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"We should respond to this with pure cold rage."
No. You're adults and leaders. You can be angry but your response should be rational, not emotional.
I think the rational response to most of the stuff Farage says is rage.
Wow that site is completely unusable
Even if it were a true statement, they had a man stabbed in the heart handcuffed rather than getting him immediate medical attention. Like WTF
This is the thing that should be focussed on. The police have a duty of care to everyone and they failed appallingly here. The worst thing is watching this point being swept under the carpet as the right wing arseholes make racist capital out of it.
Man, I thought American police were fucked up...
The British are always trying to top atrocities.
We cant get near that title, American police are significantly more fucked up.
There were 95 deaths directly caused by police in January 2026 alone in the US. There has been 1 in the UK this year so far, 2 if we state this as directly caused by police due to ineptitude.
In an ideal world we wouldn't have these incompetent fucks running society for the Epstein class, but I'd still take incompetent over bloodthirsty any day of the week.
18 year old. A kid really, not a man.
Wonder if he gets to keep the murder weapon for use in prison.
The absolute audacity of his family to cover for him and try to obstruct is insane.
Is there any reason to include that the man was Sikh in the headline besides Sikhphobia?
is the irony painful to anyone else?
The man was specifically allowed to have a ceremonial dagger due to being a Sikh. The Sikh claimed he had been attacked over racial motives, which led the police to discount what the student was saying. So multiple parts of this were very much based on the man being Sikh. You couldn't properly cover the story without mentioning the fact, so it's not surprising it's in the headline
Well the murder weapon was literally a kirpan, so I guess that could be relevant.
See this article contradicts others I've read where it's said he used a different, longer blade for the attack and not the kirpan.
The knife used doesn't look like the typical ceremonial kirpan.
TIL, I thought they were symbolic and typically blunt, goes to show how good my RE was, or how little attention I paid. Not that it matters, this one was sharp enough to stab someone to death. Thanks for showing me something I was wrong about.
My wiki research suggests it used to be a sword before the British, it would be ironic if it used to be a dagger before the British...
TBF with sufficient force and/or velocity you can stab someone with a carrot. Would probably have to pick a softer spot, but still