No Doubt He Ticked A Box, And That’s What Counts These Days…

Judge Timothy Spencer said Heggs, who has autism and ADHD, was “probably too immature to be working as a police officer” as he jailed him for 12 months.

Actually, he probably ticked two separate boxes! 

He said: “It is clear you did not lack enthusiasm and your policing was, at times, of an exemplary standard, but you lacked maturity. 

“You had received extensive training, you knew the importance of data protection and knew you should only share materials for a genuine policing purpose.

“You knew the lines were drawn and the lines were very clear.”

It's not something the police should ever expect to have to teach recruits, is it? 

Judge Spencer accepted that Heggs’s actions were not out of “wickedness”, but said the defendant’s claims that he accessed the material so he could learn from the experience and become a better officer were “far-fetched”. He said Heggs’s actions had “significantly undermined” public trust and confidence in the police.

As if there’s much left to undermine… 

The silent, constant, genocidal war

Increasingly, others can put all one needs to say:

I Guess Tree Homicide Isn’t Enough Outrage For The Chattering Classes

The two men convicted of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree were suspects in an investigation into alleged homophobic assaults that took place around the same time they committed their infamous crime.

NOW will you be outraged, progressive press? 

Nine days earlier, a man reported being doused in icing sugar and subjected to verbal abuse by two people at a layby in Cumbria often frequented by men seeking sexual encounters. The CPS dropped the case more than a year later, but emails seen by the BBC confirm police prepared a file on Graham and Carruthers for prosecutors.

But…? 

The victim said he had reported the incident to police the same night, giving officers a description of the vehicle and his recollection of the registration number. He was, however, unable to identify any individual involved. The informant said he wished police had used his initial evidence to check CCTV at the time.

It doesn’t appear as though the police didn’t try their best, to be fair: 

Cumbria Police said checks had been carried out using the registration number provided by the victim, but these showed the vehicle linked to that number plate – which differed from that of Graham's car by one letter – had not been in Cumbria.

Two men had been arrested in connection with the incidents and video evidence had been found on a phone belonging to one of them. The victim was asked to watch "10 or 12" videos showing various men suffering homophobic abuse and, in some cases, having things thrown into their vehicles.After helping police identify some of the other men in the videos, and confirming his own appearance in some of them, he gave a formal statement in August 2024 but told police he could not definitively identify the driver.

What were they supposed to do? 

In December 2024 a case was presented to the Crown Prosecution Service relating to three victims across six offences. But the CPS decided against bringing charges due to insufficient evidence, difficulties identifying the perpetrators and too much time having elapsed since the incidents.

So why dredge it up now? 

Selling out and betrayal

You heard the latest single from Cokehead Keir and the Rent Boys?

A side: Selling out the Farm

B side: Selling out the Nation

So the Bolshie playbook is being religiously followed step by step and the Reds areshowing that a nation with no parliamentary recall mechanism is no nation at all.

People In Glass Houses, Lammy…

The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, on Saturday spoke by phone with the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, a fact released by the Saudi side. Details of the call, and whether Doush’s trial was raised, were not revealed.

I wonder if Prince Faisal raised the subject of Julian Foulkes, and if he did, what this bumbling idiot would have had to say... 

The case again raises wider issues about Saudi censorship of social media and its use of anti-terrorism laws to suppress free speech. Doush has been represented by the civil rights group Reprieve. In a response to a letter from Reprieve to Lammy concerning the case, a Foreign Office official wrote that “the UK government cannot interfere in another country’s legal processes and must respect their systems, nor can we get British nationals out of jail”.

Hope Lammy paid attention to that. It could turn out to be personally relevant.

The Serco situation

Text first:

This whole scheme from woe to go has been thought through for one of two reactions … either very little reaction, not unlike with the grooming gangs and raped girls, which are of little concern to Reform honchos, of zero concern to Uniparty policy drivers … but of immense concern to pundits online, those not Woke left and the ones especially on X …

… the alternative scenarion being civil unrest, civil war.

As Reform bragged yesterday though on X, who cares about a bunch of raped girls or immigration … and similar may well be the reaction about rental payers thrown out under Section 21 evictions because landlords caved to the temptation of the £5000 bribes.

Question is … how many actual Brits rent?  As against paying mortgages?  As for those with mortgages paid off … well why would they care about tenants now on the street anyway?  There’s a social stratum below which Reform were correct … no one cares.

Is That Because They Are Usually Outsize Themselves?

Ayt least, the ones in the media usually are. Indeed, it's a wonder they can reproduce naturally at all! And no, it's not just the Western diet at play here. 

