Wes Streeting has just lost the argument against Nigel Farage - "I miss the days when arguments on Twitter could be resolved by the invocation of Godwin’s law. This was the rule that the longer any debate continued, the more likely it was that one of the parties would reference an analogy with Nazi Germany. The participant who had done so was generally assumed to have lost the argument. On this basis, Wes Streeting just lost the argument over Nigel Farage and the death of Henry Nowak. How extraordinary it is that a serious, mature politician – former member of the Cabinet, no less, and a potential contender for Number 10 – should invoke the 1930s, and all the historical associations of that period, in response to Farage’s accusations of “two-tier policing” following the tragic murder of Henry Nowak... The Left’s very favourite tactic, when confronted with uncomfortable truths, is to throw names from their prams, a tactic that has silenced critics effectively for years. No one likes being called a racist or a transphobe, after all, so best keep your head down than risk public shame. Yet over-use of such terms has rendered them of less value and meaning. Is it racist, or even fascistic, to question whether police officers have been trained in critical race theory and to pay more attention to the claims of ethnic minority members of the public than those of the white population? That a young, innocent man has died in exactly those circumstances is justification enough for launching a public inquiry. Keir Starmer won much praise inside the Commons for his robust dismissal of Farage’s claims, and for his suggestion that, absent the Reform leader’s intervention, no one would be angry at the injustice of Mr Nowak’s treatment. This is an absurd and indefensible position"
Policing has to show that it is colour blind - "The officers who arrested Mr Nowak face an investigation by The Independent Office for Police Conduct. But by focusing on individuals, the investigation risks addressing the symptoms, not the cause."
Henry Nowak analysis: How race ideology captured Britain’s police - "Nowhere in the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and College of Policing race action plan is there any reflection on the fact that Floyd’s murder had absolutely nothing to do with policing policy in the UK. Nor does it acknowledge that it happened in a very different policing and social environment in a foreign country. In police forces up and down the country, Floyd’s murder served to turbocharge the culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) that was already taking over other workplaces. Chief constables rushed to bring out their own race action plans, many of them referring to Floyd – whose death sparked the Black Lives Matter movement – rather than what was going on in their own back yards... David Spencer, a former Met detective chief inspector, who is head of crime and justice at the Policy Exchange think tank, said: “This is an implicit rejection of policing’s foundational principle ‘to police without fear or favour’ and has the potential to cause a widespread collapse in consent for policing.”... By 2021, Lord Sewell, who wrote a report for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, concluded that there was no evidence to suggest the UK as a whole was institutionally racist. He also found that Macpherson’s findings of racist crime being under-reported were “largely no longer the case”. Yet the Black Lives Matter movement appeared to persuade police leaders that no progress had been made and a Macpherson-style intervention was needed. In 2025, the Met Police asked Dr Shereen Daniels, founder of the African Diaspora Economic Inclusion Foundation, to conduct a “structural review” of racism within the force. Her 126-page report, titled 30 Patterns of Harm, explained “how systemic racism is organised and sustained within the Met” and how “systemic racism reproduces itself across time ... harm is not an accident. It is reinforced by a system designed to protect itself”. Officers in forces in England and Wales were given compulsory race training during which many were told of their white privilege. Meanwhile, the NPCC Race Action Plan accepted without question that “many people believe policing to still be institutionally racist”. One policing source said: “The impression the plan gives is very much white guilt, critical race theory, imagining we’re still in the 1990s and Stephen Lawrence is still haunting police interactions.” Others have pointed out that the race action plan contains no mention of anti-Semitism or Jews... Mr Farage, the leader of Reform UK, has stated baldly that Mr Nowak was “killed by DEI” and is backing up his claims with communications he has had from long-serving officers. One of them wrote to him and said: “I know for a fact by speaking to younger officers that there is an element of fear [in] confronting ethnic [minority] criminals due to this training.” The officer added: “I am embarrassed to disclose I am a police officer and lie when asked ... I feel betrayed by politician senior officers pushing political agendas.” Tanya de Grunwald, an HR expert and podcaster, said: “In the private sector, bad DEI training and policies create legal, commercial and reputational risk. But in other settings, including policing, is it time to admit that it can create risk to life?” The introduction of race action plans in the wake of Black Lives Matter gave rise to a fresh emphasis on unconscious-bias training. The NPCC race action plan states matter-of-factly that: “Unconscious bias affects everyone.” Or, as Dr Daniels puts it in 30 Patterns of Harm: “Neutrality is often presented as a position of fairness, balance, or objectivity. But in practice, especially in institutions like the Met, neutrality is not neutral. It reflects dominant norms, particularly whiteness, in how risk, credibility, professionalism, and even ‘evidence’ are defined.”... Rick Prior, then chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents officers from lower ranks, warned that such thinking was leading to a “crisis of confidence” among officers. He said they were “hesitating” before engaging with ethnic minorities for fear of being labelled racist. He was sacked by the union as a result."
