- “Not even Reverends like me are safe from the banks’ woke purge” – The Revd Richard Fothergill writes about being de-banked by the Yorkshire Building Society in the Telegraph.
- “De-banking furore grows as MPs start investigation” – According to the Times, MPs have expressed concerns that high street lenders are “freezing, withdrawing or withholding bank accounts” from businesses with “little or no explanation”.
- “The worst thing about the woke banking scandal is the hypocrisy of Nigel Farage’s foes” – Imagine banks were cancelling the accounts of progressive politicians. How do we think the Left would react, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “NatWest, Farage and the decline of corporate behaviour” – The story of NatWest Group’s rogue behaviour goes far deeper than Nigel Farage, says Justin Doherty in the Spectator.
- “‘Blacklist’ for Government critics is suspended in Whitehall” – Ministers have suspended Whitehall guidance that was used to bar guest speakers who had been critical of policies amid accusations of ‘blacklisting’, reports the Times.
- “Anthony Fauci behind Covid origins disinformation, evidence suggests” – Communications between scientists reveal that there was pressure from “higher ups” to dismiss the lab leak theory of Covid origins, says Public.
- “Did the New York Times just admit Covid deaths were overcounted?” – According to New York Times journallist David Leonhardt, there has been a big drop in official number of Covid deaths in the U.S., with a strong likelihood that the actual number is even lower, reports UnHerd.
- “Scientists call for Nature Medicine to retract paper denying Wuhan lab accident” – The number of virologists who’ve been lying to Congress continues to grow, says Paul D. Thacker.
- “Major data misinterpretations found in COVID-19 study” – Eyal Shahar scrutinises a COVID-19 study, revealing severe data misclassifications and biases that overestimated Covid mortality in Israel.
- “School closings spiked before official Covid” – At least 100 school systems or schools in at least 14 U.S. states closed for flu-like illnesses before a pandemic was declared, which provides more compelling evidence of “early spread”, says Bill Rice Jr.
- “‘Hypocritical’ BMA offers staff pay rise lower than deal it rejected” – The British Medical Association has been accused of “staggering hypocrisy” after offering its staff a 5.25% pay rise, which is lower than the “derisory” 6% offer it had previously rejected from the Government, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fury at Rhodes hysteria” – Just 20% of the Greek island Rhodes is affected by wildfires, despite alarmist warnings from many quarters not to travel, says the Mail.
- “Sunak will have to water down Net Zero sooner or later” – The Government seems to favour policies which will hit ordinary people while sparing the wealthy their private jets, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Lord Frost: Rising temperatures likely to be beneficial for Britain” – According to Lord Frost, rising temperatures “are likely to be beneficial” for Britain because seven times more people in the U.K. die from cold than heat, reports the Telegraph.
- “This graph shows cold kills way more for the entire world” – The co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, says that many in the media are lying about ‘heat waves’ causing more deaths than cold weather. And he has a graph to prove it.
- “Global warming will save many lives… but we have to keep that quiet” – Watch Norman Fenton’s speech revealing academic fraud within the “climate cult community”.
- “Just Stop Oil have finally met their match” – The splendidly named counter-organisation ‘Just Stop Pissing People Off’ has pulled off two publicity coups in the last week, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Christmas market in jeopardy following row over cycle lane” – Oxford County Council has been accused of ruining the city’s Christmas market after it refused to temporarily close a cycle lane running straight through the middle of it, says the Mail.
- “Concordia, Antarctica hits -83.2°C, world’s provisional lowest temperature since 2017” – A weather station at the Concordia Research Station in Antarctica may have just registered the world’s lowest temperature in six years, reports Weatherzone.
- “Gove rows back on 2030 petrol car ban U-turn” – A U-turn on a U-turn? Steerpike in the Spectator has been watching the mess ministers have managed to get themselves into on plans to ban new diesel and petrol cars.
- “A look back from Canadian wildfires to Australian bushfires and floods” – Former UN Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur scrutinises climate alarmism for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Weather blether” – What we are witnessing is just ‘weather’; sometimes it’s cold and sometimes it’s hot, says Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Solar panels are three times more carbon-intensive than IPCC claims” – Ecoinvent, the world’s largest database on the environmental impact of renewables, lacks any data from China, the major producer of solar panels worldwide, says Public.
