NickCheats🌹🐏

Question everything. ! Against Modern Football. Horninglow boy. Fire Officer. English independent and C Stand veteran. Left but not Woke.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen.

I have now received an apology from the editor.

My interview is below: 👇🏻

[The Football Tavern @TavernFootball]

This world cup is really going to have to do something special to beat this moment.

Alexi Lalas calls James Cordon a fucking wanker on television.

And it's live.......

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

You must be gutted it’s too late to prosecute them.

[Derbyshire CCC @DerbyshireCCC]

Thanks for the 4 points 🤝

From 'somewhere down the A52' 😘

#WeAreDerbyshire

[Derbyshire CCC @DerbyshireCCC]

𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐁𝐘! 💪

#WeAreDerbyshire

[80s&90sFootball ⚽ @80s90sfootball]

Paul Gascoigne 59 today

One of the most gifted players of his generation

What a goal & what a moment this was at #Euro96

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This interview with @frankwrighter, a mostly unknown citizen of the UK, is rightfully getting a lot of attention. His primary points, expressed with remarkable clarity and independence of thought:

* Market worship by conservatives (Tories) has degraded society into soulless commoditization of human beings.

* Neoliberal globalism deliberately obliterates identifiable culture and civilization in favor of one undifferentiated global mass of limitless consumerism, along with the destruction of dignity, community and work.

* Western democracy is driven by branding exercises based on promises that are cynically designed never to be fulfilled.

* Echoing the broader populist-right European view (except for Nigel Farage/Reform): The Trump/Netanyahu Iran War and others wars like it are fought for a tiny class of global elites, bringing nothing of value to ordinary citizens except debt and destruction.

* The driving force behind these wars is Israel and these wars are fought for its interests.

He's at a Restore Britain rally, but the overlap with a lot of populist left views is extremely obvious:

[𝔻𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕕 𝕸𝖈𝕽𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖑𝖉 🇬🇧 @GayoCaesar]

@SaintsExtra That week, I had been practicing the old Dele Alli challenge from 2018, which I decided to do as a celebration. After being kicked out of the play-offs I now realise that was wrong and please don't boo me next season

[Mike Smale @MikeySmale]

Hang it in the Louvre.. 🤣🤣

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

Feel like this guy has waited his whole life to say this. Incredibly eloquent and accurate appraisal of the failure of Western elites.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

You might have heard of Maggie Oliver.

She's a former Greater Manchester detective who, in 2012, was ordered to abandon her investigation into the systematic rape of children in Rochdale, and decided she would rather resign her warrant card rather than do so.

Maggie, as that would imply, is one of the good ones. I constantly ask how our police can consider themselves worthy of the badge if they are not willing to return the badge rather than commit injustice in its name. Maggie did just that; she was asked to cover for criminals, so she told the shirts to stuff themselves and handed back her commission.

She won a small but consequential victory in the High Court on Friday. Mr Justice Kimblin granted her foundation a full judicial review of whether the British state has actually done anything about the recommendations it accepted, in 2022, at the end of a seven-year inquiry into the institutional cover-up of decades of child sexual abuse.

Maggie Oliver is one woman. She has no political party behind her and no standing in Whitehall. She has no peerage, no chambers, no billionaire foundation footing her bills.

She was ordered, by senior officers, to drop her investigation into a network of men who were raping children in industrial quantities in her city, because of the demographics to which those men belong made the whole thing a bit awkward.

Fourteen years on, she has done what nobody else in this country has been able to. She has hauled the British state into open court to answer for the choice it made, over four years and under two governments, to hold a seven-year, £200 million inquiry into the institutional cover-up of child abuse and implement, deliberately, none of that inquiry's recommendations.

The Home Office accepted those recommendations in 2022. So did the Department for Education, the police inspectorates and the Crown Prosecution Service. And then nothing happened. The recommendations sat. The departments restructured. Ministers rotated.

The girls and women who had given evidence aged. More such operations continued around the country, while the men who had run the previous set of them either walked free, left the country, or drew their own pensions.

The state, in the manner of every institution Tony Blair ever built, had decided that the writing of the report was the action, and the doing of the report could be handed off to history.

That is what Maggie Oliver has now forced into court. And the political class knows what that means. The Home Secretary has not commented. The Prime Minister has not commented. The candidates jockeying through the post-Starmer Labour succession have, at the time of writing, failed even to speak her name, as though they know that, if they do, lightning will flash in the sky and they'll be turned into a pillar of Tesco's-own-brand dishwasher salt.

They are silent because they recognise, accurately, that the answers a judicial review will produce - to the question of why their inquiry's findings were treated as ornamental - will, should, must end the careers of every official who was supposed to act on them and did not. That councillors and councils, mayors, indeed entire political parties, will be caught under ultraviolet light and shown for their guilt.

It's time a government did what the British state has spent twenty years declining to do. Take on institutional failure.

Name the institutions that failed, in public, on the record. Name the officers and officials who covered it up, and the officers and officials who pressed for the cover-up too. Prosecute them under the standards that any other employee of a public organisation defrauding the public would expect to face.

The recommendations the inquiry produced must be implemented in full, alongside whatever further measures a second look at the evidence then demands.

There will not be another inquiry into the inquiries. There will be the verdicts.

Maggie Oliver is one of the bravest people in Britain. She has earned, by her own resignation and by fourteen years and a foundation and a court case carried on her back, the right to expect from a future British government the simple thing that ought to have happened in 2014, in 2016, in 2018, in 2022 and in every other year of this national disgrace.

She has not yet been given it; we have not yet been given it. But it will be given, and soon.

[Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe]

This literally is an episode of the Thick of It

[Mikey @mikeyavfc19]

Huge congratulations to @NFFC for winning the half time cup tie, I hope you all enjoyed your wild celebrations last week. Up The Villa #AVFC #NFFC

[The Ilkeston Rams 🐏 @NBIaqzw]

7 years ago when Derby had a massive game v Villa, loads of Notts Forest fans had these T-shirts made up, I thought at the time this will bite them on the arse and it really has in a BIG way in their biggest game in 30 years …I never ever forget 🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼
#AVFC #DCFC #NFFC

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times.

They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

[Bootneck Stuff @BootneckStuff]

Royal Marines boxing up against US Navy boxing. It won't be hard to guess what happened...

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated.
RETWEET IF YOU AGREE

[Caribbean Brexiteer @Caribbrexiteer]

@Keir_Starmer Do the decent thing?!

[NickCheats🌹🐏 @nickcheats]

@Mr_SPICI Fauda