Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass - "Alton Towers has banned visitors with ADHD and anxiety from using disability “fast lane” passes. Merlin Entertainments, which runs the theme park in Staffordshire, will no longer allow people with the conditions to skip the main queues. The company said in recent years “demand has grown” for the digital passes, designed for visitors “who may find it difficult, or cannot, stand for long periods of time either due to a physical disability or a learning/emotional impairment”. Since 2015, the number of people taking medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has more than doubled and 7.5 per cent of adults in England have been diagnosed with anxiety... He claimed guests with accessibility needs had reported that the pass was not working for them after demand increased. “Our guests with additional accessibility needs have increasingly told us that the Ride Access Pass simply isn’t working for them, particularly as demand has grown and queue times for these guests have increased."
Damn stigma against people with mental health problems! This has set mental health awareness back 20 years!
How ignorant. Don't they know that rights are not like cake? More for one doesn't mean less for another
Mum who claimed £20,000 in disability benefits caught running marathons - "Sara Morris, 49, from Stone, Staffordshire, exaggerated the extent of her condition and claimed too much Personal Independence Payment (PIP) from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in 2020. She was later spotted running 5km, 10km, and marathon races competitively, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard... ‘The DWP obtained photographs of the defendant and some Facebook posts taken by Morris herself. She had been taking part in marathons, races and orienteering. ‘The first photo was taken a month after she signed her initial claim form. The defendant can be seen to have been taking part on a competitive run two days prior to making that initial claim. ‘The defendant reported receiving assistance in almost every aspect of her life. She claimed to experience difficulties with her balance adding she struggles to stand and required supervision from her family. She said she required grab rails in the bathroom and assistance with getting dressed. ‘On some days her stress and anxiety led to her being housebound. She added she used a walking stick when she felt tired and unsteady. The defendant exaggerated her issues throughout the claim process.’... Paul Cliff, mitigating, said Morris was diagnosed with MS 19 years ago and the ‘severity of its impact ebbs and flows to a degree’."
Move over Ireland, there is a new worst country in Europe - "Which is the worst country in Europe? Not in terms of the weather, food or culture, but measured by its governing elite? With its fondness for soft borders, coupled with an ideological Europhilia and pathological hatred of Israel, I used to think it was Ireland. But now I’m starting to wonder. Step forward the Spanish, groaning under the curled lip of the unpopular socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez. According to YouGov, his approval ratings now stand at -36, a precipitous fall since last year, helped along by corruption scandals involving his wife, brother and several of his closest aides (all deny any wrongdoing). Peak Sánchez arrived last September, when the prime minister publicly regretted that Spain did not have nuclear weapons to drop on Israel – alright, Ayatollah! – then dispatched a warship to protect Greta Thunberg (the patrol vessel, which embarrassingly enough turned out to be armed with Israeli-made weaponry, reversed course before entering the warzone). As ever, a nation’s position on the Jewish state provides a bellwether for its general soundness. Or lack thereof. Last year, while Finland’s defence minister fretted that progress towards Nato’s new spending target of five per cent was too slow to deter Russia, Sánchez, whose coalition includes the far Left, was the only European leader to refuse to sign up to the new target at all. His reasoning epitomised the sybaritic state of post-Cold War western Europe: spending more on defence would jeopardise his social welfare budget. Talk about priorities. The inevitable rebuke from Donald Trump, who condemned the Spanish position as “unbelievably disrespectful”, was part of the point. In Spain, the American leader is even less popular than Sánchez, transmuting transatlantic tension into a net positive. Indeed, throwing tomatoes at Trump has long been a strategy upon which Sánchez has apparently relied to shore up such support as he retains amongst the voting public... As for Spain’s invitation to join the Board of Peace overseeing Gaza? Snubbed. Natch. It is true that the trauma of the Civil War of the 1930s left the Spanish with a pacifist bent (apart from when it comes to Israel). But the self-regarding nature of the administration, coupled with the allegations of sleaze – Sánchez, who in 2017 campaigned on an anti-establishment platform while driving a 2005 Peugeot around the country, has been forced to apologise for corruption scandals and has recently been considered “untrustworthy” by 67 per cent of Spaniards – is triggering a backlash from the far Right... The current government, which in 2023 offered amnesty to exiled Catalan separatists, has become a recruiting sergeant for such extremists. The young are now more likely than their grandparents to back the far-Right Vox. Which brings us to Monday, when Sánchez released a video seemingly designed to encourage that trend. In it, he defended a radical new policy of granting legal status to 500,000 undocumented migrants. It was all about “dignity, community and justice,” he insisted. Really, of course, it was about boosting the Spanish economy, which is floundering under the weight of workforce shortages and an ageing population. That’s not all. When opponents accused Sánchez of “electoral engineering” – after all, half-a-million naturalised Spaniards would surely support the party that had handed them that bounty – Elon Musk commented “wow”. Gleefully, the prime minister responded: “Mars can wait, humanity can’t.” Again, such provocation is part of the