- “Half of depraved Rotherham grooming gang has been released” – Five of the six members of one of the most depraved Rotherham grooming gangs have been released or have parole hearings coming up, reveals the Mail.
- “How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up” – The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society, say Sam Ashworth-Hayes and Charlie Peters in the Telegraph.
- “Time for action on grooming gangs” – The Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern Tim Dieppe comments on how political correctness and the fear of offending Islam have led to young girls being sacrificed to rape gangs.
- “Lucy Allan exposes how authorities hid the truth on grooming gangs” – On X, Matt Goodwin highlights a chilling account from Lucy Allan, former MP for Telford, revealing the steps authorities took to suppress the truth about grooming gangs.
- “Why don’t the white working class matter to progressives?” – Why is the abuse of white working-class girls ignored? asks Paul Sutton on his Substack.
- “Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is shattering the ultra-liberal world-view” – In the information age, progressives can no longer spin false narratives – and their fear is palpable, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Jess Phillips’s honour more important to Starmer than the rape of young girls” – In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley accuses the PM of missing the mark in his press conference yesterday, which focused more on defending MPs from criticism than addressing the grooming scandal.
- “Labour’s hypocrisy over Jess Phillips attacks” – The Spectator’s Steerpike calls out Labour hypocrisy as Starmer defends Jess Phillips while conveniently ignoring the attack ad he approved in 2023, which accused Rishi Sunak of not believing convicted child sex offenders should be jailed.
- “Starmer: Calls for grooming gang inquiry are ‘far-Right bandwagon’” – Keir Starmer has been accused of “smear tactics” after claiming those wanting an inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal were jumping on a “far-Right bandwagon”, reports the Mail.
- “Teach children to identify as Muslim instead of British, says frontrunner for Islamic body” – The frontrunner to lead the Muslim Council of Britain says that children in the Islamic community should be taught to identify as Muslim rather than British, according to GB News.
- “‘Disturbing’ views of Muslim Council candidates” – One of the two candidates vying to lead the Muslim Council for Britain has praised Iran and the other has said mixed gender New Year celebrations were “un-Islamic”, reports the Times.
- “The Schools Bill: pure vandalism” – On Wednesday, the Schools Bill faces its second reading. It’s a disaster, says Neil O’Brien MP on his Substack.
- “Bridget Phillipson’s educational agenda must be opposed” – The Department for Education is taking aim at standards in British schools, warns James Price in the Critic.
- “Educashun, educashun, educashun” – The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum, says David James in the Critic.
- “What’s up with U.K. academia?” – On her Fairyland Substack, Ella Dorn shows how U.K. universities are prioritising social justice over open inquiry in the humanities.
- “Tulip Siddiq refers herself to watchdog on ministerial standards” – Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq has referred herself to the PM’s ethics watchdog over links to a Russian deal with her aunt, the former Bangladesh Prime Minister, and properties linked to her political party, reports Sky News. How long before she resigns?
- “Is it time to lay off Tulip Siddiq?” – In the Spectator, Sam Leith argues that Tulip Siddiq’s property perks might be being overblown – after all, who among us hasn’t been given a gift by a generous aunt?
- “A restaurant apocalypse is looming” – Labour has put the collapse of the dining sector back on the menu, says Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “Farage says Elon Musk doesn’t ‘know full story’ about Tommy Robinson” – Nigel Farage says that Musk’s support for Tommy Robinson suggests the Tesla billionaire doesn’t know the “full story” about the activist’s political and criminal past, according to the Mail.
- “How Jordan Peterson interview with Tommy Robinson led to Musk’s bust-up with Reform” – Reform insiders are convinced that Musk’s support for Robinson stems from his conversations with Dr. Jordan Peterson, reports the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer’s speech may be the last gasp of a floundering Government” – The PM has made a grim mistake by doubling down on his strategy of pretending that you’re either on his side or ‘far Right’, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Ministers tell Musk to get off social media as they hint at X boycott” – The PM’s Cabinet allies say that Musk needs an online “detox”, and have even hinted at a boycott of X, according to the Mail.
- “Police force ‘quits’ Elon Musk’s X as latest organisation to leave” – Derbyshire Police has announced it is joining the exodus from Elon Musk’s X after being bombarded with abuse from internet trolls, reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk is neither our saviour nor our destroyer” – Musk doesn’t pose a threat to our democracy, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked. He’s more like the world’s richest pub bore.
