- “Why Sergeant Major Sunak went over the top against his team’s advice” – Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times tries to get to the bottom of why Rishi called a July election, in spite of being advised not to.
- “Labour rejects Tory National Service plan” – Labour has rejected Rishi Sunak’s ‘National Service’ plan, says the Telegraph.
- “Young royals face National Service under Sunak’s election plans” – Tories say there are limited exemptions and Prince George, his siblings and cousins would be expected to take part, according to the Telegraph.
- “This national service plan is a patronising gimmick” – The idea of bringing back national service to knock into shape teenage tearaways and long-haired layabouts was a staple of my youth, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator. It’s not a serious policy.
- “Sunak is right: National Service is just what Generation Z is crying out for” – In this atomised social media age, societal cohesion needs to be rebuilt. The Prime Minister’s initiative is a great first step, according to Ken Costa in the Telegraph.
- “The Tory MPs standing down at the general election” – Many of those quitting Westminster have already secured lucrative employment, reports the Times.
- “I’m smiling at strangers and picking up dog mess. Why? I’m running as an MP” – In the Sunday Times, Rod Liddle reports from his constituency in Middlesbrough, where he’s the SDP‘s parliamentary candidate.
- “Labour is plotting the greatest assault on property rights in living memory” – Landlords are already treated as punchbags and it’s about to get worse, according to Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Labour playing ‘politics of envy’ over school tax raids, says Gillian Keegan” – The Education Secretary claims Labour’s VAT raid on private school fees will “increase pressure on state schools” and “potentially cost taxpayers up to £1.6 billion”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The war against Israel in the courts is a danger to Britain’s Armed Forces, too” – Malicious actors are exploiting the ICC and ICJ, and it will have implications far beyond the Middle East, says former Attorney General Sir Michael Ellis in the Telegraph.
- “Muslim Vote frontman suggested Britain helped ‘create racism’” – Abubakr Nanabawa, the head of the Muslim Vote, says Britain created racism, reports the Telegraph. But Nigel Biggar, the author of Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, begs to differ.
- “Teachers could get legal protection from blasphemy claims” – The Conservative Party manifesto will include new statutory guidance protecting teachers from being penalised for blasphemy, reports the Times.
- “Nellie Bowles: ‘It’s not healthy to tell kids that being white is bad’” – The former New York Times journalist has written a scathing exposé of how liberal politics “went berserk”, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Murder probe continues after woman stabbed to death on beach” – A murder probe is continuing after a woman was killed and another injured in a stabbing on a beach in Bournemouth, reports the Bournemouth Echo.
- “CCTV images of Bournemouth stabbing suspect after Amie Gray stabbed” – Police have released CCTV images of the Bournemouth stabbing suspect after 34-year-old fitness trainer Amie Gray was stabbed to death on the beach, according to the Mail.
- “Trans men ‘becoming postmenopausal’ in their 20s” – A new study has found that some women who take testosterone supplements in the hope of becomign men have bladder and bowel symptoms you’d expect to see in a woman after the menopause, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS trust sparks backlash over internal trans guidance policy” – Senior managers at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust have signed off on the 18-page document which forces medics to accept patients’ choice of pronouns, says the Mail.
- “Ireland’s ‘progressive’ elite has fallen for a lie” – Its unilateral recognition of Palestine shows the extent to which the country’s leaders now believe total bunkum, according to Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “German Minister admits ruinous home heating ordinances were merely a ‘test’ to determine ‘how far society is prepared to go in terms of climate protection’” – Eugyppius is unimpressed by the German Greens’ proposal that all new heating systems installed after 2024 in Germany use no less than 65% renewable energy.
- “Germany’s authoritarian turn” – Thomas Fazi in UnHerd reports on the increasingly authoritarian methods Germany’s liberal political class is resorting to to fend off the threat posed by the AfD.
- “Gerontocratic Tyranny” – On X, Louise Perry says it’s a bit rich of Sunak to tell young people they’ll either have to join the Army or ‘volunteer’ to help old people with their shopping, given that they’ve already been asked to make sacrifices for the elderly and been given nothing in return.
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The elite (and, by extension, senior police leaders) seem to think that the rank and file are always thinking in racial terms and that this governs each interaction with the public
The heart of anti-whitism is that – according to the wokusts – “thinking in racial terms” is only a bad thing if white people do it. If a Person of Sacred Skin Colour thinks in racial terms, it is a good thing. It is even better if a Person of Sacred Skin Colour can use their racial thinking against wicked whitie. For that reason pointing out the bad effects of such thinking must be prevented. It’s all part of the ideology of anti-whitism.
