Reform’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice has announced on TalkTV that the party is launching High Court action against the National Crime Agency over the alleged leaking of private banking data:
“Nigel and I believe that the National Crime Agency have committed multiple criminal offences… they leaked copies and details of individual bank statements, bank transfers, details of conversations with bank managers… and we’ve had enough of it. We gave them about five weeks to investigate internally, they have basically refused to do so… today we have submitted High Court proceedings… for leaking confidential information.”
They’re seeking an apology and damages…
Judges and legal advisers in Britain’s Northern Circuit were told last week to attend seminars on “replacing whiteness.” Oh boy…
The Northern Circuit stretches from Carlisle to Manchester and Liverpool. Last week an invitation went round for the judiciary ‘lunchtime seminar series 2026.’ Salaried and fee-paid judges, tribunal judges, legal advisers, and judicial office holders across all jurisdictions were encouraged to attend. The programme is held each month with the first seminar as follows:
“Replacing Whiteness: Exploring the Myth of Immutable Races in English Law – Dr Jen Neller (of Manchester Metropolitan University)
Thursday 30 July 2026 | 1.15pm-2.15pm | Floor 13, Manchester Civil Justice Centre About the Seminar
The seminar will consider the different understandings of race that can be found in current law, revealing an inconsistent and sometimes contradictory approach.
It is argued that law too often relies on outdated and unscientific ideas of race as biological and immutable, which causes it to reproduce the very notions of difference it is supposed to be remedying. While far-right conspiracists claim that immigration is a plot to “replace whiteness”, this seminar argues that it is precisely this concept of whiteness – and race in general – that we should indeed be replacing.”
In September the next seminar will be titled “Asylum Law in the UK and the Human Rights Act.” You can guess the contents of that one…
Judicial sources point the finger at human rights lawyer-turned judge Dexter Dias, who was announced at the end of July as the presiding judge for the Northern Circuit. Dias was formerly chairman of the Bar’s Equality & Diversity Training Committee…
Numerous wokesters and former socialist activists now dominate senior levels of the judiciary. Hence all the cases about people avoiding deportation because you can’t get a Twix in Somalia…
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Thankfully James O’Brien says he doesn’t feel any personal guilt for standing up for Arday publicly. Well that’s a relief…
He implied this is because only a racist would doubt Arday’s credentials. He said on LBC today:
“What’s your takeaway here? Because mine is very very personal. I can’t separate the personal from the public. I feel like a mug actually is the short answer. I don’t feel guilt. I don’t feel, oh you should have done differently or you should have done better because I mean who would who would meet a Cambridge professor and immediately start thinking ‘God I wonder whether you actually deserve to be there, I certainly wouldn’t do that.’
If I was a racist and I met a black Cambridge professor, then I probably would find myself thinking, ‘Yeah, really a black guy, professor, I don’t think…’ but I’m not a racist, so it didn’t cross my mind. But it’s more the personal contact that I’ve had with him subsequently that makes me feel like a mug. The fact that he thought I was someone that he might be able to persuade to stick up for him when he knew he knew that he’d done.”
O’Brien described Arday as a “remarkable & brilliant man” in 2023 and last month attacked the Times and the Telegraph for “studied & deliberate ignominy. If there is any case to answer here, it is about Liverpool John Moore’s supervisory failure of an obviously unique PhD student. Something, I imagine, their own exhaustive investigation concluded…” Is an apology in order?
More names have dropped off Jolyon’s letter in support of Arday, namely:
- Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu, President, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
- Sonita Alleyne, Master, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
- Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge
- Ricardo Sabates Aysa, Professor of Education and International Development, University of Cambridge
Lord Simon Woolley is still on there but his job title has been stripped. To begin with he was “Principal, Homerton College, University of Cambridge” – in list two he is just “Lord Simon Woolley.” Cambridge wipeout…
There is now an effort to launch an investigation into how Arday was ever appointed in the first place. Goodo…
The NHS is refusing to give a date for implementing new single-sex space guidance, leaving rules that let transgender patients choose their ward in place two days after the EHRC published its code on protected spaces. You’d think medical professionals would have a clear understanding of biological sex…
Existing guidance tells staff to accommodate patients “according to their presentation“. Even more absurdly, it instructs staff to follow a child’s preference over a parent’s:
“In some instances, parents or those with parental responsibility may have a view that is not consistent with the child’s view. If possible, the child’s preference should prevail even if the child is not Gillick-competent.”
NHS England (which is supposed to be closing down) says policies will follow “shortly“, and blames the Cabinet Office for “co-ordinating the response“. The Cabinet Office says this is nonsense, and nobody has been stopped from updating anything. It really shouldn’t be this complicated…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”
