Notices by Flick (flick@spinster.club)

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/08/this-is-not-a-student-protest-its-an-intifada-against-france/

Was it really a lack of school funding that led a masked 15-year-old in Marseille to use a lighter and an aerosol to set fire to a woman’s face? Was it frustrations over the school timetable that led some protesters to arm themselves with knives, baseball bats, Molotov cocktails and hydrochloric acid? And what of the crumbling classrooms? As French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu wryly observed in parliament this week, ‘Burning down a high school does not improve the state of high-school buildings’. Ironically, one of the first schools to go up in flames was the plush Lycée Nelson Mandela in Nantes, built at a cost of €54million as recently as 2014. Most of the rioting has taken place in and around schools in the troubled banlieues, which actually get more funding on average under the French system.

Complaints about school conditions also cannot explain why so many rioters choose to drape themselves in the flags and symbols of foreign countries – including the Algerian, Moroccan and (inevitably) Palestinian flags, often with a keffiyeh face covering. While the gilets jaunes protests of 2018 and 2019 would usually feature a sea of national and regional flags, the tricolore has been notably absent in the past few weeks’ clashes. It seems that whatever is on their passports, the racially diverse crowds are united in their rejection of French identity. French Republican values, whether they are deemed ‘oppressive’, ‘colonialist’ or ‘kafir’, are similarly treated with suspicion by the ‘new France’ of youths and second- and third-generation migrants.

https://order-order.com/2026/10/08/libdems-suspend-councillor-after-she-claimed-woman-means-biological-female/

A LibDem councillor in Horsham has been suspended from her group and now sits as an independent after trying to table a motion backing the Supreme Court’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. What’s going on with the LibDems…

Sam Bateman, who represents Billingshurst, submitted a motion asking the council to protect single-sex spaces, update staff training and record sex and gender reassignment as separate characteristics in equality monitoring. The council rejected it, calling it “frivolous, offensive, vexatious or out of order” and claiming it would increase council spending…

@restful @PNS

I’m struggling to understand why she stuck with him for so long if this is accurate.

Also lol at “I don’t have to cook for anyone else. Except my son. I don’t have to do laundry for anyone else. Except my son. I don’t have to accommodate anyone else’s food preferences. Except my son.”

https://freespeechunion.org/news/angela-rayners-office-begins-investigation-into-islamophobia

Over recent weeks, the Free Speech Union, along with Nick Timothy, has continued to argue that it is almost certain that the Government allowed Islamist extremists to contribute to the drafting of the definition and that officials were now trying to cover it up. Why else would the department delete all of the submissions?

Will Garton, the chief civil servant at MHCLG, has now finally written to the Shadow Justice Secretary confirming that "further work" would take place to investigate the concerns so that it can offer a comprehensive response addressing the issues raised. Mr Garton also went on to say that ministers had not been involved in the decision to delete all the submissions to this consultation, but also rolled out the same empty words that the "anti-Muslim hostility" definition would not have a chilling effect on free speech. It is indeed a little late for that. And if Ministers did not instruct officials to delete the responses, that leads to further questions about who on earth is in charge.

https://freespeechunion.org/news/rupert-lowe-reported-to-the-parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards

It is not a crime to discuss the grooming gangs scandal or Islamist extremism. On the contrary, it is incumbent on all elected representatives to speak out. The criminals are those who perpetrated the systematic abuse of white working-class girls — and those who helped cover it up.

The "anti-Muslim hostility" definition has been weaponised to silence those who dare to criticise, challenge, debate or mock Islam. It risks stifling the important conversations that our politicians should — and must — have to address issues like the grooming gangs scandal and Islamist extremism. It will also prevent those in public services vital to the safety of British citizens from doing their jobs for fear of being labelled racist.

While I think it’s a good thing that the UK government is finally providing some guidance on emergency preparedness, via the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20veglyjp8o

it is embarrassingly vague compared to, say, the Swiss approach:

https://www.notvorratsrechner.bwl.admin.ch

What the fuck is a “non-practicing white”?

https://www.facebook.com/MattWalshBlog/videos/1693307225092445/

(Sorry for the FB link.)

https://spectator.com/article/the-futility-of-banning-deep-fried-school-lunches/

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of things to ban, so you find yourself trying to stop children eating ice cream. New school food rules announced today by the Department for Education will prescribe pulses, restrict deep-fried products and prevent children eating the food they actually like. Primary pupils are to encounter lentils, chickpeas or similar pulses at least once a week. Suggested desserts include custard with banana and orange slices. Each school will be expected to publish its menus and food policies online, nominate a food governor, with a small army of DfE tick-boxers then monitoring compliance.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16120687/Doctor-sues-NHS-trust-bearded-trans-patient-allowed-womens-psychiatric-ward-exposed-himself.html

A 'bearded' transgender patient was allowed on to a female psychiatric NHS ward before exposing themselves to fellow patients, a senior doctor claimed today.

