NATALIE WHITE

This week a video went round of a young girl in Scotland, clutching a massive knife in one hand and an axe in the other, yelling at someone to stay away from her little sister as a man approached her and filmed her when she was in a clear state of distress and fury. It was disturbing content, and like everything else these days provided a great source for memes, and provoked huge amounts of division.

⚠️This is absolutely HORRIFIC ⚠️

“DON’T F**KING TOUCH US”

Little girls scream at a migrant recording them before brandishing an AXE and a KNIFE to warn him off

What is happening to our country? pic.twitter.com/b7WyTtBkdM

— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) August 24, 2025

Obviously, she was the one demonised and arrested. I’ve seen her called a “feral thug” and a “retarded little shit, known in the area”, among other things.

To many though, she’s become a symbol of the utter gutter state of this country and an unlikely hero and emblem of our times. Within a few hours of the video doing the rounds on X, the child had stopped being a child and had become a meme and a menace and a problem to be processed, and the state responded not with safeguarding and internal considerations about what has gone so wrong in the country a little girl is carrying weapons, but instead sent a police van. And people who should know better applauded because nothing soothes a guilty conscience like pretending the frightened are the threat and not the adult male filming her despite her screams for him to leave her alone.

The country has spent 20 years training us to clap for brave girls – the cultural feminist lecture circuit has blared it through cinemas and classrooms and adverts and podcasts. The ‘heroic girl’ has become the most bankable product of our age because she is empowering and marketable and commercially invincible. But, of course, only if she’s the right sort of girl, in the right era. Should she be a white working class girl in 2025’s United Kingdom, then she’s nothing but a grotty little feral working class scumbag that needs to shut the fuck up about being raped or gangraped, and get back in her little privileged box – because no doubt ‘she asked for it’.

For nearly two decades now, we’ve had the mythology of the ‘brave girl’ rammed down our throats: Lyra with her courage, we get Katniss standing against the Capitol, we get Mulan charging the line; we get Moana sailing straight into danger; we get Merida splitting arrows and Elsa freezing kingdoms and Wonder Woman saving the world; we get Radio 4 serials where plucky evacuee girls fight Nazis; we get Disney movies that sell little girls “I don’t need no man” bravery by the bucket-load. And that’s all lovely until a little girl actually does stick up for herself and then she’s the bad guy.

The ‘Girl Power’ did not stop with stories: it bled into daily life and into childhood wardrobes. Little girls have been wrapped for years in T-shirts that tell them they are “strong and fearless and unstoppable”, they are marched through campaigns that call sayings like “throwing like a girl” offensive and misogynistic and insist that girls throw further and run faster and tackle harder. School assemblies, NGO videos and brand promotions urge them up trees and onto rugby pitches and into contact sport, the clear instruction being to prove every minute that being female does not mean being weaker or less, to outdo boys at boys’ games, to be louder and tougher and bristling with grit. Being ‘girly’ is almost a sin – unless you’re a boy – these days.

Then comes the twist: the minute some girls actually take that conditioning seriously, the minute they present with rough edges and hard corners and preferences that look ‘boyish’, the adults stop telling them “this girl can” and convince these little girls that they’re actually boys. Next thing they know, they’re on the conveyor belt that once sold them empowerment now sending them to clinics where their puberty is halted, their normal growing chests surgically removed and they’re being sterilised with puberty blockers and told they must share changing rooms and toilets with males.

The culture that demanded a generation of warrior daughters suddenly cannot abide the daughters it made and tries to make them into sons while insisting that womanhood is a space open to anyone who declares it so.

All of this would be laughable if it were not tragic, because when a real little girl in a real British park finally behaves in the way the billboards taught her to behave, when she stands between danger and her sister, she is not applauded, she is criminalised, and the people who cheer fictional heroines suddenly prefer procedure to courage and paperwork to protection. She isn’t the first and she wont be the last.

The late Andrew Norfolk spoke about how a little girl was arrested at the scene of her own gangrape by seven Asian men for being ‘drunk and disorderly’ after being plied with alcohol and found screaming, naked, in the front garden of a house in Telford.

