Kill these Chinese invaders

Chinese invaders that need to be killed (note yellow legs)

These Chinese invaders were first detected in France in 2014, arriving as a nest in a consignment of pottery, but being aggressive critters they have spread widely (Belgium, Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal) and finally got established in the UK, as far north as Hull, via trade with our Channel Islands.

They are not good news!    They need to be killed on sight!

As we know, nature isn't the fluffy world of cuteness often portrayed on TV, but an adversarial system that promotes dominance, and so it is with the "Yellow Legged Asian Hornet"; they are tough, invasive, aggressive and wiping out many of the UKs native pollinating bee species, especially docile honey bees which they eat. 

Without help from us they will wipe-out honey bees for they are able to kill a hive of Honey Bees in a single day. Their method is to simply sit at the entrance of a beehive, agitate the hive into attack mode, then bite their heads off and take the protein-rich bodies away to their nest to feed. (If you are a bee friend you may enjoy this site.)

Know the size (2p coin) and colours of your enemy 

The life cycle of the Yellow Legged Asian Hornet is two-fold and it is at the first stage (Spring nest) that it is easy to eradicate (squash) them. The second stage (large nest) needs professional help to retrieve and kill them.

This link is more detailed

WORDS OF WARNING - Hornets bite hard!

Spring nest eradication is easy. Merely observe the nest, identify its occupants as Yellow Legged Asian Hornets (not native harmless wasps), then dislodge the nest into a bag with a gloved hand and then squash the bag.  A spring nest is typically no bigger than a tennis ball and best dealt with at dusk when they are at home and quiet. Don't poke the nest - just place a bag over it, knock it off and squish it. Spring nests are usually built in March/April, in sheds, lofts, garages or porches: places protected from the weather. Kill them at this stage and they can't breed in the second life cycle phase during the summer.

Knock Spring nest into a bag

Report  Larger Nests

The second life cycle nest, in the summer, will be a lot larger, usually up a tree, so after observing the occupants are actually the target (see identity marks in the picture), report it for official eradication. It will be dealt within days by trained people. Record the location and if possible take pictures, then contact the NNSS (Non Native Species Secretariat) on the email address alertnonnativ@ceh.ac.uk, or the National Bee Unit at York. Remember to look out for yellow legs.

If you happen to live in and around Hull, contact the Beverley Beekeepers Association if you suspect a sighting of a Yellow Legged Asian Hornet. You will be saving their industry, preserving parts of your food supply and eradicate what is an invasive and dangerous species. Please be vigilant and pass this information to as many people as you can.

The native bees that we do want in the UK are these.

Update Feb 9th 2024

Though their invasion continues there is a sign that evolutionary processes are at work, at least with the most common of European Bumble bee species.

Update May 20th 2024

Throughout 2023 a record number of reported sighting were recorded, with 72 nests in 56 locations (mostly in Kent), with 8 so far in 2024. Without continued vigilance and help from the general public their numbers will grow to a point of there being zero chance of their eradication. Go to it public!

Update Sep 5th 2024

The race is on, using ingenuity in the Asian Hornet race.

Update  Apr 18th 2025

Please take a look at the current situation here.

Gut reaction

This article popped up for me and crystalized my thoughts into a simple statement. "Fuck that, just send him home", as did a news report about an illegal immigrant still applying for asylum (from what?), who has been jailed for espousing and glorifying terrorism. Don't jail this parasite, just force him back to Turkey.

We don't need people like this importing their fights, their bigotry, their sob-stories, their desires, their criminality, their lack of comprehension about their newly desired social norms, their rabid religious inclinations, their "tribal" and "ethno-centric" aspirations for themselves but not the women around them, nor anyone else who is not like them.

To the British government I repeat myself - grow a pair, stop being nice to anyone who rocks up illegally, or those that facilitate their uninvited arrival. Block any appeal that they or their parasitic legal teams come up with and stop pandering to thought's of being "fair" - life isn't fair and gratuitous charity just leads to dependence or further deceptions. 

