Watch this space is all we can do, and hope đ€
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wrpje9le1o
An anti-abortion group has called for abortion medication to stop being accessible by post after a man was convicted of poisoning a woman with pills.
Stuart Worby, 40, from Dereham, Norfolk, was jailed for 12 years for sexually assaulting the pregnant woman and giving her abortion medication.
Right To Life UK wants the government to suspend the ability for people to be sent this medication by post, which was introduced during the Covid pandemic, in light of the case.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service said women needed to access safe abortions and should not be punished "for the actions of abusive men".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3zd40kdgyo
Elderly and vulnerable people in south-east England have told the BBC how they lost control of their money and property after dealing with a law firm based in Essex.
They described how they were persuaded - and sometimes felt under pressure - to grant lasting power of attorney (LPA) to a man called Ron Hiller, a partner in the firm.
LPA is a legal agreement in which someone appoints an "attorney" to make decisions on their behalf, either for finance or health and welfare.
Attorneys are supposed to act in their clients' best interests. But we investigated 30 cases involving Mr Hiller and his firm, Craybeck Law, and found a disturbing pattern of events:
People found they had no access to their bank accounts and no idea how much Mr Hiller was charging for being their attorney
Large amounts of cash were withdrawn without a reasonable explanation
Properties were sold for what owners and others considered was lower than market value, and possessions were cleared and disposed of without owners' knowledge or informed consent
There has been a massive rise in LPAs in England and Wales in recent years. In 2023, more than one million people registered - a rise of 37% on the year before.
Random cat of the day
https://x.com/IMissHitchSlaps/status/1862588711822938215
Good news everybody!
Defra might make it mandatory for the not very well tested anti fart additive to be in all cattle feed! Shown to cause cancer in rats but don't worry, the NHS will let you use a death pod.
And don't worry about the possible reduction in male fertility it seems to cause, it's not as if Brits aren't reproducing at replacement levels.
Yay for Bill Gates and his depopulation agenda!
Apparently the coastguard has been back and forward all day back home, between this and apparently some young woman on my island is missing, and a young man in Barra has hanged himself đ© I hate this time of year, the amount of shit that happens there these last years around now to January has been terrible, so many tragedies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxzz3l6n3o
Police search specialists from Aberdeen and Inverness have joined efforts to find a teenager missing on Lewis for four days.
Aleksandr Benga, 16, was last seen near a water wheel in the grounds of Stornoway's Lews Castle at about 08:45 on Monday.
People have been asked to check outbuildings in case he had sought shelter from cold weather.
Insp David Hall also appealed to public to check any CCTV they had for sightings of Aleksandr.
Well, now we know.
Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance issued by the British Transport Police (BTP).
The guidance, seen by The Telegraph, allows male staff identifying as female to intimately search women so long as they have a gender recognition certificate (GRC). It comes after backlash earlier this year saw similar national policing guidance temporarily withdrawn after the-then government raised concerns about womenâs safety.
The guidance says officers can search people of the same sex as âeither their birth certificate or GRCâ in BTP jurisdiction. It also suggests that disclosure of a personâs GRC without written permission could be an offence under the Gender Recognition Act. Authorised in September by the assistant chief constable for network policing, it reads: âBritish Transport Police recognises the status of transgender and non-binary detainees/staff from the moment they permanently identify in that gender with or without a GRC. âThis means that even when a person has not legally changed their sex, we should continue to use the correct pronouns and recognise the personâs gender. BTP officers/staff will only search persons of the same sex as either their birth certificate or GRC.â
https://thecritic.co.uk/something-has-gone-very-wrong-with-human-rights/
Why canât Britain deport foreign paedophiles?
This isnât a trick question; all too often, the headlines are dominated by stories of heinous criminals whose deportations are blocked on spurious pretext. Just days ago, news broke that a Congolese paedophile who had sexually assaulted his own stepdaughter had been allowed to remain in the UK on human rights grounds.
Even more bluntly, somebody with an impartial interest in child welfare shouldnât seek to keep a convicted paedophile in the country. The state is paying activist social workers to frustrate the Home Officeâs efforts. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. Anicet Mayela, also Congolese, was recently sentenced to ten years in prison for raping and impregnating a 15-year old girl in Oxford. Back in 2005, Mayelaâs deportation was blocked on human rights grounds. In late October, the headlines were dominated by the story of an Indian paedophile, known as HS, whose deportation was blocked by the Home Office on the grounds that removing him from the country would interfere with his âright to a family lifeâ.
https://thecritic.co.uk/john-swinneys-isla-bryson-moment/
Next week, the highest court in the land will hear arguments that show that, far from leaving a legacy of clear legislation, MPs who voted for the Equality Act 2010 left unfinished business when it comes to one of its key definitions: what is a woman? If â somehow â you are only dimly aware of the long-running political and cultural argument about the definition of a woman, you may wonder why the Supreme Court is wasting its time on such an obvious question. Surely, a woman is an adult human female? But, according to a horde of academics, senior politicians, countless celebrities and even some medics, you would be wrong. A woman, as defined by the proponents of gender identity theory, is anyone who says they are one, regardless of their biology.
