- “Nadine Dorries: Did Halifax penalise me for being a Tory MP?” – The banks have taken it upon themselves to interpret the Money Laundering Regulations wider than necessary. It’s time they woke up and stopped hurting law-abiding citizens, says Nadine Dorries in the Mail.
- “Ukraine-Russia war: Kyiv claims to have recaptured 169 sq km since counteroffensive began” – Ukraine claims to have recaptured 169 sq km on the southern front and 24 sq km around Bakhmut since the counteroffensive began last month, reports the Telegraph.
- “Our campaign against Covid vaccines was a success, data show” – An obscure study from 2022 shows that the work of Covid vaccine sceptics, writing and sharing truth online, changed minds, says Igor Chudov.
- “Quadruple vaccinated Queensland woman claims to be on her 10th Covid infection, hopes more vaccine doses will save her” – Meet Marion Carrett, a fully-vaccinated Gold Coast resident who, according to Eugyppius, claims to have had 10 documented Covid infections since 2022.
- “This summer holidays, let kids be kids” – Children are playing less and less outside. The pandemic might have accelerated this trend, but it didn’t create it, says John Mac Ghlionn in Spiked.
- “More than half of drivers are under siege from schemes like Ulez” – 61% of respondents to a poll feel they are under attack by congestion and Ulez charges, reports the Mail.
- “Ministers and police chiefs urge judges to jail Just Stop Oil protesters” – Police chiefs argue that “tougher sentences”, such as jail time, are the strongest deterrent against disruptive behaviour by Just Stop Oil protesters, says the Mail.
- “Environmentalism is austerity on steroids” – The Left claims to hate austerity and yet its eco-dystopia would plunge millions into poverty, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “German Health Minister accused of making up ‘tens of thousands of heat deaths’” – Germany’s Federal Health Minister has been accused of spreading fear by making up 300,000 fictional summer heat deaths, says WUWT.
- “Supporters of British and American healthcare have convinced themselves that the other is the only alternative” – Britain clings to the belief, despite all the evidence, that the NHS is the best system available. “If that isn’t religious dogma,” says Daniel Hannan in the Washington Examiner, “I don’t know what is.”
- “Why the AfD is on the rise again” – The AfD’s recent wins in Sonneberg and Raguhn-Jeßnitz shouldn’t surprise anyone, given the German establishment’s failure to address voters’ concerns, says Sabine Beppler-Spahl in Spiked.
- “Sentimentality or menace” – British police now veer between the grossest sentimentality on the one hand, and ineffectual menace on the other, says Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
- “Time to abolish student loans and replace them with ISAs” – If we want to get our universities back on a sustainable financial footing, argues Oliver Ind in CapX, we should seriously consider Milton Friedman’s idea of an ‘income share agreement’.
- “GB News investigated… again” – Another day, another investigation into GB News. This time, however, it’s not Ofcom but rather the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards examining claims that host Lee Anderson breached the MPs’ code of conduct, says the Spectator.
- “YouTube censors Jordan Peterson for ‘hate speech’” – YouTube’s censorship of renowned psychologist Jordan Peterson’s account has sparked outrage, not least from Dr. Peterson himself, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “Zuckerberg’s Threads app censors people questioning gender ideology” – Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads app has already taken measures to censor its users by creating hurdles to follow certain people and outright deleting some ‘threads’, says the Mail.
- “Why are Government social media takedown requests secret? Make them public” – “If the public were informed when Government officials ask social media companies to suppress constitutionally protected speech,” says Michael W. McConnell in the Washington Post, “they might exercise more restraint.”
- “Tech giant Meta to ‘safeguard’ Australian referendum integrity, arbitrate truth” – Meta will provide an undisclosed amount of funding to ‘fact-checkers’ and will block fake accounts as it gets involved in Australia’s upcoming referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, says Rebekah Barnett.
- “Australians have no truck with this racial identity politics” – The Aboriginal ‘Voice to Parliament’ initiative is ugly and divisive. Aussies see right through it, says Nick Cater in Spiked.
- “Male sex offenders ‘faking trans identities’ to move to women’s prisons” – Evidence unearthed by Inside Time, a newspaper run by prisoners, reveals that some inmates are pretending to change their gender in order to gain access to women-only prisons, reports the Telegraph.
- “Transgender woman is crowned Miss Netherlands for the first time” – A transgender woman has been crowned Miss Netherlands for the first time in the beauty pageant’s history and is now set to compete for the Miss Universe title, reports the Mail.
- “How did Trans Pride allow itself to become a front for misogyny?” – “A former prisoner in women’s clothes encouraging protestors to punch women in the face is not ‘activism’,” says Brendan O’Neil in the Spectator, “it’s misogyny in drag.”
- “Trans activists don’t help themselves” – With a convicted criminal advocating violence from the stage, the trans rights movement should find better allies, says Sam Leith in the Spectator.
