Free School Meals Axed By Rachel Reeves

Parents could be charged additional lunch costs for their children as Rachel Reeves reportedly intends to axe universal free school meals for infants.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is said to have suggested the change as part of a £500 million cut to education to be included in the Chancellor’s austerity plan on Wednesday when she will deliver a spring spending statement designed to save billions of pounds.

However, Department for Education officials angrily refuted the accusations, which were widely reported in Monday’s newspapers.

They suggest continuing divisions and rows within the Government with just days to go before the Chancellor’s announcement. The Treasury strives to impose cuts of up to 11 percent across Whitehall departments’ budgets.

Presently, approximately 1.8 million children in reception classes and Years 1 and 2 receive free school meals. These are available for all children to ensure every young child has a healthy start to the day.

The reported plan is to introduce means-testing for these age groups, as already exists for more senior children. For most children in these year groups, it would mean their parents now have to pay for their school lunch.

It has also been said that the Education Secretary offered to axe funding for free period products in schools, as well as dance, music and PE schemes.

In addition, schools will be told to give teachers pay raises – but will not be given the funding to pay for them, according to reports. Instead, they will be expected to find the cash by making “efficiencies”.

In actuality, this might imply that some are compelled to cut back on employees.

This week, criticism mounted on the Chancellor when she acknowledged taking complimentary tickets to watch Sabrina Carpenter perform live.

She admitted she and a family member went to a concert “a couple of weeks ago” with tickets that “weren’t tickets that you were able to buy”.

Speaking over the weekend, she claimed she had accepted the tickets for security reasons. Ms Reeves said: “I went with a member of my family to see a concert a couple of weeks ago.

“I do now have security, which means it’s not as easy as it would have been in the past to just sit in a concert, although that would probably be a lot easier for everyone concerned.

“So, look, I took those tickets to go with a member of my family. I thought that was the right thing to do from a security perspective.”

The Chancellor later added: “These weren’t tickets that you could pay for, so there wasn’t a price for those tickets.

“Obviously, I’ll declare the value of them but they weren’t tickets that you were able to buy.”

Facing questions about clothing donations last year, Ms Reeves told the BBC that while she accepted the gifts in opposition, it was not something she “planned to do as a government minister”.

Schools are often required to give staff pay increases, but not given the money to pay for these raises which then have to come out of existing budgets.

The problem is that schools negotiate their budgets with governors a year in advance, so it is not a good idea to expect them to find money in the middle of the year just because the central government says they must. Nor does it support effective child education policy.

It’s funny how pay raises for MPs can be afforded, but nothing else for anyone else. It just demonstrates the hatred they have for us common folk.

Maths Teacher Asked Muslim Student If She Had A Bomb Under Her Hijab

A maths teacher has not been excluded from the classroom after asking a Muslim student if she had a bomb under her hijab, a tribunal heard.

Mark Holland made a series of improper comments including calling a student a ‘dumb blonde’ and telling a female student she ‘could do better’ in reference to her boyfriend.

However, a Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) panel determined that banning Mr Holland from teaching would ‘not be proportionate or in the public interest.’ 

Between March and December 2022, the secondary school teacher made several improper remarks to students at Great Academy Ashton in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside. 

Other comments include telling a teenager ‘Bet you have loads of boyfriends with your looks’ and dubbing another ‘The Liar.’ 

He worked at the school for nearly five years but in September 2023 was forced to leave after a disciplinary hearing.

The panel said his comments towards the Muslim student, who he called ‘The Nun’ were ‘not racially motivated but were likely to be religiously insensitive’.

They said his conduct ‘fell short of the standards of behaviour expected of a teacher, but ruled that it ‘did not meet the threshold for serious misconduct.’ 

He ‘willingly apologised’ for the allegations against him and said he would ‘adjust the manner in which he engaged pupils.’

Mr Holland claimed to have ‘misjudged the content of the conversations as an easy way to build a rapport with pupils’.

In a written ruling the TRA said Mr Holland’s conduct was ‘not consistent with behaving as an appropriate role model to students.’

Decision maker Sarah Buxcey wrote: ‘I have concluded that a prohibition order is not proportionate or in the public interest. 

‘I consider that the publication of the findings made would be sufficient to send an appropriate message to the teacher as to the standards of behaviour that were not acceptable and that the publication would meet the public interest requirement of declaring proper standards of the profession.’

The hijab is prohibited in many nations, but it is accepted in the UK, which explains why there are so many issues here.

I think all school-age children should wear the same uniform, but some of the people who have moved here think it’s okay to break the law. This has to stop before our nation devolves into chaos like the nations from which they have fled, otherwise, we are heading to become a third-world country in some respects, although we might already be there!

I always wonder why they come over to the UK but still insist on dressing and abiding by laws as they do in their oppressed countries. If it’s so good back home, then goodbye! Our government should start with the prohibition of full face coverings that make them look like walking Daleks. They are in England for goodness sake, not some godforsaken war-torn country.

It is completely inappropriate and not banter to tell a student that he bets she has a lot of boyfriends because of her appearance. This was a basic lack of respect and judgment. He should focus on being a grown-up and teacher because that’s what he’s supposed to be, not someone attempting to build a rapport by humiliating his students. He probably believed he was being humorous – being one of the lads.

