Hellina Handcart

Accidental freedom fighter. Adult human female. English & British patriot. Far right, apparently. Have just the two cats 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

From my Mail on Sunday column today.

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

You can not claim to be letting out dangerous criminals early due to prison overcrowding, to then threaten 2 years imprisonment for putting a flag on a lamppost.

We really and truly have lost the plot.

I really don’t think we can vote our way out of this!

Sad times 😢

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

A few weeks ago, three women all died of ‘heart attacks’ on the same boat.
Now we have two burned and one stabbed on today’s boats.

THE MEN WE ARE IMPORTING ARE ABSOLUTE MONSTERS.

WE WARNED YOU OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Labour's approach of piling costs on consumers and businesses is causing grave damage to the economy, warns Asda boss Allan Leighton

He said: “The economic model that we’ve been pursuing, or the Government is pursuing, has inhibited growth because it’s put heavy taxation and heavy costs on consumers".

“When that happens, consumers spend less, their confidence goes down, and businesses invest less. You don’t have to go to Harvard to work that out.”

The next Budget would show whether the Government was ging to continue punishing the economy, he said.

“We can either inhibit growth, which has been the strategy so far, not inhibit growth, which in itself would be something, or thirdly, do something that really helps growth. That’s why I think we’re at a tipping point.”

All the indicators suggest that Labour will continue with their existing strategy of inhibiting growth.

[Hellina Handcart @FiWassell]

@EmRoman74 The late, great Douglas Adams - "The purpose of the President of the Uuniverse is not to wield power but to deflect attention away from it."

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

🚨🚨 FREE SPEECH UNION AND BIG BROTHER WATCH VICTORY!

The FSU has joined forces with @BigBrotherWatch (BBW) to back two people arrested for holding signs that read “f*** Islam” at the Unite the Kingdom march in May. The pair were being investigated for potential breaches of the Public Order Act, with possible religious aggravation.

We received news today that the case against one of the individuals has been dropped following representations made by the FSU and BBW.

In a joint legal letter to the Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan Police, we urged them to drop the case — pointing out that Britain does not have blasphemy laws and that it is not an offence to express hostility towards any religion.

We also cited the case of Hamit Coskun, who was accused of threatening public order after he burnt a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London in peaceful protest against what he called the Islamification of his home country, Turkey.

The judgment made it very clear that the law distinguishes between the right to express hostility towards a religion and hatred towards people because of their religion. As Mr Justice Bennathan said: “The right to freedom of expression, if it is a right worth having, must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.”

The UK is in the midst of a free speech crisis. We cannot allow the Government and the police to revive our censorious blasphemy laws — for Islam alone.

The misuse of public order legislation must stop. It is having a chilling effect on our right to free speech, our right to protest and our right to criticise ANY religion.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1938 a committee of psychiatrists told the British government that bombing would produce three times as many mental casualties as physical ones. Three to four million cases in the first six months.

The state believed them and built a network of emergency psychiatric clinics outside the city centres, staffed and waiting for the collapse.

The bombs came. Forty thousand civilians killed in eight months. A million London homes damaged or destroyed. People slept in the Underground, came up to find the street gone, and went to work.

The clinics closed for lack of patients. In the first three months of the Blitz London recorded around two cases of bomb neurosis a week. Suicides fell. Drunkenness fell.

That is a population on dripping, offal, eggs, whole milk and Sunday joints, being bombed nightly, and not breaking.

Their grandchildren: over eight million adults in England on antidepressants, close to ninety million prescriptions a year, one in five people aged eight to twenty-five with a probable mental disorder. Warm, fed, housed, at peace, and being bombed by nobody.

Everybody has an explanation ready. Phones, housing, the news, atomised communities. All real, and none of them the one nobody will say out loud.

We changed the fuel supply to the organ that does the feeling.

Your brain is two per cent of your bodyweight and takes a fifth of your energy at rest. Every thought, every mood, every act of holding yourself together under pressure is ATP, and ATP is made by mitochondria. A neuron carries thousands. When they run well you are resilient. When they do not, no amount of character makes up the difference.

Mitochondria have their own signature fat in the inner membrane, called cardiolipin, and the entire electron transport chain is embedded in it. Cardiolipin is assembled out of whatever fat you have been eating. The membrane your energy is generated across is made of your diet.