If the UK were likened to a ship, the crew are reaching mutiny because the captain will not repel boarders.

I don't want to feel like this!

I've just read this back to myself and never thought I could endorse such thoughts, but I am sick to death of  hearing the incessant drip of the national mantra that we must help such parasitic peoples of the world. If arriving from a war zone house them as "guests" then repatriate them as one would prisoners of war.

At the age of 68 I'm almost ashamed, but actuality has pushed me here.

Why come to us to for sanctuary as you "fight" your hate-fuelled cause?

Remember: Charlotte "Betty" Webb MBE (Bletchley Park)

Once again I am thinking of one of the "little" people of the world who often achieve great things, only to slip down the cracks of history, back into general obscurity. English born Charlotte "Betty" Webb, contributed to our general well-being in the UK but was deliberately obscured for decades by the National Secrets Act, for she worked within Bletchley Park; well known since the 90's as the forerunner of GCHQ and their ilk.

"Betty" in her initial service days

Betty joined Bletchley at the age of 18 and thereafter her life, both personal and private became a national secret she kept until released from her bond of silence in 1975. To everyone she was a secretary, though it later transpired she was a fluent German speaking codebreaker of such expertise that following the end of WW2 the Americans snapped her up and she relocated to The Pentagon in the USA. Her contribution to the West's security demands our remembrance of her.

RIP Betty Webb MBE, Légion d'Honneur (1924-2025)

N.B. Bletchley Park house and grounds are now a museum open to the public. Here is their official site

Word of the day - GIGIL

The word today is Gigil

I have added this to our list of "Words Of The Day" because it is literally a word newly accepted into "official" English usage as, for example the German word, SCHADENFREUDE. This is an import into the English language from the Philippines. Here is what it means.

Giggle is not new but gigil is

There is an index of words of the day.

If you are brave or foolish enough to dig into the different types of words in English, try this.

Dump Trump 'cos he's a chump (with Bohemian Trumpsody)

Let me say this please, Trump's desire to make America great again is akin to masturbation: It feels great for a while but ultimately you are left on your own. He is still hands-on the phallus of the USA but it is slowing going down. The rest of the world, much to his apparent surprise and eventual recognition, are prepared to also play hardball and basically give him the finger. Sure, his trade is good to have but his hubris is proving unacceptably hard to swallow. As the rest of the world adjusts, the USA might just need new friends.

YOU ARE TOO LATE - TRUMP WON AND WAS ALLOWED TO DO SO BY A JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE AND AN AMERICAN VOTING POPULATION THAT DEFIES (my) UNDERSTANDING. GOOD LUCK USA! TRUMP LOVES TRUMP and his ego knows no bounds - he and his coterie will ruin America, your reputation, your economy and your former friends' desire to care about you. Why did you do this to yourselves America?

Just weeks in the job and the despotic bullying began.

Trump is open about his nation (America) comes first policy and his nationalistic desires are well documented. 

Trump's desire is to interfere in the make-up and social rights (and wrongs) he perceives in American society and those of other countries.

Trump is open about protecting American jobs thereby portraying his party as a party for "legal" workers as "illegals" are identified and arrested or camped.

Trump is using populist actions to thereby build-up his party and his base of avid supporters who swear by him. Their allegiance seems absolute.

To any reader with an understanding of recent (1930s) history you may be aware of what I am alluding to. Trump's party trust their leader implicitly to make their nation great again and the rest of the world must just hope things don't get out of hand, again. Trump will make America great again in their eyes, in their terms, but will undermine global goodwill toward them. The bias Trump exhibits toward the  Russians gives rise to a question: Is Trump a soviet agent?

---- Original Article ----

Attention USA! Wake up for God's sake and get your leaders in order, or better still retire some of them, especially Trump AND Biden, who have had their time. Why not even elect a woman because what you are offered is seriously flawed?

