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Old December 30th, 2015 #41
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Post Tech companies face criminal charges if they notify users of UK government spying

Last week, it was reported that Yahoo had become the latest company that promised to alert users who it suspected were being spied on by state-sponsored actors. Twitter, Facebook and Google had previously assured their users that they would also warn them of any potential government spying. The UK, it seems, isn’t happy about this, and is pushing through a bill that will see the bosses of any company that warns its members that British agencies are monitoring them face up to two years in prison.

Specifically, UK ministers want to make it a criminal offence for tech firms to warn users of requests for access to their communication data made by security organizations such as MI5, MI6 and GCHQ (the Government Communications Headquarters).

A June report by David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, revealed that Twitter’s policy requires it to notify its users of requests to access their data “unless persuaded not to do so, typically by a court order.” But a note to the bill would make this illegal.

The note says it “will ensure that a communication service provider does not notify the subject of an investigation that a request has been made for their data unless expressly permitted to do so.”

The controversial Investigatory Powers Bill, nicknamed the snooper’s charter, was unveiled by home secretary Theresa May in November. Part of the proposed legislation would require tech firms to store users’ data for up to twelve months, including a record of every internet site visited, and allow government agencies unfettered access to the data. While the bill is being put forward as a deterrent against terrorism, online monitoring at this level has been banned in the US, Canada, and every other European nation.

The bill could also allow the UK government to demand that companies weaken the encryption on messaging services such as WhatsApp and iMessage to enable agencies to evesdrop on conversations, a proposal that Apple is strongly against. “We believe it would be wrong to weaken security for hundreds of millions of law-abiding customers so that it will also be weaker for the very few who pose a threat,” Apple said. “In this rapidly evolving cyber-threat environment, companies should remain free to implement strong encryption to protect customers.”

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Old December 30th, 2015 #42
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Post Northumbira Police Crime Commissioner Vera Baird Will Block You On Twitter If You Bring Up Male Domestic Abuse

A male domestic abuse victim says he was blocked on Twitter by Vera Baird, the Police & Crime Commissioner for Northumbria, after he complained about the sexism of a police campaign that focused solely on female victims.

The Northumbrian resident, who goes by the name “MahdDogg” on Twitter, sent a tweet to the police’s official account, telling them he was “appalled” by the sexism of their campaign, which aimed to publicise a new law that brings “coercive control,” including psychological and economic coercion, under the scope of domestic abuse laws.

Soon after, however, he discovered that he had been blocked on Twitter by Vera Baird, the Police & Crime Commissioner for Northumbria.

It’s not entirely surprising that Baird would block a local resident who complained about sexism against men. Baird is a former Labour MP and an ardent feminist. When she took on domestic abuse cases during her legal career, she almost exclusively represented female victims. She is also the chair of Eaves for Women, a charity that fights violence against women. Eaves proudly bears the slogan “putting women first.”

Of course, the problem with putting any gender first is that it’s the very definition of discrimination.

Breitbart Tech spoke with the Northumbrian resident who was blocked by Baird. He confirmed his identity to us in private, but did not want it publicised, due to fear of personal consequences.

The resident told us that he had spent 10 years with an abusive ex-partner. He described how she would stage emotional breakdowns around their friends, break presents bought for him by his son, and, at one stage, punch him with a closed fist while he was holding their one-year old baby. “The only time I felt safe was when she returned to her flat,” the resident said.

“When I saw that Vera Baird had blocked me with her MP and Police Commissioner Site I was mortified. Here was someone who was pushing a very important campaign for victims of abuse, someone who is on the boards of charities and affiliated with RESPECT who was point blank shutting herself off from the lived experiences and concerns of someone who she is supposed to be protecting.”

The resident also said he had lodged complaints on the Police Commissioner’s website, on the Northumbria Police’s website, and with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), the UK’s national body for police complaints. He has been assisted by supporters on social media, who are also sending complaints.

Northumbria Police have since responded to the complaints, stressing that new offence of “coercive control” is not “limited to one gender or sexual orientation,” but adding that the victims of coercive control, as in the “vast majority of cases where domestic abuse is reported to the police” are mostly women.

“I fully stand behind the changes to the law on coercive control” he continued. “For someone like me this is a huge step for stopping abuse before it becomes potentially deadly violence. However as I, a

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Old December 31st, 2015 #43
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Post New year honours 2016

Jacqueline Gold, the boss of a sex shop chain, and daughter of the porn baron David Gold, has been made a CBE.

Starring: Jacqueline Gold (presumably no relation)

A homer (Hebrew: חמר‎; also kor, Hebrew: כּר‎)

Lin Homer becomes a dame.

As chief executive of Birmingham City Council from 2002-05, Lin Homer was involved in a postal votes scandal.

Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey said vote fraud in Birmingham City 'would have disgraced a banana republic'.

In 2005 Lin Homer was appointed to run the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.

1,000 foreign criminals were mistakenly released.

Lin Homer became the boss of the UK Border Agency.

Around 400 foreign criminals were then told they could remain in Britain.

Barbara Windsor with Ronnie Kray 'who ran a murderous child abuse ring which supplied young boys to the elite'.

'Soft-porn' actress Barbara Windsor has been made a dame.

The UK monarchy is 'totally discredited' by its New Year Honours?

