- “Thousands of protesters march for Palestine through capital cities” – Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors have taken to the streets in European capital cities as the crisis in the Middle East deepens, says the Mail.
- “Police to explain why they stood by as protesters called for ‘jihad’” – Home Secretary Suella Braverman is demanding an explanation from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police after his officers stood by as pro-Palestine demonstrators called for a ‘jihad’ against Israel, reports the Mail.
- “Arrest after man seen in video chanting ‘God’s curse be upon the Jews’” – A man seen in a video chanting pro-Hamas slogans during huge pro-Palestine protests in London – and waving a sinister, black flag – is being held in custody after being arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred, according to the Mail.
- “Revealed: The Hamas chief who lives in a London council house” – Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, the fugitive who led Hamas’s terrorist operations in the West Bank, was issued with a British passport and recently bought his own council house with a £112,000 discount, reveals the Sunday Times.
- “Colleagues left ‘appalled’ by top doctor’s comments on Israeli response to Hamas attacks” – The President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has sparked outrage after writing to members, implying that Israel’s military response to the Hamas terrorist attacks has been “barbaric”, while failing to highlight the plight of the child hostages, according to the Telegraph.
- “I’m a Palestinian. Hamas alone is responsible for the blood shed in Gaza” – Hamas is responsible for all the blood that has been shed and will continue to be shed during this war, full stop, writes Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights activist, in Newsweek.
- “BBC’s Israel reporting failures are a danger to British Jews, says ex-boss” – Danny Cohen, a former director of the BBC’s TV channels, has said the Corporation’s “failures” over its reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict have had “dangerous, real-world consequences” for British Jews, according to the Telegraph.
- “It’s not the occupation” – It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided, notes David Benatar in Quillette.
- “How Hamas is winning the propaganda war against Israel” – Misinformation warfare is transforming historic antisemitism into raging Israelophobia, warns Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Against set-menu morality” – Demonising Israel has for years sat on the hard Left’s set menu, and this viewpoint has moved from starter to main course, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “The Islamo-Left is a menace to Jews and decency” – The Western Left’s failure to denounce Hamas confirms its abandonment of secularism and reason, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Jonathan Sumption on Gaza, lockdown and the ECHR” – Jonathan Sumption sits down with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to discuss everything from our evolving attitudes to war, Covid, the ECHR and Roe v. Wade.
- “California high school students stage pro-Hamas walkouts after textbooks instil anti-Israel, pro-jihad views” – Students take up the cause of America’s enemies because they have been taught, explicitly, to do so, explains Libby Emmons in The Post Millennial.
- “The campus peril to Western civilisation” – U.S. student and faculty reactions to Hamas’s atrocities demonstrate once and for all the fraud of elite higher education. We must reform our universities or create new ones, argues Jacob Howland in City Journal.
- “Henry Kissinger: ‘Grave mistake’ to import different cultures and religions into West” – In a video on Wide Awake Media, Henry Kissinger says it was “a grave mistake” to import so many people of totally different cultures and religions into the West, because of the tensions it has inevitably give rise to.
- “Belgium’s cowardice is preventing it from tackling its terror threat” – There is no co-ordinated fight against extremists in Belgium and it is increasingly regarded by France as a threat to its national security, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Is Germany no longer safe for Jews?” – The firebombing of a Berlin synagogue speaks to a chilling return of antisemitism, says Sabine Beppler-Spahl in Spiked.
- “mRNA Covid vaccines form spike protein in heart cells, but cause different anomalies” – New research observing rat and human heart cells shows that within 48 hours of vaccination the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines form spike proteins, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Lockdown sceptics are rapidly being vindicated” – The Covid Inquiry has shown how the scientific process was perverted by advisers steeped in groupthink, says Karol Sikora in the Telegraph.
