- “Iran’s Foreign Minister warns Israel to stop Gaza attacks or risk ‘huge earthquake’” – The Times of Israel reports on claims that Tehran has conveyed to Israel it will intervene if strikes on Hamas continue.
- “BBC Arabic reporters backing Hamas on social media say Israeli hostages have been ‘arrested’” – The BBC is embroiled in an impartiality row after its journalists appeared to justify the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas, the Telegraph reports.
- “Jeremy Corbyn tells pro-Palestinian protesters anyone who believes in human rights ‘must condemn’ Israeli army’s actions in Gaza” – The former Labour leader addressed thousands at a rally in London, urging them to condemn the Israeli army’s actions in Gaza amid mass protests across the U.K.’s major cities, the Mail reports.
- “Star of David graffitied on Berlin homes in chilling echo of Nazi crimes” – The incidents appear to be an intentional imitation of the antisemitic persecution of Jews during the 1930s, says the Telegraph.
- “The West is truly lost if it can’t see Hamas for what it really is” – The terror group deliberately started a war against Israel; it is morally responsible for what happens next, says Daniel Hannan.
- “Unspeakable slaughter, but I’ve seen nobody flying an Israel flag” – When Russia invaded Ukraine last year, the schools near me put Ukraine flags in their windows, but no Israeli flags have appeared, says Hadley Freeman in the Times.
- “Israel eases guns restrictions amidst security failures” – Just as Ukraine did when Russia invaded, Israel has eased gun restrictions among its citizenry, reports Reason.
- “Anti-Semitism and the new world order, Part 1” – TCW‘s Norman Fenton and Karen Harradine on the global rise and risks of antisemitism in the form of anti-Zionism and its worryingly unashamed endorsement by parts of the U.K.’s anti-globalist ‘freedom movement’.
- “How Hamas fooled Israel – and the West” – Too many people seem to have persuaded themselves that Hamas was open to negotiations, say John Jenkins and Udi Rosen in the Spectator.
- “After his comments on Israel, Gareth Southgate’s halo has well and truly slipped” – The England manager’s defence of the FA’s “difficult” decision was pathetically craven, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Covid Inquiry proves SAGE had too much power” – Boris Johnson leant too much on an unaccountable body, says Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
- “Vaccine and stroke – the unmentionable connection” – Dr. Roger Watson in TCW notes that one obvious possible cause of stroke is being left out in medical journal articles.
- “The real tragedy of Sir Tom Moore’s wasted millions” – The funds could have been spent on lovely new cancer centres, but were squandered on trivial projects, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero Ambitions: Sinking in a Sea of Reality?” – Investor confidence in renewable energy is waning, says WUWT.
- “The climate scaremongers: Whatever happened to the ice-free Arctic?” – In TCW, Paul Homewood takes a look back at the failed predictions of Arctic thaw.
- “Rural councils launch ‘meaty’ resistance against vegan trend” – Councillors in Suffolk, Cornwall, and Northamptonshire are defying the vegan wave, vowing to keep meat and dairy on the menu, the Telegraph reports.
- “LTNs in Oxford cause ‘chronic’ gridlock and ‘exasperatingly’ slow bus journeys” – A report by travel companies reveals that it is often quicker to walk into the city centre than take the bus, according to the Telegraph.
- “A Climate of Pessimism at the Vatican” – Having gone ‘full Greta’, Pope Francis then goes ‘full Karl Marx’, says Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Conservatives should amend the Equality Act — not repeal it” – A small amount of legal tweaking can tame the Blob, argues James McSweeney in UnHerd.
- “Police try to intimidate and censor Tory councillor from speaking to media after free speech ‘hate crime’ arrest” – In a disturbing development, Northamptonshire Police has tried to intimidate and censor a Tory councillor from speaking to the media after he was arrested for an alleged ‘hate crime’, reports Christian Concern.
- “Labour plan for cohabiting laws are anti-libertarian, says former High Court judge” – Sir Paul Coleridge says introducing a form of common law marriage would represent a huge extension of the state into people’s private lives.
- “Kevin Spacey cancelled by West End cinema despite acquittal” – Friends and colleagues of the actor are outraged as the world premiere of his first film since being cleared of sex assault charges is scrapped, reports the Telegraph.
- “Does the Native American case for reparations add up?” – Jeff Fynn-Paul in the Spectator sets out the case against paying ‘compensation’ to the descendants of indigenous people.
- “Australia’s divisive Voice referendum’s crushing defeat” – Terry Barnes covers Australia’s ‘Brexit moment’ for the Spectator.
- “Will Young’s queer privilege” – Julie Burchill in Spiked on the slightly bizarre news that Will Young has promised to leave the U.K. if the Tories win the next election.
