JaneDaisyuk

Tea & wine devotee but not at the same time. Trainee bird watcher, cat lover (yes I know) and procrastinator extraordinaire...I'll finish this another day.

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@London_W4 Good morning Alastair, don’t forget to drink plenty of 💦 I can put my hand on heart and say I have never watched breakfast TV 😇

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@RestoreBolton @boltoncouncil We needed a bird scarer, the OH cobbled together 2 fishing poles which reached above the roof line. I could see my plastic buzzard flying from the train station, did the trick. Its flapping would have broken all noise tests, the neighbours loved it.

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@paulpowlesland Goodness me what an absolutely appalling job to do, kudos to everyone involved, outstanding.

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@EnvAgency @paulpowlesland You really are looking a tad silly on this.

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@London_W4 We are investigating Starlink, it will be interesting to hear your feedback.

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@DC_PoliceDogs It has been a delight seeing Ella enjoying herself, thanks for sharing.

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The True Story behind the Murder of Henry Nowak.

The week's Brazier, with @ColinBrazierTV.

Only on @OutpostStudios.

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@London_W4 I can't even remember what disaster struck you to end up in this gorgeous tent but it matters not a jot. Thank you for the reminders that there really are lovely things about us in the UK.

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@London_W4 Alastair you have the ability to take on any scenario and make it interesting and special. A storyteller and photographer extraordinaire.

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@NiallHarbison @happydoggothai Look at her gorgeous coat, she looks like she might have a bit of Pharaoh Hound in her DNA.

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@London_W4 Oooh notebooks, my secret obsession 😂😂

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@DonnaDlm71 I put the PC timer on for 3 minutes, it's a long time.

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@London_W4 Suitcases always problematic and you have 3 of them, no underground etiquette.

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@ukboomers @JamieMorgan123 😂😂😂😂

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@NormanBrennan @HantsPolice Thank you Norman, so many questions that need answers and not 2yrs down the line.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

If you want to understand how far Britain has sunk, look at the case of Lorne Castle – the Dorset officer sacked for tackling a masked 15-year-old knifeman and telling him to "stop screaming like a bitch." For those who don't know the story: Castle brought down a youth suspected of assaulting an elderly man, carrying a blade, linked to drug dealing, and causing chaos in Bournemouth. The teenager wasn't harmed. The knife fell from his pocket. The arrest was clean. And for this, a decorated officer with a decade of unblemished service was dismissed for "gross misconduct."

A country that punishes a man for stopping a knifeman is a country that has lost its mind. This wasn't brutality. It was policing – real policing, the kind that keeps streets safe when they're full of gangs, blades, and feral teenagers who know the system protects them from consequences. Castle was at the end of a ten-hour shift, responding to warnings of gang fights and violent offenders still at large. He did what any sane society expects of its police: he acted fast, acted hard, and removed a threat. That should be praised. Instead, it destroyed his career.

The panel didn't care about the knife. They didn't care about the elderly victim. They didn't care that Castle had been awarded for saving a woman from a freezing river only months before. They didn't care that the youth had links to drug crime. No – they obsessed over a single phrase. A fleeting remark. A scrap of rough language in the middle of a dangerous arrest. One sentence outweighed a decade of duty, grit, and courage. That tells you everything about who now runs British policing.

Castle wasn't sacked for wrongdoing. He was sacked because the new managerial clergy inside UK policing despise old-school officers. They fear "perception" more than they fear armed criminals. They want constables who speak like counsellors, not men who can handle a blade-wielding thug in a dark street. They have built a system where morale collapses, crime soars, and frontline officers walk on eggshells while criminals laugh in their faces. After Castle's dismissal, drug dealers mocked the police openly: "Touch us and you'll get fired." They understood what the panel didn't – the leadership had handed the streets to them.

And here is the heart of the rot. A police force that sacks its bravest men is a force that has forgotten its purpose. A leadership so scared of bad optics that it treats a violent youth with more care than its own officer has no claim to public trust. This is what happens when institutions are captured by ideologues and risk-averse bureaucrats who view policing through the lens of PR, not duty. They would rather sacrifice a good man than stand up to activist outrage or a headline about "rude language."

The public saw through it at once. They backed Castle, raised over £130,000, and praised a man their own force tried to break. They understand what the police hierarchy refuses to admit: courage keeps a country safe. Cowardice destroys it. And sacking a man for doing his job is an act of pure cowardice.

Castle will appeal. I hope he wins. But the verdict we should fear isn't the one that ended his career – it's the one that reveals what Britain has become. A place where a teenager with a knife commands more institutional sympathy than the officer who disarms him. A place where leaders punish bravery and reward disorder. A place where the state turns its own protectors into targets.

This is how a nation decays: not in a single collapse, but through a thousand small betrayals of the people who still hold the line. And Lorne Castle was one of them.

"A country that punishes a man for stopping a knifeman is a country that has lost its mind. This wasn't brutality. It was policing – real policing, the kind that keeps streets safe when they're full of gangs, blades, and feral teenagers"

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@JChimirie66677 Jim this is an outstanding post. The UK is decaying at such a rapid rate I fear there is no coming back from where we are.

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@London_W4 Cetti's warbler nice.

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@kathrynhall_ A double celebration, congratulations to you both🍾🥂

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@London_W4 Blimey Alastair that must have been an absolutely dreadful experience, well done to your rescuer for realising what a predicament you were in.