It’s Not Like We’d Listen To Them Any More…

Environmental organisations “are still very white, especially at the top”, the co-director of Greenpeace has said as research showed little to no improvement in the ethnic diversity of their workforces. Areeba Hamid’s comments came as the third annual racial action on the climate emergency (Race) report into diversity among environmental charities found fewer than one in 20 of those working in the sector identified as people of colour or as other racial or ethnic minority groups. The average among the UK workforce is 16%, or just more than one in eight.

Quite why they believe this is necessary I don’t know - it’s not as if I’m going to pay any more attention to their nonsense if it’s spouted by a brown face rather than a white one… 

“Environmental organisations are still very white, especially at the top,” Hamid said. “I find myself in CEO meetings where I’m the only person of colour in the room, and it just doesn’t feel right in 21st-century Britain. ”

It would have felt very right just a few decades ago, I can’t help but think. 

The lack of improvement comes despite environment institutions’ apparent efforts and willingness to engage. Researchers said 161 – the highest number yet – had provided data, including all the UK’s largest environment NGOs. Together they represented 28,600 employees, more than double the number of workers accounted for in the previous year’s report, giving researchers the best picture yet of racial diversity in the sector.

Manu Maunganidze, part of the team that published the report, said: “The more we uncover, the more we realise there’s still much work to do – but that’s not a setback, as long as we stay committed and grounded in why racial diversity matters in the first place.”

 Why?

“People of colour may be minoritised in the UK but, globally, they’re on the frontlines of climate change. Those most affected by environmental disasters – floods, wildfires, rising tides – are too often those who aren’t given a seat at the table. This is why representation is so critical.”

So you need more diversity because those in the home countries are suffering? Well, why not go do it in those countries and not the UK? 

Well, That's A Relief, I'd Been Looking Forward To The Next Season Of 'Line Of Duty'...

...and if this wretched prune-faced little ballsack had got his way, each episode would only need to be 10 minutes long.

Sir Mark said the force now did not have any mechanism to get rid of officers who were not fit to keep their vetted status, including officers who "cannot be trusted to work with women" or "enter the homes of vulnerable people".

Really? No, Reader. What this little weasel was attempting to do was swerve employment law.  

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey"

However, Mrs Justice Lang said the dismissal process which had been used by the Met was unlawful as those suspected of wrongdoing were denied an opportunity to defend themselves.

Specifically, instead of - when an allegation is made - going to the trouble of investigating and charging the officer, he wanted to yank their vetting and say 'Well, now they can't work, so we'll sack them!' 

No need to get Kate Fleming mic'd up to go undercover any more. Steve Arnott won't even get time to wink at a likely new conquest before it's all wrapped up extrajudicially and they're all in the pub.

The Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents officers, backed Sgt Di Maria's judicial review and welcomed the ruling, saying it was about "ensuring a fair, but more importantly, legal process was in place".

"The Metropolitan Police must recognise the law and - it goes without saying - operate within it. That's what today's ruling clearly emphasises," it said in a statement.

Well, indeed! Now we're sucking diesel. 

Well, One Part Of His 'Identity' Is Now Clear....

Amid the day long cross-examination by Mrs Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham, Dr Upton repeatedly said she was not a man. And Dr Upton told Ms Cunningham: ‘I am biologically female.’

The medic, who said the terms biological male and female had ‘no defined and agreed meaning in science’, told the tribunal: ‘Biological sex is a nebulous term and it doesn’t really mean anything, because nobody can accurately or usefully define biological sex because pretty much every human I’m aware of is at least in part biological and many of them have a sex characteristic.’

Dr Upton, who has worked for NHS Fife since August 2023, claimed gender is a ‘rough binary’.

Pretty rough, like his appearance? 

Dr Upton denied Ms Cunningham’s suggestion that the Christmas Eve encounter ‘ended at a time of your choosing once you’re satisfied you have asserted your dominance over her’.

‘It’s a gross mischaracterisation of what I’m trying to do. What I’m trying to do is de-escalate the situation.

‘And you can tell I’ve been trying to de-escalate the situation because I’ve repeatedly tried to de-escalate it throughout and the claimant [Mrs Peggie] has continued with pejorative and aggressive questioning.’

...overbearing, arrogant, heedless of how he comes across to normal people, unable to put up with someone challenging him, ignorant of the basic knowledge necessary for his job? 

