Batley and Spen is a small, seemingly insignificant old mill town in the British Midlands. Its drabness and decay are depressing in their ordinariness, but behind these old tenement houses — where outside toilets have been clumsily reattached — is a seething rage no one is prepared to talk about. It’s the reason I have spent time there in the past, to try and force this conversation into the open.
And right now, these awkward truths are glaring the country in the face.
Boris Johnson today decried the violent mob who celebrated ‘tearing this b**ch down’ as they toppled and desecrated statues of Britain’s Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II during Canada Day protests sparked by the discovery of mass graves of indigenous schoolchildren.
In scenes reminiscent of the BLM protests where a ‘hit list’ of ‘racist’ statues in the US and UK was drawn up for destruction after the murder of George Floyd, the bronze sculptures of Britain’s current monarch and her great-great grandmother in Winnipeg were hauled down, daubed with red paint and even appeared to have been strangled with Mohawk flags.
With no police to be seen anywhere, protesters in orange led by members of the left-wing anti-colonial ‘Idle No More’ group campaigning for Canada Day to be cancelled, tied ropes to the necks of the statues and ripped them to the ground to chants of ‘no to genocide’ and ‘bring her down’ amid fury over the deaths of 1,000 indigenous children found buried in mass graves this month.
TWO members of a vile Rochdale grooming gang are trying to fight deportation claiming it breaches their human rights.
Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 52, raped girls as young as 13 – including one who fell pregnant – as they preyed on vulnerable youngsters.
A monthly record number of reports of anti-Semitic incidents were recorded following the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in May, a charity says. So how does it feel to be Jewish in the UK?
Rabbi Nicky Liss had been preparing to give a midnight talk at a north London synagogue last month, when he began to feel nervous.
A rabbi of 13 years, he was used to giving speeches. This one, to mark the start of the Jewish festival of Shavuot on 16 May, should not, on the face of it, have been any different.
But that afternoon, events built to what he describes as a “crescendo”.
Britons have vented their anger after a clip, taken from a Sky News broadcast, went viral in which a British Muslim claimed homosexuality is “heinous” and that “women were created for man’s pleasure.”
Muslims giving their verdict on Pride and the role of women to Sky News.
Double bigotry in one sentence. pic.twitter.com/GC9BG03FUP— AltNewsMedia 🌍 (@AltNewsMedia) June 29, 2021
Americans are not alone in their struggle to preserve their nation’s demographic character. The United Kingdom, the Mother civilization of this great country, is going through her own Great Replacement. White Britons have known since at least 2010 that they’ll become a minority by about 2060 if things don’t change. But a report two years ago about England’s second largest city, Birmingham, sharpened the point: It predicted that more than half the city’s 1.2 million residents being non-white, meaning whites will become a minority this year.
h/t Marvin
Muslim backlash leaves Keir Starmer facing new Red Wall humiliation that could end his Labour leadership
Sir Keir Starmer is heading for a by-election defeat that could end his leadership amid claims his tough stance on antisemitism has cost him the trust of Muslim voters.
He faces a bitter backlash from Muslim communities in Labour-held Batley and Spen, with even his wife Victoria’s Jewish heritage apparently being cited as one reason not to vote Labour.
Starmer loyalists last night hit back at what they said were ‘repellent and repugnant’ attempts to draw Mrs Starmer into the West Yorkshire by-election battle, where polls have put the Tories on course to snatch the Red Wall seat.
Did you expect to witness this sort of thing being reported in a mainstream newspaper in this day and age?
It’s a dream come true for our mass-immigration multicultists.
Shamima Begum’s lawyers tell immigration hearing there is ‘overwhelming evidence’ she was the victim of trafficking when she left Britain to join ISIS and claim she is ‘unsafe’ in Syria camp
The inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing points to some serious problems in our society.
The independent inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing of May 2017, in which 22 pop fans were killed by an Islamist extremist, has published the first volume of its report. It makes for chilling reading. The inquiry has found there were numerous ‘missed opportunities’ to confront Salman Abedi, the bomber, and potentially stop him from detonating the device in his rucksack. Most chilling of all is the reason given by one of the key security guards on patrol that evening as to why he failed to question Abedi. He was worried, he said, that asking a brown-skinned man why he was hanging around the arena might be construed as racist.
Conservative MP Sajid Javid has said allowing children under 18 to marry is “child abuse”, admitting it was a cultural practice “prevalent in certain communities”.
Mr Javid, who had served as home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer, made the remarks after drafting a Bill to scrap the legal loophole which allows underaged people to be coerced into marriages. Under current law, 16- and 17-year-olds can marry with their parents’ consent in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, the legal age to marry without parental support is 16.
A teacher who was suspended after showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils during an RE lesson has refused to return to work over fears for his life – despite being cleared of causing deliberate offence and told that he could have his job back.
He continues to remain in hiding with his family and has permanently left the housing association property they shared near Batley.
The family have been rehoused at a secret location with not even close relatives being informed about where it is.
Reports of antisemitism in London have hit a record high in May, according to a Jewish charity which said that almost all were related to the conflict between Israel and Palestinian terror group Hamas.
The Community Security Trust (CST) said there were 201 antisemitic incidents reported in London, where two-thirds of the UK’s 300,000 Jewish people are said to live, and that there had been a five-fold increase in incidents since the beginning of the Middle East conflict.
Fraying relations with Britain’s ethnic minorities could be the final nail in Labour’s coffin.
The fundamental realignment of post-Brexit British politics continues.
Labour under Jeremy Corbyn performed disastrously at the 2019 General Election. Now, under the leadership of Keir Starmer, the architect of Labour’s anti-democratic second-referendum policy, Labour’s woes have deepened.
Ministers are understood to be diverting officials to monitor and disrupt those who promote ‘fear and division’
Hate preachers will be treated as a “priority threat” and tackled as part of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy, amid concerns about a resurgence of Islamist extremism.
The Telegraph understands ministers are preparing to direct counter-terrorism officials to monitor and “disrupt” the activities of those who “promote fear and division”, without involvement in terror.
One former counter-terrorism officer suggested that the move could lead to officials and police attempting to prevent certain extremists from distributing material on the streets or holding large events, and challenging them when they speak in public.
