- “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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When did this country become so snowflakey? When did feelings trump telling the truth and facing reality? The Grenfell Tower inquiry is a good example as instead of just gathering the facts from forensic examination of the site and study of the all the relevant paperwork weeks were wasted – and taxpayers money – on hearing from the residents sharing their experiences which is not the same as providing facts.
I seem to remember Jacob Rees Mogg coming under fire for saying that people shouldn’t have obeyed the instructions to stay inside, he had a point though.
I think the protection of client communities has taken precedence over truth for many years. Various enquiry reports support that view including, I am confident, the Horizon one.
Blame will be heaped in a private sector subcontractor regardless of contract terms while State appointed management and their staff will be largely excused. Ministers and civil servants will, of course, be blameless icons of propriety.
It’s so patronising.
It’s clearly so much better to presume the guilt of someone who may have suffered a miscarriage of justice so that the parents can continue to believe that the (potential) criminal is being punished.
And if she is innocent, then let her rot anyway.
A bizarre justification. Assuming there was a miscarriage of justice, what’s the appropriate time to wait before the wrongly imprisoned person may be released when taking into account the suffering of the people whose children possibly weren’t murdered by an evil and insane nurse but died due to hushed up failures in the hospital?
Shouldn’t the suffering parents be more interested in getting to the bottom of the matter than punishing the wrong person for it? And when is it ever appropriate to imprison someone who’s innocent because of other people’s alleged feelings? This sounds a lot like certain people trying to keep their backsides covered by inventing excuses to stall a detailed investigation until kingdom come.
This is surely generally important but it isn’t yet the right time to do this!
— repeat for as long as people still haven’t forgotten about the issue.
They want to contaminated blood, Post Office & Jab Rollout the matter. You made the point that I was going to make in that surely the family would want to get to the truth of the matter.
“Shouldn’t the suffering parents be more interested in getting to the bottom of the matter than punishing the wrong person for it?”
Exactly. This is all about protecting the system that failed.
“This is surely generally important but it isn’t yet the right time to do this”
yes but in the mean while someone is rotting in jail, possibly as a result of an unsound conviction.
FFS what has happened to this country?
I’m fairly confident that Lucy is innocent. What I’m very confident of, having read a lot of the excellent research done and facts about the trial and hospital situation brought to light by the likes of Prof Fenton and colleagues subsequent to her getting jailed, is that she did not receive a fair trial. She certainly could not have been found guilty ”beyond a reasonable doubt”. Not knowing what we now know. This is why she needs a re-trial, but will this ever happen? Can anybody ever see a day where Lucy might walk free because she’s found to be innocent?
Not to sound pessimistic but due to the fall-out that would cause I just can’t see how ‘TPTB’ would ever allow that to happen. They know how we view the judicial system now so if you can imagine the further demolition job such a high profile prisoner as Lucy Letby, who’s inside serving multiple life sentences, being found innocent and the whole ‘miscarriage of justice’ thing blowing up in their faces, I just can’t see this ever being a realistic outcome for these corrupt b’stards.
I think this is something that will rumble on and on for the foreseeable and although I wish for a happy ending for Lucy, and real justice to be done and for her to be exonerated, it seems highly unlikely to me. Not with the bent Uniparty barstewards in charge. Justice, similar to democracy, is an illusion. You occasionally get the impression they’re working and doing what they’re intended to do, much in the way a broken clock could be said to tell the correct time twice per day, but ultimately it’s still essentially knackered and no amount of pretending otherwise will change that.
Remember who ran the CPS for years and created the internal structures and systems. All while he travelled the world at our expense.
I don’t know if she is innocent but I do think the trial was unsound, and she deserves another hearing.
With a competent defence lawyer.
What happened to “Justice is Blind”. It now seems to be emotionally incontinent.
Justice is lost, raped and gone:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lgGJRWUIvM
Innocent or guilty,I don’t know,but it is being discussed openly close to the time of the trial.
Contrast that with the recent release of the 2013 judgment and details of the Oxford Grooming Trial.
A 12 year delay!
Utterly horrific descriptions of violent,racist rapes.
If it had been known at the time it would have made the Southport riots look like a tea party.
Political prisoners are in jail for trying to publicise this.
Quite agree. This upset me as I’ve a daughter this age. The evil that some men are capable of and the suffering inflicted upon other human beings, in this case mere children, is just beyond comprehension, to be truthful. I just can’t find adequate words (** Graphic **)
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1873835392627302765
You can access the full sentencing remarks here but I’ve no intention of reading details of something so depraved and what amounts to sadistic sexual abuse of a child, and multiply this with God knows how many more poor children
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1873837555726376972
Personally I think she’s innocent and was used as a Scapegoat to cover system failings.
At such point as she (if) is cleared I hope every person who’s attempted to block this is prosecuted and faces jail.
Wes Streeting has a reason as health secretary to block things and this journal seems to admit that there’s doubts but we don’t want to upset people.
That’s got to be (at least) approaching conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and should be prosecuted as such
Said it before: Dr Ravi Jayaram.
I am sure part of the reason he has managed to avoid proper scrutiny for his part in pointing the finger of blame at Lucy is because potential whistleblowers are afraid of the accusation of racism.
I hadn’t considered that.
These days sadly you’re probably right…
Nailed it!
This seems to confirm the viewpoint of Rene Girard, who theorised that at times of stress, society forms mobs that vent their fury on a scapegoat – whom he almost definitionally considers innocent – and thereby alleviate their distress.
This would mean that in the classical case of the Alabama lynch mob, the fact that the black boy lynched for murdering a white girl is innocent is irrelevant to the mob, including the girl’s parents. Nobody in town is interested if the girl’s white neighbour did it – still less if it was a freak accident caused by the victim herself. And nobody is the least interested in the innocent kid hanged.
Well now, let’s have a look at the Editorial Board of that journal “Medicine, Science and the Law”. Of all the UK Consulting Editors from various parts of Britain, the one representing CHESHIRE is the Ethnic Indian Rajan Taj Nathan, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. And Cheshire is where the Ethnic Indian doctor Ravi Jayaram accused nurse Lucy Letby, though he contradicted his own “evidence” on various occasions.
If nurse Lucy Letby had not been convicted and sent to prison, the blame for the infant deaths at that Cheshire unit would have been laid at the door of the doctor in charge: Ravi Jayaram.
Just sayin’…
I wonder how many of the parents include that publication on their daily reading list. Not many I’d argue. So how can the article affect them in any way?
I’m surprised the report couldn’t be anonymised fairly easily, what is the problem?