How can we de-programme the police?

How can we de-programme the police?

I’m not sure why I started following the photographer Alastair Hilton on X. He’s right-ish politically, so perhaps the algorithm just blew him my way. But through the rising tide of online bilge, I still seek out and enjoy Hilton’s posts, mostly because he talks about pubs and posts pictures of cold pints on hot days.

Hilton has a narrowboat on the Thames in Chiswick and seems to half live in the bars along the river, so he was extremely cross about a recent proposal to remove the tables and chairs from the riverside, especially from his local pub, the Bell and Crown. Last week he posted a video in which he said that the word on the Chiswick street is that getting rid of the outdoor seating was the sneaky pet project of a local Green party councillor, Rick Rowe, who lives Thames-side with his boyfriend and dislikes the noise – though you’d have thought a local councillor would support a struggling pub.

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Pakistan sets out demands for taking back Rochdale rapist

Pakistan sets out demands for taking back Rochdale rapist

Pakistan is demanding the extradition of political dissidents from the UK if Britain wants to secure the deportation of the Rochdale grooming gang ringleader.

A senior Pakistani government official has told The Telegraph that Britain needs to “respect the issues that matter” to Pakistan rather than resort to “arm-twisting” and threats to return Shabir Ahmed, a child rapist, to Pakistan.

Ahmed, 73, was released from prison last week after serving 14 years of a 22-year sentence for 30 child rape offences. He cannot be returned to Pakistan despite being stripped of his UK citizenship.

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Teen girl (allegedly) raped in park by a Muslim migrant, officials refer to him as a ‘tanned European’

Teen girl (allegedly) raped in park by a Muslim migrant, officials refer to him as a ‘tanned European’

“England, your ‘police’ are not police. They are the janissaries of your invaders.”

This comment was made in response to a video which showed some sort of sub-Saharan migrant randomly karate-kicking an English man sitting atop his bicycle, only to have the police rush in and defend the aggressor and shuffle him away to freedom. No arrests, nothing.

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Florida governor rebuked by MPs for ‘you’d be speaking German’ jibe

Florida governor rebuked by MPs for ‘you’d be speaking German’ jibe

Ron DeSantis has been accused of “belittling” Britain’s war dead after claiming the country would be speaking German if it were not for the United States.

Ministers, senior MPs and peers criticised the Florida governor over a social media post that suggested the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War was only achieved because of the US.

Mr DeSantis was described as a “cretin” after sharing an X post about the Old Ferry Boat Inn in Cambridgeshire, and using it to make a joke about American military might.

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How Britain’s cops became the armed wing of wokeness

How Britain’s cops became the armed wing of wokeness

Insulting Muhammad. Criticising a local councillor. Being a white lad who gets punched in the head by a gang of black kids. In Britain in 2026, these are the ‘crimes’ that get the cops off their arses. They might not be able to find the lowlifes who burgled your home or the gang members who groomed your daughter. But they’ll come running if you diss Islam or have a pop at a Green politician or commit the heinous sin of being white and male on a night out. Welcome to your two-tier tyranny.

What a mess.

(more…)

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JD Vance says Britain has been ‘failed by its leadership’

JD Vance says Britain has been ‘failed by its leadership’

Vice president JD Vance says that Britain has been “failed by its leadership” as the prepares to welcome its seventh prime minister in a decade.

He expressed concerns about the country’s political structure after Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation on 22 June and the possibility of former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham replacing him.

“What I see is six prime ministers in the last few years,” he told The Sunday Times. “What that says to me is that something is very broken about British politics and that people are really crying out for significant structural change.”


Not even a little bit related …

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Mini-marts linked to convicted people smuggler closed after BBC investigation

Mini-marts linked to convicted people smuggler closed after BBC investigation

Two Leicestershire mini-marts linked to a convicted people smuggler exposed in a BBC investigation have been closed by the local council.

Twana Jamal, once described as “the godfather” of migrant camps in northern France, was recently confronted by our reporting team while running one of the stores, in Blaby on the outskirts of Leicester.

Unbelievable.

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‘Police state’ row as officers track down man who criticised his local Green councillor over outdoor drinking ban and left him fearing arrest

‘Police state’ row as officers track down man who criticised his local Green councillor over outdoor drinking ban and left him fearing arrest

This is the extraordinary moment two Met police officers tracked down a photographer to a pub over his critical tweets about a local Green councillor – despite admitting he had committed no crime.