- “Boss issued apology after he accidentally followed Tommy Robinson on X” – The boss of a speech and language therapy group has been forced to issue a grovelling apology following a five-month investigation – because he followed Tommy Robinson on X, reports the Mail.
- “Why Elon Musk cares about Britain’s sinking reputation ” – Given his British ancestry, Musk has a right to speak up about what’s happening in the Old Country – and he’s right to notice how bad things have got, says Ed West in the Spectator.
- “New polling data confirms Musk effect on support for Alternative für Deutschland” – On Substack, Eugyppius reports that Musk’s “AfD can save Germany” hype is driving their support to new highs, with even unlikely voters backing the party.
- “Starmer is failing to capitalise on the death of Europe with his delusional ‘reset’ plan” – The EU has never been in worse shape, but Labour’s Europhilia is blinding them to reality, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer has just months to salvage this wreck” – Enough of the ‘milestones’ and resets. Labour must urgently learn how to run a country or it’s doomed, writes Iain Dale in the Telegraph.
- “Quarter of Labour voters suffer buyer’s remorse” – There’s more bad news for Labour as new polling by More in Common for LBC has revealed that a quarter of those who backed Keir Starmer’s party in last year’s election now regret their decision, reports Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The year that will make or break Kemi Badenoch” – As they return to Parliament this week, many Tories will expect to see some evidence that Badenoch can turn back the tide of Reform, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Blundering DWP pays half a billion pounds to dead people” – The Department for Work and Pensions has accidentally paid £500 million in state pension payments to dead Britons in just five years, reports GB News.
- “MPs to debate petition demanding fresh General Election” – MPs are set to debate a petition demanding a fresh General Election after it was signed by more than three million people, says the Mail.
- “Labour MP under fire for claiming General Election petition was product of ‘foreign interference’” – A Labour MP has come under fire for claiming a petition demanding a fresh General Election was driven by “foreign interference’’, reports the Mail.
- “Labour ditches plans to ban new gas boilers from 2035” – Labour has ditched plans to ban new gas boilers from 2035, despite its obsession with heat pumps, says the Mail.
- “Trains cancelled after union tells drivers not to walk on snow” – Train services were axed after Aslef told drivers to avoid walking on snow on their way to work, halting Avanti West Coast routes between Liverpool and London, according to the Telegraph.
- “Norway doubles down on oil and gas” – Norway’s oil and gas investment is expected to reach a record high in 2025, driven by new exploration activity and increased demand for Norwegian gas, reports Oilprice.com.
- “Did FDA know a child had died in Moderna’s Covid jab clinical trial? If so, what did the agency do about it?” – On his Substack, Alex Berenson probes the FDA’s silence over a child’s death in Moderna’s Covid vaccine trial, questioning whether the agency knew but chose to cover it up.
- “Labour uses AI bunnies to promote NHS in bizarre promo video” – A bizarre Labour Party TikTok video featuring AI-generated bunnies to promote NHS reforms has been slammed for using technology that threatens the creative sector, reports the Express.
- “Labour’s TikTok video song: young girls ‘sit on d*ck’ and ‘punching’ p**y” – Guido discovers that the lyrics of the Brazilian song, featured in Labour’s AI TikTok video promoting NHS reforms, are anything but wholesome…
- “Royal Society of Literature Director quits after free speech rows” – The Royal Society of Literature’s leaders are set to step down following a civil war between writers over diversity and free speech, reports the Telegraph. Another case of Go Woke, Go Broke?
- “‘It was a political figure that brought the charge against Tommy Robinson for contempt” – On GB News, Ben Habib tells Nana Akua why Starmer’s Attorney General turning Tommy Robinson’s civil contempt charge into a prison sentence makes the former EDL leader, prima facie, a political prisoner.
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Woke is evil
He was arrested for defending a Christian Cllr’s right to object to the gender perverts and mentally ill deniers of chromosomes, dna and mitochondria. If the other Cllr had been a Mahometan or Hindu no arrest by the Pervert Gestapo. As in the DisUnited States, the Plod is simply a Gestapo for Gov’t special interests.
