Samantha Asumadu
@samanthaasumadu.substack.com
Jack of all trades and award losing journalist. https://linktr.ee/SamanthaAsumadu
I think people missed this. Alongside all his targeted abuse and threats Bonehill-Paine also visited child abuse websites.
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 6h ago'Bonehill-Paine targeted her, her sister, and her niece with abuse, death threats & posted an image of her son on child abuse websites. Alongside the image was Chapman’s home address & an invitation to “tell her what you’d like to do this boy, she loves it" www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith...
He maliciously accused innocent people of being paedophiles and got a 3-month suspended sentence for it. www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith...
This Is What It’s Like To Be The Victim Of A Neo-Nazi Troll
Three people targeted by Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who was recently convicted of racially aggravated harassment, have called for police to gain more expertise and consistency in dealing with online hate ...
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'Bonehill-Paine targeted her, her sister, and her niece with abuse, death threats & posted an image of her son on child abuse websites. Alongside the image was Chapman’s home address & an invitation to “tell her what you’d like to do this boy, she loves it" www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith...
This Is What It’s Like To Be The Victim Of A Neo-Nazi Troll
Three people targeted by Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who was recently convicted of racially aggravated harassment, have called for police to gain more expertise and consistency in dealing with online hate ...
buzzfeed.com
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 21h agoThe sentencing remarks are quite something
The U.S Military tested an experimental GPS jammer and caused a civilian plane to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board. 😐
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 20h agoHoly shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
'He was not merely a bar-room bigot with a byline. Oh no, he could also be virulently homophobic too.' An honest obituary for Rod Liddle by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
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European Legal Support Center, along with the research group Forensic Architecture's “Index of Repression”, records instances of Palestinian solidarity being silenced, criminalised and sanctioned in Britain. www.index-of-repression.org
Children aged from 10 to 17 are being arrested by the police and detained overnight in adult custody suites. Six out of 10 children arrested by response officers — even for something as trivial as a domestic tantrum — are released with no further action open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
Cells for kids
Why do we arrest so many children?
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A further eight men in the UK have been arrested for allegedly sedating and raping their partners. “Victims are being subject to horrendous sexual offending in their own homes in an ultimate breach of trust,”
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · last mo.“organised drug-facilitated sexual assault represents a serious and evolving threat”. 'the scale of what investigating officers have seen so far is “deeply concerning”, and this is “no longer isolated behaviour, but increasingly organised”. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
“organised drug-facilitated sexual assault represents a serious and evolving threat”. 'the scale of what investigating officers have seen so far is “deeply concerning”, and this is “no longer isolated behaviour, but increasingly organised”. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Truly international’ network of drug-facilitated rape uncovered by UK crime agency
NCA says offenders arrange to sexually assault and film victims via online networks with crimes often taking place in trusting relationships
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This is obviously the right decision and only happened because there was so much attention. But as of today it will be even harder for police to be investigated for potential misconduct. The government has fought for 11 years to change the threshold, even going to the Supreme Court.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Henry Nowak murder: two officers under gross misconduct investigation
Netpol's explainer on the Crime and Policing Act 2026 which becomes law on the 29th July netpol.org/2026/05/08/e...
What use are you @pressfreedom.bsky.social?
Media Diversified@writersofcolour.bsky.social · last mo.There’s not an institution of the western led international 'rules based order' left on earth that is not corrupted by Israel's genocide. Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law. But Israel has de personified every single man, woman and child in Gaza.
Whistleblowers told The Electronic Intifada that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) scrapped its annual Impunity Index because Israel was set to rank #1. The index—published annually since 2008 and regularly referenced in UN reports—measures countries where journalists are deliberately...
I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.
“I am writing this because I cannot do this sentence anymore,” the indentations appeared to read. “IPP is cruel and is solely to blame for my death. No one get my point of view I am sick of not being listened to. [...] This has been torture to the highest order." #IPPscandal
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · last mo.How many people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences have to take their own life before parliament & the Ministry of 'Justice' release them all? This man had a 2 year sentence & had been in prison 17 years when he died. Unconscionable #IPPScandal www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
How many people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences have to take their own life before parliament & the Ministry of 'Justice' release them all? This man had a 2 year sentence & had been in prison 17 years when he died. Unconscionable #IPPScandal www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Prisoner wrote note blaming ‘cruel’ indefinite jail term before he was found dead
Exclusive: Steven McBride’s sister has spoken of her anguish after an inquest found he felt ‘trapped, hopeless and frustrated’ on an IPP jail term
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'Digital surveillance does much more than steal data. It inflicts deep human wounds; it stops people from safely developing and expressing their identities, breeds trauma that can last for generations, and fractures the human mind.”
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · last mo.'Living under constant surveillance is to exist in a permanent state of hypervigilance' globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/d...
'Living under constant surveillance is to exist in a permanent state of hypervigilance' globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/d...
Digital surveillance is breaking activist mental health
Digital surveillance does much more than steal data. It inflicts deep human wounds; it stops people from safely developing and expressing their identities, breeds trauma that can last for generations,...
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I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.
Unleashing the power of AI
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2mo agoPolicing minister on the launch of PoliceAI: "I’m so pleased that we’re launching PoliceAI, because it will help us unleash the power of what AI can do" Looking forward to the new era of legal action against the police use of AI to aid/hide their misconduct. www.gov.uk/government/s...
Policing minister on the launch of PoliceAI: "I’m so pleased that we’re launching PoliceAI, because it will help us unleash the power of what AI can do" Looking forward to the new era of legal action against the police use of AI to aid/hide their misconduct. www.gov.uk/government/s...
Policing minister on the launch of PoliceAI
Highlights from the speech on PoliceAI by Crime and Policing Minister Sarah Jones.
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"Fundamental to radical, right-wing nationalist movements around world is they are always looking for issues that will excite a visceral sense of threat to the nation and those always comes down to issues around sex, birth and death." open.spotify.com/episode/5Q4H...
The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right
Today in Focus · Episode
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Daniel Trilling is an essential listen on how very extreme ethonationalist, racist rhetoric is now at the forefront of British politics and how rapidly things have got worse in the last 3-5 years.
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2mo ago"Fundamental to radical, right-wing nationalist movements around world is they are always looking for issues that will excite a visceral sense of threat to the nation and those always comes down to issues around sex, birth and death." open.spotify.com/episode/5Q4H...
"Fundamental to radical, right-wing nationalist movements around world is they are always looking for issues that will excite a visceral sense of threat to the nation and those always comes down to issues around sex, birth and death." open.spotify.com/episode/5Q4H...
The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right
Today in Focus · Episode
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They're right that Reform is a serious party. They should try to take Reform's threat to detain and/or deport hundreds of thousands of people from internment camps more seriously.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3mo agoCompletely unacceptable from the Board of Deputies. This nakedly partisan hypocrisy does not represent me or many other British Jews. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Completely unacceptable from the Board of Deputies. This nakedly partisan hypocrisy does not represent me or many other British Jews. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
i think it's unfair to say the press should have been like a dog with a bone over reform racism when they've had so many urgent articles to write on zack polanski. they can't do everything!
So Mayer@suchmayer.bsky.social · 3mo agoWith #AltText for everyone, because everyone needs to know.
