The Killing of Henry Nowak in the Disunited Kingdom

Just another day in the not so United Kingdom.

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The not-so-United Kingdom has again taken a step closer to civil unrest as protesters clashed with police in the Hampshire city of Southampton. This comes after the circumstances surrounding the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak became public.

Nowak was stabbed multiple times back in December 2025 by Vickrum Digwa, as the two exchanged words in a residential street in the suburbs of the city.

Digwa has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for the killing—a killing that body cam footage from the attending police officers shows could and should have been avoided.

Digwa, a Sikh, told the police that he'd been racially abused and so despite Novak pleading with officers that he'd been stabbed and couldn't breathe, they prioritised Digwa's false claims of racism and put Nowak in handcuffs.

Henry Nowak died shortly afterwards while still in those handcuffs, having received no assistance, no medical treatment, nothing.

Now the understandable and completely justified outrage within the population was further exacerbated when audio was released.

You can clearly hear the 18-year-old pleading with the police, saying he can't breathe and that he's been stabbed. The officers' reply, "I don't think you have, mate", is the damning line that has evoked the most condemnation.

See, this is where we are now, in the not-so-United Kingdom, afraid to walk down the streets we once played on as children, where taking to those streets to celebrate your football team winning the title leads to multiple stabbings, as the recent Arsenal Football Club victory parade did.

Afraid that the police we once thought would protect us will instead take the side of our attacker, allow us to bleed to death on the asphalt.

Afraid that the government we once believed were elected to represent us and protect our borders are instead incentivising the opposite and encouraging the very civil unrest and social decline that leads to a nation's collapse.

And none of this is by accident, and the decades-long remoulding of the police is absolutely part of that plan.

See, there are Vickrum Digwa's in every demographic that walk among us. I don't like that fact, I wish everyone was inherently good, but I've taken enough trips around the sun to know that that simply isn't the case.

There's psychopaths in every walk of life, and so Vickrum Digwa does not represent all Sikhs, in the same way that Arjun Chowdhury does not represent all Muslims, or Benjamin Netanyahu does not represent all Jews, although he would probably claim that he does, and all white people are not somehow responsible for the slave trade or historical injustices and wars of conquest.

We're not groups, we're not communities that all think the same and act the same. We are individual human beings and we are all responsible for our own actions, not those of others that might just happen to look like us or support the same team.

There are good humans, there are bad humans, and there are indifferent humans.

Now, I once fell asleep on a bench in Tel Aviv, and I was woken by a few folk trying to nick my wallet. Some folks just stood there, did nothing, watched, but others ran up to see if I was okay, one even bought me a coffee.

Good, bad, indifferent. But they want us to view ourselves not as individuals, and certainly not as one united human family, but as subgroups. Groups to be played off against one another. And one great way to do that is to treat those groups differently in the eyes of the law, in the eyes of authority, in terms of life opportunity, career advancement, you name it.

Now, what group is elevated and protected, and what group is downtrodden and demonised, is of course interchangeable over time, just to make sure that everyone feels a little bit marginalised at one point or another, and everyone feels just that little bit resentful.

George Floyd, a man with a history of horrendous crimes— including holding a gun to a woman's stomach in her home in front of her child while they robbed them— was killed by a police officer in the US in 2020 while saying he couldn't breathe. 

Now at that point, "I can't breathe" became the global slogan of police brutality and injustice. Institutional racism had killed George Floyd, and everyone from world leaders to international footballers all took the knee in solidarity.

Now, will they do that for Henry Nowak? Will Keir Starmer pose on one knee for a photo op like he did in 2020? Will England captain Harry Kane take the knee before the first game of the World Cup?

Well, of course not, nor would I expect them to. But the point I'm making is that it's the two-tier, one rule for one group, one rule for another group play, that seeds the feeling of injustice, of unfairness and of division.

Now that's intentional. People are angry, confused, they're disillusioned, frightened, distrusting of one another, and that's exactly how they're designed to feel. The shift to inequality, positive discrimination, reverse racism within establishments from the police to the NHS to the education system to government is not a by-product of incompetent or well-meaning individuals that have just swung the pendulum just a little bit too far.

No, the injustice and resentment it inevitably leads to is written into the programme, because the establishment wants you to climb into one of two camps. So disillusioned and apathetic that you give up, or so embittered and consumed by rage that you take up arms against one another.

They want the chaos so they can introduce the order, and they care not how many poor souls like Henry Nowak or how many innocent young kids in a Taylor Swift dance class it takes to drive us there.

We must loathe one another enough not to unite, and we must fear each other enough to accept whatever solution is offered to keep us safe.

We must loathe and fear Muslims. They're all terrorists. They're all terrorists or terrorist sympathisers, aren't they? Well, all of them?

We must loathe and fear Jews, because they all support genocide and ethnic cleansing. Again, all of them?

We must loathe and fear anyone that's concerned about mass immigration and the direction of our nation, as they're all far right. All of them?

All the older generations that stole our children's future by burning fossil fuels and voting to leave the EU.

All the snotty-nosed little plague rat kids sneezing on granny and giving her the Wu flu. 

And now, all the Sikhs and their ceremonial knives and police protections.

Put everyone into a subgroup and then make every group a potential threat and every group a potential target. That way, we'll always be divided. Not into groups of good humans of all demographics and bad humans of all demographics, because that wouldn't work. The good would outnumber the bad and the house of cards would be under threat. And they don't want that.

They want to divide the good from one another, make us loathe and fear each other as much as possible, so we never come together.

Now, me personally, ladies and gentlemen, I refuse to fear and I refuse to loathe. We've done that for centuries. And just look around you. Look at where it's gotten us. I think it's time for a different approach.

Transcribed by EY@EL
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