- “Donald Trump indicted over efforts to overturn 2020 U.S. election” – Donald Trump has been criminally indicted in a federal investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, reports the Telegraph.
- “De-banking inquiry under consideration by Treasury committee” – Parliament is poised to launch an inquiry into the Coutts de-banking scandal, which could see bosses, including Sir Howard Davies, hauled before MPs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sex workers have struggled with financial exclusion for years” – For people working in commercial sex, the often unexplained closure or denial of bank accounts is an all too frequent occurrence, writes Isabel Crowhurst in the Conversation.
- “Staff at bank which refused Jeremy Hunt an account called Conservatives ‘evil’” – The Telegraph can reveal that employees at Monzo bank said that Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg “could do the human race a favour” by leaving politics.
- “The Covid Inquiry has already cost the taxpayer £40 million” – The COVID-19 inquiry has already cost the taxpayer nearly £40 million, despite only lasting 23 days so far, reports the Mail.
- “Margaret Ferrier: Covid breach MP loses seat after recall petition” – An MP who was suspended for breaking Covid lockdown rules has lost her seat after a vote by constituents, according to the BBC.
- “Lockdown was our generation’s greatest error” – Those who kept children out of school must accept responsibility for the harm they continue to cause, says Karol Sikora in the Telegraph.
- “How did remdesivir obtain approval for kidney disease?” – Experts claimed remdesivir would stop Covid; instead, it stopped kidney function, says Stella Paul in American Thinker.
- “Pfizer ad spreads misinformation” – Dr. David Zweig fact checks Pfizer’s latest ad.
- “Conservative academics more likely to self-censor” – A new study has found that conservative academics are much more likely to self-censor than their liberal counterparts, but only in Western countries, reports UnHerd.
- “Rishi Sunak stands by oil drilling expansion as critics warn of climate consequences” – The Prime Minister insists plans to grant over 100 new oil and gas drilling licences off the coast of Scotland are “entirely consistent” with the Government’s Net Zero goals, says Sky News.
- “Rishi Sunak should ignore the National Trust’s empty voter threats” – Sunak can smile at the irony of the National Trust demanding the environment cease to be used as a political football, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Why oil and gas are here to stay” – The clean-energy transition is based on magical thinking, says James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “Residents fury as camera catches bin men mixing carefully separated recycling” – Residents in Canterbury are refusing to separate their recycling as video footage shows bin men dumping their carefully sorted rubbish into one giant bin, reports the Mirror.
- “Tory row over Khan’s hated Ulez plans with ministers urged to over-rule them” – The Express has learnt that Department for Transport officials are stopping ministers from over-ruling Sadiq Khan’s £12.50 daily driver tax.
- “Five point plan to protect drivers from a rush to Net Zero is backed by MPs” – MPs, peers and motoring campaigners last night backed the Sun’s five-point manifesto calling for drivers to be protected from a rush to Net Zero before the country is ready.
- “No, Rishi Sunak isn’t on the side of British motorists” – The anti-car schemes ordered the Prime Minister is reviewing will only affect a fraction of British car drivers, says Ben Wright in the Telegraph. What about reviewing the rest?
- “Why is PM banning new petrol cars from 2030 when own advisers say it’s wrong?” – As so often on green issues, common sense has gone out the window, and virtue-signalling has taken its place when it comes to the ban on the sale of new petrol- and diesel-powered cars, writes Ross Clark in the Sun.
- “The Prime Minister is finding out it’s not easy being green” – Even if he wanted to, Sunak would face substantial opposition to any attempt to “get rid of all the green crap”, writes William Atkinson in CapX.
- “Electric cars will cost more to make, BMW warns” – BMW has warned investors that it is suffering higher costs in developing electric vehicles, sending its shares down by more than 6%, reports the Telegraph.
- “E-bike battery blew up and killed a mother of four” – Another family is grieving the loss of loved ones due to a preventable battery vehicle fire, according to the Mail.
- “Fire service staff to help stop speeding motorists in Wales ahead of new 20mph speed limit” – The Welsh Conservatives have called a new default 20mph speed limit on restricted roads a “madcap policy”, reports Sky News.