Last year the Queen gave New Year honours to:

1. Sir David Manning, who arranged the secret deal that got the UK into the Iraq war.

2. Fiona Woolf who was in charge of the child abuse 'cover-up', until it was discovered that she was a friend of Leon Brittan.

3. Cressida Dick, the policewoman in charge when the innocent Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead in a 'false flag' operation.

4. Dave Ward and Patrick Hallgate, two executives of the disastrously managed Network Rail.

5. Esther Rantzen, the friend of Jimmy Savile.

Donald Trump with Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of 'Mossad spy' Robert Maxwell.

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Old December 31st, 2015 #44
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Post Ten Holocaust Survivors recognised by Queen in New Year's Honours

Pollock, who survived Auschwitz but lost her parents, said: “I have been honoured as part of a dedicated team who woek to strengthen our eesolve for a fairer, safer future, and to learn lessons from the Holocaust and more recent genocides.” She has recalled her experiences in schools and at public events for three decades and testified at the trial of Oskar Groening alongside Perl, who added: “I’ve received much good news in my life but this must top it all.”

Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, expressed delight at the news of the honours for such “inspirational men and women. Thousands of lives have been changed because of the tireless bravery of these remarkable people”.

HET nominated many of the survivors, as did the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said: “The Queen has embodied the welcome they found here in Britain, where they came to rebuild their lives.” She added the awards recognise the contribution of all survivors to the UK and honour the memory of those who perished.

Philanthropist Anita Zabludowitz can also look forward to a visit to the Palace after being recognised for services to the arts. Along with husband Poju, she has a long track record of supporting institutions including the Tate and Camden Arts Centre.

She said: “I’m delighted and surprised to receive this honour. It inspires me to continue working for arts and culture in the UK.” Also, philanthropist Jack Petchey becomes Sir Jack for services to young people in east London and Essex, including his work with the JLGB.

Meanwhile, it’s been announced that BBC2 will screen the main Holocaust Memorial Day event on 27 January.

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Old December 31st, 2015 #45
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Post UK minister apologises for blaming riots on "bad moral attitudes" among black people - the Guardian

Civil liberties campaigner Darcus Howe has condemned remarks about black communities made in the 1980s by the prime minister’s policy chief after the Tottenham and Handsworth riots, describing the comments as “bordering on criminality”.

Oliver Letwin was forced to issue a statement apologising for any offence caused when a confidential memo from 1985 was released by the National Archives in which he blamed unrest on “bad moral attitudes”.

In a confidential joint paper, Letwin, who is now MP for West Dorset, and inner cities adviser (and later a Conservative MP) Hartley Booth, tell the then-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, that “lower-class unemployed white people had lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale”.

The men warn Thatcher that setting up a £10m communities programme to tackle inner-city problems would do little more than “subsidise Rastafarian arts and crafts workshops” and that any help would only end up in the “disco and drug trade”.

“If a black man had said something quite like that he’d have been called into Scotland Yard and and he might be charged with incitement to riot. It is bordering on criminality,” said Howe, who was a prominent figure in black rights campaigns in the period the document was written.

In a statement, Letwin said: “Following reports tonight, I want to make clear that some parts of a private memo I wrote nearly 30 years ago were both badly worded and wrong. I apologise unreservedly for any offence these comments have caused and wish to make clear that none was intended.”

Howe, who went on to become a writer and broadcaster, said he didn’t think David Cameron would remove Letwin from his post, saying he had “no trust in Mr Cameron on the issue of race at all”.

The former editor of the political magazine Race Today said the incident would provide an opportunity for the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to stand up alongside the black community. “There are people in the Labour party who don’t want to be seen backing black people because they may lose white votes. Not Corbyn,” said Howe.

“I was saying about two days ago to a friend that Corbyn is going to get a chance to stand up with blacks and he will. And this is his opportunity. So that the black community knows that this is not the Labour party of Blair and the two Miliband boys.”

Letwin’s comments were condemned by prominent Labour figures, with the party’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, saying they were evidence of “an ignorant and deeply racist view of the world”.

“He obviously cannot justify his opinions, but he must explain himself and apologise without delay. A great many people will be asking whether, as a government minister, he still holds such offensive and divisive views,” said Watson.

The shadow international development secretary, Diane Abbott, who in 1987 became the UK’s first black female MP, tweeted asking whether Letwin was “proud to have blocked action against bad housing a

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Old December 31st, 2015 #46
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Post Adviser to British PM Cameron faces calls to step-down as memo reveals he advised Margaret Thatcher against wasting money on black communities affected by their own rioting in 1981

Downing Street files released by the National Archives under the 30 year rule reveal that David Cameron's chief policy advisor once told Margaret Thatcher not to bother introducing community schemes to help deprived black communities affected by race riots in the 1980s.

Oliver Letwin was a young advisor in Margaret Thatcher's policy unit at the time. He is now Cameron's senior policy advisor.

​In October 1985, home secretary, Douglas Hurd, warned the Prime Minister that alienated youths living in predominantly black communities on inner city estates were "a grave threat to the social fabric of the country."

​Two government ministers, Lord Young and Kenneth Baker, followed up the warning with a proposal to invest in schemes to encourage young black entrepreneurs in communities hit by riots set up businesses and find jobs.

