- “It’s funny how it’s always children who lose out from Covid restrictions” – If any other sector of society were discriminated against in such a brutal manner, we’d be up in arms, writes Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
- “World Medical Association boss compares new strain of Covid with Ebola” – “The chairman of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, believes that a new strain of the Omicron could become as dangerous as the Ebola virus,” reports Armenia News.
- “Top U.K. cardiologist: be on the right side of history and put an end to vaccine mandates” – “Dr. Malhotra declared that public policy leaders must now consider an end to all Covid vaccine mandates. Malhotra reminds all that the healthcare profession is all about serving the patient, and not the pharmaceutical industry,” reports Trialsite.
- “Lockdown looms and our liberties are in tatters” – We have normalised the extraordinary and let fundamental British values be trampled by Covid, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Teachers call for masks to be mandatory in English secondary schools” – Heads say advice is ‘too vague’ as sceptical MPs warn additional Covid restrictions will cause further disruption, reports the Guardian.
- “An opportunity to turn the tables?” – “We can refuse to wear masks on public transport and in shops. By simply behaving in a normal, natural way we can, en masse, reclaim a vital human right,” says Our Decision Too.
- “Travel bans aren’t the answer to stopping new Covid variant Omicron” – Given that the Omicron variant has already spread beyond southern Africa, a ban on travellers from those countries will slow the spread, but won’t stop this strain in its tracks, writes Anthony Zwi in the Conversation.
- “Take a Covid test when you meet someone from another household, says Nicola Sturgeon” – First Minister warns that ‘this is a moment again for collective national vigilance’ after discovery of Omicron cases, reports the Telegraph.
- “Totalitarian taffy and the new scariant” – “There are overwhelming perversions in the toxicology of Covid policies. And they veer towards enabling the stripping of liberties fecklessly and pointlessly – unless creating an oppressive state structure is your aim,” writes Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “Biden caught disobeying indoor mask mandate in Nantucket” – President Joe Biden was caught disobeying an indoor mask mandate this weekend in Nantucket just hours after being ‘fully briefed’ on the new Omicron variant, reports MailOnline.
- “Don’t cancel holidays but accept ‘element of risk’ with Omicron variant, says Minister” – Edward Argar says further cases of omicron must be expected but ruled out any further additions to the red list in the next three weeks, reports the Telegraph.
- “A murder most foul” – The impact of lockdown restrictions on the young played a part in the murder of 13 year-old Olly Stevens, argues S. D. Wickett in a narrated article available to listen to on Bournbrook Magazine’s YouTube channel.
- “We must reject this Covid safetyism” – “A mask mandate and tighter travel rules may not be a lockdown. But they are a reminder that all these months into this pandemic we are still not in control of our own lives,” writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Why many on the left want another lockdown” – There is a lack of empathy for people who do not work in the public sector who cannot bet on having a job once this is all over, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Biden won’t boot out unvaccinated federal workers until after holidays” – The Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to federal agencies instructing them to hold off booting out their unvaccinated workers despite the deadline passing on November 22nd, reports the Mail.
- “Climate: the next Covid” – “The rhetoric surrounding climate change is merging with Covid. That it is a disease to be eradicated at all costs – and the people are standing in the way,” writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “‘Slow disaster playing out’ as Germany moves to shut down 8.5 GW of baseload nuclear capacity” – “It will put supply security further under pressure and them choosing to do so in the middle of winter is pretty crazy,” writes P. Gosselin in Watts Up With That?
- “Benedict Cumberbatch needs to man up about toxic masculinity” – “Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has shrewdly deduced that ‘men are bad’ and has shared that revelation with the world. Elementary wokeism, my dear Watson,” writes Frank Furedi in RT.
- “Deafening silence on hounding of JK Rowling” – Reluctance to defend writer targeted by trans-rights activists is shameful, writes Alex Massie in the Times.
- “The Covid theatre” – Julia Hartley-Brewer tweets that: “The Prime Minister and half the Cabinet are currently at a huge lunch in Westminster. There is not a mask in sight (apart from the waiters, of course)… It’s all theatre, folks.”
