- “Slovakian PM Robert Fico in serious condition after assassination attempt” – Slovakia’s pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life after being shot several times in an assassination attempt, reports the Times.
- “The BBC’s reasons for not calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ just don’t stack up” – The U.K. Government has labelled Hamas as ‘terrorists’, so why is the BBC still being so stubborn? asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Biden can’t be trusted to take on antisemitism” – The same identitarian worldview that is driving campus antisemitism is rife within Joe Biden’s White House, says Heather Mac Donald in Spiked.
- “The pornographic awfulness of Eurovision” – In TCW, Dr. Tom Goodfellow remarks on the sheer awfulness on Eurovision 2024.
- “It’s taken the near-breakdown of Britain’s borders to properly debate mass migration” – The immigration trade-off is reaching a tipping point, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Reform has stalled while waiting for Nigel” – All is not well at Reform U.K. and its putative white knight, Nigel Farage, appears to have other priorities, writes Iain Martin in the Times.
- “Ending stop and search was a disaster for black kids” – “Every week I am contacted by grieving parents who have lost their child to knife crime. We must get weapons off our streets,” says Shaun Bailey in the Telegraph.
- “Stop pampering the Left’s attack dog” – Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism, writes a Tory insider in the Critic.
- “Sadiq Khan thinks knife crime is a joke” – The ‘right-on’ and well-off mock and dismiss those who are concerned about violence on London’s streets, says Ike Ijeh in Spiked.
- “NHS bosses destroy careers of whistleblowers who stood up to protect patients’ lives” – A group of medics warns that NHS managers are destroying the careers of whistleblowers who raise concerns about patient safety, according to the Telegraph.
- “Covid Inquiry costing £300,000 a day” – The Covid Inquiry may become the most expensive ever having spent almost £70 million in the last financial year, reports the Times.
- “‘Why the NHS cancelled my talk’” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton shares the NHS response he received to his subject access request about the cancellation of his talk at the NHS Health and Care Analytics Conference 2023.
- “Stanford’s censorship: rescind the disgraceful Atlas censure” – If Stanford is to remain a true academic institution, it must reverse its shameful Covid-era censure of Dr. Scott Atlas, says the Stanford Review.
- “Louisiana did it! SB133 passed the House. No WHO tentacles in Louisiana” – On Substack, Meryl Nass welcomes the fact that Louisiana has rejected the WHO having jurisdiction in the state.
- “Trust the science? 19 scientific journals shutting down simultaneously after being rocked by retractions and fraud” – Wiley, one of the largest academic publishers in the world, is being forced to shut down 19 journals thanks to the black market industry of “paper mills” submitting thousands of fake papers, says Allison Anton in the Western Journal.
- “Net Zero car targets will create vehicle shortage, MPs told” – MPs warn that Net Zero targets will cause shortages of cars on Britain’s roads as manufacturers “restrict the supply of vehicles” in the U.K. to avoid punitive fines, reports the Telegraph.
- “Debunking the cheap renewables myth” – We keep getting told that wind and solar renewables are cheap, yet our bills keep going up. So, what’s going on? asks David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Climate professor thinks we should ‘cull’ the human population to reach emissions targets” – In WUWT, Paul Homewood reacts to well-known volcanologist and climate scientist Prof. Bill McGuire’s idea to cull the human population to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown.
- “Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘farts’ full of methane emissions to stop ‘climate change’” – In Axios, Dan Primack and Ben Geman reveal that an investment fund founded by Bill Gates is behind a vaccine to reduce livestock methane emissions.
- “Trump twirls the windmills of doom: the Guardian’s theatrical take” – In WUWT, Charles Rotter takes aim at the Guardian for their latest ‘eco-villain’ hatchet job on Donald Trump.
- “What the new sex education guidelines mean for schools and parents” – In new Government guidance, schools in England will be banned from teaching sex education to children under the age of nine, reports the BBC.
- “Stonewall ‘muddying waters’ on gender law, says former top judge” – Baroness Butler-Sloss, a retired senior family judge, accuses the campaign group Stonewall of “muddying the waters” of equality law to promote transgenderism, according to the Times.
- “The plot to erase the Anglo-Saxons” – The assault on the Anglo-Saxons has begun again, with Cambridge renaming its Anglo-Saxon England journal Early Medieval England, writes Ed West in the Spectator.