The biological male, who identifies as a woman, was initially placed on the female ward at Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust.

But when other patients complained about their presence and behaviour, they were moved to a male ward – before managers decided to return them to the female ward.

The doctor – known as Dr A – is now taking legal action against the trust, alleging that bosses dismissed serious safeguarding fears and had 'unlawful' policies in place.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/40299111/transgender-woman-falsely-accused-six-men-rape/

A TRANSGENDER woman who falsely accused six innocent men of rape as part of a sick web of lies has been jailed.

Khloe Simmonds, 26, made at least 12 bogus claims over a seven-year period that resulted in multiple police investigations.

At one point, the fiend’s lies “single-handedly” made up two-and-a-half per cent of all rape and serious sexual assault allegations in Harrow.

One of the defendant’s victims tried to take his own life after Simmonds accused him of rape – leading to an 88-day police probe.

In reality, the liar had propositioned him for sex, which the victim had refused.

Simmonds has now been jailed for seven-and-a-half years after being convicted of eight counts of perverting the course of justice.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/07/the-warped-feminism-of-the-lindsay-clancy-fan-club/

Undergirding the idolisation of Clancy is a version of feminism mangled beyond recognition. Far from humanising women, the language being used by the so-called experts harks back to a time when to be female was to be a set of complex, malfunctioning humours, the influence of a uterus rendering women infinitely less rational than their male counterparts, less capable of controlling themselves, less responsible for terrible decisions. How is it that we have gone from ‘don’t call us hysterical’ to ‘actually, we’re all a bit hysterical and to say otherwise is negligent’? In the name of compassion, women are being stripped of the very thing that their predecessors spent generations insisting they possessed: the moral and intellectual autonomy to act of their own free will.

@Grumbleshroom

Chonk!

https://www.thetimes.com/article/2beebeba-83d4-4337-8b47-3c79ef3e9361?shareToken=5a03028c7b023cf6c9c9576c9c1adf02

The Green Party is facing a fresh legal challenge after a transgender activist was elected to a position designed to boost female representation on one of its most powerful internal bodies. […]

It follows warnings from the Green Party’s own lawyers over the potential consequences of its approach.

A 53-page report leaked to The Telegraph last year said the party faced “material legal and financial risks”. It raised concerns that expulsions of members who questioned gender ideology had not always followed “due process” and suggested disciplinary action had sometimes been driven by “individual hostility to gender-critical beliefs, or assumed beliefs”.

The report also warned that internal guidance on identifying “queerphobia” risked discriminating against members with gender-critical beliefs, which are protected under the Equality Act, and said the party was spending almost £200,000 a year on legal costs and external investigations into disciplinary cases.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/03/the-historical-facts-the-slave-reparation-lobby/

On the face of it, why would we not welcome the report’s demands for “accurate, unbiased accounts”, “thorough research” and clear acknowledgement of “the wrongs of those who supported or benefited from historical atrocities”? Perhaps I am unduly cynical, but I suspect that what is really intended is the very opposite of what these honeyed words announce. But let us assume the authors of the report are sincere. In that case, what would the outcome of their demands be?

First, public recognition, perhaps through the United Nations, that slavery has been a constant feature of human societies over the millennia, and that it still exists on a large scale in many parts of the world, including Africa.

Second, a collective expression of contrition by the successors of all those states involved in 18th- and 19th-century slavery, including nearly all of Africa, all the Middle East, the whole of the Americas (except Canada and parts of the Caribbean), nearly all of Europe, China and India (most 18th-century slaves were in Asia). In short, everybody would be apologising to everybody – a heart-warming festival of sentimental humbug.