The Prime Minister and half the Cabinet are currently at a huge lunch in Westminster. There is not a mask in sight (apart from the waiters, of course). Yet tomorrow the PM will make all of our children wear masks in schools. It's all theatre, folks.
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) November 29, 2021pic.twitter.com/LAPtedaNrK
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12739817/poppy-sellers-victoria-station-surrounded-pro-palestine-protestors.html
Plod obviously too busy looking for the coco nutters to deal with real criminals –
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/12/met-police-search-pro-palestine-protesters-hate-crime/
The Met – the joke that just can’t stop.
You are so right
Thanks Dinger
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/12/suella-braverman-pro-palestinian-marches-cannot-go-on/
It’s beginning to look like Suella has not exactly played a blinder. Despite the anticipated civil war which would have provided a sort of legitimacy for more stringent anti protest legislation the sad fact is that nothing really kicked off this weekend. This dismal result for the Davos Deviants may well mean that Fishy has been placed on notice. So what next?
Should we expect a bombing or a shooting and will it be pro Hamas or a right wing extremist, or even a mixture of the two?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/11/sadiq-khan-advisers-israel-settler-colonialism-genocide/
It would not be difficult at this time to make a case against the khant charging him with ‘conspiracy to commit genocide.’
If Gaza is being “colonised” by Israel, the West is being colonised by Islam
No two ways about that.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/12/how-multiculturalism-fuels-hate/
Good to see that Frank has caught up with me.
It’s the whole point of multi-culti.
Indeed.
I have been wondering for years how my life has been enriched by multiculturalism and all I can come up with is Ska, Reggae and Ganga. Fortunately these delights do not come with heavy doses of islam.
Vesta introduced me to curries
years ago and as a now pretty decent cook I have no problem putting authentic Indian cuisine on the table. I therefore see no need for further imports thank you very much. In fact it is clear that huge numbers of said imports do not wish to be here as this weekend proved, so realistically we should be assisting their repatriation
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/cut-taxes-or-drown-in-debt-warns-thatcher-economist/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ignored-danger-signals/
“The purpose of randomised controlled trials is to make comparisons such as these. At the time of this report in May 2021 it was already clear that there was an unexpected rise in cardiac arrest calls to ambulances in England. Not only were all these alerts ignored at the time, they have continued to be ignored ever since despite increasing evidence that there is a risk of sudden cardiac death associated with these novel drugs.”
Another good demolition of the “safe and effective….”
I had to google ‘boondogle’. I see the word ‘boondoggle’, ie spelt with double o, means: A boondoggle is a project that is considered a waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations.
They forgot monetary motivations.
Useless Solar Power Industry Risks Bankruptcy – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Campaign to stop your local council destroying local countryside and finances with such schemes. By the way there has been some success on Wiltshire, Surrey and Berkshire stopping some 5g towers at least.
Good on Germany for banning the protests. However, I wonder if this is yet another temporary ban, like the one that came into place early last year.
”Chancellor Olaf Scholz has now announced a ban on Hamas activities in Germany. The organization Samidoun, which is affiliated with the Palestinian terrorist group PFLP, will also be banned. “Whoever supports terror organizations like Hamas commits a criminal offense,” Scholz said.
Banning the actions and organizations means their gatherings and activities are no longer permitted, nor can their logos be used. Organizational assets may also be confiscated. Whoever persists despite the ban would be committing a criminal offense.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser also intends to take action against other supporters and sympathizers of Hamas in Germany. This would include people who collect donations for the organization. At the same time, she is examining the possibility “of deporting offenders from the Islamist scene, if they are not German passport holders.”
But there are supporters and sympathizers. ‘We must therefore assume that that the number of people in the supporter scene is in the thousands,” Middle East expert Guido Steinberg, from the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), told DW. The group of sympathizers is even broader. While supporters take concrete action in support of Hamas, for example, advertising or collecting money, sympathizers often do not figure publicly at all, Steinberg explained.
