News Round-Up
- “Trans victory was huge but new Labour laws means battle against woke isn’t over” – In the Sun, I hail the victory for common sense in the Supreme Court, but caution that the battle to save free speech is far from over.
- “Britain’s most dangerous criminals recorded under 51 different genders” – Dangerous criminals are being classed as ‘pangender’, ‘androgyne’ and ‘neutrois’, according to the Mail.
- “Trans activists won’t be silenced by the Supreme Court ruling” – Many people have been celebrating after the Supreme Court’s declaration that the definition of a woman will indeed be based on biological sex, but don’t expect trans activists to take this judgement lying down, writes Patrick West in the Spectator.
- “Trans celebrities and activists vow to defy Supreme Court ruling” – A string of high profile figures from Britain’s trans community have used TV interviews and social media posts to brand the Supreme Court judgment “an attack” and “blatant discrimination”, reports the Mail.
- “JK Rowling clashes with trans activist doctor and PM on ruling” – Taking to social media, the Harry Potter writer said women are “waiting to hear the Prime Minister’s views” on the ruling and had a dig at his previous assertions that “trans women are women”, according to the Mail.
- “Mumsnet boss claims she was blacklisted from Barclays and Ocado” – Justine Roberts, the founder of Mumsnet, tells the Mail that Barclays and Ocado had refused to advertise or partner with the online forum when they called for the Government to clarify the definition of “a woman” under the Equality Act.
- “‘We are called fascists because we believe lesbian events have a right to be women-only’” – Trans activism has driven lesbian dating underground, but campaigners are fighting back – determined to create safe spaces for women, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “HR hypocrisy on diversity fuelled trans extremism” – The Telegraph’s Lucy Burton says woke HR departments bear a lot of the responsibility for the spread of gender woo in the workplace.
- “Transgender rules ‘making passports unreliable’” – Women’s safety is at risk due to the unreliability of passports when it comes to proof of a person’s biological sex, warns Lord Arbuthnot in the Telegraph.
- “Let’s not downplay this triumph for women” – The fight for ‘woman’ to be ruled a biological term has been long and bitter — we won’t forget our allies and opponents along the way, writes Janice Turner in the Times.
- “Graham Linehan: It will take decades to undo the trans movement damage” – The co-creator of The IT Crowd and Father Ted celebrated the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on trans women this week, after years of being cast out over his views, reports the Times.
- “The Supreme Court ruling on sex proves the peril of self-satisfied moral hubris in Parliament” – Pride comes before a fall, but the real danger to politicians is an excessive focus on the supposed judgment of future generations, writes Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
- “The hilarious meltdown of men who think they’re women” – The Supreme Court’s ruling has driven trans activists nuts – and I’m loving it, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The school chaplain cancelled for questioning LGBT dogma” – On the Telegraph podcast, Reverend Bernard Randall describes being sacked as the chaplain of a Christian private school for telling students to challenge LGBTQ dogma.
- “Bin strike activists plot new pro-Palestine party” – Union campaigners in Birmingham are aiming to supplant Labour loyalties by setting up a pro-Palestinian group, according to the Telegraph.
- “Meet the Chief Constable of common sense in Manchester” – The Mail hails Greater Manchester Police’s “anti-woke” Chief Constable Stephen Watson.
- “Labour advisers urge PM to ditch ban on North Sea oil and gas drilling” – A handful of senior Labour officials are understood to be quietly urging the PM to consider watering down or scrapping the manifesto pledge to ban North Sea oil and gas drilling to see off the growing threat from Reform UK, according to the Mail.
- “Reform UK ‘in talks with ex-PM Liz Truss’” – After winning five seats at last summer’s General Election, Reform are seeking to win hundreds of council seats at next month’s local elections in England and are seeking advice from Liz Truss, reports the Mail.
- “Black barrister hit with £20,000 bill after losing employer race claim” – Jeniffer Campbell alleged her manager Alexandra Jacobs racially discriminated against her by saying her writing wasn’t “vanilla enough”, suggesting that it be “safer and blander”, but the Employment Tribunal has ruled that wasn’t racist, says the Mail.
