Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing
As more horrific experiences from survivors of rape torture gangs surface from across the UK, we must focus not on knee-jerk political posturing but on the root cause that led to the failure of these children by our society.
Political inaction has now opened the door to inevitable political mileage, nurtured from stoking vengeance in a rightly-angered public. Those only interested in creating cultural conflicts no more support justice for survivors than those who allowed this abomination to fester by looking away or worse, covering up the problem.
For any functioning society, inflicting unimaginable pain on children on an alarming scale seems unimaginable. Yet, the evidence has been in front of us for years – so why has immediate action to ensure the safeguarding of children – and vulnerable adults – not been a pressing priority?
The urgency of the situation cannot be overstated. Ten years have passed since Professor Alexis Jay’s damning report from her 2014 investigation into the Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal, and two years on her twenty recommendations of the final report of the broader Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, there has been a failure in seeing any tangible action. Why?
We must ensure these recommendations are implemented fully and without further delay. In parallel, an investigation into why no action has been taken must happen but it is critical that a line is now drawn – no more children should be failed by a society that should protect them.
Equality is a noble cause, but it must be one of equal opportunity and responsibility. Closing down valid questions to those in positions of power can never be justified. We do not protect the innocent by providing cover for abuse but by ensuring robust safeguarding and that those accused of crimes are judged solely by their actions.
Children need safeguarding so that they are protected from those who would do them harm. They cannot consent to being raped, abused or commodified. Who amongst us was not shocked to their core to hear reports that Police and support services talked of “lifestyle choices” and “child prostitutes”, among other horrific terms used to desensitise us to the abhorrent crimes being inflicted on children by adults?
Children cannot ever be prostitutes – they are victims of rape and child sexual abuse who deserve a society that gives them safety, agency and justice – yet have we made significant strides forward in safeguarding our children and vulnerable adults or has complacency slid out of safeguarding in a wave of back-slapping our “progressive” society?
Some of the most shocking testimonies to come out from survivors are about how victims were treated by those who should have given them agency, support, protection and justice. They failed repeatedly and were treated like collateral damage in a system that became too broken to fix. This is not good enough – the law must be consistently applied to protect the vulnerable from exploitation.
The consultation for my Unbuyable Bill – to tackle the sexual commercial exploitation of prostitution – demonstrated the truth behind the background trauma of those, mainly women, caught up in the sex industry. The concept of ‘choice’ is directly impacted by life experiences and opportunities. Against a childhood scarred by rape and child abuse, is prostitution ever a free choice when many feel that they have no value beyond that of sexual commodities for others?
Ensuring safeguarding children and vulnerable adults is consistent and robust is not right-wing but simply right. Only public trust from transparent, consistent processes that centre safeguarding and equality of justice squeeze out those who seek to create and enflame cultural grievance to destabilise society further.
Protection from those who impose supposedly ‘cultural values’ that damage others is best achieved through robust safeguarding and severe legal consequences, with everyone treated equally under the law.
As the ultimate guardians of our society, the public must actively advocate for stronger safeguarding measures. Our collective responsibility is to ensure that policy at all levels clearly states that abuse is not tolerated and that no one is beyond the law’s reach. Without a transparent, solution-focused environment across public life where safeguarding is centred above all other considerations, we leave the innocent vulnerable and the guilty shielded with impunity.
The Equality Act 2010 protects individuals from discrimination based on the fundamental premise that we are all equal under the law. No characteristic, protected or otherwise, should provide impunity from the consequences of harming others.
Public trust is not just a desirable element of a functioning society; it is paramount. For that trust to be upheld, we must feel safe and protected by the laws of the land. Transparency in all processes is key to maintaining this trust. Safeguarding our most vulnerable must never be assumed; all policy levels must continually and robustly test it to ensure it is fit for purpose and not malleable to any other consideration.
It is time governments got serious about public trust through transparency and rigour across public bodies and public funding. Robust checks must ensure direct responsibility and accountability for consistently upholding safeguarding standards as a funding condition—any breaches must invoke withdrawal and even reclaiming of grant funding.
Organisations that work with those with protected characteristics must not be positioned as beyond scrutiny – they must be held to the highest standards of safeguarding to ensure they are protecting their vulnerable clients. Abuse of trust in organisations that have vulnerable clients has severe consequences for public trust, as we have seen from scandals at Edinburgh Rape Crisis and LGBT Youth Scotland.
We must not be complacent in Scotland nor shy away from exposing problems where they exist. All bodies responsible for safeguarding across; Police, social services, schools, support services and children’s charities, Rape Crisis, Women’s aid, Children’s Commissioner, and Children’s Hearings must proactively demonstrate their safeguarding robustness.
I am writing to the Government to ensure they prioritise safeguarding and that public funds’ administration proactively demonstrates safeguarding compliance and Cass Compliance across all funding schemes for organisations working with children. The Scottish Government has accepted all of Dr Cass’s recommendations, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has now been enacted in Scotland.
The UNCRC defines children as everyone under eighteen; therefore, all funding of organisations with contact under eighteen must be Cass compliant. We cannot passively await the next scandal to hit the press if we want to build public trust.
A key first step to restoring public trust is the freedom of speech and expression to ask questions without being shouted down or labelled as phobic or some such smear. Without whistleblowers, so many scandals would not have been uncovered and tackled – yet it is too often at great personal cost to those who bravely speak out against prevailing denial or apathy.
Solutions are not built from silencing concern but from engaging in robust debate to understand different perceptions and expose and explore the consequences of proposed solutions—positive and negative—to ensure they meet objectives without creating damaging unintended implications.
Women may make up 51% of the population, yet in politics and public life, we are all too familiar with the labels and smears used to silence us. Yet, as the past few years have shown, women across the geographic, demographic and political spectrum have stood side by side, shoulder-to-shoulder, presenting a collective force of resistance to threats to the dignity, privacy and safety of women and children from ill-thought-through laws and policy.
This collective action culminated in November, when the question of “What is a woman?” was taken to the highest court in the land in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.
Women across Scotland and beyond have bravely faced a wave of abuse yet refused to be told to wheesht by those who would patronise and bully them. Long may this continue, as it is only by refusing to be silenced that real progress is made and better solutions for a truly progressive society are found.
