Benjamin Taylor

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[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

Could Henry Nowak have survived if Hampshire Police had treated him differently? Did the dragging and cuffing contribute to his death? Dr Krzysztof Magier MD PhD FRCPCH, Isle of Wight NHS Paediatric Critical Care Lead is a specialist on battlefield trauma. He says it’s likely.

[Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 @montie]

A big week in my estimation of @KemiBadenoch. She is big about not making party politics out of the Nowak tragedy while making every party political point she can at every opportunity - and clearly conspiring with Keir Starmer in doing so. It was a particular giveaway that she didn't ask any question on the issue that's gripped the nation at this week's #pms. We see you Kemi, we see you.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Reform 10 points ahead of the rest

We are saying what millions are thinking

[June Slater @juneslater17]

This is the most concise informative video I've seen re why we are where we are
Excellent journalism from @beverleyturner and well put by @trussliz

[Maurits van der Meer @MeerMaurits]

@MichelHoetmer Nf6+ gxf6 Qf8+ (like Judit Polgar) Kxf8 Bh6+ Kg8 Re8# The tricky part is that there are many long-distance moves here 😅

[Michel Hoetmer - michelhoetmer.bsky.social @MichelHoetmer]

Found this one in the Chess Tactics app. Says it is 'hard. I immediately recognized the pattern. Easy, but beuatiful! White to play.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Never forget Keir Starmer also attacked Elon Musk for asking why there is no national inquiry into the industrial scale sexual abuse of white working-class women and girls by Pakistani Muslim gangs.

Keir Starmer really doesn’t like being confronted with difficult questions.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Wiltshire Police has been taken to court for marching under the Pride flag. Officers didn't simply attend a local event; they marched in uniform, wore trans-themed lanyards, and ran stalls under political banners. This was not policing. It was participation in an ideological campaign. And that distinction matters more than most people realise.

Because what's unfolding here is part of a toxic revolution that has spread through every British institution – one that preaches equality but demands obedience. What used to be the impartial machinery of state has been captured from within by a new orthodoxy: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – the soft language of the hard Left.

This is how a nation is hollowed out. Not by riots or coups, but by bureaucrats with clipboards and slogans. It begins with the soft phrases – "be kind," "celebrate difference," "diversity is our strength" – the moral lullabies of a movement that masks coercion as compassion. Then come the symbols – rainbows painted across patrol cars, the oath replaced by the lanyard. And finally, the inversion: neutrality becomes "hate," disagreement becomes "extremism," and those who refuse to accept the creed are cast out as enemies of progress.

Pride has become the state's moral test. Refusal to affirm it is treated as heresy. When police forces sponsor Pride zones and hand out stickers, they aren't serving the community – they're serving the creed. They're telling every citizen with gender-critical, conservative, or religious beliefs that their views are now beneath protection.

Sarah Phillimore, a family law barrister and co-founder of the free speech group Fair Cop, has spent years exposing how British policing has drifted from enforcing the law to enforcing ideology. Her challenge to Wiltshire Police is about more than one parade. It's about who governs Britain – the law, or the ideology that has replaced it. When judges have to remind police forces that impartiality is a legal duty, not a lifestyle choice, you know the system is rotting from within.

Every captured institution follows the same pattern: moral cause becomes policy, policy becomes dogma, and dogma becomes law. The NHS waves flags. The BBC manufactures narrative and calls it news. Our universities churn out zealots instead of thinkers. The police enforce feelings. A state once anchored in reason now runs on emotional coercion.

This is what capture looks like in the twenty-first century – not uniforms and salutes, but hashtags and training slides. It's control sold as compassion. And every time the police march under a political banner, the message is clear: allegiance to ideology now outranks allegiance to law.

The revolution happened in daylight. Most people mistook it for kindness. But behind the rainbows lies something colder – a bureaucracy that no longer serves the public, only itself.

It can still be undone, but only if the public stops apologising for wanting neutrality. The police have no business picking sides in moral crusades. Their badge should mean justice, not fashion. Because when the state kneels to ideology, the citizen kneels next.