Under Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Government went to court to defend this identity-based interpretation, in the context of the Equality Act 2010. First it won; then, on appeal, it lost. But the Scottish courts left open that a man who has obtained a gender recognition certificate (GRC) is a woman under that Act, as if he had been born female. This is why next Tuesday and Wednesday, five Supreme Court judges led by Lord Reed will consider a question brought by campaign group For Women Scotland: âIs a person with a full gender recognition certificate which recognises that their gender is female a âwomanâ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010?â
We are approaching what is arguably the end game in the battle between material reality and gender identity theory. If the Supreme Court upholds Lady Haldaneâs 2022 ruling that âthe meaning of sex for the purposes of the 2010 [Equality] Act, âsexâ is not limited to biological or birth sex, but includes those in possession of a GRC obtained in accordance with the 2004 Act stating their acquired gender, and thus their sexâ, then Britainâs sex wars will rage on until politicians at Westminster are willing to confront the tangled legacy of earlier legislation.
He is such a pathetic little scrote.
https://thecritic.co.uk/john-swinneys-isla-bryson-moment/
Next week, the highest court in the land will hear arguments that show that, far from leaving a legacy of clear legislation, MPs who voted for the Equality Act 2010 left unfinished business when it comes to one of its key definitions: what is a woman?
If â somehow â you are only dimly aware of the long-running political and cultural argument about the definition of a woman, you may wonder why the Supreme Court is wasting its time on such an obvious question. Surely, a woman is an adult human female? But, according to a horde of academics, senior politicians, countless celebrities and even some medics, you would be wrong. A woman, as defined by the proponents of gender identity theory, is anyone who says they are one, regardless of their biology.
Under Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Government went to court to defend this identity-based interpretation, in the context of the Equality Act 2010. First it won; then, on appeal, it lost. But the Scottish courts left open that a man who has obtained a gender recognition certificate (GRC) is a woman under that Act, as if he had been born female. This is why next Tuesday and Wednesday, five Supreme Court judges led by Lord Reed will consider a question brought by campaign group For Women Scotland: âIs a person with a full gender recognition certificate which recognises that their gender is female a âwomanâ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010?â
We are approaching what is arguably the end game in the battle between material reality and gender identity theory. If the Supreme Court upholds Lady Haldaneâs 2022 ruling that âthe meaning of sex for the purposes of the 2010 [Equality] Act, âsexâ is not limited to biological or birth sex, but includes those in possession of a GRC obtained in accordance with the 2004 Act stating their acquired gender, and thus their sexâ, then Britainâs sex wars will rage on until politicians at Westminster are willing to confront the tangled legacy of earlier legislation.
https://thecritic.co.uk/something-has-gone-very-wrong-with-human-rights/
Why canât Britain deport foreign paedophiles?
This isnât a trick question; all too often, the headlines are dominated by stories of heinous criminals whose deportations are blocked on spurious pretext. Just days ago, news broke that a Congolese paedophile who had sexually assaulted his own stepdaughter had been allowed to remain in the UK on human rights grounds.
Even more bluntly, somebody with an impartial interest in child welfare shouldnât seek to keep a convicted paedophile in the country. The state is paying activist social workers to frustrate the Home Officeâs efforts. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. Anicet Mayela, also Congolese, was recently sentenced to ten years in prison for raping and impregnating a 15-year old girl in Oxford. Back in 2005, Mayelaâs deportation was blocked on human rights grounds. In late October, the headlines were dominated by the story of an Indian paedophile, known as HS, whose deportation was blocked by the Home Office on the grounds that removing him from the country would interfere with his âright to a family lifeâ.
It's astonishing how many groomers there are out there.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/22/the-rage-of-the-entitled-overclass/
The collective mental breakdown among self-styled progressives since Donald Trumpâs re-election has been quite the sight to behold. The subsequent declaration by many that they will leave X, in protest of that platformâs supposed descent into fascism, has made matters all the more entertaining. What a glorious outpouring of self-importance and self-righteousness, combined with an utter lack of self-awareness. Though such tantrums are amusing, the spectacle has also been appalling. This has been a grim cocktail of piety, sanctimony and belligerence, with rancour and malice thrown in, too. If the cleavage between remote, moneyed liberals and normal people was laid bare by the US election result, the fall-out since has made the gap appear all the more cavernous.