What are Cllr Lawal and Stevens doing in the Tory party if they believe in the principal of freedom of speech?
The worrying thing about this story is the extent to which it is now normalised. We have already had victories over precisely this, yet the police are persisting with the same approach. Suella Braverman has even addressed precisely this, yet the police are ignoring all she has said. These stories are multiplying despite crossing legal bounds and no one is held to account. And now, dare I say it, even the commenters annoy me (in the Telegraph not here – here is much better). When they express outrage now they just look to me like birds who, with the publication of the story, have been fed some bird feed and while they are pecking away the real culprits are moving on, setting the next domino in place ready to start the show and flip our world into totalitarianism.
The UK is increasingly a Christophobic country.
There is not one single case of the plod arresting a Mahometan for objecting to the mentally ill pervert cult.
Woke is evil
Sheesh! Welcome to clown world eh?
The decision makers in Plod-world should be made accountable for this nonsense.
Too many things to say about this disgraceful incident and not enough time, therefore I’ll leave it to the late, great George Carlin. He could be talking about any government in the laughably labelled ”free and democratic” West here. As long as governments overreach and employ goon squads to trample all over our liberties and keep us in check basic rights such as freedom of speech and democracy are just one big, fat illusion. A privilege to be given and taken away at their behest.
“Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government does not give a f*** about them. Government doesn’t care about you or your children or your rights or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a f*** about you. It’s interested in its own power, that’s the only thing, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible. Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights or we have no rights at all.
And rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter. You see how it’s going?”
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1695813659883434338
Thanks for that Mogs. Very true.
When’s the kick back going to start…
Andrew Tate and Alex Jones get together and discuss the state of the world, propaganda, control and feminisation of men.
https://youtu.be/aAQ8pKYnsHM?si=Elw__oDPCDWq5XbS
A bit shouty but makes one second guess the relentless attacks. He’s awake.
Wokery in conjunction with the Liberal Progressive virus denies you the right to have an opinion on Equality, Diversity, Race, Gender or Climate. Whoever thought that in a supposedly free country that we would be denied an opinion? If you have an opinion that does not comply with the tenets of the 5 agenda’s I listed you are committing a crime of HATE. —–How totally absurd. I disagree so I am guilty? But this article shows another extension to that absurdity where someone who then neither agrees nor disagrees with another persons allegedly hateful view gets into a spot of bother for saying that person should be free to have his opinion. —–What a dreadful slippery slope where non Progressives will soon all be in the woke gulag.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Your distillation of the current state of play is absolutely spot on.
We now have Stasi ..Official .
Again totally disproportionate Police action .
The law needs changing ..
The people are sovereign. The government is there to serve.
Legally unenforceable manifestos presented at 4 or 5y intervals give governments no right to remove a millennium of rights.
The globalists don’t think so and are laughing at such a quaint assertion. And at the moment they are winning.
As a resident of Northamptonshire I’ll be dropping the Chief Constable a line on the line he has crossed.
I know his PA!
I cannot get my head around this, how is this even possible ?
So police really turned up to someones house and arrested them over a tweet and locked them up for 9 hours.
The police are not fit for purpose,
How many police officers did that tie up in a nice & easy job with no need to patrol streets, a smart middle class family to terrorise with ease and no nasty loudmouthed perps to nick? What’s not to like?
Quite. I hope he sues Northamptonshire Plod. Incidentally, during the Covid nonsense wasn’t it the head of Northamptonshire Plod who threatened to have his minions search people’s shopping for “non-essential” items?
Well it took 6 or 7 to arrest that poor autistic teenage lass who had the temerity to say one of them looked like her lesbian nana. Would they even send that many if some violent thug was kicking off in town on a Saturday night? It’s a chuffing joke. Let it never be said, should you ever have the misfortune to be burgled, that the police can’t be with you for 5 hours due to lack of resources.
Mogs, the plod will not attend household burglary cases.
Well it took 6 or 7 to arrest that poor autistic teenage lass who had the temerity to say one of them looked like her lesbian nana. Would they even send that many if some violent thug was kicking off in town on a Saturday night?
It depends. If bouncers call the police, they’ll usually act, as that’s one of their peer groups. Ordinary members of the public or even bar staff are usually told to get lost. They’re supposed to hire bouncers for protection. But that’s certainly not a racket. No, no, no, this cannot be!
