People should not fear their governments; governments should fear their people.
Woman killed in suspected stabbing. Officers forced entry to the address where the woman was discovered with suspected stab wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene. [BBC]
I’ve posted before about poor reporting by the BBC, and it seems they haven’t fixed their problems. “Suspected stab wounds?” Are we supposed to think she might instead have fallen repeatedly while running with scissors?
From the BBC News RSS feed:
A man from Kent is found guilty of trafficking three teenage girls from Nigeria into mainland Europe using African ‘juju’ witchcraft.
I can’t tell from this summary whether someone did a really poor job of summarizing the case and it was really something entirely different from what this sentence describes, or if it’s actually as appalling a miscarriage of justice as that sentence makes it appear to be. The link in the feed is broken, so I can’t find any more details.
If this really is what it sounds like, well, the British used to have a much better perspective on witches.