Approximately one in five prisoners in some institutions carry hepatitis C, and prison officers can contract the infection by being pricked with a dirty needle, bitten by a carrier or splattered with bodily fluids.
The Ministry of Justice has been forced to pay out compensation to seventeen staff contaminated by dirty needles in drug-ridden prisons over the past six months.
Settlements, including legal costs, came to £660,000 from 2016 to 2021 after staff contracted diseases like hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV on the job from sharps injuries.
In the period between September 2020 and August 2021, the MoJ’s bloodborne disease hotline received 113 calls from prison staff worried about their infection status.
Needle injuries can happen when prison officers scour inmates’ cells for drugs.
There’s no vaccine for hepatitis C or HIV, meaning officers have no protection against the disease.
According to The Hepatitis C Trust, prisoners are up to 28 times more likely to carry hepatitis C than the general population, with a prevalence as high as one in five in some institutions.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has even had to set up a hotline for prison officers who fear they’ve been contaminated.
Infections can occur after being pierced with a contaminated needle, bitten by a carrier or splattered with bodily fluids.
From September 2020 to August 2021, official figures show the bloodborne disease hotline received 113 calls from prison staff concerned about their infection status.
A spokesman for the MoJ said that the safety of their staff was their highest priority and they were spending £100 million to bolster security across the prison estate.
The spokesman said that they’d already supplied PPE and additional training to protect staff from needle injuries, which had led to a decline in claims.
How is it that these prisons are drug-ridden anyhow unless of course they’re being run by unskilled people? And what has our Government been doing about it for the past 12 years?
These Prison Officers do a thankless job, but they’re only ever criticised for it, and how on earth are these prisoners getting these drugs because since COVID there were no visitors permitted in the prisons to see inmates, and what is the outcome for these prisoners that are found to have drugs, drug paraphernalia and other contraband?
Sadly though, since COVID numerous prison officers have been off sick with COVID and there have not been enough prison officers to go around, therefore prisoners were locked in their cells because of this.
Perhaps we should be asking the Ministry of Justice how prison staff allow drugs and syringes to get into prisons in the first place.
Sadly our streets and prisons are riddled with crime and drugs and yet our Government want to keep taking in more and more people on a shoestring budget rather than using the much-needed resources to sort out the chaos this country is in.
“Sarmat’s” characteristics allow it to reliably defeat any existing or future anti-missile defence systems
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared his regime’s latest nuclear-capable missile will be deployed as early as this autumn, saying it will force those who attempt to threaten Russia to think twice.
The Sarmat missile, or Satan II, is said to be the world’s longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting a target 11,200 miles away, meaning it could easily strike targets in the US and Europe.
Sarmat (pictured in test launch) is said to be the world’s longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of striking a target 11,200 miles away, so it could easily target US and European targets.
Vladimir Putin called the development of the missile, which was successfully test-fired, a big, significant event for Russia’s defence drive, saying the Sarmat will ensure Russia’s security from external threats and make those who try to threaten their country with aggressive rhetoric think twice.
He said the missile could break through all current anti-missile defences, and he said that there was nothing like this anywhere in the world and that there wouldn’t be for a long time.
Western military experts said the Sarmat was capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads and decoys, easily enough to wipe out territories the size of Britain or France in a single strike.
However, pundits believe the autumn target announced by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency, was an ambitious one because Moscow reported its first test launch only on Wednesday and more tests would be needed before the missile could be deployed.
This week’s test, after years of delays due to funding and technical problems, marks a show of strength by Russia at a time when the fighting in Ukraine has sent tensions with the US and its allies soaring to their highest levels since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
Rogozin said in an interview with Russian state TV that the missiles would be deployed with a unit in Uzhur, in the Krasnoyarsk region, about 3,000 km (1,860) east of Moscow.
He said they would be put at the same sites and in the same silos as the Soviet-era Voyevoda missiles they’re replacing, something that would save colossal resources and time.
Rogozin said the launch of the superweapon was a historic event that would ensure the safety of Russia’s children and grandchildren for the next 30-40 years.
