Rosie Cuckston

I’m one of the organisers of Birmingham Salon, which hosts regular in-person debates in various Birmingham venues on a wide range of topics.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

The report into NHS antisemitism by @LordJohnMann begins with the words:

‘The levels of anti-Jewish racism in the UK constitute a national emergency. The Heaton
Park Synagogue attack of 2 October 2025, the abhorrent terrorist, arson and other attacks
on members of the Jewish community that took place in April 2026 in Golders Green, and
across London all point to a worsening of the situation. No sector is untouched by it. The
criminal cases, taken together with the data drawn from the Home Office, from the NHS
and from various community organisations, and the cases reported to the General Medical
Council and other health and care professional regulators, have highlighted allegations of
antisemitic behaviour perpetrated by UK doctors and other healthcare professionals. It is
within this context that I was asked to undertake a review into tackling antisemitism in the
NHS.’

[Julie Burchill @BoozeAndFagz]

'I don't think you have, mate.' MATE. The world of contemptuous DEI-fuelled smugness in that word. The whole ruling regime is rotten - the #BeKind police force, who treat a dying young man like a lying nuisance in the name of being anti-racist, perhaps worst of all.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Don’t ‘whip up division’ says Starmer. He took the knee for a violent criminal and backed BLM mania - which left in its wake an orgy of violence which killed 25 people and resulted in upto $2,000 million in riot damage.

#TwoTier

[Fraser Myers @FraserMyers]

Completely nonsensical for the IOPC to claim public outcry could “prejudice” its own investigation. It’s not a public trial with lay members of a jury who might be influenced by incomplete information

The IOPC supports the ideology that led to Henry’s arrest. That’s the “prejudice” that matters

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Keir Starmer: “there is no such thing as two-tier policing”.

Police chiefs today: “we will review controversial guidance advising officers to treat ethnic minorities differently”.

The absurdity of modern Britain.

[spiked @spikedonline]

After the Manchester Arena bombing they said ‘Don’t look back in anger’. During the rape-gang scandal they said ‘Don’t use inflammatory language’. Now they’re saying ‘Don’t rage over Henry Nowak. They really want to crush our spirit, says Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/admIZobKmS

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

‘Darren Rigby, who sent hoax death threats to schools is jailed’

All girls’ schools were specifically targeted. Rigby ‘threatened to carry out deadly attacks supposedly in response to the treatment of ‘transwomen’’. None of this features in the coverage across outlets, despite the evidence emerging in email evidence and in court, neither does it feature in the Merseyside Police report.

‘I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across’

‘I'm going to shoot and stab all your girls’

It’s a crime of extreme misogyny in the cause of ‘fighting trans oppression’ but any mention of ‘trans’ has been erased by the police, PA and all news outlets. In addition the BBC report hides the fact that it was a crime against women and girls.

https://t.co/mEtjqOXI7D

https://t.co/MjqUMeGDGa

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Was it wrong to “politicise” the Stephen Lawrence murder? Or that of George Floyd? What does the word “politicise” even mean in that context? Don’t tell me that it is right to “rage against the machine” when state authorities fail black murder victims for reasons connected with race, but that we are obliged not to “stir up tensions” when the victim happens to be white. It is this two-tier approach that is fuelling tensions and division. Can the establishment not see it?

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

10 examples of "whiteness studies" funded by taxpayers

Includes:

- "Confronting whiteness: white Britons, complicity and the white racial identity"
- "Beyond ‘diversity’ initiatives: Interrogating whiteness towards a decolonisation of the museum space"

https://t.co/NYWdUm8OZ3

[The Spectator @spectator]

I see that the people who took the knee and tore down statues after a man was killed 4,000 miles away from Britain are now yelping 'Don't politicise Henry Nowak's death'. The same leftists who poured onto the streets to rage over the death of George Floyd are barking at the rest of us not to rage over the death of young Henry.

'Don't stir up tensions', says an activist class which in that heady summer of 2020 happily hurled missiles at British cops and danced like Taliban-lite loons on a monument to a slave trader they'd just toppled.

Fear of the masses is in the air. You can almost smell the establishment dread that the wrong sort of people are about to hit the streets – not graduate leftists in keffiyehs but gammon-hued blokes in white t-shirts.

The front page of Wednesday’s Independent is a classic of this fretful genre. ‘Family’s plea for calm ignored’, wails the headline over a photo of the protest in Southampton. But the people in the pic are perfectly calm. It’s just rows of mournful folk carrying the England flag. Are you okay, Independent?

