News Round-Up
- “Southport stabbing: one child dead and seven people injured” – One child has been killed and at least seven people were injured when a knifeman rampaged through a Taylor Swift-themed children’s activity in Southport, reports the Mail.
- “Why is it only ‘escalation’ when Israel retaliates?” – Israel has every right to respond to Hezbollah’s cruel slaughter of 12 Druze kids, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Labour admits private school VAT raid will price parents out” – The Government has admitted that Labour’s VAT plans for private schools will price some parents out of the sector, reports the Telegraph.
- “Silence speaks volumes” – Ministers are wrong to shelve legislation passed by Parliament to protect free speech in universities. This new law is needed, and its repeal should be a decision for MPs, says the Times in a leading article.
- “Diversity across U.K. independent schools” – In Medium, Diarmid Mackenzie laments how the VAT on private school fees debate often overlooks the significant diversity among independent schools pupils and their families across the U.K.
- “Tory leadership hopefuls face ‘yellow card’ if they bad-mouth rivals” – Conservative leadership hopefuls will be named and shamed by party chiefs if they abuse rivals, as the Tories seek to avoid an all-out civil war, says the Herald Series.
- “The Labour Party may have just doomed the Tories for a generation” – Rachel Reeves has trapped the Conservatives in their failed record. There is only one way they can escape, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Tommy Robinson ‘flees U.K.’ amid contempt of court case” – According to the High Court, Tommy Robinson has fled the U.K. after allegedly committing contempt of court, reports NationalWorld.
- “Weekend that shamed modern Britain: police attacked for doing their job, Tommy Robinson arrested for terrorism and free speech in universities officially cancelled” – The English way of existence is now under the most serious threat for centuries, says Dan Wootton on his Outspoken Substack.
- “Stop blaming police racism for the Manchester Airport incident” – In the wake of the Manchester Airport incident, far too many people jumped to conclusions before the facts had emerged, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “A grateful Olympic nod to the divine” – On Dr. Robert W. Malone’s Substack, Olympic gold medallist and Christian Tad Coffin slams the French Olympic Committee for its failure to guide the narrative of the opening ceremony.
- “Lockdown U.K.: anatomy of a catastrophe” – In TCW, Ewen Stewart discusses the TaxPayers’ Alliance report criticising the U.K.’s Covid pandemic response.
- “‘Net Zero’ and the end of our pensions” – Your retirement, my friend, is twisting in the wind, says Richard Lyon on his Substack.
- “It all tracks – Seymour Hersch reports Barack Obama threatened Biden with 25th Amendment removal” – In the Last Refuge, Sundance covers Seymour Hersh’s recent article revealing that sources in Washington D.C. confirm Barack Obama was behind pushing Joe Biden out of the 2024 race.
- “Elite donors risk pushing Kamala Harris further Left” – The elite donor class now rallying around Kamala Harris could push her campaign in a direction that alienates working-class voters, warns Fred Bauer in UnHerd.
- “Tory ban on puberty blockers was lawful, High Court rules” – The High Court has ruled that a ban on puberty blockers introduced by the Conservative Government using emergency legislation was lawful, says GB News.
- “10 examples of ‘global majority’ opportunities” – On her Substack, Charlotte Gill has compiled a list of 10 jobs and programmes funded by public money that British taxpayers cannot apply for.
- “Elite human capital is always liberal” – On Substack, Richard Hanania explores the evidence suggesting Republican voters have, on average, a lower IQ than Democratic voters.
- “Brawl between stick-wielding walkers erupts at Peak District beauty spot” – Police were called to a popular beauty spot in the Peak District after a fight broke out between several people wielding large sticks, reports LBC.
- “Trump promises to make America the ‘bitcoin super-power of the world’” – Former President Trump has promised to ensure that bitcoin is “mined, minted and made in the USA”, according to ZeroHedge.
- “Just Stop Oil fanatics attempting to block Gatwick departure gates” – A video on X shows JSO activists sitting down in an attempt to block Gatwick departure gates, forcing holidaymakers to step over them.
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The media doesn’t seem very interested this morning in whatever happened in Bath yesterday (“suspected chemical attack”)
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/people-stripped-hosed-down-amid-9445215
No description appears to be given of the woman with the bag, who appears not to have been detained. Is this person a risk to other members of the public?