Henry Nowak’s death shows how brainwashed Britain’s police have become - "The Prime Minister, successive governments, the woke College of Policing and their awful, discriminatory Race Action Plan (“Improving policing for Black people”), chief constables who have to be word-perfect in the mantras of the diversity cult to climb the greasy pole, a complicit Left-wing media, and all the brainwashed agencies of the British state that have forced multiculturalism on a reluctant population and indoctrinated police officers to show bigotry against white people – they are the ones to blame. That’s the same establishment which couldn’t wait, back in 2020, to flaunt its progressive credentials by taking the knee when the American criminal, George Floyd, died after rough treatment by Minneapolis cops (the statement on Floyd from Britain’s police chiefs was notably nauseating). That same state had remarkably little to say when the case of Henry first became known. Like Henry, Floyd died in police custody, protesting: “I can’t breathe.” Where were the public genuflections by Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner for the British boy who was a victim of anti-white racism? When Nigel Farage gave a national address calling out our appalling two-tier justice system, some had the gall to say the leader of Reform UK was a “race baiter”. The two-tier system is no longer hidden. Henry’s treatment by the police was “inhumane and degrading”, as his father says, while his murderer was “afforded decency – he was believed”. Digwa was never handcuffed, not even after he was arrested. (Kid gloves, Sergeant! Don’t want to be prejudiced or inflammatory against a protected characteristic, do we?) At the police station, officers took the suspected murderer to the kitchen and offered him a selection of food while Henry’s still-warm body was on its way to the morgue. “The contrast is unbearable,” says Mark. It is. Unbearable and unforgivable, and profoundly racist against a young white man. This tragedy may yet turn out to be another of the sparks that light the fuse on the civil war many of us fear is coming. (The Southport massacre was the first.) You see, police didn’t fail Henry by mistake, as Robert France, deputy chief constable of Hampshire, tried to claim. It wasn’t “complex”, it was really simple. Those officers who arrived at the scene were following orders. They had been trained – many would say brainwashed – to give priority to ethnic minority “victims”. Digwa’s family was well aware of their privileged victimhood status and how to use it to wrongfoot the cowardly, craven forces of law and order... Instead of phoning an ambulance, the brother, Gurpreet Digwa, called the police, accusing Henry of a drunken assault. This is part of the transcript: “We’ve just got attacked racially by some white person... he’s physically attacked my brother, we’re Sikhs, we wear a turban, and he’s just attacked my brother. We’re restraining him right now because he’s just attacked my brother and took my brother’s turban off.” He went on: “I can’t let him go until this gets sorted. I am not being racially attacked and letting him get away with it. I am not having this as a regular occurrence. I live here. He ain’t fighting people, he’s racially attacking people, that’s what he’s doing. Nah, he sees some brown people, that’s what it was.”... Let there be no mistake, dear reader – Henry died of DEI... “For years, officers have been subjected to cultural awareness and DEI training that... presents policing as institutionally racist by default,” says one experienced serving police officer. “Officers are often left feeling collectively labelled as prejudiced. “Operationally, there are clear differences in scrutiny depending on ethnicity. For example, if an officer stop-searches a person of colour, that interaction may be reviewed within 24 hours, whereas searches involving white individuals are often processed routinely at a later stage.” “Positive action” initiatives have become deeply embedded. Officers from ethnic backgrounds are actively encouraged towards promotion and specialist roles, with additional support that is not available to white colleagues. “Standards can appear secondary to demographics.”"