- “Oxford University drops plan to vet new chancellor after wokeism row” – Oxford University has dropped plans to vet candidates standing in the chancellorship election after being accused of trying to “stitch up” the process to prevent another white, male politician from getting the job, reports the Times.
- “Australians topple statue of colonial governor” – The statue of former Tasmanian Premier William Crowther has been sawn off at the ankles and dumped next to the plinth the day before a tribunal upheld a council’s decision to remove the monument, says the Mail.
- “‘Hypersensitive’ Japanese academic fails to sue boss for liking sushi” – An employment tribunal has ruled that telling a Japanese person that you like sushi is not racist, according to GB News.
- “Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson demand Kevin Spacey be allowed to resume Hollywood career” – Kevin Spacey must be allowed to resume his Hollywood acting career after being wrongly cancelled for seven years, Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson have told the Telegraph.
- “‘My tearful interview with Kevin Spacey proves he’s MeToo’s greatest casualty’” – After being cleared of sexual assault, Kevin Spacey is out to save his career – and Channel 4’s latest attack convinced him to fight back, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “YouTube removes 35,000 EU videos for ‘misinformation’, enhances content censorship ahead of 2024 elections” – YouTube amps up its election role in the EU with a robust crackdown on what it deems misinformation. What could possibly go wrong? asks Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
- “U.K. Government refuses to say whether Parliament will get a vote on the WHO’s Pandemic Accords” – In a Commons debate, parliamentarians were fed excuses, caveats and non-answers to their requests for assurance that Parliament will get a ratification vote on the WHO Pandemic Accords if the Government decides to sign up.
— UsForThemUK
UK Government refuses to say whether Parliament will get a vote on the WHO's Pandemic Accords
There was a debate yesterday on the @WHO Pandemic Accords in the UK Houses of Parliament. The Minister was asked multiple times to give assurance that Parliament would have its… pic.twitter.com/zTQ0pvGTXv(@UsforThemUK) May 15, 2024
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Of course he is Allison because, surprise, surprise, he’s a gay man and his accusers are all male. Let’s not focus on the fact that 99.999999% of the #MeToo movement were female, and that 99.999999% of false accusations were made by women with an axe to grind, a quick buck to find, or three minutes of fame to ride. Or that 100% of those false accusations were made against men. No, let’s not do any of that because that would put the BS notion of ‘believe all women’ centre stage and shine a spotlight on the tactics used by feminists everywhere to achieve what they mistakenly believe is a power grab. No, let’s not concentrate on the thousands of heterosexual male lives destroyed by the lies of women, let’s concentrate on the one gay man whose life was destroyed by the lies of men.
Can you see it yet?
Sadiq Khan Communist Great Reset – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
Wednesday Morning Windsor Rd & Holyport Rd Maidenhead
“Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘farts’ full of methane emissions to stop ‘climate change’
This is quite literally bullshit. Methane (CH4) expelled from cattle to the atmosphere decays over about an 8-10 year period, into CO2 and H20 which originally came together to grow the grass the beast ate. There is no ‘build-up’ of methane. It is part of the carbon cycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmtW9ckRqt0
“Slovakian PM Robert Fico in serious condition after assassination attempt”
An attack on democracy by the far right, I presume.
You forgot to add “pro-Russsian” to clearly signal that he is beyond the pale. And keep very quiet about the US funded agitators who are unhappy that he is also a populist, which I take is code for being unacceptable to “right-thinking” people who set the agenda of the Western press.
Well spotted.
Juraj Cintula was associated with pro-Russian paramilitary group Slovenskí Branci (SB), may have been trained by Russian ex-Spetsnaz soldiers.
Associated. May have been…
So you have nothing.
Thanks.
“Munro has been linked with pro-Kremlin groups and may have been involved in the NordStream pipeline sabotage, according to unamed sources.”
There. See how easy it is?
Oh dear!
There’s even photographic evidence.
https://www.euronews.com/2024/05/15/what-is-known-about-suspect-allegedly-involved-in-shooting-of-robert-fico
You must have had an egg banjo for breakfast…….
Yes, reminds me of all those conclusive images in early 2020 of people dropping dead in the street from the new coronavirus.
