- “Sunak blocking release of text messages in Covid inquiry” – Allies of Boris claim Rishi Sunak is hiding evidence of plotting and lockdown breaches to avoid new ‘partygate’ controversy, says the Mail.
- “Elon Musk slams ‘terrible’ secret Government unit for curbing lockdown criticism” – The Telegraph reports that the billionaire Twitter owner has joined the backlash against the Government’s Counter-Disinformation Unit.
- “U.K. Government uses AI company to monitor social media posts” – Logically, an AI company, receives millions in taxpayer funds to analyse ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ on social media, reports the Telegraph.
- “Misinformation is a word we use to shut you up” – To suppress criticism, anti-liberals label it ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’, says Daniel Klein at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Pandemic decisions shrouded in secrecy and lack of scrutiny” – The Government’s controversial lockdown policies undermined democracy and hindered freedom.The Telegraph calls for a full examination so as to avoid repeating mistakes.
- “Mounting injustices leave U.K. students in limbo” – Students in Britain face academic setbacks, debt, and uncertain futures as pandemic, strikes, and delayed grading leave them disillusioned and disadvantaged, reports the Telegraph.
- “Swedish success story inspires push to eliminate U.K. inheritance tax” – TheTelegraph urges the Government to follow Sweden’s lead and scrap IHT, citing economic benefits.
- “Explosive emails expose decades-long science fraud behind radiation safety standards” – JunkScience.com unveils FOIA emails revealing deception and suppression in the radiation safety establishment.
- “Sadiq Khan defies Keir Starmer and vows to protect green belt” – Labour splits emerge as London Mayor opposes the leader’s proposal to develop green belt, reports the Telegraph.
- “Communist-led climate crusade threatens farting cows and global economies” – As climate alarmism runs rampant, it’s time to question the pseudo-science behind net zero and embrace nuclear energy, says Christopher Moncton in Watts Up With That.
- “Animal rights activist detained after storming epsom derby race track” – Police officers have arrested 31 people over plans to “cancel or severely delay” the Epsom Derby after vegan animal rights activists pledged to disrupt the race despite a High Court injunction, says the Mail.
- “Just Stop Oil activists cause traffic chaos across Westminster” – Anti-oil demonstrators block roads, clash with police, and disrupt cricket match. Is nothing sacred? The Mail has the story.
- “Government’s free speech tsar warns: Democracy at risk from university censorship” – Professor Arif Ahmed, who has been appointed to defend academic freedom and free speech on university campuses, warns about the risks of censorship, reports the Mail.
- “Campaigners claim marathons violate law by including non-binary categories” – Advocates for fairness in women’s sport urge action against UK Athletics, for failure to enforce guidance on non-binary entrants, reports the Telegraph.
- “The losing battle for sanity” – In the Telegraph, Zoe Strimpel warns of the growing influence of trans activism and the erosion of reason and sanity in today’s culture war.
- “Brendan O’Neill exposes the cult of her penis” – In an extract from his new book in Mail, Brendan O’Neill exposes the assault on reason and the madness of denying long-held values.
- “First black, male Editor-in-Chief leaves British Vogue” – Edward Enninful steps down amidst a rumoured rift with Anna Wintour, taking on new global role at Conde Nast, reports the Mail.
- “Cambridge challenges nationalist myths, denies existence of Anglo-Saxons” – The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge is now teaching students that Anglo-Saxons never existed in an effort to be ‘anti-racist’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sir Tim Rice slams ‘nutter academics’ for stifling artists’ creativity” – The British composer criticises cancel culture and defends artists’ freedom to ‘offend’, reports the Mail.
- “New TV series to finally reveal the shocking racism of Colditz’s British officers” – Prepare to have your illusions shattered as the truth behind Colditz’s racist officers is revealed in woke new adaptation, says the Telegraph.
- “Bud Light’s sales plunge amid transgender marketing backfire and Mexican competition” – Bud Light’s reign as America’s best-selling beer is in jeopardy as boycotts give Modelo, a rival Mexican beer, momentum, says the Times.
- “She was like, are you gonna let them have professional football?” – New CDC Director Mandy Cohen recalls how she and her colleagues came up with Covid restrictions during her time as a Health Director, something she appears to find funny.