We Europeans, for the most part, regard Donald Trump to be a dangerously narcissistic idiot criminal (along with others!), who rather than "make America great again" (as it was up to the 70's), will probably precipitate some sort of social implosion there; you have enough explosive factions, such as Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, Illegals and of course, good old Whitey: all chomping at their bits to aggravate each other, but "you", sane electorate, must sort out this mess.

Start by retiring Biden (just about dead) and dump Trump because he's a chump. Of those two, Trump will screw you because Trump loves Trump alone and his history is nothing to be proud about, so pleaseUSA , US ,, Donald Trump , Trump , Biden , Biden and Trump , Trump and Biden

Dump Trump 'cos he's a chump

(Pass it on!)

Here's a thought about old leaders

Bohemian Trumpsody

When Brits put their minds to anything they can produce brilliance combined with wit and erudition, such as this withering condemnation of Donald Trump, by the Marsh Family. Please be kind to the whole world and vote for anyone other than a Trump.

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Trump has around him his "yes men" (and women) who gain empowerment solely by his patronage, without which many would be socially and politically irrelevant and truly respected by few. Their decisions and actions, however bizarre or spiteful go unquestioned only because of Trump, but to start firing members of their military, merely because of a feeling of being undermined is bullying of the highest order. A good example of this came as fall-out following Vice-President JD Vance's visit to Greenland. He and Trump want Greenland! - an independent sovereign state who do not want, nor need them.

Trump loves pulling the gear levers of state, but with this on pulled,  God help us all.

Word of the day - MAELSTROM

The word today is Maelstrom

Maelstrom is a noun and means the following:

- A situation of great turbulence, confusion, destruction or upheaval

- A violent and powerfully destructive whirlpool of water

Original 1919  illustration by Harry Clarke

Maelstrom is originally a Dutch word, first recorded in 1588

Maelstrom morphed from "grinding stream", its original meaning

From a raging whirlpool, Maelstrom has become more nuanced 

In modern parlance a Maelstrom is not good to be in, or near

A maelstrom is an uncontrollable and chaotic situation to avoid

If you need more start here or here.

There is an index of words of the day.

If you are brave or foolish enough to dig into the different types of words in English, try this.

Truism (to preserve sanity or perspective)

If you can neither control or influence a situation, don't worry about it.

Personal thought - For those of us who occasionally think the world will fall in on them, such is the maelstrom embracing the world and its once stable countries, I give you another  piece of  good advice inspired by dad, implying that it may be better to live in ignorance with your sanity then take onboard what are basically other people's woes. 

A friend said that to put your head in the sand, Ostrich-like, is to invite someone to take your ass, but I'd still rather hang on to my head.

N.B. This truism is similar to this one.

Remember: Grp. Capt. John "Paddy" Hemingway

Dubliner John Hemingway's peaceful death on Monday 17th March 2025, aged 105, formally closed a very important chapter of UK history (perhaps also the world). He was the last surviving RAF fighter pilot who fought throughout the entire Battle Of Britain, a battle for supremacy in the skies over England in the first year of  WW2. His death reminds us of Europe's collective debt of thanks to all allied combatants of the brief but very intense Battle Of Britain.

Despite being injured and shot down 4 times, he and relatively few fighter pilots (100s) and their support personnel, prevented the expected invasion of England by the NAZI forces of Germany. The significance of this battle will never be underestimated, for had the NAZIs endured, the subsequent history of Europe (certainly) and then the world would have promised misery, subjugation and "elimination" for millions of people.

"Paddy" served the RAF from 1938 to 1969 and rightfully will hold the honour of being "one of the few", now the last of the few; though John said he was most proud to be the last surviving Irishman of that battle .

John at the start of his RAF service

RIP Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway DFC (17/07/1919 - 16/03/2025)

Yahoo! have written the best obituary to John, the the BBC did OK.

The NHS is dead

The NHS is nearly dead!

