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@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain For those who don't know.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49048972

His claims that he and others had been the victim of sexual abuse by a "VIP ring" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and that he had witnessed three child murders by members of the same group, featured prominently on BBC News, in a British national newspaper and on a now-defunct website called Exaro. However, while he was promoting his lies, Beech was busy downloading child abuse imagery and covertly filming a teenage boy. The investigation - known as Operation Midland - would cost some £2.5m. But by the time it was wound up, not one arrest had been made.

Beech, however, received more than £20,000 in public money as compensation for injuries he claimed were inflicted during the alleged abuse - injuries he had never actually suffered. After a 12-week trial, Beech was sentenced to 18 years in prison, having been found guilty of 12 counts of perverting the course of justice, one of fraud, and several child sexual offences.

https://thecritic.co.uk/labours-gagging-acts/

The network that most troubles our Labour overlords is Web 2.0 and its pesky social media meeting places. Pitt was appalled by the lower middle classes daring to involve themselves in political discourse, and terrified by where it might lead. Labour appears equally alarmed at the prospect of the great unwashed encountering anything but approved narratives. The assumption underlying its proposals is that users of X are incapable of weighing conflicting claims and reaching an informed judgement for themselves. Hence the plan to require social media companies to prioritise approved sources, such as the BBC, over less established voices. Many of those less established voices are, of course, unreliable. But anyone relying solely on the BBC to tell them what a woman is, or what has been happening in the Israel-Hamas war, would be equally ill-served. In a free society, the burden of separating the wheat from the chaff falls on the citizen, not the state.

The final irony is that another of Pitt’s legislative innovations — the Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800 — sought to suppress workers combining to demand better conditions. They inhibited precisely the sort of organisation of workers that the Labour Party — the Labour Party! — was founded to champion. Truly, we can look from pig to man, and once again it is impossible to say which is which.

https://thecritic.co.uk/is-football-hooliganism-fashionable/

Let’s bear in mind the last time we had a story about violence and football fans. Late last year the predominantly Jewish fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv were banned from coming to the UK to attend their team’s game against Aston Villa, due to fears of violence. Not violence on their part, albeit that’s what West Midlands police claimed in one of the most sordid events in the history of any British police force. Instead they were banned partly because of fears of violence against the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the local community. Thank God for Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary, without whom the true details of this scandal may not have emerged. So what do we do now that we have genuinely violent football fans on our streets, albeit from a different religious and ethnic background to those of Maccabi Tel Aviv?

Can anyone with a straight face tell me they think there will be a similar legislative response to the growing problem of violence from foreign fans, or fans of foreign teams? Can anyone with a straight face tell me they think there will be any action beyond a few arrests, maybe a conviction or two for the worst offender — likely a suspended sentence at most? It is surely an inescapable conclusion that white football fans creating trouble is seen as something significantly more disturbing than football fans with other backgrounds.

https://thecritic.co.uk/politicians-cant-handle-free-speech/

But who needs Milton, when we have Lisa Nandy? As Goya observed with a famous etching, the sleep of reason brings forth monsters. And into this slumberous vacuum comes the Islamists and the woke speech policers in equal measure. The “you can’t say that” brigade may have been on retreat in the last few years, with the Health Secretary James Murray recently forced to recant by Camilla Tominey on his mad idea that a woman could have a willy. But the Islamists are benefiting from our broader civilisational attack on free speech. The Islamophobia definition, fought against so long and so well by so many, is being re-introduced via back doors, including attempts by Welsh police just this week. Whilst politicians think they are going to usher in a kinder world, with enlightened experts deciding what can and can’t be discussed, our internal enemies use the protections afforded by censorship to continue to spread their barbarism.

If we are not allowed to criticise politicians, religions, or ideas, then we are not free. And no civilisation that wants to survive would hamstring its best means of restoration, the right to free expression. There is only one thing we can’t say; we can’t say we haven’t been warned.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain I know, STILL being done, shocking beyond belief.

What kind of mother panders to this and encourages it.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain This shite is turning me inside out with fury, fucking clown parents, Mengele medics, and the overwhelming amount of clown world and bollocks out there, what the actual hell is the matter with everyone now. This is an evil and it will never be rectified.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15970797/Britons-face-wartime-style-rationing-meat-dairy-petrol-flights-new-Green-Party-plans-end-coalition-Burnhams-Labour.html

One motion being prepared calls on the Government to 'introduce means for a fair distribution of meat, dairy food, petrol and diesel and flights', with each person 'entitled to, but limited to' an allowance which would 'diminish year on year', with a 'policy of rationing' alongside extra green levies. According to the party's Climate Emergency Policy Working Group, ministers should 'drastically reduce flying for leisure purposes', while 'guaranteeing road users an amount, but a decreasing amount, of petrol or diesel'. It adds that Green politicians should face the fact that 'it will not be OK to fly, drive and eat meat and dairy products at anything like present levels'. Allies of Mr Burnham, including Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, have opened up back-channel communication with the Greens with a view to entering an agreement, potentially alongside the Liberal Democrats, if Mr Burnham fails to win a majority at the next General Election.

Himdia and Fat Tones?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/cabinet-office-called-for-lgbt-and-ethnic-minorities-to-be-included-on-banknotes/ar-AA27JEkF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a53dcf21eba4e30a2b31fc65c89aeb3&ei=6

The Cabinet Office campaigned for Britain’s LGBT+ and ethnic-minority communities to be given greater prominence on banknotes. In a letter to the Bank of England’s chief cashier last summer, officials said the historical figures currently depicted gave a limited picture of British identity and called for a more diverse array of personalities.

