- “Nigel Farage: NatWest is kicking my de-banking case into the long grass” – Nigel Farage says he is victim of an “establishment stitch-up”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The case for leaving the ECHR” – Legislative freedom will fix more than the Channel crisis, argues Richard Ekins in UnHerd.
- “Doctors can prescribe Ivermectin for COVID-19: FDA lawyer” – According to the Epoch Times, a lawyer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that doctors can now prescribe Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment.
- “Sir Keir Starmer junks pledge to role out clean air zones across U.K.” – Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned Labour’s pledge to role out clean air zones after a disastrous public response to Sadiq Khan’s hated Ulez scheme, says the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan blasted for ‘ignoring’ Londoners over Ulez changes” – Sadiq Khan has been slammed for introducing new Ulez car tax changes without the backing of the public, reports the Express.
- “How many perfectly good cars will be wasted by Ulez scrappage scheme?” – There are major concerns about the waste of scrappage schemes, which encourage owners to destroy perfectly good vehicles, says the Mail.
- “Brighton rock bottom: How the Greens nearly destroyed the city I love” – Brighton and Hove is one of the few places in the country to have been run by a Green Council. The Spectator’s Julie Burchill explains how the Greens nearly destroyed the place.
- “How Net Zero risks intensifying the rental crisis” – Lumping ever more green energy costs on landlords is only going to make the rental crisis even more acute, warns Karl Williams in CapX.
- “Layabouts beware – the work from home counter-revolution has begun” – The office has been much-maligned of late, but working life, and indeed the wider economy, would be much poorer if everyone stayed at home, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “VAT on private school fees” – Changes to VAT and business rates for private schools won’t raise anything like as much money as Labour thinks, says Richard Taylor.
- “Police release autistic teenager as ‘no further action’ in ‘lesbian nana’ row” – West Yorkshire Police has said no further action will be taken against the 16year-old autistic girl who said a WPC looked like her “lesbian nana”, reports the Express.
- “Mum of girl who said cop looks ‘like lesbian nan’ to take legal action” – Mother of girl at centre of ‘lesbian nana’ story to take legal action against the West Yorkshire Police, reveals the Mail.
- “U.K. schools cut classic books in anti-racism drive” – Schools are removing classic novels and award-winning books from their reading lists in a push to “decolonise and diversify” curriculums, says the Times.
- “Lesbian speed-dating event demands only ‘adult human females’ attend” – A lesbian speed-dating event is at the centre of a transphobia row after the organiser insisted that only “adult human females” can attend, reports the Mail.
- “Woke Scouts are told, don’t call Guides girls” – Scout leaders have unleashed a woke storm by telling children not to use the term ‘Girl Guides’, according to the Express.
- “Fury as children are showered with tampons at drag queen event” – Parents left horrified as children are showered with tampons by a non-binary ‘alien’ during a Pride event in Norwich, reports the Mail.
- “Women-only loos rule will ‘protect dignity’” – Women will have their own toilets in all new non-residential buildings in a crackdown on ‘woke’ practices, says the Express.
- “Gender critical website blocked for promoting ‘hate and terrorism’” – Great Western Railways suggests that AI may have mistakenly blocked the Sex Matters website, a gender-critical organisation, thinking it contained adult content. But Dr. Frederick Attenborough from the Free Speech Union questions why passengers were told the site was “associated with terrorism and hate”.
- “The dangers of good intentions” – The performative compassion of the woke has blinded them to their tyranny, writes Patrick West in Spiked.
- “Anatomy of a bandwagon: How self-ID captured Britain’s political class” – Self-identification renders any law, policy or guideline that refers to a person’s sex essentially meaningless, says Ellen Pasternack in CapX.
- “Against the Eugenicons” – The Right-wingers who think the poor are genetically challenged, dubbed ‘eugenicons’, are no better than the woke Left, says Michael Lind in Compact.
- “Terrorists could use AI to carry out hacking raids on the U.K.” – Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has warned that artificial intelligence could be used to conduct extensive hacking operations or create hazardous materials, says the Mail.