Perhaps the most egregious response came from the host and panellists on the BBC comedy show, Mock the Week, who carried on belittling Brexit voters into the next decade with an unrelenting fervour that no doubt hastened that showâs cancellation in 2022. That decision, in turn, was met with snotty, snobbish outbursts on the programmeâs final episodes. So yes, these tantrums have been fun, as car-crash viewing. But do prepare yourselves for this stream of resentment to continue, just as it did after 2016. The elites wonât find peace and permanent hermitage on Bluesky. Theyâll be back, demanding once more to be heard and once more to be obeyed.
One of the most smug and irritating regular guests on Mock the Week was John Oliver. He has since moved to America, where he has become a smug and irritating presenter on HBOâs Last Week Tonight. On Sunday evening, Oliver launched into one of his trademark rapid-fire sermons, this time on the issue of trans children competing in school sports. âThere are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere. Even if there were more, trans kids, like all kids, vary in athletic ability and there is no evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairnessâ, he said.
We have come to expect such tin-eared aloofness from our overclass.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/22/bluesky-is-hell-on-earth/
Having discovered that they are massively, disastrously out of touch â thanks to the Trump landslide â their solution has been to self-isolate, and to make themselves even more out of touch.
And theyâve forgotten, or are unwilling to confront, the simple fact that pointing and laughing at âcharactersâ on the opposing side â whether that be Steve Bray or Owen Jones, Jolyon Maugham or Darren Grimes â is fun. It is good for morale.
What would the #BeKind crowd do if they ever achieved their aim of a pure, high space above the fray? You canât feel superior if thereâs nobody to feel superior to. They need their out-group, for how else would they know that they are the in-group? All they can do then is turn on each other like starved piranhas.
They are the most rancorous, disputatious people on the planet. Now they are rats in a sack. Bluesky will only drive them insane. More insane.
https://thecritic.co.uk/something-has-gone-very-wrong-with-human-rights/
Why canât Britain deport foreign paedophiles?
This isnât a trick question; all too often, the headlines are dominated by stories of heinous criminals whose deportations are blocked on spurious pretext. Just days ago, news broke that a Congolese paedophile who had sexually assaulted his own stepdaughter had been allowed to remain in the UK on human rights grounds.
Even more bluntly, somebody with an impartial interest in child welfare shouldnât seek to keep a convicted paedophile in the country. The state is paying activist social workers to frustrate the Home Officeâs efforts. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. Anicet Mayela, also Congolese, was recently sentenced to ten years in prison for raping and impregnating a 15-year old girl in Oxford. Back in 2005, Mayelaâs deportation was blocked on human rights grounds. In late October, the headlines were dominated by the story of an Indian paedophile, known as HS, whose deportation was blocked by the Home Office on the grounds that removing him from the country would interfere with his âright to a family lifeâ.
https://thecritic.co.uk/john-swinneys-isla-bryson-moment/
Next week, the highest court in the land will hear arguments that show that, far from leaving a legacy of clear legislation, MPs who voted for the Equality Act 2010 left unfinished business when it comes to one of its key definitions: what is a woman?
If â somehow â you are only dimly aware of the long-running political and cultural argument about the definition of a woman, you may wonder why the Supreme Court is wasting its time on such an obvious question. Surely, a woman is an adult human female? But, according to a horde of academics, senior politicians, countless celebrities and even some medics, you would be wrong. A woman, as defined by the proponents of gender identity theory, is anyone who says they are one, regardless of their biology.
Under Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Government went to court to defend this identity-based interpretation, in the context of the Equality Act 2010. First it won; then, on appeal, it lost. But the Scottish courts left open that a man who has obtained a gender recognition certificate (GRC) is a woman under that Act, as if he had been born female. This is why next Tuesday and Wednesday, five Supreme Court judges led by Lord Reed will consider a question brought by campaign group For Women Scotland: âIs a person with a full gender recognition certificate which recognises that their gender is female a âwomanâ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010?â
We are approaching what is arguably the end game in the battle between material reality and gender identity theory. If the Supreme Court upholds Lady Haldaneâs 2022 ruling that âthe meaning of sex for the purposes of the 2010 [Equality] Act, âsexâ is not limited to biological or birth sex, but includes those in possession of a GRC obtained in accordance with the 2004 Act stating their acquired gender, and thus their sexâ, then Britainâs sex wars will rage on until politicians at Westminster are willing to confront the tangled legacy of earlier legislation.