To Deter Pupils From Taking Up Smoking, A School Uses A SNIFFER DOG To Sniff Out Vaping

In what is reportedly a UK first, a school is using a sniffer dog to crack down on kids vaping.

To address the growing issue among minors, the City of Norwich School is bringing in the dog.

It has unveiled a series of other tough measures, including installing vape detectors in toilets, increasing CCTV coverage, carrying out searches of pupils’ pockets and bags, and adding extra staff patrols.

A spokesman said: ‘As with schools across the country, we recognise the impact the use of vapes and other prohibited substances can have on our students, both in terms of their health and the influence it can have on behaviour.’

Claiming the school doesn’t ‘currently have an issue’ with vaping, he added: ‘We are aware this is a rising challenge within society and therefore want to take proactive steps to help counter and deter this.

‘We are committed to providing an environment for our staff and students that is safe and supportive and, as such, the proactive measures we have planned will help educate students on the risks of vaping and other banned substances.’

This week, Rishi Sunak declared that disposable vaporizers will be outlawed in the UK to prevent kids from being “hooked for life” and to improve their health.

According to statistics, the number of kids smoking e-cigarettes has tripled in the last three years, and 9 per cent of kids between the ages of 11 and 15 are already hooked.

Disposable gadgets, which come in a wide variety of vibrant hues and tastes, have significantly contributed to the rise.

Parents have received letters from the City of Norwich School, which has 1,700 students and was given a “good” rating in its most recent Ofsted inspection, informing them of the measures.

Next month, the sniffer dog will be brought in for a single day to stress how important it is to fight vapes. The other measures are going to be permanent.

Other schools will probably take the same route.

Kids who are afraid of dogs are advised to talk to the staff, even though the school already has a therapy dog that is maintained on campus to help with student welfare.

The school spokesman added: ‘To complement this educational drive, we have taken steps to deter the use of unsafe and prohibited items.

‘In February, a passive deterrence dog will be guided around the school site for a day, so that students can understand the role of deterrence and how this would work.

‘The organisation that is supporting this has significant experience delivering this service in schools.

‘Taken together, we believe these precautionary measures will help students to remain safe while at school and when out in the community.’

The government’s legislation against vaping among children will use existing powers under the Environmental Protection Act and is expected to come in early next year.

We used to fear the teachers when I was at school, and they weren’t averse to giving you a clip around the head if you did something wrong. Kids are in control today, not adults or teachers.

When I was 11 years old, I didn’t know anybody who smoked. We were too busy running around, playing, and having a good childhood. Plus, our parents would have skinned us alive.

Spy cameras are watching your every move. Random searches of a person, sniffer dogs. It’s a daytime child prison, not a school, and it’s very creepy stuff.

The government is to blame for allowing all these vape shops to open on every street. Our government don’t solve problems; it creates them.

A Gunman Chases And Kills A Young Boy In Atlanta, Shooting Him Multiple Times

Three unidentified shooters are still at large after they pursued, shot, and injured an 11-year-old kid on a major Atlanta roadway.

Officers said they arrived at the scene at around 6.15 pm on January 15 and found the boy suffering from two gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital.

City police have released surveillance footage of the shocking incident in the hopes of identifying the trio.

The footage shows the boy, who has not been named, looking furtively over his shoulder as he sprints through a parking lot close to Martin Luther King Drive in northwest Atlanta.

The scene then shifts to a split roadway, where three males are seen crossing quickly before starting to run.

The suspects approach the parking lot before seeming to spot the boy, who had tried to hide beside a laundromat and tyre shop.

Each one pulls out a handgun, and they open fire several times in his direction.

A car swerves away from them amid the commotion, and moments later all three men rapidly retreat before dashing back across the dual carriageway.

The culprits were identified as “three black males” by the Atlanta Police Department, who also posted the footage and urged anybody with information to get in touch.

In the video, all three are decked out in black hooded jackets, dark pants, and white trainers.

Tipsters can remain anonymous and be eligible for rewards of up to $2,000 by contacting Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-8477 or texting information to 274637.

There were 2,687 occurrences of violent assault, 61 rapes, and about 133 killings reported in Georgia city last year.