- “I’m told there were also delegations from ‘Turkeys in favour of Christmas’ and ‘Chickens Love KFC’” – Douglas Murray responds to reports of an ‘LGBT stands with Palestine’ sign at the London Palestine rally.
I’m told there were also delegations from ‘Turkeys in favour of Christmas’ and ‘Chickens
— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) October 14, 2023KFC.’ https://t.co/huCfuorYSV
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So, lockdown in case they have to lockdown.
Indeed – and the worst part of it is that most people will be unable to see just how ridiculous this sort of behaviour is.
I’m sorry; but “ridiculous” is not the appropriate adjective. Whatever else they might be, the authors of the transnational biomedical techno-fascist agenda are not “bungling”, they are not “incompetent” and they most certainly are not “stupid”. Those of us who oppose it must stop being incompetence-theorists.
It is fraudulent, in the same way but on a greater scale than the Piltdown man hoax.
I wasn’t referring to those behind the whole situation – and I don’t disagree with your theory on them.
I was referring to the behavioiur of these particular schools, and the moronic way in which they are buying into the whole narrative is definitely ridiculous.
Whether it’s pure incompetence, misguided concern or deliberate mendacity, it’s still ridiculous.
Everyone knows the goalpost is continuously moving away.
Next year when infection will be low: “Maybe comes a variant and maybe will be high we must act in advance so lockdown in the winter”
And these are people responsible for educating our children…
You have to admire the logic: the way to reassure ‘parents worried that schools will begin to close again before Christmas’ is to close again before Christmas.
If you weren’t worried about the quality of those educating your children up to now…
Can’t individual pupils and teachers stay in schools then, off their own bat? Anarchy looms.
I wish we did have anarchy. It’s a lot better than government.
I have been thinking this for a long time, long before the advent of Covidmadness. It has long been clear that politicians haven’t got a clue what they are doing and yet they presume to lord it over the rest of us. I am a rule-obeyer by instinct/upbringing but the rules that we are expected to abide by are becoming increasingly bizarre and unsupportable.
All part of the brainwashing plan, see the graphic posted by Anti_socialist the other day.
(Re-posted without kind permission below).
Where is that table from? Got a link?
You would have to ask Anti_socialist
I’ve seen a copy closer to the original but you could try searching
CIA analysis of N.Korean brainwashing techniques used to turn captured US Service Personnel.
Brainwashing is not the same as torture, it is intended to change the mind of the brainwashed to make them believe that giving away a couple of secrets will save the world, make them keen to becoming a spy.
One of the key elements is to get the victim to agree to about a petty but obvious mistruth like did you have sausages for breakfast? Then work your way up from there.
Another is supplying petty privileges like 2 cigarettes a day (iebnot enough for satisfaction) and then deny them for no reason.
Lastly appointing fellow inmates with no talent in positions of petty authority (smoking cessation Officers and Covid Marshals being perfect examples).
25/11/21
The politicians and members of SAGE and all of their bodyguards are far from not having a clue. They’re getting handsomely paid, aren’t they? Out of your money! Now, that’s what I call clever.
Septic scumbags wouldn’t know anarchy if it hit them in the face.
They have no idea what libertarian means
Carrie’s calling, Boris – time to change the bairn’s nappy!
Hi Fascist.
ScumTwatPrattSick – he/she/it only joined DS just over a week ago…?
Methinks as the clout of this forum ever expands, lackluster-subhuman trolling is inevitably going to increase too, that or have the 77th caved and recruited under-rock bottom-feeders to come have a go? PMSL
As you were…
They could, but the whole purpose of this exercise is for teachers to create an easier cosier situation for themselves.
Back in March 2020, they were all against online learning, because they thought it would make their jobs harder. When they discovered it means they actually work less because they don’t have to deal with behaviour issues, they have become converts to online learning.
Same thing with masks. They like them because it pacifies the students.
This is of course not true of all teachers but of enough. And the skivers use all the usual scummy arguments about safety first to brow beat the rest into accepting what they want.
“When they discovered it means they actually work less because they don’t have to deal with behaviour issues, they have become converts to online learning.”
Teachers are clever – who wants to deal with other people’s stroppy kids when you can get the same money ‘working’ from home? Also, not having to drive to school saves petrol money, and have you seen the price of petrol these days?
Anyway, if all the kids are going to be dead soon, of heart inflammations caused by the ‘vaccines’, what’s the point of educating them?
That an ‘educational’ establishment cannot understand that children are only very rarely affected (actually become ill) and that the teaching profession is way down in the noise of those affected by covid, is incredible. These actions are not for ‘safety’ or ‘health’ reasons.
