The Future Of Food Is 3D-Printed Chocolate And Foie Gras

They hardly sound like the dishes we might dream of, but it appears such dainties as laboratory-grown foie gras and 3D-printed chocolate are on the way.

And, according to a report, some could be in our shopping baskets as soon as 2035.

Foods grown from animal and plant cells in a lab include steak, chicken and duck foie gras – with two products already being risk-assessed by regulators.

Other random dishes could include palatable insects. 

Four species are now for sale under temporary agreements while their safety is evaluated. They can be sold as whole insects or used as additives, such as powders added to well-known meals.

The report from the Food Standards Agency said allergen proteins in crustaceans can also be found in insects, which means people with a shellfish allergy could have a similar reaction to eating bug products.

The FSA also looked at ‘largely conceptual innovations’ such as 3D-printed foods, which would allow manufacturers to build foods such as chocolate or mashed potato out of layering edible ingredients from a printer – though these are not expected to reach a broad market in the next five to ten years.

The report said that the new technologies could help create personalised foods, for example, for people who have difficulty swallowing.

Dr Thomas Vincent, of the FSA, said: ‘The food system is always evolving, and as a regulator, we need to keep pace.’

This is just ‘Frankenstein’ food, along with plastic cheese and plastic sausages.

Cadbury’s chocolate used to be my favourite, but nowadays it tastes like a chunk of wax, and this is just the start of things to come. Eventually, there will be no farms, and nothing will be home-produced.

I thought we were trying to get away from ultra-processed foods – this doesn’t get any more artificial! Our food should be the real deal, or no deal.

All food should be naturally produced or bred, and all this processed slime should be removed from the food chain.

I wonder if there’s any possibility it could print a useful Prime Minister for the UK?

To be fair, I’d rather pierce hot needles in my eyeballs than eat foie gras, lab-grown or otherwise, and of course, this sort of food will be for the bottom feeders, not the ones at the top who will eat normal, healthy food.

At The Age Of Ten, Natascha Kampusch Was Abducted And Held As A Sex Slave For Eight Years

The family of former captive Natascha Kampusch have disclosed she is ‘in her own world’ as she suffers from serious health problems which have left doctors ‘overwhelmed’.

Natascha, 38, was abducted aged 10 in 1998 by Wolfgang Přiklopil while walking to school in Austria and held captive in a hidden basement cell in his home for eight years.

She was beaten, starved and turned into his sex slave before fleeing in August 2006.

Přiklopil, a technician in his 30s at the time who lived in his mother’s house, jumped in front of a train at a nearby station after discovering she had escaped.

Natascha wrote a book about her kidnapping, was the subject of a film and even presented her own TV talkshow in the years afterwards.

But her family have tragically disclosed she now seems to be ‘in a kind of prison again’ as her 20th anniversary of freedom beckons.

In a new documentary, produced by Austria’s public broadcaster ORF, her sister Claudia Nestelberger reveals she is ‘completely gone’.

She said: ‘Everyone knows how Natascha used to speak in front of the camera. That’s completely gone now.

‘She’s mostly in her own world. She’s in a kind of prison again. It’s heartbreaking, and we feel helpless.’ 

In 2023, Natascha admitted she was ‘positive and hopeful’ about her future prospects.

She was creating her own jewellery collection and was involved in building a hospital in Sri Lanka.

‘I spend a lot of time in nature and with my horse,’ she said.

Previously describing her time in captivity, Natascha said she was kept in a trapdoor in a garage which was just five by five metres, soundproofed and windowless.

She was beaten ‘up to 200 times a week’, chained to a bed at night and made to clean while half-naked.

She said from age 12 she imagined breaking out but regressed ‘to the age of a dependent toddler,’ asking to be tucked in and read bedtime stories.

Walking to school by herself on March 2, 1998, Natascha remembered how she noticed a strange Priklopil waiting by his white minivan.

‘I thought I don’t want to pass him,’ she said. ‘I thought, “That’s strange, why is this person waiting there?” It didn’t make sense.

