https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16123981/Shoe-salesman-sexual-assault-global-network-men.html

A shoe salesman is facing years in jail for his involvement in a global network of women being drugged and raped by their partners. Darren Conway, of Enfield, north London, pleaded guilty to encouraging another man to sexually assault the man's sleeping wife. The 52-year-old admitted messaging a man last year asking him to touch his wife sexually and remove her clothes on several occasions. He pleaded guilty to 11 charges, including nine of encouraging others to sexually assault women on an internet forum while they were unconscious, asleep or stupefied, between 2023 and 2026. Conway also admitted voyeurism and possession of extreme pornography. Conway is one of eight men who have been arrested in the UK as part of an international investigation into an internet forum in which members shared graphic videos of the sexual abuse of unconscious women.

NCA officers are working with dozens of countries including France, Germany, Brazil, Spain, the Netherlands and the US to try to identify nearly 300 people linked to the forum. Members of the group shared images and videos of sedated women being sexually assaulted and raped, 'sometimes by multiple offenders', the court heard. They also exchanged 'tips' and advised the best type of sedatives to use. Messages found on Conway's devices showed him encouraging other group chat members to engage in drug-facilitated sexual crimes, alongside sexual images and videos. Evidence shows that Conway observed sleeping women through the online network more than ten times. The women were unaware that he was viewing them.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/10/we-are-still-failing-the-moral-test-of-9-11/

Imagine if you had told someone on 11 September 2001 that in 25 years’ time the streets of New York City would ring out with sympathy for Islamofascism. Imagine if you had said to one of the startled souls watching American lives be incinerated by Islamist filth that one day the West would swarm with youths cosplaying as Islamist filth. Imagine if you had said that in a mere quarter of a century even our leafiest campuses would be awash with jihad chic, with silver-spoon students gushing over an Islamo-army (Hamas) every bit as hateful and medieval as the one that burnt New Yorkers alive. Imagine if you had said on that apocalyptic day that one day the twisted beliefs of Osama bin Laden would be commonplace in radical circles. Imagine you had said that his anti-Semitic cry that ‘the creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased’ would become the luxury belief of every smug activist. Imagine you had said that the very justification for that day’s pitiless massacre of New York innocents – namely, that America had become the ‘servant’ of ‘the Jews’ petty state’ – would soon be the hot take of the every woke leftist and crank rightist in Christendom. Imagine if over the thud of WTC workers falling to their deaths, you had said that one day Western youths will gush over bin Laden’s writings, and thank him for ‘open[ing] their eyes’ to the evils of America and Israel. Imagine if you had said there will be further acts of Islamist inhumanity – smaller in scale but equal in evil intent – and that our response would not be horror, but nonchalance. Imagine if you said Islamists will one day massacre girls in Manchester, England and people would say, ‘Don’t look back in anger’. Imagine if you said there will soon be an Islamist atrocity in which more children would perish than on 9/11 – the Nice truck attack – and our response would be awkward silence followed by craven, snivelling amnesia. Imagine if you said that one day it will be a cancellable offence to talk shit about the totalitarian ideology that wreaked such savagery upon New York City.

Imagine if you said that in the near future it will be tantamount to a crime to criticise Islam. That kids in Europe would be interrogated by police for scuffing pages of a Koran. That people would be arrested for calling Muhammad a paedo. That police forces would discuss ditching the word ‘jihad’ so as to not offend Muslims. That people would lose their jobs – even their lives – for ‘blaspheming’ against Islam. And that all the while the intellectual classes would spinelessly whimper: ‘Well, if you’re going to be Islamophobic…’ Just imagine it: you turn to someone as the swirling fires of religious hate consume two of the greatest towers ever built by Man and say: ‘I bet we won’t be allowed to criticise this religion soon.’ They wouldn’t have believed you. More than that, your grim prophesying would have caused them immense pain. It was bad enough that they had to watch as nearly 3,000 lives were ruthlessly sacrificed to the cause of Islamist carnage. The knowledge that aspects of that cause, certain of its tenets, would one day hold sway over youthful imaginations and official policymaking would have pushed them over the edge. The revelation of a future West so consumed by self-loathing that it would wonder if perhaps it deserves the terror and bloodshed of Islamism would have been too much to take. ‘You mean’, they would have said, ‘that the enemies of civilisation who visited New York City today ended up winning?’

