"A transgender prisoner serving a sentence for murder has been charged with the sexual assault of a fellow inmate at a women's prison." This is on you John Swinney, ScotGov and the SNP. Disgusting #SNPout#ResignSwinney
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Infected blood, Thalidomide, Sodium Valproate - a few ongoing medical scandals, people still fighting for justice and compensation.
Imagine being Health Secretary for what, 3 months, and choosing to embrace the future scandal of giving 11 yr old children puberty blocking drugs.
🚨 The depravity.
Lewis Bates and Mark Wilson — the Hartlepool sex beasts who abducted a 13-year-old schoolgirl, took her to a remote track and took turns raping her — have been released.
These monsters enticed the girl into a car, drove her to an isolated spot, and subjected her to a half-hour nightmare.
They left her bleeding profusely, barely able to walk. She was physically sick when she got home and had to be taken to hospital.
Sam Hunter helped lure her in and got a lighter sentence.
15 years for gang-raping a child. And now they’re back on the streets.
How many more victims before these monsters are kept locked up for good?
Our girls are not safe while the system keeps letting animals like this out early.
Name them. Shame them. Never forget what they did.
🚨PLAID STORM OUT OF DEBATE ON WASTEFUL SPENDING🚨
Plaid Senedd members didn't want to hear about wasteful spending on tree planting in Africa this afternoon. They walked out. Zaynub Akbar shouted, "I don't accept any of this and don't want to be a part of it". How juvenile ...
Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.
There is a process, obviously.
Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.
Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.
And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.
So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.
Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.
Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.
BREAKING: The first arrest has now been made following the shocking events in Manchester.
One of the women who repeatedly threw bottles of water at me during the event and allegedly encouraged others to attack me is now in police custody.
But this is just the beginning.
Police are also pursuing the Stand Up to Racism activists and the group of lads involved in the attack. Officers have told me this is one of the most high-profile cases they have dealt with in recent memory.
Most importantly, they made it clear that the huge online backlash and public pressure forced this case into the spotlight and ensured it could not be ignored.
Justice is finally being delivered. More updates to come.
You look at Labour this week and wonder if anyone in government is thinking straight.
Assisted dying back in Parliament. Labour MPs planning a “summer of sex”. Billions for cycle lanes while defence is underfunded.
It’s like the Labour students union is running the country.
Britain needs focus. Defence. Energy. Work. Security. Growth.
So I’m giving a speech at 11am today on how we solve the problem of Defence funding.
The Conservatives are doing the hard thinking because our country deserves better than gimmicks, drift and fatuous nonsense.
Detectives investigating a sexual assault on board a Jubilee Line train from London Bridge to West Hampstead have released this image in connection.
At around 1.40pm on Thursday 28 May, a woman was sat on the train when a man who boarded either at Bond Street or Green park approached and sat next to her.
He then sexually assaulted her, using a newspaper to conceal his actions.
The woman confronted him, and he moved away down the train before getting off at West Hampstead Underground station.
Detectives would like to speak to the man pictured, as they believe he may have information that could help their investigation.
Anyone who recognises him is asked to contact British Transport Police by texting 61016 or by calling 0800 40 50 40, quoting reference 334 of 8 June.
Someone has submitted footage of what happened. Look at how a gang of foreigners just randomly begin hitting and punching me.
This was the first incident. After that, I tried to retrieve my things, and they tried to attack me a second time. Then the police arrived.