Monday morning Sandhurst Rd & Finchampstead Rd Wokingham
An Israeli minister amongst the mob.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sde-teiman-israeli-soldiers-under-arrest-raping-palestinian-prisoner
Nine Israeli soldiers in the notorious Sde Teiman detention centre were arrested on Monday on suspicion of raping a Palestinian detainee …
Amazing, I do not believe it. Has law and order returned? Not possible.
“Police were called to a popular beauty spot in the Peak District after a fight broke out between several people wielding large sticks, reports LBC.”
It’s fairly clear from the footage that efforts to bring more “diversity” to the countryside are bearing fruit.
Just watched the footage. FFS. It’s difficult to draw any other conclusion than we’re being invaded by an enemy that’s not civilised enough to share a small stretch of river, but who are motivated enough to destroy, from the inside out, the country that welcomed them and gave them a home. An incredibly dangerous mix.
Not a scintilla of self-awareness as to the possible cause of the much trumpeted ‘racism’ of the countryside… 🙄
Very clear tof.
I suppose it was fortunate for all that the stick-wielding thugs didn’t have knives or machetes.
There’s always a next time!
One crucially important fact few people are aware of:
The reason Muslims, in particular, feel entitled to take over peaceful areas of outstanding natural beauty in the West is that Islam teaches that simply reading a passage from the Koran aloud in any place claims that place as part of the territory of the Global Caliphate, forever.
That’s why they do things like go to the rim of the Grand Canyon, for example, and read passages from the Koran aloud.
You can be sure they have been quietly doing the same all over Britain and the West.
And that’s why they feel entitled to be as rude, arrogant, and even violent towards any non-Muslim in any place that they have thus claimed, be it a church or government building like the British Parliament, or in the great outdoors.
That’s also why they insist on “prayer rooms” being set aside for them, and why composer Karl Jenkins sneaked the horrible caterwauling Muslim Call to Prayer into his musical composition entitled “The Armed Man”, sometimes performed in churches.
Net-zero and CBDC at once. What can possibly go wrong?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but every morning, I wake up wondering what today’s piece of earth-shattering news is going to be. I note also that the massive story from a day or two ago is no longer being forefronted by the MSM. This would explain a lot!
https://futurism.com/the-byte/former-nasa-scientist-experiment-live-in-simulation
Alternatively, Hermetic philosophy has it that the universe is a mental construct in an infinite mind which would also explain a lot.
“If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it.” That was the stark statement from Rachel Reeves, her cuts included; Rachel Reeves has scrapped some winter fuel payments, along with a raft of other government programmes and policies to plug a projected government overspend of £22bn. The chancellor said those not in receipt of pension credit will no longer receive the extra money as she repeatedly told MPs: “If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it.” The chancellor also announced that adult social care charging reforms, which had been delayed by the previous government, would also not go forward on the new government’s watch – in a move that will save more than £1bn by the end of next year. Road scheme cancellations Two road schemes have definitely been scrapped – a planned two-mile tunnel for the A303 under Stonehenge, and work on the A27, including a Chichester bypass. This, as well as not reopening old rail lines under the Restoring Your Railway programme, will save nothing this year but nearly £800m next. If she really means her “If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it.” then I would say that should include Ed Miliband and his net-zero GB Energy… Read more »
And similarly with the decision not to re-open old railway lines, the population is to be ghettoed in 15 minute cities so there will be no need for these lines.
Social care charging is simply theft of property which is behind much of what is happening these days and on which I have commented often.
Still, there is sufficient to fund a 22% wage rise for doctors we never see, inflation busting rises for teachers and other public sector workers who apparently are even less productive than pre C1984, so it’s not all bad then.
This agenda is blatantly not the Labour Party’s because they haven’t got the intelligence for all this, it is straight from the WEF and delivered via T. Bliar.
Re the A303 project, some will be content that it’s been shelved for the long term, given the legal battle against it, e.g. https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/a303-stonehenge-what-is-the-latest-position/ I’ve got no interest in that, just aware of it.
Another project that seems to be on the shelf that was reported by the local news outlet was the redevelopment of the Portishead branch near Bristol: https://www.portisheadrailwaygroup.org/history.html
“If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it.”
It depends on what “it” is.