The number of felony crimes registered in 2022 was 3,192 occurrences of aggravated assault, 122 rapes, and 171 killings, which was a 17 per cent decrease from the previous year.

Welcome to Atlanta. Thanks to the Democrats for being so easy on crime.

This was probably not a random shooting. It appears like they were trying to settle a score.

This boy was 11 years old. The fact that they would have had a score to settle with him would be tragic.

Whoever shot this child didn’t hesitate; they just did it without thinking or caring.

These are people who are undeterred by the law, the possession of illegal firearms, their age and licencing requirements, or the threat of prison time. It’s so sad what society has become. The poor child hasn’t been given a great start in life.

However, this isn’t even remotely shocking. It’s what America has become. Seriously, who’s birthing these demons? This is outrageous. I can remember when kids, women, and old people were off-limits. Dark times we now live in.

Rage Against The Machine

Elon Musk has left even his most ardent fans terrified after he revealed his tech start-up, Neuralink, has become the first to successfully implant a microchip into a human brain.

According to the richest man in the world, the procedure was performed on Sunday, and “initial results show promising neuron spike detection.”

The device called ‘Telepathy’ will ‘enable control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking’, he said.

However, a large portion of his 170 million Twitter followers on X accused him of “playing God,” “mind control,” and even producing “cyborgs.”

‘The negative potential of this makes me very uneasy,’ one person wrote in reply to his announcement.

‘I’m terrified by the thought of it,’ added another.

Musk expressed his hope that it will enable people with impairments to “communicate faster than an auctioneer,” much like Stephen Hawking.

Those who are limb-loss victims will be the first users. What if Stephen Hawking was able to speak more quickly than an auctioneer or speed typist? That’s the aim.

The company’s goal is to implant microchips into paralysed individuals’ brains so they can move their bodies with their thoughts.

‘I think the real issue here is that even your thoughts won’t be safe,’ tweeted *TemplerTV.

‘If they can decode your thoughts for this, how long until the FBI gets a search warrant for your thought crime?’

‘What if someone else starts controlling you, and you can easily understand whom I am referring to?’ added Sagar Pandey. ‘Scary.’

‘Any technological advance has to be based on bioethical principles; otherwise, playing God always ends badly,’ wrote P. Juan Manuel Gongora.

Some, though, were more optimistic.

‘Well done, Neuralink and Elon!! This might very well turn out to be an important moment in history,’ wrote one user.

‘This is awesome news; we’re expanding on the two final frontiers. Space and the mind—I can’t wait for the next company talk. So excited!’ wrote another.

In September, Neuralink declared that it would shortly start a human study to assess the implant’s safety.

The FDA gave Neuralink permission to operate on humans less than a year ago, which was a significant milestone for the firm.

Details of the patient were not given, but Ashlee Vance, who wrote a 2015 biography, ‘Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future’, wrote in a Bloomberg report that the ideal candidate for Neuralink’s first human trial was ‘an adult under age 40 whose four limbs are paralysed’.

It’s not enough to collect data from your computer; next, they will collect it directly from your brain.

There’s no way this can be safe. Scientists formerly said that pesticides like DDT were harmless, even though they were killing the ecosystem and the entire food chain.

We already know that utilising search engines on the internet reduces memory because our brains consider the internet to be an external storage device, negating the requirement for memory.

Retaining knowledge becomes more difficult the less effort you put into it. When things are taken too far, you wind up with a scenario where governments can falsify documents and facts, and everyone assumes this is because they can accept everything they read on the internet as true and forget about anything that didn’t originate there.

It could reach a point where what you see, hear, and touch is all imaginary.

Eventually, humans will wipe themselves out. I mean, what could go wrong? Governments don’t have to use climate change as an excuse; just call it Elon Musk change.

We Are About To Embark On Nine Days Of Train Hell

Today marks the start of the nine-day overtime restriction by Aslef train drivers, which will severely impede travel for rail customers.

A prohibition on overtime for all rail operators starting today and lasting until Tuesday, February 6, is expected to result in thousands of trains being cancelled at short notice throughout the United Kingdom every day.

There will also be one-day strikes across 17 different operators from tomorrow until Monday, February 5.