“Women across Scotland and beyond have bravely faced a wave of abuse yet refused to be told to wheesht by those who would patronise and bully them. Long may this continue.”
Hear, hear!
“Truly progressive”.
Progressive, yet another hijacked word by the woke and the deviant enablers whose only real link to the word is that “they are getting progressively divorced from reality”.
It’s to late for a political rant on goodness. Way to late for any arsewipe politicians.
Nonsense.
Well said, Ash
And your solution?
Never too late doll.
“No characteristic, protected or otherwise, should provide impunity from the consequences of harming others.”
THIS! There should be no characteristic that allows those claiming it to be immune from the safeguarding and scrutiny that is intended to protect the vulnerable. There must be no group for which any attempt to raise issues (based on evidence) means you are subjected to abuse and slander or worse.
Let’s remind ourselves what Nikla said said about (some – weasel word) of those opposing self id -“that cloak themselves in women’s rights to make it acceptable, but just as they’re transphobic you’ll also find that they’re deeply misogynist, often homophobic, possibly some of them racist as well”. A vile attempt to smear those with genuine concerns.
Of course you shouldn’t stigmatise an entire grouping because some within it are criminal but you also should ensure that no grouping gets a “get out of jail free” card because you make people too afraid to speak out about them.
Jess Phillips
@jessphillips:
“Today I saw George Galloway on the beach I told him he was a rape apologist. Another thing ticked off bucket list”:
link to x.com
link to archive.ph
It is so hard to get one’s head around the fact that too many people would overlook extreme prejudice against children rather than criticize a particular group. It is almost as if certain sections of society are above the law, have impunity to do as they please because they are classed as ‘victims’.
This is where intersectional feminism and diversity and inclusion has take us – from university/academic postmodernism to this. Anyone with a functioning brain cell should be able to say: maybe I was wrong; this is not what I wanted to happen. Instead, they double down on their stupidity.
It was well-known years ago that these types of courses were leading to brain melt when it started to be claimed that women and men were no different from each other in any way. In many ways, they are not; but, in many others, they most decidedly are. It was just a short step to claiming that they were interchangeable.
Well, guess who always loses out? These men are paedophiles and child molesters, first and foremost. That they were also, many of them, contemptuous of females and whites is also becoming evident. That their religion allows them this kind of leeway is now also evident, just as Christianity once allowed such licence.
To be silenced for stating what is patently evident to all but the most captured ‘woke’ mind, is, perhaps, the most evident thing of all. Fear serves many purposes, not least, the ability to silence. If we actually live in a democracy, or even the remnants of one, this self-evident truth should be stated.
We will look back on this time and shudder when we think of how we permitted the ‘woke’ agenda/postmodernist nihilism to ruin our way of life and the slow, but sure, path we were on to a real sense of equality.
We should get our own house in order. There has been a convicted paedo gang sitting in Glasgow awaiting sentence for over a year whilst we await reports wtf ? Get them jailed the paper work can catchup
Totally agree.
Sturgeon among them!
A few years back I watched a documentary about this where a Senior Police Officer was questioned on why these rape allegations were not investigated by the police.
He said the authorities above him had instructed them to focus on motoring convictions.
How can anyone take such an order to abandon young girls who are being regularly abused?
Why don’t we know who and where such an instruction could be passed from. The officials behind this should also be behind bars.
Why in our own country are we tip toeing around Pakistanis?
I’m proud to have an Asian in the family and I asked why we can’t abbreviate the Pakistani they why we say he is a Scot, a Swede, a Pol, a Fin and Aussie, etc etc.
Why.
Those who relocated from that country would be brought up to have little respect for women.
If a woman claims rape over there it can only be followed up if multiple men are will to support her claim.
I’d rather deport these criminals than spend thousands every week keeping them in our prisons.
Will they be released early due to ‘good behaviour’ and overcrowding?
“I asked why we can’t abbreviate the Pakistani”
Because the 4 letter P word is 99.99% of the time used as a racist slur even towards Indians, Sri Lankans etc. All about context.
‘I was only following orders’ was not accepted as a defence at the Nuremberg Trials, was it? Nor should it ever be, for those who are guilty of heinous actions or inaction.
“We cannot passively await the next scandal to hit the press if we want to build public trust.”
Precisely.
Yet, despite all the similar sentiments expressed in previous cases and examples of the abuse of minors – when they eventually came to light – that has been the case consistently.
Just looking back from the post world war two period only, we have had such home grown scandals which have similarly impacted on victims in various ways over not just twenty-five years but over generations. From the deportation of orphans and children of unmarried women and young girls to Australia and New Zealand in the 1950’s through to the Kincora Boys Home (and other children’s homes), Rochdale/Cyril Smith, Jimmy Saville and various politicians just to identify a small sample from memory.
All were to a greater or lesser extent covered up or/and involved collusion and corruption of so called “unique” to Britain “values” involving institutions from the police service, media, social services, political parties and others from the very top all the way down to the local micro level.
The point being that the cover-up and lack of action in this case is not unique. It is not a one-off or an aberration, but an integral feature of the double standards which is consistent over a long period of time.
If there is to be a break from the passivity which inevitably precludes the next such scandal in a long, consistent line of such scandals, we also need to acknowledge this reality rather than let it this atrocity and the others that preceded it be hijacked by those groups and sub-groups present in any society who always kick the arse out of anything and everything to pursue particular agenda’s.
Who will certainly seek to memory-hole some or all of those past home-grown scandals with suggestions or claims which seek to portray such scandals as unique only to specific groups from outside these islands.
The effects of neoliberalism in the punitive dismantling of social welfare and the creating of poverty and deprivation leaves women, children and others vulnerable to attack and exploitation.
MSM have long demonised the weak and vulnerable as scroungers.
Not only the Corporate media but too many institutions – the Church of England and Catholic Church* scandals spring to mind – as well as hangers on kicking the arse out of the situation to advance their own agenda’s by conveniently forgetting those home-grown scandals in order to do their own generalised scapegoating and demonisation.
Which merely plays into the divide and rule approach of those doing a lot of the covering up.
*Presumably, to coin a phrase, similar widespread scandals involving the Church of England and the Catholic Church, would make those religions – along with the domestic organisations and institutions who have helped to cover them up “incompatible with our free democratic society”?
I suspect how UK governments managed to turn an issue of civil rights into a full scale civil war is perhaps the greatest example of UK institutional harming of children and adults.