‘That’s when I wanted to switch to the other side of the road just to be safe. But then I thought, “No, I have to do this”, so you can say, “Okay, you had the courage to walk past him.”

However, as she went past him, Priklopil grabbed her and put her in the back of the vehicle before taking her to his home, where he kept her in a dungeon under the floor of his garage. 

When she became a teenager, Priklopil would sometimes keep her upstairs with him to sleep, but would tie her to the bed so she couldn’t escape.

‘He seemed to think it was his right to control me and use violence,’ said Natascha, who suggested her captor at this point imagined they were husband and wife.

She was warned by her kidnapper that there was no way out of her ordeal, with Priklopil saying he would kill her if she ever tried to escape.

Her mother, Brigitta Sirny, was originally accused of killing her child and admitted she ‘wanted to end it all’ after the allegations.

Brigitta previously said: ‘(A) private investigator said I killed her and threw her in the lake. That made me even more upset. It was very hard to go through all that. I stood outside on the balcony, and I wanted to jump.

‘I wanted to end it all. Thank God I went back inside. But then I didn’t go on the balcony for three months. It caused very deep wounds.’ 

What the poor girl had to go through and the absolute fear she endured for many years, and even now, her life will never be normal, and even her mother was a victim as well.

Any trauma can mess a person’s life up. One can seem to turn their life around, and then out of nowhere, you can take a thousand steps back. Just one minuscule trigger and you are back to where you started. There is no cure; it’s with you for life, it’s just hoping that you have more good days than bad days.

Nobody else who has not gone through what this poor woman went through can ever imagine an ordeal like this – the brain doesn’t function to these depths of depravity.

Natascha and her family were dealt a harsh hand. They must have been outraged, especially when this monster believed he had the right to simply choose a child off the street and subject them to such abuse.

The Fears Surrounding Harvey

Katie Price worries her son Harvey will ‘end up dying of a heart attack’ if he doesn’t lose weight soon.

The star’s eldest son, 23, has Prader-Willi syndrome, which sparks a persistent urge to eat food and an enduring sense of hunger, which leads to obesity.

He also battles a string of debilitating conditions, including autism, septo-optic dysplasia, ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder.

In April 2025, his weight had reached nearly 30 stone before modifications to his diet helped him lose 1.5 stone.

Last year, Katie said she had a plan with Harvey’s medical team to put him on the weight loss jab Mounjaro, but in an update, the mum expressed her frustrations that he still hasn’t been prescribed it.

‘I’ve been on the case to doctors about putting him on the Mounjaro,’ she explained to her sister Sophie on the latest episode of their podcast The Katie Price Show.

Katie said she was going to resort to asking any doctors among her Instagram followers for help.

‘I’m actually going to put something up on Instagram to say, is there any private doctors out there? Because the NHS are so much… I’m not slagging the NHS off, but they know he’s in the obese category.’

‘When he sleeps, I worry because he’s snoring and wheezing. And then sometimes he holds his breath, and I’m like, he’s massive. He’s just getting bigger, and he’ll end up dying of a heart attack.’ 

‘They’ve already told me years ago that if he don’t lose weight, he’s prone to a heart attack.’

Katie added that she ‘just feels so bad’ and said she was determined to help but pointed out: ‘I’m not going to inject him myself because that’s not medically right to do for him, but something needs to be done. He’s just huge.’

In November, Katie said doctors were keen for Harvey to be put on a new weight loss drug ‘in the new year’ after it had completed clinical trials, but added that ‘if he goes on Mounjaro first and then goes onto this new one, it will work a lot quicker’. 

At the time, she explained that ‘the reason he hasn’t started Mounjaro yet is because they were trying to get him to lose weight through his diet, to try all avenues’.

In the most recent episode of her podcast, Katie also updated her listeners on Harvey’s living circumstances.

This woman can afford to buy Mounjaro, so I’m not sure why she isn’t. Also, it sounds like Harvey has sleep apnea, so why does he not have a sleep apnea machine?