For years the British National Health Service (NHS) has been touted as the best public healthcare organisation in the world. IT IS NOT, nor has it been so for decades. It is no longer able to fulfil its intended responsibilities (set out in post-war years) and is no longer fit for purpose. Whether by intent, ignorance, inefficiency, political meddling, poor financial and resource planning, waste and loss of control over critical supporting components, including loss of doctors to other countries, it is no longer fit for purpose. Public confidence is at is lowest level, with over 7.5 million diagnosed treatment requirements listed that remain outstanding, with some lists over a year long; even the patience of patients (including me) is coming to an and as a national swath of excuses continue (I'm sick of still hearing the Covid excuse!). It is currently so dysfunctional that even overseas newscasters report it and millions of pounds are "lost" as it insidiously outsource problems of their own creation, thereby accelerating the breakdown (break-up?) of the NHS in to a two-tier system of patient care: For those able to shop-around within the offered services and those that are not. Duplicity is also prevalent in the overseers of the NHS. 

We, the people, have allowed numerous governments to stealthily wind back the spirit of the NHS and its peripheral infrastructures for decades now. It is our fault that the NHS is failing, because we allow fuckwit politicians and "apparatchiks" to do as they desire under cover of "our" ignorance, indifference or apathy; that is not to say medical professionals within the NHS are blameless, for they have kept their timid heads down for years with few publicised whistle-blowers, perhaps because they know their money would keep coming anyway, or because an acknowledged and growing "toxic and bullying" culture intimidates them as parts rot from the inside, whilst the care quality commission has been reviewed as not fit for purpose. To paraphrase a comment by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, "too many (in the NHS) have become very comfy in the tepid bath of managed decline". Ouch! 

Labour clearly want to shake-up the NHS following the sudden departure of the head of NHS England, so they abolished NHS England (and its 10000 employees), with the hope of successfully drilling down into issues that are long-standing and all too apparent. The former administrative body's work  will be taken up by the Department of Health and Social Care who will look to changing how the NHS is run. It looks like the new broom in town is going to give the NHS a good scrubbing, though I understand few will mourn its passing. I had no understanding of what NHS England did, nor NHS Scotland and NHS Wales, but this article helped.

The NHS no-longer delivers a service. It delivers a fractured and failing amalgamation of ever loosely bonded "facilities" designed to take the heat/demand out of core NHS services, either now or in the future; "drop-in centres" exemplify this in that you drop in, they look at you without actual treatment, and refer you back into a service no-longer working as it should.

Everyone paying tax in the UK is statutorily contributing to the largest single employer in Europe and they are getting bugger-all back in many areas of the NHS once deemed important:  free prescriptions - gone, free dentistry and eyecare - gone, the availability of many local and social caring systems - gone, effective GP services - gone, effective hospital administration - gone. (GP now stands for generally poor as "super practices" are being formed throughout the land, giving service that at best is perfunctory) Everything we should value has been costed and wherever possible outsourced to organisations unknown and hidden in plain sight under NHS headed notepapers, in order to gain "efficiencies" and cost savings that have not made the NHS "better". Money that is being spent seems to be going on new estate, cutting edge medicines that benefit few, and all manner of frippery and corruption that doesn't really cure anyone; here I am thinking of the following: Political correctness and wokery,  help with being fat (eat less), smoking (just get on and die), drug addiction by self abuse (ditto), chronic self-harming (ditto), childlessness (adopt and thereby save a poor soul) and addictions to computer game playing for God's sake (81 units in the UK). Most noticeable is the erection of new "estate" that increases facility but not effectiveness.

It seems to me that there are now too many risk-averse, secretive, hostile administrators; too many non-medical centric people beavering away in ways that no-longer directly facilitate the treatment of patients, but sometimes actually undermine their care. Senior administrators do not exhibit interest in patients anymore; they talk money, risk, excuse, expediency, secrets and unpublished intent, often overriding concerned parties and whistle blowers. My personal interaction with the NHS, by being in hospital a few times, suggests that staff on the ground floor of the patient interface are dedicated, effective and friendly, yet a bit fearful for their future. They know things are bad.

