Sensitive matters here, all too often treated crassly and/or simply ignored. May we hope the new statutory commission will make serious inroads?
I'm going to make a simple suggestion for them, with a bit of intro logic first.
It is widely stated that, among other legion institutional failures, "the authorities" are fearful of considering ethnic and cultural dimensions for fear of stirring things up (and of course getting serious, career-threatening trouble from the 'progressive' direction just for opening their mouths). Casey documents large-scale non-reporting, and indeed non-collection of data under this heading. Does anyone really doubt this is a factor? (There must even be progressives who take pleasure in bringing about such self-censorship.)
Now we know, from a century of study and many centuries of literature, that the average Joe just wants an easy life and is always receptive to danger-signals that might suggest he's going against the grain, in order to get himself safely back within whatever seems to be the prevailing norm. (Homer Simpson is a beautifully-rendered exemplar.) Prevailing norm changes? OK, just tell me what I have to do now, what is the new salute, what the new shibboleth. It was ever thus, and we kid ourselves if we imagine that brave, resolute stand-outs against baleful prevailing norms are anything other than a minority (and half of them are, frankly, nutters, even if high personal integrity and courage are also occasionally to be found).
So we can certainly imagine that the justifiable fearfulness of individuals within "the authorities" who have chosen the path of studiously ignoring, in this case, ethnic and cultural dimensions, has in most cases been not necessarily the result of direct formal instructions, but rather their own nervous judgement in the matter, reinforced by nods, nudges, and general institutional wokery pervading their workplace.
But. Institutions and bureaucratic instincts being what they are, on at least some occasions somebody towards the top of some organisation or other will have put something in writing. I view this as inevitable - just as we know someone else will rapidly have told them to delete and shred it.
The challenge for the new commission, then, is: proactively seek out genuinely authentic cases of written instructions on this issue. Let it be known that you're in the market for whistleblowing, and tap into that other very widespread human aspect: resentment of such instructions, and the instinct to take a few copies or screenshots, and to wait for your moment to reveal the incriminating evidence.
Now's the time.
ND
UPDATE: nice to see Casey at a select committee this morning, letting MPs have it. She said - I paraphrase from memory - Nothing I've said is new, and other *colleagues* (looking around the room) could easily have found it out for themselves. Hopefully the MPs realised she was politely calling them out for the cowardly, pusillanimous grand-standers they are.
Interesting article here by one David McGrogan, one of my go to Substack reads; a Professor of Law at Northumbria Uni, his Substack, "News from Uncibal" is superb. His most recent article notes that the Rape gang shambles is meet for mass prosecutions under Article 3 of the ECHR Charter, and that it would be sweet to see that put to good use.
ReplyDeletehttps://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/human-rights-law-and-rape-gangs
For those not on Substack, it's where adults go to talk on the internet. My other always read is Daniel Jupp's "Jupplandia", like David a regular writer of excoriating essays on the shit we have descended into.
Daniel wrote a fine takedown of the Philanthropath Gates, "The Gates of Hell"; the chapter on his appalling Polio campaign in India particularly appalling. Gates openly uses the Third World for jab testing as most countries have laxer regulation (believe it or not. Regulations?)
https://firstfactcheck.substack.com/p/fact-check-who-gave-tetanus-shots
And now of course, Starmer has I suspect sold British farming to Gates. Who is the largest owner of farmland in the USA.
It's another minefield for Labour too, as many were councils Labour-ran - Oldham only played ball when Labour lost it's majority.
ReplyDeleteAnd we've had the Telford MP display a neck of so much brass, it's a wonder he's not expanded his metallic properties to an iron lung, by standing to proclaim that Rudd had declined to do an enquiry, conveniently forgetting he himself had been involved in a letter claiming it wasn't necessary...
I'm hoping the press rise - or rather descend, as this needs some gutterwork - to the occasion and skewer the shits. Reform must be rubbing their hands.
OK, so Ms Casey pulls up the drains and someone somewhere slips her a few nuggets of 'the black' on some council or govt department long ago. A marvellous diversion, a bit of backstabbing but will it really change anything or make a real difference. I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteI was a Civil Servant for a short while (a dead end job) but holding 'the black' was an art form in the balance of power. Useful for internal squabbles but risky to reveal to outsiders. Loyalty to 'the department' is important and careers and memories are very very long. So I doubt Ms Casey will get told much useful. Stay schtum.