​However, the newly released memo reveals that Oliver Letwin, told Margaret Thatcher to reject any business assistant schemes, warning that a US$14 million (£10m) program to tackle inner-city problems would just "subsidize Rastafarian arts and crafts workshops."

Instead of blaming the riots on social deprivation and racism, Letwin blamed the unrest on "bad moral attitudes."

​The memo also states: "Riots, criminality and social disintegration are caused solely by individual characters and attitudes. So long as bad moral attitudes remain, all efforts to improve the inner cities will founder."

Letwin and future Conservative MP Hartley Booth also said the money would end up being spent on drugs.

"[Lord] Young's new entrepreneurs will set up in the disco and drug trade; Kenneth Baker's refurbished council blocks will decay through vandalism combined with neglect; and people will graduate from temporary training or employment programs into unemployment and crime", the letter states.

Almost 30 years after the race riots erupted and government assistance to rebuild communities was blocked — riots erupted once again in deprived inner cities accross Britain in 2011.

​A report titled '5 days in August: an interim report on the 2011 English riots', published following the disorder and compiled by a panel of community relations, law and family experts, resonates with the proposals suggested 30 years ago by Kenneth Baker and Lord Young.

The report states: "Some people get to 14 or 15 years old without ever being told they're good at anything. They feel a sense of worthlessness."

​"The absence of hopes and dreams amongst many we spoke to is a danger for society. We need young people who are able to improve their education, get a job that fulfils their ambitions and allows them to achieve their potential," the report said.

The report also found that in 70 percent of the towns and cities in which the riots had erupted, 30 percent were in the most deprived parts of England.

"This contributes to an overall picture linking the riots and deprivation which requires further exploration," the report stat

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Old December 31st, 2015 #47
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Post BBC fires radio host Quentin Letts for questioning the theory of Global Warming

George Orwell devised the word ‘unperson’ to describe someone who had so offended official thought, he or she was vaporised — not just liquidated but wiped from the record for eternity.

That way the unperson couldn’t set a bad example.

All memory of the impertinence would be forgotten, Comrades!

Orwell was satirising Stalin’s Russia, where such practices were all too common.

When a Politburo member called Nikolai Yezhov, People’s Commissar for Water Transport, fell out of favour with Joseph Stalin in 1940, he was not just killed.

A photograph of him beside Stalin in happier days was doctored to remove all trace of the unfortunate Yezhov. It was as though he had never existed.

And he was not the only one.

Though the circumstances are less dramatic, I am at present feeling a few twinges of solidarity with Yezhov.

Earlier this year, I made a jaunty little Radio 4 programme called What’s The Point Of The Met Office?

Last week, after a bizarre and focused lobbying campaign from environmental activists, the programme was removed from the BBC’s iPlayer playback facility.

To adapt Orwell, What’s The Point Of The Met Office? became an un-programme.

One moment it was there, available to licence fee-payers to hear at their convenience. The next? Ker-whack! It disappeared as surely as one of those Islamist-owned oil derricks in Syria snotted by an RAF Paveway missile. Ladies and gentlemen, the Left had struck. I had been censored, expunged, deleted or ‘dealt with’, as RAF types put it.

The experience was baffling rather than upsetting. The programme had only ever been intended as a light summer diversion, yet it was mistaken for some sort of attack on the Establishment’s global warming theory.



I am writing about it now simply because the media story in which I have unwittingly found myself reflects a worrying rise of intolerance in our public life, and because the response of BBC executives and the BBC Trust, the governing body responsible for acting in the interests of licence fee-payers, has been so astonishingly over the top.

It is as though the RAF used one of those missiles to ‘deal with’ an innocent old bloke selling hummus by the side of the road in Raqqa.

The rumpus, ignited by a few eco-activists and fuelled by a mad BBC bureaucracy, has demonstrated the sort of foot-stamping insistence on orthodoxy not seen during peacetime since Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth in the 17th century.


It has been most peculiar and most un-British — and absurdly comical.

The offending broadcast was one half-hour programme in my seventh series of What’s The Point Of...?

In the established style of these summer shows, it took a chatty, personal look at a British institution.

In past programmes, for example, we have looked at the Royal Warrant (the system by which firms are officially recognised for supplying royal households), the Tate Gallery and the National Trust.

The tone of the continuity announcer’s introduction before a What’s The Point Of...? usually prepares listeners for a quirky affair.

In these programmes I try to reflect both admiration for the institution under analysis and any grumbles that may exist about it.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Left had struck. I had been censored, expunged, deleted or 'dealt with', as RAF types put it

The shows are not particularly lucrative for me but they are fun to make. If they are amusing, that is thanks chiefly to the creative flair of my producers at the BBC’s Ethics and Religion department in Manchester.

What’s The Point Of The Met Office? looked at the history of weather-forecasting in Britain, going back to the days when the Victorians set out to reduce the number of shipping disasters by predicting conditions off our coasts.

We interviewed an archivist, various amateur weather buffs and people whose livelihoods could be affected by bad weather.

The show began with a fruity clip from the Royal Three Counties Showground in Worcestershire, where a farmer with a wonderful rustic burr ruminated on old rural superstitions about the weather. We chatted to Jeremy Corbyn’s charming meteorologist brother, Piers — an expert on sunspots and one of the most untidy men I’ve met. He argued that the ‘purpose latched’ onto the Met Office was ‘to promote and defend and propagate the man-made climate change theory’.