NHS whistle-blowers are not often heard of in the press, but in the case of convicted killer nurse Lucy Letby it was seen how they are often ignored by "those above", who deny problems and refuse to act.

LUCY LETBY - though not really within the context of this article was a nurse who was convicted of killing many children in her charge and her post sentencing review revealed examples of corporate denial and obfuscation, symptomatic of the NHS? Hospital bosses said they were mislead and yet her hospital administrators ignored complaints about her (for fear of bad publicity) and children died during their procrastination; though some are still unsure about her conviction and others think she killed more, though some think less. What is obvious is how opaque the upper working of the NHS is and the disquiet about her convictions, which just keeps coming.

Getting back to the NHS; from my hospital bed I observed some people getting the briefest of interactions with staff and subsequently discovered they were "bed-blockers" - people fit enough to leave hospital but not "allowed" to do so because of social care commitments not being fulfilled by other parts of the NHS, or indeed by familial responsibilities/expectations. Bed-blockers cost the NHS millions and are acknowledged by government to be one reason beds are in shortened supply, putting fresh patients at risk by blocking their free flow through the NHS. If places can be found almost immediately for illegal immigrants, then maybe bed-blockers could be catered for as quickly? The Government are considering state financed care home beds again, (Taking back a role outsourced by councils in the 90's to "save money"). To put this particular problem into perspective, in the Royal Free Hospital in London between 15-30% of patients are medically fit to be discharged but are unable to leave, for a myriad of reasons; predicting that of 141,000 beds available to the NHS nationally, up to 42,000 cannot be used.

The Nuffield Trust has reported bed-blocking numbers to Government for years yet the situation persists for tens of thousands of people; these two bed-blocking cases are particularly striking. A classic case of "bed blocking" and a woman who became like a prisoner in hospital, both caused by supposedly integrated social services failing. The NHS hospitals are doing their job, but social services are happy to renege on their paid responsibilities. (Though I do wonder if parents or family are dragging their feet). 

Here's a wild though, with so many shopping malls and large department stores becoming unused, why not have them converted into residential care homes, thus freeing hospital beds? 

I predict that by 2035 the "NHS" will be an umbrella organisation below which will be a collection of separate corporate service providers responsible for enabling the aims of the "NHS", which they will promise to do only if there is money to be had for themselves.

ENOUGH!

Finally, if don't like your NHS job then leave or move on, as your wages are fair and for some very good indeed, so stop disrupting  or "robbing" from this already ailing service.

Clickbait

This is clickbait: an image (or text) intended to deceive you into supposing a specific story or topic is behind it, when in reality it turns out not to be so. In the most banal pieces the content is rubbish, deceiving or insulting (to you) and should be called out as such if you are invited to comment. 

Clickbait is becoming a scourge of social media and I am fed up of it, especially so on Racebook where opportunistic click-chasers will post up very contentious statements (Rage-baiting) or open ended questions, then sit back as people argue about it, or comment endlessly about its stupidity; whether it be bootube, racebook, blugger, ticcock, smelegraph, shyspace, pastagram, breaditt, bumsnet, or any other dumping ground for some duckwitt's ego (such as mine in this I imagine you saying), I am sick of wasting my life being enticed and then shafted by the greed for click payments by people not deserving of their algorithm-driven (supposed) popularity. If you agree pass this crap on.

Rant over; now enlarge the picture to reveal this persons breasts. Told you - clickbait!

More learned pieces on clickbait below. Click on each of them - you know you want to ......

Click 1

Click 2

Click 3

Click 4

Final thought: Online newspapers are surely becoming the worst global perpetrators of clickbait and even the BBC is not immune from a desperate desire to have their output read. This item from them is NOT about the hottest (single) day ever recorded. 

See subtle BBC clickbait here ... and the BBC being not so subtle.

Another BBC clickbait conspiring to publicise a new film, on the back of a baby birth.

The BBC being good here ...

RING

There's a ring of truth upon my finger

protecting me from the past.

A ring of contentment white with age

forevermore to last.