Western concern about the threat of nuclear war has risen since Vladimir Putin launched his illegal and murderous invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
When the Russian tyrant burst into the former Soviet state, he made a reference to his nation’s nuclear deterrents, warning the West that any major intervention would lead them to such consequences that they’ve ever experienced in their history.
If there is a breakthrough in all current defences, why haven’t we heard about them before now? Or is it in fact a complete lie?
Vladimir Putin might have such missiles, but showing ballistics frightens nobody, and hopefully, his projectiles are just weapons that are rusty toilet cans, but still, we shouldn’t ignore him.
Numerous years ago Vladimir Putin bragged that he would have 2,000 unstoppable T-14 tanks, today he has a handful of prototypes which are incomplete and he declared he didn’t need them and that they wouldn’t be built.
Ten years ago he announced he would have thousands of Su-57s, today he has a few incomplete prototypes. Now it’s Satan II and now they have even less money and his economy is shrinking rapidly.
But there’s always a greater danger when one man has so much power, and if he should feel suicidal, he might just have the inclination to take everyone with him, and he’s the most dangerous of any leader because if he is sick or dying, at this point he has absolutely nothing to lose.
In 1997, Princess Diana died alongside Egyptian film producer Dodi Al Fayed, with whom she had been dating for several months
Prince Harry says his mother was ‘chased to death’ while in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white and he feared ‘history repeating itself’ with his wife.
After their controversial but famous interview in 2020, Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey made a docuseries about mental health called ‘The Me You Can’t See.’
In it, Prince Harry talks about Meghan Markle’s treatment by the royal family and how triggering it was and that it deeply reminded him of his own late mother, Princess Diana, who was hounded to her death while she was in a relationship with someone that wasn’t white, and now look what’s happened? Talk about history repeating itself, and that it wouldn’t stop until she dies.
In the docuseries, Prince Harry talks about his regrets about not calling out the racism toward Meghan earlier and that his father used to say to him when he was younger that it was like that for him, so it was going to be like that for Harry.
But Prince Harry said that it didn’t make sense. Just because they had to suffer didn’t mean that their children should have to suffer. In fact, quite the opposite. If you suffered, then you would do everything that you could to make sure whatever unfavourable experience you had, you would want to make it right for your children.
His mother, Princess Diana, had split from his father Prince Charles in the year 1992 and divorced in 1996. After that, she dated Egyptian born Dodi Fayed. They both perished in a car wreck in 1997 in Paris while they were hunted by the paparazzi, but in 2008, Mohammed Al-Fayed, Dodi’s father, accused the royal family of being racist toward his son, and he referred to them as the ‘Dracula Family’ who couldn’t stand the thought of a Muslim marrying the princess.
Speaking of the paparazzi, Meghan Markle spoke about her suicidal thoughts in her interview with Oprah. She explained she didn’t want to be alive anymore because of the bombardment of adverse and negative media coverage about her.
Those racist headlines included blaming her for fueling human rights abuses, drought, and murder. For eating avocados and describing her mother’s hometown as almost straight outta Compton and gang scarred.
Her poor mental health was part of Prince Harry’s decision to leave the royal family, but when he was told that he couldn’t do it, he didn’t accept that because how bad did it have to get until he was allowed to do this? When she was going to end her life? But it shouldn’t have to get like that.
In the docuseries, Prince Harry opened up about his battle with mental health as he grew up. He was twelve when his mother passed and he was never encouraged to seek help, and if people asked how he was, he would say that he was fine. Never happy, never sad, just fine. Fine was the easy answer, but actually, he was all over the place mentally, and his family members just said play the game and his life would be easier.
He endured extreme anxiety and panic attacks during his royal life, which all deteriorated in his late 20s when he turned to partying, drugs, and drinking to enable him to cope, and Prince Harry said he was willing to try and do the something that made him feel less like he was feeling, but then gradually he became aware that he wasn’t drinking Monday to Friday, but would probably drink a week’s worth in one day on a Friday or Saturday night, and that he found he was drinking, not because he was enjoying it, but because he was attempting to hide something.
Then he hit his breaking point, and he said it was like someone had taken a lid off the feeling that he’d hidden for so many years and unexpectedly everything came to the forefront.