If she stopped all her surgeries, holidays, cars and men, then she could afford to buy Mounjaro, and get him in to see a private doctor.

Sadly, Prader-Willi syndrome is complex, and one of the symptoms is an insatiable appetite, and it’s like they are a constant dustbin.

The life expectancy for people with Prader-Willi syndrome can vary greatly based on various factors, but the median age of death for those with PWS is about 30 years old. However, some have lived longer.

A Fifth Of The UK’s Aid Budget Is Spent On Housing Migrants

A fifth of the UK aid budget is spent on housing migrants in the UK, the aid watchdog has said in a report.

Using funds meant to help those overseas on those in the UK poses a ‘serious risk to value for money’, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) warned.

It said that in 2024, £2.8 billion was spent on hosting migrants and asylum seekers – £1 billion more than on humanitarian aid, despite crises in Gaza and Sudan.

Aid spending is expected to fall from 0.5 per cent of UK gross national income (GDP) to 0.3 per cent from 2027, with the saved money redirected to defence.

Spending on foreign aid has long been plagued by accusations of waste and fraud, as well as claims that it has aided terrorist organisations.

The report found that setting a figure for aid spending as a proportion of GDP and including asylum costs ‘undermined value for money’.

It warned that any rise in spending on the unpredictable cost of hosting migrants meant funding would automatically be taken from overseas spending.

It also said that the Home Office’s ability to charge an uncapped amount of spending on migrants had ‘not encouraged long-term planning to secure improvements in value for money.’

This means that the UK’s spending on housing migrants is ‘double or triple’ that of other comparable countries, and the highest cost per head, it said.

In 2023, when spending on migrants peaked at 28 per cent of the total aid budget, the report said that this represented a ‘perverse outcome’ for overseas aid.

It has called for the two to be separated due to the demand-driven nature of support for migrants.

International aid regulations allow certain expenses, such as lodging, food, medical care, and children’s education, to be deducted from aid expenditures during a migrant’s first year in the UK.

But the report found that these costs have increased dramatically in recent years, largely due to a steep rise in the costs per head of support.

Increased arrivals of migrants – including Afghans following the Taliban resurgence and Ukrainians following Russia’s invasion – added to a backlog of undecided asylum claims, it said.

A lack of accommodation has meant the Home Office has needed to house migrants in costly rented hotels.

It said that based on Government figures in the 2025 Spending Review, it expects spending on migrants to continue to take a fifth of the aid budget.

Our government has destroyed our once beautiful and thriving country.

We are told that we are lacking in housing, but we’re not. What we do have is a glut of foreign migrants, with more crossing the Channel every day.

Nearly every other country in the world deports illegal migrants, but for some reason, Starmer finds it incomprehensible. Human Rights are extremely profitable, and our government needs to keep that money flowing by rolling out the red carpet to migrants.

Migrants speak of the very nice life they have been given at expensive 4-star hotels, which are being paid for by you, the taxpayer.

Migrants staying at an exclusive four-star hotel close to Heathrow Airport have spoken of being housed in ‘very nice’ accommodation.

The Crowne Plaza, London Heathrow off the M4 motorway in West Drayton, Middlesex, boasts 465 rooms, a swimming pool and gym, but instead of paying guests, the hotel is being used to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers, despite our Labour Government’s promise to end the use of hotels for migrants.

And in the meantime, while our elderly die on hospital gurneys in corridors, migrants are getting everything they want. It now appears that our Government despise its British people.

No money should be spent by our government unless it is for UK citizens who were born in the United Kingdom, because it’s disgraceful that our government prioritises those who have no right to be here over those who do have a right.

Of course, there is an ulterior motive. Labour for votes!

In my opinion, there should be no aid budget when our pensioners can’t even heat their homes, and a lot of families can’t afford to feed their children, or afford winter coats for them. We should not be supporting other countries that have never put a penny into the system when our own go without.

