News Round-Up
- “Minority and trans criminals could avoid jail under new rules” – Ethnic minority and transgender criminals may be more likely to avoid prison under changes to sentencing guidelines that take effect next month, according to the Times.
- “Equality before the law is now well and truly over” – Progressive dogma has infected the Sentencing Council, warns Suella Braverman in the Telegraph. Without urgent reform, public trust will sink even further.
- “Rules giving minority criminals special treatment will be fought by Tories” – An “outrageous” decision to give special treatment to ethnic minority and transgender criminals will be fought in the courts by the Tories, says the Sun.
- “Justice Secretary threatens to strip powers of quango behind ‘two-tier justice’ rules” – Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened new laws to overrule the Sentencing Council after a row over “two-tier justice”, reports BBC News.
- “‘Two-tier’ plan for softer sentences for ‘minority’ criminals was Lammy’s idea” – Guidelines that give softer sentences to criminals from minority groups were based on research by minister David Lammy, according to the Sun.
- “Police marking their own homework says Allison Pearson as report clears force” – Police have been accused of “marking their own homework” after a review cleared the Essex force of wrongdoing over the Allison Pearson ‘hate crime’ saga, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reeves told ‘not hope in hell’ work coaches can slash £5 billion off welfare” – Rachel Reeves has been warned that tinkering at the edges of the welfare system will not be enough to balance the books, says the Mail.
- “Labour is punishing Middle England to fund the dysfunctional underclass” – A London family living on benefits and in social housing could be better off than one earning £70,000, reports Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Lammy lobbied Rayner for Chinese super-embassy” – David Lammy personally intervened to support a controversial new Chinese embassy in London because it would be “in the interest” of Beijing, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Blame the misinformation crisis on Starmer, not social media” – Keir Starmer’s Government stoked misinformation about the Southport case while punishing others for spreading it – perhaps the Prime Minister should have his own collar felt, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Top pension funds refuse to back defence industry” – Some of Britain’s biggest pension firms have been accused of blocking Britain’s plans to boost defence in the wake of the Ukraine war, reports the Telegraph.
- “Farage acts like a ‘messiah’, says Reform MP” – Rupert Lowe has warned Nigel Farage that he will not be “by his side at the next election” unless Reform’s governance is overhauled, says the Express.
- “Reform UK descends into civil war as Nigel Farage berates Rupert Lowe” – Reform UK is in chaos after Nigel Farage lashed out at MP Rupert Lowe for questioning his leadership, reports the Mail.
- “We roll out red carpet for ‘worst of the worst’” – Since Trump took office in America, illegal migration has been all but stopped, notes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail. Under Labour, the number of migrants crossing the Channel illegally has hit record highs,
- “What is the asylum system for?” – The UK asylum system is focused on managing an endless influx of people and providing welfare, rather than solving the problem of immigration, says Dr. David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “MAGA? MEGA!” – The Government should learn from the success of Trump’s slogan and reverse all their education policies, argues Isabel Paterson on her Substack.
- “Gaza journalism award ditched amid controversy over BBC documentary” – The Royal Television Society has been slammed for pulling an award for journalists working in Gaza owing to the controversy surrounding the BBC documentary How To Survive a Warzone, reports the National.
- “Jews have the money to ‘pay for own’ Holocaust memorial, says Tory peer” – Lord Hamilton of Epsom has been forced to apologise after saying that British Jews should pay for a Holocaust memorial because they have an “awful lot of money”, says the Express.
- “UK urged to prepare for Donald Trump halting Trident partnership” – Keir Starmer has been told to prepare for a “terrifying strategic betrayal” that would see the UK-US Trident nuclear missile partnership come to an end, reports GB News.
- “The real reason Britain is doomed to lose the next world war” – We teach our young men to be ashamed of their country, so how can we expect them to risk their lives defending it? asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Fresh disgrace at Cambridge” – Unpunished vandalism and feckless leaders have turned Oxford and Cambridge into woke cesspits, laments Paul Sutton on his Substack.
