Birds, Nature and Wildlife on the Hoo Peninsula

Photographs of Birds and all things nature on the Hoo Peninsula, Kent. I’m no expert.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Any woman out there being discriminated against in a work place, social space, sport, or even club or restaurant where their sex based human rights have been removed, let us at the WSU @wsusportsunion know or the amazing women at @WomensRightsNet or @SexMattersOrg it’s time we forced all these anti female organisations to follow the actual law. It’s time the silent majority spoke out. STOP putting up with it …

[BritMatters 🇬🇧 @britmatters]

Family Man Beat To Death By Migrant Teenagers In Dublin.

On Sunday 17 May 2026, at around 4:15pm on Mill Road in Blanchardstown, 37-year-old Alex Coughlan was attacked by two 16-year-old boys without warning.

The defenceless Irishman was forced to his knees, pleading for mercy as one teenager repeatedly punched and kicked him in the head. The second boy filmed the assault on his mobile phone. Alex screamed for help and begged them to stop. He had already handed over his wallet and bank cards, but hesitated when they demanded his gold ring, a gift from his father.

That moment of hesitation cost him his life.

The beating continued. Alex was left unconscious on the ground. He died three days later on 20 May in Connolly Hospital from catastrophic head injuries. His family made the selfless decision to donate his organs.

Two 16-year-old boys were arrested and charged with assault causing serious harm and robbery. The main attacker is a second-generation migrant born and raised in Ireland. The other, who filmed the attack, is a migrant with dual nationality. Both were described by locals as having non-native features.

Gardai later recovered the stolen ring from one of the boys homes, and Alex’s father identified it in court.

The teenagers appeared in Dublin Children’s Court on 27 May. A judge imposed strict reporting restrictions, warning against naming them or sharing the video of the attack circulating online due to their age. Bail was refused, and both teenagers remain remanded in custody.

On Saturday 30 May, what would have been Alex’s 38th birthday, hundreds gathered in Ballyfermot to farewell him. He was remembered as the glue of his family, a kind, gentle, and selfless man who brought laughter and joy to everyone around him.

A dedicated Bupa worker and passionate rugby fan, Alex is survived by his mother Brigid, father John, sister Zara, and brothers Philip and Jack. Mourners sang Happy Birthday and Ireland’s Call. Tributes described him as a truly beautiful soul and caring human being. A private cremation followed at Glasnevin Cemetery.

While Alex’s funeral took place, the Irish mainstream media gave far more coverage and focused far more outrage on the death of Congolese national Yves Sakila, 35. Sakila, who had dozens of previous convictions and multiple prison terms for repeated shoplifting, died on 15 May after being restrained by security staff during another shoplifting attempt. His death was quickly framed by activists as Ireland’s George Floyd moment, sparking protests, political speeches, and claims of racism.

Alex’s killing, a local Irish family man robbed and beaten to death in broad daylight while pleading for mercy received far less attention. Coverage focused on the attackers age and anonymity, with zero discussion of backgrounds or nationalities.

There were no mass candlelit vigils when Alex died, no major protests demanding justice, no political statements, and no national campaigns declaring that his life mattered.

No Netflix documentaries will ever examine Alex's final moments.

Certain tragedies fit a preferred political narrative and ignite weeks of outrage. Others, like the brutal murder of a gentle Irish family man, are treated as less newsworthy. This selective response from the Irish media and political class is an insult to Alex and every family who has lost someone in similar circumstances.

Alex Coughlan’s life mattered. He deserved better, and the people of Ireland deserve the truth.

RIP Alex Coughlan.

Both teenagers are next due in court on 24 June.

#Ireland #CrimeNews #Dublin

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Yes. Ban them

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I expect every MP to attend our rape gang inquiry debate on Monday in Parliament.

They have all been invited. Those who can’t be bothered to come will be named.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Release the body camera videos

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I see Nicola Sturgeon is once again complaining that I posted a picture of myself wearing a T-shirt with her name on it and the legend 'Destroyer of Women's Rights.' Apparently this didn't 'elevate the debate.'

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness of skin when it comes to their own perceived hurts, coupled with a rhino-hide when it comes to the fear and suffering of others?

I'm thinking in particular of the two women Isla Bryson raped, who had to watch their First Minister squirm and smirk on TV as she tried to avoid admitting he was a man; of the five survivors of male violence who were ready to give evidence to Sturgeon's committee on gender self-ID, but were told to put their concerns in writing while seventeen trans-identified people appeared in person; of the mother of a young girl with a learning disability who campaigned against self-ID because she wanted her daughter to be guaranteed same sex intimate care, should she need it (the mother was presumably one of those female opponents Sturgeon calls 'shrill' and 'hysterical' in her memoir); of the ten-year-old girl sexually assaulted in a public bathroom by a 6'5" paedophile who served his jail sentence in a women's prison because he called himself 'Katie'; of Sandie Peggie, forced to discuss her own menstrual history in public to justify not wanting to undress in view of a 6ft straight cross-dresser in the nurses' changing room; of Marion Millar, dragged into court because she tweeted a picture of suffragette ribbons; of the Scottish rape crisis centres reliant on government funding who were pressured to admit trans-identified males into their services if they wanted funding to continue.

When Sturgeon refers to an 'elevated debate', she means a discussion that takes place within a tiny, smug bubble from which regular women suffering real life consequences of her policies are firmly excluded. These faceless ants are loftily dismissed as bigots, or, to be more precise: 'transphobic, misogynistic, homophobic, maybe racist as well.'