- “Donald Trump ‘blocks Musk from top secret China briefing’” – Two top Pentagon officials, Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick, have been suspended by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following an investigation into who leaked the news of a top secret briefing on China to Elon Musk, reports the Mail.
- “Cutting ties with China would be very foolish, says Reeves” – The Chancellor tells the Telegraph that Trump’s efforts to isolate Beijing are unwise.
- “Trump transforms Covid support website into lab leak ‘truth page’” – Donald Trump as transformed the White House Covid support website into an acocunt of the originals of Covid that castigates the Biden administration for engaging in a “cover-up”, says the Telegraph.
- “The trouble with Harvard” – Harvard is in trouble, but I’m finding it hard to have any sympathy given the way that Jewish students have been made to feel, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Spectator.
- “Is Trump Destroying Science or Saving It?” – Apparently, some 75% of U.S. scientists are planning to emigrate to Canada and Europe “in light of President Donald Trump’s sweeping changes to federal science policy”, reports John Staddon for the James G Martin Center. But Is that really such a bad thing?
- “US-UK trade deal: three possible scenarios” – Persuading President Trump to lower his tariffs on key British industries depends on several factors — and the outcome is hard to predict, according to the Times.
- “Activist-academics push to Make America Teetotal Again” – A new American temperance movement wants alcohol to be treated like tobacco in the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, writes Christopher Snowdon in Spectator World.
- “Steve Witkoff is embarrassingly out of his depth dealing with Putin” – The man placed in charge of dealing with the Middle East and Ukraine is proving to be utterly hopeless, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
- “We should not forget the meaning of Easter” – Much of the story of Jesus is historical fact. As for the Resurrection, that’s for each of us to decide on, according to David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “What English Heritage gets wrong about the origins of Easter” – Easter is when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus but don’t expect to learn that on the English Heritage children’s Easter trail, writes Bijan Omrani in the Spectator.
- “Our multifaith society can revive the church” – Rather than threatening British Christianity, the rise of Islam may be helping it by defending religious practice, says Fraser Nelson in the Times.
- “How I and thousands of other Gen-Zers found salvation through Church” – A young British man tells the Mail how he was saved by Christianity.
- “Douglas Murray: Society is being polluted by people who hate us” – The associate editor of the Spectator discusses Trump, conspiracy theorists and the anti-Western sentiment behind criticism of Israel in a wide ranging interview with the Telegraph.
- “How Islamist gangs are terrorising staff in high-security prisons” – For an insight into the current state of the British penal system, the case of Denny De Silva is as instructive as it is worrying, writes Tom Rawstorne in the Mail.
- “Veterans protest over Labour’s move to scrap Troubles protection” – A motorcyle rally closed Whitehall yesterday as ex-soldiers who battled the IRA vow to “carry on fighting” to stop the prosecutions of ex-veterans, according to the Telegraph.
- “If criticising mass immigration can get you banned from Britain, free speech is dead” – The Home Office has barred a controversial French author from entering the UK. But this will only help to spread his explosive views, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “A message to all those people still upset by the Supreme Court ruling” – On X, Bill Moon compiles a photomontage of all those woke activists really, really upset by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling and attaches an amusing soundtrack.
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Not a big fan of O’Neill but he gets it right:
“The sight of angry men bashing their keyboards in fury at the uppity bitches who went to the Supreme Court has exposed the truth about the trans lobby – it’s a men’s rights movement in drag.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/17/the-hilarious-meltdown-of-men-who-think-theyre-women/
Me neither, not since came out in favour of vaccine passports. I cancelled my Spiked subscription at the time.
I cancelled my Spiked subscription when O’Neil was pushing for mandatory vaccination of Care Home Workers and which, as far as I know, he has not yet apologised for.
I’m sceptical about the Supreme Court ruling. As I understand it, it clarifies that the current law was intended to protect biological women. All the activists have to do is bludgeon a cowardly Parliament into drafting a new bill with a clearer false definition – if they can do it for Muslims, they can certainly do it for gender woo.
To avoid accusations of discrimination, while still bending over to accommodate the miniscule number of trans people, institutions will make loos, changing rooms etc open to all.