In an ongoing battle with train companies over wages and working conditions, the drivers’ union Aslef declared the first rail strike of 2024 on January 15. 

Tuesday’s disruption will affect all of London’s major rail services, including Southern, Gatwick Express, and Govia Thameslink Railway, as well as South Western Railway and Southeastern. 

In significant portions of the network, there will be adjustments to services, and some train operators will not be operating any trains at all; therefore, passengers are advised to check before they travel. 

The services that are normally available between 7.30 am and 6.30 pm may begin and end significantly sooner than usual.

MailOnline disclosed yesterday that rail managers have been receiving enormous bonuses and salary increases while neglecting to implement new legislation intended to lessen the effects of strikes.

None of the 18 operators hit by the nine days of walkouts by train drivers is implementing the requirement to provide at least 40 per cent of normal services. 

It means the industrial action will cause yet more misery for passengers.

Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith accused rail bosses of ‘rank cowardice’, saying: ‘If the law is there, then you use it. All the public want is a sense of what the minimum service will be – not leaving it in the hands of the unions to decide.’

A Mail analysis revealed that executives of private train companies received enormous compensation, finding:

  • Annual rises in total pay and perks of 61 per cent for the highest-paid executive at Arriva and 35 per cent for the top boss at former operator Abellio UK;
  • Bonuses of £1.3million were shared by FirstGroup’s top executives Graham Sutherland and Ryan Mangold last year, and a £540,000 bonus was paid to then chief executive of Go-Ahead, Christian Schreyer, in 2022;
  • The Chinese and German governments could have benefited from tens of millions of pounds in profits at franchises run by transport firms they co-own. MTR, co-owned by the Hong Kong government, effectively controlled by Beijing – made £70million in six years.

The drivers’ union, Aslef, has described the work stoppage as a wage dispute, even though its members make an average base salary of about £60,000.

These days, it seems like chaos reigns everywhere.

When will they understand that the people are not rooting for them? The public no longer respects them after the previous two years of strikes, cancelled and delayed trains, and exorbitant costs.

The whole British railway system is a joke and an embarrassment to the UK.

In this country, taking the train is a risk. They are badly managed and operated, and the union has too much sway. The union will never permit the modernization of the entire system, even though it is necessary.

We were promised in the 1980s that privatisation would cure all the issues in the state-owned services, yet here we with all the same problems, still supplying state-funded subsidies, more pollution in our rivers and billions being siphoned off untaxed, what went wrong?

How do these train drivers manage on 65k plus generous holidays, benefits, and early retirement packages? Poor darlings.

Liz Truss Leads Tory Revolt On ‘Un-Conservative’ Plans For A ‘Stealth’ Ban On Buying Cigarettes

Rishi Sunak is facing another revolt over his ‘un-Conservative’ plans for a ‘rolling’ ban on buying cigarettes.

Former prime minister Liz Truss is one of the prominent individuals attempting to thwart legislation that would raise the legal age of tobacco product purchases.

In an attempt to regain the upper hand, Mr Sunak is promoting the actions together with a fresh crackdown on youth vaping.

The proposals would ban the sale of tobacco products to those born on or after January 1, 2009, meaning any child who turns 15 this year will never be legally sold cigarettes.

The motion has the support of Labour, so Parliament will virtually probably pass it. But the administration is prepared for a major rebellion from members of parliament who are disturbed by the ‘nanny state’ measures.

Ms Truss said ministers ‘should not be seeking to extend the nanny state’.

She added, ‘While the state has a duty to protect children from harm, in a free society, adults must be able to make their own choices about their own lives.

‘Banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone born in 2009 or later will create an absurd situation where adults enjoy different rights based on their birthdate.’

Mr Sunak is facing a number of rebellions about the Rwanda deportation plan and is finding it difficult to contain growing Tory discontent with his leadership.

Simon Clarke, a former Cabinet minister, came out of hiding last week to warn that Mr Sunak has to be replaced to prevent Labour from crushing the party in the election.

Disposable vapes are set to be outlawed in the UK as part of a comprehensive plan to curb minors’ use of nicotine products.

Powers will also be introduced to restrict flavours specifically marketed to children and to ensure manufacturers produce plainer packaging.