- “Why the Left hates Gail’s” – The Left can’t stand successful businesses, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Where have all the conservatives gone?” – Conservatives should place loyalty to ideology above loyalty to Trump, says Bo Winegard in Aporia.
- “The quiet bureaucrat pulling the strings behind Britain’s ‘dodgy’ state-backed weather and climate service” – Britain’s climate policies rely on a Met Office that fabricates data, manipulates records and dodges scrutiny – all while its CEO Penelope Endersby cashes in, writes J.J. Starky on Substack.
- “NHS’s most senior doctor steps down days after Chief Executive resigns” – England’s top doctor has resigned from NHS management just a week after his boss also quit amid a Labour power grab, reports the Sun.
- “Government to spend £11 million teaching children how to brush teeth” – A new Government scheme is set to see over 23 million toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste handed out for free to some of Britain’s most disadvantaged children, says the Mail.
- “‘Why I’m sounding the alarm on the next puberty blockers scandal’” – It beggars belief that, after the Cass Review, we would even consider a clinical trial for hormone suppressant drugs for children, writes Dr. David Bell in the Telegraph.
- “‘If I had £200 million in the health system, I wouldn’t be spending it on an inquiry’” – On the Telegraph’s Planet Normal podcast, Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson discuss the ongoing Covid Inquiry with Prof. Carl Heneghan.
- “Jay Bhattacharya: to be or not to be” – Once smeared as “fringe”, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is set to lead the NIH after a shockingly bipartisan hearing, vowing transparency, scientific rigour and ethics – without a peep of protest from the New York Times, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “And the new NIH Director is… Jay Bhattacharya” – The NIH once dismissed Jay Bhattacharya as a “fringe epidemiologist” – now he’s set to take its top job, with even Democrats conceding he was right about Covid policy, writes Prof. Vinay Prasad on his Substack.
- “Trump issues chilling final warning for Hamas to release all hostages” – President Trump has warned Hamas to release all hostages or face annihilation, reports the Mail.
- “Trump to deport Ukrainian refugees” – President Trump is reportedly planning to revoke the legal status of more than 240,000 Ukrainians who fled from the war with Russia, according to GB News.
- “Don’t be fooled, Putin is weak and desperate for peace” – For all its bravado, the Kremlin is desperately hoping that Trump’s return will ultimately herald the end of the war, says Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
- “How MAGA lost its way on Ukraine” – Ukraine is not just a country that the Trumpian Right has never visited, says Douglas Murray in the Free Press. It is a country they imagine they know everything about.
- “The weakness of Donald Trump” – The US President’s dismissal of Ukraine is a consequence of his absolute lack of morality, writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “US may not defend NATO allies who do not meet Trump spending targets” – President Trump says the US will not defend NATO allies from a military attack if they are behind on defence spending, according to Forbes.
- “The end of the Department of Education” – Trump’s expected Executive Order to dismantle the Department of Education signals the long-overdue end of a trillion-dollar failure, says Vox Popoli.
- “Trump said the US spent $8 million on transgender mice – he was right” – Donald Trump has announced that Elon Musk has rooted out “hundreds of billions of dollars” worth of government waste thanks to DOGE, writes Cameron Henderson in the Telegraph.
- “Pro-life activist ‘did not know she was breaking law’ by holding sign” – A retired scientist is on trial for holding a “Here to talk if you want to” sign near a Bournemouth abortion clinic, reports the Mail.
- “‘The cancel culture I’ve endured is sickening’” – After nearly 40 years of shaping Britain’s nightlife, DJ Danny Rampling is losing gigs and facing smears for daring to associate with the “wrong” people, says Alan Miller in Spiked.
- “Fatal distraction” – On Substack, Thomas Buckle explains why the end of DEI really matters.
- “Florida announces criminal investigation into Andrew Tate” – Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been placed under criminal investigation in Florida just days after the influencer siblings arrived in the US from Romania, reports the Mail.
- “Disney debuts first Christian character in 20 years as trans storyline axed” – Disney has introduced its first openly Christian character in nearly two decades for the upcoming Pixar animated series Win or Lose, according to Christian News.
