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Scottish Sun
08-08-2025
- Scottish Sun
Moment man named ‘Lucifer Of-Darkness' is arrested over horror knockout attack at Scots train station
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) THIS is the moment a cop's body-worn camera recorded a thug named Lucifer Of-Darkness confessing to a brutal assault in a public toilet. The French national - who changed his name from Berkani Nahim - is caught on film approaching two officers at Edinburgh's Waverley Station. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 3 Lucifer Of-Darkness caught on camera telling cops about the savage attack. 3 Of-Darkness leads the the cops to the toilet where he punched his victim. 3 The thug is placed in handcuffs inside the loo where he struck his victim. The dishevelled 41-year-old who sports a Mohican haircut can be heard telling a surprised looking British Transport cop, 'Can you come to the toilet? I knocked out someone. He p****d me off.' The officer wearing the body cam asks: 'Sorry?' Of-Darkness replies: 'I knocked out someone in the toilet. He p****d me off.' The other cop asks: 'You knocked somebody out? Why?' As the camera turns to focus on Of-Darkness, he repeats: 'He pissed me off. He started to yell at me.' The officers then ask the yob to show them what he's done before the clip switches to the toilet area where he thumped victim Christopher Jamieson. Details of the assault were revealed as Of-Darkness was found guilty after trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. The thug was back in the dock yesterday to be sentenced for leaving Mr Jamieson out cold and soaked in blood in the public loo. Of-Darkness tried to claim he acted in self defence when he was arrested and charged at around 9pm on May 29 this year. He was subsequently found guilty by Sheriff John Mundy who sentenced Of-Darkness, from London, to nine months backdated to May 30. The yob's lawyer Gordon Stewart yesterday said his client had been in Scotland for around three months before the assault and lives 'a vagabond life'. Mr Stewart told the court: 'Mr Of-Darkness has ongoing issues with the Home Office and what is likely to happen is he will be transported to Dungavel and effectively deported from there. 'What I can say is that he did the right thing by going straight to the police and explaining and directing the police to the complainer. I ask My Lord to give him some credit for that.' The trial heard from PC James Grubb who said he was on duty at the capital train station when he and a colleague were approached by Of-Darkness. PC Grubb, 26, said Of-Darkness told him he had 'knocked someone out, he pi**ed me off' and motioned to follow him to the male public toilets. The officers attended the toilet area and saw Mr Jamieson lying unconscious on the floor with several bumps to his head and blood over his face. The officers tended to the victim and phoned for an ambulance while Of-Darkness was led away and handcuffed. Last night Neil Almond, interim Procurator Fiscal for Lothian and Borders, hailed the role the footage played in helping convict Of-Darkness for the savage beating. He said: 'This was a violent, but unwitnessed assault, which left a man seriously injured in a public bathroom. 'The police body-worn video was a powerful source of evidence which helped the prosecutor prove who was responsible by capturing the admission of Berkani Nahim. 'Such footage has the potential to enhance public confidence in policing while also improving the quality of evidence presented during criminal proceedings.'
Daily Maverick
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Maverick
'Where there's no future, how can there be sin?'- the rise of the age of Brutalism
Post-colonialism has given way to Brutalism; social contract to social assault; human rights to human wronging. The world is undergoing a change of age where the future, even the question of whether there is any future, has become extremely uncertain. In June 1977, Malcolm McLaren, the manager of punk rock band the Sex Pistols, stage-managed an enormous ambush. On the late Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee, the Sex Pistols' anthem God Save the Queen made it to number one. In those days, for young people, Top of the Pops was like Sunday church. We waited anxiously to see which group and song would reach No 1 each week. When it was God Save the Queen, the BBC promptly banned the song. In response, the Sex Pistols hired a barge and played it on the River Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament. The police were sent out to commandeer the boat and they were promptly arrested. Prompt was the operative word in the heady days when punk rockers fought the monarchy with music. Cauterise the infection quickly. Or so the establishment thought. What had this motley crew done wrong? In God Save the Queen, an anthem powered by an opening riff to beat all riffs, the Sex Pistols called the Queen's 'a fascist regime'. It wasn't. It was sclerotic and pampered by taxpayers. But the words rhymed, so why not? It was shocking. Believe me. But there was much more to punk rock than exaggeration. One of the lines in the song had much darker implications: 'Where there's no future, how can there be sin?' rasped lead singer Johnny Rotten before adding poetically: 'We're the flowers in your dustbin We're the poison in the human machine We're the future, your future' 'We' were the doomed, thrown-away working-class youth. At a time of rising unemployment, they were in rebellion by making a fashion of torn clothes, Mohican hair cuts and safety pins through their ears and noses. 