It’s funny how if a crime occurs in your neighboirhood, 90% of the time no one has a clue who did it or what happened but when it comes to crimes of political and geopolitical significance, we know immediately who was behind it all.
Like when Navalvy dies, within hours the media was informing everyone that Putin was behind it even though it made no logical sense. Later on the media all so quietly informed us that Putin wasn’t behind it, though how they know either of the two they never really tell us.
Let me give you a tip. Whenever a major crime is committed and within hours you’re being told by media who did it and why and who was behind it, what you are witnessing is not the presentation of facts but the wilful construction of a narrative.
What a very silly tip.
Can we have a different one, perhaps, you know, one that might be useful?
https://twitter.com/Matthew_Kupfer/status/1790800467280159050
‘I’ve done two Amazon Rekognition facial comparisons between a photo of the Fico shooter being detained and 1) a pre-existing photo of Cintula and 2) Cintula in the photo with the flags in this tweet.
It definitely appears to be him’
https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/slovacchia-i-legami-fra-lattentatore-di-fico-e-lestrema-destra-filorussa/
Apart from the fact that it was an anti-immigration group and its leader may have been trained by ex-Spetsnaz soldeiers. Spetsnaz are like UK SAS or US Rangers.
There is no suggestion that I can find that the assassin was trained by them.
Some interesting snippets about this:
“The incident also raised questions over Fico’s security arrangements, as the attacker managed to fire five shots at point blank range despite the prime minister being accompanied by several bodyguards.”
“Domestically, the Slovakian leader has adopted an anti-immigration and anti-LGBTQ stances…
Fico is also a strong ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.”
“In an undated video posted on Facebook, the alleged attacker was seen saying: “I do not agree with government policy.”
“Liquidated mass media. Why is RTVS (public broadcaster) being attacked? Why are people… Mazak, why has he been kicked out of his post,” he continued, in reference to Jan Mazak who had been removed as chairman of a state judicial council.”
Why would an assassin mention Judge Jan Mazak, who was angry at being removed from his post as President of the Judicial Council of Slovakia only a month ago?
“On 16 April 2024, he was removed from the post of President by 10 votes out of 16 members of the Council of the Judiciary present. The appellants argued that Mazák abused his position to unlawfully gather information against judges.”
Slovak leader Fico stable after surgery but condition ‘very serious’ (msn.com)
Slovakia PM shooting could be ‘catalyst for World War 3’ as Putin ready to capitalise (msn.com)
Is this more evidence of the Globalist Kritocracy punishing any legislators who oppose them?
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/05/15/every-time-she-s-offline-i-think-the-fsb-got-her?utm_source=email&utm_medium=briefly&utm_campaign=2024-05-16
What’s really going on?
Ever wondered what youngsters in Russia really think of Putin?
‘This old guy Putin delivers a pre-written speech on New Year’s Eve that everyone’s already memorized, like The Irony of Fate [the 1975 comedy film that Russians traditionally watch on New Year’s Eve].’
In other words, contempt. No wonder:
‘The college was forcibly herding [students] to a pro-war concert, and all it took was for me to ask how my classmates could stand to just go along with it. [I’m certain that] a professor reported me. Immediately after the concert, in the rector’s office, they threatened to expel me for my [anti-war] views. The next day, they called in officers from Center E [the Anti-Extremism Center] and lured me into the office with no warning as to what the meeting would be about. Both of [the officers] were in plainclothes, and they only showed their badges when I demanded it, but they wouldn’t let me read their names. They also took my phone, but I managed to write to my friend that I was being taken [to the police station]. They didn’t stop pressuring me [at the station] until he called. They said they would be watching me [and then released me].’
‘They knocked Vladimir down to the ground, screaming: “Get the fuck down or I’ll shoot you in the knee!” Then they shoved me into the kitchen and demanded I call our “accomplices.” They threatened to jail me for 17 years for the face paint. One of them was especially cruel: he threatened to crush the head of the kitten I’d brought with me. They tried to scare me by saying that they’d hurt Vladimir or harm my family if I didn’t collaborate with them.’
