Brendan O'Neill

Winegums · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:04 pm **Posts:** 711

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Medical staff and social workers in particular are trained to view every cut and bruise as a potential sign of parental wickedness – that is, they are invited to be permanently suspicious of every family they see.

Twat. This is the same bullshit that popularised the "immigrant allowed to stay in UK because he has a cat" story.

Non-accidental injury has a varying index of suspicion. Based on the history of the injury, the history of the patient, how they are when they're sat with their parents, and their age; you can get a picture of how concerned you need to be. Social workers and teachers, I'm sure, build up a similar picture in their heads and decide if action needs taken.

Last month a 16 year old came in with a broken leg which happened during a rugby match. Oddly enough we didn't arrest his father on suspected child abuse. The two year old with marks around her neck where she had apparently strangled herself with a cord, however, did raise alarm.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:19 pm

Winegums wrote:

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Medical staff and social workers in particular are trained to view every cut and bruise as a potential sign of parental wickedness – that is, they are invited to be permanently suspicious of every family they see.

Twat. This is the same bullshit that popularised the "immigrant allowed to stay in UK because he has a cat" story.

Non-accidental injury has a varying index of suspicion. Based on the history of the injury, the history of the patient, how they are when they're sat with their parents, and their age; you can get a picture of how concerned you need to be. Social workers and teachers, I'm sure, build up a similar picture in their heads and decide if action needs taken.

Last month a 16 year old came in with a broken leg which happened during a rugby match. Oddly enough we didn't arrest his father on suspected child abuse. The two year old with marks around her neck where she had apparently strangled herself with a cord, however, did raise alarm.

We had a phase when we were constantly in A&E with youngest Fozzy who was quite accident prone. Strangely, we were never once arrested.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:23 pm

I was once severely questioned at A&E.

"How did you dislocate his elbow?"
"I was swinging him round my head."
"Why?"
"He asked me to."
"I see..."

But srsly, we were given guidelines on spotting non-accidental injuries in the 80s. And we used them, and I've called social services a number of times over suspicious bruising.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:22 am

so is Brendon going to do a "Le Pen is who real leftists should be voting for" article?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:11 pm

He wants a grown up debate about rape trials:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brend ... qus_thread

Get this:

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And thirdly, and worst of all, having anonymity for rape complainants contributes to the idea that women who have been raped have something to be ashamed of.

and this

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Judges who forbid the discussion of certain legal cases sound increasingly like they come from another planet; they haven't reckoned with the rule-breaking rabble that is Twitter, which is more than happy to expose and discuss supposedly secret info. In the case of rape trials, this is not such a bad thing. Much of the Ched Evans tweeting was clearly driven by an instinctive feeling that there is something wrong with a court case in which the defendant's identity is revealed whereas the complainant's is not. And this is true.

Funny, did any of those twitterers mention this legal point? Or were they cunts.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2848

Muslims, 'sex gangs' and white working-class women

ezinra · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2012 9:39 pm

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it isn’t really surprising that there are some cut-off, conservative ethnic groups which now view young, white, possibly “fallen” women as unworthy and acquire a superiority complex over white “slags”.

Take out the italicised words and is this any less true? How recently were those laundries still operating in Ireland?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2012 9:52 pm

There's a lot of amateur psychology in the reaction to these crimes. Who says the whiteness of the victims is actually important? Or that the attackers actually have any strong views about white people? Maybe it's just that the girls easiest to attack (in that they're less tightly controlled than Asian girls) are white.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2012 9:55 pm

From my reading of this the girls were 'vulnerable' - they were in care or otherwise neglected and unloved, possibly with learning difficulties. Precisely the sort of girls that predatory sex criminals of all ethnicities look for.

Althea · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2012 9:57 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

There's a lot of amateur psychology in the reaction to these crimes. Who says the whiteness of the victims is actually important? Or that the attackers actually have any strong views about white people? Maybe it's just that the girls easiest to attack (in that they're less tightly controlled than Asian girls) are white.

That's what I was thinking. I heard on the radio "Nine Asian men..." and I was fuming. Maybe their race does have something to do with it, but maybe not - considering the reporter said "it was ruled there was no racial link" or anything, it was ridiculous.

It's just xenophobia. You can bet that if it was 9 Caucasian men and young Asian girls, it wouldn't be reported in that manner.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7344

Althea wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

There's a lot of amateur psychology in the reaction to these crimes. Who says the whiteness of the victims is actually important? Or that the attackers actually have any strong views about white people? Maybe it's just that the girls easiest to attack (in that they're less tightly controlled than Asian girls) are white.

That's what I was thinking. I heard on the radio "Nine Asian men..." and I was fuming. Maybe their race does have something to do with it, but maybe not - considering the reporter said "it was ruled there was no racial link" or anything, it was ridiculous.

It's just xenophobia. You can bet that if it was 9 Caucasian men and young Asian girls, it wouldn't be reported in that manner.

I wonder what the readers in Thailand have to say.

Althea · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2012 10:21 pm

Bones McCoy wrote:

I wonder what the readers in Thailand have to say.

No. No. Just no. I don't want to know what they'd have to say.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2012 7:16 am

If a report started "nine White Christian men..." you can be pretty sure that the commentariat would cry foul, saying that race and religion had nothing to do with the case, a criminal's a criminal and so on (and by the way why aren't the police investigating more Asians?). Yes, it's racism pure and simple.

In his book, "The Lost Continent", Bill Bryson commented on a news report about a White girl raped by a black man. He said that you'd only get wording like that in the deep south.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2848

Rebekah Brooks: the only woman in Britain you’re allowed to be sexist about

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Brooks is treated as a modern-day siren – sorry, "flame-haired siren" – who ensnares powerful men with her seductive gaze and/or terrifying ambition. Yet when she complained to Robert Jay about his "gender-based" questioning, asking him why he was focusing on her "personal alchemy", there was not so much as a smidgen of support for her in the feminist sections of the liberal press. That is because the liberal press is most responsible for promoting the mad view that this one, terrifying, red-topped woman is responsible for corrupting both New Labour and now the Conservatives. She is treated as the Yoko Ono of modern British politics.

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The animosity towards Brooks is only partly motivated by her role in phone-hacking. A bigger chunk of it is driven by disgust for women who are "terrifyingly ambitious", especially those who come from the wrong side of the tracks.

This being the Telegraph, the comments are as loopy as ever:

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What I find mystifying about the Leveson inquiry now is that this was all brought about by the NOTW being accused of phone hacking Millie Dowlers phone when she went missing (and later found dead) and then a lot of minor celebrities jumped on the bandwagon and sued NOTW for supposedly hacking theirs. But the Police have now stated that Millies voice mail was not deleted by the NOTW but was erased automatically when her voice-mail box was full. If I was Rupert Murdoch I would be shifting heaven to hell to recoup monies that need not have been paid out in the first place. But nothing is being done... Why? Also that Police report seems to have been skimmed over quite fast.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7344

Brendan doesn't get it - it's all too difficult for little old Brendan - why are the big boys being horrid to mice mister Murdoch?

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