There are many, many examples of the abdication of social responsibility of UK governments.
Each year at least 3100 billion is lost to money laundering and £190 billion to fraud.It happens because it is allowed to happen through under resourcing, indifference and corruption.
Absolutely, that is undoubtedly the case Dave. Let us not forget inclusion of that other institution “incompatible with our free democratic society”, the British Monarchy some members of whom have left an indelible stain on the lives of their victims.
Quite.
However, those with a scapegoating agenda would doubtless view sticking consistently to the principle in all cases as some form of [checks notes] “cultural Marxism.”
If Stuart Hogg was an ordinary man and a celebrity would the beast be in the Jail Now.
Ash Regan’s SNP (she was SNP then) did nothing about this at the time.
None of the major political parties did at the time.
Reform is the only major party with clean hands on this.
That’s because Reform is new and not yet had real political authority
Ash Regan has been trying to get her Unbuyable bill into law since she entered parliament in 2016 – campaigned to support similnar efforts by other MSPs before then. Now as an MSP in a party of one she has worked hard to cross the key hurdle of cross party support to proceed to committee stage.
Working with survivors, support groups and professionals all all levels over many years plus the recent consultation on the bill, has informed Ash on what the critical steps needed are. The law currently criminalises selling but not buying so police uncovering the pop-up brothels where much of this abuse occurs – have not had a straightforward reason to arrest men there. This is not an excuse for inaction to arrest those who have abused children and trafficked women/men. Ash want to flip the law and the shame by bringing in the challenge demand model / Nordic Model with decriminalisation and support for victims – as the sex industry machine is fed by victims of abuse, including child sexual abuse. It is shameful to commodify victims and criminise them for their abuse.
There is much work going on that is yet unseen – much of it by survivors or committed professionals who stepped up, but it is not enough against a safeguarding system has been erroded by deliberate DEI confusion. That is why Unbuyable Bill and safeguarding & Cass compliance checking at public bodies funding level for those with safeguarding responsibilities are critical priorities for Ash. Having the freedom to pursue and encourage colleagues across parliament to join her in pushing for real systemic change was a key reason Ash joined Alex in Alba.
The attacks on Ash are unnecessary but to be honest it is water off a duck’s back having stood up to previous FM and resigned her ministerial role over GRR – will all the ‘treatment’ that followed. Along with the other Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht authors and the many others who’s stories and as yet untold, she has the support of sisters and many male pals which helps keep them all going.
Where would we if the whistleblowers, survivors and those who simple refused to look away had allowed themselves to be bullied into silence?
Thanks to Rev Stu for posting this piece as discussions for understanding are needed if we are to get shoulders to the wheel to fix the broken safeguarding system.
Well said Allison, Ash has amazing support for her work on this.
She has been speaking up about thus for very many years, I’m sure I heard her speak on this as far back as 2015.
More power to Ash’s elbow, we need more strong women who won’t Wheesht on violence against women and girls.
No mention of class. These lassies weren’t believed because they were poor. Their families weren’t believed because they were poor. They were labelled prostitutes because they were poor. They were themselves charged because they were poor. They came from care homes, homes where there was deprivation. Homes where they didn’t have the stability and advice that middle class girls have. They are targets because of their class.
Also. Whistleblowers. Some in Alba labelled me racist when I blew the whistle on cheating in the party elections. So I find it all a bit hypocritical and out of touch with reality.
Absolutely Leanne and that is why I ridiculed Ash Regans attempts to distance herself from any blame and taking the moral high ground inferring that she wasn’t anywhere near any power when all this was taking place , looking at the comments, it appears we Scots are as dumb as the engerlish who we belittle for keeping voting in the blue scum tories and their bedfellows the red scum tories
I always thought that Scots were more politically astute, but looking at the comments praising this attempt at moral outrage from a person who failed to EXPOSE the despicable actions of a government she was an integral part of shows how gullible and naive voters are
It is called Statutory R@pe for a reason.
The victim cannot consent, in any way. It is r@pe no matter what. The only wriggle room is when both parties are underage and that clearly was not the case here. These are grown men with 12/13 year old children…
All of those men should have been instantly arrested and charged no matter what revolting excuses they trotted out.
But to hear the police and prosecutors making these disgusting “she was asking for it” type excuses and be not enforcing the law, is astonishingly wrong and reeks of some form of corruption.
You cannot have sex with children no matter what putrid excuse you concoct.
The fact these r@pes are against children and are all racially aggravated should have triggered hate crimes and much harsher sentencing, instead it meant the police gave them protection.
Again WHAT THE FUCK?!
Can Scotland and its tribes holistically agree that “Safeguarding our most vulnerable” (re. children) is a Scotland value ?
#ScotlandValues
Instead of trashing the notion…
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Values:
“The beliefs people have, especially about what is right and wrong and what is most important in life, that control their behaviour:
Family/moral/traditional values.”:
link to dictionary.cambridge.org.
#WhatScotlandValues2025
HERE’S YOUR VALUES: PROGRESSIVE SCOTLAND:
Promoting LGBT+ culture:
“As for the future, Scotland is committed to finding ways to further support LGBT+ communities where possible, helping to lead the way in ensuring a diverse and accepting culture for everyone.”
link to scotland.org
Stonewall: The truth:
How does a person know they are trans?
“Many people know they’re trans from a young age… Other trans people do not know until they are teenagers or adults.
There is no right or wrong way to be trans, but what is clear is that it’s not something that’s a fad or a ‘lifestyle choice'”:
link to stonewall.org.uk
SUCK THEM UP
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC):
SAFEGUARDING and child PROTECTION:
“Every child has a right to PROTECTION from harm. All organisations that work with or come into contact with children should have SAFEGUARDING policies and procedures in place to help them keep children SAFE.
