- “Former Children’s Commissioner links knife crime surge to lockdowns” – Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England during the pandemic, tells the Telegraph that a surge in knife crime and pupil violence has followed the Covid lockdowns.
- “London Marathon inject £1.19 million in Parkrun after drop in kids’ activity during lockdown” – A children’s activity crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 lockdown will be addressed with over 120 new junior parkruns nationwide, thanks to a £1.19 million funding infusion from the London Marathon, reports the Telegraph.
- “Japanese Government study finds silent school lunches were pointless” – What Japan’s Covid response lacked in authoritarian nastiness, it made up for in innovative stupidity, writes Guy Gin on Substack.
- “Swine flu could return this winter, warn experts, as ‘vulnerable’ told jabs are vital” – The virus responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic is set to be the dominant strain this winter, health officials have warned in a plea to the public to be jabbed, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS Trust staff given paid leave for ‘male menopause’” – An NHS Trust is allowing staff to take a year of paid leave for the ‘male menopause’, despite the condition not being clinically recognised, according to the Telegraph.
- “Trans women to be banned from female hospital wards” – Trans women will be banned from female hospital wards under the Health Secretary’s plans to restore “common sense” to the NHS, reports the Telegraph.
- “Petition: Fund the reopening of the three state-of-the-art Rutherford Cancer Centres” – Three state-of-the-art cancer centres lie empty in Newport, Reading and Northumberland – a concerted Government effort and funding would get these centres back open and potentially help 20,000 cancer patients every year. Sign the petition here.
- “GB News bosses hold crisis talks following Laurence Fox sexism storm” – Regulator Ofcom has opened 12 investigations into GB News, including one examining the sexist on-air comments made by the actor Laurence Fox, reports the Mail.
- “Sunak has discovered his path to redemption. Now the battle begins” – The Tories can block Keir Starmer’s route to Downing Street, but only if they’re prepared to band together and fight, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Just 3% of small boats migrants will be removed if Rwanda plan fails” – Stark analysis by the Refugee Council predicts that more than 35,000 small boat migrants a year, at current rates, will face possible “destitution” in the U.K., reports the Mail.
- “The West must choose: Borders, or destruction” – Suella Braverman has said what everyone else was thinking: Illegal migration is an existential threat, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Firm forced to axe four-day week trial after it made staff more stressed” – A London tech firm has scrapped its plans for a four-day working week after discovering it made staff even more stressed, says the Mail.
- “Dame Sharon White to stand down as Chairman of John Lewis” – John Lewis’s next Chairman could be part-time after Dame Sharon White asked the partnership to consider changes to the position as she announced plans to step down, reports the Telegraph.
- “A school phone ban is long overdue” – In the Spectator, Linden Kemkaran gives her take on Education Secretary Gillian Keegan advising headteachers to ban kids from using their smartphones during the school day.
- “Why has the ban on smartphones in schools taken so long?” – In the Mail, Molly Kingsley celebrates the news that the Education Secretary is to announce a ban on smartphones for pupils during the school day.
- “Lecturers make bid to oust universities union boss” – Lecturers at some of the U.K.’s leading institutions have called for a vote of ‘no confidence’ in the Universities and College Union boss, Jo Grady, over the “ineffective” strikes she led, according to the Mail.
- “Killing cash will make us all poorer” – A true cashless society would be a dystopian nightmare, argues Darragh McManus in Spiked.
- “Claire Coutinho: Net Zero has become a religion” – Britain’s Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho has claimed that Net Zero “has become a religion” among climate activists, according to UnHerd.
- “‘Sinister’ misuse of 15-minute cities faces crackdown” – The Transport Secretary is looking at ways to cut off access to driver licence databases if councils use them to police traffic restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Now anti-Ulez warriors stage demo outside Sadiq Khan’s house” – Furious drivers have set up tents and signs outside the Mayor Sadiq Khan’s home in South London, says the Mail.
- “Ulez van wardens wear balaclavas after Blade Runner TikTok videos” – Wardens policing Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone are wearing balaclavas after Blade Runners activists mocked them on social media, reveals the Telegraph.
