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Sentencing is coming. The court must answer one question. What is the life of an 18-year-old British student worth? Henry Nowak was walking home. He was unarmed. He was sober. He posed no threat to anyone. He was approached by a man carrying a 21cm blade — a second knife, not a religious one. He was stabbed five times. As he tried to climb a fence to escape, he was stabbed again. The fatal wound was 8cm deep and tore through a major artery in his chest. He died on a pavement saying “I can’t breathe.” The man who killed him then lied to the police he called. Lied as officers arrived. Lied as Henry lay dying. That lie is the reason Henry was handcuffed instead of helped. His mother hid the weapon. It has never been recovered. A jury has now found all of this proven. Murder. Carrying a bladed weapon. Assisting an offender. The minimum term must reflect what was done. Not what was claimed. Not what was excused. What was done. Anything less tells every 18-year-old walking home in this country that their life is negotiable. #JusticeForHenryNowak

Because too many local people are objecting to giant solar farms on farmland near their homes…. … Labour has changed the law so communities can object, but now those objections can be ignored. Another little bit of our democracy chipped away.

She wasn’t just the wife and leader she was the treasurer! She signed off the sums. Did he buy her that brass neck as well?!

@Startinglifeag1 @tooHutttohandle @ZiaYusufUK Didn’t Rael Braverman leave Reform saying “I left Reform because I cannot be in a party led by Zia Yusuf.” Have I got that right? Yusuf called his wife insidious?

I want to recap what actually happened at M&S, because some people seem determined to turn this into something it was not. I went early evening because I thought the shop would be quieter. I was shopping with my teenage daughter, who is autistic and has sensory issues around clothing. Anyone who parents a child with sensory difficulties will understand how hard clothes shopping can be. Fabric, fit, seams, tightness, waistbands, labels, texture, all of it matters. Something can look perfectly fine on the hanger and be completely unbearable once worn. Ordering several sizes online and returning them is neither logistically nor economically feasible for us, and in any case my daughter likes to touch and see things before deciding whether she is comfortable with them. That approach simply doesn’t work for her. So, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing would have suited me better than for my daughter to be able to try the clothes on and ensure she has enough things to see her through Summer. That was the whole point of going to the changing rooms. I was not looking for confrontation. I was not trying to make a political point. I was trying to make an ordinary shopping trip work for an autistic teenage girl who finds clothes difficult. I walked into the changing area calmly and practically. My intention was to find a suitable cubicle, ideally the larger disabled one, check that it felt safe and manageable, and then encourage my daughter to follow me in. That was the plan. Had she been able to try the clothes on, it would have saved time, stress, uncertainty, returns, and the familiar nightmare of buying something that later turns out to be impossible for her to wear. So the idea that I somehow wanted there to be a problem is absurd. The changing room was supposed to be the solution. The problem arose when my daughter became distressed by the presence of a male member of staff supervising the changing area. I had not anticipated her reaction. It was not scripted by me. I did not wind her up. I did not march in looking for a row. She reacted. I saw her distress. I took it seriously. And yes, I think a teenage girl, particularly an autistic teenage girl, is entitled to feel safe and comfortable in a changing-room environment. This is not complicated. It is not about hating anyone. It is not about being difficult. It is not about “vibes” or emotional projection or whatever patronising theory people wish to attach to it online. It is about a vulnerable young woman trying to buy clothes, and finding that the space provided did not feel safe or appropriate to her. Parents of autistic children spend a lot of time trying to prepare, adapt, reassure, smooth things over, and make ordinary life manageable. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. On this occasion, it didn’t. But I will not apologise for taking my daughter’s distress seriously. Or believing that M&S should change their policy.

SIR ALAN BATES - THANKS GOD FOR THIS MAN. EH. In 1998 Alan Bates and his partner Suzanne packed up their lives in West Yorkshire and moved to a small town in North Wales. They put everything they had into a post office. Every penny. Every hope. A future they had planned together. Two years later the software started lying. Money appeared to be missing. He called the helpline 507 times. He kept going. He kept records. He kept asking. The Post Office's response was simple. It wasn't the software. It was him. In 2003 they sent him a letter terminating his contract. No reason given. He lost £65,000. Everything he and Suzanne had invested, gone. Their private notes about him, revealed at the public inquiry decades later, described the situation with devastating corporate elegance. He had become unmanageable. That is what they called a man asking why the numbers were wrong. So he did what any reasonable person would do after losing everything to an institution that called them a liar. He spent the next 25 years fighting back with nothing. No legal fund. No media empire. No government support. Just a burning refusal to let them win. He wrote letters promising his continued and increased resolve to bring this to people who would have no choice but to act, regardless of how many years it took. It took 25. While he was fighting, at least 13 people who had been through the same thing took their own lives. People who couldn't hold on long enough. People who needed someone to believe them and found nobody there. While he was fighting, the Post Office and its lawyers billed £265 million in legal fees between 2014 and 2024. Making sure the truth stayed buried. Making sure men like Alan Bates ran out of road before they ran out of fight. He didn't run out of fight. He rejected three compensation offers he considered insults. He watched an @ITV drama turn his life into a television event. He watched politicians suddenly discover outrage they had been too busy to feel for two decades. He watched the country cry at a story it had been ignoring since 1999. In June 2024 they gave him a knighthood. Twenty-five years after calling him unmanageable. In November 2025 he settled his compensation claim. He received 49.2% of what he was owed. No executive has been charged. Fujitsu (@Fujitsu_Global) still holds government contracts. The Post Office (@PostOffice) is still standing. This country failed Alan Bates for 25 years. It failed every person who could not hold on long enough to see what he saw. It handed him a title instead of justice and called itself generous. He deserved better. They all did. Teach this man in every school in Britain. Not as a feel-good story. As a warning about what happens when ordinary people trust institutions that were never built to protect them. And as proof that one person, with nothing but the truth and the stubbornness to keep saying it, can make an entire country look at itself in the mirror. Even if it takes 25 years to get them to look. Sources: @ComputerWeekly | @BBCNews AND many others