Yup. He's an NHS doctor, all right.

Anyone wanting to hear more from this utter clown show should follow Tribunal Tweets for all the latest insanity.

And Then, We'll Charge The Makers Of 'Gladiator 2' With Cruelty To Animals...?

It would make as much sense, with all the strangling of CGI baboons...

Most of the laws that prohibit the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse imagery have been in place since the 1990s. Back then, Photoshop was in its infancy. The physical photographs that paedophiles shared were no less vile, but they were easier for the police to seize and destroy. Since then, technology has completely changed the way these people operate, making it possible to create and distribute horrifyingly life-like images and videos of children in seconds.

Yes, 'life-like'. It's not real. But maybe there are cases of real harm. Give us a 'for instance', will you?

A 15-year-old girl rang the NSPCC recently. An online stranger had edited photos from her social media to make fake nude images. The images showed her face and, in the background, you could see her bedroom. The girl was terrified that someone would send them to her parents and, worse still, the pictures were so convincing that she was scared her parents wouldn’t believe that they were fake.

And will this go down as 'a sexual assault of a child' in official government figures? I bet it will. Making the figures utterly worthless, since no-one's actually been assaulted. 

That is why we are taking urgent action through a raft of new offences that will finally close the legal loopholes that paedophiles are exploiting to ruin young lives. If you are found in possession of a “paedophile manual”, you will now face years in jail. For the first time, we’ll imprison the people who are making the AI models that generate child sexual abuse material. Those who run or moderate websites where paedophiles share advice on how to groom children and avoid detection will spend a decade behind bars.

And where are you going to build all the extra jail space that will be needed, since they are actually at bursting point? Or will you simply let out genuine abusers to put away people getting naughty with pixels? 

The Solution Is Surely In The Hands Of Your ARVs

Enforcing a ban on XL bully dogs is placing a huge burden on policing with millions of pounds spent on veterinary bills and kennelling, police chiefs have said. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said kennel spaces were reaching capacity, with costs “increasing by the day”. It said veterinary bills and the cost of kennelling banned dog breeds had risen from £4m in 2018 to more than £11m between February and September 2024. It can cost about £1,000 a month to keep an XL bully in kennels.

What evidential value do they have alive that they don't have dead? None. So when called out to an attack, stop seizing them alive! 

And insist the courts impose financial penalties on the moron owners.  

Mark Hobrough, the NPCC’s lead for dangerous dogs, said the ban was placing a huge burden on policing. Hobrough, the chief constable of Gwent police, said: “We are facing a number of challenges in kennel capacity, resourcing and ever-mounting costs, and as of today we have not received any additional funding to account for this. We urgently need the government to support us in coping with the huge demand the ban has placed on our ever-stretched resources.” Hobrough said conversations were ongoing with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs but there was no formal agreement “whereby any funding has come into any police force to account for these additional demand factors”.

Perhaps they, too, believe the answer's staring you in the face, Mark? Getting rid of the dog enthusiasts in the ranks would be a good idea too...

The NPCC tactical lead, Supt Patrick O’Hara, said he did not think all XL bullies were automatically dangerous but they had the “propensity” to be by their “sheer size and power”. O’Hara said: “In the right hands, with the right socialisation, with a really responsible owner, a lot of those dogs will never come to notice.”

Which is what, some sort of comfort to the bereaved pet owners and families of savaged children and adults? 

Want To Kill Someone And Guarantee A Lenient Sentence, But Can't Drive?

Don't despair! Just get a fighting breed dog! 

The owner of an XL bully dog which chased and killed a man has been jailed for three years. Ian Langley, 54, was mauled in Shiney Row, near Sunderland, on 3 October 2023, and died in hospital from "catastrophic" neck injuries.

No, it didn't do so off its own initiative. It was set on the victim:

Shortly before 19:00 BST on 3 October 2023, Mr Langley, who came from Liverpool and was known in the area as "Scouse", threw a stone at Bell's Maple Terrace home and smashed a window, prosecutor Jolyon Perks said.

Bell ran out of the house and chased Mr Langley and his XL bully dogs Titan and Sapphire followed through the open front door, Mr Perks said.

Titan overtook Bell and, after about 330ft (100m), dragged Mr Langley to the floor and clamped its jaws around Mr Langley's neck, the court heard.

If he'd run out of his kitchen with a knife and cut the man's throat, or with his car keys and run the victim down, would he have got such a paltry sentence? 

