Category Archives: United Kingdom

UK police have been filmed questioning a man after it was alleged he offended somebody on Facebook. Officers requested the man undergo a voluntary interview at the police station for the alleged crime of “malicious communications.” The officer defined “malicious communications” as a comment “on an open forum, which is social media, which is deemed to be offensive.” Meanwhile, the number of knife crimes in England and Wales has risen to a new record high, according to the Office for National Statistics. BBC News reported on Friday that there were 46,265 offences in the 12 months to the end of…

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The UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called for an urgent review into coronavirus death data in England after it was revealed reported deaths may have included people who tested positive months before their death. The decision comes after Dr Yoon Loke, a pharmacologist at the University of East Anglia revealed Public Health England (PHE) is ‘over-exaggerating’ the daily death toll by including people who die of any cause after they’ve tested positive for COVID-19. According to BBC News, other UK nations are only thought to include those who die within 28 days of having coronavirus. “It seems that PHE…

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Police in the UK have arrested a 12-year-old boy for sending racist messages to a Premier League footballer. The child from Solihull reportedly sent a series of posts to Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha which included a message that read: “You better not score tomorrow you black ****” Zaha took to Twitter and Instagram where he shared screenshots with his almost 900k followers of the messages he’d received, along with the boy’s social media account. Crystal Palace manager, Roy Hodgson, supported Zaha’s decision to make the messages public. “I think it’s important,” he said.” I think it is being highlighted very…

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I’m amazed at how some news items disappear as quickly as they arrive – and it’s rarely by accident. If you coughed you may have missed the news last month that three Brits had been stabbed to death in broad daylight by a Libyan refugee yelling “Allahu Akbar”. It later emerged that the dead, killed as they socialised in a Reading park, were all homosexuals. CNN tweeted: “A UK stabbing incident that left three people dead and several injured is declared a terrorist incident by police.” UK stabbing incident. Kind of like that New York jet plane incident back in…

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A High Court judge has told England’s only evangelical Christian fostering agency that they ‘must’ allow homosexuals to sign up as foster carers. According to BBC News, Cornerstone Adoption and Fostering Service launched a High Court challenge against Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills) after inspectors from the government body deemed its policies discriminatory and lowered its rating. The Christian agency was criticised for only placing children with married heterosexual foster carers, a policy Justice Julian Knowles said was unlawful. “The law requires Cornerstone to accept gay men and lesbian women as potential foster carers,” the…

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Police in the UK have launched a probe after “unacceptable” posters with the phrase “It’s Okay To Be White” were spotted at a shopping centre in Nailsea, Somerset. According to BBC News, Shane Jones, a local, was left “shocked” and “disgusted” when he discovered the five posters stuck to the centre’s glass door entrance on Cleveland Walk early Sunday morning. Jones said the posters “must have been up for quite a while” which made it even “more shocking.” Avon and Somerset Police Superintendent Andy Bennett described the posters as “inexplicable and unacceptable,” saying the force takes “any reported hate crime…

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Chair of Lambeth Independent Police Advisory Group and community activist Lorraine Jones said she wasn’t sure if the statue of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill should be removed because she hasn’t ‘personally met him.’ Lorraine Jones appeared on Channel 4 News yesterday to speak with presenter Cathy Newman about the recent protests and counter-protests across London. Ms Jones suggested it’s time for the government to reexamine the historic statues around the city and promptly relocate any ‘that shouldn’t be there’ to a museum. “I think that what needs to happen, which I know has already started, we need to look…

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) attended a protest on Saturday following the death of George Floyd, but things took an unexpected turn when the mayor was asked if he would commit to defunding the police department. Frey told the crowd that he believes the department must undergo “structural reforms” and that “systemic, racist system needs to be revamped.” The speaker responded: “We don’t want any more police, is that clear? We don’t want people with guns in our communities, shooting us down. Do you have an answer? It is a yes or no?” Frey responded by saying he doesn’t support…

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Video shared on social media allegedly shows visitors inside a UK hospital being forced to wait while NHS nurses perform a dance routine for the video-sharing platform Tik Tok. “What are they doing?” the woman filming the incident can be heard saying, after noticing hospital staff lined along both sides of a corridor with mops in their hands. “I’m really curious,” she added. “That’s why we’ve been waiting so long. They’re going down here with a bunch of mops,” she said. “They are mugging the system,” another witness said. “We’ve been in the hospital, what?” the woman filming said. “Is…

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Troubling footage has emerged of a police officer in the UK threatening to arrest a young man on fake charges.   The incident, which occurred April 17 in Accrington, Lancashire, was captured on video and uploaded to social media soon after. The video begins moments after Lancashire Police stopped to question a group of males with a quad bike and shows an officer threatening to arrest one of the young men on false charges. “Sit in your car and shut up,” the officer said. “If you want to f***ing step to me and puffing your chest out or something like…

