Laurie Wastell

London

Journalist at Freelance

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The 60 Minutes I Spent Trying to Persuade a BBC Presenter That Lucy Connolly is a Political Prisoner – The Daily Sceptic

4 days ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

This week I went on the BBC and argued that Lucy Connolly is a political prisoner. I must confess I was somewhat surprised to be asked to discuss this most hot button of issues on the Beeb, never known for giving airtime to narratives prominent on the populist Right. The programme was Anti-Social, an hour-long Radio 4 show which bills itself as “peace talks for the culture wars”, hosted by Adam Fleming.
The punishment of Lucy Connolly

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

The shocking case of Lucy Connolly is becoming a cause célèbre. In October, the Northampton childminder and wife of a Tory councillor received 31 months behind bars for stirring up racial hatred for a tweet on the night of the Southport massacre. Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, now says her sentence was ‘excessive’ and that she is the victim of a ‘politicised two-tier justice system’; former PM Liz Truss wants her ‘released immediately’.
The punishment of Lucy Connolly

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

The shocking case of Lucy Connolly is becoming a cause célèbre. In October, the Northampton childminder and wife of a Tory councillor received 31 months behind bars for stirring up racial hatred for a tweet on the night of the Southport massacre. Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, now says her sentence was ‘excessive’ and that she is the victim of a ‘politicised two-tier justice system’; former PM Liz Truss wants her ‘released immediately’.
The Scandal of Britain's Two-Tier Housing – The Daily Sceptic

2 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

I wrote here last week about how UK hate crime law is de facto two-tier, since our state is chiefly interested in pursuing such laws in order to punish alleged racism by white people, while tending to ignore it when it comes from ethnic minorities. This reflects a far wider feature of two-tier Britain: by intent and in practice, if not by its letter, anti-discrimination and equalities legislation only protects minorities.
See you next Two-Tier Tuesday

3 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Laurie Wastell

Those awful, woke sentencing guidelines are no more – but this is not the end of the battle. Share Topics Identity Politics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. At the 11th hour, by the skin of our teeth, England and Wales have avoided the two-tier sentencing regime we were set to be lumbered with today. Two-Tier Tuesday hasn’t come to pass after all.
British Justice Has Been Two-Tier for Decades – The Daily Sceptic

3 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

The recent decision by the Sentencing Council to make pre-sentence reports – which have been shown to reduce the likelihood of a custodial sentence – mandatory for ethnic minority offenders, while not for others, has understandably sparked outrage. Aimed at ‘addressing’ alleged disparities between the sentencing of ethnic minorities and whites, the new rules are two-tier by design.
Is There a Demoralisation Campaign Against White Boys? – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

One of the weirder tendencies of our liberal political-media class is a certain schizophrenia as to the strength of their many enemies, opposing forces and general bugbears. The forces of extremism, populism, authoritarianism – or anything else the BBC might dislike on a given day – are in the bien-pensant mind always simultaneously weak, pathetic, fit only for scorn and derision, and terrifying, dangerous and close to total victory.
The Attorney General’s Radical Past is Coming Back to Haunt Him – The Daily Sceptic

2 months ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

Whether it’s defending the likes of Gerry Adams and Shamima Begum, supporting slavery reparations, or his role in the ludicrous, dangerous surrender of the Chagos Islands, Richard, Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, seems the epitome of an evangelical human rights lawyer who can be relied on to side with so-called ‘international law’ against Britain’s national interest.
Questioning Covid and Climate Change is "Seditious" Says Britain's New Chief Censor – The Daily Sceptic

2 months ago | dailysceptic.org | Laurie Wastell

After the riots, the censors. For all that we now know about Axel Rudakubana’s horrific crimes, it remains the decided view in officialdom that the countrywide disorder that followed them last summer was principally caused by social media – or rather, by people speaking their minds on social media.
Our two-tier justice system only cares about some hate crimes

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Laurie Wastell

The growing public perception that we have a two-tier justice system in Britain today has Government officials worried. At least according to a leaked Home Office dossier that surfaced this week, which denounces “claims of ‘two-tier’ policing” as a “Right-wing extremist narrative” – one which, it laments, is now “leaking into mainstream debates”. Hysteria aside, clearly officialdom understands that the belief that woke sensibilities are distorting the justice system is deeply damaging.