- “YouTube is slammed for stripping Russell Brand of earning rights” – YouTube is under fire for revoking comedian Russell Brand’s ad monetisation on his channel amid public allegations of rape and sexual assault, reports the Mail.
- “The casual authoritarianism of Caroline Dinenage” – Why is the head of Parliament’s Culture Committee calling on tech firms to unperson Russell Brand, asks Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
- “Russell Brand and the presumption of innocence” – The presumption of innocence is the most important decision-making rule in the criminal procedure, says Prof. Peter Ramsay in UnHerd.
- “Big Tech must not be judge, jury and executioner” – YouTube’s clampdown on Russell Brand is an affront to due process, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Liz Kershaw: The BBC’s toxic culture enabled Russell Brand – I know, I was there” – In the Telegraph, DJ Liz Kershaw recounts, from firsthand knowledge, the favouritism and rule-breaking that allowed Russell Brand’s bullying to go unchecked.
- “Rupert Murdoch stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp” – Rupert Murdoch has said his son will take over his media empire as he resigned as Chairman after almost 70 years, says Sky News.
- “MMR and threats to quarantine perfectly healthy children” – HART questions the legitimacy of recent measles outbreak warnings in London, citing theoretical calculations and the need to respect individual healthcare choices without punitive measures.
- “The print press and its politicisation of public health: The case of COVID-19” – In a Sage journal, Dr. Meron Wondemaghen examines the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic was used to categorise and reconfigure sections of the British citizenry into conformists and deviants.
- “Sunak has just jump-started the Tories’ election campaign” – Rishi Sunak’s Net Zero rollback is one of his boldest moves yet and throws down the gauntlet to Keir Starmer, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The EV jobs myth” – A transition to an all-electric car future will likely increase labour, but much of it will occur overseas, says Mark P. Mills in City Journal.
- “The Climate Change Committee’s extremism is hiding in plain sight” – The Climate Change Committee will continue to press for its arbitrary 2050 Net Zero target regardless of cost, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Whatever happened to the green industrial revolution?” – Rishi Sunak understands that voters love Net Zero until they have to pay over the odds for it, says Karl Williams in CapX.
- “Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority rejects Mayor’s transport plan” – The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s overarching transport strategy has been voted down by its board, reports the Cambridge Independent.
- “From The Really Wild Show to militant activist: Chris Packham’s eco-existential crisis” – Climate change warrior Chris Packham asks ‘Is It Time To Break The Law?’ in his new TV documentary, and his answer seems to be ‘yes’, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “No one wants an electric car. Labour couldn’t care less” – The Labour Party is planning to force voters to choose between expensive vehicles they may not be able to afford and going without, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Green smokescreen” – Daniel Kennelly sits down with City Journal’s James B. Meigs to discuss his new Manhattan Institute report, ‘The big squeeze: How Biden’s environmental justice agenda hurts the economy and the environment’.
- “Poland stops supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight Russia” – Poland has announced it will no longer arm Ukraine in its war with Russia amid a bitter row over grain exports, in a move sure to delight Vladimir Putin, reports the Mail.
- “Europe is on the verge of surrendering Ukraine to Putin” – Poland has given Kiev all it can. With the war dragging on, doubt is beginning to creep in across European capitals, writes Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Politicians can’t win on illegal migration” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray highlights how politicians who try to stop illegal immigration face legal challenges and criticism, while those who allow it often escape consequences.
- “‘Inverted snobbery’ could mean rich fool themselves about being working class” – A survey has revealed that one in three of the U.K.’s richest people identify as working class, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Gender-affirming care’ is a menace to young women” – There has been a staggering rise in the number of women and girls having double-mastectomies, writes Angie Speaks in Spiked.
- “Emma Raducanu tells girls they don’t need men in ‘woke’ rewriting of fairy tales” – Emma Raducanu has backed a reimagining of a classic fairy tale that writes out Prince Charming as a lesson to girls that they do not need men to achieve financial success, reports the Telegraph.
- “Meet the ordinary women who are being cancelled by the trans lobby” – A would-be MP, an artist and a singer are among the ordinary women who have been cancelled by the trans lobby. Speaking to Jill Foster in the Mail, they explain how they have been bullied, harassed and punished.
- “California’s war on parents” – U.S. policymakers believe the state, not parents, holds authority over children when it comes to sex and gender issues – but families are pushing back, says Mark Schneider in City Journal.
- “Amid mass layoffs, Boston University’s Centre for Antiracist Research accused of mismanagement of funds, disorganisation” – Boston University’s Centre for Antiracist Research, led by Ibram X. Kendi, is facing criticism for alleged financial mismanagement and underwhelming research output, reports the Daily Free Press.
- “The man Amazon erased” – The Tablet reports on the case of a software engineer who had his Amazon account suspended after a false racism accusation by a delivery driver.
