David Newton

THE MAN THEY JAILED TO SAVE THE BANKS Tom Hayes @robilypj spent five and a half years in prison. He lost his marriage, his career, and a decade of his life. The Serious Fraud Office called him the ringmaster of a global conspiracy. The judge gave him 14 years to send a signal to the City. The signal the City received was: make sure it's a trader who goes down, not a bank. Libor is the interest rate that banks used to report daily, forming a benchmark that underpinned roughly 350 trillion dollars worth of loans and financial products globally. Hayes, a derivatives trader at UBS and Citigroup, was convicted in 2015 of nudging his bank's Libor submissions in directions that benefited his trading positions. His own bosses knew. Senior bank officials were doing the same thing at a far larger scale. The Bank of England was implicated in secret recordings. None of that made it into the jury's deliberations in any meaningful way. In July 2025 the UK Supreme Court unanimously quashed his conviction. The jury had been misdirected by the trial judge, the court found. Hayes had been denied a fair trial. The SFO said it would not seek a retrial. That last part is doing a lot of work. Because a retrial would require actually prosecuting the case properly. Which would mean the jury hearing about the senior bank executives. And the central bank. And the regulators who looked away. And that is apparently not in the public interest. BBC journalist Andy Verity @andyverity spent years documenting exactly this. His 2022 Radio 4 podcast The Lowball Tapes and his 2023 book Rigged laid out the evidence that the direction to push rates down was coming from the top of the financial system, not from one trader in Tokyo. The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred Hayes's case back to appeal shortly after publication. Journalism, doing the job regulators refused to do. Hayes has since sued UBS for 400 million dollars, alleging the bank deliberately fed false information to prosecutors and used him as a scapegoat to protect senior executives and reduce its own regulatory penalties. UBS declined to comment. One trader jailed. Fourteen billion dollars in fines distributed across the global banking system. Zero senior executives prosecuted. One BBC journalist who read the documents everyone else ignored. That is the complete ledger of accountability for the biggest interest rate fraud in financial history. Sources: Bloomberg @Bloomberg, BBC @BBC (Andy Verity @andyverity), Guardian @guardian, CNN @CNN, Fortune @FortuneMagazine, Fox Business @FoxBusiness and many others

SHE REPORTED 1,400 CHILDREN BEING RAPED. THEY INVESTIGATED HER. Jayne Senior @Jes123tia456 spent 14 years as manager of Risky Business, a Rotherham Council project for vulnerable young women. For 14 years she handed evidence of systematic child sexual exploitation to police and social services. Names. Dates. Patterns. A 42-page intelligence report. She built the jigsaw piece by piece. They shut down her programme. They told her the records were rubbish. They told her she was rocking the multicultural boat. They told her the children were consenting. Children. Ten years old. She risked prosecution to become the source for Times journalist Andrew Norfolk, whose 2012 investigations finally broke the story open to the nation. The Jay Report in 2014 confirmed what she had been screaming into the void since the late 1990s: at least 1,400 children had been abused in Rotherham. Jayne got an MBE in 2016. The council got reputational damage it spent years managing. The officers got their pensions. When she filed complaints with the IOPC about senior police officers who had done nothing, the watchdog warned her that if she kept going, she would be labelled a vexatious complainant and could face imprisonment. She kept going. Her complaint was eventually upheld in 2021. The report naming the officers was never published. South Yorkshire Police @SYPTweet rejected the watchdog's findings. No officers were named. No further action was taken. Someone did warn her the officers might sue her personally if she spoke about it publicly. She spoke about it publicly. This is what accountability looks like in Britain. A youth worker risks prison to protect children. The institutions that failed those children close ranks, bury the reports, and threaten the one person who kept records. The children were the problem, apparently. Not the men. Not the police. Not the council. The woman with the filing cabinet. Source: The Times @thetimes, @BBC, @guardian , @yorkshirepost, Jay Report 2014, IOPC Operation Amazon 2022

THE MAN WHO GUARDS YOUR DATA CAN'T ACCOUNT FOR HIMSELF John Edwards earns £200,000 a year to tell companies how to handle your personal information responsibly. He fined Reddit £14.5 million. He launched investigations into Elon Musk's AI. He flew to a global AI summit in Delhi to represent the UK. Then, two months ago, he quietly stepped back from his own job while his own organisation launched an independent workplace investigation into him. The ICO (@ICOnews) won't say what happened. Just "HR matters." The investigation has been running since February. He posted about it on LinkedIn over the weekend like it was a routine update. The irony of the UK's transparency watchdog being investigated in secret, with zero public disclosure about what actually went on, is so on the nose it could only happen in Britain. Sources: @guardian and others