I guess Prince Harry is allowed to have freedom of speech like anyone else, and why should Meghan be condemned for Harry telling his truths? He has a mind of his own, and he could be correct in saying that the media never have anything flattering to report about them.
Diana was with Hasnat Khan the heart surgeon before Dodi, and they split because he didn’t like the media hounding him all the time, which says a lot for the media and how far they will go to get a story.
You could also say that it’s appalling how much Harry is cashing in on his mother’s demise, and numerous people out there are saying just that, and that he isn’t right in the head, but actually what he’s trying to get across is that his mother died for no good reason.
Diana didn’t need to die and had she not been hounded by the paparazzi if it was the paparazzi who were hunting her, then perhaps she would have still been alive today, but instead, a fellow human being was killed without a second thought.
It might seem absurd to some people out there, but I don’t think that he’s been brainwashed, especially not by his wife, but a lot of people are saying that he’s not the smartest pen in the box and that he’s being used. I believe the opposite and that when the Queen shuffles off this mortal coil a lot of information will come out about the death of Diana and what actually happened, and Harry will be the one to do it, unfortunately, many people don’t want the truth, they want the fairytale!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expanding their investigation after scores of young children came down with severe liver inflammation
US health officials have sent out a national alert, alerting doctors to be on the watch for signs of unexplained hepatitis in children, after groups of mysterious cases in the US and the United Kingdom.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is extending its investigation after scores of young children came down with severe liver inflammation but didn’t have the viruses hepatitis A, B, or C that usually cause it.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expanding their probe after scores of young children developed severe liver inflammation
In the alert, the CDC said it’s working with partners in Europe to understand the reason for the infections, and urged doctors across the nation to report possible cases.
A common cold virus known as an adenovirus has been confirmed in several of the European cases, but not all.
In the United Kingdom, researchers have speculated that children may have depleted immune systems due to rounds of COVID 19 pandemic lockdowns.
However, the US cases of pediatric hepatitis are so far all in Alabama, a state that didn’t follow the most stringent pandemic restrictions, deepening the mystery.
UK health authorities said they’ve identified a total of 108 cases of pediatric hepatitis. In some instances, cases were so severe that children needed liver transplants.
According to the European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control, more cases have been reported in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain.
Hepatitis just means liver inflammation, which can have causes varying from viruses and toxins to alcohol abuse.
The US alert directs doctors to report any suspected cases of the disease that occur with obscure origin to their state and local health departments.
It also suggests doctors conduct adenovirus testing in young patients with signs of the disease, which include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine, light-coloured stools, joint pain, and jaundice.
The warning followed a CDC investigation with the Alabama Department of Public Health into a group of nine cases of hepatitis of obscure origin in once healthy children varying in age from 1 to 6 years old.
The first such US cases were identified in October 2021 at a children’s hospital in Alabama that admitted five young patients with significant liver damage, including some with acute liver failure, of unidentified cause.
It’s funny how many conspiracy theories really turn out to be true! But then everything in this world is getting weird and strange illnesses are happening everywhere, so why is this occurring and what is the connection?
There are many shoes left to drop and this is just the beginning, it’s not the end, but if we read the article it said that it had impacted children between the ages of 1-6 years old, the vaccine wasn’t approved for children under 5.
And it seems that the CDC has washed every last speck of credibility they had down the toilet – welcome to the side effects, and as for it being a mystery hepatitis, it’s no mystery because unfortunately, big pharma has zero liability.
Honestly, the whole thing chimes like a John Grisham novel. But really, who do we trust, I’m genuinely curious. Do we believe in governments, health experts or the mainstream media?
And if this weakened immunity was from lockdown like they’re suggesting, then it would be rampant, but the fact that we only have a few isolated cases at the moment clearly points to the vaccine, and We’ve just been used as lab rats. Even Forrest Gump could have worked that out!
She has spent a great deal of money on cosmetic surgery
A plastic surgery addict who was banned from playing with Barbie dolls as a kid has now spent nearly £50,000 to become one in real life, but the change came at an even greater price for Jessy Bunny, because her family no longer talks to her.
The 20-year-old upset her parents when she used the funds they gave her for a car on a boob job instead after turning 18, and the OnlyFans model, who lives in Vienna, has since spent up to £20,000 on more ops to look as artificial as possible.