"Sarah Phillimore, a family law barrister and co-founder of the free speech group Fair Cop, has spent years exposing how British policing has drifted from enforcing the law to enforcing ideology."

[Peter Bleksley @PeterBleksley]

Chief Constable Alexis Boon is a cunt.

[Adam Gwiazda @delestoile]

🟥 Czy Henry Nowak mógł przeżyć?
Dr Krzysztof Magier @DrMagier , lekarz pediatra i były konsul honorowy RP w Cowes, przeanalizował nagrania z policyjnej kamery nasobnej pokazujące śmierć Henry'ego Nowaka.
Dr Magier jest lekarzem prowadzącym oddział intensywnej terapii dziecięcej, z doświadczeniem w szkoleniach z medycyny pola walki oraz po specjalistycznym kursie leczenia ciężkich urazów (w tym ran postrzałowych i kłutych).
Nie zgadza się z opinią patologa i sędziego, że Henry Nowak nie miał żadnych szans na przeżycie i ze skucie go w kajdanki nic w zasadzie nie zmieniło. Wręcz przeciwnie – istnieje duże prawdopodobieństwo, że to interwencja policji przyczyniła się do jego śmierci.
Przeanalizował on raport z sekcji, który wskazuje na uszkodzenie żyły podobojczykowej jako główne źródło krwawienia i tłumaczy, gdzie leży problem.
U zdrowej osoby krwawienie żylne odbywa się pod niskim ciśnieniem i często samoogranicza się dzięki powstającemu naturalnie skrzepowi, a samo zbliżenie krawędzi rany i ucisk otaczających tkanek domyka żyłę na tyle, że spowalnia albo nawet zatrzymuje krwawienie.
Z nagrania z policyjnej kamery nasobnej wynika, że gdy policja przybyła na miejsce (prawdopodobnie 5-10 minut po zranieniu), Henry był na tyle przytomny, że mówił dość głośno. Nie był zatem jeszcze w stanie terminalnym. Po wykręceniu rąk do tyłu i skuciu za plecami najprawdopodobniej doszło do rozciągnięcia żyły, rozerwania skrzepu i gwałtownego nasilenia krwawienia. W ciągu zaledwie ok. trzech minut stracił przytomność i zmarł.
Osoby z podejrzeniem urazów wewnętrznych nigdy nie powinny być gwałtownie przemieszczane ani szarpane – takie działanie może zniszczyć naturalny skrzep i doprowadzić do masywnego krwotoku wewnętrznego.
Zamiast natychmiastowego wezwania zespołu ratownictwa medycznego i przekazania pacjenta w ręce ratowników, policja go skuła. Gdyby na miejscu jako pierwsi pojawili się paramedycy, szanse Henry’ego na przeżycie byłyby znacznie większe. "50%" - pisze dr Magier.
Ratownicy mogliby szybko założyć kroplówkę, podać płyny zwiększające objętość krwi krążącej oraz kwas traneksamowy stabilizujący skrzep, a w razie potrzeby wykonać dekompresję igłową (wkłucie grubej i długiej igły w płuco), bo problemem nie był tyle brak funkcji płuca, ale ucisk zalanego krwią płuca na serce i śródpiersie, który blokuje krążenie.
Co gorsza, incydent miał miejsce zaledwie kilka minut jazdy samochodem (2–3 minuty karetką na sygnale) od Southampton University Hospital – regionalnego Major Trauma Centre dysponującego pełnym zapleczem specjalistów, procedur i sprzętu. "Jestem przekonany, że gdyby Henry dotarł tam żywy, lekarze nie pozwoliliby mu umrzeć" - pisze dr Magier.
Podsumowując: agresywna interwencja policji, zamiast ratować życie, doprowadziła do śmierci przez nieodpowiednie postępowanie z ciężko ranionym człowiekiem, mimo że najwyższej klasy opieka była w zasięgu kilku minut. "Obawiam się, że Sędzia i patolog byli zbyt łaskawi dla policji" - pisze dr Magier.

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

The hypocrisy over Reform's comments on the Henry Nowak murder is nauseating. Labour & LibDem MPs (and a bunch of confused Tories trying to have it both ways) are hyperventilating that Nigel said he feels 'rage' about the two-tier policing on display, as if reflecting public anger is somehow illegitimate; meanwhile they are doing exactly what they accuse us of, namely using the tragedy to score political points.

