David Shipley
@ShipleyWrites
Did corporate finance, produced a film, committed a fraud. Served my time. Write and speak about prisons, justice and crime.
In The Critic in May I wrote on how councils can actually do this - which ones have, which ones haven’t etc. Above all the precedent of a local council begging govt to not do something that has seen such local disruption and govt saying no! is bad for everyone. Will link below
I understand that Epping District Council are planning to take legal action against the Home Office in order to end the use of the Bell Hotel to house asylum seekers.
I understand that Epping District Council are planning to take legal action against the Home Office in order to end the use of the Bell Hotel to house asylum seekers.
Politics aside, the policing theory behind this is maintaining the illusion of control. They respond *in force* to high salience events and little else. If you get robbed you’ll wait for weeks, but you’ll occasionally see 10 vans full of coppers driving somewhere lights on
🚨NEW: Footage shows big police response in Epping ahead of planned protest outside the Bell hotel
Tonight’s planned protest is a peaceful march led by local women, from the Bell Hotel to the council building. Why do the police need dogs?
Police cars with dogs have arrived at the Bell Hotel in Epping, where additional fencing has been put up ahead of a planned protest
I understand that Essex police have fenced off the area around the Bell Hotel in Epping, and the pavements. Unclear how this is compatible with their commitment to free protest.
🚨 The police shouldn't have to cope with another summer of fury over asylum hotels. The British people have had enough – enough of being ignored, enough of seeing their communities transformed without consent, enough of fearing for the safety of their daughters, wives and…
This person probably thinks they’re an anti-fascist.
It's time to arrest Farage. I don't care what for & I don't care about his rights (he certainly doesn't care about ours). Just nick the trouble-making menace on national security grounds and bang him up #ArrestFarage
"In 2024, just 53.65% of births in England and Wales were white British, down from 62.89% in 2014, an astonishing 9.24 percentage point drop in a decade." Pleased to publish this very important piece from @CharliePCole98 at @LD_Sceptics today.
Would it be right for white Britons to become an ethnic minority in their own homeland, despite consistently voting against mass migration at every opportunity? Charlie Cole says no: no sane people group would accept it. dailysceptic.org/2025/07/24/whi…
Fascinating detail from this @ShippersUnbound piece - it seems the process of elite defection is gathering pace.
"Your party" is the name of the Corbyn-Sultana outfit
It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.
Knives out for the cabinet secretary in my latest @spectator column spectator.co.uk/article/can-an…
London is no longer safe for women. In 2024, more than 123,000 violent crimes against women and girls were reported to the Met. Arrests and charges for rape and serious sexual offences more than doubled.
Labour’s plans for ‘Islamophobia’ definition are aimed at shutting down free speech, warns ex-equalities chief thesun.co.uk/news/35882449/…
These are the people we’re told are ‘destitute’ and need to be able to work for Deliveroo.
EXCL: More than 6,000 asylum seekers have used taxpayer-funded payment cards to gamble since July last year My FOI to government revealed asylum seekers have attempted to and successfully gambled every week since election politicshome.com/news/article/a…
Essex Police's choices and statements over the last week keep making things worse. Great piece from @NotThatBigIan
This is a national scandal making obscene profits out of the most vulnerable in our society - children - another national disgrace there are so many. We are a shameless pitiful nation.
Baroness Lola Young: 'Children in care shouldn't be a route to profit' - Big Issue bigissue.com/news/politics/…