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[HVaz @vazz66]

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[latsot @latsot]

"Entirely Unsatisfactory Scandalous Shambles."

Yesterday, Matthew Heath/@LegalGengar was supposed to face trial for the alleged harassment of Stephanie Hayden/Stephen Paul Hayden/Anthony Halliday/Fat Tony.

The trial could not take place because of what appears to be staggering incompetence from the Crown Prosecution Service. I read @nickwallis' livetweets with increasing incredulity. By the end I was reading it in my head in the voices of Monty Python.

Here's Nick's account of the pantomime: https://t.co/kCVaijo1Z3

The trial has been adjourned while the CPS gets its shit together. This means that Matthew has the case hanging over him for the next four months, with the accompanying stress and psychological toll.

Meanwhile Hayden tweeted “Looking forward to a wonderful, reflective, adventurous, and above all peaceful summer”

Matthew's crowdfunder to cover his legal expenses (and a more detailed explanation of the three cases Hayden has brought against him is here: https://t.co/veqcCKo3Ri

Please consider a donation if you can. Please also consider donating to support Nick's fine work here: https://t.co/Y4NzFKJFCB

[HVaz @vazz66]

@Poppy_yyyyyyyy Venice is pretty much my favourite place on earth.

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

🚨If any of the men who took part in this event yesterday have the balls, I’d love you to join my show this evening, to explain to me why you think it’s ok for my 5 year old son (and hundreds of other children) to see you naked near their park….

I find it mind boggling that today @Keir_Starmer has announced a social media ban to protect kids from nudity etc.

But less than 24 hours ago, hundreds of children (including my own!) were literally exposed to full adult nudity on the streets & that’s apparently ok.

We live in a 🤡🌍

[HVaz @vazz66]

@bencooper Now you see, calling the vote ‘idiocy’ is exactly why it happened, people don’t generally like being called stupid and we English are stubborn like that. I voted remain but understand the leave vote. Now it feels like we are being punished for leaving.

[Duncan Bannatyne @DuncanBannatyne]

I own 158 changing rooms and none have individual cubicles. Stop speaking for perverts

[HVaz @vazz66]

@AllisonPearson My tiny ex-mining village in Staffordshire is getting some lovely 3 + 4 bedroom HA houses, it’s obvious who will be moving in. We’ve lost a park, community centre and football field for the privilege and the local roads can’t cope now let alone with another 50odd homes.

[HVaz @vazz66]

@NABurkinshaw Ahh, hence the having to pull it all together, you have my sympathy. Thinking back to the days of spreadsheets and adding up receipts brings me out in a cold sweat! I’ve done the fully integrated way for 5 years now and could never go back.

[HVaz @vazz66]

@NABurkinshaw Does Xero not integrate with a business account?
With Freeagent, I also created a second ‘virtual bank account’ to account for customers paying in cash and expenses paid in cash, I upload photos of receipts etc.

[HVaz @vazz66]

@NABurkinshaw Meant to add that it populates your tax return as you go so as long as you keep on top of things like approving the right category of payments / expenses it all just needs a cursory check before submission.

[HVaz @vazz66]

@NABurkinshaw Just use something like freeagent accounting software, App based, I use it for doing my Husband’s books, integrated with a business bank account and you can link it to your tax return.
It’s free with a mettle account but it’s not expensive to subscribe.

[HVaz @vazz66]

@NABurkinshaw I wouldn’t trust AI and would end up doing it all myself anyway.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The House of Commons Justice Committee has delivered its verdict on the Government’s plans to slash our ancient right to trial by jury.

It is scathing — and will make tough reading for the Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, @DavidLammy.

The Government has introduced the most sweeping constitutional reforms to the criminal justice system in years at breakneck speed, despite not having promised them in its manifesto. It seems to be allergic to scrutiny.

The Justice Secretary claims that curbing our precious right to jury trial will save Crown Court time and reduce the backlog of cases. Yet the Committee acknowledges that there is no concrete evidential basis for this claim. In fact, the Institute for Government has said the reforms would save only 2 per cent of court time, not the 20 per cent ministers have promised.

David Lammy’s 2017 review found that juries are one of the few parts of the criminal justice system where black and minority ethnic defendants do not face disproportionate outcomes. This Bill reduces the role of juries while simultaneously expanding that of the judiciary, despite only 1 per cent of Crown Court judges being black.

Back in December 2025, Lammy himself said the reforms would not be applied retrospectively. That is no longer the case. Defendants expecting a jury trial could now have their mode of trial changed without a hearing.

The Free Speech Union’s research has shown that those accused of speech-related offences are almost twice as likely to be found not guilty in the Crown Court before a jury than in a magistrates’ court without one.

Judges, lawyers, opposition MPs, Labour MPs, and even victims of crime have warned that David Lammy’s reforms will undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system.

We must defend our right to trial by jury.

Read the Justice Committee’s report below 👇

[Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip]

A year before 7/7 I was stabbed, beaten and left for dead on a street in Manchester. It was a gang of Somali youths. My colleagues - I was working at a university - couldn’t bring themselves to blame the perpetrators. It was poverty, it was me, it was anything. But it wasn’t the masked thugs with stanley knives.

7/7 was the same. London Mayor Ken Livingstone urged us not to apportion blame. Even now the MSM refuses to acknowledge the Islamist nature of the crime. It’s an extraordinary state of affairs.

Years later, in 2017, when twenty-two people, some of them children, were killed in the Manchester Arena attack, history repeated itself. Don’t look back in anger. One Love. Shit poetry.

The stabbing I got over. But it took me years to come to terms with the pathetic reaction from the hand-wringing identitarians. That was really, really damaging. So I understand full well the harm we do to ourselves when we pretend 7/7 was some bizarre and contextless tragedy.

It was Islamist terror - and there’s more to come.

And you know what? We have absolutely no hope of effectively dealing with it.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 FSU Victory!!

The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on “anti-Muslim hostility”.

The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam.

Under this guidance, criticism of Islam could have been recorded as an anti-social behaviour incident and potentially appeared on DBS checks, affecting someone’s ability to work as a teacher, carer, or in other regulated professions.

South Wales Police has backed down because the Free Speech Union threatened them with a judicial review if it chose to press ahead with the policy.

The force has described this move as a “pause” to the guidance — but we think it is highly unlikely to return.

We must also thank Shadow Equalities Minister @ClaireCoutinho for referring South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after we brought this issue to her attention.

Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament 18 years ago. We must not allow them to return through the back door.

Let this be a warning to any other public body — particularly police forces — considering the adoption of its own blasphemy laws.

Watch Lord Young below 👇

[HVaz @vazz66]

@ThePosieParker Nor me, my Grandparents’ families were miners, forge and brickyard workers, all dying before 50, my Grandad was one of 9, a Sister died in childbirth, two Brothers on the Somme with another losing a leg, lots of dead children. All that white privilege eh?

[HVaz @vazz66]

@Jenny_1884 They also get a special department for DBS checks and criminal records are magically unlinked by the ‘gender’ change too. Men who cosplay as Women are recorded as Female when giving blood 😡 A Safeguarding nightmare.

[HVaz @vazz66]

@Rustlemac @oldspeak_books No elderly or otherwise vulnerable Woman should ever have a lone Male carer, not EVER.

[HVaz @vazz66]

@ItsLiamCooper @Kelseypinkcabin Which means a Man in the corridor could easily follow a Woman and lock himself inside the cubicle with her.
If no Men are allowed in the changing area then this can’t happen. It’s called safeguarding.