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Laurie Wastell

London

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

  • The state’s Southport narrative is crumbling

    2 days ago | spectator.com.au | Laurie Wastell

    What really caused the countrywide unrest after the Southport massacre last summer? Last week, a report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), shed a much-needed light on this vital question. This was the second part of HMICFRS’s inspection of the police response to the public disorder that followed Axel Rudakubana’s attack on a dance class in Southport on 29 July, which killed three little girls.

  • The state’s Southport narrative is crumbling

    2 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Laurie Wastell

    What really caused the countrywide unrest after the Southport massacre last summer? Last week, a report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), shed a much-needed light on this vital question. This was the second part of HMICFRS’s inspection of the police response to the public disorder that followed Axel Rudakubana’s attack on a dance class in Southport on 29 July, which killed three little girls.

  • From ‘Horrific’ to ‘Dogwhistle’: Lucy Powell’s Change of Tack About the Rape Gang Scandal – The Daily Sceptic

    3 days ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

    “Horrific details of systematic child abuse in Oxford,” tweeted Lucy Powell in May 2013. A vile Oxfordshire grooming gang had just been convicted of the rape and sexual torture of six girls aged as young as 11, all of them in care; the following month, five of the seven men would receive life sentences. Their crimes had a “resonance [with] cases in Rochdale, Rotherham & elsewhere”, noted Powell – as she would know, having been elected the Labour MP for nearby Manchester Central the previous year.

  • Should Posting a Joke in Poor Taste on the Internet be a Crime? – The Daily Sceptic

    1 week ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

    A man facing jail for a “grossly offensive” Halloween costume has had his conviction successfully overturned on appeal after an intervention by the Free Speech Union (FSU). In October 2023, David Wootton posted to Facebook pictures of himself dressed as Salman Abedi, a costume he wore to a Halloween party. Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomber, murdered 22 people and injured over 1,000 at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017.

  • The Home Affairs Select Committee Report on the Southport Riots Gets One thing Right - the Authorities Shouldn’t Have Withheld Information About the Attacker For so Long - The Daily Sceptic

    2 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

    It is becoming increasingly obvious today that the British public has lost the trust of the British state. An official attitude of fear and loathing can be observed wherever one looks. The recent hysteria over the Netflix drama Adolescence, for instance, suggests that in Britain’s teenage boys, the powers that be see a gurning, misogynist army of would-be killers in need of urgent re-education.

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