Dr John Bahadur Lamb

@StaffsCJF_Dept Associate Professor. Tweets about National Security & Policing. Society for Terrorism Research Membership Chair. Tweets are my own views.

[Dr John Bahadur Lamb @SecuritySheep]

I read this yesterday. I have experienced this at ALL of my employers.

It explains A LOT that is driving today’s politics.

All of which helps Russia and His Majesty’s Enemies.

Return to meritocracy, today!

[Alaric The Barbarian @0xAlaric]

This is the most important article of the year. Highlights below, but you should really read it in full.

[Dr John Bahadur Lamb @SecuritySheep]

@leembroad @James_Treadwell Some people will see this & recoil. They will say #policing must be on the right of the above image not the left as anything else isn’t moral.

However, what do the ladders look like?

It’s the ladders that give the impression of #TwoTierPolicing 6/n

[Dr John Bahadur Lamb @SecuritySheep]

@leembroad @James_Treadwell #TwoTierPolicing is then about managing police and criminal justice communication to demonstrate fairness via equality in policing and not equity

5/n

[James Treadwell @James_Treadwell]

One of the ways that people are responding to the debate on #TwoTierPolicing is to push the "but the police as racist, but to black people" argurment, and use some very dodgy, dated and unsound activist research to back claims of police racism.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

To make sure British citizens realise what's going on, Palantir can now:

• Build and run the National Firearms Registry, tracking the addresses and medical files of 500,000 gun and explosives holders across all 43 police forces.

• Map your digital footprint by trialling police systems (like Project Nectar) that pull your texts, call logs, emails, and social media data into a single profile.

• Track your physical movements by linking live number plate trackers, CCTV locations, and mobile phone tower pings.

• Process unverified intelligence by feeding anonymous tips and police notes about who you meet into automated linking models.

• Profile police officers using data-matching tools that actively scrape the device logs, vehicle uses, and system logins of a force's own employees.

• Access direct NHS data through a £330 million contract, using admin privileges that let engineers view patient environments before the files are scrambled (pseudonymised).

This is the same Palantir used to coordinate the largest simultaneous terrorist attack in history by the IOF in Lebanon.

This is the same Palantir used by the IOF since 2014 and actively being used in Gaza.

[Dr John Bahadur Lamb @SecuritySheep]

Sometimes people turn up. They say the right things. They don’t ask for anything in return and genuinely wish you well.

Find those people. Be that person for others.

You’d be surprised at who does this if you believed stereotypes!

No @ but you know who you are 😎

[Octavian 🇪🇺 @posta_octavian]

Yes, without Britain, there would be no steam engine, steam trains, telephones, parliamentarism, modern constitutionalism, English as the lingua france, penicillin, end of the slave trade, ATMs, logarithms, Shakespeare, the theory of evolution and so much more.

In 1000 years, once we have gotten over neurotic jealously and third worlidsm, people will look at Britain with more admiration than we look at Ancient Greece today. It is quite evidently the greatest nation the world has ever seen. It's not even particularly close.

[🇸​🇭​🇪​🇷​🇱​🇴​🇨​🇰​ @sherlock_comms]

Theory only. Practice?

You're an independent agent when heads are rolling, and must *follow lawful orders* at all other times.

- You MUST complete mandatory training.
- You MUST spend your working time as ordered.
- You MUST go to the call.
- You MUST follow procedure, even when it's BS.

Or else you're gone.

Do NOT leave the chiefs out of this.

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

This is true. When I meet a complete stranger, I find that the ‘scary’ right-wing types are easy-going and friendly while the ‘peace and love’ left-wing types are neurotic and aggressive. I know who I would rather share the world with.

[Dr John Bahadur Lamb @SecuritySheep]

Oh no! His artwork as my childhood! The world is poorer for his passing

[Tuomas Pirinen @SonataNocturne]

John Blanche has died, I was just informed by his family. I have no words right now, that will have to wait. Farewell, old friend.

[Dr John Bahadur Lamb @SecuritySheep]

@FUDdaily Don’t blame all of us! Some of us take a very different view

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Well done, you mouth-breathing cretins. And well done to all the pricks on social media who have done nothing but race-bait over this tragedy. Shameful across the board.

As a psychologist, I’ll bet you £100 this is what happened with poor Henry Nowak. Cops suffer from empathy burn out. 90% of the time they deal with nothing but scum. It doesn’t make it right, but that cynicism will have come into play, here.

They get a 999 call saying, “A Sikh has been attacked.” They arrive at the scene, there’s a Sikh saying he’s been attacked and someone (Henry) acting strangely. The weapon has been hidden. They will have immediately thought ‘drink or drugs’, and they see no obvious wounds. The murderer laid on exactly the scene the police would have expected to see, had the complaint been genuine.

These are pure human confirmation and anchoring biases at play: the cops saw what they expected to see from the info they had going into the situation. They were tricked. Humans make mistakes.

Where the cops royally fucked up was not following normal procedures when someone says they have been stabbed, and checking them all over including skin. They should lose their jobs over that negligence alone and for allowing their biases to override their training.

I guarantee you “I can’t breathe” inadvertently made things worse as that’s what every single scumbag says when they get arrested, since George Floyd.

This absolute tragedy is a sad combination of confirmation and anchoring biases, excessive cynicism, and a criminal failure to follow correct procedures, not to mention a lying, murdering piece of shit and his piece of shit family doing everything they could to confuse the police and muddy the waters. It has nothing to do with diversity.

