sale plan , externalbut told the BBC the estate was "supporting them through the process with care and respect".
Former GP Mary Ryan, a local Lib Dem councillor who has lived near the Bradninch estate for around 35 years and is supporting the farmers, said some of those affected were "experiencing enormous mental and emotional distress" as a result of the planned sell-off. She added that while the Duchy had reportedly apologised to tenants last month, the handling of the process had been "pretty dire".
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cke89dv94m2no
A coroner investigating the deaths of former patients of the jailed surgeon Ian Paterson has opened a 74th inquest. Olive Corbett died aged 93 at a nursing home in Solihull in 2006, after breast cancer spread to her lungs. Her family has not yet been traced by the inquest team.
Judge Richard Foster is examining the deaths of some of Paterson's former patients to determine whether or not they died an unnatural death as a result of his care and treatment. Paterson was jailed for 20 years in 2017 for 17 charges of wounding with intent and three of unlawful wounding, for carrying out botched and unnecessary operations. Last week, it was revealed that West Midlands Police were investigating the death of one of Paterson's former patients, Joan Green from Staffordshire. It is the first death of one of his patients that the force is investigating, with police confirming it was the first case that had been referred to them by Foster.
Paterson is due to be released next May, at the mid-way point of his sentence and before the inquests into his former patients are due to conclude.
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
There is no excuse for this, I have no clue what in the hell is going on out there now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmvg2d55j02jo
The sisters have submitted a complaint to the NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), which oversees and commissions services from UHMBT.
Gundy said in the week leading up to their mother's death, she and her sisters were told funding was in place for the agreed palliative care, but the package was still out to tender.
Nurses came out three days before her passing to fit a catheter, but Gundy said they had failed to pick up that her mother was close to death.
She said: "They told my sister that we'll know when she's dying. My sister was crying saying, 'She's dying now. I know she's dying.'
"And they walked out the door and that was the last time we had a nurse."
11/11/2026, 1 engagement
Millions wasted on shite though.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ewewgvxj1xo
Morrison and his fellow Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart, who represents nearby Hazel Grove, recently had a "behind the scenes" tour of the hospital. They were shown corridors with ceilings held up by scaffolding and buckets catching rainwater from leaking roofs. "What I've seen is just horrific actually," said Morrison. "This hospital has been badly let down by successive governments and it's time for this government to start acting." Smart added: "Patients are being let down. Staff are not able to give the amazing care that we know they give because the government is not funding the new buildings which would cost far less to run. "And that's what we're calling on the government to deliver."
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
Wonder if these arsehole young women in America who are cosplaying Islam at the moment are on board, I think they should be faced with the full experience myself.
A Kenyan mother in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 100 lashes as a punishment for giving birth outside of marriage, according to a report. Esther Wanja Muthoni, 40, was employed as a domestic worker serving as a housekeeper and nanny for a family in Saudi Arabia. During this time, she is reported to have become pregnant during a brief relationship with an Egyptian man who has since left the country. Her case came to light after she was taken to hospital and her condition was discovered. She was then detained and questioned by police. Ms Muthoni has spent more than a year trying to return home with her one-year-old son Abudy, but has been blocked at every turn, according to the New York Times. “I am so afraid,” she said in an interview last month. “I don’t think I can endure those lashes.”
Sex outside of marriage is illegal in Saudi Arabia, which rights groups say disproportionately affects women who can then become pregnant from the encounters. The situation is especially precarious for migrant workers from African countries including Kenya. The Times reports that hundreds of Kenyan women have been beaten and countless others raped and beaten during their employment in the country. Rights groups have condemned the action. Maryam Aldossari, acting director of the UK-based ALQST organisation, said that the punishment is an act of violence and that Ms Muthoni should be allowed to return home. She said that Saudi rulers have been “trying to show the world that Saudi is becoming a modern country that empowers women, yet we see the court sentence a mother to 100 lashes.” Ms Muthoni is said not to have been allowed to return to staff housing after giving birth and was left living in a petrol station that became a gathering spot for mothers who hoped to be deported with their children.
She was then provided with housing after media coverage, but was told she could not leave the country while her case was pending. She said that she had been provided with a translator but was not given a lawyer to represent herself, and court documents seen by the Times are said to corroborate this. Usually defendants in criminal cases are entitled to state-sponsored lawyers. The punishment for women involves being seated and clothed while lashed across the body with a bamboo stick.
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwx282zrlyrgo
"My darling girl, you are everything to me..."
Those words were written by Gunner Willie Webber to his wife Gladys from the battlefields of World War One. The newly-weds, who were married at St Edward's Church in Knighton, Powys, in December 1917, had very little time together as Willie - a gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery's 297th Siege Battery - was serving on the Western Front. He was killed just weeks before the Armistice in 1918. More than a century later, Willie's letters have inspired an extraordinary act of remembrance by the community - thanks to the efforts of two strangers who refused to let the couple's love story be forgotten. The bundle of 100 letters, dated from December 1917 to October 1918, chart a love story unfolding against the backdrop of war.
After briefly returning home injured and marrying Gladys in late 1917, Willie went back to the front line in France. He sent his new wife pressed flowers and affectionate messages, signing off: "Your own true hubby & loving sweetheart. Willie." Willie wrote regularly and his letters are filled with hopes and dreams for the future. But the reunion he longed for never came. Just four weeks before the Armistice, in October 1918, the young soldier was killed in an accident when his gun backfired. He was 25 years old. The couple had no children, no direct descendants and, as time passed, nobody left to tell their story. Their story could so easily have ended there. Instead, those letters triggered a remarkable act of remembrance more than a century later. In 2025, the collection of love letters was put up for sale at an online auction.
Among those following the auction was Andy Garner, a mechanic from Norwich, who collects, transcribes and self-publishes wartime letters - ensuring the people in them are not lost to history. When he came across Willie and Gladys' correspondence, he was determined to save it.
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
Just had a phone call from himself to say be home soon, now Highland schools have been targeted by these bomb hoaxes, they are obliged to close though, even though they know it's horse piss. Besides, even if they officially find out it is it is too late, given the rural nature the buses have been called and can't go back, so the kids are all quite pleased!
I wonder who is behind it, been a few round the country now.
11/11/2026, 2 engagements
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/11/10/the-disintegration-of-britains-border-is-complete/
Monday’s story in The Times found that, in June last year, there were 20,000 foreign offenders living among us in the UK. This included nearly 1,500 Jamaican and Nigerian nationals, of whom only 61 had been deported in the previous year – a rate of below five per cent. In fact, the statistics show that there is very little chance of any foreign offender being deported unless they hail from an EU country. Even then, they have a better chance of remaining than being forced to leave. Yet surely the most depressing aspect of this story is how remotely unsurprising it is. We are no longer shocked by cases like those of Radiet Meles. This is the Eritrean national who smuggled himself into England in the back of a lorry in 2015, when he was 24. Three years later, he raped an unconscious woman in Newport, Wales. Despite being told by his sentencing judge in 2019 that he would be deported after his prison term, Meles was released back into the community and ignored by the authorities. In March, he raped another woman. He will be sentenced in November.
The same applies to the crimes of Gift Oladele. No one appears to know how or when Oladele, a Nigerian, arrived in Britain. What we do know is that he was jailed for a sexual offence in 2022. In this case, the Home Office at least tried to deport him – only it was thwarted on human-rights grounds. So Oladele was at large to rape a woman in Wrexham in September last year, a crime for which he was sentenced to 17 years prison in April. There is a reason these cases no longer spark as much outrage as they once might have done. It is because the British public has been worn out by attrition. There can only be some many cases of rape and murder, and so many instances of government failure and dishonesty, before people eventually begin to shut their eyes and block their ears.