- “Peter Hitchens: I must beg you to oppose Assange’s shameful handover” – The Mail’s Peter Hitchens begs you to join him in protesting against the fast-approaching extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S.
- “Every federal charge makes Trump stronger” – Republicans and many independents no longer trust the American legal system, says Lionel Shriver in the Times.
- “Disgraced ‘crypto king’ sent to jail in handcuffs after his bail is revoked” – Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been sent to prison after his $250m (£197m) bail was revoked over alleged witness tampering, reports Sky News.
- “‘The companies have to pay fealty to the woke cult!’” – On GB News, Toby discusses ‘Woke, Ltd.’, the Free Speech Union’s latest research briefing. It details the chilling effect on free speech posed by ‘B Corps’, a movement that counts nearly 2,000 British companies among its members.
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Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the “lesbian Nana” cop story is the fact that none of the other officers had the courage to take their college to one side and politely say “the kid didn’t mean it to be offensive, grow up and get over it”. No doubt if they did she would’ve made a complaint against them for being homophobic.
‘Maaate’..?
LOL!
Because we’re back to the whole conformity thing again, as demonstrated by Ashe, Milgrim, Nazi Germany and more. What I find mental is that police have been used to taking verbal abuse for decades and they haven’t arrested everyone that’s called them a “pig”, for instance. Call someone something that isn’t an insult and is yet to be established to be factually correct and they descend on you like you’re an armed and dangerous terrorist! The girl made an observation ffs!
I’m just glad the mam is taking legal action. The whole world’s seen the evidence of West Yorkshire police’s brutality and lack of professionalism now. I’d say this police thug and her bully cronies are all going to be in deep shit because of the high profile of the case and resulting public pressure and scrutiny.
Let’s hope so
It’s about time that police officers were made personally responsible for paying damages for false arrest, assault, illegal searches etc. That might focus the mind somewhat.
Seconded.
Agree, Mogs. What I find disturbing is that police are not being trained to approach domestic situations in a calm, non-confrontational, common sensical way. Police are meant to keep the peace, here we see no evidence of that. They are reacting and in this case, reacting like a bunch of entitled thugs because they were ‘offended’ FFS!
The police constable’s oath highlights this ““I do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly service the Queen in the office of constable, with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality, upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all people; and that I will, to the best of my power, cause the peace to be kept and preserved and prevent all offences against people and property…”
They do nothing of the sort in this case. I’d like to suggest that psychological assessment of all people seeking to join the police becomes mandatory!
“What I find mental is that police have been used to taking verbal abuse for decades and they haven’t arrested everyone that’s called them a “pig”, for instance”
My stepdaughter was arrested at a anti Bush Blair rally way back. Cops at her trial testified she had terrified them, for example (btw, she is the sweetest most gullible innocent young woman), by chanting such as
“Arse cheeks” at them.
“Our streets” was what she was chanting
FFS
I’m not sure the police actually serve us any more…
Whatever happened to Sticks and stones may brake my bones but calling will not hurt me! Ahrrrr the poor little police women, diddums do it?
Big blokes, in fact. Been policing London streets for years, but were “terrified” by my stepdaughter. Oddly, at appeal, when the judge threw out the magistrate’s ruling, noting “she clearly did not understand the law as applied”, the rozzers said nowt.
Good grief Jeremy, I sympathise whole heartedly! It really does make you say WTF!
Further to the subject of conformity; I’ve often wondered who this person was and the story behind the famous shot. There’s those that go along to get along and will always take the path of least resistance, then there’s those ( probably the minority ) who have the courage to stand up for their principles and what is morally right, no matter the unpleasant consequences of doing to. This is the story of August Landmesser;
”The photo was taken at the launch of a German army vessel in 1936, during a ceremony that was attended by Adolf Hitler himself.
Within the picture, a lone man stood with arms crossed as hundreds of men and women around him held up their arms in salute and allegiance to the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler. Everyone in attendance is showing their undying support for Der Führer by throwing out their very best “Sieg Heil”.
August Landmesser, grimacing with arms crossed, stood strong and defiant as he showed his disapproval by not displaying support for the Nazi Party.