Feed a body linoleic acid, the dominant fat in sunflower, soybean, corn and rapeseed oil, and it goes into that membrane. Linoleic acid oxidises readily, and it is now sitting in the one place in the cell with the most oxygen and the most electron traffic going past it. When it goes, it damages the proteins around it and breaks down into aldehydes that attack the mitochondrial enzymes themselves.

The energy plant is being rebuilt out of a material that degrades under the exact conditions it has to work in. Not poisoned in a dose. Rebuilt, slowly, out of the wrong stuff, across forty years.

Before 1911 that fat barely existed in the human food supply. It is now the most consumed fat in the Western diet.

The generation that took the Blitz was running on beef fat and butter, and the clinics built for them stood empty.

We are the best fed, safest, most medicated people in British history, and we cannot get through a Tuesday.

[Hellina Handcart @FiWassell]

@BurnsideWasTosh The late, great Douglas Adams- "The purpose of the President of the Universe is not to wield power but to deflect attention away from it."

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Tonight on Watchdog we investigate rogue builders who promised to build a million homes and only built 50.

We will also report on the case of a man who paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to a Government, every year, and all he got were potholes and a Somali in his loft.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Devolution by Stealth: Is Britain Building a Chinese-Style System of Regional Government?

The great political trick of the modern British state may be that it can centralise power while telling voters it is doing the opposite.

The language is reassuring. Power is being "taken back" from Westminster. Regions will control housing, transport, planning, skills. The new mayoral system is sold as devolution. Look beneath the label and a different picture emerges.

Let me be precise about the claim here. Britain is not becoming China yet. It remains a parliamentary democracy with free elections, an independent judiciary and a free press, none of which is currently under threat. The argument is structural, not literal. The machinery being built around England's regional mayors increasingly resembles the logic of a centralised state, concentrating power in a small number of visible executives while the centre keeps control of the money and the framework, then presents the arrangement as decentralisation.

Andy Burnham has been the model's most effective salesman, calling repeatedly for mayors to gain powers over criminal justice, health, education and taxation. The 2026 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act now extends that model nationally, giving mayors power over planning, housing and regeneration, while requiring their growth plans to align with national policy. That last requirement is the tell. A plan that must align with the centre's priorities is not an independent plan.

The most revealing development came this month, when Whitehall announced every Mayoral Strategic Authority will receive five to ten civil servants on secondment, embedded directly inside the supposedly devolved institution. The government calls this transferring capacity to the regions. It can equally be read as the centre placing its own machinery inside the body it claims to have empowered.

Here the structural comparison becomes useful rather than inflammatory. In China's system, local government carries real responsibility for implementation while remaining embedded within central control. Nobody needs to claim Whitehall copied that model to notice the same underlying logic: the centre supplies the money, the objectives and the framework, while a regional figure carries the visible responsibility. That is not the abolition of central control. It is central control reorganising itself to look like its opposite.

There is a political advantage buried in this design. A mayor who absorbs blame for unpopular housing or planning decisions becomes a shock absorber between Westminster and the voter. Success gets claimed by the devolution programme. Failure gets pinned on the mayor in front of the cameras. Government gains the benefits of control without carrying all the political risk.

The restoration of the Supplementary Vote for mayoral elections deserves scrutiny on the same grounds. There is nothing undemocratic about it. But electoral systems shape behaviour, and asking why this system, now, is a legitimate question.

None of this is authoritarianism yet. It looks entirely democratic, and that is what makes the structure effective. There are elections, mayors, councils, consultations. Power can be decentralised administratively while remaining centralised politically, and a public reassured by local democracy's trappings has little reason to ask who controls the strategy once the cameras leave. Systems built this way do not require anyone to intend authoritarian outcomes. They only require the public to stop asking who holds the wheel, and enough time for that habit to set in.

This is centralisation wearing the clothes of devolution. The question worth asking is not how much power the regions are being given. It is who still holds the wheel once the slogans fade, and why a government already showing a preference for concentrated, opaque decision-making elsewhere would build its flagship domestic reform any differently.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Many Nazis were crossdressers and Erwin Gohrbandt, who helped perform the first vaginoplasty, went on to torture prisoners in Dachau. Also, every time you see the trans flag, you see either the Palestine flag or a watermelon symbol beside it, so it's really you troons who have more in common with Nazis than *checks notes* children's author JK Rowling.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Another week, another truly mental story.

Birmingham City Council has applied for an injunction that could see patriots who fly the Union Jack from lampposts spend two years in prison.

