Ripping Off The UK Taxpayer For Africa!

Almost £1 million of taxpayer cash is being spent on compiling an archive of African films in a ‘reparatory justice’ project. The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is paying £850,000 for scholars to explore Africa’s ‘audiovisual heritage’.

Shouldn't take long!  

A further £250,000 is being provided by Oxford, King’s College and Liverpool universities, which are leading the work.

All the virtuesignallers are there with their hands out... 

Scholars also aim to ‘repatriate’ footage currently kept in the ‘Global North’ so that it can be more easily seen by people in Africa. They will take the archives on tour in Africa to ‘sites of encounter with young African creatives’.

I hope when they get to Nigeria they opt to travel by train rather than road. 

AHRC, which hands out £70 million a year in grants, is a subsidiary of UK Research Innovation (UKRI) which is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

No, it's funded by the poor bloody longsuffering taxpayer, actually. 

William Yarwood at the TaxPayers' Alliance added: ‘At a time when families are being squeezed from every angle, pouring almost £1 million into an academic project involving “decolonisation film archives” is staggeringly out of touch.

Which isn't a shock to anyone, but how to stop this drain of our taxes...? 

Got Anything To Say Now, Sarah?

 An attempt to set a mosque alight, caught on security camera, brought out all the empty-headed virtue signallers, like the local MP:

However, it now transpires the mosque was in debt to the tune of £260K and so rumours are spiralling that this was an insurance job. Not helped by the fact cops have so far arrested and bailed five people who they are refusing to name. Why is yhis significant? Well....

Meanwhile in Kettering, another 'far right arson atrocity' turns out to be another false flag.

A 43-year-old man charged with an attempted arson attack on a mosque owned by Kettering Muslim Association has appeared in court. Yesterday, (Tuesday, October 7) Arif Ali Rafiq of Harlestone Road, Northampton, appeared at Northampton Magistrates Court.In line with new guidance, Mr Rafiq’s ethnicity was given out by Northants Police as a ‘British-born Asian man’.

The fear of a 'far right backlash' is heralded by the useful idiots as always just on the cusp of arriving, like a bus. And when it gets here, it turns out to be a milk float rather than a bus. 

What A Hero You Are, Adam!

“Civilisation is going to pieces … if we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.” Sentiments like this will be familiar to those who lurk in the less wholesome corners of the internet, where racism and other bigotries flourish. As a geneticist who specialises in racism and eugenics, I lurk so that you don’t have to.

Oh Adam, truly, you exemplify the saying 'Not all heroes wear capes'! In your own mind, that is.

What we are witnessing is a coordinated renaissance in eugenics and race science. One of these new race scientists, Emil Kirkegaard, leads a group that claims to have access to the sensitive health information of half a million British volunteers. Kirkegaard wrote on his blog in July that “Africans are prone to violence everywhere”.

And you find that remarkable, Adam? Do you live in a cave? 

It can feel strange to discuss something as anachronistic and outdated as race science. Most right-minded people occupy a world in which the idea of genetic superiority between races is disproven and disturbing.

'Most right minded people' = 'everyone who agrees with me' I suppose? 

Does that mean race is a biologically meaningful definition? It does not. Race as we currently use it is a socially constructed idea, but one with biologically meaningful consequences, such as in healthcare where many disease outcomes are significantly worse for racial minorities.The impact of disease correlates significantly with socioeconomic factors, primarily poverty, and in our society racial minorities are mostly in lower social strata. Black and brown people endure worse medical outcomes not because they are black or brown, but because of this fact.

Tim Worstall easily refutes this nonsense.  

In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan ends his racist rant with a call to arms, one that echoes in our present: “It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” Just as it was then, the current renaissance of eugenics and race science is nothing more than bigotry dressed up as biology.

Take a look around you, Adam. And note which races are doing things with impunity and recalculate your balance of power. 

They Should Serve As A Reminder That You've Got The Wrong Priorities...

An NHS trust has marked Pride month with rainbow-coloured zebra crossings at one of its hospitals.

North West Anglia Foundation NHS Trust (NWAFT) said it wanted to help shape culture and policies for an inclusive environment.

A piity it doesn't want to ensure its building are safe and in good repair instead.  

In recognition of Peterborough Pride, two pedestrian crossings - one outside the car park and one opposite the main entrance - at Peterborough City Hospital have been given a rainbow makeover.

The initiative was funded by the North West Anglia Hospitals’ charity and similar pride initiatives are in the pipeline for the trust's other hospital sites including Stamford and Hinchingbrooke.

If you've donated money or run a fundraiser for this charity, congratulations! You've been taken for a right mug, haven't you?  

Jo Bennis, Chief Nurse at NWAFT, said: “As the executive link with our LGBTQIA+ staff network, I’m really proud that we continue to support our colleagues, patients and local community – not only during Pride, but always.

“We hope these rainbow crossings represent celebration, raise awareness, and serve as a reminder to our colleagues and visitors that we are an inclusive trust.”

That's not what they are representing, is it? 

The trust said the staff network also regularly delivered lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ colleagues to the executive board and was innovative in its approach to new working ways for staff.

I wonder just what that means... 

We Didn't See You As 'Trusted Messengers' Before Your Virtue Signalling Nonsense...

...so we aren't likely to do it after this:

Dr Sarah Benn has long been concerned about the climate crisis, diligently recycling until she was “blue in the face”. But the rise of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion in 2019 inspired her and her husband to go further. “We thought: well, if we don’t do it then who else is going to?” While working as a GP near Birmingham, Benn became increasingly involved in direct action over the next few years, and once glued her hand to the door of the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy in protest at the government’s inaction on the climate.