How will teachers get to the shops for their present shopping otherwise?
Stop their pay
Outsource the remote teaching to Indian teachers in Hyderabad.
Surely only a racist would object.
This is not enough: People who are convinced that encountering unmasked pupils is too dangerous for them can’t be teachers as that’s an inherent part of the job and not something optional which might or might not be done, depending on how a so-called teacher feels today. Teachers are supposed to teach. Otherwise, they’d be youtubers.
That should have been done after the first couple of months. However, the teaching unions were cheaply bought and the result has been unrelenting pressure on our children in order to make them suitable slaves in adult life.
In case it’s escaped your notice… this RESET has been juggernaut like rolling along [unopposed on mass] for over 20 months now…
https://twitter.com/wakeupfromcovid/status/1369477708632236032?s=20
Destroying our kids futures, tragically is just all part of the ongoing grind…
Parent power has to be shaped, invested in and smartly coordinated, as these folk in California have done. Get creative…
P U S H B A C K
Well done in California.
Are the Headteachers going to pay for private childcare for parents who can’t get time off work at short notice?
Why are we still counting CASES?
Mostly because that’s all they can present by way of ‘alarming’ statistics, sadly endorsed by some articles posted here at DS.
Serious illness and mortality are all that matters.
Because mass-testing is still being done. These word-wars have presumably been ongoing ever since the great pandemic panto started, hence, it’s safe to say that they’re every bit as effective as mask mandates. It doesn’t matter what a positive test result is being called because positive tests results, unless used as diagnostic tools for an actual illness, don’t matter.
Because the numbers are bigger and therefore more impressive and most with short memories or problems with comprehension will merely remember that the paper/tv news said ‘big numbers’ so we’re not out of the woods yet.
To keep people in fear. And it’s working. Even this evening on the TV ‘News’ here in Finland the Government is recommending that people still wear face masks – I’ve just been to our local food shop and it’s 100% face masks.
The people running this scam must be laughing every day at how stupid the public really is. And there you have it – those running this show are getting away with it day after day after day. In some respects, you have to hand it to them, they have been very successful for almost 21 months. To add insult to injury they’ve ruined another Christmas. The Bishop of Durham has helped here with his very Christian attitude of ‘piss off if you’re not fully vaxxed’.
“We had to destroy the school in order to save it.”
And that Vietnam adage was apocryphal. This is for real.
Teachers are clearly not fit for purpose. The government should (but won’t) say that any that decline to teach face to face (and with no masks, etc.) are in breach of contract and will be fired. Would be an upheaval but no worse than what is happening at the moment.
I don’t know. It has been the Government spreading this scare about ‘Covid’ – why shouldn’t the teachers play them at their own game? In fact, the whole country should stay at home, nobody should be providing Parliament with food or drink, the bars of the Houses of Commons/Lords should be closed … because ‘Covid’.
But.. if schools are closed, how are the school nurses to carry on with their jabbing?
It’s funny how there is no pandemic when it’s time to go to the supermarket or buy a new smartphone or go to the pub/restaurant.
Teachers, like doctors, don’t want to work for the money us tax payers are lavishing them with.
But you can guarantee these lazy b`stards will be swinging their gates open when the nhs mobile “jabatoir” turns up !
I’m saddened to see campaign groups using the false covid narrative.
The schools are being closed due to ideology. At this point, there can be no doubt that the schools are working against the childrens’ best interests.
This has got nothing to do with a virus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GF0H9V_1g
Miracle in Japan
Ivermectin
What’s wrong with the hardworking staff taking a few days off for pre-Crimbo shopping after all they have endured over these past 20 months?
Crimbo? Let us not forget Christ, on whom, even for those who are only culturally or derivationally affected, our more civilized habits are founded. When and if we become really post-Christian all the civilizational fruits that have attracted many, including non-Christians to our shores, will, ironically wither and die. Britain pre-Christianity was not an attractive place, even if my ancestors way back were most likely part of it! It is in danger of further reverting.
Actually, we became generally more civilized once god-bothering was put back in its box. Unless you had a weird cultish and sadistic attraction to auto-da-fé’s etc.
You haven’t studied much history or literature I assume.
Yes, once people stop believing in god, they believe ANYTHING, mostly marxism (political NPD) and boom 100 million killed.
But wasn’t Crimbo the 13th (and long lost) disciple?
I use Crimbo in a self mocking way as I believe it is used primarily in some working class households where they think that tacky consumerism really is what Christmas is all about. The whole tone of the post might have alerted you to that.
It’s likely that younger members of The Quality adopt it to show each other how up for the plebs they are.