Presently available tastes include pineapple ice, triple melon, pink lemonade, and cherry cola. They are presented in a variety of vivid hues.

The limits, which are anticipated to take effect at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025, will be implemented by the government using the authority already granted by the Environmental Protection Act.

Vapes must be kept out of sight, and retailers that sell vapes to minors unlawfully will now be subject to new “on the spot” fines.

With Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister, there’s nothing left for anyone to enjoy anymore.

The UK is falling apart and Rishi Sunak wants to bring this in as one of his priorities.

Scotland and Wales, which have devolved powers, are taking similar action.

Vapes, cigarettes, alcohol—it won’t be long before he bans bacon. Can you see the nature of our enslavement?

Rishi Sunak should be reducing violent crimes in the UK, which is out of control, and what about all the boat people coming here and living off benefits?

So, apart from allowing the UK to be flooded with potential terrorists arriving by boat. Dragging us into World War III and energy prices basically killing off the old and vulnerable, Rish Sunk diverts our attention by banning disposable vapes and the sale of cigarettes to certain age groups.

Is this to keep youngsters healthy for his planned battle, or has he fully lost his mind? Before they cause any more harm, Sadiq Khan and Rishi Sunak ought to be taken out of office.

In any case, the ban is unworkable. Youngsters will merely ask for someone else to purchase them. Furthermore, who will replenish the government’s coffers with the lost tobacco tax revenue? Maybe a higher income tax.

Minute By Gruesome Minute

In Alabama, a murderer was executed overnight using an unproven and previously untested technique, resulting in what witnesses described as a terrifying 22-minute ordeal.

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was given a $1,000 payment to murder Elizabeth Sennett, a 45-year-old lady from Alabama, more than 30 years ago. Smith was given the death penalty for the crime. Since then, he has been on death row.

Smith was supposed to be put to death via lethal injection in 2022, but the effort was aborted at the last minute because the medical staff was unable to set up an IV line.

On Thursday night, the state attempted to execute him once more and was successful this time around by employing “nitrogen hypoxia,” which is the process of suffocating a victim by breathing gas through a mask.

Since 1982, when lethal injection was first utilised and subsequently became the most popular technique, this was the first time a new form of execution has been employed in the United States.

Alabama had predicted that the nitrogen gas would cause unconsciousness within seconds and death within minutes.

The execution at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, was everything from straightforward, according to those who witnessed it.

Witnesses said Smith appeared to shake and convulse at the start, pulled against his restraints, and breathed for up to ten minutes before finally falling unconscious.

Even though executions are never captured on camera in the US, the events can be pieced together from witness accounts provided by those who were present when Smith was put to death.

The entire execution—from the moment the curtains opened to the moment they were closed in the viewing room—took around 22 minutes, which was far longer than anticipated.

Witnesses waited in a viewing gallery for over an hour before Smith’s arms and body were shown, bound in cruciform, to the gurney at 7:53 p.m. local time (1:53 a.m. GMT).

His face was fastened to a mask that resembled a firefighter’s mask, which was connected to the nitrogen gas source and prepared for use.

Marty Roney of the Montgomery Advertiser, who witnessed the execution, said a plastic tube ran out of a hole in the concrete block wall of the execution chamber.

Pictures of Holman’s execution chamber from 2002 depict a drab, clinical room with two windows, one for the public gallery and one for the prison authorities supervising the death; however, it was unclear exactly what the room looked like.

Smith’s wife Deanna was watching through the window, along with a select few others. The murderer’s spiritual guide, Jeff Hood, touched Smith’s feet with a bible.

At 7.55 pm, Smith was allowed to speak his final goodbyes before the procedure began. He reportedly smiled when he recognised people in the media gallery.

Speaking through the gas mask strapped to his face, Smith made a heart sign and an ‘ok’ sign with his left hand to his family before declaring: ‘Tonight Alabama causes humanity to take a step backwards… I’m leaving with love, peace and light.

‘Thank you for supporting me. Love, love all of you,’ Smith added.

Then, at around 7.57 pm, a corrections officer checked the seal of Smith’s mask, while a prison warden remotely activated the ‘nitrogen hypoxia system’, delivering a fatal dose of toxic gas into Smith.

