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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2g5l8xkk1o

The BBC has been given special access to a police unit that says it has been disrupting organised crime gangs responsible for stealing millions of pounds worth of goods from shops across the UK. The organised retail crime (ORC) team within Opal, a national police intelligence unit, was set up two years ago and works with retailers and local police forces to target criminals responsible for raids across multiple stores around Britain.

It was launched after a surge in shop theft that peaked in 2025 with more than half a million offences recorded in a year. The Home Office said shoplifting offences fell last year and the charge rate rose. Opal bosses say tens of thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods have been recovered. They also say those convicted have been jailed for sentences totalling 118 years and 22 migrant criminals were deported as a result of their offences. More than 250 arrests have been made and 84 operations have been carried out since the ORCs launch in 2024.

"We've seen foreign nationals coming to the UK, maybe considering retail theft is an easy target, low risk, high reward." He said there was anecdotal evidence of criminals travelling to the UK for a couple of days at a time to carry out what he described as "shop theft tourism".

@flick God above, these bloody people are tedious. Please, someone, anyone, anything, just remove them all!

@Gnomeshatecheese "Fruit scones" as they are known here.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/police-scotland-fork-out-1m-37669320

Police Scotland has been blasted after spending £1m on a "human rights adviser" and still allowed biological males to self-identify as a woman when they are arrested and charged. The force has failed to completely drop gender ideology despite the Supreme Court clarifying that a woman is only a woman in law if they were born that way. While it has axed previous guidance which allowed staff to use whatever changing rooms and toilets they identified with, it came under fire after a male suspect was allowed to identify as a woman when charged with culpable and reckless conduct after an "unknown substance" was found on a lamppost in Edinburgh and two cleansing workers fell ill after removing stickers. Chief Constable Jo Farrell has repeatedly claimed that suspects will be listed and recorded as their biological sex, including rapists. But this didn't happen during this incident in August involving a well-known trans activist. A statement from the police service said the alleged perpetrator was a “30-year-old woman”. However, it is understood that this is actually a trans woman called Eve Shaw — previously known as Adam Shaw. Cops said in a statement that a “woman” had been charged and that “she” would appear at the capital’s sheriff court.

Policy group Murray Blackburn Mackenzie highlighted that the force is damaging public trust by prioritising gender identity over sex by describing male suspects as women. It has repeatedly used "human rights" as justification of why this has been done, with human rights advisor Jane Gordon awarded a £1 million contract for a five-year piece of work. It published a lengthy blog blasting the "lack of transparency" with this area, pointing out that Ms Gordon wrote a "Baseline Review of Human Rights" which acted as a "significant driver for further policy initiatives." It added: "Police Scotland has refused to disclose Ms Gordon’s ‘extensive’ advice in respect of its interim transgender search policy, which continues to provide for gender self-identification.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @flick You're extremely luck, either that or it's better in England, because it's bloody diabolical up here. Shocking so it is, and has been for years and years.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @flick Why not sort out the utter disaster which is hospital food, but no, they won't touch that one.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @flick See also Halal, won't deal with that though, will they.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @AnungIkwe They're lovely people.

https://reduxx.info/suspended-german-police-officer-on-trial-for-rape-of-14-year-old-girl-animal-sexual-abuse-and-possession-of-violent-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/

A trans-identified male is on trial in Traunstein, Germany, for the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in a restaurant’s washroom. The 55-year-old man, whose identity has not been revealed by the court, is a now-suspended German federal police officer, and also faces charges of possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material, and the production of material depicting sexual activity with an animal. The case began with an alleged sexual assault in August 2025 and quickly developed into a much broader investigation involving the seizure of digital devices and a large quantity of additional criminal material. The man, who previously worked for the Federal Police Inspectorate in Rosenheim, has been held in pretrial detention since October of 2025.

The defendant is currently housed in the men’s section of Munich prison. Disturbingly, some German media outlets failed to note the predator was a biological male, and instead referred to him simply as a “police woman” or “female police officer.”

@Biff @KeepTakingTheSoma @sappholives83 Extra sentence time if that were me, lots of it, bastards.

@flick https://unherd.com/newsroom/labours-school-meals-policy-is-a-failure-of-cultural-norms/

New standards announced this week will further restrict fried, battered or breadcrumb-coated food; limit consumption of cakes and biscuits; apply restrictions to packed lunches; and demand high-protein meals, resulting in endless lentils and chickpeas, which are historically not English in the slightest. Children will now magically eat more veg and fewer crisps. Job done. Except that is not what happens. A school can easily ensure it does not serve pizza for lunch, but there is nothing stopping a child from eating a nominal amount and then fleeing the gates at four o’clock for the nearest Greggs. I’m sure you’ve all seen it: blazered teenagers outside high-street chains, or on the bus snacking on wings and drinking Fanta.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/15/why-is-zack-polanski-campaigning-in-urdu/