We are told that the police had to offer him food, but left wingers get very upset over the US case where the police got Burger King for Dylan Roof and claimed that was proof of white supremacy. Double standards, as usual.
Jack Straw: Police anti-racism guidelines have gone too far - "Jack Straw has warned that police anti-racism guidelines have gone too far since he oversaw the inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence murder more than 25 years ago. Addressing the controversy over the murder of Southampton university student Henry Nowak, the former home secretary acknowledged there had been an “over-correction” by police... Lady Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence, said the police “should be at fault for what happened” after Mr Nowak was stabbed. “I think what’s happened with him should never have happened. And the police should be at fault for what happened on that night,” she said."
Officers in Henry Nowak arrest did nothing wrong, police watchdog claims - "The police watchdog claims there is no evidence the officers who handcuffed Henry Nowak as he lay dying committed misconduct... A police source said the use of handcuffs on a suspect who was offering no resistance and lying on the ground was inexplicable."
It’s not Farage who’s ‘stoking division’, Sir Keir. It’s Lefties like you - "If you want to know what sort of man Sir Keir Starmer is, consider these two clues. First, note how slow he was to make any public comment about the murder of Henry Nowak. And second, note how quick he was to condemn his political opponents for speaking up about it. “Nigel Farage is completely wrong to use this to try and create division,” fumed the Prime Minister on Tuesday. Countless other politicians of the Left joined in, darkly warning the public about the dangers of “stoking division” among “our communities”, and denouncing “the far-Right” for “politicising a tragedy”. Do these words sound a touch familiar? They should. Because, in recent years, this is exactly the same script that politicians of the Left have taken to reciting immediately after every atrocity inflicted on the British people. They use it every time Islamists have carried out a terror attack, or serious crimes have been committed by supposed asylum seekers. They also used it when Elon Musk helped revive demands for a national inquiry into the Pakistani rape gangs. And they used it after Axel Rudakubana slaughtered three little girls in Southport. After every horror of this kind, they automatically start lecturing us about “division” – and ordering us to reject anyone who seeks to “stoke”, “sow” or “create” it. Frankly, however, I’m sick of hearing these people read from their nakedly cynical playbook. For one thing, it’s so hypocritical. Put it like this. How did politicians of the Left respond to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests of 2020? Did they condemn those leading them for “stoking division” by “politicising a tragedy”? Quite the opposite. They all rushed to proclaim that they shared the protesters’ anger, and declared that the “tragedy” in question should prompt a radical transformation of our society. Sir Sadiq Khan said the death of George Floyd “has rightly ignited fury and anguish not just in the USA, but around the world”. Sir Keir himself said it “must be a catalyst for change”. Meanwhile, Shabana Mahmood – who, as Home Secretary, is currently telling protesters that “there can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up violence and disorder” – wrote an open letter in June 2020, in which she said: “Many constituents have been in touch with me regarding protests across the United States after the murder of George Floyd. I share their anger at this unspeakable outrage.” Curiously, her letter didn’t mention any violence and disorder stirred up by BLM protesters. But she did condemn “the appalling scenes of police violence across the US” and “the divisive and appalling rhetoric from President Donald Trump”. Even more nauseating than the Left’s hypocrisy, however, is their shameless blame-shifting. Because the truth is, it’s not Nigel Farage who has made our society so dangerously divided. It’s the Left itself. For decades, our country has been relentlessly destabilised by rocketing immigration and multiculturalism. A