The prisoner would have been suffocated as a result of the gas filling his airways and blocking oxygen from reaching his brain.

In theory, the method involved replacing the air breathed by the inmate with 100 per cent nitrogen. Those who support the method say the process should be painless, pointing to nitrogen’s role in suicides or deadly industrial accidents.

However, witnesses said afterwards that it was too much longer for Smith to fall unconscious than Alabama officials had said. He pulled against his restraints and appeared to shake and convulse, as the gas filled his system.

While the murderer struggled to break free from his bindings, his spouse Deanna, donning a ‘Never Alone’ T-shirt, frantically called out to him from the observation stand.

Smith convulsed for four minutes, according to Marty Roney’s report. “When the gas started to flow, he seemed to be completely conscious,” he claimed.

Between 7.57 pm and 8.01 pm, ‘Smith writhed and convulsed on the gurney,’ he wrote.

‘He took deep breaths, his body shaking violently with his eyes rolling in the back of his head,’ his account continued. ‘Smith clenched his fists, his legs shook … He seemed to be gasping for air. The gurney shook several times.’

Situated fifteen feet away, Hood made the sign of the cross numerous times,’ according to Roney, and continued to bless him throughout Smith’s struggle and execution.

In the first four minutes, Roney said, “Hood took off his spectacles and wiped away tears as the gurney shook several times.”

Subsequently, Hood said that the execution was the ‘worst thing’ he had ever witnessed, stating that prison guards gasped in disbelief as Smith died rather slowly.

Hood stated, “He started to convulse when they turned on the nitrogen. He popped up on the gurney over and over again and shook the entire gurney.”

According to him, the jail guards there “were visibly surprised at how bad this thing went.” “What we saw was someone struggling for their life,” he continued.

Afterwards, at a news conference, Alabama’s Commissioner of Corrections John Hamm stated that it seemed as though Smith was holding his breath as long as he could.

Roney said at 8.02 pm, Smith appeared to lose consciousness, his chest remaining still for 20 seconds before he took ‘several large gasps for air’.

At 8.07 pm, a corrections officer leaned over Smith and examined him, before stepping back against the wall to allow for the execution to continue. It was at this point that Roney said Smith appeared to take his last breath.

Not that I think execution is acceptable—I don’t, and this is the reason why—but this man did a horrible act and was given the death penalty as a result. No one is authorised to carry out God’s task. I acknowledge that this individual killed another human being, but murdering someone does not make the victim return; rather, it only renders us all barbarous and guilty of yet another horrible act.

I do feel sorry for the so-called lovely peaceful Christians who are now cheering at his torturous death – how very Godly you all are.

We do not have the right to take the life of another person. What is it they say, ‘An eye for an eye and we all go blind’? It’s about the morals and ethics of a society that advocates the taking of a life in this manner.

And why in the world would anyone want to see an execution from the viewing room? To be doing that, you’d also have to be a little bit twisted. It isn’t an athletic endeavour.

Even if this man’s crime was horrific, it doesn’t mean that his death was ethically justified. This was merely another state-approved horrific murder. How do they sleep at night, I wonder? And those who murdered this man are no better.

Following The Israel-Palestine Conflict, UK Schools Pull Out Of Anne Frank Trust Education Programmes

The UK’s schools have stopped using the Anne Frank Trust’s educational programmes because of “community tensions” resulting from the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Three schools have reportedly delayed their academic curricula since Hamas began its terror strikes against Israel on October 7, according to the charity.

Nine- to fifteen-year-olds are taught about Anne Frank, the Holocaust, prejudice, and antisemitism by the trust.

In 2023, the Anne Frank Trust worked with 119,000 youths in more than 800 schools around the United Kingdom. 

Despite the three schools quitting since the conflict began, according to chief executive Tim Robertson, the total number of participants has grown since this time last year. 

In response to October 7, he informed the Jewish Chronicle that the organisation had not seen the need to significantly alter its curriculum; nonetheless, “we’ve provided extra training and support for our staff.”

In the aftermath of the attacks, he added, ’emphasis was placed on some key elements of Anne Frank’s story,’ like her sister Margot’s longing to relocate to British Palestine and the fact that Anne’s best friend Hannah Goslar, who survived Bergen Belsen, rebuilt her life in Israel.

