🇬🇧 A police officer got her nose broken on the job, and it reopened a debate the profession keeps trying to avoid.
PC Lydia Ward was assaulted at Manchester airport while she and colleagues tried to make an arrest.
Muhammad Fahir Amaz was convicted of the assault.
Afterward, Ward said policing "isn't about being a ninja warrior" and taking people down, but about showing empathy to people on the worst day of their lives.
That's where the argument sits, because both things are true.
Policing is often about empathy and de-escalation, and sometimes it's about physically controlling a violent person before they hurt someone else.
When an officer can't do the second part, the cost lands on whoever that person hits next.
The backdrop is awkward. The standard fitness test for UK frontline officers is a bleep test to level 5.4, roughly 525 meters in 3.5 minutes, a bar most reasonably fit adults can clear.
It's gender-neutral and age-blind, yet more than 1,200 serving officers still failed it in a single recent count.
Firearms and public-order roles, meanwhile, demand far higher levels, because those jobs have physical realities that can't be wished away.
A suspect doesn't get less aggressive because the officer in front of him is older or smaller.
The confrontation Ward walked into had the same demands whoever was sent to it.
So the real question, and it has nothing to do with any one officer: should the standard be set by the job, or by whoever's applying for it?
A burning building doesn't lower its heat for the firefighter who shows up.
None of this says women can't police, plenty do it excellently, and plenty of men fail the same test.
It says the bar should be the one the work requires, held equally for everyone.
Set it below that and you're not being inclusive. You're sending people into fights they've been set up to lose.
Sources: College of Policing, Liberal Democrats, PolicePay / Writer: Julie
This is an updated list of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, video podcasts, and key blog articles explaining various aspect of our new climate-science paradigm currently known as the Nikolov-Zeller (NZ) Climate Concept.
This full-fledged, physics-based and data-driven concept will eventually replace the "greenhouse theory" of climate change, which was proposed as a pure conjecture more than 120 years ago, and is now falsified by modern satellite observations from projects such as NASA CERES (https://t.co/sCmErjJfJu):
Peer-reviewed Scientific Papers:
- 2014. On the average temperature of airless spherical bodies and the magnitude of Earth’s atmospheric thermal effect: https://t.co/z2xlrKy3mL
- 2017. New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Deduced from an Empirical Planetary Temperature Model: https://t.co/4gpTdfo40G
- 2024. Roles of Earth’s Albedo Variations and Top-of-the-Atmosphere Energy Imbalance in Recent Warming: New Insights from Satellite and Surface Observations: https://t.co/9EcSJbPmNU
Video Presentations & Podcasts:
- 2021. Demystifying the Atmospheric Thermal Effect. Toward a New Paradigm of Climate Science: https://t.co/pqptdP8rI9
- 2021. Drivers of Earth's Paleoclimate, a New Paradigm of Understanding: https://t.co/e5PfOJxtXw
- 2024. Beyond the Greenhouse Theory: https://t.co/EYE4MCzhgo
- 2025. The ill-defined “Greenhouse Effect” and Greenhouse-Gas "Radiative Forcing" https://t.co/Wn7j7qlkoZ
- 2025. What's the Truth? Unpacking Climate Science (Podcast with Dr. Shawn Baker): https://t.co/QKjcuv5YZz
- 2026. Is the Global Mean Surface Temperature Physically Meaningful? https://t.co/gH5knHwFAP
Blog Articles:
- 2022. Dispelling the Milankovitch Myth: Why were Ice Ages not caused by Orbital Cycles? https://t.co/NmJppvJ8QQ
- 2022. A Surface Solar Radiation Dataset exposes a major manipulation of Global Temperature Records between 1960 and 1980: https://t.co/00eGwkTEfn
- 2024. Misrepresentation of Critical Satellite Data by the IPCC 6th Assessment Report: https://t.co/E0zticR3RM
- 2024. An Open Letter to IPCC discussing omissions & data misrepresentations in AR6: https://t.co/fKlHth08qW
Spread the word about our new climate science, for it has the power to save the World through knowledge from a self-induced destruction caused by collective ignorance!
Former Navy SEAL, mayor of Brooklyn Park and Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura once told the AP he received personal assurances from Russian President Vladimir Putin that "The World According to Jesse" won't be censored by the government-funded RT network.
