Ben Knight

Cross-channel migrant-smuggling gang exposed by BBC undercover filming Exclusive: Secret filming reveals smugglers' forest hideout and cash deals at UK train station.

People traffickers are the lowest of the low.
Life imprisonment is entirely appropriate for those with upper roles.
The damage they cause to those they traffic is extraordinary and permanent.
And the ammunition they've given to scumbag racists is similarly huge.
Nail these bastards.

#TeamKit time on the Sewing Bee!

Disco the tabby cat stretched out and fast asleep on a dark grey sofa, with one paw extended forward and a look of peaceful contentment on his face.

Today's photo of my sleepy, sleepy, Disco-Cat.
Tippex has been working on my desk with me but she hasn't done her hair so doesn't want internet fame today.
#cats

Yep

Disco-Cat, a tabby tom, is curled up asleep on a dark leather surface. His head is twisted upside down in a comically contorted position, with one paw draped over his face and his mouth slightly open to reveal a few tiny teeth. His flooffy body is completely relaxed, mid-dream and, in fact, mid-snore.

This little Discocat is fast asleep and is giving ELEGANZA.
No, really.

He's utterly full of shit.

This lot want to ban the burka

That and then some.

20+ years of similar experience and can confirm.
And jury trials are not the problem (other than the delays).
The conviction rate post-charge for rape and SSA are higher than most other offences. The charge rate is the lowest, however.
The main issue is in the investigation and charging stage.

Perhaps I didn't communicate either the sarcasm about the penises or the 'biologically not men' paradox created by this absurd ruling.
That is what I was taking a swat at.
It is plainly bloody stupid and unworkable and doesn't 'solve' anything - such as there was anything *to* solve.

Hate and clicks an ad revenue are the points

That's pretty wild, isn't it?
I'm glad BM isn't taking it lying down.
These people are f'ing cowards.

Wait til the transphobes figure out that their 'bathrooms victory' means that 1) trans men with penises (!!!) now must use the women's toilets and 2) that the elusive predator cis-man can now just say he's a trans man and therefore must use the women's toilets!
It was NEVER about safety.

Or have but have had no idea at all.
And have likely incorrectly assumed somebody was trans.
It's pathetic and it's totally unfounded.
But that's the magic of it!
It's a numbers game for the neopop grifters.

UK people
Anybody got experience (as an adult) of the ADHD Centre, please?
www.adhdcentre.co.uk

The objective of the neopopulists has been to find the widest possible inclusion in hatred of the smallest possible groups.
Hence trans people and asylum seekers.
Tiny % of the population.
Can include men, women, children or all ethnicities and sexualities in the mobilised hatred.

Yep. And it's somewhat novel as it's not just men, now.

Because they WANT to believe it.
Neopopulists sell absolution for their most disgusting tendancies and thoughts, and they sell a passing of blame to others for faults/crimes of themselves.

Yes. All financed, promoted, and pushed by the same people.
Neopopulism is a global business endeavour of an organised crime group.

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO??
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When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

Neopopulism comes in multiple flavours. Anti Europe and linked to queerphobia? It won't be on the tin just yet. But it'll be there.
And that's before we hit financial illiteracy.
(Just block as it'll save me time)

I fear you are correct

And it remains to see what follows them.

I cancelled US plans.
Many in the UK have.
And it'll be a long time after Trump and the current Republican regiment that I visit again, if at all.
The USA has shown itself to be deeply unwell and thoroughly unsafe for anybody but cis-het white people.

IF Murdoch and Trump properly go at each other - and I mean properly - then the UK Labour Party may be in a place to start the reversal of Brexit openly (not quietly as they are at present), AND to start going after the neopopulists in the UK, starting with Farage.
That's what it will take though.

Couldn't agree more.
It's reckless and dangerous.

Dame Kelly Holmes: “I totally support my Trans siblings” “I have been ignorant in the past about the fight of the Trans community and I now want to see fair and conclusive outcome for those whose gender differs from that assigned at birth, in all w…

Dame Kelly Holmes was at Brighton Pride yesterday. Thank You Dame Kelly for your support. Love & Empathy. xx😊❤️👍

Why are child vaccination rates the lowest they have been in more than a decade? The World Health Organisation sets a 95% target for routine childhood vaccinations to ensure herd immunity and protect the vulnerable who cannot have immunisations themselves - but uptake in England h...

This makes me fucking furious.
This is child neglect and it is also endangering the adult population.
Common sense needs reviving.
Raging.

She's utterly insane.

Pretty much