- “Rishi Sunak warns banks over blacklisting customers over their views” – The Government will take action against woke banks accused of blacklisting customers because of their views, says the Mail.
- “Most high street banks are signed up to Stonewall diversity schemes” – Lenders are facing scrutiny over their links to a controversial charity amidst an uproar over account shutdowns related to gender-critical beliefs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Welcome to woke Britain: where murderers can keep bank accounts, but ‘cancelled’ characters can’t” – Virtue-signalling lenders are simply furthering their own profiteering agenda, says Katie Morley in the Telegraph.
- “Why Nigel Farage’s blocked bank account should bother us all” – Nigel Farage’s bank account closure is immoral and dangerous in an increasingly cashless society, argues Jordan Tyldesley at CapX.
- “The elites are using banks to take back control” – The Establishment has gone into no-platforming overdrive, but no one dares try to stop them, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “‘Ethical consumerism’ has turned against the consumer” – According to Mary Harrington in UnHerd, Nigel Farage won’t be the last customer deemed undesirable by a bank.
- “Policing speech isn’t the business of banks” – The experience of Nigel Farage with the closure of his accounts exemplifies how far the U.K. has departed from basic principles, says Julia Hartley-Brewer in the Telegraph.
- “Ministers were warned that suicide would kill more children than Covid” – The Government missed nine opportunities to avert the damage caused by school closures during the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jim Ratcliffe blames Rishi Sunak’s furlough scheme for inflation” – According to the Times, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the chemicals tycoon, has singled out the Prime Minister’s furlough system as a reason for high levels of inflation.
- “France under riot” – France is losing its capacity to control and suppress mayhem, warns Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
- “Andy Murray: I agree with Just Stop Oil’s cause – just not their tactics” – Wimbledon fears it will be the next sporting event to be targeted by Just Stop Oil activists, reports the Telegraph.
- “Climate models behind Net Zero policies are ‘thoroughly flawed’” – The world’s climate policies are based on computer simulations of the atmosphere that are deeply flawed, concludes a new paper published by Net Zero Watch.
- “2022 Nobel Prize winner says ‘there is no real climate crisis’” – The Naked Emperor turns a spotlight on distinguished physicist John Clauser, who rocked the stage at Quantum Korea 2023 calling out the IPCC for exaggerating climate change.
- “It’s time Rishi Sunak stood up for the silent majority driven to despair by eco-fanaticism” – The last thing our country needs is more VIPs swanning off to climate conferences – whatever Zac Goldsmith may think, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Why we should all be getting more vitamin D” – According to the Telegraph, an ever-increasing volume of medical research is suggesting ways in which vitamin D can help to protect against serious conditions.
- “Health watchdog probes private gender clinic” – The scandal-plagued Tavistock team is facing investigation for failing to register its Gender Plus Clinic with the Care Quality Commission, reports the Mail.
- “What I learned from debating the NHS” – “It may be tedious for those who are not signed up to the cult around the NHS,” says Kristin Niemietz at the IEA, “but I would not expect the quality of the debate to improve anytime soon.”
- “The empire of hurt feelings” – Islamic countries are trying to force the West to respect Muslims’ ‘feelings’. We must resist this therapeutic imperialism, says Brendan O’Neil in Spiked.
- “French riots – an ideal excuse for another lockdown” – Richard Ings in TCW: Defending Freedom documents the way in which Macron and his allies are using the civil unrest in France to ramp up surveillance and further restrict people’s freedoms.
- “HART has more to say on censorship, and they intend to say it” – In a leading article, HART fires a warning shot at the ‘censorship industrial complex’.
- “A battle for cultural survival” – In the face of the Left’s hyper-aggressive transgender ideology, conservatives must reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms, argues Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Ben Wallace enters free speech row over colonel ‘forced out’ of Army for saying ‘men cannot be women’” – The Defence Secretary makes a pig’s ear of trying to defend the Army’s humiliating investigation of a now ex-Colonel for daring to challenge the trans agenda, reports the Telegraph. The comments!
- “Sex-change tribunal winner says illogical views widespread in arts” – A former official with Arts Council England, who was harassed over her views that people cannot change sex, has warned that the sector is “embedded” with illogical ideas, reports the Times.
- “How a new generation of drag artists is breaking limits and queering video games” – Apparently, drag performers are revolutionising gaming by making it gayer, according to Eurogamer.
- “That’s horrifying!” – Toby, wearing his hat as the Free Speech Union General Secretary, reacts on GB News to the announcement that Nigel Farage has been rejected by a ninth bank.
