https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxl9pg0yg7o
Organised crime groups are "scoping out" farms in order to steal equipment including quad bikes and 4x4s, Wales' leading farming union has said.
"They know where these items are and they often know where the keys are kept, so it can be very intrusive," said Abi Reader, National Farmers' Union (NFU) Cymru's deputy president.
The cost of rural crime fell across the UK in 2024 except in Wales where it rose by 18% to ÂŁ2.8m, NFU research shows â however this was also one of the lowest figures across the UK.
Dyfed-Powys Police said it was aware of the worry caused by rural crime, and would continue with operations and targeted patrols across the force area.
:blob_dizzy_face: JFC!
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/group-girls-attack-elderly-woman-31903583
A pensioner has suffered a head injury and been rushed to hospital after an attack at a Birmingham beauty spot.
The incident took place at Banners Gate in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield on Wednesday (June 18). Several witnesses reported a âgroup of aggressive girlsâ hitting an âold ladyâ in the park off Monmouth Drive shortly after 7.30pm. One witness said the police and ambulance service were called.
The incident is said to have taken place near to the play area, with the girls involved said to have been in that play area at one stage.
âIn a packâ: Four people charged over alleged six-hour sexual assault of teen girl in Liverpool, Sydney. Four teenagers have been charged with carrying out a terrifying six-hour sexual assault on a 17-year-old girl in her car in Sydney.
Teenagers accused of violently gang raping a 17-year-old girl in an hours-long ordeal in Sydney allegedly filmed part of the assault on a video call, police have revealed. Four teenagers - the youngest aged just 14 - have been charged with the sexual assault of the girl in Sydneyâs west in December last year, with police saying the alleged attack lasted more than six hours.
Dramatic police footage captured the dawn arrest of the eldest of the alleged group, 19-year-old Adam Abdul-Hamid, in Heckenberg on Tuesday. The teen was taken to Liverpool Police Station and charged with five counts of aggravated sex assault-offender in company with other persons. Arrest footage showed the manâs family members swarming the police and shouting as he was ushered out of the house.
âWhat have you done to him?â one screamed as police walked through the front yard. A woman could also be heard shouting: âShut your mouth, donât say a wordâ in Arabic.
How does one go from chanting Woman, Life, Freedom to defending the Islamic Republic that murdered Mahsa Amini?
https://petertownsend.substack.com/p/islams-historical-free-pass
I have often written about Islamâs âFree Passâ. This is the tendency, very prevalent in the West, to refuse to subject Islam to the hard questions that are routinely asked about other faiths and ideologies. This means that some people who regularly pride themselves in being feminist, pro-LGBTQI and open minded will in the next breath fawn about the âdiversityâ that Islam brings. Never mind that Islam is deeply antithetical to each of those values.
It may come as a surprise to some that this tendency is not only observable on the popular level but even in academia. In countless universities and research institutions the foundational principle of free inquiry has given way to uncritical acceptance of Islamâs truth claims about itself.
Nowhere is this truer than in the field of history. In the very same institutions where deeply critical questions about traditional historical accounts dealing with every conceivable period are being asked, Islamâs history is treated with kid gloves. The very same historians who one moment would say âQuestion everythingâ will essentially turn around and sanctimoniously intone Ernest Renanâs famous (and famously wrong-headed) dictum that âIslam was born in the full light of historyâ.
With the desire to give Islam a free pass, standard historiographical principles are turned on their heads. In all other forms of history writing, a focus on contemporary primary sources is seen as the gold standard. Yet, when it comes to Islam, accounts written 200-300 years after the traditional death date of Muhammad are glorified as âthe best we haveâ. Even as much earlier documents that can be reliably dated from the days of the Arab Conquest are being resolutely ignored.
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-51/20250613-how-ai-is-reinventing-misogyny
As artificial intelligence continues to transform societies worldwide, The 51 Percent asks what does its rapid development mean for women and girls. A surge of AI-powered systems has misogyny baked into their very core, placing women and girls at risk worldwide. We report on how men can now create perfect AI girlfriends. Also how a video, created by AI, was posted to TikTok by the French government to celebrate the 80th anniversary of French women getting the vote in 1945. However, there's been uproar as the images are mainly of men without even an actual shot of a woman casting her ballot. Plus Annette Young talks to UK feminist author, Laura Bates, about a highly disturbing visit to a Berlin cyber brothel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y57ye1jeqo
Melissa Marley, 32, has spent the last two years studying at the University of Huddersfield to become a midwife but has quit her course after amassing debt of ÂŁ60,000 and said there was "no hope for jobs at the end of it".