Marijuana Raid By Bungling Police

An elderly couple who like to keep the heating on at home were left ‘shaking in fear’ when police burst into their home searching for a cannabis farm – after a thermal camera on a helicopter mistakenly identified it as a drugs den.

Pensioners Barry and Mavis Lovelock were finishing their breakfast when the ‘terrifying’ raid occurred.

Nine officers stormed in because a helicopter camera had wrongly recognised their toasty terrace home as a possible cannabis farm.

But after charging upstairs looking for cannabis plants and the powerful lamps used to grow them, the sheepish officers came back down empty-handed after quickly concluding their tip-off had been ‘not fully accurate’. 

The heat signature on the couple’s roof had instead been caused by their two gas fires, which they keep on around the clock in the chillier months.

Leicestershire Police has now apologised. They said another raid on a separate property in the street in Newfoundpool, Leicester, had found a large cannabis farm, with 79 plants being taken.

Mrs Lovelock said the ‘awful’ incident, which took place on March 15 at the property the couple had lived in since 1978, had left her in tears.

She said: ‘They told us the camera on the helicopter had noticed our roof glowing white but that was just because we have the heating on all of the time.

‘People of our age feel the cold so we need the heating on.

‘We have two new gas fires downstairs and the gas engineer told us they will warm the whole house and they do. We keep the doors open and the heat circulates. We have electric wall heaters too, but we only need to put the electric heater on in the back bedroom.’

She said the couple had just finished their breakfast when she noticed a group of police officers outside as her husband, a retired water board worker, went to make another cup of tea.

Mrs Lovelock said that police then ‘hit the door’, prompting Mr Lovelock to shout: ‘Hang on mate’, before somebody shouted ‘Stand clear’ from the street outside.

She added: ‘They just rammed the door in. It was awful. They knocked the gate at the back in as well.

‘It was terrifying and I said to them, “What the devil do you think you’re doing? There’s two pensioners here”.’ 

The couple, who celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary last year, were shown a warrant with their house number on it.

Mrs Lovelock, a former hospital worker, added: ‘They got in and two of them ran upstairs, but they only went to the top of the stairs and ran back down.

‘I think there were about nine of them altogether, maybe more.

‘This could have been avoided. The warrant was dated from February 18 so they had plenty of time to make the proper checks, but they don’t appear to have done so.

‘I’m 78 and my husband’s 80 and he suffers with Parkinson’s. Nobody comes and goes.’

Leicestershire Police has since said it would reimburse the couple for any damage caused during the raid, the Lovelocks said.

They have been asked to get quotes for the cost of replacing their front door and back gate, they added.

The couple have two sons, Paul, 46, and Austin, 48.

Mr Lovelock said: ‘Mavis has been left really shook up, and struggling to sleep.

‘After most of the officers left, and they were only here for four or five minutes, two stayed behind and were apologetic. One female PC was quite upset.

‘A rapid response repair came round and fixed the front door, but told us not to use it until it’s been properly replaced.’

He said he had ‘confidence in the police, but it has gone downhill a bit after this’, adding: ‘They said they checked everything, but it doesn’t sound like they did.

‘The actual cannabis farm was three doors down.’

A spokesman for Leicestershire Police said that officers executed two warrants at properties in Leicester, which were carried out based on information received that related to the production of cannabis.

They would not elaborate on where the intelligence came from for ‘operational reasons’, but forces are known to use thermal imaging drones or heat-seeking cameras on police helicopters to determine residential cannabis farms through their tell-tale heat signatures in the roof space.

The spokesman added: ‘Due diligence was completed prior to the enforcement taking place.

‘However, the force acknowledges that the information was not fully accurate and no plants were found inside.

‘Officers have spoken to the residents living at that address regarding the incident to apologise, provide reassurance and explain why the lawfully executed warrant took place.

‘At the other property, 79 cannabis plants were seized. No one was arrested and an investigation is continuing.’

This is more wasted taxpayer’s money spent on the police and their ongoing enforcement of a cannabis prohibition law that has failed miserably for decades.

And why should this couple have to get their own quotes? The police should be getting somebody in to do the job that same day for goodness sake.

They broke it, they fix it – damn cheek expecting an elderly couple to fix their mess.

The actual cannabis farm was three doors down – nobody can claim due diligence for this one!

I think that the police owe this couple a lot of compensation for their evident blunder, and that wasn’t a joke. Police and intelligence don’t go together.

For one cannabis farm they find there are presumably a hundred they don’t – they hardly scratch the surface. I’d rather they ignored cannabis farms and focused on criminalities that they now totally ignore and couldn’t care less about.

The Labour Party Seems To Be Insatiable When It Comes To Having A Good Time

It has been alleged that Angela Rayner attempted to add a private safari to a formal government trip to Africa.

The Deputy Prime Minister is said to have asked if she could add the personal trip to the itinerary for a visit to Ethiopia in February.

Questions have already been raised about why the DPM, who is also the Secretary of State for Housing, needed to go to East Africa while spearheading plans to ‘get Britain building’ in the UK.

Flights for the DPM and her entourage cost an estimated £20,000, the Guido Fawkes website reported.

While there, she met Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and visited schools and a health centre, a visit she said was to ‘demonstrate the UK’s ‘commitment to the region and promote ambitions for partnerships and mutual economic growth’.