“New Defence Secretary pledges to step up support for Ukraine on visit to Odesa”
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-defence-secretary-pledges-to-step-up-support-for-ukraine-on-visit-to-odesa
Has anyone else noticed there seems to have been a sudden decrease in the amount of uptick/downtick votes in general on the DS?
I think the requirement to login in order to vote has hurt the site a bit. Makes it look far less active for one thing, but also removes a bit of interaction from “the other side”. I used to like getting the red marks from the floppy lot lol.
Nah, I have to disagree. I think actual dialogue should be encouraged and getting a gazillion red or green numbers under your post isn’t the way. It’s just petty and manipulative. It should have no influence but maybe some people would be less keen to share a point of view if they thought they’d get a pile-on from faceless people and not a single actual reply. That was what pissed me off, and I’ve much experience. I’d get about 50 red numbers and I’d be lucky to get a single person respond as to why they disagree with me. That’s when you know it’s all saddos sat at home with no accounts, and presumably no lives or Netflix sub either. In my opinion, if you’re gonna be a hater at least have the bollocks to be a hater with a response and engage in discourse.
With you Mogs.
I can see both sides of the coin. I preferred it before though.
Yes, it’s rude to downvote a comment and not say why…
Plenty of people did ( and still do. Example above ) it out of spite and pettiness though. Plus they get their kicks if you show your irritation because all they want is to get a rise out of you, which is beyond pathetic. But I know exactly who my haters are on here anyway and I’ll either ignore or call them out on their bullshit, depending on what mood I’m in. One common trait they share is an inability to take a dose of their own medicine.
Seconded 👍
Nonsense! Have you seen the thousands of commenters on Daily Mail articles? Some comments get tens of thousands of upvotes or downvotes! What would their website be like if everyone who downticked a comment had to give an explanation, as well as another explanation of why they upticked others? It would take up a huge amount of space on their website, for a start, and for what?
No one has to say why they upvote comments, or downvote comments, or click the Like or Dislike buttons on Youtube videos— the whole idea is ridiculous, and paranoid.
If they feel like giving further explanations, they can choose to give them OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL, not be forced by some Stalinist Paranoid.
If you don’t care, why provide such a detailed response?
How do you know who is down-ticking? Does DS give you that information?
DHJ, you have unknowingly hit the nail on the head!
Judging from Mogwai’s comments in the past, it seems she does have access to information about all the commenters here, which is how she was able to suddenly “out” one commenter, stating his real name as a researcher whose book famously challenged the Islamic Invasion of the West, and thereby violating his right to privacy and anonymity as a paying DS member, and possibly even endangering his life.
It seems Mogwai is masquerading on here as a member of the public, when she is actually either on the DS staff, or in a special “relationship” with one of the editors, thereby deceiving all the other DS commenters while invading their right to privacy and anonymity.
Thanks, this is very strange as the Mogwai comment has gone.
I’m fairly certain I responded to that comment and not yours but when comments have been removed in the past, the whole branch of responses goes with it (which would be correct).
My comment now shows in response to yours, which is misleading.
It doesn’t matter. You were right to suspect Mogwai had some private inside information on all the commenters, while she masquerades as a member of the public.
Yes that would be bad in itself but the comments do also matter. If I did respond to that comment and it was deleted, my response should also be removed, not associated with another comment.
That could happen anywhere on the site such that historic discussions look very different and who would know until someone then decides to de-anonymise users and use the modified version of the discussion against them.
It looks like I responded to Heretic but I didn’t.
What happened to the Mogwai comment on how they don’t care about downticks etc.?
and there the comment is, magically back again.
Edit: my mistake, that’s a new one on a similar theme.
It’s just happened again. The Mogwai comment was removed and my comment is now out of context.
But I took a copy this time (see attached). So now it’s evidenced that DS either has poor comments management or is intentionally manipulating the discussion.
Hardliner is offended by the word, “shitmuncher” but not “pissed”, apparently!🤣
I agree 100%. There are so many interesting websites, all asking for subscriptions, it is just not feasible to satisfy them all but it makes a site interesting if you can still express an opinion, even if it is only a thumbs up or down. DS will know but I would expect general readership of this website to decline over time which is not a good thing.