- “Two-tier justice under two-tier Keir” – On X, Robert Jenrick unveils new sentencing rules that blatantly discriminate against straight white men, despite Starmer branding those who claim we have a two-tier justice system as “extremists”.
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“Fresh disgrace at Cambridge” – Unpunished vandalism and feckless leaders have turned Oxford and Cambridge into woke cesspits…
…First class rant with distinction from Jesus College old boy, lamenting the decline of Fenland Poly and South Midlands Arts College.
Asylum System Destroys Britain
“Reeves told ‘not hope in hell’ work coaches can slash £5 billion off welfare”
We are dealing with people who can’t join these things up.
I can think of a waste that could be fixed quite easily. Cut benefits to illegals, deport them, and while you are at it, deport the foreign nationals in our jails. These are people we don’t need or want in the country.
I agree of course, but the ethnically British underclass is rife with dysgenics and is overdue some Darwinian action. Cut their benefits too.
Why? Starmer wants to send them all to Ukraine to die.
It’s his masterplan to destroy the “Far Right”…
Where are all the real men? Obviously they don’t frequent the Tube. Absolutely disgusting behaviour, not just by this unhinged maniac but by all the men in close proximity that stood around like cowards, watching/filming like it’s the on-board entertainment. I hope he’s single because I dread to think what he’d be like behind closed doors if this is how he feels entitled to behave in a crowded carriage. Have people become so desensitised to this sort of thing now?
https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1897726427593667042
Perhaps, ‘real men’ don’t want to be masculine in case it opens them up to accusations of being misogynists.?
Last I heard it boils down to basic decency, which would require an iota of courage in the above scenario. Sounds an awful lot like you’re trying to legitimise cowardice. Clearly the only ‘misogynist’ in the above clip was the abusive mental case. Even if he’d been targeting another man I would’ve said the exact same thing. The behaviour is unacceptable regardless of the sex of the person on the receiving end. One or two men intervening here would have nipped this in the bud and put him in his place.
You either condemn this sort of behaviour or you condone it. The men stood around like gormless muppets did the latter.
What kind of intervention do you think would have been effective in stopping the crazy man from shouting at the woman?
I know this is going to sound like blowing my own trumpet but so be it: I recently arrived at a bus stop where there was a middle-eastern-looking woman and a drunk man sitting on the seat. The drunk man was not aggressive but he was clearly annoying her and she clearly didn’t want his attention. So I sat down in the narrow space between them and spoke nicely to the woman, and blocked the drunk man from engaging with her. When the bus came, the woman got on the bus first and sat down in an empty seat, I made sure I got on the bus before the drunk man and I sat in the seat beside her so that the drunk man wouldn’t be able to. I spoke to the woman briefly initially and then left her in peace for the rest of the journey as I looked at my phone. She gave me a nice smile as she got off, and then again a few days later when I happened to see her on the bus again. Perhaps some of the bystanders on the train could have done something similar, moving in between the crazy man and… Read more »
I have posted similar before reading your post.
‘You’re for or against’. The cry of someone who doesn’t think too far. Maybe, the men thought about the risk of getting a knife in the neck, or if they had subdues the attacker, would they be the ones arrested when the police finally showed up. You talk a lot about what behaviour is acceptable from men, but when ‘a couple of real men’ are required to let go of their feminine side, and do what men have done since God was a lad, i.e protect people in these situations, its now all our fault for being ‘cowards’. Real Men.? You’ve argued strongly against traditional male behaviours and used it as a broad accusation to try and shut down discussion on the subject. Dont deny it. Haven’t you heard that we have equality nowadays.? Where were the women intervening.? Not their job.? Ah, well here is where we see the consequences of that particular train of thought end up.