- “Thousands of Canadian parents and kids protest explicit sexual content in schools” –The True North Centre’s Cosmin Dzsurdzsa has posted a video on X showing scenes from Ottawa where thousands of parents and kids are protesting explicit sexual content in schools and radical gender ideology.
Scenes from Ottawa right now where thousands of parents and kids are protesting explicit sexual content in schools and radical gender ideology.
— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
These protests are absolutely massive and across the entire country. #1MillionMarch4Children pic.twitter.com/KIR9wOSe2S(@cosminDZS) September 20, 2023
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What a prize cunt she is.
Bit harsh.. She always talks highly of you..
Ha ha. I don’t usually swear but I couldn’t think of a better way to describe her!
You did well.. ha ha..
Remarkably restrained.
No. Not remotely harsh, ask Alex Salmond.
But what possible use is there for a cunt that size?
What I’d really like to know, is there massive electoral fraud going on, or are people actually voting two-bit sociopathic power-hungry cretins like Sturgeon into power?
The latter. Abject slave zombies vote for power-hungry cretins. Gulag Wales is full of both.
And don’t forget the Republic of Ireland, there it’s almost a prerequisite that politicians are sociopathic, corrupt … and all the better if also stupid.
At one time they even vigorously protested on behalf of a politician because he had been – at the behest of Brussels on condition of a bailout – charged with corruption that amounted to almost a £100,000. The real figure was much higher than this.
So, I suppose when you have these high levels of stupidity, there’s no need to spend money rigging elections.
The Irish got rid of the English – that’s all that matters to them!
The likes of Sturgeon and Drakeford have to be seen to be doing things differently to the English. That’s all that matters to them.
Wales has been turned into a sad joke by the Marxist Cretin put into power by the stupid devolution system forced trough by Blair.
There was a bit of a spat on here a day or two ago where Godwin’s Law was consistently used as a defence. I do not think it unreasonable that we instigate “Bliar’s Law.”
Every current ailment afflicting this country originated with the well known war criminal and oxygen thief, Tony Bliar. Most discussions on here can therefore reasonably default to Bliar’s Law as the last line of defence.
What’s wrong with Annie’s comment, downticker? Imo nail on head.
Sadly, people vote for them, including some in my family.
Why not? It is Scotland after all!
I am afraid, you do not appreciate the whole nonsense up here is based on which party can be the most anti Sassanach.
Scotchland is a wee, poor, sick, ageing, sponging country. All its get up and go got up and went centuries ago, and all that’s left are the genetic dregs, and the New Scotch.
1 in 5 working age Scotch adults are registered as disabled. I’d be astonished if under half of the population isn’t dependent on the State either directly or indirectly, whether through employment, bennies or pensions.
Fear and dependence keeps the collectivists in power. Hatred and jealousy of their English betters and benefactors keeps the votes going to Plaid Commie rather than to Scotch Labour.
The Scotch people (and New Scotch) are so demoralised that their birth rate plummeted to a sporran shrivelling 1.29 in 2020, among the lowest in the world, and demographic suicide. They’ve simply lost up all hope, and are in mis-managed decline.
She is truly raving
A firm, ravishing, and wise, leader.
Kim-Jong-un, of course.
I’m just trying to imagine what a ‘firm ravishing’ by a ‘wise leader’ would be like..
Don’t imagine too hard, George!
Think of Margaret Thatcher in her M&S underwear giving you the come hither. I hope that helps.
Even as a hot blooded young(ish) male I have never considered Sturgeon to be firm and ravishing.
As PJW says “it ALL has to go”
Or Boris will be gone.
To whoever chose that hilarious image of Nicola “I’m a Lesbian and My Marriage is Fake” Sturgeon and Kim Jong-Un, did you know that Kim Il-Sung, founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, was raised Presbyterian?
In other news, the MSM have now been told to say that Dominic Cummings will be interviewed by Sue Gray, having previously not even raised the question as to whether he would be (or already had been) or not.
This is worth noting, because the question should have been an OBVIOUS one that anybody following “Partygate” would ask.
Here we have an excellent illustration of how the range of questions that the MSM are allowed to ask is under strict central control. Not only that, but it’s as with a super-injunction: no journalist is allowed to mention the fact. (OK, admittedly most of them are too stupid to notice, or to understand when it’s pointed out to them.)
He was raised Presbyterian, but Calvin’s Geneva wasn’t hard enough for him.
Is Dominic Cummings an arch-Covidian who believes it’s all real, or a spineless pragmatist who got caught out in lockdown 1, or a man of no fixed views apart from trashing BJ?
It might just be my perception, but I think Dominic Cummings is highly impressed by himself, and considers anyone who questions his rather novel methods as a heretic. I think this is mostly a ‘shower of spite’, although the PM has left himself wide open due to his gung-ho style and lack of attention to details, a trait we all see in him I’m sure.
There are doubtless others, but in recent history, he strikes me as a latter day UK Lavrentiy Beria; and look what happened to him.
As slimy as Beria, but Cummings couldn’t kill a guinea fowl.
