Catherine

Empty nester grateful for Facetime. Proud 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧. Anti 'woke'. Atheist-leaning agnostic with RC foundations. ❤ Mozart/wine/all things crime.

[Catherine @CogitatingCate]

https://t.co/hIpC3U8vRP

[Catherine @CogitatingCate]

Get them deported. Perverted filth.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

UK: Mohammed Adil Saithu, a 30-year-old man from Pakistan, attempted to sexually abuse a 13-year-old White British girl.
He told her: “Age doesn’t matter. Even 10, I don’t have problems. I can sleep with her.”
He groomed the girl from age 12, promising her money and a better life, while telling her that having sex from a young age is “good and easy.”
He is a regular at a London mosque and is currently out on bail.
This is the kind of horror that keeps repeating across Britain.
When will the UK finally put the safety of its girls first?

[Lord Mongrove @Bishop_Beesley]

Around 20 people have now been arrested and put in front of what can only be described as a kangaroo court for the crime of being angry at the murder of Henry Nowak, in particular the police role in the murder.

To date not one officer has been arrested for his or her actions at the scene, not one officer has been arrested for attempting to interfere with the trial of his murderer, not one officer has been arrested for attempting to mislead the public over the facts of the case, not one officer has been arrested for taking part in the videoed egregious beating of a bystander at the demo.

The inquest into Henry's death has been put off for 15 months, there's no reason for this.

Those arrested will remain in prison before finally being put before a Jury - who I expect will clear the vast majority of them. But they'll still have lost a year of more of their lives awaiting trial.

And all the time the police, politicians and complacent press will continue to push the narrative that no one in official office did anything wrong.

It's not good enough.

[Catherine @CogitatingCate]

@MichelleDewbs speaking for so many of us.

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I’m bouncing from fury…to concern…to sadness…to disbelief…to anger…to despair…to rage…to overwhelm…to worry..

It’s exhausting. Utterly exhausting.

I feel worried sick about what the future will look like for my son.

I’m also worried for the people out tonight who are expressing their understandable anger at the impacts of out of control immigration on their lives & their fury at being ignored by politicians…Many of them are going to end up behind bars.

I hate what so many politicians & institutions have done, and are doing, to this country. I am furious about it.

We need significant change.

I pray that we get it. We must get it.

[Catherine @CogitatingCate]

How tone deaf are these people to the public mood? Have they all had an emotional intelligence bypass. Of course, no one expects the people of NI to start terrorising its Chinese population, but people have a right to demand the end of the importation of 3rd world savages.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

WTF‼️Michelle O’Neill, First Minister for Northern Ireland, has reassured the MIGRANT community following the Belfast attack.

“I say, to all of our migrant community that we have no tolerance for hatred, for division. This is a society that is welcoming, that is inclusive."

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

.@Keir_Starmer, your statement says you have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.

With respect, tolerance is not the issue. Nobody tolerates a near beheading on a residential street in Belfast. The question your statement carefully avoids is prevention. And prevention requires honesty about a pattern your government has consistently refused to name.

A man in his thirties, a Somali national, pinned a man to the ground on a residential street and stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened with a hurling stick. A woman required hospital treatment for the stress of witnessing it. This happened in Northern Ireland, a place that has known more than its share of violence, and even there residents said they had never seen anything like it.

Your government has presided over record small boat crossings. It has failed to proscribe the IRGC despite repeated promises. It has blocked the grooming gang inquiry for a year before being forced to concede it. It has spent £10 billion on asylum accommodation contracts. It has actively resisted measures that would have reduced the number of unvetted individuals entering and remaining in this country.

The victims of these attacks are not statistics. They are British people, going about their lives on their own streets, who were failed before the attack happened. Failed at the border. Failed by a system that prioritises the rights of those who arrive illegally over the safety of those who were already here.

Your thoughts are with the victim. So are ours. The difference is that thoughts are not policy. Thoughts do not secure borders. Thoughts do not remove individuals with no right to be here. Thoughts do not protect the next victim, whose name we do not yet know, on a street we cannot yet identify, from an attack that has not yet happened.

How many more before the thoughts become action?

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The University of Oxford ‘allowed’ trans protests that led to the cancellation of a lecture series on gender and the law.

