"Woke made us do it" is going to be the line on all police failure, incompetence and corruption from now on, isn't it? And it will work! Rotherham was the blueprint.
I call BS.
The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.
No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.
This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.
Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.
Nowhere in the source post is ‘DEI’ mentioned, because DEI is specifically American terminology - it’s now been weaponised by the US far right and it’s being pushed on the UK by US far right actors. This account is either acting in bad faith or isn’t British.
People having attitudes like this in the UK because of religion is a problem and it’s a large problem that’s only going to grow with the rise of the Christian far-right and demographic change, it’s time to admit we need a secularised society.
Under the new guidance, trans people are obligated to use facilities corresponding to their sex at birth - but there's no mechanism for employers to compel them to reveal their trans status.
Which means this is, for many people, effectively a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice
"We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights."
Full statement👇
https://t.co/2eZAsJXdzV
If you click UNISON's link, it says:
"Whilst the government has said this guidance is not intended for workplaces, we anticipate many employers will look to this guidance as the standard to apply in many workplaces."
UNISON are obviously right.
This is splendid. Surely the most insidious quibble is the decline in all street furniture. See the new CIIIR postbox: formerly cast iron, now stamped and welded with an ugly glued-on cypher. A national icon demonstrating how little we care for the public realm.
Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.
Great initiative & aligns with so much we find. While primary drivers of people thinking Britain is Broken are issues like cost of living/immigration/NHS. It’s also true what I call ‘every day frictions’ play a huge role in just making life that bit more frustrating/miserable.
The world has 195 recognised countries.
64 of them id go to prison or be killed for being gay.
That’s 32% of the world where it’s illegal and punishable by death for being who I am.
So talk to me about why we shouldn’t have pride.