Had you bothered to read my original post correctly ( I know you find this difficult, going by your previous unsubstantiated allegations coupled with an obvious axe to grind, such is your need to always paint me as the villain ) at no point do I make reference to the fact the recipient of the bully’s aggression is a woman. This is actually an irrelevant point. For all anyone knows the demented lunatic might have behaved exactly the same towards a male target. My point is that nobody in that clip intervened. The loony didn’t have a knife, in which case I can understand reticence to get involved from bystanders. But there was one single aggressor and a carriage full of passengers, basically giving this unhinged man carte blanche to behave like this. Who had all the power in the above scenario? Well, all of the passengers, obviously. There’s strength in numbers. But nobody did shit. And who’s on about “subduing” anybody? I’m sure it wouldn’t have come to anything physical had a couple of blokes stood up to him, got in his face and told him to pipe the f*ck down. It’s called de-escalation and being assertive. Not fighting… Read more »
I completely agree 👍
👍 I literally never get any support with this sort of thing, not even from women, so I’ll take that and run with it!😁 And if the aggressor had been female I’d have said exactly the same, and maybe women bystanders would feel more able to stand up and challenge a fellow woman. Cowardice, like courage, is not sex-specific.
There’s now a certain level of acceptance and tolerance to bad behaviour in society ( parts of society, anyway ) and it’s not going to improve if people just stand around taking it, like sackless gonks. What message does that give the perpetrator? But who’d live in major cities like London or Birmingham now, anyway?😬
I’m actually impressed by how the woman in the video stood up for herself 👏
Yeah, just as well because nobody else was supporting her and calling Mr Dementor out on his behaviour. She has my sympathies.😁
“You’ve argued strongly against traditional male behaviours and used it as a broad accusation to try and shut down discussion on the subject. Dont deny it.”
I literally don’t know what you’re referring to here, so if you can remind me of what I’m supposed to have said, this “broad accusation” you say I’ve made, that would be most helpful.
I agree Mogs. Two, three guys standing around this nutter could have stopped this.
Cheers, hux. It’s just about making an assessment of the situation, stepping up and doing the right thing in the circumstances. I’m not expecting anybody to be a hero if there’s a machete-wielding nutjob on the train.
It would appear that some men on here take any sort of criticism of individuals who happen to be male really quite personally. Evidently, they can dish it out but they can’t take it. Ironically, however, it is not me that has form for painting the entire opposite sex with the same brush here on DS. Can’t actually remember me ever confidently stating that men shouldn’t have the right to vote, should be banned from certain professions ( I mean, don’t they look ridiculous in those judge’s wigs? 😮 ), that if men stopped working nobody would notice and it would affect nothing or calling boys ”parasites”, but there we go. ‘One-way traffic only’ is acceptable, as per, but what can you do…?
They will have seen too many cases where trying to help resulted in them being prosecuted and/or others not supporting them.
The younger guy who was grinning (I think in embarrassment) should have acted.
Why is there not CCTV in tube trains instead of so many elsewhere.
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It must be possible to identify him from the video. What a nasty piece of work.
I suppose the lady was white otherwise Khan’s troopers would have been on this as racially inspired.
Sadly we have too many people who do not follow traditional courtesies. In passing I would note that some non-whites behave better than average on the tube but the majority don’t.
He badly needs some anger management classes. And if he doesn’t suffer from road rage I’ll be amazed. Public transport is full of surveillance but clearly this doesn’t deter many, given the various types and amount of crime perpetrated on the Tube. I think this is a sad indictment of society ( it’s London, so I’m not sure if it’s fair to make generalisations) nowadays though. People’s unwillingness to stand up for what’s right, plus peoples first instinct these days, if they see drama or some sort of incident unfolding, is to whip out their phones to catch it on film, as opposed to phoning the police.
There’s plenty of seriously violent incidents uploaded online and you just think, “Good god. Who in their right mind just stands their filming this? It’s a crime, FFS!” But perhaps desensitisation also leads to callous behaviour from onlookers. Whatever, it’s not good.
Good grief.
Have you seen the video clip of a young Muslim man violently threatening and ordering an older white woman to get up from her seat on a tube train so that he could sit down? She obeyed him and got off the train completely because she was afraid.
I think it was in Germany or Sweden. It was on a website like RadioGenoa or AntiWhite Watch, but I can’t find it again now.