Setting up and following good SAFEGUARDING policies and procedures means children are SAFE from ADULTS”:
link to learning.nspcc.org.uk
#VengefulWingsAdults
Photograph of me in my childhood while I was being institutionally sexually abused, by my so-called adult protectors (predatory child groomers) –
Look at me in the eyes/soul you treacherous cowards –
Thankfully today, I’m still holding the champions trophy (standing stronger than ever), and I promise Scotland’s most vulnerable/abused children, that those complicit in such wicked acts (heinous crimes) and grotesque societal wrongdoings, will face the severe consequences of their actions/non-actions…
Yours sincerely
Captain Retribution
#Repent #NoEscape
At Vance: Flying High: No Escape:
“You never see what’s inside of me
That’s why you won’t face the truth
Fightin forever a fight you can’t win
Touchin my soul ain’t like touchin my skin
Open your mind don’t you ever slow down
Spread out your wings and reach out for the crown
It’s not made out of gold
Cause it’s the crown of thorns…”:
link to tinyurl.com
The Waterboys (2025): Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. Hopper’s On Top:
“Genius
Hurrah
Genius
Hurrah
Dennis Hopper, man
Pleased to meet you
You wanna compete, man?
I’mma gonna beat you
Come on Holywood
I’mma gonna eat you
Then I’mma gonna save your soul…
Are you ready
For the most creative generation
In like two thousand years…”:
link to tinyurl.com
#Revolution
Eric Clapton: Pilgrim: My Father’s Eyes:
“Praying for the healing rain
To restore my soul again…
When will all my hopes arise?
How will I know him?
When I look in my father’s eyes
(Look into my father’s eyes)
My father’s eyes…
Then the light begins to shine…”:
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Andy Ellis, quote:
“Gregor is the Cameron Brodie “de nos jours”. From memory it took an inordinate amount of time for him to be given the bullet.
Alert readers will recall that his constant spamming of irrelevant links”:
link to wingsoverscotland.com
John Burke
@Jbur8Burke:
“This PEDO thing is bigger than any of us realize. Human trafficking (immigration) is a major component. All directed by the same people…(politicians, judges, affluent) It must be exposed!”:
link to tinyurl.com
#Hide #Hunting #Me
Mark Beggan:
“Do you wear women’s clothes?”
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Mark Beggan:
“If you do then I know a guy who does a good line in Miu Miu, everything for forty quid.”
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Mark Beggan:
“How did the operation go.”
“Nothing missing?”
“What size of shoe are you?”
“I’ve gotta lovely pair of Penelope Keith garden wellingtons..”
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The Flying Iron of Doom:
“Seriously, you’re making this place unusable by flooding it with your methylated madness. Why do you think that you keep getting downvoted into oblivion?”
link to wingsoverscotland.com
The Flying Iron of Doom:
“What are you on about now you isobutane-inhaling imbecile?”
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Mark Beggan re. failure:
“Gregor!!”
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Chas:
“I wonder how many people no longer read the articles or comments on Wings as they are simply put off by the same repetitive bilge by the same repetitive posters. I personally know three who have had enough and no longer visit.
Che, Geri and Ros have thankfully disappeared of late, fingers crossed that it lasts. If only Gregor and yourself would do the same.
There are some posters whom, I will politely say appear ‘misguided’…”:
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Excellent post well said and agree 100%
These r@pists were by all accounts depraved beyond belief, twisted, perverted, sadistic, violent.
Yet they were allowed to beast young children for decades by the police, prosecutors and it seems likely our current PM….
I know it is different police forces blah blah blah but really they seem much the same to me and I cannot stop and think of the police’s casual, dismissive, non- response to some of the most disgusting child r@pists to have walked the planet, men so depraved they should be serving life IMHO, versus how they treated an innocent man in Alex Salmond.
The UK police are clearly not the ‘police’ in any conventional sense.
As Dave Hansell above points out… it happens over and over again and it involves people all the way to the very top.
They just voted down a public inquiry so no lessons will be learned because they are deliberately looking the other way, yet again for the umpteenth time.
Another public enquiry would last for another 7 years or longer , the person who led the most recent enquiry said (and I paraphrase) never mind a new public enquiry IMPLEMENT the recommendations I made on the outcome in 2022, another PE would only kick this debacle into the long grass
The temerity that the tory party have in shouting about these outrages, when they were in power when ALL this was going on beggars belief
ALL political parties ignored this and therefore COLLUDED with the BEASTS
The trust in Scottish Politicians will possibly begin when Sturgeon is in Jail. Not a moment before.
When suttee (look it up – horrific practice) was banned in India, priests complained to the colonial governor about British interference. He replied along the lines that ‘your custom is burning widows, but mine is hanging men who burn women alive. Let us both act according to our customs’. It is time we remembered what our customs are.
Burning to death, burying alive, throat slitting, etc. of widows used to be commonplace throughout the world, Craig, and stemmed from the laws that stipulated the wife and children as chattel of the man. I’m afraid to say that the grooming gangs, the ‘woke’ ‘trans’ movement, child abuse, wife abuse, FGM, etc. all stem from the same source across every nation.
That’s interesting, Lorna, and I’m sure you’ll have no difficulty in directing me toward academic articles and books by reputable authors documenting the ‘[b]urning to death, burying alive, throat slitting, etc. of widows’ in Christian Europe.
Is this just an England problem or do other countries have these monsters,but covered up.
Do Scottish cities have similar rape gangs but kept quiet by the police and media for fear of citizens taking the law into their own hands.
50 + the number of gangs cited in England.
Scotland does have similar issues. There have been 3 police operations in Glasgow re “grooming gangs” though very little is known about them.
link to theliberal.ie
Indeed, today a Romanian “grooming” gang has been convicted of abuse and rape of 10 women in Dundee showing exactly why no group or identity should ever be immune to scrutiny.
link to bbc.co.uk
It’s been alleged recent violence in Auckinleck was linked to drug and grooming gangs in the area but I’ve no hard evidence that was the cause other than online comments. But something prompted the following –
link to bbc.co.uk
So this isn’t an England only issue. Child (and adult women) sexual abuse and exploitation is unfortunately everywhere.
It should not matter a jot who the perpetrators are: male, female, white, black, brown, whatever, or what religion they are or what ideology they adhere to. The law of the land must be able to be colour blind, sex blind, gender blind, etc. in order to operate properly and for the whole population. We are now in the 21st century and, still, stupidity, cupidity and silence rule.
By the way, Rev, a Scottish nurse is bringing a case against NHS Fife, allegedly, for being forced to share a changing room with a doctor, allegedly, who refuses to vacate the female nurses’ and doctors’ changing room. No mention of a GRC, so could be self-ID, which is contrary to EQA 2010. Illegal. SNHS has tried to keep under the radar, allegedly. Already a similar case in England, but this will be a major case for Scotland, the SNHS and the SG’s provocative ‘woke’ policies.