If the little Scottish girl in the park was the subject of a Phillip Pullman play set in Ireland in the 1800s and had been fictional – “the child who stood firm against impossible odds, who raised her weapon to protect her kin, who fought when no one else would” – the perpetually offended Woke Left would be tweeting threads about how moving and necessary her courage was. Schools would set comprehension questions about her “voice and agency”, and you would be forced to buy the companion book for your children.

But because she is real and because she is working class and because she is not neatly packaged, she is processed as a public order issue.

The double standards are not subtle, and they sharpen if you change the casting, because if the child in that clip had been a black boy in Croydon with a machete, forced to carry a weapon because drugs and gangs have colonised every route to school, you would have had a month of Guardian columns about ‘systemic racism’ and ‘disproportionate criminalisation’. Owen Jones would be banging on about ‘14 years of Tory austerity’ being the cause because all the yoof clubs being shut down. You’d have Gary Lineker whinging about county lines and poverty; you would have had a rolling national conversation about compassion and context and the cruelty of a state that punishes children for surviving. And yet when the child is a white girl in a Scottish park you get none of the context and all of the condemnation because she is the wrong sort of feminist icon, and in the wrong century.

And behind all of this sits the reality that nobody in power ever wants to talk about. Last year alone there were over 68,000 rapes of women and girls reported in England and Wales. Scotland recorded nearly 3,000 more, a 15% rise in 12 months. Out of all of them, fewer than three in 100 resulted in a charge. Across all sexual offences the charge rate barely rises above 4%.

If a private company delivered results that dismal its directors would be dragged through court. But when the state does it, ministers pat themselves on the back.

Then there is the Rape Gang Inquiry. Not the Government’s, because the Government still refuses to investigate. This one is being driven by Rupert Lowe and a handful of survivors who are doing it themselves because the state will not.

Even without powers, even without official backing, it has already shown what victims have been shouting for decades. At least 85 councils across Britain ignored or enabled the rape of children. Police brushed off reports. Social workers wrote off girls of 12 as if they had consented. Officials tied themselves in knots to avoid mentioning ethnicity when it was inconvenient, and whole communities of children were sacrificed to protect reputations. Taxi firms, takeaways, guest houses – everyone knew and nobody in power disturbed it. If the races had been reversed, if minority children had been raped on this industrial scale by gangs of white British men, there would have been riots, there would have been lynchings, there would have been expulsions. But because the victims were working class white British girls they were written off as scum who asked for it or ‘made a lifestyle choice’.

Put that inquiry beside the video in the park and the difference is stark.

This is a country that tells girls to be heroines in theory and abandons them in practice. Girls learn that adults will not protect them or even care; that the police may arrest them faster than they will arrest the man raping them; that the agencies there to protect them are more interested in protecting their abusers; that schools will hold empowerment assemblies while prescribing mindfulness to girls who are too scared to sleep because they know which taxi plates to avoid.

And the hypocrisy of the commentariat never fails.

Were this girl the heroine of a BBC Radio 4 afternoon play, they would be swooning into their vegan flat whites about how ‘brave and magnificent’ she was.

Had she existed in 19th-century Ireland fighting the British, they would wrap her in a tricolour and commission a statue. Had she fought off a paedophile priest in the Magdalene Homes, she would be canonised in feminist journals and celebrated on panels at Hay. Were she a Palestinian girl throwing stones at the IDF, they would all change their profile pictures in her honour. Were she Liesel Meminger raging against the Nazis, she would be in the school curriculum. But because she is none of these safe metaphors, and none of these curated narratives, because she is simply a working class Scottish girl in a municipal park, she is treated as a thug and carted off by the fuzz.

Little girls raised in safe homes and safe communities do not walk around with knives. They splash in puddles and argue for five more minutes on the swings. When a child becomes a protector it is not an aesthetic or a phase, it is 100% survival.

Call her a little shit if you like, maybe she is, but she did not create herself – this country did. The same country that drowns girls in empowerment slogans while turning a blind eye to predators.

