A U.K. children’s charity says that messages and calls to its helpline have risen to record levels over the past year of lockdowns. The most frequently raised concerns were about neglect, parental mental health and physical and mental abuse. BBC News has the story.
Children’s charity the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) says calls and messages to its helpline have risen to record levels during the pandemic.
In the year to March 2021 the helpline was contacted almost 85,000 times, up 23% on the previous year.
The figures amplify fears that children who could not go to school during the lockdowns were more vulnerable to abuse and neglect, says the NSPCC.
Chief Executive Sir Peter Wanless says Government recovery plans must address the harm children may have faced.
“We’ve been hearing first-hand about the immense pressures families have faced during the pandemic and the heavy toll that has taken on children and young people.
“For some children this has included experiencing abuse, bereavement and other harm,” said Sir Peter…
Of the 85,000 contacts to the helpline, the NSPCC says almost half, 47%, led to a referral – for example to police or children’s services.
The most frequently raised concern was about adult or parental behaviour, including:
~ alcohol or other substance misuse
~ domestic abuse
~ parental mental health
Other issues raised included neglect, physical abuse and emotional abuse.
NSPCC’s Chief Executive said children should be placed at the centre of the Government’s plans for the recovery from lockdown. The findings from this charity echo previous reports on the “pandemic of mental health problems” among children as a result of lockdowns, caused not only by domestic abuse but by the banning of social contact and, for example, the closing of children’s playgrounds.
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Let’s be real, Alastair Campbell and his pal Rory Stewart are epic woketards, so I wouldn’t pay a blind bit of notice to what these muppets have to say. This man gets it, though;
”Trans activists—including many journalists and Labour MPs—are insisting that the Supreme Court’s affirmation of reality is cruel, and that trans-identifying people are victims. This is precisely the opposite of the truth. In addition to the fundamental cruelties perpetrated against women by trans-affirming institutions, it is worth remembering that trans activists and their allies have been viciously targeting and harassing those who reject their ideology for years. Just a few examples:
To be clear: This is but a small sampling. Books could be filled with examples of the cruel, pernicious persecution leveled for years by trans activists against those who refused to accept their oft-chanted slogan “Transwomen are women!” When trans activists wielded institutional and cultural power, they utilized a potent combination of legal harassment and street-level, grassroots abuse to silence their ideological opponents and anyone else who dared to question their assertions of identity. They are not the victims of cruelty. They are the perpetrators of it.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-uk-victory-is-not-the-end-of-the-transgender-culture-wars/
If anyone wishes to see what a pathetic, disloyal, batshit-crazy walking clusterf*ck of a woman looks like, here’s a fine example. The ignorance and irony of what she’s saying: ”There’s no benefit to women”??!
”Discrimination, harassment and violence will rise if trans people lose access to toilets and other spaces.
Many will be driven from public life. That’s what’s at stake here.
There’s no benefit to women. Just harm to trans people and anyone who doesn’t fit gendered stereotypes.”
https://x.com/NadiaWhittomeMP/status/1914746738646393211
Blocking out the sun. What can possibly go wrong?
Look at these goons who think men can be women, many traitorous females among them, shamefully. Absurd and embarrassing;
”Women have fought (and are still fighting) the single biggest land grab on their rights in my lifetime. Some have sacrificed their livelihoods and safety to combat a pernicious ideology that has infiltrated elite institutions, including government.
Women have been persecuted, harassed, smeared, roughed up and forced to take employers to court for discrimination. They’ve suffered severe detriments purely for believing what the Supreme Court has ruled to be reasonable and correct: that women are a definable biological class that has specific rights under the law to which males, however they identify, are not entitled.
Do these politicians have any shame? They sided with the persecutors, the issuers of death and rape threats, the violent men demanding access to women’s and girls’ protected spaces, including domestic abuse shelters, rape crisis centres and prison cells. Will any of them issue an apology or admit that they made a serious error in siding with well-funded activist groups lying about what the law actually said, and which had measurable, severe impact on some of society’s most vulnerable women?