Reform is doing what politicians should - pointing out how an individual situation reflects a general problem, and making suggestions to meet it. Our opponents all did exactly that (including proclaiming their anger, rage etc - no 'calm', 'be responsible' guff then) over George Floyd, a case rather beyond our jurisdiction - when it's a British boy saying 'I can't breathe' as he lies dying on a British street, it's an occasion to attack Nigel Farage and talk about police racism.

This is why the British Left has lost the people. If the government continues to be run by the agents of mass migration and the instigators of two-tier policing we will have a REAL far-right revolt, and that will not be pretty.

[Robert Wilkinson @robertwlk]

40 years ago today, l asked my childhood sweetheart, my best friend and the most gorgeous woman l know to marry me.

All three said no.

[Justice For Henry Nowak @HenryNowakSol_]

The Daily Mail has now published details from sentencing that almost no one has reported.

As Henry Nowak — bleeding from five stab wounds — tried to climb a commercial rubbish bin and over a fence to escape, Vickrum Digwa filmed him.

And taunted him.

“You’re not going to get away with this big man.”

Henry landed on top of a parked car on the other side of the fence. Digwa walked round and took close-up photos of him lying on the ground.

A home security camera then captured what may be the most chilling exchange in this entire case.

Henry: “I am dying.”

Digwa: “You’re not dying bro.”

Ten minutes later, Henry said: “You stabbed me.”

Digwa replied: “No, I didn’t.”

In the ten minutes that followed the stabbing, Vickrum Digwa did not call an ambulance. He filmed Henry for a full five minutes instead.

That clip was deemed too disturbing to be played in court.

Stop and process what that means. A judge and a jury sat through video of Digwa describing his blade in “loving terms,” through bodycam of Henry being handcuffed as he died, through pathologist evidence of the eight-centimetre chest wound — and the only piece of footage the court ruled too disturbing to show was the five minutes Vickrum Digwa spent filming an 18-year-old as he bled to death on a Southampton pavement.

The judge said it in sentencing: “You continued to make films of Henry suffering, ignoring much of his desperation at having been stabbed. You told him that had not happened, no doubt to convince others who were nearby.”

The lie Digwa told the police did not begin when officers arrived. It began ten minutes earlier, in Henry’s face, as Henry told him he was dying.

This is what Hampshire Police walked into. This is the man they believed when they got there. This is what the court has now formally established took place between the stabbing and Henry’s death.

The five-minute video exists. Henry’s family knows what is on it. The court knows what is on it. The public does not.

It is too disturbing to be shown.

But not too disturbing to have been done to him.

Henry — forever 18. 🤍

#JusticeForHenryNowak

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I disagree

He's much worse then that

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Everyone who bent a knee for a crackhead in Minneapolis is telling you to be quiet about a teenager getting murdered in Southampton.

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨BREAKING: Reform UK has JUST banned Pride & LGBTQ+ promotions from Essex libraries.

They say they are putting books & learning FIRST, not woke indoctrination.

This is a win for common sense.

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

You have to be 16 to drive.
You have to be 18 to vote.
You have to be 21 to drink.
You have to be 25 to rent a car.

Why are teachers talking to our kids about sexuality at 12?

Why are kids encouraged to mutilate their bodies at 13?

This gender ideology madness needs to end.

[Simon Danczuk @SimonDanczuk]

Of course we have a two tier justice system. It took two years campaigning to get this guy prosecuted. @CPSUK did all they could to get him off, check his mental health, we need more evidence, on it went. They want you to give up because of who you are and who the perpetrator is.

[Goosey @Goosey30111568]

Henry Nowak was murdered in December.
The force in question has had 6 months in which to investigate the failures by their own officers.

THEY HAVENT EVEN STARTED.

This tells me that they were hoping the time-lag would allow it all to just blow over.

It's a travesty.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer has shown more anger at people being furious over Henry Nowak’s treatment than the fact that Henry bled to death handcuffed like a criminal.

This is why he is so despised.