development fuelled by the Left-wing conviction that just about everyone on the planet has an inalienable right to come and live in Britain, and that once they arrive, they don’t need to make any effort to follow our customs or even, it sometimes seems, our laws. It’s because of this toxic Left-wing fixation – and the many gormless Tories who swallowed it – that Britain is now home to so many people who hate us and our culture. It’s why Islamists have been able to wield such influence over policing, rape gangs have been able to operate with near-impunity, and illegal immigrants are free to roam our streets. This, therefore, is where the blame really lies for today’s seething divisions. And the Left’s response? To smear, or try to silence, anyone who dares point it out. This, however, is not the only reason we should ignore politicians who hector us about “division”. There’s another. Which is that, in one sense at least, we actually need more division, not less. Most British people, I tend to suspect, don’t much like being forced to live side-by-side with wannabe jihadis, or machete-wielding psychopaths, or alleged “refugees” who assault underage girls within days of hopping off the dinghy. And because of this, I do want a government that divides us. By which I mean a government that divides the peaceful from the violent, the innocent from the predatory, the good from the evil. And the way to bring about this particular form of division is not just to put offenders in prison. Wherever possible, it’s to kick them immediately out of our country. Or, better yet, prevent them from entering it in the first place by taking rather firmer control of our borders. Here, then, is the message we need Sir Keir and co to heed. Remove the people who wish us harm. Because if you don’t, we’ll remove you."
Starmer reserves his fury for Farage, not the murderer of Henry Nowak - "he risked giving the same deaf ear to the public response to Mr Nowak’s death as he showed in response to the public anger at the deaths of young girls at the hands of Axel Rudakubana in Southport in 2024. He sounded like he was criticising the public for their anger instead of placing the blame where it belonged – at the feet of the police officers who arrested and handcuffed the victim of a stabbing attack on the word of his attacker. Starmer was enraged that people felt rage. Think about that. His tone when paying tribute earlier in the session to Mr Nowak and to his family was performatively quiet and subdued, aiming to convey a sense of genuine sympathy. It was only when reminded of the public disturbances in Southampton that he allowed himself to become angry – not at those guilty of the death of a young man, but at those citizens who were themselves angry. Again we see the disconnect between the governed and the Government. And we remember the absurd and condescending response to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombings by an Islamist terrorist and the authorities’ exhortation to us all not to look back in anger at such atrocities. Why? Why would anyone look at that event and at Henry Nowak’s senseless murder and not become enraged? How could they possibly not become enraged? How is that even possible? To our Prime Minister, anger is unnecessary. Perhaps even un-British. Certainly it is politically inconvenient. You do not have to justify last night’s riots in Southampton to recognise that this is a man who simply doesn’t do human. The reason Farage continually gets away with his snake oil sales is not because he is always right; it is because those who oppose him are constantly misjudging who their audience is, how they think and what they believe. And that could yet be the end of them."
Only the left gets to be angry and to divide people
Visegrád 24 on X - "British riot police issue a dispersal order and start charging forward to arrest Henry Nowak protesters in Southampton. A black protester shouts to the other protesters: “Im black, stand behind me, I'm black, I'm black”"
Moment brother of Henry Nowak killer holds Sikh ceremonial sword in 'road rage incident' outside temple - as fury grows at police 'two tier' response to his murder - "Multiple sources in Southampton, with knowledge of the incident, identified the man with the ceremonial sword as Gurpreet Digwa."