But her endeavour to fit in a safari to see some of Ethiopia’s wildlife – which includes increasingly rare lions, plus crocodiles, baboons, hippos and hyenas, was shot down by civil servants.

A source told the Times: ‘She was told that’s not how these things worked.’ 

Ms Rayner’s office did not repudiate that she made the request, saying: ‘The itinerary was agreed in advance and this was not part of it’.

A spokesman added: ‘The deputy prime minister carried out diplomatic business and humanitarian engagements to demonstrate the UK’s commitment to the region and promote ambitions for partnerships and mutual economic growth.’

But shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake said: ‘You’d think she’d have enough on her plate dealing with the realities of setting a totally unrealistic target of building 1.5million homes, abolishing every district and county council in England and trying to save the high street from the disastrous impact of massive tax hikes and new employment red tape.’

It came amid a new row over government freebies.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said she accepted free tickets to see Sabrina Carpenter live because it was ‘the right thing to do from a security perspective’.

The Chancellor said she and a family member went to a concert ‘a couple of weeks ago’ with tickets that ‘weren’t tickets that you were able to buy’.

Ms Reeves promised to disclose the amount of her tickets when asked about the Espresso singer’s performance on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show.

Following a controversy around MPs receiving freebies and a revision to the Ministerial Code that included new guidelines on when gifts and hospitality are appropriate, her visit to London’s O2 Arena was first covered in the newspaper earlier this month.

Sir Keir Starmer last year acquired several gifts from prominent Labour donor Lord Alli, including ‘multiple pairs of glasses’ to the value of £2,485, ‘work clothing’ worth £16,200 and accommodation worth £20,437.28.

The Prime Minister later paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts which he obtained after entering Number 10 last year, including four Taylor Swift tickets from record label Universal Music Group totalling £2,800, two from the Football Association for £598, and four to Doncaster races from Arena Racing Corporation at £1,939.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander gave the Chancellor less than full-hearted support this morning.

Touring broadcast studios this morning, Ms Alexander said she did not have ‘anything further to add’ to Ms Reeve’s explanation that she needed the perk for ‘security’ reasons.

Asked on Times Radio if the freebie ‘felt right’, Ms Alexander said: ‘I haven’t taken any tickets to be honest since I was elected back in June as a new member of parliament and going straight into the Ministry of Justice and then coming straight into the Department for Transport.

‘I actually sadly haven’t been to see any concerts at all over the last nine months, partly because I’ve been very very busy.’ 

Pressed on whether she would ever take tickets, Ms Alexander said: ‘I have never, as a member of parliament, I have never accepted tickets to any concerts or anything like that.’

So, why was she there in the first place? I have no idea why she was sent there in an official capacity when our own country is in such a mess. It’s probably all about trying to boost her image.

This is unbelievable – while our government are slowly taxing us more and more, the MPs and cabinet members are going on expense-paid trips that have no relation to their work and lie about it.

Have these MPs got no shame? Always with their hands out for whatever they can get for free, while our poverty-stricken, pensioners and disabled have to come with the begging bowl – ‘Please sir, can I have more!’

Council Barricades Divide Rich And Poor

A Green Party council has been accused of carrying out ‘ethnic cleansing on steroids’ by installing ‘racist and classist barricades’ under the cloak of darkness with police protection.

Green-run Bristol City Council claims the blockades in Barton Hill, east Bristol, are anti-traffic and pollution measures but Somali and white working-class residents fear it’s a ploy to keep them away from the gaze of their posh neighbours.

Even supporters of the scheme have admitted the council is blockading the area off – which they say could lead to ‘riots’, turning the roads into a warzone. Other locals said the area was being turned into a ‘segregated ghetto’ that their posh white neighbours could avoid. 

Barton Hill is one of the most disadvantaged regions of the UK. According to The Quartet Community Foundation, an organisation enabling donations to charities across the west of England, more than a third of people living in the region are under the age of 16.  Of those children, 55 percent are living in deprivation below the breadline.

The area is also one of the most ethnically diverse in the city, with a large Somali immigrant community and 55 percent of all residents being non-white. A fifth of homes have no one with English as a first language living there.

Speaking to MailOnline, people living in Barton Hill said they were horrified to wake up at 3 am on March 13 to council workers nailing down barricades while dozens of police officers stood guard. Some of the police were armed with Tasers.

Shopkeeper Naveen Challagundla, 26, has worked in Barton Hill for two years but now fears for his job after the ‘race wall’ was installed. He said: ‘It’s like a prison. There’s no difference between pollution here and [in richer areas], but here it’s closed. We will lose all that business.’

Disabled resident Melissa Topping, 55, has lived in Barton Hill for 11 years. She broke down in tears as she said: ‘It’s going to get to the stage of guerrilla warfare. It’s ethnic cleansing on steroids.

‘The physical [road]blocks are so scary. What if we need the fire brigade? They are blocking us in. We have eight tower blocks.

‘Lots of the [Somalis] work five or six different jobs a day. They need to get out. It’s seriously affecting their livelihoods.’

Bristol City Council has pledged to cut personal car usage by 44 percent in the next five years to meet its climate targets.

It said ‘liveable neighbourhood’ schemes like the EBLN were ‘key’ and would ‘re-design streets so that they are people friendly’.

