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🚨🇬🇧 All these incidents have occurred in recent days.
One reported death, a 5 year old kid & young boy severely injured/impaled.
The UK Police want you to see how they will treat you for putting a single foot out of line (but only if you’re White that is) ‼️
Another foul side of British policing that is not getting enough attention: Policing is being subcontracted to private enforcement agents, who issue on-the-spot fines, with prejudice and with self-interest.
These two turned off their bodycams and threatened to knock out the teeth of a man for "interfering in their business." They also claimed they could call the police to attack him.
They worked for Kingdom Services Group, on contract to Harrow Council, London.
According to its website, the company provides a 'local authority support' service that is 'committed to helping local authorities create safer, cleaner and more welcoming communities'.
The company and the council say the employment of these men has been terminated, and their behavior was unacceptable.
But it's time to discuss the unacceptability of contracting out policing to people like these.
Another foul side of British policing that is not getting enough attention: Policing is being subcontracted to private enforcement agents, who issue on-the-spot fines, with prejudice and with self-interest.
These two turned off their bodycams and threatened to knock out the teeth of a man for "interfering in their business." They also claimed they could call the police to attack him.
They worked for Kingdom Services Group, on contract to Harrow Council, London.
According to its website, the company provides a 'local authority support' service that is 'committed to helping local authorities create safer, cleaner and more welcoming communities'.
The company and the council say the employment of these men has been terminated, and their behavior was unacceptable.
But it's time to discuss the unacceptability of contracting out policing to people like these.
Council enforcement officers are sacked after they are caught on camera threatening member of the public https://t.co/tLHsSL0VFb
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Russia’s economy is strained by rising fiscal pressure, inflation, and structural imbalances linked to continuous military spending, and Ukrainian strikes on logistics deep inside Russia. While the war remains challenging for Ukraine to sustain as well, Ukraine has embraced more cost-effective technologies and procedures, and benefits from Western financing.
In Russia’s War of Self-Destruction, Suzanne Loftus explains why time is more likely to disadvantage Russia than Ukraine. She recommends that the West pursue strategic patience by sustaining support for Ukraine.
https://t.co/5htgAVzey8
STUPID EXCUSES FOR ILLEGAL-IMMIGRANT HEAD-STABBERS:
Britain's government avoids its culpability in immigrant crime by persecuting those who notice it.
On Monday, an illegal immigrant from Sudan, with leave to remain in Britain on the basis of a claim to asylum, allegedly stabbed a Northern Irish man repeatedly in the face, head, and back, in what witnesses described as an attempted beheading. The victim only survived thanks to brave bystanders.
Similar attacks by illegal immigrants have made headlines before. The data on foreign prisoners, on crime by asylum-claimants, on national propensity to crime -- particularly violent crime, are clear.
Yet the government warns Britons against noticing the foreignness or immigration status of the perpetrators, and pivots from the alleged attack itself to criticism of those who are agitated about it.
Read the full analysis here: https://t.co/jnxFwoNO2S
#UKPolitics #Immigration #Asylum #NorthernIreland #Crime #BorderSecurity #PublicPolicy #FreeSpeech #Britain #Politics
The BBC are reporting that Asylum seekers commit crimes at higher rates than British people do
They even named Pakistan, Eritrea, Iran, Afghanistan & Bangladesh as worst offenders
What reality am I living in?
STUPID EXCUSES FOR ILLEGAL-IMMIGRANT HEAD-STABBERS:
Britain's government avoids its culpability in immigrant crime by persecuting those who notice it.
On Monday, an illegal immigrant from Sudan, with leave to remain in Britain on the basis of a claim to asylum, allegedly stabbed a Northern Irish man repeatedly in the face, head, and back, in what witnesses described as an attempted beheading. The victim only survived thanks to brave bystanders.
Similar attacks by illegal immigrants have made headlines before. The data on foreign prisoners, on crime by asylum-claimants, on national propensity to crime -- particularly violent crime, are clear.
Yet the government warns Britons against noticing the foreignness or immigration status of the perpetrators, and pivots from the alleged attack itself to criticism of those who are agitated about it.
Read the full analysis here: https://t.co/jnxFwoNO2S
#UKPolitics #Immigration #Asylum #NorthernIreland #Crime #BorderSecurity #PublicPolicy #FreeSpeech #Britain #Politics
Hampshire jails two men for violent disorder at a protest in Southampton last week.
Hampshire managed to arrest, indict, prosecute, convict, and sentence within 8 days of the offences, the same county that cannot start an inquest into the death of Henry Nowak in police custody (the subject of the protests) until September 2027, almost two years since he died.
