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[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

This small miniature kirpan solves the problem. Just wear it. We don’t need a big one to fulfill our religious beliefs.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

One of our cats, Mickey Mouse, has started eating at our dining table. He says it is ‘One of his human rights’ When I suggested he wasn’t a human, he called me a Nazi

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

This is what they stole from us and said it was for our own good.
The guilty men should be in the dock.

[Ben Sears @BJ_Sears]

Excellent that the Welsh Gender Service is finally getting the attention it needs.

It is a activist organisation posing as a healthcare service.

[gript @griptmedia]

"Outrageous": @Ben_Scallan grills Children's Minister Norma Foley after RTÉ promoted a book instructing under-16s on how to engage in explicit activities:

"I don't know that book, I'm not familiar with it -"

"Minister, I actually emailed your office about this ahead of time."

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Don't worry, @MaeveHalligan. I very much doubt this child abusing, money-mad, disgraced doctor will risk a visit to a court

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The BBC has been forced into three separate apologies/corrections recently over its coverage of my activities - including a malicious attempt to smear our Rape Gang Inquiry.

Its behaviour in refusing to invite Restore Britain to its Makerfield debate is blatant election interference.

This is an outright attempt by the organisation to suppress Restore Britain's support.

I am formally writing to the Director-General of the BBC demanding an explanation.

There is no doubt in my mind that its own political beliefs are leading the organisation to deliberately censor and attack Restore Britain.

Restore Britain will tell the truth.

The BBC is a destructive cancer at the heart of Britain.

[Sonya Douglas @SonyaDouglas]

Gender ideology is a sickness infecting individuals and institutions alike

Look at him

It is an insane act of self-delusion and criminal neglect to put him in a women’s prison

The lie spirals outwards until it consumes everything and everyone

There’s only one way through this

[Nimco Ali (OBE) @NimkoAli]

The pro-FGM First Lady of Sierra Leone is coming to the UK this week. She should be held accountable for supporting a practice that kills women and girls. FGM is abuse, not culture, and we cannot stay silent while it continues. https://t.co/cJgJD23ScD

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

Happy happy kitty!

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

Everyone should be absolutely outraged at today’s sentencing. We need a complete overhaul of our system. 15 years for 14 counts of rape is insanity. 👇🏻

Hannan Miah was sentenced to 12 years for four counts of rape.
• Asif Budhia was sentenced to 13 years for four counts of rape.
• Abdul Basith was sentenced to 13 and a half years for four counts of rape and one count of conspiracy to rape.
• Burhan Uddin Ali was sentenced to 13 and a half years for four counts of rape.
• Muhammad Yasir was sentenced to 10 years for rape.
• Mohammed Nadeem Ali was sentenced to 13 years for four counts of rape.
• Jameel Ahmed, was sentenced to eight years for four counts of rape.
• Amjad Hussain, was sentenced to 10 years and five months for five counts of rape.
• Ashfaq Ahmed was sentenced to 12 years for two counts of rape.
• Aftab Ahmed was sentenced to 11 years for three counts of rape.
• Anwar Aziz was sentenced to 15 years for 14 counts of rape.
• Yousaf Bhatti was sentenced to 17 years for eight counts of rape.
• Faisal Rashid was sentenced to 15 years for 10 counts of rape.
• Omar Taj was sentenced to 15 years for 12 counts of rape.
• Shahinul Haq was sentenced to 10 years for rape.

[Rachel Maclean @redditchrache]

This is the man who called me transphobic for pointing out that he was a bloke in a wig. He wasted police time reporting me for a non crime hate incident. The local Labour Party held a protest in town about me.

Absolutely ridiculous.

He is a bloke in a wig.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Free Speech Union has long warned that the official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — would be used to silence legitimate criticism of Islam.

Within weeks, Labour MPs had reported Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, branded him an “Islamophobe”, and called on the Prime Minister to remove him from his post.

Last week, 27 Labour MPs reported Reform UK to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), accusing the party of Islamophobia and urging the Commission to investigate.

Led by Afzal Khan, a leading campaigner for an official Islamophobia definition, the MPs cited Nigel Farage’s criticism of the mass Muslim prayer event in Trafalgar Square, alongside comments made by Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.

This definition is already being weaponised to silence those who criticise Islam. It amounts to an Islamic blasphemy law by the back door.

Hear from FSU Campaigns Officer @MaxHThompson 👇

[CAMILLE PAGLIA STAN ✨ FAN ACCOUNT @Provokatov]

Maeve Halligan is my new favourite person.

[Tess Summers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @tesssummers98]

If you want to know what sort of man Sir Keir Starmer is, consider these two clues. First, note how slow he was to make any public comment about the murder of Henry Nowak. And second, note how quick he was to condemn his political opponents for speaking up about it.
“Nigel Farage is completely wrong to use this to try and create division,” fumed the Prime Minister on Tuesday. Countless other politicians of the Left joined in, darkly warning the public about the dangers of “stoking division” among “our communities”, and denouncing “the far-Right” for “politicising a tragedy”.
Do these words sound a touch familiar? They should. Because, in recent years, this is exactly the same script that politicians of the Left have taken to reciting immediately after every atrocity inflicted on the British people. They use it every time Islamists have carried out a terror attack, or serious crimes have been committed by supposed asylum seekers.
Paywall free: https://t.co/X9Z7Z3I80O

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Well, well, well.

There’s always a tweet.

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

As Britain wakes up to the dangers of progressive race theory, I'm reminded of my report that Essex Police described white people as a "non-protected group."

Sadly it had little impact at the time. It's such a shame that it often takes a tragedy to force reassessment.

[spiked @spikedonline]

Surrogacy is not harmless, and we must stop pretending that it is:
https://t.co/QOEkTEfpnD

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

A Furore That Was Whipped Up. That Is What Alexis Boon Called It.