And anyway what will her inquiry achieve? A few bad councillors, a few useless coppers. But will Rochdale etc be turned into gleaming technopoli with gold bars piled high in their new super-tech futures. No.
Just another useless report keeping lawyer's Tuscan villas newly painted.
Jim - you may well be right, and certainly, history would suggest that.
ReplyDeleteHowever.... a couple of things may help to change matters
1. Casey is mad about this, so mad she dressed down a bunch of MPs yesterday
2. Starmer backing down is a sign that public pressure is working
3. The news that asylum seekers are disproportionately responsible is as bad news for the government as it can be, with them emptying our pockets to accommodate them
So I will leave you - all - with this poem by England's finest Far Right poet, Mr. Rudyard Kipling...
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy -- willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
https://substack.com/@connortomlinson/note/c-126980128
ReplyDelete"27.3% of rape convictions last year were also of migrants.
The main offenders being: India, Romania, Poland, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Iran, Lithuania, and Nigeria.
The rape conviction rate for foreign nationals is 2.3 per 100,000 of the population, versus 0.97 per 100,000 for the British population — so, 142% higher.
This comes a day after Baroness Casey's national audit found “a significant proportion of these cases appear to involve suspects who are non-UK nationals and/or who are claiming asylum in the UK.”
Every one of those evil assaults is a life ruined, a woman traumatised and unable to trust the good men in her life.
We have far too many of our own rapists, thank you very much.
Send the rapists back to the countries they came from, and stop importing more."
What are the relative rates of offending by ethnicity rather than nationality?
ReplyDeleteAppalling...
Deletehttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=uk+sexual+assault+by+ethnicity&t=brave&ia=web
https://substack.com/@connortomlinson/note/c-127125627?r=x2r5q - ethnicity
DeleteBe fair. Some people were speaking out against it, but they were the wrong kind of people and were put on trial for it (the Leeds jury acquitted them, would a London one have done?).
ReplyDeleteA Lancashire detective (afaik still with them) was told in no uncertain terms to take down his blog (there was a purge - remember Coppersblog?). But the internet is often forever.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090603114126/http://nightjack.wordpress.com:80/2008/03/23/only-24-hours-to-crack-the-case-part-2/
Nightjack. Yes. Remember him well. There's a couple of ex-coppers on Substack speaking out loudly about the shambles the Police now are.
DeletePaul Birch is one
"For those not on Substack, it's where adults go to talk on the internet."
ReplyDeleteI think ND would enjoy Big Serge on substack - military history and sometimes military present.
https://bigserge.substack.com/
Wikipedia entries and edits are harder to track, though not always impossible - this page was up until October last year.
ReplyDeletehttps://web.archive.org/web/20241018110903/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming_gang_moral_panic_in_the_United_Kingdom
Re Kipling, fine words butter no parsnips. He was a useful propagandist for a while. What matters to govt is keeping riots and uprisings and revelations under control. The Saxons got the William the Bastard treatment - toe the line or we chop your head off. MI5 et al do the same. We don't want another Brixton. A bit of lying to judges is a small matter.
ReplyDeleteWhat does look interesting is Donald and the Israel/Iran spat. The naive story is Israel good Iran bad. But Iran serves (served?) a role as a counterweight to Israel. If it did not exist it might be useful to invent one both for domestic and Middle Eastern consumption. Even Trump has sensitive political antennae and for now at least they still have elections in the USA.
Elby - thanks for the link to Prof. McGrogan's Substack. What a splendid summary - I know I'm not alone in in feeling that we've been here before, many times; inquiries that last for years while the PTB massage public feeling and engagement into a convenient memory hole.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that we might be reassured if the inquiry was framed in line with Prof McGrogan's suggestion. If it is, "they" are serious. If it's not, "they" are covering up again. Simple litmus test for guidance on a complex subject.
I read that and my immediate reaction was that I will copy off a few copies, and send on directly to Starmer and his snivelling shit Hermer, and the hideous Cooper, noting that a government so HOT on Human Rights (I won't say - of others, not ours), and with two Human Rights lawyers in positions of supreme power, that of course they WILL prosecute on these grounds as well as the manifold other clear crimes.
DeleteI'm sick of these bastards. Okay to defend Ukraine, but not Israel. Anti-Semitism goes SO deep in Labour they can't every pretend otherwise.