The same court system of Southampton that let rapists and other violent offenders go free because they are too young or too unintelligent to understand their crimes (said the judge) has imprisoned Connor Bishop, 24, for two years and eight months, and Leon O’Leary, 41, for three years and one month.
I agree they should be punished for violence, but jailing them for years, while other violent offenders go free, looks like two-tier justice.
Judge William Mousley KC said the protests had caused “fear, distress and disruption… and substantial cost to the public purse.”
…so has letting rapists and violent offenders go free…which provokes protests.
As in Southport in 2024, two-tier justice is apparent in sentencing: longer sentences for politically inconvenient protesters and tweeters than for more violent but more privileged demographics.
https://t.co/D40AZvTBKC?
Police probably HASTENED the death of Henry Nowak. That's my estimate given the evidence released so far.
In contrast, Hampshire Police Chief Constable Alexis Boon -- before he had released any evidence -- hit the news media with claims that his officers could not have saved Henry.
Boon cited a pathologist who had not seen the bodycam footage, or heard of the delays in the arrival of the police, their delay in calling for an ambulance, their delay in examining Henry, their delay in rendering aid (even after Henry had lost consciousness).
When I watch the bodycam footage (and I hate watching it) I see police confront a man who is already bleeding from his mouth and saying he has been stabbed and cannot breathe.
The officers do not comment or show concern. They immediately drag Henry across the ground, sit him up, and twist his torso and limbs in order to handcuff and hold him down.
I estimate that these manipulations exacerbate the knife wound to Henry's lung.
But the officers make it worse.
They let Henry slump on his side, when he exclaims, in panic, “I can’t breathe.” He is twisting and writhing on the ground, trying to find comfort, while the officers continue to tighten the cuffs and hold him down.
I suspect that the positioning concentrates the blood in Henry’s lungs towards his trachea. But the officers remain intent on cuffing and holding him. The nearest officer replies: “Put your hand in the cuff mate.”
The pathologist was not asked to consider these facts.
The pathologist reports that the mortal wound was to a vein not an artery. I spoke to a surgeon who says a clot had likely formed, while Henry was lying on his back, where he had collapsed (or hidden) between a car and a home, before police arrive.
The clot was clearly insufficient to stop the bleeding exiting his lungs through his mouth, but likely sufficient to slow the bleeding. The surgeon estimates that police manipulations of Henry might have dislodged the clot, thereby hastening his death.
Consistent with this theory, Henry loses consciousness almost immediately after his final, most panicky complaint that he cannot breathe, after he is placed or allowed to slump onto to his side.
Yet still the officers do not comment or examine or treat him. They seem intent on restraining an already incapacitated man. One officer justifies the positioning as if Henry seems "more comfortable" on his side.
Henry died ON SCENE 67 minutes after Hampshire Police received an emergency call.
He died on Belmont Road in the Portswood area of the city of Southampon. The nearest full A&E (Emergency Department) is at Southampton General Hospital (University Hospital Southampton), on Tremona Road.
The journey takes 6 minutes by car. The distance is 2.5 miles.
It's time for us to discuss police culpability in the death of Henry Nowak.
@KathyConWom @TheConWom
Hampshire jails two men for violent disorder at a protest in Southampton last week.
Hampshire managed to arrest, indict, prosecute, convict, and sentence within 8 days of the offences, the same county that cannot start an inquest into the death of Henry Nowak in police custody (the subject of the protests) until September 2027, almost two years since he died.
The same court system of Southampton that let rapists and other violent offenders go free because they are too young or too unintelligent to understand their crimes (said the judge) has imprisoned Connor Bishop, 24, for two years and eight months, and Leon O’Leary, 41, for three years and one month.
I agree they should be punished for violence, but jailing them for years, while other violent offenders go free, looks like two-tier justice.
Judge William Mousley KC said the protests had caused “fear, distress and disruption… and substantial cost to the public purse.”
…so has letting rapists and violent offenders go free…which provokes protests.
As in Southport in 2024, two-tier justice is apparent in sentencing: longer sentences for politically inconvenient protesters and tweeters than for more violent but more privileged demographics.
https://t.co/D40AZvTBKC?
This month, the BBC had an opportunity to present a balanced view of Brexit, ten years after the referendum. Surely the BBC had learned the popular mood, ten years after its reporters demonized Brexiteers as racists and ignoramuses, and acted as the mouthpieces of the EU.
This week, the BBC released a two-part, two-hour documentary, entitled, “Brexit: A Very British Civil War.”