What made this photo and Landmesser’s defiance unique is that it represented the protest of one man, in its most sincere and pure form. The source of Landmesser’s protest, like many great tragedies, starts with a love story.”
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/august-landmesser-1936/
Wow, that is bravery.
How would I have dealt with this?
Did his bravery achieve anything beyond him being true to his beliefs?
He was true to himself. It takes bravery to do that, but in modern times, when lying is now the main MO of the political classes, it behoves us all to speak the truth, whatever the consequences. Else how do we live with ourselves?
Thanks for this Mogs. A heartbreaking story.
Not to mention that it could quite easily have been a compliment… “looks like my lovely lesbian nana”…
When did the police get the right to interpret the law, rather than just enforce it?
I’ve been saying all along that control of people through their banking isn’t a result of banks going rogue. Its something that the state has forced banks to put in place. It’s a longtime project of the state bureaucracy.
It’s just that most people haven’t been affected by it. But all the levers of control are in place and can be deployed against anyone at ant time. And they have been for some time. Farage is just the first very public case.
CBDCs are merely a refinement of a system that is already in place. It makes it more efficient, easier to execute.
But the laws and regulations to switch someone off are all in place already. And the state bureaucracy isn’t about to roll it back one single inch.
It’s the whole premise of where we’ve been heading these last 3,1/2 years ! The State SheepDog has now almost got us corralled into the CBDC pen
Wrote to my more-than-useless MP, Andrew Murrison, the other day about cash and CBDCs. No reply yet and not surprised at that either. They all know the game. Another letter and another will be sent. Our MPs are all part of this. We live in a dictatorship in all but name.
What a horrible typo, the state of the British press today is very sorry.
But don’t you see these sort of typo’s everywhere? I blame poor education standards. a spell checker is all very well, but they often suppy the wrong word, or won’t correct a word, and if the writer doesn’t know any better, they will go along with it. My particular bugbears are misunderstood common phrases written down wrongly, such as ‘taking up the reigns’ and ‘escape goat’ or even the popular ‘chester draws’. To me it just shows a lack of general reading.
At the time of writing, The Daily Sceptic had repeated the error. Is this an example of AI in action?
“The office has been much-maligned of late, but working life, and indeed the wider economy, would be much poorer if everyone stayed at home, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.” Mr Marlow can speak for himself. In my firm, we have a lovely new office, plenty of desks for those who want to be in the office, and no-one is forced or encouraged to work from home. Staff have voted with their feet and largely stayed away. Would some of them, in my view, be better off coming in to work? Probably. Is it up to the firm to tell people how to run their lives? Not in my view. Has our productivity suffered? Absolutely not.
I guess that you are not concerned with the profitability of “my firm”?
I am very much concerned with it, as a major shareholder. What is it that I wrote that makes you think I would not be concerned with profitability? I did specifically write that our productivity has not suffered. Other firms may have different experiences – it is for them to determine what works best for them (though from what I have seen directly and read, a lot of the drive to get people back into the office seems misguided – sunk cost in long term office space leases, bosses who like to survey their domain, bosses who measure productivity by hours spent at the desk rather than work produced).
Reckoning on public servants working from home is that they are from 8% to 40% less productive. As the public sector’s productivity falls year by year as its higher salaries and huge pensions at the top are less and less deserved. Why on earth should someone who cannot afford tto save for their own pension be forced to subsidise public workers who complain about being taxed too much on their ONE MILLION POUND pension pots. Why the hell can’t they fund their own? (Even then it will be money generated in the private sector)
I’m not aware of such studies but they mat may well be the case. I would regard that as a sign of poor management and organisation rather than anything intrinsic to where people are working.
It’s the public sector. The sense of duty to the taxpayer that once informed civil servants is long gone. They no longer serve us. We on the other hand, serve them.
Indeed
Simple solution – don’t go to pride events. If you take your kids to a festival of Moloch, you must expect them to be passed through the fire.
My thoughts entirely..you beat me to it…one has to wonder what they thought they would be seeing at a ‘shame’ parade??