THE MAN WHO GUARDS YOUR DATA CAN'T ACCOUNT FOR HIMSELF John Edwards earns £200,000 a year to tell companies how to handle your personal information responsibly. He fined Reddit £14.5 million. He launched investigations into Elon Musk's AI. He flew to a global AI summit in Delhi to represent the UK. Then, two months ago, he quietly stepped back from his own job while his own organisation launched an independent workplace investigation into him. The ICO (@ICOnews) won't say what happened. Just "HR matters." The investigation has been running since February. He posted about it on LinkedIn over the weekend like it was a routine update. The irony of the UK's transparency watchdog being investigated in secret, with zero public disclosure about what actually went on, is so on the nose it could only happen in Britain. Sources: @guardian and others

I went to a state school. I used to be against private schools. I used to think they were toffs & people who thought they were better than us. Then I matured. I now realise that in the main, the people who send their kids to one are just normal folk who have decided to prioritise best education for their children and often make significant sacrifice to do so. Alongside this, they also help fund the state education system, which they don’t use. Whatever problems state schools face, it certainly isn’t as a result of private schools. If anything, kids going private eases pressure on the state system. The closure of these schools are utterly tragic for the kids affected. The policy attempts to damage the private system are an act of societal self-harm. Anyone who celebrates it, is frankly, a fool. edp24.co.uk/news/26058426.…

There are consequences to harbouring and funding Islamic terrorists in Britain, the very country against which they launch their attacks. Six years ago, in 2020, there were 43,000 people on MI5’s terrorist watch list. After the invasion of at least half a million more Muslims since then and more than two-and-a-half years of weekly protests against the war in Gaza, the numbers of Islamic terrorists operating in Britain can only have grown since then. In 2024, Islamic terrorists accounted for 80% of UK police force’s counter-terror caseload. As of 31 March that year, 63% of prisoners in the UK arrested on terrorist-related charges were Islamic terrorists. Muslims have been responsible for 94% of all terrorism deaths, and 88% of terrorism-inflicted injuries, in Britain over the last 25 years. In the last 10 years, the percentages are even higher. One would never guess it from the relentless references to the threat from the mythical ‘far-Right’ by the UK Government and media, but MI5 today lists Islamic terrorism as ‘the most significant threat to the UK by volume’. As anyone who has lived in Britain since 9/11 knows, this hasn’t happened overnight, and we have repeatedly ignored every warning to the contrary, as we continue to do today. As far back as 2006, the think-tank, Policy Exchange, published a report titled ‘When Progressives Treat With Reactionaries’, in which it argued that the British Foreign Office had already, in effect, become a front for The Muslim Brotherhood. Since we are constantly and, after every terrorist attack, repeatedly enjoined not to ‘look back in anger’, let us recall the following attacks by Islamic terrorists on British soil in the light of the injunctions of the Qur’an to wage jihad against infidels: •The suicide bombing attacks in London, in July 2005, that killed 54 people and injured 784, by Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer and Hasib Hussain, all of whom were second-generation Pakistani immigrants, and Germaine Lindsay, a Jamaican who had converted to Islam. • The ramming of Glasgow airport with a burning jeep loaded with propane canisters, in June 2007, by Bilal Abdullah, an Iraq national, and Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian national, that injured 5 people. • The murder on the streets of Woolwich, London, in May 2013, of the British soldier, Lee Rigby, by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, two second-generation Nigerian immigrants who had converted to Islam. • The Westminster Bridge van and knife attack in London, in March 2017, that killed 5 people and injured 48, by Khalid Masood, a Afro-Caribbean man who was born in Briton as Adrian Russell Elms but had converted to Islam. • The suicide bombing, in May 2017, of the Manchester Arena that killed 22 people and injured 1,017, by Salman and Hashem Ebedi, two second-generation Libyans. • The London Bridge van and knife attack, in June 2017, that killed 8 people and injured 48, by Khuram Butt, a Pakistan immigrant, Rachid Redouane, a Moroccan-Libyan immigrant, and Youssef Zaghba, a Moroccan immigrant to Italy. • The bomb attack in Parsons Green, London, in September 2017, that injured 30 people, by Ahmed Hassan, an Iraqi asylum seeker. • The knife attack in Victoria Station, Manchester, in December 2018, that injured 3 people, by Mahdi Mohamud, a Somali immigrant to the Netherlands. • The knife attack on London Bridge, in November 2019, that killed 2 people and injured 3, by Usman Khan, a second-generation immigrant from Pakistan. • The knife attack in Streatham, London, in February 2020, that injured 3 people, by Sudesh Amman, a second-generation immigrant from Sri Lanka. • The knife attack in a park in Reading, in June 2020, that killed 3 people and injured 3, by Khairi Saadallah, a Libyan asylum seeker. • The murder, in Leigh-on-Sea, of Sir David Arness MP, in October 2021, by Ali Harbi Ali, a second-generation immigrant from Somalia. • And most recently, the attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, in October 2025, that killed 2 people and injured 3, by Jihad Al-Shamie, a second-generation immigrant from Syria. Since 1989 there have been some 32 attempted attacks on British soil that have been categorised by MI5 as Islamic terrorist attacks, of which 15 have been successfully carried out. These killed 96 people (not including the terrorists) and injured 1,947. The terrorists included five Pakistanis, three Nigerians, three Libyans, two Iraqis, two Moroccans, two Somalis, one Indian, one Sri Lankan, one Syrian, one Jamaican and one Briton. Some were foreign nationals, some second-generation immigrants, some asylum seekers. All were Muslims. This tally doesn’t include the attack in Southport, in July 2024, that killed 3 children and injured 10, but which, despite the perpetrator being a Rwandan Muslim who possessed an Al Qaeda training manual which had instructed him in how to produce a biological agent that could have killed an estimated 1,269 people, has not been categorised as an Islamic terrorist attack. Even under such politically-motivated denial of the reality of Islam, MI5 has admitted that more than 37 Islamist-inspired terrorist attack plots have been disrupted since 2017, an average of four every year, of which only around a dozen have been revealed to the public or reached the UK courts. Analysts, therefore, have estimated that the total number of Islamic terrorist attacks plotted against the British people between 1989 and 2025 almost certainly exceeded 100, of which roughly two-thirds have not been disclosed to the public. None of this is coincidental. On page after page the Qur’an tells its followers: ‘Fight them until there is no repression and worship is only for Allah’ (2:193). ‘Kill them wherever you come upon them’ (2:191). ‘Fight them until there is no repression’ (2:191). ‘Fight those who do not believe in Allah’ (9:29). ‘Kill the polytheists wherever you find them’ (9:5). Among its other functions, the Muslim Council of Britain has successfully censored the police and media from reporting on these and numerous other incidents of Islamic terrorism, and after every terrorist attack has denied any connection between the commands of their holy book to wage jihad against infidels and the actions of the Muslim terrorists that have killed nearly 100 people in Britain and injured nearly 2,000. Indeed, it is part of the function of Muslim organisations to have these attacks dismissed by the UK media and categorised by UK police forces as the acts of mentally unstable individuals without connections to Al-Qaeda, ISIS or other Islamic-terrorist organisations and who just happen to be Muslims, whether or not they committed them while screaming ‘Allahu Akhbar!’ If you believe the Qur’an is a manual for terrorism and that its printing, sale or distribution should be banned in Britain under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006; that anyone teaching its dogma in mosques or schools or repeating its incitements to kill non-Muslims in public should be arrested and deported to their country of origin, even if they were born here; and want to know what we, the British people, can do to bring this about, please consider purchasing a copy of my book, The Great Replacement and the Islamisation of Britain. The link is below. architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2026/02/26/the…

