In January, we reported on Valdo Calocane, the Nottingham murderer, having his pleas for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility accepted by the prosecution. We are now able to provide an update to the story, as it seems several watchdogs and government offices are just as miffed as we are regarding the mishaps of […]
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The EU has urged legislators and policymakers to abandon ‘gendered language’ including “no man’s land”. Bureaucrats say the WWI phrase should be replaced with “unclaimed territory”, while “Joe Public” should instead be “average citizen”. A 61-page document compiled by the European Institute for Gender Equality outlines offending language and provides alternatives. Titled a “Toolkit on
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Some leading universities are using recruitment agents to offer places to overseas students with significantly lower grades than UK applicants, it was reported on Saturday. An undercover investigation by The Sunday Times found that 15 Russell Group universities offered one-year “pathway” courses, or foundation programmes, which the newspaper said provided privileged access to competitive degree courses. It
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Valdo Calocane, the Nottingham murderer of Ian Coates, 65, Barnaby Webber, 19, and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, has had his pleas of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility accepted at court on Tuesday. Back in June 2023, Calocane repeatedly stabbed two young University of Nottingham students as they were walking back to their student accommodation. Around an
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A young musician has proclaimed, “Rule Britannia makes people feel uncomfortable and should not be sung on the last night of the proms.” Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who performed at the proms, told Radio 4 that he did not think the song should be included in Last Night of the Proms and that “so much wonderful music”
“This week our activists in the North East of Scotland have been out delivering over 500 leaflets for our #DundeeNeglect campaign. Dundee has the highest drug deaths in Europe and some of the most impoverished areas in the country and the SNP have completely neglected the city. Our first minister seems more concerned with diverting
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Some heartbreaking news from Skegness about a tiny toddler who has been found to have starved to death. Bronson Battersby, a 2-year-old boy, was lying next to his father, Kenneth, who had tragically died of a fatal heart attack. A Lincolnshire County Council social worker contacted Lincolnshire police twice to locate Mr Battersby at his
In my previous article, I note that the “press latches onto any accusation of racism, no matter how transparently trivial or outright bizarre.” Here we have just another example of such a case, which takes its place amongst a sea of cases which have become as routine as they are tiring. Andrea Mairs, a black
No matter where you reside in the UK, you’ve most likely witnessed the abundance of potholes springing up left, right and centre if you drive. You’d be wrong if you thought it was just a problem local to your neck of the woods. I counted twelve of them only yesterday during a quick ten-minute trip
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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said that 20,000 soldiers will be stationed across Europe as part of a NATO exercise known as Steadfast Defender 24. Mr Shapps has outlined a plan for the UK’s loss of the “peace dividend” that the West has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War. After the UK government
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