- “Zombie-knife crime doubles in five years, police data reveals” – The number of recorded crimes that mentioned machetes, swords or zombie knives has increased from 7,159 in 2019 to 14,195 in 2023, reports LBC.
- “Migrants rescued in Channel as crossings for year hit 25,000” – One in five migrants crossing the Channel are claiming to be children hoping it will boost their chances of asylum, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour fixer who worked for Lord Alli helped select MPs” – Keir Starmer faces a fresh backlash over his relationship with Lord Alli because of the role played by one of the donor’s former staff members in choosing prospective Labour MPs, says the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner under fire over taxpayer-funded £68,000 ‘vanity’ photographer” – Angela Rayner has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money after hiring a £68,000-a-year ‘vanity’ photographer, reports LBC.
- “‘Four million homes to be built on green belt’ under Rayner’s planning revolution” – The Housing Secretary is pushing for a radical overhaul of the National Planning Policy Framework, which could free up vast swathes of green belt land for housing development, says Business Matters.
- “It’s no surprise nurses want a bigger pay rise” – Labour’s message to public sector workers is that the key to higher pay lies in a protracted series of strikes, writes Isabel Hardman in the Spectator.
- “The U.K.’s birth rate is falling. Will a Labour Government respond?” – In Politics Home, Sienna Rodgers talks to figures across the Left to explore how a Labour Government might respond – or not – to the U.K.’s falling birth rate.
- “Labour MP: regulate media to ‘make Starmer’s job easier’” – To help Starmer better handle press scrutiny, Labour MP Ribeiro-Addy has suggested the Prime Minister should consider, er, regulating the press, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “‘I care more about children than pensioners,’ says key Labour donor” – Green energy tycoon Dale Vince claims it’s right for the Chancellor to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners because so many British children now live in poverty, reports Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is locked in a low-trust, high-crime spiral” – Governments that lose the confidence of their voters are in serious bother, says Ian Acheson in CapX.
- “The writing is already on the wall for Labour’s floundering Government” – Keir Starmer’s ‘loveless landslide’ was always volatile and his weak political antennae means his party is sinking in the polls, writes John Curtice in the Telegraph.
- “A very wooden cabinet” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson casts a (very) critical eye over Keir Starmer’s Cabinet.
- “Wes Streeting’s surprising praise for Reform” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reacts to Wes Streeting’s bold claim that Nigel Farage’s Reform party is the new intellectual powerhouse of the Right.
- “The plight of Hatun Tash shames Britain” – There is something far more offensive, and scary, than Hatun Tash’s occasional sullying of the Koran: the chattering classes’ silence over her persecution, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “‘I was barred from Anthony Joshua’s fight after criticising Saudi sports-washing’” – After criticising Saudi Arabia‘s ‘sportswashing’, the Telegraph’s Oliver Brown found himself barred from Anthony Joshua’s world title fight.
- “Israeli missiles rain down on Lebanon as Netanyahu issues warning” – Israeli missiles slammed into the Lebanese capital of Beirut yesterday in a strike said to be targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, reports the Mail.
- “Brandenburg Election: the Federal Government teeters on the edge of collapse, the SPD pull off a pyrrhic victory with the help of confused pensioners and the AfD win another blocking minority” – On Substack, Eugypius reflects on the results of the last of the three regional elections held in East Germany.
- “Immigration has turned Germany upside down” – The row heating up over migration in Berlin shows the Right is destabilising traditional German politics, writes Lisa Haseldine in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s war on the boiler will end in electoral disaster – just ask the Germans” – The radical heating law introduced by Olaf Scholz’s coalition was astonishingly toxic – and should come as a warning to Starmer, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “‘Port Talbot won’t feel or look the same – it breaks my heart’” – The BBC reports on the closure of Port Talbot’s steelworks, resulting in the loss of 2,000 jobs as the town confronts the end of its industrial legacy.
- “Millions urged to get Covid and flu jabs amid ‘tripledemic’ fears” – Millions of people are being urged to get their free flu, Covid and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines amid fears of a ‘tripledemic’ that could overwhelm the NHS, according to Women’s Health. Here we go again.
- “Covid-era social distancing bollard turns shopping street into ‘ghost town’” – Businesses in a Surrey town say that a road barrier introduced during the pandemic has led to a devastating fall in trade, reports the Mail.