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Police officers in the UK have broken down a man’s front door in order to “double-check” he wasn’t violating social distancing rules. The man, who recorded the incident on his phone, soon after uploaded the footage to social media which has since gone viral. The recording begins seconds after at least four police officers wearing no protection gear smashed through the man’s door and forcibly entered his house on suspicion that he had visitors in violation of coronavirus self-isolation orders. “Listen to us,” the female officer said as she entered his home. “We’ve had a call, haven’t we — because…

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UK Police have threatened a radio show host after he reported a mosque for violating COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings. North Yorkshire Police turned up at the apartment of Tom Linden, host of UK Preppers Radio Network, after he issued a complaint to West Yorkshire Police about Muslims flouting the restriction rules by gathering in mosques for Friday prayers. In the complaint, Mr Linden informed police that as an independent journalist, he intended on monitoring and reporting on the mass gatherings. “All other religious denominations places of worship are of course closed and quite rightly so in my opinion,” Mr…

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Northamptonshire chief constable has threatened to arrest people who “flout” coronavirus restrictions, despite the coronavirus bill not granting police such powers. Chief constable Nick Adderley told Sky News on Thursday that although the coronavirus bill only allows police officers to issue fines, officers can use “the wide-ranging powers” they’ve been given to arrest individuals for other reasons, such as anti-social behaviour. “We’ve stepped things up here, because we’ve given the public three weeks to get used to this. This is a massive change in terms of their lifestyle and how they can operate. We’ve worked on the basis of engagement…

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Warning: Highly disturbing story. A seven-year-old girl has been stabbed to death as she played at a park in Bolton, Manchester. According to some reports, the attacker was a  Somali immigrant, although police have not yet released the attacker’s identity. Emily Jones was stabbed in the neck in front of her horrified father on Mother’s Day as she rode her scooter past a 30-year-old female sitting on a bench at Queen’s Park. According to Greater Manchester Police, as the young girl past, the woman on the bench suddenly attacked Emily, causing catastrophic injury. Emily was taken to Salford Royal Hospital…

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Tommy Robinson has confronted a group of thugs “purposefully” coughing on and spitting at an elderly couple in the UK. Robinson and his family were in their vehicle when he spotted the three youths abusing the older man and woman who were on their way to buy groceries. According to the elderly male victim, the couple were walking down the street towards the store when the youths “purposely coughed” at them. The man said he called out to the three men, saying, “You can’t do that. That’s just not on.” A female witness at the scene said the attackers were…

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The UK Government is continuing its war on words and they’re now setting its sights on those who verbally insult other people for the way they look. UK Home Office shared a minute-long video on social media on Friday saying it is now a “hate crime” to insult someone’s appearance. “No one should be abused and insulted because of the way they look,” Home Office tweeted. “If you are – it’s a hate crime.” The video features a number of individuals with facial birthmarks, scarring and deformities recounting negative comments they’ve received because of their appearance. “Every day we get…

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Police in the UK have warned a Christian street preacher that it’s now a criminal offence to preach the Bible in public if someone deems it offensive. Joshua Sutcliffe was preaching at Oxford Circus in London when he was approached by an officer of the Metropolitan Police force. The officer had been called in after a member of the public reported Mr Sutcliffe for saying something they did not agree with. “Just had a call that someone was offended by something you’ve said,” the officer explained. “I’m not going to stop you from doing what you do, but if there’s…

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Parents of a 13-year-old girl have accused a school in the UK of “brainwashing” their daughter into believing she is transgender. According to the Daily Mail, Ashleigh and Ged Barnett said the head of the LGBT group at Hoe Valley School in Woking, Surrey, conducted weekly one-to-one sessions with their daughter without their consent or knowledge. Mrs Barnett said a teaching assistant at the school had also pointed their daughter to a YouTube channel of trans activists promoting irreversible transgender surgeries and encouraged the youngster to change in the boy’s cubical. “The school didn’t think it was fit to tell…

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A Sky News report in the UK has left viewers scratching their heads and questioning their grip on reality after airing footage of a red folder that appears to inexplicably change colour mid-scene. The report featured footage of Chancellor Rishi Sunak exiting 10 Downing Street on Tuesday with a red folder containing the first budget under his arm. As Sunak walks towards a nearby vehicle, he briefly passes behind a parked car. When he reemerges, however, the red folder he was once clasping is now bright green.  Social media lit up with countless theories attempting to explain the bizarre…

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A 23-year-old woman who was given “experimental” puberty-blocking drugs at 16-years of age is taking legal action against the UK’s first gender clinic for children. Keira Bell said her gender reassignment treatment, which she now “very seriously regrets”, quickly “snowballed” after she was referred to the clinic by her GP. The teenager began taking the life-altering treatment after three one-hour long appointments at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust clinic. Ms Bell said, at the time, she was unaware of the real consequences of taking the hormone blockers, which were prescribed by the clinic to halt the development of her…

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