Government to spend £11 million teaching children how to brush teeth”
When we talk about disadvantaged children, how disadvantaged are they.? No shoes, or just an old iPhone. Car? Netflix? Parents with tattoos and drink or drug habits.? What is the definition that we are working to.?
Dont jump on me by the way, I know there is real hardship in our society, usually as a result of bad choices by individuals, not some systemic oppression. But I am curious how disadvantaged you have to be to be disadvantaged.
Just a point on this – there is always much fuss made about children living in poverty. There is no such issue. There are millions of families who cannot manage money and any alleged deprivation occurring therefrom is owned by the parents NOT the children.
Worse than that is the sinister plan to force the whole country to drink fluoridated water, ostensibly to prevent tooth decay, the real reason being the same as in the US: to use up huge amounts of WASTE FLUORIDE from fertilizer processing plants.
North East water fluoridation expansion plans confirmed – BBC News
Fluoridation in north-east England gives only ‘modest benefits’ – BBC News
The whole thing is absolute madness, deliberately adding FORCED MEDICATION to the nation’s public drinking water supply, without our consent.
It’s bad enough having cocaine and oestrogen contraceptives in our water supply, but now this horrible fluoride, which has been banned and discontinued elsewhere in the world.
This is really shameful, in my opinion. Unfortunately there’s many such videos doing the rounds;
”A father watches his 9-year-old son convert to Islam.
Reminder that under Sharia, leaving Islam is punishable by death. What if the kid changes his mind in the future?
What kind of parent would allow this?”
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1897863073467449571
To negate the above rubbish, this is indeed heartwarming and there should be more of it;
”A priest in Notting Hill is blessing people this Ash Wednesday.
I’m not religious myself, but it’s heartwarming to see this and see how positively people are responding.”
https://x.com/TheNorfolkLion/status/1897389834936967357
Don’t be fooled, Putin is weak and desperate for peace ‘One indication of the Kremlin’s eagerness to end the conflict can be seen from its recent offer to broker a peace deal between Iran and the US over Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has already dismissed the notion of reopening talks with Trump on the issue as “not rational, intelligent or honourable”. For all its bravado, the Kremlin is desperately hoping that Trump’s return to the White House will ultimately herald the end of a war in Ukraine that has decimated the Russian military and torpedoed the Russian economy. Latest Western estimates put the total number of Russian dead and injured in the Ukraine conflict at 850,000, more than the combined total of US and British forces who died fighting in Europe during the Second World War. Add to this the ruinous impact the conflict has had on the Russian economy, with interest rates reaching a punitive 21 per cent and the country’s wealth fund rapidly running out of cash to finance the war, and it is easy to understand why Putin has leapt at the chance to engage with Trump’s peace proposals.’ But the real question is… Read more »
Western estimates are based on Ukrainian intelligence which as a rule of thumb can be taken as projection. That is a fair estimate of Ukrainian losses.
‘Our analysis shows that 2024 became the bloodiest year of the war. The number of Russians who died at the front nearly doubles every year: about 20,000 in 2022, about 50,000 in 2023, and close to 100,000 in 2024. Alongside our individual data collection, we are also conducting an investigation with Meduza to estimate the overall number of losses……..This method was first introduced in June 2023, in our joint study. Through a combined analysis of our losses list and probate data, we succeeded in estimating the true mortality rate among Russian men. Russia maintains a public Probate Registry, where notaries record inheritance cases for state-registered assets such as apartments, cars, land, etc. However, not every deceased person is included in the registry, as not everyone leaves inheritable assets. In 2022, 2023, and 2024 there was a sharp increase in new inheritance cases for men, particularly younger ones. By comparing this surge against long-term trends and the ratio of male to female inheritance cases (female mortality was unaffected by the war), we can determine the number of “excess” inheritance cases. The next, most challenging step is converting these excess inheritance cases into excess mortality. This is done using a detailed list of casualties. By… Read more »
People say “decimated” when they mean largely destroyed. The loss of substantially all the better trained Russian soldiers and much of their Special Forces, use of so much munitions which cannot be replaced and the damage to economic assets must mean Russia will be crippled for decades.