We lived in the shadow of factories bordering our beloved park. Companies such as the LeDoux Corporation, a chemical testing company that had worked on everything from the Manhattan Project to the moon landing, were just steps from the swings. While I was consumed by the potential danger of some shadowy, gun-toting figure, the real pain I felt was internal. My reproductive system betrayed me month after month, leaving me doubled over in excruciating pain. While the world validated my fear of violence, my period pain – marked by ER visits, surgeries and more than 30 Aleve each cycle – was dismissed as “in my head”. No one asked questions or explored its cause, let alone its potential environmental roots.

I’ve seen this film, Julia Roberts was great in it!

Black people are far more likely to live in areas filled with environmental toxins that can harm fertility. We’re 75% more likely to live near industrial facilities and breathe air that’s 38% more polluted than what white communities are exposed to. Discussions about toxins and the environment usually focus on cancer. However, a recent Human Rights Watch report found that air pollution is linked to gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia and fibroids.

And yet, there seems no discernible decrease in their fertility - as the US welfare bill would appear to indicate. 

Last year, I began a documentary about how the climate crisis – flooding, heat, wildfires, hurricanes – affects Black people who are pregnant or trying to conceive. It was an urgent story that felt both intimately familiar and strangely distant, since many of their environments were marked by large factories, disastrous floods and devastating hurricanes.

I can’t help but feel this really isn’t something can could be considered a bad thing. If it is actually happening. She's pinning her hopes on that, because it's providing her a tidy living:

Reniqua Allen-Lamphere is a film-maker and writer. She created the documentary Infertile Ground and founded Oshun Griot, a digital platform for people of color navigating infertility. Her next book, Fertility Noir, on Black experiences with infertility, will be published by Penguin Random House.

Am I alone, Reader, in thinking that less black fertility can only be a good thing for society? 

Manufactured consent

Long ago, at a blog called nourishing obscurity, later stolen by Blgr, there was a post on Groupthink and techniques used on individuals and groups to artificially “manufacture consent out of nothing”.

One way was the formalised Delphi technique, another was the notion of “well-formed outcomes”, a favourite of a govt body called Common Purpose, whose early motto was “leading beyond authority”.

One case study was the Scottish Arts Council meeting concerning funding, chaired by one Julia Middleton, who had gathered “leaders of art in Scotland” into a room to “thrash out” (read “impose”) Arts Policy for Scotland.

One “gathered” artist called her bluff by asking what on earth Arts Policy could possibly mean, given that he and others present were aspiring artists in a highly individual manner, not politicians.  Murmurings of agreement around the room.  The blunt Middleton (see a photo of her) then turned savage on the group, snarling is not too descriptive a word … that they did not know how good they’d had it and if they wanted continued funding, they’d best forget about this disruptive heckler etc. etc.

Not the slightest artistic sense in her brain, just command and control.

Today, Steve over at NOWP reader site included this:

https://expose-news.com/2025/05/14/the-art-of-manufacturing-consent/

Short excerpts:

A few decades later, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman analysed how corporate media organisations were using a “propaganda model of communication” to further the agendas of elite groups. ‘Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media’argued that the US media were fulfilling “a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalised assumptions, and self-censorship, and without significant overt coercion.”

[…] 

Based on a citizens’ panel convened by the CCC, chief executive Emma Pinchbeck claimed the recommendations had the broad support of the public: “The citizens’ panel were often ahead of even our advice on some of the things they were willing to consider. They are interested and want to do their bit. The public really are proud of the UK’s progress on climate action – we can’t see any evidence that the public wants us to slow down.”

In my report on this post at Unherdables, I add a short YT on the same topic, HT/Toodles McGhee.

Nothing Will Change Until There Are Consequences...

A woman whose ‘monster’ XL bully mauled three young girls after it reacted in a ‘very aggressive’ way to a knock at the front door was allowed to walk free from court yesterday.

Since she probably weighed less than the killer mutt, she resorted to a rather unusual choice of intervention when it pounced. 

Victoria Hewitt wrestled with seven-and-a-half stone pet Karma as it savaged and ‘dragged’ the ‘screaming’ children at her home and desperately tried to coax it away from them with ham she grabbed from the fridge.

A brave neighbour eventually wrestled the animal to the ground and Hewitt desperately yelled ‘Shoot the dog’ when police arrived. Officers sedated Karma, who was later destroyed.

What a waste of sedatives! 

Hewitt, 42, is understood to have registered the pet under a new law brought in weeks earlier that required them to be registered - but also stated they must be kept securely. The semi-permanent makeup artist appeared in court yesterday where she was handed an eight-month jail term, suspended for 18 months...

*sighs* 

Judge Anthony Bate heard the dog had belonged to an ex-partner of Hewitt who left it with her.

 🎵I might have known, there is always some man...🎵

She took steps to manage the risk it posed, including installing a pen and stairgates. Karma was also muzzled when out on walks and kept in a different room when visitors called by. But Judge Bate said while the precautions were ‘well intended’, they were limited and ‘inadequate’, allowing the powerful pet to cause the terrible injuries.

