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@SandyofSuffolk Oh look, they’re now a week behind! It started as 1 day, then 2 days, now it’s a week! 😕
@SandyofSuffolk Barnsley council never collect our garden waste when they’re supposed to. Since it restarted in March we put it out every other Friday. They may collect it on a Monday or Tuesday 🙄 Always a long list of missed collections on the website.
The woman speaks for the entire country right now. An absolutely glorious rant against Keir Starmer. And she signs off in the most quintessentially British way.
Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.
Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.
She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.
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The Daily Mail has now published details from sentencing that almost no one has reported.
As Henry Nowak — bleeding from five stab wounds — tried to climb a commercial rubbish bin and over a fence to escape, Vickrum Digwa filmed him.
And taunted him.
“You’re not going to get away with this big man.”
Henry landed on top of a parked car on the other side of the fence. Digwa walked round and took close-up photos of him lying on the ground.
A home security camera then captured what may be the most chilling exchange in this entire case.
Henry: “I am dying.”
Digwa: “You’re not dying bro.”
Ten minutes later, Henry said: “You stabbed me.”
Digwa replied: “No, I didn’t.”
In the ten minutes that followed the stabbing, Vickrum Digwa did not call an ambulance. He filmed Henry for a full five minutes instead.
That clip was deemed too disturbing to be played in court.
Stop and process what that means. A judge and a jury sat through video of Digwa describing his blade in “loving terms,” through bodycam of Henry being handcuffed as he died, through pathologist evidence of the eight-centimetre chest wound — and the only piece of footage the court ruled too disturbing to show was the five minutes Vickrum Digwa spent filming an 18-year-old as he bled to death on a Southampton pavement.
The judge said it in sentencing: “You continued to make films of Henry suffering, ignoring much of his desperation at having been stabbed. You told him that had not happened, no doubt to convince others who were nearby.”
The lie Digwa told the police did not begin when officers arrived. It began ten minutes earlier, in Henry’s face, as Henry told him he was dying.
This is what Hampshire Police walked into. This is the man they believed when they got there. This is what the court has now formally established took place between the stabbing and Henry’s death.
The five-minute video exists. Henry’s family knows what is on it. The court knows what is on it. The public does not.
It is too disturbing to be shown.
But not too disturbing to have been done to him.
Henry — forever 18. 🤍
#JusticeForHenryNowak
The UK now hosts more than 500 active data centres (the third largest in the world). They have been rammed through despite huge local community concerns about the impact on their local landscapes and energy and water consumption.
These enormous data centres are giant industrial facilities consuming vast quantities of electricity, water and land while placing increasing pressure on the UK’s energy infrastructure.
▪️Water consumption by data centres is expected to reach 9.3 trillion litres, while CO2 emissions will rise to 399 million tons.
▪️Annual power consumption from data centres is projected to double to 945 TWh by 2030, around the same as the whole of Japan’s energy consumption, with AI accounting for 40% of the total.
▪️The rise of AI is accelerating this trend. The UK Government's Compute Roadmap notes that AI data centres can devote up to 40% of their energy consumption to cooling systems.
▪️It is estimated that data-centre power and water consumption could double by 2030 due to AI growth.
▪️Emerging research suggests large AI facilities can create localised warming effects around their sites, sometimes described as a “data heat island” effect.
Numerous campaigns against these data centres are being organised by local communities. No one voted for this. If you are involved in any of these local campaigns, please DM me and I’ll try and help you amplify your campaigns.
Several serving and former Hampshire Police Officers have told me that ‘we had it drummed into us about our white privilege and unconscious bias’.
Training was outsourced to a third party company and the trainer ‘was deeply hateful of white people and our culture.’
Officers have reported to me about being furious but unable to complain out of fear for their jobs.
This is exactly why I blocked the Race Action Plan as Home Secretary.
It is disgraceful that this stuff went on in policing. And the PCC and CC need to be held to account.
@MichelleDewbs They’ll blame Nigel for anything & everything 🙄
STOLEN. Overnight from outside my home in Canterbury. Honda CB500. V329DPN. They cut through the security chain. Reported to Police. Please repost. I am not optimistic about getting it back but the more people who see this post the more chance there is.
🚨 Martin Daubney’s @X account @MartinDaubney has been hacked. He can’t access it. He did not post his latest post and please be aware that if anything else is posted from that account in the near future it IS NOT Martin who is doing it.
He Punished Officers For Telling The Truth. Then He Was Arrested For Stealing From Them.
Mukund Krishna was the first civilian chief executive of the Police Federation of England and Wales. He was a former management consultant born in India who relocated to the UK in 2007 and had no frontline policing experience. He was paid £701,100 a year, more than twice the salary of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and thirty times the salary of a starting constable. Across 2024 and 2025 his total remuneration was £1.4 million. Some of the 145,000 rank and file officers his organisation represented were using food banks to feed their families.