Speaking to a newspaper outlet, the real-life Barbie said that her parents didn’t allow her to play with Barbie, so she decided she wanted to become a Barbie and that when she was browsing the internet in her early teen years she found those extreme 3D models of bimbos on pages like Deviant Art, and that since then it became her dream to become such a doll.
Jessy now strips off on saucy subscription site OnlyFans to finance her bonkers mission, and so far she’s had two boob jobs, a BBL, chin surgery, liposuction and numerous lip fillers, and her family remains unimpressed.
Jessy, whose implants are now 2000cc in size, said that she doesn’t have any contact with her family and that they broke up every communication with her after she started becoming a bimbo.
However, Jessy is committed to continuing her plastic pursuits regardless, even planning to have two ribs removed, and when asked if she was yet satisfied with her extreme look, she said that she likes that she’s super-feminine and also incredibly fake. She said that you could say that it’s the ideal feminine body on steroids and that she believed that over 90 per cent of all men loved bimbos, so embrace your bimbo love, and although she gets no attention from her family, she makes up for it online and in the public.
She said that when she’s out on the streets everyone is staring at her and that she can understand it because she doesn’t just have the largest boobs and the most enhanced body in Vienna, she also has the largest boobs in the entirety of Austria.
She said some people make offensive comments, others want to take a photograph and that the fun fact is that numerous women on the streets love her look, which makes her extremely happy.
However, there were numerous people who said that her look made them feel sick and that she must be suffering from a mental illness.
Perhaps she needs to stick her lips on an iced window, that would stop her from getting more plastic surgery.
It really is a horrific sight, she looks more like a Catfish. She might say that her cash was well spent, but it really wasn’t, and I’m not sure what she thinks a Barbie doll looks like, but she certainly doesn’t look like one, she looks weird, and it’s definitely not empowering, nor desirable or normal, and there must be something wrong with this world if people pay to look like that, and she said that she looks super feminine. Well, she must be bonkers because that’s got to be the furthest away from feminine you can get.
MPs will hear a ‘full-throated apology’ from Boris Johnson in the House of Commons today
Boris Johnson’s allies have played down the gravity of his Partygate penalty, with one minister suggesting it was no more serious than a parking ticket.
Boris Johnson is expected to make a statement to MPs, with expectations of a full-throated apology for the £50 fix penalty notice he received for violating the lockdown laws.
But comments by his disciples playing down the importance of him being the first lawbreaking Prime Minister ever raises questions over how much he’s planning to apologise.
But will he endeavour to persuade politicians and the wider public that there are certainly bigger problems to concentrate on than the Partygate saga?
It’s thought he will zone in on the situation in Ukraine, along with the Government’s contentious new policy on sending illegal migrants to Rwanda.
One source told a newspaper outlet that it wasn’t as if he walked into a rave in Ibiza, a reference to what No 10 said in his brief appearance at his birthday party in June 2020 that resulted in the fine.
The Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis suggested the fine was akin to ministers having previously received parking tickets.
He told Sky News that they’ve asked him, can someone who sets the laws and the rules, can they also be someone who breaks the rules?
He said that’s obviously occurred with a number of ministers over the years.
He added that he believed that they do see consistently, whether it be through parking fines or speeding fines, ministers of both parties over the years have been in that situation, and he said that they’ve had prime ministers in the past who’ve received penalty notices and that from what he could see, that was also frontbench ministers.
He said that he saw there was a parking notice that Tony Blair had once and that they’ve seen front bench Labour ministers, and government ministers as well.
It comes as he faces a possible inquiry into whether he deceived Parliament when making earlier statements about parties in Downing Street and his involvement in them.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, is expected to reveal whether he will let MPs vote on whether to investigate if the Prime Minister conned Parliament when saying all guidance was observed completely in Downing Street in December.
Under the ministerial code, deliberately misleading parliament is an offence that should result in resignation.
This is clearly a gaslighting government, and Tory MP’s backing Boris Johnson is a disgrace, and this has now become a criminal dictatorship that thinks it’s totally unaccountable.
The Tories have always lined their own pockets whilst defrauding the people and disregarding the law, and without a functioning opposition, there’s clearly nothing stopping them.
