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Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Wommando) on X

👉This man had just been released from prison after serving 10 years for stamping on the stomach of a woman who was nine-months pregnant. ⚠️...

Teesside: Sadistic Paul Devaney, 42, who locked a woman in a flat and raped her, has been jailed for a minimum of just 8 years. Paul Devaney captured the "completely petrified" victim naked on camera as he filmed himself threatening to rape her. He admitted false imprisonment and rape. His sentencing was delayed after a prison guard reported that Devaney assaulted him, whilst he has been held on remand. Judge Aisha Wadoodi handed Devaney a life sentence with a minimum term of eight years. He will be on licence for the rest of his life if he is released. This man must never be released.

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A father put sleeping tablets in his daughter’s friends’ chocolate milk before sexually abusing them during sleepovers at his home and a campsite in the Netherlands, a court has heard. On the first day of his six-day trial in Rotterdam, the 46-year-old admitted using high doses of sedatives to keep his victims, alleged to number as many as 31, asleep. Named only as Mels van B, he allegedly sexually abused 18 girls, including the daughter of his best friend, and made sexual images of the others. Most of his victims were of primary school age but the court was told he filmed himself abusing his own daughter, who was just a few months old at the time. Van B is being prosecuted for crimes committed between 2013 and August 2024 at his home in Barendrecht, or at the campsite in Hoeven, in the province of Noord-Brabant, where he rented a pitch for his caravan. The abuse was exposed after a 10-year-old girl woke up during an assault at the campsite in the summer of 2024. She texted her parents to bring her home a day early.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/swinney-urged-to-meet-victims-and-see-devastation-eljamel-caused/ David, 55, who lives near Kirriemuir, Angus, was left paralysed down his left leg and lives in constant pain following two botched surgeries by Eljamel, the former head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, who fled to Libya after he was suspended in 2013. David said: “I don’t think government ministers have any idea about just how badly injured Eljamel patients are, or how their lives have been catastrophically affected. “I firmly believe they need to see for themselves the devastation Eljamel caused to so many people to fully understand the extent of this scandal and the impact it has had on hundreds of families.” He believes he is one of many patients whose theatre logbooks were destroyed by NHS Tayside despite a legal order from the ­ongoing public inquiry banning the health board from disposing of records. NHS Tayside, who were forced to apologise last month over the issue, have admitted Eljamel treated 3,800 patients between 1995 and when he “retired” in 2013. David said: “I’ve searched my medical records and can find absolutely no trace of the theatre logbooks, so I believe I’m one of the many hundreds of patients whose records were destroyed. Like many others, I also have medical records which are missing.” NHS Tayside admitted around 40 logbooks, containing details of thousands of operations, were destroyed.

Scottish Daily Express

Asylum seekers at barracks to get mental health support while locals must wait

The 'bespoke' healthcare package on offer for up to 300 undocumented male migrants will include mental health support – but locals have to wait f...

The revelation was described as a "massive slap in the face" to local people in the Highland capital, who must wait around five months before starting regular sessions on the NHS. Alternatively, one hour of private therapy costs between £40 to £100. The Home Office says it has yet to make a "final decision" on whether it will use the barracks to house up to 300 men who have entered the UK illegally, mainly on small boats across the English Channel. It has already caused huge anger in Inverness, even before details of the "bespoke" healthcare package were revealed. Reform UK spokesman Thomas Kerr said: "The Cameron Barracks is simply the wrong location for a facility like this. Local people are rightly angry. To now learn that taxpayers will also be paying for mental health support for people who have come to this country illegally is a massive slap in the face."

The courage of Iran’s women puts woke Westerners to shame

The keffiyeh-clad class is utterly indifferent to this genuine struggle for liberty against Islamist oppression.

It is impossible to overstate the bravery of Iran’s protesters. Men and women, united in opposition to the dictatorship, have taken to the streets in defiance of the threat to their lives. Not even this has been enough to nudge privileged Western activists to so much as summon up a hashtag in solidarity with Iran’s women. Instead, those quick to ‘blackout’ social media, take the knee or don a keffiyeh for supposedly ‘right’ cause, have determinedly looked the other way. The presence of women at the heart of Iran’s uprising is significant. By protesting against laws mandating strict dress codes and compulsory wearing of the hijab, women are not just defying Iran’s Islamist dictatorship, but also the sexist and oppressive practices associated with Islam more broadly. Anti-hijab protests expose the myth, endlessly repeated by the BBC and other liberal news outlets, that the latest round of protests in Iran took off simply because of rising inflation and the spiralling cost of living. Iran’s women are not taking to the streets meekly begging for food or asking for a little extra money. They are marching in defiance of a brutal regime that has terrorised all citizens. And they are burning hijabs, a hated symbol of women’s particular oppression. Throughout this recent wave of protest, mass displays of solidarity from the West’s activist class have been notable only by their absence. Greta Thunberg, vocal in criticising Israel, seemingly has nothing to say about the killing of women in Iran. The same is true of Dawn French, Olivia Colman, Nicola Coughlan, Paloma Faith, Juliette Binoche… the list goes on and on. Celebrities queued up to sign petitions, pen open letters, make TikToks and join protests critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza. Students established protest camps on posh university lawns and hundreds of thousands of people marched through Britain’s city centres week after week, purportedly in solidarity with Palestinians. But when it comes to supporting Iranian women? Silence. Actually, what’s happening in the West is more shameful than mere silence. At the very same time that women in Iran are defying the morality police, burning hijabs and demanding ‘freedom’, Europe’s cultural elite are busy promoting hijabi-chic in advertising campaigns and public-information posters. The garment rejected as oppressive in Iran is being normalised in Europe. Here, the hijab is promoted as striking a blow for ‘diversity’ and a challenge to ‘Islamophobia’.