For everything there is a season. Pride has had its. Now Pride Parades seem in reality to be Perve & Gimp parades. Back in the day my wife went on Pride parades. She wouldn’t go near one now. Cult Transgender, as with everything it touches, had corrupted and perverted it
Can we just take 20secs to behold what a complete tit this person is? I’m wondering if you’re gullible enough to swallow one lot of propaganda it automatically follows that you’ll buy into all the other BS narratives, thereby losing *all* your self-respect. I mean, you surely must because is it possible to be a critical thinker only on select subjects? That’s why it’s my hypothesis ( and does data on this exist? ) that people who believe the climate change narrative are the very people who fell for the pandemic narrative, that they’re jab zealots and fully paid-up members of The Cult of Woke. It wouldn’t surprise me if they tick all the boxes! My god, we have to live among these pitiful saps.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1690455293786779648
Celebrity or non-celebrity, it’s always the mothers. Are we experiencing a ‘pandemic’ of women with some sort of personality disorder? And the ones that are encouraging and supporting their kids doing irreparable damage to their bodies through transitioning medically and surgically are they very worst. Why is child abuse being legitimized? But most of all, for the umpteenth time, where the heck are the dads??
https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1690255606307762176
I predict that some time in the future these children, having broken the ties to their parents, will exact a terrible and savage revenge.
Very interesting discussion with Byron Bridle….about Health Canada’s push to enforce new laws onto natural health products…. (While they are de-criminalising class A drugs!)
also @30 mins in a discussion about the fact that Moderna is going to do a study about the bio-distribution of the nano-particles…..something Byram Bridle pointed out very early in the scam, and whose life was basically wrecked by it…
https://brightlightnews.com/health-canada-changes-to-nhps-dr-byram-bridle/
This is a welcome sensible ruling:
‘Unvaccinated driving instructor wins payout’
‘Man wins over £6,000 after tribunal rules that the DVSA discriminated against him over his beliefs for not taking medicine’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/12/driving-instructor/
‘The judge ruled that Mr Green’s anti-medication belief was legitimate and said: “The tribunal found that his belief was genuinely held. We find that it is a belief and not an opinion or viewpoint.
“We find that the belief is a facet of the claimant’s right to decide about his own bodily integrity. This is clearly a fundamental human right.”’
Coercion was used to try to make Mr. Green take the experimental jab.
This in in contravention of the Nuremberg Code and indeed, of our own Public Health Act.
“How many perfectly good cars will be wasted by Ulez scrappage scheme?”
Not mine! My duster is going to run until it rots into the ground, then, I’m going to buy a brand new one and keep that till I die!
Ironic, the first brand new car I have ever owned will be the last car I ever own!
Here are the “gamechangers” in the latest battery technologies (that,strangly, never seem to actually materialise)
Salt batteries, diamond batteries, solid state batteries, sand batteries, gold batteries and now…wait for it…..Concrete batteries! The world is saved!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/concrete-buildings-could-be-turned-into-rechargeable-batteries/
“Brighton rock bottom: How the Greens nearly destroyed the city I love”
Nearly??
Look again love, its a shyte hole! Sodom and gomorrah comes to mind!
“Rich men North of Richmond”
John Lennon himself would have been proud to have wrote a song like this! Genius
With regards to rental properties the EPCrating is a farce as it doesn’t take into account how warm the tenants want to be. For me I like about 24c others slightly. Less.
Also in2025 it will be compulsory to have cental heating installed.
My house is a two up two down terraced house with two super efficient gas fires. No central heating needed.
At that point I will sell my house with all of the super efficient insulation I have installed.
Yet another piece of useless legislation hammering the landlord.
….video about vaccine injuries….from America, but of course still salient to everyone…
Steve Kirsch is on it and is going to reveal the list of names…
https://rumble.com/v35iycg-retired-nba-all-star-john-stockton-says.html
Retired NBA All-Star John Stockton Says He Knows of 150 Pro Athletes Who’ve ‘Dropped Dead’ Since COVID Vaccine Rollout