- “Dominic Cummings set to create new party to take power in 2028” – Boris Johnson ‘s former Chief Adviser wants to launch the party – which he is temporarily referring to as The Startup Party – by Christmas, according to the Mail.
- “Variants and scariants – the Covid joke is on us” – Far from bringing down the final curtain, it seems that the Covid comedy show is going to run and run, says Dr. Roger Watson in TCW.
- “The misinformation of Marianna Spring” – With some delicious irony, the BBC’s ‘disinformation correspondent’ has been accused of lying on her CV, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Britain’s most outspoken headmaster resigns: ‘Hunky head’ who taught pupils how to fire guns says he has been ‘harassed and bullied’ for being anti-lockdown and against children having Covid jabs or wearing masks in school” – Headteacher Mike Fairclough, who blasted the impact of Covid restrictions on young children, has resigned from post, saying the local authority had run investigations into his conduct after complaints, the Mail reports.
- “Canada’s Freedom Convoy truckers go on trial” – Tamara Lich and Chris Barber face up to 10 years in prison for “exercising their Charter right of peaceful protest to oppose the years-long COVID-19 vaccine mandates”, says Leila Mechoui in UnHerd.
- “Reply to erroneous claims by RealClimate.org on our research into the Sun’s role in climate change” – The CERES team counters the ‘rebuttal’ of its recent off-narrative climate papers on WUWT.
- “Labour abandons congestion charge in Cambridge after public backlash” – Controversial plans for a £5-a-day congestion charge in Cambridge have been scrapped by its Labour council because of concerns about the cost-of-living crisis, the Telegraph reports.
- “Wind farms ‘gaming system to inflate millions earned when asked to halt production’” – Wind farm owners appear to be ‘gaming the system’ to inflate the tens of millions of pounds that they are paid not to produce electricity, a study has found, according to the Telegraph.
- “A failure of safeguarding” – The Government should act on transitioning in schools, writes MP Miriam Cates in the Critic.
- “The Tories must be willing to take the trans fight to the courts” – Rishi Sunak has a real opportunity to display resilience and create trouble for his opponents, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “War On Free Speech Means Social Media Users Must Be Free To Moderate Their Content” – Michael Shellenberger in Public looks at a recent First Amendment censorship decision and makes a suggestion.
- “Caribbean nations to formally demand slavery reparations from Royal family” – National reparations commissions in the Caribbean want to bypass the British Government and pursue financial payments directly from British institutions with historical links to slavery, such as the Royal Family, Lloyds of London and the Church of England, according to the Telegraph.
- “We’re not interested in white, abled-bodied stories, woke literary agents tell aspiring authors” – An investigation by the Telegraph has found examples of literary agencies making clear their preference for authors deemed ‘under-represented’ or ‘marginalised’, such as ethnic minorities, LGBT people and the disabled.
- “American colleges embrace California’s DEI model” – The Golden State’s ideological litmus tests are spreading across the country, warns John Sailer in UnHerd.
- “You Should Be Very Worried About the Digital Services Act” – David Thunder on Brownstone raises the alarm about the EU’s Digital Services Act, which permits the European Commission to “apply significant pressures upon digital platforms to curb ‘hate speech’, ‘disinformation’ and threats to ‘civic discourse'”.
- “Democrat who called to ‘dismantle’ the police praises officers following carjacking” – Shivanthi Sathanandan, a Democratic party leader who pledged to “dismantle” the Minneapolis police following the death of George Floyd, has called for a crackdown on crime after she was violently carjacked in front of her children, the Telegraph reports.
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Not unrelated; some truth in that!
Here’s seven signs that show Western civilization could soon end
Excellent- nutjob conspiracy theories about the decline and fall of our civilisation are now in the Daily Mail.
A similar thing that happened to the Yeoman farmers happened to WW1 Landowners who died in battle:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmwsb9j4tWU&t=2s
How long in weeks was the life expectancy of a lieutenant on the Western Front?
From what I heard shorter than the regular soldier. How is that relevant to the Royals hovering up their land?
But, did they?
https://x.com/CilComLFC/status/1878137821443072396
And here is a perfect example of wokeism being put out by the Welsh government.