11/10/2026, 3 engagements
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/11/10/islamists-have-berlins-politicians-in-their-grip/
In November 2024, Berlin’s police chief made headlines when she said: ‘There are parts of Berlin where I would advise people wearing a kippah, or who are openly gay or lesbian, to be more alert. In certain districts there is a majority of Arabs who sympathise with terror groups and hate Jews.’ Two years later, Eralp, the person aspiring to the leadership of Berlin and authority over its police, is too frightened to name those who pose a threat to gay and Jewish people.
It is hard not to see how her bid for the mayoralty could drive Berlin deeper into crisis, much like a city slipping into the grip of the mafia. What better way to embolden radical elements than to let the world know that you are terrified of them?
11/10/2026, 3 engagements
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/11/10/keep-men-out-of-the-hampstead-ladies-pond/
Last year, the UK Supreme Court made it clear that ‘sex’, ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in the Equality Act refer to biological sex. Which should have settled who gets to swim where. But the City of London Corporation, which runs the Hampstead ponds, appears to think it can carry on pretending the word ‘woman’ means whatever you want it to mean. It’s now defending its admissions policy in a court case brought by the human-rights charity Sex Matters. The media coverage doesn’t help. In January, the High Court refused Sex Matters permission to bring its challenge on procedural grounds. The Telegraph’s headline was ‘Trans swimmers can use Hampstead ladies’ pond’. The BBC and the Evening Standard framed the case as a challenge to ‘transgender access’ to the ponds.
Read those headlines and you might think it was about keeping trans people out of all three Hampstead ponds – not simply ensuring women have a pond of their own.
11/10/2026, 3 engagements
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-slow-return-of-blasphemy-laws/
The case of women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker (Kellie-Jay Keen). Last month, she was charged with a criminal offence under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003. According to the FSU (who are defending Parker), she was charged “over posts criticising Islam, Muslim cultural practices and Islamism”. Both the Gray and Parker cases illustrate the wider impact police intervention can have on matters of free speech. The question is not simply whether someone is ultimately convicted, or not, but whether the prospect of investigation, reputational damage and legal costs is enough to deter others from speaking up — the chilling effect on free speech. Meanwhile, satirical posts and depictions of Jesus Christ or Hindu deities such as Ganesh or Hanuman will likely remain fair game, with little reason to lose sleep over the consequences. When did you last hear of a knock at the door for mocking the Messiah or the Virgin Mary? For Dr Benjamin Jones, Director of Case Management at the FSU, the defining free-speech question of our generation is whether we are free to criticise Islam. “So far, the state’s answer is an emphatic ‘no’,” he told me.
Jones says that, since Labour came to power, the number of people seeking the FSU’s help after getting into trouble over comments about Islam or Muslim cultural practices has risen fourfold. “We’ve had the state, in the form of the Crown Prosecution Service, attempt to charge a man for causing ‘harassment, alarm or distress’ to what it called ‘the religious institution of Islam’,” he said. Of course, it’s not only the risk of criminal prosecution or the risk of being cancelled. There is also risk to life and limb. Take the Batley Grammar school teacher. Years on, he and his family remain in hiding — and a false accusation of “blasphemy” cost Samuel Paty, a French school teacher his life in 2000. Paty was beheaded. Like teachers, academics are also on the front line.
11/10/2026, 4 engagements
https://thecritic.co.uk/revealed-two-small-boat-migrants-for-every-british-soldier/
We can all see law and order in Britain is eroding — rapidly in many areas. It is bad enough that the government has given up even pretending to protect our borders, but we have reached a point where the flow of people making their way here illegally by small boat has now threatens national security. In the year ending June 2026, over 80% of people crossing the Channel were male and 75%aged between 18 and 39 (so-called “military age men”). Almost none have been vetted; many go on to commit heinous crimes. Rob Bates, of the Centre for Migration Control, has found Ministry of Justice data show Afghan nationals are 22 times more likely to be convicted and imprisoned than UK citizens. And in 2023, The Daily Mail reported nineteen suspected terrorists, affiliated with groups including the Islamic State and al-Shabaab, had entered Britain by crossing the Channel in small boats. Perhaps most alarmingly, the Iranian regime boasts it is using our porous Channel border to plant its agents into Britain.
In one breath, we are warned that the country must prepare for war, catastrophe and cataclysm. In the other, our politicians tell us there is nothing we can do to stop tens of thousands of dangerous unvetted men entering Britain illegally, and therefore they must be put up (at vast cost to the taxpayer) as they await decisions on asylum claims. How does this keep us safe? The government boasts the Defence Investment Plan will see almost £300 billion in military spending by 2030. But how much of money will be spent addressing from the more immediate internal threats that are being allowed to fester, because our government is incapable, or unwilling, to remove migrants with no right to be here? Meanwhile, recent estimates from the Netherlands of the cost of each asylum seeker indicatehefty net lifetime cost of £400,000/€475,000 per head. While there are, of course, differences in, for example, taxation and spending levels between the Netherlands and the UK, the two countries, are comparable. As just 4% of small boat migrants are ever removed, based on the Netherlands estimates, Britain’s small boat liabilities could exceed £80 billionover the lifetime of small-boat arrivals.
11/10/2026, 2 engagements
I'd string the buggers up.
https://unherd.com/2026/11/how-albanian-coke-gangs-cracked-bournemouth/
Ten years ago, police and journalists were only just starting to warn about the growing influence of Albanian gangs in Britain’s cocaine underworld. Albanian mobsters were rumoured to be the main suppliers to the Groucho Club, Soho’s infamous celebrity hangout; so much cocaine was snorted there that the upstairs snooker room was sometimes called the “Peruvian Procurement Department”. A few streets away, at the Cirque Le Soir nightclub, an Albanian dealer was said to have sold coke in the presence of Frank “Sheriff of Soho” Partridge, the corrupt Met officer in charge of licensing West End nightlife until his arrest in 2015. Yet the question remains: how did the Albanians pull it off, especially in a country famed both for its tough native gangs, and for long-established foreign groups like the North London Turks and the Kinahans from Dublin?
Add the 1999 Kosovo war to the mix and tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians soon headed west in search of prosperity. For some, crime was an appealing career path, with Albanian gangsters becoming well-known pimps and sex traffickers in the seedier corners of European capitals. By the late Nineties, Albanian and Kosovan thugs, having a deserved reputation for violence, snatched Soho’s £40 million vice trade from Maltese and East End gangs. By 2001, a Home office briefing found they owned 70% of the neighborhood’s saunas and massage parlors.
11/10/2026, 2 engagements
https://unherd.com/newsroom/david-walliams-expose-is-a-victory-against-legal-bullying/
Anyone with a passing knowledge of services for survivors will know that those who call for support may often be speaking for the first time about abuse they suffered as children or teenagers. CPS guidance recognizes that trauma, shame and guilt can inhibit reporting. It also notes that an accused person’s position of authority can affect whether someone comes forward at all. When the accused is famous, as the reaction to Russell Brand’s accusers has shown, victims are routinely portrayed as vengeful liars bent on destroying men’s careers, or women who were asking for it really.
In the year since the Telegraph first reported that publisher HarperCollins had dropped him following allegations that he harassed junior female employees, Walliams has been quietly edged off the gilded escalator and will not reach the national treasure lounge he seemingly saw as his by right. Doubtless, this must be tough for him. But the attempt by his lawyers to gag journalists by invoking his vulnerability, against the backdrop of suggestions that press coverage contributed to Jason Arday’s death earlier this year, has done little to make the public amenable to him.