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I’m not a fan of the modern Times, but they carried an excellent obituary of Alexander Waugh on Wednesday.
Perhaps their obit writers are the last good bit of the Times to be dying out…the rest of it seems to be a woke rag obsessed with losing the Brexit vote 8 years ago …
I always think when I see such a premature death is that another victim of the clot shot? Some of course will be clot shot related, others won’t.
Seems to be a bit of a pattern in that family – the men dying in their early 60s. The first two definitely didn’t die of the clot shot since it hadn’t been invented, although a genetic problem may well be the cause.
Yes as you say genetics plus lifestyle choices.
There is nearly always plausible deniability in the case of the clot shot.
He had the evidence of his two predecessors demise as he reached his 60,s, so he would probably have been keeping an eye on his health . You would like to think that such an agile brain would have steered clear of Fauci,s Brew but you never know , given the Jab campaign’s intensity .
Same here , I can’t help it .
According to the Telegraph’s obituary the cause of death was prostate cancer.
I came across Alexander Waugh only recently, when I listened to his discussion with James Delingpole on The Delingpod podcast dated 30 Sept 2023. The main topic was Shakespeare, and Waugh was extremely impressive and knowledgeable on the subject and made a very strong case (IMO) that Shakespeare’s works had in fact been written by Edward DeVere. Well worth listening to, if you are at all interested.
I agree it was excellent. Really interesting.
Shoot me but the notion they werent penned by WS seems to wrest on the idea an oik couldn’t possibly pen those plays seems just intellectual snobbery. Without the video evidence I’m just ppl would claim the oik Ronnie O’Sullivan couldn’t possibly make 147 in 5m 20 and it was actually prince Harry in a wig. Genius never comes from the top but bubbles up from the middle or bottom.
There are various reasons for doubting the Stratford Shakespeare. He never taught his child ro read and write; he never left Britain; he never exchanged correspondence with other authors and poets. Alexander Waugh gives a brilliant descrption of the various clues pointing to DeVere
Not really a great comparison, surely: Sullivan, much as I enjoy watching him at work, knocks one ball against another – something he manages better than anyone else, for sure; the writer of those remarkable plays had to do a little more than that.The two activities are not seriously comparable; it’s much more difficult for an illiterate person to write ‘Hamlet’ than it is for an ‘ordinary person’ – a commoner – to pot snooker balls.
Is being interested in ‘Who wrote Shakespeare?’ any sign of being interested in Shakespeare?
‘His YouTube presentations are masterful works of imaginative reconstruction: indicating just how we dissociated moderns can attempt to think our way back into the undissociated or associated minds of the past, such as, exemplarily, Shakespeare’s.’
Um, is it me, or is that a bit over-written?
Excessive alcohol intake was a factor in the early demise of the senior Waughs.
The young Auberon was caned savagely by his snarling, reeling and burping father. But it was sitting at table rather than bending over a chair that he received the most traumatic experience of his childhood. In 1945 no bananas had appeared in England’s shops for 6 years. All children had learned of their mythical deliciousness. The Atlee government decreed that every English child would have the treat of a single banana.
Auberon’s permanently tipsy father brought the multiple treats home and unpeeled them before the assembled siblings. Sedately he poured cream and sprinkled sugar and proceeded to devour the plateful.
The children cried for the lost soul of their dreadful father, and Auberon could never forgive him. He had done wrong.
Later Auberon wrote of his euphoric relief when his father died.
It is true that Dr Alexander’s remarks about ‘dissociation’ require some acquaintance with T. S. Eliot’s belief that something, which he called ‘dissociation of sensibility’ and connected with the rise of science, went wrong with English culture in the seventeenth century but, these days, with Google, the acquaintance is not hard to make. It might even be found worth making.
We ‘can attempt to think our way back into the undissociated or associated minds of the past’, eh? It’s the ‘or associated’ that gets me.
In the 17th century, most of the population of England over the age of 20 had no teeth, and woke up wondering if they would get a square meal that day, or if their infant children might live to be aged 10. If science was rising and affecting their culture, they knew nothing of it.