A little girl with a knife and an axe should shock us. Not because of the knife and the axe but because she knows what no child ever should: that nobody is coming to save you and that we all should have done a lot more.

Natalie White is a single mum from Cornwall and a persistent thorn in the side of MPs, journalists and officials who would rather not be challenged. This article was first published on X, where Natalie’s handle is @KingBobIIV.

Stop Press: Police Scotland has issued a statement from Chief Superintendent Nicola Russell:

We are aware of misinformation being shared on social media in relation to an incident where a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths in St Ann Lane, Dundee, on Saturday August 23rd 2025.

A 12 year-old girl has been charged with being in possession of offensive weapons. She will be referred to the relevant authorities and our enquiries are ongoing.

We would like to thank the local community for their help with our investigation and would urge the public not to share misinformation about this incident or speculate on the circumstances.

Stop Press 2: The Mail reveals the “truth” about the man filming the video, a Bulgarian immigrant who says the girl attacked him as he walked to the shops.

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This article (Something Has Gone Very Wrong in How We Treat Girls) was created and published by The Daily Sceptic and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Natalie White

The New Boudicca?

What actually happened in Dundee on Saturday evening when a young girl was arrested for allegedly threatening a migrant man with a knife and an axe?

C.J. STRACHAN

The statue of Boudicca, Queen of the Icenii, on Westminster Embankment. Boudicca,led a revolt against the Roman occupiers in AD 60-61 following the rape and dishonour of her daughters by Roman soldiers on a tax collection mission. The revolt cost an estimated 80,000 deaths and the destruction of several cities as well as the Icenii as a people. Ever since she has been seen as the embodiment of the ‘Britannic’ spirit. Her revolt and her cultural position since, has been brought into sharp focus by recent events in Britain. Specifically the horror of the grooming gang scandal and the impact it has had on the social contract between the ruled and the rulers.

A few days ago an incident on a tough housing scheme in Dundee, Scotland went viral on social media. A video was shared, which showed two white working class Scottish children yelling at the cameraman to keep his distance. One of the girls can be heard referring to the cameraman as a ‘kid basher’ and then brandishes a kitchen knife and a hatchet. The incident was reported in the press, without context, merely referring to the fact that the Police had arrested and charged a 14 year old girl for possession of an offensive weapon

The incident has been pounced upon by commentators and political activists across the world. From ‘The UK Police arresting the innocent victim of a paedophile’ to ‘feral racist girl arrested for threatening a migrant’. What actually happened has been swept away in the torrent of speculation, typically fueled by personal bias.

Within hours this video had millions of views and was shared across the internet. The juxtaposition of a working class British teenage girl resorting to defending herself and her sister with weapons on a Britain that is still reeling from ongoing grooming gang scandals, where the state utterly failed to defend vulnerable children like those in the video fuelled outrage. Elon Musk shared the video, expressing his displeasure as it looked like, to all intents, that Police Scotland had yet again failed to protect vulnerable children, was ignoring some very odd behaviour by the cameraman and was, as has happened in many of the grooming gang cases, criminalising the children rather than the man allegedly threatening them.

Elon Musk took to twitter to once again call for prosecutions for those responsible for the grooming gang coverup. The implication being that the Dundee Girl was obliged to defend herself and her sister in a nation where the state no longer protects her, only for her to be arrested and prosecuted by those she trusted to protect her.

The reaction to the incident was remarkable because whilst X and Instagram were broadly asking the above, causing particular outrage in the USA. The ‘other side’ was in some cases celebrating the fact that a dangerous racist feral child had been taken off the streets. The incident has, in the eyes of many around the world, come to represent everything that is wrong with Britain.

None of this is particularly helpful to calming down the febrile state of the nation across the UK. Certainly the Police and the Media seem to have learned little from the fall out of the Southport child murders. Once again, they are using the spurious argument of jeopardising prosecution to avoid having to address the skeleton in the room when what is actually needed is transparency.

So what to we know about this incident? Well, not a lot. As far as evidence all we have is the video and the statement from the Police, reported across the mainstream media.