They were always going to be limited and inadequate because she had no chance of physically intervening when the mutt decided to do what it was bred for... 

He also ordered her to carry out a 20-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, in which an offender takes part in activities designed to address the behaviour that contributed to the crime and attend supervision appointments with a probation officer.

Good luck finding an activity designed to address the behavior that makes these women fall for unsuitable men who skip town and leave them holding a four-legged ticking time bomb! 

Slavery … what’s your angle?

Really difficult editing decision this morning, at 04:20 a.m. … two leading posts, one to go up at Orphans, one at Unherdables across the way.  One is about slavery, quoting Unherdable commenters not all that well known at Orphans … the other about a London girl’s lament … the theme is a known-known but her Gen Z post might not sit well with older and/or libertarian readers … plus the Unherdable churchgoing and cultural Christians can easily come in firing, saying there you are, you see … poor upbringing, abandoning the underpinning faith … reap the bitter harvest.

And our Julia … Orphans is a Manton Higham co-production with Grandpa.  Oh well … here goes.

Slavery

Kass is a Dutch friend living in Athens, her politics Eastern and Classical.  To History Nerd’s opening line, Dearieme wrote, in Unherdable comments:

The Irish really hate being out-grievanced by anyone else, don’t they? But remind them that in the 17th century, Irish troops attempted a genocide in Argyll and they’ll claim “impossible” even though the whole thing is well documented.

And in wades our ex-Forces Steve in no uncertain terms:

Slaves – long before anti-white racism took hold in schools this subject within a subject was taught properly. Human labour: exploitation and slavery, that was the way I was taught it at school in the late 1960’s. It wasn’t about race back then, we were informed of a practice that is as old as agriculture. So thousands of years BC. The progressives pin it all on whitey because it suits their purpose to guilt-trip us into excepting our replacement as punishment for deeds past. However:

‘For over 300 years, the coastlines of the English Channel and the south west of England were at the mercy of Barbary Corsairs (Muslim pirates from North Africa who operated from the 16th to the 19th century). Men, women and children were kidnapped to be sold as slaves.

The Barbary pirates attacked and plundered not only those countries bordering the Mediterranean but as far north as the English Channel, Ireland, Scotland and Iceland, with the western coast of England almost being raided at will.

Partly as a result of an inadequate naval deterrent, by the early 17th century the situation was so bad that an entry in the Calendar of State Papers in May 1625 stated, ‘The Turks are upon our coasts. They take ships only to take the men to make slaves of them.’

Barbary pirates raided on land as well as at sea. In August 1625 corsairs raided Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, capturing 60 men, women and children and taking them into slavery. In 1626 St. Keverne was repeatedly attacked, and boats out of Looe, Penzance, Mousehole and other Cornish ports were boarded, their crews taken captive and the empty ships left to drift. It was feared that there were around 60 Barbary men-of-war prowling the Devon and Cornish coasts and attacks were now occurring almost daily.

The situation was so bad that in December 1640 a Committee for Algiers was set up by Parliament to oversee the ransoming of captives. At that time it was reported that there were some 3,000 to 5,000 English people in captivity in Algiers. Charities were also set up to help ransom the captives and local fishing communities clubbed together to raise money to liberate their own.

In 1645, another raid by Barbary pirates on the Cornish coast saw 240 men, women and children kidnapped. The following year Parliament sent Edmund Cason to Algiers to negotiate the ransom and release of English captives. He paid on average £30 per man (women were more expensive to ransom) and managed to free some 250 people before he ran out of money. Cason spent the last 8 years of his life trying to arrange the release of a further 400.

By the 1650s the attacks were so frequent that they threatened England’s fishing industry with fishermen reluctant to put to sea, leaving their families unprotected ashore.

Oliver Cromwell decided to take action and decreed that any captured corsairs should be taken to Bristol and slowly drowned. Lundy Island, where pirates from the Republic of Salé had made their base, was attacked and bombarded, but despite this, the corsairs continued to mount raids on the coastal towns and villages in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. Those kidnapped would be sent to the slave markets of the Ottoman Empire to be bought as labourers or concubines, or pressed into the galleys where they would man the oars.’

The end came when Algiers was attacked from the sea, not only by British warships but also by the French and Spanish. The United States fought two wars against the Barbary States of North Africa: the First Barbary War of 1801–1805 and the Second Barbary War of 1815–1816. Finally after an attack by the British and Dutch in 1816 more than 4,000 Christian slaves were liberated and the power of the Barbary pirates was broken.

Do they teach that in school today? No. The narrative must be maintained: only whitey engaged in slavery.

I’ve not a lot to add to this, except about the Barbary pirates.