For here we are, 25 years after the greatest Islamist outrage in history, and it is safer to sympathise with Islamists than to condemn them as a foreign pox on our civilisation............................................................

https://unherd.com/2026/09/the-working-class-isnt-asking-for-pity/

the white working class were a group many of the Left had never actually met. They were to be spoken on behalf of in student meetings — the way a primatologist might talk about what was best for the gorillas in their charge at a zoo. Rather than considering the diminishing life chances and outcomes of millions of people on lower incomes as a central part of their politics, my generation were encouraged to adopt a series of niche causes under the doctrine of “intersectionality”. It was as though working-class life was a solved problem and not something collapsing around us. For this more bourgeois iteration of the Left, the emotional pull of Woke 1.0, and maybe, dare I say it, a bit of traditional liberal guilt atonement, held an appeal that was easy to ratify just by looking out of the front door. We lived in big cities and in Britain’s most metropolitan boroughs, there really are still notable gaps between people’s prosperity that can be predicted based on their skin color. Those who might object to making these concerns the most prominent pillar of our politics could easily be presumed to only do so because of prejudice. In reality, the gaps on the doorstep weren’t nearly as wide as those between metropolitan Britain and everywhere else.

The country we maligned for its supposed backward social attitudes was quietly becoming the most regionally unequal major economy in the developed world. Large swaths of Britain had been torn to shreds by austerity not with a bang but a whimper. Traditional Labour politicians like Ellen Wilkinson or even Ramsay MacDonald would have marched the breadth of the country to do battle on issues like unemployment and closing factories. By the mid-2010s, this was an unsexy, even faintly embarrassing cause — largely forgotten, maybe a bit nostalgic. The odd episode of Benefits Street would present the collapse of working-class communities as something with a cosmic justice to it: they were always lazy, weren’t they? John Harris would conduct a Guardian-sponsored safari around the shuttered high streets of provincial England, furrowing his brow in befuddlement as people told him they were planning to vote to leave the EU, but couldn’t say exactly why.

https://archive.ph/P0zHr

https://thecritic.co.uk/tearing-at-the-fabric/

Khan performed the Hajj in May and told the Telegraph in August that “outside London, Mecca is probably the most diverse place in the world”. Actually, Saudi law completely bars non-Muslims from Mecca, on pain of prison. So much for diversity”. Nick Timothy, the Shadow Justice Secretary, “There’s not even a pretence of honesty or consistency.” So while Britain must open its cathedral to a nightclub and its square to mass prayer, Mecca need not open its gates to the unbelievers. On 16 March the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, was called across Trafalgar Square, the square that hosted Saturday’s “celebration”. Women prayed at the back, behind the men. Timothy was brave enough to call this “an act of domination”. But the Mayor called this description “prejudice”. He has not commented on the women at the back — who, one might think, are subject to a deeper prejudice.

This all illustrates a deeply inconsistent approach to faith. Christianity is to be patronised or condemned — even by some of its supposed representatives — while Islam deserves handwringing respect. The ground is then consolidated against critics with a mixture of threats — the Batley Grammar School teacher who showed a cartoon is in his sixth year in hiding under a new identity — and the more widespread and even more insidious charge of racism.

https://thecritic.co.uk/youre-too-young-to-read-this/

Warning signs about the OSA’s chilling effect on free speech popped up quickly, but a year on it is clear the law must be scrapped. A new Big Brother Watch report, Britain’s Free Speech Problem, highlights how the law has rolled back free speech online. Even the mother of the Online Safety Act, Nadine Dorries, agrees it has gone off the deep end. The Secretary of State who steered the law through Parliament dubbed it a “dog’s dinner” that fails to protect children or free speech. The Online Safety Act, a law ostensibly about protecting children from porn and pro-self harm content online, had started to bite. Many small forums, who cannot deal with the 100+ pages of Ofcom forms required to remain compliant, have simply shut down. Bigger platforms introduced digital bouncers across the internet, demanding “papers please” to access all kinds of content far beyond the limited categories the law requires tech providers to age-gate.