Not my downtick btw, I don’t go in for them and what others choose to believe is none of my business unless it directly impacts on me personally. It seems that some people become outraged when others identify themselves as Chistians or devotees of Prince Philip’s Cargo Cult.
To be fair, they are teaching on line. And some will be against it. It’s the head Xmas shopping here.
All in preparation for Zuckerberg’s Metaverse.
It is desperately unfair to tar all teachers with the same brush. My OH works in a school, and they generally found it much harder during lockdown than during normal times. The staff were uniformly delighted to get rid of bubbles and all that nonsense too.
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
Molly Kingsley always shows such admirable restraint in her public utterances, yet privately she must rage at the stupidity, as so many parents must be.
AUSTRALIA: ORIGINAL SOVEREIGN TRIBAL FEDERATION ~ INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ASSISTANCE
No words!
“Lord, you made blind eyes see. Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind.”
Brother Andrew’s prayer when smuggling bibles into Communist countries. This must become our plea to the Almighty too, for the evildoers are unaware of the power of the Almighty, and no weapon they attempt to form against Him can prosper.
Amen, brother!
Providence is absolute. We will win.
That video should be distributed as widely as possible. Only a matter of hours before the Welsh and Scottish rise up against their own dictators and regain their freedom!
You are having a laugh.
The question on everyone’s lips, apparently cannot be asked on air….
https://twitter.com/Justin187421/status/1463482192630329344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1463482192630329344%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2021%2F11%2Fsheffield-united-star-john-fleck-collapses-pitch-tuesday-match-rushed-hospital-tv-live-feed-cut-announcer-asks-covid-jab%2F
Latest VAERS data
If he hadn’t had it, they could just say “No”.
That they didn’t, speaks volumes.
Oh, well! They can always supply the children with suitable yellow cloth, thread, elastic and star templates to take home, to make “Unclean” badges and brassards. Should improve their sewing and self-sufficiency skills no end, and the schools can probably sell them at the online/remote Christmas fete.
Mr Perry please refrain from using THEIR terms. These are voluntary school shut down’s and Bunter should be acting to nip it in the bud.
You can see their thinking, though. “Circuit-breaker lockdowns” have been so successful whenever they’ve been used, that’s why we…er, still have positive tests today.
Keep accurate – it’s our weapon against misleading media:
“English Schools Stop In-Person Teaching …”
Not difficult to work out the slip-up in that headline.
Surely you don’t think that ‘Online Learning’ is utterly crap?!
I think you may have missed the point.
Dear Scumbags, THIS is what you are being distracted from today.
They sound like reasonable changes to deter fake protesting terrorists.
Why isn’t the Education Secretary telling them that they are not allowed to decide to close schools during what is supposed to be term time? It’s pathetic (but not, of course, surprising).
Probably too busy checking YouGov Plc share price.
Notice the media never report Sadlidieds anymore, only scornful stories against anyone who died with covid (positive test) who were not jabbed.
It’s incredibly jarring but the Infected (covidians) don’t see the propaganda. It’s astonishing the depths these gutter trash rags have stooped to. There was a time the public got angry at fake news, i.e., Piers Morgan’s Mirror falsifying claims against the British army.
These days, the idiots champion and applaud such manipulation. The papers are guilty of inciting hatred against a group in society, they break the law every single time they produce this filth.
Different subject but posting it here:
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1463311634072576010
Allegations for forced vaccinations of Aboriginal children in Australia.
These teachers are essentially saying they would prefer to be teaching pupils remotely or, perhaps, not at all, but still be paid the same.
What they haven’t quite thought through is that if they can teach pupils remotely, so can another teacher anywhere else in the world, and many of them are willing to do so for far less money.
They will wake up one day and find they are out of a well-paid job and it will be their own fault.
They might say that “you can’t possibly deliver the same quality of teaching remotely as I can face to face”
To which the answer is: “well get your arse back into the classroom then”.
Yes. It will suddenly occur to Miss Teacher that her cosy online teaching gigs have been outsourced overnight from Manchester to Madras. Slack-jawed with incomprehension and of course very emotional, she will then look in the general direction of her Trade Union for help. And some of us will then ask where they- both the Trade Unions and those who thought they’d always be spared, and found it expedient to look the other way- were, and what they were doing, when the combined Police, Military and so-called Security forces of the UK (and very likely the United States) performatively and sadistically crushed the mineworkers, razed their workplaces to ground level and built shopping centres over them to make sure they could never be reopened, as a warning to the rest of us. Unfortunately, these hard lessons seem to have to be re-learned every two or three centuries.