We also talked to John Kettley, who told us about fan-mail he used to receive from women viewers when he was a BBC weather forecaster. Oh, and we spoke to some Westminster voices: a man from the Taxpayers’ Alliance who had his doubts about the Met Office being owned by the State (as it is), and three MPs.

One of these MPs said how marvellous the Met Office’s shipping forecast was.

Two of them were critical of the Met Office lobbying politicians on climate change. We ended with a long talk with a Met Office spokeswoman, who eloquently defended her employer.

On a specific criticism about some climate change forecast which had proved wrong, she accepted that the senior Tory MP, Peter Lilley, who had been behind it maybe had a point.

Afterwards, off I pottered on my summer holiday — only to be contacted, in the middle of Greece, by my BBC colleagues in Manchester, who explained that the Green lobby was on the warpath.

One or two environmental activists were stirring up the Twittersphere about our show, as was the BBC’s environmental analyst, Roger Harrabin. The BBC was panicking.

I was accused of having shown disrespect to climate change. Mr Lilley had cracked a joke: ‘They [the Met Office] come before the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change . . . and tell us they need even more money for even bigger computers so they can be even more precisely wrong in future.’ I chuckled. I had ‘not reflected prevailing scientific opinion’ about global warming.
I don’t consider myself a climate change sceptic. Like, I suspect, the majority of the population, I don’t know what to think about global warming

Radio 4’s Feedback programme (its ‘forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations’) gave me a biffing. I’m afraid I never heard it — I was in some sun-kissed taverna at the time, knocking back goodish white — but was told it was ‘pretty savage’. Hey ho.

As a sketchwriter and theatre reviewer, I can hardly complain about criticism. Feedback presenter Roger Bolton has never been one of my fans.

Meanwhile, the BBC top brass held meetings about my allegedly scandalous programme.

Apparently we should have done more to explain the science of climate change. There was a danger that listeners were ‘misled’ by my interviews with Mr Lilley and Labour MP Graham Stringer, who argued that the Met Office were ‘excellent’ at short-term forecasts but ‘very poor’ at climate and medium-term predictions.

I was on the naughty step. That was the last I thought of the matter until last month, when I received a long document from the BBC Trust — a draft of an official inquiry into my misdeeds, complete with a conclusion that there had been a ‘serious’ breach of BBC rules on impartiality in my programme. I was given a few hours to offer any comments before the finding was likely to be made public.

The report, which must have cost thousands of pounds to prepare (rather more than was spent on our programme, I’d wager), included news that from the outset of the production process it had been agreed that we would never touch on climate change.

Er, hang on, chaps. No one ever told me that. Why on earth would independent journalists accept such a stricture? Why should climate change be given such special protection?

The weird thing is, I don’t consider myself a climate change sceptic. Like, I suspect, the majority of the population, I don’t know what to think about global warming. I approve of action to reduce environmental waste and to increase renewable energy supplies, but do I think Man is to blame for the changing climate? I don’t know. I interviewed sceptics because they had something interesting to say.
It must not be allowed to pollute public opinion, even though I don’t think any Radio 4 listener would have been remotely misled by it in the first place

You will have to take my word for all this because the BBC has now removed What’s The Point Of The Met Office? from the airwaves.

It must not be allowed to pollute public opinion, even though I don’t think any Radio 4 listener would have been remotely misled by it in the first place.

History shows that censorship is rarely effective in the long term. Books such as Lolita (Nabokov’s depiction of an older professor’s lust), Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Satanic Verses — all once the subject of attempted bans — went on to become bestsellers.

Officialdom is seldom more mockable than when it seeks to suppress.

The BBC should know this, having been subjected to foolish attempts by Margaret Thatcher’s Government to stop Sinn Fein politicians’ voices being heard in the Eighties.

This is a BBC — a Corporation worth defending, in my view, despite this ridiculous show-trial I have been through — that exists to be frank and fearless, to stand up to dictatorial forces, to divert and entertain while at the same time standing apart from Whitehall.

Using such a heavy steamroller to crush the life out of my no-doubt imperfect but innocent little programme is the behaviour not of a bastion of British liberalism, but an insidious and worrying threat to two very British qualities: common sense and freedom of expression.





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Old December 31st, 2015 #48
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Post Web attack knocks BBC websites offline

All the BBC's websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack.

The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors to the site saw an error message rather than webpages.

Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline thanks to what is known as a "distributed denial of service" attack.

An earlier statement tweeted by the BBC laid the blame for problems on a "technical issue".

In the message the corporation said it was aware of the ongoing trouble and was working to fix it so sites, services and pages were reachable again.

At midday it released another statement saying that the BBC website was now "operating normally".

"We apologise for any inconvenience you may have experienced," it said.

The BBC has yet to confirm or deny that such an attack was responsible for the problems.

It is now believed that a web attack technique known as a "distributed denial of service" was causing the patchy response. This aims to knock a site offline by swamping it with more traffic than it can handle.

The attack on the BBC hit the main website as well as associated services including the main iPlayer catch-up service and iPlayer Radio app which were also not working properly.

Social media reaction to the trouble was swift. Many urged the BBC to get the site back up quickly and lamented how long it was taking to fix the technical troubles.

By 1030 GMT the site was largely working again though some pages and indexes took longer than normal to load.