TRIBUTE: Jack Osbourne And His Wife Name Their Newborn Daughter!

Jack Osbourne and his wife Aree have welcomed their daughter and have named the baby after his late father Ozzy Osbourne. 

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the couple shared the joyful news as they posted a black and white photo of their daughter alongside a ‘Hello world’ card confirming she was born on March 5.

Revealing her name, Jack captioned the post: ‘Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne’ in a heartfelt tribute to the late rockstar.

He added on his Story: ‘She’s arrived and she’s perfect’ as friends and fans rushed to the comments to send their congratulations. 

Jack’s father, Ozzy, died at the age of 76 on July 22, 2025, just 17 days after he performed a finale concert with his band Black Sabbath in England, which saw Jack and the entire Osbourne family travel from Los Angeles to Birmingham.

In December, soon after Jack’s stint on I’m A Celeb, Jack and Aree revealed they were expecting their second child together. They already have a three-year-old daughter named Maple.

Sharing a picture of them embracing and cradling her baby bump, the soon-to-be father-of-five wrote, ‘oops I did it again!’

The media personality was formerly married to Lisa Stelly from 2012 to 2019. The exes share daughters Pearl, 13, Andy, 10, and Minnie, seven.

Speaking with The Sun, the podcaster opened up about preparing to become a dad for the fifth time.

‘We’re super excited. It was sort of planned, I should say. It was maybe a little earlier than expected.

‘But it’s definitely something that we were wanting to pursue, and somehow it happened, miraculously,’ he said.

Jack also explained that his unborn child had become a beacon of light as he mourned his father.

‘I think it’s been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing — probably in that kind of “full cycle” category, in a weird way,’ he reflected.

He added, ‘It’s very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness.’

The newborn’s birth comes just days after Jack opened up about his father’s final weeks before his death. 

Appearing on an episode of the HATE TO BREAK IT TO YA podcast, where he reflected on the final weeks of his father’s life, Jack shared a conversation he had with Ozzy the night after the Sabbath farewell show that left him with a devastating realisation.

While putting Ozzy to bed, Jack, who was getting ready to return to LA, said his father confessed to him that he wanted to ‘cut [his] hair off’.

‘Right before I left, I was putting him to bed, and he was like brushing his teeth or whatever,’ Jack recalled. ‘He was looking at himself in the mirror, and he goes, “I think I’m going to cut my hair off.”

Jack remembered asking him why, and Ozzy replied: ‘I’ve retired. I’m not a rock star anymore.’

He also recalled how his father only ever cut his hair short once and shaved his head ‘once to p*** my mom off’ in the 80s.

‘And so I think about that, and I’m like, “Yeah, he was done. He was okay with his journey.”

Jack also talked about the last day of his father’s life.

‘I think we do have a choice to a degree,’ he explained while offering a philosophical perspective.

‘If you’re sick, if your body’s primed and in a place, where it’s like, “Hey, you’ve got a choice here,” on a deep spiritual level, I do think that maybe, rather consciously or subconsciously, you have a choice where you’re like, “Okay, I’m ready to move on.”

But when the late star died, Jack admitted that it had been ‘a surprise’.

‘Obviously, everyone knew he was sick… but we weren’t expecting it to be as quick as it was. He was up, he was doing his thing, had some breakfast, and that was it.’

Last month, Sharon and her daughter Kelly made a heartfelt speech in honour of the late Ozzy as he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BRITs. 

Congratulations to Jack and his family. He seems like an upright bloke who is kind, caring and a wonderful father, and a new baby is just what the family needs to help with the healing, and Ozzy is a fantastic name, but some people have taken to social media with some extremely hostile remarks.

Ozzy is a gender neutral name that is on the rise. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the name, and it’s a fantastic tribute to a wonderful celebrity.

Ozzy is a cool name, especially if she builds her own business or becomes a singer herself one day.