11/10/2026, 2 engagements
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/holyrood-list-voting-system-must-37859942
A senior MSP has called for a "national conversation" on the Scottish Parliament electoral system, after the Scottish Greens "gamed it" and managed to get a "disproportionate" number of far-left parliamentarians elected. Scottish Tory MSP Stephen Kerr called it a "poor system" and branded it "overcomplicated" "They've got a disproportionate influence in this parliament. Whether it's suggesting that there is a spectrum of rape. I don't think that represents the values of this country. I think that's an entryism in our parliament that we could usefully knock off. And there's too many of them."
And he blamed this partly on the D'Hondt system: "They play the system. We need to have a national debate about D'Hondt as they currently use it. This is my personal opinion, but there is something wrong if you're voting in a democratic system that you can't explain in a simple sentence.
11/10/2026, 2 engagements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdx3x7wg941o
One of France's last Resistance heroes from World War Two has died at the age of 104. Solange Alexandre was also a rare woman who, with her future husband, created and commanded her own unit of anti-German fighters. After serving as a Resistance courier from 1941, three years later she founded the Pas-de-Boeuf network near the town of Ruillé-sur-Loir. With some 30 men under her orders, she organised sabotage operations, sheltered Allied airmen and, after the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day in 1944, joined the fight against the occupying German forces.
11/10/2026, 2 engagements
🙄 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwj34mdlrp86o
Five days after her Islamic wedding, Jane received a text message which turned her life upside down.
"I divorce you and have divorced you," wrote her new husband.
Jane - whose real name the BBC has agreed not to publish - said she had met him on the Muslim marriage website Muzz 10 months earlier.
At the time, she believed he was called Adam and that he lived in Manchester.
"It's very hard for me. I thought I was getting into a marriage and instead I got into my worst nightmare," she said.
"It's just crazy. I don't understand why people do this kind of stuff for sex."
Jane said they spent six months chatting online together and on video calls before agreeing to meet in person.
11/10/2026, 2 engagements
At the time of conviction, Taylor had seven prior felony convictions, including battery and burglary, and three misdemeanour convictions. He had probation revoked on five occasions, and was on parole at the time he committed the crime. As of June, Taylor is confined to the Indiana State Prion (ISP), a men’s facility. However, he has recently begun claiming to be transgender in what appears to be an attempt to secure a transfer to a women’s facility. In a recent lawsuit filed September 22, Taylor claims to be transgender and argues that the DOC has not provided him with “medical treatment”, thereby violating his Eighth Amendment right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
11/10/2026, 3 engagements
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...we were right.
David Walliams was today unmasked as the celebrity who fought for a court order to suppress allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and preyed on multiple other teenagers.
Walliams, one of the world's best-selling children's authors, sought an injunction to prevent publication of the claims, arguing he would take his own life if the allegations became public.
The TV star and author is accused of 'abusing his status' on Little Britain and Britain's Got Talent to engage in 'inappropriate and exploitative sexual activities' with 'a large number' of women and girls.
Tales of corporate or governmental wrongdoing are often hugely complicated. Documents destroyed, witnesses untraceable, endless obfuscations and legal intricacies invoked. If the people doing the uncovering are ordinary folk, unarmed with fancy lawyers or untrained in the ways of big business or statecraft, the story often becomes even more of a switchback ride before the mind-boggling whole is laid bare. Just occasionally, however, the story is very simple (though no less mind-boggling). Such a case is that of the sodium valproate scandal, uncovered thanks to a campaign that was started 17 years ago by two mothers who began to suspect that their children’s disabilities had a specific cause. Janet Williams had two sons with developmental delays. For years she was told by doctors that there was nothing wrong: “You truly believed that if there was something wrong or something that needed explanation, they would tell you,” she says now, remembering her naive younger self and her trust in the medical profession. Then, in 2009, the boys were referred to a specialist who almost casually informed her that their condition was probably a result of her epilepsy medication, Epilim.
Alongside the mothers’ story runs that of Prof Jill Clayton-Smith, a clinical geneticist working in Manchester in the mid-90s, who began to notice a recurring cluster of features among the children born to women treated for epilepsy. She investigated further and presented her findings – including a 1984 US paper describing “foetal valproate syndrome” – at a conference. “It wasn’t received as well as I’d hoped,” she says delicately. The male-dominated audience essentially scoffed at her “anecdotal” data and ignored it. Prof David Chadwick, however, encouraged her to embark on a formal study that could not be refuted. Williams’s children would become part of it and it would eventually help determine that sodium valproate carries a 10% risk of causing physical malformations and a 30-40% risk of causing serious neurodevelopmental disorders in those exposed. The drug is estimated to have affected 39,399 babies since the risk was first identified.
By 2013 they had regrouped and began investigating the apparent regulatory failure in licensing the drug for use by women of childbearing age. They had several futile meetings in Westminster. “We were referred to as ‘bored, hysterical housewives’,” says Murphy. Williams remembers an official turning to her to ask if she understood what a word meant. She did. “The way they dealt with us was sickening … But it drove me on.” They started secretly recording the meetings. We hear audio of someone saying: “The neurologists weren’t in favour of having this acknowledgment of risk … Doctors don’t like being told what to do,” and suggesting that patient warnings on packaging weren’t necessary because people could find the information on the internet if they wanted – “Your Facebook site’s great!” “The ignorance,” says Williams. “The arrogance.” “Bastards,” murmurs Murphy.
Oh for the love of God, would you lot of attention seeking twats just GIVE IT A REST!
Podcast revelation: Morissette told Handsome podcast hosts she is pansexual, catching Tig Notaro off guard.
Past discussions: She has previously spoken about sexual exploration and rejected the idea of a 'lesbian phase'.
Mixed reactions: Fans praised her openness, though some social media users questioned the term pansexual.
Hamoud Al-Soaimi was found guilty of 3 counts of sexual assault, including sex with a 12-year-old girl.
He received 180 hours of community service. No jail.
In Newcastle, two vulnerable girls were groomed, passed around, and repeatedly raped.
Hamoud Al-Soaimi was convicted of three counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration. But when he stood up to be sentenced on 1 March 2024, he did not go to prison.
He was given two years, suspended for two years, and 180 hours of unpaid work. He walked out of court a free man.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/andy-burnham-is-turning-a-blind-eye-to-radical-islam-in-the-nhs/
This August, BIMA hosted a webinar with the network Global Health BDS for Palestine, during which the presenter, an unnamed hospital consultant, told attendees: “We are motivated to… get Israeli products out of the NHS.” He singled out the US tech firms Palantir, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard, as well as Teva, an Israeli drugs manufacturer which supplies one in eight packs of prescription medicine in the UK. Pharmacists and doctors on the call — many of whom appeared to work in the NHS — were encouraged to reduce their use of Teva’s medication. The presenter displayed a chart listing commonly prescribed Teva products alongside alternatives and admitted that “I never start patients on ramipril” and “very rarely start patients on amlodipine”. Instead, to reduce his use of Teva-manufactured blood pressure medications, the consultant said he had become “sufficiently confident” using alternatives and was “now used to the doses”. His patients may well question whether he’d have made the same prescription choices on clinical grounds alone.
