Thursday, 12 June 2025
The reality of Reform
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Maybe They Are Just More Dangerous Than Previously Thought?
The treatment of autistic people who are referred to the government’s deradicalisation scheme could be in breach of equality laws, a human rights charity has claimed. The home secretary has been warned that Prevent and Channel, the multi-agency follow-on programme, which seek to identify people at risk of extremism, are overreporting neurodivergent people.
In a pre-action letter to the Home Office, Rights & Security International (RSI) said it was “deeply concerned about a potential ongoing failure to collect and analyse data on the protected characteristics of those referred to Prevent and that this constitutes an ongoing failure to comply with their public sector equality duty”.But maybe the prevalence of them on the list simply means that the public perception of autistic people as harmless wierdoes obsessed with dinosaurs or rail timetables - thanks to film & tv - is wrong?
RSI has argued that the failure to collect adequate data to support equality monitoring constitutes a breach of the home secretary and police’s public sector equality duty. The duty is the requirement to have “due regard” to the equality objectives in section 149 of the Equality Act, which include the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between people who share protected characteristics and those who do not.
Pretty difficult to do when they are doing this sort of thing:
Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has voiced his concerns that a “staggeringly high” number of autistic people are referred to Prevent. He has cited terrorism cases in which the defendants were autistic, including 17-year-old Lloyd Gunton, who declared himself an Islamic State soldier and was sentenced to life in prison for preparing a vehicle and knife attack in Cardiff in 2018.
Should someone who does this not be referred to Prevent then? Just because they have, or may later get, a diagnosis?
A Home Office spokesperson said the government was reviewing the Prevent programme in light of concerns over neurodivergence. “We understand that those referred to Prevent often present with a range of vulnerabilities, and we take our safeguarding duties very seriously.
I think you are a bit confused about who exactly are the truly vulnerable here…
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Hesitancy
Monday, 9 June 2025
When Society Breaks Down, Progressive Justice Will Be Standing There With Blood On Its Hands And A Sheepish Grin On Its Face
A 15-year-old boy was ordered to serve just seven years in a young offenders' detention centre and a 13-year-old girl was spared being jailed and instead handed a three-year youth rehabilitation order over the manslaughter of Bhim Kohli.
His daughter, Susan, stood on the steps outside Leicester Crown Court following the hearing where she spoke of her disappointment about the length of the sentence. 'I feel angry and disappointed that the sentence... does not, I believe, reflect the severity of the crime they committed,' she said.
Another triumph in sticking your thumb in the eye of middle England so you can boast to your pals in chambers abouut how progressive and lenient you are, just like the last one.
Today at Leicester Crown Court, the boy and girl - who cannot be named after it was ruled they must remain anonymous - were sentenced by Mr Justice Turner.
Ms Kohli added: 'They have taken a life. When they are released they still have their full lives ahead of them. They can rebuild their lives. We can't.' She added that she felt that 'more could have been done to prevent my dad getting killed'.
Undoubtedly it could have, as in the Dagenham case, since this killing was the culmination of a long cvampaign of escalating harassment that no-one appeared to think was worth stopping.
Beginning his sentencing remarks, which were broadcast live on television, the High Court judge praised the family of Mr Kohli for their 'dignity' throughout the trial.
Turner wants to rememnber that we have imported a significant number of people into this country that, unlike the Kholis and their old fashioned trust in the institution of British justice to right a wrong,believe in a rather more robust form of justice, and are prone to gathering a few of their relatives and taking the law into their own hands.
When some little scamps who have picked the wrong target are hanging from lamp posts, drenched in petrol and set alight, and the mob idss beating down the door to get at the rest of their family and treat them similarly. will 'Justice' Turner and his ilk recognise their part in this state of affairs?
He said: 'I'm sure you regret he died because of what you did to Mr Kohli, but you still say it wasn't your fault. It was your fault and the sooner you realise this the better.' The judge also told the girl that a short custodial sentence would do more harm than good, given the impact on her education.
So caring, to be worrying about the criminal's education, as if she has the slightest chance - or deserves to - grow up a productive citizen.
Sunday, 8 June 2025
Saturday, 7 June 2025
Woolworth’s
Some overviews
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_(United_Kingdom)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Supermarkets
Origins
https://youtu.be/A0JlIKnVIT4?si=1ktfV8DtHosxIY3h
Changing consumer habits
Obviously ordering online changed the game, but one other factor has increasingly impinged … the downside of city centres and shopping malls … the main reason I don’t go to town now to shop … safety.