Henry Nowak died in handcuffs on a Southampton street. The Prime Minister said he felt sick watching the body cam footage. The Commons Speaker ordered the government to make a statement. The chief constable of the force responsible described the national outcry as a furore that had been whipped up.

Alexis Boon, chief constable of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, spoke publicly for the first time today. He apologised for his officers handcuffing and arresting Henry. He said Henry could not be saved. He said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign.

The University of Reading evaluated Hampshire's mandatory Inclusion Matters diversity course, completed by 6,250 officers and staff. The findings were published by the force itself. Nearly twenty percent of officers said they felt they would have been rejected for saying the wrong thing during the training. Nearly fifteen percent said that if they made a mistake it would have been held against them. Fifteen and a half percent felt controlled and pressured to be certain ways. The University noted that individuals who did not respond well to the course may benefit from further intervention, monitoring or coaching.

Read that final observation carefully. Officers who retained their own judgment during diversity training were to be monitored, further intervened upon and coached until they responded correctly. The training was not designed to inform. It was designed to condition. Hampshire's own commissioned research documents that conditioning precisely.

The Metropolitan Police has gone further. It commissioned HR consultant Shereen Daniels to write a structural review of systemic racism within the force titled 30 Patterns of Harm. The Metropolitan Police described it as a key document in its race action plan. In a section on neutrality Daniels writes that neutrality is not neutral. That it reflects dominant norms, particularly whiteness. That claiming neutrality is claiming distance from bias but that distance is not real. That neutrality is a myth. The Metropolitan Police told its officers they could not be neutral because of their whiteness.

Officers trained that neutrality is a myth, that their own whiteness prevents impartiality and that failing to respond well to diversity training would result in monitoring and coaching arrived at the scene where Henry Nowak lay dying. They were not neutral. They had been trained not to be.

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said policing had been infected by an extremist ideology that calls itself anti-racism but is in fact racist itself because it urges ethnic minorities to be treated more leniently. He said the doctrine is enshrined as official police policy and in his view contributed to officers prioritising the allegation of racism above saving a young man's life.

That is the argument Alexis Boon refuses to engage with. He apologised for the handcuffs. He described the outcry as a furore. He said he would not resign. He did not address the Inclusion Matters course whose own evaluation shows officers were afraid to say the wrong thing. He did not address the neutrality document that told his officers their whiteness prevents impartiality. He did not address the training that the University of Reading documented and that his force commissioned.

Henry Nowak is not a furore. He is an eighteen year old boy who died in handcuffs on a Southampton street while his killer chose his food in a police kitchen. The furore is the appropriate response to that. The chief constable who cannot see the difference has not understood the question.

"Alexis Boon said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign."

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Man Who Legitimised Islamophobia Says The Guidelines Have Gone Too Far.

Jack Straw gave an interview to the Telegraph today acknowledging that police anti-racism guidelines have produced an over correction. He said greater care was needed in drafting guidance on race and less notice should be taken of vocal pressure groups. He said claims of racism must be swiftly rejected when there is overwhelming evidence in a specific case. He said he cannot understand for the life of him why officers found it necessary to handcuff Henry Nowak when he was disabled by his injuries.

These are the right observations. But they are twenty seven years too late. And they come from the man who built the architecture that produced the consequences he is now deploring.

In 1997 Jack Straw, as Home Secretary, launched the Runnymede Trust report titled Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All at the House of Commons, giving the word the full imprimatur of the British state and embedding it permanently in British political discourse. The word coined by Iranian fundamentalists to place Islam beyond criticism did not need to be invented by Straw. It needed to be legitimised. He did that. The vocal pressure groups whose disproportionate influence he now deplores drew their authority from that legitimisation. The word that has been used to silence every person who named the problems Henry Nowak's death has exposed was handed its power by the man now calling for less notice to be taken of those who wield it.

In 1999 Straw oversaw the Macpherson inquiry as Home Secretary. The report made 70 recommendations accepted by all parties. It produced what Straw himself describes as a sea change in police attitudes to race. That sea change produced the training frameworks, the Race Action Plans, the NPCC guidance and the College of Policing practice bank. The NPCC guidance states explicitly that a commitment to racial equity does not mean treating everyone the same or being colour blind. The policing minister Sarah Jones admitted this week that guidance was wrong. Sources close to Shabana Mahmood described it as clumsy. The NPCC has said it will review it.

Straw built the architecture. The guidance is its product. Henry Nowak is its consequence.

Rick Prior, the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation representing 30,000 rank and file officers, said in October 2024 that officers were withdrawing from proactive policing for fear of racism accusations. He was suspended, sacked and barred from standing for election. The Batley teacher showed his class a cartoon of Mohammed and went into hiding five years ago. He is still there. The Bradford hate crime scrutiny panel chairman said the Manchester synagogue attack came from the Muslim community and was sacked within days. Every one of them said what Jack Straw is saying today. Every one of them paid a price for saying it. Jack Straw is saying it from retirement with no consequences whatsoever.

The policing minister Sarah Jones declined when asked directly to deny that two tier policing exists in Britain. After days of the government insisting there is no such thing, the minister responsible for policing has declined to deny it. That is not a clumsy answer. It is the most honest thing any minister has said since the body cam footage was released.

Lady Lawrence, whose son's murder produced the Macpherson report, said the police should be at fault for what happened to Henry Nowak. That is a generous and significant observation from someone who has every reason to see this differently. It deserves more attention than it has received.

Jack Straw is right that things went too far. He is right that vocal pressure groups exercised disproportionate influence. He is right that claims of racism must be swiftly rejected when the evidence demands it. He built the framework that made all of that impossible. An acknowledgement of that would be more useful than an interview. An apology would be more useful still.