Hopefully, the Tories will be finished at the next election and hopefully, it won’t be something that the voters will forget, and any trust that the Tory voter had for Boris Johnson and his government have gone because they can’t talk their way out of this anymore, and hopefully, once people see their trusts and concerns are being dismissed, then that’s when they won’t vote for them, and Boris Johnson and his associates can drag and delay, hoping this will be forgotten but I doubt people will for this.
At the end of the day, Boris Johnson violated his own rules, and then lied to Parliament, that’s a wee bit more serious than a parking ticket.
Motherhood is a challenging gig, and for every difficult task, there are people willing to criticise it.
This is extremely clear online with mothers posting about it and comments saying they do it wrong.
They’re disgraced for introducing solid foods at the wrong time or for how they sleep train their babies, but perhaps the most significant case of mum shaming comes with the argument of breastfeeding versus using formula.
Mums who use formula are shamed for not trying hard enough or taking the easy way out. Meanwhile, mums who breastfeed are disgraced for how they decide to go about it.
There are plenty of mothers who fight the naysayers when it comes to public breastfeeding, with pictures of mums breastfeeding uncovered in public, especially when they’re breastfeeding in a cafe or restaurant.
It’s the most natural thing for a mother to breastfeed her child, even if it is in public, but there are people out there that will look at that mother with disgust, and nod their heads in judgment in an attempt to humiliate them.
Folks, they’re breasts and they’re only the things that your mother fed you with and if a mother feels that she wants to breastfeed in public, covered or uncovered then she should be allowed to do so.
A breastfeeding mother should be allowed to breastfeed, and they should never ever feel ashamed, belittled, embarrassed or wrong for feeding their baby the way nature intended.
The breast’s primary purpose is to feed babies, anything pleasure related comes secondary, and there’s nothing odd about this.
And of course, mothers can feel isolated when breastfeeding, and it’s exponentially unfair and selfish to ask a mother and baby to exclude themselves from a table or even a gathering because someone else is uncomfortable with how that mother feeds her child.
No person should be isolated and scorned because they’re eating, especially when the other person is eating while mocking how someone else is eating. The answer is simple, look away instead of humiliating a mother and her child.
Of course, others that have children will say it’s appalling that their children should see this sort of conduct, but children shouldn’t be taken away from what happens naturally, which is breastfeeding the natural way, and the natural way to feed babies, plus normalising it could encourage them to breastfeed when they become mothers if they’re able to.
There’s an amazing bond and benefits that come with breastfeeding. Breast milk and breastfeeding are the best choices for both mother and baby, and although health professionals agree that breastfeeding is the healthiest option, it’s not always the truth for every case.
However, not being able to breastfeed doesn’t equate with a mother being a bad mother. On the contrary, a good mother will pursue the most suitable choice for herself and her baby under her doctor’s advice, regardless of mum shamers.
Formula and bottles aren’t a trend, and mothers shouldn’t be shamed because they choose this route.
But bottle feeding has been sourced back to the Roman Era, Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, often using animal’s milk as a breastmilk alternative. However, it took until the Industrial Revolution for a more sophisticated and sterile bottle to become available, and in the 1920s, researchers started to develop non-milk-based formulas for infants, and although they lacked the proper nutrients, the formula evolved into the wholesome and safe replacement available today, and most people would be hard-pressed to find a mother who chooses formula just because it was fashionable.
Kevin Costner was the winner of several accolades for acting, but he’s also proficient in other departments, i.e. directing, producing, and of course, women, and he was once one of Hollywood’s most sought after men, and might still be.
He has been one of Hollywood’s most successful men and good looking not to mention, which I’m sure had its perks, but it also had its temptations and failures, and Kevin Costner is no stranger to fallen relationships and affairs, but there’s also light at the end of the tunnel.
After having numerous relationships with women, and even having children with some of them, could it be that the Hollywood supposed womaniser eventually found true love?
Kevin Costner met his first wife and love at California State University, Fullerton. She was a homecoming queen nominee, and she played Snow White at Disneyland. The name of this raven-haired cutie was Cindy Silva. They fell in love while studying together at CSUF, and then tied the knot in 1987.