BUT once again Lorna someone will have to find the funds to challenge this fckn lunacy imposed by OUR administration , whilst they use OUR TAX money to defend the lunacy
If these bastard politicians were forced personally to fund the defence of their lunacy there would be a lot less lunatic policies and a lot less court cases
If politicians were really interested every one of these scumbags who commit these heinous crimes would immediately be deported after they serve their sentences , we have enough scum sexual deviants and perverts (most in the Scot Parl) without importing the scum from other countries
I fear it is almost too late to protect our women and children.
As we allow the third world to invade our country we will become the third world.
The far left are acting against the people of the country.
People are now slowly realising that Muslim culture is incompatible with our free democratic society.
Look around the world which Muslim run state would you like to stay in with your family.
Before anyone suggests that I am racist Islam is not a race.
I worry for our children and grandchildren.
“The far left are acting against the people of the country”
It is not just the far left. It is the entire political establishment. Starmer is desperate to stop that enquiry. But so were the tories before him. Neither the tories nor Starmer’s labour are “far left”. They are both right wing parties. So you have to wonder why that enquiry is being suppressed so forcefully. You have to wonder what both parties have been so desperately trying to hide.
It is obvious what is going on here. There is something/someone hiding behind those gangs that the establishment does not want exposed. The tories rejected the enquiry when in power. Now they are asking for it because they know labour will not be able to hold it either. It is used as a political game. Meanwhile, voters are taken for fools and our children are used as cannon fodder.
We should start by deselecting politicians of whatever party who oppose the enquiry and who do not stand up to the mark. If they are not up to our standards of decency, they do not belong in parliament. They should be sacked. If they choose to protect criminal establishment figures and criminal gangs instead of representing their constituents, then they do not belong in parliament claiming to “represent” us.
If they deny us an inquiry then we all MUST assume the worst. That is the only correct response.
What a snake Starmer is, appearing at every dark moment in UK history over the last few decades. Saville, Assange, Child R@pe Gangs and always without fail is he enabling and covering them up.
It is entirely fitting this slither was made a “Sir”. He earned it… by fucking over the children of the UK at every turn.
“What a snake Starmer is, appearing at every dark moment in UK history over the last few decades”
Absolutely. But perhaps that might be the very reason why he was branded “MI5 candidate” and was allowed to “lead” the Labour party.
He is clearly not the public’s favourite on any account. So whose favourite is he? His presence “at every dark moment in UK history” might mean he could have so much dirt around him already that removing him from power on demand and controlling him by the deep state would be child’s play.
What we are just witnessing regarding the blocking of this enquiry and how quickly they are trying to brush this under the carpet, is the establishment circling the wagons to protect its current puppet in n10 and whoever in the deep state is benefiting from the gangs. Just as they did before with countless other puppets and mass child abuse cases.
I have the feeling there is much more to this issue of these paedophile and murderous gangs this than meets the eye and that, whatever that is, runs deep into the deep state.
Whatever it is that they are trying to hide, their resistance to the enquiry suggests they must think it would be very difficult for them to whitewash after an enquiry.
Did you read the article: “Rochdale inquiry: MI5 ‘told of Cyril Smith abuse case lie'”, published by the BBC on 9 October 2017?
Prosecutors lied about the existence of a child abuse case for Cyril Smith, and MI5 was aware of it. So neither the CPS nor MI5 can be trusted anymore that they are telling the truth. They have form of the opposite. The police and MI5 knew about Smith’s abuses during the 60’s already by 1970 when he first run for office. Despite all that, he was let to continue as an MP and made a knight on 1988. The article implies that Thatcher must have known about it when he put him forward for a knighthood.
Is Smith’s case an isolated case or is it endemic among political, police and judicial ranks? How many paedophiles are hiding within our political, judicial, civil and public service ranks, and how many have been hiding behind knighthoods?
Are these rapist gangs a new version of “Rochdale” and have they been used to feed the vices of and to control dirty politicians like Smith? Because you really have to wonder.
The process of deselecting Ms Ferrier started very quickly. Starmer has demonstrated to be unreliable, untrustworthy and dodgy on so many counts that you really have to wonder what exactly is stopping the process to deselect him.
Thatcher you say…
(This is from the Daily Heil so I’ll not link it.)
“Margaret Thatcher made repeated attempts to win a knighthood for Jimmy Savile despite warnings about his ‘manner of life’.
The former prime minister made at least five requests for the now-disgraced DJ to be considered for the top honour, but senior civil servants voiced fears about his ‘strange and complex’ private life.”
Britain eh.
What I always found interesting was that Prince Charles at the time asked Saville to be marriage counsellor between him and Diana…
Think about that for a moment. You would ask an unmarried p@edophile (and worse) to mediate your marriage…
And then his brother was best pals with Epstein.
You don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Starmer is 100% deep state IMHO.
He is so dislikeable though they basically had to make the tories appear worse. It worked and now he has this huge majority. Britain is in a bad way right now.
“Was Scottish legal scandal a smokescreen for child abuse?”
link to bbc.co.uk
You only have to look at the police programmes on TV based in the midlands where if the police are involved in car chases or arrests large groups of youths mostly Asians surround the police with aggression , it is turning into NO GO areas for authority
No, Ash, you are right: safeguarding of our most vulnerable citizens is not right-wing. Everything that does not accord with the various strands of orthodoxy now prevalent, are deemed to be right-wing. That lets anyone off the hook who has behaved badly but is also part of a favoured demographic or group. It has become the trope of the hard left/postmodernism that is so captured by ideology no longer based on reason or a priori evidence, but some vague virtue-signalling, ‘feel good/be nice’ nonsense. It reeks of self-righteousness and wrong-headedness.