A sign of fidelity

confirming reality,

in a groove of mutated skin,

proving my tears

after all these years,

are only wept for you.

There's a ring of truth upon my finger

fusing my soul to yours.

A golden truth, for all to see,

a bonding force twixt you and me,

a cover for still youthful skin

a proof of love, through thick and thin.

MARRIAGE Married BETROTHED Life Partner LAURENCEAUX England YONEL

Remember: Gisèle Pelicot

Sometimes it is good to remember that "little" people(s) of the world often achieve or survive many things, only to slip down the cracks of history, back into obscurity. Here is a French-born woman, Gisèle Pelicot, who bravely gave up anonymity in order to facilitate her unswerving determination to have her horrific abuse, by her husband and the men of a whole village, made known to the public (now world-wide). She has dignity and determination for justice that many should admire.

To start to understand her and her story start here.

Gisèle's is an extraordinary female abuse case, with the twist being that for decades her husband had regularly drugged her in order to film village residents raping and defiling her unconscious self, luckily without recollection by her. It was only the chance discovery of over 22,000 videos on her husband's computer that initiated the trial of a whole village.

Gisèle Pelicot (An dignified and inspirational survivor)

Gisèle has stated that she wants to move on from this very public ordeal; she has divorced her abuser, reverted to her maiden name and relocated within France, to hopefully enjoy the simple pleasure of life amongst her family and remaining friends. Having shared her moment in history I believe she now wants to find a route back into obscurity, but with her current fame will she and her immediate family be able to do so? 

With the end of her court case she made a final dignified statement. Best wishes Giséle.

N.B.

Her husband got 20 years prison and half the village (-named here-) got from 10-15 years each; her daughter Caroline Darian said their father should die in prison.

Where are those videos now I wonder and will Netflix make yet another "human interest docudrama" film?

Gisele's trauma is opening the eyes and ears of many, asking difficult questions about modern society as yet another abuse scandal is exposed in France, being the opposite of Gisèle's case, one person has systematically abused many others; paedophile doctor Joel Le Scouarnec's trial revealed much, especially the apparent indifference of the public and of those around him who knew of his crimes. I have to ask, what else is going on in France?

Word of the day - INDEX OF WORDS

These are the words in the "Word of the day" series.

If you are brave or foolish enough to dig into the different types of words in English, try this.

Click on each to read about it.

#1 ENNUI

#2 MELANCHOLY

#3 ONOMATOPOEIA

#4 PUSILLANIMOUS

#5 SANCTIMONY

#6 SAPPHIC

#7 DUPLICITUS

#8 SUPERCILIOUS

#9 PEDANTIC

#10 MALLEABLE

#11 FEBRILE

#12 LICKSPITTLE

#13 FENDERSMITH

#14 FRIPPERY

#15 CURMUDGEON

#16 NIGGARD

#17 FLUMMOX

#18 CORNUCOPIA

#19 DISPASSIONATELY

#20 DISCOMBOBULATION

#21 SCHADENFREUDE

#22 INCONTROVERTIBLE

#23 FECUNDITY

#24 DISSOLUTION

#25 GALLIMAUFRY

#26 OBFUSCATION

#27 POLYSEMY

#28 FACETIOUS

#30 OBSEQUIOUS

#31 CIRCUMSPECTION

#32 GAWPING

#33 FULMINATING

#34 ENCOMIUM

#35 MALEFICENCE

#36 CORUSCATE

#37 TEMERITY

#38 HUBRIS

#39 TRUCULENCE

#40 RIGMAROLE

#41 PERNICIOUS

#42 ACCRETION

#43 NITHERED

#44 NARCISSISM

#45 FESTOON

#46 GOBSMACKED

#47 FUGUE

#48 ERUDITE

#49 ELOCUTION

#50 MACHINATIONS

#51 ABROGATE

#52 SOUPÇON

#53 ACERBIC

#54 BLIMEY

#55 CRIKEY

#56 MISANTHROPIC

#57 AVUNCULAR

#58 FRITTER

#59 SHENANIGANS

#60 SARDONIC

#61 GINORMOUS

#62 INSIDIOUS

#63 LASCIVIOUS

#64 FRISSON

#65 MESSIANIC

#66 COTERIE

#67 JITTERY

#68 OMNIPOTENCE

#69 MAELSTROM

#70 GIGIL

#71 ANTIPATHY

#72 GOBBLEDYGOOK

#73 LUMMOX

#74 MOPE

Word of the day - OMNIPOTENCE

The word today is Omnipotence

Omnipotence is a noun and means the following:

