🚨 Breaking: Stephen Bradbury has been acquitted at Derby Magistrates’ Court.
He had been charged with sending menacing communications, contrary to Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.
The case concerned two posts in which he criticised Labour MP Naz Shah, who had liked and shared a post from a Owen Jones parody account that stated, in reference to the Rotherham grooming gang scandal: “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of #diversity.”
Although Mr Bradbury’s comments can be seen as offensive, rude and even unpleasant for Ms Shah, the court recognised that freedom of speech is a fundamental democratic right.
Naz Shah conceded during proceedings that there was a disproportionate representation of Pakistani men in grooming cases.
The judge found Bradbury not guilty on the basis that he had been “ranting” and did not intend to intimidate.
Sol 186: Mast Camera (Mastcam)
This image was taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 186 (2013-02-13T07:38:27.000Z)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
https://t.co/x9GGv0uJOS
Sol 193: Mast Camera (Mastcam)
This image was taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 193 (2013-02-20T13:58:14.000Z)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
https://t.co/EVKJ4oNnbw
Accents: Glaswegian (Scottish)
In this video from bygone Britain, a few lads discuss the tribal and rough reality of growing up in Glasgow.
The Glaswegian accent is a distinct hybrid of West-Central Scots, Scottish English, and heavy 19th/20th-century immigrant influences (particularly from Ireland and the Scottish Highlands). I for one find the Scottish accent very comforting (whichever region it's from).
@ABridgen He compared COVID to Ebola. An ex dentist who made daily propaganda TV appearances easily digestible for the common people, purportedly a good moral Christian also.
The Ministry of Justice let a convicted ISIS terrorist loose on our streets.
It took a journalist contacting them for him to be recalled to prison.
Now they say he can’t be deported because he might face mistreatment.
I don’t care about his treatment.
He must be deported.
@Jason_Jorjani@pBinx1 Killed by whom? The native, indigenous population of each country? In the UK we also have a large number of Africans who are mostly Christian, there are Sikhs, Hindus etc. There is an Islamic blasphemy law now in the UK, so they must be aware of the rising tensions.
@ABridgen@spikedonline Fraser Myers heavily pushed the gene therapy injections during the scamdemic, so they have form on this. Who funds them I wonder?
The Sombrero Galaxy in Real Time
Watch the Sombrero Galaxy (M104) as it appears through a backyard telescope — a striking spiral roughly 31.1 million light-years from the Milky Way. Even in live views, its bright central bulge and dark dust lane create the distinctive hat-like silhouette that makes it one of the most recognizable galaxies in the night sky.
When you provoke a squid at point-blank range, you get an explosive blast of thick, dark defensive ink directly in your face.
This is the hilarious moment a giant squid squirted ink all over a fisherman's face.
Standoff between man and elk...
A very scary but amazing video captured by @charan_cherzy. Initially thought it was ai but he had a supporting photo from another photographer present in the scene.
Elk can be dangerous. Although they are large herbivores that usually avoid humans, they weigh between 450 and 1,100 pounds, run up to 45 mph, and possess sharp antlers and hard hooves.
Video of the “jellyfish” spotted during today’s Falcon 9 launch 🚀
The glowing “jellyfish” appears when a rocket lifts off right after sunset or shortly before sunrise. On the ground it’s still dark, but the Sun is already lighting up the upper atmosphere. It catches the expanding exhaust plume high above, turning it into a bright, ethereal cloud with trailing tentacles — a stunning twilight spectacle that can be visible for hundreds of miles.
During the pre-dawn CRS-35 launch on October 13, the Falcon 9’s plume lit up across the East Coast, creating one of the most striking space jellyfish displays in recent memory as it headed toward the International Space Station.
This is sickening. Nobody should be sentenced to death for criticising, mocking or debating a religion, its figures, practices or history.
The UK rightly abolished blasphemy laws in 2008. They have no place in a truly free society.
Dr Rahman Aladwan describes herself as a supporter of free speech. If she is, she should agree that the Government’s “anti-Muslim hostility” (AMH) definition has had a chilling effect on free speech and has been weaponised by activists to silence legitimate criticism of Islam.
The AMH definition is a de facto Islamic blasphemy law, ushered in through the back door by the Labour Government.