Given he has 32 convictions for 69 offences on his record, shouldn't that count towards him being banged up for longer? 

The dog "firmly resisted" all attempts to pull it away, Mr Perks said, and Mr Langley suffered "catastrophic injuries". Bell was eventually able to remove Titan and took him home before returning to Mr Langley's side and calling 999.

Armed police killed Titan at the scene, with Sapphire also later put down, the court heard. When officers arrived, Bell, now of De La Pole Avenue in Hull, told them to "just kill" the dogs, Mr Perks said.

It's great when the police dispose of the murder weapon for you aheead of a trial, isn't it?

The court heard Titan had savaged the leg of a Yorkshire terrier after escaping from Bell's home in July 2022, with Bell asking people for a lighter so he could try and burn his pet's nose to get it to release the other dog. In June 2023, both Titan and Sapphire got out and attacked another dog for up to 10 minutes, with the ordeal ending after Bell threw water over them.

And of course, because it was considered just 'dog on dog' and not an indicator of future issues, nothing was done. What a pity Mr Bell's grieving relatives can't sue the police for that. 

Bell was was also disqualified from having custody of a dog indefinitely.

Which might mean something, if only there was any mechanism in place to check.  

Why Is A Policy Required For Something That Shouldn’t Exist?

Councillors are set to discuss adopting a revised version of the Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit.

Wait, the what?! 

The toolkit, designed to help staff and governors in Brighton and Hove's schools and colleges create inclusive policies for trans children, will be considered at the Brighton and Hove City Council cabinet meeting on January 23.

'Trans children' don't exist any more than vegan cats do.... 

This will be the fifth version of the toolkit, which has been regularly updated since its first release in 2013 to reflect changing legislation.

Changing legislation desperately trying to snuff out this nonsense, I hope. 

The consultation on the review of the toolkit included an online consultation, engagement sessions involving local schools to gain the views of young people, and a number of focus groups.The feedback received covered a range of opinions, with the majority either in support of the toolkit or feeling it should go further to promote and safeguard the rights of trans and non-binary children.

Well, it IS Brighton and Hove... 

Respondents from outside the city were more negative about the toolkit.

Sanity! 

They Must Love You On eBay, Cherry!

A statue of Noddy has been saved from being thrown away after a council bought it for £500.

Did they have a whipround in the council chambers, I wonder, or did they just dive into the Bank of Taxparer again? 

For more than 20 years the Enid Blyton character has sat in his car outside the toy shop Piccola in Epping, Essex. After the shop's owners decided to retire and close up, Epping Town Council acquired the figure so it could remain part of the town.

Why? I mean, I would have paid £500 to have it dumped!  

Cherry McCredie, the town's mayor and Epping Town councillor, said: "All High Streets are changing and independent shops are departing. To lose the much loved Piccola as the owners of Noddy were retiring was bad enough, but to lose dear Noddy was even worse."

Get a fucking grip woman! You don't even know where you're going to put the thing? 

Piccola had been on Epping High Street for the past 58 years. McCredie added: "At the town council meeting, [on] 14 January, we will be discussing plans for his new site, maybe even a great unveiling!"

Noddy's new location in the town is yet to be revealed by the authority.

Maybe they should make it Mayor?  

H/T: IanJ via email

Some ‘Gladiator’

Police are investigating after Gladiators star Apollo was reportedly harassed by a stalker on set, at his flat and during a meet-and-greet with fans. Security has been increased around the star, real name Alex Gray, 33, one of several athletes appearing in the hit BBC One show, The Sun on Sunday reports.

A woman targeted Gray at TV studios in Sheffield, an apartment block where he was staying and during a personal appearance at a shopping centre, the newspaper said.

 Russell Crowe's gladiator needed no security to fend off stalking pussy....

*Checks Calendar* Nope, Still Winter

 I got this on Friday when I checked my Tube app:

'Leaf fall'? What leaves are left that haven't already fallen? 

Haven't They Seen The NHS Poster Campaigns?

A growing number of doctors across a wide range of specialties have done away with routine patient weigh-ins...

What?! Why? 

...in an effort to avoid weight shaming, but others argue this obscures a critical health metric.

Well, d'uh!  

Patients are typically weighed as a first step at a routine doctor visit. But the standard practice is increasingly falling out of favor as more and more people say this makes others feel shame about their weight, which sends them running from the doctor, even when they’re having health issues.

