Carl McClean

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@iainmacwhirter

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

The story in four parts

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@Hugh_might @RuairiAodh @tomhfh @CharlesTannock Sorry, brain malfunction. 6 Counties!

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@RuairiAodh @tomhfh @CharlesTannock There are 6 Provinces in the north of the island that are indeed British, as you well know.

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@CharlesTannock @tomhfh We are not talking about geography and the island of 'Great Britain'. 'British' is applied as the demonym to the United Kingdom and its citizens. See also, the 'United States' and 'American'. 'Britain' is fine as a shorthand for the United Kingdom. 'Great Britain', not.

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@CharlesTannock @tomhfh Charles, fair insofar as you refer to Great Britain (why is our Olympic team named Team GB)

But British is clearly the demonym of the UK, and Britain captures that perfectly well enough. Britain ≠ Great Britain.

British > UKish.

@tomhfh is bang on.

[UnHerd @unherd]

Support in Northern Ireland for a united Ireland has fallen to a 10-year low, according to new polling.

@archie48earle reports 👇
https://t.co/NQZDN3fKEM

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

800% worse than they forecast... and it has cost jobs, ruined families and *raised no net tax revenue*.

Halt the policy immediately.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

@SAshworthHayes Imagine your son/brother being killed, and then meeting with the Prime Minister, hoping he would make a change, but instead he just criticises people for being angry.

Unthinkably bleak.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

"It's important that this incident isn't exploited for anyone's political agenda"

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Incredible statement from Amnesty International UK on Henry Nowak:

Not a single word of conveying outrage or horror over the brutal murder, or of how police left him to die without dignity.

Instead, their statement is about policing the *political commentary* around the case.

I kid you not.

What a grotesque betrayal of any moral purpose.

These NGOs aren’t just useless - they actively despise you. They are hostile to everything you value and everything you hold dear.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

I have been posting and writing about the Henry Nowak tragedy for three weeks, and have nothing new to say. Except one thing. That box-ticking phrase from the female officer when the murderer denies having stabbed Henry.
“I know, but we have to check, don’t we?”
What we hear in those words is not just the madness of DEI, which has taught her automatically to believe the non-white assailant over the white victim. We hear, too, the obsession with procedure, the elevation of HR, the triumph of public-sector seminars over decency. A culture of compliance has displaced a culture of conscience.

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@MayorofLondon Any update on this?

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@Keir_Starmer Will you be taking the knee again, Prime Minister?

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

The last thing Henry Nowak heard was his rights. Let that sink in.

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

We'll wait for our Ministers of State and National football teams to take the knee. The months of soul searching from the BBC. Any moment now.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

WARNING: Incredibly distressing footage.

The bodycam footage has finally been released of Henry Nowak’s last moments.

He was the victim, but treated like a criminal.

“I can’t breathe” he says, over and over again.

Instead of helping him the police arrest him on false charges of racism.

Harrowing.

It’s hard to escape the conclusion he was treated differently because he was white.

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@rosemxmi Is the heat map missing Northern Ireland or is the incidence in NI very low? That seems a bit unusual.

[Carl McClean @carlmcclean]

@HantsPolice @smg1664 Hopeless response.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

I expected people to keep quiet during the trial. But, now that we have the conviction, why has no minister spoken out? Where are all the celebs who took the knee six years ago? Where is the wall-to-wall BBC coverage? Unlike the Floyd case, this one happened in Britain, ffs.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

The trial has concluded, the facts have been confirmed. As the prosecuting counsel put it, Digwa used his “trump card” by alleging he had been the victim of racist abuse when police officers arrived.
DEI has again proved lethal - literally lethal. Henry Nowak, like the victims of Valdo Kalocane, of Axel Rudakubana, of the rape gangs, was failed by a public sector that treats anti-racism as its supreme value.
Unlike the death of George Floyd, his death plainly did reveal institutional bias - a bias deliberately cultivated across state bodies by years of training sessions and seminars.
Where are the protests? Where are the knee-takings? Where are the corporate boycotts?
Sod it, let’s be more modest. Is anyone even calling for an overhaul of the police?