Bristol City Council says the EBLN is a six-month trial after which it will ‘re-engage the community for feedback’.

It said: ‘Proposals for a permanent scheme layout will be consulted on after six to nine months of the scheme being in place. 

‘Local considerations may mean that a Liveable Neighbourhood warrants more time and adjustments before considering if it should be made permanent.’

Locals who spoke to MailOnline suggested that whatever happens, the council will not have the money to dismantle the scheme and agreed the barricades were ‘racist and classist’.

And although the Green-run council said the measures will improve air quality across a 450-acre area, people living in Barton Hill said the traffic will simply be forced around their homes instead. 

Locals also said that despite the measures trying to push people to give up cars in favour of public transport, buses only come once every half an hour if they show up at all.

Melissa added: ‘The council did the consultation here because an English online-only [consultation] would not be read.

‘It’s nuts. What’s the negative impact if this doesn’t go ahead?

‘We would like cleaner, safer streets. But they are not supporting any of the businesses at all. We have got nothing here.

‘They close all of this area. Why not another? The businesses are not going to be here in six months.

When she heard council workers installing the barriers, she went out on the road with her neighbours – and were met with dozens of cops from police riot vans lining the streets.

She claimed the police weren’t from Bristol.

Melissa added that far-right groups who are against traffic measures were also trying to infiltrate the area, bringing even more tension to the streets.

Her friend, charity worker Lisa Whitehouse, added: ‘They are ghettoising it. They are segregating them. 

‘[The council] doesn’t fund us. If it wasn’t for the lottery we would be f***ed.’

Not all residents, though, oppose the plan.

Father-of-one builder Terry Wilson, 47, lives in Redfield within the EBLN. Like many of his neighbours in the area where homes market for an average of £327,000, he backs the scheme.

Yet even he admitted the council had constructed it in a way that could lead to brutality on the streets of Bristol.

He said: ‘Some of it is good. It’s safer for bikers. They are doing this under the umbrella of pollution.

‘Most of the locals here are for it. A lot of people who aren’t in flats, who own their own houses, are very happy. House prices are going to go up.

 ‘It’s not for the poorer people. There’s massive construction – a huge development. Some of that has been swaying what’s happening here.

 ‘They put this [barrier] in stealthily overnight at 3 am.

‘They are trapping people to make them get the bus, but there aren’t many buses.

 ‘The Somali community think it’s a conspiracy against them. They have been protesting en masse.

‘It’s going to really kick off down there. 

‘They are getting ready to push them in. It’s all thought out. The high-rise flats are being pushed into one area.

‘Once the other measures are put in place, that’s where we are going to see riots.

‘It’s just bonkers. If they had listened to people we would have a better situation.’

For father-of-one Mark Gottshalk, 39, a cooling systems commissioning engineer, said ‘Enough is enough.’

He issued a rallying call to his neighbours, saying, ‘We need to come together and get our roads back.’

Mark said the new measures would mean driving his elderly father to hospital would take an extra 40 minutes.

He added: ‘I wish it never happened. [We have been] squashed in together. It’s beyond me. They are going to make it permanent.’

Barton Hill taxi driver Abdiweli, 45, said he was furious at the ‘race wall’.

He said: ‘I don’t understand why they are doing it. We need to open. We need to be fair. Why are they closing this area?’

Meanwhile, Zeravan Sadik, 40, who has run the kebab shop Alibaba’s Grill for five years, said the new barrier opposite the takeaway would put his store in the ground.

He said: ‘I’m going to close the business. We can’t do delivery. We are going to lose lots of customers. Nobody is happy.’

Another local said the council’s measures were ‘racist and classist barricades’.

Local greenkeeper Chris Southie, 34, added: ‘What are they trying to achieve? Everyone pro the scheme has the same answer – emissions.

‘But all you have done is move it to someone else’s. It’s disgusting.’

Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Clare Moody has said she is ‘investigating’ the police presence during the installation of the ‘race walls’. 

Councillor Ed Plowden, Chair of the Transport and Connectivity Committee, said: ‘We want residents in east Bristol to benefit from safer, greener and quieter streets while maintaining access to their homes, businesses and local services.

‘We recognise there are mixed opinions about the trial, and we fully support the right to protest, and the right for people to campaign for the change in the area. Trialling these measures for 6 months is the best way to gather the information needed to make an informed decision on the permanent solutions to improve air quality, increase walking and cycling, boost footfall for local shops, and make roads safer for all in the area.

‘Because some people have been putting themselves and our contractors at risk by placing themselves in the way of heavy machinery and large items being installed, such as the planters, works were planned for early morning. This was to reduce the risk of harm to all involved, which was the safest way to install the measures while supporting people’s right to peaceful protest. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the early start of the works, including to residents currently observing Ramadan. We will be returning to complete the remaining work at a later date.

‘Everyone can still drive to their properties within the trial area but they may need to go by a different route. Walking, wheeling and cycling access remains as it was. We have tested routes for all sized vehicles, including our waste vehicles.

‘This trial has been extensively consulted on over three years and has been co-designed with members of the community. It was planned and developed under the previous administration and has now, in the main, been delivered by the council. We will be asking for feedback about the trial and reviewing monitoring data, before making any decisions about the long-term proposals for East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood.’