In a 1989 interview, Kevin Costner said she was beautiful, she was sweet, and she was smarter than he was and she represented everything about women that he liked. The couple had three children together, but the marriage didn’t stay happy for long.
The public believed they had the ideal marriage, well Kevin and Cindy clearly presented it that way. They even owned a racehorse named ‘Proudtobetogether’. And Kevin Costner looked like he was a caring, loving and honest man, but in later interviews, he was shown a wee bit different.
However, Kevin Costner had a big appetite and taste for things, and he loathed the fact that he lived by somebody else’s rules and felt like he was missing out on something, and his business colleagues weren’t stunned at all, but his fans were outraged because he was a total contradiction of the image that they adored.
Everything appeared perfect, but not for long and soon there were rumours of Kevin Costner’s cheating, which started hitting the tabloids, and it was too much for Cindy and they soon announced they’d reached their end, but Kevin Costner’s love life was far from over.
His friends and close associates described Kevin Costner as a man who instinctively came on to any woman he felt drawn to.
But after a long line of women, Kevin Costner found himself in the hands of gorgeous Christine Baumgartner. She is a model and fashion handbag designer, and Kevin Costner wooed her for some time and she fell in love with the actor.
He said that when he met Christine he wasn’t prepared to be in love again and it took him a long time before he said that he loved her, a long time.
Kevin Costner led a rather wild and crazy life as a single man and when he wanted some company in his life he was the classic single guy, but when he met Christine and she was in his arms things began to change, but she wanted children and he didn’t, but then he realised when he was going to lose this gorgeous woman, did he really want to lose the woman that was willing to be with him to his very last breath because he was terrified to say yes to a child, and it was just the wake-up call he needed.
The couple got married and welcomed their first son, after three years of marriage. This time Kevin Costner showed a real commitment and he took time off acting to spend time helping out at home.
He now plays two roles in his life. One he gets paid to do, which is movies and the other one is being a father, which he said he will be rewarded for his entire life.
Kevin Costner might be 67 years old, but he’s still as hot as hell, and he’s aged like a fine wine, and he looks even better with a hint of grey and a few lines.
Despite the ‘extremely severe’ situation in Mariupol, Zelensky has called on the west to provide the country with heavy weapons
Russia has issued a chilling warning to Ukrainian soldiers as it ordered the last defenders of besieged Mariupol to lay down their arms, but Volodymyr Zelensky warned the Kremlin was attempting to kill everyone there.
Moscow gave Ukrainian soldiers an ultimatum to surrender or die by 3 am GMT on Sunday after the Russian Defence Ministry claimed their troops had cleared the urban area of the city, with only a small unit of Ukrainian soldiers remaining in the giant Azovastal steelworks in the southeastern port.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, only one small unit of Ukrainian fighters remains in the giant Azovstal steelworks in the south-eastern port after Moscow gave Ukrainian forces an ultimatum to surrender or die by 3am GMT on Sunday.
In a statement, the defence ministry said that the Russian Armed Forces offer the militants of nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries from 6 am (Moscow time) on April 17, 2022, to stop any hostilities and lay down their arms. All who lay down their arms are assured that their lives will be spared.
With the last Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol refusing to surrender and accept Russia’s now expired ultimatum, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Kremlin was intentionally attempting to kill everyone who was there.
He said Ukraine needs more heavy weapons from the West immediately to have any possibility of saving the port city on the Sea of Azov as Russian airstrikes continue on Mariupol, according to Ukraine’s military.
He said either their partners give Ukraine all of the required heavy weapons, the planes, and without exaggeration immediately, so that they can relieve the pressure of the occupiers on Mariupol and break the blockade, or they do so through negotiations, in which the role of their partners should be decisive.
Were it to fall, it would be the first major city to be taken by Russian forces since the attack started on February 24.
It comes as the Ukrainian MP for Odesa, Oleksiy Goncharenko, told BBC News that the last defenders in Mariupol won’t surrender to Russia.
He said that he talked with them and that he knows that they were going to fight until the end.
Goncharenko referred to the ongoing siege of Mariupol as a real genocide and said it was believed that more than 20,000 people had been destroyed in the port city.
