- “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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OK this is weird. Even the paramedic had a cardiac arrest. Must’ve been heat-related…
”Two people went into cardiac arrest at the Ed Sheeran concert in Pittsburgh over the weekend, while 17 more were rushed to hospital.
The Shape of You singer took to the stage at the city’s Acrisure Stadium on Saturday, July 8, to entertain the biggest Pittsburgh crowd he’s ever played in front of, with an estimated 51,000 fans piling in to see the Englishman.
Things took a turn among some gig-goers, though, who fell ill during the performance. Emergency services were called to more than 37 incidents, and 17 people were taken to hospital, including a stadium worker and a medic.”
https://www.irishstar.com/news/pennsylvania-news/stadium-staff-medic-go-cardiac-30432477
Here in the NL the authorities are already saying the vulnerable should be taking their next booster. Apparently pregnant women fall into the ”high risk” category. Read a whole article on the news that was 100% BS regarding how pregnant women are more at risk from Covid and therefore urged to get jabbed. Complete and utter lies and dangerous malfeasance. Is this still the standard advice everywhere? Dr Thorp knows the score;
”My 44 years of Ob experience and my vast published experience (221 articles, including 48 on COVID-related topics) allow me to be certain. I am willing to bet my life on it and I offered to debate anyone in the world for the last 3 years. NOBODY to date has the ethical, moral, and intellectual integrity to debate me.
Pushing the Lethal mRNA vaccines in my pregnant patients constitutes the GREATEST violation of ETHICS in the history of humanity. The danger signals emanating from the VAERS and a myriad of other sources globally are unprecedented. The danger signals from my VAST experience of seeing nearly 27,500 patients in the last 4.5 years are unprecedented.”
https://twitter.com/jathorpmfm/status/1677001591407116296
Dor Thorp is a brave man.
NATO
There is of course also the small matter of a NATO summit taking place in Lithuania! As well as all the issues over Sweden, Ukraine and NATO; another NATO development is that some Asian/Pacific countries will be attending and the USA would like to see NATO take some interest in the Asian/Pacific region. Unsurprisingly this has not gone unnoticed by China;
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202307/1294064.shtml
We will have to see what actually comes out of the Lithuanian summit? but to my mind the least likely outcome would be ‘Peace in our Time’.
And it also went fairly under the radar that we entered a mutual defence agreement with Japan in January.
More on the increasing censorship ( online though, as obviously men parading around in public with their penises on display or fake women inciting violence against real women is still considered above board in Clown World ) and the dreaded Digital services Act to be implemented next month;
”Social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat will face possible shutdowns when they don’t crack down on problematic content during riots under the European Union’s content law, Internal Commissioner Thierry Breton said Monday.
Breton, a French politician, was responding in a French radio interview to comments by French President Emmanuel Macron that floated closing down some social media to clamp down on riots. Some critics likened this to measures seen in authoritarian states like China and Iran.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/social-media-riot-shutdowns-possible-under-eu-content-law-breton-says/
“Social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat will face possible shutdowns when they don’t crack down on problematic content during riots…”
So “riots” are now a given are they? Why would that be I wonder?
WELL WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DID ANYONE EXPECT TO HAPPEN ON THAT SCORE?
The dangerous plants lurking in plain sight
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-66154244
The plant is hemlock. We’ve had huge quantities growing along paths near our local water meadows. It’s very impressive though it has an odd smell as it matures.
In the BBC article I note that despite concerns being expressed nobody local could be bothered to do anything about it.
It seems we actually need to say this:
Parents, Please teach your kids not to chew bits of vegetation that they wander past.
(Edited to take out a double ‘not’. Come to think of it it was funnier with the double negative)
It used to be law that Ragwort was removed as soon as it appeared because of its danger to horses. The requirement caused no one any serious problem because decades of removal had seriously reduced its spread, like measles.
The law was changed, I think another Blair stupidity, and now the damned weed is everywhere. Worse still, the dafties want to “rewild” which will cause weed seeds to spread across neighbouring fields and either reduce crop yield or increase chemical sprays – neither of thich the promoters of rewilding claim to want. Many of them are green veggie zealots so let them grow their own food on rewolded fields; I would love to see them try.
I remember in my old town centre seeing deadly nightshade growing in the little flower bed of the estate agent opposite the police station… nobody died.
Apart from Hunt, does anyone know a leftie who was refused a bank account or had one closed? Banks seem content to provide facilities to the army of left wing groups (some “charities”) and their financiers. They made no issue of it until recently although PEP rules have existed for many years. I used to run regulation for an Authorised Firm and we had a couple of cases which we considered.
Ministers and police chiefs are grandstanding in their appeals to judges. There are sentencing guidelines in place following consultation between various parties (some of whom don’t really believe in prison, it seems) and the judges were appointed with knowledge of their leanings.
Prison has a number of purposes, it seems to me. One is to punish – to make the life of the criminal less comfortable and less convenient. Second to protect society – so we can have some respite from their evil activities. Thirdly to demonstrate society’s objections – signals are important. If the police continue to protect protesters, give them hugs and cups of tea, then the message will not get to them that society objects. the MSM largely approves and I suspect the journalists on the ground give support to them. By arresting more, stop the sympathy and clear the roads fast, arrest, charge and fine them significant amounts and imprison repeat cases and organisers – the message will get across.
On student loans, we have an income share deal now. To recap: foreign borrowers will never have to repay, UK borrowers who move abroad will never have to repay and those whose degrees and intellects were so weak they can’t earn more than average wage will never repay. Only those who earn even a modest amount within a few years of graduation will pay and it is taken with PAYE from their salary.
It is a daft system that costs tax payers too much, fails to discipline Universities (on quality and excessive costs) and produces too many graduates who can’t get a job above minimum wage.
And they are just the three items that caught my eye first. I cannot respond to the organs involved because of pay walls and a reluctance to be associated with them.
What strikes me about todays articles is the sheer number of ‘divide & conquer’ issues. What are they trying to deflect our attention from??