The mother-of-three would like the chancellor to put more money into the NHS because it is "on its knees" and added "people abroad would kill for a system like that, so it needs protecting".
Originally from Wakefield, she went back into education in 2021 to provide a better life for her children.
She began training as a nurse in 2022 before training as a midwife in 2023.
As well as ÂŁ20,000 of tuition fees, she also owes about ÂŁ40,000 in her maintenance grant accrued through her studies over the past few years.
She was originally going to defer due to health issues but decided to stop her course and is now hoping to become a maternity support worker.
This role supports midwives, rather than being a midwife herself.
Melissa said the lack of jobs in midwifery was "sad because there are so many people putting so much work in.
"They are working hard, having to miss times with their family, their children and then to have nothing at the end of it is sad".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c989qrd648go
Parents are demanding answers over how a paedophile was able to abuse potentially dozens of disabled and special educational needs children while working as a teaching assistant.
Daniel Clarke may have targeted "well over 81" vulnerable young people over a decade, according to detectives overseeing a major West Midlands Police investigation.
The 29-year-old was jailed last month for offences against six children, but officers believe he could be one of the most prolific sex offenders of recent times.
The BBC can now reveal he held key safeguarding responsibilities at two council-run schools as recently as September 2023, where bosses said they acted as soon as concerns came to light.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70650ely2eo
A woman who worked as an NHS psychiatrist for more than 20 years after she got the job with a fake qualification has been ordered to pay back more than ÂŁ400,000 or face more jail time.
Zholia Alemi, of Burnley, worked across the UK after forging a degree certificate from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
The 62-year-old denied 20 offences including forgery but was jailed for seven years after being convicted by jury at Manchester Crown Court in 2023.
A Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman said she had been ordered by a judge to pay back ÂŁ406,624 in compensation to the NHS or face two-and-a-half more years in prison after she "cheated the public purse".
Alemi was born in Iran but in the early 1990s was in Auckland, where she failed to complete the bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery degree required to practise as a doctor and was refused permission to resit.
She forged a degree certificate and a letter of verification in 1995, with the word verify misspelt, the court heard.
Despite that they were both accepted as evidence by the General Medical Council (GMC) who registered her as a doctor.
The trial heard Alemi had earned more than ÂŁ1.3m in wages from the NHS but the CPS said she never held the medical qualifications necessary to undertake these roles.
âI am 22 and unemployed,â one person writes on the question-and-answer website Quora. âI am wasting [my] entire day watching porn and browsing Facebook. What should I do in my free time which is more productive?â The answers from well-meaning strangers are telling. Do a course, join the military, or learn to code so you can create fun apps for all the other bored 20-somethings out there who are watching porn all day. âOr try going outside,â jokes another. âI heard thereâs stuff to do out there. Supposedly, there are people and places outside that you can interact with.â
Such complaints are growing increasingly common.
But addiction is powerful â a Cambridge University study found in 2014 that porn triggers brain activity in sex addicts in the same way that drugs trigger drug addicts. The research also found that the younger the user, the greater the neural response to porn.
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1927568298247340416
6-year-old girl is forced to marry an old man in Afghanistan.
Sheâs begging her parents to just stay home, but they donât care. They think itâs time for her to get married because she had an early puberty.
These are not parents, they are monsters!
https://x.com/recusant_raja/status/1927279133383356886
THE COVER-UP REACHES THE TOP
The failure to protect working class White girls from industrial scale gang rape from the Pakistani Rape Clans was never just about local councils or rogue police officers. This is about the British state.
Because the people who enabled these crimes - the ones who buried reports, silenced victims, threatened whistleblowers - werenât just negligent. They were protected. Many of them were even promoted.
Some now sit in Parliament. Some wear party rosettes. Some shape national policy. And thatâs why thereâs no appetite for justice, because real justice would expose rot at the highest levels of power. It would mean admitting that senior officials, elected representatives, and civil servants werenât just asleep at the wheel. They were complicit.
