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offsite link Calling the Rape Gangs a ?Dog Whistle? Issue Is Utterly Disgraceful Sun May 04, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Dismissing the rape gang scandal as a "dog whistle" isn't just tone-deaf ? it's a vile insult to victims and exposes a government more afraid of losing votes than of protecting children, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
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offsite link Police ?Will Not Rush? to Ban Trans Officers From Strip-Searching Women Sun May 04, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Police forces are dragging their heels on banning trans officers from strip-searching women, despite a Supreme Court ruling that sex is biological.
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offsite link Reform: We Will Fight to Close Migrant Hotels Sun May 04, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf says the party will use every lever available ? including legal action ? to stop asylum seekers being housed in areas where it now controls councils.
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offsite link The ?Chinese Vampire Will Suck UK?s Blood?, Says Trump?s Tariff Chief Sun May 04, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Donald Trump's trade adviser has slammed Britain's relationship with China, warning the UK is in danger of becoming a "compliant servant of communist China" and having its "blood sucked" by Beijing.
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offsite link We Shouldn?t Increase Spending on Children With Special Educational Needs. We Should Cut It Sun May 04, 2025 11:00 | Mary Gilleece
The UK's SEND sector is an expensive, infantilising job-creation scheme for middle-aged women that fails to improve outcomes and urgently needs cutting back, argues Mary Gilleece.
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Anti-gay artists in line for awards

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Wednesday August 25, 2004 14:34author by pat c Report this post to the editors

BRITAIN’S leading black music awards were in disarray last night after two reggae stars under investigation for inciting homophobic violence were nominated despite assurances that such artists would be excluded.

Organisers of the Music of Black Origin Awards were satisfied that Beenie Man, a top-selling Jamaican reggae star associated with anti-homosexual lyrics, had been excluded from the poll after making pleas to the voting panel to ignore homophobic artists.

But gayrights campaigners were furious that Elephant Man and Vybz Kartel, Jamaican artists who have both advocated the killing of homosexuals in their lyrics, were nevertheless nominated for Best Reggae Single at the Mobo Awards. The organisers said that Elephant Man had renounced his anti-gay lyrics but they did not appear to have checked the track record of Vybz Kartel.

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