I am blessed with a number of immigrant friends, from Nigeria, India, Hong Kong, the Philippines… One of the reasons they came to the UK is because they wanted to live in a country where the rule of law was upheld impartially. They would be really saddened by this article, and their sympathues would be entirely with Rick Prior, as are mine.
Wasn’t this the essence of why grooming gangs were allowed to flourish. There have been a few ex-police officers who have said exactly this in regard to various issues where ideology has prevented the administration of justice and the protection of the people. Corruption as well leading to collusion and even participation. The while shebang is rotten from the top to the bottom. Deep capture they call it.
Equality before the Law, was what I was rightly taught.
But wait, I don’t think that I can now say rightly now.
Lol.
Ahhh …. but, according to the anti-whitists, equality before the law is itself a racialist concept because (a) it was developed by white people, and (b) because it fails to take into account the inbuilt and inherited differences between racial groups. This is the reason 2TK and our anti-white government are very kind towards Muslims who break the nose of police officers, but very harsh towards wicked whities who protest about the murder of children by the Establishment’s imported people.
‘The job’s f**ked’ was a common expression when I was in as well, and now, by extension we can extend this expression to the whole country…
I recall the day back in mid summer 1997 when I got in at work one day to be told we were no longer a ‘force’ but now a ‘service’ – Went downhill from that point onwards..
I had a friend who was very interested in the subject of UFO’s. So “Unidentified Flying Objects”—-But “Unidentified” to whom? —-I was once driving home in the middle of the night, and I saw a large bright elliptical shaped object in a field. I slowed down and then pulled into the side of the road to have a closer look. I even got out of the car wondering what on earth this was, and even if it was actually of this earth. It feels daft now, but I was very nervous for the next minute until I got nearer trying to “identify” this object and realised that what I was actually seeing was the reflection of the moon on a very large puddle. —–I had “identified” it wrongly. I realised that how things appear or seem to appear is not necessarily how they are.——–I also realise that “truth” is a similar thing. ———“The Truth”, but the truth according to who?—-One man’s perception is not everyone’s. It is an individual thing. Insisting there must be some universal truth in some matters can often be an idle pursuit.
Thanks for this article
Police officers, who aren’t senior ranks, are effectively being silenced from saying it how it is and prevented from doing their job properly. Over 50 were assaulted at Notting Hill ‘carnival’ and had to pick up the pieces after the murders that occurred at this festival. These things are never mentioned by msm or the mayors office. It’ll take the murder of a police officer at nhc to begin discussions to cancel this event.
Unfortunately Senior ‘leaders’ are focussed on being offended by things rank and file say or do and seem to have a competitive outrage amongst themselves as to who can be the most offended. In this case an unelected person has suspended a police officer for telling the truth. TJF.
TJF?
The job’s f@@ked.
Oh yes. I normally spot this sort of thing instantly but I have COVID
I’ve seen police running away from BLM protestors. Obviously they aren’t doing this out of cowardice, at least not physical cowardice it is more like they are petrified by being seen in a certain way. Moral courage is of course much more rare than physical courage. And now the transformation since 2020 has been dramatic and catastrophic in terms of the type of people who are entering the country now and the desolation that this has wrought. Backward countries joke about how they don’t have to worry about their criminal classes anymore because they will just send them to Britain where they will lapped up and perhaps even indulged such are the tempations of cheap labour and higher rent for the ruling class.
The whole country is fecked.
“You cannot take any people, of any colour, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioural standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large”
Thomas Sowell
“Mukund Krishna” we give these people jobs and they immediately apply their own racist behaviours and weird ideologies against us.
You know at one point I could see why some diversity was necessary and yes there are some examples of worthy minorities in public office but I’m now leaning more towards a “hard no” on any minority or any DEI hire being allowed anywhere near any kind of public service role.
Sorry but there it is.
I am in complete agreement with “hard no.”
I’m afraid my respect for the police went out of the window during the scamdemic especially when they started “taking the knee” and were very aggressive during the protest marches.
Nigel Farage is the only figure the woke establishment fear. RatNest, anyone?. He needs to get this guys name out there. People will listen to him.
Two family member were in the police. Both made it to Sargent level. One had previously been in the navy. They both resigned mostly due to unreasonable demands from above and lack of support. Happy in their new jobs!
The Police Force has become so politicized it cannot function as an independent trustworthy and balance enforcer of laws. There should be no arbitrary decisions about when and if a law should be enforced. Civil society requires this to function. In many countries the Police report to Departments of Justice, not politicians. Perhaps it is time to rethink the role of the police and who should be controlling them.
The problem is if the rank and file aren’t allowed to do their jobs without fear or favour, there will be a rise in vigilantism as more people seek other means of justice, when their local bobbies hands are tied.