A Mother Throws Out Her Amazon Alexa Device After It Asked Her Four-Year-Old Daughter An Incredibly Creepy Question

A mother has removed all Amazon Alexa devices from her Texas home after the AI assistant asked her four-year-old daughter what she was wearing. 

Christy Hosterman, 32, was using the device to help with a dinner recipe last month when her daughter Stella asked it to tell her a silly story, a feature on the device that children typically use.

When the story was concluded, Stella asked the AI if she could narrate her own tale.

Alexa agreed, but interrupted the child halfway through to ask ‘what she was wearing and if it could see her pants,’ Hosterman revealed in a Facebook post.

Screenshots of the interaction shared by the concerned parent show that when Stella told the device ‘I have a skirt on,’ it asked her to ‘let me take a look.’

The AI then corrected itself, saying: ‘This experience isn’t quite ready for kids yet, but I am working on it!’ 

Hosterman then confronted the device, stating that she did not approve of the remarks.

Alexa apologised and said it ‘cannot actually see anything’ because it lacked ‘visual capabilities.’ The device added that its response was ‘confusing and inappropriate.’

Hosterman is now urging other parents to ‘be aware when your child talks to Alexa’ and says she has permanently removed the device from their home.

‘I flipped out on the Alexa, it said it made a mistake and doesn’t have visual capabilities, but I don’t believe that. No more Alexa in our house,’ she shared. 

The concerned parents submitted a ticket to Amazon over the inappropriate interaction, WXIX reported.

An Amazon spokesperson claimed the device misunderstood Stella’s request and tried to launch a feature, the Show and Tell feature, which ‘lets Alexa+ describe what it sees through the camera.’

‘Because we have safeguards that disable this feature when a child profile is in use, the camera never turned on — and Alexa explained the feature wasn’t available,’ the spokesperson told the Daily Mail.

Amazon claims the response likely stemmed from a ‘feature misfire that our safeguards prevented from launching’.

The company said the interaction demonstrated a technological issue that its team ‘worked quickly’ to correct.

Alexa will no longer attempt to launch the Show and Tell feature when a child profile is in use, the spokesperson added. ‘Alexa will simply respond that this feature is not available.’

But Hosterman says Amazon’s explanation does not address her concerns.

‘My concern is that it recognised she was a child to begin with — and with or without the child profile, it should not have been asking that,’ she told the outlet.

Tech expert Dave Hatter has made a chilling suggestion that a predator may have accessed the device and been influencing the conversation.

Hatter, who has 25 years of software writing experience, alleged there is a ‘slim’ chance that AI would alter its script this drastically.

‘It feels to me like a potential predator — seeing there’s a child accessing this and gauging where the conversation is going — that’s more of a human being trying to steer down this direction,’ he said.

Amazon denied Hatter’s claim, telling the Daily Mail: ‘It is functionally impossible for Amazon employees to insert themselves into a conversation and generate responses as Alexa. All technical evidence points to a feature misfire that our safeguards prevented from launching.’

It’s the best eavesdropping experiment ever; they are listening to everything we say.

Every time I purchase something online or look at something online, it will then bring up ads on Facebook, but the most bizarre thing is when I am talking to my kids about something, it appears on my TV as an advert or on my pc. We are not safe even in our own homes anymore.

The simple answer is, don’t trust AI. It will be our destruction.

No one needs these devices. They push them as a convenience, and people believe them. Honestly, I am in a wheelchair, but I still don’t need AI to turn on my lights. I can do that by myself, and I’m happy that I can.

These devices make people slothful. It can induce mental illness, and that’s why mental illness is booming. People don’t do anything, and that is why their minds are turning to sludge, and I definitely don’t think that children should be talking or listening to Artificial Intelligence.

Apple, Samsung, And Google Are Given An Ultimatum By Police Chiefs

Britain’s largest police force has given an ultimatum to tech giants over the mobile phone theft epidemic.

Scotland Yard’s commissioner said Apple, Samsung and Google had until June to ‘design out’ thefts by installing a kill switch that would turn stolen phones into an ‘unusable brick.’ 

