- “Top officials say Gaza ground offensive ‘soon’, warn it will be ‘long and intense’” – Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has told troops near Gaza that the order to enter Gaza would come “soon”, reports the Times of Israel.
- “Political Islam now commands the Middle East” – The October 7th attacks and their aftermath “should serve as a belated alarm call”, writes Jonathan Spyer in the Spectator, about the “nature, dimensions and existential seriousness of the Iranian and Islamist project” that forms the new geopolitical landscape in the Middle East and beyond.
- “Why do we allow protests that glorify slaughter?” – Douglas Murrays uses his latest column in the Spectator to list the inconsistencies in the pronouncements of the people taking part in the anti-Israel demonstrations last Saturday.
- “Labour could tear itself in two over Israel and Palestine” – Ross Clark explains in the Telegraph how the Gaza war could reopen old wounds in the Labour Party, damaging its election prospects.
- “The U.K. doesn’t have a duty to take in a single Gazan refugee” – “This is a crisis made in the Middle East,” argues Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph. “And it is for the countries in the region to come to the rescue of those fleeing the rockets and bombs.”
- “Terror group’s spokesman smiles in Channel 4 interview about beheadings” – Channel 4 has been accused of “irresponsible journalism”, the Mail says, after it broadcast Hamas Spokesman Osama Hamden dismissing reports of beheadings and the burning of children as Israeli lies.
- “Israeli President slams BBC over Hamas coverage in talk with Sunak” –The Israeli President Isaac Herzog has told Rishi that “the way the BBC characterises Hamas is a distortion of the facts”, according to the Mail.
- “How the educated elites became Hamas apologists” – “America’s top universities are consumed by Israel Derangement Syndrome,” writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
- “Governments and media spread misinformation on Israel and Gaza while demanding censorship” – “Inaccurate reporting of the Gaza hospital bombing exposes the hypocrisy of those raising the alarm about ‘disinformation’,” say Michael Shellenberger, Leighton Woodhouse and Alex Gutentag in Public.
- “Government scientists called Sunak ‘Dr Death’ in Covid crisis meeting” – Dame Angela McLean, now the Chief Scientific Advisor, described Rishi Sunak as ”Dr. Death” over the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme, and Professor Carl Heneghan as a “f—wit”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Ministers went against advice not to frighten public during pandemic, Covid Inquiry told” – Professor James Rubin, co-chairman of Spi-B, told the Covid inquiry that the Government was warned that frightening the public would not work, the Telegraph reports.
- “With virus season looming and awareness campaign funding slashed, experts see a scattered COVID-19 vaccine rollout ahead” – CNN tries to work out why the American public appears not to be in a hurry to get the latest Covid jab.
- “The war on motorists is not a myth” – Watch Spiked’s Tom Slater take apart the gaslighting carried out by the green elites to show that war on cars is very real.
- “Inside Britain’s new trans clinics” – Kathleen Stock fills UnHerd readers in on what happened to the NHS Gender Identity Development Service after the announcement of its closure last July.
- “MacHamas” – “The SNP is surely finished,” says Roger Watson in the New Conservative. “Like a landed fish, twitching and gasping its last.”
- “The real reason for falling birth rates” – The trend is not driven by people remaining childless by choice, writes Stephen J. Shaw in the Spectator, but ”by people feeling economically vulnerable and deferring parenthood”.
- “Maths teacher sacked after pupils ‘made up assault claims’” – Maths and Computer teacher Jonathan Hawker was sacked from his job at an all-girls grammar school over sex assault allegations which the kids made up for fun, the Mail reports. He has now been awarded nearly £45,000 in compensation.
- “Rishi Sunak has caved on ‘conversion therapy’” – “Don’t let anyone tell you that British politics is no longer stonewalled,” says Joan Smith in UnHerd, bemoaning the news that the Government intends on a complete ban on ‘conversion therapy’.
- “Australia has given us a masterclass in how to defeat identity politics” – “The country’s referendum on ‘the Voice’ saw division beaten by optimism,” says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. “The Tories should take note.”
- “Ukraine’s fight has been eclipsed by the ‘Other War’” – Christina Lamb offers the Spectator an account of her experience contributing to a literary festival in war-torn Ukraine.
- “Victoria’s Secret brings sexy back after ‘inclusive’ rebrand brings sales slump” – Lingerie company Victoria’s Secret is set to return to the sexiness it was once known for, the Post Millennial says, following a drop in revenue after its move towards inclusive marketing.