- “The grim truth about low traffic neighbourhoods” – These green traffic schemes are making life miserable for ordinary people, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Paying £12.50 a day is not what bothers me about Ulez – it’s the principle” – Another journey in his ancient Rover means another Ulez charge, but what about those who can’t afford it, asks John Humphrys in the Telegraph.
- “The sinister truth about the war on cars” – If you want your children to have far more boring and limited lives than yours, carry on demonising the car, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Council effectively bankrupt after losing millions to solar farm cheat” – Thurrock Council was effectively made bankrupt in December after investing more than half a billion pounds in a solar farm business, reports the Mail.
- “Could Britain’s green debate become the new Brexit?” – There is every chance that the green debate will plug the gap in the political market left by Brexit, writes Philip Pilkington in UnHerd.
- “One simple energy question devastates Net Zero pipe dreams” – Wind, solar and other green energy sources require massive amounts of land compared to traditional power plants, says Steve Graham in an op-ed for the Western Journal.
- “Climate change hasn’t set the world on fire” – It turns out the percentage of the globe that burns each year has been declining since 2001, writes Bjorn Lomborg in the WSJ.
- “Vegan influencer ‘dies of starvation’ after trying to live with all fruit diet” – A vegan influencer has died of starvation after attempting to live on a fruit only diet, reports the Sun.
- “Anti-alcohol elites are blind to the benefits of drinking” – Too much booze isn’t particularly good for you, but we cast aside this knowledge in pursuit of something called fun, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Primary pupils given U.S.-style lessons about ‘white privilege’” – Thousands of British schools are being told to teach controversial theories about race to children as young as five, reports the Times.
- “CEO of £30m firm the Key distributing material on ‘white supremacy’” – The Mail has an exposé on the CEO of The Key, a £30 million firm promoting controversial race theories to over 13,000 U.K. schools and educational trusts.
- “Give parents the credit they deserve to support young children” – ‘Family Credit’ would give parents the option of front-loading their Child Benefit payments into the crucial early years, writes Cara Usher-Smith in the Express.
- “Andrew Neil: Why I’m proud to be join J.K. Rowling in the gender wars” – Andrew Neil responds in the Mail to the backlash he’s faced for his critical tweet on gender reassignment.
- “Detransitioner Chloe Cole rips Neil DeGrasse Tyson claims that biology is insufficient at explaining gender ideology” – Famous ‘detransitioner’ and activist Chloe Cole slammed Neil Degrasse Tyson after he posted a TikTok insisting sex is on a spectrum, reports the Mail.
- “Costa’s trans mastectomy advert is an insult to women” – Cutting off a girl’s healthy breasts is an act of mutilation. Using a cartoon version of the scars to advertise a coffee chain, is a new low, says Joan Smith in UnHerd.
- “Why is Costa celebrating top surgery?” – The corporate world has been captured by trans ideology, says James Esses in Spiked.
- “Bring back normies!” – It’s hard to hold on to individuality when strangeness is the prevailing ideal, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Hold the censors accountable” – Bureaucrats who stifle free speech should face consequences, says Eric Schmitt in the WSJ.
- “Elon Musk sues anti-hate group after calling boss a ‘rat’” – Elon Musk is suing pro-censorship organisation the Center For Countering Digital Hate, weeks after he called its British chief executive “a rat”, reports the Times.
- “Bartender claims he’s tricking customers into drinking Bud Light by removing the tap handle” – Bud Light goes from bad to worse as each week ticks by since its Dylan Mulvaney mess, and now they can’t even give it away, says Warner Todd Huston in the Western Journal.
- “‘We should celebrate healthy young women cutting off their breasts?’”– TalkTV host Julia Hartley-Brewer grills Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle on his support for Costa Coffee advertising itself with a cartoon of a transman with mastectomy scars.
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So there are people who really believed that waste, carefully sorted into the appropriate recycle bin, wasn’t just dumped on the trash pile with all the other rubbish.
