- “NHS ‘could need Covid-style measures to cope with winter crisis’” – The Telegraph reports that the Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation has called for an “honest conversation” with the public about the capacity of the health service this winter, as he says the public needs to make a “really big contribution” as they did in Covid. “We tested ourselves, we stayed at home, we wore masks, we did things to try to relieve the pressure on the health service.”
- “How Dick Cheney created Anthony Fauci” – Ashley Rindsberg in UnHerd reviews the White House biodefence agenda which gave Fauci his power but which, Rindsberg says, has finally backfired.
- “Excess deaths, the data” – Dr. John Campbell digs into the data in his latest video.
- “U.K. Government says vaccine not safe for pregnant or breastfeeding women” – Norman Fenton on the strange fact that the U.K. Government has a web page with a document titled “Information for Healthcare Professionals on COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer/BioNTech” which says it was “updated on August 16th 2022” and which appears to tell pregnant women they should not be vaccinated.
- “NHS ordered to cut spending on management consultants by up to 80%” – The Telegraph reports that Steve Barclay has told health bosses to free up money for front-line services as the drive to clear massive waiting lists continues.
- “Europe still hasn’t learned from its lockdown debacles” – Mark Nayler in the Spectator says that if the U.K. and Europe are “to finally have a ‘grown up’ conversation about lockdowns, politicians could do worse than admit that, in early 2020, hardly anything was known about their effectiveness, legality or side effects”.
- “Joe Rogan tells Americans to vote Republican” – James Billot writes in UnHerd that the popular podcaster has said that people who suffered under stringent Covid policies should vote Republican in the midterm elections.
- “How climate policy fuelled our energy crisis” – From the Climate Change Act to Net Zero, green policies have throttled our energy supplies, writes Andy Mayer in Spiked.
- “Listening to European Electricity Traders Is Very, Very Scary” – Paul Homewood on WUWT says the “real cause of this looming disaster has been the government enforced shutdown of most of our coal generating capacity during the last decade”.
- “Almost one in four say they won’t turn heating on this winter” – The Telegraph reports on the concerning responses when pollsters asked more than 2,000 U.K. adults how they will respond to increasing energy prices over the winter.
- “Harrison Ford frequent flier on private jets despite climate change activism” – The famous actor’s private jet has made several trips since late June, stretching more than 5,000 miles and emitting 35 metric tons of carbon, despite him being a climate activist who said people must “cry out for justice” during a climate conference last year, according to Fox News.
- “How Woke Put Paid to Publishing” – Joanna Williams writes in City Journal that until the industry reclaims its allegiance to free speech over ideological orthodoxies, both readers and writers will suffer.
- “It’s time woke politicians faced the consequences of their own beliefs” – Douglas Murray in the Telegraph says that in America, supporters of illegal immigration are finally seeing the reality on their own doorsteps.
- “Twitter and Meta take down ‘extensive’ covert pro-U.S. propaganda campaign” – Users of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the Middle East and Asia were targeted by a network of fake accounts promoting the United States which have now been taken down, according to the Telegraph.
- “One worldview has taken over the historical profession” – Peter Wood in the Spectator on the dismal subjugation of history to wokery.
- “The climate they say it’s changing” – A song about climate change from David Craig.
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“Fresh disgrace at Cambridge” – Unpunished vandalism and feckless leaders have turned Oxford and Cambridge into woke cesspits…
…First class rant with distinction from Jesus College old boy, lamenting the decline of Fenland Poly and South Midlands Arts College.
Asylum System Destroys Britain
“Reeves told ‘not hope in hell’ work coaches can slash £5 billion off welfare”
We are dealing with people who can’t join these things up.
I can think of a waste that could be fixed quite easily. Cut benefits to illegals, deport them, and while you are at it, deport the foreign nationals in our jails. These are people we don’t need or want in the country.
I agree of course, but the ethnically British underclass is rife with dysgenics and is overdue some Darwinian action. Cut their benefits too.
Why? Starmer wants to send them all to Ukraine to die.