If the firms missed the deadline, Sir Mark Rowley said he would ask the Government to implement legislation forcing them to act. 

The commissioner has been in discussions with manufacturers for two-and-a-half years, but criticised the tech giants for being ‘polite but not serious.’ 

‘I’m setting a clear public marker, if by the first of June, industry has not come to the table in a genuinely serious and solution-focused way, with concrete commitments on stolen mobile phones… the Met will formally write to the Home Secretary to ask that she legislates,’ he told the International Mobile Phone Crime Conference in central London. 

Sir Mark, who referenced the Mail’s investigation into stolen phones being resold in Hong Kong at the event, said he could not understand why telecoms giants had not done more to protect their customers from theft.

‘For nearly three years we have sought meaningful engagement with phone manufacturers and their response to date does not match the scale of harm and risk to their customers,’ he added. 

The international trade in stolen phones is worth millions, with devices stolen in London worth more in countries such as China because it has none of the government restrictions put in place by the authorities. 

The Mail revealed last month that British children as young as 14 are being recruited on social media to steal mobile phones before school for £400 each.

Gangs shipping stolen phones to Algeria, China and Hong Kong use Snapchat to target children to swipe the devices – offering vast sums plus £100 bonuses to the most prolific phone snatchers. 

‘The exploitation of children in this trade is not just about individual offences,’ Sir Mark said. 

‘It’s an entry point into organised crime.

‘Children recruited to snatch phones for quick cash are being groomed into criminal networks, normalised into offending behaviour and pushed further into exploitation. 

‘What begins as one device on a street corner becomes a pathway into debt, coercion, violence and deeper criminality.’ 

The Met wants anti-theft protection switched on by default, stolen phones to be rendered unusable, and better access to IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) data to make it easier to return devices to their owners.

Figures released under Freedom of Information legislation show only a fraction of devices taken in London are returned to their owners. Between 2017 and February 27 2024, a total of 587,498 phones were stolen in London, excluding the City, 13,998 of which were recovered, and 573,500 were not.

The police undoubtedly cannot deal with this phone theft, or they just don’t see it as a priority. However, if phone theft stopped tomorrow, criminals would just move on to something else, such as laptops, wallets, watches, jewellery, and handbags, because organised theft will always redirect its targets.

However, if this is enforced, major mobile phone companies are not going to like this because when someone has their phone robbed, what is the first thing they do? Buy another one, so if a kill switch were put on mobile devices, these big companies would be out of pocket.

What we should be doing is putting a kill switch on these phone snatchers, and the only way to do that would be if our police actually worked for a living and did their job properly.

Teenager Stabbed In Classroom

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after a teenage girl was stabbed at a school, which was put into lockdown today, with terrified pupils told to hide under their desks.

Armed police were called to Thorpe St Andrew school near Norwich at around 10.24 am as students were told to hide and turn off their phones while teachers barricaded classroom doors.

About 100 parents arrived at the school grounds after hearing the reports on social media, pleading with police for more information.

 ‘Just f*****g let the kids out,’ one parent screamed at officers.

Another said: ‘If my son is under a table and someone’s coming with a knife, I want him to be aware they’re coming.’

One pupil who was able to make contact with their family sent a text reading ‘I am very scared’, while another sent a message saying they ‘just want to go home’.

Police drones were also on the scene as officers scoured for the suspect, who is believed to have escaped after leaping over a fence, before an arrest was made.

It’s understood that the suspect was on the run for more than an hour, with the arrest being made at about 11.30 am.

Officers arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and have taken him to Wymondham Police Investigation Centre for questioning.

The teenage girl, understood to be a student at the school, has been taken to the hospital with ‘minor injuries’.

While Thorpe St Andrew School is still on lockdown, other Norfolk schools are reportedly keeping kids inside for lunch.

Darren Evans, a father whose daughter is in year eight, told the Eastern Daily Press: ‘The communication from the school has been shocking.

‘If it were not for Facebook and the news, I would have had no idea what was going on.