point. But this is exactly the sort of thing the far Right detests. Last year, the southeastern town of Torre-Pacheco descended into anarchy after three North African men allegedly beat up a pensioner, sparking anti-migrant reprisals. Given the high crime rates for foreigners in Spain, however, and various outrages by undocumented migrants (such as the 2023 machete attack on two churches in Andalucia, which wounded four and claimed the life of a sexton), such concerns are hardly limited to extremists. Under Sánchez, however, polarisation is the name of the game. Only don’t express your disapproval online! In a speech in Dubai this week, the Spanish leader unveiled some of the tightest digital censorship laws in Europe. Under-16s will be banned from social media; efforts made to surveil a “footprint of hate and polarisation”; Grok, TikTok and Instagram will be pursued in the courts; and company executives will be personally targeted if banned content remains on their platforms. Critics accused Sánchez of “weaponising tech policy”. Pressure cooker, anybody? Amazingly, Spain remains economically healthy, buoyed by post-Covid tourism. But how long before it gives way? There’s a lesson in there somewhere. Sadly, it’s one that our own prime minister will almost certainly fail to learn."
No wonder they need to fast track migrants to shore up support for the left in Spain
Meme - "Nothing about the current political situation we are currently experiencing in the west will ever make sense to you unless you first understand that you live under foreign occupation and are thus subject to the rules of the occupiers. If you do not start from there, you will search for multiple explanations and rationalizations for your society's misery and shortcomings that will ultimately lead you nowhere. The thing is, your enemy has no interest in a so-called "victory" over you, because they already won - long ago, before most of you were even born. Now, the entirety of their actions is aimed at a single goal - humiliation. Humiliation robs you of your humanity, your will, your reason to fight on. Humiliation takes everything from you, and it even robs you of being worthy of empathy. It has been used by every occupier in history, and it's our natural primal understanding of defeat. The Ottoman practice of Köçek is a prime example, similar to the concept of "Drag Kids" in modern America. Köçeks were a combination of dancers, clowns and prostitutes; they were young non-Muslim boys taken from their parents and trained to be willful sexual objects and entertainers for the Ottoman Turks. The goal was to have the occupied think "if we allow that to be done to our boys, what else can they do?" The answer is "anything". It is full-spectrum domination of the minds of the conquered. Your enemy doesn't want gay pride parades in your street, drag queens in your libraries, your son's penis mutilated and drip-fed estrogen from birth, your parents dead from opioids and cancer, your daughter race mixing, your meat replaced with bugs, all while your media laughs at you because they think it's for anyone's benefit. They want it because they know you don't want it, but can't stop them. They want to humiliate you. There isn't any other reason. And that's exactly what they are doing."
Jamie Sarkonak: New Liberal 'inclusion' council heralds more division - "Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller announced that he’ll be assembling a committee to come up with a “common narrative” to hold our rapidly diversifying nation together. This new Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion is just the latest initiative that makes some kind of vague promise to unite Canadians and, in Miller’s words, “ensure that every person feels included.” If it feels like the 30th time the Liberals have done something like this, well, you’re probably not far off. Diversity is always our strength, but diversity also perpetually needs to be solved... At no point does the announcement for this committee mention Canada’s history, its art and architecture, its contributions to film, its military accomplishments, its beautiful and vast geography, its pride in self-sufficiency or its pioneer spirit. Indeed, aside from mentioning Indigenous people, it’s nearly completely blind to the heritage that has underpinned the country for a century and a half. For 10 years, the Liberals have cast Canada as a postnational state whose dominant culture is … multiculturalism. A collection of other people’s cultures. At the same time, they’ve alienated the population from its own history and redrawn the Canadian timeline as a sequence of human rights violations: stolen land, residential schools, head tax, lack of women’s suffrage, Komagata Maru, and so on. There is no attempt to understand why decision-makers in history made the choices they did at the time, no calls for nuance, just visceral contempt for the past. This Liberal conception of the country doesn’t demand — heck, it doesn’t even politely ask — newcomers to make an effort to be a part of it. Indeed, treats many of them as people who are owed something from the get-go, whether that be priority in hiring, access to grant funding, or even bonus support at work to help them move up the management ladder. The federal government had already excluded white male academics from applying to certain federally funded research grants, directed the entire public service to promote and recruit on the basis of race, prioritized the hiring of minorities in various positions at the Department of National Defence, earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for Black people, ordered new judges to take ideological training on “systemic racism,” and initiated work on a new nationwide policy for museums that embraces DEI and reconciliation. There’s a pattern here: the government tends to put down members of the population (and their ancestors) who are likely to have been here for generations, while telling Indigenous people and those who are likely to be newer arrivals that they are victims deserving of special treatment. That’s a recipe for division, not social cohesion. The feds have spun up numerous advisory groups and committees to further an illusion of consensus when it comes to