It’s his masterplan to destroy the “Far Right”…
Where are all the real men? Obviously they don’t frequent the Tube. Absolutely disgusting behaviour, not just by this unhinged maniac but by all the men in close proximity that stood around like cowards, watching/filming like it’s the on-board entertainment. I hope he’s single because I dread to think what he’d be like behind closed doors if this is how he feels entitled to behave in a crowded carriage. Have people become so desensitised to this sort of thing now?
https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1897726427593667042
Perhaps, ‘real men’ don’t want to be masculine in case it opens them up to accusations of being misogynists.?
Last I heard it boils down to basic decency, which would require an iota of courage in the above scenario. Sounds an awful lot like you’re trying to legitimise cowardice. Clearly the only ‘misogynist’ in the above clip was the abusive mental case. Even if he’d been targeting another man I would’ve said the exact same thing. The behaviour is unacceptable regardless of the sex of the person on the receiving end. One or two men intervening here would have nipped this in the bud and put him in his place.
You either condemn this sort of behaviour or you condone it. The men stood around like gormless muppets did the latter.
What kind of intervention do you think would have been effective in stopping the crazy man from shouting at the woman?
I know this is going to sound like blowing my own trumpet but so be it: I recently arrived at a bus stop where there was a middle-eastern-looking woman and a drunk man sitting on the seat. The drunk man was not aggressive but he was clearly annoying her and she clearly didn’t want his attention. So I sat down in the narrow space between them and spoke nicely to the woman, and blocked the drunk man from engaging with her.
When the bus came, the woman got on the bus first and sat down in an empty seat, I made sure I got on the bus before the drunk man and I sat in the seat beside her so that the drunk man wouldn’t be able to. I spoke to the woman briefly initially and then left her in peace for the rest of the journey as I looked at my phone. She gave me a nice smile as she got off, and then again a few days later when I happened to see her on the bus again.
Perhaps some of the bystanders on the train could have done something similar, moving in between the crazy man and the woman, to block him. I’d like to think that’s what I would have done in that situation. It probably wouldn’t have stopped the crazy man from shouting at her but it might have helped make the woman feel safer and more supported. But perhaps there were some people who were supportive to her after the incident, when the filming had stopped.
I have posted similar before reading your post.
‘You’re for or against’. The cry of someone who doesn’t think too far. Maybe, the men thought about the risk of getting a knife in the neck, or if they had subdues the attacker, would they be the ones arrested when the police finally showed up. You talk a lot about what behaviour is acceptable from men, but when ‘a couple of real men’ are required to let go of their feminine side, and do what men have done since God was a lad, i.e protect people in these situations, its now all our fault for being ‘cowards’. Real Men.? You’ve argued strongly against traditional male behaviours and used it as a broad accusation to try and shut down discussion on the subject. Dont deny it. Haven’t you heard that we have equality nowadays.? Where were the women intervening.? Not their job.? Ah, well here is where we see the consequences of that particular train of thought end up.
Had you bothered to read my original post correctly ( I know you find this difficult, going by your previous unsubstantiated allegations coupled with an obvious axe to grind, such is your need to always paint me as the villain ) at no point do I make reference to the fact the recipient of the bully’s aggression is a woman. This is actually an irrelevant point. For all anyone knows the demented lunatic might have behaved exactly the same towards a male target.
My point is that nobody in that clip intervened. The loony didn’t have a knife, in which case I can understand reticence to get involved from bystanders. But there was one single aggressor and a carriage full of passengers, basically giving this unhinged man carte blanche to behave like this.
Who had all the power in the above scenario? Well, all of the passengers, obviously. There’s strength in numbers. But nobody did shit. And who’s on about “subduing” anybody? I’m sure it wouldn’t have come to anything physical had a couple of blokes stood up to him, got in his face and told him to pipe the f*ck down. It’s called de-escalation and being assertive. Not fighting aggression with more aggression, a recipe for disaster.
“Where were the women intervening?” It was all men stood around him! But keep up your instinctive need to excuse blatant cowardly behaviour by men. And the fact it’s yourself triggered by my post…well, as if I required any more confirmation of what I already know, really.
I completely agree
There’s now a certain level of acceptance and tolerance to bad behaviour in society ( parts of society, anyway ) and it’s not going to improve if people just stand around taking it, like sackless gonks. What message does that give the perpetrator? But who’d live in major cities like London or Birmingham now, anyway?