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Just watching RFKJr talk to Bret Weinstein on Dark Horse podcast in 2021 following publication of The Real Anthony Fauci. Only released 3 days ago. Fascinating discussion about vaccines and much more.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocxl_Do1nx8
Really? I didn’t know he’d been locked up. It seems far too soon to be releasing him…
Ah. Re-read…
We wish. No idea why this interview has been kept under wraps for so long but it’s well worth watching. It complements Aaron Siri’s masterful testimony to the Arizona State senate recently
https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/aaron-siri-gives-testimony-on-the-floor-of-arizona-state-senate/
Which says it all about the corruption of the medical establishment in relation to childhood vaccines. The uncomfortable truth is that no so-called vaccine is properly tested.
For those interested in the topic, this is an excellent essay about transhumanism in the context of what the elites have planned for us;
”In March 2022 at the World Government Summit, Elon Musk, a self-identified transhumanist, and the world’s wealthiest individual, spoke bluntly from the podium. He announced that he sees the upcoming AI apocalypse as a human-extinction event. What is the solution? “We must all become cyborgs if we are to survive the inevitable robot uprising.” This may be marketing, since Musk’s Neuralink is poised to start human trials of brain implantable chips” (Neate, 2022). Radically enhanced human cognition should, Musk predicts, counterbalance the dangers posed by super-intelligent machines. If the richest man on earth prophesied a mass AI extermination event and an inevitable posthuman future from the platform of the World Government Summit, should we dismiss it as just another tech business strategy?
In her analysis of the 4IR, Birgit Mahnkopf (2019:2) writes that a “system of physical-to-digital technologies embodied in machines and equipment…would enable sensing, monitoring, and control of the entire economy.” This is occurring against a backdrop of increasing global inequality and centralisation of wealth. It is estimated that eight men own as much as half the monetary wealth of the other eight billion humans (The New York Times, 2017). Schwab and other elites understand the social and political implications of their technological ideology and the rules of the ‘winner-takes-all’ market economy that will continue to consolidate gains from disruptive technologies. Universal basic income and social credit systems (with a resource-based economy and central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs) are presented as solutions to managing popular resistance and social unrest.”
https://pandata.org/transhumanism-and-the-philosophy-of-the-elites/
There will be no robot uprising unless humans create factories and infrastructure to enable it and then sit back and wait while the manufacturing occurs. All we need is for the African children to stop mining the raw materials – apocalypse averted.
I confess I have steered away from all the hype about AI apocalypse, so I’m still not sure why it’s so feared, apart from the mundane issuse of job losses, propaganda, etc.
But if there were a robot uprising against humans, being a cyborg would not help you, any more than being half-gentile would save you from anti-semitism. Both true robots and true people would regard you as a quisling half-breed and eliminate you first.
We’re talking about the most complex machine ever produced by a wide margin. To be able to load someones conciousness into a machine and exist from there is very serious science fiction.Think Windows Vista. Even Ai is unlikely to produce the perfect code in the perfect mechanics to make this happen.How this is all supposed to work in a rapidly declining population, where infrastructure will inevitably compromised, like how do you ‘transhuman’ in a power cut.? Anyone know how much computer power this whole thing is going to take..?
In the main, I was welcoming of AI, so long as it isn’t too skewed. It allows people to bypass the current academic structures of learning, and get at truths that may not be self-evident, nor pushed at us by the brainwashing blob. The normal rule is if they are stoking up fear in the populus, then its probably scaring them too.
Jordan Peterson rocks. The woke mob lefties f*cking hate him but he keeps dropping those inconvenient truth bombs anyway. We have to be flipping blunt, this nonsense has been allowed to go on for far too long and we all have a duty to challenge their BS.
”Trans “women” are men
And all the woke whining about “misinformation”
Which in this case is just the simplest, most basic and obvious truth
Won’t change that
To hell with you
You bloody manipulative narcissists
You’ve gone way beyond
Deserving any politeness” he says on Twitter.
“Dylan has been harassed and bullied for simply existing,” medical doctor Eric Burnett wrote online, in response to a tweet that has since been deleted. Peterson clapped back at Burnett’s assessment.
“For simply existing?” Peterson replied. “How about ‘for parodying women in a manner that makes blackface appear loving’? How about for ‘taking narcissistic exhibitionism to a new high’?”