The foundation also declared today that the first Royal Patron of the Anne Frank Trust UK is none other than Her Majesty The Queen, who was formerly HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.

Anne Frank and her family hid for two years in a secret annexe to the canalside house after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, but were captured in a raid in 1944.

Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, but her diary, found by her father Otto, became one of the most haunting accounts of the Holocaust, selling some 30 million copies.

“The brutal attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7 marked the deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust,” a representative for the Campaign Against Antisemitism stated. Antisemitism has increased by an astounding 1,350 per cent since then.

‘Surely the answer to the rampant antisemitism that we are seeing is to teach more about the perils of Jew hate, not less. 

‘This should not be controversial, and if there are safety concerns, the response must be to confront those, not to avoid the subject for fear of offending those who don’t want children to learn why it’s wrong to hate Jews.’

According to the Anne Frank Trust, 73 per cent of young people make ‘significant’ progress in their knowledge about prejudice following its workshops.

This is a disgrace, and the importance of history is being lost. The efforts to deny the Holocaust seem to be working. What happened in World War II is now history, but everyone should understand what took place so that there isn’t a repeat of it.

The terrorists win again. 

Anne Frank (Annelies Marie Frank) was 16 years old when she died.

I’ve never been to the camps before and actually wouldn’t.

The Frank family fled into refuge in the Prinsengracht 263 building on 6 July 1942. Otto Frank’s firm was situated in that building. Fritz Pfeffer and the Van Pels family later joined them. The main house and the annexe were the two components of the construction. The upper stories of the annexe were where the eight individuals hid.

The annexe was deserted and abandoned when Otto Frank became the last survivor of Auschwitz in June 1945. Otto requested that the Anne Frank House’s annexe remain unoccupied even after the museum opened its doors in 1960.

Fritz Pfeffer and Anne had to share a room, which frequently resulted in disputes. It was difficult for her to remain indoors all the time. Her diary served as a venting outlet. Anne hung photos on the wall to make the space seem brighter.

‘Thanks to Father, who had brought my whole collection of picture postcards and movie stars here beforehand, I have been able to treat the walls with a pot of glue and a brush and so turn the entire room into one big picture.’

Anne Frank, 11 July 1942

We should never forget what happened in the Holocaust, because to forget the past is to dishonour the memory of those who perished in the concentration camps.

Those who perished didn’t even have the dignity of a grave. They only have us, and without us, who will remember not only their tragic fate but also the vibrancy of their lives?

Those who deny that the Holocaust even existed. What did the war emerge from thin air?

Genocide against Jews and everyone else not of Aryan descent was committed during the Holocaust.

We must never forget the six million Jewish women, men, and children and all the other victims, among them hundreds of thousands of Roma, murdered during the Holocaust.

For evil to flourish, it only required men to do nothing, and it seems evil is flourishing.

There were many World War II soldiers. It appears that their sacrifice was in vain, and I’m very relieved that they are no longer with us to witness the current situation.

There is no longer any bravery to oppose evil. Everything is woke this and woke that; the school should be ashamed for taking this into consideration, and the government should be ashamed for allowing it. 

  

White Dad Stokes Fury By Asking ‘Black TikTok’ For Advice On Styling His Adopted Black Baby Zoë’s Curly Hair

A white dad has stoked fury on the internet by asking ‘black TikTok’ for help styling the hair of his adopted black baby girl.

The dad, known as Will, posted a video on Sunday of him brushing his infant Zoe’s locks, asking about products or techniques that would make them more manageable.

After receiving criticism on social media for his bad parenting and for exploiting the infant to garner publicity, the 36-year-old from Dallas, Texas, removed the video.

The case shines an uncomfortable spotlight on interracial adoptions and how social media fuels attention-seeking, virtue-signalling behaviour.

‘We have adopted a black baby; her name is Zoë, and I don’t know what to do for her hair,’ Will told his 34,000 followers in the now-deleted video.

‘Please, any black parents or anyone who knows what to do with black children’s hair, please help me in the comments.’

The clip then focuses on Zoë, a cute baby with more hair than the average newborn.