Henry Nowak: Hampshire Police 'tried to smear victim as aggressor' just three days after his murder - "the force tried to put out a statement implying Mr Nowak had assaulted both Digwa and his brother. An initial police statement, according to The Sunday Times, read: "It was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man." Police had sufficient evidence by that time to know that Digwa was a liar. The force would later change their wording after outrage from the Nowak family. The Nowaks had become concerned a false narrative was being pushed about their son. Police are said to have told them their next update - which would include a family tribute - would again infer that young Henry was the initial aggressor. Officers dropped that section of the statement, which only referred to an "altercation" when published. The Sunday Times also revealed that Hampshire Police risked collapsing Digwa's trial by trying to issue a statement over so-called "disinformation" - while proceedings were already underway... The force was then scolded by the Crown Prosecution Service that any intervention could jeopardise the case... It also came to light last night that the force, already under fire for its diversity schemes, failed to take a knife from Digwa after he was arrested and did not handcuff him when he was arrested. Even after the murderer was taken to a police station, his Sikh dagger was hanging around his neck. The blade was only removed after a police search before he was moved into a cell, The Sun revealed. A source said: "Either the arresting officers knew he had the kirpan on and let him keep it on after his arrest, or they missed it and it was only picked up when he was searched at the police station. "Either way, it is a massive blunder and could have been dangerous.""
Right over Left Everytime on X - "George Floyd dies of an overdose in America. England takes the knee. Police get bottles, bricks, and bicycles thrown at them. Almost no serious consequences. A young British lad in Southampton, caught up in justified anger after Henry Nowak was stabbed six times and left to die while police enforced anti-White DEI policies, throws a traffic cone — it doesn’t even hit anyone. He faces 3-5 years in prison. In 2020, when 14 officers were injured in London riots, the person who threw a bicycle at a mounted cop? Barely a mention. This is two-tier policing and justice in its purest form. One rule for BLM and foreign causes, another for native Britons demanding justice for their own. What an absolute fucking joke of a country. The mask is off. #JusticeForHenry"
Chamberlain's Ghost on X - "The Henry Nowak thing. If you watch the video, before Nowak complains of being unable to breathe and having been stabbed, the one police officer notes that "he has a mouthful of blood". Now when a person with a mouthful of blood starts complaining that they can't breathe and that they have been stabbed, alarm bells should be starting to go off. Then, a few moments later a policewoman requests an ambulance saying "His pupils aren't even reacting". By that point anyone with any bit of sense would surely have realised that there was a very serious problem. Now these same officers, apparently having been bereft of anything approaching basic common sense, are blaming their DEI training."
Common sense gets you fired if it's "racist"
James Heale on X - "💥 Downing Street hits back at JD Vance: “In recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets. “The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We should be respecting their wishes. “Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances. That is who we are as a country.”"
Hunter Ash on X - "In October 2024, about 100 Labour party members traveled to the US to openly campaign for Kamala Harris. Now Starmer is very concerned that a statement from the Vice President is “interfering in [their] democracy”"
Sam Ashworth-Hayes on X - "When Black Lives Matter rioters were doing $1bn worth of damage to American cities, Starmer declared his "shock and anger at the death of George Floyd", and "the UK’s abhorrence" at Trump's response. As Shadow minister he went to Taiwan to lobby against the death penalty. The entire human rights edifice he built his career in is predicated on the idea that nations are supposed to interfere in each others internal affairs to maintain standards. It's not particularly convincing to suddenly declare public debate is foreign interference in our democracy when it's pretty much the ordinary course of business in the West. And it's not particularly hard to read this: Starmer is happy to try and turn a very awkward story for his beliefs into a row over knives or with the White House."
Foreign interference is only bad when it hurts the left wing agenda
Daniel Hannan on X - "Bloody hell. As @UnderSecPD reminds us, British MPs responded to the George Floyd protests by CALLING FOR AN ARMS EMBARGO on the US. The double standards are completely off the scale."
American politicians should stay out of Britain's issues - "Downing Street denounced “people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division”. Yet we cannot recall Labour Remainers criticising Barack Obama for intervening in the Brexit debate 10 years ago, saying the UK would be placed at the back of the queue for trade deals with the US if it left the EU. They have also had no compunction about condemning Donald Trump over domestic US policy. Inevitably, politicians welcome foreign interference only if it suits their arguments. It would be far better if each stayed out of the other’s business."
Veneration on X - "Police Chief Alexis Boon responded about the death of Chris Kaba a few years ago. A black man who was a member of a gang, a career criminal, who was being chased by police after he had committed yet another crime, who got shot when he was using his car as a weapon and ramming in to police cars. Now compare the below video about Kaba to the video he did today on Nowak."
