IT WAS in April that one of TCW’s writers brought the X commentator Jim Chimirie to my attention, when the Mandelson scandal was exploding. I have been following him since then. And every-rightminded person on X should. He (assuming he is a he) is not an influencer or a sensationalist. He is an objective facts-and-analysis man and a very good writer – one of the best, journalistically sound, ‘investigative’ reporters and commentators on X. His reports unpicking the successive Labour scandals, corruption and chicanery, and now Labour’s response to the death of Henry Nowak, have been second to none.
On Friday, in response to a post by Patrick Christys of GB News which shared (and revealed) Shabana Mahmood’s letter to her constituents about George Floyd’s death, Jim Chimirie wrote a devastating takedown of the Home Secretary’s shocking hypocrisy and irrefutably two-tier thinking. The letter she wrote, he says, is in fact a precise description of two-tier political engagement. ‘One standard was applied to George Floyd. A different standard applied to Henry Nowak.’
The full post deserves sharing beyond X. I have checked all the facts in it. Unsurprisingly, given his high editorial standard, they are all correct. For evidence I have added some links to his sources. He titled the post ‘Shabana Mahmood Called George Floyd’s Death An Unspeakable Outrage. She Called Henry Nowak’s A Political Grandstanding Opportunity’.
It said:
‘On June 4th 2020, four days after George Floyd died in Minneapolis, Shabana Mahmood wrote to her constituents. She described his death as an unspeakable outrage. She shared the anger of the Black Lives Matter movement. She condemned Donald Trump in the strongest possible terms. She pledged to ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She signed it with a Black Lives Matter hashtag.
‘This week Shabana Mahmood stood at the despatch box and told the House of Commons there must be no two-tier policing. She said the police have a sacred duty to act without fear or favour. She warned that anyone using Henry Nowak’s murder to stoke division should be rejected. Henry Nowak died on December 3rd 2025. Mahmood said nothing for days. The Commons Speaker had to order the government to make a statement.’
[Yes, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, ordered the government to make a statement regarding the murder of Henry Nowak. He addressed the House of Commons on June 1, 2026, stating that the case was of legitimate interest to Parliament and that he expected the government to bring forward a statement. He added that if a statement was not forthcoming, he would favourably look at alternative ways MPs could bring the issue before the House.]
‘When she finally spoke she described the national outcry as political grandstanding and accused those naming the problem of stoking division.
‘Four days after George Floyd died she had already written to her constituents. Four days after Henry Nowak’s killer was convicted she had to be ordered to speak by the Speaker of the House.
‘The letter she wrote in 2020 is worth reading carefully because it is the most precise document available for understanding what happened this week. She writes that her work deeply reflects the cause for social and racial justice. She writes that she will carry on working to ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She writes that she wants her work to continue to be reflective of black and ethnic minority experiences in Birmingham.
‘Not all voices. Black voices. Not all experiences. Black and ethnic minority experiences. That is the Home Secretary who told Parliament this week there must be no two-tier policing. Her own letter is a precise description of two-tier political engagement. One standard applied to George Floyd. A different standard applied to Henry Nowak.
‘The progressive institutional machinery was operational within hours of Floyd’s death. The hashtag was ready. The language was ready. The political network was ready. Mahmood’s letter was part of that machinery. It was produced within four days because the machinery runs automatically when the case fits the framework. Black Lives Matter had been founded in 2013. By 2020 it had dozens of local chapters, a global network, corporate donors worth hundreds of millions of dollars and political allies embedded across every major Western government. When Floyd died every node of that network activated simultaneously. Mahmood’s letter was one activation among millions.
‘Henry Nowak’s case does not fit the framework. His killer used the progressive framework as the murder weapon. His case does not vindicate the ideology of anti-racism training. It exposes it. And the Home Secretary whose entire political career has been built around that ideology found herself at the despatch box this week condemning its most visible consequence while declining to name its cause.
‘She wrote in 2020 that she would ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She has kept that promise. The question Henry Nowak’s family is entitled to ask is which voices were heard at the heart of the institutions that trained the officers who handcuffed their son. The Hampshire Race Action Plan. The NPCC guidance. The College of Policing practice bank. [This is an online tool for police and community safety organisations to share and explore crime reduction methods.] The Metropolitan Police neutrality myth. All of it built by the same political framework Mahmood has spent her career advancing.
‘There must be no two tier policing. She is right. The letter she wrote in 2020 explains precisely why there is.’
Chimerie then added this post from Patrick Christys which gives the full text of Mahmood’s 2020 letter.