Equality law expert Dr Michael Foran has been forced to cancel the remaining two lectures in his four-part series examining how sex and gender have shaped the law, including controversies surrounding single-sex spaces, freedom of expression, privacy, sport and sexual intimacy.

Trans activists disrupted two separate events by walking to the front of the lecture hall and telling the audience that Foran is a bigot who should be no-platformed.

Footage from 29 May shows one protester claiming that Foran “masks his transphobia behind a thin veneer of academia”.

The protester went on to say:

“If you are here in a critical capacity to challenge his ideas… that is not the same as refusing to platform him. He will not be convinced by your arguments. Please join me in walking out and refusing to platform this bigot.”

During the second lecture, on 5 June, the same two protesters returned and again addressed the audience. This time, they were largely drowned out by audience members. After they left, two more activists who had been planted in the audience continued the disruption.

A university source has now revealed that Oxford’s Proctors’ Office gave permission for the protests to go ahead.

Students who attended the lectures also said that, despite complaints about the disruption and intimidating atmosphere at the first event, university officials still allowed activists to protest at the second lecture.

The Proctors’ Office is responsible for enforcing the University’s conduct regulations. Students must seek permission from the office to stage a protest, on the condition that it is peaceful and does not disrupt “the lawful exercise of freedom of speech”.

It is clear from the footage that this was not a non-disruptive protest.

Yet all we have heard from the University of Oxford is a mealy-mouthed commitment to freedom of speech and academic freedom.

It must do more.

Read more below in The Times 👇

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

The Chinese state has been reading the Foreign Office's mail. The intrusion that surfaced this week - serious enough that officials are calling it a step-change in the threat - means a hostile power has been inside the department that runs Britain's dealings with the world. It is not the first such failure, and it follows one that ought to shame us more: the hack of the Legal Aid Agency, which spilled the files of the most defenceless people the state holds records on - women fleeing violent men, defendants awaiting trial.

Hold that beside what the same state spends its energy on at home. It wants to issue every adult an identity number. It runs units to monitor what its citizens post online. It is, by instinct and materially by budget, an institution obsessed with knowing everything about you.

So the picture resolves into something genuinely strange. A government that cannot keep Beijing out of the Foreign Office, and cannot keep a battered woman's address out of a criminal's reach, is pouring its effort into the surveillance and cataloguing of its own law-abiding population. It has the two halves of its job precisely the wrong way round. The first duty of a state is to protect its people and its secrets from those who would harm them. What it has actually built is a machine that guards neither, and watches you instead.

This is what an institution becomes when it loses sight of what it is for. Security is hard, unglamorous, and adversarial - keeping capable enemies out, keeping vulnerable people's data sealed. Surveillance of your own public is easy, and it flatters the managerial mind, because the law-abiding citizen never hacks back. So the state drifts, year on year, toward the task it finds congenial and away from the one it finds hard, and calls the drift modernisation.

Progress would turn the whole apparatus back outward, where it belongs: to treat a Chinese intrusion into the Foreign Office as the emergency it is, to hold the data of the vulnerable as though lives depended on it, because they do, and to lose its appetite for numbering and monitoring the people who pay for it. A government that cannot protect you has no business demanding to surveil you.

They could not keep China out of Whitehall. They could not keep a violent man from his victim's file. But your tweets, your savings, your movements - those they will watch with the closest attention and most passionate interest.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: A 17 year old girl has been gang raped by 4 Afghans in Bristol

They trapped the girl in their home and she was only freed when the girls mother called police to the property

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

If you are going to let pretty much anyone come to your country, with a student visa, a work visa, by small boat or on the back of a lorry then you are going to have problems.

This is what the UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands are seeing now.

And once they are in, you are fighting against political inertia to deport them (don’t want to be “racist”) and, if they get over the inertia they have to deal with the ECHR.

Some of us have been saying for a long time that the chickens will come home to roost and this is what we have seen: in Belfast, in Manchester, in London, in Bradford.

This won’t end unless the government does something rather radical.

1. Deport every single immigrant who commits a crime

2. Send back every asylum seeker

3. Stop funding of every person who has arrived in the UK and not paid 10 years of taxes

Sadly no political party or government will do these things.

We are seeing the end of western civilisation and we are paying for the foolishness of the west, quite literally, with our heads.

[Claire Adams @claire_adams694]

I am a British born, a taxpayer, and a veteran of the British Army.