Just not running very fast, or very far? 

Nowadays, patients can deny consent to be weighed, even handing over business cards with bold lettering saying, ‘Please Don’t Weigh Me Unless It’s (Really) Medically Necessary. ' This is an effort from an eating disorder advocacy group to empower patients.

Doctors simply need to say 'It IS medically necessary' and point to the medical diploma on the wall.

 Christ, what the hell is wrong with the medical profession? First they pandered to the men who think they are women, and now - despite the NHS obesity guidance that surrounds them in their working lives - they are pandering to the 'fat is beautiful' nutters too?

When the next pandemic hits, who is going to listen to a word they say?

Who Is Bankrolling This?

Is it us, the long-suffering taxpayer? I bet it is....

Pub bosses and punters working at Saracens Head pubs across the UK have rallied around a landlord who is being taken to court by a convicted terrorist because he is 'deeply offended' by the name.

Khalid Baqa, who was jailed for four years for preparing Jihadi propaganda, has sparked outrage by trying to win nearly £2,000 from the Saracens Head Inn in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He described the 'depiction of a bearded Arab/Turk' on the pub's sign as racist and also insisted the depiction 'incites violence'.

For once, they aren't rolling over for a quiet life.  

Pub landlord Robbie Hayes has vowed to fight back against the lawsuit - and he is being backed by other Saracens Head establishments across the UK.

Good for them! If only other organisations had done the same, maybe this cheeky little shit wouldn't be trying his luck. 

Baqa has filed a 'claim of money' form an application to county court for a sum of cash a person believes they are owed. His application was previously referred to a small claims court.

Why wasn't it simply thrown out then and there?

H/T: Macheath via comments 

There Is No Real Question

Like most hearing parents of deaf children, my first close relationship with a deaf person was with my child. Despite a relatively broad cultural education, I knew next to nothing about hearing loss or deaf culture. What little I had absorbed was an incomplete and almost entirely inaccurate patchwork of pop culture snippets – the mother’s horror when her baby doesn’t react to the fire engine’s siren in the film Mr Holland’s Opus (1995); Beethoven’s struggle to hear the first performance of his Ninth Symphony; the lift scene in Jerry Maguire (1996) where the loving boyfriend signs “you complete me” to his partner; Quasimodo’s apparent industrial deafness from the bells of Notre-Dame; and, worst of all, the appalling memory of my university housemate imitating a deaf accent for laughs.

This woman's dilemma is whether or not to put her child under the knife to install a cochlear implant that would allw them to hear. Why is this even a dilemma? 

But what I had experienced as a genuinely caring, evidence-based and pragmatic attempt to empower deaf children and give them the widest set of options had been singled out as an example of “audism” by influential deaf and deaf-adjacent critics – a sinister assimilationist model with paternalistic colonial overtones and a complicated history.

Ah. Yes. The nutters... 

Not only was it inaccurate (no hearing technology makes hearing easy or natural for deaf people), but it spoke of, at best, a normative desire to correct or fix something that was not in their view broken – only different.

Humans should be born with functional hearing - if they aren't, then it's a defect. Not a sign that they are part of a community with its own culture. 

I’m Not Sure Why She Needs To Go to School…

 …she looks a bit of a clown already!

Can’t Do This In The Norfolk Farce…

....all the DNA's the same!

Around half of the Metropolitan Police’s 33,000 officers could be missing from its own DNA and fingerprint databases hampering efforts to weed out sex predators like Wayne Couzens. Scotland Yard bosses are planning a multimillion-pound 12-month project to retake staff biometric data, which is expected to face fierce opposition.

Oppose away! It's a condition of the job, and you've got away with it for far too long. 

It is understood as many as 16,600 current serving officers’ DNA samples and 19,100 fingerprints are not on the force’s systems.

Labour’s Dawn Butler, who wrote to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley with concerns last October, is furious having been reassured that “the majority” of officer DNA profiles are stored.

Sack him, then, Dawn. The blighter's lied to you!

In a letter responding to her inquiry, the Met’s director of forensic services - who admitted “there is currently a gap” - told the Brent East MP: “We intend to establish a robust process to ensure samples are collected from those officers whose samples are not on the database and will seek to do this within 12 months.”

Another year to do what you lied to Parliament was already being done? 

Isn’t The Solution In Your Own Hands, Ladies?