I’m actually impressed by how the woman in the video stood up for herself
Yeah, just as well because nobody else was supporting her and calling Mr Dementor out on his behaviour. She has my sympathies.
“You’ve argued strongly against traditional male behaviours and used it as a broad accusation to try and shut down discussion on the subject. Dont deny it.”
I literally don’t know what you’re referring to here, so if you can remind me of what I’m supposed to have said, this “broad accusation” you say I’ve made, that would be most helpful.
I agree Mogs. Two, three guys standing around this nutter could have stopped this.
Cheers, hux. It’s just about making an assessment of the situation, stepping up and doing the right thing in the circumstances. I’m not expecting anybody to be a hero if there’s a machete-wielding nutjob on the train.
), that if men stopped working nobody would notice and it would affect nothing or calling boys ”parasites”, but there we go. ‘One-way traffic only’ is acceptable, as per, but what can you do…?
It would appear that some men on here take any sort of criticism of individuals who happen to be male really quite personally. Evidently, they can dish it out but they can’t take it. Ironically, however, it is not me that has form for painting the entire opposite sex with the same brush here on DS. Can’t actually remember me ever confidently stating that men shouldn’t have the right to vote, should be banned from certain professions ( I mean, don’t they look ridiculous in those judge’s wigs?
They will have seen too many cases where trying to help resulted in them being prosecuted and/or others not supporting them.
The younger guy who was grinning (I think in embarrassment) should have acted.
Why is there not CCTV in tube trains instead of so many elsewhere.
It must be possible to identify him from the video. What a nasty piece of work.
I suppose the lady was white otherwise Khan’s troopers would have been on this as racially inspired.
Sadly we have too many people who do not follow traditional courtesies. In passing I would note that some non-whites behave better than average on the tube but the majority don’t.
He badly needs some anger management classes. And if he doesn’t suffer from road rage I’ll be amazed. Public transport is full of surveillance but clearly this doesn’t deter many, given the various types and amount of crime perpetrated on the Tube. I think this is a sad indictment of society ( it’s London, so I’m not sure if it’s fair to make generalisations) nowadays though. People’s unwillingness to stand up for what’s right, plus peoples first instinct these days, if they see drama or some sort of incident unfolding, is to whip out their phones to catch it on film, as opposed to phoning the police.
There’s plenty of seriously violent incidents uploaded online and you just think, “Good god. Who in their right mind just stands their filming this? It’s a crime, FFS!” But perhaps desensitisation also leads to callous behaviour from onlookers. Whatever, it’s not good.
Good grief.
Have you seen the video clip of a young Muslim man violently threatening and ordering an older white woman to get up from her seat on a tube train so that he could sit down? She obeyed him and got off the train completely because she was afraid.
I think it was in Germany or Sweden. It was on a website like RadioGenoa or AntiWhite Watch, but I can’t find it again now.
Government to spend £11 million teaching children how to brush teeth”
When we talk about disadvantaged children, how disadvantaged are they.? No shoes, or just an old iPhone. Car? Netflix? Parents with tattoos and drink or drug habits.? What is the definition that we are working to.?
Dont jump on me by the way, I know there is real hardship in our society, usually as a result of bad choices by individuals, not some systemic oppression. But I am curious how disadvantaged you have to be to be disadvantaged.
Just a point on this – there is always much fuss made about children living in poverty. There is no such issue. There are millions of families who cannot manage money and any alleged deprivation occurring therefrom is owned by the parents NOT the children.
Worse than that is the sinister plan to force the whole country to drink fluoridated water, ostensibly to prevent tooth decay, the real reason being the same as in the US: to use up huge amounts of WASTE FLUORIDE from fertilizer processing plants.
North East water fluoridation expansion plans confirmed – BBC News
Fluoridation in north-east England gives only ‘modest benefits’ – BBC News
The whole thing is absolute madness, deliberately adding FORCED MEDICATION to the nation’s public drinking water supply, without our consent.
It’s bad enough having cocaine and oestrogen contraceptives in our water supply, but now this horrible fluoride, which has been banned and discontinued elsewhere in the world.
This is really shameful, in my opinion. Unfortunately there’s many such videos doing the rounds;
”A father watches his 9-year-old son convert to Islam.