- “Researchers find Pfizer excluded clinical trial deaths from FDA Covid vaccine EUA request” – A recent study suggests Pfizer excluded known deaths in the vaccine arm of its clinical trial from its ‘emergency use authorisation’ data filing to the FDA, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Reform U.K. party leader rules out coalition lifeline for Rishi Sunak” – Reform U.K. leader Richard Tice has said he would refuse a pact with the Tories even if they offered him five million quid, says the Mail.
- “‘We’re the first county to lose every single bank’” – The Telegraph reports on unease in the East Midlands as a community reliant on cash contemplates a bankless future.
- “Academics urge Rishi Sunak not to buckle under pressure from Big Tech” – A group of leading economists have warned Rishi Sunak not to buckle under intense lobbying from the world’s biggest online giants to help them “escape” proposed new regulation, reports the Mail.
- “The Frank Report LXVI” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland remarks that Rishi Sunak is now a “dead billionaire walking”, Labour MPs have started showing their true colours and Scotland is reeling from the suicidal immigration policy of Humza Useless.
- “Labour planning electric car cash incentive after committing to 2030 petrol ban” – Labour will give drivers cash to buy EVs under plans being considered to help Britain stick to its Net Zero target, reports the Telegraph.
- “Where Is the alleged Australian warming?” – As with all scientific work, researchers are not permitted to rely on convoluted interpretations when the primary data do not tell the required story about global warming, says Dr. Geoff Sherrington in WUWT.
- “Greta Thunberg: Poster girl of eco-austerity” – Climate protesters pose as radicals, while pushing a reactionary agenda, writes Angie Speaks in Spiked.
- “Arctic sea ice: The canary in the coal mine” – More honest reporting is required from media outlets, climate scientists and government bodies about the true nature of climate change, instead of highly selective reporting or misreporting to build an alarmist narrative, says Greg Goodman in WUWT.
- “The cost of doing good” – Proponents of ‘impact investing’, or investing both to benefit society and generate financial returns, made big promises and failed to deliver, writes Aswath Damodaran in City Journal.
- “University of Cambridge library ‘blacklists harmful books’ in decolonising drive” – The University of Cambridge’s national library has been accused of blacklisting books in a “sinister” new decolonising drive, reveals the Telegraph.
- “U.K. Government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity” – The Government has been monitoring the social media accounts of “dozens” of ordinary teaching staff and is keeping files on posts that criticise education policies, reports the Guardian.
- “Chief Whip in row over plans to ban conversion therapy” – Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart is at the centre of extraordinary claims that he had vowed to “crush the religious Right” amid the ongoing row over a conversion therapy ban, according to the Mail.
- “Mother wins landmark court ruling to stop child having private trans treatment” – A mother has won the first High Court ruling to stop her child, who believes she is really a boy, being treated outside the NHS, according to the Sunday Times.
- “De-transitioner with multiple personalities slams doctors for therapy” – A North Carolina lesbian has slammed doctors who led her down a path of transitioning as a “fractured and unstable” adolescent, reports the Mail.
- “We risk raising nation of chemically castrated kids, says Tavistock doctor” – A former Tavistock Trust doctor has told the MailOnline that Britain could become a nation of chemically castrated children if trans and gender theory is allowed to fester unchallenged.
- “Scottish country dancing gets makeover with new etiquette guide” – An etiquette guide has been published by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society to create a “safe, comfortable and inclusive place to dance for all”, reports the Mail.
- “AI will destroy TV news” – For 100 years or more, a photo was seen as near-conclusive proof in disputes of any kind. All that is about to disappear, warns Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett lets rip on Victoria Derbyshire” – Speaking to the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire, former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett attacks the broadcaster for taking the Gazan side in the conflict and lacking moral clarity.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hamas-chief-lives-london-council-house-uk-phnpsssx5
sheesh, unbelievable. Makes me feel very safe and comfortable, living in the UK, knowing that folk like him pass the absolutely ‘tiptop’ National and local security screening – and to boot, are allowed a huge discount when buying property.Unbelievable!