- “Crits-Christoph et al. 2024 retraction request” – On the Biosafety Now Substack, Prof. Bryce Nickels posts the fifth in a series of documented calls for the retraction of scientifically unsound papers on the origin of COVID-19.
- “Amazon excommunicates Dr. Paul Marik” – Amazon’s banning of Dr. Paul Marik’s book Cancer Care is an extremely dark moment in the history of censorship, warns John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “‘I was the devil incarnate’: an interview with John Boyne” – In the Spectator, Julie Bindel sits down with John Boyne, who reveals how a children’s book he wrote turned him into the unwitting poster boy for ‘transphobia’.
- “Instilling fragility” – In his latest Law & Liberty essay, Theodore Dalrymple warns of the ongoing dangers of the infantilisation of the British populace, which has gone hand in hand with the growth in the popularity of psychology at universities. After all, those psychology graduates need customers.
- “How common sense has gone walkabout in woke Australia” – Since the turn of this century, Australia’s political and social elites have endeavoured to import ‘progressive values’, bound up in all manner of nanny state rules, says Terry Barnes in the Mail.
- “Anyone who admired Greta Thunberg when she was faking support for climate must feel like an idiot now“ – On X, Dr. Eli David reposts a video of the climate campaigner who’s become a fully-fledged anti-Israeli fanatic.
Anyone who admired @GretaThunberg when she was faking support for climate must feel like an idiot now, when she turned into a full-fledged Jihadi
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) September 22, 2024
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Allison deleted the post on X, ergo there may be a prima facie case, else why was it deleted?
When was the tweet deleted and was it deleted in anticipation of the actions which plod later undertook?
Not committing a crime is not a “case”.
Since the police did not tell her which tweet it was, she cannot say she deleted it.
X do not delete posts, therefore Allison deleted the post, so why?
Please could someone enlighten me: what exactly did Allison say?
Impossible to say because the police did not say which tweet it was.
So then if the police doesn’t tell her which tweet they found objectionable, what is she supposed to do about it?
Doesn’t anybody accused have a right to know what he or she is accused of?
She may be told at interview (she is taking an FSU lawyer). However, as we know, the process is the punishment not the conclusion.
So how does it go then?
The police turn on at your house.
They tell you someone made a complaint about you but they can’t tell you what it is.
Then what?
If they have no reasonable grounds to suspect that you committed s crime, what right do they have to trouble you?
That’s not uncommon for the British police to do. I once got pulled out of a pub by the police to record my personal details and told this was done because I was considered a suspect in some crime. I asked what that crime was but they wouldn’t tell me. Some months later, I got called by the police and asked to come to the police station for an interview because I was considered a suspect in some crime. When I again asked what that crime was, they again wouldn’t tell me, for my own protection, as I was told. Yet some time later, I got another call and they told that they didn’t consider me a suspect anymore and hence, I wouldn’t need to come for the interview.
I have still absolutely no idea what this was about.
I also think it is very difficult to defend yourself if you don’t know what it is all about. Can you just not refuse to come to the police station until you know what it is all about?
This is all too ridiculous.
If they arrest you on suspicion, they must say what the suspicion is, in this case probably stirring up racial haterid (which I doubt she did). You do not need to do anything until you are arrested, and at that point a competent lawyer will want full details of everything. You need say nothing. The police will probably refuse to say anything to the Lawyer, which leaves an impasse that the Police hate. Then they have to charge or release you. An NCHI should not be recorded anyway, it is NOT a crime and should never be disclosed. At that point, if disclosed, sue the Police! Not a Crime. They can never prove stirring up racial haterid, who is the witness, someone admitting they hate you? It is simply an allegation of opinion.
The attack on free-speech (and its replacement by government-approved speech) which we can see all around us isn’t an accident, a slip-up, an oversight, or a mistake. It is our government’s fundamental policy, and is designed to facilitate our degenerate Establishment’s central project: the Great Replacement. Indeed, without the destruction of free-speech this project cannot succeed. This is why our response has to be to insist on free-speech in all circumstances.
To the bandwagon-jumping ex-government. You were (supposedly) in charge from 2010 until 2024. This all happened on your watch.
Did you know about this yet choose to do nothing, perhaps through cowardice? Were you blissfully unaware and therefore utterly clueless? Are you suddenly seeing things clearly because you lost power?
Shall we take your wails as sincere or simply as attempts to become electable once more?
Jog on. You’ll have to do much better than that.
Totally agree.