As another public wave of death threats is issued against women because of the Supreme Court ruling, their silence has become deafening. I’m just one of millions of women disgusted by the lack of accountability or remorse. We will not forget.”
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1914742921024110617
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1914748927770796089
“Trans people ‘seeking asylum abroad after Supreme Court ruling’” And yet it was trans activists who were encouraging violence against their opponents.Yet again the trans lobby inverting the truth.
I’m curious to know which countries are considered safer for trans people than the UK??
“India orders all Pakistani nationals to leave and shuts borders”
What, no massive protest on the streets?
Imagine if Britain ordered all Pakistani nationals to leave Britain!
That’s where the human rights protesters need to take their activism, to the streets of India,Pakistan,Russia,Gaza or indeed China! I’d love to see how they’d get on
Looks like a very sound policy to me.
Waiting for sstarmer to head over to new Delhi to chat with modi about implementing it here.
Well, not holding my breath actually.
A clearly irrational policy. And how will Pakistan react? Equally irrationally?
The problem is that both these nations are nuclear powers, as if the world did not have enough problems without another nuclear war brewing.
India & Pakistan blasting each other to smithereens?
Splendid. Let them get on with it, I say.
And send that Poison Dwarf Zelensky there to advise them on how to kill as many of their own people as possible, as he is doing in Ukraine. And send all the Indians & Pakistanis in the West home to help fight in the war effort, as they will of course be keen to do.
Then the Ukrainian People can have a new election with an actual Elected Ethnic Ukrainian as leader, such as that excellent General Zaluzhyni the envious Zelensky sacked for being too popular and respected, and make peace with Russia.
Then the Ethnic Russians can take Putin to the International Court for reparations to the families of all those Russian Warriors he sent to die in the Pointless Meatgrinder War.
There. Sorted.
Bring it on!
Starmer challenges Trump peace plan for Ukraine
The same mistakes are being made over and over again.
Russia is a party to the CSCE Helsinki Accords.
‘The participating States will respect each other’s sovereign equality and individuality as well as all the rights inherent in and encompassed by its sovereignty, including in particular the right of every State to juridical equality, to territorial integrity and to freedom and political independence.
They will also respect each other’s right freely to choose and develop its political, social, economic and cultural systems as well as its right to determine its laws and regulations. Within the framework of international law, all the participating States have equal rights and duties.
They will respect each other’s right to define and conduct as it wishes its relations with other States in accordance with international law and in the spirit of the present Declaration.
They consider that their frontiers can be changed, in accordance with international law, by peaceful means and by agreement.
They also have the right to belong or not to belong to international organizations, to be or not to be a party to bilateral or multilateral treaties including the right to be or not to be a party to treaties of alliance; they also have the right to neutrality.’
President Zelensky is a party to the Ukrainian Constitution.
‘The territory of Ukraine within its present border is indivisible and inviolable’
‘The right to determine and change the constitutional order in Ukraine belongs exclusively to the people and shall not be usurped by the State, its bodies or officials.’
‘Issues of altering the territory of Ukraine are resolved exclusively by an All-Ukrainian referendum.’
And, in any case:
‘The United States rejects Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea and pledges to maintain this policy until Ukraine’s territorial integrity is restored.’
President Trump’s Secretary of State July 2018
No government can accept the annexation of Crimea by Russia and retain the confidence of its voters.
If President Trump goes down that path, the Republican Party will lose in four years time.
The western powers accepted the annexation of crimea in 2014.
Too late to do anything about it now.
De facto, you are correct. But, unfortunately, looking to the long term, you are not.
The future, for Crimea, will, ultimately, be decided by the people of Ukraine. President Zelensky is not empowered to sign away Crimea so he cannot.
Russia is weakened and will, in the long term, be considerably weaker.
A bad settlement for Ukraine now, in breach of the Helsinki Accords and the Budapest Memorandum assurances, will guarantee a revanchist war in the future and one where Ukraine possesses nuclear weapons.
The Democrats lost the Presidency after Obama tacitly accepted a Russian occupation of Crimea.