Earlier Mr Zelensky had told Ukrainian reporters that the situation in Mariupol, which had come at a horrific cost to trapped and starved civilians, could scuttle attempts to negotiate an end to the war.
A Russian Defence Ministry spokesman said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had been forced out of most of the city and remained only in the Azovstal steel mill, where tunnels allow the defenders to hide and resist until they run out of ammunition.
But are we to trust anything that’s reported on this war? I’m not suggesting that this war isn’t real, I’m just saying what do we believe when the tabloids report the news to us?
Reporting is never 100 per cent correct. Possibly 80 to 90 per cent accurate, if you’re lucky. You only have to see the images to get a real insight into what’s actually going on out there.
And I’m guessing that it would now be sensible for Ukraine to surrender, even if they don’t want to, but it’s not worth it for Zelensky to encourage people to become martyrs. Maybe he thinks they’re worth more dead than alive – for propaganda purposes, of course, but then most dictators are control monsters and that’s how they get into the roles they’re in today, with lies and menacing behaviour towards their populations, but then the Kremlin is planning to take possession of a city that no longer exists because Vladimir Putin has made sure of it.
Several police motorcyclists and a four-by-four accompanied the van down Windsor High Street yesterday, possibly as an escort for the couple.
Footage has emerged of a blackened out van and 4×4 departing Windsor Castle on the same day Harry and Meghan slinked in for an incognito visit, sparking speculation they were on board.
The convoy travelled down Windsor High Street preceded by two police motorcyclists, in what could be the couple’s security escort.
The video may spark questions about their security arrangements, given Harry had previously indicated he wouldn’t return to the United Kingdom unless he was given complete police protection.
The Sussexes have been accused of exploiting the Queen for Netflix and making their trip for ‘clear the air talks’ with the Queen and Prince Charles to please the American producers of their forthcoming documentary.
Speaking to a newspaper outlet, Meghan’s acid penned biographer Tom Bower sensationally branded the Sussexes ‘the Royal Family’s worst traducers’ and accused the pair of ‘exploiting an old, unwell woman to boost their credibility and coffers’.
Netflix is expected to send a camera unit to pursue Harry and Meghan when they meet the Ukraine team at the Invictus Games for injured military veterans in The Netherlands for their documentary about the Paralympic-style games, but critics have accused the royal couple of cashing in on the Games by allowing Netflix, with whom they’ve signed a $100 million deal, into private meetings, and royal experts think that the VVIP status given to the pair will allow Netflix to portray the couple in a favourable light, as they deal with the fallout from their bombshell interview with Ophrah last year.
Talking about Harry and Meghan’s meeting with the Queen and Charles, Mr Bower said that he had no doubt it was all done for their Netflix documentary, and that the Queen’s advisors failed to protect her from being exploited by the Royal Family’s worst traducers, while the Sussexes exploited an aged, sick woman to boost their credibility and coffers.
A newspaper outlet has contacted representatives for Harry and Meghan for comment. Buckingham Palace refused to remark on the video.
Other professionals suggested that the surprise face to face engagement with the Queen, who will be 96 years old next Thursday and has undergone a string of health concerns recently, was an olive branch after significant tension between the Sussexes and the royal family.
Ingrid Seward, editor in chief of Majesty Magazine, said the visit would have made the Queen extremely pleased despite the couple’s highly publicised criticism of the royals. In their interview with Ophrah, they accused an unknown senior royal of racism.
I’m sure there will be many people who say that they don’t even know why they have shown their faces and that they’ve got some nerve, but who are we, the common people to judge them and the Royal Family? Well, we are the common people who foot the bill!
However, they must be extremely embarrassed if they’ve arrived back in a blacked-out van.
They said that they wanted their life to be private, how’s that going with a Netflix documentary? I bet their bank account says “very well, thank you.”
Undoubtedly, it was supposed to be a private visit, not so private if the general public now know about it.
The thing is, if they came with big security, it would be wrong. If they came in quietly it would be wrong, so they’re doomed if they do and they’re doomed if they don’t.
But really and truly we don’t know if they were in the blacked-out van because there are numerous unmarked vehicles that visit the royal household on a daily basis, and this is just speculation that it was Harry and Meghan. It could have been the Pope for all we know.
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 