The shame is the ordinary bloke in the street suffers most for decisions by the Russian elites. Always the same, everywhere.
According to Neil Oliver, you are an archetype globalist with your daily propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ohEzeTJnA. The following are his words: To see an end to the sovereign peoples of Europe has been the whole point of the globalist project. Migrants are the tools being used to accomplish the task but we would do much better to ask who ordered the tools, who is using the tools? And so now, after all of it, all the millennia, all the blood, and after just two or three generations of comparative peace, Europe is a place that has been rendered unsafe for those who were naive and trusting enough to imagine it would always be theirs. The police are kicking in doors to take away people who have voiced unwanted opinions. Censorship legislation is everywhere, enacted in a bid to shut us up. All of this has been done to Europe deliberately, in a few short years, by a handful of charlatans … Europe and Britain have been wrenched from the hands of Europeans and the British, their cultures, traditions and histories laid waste, destroyed by globalists: those who would prefer to see all nations, all senses of national identity erased, and overlain with… Read more »
That’ll be the Kalergi plan then. A homogenous world population with no national identity or pride, an uneducated world workforce all paid the same Basic Income, completely subjugated and controlled. I’m sometimes happier to be in my mid seventies rather than my mid twenties.
Thanks for this.
‘In Neil Oliver, Scotland has a world-class crank – the Kenny Dalglish of conspiracist nutjobs.’
You hard-faced ignorant sod.
“Justice Secretary threatens to strip powers of quango behind ‘two-tier justice’ rules”
The BBC closes the article with:
If he knows this he must have data to back this up. He should publish it, cite his sources. Then we’ll see whether people from certain minority ethnic backgrounds are disproportionately more involved in certain crimes (not just ‘offences’) – as well as disproportionately sentenced.
We have heard over and over again that apparently unjust sentences have strictly followed sentencing guidelines. Since I am sure there have never been guidelines recommending longer sentences for minorities guilty of equivalent crimes, the problem must not be the old guidelines, but judges breaking them.
Or were these groups receiving longer sentences because, overall, they have been involves in more and serious crimes?
“The quiet bureaucrat pulling the strings behind Britain’s ‘dodgy’ state-backed weather and climate service”
Or as the top commenter on the linked article describes the Myth Office:
“Every bloody institution we have is corrupted by this disgusting Green Climate hoax gravy train. The whole thing is a farcical scam of lies and deception.”
“And the new NIH Director is… Jay Bhattacharya” – The NIH once dismissed Bhattacharya as a “fringe epidemiologist” – now he’s set to take its top job, with even Democrats conceding he was right about Covid policy…
…Anyone told those Lords, Sirs, Ladies and Dames of the Realm, Lord Sir Sir Vallance, Sir Whitty, Dame Harries and M’Lady Hallett yet?
The above mentioned lords and ladies are scum. Treasonous scum at that.
“Top pension funds refuse to back defence industry”
A couple of decades ago Mrs SoR and I consulted an independent financial adviser. In one annual review a few years later we were asked if we wanted to limit our investments to ESG funds. We declined. Not because we’re evil or disapprove of all ESG aims but because we do not trust the people who defined what ESG investing meant.
Putting a quango in charge of the definition of ESG is not going to improve that.
Ditto with Mr B and myself. I actually asked if we could invest in armaments instead of the ridiculous ‘green investments’ suggested. Considering all the constant wars and weapons needs it seemed a good bet but it seems that investment wasn’t available 😁 I actually do disapprove of ESG as it’s literally a grift.
Oh does that make me evil?
Endless anti-Trump, pro-Europe (hence, pro-centralised power), pro-war, propaganda being fed to the masses, including from so-called ‘right-wing’ rags like the Daily Telegraph. There’s definitely manipulation of agreement in the comment sections, but there’s also a huge number of people that just absolutely love eating the sh*t they’re force-fed. It’s depressing to be surrounded by so many willing soldiers of the state who are unwittingly signing their own and their families death warrants. Even after everything, the masses largely nod along and comply – extraordinary. We really are f*cked.