Blah, Blah, Blah , Blah , I am sorry Ash your words do not inspire me , YOU alongside others sat silently back while a corrupt and venal Scottish contingent of sycophantic sturgeon apologists sought to DESTROY a man who had been a shining light in the fight for Scotland’s independence
For Women Scotland have had to source (sorry BEG and GROVEL) for funds to fight deviant and perverted policies and laws that are CLEARLY aimed at undermining and DESTROYING WOMEN’S SAFETY and SECURITY imposed by the very government you served in ,whilst the defence of these lunatic and perverted proposals has been financed through Scottish TAXES
Where was all the OUTRAGE and disgust that the LIARS within the Scottish administration were BLATANTLY and DELIBERATELY obfuscating and misinforming the electorate especially our womenfolk what their DESPICABLE bill actually means for REAL FEMALES
YOU attempted to be elected as the snp leader through all the LIES and misinformation about the membership numbers yet YOU failed to be a whistleblower in exposing the outright corruption at the heart of the snp which was governing Scotland , through your inability to expose the TRUTH ,Scotland, Scots and especially our womenfolk have suffered further years of physical and emotional abuse continued on by humza USELESS and SPINELESS MAYOR SWINNEY
I have heard that you are looking to become the leader of ALBA, reflecting on how you have failed to expose the despicable machinations of the party you served in I have little faith that you would protect and serve Scotland and Scots to independence
link to iicsa.org.uk
Alexis Jay’s inquiry
Well said, Ash Regan. I hope you do become the leader of Alba, and sooner rather than later. And that you keep posting here.
Meanwhile 4 Romanians including one woman are being prosecuted by Tayside Police for acting as a rape gang.
We need to be careful not to fall into thinking this is just by one sector of society, it is not.
Though it’s good to see Tayside Police are alert to the issue.
That’s absolutely right – 83% of child sex accused are White British.
“We need to be careful not to fall into thinking this is just by one sector of society, it is not.”
Nobody said it was. The issue here is that nothing was done (and apparently it is still going on) about these gangs which were Pakistani Muslim. Why? There is evidence that people were afraid to be called racist. There is suggestions that Labour were afraid about losing votes and more concerned with “community cohesion” than the rape, torture and murder of girls regarded as white trash by some.
Some of the first people to raise the problem with the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs were Muslim women and indeed the Sikh community. Their courage to do so should not be underestimated.
The problem is that these men were gang rapists. Most Pakistani Muslim men aren’t, indeed most men aren’t, but if you are afraid to look at an issue in case people call you bad words due to the demographic of the perpetrators in particular instances, that’s when thousands of white, working class girls are thrown to the wolves…
This is exactly the same issue with self id and predatory men abusing this to access victims – if you call it out you are called transphobic or stigmatising a vulnerable community.
The only people that need to be stigmatised are paedophilic gang rapists. The only thing authorities need to do is investigate and stop this without fear nor favour.
Catholic priests, children’s entertainers, Pakistani Muslims, white men, immigrants, trans – no-one gets a free pass where there is evidence of abuse. No-one!
“Yet, the evidence has been in front of us for years – so why has immediate action to ensure the safeguarding of children – and vulnerable adults – not been a pressing priority?”
The answer seems obvious to me:
There might be political, social services, civil service, police, legal figures who are actually benefiting one way or another of the way these gangs operate.
We know the deep state is rife with cases of sexual abuse and paedophilia. We know MI5 has history of knowing about horrendous cases of child abuse involving politicians and other influential figures but did not expose them because it gave them leverage to control them.
Those gangs were/are pimping the children to someone. If so many of them are operating and have been operating for so long, it must be because it is a very lucrative business. They must have clients. Well then, how many clients are among the police ranks, political ranks, civil service, social services and justice departments?
Why exactly do these politicians do not want an enquiry? What would that enquiry uncover that they are so desperately trying to hide?
The only way to tackle this is by deselecting politicians who do not stand up to the mark. It should start with Starmer. Why are his constituents not deselecting him?
“They failed repeatedly and were treated like collateral damage in a system that became too broken to fix. This is not good enough – the law must be consistently applied to protect the vulnerable from exploitation”
The law must be consistently applied to protect the vulnerable from exploitation and TO PUNISH those who abuse, rape and exploit the vulnerable. Lets not forget the second part, which is as important as the first.
Children cannot be protected from abuse, rape and exploitation if MI5 continue to use child abuse as a tool to control politicians, judges, high ranking police officers, actors, etc, etc, etc.
Children cannot be protected from abuse, rape and exploitation if the perpetrators hiding within political, police, justice, entertainment industry and public services are not brought to justice, fully exposed for their crimes and sent to jail.
Protection of vulnerable people goes hand in hand with exposing and punishing the disgusting bastards that either initiate the abuse or are consumers of the abuse.
Why did our so called “representatives” rejected the enquiry? Who were they representing when they rejected that enquiry? Because they were not representing us. What/Who would that enquiry uncover that those politicians are so desperate to keep covered? What/Who are they trying to hide?
Didn’t the tories also rejected an enquiry in the past? Well then, there must be something that is above political partisanism and that affect all parties in the same manner to stop two independent parties in power to conduct that enquiry. So what/who is it?
Why are those rape and murderous gangs being protected? What high ranking establishment figures ahave been benefiting from them and how?
“The Equality Act 2010 protects individuals from discrimination based on the fundamental premise that we are all equal under the law. No characteristic, protected or otherwise, should provide impunity from the consequences of harming others.”
Absolutely. So this proves that the entire system has failed on four accounts:
It seems that nowadays UK politicians interpret “the equality Act” as a law to protect all individuals from discrimination unless they are white or females.
Both the tories and the labour party refused an enquiry. Why? What can possibly be above partisanism and in common to both parties? What/who would such enquiry expose that politicians from the labour party and before them the tory party were so desperate to either turn a blind eye to or to hide?
Who/What is hiding behind/benefiting from those rapist and murderous gangs and would be exposed by that enquiry?
The idea that “the Left” flooded Britain with millions of backwards, bronze-aged thinking immigrants is for the birds. This fact becomes especially true when we are mindful of the few, exclusive groups who have benefited from politics over the last 30 years, or so.
Banks, corporates, tory-donor house builders, rentier class and pension firms have been the only beneficiaries from the era of forced, mass immigration. And if anyone can think of any other group who can be added to this exclusive handful, feel free to pipe up and chime in.
Granted, plenty of statist facilitators of this shameful era have also been able to feather their own nests through an expanded state, but the idea that the traditional Left (who died along with John Smith) are actually responsible for this is a sick joke.
And if any more evidence to back these facts up is required, just take a cursory glance at the traditional base of the Left. They have been left with not a fucking sausage from the era of computerisation kicking in, just like they were diddled and nobbled at every other turn – such as the industrial revolution, empire and the modern, technological era.
