- “Boris Johnson sensationally quits as an MP over Partygate probe” – In a furious letter resigning as an MP, the ex-Tory leader calls the Privileges Committee a ‘kangaroo court’ and blames its damning Partygate verdict on Remainers and political opponents trying to drive him out of office, says the Mail.
- “Boris Johnson resigns as MP over Partygate report” – The Telegraph’s report on Boris’s resignation.
- “Trump Is Charged in Classified Documents Inquiry” – The New York Times reports on the charges facing Donald Trump, which include conspiracy to obstruct, wilfull retention of documents and false statements.
- “Trump’s chances of White House return unlikely” – David Cay Johnston in the Mail says Trump’s attempt to become the Republican nominee in 2024 may have been derailed by the fact he’s been charged with federal crimes.
- “Why did USAID fund the Wuhan lab?” – Ashley Rindsberg asks in UnHerd how U.S. taxpayers ended up financing the creation of deadly pathogens in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- “Hyping non-Covid waves in Japan: media finds other viruses to fearmonger about” – Guy Gin says that, contrary to the warnings, the lifting of all Covid restrictions in Japan hasn’t resulted in a surge in Covid patients.
- “Querying the existence of a covid ‘pandemic’” – HART expresses doubt about whether there really was a Covid pandemic.
- “I’ll never throw out my DVD player – the woke police can’t delete my box sets” – Michael Deacon in the Telegraph advises people not to throw away their DVD collections, given that streaming platforms are now censoring classic movies like The French Connection.
- “Oxfam has unwittingly exposed the folly of trans extremism” – The pitiful state of Oxfam stands as a dire warning of what can happen to organisations that are captured by Stonewall, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “How Auntie excludes” – Why can the BBC interview Andrew Tate but not gender critical feminists, asks Cath Walton in the Critic.
- “Women’s spa with compulsory nudity ordered to admit trans women” – A court in Washington has ordered a women’s-only spa to admit transwomen, even if they’ve got penises.
- “Universal basic income would put us on the road to authoritarianism” – Universal basic income is a terrible idea, writes Lord Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Net zero isn’t working – but Conservatives refuse to grasp the nettle” – A vast coalition is forming against excessive green regulations. The first party that taps into it will reap electoral rewards, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “‘A girl at our school has decided she identifies as a cat’” – From rainbow crossings to tampons in the gents, a selection of Telegraph readers detail how woke culture has infiltrated their daily lives.
- “Why the eye-watering cost of Labour’s green pledge didn’t add up” – Rachel Reeves has been forced to back away from Labour’s ‘green’ plan to spend £28 billion a year for five years on solar and wind power, leaving Net Zero zealot Ed Miliband furious, reports the Telegraph.
- “Borrowing costs are far from the only problem with Labour’s ‘Green Prosperity Plan’” – Ross Clark in CapX explains why Labour’s plan was completely bonkers.
- “Secret recording ‘proves dam explosion was Russian sabotage gone wrong’” – Intercepted call between soldiers proves Russia blew up the Kakhovka dam, according to the Telegraph.
- “Good riddance to Caroline Lucas” – The departing Green MP embodies everything that’s rotten about environmentalism, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Rishi Sunak indicates he will change the law to protect single-sex spaces for women” – The Prime Minister indicates he will reform the Equality Act 2010 to make it clear that biological sex is a protected characteristic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Most Princeton students say it’s OK to shout down campus speakers” – More than three-quarters of Princeton students say it is sometimes acceptable to stop a campus speaker by shouting over them, a recent survey has revealed, says the Mail.
- “Twitter Files: FBI asked Twitter to censor western journalists on behalf of Ukraine” – The FBI asked Twitter to censor accounts it accused of spreading ‘Russian disinformation’, including a number of American and Canadian journalists, according to new emails released via the Twitter Files.
- “Elon Musk’s free speech crusade against Left-wing censorship is winning” – Musk’s Twitter takeover was important, says Michael Shellenberger in an interview with Steve Edginton in the Telegraph. Now we have to demand our free speech rights.