"I can't get a job in the U.S. No one will touch me," Ventura said. "My United States union throws me in the dirt and who comes to the rescue? Russia."
In January 2011, Ventura filed a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration, seeking a declaration that the agency's new controversial pat-down policy violated citizens' 4th Amendment rights and an injunction to bar the TSA from subjecting him to the pat-down procedures.
Ventura received a titanium hip replacement in 2008 that sets off metal detectors at airport security checkpoints.
The U.S. district court dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction in November 2011, ruling that "challenges to TSA orders, policies and procedures" must be brought only in the U.S. courts of appeals.
After the court's ruling, Ventura held a press conference in which he called the federal judges cowards; said he no longer felt patriotic and would henceforth refer to the U.S. as the "Fascist States of America"
The Triassic fish-fauna of Brookvale, New South Wales, is of
considerable interest since it is intermediate in age between the
two well-known faunas also from Gosford and St. Peter's, described many years ago by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward.
WHITE HATRED IS AT INSANE LEVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦
Each cross represents a white farmer who was murdered in South Africa.
Some people still deny that white South Africans/Boers are persecuted and say they don’t deserve asylum because they are white.
Did Elon Musk kill millions of people by cutting USAID? We now have preliminary 2025 mortality data from several African countries, and the answer may shock you: no. There is no detectable mortality signal at all.
Candace Owens just presented irrefutable evidence that Charlie Kirk’s Rode microphone, the one worn under his shirt, was shattered into countless pieces. 👀💥
The transport vehicle’s floor is covered in minuscule shards of tempered glass, identical to the kind used in the Rode microphone on Charlie’s person when he was “shot.”
It’s inexplicable that this crucial detail hasn’t been mentioned by Charlie’s friends or his security team, who were supposed to be responsible for his care during his hour of need.
I don’t see any plausible explanation for this evidence that fits the official narrative.
The FBI, local law enforcement and TPUSA have a lot of explaining to do.
The destruction of Western civilization is intentional.
Communists must destroy the existing world so that the new utopia can magically rise from ashes as they speak the world into existence.
When they said "Build Back Better" they meant "Build Back Communist."
People act like I'm crazy because I don't trust lots of the “science”
Here is the number two guy at the WEF telling you science isn't about truth, but control
When our political-media establishment chant "stand with Ukraine", it means boycotting diplomacy and finance the kidnapping of Ukrainian men to use them in a campaign to weaken Russia as a strategic rival. If the majority of Ukrainians had a say, there would not have been a regime change in 2014, the 2015 Minsk agreement would have been implemented, the 2019 peace platform would not have been reversed, the 2022 Istanbul agreement would have been signed, and there would now be negotiations about the pan-European security architecture. However, the US and EU run Ukraine, and men are hunted on the streets to fight to the last Ukrainian in NATO's proxy war.
This shouldn't surprise anyone.
I read their "academic" papers. The line running through all of them is deep-seated hatred of the West and devising ways to eradicate every aspect of it.
Everything Western is their benchmark for coding things as "oppressive," and everything non-Western is coded as "oppressed." Everything Western is seen as bad, and everything bad is argued—no matter how indirect and circuitously—to be of Western origin.
It's arguably the biggest conspiracy theory in existence today.
@elonmusk The murder rate fell off a cliff in 2015 and dropped by almost 60% before Bukele became president in 2019.
The big increase in the incarceration rate only began 2020/21 AFTER the biggest drop in the murder rate.
What caused that huge initial reduction which began in 2015?
NASA data clearly show that the warming of the past 55 years was caused by a drop of Earth's albedo mostly due to a reduction of low-level clouds over the oceans, a process that has nothing to do with human carbon emissions (see Nikolov & Zeller 2024: https://t.co/MyGQzXlsJe).
The actual drivers of recent climate change have been cosmic forces controlling cloud formations, not "greenhouse" trace gases emitted by humans & cattle as claimed by IPCC.
Share this liberating news with your elected officials and demand immediate abolishment of all misguided and economically devastating "green" initiatives such as "Net Zero", which will have zero impact on climate but will likely ruin the Western Civilization.
Just two days after DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification showing Fauci helped fund gain-of-function research and later conspired with the intelligence community to conceal the origins of COVID-19, The Washington Post published a smear piece on Gabbard while remaining silent on the alleged cover-up, per NYP.