Attendees, the presenter suggested, should ask patients: “Would you like to switch to a version of your drugs which means that you will never get an Israeli version?” When one person present asked what doctors should do if they face disciplinary action for prescribing an alternative where their employer recommended Teva products because of their cost-effectiveness, the presenter replied: “I do this all the time.” He added that although a senior pharmacist may face pressure “to cut costs by changing prescriptions”, as a consultant it was his “right to choose”.
https://thecritic.co.uk/telling-the-truth-on-sex-and-gender/
Perhaps my favourite crazy anecdote involves King’s College London’s ethics committee rejecting a 2023 research proposal seeking to “find the views of athletes and volunteers on the question of when males should be allowed to compete in the female category in athletics”. The proposal was rejected on the basis that its use of the terms “male” and “female” “constituted ‘misgendering’”. Ha! Imagine that! Hilarious until you remember this actually happened. It’s a prime example of the way in which, as Sullivan puts it, “talking about women’s rights becomes impossible if we can’t talk about women at all”. Without data on sex, she notes, “we cannot tackle sexism and discrimination, nor understand differences in experiences and outcomes between women and men, girls and boys”. Everybody knows this, or at least they used to until five minutes ago. The way in which this knowledge has been sacrificed on the altar of gender identity ideology is fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.
There is an urgency to this. “Once we abandon truth-seeking norms,” writes Sullivan, “all that is left is power.” If widespread institutional denial can spread regarding something so unquestionably real as sex difference, why not about something else? What damage has been done to our relationship to truth? Even if you don’t care about women, you should care about this. The threat to science and democracy is real. I only wish we were making this up.
ttempting to boycott small Jewish owned businesses. So progressive.
So many female runners are being attacked or having things hurled at them.
Police are searching for a man after a runner in her 20s was allegedly hit across the head and throttled by a stranger in Windsor. The assault is said to have happened at around 11.30am on August 28, when the victim was travelling along the Jubilee River before reaching Eton Wick, a few-minute drive away from Eton College, where Prince George goes to school. The woman was allegedly struck on the head, causing her to fall to the ground under a railway bridge on Eton Wick Road.
A man then placed his right forearm around her throat, holding her in a headlock. It was only when she screamed that the offender fled the scene, it is alleged. The woman sustained minor injuries but did not need to go to hospital. Thames Valley Police has released an e-fit of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident. The offender, described as a white man in his early 20s and around 5ft 7ins tall with short brown hair, was wearing baggy blue shorts with no top.
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-blasted-after-police-scotland-37852771
The Scottish Government has been urged to "come clean" about why Police Scotland was kept in the dark about a dangerous rapist being allowed out on escorted leave in Perth. An urgent manhunt was launched in August after Clifford Lyons Dobbie escaped while on leave and fled across the border. Cops were not consulted or involved in any meetings before Lyons was allowed out on escorted community leave on August 6. He is a restricted patient who has been detained in secure units since 1990 after he raped a 10-year-old girl in Glasgow. He was admitted to high-security Carstairs state hospital following his conviction. At the time he was on bail for another sex offence - molesting a 12-year-old boy after luring him into a field and forcing him to strip. A freedom of information request revealed that NHS Tayside was responsible for assessing and managing the risk before allowing him leave, and put a recommendation to the Scottish Government.
Consent was granted on behalf of SNP Ministers. despite him reportedly previously attempting to abscond. Police Scotland stated that it was "not consulted or involved in any meetings for the proposed escorted leave.” Government guidance anticipates police involvement where high-risk or high-profile restricted patients are being considered for escorted leave. Scottish Conservative MSP, Liam Kerr said: “SNP ministers must urgently come clean on their involvement in this shocking incident. The public will be astonished that Police Scotland were not even consulted before this convicted rapist was allowed out on leave. Given this dangerous offender made it all the way to England before he was caught, serious questions must be asked.
11/9/2026, 1 engagement
The SNP has been accused of delivering a "calculated snub" to Britain's war dead after posting about a religious festival at 11am on Remembrance Sunday. The official Scottish Government X account posted about the major Sikh celebration of Bandi Chhor Divas at the same time Scots took part in a two-minute silence for those who made the ultimate sacrifice. In contrast, there was no mention of Remembrance Sunday on the government account. The move sparked anger among social media users while Reform UK called it an "unmistakable show of contempt" towards Scotland's "history and sacrifice".
Max Bannerman MSP said: "It’s no coincide the SNP chose the exact hour of the two-minute silence to virtue signal about multiculturalism while the rest of the country fell silent to remember the fallen. Governments do not forget Remembrance Sunday - they chose to ignore it in an unmistakable show of contempt from a political class towards its own country’s history and sacrifice. "This government is a national disgrace.
🤪 these wankers will be the death of us all.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DffSQyzBEkm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&psln=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
This is a new type of Handmaiden behaviour and it is DISGUSTING, you stupid, vile, braindead pieces of shit, there are women fighting against this and being maimed, raped and murdered for not wearing it. How fucking dare you, you hyper privileged pieces of worthless shit 🤬
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dff25V6hphg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&obrf=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
But the Guard and the rest of them are ok with trannydom mutilation.
If you’ve heard the term looksmaxxing – the manospheric pursuit of male aesthetic beauty via steroids, peptides, cosmetic surgery and total commitment – you probably know the name Clavicular. With more than 2 million followers and a cluster of mainstream media profiles, the 20-year-old streamer born Braden Peters has become the chiseled face of a once fringe movement to achieve algorithmically defined good looks by any means necessary, from daily methamphetamines to breaking your jaw with a hammer. Clavicular has courted attention for a nihilistic worldview expressed in blunt, idiosyncratic argot: “hardmaxxing”, “bone smashing”, anything to increase your “SMV” (sexual market value).
The most evil creatures.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq62y01r2313o
Although she had just bought hashish from a drug dealer, the woman decided to call the police. It was because, along with the illegal drugs, she had been handed a note by the young seller during their brief meeting on a Marseille housing estate in 2022. "We're being held captive and need help. We are 15-years-old," it read. The teenage dealer, a French court heard earlier this year, was one of two boys being held by a gang which they had both initially approached looking for paid work - albeit illegal. One boy had been tasked with handling money, the other worked streets around the Frais-Vallon estate. Soon though, bosses had accused them of being responsible for "shortfalls" in takings.
What followed were regular beatings, the court was told, and being forced to dance naked in front of a camera as a form of blackmail. One of the boys was also raped. Hours after the woman was passed the note, the two teenagers had tried to escape from a second-storey window, injuring themselves in the process. One managed to get away, while the other was caught, beaten and stabbed, but survived. Arrests were made. Photos on the phone of one of the boys' alleged torturers showed several other young men in a similarly distressed condition. Six men have since been handed hefty sentences for what happened to the two teenagers. The boys' story highlights the grip that drug gangs hold over parts of France's second city. While the blend of Mediterranean culture, street art and hip-hop scene has made Marseille a popular tourist destination - beyond the city centre, it is another story.
https://www.allinoneboat.org/not-so-quiet-on-the-western-front-a-woman-looks-at-ww-i/
Helen Zenna Smith, who wrote one of the most powerful witnesses to war I’ve ever read, was the pseudonym of Evaden Price. Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of the War was published in 1930, based on the diaries of young woman who served as an ambulance driver at the Western Front, Winifred Young. In this extended excerpt, she is conjuring up her mother and a society friend, both strong supporters of the war, and taking them on a tour of the train platforms where wounded soldiers are transferred from cars coming from the front into ambulances taking them to tent-hospitals.
I have schooled myself to stop fainting at the sight of blood. I have schooled myself not to vomit at the smell of wounds and stale blood, but view these sad bodies with professional calm I shall never be able to. I may be able to help alleviate the sufferings of wretched men, but commonsense rises up and insists that the necessity should never have arisen. I become savage at the futility. A war to end war, my mother writes. Never. In twenty years it will repeat itself. And twenty years after that. Again and again, as long as we breed women like my mother and Mrs. Evans-Mawnington. And we are breeding them. Etta Potato and The B.F –two out of a roomful of six. Mother and Mrs. Evans-Mawnington all over again.