A man has become the first in the UK to be arrested over videos filmed of women on nights out without their consent, with some in vulnerable states.

The 27-year-old from Bradford was taken into custody on suspicion of stalking and harassment after reports of women being followed, filmed and harassed in Manchester city centre.

What? For public filming? But that's legal!

In April, a number of women spoke to the Guardian after being filmed without their knowledge and consent, with the videos being posted on social media. In some cases, the women were later identified and harassed online. Some victims described it as “disgusting” and said they felt violated on finding out videos of them had been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and attracted misogynistic comments.

Well, ladies, maybe show a bit of decorum and don't get falling down drunk in the street, perhaps?  

Though filming on a public street is not a crime, it can cross the line into harassment, and women who discovered they had been targeted were asked to report it to police.

And the cops, always eager for an easy life and an offence that doesn't take much work to solve, leaped into action. 

GMP said: “After the issue was first brought to our attention, we made several appeals for anyone directly impacted by these videos to come forward. Many women did so, explaining the fear this had created for them, and the impact on their feeling of being safe while out at night.”

Not such 'fear' that they drank sensibly, I take it? 

Over the past few months, neighbourhood police officers worked with the CPS to see if charges could be brought against any of the accused. The videos in Manchester were primarily filmed around the Peter Street and Deansgate areas, while videos were also filmed in cities such as Liverpool and London.

Seems like they've put more effort into this than into real crimes, doesn't it?  

Ch Insp Stephen Wiggins said: “We took the concerns of the public really seriously on this issue, and have worked hard with partners to assess the full circumstances and what courses of action were available to us. It is a very new and complex issue, but this is a significant development.

“Everyone has the right to feel safe as they enjoy a night out, and these videos have made people, particularly women, not feel like that, which we can’t tolerate.

“Filming in public is legal. However, where this filming crosses the line into offences such as upskirting, stalking or harassment, it’s important that we don’t allow that behaviour.”

You're tackling the wrong behaviour.  

What's 'Harrowing', Graham, Is That You Are Blaming The Wrong People...

A two-year-old girl who drowned in a bin containing 9cm of water in a back garden in east London was a victim of “gross failures” largely by social workers, a coroner has concluded at an inquest.

Really? Let's look at the facts, shall we?

At the time of her death, Mazeedat Adeoye was being cared for in Dagenham by an acquaintance of her mother, Balikis Adeoye, who had to stay in hospital with Mazeedat’s baby brother when he required urgent heart surgery.

Adeoye had asked social workers at Newham council if they could provide foster care for her daughter for 10 days during the hospital stay. She had come to the UK on a visitor visa with Mazeedat in spring 2021 to join her partner but the relationship ended in May that year and she overstayed her visa, which expired in September 2021, because she had no means to return home. She was not eligible for state support, a status referred to as “no recourse to public funds” (NRPF).

Yet she was soaking up public funds with the baby's hospital stay, wasn't she? And wanted more, of course. Thankfully, the social workers - for once - weren't having any.  

The NRPF team at the council declined to provide foster care and told Adeoye to look for someone “in her community” who could look after her daughter. A woman from a local mosque agreed to take care of the child until Adeoye and her son left the hospital.

The senior coroner for east London, Graeme Irvine, found that while playing alone and inadequately supervised in the woman’s back garden, Mazeedat fell head first into a plastic refuse bin that contained water. Despite the water’s depth being no more than 9cm, Mazeedat drowned. Irvine described the case as “particularly harrowing”.

Well, I sort of agree. If she'd been deported the moment she overstayed her visa, we wouldn't be here right now, wasting yet more taxpayer cash on this inquest. And castigating social worker who, for once, did their job.  

This is the first death of a child thought to be linked to NRPF. In his conclusion, Irvine said: “There was a missed opportunity to provide effective care in the form of an offer of a temporary fostering placement which would have probably resulted in the avoidance of Mazeedat’s death … Local authority children’s services failed to support Mazeedat.” He said some of the social workers who failed to support the family were “obdurate and stubborn”. “Balikis Adeoye was treated in a dehumanising way on account of her status in the UK,” the coroner said.

We had no obligation to spend more money on her. We were already spending enough!  

Juliet Spender, a human rights lawyer at Irwin Mitchell, representing Adeoye, said: “There were several opportunities to ensure an appropriate foster placement was put in place for Mazeedat. Sadly, we believe, these opportunities were missed with devastating consequences. It’s now vital that lessons are learned from this tragedy to protect children in the future.”