- The expression/exhibition of  unlimited power able to do anything

- The action(s) of someone who is omnipotent (all powerful)

- The exhibition of being a supreme power (an omnipotent person)

If you are actually omnipotent you are said to have omnipotence

You can show your omnipotence only if you are omnipotent

If some say you are omnipotent they mean god-like or "top-dog"

An omnipotent dog could bite anyone anytime with impunity

Dictators often assume they have omnipotence

If you need more start here or here.

There is an index of words of the day.

If you are brave or foolish enough to dig into the different types of words in English, try this.

Visual brain teasers

There are occasions, with time on your hands, when just just fancy a few good brain teasers a bit like these .....

How many rings? - wiggle your screen for rotation

More rings? - wiggle your screen for rotation

 

Look at this for several seconds and the stairs my flip for you

Just try opening this window

If you have the time to look, here are more sites ..... 

Site 1      Site 2      Site 3      Site 4       

Loads more.

You just lost your job!

Usually a hard job done well

THE ORIGIN OF THIS ARTICLE ....

People in the United Kingdom expect standards and protocols to be upheld, but can be so petty at times as to take your breath away with the triviality of their "concerns" or complaints, but in this case I expect this officer to be dismissed following his abuse of a person already prone and acquiescent at Manchester airport.

The "victim" may well have behaved terribly prior to these scenes (aggression in baggage hall with other passengers from their incoming flight QR023 from Qatar), for no bystanders seems willing to step-into the fray to defend him, yet what you see here is, to my mind, an officer venting his anger at what had presumably gone before. He lost control of himself and behaved like a thug. Whatever triggered that officer could have killed someone, for a booted kick to the head with a stamp are not always inconsequential.

I defend UK police, for they are often between a rock and a hard place, but this appears to be someone who should (re)join a para-military group, the army, or take up a cage fighting career.

This is not acceptable policing!

THE FOLLOWING DAY ....

Obviously, the "family" has appointed legal representation, just in case there's profit to be had, then called for "calm in the (racial) communities" which will keep their article hot, but we have learned there is more to this story than the footage that was selectively released, for there was indeed a serous altercation (officer hospitalised with broken nose) involving third parties and the victim. The BBC gathered more details, indicating police were called to an ongoing incident, possibly involving theft, which also shows the overly assertive officer roughly handling another person in their group. The officer had obviously reached the end of his tether with this incident and issued his lesson in induced aggression. I still believe he should, at least, be removed from a public facing role as he has been suspended pending a criminal investigation of his action(s).

THE TRUTH IS OUT ....

As with many "sensational" media pieces we must be sceptical about what is and what is not being shown. In this case the 2 "victims" in the first video turn out to be the instigators of their own suffering. In common parlance they got what they deserved. Muhammed Fahir Amaaz (head kick) and Amaad Amaaz (fat lump) both attacked police officers and were happy to dish-out their feral violence, but (obviously) their family were not happy with the corrective therapy that followed their fun; they have though lowered their public indignation level by sacking their original "legal" representative, allowing a new damage limitation representative to say the family, "had real concern for any police officer injured".

The thing is, police are (mostly) people and not monsters, so if you smash them in the face they naturally want to respond; but training and the uniform stops this. Usually!

I still believe the "offending" officer's behaviour was unacceptable (for one wearing the uniform), but his treatment of his attackers is understandable in the context of this incident and an extended period away from the "front line" would be good. Soldiers are granted R&R so why not overstressed police officers?

solicitors

 THE INEVITABLE AFTERMATH ....