The Guardian, too, seems consumed by foreboding. It says there are ‘fears’ that ‘the populist right’ will ‘whip up racist resentment’. Demagoguery is always the chief dread of the bourgeois left, given their view of the little people as a coiled spring of bovine fury that might be unsprung at any minute.

The Guardian blasts Farage for calling for ‘pure, cold rage’ in response to Nowak’s death. It’s a complaint that would carry more weight if the Guardian hadn’t published pieces in the wake of Floyd’s death saying ‘We need the rage that abolished slavery’.

✍️ Brendan O’Neill

Article | https://t.co/ACdwYqk5R0

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

“Is there a crime that Farage won’t exploit for political ends?”

I don’t recall Nazir making a similar comment when Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and other Labour MPs took the knee for a career criminal.

He only pipes up when his diversity narrative is at risk.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

.@EdwardJDavey You speak of threats to British democracy. Here's one that doesn't feature in your framing. In Bournemouth, a constituency governed by a Liberal Democrat controlled council, three taxpayer funded asylum hotels have produced 116 criminal charges against 51 residents. A young woman, Cleo Lake, was punched unconscious for rejecting a man's advances. A nineteen year old was raped in a portable toilet on the seafront. A Somali asylum seeker told a police officer when I kill someone here, you come for me after avoiding jail three times. Your party opposes every enforcement measure that would empty those hotels. Your biggest election donor in 2024 made his fortune running a company that provided a quarter of all Home Office asylum accommodation before it was stripped of its contract for substandard performance. The threat to British women walking home at night in Bournemouth is considerably more immediate than Elon Musk's posts on X. But it doesn't feature in your framing because it doesn't fit the narrative.

"Cleo Lake was punched unconscious for rejecting a man's advances."

[Izabella Tabarovsky @IzaTabaro]

Antisemitism is often understood as visceral hatred of Jews. But that is only part of the story.

Antisemitism is also a politics and a zeitgeist; a conspiracy theory that fuels mass hysteria about Jewish power; an underlying culture that teaches people that Jews are different, they don't belong, they aren't on our side—and ultimately, that they are our misfortune. It draws an invisible line between Jews and the broader society, gradually normalising their marginalisation and exclusion.

What emerges from Australian Jews’ testimonies for the Bondi Beach massacre inquiry is precisely this: an unmistakable cultural shift in which Jews are increasingly left outside the circle of social solidarity.

In many of these stories, it’s not ideological antisemites who exclude or distance themselves from Jews, but people who sense the cultural shift and adapt to it.

‘It’s nothing personal—it’s strictly business. These are the times. And what if there is something to that "Zio" label? Better stay away.’

This isn’t just happening in Australia. Jews across the free world are reliving a deeply familiar historical pattern. The fact that the broader societies around them remain largely oblivious to it is troubling—and is itself part of that pattern.

My latest for @Quillette

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

“the first woman who wears a hijab to hold the role.”

Said as if the hijab was an immutable characteristic, not the tool of oppression it actually is.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Important. Tragically worse than indiv police officers. This EDI-ification of public services, is systemic. In turn, public servants have been exposed to an endless diet of diversity dogma, CRT 'white privilege' orthodoxies & adopt a bastardised anti racism as righteous default

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

Telling the truth about Grooming Gangs is not racist.

It is not Islamophobic.

It is not a ‘far right bandwagon’.

Yet that is what too many in authority have thought.

Victims need justice.

We need to keep exposing the truth, however inconvenient.

Me, in today’s debate 👇

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

Murder a man, steal his phone to hide the video, have your mother hide the murder weapon, watch as the police handcuff him for 'racism' while he dies, openly discuss with your brother in Punjabi how you'll pretend it was self-defense.

Minimum sentence 21 years.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Why was Valdo Calocane put in hospital and not tried for murder?

A police report found he acted rationally and “exercised self-control” as he killed his victims.

But the CPS kept the report secret.

My letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions:

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

It's almost too excrutiating to watch. But watch we must & we must not look away. We must hear those cruel last words Henry heard. And recognise: this is what happens when police/state agencies become completely discombobulated by mandated EDI identitarian victim politics on race

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

The Fire Brigades Union is now openly admitting that it intends to break the law.

Ideologues don’t respect the law of the land, only the dictates of their creed.