'Foul-mouthed yobs' the establishment media called them. They made their point and changed the direction of popular music as well as of society. But it didn't end there. Almost 50 years later, the line 'where there's no future, how can there be sin?' reveals a surprising prescience. Looked at carefully, it's an existential statement that may offer a key to understanding the industrial cruelty being inflicted in Gaza and other places that ordinary people are unwilling bystanders to in the world at this moment. For 'sin', not coming from the dispossessed youth, but from the over-possessed elites, is now the name of the game. Post-colonialism has given way to Brutalism; social contract to social assault; human rights to human wronging. The sin pandemic There's a whole lot of sin in the world at the moment. Genocide is sin. Ecocide is sin. Femicide is sin. Infanticide is sin. Democide is sin. What's different is that the sinners have become oblivious to their sinning. They are certainly not sinned against. They don't sugar coat it; they think they are beyond sin. Why? I have been trying to comprehend such a quantum leap in loss of humanity, to work out how elected political leaders and oligarchs have become so brutalised. An epiphany that came to me while walking around Oxford recently. I think I have the answer. The world is undergoing a change of age where the future, even the question of whether there is any future, has become extremely uncertain. As climate chaos explodes, as the sixth mass extinction accelerates and now extends even to human beings, a largely uninhabitable earth may be a real prospect within several generations. The evidence is mounting: Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events | Extreme weather | The Guardian; WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial level; Climate change: World's oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heat – BBC News As the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh pointed out in a lecture he gave at Wits University in September 2024, the ultra-rich, while financing Trump and his climate denialism, are simultaneously preparing for the social breakdown that may be one consequence of the climate crisis. Ghosh writes: 'It is well known now that several billionaire tech entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Peter Thiel are preparing for an impending apocalypse by building enormously expensive and heavily fortified retreats on remote islands, or in sparsely populated stretches of the United States and Canada. Not to be left behind, a bevy of America's most popular stars, such as Taylor Swift and Tom Cruise, have also acquired cutting-edge apocalypse shelters. Nor are the ultra-rich the only Americans who are investing in doomsday retreats: so great is the demand that a new and rapidly growing industry has emerged to cater to it.' This is the time of survival of the richest. Democratic restraints and rules that took several centuries to establish are being broken with manic abandon. 'Death capitalism'; 'crack-up capitalism'. Call it what you like. The hypocrisies are worthy of Shakespeare. A political establishment that less than 30 years ago impeached a president for lying about having sex in the sacrosanct Oval Office, now enables a deranged president who blatantly abuses the office for private profit and has appropriated to himself the divine right to permit, stoke, arm or directly make wars that threatens millions of lives. For rulers who would be kings, who believe that the future is uncertain, indeed that for billions of human beings whose lives are extremely precarious, the very idea of a future is becoming untenable, moral rules fall away. Sin becomes permissible. Welcome to the new world disorder. Join the resistance. DM
Scottish Sun
30-05-2025
- Scottish Sun
I visited the sunny Scottish island that feels more like a chic Caribbean beach holiday
Tiree is the Caribbean beach holiday destination you can reach without a passport SHORE BET! I visited the sunny Scottish island that feels more like a chic Caribbean beach holiday Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) I HAD only been awake for an hour and I'd immersed myself in Scandinavia and the Caribbean, with a side helping of haggis. Such is the joyful confusion of taking a holiday on Scotland's sunshine island of Tiree. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 A beautiful thatched cottage on the island of Tiree - the 'sunniest place in Scotland' Credit: Alamy 4 There are plenty of waves to be enjoyed for surf fans Credit: Alamy 4 Visitors can see the island by cycling its scenic routes Credit: Alamy Dubbing somewhere the 'sunniest place in Scotland' sounds like faint praise — a bit like awarding a prize for the sandiest part of the Sahara or best-ever episode of Crossroads. But, thanks to the Gulf Stream, Tiree — with its population of barely 600 — really does have more hours of sunshine than anywhere on the UK mainland per year, despite its chilly-looking position in the Inner Hebrides islands. Checking into the Reef Inn after the three-hour ferry crossing from the pretty mainland town of Oban, I felt I'd been transported to a chic boutique bolthole in Helsinki or Stockholm. While so many hotels in the Scottish Highlands and Islands have maintained a traditional decor of wall-to-wall tartan and complimentary shortbread, the Reef Inn does things differently. Pale wood floors, sheepskin throws, a white four-poster bed and funky Scandi-retro furniture fitted in fabulously well with the views out over an unusual landscape. Unusual because Tiree doesn't have the soaring mountains, blind glens and deep forests you would expect from the Hebrides. This island is table-mat flat, giving the views from my window a gorgeously calming