Virtual Insanity

[Chris Wild @ccwild79]

Five years ago, I appeared on a BBC Newsnight special with Katie Razzall, exposing the shocking reality of children being placed in unregulated accommodation, without proper safeguards, oversight or accountability.

We exposed a system that was failing its most vulnerable children. Since then, we've seen children abused, exploited by criminal gangs and, tragically, lives lost.

Five years later, we're still having the same conversations.

More reviews. More reports. More promises. Millions of pounds of taxpayers money spent, yet children continue to be failed.

How many more reviews do we need? How many more children must suffer? How many more lives must be lost before we finally act?

We don't need another conversation about change. We need change.

Enough is enough.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

POST OFFICE JAILED AN INNOCENT WOMAN

Imagine. You run a small @PostOffice in Hull. You show up every day, you serve your community, you do the job. Then one day a computer program called Horizon decides you owe £59,000 that never existed. A computer program with a known glitch problem.

Post Office didn't check the software. It just marched Janet Skinner @Janetsk20073533 into court in 2007 and got her jailed for 9 months. She served 2 behind bars. She lost her house. She lost her job. She lost her name in the eyes of her own neighbours, all because nobody in a position of power fancied questioning a machine.

Here's where any decent organisation would stop digging the hole ... The Post Office kept digging.

A year after she walked out of prison, they hauled her back into court again, this time chasing her for "proceeds of crime."

Proceeds of a crime she never committed, calculated by a system that couldn't add up in the first place. Bold strategy from the people who broke the calculator in the first place.

Less than two weeks after that fresh nightmare finally ended, Janet's body gave out completely. Neurological collapse. Paralysed from the neck down.

Doctors told her she'd never walk again.

She spent a year in a wheelchair and two years learning to walk. She says her own immune system turned on her. Years of fighting a system that refused to admit fault, and in the end it was her own body that surrendered first.

So how does this story end? With an apology? A cheque that actually matches what she lost? Of course not.

In 2025, after everything, the compensation scheme handed her an offer worth around 15% of her claim.

Janet called it an insult. I'd call it a joke, except nobody's laughing, least of all the people who wrote the offer letter from the comfort of a job that still exists.

9 months in prison for a bug. 2 years in a wheelchair for the stress of proving her innocence. A payout that wouldn't cover the damage to her health, let alone her life. And somewhere, the people who signed off on her prosecution are still drawing a pension.

Nobody who signed off on any of this has lost a house, a job, or a night's sleep. They got promotions. She got a wheelchair and an insulting cheque. Accountability had every chance to show up here and chose not to..

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@BBCNews @itvnews and others.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Zuckerberg already admitted it wrongly suspended the No Kings Instagram account during the peak of a massive voter-mobilization effort.

Now, seven days before the midterms, Zuckerberg has suspended the account Angie Nixon’s Senate campaign uses to organize Latino voters.

At what point do repeated “mistakes” that suppress organizing by Democrats become an election-integrity crisis?

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

Channel 4 Dispatches went undercover inside the Financial Ombudsman Service @financialombuds. What they filmed should have shut the place down.

Their own staff said this on camera:

"I'm not proud to admit it but I've done it myself. Just taken a chance and just slung stuff through, with any old decision."

"You're more likely to meet your targets if you're not upholding them."

11,000 cases fell into a black hole for two years. Some of those letters said "I am going to lose my house."

@UKParliament demanded answers. Baroness Ros Altmann called it shocking. MPs threatened a full inquiry.

FOS said the footage was "not representative."

Nothing changed.

Fast forward to today. My own complaint against @rsagroup / @IntactInsurance is now being formally handled by Gary Smith @G8GWS of @MeridianLegals.

Gary is the lawyer leading the FOS Litigation Group, a group built on over 1,000 documented FOS failures. He is preparing a judicial review of the FOS.

My case has been submitted by Meridian as my regulated representative because what happened to me fits the same pattern Channel 4 filmed.

If you have had a complaint dismissed by the FOS and you believe it was handled without proper scrutiny, contact Gary directly at Meridian Legal Services.

0121 516 0675
@MeridianLegals

The full transcript of what @C4Dispatches filmed inside the FOS is in the comments.

Read it and tell me this is not exactly what is still happening today.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Lord Walney, who called us weird for covering Palestine, is back.

This time, he’s taken the lead in organising a letter signed by fifty British peers to ban pro-Palestine artist Macklemore from performing in the UK.

Walney, also known as John Woodcock, is an ex-chair of Labour Friends of Israel who has now called on Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to revoke Macklemore’s electronic travel authorisation on the basis that proceeds from the tour will be donated to the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). The letter accuses the anti-genocide group of having a ‘record of glorifying terrorism and intimidating elected representatives’, which PYM denies.

Macklemore announced his now sold-out ‘Free Palestine Tour’ shortly after he was dropped as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour last month.

Visit YouTube/DeclassifiedUK for more.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

“Do you understand who you are dealing with? This is America. Back up.”