Reminder that under Sharia, leaving Islam is punishable by death. What if the kid changes his mind in the future?
What kind of parent would allow this?”
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1897863073467449571
To negate the above rubbish, this is indeed heartwarming and there should be more of it;
”A priest in Notting Hill is blessing people this Ash Wednesday.
I’m not religious myself, but it’s heartwarming to see this and see how positively people are responding.”
https://x.com/TheNorfolkLion/status/1897389834936967357
Don’t be fooled, Putin is weak and desperate for peace
‘One indication of the Kremlin’s eagerness to end the conflict can be seen from its recent offer to broker a peace deal between Iran and the US over Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has already dismissed the notion of reopening talks with Trump on the issue as “not rational, intelligent or honourable”.
For all its bravado, the Kremlin is desperately hoping that Trump’s return to the White House will ultimately herald the end of a war in Ukraine that has decimated the Russian military and torpedoed the Russian economy.
Latest Western estimates put the total number of Russian dead and injured in the Ukraine conflict at 850,000, more than the combined total of US and British forces who died fighting in Europe during the Second World War.
Add to this the ruinous impact the conflict has had on the Russian economy, with interest rates reaching a punitive 21 per cent and the country’s wealth fund rapidly running out of cash to finance the war, and it is easy to understand why Putin has leapt at the chance to engage with Trump’s peace proposals.’
But the real question is this: is Putin now a puppet? Will his fat bottomed and profoundly stupid claque, waxing ever fatter on the increasing size and number of corrupt defence deals, allow him to make peace?
Western estimates are based on Ukrainian intelligence which as a rule of thumb can be taken as projection. That is a fair estimate of Ukrainian losses.
‘Our analysis shows that 2024 became the bloodiest year of the war. The number of Russians who died at the front nearly doubles every year: about 20,000 in 2022, about 50,000 in 2023, and close to 100,000 in 2024.
Alongside our individual data collection, we are also conducting an investigation with Meduza to estimate the overall number of losses……..This method was first introduced in June 2023, in our joint study. Through a combined analysis of our losses list and probate data, we succeeded in estimating the true mortality rate among Russian men.
Russia maintains a public Probate Registry, where notaries record inheritance cases for state-registered assets such as apartments, cars, land, etc. However, not every deceased person is included in the registry, as not everyone leaves inheritable assets.
In 2022, 2023, and 2024 there was a sharp increase in new inheritance cases for men, particularly younger ones. By comparing this surge against long-term trends and the ratio of male to female inheritance cases (female mortality was unaffected by the war), we can determine the number of “excess” inheritance cases.
The next, most challenging step is converting these excess inheritance cases into excess mortality. This is done using a detailed list of casualties.
By checking this list against the registry, we can determine how often inheritance cases are opened for deceased individuals from specific social and age groups.
For example, if we find that 60% of contract soldiers aged 20 to 24 from the casualty list are in the registry, we infer that the remaining 40% left no inheritance. To account for them, we multiply the number of excess inheritance cases in the period of interest by 1.6.’
People say “decimated” when they mean largely destroyed. The loss of substantially all the better trained Russian soldiers and much of their Special Forces, use of so much munitions which cannot be replaced and the damage to economic assets must mean Russia will be crippled for decades.
The shame is the ordinary bloke in the street suffers most for decisions by the Russian elites. Always the same, everywhere.
According to Neil Oliver, you are an archetype globalist with your daily propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ohEzeTJnA.
The following are his words:
To see an end to the sovereign peoples of Europe has been the whole point of the globalist project.
Migrants are the tools being used to accomplish the task but we would do much better to ask who ordered the tools, who is using the tools? And so now, after all of it, all the millennia, all the blood, and after just two or three generations of comparative peace, Europe is a place that has been rendered unsafe for those who were naive and trusting enough to imagine it would always be theirs. The police are kicking in doors to take away people who have voiced unwanted opinions. Censorship legislation is everywhere, enacted in a bid to shut us up. All of this has been done to Europe deliberately, in a few short years, by a handful of charlatans …
Europe and Britain have been wrenched from the hands of Europeans and the British, their cultures, traditions and histories laid waste, destroyed by globalists: those who would prefer to see all nations, all senses of national identity erased, and overlain with a homogeneous monoculture which means nothing to anyone. And, as they say, when all else fails they’ll take you to war …
Hollow men, factotums, like Starmer, open their mouths for words composed by others about putting British flesh and blood in the charnel house that has been Ukraine. So discombobulated are they in their panic, in their dying as a globalist cult, they turn reflexively towards the solution that has always rescued globalists ,which is war …
So there you have it: I say propaganda, baseless scare stories, so yet more money can be milked from another population fed a diet of fear. Even now when the truth is out there that the war in Ukraine was provoked not by Russia but by decades of NATO expansion, still the myth is perpetuated of the Russian bogeyman. When all else fails they take you to war, remember.