To its credit, the BBC interviewed several principals from both sides. The editors mostly let the interviewees speak for themselves, with little commentary.
However, many principals are notably absent. Dominic Cummings refused to participate, justifiably, given the BBC's persecution of him.
Worse, when the editors do splice the footage, they suggest outrageous untruths.
https://t.co/mW4xHJbXyH
#Brexit #UKPolitics #BBC #MediaBias #Journalism #Democracy #CurrentAffairs #PoliticalHistory #BBCBias #UKPolitics #VoteLeave #Farage #BorisJohnson #DominicCummings #PoliticalHistory
"If there had been a holistic approach to child protection, I might give them the benefit of the doubt. But you will note that nobody was mooting these bans when Twitter, or X, was run by their ‘side’; when it was equally – perhaps more – full of unpleasantness; and when it was throwing people off for having the temerity to say that men are not women. But people are being terribly rude to Chris Bryant now, you see, so it’s suddenly become urgent.
Likewise, there is the ‘division’ Labour keep fretting about. Actually, they don’t mean racial division at all, as Labour has done more to whip that up than Nigel Farage could manage, even if he wished to. ‘Division’ actually means noticing what politicians are up to. As for protecting kids from paedophiles, Labour turned a blind eye to the abuse of countless little girls by the Pakistani rape gangs. You will forgive me if I scoff at their current hand-wringing, given this record."
Keir Starmer, spooked by Andy Burnham, apparently wants to leave a legacy, in much the same way that a herd of buffalo, scenting a lion, leave a legacy on the prairie.
The Prime Minister has settled on banning children from social media, and possibly also installing some yet-to-be-invented software that will prevent under-16s from viewing porn or taking and sending photos of their naked bodies. Childrens's Commissioner Rachel de Souza has further mooted extending these provisions to include 16 and 17-year-olds.
So, Labour is planning to give 16-year-olds the vote, while simultaneously forbidding them to scroll through Instagram. Why is Labour so excised by social media in particular?
And where will the social media crackdown stop? Does the government intend to include messaging platforms, like WhatsApp or Snapchat, in the ban? Something about this smells.
✍️ Gareth Roberts
Article | https://t.co/Re0E1u4l99
Terrorists, hostile states, and gangsters have been given more than £28bn of British taxpayers’ money, according to a leaked government report.
The recipients include companies linked to China’s military, Russia, and the Islamic State, and criminal gangs working with them or under their protection.
One of the gangs was trafficking humans with the cooperation of an adversary that The Telegraph chose not to name, for intelligence reasons. I bet that state is Russia.
Outlays are dated between 2015 and 2021. The report was commissioned in 2023, by the Cabinet Office.
Sources said it was never made public to save the government from political embarrassment.
https://t.co/aeaexR5jeU
Police probably HASTENED the death of Henry Nowak. That's my estimate given the evidence released so far.
In contrast, Hampshire Police Chief Constable Alexis Boon -- before he had released any evidence -- hit the news media with claims that his officers could not have saved Henry.
Boon cited a pathologist who had not seen the bodycam footage, or heard of the delays in the arrival of the police, their delay in calling for an ambulance, their delay in examining Henry, their delay in rendering aid (even after Henry had lost consciousness).
When I watch the bodycam footage (and I hate watching it) I see police confront a man who is already bleeding from his mouth and saying he has been stabbed and cannot breathe.
The officers do not comment or show concern. They immediately drag Henry across the ground, sit him up, and twist his torso and limbs in order to handcuff and hold him down.
I estimate that these manipulations exacerbate the knife wound to Henry's lung.
But the officers make it worse.
They let Henry slump on his side, when he exclaims, in panic, “I can’t breathe.” He is twisting and writhing on the ground, trying to find comfort, while the officers continue to tighten the cuffs and hold him down.
I suspect that the positioning concentrates the blood in Henry’s lungs towards his trachea. But the officers remain intent on cuffing and holding him. The nearest officer replies: “Put your hand in the cuff mate.”
The pathologist was not asked to consider these facts.
The pathologist reports that the mortal wound was to a vein not an artery. I spoke to a surgeon who says a clot had likely formed, while Henry was lying on his back, where he had collapsed (or hidden) between a car and a home, before police arrive.
The clot was clearly insufficient to stop the bleeding exiting his lungs through his mouth, but likely sufficient to slow the bleeding. The surgeon estimates that police manipulations of Henry might have dislodged the clot, thereby hastening his death.
Consistent with this theory, Henry loses consciousness almost immediately after his final, most panicky complaint that he cannot breathe, after he is placed or allowed to slump onto to his side.
