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→ New Yorker questions White House Farm conviction
Two months after publishing a celebrated and much-debated investigation into the trial of Lucy Letby, the New Yorker has once again taken aim at the British judicial system. Today the American magazine published a 17,000-word article questioning the conviction of Jeremy Bamber for the White House Farm murders of 1985 — dubbed “the UK’s most infamous family massacre” — in which five of his relatives were killed.
Jeremy Bamber has served 39 years for England’s most infamous family massacre. As the Criminal Cases Review Commission faces scrutiny over multiple wrongful convictions, is the Bamber case Britain’s longest miscarriage of justice? My latest for @NewYorker. https://t.co/KVPX1IT7bh
— Heidi Blake (@HeidilBlake) July 29, 2024
The piece claims that police lied about and concealed evidence, and tampered with witness statements following the shooting in Essex four decades ago. Bamber has always protested his innocence, the only whole-life prisoner in Britain to do so, and the New Yorker has spoken to officers present in the aftermath of the murders who seem to corroborate his claim that the police interfered with crime scene evidence. Will the investigation kickstart a Letby-style campaign?
→ AOC claims JD Vance is running on an ‘incel platform’
Democrats and Republicans have been feuding for days over which side is weirder, with J.D. Vance’s comments on childless cat ladies and progressives’ support for trans ideology at the centre of the debate.
Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy.
Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal.
Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy.
It’s an incel platform, dude.
It’s SUPER weird.
And people need to know. https://t.co/vgDeM9e7pU— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 29, 2024
Now Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has entered the fray with a tweet suggesting Donald Trump’s running mate is incel-adjacent. “Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy. It’s an incel platform, dude. It’s SUPER weird”, she wrote today. “Incel”, of course, refers to the “involuntarily celibate”, an online demographic of single men who resent their inability to find romantic partners. Vance, a married father of three, doesn’t immediately match this profile.
Perhaps not knowing what “incel” means makes AOC the type of normie politician the American people long for. Could the war over “weird” make US politics a bit more normal?
→ Reform UK outshines Ukip in Scotland
In the general election earlier this month, Reform UK achieved something Ukip never could: winning a seat in Parliament. But how exactly did Nigel Farage’s new party pull it off? According to pollster James Kanagasooriam, there were three key differences between Ukip’s performance in 2015 and Reform’s this year:
Looking at the difference in UKIP 2015 performance vs Reform’s 2024 shows i) Reform’s much stronger performance in Scotland in 2024 ii) candidate effects iii) demographic change over the period iv) strong regional appeal of Reform’s brand vs UKIP in Essex, Lincolnshire, South… pic.twitter.com/X2Jp4iBnCl
— James Kanagasooriam (@JamesKanag) July 29, 2024
The notable swings in support on the British fringes and in coastal areas show that Reform is a very different party from its older incarnation nearly 10 years ago. Watch out, John Swinney…
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SubscribeAren’t there any potential miscarriages of justice in the USA for the New Yorker to worry about?
This was a very confusing title for an American.