1. A man with heavily accented English is filming two girls who appear to be pre teen/young teenagers.
2. The children are clearly emotionally charged and in some distress. One girl, hiding objects behind her back repeatedly tells the cameraman to back off, accusing him of being a ‘kid basher’ and to leave her 12 year old sister alone.
3. The man advances on the child
4. The man repeatedly goads the child into revealing the knife she is hiding behind her back

We don’t have any context for this incident, the video starts with the above, there doesn’t seem to be any film of what led up to the incident.

The media reported on the subsequent arrest and charging of the child. On Wednesday 27th August, the police, rather belatedly released a statement telling people not to believe the ‘misinformation’ on the internet about the incident. The problem is that it is no longer sufficient to say nothing, nature abhors a vacuum and as for ‘misinformation’? In an age where the agents of misinformation have all too frequently been those of various governments, you’ll forgive the public if they no longer trust the police or the media to tell the truth about anything.

Anyway, that’s what we know. There have been a storm of rumours, ‘facts’, context from the cameraman having allegedly assaulted the younger girl to the girls being the daughter of a drug addict mother and were well known for causing trouble on the estate and the cameraman was an innocent Bulgarian migrant. All of these claims share one thing in common: they are never substantiated. What isn’t helping is the efforts of activists on both sides of the issue, very few of whom are in the UK, never mind Scotland, using the incident to grind their own political axes.

The cameraman certainly has some questions to answer:

1. Why was he interacting with the girls in the first place?
2. Why does he continue to advance on the girls when they are clearly emotionally charged, distressed and repeatedly warning him to keep back?
3. Why does he feel it is appropriate to goad the older girl into brandishing the weapons she is carrying?

In British society men never approach children unknown to them, unless the children clearly require assistance or are requesting it. Even then, it is advisable to ensure that other witnesses assist. Even if the children were behaving badly, the correct way of dealing with this situation would be to de-escalate it as the adult by removing yourself from the scene quickly. If you then had concerns for the children you then report the incident to the police. You do not escalate the situation by behaving like he did.

What is a relatively minor incident in the grand scheme of things, became an internationally viral incident because of the context in which it happened. Over the last 12 months the British Government has been failing catastrophically to prevent illegal migration into the UK. Furthermore, it came to the public knowledge that the last Government, a Conservative one, had used a High Court gagging order to hide its policy of relocating hundreds of thousands of Agfans to the UK following an alleged leak of their names by a Ministry of Defence employee.

The impact of this mass immigration is being felt in towns, cities and villages all over the country. Local hotels have been used to house mostly young mail ‘migrants’ who are given free board and lodgings, a free Android or iPhone, spending money, and access to both GP services and, most galling, dental services. This at a time when most people in the UK are facing significant financial difficulties caused by the catastrophic economic incompetence of a government which has lost control of spending and thinks the only solution is to tas hard working Britons who then see their taxes being spent on freebies for individuals who have entered the country illegally,

To add insult to injury, taking hundreds of young men from societies that are very different from that of the UK, and dropping them into hotels in small towns and villages, with nothing to do, was never,ever going to work. Resources in rural areas in the UK are under huge pressure and are finely balanced. Access to services like NHS Dentistry are extremely patchy. Given that some areas there is a wait for 12 months to see an NHS Dentist, news that illegal immigrants are getting appointments within days goes down less than well with the long suffering and extremely patient British population.

Then there is the crime. Now many on the left will tell you that it is racist to discuss crime by the race or culture of the offender. However, the figures cannot be denied. These are the figures for convictions for sexual offences from the UK Ministry of Justice. The figure to consider is the Multiple of the British Rate. So Afghan nationals are 22.2 times more likely to commit a sexual offence in the UK than British men.

Convictions for Sexual Offences by Top Nationalities (2021-2023)

This table shows raw conviction numbers for the top FNO nationalities, based on MoJ FOI data. Rates per 10,000 population highlight disparities (e.g., Afghans at 59, 22x British rate of 2.66). Total FNO convictions: 2,500. Data can be visualized as a bar chart with nationalities on the x-axis and convictions on the y-axis, or a pie chart for proportions (Romanians ~40% of FNO total).

