- “NatWest imposes new cash limits in latest de-banking row” – NatWest has granted itself “sweeping new powers” to limit cash deposits and withdrawals, fuelling warnings that banks are forcing customers towards a “cashless society”, reports the Telegraph.
- “GB News: Politicians’ shows under scrutiny in new Ofcom investigations” – GB News reveals that shows hosted by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Philip Davies, Esther McVey and Martin Daubney will be examined by Ofcom after complaints that they broke impartiality rules, reports the BBC.
- “Student’s suicide came after university let him ‘fall between the stalls’, says coroner” – According to a senior coroner, Covid lockdowns were to blame for a University of Southampton student committing suicide after he feared he had failed his second and third years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Outrage over study claiming Covid jabs behind surge in heart deaths” – A trio of U.S. academics analysed two studies and found that cardiac-related fatalities were higher among jab recipients, says the Mail, prompting push back from vaccine enthusiasts.
- “VAERS data is crystal clear: The Covid vaccines are killing an estimated one person per 1,000 doses” – It takes about 30 seconds to do a VAERS query that shows the Covid vaccines are deadly. An estimated 676,000 Americans have been killed, claims Steve Kirsch.
- “Britain is ’getting the tools ready’ for deadly bird flu outbreak” – There is no sign that bird flu, which is thought to have killed millions of birds in Britain, is currently able to spread between people, reports the Mail.
- “Flu and Covid booster jabs to be scrapped for under-65s” – NHS flu jabs and Covid boosters will be axed for adults under 65 this winter, as the health service attempts to “go back to normal”, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Pandemic preparedness and the road to international fascism” – There are alarming parallels between past fascist regimes and pandemic control measures, says Dr. David Bell in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
- “Zoom orders workers back to the office” – Zoom, the video communications company whose name became synonymous with remote work during the pandemic, has ordered staff back to the office, reports the BBC.
- “Inside Porton Down: The new unit set up to fight the next pandemic” – More than 200 scientists will be housed at Porton Down laboratories developing vaccines for bird flu, mpox and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, says the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan tells tradespeople they should ‘want’ to scrap non-Ulez vans” – The London Mayor told tradespeople on FixRadio that they should “want to be driving a cleaner vehicle”, reports the Mail. No suggestions as to how they should pay for them.
- “Downing Street orders Government departments to ban engagement with Greenpeace” – No 10 has ordered a blanket ban on Government departments engaging with Greenpeace as tensions increased after activists staged a protest at Rishi Sunak’s home, says Any Uak Media.
- “Labour Greenpeace by-election candidate unmasked days after Sunak house stunt” – Labour’s candidate in the upcoming Bedfordshire by-election has been unmasked as a Greenpeace activist, reports the Express.
- “Heat pumps should not be fitted in residential areas, ministers say” – Government ministers have launched a review into heat pumps amid concerns the constant humming may be too noisy if hundreds of them are placed in residential areas, says the Mail.
- “Barclays says loan to Shell is ‘environmental financing’ amid wider greenwashing fears” – Barclays is using its ‘sustainable finance’ initiatives to fund Shell, amid rising concern from regulators about ‘greenwashing’ by banks, reports the Telegraph.
- “The alarming reality of cheap Chinese cars on British roads” – An invasion of cheap Chinese EVs is fast approaching, and there’s more at risk than U.K. car manufacturing, says the Telegraph.
- “A fairy story about offshore wind costs” – Whitehall’s latest estimates of offshore wind costs are a fairy tale, with no grounding in reality, says Andrew Montford in Net Zero Watch.
- “Ice cream vans in New York May have to ditch fossil fuels for electric generators” – Ice cream vans in New York may soon be prohibited from using fossil fuels to power their refrigeration systems, says EnergyPortal.eu.
- “It’s time we accepted this Government cannot stop the boats” – For all the creative plans, tough talk and photo ops at Dover, ministers have made shockingly little progress in tackling the migrant crisis, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Police drop inquiry against minister for ‘racist’ traveller leaflet” – Police have dropped an inquiry into the Welsh Secretary, who was accused of sending out a ‘racist’ leaflet about a planned traveller site, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Britain isn’t in ‘managed’ decline. The country is about to fall off a cliff” – Nobody seems to know how to save the U.K. from its current trap, but Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph has a revolutionary suggestion.
- “High security measures to be in place at Joanna Cherry’s Fringe show” – There will be high security measures at Joanna Cherry MP’s Fringe show in Edinburgh to protect her safety from violent trans activists, says the Scotsman.
- “Amanda Abbington denies being transphobic after Strictly backlash” – Actress Amanda Abbington, who called a drag show aimed at parents with babies “abhorrent”, has denied being transphobic, reports the Telegraph.