The examples spanned from the mundane to the ridiculous and the heartwrenching. Posts from a man who was seeking advice on putting together a care package for a friend about to undergo prostate cancer treatments and a family looking for guidance on supporting an alcohol-dependent relative at risk of domestic violence. Threads on the iconic 1970s New Jersey punk bank the Misfits, the dystopian thriller Children of Men (rated suitable for 15 year olds by the BBFC) and behind the scenes footage of how a sculpture for Arnold Schwarzenegger was built for the 2015 Terminator reboot. News reporting did not escape the ID demands, either. Posts about BBC News pieces about alleged Israeli “triple-tap” strikes in Lebanon, working conditions faced by Meta moderators in Keyna, and a Manchester Evening News article on comments by Green MP Hannah Spencer saying high streets in her area had too many “bookies and vape shops” were all age gated. With the voting age slated to drop to 16 we will soon be in a situation where teenagers cannot access discussions about current affairs online, but are expected to vote for politicians to influence them.

https://thecritic.co.uk/cambridges-arday-reckoning-is-already-going-wrong/

So far the university has come out appallingly. In hiring Arday it appointed to a senior chair a man clearly neither up to the job nor cut out for academia. Basic due diligence was missed, or maybe quietly omitted; the matter strongly suggested an appointment swayed less by commitment to intellectual excellence than by a desire to trumpet Cambridge’s embrace of diversity, equity and inclusion. And when people in the know started publicly asking awkward questions, the best it could manage was mindless corporate PR-speak referring to “a vile campaign to undermine his credibility, which must stop.” Having since been forced to admit that serious errors were indeed made, the university has now announced a two-part inquiry. First, it has signed up lawyer and ex-prosecutor Nazir Afzal to ask whether it did enough to support Jason Arday. Secondly, it has set up an independently-chaired expert panel will look at the recruitment process for senior academic staff and at the processes for dealing with alleged academic misconduct. A problem contained and house being put in order? Don’t be so sure. Even at this stage there are worrying signs that comes out will be not so much an academic reset as fine words aimed at shoring up what is left of Cambridge’s reputation, and otherwise business very much as usual.

In short, there are worrying indications what will appear from this review and inquiry is a combination of breast-beating over racism and demands to double down on anti-racist initiatives, coupled with a progressive HR-friendly word soup of fairly impenetrable management-speak concerning robust processes and the like. All of which would allow the university to go on very much as at present, in a combination of social progressivism, gentle intellectual decline and a Panglossian insistence that it is going from strength to strength.

I hope I’m wrong. But don’t bet on it.

https://thecritic.co.uk/a-warning-from-canada/

When I heard Andy Burnham recently say that Britain must fix its crisis in social care and palliative care provision before entertaining the introduction of assisted dying I knew, perhaps more than most, how right he was. When campaigners insist that assisted death is simply a matter of “autonomy”, they should study Canada’s experience. As a disabled person in a country where assisted dying is readily available, I have spent years trying to exercise one of the most basic forms of autonomy: the autonomy to live in my own home, with the support I need to do so.

I have been told that the self-directed home care arrangements I need are not available to me within Ontario’s current system. Yet Britain itself recognised the importance of self-directed care decades ago. The UK legislated for direct payments in the 1990s and later established a “right to have” a Personal Health Budget for certain groups in England. Yet access to meaningful self-directed support remains inconsistent, and inadequate funding and provision can still leave vulnerable people in the UK without the support they need to live independently. That is why I agree so strongly with Burnham that Britain’s social care and palliative care systems must be fixed before Parliament even debates assisted dying. When people cannot obtain the support necessary to live safely and with dignity, their choices about death cannot be separated from those circumstances.

When I advocated for the self-directed home care I needed in the Canadian healthcare system, hospital staff members simply presented me with what amounted to two choices: accept an institutional or agency model that would expose me to further harm and readmission, or apply for an assisted death. Although I have made it clear that I want help to live rather than help to die, I have still been asked to consider this final option. Not one, but again and again. I want people in Britain to understand what that feels like: to feel as though you have become such an inconvenience to a strained universal healthcare system that my death is easier to accommodate than the care you need to live.

https://www.facebook.com/TheREDHEARTMovement/posts/a-16-year-old-girl-is-in-a-coma-with-16-fractures-to-her-eye-sockets-cheek-bones/1466169932202787/

A 16-year-old girl is in a coma with 16 fractures to her eye sockets, cheek bones and jaw after a teenage boy allegedly hit her in the back of the head with a piece of wood at Foster in NSW on the weekend.

Her father has confirmed her injuries and the incident are significantly more serious than NSW Police has said. The girl was celebrating with friends when a 17-year-old teenage boy allegedly threw a piece of wood at her head. She was knocked out and rushed to hospital where she remains in the ICU.

