- “Should banks be able to refuse customers based on their politics?” – Two experts, with opposing views on whether commercial firms should be able to choose their clients, put their arguments forward in the Times.
- “How the Left learned to love the banks” – The Nigel Farage banking scandal has exposed the ‘progressive’ Left as the stooges of the elite, says Patrick West in Spiked.
- “Hardcore bosses can save the West” – The virtue-signalling sloganeering that dominates corporate leadership must end, according to Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Complacent, unelected bureaucrats are the ultimate enemies of economic growth” – The whole point of Brexit was to get rid of meddling Brussels officials, but we have just replaced them with faceless Whitehall ones instead, writes Liz Truss in the Telegraph.
- “Covid test sales up by a third as expert warns virus ‘still lurking’” – Sales of Covid test kits have jumped by a third as people experience more coughs, sore throats and headaches, reports the Mail.
- “How often do USC basketball players get cardiac arrests?” – On average, only one University of South Carolina basketball player has a heart attack every 100 years. So how can there be two in the last year, asks Steve Kirsch.
- “The Office for Shambolic National Statistics on Covid” – TCW has a new summary of the statistical analysis done by Norman Fenton and his team on mortality by vaccination status.
- “The true and the false vision: Towards a general theory of political stupidity” – The stupidity of the Covid response was in no way unique; a lot of what modern states do is mind-numbingly idiotic, says Eugyppius.
- “Rhodes residents say wildfires spread because they cannot cut down trees” – Rhodes residents, who cannot cut trees on their own land without a permit, have said for years that the island’s forests have been poorly maintained, which experts said added fuel to the wildfires, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour council hits diesel drivers with higher parking fees” – A Labour-run council is charging motorists extra to park polluting cars in a double blow for those about to be hit by the expansion of London’s Ulez scheme, says the Mail.
- “Why cars could hold the key to a Conservative victory” – Swerving anti-motorist measures could be a way for the Tories to win back voters angry at Ulez expansion, low traffic neighbourhoods and blanket 20mph zones, reckons Nick Gutteridge in the Telegraph.
- “The political battle for Net Zero is only just beginning” – Any party which wants to win the next election is going to have to convince the public that green policies are not going to make them poorer, argues the Spectator in a leading article.
- “Electric cars not up to the job for armed response units, police force says” – Essex Police has warned electric cars are not fast enough to respond to emergencies, reports the Mail.
- “Labour council using diesel generators to charge electric bin lorries” – Cardiff Council has been using diesel generators to charge its new electric bin lorry fleet, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ban on gas boilers in new homes may halt housebuilding” – Home building leaders have warned that a ban on gas boilers in new homes, and a switch to heat pumps, could stall housebuilding without urgent upgrades to the electricity grid, says the Telegraph.
- “Sunak strikes back against anti-car zealots” – It is right to seek to lower emissions, but not through coercion and a war on motorists, according to the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “The risks and limitations of computer models” – Models are good for homes, aeroplanes, cars and trains. Not so good for setting policy in complex systems, says Harley Smedlapp.
- “Climate hysteria is a serious threat to mankind’s survival” – Wild claims about climate change will only serve to depress and alienate. The way forward has to be rational argument and human ingenuity, argues Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Parents’ concerns over trans pool official using women’s changing room” – British Swimming has revised its changing room policy due to concerns from parents about a transgender pool official using the women’s facilities alongside young girls during a teenage swimming competition, says the Mail.
- “Police Scotland stands by as gender-critical feminist is attacked” – What happens to men who attack women in Scotland? Not very much, according to Joan Smith in UnHerd.
- “Tennyson classed as ‘queer’ despite lack of evidence he was gay” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson has been named as an LGBT historical figure, despite a lack of evidence that the poet had any homosexual relationships, says the Telegraph.
- “Gender-critical social worker ‘blacklisted’ for trans views” – Louise Chivers has been told she can’t apply for social services jobs, pending an investigation by Social Work England after her comments on trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, according to the Telegraph.
- “Now NHS staff will tell patients their preferred pronouns” – An NHS diversity training module for medics tells them to inform patients of their pronouns to create a ‘safe space’, reports the Mail.
- “Is it safe for women to trust Labour again?” – The Labour Party’s self-destructive stance on gender has been shelved but there will be no apology for the damage done to many, laments Janice Turner in the Times.
- “The culture war will be an election issue, and the Tories can’t allow the woke to win” – The Conservative Party is hamstrung by its own role in promoting an ideology that threatens the Western way of life, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The Equality and Human Rights Commission is the latest battleground in the Left’s assault on our institutions” – The EHRC has been subjected to multiple attacks by the identitarian Left, according to Andrew Tettenborn in CapX.