The same will happen to the Republican Party.
President Zelensky is a party to the Ukrainian Constitution. What is that supposed to mean since he ignores the Constitution’s apparent (according to Russia lawyers) requirement to hold regular presidential elections?
And Zelensky reportedly changed the constitution to make it illegal for him to negotiate with Putin: so how are there supposed to be any legal, cease-fire or peace agreements?
Crimea was part of Russia, more correctly part of the Russian Empire, right up to 1918 and European borders were pretty flexible since. Perhaps if the latest, illegitimate Ukrainian government had not economically completely ignored the area, and if it had not mistreated the local citizens (implementing racist laws, withholding pensions, allowing infrastructure to fall apart) then possibly more than the 2% or 3% of its inhabitants would have voted to remain part of Ukraine in the 2014 referendum, but they did not.
And you are right that, after Ukraine’s inevitable defeat, there would likely be all sorts of disturbances if Ukraine were to be placed under full Russian control, which is why Putin’s solution is to place the non-Russian remainder of the country under UN control, leading to a new, democratically elected Ukrainian government.
And the current mess Trump is making of both conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, not to mention the US economy, will certainly be reflected in the next US presidential election, but nobody will be thinking of Crimea then.
Now who were government leaders in US and UK at that time. Shame on them.
‘Law of Ukraine: On the legal regime of martial law
‘Article 7. Termination and abolition of martial law
1. Martial law on the entire territory of Ukraine or in its individual localities shall be terminated upon the expiration of the period for which it was imposed.
2. Before the end of the term for which martial law was introduced, and provided that the threat of attack or danger to the state independence of Ukraine and its territorial integrity has been eliminated, the President of Ukraine may adopt a decree on the abolition of martial law throughout the territory of Ukraine or in its individual localities, which must be immediately announced through the media.’
‘Article 11. Activities of the President of Ukraine under martial law
3. In the event of the expiration of the term of office of the President of Ukraine during martial law, his powers shall be extended until the newly elected President of Ukraine, elected after the abolition of martial law, takes office.’
The Ukrainian Parliament voted again on 15 January to extend martial law to 9 May.
‘Two of Zelenskyy’s main political rivals, Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, have publicly rejected the idea of wartime elections as impractical and illegitimate. Ukraine’s vibrant civil society has also voiced its opposition to the return of elections before a peace agreement has been signed. Meanwhile, a new opinion poll conducted in February 2025 found that 63 percent of Ukrainians are against holding any national votes until the war with Russia is over.’
‘For more than two decades, Ukraine’s burgeoning democratic culture has been one of the key triggers behind Moscow’s escalating campaign of aggression against the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s obsession with Ukraine can be traced back to the 2004 Orange Revolution, which was in part provoked by his botched intervention in the Ukrainian presidential election. This was to prove a watershed moment in relations between the two post-Soviet countries. Over the subsequent two decades, Ukraine has pursued a European democratic future, while Putin’s Russia has turned back toward the imperial past.
Putin’s fear of Ukrainian democracy is easy enough to understand. As a young KGB officer in East Germany, his formative political experience was the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid collapse of the Soviet Empire as a wave of democratic uprisings swept across Eastern Europe. Ever since the Orange Revolution, Putin has been haunted by the idea that an increasingly democratic Ukraine could serve as a catalyst for the next stage in Russia’s imperial retreat and spark the breakup of the Russian Federation itself.
Mounting concern in Moscow over the possible impact of Ukraine’s democratic progress was a major contributing factor behind Putin’s fateful decision to invade Ukraine in 2014. When the occupation of Crimea and eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region failed to prevent the consolidation of Ukrainian democracy or derail the country’s Euro-Atlantic integration, Putin felt compelled to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.’
Peter Dickinson Feb 2025
This Peter Dickinson?
“Peter Dickinson is the editor of the UkraineAlert blog at the Eurasia Center and the publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines.”
Zelensky was voted in office because he promised peace. He reneged on that promise, as politicians sadly often do on pre-election promises. (Stealing a quote from Dr. Vernon Coleman, “All politicians are psychopaths, narcissists and megalomaniacs”.)