A Bristol City Council spokesman added: ‘In January, Bristol City Council attempted to install a traffic management system in the Barton Hill area of the city, however, the works were disruptive and police were required to attend.

‘The local authority gave us advanced notice it was planning to recommence the works on March 13, and we decided to stand up a policing operation, with the first officers attending at 4 am, by which time the work had already begun. A total of 28 police officers were involved.

‘The policing operation had the objectives of ensuring peaceful protest could be facilitated and to prevent a breach of the peace. A small protest did take place and officers engaged with protestors to ensure the safety of everyone concerned.

‘Neighbourhood officers remained in the area throughout the day to engage with the public and answer any questions they may have.

‘We understand the strength of community feeling around this scheme and would encourage anyone with concerns about our policing to please speak to us. We received two complaints about the operation, but neither relates to the conduct of any of the officers involved.

‘Complaints about the behaviour or conduct of officers can be made through our website and will be assessed by the Professional Standards Department. Any allegations of this nature would be treated incredibly seriously and we’d encourage anyone to report them to us so they can be investigated.’

A request for a response from Avon and Somerset Police was not answered.

These are the things we should look forward to. Gated communities are on the way for the wealthy which will house everything they need – the remainder will be left in total deprivation, and don’t think you will be immune, you won’t!

One may wonder why there are so many Somalis living there. To protect themselves and their families, they are escaping war as a result of the severe civil turmoil that has occurred in their nation. In any event, that was the plan, but after this incident, I’m not sure that will be the case.

This is purely ethnic cleansing. Give Google a little look and then all we have to say is ‘Heil Hitler.’ And it looks like apartheid has gained approval in Green Bristol.

But let’s face it, the UK is becoming an Islamic state, and if they can put a barricade up in Bristol, why can’t they put one across the English channel?

Netflix’s Adolescence: Musk Spreads False Information

Elon Musk has come under fire once again for ‘amplifying’ misinformation, this time around Netflix drama Adolescence.

The smash hit drama, starring Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty, landed on the platform last week and has accumulated over 24 million views.

Divided into four one-take episodes, the series follows 13-year-old Jamie, who rising star Owen Cooper plays in his first-ever acting job, as he is accused of killing a female classmate, Katie (Emilia Holliday).

Jamie’s parents (portrayed by Christine Tremarco and Graham) are then forced to face the shocking incident as officers investigate the impact of his radicalisation and incel culture affecting young boys.

Adolescence has been praised worldwide for its extremely real—albeit terrifying—depiction of misogyny and how little many parents know about the ideologies their children are exposed to online.

However, as discourse rages on about how true-to-life the drama is, X owner Musk has been heavily criticised for permitting mistruths about its story to spread.

Taking to the platform this weekend, @stillgray shared a picture from episode 1, writing: ‘Netflix has a show called Adolescence that’s about a British knife killer who stabbed a girl to death on a bus and it’s based on real-life cases such as the Southport murderer.

‘So guess what. They race-swapped the actual killer from a black man/migrant to a white boy and the story has it that he was radicalized online by the red pill movement.

‘Just the absolute state of anti-white propaganda.’

The user, real name Ian Miles Cheong, boasts 1.2 million followers and his post has been viewed almost five million times.

Responding to it, Musk, who has an astronomical following of 220 million, voiced his surprise, writing simply: ‘Wow’.

Both have since been called out and enlightened on the actual influence behind Adolescence, with @Shayan86 explaining: ‘Adolescence is not based on the Southport attack or a single case. It was already in production and being filmed before Southport happened.’

Indeed, the Southport tragedy happened on July 29 last year, as 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana attacked children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, killing three girls and seriously injuring 10 others. Adolescence was filmed over six months between March and September.

‘The amount of viral nonsense that is posted as news on this app, often amplified by Elon Musk, is mind-boggling’, the X user added.

Echoing their thoughts, @Sensanetional said the prevalence of misinformation was ‘concerning’ and @priestleyl branded X a ‘hell site’.

As for what motivated Jack Thorne and Liverpudlian actor Graham to write Adolescence, the Boiling Point star has talked candidly about why he felt it was important to make.

In various interviews, Graham has explained that while the miniseries is not directly founded on one particular case, he drew inspiration from a series of shocking knife-related crimes.

‘Where it came from, for me, is there was an incident in Liverpool, a young girl, and she was stabbed to death by a young boy. I just thought, “Why?”,’ Graham began to Radio Times magazine.

‘Then there was another young girl in south London who was stabbed to death at a bus stop. And there was this thing up North, where that young girl, Brianna Ghey, was lured into the park by two teenagers, and they stabbed her.

‘I just thought, “What’s going on? What is this that’s happening?”‘

The This is England star added at a Netflix event earlier this year that the idea was ’10 years’ in the making.

‘We’ve seen an epidemic of knife crime amongst young lads up and down the country,’ Graham began.

‘And for me, there were certain instances that really stuck out were young boys—and they are young boys, you know? They’re not men—were killing young girls.

‘When I mentioned it to Phil [Barantini, director], it just really hit me hard.’

Graham also told Tudum that he wanted the show to ‘shine a spotlight’ on the alarming behaviour of these boys, who had been radicalised in online forums by the beliefs of figures like Andrew Tate.

