Bob Duke

Two tier policing: Manchester Airport police: suspended while investigated by IOPC Nowak police: not suspended while investigated by IOPC Why?

Throwing bins at police in Southampton = Quick jail Battering police at Manchester Airport = Long drawn out let off

NHS staff should be banned from wearing pro-Palestinian badges, report recommends. Good. About time. When did ANYONE think it was acceptable for NHS staff to wear ANY political insignia while at work? While we're at it, can we ban rainbow lanyards too? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

When Blair changed the Police Oath many of us said that it was the thin edge of the wedge and an enabling act to shift the police from their traditional role of serving the law to serving the political class. Sadly we were correct. The news from Hampshire gets worse. An independent Polish specialist has reviewed Harry's post mortem report and concluded that death wasn't necessarily inevitable; and that the actions of the police may have contributed directly to his murder. As yet no police officers have been arrested.

@RobertJudd4 @AllisonPearson Selecting the best person to do a job irrespective of their colour, race, gender or creed? What a quaint, old-fashioned idea. A bit like some others.

Why haven’t we heard about this? An inconvenient truth?

@NadiaWhittomeMP You are fighting for the demands of men like this over the rights of my daughters, nieces and female friends and frankly, it is unforgivable.

“You must not divide us!” Screams the Left as they divide everyone up in terms of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, pronouns, Palestine, and anything else their vicious little minds can dream up.

The rage is there, Starmer, because the people who should be handling these problems are both incompetent and evasive This is righteous anger

“We will make sure anyone engaging in disorder meets the full force of the law, as we’ve done before.” What about when BLM rioters were smashing shops and setting fires? What about when Pakistani-Muslim gangs were raping little girls? Where was your outrage then? Utter cretin.

@Keir_Starmer If there was a Hypocrisy event at the Olympics, you'd be a multiple gold medallist. Was this you, exploiting a tragedy to create grievance and division, or did I just imagine it?

Natural England wants to remove 90% of Dartmoor’s ponies. Our Exmoor ponies are next. These animals have been here for thousands of years. A government quango, destroying the countryside and its heritage.

British industry is being trampled underfoot as the country "gallops" to Net Zero, the head of a West Midlands chemicals plant, Adrian Hanrahan, has said. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/03/rel…

Clueless Policing Minister Sarah Jones completely falls apart under Nick Ferrari’s questioning 🤦‍♂️ In a painful LBC interview, Sarah Jones was asked a straightforward question about the Hampshire officers who handcuffed dying 18-year-old Henry Nowak as he bled out from multiple stab wounds, after wrongly treating the stabbed student as the aggressor. Nick Ferrari: “It’s reported the officers involved won’t be referred for misconduct. Why is that?” Jones immediately stammers and hides behind the IOPC investigation. Ferrari presses: “As of now they haven’t been referred for misconduct? Are they still serving on frontline duties?” Again, nothing. Just more IOPC deflection. Ferrari: “Why can’t you tell me whether they’re still on the frontline? Don’t the people of Southampton have a right to know?” Jones keeps parroting the same line about the IOPC “looking at footage, talking to officers, talking to the family…” Ferrari, clearly fed up: “Minister, I asked whether they’re still serving frontline duties. Do you know whether they are or not?” Jones starts the IOPC script again. Ferrari cuts her off: “But do you know whether they’re still on the frontline, Minister?!” Flustered and stuttering, she mumbles something about speaking to the chief constable. Ferrari: “Have you asked the chief constable? It’s causing concern. You don’t know, do you?” Then comes the most ridiculous line of all: Jones admits she does know the answer… but she won’t tell the public because “an investigation is ongoing.” What the actual f*ck? This has nothing to do with prejudicing an investigation. It’s a basic yes or no: Are these officers still out on the streets policing the public right now? The people of Hampshire and Southampton deserve to know. This is what we get from this government, a Policing Minister who either doesn’t know what’s happening in her own brief or is too scared to say it. Pathetic.

@lukejcr Interesting to note that Labour are starting to really attack us too.

If there is no link between SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and the multivalent, polyantigen vaccines provided to newborns at only 2 months old, then the TGA should open its books and let people see the reports. tga.gov.au/sites/default/…

Wait … what?? Remember Labour demanded every WhatsApp message from Tories because transparency mattered? And condemned government by WhatsApp? But now they say deleted messages are nothing to worry about. They are all the same. Power before country!

Sadiq Khan's pilgrimage to Mecca reveals his hypocrisy. Where are his "Trans Pride" flags? Why isn't he calling for women's rights and LGBTQ tolerance? Where are the other religions, the Jews and the Christians? As London Mayor, Sadiq calls for religious plurality, higher immigration and for us to accept lots of Muslims into our country. Why isn't he doing the same in Saudi Arabia? This a pilgrimage to the spiritual centre of the faith that guides him. And in Saudi Arabia, there are no churches or synagogues. As in much of the Muslim world, Jews and Christians were converted, expelled or slaughtered. The government still prohibits public worship from Jews or Christians, unlike Sadiq Khan's London, where he encourages mass public Islamic prayer. Why isn't Sadiq Khan calling for Jews and Christians to be accepted in Saudi Arabia and their public worship to be funded by the Saudi government? Clearly, it's politically expedient for Sadiq Khan to support religious plurality, women's rights, and LGBTQ rights in Britain now, but Britain's demographics are changing fast. The Muslim population is increasing rapidly, while the native British population declines. Once the demographic tipping point has been reached, will Sadiq and politicians like him still stick to the values that suit them now? Or will they switch to supporting the values that will be more politically expedient in a Muslim majority country, the values that are on display in Saudi Arabia?

What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock operate less like investors and more like modern feudal landlords. They buy essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities, often using vast amounts of borrowed money and paying prices that ordinary market participants cannot match. Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is pushed onto the acquired company itself. The result is simple: the public pays. Consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and declining service quality. The infrastructure becomes a cash-extraction machine. Profits flow upward to shareholders and executives, while the financial burden flows downward to households. When the model inevitably breaks down, the consequences are socialised. Communities are left with crumbling infrastructure, polluted rivers, and failing services. Thames Water's £14 billion debt mountain and repeated sewage scandals are a stark example of what happens when financial engineering takes precedence over public stewardship. The executives who loaded the company with debt have already collected their bonuses. The investors have already taken their returns. And when the system finally reaches breaking point, taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill. Privatise the gains. Socialise the losses. That is the business model.

THIS IS HOW REDRESS BECOMES A SECOND SCANDAL. Sir Alan Bates has called the Post Office compensation schemes an utter disaster, and he is right to put the blame on the design of the system. The state failed sub-postmasters through Horizon. Then the same state helped build compensation routes so complex, legalistic, slow, and intimidating that victims were forced through another battle just to get redress. That should shame everyone involved. The Guardian reports that more than £1.48bn has been paid to at least 11,500 claimants, while thousands of claims still remain unsettled. More than 900 sub-postmasters were convicted between 1999 and 2015 because faulty Horizon data falsely showed money missing. Bates is saying the government should fund redress, but an independent body should run it. That matters. Victims do not need another maze. They need compensation that is fast, fair, independent, and built around them, not around protecting institutions. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…