Funny how sensible people prefer peace to war.
Funny too how Russia was able to hold presidential elections and referendums in the war zone, but Ukraine did not – and now simply claims nobody sees any reason for elections. All politicians are …
All Zelensky had to do after becoming President was not to join NATO, remove Nazi elements from Ukraine’s military and parliament, and cease the harassment and bombardment of his citizens in the east. Mind you, the Nazi elements who helped him into office had already threatened to publicly hang him from a lamp-post in a main street in Kiev should he take any action against them, so maybe he should have remained a simple actor. But then Ukraine always was, and sadly remains, a very corrupt country.
Peter Dickinson was born in Cheshire and studied at Liverpool University before moving to Ukraine in the late 1990s with the British Council as Information Officer responsible for
Western Ukraine.
He has since taken on a range of roles in Ukraine English-language media
sphere including chief editor of What On magazine and founding chief editor of English language TV news channels Ukraine Today and UATV.
Dickinson is the owner and publisher of Business Ukraine magazine, a quarterly current affairs journal that is currently the only English-language print publication in wartime Ukraine.
So?
Can’t espect a balance view from him.
I was born in Sarf London and have spent the last 4o years in Cheshire. I hate everything about London and think Cheshire is a wonderful county. This makes a very biased against London and very pro Cheshire.
No wonder Putin wishes to negotiate. It’s not just his economy that is crumbling:
‘The Krasnodar riot (18 April 2025) is part of a larger trend in the army. Leaked Defence Ministry documents reveal that 50,000 soldiers had gone AWOL as of mid-December 2024.
Though this number might seem small in comparison to the Russian army as a whole, in terms of soldiers deployed in Ukraine, it amounts to about 10 percent. (active duty servicemen fighting in Ukraine 400,000 to 500,000.)
“The trend is growing, especially since 2022, when dismissals were banned after mobilization,” he says. There were twice as many criminal cases for desertion in 2024 compared to 2023.
The conditions where deserters are held are “horrible.” “For [the command], these soldiers aren’t people; they’re cannon fodder to be sent back to the front. Violence is just a way to ensure that happens.”
“Trans people ‘seeking asylum abroad after Supreme Court ruling”
Yaaaaaaaay!
They can all go to Gaza, according to them, quote:’ Trans rights and Palistinian rights are one right’
I think HMG should pay for their one way tickets, for once that would be a popular use of taxpayers’ money.
I’d gladly chip in
“Keir Starmer has insisted that Ukraine must be allowed to decide the terms of any peace deal with Russia in a challenge to Trump’s proposals”
Ukraine is free to reject the “peace deal” and carry on fighting. I think what Starmer means is that (1) Trump bad and (2) The US must continue to support Ukraine regardless of whether they think it’s in their interests, because…
“Damien Slash explains why blocking out the sun is actually a good thing.”
Stick Damien Slash in a supermax prison for two years, let’s see how he would love the lack of sunlight!
Love how he states “to save us from this” (the sun) Hey Slash, the sun created all life on earth and keeps nourishing life on earth! You Fu#king halfwit
Dinger, he’s a comedian, and his rant was supposed to be sarcastic.
Oh right, it didn’t come across as sarcastic!
I don’t know anything about “Conservative Post” but the reported article of theirs seems to follow the usual Tory leaning press in desperately searching for evidence Reform might help them.
I heard Farage’s reply to yet another journalists question about a deal with the Tories. His answer was a firm no.
what he also said, uncontroversially in my view, was that after local elections it might be possible to work with any other councillors to govern. Conditions applied.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14644139/India-orders-Pakistani-nationals-leave-country-slams-borders-shut-nuclear-war-massacre-tourists-Kashmir.html
That’s the way to do it.
And, ordered to leave under their own steam and expense. No 747 from Heathrow at 13:45.
The problem is they’ll end up here. Has this been arranged?