“These bans are one of the most important instruments a democracy has to prevent money flowing to terrorist organizations,” Hans-Jakob Schindler from the transatlantic think tank Counter Extremism Project (CEP) told DW. However, he added: “It is always difficult, because in Germany associations and non-profit organizations enjoy a certain degree of protection, and investigations by authorities such as the Office for the Protection of the Constitution are limited when it comes to finances.”
The line is crossed when violence is openly called for or endorsed. “As long as individuals restrain themselves in this regard, it will be very difficult,” Schindler explained, adding that suspects usually pay close attention to what they say, so as not to attract attention from the authorities.”
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-takes-action-against-hamas-supporters/a-67085873
A reminder of the luxurious life the Hamas top brass billionaires get to enjoy from miles away. It’s easy to talk of a ”nation of martyrs” and sacrificing the people of Gaza for a cause when you are so far removed from real life there and incur no personal risks;
”The three Hamas billionaires have stolen, from the people of Gaza, eleven billion dollars. They luxuriate in their residences, and luxury suites, in Doha, as well as in their villas in Beirut and Istanbul, where they have been photographed lolling on beds, working out in private gyms, flying about in their private planes, eating at the most expensive restaurants, completely indifferent to the conditions in which the people of Gaza live. Think of how many apartments, electricity plants, water purification plants could have been built in Gaza with those eleven billion dollars. The only people trying to help the Gazans directly — thus avoiding sending aid through the thieving Hamas rulers — are the Israelis, who until October 7 had been providing jobs to 20,000 people from Gaza, who earned between three and five times as much working in Israel than they could have earned at home, even assuming there were jobs to be had in the Strip.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/hamas-billionaires-getting-the-attention-their-riches-deserve
“…as the Government considers tougher protest laws. ” No. It just needs the useless, common purpose goons of the met to enforce the existing laws instead of posing for selfies with terrorist supporters.
And spot the risk of abuse of power by certain politicians. I seem to remember there was a fair bit of that recently, perhaps a few years back.
Congratulations Eldred, once again you have picked the dumbest DM articles you could to rile up division.
Biased much?
Skeptical of division politics…not a jot.
From what I’m seeing BTL, it looks like the more prolific DS posters are united. The rest of us can only look on in horror at the disappearance of any broader, more nuanced discussion, while the rest of the world looks on in bewilderment.
Thankfully there are indeed great BTL contributors.
In
we find:
It sounds like dementia.
In other news, Home Secretary Suella Braverman is sacked, thereby confirming the mandate for two tier policing. We are living in an ant-white apartheid state.
Disgraceful. I had to find the link; I thought you may have been juststirring the pot.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/13/suella-braverman-sacked-rishi-sunak-cabinet-reshuffle/
“SNP’s Stephen Flynn slammed for ‘refusing’ to sing national anthem at Remembrance service”
I too chose not to sing ‘God save the King’, mostly because he is a captured globalist cnut. How disappointed his father would have been.
I largely agree but the whole Windsor tribe are affiliated if not actually deeply embedded amongst the Davos Deviants and have been for God knows how many years. They work for themselves and couldn’t give a F about the people of this country.
He isn’t the King as his mother abdicated when she signed sovereign powers away to the EEC in 1973 & as a mere head of state signed further sovereign powers away in 2001 with the Nice Treaty, at which point the Barons invoked Article 61 of the Magna Carta.
If one’s parent has abdicated, then there is no crown to inherit. All he could inherit is head of state, which has no regal function.
One cannot sing ‘God save the King’ for a non-existent one.
So many dilemmas for those of us who want to show support for our nation and the values we thought we stood for. Are there any songs, anthems or symbols that faithfully represent what we have lost?
We need a Verdi to write an unofficial national anthem for Great Britain – chorus of the Hebrew Slaves became the unofficial anthem of the repressed Italians. I really don’t know when it comes to English/GB anthems as the two are conflated – think sporting events, England anthem is ‘God save the King’ unless it’s the Commonwealth Games when it’s ‘Jerusalem’.
A lot of folk songs are about local areas & whilst lovely don’t capture what is required for a national anthem.
I’ve embraced my rugby national identity when it comes to an anthem – Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau – despite being from Yorkshire originally.