In other news
Cock-in-a-sock musician flees Russia, evades conscription: Rapper Vacio (real name Nikolai Vasiliev) has fled Russia (reportedly to the United States). His colleague Yana Dzhalyu wrote on her Telegram channel that Vasiliev left the country without any warning. Vasiliev’s former manager has confirmed his client’s departure from Russia, though the rapper’s lawyer says he’s unaware of any such travel. Vasiliev infamously attended Nastya Ivleeva’s controversial “Almost Naked” party last year wearing nothing but a sock over his penis. He was subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct, fined for spreading “LGBT propaganda,”
But I thought no-one was allowed to leave Russia.
Apparently, if you put your bits in a sock, the border guards can’t see you.
Why don’t you give it a go and report back?
Maybe you should explain this to Ukrainian young men (and middle aged) who are prevented from leaving, and those who left and now are being invited, forcibly by the Poles so far, to return to die for their country.
Looking forward to the evidence…..
One man’s evidence is another man’s misinformation. I am not playing that silly game.
Your user name is a sock puppet, isn’t it…….
Yers, of course it is. My name is really not Mr Fistfullofroubles.
Top marks for spotting that.
It does its job very well, causing lots of people to accuse me of being a Russian troll
The photo is also not of me, it may surprise you to know. It is a shot of some loose change my son left after a visit to Moscow when he was a regular visitor there.
No-one is anywhere near half as interested in you, your family, your sock puppet photograph as you appear to be, yourself; the universal mark of a bore, to add to your bigotry…..
Again, topics you are specialist in. I couldn’t care less about whether people are interested or not. In case you haven’t worked it out yet your opinion doesn’t concern me either. i do it for the fun of seeing ehat rubbish you come out with next.
I mention my son specifically because it is through him that I know real Russian people, everyday working people and youngsters. I get information first hand unlike the stuff you come up with which is almost entirely from dissident press groups based outside of Russia.
https://en.topwar.ru/242464-mvd-rossii-objavilo-v-rozysk-rjad-byvshih-i-nyneshnih-pribaltijskih-i-polskih-chinovnikov-za-snos-pamjatnikov-sovetskim-voinam-osvoboditeljam.html
What’s really going on?
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put several former and current officials from the Baltic countries on the wanted list.
The list includes former head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry Urmas Reinsalu, former chief of the Estonian police Elmar Vaher, deputy of the Latvian Seimas Janis Vitenbergs, head and deputy head of the Lithuanian Panevezys Rytis Rachkauskas and Loreta Masilyunene.
Also on the wanted list are the mayor and vice-mayor of Palanga (Lithuania).
The mayor of Polish Malbork, Marek Khazhevski, as well as the former mayor of Polish Brzeg, Jerzy Wrembiak, are included in the search list.
After former and current officials are included in the operational search lists, they can be extradited to Russia from those countries with which our country has signed a joint agreement on the extradition of persons who have committed crimes or are suspected of having committed them and are under investigation.
Oh! Individuals from the Baltic States and Poland!
S. Holmes Esq.: I wonder what Russia’s intentions are after Ukraine?
Dr. Watson M.D.: Maybe the (Polish) Suwalki corridor, a new iron curtain from Kaliningrad to Odessa, cutting off the Baltic States?
S. Holmes Esq.: Good Lord! I say, Watson, my dear fellow, can you see what the dickens those bears are up to over there in the woods?
Thank goodness we are going to be saved from all this by the USA Secretary of State playing rock guitar in a Kiev club. On hearing this it is a wonder Putin does not immediately capitulate!
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/antony-blinken-guitar-kyiv-ukraine-basement-bar-neil-young-russia-b1157825.html
The title of the song came from the songwriters having been ripped off by someone in Russia.
‘There was supposed to have been a cultural exchange between Russia and the United States,” said Sampedro talking about the meaning of the song in a 2018 interview with Mojo. “Russia was getting Neil Young and Crazy Horse and we were getting the Russian ballet. All of a sudden, whoever was promoting the deal, a guy in Russia, took the money and split. We were all bummed, and I looked at him and said, ‘Man I guess we’re just gonna have to keep on rockin’ in the free world. He said, ‘Well, Poncho, that’s a good line. I’m gonna use that if you don’t mind.’
The song purports to be an honest look at American life and the state of the world
The lyrics seem a bit confused…
‘People sleeping in their shoes’ appears to be a reference to the habit many Yorkshiremen have of sleeping in shoe boxes in a hole in the middle of the road.