- “Covid disinformation unit made ‘hourly contact’ with tech firms, its leader reveals” – Sarah Connolly is named by the Telegraph as the head of Counter-Disinformation Unit, the secretive government ‘cell’ that flagged critics of lockdown policy.
- “David Davis says secret unit that targeted lockdown dissent should be shut down” – The former Cabinet minister tells the Telegraph his tweets were monitored by the Counter-Disinformation Unit and calls for it to be shut down.
- “Mark Zuckerberg says he was asked by Covid experts to censor posts about the virus that turned out to be true” – Watch a clip from Zuckerberg’s podcast in which he expresses regret for complying with requests to remove Covid ‘misinformation’ in 2020 that was in fact true.
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The National Trust appears to be run by the BBC and some Americans with the odd accountant, management consultant and conservationist thrown in for diversity.
The National Trust is the largest private landowner in the United Kingdom. The Trust’s land holdings account for almost 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres; 2,500 km2; 970 sq mi).
Given the amount of acres of Britain over which they hold sway, one might have thought that the odd agricultural college graduate, some proper country folk with, say, practical experience of running a farm, might have come in handy?
When we lived in England in the mid-/late-2010s, we bought NT and English heritage family passes every year and thoroughly enjoyed many sites, including Woolsthorpe. We noticed many families enjoying a lovely day out in the park areas outside the grand homes, which cost just a few pounds for parking fees. What a shame. If I were living there now, would I boycott NT?
This may help you decide that:
https://www.restoretrust.org.uk/
I have not been to an NT property for many years. I always found them a bit soulless.
If you move the properties further and further away from their original roles and change the atmosphere to that of some kind of faintly disapproving school room, the visitor experience becomes increasingly enervating, in my view.
What’s with the the dyslexia? Is it a shield against being seen as stupid?
I thought the addition of Dyslectic people on the judging board was strange. I have had the privilege of having worked with some people who were dyslectic, brilliant mathematicians, but B useless at reading and writing. So how in all concepts of common sense are any of these people going to able to understand a single word of what may or probably not be presented?
Further more, new ideas come from thinking from outside of the box, not from within. That in itself excludes any new concept for entry. What a waste of time and money,
“Dyslexia” is very similar to Dianne’s get out of jail race card.
For the lefties who are a bit thick but who believe they belong in the higher reaches of the non-working world of academie a card such as Dyslexia is an essential passport to a life of comfort. Sometimes those amongst this group also like to bolster their places with the addition of an alphabet card.
When in danger of being found out just pull out your Dyslexia card and your troubles melt away. Any suggestions that the card holder might be talking out of his / her arse are easily refuted and if the inquisitor persists there is always ‘hate crime against a persecuted minority.’
A faultless modus operandi which might even lead to enoblement in the future.
Always have your persecuted minority card to hand.
So wrote Sir Isaac of his Principia. I wonder how any of the candidates for the NT prize would get on if they put that in their abstract.
I think we can guess!
Reported to the police for hate speech would be my guess.
Another day and another mad scheme, whilst the NT continue losing volunteers, members and visitors.
Surprisingly, NT membership in 22-23 was 5.73 million up from 5.71 million in 21-22, more than the population of Costa Rica as the NT proudly declares.
It stood at 5.6m in 18/19 so there must be plenty of woketards joining.
I suspect some have hoped against hope that it was beginning to come back from the grave.
I think that Newtonian optics is the most exclusionary brach of physics, dealing as it does with the properties of white light.
Thermopdynamis has a lot more going for it as it includes the concept of black body radiation.
Astrophysis/quantum theory caps it all with the all consuming black hole.
They say that Newton was the last alchemist… that presumably includes trans-mutation?
Ah yes, Newton – and his universal law of attraction F = Gm1m2/r2.
I would like to propose the universal law of repulsion with the same essential formula. This pertains to divide and rule, so the stronger the force the more division and conflict.
Two strongly-held views are encouraged, e.g. woke and non-woke, of effective mass m1 and m2. They are deliberately put in close proximity, so r is small.
Then we are all F’d.
awesome comment
‘I would like to propose the universal law of repulsion with the same essential formula.’
Coulomb has beaten you to it: : F=kq1q2/r2.