The teenager has been released on bail and will attend court next month.

https://reduxx.info/us-transgender-pedophile-exposing-himself-to-female-inmates-in-womens-prison-writing-poetry-about-sexual-assault/

A convicted pedophile who began identifying as “transgender” after his incarceration is currently housed in a women’s prison in Minnesota, where he has been exposing himself to women and writing poetry about rape. Daniel Patrick Benz, who legally changed his name to Danielle Marie Whitebird in June of 2023, has been accused by multiple female inmates at Shakopee women’s prison of exposing his penis to them and asking them to read aloud poetry he wrote containing descriptions of rape. Female inmates have told Reduxx that the fear of retaliation from prison officials has kept many women from filing official complaints. One common method of punishing inmates is to place them in segregation, or “seg,” which is a temporary form of solitary confinement. “They put Danny in the same unit as me,” said inmate Chaos Bell. “Since he has been in the unit, he has been showing his penis to us, having women read his poems that are about rape. He is across the hall from [redacted] and she told someone that he showed his penis to her, too. He got aggressive after I confronted him. I keep telling everyone to report him, but they are scared of going to seg.”

Benz has a lengthy criminal history spanning two decades. Yet despite his many convictions for robbery, assault, and the sexual abuse of a 6-year-old girl, Benz was released last year from women’s prison MCF Shakopee. He was recently arrested and placed in MCF Shakopee for a second time after being convicted on new felony charges shortly after his release. According to the accounts provided by female inmates, he began behaving in a sexually aggressive manner almost immediately.

Of course they did.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16124175/AOC-Mamdani-911-laughing-Ground-Zero-mayor-event.html

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were caught laughing together at the 9/11 25th anniversary memorial service on Friday while the names of victims were being read out by their relatives.

The Democrats were seen bursting into laughter at the solemn Ground Zero event in lower Manhattan, at the same moment that mourners stood silently around them. A relative of a victim was seen weeping on the memorial seconds before the camera cut to Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez, while victims' loved ones stood on stage reading the names of the deceased.

It comes after Mamdani faced calls not to attend the event by 9/11 victims' groups, which he refused to honor. Mamdani was also sharply criticized this week after he handed a ceremonial pen from a 9/11 remembrance ceremony to an attorney who once represented a convicted al-Qaeda member, and whose brother was one of the hijackers in the attacks.

When is this shite going to be dealt with once and for all.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-jailed-throwing-hot-coffee-100520924.html

A man who threw hot coffee over a petrol station worker has been jailed. Muhammad Saeed, 20, entered the Shell petrol station on London Road, Burgess Hill, at about 10pm on December 15 last year. Saeed, of Tennyson Close, Crawley, ignored a request not to eat cookies and drink coffee on the premises. After an argument about this at the counter he was asked to leave, but refused. He then threw a cup of hot coffee over the victim and further assaulted him by punching and kicking. At Lewes Crown Court on August 10, Saeed was jailed for two years and four months after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm and theft. "Despite the shop worker's reasonable request for Saeed to take his items and leave the shop, Saeed instead launched the hostile assault by throwing hot coffee over the victim, then further assaulted him inside the shop. "He stole a new coffee from the machine and left without paying for it.

"The incident has had an ongoing impact on the victim, who should not have to fear being assaulted while at work.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2247479/Asylum-Labour-Home-Office

Asylum seekers helped immigration officials write “absurd” leaflets telling them not to rape or beat women, the Daily Express can reveal. The Home Office has faced fury and ridicule after creating the nine-page guide - Understanding Behaviours and Expectations in the UK. And the Home Office has now admitted officials spoke to asylum seekers about what needed to be in the document. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “It turns out that the government even consulted illegal immigrants themselves in writing their absurd leaflet - but no sign they spoke to the victims of migrant rape and assault.

“These posters were ridiculous from the outset, and the admission that illegal immigrants themselves helped produce them only makes the case worse. “This leaflet reveals the truth that Labour try every day to hide - illegal immigrants are a danger to the public, and especially to women and girls. “The solution isn’t a leaflet asking them nicely not to rape children. “The solution is the Conservative plan to leave the ECHR and deport all illegal immigrants within a week of arrival. This will protect the public and secure our borders.”

In a startling admission in the booklet for asylum seekers, officials said: “Women do not need permission from a husband, father, brother or any other man to do any of these things. “Men and women are treated equally by the law, by employers, by schools and by services like hospitals and the police. It is against the law to treat someone unfairly because of their gender.” Migrants are also being told domestic abuse is illegal and that the age of consent in the UK is 16. Immigration chiefs warn: "Sex with someone under the age of 16 is a serious crime in the UK. There are no exceptions to this rule. Even if they say yes, it is still illegal. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim." Migrants are told not to deny children food, or "cut or harm a girl's genitals".