air, with the rolling grasslands and the odd cottage being the only distraction from the panoramically large blue skies, dotted with the smallest ice cream scoops of cloud. After a delicious breakfast of potato scones and vegetarian haggis, I drove to explore Tiree's main draw — its quite stupendous beaches. Turquoise waters There are dozens of coves, bays and yawning stretches of sand tucked into the folds of Tiree, but none are more beautiful than Balephetrish. Located on the western edge of this tiny, 12 mile by three mile island, I began strolling along an immense curve of sand the colour of vanilla and milk, and as soft as gossamer, all backed by Mohican tufts of marram grass. Discover the Scenic Arran Coastal Way It's a gorgeous day and yet, as the turquoise waters kiss the shoreline, I'm the only person here barring one man grappling manfully with his surfboard, perhaps in training for the Tiree Wave Classic event which is held every October. I don't even have to scrunch up my eyes to pretend that I'm in one of the quieter, more chic Caribbean islands, like Anguilla or Grand Turk, except there's no sun loungers and nobody trying to get me to buy overpriced cocktails. Tiree offers something far more disorientating than a shot of rum; this is an island that's home to some deeply strange structures known as 'brochs'. I'm seriously starting to wonder why I ever submitted to an eight-hour flight to Barbados Built sometime between the first century BC and the first century AD, it's believed that these circular stone structures were lived in by invaders from England, who ruled over the local population. The broch I clambered around, called Dun Mor Vaul, still has its lower circular stone walls intact. With just a few hardy sheep for company, the view from the summit here is enchanting; a soft, whispering breeze rustles the clusters of thrift sea pink flowers, while skylarks and oystercatchers sing their way out over the silver and tin coloured waves. 4 A cruise ship passes close by the island Credit: Alamy Back on Balephetrish Bay later that day, I sigh as the sand slips between my toes and the sun casts its beam upon my shoulders. I'm seriously starting to wonder why I ever submitted to an eight-hour flight to Barbados. Tiree is the Caribbean beach holiday destination you can reach without a passport. And it turns out that haggis, heat and the Hebrides make for a surprisingly seductive combination.
The Irish Sun
30-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
I visited the sunny Scottish island that feels more like a chic Caribbean beach holiday
I HAD only been awake for an hour and I'd immersed myself in Scandinavia and the Caribbean, with a side helping of haggis. Such is the joyful confusion of taking a holiday on Scotland's sunshine island of Tiree. Advertisement 4 A beautiful thatched cottage on the island of Tiree - the 'sunniest place in Scotland' Credit: Alamy 4 There are plenty of waves to be enjoyed for surf fans Credit: Alamy 4 Visitors can see the island by cycling its scenic routes Credit: Alamy Dubbing somewhere the 'sunniest place in Scotland' sounds like faint praise — a bit like awarding a prize for the sandiest part of the Sahara or best-ever episode of Crossroads. But, thanks to the Gulf Stream, Tiree — with its population of barely 600 — really does have more hours of sunshine than anywhere on the UK mainland per year, despite its chilly-looking position in the Inner Checking into the Reef Inn after the three-hour ferry crossing from the pretty mainland town of Oban, I felt I'd been transported to a chic boutique bolthole in Helsinki or Stockholm. While so many hotels in the Scottish Highlands and Islands have maintained a traditional decor of wall-to-wall tartan and complimentary shortbread, the Reef Inn does things differently. Advertisement READ MORE TRAVEL REVIEWS Pale wood floors, sheepskin throws, a white four-poster bed and funky Scandi-retro furniture fitted in fabulously well with the views out over an unusual landscape. Unusual because Tiree doesn't have the soaring mountains, blind glens and deep forests you would expect from the Hebrides. This island is table-mat flat, giving the views from my window a gorgeously calming air, with the rolling grasslands and the odd cottage being the only distraction from the panoramically large blue skies, dotted with the smallest ice cream scoops of cloud. After a delicious breakfast of potato scones and vegetarian haggis, I drove to explore Tiree's main draw — its quite stupendous beaches. Advertisement Most read in Beach holidays Competition Turquoise waters There are dozens of coves, bays and yawning stretches of sand tucked into the folds of Tiree, but none are more beautiful than Balephetrish. Located on the western edge of this tiny, 12 mile by three mile island, I began strolling along an immense curve of sand the colour of vanilla and milk, and as soft as gossamer, all backed by Mohican tufts of marram grass. Discover the Scenic Arran Coastal Way It's a gorgeous day and yet, as the turquoise waters kiss the shoreline, I'm the only person here barring one man grappling manfully with his surfboard, perhaps in training for the Tiree Wave Classic event which is held every October. I don't even have to scrunch up my eyes to pretend that I'm in one of the quieter, more chic Caribbean islands, like Anguilla or Grand Turk, except there's no sun loungers and nobody trying to get me to buy overpriced cocktails. Advertisement Tiree offers something far more disorientating than a shot of rum; this is an island that's home to some deeply strange structures known as 'brochs'. I'm seriously starting to wonder why I ever submitted to an eight-hour flight to Barbados Built