- “HS2 nowhere” – Britain’s major Blairite vanity project, the HS2 rail line, is nothing short of a national disgrace verging on scandal, says Prof. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The war on motorists has reached its Stalingrad” – An advanced industrial society cannot live without efficient road transport, and it is welcome that the Prime Minister has recognised that, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “The unseen emissions: Tyre dust and the environmental mirage of electric vehicles” – Electric vehicles, often seen as eco-friendly alternatives, produce more tyre dust, a largely overlooked aspect of vehicular pollution, due to their heavier weight and high torque, says Charles Rotter in WUWT.
- “‘Reckless’ XR activists walk free after paint attack on Telegraph offices” – “Reckless” Extinction Rebellion activists, who spray-painted the offices of the Telegraph, claimed they tried to minimise damage to the building as they walked free from court.
- “After Letzte Generation vandalise the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, journalists and intellectuals line up to explain why it’s not a big deal, why the gate looks better now and why we deserve it anyway” – On Substack, Eugyppius responds to the most recent act of vandalism committed by the activist group Letzte Generation in Berlin.
- “Stop this green gloating over New York’s floods” – The recent flooding in New York was bad, but it was not an eco-apocalypse, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The green elites are gaslighting us” – The same politicians waging the war on motorists are now saying it is a Right-wing myth, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Eric Kaufmann: Why I’m leaving Birkbeck” – It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities, says Eric Kaufmann in the Critic.
- “Eton’s new provost will restore balance after woke shift, say campaigners” – Sir Nicholas Coleridge has been announced as the next provost of Eton College, a move welcomed by campaigners who hope he will restore the school’s “Enlightenment values”, according to the Telegraph.
- “This is now a ‘nudgocracy’” – These days, ‘nudging’ is used by the Government and its influencers to change the will of the people from the top-down, argues Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
- “New MCC President Mark Nicholas: Eton v Harrow has ‘no place at Lord’s’” – In an interview with the Telegraph, the new President of the Marylebone Cricket Club, Mark Nicholas, suggests that the Eton-Harrow match at Lord’s has lost relevance and proposes a greater emphasis on inclusive cricket initiatives and youth engagement.
- “Kemi Badenoch: Nowhere is better than Britain to be black” – Britain is the best country in the world to be black, Kemi Badenoch has declared, as she accused Labour of bending the knee at the “altar of intolerance”, reports the Times.
- “How Ofcom signed off on Channel Four’s lies” – In History Reclaimed, the historian David Elstein criticises Ofcom, Channel Four and the makers of the programme A Very British Way of Torture on the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya for broadcasting distortions and falsehoods.
- “Father Ted writer Graham Linehan demands answers after attempt to cancel his appearance at free speech event” – Graham Linehan has informed Tory members that he demands answers after initially being denied access to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, according to GB News.
- “Graham Linehan says agent has dropped him over David Tennant criticism” – The creator of Father Ted has claimed he has been dropped by his TV agent after branding David Tennant an “abusive groomer” on social media, reports the Mail.
- “What went wrong with Billy Bragg?” – “I am not a pot, or a kettle; I am especially not a hypocrite, unlike Billy Bragg,” says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Dis-empanelling anthropologists” – Bowing to political pressure, two leading anthropological associations have cancelled a conference discussion on the centrality of biological sex. The cancellation shows the extent to which gender ideology has captured academic anthropology, writes Colin Wright in City Journal.
- “Canadian parents are sick of progressives” – A huge range of Canadians have come together in support of a common cause: A right to have a say in their children’s education, says Hina Husain in UnHerd.
- “Elon Musk torches Trudeau for ‘trying to crush free speech in Canada’” – X owner Elon Musk took to his own platform to blast Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal-controlled Government over its efforts to control and censor speech, according to PM.
- “Trump tells cheering Iowa rally he’ll ban ‘child sexual mutilation’” – In a bid to secure Iowa, former U.S. President Donald Trump promised a cheering Iowa rally that he’ll allow gasoline engines if re-elected in 2024 but will ban “child sexual mutilation”, reports the Mail.