Might I suggest 'immediately deporting visa overstayers' in future Juliet? Or would that impact on that hose of taxpayer cash pumping into your chambers in legal aid? 

The March Of The NuPuritans Continues

Schools in England should be banned from giving pupils cakes or biscuits as part of their lunch because they contain so much sugar, food campaigners say. They want ministers to overhaul the rules that guide schools on the nutritional content of the meals they serve to outlaw such sugary snacks.

Who are these fun sponges? 

The call has come from Action on Sugar, a group of nutritionists and other health experts at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), who campaign on the health dangers of too much sugar.

Oh. Of course.  

At the moment schools are allowed under the school food standards to give pupils desserts, cakes and biscuits as part of the lunch they receive on the premises. They include sweet treats that are either bought in or made from scratch, such as cakes, buns, pastries and scones.Action on Sugar made its plea after an analysis it undertook of the sugar content of dozens of cakes, chocolates and biscuits that have as much as 12 teaspoons in them. For example, Ritter Sport marzipan has 51g per packet while the same firm’s whole hazelnuts and white whole hazelnuts contain 44g, the equivalent of 11 teaspoonfuls. “These findings reinforce the urgent need for a complete ban on cakes and biscuits currently permitted under the school food standards at lunchtime, as they are unlikely to align with current maximum sugar guidelines,” said Dr Kawther Hashem, a lecturer in public health nutrition at QMUL and Action on Sugar’s head of research and impact.

“We have a duty to every child to make every school a sanctuary from unnecessary sugar, so they can grow up healthier, stronger and free from the risks of diet-related disease.”

Why are we employing foreigners in hijab to tell us what to eat?  

Why Did The Journos Agree To It?

Chief Constable Kate Meynell will undergo a probe conducted by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) after claims she tried to suppress members of the media from revealing that the perpetrator of the attacks had previously been reported on two occasions, according to the Mirror.

It is, of course, the Valdo Calocane case.  

Knifeman Valdo Calocane had been reported to authorities for stalking on two separate occasions before stabbing Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates to death in 2023.

Chief Constable Meynell had revealed the oversight in a private press briefing but had journalists in attendance sign non-disclosure agreements, preventing them from publishing the information.

Not exactly Woodward and Bernstein are they, our modern journalists? 

This attempt to conceal police failings was revealed by the Nottingham Post, with the victims families launching a formal complaint to the Nottingham Police and Crime Commissioner.

Nor was this the only source of further lack of trust in the police from this DEI hire and this farce... 

In the wake of the stabbings, there were also calls for Chief Constable Meynell to step down when it emerged her own son was one of the Nottinghamshire Police officers circulating graphic details of the stabbings via WhatsApp.

I wonder where he got the impression integrity was optional? 

I Guess She Just Couldn't Be The Bigger Person About It..?

A pub called The Midget is to change its name. The watering hole, in Abingdon takes its name from the classic MG sports car which was manufactured in the Oxfordshire town, and was opened as 'The Magic Midget' in 1974. But the name was labelled 'disablist hate speech' by disabilities studies lecturer Dr Erin Pritchard.

Oh, FFS! 

Dr Pritchard, who teaches at Liverpool Hope University, said that she and other people with dwarfism find the term 'offensive'. She previously campaigned for Marks and Spencer to rename their Midget Gem sweets to Mini Gems.

Someone who is employed to teach at a university turns out to be a crank with a chip on her shoulder? Gosh! You could knock me down with a feather!  

I wonder why she's not objecting to other, more problematic things? Is it because she'd get a decidedly rougher ride from them? 

Dr Pritchard spoke with the owners of the bar, brewers Greene King, which is set to reopen the venue with the new name in December following a renovation, the Telegraph reported. Its managing director Zoe Bowley said the new branding would honour the town's heritage while ensuring the pub remains a place 'where everyone feels welcome'.

They don't say what the new name will be. May I suggest 'The Special Snowflake'? 

Greene King previously found itself in hot water over a pub called 'The Black Bitch' in Linlithgow, West Lothian, amid fears the name could be seen as racist. Its origins derived from a female greyhound that formed part of the town's traditional crest - but pub bosses opted to rename it The Willow Tree regardless.

And thus left yourself open to pressure from every crank and nutter in the land. So you've only yourself to blame.