- “British economy will outperform Germany this year, IMF admits” – Britain’s economy will outperform Germany’s this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, after its worst fears for the U.K. failed to materialise, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain is a poor country determined to get even poorer” – The economic gap between Britain and America is wider than the gap between the U.K. and Romania, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “The great flight from heterosexuality” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked explains why so many young people, even straights, are calling themselves ‘queer’.
- “The backlash against ‘woke’ capitalism threatens to upend politics” – A lucrative new industry has formed around ‘liberal’ values, but it can only end in tears for big business, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Republicans demand total ban on gender reassignment surgeries” – Republican Kat Cammack said the surgeries Democrats want to approve for children are like a “Frankenstein experiment”, reports the Mail.
- “Socialism or Barbie-ism” – Barbie’s nod to what makes a woman a woman is quietly subversive, says Nina Power in Compact.
- “Even Oppenheimer isn’t spared from America’s race politics” – Apparently, online critics are claiming that Oppenheimer is too white, says Samuel Rubinstein in UnHerd.
- “How Pixar infantilised the world” – For the past three decades, Pixar has convinced us that emotions are everything, says Darragh McManus in Spiked.
- “‘It read almost like a file put together by an East German policeman’” – In an interview on GB News, Benjamin Jones of the Free Speech Union discusses Coutts bank’s reasoning for ‘debanking’ Nigel Farage.
‘It read almost like a file put together by an East German policeman.’
— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 25, 2023
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Are we seeing the birth of Canada’s Gilets Jaunes?
If the ancien regime refuses to give any concessions, and resorts in the end to either waiting the pro-freedom protesters out or to police violence, will the result be a bitter, long lasting campaign of protests like the ones that ultimately forced Macron to make superficial concessions, but no real changes?
In France, so far the regime has been able to basically put up with the anger of the disenfranchised and demonised indigenous working classes, while it has partly petered out in hopelessness for now (a dangerous situation, no doubt), and perhaps been overshadowed for now by covid panic protests..
The rise and fall of France’s Yellow Vests – what remains after two years?
I think in this case the truckers are leading the nation – predominantly people are on their side. A lot of truckers on the move across Europe though the great convoys touted for the UK yesterday don’t seem to have materialised.
Too .many borders, Police check points and vehicle weigh in hubs throughout the EU (always part of The Plan despite ‘Freedom Of Movement’).
Not enough stretches of motorway giving 10 miles of clear views in either direction.
How many stationary articulated lorries can squeeze into 1 mile/1 kilometre 3 lane motorway/autobahn/schnelweg, Aftokinitodromos/ motortrafikledenand etc?
Piece of piss to divert leading 30 trucks into the mean backstreets Naples, Paris or Bratislava.
The Convoy To Canberra movement, inspired by the Canadian truckers, has delivered tens of thousands of unhappy Australians into the national capital.
With a federal election due in the first half of the year, the movement can effect real change here. The Liberals are starting to panic.There is talk about a leadership change and dumping Scott Morrison for Peter Dutton. This is not likely to reverse the swings towards secondary parties such as One Nation, Liberal Democrats, and United Australia.
Labor federally is keeping a low profile, but the Labor state governments are doing plenty to foul their chances of a win.
Come off it you collaborating
bastardsrotters.All these foreign truckers are nazi Russian child traffickers selling adulterated heroin to Our Kids to raise funds for ISIS pedo orgies right here in Gods Own Country.
Those 10s of thousands of unhappy Australians will be even unhapier when they wake up in a Whiguir slave labour camp.
Your readers reserve the truth.
Concerned £10.00 Pom.
Elizabeth N.S.W.
There’s one in every crowd!
“Labor federally is keeping a low profile“
I did notice they weren’t above dobbing in their rivals:
Most of United Australia party’s videos pulled from YouTube
“Three out of every four video ads the United Australia party has posted on YouTube since late September have been pulled by Google for allegedly violating the tech giant’s advertising policies, according to Google’s transparency report.
…
Labor has previously raised concerns that the UAP was using its platform to undermine confidence in Australia’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, citing videos in which Kelly questioned the safety of Covid vaccines or promoted the drug ivermectin.“
Presumably even under a PR system a shift of votes from the “Liberals” to smaller freedom parties must initially benefit Labor?
