- “Bosses say Covid has made Generation Z employees ‘entitled’” – Britain’s businesses are battling to make their “entitled” ‘Generation Covid’ employees return to the office, with many now “viewing work as an inherent negative”, reports the Mail.
- “Suella Braverman takes aim at ‘out-of-touch pampered elite’ critics” – Suella Braverman is remarkably unfazed by the furore her remarks on immigration caused, writes Glen Owen in the Mail.
- “Minister who won’t be intimidated by a sneering liberal elite” – Home Secretary Suella Braverman has presented perhaps the most forceful challenge to the legions of woke-ism ever offered by a senior minister, says the Mail in a leading article.
- “Why we’re tuning out of the Today programme” – The dull, holier-than-thou centrism of BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today show has become insufferable, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
- “Carole Malone: We pay Lineker’s wages, so we get to tell him to shut his mouth” – Why is the BBC so scared of Gary Lineker, asks Carole Malone in the Express.
- “British museums admit more than 1,000 items lost, destroyed or stolen” – Two of Britain’s most important museums have admitted losing more than 1,000 historically and scientifically important objects, reveals the Mail on Sunday.
- “Mark Bostock has been proved totally right about HS2” – When it comes to HS2, Rishi Sunak really is in a pickle, writes George Trefgarne in Reaction.
- “Debanking comes to Germany: AFD Co-Chair says account cancelled for political views” – A German MP claims that his bank account has been closed for political reasons, drawing parallels to the communist era, reports Breitbart.
- “PM says councils will still be able to impose Wales-style 20mph limits” – Rishi Sunak has admitted that councils will still be able to impose Wales-style 20mph limits as long as they have “consent” from local residents, says the Mail.
- “Welsh Tory leader blasts ‘dangerous’ Mark Drakeford’s 20mph speed limit” – Welsh Tory leader Andrew R.T. Davies has said Mark Drakeford’s hated 20mph road speed limit is part of a wider “extreme ideology” being forced on Welsh citizens, according to the Express.
- “Ryanair chief praises Sunak for watering down ‘unrealistic’ Net Zero targets” – Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has praised Rishi Sunak for watering down Britain’s “unrealistic” Net Zero targets as he criticised the City’s “frankly mad” approach to ethical investment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Over 40% of French back lifetime limit of four flights per person” – According to a survey from the Consumer Science and Analytics Institute, more than four in 10 people in France would back a lifetime limit of four flights per person, says Breitbart.
- “Mobile phones are to be banned in schools” – Education Secretary Gillian Keegan will order schools to outlaw smartphones during lessons in a bid to end disruption and make it easier for pupils to focus, reports the Mail.
- “‘Nonsense’ of gender data collected by public bodies set for review” – The Tories are hardening their position on the importance of biological sex being recorded in official data gathering exercises, according to the Telegraph.
- “Another classic Disney tale about to be destroyed; Bambi faces woke overhaul” – Disney could be on the verge of butchering another beloved classic as Bambi is earmarked for woke makeover, warns Chris Donaldson in BPR.
- “Cancelled professor prepares for war on woke at Buckingham University” – Eric Kaufmann, an eminent professor cancelled by students at a top London university, is founding a “faculty for common sense” at Buckingham, reports the Mail.
- “When was actual work replaced by ‘woke’ work?” – HS2’s most pressing concerns appear to be categorising employees by their protected characteristics and organising as many identity awareness days as possible, says Lottie Moore in the Express.
- “Police need to ditch ‘woke’ and get back on the streets” – Police need to ditch ‘community engagement’ and make our streets hostile for law breakers, writes Peter Bleksley in the Express.
- “Air traffic control service told to abandon ‘woke’ diversity schemes and ‘focus on the job’” – Britain’s beleaguered air traffic control service has been told to get its “head out of the clouds” and abandon its “woke” diversity agenda, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bill Maher to DeSantis: You did handle Covid better, you were right… and they won’t give you credit” – On X, author Michael P. Senger has posted a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher, with the host giving Governor Ron DeSantis his due over his handling of the Covid pandemic in Florida.