I came across someone who slept in a hole in the middle of the road once. She sounded quite mad but looked as though she was quite enjoying herself.
Blinken was allegedly singing Neil Young’s ‘Keep on Rockin’ in The Free World’, from Young’s pre-covid, anti-war, anti-Amerian days. As someone else (from the US) posted elsewhere:
‘Only in clown world does the American Secretary of State sing an anti-American song. Or an anti-war song from a war zone. A war he is busy fomenting.’
There is an irony in singing this song in a country whose elected leader has failed to renew his legitimacy by holding an election, and whose term of office expires in a few days; a country which prevents any men of military age crossing its borders (except into Russia occasionally).
Don’t they understand that the way to win elections is the encourage people to break into your country en masse – that is the American way.
People sleeping in their shoes refers to rough sleepers. People who sleep in beds take off their shoes.
Silly tales about your mother are a complete red herring.
Even the smallest sock isn’t going to work for you…….
I yield to your clear authority on the topic.
No evidence required. Once a sock muppet, sorry, puppet, always…….
I didn’t ask for evidence. Look, I definitely do not have any knowledge of the size, quality or effectiveness of other mens’ “feet”. It seems to be just your obsession.
You do realise also that your silly name-calling comes across as extremely immature.
I’m afraid that I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
It would be a great help to everyone if, in making comments, you would offer some substance in support of your comments. You never do, which makes you a bigot.
You then labour on with all kinds of petty nonsense, which makes you a bore.
This is not a good combination.
It was you that started the discussion about cocks in socks and made made insinuations that my bits are tiny, which I took as being overly interested in other mens privates. That is either gay or peurile.
Indeed. The restaurant he was in is apparently ‘littered’ with Nazi memorabilia – but they took down the picture of the Odessa massacre for the cameras…
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/110600
Well we still don’t know who our new PM will be but at least we have a right-wing government, after such a drawn out period of time, and there’s other good news but we await further details today. Let’s see what happens with the farmers and migration, but I’m just happy our speed limits are finally going back up to match that of the rest of the civilized world. What an epic failure of an experiment that was!
”MPs from all four parties who have agreed to form a right-wing government voted in favour of the draft coalition plans on Wednesday evening, but there is still no confirmation of who will be prime minister.
All four parliamentary groupings – PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB – voted unanimously to accept the agreement, although there was unease among some MPs about forming an alliance with the far-right PVV.
In addition, both immigration minister Eric van der Burg (VVD), and nitrogen and nature chief Christianne van der Wal (VVD) said publicly they are sorry that work they have put in for the outgoing cabinet will now be scrapped.
The new government is set to repeal legislation to ensure refugees are spread fairly around the country, which Van der Burg battled to get accepted and was only recently passed in the senate.
Furthermore, the outgoing government’s strategy for dealing with the problem of nitrogen-based pollution, which helped drive the growth of new coalition party BBB, is being overturned.
The 25-page coalition plan, which highlights broad strategy but not detail, will be formally presented on Thursday but some of the measures the new cabinet plans to implement have already leaked out.
The maximum speed on motorways will go back up to 130 kph. It was cut earlier to reduce nitrogen emissions.
The own-risk element in healthcare, currently €385 a year, will be halved in 2027, the earliest date at which the cut can be implemented. Spending on the public broadcasting system NPO will also be cut by €100 million.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/05/all-four-coalition-parties-back-dutch-right-wing-cabinet-deal/
Good news about the speed limit. Was it very unpopular and did people try to ignore it?
“nitrogen and nature chief”
The equivalent to Esther McVey’s Minister for Common Sense.
FFS.
Years ago, I worked in a group called Test Assurance, because that is what we did. It was also because my manager refused to have the word ‘Quality’ in the name, as it would imply everyone else could leave that to us.
I have the same thoughts about a Minister for Common Sense.
“Net Zero car targets will create vehicle shortage, MPs told”
Well who would have thought it? straight from the University of Stating the ********** obvious. If this has come as a surprise to any MPs then they are even more useless than I thought. The real question has to be is this really a surprise or was this the plan all along?