From https://tarableu.substack.com/p/the-crucifixion-of-reiner-fuellmich:
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich has been sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison. A sentence lacking legal or moral or other justification …
He has already been in custody for 1 year and 6 months, but the court deducts another 5 months because they say they believe that Reiner’s defense deliberately delayed the case. In addition, he must repay another € 700,000 of the loan + court costs …
On 11 June, Reiner Füellmich was again placed in solitary confinement, a status he continues to endure. This isolation means that he is forbidden to have contact with other prisoners. The authorities justified this extreme measure by claiming that Füellmich had provided legal advice to his fellow prisoners, a situation deemed unacceptable by those responsible for his detention. Füellmich must eat in isolation and is allowed only one hour per day for outdoor activities, which he must also spend in total isolation. He is denied access to the gym and can only use the telephone after other prisoners have returned to their cells. This strict regime emphasises the severity of his confinement and the restrictions imposed on him.
The charges against Dr. Füellmich include embezzlement, but observers other than the Filth, including his defense, argue that this trial has gone beyond ordinary judicial procedures and has become a politically motivated attempt to silence a prominent critic of COVID-19 measures. The trial has shown blatant shifts of legal parameters, further complicating the case and undermining principles of justice …
It is vital that justice prevails and that Dr. Füellmich is given the freedom, indeed the honour, he deserves—a freedom that is essential not only to him, but to the tattered integrity of the German justice system itself.
Yet another example of the “democratic process” at work in the EU.
“‘Reform could work with Tories on councils’” – Nigel Farage says that Reform UK could work with the Tories to run local councils, despite previously insisting he would not do deals “at any level”.”
He does realize that he’s allowed Olukemi Olufunto ADEGOKE to apparently install one of her close relatives as her own personal mole inside Reform? “Christopher” (real name …???) ADEGOKE from Nigeria, who looks like he could be her father or uncle, and spends his time advising Nigerians on how to get into Britain on student visas, passed the strict Reform Vetting Process, designed to get rid of any actual British Patriots, and will be standing in the Nottingham council elections.
Reform UK council candidate helps Nigerians get UK study visas – while Nigel Farage demands crackdown and blasts UK universities for being ‘drunk on foreign money’ | Daily Mail Online
So you see, the Indigenous British Voters will be presented with a choice of Third World Ethnics and/or Communists representing and/or controlling the parties named Reform, Heritage, Integrity, or Lib/Lab/Con/Greens.
But not to worry, because all their votes will be completely overwhelmed by the Commonwealth Voting Rights of the 56 other countries allowed to vote in British elections, a disenfranchisement trick that has led us to where we are today.
Here he is. Notice the family resemblance.
“Saint Laura and the hilltop epiphany” by Laura Dodsworth…
May I just point out to Laura Dodsworth that the gigantic statue of the Impostor Goddess she so admired, and all other statues of her and the newborn baby Jesus she kidnapped from his mother Elizabeth & Twin Brother John the Baptist at Ein Karem where they were born, including the Catholic Crucifix with Jesus hanging off it, ALL BREAK THE SECOND COMMANDMENT, which is why it was quietly removed from the original Biblical Ten Commandments by Maryolaters and replaced by splitting the Tenth Commandment into two parts.
Here are the original Ten Commandments, followed by Protestants worldwide:
1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shall have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:3)
2. THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGES. (Exodus 20:4-6)
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. (Exodus 20:7)
4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. (Exodus 20:8-11)
[Note: It does not say you must attend church or Catholic Mass, or take communion, which didn’t exist before the New Testament.]
5. Honour thy father and mother. (Exodus 20:12)
6. Thou shalt not murder. (Exodus 20:13)
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14)
8. Thou shalt not steal. (Exodus 20:15)
9. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour. (Exodus 20:16)
10. Thou shall not covet thy neighbour’s goods. (Exodus 20:17)
“Thou shall not covet thy neighbour’s house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbour’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to thy neighbour.”
And the Tenth Commandment is being BROKEN EVERY DAY by Third World Invaders to the West…
Reiner Fuellmich – Arrested !! Has he been stitched up ??