- “Can an English-loving tantric sex expert really be Argentina’s next leader?” – Javier Milei, who sports an Austin Powers haircut and identifies as an anarcho-capitalist, is leading in the polls in Argentina, writes Simeon Tegel in the Telegraph.
- “Social media, streaming services must register with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission by November” – All online services with audio or video content, including social media, that meet a revenue threshold in Canada will have to register with the federal broadcast and telecom regulator by November 28th, reports the National Post.
- “AI will let people live to 100 and work shorter weeks, says J.P. Morgan boss” – The boss of Wall Street’s biggest bank, Jamie Dimon, has said that AI will eventually enable people to live to 100 and work just three-and-a-half days a week, reports the Telegraph.
- “The science did not change. Why did Dr Fauci?” – On X, Dr. Kevin Bass has posted a reminder of what Anthony Fauci used to believe back in 2019 when asked whether people should wear masks and socially distance to avoid Covid infection. The advice he gave could have come straight from Joe Rogan.
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“AI will let people live to 100 and work shorter weeks, says J.P. Morgan boss”
How well I recall the promise in the 1970’s that wide scale business computing would herald the ‘paperless office’. Wonder how that went. As it is, AI, and the servers that it runs on are especially hungry for good old electricity and need vast amounts of water to cool the hardware. They are as eco-unfriendly as can be and somewhat at odds to the current vogue.
“Petition: Fund the reopening of the three state-of-the-art Rutherford Cancer Centres”
A particularly stupid waste of resources. Signed…
I also signed this morning…
I am also posting this in full from ‘X’ from Proff’ Karol Sikora, yesterday, as it is pertinent…
Professor Karol Sikora
@ProfKarolSikora
An extremely concerning development.
I have been booked to speak at the Spectator’s ‘How to fix Britain’s cancer crisis’ debate at the Conservative Party Conference for some time.
I was recently informed by the organisers that the sponsor of the event, an NHS supplier, threatened to pull their substantial sponsorship fee unless I was removed from the panel.
With full credit to the Spectator, they refused this blatant attempt at censorship at great financial cost.
I don’t pretend, or want, to be the most popular person at NHS HQ. But if, as I suspect, they were involved in the attempted cancellation then that is worrying.
I spent over 40 years in the NHS, a period as the WHO cancer chief and have been involved in the development of cancer infrastructure in almost every country in the world.
They may not like my views, but I think that they’re based in enough experience to be worth hearing.
In fact, I’ve been very careful not to be too forthright on how I feel about how healthcare is delivered in the UK.
That certainly won’t be the case from now on.
I also heavily suspect that NHS disdain for my critical opinions has contributed to their refusal to help reopen the Rutherford cancer centre network – capable of helping 20,000 patients a year.
It is all extremely murky.
I am looking forward to speaking at the event tomorrow and outlining how I believe we can fix Britain’s cancer crisis.
High on the agenda is eradicating the blasphemy culture surrounding the NHS. It is not a world-beating health service and the longer we lie to ourselves that it is, the more patients will suffer.
Thanks for this. Further confirmation that the NHS at the highest levels is not at all interested in making people healthier but rather wants to become ever larger and ever more immovable politically.
I’m sick to death of all these centres and charities for cancer research. They’ve been going for decades and yet still people die. Needlessly I might add. There are cancer cures out there which don’t involve chemo or radio therapy. Is the cancer industry interested? No, of course bloody not. They would rather criminalise anyone who makes such claims and indeed it has been enacted into law. People like David Nokes are hounded and imprisoned and ruined and other really interesting possibilities such as intravenous Vitamin C and Laetrile are ridiculed despite anecdotal evidence and it’s only ever going to be anecdotal because no one will fund full scale research into them. There are more but like almost every disease and ailment, there is a business behind the search for a cure that makes shareholders money and pays for swanky offices and all those associated with Big Pharma/Big Health can all carry on acting loftily and virtuously and meanwhile people die.