- “EU Commission to delay adoption of sustainability reporting standards by two years” – The European Commission has announced plans to delay the implementation of some corporate sustainability reporting rules, ESG today reports, including requirements for sustainability reporting from companies outside the EU.
- “Chivalry is dead” – Writing in Spectator Life, Laura Dodsworth mourns the decline and fall of chivalry and wonders if there are any modern knights out there brave enough to revive it.
- “I’ve just had one of the most disturbing experiences in nine years at Campaign Against Antisemitism” – Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, tells of how police told him that he must turn off the lit-up posters of kidnapped Israeli children on his billboard vans or he would be arrested.
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“New TV series to finally reveal the shocking racism of Colditz’s British officers”
They’ll be telling us that the war-time prisoners were racist towards Germans next. Pointless and divisive, and probably as wide of the mark as believing that the original TV series was a documentary and not a work of fiction based on actuality. Enough with the retrospective character assassinations.
I can thoroughly recommend Ben MacIntyre’s book, which was very well resarched and readable, but you’re probably right in anticipating that the BBC will find ways to focus the narrative on Brexit, Climate Change, and Trans rights!
MacIntyre didn’t have to do a great deal of digging to discover that Pat Reid’s “The Colditz Story” was akin to a Mills and Boon version of history. Examples that he provided covered the disgraceful treatment of the British officers’ personal servants (“batmen”), and the way the British officers shunned and ostracised Birendranath Mazumdar, the brave Indian doctor who had been captured when tending the wounded in France in 1940. (Ultimately, Dr Mazumdar engineered a transfer to another camp, from which he escaped to Switzerland in 1943.)
Yes, I’m a big fan of his books. Given David Stirling was imprisoned in Colditz, this will work as a nice companion piece to SAS: Rogue Heroes, a bit like A Spy Among Friends and The Spy and the Traitor are companions.
All part of the playbook: cast doubt on one’s history, culture, gender, health and keep going until you have a society that doesn’t know itself, with deep divisions and mistrust and hate being the norm. Then give them a new identity and construct a new subservient society who own nothing, who know nothing and want nothing and are happy. Yes, Neil, they’ll be telling us next that the Nazis were misunderstood health fanatics who liked smart uniforms.
Destroy our society and our culture and then “build back better” eh Aethelred?
Exactomundo, HP!
Depends on how well the book is adapted. Ben McIntyre’s books are unfailingly well researched enjoyable. Look at any prison – particularly think about US dramas where this is shown – and you frequently find the population breaks up into factions, many of which can be murderously hostile to one another. It is any surprise that such divisions existed in a wartime prison? The BBC will perhaps turn it into some sort of left wing, anti-white, anti-middle class screed, but it’s highly likely such factions existed and the inmates weren’t unfailingly courteous to one another. What will perhaps be misreported is that it’s less ‘racism’ than standard factions that exist in any prison population.
My copy of Colditz arrived a few days ago and I can’t wait to start it. I’ve read A Spy Among Friends, The Spy and the Traitor, SAS: Rogue Heroes and Agent Zigzag. They are superb books and very well balanced. I’ve not seen the TV shows, because I rarely watch TV (I work in audiovisual media, so you can’t expect me to want to engage with it in my time off! :D) I doubt McIntyre has suddenly gone over to the Dark Side, because he’d lose too many of his readers!!
“Cambridge challenges nationalist myths, denies existence of Anglo-Saxons” –
It would appear to me that the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, have just made themselves redundant. Collect you personal possessions, and bon voyage.!
Mmm…the destruction of history continues apace and there I was thinking that a lot of intelligent thinking went on in those hallowed halls of learning. I wonder if that includes all the descendants of these races what with their DNA etc? Was the reality that we were mainly Asians and probably many LGBTQ+? It’s a miracle that we’re actually here!
“Sunak blocking release of text messages in Covid inquiry”
I bet he is. I like Boris, as a dinner guest, not as a Prime Minister. He’s not the guy to take being hung out to dry lightly. None of them have clean hands (..and i’ll include the so called ‘opposition’.)
Bozo is calling Fishy’s bluff. I wonder what level of interference the WEF handlers have in all this?
Are the “WEF handlers” not handling Bozo too?
I thought that was the general opinion of people who believe that the WEF are controlling everything, that they control all the top politicians, not just some, is that not so?
Johnson flunked the WEF indoctrination school, allegedly!! Probably too busy shagging. His entire life seems to be controlled by his nads, hence his ultra-woke wife turned him into an eco-loon.
Despite English not being his first language, Dr Thomas Binder sure has a way with words, haha! Nails it though.
