My thoughts are with everyone around the world who have recently lost loved ones from any cause but especially the many unnecessary deaths that happen every day ( Read more... )

Violent racist hate attacks by violent white racists, including police officers and other representatives of the UK government, are still a regular week-in-week-out occurrence in the UK. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is a liar - a racist liar.

"A major police investigation is underway after officers were captured on camera tasering a ( Read more... )

- I saw a late 1920s Morris Cowley car parked in a Cotswold village on the only occasion I've set foot in the Cotswolds between Oxford and the Vale of Evesham for many years. The car is, of course, a very similar model to the one Tolkien used to drive through the area on visits to his family. At least I'm not being haunted by CS Lewis or Charles ( Read more... )

- Disability rights, UK, reminder: if you receive disability benefits from the UK government (e.g. the DWP) then from 29 Nov 2016, i.e. last week, you will probably be safer from snooping by using a VPN connection for ALL your internet browsing: at home or via a mobile device. Also remember that no library internet connection has any security from ( Read more... )

- Black History Month: men working on a locomotive, possibly transport in a wartime ordnance factory, 1940s-50s.


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- Reading, a student on WB Yeats: "He saw alot of changes." /hyperbole and a half induced lolz

- Watching, armed police on the streets of London: I was flanning near S’Pauls when first one then two Special Escort Group motorcycle coppers, armed with Glock 17 handguns, pulled up on a pedestrian crossing and indicated to passers-by that they’d be ( Read more... )

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- Doing, boggling at the things racists will say in public: the Metropolitan Police previously admitted spying on the family and friends of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence in multiple deliberate attempts to discredit the Lawrences because of their ongoing campaign for justice against Stephen’s murderers (and consequently the police officers who ( Read more... )

Source by Owen Bowcott @ theguardian.com

Metropolitan police 'deleted evidence of sex and race discrimination'Force removed records during inquiry into complaint by black female firearms officer PC Carol Howard, tribunal finds ( Read more... )

For anyone in any doubt about institutional racism in the criminal justice system there are some example stats on "stop and search" and drug possession crimes (i.e. possession for personal use, NOT dealing) below.

Anyone in any doubt about the extent of police corruption will find this article informativeAnyone in any doubt about the extent of ( Read more... )