‘One of our aims was to ask, “What is happening to our young men these days and what are the pressures they face from their peers, from the internet, and from social media?”,’ Graham continued. ‘And the pressures that come from all of those things are as difficult for kids here as they are the world over.’

The makers of Adolescence also wanted to show Jamie’s family life as secure and caring, which only served to emphasise how dangerous the internet can be for youngsters in their bedrooms at night.

‘When these things are on the news, your judgement instantly goes to blaming the family, you blame the mum and dad,’ Graham shared in January.

‘We’re all guilty of it because that’s the easy common denominator. I just thought, “What if that’s not the case at all?”‘

Regarding Elon Musk, is anyone paying any attention to his writings these days? He is a very pitiful person who, instead of sowing discord and hatred, could be accomplishing so much more with his influence.

Is there anything Musk won’t butt in on! He simply leaps in, circulating his own opinion without sound research.

The series was great, in my opinion, and it emphasises how important it is for parents to know what their children are exposed to online.

Anyone with half a brain can see this amazing programme has nothing to do with Southport, or indeed ethnicity, and in various discussions, Graham demonstrated that while the miniseries was not directly founded on one particular case, he drew inspiration from a series of shocking knife-related crimes.

A Fatal Mistake Was Made By A Hospital

When Bonnie’s parents observed a strange bulge on her left arm at the age of five, they took her to the hospital.

She was sent home with her arm in a sling after the doctors informed them that it was only a sprain.

Two months later, Bonnie’s parents were given the sad news that it was actually an aggressive cancer and they had just months left with their little princess.

In the time since she had first gone to the hospital in December – just days after celebrating her fifth birthday – the cancer had spread to her lungs through her bloodstream and the tumour in her arm was restricting blood flow and releasing toxins that damage the kidneys.

Specialists said the young child would have to have her arm amputated to stop further damage before then being started on palliative chemotherapy.

The cancer, Rhabdoid Sarcoma, is said to be exceedingly rare but aggressive, only affecting approximately eight children a year.

Speaking to MailOnline, step-mother Caroline Spence said: ‘It’s been horrific. It’s been really tough.

 ‘A lot has happened in a small space of time, it’s hard to process.

‘It’s really upsetting having to watch her with her little one arm, trying to do everyday tasks that we take for granted.

‘We’re just trying to navigate giving her the best time we have left with her. We want the entire time to be really special for her.

‘Her arm was amputated on March 3 and she started chemo on March 5, so two days later. So it’s been a lot for Bonnie.

‘It’s a really aggressive chemo because the tumour is so aggressive. 

‘They’re giving her chemo to hopefully give her a bit more time with us, but there is no cure.

‘If her body responds to the chemo, then we’ve been told we have six to 12 months, 12 months as the absolute max.

‘If it doesn’t respond to it, then they say they’ll stop it and she’ll have a month or two after.

‘We’ve been trying to protect our other two children from it all, who are eight and two.

‘My eight-year-old Jennifer is aware Bonnie is ill but doesn’t know she is terminal.’

Bonnie, who loves music and is constantly eager to play outside, is presently being looked for in Newcastle by her father, Iain Spence, and her stepmother, Caroline, with frequent visits from her mother, Zoey.

This kind of cancer is so horrible, and if these doctors sent her home without performing an X-ray or CT scan, they should be put to shame, and they should be sacked and never allowed to practice medicine again.

This little girl was misdiagnosed, but due to the parent’s persistence, she received the correct diagnosis – not everyone would have returned to the hospital after already being diagnosed by a seemingly all-knowing doctor.

This poor little girl was failed again by the NHS – they ignore people’s concerns time and time again and it is appalling.

Will the doctor who sent her home without doing the necessary blood tests be fired and accused of negligence? I really doubt it. Honestly, I’m not a doctor and even I know that doesn’t look like a sprain.

What kind of doctor ignores this type of lump as a sprain? Just who are we employing in our hospitals? I realise there is little funding in the NHS but this is unacceptable and negligent medical practice.

I’m curious to know what CEOs in the healthcare sector think about this.

Ed Miliband Admits His Solar Panels Bought For English Schools And Hospitals Are Chinese And May Be Made Using Coal

Ed Miliband has admitted that solar panels for English schools and hospitals will come from China, despite concerns over human rights and environmental impacts.

The first project of the Energy Secretary’s new green quango will see it oversee a £180 million project to install rooftop panels on 200 school buildings and nearly as many NHS sites.

He informed reporters yesterday that the Great British Energy initiative will instantly reduce electricity costs for the public sector because services will be able to sell excess power back to the National Grid.

But when asked where the solar panels will come from he conceded that some will come from China, which is responsible for an estimated 80 percent of total global supply. Questioned why British ones were not being used, Mr Miliband told LBC radio: ‘Our solar panel industry has not got this kind of share of the market.’

When asked if they would come from China or Russia, he said: ‘Some of them will be, they’ll be from different countries, but that’s why we’ve got to build our domestic industry.’

Critics claim that transporting materials from China, where they were probably made using electricity from coal-fired power plants, is illogical for Britain’s goal to reduce emissions in the UK.