A United Nations meeting was dramatically suspended yesterday after US ambassador Mike Waltz and Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla both ignored the chair’s plea for order in the chamber.

The problem started when Waltz blamed Cubans for the shocking US embargoes and blockades that are causing huge suffering to the people of the island.

Cuban representatives, astonished at the way Waltz blamed the victims for the crisis, in their eyes, stood up and objected, citing Rule 71, which allows listeners to raise a point of order.

Ambassador Waltz responded that the Cubans didn’t like the substance of his speech, so were not raising a point of order.

But when complaints continued, this caused Ambassador Waltz to lose his temper and shout “Back up! Back away. Do you understand what you’re dealing with? This is America.”

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INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY
The rest of the United Nations was outraged by this attitude, as the UN building is legally international territory.

When Waltz refused to stop his tirade, Khalilur Rahman, chair of the 81st session, ordered that the meeting be instantly suspended. Waltz ignored him.

The meeting was then resumed, but footage of the argument created a huge storm on social media.

Some people in the US defended Waltz’s narrative, blaming Cubans for the suffering caused by the US embargos.

But much of the commentary from the rest of the world said that the United Nations, for the safety of the delegates and the organization itself, should no longer be situated in New York.

When New York was originally chosen as the site, the US pledged not to politicize US visa access to meetings—but has regularly broken the pledge, such as refusing to allow visas for Palestinians.
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[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Lady C married a man she had known for five days.

He left her after 9 months once the tabloids published her birth certificate.

She has spent the next 50 years cashing in on the courtesy title and still lectures Meghan about exploiting marriage.

The irony is self-immolating.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt has been made to conduct any inquiry into the media’s role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isn’t just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

@angelalevin1 “Are you trying to blame this on me?”

That’s what you said to Louis Theroux after admitting a nurse at Stoke Mandeville Hospital told you Jimmy Savile was interfering with paralysed little girls in their beds.

You did nothing. You cited the libel laws, his powerful connections, and the millions he raised for hospitals.

Those connections included the Royal Family, the same royals you’ve spent years defending and writing about.

Jimmy Savile used that access and status to abuse hundreds of people (official reports later recorded 214 offences, dozens of rapes, victims as young as 8).

Now you go on TV to moralise about Meghan and her family.

The reality check is simple, you had information about one of Britain’s worst child sex offenders and stayed quiet.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Free speech king!

[Azeem Rafiq @AzeemRafiq30]

Genuinely the best video on this platform right now

Everyone should tag @piersmorgan in it

😂😂

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⚖️The censorial #OnlineSafetyAct became law on this day, three years ago.

The result? Orwellian stories of censorship like @AnnekaSvenska's.

Police turned up at her home and urged her to take an "online thinking skills course" after she exposed animal abuse on social media.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This man is a legend.

Listen you won't regret it.

[🇬🇧 Tom - Investor £3.84 @2147mill]

To anyone that thinks immigrants are the problem, watch this. We are so cooked 😂

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Oh Nigel… 👀👀

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Piers Morgan’s career has a rather embarrassing punchline: a man who claims to despise Meghan has built an entire engagement machine around her name.

Attack her on X, whip up the outrage, funnel the clicks to YouTube, collect the revenue. Rinse. Repeat. 😂

Imagine being so consumed by a woman you claim to hate that she becomes your business model.

That’s not journalism, Piers. That’s an emotional subscription service with adverts. The man isn’t chasing Meghan. He is chasing the money her name brings him.

[Hunt Saboteurs Association @HuntSabs]

Yesterday this fox was one of SIX hunted by the Fitzwilliam Hunt.

With the hunting community desperately clutching at straws trying to deny the fact that for over 20 years they've been using "trail" hunting as a smokescreen, hunts such as the Fitzwilliam are doing everything in their power to prove their own side wrong.

A recent news report quoted Worcestershire Hunt Master Adrian Ward as saying "We're in the open countryside...but we do put everything in place that we can." We wonder what he would say about six foxes being hunted during one cub hunting meet?

Hunts and their 'governing bodies' are not working together, they are a contradiction in terms, and still after twenty plus years cannot get their stories straight which only further exposes their lies.

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Just Rishi Sunak earning £6265/ hour advising Goldman Sachs and £7729/hour consulting to Microsoft... while sitting as a backbench MP.

The median UK salary is £41k/year. Sunak earns that in just over five hours consulting for Microsoft.

What service is he providing, exactly?

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

Kudos to whomever made this video.

It's accurately hilarious.

👇😂👇😂👇

[The Finance Guy @OneFinanceGuy]

My previous post below ever more relevant: Home Office official response to @PrivateEyeNews revelation on @IsabelOakeshott running an unregistered UAE/UK foreign lobying entity is "refer matter to police", which is fine, or "Crimestoppers". But look who is behind Crimestoppers...
Thanks @donmcgowan for an extra hand on this.
@ShabanaMahmood 🤷‍♂️