*sighs* If only they spent as much time seeing patients as they do virtue signalling, we'd respect them more... 

Benn now faces a professional tribunal by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), the disciplinary arm of the General Medical Council (GMC), to determine whether she can keep her licence to practise. She is one of three GPs who face being struck off for climate activism this year, and her case in April is the first that will be heard.

After her first four criminal convictions – two for obstructing a highway, one for stopping people engaged in a lawful activity and one for flying a drone in a restricted place – the GMC opened an investigation.

Yes, Reader, you read that right - it takes FOUR convictions to get them to come in off the golf course and take a good hard look... 

It was not until Benn was found guilty of contempt of court for breaching a civil injunction at Kingsbury oil terminal in Warwickshire as part of a Just Stop Oil campaign that she was referred for a full tribunal. Benn spent a total of 31 days in prison for this action.

And she's far from the only one: 

Dr Patrick Hart, a GP from Bristol, also has a string of convictions for climate activism, one of which resulted in a suspended prison sentence. After he rejected a formal warning from the GMC, he was told he would face a tribunal in November.

“The lawyer I spoke to said it was unusually lenient but I didn’t take it. Partly because it would have been dishonest and partly because I’m angry with them for … failing to make any meaningful statement about any of this and enthusiastically investigating people for matters of conscience and patient care,” Hart said.

Where's the 'patient care' in all this grandstanding? 

Benn has now retired and is no longer practising as a GP. But she wants the GMC to recognise the importance of her actions, and said doctors should be seen as “trusted messengers”.

Not happening.  

An Early Entry For The VirtueSignalling Olympics...

Paul Holdsworth, a local boatmaster, had worked for Windermere Lake Cruises (WLC) for 10 years, but quit in “disgust” after employees were banned from...

Smoking? Driving too fast? 

...making reference to slavery in their commentaries.

Oh... 

The company told employees that disclosing such information may cause distress or upset to passengers. It also said that the guidebook, which tourists can buy, was being updated and references to slavery have been removed. Holdsworth said that over the past 10 years, skippers were free to make up their own commentaries during boat tours, and employees talked of all aspects of Windermere’s life and history.

Did they all blather on about slavery then, Paul? Or...was that just you, perhaps...? 

“In the end, I realised they weren’t going to change and that I couldn’t persuade them. They were going to expect me to be complicit in them censoring history and that was something, in all good conscience, that I couldn’t possibly do. So I walked away.”

Great! Now you can set up your own tour company and witter on about slavery to your heart's content, can't you? I mean, how can such a business plan fail? There'll be queues all around Windermere, I'll bet.

The local group Anti Racist Cumbria has been supporting Holdsworth since his resignation and approached WLC to offer its support to co-create respectful transcripts and wording. They are yet to receive a response.

Heh! Good.  

A spokesperson for WLC said: “We are not an organisation responsible for providing education or historical interpretation of the area in which we operate and felt there was no compelling need to refer to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people, given that this aspect of our commentary had been the source of complaints.”

At last, a company prepared to stand up to the crazies! It's about the only thing that'd get me on a boat... 

It's Not Up To You To Decide What's Appropriate...

A top coroner has called on British military chiefs to stop giving retiring veterans ceremonial daggers after an ex-Army commando used one to kill his neighbours.

Because he couldn't possibly have used any other knife, like the dozens everyone has in their kitchen..? 

Somerset senior coroner, Samantha Marsh...

*sighs* 

Well, if you can't trust a former residential property solicitor to bring gravitas and common sense to a vital post like this, who can you trust?

 ...has written to Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and the Ministry of Defence and urged them to stop giving retiring troops weapons.

She wrote: 'The dagger was not a blunt replica, it was a fully functional weapon capable of causing significant harm, injury and sadly in the Chapples' case, death.

'Please reconsider the appropriateness of providing anyone leaving the British Army, regardless of rank or status, with what is (to all intents and purposes) a deadly weapon.

'Such presentation/gifting has essentially put a deadly weapon in the community (where I understand it sadly remains, having never been recovered as it was removed from the scene prior to police attendance) and I am not persuaded that this is appropriate.'

And who told you that assuring what gift it was appropriate for the Army to give retiring soldiers was part of your duty, Samantha? 

She added that Mr Wallace and the MoD are under a duty to respond to her report - which was also sent to the Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police - by April 25.

I hope they send the SAS to deliver it. To her front door, in the dead of night. Pinned to it with a ceremonial dagger... 

April 1st Gets Earlier Every Year...

I mean, this must be an April Fool? Surely?

Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes, the Metropolitan Police's new 'HeForShe Gender Equality Lead'...

Wait, what? That's a genuine post? FFS! 

...wore the 'Menovest' garment in a meeting to mark Menopause Awareness Month.

Couldn't he just mark it without a stunt? 

For instance, by getting his PA to write something cobbled together off Internet articles, like normal people who want to get shot of this pointless task so they can get on with real work? 

... as the heat came to him in 'waves' while he attended the force's Environment and Sustainability Board, he had a feeling of 'Oh no, not now' and 'an anticipation before really losing my train of thought'.

I think that particular train left the station a long, long time ago... 

Mr Jukes' Menovest experience was headline news on the Met's intranet this week.

And if they have a Yammer network, I bet it was humming...