The net result will be fewer urinals for men as we’re forced to join the queue with women. And for women, they’ll have to put up with blokes not lifting the seat, then not putting it down, so obliged to handle it just after some bloke has been less than accurate in his aim.
Everyone’s a loser.
Shopping wise, there are very few changing rooms / facilities available now. It seemed to start during the scamdemic – to help make people feel safer from alleged contaminants / infection 🙄 – and most facilities weren’t reopened. I suppose the shops don’t want the hassle of challenging behaviour.
This is my worry too – since the ruling specifically stated that “neutral” spaces weren’t a problem, then this is now the only way to go (there won’t be space or funds to make a “third space” in most cases). All very well in a small building where toilets might already be unisex, individual little rooms anyway, but not going to work well in cinemas, theatres, sports centres etc.
“Is Trump Destroying Science or Saving It?”
As Michaels and Kealy document in Scientocracy, science has been captured and corrupted since World War II by government and special interest funding, not to mention its successful myth-building as an infallible religion rather than a fallible human activity.
So like so much in our culture, it’s due for a fundamental shakeup, which is as risky and unpredictable (sadly) as those required in politics, economics, academia and… well, nearly everything.
Steve Witkoff is embarrassingly out of his depth dealing with Putin Witkoff has a strong hand: ‘Brent crude oil price briefly fell below $60. Russian grade “Urals,” which Moscow sells at a significant discount to avoid the G7 price cap, also experienced a similar drop. Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of the Russian Central Bank, called this development a “major risk” to Russia’s economy.’ ‘Russia. The quality of oil reserves there is constantly deteriorating. For several years, no new major oil fields have been discovered. They are extracting the remaining oil from old fields. Water is injected, and 95% of what is extracted from the wells is water, with only 5% being oil. The oil must be collected, and the water must be injected back into the ground layers. The cost of extracting oil this way is high. At a price of $50 per barrel on the global markets, Russia will offer its oil at an even lower price to bypass sanctions. This means that the price will be below production cost. In this case, the Russian government will have to subsidize the oil industry by reducing taxes or paying oil companies so they can continue to operate. This will be… Read more »
Today, we begin the ‘Witkoffer of the Year’ Competition 2025.
Apart from the great man himself, ineligible through no fault of his own, not having been born in England, thereby missing out on this year’s Mr wibbling wibbler witkoff competition (and the winning ticket in the lottery of life), I nominate that phenomenal wibbler and most egregious witkoffing monstrosity:
Stella Creasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5vFVJemTTQ
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/the-useful-idiots-useful-idiot
‘After three weeks of marinating in Russian propaganda, including a four-and-a-half hour meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg last Friday, Witkoff is now reportedly aware of what those four regions are called—and wants to gift them all to the Russian dictator, as a reward for his illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Trump’s golf pal has swallowed the standard Kremlin line that the people of those regions voted to become Russian citizens—ignoring the fact that those votes were cast in sham referenda, often at gunpoint.
The result of Witkoff’s crackerjack diplomacy? Only two days after the St. Petersburg meeting, the man he deemed not a bad guy felt sufficiently emboldened to order a ballistic missile attack on a Palm Sunday gathering in Ukraine, killing 34 civilians, including women and children.
This atrocity received global condemnation, but Witkoff remained conspicuously silent.
Perhaps he had bigger things on his mind: based on his string of diplomatic triumphs, Trump has just named him special envoy to Iran, where he will head up negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
What could go wrong?’