Western countries are institutionally racist and structurally racist - just not in the ways that they claim
Patrick Christys on X - "Three mandatory ‘anti-racism’ courses inflicted on Hampshire Police officers and staff. The details of what they’re told to believe is mental 👇"
Forces have not gone far enough on race, says police diversity watchdog - "Police forces’ efforts to combat “institutional racism” have not gone far enough, a police race watchdog has claimed. Abimbola Johnson, who chaired a scrutiny board overseeing police race action plans, said her watchdog had consistently found that progress in tackling racism had been “too slow, too inconsistent and too poorly embedded”. She warned that the backlash over the police handling of the murder of student Henry Nowak risked “throwing away” improvements in anti-racist policing if it was caricatured as involving “preferential treatment” over white people. Her comments come despite a growing furore over police race guidance suggesting that ethnic minorities should be treated differently from white people... Ms Johnson said: “The metrics continue to show racial disparity across key areas of police contact: stop and search, use of force, strip searches, custody, misconduct, workforce experience and public trust. “The independent scrutiny and oversight board’s own work repeatedly found that progress under the police race action plan had been too slow, too inconsistent and too poorly embedded to meaningfully tackle the racism it was created to combat.” She added: “We should not play into the idea that improving policing for black people comes at the expense of white people. That is a false and dangerous framing. People of all colours, classes and creeds experience bad policing and poor state decision-making. “Parties like Reform try to pit groups against one another, particularly by suggesting that concern for non-white communities somehow means indifference to white working-class communities. That is wrong."... Zia Yusuf, Reform’s shadow home secretary, said the controversial police race guidance, described by officials as a “values” rather than “training” document, was evidence of institutional racism against white people. “The notion that there is structural anti-white prejudice embedded within British policing is not just speculation or something Nigel Farage says, or something I say, it is literally on the police’s own website, both Hampshire Police and British policing”... She disputed suggestions that anti-racism guidelines had “gone too far”."
The left wing establishment is doubling down, of course, because what else could they do?
Basil the Great on X - "The Guardian said Black Lives Matter was a worldwide common cause, they dedicated an entire section of their website to promoting it after George Floyd. When Europeans protested Henry Nowak's death they called them Far Right. It's disgusting"
Hampshire police face emergency inspection over Henry Nowak murder
Starmer is dithering on racialised policing - "Perhaps the central failing of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership has been his inability to say what he actually believes. This can be seen in his attitude to everything from welfare reform to simple questions such as whether a woman can have a penis. It has been on full display in the wake of the murder of Henry Nowak... Sir Keir Starmer appears to have nothing substantive to say on the matter. While Sarah Jones, the policing minister, was clear that “anti-racist” guidelines should go, the Prime Minister hides behind the promise of a review, engages in displacement activity, or issues bromides about there being “difficult questions” to answer. So we hear him accusing Nigel Farage of “exploiting” Mr Nowak’s murder and Elon Musk of “trying to whip up division” in the UK. This may play well to the Left, but it ignores the underlying issues. The concept of “racial equity” was imported from America in the wake of the death of George Floyd in 2020. It is a pernicious doctrine, rejecting the idea of equality before the law and effectively treating some groups as automatic victims and others as inherent oppressors. It has led to baffling, unworkable edicts such as those handed to police in the NPCC guidance. Some have even argued that “racial equity” is itself racist, given that it seems to encourage public bodies to treat groups differently based on the colour of their skin. Where does Sir Keir stand on the idea? Are we to deduce from the fact that he has failed to condemn it, that he believes its central tenets? Kemi Badenoch and Mr Farage have both come out clearly against the “anti-racism” guidance. If the Prime Minister disagrees, he should be prepared to defend his stance. The public clearly expects action to follow Mr Nowak’s appalling murder. Sir Keir is failing the voters by refusing to spell out what that action should constitute."