“Labour planning electric car cash incentive after committing to 2030 petrol ban”
I do wonder if cars, transport and EVs are going to be the area where the net zero project project first crashes into the brick wall of reality? Weighing up all the issues around EVs, my conclusion is that private personal ownership of an EV is not a good option and that if EVs have a future it is as corporate vehicles run on a leasehold basis. Indeed I note that this article talks about Labour subsidising personal EV contract agreements. But all of this puts the financial threshold for personal motoring way beyond the scope of most ordinary folk, even with a subsidy.
On a related note I see that my local council, Torridge, is imposing EVs on the taxi trade by linking the use of EVs with taxi licensing;
https://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/home/1327947/request-to-delay-ev-taxi-conversion-in-torridge-refused.html#:~:text=Only%2035%25%20of%20the%20taxis,licensed%20for%20the%20first%20time.
I suspect it will only be large corporate taxi groups who will be able to run EV taxis, individual owner/drivers will find it hard to run an EV taxi on an economic basis. It does seem to me that the way this EV stuff is going is to end personal private transport for the majority of the hoi-polloi, who will be forced to use public transport or taxis run by large corporate groups while only an elite will have EVs on a corporate lease basis.
This would be a huge change for our society and have major impacts on sectors like leisure and tourism. Is the British public going to allow its personal travel freedoms to be taken in this way, will they shrug their shoulders and accept that the era of the personal private car is finished or will they fight back?
Good question, it’s obvious at least to me that electric car charging stations are not popping up at the rate you would expect given the push for electric vehicles … the only conclusion is to assume, as you say, that travel for the average Joe is going to be severely curtailed in the future.
One reason for the dirth of charging points is that the electricity grid couldn’t cope with the required number. It would need billions in investment to upgrade it. Then there’s the question of the generation of electricity itself. Are renewables going to provide enough power for the entire national infrastructure: domestic, industrial, transport, commercial, etc…?
Well I think we can write off industry, that will save some! Why would energy-hungry industries stay in a country with expensive unreliable power when they can go to places where fossil fuels are still used? (Oh, I forgot subsidies – let’s just keep paying Tata Steel and everything will be rosy)
The masses still naively (after the last 3 years) believe that Parliament and the Government is on their side – ie that democracy works to ensure that nothing happens that is not in the people’s interest.
Would the people vote for a 75% reduction in the number of private cars owned? Obviously not, but that is what TPTB are aiming to achieve.
We won’t be able to fight back if the supply of petrol & diesel is slowly curtailed, garages could start closing just like the banks !
Nor will we have any food other than local food….
““Labour planning electric car cash incentive after committing to 2030 petrol ban” “
i.e. Labour plans to steal money from people who can’t afford EVs to help those who can.
(as per solar panels & heat pumps)
Rob the poor to help the rich. New New Labour, I guess…
““Labour planning electric car cash incentive after committing to 2030 petrol ban” “
I.E Take money off those who can’t afford one (regardless of whether one wants one) to those who can.
I guess thus is New New Labour? Still it is consistent with existing policy, which stole of the poor to help the rich – i.e. subsidies for solar panels and heat pumps.
We’ve got a small car park in Badcox, in Frome. Maybe 20 parking spaces. Months back, 6 were removed and EV chargers placed by them. Two are still hooded, the other I have never seen a car plugged into, so I suspect that one is also inactive.
How much money did they take off who in order to remove these parking spaces?
Labour are committing a political car crash if they go forward with this into the GE.
“Labour planning electric car cash incentive after committing to 2030 petrol ban”
So not content with continuing a senseless programme of self-flagellation, we’re going to be bribed with our own money..?
“Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett lets rip on Victoria Derbyshire”
Good for him. I dont recall the BBC studying the Geneva Convention quite so thoroughly before asking questions of Hamas officals. This also shows the problem with the left in that they go first to the paperwork and the lawyers to prove they are right. On the ground, it doesn’t work like that.
