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Leeds United, Wire & racing fan living in Warrington. Part owner of LONGSIDER & Crossing Lines via MPR.

[Fiona goddard @fionagoddarduk]

A pakistani man has just been outside my house taking pictures of my kids. Thankfully my neighbors saw him and when he noticed he was being watched he got back in his car and sped off.
Police are on their way but although there is an alert marker on my property they have said they will be over an hour.
Think im just getting my kids and getting out of here for the weekend.
This is all getting too much.

https://t.co/5Kn65MPRd8

https://t.co/hB0fpCneML

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Just so we are all on the same page:

>White male surrounded by Black males
>Black males ASSAULT White male on camera
>White male gets arrested (???)
>By White female cop (?!!)
>Police ask for footage not to be shared

...what are we even doing here?!

[𝔍𝔬𝔰𝔥𝔲𝔞⚡️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Re_mi_gra_tion]

3 blacks attack a drunk white kid in Birmingham, the female police officer comes in to protect the violent blacks and arrest the white kid

Absolutely disgusting the way white people are treated in England (@KnockoutAudit)

[Shaun Day @shaun_day_]

Please to announce $GGP has increased Telfer's Ore Reserves by 150% to 1.8Moz, with Group Ore Reserves now 5.0Moz gold plus 196kt copper, building a long-term foundation for the Telfer-Havieron mining complex. https://t.co/HbulKcKKEa

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

Due to the Sentencing Act 2026, Arshid Hussain – the man who abducted and raped me as a child, and who did the same to dozens of other children – is being considered for early release. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison in early 2017 and was described as one of the most dangerous men in the UK. He was later convicted of further offences.

His brother, Basharat Hussain, is also being considered for release.

I honestly can’t put into words how disgusted I am with the British government.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Stoke rioter Mohammed Iqbal threw bricks at English Southport protestors, boasting on social media of his involvement and posted photo of a wounded victim - but dodges jail for violent disorder convictions as he is a father of 7 children.

The English were fast tracked through the courts and straight to prison, and they had good reason to be angry.

[Europa.com @europa]

🇬🇧 Multiple angles have now emerged of British Riot Police beating a protester, including repeatedly kicking him in the head while pinned and motionless, at a demonstration over police mishandling of the Henry Nowak case.

Follow: @europa

[Steve's Law 🇬🇧 @MaximusChud]

Found multiple views of the same event.

They were trying to kill him. Watch how many times they strike him in the head.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

This is a real father.

He's not going to stop fighting until he gets justice for his son.

The whole country is behind him.

[Greatland @Greatland_GGP]

The execution of a $500M corporate debt facility and approval of the Final Investment Decision for Havieron are major milestones for Greatland, supporting the development of one of Australia’s premier gold-copper projects: https://t.co/51dfOSlg8o

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Since the murder of Henry Nowak there has been stony silence from the Government.

Not a peep from the Home Secretary.

Not a word from the Prime Minister who is normally quick to respond to deaths involving the police, both in the UK and abroad.

Remember the spectacle of him ‘taking the knee’ over George Floyd’s death? He won’t even say Henry Nowak’s name.

Henry’s death constituted a national scandal. An 18 year old, robbed of his future on a night out in Southampton after being brutally stabbed 6 times with a 21cm long ceremonial sword. Instead of helping him, the police initially arrested him as he bled to death after he was accused by his attacker of racial harassment. Henry was treated not as the victim, but as the criminal.

His murder could not have been more monstrous; the police response more shameful. 

So why has this appalling injustice been met with a collective shrug by politicians in Westminster? With the exception of a couple of us including Henry’s local MP, Jen Craft, it has not been raised in the House of Commons.

I asked the Home Secretary to launch an investigation into the police’s conduct and a debate on two-tier policing - needless to say I was rebuffed. 

The silence can be explained by the fact that most politicians are more interested in showing their supposed virtue by favouring minority communities at the expense of the majority. So they look away at injustices perpetrated by minorities, lest it colour the multicultural illusion they have that the country is a harmonious melting pot. And they ignore prejudiced laws and the conventions of so-called ‘anti-racism’ which lead to discrimination against the majority. 

The trial of Henry’s killer, Vickrum Digwa, may be over, but the questions are only just beginning.

Why did the police arrest Henry based on one allegation he had made a racial slur - something the prosecution described as a “wicked lie”?

Why was Henry’s handcuffing and arrest considered a priority for the police when he was in a critical condition?

Why do perceived racial sensitivities consistently appear to shape how the police enforce the law these days? 

The police have now apologised. But ‘sorry’ doesn’t cut it. Not remotely. Heads must roll for such a catastrophic failure. The bodycam footage must be released. And the police’s “anti-racist” training programmes need overhaul.

We can’t go back in time and undo what has been done. Henry’s family and friends will live with this forever.

But his tragic death should be a turning point. A clarion call for the authorities to act in a colour-blind way - treating people under the principle of equality before the law.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

A thought experiment.

A white British boy is found guilty of stabbing to death a black British boy.

The police handcuff the black British boy when he is bleeding out and dying.

They refuse to try & save his life. His last words are: “I can’t breathe”.

The police later issue a weak apology.

But no heads roll.

Nobody is sacked.

The police body cam footage is not released.

Now ask yourself:

What would Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Sadiq Khan, Jess Phillips and countless other MPs and celebrities be doing right now?

We know exactly what they would be doing.

They would be protesting. Marching. Screaming. Demanding the footage be released.

And dropping one video and statement after another on social media.

Now have a look around at what they are all doing about the Henry Nowak case.

And that is exactly why millions of British people talk about “two-tier Britain”.

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

A foreign billionaire just did the job the entire British press wouldn't.

@elonmusk asked the question every newsroom in this country should have been screaming for months. Who are the officers that handcuffed a dying boy and let him bleed out in the street? Who are they, and why are they still in a job?

Not the BBC. Not Sky. Not GB News. A bloke in Texas with no stake in this country.

They had the story. They let it die. He picked it back up, called it unconscionable, and offered to fund a wrongful death lawsuit.

The answer to his question? Silence. Still.

This is Henry Nowak. First year student. Walking home from a night out with his football team. A wounded teenager telling officers he couldn't breathe, and the response was handcuffs, not an ambulance.

A boy dies like this on a British street and it should never have left the front page. It should have been the reckoning that didn't stop until someone answered for it. Instead it took a man who owes us nothing to drag it back into the light.

Not one officer named. Not one suspended. The watchdog is investigating now, and only now, because the pressure came from a website and not a single news desk in this country.

Ordinary people never needed permission to care. They raised over £40,000 for Henry at a charity football match in his memory. That is the Britain that still has a pulse. The one that doesn't wait to be told who's allowed to matter.

When the richest man on earth has to do your journalism for you, what exactly is the British press for?

So let me ask you the question they wouldn't. Did you see Henry's name on the news? Or did you have to find it here?

Henry Nowak. 18 years old. Walking home. He should have made it.

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

So much has gone so very wrong with our country.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

Stabbed because he was white.

Handcuffed because he was white.

Buried by media because he was white.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In both cases, police were uncaring, but only in one case does Starmer bend the knee

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Very insightful to see Rob Kenyon and Nigel Farage sitting in the work van having a proper chat.

No scripts. No stage management. Just two people talking like normal blokes.

You rarely see that in modern politics.

There’s a huge effort to cancel Rob Kenyon, but videos like this remind people he’s simply a hardworking lad from Wigan who wants to make a positive change for Makerfield.

That authenticity is exactly why Labour are worried.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs!

An incredibly unjust double-standard!