Well good luck to the cowardly schmuck waiting it out in his weasely hidey hole. Once the millions that were snatched away by Go Fund Me are given back to the donors and resent via the non-fraudulent Give Send Go site ( often with interest as people are actually pledging more that their original donation now ) then the truckers have enough to theoretically keep them in situ for up to 4 years. This was based on the 10 million raised before it was shut down. So there’ll be a lot of redirecting of funds, they’re getting a hell of a lot of support locally and worldwide and they’re inspiring truckers in other countries to get going with similar efforts. They actually have a lot of support from the police, the tow truck firms have sided with them, as have the farmers, and the military have said they won’t be getting involved to evict anyone. Polls show the majority of Canadians now want all restrictions lifted. If this Freedom convoy doesn’t prove the catalyst of change then nothing will. They’re all doing great out there and it’s a lot more impactful than the regular protests happening every weekend because this effort brings max disruption, whereas peaceful protests do not.
Was flagged to this the other day – seems to be an intended hit on Sir Desmond Swayne, given the misleading title:
Furious Swayne savages code: You’re not gonna tell me what to say! I hold people in utter contempt!
What he actually said was: “I believe that I’m quite entitled to hold certain things and people in utter contempt. I’m not required to respect them.”
And he’s absolutely correct – an MP should be accountable to his electorate for his views, and to nobody and nothing else.”
What;’s amusing is the total, dogmatic incomprehension of Swayne’s point, on the part of the responding elite bigots in the extract.
Absolutely, I behold Queen Elizabeth II with absolute respect while m.hindley (ms.) is worthy only of universal contempt and ignominy, obloquy is not too strong for her.
In keeping with DS Guidelines I do not wish her dead but only so I can witness her daily humiliation by other old women legs.
Everybody else lies somewhere along the QE2-Hindley spectrum. Often that place is of their own choosing.
I have no respect for Queen Tin Lizzie now that she’s called me selfish for wishing to decide what needles are and are not rammed into my body. She can go dance the Covvicult death dance with Bozo and Smarmer.
Completely agree Annie. Let’s not forget that Charlie is up to his neck in this reset shite and thick as thieves with Klaus, Bill and the rest of the Davos Deviants.
The Windsors have to go. Way past their best before.
I haven’t seen the responses from the elite bigots but I expect some of them comprehend very well, they just choose to pretend they don’t. They know people like Swayne are a threat to them because he represents a block of the public who oppose their dogmas and is relatively unafraid to speak truth to power.
Father, 35, is arrested after leaving his 11-year-old son at a hotel to go out and celebrate his team’s FA Cup win – as police say the ‘unhappy mum is on her way to collect him’
“A GMP spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘In the early hours of Saturday 5 February 2022, police received a report of concern for the welfare of a child.
‘Enquiries established that an 11-year-old boy was asleep alone in a hotel room in Trafford.
‘A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect. He remains in police custody for questioning.’ ”
The horror!
Some might disagree, but as the father of four (now adult) offspring, and as someone who was raised to be perfectly capable of spending the night alone in a hotel room at the age of 11, I can say with complete confidence that a normal 11 year old should be perfectly capable of spending the night alone in a hotel room.
Yes, we can all conjure up fantasy scenarios in which he might have fallen foul of some predator or freak accident, but frankly I was in a lot more danger at that age cycling 6 miles to school through Manchester traffic, and that never stopped me slipstreaming the buses.
Applying these standards, both my parents, and myself and my wife would probably have been imprisoned repeatedly for “child neglect”, and I think both I and my offspring are the better for it.
And that’s before going into the snitching, and the big brother, and the wasting of police resources aspects of this.
People just seem incapable of minding their own business these days!
o tempora! o mores!
Is this unrelated to the success of the nannying fearfulness of the covid panic?
So, a responsible parent would have taken his young son down to the pub?
I’m trying to figure out what actually happened here:
Dad takes his son with him from Middlesborough to Manchester to support their team at an away game. (Possibly mum and dad are divorced, there is some disagreement over custody.) Stays at a hotel to avoid having to drive home afterwards. Decides to celebrate win by meeting a few mates at a pub later that evening. At some point the mother of the child calls him on his mobile. Establishes that a) dad is at pub and b) son is at hotel. Furious row erupts. Enraged mother then takes revenge on dad by means of calling Manchester police. Who “make enquiries” (how?) that the child is asleep alone in hotel room.
Seriously, how do you do that? Have the hotel staff unlock the door, possibly scaring the crap out of the little guy as strangers creep into his room, in the dark, to see that he is alone and asleep?