I had Jewish friends as a school kid. There was a thriving Jewish community in Manchester. Late 50s, my old man, a character in our village(he was asked to be a JP, but refused on the grounds he could not always be bound to keep the peace, bless him. A prankster and a take no shit man) was asked to be an Honorary VP at the local posh golf club. He was not a golfer.
Delighted, he responded. As soon as Jews can become members.
Never got a response.
Our dentist was Jewish, and their family family friends. I love the Jews and their balls - they take no shit; that there is still rampant anti-Semitism here, especially on the Left, sickens me.
OT - the Tory Party continues with its five year project (started by Boris) to destroy itself as an electoral force:
ReplyDelete"Shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel said the Conservative party would support the government in joining the military fight against Iran if it was deemed necessary, reports the PA news agency."
@Elby - the poem is called The Beginnings, and has no Saxon references, instead it uses "the English" instead, and it about how the English altered their view of Germans during WW1.
ReplyDeleteThe whole Saxon changes come from it being co-opted by the actual far right, not the BBC and Graun's wish fulfilment far-right.
Nota bene. There is no Far Right, except in Starmer's and your imagination
DeletePost Southport, I made FoI requests to the PM's office and the Home Office, asking them to name the groups who organised the Southport riots.
The couldn't name one.
And the recent report on the riots was clear - these were local disturbances with NO evidence of co-ordination by any group, never mind this mythical "Far Right"
The apparently smart people can fall for this nonsense propaganda is alarming.
"Caeser Hēméra said...
ReplyDelete@Elby - the poem is called The Beginnings, and has no Saxon references, instead it uses "the English" instead, and it about how the English altered their view of Germans during WW1."
Looks like we're both right
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=THE+WRATH+OF+THE+AWAKENED+SAXON&t=brave&ia=web
OT, of general application these days:
ReplyDelete"You can either have intelligence, good memory of past events, or trust in your government, but never all three at the same time.
If you have intelligence and good memory of past events you can't have trust in your government, if you have intelligence and trust in your government you can't have a good memory of past events, and if you have a good memory of past events and trust in your government you can't have intelligence."
Agreed; and whilst I have never been that much of a political bod - all my mates at College ('69 to '72) were joining IS and IMG, not I; regardless, this government is by a long streak the most appalling in all my life. I am convinced he is personality disordered, and both he and his little shit of an Attorney General sidekick have spent their lives taking action against our interests.
DeleteStill to meet ONE person who has admitted voting for them.
Probably a wide decision on their part
PS - "The Beginnings" poem accompanies one of Kipling's most disturbing stories, Mary Postgate, about a spinster who sits and watches a badly wounded German pilot until he dies.
ReplyDeleteTrump's "two weeks" looks like market close time on Friday. Thank God I ordered some more oil at a fixed price.
I believe (BA. Oxon. Eng. Lit. & Lang., 1972) that Kipling is a highly underrated writer. That may be partly to my mother, bless her, reading me lots of Kipling and many others in my childhood. I do recommend his highly moving book of letters to his children, "Oh, Beloved Kids"
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and of course, he was to lose one of his sons, John, in the war to end all wars...and felt lifelong guilt as despite John's poor eyesight, he helped him to join up.
Yes, I always think of Kipling as Beetle, the more studious of the three heroes of Stalky & Co.
Delete"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."
Was that a self reference?
Kipling's paternal family were Yorkshire folk from the Guisborough/Whitby area, and both father and grandfather Methodist preachers. Before he went to India, Kipling stayed with his grandma at Skipton, from which memories arose this moving story:
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/tale/on-greenhow-hill.htm
Apparently the EU are abandoning their oil price cap. Bugger. That means an attack on Iran.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/eu-abandons-proposal-to-lower-price-cap-on-russian-oil-to-45
"Mary Postgate" does not simply watch a wounded German airman die. Kipling makes it plain that she has an orgasm ("increasing rapture") while it is happening, and that afterwards in her bath she is "relaxed...and quite handsome."
ReplyDeleteAs for: "Tell them that our fathers lied", this refers to the pre-War Liberal government and its apologists among pacifist and socialist intellectuals (including Bernard Shaw) who claimed that there was no threat from Germany, and that Britain should therefore not introduce conscription, or seek formal alliances.
The lessons for the present day are obvious.
"this refers to the pre-War Liberal government and its apologists among pacifist and socialist intellectuals "
DeleteEvidence? I only asked the question.