”As a doctor, I think the most embarrassing in the corona crime is that almost all doctors shit their pants because of incredibly easy-to-see-through tall stories notoriously served up by pitifully embarrassing narcissistic urban idiots in academia, politics, media, and showbiz.”
https://twitter.com/Thomas_Binder/status/1634459688094892033?cxt=HHwWgoC8yaab4q4tAAAA
An interesting article about a new study and some wise words from Dr Marty Makary regarding natural immunity. One thing I would say though is that the presence of antibodies in the blood as a result of the injections doesn’t count as ”protection against Covid-19”, as can be shown by all of the emerging evidence we’ve seen that demonstrates the vaxxed get more recurring infections, generally get sicker and get hospitalized and die more than the unvaxxed, due to the fact the vax has immunosuppressing effects, as well as being non-sterilizing. We also see evidence of this playing out all around us, I know I have. And isn’t it what Dr Bhakdi has been banging on about since the start? What good are vax-generated antibodies in one’s bloodstream when the respiratory virus enters via the upper airways? It’s why natural immunity will always reign supreme.
”The new CDC study analyzed blood donations from 142,748 individuals aged 16 and older between July and September 2022. The researchers found that 96.4 percent of the donors had evidence of antibodies against COVID-19, indicating prior infection, vaccination, or both.
Comparing the data to earlier periods, the study revealed an increase in the percentage of people with antibodies. The figure rose from 93.5 percent during January to March 2022 and 68.4 percent in mid-2021. Of those with antibodies, approximately 26 percent had antibodies solely from vaccination, 22.6 percent had antibodies solely from prior infection, and 47.7 percent had antibodies from both vaccination and prior infection.
The study also noted that infection-induced immunity was more prevalent among the unvaccinated individuals in the cohort. The presence of antibodies, whether acquired through infection or vaccination, likely contributes to lower rates of severe disease and death from COVID-19 compared to the early stages of the pandemic.”
https://beckernews.com/new-cdc-study-confirms-that-almost-every-american-has-covid-19-antibodies-50589/
Love this!
The comments beneath are gold too. There’s hope yet!
”Dear Covidians – look, we get it. You bought the lie hook, line, and sinker and it’s hard to accept you were bamboozled. You social distanced for no reason, masked up for no reason, cut off friends and family for no reason. Told them they were murderers who’d die on ventilators for no reason. You willingly injected an extremely questionable untested chemical into your body numerous times in exchange for free donuts and french fries so you could feel like a hero, and you ended up with Covid again anyway. All the while, the people you shamed and blamed are hanging out just as healthy as they were pre-2020. I’d be embarrassed too, but you need to stop this. You need to come to terms with what you took part in. The jig is up and you know it. Stop lying to yourself. You don’t have to keep doubling down. It’s over. Take off the mask. Tell your friends and family you’re sorry. And for the love of God, stop injecting yourself with that poison. It’s over.”
https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/1665020928470777856
Maybe it isn’t over, take a look at this obscure but worrying blog post ….
https://www.rintrah.nl/evolution-towards-increased-interferon-suppression/
Yeah I think the above guy is referring more to the charade being over. ”The jig is up..”. Must be American, I’ve always said ”gig”…Anyway, I understood his post as meaning the majority of people, whether they care to admit it or not, because they were daft enough to be fooled, have woken up and beheld the Emperor is stark bollock naked. Read your link. I’m still more concerned about the very real and looming threat which is the WHO power grab over one of a gazillion viruses floating around us constantly tbh. Perhaps this would be more of a legitimate concern for the vaxxed peeps, although they can’t turn back the clock. I try not to worry though as chronic stress is also not good for one’s immune system.
That is an excellent and highly plausible case that is made and the logic is sound enough for me.
A shame about the final two paragraphs.
I think we’ll get a lot of tumbleweed blowing around in a deserted desert town with a door repeatedly banging and an old windmill creaking away type situation. I came across something the other day which sort of stated that if you have lived according to lies, then lies are your truth no matter what you are presented with. Like some comments sad, ‘They will take it to the grave’ – and sadly it will probably be an early one. Some may indeed wake up to this and get angry and bitter, especially if they are now having health problems. It’s just so goddamn awful what has been perpetrated against ordinary human beings, our friends and relations.
There is at least 1 funeral per week at the village church, there is a similar number at the local crem. The kill protocol is working just fine here…
For comparison in 2020 when we should have been running out of room in the graveyard, nothing untoward in terms of funerals…
The deaths have really accelerated this year, as has the number of cancer diagnoses & cardiac/stroke diagnoses…
It is so sad as too many good individuals have died because of the tyranny, terrorism & psychological torture wreaked upon them by the government.