But people without accounts can still read all the comments plus most of the articles, so what meaningful difference does it make? I’ve noticed a few new usernames crop up on here of late so it could actually have the opposite effect and motivate people to finally get an account so that they can join in properly, as opposed to being mere voyeurs, sitting on the sidelines, contributing nothing but a silly thumbs up/down, as if we regulars are nothing more than characters to be influenced and manipulated on a video game. Personally, I don’t need a boatload of little green numbers to give me positive feedback and galvanize me to comment further, by the same token loads of little red numbers don’t put me off either. The whole thing is just very childish and irrelevant, to my mind. I’m afraid clicking on a little thumb does not ”express an opinion”, but typing and sharing actual words does.
Exactly.
The other side of this, is found at the Spectator, where opening comments to App users has resulted in an avalanche of nonsense and a system where one is unlikely to ever find one’s own comment, buried among hundreds of others, nor ever know if anyone has replied or ‘voted’.
I think it is because you have to be logged in to vote.
A couple of weeks ago the site settings were changed so you need to be a subscriber to vote, is my understanding. Sadly I think very few people subscribe – my guess is we’re in the 100s.
No, it’s because every subscriber’s vote on any comment can now be scrutinised by the DS staff, removing the Freedom of Anonymity and Opinion, so subscribers are more hesitant to vote at all.
This new system was installed because people like yourself constantly complained about getting even one measly downvote, even though you got loads of upvotes.
You lot wanted everyone to be hunted down and forced to explain why they downvoted anyone, so it’s no fun at all anymore.
My “complaints” were an attempt to stimulate a response and certainly not intended to change site policy. I want people to disagree here, but say why – I think it’s helpful.
It’s Stalinist and Paranoid.
You have removed everyone’s Freedom of Choice.
Well I don’t make the site rules and I certainly wouldn’t want to have much if any influence over them – that is a matter for those who run the site. I can’t get excited about the “voting” buttons one way or the other. Broadly speaking I am in favour of whatever brings more people to the site and gets more people commenting and subscribing.
You constantly complained about it, every single time anyone dared to give you even one downvote, and others joined you in those complaints, demanding downvoters be “Hunted Down and Forced to Explain”.
The DS editors were responding to all your complaints, and yet now you are still complaining, as if it was nothing to do with your complaints at all.
I demanded no such thing, and the DS editors are free to do whatever they choose to do, and I am certainly not responsible for their choices.
You demanded it of downvoters every time, not of the DS editors, but the editors responded to the constant complaints of yourself and others such as Mogwai and Huxley.
If you disagree the discussion may be modified such that you are then disagreeing with something else. This sort of modification has been happening further up this comments section.
The Mogwai account has had their comments cherry-picked from the discussion while all else remains but now out of context. Added to Heretic’s concerns, it all seems a bit suspicious and untrustworthy.
At least some of the accounts, yourself included, I took as genuine.
There is an edit function on comments, but I think you’d have to be pretty quick to get in before an edit because it’s time-limited.
I am not aware of comments being deleted – the original posters can flag that up if it’s happening.
I am genuine, though I cannot prove it (but at least one person on the Lockdown Sceptics subreddit has met me in real life, so you could ask there if I am a bot).
My gut feel is that the mods and people who run this site do their best, have genuine motivations, are a pretty open book, and are not worthy of too much suspicion.
Here’s an example of comments being selectively deleted.
https://staging.dailysceptic.org/2024/07/30/news-round-up-1235/#comment-970628
Discussions have previously been truncated when a parent comment was removed. This happened in a discussion we had which was then re-instated after I raised it.
https://staging.dailysceptic.org/2024/03/04/the-dangers-of-banning-islamophobia/#comment-939748
I can cope with some bots, paid-for influencers and those harvesting information for Other Reasons but not when it looks like it could be in collusion with the site owners or when the site owners have dubious data management that can misrepresent what was said. All the worse for being on a site promoting free speech.
The first example you give I imagine was deleted as it was seen as an overly personal attack – I don’t have strong feelings about that one way or the other. I think pages and pages of name calling just makes a comments section tedious so it should be discouraged, but if it only happens occasionally I don’t see the harm in leaving them in.
The second example I don’t remember we ever got to the bottom of – I guess something went beyond a red line. Again I don’t think it happens often and on the whole I think these sections work well – just not enough people!
Erm, ”overly personal attack”?? It’s called a retaliation to somebody who’s ensured my previous post got erased due to them not being able to take a dose of their own medicine. This is what happens when you have the same person trolling you around the comments sections, leaving nasty, snarky little comments, making up blatant bullshit about you, trying to turn other posters against you and they apparently resent it when you turn the tables and give them it back with interest.