There isn’t a market to re-use all the recycling that we do. Thats why cardboard recycling bins have disappeared from many supermarkets and we send plastic to be buried in holes in Romania and China, and burn the rest. Meanwhile everything you buy is dramatically over packed, especially food. All that work to save the planet, wasted. It did sound good, and lots of people self-esteem grew at the thought that washing out bean tins was actually achieving something…
..one of my favourites…swedes wrapped in plastic!!?
..yes, you have to wonder why a lot of people don’t think, at all, beyond the ‘message’
..they seem to be baffled by the slightest thing…
..besides just being interested in stuff……it’s like natural curiosity has practically disappeared…
“‘We should celebrate healthy young women cutting off their breasts?’
Should we celebrate bulemics..? Or self harmers. Not every humans actions should be celebrated. In the whole ‘Be Kind’ thing, we have lost the sense of the boundaries of socially acceptability. Where is the shame? Where is the stigma..? Wrongly translated into ‘hate’, thats where.
There are many girls around the world eager to go through the pain of genital “cutting” in order to fulfill their true identity as members of their culture… the hypocrisy of our elites in condemning that and yet performing far greater mutilation AND lifelong medication against the true values of the culture (as represented by parents) is reprehensible.
“Council effectively bankrupt after losing millions to solar farm cheat”
Why do bureaucrats think they can run businesses. Bins and pot-holes are the limit of what we should let them get involved with.
“The Prime Minister is finding out it’s not easy being green”
For sure the push back on ‘green’ is going to be difficult. It has become embedded in many peoples thinking, and its sudden collapse as it hits reality will be hard to take.
However, continuing on with it, when it can now be seen as and expensive and useless folly is by far the more difficult. This is when a Government needs a leader with balls. Its not Sunak, and its not Starmer.
This is precisely why I’ve never understood anybody who likes Trump. 2mins of why the guy is an absolute bloody tosser.
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1686546354993238016
He was rubbish on covid and failed to build the wall. Flaky. But waaaay better than Clinton would have been or Biden has been. I know that’s not saying much. I wouldn’t say I “like” him but he represented a departure from the uniparty politics of recent decades in the US. I think that was a pretty important step for them. He executed poorly because of his character flaws. I would much rather see De Santis get the nod and become POTUS but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen, at least not this time. Trump appeals to voters. I would take him any day of the week against whoever runs for the Dems.
Well unlike yourself and others, ”Never forgive, never forget” means something to me and works across the board, no concessions. And if you are a leader of a country and have the final say so on making drastic decisions that will irreparably ( in many cases ) change or ruin millions of lives, then you get to take accountability for your actions and take the fall for that. No wriggling off the hook, no excuses, it was your call. Sweden held strong, why couldn’t Trump? Why couldn’t Johnson? Anyone minimizing the extent of the damage these f*ckwits have done or giving them an excuse when the buck stopped with them is part of the problem. I will never stop holding the various leaders responsible for their crimes against humanity. it really is as black and white as that as far as I’m concerned.
I’m not sure I am making much of a concession. I don’t know how I’d vote were I to be in the US and he was the Republican choice. Tricky one. Certainly his performance on covid was reprehensible. I was just pointing out why people “like” him.
Does that include Robert F Kennedy Jr?
Good question
I don’t know enough to say and his party is a huge source of damage to our civilisation but he deserves a very close look for sure
…he’s a perfect example of what I am saying….he is good on so many issues …..but is now taking a great deal of flack after appearing on a programme with a (not my words) rabidly pro-Israeli commentator…where RFK said he backed Israel completely and made a comment to the effect of …Israel only attack military targets..never civilians…
As you can imagine this has not gone down well with a lot of people….
As I said..we often have to choose the ‘least bad’ option….!?
There’s never a perfect option
The Tories have crossed many lines for me with Covid, net zero and mass immigration so they no longer meet minimum standards, JFK and Trump might
I don’t like Trump as a person – he is a narcissist and misogynistic, among a number of major character flaws. And the video you posted demonstrates his narcissism very well – he just can’t admit that he got it hugely wrong on the vaccines. But so have millions of others – you and I personally know supposedly intelligent people who still believe the vaccines saved millions of lives.