I was told two years ago by somebody in the know that proper cures for cancer have been found but Pharma will not allow their release – too much money in the current set up.
Check out the income of Cancer Research UK, its about £700 million pa, rising and has been for years.
Donations to charities are just secondary taxation for the gullible.
And a nice earner for the senior staff who can also promote their political views under the smokescreen of “charity” and “independent”.
Many “charities” provide final salary pensions in addition to high salaries and benefits.
The answer may be to stop all donations to these so-called “charities”, as most of them seem to have a business model based on grifting. Ie a web of lies spun with threads of virtue to dupe the gullible into parting with hard earned cash. A bit like medieval indulgences.
Wonder what would happen if there was a social meeja campaign aimed at stripping these organisations of their funding stream? Given that some charities have no qualms about cold calling the elderly for donations it would seem fair to level the playing field.
I don’t disagree with your comment..but we have to deal with what is rather than what we would like it to be.
There are currently over seven million people on the NHS waiting list..many of those will be waiting for cancer diagnoses and treatment…anything that moves that along faster has got to be good.
I speak as someone who has a relative waiting for their next appointment after a cancer operation..they have already been waiting to see the specialist for over five months…and although they are progressing well, the slow pace is tremendously taxing both for them and family….
Signed.
“Claire Coutinho: Net Zero has become a religion”
It is perfect as a new religion. We have inherited sin, we have high priests, we have the promise of salvation through denial, and underpinning all of that, the fleecing of the flock.
I’m just going to leave this here because there’s more explanation of what this means in the comments section. But check out the date of this paper. 2005. Big Pharma knew the role of this SV40 enhancer within the plasmids right from the beginning, proving that the fact it’s found in ‘process 2’ ( so not what the trial participants were given ) which got rolled out to the global population, was no accident. Looks like further proof that they knew exactly what they were doing. No more Hanlon’s Razor.
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1709027956855542045
As I keep repeating Mogs – brewed to a recipe.
I know, right? ”Oh look. How did that get there?”
Nobody’s talking about the very sinister fact that even if contamination has been found in any food item there’d be immediate recall of *all* of them across the country. But contamination in a vaccine that’s being doled out to pregnant women, toddlers, every conceivable person…? Well keep it up, it’s doing what it’s supposed to! F*cking madness! 
It’s not madness Mogs, it’s premeditated genocide.
It’s almost like they were mixing a covid cocktail, not a jab for a cold. A dash of SV40 monkey virus here, a dollop of E coli DNA there, a sprinkle of gonad-toxic LNPs and some extra special spike protein peptide sequences to finish, and a start codon cherry on top…..
“It’s almost like they were mixing a covid cocktail”
Exactly. And each extra ingredient performs a different, dangerous function which they knew about in advance.
I predict this season’s vaccines will turbo charge those already injected and excess mortality will take off in 2024.
This is a study using mice, as always. But maybe they don’t even need to move on to human trials any longer, as is protocol, ( because since when did bioethics appear to matter in recent years? ) going by how they can now just wheel out any new death jab using rodents only to test it first, as some half-arsed gesture. Basically, as has been seen with the Covid bioweapons *we are the test subjects*.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/yale-airborne-mrna-vaccine-cola/
….what’s not to love? LOL!!
It actually doesn’t take much of a stretch of imagination to think that if they already use hundreds of aircraft to spray tiny sulphate particles into the lower stratosphere to ‘help shield the earth from the sun’….
…….then just think how easy it would be to spray an airborne ‘anything else’…?
And also is this the way they would ordinarily vaccinate flocks of chickens against bird flu? I’m only presuming they don’t go round every individual bird with a needle, but I have no clue really. It seems the most practical way. But all they’ve done is create an mRNA one that they intend to use on humans instead of livestock.
German textile entrepreneur:
“If you can work at home, you are unimportant.”
https://m.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/trigema-chef-wenn-einer-zu-hause-arbeiten-kann-ist-er-unwichtig-19215355.html
Does the article say why – AI can do your job? You’re less embedded in the company? Some people possibly work better from home but I think we’re all, to a greater or lesser extent, hardwired for social contact.