- “University of Surrey staff told not to say ‘Indian summer’ or ‘black sheep’” – Academics at the University of Surrey have been handed examples of “non-inclusive words and phrases to be aware of”, says the Mail.
- “Mum refuses to get rid of child’s head lice because she’s vegan” – A mother was left horrified when her vegan neighbour combed her child’s lice into the garden because she wanted to give the insects a “chance of survival”, reports the Express.
- “Last orders for takeaway pints as huge change to pub laws will see the practice banned” – Pubgoers who enjoy takeaway pints are in for disappointment, as the Government plans to ban the practice starting next month, says LBC.
- “Why Matt Hancock’s cringeworthy tribute to Ken is nothing more than feminist virtue signalling” – The former Health Secretary Matt Hancock is once again making it all about him with a virtue-signalling Ken performance on TikTok, writes Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
- “Gary Lineker: patron saint of the over-privileged” – Gary Lineker’s luxury beliefs earned him a standing ovation in M&S, writes Julie Burchill in Spiked, not any actual virtues.
- “Zoom updates terms of service after AI controversy” – Zoom has said it will not use customer content to train AI models without first obtaining consent, says ZeroHedge.
- “If Trump’s indictment is to stand, Democrats should be charged too over 2016” – Every American deserves protection under the law, including former President Donald Trump, says William Jacobson in the Telegraph.
- “‘The idea they’re protecting the reputation of banks by kicking out awkward customers is for the birds!’” – Toby Young joins Leo Kearse on GB News to discuss a new report that claims banks have closed over a million bank accounts in the last four years.
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The trans zealot brown shirts are bullying us again!
I have never read a word of Harry Potter or anything else that JK Rowling has ever written, but I have huge admiration for her..
The time may be coming when those of us who understand biological reality may need be to stand with HER!
It is time everyone realised that if it is to be a crime to misgender anyone then it would be a crime to deny the genders of 99.9% of the population.
What does this mean?
It means not calling a boy a “boy” or not calling a girl a “girl” could become a criminal offence like this:
So what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Lock ’em all up and throw away the key.
And if one calls a trans woman a ‘woman’ as that is misgendering all women should indirect misgendering be a crime too?
Just as the law recognised direct and indirect discrimination then it surely will have to recognise direct and indirect misgendering for not just trans people but also for everyone else.
I can’t see a billionaire going to prison. Those less well known or wealthy – not so lucky.
Her “Solve et coagula” tattoo is quite fitting for the times we live in. Society is being broken down before it can come together in a new imagining.
Denying biological reality is going to become a hate crime, but telling people to punch a TERF in the face is OK! Could this country be any more f***ed up?
“Hate Crime”——It doesn’t get much more sinister and totalitarian than that.
“Could this country be any more f***ed up?“
I’m sure someone will think of something.
They have not let us down so far.
We’ve had 13 years of it under this government. Sur Kurr Stammer’s lot don’t look like giving up any time soon even after they win the next election.
I will defend her free speech BUT….What was her position on jabs, Lockdown. What was her position on free speech before the Trans attack on her? would she defend people like us with such rigor. From what I remember (this was Twitter around 2015) she was a bit of a feminazi!
Hi Ron – it doesn’t matter. When she’s right she’s right, when we think she’s wrong, we call her out. No one is perfect and I have certainly got things wrong in the past.
Every divorced man knows women are always right.
Its one more reason for men wanting to be trans.
[Only joking].
She will have lots of company in jail then, with those of us who do not do personal pronouns; like me an adult female.
But wait jails are full we are told, so could we have our own barge for biological reality prisoners, with waiter food service, like illegal migrants have.
I think Labour will need more than one prison as we are many.
Hasn’t Starmer finally confirmed he knows what a woman is though? Or is the slippery parasite going to insist there are different types of women. Some of them being indistinguishable from men. Maybe there is no need to do any distinguishing though since as Occams Razor (the most likely thing is usually the real thing) would tell you——-Maybe they are really just men after all.
“Hasn’t Starmer finally confirmed he knows what a woman is though?”
No. That’s what he wants you to think. He is a politician. He hasn’t got a clue. Just ask his wife. He still doesn’t know where children come from and that is after having two.
Just because he does not know something does not mean he can’t pretend he knows when necessary to get votes.
So that’s the truth.
Only joking.
If you read my whole comment instead of just replying to the first sentence you would have seen that I am perfectly aware that him saying he knows what a woman is doesn’t fool me at all.
Try reading my comment again.
And then read the one immediately after it which says “Only joking“.
yawn———you were joking …ok then
Thanks for the comment.
That is way better than some of the people here who mindlessly downvote.
Are you sure he fathered them?
Presumption of legitimacy – legal term for – “I know they have the milkman’s nose but you have to give Dad the benefit of the doubt“.
Can be rebutted though.
Sometimes I admit there can be grudge pregnancies – where someone had it in for him.