Ayatollah Starmer’s X crackdown is an insult to brave Iranians

We must call out this crusade against Elon Musk for the authoritarian wheeze that it is.

If you think this is just about a rogue AI making creepy, scantily clad images, then I have a disturbing calendar of the prime minister to sell you. If it were, why doesn’t the government go after Grok specifically, rather than X? Indeed, this is what Indonesia and Malaysia have just done, temporarily suspending Grok – but leaving X itself up and running – until such time as Musk gets his act together. Who’d have thought supposedly liberal Britain would be taking lessons in proportion from these two socially conservative, majority-Muslim nations? More to the point, if child safeguarding is Ofcom’s top priority, shouldn’t Snapchat, rather than X, be in the dock? It’s the most widely used platform for online grooming, according to police figures – accounting for almost half of all ‘sexual communication with a child’ offences where a specific platform has been recorded. Bluesky, a woke alternative to X, also has a notorious problem with death threats, because nothing says #BeKind like telling a TERF you have a bullet with her name on it. Perhaps Starmer is waiting until his next appearance on Smooth FM to tear them a new one. We all know what this is about. Since 2016, the elites have been going through one of their periodic panics about freedom of speech and democracy. Brexit, Trump – these things would simply never have happened, the sore losers consoled themselves, had social-media companies cleansed all the ‘hate’ and ‘misinformation’ from their platforms. They then pushed Big Tech into censoring speech on everything from Covid to migration. Grooming gangs. Illegal migration. So many of the scandals that have troubled this Labour government would have been more easily waved away were it not for social media in general and X in particular. When Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was welcomed by Starmer into the UK over Christmas, owing to a tenuous claim to citizenship, it took X all of five minutes to discover his long history of anti-Semitic, violent and anti-white posts. The grooming gangs may have been painstakingly exposed by courageous MPs, whistleblowers and reporters over decades, but it took Musk suddenly finding out about it all this time last year for Labour to be shamed into holding a national inquiry.

7 October was the biggest mistake Iran ever made

The Iranian regime thought it signed Israel’s death warrant on 7 October 2023 – in fact, it may have signed its own.

The mullahs’ cosmic animus for the Jewish State hit the Iranian people hard. The shopkeepers and students of Iran watched their cash lose its value as the theocrats sent billions to the rich racists who lead Hamas and Hezbollah. Little wonder one of the rallying cries on the streets is ‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life for Iran!’. In short, no more lavish, spiteful warmongering over there – focus instead on here. After the 12 Day War, Western leftists said Israel’s strikes against Iran would cause the Iranian people to rally behind the mullahs. The opposite happened. Millions were sickened by the profligate hawkishness of the regime and now openly demand that it forget ‘Gaza and Lebanon’. What an extraordinary situation – the privileged keffiyeh classes of the West long for more strikes on the Jewish State, while Iranian rebels say: ‘Enough.’ Our own Islamo-left instinctively wants the Iranian regime to survive, in the catastrophically foolish belief that it is a counterweight to the West, capitalism and Israel. Iranian protesters want it to die, in the searing, true belief that it is a counterweight to their own freedom, and to reason itself. Some on the faux-left say the ‘Zionist lobby’ is behind the revolt in Iran. It is a testament to their own Orientalist bigotry that they would so cavalierly strip the rebels of agency and reduce them to dupes of the Jews.

‘Free-thinking women are being culled from the arts’

Rosie Kay on how cancel culture and self-censorship are sapping the life out of the creative industries.

I see so many women being bullied and harassed for not accepting trans ideology. They’re leaving their professions, they’re being pushed off boards. I’ve met really accomplished women who told me they tried to communicate their point of view, but were ostracised or forced out of their companies, or investigated over tenuous, strange accusations. It feels like there’s a kind of cull happening to all the bright, intelligent, ambitious women in the arts. Just look at Kate Clanchy, who was dropped by her publisher after activists tore her book apart. Or Martin Speake, the jazz musician forced to resign from the Trinity Laban conservatoire for questioning Black Lives Matter. These were hugely impactful cases. People aren’t just losing a job – they’re losing their entire livelihood, their reputation, and decades of work they’ve built from scratch. I try to remind myself that the people doing the attacking genuinely think they’re in the right. They believe they’re virtuous and that they’re doing something powerful and wonderful. But it’s such an odd juxtaposition. It’s so strange to witness. The issue of self-censorship continues to strike me every time I hear about it. There was a successful experimental poet I interviewed who had written a poem maybe 10 or 15 years ago from the perspective of a complex female character. In our discussion, he explained that now, if he starts imagining characters or situations that could be perceived as ‘dangerous’, he stops the thought entirely. I find that extraordinary.