I do think he has many qualities that make him a potentially very good President. He is strong on law and order, the economy, energy, immigration, woke stuff, free speech, anti-war – he genuinely (IMO) wants to make America great again and cares about making lives better. He also has the proverbial balls to take on the Establishment (including the Deep State and military industrial complex), which is a clear and present danger to us all.
There are no amount of redeeming features that can ever negate what that man did once he gave the go-ahead to lock down his country, deprive kids of education and social contact, ruin small businesses and on and on the list goes…Then the infamous ”Operation Warp Speed”. It must be a nice fact that keeps him warm at night knowing he’s killed more Americans than the Vietnam war ever did. Zero forgiveness, that man has a LOT of blood on his hands, but evidently America is full of people suffering Stockholm Syndrome.
On lockdowns, I read your separate post about Michael Senger’s excellent piece, in which he says:
“[The view of the response to COVID as having been driven primarily by the western intelligence community] explains why some leaders like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson who weren’t initially keen on lockdowns have always seemed so confused; it seems the information they were being fed by the intelligence community on COVID may have been deliberately misleading.”
He was clearly very reluctant to support lockdown but came under huge psychological pressure to recommend them. I am not sure that, in his position, I could have withstood that initial pressure (from all his advisers) to advocate lockdowns.
Also, on both lockdowns and vaccines, he was not making the final call and therefore does not technically have “blood on his hands”. Decisions on lockdowns and vaccine roll-outs were made by the governors of individual states. He was a lame-duck President in any case (having “lost” the 2020 election in November 2020) by the time the vaccines were rolled out and given their authorisations by the FDA etc.
As I said, Sweden stood their ground, so why couldn’t others? Just sounds to me like you and others are very keen in cutting Trump some slack and allowing him to wriggle off the hook. As long as he ticks boxes in other areas all will be over-looked and forgotten, eh? And I suppose Trump bears no responsibility for putting Fauci front and centre of the Covid response, giving the man a worldwide platform and elevating him to international God-like status? Yep, totally out of Trump’s hands, he was evidently completely powerless..
“And if you are a leader of a country and have the final say so on making drastic decisions that will irreparably ( in many cases ) change or ruin millions of lives, then you get to take accountability for your actions and take the fall for that.”
I hear what you say, but Trump did not have the final say on lockdowns or vaccine roll-out and he did not impose any vaccine mandates – unlike Biden. If you were to discuss greater evils, there is no doubt that the federally imposed (by Biden) vaccine mandates on public sector employees (and employees in supply chains serving US Government contracts) was much more evil than Trump’s advocacy (but not imposing) of lockdowns and vaccines.
I’m not arguing against what you are saying, but the reality is the usual choice..who is the ‘least bad’….?
That is what they are now faced with in America…(and everywhere)..
Biden was no better, and in my opinion much worse than Trump..and he didn’t overturn anything..which he could have done?
which of course doesn’t excuse Trump….….
but if everyone is in the mire…I agree with TOF, you have to look at the one that might do something about other stuff you care about….
Just the sad reality of the situation I suppose….
Must admit I’d be backing DeSantis !
Do you think he has the balls to take on the Establishment? He may even be part of the Establishment…
He is Establishment.. he’s 100% under the control of the Jewish lobby and does what he’s told.. end of!
‘removing the tap handle’ – some sort of euphemism?
Like it
Bud can’t get much lower, cheating and lieing to customers just to get rid of the weak fizzy p!ss
Excellent piece here about how the Covid response was a coup all planned by the Western intelligence community. This illustrates precisely why any world leaders; Trump, Johnson, Micron, Turdeau, all of the tyrannical b’stards, should all be being tried for crimes against humanity and banged to rights for what they did, the damage they caused, the lives they are responsible for ruining, all dressed up as their lockstepped ”Covid Response”, and yet free and entitled they will all remain because they’re untouchable.