sometime between the first century BC and the first century AD, it's believed that these circular stone structures were lived in by invaders from England, who ruled over the local population. The broch I clambered around, called Dun Mor Vaul, still has its lower circular stone walls intact. With just a few hardy sheep for company, the view from the summit here is enchanting; a soft, whispering breeze rustles the clusters of thrift sea pink flowers, while skylarks and oystercatchers sing their way out over the silver and tin coloured waves. Advertisement 4 A cruise ship passes close by the island Credit: Alamy Back on Balephetrish Bay later that day, I sigh as the sand slips between my toes and the sun casts its beam upon my shoulders. I'm seriously starting to wonder why I ever submitted to an eight-hour flight to Barbados. Tiree is the Caribbean beach holiday destination you can reach without a passport. Advertisement And it turns out that haggis, heat and the Hebrides make for a surprisingly seductive combination. GO: TIREE GETTING THERE: Caledonian Sleeper runs trains six nights a week (not Saturday) from Euston to Fort William, from £270pp return based on two sharing a cabin. From there, you can take trains to the ferry port in Oban, where CalMac operates vessels to Tiree (£29.65 for a foot passenger return). See and . STAYING THERE: Double rooms at the Reef Inn from £165, including breakfast. See . MORE INFO:
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Driven to Wisconsin after helping win U.S. Revolution, Mohicans now have bought land back home
One of the most storied tribes in Indian Nation has taken another step toward reclaiming history that was ripped away from it more than 200 years ago. The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Tribe of Wisconsin recently closed a deal to purchase 372 undeveloped acres of Monument Mountain, which carries sacred meaning and is part of its original homeland in Massachusetts. The Mohican Tribe had been located on what is now parts of Massachusetts and New York for thousands of years before being forced to move by European colonists, and eventually settling in Wisconsin more than 200 years ago. The tribe has been reclaiming some land in New York and Massachusetts in the past few years. More: This tribe helped win the Revolution, then were expelled and migrated to Wisconsin. What's changed now? 'It represents a 'landback' movement to reclaim land in a way that differs from the Western colonial way of thinking about it,' Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation President Shannon Holsey said in a statement. 'We are trying to reclaim our ways of being, which was never based on money. It's the reclamation of our kinship systems, our governance systems, our ceremony and spirituality, our language, our culture and our food and medicinal systems. Those are all based on our relationship to the land.' Mohican people still make pilgrimages to Monument Mountain as it has always been a place where tribal members would leave stone offerings imbued with prayers to Creator. The stones had been formed into a monument, giving the mountain its name. The mountain's peak reaches 1,642 feet and includes public hiking trails offering views of a river valley and the Berkshires highlands and Catskill Mountains. In 2023, Massachusetts Commonwealth legislators voted to award the Mohican Nation $2.6 million to assist it in purchasing the mountain. With the award, the tribe is now responsible for implementing tribal conservation and forest management strategies on the mountain. The award is part of ongoing efforts by Massachusetts officials to renew relationships with the tribe. That's a shift from the tribe being unwelcome more than 200 years ago. The town of Stockbridge, Massachusettes, was founded in 1739 as a kind of experiment in which Mohicans and colonists would live, work and govern together. Mohicans also helped to win the American Revolution, serving as scouts and warriors for the Continental Army. General George Washington visited Stockbridge shortly after the war to thank the Mohicans personally for their services. More: Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican officials aim to prove feast with George Washington happened But the founding of a new nation also attracted many more European immigrants who coveted property owned by the Mohicans and other Indigenous peoples. The Mohicans were driven away from Stockbridge and from New England, eventually settling on Menominee land in Wisconsin, where they were joined by a group of Delaware people known as the Munsee. 'I feel like we have an opportunity to welcome people back,' said Patrick White, selectman for the Stockbridge Town Board, to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last year. 'I personally have had enough of the division (in America).' In 2021, the conservation group Open Space Institute returned part of an island from the Mohican ancestral homeland in New York to the tribe. The 156-acre portion of Papscanee Island, in the Hudson River, that was returned to the tribe remains a nature preserve with a public hiking trail. More: New York island returned to Wisconsin-based Mohican Nation after hundreds of years Sign up for the First Nations Wisconsin newsletter Click here to get all of our Indigenous news coverage right in your inbox Frank Vaisvilas is a former Report for America corps member who covers Native American issues in Wisconsin based at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Contact him at fvaisvilas@ or 815-260-2262. Follow him on Twitter at @vaisvilas_frank. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Mohican Tribe in Wisconsin reclaims sacred mountain in Massachusetts
