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Seven Afghan refugees have been accused of being part of a grooming gang and charged with rape and child sex abuse offences. Norfolk police said that the men were charged as part of an investigation into group-based child sexual exploitation in Norwich. They appeared in court today, accused of sexual offences between August 2023 and May 2025 against two victims who were in their early-to-mid teens.

Putin has signed a law that effectively gives the Kremlin a legal pretext to deploy russian troops abroad under the guise of “protecting russian citizens.” According to the Russian Federation Council’s Committee on Defense and Security, such situations “provide for the possibility of involving the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” to “protect” russian citizens by decision of the russian president. The State Duma passed it without a single vote against. Putin signed it today. This is the exact same playbook the Kremlin has used for years. First, distribute russian passports in foreign territories. Then claim those “russian citizens” are under threat. Then use that manufactured narrative as justification for military intervention, occupation, or annexation. They did it in: •Georgia •Crimea •Donbas •and repeatedly threatened the same elsewhere across the former Soviet sphere. The framing is new – the law also covers russians facing prosecution in foreign or international courts whose jurisdiction Moscow does not recognise, including the ICC that issued an arrest warrant for Putin himself. But the logic is identical: invent a class of “endangered” russians abroad, then reserve the right to send in the army. This law is not about protecting people. It is about creating a permanent legal mechanism for imperial expansion and military aggression under humanitarian language. The world should stop pretending these are isolated actions. This is state doctrine.

400,000 dead Americans at Arlington. Fuckface somehow heard: “This would be a good moment to joke about how few dead soldiers were named Donald.” This utterly vile, self-obsessed asshole turns a sombre event into a fucking stand-up routine about himself.

💔 Boris Němcov, matematik a fyzik, bývalý vicepremiér Ruska za vlády Borise Jelcina. Vzdělaný, zkušený a charismatický liberální politik, demokrat. Zřejmě poslední reálná šance pro Rusko udržet kurs směrem ke slušné společnosti demokratického světa. Píše se rok 2008. Osm let po nástupu agenta KGB Vladimíra Putina na ruský carský trůn. Už tehdy popsal Němcov, co se bude dít a co Putin připravuje. Věděl, že ruské energie nebudou pro Evropu pomoc, ale zbraň proti ní. Věděl, že se budou vyrábět tanky. A že postupná izolace Ruska způsobí uvnitř ruského státu vzestup xenofobie a nenávisti vůči všemu neruskému. Za pár týdnů od tohoto rozhovoru zahájí Putin invazi do 🇬🇪 Gruzie se záminkou "ochrany" Osetinců a Abchazů od "zločinného gruzínského režimu". Copak vám ten scénář připomíná? Je neuvěřitelné, jak přesný byl Němcov ve svých předpovědích a v tom, jak měl Putina přečteného. A protože jako jediný byl schopen zmobilizovat po ruském napadení Ukrajiny a anexi Krymu statisíce Rusů, kteří za ním přišli do ulic Moskvy na tzv. Pochody miru, stal se nepřítelem režimu číslo jedna. Borise Němcova 27. 2. 2015 zastřelili najatí vrahové čtyřmi ranami z pistole do zad, přímo před očima jeho přítelkyně na mostě pod Kremlem. Tím okamžikem v Rusku definitivně zemřela svoboda, demokracie a lidskost.

Eleven Rape Convictions. Not One Day In Custody. And Lammy Wants to Go Further. Two girls were raped in a New Forest town in November 2024 and January 2025. They were fifteen and fourteen years old. Their attackers filmed the assaults, shared the footage online and laughed. One of the girls was raped at knifepoint. Three boys walked out of Southampton Crown Court with youth rehabilitation orders and a three month curfew. Eleven rape convictions between them. Not one day in custody. The first girl read her victim impact statement at sentencing. I was caught off guard. I will never get that innocence back. All I want to do is die. I no longer have fear for when that comes. The judge praised her courage. He then told her attackers none of you need to go to prison today. Judge Nicholas Rowland cited their very young ages, their ADHD diagnoses, their low intellectual capacity and the importance of avoiding criminalising children unnecessarily. He was following the Sentencing Council's guidance precisely. Custody is a last resort. Rehabilitation is the primary purpose. The sentence is not the judge's failure. It is the policy's product. Which makes what David Lammy is simultaneously planning considerably more alarming than the sentences themselves. The Justice Secretary is weighing proposals to extend that same framework, treating offenders as children, prioritising rehabilitation over punishment, minimising custody, to all offenders under 25. The Scottish model he is considering produced a killer rapist who set a woman on fire receiving five fewer years than he would have otherwise. It produced a man who repeatedly raped a thirteen year old girl avoiding prison entirely. Lammy wants to bring that framework to England and Wales while Lord Hermer urgently reviews sentences that are its direct and inevitable consequence. The Attorney General who removed trial by jury for thousands of defendants has 28 days to decide whether filming a knifepoint gang rape and sharing it online warrants custody. The same man who ensured extra court capacity was in place for last weekend's Unite ghe Kingdom march is taking nearly a month to answer that question. The second girl's statement was read on her behalf. She described nightmares, inability to sleep and feeling ashamed and insecure in her own body. The person I was before the incident has completely gone and sometimes I feel like I am grieving the person I used to be. Under the framework Lammy is proposing, the boys who produced that grief would continue to be treated as children requiring support rather than adults requiring consequences. Former Met Police detective Peter Bleksley's call to bring back borstals will be dismissed in progressive circles as nostalgic authoritarianism. It deserves more serious engagement than that. The borstal system, whatever its flaws, operated on a principle the current framework has abandoned entirely. That young people who commit serious offences require structure, discipline and consequence rather than community orders and supervision. The evidence that rehabilitation focused community sentences deter serious youth offending is thin. The evidence from Scotland that treating young adult offenders as children produces lighter sentences for grave crimes is documented. The Fordingbridge victims are not statistics in a sentencing review. They are two girls whose lives have been permanently altered by three boys who will be back in their communities within months. The policy that produced their sentences is the same policy the government is planning to expand. Lord Hermer's shock is noted. His government's direction of travel tells a different story. The sentence was not a miscarriage of justice. It was justice as currently defined. That is the most alarming observation of all. "Lammy wants to bring that framework to England and Wales while Lord Hermer urgently reviews sentences that are its direct and inevitable consequence."

He’s going to be as utterly useless as his father.

Here is Lavrov whining that ‘the West’ didn't mourn an attack in occupied Ukraine, all while completely ignoring the thousands of Ukrainian civilians Russia has slaughtered. Watch him pretend his 'global majority', basically just Belarus and a couple of captured regimes, actually cares about his fake outrage. Lavrov: “By the way, I express my sincere gratitude to all the states represented here that offered us their heartfelt condolences regarding the horrific terrorist act in Starobelsk on May 21st, orchestrated by the Nazi Kyiv regime. And... this terrorist attack was ignored by the West, overlooked, despite the measures we took to bring the maximum number of journalists there. In my opinion, journalists from the countries of the global majority honestly fulfilled their duty, which cannot be said about their Western colleagues. Some simply refused to even show up there. Some claimed to be on vacation, and others were simply forbidden by their governments. That is just a note on the 'free press.'"