implementing this new post-national, multicultural vision. They tapped activist thinkers to recommend more leniency and support for Black and Indigenous people in the justice system. They assembled a task force to review the Employment Equity Act (the statutory basis for discriminatory hiring in the federal government and its contractors), which in 2024 recommended that the feds double down. To promote decolonial legal reforms — and the feeble notion of “Indigenous law” — the feds resurrected the Law Commission of Canada, which gives money to those organizing conferences and seminars, but only if they commit “to learn from and/or work with Indigenous peoples, organizations, and legal traditions.” Even science is being politicized: DEI committees are ubiquitous in the federal research funding agencies, and in 2022, Environment Canada created an “Indigenous science” division to rival colonial “western science.” It seems that the more reconciliation and diversity the government promotes, the more division we get. Nearly half of the country says it’s “time to move on” from residential schools. Half of Canadians are opposed to new immigration. Half of those born outside of Canada believe the country belongs to Indigenous people. Half of Canadians claim to have witnessed systemic racism. These are all stats from 2025. And then, there’s the general vibe: conversations and comments sections seem to be more racially charged than ever. The Liberal response to the overdose crisis was to give more drugs to addicts, and it left everyone worse off. On social cohesion, they’re doing something similar: put everyone into boxes and make up reasons to treat some of them better than others, and then wonder how society got so divided. The answer, which Miller’s committee is unlikely to arrive at, is to drop the agenda of discrimination and start promoting Canadian history — not the abridged version that only focuses on dark parts, enclaves, and the legal victories of progressives. If you want Canadians to feel like they are one people, you need to treat them like it."
Association of American Medical Colleges Releases Official DEI Curriculum Standards - "The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) just released its official Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Competencies. Designed for curriculum development, the competencies function as DEI educational standards, providing a set of ideal “diversity” and “inclusion” skills for three stages of a physician’s education. For graduating medical students, the competencies include “describ[ing] the impact of various systems of oppression on health and health care (e.g., colonization, White supremacy, acculturation, assimilation).” For graduating residents, they include “promoting social justice and engag[ing] in efforts to eliminate health care disparities,” and for faculty physicians, “teach[ing] how systems of power, privilege, and oppression inform policies and practices and how to engage with systems to disrupt oppressive practices.” Ultimately, these new competencies provide a blueprint for infusing the themes of identity politics—“intersectionality,” “white privilege,” “microaggression,” “allyship”—into medical education... This statement of priorities—that DEI should be on par with science—is all the more noteworthy given the ideologically-charged nature of the competencies. Consider just a few:
Demonstrates knowledge of the intersectionality of a patient’s multiple identities and how each identity may result in varied and multiple forms of oppression or privilege related to clinical decisions and practice [students]
Identifies systems of power, privilege, and oppression and their impacts on health outcomes (e.g., White privilege, racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, religious oppression) [students]
Articulates race as a social construct that is a cause of health and health care inequities, not a risk factor for disease [students]
Practices moral courage, self-advocacy, allyship, and being an active bystander or upstander to address injustices [residents]
Role models anti-racism in medicine and teaching, including strategies grounded in critical understanding of unjust systems of oppression [faculty]
Role models how knowledge of intersectionality informs clinical decision-making and practice [faculty]
Concepts such as “intersectionality” and “allyship” connote substantive political positions; to declare that faculty and students must embrace them clearly violates academic freedom. But perhaps more significantly, these concepts are often interpreted idiosyncratically to enforce a narrow and damaging orthodoxy. At medical schools that adopt the competencies, it will undoubtedly become harder for students and faculty to voice support for a meritocracy or skepticism toward “gender-affirming care” for minors. Such views, after all, are commonly labeled “oppressive.” In practice, the competencies are likely to elicit a wave of highly dubious medical curricula—to say nothing of medical research... The program frequently invokes the so-called “Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture”—the bizarre notion that attributes such as “objectivity,” “individualism,” and “a sense of urgency” constitute white supremacy culture. Unfortunately, medical schools and residency programs are primed to incorporate these competencies into their curricula. After all, medical accreditation bodies such as the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education now solicit increasingly robust DEI programming, a phenomenon that the AAMC notes in its report on the competencies. Some medical schools—including Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Indiana University’s School of Medicine—have already expressed their interest in adopting the de facto standards. UT Austin’s Dell School of Medicine recently adopted a set of health equity competencies for its undergraduates that bear a striking resemblance to the AAMC’s. The AAMC’s DEI competencies will hamper free expression, politicize medical education, encourage physicians to engage in misbegotten activism, and in the longer run, lead to substantively harmful policies. We should hope that students and faculty alike speak up and reject them."