The BBC's crop of websites have suffered other technical problems in the past. In July 2014, the iPlayer and many of its associated sites were offline for almost an entire weekend.

That fault was traced to a database that sits behind the catch-up TV service.

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Old December 31st, 2015 #49
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Post London, UK: Dumb Muslim Terrorist Said Non-Muslims are Dumb, Asked Twitter What to Bomb - "Now I just make explosives in preparation for kuffar lol"

Some terrorists are criminal masterminds. Others fly under the radar. And still others are a few Imams short of a Fatwa. Take Mohammed Rehman, a genius who thought all non-Muslims were stupid.

A husband and wife have been convicted of planning a large-scale bombing of civilian targets in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s underground train system.

Mohammed Rehman, 25, and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, were found guilty on Tuesday at the Old Bailey court.

Prosecutors said Rehman was only a few days away from finishing work on a bomb capable of causing mass casualties when police moved in on May 28. They say he had been stockpiling a substantial amount of chemicals and had detonated a small practice device in his backyard.

His plan fell apart though because he couldn't stop tweeting about it.

The couple's plot - planned to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 attacks on the London underground network which killed 52 people - was foiled when Rehman tweeted asking for advice on possible targets using the alias "Silent Bomber".

An undercover investigator found the tweet which said "Westfield shopping centre or London underground? Any advice would be appreciated greatly" ​and struck up a conversation with Rehman who told him he was preparing for martyrdom.

Jurors were told his intentions could not have been clearer when he tweeted: “Now I just make explosives in preparation for kuffar lol and when I’ve made the required amount I’ll be wearing them on my chest.”

Rehman - using explosives paid for by his then wife using payday loans and her wages - even detonated a bomb in his back garden in preparation.

So he was the perfect Islamist, living off his wife and boasting on Twitter about how he was going to kill all the infidels.

Yes, it's the non-Muslims who are stupid.

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Post North London: University lecturer stabbed on his doorstep

A university lecturer was stabbed to death on his doorstep by a knifeman who then threatened to kill himself as well, witnesses claimed today.

Jeroen Ensink, a biologist at the prestigious London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, was killed in an attack outside his home in Holloway, North London on Tuesday.

Passers-by said they saw his killer standing over Dr Ensink's body wielding a 20cm-long knife, and pointing the weapon at himself as if he planned to stab himself.

The man then ran off as bystanders struggled to save the victim's life. Paramedics were unable to help Dr Ensink, 41, and he was later declared dead.

Nadja Teich, 37, believed to be Dr Ensink's partner, broke down in tears when contacted today and said she was too upset to talk.

One neighbour, Mamidato Rodrigues, 46, described how she watched from her window as Dr Ensink lay in the road between two parked cars in the wake of the attack around 1.30pm.

She said: 'We heard some screaming from outside, and my daughter yelled at me to come to the window. I saw a white man on the floor, lying on his back with his face up and arms out.

'He had blood around the chest area and on his upper body, while another man with a knife was standing near the body. A girl ran over and tried to help him, giving him CPR and my daughter called an ambulance.

'The other guy looked like he tried to stab himself. He pulled his jumper up and pointed the knife at his own body but didn't look like he had the courage to do it. Then he ran away up the road shortly before the paramedics arrived.'

Maureen Crane, 72, added: 'I was on the phone at the time and heard terrible screams, girls screaming.



'I think the man who was attacked had been delivering leaflets. Lots of little leaflets were scattered around on the floor and the police took them all away and bagged them up in orange bags.

Another neighbour said: 'I was up in the kitchen when I heard shouting and screaming, and I saw one man on the floor with another on top of him, straddling him.

'They appeared to be fighting. I went to telephone the police. When I got back a girl was trying to resuscitate him, and the attacker was standing nearby.'

Femi Nandap, 22, today appeared at Highbury Corner magistrates' court charged with Dr Ensink's murder.

The defendant, from Woolwich in South-East London, was remanded in custody and will appear at the Old Bailey on Monday.


Dr Ensink, who is originally from the Netherlands, had been a lecturer in public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 2008.

He was an expert in sanitation and water management, and worked in a large number of poor countries including Ethiopia, Senegal, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

The academic did his PhD on the use of untreated sewage in agriculture in India and Pakistan, then worked at the International Water Management Institute from 1998 to 2006 before moving to London.

Shocked colleagues described him as a 'natural educator' who was 'immensely popular' with his students.

Dr Ensink, 41, senior lecturer in Public Health Engineering at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, was stabbed to death outside his home in Holloway, north London, on Tuesday lunchtime.

Professor Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: 'We are deeply shocked and saddened by the death of Jeroen Ensink.

'Jeroen was passionately committed to a simple cause: improving access to water and sanitation in countries where children continue to die needlessly due to the lack of these basic services.


'He joined the School nearly 10 years ago, and his career as a researcher and educator crossed many continents, living and working in Pakistan, India, Vietnam, Tanzania, Malawi, and collaborating with numerous universities and international agencies.'

Professor Piot added: 'At the time of his death, Jeroen was leading a large study in the Democratic Republic of Congo to understand how improvements in water supply could control and prevent cholera outbreaks.

'He was a natural educator and immensely popular with students in whom he invested much time and energy; he provided support and inspiration in equal measure and many of his students are now successful researchers and public health professionals in their own right.