Henry Nowak should not have died at all, but he would have died whatever the police did. However, in these circumstances he should have died with someone holding his hand, trying to save him, and telling him it would be ok, not in handcuffs being read his rights. The police officers who made this dreadful error should lose their jobs and will have to live with that for the rest of their days.

Final point: well done to the Hants Police detectives who shredded the murderer’s story and secured a conviction.

[Lee Broadbent @leembroad]

The death of Henry Nowak is a tragedy in every sense, and the public reaction to the body‑worn video is completely understandable. It is painful to watch. It is painful for officers to watch. And it is painful for Henry’s family to know that his final moments were chaotic, confused and shaped by a lie told by the man who killed him.

But if we are going to talk about this case, and especially where/if politicians make highly charged statements, I believe it’s important to stay anchored to what was actually established in court.

The judge was clear that the responsibility for Henry’s death lies solely with the man who stabbed him. The fatal wound to his chest was described as “catastrophic” and “unsurvivable”, and the pathologist confirmed that no medical intervention, immediate or otherwise, could have saved Henry. That does not erase the distressing nature of the footage, it does not mitigate the seemingly dispassionate response of the officers in attendance, but it does matter when we are trying to understand what happened and what could or could not have changed the outcome.

It is also a matter of record that the officers were responding to a 999 call in which the offender falsely claimed he had been the victim of a racist attack and insisted no weapon had been used. That deception shaped the first few minutes on scene.

The IOPC has been involved from the outset, and the officers have remained as witnesses throughout. This is an important distinction, as those familiar with post incident procedures can tell you. If there was a shred of doubt or suspicion that the officers actions at the time, when balanced against the information known at the time and their reasonable held beliefs, amounted to potential misconduct, the IOPC must at the earliest opportunity review their status. The IOPC have confirmed that the officers status remains unchanged. That indicates that the officers initial decisions/actions have already been assessed against the information known at the time and is unlikely to now change and amount to misconduct.

None of this means the initial assessment was correct. It wasn’t. The officers misread the situation, and the body‑worn video shows that plainly. But policing is full of moments where decisions are made in seconds, under pressure, with incomplete or misleading information. Sometimes those decisions are right. Sometimes they are not. And sometimes…as in this case…the consequences are unbearably tragic even when the mistake does not change the final outcome.

What we cannot/should not do is turn this into a proxy battle in a wider culture war. Henry’s family have asked that his death is not used to fuel division, hate or to propagate political agendas.

It is possible to hold two truths at once:
that the initial response was flawed, sloppy even…and the investigation needs to establish how policy, procedure and relied information impacted those decisions and events; and that despite the officers clear mistakes and compassion fatigue, they did not cause Henry’s death, nor could they have prevented it.

Policing is at its worst when it becomes defensive, but it is also at its worst when it becomes a canvas onto which people project their own political battles and/or bitterness. This case, if it is to be a turning point, deserves better than that.

We can demand accountability without abandoning fairness. We can acknowledge mistakes without inventing motives. And we can talk honestly about the pressures and imperfections of frontline policing without turning every tragedy into a referendum on the entire profession.

That balance is difficult. But, to my mind, it is the only way we avoid repeating the same cycles of outrage, distortion, division and defensiveness that have done so much damage to public trust… and to the people who still turn up, every day, to do a job that is getting harder by the day.

[James Treadwell @James_Treadwell]

If Henry Nowak had been a young Muslim man in Birmingham, or a young black male in London, would there be disorder? Again, the fact that this conversation will not really happen tells us something of how progressive liberalism really has chilled quite important discussion.

[Inspector Gadget @InspGadgetBlogs]

The Police Race Action Plan, which orders police to treat minorities differently, was developed and launched under the Boris Johnson Conservative government.

Chris Philp and Kemi Badenoch were ministers in that government.

I want to hear a sincere public apology from them.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The CPS has authorised new charges against Vickrum Digwa and his brother and father for Henry Nowak's murder

They will appear at Southampton Court this afternoon

Vickrum Digwa:
- Six counts of possess an offensive weapon in private place on 4 December 2025

Moga Singh (father):
- Six counts of possess an offensive weapon in private place on 4 December 2025

Gurpreet Digwa (brother):
- Six counts of possess an offensive weapon in private place on 4 December 2025
- Possess an offensive weapon in a public place on 4 December 2025
- Possess a prohibited weapon on 4 December 2025
- Two counts of possess knife blade / sharp pointed article in a public place on 4 December 2025

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The family of Vickrum Digwa has apologised to Henry Nowak’s family and to the Sikh community for bringing it into “disrepute”

“The loss of a young life is a grief that no family should ever have to carry. We are deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the Nowak family has had to endure.

"We love Vickrum. We will continue to love him. That love does not stand in opposition to the sorrow we feel for the Nowak family. Both are real, and both will remain with us for the rest of our lives.

"We would give anything to turn back time so the path of both Henry and Vickrum never crossed that night. We cannot change what has happened, we just hope that no further pain is caused in its name.

"We apologise to the Sikh community for our son’s actions which have unfairly brought the community into disrepute.
"We ask that this tragedy is not used by anyone to inflame division or hostility towards any community.

"We now ask for privacy as we come to terms with what lies ahead”