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More on the disgraceful situation of Germany funding NGOs to hoover up migrants on ships and dump them on Italy but refusing to then take any in once they’re in Italy;
”NGOs resort to disturbing tactics: advising migrants to conceal poverty as a reason for asylum and coaching false claims of origin, all while enjoying substantial funding, primarily from Germany and France.
In a shocking revelation, Germany’s role in the European migrant crisis has taken an unexpected twist. While well-known for supporting “anti-fascist” groups (Antifa), it has now come to light that the German government is also providing significant financial backing to left-wing organizations, purportedly non-governmental (NGOs), conducting migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean waters. What compounds this situation is Germany’s unequivocal refusal to accept any of the illegal immigrants who reach Italy, effectively distancing itself from the very crisis it finances. This unsettling revelation has stirred tensions between the Italian and German governments, resulting in a bitter exchange of accusations involving deliberate foreign invasion, population replacement, and diplomatic rifts.
The intent behind bringing a large number of migrants from third-world countries into the West does not serve the interests of either the migrants or Europeans. Migrants are frequently left in squalid tent camps for years, and in a significant majority of cases in Europe, acts of terrorism and violent crimes are committed by migrants.
As previously reported by RAIR, video evidence reveals a connection between NGO migrant ferries and illegal human traffickers. These human traffickers even promote their illegal services on left-wing Facebook platforms.”
https://rairfoundation.com/invasion-of-italy-exposed-left-wing-ngos-population-replacement-attack-is-funded-by-germany-and-france-video/
Reading Koonins book, during lockdowns, at least CO2 emmisssions in the UK were reduced. Reduced by a grand total of 8.5%. 8.5%. We closed pubs, and stopped people driving around. The streets were empty of cars, and you couldn’t go on holiday. OK it didn’t last all year, but if we had locked down all year, we wouldn’t have recued emissions by more than 50% at the best. Makes you wonder what would happen if we did go to 0. Major depression? People starving and freezing to death? In addition, we have people in authority who have mucked up HS2- what do you think is going to happen to our energy system? Another engineering system that is being mishandled, and one that is rather important.
By no more than 50% is what I meant. I shouyld read what I type.
“shouyld”
“Britain’s businesses are battling to make their “entitled” ‘Generation Covid’ employees return to the office”
Yawn. When will these idiots stop with this nonsense? Instead of making them return to the office, try making them do some work. I’ve been working in an office, for other people in offices, for nearly 40 years and in my experience “being the office” and “doing useful work” are not at all the same thing. Some of my most productive team members are “generation Z” age young men and women, and some of the least productive are old farts like me who travel to the office because they are lonely and spend half the day chatting instead of working.
I’ve no issue with the idea of going to the office for social purposes, and if people need that for their sanity, that’s great. But don’t confuse being in the office with useful work – instead try finding ways to measure what people actually do, and incentivize them to do more of it.
Thank you.
“Being in the office” is hardly humanity’s highest calling and it’s not a requirement for progress.
It’s just that, sadly, most people seem to need a “manager” breathing down their neck. And many managers get a kick out of it. The modern “workplace”, in my experience, is anything but a place of work.
Plainly, a state of being unruled and making your own decisions (anarchy) is not for everyone.
Yes, all good points.
We manage to employ and motivate people who can work independently (i.e. adults) but perhaps other firms find it harder. We should ask more of our workers and of ourselves.
Also worth making the point that you can breathe down someone’s neck without being in the same room as they are. Find ways to measure productivity not mere presence – reward it and punish slackness.
Downtickers pay your £5 or jog on.
Very true. There is an old “Dilbert” cartoon on the dilemma of working from home; “Do you do 8 hours work, or the 3 hours productive work you would have done had you gone into the office?”