- “Call for The Old Bulldog pub to change name branded ‘woke overreach’” – Animal rights group Peta penned a letter to The Old Bulldog pub, asking the owner to rebrand to The Old Mutt to raise awareness of the health issues facing flat-faced dogs, says the Telegraph.
- “Who killed comedy?” – Far from needing guts, comedy is now the tamest trade in town, argues Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Leave men alone” – The woke elites might soon regret their culture war on masculinity, warns Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe gets trigger warning from publisher” – The 1939 novel, The Big Sleep, considered among the greatest works of crime fiction ever written, has been given a trigger warning by its publisher over “outdated language”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson: Barbie is a rallying cry for humans to have more babies” – Boris, writing in the Mail, expands on his takeaway from the hit movie Barbie, namely that it’s “a great Mussolini-esque rallying cry for human fecundity”.
- “Postcard from Montenegro” – Russell David pauses his much-needed break from the toxic identity politics of home to send us a postcard from Montenegro.
- “Majority of college students favour reporting professors for ‘offensive’ opinions: poll” – According to a new survey, 74% of all U.S. students believe professors should be reported for saying something they think is offensive, reports the Hill.
- “Illinois college to pay Christian arts student $80K for ‘silencing’ conservative views” – In a rare culture war victory for the Right, the New York Post reports that an Illinois college will pay a Christian arts student $80,000 after she hit them with a lawsuit, claiming they’d silenced her conservative political views.
- “Trudeau Liberals studied ways to ban federal funding of groups ‘unaccepting’ of LGBTQ” – Justin Trudeau is requiring organisations wanting to access federal funding to swear an attestation to the Liberal Party’s view on LGBTQ rights, abortion access and gender theory, reports Rebel News.
- “Hunter Biden scandal so grave even U.S. Left-wing media can’t ignore it” – Joe Biden’s rotten House Of Cards is teetering on the brink of collapse, and the web of lies around alleged corruption in the Biden family is unravelling, says Richard Littlejohn, mixing his metaphors in the Mail.
- “Meta files patent to scan users’ voices to make a ‘voiceprint’” – Social media giant Meta intends to patent a system that leverages voiceprints for user identification, says Reclaim The Net.
- “Sadiq Khan’s anti-misogyny campaign that’s based on birds” – The Headliners team at GB News react to the Times story that Sadiq Khan’s anti-misogyny “maaate” campaign is based on research about how birds communicate with each other.
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Explains a lot. This is institutional child abuse. People have been arrested for less…
Savile was knighted and was sought after for marriage advice. His client’s brother frequented on Massad funded sex islands in the Caribbean and in New York.
By jove, I’m spotting a pattern…
“in which she lauded teenagers for their stoical refusal to “bellyache” and “moan” about mask requirements“
Absolutely, we should all look down on those who “bellyache” and “moan” about dictats that they really ought to just put up with in good, obedient spirit.
What does it actually cost someone to sit at the back of the bus, or wear a symbolic badge? Nothing much. People should obviously just obey orders from authority.
Just wear the damn mask/buckle up the damn seatbelt/take the damn injection….
Excellent nanny state stuff from the Guardian, as usual.
The Left regards even their own children primarily as being ‘machines’, as we learnt from Justice Sotomayor a few days ago.
I would love to see this poll question of a cross-section of a nation’s population:
Did you personally know any person under the age of 40 who has died from COVID in the past two years?
This poll question will never be asked, but if it was, and people answered honestly, probably 90 percent would answer “no.”
So the vast majority of the world’s population did not know any person under the median age who died from COVID.
What does this tell us?
Would this have been the case in 1918-1919 of the Spanish Flu?
I doubt it very seriously. Most people would have known several people under 40 who died of the Spanish Flu. In fact, I just read that the average age of a victim of the Spanish Flu was 28. The average age of a victim of COVID in most Western nations is 80 or older.
If you asked did you personally know anyone under the age of 21 who died from COVID, probably 99 percent of world inhabitants would answer “No.”
Why did we turn the world upside down when hardly anyone knows any person middle age or younger who has died from this “dreaded” disease?
Typical modern lefty. Loved the lockdowns. Her kids were no doubt all baking banana bread in between playing out in their nice garden while the poor were going round the twist in their tiny inner city flats. Easy to say kids are resilient when they have a piss easy middle class upbringing.
After working in a modern lefty environment for 8 years ( UK university) after spending 25 years working as a CNC machinist in a factory I found the modern lefty to be just awful. They say they are all for supporting those worse of than themselves but they will turn at the drop of a hat
Bounce Back Better.
It has to be laid bare, the sacrifice of the innocents. Only in such stark relief can we be forced to confront this malign influence. And of course there are even more serious interventions – the ministrations of Mr Spike. His name will not be in the shadows for much longer.Intelligent teenagers aren’t any different from adults this information has spread.
Zoe Williams lauds those who just got on the Train east to their new Jewish home outside Germany.