I think most here would consider this enticement. Doubtless for the ROPers this is aimed at it is surely just a permission notice for when the RNLI drops them off. So it really, really, really is NOT their fault.
Absolutely sickening.
And more fool us for not hanging the sons of birches
They’re taking the mickey.
Talking of wokeism, Arsenal are playing in all white today to show red a red card – or some shit like that. I don’t know what moron designed the shirts – Stevie Wonder perhaps – given that the shirt numbers are also white with the thinnest of black outlines. and the reason is to virtue signal about knife crime in London. Obviously missed the knighthood given to a man who has seen a huge growth in knife crime on his watch.
I think Casey is basically right. The parallels are undeniable.
It cn be bloody hard to see the way back from the destruction we have allowed to be wrought upon our magnificent civilization.
The rape gangs scandal may well come to be seen as a watershed moment – in one way or the other.
As a science student at the time, viewing Dr Jacob Bronowski’s landmark 1973 BBC series “The Ascent of Man” was a formative scientific experience.
The series began with primitive man’s first migration from Africa’s Rift Valley, and in a 13-episode tour de force went on to explain how science and technology had been so fundamental to Western civilisation.
In the final episode, Dr Bronowski concluded by stating that the ascendancy of Western civilisation could not be taken for granted. Prophetic words begin at around 36 minutes in:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0g1kpd9/the-ascent-of-man-13-the-long-childhood
The good Doctor’s last testimony to the future, he died the following year.
I’m amazed it has not been more widely denounced as racist. Probably helps that some of his family were apparently killed in Auschwitz.
I’m inclined to think you can’t judge the past by the mores of the present, verities tend to outlast the temporal and -isms can be in the eye of the beholder.
I’d always assumed the death of his family at Auschwitz to be as told in an earlier episode of the series.
I am certainly not judging him, just suggesting that it’s likely sooner or later that his probable neglect of the “achievements” of various races and focus on the achievements of White people will make him a Bad Person in the eyes of the madleft as one of our fellow posters calls them.
I have no idea whether the Auschwitz story is true or not, just saying it might have bought him some brownie points (I did find one commentator who posited that JB might be a racist but dismissed it because his family were victims of the holocaust – illogical bollocks but there you go).
Bollox is as bollox says and does.
Wokeism is dead as dead as the green agenda. It might not look that way yet but all it takes is a certain tightening of material well-being and all of this fancy thought disappears very rapidly. You quickly understand that the people that you need to value are the people who offer the best chance of survival.
I think the worm is turning but the war is not yet won.
We are at Alemein, not D Day.
“Before Alamein we never had a victory, after Alamein we never had a defeat.”
There was Operation Market Garden though.
It has gone. Spengler talked about this stage, home economicus. The bankers say inflate or die. That means lots of war because it is the greatest inflationary pressure. The West is now severely overstretched militarily. Sadly a school of thought has grown up in the last 25 years among the Anglo-Americans that a nuclear war is essentially winnable. They really believe it and they talk about it openly now. If this permanent bureaucracy isn’t somehow dislodged very quickly then only blind and mindless destruction can follow.
There was a British study in 1985 if I recall. which looked at the effect of a single nuclear weapon hitting the UK. It concluded that even if all the hospital beds were empty the health system would still be completely overwhelmed by such an event. And that was at a time when the NHS was healthier than it is now. I strongly disagree with this doctrine of escalation to nuclear as if it is just another step.
I do believe there were parts of East England that had radiation contamination from the Chernobyl accident.
There is a good documentary, I forget the name about a huge undergoround site in Finland where they try to bury all the nuclear waste products. You can put it in the ground or under the sea but you can’t undo the dark magic. Can any civilisation survive when it has developed tools that can blow itself to pieces. The idea the nukes will be left on the shelf forever. I would say no destruction is assured. Maybe then we rise up again, as Plato said of the post-Atlantean period, like children with no recollection of what went before.
We’re all doomed.
To underline what is happening, the corrupt legal system we have (refer to Paul Barret’s YouTube posts about Tommy Robinson for example) there are other examples, is another step towards the failure of our civilisation unless we can have legal proceedings accurately monitored and corrected when they go wrong.