I do not want dangerous men who rape, murder, terrorise, or reject our values living in our communities.

My daughter, my sons, and future grandchildren have the right to live safely in their own country.

The division was not created by the British people. It was created by politicians who ignored victims, ignored warnings, and put ideology before public safety.

We do not owe dangerous offenders a home in Britain.

Get them out. Put British citizens first!

[This Is England @EnglandThisIs]

Today in Manchester

Abdul thought he was meeting a 14 year old to abuse her, but was instead caught in a sting operation by paedophile hunters.

Despite his fears of this being a set up by police or hunters he still showed up due to his uncontrollable urge to abuse a child.

[Catherine @CogitatingCate]

@danwootton Is she for real? TR and RL report on a brutal attack FACTUALLY i.e. not whitewashing what happened by calling it a 'stabbing incident', BEFORE anyone else and this is somehow a problem? How many days were we waiting for @KeirStarmer to mention #HenryNowak? Now THAT'S a problem.

[Catherine @CogitatingCate]

@OutpostStudios @ColinBrazierTV We know they're coming because we're a soft touch. This isn't news to the general population; only to our idiot politicians.

[Lord Sum Ting Wong @SumTingWong008]

The poor lad got 2 years and 4 months for throwing a cone towards the police. Yet the teenagers the raped a young girl got a £26 fine each. The Justice system is a joke.

The government hates us.

[Catherine @CogitatingCate]

Yeah, nooo. I won't ever be voting to rejoin the EU. We're in a precarious enough situation as it is.

[Jane Rochford Boleyn 🇬🇧 @VictoriaHa50399]

@NickTenconi They are massing because on Friday 12th June the European Union MIGRATION PACT comes into force.

This means that, EU countries will be FORCED to accept QUOTA of violent, super aggressive foreign men!

They were celebrating, just last week!

As a woman I find this TERRIFYING!

[Nick Marcel Tenconi @NickTenconi]

Calais is full of illegal migrants from Sudan who are coming to Britain.

The extent of the violence in Sudan can be seen from space with lakes of blood from mass-killings.

We do not know who is leaving Sudan. It is likely most of the innocent have already been slain and those coming to Britain are perpetrators of horrific war crimes.

The reality is we don’t know who these people are but they should not be coming to Britain.

[Rod Spode @RodSpode2]

.@AndrewHWestern How can anyone in a position of power who has the ability to stop a horror story against children decline to help? 500,000 children raped, tortured, sold as sex slaves and murdered and Andrew Western voted against the grooming gang inquiry. Remove him now!

[Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Kingbingo_]

Starmer finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to condemn head choppers after recently warmly welcoming one of them into his home.

[Laura Aboli Official @LauraAboli_X]

Signal is 100% right.

The greatest trick governments ever pulled was convincing people that freedom and privacy are obstacles to safety.

What we are witnessing is not child protection. It is the construction of a surveillance architecture that will eventually monitor, profile, categorize and control every aspect of our digital lives.

Today it is age verification and content scanning, tomorrow it is digital identity, then financial monitoring, then behavioural scoring, then access to services conditioned on compliance.

The destination is not difficult to see. It is a technocratic system where every interaction is tracked, every transaction recorded, every opinion assessed and every citizen reduced to a data profile managed by governments and corporations working hand in hand.

A form of digital neo feudalism where a small unelected class controls the platforms, the infrastructure, the money and ultimately the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.

The argument that only criminals should fear surveillance is as absurd as saying only criminals need freedom of speech. Privacy is not evidence of wrongdoing, it is the foundation of human dignity, individual sovereignty and genuine liberty.

The UK government is asking citizens to accept the presumption of guilt simply to communicate online. To prove who they are, verify their age and allow their devices to inspect their content before they can participate in modern society.

History teaches us that every power granted to the state eventually expands beyond its initial mandate. The technology introduced to detect one form of content today will be used to police entirely different forms of expression tomorrow.

The choice before us is not between privacy and child protection, it is between preserving a free society, or constructing the infrastructure of a digital prison that will further enslave us.

[Catherine @CogitatingCate]

@jeremycorbyn https://t.co/VzmZMdkKYF

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

This is not Iran. This is Great Britain!
Flashback: Right after the October 7 massacre of over 1,000 Jews, Muslims in several UK mosques worshipped Allah by calling for the killing of Jews.

Is this what a religion of peace looks like?