'Jeroen will be greatly missed by all the staff and students who had the opportunity to know and work with him, and the legacy of his work will continue in Asia and Africa.

'Our deepest condolences go to his family and friends.'



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Post MP Who Exposed Parliament Paedophile Network Suspended For Sending Lurid Messages To 17-Year-Old Girl

Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale who on Christmas Eve marched to celebrate Muhammad’s birthday, has been suspended from his party after it emerged he has been sending lurid text messages to a 17-year-old-girl.

Mr. Danczuk, 49, allegedly sent the messages to Sophena Houlihan after she contacted him on Facebook looking for work experience in his constituency office.

He asked the performing arts student if she wanted a “spanking” and told her how “horny” he was in the messages.

Speaking to the Sun, she said last night:

“When I first got in touch I never expected the messages to get so graphic.

“At the time I played along with it, but now I feel like he duped me. I was keen for a career in politics and he is a very high-profile MP and I was in awe of him.”

The newspaper alleges that Mr. Danczuk asked Ms. Houlihan to meet at the Labour Party conference and suggested they go on a trip to Spain together. She turned him down, however, and there is no suggestion that Mr. Danczuk broke the law.

Ms. Houlihan admitted being “attracted” to the MP, flirting with him via text, and even sending him provocative pictures. However, she added:

“I could not believe what I was seeing when he first sent me a naughty message. I was shocked. He’s an MP and shouldn’t be behaving like that. He also had only just split up from Karen — and then he started dating Claire.”

The MP broke up with his “selfie queen” wife Karen Danczuk in June. It was reported that his new girlfriend, Claire Hamilton, dumped him after reading some of the messages.

Following the headlines, the Labour Party said in a statement this morning:

“The General Secretary of the Labour Party has today suspended Simon Danczuk’s membership of the Party, pending an investigation into allegations published in the media today. A full investigation will now take place under the authority of the National Executive Committee, which will be responsible for determining any further action.”

Mr. Danczuk was handed the Campaigning MP of the Year award for prominently leading of the drive to expose his predecessor as Rochdale MP, Sir Cyril Smith, as a serial paedophile.

In March this year he warned of a “paedophile network” in Parliament and a “truly monumental cover up”.

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Post Britain's "Crosby flap" has developed into national cringe over its royal honours system, which is being denounced as "borderline corrupt" cronyism that rewards friends and donors

Britain's "Crosby flap" has developed into a national cringe over its royal honours system, which is being denounced as "borderline corrupt" cronyism that rewards friends and donors to the Conservative Party.

The outcry began last weekend, when news leaked to The Sunday Times that Australian political mastermind Lynton Crosby, who led the Conservatives to a smashing general election win in 2015, was to be made a knight in the New Year's honours list.

But it reached new heights on Thursday with the publication of the full list of 1196 knights, dames, OBEs, MBEs and BEMs.

Most of the recipients were community volunteers, such as 13-year-old Jonjo Heuerman from Kent, who raised more than £200,000 for cancer research, partly by dribbling a football up and down a pitch for five days; or 99-year-old Dorothy Start, who worked for charities and community groups (and ran regular bake sales) in Barnet, Hertfordshire.

But some names on the list have aroused anger.

The Independent called it "the New Year Cronies list", and the Daily Mail said the honours had been "tainted".

"Sex shop queen is handed a CBE, boss of shambolic tax office made a Dame, gongs for cronies, donors and bungling bureaucrats," it complained on its front page.

The "sex shop queen" is businesswoman Jacqueline Gold, who won a CBE for "services to entrepreneurship, women in business and social enterprise" as head of the Ann Summers empire – purveyor of skimpy lingerie, Rampant Rabbit sex toys and bondage kits.

Ms Gold, who is worth almost a quarter of a billion pounds, is a long-standing donor to the Conservatives. In February she attended a £1500-a-head (or £15,000 to sit near a minister) fundraiser for the party at the Mayfair Hotel.

She also appeared with Chancellor George Osborne at a pre-election press conference in which she said it was "essential" the Conservatives were in power.

Another gong winner was Christopher Fenwick, who can add an OBE to his name for "political service". Mr Fenwick is a retail multi-millionaire who has given money personally to the Conservatives, as well as helping run the low profile "United & Cecil Club", which funnels money from anonymous donors to the Conservatives to fight marginal seats.

And multi-millionaire Zameer Choudrey, whose Bestway retailer was reported to have donated nearly half a million pounds to the Conservatives, became a CBE.

Gold, Fenwick and Choudrey were among 30 Conservative Party members or supporters who received awards.

Labour's shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, told The Independent: "This outrageous award is the clearest evidence yet that the Tories think they can get away with whatever they like."

Labour MP John Mann told The Times, "It stinks… it's cronyism at its worst", while anti-monarchy campaigner Graham Smith called it "borderline corrupt – it's clearly being used to repay favours and scratch backs".

Labour MP Graham Jones said: "The honours system is supposed to recognise dedicated public service, not s

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Post BBC urged to ban right-wing comedian Andrew Lawrence

• Ava Vidal on Andrew Lawrence: 'As a black female comedian...'

As the volume of criticisms increased, Lawrence tweeted saying: "Currently being dogpiled by feminazis. I think I like it ;p"

A petition has now been launched on the website change.org calling on the BBC to 'stop giving airtime to Andrew Lawrence who jokes about women committing suicide."