“Reform UK descends into civil war as Nigel Farage berates Rupert Lowe”
Come on boys, start playing nicely, Britain’s whole existence is at stake! Don’t blow this last chance to save it!
It seems the incessant whining mosquito, Disgruntled Sour Grapes Pakistani Jewish Millionaire Ben Habib has stirred up this discord between Rupert Lowe and Nigel.
Rupert should tell Habib to clear off!
“The weakness of Donald Trump” :Rod Liddle’
Just a reminder on how you don’t need to be strong on morals when you have this kind of backing
There is no justification for special treatment of ethnic minority and transgender criminals as specific ‘classes’. Just as there is no justification for ‘hate’ crimes against specific ‘classes’.
There should be only ‘crimes’ and any sentences may incorporate appropriate individual circumstances rather than some ‘group identity’.
Agreed. Perhaps I’ve missed something but what justification do they give for such a ‘light touch’ list even existing? It should just be a case of the punishment fitting the crime irrespective of perpetrator.
I also believe teenagers that are minors should get sentenced the same as an adult. Yes, they’d serve it in a young offenders institute but if you’ve murdered or raped someone then you serve the same sentence, and none of this protecting their identity bollocks. The law can’t just roll out the old ‘Gillick competence’ when it suits. A 15 year old murderer should do the same time as a 25 year old murderer.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/06/labour-punishing-middle-england-to-fund-the-underclass/
This has been going on for years. When I worked at DWP cases where claimants were in receipt of benefit packages equivalent to fifty, sixty, seventy £ grand per annum (PAYE equivalent) pwere relatively common. I am talking 10 -15 years ago. What Joe Public does not realise is that our benefit system is a “passport” system and qualification for virtually any benefit provides qualification to other benefits.
As an example, qualification for Employment Support Allowance (ESA) will almost certainly absolve claimants from Council Tax. Qualification for Personal Independence Payments ( PIP) will at the higher rate provide access to the Motability scheme.
I could go on… and on…and on…
Thank you for an inside explanation – what a state-sponsored racket benefits are.
I didn’t think I’d see the day when Toby’s website links to Vox Day’s website.
What’s Vox Day?
It’s this website, which is linked to in the roundup: The End of the Department of Education – Vox Popoli
He’s a minarchist libertarian so you would not approve
Damn the Telegraph and its warmongering.
“The real reason Britain is doomed to lose the next world war” The Telegraph is living in a world where the next world war is winnable, provided we all love our country. It is a dimwitted position to take, assuming as it does that our country a) requires defence at the moment except from the bloody fools posturing in Whitehall and b) that in the case of WW3 a British survival of a nuclear exchange is something to hope for.
It is time commentators actually remembered the history of the Ukrainian conflict from its origin, rather than pontificating about Russian aggression.
“Rules giving minority criminals special treatment will be fought by Tories” – An “outrageous” decision to give special treatment to ethnic minority and transgender criminals will be fought in the courts by the Tories, says The Sun”
NO, NO,NO!!! That’s just kneeling before The Kritocracy = Rule By Judges, further entanglements and delays in the legal system as an excuse to do nothing!
Britain managed to survive perfectly well for centuries without a Sentencing Council.
It’s just another Quango, easy for Parliament to Abolish.
Sack that awful Pakistani Muslim woman Mahmood, and
ABOLISH THE SENTENCING COUNCIL !!!
“Reform UK descends into civil war as Nigel Farage berates Rupert Lowe”
All this trouble between the two Reform MPs has been stirred up by the Endless Whinging of the Disgruntled, UNELECTED Pakistani Jewish Millionaire Ben Habib, who was hoping to become PM himself. Would Elon Musk ever have intervened in the first place if not for Habib?
The esteemed MP Lee Anderson had the right approach.
The esteemed MP Rupert Lowe should TELL HABIB TO CLEAR OFF and stop causing trouble for Reform.