• Source Notes: MoJ data via Centre for Migration Control FOI (2025). 87 nationalities had higher rates than British; top 25 received 52,486 long-term visas in 2024. For 2024 specifics, Romanians (27), Poles (27), Indians (38 for assaults), Pakistanis (20), and Afghans (19 for assaults) led in sub-categories like sexual assault on females.

The anger the failure to control immigration has, this summer tipped into major protest. The old trope that those protesting the ‘Migrant Hotels’ in their neighbourhoods are racist bigots is fooling nobody. The major issue the Government have is that British women are leading many of these protests. They are understandably angry and concerned that their locality is now unsafe for their children, and there are a plethora of incidents to support this.

After the police appeared to have to covered up the alleged rape of a 12 year old Nuneaton girl by residents from one of these hotels, there was huge public outcry. Attempts by the left wing pressure group ‘Stand up to Racism’ to counter protest Nuneaton fell flat as their bussed in activists were roundly jeered by locals who accused them of being rape apologists.

Behind all this is the shadow of the grooming gang scandal. Possibly the greatest shame of the United Kingdom since it was founded in 1707. Since the early 1980s, groups of mostly Pakistani Muslim men had targeted non Muslim children from the working class white, Hindu and Seikh population, groomed the children and raped them. Peter McClelland, one of the first journalists to cover this in his book Easy Meat quotes the Association of Chief Constables as estimating that the number of victims could be in the hundreds of thousands.

What has especially angered the British people is that those people who are in positions of government and trust, betrayed that trust by failing to act. The justification was that ‘community cohesion’ was more important than protecting innocent vulnerable children. Terrified of being called racist, police, social services and Councils decided to blame those children as ‘child prostitutes’, making ‘lifestyle choices’. Some of these children were as young as 11. In some cases the Police criminalised and charged the victims, some of whom did time in prison and are now saddled with the stigma of being a sex offender for the rest of their lives, excluded from activities that most parents can experience, like helping at school fete or sports day because they fail the safeguarding checks. Meanwhile, those who made their childhoods a misery of addiction and sexual physical abuse, very often got off scot free, living in their communities.

The Labour Government has only recently caved to huge pressure for a formal national enquiry to examine what happened, having denied it for years and most recently, in January of this year. Given that the Councils which were complicit in so many of these alleged coverups were Labour and that Labour relies on large tranches of the Muslim vote in many of these areas, accusations of political expediency over investigation of crime and corruption were difficult to refute.

So, why is the image of a girl waving a hatchet and a kitchen knife a global phenomenon: because she represents, however accurate or inaccurate the speculation of the events of the incident, the reality of Britain in 2025. A nation where the social contract is on its knees as the public are rapidly losing all trust in the State. She is the personification of modern Britain a young white British girl forced to take up arms to defend the honour of her family every but as visceral as the statue of Boudica, the Queen of the Icenii, leading her tribe into bloody revolt for justice and revenge for the rape of her daughters by a Roman tax collecting expedition.

Whatever actually happened on Saturday evening in Dundee has been rapidly swept aside by the imagery. Whilst the conversation is febrile in the USA, it is somewhat more muted in the UK. There is a sense that the nation is a powderkeg and an event like this could easily set off events that may be impossible to return from. Because of this, however tempting it is to jump to conclusions, it is also important to pause and apply critical thinking before allowing your emotional response to run away with you. Those foreign commentators in the USA, Ireland and elsewhere, be they left wing pro migrant or right wing or anti migrant are not the ones who will have to live with the consequences of civil breakdown in the UK. We are. Hold the authorities to account. Demand justice for the grooming gang victims and that those who failed them, demand that the government start to deport illegal migrants. Do so peacefully and within the law, firmly and politely.

The alternative does not bear thinking about. The last revolt of the Icenii was a bloodbath, tens of thousands of innocent people killed and the end of the tribe and its queen. Remember that.

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