From 2022
Home Office ‘tried to silence adviser who raised concerns about Islamism’ - "A former government adviser has accused the Home Office of attempting to “silence” him after he warned about the threat of Islamism. Fiyaz Mughal, the founder of Tell Mama, a project that records anti-Muslim incidents in the UK, raised concerns publicly last year that ministers were failing to take seriously the threat of Islamic extremism. At the time, Mr Mughal was working as a contractor for the Home Office’s Channel programme, which is part of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy. In an article for The Telegraph published last year, he said it was “astonishing” that during a Home Office summit on extremism, the threat of Islamism was not mentioned for the first 90 minutes. The day after the article’s publication, he was contacted by a senior Home Office official who wanted to discuss his engagement with the media as well as the possibility of future government work... Mr Mughal, an expert in the field of counter-extremism who has worked as a government adviser on and off for the past 20 years, said he felt the Home Office was trying to “silence” him... But at the end of last year he decided to quit his Home Office role, saying he no longer felt comfortable with the “insidious pressure” that was put on him not to speak out about the dangers of Islamism. “I actively made the decision to more robustly challenge Islamist extremism and felt it wasn’t possible to continue speaking out about it while working there,” he said. “As soon as Labour came in, I recognised a shift. Why has suddenly the focus on Islamism dropped off? There is a political perspective within this Government which has bought into advice that actually talking about Islamism is not a beneficial thing to do. “My perspective is they feel it will cost them politically if they speak about it – they have bought into the ruse that it will cause community divisions. They desperately don’t want to lose the Muslim vote and support.” At the last election, pro-Palestinian MPs effectively became the sixth-largest party after five independent candidates unseated Labour rivals. The Muslim Vote organisation, which encourages British Muslims to vote for specific candidates it has approved, boasted that its “unprecedented” influence on the election results had also led to “slashed” majorities for several other Labour figures. Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, held on to his seat by just 528 votes after a challenge from another independent who is the granddaughter of Palestinian refugees. The Muslim Vote campaign group was established in response to the war in Gaza and the Labour Party’s decision not to oppose Israel’s military response to Oct 7 from the start. It said its aim was to make sure Britain’s 3.9 million Muslims turn out on polling day and vote for their approved candidates, putting pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to adopt The Muslim Vote’s 18 demands... He said it was 90 minutes before the civil servant briefing him and up to 80 counter-extremism experts mentioned “Islamist extremism”, even though it has been identified by the intelligence agencies as the biggest security threat to the UK. Mr Mughal, who is also the founder and director of Faith Matters, which helps communities using conflict management tools, claimed instead that the civil servant focused on extremism that was of “mixed” or “no clear ideology”, as well as misogyny, the far-Right and incel culture. Ministers went on to reject the recommendations of a review they had commissioned, which said that the approach to tackling extremism should no longer be based on specific ideologies such as Islamism or the far-Right but on “behaviours and activity of concern”."
Islamophobia!
Home Office ‘tried to silence adviser who raised concerns about Islamism’ : r/unitedkingdom - "Tower Hamlets is a London Borough of 200k people. The mayor, Lutfur Rahman, used to be Labour, then he was thrown out of the party, convicted of electoral fraud, and banned from politics for five years. He founded his own party, then as soon as his ban expired he was re-elected as mayor, and his party now hold a majority on the council. All the council cabinet are now middle aged British-Bangladeshi men. Somali Muslims living in the Borough complain that council housing is preferentially allocated to Bangladeshi Muslims. The council has not had published fully audited accounts for more than 5 years. There's also an ongoing police fraud and money laundering investigation at the council:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tower-hamlets-council-fraud-b1262808.html
Also, 70% of school aged kids are Muslim, and the schools are even more segregated than that, and have been for 15 years at least. So people are growing up with little contact amongst peers outside their sectarian ethnic or religious group.