Yes maybe they are really just men after all.
Transgender people? Surely they mean transvestites?
Actually no.
I used to shop at a supermarket frequented by a six foot four man who dressed as a woman and who had some surgery including implants in the derrière.
The surgery had been done very very badly and the implants were lumpy and all over the place.
It was at that moment I realised how sad and hard it must be for someone to want so much to be physically the other sex to their birth sex that they would go to such lengths to achieve that.
I cannot think of an analogy which might put this into a context which has resonance to those of us who do not have such desires.
Truly terrible.
And I am not sure misgendering such a man to be a woman [because it is misgendering in the biological sense] is going to help someone with such a strong desire.
All of this woke trans crap is not in fact helping anyone like that. It is making it us vs them when it should be us vs the people pushing all this wokism.
What we all need is a true understanding of the nature of the problem for trans people and to find ways of helping them live as normally as it possible in all the circumstances.
It is clearly tough.
And of course there are complications like sexual predators who pretend to be trans.
That does not help us one little bit to help true trans people.
It’s time for a “I’m Spartacus” moment !!..
…”an.”
A brave stand, but then she knows the Authoritarians wouldn’t dare “take her on” in Court.
Instead, they’ll pick on some poor sap who has no money for defence; no public profile and “make an example” of them.
It’s what bullies do.
If someone has decided to identify as a hippo and I identify them as a person is there something wrong with me or is it the alleged hippo that is in need of help? It really is a crude as that. Ordinary people cannot be expected to be told a pillar box is now an aeroplane because the pillar box says so and be prosecuted for insisting the aeroplane is actually a pillar box and identifying it as such.
Am I in an episode of Postman Pat? Talking pillar boxes?
Someone in my street put a knitted wooly hat on the pillar box but I can’t tell if it is a trans pillar box or not.
What do I call it? He or she or it?
Will calling it ‘it’ be misgendering under Sur Kurr Stammers Labour government next year?
Blimey. The French have a serious problem. All their nouns are either male or female.
What is a noun decides it is going to be trans?
They won’t be able to speak French in the UK next year without facing hard time in chokey.
I read somewhere that someone has invented a trans pronoun for the French but I don’t have the full details.
Will they have a defence if they use it?
The Germans do similar stuff as Mark Twain pointed out in his “The Awful German Language”
Deleted. Posted in the wrong place.
I (and a couple of friends of mine) have experience of wanting to call a trans man ‘he’ and wanting to call a trans woman ‘she’ – two people we knew in two different situations – and it is actually extremely difficult. When talking among ourselves about either of them when they weren’t there, we would constantly unintentionally ‘misgender’ them. We’d try to get it right but about four times out of five we get it wrong, and then laugh about how difficult it was to get it right.
It’s difficult because informally talking is something we generally do without thinking too much, it’s spontaneous, and if in your mind you perceive that a trans woman is actually a man, and a trans man is actually a woman, then it’s very difficult to remember in normal spontaneous conversation to refer to them in a different way from how you think about them.
So although nobody is suggesting it should be a ‘hate crime’ to unintentionally ‘misgender’ someone, it could be extremely difficult to determine if the misgendering was deliberate or not.
How things get blown out of proportion. This whole thing derives from this sentence in Anneliese Dodds’ speech at the Labour Party conference:
Under Labour, everyone who falls victim to hate crime will be treated equally under the law, and the perpetrators of anti-LGBT+ and disability hatred will no longer dodge longer sentences.
Note
It is about enforcing sentences for existing crimes.
It is not specific to transgender – it refers to LGBT and disability hatred
There is no implication that it means simply using the wrong pronoun
This is the Daily Mail twisting things to create a false scare about what Labour might do.
I would watch those cornflakes your munching on this morning if I were you. I think they might be a bit tainted. But then again it is all down to personal taste isn’t it? Wokery would run riot if left to it’s own devices so stop being an apologist for it.
It is striking how many people on this site respond to my comments with stuff about me as opposed to the issues being debated – perhaps I should be flattered?
“Flattened”?
Spelling?
Your cornflakes are more important than you though and it was them I was commenting on.
It’s not specific to transgender, nobody said it was, but if a Labour government enforces its policy of stricter sentences ‘for abuse targeted at transgender people’, it could include the ‘hate crime’ of deliberately misgendering, as “Deliberately misgendering someone is already a hate crime if it is motivated by hostility to the victim’s transgender identity, the Government said last year”.
Although they are wrong in cases where it is motivated by not believing a man is a woman and vice versa.
Just another way of looking at it.
“This is the Daily Mail twisting things to create a false scare about what Labour might do.”
How can you be confident it is a false scare? They might be bang on the money.
Vote independent – it’s the only thing we can do. This has just popped up and may be worth a look https://theindependentalliance.org/