Bounce back from that one if you can.
eh?
Good old Zoe Williams. In a 2011 article on the London Riots she attached the sobriquet ‘Rat Lady’ to a poor shop keeper who had the temerity to refer to the yobs who ransacked her baby-wear shop as ‘feral youths’. Another example of her callous disregard for the suffering of individuals. Since then I always think of Zoe Williams as ‘that Rat Lady’.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/10/uk-riots-vigilantism-big-society
She’s and many of her ilk, are deluded if they think kids are going to just “bounce back”! Just shows how bloody blinkered and accepting of the narrative they are. Well, in my experience children ARE showing a degree of maturity when many of them come up to us at events to ask questions, because they now know they’re being manipulated and lied to!
I would have thought the skateboarding mum was referring to her sons ability to carry on after a nasty fall, not his psychological ability to survive pointless mandates.
The youngsters who do work their way through the horror they have been forced to endure and understand what is happening and what is coming will be far from the future compliant slaves TPTB desire.
I don’t really understand what happened to the Scottish. Maybe it’s Celtic enrapture to a great leader. But if that’s your fucking masot then you really do live in an age of diminished expectations.Snap out of it.
I have just come back from two days in Scotland, principally Edinburgh, the compliance was utterly depressing.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/11/the-people-who-brutalized-children-to-grab-emergency-powers-are-not-experts-theyre-evil/
Critically assess what’s said by an authority figure or a person wearing a uniform? Mustn’t have that!
And to go off only slightly on a tangent, I thought this opinion poll from France about reaction to Emmanuel Macron saying he wanted to drag “vaccine” resisters “in the shit” was interesting.
60% thought he was “wrong” or “very wrong”; 40% thought he was “right” or “very right”. (There are no “don’t knows” or “won’t says” in these or the following figures.)
Among the vaccinated, the figures were 56% and 44%.
It’s only when you get to those who have been “boosted” that the majority are favourable: 49%-51%.
Among those who describe themselves as supporters of a political party or grouping, the only section favourable to Macron’s statement are those who sympathise with “Ensemble Citoyens”, his own alliance.
BUT…
when asked whether they were in favour of putting restrictions on the “unvaccinated” to encourage them to get “vaccinated”, 60% were in favour.
Clearly there is an element of “It’s not what Macron does; it’s the way that he does it“.
The question is…can such an incumbent win an election?
Macron news
1) Daily Mail: “Brigitte Macron ‘received anonymous phone call saying her husband was with a gay lover’, French documentary claims”
They’re saying that whoever did it used the resources of an intelligence agency.
2) The Times are having a laugh. Macron is apparently in a “pole position”:
“Macron has pole position — but that’s no guarantee of French election success”
Soon the identity of the other man present when the “pole” was engaged will be revealed.
Guess what – Macron may not even run for re-election.
And I thought Macron wanted to shit in their general direction…
Well, let’s have a picture of Zoe Williams of The Guardian!
“When my father died, he left a stack of oral morphine by his bed, and my brothers, sisters and I all took it to see if we would get high. We didn’t. “Maybe it only works if you’re actually in pain,” I said. My sister replied: “I am in pain! My dad just died.” And we all laughed for a really long time.”
Zoe Williams
Below: Zoe in her trendy cannabis outfit.
Don’t have nightmares.
The correct quotation – my emphasis.
When my father died, he left a stack of oral morphine by his bed, and my brothers, sisters and I all took it to see if we would get high. We didn’t. “Maybe it only works if you’re actually in pain,” I said. My sister replied: “I am in pain! My dad just died.” And we all laughed for a really long time, so maybe we were a little high.
I don’t know if you have ever lost someone close to you but semi-hysterical irrational laughter is quite a common response even if you are not high.
What’s known as “a bit of a sinner.”
Williams’s willful blindness to the fact that those between the ages of 11 and 19 are actual individual people, with names…. and faces… and thoughts and feelings and achievements… of their own.
…….
Williams replays a conceit of the Left, which likes to render concrete realities into abstractions, to be designated by big concepts, arranged by big theories and administered by big policies, with little compassion for actual individuals.
It looks like generalisations are a bad thing when applied to teenagers but OK when applied to the left. Actually of course you can’t really make any useful statement about a group of people without some kind of generalisation.
Williams writes for the guardian – that’s all you need to know.
Welcome to the tyrannical ‘vaccine’ culture, organised by AI, and loved by The Guardian cult. Being human, and a rebellious teenager, is so 20th century…
I run the debating society at my school. This afternoon I had to endure the pathetic spectacle of a group of highly motived and enthusiastic 16 year olds debating their motion wearing crisis props on their faces, struggling to hear each other’s muffled points, and occasionally pulling them away from their mouth so they could breathe properly; they had had them on constantly for seven hours.