‘I last heard from my daughter an hour ago. There’s been a total lack of communication.’

Another parent added: ‘To hear nothing from the school, it’s terrifying. Your mind sort of starts wheeling, you’ve got kids in the school, you don’t know what they want.

‘To have no information whatsoever about what was going on, with all this going on in the world right now, your mind instantly goes to the worst.

‘You automatically boot the worst, and think something horrendous has happened. I mean, it has. You automatically think it’s something a hell of a lot worse.’

One teacher at the school said they had been told to stay in the classroom with pupils, telling ITV News Anglia: ‘One of the things you practice, but never think you’ll do’.

One Parent, Adam Howlett, told the news outlet that he had still not heard from his daughter, despite hearing from his son, who is still locked in his classroom.

He said, ‘When it comes to your child, even minor injuries are terrifying. You don’t expect to come to school and get injured. I’m just waiting to find out some news and put my mind at rest.’ 

Another parent, Shantelle Taylor, said she was ‘absolutely fuming’ to hear about the incident through a friend and not through the school.

‘I have managed to get hold of my daughter even though she’s been told she is not even allowed to message me to tell me she’s okay, which I think is absolutely ridiculous,’ she said.

An alarm is still ringing out across the school; however, a member of the security staff at the school told parents waiting outside, ‘don’t worry, everyone is now safe’, the BBC reports.

Sadly, this sort of thing is now a common occurrence in the UK. Of course, back in the day, there was brutality, but it was full of gangs with flick knives and razor blades. The only difference is that there were rules, no children, and no women to be harmed; there was a code of conduct, although there were some exceptions to the rule, but they were dealt with promptly.

Unfortunately, there’s no deterrent for teenagers these days. If one murders or mutilates another person with a knife or weapon, they should be put in jail; it’s as straightforward as that, whether they are a teenager or not. The issue here is that if they are sent to jail, they then associate with other criminals, and the cycle goes on and on. Sadly, if your mind is that way inclined, then there is no other place to go but jail.

The absurd thing is that the actual severity of the situation is concealed; it is far worse than we can comprehend, but it’s not just happening in the UK; it’s happening worldwide. Our governments have become too tolerant, and this has been going on for way too long.

Nine People, Including A Famous Sportsman, Are Stripped Of Their MBEs And OBEs By King Charles II

The decision isn’t made lightly, but King Charles can withdraw people from their honorary titles and has already done so nine times this month.

The King has already stripped nine people of their OBE’s (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) just this month – usually for those who have criminal convictions, misconduct or being struck off from a regulatory body. This includes former Scottish Rugby player Stuart Hogg, who had his MBE removed after he pleaded guilty to domestic abuse charges against his then estranged wife, Gillian. And, the King was caught out himself with this remark to Camilla.

The former Glasgow Warriors fullback had a decorated career, earning a century of caps for his country, as well as being involved in three British and Irish Lions tours.

This dedication saw him awarded an MBE in the 2024 New Year honours for his services to rugby, but has now been withdrawn and nullified. However, according to BBC News, Hogg admitted to shouting, swearing and acting in an abusive manner towards Gillian, which then saw calls to strip him of the honour.

The full notice in the UK’s official public record, The Gazette reads: “The King has directed that the appointment of Stuart William Hogg to be a Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 30 December 2023 shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order.”

Among others who have been stripped is a Cumbrian owl sanctuary owner, earlier this month. Paul Allen Rose, founder of Barrow’s Owl Sanctuary, was sentenced in May 2024, after pleading guilty to two counts of causing undue suffering to a protected animal and one count of failing to ensure animal welfare, contrary to Section 4 and Section 9 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006, according to The Telegraph and Argus.

A notice published on Thursday, March 5, by The Gazette says Rose had his MBE title stripped due to a criminal conviction.