Maggie Oliver, the detective who blew the whistle in Greater Manchester, has seen it firsthand. She watched as evidence was suppressed, inquiries sabotaged, and predators protected for political convenience. Now sheâs launched the #TheyKnew campaign, pushing for private prosecutions - because the state still refuses to act.
What does it say when a seasoned detective no longer believes in the justice system? It says the cover-up didnât end. It was institutionalised.
This wasnât a failure of policy. It was policy. It was the preservation of reputation over the protection of children. Power before principle. Image before innocence.
Until those at the very top are held to account, this scandal is not in the past. It is still happening. Right now.
They Tried to Silence Us. They Failed.
Six years on, weâre still here. Still speaking the truth. Still refusing to back down. Every article. Every video. Every time Iâve stood up and said what others were too afraid to say has only been possible because people like you had my back.
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A former senior Edinburgh councillor has apologised for her role in the granting of licences to saunas in the city knowing they would be used as brothels. Susan Dalgety, who rose to the post of deputy leader of Edinburgh city council, expressed regret to all âwomen trapped in prostitutionâ for regularly approving the venues when the police, council officials and elected representatives all knew women would be paid to have sex on site. Dalgety, who represented Scottish Labour at that time, said: âThe irony was at the licensing committee meetings we could not describe the sauna as a brothel because we could not licence brothels, so it was all very âEdinburghâ.â
Dalgety described these as âliving pornâ venues âwhere young women perform sex acts for groups of men in exchange for moneyâ. She noted that, despite itâs respectable façade, Edinburgh still had a âsignificant criminal underclassâ, adding: âWomen are trafficked from across the world into Edinburgh.â High levels of HIV were circulating in the capital in the Eighties and Nineties, fuelled by intravenous drug use, when Dalgety first became a city councillor. âThe public health advice at the time was if you managed prostitution then you could better manage HIV and drug abuse,â she said.
As a young woman Dalgety, who is a columnist for The Scotsman, also accepted the argument that female sexuality could be empowering and prostitution was valid work. Now 68, she said she had since started to âunderstand how awful prostitution isâ and the fact that âthe vast majority of women who are trapped in itâ are vulnerable and are dealing with trauma such as child sexual abuse and drug addiction.
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God, how I loathed these manipulated talentless clowns đ
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-good-side-of-girl-power/
Not that the Girl Power of the nineties ever felt like much of a feminist force to be reckoned with. On the contrary, as several older feminists pointed out at the time, it in many ways epitomised third-wave feminismâs dropping of the ball. Rather than continue the rebellion, it opted for adaptation â at best, a watering down of key feminist principles (sisterhood, sexual autonomy, female self-assertion), at worst, a reframing of the anti-feminist backlash of Loaded and ladettism as a newer, better, more âpalatableâ form of feminism. You get something sweeter, as Horner herself suggests, when you replace the word âwomanâ with âgirlâ (especially if the âgirlsâ are women in their twenties, their own names replaced by cutesy epithets such as Baby, Ginger, Sporty, Posh and Scary).
Does it matter, then, if the term âGirl Powerâ dies a death? If the reason for this were because, as feminism goes, it was a pretty rubbish, often counter-productive form, Iâd say it didnât. If the reckoning we were having today involved saying that actually â as predicted at the time in books such as Overloaded and Female Chauvinist Pigs â this kind of âfeminismâ was paving the way for the ultra-misogyny of the porn age, that would be one thing. If what was under attack were the worst aspects of nineties âfeminismâ â the infantilisation of women, the trivialising of sexual objectification, the reduction of female experience to short skirts and pillow fights â I would be happy to see it go.
Following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of women, we are starting to see organisations respond by deciding it is better to have nothing at all for women, if âwomenâ doesnât mean everyone. Now it seems weâre not even allowed feminism in its crappest form. At least girls of my generation were told that, in theory, you can have things which are just for you, your female friends, maybe even your mum, too. What do todayâs girls have? The sense that perhaps even being a girl is problematic (how dare you be you without giving someone else a go?).
