I mean, quite literally fascism on display here

A ‘respected’ Essex lawyer has been warned to expect a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to fraud, submitting more than £14,000 in bogus expenses claims on legal aid cases. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2551308...

Thought this was a great piece to explain to all those journalists on social media concerned about where all the hate and racism on their FB pages is coming from. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

An Essex teen sentenced to community service over his role in a Lakeside burglary has had his sentence extended after saying he wanted to poison his supervisor’s coffee. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2549855...

A lot of those “left behind” people on those marches “left behind” their four bedroom house and “left behind” their £100k Land Rover Defender in the car park. What they haven’t “left behind” is white supremacy

An Essex railway engineer stabbed both his girlfriend and his brother after coming home early from work and believing he had interrupted them having an affair. He stabbed his brother in the kidney and lung, and severed his girlfriend’s artery. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2548856...

A man who caused tens of thousands of pounds’ worth of damage in a Southend arson spree had been freed on bail months earlier, after threatening to kidnap and rape a woman and set fire to her children. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2548798...

A serial domestic abuser was caught on camera in Basildon as he repeatedly kicked and stamped on his girlfriend’s head - then gloated that by the time he was finished with her, she wouldn’t be able to walk. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2548986...

A paedophile ex-soldier from Southend has been jailed for 14 years. Duran Guscott, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Coldstream Guards, photographed himself sexually abusing children on dozens of occasions. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2549184...

A jilted drug dealer smashed his way into his terrified ex’s Essex home with a brick in a drunken attempt to steal back his engagement ring. He then absconded bail, went on the run and was eventually caught peddling heroin and crack in Bournemouth. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2549351...

*EXCLUSIVE* The CPS this week ‘offered no evidence’ against an Essex man over a serious assault, even though a police body worn camera had recorded him admitting he’d just ‘nearly killed’ the victim - TWICE! It refuses to explain its decision. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2549046...

‘I’m not far right but I went to a rally organised by Tommy Robinson’ is a pretty unconvincing position.

There is simply no way of combatting the mass radicalisation without either a total ban on, or very substantial regulation of, social media. The algorithms bombard their victims with content specifically designed to turn them against any other medium that might be used to counter the radicalisation.

🚨 Yesterday we saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for Tommy Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” rally. Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/b...

EXCL: Reform's first councillor in London is a convicted "slum landlord" who rents out a 33-person HMO. While digging into him I found out one of his former tenants is new Green party leader Zack Polanski. www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...

'Disrespectful' council worker attends pensioner's inquest with no trousers on An extraordinary exclusive from @joshbolton.bsky.social 😮 www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/news/2544404...

The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There’s a dormant London Centric Twitter account I set up and barely used, which still has all the default settings including notifications. Anyway this is the second time today it’s pushed a Tommy Robinson tweet at me. Given millions of Brits will have the app, god knows how many are getting this.

A paedophile ex-soldier from Canvey Island, Essex, has been given an extended prison sentence after he had a woman in the Philippines sexually abuse her own daughters for his gratification for years. He also had the mother perform sex acts with animals. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2543123...

A paedophile ex-soldier from Canvey Island, Essex, has been given an extended prison sentence after he had a woman in the Philippines sexually abuse her own daughters for his gratification for years. He also had the mother perform sex acts with animals. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2543123...

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

A Southend man contacted a child on Snapchat, kept asking to see her breasts and offered to be her first kiss. When she declined to send photos, saying she was at school, he suggested she go to the bathroom. Unfortunately for him, she was an undercover cop. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2536630...

Over the coming days, Newsquest will publish a series of in-depth reports on new developments in Essex's notorious White House Farm murders. But first: How Jeremy Bamber got convicted - and the evidence which has since challenged those convictions. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2536243...

The Metropolitan Police has been accused of giving 'false, misleading' information to Haringey Council about supposed crimes at a Hornsey pub. A lawyer said he was considering reporting a police officer for a criminal offence under the Licensing Act. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2532954...

The Metropolitan Police has been accused of giving 'false, misleading' information to Haringey Council about supposed crimes at a Hornsey pub. A lawyer said he was considering reporting a police officer for a criminal offence under the Licensing Act. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2532954...

It’s utterly grim that the framing of political stories by political editors is “what does this mean for the prime minister’s authority” instead of “how many disabled people will starve or trans people won’t get the support they need”. It’s like football commentary rather than serving the public.