“Met Police officers pose with child protester waving Palestine flag”
OMG!
Let’s have some balance in the reporting.
Flags at UN facilities around the world are today being flown at half-mast, to honour the memories of the 101 Unrwa staff who have been killed in the Gaza Strip.
Civilian deaths in Ukraine vs Palestine (bear in mind that Putin has been labelled a war criminal whereas Netanyahu hasn’t).
Under the Geneva Convention, the use of civilian buildings to hide military people and armaments means that attacks on such are legitimate.
And if you want genocide, do yourself a favour, educate yourself out of your ignorance, and read the Hamas Charter and the Quran.
Hint. One of the first things Muhammed did was to behead hundreds of Jews.
You probably should learn the difference between the Hadith and the Quran.
And you are wrong about the Geneva convention as well.
Some of the demonstrations globally over the last couple of weeks demanding a ceasefire and humanitarian aid, millions involved. All N@zis, obs.
https://twitter.com/shawna_burley/status/1723203772199899312
Israeli doctors comprehensively breaking the Hippocratic Oath.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/israeli-doctors-urge-the-bombing-of-gaza-hospitals/
Frontline reporting from docs inside Gazan hospitals courtesy of Medcins Sans Frontieres. Snipers shooting inside hospitals wounding staff and patients (I understand a nurse has been killed).
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/voice-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-we-are-alone-now-no-one-hears-us
Emotional piece from Chris Hedges, Pulitzer prize-winning journo with 15 years experience reporting on the Middle East.
https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/11/chris-hedges-the-horror-the-horror/
Middle Eastern Eye doing live updates. All made up Jihadi nonesense, obvs.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/
A different view of the march in London on Saturday (damn, even RTE was more balanced than the UK MSM).
Even amid a shocking spike in antisemitic incidents, members of the British Jewish community still attended the march to show their solidarity with Palestinians.
“I feel especially as a British Jew that it’s really important to show up and say Israel is not the same as Jewishness,” said Rebekah, who did not share her surname.
Speaking about her mother, the child of Eastern European parents who survived the Holocaust and fled for New York, Rebekah said: “She feels like this war that’s happening in Gaza is a desecration of the memory of those people who died in the Holocaust.
“It feels quite personal because we’re being used as a justification, Jews more broadly and especially in the UK, to shut down debate and peaceful protest,” Rebekah added, referring to claims that all criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitic.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-one-million-protesters-take-part-historic-london-protest
It looks like some don’t like the whole truth, when it conflicts with their point of view, given the number of negative ticks.
Quite.
And finally – don’t forget the international community, many actors from which are working night and day to bring an end to the genocide.
Thank you for getting some balance on here.
I tried.
There’s no need to ban any marches by whomever wishes to do so, just don’t allow them in the first place on certain days that are important to British values!
Contradictions in terms:-
Military intelligence.
Police powers.
Border force.
Government intelligence.
There’s a worrying increase in the state intervening on the behalf of the NHS via the Courts to let people die who either want to try treatments elsewhere or whose parents want to do so.
An eight month old is the latest victim of a new form of state sponsored euthanasia:
“ Indi Gregory loses her fight for life: ‘Angry and heartbroken’ parents who fought to continue treatment for the terminally-ill eight-month-old say she has passed away after ‘the NHS took away her chance to live’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12742237/Indi-Gregory-loses-fight-life-Parents-fought-legal-battle-save-reveal-eight-month-old-passed-away-life-support-switched-off.html
You will note that this has nothing to do with the Middle East so knee jerk down-ticking my post shows you guys can’t even be bothered to read.
Unsurprising really.
“No good deed goes unpunished, but lying for the establishment is a path to success…” says Neil Oliver: https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-but-lying-for-the-establishment-is-a-path-to-success-says-neil-oliver
So they want to rename the Magellanic Clouds, the Straits of Magellan, etc.?
Well, they´d better rename Newton´s Laws: he must have held some unorthodox views.
And that fellow, Einstein, didn´t he support Zionists?.
Balls to king Charlie Chortles, how about god save us!