Moments ago MPs voted against Lauren Edwards MP’s assisted dying bill, by 286 to 270. This is a devastating setback for dying people - but make no mistake, this issue is not going away. Law change on assisted dying remains a matter of when - not if. The British public demands that Parliament listen, and terminally ill people and families will not rest until they do.

Starbucks paid zero tax in 2025 on sales of £556.3m. They got a £13.7m tax credit instead. What's the benefit of having Starbucks in the UK? Either tax them on their sales or give the sites to independent British cafes instead. Stop letting foreign multinationals plunder our country.

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This is Judge Eilidh MacDonald. She’s the judge who sentenced Joseph Wood, of Milton Drive in Buckie, to 3 years’ probation after Wood spent five years sexually abusing a little girl, starting when she was seven. He was found guilty of multiple sexual assaults at Inverness Sheriff’s Court, but MacDonald allowed him to walk away free, with just 200 hours of community service, three years’ supervised probation, and 3 years on the sex offender registry — two years less than Wood spent abusing his victim. Eilidh MacDonald obviously cannot be trusted to mete out appropriate punishment for crimes committed against children, or to take appropriate measures to protect the public from predators. She should be removed from the bench, and held accountable in some way when Joseph Wood molests another child.

Judge Rowland’s sentencing remarks in the serial gang r@pists case are utterly breathtaking. He decided that a knife wasn’t used as he looked ‘carefully’ at some of the CCTV. He stated that IF a knife were used in one of the r@pes, it was ‘ONLY’ to cut off her leggings and there was ‘no violence or exploitation’ ONLY to cut her leggings and there was was no violence or exploitation??’ EXCUSE ME? This is one of the most outrageous statements I have EVER read - and I’ve read a lot. It’s not enough to be angry - take action. New episode soon to drop on Crime Analyst so follow and listen 💀💣🤬 ✍️ SIGN the petition: change.org/p/investigate-jud… ✍️ WRITE to your MP, Justice Secretary David Lammy, PM Keir Starmer and AG Richard Hermer. Template letters: docs.google.com/document/d/1… 💜 JOIN the Crime Analyst Squad to rally and for more knowledge, insight, support and advocacy: Patreon.com/CrimeAnalyst #CrimeAnalyst #expert #Accountability #Misogyny #MaleViolence @laurarichards99

GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE HAD A PLAN FOR CHILD RAPE VICTIMS. IT INVOLVED DROWNING. Not literally. Relax. That would have required effort. A senior Greater Manchester Police officer reportedly told detective Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK that the girls being groomed and raped across Rochdale "should have just been drowned at birth." Lovely stuff. Very professional. The kind of leadership culture you want running a child protection investigation. So they didn't drown them. They just closed the investigations instead. Much cleaner. Better for the budget. Operation Augusta. 2004. Twenty-six girls identified. Ninety-seven suspects. One detective doing the work. Then GMP pulled the plug, citing costs. Eight of those suspects went on to commit further serious sexual offences, including rape. The girls kept being abused. The files got buried. When Maggie Oliver came back and raised the alarm again during Operation Span, her bosses dismissed her as an "emotional woman." She had evidence of hundreds of perpetrators and countless victims beyond the nine men eventually convicted in 2012. They called it resolved. Fantastic result for British justice. She resigned. Faced potential prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. @BBC eventually made Three Girls in 2017 because a detective did what a police force would not. January 2024. Independent review published. One hundred and seventy three pages confirming everything she said. Ninety-six men identified as still posing a risk to children, described as only a proportion of those involved. The review placed blame firmly on senior GMP officers throughout. Nobody went to prison for the cover-up. Nobody lost a pension. Maggie Oliver almost lost everything. But sure. She was the emotional one. @BBCNews | @BBCThree | @guardian | @thetimes | @Channel4News @Wikipedia and others.

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🚨 Abused for 7 Years, 22 Charges, 13,000 Images - Sentence: Walk Free the Same Day 😡 Child sexual abuse survivor Francesca Dean has bravely spoken out about her horrific ordeal. Abused from around age 12 by a friend’s father, who filmed the abuse. Her abuser pleaded guilty to 22 charges, possessed 13,000 indecent images of children, and the offending lasted 7 years. One of Britain’s most senior child protection judges, Dame Johannah Cutts, sentenced him to just a 3-year community order. No prison time, he walked free the same day. This is the same judge who helped shape national guidance on prosecuting child sexual offences. When did Britain become so lenient with child abusers? Why do serious offenders with thousands of images and years of offending so often avoid real custodial sentences yet people are regularly jailed for social media posts? We need much tougher sentencing, real accountability from the judiciary, and justice that actually prioritises victims and deters predators. This cannot be acceptable in a civilised country.