Lawrence has made four radio series for the BBC. The latest, sitcom There Is No Escape, was broadcast earlier this year.

An open letter to the BBC alongside the petition says: "Whilst humour can take many forms and is a matter of subjective taste it is a crossed boundary to incite others to take their own lives.

"Some feminists declare themselves such as a retaliation to having experienced male violence. This might sometimes lead to suicidal feelings. That is not a matter of fun. Dead women are not funny. Raped women are not funny.

"Two women a week are killed at the hands of men, some of whom say they love them. Those women may have suffered feelings of suicide as they fought to stay alive.

"78,000 women are raped. Some of them will have suffered suicidal feelings as they fought to survive the trauma.

"The men Lawrence mentions are not a source of humour. Whilst mental health services are being cut as a result of austerity this figure can only rise.

"The BBC has a duty to respect it's listeners with poor mental health and should refuse to give airtime to Andrew Lawrence."

The comedian prompted headlines in October last year after he posted an essay on Facebook expressing sympathy for Ukip, and attacked the BBC's 'liberal bias', specifically 'moronic, liberal back-slapping on panel shows like Mock The Week where aging, balding, fat men, ethnic comedians

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Post North London Finsbury Park Mosque: Father and son seriously hurt in double stabbing

A father and son were seriously injured in a double stabbing in north London which police said "could easily have been fatal".

A 65-year-old man, who recently arrived in Britain to celebrate Christmas with his family, was attacked with his 37-year-old son at about 7.50pm on Christmas Eve in Finsbury Park.

The men were seriously hurt and needed hospital treatment but have since been discharged.

They were both in a grey panel van when they became involved in an altercation with the driver and passenger of a black Smart car in Green Lanes, near Manor House Tube station.

Scotland Yard said the driver and passenger were both black males.

The row progressed into Hermitage Road before it ended up in Vale Grove.

On Friday, detectives released two photographs of men they would like to speak to in connection with the stabbing.

One man has been named as Kyroe Oscar Howsen, 24, from Haringey.

A CCTV image of another man wanted by police has also been released.

Scotland Yard has asked anyone with information on the whereabouts of either men to contact them.

Detective Constable Leon Ure, from the CID on Haringey borough, said: "This was a very violent attack and the injuries were serious and could easily have been fatal.

“The elder victim had just arrived in the county to spend Christmas with his family; instead he and his son had to be rushed to hospital.

“We urgently want to find the persons responsible and I would urge the public to contact police if they have any information."

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101, or contact Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111 or at crimestoppers-uk.org.

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Post Foreign students FOUR TIMES more likely to cheat at university

Nearly 50,000 university students have been caught cheating in the last three years

Nearly 50,000 university students have been caught in the last three years, according to new figures – but just one per cent were dismissed.

Foreign non-EU students made up more than a third of all cases but accounted for just 12 per cent of the student population, requests from 70 universities showed.

At Queen Mary University of London, three in four postgraduates found plagiarising were from abroad, including a third from China.

The statistics, from 129 UK universities, revealed 362 students were expelled because of cheating.

Just one per cent of students were dismissed for cheating, according to the statistics

Five students were caught arranging for someone else to sit their exams – and 11 institutions each caught 1,000 or more students cheating over the three-year period, with Kent University finding the most guilty at 1,947.

One university professor said he believed the use of professional essay writers, widely available on the internet, was on the rise.

Professor Geoffrey Alderman of the University of Buckingham said: "What I'd call type-1 plagiarism, copying and pasting, is on the wane because it's so easy to detect.

"But my impression is that type-2 cheating, using a bespoke essay-writing service, is increasing."

Such services can charge hundreds of pounds for essays, dissertations and model exam answers written by professional lecturers up to doctorate level.

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Post UK - The Case Of Oliver Letwin: Brits Apologize On The Beaches, And On The Landing Grounds, And In The Fields"WHY"

“Ignorance is strength” said the Party slogan in Nineteen Eighty-Four. For sure, in the Western world of 2015, knowledge will get you into trouble. Whether or not ignorance is strength, in the Western world today, ignorance is definitely social acceptance. Do Americans of all people really not know—that nations with big racial minorities are arenas of discord, social friction, group rancor, and perpetual conflict? How did we get so stupid?

It’s not just us, of course. All the old Anglo-Saxon and northwest European countries have enstupidated themselves in the same way. Look at Germany. Look at Britain.

Case in point: Oliver Letwin, an Old Etonian grandee (albeit American-descended), 59 years old, married with two kids, an Anglo-Jewish intellectual who has spent his entire adult life in politics, although never at the highest levels. He’s a Tory Member of Parliament and currently a senior policy adviser to David Cameron, Britain’s stupid, worthless, and repulsive Prime Minister.

Thirty years ago, precisely in October 1985, Letwin was a junior policy adviser to a very different Tory Prime Minister, the late great Margaret Thatcher. At that time there occurred the Tottenham Riots, when the inhabitants of a North London ghetto, mostly blacks, took to the streets to protest against police trying to enforce the law.