Peterson’s most recent tweet comes at a time when LGBTQ+ issues are under attack to the point where the Human Rights Campaign declared a “state of emergency” for the community.”
https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-jordan-peterson-trans-women-men-1810519?amp=1
The Trans-activist in the Newsweek article seems to be concerned social media can be used to convert people into trans-haters. It follows that it could be used to convince boys, girls, men and women think they are something they are not.
I think one of the saddest things about this, obviously after the fact that kids and vulnerable people are being influenced and indoctrinated into doing irreparable harm to their bodies, is that the regular trans folk who do not get in people’s faces, scream like hateful banshees at demonstrations and who do not spout vitriolic abuse at gays and straight men/women who are just standing up for kids’ safety and sex-based rights of both genders, are being pulled into this whole ”anti-trans” thing.
The vast majority are not ”anti-trans” but, like myself, I’m a live and let live sort of person but stay in your own lane, keep your ideology and warped agenda out of my face and most of all keep your toxic views and unethical intentions, based on some seriously messed up mental health issues and off the charts narcissism away from kids and the classroom environment. I don’t think anyone enjoys any ideology being rammed down their throats so their tolerance levels are bound to be pushed given the current climate.
One major problem in all of this though is just how many parents are enabling and encouraging of this extremely damaging movement but apparently this doesn’t count as ”child abuse” in the authorities’ eyes so they have carte blanche to just keep on doing serious harm to their kids, physically and psychologically.
Quite agree, Mogs. I say live and let live. Couldn’t care less if someone wants to become trans – and if they are of an age and have an understanding of the procedures and all the relevant information to go ahead with such a process. Good luck to them. If it makes them happy BUT do not expect me to shower them with praise and support or get behind such a movement. I think it’s not normal and I think there are many paths you can go down before making such an irreversible and damaging decision. Any parent who actively supports this is not being a good parent. It is child abuse, pure and simple.
The slight complication is that the research shows it doesn’t make them happy. The definitive long-term Swedish study showed post-surgery suicide rates after gender reassignment to be many times larger than the general population. Saddest of all when I read the study was that the means transgender females used to kill themselves matched the male pattern, not the female.
“Let people choose” has led to the eclipse of therapies that challenge the belief system and seek to restore contentment with one’s body, for the dramatic interventions pretended to “cure” it. Indeed, idiots call them “conversion therapy” and punish those who advocate them and are skilled in their use.
And I speak with professional experience of more than one desperately unhappy adult product of the Tavistock Clinic unable either to move forward or return to what they were, though they wanted to. Lives ruined (and in one case ended) by affirmation.
The above, I suppose, does not apply to the current sociological trend where normal young people are groomed into transgenderism, as opposed to the very rare true dysphorias. But traditional liberals have not been happy to leave young people in destructive cults in the past, so why now?
Aye, and therein lies the rub…all the misinformation, disinformation, hate speech stuff is all deliberately done as it leads to untoward censorship and cancellation which is then applauded by the numpties who are all virtue signalling themselves into a tizzy.
You gotta love the man for speaking out like this. No hate just simple truth. They don’t like the truth ergo they exist in a world of lies and deceit where their narcissism can flourish. It’s like orcs being brought out into light and shying away from the sun. It burns their skin.
Agreed. I think truth should be given a lot more weight in this whole discussion. The notion of transitioning from one sex to another is quite simply a lie, and society and all of us are harmed if we feel obligated to engage in that lie.
And, while I understand and generally embrace the “live and let live” philosophy, that does not extend to actively engaging in untruths, even if it that simply involves using “chosen pronouns”. Also, we cannot simply “let live”, since a man living as a woman inevitably wants what they would see as concomitant rights, such as the right to use women’s toilets and changing rooms (and to compete in women’s sports).
These lies must be challenged.
The whole thrust of the argument is that children were not the most affected by the ‘pandemic’ (worst death rate since… 2008). Children were the least affected by the damn bug. What they were most affected by was the lockdown and other restrictions.
My grandson had his tenth birthday in mid-2021. For 10% of his life he saw adults who thought it a good idea to hide their faces from him – and the DfE bod sheds crocodile tears and claims ‘ambitious education recovery initiatives‘. It’s disgusting.
Now his teachers are taking industrial inaction and kicking him out of school for a few days here and there – so f***ing caring.
“...we have invested £5 billion in ambitious education recovery initiatives to help young people catch up.”
And 2.3 billion “invested” in mental health services.
Well if ‘they’ hadn’t let the bloody teachers go awol for two years none of this would be required. And it is all taxpayers money.
