BBC editor ‘helped Somali criminals fight deportation’

A BBC editor has been hired as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals including rapists fight their deportation.

Mary Harper, Africa editor for the World Service, has been criticised by judges over the objectivity and accuracy of her evidence in some of the cases.

Harper has given evidence in asylum cases dating back to 2013. Seven of the known cases resulted in the refugee being permitted to remain in the UK. Expert witnesses can be paid up to £2,500 for producing a report in cases funded by legal aid. Judges twice questioned Harper’s objectivity and in a third case described her evidence as “speculative”.

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The Night They Shot Old Nando Down!

German police shoot aggressive ’emu’

Nando – free spirited illegal alien

Police in the German state of Thuringia say they shot a flightless bird after it became aggressive. Initially identified as an Australian emu, the bird appears to have been a South American wild rhea.

… The German wild population is descended from a few breeding pairs that escaped from an exotic meat farm near Lübeck, a city in northern Germany, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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NHL Reveals Itself To Be On Team Hamas

WARMINGTON: Anthem singer dons pro-Palestinian attire at NHL All-Star Game

The NHL has yet to comment on how a singer wearing pro-Palestinian colours, and with a history of anti-Israel rants, performed the American national anthem at the All-Star Game in Toronto Saturday.

But that hasn’t stopped others from commenting on how American pop star Kiana Lede used the NHL game to show her support for the Palestine side of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

I wish I could boycott the NHL but I haven’t paid attention in years.

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Dead people should be able to change their gender, says Labour MP

A Labour MP has called for the law to be changed so that transgender people can have their gender changed posthumously in official records.

In a written question to Parliament last month, Charlotte Nichols, the party’s representative for Warrington North, asked if the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 could be changed “to allow transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by”.

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‘Global concern’: High stakes for Canada to have role in widening U.S.-Iran conflict, experts say

Get them Houthis!

Canada will likely have a role in supporting the United States with its retaliatory attacks against Iranian proxies in Syria and Iraq following a deadly drone strike against U.S. troops last weekend in Jordan, say some Canadian analysts.

When asked if Canada would be involved in the growing conflict, the federal government declined to speculate on what it would be.

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Suspending financial aid to UN agency punishes Palestinians

One hundred-plus days of war. More than 26,083 people killed. More than 65,000 housing units destroyed and 1.7 million residents displaced.

Gaza is a catastrophe. And unbelievably, the situation there could get worse.

Canada and other countries have suspended funding to the UN agency that provides assistance to Palestinians in the embattled territory. The decision came after allegations by the Israeli government that a number of agency workers were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel that killed some 1,200 people and took more than 200 others hostage. More than 100 of them are still being held captive.

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Minister sorry for ‘crappy piece of land’ remark that angered pro-Palestinian groups

VERNON, B.C. – B.C. Premier David Eby says Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson needs to “repair the damage” caused by her comments that Israel was founded on a “crappy piece of land,” angering pro-Palestinian groups and triggering calls for her resignation.

Eby says the remarks were “totally unacceptable,” and “increase division” in the province at a time when people of Palestinian descent are feeling alienated.

Robinson apologized in a social media post on Thursday, saying her comments were “disrespectful,” and she had been referring to the land having limited natural resources.

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The Things Allowed to Happen in Baltimore Schools Are Hard to Believe

It has been a few months since I wrote about Baltimore schools and I find that over the past week or so an amazing story has broken there. A teenager who is a convicted rapist has been allowed to return to high school and parents were not told about it. The student in this case is 15-years-old and just last month was convicted of having sex with a minor child last year, a member of his own family.

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You Choose! Lyon Knife Attacker Known For Radicalization or Attack Is Non Terror-Related

From Fdesouche (Note Google Translate) Lyon: an attack foiled, Sofiane K. threatened passers-by with a knife. This is an S file known for radicalization and with a psychiatric history

This Saturday, an attack was foiled in the city of Lyon, late in the morning. A 28-year-old young man named Sofiane K was arrested by the police while threatening passers-by. The suspect is listed as S for radicalization reasons.

An attack was foiled this Saturday, February 3 in  Lyon  late in the morning. According to information from CNEWS, the attacker is 28 years old and is called Sofiane K. He was already known to the police and suffers from a psychiatric history, schizophrenia.


From DW – Three people were injured in a knife attack at prominent Paris train station Gare de Lyon, French police have said. Police said the attack did not appear to be terror-related.

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