…why would the BBC asks terrorists anything?….
unless you are saying that they are equal and equivalent to the rest of the civilised world..something I know from your comments you don’t think.
Of course these are the questions that MUST be asked, because Israel claims to be a civilised country, part of democracy, and to adhere to International Laws.
So what?….none of that matters when it doesn’t suit your purpose? THAT is the truth on the ground, and what millions are reacting to..the shameful hypocrisy…. that they can do what they want with impunity, and remain somehow on the moral high-ground.
They can’t, and millions see it..
I am going to throw a specific (rhetorical?) question into the mix…
If a Palestinian family lives above or next to rocket launchers which have been used by Hamas against Israel, is Israel entitled, for self-defence reasons, to ask that family to move out (or warn them to move out) of their home so that it can destroy these rocket launchers?
Richard Kemp answered this question. In war, there is no requirement. The only duty is to not deliberately target civilians. There will always unfortunately be civilian casualties.
The IDF is the most moral army on the planet. Door knocking on roofs, phone calls, leaflet drops, precision guidance plus over a week of warnings now to move to south Gaza.
Bear in mind there are few ‘innocent civilians’ in Gaza. Many of the atrocities, rapes, kidnappings were performed by ‘civilians’ who followed the terrorists through the fences.
Your opinion only…
I find it outstandingly inhumane and racist…
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/10/15/list-of-war-crimes-and-crimes-qualifying-as-genocide-committed-by-israel-in-gaza-since-7th-october-2023/
Yanis. Sigh.
Yes because that’s the important bit, not the actual war crimes. Sigh!
Hmmm. And where exactly are these families that have been given the kind warning supposed to go? Where do they sleep, where do they cook food, where do they sh*t? Many of these families will have newborn babies or elderly relatives, what are they supposed to do? Surely, a ‘moral’ response would not just be to tell people to leave their homes, but to also provide somewhere that they can go? If you don’t do this then you’re just killing people in a different way.
I think the conflict is so incredibly complex, with so many fringe, unseen, players, that choosing a side is impossible. That is said by separating Hamas from Palestine though, because the animals who committed those barbaric acts should be strung up for all to see. What is your evidence of civilians committing those crimes? Could you share please?
Self same civilians elected Hamas.
Elected? No. Do you know the percentage of Palestinians that support Hamas? My understanding is that the numbers are large, but I have no idea what the % is and whether the sources of information can be trusted. What makes you so certain that your views are an accurate portrayal of the situation?
It’s a nonsense, and he knows it…at least 50% of the population are under 18 and have never been involved in an election of any kind..
No they didn’t.
Somebody should tell Mr Putin, who surely must have moved up a notch, having made sure in over eighteen months to have not even come close to the civilian deaths caused by Israel in two weeks.
Now apparently, all he has to do is telephone civilians, drop leaflets and flyers, just tell those pesky Ukrainians to move to the west of the country and the man will be a Saint?
Well, quite. I’ve been surprised by the lack of critical thinking by posters on this forum who are normally so good at separating facts form half-truths or blatant lies. The inability to draw comparisons has also been unexpected. In my mind at least, this conflict is so nuanced that to firmly take one side or another is a little naive. My gut tells me something isn’t right about the narrative and, yet again, I can’t help but ponder US involvement. No evidence of that though, just a hunch.
…well it has actually taught me a couple of lessons one is that the BNP appear to be sorely missed by many and would get voted in if they made a comeback!
And It has really made me understand the people who got the jab more.
It seems that if the agenda goes towards your bias..whatever it is, you jump in with both feet..just like the jabees did.…..
you want to believe, you believe..
you don’t want to look at any evidence that doesn’t concur with your outlook, you don’t look…
you want to make an alternative narrative up..then you do..
I have just posted his ATL…..
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/10/a-brief-history-of-the-netanyahu-hamas-alliance/
There is so much evidence that Netanyahu is up to his neck in paying for and supporting Hammas that it seems odd no one has got an article on it in DS?