If we have people who think that people are the problem;
“Climate professor thinks we should ‘cull’ the human population to reach emissions targets”
Than it is small wonder that such people would be only too happy to see us useless terrible people unable to have motor cars. The average age of petrol/diesel (ICE) cars on UK roads is getting older and older and this trend will only ‘accelerate’ under the zero emissions mandate. It (when?) Labour get into power in the UK I suspect we will see increasing measures to push old cars off the road. All of this will not only immiserate the population whose transport and travel freedoms will be severely curtailed, it will be a huge blow to the UK economy as the motor industry is a significant factor in our economy. As the full effect of Net-Zero on cars, travel and freedom of movement becomes increasingly clear, people will not be happy but by then it may be too late.
“Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘farts’ full of methane emissions to stop ‘climate change’”
So. Is Bill Gates a genuine arsehole or just a good guy having a bad day?
“‘Why the NHS cancelled my talk’”
Astonishing read and an eye-opening – and eye-watering – insight into NHS capture by the propagandist Blob. Kudos to Prof Fenton for continuing to pursue with the help of the FSU.
I particularly like that they refer to events after the cancellation as part of their reason for cancelling. Impressive.
As for:
Well clearly that’s the reason: ‘alt-right’. Can’t have him talking to our NHS, can we?
Turns out that the ‘UN halves women and children death toll’ headline was just more warmongering propaganda – as anyone who bothered to read the data itself could affirm. The UN itself confirmed the overall number itself hadn’t changed (just shy of 35,000 as of 09/05/24), the clarified numbers were for identified corpses, not the scattered body parts, mass graves or those bulldozed & buried under buildings. Other than a CNN story, can’t see this making headlines any time soon – doesn’t fit the narrative, does it?
CNN story:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/13/middleeast/death-toll-gaza-fatalities-un-intl-latam/index.html
“Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘farts’ full of methane emissions to stop ‘climate change’” – In Axios, Dan Primack and Ben Geman reveal that an investment fund founded by Bill Gates is behind a vaccine to reduce livestock
methane emissions.There, fixed it for you.
Meryl Nass has a couple of bumper stickers for the World Hellth Org:
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/world-hellth-bumper-stickers?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
“U.K. Government refuses to say whether Parliament will get a vote on the WHO’s Pandemic Accords”
James Roguski does a detailed breakdown of the debate:
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/the-people-have-spoken?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
The issue of ‘national sovereignty’ is a red herring.
Quite a lot of time has been spent barking up the wrong tree.
The unending discussion of “national sovereignty” is a sophisticated decoy to distract your attention away from what these documents actually seek to accomplish. …
Please comprehend the distinctions between national sovereignty and individual rights, freedoms and bodily autonomy. …
These are extreme expressions of national sovereignty that are designed to violate fundamental human rights and bodily autonomy.
Where is the Weekly Sceptic? Used to be Wednesdays. Slipped to Thursday. This week ….?
Have Cuba,s finances crashed closing all banking
Stop and search will clearly be effective in reducing knife crime. The reason given for not doing it is that the rational targeting of young men, mostly black, alienates them and, in fact, removes their right to go about their business without undue interference.
How about offering the subject of each unsuccessful search a cash amount, £20 say, as compensation for being inconvenienced? This might change attitudes towards stop and search, and may also cause the police to be a little more selective.
“The plot to erase the Anglo-Saxons”
An excellent article by Ed West, though I must disagree with his statement that the Normans abolished slavery after invading Anglo-Saxon England.
The Anglo-Saxons used slavery mostly as a punishment for crime, which made sense when there were no prisons, so criminals were either exiled, fined, forced to work as a slave for their victims’ families for a specific period of time, or executed. War captives were temporarily enslaved only until they could be ransomed back to their own people. King Alfred the Great established a system of laws to insure justice.
The Normans replaced that with the much worse system of hereditary slavery called serfdom, similar to the Indian caste system, in which people are born into a specific caste and can never change it. The Normans bound most of the Anglo-Saxons into the Norman caste system and tied the serfs to the land, which they could never leave without permission from their “lord”, whose “property” they were. This Norman system of enslaving Ethnic Europeans and their descendants for life was similar to the enslavement of Africans centuries later.
The earliest Saxons allowed victims and their families to hunt down the criminal and kill them, similar to the ancient Hebrew system of “avengers”, but the Hebrews take it to extremes, still thirsting for “vengeance” for centuries afterward.