Something really bad and rotten happened at the heart of the UK establishment when Tony Blair was installed. And heaven and high water should be moved in order to find out exactly who was/is responsible.
You are correct. It started with Blair and every government since then has been the same. It is very visible when you look at net immigration year by year since 1947…
“But the idea that the traditional Left (who died along with John Smith) are actually responsible for this is a sick joke.”
John Smith traditional left HaHaHaHa is that the same Smith whose whole family are firmly and happily ensconced in the Brutish establishment, who happily and eagerly engage in TRASHING anything to do with Scotland , the same SOCIALISTS who couldn’t wait to GRAB their trinkets and baubles whilst subverting anything to do with independence
The Fraud (2025): Nicola Sturgeon: I ‘intervened’ to stop Alex Salmond ‘bullying’ others:
“The former first minister said her onetime mentor, who died suddenly last year aged 69…
Sturgeon said: “He would be really rough on people. Many times I intervened to stop him…
An independent Scotland is not going to be magically better…”
She batted away questions about the impact of the police investigation and the wisdom of her and her husband Peter Murrell running the SNP while being married”:
link to archive.ph
We should be careful not to be deceived by Nicola Murrells deliberate rhetorical trap here.
Alex COULD be very hard on people.
When he chose to be.
That is a completely and utterly separate issue from conspiring to jail him through a specially invented ‘special process’ which never has and never will be applied to anyone else.
The correct response is to point out that he was found not guilty by a majority female jury, AND Nicola Sturgeons government has been proven to have been conspiring against him.
These are the known facts. Her shit-throwing should be pointed out loudly.
Scotlands greatest ever First Minister is no longer here to have her charged with libel or defamation, so the shit-throwers can carry on their shit-throwing. 🙁
Where’s her dignity.
She exhibits such a defeatist attitude (smile:)
Alicia Kearns MP
@aliciakearns:
“Yes @jessphillips I wasn’t at the debate yesterday, I was at the hospital. Your colleagues know I’ve been away from Parliament for medical reasons, but you chose to attack me.
So much for standing by women…”:
link to x.com
The term ‘Grooming Gangs’ in itself belittles the crimes these people perpetrate
It’s softening the essence of what they do
If headlines read ‘Rape Torture Gangs’ there would be less room for politicians to downplay these acts and allow them to continue.
Is there a valid reason the term is used?
I don’t think so
Queen Natalie
@TheNorfolkLion:
“What the hell is going on in Scotland?
This woke nonsense implemented in Scotland by Nicola Sturgeon is to blame. She and others from the SNP should be held accountable.”:
link to x.com
June Slater
@juneslater17:
“I was contacted yesterday by someone from BBC Verify, asking where I got the information from for my tweet that Elon Musk retweeted… The information which he wanted to dissect was my reference to The Labour government…
He made no reference to the latter part of the tweet where I shared graphic description, all available on line and recently released court documents about how a 11-12 year old girl could possibly make a lifestyle choice to be gang raped etc…
The focus seemed to be as usual about Elon Musk rather than the horrors these children have had to suffer…
I discovered many attempts to attain clarification about these details via FOI requests by a number of people at different points in time. I did tell him that my trust in The BBC is at an all time low…
I was expecting the grotesque participation to unite journalist for once and lead a crusade for justice and investigation. Alas it would seem the MSM are as usual focused on finger pointing to Elon Musk for blowing the lid off this 25 year scandal, which I see as a dreadful cross Party failings of politicians and officials. I’m sorry I’m only a layman who makes too many typos and lacks the education to be grammatically correct, but I do sincerely do my best to highlight any failures I see on a number of topics.”:
link to x.com
#BBCVerifyFakeNewsGroomingNetwork
Raja Miah
@recusant_raja:
“My name is Raja Miah MBE. In a past life, I advised government on how to safeguard children and protect communities from extremism. Queen Elizabeth II put a medal on my chest for my services to our nation.
@gmpolice continue to protect those attempting to silence me. My crime? Refusing to look the other way to the gang rape of my town’s children.
If you are following the story on the grooming gangs it is because I have sacrificed six years of my life campaigning for justice. I don’t know what more I can do to prove my worth. But I do know this: without your help, this fight will end, and they will win…”:
link to x.com
Queen Natalie
@TheNorfolkLion:
“I can’t believe a former MP @ivorcaplin would post these kind of comments brazenly and openly on social media, and that’s without the retweets of naked men.”:
link to x.com
William, 3rd Earl of Wan Chai
@CX252HKG:
“Then you see his audience”:
link to x.com
#LabourGovernmentSexCult
Elon Musk:
“Wow”:
link to x.com
Sally Bee
@SallyBee644023:
“CPS?????”:
link to x.com
link to cps.gov.uk
#Ouch
Mhairi Black (@SNP): Bad guys run the town in social media wild west:
“ELON Musk and Donald Trump make my skin crawl for a variety of reasons; their politics, their personal lives, their financial dealings, and their social views
You need only scratch the surface to see the pathetic self-interest come pouring out. The problem is that these two pitiful misogynists are currently shaping the global future with little more than tweets.
Social media, much like the internet itself, was a revolution of information…
Social media gave journalists fast-moving and constant updates they could report regardless of quality or truthfulness.
Musk has spent the last week attacking the UK Government over grooming gangs…
If the internet is the wild west, then the baddies are running this town.”:
link to archive.ph
#Run #TruthRevolution
Labour MP Dan Carden:
“This is not an obsession of the far right. I am speaking out because over the decades there have been far too few Labour voices expressing clear disgust and outrage at these heinous crimes, their cover-up and the lack of action.
Starmer has got this completely wrong and he will regret it.”:
link to tinyurl.com
#LabourMunity
Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10:
“More Labour MPs backing calls for a national inquiry, I count three now.
The pressure on Starmer to do the right thing is building.”:
link to x.com
Elon Musk:
“Now we know why Labour voted against an inquiry: they are guilty.”:
link to x.com
#ChildGroomingPedos
Gscene Magazine: Originally called ‘The Queer Guide’, Brighton was not quite ready for the ‘Q’ word in 1993:
“PRIDE: Guest speaker, Ivor Caplin:
Ivor is actively involved in the Brighton & Hove Jewish community and was recently appointment as National Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement.
