The latest “this American life” podcast is pretty good. It’s framed in a way that’s sympathetic to the immigrants but goes into detail of how the Trump Admin is pulling levers to deport people and close their asylum system. A useful listen for people considering judicial reform🧵 The first thing they did was fire all of the top immigration people at the DoJ that were appointed by Biden and place their own. Then they fired half of the Biden appointed appeal judges. At the lower courts they’ve fired hundreds of judges after reviewing their records

I just found a property dispute ruling in north London that involves a dead Nigerian general, a woman that dies during the court case & then turns out to have never existed, and two sets of people alleging fraud and identity theft against eachother, including a Nigerian judge 🧵 In a nutshell, this guy - Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome, applied to register a transfer of ownership of a property to himself, which is objected to by “ms Tali Shani”, who claims to be the owner

Farage is directly referencing my posts on stage and Fraser is responding to him but has me blocked so I can’t reply directly lol, anyway he’s now pulled out a second survey - the A&E knife crime report another short effort 🧵 “Serious violence in England and wales - an A&E perspective”

it’s a report from Cardiff university that Fraser is using to claim knife crime is at at 25 year low. Let’s take a closer look.
cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/…

I don’t know if zoomers know this but there used to be a real shitty magazine called gawker. They published hogans sex tape & refused to take it down, he was broke at the time and they had a good enough legal team to bully him into submission. Unfortunately for gawker -🧵

https://twitter.com/thescibabe/status/1948420821875335273

They had also previously outed Peter thiel as gay against his wishes, so thiel approached hogan and offered to fund his legal battle on the condition that they don’t settle out of court, the goal was to destroy them. Thiel finds a rockstar legal team for 3 years and they manage

Fraser has blocked me so I can’t QT, but everyone knows crime isn’t in fact, going down. So let’s explore how to lie with statistics, a rare effort 🧵 Lots of other datasets show crime is up, this one dataset shows it’s down “the Crime Survey for England and Wales”. Their methodology here is face-to-face doorstep interviews about victimisation rates with tens of thousands of households. Ok fair fair enough, HOWEVER

I have so much to say about this, it’s an unbelievable scandal. 100k afghans applied, and they leaked the data while vetting them which means they’re going to just allow them in unvetted? The data on afghan rates of sexual offending are dire, £7 billion to house them in your town

https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/1945077170042225054

On top of that - the MoD used a superinjunction so that the only MPs aware were the speakers of both houses? I don’t think one part of government should be hiding stuff from other parts of the government, resettling tens of thousands of people at the cost of billions, mental

I’m going to list the people that signed this letter in the posts below this, please take a look at how many are leading charities/academics that were supposed to investigate and try and imagine how much they’ve had to fight for this recognition

https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1661727083939385345

Dr Helen Beckett, Director, Safer Young Lives Research Centre, University of Bedfordshire
Dr Ella Cockbain, Associate Professor in Security and Crime Science, UCL
Dr Camille Warrington, Associate Professor, Safer Young Lives Research Centre, University of Bedfordshire
 