@BS665 – Are you familiar with the reputation of Klute bar in Durham?
@Hopeless – Marshal Zhukov arrested Beria in the cabinet room… I don’t think Cummings is as personally depraved as Beria, but there probably isn’t a single soul in the Westminster bubble who would disagree with you if you said he has got it coming to him. He’s practically got “I’ve got it coming to me” tattooed on his pate.
Your description of Dommunist Dictator is apt.
Please call him Dommunist Dictator…
‘Big ‘dom cummings’ is my preferred designation, but I’ll see if I can incorporate your preferred moniker, Moist.
He’s a spineless covid bed wetter misfit of no fixed abode, who fled plague ridden nut nut London to go mince pie testing.
stick a spit through her and roast the cunt in front of an open pub fire.
Chuckle bros
Old bag.
Nicola Sturgeon is a masochist’s wet dream.
You wouldn’t know she was stood up anyway.
What should concern freedom-loving Scots (a definite rarity from what I witness every time I’ve been up there over the last couple years), is that the Sturge will likely love being called the Glorious Leader.
She already has her subjects lovingly referring to her as Chief Mammy.
Pretty sick for a childless hag who endorses some of the most evil politics targeting children this country has seen for centuries.
Spooky, same as Jacinda and Angela, the infantilisation in full swing
Macron in France, Rutte in the Netherlands, recently replaced Stefan Löfven in Sweden, and Xavier Bettel in Belgium. And let’s not forget Treasona May signing us up to the Global Compact for (unlimited mass) Migration. It’s very much a pattern.
Even the slightest lifting of restrictions is done as slowly and grudgingly as possible by Nicola Ceausescu.
A “woman” not worthy of comment.
Good gravy – let’s hope Kim doesn’t adopt Dear Leader’s hairstyle!
Triangulated the data? Realised (not from Leitch, Shridhar,Bauld, Reicher) or any of the other control freak innumerates who advised her from the fact that a wave went into exponential decay, from a barely stuttering rise. Then looking at the rage around Scotland and the failure to find ICU even a tenth full, they “triangulated” ie they shat their pants at the prospect of keeping these measures in place. That said plenty of pant-shitting snowflakes in the general hanging on to masks like adult dummies . The next task is to stop wearing them. I have worn them to save staff from the need to confront me but no longer.
https://truth11.com/2022/01/18/the-police-has-been-ordered-to-shut-down-all-vaccine-centres-in-uk/
I think this is Amanda de Buisseret speaking to the police officer in this video where she details the charges against the government, although there is no information on this link
But…but…the virus cloud is above seat height! People will die unless they sit below it! She must be stopped. Please, for the love of William Gates, see sense!
Fortifying the baseline despotism while trumpeting it as freedom. MiniTruth double-confirms: aye, right.
“Nicola Sturgeon was visiting a Scottish primary school and the class
was in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked Ms. Sturgeon if she would like to lead the discussion on the word ‘Tragedy’.
So the illustrious SNP leader asked the class for an example of a ‘Tragedy’.
A little boy stood up and offered, “If ma best freen, wha’ lives on a ferm, is playin’ in the field and a tractor rins ower him and kills him, that wid be a tragedy.”
“Incorrect”, said Nicola, in her best trying-not-to-sound-too-patronising-Scottish-accent, “That would be an accident.”
A little girl raised her hand, “If a school bus kerryin’ fifty children drove ow’r a cliff, killing a’body inside, that wid be a tragedy”
‘I’m afraid not’, explained Nicola, “that’s what we would refer to as a great loss’’.
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. The First Minister searched
the room. “Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?”
Finally, at the back of the room, a wee lad raised his hand and, in a quiet voice, said: “If a plane kerryin’ you and your deputy wiz struck by a ‘freendly fire’ missile & blawn tae smithereens, that wid be a tragedy.”
“Fantastic!” exclaimed Ms. Sturgeon, “and can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”
“Weel”, says the lad, “it has tae be a tragedy, because it certainly widnae be a great loss, and it probably widnae be an accident either!”
Poor Scotland. Nicola destroying a once wonderful place to visit, one silly ccp mandate at a time. What a superstar you are lady.
Forced face-masking is not a baseline corona measure, it’s a baseline Do what the unions demand measure and to which degree the union leaders want that because they’re idiots in the original sense of the word[*] and to which degree because they’re either bought or profit from the mask trade remains open to speculation.
[*] As far as I know, the term goes back to Nikolaus von Kues (Cusanus) who used idiotus to describe a class of people he called die eigensinnig Wissenden in German. That would be people who refuse to learn from other people’s experiences or knowledge. They’re not technically retarded. But to them, only their own opinion on anything counts because it is their own opinion.
So, having destroyed the Hogmanay trade, Kim il Sturgeon graciously opens up in the quietest month of the year. I hope she’s banned permanently from every pub, restaurant and social facility throughout Scotland.
Utterly reckless. The Covid cloud knows your safe when you sit down, but not when you stand up. This will break the NHS.