The thing British people remember about the riots is the murder of Police Constable Keith Blakelock. [PC Keith Blakelock: Murder trial told armed mob killed officer, BBC, March 3, 2014]

The rioters had looted a supermarket, then set fire to it. Firefighters who tried to deal with the blaze were attacked with rocks and bottles. Some police officers were sent to guard them; but the mob was too strong, and both police and firefighters had to retreat. Constable Blakelock stumbled and fell in the retreat. He was surrounded by a mob of rioters screaming “Kill the pig!” They stabbed him more than 40 times and apparently, to judge by the pattern of wounds, attempted to decapitate him.

Two other policemen were shot by the mob, one seriously. Altogether 58 officers were hospitalized.

Three people, two blacks and a white, were convicted of the Blakelock murder. But the convictions were overturned on appeal. To date nobody has been successfully prosecuted for Officer Blakelock’s murder.

It’s a sorry tale, made sorrier by the fact that the Brits never should have imported their own U.S.-style race problem. There was in fact strong public opposition to the mass settlement of blacks, but cheap labor lobbies, race guilt, and post-imperial sentimentality won the day—and a huge social problem was planted where there was none before.

Less than three percent of Britons today are black, but blacks are ten percent of inmates in British prisons.

Britain has a 30-year rule for the release of government papers not critical to national security—minutes of cabinet meetings and suchlike. So internal government papers relating to the Tottenham Riots have jus

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Post Guardian sobbing again: Most UK police forces have disproportionate number of white officers

A white applicant to the police has a better chance of getting a job than someone from an ethnic minority in more than two-thirds of the UK’s forces, according to official data.

The figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, paint the most complete picture yet of a police service in which people from ethnic minorities are represented in disproportionately low numbers and have less chance than their white counterparts of getting jobs when they do apply.

The data will put more pressure on police bosses to improve diversity. It comes after the home secretary, Theresa May, attacked Britain’s forces for not employing enough black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) officers. In a speech in October, May said four forces – Cheshire, North Yorkshire, Dyfed-Powys and Durham – did not have a single serving black officer. She also said 11 forces had no officers from ethnic minorities above the rank of chief inspector.

The newly published data shows that 31 of the UK’s 45 territorial police forces appoint a greater proportion of white applicants than they do people who identify themselves as being from a BAME background.

According to the figures, London’s Metropolitan police, as well as the Gwent and Hertfordshire forces, displayed the greatest discrepancies. Three forces appointed a lesser proportion and 11 did not provide enough data to make a fair comparison. In the Met, 28.1% of applications come from black and minority ethnic groups but they make up only 17% of appointments.

The data also shows that more than four-fifths of UK police forces – 39 of the 45 – appoint a disproportionately low number of people from BAME backgrounds, when compared to the makeup of the areas they serve.

The Met, West Midlands and Bedfordshire and police forces were among the least representative in that respect, followed by those serving the City of London, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Surrey.

The figures also show that more than three-quarters of the UK’s forces (34 of the 45) received a disproportionately low number of applications from BAME communities. The Met, as well as the Bedfordshire and West Midlands forces, had among the greatest discrepancies.

Janet Hills, the new president of the National Black Police Association (NBPA), said trust and confidence in the police among minority ethnic communities was partly to blame.

The figures portrayed the need for positive action and greater scrutiny of police chiefs, who should be held accountable for failing to ensure that their forces reflect the communities they serve, Hills told the Guardian. “We find that, where there is no accountability, nothing gets done. It is unfortunate because everyone will talk the talk but, when it comes to the action, that is not so visible.

“On the national level, you have got fewer forces recruiting, you have got the legacy of the community engagement, so there are the trust and confidence issues instilled in communities.

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Post David Cameron won't mention immigration despite it topping voter concerns

Immigration is by far the biggest worry for voters, a poll reveals.

Six in ten put it in their top three issues of concern, according to the YouGov study. It comes at a time when the subject is widely ignored by the political classes – and even David Cameron failed to mention immigration in his New Year address yesterday.

Instead, the Prime Minister highlighted social problems such as poverty, social mobility, housing and extremism.



In the past 12 months, net migration into Britain has soared above 330,000, blowing a hole in the Tory election pledge to reduce it to the tens of thousands.

The poll will increase pressure on Mr Cameron to secure a proper deal to limit immigration in his renegotiation of Britain’s membership of the European Union. In the survey, carried out for The Times, 60 per cent selected ‘immigration and asylum’ among their top three political priorities.



It made the top area of concern for voters. Significantly behind in second place was health, which was selected by four in ten of those surveyed.

The economy went from second to third place, suggesting the public are now more relaxed about the issue some eight years after the crash. One in three voters named it as an area of concern.

The poll suggested immigration was an important factor across the political spectrum. Labour voters selected ‘immigration and asylum’ as the second most important issue facing the country, behind health.


It follows a year in which Europe has seen an influx of more than a million migrants, including hundreds of thousands fleeing conflict in Syria and Iraq. Critics of mass migration say it puts huge pressure on public services and damages the job prospects and wages of British workers.

Alp Mehmet, of MigrationWatch, said the findings were ‘hardly a surprise’.

‘We have no idea what’s going to happen with regard to controlling immigration. It’s no wonder people are more concerned than any of the other major areas that affect their life.’

The YouGov poll also suggested that just over one in four – some 27 per cent – were concerned about issues around Europe. Around one in ten said they were worried about crime and education – about the same as those who pointed to pensions, tax, transport and childcare.




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