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Diary Blog, 3 August 2025

Afternoon music

Nearly a year ago

Was just looking at a blog post from nearly a year ago, which (like most of them, if I say so myself) has held up fairly well, I think.

Britain, 2025

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/03/violent-anti-racism-protester-avoids-jail-attacking-police/

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25119560.post-southport-protester-caroline-leneghan-escapes-jail/

First (relevant) offence:

A left-wing activist who assaulted a man at an immigration demonstration in the wake of the Southport killings has walked free from court, prompting more accusations of a two-tier justice system.

Caroline Leneghan grabbed an iPhone off of victim Dylan Fontaine and smashed it in the ground during a heated exchange at the event in Bournemouth.

The former NHS nurse then physically lunged at him when he attempted to pick it up.

Based on his appearance, Leneghan yelled out that he was a racist and a fascist, inciting others to ‘swarm’ around him and putting him in fear of being attacked.

In fact Mr Fontaine is a white Muslim convert and was at the demonstration in support of asylum seekers.

Despite this and the fact Leneghan has shown no remorse, she walked free with a six month prison sentence suspended for two years.

District Judge Orla Austin said it was only the fact Leneghan was 20 weeks pregnant that she was not going to jail.

[Bournemouth Echo]

Second (relevant) offence:

“Violent anti-racism protester avoids jail for attacking police.

A Left-wing activist has avoided jail for a second time after attacking a police officer.

Caroline Leneghan, 43, assaulted the female officer while being arrested for being drunk and disorderly at a pub in Pokesdown, Dorset, on Dec 27 last year.

Leneghan previously escaped prison for assaulting a man at a migrant hotel protest.

Poole magistrates’ court heard the police van taking Leneghan to the station after the police officer assault had to stop twice because of her violent outbursts in the back.

At one stage, the former NHS nurse slipped out of her handcuffs and was said to have brandished them at the officer like a weapon before being restrained.

After pleading guilty to assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and the use of threatening language, Leneghan was fined £80 and ordered to pay £100 compensation to the officer she assaulted.

David Finney, prosecuting, told magistrates: “The defendant is alleged to have run towards a security guard to confront them and was described as shouting and screaming, so she was arrested for being drunk and disorderly and handcuffed.”

He added: “The officer said she feared she was going to be assaulted with the handcuffs.”

Juliet Osborne, mitigating, said Leneghan was pregnant and in a “heightened” state outside the pub as her former partner had been racially abused by a group of men.

She said Leneghan had been in “excruciating” pain as the handcuffs had trapped a nerve on her wrist.

Ms Osborne added: “She has reflected on the incident and expresses remorse and regrets the fact that [the police officer] felt she was in danger. It was not her intention to make her feel that way.”

In April, Leneghan walked free with a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years, convicted of assaulting a man at an immigration demonstration in the wake of the Southport killings.

During the rally in the summer of 2025, Leneghan snatched an iPhone from Dylan Fontaine and smashed it on the ground. Leneghan then lunged at Mr Fontaine when he attempted to pick it up.

Leneghan also accused Mr Fontaine of being a racist and a Fascist, incited others to “swarm” around him, and put him in fear of being attacked.

The 43-year-old denied charges of assault and criminal damage but was found guilty.

District Judge Orla Austin said it was because Leneghan was 20 weeks pregnant that she was not going to jail.

Leneghan was ordered to pay Mr Fontaine £300 compensation, £200 court costs and a victim surcharge of £154.

Leneghan’s suspended sentence came after allegations of “two-tier justice” over the way the authorities handle Left-wing versus Right-wing disorder and protest.

Her sentence for the migrant hotel incident was not taken into account during her trial for the police officer assault, because the offence was committed before her April sentencing.

[Daily Telegraph]

Lucky defendant…

In fact, there are several aspects to those two cases involving one (crazed “pisshead” pseudo-political “activist” woman) defendant that make them interesting from the socio-political and legal points of view.

First of all, look at that defendant (presumably of Irish origin at some point). Thank God she is no longer an NHS nurse. I should be interested to see what other previous convictions she has (which would not have been —considered— “relevant” to sentencing). I would be prepared to bet that there were some.