Oh, come with me, Mother and Mrs. Evans-Mawnington. Let me show you the exhibits straight from the battlefield. This will be something original to tell in your committees, while they knit their endless miles of khaki scarves,…. something to spout from the platform at your recruiting meetings. Come with me. Stand just there........................................................
The original Division went down fighting to the bitter end. It did not surrender until it had left its dead in every Norman field from the Somme to the little River Durdent, from the Cambron Woods to the trees ringing the cemetery where the Black Watch stood at last at bay. The divisional artillery had not a round of ammunition left and the formation was reduced to a few companies of exhausted riflemen with Bren guns in support, surrounded by vastly superior enemy forces with artillery, armour and abundance of mortars and machine guns.
The re-constituted 51st Division began to take its revenge in October 1942. It played an unsurpassed part in the victory at El Alamein in the pursuit across the desert, in the smashing of the Mareth Line, the storming of the Wadi Akarit and in the final actions of the campaign. From the early days of the Norman campaign, the Highlanders were in action on the left of the British Line. At St Honorine, where one brigade destroyed 15 tanks in a single day, in the hard fight in the Colombelles area, and in many later actions as our left flank bulged and burst forth to overrun great enemy forces to the East, the 51st Division has upheld its noble tradition. Conscious of the past history, “it was Montgomery's wish that the Division should recapture St Valéry and he asked the Canadian Army commander to arrange this. Carrying on, they arrived at St.Valéry on 1st September where the 5th Seaforth and 5th Camerons met each other in the Station Square.
“I wonder if the Herrenvolk had lessons in Gaelic? It would rather stagger them if they got a mouthful from an irate Rudhach for trampling his potatoes!
I knew so many of them, they went through Hell, here's to them 🍷
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10294630
But many of his colleagues were still in camps as the war drew to a close. The Russians were closing in from the east. Their guards marched them west. Ahead of them were Jewish prisoners from Auschwitz heading in the same direction.
Peter Black, another veteran, remembers that if a Jew fell out of the line, a German guard would offer him the chance to get up before shooting him. In the end the Scots were surrendered to the Allies in Bavaria. There are happier stories associated with St Valery and the 51st. Tommy Fraser managed to escape a holding camp, stole a bicycle and escaped to Spain.
Arthur Fraser escaped from the first march and was helped to safety by the daughter of a Scots exile. After the war she married him and they lived in Inverness, where they had a daughter called Valery. After St Valery, the 51st Highland Division was reconstituted and fought at El Alamein in Africa and defeated Rommel and his troops. In 1944, they marched into St Valery-en-Caux, as liberators. It was believed that decision was made by Churchill.
and they will be turning their bones up until kingdom come.
https://thecritic.co.uk/remembering-a-soldier/
Frederick was killed in action at some time during the day, likely either by his own artillery or, if he had survived that, a German sniper. In Wilfred Owen’s poem Anthem for Doomed Youth he describes, “the monstrous anger of the guns” that send forth “the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells.” By 1917, the mass industrial logistical complexes of dying empires had oriented themselves around the projection of high velocity munitions towards infantry soldiers. The massive artillery bombardment preceding the Somme offensive could be heard back in London. When individual explosions blended into one persistent, incessant, rolling drumroll soldiers referred to the sound as drumfire. Enduring drumfire and slogging through the churned up earth and wreckage of rubble and flesh they created became the main work of an infanteer.
We all eventually sink into the mud, submerged under the tyranny of unrelenting time, but those left in the mud of Flanders were tragically young. There are over 180,000 unidentified graves across the 918 cemeteries that were built on the Western Front. As Geoffrey Dyer notes in his brilliant Missing of the Somme, in the context of the Great War, sacrifice was a euphemism for slaughter. The bodies of the missing still continue to reappear: pushed to the surface by the seasonal tides of ploughing, planting and harvesting.
https://thecritic.co.uk/in-praise-of-the-porn-ban/
..................................The last of these modest wins for humanity, a law criminalising possession or publication of certain types of extreme pornography, is predictably being cast as the first step towards tyranny. Jess Asato MP’s addition to the Crime and Policing Act has majority public support: 78 per cent want scenes depicting strangulation banned, 77 per cent say the same of incest porn, and 88 per cent oppose pseudo-child pornography featuring adults pretending to be under 16. Support is lower among men, young people and pornography users, but remains in favour overall. Good news surely?
In a Guardian report this weekend, DCI Gerard Smith, who oversees a team of specialist child-abuse investigators in West Mercia, said officers see the effects of violent pornography daily as they knock on doors in the early hours to arrest people viewing or sharing child abuse material. “The volume of arrests is going up very significantly,” he said. This is what pornography has done. It has created a world where generations have now grown up not understanding women’s most basic bodily boundaries. This is a social catastrophe. Aattempts to correct this through law might be belated, but they are better than nothing........................................................
11/8/2026, 1 engagement
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2026/dressing-up-dei-in-an-academic-comfort-blanket/
Those who were rapidly hired to foster “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI) in the wake of the Black Lives Matter mania have not lost their jobs, nor have they lost their convictions. At most, their role has been rebranded and their policies repackaged. A reminder of this unresolved issue came this month, with the University of Oxford’s updated guidelines for “Inclusive Communication”. This guidance seeks to offer a “starting point” to help employees write in a form that is “considerate of those reading it”. What follows is a remarkably black-and-white list of rules, introduced by alternating commands of “DO” and “DON’T”. Some of the advice is yet another airing of already trite taboos. Don’t say “mankind” when you can say (the synonymous) “humankind”. Don’t say “chairwoman” when you can use the inanimate metonym of “chair”. Don’t say “third-world” or “non-white”.
Yet some are rather weirder. Whilst it is standard to talk of “gendered language”, people should only be described as “transgender”, not “transgendered”. Don’t try to be inclusive by writing “he/she” or “(s)he”, but instead use “they”. Do say “bisexual” but don’t say “homosexual”. Don’t speak of “the blind” or “the disabled” or “the elderly”, without adding “people” to the adjectives. The linguistic casuistry continues. Do say that people with “neurodiversity” are “neurodivergent”, but don’t call them “neurodiverse”. Do pay attention to the Index of Multiple Deprivation statistics when assessing the socioeconomic status of applicants, but don’t speak of those candidates with high scores of deprivation as “deprived”. And most importantly, do write “EDI”, don’t write “DEI” — that ordering of the acronym has had its day. These may seem harmless tweaks to enlighten the vocabulary of the benighted minds of Oxford, but the policing of language is not a fringe matter; it lies at the very heart of freedom. We are pawns in others’ power games: not so long ago we were told that the proper way to refer to those who are not white was “BAME”. But now that acronym, which filled every institution’s diversity paperwork (including Oxford’s), is now taboo. It is almost impossible to believe, but “black and brown people” is now the favoured language..............................................................................