Alastair Hilton was having a drink with a friend in Chiswick, west London, on Thursday night when uniformed officers grilled him about his social media posts.

Mr Hilton feared being arrested when he was asked to step outside by two policemen as he celebrated a victory for his community over the Labour-run council and saved outdoor seating outside three much-loved pubs on the Thames.

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Vigilantes take to streets as grooming gang ringleader released

Vigilantes take to streets as grooming gang ringleader released

Vigilantes are taking to the streets of Rochdale after a Pakistani grooming gang ringleader was released from prison.

A group organised by local campaigner Billy Howarth will patrol the area in the coming days, with police remaining on standby.

Shabir Ahmed, 73, who was convicted of 30 child rape offences as part of the grooming gang, was released on Thursday and cannot be deported despite being stripped of his British citizenship.

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Astonishing cost of asylum: Home Office confirms each claim costs the taxpayer £18,700

Astonishing cost of asylum: Home Office confirms each claim costs the taxpayer £18,700

Every asylum claim lodged in Britain hits the taxpayer with an £18,700 bill, astonishing new figures disclose.

The average sum includes the cost of providing accommodation and living costs, as well as the sums spent on processing claims and any legal appeals.

It will include Channel small boat arrivals who are housed in migrant hotels as well as less costly types of claimant, such as those who arrive legally on work or student visas and then claim asylum in a bid to remain in Britain.

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5Pillars editor calls for ‘mass physical training program’ for Muslims

5Pillars editor calls for ‘mass physical training program’ for Muslims

The editor of a British news site widely described as Islamist has called for a “mass physical training program” for Muslims to defend themselves.

Roshan Salih, the founding editor of 5Pillars, said in a podcast that “we need to have a mass physical training program within the Muslim community, every single mosque providing that training, every single community center, money being poured into physically training Muslims.” He added that this would mean “we are the fittest community in this country, the strongest community in this country, and the community that is most able to defend itself in this country.”


I bet the CBC approves.

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I went undercover on the Tube to test how safe women really are. Within hours, men followed me, touched me and ignored my pleas to stop

I went undercover on the Tube to test how safe women really are. Within hours, men followed me, touched me and ignored my pleas to stop

It’s around 2am on the Piccadilly Line and the Tube carriage is empty – apart from me and a man twice my age. His eyes never leave me during the 40-minute journey.

Potbellied and with a menacing grin, he moves suddenly from the seat opposite, plonking himself down next to me. He’s desperate to get my attention, talking at me over the deafening noise of the train.

Unnerved, I get off before my stop. But he follows me and on to another near-empty train – this time the Jubilee Line towards Stratford. Again and again he tries to engage me in chat, staring at me and licking his lips.

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More than 80 asylum seekers set to be moved into £250,000 ‘Migrant Street’ newbuild village homes – sparking fury among residents

More than 80 asylum seekers set to be moved into £250,000 ‘Migrant Street’ newbuild village homes – sparking fury among residents

Villagers are fighting plans to move 83 asylum seekers into newbuild homes in a development dubbed ‘Migrant Street.’

They say they were told the new development would be affordable housing. But they have since learned that 21 homes have been earmarked for asylum seekers.

One migrant family has already moved in to the estate – but said they wished to leave because the development was too ‘remote’ and they had faced hostility from locals.

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Britain’s political class has been mistaking the signal for noise

Britain’s political class has been mistaking the signal for noise

Britain is about to have its seventh prime minister in 10 years.

Since David Cameron resigned after the 2016 referendum, Britain has cycled through Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, and soon another prime minister. Yet British voters directly elected only three governments during that period. Most of the turnover occurred inside Westminster as governing parties replaced their own leaders.

That distinction matters.

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South Africa’s warning for Britain

South Africa’s warning for Britain

As Britain reacted to an eruption of anti-migrant violence in Belfast earlier this month, seeing images of burnt-out terraced housing and hearing accounts of African nurses apprehended at checkpoints, a parallel story was unfolding 6,000 miles away, albeit on a much larger scale. In the Sherwood suburb of Durban, South Africa, some five-dozen immigrants from Malawi were taking refuge in a field beside a mosque, having been chased from their homes by protesters demanding they leave the country.

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