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2025/defying-a-pervert/
Coming through Zurich airport, I was flashed in the ladiesâ loo by a man in a skin-tight beige bodysuit and a dodgy Chelsea facelift. It was emphatically not a unisex bathroom, but at first I wasnât too bothered to see a bloke dressed as a woman in there. I actually felt a bit sorry when he asked me in a chummy voice which of two lipsticks suited him best (note to aspirant women, we donât actually go up to random strangers by the sinks and come on all 12-year-oldsâ sleepover) and merely resigned when he asked me if his bra was showing. But then he took his penis out.
âOh love,â I thought, âYouâve really, really picked the wrong day.â
Call me intolerant, but when returning from giving evidence in a case of attempted rape at the Supreme Court of Switzerland the absolute last thing I want to see is someone swinging their dick in my face. There are moments when it might be correct to rehearse a carefully calibrated argument about trans rights, but I find empathy easier when someone isnât waggling their testicles at me in a space reserved for women. As it was, he didnât get the reaction he was hoping for. When security arrived there may have been a momentâs doubt as to which of us was the threat, but not itâs my fault heâd picked on the angriest woman in Terminal A.
And what if I hadnât already been exhausted and furious â what if I were a child or a disabled woman who couldnât move quickly or just maybe a woman who wanted to have a pee in peace? That we have all of us at some point to tolerate such behaviour, so constantly, so relentlessly, is bad enough, but that we are expected to pander to it is obscene. Why was I so afraid of appearing a bigot, or even a Trump supporter, that I couldnât say, politely but firmly, âI think youâre in the wrong bathroom, please leaveâ?
Last week, he and 50 colleagues at Westbourne Academy took the unusual step of going on strike over pupilsâ poor behaviour, which included swearing at teachers, throwing chairs, posting offensive videos of staff on social media, making homophobic and sexist comments, and disrupting lessons.
On Monday teachers at a school in Liverpool also started strike action because of âdangerous pupil behaviourâ. In January, teachers at a school in Scotland threatened to walk out, saying they regularly faced swearing and violence. Staff at a school in Wales went on strike for two days last October. A survey of 5,800 teachers across the country last month found that more than 80 per cent say pupil behaviour has worsened in the past year. Twenty per cent have been hit or punched by pupils and 25 per cent suffer verbal abuse several times a week, the union NASUWT found. The problems at Westbourne Academy, a co-educational secondary school, first emerged two years ago.
Every day, 40 pupils across all year groups run around the grounds, skipping lessons, banging on doors and dragging other children out of classrooms. âThey are just wandering around like feral cats and disrupting everyone elseâs learning,â Katherine Moore, a union representative from NASUWT, said outside the Westbourne Academy picket line on Wednesday.
McConnell said some schools had reported a rise in aggressive behaviour from parents at the school gates, with some having to enforce antisocial behaviour orders. âWe have completely lost, from a teaching point of view, that respect that we used to have from parents,â he added.
Britainâs police have become âtoo censoriousâ, warns Nick Clegg - Former Meta boss criticises forces for adopting a âwhack-a-moleâ approach to policing the internet
âThe police are arresting 30 people a day for so-called online speech offences. Itâs often really off-colour, outrageous stuff that people might say to each other in a pub. âI just think weâre applying legislation that was invented, that was put on the statute book before any of these technologies were invented.â Sir Nick went on to say that prosecutions over online speech appeared motivated by a desire to create an internet where people were polite and nice to each other all the time. âWeâre in danger of trying to make the internet nice, always nice,â he said. âIt isnât always nice. Itâs very ugly in many respects. âWeâre slightly labouring under this illusion that you can just play âwhack-a-moleâ online and just keep downgrading or removing or arresting people who say stuff. Itâs why theyâre always never more than a heartbeat away from controversy. âYouâre not producing widgets, or even sending rockets up into the sky. Youâre dealing with the most liquid, controversial, difficult thing â speech â and itâs an almost impossible place to have it, because one personâs hate speech is another personâs right to free expression. âWe need to move beyond this idea, because itâs in the eye of the beholder, it really is, and most of the content that these platforms are being yelled at to act against is almost always legal content.â
They don't give a shit, I have no idea what the hell they are thinking about any longer, their stupidity has reached epidemic level now.
As if saying WE are pregnant wasn't infuriating enough I have now heard when WE gave birth...seriously, fuck off out of here đ