Then again if you don’t want to see, you won’t look!
..this is something each person has to answer for themselves..
What I think is reasonable, or right, won’t be the same as others.
I would be interested in your view…
Mine is that the right to self-defence against further rocket attacks trumps the right to continue living adjacent to the rocket launchers, and is morally justifiable if sufficient warning is given.
How?
I assume your question is “how should the family move out?”. The answer (not intended to be heartless, but rather recognising the harsh reality of the situation) is – the same way millions of families caught up in conflict situations leave their homes. It is hugely difficult…
Hamas are the ruling body of Gaza. The BBC has not posed questions to them, so far as I’m aware about keeping their activities inside the Geneva Convention. I wondered why it was important to check this with the Israeli forces, including the theatre of putting on glasses and reading from the document in front of her.
I suspect the problem is that the left and the BBC see the Israeli’s as the ‘oppressor’, in modern intersectional theory terms.But then Most of the people shouting about Palestinians, and the ‘apartheid’ they suffer, don’t know arse from elbow and are ignorant of history
Her response that she “mentioned” the hostage beyond belief. However, Ms. Derbyshire has never had any problem with being impartial. She just doesn’t go there. Back when she was on the radio, if she interviewed a Tory MP you could hear her claws unsheathing.
Horrible person.
“Greta Thunberg: Poster girl of eco-austerity”
Her time is done. She should get a job at a supermarket and live the rest of her life. I’m pretty much convinced that her rise to prominence was due to leftie parents imagining, dreaming, that their offspring could be so blessed with oratory and passion about the planet. Oh, to have a daughter like Greta. Well, at 21 she’s never done a days work, and she hasn’t done a day in further education either. A life of being angry, and spouting bollocks is no way to live. Ask Femi. The pixie and her pigtails are well and truly past their sell by date.
also, ‘Fossil Free London’ ought to be demonstrating outside the Natural History Museum.
Or outside the House of Lords
Ban Covid mRNA Jabs Forever
– latest leaflet to print at home or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
His recent presentation to MD4CE id well worth a watch
https://rumble.com/v3q2f6f-prof.-angus-dalgleish.html
Camilla Kingdon is the Paediatric doctor who has commented on the Palestinian debacle ! Also she reckons Climate change is the biggest threat to babies & children & there’s me thinking that maybe it’s Fauci,s Froth that she’s obviously watched being squirted into pregnant women & their precious offspring that definitely is more dangerous !!..
Yesterday evening Craig Paardekooper presented to MD4CE on his latest project – producing searchable databases comparing all vaccine symptoms reported on VAERS for safety signal. The information presented is worse than even us sceptical members of MD4CE realised. We knew it was bad but had no idea just how bad.
Most of the vaccines have safety signal data for 1 or possibly 2 symptoms out of a list of over 90. The covid mono & bivalent injections have well over 80 symptoms listed against them which have exceeded the accepted safety signal level.
Scary stuff.
As Craig is in Tanzania, his bandwidth & connection was a bit dodgy at times, so be aware of that when watching the recording.
https://rumble.com/v3r26vi-craig-paardekooper.html
His searchable databases are posted as SAFETY SIGNAL SEARCH ENGINE on https://howbadismybatch.com/
This data deserves a full & detailed ATL article & sharing widely so that folk can look at the data to make informed choices about what they allow to be injected into themselves or their children.
Sumption on UnHerd is the epitome of wisdom, as usual.
But one point he missed:
“People did it [lockdown] without any kind of religious motivation”.
That´s not true. The most fervent lockdowners believed in “The Science™”, particularly that social enforcement agency masquerading as medicine, viz. “Public Health”.
This “scientism” as it is called is the antithesis of empirical, tentative, Popperian science.
The modern frightened populace were believers and flagellated themselves, just like their mediaeval forbears before the threat of bubonic plague.