The Conservatives’ energy spokesman Andrew Bowie said: ‘If these solar panels do come from thousands of miles away it shows how ridiculous this whole thing is. Ed Miliband and his eco warriors need to get real.’

Concerns have also been raised about the use of Uyghur forced labour in Xinjiang province by China’s solar power sector. A proposal to ban public support of renewable energy businesses that use forced labour in their supply chains will be discussed by MPs next week.

Labour ministers are likely to use their majority in the Commons to get the amendment to the Great British Energy Bill removed from the legislation, even though the Lords passed it last month in a loss for the Government.

Luke de Pulford, of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, told the Mail: ‘Uyghur forced labour is rife in the solar supply chain, and very little is being done about it.

‘Where’s the climate justice in a green transition built on modern slavery? I hope the Government sees sense.’

Sources said strict procurement rules will allow the Department for Education and the NHS to end contracts with suppliers that have broken slavery laws.

Ed Milliband is a complete moron, and I believe that most people will agree with me, but then perhaps I’m being unkind to morons because Milliband is in a class of his own making.

He embodies the Labour Cabinet’s tendency to make things up as they go along since they are unaware of how they are financially and ethically bankrupting the United Kingdom.

Let’s discuss EVs being a scam while we’re at it. See how it’s manufactured.

Batteries require two million litres of water to create one ton of lithium. This is causing serious stress on water resources, and mining waste is discarded into rivers and lakes. Children are being sent to mines to mine lithium, all because fools believe it’s more environmentally friendly.

Even though smartphones, laptops, and electric cars are symbols of the contemporary world, the cobalt used in their rechargeable batteries is often extracted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo using slave labour.

The DRC has more cobalt deposits than the whole world combined, and studies on child labour, human trafficking, and modern-day slavery have been conducted for 20 years.

DRC’s cobalt is being removed by so-called ‘artisanal’ miners – freelance workers who do extremely dangerous labour for the equivalent of just a few dollars a day.

People are labouring in subhuman, gruelling, terrible conditions.

To collect cobalt and move it up the official supply chain, they rummage and hack at the ground in trenches, pits, and tunnels using pickaxes, shovels, and lengths of rebar.

The air surrounding mines is cloudy with dust and grit, millions of trees have been felled, and the water has been tainted by hazardous mining processing effluents.

Cobalt is toxic to touch and breathe—and there are hundreds of thousands of impoverished Congolese people touching and breathing it day in and day out. Young mothers with infants strapped to their backs, all breathing in this toxic cobalt dust.

The production of practically all lithium-ion rechargeable batteries used today involves cobalt. Furthermore, although people outside the DRC distinguish between cobalt that was mined by the nation’s sophisticated industrial mining firms and that that was dug by artisanal miners, the two are inherently linked.

Cobalt extracted by industrial excavators and cobalt excavated by women and children using their bare hands are completely cross-contaminated.

Cobalt is crucial for technological equipment and the switch to renewable energy sources.

We shouldn’t be switching to electric cars at the expense of the environment and people in one of the world’s most destitute and oppressed regions.

According to the legislation, artisanal mining is technically prohibited in all industrial mines. Nevertheless, it turns out that artisanal mining is occurring in the majority of industrial mines.

Visualize a whole population of people who cannot survive without scrounging in hazardous conditions for a dollar or two a day. There is no alternative there. The mines have taken over everything.

Imagine families whose children, husbands, and spouses had suffered horrendous injuries. Frequently, digging in these larger open-air pits, where a pit wall collapses. Visualize a mountain of rock and stone just avalanching down on people, crushing legs, arms and spines.

Everywhere you look, you may find opportunities to earn money. You also have these militias. They will kidnap, traffic, and recruit youngsters from even distant regions of the Congo; they are sometimes referred to as commandos.

A significant portion of the issue is corruption. That’s the reason why so much of this abuse continues. The problem is, picture the Congo. It’s a war-torn, extremely poor country that has seen centuries of ransacking and pillaging, dating back to the slave trade. It is thus not implausible to assume that corruption will occur when significant foreign stakeholders arrive brandishing substantial quantities of money.

The Council Tax Soars, But The Service Is RUBBISH

After millions were slapped with inflation-busting bills, struggling households will have to pay record amounts of council tax this year.

Homes across England face paying an average of £2,280 after almost all town halls increased the tax by the maximum 5 percent allowed, official figures confirmed yesterday.

It means rates for a standard Band D property have skyrocketed by 20 percent in just five years. 

And it comes as residents in Birmingham – where bills are up 17.5 percent in two years – chased bin lorries down the street after a week-long walkout left piles of rubbish bags standing waist high, with rats running rampant.

Hundreds of thousands of homes will have to fork out more than £2,500 for council services this year, the new data revealed, while growing numbers will pay more than £5,000.

Residents in six parts of England face increases above the usual 5 percent after ministers agreed their struggling town halls required more money.

And the Tories pointed out that four of them – Bradford, Newham, Birmingham and Trafford – are Labour-run, while the other two, Somerset and Windsor, are controlled by the Liberal Democrats.

The central theme of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s party’s local election campaign was the shortcomings at Birmingham City Council, where an equal-pay lawsuit and IT fiasco had rendered Europe’s largest local body insolvent.