When the covid pandemic hopes ran out of steam before it got the them over the line into full-board digital imprisonment of the masses, they opted for war in Ukraine. They called it a war to save democracy in a country where there was no democracy, and now proposed to have the descendants of those who fought and died to challenge Nazism stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Nazis, so that yet more money might be laundered through that benighted place where a freshly slaughtered million souls lie cold in the clay. Shameless is too small a word to describe the disgrace of those we are supposed to acknowledge as leaders. And yet here we are watching the likes of Starmer and Macron embrace each other as the dream of condemning yet more young flesh to the meat grinder, so that their masters might live to lie another day …
Hopefully some of the lies parroted by bought and paid for media are being exposed now. Maybe this time people will see that war in Ukraine was driven by lying propaganda, that the threat to the safety of Europe and Europeans comes not from Russia but from the globalists here at home – globalists in their death throes, but ready and eager to take our children down with them.
That’ll be the Kalergi plan then. A homogenous world population with no national identity or pride, an uneducated world workforce all paid the same Basic Income, completely subjugated and controlled. I’m sometimes happier to be in my mid seventies rather than my mid twenties.
Thanks for this.
‘In Neil Oliver, Scotland has a world-class crank – the Kenny Dalglish of conspiracist nutjobs.’
You hard-faced ignorant sod.
“Justice Secretary threatens to strip powers of quango behind ‘two-tier justice’ rules”
The BBC closes the article with:
If he knows this he must have data to back this up. He should publish it, cite his sources. Then we’ll see whether people from certain minority ethnic backgrounds are disproportionately more involved in certain crimes (not just ‘offences’) – as well as disproportionately sentenced.
We have heard over and over again that apparently unjust sentences have strictly followed sentencing guidelines. Since I am sure there have never been guidelines recommending longer sentences for minorities guilty of equivalent crimes, the problem must not be the old guidelines, but judges breaking them.
Or were these groups receiving longer sentences because, overall, they have been involves in more and serious crimes?
“The quiet bureaucrat pulling the strings behind Britain’s ‘dodgy’ state-backed weather and climate service”
Or as the top commenter on the linked article describes the Myth Office:
“Every bloody institution we have is corrupted by this disgusting Green Climate hoax gravy train. The whole thing is a farcical scam of lies and deception.”
“And the new NIH Director is… Jay Bhattacharya” – The NIH once dismissed Bhattacharya as a “fringe epidemiologist” – now he’s set to take its top job, with even Democrats conceding he was right about Covid policy…
…Anyone told those Lords, Sirs, Ladies and Dames of the Realm, Lord Sir Sir Vallance, Sir Whitty, Dame Harries and M’Lady Hallett yet?
The above mentioned lords and ladies are scum. Treasonous scum at that.
“Top pension funds refuse to back defence industry”
A couple of decades ago Mrs SoR and I consulted an independent financial adviser. In one annual review a few years later we were asked if we wanted to limit our investments to ESG funds. We declined. Not because we’re evil or disapprove of all ESG aims but because we do not trust the people who defined what ESG investing meant.
Putting a quango in charge of the definition of ESG is not going to improve that.
Ditto with Mr B and myself. I actually asked if we could invest in armaments instead of the ridiculous ‘green investments’ suggested. Considering all the constant wars and weapons needs it seemed a good bet but it seems that investment wasn’t available
I actually do disapprove of ESG as it’s literally a grift.
Oh does that make me evil?
