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Brentford Football Club ‘Will No Longer Take a Knee’ Before Matches
English football club Brentford FC have decided to give up kneeling to Black Lives Matter before games, as players “no longer believe that this is having an impact”.
“As a group of players, we have decided we will no longer take a knee before the start of matches,” the team announced in a statement shared on their website.
Eight million artefacts being examined by the British Museum over slavery links
The British Museum has hired a curator to delve into the history of its eight million objects, many of which were obtained during the colonial era.
Police Record 120,000 ‘Non-Crime Hate Incidents’
Police forces in Britain have recorded some 120,000 allegations of so-called hate speech, though none of the instances had been found to have stopped any actual crimes.
In the United Kingdom, the police record non-crime hate incidents in criminal databases, meaning that despite having committed no crime, people will have the incidents visible on criminal background checks for six years. There is currently no appeal system in place.
Farmer Discovers ‘Asian’ Men Cutting Throat of Ewe
An English sheep farmer was horrified to find a pair of “Asian” men slitting the throat of a pregnant ewe in broad daylight near a public footpath.
“It is a big 120-acre field and the sheep were running towards us, as if there was a dog in with them,” said farmer Adam Neachell, who tends his land and livestock in Aldridge in the West Midlands, in comments to Farmers Weekly.
Fewer Than One Third of Bogus Asylum Seekers Go Back Voluntarily
European Commissioner for Migration Ylva Johansson admitted that just a third of bogus, rejected asylum seekers return to their home countries — and less than a third go voluntarily.
Covid: Mental Health Problems Soar in Young Children
A London psychiatrist has said he is not under any doubt that the coronavirus lockdown has led to a surge in mental health referrals for children, saying the figure had “skyrocketed”.
BLM targeting statues and other memorials to Captain James Cook
Black Lives Matter activists are targeting statues and other memorials to Captain James Cook, the great English explorer who charted much of Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii, for removal.
MI6 Recruiting Foreign Born Spies to Increase ‘Diversity’
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6, will officially expand its recruitment of candidates to those born outside of the UK, however, they will still require to have a British passport.
Rape Gang Victim Names 18 Abusers, Police Charge Nobody
The victim of a Muslim grooming gang in Walsall, England, gave police the identities of 18 abusers in 2013 but no-one was ever charged and officers lost 30 hours of her interview tapes, prior to reopening the investigation in 2019.