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Indefensible. Infuriating. Heart-wrenching. What word would you choose to describe the police body worn camera footage showing a fatally injured teenaged student being handcuffed, arrested and read his rights as he bled to death? As his life ebbed away, police officers were clearly more concerned about the wholly false accusations of racism levelled at him by a 23-year-old Sikh man who had actually just murdered him, but was making the ludicrous claim he was the injured party – as his mother had picked up the ceremonial dagger to secrete it back at the family home.

If we’re searching for appropriate words, let’s also use “asinine” to describe the deluded actions of the then leader of the opposition Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner in taking the knee after the murder of George Floyd in the US in 2020. And despite dozens of Labour MPs doing the same for a photo opportunity outside the Houses of Parliament at the time, don’t expect anyone from this government to do the same now in the memory of murdered Henry Nowak.

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Or the footballers, referees and other match officials who also participated in the pre-kick off action to reflect their emotions at the death of someone they had never known in a country thousands of miles away which some might not have even visited and in circumstances they knew little about.

Meanwhile, an 18-year-old, football-loving accountancy and finance student is stabbed multiple times in Southampton and his desperate pleas for help ignored as police officers, who have brought shame to the uniform, believe a spurious pack of lies being pedalled by a callous and duplicitous murderer.

What happened to the basic principles of policing? To “police without fear or favour” and “to prevent crime and disorder.” Or the more colloquial code of A, B, C.

“Challenge everything.”

The total reverse of that played out in Southampton as the killer, Vickrum Digwa, was indulged and an innocent youth dragged across the ground and pinned on his front as his lungs filled with blood. Nine times he told police “I can’t breathe,” yet he was ignored until the last few minutes – by which time it was too late.

But what else can you expect from a police force, in this instance Hampshire & Isle of Wight, which said in 2022 that “being anti-racist, ethical and inclusive is top of our agenda.”

So much for protecting the public or solving and deterring crime! Worryingly, the anti-white bias that fuelled this tragedy has spread beyond the police and infected other state bodies.

In 2023 it was revealed ‘Nottingham triple killer’ Valdo Calocane had been known to NHS teams for years but was not sectioned as they were told they must consider the “over-representation of young black males in detention.”

This overarching fixation with DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) needs to stop and a re-calibration of ALL policies is crucial. But when Reform UK leader Nigel Farage suggested as much in the House of Commons last week he was shouted down and heckled with cries of “Shame.”

The only “shame” here is the lawmakers around him who have allowed this fatal obsession to flourish with the result innocent students such as Henry Nowak in Southampton and Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar as well as caretaker Ian Coates in Nottingham have lost their lives.

Let’s also not forget the suffering of thousands of other innocents who have been raped, tortured and abused by mostly Pakistani gangs, also indulged on too many occasions. It’s high time to recognise this “inconvenient truth.”

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Any chance we could focus on Neet Zero rather than Net zero?

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Total dud

Little sums up the dumbing down of the country more than the idea of swapping images of Winston Churchill, Jane Austen and Alan Turing for those of a puffin, hedgehog and frog.

Plodding Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says it is necessary for “security” and to tackle the “threat from counterfeiting.”

Someone tell this dud that Washington has been on the one dollar bill and Lincoln on the five dollar bill respectively since 1928 in the US!

Just saying…

In her risible defence, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed she and her estranged husband spent little time in the kitchen at the Glasgow home they shared.

Really? Then why coffee machines totalling nearly £9,000, a silver wine coaster worth £3,500 and cup warmers worth £1,782.99p?

Oh – and did you see the land on which their home was built was once part of Calderpark Zoo. It was in the big cats’ enclosure. To be specific, reportedly where the cheetahs were allowed to roam.

Show him who’s boss!

Although he’s now ruled it out, isn’t Andy Burnham getting a little ahead of himself in talking about a snap election?

Interesting to see how the good folk of Makerfield take to this display of hubris.

It’s about time these people were heard

You would have needed a heart of stone not to have been moved by the Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir triumph at the Britain’s Got Talent finals last weekend. It was put together initially by Jeremy Clarkson to promote his beer, but has now grown into a group helping raise awareness of the high levels of suicide and mental health issues in our rural areas. Clarkson has proved such a tonic for a crucial, yet too often forgotten community of people.

Yet another embarrassment

The final fig leaf of credibility fell from the threadbare defence of the real intent of this lacklustre, socialist government with the publication of the most recent tranche of documents concerning the appointment of Peter Mandelson.

It was courtesy of the revelation Starmer loyalist Pat McFadden once told former close political chum Mandelson: “Every meeting I have is ‘who can we tax in order to pay benefit to others.’ They’re asking the wrong questions.”

Add to that Sir Keir Starmer lacks “verve” and pursues a policy of “advance/buckle/advance/buckle” and the £1 million, 1,500 latest pages of the Mandelson files amount to one huge embarrassment for the PM and his riven government.