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/schools-in-the-east-end-dividing-by-race-6585982.html
This is one of the futures of politics and society in the country, people don't realise that there's a melting point model of migration where people from all backgrounds live in a place and share friend groups, and there's a completely different model of migration where there are parallel sectarian communities. You see both models of migration in different parts of London today, and in other major cities. Those sectarian areas come from the difference in culture, the clannishness of the culture, and the scale of migration. In London today 60-65% of 35-45 year olds were born abroad, with high migration from a subset of countries, so there is a lot of pressure away from both integration and melting pot models of migration. That level of population turnover is a result of net migration post 2000 increasing to 5-10 times higher than before 2000, then after 2020 ballooning to 20-30 times higher. There's a good few sectarian areas like that now, where on one side of a road maybe 50% or 70% the population is Muslim, on the other side of the road 5% or 1%, you see it in Tower Hamlets and also in northern towns like Oldham or Rochdale."
NHS staff told to stop discouraging first cousin marriages - "Hospital staff need to stop discouraging first cousin marriages, a government-funded NHS monitoring board has said, despite the practice increasing the risk of birth defects. The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) has told NHS staff that “it is unacceptable to discourage close relative marriage in a blanket way” because the risk of having a child with a genetic disorder is only “slightly increased”... YouGov polling from last year showed that three-quarters of Britons think first cousin marriage should not be legal, compared with 9 per cent who think the law should remain. Michael Muthukrishna, professor of economic psychology at the London School of Economics, said last month: “When marriage is restricted to family members, communities become more isolated, limiting social integration. “This isolation is what has allowed for over-representation of radicalisation and grooming gangs. Normalising cousin marriage doesn’t help mothers, nor babies affected by the well-documented health risks of repeated inbreeding.” Last year it was reported that the deaths of more than two children a week in England were linked to their parents being closely related. Figures showed that up to 20 per cent of children treated for congenital problems in cities such as Glasgow and Birmingham are of Pakistani descent, compared with 4 per cent in the wider population."
Deport Foreign Criminals on X - "I often Cite a secret Met Police report that states Cousin officers are more likely to be corrupt , here’s the evidence it existed because guess what, it’s disappeared along with @NCA_UK report on 75% of all rape gangs being Pakistani Muslim Police officers are ten times more likely to be corrupt according to this Police report The report argued that British Pakistanis live in a cash culture in which "assisting your extended family is considered a duty" and in an environment in which large amounts of money are loaned between relatives and friends"
Hunter Ash on X - "This is a fundamental betrayal of what made Europeans WEIRD - that is, high-trust, individualist, and classically egalitarian.
The Hajnal Line: The Hajnal line labels the portion of Europe that has historically practiced the distinctive Western European Marriage Pattern. In these cultures, marriages typically happened at older ages, the consent of the bride was more emphasized, and nuclear families - men starting their own households, rather than multi-generational living - were the norm. According to many scholars, this was largely driven by the Catholic ban on cousin marriage. A prohibition on marrying close relatives inhibits the formation of tight-knit extended-family networks and forces cooperation with non-kin. This in turn requires (and thus selects for) trust. In many cultures, it is not considered dishonorable to lie to, cheat, and steal from non-clan members. All morality applies only to the extended family group. This makes running large-scale modern nation-states much less efficient, since every clan is constantly grifting off the state for its own benefit, engaging in nepotism, etc. This nepotistic grifting is exactly what the NHS is calling “economic advantages”. The Western European Marriage Pattern is a large part of what made Western Europeans unique and globally dominant. That the British government is now actively promoting clannishness and inbreeding is one of the bleakest indicators of the decay of Europe."
Megha on X - "I recently finished reading an essay from a Columbia English Major recalling her experience of studying literature in modern academia. Her experiences recall being excoriated and receiving failing grades if she ever insinuated that an author revealed positive emotion toward a patriarchal structure or if a heterosexual love was not subverted to be “secretly queer”. It’s disgusting what they do in the humanities. I never formally studied the humanities and now I know I was saved from watching the most beautiful works of art get mutilated by a vile and disgusting leftist establishment that wanted to cut open every artery of every poem and stain it with feminism, queer theory and “social justice”. I am glad I was spared that carnage because of how much I dearly love art. Dostoevsky, in the Petrashevsky circle in the 1840s made a similar rant when they were trying to tell him that the purpose of literature is to “advance socialist propaganda”. And Dostoevsky, usually mild mannered and taciturn, exploded with rage at this idea. The academics are nothing but disgusting Marxists who despise art, beauty, literature, the family, all that is wholesome and good as is displayed by the western canon. All great art is “right wing art” in so far as it is not LYING to progress a political agenda. The politics of the true right wing are apolitical. This is why the university must be annihilated. Everyone must be purged from the hallowed halls they have stolen."