Truly, Zack is a man of many talents. In his latest viral video, the all-singing, all-dancing, bap-boosting eco-bore makes his pitch to the voters of this Central London seat, left vacant by the resignation of Keir Starmer, in some very (and I’m no expert) ropey Urdu. What’s he saying? I’ve no idea. But nor will almost all of his would-be constituents. The most commonly spoken ‘main languages’ – other than English – in hyper-diverse Camden are French, Bengali and Spanish. According to the council, ‘Other South Asian’ languages are the main language of 575 people in the entire borough. In other words, only a tiny handful of them would be incapable of understanding Zack if he had simply spoken in English. The Greens have rightly been hauled over the coals for their willingness to campaign along sectarian lines, to ride Britain’s crisis of integration to inner-city electoral success. At the Gorton and Denton by-election, Hannah Spencer tried her hand at Urdu, too. Whole videos in Urdu were released painting Reform as ‘Islamophobes’ and Labour as in the pocket of India’s Narendra Modi. It made for a dispiriting spectacle, all but making a virtue out of the fact that some of Spencer’s now constituents are so poorly integrated they can’t speak solid English, all while ruthlessly exploiting ethno-religious divides.

Whatever the reasoning here, the Greens’ Urdu electioneering reminds us of the Balkanisation of British politics wrought by mass migration, multiculturalism and outdated, lax election rules that allow Commonwealth citizens to vote so long as they are legally resident in the UK. They needn’t be British citizens nor speak the language nor have been here for any particular length of time. And yet they have the same vote as anyone else. This has only incentivised political parties to engage in pork-barrel identity politics whenever an election rolls around: campaigning in foreign languages, leaning into tribal grievances, and even – in some cases – exploiting ‘kinship’ networks to ‘harvest’ votes. What should be an exercise in universalism, in appealing to voters as voters, has been reduced to an ethnic headcount. The Greens are just more shameless and online about it all. Like so much the Greens do, these Urdu election videos are as sinister as they are cringe. Beneath the ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ exterior lurks a grim new sectarianism.

@Sherri_Ingrey @LaylaAlexandrovna Loads of them at it, and use their children, sort of like latter day Fagins. Romanians do this a lot re kids, but apparently it isn't PC to point it out, see also their habit of CSA.

@AnungIkwe How many times this too 👇

Let’s not romanticize Muslim women either. Some are fighting these beliefs with everything they have. Others believe them, defend them, enforce them against their own daughters, and help pass them to the next generation. Some mothers have even publicly praised sons who carried out terrorist attacks as martyrs. Women are human beings, not automatic saints simply because they are women. Some fight oppression and some help enforce it

@AnungIkwe It's the cheering on of a patriarchal death cult which would annihilate them in seconds which turns my stomach, all those twats in France wilfully putting on hijab, while ignoring those murdered without it, the clowns dancing for more rapist men to come into the country, the absolute arses in the world who chant for burka not to be banned. On and on and on, we have all seen them, and they are a disgrace, handmaidens.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/cambridge-can-refuse-to-hand-over-evidence-to-arday-inquiry/ar-AA2ccQc4?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6aa8f4437dc942bc8971d1ef154d3b8d&ei=6

Cambridge University can refuse to hand over evidence to the Jason Arday inquiry. The independent review into the university’s handling of events leading up to Mr Arday’s death published an in-depth paper detailing the inquiry’s scope on Monday. It laid out how the review would deal with “disputes about disclosure” and suggested that the university would be able to withhold certain documents. The paper, published on Cambridge’s website, stated: “Where a document is withheld, the university will tell the review that it is being withheld, on what ground, and in enough detail for the review to decide whether to contest it.” The review is being led by Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor and current chancellor of Manchester University.

@KeepTakingTheSoma Tower hill for the Govt, all of them.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdQ20iRMCjP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

We do not have to live like this.

Essex County Council have hired price security guards in Braintree, Chelmsford and Colchester after schoolgirls were sexually harassed by Wethersfield migrants.

The patrols, named Operation Vanguard, have began for their three-month trial period after migrants began intimidating locals and wolf-whistling at young girls, making no-go areas for women.

The men are bused into these areas every single day, and protesters have been raising awareness on the public issues for a long while.

The six new guards - two in each town centre - will cost £180k + VAT, and will work between 10am and 6pm each day.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @Sherri_Ingrey @LaylaAlexandrovna Absolutely, the brown envelope brigade, as my uncle calls them.

Then there is the GIANT cherry picker they did not ask for but were given anyway, as opposed to the one they needed, apparently colossal, useless for their requirements, and cost hundreds of thousands and for who those responsible for the screw up refuse to take any responsibility. He said if they sell it they will not even recoup the money, this debacle has been running for a year now without a solution or anyone saying that was my fault. Then there are other "eco" trucks which are also shite and heavy and cause damage due to weight and are a pain in the arse to drive, but hey, the Greens love them.

@KeepTakingTheSoma Good, it's bloody horrible.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @Sherri_Ingrey @LaylaAlexandrovna Oh, and he says the bloke who fucked up re the cherry picker is meant to be in line for some award or other! You can't make this stuff up.