The lead time in our neck of the woods is now six weeks between death and crematorium.
I don’t know what the crem lead time is. A lot of the funerals at the church are burials.
So in Mandy Cohen America has once again employed a complete Air Head who has no self awareness whatsoever , she will fit in a treat !!
She’s a total nobhead. And I use that insult in the most gender-fluid, non-binary way possible.
Steve Kirsch will be having kittens! Another useless, conniving idiot to have to deal with.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/news/sweden-ditched-inheritance-tax-business-boom/
Taxes, taxes and more flaming taxes imposed on most anyone and anything, practically from birth to death. IHT is a final insult and should be scrapped.
Did Big Ears pay IHT when his mother died, I wonder?
Don’t be daft! It’s all wrapped up in a private trust to ensure that no wealth is lost.
Hmm, keeping it in the family and the government can keep its thieving mitts off it. Interesting.
All the richest in the world use this entirely lawful vehicle to protect their assets from the state. All the property is owned by the Trust not the individual so the individual cannot be taxed as they don’t own anything….
Nice little work around if you can afford to do so…
A bit late commenting on yesterday’s post of Matt Walsh’s ‘What is a Woman’ doc but just watched the last half hour this morning. I have to say that it is incredibly disturbing what they are doing to our kids: affirming therapy, hormones (+ puberty blockers); surgery. Once ‘bits’ are gone, they’re gone and later, when the kid, now an adult, changes their mind, they can’t. Too late. They are then caught in a miserable state where, if originally female, they can’t have kids. If originally a male, they can at least freeze their sperm if indeed they have any. There are all these ‘enablers’ who are also caught up in this horrific and, dare I say, demonic movement that seems to make it very easy for a child to do this transition. Transition not to an actual man or woman but a bad copy of one and forever damaged. Trans people, because there are so many social media groups, feel empowered by their frankly insane decisions. Anyway, I thoroughly recommend a viewing if you can still see it here: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664609193230204929?s=43
I watched it too! Would highly recommend it. One of the most shameful parts for me is that he stopped women on the street and they couldn’t even answer what a woman was!
They just stood there in gormless silence. The world is fooked if this is the level of intellect and understanding people have. I was also really shocked at some of the doctors and what they were saying. I don’t want to go into it too much because I’ll end up dropping spoilers but did you not look at many of these people he was interviewing and start wondering, ”Have they actually transitioned to the opposite sex?”. I felt that, aside from the ones that we knew about, nearly everybody ( that blue haired paediatrician, for e.g ) seemed to be the opposite of what they were shown to be. My faves were the lady psychiatrist with the glasses, because she told it like it is, and the Star Wars shop owner. He was class!! LOL 
Agree, Mogs. The level of denial and ignorance was off the wall. I liked the lady psychiatrist too and Jordan Peterson and yes that Star Wars Shop guy. The last scene was actually very moving and so simple.
Agreed – I loved the last scene and likewise found it moving.
Thanks for posting the link. I’ve just watched and enjoyed the video. It is ironic that so many women can’t answer the question ‘what is a woman?’
[My emphasis]. ‘Long-held values” – what, you mean the biological imperative of stating the bleedin’ obvious that women don’t have d*cks?
I will no longer give Brendan O’Neill the time of day after his disgusting article declaring that Care Home workers should be mandated to take the C1984 injections.
Unforgivable – and its not as if he has come out subsequently to ask for forgiveness. Next Tuesday!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/petition-the-king-to-keep-our-national-powers/
Please have a read. This suggestion has some merit despite Chuckles being decidedly well blessed in the stupidity / evil department.
31 ‘animal raisin’ pipsqueaks arrested……..
I can’t write any further….the ribs……
The two nice coffee shop owners in Plymouth, supported by this site, made the front page of the Plymouth Herald yesterday, having paid off the disgusting fines they were charged.
The Herald, which was part of the media organisation that went after them like flies on dogshit and ratted them out to the council and police, mentioned the Daily Sceptic in their article, accusing it of promoting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and climate change denial.
I will never buy the Herald again after what they did – I’m speaking as someone who did his early work experience there in the 1990s! What they did wasn’t finding a story: they created a story and nearly got two decent people put in prison. People fined under COVID-19 regulations should have all their money refunded.
Agreed. I’m glad they raised enough to cover the fine. Perhaps Carl Eve, Crime Reporter, can go back to reporting about crime.