Breaking Badly

Here's an example of pain felt by citizens by #ToryLeadershipContest candidates who supported inaction / inadequate solutions:

Kemi’s media interview today was interrupted by the kind of people that shout loudest at the Hate Marches. You know, the ones that aren’t polite enough to wait ‘til the end, then ask a question, then to actually listen to the answer. This is what happened.

There used to be art in everything

This is what a modern hero looks like. No cape.💫 Just integrity and a tenacious spirit against injustices and erroneous inaction.💞 ⬇️ ⬇️

People like him keep society going and nobody realizes it.

SHE FILED 181 REPORTS. THEY CALLED HER NOT CREDIBLE. THE CHILDREN WERE 11 YEARS OLD. Sara Rowbotham spent years working as a sexual health coordinator for the @NHS in Rochdale. Between 2005 and 2011 she filed 181 detailed referrals to Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) and social services. Each one documented the systematic rape and trafficking of girls as young as 11. Each one was ignored. Authorities did not dispute the abuse was happening. They disputed her. She was labelled not credible. Her team was dismissed. In 2014 she was made redundant. The reason officials gave for ignoring her? Community cohesion. That was the calculation. Institutional comfort weighed against the rape of children, and the children lost. A 2024 independent review commissioned by Greater Manchester's mayor confirmed her referrals were credible, substantive and appropriately communicated. The review found 96 men still considered a risk to children, and described the convictions that did happen as having scraped only the surface. Five police officers refused to cooperate with the review. They retired without sanction. Sara Rowbotham was awarded an MBE. The officers who ignored her received words of advice. That is the full story. That is the entire joke. @BBC @guardian @morningstaronline @GMP @AndyBurnhamGM @ITV

Throwback to this moment in Liverpool vs Manchester City… Still not sure how this wasn’t given as a penalty 🤔

Oh Dahling, the bathroom needs replacing.

MI6 USED TORTURE CONFESSIONS Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) was Britain's Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004. What he found there was a dictatorship where people were boiled alive, tortured, and then had their confessions handed to MI6 and the CIA as usable intelligence. Murray did what you're supposed to do. He wrote formal complaints to the Foreign Office. He said, on the record, that it is morally and legally wrong to take intelligence extracted under torture. He highlighted a case where two men were boiled to death and the evidence pointed straight at state-sanctioned murder. The Foreign Office's response was to summon him back to London, hit him with 18 disciplinary charges, and tell him to resign. He refused. The charges were quietly dropped. Then they removed him from his post anyway in October 2004. Just in case you thought the message got lost. While the allegations were eventually dropped, Murray suffered a breakdown and a pulmonary embolism in the process. The British state didn't just end his career. It nearly ended his life. His internal document, later leaked to the Financial Times, confirmed that MI6 was using CIA-sourced intelligence obtained from Uzbek authorities through torture. It was written down. By an ambassador. And the response was to destroy the man who wrote it. Murray's superiors were told in plain terms that this intelligence was unreliable because it had been obtained through torture. They used it anyway. Then they smeared him in the press as a drunk and a rogue diplomat. He subsequently wrote Murder in Samarkand, a memoir that blew the whole thing open. He won the Sam Adams Award for integrity in intelligence. The US government later denied him entry under the visa waiver programme with no stated reason. The only countries that had ever barred him from entry were Uzbekistan and the United States of America. Think about that for a second. This is what whistleblowing in the national security space actually looks like. Not a Hollywood ending. Source: @Wikipedia @guardian @BBCNews @Channel4News

A Hinge has lost its Bracket.

Documentaries - I love ‘em!! Been finding some short, quirky ones recently and this one is great! Fred Dibnah seems like the kind of guy who’d have some great stories to share over a pint. 🍺 and there’s a pretty cool ending. 😉

@TheRealJamieKay Today's truth. Ensure you know your own culture Ask, Seek, and Knock. Be that Salt.

Today’s far-right embarrassment.

A lack of pragmatism 🚫 In @Conservatives policy 🚫 Then HMRC settlement decisions on small businesses, contractors (as opposed to big corporates) on #LoanCharge demonstrates UK Govt @UKCivilService levels of excellence. ⬇️

#PostOfficeScandal #HorizonInquiry #BarStandards #LegalEthics TEN GREEN BARRISTERS The Bar Standards Board has, for the first time, put a number on it: ten live investigations into barristers connected to the Post Office Horizon scandal. The figure did not arrive in a press release. It surfaced in the appendices to next week's Legal Services Board papers, and was confirmed only when the Law Society Gazette asked. The BSB expects matters to "progress to the Independent Decision-Making Body" this year. Five years after the first quashed convictions. Six years into the Inquiry. Twenty-five years after the prosecutions began. But this year. Definitely. The regulator's preferred euphemism for what the investigations may eventually find is zeal. It is not the word a member of the public might select to describe repeated representations to a court that an IT system was robust at a time when the prosecution's own technical witness had been told, on paper, that it was not. But zeal is the word the BSB has chosen, and zeal is the word we shall have. The duties at issue are the basic ones — candour to the court, disclosure, not misleading. They predate Horizon by a margin running into centuries. They appear in the Bar Code of Conduct in language no one of ordinary literacy could mistake. The BSB expects progress this year. This page will be counting down the days. T minus 249. share.google/MX4rnsEmsYcYhr… @CastletonLee @Janetsk20073533 @JohnHyde1982 @barstandards

Streeting wants the NHS to pay an extra £64billion for overpriced US drugs by 2036 - rather than produce generic drugs at a fraction of the cost He has taken over £370,000 from private health-linked donors; they account for 60% of his donations theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Meanwhile, back in modern Britain our police, social services, judges, politicians all fell asleep at the wheel for 20 - 30 years.

Given the number of invader attacks and criminality hitting the UK, from Eastern European mafia-crims to Quran-indoctrinated anti-Infidels, it is clear we need the UK Govt, Govt-agencies, public services, HR depts, & education bodies to take proactive positions for the 🇬🇧 people.

A little girl won widespread admiration for the move she made upon realizing she was being followed.

Dozens of fishermen end up losing body parts to wolf fish. This is because many people don't realize that even after being "dead" and without a body, it is still capable of this.

Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years. Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged. A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵

@SonofLiberty357 @realMaalouf That is not the solution

Despite being just 2% of the population of Wales, the Muslim community of Cardiff is allowed to blast Islamic calls to prayer 5 times a day. The earliest one being at 5 am. This is what everyone has to wake up to!