It came after The Telegraph revealed that the Bank decided to cut historical figures including Winston Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen from banknotes after research found they were “elitist and divisive”.

@KeepTakingTheSoma Curious indeed.

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-end-of-encrypted-europe/

But apart from the fact that blunt instruments may do more harm than good, there is also the risk of Chat Control being expanded in the future — for example to police free speech. Sadly, in today’s Europe, where people are being prosecuted merely for insulting politicians, it is hardly irrational to fear for such “function creep”. At least, it has been heartening to see the extent of opposition throughout Europe, both from the right and the left. Even corporates have voiced their disagreement: for example, Meredith Whittaker, President of the encrypted messaging app Signal, has warned that her company will “leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.”

Evidently, criminals will find ways to circumvent such scanning by WhatsApp or Messenger by switching to other platforms that, temporarily or for a long period of time, manage to stay under the radar and continue to offer encryption without scanning. They may simply move to underground platforms altogether permanently. In practice, as opponents have maintained, it will be ordinary people that will be monitored.

@KeepTakingTheSoma Very good question. Fred the Bollock & co probably do have knowledge.

@Biff Barely credible and yet here we are.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @Gnomeshatecheese @helenstaniland Dick pandering women, they're a pest and always have been.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DakcXazFN5-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

The chattering classes are having a good old laugh at Nigel Farage. His triggering of a by-election in his own constituency of Clacton has descended into “farce”, they crow. One by one the parties said they wouldn’t stand in this “stunt” by the sea. Labour, the Lib Dems, the Tories, the Greens – all of them, in a tinny chorus of groupthink, washed their hands of the Clacton contest. It looks like it will be Nige vs Count Binface, to the childish glee of every Radio 4 comedian and Remoaner on the internet.

Well, I’m not laughing. I think the parties are behaving abominably. Their choreographed retreat smacks of moral cowardice. This is a collective abdication of the first duty of a party, which is to contest elections, to disseminate ideas, to try to win the hearts of voters. The parties think they’re getting one over on Farage but in truth they are grossly insulting the good people of Clacton, whose views and votes they clearly couldn’t give a toss about. They are cruelly depriving these working-class seasiders of choice. It is obscene.

✍️ Brendan O'Neill

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2225690/nhs-hospital-biological-sex-gender-woke

After the 6ft bearded pervert arrived at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, from a men’s prison shackled to guards his attention seeking triggered a case that epitomises public sector pearl clutching. He then subjected her to vicious racist abuse and threats of violence - offences so serious that if it happened in any other setting he would have been arrested and charged. Did her employer steadfastly support her? Back her to the hilt? Report the degenerate exhibitionist to the police? Of course it didn’t - it swiftly mobilised an army of box-ticking human resources pen pushers because in the public sector the rights of a sex offender are placed above those of a nurse. And what of the actual criminal? His complaints - despite having no basis in reality - were taken so seriously and given the highest priority that Ms Melle was subjected to a two-year investigation that almost destroyed her mental health, livelihood, and career. There are few words to accurately describe the ludicrous sensitivities of those running the NHS. The issue at the heart of the trust’s case was Ms Melle could have identified the racist sex offender.

Just think about that for a moment. So concerned was an NHS trust that a convicted paedophile could be outed for racially abusing a nurse for doing her job - professionally and in accordance with the law - that his rights were placed above hers. Ultimately, and in no small part thanks to Ms Melle’s courage and convictions, the case against her collapsed and action against her was halted. No nurse should face regulatory action for accurately describing biological sex or for speaking under whistleblowing protections.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain It really is, and our bloody Govt's attitude is bring it on.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/07/prince-harrys-loss-is-a-victory-for-free-speech/

Those he was close to would never leak stories about him, the prince told the court, even though he had previously accused friends of doing exactly that – and text messages showed he knew that this was happening. Harry also claimed he had cut off all contact with a woman when he found out she was a journalist, despite Facebook messages revealing this was absolutely not the case. He would not share information about his love life with strangers, he insisted, only for this to be disproved by his own tell-all, 400-page autobiography. He may be a spoilt brat, but let’s not forget that Harry was encouraged to engage in this expensive, time-wasting litigation by a coterie of lawyers, luvvies and a former Lib Dem MP associated with Hacked Off, a campaign group founded by Hugh Grant, to curtail press freedom. In delivering today’s ruling, the judge went so far as to brand Hacked Off adviser Dr Evan Harris as ‘dishonest’ for a plan he cooked up to hide the fact that one of the cases put before the court was beyond the statute of limitations. ‘At root, that proposal involved a deception’, the judge declared. Damning indeed.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain https://x.com/Wommando/status/2074406939069440189?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2226670/birmingham-stabbing-update-gang-men

West Midlands Police are investigating after a man in his 60s was stabbed in Birmingham last night. Police was called to St Saviours Road in Alum Rock, at around 11.55pm on Tuesday, July 7. Police said: "It's believed he had been attacked by a number of men, who were described as Asian and wearing masks. He remains in hospital today."

West Midlands Police's investigation is at an early stage, and officers remain at the scene carrying out forensic and CCTV enquiries, and speaking to people in the area. This comes after a police cordon was put in place and reports during the early hours of this morning of a substantial emergency service response, including several police vehicles and ambulances that were spotted at the scene by local residents.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Ah but he's probably a surgeon or an engineer or a dentist.