I note that the defendant’s “previous partner” was (claimed to have been) “racially abused“. So non-white, visibly non-Brit/non-European.

No occupation noted for the defendant, so probably an unemployed single mother of a mixed-race child, with the father not en poste except as a drinking partner…

Poor once-great Britain…

I also note that the defendant was drinking heavily at the time of the second offence, despite being pregnant at the time. Not illegal (though it should be), but it says a lot about her. You can see from the newspaper photos that she is what is often termed a “pisshead”, probably without the willpower or inclination to stop drinking during her pregnancy.

Fortunately for her, I was not the sentencing “judge” (magistrate).

[me as London barrister, circa 1992/1993, and looking serious for some reason unknown]

Many, commenting on that defendant’s first conviction, have noted that Lucy Connolly was sentenced last year to over 2 and a half years in prison merely for having tweeted (or similar) that places housing migrant-invaders should be burned to the ground, or that she did not care if that were to happen. Lucy Connolly has two young (white British) daughters, and a husband with serious health problems.

Incidentally, I notice that the district judge who initially sentenced that “antifa” crazie at Poole has an Irish first name, though I doubt that that is relevant.

I myself was quite wrongly tried and convicted (2023) and sentenced (2024) for having allegedly posted a few comments and cartoons online criticizing or mocking (mainly) Jew-Zionists, corrupt MPs, and Israel:

See also:

As regular readers will know, I long ago also wrote a blog piece about the link between the “antifa” element, “anti-racism”, and mental illness, as well as the frequently-seen links to Jew-Zionist fanaticism:

It also occurs to me that, once again, a woman police officer was found not to have the strength or controlled aggression necessary in dealing with a very violent offender.

Tweets seen

Without the massive amount of Western aid, “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) would have collapsed 3 years ago.

At first, people will turn to the electoral system, initially to Reform UK. At first…

Starmer is not only in the wrong job but also strikes me as being an idiot, certainly in terms of geopolitics. Actually, he seems at sea in the legal milieu too. A rather nasty box-ticking file clerk type, given unmerited power for a short time. An Israel/Jewish-lobby puppet, with a Jewish wife, and children being brought up as if fully-Jewish.

Looking at the uselessness of the British police in most circumstances, those prisoners must be the stupid ones…

More music

Late tweets seen

[“Trump should not prolong the war in Ukraine just to spite Putin The conflict is a tragedy, but further American intervention will only delay the inevitable” The American publication The American Conservative reports that Russia’s victory in Ukraine is a matter of time and that Trump should stop dragging out this process. The article notes that Russia has “sufficient military superiority to achieve its main objectives,” while Ukraine’s hopes of regaining lost territories are described as nothing more than “fantasies” without a “realistic scenario” for success.“]

Russia can and should continue its advance until all Ukraine east of the Dnieper is under Russian rule. Kiev and Odessa should be “free cities” not under direct Russian/Ukrainian rule. Western Ukraine, except for the Black Sea/Sea of Azov littoral and Crimea, can then be an independent but neutral Ukrainian state centred on Lvov.

Even the anti-Russia UK/US msm have given up their former fantasies about Kiev-regime forces advancing on major Russian cities, and even on Moscow and Petersburg. Now, they limit themselves to pretending to think that Russian forces will not make “much” more progress, and that the Russian economy will “collapse”, or a popular uprising unseat Putin.

In reality, the Russian economy is doing at least as well as the EU and UK economies, and Putin, while flawed, is still far more popular in Russia than Starmer-stein is in the UK, or Macron in France, or Merz in Germany, let alone that evil little sprite, Ursula von der Leyen.

The reality behind the proscription is that the Jew-Zionist lobby in the UK wants to ban everything and everyone they perceive as hostile to Jewish or Israeli power and influence. It has nothing to do with real “terrorism” or the like.

People are waking up to “them” now, though.

Wall. Squad. End.