Endless anti-Trump, pro-Europe (hence, pro-centralised power), pro-war, propaganda being fed to the masses, including from so-called ‘right-wing’ rags like the Daily Telegraph. There’s definitely manipulation of agreement in the comment sections, but there’s also a huge number of people that just absolutely love eating the sh*t they’re force-fed. It’s depressing to be surrounded by so many willing soldiers of the state who are unwittingly signing their own and their families death warrants. Even after everything, the masses largely nod along and comply – extraordinary. We really are f*cked.
“Reform UK descends into civil war as Nigel Farage berates Rupert Lowe”
Come on boys, start playing nicely, Britain’s whole existence is at stake! Don’t blow this last chance to save it!
It seems the incessant whining mosquito, Disgruntled Sour Grapes Pakistani Jewish Millionaire Ben Habib has stirred up this discord between Rupert Lowe and Nigel.
Rupert should tell Habib to clear off!
“The weakness of Donald Trump” :Rod Liddle’
Just a reminder on how you don’t need to be strong on morals when you have this kind of backing
There is no justification for special treatment of ethnic minority and transgender criminals as specific ‘classes’. Just as there is no justification for ‘hate’ crimes against specific ‘classes’.
There should be only ‘crimes’ and any sentences may incorporate appropriate individual circumstances rather than some ‘group identity’.
Agreed. Perhaps I’ve missed something but what justification do they give for such a ‘light touch’ list even existing? It should just be a case of the punishment fitting the crime irrespective of perpetrator.
I also believe teenagers that are minors should get sentenced the same as an adult. Yes, they’d serve it in a young offenders institute but if you’ve murdered or raped someone then you serve the same sentence, and none of this protecting their identity bollocks. The law can’t just roll out the old ‘Gillick competence’ when it suits. A 15 year old murderer should do the same time as a 25 year old murderer.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/06/labour-punishing-middle-england-to-fund-the-underclass/
This has been going on for years. When I worked at DWP cases where claimants were in receipt of benefit packages equivalent to fifty, sixty, seventy £ grand per annum (PAYE equivalent) pwere relatively common. I am talking 10 -15 years ago. What Joe Public does not realise is that our benefit system is a “passport” system and qualification for virtually any benefit provides qualification to other benefits.
As an example, qualification for Employment Support Allowance (ESA) will almost certainly absolve claimants from Council Tax. Qualification for Personal Independence Payments ( PIP) will at the higher rate provide access to the Motability scheme.
I could go on… and on…and on…
Thank you for an inside explanation – what a state-sponsored racket benefits are.
I didn’t think I’d see the day when Toby’s website links to Vox Day’s website.
What’s Vox Day?
It’s this website, which is linked to in the roundup: The End of the Department of Education – Vox Popoli
He’s a minarchist libertarian so you would not approve
Damn the Telegraph and its warmongering.
“The real reason Britain is doomed to lose the next world war” The Telegraph is living in a world where the next world war is winnable, provided we all love our country. It is a dimwitted position to take, assuming as it does that our country a) requires defence at the moment except from the bloody fools posturing in Whitehall and b) that in the case of WW3 a British survival of a nuclear exchange is something to hope for.
It is time commentators actually remembered the history of the Ukrainian conflict from its origin, rather than pontificating about Russian aggression.
“Rules giving minority criminals special treatment will be fought by Tories” – An “outrageous” decision to give special treatment to ethnic minority and transgender criminals will be fought in the courts by the Tories, says The Sun”
NO, NO,NO!!! That’s just kneeling before The Kritocracy = Rule By Judges, further entanglements and delays in the legal system as an excuse to do nothing!
Britain managed to survive perfectly well for centuries without a Sentencing Council.
It’s just another Quango, easy for Parliament to Abolish.
Sack that awful Pakistani Muslim woman Mahmood, and
ABOLISH THE SENTENCING COUNCIL !!!
“Reform UK descends into civil war as Nigel Farage berates Rupert Lowe”
All this trouble between the two Reform MPs has been stirred up by the Endless Whinging of the Disgruntled, UNELECTED Pakistani Jewish Millionaire Ben Habib, who was hoping to become PM himself. Would Elon Musk ever have intervened in the first place if not for Habib?
The esteemed MP Lee Anderson had the right approach.
The esteemed MP Rupert Lowe should TELL HABIB TO CLEAR OFF and stop causing trouble for Reform.