Reform UK has refused to acknowledge/respond to questions about Facebook posts in which its Basildon by-election candidate seemingly refers to somebody as 'monkeyfied', a 'monkey c***', a 'monkey piece of s***', and says they 'swing from trees'. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2531388...

Reform UK has refused to acknowledge/respond to questions about Facebook posts in which its Basildon by-election candidate seemingly refers to somebody as 'monkeyfied', a 'monkey c***', a 'monkey piece of s***', and says they 'swing from trees'. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2531388...

Terrorist Ali Harbi Ali, who murdered Southend MP Sir David Amess, was described as a 'great person' and discharged from Prevent after one session, a report has found. Lord David Anderson said it was among 'a long string of failings' in the case. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2531824...

*EXCLUSIVE* Thames Water has launched an investigation after an employee accidentally left a racist message on a customer’s voicemail. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2529460...

A man who cares for his disabled sister claims Camden Council has falsely accused him of abusing her. He believes he was placed under investigation as ‘revenge’ after challenging cuts to her services and raising concerns about her social worker. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2529367...

An east London pensioner killed by two teenagers had suffered years of relentless abuse and crime due to 'local rumour and innuendo', a court has heard. An inquest will now investigate whether the state could have intervened to save Robert Price's life. www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2528703...

Journalists have been banned from looking at armed police officers when they are called to testify at an inquest later this year over how they allegedly shot to death an unarmed mental health patient: www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2528373...

Yet another case of agencies supplying stories and case studies that look shaky. pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...

After the grooming gang inquiry dominated last Monday’s TV news, ‘Harry’ couldn’t sleep, plagued by terrible memories. The next day, he contacted me with an extraordinary story: in the 1970s, he was trafficked to a VIP paedophile in a Southend hotel. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2525618...

After the grooming gang inquiry dominated last Monday’s TV news, ‘Harry’ couldn’t sleep, plagued by terrible memories. The next day, he contacted me with an extraordinary story: in the 1970s, he was trafficked to a VIP paedophile in a Southend hotel. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2525618...

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Sussex Police has admitted it has no idea whether phone thefts are rising or falling in the county, as it has stopped counting. Amid a national government crackdown after an explosion of phone thefts, Sussex said collecting the data was 'non-mandatory'. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2520255...

An east London bishop says she found the key witness in a murder case in just two attempts - after the beleaguered CCRC spent 18 months claiming it couldn't reach him. The debacle has left her questioning the miscarriage of justice watchdog's competence. www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2524285...

Sussex Police says it's not recording phone theft data www.theargus.co.uk/news/2520255... by @cethomson.bsky.social #FOI #crimestats

An east London bishop says she found the key witness in a murder case in just two attempts - after the beleaguered CCRC spent 18 months claiming it couldn't reach him. The debacle has left her questioning the miscarriage of justice watchdog's competence. www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2524285...

An Essex man who admitted sexually abusing a woman he thought was asleep has avoided both prison time and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2519844...

EXCLUSIVE: The Metropolitan Police Service faces tough questions after a man was found decomposing in his east London home almost two weeks after his family reported him missing and asked police to start searching for him. www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2518508...

EXCLUSIVE: The Metropolitan Police Service faces tough questions after a man was found decomposing in his east London home almost two weeks after his family reported him missing and asked police to start searching for him. www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2518508...

Good.

Jason Moore, currently fighting an East End murder conviction, has backed MPs' calls for Karen Kneller, chief exec of the CCRC, to resign. After 18 months waiting for his case to be dealt with, he said the body had sent him to 'the depths of despair'. www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2518803...

Jason Moore, currently fighting an East End murder conviction, has backed MPs' calls for Karen Kneller, chief exec of the CCRC, to resign. After 18 months waiting for his case to be dealt with, he said the body had sent him to 'the depths of despair'. www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2518803...

In response to some recent idiocy: NEW BLOGPOST: No, the Inns of Court are not biased against white barristers thesecretbarrister.com/2025/05/18/n...

EXCLUSIVE: A young woman found her brother's decomposed body after being misled for weeks by a mental health trust into thinking he was alive and well. Their tearful mother told the trust it could 'keep' its condolences, after it admitted 'shortcomings'. www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2516851...