For me, it’s not the carparking issues, nor plod on the roads, nor the traffic today … it’s not those … not price, not laziness. It’s safety. And I list safety under these headings:
Imports from other cultures
This completely changes the shopping experience … wariness about sudden physical attack, esp. when aging and not driving. For me to walk into our town, once a pleasurable experience … it’s now fraught, requiring eyes in the back of the head, constant scanning, auto-defence-reactions of a ‘no beg pardons type’ … we get one shot at this, needing to disable as many as poss in the first seconds … no fun whatever.
The poisoned sky
Maybe I’m the only person in Britain to feel sick after having gone out, then returned home … throat, eyes, ears, stomach … not good if out for more than thirty minutes, plus I need a loo within range which is not public … for reasons of hygiene, plus what one finds in there now.
Customer service
You wot? From trying to take money for faux charity to queue length, the only alternative is those bleedin’ auto-checkouts … no way. Ditto with pubs, if you can still find a good one.
Plus one more thing … if you look at the Woolworth’s philosophy of customer selects and pays at the till … knows the price and quality are what they are, with no hidden rip-offs, plus friendly, indigenous staff … stores can’t do that now, esp. in city centres with high ‘visiting’ cultures … it’s dangerous for stores now, dangerous for indigenous customers.
Is online safe and straightforward?
Until mandatory Q codes, digital ID, all the rest of the bollox. When all that comes in, then new solutions must be found.
Friday, 6 June 2025
t’s Not Just Going To Be Women Who Demand This, Is It?
When Bella Hadid said, “Working on your period should be illegal,” the internet didn’t erupt. It barely reacted at all. There were barely any headlines, no viral debates — just silence.
Because who cares what some scatterbrain z list celeb spouts off about? Thankfully for once.
Which, ironically, mirrors the way society has long treated menstrual pain: something to be ignored, minimised, and endured in silence. In the same British Vogue interview, the supermodel added: “We should literally ban women working on the week of their period. And the week before, to be honest.” For some, it may have sounded extreme but it touched on a very real, often invisible crisis: the chronic pain and shame many people who menstruate are forced to carry alone.
Note that she's not demanding womrn who suffer this shouild be given the right to request time off - no, she demandsa blanket ban on all women! Hardly reasonable, even by crazy sleb standards.
According to a recent Superdrug study, 36 per cent of Gen Z women would consider leaving a job due to poor menstrual health support.
Genz & the world of work is hardly a good fit, whther male or female...
One in five say their period has already held them back professionally. Just 31 per cent feel comfortable telling their employer they need time off for menstrual symptoms. Nearly half feel pressured to power through severe pain for fear of being seen as unprofessional.
You just know who is going to want a piece of this action should any kind of leniency be brought in, don't you?
Only recently has the UK government started to acknowledge the scale of the problem. A report from the Women and Equalities Committee last year found that “medical misogyny” across the NHS, education and the workplace has fuelled widespread ignorance around gynaecological health.
Medical misogyny certainly exists, but it reveals itself in far worse ways.
Meanwhile in Spain, menstrual leave is already enshrined in law.
Ah, Spain. That powerhouse of industry.
The D Day landings at Normandy
There being so much on the MSM plus the net, this will be a commemoration but the fine detail can be found in most western publications. For those born on the Planet Zog:
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.


Naturally we commemorate the planning, decoys, assembly and operation … especially the bravery of those participating … most westerners, plus others have at least some family connection with the event.
Thursday, 5 June 2025
We’ve reached that point I’m afraid
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Tribunal Shenanigans...
'Sad though it is to have to say this, it seems to us to be likely that Mr Habib is, unfortunately, ill-equipped to cope with the nuances of social interaction in the workplace, and lacks the sort of social skills that might have eased tensions that arose around the mug incident.'Were there other clues?
Mr Habib also tried to claim that his manager denying him five weeks annual leave to go back to Pakistan for a series of weddings, which he requested just a month into his employment, was race discrimination.
Aha!
As well as the race discrimination claims, Mr Habib alleged that during his time at Currys he had been sexually harassed by a female co-worker. However, his allegations were dismissed as 'simply incredible'.
Tribunals are usually so gullible, he must have had a face only a mother could love.
At the end of March, Mr Habib was dismissed by Currys and was not given an opportunity to appeal. His unfair dismissal claim was struck out because Mr Habib had not been employed long enough to make that claim. However, he was awarded three weeks' notice pay because there was no mention of a probation period in his notice and therefore he was entitled to one month's notice not one week.
The comedic value of a Pakitsni or Indian being in a dispute with Cuttys. of all stores, was not missed.