Feb 19, 2024 02:23 AM
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"Lawless London" horror as boy, 17, is stabbed to death in Shoreditch - as police launch manhunt for attacker
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ditch.html
INTRO: A 17-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in east London. Police and paramedics were called to Hackney Road in Shoreditch, near the junction with Cremer Street, at about 10.50pm on Saturday.
The victim was found with stab injuries and died at the scene. Detective Chief Superintendent James Conway of the Metropolitan Police, who leads policing in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, said: 'My thoughts are with the family of the young person who has tragically lost his life.
'I can assure them that we will be relentless in seeking to identify whoever was responsible for this murder. Cordons are in place in Hackney Road for forensic examination of the scene and we have launched what will be an extremely thorough investigation, supported by specialists from across the Met." (MORE - details)
Mobile phones in schools: are they being banned? (not exactly)
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/02...ng-banned/
INTRO: By the age of 12, 97% of children own a mobile phone, but the use of mobile phones in school can lead to distractions, disruption and can increase the risk of online bullying. Many schools have already introduced rules which prohibit the use of phones at school, to help children focus on their education, and the friends and staff around them.
We’re introducing guidance which encourages all schools to follow this approach, so that more pupils can benefit from the advantages of a phone-free environment. Here’s everything you need to know.
The new guidance says that schools should prohibit the use of mobile phones, but they will have autonomy on how to do this.
Some may allow phones to be brought onto the premises but not to be used during school hours, including at breaktime. This brings England in line with other countries who have put in place similar rules, including France, Italy and Portugal... (MORE - details)
Islamism is exploiting Britain’s political vacuum. Our leaders have allowed fanaticism to thrive.
https://unherd.com/2024/02/islamism-is-e...al-vacuum/
EXCERPTS (Ayaan Hirsi Ali): Way back in 2005, when I was an MP in the Netherlands, my party was strategising about the upcoming local elections. [...] I explained why refusing to question the threat of Islamism wasn’t exactly a shrewd political tactic. Instead, I emphasised, we should be encouraging Muslim minorities to integrate and embrace Dutch values.
But the party sided with Griffith, I was put on the naughty step, and we lost the election. Yet even this didn’t give the leadership pause for thought, its main takeaway being: if we wanted to win in the country’s four largest cities, we should continue to give isolationist forms of Islam a free pass. As I was told over and over by my senior colleagues, it was numerical common sense.
Over the past 18 years, we have witnessed the repercussions of such “common sense” — and not just in the Netherlands. Across the West, the fracturing force of Islamism is causing once-mighty political traditions to creak. In France, for instance, Emmanuel Macron is now doing his best to talk tough on Islam in an attempt to claw back what political authority he hasn’t spent.
In the US, meanwhile, the Democrats have no such luxury: concerns are already starting to creep in that they could lose this year’s election if the pro-Palestine supporters mobilised by well-organised Islamists stay home in swing states. Already in Michigan, Rashida Talib has urged Democrats not to vote for Biden.
Even the United Kingdom, that island nation often seen as immune to radical forces, is now being forced to reckon with Islamism. In the week since the Labour Party suspended its candidate in Rochdale, much blame has been placed on a nebulous strain of antisemitism. What’s been missing, however, is an appreciation for where this prejudice so often originates: it is not just the product of an activist-decoloniser undergraduate politics, but of the party’s willingness to appease its Islamist voters.
This phenomenon, of course, extends well beyond the confines of Rochdale and one particular party. Rather, we are witnessing what Christopher Caldwell identified as “the revolution in Europe”. As far back as 2009, Caldwell observed how the mass immigration of Muslims was altering the culture of Europe. These new arrivals were, he noted, not enhancing the spirit of Europe’s cities but supplanting it. As he wrote: “When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident, and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter.” (MORE - missing details)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ditch.html
INTRO: A 17-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in east London. Police and paramedics were called to Hackney Road in Shoreditch, near the junction with Cremer Street, at about 10.50pm on Saturday.
The victim was found with stab injuries and died at the scene. Detective Chief Superintendent James Conway of the Metropolitan Police, who leads policing in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, said: 'My thoughts are with the family of the young person who has tragically lost his life.
'I can assure them that we will be relentless in seeking to identify whoever was responsible for this murder. Cordons are in place in Hackney Road for forensic examination of the scene and we have launched what will be an extremely thorough investigation, supported by specialists from across the Met." (MORE - details)
Mobile phones in schools: are they being banned? (not exactly)
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/02...ng-banned/
INTRO: By the age of 12, 97% of children own a mobile phone, but the use of mobile phones in school can lead to distractions, disruption and can increase the risk of online bullying. Many schools have already introduced rules which prohibit the use of phones at school, to help children focus on their education, and the friends and staff around them.
We’re introducing guidance which encourages all schools to follow this approach, so that more pupils can benefit from the advantages of a phone-free environment. Here’s everything you need to know.
The new guidance says that schools should prohibit the use of mobile phones, but they will have autonomy on how to do this.
Some may allow phones to be brought onto the premises but not to be used during school hours, including at breaktime. This brings England in line with other countries who have put in place similar rules, including France, Italy and Portugal... (MORE - details)
Islamism is exploiting Britain’s political vacuum. Our leaders have allowed fanaticism to thrive.
https://unherd.com/2024/02/islamism-is-e...al-vacuum/
EXCERPTS (Ayaan Hirsi Ali): Way back in 2005, when I was an MP in the Netherlands, my party was strategising about the upcoming local elections. [...] I explained why refusing to question the threat of Islamism wasn’t exactly a shrewd political tactic. Instead, I emphasised, we should be encouraging Muslim minorities to integrate and embrace Dutch values.
But the party sided with Griffith, I was put on the naughty step, and we lost the election. Yet even this didn’t give the leadership pause for thought, its main takeaway being: if we wanted to win in the country’s four largest cities, we should continue to give isolationist forms of Islam a free pass. As I was told over and over by my senior colleagues, it was numerical common sense.
Over the past 18 years, we have witnessed the repercussions of such “common sense” — and not just in the Netherlands. Across the West, the fracturing force of Islamism is causing once-mighty political traditions to creak. In France, for instance, Emmanuel Macron is now doing his best to talk tough on Islam in an attempt to claw back what political authority he hasn’t spent.
In the US, meanwhile, the Democrats have no such luxury: concerns are already starting to creep in that they could lose this year’s election if the pro-Palestine supporters mobilised by well-organised Islamists stay home in swing states. Already in Michigan, Rashida Talib has urged Democrats not to vote for Biden.
Even the United Kingdom, that island nation often seen as immune to radical forces, is now being forced to reckon with Islamism. In the week since the Labour Party suspended its candidate in Rochdale, much blame has been placed on a nebulous strain of antisemitism. What’s been missing, however, is an appreciation for where this prejudice so often originates: it is not just the product of an activist-decoloniser undergraduate politics, but of the party’s willingness to appease its Islamist voters.
This phenomenon, of course, extends well beyond the confines of Rochdale and one particular party. Rather, we are witnessing what Christopher Caldwell identified as “the revolution in Europe”. As far back as 2009, Caldwell observed how the mass immigration of Muslims was altering the culture of Europe. These new arrivals were, he noted, not enhancing the spirit of Europe’s cities but supplanting it. As he wrote: “When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident, and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter.” (MORE - missing details)