Zoe Williams
The wearing of these scientifically ridiculous and dehumanising props has been internalised by children across the world who now think that following orders, no matter how nonsensical, is the right thing to do.
So yes. Zoe Williams is asking us to look the other way while children are abused, demeaned, poisoned and brainwashed ready to join her sterile fuckwitted dystopian cuckoo land where facts don’t matter as long as everyone is appeasing their new corporate gods and brain dead communitarianism.
Excellent work CG.
I’m pretty sure that kid couldn’t remember who she was, or give a shit. You reap what you sow.
They get in everywhere if you let them and poison everything. I remember in 1983 this force was chasing me and I spent my teen years and twenties fighting the fucker. You can call him Wendigo or whatever but this is a spiritual force and you should just fight it regardless. My first experience in England was being held down on a bed and being injected with something and I struggles but they got it in anyway.
There really is no point replying to Guardian articles; it just indicates more respect than they deserve. Leave the sewer of the world’s press where it belongs (alongside Bozo and the fake Conservatives) – in the gutter.
Patronizing is the typical attitude of these people towards everyone, not just towards so-called teenagers.
It’s a different world for me. That parents would suggest it and children would adhere to it. I remember my teachers in Belfast and some of them loaded their canes with lead Which was fine. You fucked up and you paid for it. If there is any meaningful political struggle in the decades to come it will be the struggle against centralisation.
Children bounce back, it’s true.
But that doesn’t make it okay to beat them up for no reason.
It’s a joke a population of bloated baby boomers thinking that they control the minds of the young. It isn’t like that at all just wait and see. You can call them fucked up kids but they see more clearly than anyone.
Reasons not to cover faces
A random 10 minute search on Google will throw up a dozen reasons why covering faces is not progress. It seems that eye contact and communication by facial expression go to the very heart of what it is to be human. Therefore anything that prevents that for no good reason should be avoided. I would go further and say that for very good common sense reasons the following are not encouraged in most civilised but particularly British society. It just not the way we have done things, at least in the old normal. Basically in our very open culture there is an expectation that people can see each other’s faces.
* Wearing a motor cycle helmet in a bank, or petrol station – threatening
* Carrying on a conversation while wearing sunglasses – just plain rude
* Wearing a mask when entering someone’s house – a good indicator until very recently and maybe still that you are a burglar,
* Wearing a scarf over your face when going on a protest march – sure sign of extremist group membership and that you are up to no good
* And more recently, wearing a surgical mask which provides no protection from virus transmission.
For all of these reasons I believe that facial covering of any kind should be banned unless there is a good reason for it. I certainly will not engage with anyone whose face I cannot see if they are wearing a full face helmet, sunglasses, or a face mask. It is offensive and not British. To be be able to see someone’s face while interacting with them is part of what it is to be human being and stretches back into the mists of our evolutionary and social development. To cover faces deliberately and for no good reason denies that fundamental humanity. I was in a hospital not long ago. Masks were mandatory and I didn’t want to get into any confrontations so I complied. I was wearing a baseball cap with the peak pulled down, as it was raining outside. I caught a glimpse of myself in a darkened internal office window. I looked very threatening, and certainly unrecognisable. Mask wearing is not progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGXlTth6rro
My anxiety over the last couple years reminded me of something. That is how I felt through my childhood. In both cases it was due to a lack of control over my life.
Children don’t have a lot of control over their lives and that alone is stressful. They’re the worst affected by this entirely political covid nonsense which reduces their control much more.
MSM is trying to make fun of people wanting to protect themselves with cheap and proven drugs. Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996. It also beats Pfizer’s new wonder drug hands down, and costs next to nothing. Ivermectin doesn’t make tons of money. So they know the Covid shot is on its final gasp, so they take it add something different to it, rebrand under another name and charge 20 times what they would for ivermectin. I cannot wrap my head around this nonsense. When I explain this to my relatives they label me as crazy and ask me if I know better than science. I don’t make up these information out of my ass. All this information is true and proven. For some people it is near impossible for them to wake up. They are comfortable in their clown world life. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
While in general, the assertion that children are resilient may arguably be true, and that adversity can “toughen them up”, the nature of what is being required of them here is depriving them of the tools needed for developing resilience. And pretty much deliberately so, viz. the Bob Moran cartoon – “Mummy, I’m frightened . . . That’s the spirit!”
Zoe Williams!!
What on earth do people expect?
Dr Murphy mentions examples of fit and healthy athletes collapsing.
To this I would add that in the last couple of months I’ve read about 3 premiership football matches being delayed due to “a medical emergency in the crowd”. I don’t read a huge number of match reports, but prior to last Autumn I can’t recall ever having read about a match being delayed for this reason.
Are more football fans having medical emergencies than a year ago? If so what possible explanation could there be other than covid vaccines?