So much for “free speech” in a so-called (once-called) “free country”…

Late music

[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Nothing Works Any More

I saw this newspaper report today:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenagers-horrific-injuries-after-telling-18211982

What struck me, apart from the violent and cowardly attack on the girl victim and a friend of hers, was how useless every public service was proven to be. I leave aside my surprise (and disapproval) that a girl of 18 is in a Manchester nightclub at 0330 and leaves on foot to walk home.

Read the report above.

Initially, the victim and her friend (apparently a teenage boy who was also a victim), were helped by some civilian volunteers who offered to call an ambulance. The victims refused because they were told that there would be a 2 hour wait. Two hours! The victim(s) then went to hospital by taxi. The hospital simply dispensed eye drops and told the girl to go home. When she returned to hospital a day or so later, she was told that she has a blood clot on one eye. The police were informed of the attack, but no police officer has spoken to the victim. The victim utilized social media, as a result of which a witness has come forward. The police have made no comment to the newspapers. The local council has offered to check cctv for film of the attack or suspects.

In case anyone knows anything and, by some statistical miracle, reads this blog, the main suspect is white, about 5 feet 8 inches in height, and was wearing a pink T-shirt. I am no detective, but I should have thought that the starting point would be the nightclub interior cctv…

My point in writing about this is not just because the behaviour of the criminals outrages me (and makes me wonder whether flogging should be reintroduced as suitably condign punishment in such cases) and not just because I feel sorry for the girl (and her friend). My point is that this case shows that, all too often, things are just not working in our society.

In the case displayed here, the girl was let down by general public safety (police, primarily), by the ambulance service, by the NHS hospital A & E service, by the police. Had the perpetrators been caught, if they are caught now, the CPS and magistrates will no doubt also let her down.

As Napoleon is supposed to have said, “there are many reasons for failure, but never an excuse.” Funding for public services has been cut drastically in the past decade. That is obviously a factor. How, though, does that explain (still less excuse) the “polyclinic” approach apparently adopted by the hospital, or its failure to make a proper diagnosis? I concede that my knowledge of clinical-medical matters is limited, but even so…

Is lack of funding of police personnel really the only reason why the victim has not been interviewed? Yes, she was knocked unconscious, but still might recall identifying details from before that. Also, it would reassure her that she is not alone in a jungle.

Is the police force doing what it can (eg checking nightclub cctv) to track down the suspects? Why was the social media appeal left to the victim to do?

One sees everywhere, now, “things not working right”, from the NHS and police, through rail and road maintenance, every aspect of the justice system (from CPS and police to sentencing, probation and prisons), the postal service (still mostly OK), the planning system, education at every level, the DWP and its post-2005 “torture the unemployed and disabled” ethos, the armed forces, Parliament. Everything, pretty much; and it is unlikely that a government headed by Boris-Idiot will be able (or even try) to improve matters.

My feeling is that the UK is still in many respects in that state of which a 1960s senior civil servant said (I think, to Anthony Sampson) that his job was “the management of decline”, but more so. Further down the steepening slide. The migration-invasion of the blacks and browns, the destruction of culture in the msm etc, have accelerated that process.

Only a truly focussed social national government can fix this country.

Afterthought

I should not like it thought that my criticisms devolve mainly on individuals working in public service. No doubt most of those who work in the police, NHS etc do their best most of the time. I criticize, primarily, the system(s), the decisions taken, and the management.

I do not know Manchester well, in fact scarcely at all. I have been there a few times, many years ago now, driving straight to the Manchester County Court (there being a massive open-air car park nearby, close to an overhead rail line) and then driving away as quickly as possible. Apart from that, my only visit was to the Manchester Royal Infirmary in or about 1985, accompanying a member of the Georgian State Dance ensemble from the Soviet Union.

The dancer (who spoke only Russian and Georgian) had cut several fingers to the bone while practising, pre-performance, with his razor-sharp Georgian sword (the swords have to be that sharp in order to create showers of sparks during the mock fights that are part of the dance performance).

Even back then, some 34 years ago, we had to wait for about 30 mins or more to be seen, though the nurses tried to expedite it for me and were very pleasant (and very pretty, though perhaps my memory is sugar-coating things for me…).

Update, 17 July 2019

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/baby-left-starve-after-doctors-18327129