Sunday, 31 August 2025
Careful what you sign
Maybe Because You Pre-empted It?
The Met Police congratulate themselves:
This year's Notting Hill Carnival had "far fewer" incidents of serious violence than in recent years, the Metropolitan Police has said. As of Monday evening, there had been 423 arrests over two days. There were two stabbings, but the Met said neither led to serious injury.Met Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said the use of live facial recognition, metal detectors and stop-and-search had "prevented some of the serious violence we have seen at previous carnivals".But hang on. Does that include your pre-event arrest tally? Because maybe that played a part too?
Police have arrested 100 people ahead of the Notting Hill Carnival, and say they have taken dozens of weapons off the streets as part of an operation to ensure the safety of all those attending Notting Hill Carnival this weekend.
Or maybe we should accept that ‘only two stabbings’ is some sort of great result, and not call for the closure of this ridiculous event which panders to black culture at the expense of the taxpayer?
Saturday, 30 August 2025
Are the mRNA jabs the scandal of the century?
Friday, 29 August 2025
Answered Your Own Question There, Ayman...
I spent 10 months in Calais trying to get to Britain. It was before small boat crossings become the main method of getting here, but the smugglers were there. We all hated them because they made it more difficult for us to cross the Channel without them. I tried every way I could: lorries, cargo trains, sneaking into the port to try to conceal myself on a ferry.
There you go then. You're a criminal. Just as if, had you climbed in through a window or jemmied a back door, no-one would call you a guest, but a burglar.
Although I had been granted leave to remain by then, I was really scared that the government would come after me too and deport me. That fear has grown even more since the Home Office changed its policy this February: people like me who entered irregularly will now “normally be refused citizenship”.
Good! Let's hope they catch up with you, then, since you've devoted your time here, not to repaying us for our generosity, but ensuring that you assist more of your kind to evade checks and balances on who enters the country:
I work as a cinematographer and also volunteer with a charity as an Arabic interpreter. I speak to a lot of age-disputed young people who the Home Office insists are adults and have been placed in adult hotels. It is so obvious when I listen to them speak that they are children. They cry down the phone to me. They hate being in hotels, forced to share rooms with adults they don’t know.
It's really puzzling. There must, simply by the law of averages, be genuine asylum seekers out there, who have sought that status lawfully and are grateful to the country, yet the 'Guardian' never seems to be able to find any for these pieces...
Thursday, 28 August 2025
The real story of those three young girls
... plus Reform v Advance breaks out.
Sorry about running a second post today, plus it must eclipse even the Elon and Ben chat ... plus the keypost about Andrew Torba must now also wait until tomorrow.
Elon, Ben, Rupert and all that …
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Oh, Charlotte, If Only You Had A Different Issue...
Weighing six stone and on the brink of organ failure, Charlotte Chapman-Hart is admitted to hospital in excruciating pain. It's assumed the former model and dancer has an eating disorder. But Charlotte, who repeatedly denies she's starving herself, has a rare disease. She's been prescribed a new pain relief medication, which should have been monitored by her GP and wasn't. A side effect is rapid weight loss - but it's been overlooked by those treating her. Charlotte's experience over the next three months would leave her adding post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the list of her symptoms. She now fears the care that she needs to stay alive.
Charlotte is unlucky enough to have a genuine issue, and not the type of mental illness that doctors would be falling over each other to verify and agree with…
"I think the hardest thing I've ever had to face is trying to convince people that I am of sound mind, and that what I'm telling you is the absolute truth," says Charlotte, sitting in the garden of her home in Cuckney in Nottinghamshire. "I told them that I've never had an issue with eating. I'm just not hungry. Things don't taste the same. "But rather than think differently, I was put into a diagnosis box that was wrong."
It’s a pretty common thing that doctors don’t believe patients, except of course for those who are flavour of the month. If she'd simply told doctors she was really a man, they'd have had no hesitation believing her.
At the age of 21, in 2014, Charlotte was diagnosed with chiari malformation type 1 - a condition in which part of the brain pushes down into the spinal canal - and syringomyelia, a rare neurological disorder.
And now she’s turning it into a crusade:
This year, Charlotte became an ambassador for the charity Medics4RareDiseases, and is helping to raise awareness among health professionals."What people are asking for over and over again is to be listened to, is to be believed, is to be involved in their healthcare," says Dr McKay. "If technology, fast diagnosis and treatment alone were going to improve the lives of people with rare conditions, then we would already be fine." According to Medics4RareDisease, more than 3.5 million people in the UK live with rare conditions and often face the burden of constantly explaining themselves.
Just like people with non-rare diseases. It’s just what the NHS does.
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
All of us must protect our women and children
Monday, 25 August 2025
Then Claw It Back!
More than £300m given to English councils to help Ukrainian refugees into accommodation has not been spent, while thousands of them face homelessness. Freedom of information requests to 150 councils in England, shared with the Guardian, identified that £327m – about a third of the £1bn budget – was still sitting in council bank accounts more than three years after Russia invaded Ukraine.
So get it back - Rachel Thieves needs every penny she can get her clumsy hands on, doesn’t she?
Most of the funds councils have spent have been used to pay staff and partner organisations. Only £22m has been spent on temporary accommodation for Ukrainians and £15m to help them into private rented accommodation.
So the councils are just sitting on the cash? Why? Do they get to spend the interest earned on other things?
Baljeet Nijjhar of UKrainian Refugee Help, who obtained and collated the FoI data, said: “Local councils are allocated thousands of pounds per Ukrainian arrival, yet the guests we support seem to struggle to access this directly when in need. “The most common issue is inability to rent privately and people often don’t know anyone in the UK who could act as a guarantor, so it’s the local council that they must rely on here to solve this problem. “Our research shows that many councils have significant levels of funds left, but have helped very few people to rent, whereas others have demonstrated a ‘can do’, proactive approach and have helped significantly more.”
Is this just usual local council incompetence or are they benefiting from this in some way?
Dr Krish Kandiah, the director of the Sanctuary Foundation, which provides support for Ukrainian refugees, praised the British public for their hospitality. “It is now vital that the UK builds on that generosity by ensuring that every Ukrainian has the security and dignity of their own front door,” he said.
Personally, I think it’s vital that they ensure that every Brit has that before we look at providing it for foreigners.