To answer that you need to consider what is going on at a deeper level. Consider, there is a relationship between this and Donald Trump’s arrest. It might sound tenuous, but consider what is driving those two things and that is the level that answers your question. No of course it’s not a single coordinating entity – if there is one they haven’t directly asked for this, but it IS a confluence of interests and philosophies where the centralisation of greed and power is leading the world to a very dark place.
No manpower issues for Northants police, then; though looks like some of them have been ‘wasting police time’ and ‘impersonating a police officer’.
Stephen Mold
Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire
Email- Commissioner@northantspfcc.gov.uk
https://www.stephenmold.com
Please drop Mr Mold a polite, factual line on this travesty.
I hereby politlely request that people self-identifying as Northamptonshire police beings refrain from acting as strongmen for the local Labour party in future, something they’ve been factually doing so far?
No bloody chance of that leading to anything except maybe laughter and some other police forces being tipped off wrt potential troublemakers which could do with some proactive policing. Didn’t you ever wonder why open sale of stolen goods and trading of supposedly illegal drugs is happening everywhere in plain sight? Hint: It’s not because the police alone cannot see this. They just know why they ought to turn a blind eye to it.
He needs to name the scumbag labour councillor.
Isn’t it about time a senior copper was fired for promoting this sort of conduct amongst the lower ranks? Unless and until serious consequences follow this behaviour will continue.
Are the police given any training these days? The incidents where plod goes rogue seem to be occurring with increasing frequency. It’s almost as if they are trained to act outside the law. No surely not…
I’ve just sent Stephen Mold, the Northamptonshire Police Commissioner a message.
Please consider dropping him a polite, respectful and factual message.
Sir,
As Christian who lives in the county I’m frankly appalled by the treatment by Northamptonshire Police of Messrs Lawal and Stevens in this case of woke policing.
For the record, I hugely respect our force.
It seems the Chief Constable is now targeting Christians who hold the traditional Biblical view of homosexuality.
I wish to raise a formal complaint over this matter. As a published author and local speaker who has many Christian friends within the county, I also need to make you aware we feel intimidated by this woke policing. It seems policing ‘without fear or favour’ is no longer the ethos.
Sincerely
Thank you Neil.
Yet another fine advert for the Free Speech Union. It could be one of us next and I am not being glib with that comment.
This seems eminently winnable for the FSU. Go on Toby, tear them a new one!
We’d better all sign up and pay our subs then.
On the other hand, so far as I know the police do not harass the High Street Bible-thumpers that I see and hear every week who warn me of all manner of Evil in the world sometimes referring to activities banned by Leviticus. Perhaps police policy, guided by the Home Office, is to turn a blind eye unless the preacher or tweeter also holds a position of actual political influence?
The clue is he had been reported to the police by a local Labour Party member. Labour party members don’t enlist the police to help them furthering the political agenda of their party wrt to street preachers whose ranting and raving is of no conceivable concern to them. They probably could, though, which is bad enough.
I’m on a roll here … now written to Chief Constable Nick Adderley, copied to Police Commisioner and local MP.
Please do likewise if you can – remember they’ll be coming for you next.
Enough is enough.
Sir,
You will no doubt be aware of the action of your force against Anthony Stevens who was arrested, then held in custody for 9 hours simply for tweeting a link for a petition to defend King Lawal, both Northamptonshire councillors. The context is that King was sharing his traditional, Bible-based Christian beliefs.
For the record, I have long held our county’s police in high regard, publicising its efforts for motorcycle safety on my YouTube channel, the 3 videos now with over 100,000 hits. Your officers have always been highly responsive and effective on the occasions we have needed assistance. As an advanced rider, my mentor and riding buddy is an ex-police instructor. I was best man for a police sergeant’s wedding and have always held the thin blue line in the highest regard.
As a Christian myself of 50 years faith, I am frankly appalled by your officer’s treatment of Mr Stevens, and that in front of his family. This was clearly designed to intimidate, to send a message.
These actions bring Northamptonshire Police into disrepute, clearly abandoning the principle of policing ‘without fear or favour’. It is obvious now that some groups get more favour than others. I would remind you that Sir Robert Peel was a committed Christian and UK law is strongly rooted in Judeo-Christian principles.