Nicola, you hated the T-shirt picture because you couldn't ignore it, as you'd ignored so many other women trying to make you understand their concerns. Appeals to your empathy, your intelligence and your compassion all failed. Apparently the only way to get through to you is through your vanity.

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

UK law:

If you are Muslim you can punch a police offer in the face, bang your first cousin and claim benefits for your fourth wife (also a family number)

If you are white, you get prison time for tweeting how pissed off you are about it.

Labour are inciting riots

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Follow the logic.

Women are deluded and naive for thinking predatory and violent men can be kept out of women-only spaces. ‘They can rape you anywhere.’

However, trans-identified men can only be safe in women-only spaces, because no abuser would ever follow them in there.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Right. Just so we’re all clear.

Farage and Reform tried to put me in prison because I backed the mass deportation of Pakistani child rapists and their foreign wives/relatives who allowed it to happen.

My home was raided by armed police late on a Friday night as a direct result of Reform’s allegations. My guns were seized. They tried to ruin my life. In every way.

Farage admitted on national television it was all because I backed mass deportations.

He said that was the moment they realised they ‘had to get rid’ of me.

Not the bullshit allegations they went to the police with, but the fact I want the Pakistani rapists removed from our country.

He admitted it.

That all happened.

Fair enough. I took it on the chin, and planned out our next step.

I founded Restore Britain to give the British people the democratic option to agree with me.

Restore Britain will, without apology, deport every last foreign rapist and all foreign accomplices who knew it was happening, yet failed to act.

If that means entire communities go, that means entire communities go. I really don’t care.

We will rid Britain of that cancer.

Now Reform are incandescently angry that we are giving the British people that choice.

Deploying increasingly desperate smears against our movement.

If people don’t agree, they can vote for someone else who won’t deport. There are plenty of options - Reform, Labour, Tories. Take your pick. Go for it.

But if you want those evil scumbags out of our country, along with every foreign coward who enabled it?

You now have that genuine option.

Restore Britain.

[Mark Taylor @Mark___Taylor]

I don’t have 29 friends that would come over if I called and said I had a girl to rape. I don’t have even one single friend who would do that.

Yet there are entire races of people that will do that. That should put to rest the idea of racial equality.

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

@StuartAndrew @Telegraph No. It’s absolutely not up for debate. It’s based on biology. It begins and ends with biology.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

If nothing else, it is incredibly insulting, as a woman, to be lumped in with this grotesque imitation of womanhood.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

This man now runs the NHS. The woman asking him those questions was me.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

“What kind of a depraved monster slices off a woman’s breast while she is being gang raped, and throws it into the dust to be used as a plaything? What kind of a twisted pervert turns rape into necrophilia by shooting a woman in the head while he is still defiling her?
What kind of ‘freedom fighters’ go into battle with a set of handy Arabic-to-Hebrew phrases, including ‘take off your pants’, ‘lie down’, and ‘spread your legs’?
What self-respecting human being presses nails, scalpels, a hammer, an axe, screwdrivers and other household tools into a woman’s genitals?
How hard do you have to rape someone, and with what, to shatter their pelvis? Who shoots a young girl in the face and then films her mutilated corpse on her brother’s mobile phone?
The answer is: Hamas terrorists. This is the stark reality of what they did to men, women and children on October 7, 2023. And the world must never forget.”
@WestminsterWAG

[Birds, Nature and Wildlife on the Hoo Peninsula @CroydonAdrian]

@Muxley14 Yeah …… cuz you look completely sane and normal .

[Birds, Nature and Wildlife on the Hoo Peninsula @CroydonAdrian]

@IfindWankers Replace the word “safer” with “hornier” and you’re probably nearer to the truth.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨GRAHAM LINEHAN ACQUITTED OF CRIMINAL DAMAGE

“The decision of the Court to throw out this case , is very welcome – but this case should never have got to court.

There has been a troubling pattern of police forces around the country to ‘believe’ trans-rights activists, time and time again, even when there has been overwhelming evidence that complaints have been made against gender critical campaigners, in bad faith.

The police have failed in their duty to properly and fairly investigate – preferring instead to support one side over the other in a debate. All this has done is erode the faith the public should be able to have in the police. We are sick of two tier policing and I hope with today’s verdict it will end.

I have suffered greatly in my fight to protect women and children from what I believe to be a dangerous ideology. But I am proud that I have never given in and I will not do.

I have been lifted through support from friends and strangers, from women’s rights groups to London cabbies who have taken the time to stop and shake my hand.

I am very grateful to my legal team; Daniel Berke and Sarah Vine KC and to the team at the Free Speech Union”.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

So when you can't get someone to understand you, when you are speaking normal English which they are unable to understand, then to ask for someone who can understand you is racist ?

Anyone who believes this has lost the power to think

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Councillor apologises after asking council call handler to speak English as critics agree with her

Eastbourne Borough Councillor Elaine Hamilton, in her 60s, called the council helpdesk and struggled to understand the operator.

She politely said “I’m sorry but I can’t understand you, can I speak to someone who can speak English please?”

The comment triggered a backlash with some social media users branding her racist.

Hamilton has now issued a statement apologising and saying she regretted any offence caused.

Critics including local residents and fellow councillors have agreed with her, arguing English should be the language used for all council services so ratepayers can be properly understood.