“When folks stop making a mockery of the justice system, that’s when this stops,” said protester Jay Weaver as riot police slowly but steadily advanced their phalanx towards the crowd. “Until that mock trial mess going on in the…
Tag: social cohesion
Sorry, Love, My ‘Give A F***’ Meter Seems To Be Broken
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is howling into the void…. Labour MP David Lammy last week revealed the results of an independent review into the treatment of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals in the criminal justice system. One of the most shocking…
But We Already Know…
The latest hand-wringing polemic from the ‘Guardian’ about black knife crime: The best chance we have of sparing the next child from an early death is finding out why the last one died. We certainly aren’t going to find anything…
Life Comes At You Fast, Eh, Progressives?
“Eeeeew, that awful man, what does he know?” “Eeeeew, that awful man, what does he know?” Neighbour Serena Barber, 47, who has known Mr and Mrs Jones all her life, said last night:‘All I know is that they have…
Is It ‘Cos I Is Black?
Judge Paul Tain dismissed the 48-year-old’s application on Wednesday, ordering Green, of Berriedale Drive, Sompting, to be sentenced for his crimes next month. Green junior, 20, of no fixed address, is already serving time behind bars in a young offenders’…
This Isn’t The Dichotomy You Think It Is…
Phil McDuff evidently hasn’t realised the reason – we’ve come to learn that all immigrants don’t ‘enrich our culture’. Some actually degrade it. …the report also details a significant rise in anti-Muslim sentiment. 42% of people said that the recent terrorist…
Platitudes & Handwringing
That’s all they ever offer: London in the 1970s and 1980s came to accept IRA bombs as almost part of living in the capital. It would help if grotesque publicity were not given to these acts of terror. It distorts…
So Police Don’t Respect Religious Difference After All?
A care service manager who had a tyre puncture in Hitchin town centre today came home to have armed police raid his house. Blimey, that’s illegal now? I’d better confess, I had a flattie in 2007! Fishponds Road and part…
Remember, This Can’t Be Allowed To Change Our Way Of Life…
Primary school children are to be taught about what to do in a terror attack with a book about a cat set loose in a school for mice. Moggy’s Coming advises youngsters to ‘run, hide, tell, treat’ in the event…
The Burning Tower Of Babel…
We should not assume that everyone would like to speak English in an emergency. London W11 is where all parts of the globe meet to form a very unique and special part of the capital. Is Lily Allen concerning herself…
It Might Sound Harsh, But This Is A Good Thing
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said that despite an above-inflation increase in the “national living wage”, low-income families were falling further behind a minimum income standard. The thinktank said less generous in-work benefits had made life tougher for all low-income…
They Can Barely Contain Their Glee…
The heroic “lion of London Bridge” has been caught on camera launching a racist tirade at a group of protesters. Yippee! Racism! He’s clearly a bad ‘un! We knew it when she shouted abuse at those poor misunderstood terrorists! …newly…
He’s Got My Confidence, And Isn’t That All That Should Matter?
The ‘Guardian’ is quick to get its objection in before he’s even sat down: Among his more controversial cases was a decision allowing Westminster council to rehouse a tenant 50 miles away in Milton Keynes. It was later overturned by…
Representing The Community…
A Met Police officer has become the first “bi-gender” officer in Britain. It comes after Scotland Yard launched a diversity initiative encouraging officers to “be themselves at work”. The officer now has two warrant cards, one in their male name…
Out Of The Mouths Of Ticket Touts And Shopkeepers…
Tim Jones, 44, a ticket tout, told the Standard the scene was “absolute chaos” as three vans and four squad cars arrived to disperse the crowd. He said:“There was a massive fight with youths, it was huge and the police…