But this isn’t an isolated case. Oxfordshire County Council has also secured a High Court injunction prohibiting people from flying the Union Jack or St George’s Cross from lampposts.

Threatening people who are proud of their national flag and want to celebrate it is not only an attack on patriotic Brits, but also an assault on freedom of expression.

With prisons already at breaking point and rapists and killers being released early, who on earth thinks this is a good idea?

Patriotism isn’t a crime in Britain — yet. But it looks like it could be soon.

Watch FSU Campaigns Officer @MaxHThompson 👇

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Before the last election, Labour promised to cut our energy bills by £300.
The are now sitting at £300 HIGHER than July 2024.

That’s £600 higher than they promised.

Politicians should not be able to lie like this to gain power.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Beatrix Potter left fifteen farms and four thousand acres of the Lake District to the nation, with a condition attached that the fells are still arguing about.

Peter Rabbit money bought that land. Book by book, farm by farm, from 1905 onward, a Londoner with an income and a stubborn streak buying up Lakeland ground as it came available to stop it being sold off in parcels for villas.

What she did with it is the part that gets skipped. She farmed it. Properly. She bought Troutbeck Park in 1923 and built a Herdwick flock of over a thousand, took advice from her shepherd Tom Storey, showed her tups at local shows against men who had been doing it for four generations, and beat them. She was the first woman elected to lead the Herdwick Sheep Breeders' Association and died before she could take the chair.

The Herdwick was in trouble for the reason all hill breeds get into trouble. Slow growing, fewer lambs, small carcass. On a balance sheet it loses to a lowland sheep every single time, and the only thing it is unbeatable at is living on a Cumbrian fell in February.

She understood the other half too, which is the part that would get you shouted at today. That view, the one on the biscuit tin, the open fell and the walls and the cropped green, is not wilderness. It is a grazed landscape. Take the sheep off and you get bracken, then scrub, then a different place entirely, over about fifteen years.

So when she died in December 1943 she left the lot to the National Trust, the largest gift of land it had ever had, with instructions. The farms were to stay working farms. The Herdwicks were to stay on them, heafed to their own ground, the flocks passing with the tenancy.

Eighty years on, the fashionable position in that valley is that there are too many sheep on the fell and it should be allowed to go back.

Back to what, nobody can say, because nobody has seen it. The last ungrazed version of that fell predates the pyramids and there is no photograph of it, no survey, and no living thing that remembers it.

The woman who wrote Jemima Puddle-Duck saw this coming and wrote it into a legal document.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

It's amazing, it's like his agenda is set by Watchdog in 1992.

Subscriptions you cant end.
Misleading discounts.
Rogue builders.
Next endowment mortgages.

Meanwhile the country is losing 34 millionaires to be replaced by 1400 benefit dependent migrants every day.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Your almond milk is two per cent almonds, and the only reason you have never seen that number is that you live in the wrong country.

The British carton has to print it. Alpro, Almond Breeze, there on the side, two per cent. The American carton does not, because the FDA has never required it. Same company, same product, two continents, owning up on one of them.

The rest is filtered water, calcium carbonate, potassium citrate, sunflower lecithin, gellan gum and natural flavours.

Calcium carbonate is chalk.

Which gives us the finest sentence printed on any carton in that fridge. Fifty per cent more calcium than milk. Perfectly true, because they tipped it in.

A cup gives you one gram of protein. The milk it replaced gives you eight, and does not need a gum to stay together in a cup of tea.

Every February, America moves its bees for this. Around eighty per cent of every honey-producing colony in the country, onto flatbed lorries, driven to California, because a million acres of almond trees flower at once and not one can pollinate itself. Forty eight billion bees, working an orchard the size of Rhode Island, in service of a beverage that is mostly tap water.

The hives get stolen, because they are worth stealing. When the lorries crash, recapturing the bees costs more than they are worth, so the fire brigade kills the survivors at the roadside with soapy water.

Lately they have been arriving dead anyway. Operators opening truck after truck in the Central Valley and finding half the boxes finished before they got there.

Then the water. California grows eighty per cent of the world's almonds in a state that keeps running dry, and the biggest growers are Stewart and Lynda Resnick, who also own the pomegranate juice a federal court found had been deceptively advertised. In 1994, behind closed doors at a resort in Monterey, California's water arrangements were rewritten and the Resnicks came away with fifty seven per cent of the Kern Water Bank, built with public money. By 2021 that stake was worth over a billion.