On March 3rd 2026 the Police Federation publicly called for a minimum seven percent pay rise for officers, warning that morale and recruitment were suffering. The following morning Krishna was arrested by the City of London Police's Domestic Corruption Unit on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position. He has now been sacked. He will receive no further payments.
Before his arrest Krishna had used the Police Federation to do two things. Collect £1.4 million across two years. And punish officers who told uncomfortable truths about policing.
Rick Prior, the head of the Metropolitan Police Federation, was suspended in October 2024 after warning publicly that his members were increasingly nervous about challenging people from some ethnic minorities for fear of being labelled racist. His offence was stating precisely what the Henry Nowak case, the West Yorkshire Police sectarian policing story and the Rotherham and Rochdale grooming gang inquiries had all documented independently. Fear of a racism accusation was paralysing British policing. Prior named it. Krishna suspended him.
Richard Cooke was removed as chairman of the West Midlands Police Federation for posting a comment online disputing suggestions his force was institutionally racist. Krishna removed him too.
The High Court ruled both suspensions unlawful and a breach of Article 10 free speech rights. The Police Federation spent more than half a million pounds of its members' money defending the claim. Members who were using food banks. The man authorising that expenditure was collecting £701,100 a year and incurring legal costs exceeding £1 million in 2024 alone.
The problems were visible long before the arrest. In January 2025 Craig Hewitt, the Head of Civil Claims and National Board Member, resigned with a damning email exposing alleged long-standing financial mismanagement. A Tortoise Media investigation found that the federation had used 14 confidentiality agreements in settlements costing more than £700,000 and that multiple senior officials faced disciplinary proceedings after questioning Krishna's approach. Glassdoor reviews from employees described a toxic working environment and a marked increase in questionable dismissals and suspensions of very senior officials.
The pattern is now complete and precisely documented. A civilian management consultant with no policing background was installed as the first chief executive of the organisation representing rank and file officers. He suppressed the officers who named the two tier policing problem. He spent members' money silencing them. Warning signs of financial mismanagement were documented and ignored. And he was arrested the morning after his organisation demanded better pay for officers some of whom could not afford to feed their families.
"Across 2024 and 2025 Krishna's total remuneration was £1.4 million. Some of the 145,000 rank and file officers his organisation represented were using food banks to feed their families."
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928. Its stated aim has never changed. The establishment of a state governed by sharia law under a caliphate. Islam is the solution is not a slogan. It is a programme. And the countries that know it best have drawn their conclusions.
Egypt banned it. Saudi Arabia banned it. The UAE banned it. Bahrain banned it. Austria banned it. Jordan banned it in April 2025 after uncovering a sabotage plot linked to its members. These are not fringe states acting on prejudice. They are countries with direct experience of what the Brotherhood does when it embeds itself in civil society. They watched it build parallel social structures, challenge state authority, channel electoral pressure toward Islamist ends and provide the ideological conveyor belt that has carried individuals toward violence. They acted. Britain has not.
The 2015 Cameron review found that the Brotherhood's ideology was a possible indicator of extremism. It found that individuals closely associated with the Brotherhood in Britain had supported suicide bombings by Hamas, an organisation that describes itself as the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood and whose military wing has been proscribed in Britain since 2001. It described the Brotherhood as deliberately opaque and habitually secretive, operating with a dual discourse, moderate in public, radical in private. It stopped short of proscription. That report is eleven years old. The Brotherhood has spent eleven years continuing to embed itself in British civil society while the government keeps the matter under close review.
Manchester knows what that embedding looks like. Salman Abedi, who murdered 22 people at the Manchester Arena in 2017, attended Didsbury Mosque, whose leadership had documented links to the International Union of Muslim Scholars, founded by Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who publicly endorsed suicide bombings. The mosque's trustees were linked to charities associated with Hamas. The sectarianism now visible on Manchester's streets, men on horseback charging anti-regime Iranian protesters while police stood back, does not emerge from nowhere. It is cultivated over years in institutions the state has chosen not to examine too closely.
France's interior ministry declassified a report in 2025 estimating that seven percent of France's Muslim places of worship have links to the Brotherhood, affecting around ninety one thousand worshippers. France has approximately five million Muslims and 2,800 mosques. Britain has approximately four million Muslims and an estimated two thousand mosques. Applying the same seven percent figure to Britain's mosque network suggests around 140 mosques with potential Brotherhood links and somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 people potentially exposed to Brotherhood influence in British places of worship alone. The French government commissioned a report to establish this. The British government has not.
The argument against proscription has always been the same. The Brotherhood has not carried out direct acts of terrorism in Britain. Proscription would stigmatise Muslim communities. Engagement is preferable. A decade of evidence has answered all three. The Brotherhood builds the infrastructure, the ideology and the political pressure that others act upon, while charitable organisations linked to it receive Gift Aid from the British taxpayer.
The strongest opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood comes not from Western governments but from Muslim majority nations. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan have concluded independently, from direct experience, that the Brotherhood is a destabilising force. Britain standing apart from that consensus has a word. Cowardice.
Proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood. Before the countries that already have are proven right in the worst possible way.
Didsbury Mosque and Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradaw
A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.
Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.
Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.
That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.
This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.
So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.
The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.
And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.
I've noticed there is still a lot of online questioning of Henrik Pedersen.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion - and friendly debate is one of the reasons we all love football - but I want to give an alternative view.
Firstly, the new owners have made their decision. They have chosen to give Henrik an opportunity. Whether people agree with that decision or not, surely the best thing for Sheffield Wednesday now is for supporters to get behind him and give him the best possible chance of succeeding. If he succeeds, the football club succeeds.
From my own experience of spending more than six months at the club and being there every day, this is what I personally saw and heard:-
• A coaching team that was fully behind him.
• Players who, despite operating in some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable, continued to play for him every week.
• A squad that never stopped competing, even with everything that was going on behind the scenes. In fact, I'm still amazed we didn't suffer some real hammerings given the challenges the group was facing.
I also saw a manager with relentless positivity.
Straight after defeats he was already looking forward and motivating players.
Every day on the training ground he attacked the job with energy and enthusiasm. Whether you agree with his methods or not, nobody could question his commitment.
What I heard was equally interesting.
Opposition coaches, scouts and football directors would regularly tell us what a remarkable job he was doing under the circumstances. Many simply couldn't believe how competitive he had managed to keep the team given the challenges he was facing.
Perhaps most importantly, some of the biggest clubs in the country clearly rate him……
Manchester City, Manchester United, Crystal Palace and Chelsea were all proactive in wanting to place or keep young players at Sheffield Wednesday. They weren't doing that as a favour to us. They were doing it because they believed their players would develop under Henrik and that he would improve the value of their assets.
These are clubs with some of the best recruitment and player development departments in world football. They must have seen something they liked.
Does any of this guarantee success? Of course not, it doesn’t even always work out for Jose Mourinho.
Football is unpredictable and nobody knows what the future holds.
But there is a big difference between questioning whether somebody will succeed and declaring that they cannot.
The owners have seen enough to give him a chance.
The people working with him every day have seen enough to support him.
Some of the biggest clubs in England have seen enough to trust him with their young talent.
That doesn't mean they are right.
But it does mean there may be more to Henrik Pedersen than some are prepared to acknowledge.
Now that the decision has been made, I hope supporters give him a fair chance.
Because every now and then in football, the good guy does win.
Wouldn't it be brilliant if that happened here?
Up The Owls! 🦉
That’s probably one of the most disgraceful posts from a serving MP I have seen and I’ll tell you why - It says more about the state of our politics that an elected MP chooses to insult millions of voters rather than engage with why they are disillusioned with the establishment.
Labelling ordinary people as knuckle draggers because they support a different party is arrogant, divisive, and beneath anyone in public office.
Voters are perfectly capable of making up their own minds, and many are turning to Reform because they feel ignored, patronised, and let down by the political class with posts like this!
Healthy democracy requires debate and respect, not sneering contempt from MPs toward the public they are supposed to represent. Shameful hypocrisy by the way. Your party is riddled with controversy, Mandelson, rape gangs, Labour lies, ECHR stated you were racists and misogynists.
The Labour Party will get what the deserve at the next general election that’s given.
@London_W4 Love it 🥰
“The message was: do what we say.”
The BBC has been totally captured by trans ideologues.
Rob Burley tells FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK that the BBC arranged for Newsnight staff to attend an away day with trans lobbyists.
Trans activists advised staff on which individuals they should work with — and which they should avoid.
In 2013, the BBC adopted self-ID. Its official style guide changed the way the corporation handled trans issues by instructing staff to refer to men who identify as women as women.
Watch the latest episode of the FSU Podcast below with @RobBurl 👇
🇬🇧 There are 79 vape shops on the Home Office’s public register of licensed visa sponsors.
‘Guardian Vapes Ltd’ in South Shields is licensed to sponsor overseas workers via the ‘Skilled Worker Visa’ route. 🧵1/3
Last weekend a large group of travellers set up an unauthorised encampment at Weelsby Woods in Grimsby, an area of natural beauty turning it into a sh*thole with human excrement and waste left everywhere
Leader of the council Reform @OliverFreeston
took action straight away and by yesterday the group of around 12 caravans left the site in an absolute mess
Oliver made a video communicating with the residents about the situation and he was contacted by a tree specialist who offered to come and clear the site of all wood for free
Joe from Grimsby Tree, branch, root and garden services came down today and met up with Oliver and other reform councilors and volunteers and got stuck in getting to work on all the tons of waste left behind, well done Joe 👏🏻 and well done everyone that came down and dug in, can see you all love your town 🖤🤍
This is what community looks like when it sticks together 👇🏻 💙
Alan Milburn’s NEETs Review is out. It’s a powerful diagnosis of youth unemployment.
Our research shows that since 2020, for every British young person hired, 27 young non-EU migrants were employed.
Find out more here👇
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