In response, other TikTokers offered sincere advice on how to take care of her curly hair.

But most responded angrily that Will and his husband, who is also white, had adopted a black baby for social media posts.

‘Pray for baby Zoe,’ posted one.

‘Will’s concern was to go viral,’ said the creator known as @mannylifedaily.

‘And you finally did, Will, off the back of a black baby.’

Some commentators said Will had failed to do basic research about raising a black girl.

Others noted that he went straight to social media rather than Googling about Afro-hair or asking an African-American friend.

‘You have a few months to become an anti-racist,’ said mary_says, a TikToker who posts about childcare.

‘If you ever want to pass as a barely-acceptable parent to this person.’

In response to the outcry, Will appears to have made his social media accounts private, but not before some individuals reposted his earlier posts.

Some show Will and his husband wearing expensive designer clothes, posing with Zoe and their dogs.

The couple also documented what appears to be a private adoption process, including scans of the unborn child at the hospital during the birth.

When DailyMail.com tried to get in touch with Will, he did not respond right away.

NBC News was informed by him that he was taken aback by the negative response to his initial post, which he believed to be innocuous.

I’ve heard it all now. For crying out loud, he just asked a genuine question. People need to grow up and get a life.

He received criticism for raising a question, but he would have received criticism regardless of whether he had inquired. Is interfering in other people’s affairs the only thing humans can do with their lives?

He could have asked Google, I guess. There’s always a YouTube video or an answer available there.

There was nothing wrong with him asking. If you don’t know, then you just ask for help, which is what he did, although perhaps a bit too publicly, but at least he asked.

Bad parent, no, I don’t think so, just a new parent. Let’s face it, we were all new parents once; it’s definitely a learning curve.

He asked for help and then the community got mad. What a clown world we live in.

The perpetually offended strike again. I hope that this beautiful child and family have a wonderful life together.

People weren’t enraged because he asked for help. I will say it as it is: they were enraged because a gay couple who are white adopted a baby of colour, and that’s why they got upset.

Stand By Me

‘Tomorrow’s going to be a rough day. Stand by me.’

These were among the last words 14-year-old schoolgirl Mia Janin said to her friend in a WhatsApp voice note in the early hours of March 12, 2021.

Mia never saw tomorrow.

At 6:50 in the morning, her parents discovered her lifeless body at their Barnet family residence.

Mia, a year 10 pupil at the Jewish Free School (JFS) in Kenton, north-west London, took her own life after months of relentless bullying by male pupils, a coroner ruled yesterday.

Her heartbroken family has revealed the harrowing voice message she sent to a friend the night before she was due to return to school.

‘Tomorrow’s going to be a rough day,’ said Mia through tears in the message, which was shared with BBC London.

‘Stand by me. I’m taking deep breaths. In and out.

‘I’m currently mentally preparing myself to get bullied tomorrow.’

At the end of yesterday’s inquest, Mia’s distraught father, Mariano Janin, declared that his daughter had been “failed” by the “people who were meant to keep her safe.”

She was the target of a demeaning boys-only Snapchat group, and she was the victim of a violent campaign of bullying by male students both at school and online, according to evidence presented at this week’s inquest.

Yesterday at Barnet Coroner’s Court, coroner Tony Murphy of the North London district decided that Mia ‘took her life while still a child and while still in the process of evolving into maturity’.

Mr Murphy said Mia was last seen alive at about 10 pm on March 11 2021, when she said goodnight to her parents in their family home.

She was found hanged by her parents at about 6.50 am on March 12 2021. Two undated letters in Mia’s handwriting were found on her bed addressed to ‘her loving family and friends’, which ‘explained that Mia decided to end her life’.

Mr Murphy added before his conclusion that Mia had ‘close friends, including at her secondary school, but she also experienced bullying from some male students’.

He added that neither Mia’s family nor teachers were aware of that before her death.

Sadly, Marisa Janin, Mia’s mother, passed away from an aneurysm a few months after her daughter.

Speaking after the inquest, Mr Janin told reporters, ‘Nothing will bring back my wife and my daughter Mia. For almost three years, we have sought answers for the loss of Mia.

