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[FN🇬🇧🇮🇪 @FNuala]

@ikeijeh Calling out a black person for lying is racist. How pathetically predictable

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill:

Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now: wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies. . .

This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often twice as fatal.

And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’. It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed their due diligence to the god of decolonisation.

And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none of them foresaw it. . . .

The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.

. . . The media is the only institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly. Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the media found it.

I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked, black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised according to the accident of our race.

Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

I know exactly what it’s like to have your career ended overnight. I know exactly what it’s like to be at the centre of a targeted and brutal onslaught designed to destroy one’s life. I know exactly what it’s like to feel that there’s no reason to carry on.

I’ve been there.

The very people who are most vocal and morally virtuous in their horror about this entirely avoidable tragedy were the ones who continue to dance loudest on my grave.

This awful event must be a wake up call for any right thinking person. Diversity kills. Critical race theory kills. Wokism kills.

We must reject this madness once and for all.

And for those of you read this and say I’m making this about me.

I couldn’t give less of a shit if I tried.

Every single human life is sacred. All Lives Matter.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Jason Arday’s death is tragic. But please spare us the sanctimonious complaints that he was merely an ‘obscure’ academic who was the victim of a racist witch-hunt. The probing and questioning and exposure were entirely legitimate.

Arday was plainly guilty of plagiarism. He had also made a series of fantastical claims about his life and career. He ended up being appointed as a professor at one of the world’s most august seats of learning – where his students, who had worked extremely hard to get there, were paying large fees for the privilege of being taught by him.

Far from being obscure, Arday had happily engaged with the media over many years, often repeating his false claims. He appeared on numerous TV shows and guest edited Radio 4’s flagship Today programme. He even carried the Olympic torch.

Moreover, he had secured a major publishing deal for his autobiography, which was set to be released in Britain and the US just as the scandal broke. By no measure was this man ‘obscure’.

When a fellow academic in Plymouth began to question his credentials, Arday (or someone close to him) made a complaint to the police. When a journalist from Times Higher Education started investigating, he was subjected to a police inquiry and also received a threatening letter from the leading libel solicitors, Carter Ruck.

Arday and those around him were clearly not averse to hounding others when they felt like it.

It’s very possible that Arday did not have sufficient support measures in place when he was finally exposed – but that’s on others. The investigation and questions amounted to legitimate journalistic inquiry.

This was never just about Arday’s fabulism. It was also about the increasingly controversial philosophy of DEI, the obsession of our political, corporate and educational institutions with pushing that philosophy, and how it might have led to someone with Arday’s subpar credentials being appointed in the first place.

These are all valid questions to ask – and, by asking them, journalists are simply doing their jobs.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Hey @Decathlon … anything to say?

[FN🇬🇧🇮🇪 @FNuala]

@Heccles94 Don't be such a stupid melt.

[Dana Weinstein @justdanaw]

Die Bemühungen in Großbritannien, Boy George und seinen Song „We will dance again“ zum Schweigen zu bringen.

Schaffen wir es, das Video einmal in die Welt hinauszutragen?

[The Spectator @spectator]

The Jason Arday story is becoming a national scandal. What began as a vaguely amusing parable of our times, a schadenfreude-filled exposé of the left's remarkable gullibility, has now morphed into something far more sinister.

For now we learn that Scotland Yard attempted to silence a journalist who tried to expose Arday's claims. In fact, they spent four months investigating him.

✍️ James Hanson

Article | https://t.co/FKfmIX9nyc | @jhansonradio

[Ana חַנָּה 🤍🇮🇱 @ForeverIsrael7]

There is no one blinder than the one who doesn’t want to see.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

If my interpretation is correct, she is arguing against the motion that “the West is right to be suspicious of Islam,” yet in the same breath she recounts that Muslims at the Oxford Union had to intervene to prevent a debater from being subjected to violence. In doing so she effectively concedes her own case.

Her argument here is also only constructed to win applause rather than actually challenge the statement of the debate.

Simply put, she lost her own argument by seemingly exposing the nature of some of the people she’s defending and revealed that she is a sub-par debater, all because she wanted to personally attack her opponent.