I have raised the issue with the Commissioner and hope you focus your resources – paid for by people like me – on real crime and not wokism.
Sincerely
Excellent
Excellent letter. But will it get an equally excellent reply?
The content of the reply doesn’t really matter, Neil has set an excellent example of what we all need to do in our locality in similar cases if we wish to be both heard and the issue remedied. We are in the situation we find ourselves in because good people do nothing.
Response received 29/8 …
Thank you for emailing the Chief Constable, when this matter was brought to the attention of the Chief Constable he commissioned a review into the circumstances and facts. This is a live investigation so no comment will be made at this stage and will await the findings of the initial review.
Regards
Xxxx
Inspector xxxxx
Staff Officer to CC Nick Adderley / Head of Executive Support
Why is Toby Young saying the police have made a serious mistake? Is there evidence that it was a mistake rather than policy?
First question to Police…who has made the complaint?
Isn’t it about time that the ‘complainers’ were clearly identified?
If the police won’t tell you, don’t let them in in the first place…it’s about time that the people who make these bogus complaints were identified, so that they can be equally smeared by the publicity and hopefully successfully sued……?!
Someone must be wondering if Jesus Christ can save these two gentlemen. Chiefly from themselves. An elephant only has itself to blame if it lumbers into a pit. Or gets eaten by a pride of lions.
It’s never wise to defend the indefensible. Burning a book is hardly a matter of speech, free or otherwise. Being fascinated by these book burnings is ignorant. Tweeting a photo of the scripture concerned being placed on the floor would be offensive. Adding the strife of tongues to the plotting of men that is politics is not being slow to speak, as the Christian scripture would advise the counsellor.
Christian virtues do not rule England. If the Christian counsellor had been more aware of the nature of the ‘formidable season’ in which we live, and which, as a Christian he could have learned about quite easily from his Apostle, Paul (2 Tim. iii. 1-5), he could have saved himself a lot of unnecessary inconvenience. And Paul would have advised the counsellor to give respect to whom respect is due.
Book burning is a perfect example of free speech.
Quit rimming the islamists – they hate useful idiots like you as much as they hate the people applying a match to their handbook – you are the kuffar – you are beneath the animals to an islamist.
Before you start with the “not all muzzies” nonsense – consider this
“Radical” islamists demand the global caliphate as soon as possible and by any means necessary.
“Moderate” islamists are happy to wait for the radicals to deliver…
TRUST NOT A ONE OF THEM.
“Someone must be wondering if Jesus Christ can save these two gentlemen”
Save them from what?
Please give examples of “speech” and please clarify what speech you think should be prohibited by law and why.
What “respect” is due, to whom? Why is saving yourself inconvenience a virtue?
Do you think either of the men has committed a “hate crime”?
If you don’t think burning a book is “speech”, consider what action would have been taken had the book being burned been some bland volume such as a dictionary. Do you seriously think any action would have been taken? It’s absurd to think that would have been the case, therefore the action of burning a religious text is quite obviously speech.
So many of these cases seem to result from police not being very bright, and not understanding the laws that they are supposed to be upholding.
This seems to be repeated so often. Time for our Home Secretary to provide unambiguous orders to the police forces that speech upsetting senribilities in others us NOT an offence. This ‘hate crime’ thing has to stop.
The UK Keystone Cops are woefully Incompetent. They don’t understand that the day of reckoning will be upon them.
It seems that the only written part of our constitution is being torn up, the Magna Carta. It is probably the most important legal document ever written, and the fact that the Police do not understand it speaks volumes about their now undeclared purpose. This “hate speech” thing is bad law, made by idiots in Parliament without a clue of life, because pressure groups wanted it to kick back at some “foreign practices” which were criticised by the indigenous population. I am sure you all know what these include, rape, grooming etc.
I found this one of the most extraordinary actions to date by our woke police. I hope the FSU will help this councillor sue the pants off Nottinghamshire Police. It is also indicative that he was reported to police by a Labour councillor, which suggests what we might be in for when Labour next get into power.
Just a piece of advice if this should ever happen to you. The first thing you must do at the police station is ask to see the duty solicitor and not say anything else until you have spoken them.
This is now England . Banana Republic