Rev. Michael Hydes, senior pastor at The Village MCC, said:
“I am thrilled that the right honourable Ivor Caplin will be joining us on July 29 to begin our Pride celebrations this year. Like myself, he is a regular guest on Queersay on Latest TV and will be bringing his unique perspective on PRIDE”:
The Village MCC Brighton and Hove is a church that was created by LGBT+”:
link to gscene.com
#LGBTPedoPRIDE #Q
Jewish News: Ex Labour MP used parliamentary pass 48 times due to antisemitism crisis:
“A former Labour MP who recently chaired the Jewish Labour Movement has said he used his grace and favour parliamentary pass 48 times owing to the party’s antisemitism crisis…
The passes grant the bearer access to the corridors of power, as well as parliament’s subsidised restaurants and bars, and MPs who serve at least one term are eligible to apply, but critics say the system is being abused”:
link to jewishnews.co.uk
#LabourJewishSystematicAbuse
Darren of Plymouth
@wolsned:
“Labour Pedos, 50 of them. Wanna bet there are a lot more? Of course there is, it will be endemic.”:
link to tinyurl.com
Michael Laing strongly disagrees –
He doesn’t want the public to know –
And doesn’t give a fu** about the children:
re. “I don’t care whose side you’re on, I’m sick of you filling the comments section with your pointless, irrelevant twaddle.”:
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Elon Musk:
“This guy was sentenced to 7 years in prison for social media posts. The other guy was sentenced to a mere 6 months for raping a 9-year-old child!
British “justice” system is deeply broken.”:
link to x.com
TRUTH SEEKER FOR THE PEOPLE
@Jraydogg82:
“Elon, As a father of six daughters, the revelations about Britain’s grooming gangs cut deep into my soul, igniting a fury that words can scarcely express. These crimes, hidden too long in the shadows of political correctness and bureaucratic cowardice, are not just a scandal; they’re a grotesque betrayal of every parent’s sacred duty to protect their children.
Your voice, Elon, has been a clarion call in this darkness, piercing through the veil of silence that has allowed these atrocities to fester. The scale, the systemic failure, the sheer inhumanity of it all—it’s beyond comprehension, yet it’s horrifyingly real…”:
link to x.com
Reinstatement of safegaurding across public services in Scotland is a must. Many DEI policies have undermined basic safegaurding. A report was issued yesterday of 100 rapes and sexual assualts occurring in Scottish Hospitals. Ash is correct in raising this key issue. Back in ’96 one of the Mum’s whose daughter Fiona was merchandised and eventually murdered within one of the grooming gang’s set up CROP…The Coalition for Removal of Pimping. She and other parents tried to get the authorities to tackle the rape gangs scandal but even with all the information they gathered it was still ignored. She also wrote a book about Fiona’s story. Sadly Irene died in 2002 but CROP carries on as the Ivison Trust. Ash’s bill and Nordic model approach could do much to halt the victim blaming around rape and grooming. Clear language is also needed children are not young women, young adults, prostitutes they are children. I hope the Scottish Parliament Act on The Unbuyable Bill and swiftly. Rape has no class, recognises no red lines and measures to prevent it need to target the perpetrators.
link to holyrood.com
Holyrood Mandy (Rhodes) knocking it out the park once again. I
Socialist Voice
@SocialistVoice:
“Yes, Labour has questions to answer over Ivor Caplin – but that still does not excuse the far-right
The suspended Labour member who once served as an MP and minister has embroiled himself in a child sexual abuse scandal”:
link to x.com
#PedoCommunistsVoice
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews:
“Facebook and X must comply with UK law – minister”
Lord Talbot
@Lord_Talbot64:
“So the Paedophile Protection Party is telling us to obey the law.”:
link to x.com
Rachel halliwell
@Rachelhalliwel5:
“This is my daughter Semina Halliwell she was only 12 years old when she took her own life. Why ? You maybe asking….. She was groomed online by an older boy She was pressured into a meeting with him by constantly being contacted by him. When they met, he proceeded to sexually assault her, a manner in which is classed as statutory rape in the eyes of the law, by definition that a child 12 and under cannot give consent . It turns out that she was his second victim. The other victim was 13 and had already reported the crime to the police. Semina reported her sexualt assault to Merseyside Police to investigate having been confirmed by them as a rape case. Following the reporting of this sexual assault to the police, Semina was subjected to online threats and hatred. She was also attacked and beaten 3 separate times, which had been filmed and posted on social media. During the last meeting with police where it was said it was her word against his, she went upstairs and took a lethal overdose, which took 4 long days for her to die whilst being awake. That was 3 years ago, and we have not had an inquest, due to information such as the serious case review generated by social services is being deliberately withheld from the public domain due to the damming formation of failures held within…
2 years later from reading an IOPC report I learned that a police officer had interviewed the boy and his mother, where the boy admitted to the offence but said that Semina had consented. I SAY AGAIN ITS THE LAW A CHILD OF 12 CANNIT GIVE CONSENT.”:
link to tinyurl.com
SCOTLAND’S ADULTS DON’T GIVE A FU** ABOUT THE CHILDREN –
YOU FRAUDS ARE COMPLICIT #Consequences
@JackJazz:
“Glad I left the Labour party years ago. There’s nothing left of it now but a rancid stinking cesspit full of the worst kind of people. Ivor Caplin, former chair of Israel lobby group the JLM was one of the chief architects of the antisemitism smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn”:
link to x.com
@JackJazz:
“Glad I left the Labour party years ago. There’s nothing left of it now but a rancid stinking cesspit full of the worst kind of people. Ivor Caplin, former chair of I***el lobby group the JLM was one of the chief architects of the antisemitism smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn”:
Ivor Caplin arrest video footage:
link to x.com
BBC (2025): Prison officer jailed for 13 years for child rape:
“A “depraved” former prison officer who admitted raping a young girl in the north-east of Scotland and sexually assaulting another has been jailed for 13 years.
Russell Maitland, 37, admitted carrying out the offences in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and in Aberdeen. The Peterhead man raped one girl when she was under the age of 13, and also sexually assaulted her…
Maitland also admitted sexually assaulting another young girl in Peterhead and a further charge of various indecent exposures in the Peterhead area.”:
link to bbc.co.uk
link to archive.ph