Is this the standard of Oxford debate in 2026? If so it’s an utter waste of time going.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

This is absolutely insane.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Three charged with the stabbing murder of Christopher Bradbury, 44, in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent.

Hassan Ahmed, 19
Dhannish Mahmood, 19
Subhan Nadeem, 20

A British man is dead. Three young men are charged with his murder.
And yet this will barely register on the national news.

If the victim and the perpetrators had been reversed, this would have been wall-to-wall coverage for a week. Politicians would be lining up. Every newspaper would be running it on the front page.

The outrage would be endless.

Instead it’s a quiet local story that most people will never hear.

Christopher Bradbury was loved by his family.

His life mattered.

The selective silence says everything about whose lives the media decides are worth mourning.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We now have a Two Tier Media!!

[FN🇬🇧🇮🇪 @FNuala]

You would be forgiven for thinking it was all a load of made up horse shit.

[Ben Leo @Benleo]

NEW: Big update on the publicised counter terror news that Keir Starmer posted about the other day - a supposed far right threat to an Islamic event in Suffolk.

After 13 arrests… no charges.

Commander Helen Flanagan, Head of CTP London said: “This has been a fast-moving investigation after we became aware of information to indicate there was a potential threat towards the Islamic event over the course of last weekend.

“Since then, we have made extensive enquiries, but at this time, we have found no evidence to support anyone being charged with any offences linked to the alleged threat.”

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

A man gets into a car with a stick, drives hundreds of miles to brutally murder the beloved elderly matriarch of Reform UK.

The authorities offer no information, but if you ask questions they admonish you for “speculating”.

Reform MPs demanding security from the state are told to shut up and be grateful that “the police know where their house is” and the “direct telephone number to the police” to call if someone tries to murder them.

Reveal that the Speaker of the House has totally ignored letters from Reform MPs about their safety and he briefs the press that he’s “furious”, while failing to deny this.

If you go to lay flowers in memory of your friend you are “politicising” her murder.

If you push back against any of this, you are hounded to the ends of the earth by the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Mirror, and hundreds of crazed leftists online.

These, apparently, are the new rules for Nigel, for Reform MPs and all those in our movement.

None of it will deter us.

We will fight on.

For Ann.

For our country. 🇬🇧

[FN🇬🇧🇮🇪 @FNuala]

@DPJHodges They, like the majority of us want the truth. Maybe we should be asking, what is your agenda?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Adam,

I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most.

But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you.

I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her.

I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being.

Here’s a list.

She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections.

She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons.

She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary.

She was appointed to the Privy Council.

After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality.

Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament.

She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party.

She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament.

She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions.

Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life.

She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility.

That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention.

Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities.

Do you understand the reduction involved in that?

You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her.

That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known.

It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant.

Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed.

I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes.

But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong.

Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex.

She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does.

Bernie.

[FN🇬🇧🇮🇪 @FNuala]

@AvonandsomerRob Yes, it happened to me

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

🚨 Full West Mids Broad Street clip of two tier policing
I spent 21 years in policing, much of it as a detective. I know what professional policing looks like – and this is not it.
Watch this. West Midlands Police officers behaving like a gang. The swearing. The aggression. No control, no standards.
I didn’t write about Henry Nowak because everyone else was. But I can’t stay silent any more. What I’m seeing week after week is a police service that treats you differently depending on who you are.
I’m writing the full story of two-tier policing in Britain. This footage is where it starts.

[Anth🇬🇧 @AnthNFS]

We must demand the immediate release of the bodycam footage from the recent unlawful arrest in Birmingham.

The handling of this incident is a blatant failure of duty, as the arresting officer targeted the white male as the aggressor despite the clear reality of the situation.

It is impossible that the officer did not see the two black males actively attacking him before charging in to make the arrest.

@BrumPolice are now requesting people stop sharing the footage.

The police have learned nothing from the death of Henry Nowak.

Video credit to @KnockoutAudit

Shame on you @BrumPolice you have failed your city.

[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

- A white boy is attacked by a group of African men
- Instead of arresting the group, the police arrest the white boy
- "You're gonna walk to the fucking car, you dick."
- British police in a nutshell