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/11/07/why-are-so-many-charities-lobbying-for-open-borders/
Next time someone rattles a tin, and you reach for a couple of quid to help rough sleepers, starving donkeys or sick children, think twice. It’s long been clear that major charities are run like businesses; less well known is that they receive vast sums of taxpayers’ money. And while it might be understandable that big charities try to influence government policy to further their aims, some stretch this role to campaign on issues far removed from the cause they claim to support. Take immigration. This week, home secretary Shabana Mahmood backed down on her plan to extend the amount of time immigrants must work in the care sector before qualifying for indefinite leave to remain in the UK. By her own admission, this decision will cost the British public billions of pounds. So what brought about her u-turn? Mahmood was obviously under pressure to appease Labour left-wingers offended by the mere suggestion of border controls. Then there was the government’s sham ‘consultation’, in which almost three-quarters of respondents were immigrants themselves. Alongside this came the voice of the charity sector. In total, 560 charities either responded to the government’s consultation or petitioned members of parliament. Two-thirds of them argued that not just care workers, but all migrants – including those who arrive in the UK illegally – should be allowed to settle in Britain permanently without having to meet any conditions. This would effectively leave the UK with open borders – a position that no party has ever dared put before the British public.
The British public is being betrayed. Generous citizens might assume that the tenner they bung to someone raising money for Barnardo’s will help children growing up in poverty, only to discover it is used to pay for people to lobby government ministers on a very different issue. And taxpayers who have repeatedly rejected mass migration at the ballot box find that their hard-earned income is being used to back precisely this cause. Two clear winners emerge from this underhanded process. Directors of major charities earn huge salaries, often running well into six figures. Their pay packets let them espouse luxury beliefs, safe in the knowledge that their encounters with migrants are far more likely to be with a cheap nanny or cleaner than young men living next door in a house in multiple occupation. Politicians also win. Rather than being held accountable for their decisions, they can point to support from charities and lobbyists to justify their actions.
https://www.terftimes.com/p/pattern-of-women-being-drugged-and-raped-shame-must-change-sides/
The WRN is also calling for “platforms that host and profit from such content to be held legally accountable under UK law”.
Binning cites the accessibility of extreme pornography and access to drugs online through the dark web as partly to blame for the rise in DFSA. She believes online platforms are “grooming perpetrators” by encouraging men to participate in this behaviour. Reeve shares Binning’s concerns about pornography, saying: “It dehumanises women to the extent that men think that this is acceptable behaviour.” Binning expressed concern about the prevalence of these crimes: “Who knows just what the extent of this is?” She added: “It horrifies me to think what else is going on … there are women out there right now to whom this is happening.”
Activist Joanne Dunnington, also from Northern Radfems, believes showing support and solidarity for the victims is important. She hopes their presence will bring greater public awareness to the case: “It’s not like the Gisèle Pelicot case in France. She had huge support from the general public, and with this woman in Stockport, we’ve not seen that for her,” said Dunnington. In Wiltshire, Cid Dixon and other women’s rights campaigners have been outside Winchester Crown Court showing their support for Joanne Young, who waived her anonymity. Dixon said:
https://womensrightsnetwork.substack.com/p/prospect-union-betrays-women-for
Women’s Rights Network has been talking to its members who are concerned about Prospect and the picture they paint is consistent. Prospect has started treating gender identity as if it overrides sex. Membership forms only ask about “gender.” There’s no clean way to record biological sex. That makes it harder to track or fight the actual sex-based problems that still turn up in STEM workplaces.
The Prospect Women’s Network is supposed to be for people who share the same protected characteristic. Its own terms of reference say so. In practice it runs on Self-ID and includes any person who defines themself as a woman. After the Supreme Court ruling that “woman” means adult human female, that looks like a straightforward failure to stick to the Equality Act. These networks were set up because women face particular patterns of discrimination and harassment. Treating a self-declared identity as the same thing risks leaving the people who need the protection without it. Prospect is failing to comply with its lawful duties regarding its female membership. At Prospect’s National Conference in June 2026 every equality motion was about trans issues. They committed the union to pushing for full self-ID in UK law that will allow any person to change their birth certificate to the opposite sex on demand. They also told members and employers not to enforce biological sex in single-sex facilities. A motion that simply asked for sex at birth to be protected got voted down and was described as “poison” by activists.
Then in September at the TUC Congress, Prospect backed Motion 17. That motion went after the EHRC’s code of practice on single-sex spaces, the one written after the For Women Scotland judgment. The union’s newsletter presented the vote as a straightforward win for “trans equality at work.” It didn’t spell out what the motion actually does to women’s privacy and safety at work.
Women are already seeing the effects.
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/marion-scott-russell-brand-did-not-fool-us-we-fooled-ourselves/
Marion Scott: Russell Brand did not fool us… we fooled ourselves
He talked about women endlessly. He boasted endlessly. He sexualised everything. He turned degradation into entertainment. And Britain laughed. That is the uncomfortable truth. Not that Russell Brand hid the monster he was. Men like Brand are exactly why The Sunday Post launched our It’s Time campaign.
He told us to our faces exactly who he was. Repeatedly. And we rewarded him for it. He was handed television contracts. Film roles. Radio shows. Book deals. Magazine covers. Columns. Platforms. Applause. Eventually, he was elevated from comedian to commentator, to guru, to self-styled prophet. At one point he was treated as a serious thinker, a political visionary and a spiritual guide.
Let’s think about that for a moment. A man whose public persona revolved around sexual conquest became a moral authority. Why? Perhaps that is the question we should really be asking. Would any of this have happened if Russell Brand had been bald? Fat? Socially awkward? Uncharismatic?
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/health-secretary-to-face-eljamel-insurers-over-patients-claims/
Health Secretary Angela Constance is set for a showdown with insurers refusing to consider claims from private patients injured by brain surgeon Sam Eljamel, The Sunday Post can reveal. The Medical and Dental Defence Union Scotland (MDDUS) has outraged private patients treated by the rogue surgeon. He is accused of causing life-changing injuries to hundreds before fleeing to Libya, where he is still operating.
MDDUS has been insisting for months that it cannot consider claims from Eljamel’s 20 private patients unless it receives instruction directly from him, despite being lambasted by patients and politicians who have described the stance as “ludicrous”. Private patients like former Dundee United footballer Iain Jenkins said he has been left in a “legal limbo” by the stance taken by MDDUS.
Iain, who had to quit his football career following back surgery by Eljamel in 1999, said: “That surgeon ruined my life an ended my career. But his insurers are now destroying any chance I have of any justice for what was done to me by their client.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm78py3nj680o
A 105-year-old veteran who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in World War Two has been honoured with a special presentation from a deputy lieutenant of the West Midlands.
Joan Langley, from Sutton Coldfield, served from 1940-1945, mainly on barrage balloon defence, helping to protect Birmingham, the Black Country, Coventry, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.
Speaking after the presentation on Saturday, during a sold-out Remembrance Day concert at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, Langley said the recognition had been wonderful and surprising.
In May, she also had high tea with Birmingham's Lord Mayor at The Council House to celebrate her 105th birthday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw073ryjy2l9o
A blind 101-year-old World War Two veteran honoured the fallen at the Cenotaph for the first time on Remembrance Sunday.
Gwynneth Pedler, from Dulwich, south-east London, joined more than 40 other blind veterans at the parade.
Pedler joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) in 1944 and was posted to Crail, near St Andrews, where she worked as an air mechanic. She cleaned and maintained the guns used by airmen who were learning to drop torpedoes.
"I couldn't believe it when they told me what I was going to do," she said.
"I knew nothing about air mechanics and I'd never even done any DIY. It was important work, and it brought us close to the realities of training.
"Sometimes the young airmen hadn't quite got the hang of swooping away and ended up in the sea, which was very sad."
I was just mulling this the other day when reading a novel, how it used to be possible to have porters and luggage sent on ahead, and it would be there for you too, today it's no porters and if you tried that with the bags they would likely end up in Azerbaijan.