Dez Holmes, Director, Research in Practice
Dr Lucie Moore, Faiths Against Child Sexual Exploitation (FACES) & Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bedfordshire
Diana Fawcett, Chief Executive, Victim Support
Anna Edmundson, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, NSPCC
Sheila Taylor MBE, CEO, NWG Network
Patricia Durr, CEO, ECPAT UK (Every Child Protected Against Trafficking)
Victoria Green, CEO, Marie Collins Foundation & Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Suffolk
Kate Wareham, Strategic Director, Young People, Families & Communities, Catch22
Duncan Craig OBE, CEO, We Are Survivors & Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Criminology, University of Manchester
Sherry Peck, CEO, Safer London
Abi Billinghurst, Founder and CEO, Abianda
Cath Wakeman OBE, Chief Executive Officer and Trauma Therapist, Imara CIO
Rehana Faisal, Co-chair, Faiths Against Child Sexual Exploitation (FACES)
Robert Balfour, Founder/CEO Survivors West Yorkshire (Bens Place) and Honorary Supervisor Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
Sharon Martin, Chair, National IRO Managers Partnership (NIROMP)
Maggie Atkinson, Former Children's Commissioner (England); Freelance Consultant
Lucy Duckworth, VSCP/London Training Manger, The Survivors Trust
Fay Maxted OBE, Chief Executive of the Survivors Trust and member of the VCSP, IICSA
Nicky Hill, Safeguarding Consultant, Re:form Consulting
Jayne Butler, CEO, Rape Crisis England & Wales
Sophie Olson, Founder/managing director, The Flying Child CIC
Moya Woolven, CEO, Basis Yorkshire
Richard Barber, Director, Leeds Visible Project
Karen Garland, Lawyer/Child Safeguarding Specialist, HCI
May Baxter-Thornton, Marie Collins Foundation and IICSA VSCP
Chris Tuck, Former VSCP Member and Consultant to IICSA/Founder & Director of Survivors Of aBuse (SOB)
Stephanie Grimshaw, Head of Public Affairs and Communications, Welsh Women's Aid
Welsh Women's Aid, Welsh Women's Aid
Dr Elsie Whittington, Greater Manchester combined authority
Vanessa Dixon, CEO, The Birchall Trust
Nichola Williams, ISVA CYPISVA Coordinator at Horizon SV, Cyfannol Womens Aid
Lisa Lenton, CEO, S.H.E UK
Anji Hall, Clean Slate
Dianne Ludlow, Advocacy Manager, One in Four
Dr Louise Hill, Head of Policy, Evidence & Impact, Children 1st
Steve Canning, Project Director, Operation Emotion
Claire Bloor, CEO, SARSAS (Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Service)
Caroline Freeman, CEO, First Step, Leicester & Rutland
Namita Prakash, CEO, Trust House Reading
Mary Trevillion, CEO, Family Matters - Sexual Abuse & Rape Service
Mags Godderidge, CEO, Survive - Support for survivors of rape and sexual abuse
Sarah Lyles, PSHE, Wellbeing & Surrey Healthy Schools Lead, Surrey County Council
Emma Lewis MBE, Victim and survivor consultative panel member, Previously IICSA
Rachel W, Managing Director, Animal Assisted Therapy for young people
Dr Craig Barlow, Independent Forensic Social Worker and Criminologist, Craig Barlow Consultancy & Training
Carolyn Webster, CEO, CLEAR Emotional Trauma and Therapy Specialists
Patsy Johnson-Cisse, Managing Director, Brave Futures
Deborah Denis, Chief Executive, Lucy Faithfull Foundation
Sara James, Service Manager for Quality Outcomes for Children and Families, Wiltshire Council
Julia Carver, Head of Strategy and Development, Safety Net (UK)
Sarah Pritchard, Consultant social worker and trainer, Barnardo’s
Lisa Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Rape & Service Violence Project (RSVP)
Peter E Saunders, Founder of NAPAC. Author of The Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth….so help me.
Catherine Bedford, Safeguarding Specialist

I want to make my position on race/ethnicity as legible as possible. So a short 🧵

Let’s start with Race:

The edges are fuzzy but ‘race’ is real. This is an exclusionary category, if you are racially European/white you aren’t Asian. It’s a deeply predictive category and matters for all sorts of things like tolerance to painkillers and medication.

As an easy example: at some point in the Europe-Asia spectrum you start/stop being able to digest dairy. East Asians can’t drink alcohol without getting a red facial flush, but also their sweat doesn’t have any smell(?)
Next up — ethnicity.

Ethnicity is complicated because it has two components: genetic and linguistic/cultural heritage.

The genetic components of ethnicity are remarkably stable across time, to the extent that we can still reliably identify the tribes that settled here:

These are nested categories, in order to be English you first need to be European/white, and then descended from one of the germanic tribes.

I’ve never asked this before but please share and retweet:

I’ve created a gofundme to raise money for the release of the full court transcripts of the grooming gang cases which not even the victims are able to access due to the extensive costs

<details in next tweet👇> Court transcript requests in the UK are prohibitively expensive, typically costing £2-£4 per page, often totaling thousands of pounds, it’s often the case that even victims cannot access them. Even in cases of clear public interest, these costs create a significant barrier to transparency.

Our initial goal is £15, 000 to:
1. Secure a complete transcript from the Oxfordshire case and other high profile cases dependant on the money raised
2. Document and streamline the transcript request process
3. Create a framework for future transcript requests

Financial transparency:
- All funds will be used solely for official transcript requests
- If requests are unsuccessful, all donations will be refunded
- Any remaining funds will be applied to future transcript requests