Reverse ‘witkoffing’ for dummies: ‘If the West wants to negotiate effectively with the Russian state, it must first understand the psychological architecture of its diplomacy. Dialogue will not succeed on liberal terms — it must be grounded in realism, deterrence, and strategic clarity. You cannot appeal to shared norms when the other side sees norms as tools to be gamed. You cannot assume diplomacy is about trust when the training teaches distrust as doctrine.’ ‘Last week, while Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities, the Kremlin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev landed in Washington with an offer of economic cooperation. To many, this seemed like cognitive dissonance. To me, it felt eerily familiar. Charm the West with trade. Threaten neighbours in the background. Speak diplomacy, practice coercion. That isn’t just hypocrisy, it’s a strategy. It’s the realpolitik we were trained to believe in and to carry out. Morgenthau. Waltz. Primakov. Mearsheimer. Morgenthau. Waltz. Primakov. Mearsheimer. I could recite them in my sleep — just like my grandparents once recited Lenin and Marx. That was the rhythm of life at MGIMO, Russia’s elite diplomatic academy and my alma mater. People often ask me why Russian diplomats are so hard to deal with. My answer as an insider of this system… Read more »
I think that the end game for the USA is not to batter Russia into peace, but rather to close the door on Ukraine. If they can achieve that by some deal between the protagonists then fine, but Trump wants the USA to stop getting embroiled in, or paying for, foreign wars. US Military might has become the equivalent of ‘wait till your father gets home’.
President Trump has a point. Europe should be well capable of taking care of the Ukraine war…..but Europe/Germany/France/Britain have all been run by a succession of ‘Witkoffers’ for decades. So, unfortunately for all of us who wished him and his peace initiative well, he has failed, very much like Russia, to make any real progress. The danger now is that, this war continuing for the foreseeable future as a purely European struggle, Putin continuing bullish with support from China and its satellites, Western Europe feeble, lacking a credible conventional deterrent of its own, lacking political will and determined leadership, it will broaden into a conflict across the whole of Eastern and Central Europe. Unfortunately for President Trump, he may not be interested in war but war is very much interested in him. If he wishes for another term or a term for his anointed successor, simply washing his hands of an extended and barbaric aggression does not, will not, play well with U.S. voters. ‘….all the triumphalist talk from MAGA-land of a huge popular mandate for governing and a new dominant Republican majority in the country really ought to stop. Following a brief (and entirely normal) post-election “honeymoon” of mild… Read more »
In the Persian Gulf, oil is mostly free-flowing. In Latin America (Brazil, Guyana) and Norway, it’s produced offshore. In the U.S., oil is extracted both offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in the Permian Basin, where production relies on shale extraction through hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. In Russia, offshore fields are located in polar latitudes, and on land, most fields are old and require horizontal drilling.’ ‘Horizontal drilling requires precise calculations — where exactly to branch out from the vertical well, at what angle, and so on. Because Russia’s older fields are so depleted, restarting such a well is difficult: the oil may have shifted to different layers through underground fissures, or the well may fill with water. Sanctions have made things even more complicated, as developing offshore fields in polar regions like the Kara and Okhotsk seas, as well as carrying out horizontal drilling, requires advanced technologies’ Extraction costs are only part of the problem. The isolated location.of Russian oilfields together with ancient infrastructure starved of investment due to governmental corruption and savaged by Ukrainian air attack contributes to a high breakeven of $45/barrel. As international oil prices plummet, the Russian economy looks increasingly fragile and Putin’s… Read more »
As far as oil is concerned, if I remember correctly, the cost of extraction of a barrel of oil in Russia is $15, so you have a long way to go before Russia’s economy is really threatened. Russia’s 4 new regions all voted overwhelmingly to divorce themselves from the corrupt, abusive and destructive Ukrainian state, and to join their motherland, Russia. The referenda were absolutely not “sham” but but very professionally carried out. Votes were in no way coerced and certainly not at gunpoint: after all, the votes were collected by Russians and not Ukrainians. There are numerous videos confirming the above, e.g. https://odysee.com/@GrahamPhillips:2/donbass-referendum-moments-2!!!:7, https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/my-interview-from-donetsk-on-the:0. And, incidentally, as I have posted before, the same applies to Crimea. Witkoff has clearly been tasked with broaching a peace agreement with Putin. That war hawks, such as yourself, strongly disagree with the idea of peace is clear but you are not the ones being sent to a front line, sent to fight a superior enemy, sent to die for what reason? So that people like Starmer or Macron can smirk with satisfaction at the demonstration of their strong political will? Who is benefitting from the massive loss of life and massive destruction in… Read more »
‘CCTV footage has captured video of ballot boxes being taken door to door by civilians flanked by armed soldiers in one of the “referendums” being carried out in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.