A second officer at this incident has been suspended (reason unknown) and the two instigators of the police response to their original assaults have now submitted assault complaints against the Manchester police force. They have their new parasitic legal representative valiantly implying that the police are not allowed to defend themselves against sustained and serious assaults upon themselves. The hubris in their complaint is breath-taking in the light of the video evidence of them "kicking-off" for reasons as yet unknown. Sky News seem to have the best information.

Muhammed Fahir Amaaz (L) and Amaad Amaaz (R)
with legal representative Akhmed Yakoob (from
Maurice Andrews Solicitors in Birmingham)

New lawyer, Mother and sons (L+R) - angels in new suits?

 Ma

THEIR COURT  CASE ....

The two angels in their dressing up clothes pleaded not guilty! Setting aside the thought everyone in a more real world than theirs thinks they are, the actual recorded evidence against them suggests they are deluded. I think they are taking the piss as they can't take the thought of what they truly are.

Ah, bless - all dressed-up for their party.
Amaad Amaaz and Muhammed Fahir Amaaz

Update July 7th 2025: Their day(s) in court began as they both (surprisingly) pleaded not guilty. This incident was the culmination of arrest for a previous assault that occurred after landing at Manchester airport. The robust approach by the police was based upon a reported propensity for violence (headbutting). The case against them is clear and proven by much contemporary CCTV and if there is any justice left in the UK legal system they should be found guilty. The beginning of their court case was reported by the BBC and others, revealing heavy handling by one officer in response to the unprovoked attack upon himself and fellow officers.

Update July 18th 2025: Guilt has to be determined, "beyond reasonable doubt" for any conviction in the UK and though this criteria it has been proved and they should both be sentenced to a meaningful prison term, their case is dragging on (and on, and on) and should be concluded without further undue procrastination, legal filibustering or unwarranted racial sensitivity by point scoring, self-serving individuals.

Update July 30th 2025: Guilty as expected with more evidence revealed.

POSTSCRIPT ....

As with any population, there will be ineffectual do-gooders, right through to complete head-cases, so  I guess that within the police service the same holds true, though the weaning process's should eliminate the more obvious, leaving mostly good "coppers" to uphold the law. Three such policemen were nominated for bravery awards when they alone confronted, disarmed and arrested a complete maniac, Alex Muganwa Rudakubana, who undertook a frenzied knife attack on children and any adults about them. 

Killing one child with 144 stabs and two others with multiple stabs, before attacking and maiming many others, including adults who tried to intervene, the three in uniform, without hesitation, managed to suppress him and effect his arrest, without backup or specialist protection; they exemplified the impossibly high expectations we sometime put upon police force members. Well done lads; well done indeed

3 Heroes - PC Luke Holden , PCSO Tim Parry, Sgt Greg Gillespie 

To the officer in this clip I would say your technique is borderline thuggish, with a whiff of you lost it, because the dickhead in the car was deliberately "teasing" and mocking you as some in society always will, but it has to be said that, at times, front-line policing does seem farcical, a spreading assumption being granted legitimacy as (wealthy) people find themselves drawn to "private policing" at a cost.

, Maurice Andrews Solicitors in Birmingham , Maurice Andrews ,  Solicitors in Bingham,

Word of the day - JITTERY

The word today is Jittery

Jittery is an adjective and from my research means the following:

- To be having a feeling or unease or apprehension

- To be slightly uncontrolled in movement or mind

- To be showing nervousness or fear about something

- To be tense and easily upset or frightened

Have you ever had "the jitters"?

If your physical or mental behaviour is jittery you have "the jitters"

Whilst having/suffering "the jitters" you are said to be jittering 

If someone says you are jittering they think you unduly agitated

If someone thinks you jittery they mean you have a nervous disposition

If you need more start here or here.

There is an index of words of the day.

If you are brave or foolish enough to dig into the different types of words in English, try this.