- “‘Punch a TERF’: the violent misogyny of the trans movement” – Woke identitarians have become apologists for violence against women, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Taylor Swift is misogynistic, but calling a vagina a ‘bonus hole’ isn’t?” – Whilst Taylor Swift’s ‘Better Than Revenge’ was seen as feisty and authentic in 2009, today it’s problematic – and I’m tired of the double standard, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “MoD civil servant sues over ‘attack on white people’ in diversity course” – A Ministry of Defence civil servant has launched a discrimination claim after a diversity training course featured an academic paper that he alleges attacked white people, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s Alabama? Not according to York’s ethnic minority locals” – A damning report claiming York is a city mired in bigotry and racism is at odds with the experiences of its residents, says Robert Hardman in the Mail.
- “What it means to lose trust” – Competing truths may be difficult and devastating to accept but the pain and cognitive dissonance are most certainly survivable, says Christine Black in the Brownstone Institute.
- “The Frank Report: It’s been one hell of a week!” – From euthanasia suggestions for the NHS to the BBC’s Disney makeover of French riots, Frank Haviland covers it all with his trademark wit.
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“TfL announced its ban, which includes other symbols and flags, amid concerns it could distract drivers and other road users”
Bollox!
Are rainbow flags mandatory yet.
in the past I have seen national flags on cabs.
Soon you’ll be a bigot for not wanting to date a tranny.
Teen in Germany gangraped and only one got jail time. But of you highlight the problems with ‘diversity’ in Germany, that could get you arrested!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUW-YTgo-g
There is one obvious way to overturn this blatant act of treason – all taxi drivers call one day a week flag day and on that day they fly a flag on their taxis. And if they are fined they refuse to pay the fine.
Yes great idea. But as you and I know you would have great difficulty getting everyone in your street to agree to action never mind all of London.
But a mural for Taylor Swift is fine.
Or projecting ‘from the river to the sea’ on the Elizabeth Tower.
OK. I admit it’s not as permanent as a mural.
Pity the poor guy who marries that thing.
I’ll just leave it at this London bus then.
They voted for the muppet. Go figure?
This idea to stop people flying flags comes from the globalist mentality that countries should not be Nations anymore but just Regions of the International Community. The likes of the cretin Khan take their responsibility to get rid of National Identity seriously.
The formalisation of regions populated by tribes and factions unified into a national identity worked reasonably well in history. A down side to a national cohesion was the occasional dispute which was far larger than a tribal action.
Todays, Globalisation, multi cultural, and equality agendas will see a return of tribal, factional, and sectional grouping to re appear, has they are now doing within the west. The perfect divide and conquer strategy for todays world, giving total control and power to the elites, and chaos and conflict to everyone else.
oooooooooooooh. it appears the down ticks have taken an exception to my reference to national social collapse, by the segregation and disintegration, of social cohesion.
I would urge EVERY taxi to display the English flag from now on.
Do you sport an England flag on your work desk? Are you a political activist with Reform UK? Do you have an England flag displayed on your car? If you are then I salute you.
He’s not wrong.
Khan hates England and the English.
In London, the Great Replacement has already happened. Only 36% of the population is English. Why would anyone expect to see an English flag?
Nigel is absolutely right.
Khan hates “England & the English”.
The Scots, Welsh and Irish hate “England & the English”.
The EU hates “England & the English”.
The UN hates “England & the English”.
The entire Third World hates “England & the English”.
So why do “England & the English” keep lavishing money upon all these people, allowing them to trample “England & the English” underfoot?
Time for “England & the English” to declare themselves to be an Independent Nation.
Some Welsh people do, not myself though.
Even the mildest local Welsh Christian ladies have expressed the need for solidarity among the “Celtic peoples”, the Welsh, Scots & Irish, united together against the English “oppressors”. And yet they have never learned to speak Welsh, and have chosen to live in England for most of their lives, and hardly ever visit Wales. Just like many other “Celts” in Britain. And then there are the Third World immigrants, jostling for top government posts.
It’s astonishing how many millions of people hate England & the English, and yet choose to live in England.
The problem is that far too many English over the last thirty years have voted for English establishment parties that hate the English! Swathes of English have voted for their own replacement. Never ever vote for any establishment party!
A public forum for publicly paid officials features a string of threats against the Reform UK leader, GB News can reveal
Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage has been the subject of violent threats on an online forum for civil servants, GB News can reveal.
Threats posted by publicly-paid officials included physical violence such as punching, assault and one commenter even implied they wished to see Mr Farage killed.
Seems to me that the vast majority of hate come from the left, from people who are often quoted as saying hate won’t win. That sentiment is only ever applied to the right.
Well done for pointing out that news. I was shocked to hear the same violent threats against Nigel even here in a local shop, where the “liberal” shopkeeper and a customer were saying that they wished the milkshake attacker had thrown rocks instead.
I hope you openly expressed your support for Farage to the shopkeeper!
Course he does. He’s a lipstick Muslim. Doing the ummahs good work.