I’ve always been fine with my own company but also fine with other people’s company. But other than a select few that I know and trust, I have lost respect and affection for many former friends and acquaintances and for many work colleagues. My default now is to avoid meeting new people, avoid large gatherings and stick to what I know. Working from home is a godsend in that respect because I don’t need to listen to colleagues chatting rubbish in my ear, as the saying goes.
“Graham Linehan says agent has dropped him over David Tennant criticism”
Curious line in this article –
Mr Linehan belongs to a controversial school of thought that believes those who support the gender transition of youngsters are child abusers. He previously tweeted in January: ‘Telling children they have the wrong bodies is child abuse.’
Controversial? Vast majority of people and entirely normal, I would have thought. We’re with you, Graham.
Truly alarming substack article by Dr Syed (crossposted by several others) on 5 reasons why plasmid transfection in the covid jabs was
just a coincidencehttps://arkmedic.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-skin-a-genetically-modified
LOL I shared that yesterday. It really is an eye-opener though. Anyone thinking this is just a mere fluke due to them having to scale up for world-wide rollout, and cutting corners as a result, is a total denialist unless they read that. Then there’s the 2005 paper linked above, which demonstrates what knowledge they already had years prior. ‘Coincidence’ is not applicable here, that much is for certain.
Wow!
I have always been particularly, embarrassingly hopeless at cricket. So I look forward to being invited to play at Lords, because “inclusividee”. Free owls for everyone!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-celebrates-ss-nazis-stamps-institutionalized-nazis-praised-west-ukrainian-church-nazism-uk-support/5834618
Bozo and Co take note.
Can we please rename these ‘experts’ as ‘modellers’ and/or ‘bullshi**ers’ because that is what they are in the main. Re this story about the resurgence of swine flu this winter: how do they know? And this nonsense that the vulnerable need to get jabbed because of a ‘possibility’ of a resurgence. It will always be the vulnerable who get jabbed. they are the ones still living in fear and will do almost anything they are told to do. It beggars belief.
A friend of mine spoke to me yesterday about how he might possibly have early onset Parkinson’s – he shakes a bit. He then told me he had to get ready because he was off to get his jabs for Covid and flu!! I tried to say that he didn’t really need them but he was adamant. I don’t see a good ending to this. This man is like a brother to me. We grew up together, our parents were great friends. I feel that this is his path but it makes me so hopping mad to think of the barstewards who corral people like my friend into their evil actions. So, enough of the effin’ ‘experts’!
And had he already had previous Covid jabs?
Sadly yes, Mogs.
I stopped believing in coincidences in March 2020. And we’ve certainly learnt one hell of a lot about these jabs since they were deployed. I think it’s now a case of any conceivable disease under the sun being caused or exacerbated by the toxic sh*t, because it’s been shown to have an effect on every system of the body now. And why wouldn’t it when it travels everywhere? It’s indiscriminate in the damage it does.
I agree Mogs.
Of immediate concern are the massive increases in heart disease and cancers. It is however becoming increasingly obvious that these gene therapy bioweapons are intended primarily to degrade bodies in multiple ways but definitely to kill sooner rather than later.
Yes, I don’t think it’s a coincidence. The jab is definitely an accelerator. The autumn booster is aptly and demonically named!
I hope the GBNews online edition is hosted outside the UK otherwise OfCom will close them down just a few months before the next election. Pity the same standards of balance are not applied to the state run media: BBC and CHannel 4.
I like this idea…..
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/sacha-lord-fills-manchester-huge-27822097
Sacha Lord fills Manchester with huge billboard slamming Tories during conference
A digital billboard on wheels also appeared to be doing laps around the city, along with a video of Sacha Lord explaining that, during the pandemic, the events industry was ‘utterly decimated’…
The night-time economy advisor for Greater Manchester claimed he used the ‘largest digital screen in the city centre’, at an apartment block beside where the Conservative Party conference is being held, at the Manchester Central convention complex.