Far-right activists banned from entering Britain

Police were called to the home of Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, in the early hours of Friday morning after neighbours heard a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging.

The argument could be heard outside the property where the potential future prime minister is living with Symonds, a former Conservative party head of press.

A neighbour told the Guardian they heard a woman screaming followed by “slamming and banging”. At one point Symonds could be heard telling Johnson to “get off me” and “get out of my flat”.

The neighbour said that after becoming concerned they knocked on the door but received no response. “I [was] hoping that someone would answer the door and say ‘We’re okay’. I knocked three times and no one came to the door.”

The neighbour decided to call 999. Two police cars and a van arrived within minutes, shortly after midnight, but left after receiving reassurances from both the individuals in the flat that they were safe.

When contacted by the Guardian on Friday, police initially said they had no record of a domestic incident at the address. But when given the case number and reference number, as well as identification markings of the vehicles that were called out, police issued a statement saying: “At 00:24hrs on Friday, 21 June, police responded to a call from a local resident in [south London]. The caller was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour.

“Police attended and spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well. There were no offences or concerns apparent to the officers and there was no cause for police action.”

A minister and key Boris Johnson ally dismissed the police being called to investigate a screaming row at his home as a “non-story” and attacked the “lefty neighbours” who alerted them.

Ben Wallace, the security minister, later deleted the tweet after criticism – while a leading grassroots Conservative said the controversy would quickly “puff up and blow away”.

But a senior Labour MP, Mary Creagh, said the incident raised questions, saying: “We have seen in the past, with Boris Johnson, that he seems to have a problem with women.”

Mr Johnson's team have refused to comment on the domestic dispute at the south London flat he shares with his young girlfriend Carrie Symonds, a former Tory aide.

The Sun reported earlier this year that, according to the Acid Survivors Trust International, the UK “has one of the highest rates of acid attacks per capita in the world”.

Acid attacks have nearly tripled in the UK in a four year time span, from 228 attacks in 2012 to 601 attacks in 2016. Approximately half of the attacks occur in the capital city of London.

This is a problem we hear little about.

It has been in all media, it has been mentioned (and discussed) in a thread on A2K.

Tommy Robinson’s Right to Free Speech Morally Trumps All Laws That Violate It. (Even That One.) — UK Version

If we look at the full context of relevant facts surrounding this case, however, we can see that the real reason Robinson was arrested and jailed is that he has spoken out vociferously against jihad, Sharia law, Islam-inspired child rape, and mass Islamic immigration into England.

Whether Robinson is right or wrong about any of that is beside the point here. People have a moral right to speak their minds regardless of whether they are right or wrong (so long as they do not incite violence, commit fraud, or the like). As Ayn Rand put it, “The principle of free speech is not concerned with the content of a man’s speech and does not protect only the expression of good ideas, but all ideas. If it were otherwise, who would determine which ideas are good and which are forbidden? The government?”2 (Alas, in the UK, apparently, yes.)

Thank God we have CJ to explain everything, said no one ever.

Two thirds of Conservative Party members believe that parts of Britain “operate under Sharia law”, a new poll has shown amid a mounting Islamophobia scandal.

A YouGov poll found that almost half of Tories believed in the myth of no-go zones where “non-Muslims are not able to enter” and 39 per cent thought Islamist terror attacks “reflected widespread hostility to Britain among the Muslim community”.

Counter-extremism group Hope Not Hate called on leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to address the “Islamophobia crisis” in their party.

“From the grassroots to the great offices of state, Conservative members buy into racist myths, with almost half unwilling to have a Muslim prime minister – and only 8 per cent being proud to have one – and most denying that there’s even an issue to confront,” said campaigns director Matthew McGregor.

Shortly after Sajid Javid was knocked out of the contest, 43 per cent of members agreed with the statement that: “I would prefer to not have the country led by a Muslim.”

Now I'm looking forward to the most knowledgeable explanations of our resident specialist.

Those are the uninformed arseholes

Hundreds of far-right revelers were left feeling thirsty at the Schild und Schwert Festival (Shield and Sword Festival) held in the German state of Saxony over the weekend.

A court in the state's capital Dresden had already imposed a ban on the sale of alcohol and possession of alcohol at the event in an attempt to prevent violent incidents.

Saxony police revealed they confiscated more than 4000 liters of beer from those attending the event.

But Ostritz locals went one step further, buying out the town's entire beer supply to ensure neo-Nazi visitors had little chance of getting their hands on an alcoholic beverage.

"The plan was devised a week in advance. We wanted to dry the Nazis out," Ostritz activist, Georg Salditt, told the Bild newspaper.

"We thought, if an alcohol ban is coming, we'll empty the shelves."


Saxony Premier Michael Kretschmer praised the locals' actions and those that took part in protests countering white-supremacist views over the weekend.

"I am very impressed with how in such a small town…the citizens stand up to make it clear that right-wing extremists are not wanted here," Mr Kretschmer told the DPA news agency.

Self-styled “yellow vest” protester James Goddard has been found guilty of assaulting a news photographer at a demonstration in Manchester.

Goddard was convicted of the offence after Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard he grabbed at Joel Goodman’s camera as he covered the protest in the city centre.

He was cleared of using threatening words or behaviour to cause his victim to fear “immediate” violence at the same rally on 9 February this year.

As Mr Goodman entered the witness box to give evidence in Tuesday's trial, Goddard surreptitiously held up a piece of paper on which he had written: ”Pussy coward leftist soy boy.”

Police officers were called into the court to seize the piece of paper and Goddard was warned he may be in contempt of court, but district judge Mark Hadfield chose to allow proceedings to continue.

After hearing evidence from both Mr Goodman and Goddard, the judge convicted the defendant of common assault.

Goddard was cleared of using threatening words or behaviour in relation to him telling Mr Goodman: “I swear to god when there’s no police around here, I’m going to take your head off your shoulders ... Your card is marked."

Goddard told the court his words were a “common English idiom”.

He was fined £300 for the common assault, and ordered to pay £500 in prosecution costs, £50 compensation to Mr Goodman, and a £30 victim impact surcharge.

The judge also imposed a two-year restraining order banned Goddard from approaching the photographer.

Goddard has been seen as the ringleader of the UK's "yellow vest" movement, which has seen right-wing activists block bridges in London and heckle politicians and journalists outside parliament.

has been found guilty of assaulting a news photographer