Thanks for sharing the story.
As always we are left to speculate about what is left out of these stories. My initial response was the same as yours – that this was probably abusive snitching by a divorced mother. But the story doesn’t mention any divorce.
My other guess if it wasn’t the mother was that it was some busybody member of staff at the hotel.
More likely the latter. My son was questioned by a train guard as to why he wasn’t at school on 15th December last year, when he was travelling over by train to stay with me for half the Holidays. He was 15 at the time, but only 10 days short of his 16th birthday. The guard claimed that schools hadn’t broken up and he shouldn’t be on the train. My son ‘had’ to give the guard either my or his mother’s phone number so that it could be checked. He gave his mother’s due to my hearing problems.
It was none of her (the guard was female) business. It’s not the law to go to school. It is the law to be educated and some schools had broken up. My son was quite upset by it all.
I wrote a strong letter of complaint to East Midlands Railway. They agreed it shouldn’t have happened and the staff member would be spoken to (hmm) and offer to provide a complimentary ticket.
Why do people feel it necessary to interfere, particularly when they are factually incorrect?
Some “people” and I use the word lightly would sell their mother for an armband and would gladly slaughter their whole family for a nice bright shiny uniform.
Insecurity takes many forms.
This story actually made me look up the law on leaving a child alone.
There is no legal minimum age. The law only states that you mustn’t leave a child alone if so doing placed them “at risk.” And the UK.gov website says not to leave a child under age 16 alone overnight. Which seems reasonable enough.
But leaving an 11 year old in a hotel room for a couple of hours, even at night, doesn’t strike me as particularly “risky.” It depends a lot on the 11 year old. If it’s possible the boy is going to drink the shampoo or play with the matches and lighter fluid you’ve left on the dresser. Possibly “risky.” Otherwise – not so much. Unless the hotel itself is the sort of place where armed robbers roam the hallways, kicking in doors and assaulting guests.
What was the father in question to do? Hire a previously-vetted babysitter, I suppose. But that’s not going to be easy for an out-of-town visitor to do. Teenage girls (a frequent source of babysitting labour) are probably not too thrilled to be asked to come spend a couple of hours in a hotel room by a strange man.
Watch out for Penny Mordaunt now said to be threatening to resign over Boris Johnson. A former Microsoft employee she wrote a book ‘Greater: Britain After the Storm’ last year with an introduction by Bill Gates – a glimpse of the text on Amazon shows her singling out Britain’s partnership with Gate’s global vaccine alliance GAVI as the exemplar of our national destiny.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10480891/Penny-Mordaunt-latest-MP-resignation-watch-Partygate-scandal.html
https://www.ageofautism.com/2020/06/british-prime-minister-channels-churchill-as-he-surrenders-to-gates-and-the-vaccine-cartel.html
Apparently (some pundit said earlier) one of the reasons she’s potentially going to resign was Johnson’s supposedly oh so shocking comment about Starmer.
No respect for any MP pretending to be “outraged” by that.
Agree, and if she was so outraged why did she not resign there and then? Definitely opportunism rather than principle.
Sounds like her resignation can’t come too soon!
Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it
“So we’re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others are refusing to follow government orders, telling the powerful that, in a popular lefty formulation, if there’s no justice, there’s no peace.
Naturally, the left hates it.
For more than a century, lefties have talked about such a revolt. But if you really paid attention, the actual role of the working class in their working-class revolution was not to call the shots — it was to do what it was told by the “intellectual vanguard” of the left.
A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The working class wants jobs, a stable economy, safe streets, low inflation, schools that teach things and a conservative, non-adventurous foreign policy that won’t get a lot of working-class people killed. It’s not excited about gender fluidity, critical race theory, “modern monetary theory,” foreign adventures and defunding police.
Worse yet, a huge part of the lefty self-image revolves around feeling superior to the working class and openly expressing disdain for it. One need spend only a few minutes tuning into left media like NPR, CNN or MSNBC to hear the disdain for working-class Americans, inhabitants of “flyover country,” people who live in the middle of nowhere.
……”
Good article – see also
Attack of the Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers! – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)
Someone the other day felt the need to let us know that Babylon Bee is actually a satirical site. I now understand why as at first I thought this was another example of the same. But no, he actually said it.
How the £%)!£^%*!)* can the leader of a supposedly first world country actually spout such complete and utter “£%)*!£)*?