Exactly right. The Starmer-Streeting-Burnham plan to align ever closer to the EU has already been achieved in one important respect — for the first time this century we now have European levels of youth unemployment. Indeed we’re above the average for EU and EZ. Congrats.

The state of this 🙄 Two hi profile politicians slogging it out on X. Grow up fgs.

Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and is a direct threat to the United Kingdom. Yet weeks after the murderous Iranian regime slaughtered tens of thousands of its own citizens, UK Foreign Office officials attended an event celebrating the Iranian revolution and regime. Now, the Labour government is refusing to answer questions about this event or explain how this was allowed to happen. They are once again covering up the facts and running away from all scrutiny. The UK Foreign Secretary should explain to the public why she is happy for her civil servants to go to events hosted by the Ayatollah’s regime while Iran conducts state-sponsored threats and hostile activities in Britain, Iran puts British citizens in harm’s way in the Middle East, and Iran murders its own citizens. Labour has weakened Britain’s standing on the world stage and is putting our national security at risk. express.co.uk/news/politics/…

Some big promises from Labour We’ll see very quickly how well Labour’s total state control Funded by billions of taxpayers’ cash annually Does in reality

Kemi herself has no achievements of note in her career other than hacking Harriet Harman’s website” So you are at loggerheads with Farage over Badenoch then? Farage called her a conviction politician.. Farage talking about Badenoch  He actually praised her. He praised her for setting the Tory leadership alight. He said Badenoch “is the only one who wants to talk about illegal immigration and the massive numbers of legal immigrants. She has put up an amazing spirited performance” “She did it through strength of conviction. She did it with originality of ideas. She did it through daring to challenge some of the things that are accepted as too difficult to talk about. I think she has got a glittering political future I genuinely do”

Can we agree one basic fact - that “I’ve been stabbed” wasn’t a lie? Understanding all the challenges of their role… the officers were told that. They didn’t just accept the lie about racism, which can be addressed later. They ignored the truth, about stabbing, which can’t.

🔺As Keir Starmer refuses to discuss and acknowledge a real life tragedy in the UK that is the Henry Nowak case. We Remember when Starmer held round table meetings about a fictional TV series Adolescence where he described violence by young men influenced by online content as “a real problem.” A FICTIONAL TV SERIES GOT MORE ATTENTION FROM OUR PM THAN HENRY NOWAK. Shameful! - All the times Keir Starmer mentioned the made up Tv program: 1) Prime Minister’s Questions (19 March 2025) – He said he was watching the series with his teenage children and supported calls for it to be shown in schools and Parliament. He described violence by young men influenced by online content as “a real problem.” 2)Public support on social media (March 2025) – He posted that watching the show with his son and daughter “hit home hard” and said more conversations were needed about the issues it raises. 3)Backing Netflix’s schools initiative (March 2025) – He publicly supported making the series available to schools so more young people could watch it and discuss misogyny, online radicalisation, and healthy relationships. 4)Downing Street round table meeting with the creators (31 March 2025) – He gave a longer statement saying the show “hit home hard” as a parent and stressed the importance of discussing online influences and young people’s experiences.

From Jack Hemingway in Wakefield - 'Reform have announced they will cut the Council’s school uniform voucher scheme by 2/3rds (£1.3m). This was a fully funded scheme, approved in a balanced budget and not funded by council tax. The decision will mean most families now miss out on uniform vouchers. Reform say the money will now go on ‘infrastructure’ instead.' Vote Reform UK get poorer! #ReformUK

Nearly SEVEN BILLION POUNDS in fraudulent benefit claims EVERY year and Starmer wants to water down checks. It’s clear he wants to pander to a specific voter base and it’s also clear he and Labour hate hard working taxpayers.

He’s also considering a quick trip to Mars.

This is precisely why I got involved as an assessor for candidates. @KemiBadenoch is unambiguous in what's expected of our candidates. No easy rides, No safe seats, No favoured sons/daughters of the leadership. True Conservativism places merit above all else.

@ZiaYusufUK Unelected and unhinged grifter who, if reports are to be believed, treated his staff like dirt preaching about Kemi. Figures. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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