June 2, 2026

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The merciless mistreatment of Henry Nowak.

For me, the most chilling thing in the bodycam footage of Henry Nowak’s last moments of life is the cops’ cruel presumption that he is lying. As he writhes in terror and agony and cries out ‘I’ve been stabbed!’, a voice in the background – presumably that of the lowlife who murdered him, Vickrum Digwa – says: ‘He hasn’t been stabbed.’ A female officer responds. ‘I know’, she says. ‘But we have to check, don’t we?’

I know. It is delivered with dry, bureaucratic indifference. Henry is heard moaning, begging, ‘I can’t breathe’, yet here is a representative of the state seeming to agree with his knife-wielding tormentor that he is making it up. That cold, cavalier utterance – I know – will have cemented dying Henry’s great dread: that the police were taking the side of his killer rather than him. As his young, precious life came to an end, he heard himself being disbelieved, distrusted, icily written off as a fabulist. His murderer, meanwhile, was afforded respect. The state blindly bowed to his filthy lies.

The bodycam footage of the arrest of 18-year-old Henry Nowak after he was stabbed in Southampton in December last year is horrifying beyond belief. It is one of the most harrowing two minutes of video I have ever watched. Henry can be seen sprawled in agony in a stranger’s driveway, the place he sought sanctuary after being knifed four times by Digwa. His failing voice is thick with pain and fear. What he wanted in that moment – what he needed – was to be believed. The belief of others was the only thing that might have delivered him from his terror-stricken state. But it never came. He said ‘I can’t breathe’ nine times. He said ‘I’ve been stabbed’ four times. ‘I don’t think you have, mate’, said an officer with chirpy, inhumane derision.

Read the whole thing, and then watch Zia Yusuf of Reform UK reminding Cathy Newman of Sky News of her George Floyd-era rhetoric and the Hampshire police’s ‘race action plan’ that O’Neill mentions in the above Spiked essay. “I am not impugning the intention of people who created all this,” Yusuf tells Newman, but what is crystal clear is that we saw in a harrowing, distressing and tragic body cam footage is directly downstream… and what it makes crystal clear is that reaction of the police proves that the burden of proof for a man making an accusation of racism was zero. Henry was arrested pretty much immediately even as he [was] bleeding to death yet the burden of proof in saying repeatedly ‘I have been stabbed’ was such that the police responded as he [was] bleeding to death by handcuffing him and saying ‘I don’t think you have.'”

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

GOOD, THAT KNOCKED ME OFF STATINS: A Painful Side Effect of Statins Explained After Decades of Mystery. “For millions of people, statins are a daily shield against heart disease. But around 10 percent of those who take statins to lower cholesterol experience a mysterious, painful side effect that causes many to discontinue these potentially life-saving medicines. Scientists have recently found one possible reason why. Research from Columbia University and the University of Rochester in the US revealed a potential culprit: a tiny calcium gate inside muscle cells that statins may force open. The resulting calcium leak can damage muscle tissue, offering a new explanation for at least some cases of statin-associated muscle symptoms (SAMS).”

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

BRITAIN’S GEORGE FLOYD MOMENT:

Related:

Posted at 7:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FIGHT FOR BRITAIN’S FIRST NATIONS:

Posted at 7:27 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SUBSTACK SOON TO GAIN ANOTHER COLUMNIST:

You could say that Pelley’s likely demise at CBS was “to some degree self-inflicted:”

Posted at 6:37 pm by Ed Driscoll

BUT THEY WERE LECTURING PEOPLE ABOUT BEING “DIVISIVE” TODAY:

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UPDATE:

MORE: Henry Nowak: PM Starmer speaks, cop quits. “Henry died on the street, while being read his rights as an accused criminal. No longer able to speak, the last words Nowak heard were ‘you have the right to remain silent.’ Back to the Prime Minister. Starmer piles on to the idea that the real problem with the Nowak case was not his brutal, unprovoked murder, or the callous indifference shown by the responding police to the dying Nowak. No, the real problem is the (small “c”) conservative reaction to these events.”

Posted at 5:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S BACK ON: White House Correspondents’ Dinner rescheduled for July 24 after shooting disrupted initial event.

The White House Correspondents’ Association announced Tuesday that it will reschedule its annual press dinner for July 24 after the initial event was disrupted when a gunman attacked the gathering attended by President Trump, senior administration officials and scores of journalists.

Weijia Jiang, who is the president of the association and a CBS News senior White House correspondent, said in an email to members of the White House Correspondents’ Association that the rescheduled event would be a “more intimate gathering” and feature “significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures.”

Mr. Trump said he has accepted an invitation to speak at the dinner next month, calling it a “‘HOT’ ticket!”

Stay tuned…

Posted at 4:51 pm by Stephen Green

CHEATING TAKES TIME:

UPDATE: Vital context from Jarvis follows.

Another update (along with a bump):

Posted at 4:29 pm by Stephen Green

INDEED:

Posted at 4:04 pm by Stephen Green

COSMIC INDIGESTION: Scientists Find Cosmic ‘Rosetta Stone’ To Decode Baffling Signals From Deep Space.

Just a few years ago, a strange signal was received from the plane of the Milky Way.

It was something astronomers had never seen before, pulsing with a radio beat too slow to fit any known astronomical object.

It may have just come and gone as a one-off anomaly.

But then they found another one.

And another.

To date, around a dozen of these long-period radio transients (LPTs) have been detected from diverse corners of the galaxy, leaving scientists baffled.

Now, a team led by astronomer Kovi Rose of the University of Sydney in Australia thinks they may finally have found their Rosetta Stone, the object that could help them interpret at least some of these weird, pulsating objects.

In the direction of the galaxy’s inner regions, the researchers traced an LPT signal directly to a magnetic cataclysmic variable star – a strongly magnetized white dwarf cannibalizing its companion and belching periodic radiation.

Rude.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF THIS MEANS MORE (AND MORE AFFORDABLE) HOUSING: Berkshire Has $400 Billion in Cash and Just Put $6.8 Billion Into Housing. What That Means for Investors. “Wall Street has been practically holding its breath waiting for Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO to make his first big move. It is important because Greg Abel only took over the top spot at the $1 trillion market cap conglomerate from Warren Buffett at the start of 2026. The day has finally come: Berkshire just announced it is paying $6.8 billion to acquire Taylor Morrison Home.”

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

IS BESSENT KILLING CHINA’S CURRENCY? The backstory of why Scott Bessent was President Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary begins with the fact Bessent’s early career included time in 1992 with the Soros Fund Management team that broke the Bank of England.

The ever-observant Rod Martin sees the huge significance of that otherwise little-noted fact in the context of U.S.-China relations:

“Presidents hire people for a reason. Trump did not put Scott Bessent at Treasury because he needed another Wall Street résumé. Trump hired a man who had helped break a major currency from the inside, who understood the role of confidence, leverage, capital flows, interest rates, debt, and political denial, and who knew that governments do not lose control of currencies because traders are clever. They lose control because reality finally catches up with the lie. Bessent is not incidental to Trump’s China strategy. He is one of its central weapons.”

Click over and just keep scrolling.

Posted at 2:37 pm by Mark Tapscott