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/victims-crime-cant-trust-jail-37852634
Victims of crime are now unable to "believe" jail sentences handed down to criminals due to the SNP's approach to curbing jail overcrowding. And Scottish Tory justice spokesman Stephen Kerr insisted that are "no consequences" for petty crimes as yobs get a "slap on the wrist" and "crime is winked at." Crime is rising north of the border, with homicides increasing in the last year. A lack of police officers on the street was also blamed for rising tensions in communities. Bonfire Night was once again a night of chaos where cops, ambulance workers and firefighters were attacked by thugs.
"We're not doing any of that very well. We're letting out people that are bad eggs, to put it mildly, way before their sentence is up, and they're not reformed characters. And then you've got people that have done bad things that are leaving prison, and they're leaving prison and ending up reoffending and going back into prison. So I'd like to see all that fixed. And it's not going to be done easily. "We've now got a scenario where people will serve only 30% of their sentences. So what's the point of the judge saying, 'And I sentenced you to X number of years, and then oh, by the way, because you were on remand and it took two years to get to court, you can walk free because you're only going to serve 30% of your sentence, so deduction, deduction, deduction. That's nonsense. Mr Kerr highlighted some of the domestic abuse cases recently where the victims were murdered by their ex-partners who were released on bail, with Stacey Hogg and Stacy Mair both killed. He said: "This is serious stuff, we've got to get serious about this. And I'm not convinced that Neil Gray is looking at this through the right set of windows at all."
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/john-swinneys-hypocrisy-called-out-37839777
John Swinney has been called out for his hypocrisy after it was revealed that the Scottish Government has spent over £44m developing its own "digital ID" service. The First Minister was critical of Sir Keir Starmer's attempts to introduce a mandatory digital ID for every Brit. These plans were quickly dropped by Number 10 amid growing criticism, and are unlikely to be revived by Andy Burnham. It would have made having a digital ID mandatory, with this being proof of identity and residency status in the UK, including a person's name, date of birth and a photo, and be compulsory for work.
The Scottish Government has been developing the ScotAccount platform since 2018/19, which collects similar data about individuals, including photos and personal details. The aim of the policy is to create a single centralised form of ID to tackle fraud and make it easier for people to prove who they are when accessing public services - potentially including travel, health and benefits. Concerns were raised about civil liberties over the digital ID scheme being rolled out across the UK. According to a freedom of information request, a total of £44.1m has been spent on ScotAccount since 2018, with 49 Scottish Government staff currently working on, or supporting, the programme, encompassing policy, delivery and technical roles. Scottish Tory MSP Murdo Fraser told the Scottish Daily Express: “This is another blatant example of the SNP wasting taxpayers’ money on one of their own pet projects. They have effectively introduced a version of digital ID by the backdoor, yet John Swinney was furious at Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to introduce a mandatory scheme.
How about no, they can spin on it, and send them back to where they came from while you're at it, more to the point.
https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-16269621/Our-
What a fucking surprise, not...yet AGAIN.
son-murdered-NHS-patient-nurses-sat-staff-room-door-closed-devastated-family-say-makes-you-feel-no-one-safe.html
That a vulnerable man could be strangled inside a secure psychiatric unit is shocking enough. More shocking still is that it happened amid multiple failures by nursing staff at the Newham Centre for Mental Health in east London. A nursing assistant fell asleep while on duty and later falsified observation records to suggest he had been checking on patients every hour. When the attack took place, two nurses were in the staff room with the door shut. Hugo's body was not discovered for almost two hours.
It took more than three years for his death to be examined at an inquest, where last month Senior Coroner for East London, Graeme Irvine, ruled that Hugo had been unlawfully killed by Rolando Torres-Peña and that his death was contributed to by neglect.
During the period that Hugo was killed the unit's two supervisory nurses, Rosemary Chukwuji-Ohanachum and Raji Olagunju, were in the staff room with the door shut, while nursing assistant Anthony Onuh was asleep for two hours in the therapy room. He should have been making hourly rounds.
11/8/2026, 1 engagement
Ernest Cruz, 38, abused the 'barely conscious' victim in a private room at Bournemouth Hospital - going in to see her 12 times over a two-hour period. The woman, who is aged in her 30s and cannot be named for legal reasons, said she felt powerless against the sexual predator while being unable to walk unaided and drifting in and out of consciousness. Cruz was working as a triage nurse in the hospital when the victim was brought in after a night out. The married father-of-three who moved to the UK from the Philippines on an NHS work visa, was not assigned to her care and was said to have no business being in her room as he was not working in the same ward.
CCTV footage showed Cruz go in to see the woman multiple times as he noted observations on her chart under someone else's name. Cruz made sure he was alone with the woman before undressing her and carrying out the 'absolutely abhorrent' sexual assault - assuming she was too incapacitated to remember it. The woman said she believed Cruz had looked at her admission notes and thought he could assault her without her knowledge. However, she was in fact aware of what was happening and made mental notes about Cruz to later use as evidence against him.
11/8/2026, 1 engagement
Blimey :blob_dizzy_face: mind you, we have one like this at home, except she is officially retired from the profession, but she can't sit at peace and is doing care work. An immensely strong woman, last time I saw her though she looked smaller, but still she battles on, some of the ones she cares for are younger than she is.
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/nurse-80-celebrates-60-years-063110000.html
As usual with Scot Govt a sledgehammer to crack a nut. They could have differentiated between locals trying to retain family homes they inherited too but won't. Meanwhile the parasites still circle, because they can afford it. There is a horrible man from London, entirely predatory, who has got hold of at least 5 properties...and was recently targeting a widow with dementia until people got wind and chased him off...but the man is loaded, so this won't affect him, he can shrug it off. Scot Govt = Total Arseholes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c674pk4klp7no
It was introduced by the Scottish government primarily to target people who are buying second or buy-to-let homes and is paid in addition to Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.
The couple got in touch with Orkney MSP Liam McArthur in the summer after being told by their solicitors there was nothing they could do about the charge.
McArthur then contacted Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth, who responded with a letter which stated that there are "no provisions within the legislation that allow either the Scottish government or Revenue Scotland to disapply ADS on a discretionary or case-by-case basis."
Thing is, these things are never a cure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8046kdw56e2o
The mum of a five-year-old boy with a rare form of dementia has to pay almost £3m for his life saving treatment. Tate McDaid, from Swansea, was diagnosed with Sanfilippo Syndrome - a form of dementia that just over 100 UK children have - when he was four. In September, the first gene therapy to treat the condition in children was approved in the US. His mum Tammy said she spent "months praying" for its approval but discovered the treatment is to set cost £2.95 million per child, with it unclear how families outside the US can fund this.
Health officials from Wales are currently talking to those in the US to see what potential access pathways there are for Tate. "I was excited when the treatment initially got approved but then reality hit hard the next day," Tammy said. This was when she read the US price for the one-time treatment, external had been set at $3.95 million. Tammy contacted Ultragenyx, who developed the treatment, in the hope of understanding how families outside the US, who do not have health insurance there, will cover the costs. "We understand what they are charging for American citizens, but they've got health insurance," she added.
I have never yet seen anything like this working, they always end up out of business, due to financial reasons. There are always people who will take advantage and can well afford to pay but won't.
The sheer stupidity and hypocrisy taking place re that disgusting man at the moment is atrocious, but only too typical.
11/8/2026, 1 engagement
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r4ygxqlqvvo
A man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 16-year-old girl on the West Sussex coast, police say.
The alleged offence is believed to have taken place on Marine Drive West in Bognor Regis during the early hours of Saturday.