The Australian Army (ADF – where did they get that name from I wonder) is now carting healthy people off to concentration camps by force. Australia has a Union Jack on its flag. You awake people better get out there waking sleeping people up, while you still have the freedom to do that.
Wake up people, you have a treasonous government committing war crimes against its own people.
Australian Army Now Moving Australians into Concentration Camps
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/11/24/australian-army-now-moving-australians-into-concentration-camps/
“The BLM crowd are awful quiet…
What is happening in the NorthernTerritory!? Lockdowns WITHOUT the 5 reasons to leave home, $5,000 fines for breaches, ADF removing close contacts from their community to quarantine camps for an undisclosed amount of time…where are all the people who mocked freedom protestors, saying ‘you didn’t protest for black rights’?
“I’m seeing people on Twitter who claim to be Aussies saying shit like: It’s fine, they’re in super remote areas and it would be devastating if it hit their communities, and besides, the accommodations are much nicer than they have at home, they’re Aboriginal, so it’s okay, no one minds, etc etc.
Distill it down: They are dirty, ignorant, primitive brown people, disease vectors who shouldn’t be allowed to make their own decisions, so white people will protect them from themselves.
I too remember a time in America when we treated the native population as dirty brown people, disease vectors, and too ignorant to take care of themselves. We too rounded them up and put them in ‘camps’… we just called them reservations.”
“First they came for the unvaxxed Aborigines…”
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticismAU/comments/r113ru/the_blm_crowd_are_awful_quiet/
There was no such thing as a ‘circuit-breaker lockdown’ last year, there is no such thing as a ‘circuit breaker lockdown’ now.
This is fake science that surpasses the Piltdown Man hoax.
Pretty sure this is illegal. The school has a duty under the Education Act to educate. Unless it’s been instructed to close by the Public Health Department using powers under the public health act, then parents should still be taking the children to school.
Btw, I live in Hereford. Which one; there’s two St Mary’s Primaries; Credenhill or Fownhope?
Dear Mr. Taxpayer,
“Illegal” is what I and my former schoolfriends say it is.
I am,
Your Obedient Servant,
[Scrawl some unreadable hieroglyphs here, please, Bernard- thanks awfully; HA].
Hello – I live not too far from Hereford.
And my daughter goes to college there, so I visit Hereford quite regularly
Credenhill
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/schools-education/school-closures
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-59400447
BBC News website
Covid in Wales: 2,000 patients die after catching virus in hospital – BBC News
‘More than 2,000 people in Wales, who probably caught Covid in hospital, went on to die within 28 days, data shows.
There have been at least 8,243 cases of patients probably or definitely catching Covid in Welsh hospitals since the start of the pandemic.
About 27% of those died within 28 days, though not necessarily of Covid, having been admitted for other reasons’.
They seem to want their cake and eat it
‘though not necessarily of Covid’
It’s not really a Covid death then if we our darling NHS causes it
The ‘more than 2,000’ is actually 2,225 (27%)
The 2,225 is 35% of all the recorded Covid deaths in Wales (6,361)
As the infection rates in pubs is 1% with an IFR of .3% wouldn’t it have been better to close the hospitals and keep the pubs open
Seen on another forum …
“Countries should consider mandatory Covid vaccination, says WHO Europe
Countries should consider implementing mandatory Covid vaccination, the director of World Health Organization (WHO) Europe said today.
Robb Butler said that although “mandatory vaccine can, but does not always, increase uptake”, he suggested countries should start thinking about the issue.
It comes after Germany’s tourism commissioner, Thomas Bareiss, said he expected vaccination to become mandatory in the country. Austria plans to make it compulsory from February.”
From the Guardian, I think … where else.
Fascists.
The UN has got to go.
And the WHO, WEF, UNESCO, WWFN, in fact ALL the totalitarian NGO’s.
but If you decide to take your child on holiday during term time you get a warning letter or a fine! I’d be using this against the school if they ever tried complaining about attendance.
SARS-CoV2 and the ‘common cold’ are going to be around forever, so might as well close all schools down tomorrow, and forever. Will make good accommodation for the 400-1,000 folk arriving from France every day.
hahahahahahaha. Locking down and creating emotional problems, just in case Government lockdown and cause emotional problems. You couldn’t make it up. I think we need to look at the intelligence levels of our educators.
I can’t have just read that can I?
I must book an eye test to check my reading specs are OK…
So they’ve disrupted in-person lessons “because of concerns that in-person lessons would be disrupted”! Right!
Despite every ounce of data from studies showing lockdowns simply do not work. I would get my kid out of that school ASAP. If the people who run those schools are this stupid what other kind of mistakes are they making with your child’s education?