That’s what that is!
I would not have deleted it personally
It’s why I keep banging on about freedom of speech being just an illusion and how the goalposts seem to be continually moving, at least on this site, so nobody knows exactly what the parameters are and what they can safely say. But the troll can keep on trolling and carry on being defamationtastic, so it’s all good. Just so long as there’s no rudy words, right?🤡
I’ll always be brash and they’ll have to kick me off this site because I’m not changing who I am for anyone. Nobody’s forcing anyone to read my posts, so to pot with them. 🤷♀️
So come get me, Gestapo boy!😆
I don’t think you will be or should be kicked off!
I think this site does OK – better than many.
Cheers, tof. Though I won’t take it personally seeing as you’re an absolutist so you would say that!😄
That previously deleted discussion “may have been done in error”.
When a comment is removed and the responses are then associated with the parent comment, that’s a false representation of the discussion that took place.
The removed comment could be marked as “Deleted” (or “Censored” – accurate but not a good look), as readers can then see that responses were originally to another comment.
Commenters could be given the option to delete their own comment. I think it’s fine for people to retract their own comment but not for it to be censored by the site.
Yes mine were removed and I’ve emailed the DS team over it as I’d like some rationale for them doing so. Well, I say ”them”, but it’s obvious that, once again, Hardliner has me in his crosshairs, but that’d be because the one-man toxic clown show that calls himself ‘Heretic’ snitched like a weeny crybaby, because his precious ”freedom of speech” only works one way, you see. He gets to leave me the usual snarky, rude comments but I apparently have no right of reply. That’s how his warped version of ‘free speech’ works. Hypocrisy off the charts.
Well, Hardliner doesn’t need much encouragement to stick his Gestapo oar in, let’s be honest. He’s got significant form. Ain’t that right, Mr Watcher? LOL Expect this post to self-destruct in 3, 2, 1….
But I am loving how I’m now apparently a double-agent, mole, shacked up with a DS team member….OMFG…the fantasy world of the resident whack job never ends! LMFAO Totally libelous but then I’m not a two-faced hypocrite whingebag that bleats on tediously about ”freedom of Speech” then tries to police everybody else’s, so I let it slide.. 🙂
That’s because the vast majority of people ( who weren’t bots ) who used this function didn’t have accounts, so now they’re out of the picture and can’t ‘vote’, and those of us with accounts aren’t so invested or easily manipulated into using a pointless and inconsequential function.
Many times I’ll like someone’s comment but I don’t actually ‘like’ it, because I refuse to play along, IYKWIM. Can you see little red/green numbers making one iota of difference to anybody’s posting? Because I can’t.
That’s ok then chaps, I thought people were leaving in droves!
I do agree you should be a member to vote it just looked odd that once popular comments dropped from the 200s to the 10s
It’s because members’ every vote is now exposed to be marked and analysed by the DS staff, if they choose to do so. It removed all Freedom of Anonymity in voting, since the DS staff can now trace all your voting patterns directly back to your home.
All because a few people whined about getting even one downvote!
This new system actually removed Freedom of Speech and Opinion.
The system seems to be suffering from bugs…
I have to log in twice, as my attempt is always rejected on the first go and accepted on the second, and then I can comment myself, but not up/down tick others comments.
it’s a bit tiresome but it has caused me to muse on why we seek validation of our outpourings from people we’ll likely never know?
Precisely! “Why do we seek validation of our outpourings from people we’ll likely never know?”
And why should we be upset if they do not validate our outpourings, like anxious teenagers?
“Brawl between stick-wielding walkers erupts at Peak District beauty spot”
Apparently the countryside is racist!
Take a close look at the demographics involved in this dovedale brawl, I’ve visited the place many times and never witnessed behaviour like this!
Maybe they are fighting for the right of the most viable demographic to represent minorities in the countryside?!
“Just stop oil….” There was a clip of that on GBN yesterday. At the time it occurred to me that one of the culprits might have something heavy accidentally dropped on them, or perhaps accidentally kicked in the head, given where they were sitting in the queue.
..Or some big red throbbing fingers! “Oops, sorry mate, did I step on you?”
https://x.com/stevenjonmiller/status/1817636026489217375?s=46&t=R21CfODPbaIEdqga4ocKHw
Report from LBC on Saturday’s Freedom Rally – he’s bob on.