Yet still the officers do not comment or examine or treat him. They seem intent on restraining an already incapacitated man. One officer justifies the positioning as if Henry seems "more comfortable" on his side.
Henry died ON SCENE 67 minutes after Hampshire Police received an emergency call.
He died on Belmont Road in the Portswood area of the city of Southampon. The nearest full A&E (Emergency Department) is at Southampton General Hospital (University Hospital Southampton), on Tremona Road.
The journey takes 6 minutes by car. The distance is 2.5 miles.
It's time for us to discuss police culpability in the death of Henry Nowak.
@KathyConWom @TheConWom
Why were medical personnel so late?
Why did police not call for witnesses from onlookers?
Here are questions that we want the answers to - #HenryNowak
https://t.co/IVzr0JfGRW
Why were medical personnel so late?
Why did police not call for witnesses from onlookers?
Here are questions that we want the answers to - #HenryNowak
https://t.co/IVzr0JfGRW
‘The police have been engaged in DEI-style thinking for so long that they’re now attracting woke recruits. If you want to get on and be promoted, you have no choice but to subscribe to the ideas that led to Henry Nowak’s arrest’
Former officer Paul Birch on two-tier policing:
Russia has fought Ukraine in surprisingly retrospective and under-adaptive ways:
- massed indirect fires,
- imprecise targeting (despite precision weapons),
- poorly combined arms,
- tolerance of civilian harm.
These pathologies are traceable to legacy habits going back through the Soviet era, despite the normalization of new techniques and technologies elsewhere -- even, in theory, in Russia itself.
...So says an interesting new analysis from Delphi Global (with which I have no affiliation).
The legacy isn't quite strategic culture, according to Delphi Global. Rather, it's more institutional than cultural.
Delphi global identifies four "specific inheritances":
1. the primacy of fires over maneuver
2. poor translation of innovative doctrinal theory into operational practice
3. centralized leadership, most visibly in the near-absence of a professional non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps
4. absence of a systematic approach to civilian protection in military operations.
Yes, Russia chooses how it fights. But it chooses within the bounds of the above inheritances.
Perhaps more interesting, Delphi Global forecasts that these legacies will persist to some extent into future wars, despite learnings from the current war.
https://t.co/J8cILyVeoI
They moved him, then they didn't rearrange him into the recovery position. That's what I wrote. You changed rearrange to move, to invent a fake contradiction, presumably because you can't handle the questions as written, or the facts on which they are based. Do you want to deal with the real questions now? Do you want talk about any facts about the real case now?
The murder, arrest, and defamation of Henry Nowak: 20 urgent questions for Hampshire Police.
As a certified private security professional with years of experience dispatching officers, supervising arrests, and managing high-risk incidents, I’ve taken the last few days to review carefully the latest revelations of how Hampshire Police handled Henry Nowak, his family, his murderer, public information, and protests.
What I found is even more disturbing than the bodycam footage initially suggested: a bleeding young man dragged, mocked, and handcuffed while pleading that he had been stabbed, while his murderer is treated as the victim and the only necessary witness.
Given the latest evidence, I identified 20 urgent questions Hampshire Police must answer, urgently, including:
- Why did medical personnel not arrive in time to save Henry, who died 67 minutes after the emergency call - when he was STILL ON THE SCENE?!
- Why did police officers stroll up with no apparent urgency?
- Why did police ignore the revelation that Henry was in flight?
- Why did the officers drag and manipulate a man who is bleeding and complaining of a stabbing and saying he can't breathe?
- Did the manipulations hasten Henry’s death?
- Why did officers remain intent on handcuffing an incapacitated man?
- Why did officers not attempt to rearrange Henry into the recovery position?
- Why did officers not respond to Henry’s unconsciousness immediately?
- Why did Hampshire Police continue to suggest that Henry was the aggressor?
- Why did Hampshire Police not correct the weapons-obsessed murderer and family when it had the chance years ago?
- Why hasn't Hampshire Police investigated its own officers?
This isn’t just about Hampshire Police — it raises concerns about Britain's courts, local authorities, and national government.
All authorities agree that the case is disturbing, but all deny two-tier justice, anywhere, anytime.
All agree that the case should be independently investigated, but none is suggesting public inquiry.
But 20 questions need to be answered urgently, for the sake of public safety, public trust, and social cohesion.
Read the questions here:
https://t.co/DrUfBYHKiR
I welcome thoughtful comments from fellow security professionals, and anyone with experience of criminal justice in Britain.
#HenryNowak #Policing #Accountability #CriminalJustice #HampshirePolice
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