Public asset in. Private water out. Sold back at a markup.

Two pounds a carton.

And this was the kind option.

The cow stood in a field in the rain the whole time, doing all of it herself, for nothing.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

“Taxing a valuable home is a political choice. Giving the state powers to cross the threshold of that home is a civil liberties question," says Nouran Moustafa of advisory firm Roxton Wealth in the Times.

The Times confirms HMRC's belief that 'a home inspection will be necessary in cases where a property’s internal features and measurements, such as the number of bedrooms, bathrooms and floors, are needed to complete an accurate valuation'.

Many people may be relaxed about this threat because they think their house won't qualify for the tax. But rest assured that if HMRC gets away with pushing into people's houses over this tax, they will be doing it over other taxes too.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

The left are now trotting out their usual list of desired tax hikes. The tax-loving IPPR wants to apply National Insurance to pensioners. It has also once again dragged out the left's old chestnut of hiking capital gains tax to 40%, ignoring HMRC evidence that this would substantially reduce tax revenues.

It's been the same sorry pre-budget saga ever since Labour came to power.
1. Labour refuses to rule out tax rises.
2. Tax-crazy leftist think tanks, whose former staff populate the Labour government, promote all sorts of stupid economy-trashing tax hikes.
3. Business and wider economic activity slow considerably, as everyone waits to see what stupidities the budget will contain
4. The budget contains only some of those proposed tax hikes but they are bad enough to cause considerable damage.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Labour's plan to seize the interest earned on clients' money held at law firms is one of the most morally repugnant and utterly disgraceful tax proposals we have yet seen in this Parliament.

The state has absolutely no right to grab these funds.

[Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 @TPointUK]

We received this correspondence from one of Henry Nowak’s friends during the trial.

We didn’t want to be in contempt of court, but feel it is appropriate to release now.

It reads as follows:

“If you use any of this information I’d like to remain anonymous. I just really feel like the whole truth should be heard.

I wasn’t there at the pub where this all started but I know people who were and was told by eye witnesses about what happened.

Henry and the football society were out at a local pub having some drinks. While in the pub the attacker barged into Henry while walking past. Henry said something to him (paraphrasing here but it was something along the lines of “excuse you”) the attacker turned around a confrontation started, the details of this vary but it got quite heated with the attacker mostly escalating the situation. Some of the football society were able to intervene and defuse the situation, but it was heated enough that police were called (I think due to possible threats made by the attacker). The attacker went away and Henry went back to talking with the lads. He was still quite agitated by what had just happened and after a while his friends convinced him to call it a night.

Henry left the pub and started to walk back to his accommodation and went down Saint Denny’s Road, while sending snapchats to his friends. On his way he saw the attacker again (at the intersection between Saint Denny’s and Belmont Road), this time carrying a knife. The rest is the same as what is covered by the news outlets. 

The police were already on their way when the attack happened (I think because they were following up from what happened at the pub and they were trying to find him to find out what had happened and see if he was ok). The police got there and the attacker claimed he had been racially abused etc etc. 

The attacker and his mother both lived further along Saint Denny’s Road (past Belmont but before Thomas Lewis way). There is a video (which most of us have seen at this point) of the mother walking back to their house carrying the knife.

The above is all true, I have neglected the parts that have been covered by the BBC etc as it is the same.

The following is our theory of what happened:
The attacker went away after the initial alteration at the pub, we’re unsure whether he stayed and then followed Henry home (implying that he already had the knife on him) or went back to his house to get the knife and just happened to bump into Henry while walking back to the pub. Either way the attackers mother arrived to the crime scene suspiciously quickly to be able to get the knife before the police arrived. Hence we believe the latter option to be most likely.

My housemate walked past about 15min after this all took place and called me outside, by this point half of the police force had swarmed the area and we weren’t able to make out much. We obviously later found out about what had happened which shocked all of us. By the morning the entire road had been taped off and several police officers stood at the entrance to the road guarding it for just over a day.

The point I wanted to make here is that this wasn’t some freak attack. Henry didn’t just get unlucky and stumble across a random murderer when walking home. There was clear intent from the attacker. What happened was tragic and shouldn’t be forgotten with the passing news cycle, the attacker was an evil human with a lack of morals and should under no circumstances be let off with anything other than the maximum in this trial.

I hope this information can provide useful and I hope more people learn about this, as this shouldn’t be a thing that happens in our country. There should be uproar and there need to be real consequences.”