The man, aged 20, currently remains in custody, and the victim is being supported by specialist trained officers.
Monstrous evil wankers.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfcW4WzNqUu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&mdxt=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
This Muslim tries to justify Sharia law while another man explains why it is so dangerous
Original Source: BBC - The Big Questions
Sleeping in heavenly peace.
https://unherd.com/2026/11/inside-the-chinese-manosphere/
Like pretty much everywhere else in the world, gender relations in China are in complete free-fall. We’re all too familiar in the West with developments like the manosphere, tradwives, looksmaxxing, incels, cucks, chads, etc; recent Chinese history has seen the emergence of similar controversies, coded dogwhistles, and ultra-extremist ideological factions along gendered fault lines. One key moment was the April 2024 suicide of Fat Cat (胖猫), the online alias of Liu Jie, who jumped off a bridge following a breakup. In the aftermath, his girlfriend became the target of a concerted nationwide witch hunt led by Chinese incels on the assumption she was a 捞女 / lāo nǚ, or gold digger. Meanwhile, a terminally online subset of “feminist eugenicists” have developed what they term “uterine morality”, or a refusal to settle for “ugly, poor, sick, and abusive men” in an effort to secure the best possible genetic material for their offspring. This January, China’s Ministry of State Security even issued a communiqué framing 性别对立 / xìngbié duìlì or “gender antagonism” as a threat to national security. It’s this toxic mire of gender politics that Chinese teenagers will have to negotiate in order to date, marry, and have children; a plight that makes even the wildest of Rochester’s indiscretions seem tame by comparison.
When the one-child policy was implemented in the Eighties, many couples practiced sex-selective abortions to ensure they had sons, given the traditional preference for a male heir. As a result, there are 24.7 million more Chinese men than women, a surplus greater than the population of Florida. The language of anti-feminist reaction merges with pre-existing chauvinistic rhetoric. “Feminists are anti-family, anti-Han race and anti-state,” imputes one aggrieved commentator. Thus, parallel to the red-pill rhetoric of Western incels, a vocal minority of Chinese men are framing themselves as victims of an international feminist conspiracy. Some of these anti-feminists have even taken to attacking married men; by paying cǎilǐ, so the argument goes, successful grooms undermine “the collective male effort to lower the ‘cost’ of marriage”, making them traitors to their gender.
11/7/2026, 1 engagement
https://thecritic.co.uk/when-marx-met-hamas/
In the early 1950s, in what Martin Amis called the “rancid phase” of Stalinism, Stalin’s fantasy of “the doctors’ plot” saw Soviet paranoia turned on Jews. If rancidification took British socialism a little longer, it has clearly arrived. Communism and Nazism began with different enemies, but the works of Marx and Engels show why these creeds both moved quickly to mass-killing, and why socialism has gravitated towards antisemitism. Himself the son of a Jewish convert, Marx never hid his beliefs about Jews. Gertrude Himmelfarb and Lord Daniel Hannan have described this in Marx’s 1843-4 work Zur Judenfrage (On the Jewish Question). His follower Franz Mehring called this the moment Marxism became a clearly distinct philosophical programme.
Conceiving history as a product of materialist forces, Marx claims the Jewish religion is simply a reflection of economic life. To Marx the continued existence of Jews becomes a bellwether for capitalist society. “What is the worldly religion of the Jew?”, he asks: “Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money […] An organisation of society which would abolish the preconditions for huckstering, and therefore the possibility of huckstering, would make the Jew impossible […] We recognise in Judaism, therefore, a general anti-social element of the present time”. Zur Judenfrage became a staple of German antisemitic circles.
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/uk-news/grooming-gang-victim-who-trafficked-37839792
A grooming gang survivor who was trafficked from Bradford to Scotland where she and other girls were sexually abused and exploited is to give evidence at the UK public inquiry into the scandal. She said: "They would then use girls from Bradford and taxi drivers to transport drugs up to them. And then once we got there, things would obviously happen up there as well. And by men up there, I also know that they were doing it to children around the cities as well up there. "I remember going up in a taxi to like a dingy terraced house, and it was like a shared occupancy house, and there were just loads of men in there, bagging up drugs and there was girls sat around on the sofas."
Presenter Charlie Peters asked Ms Goddard whether she would back a Scottish inquiry into grooming gangs – at the time, the SNP Government was still refusing to set up a probe into the scandal. She was aged 12 to 14 and living in a children's home in Bradford when the grooming and abuse began during the late 2000s. In February 2019, nine men were jailed at Bradford Crown Court after being convicted of sexual offences against her. Speaking in June, she described it as a "slap in the face" when she learned that some of her abusers could be eligible to be freed early from prison under a UK Government release scheme.
Oh my God, the feet 😂 🐓
This is the first picture of two Afghan migrants standing trial for raping and sexually assaulting an autistic teenage girl on a busy commuter train.
Baryalai Rahimi, 25, and Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, are said to have spotted the runaway teenager at a station in rural Kent before following her on to the London-bound train on February 5.
Rahimi, of Southall, west London, and Sadat, of Cricklewood, north-west London, deny a total of 20 charges, including multiple counts of sexual activity with a child.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5zjxxvxdjnwo
A mum says she is too scared to go jogging alone again after being hit in the neck when a firework and an egg were thrown from a passing car.
Charlotte Wilde, 41, from Hartlebury, in Worcestershire, said she initially felt something hit her before being surrounded by sparks and hearing a loud bang at her feet.
The incident happened as she ran along Franche Road in Kidderminster at about 19:45 GMT on Bonfire Night. "I just feel really vulnerable," the mum-of-three said, adding: "I'm just scared someone's going to do it again."
West Mercia Police said the incident was "being investigated as an assault" and inquiries were ongoing.
Wilde said the incident had left her feeling that she would "never" go running alone again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwr7ygrrp927o
Born into a fishing family, Charlie was already an experienced seaman by the time he was called up for service in 1943 and was assigned to minesweeper MMS 291, part of the Royal Naval Patrol Service. Two years ago, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, he told the BBC of the fear he felt on board one of the first allied vessels to head towards the Normandy beaches. With hundreds of ships behind them, they managed to get quite close in before the German forces opened up with artillery, then used aircraft to attack the landing fleet. He described the intense noise of the shells and seeing bodies floating in the water. "I was scared, I must admit, but you just had to get on with it," he said. Charlie remained in the Navy travelling on further active service in Asia and North Africa before being demobbed in 1947 and returning to the fishing industry.
The young sailor eventually gave up trying to count the ships which had been lost, seeing the waters strewn with wreckage. His service during the Normandy landings was later recognised with the Legion d'honneur, France's highest order of merit.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx5ynly549njo
In August this year, 26-year-old Isaac Valdez had an epileptic seizure while browsing in his local library, causing him to convulse and strike his head against the ground. He lost consciousness. Later, in hospital, it transpired Isaac had hit his head with such force it had led to a brain haemorrhage. Treatment was seriously complicated by the fact that, as a Jehovah's Witness, Isaac carried a "No Blood" card, an indication that he would not accept treatment involving any form of blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs.
As a result, a procedure to drain fluid from Isaac's brain did not take place. But his family, from Waxahachie, Texas, were encouraged by the fact that he regained consciousness and even started to talk again. He was able to confirm that he stood by his "no blood" beliefs. The family's relief at his apparent improvement was short-lived. Isaac slipped into a coma and his condition worsened rapidly. A neurosurgeon told Isaac's family the only way to save his life was an emergency operation, but that it was one that required blood transfusion. His family took the decision to abide by Issac's wishes as a lifelong Witness not to accept such a procedure.