That being said, many people need to be in an office to be productive and to learn how to be productive.
“many people need to be in an office to be productive and to learn how to be productive”
Well I don’t know about that. My experience has been that productive people are productive everywhere/anywhere, ditto unproductive people. Arguably if you are unproductive and you are surrounded by productive people physically then you may pick up on their habits and improve your own, but I think it’s quite subtle. I’ve got people on my team who joined us from Uni and have never been to the office and they chomp through work like nobody’s business. But other firms and people may have different issues.
Monday’s leaflet
Excellent
Because who wouldn’t want 80 migrants living in containers on your kid’s school grounds? Surely only a right-wing fascist..FFS!
”Outraged parents have condemned the local mayor’s decision to accommodate up to 80 asylum seekers in containers on the grounds of a primary school in the German town of Monheim am Rhein.
Dozens of local residents attended a recent question time of the local council to voice their displeasure over the controversial move proposed by Mayor Daniel Zimmerman’s administration and expressed their concerns for child safety, calling the plans both inappropriate and unacceptable.
Starting next spring, a cohort of migrants will reside in containers located on the school grounds, which are no longer used for educational purposes.
In response to the protestations of locals, the council cited economic factors as a primary reason for the move, insisting that the estimated €150,000 it would cost to convert the containers into housing was substantially lower than the cost of renting private accommodations, where around 80 percent of the migrants recently received by the municipality currently reside.
“We simply can’t keep up with renting anymore,” a city press spokesperson told parents at the meeting.”
https://rmx.news/migrant-crisis/german-mayor-calls-concerns-over-child-safety-unfounded-amid-plans-to-accommodate-80-asylum-seekers-at-a-primary-school/
People gotta wake up fast and take matters into their own hands because this is the beginning of a tidal wave. Unreasonable policies and actions need to be resisted. There is already a lot of evidence that some of these migrants are dangerous. Most of them come from different cultures where they are not used to seeing young girls and women being so free and open. It is not a case of racism, it is a case of completely incompatible cultures.
I couldn’t agree more Aethelred.
Scheesh. What took them so long? We gave up on Today (and R4) years ago. If I turn Today on it is solely to remind me why I don’t. And it always works.
To be fair, though, it has recently become worse than “dull, holier-than-thou centrism”, I don’t remember Today ever being as biased as it is now with Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson presenting it, and almost every Radio 4 programme is infused with wokism.
Haven’t listened to or read mainstream news whether on radio, TV or papers for ages. When I do hear those lofty, censorious tones by mistake, I want to gag. I can understand why people listen to it though because they have broadcasters who have the right ‘tone’ to imbue their listeners with confidence and trust in what is being said. But it’s all nonsense, well most of it is anyway.
No, I correct myself…all of it is!
That’s better
“Debanking comes to Germany”.
The Laughing Librarian has a joke about the problem of ordering pizza online in 2023. (Tino Chrupalla would find it impossible in the UK!)
It’s both funny and not funny, judging from the comments.
This is a neat summary of where we are and the direction of travel.
https://gab.com/surazaL/posts/111163891182002360
If the author had tried to post that poem on YouTube and monetize it, it would have been taken down or being “off-message”!
Turdeau strikes again….this man needs voting out by the people before the next law he invokes is enshrining himself in place for the next twenty years!!
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
The Canadian government, armed with one of the world’s most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all “online streaming services that offer podcasts” must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls:
https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications/news/2023/09/crtc-takes-major-step-forward-to-modernize-canadas-broadcasting-framework.html
Re:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12580849/Is-Rishi-backsliding-20mph-crackdown-Sunak-says-councils-able-impose-Wales-style-speed-limits-consent-local-residents.html
Since when have the self-important, tin-pot dictators in local councils taken into account what the residents want? When have they ever asked for ‘consent’ when implementing their tyrannical and / or crazy actions?