Third, a universal vote of thanks to the anti-slavery pioneers, of which Britain was a leading member, for their epoch-making realisation that enslavement was not merely a necessary element of international business, but a moral outrage – a new and strange idea. There would be public commemoration (with statues and monuments in West Africa, East Africa, Egypt, Brazil, the Caribbean and the United States) of the British sailors, politicians, missionaries, diplomats and colonial officials who struggled for decades, at the risk of their health and often their lives, to put an end to enslavement.

https://archive.ph/fiGWd

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16088475/Labour-backs-plans-20mph-speed-limits-new-housing-developments-latest-attack-motorists.html

Labour has backed plans for 20mph speed limits across new housing developments in its latest attack on motorists.

In a move set to further enrage drivers, ministers have endorsed quango proposals to introduce 20mph or lower speed limits, encourage car sharing and make roads narrower on new housing estates.

In Homes England's Building for a Healthy Life guidance, backed by the Department of Health and Social Care, authors recommend '20 miles per hour (or lower) design speeds, supported by street geometry, traffic calming and formal 20 miles per hour designations'.

Housing developers are urged to keep road corners to a maximum of three metres wide at junctions and side streets to 'slow turning traffic'.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/30/the-era-of-mythical-misogyny/

The appeal of mythical misogyny to the political class is clear. It allows politicians to continuously blame the public for their supposedly misogynistic attitudes, rather than face up to the failings of the state, from the police to the judiciary. Politicians can ignore the actual victims of sexual violence, from the so-called grooming-gangs victims to those assaulted by asylum seekers, while standing in pseudo solidarity with an abstract mass of woman-kind.

Material misogyny does not allow for such slipperiness. Take the grooming-gangs scandal. Thousands of girls, some of whom were pre-pubsecent children, were systematically raped by organised gangs over decades, and the authorities, care workers and local councils were complicit in covering it up because they feared a race riot. There can be no question that heads must roll.

Or when women and children report being sexually assaulted in pubs, clubs, beaches, trains, graveyards, rooftops and parks by men who have no legal right to be in the country, it is clear that the time to ‘do better’ has long since passed.

https://spectator.com/article/british-citizenship-has-become-meaningless/

We can all sense it: the slow, humiliating stripping of weight, teeth and pride from Britishness. The bloke who’s been here for five years and yet has not one word of English – he’s as British as John Cleese, they say, and you’re ‘fash’ if you say otherwise. Citizenship is handed out like candy, and at the same time we’re instructed to feel shame over British history, and to quit our ‘supremacist’ belief that Britishness is special, and to tut tut when some oik hoists the British flag up a lamppost. Did the credentialled classes really think they could so ruthlessly eviscerate Britishness and that there would be no consequences? The fools. The consequences have come. And one of them is a very serious discussion about how we might distinguish between people who’ve been Brits forever and people who’ve been Brits for five minutes. The people calling this discussion racist are the people who made it necessary. 

https://archive.ph/9sYUc

@HebrideanHecate

Reminds me of when my mum had a health check and got told to stop eating full fat milk/yoghurt and in the next breath that her BMI was too low.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/27/birmingham-has-declared-the-england-flag-haram/

The actions of Birmingham City Council are especially concerning. This is a council that has been bankrupt since 2023. For more than a year, it has been unable to collect the rubbish on its streets. Parts of the city have become an open-air tip, breeding rats the size of kittens. Yet instead of doing something about the dystopian slum their city has turned into, councillors are dedicating their energy and resources (that is, the residents’ resources) to banning the English flag.  […]

In fact, the deeper you look into Birmingham, the more concerned you might become. Is it right that this city will illuminate its library in green and white to celebrate Pakistan’s independence day, but will prosecute people who dare attach an English flag to its lampposts? Islamic sectarians govern the city in coalition with the Greens. Is there a problem when Birmingham can begin its council meetings with Islamic prayers in Arabic, while residents are threatened with criminal proceedings for expressing pride in England? The flag ban is surely just a symptom of a far deeper cultural malaise.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/25/labour-opens-door-ban-cousin-marriage/

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) acknowledged that there were “serious concerns” over cousin marriage and said it would “look at” whether outlawing the practice was the best way to tackle it.

A backbench bill is expected to be laid before Parliament in the new year by Dr Luke Evans, the shadow health minister, in a fresh attempt to ban first cousin marriage.

A previous attempt by Richard Holden, the shadow transport secretary, in a private member’s bill last year failed after being blocked by Sir Keir Starmer’s government.

Mr Holden urged Andy Burnham not to be a “coward” or “unwilling” to back the new proposals for a ban.

https://archive.ph/nPMJo