Yes, bang on
I saw that TR had his collar felt after screening his film at the rally… terrorism, apparently?
Anyway, I thought I’d take a gander at this banned film, to see what the fuss was about… I’m still not at all sure.
Either it’s all lies, which should be easy enough to refute or, it’s true in which case there should be an inquiry as to just what is going on?
At the end, I was reminded of the proper investigative work that the BBC used to do and programmes like Panorama, when they cared.
I know we’re supposed to hate him but, on the basis of the film, I’m not sure why. He raises serious question, in my opinion, that need answers.
By the way, the registration number on the Merc sitting outside his house, really doesn’t exist… 🤷♂️
It’s terrible that he has reportedly been forced to flee his own ancestral homeland of Britain to avoid being thrown into prison yet again by a vindictive judiciary, this time the Relentless Emily Thornberry hunting him down, as he pointed out.
Who can blame the poor lad from fleeing, after the Muslim/Marxist B*s tards nearly starved him to death last time?
It’s horrific, reminding the world of how the Brazilian Patriot Jair Bolsonaro and the Russian Patriot Alexei Navalny were ruthlessly hunted down.
And the honest, noble-hearted Dr. Andrew Wakefield was hunted down and driven out of his own ancestral homeland, for warning the world about the dangers of childhood vaccines causing neurological damage…
Sally Beck at TCW with a report into the grotesque failures of the NHS in looking after women who are pregnant and ready to give birth.
Uncomfortable reading.
Population reduction?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/maternity-in-crisis-things-have-never-been-so-bad/
“Brawl between stick-wielding walkers erupts at Peak District beauty spot” One look at the accompanying video will show that these are not Ethnic Europeans. Here are some great DM comments from the public: —“We visited there last year as we had heard it was a beauty spot. We walk a long way to get there only to see people of a certain minority completely monopolizing the whole area. There were people sitting on chairs eating in the river and many huge family groups eating everywhere. we felt very outnumbered and uncomfortable and left very quickly. Such a shame the beauty was lost.” —“It was the same on Hornsea beach recently. I felt out of place.” —“We went to Bidury trout farm in the Cotswolds couple of weeks ago exactly the same….we paid to go in then left ten minutes later.” —“I have never seen a fight breakout before at beauty spots like this – their behaviour is an utter disgrace.” —“Then you look at the picture and see why!! It’s our replacements as always, I have been there loads of times and it’s the most peaceful place going, when I saw fighting with sticks I thought this sounds a bit… Read more »
Stockport ?? Anyone ???
Good point (you mean Southport?). I think one of the commenters did a post on it promptly yesterday.
It seems the Rwandan Muslim Terrorist Filth may have been radicalised by the Southport Mosque into stabbing the Southport children for the same reason that the British Army officer and the British prison officer were stabbed earlier:
Revenge for the conviction of Pakistani Muslim Terrorist Filth Anjem Choudary.
Yes Southport sorry all ! This is what I thought – Choudrys last acts before he went down !
Well done to you for your perspicacity, because not many other people have made that connection!
Notice how the police have rushed to claim it was not a terrorist attack, and will no doubt shortly be trotting out the Bog-Standard Mental Health Excuse.
Judging from Mogwai’s comments in the past, it seems she does have access to information about all the commenters here, which is how she was able to suddenly “out” one commenter, stating his real name as a researcher whose book famously challenged the Islamic Invasion of the West, and thereby violating his right to privacy and anonymity as a paying DS member, and possibly even endangering his life.
It seems Mogwai is masquerading on here as a member of the public, when she is actually either on the DS staff, or in a special “relationship” with one of the editors, thereby deceiving all the other DS commenters while invading their right to privacy and anonymity.
The recent coverage of the stabbings in Southport reminded me of an incident that happened relatively close to my area some years ago. Alright, the age group was different, but it transpired that the culprit that killed someone on the way home from work late at night was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, being a paranoid schizophrenic. He was detained indefinitely in Broadmoor as a result of the trial. However, soon after the offence, there was a lot of “something must be done” output from the usual sources, even to the extent of draconian proposals for certain footpath closures etc.
Of course, we don’t know yet, but the output from the MSM is quite familiar, and it may be that some senior politicians have over reacted. Seen any of that recently?