THEY OUTED A WHISTLEBLOWER TO SHUT HIM UP. THERESA MAY KEPT THE MAN WHO DID IT. Shahmir Sanni (@shahmiruk) was a 24-year-old British-Pakistani volunteer working inside the Brexit campaign. He noticed something. Vote Leave was funnelling £675,000 through a youth group called BeLeave, routed straight to a Canadian data firm called AggregateIQ, and never declaring it. That is illegal. He went to the Electoral Commission and told them. Then Downing Street destroyed him. Stephen Parkinson, Theresa May's political secretary and Sanni's former partner, issued an official statement via Number 10's communications team. It told the press Sanni was gay. Sanni had not come out to most of his friends, his family, or his relatives in Pakistan, where homosexuality is illegal. His family needed security measures after the statement dropped. Theresa May was asked in Parliament if Parkinson should resign. She said: my political secretary does a very good job. The Electoral Commission later confirmed it. Vote Leave broke spending law. They overspent by nearly £500,000, were fined £61,000, and referred to the police. The fine was capped by law. The police did nothing. Parkinson was rewarded with a life peerage in May's resignation honours. He is now Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, sitting in the House of Lords. Sanni had to come out to his mother two days before giving a public speech. He found out she knew when he told her. The state had already made sure everyone else did too. This is what political whistleblowing looks like in Britain. You expose the fraud. They expose you. Then they give the person who did it a seat in the Lords. SOURCES: The Guardian / The Observer @guardian, Channel 4 News @Channel4News, March 24, 2018