At yesterday’s takeoff, she warned that Labour councils ‘always cost you more and deliver less’, adding: ‘Labour has run Birmingham into the ground. All while Labour councillors gave themselves a pay rise. Don’t let Labour do that to your council – if you vote Labour, you get trash.’

Since Rachel Reeves’ budget raised the amount of National Insurance that town halls must pay for its employees, the Conservatives have accused Labour of pressuring them to raise their costs.

Local government spokesman Kevin Hollinrake said: ‘This Labour Government is driving up costs for councils across the country with their jobs tax. It’s no surprise they have raised council tax by 5 percent, with the highest increases by Labour and Liberal Democrat councils.

‘This has been engineered by Labour, who have left town halls to foot the blame when record bills hit the doormat.’

While the opposition leader in 2023, Sir Keir Starmer claimed Labour would have frozen council tax for a year if it had been in power. But since moving into government, no such hold has been enforced.

Labour envisions the UK awash in trash, overrun by undocumented immigrants, and governed by an inept parliament where nothing functions as it should.

It appears that only a fraction of our Council Tax is used for services. The vast majority is being used to finance a new life for new arrivals and money to aid other nations.

These new arrivals got to spend the winter in comfortable hotels that were heated and provided food. Starmer and Reeves have ignored the pleas of those who said their most brutal policies would ensure pensioners and the disabled were left to choose heat or eat, and many have died as a result of this evil approach.

Our armed services have fought to protect the UK and then are left on the streets or again are left to choose heat or eat, and also many have died because of this. We are treated like common criminals, and even they have human rights on their side while our government spends millions on illegals.

Council tax is the most insane and pointless costed bill. It’s not founded on any logic, and we are being charged outrageous prices for it. At this rate, it would be more sensible to get a flight to France and come back on a dingy and get rewarded handsomely, and the same councillors will still be getting their free lunches, free parking, subsidised fuel allowance plus over inflated salaries and pensions – reminds me of Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm.’

Musk’s Estranged Daughter Calls Him A ‘Pathetic Man-Child’: ‘I Don’t Give A F–k About Him’

Elon Musk’s estranged transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, slammed the tech tycoon as a “pathetic man-child.”

During a lengthy interview with Teen Vogue published Thursday, Wilson shared her honest emotions about the Tesla CEO when questioned if she’s “scared” of him.

“He’s a pathetic man-child,” Wilson quipped. “Why would I feel scared of him? Ohhh, he has so much power. Nah, nah, nah. I don’t give a f–k. Why should I be scared of this man? Because he’s rich? Oh, no, I’m trembling. Ooh, shivering in my boots here.”

“I don’t give a f–k how much money anyone has. I don’t. I really don’t. He owns Twitter. OK. Congratulations,” she continued.

The 20-year-old admitted that most people “thrive off of fear,” but she’s “not giving anyone that space in [her] mind.”

“The only thing that gets to live free in my mind are drag queens,” she quipped.

Wilson also addressed her dad’s newfound political involvement with President Trump and her reaction to him heading the Department of Government Efficiency.

“I’ll see things about him in the news and think, ‘That’s f–king cringe, I should probably post about this and denounce it,’ which I have done a few times,” she stated.

Wilson specifically pointed out a gesture Musk, 53, made during a Trump rally that some people likened to a Nazi salutation. Both Musk and the Anti-Defamation League have denied that he was mimicking the notorious salutation.

“The Nazi salute s–t was insane,” Wilson told Teen Vogue. “Honey, we’re going to call a fig a fig, and we’re going to call a Nazi salute what it was. That s–t was definitely a Nazi salute. The crowd is equally to blame, and I feel like people are not talking about that. That crowd should be denounced.”

However, Wilson––whose mom is Musk’s first wife, Justine Wilson––said that “other than that,” she still does “not give a f–k about him.”

“It’s annoying that people associate me with him,” she admitted. “I just don’t have any room to care anymore.”

Wilson confirmed that she and Musk have not spoken since 2020. She told the outlet she does “not keep up” with the eight children that Musk fathered with other women.

“I will say I do not actually know how many siblings I have if you include half-siblings,” she admitted. “I don’t really give a f–k what they do. This is not my problem, OK?”

Musk and Justine also welcomed Vivian’s twin, son Griffin, and 19-year-old triplet boys named Kai, Saxon and Damian while they were married from 2000 to 2008.

The college student has previously spoken out against her dad, accusing him of allegedly using sex-selective IVF for his children. She has also publicly called him a “serial adulterer” and alleged that she “disowned” him.

Elon Musk has not been present enough in his children’s lives because he thinks he’s so self-important, and he deserves all the vitriol he’s getting. Unfortunately, his sanity has left the building.

I’m sure Vivian Jenna Wilson receives a lot of criticism and jeering since she is transsexual. We’ve gone a long way since homosexual people were labelled sick and had their orientation medicalised, but there are still some extremely homophobic people in the world.

However, because we are all unique and don’t fall into one category, I’m confident that Vivian will make a significant contribution to society, much like the great Alexander the Great, Alan Turing, Isaac Newton, Elton John, Clive Davis, and others did in the past.

Elon Musk is extremely child-like and has had dozens of ‘designer’ children to stoke his enormous ego, which was basically what Vivien was saying about Elon, but I fear that under all that hostile rhetoric lies a shattered heart because children want to know and love their parents, despite what they say.

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