”The response to COVID was one of the greatest peacetime policy catastrophes in history, shredding America’s international credibility, robbing children of years of their youth and education, killing millions, throwing hundreds of millions into poverty, costing billions of life years, and transferring trillions in wealth from workers to billionaires, all for nothing. That this illiberalism emanated directly from the western intelligence community explains how a catastrophe of such magnitude was able to take place.
Most of all, that the western intelligence community drove the illiberalism of the response to COVID explains why the corruption and inhumanity of that response have always seemed so obvious, with the most valuable information on the events in question often coming from leading officials’ own books and interviews, despite how much harm they caused. They’re able to operate with such impunity because they know that the only agencies that can hold them accountable are the ones behind the whole spectacle. The propaganda is obvious, and it’s meant to be.”
https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/the-unwitting-coup-was-the-response
A very good post MOG..
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66376464
Margaret Ferrier took a PCR test because she had a tickly throat. In displaying such stupidity she clearly disbarred herself from the rest of the stupids in Westminster. Absolutely correct in her decision not to stand again.
The Telegraph’s failure to properly report the corruption of the 2020 Presidential Election and the Covid/Vax scam was the reason I cancelled my subscription.
Looks like yet again, it goes with the flow and ignore the mountains of evidence of ballot rigging, dodgy voting machines, counting halted in the middle of the night, zero signature verification, Zuckerbucks, Chinese interference, suppression of Hunter’s laptop story.
Cowardly, crooked journalism.
Well said, NOW. I did the same for the same reasons, and also with The Spectator.
I call B.S. What we learned was that the virus affected the elderly and the vulnerable in almost exactly the same proportions as most respiratory diseases – that is to say those closest to death were most likely to die. Unlike, say, in epidemics of Ebola which is so deadly it kills old and young alike.
To try to be fair, Professor Karol Sikora (the author) does go on to point out that all but a few unfortunate kids were more-or-less unaffected by the damned bug and to excoriate the lockdown policies and their proponents.
Here’s a chart showing the percentage of all-cause deaths (expressed as rates) that were registered in England and Wales Jan 2010 – May 2023.
Note the terrible disruption to the pattern around April 2020… Oh wait. there wasn’t one.
If you are old you’re more likely to die than someone younger.
Another “vaccine” scam incoming for a ‘viral’ disease which isn’t caused by a virus…. (Check the work of Kevin Corbett, Celia Farber & Cary Mullis for this little scam)
Be warned – another pharma product one doesn’t need.
https://jp.weforum.org/videos/england-is-aiming-to-beat-hiv-by-2030
Evidence from Pfizer’s own documentation of the presence of graphene oxide in the covid bioweapon injections, despite all the denials made refuting this assertion.
One of the most recent documents published by the FDA confirms the use of Graphene Oxide in the manufacturing process of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. Proving that medicine regulators the mainstream media, Fact Checkers and Pfizer have all been lying to you.
Article: https://theleadingreport.com/2023/07/06/secret-documents-reveal-pfizer-fda-fact-checkers-lied-about-toxic-graphene-oxide-inside-the-covid-19-vaccines-2/
Document: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/125742_S1_M4_4.2.1-vr-vtr-10741.pdf
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We’re the immunocompromised at a higher risk from Covid 19?
This new (limited) study concludes that …”The odds ratio for mortality was 0.66 for immunocompromised and 0.38 for immunocompetent patients in the fourth wave.”
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230205/New-research-examines-how-COVID-19-affects-immune-compromised-people.aspx
Great…. More of our money being wasted on a surveillance system to further control & contain us whilst simultaneously zapping us with health harming EMF radiation…
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/40-million-fund-launched-to-unlock-5g-benefits-across-the-uk
What a complete waste of our money. Again.
Excellent conversation between Mads Palsvig & Alex Krainer yesterday evening on the financial system & geopolitics. A really important topic for us to understand – as Mads said yesterday, until 3 years ago he knew nothing about medicine but it was vital that he learn! Learning about how the financial system is abused by the parasite class to steak wealth from a country & its people is important.
https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
“Why is Costa celebrating top surgery?” – The corporate world has been captured by trans ideology, says James Esses in Spiked.
How is the euphemistically named ‘top surgery‘ significantly different from the widely condemned FGM?