It did greatly hurt me to read about this. At school, bullying occurs frequently, yet little is done to stop it. Although schools claim to have anti-bullying policies in place, they are unaware of what occurs.

Seeing bullies continue to have an impact on people’s lives without taking responsibility is depressing. The suffering they cause us doesn’t just go away as we age; it remains with us forever.

Bullying stays with a person forever. They relive those memories over and over again. They can never regain themselves fully, never mind the ongoing anxiety.

Bullying needs to be recognised as a crime, especially by junior and senior students, because the pain that it causes is forever enduring.

She was a young, beautiful girl, and this was a hard article to write, but then any article about children is hard to write about.

This young girl had her whole life ahead of her, and I can’t even imagine how her father must be feeling, especially as his wife also died as well.

Bullies in schools have always existed, but the bullying that occurs in this day and age is on a completely different level because of social media and the internet.

The government should forbid children from using social media until they are at least 20 years old. Bullying would still occur, of course, but it should be made illegal by extremely strict legislation; otherwise, children would be able to get away with bullying, which is a crime that has to be punished. If you lock them in a police cell for an hour or so, they may reconsider what they did.

A Painting By Gustav Klimt Resurfaces After 100 Years

After being missing for almost a century, a long-lost Gustav Klimt artwork has emerged and will be auctioned off on behalf of its Austrian owners. The family has owned the painting privately since the 1960s.

The Viennese auction house Kinsky announced on Thursday that “Bildnis Fraeulein Lieser” (Portrait of Miss Lieser) will be auctioned in April with a potential auction price of up to £43 million.

The family of a rich Jewish manufacturer commissioned Klimt to paint the piece in 1917, just before he passed away.

The dark-haired woman in the well-preserved artwork was first shown to the public in Vienna on Thursday.

On behalf of the present Austrian owners and the Lieser family’s legal heirs, it is scheduled to be auctioned off on April 24 under the terms of a Washington Principles-compliant deal.

That international agreement from 1998 outlined the process for returning works of art that the Nazis had taken.

The piece was last exhibited in 1925 at a Viennese exhibition; the only prior evidence of its existence is a black-and-white picture.

The painting’s previous owner was identified in the photo as a member of the Lieser family, who resided at ‘Argentinierstrasse 20’ in Vienna.

Henriette Lieser, who had remained in Vienna despite the Nazi rule, was deported in 1942 and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.

When Ernst Ploil, a lawyer and authority on art law, was consulted by the present owner prior to inheriting the painting, the incomplete picture surfaced once more.

According to Ploil on Thursday, despite intensive investigation, it was still unknown how the artwork was acquired by the present owner’s family, which has had it since the 1960s.

‘We have a gap between 1925 and the 1960s,’ he added.

He emphasised, however, that they had not discovered any proof that the piece had been plundered, stolen, or forcibly taken before or during World War II.

According to Ploil, the painting’s back is “completely untouched” and has “no stamps, no stickers, nothing.”

‘There are no indications of any illegal confiscation during the Nazi era, i.e., the usual stamps from the Gestapo or a shipping house where looted art was stored,’ he added.

The descendants of the Lieser family have not yet made any claims, although a few of them have visited Vienna in order to view the artwork.

Rarely do portraits by Klimt become available for purchase.

I must admit, I do love Gustav Klimt’s work. It’s beautiful, with some very vibrant colours, and this is a fabulous find.

If I had it, I would be inclined to keep it even for the money it will bring; it’s so beautiful.

Like the majority of Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre, this picture is fantastic. A woman’s inner fragility and power are well presented, showcasing an amazing use of colour. ‘A scent of a woman’ is more appropriate for the title.

Even though I might not be able to purchase the original artwork, I would be thrilled to have a printed copy.

They say it was lost, but maybe it wasn’t lost at all, and if it was lost, maybe it should have stayed lost because it was being looked after where it was.

Although Gustav Klimt’s artwork may not be to everyone’s taste, there is something very amazing about it.

The thing about some paintings is that a photograph simply doesn’t do them justice. The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, also called ‘The Lady in Gold’ or ‘The Woman in Gold’ is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt. It’s an amazing painting and the gold leaf gleams in the painting in the original, but this doesn’t show up in a photograph.

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