All of a sudden Liz Truss, Ian Duncan Smith, Robert Jenrick go all apoplectic and huff and puff about this, when they had 14 years to abolish “non/hate crime incidents” and did nothing.
Boris Johnson’s a fine one to talk and presumes we all suffer amnesia. These incidents also happened under the Tories. This is from May this year;
”A police force was last night accused of ‘trampling’ over democracy after detectives allegedly put pressure on a local Tory party to unseat a colleague wrongly accused of a hate crime.
Anthony Stevens, a Conservative councillor in Northamptonshire, was arrested last year after posting an image from a video – first revealed by The Mail on Sunday – of a Christian preacher having his bible wrested off him by police in the street.
The father of two was held for nine hours, during which he was also quizzed about his online support of another politician who criticised gay pride events. Mr Stevens, 51, a member of Wellingborough Town Council, was released and later told that no further action would be taken against him.
But the MoS can now reveal that days before Mr Stevens was arrested, a Northamptonshire Police detective phoned Jonathan Ekins, a former local Tory mayor for Wellingborough, and allegedly told him Mr Stevens should be ‘removed’ as a councillor because of his views.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13434031/Police-accused-trampling-democracy-detectives-pressure-local-Tory-party-unseat-councillor-arrested-wrongly-accused-hate-crime.html
Remember your rights, so says Black belt barrister. It seems to be happening to a lot of people;
”NOTE: Article 10 (Freedom of expression) is a protected right.
This must not be eroded by the establishment.”
https://x.com/dshensmith/status/1856603097910374651
There’s some debate on the interwebs whether the Police were making a call about an alleged non-crime hate incident or establishing the groundwork for the investigation of a real crime.
In any even the general advice seems to be to tell the police only what they are legally entitled to know and make sure you make no further comment without your solicitor being present and advising you.
Just out of curiosity, what are the police “legally entitled to know”?
The Police as I think we can all agree have been superb at their jobs, All burglaries and thefts are solved and the thieves imprisoned, likewise any woman raped, or assaulted can be assured that the attacker will be brought to justice, knife crime a thing of the past, likewise terrorists, Shoplifters all caught. Yes I think we can all agree the Police have done such a sterling job that they have so much free time on their hands they can now go after all of those who say hurty words that conflict with the big book of approved words, beliefs and sayings of our political masters and our betters.
I know that if my car .phone, property is stolen or vandalised the Police will have it sorted and solved by ——————————–errr
Agreed, Freedom Loving Boris, Starmer’s the sort of person who fine someone £50,000 for opening a gym or a hairdressers in March 2020.
Hold on a minute, in March 2020 we found out that it was only your own freedom you loved Boris.
Whoever sent those police to intimidate her on Remembrance Sunday, of all days, for freedom of speech A YEAR AGO, showed their treasonous contempt for the Armed Forces of the West.
Never mind “Starmer’s Britain” – NCHIs were invented and enhanced under the tories, so button it, BoJo.
What really happened in Amsterdam…
https://youtu.be/DvTyg1kJGzM?si=-PwR6ncKHSl9utD3
We must be extremely careful what we believe in media in this modern age of misinformation..
Question absolutely everything..
I wont bother saying it…….. Yes i will… I told you so..
Thank you for providing this link. It confirms what I read recently about the Amsterdam attack being started by Israeli youths, but I couldn’t find the article again.
Allison was one of the few speaking truth through Covid. I suspect she is too effective and they are trying to shut her up
This is the most important thing to have happened for some time. Free speech is being eroded. She is “visited” without reason or charge, which is the same tactic as the Gestapo used in NAZI Germany. People are just taken away never to be seen again! I don’t think we have concentration camps yet (boncentration bamps in Pythoneese) but you never know. Join the FSU now!
Worth reading in full it says at the bottom. Actually, no it isn’t because the whole thing is a wonderful example of totally incompetent journalism from the legacy media.
The police visited Pearson – on a badly chosen day – to arrange a formal interview at a police station in relation to an alleged offence under Section 17 of the Public Order Act. So all this media hot air about non-crime hate incidents – which are a stupid idea of course – is totally wrong. The police are investigating a possible crime although one that many of us here would consider complete bollocks. And without knowing what was tweeted further comment is pointless.
As more information has been revealed – not noticed so far by the DS – this has become a glorious example of the utter incompetence of the police, in fact THREE police forces as well as the expected failure of the legacy media. The possible ‘offensive’ post has been found by the Guardian but the slight problem is that it was NOT posted from Allison Pearson’s account.