Hard work should pay. Unlock quality journalism that champions free enterprise. | | An audio recording reveals the moment a smuggler instructs a migrant to swallow drugs |  | Steve Bird | Migrants crossing the Channel in small boats are bringing heroin and cocaine into Britain on behalf of people smugglers, a Telegraph investigation has found.
Asylum seekers are being offered discounted or free passage if they swallow packets of Class A drugs and deliver them to organised criminal gangs.
Some who agree are offered “VIP crossings”, joining women and children on boats that criminals believe attract less suspicion.
A source said migrants were asked to swallow between 750g and 1kg of drugs. That amount of heroin would have a street value of more than £75,000.
A human trafficker said the contraband was typically collected from Home Office hotels once migrants had been housed in Britain.
Organised criminal networks are exploiting a potential security flaw in the limited number of searches carried out by Border Force officials on migrants arriving in the UK.
Our investigation suggests that some of the tens of thousands of migrants travelling to the UK each year are being used to create a new drug supply route, with officials largely unaware of the challenge and unable to stop it.
Read the full story here ➤ | | Sandie Peggie hugs her solicitor after winning a claim for harassment | .png) | Simon Johnson Scottish Political Editor | Sandie Peggie was looking forward to spending Christmas Day with her family after finishing her late shift as a nurse on Dec 24, 2023.
Before she left she visited the female changing room at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy to deal with a sudden period.
There she found Dr Beth Upton, a biological male who identifies as female. Ms Peggie challenged the medic’s presence, and the ensuing row between them resulted in Ms Peggie’s suspension and an employment tribunal.
The law appeared to be on Ms Peggie’s side when the Supreme Court ruled in April that the word “sex” in the Equality Act referred to biological sex and not self-identified gender.
To my surprise, and that of some lawyers and feminist campaigners, NHS Fife continued the fight despite this ruling.
The tribunal’s judgment was handed down yesterday, and it found that Ms Peggie had been harassed by the health board.
However, her claims for sexual harassment, belief discrimination and victimisation were dismissed, with the judge ruling that it had been lawful for Dr Upton to use the changing room until Ms Peggie complained.
The Supreme Court seemed to rule that biology was the key factor but the tribunal said NHS Fife should have considered Dr Upton’s “feminine” clothes, hair, make-up, voice and pronouns.
Ms Peggie and her legal team are due to hold a press conference this week and it would surprise me again if they did not announce an appeal.
Ms Peggie’s solicitor, Margaret Gribbon, said that “aspects of the judgment are hugely problematic for women, leaving the onus on them to object when their privacy, dignity and safety are violated, when men are given access to single sex spaces”.
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| | You might have had an unpleasant encounter with a narcissist before. If you’re lucky they may show just a few of the main traits – self-obsession, difficulty in seeing your point of view – and be open to change. That is less likely, however, if they are a grandiose manipulator for whom empathy is a foreign concept.
If you have a close relationship with such a person, the problems begin to stack up. It could be a partner who believes they are more important than anyone else and will fail to empathise with you; a parent who withholds praise or affection; a friend who constantly belittles you; or a sibling whose default mode is to blame you for everything. The million-dollar question is: can you change their behaviour for everyone’s benefit, or should you just walk away? Here are the red flags to look for.
Continue reading ➤ | Justice for Daddy Pig Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
My daughter is only one, so I haven’t quite entered the Peppa Pig Years. If the model David Gandy is to be believed, I should approach them with caution. He recently argued in a TV interview that Daddy Pig, the cartoon’s porcine paterfamilias, offers a bad example of masculinity to children, being a bumbling, absent-minded schlub. Although I’m entirely confident that my daughter will never perceive any of those qualities in me, should I consider steering her towards Superman – or, perhaps, David Gandy’s collected appearances on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg – instead?
Avril Wright was one reader who felt he had a point: “Watching Peppa Pig with various grandchildren over the years, I have long thought that this character is made to look stupid and inept, and have heard him called ‘silly Daddy’ many times. It could easily result in children soaking up negative impressions of fathers. Not only that, it could imbue boys with a low sense of self-worth. I am not suggesting that they should instead have Attila the Hun as a role model – but a little more balance would be welcome.”
Andrew Holgate wasn’t so sure, though: “While Daddy Pig may often seem like a buffoon, in the episode ‘Daddy Pig’s Office’, he shows Peppa how to solve quadratic equations.”
If only I could remember how to do that. For Jennie Naylor, meanwhile, the problem went further than Peppa Pig: “My favourite cartoon watched with grandchildren was Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom. However, King Thistle was often pompous and misguided, and Wise Old Elf, arrogant and hidebound. Maybe it’s time for programmes about competent male characters.”
Dave Brayshaw replied: “My wife and I have spent many happy hours watching Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom with our grandchildren. They call me ‘Wise Old Elf’, on the basis that I can fix anything. My wife takes on the role of ‘Nanny Plum’ and sorts out problems when Wise Old Elf cannot – or, as is often the case, gets it wrong.” Do children’s cartoons give men a bad name? Let me know what you think here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here.
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