The video was filmed on September 23 in a residential building in Vasilyevka, Zaporizhzhia region.
In addition to the pressure of rifle-toting troops at the door, there are reports that locals are being monitored when they cast their vote, to ensure they support plans for Russia to formally annex occupied regions.
Residents in Vasilyevka have said it is almost impossible to oppose the annexation when “voting” under such circumstances’
https://www.newsflare.com/video/518224/cctv-captures-armed-soldiers-going-door-to-door-collecting-votes-in-referendums-in-russian-occupied-ukraine?origin=ballots
And another customer lost…..
‘Mr Fiala, speaking at the depot in Nelahozeves, near the capital Prague, said: “After roughly 60 years, our dependence on Russia has ended. For the first time in history, the Czech Republic is completely supplied by non-Russian oil, and fully supplied through western routes.’
‘Putin fell into the same trap of ideologically inflected miscalculation reinforced by bad intelligence that had previously bedeviled Stalin.’
‘Putin regime’s words and actions make clear that it remains committed to long-term, strategic, and direct confrontation not just with Ukraine, but also the United States and its Western allies.’
And, finally, a tiny crack in Putin’s position:
‘Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to stop all fighting “from 6:00 p.m. on April 19 until 12:00 a.m. on April 21,” according to the Kremlin’s press service.
Putin announced the temporary ceasefire during a meeting with Russian Army General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov on Saturday.’
Two days…..
It’s a start…..maybe……
It has beeen done before. Russia is a Christian nation and is marking Easter. Only an идиот would see it as any sort of change in Russia’s stance over Ukraine.
‘After the truce began, both Russian and Ukrainian officials say things are quieter in some regions. But fighting is still being reported tonight along parts of the frontline.’
‘At MGIMO, we were taught to cite international law while violating its spirit, to defend norms while dismantling them and to speak of peace while justifying and waging wars. Georgia. Syria. Ukraine.
These weren’t deviations. We deployed whichever claim of “Territorial integrity” or “self-determination” suited the day’s talking point. This is Russian anti-normism in action.’
“US-UK trade deal: three possible scenarios” – Persuading President Trump to lower his tariffs on key British industries depends on several factors — and the outcome is hard to predict, according to the Times.
So those are key British industries that export to the US? Steel, aluminium and cars? I would laugh if it wasn’t so sad. Steel and aluminium are so close to dead in the UK because of obscene energy costs that they ought to be given the last rites. Car making is also almost dead because of EV mandates. Why would USA want to import British steel, aluminium or cars – except perhaps niche, elite cars?
Pharmaceuticals? Most of the drugs exported by Britain are the low-end, off-patent and generic products which can be produced anywhere. The only advantage for the USA of buying them from the UK are high production standards which they’re quite capable of doing themselves.
“Is Trump Destroying Science or Saving It?” It looks like Canada is goimg to become the sanctuary for all the world’s woke.
The scientists who are reported to be leaving clearly depend on politics rather than science to justify and fund their research, and as such their departure will only further the course of true science.
Does anyone consider Pollard’s views as balanced or representative apart from elements of the left?
Witkoff’s attitude is a refeshingly balanced and pragmatic view of the Ukraine situation, based on listening to what Russia actually says about its grievances and objectives, rather that just taking what the West says he said as fact.
A negotiation can only be successful when all views are considered.
“Bin strike activists plot new pro-Palestine party”
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I’m a bit stumped with this. How can voting for a ‘pro-Palestine’ party better represent ‘real workers’?
Here’s the reason: the Muslim Turkish Cypriot Onay Kasab the Communist Globalists placed in charge of the UNITE union to create chaos. Here he is, a sort of Chaos Gnome:
Here’s the reason: Communist Globalists have placed a Muslim Turkish Cypriot man, Onay Kasab, in charge as “National Lead” of the UNITE union. The more chaos he can help create by swamping Birmingham and other British cities in dangerous piles of rubbish, the better he and his fellow Muslims will like it.