I’m reminded of the great Philip Larkin (that well known right wing bigot):
““Oh no, I’ve never been to America, nor to anywhere else, for that matter. Does that sound very snubbing? It isn’t meant to. I suppose I’m pretty unadventurous by nature, partly that isn’t the way I earn my living—reading and lecturing and taking classes and so on. I should hate it.
And of course I’m so deaf now that I shouldn’t dare. Someone would say, What about Ashbery, and I’d say, I’d prefer strawberry, that kind of thing. I suppose everyone has his own dream of America. A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: the rest is a desert full of bigots. That’s what I think I’d like: where if you help a girl trim the Christmas tree you’re regarded as engaged, and her brothers start oiling their shotguns if you don’t call on the minister. A version of pastoral.””
This is from an interview probably at least 40 years ago.
Does anyone at DS know anything about Free West Media? They’re running a very interesting story but I can’t find any other sources to support it.
Red Cross withdraws from ‘Austria vaccinates’ campaign
Their article is a translation of the article they reference from the regional Austrian newspaper Wochenblick, which German Wikipedia characterises as right wing, a source of misinformation blah blah. https://www.wochenblick.at/brisant/rotes-kreuz-steigt-aus-oesterreich-impft-kampagne-aus-regierung-steht-bald-allein-da/
// The question for us hardened sceptics – the Spartans, the Immortals, the Originals, the Old Guard – is what to do with these prodigal sons and daughters. //
Watch them and continue to learn about human nature.
Hmm, I keep thinking about how collaborators were dealt with after WWII!
France: Yellow Vests rally against COVID vaccine pass in Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUTfKsBW54s
Ruptly
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It’s surprising to see the British Brainwashing Corpse giving a voice to four vax refuseniks – without much attempt to insult and denigrate them.
But then, they are NHS. Sacred Cow versus Holy Snake Oil.
For once, I’m mooing with the sacred cow.
Why has the Zoe app been telling us that “omicron is rising again” if cases have been falling?
The case count is very dependent on testing, which is down by 1/3 since the testing peak on 9 January.
Tim Spector discusses this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfjJ1z-a6s and essentially says that it’s down to testing, in particular a large drop in PCR tests. He claims that most cases are in the unvaccinated, although how he knows that is not explained because he no longer has many unvaccinated volunteers in the Zoe programme.
Reiner Fuellmich’s opening statement. It’s finally kicking off. https://rumble.com/vu5e9x-grand-jury-the-court-of-public-opinion-dr.-reiner-fuellmichs-opening-statem.html
Can anyone tell me where this is taking place? I have been following this enquiry closely for as long as they’ve been compiling evidence but where this case is actually being heard has escaped me.
I’ve no idea where he’s permanently located, I just presumed somewhere in Germany, but it appears the trial is going ahead in Brussels. Just going off of this link anyway. https://tapnewswire.com/2022/01/reiner-fuellmich-in-brussels-pre-trial/
Thanks for that, M.
WOW; can’t wait to see that reported on The BBC website…
Most of the covid deaths have been under Sleepy Joe, and he had the perfect vaccines to save the US.
The White House throws Dr. Fauci under the bus. Asked about Johns Hopkins study that shows lockdowns failed, Psaki disavows them. “We’ve not been pro-lockdown — most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous President.”
In the psychology of mental abuse this is known as Gaslighting … a period of time when the abuser causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories.
Psaki is attempting to Gaslight the public – it’s intentional and its evil.
It’s only took two years before I’ve come across people who claim to have actually got ill with convid.
My fully jabbed uncle has “caught it” twice in the last few months, and now my fully jabbed cousin has “caught it”.
A board meeting at work last week was totally dominated by a colleague sharing her fascinating experiences of having “caught it” twice despite being treble jabbed.
She bemoaned having only just recovered from what she thought was the flu to catching what she thought was a common cold a few weeks later. Only clue it was allegedly convid is that she tested positive on the dodgy kit.
Ironic that in the early days while the crooks told us to be scared of the claimed avalanche of cases and deaths, I never met anyone who had tested positive or showed symptoms. Now we’re told “the virus” is in retreat, suddenly everyone around me is getting ill.
Yet this was all predicted by the actual experts who warned about the dangers of the fake vaccine. Either the treble-jabbed are suffering from spike protein or they are suffering from boughts of flu and cold and suffering more because they have weakened immune systems.