What is the betting that conditioning children that they have mental health problems effectively turns them into pharmaceutical hobgoblins forever in search of the next tablet?
Just what Pharma requires.
Thanks Aethelred.
It takes far longer to train a workforce of skilled child psychiatry practitioners than it does for lives already damaged to become beyond remedy.
Just don’t do the bloody lockdowns in the first place, as some of us warned at the time.
I wonder how much oil is needed to make Andy Murray’s multiple tennis rackets and pairs of trainers…
Let’s Just Stop Oil so he can run around in bare feet and return Djokovič’s serves with his head.
No doubt the bit of the statement saying he was returning to wood and catgut rackets was edited out.
But I met a girl who identifies as a cat! Yes, I did. What are you saying about Andy’s tennis bat?
By the way… that girl I mentioned? Nice girl. Pretty ears and tail. Parents indulge her a bit too much – but hey, whatever.
Oh yes, did I say ‘identifies’? She was meowing and crawling around the floor of the supermarket when I was buying groceries. I think she may have been two. Pretends! That was the word I was looking for!
Good old fashioned wooden rackets strung with cat’s gut for you, Andy lad! Just not my cat!
…and all that seriously hi-tech clothing. Let’s get back to wool and cotton, hand clipped from sheep and shrub, hand spun by willing
slavesnatives, and woven on steam-driven spinning jennies.Doesn’t work does it, all that posturing.
Doesn’t work does it? Nope. Has to be hand-woven too. We can’t have steam-driven mills.
Not to mention the fuel for endless globe trotting on jet airliners for him and his entourage on the professional tennis circuit. Maybe he should keep his unwanted opinions to himself.
Just loving Novak winning everything, rubbing their noses in it. Unvaxxed Serbian patriot.
Emma Thompson and Richard Curtis were quoted by the BBC complaining about Wimbledon’s sponsorship arrangements with Barclays (something to do with net zero bollocks I think).
I see Murray, who said he wouldn’t play exhibition matches in Saudi, said he might to to Saudi if they had regular season tournaments as it would affect his ranking… OK, so Novak who you attacked sacrificed an Aus open, a US open and lots of other big tournaments by not getting vaxxed, but the problems in Saudi melt away if your ranking points are on the line.
I couldn’t give a toss what this useless tosser agrees with or doesn’t…this might be my only comment today..I freaking hate Andy Murray..an obnoxious, England-hating gob-shite…..!!
In the HART article on censorship, there is this link: https://www.hartgroup.org/did-injections-save-lives/ which may be of interest – which is kind of related to the topic of censorship as well. To sum it up it’s conclusion is: “The claim that covid injections saved lives does not stand up to any scrutiny.”.
“Ben Wallace enters free speech row over colonel ‘forced out’ of Army for saying ‘men cannot be women’” – 404, Sorry, page not found. How convenient. I can imagine that Ben Wallace, that apology for a Defence Secretary, did not back his colonel but continued the nonsensical support for the ‘transwomen are women’ trope. Apparently, the comments were very interesting giving us a little peek inside middle Britain and what it really thinks of this stuff.
The link given above has a trailing ‘j/’. The proper link is
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/03/ben-wallace-free-speech-row-colonel-forced-out/
I think.
I’m looking forward to seeing Toby going in to bat for Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkin’s. That is after he allow them to join the Free Speech Union, which so far he hasn’t.
Not so keen on TR but I’m a big fan of Katie. I love her hard hitting sarcasm..
It´s all very well for Katie Morley and Tim Stanley to write in the Telegraph about the suppression of free speech, but the Daily Telegraph itself is one of the guiltiest parties themselves.
Try writing, even in comments, the slightest polite dissent from the manic, almost psychotic, rantings by DT “reporters” (really propagandists) on the Ukraine war.
The DT is in no position to lecture others on free speech given its atrocious treatment of loyal readers who dissent from the toxic government narrative on Russia.
100% agree..I don’t even comment anymore, it’s totally pro-Ukrainian bots or thicko’s who seem to have no idea what is going on..at all.
There’s a story today by Hamish de dodah Breton …..saying Putin is going to blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant..
Not one person questions it?..no one asks why he would….? No one questions what motive he could have…he’s just an evil nutter, so no reason needed…I actually find it embarrassing if I’m honest, it’s so childish and dumb…..
Luckily the IAEA look as though they will be staying on for a bit longer, so I assume NATO will have to side-line their false flag for the time being…?