This criminal conviction resulted in the loss of his prestigious title. However, several people have also had their honours taken away, including:

  • Ian Ashbold received an MBE in 2016, stripped due to a Criminal Conviction
  • Lloyd Hamilton received an MBE in 2011, stripped due to a Criminal conviction
  • Angela Middleton received an MBE in 2019, stripped due to bringing the honours system into disrepute.
  • Nigel O’Connor, who received an MBE in 2015, stripped due to professional censure.
  • Tony Reilly, who received an OBE in 2011, stripped due to professional censure.
  • Paul Rose received an MBE in 2002, stripped due to Criminal conviction.
  • Anant Shah received OBE in 2020, stripped due to bringing the honours system into disrepute.
  • Graham Trewhella received an MBE in 2010, stripped due to Criminal conviction.
  • Stuart Hogg, who received an MBE in 2024, was stripped due to a criminal conviction.

The King should also look at his government and start stripping some of them for their transgressions because we need to cut out the rot, and let’s face it, nobody is impressed by those who have honours these days, except the recipients themselves. It’s just a racket and has been for years.

What we truly need to do is strip the so-called Monarchy and this so-called aristocracy of their entitlements – all they are is hereditary dictators, and Britain is a ridiculous Constitutional Monarchy, and what it should be is a Constitutional Republic, and as far as I can see, there’s not even a Constitution – they make it up as they go along.

The Moment Of Truth

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor issued a desperate plea to Prince William during a tense conversation at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral, a lip reader has claimed.

Expert analysts have offered insights on a string of recent royal moments, including the gathering at Westminster Cathedral last September.

All the senior royals were attending, including Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, who both came to pay tribute to the wife of his late mother’s cousin, who died aged 92.

The former prince had a famously tense encounter with the Prince and Princess of Wales on the steps of the church after the service as they waited for their cars.

Now, in a Channel 5 TV series, forensic lip reader Nicola Hickling has claimed the ex-Duke of York used the moment to plead for his nephew’s forgiveness.

Andrew apparently asks William, who was joined by his wife Kate: ‘I’ve learnt from what I’ve done, but before I forget, and if I can, I’d like to ask you if you can forgive?’

It came amid continued controversy over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, which led to his titles being stripped the following month and him being booted out of his home at Royal Lodge. 

Andrew was subsequently arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, over claims he gave sensitive information to the paedophile while acting as UK trade envoy from 2001 to 2011.

He was released under investigation and has not been charged. Andrew has strenuously denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. 

It followed the release of the Epstein Files by the US Department of Justice in January, containing three million documents related to the convicted sex offender.

Andrew’s seemingly desperate plea came after he greeted the Prince and Princess of Wales at the funeral, saying: ‘Good afternoon, William and Catherine, how are you?’

Kate replies, ‘Good, thank you’, with lip reader Ms Hickling explaining: ‘At this point, William looks a little bit uneasy, before saying to Andrew, “What can I do for you?”

The former prince says, ‘We’re really closed in together’, before William gives what Ms Hickling called a ‘simple response’, of just, ‘Yes’. 

According to the programme, after Andrew gives his plea, to which he gets no reply, and leaves the couple, Kate says: ‘He seemed very sorry.’

William replies, ‘Do you think I deserved that? Is that what you mean?’, before the princess repeats, ‘He seemed very sorry’.

The funeral was one of Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s last official public appearances for the Royal Family before the scandal over their links to Epstein exploded.

Of course, this could all be utter tripe, but regardless of what was actually said, Williams’ face said it all.

But it doesn’t actually matter what was said – people will read about it, believe it and then it becomes the truth. Let’s face it, though, the Royal Family aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer in general, and how dense would they have to be to have these kinds of conversations in public with the press watching?

Deaf people are reliant on lip reading, so I absolutely hate those who use this to pass on what is essentially a private chat of other people. In other words, this is just eavesdropping, and it is disgraceful.

Were these experts lip readers or Schmuck readers? Whatever they are, I can see another Netflix coming up following the series ‘The Crown.’ What are they going to call this one? ‘The Hebephile’.

The only thing that Andrew is sorry about is that he got caught.

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