Why? Because Muslims are taught that they need to go to infidel countries and create as much CHAOS as possible, by rape, kidnapping, child sex trafficking, drug and porn dealing, murder, arson, piles of rubbish and defecating in the street, in order to CREATE ENOUGH NEGATIVE ENERGY TO ALLOW THEIR ANTICHRIST “MAHDI” TO APPEAR UPON THE EARTH.
“Donald Trump as transformed the White House Covid support website into an acocunt”
What’s an acocunt?
A variety of coconut?
I’m sorry I watched that video of all the dementors – I feel a little bit sick now.
“Cutting ties with China would be very foolish, says Reeves”
Allowing China to heavily influence our domestic policy for brown envelopes isn’t smart either.
“What English Heritage gets wrong about the origins of Easter”
Easter may have started out as Christian festival, but it is now just a four day weekend, (take 10 days off for four holiday days only, if you get your request in before Brenda in Accounts), first garden family BBQ of the year (weather permitting), chocolate in abundance, (watch those calories). Most kids can’t tell you anything about it beyond that, and their parents are just as bad. I do find it amusing the number of people who complain about the loss of Christian values who haven’t been in a church for decades. They complain about Eid being featured, when far more observe Ramadan and Eid in number than Christians supporting Lent and Easter.
When I was younger, if my memory is correct, the school Easter 2 week break was from the Monday preceding Good Friday, then through the next week starting with Easter Monday. School reopened on the following Monday. No inset days added on or whatever they are called.
This year, Easter break was / is from Monday 7th April – Good Friday being 18th April – and schools reopen on Tuesday 22nd April, the day after Easter Monday which falls on the 21st. I don’t understand why the holiday has changed from a full week before and full week after the Easter special days.
I’m not disagreeing with your main point, but I think when Easter is late (and this year it’s almost as late as it ever is) they do move the school holidays to avoid a long end to the previous term and a short start to the next.
There were some theories espoused that it had been silently moved to Eid, but a quick look at next years school calendar shows that the Easter holiday has returned to its normal place on April 2nd the week before and after Easter, and Eid is the week before on the 26th March. So, relax everyone, pitchforks away, stand down. Continue to be vigilant though. These b’stards will try anything.
It is a fairly late Easter but the latest Easter can be is 25th April. It s calculated that this will next happen in 2038 (old IT nerds may also recognise that year as the year Unix time will screw up). If Easter Sunday falls on 25th April in a leap year it will effectively be a day later in terms of days since New Year. It is calculated that this will happen for the first time ever in the year 3784.
The earliest Easter can be is 22nd March. This last happened in 1818 and will next happen in 2285.
The fact that the date of Easter can vary by more than a calendar month plays hob with planning secular school holidays.
INSET days now. Used to be (Kenneth) Baker days when my kids were in school.
This is the White House Covid web page
https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/
Obviously written by a nutjob conspiracy theorist. A bit cheaper than our “covid inquiry”.
“We should not forget the meaning of Easter” The True Meaning of Easter is the PASSOVER, when the True Christ John the Baptist was murdered at King Herod’s Birthday Feast after being set up by Evil Women, including Herodias & Salome with her disgusting erotic dance. John the Baptist’s real earthly death redeemed us, NOT the Fake death & resurrection exactly ONE YEAR LATER of his non-identical TWIN BROTHER JESUS THE FORERUNNER. ************************************************************************ Elizabeth bore twin boys at Ein Karem, in September 2000 years ago: Jesus the Forerunner and John the Baptist the True Christ. The Evil Impostor calling herself the “Virgin Mary”, inspired by Satan, faked her own pregnancy and rushed to play midwife, deceived and drugged Elizabeth, kidnapped newborn Jesus, handed newborn John to Zacharias as his “only” son, then smuggled Baby Jesus 7 miles away to Bethlehem, so she could claim he was born in the City of David, to set herself up as a “Goddess” upon the earth. Using her Temple connections, she secretly denounced Elizabeth and baby John to Herod, causing the Massacre of the Innocents, and the death of Zacharias, for refusing to tell Herod’s soldiers where his wife and son had fled. Then… Read more »