- “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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I’m glad you’ve closed down London Calling. Because your interlocutor has gradually transformed from a reasonable right wing dandy into some species of cultic fruitcake, complete with thin skin, it became impossible to sustain discussion. In the first place he responded with peevish insults to the first suggestion of disagreement; and worse, his “theories”, for want of a better word, boil down to a childish belief in a tribe of all powerful bogeymen. I stopped listening months ago for just this reason. Not only did JD reject the perfectly obvious point that there will never be a single explanation for all things; not only did he dismiss the role that accident plays in life, he wouldn’t even accept the perfectly proper point that in “woke” we are dealing with a tide of intellectual fashion among the whole educated class. No, for him it was bogeymen. At this point I have just heard the typically moderate and generous Young-point that JD is not mad, he’s just evangelical. Well, that sort of Christianity verges on madness in any case, does it not? Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox faith allows for science and reason – free-floating, late-comer’s amateur Protestantism amounts to a belief in UFOs and the Loch Ness Monster. It also explains his appalling sympathy for Islam – among the deadliest enemies freedom has ever had. Finally, to Mr Dixon, no it is not an insult to be called an ethnic nationalist. Ethnic nationalism is there in the belief systems of Churchill and de Gaulle and is wholly distinct from the beliefs of their famous German antagonist.
Clearly there are at least twenty-six religious nuts who worship at the shrine of Little Jim and his fight against the all-powerful Bogeymen. They can’t seem to muster an argument between them. What a surprise!
Like all religious fruitcakes, anything that it is beyond his intellect to understand is ascribed to a god or gods.
This is true of religious fruitcakes but not true of the more rationally religious, for example Dr Johnson, who had little truck with efforts at “theodicy” and dismissed all certainty as to the particular intentions or interventions of God.
And he would certainly not have ascribed all our misfortunes to some ongoing cabal of human agents as it seems the “born again” James is happy to do.
Indeed, with his obsessive focus on particular individuals he is close to viewing them as supernatural powers; and worse, he sees them as involved in a conspiracy over centuries.
Here we meet the ultimate nonsense which mutters darkly about secret societies, Freemasons et al – really, little better than taking Dan Brown seriously. And this, I fear, is why he reacted in such a prickly fashion – or so I understand – to some phantom accusation of anti-Semitism, for that is the really nasty creature which lurks at the end of so many such “rabbit-holes” – and he knows it.
Happily, he is clearly resisting that particular temptation; but one wonders how long it will take to overcome his resistance? After all, a once rational individual now rejects opposition, ascribes every evil to a thousand year conspiracy, denies evolution, palaeontology, the routine precautions of due scepticism and in their place relies on childish, fairy-tale explanations with horrible antecedents and horrifying possibilities. In claiming to be down this “rabbit hole” he evinces a last, uncomfortable sense that he is losing touch with truth; is, perhaps, giving out a final distress signal in hopes that someone might rescue him.
This, ultimately, is why I stopped tuning in. He needs help.
I stopped listening to London Calling simply because the show notes told me in too great a detail who thought what about which topic, so there was no need to listen.
I continued listening to hear Toby calmly and logically dealing with the ever more extreme Delingpole outbursts. I quite like JD and although I tend to dismiss his theories, I found it interesting to listen to them.
Interesting? Surely it was embarrassing? Like listening in on a private session between shrink and fruitcake. As for liking the poor fruitcake, well – he was once likeable, in his downright, right-wing hedonist days. Now that he’s a particularly aggressive member of some sort of pensioners’ Christian Union, complete with American Bible-bashing, he must be quite ghastly to meet.
Like all religious fruitcakes, anything that it is beyond his intellect to understand is ascribed to a god or gods.
Richmond was the capital of the Southern states in the Civil War. The men North of Richmond are yankees and bankers etc
Anthony wasn’t saying he lived there – he’s in NC I think
Good listen and good restaurant dish!! I used to listen to London Calling from the beginning, so will miss friends trying to work stuff out but there was getting less discussion about what might be happening.
I feel more optimistic after listening thank you but I wonder if one of you could listen to JDs latest podcast with the nice Irish guy about covid but worrying if he is right !?
Tuning in next week !
The ad-lib of “Re-wolving the Guardian” was so good that you must make the film. Toby drooling over the Moonbot trans-wolf going through Owen Jones like butter shows Toby’s inner psychopath, the more sinister for his veneer of urbanity.
I might add that I walked my dogs for years among leafy NJ suburbs less than an hour from NYC, happily co-existing with occasional bears and coyotes. Coyotes are half-wolf in the Eastern US and the ones I saw looked as big as wolves. Picking ticks off the dogs was more trouble.
It is hardly surprising that the podcast failed. It is one thing to punctuate something compelling by advertisements but times have moved on and there is no pretending that things are normal anymore. Such a conceit runs contrary to evryone’s lived experience and so such a podcast just gets consigned to background noise like a dog barking in the back garden. I don’t give advice except to say that God hates a coward most of all.
La Proudman is a wank-stain on the fabric of humanity
I was thinking skid mark. Even a wankstain had a degree of potential at some point in its existence.
Sadly I have reached a point with several sets of friends with regard to views on issues like leaving the EU, Covid, Lockdowns, Masks, “Vaccines”, Net Zero, DIE (yes there are HR managers among my friends). With one group we have had to agree not to discuss political issues. Another group (predominantly career long public sector employees) I have let go because we cannot talk about anything much any more due to their deep immersion in their narrative, which is infuriating.
It’s nuclear Toby, just say new-clear, not Dubya’s mangled nu-cu-lar. And regarding the crazy plane lady Nick, you should probably watch this, it may be helpful:
https://youtu.be/pInk1rV2VEg
NEW PODCAST OUT FROM THE REAL NORMAL PODCAST!
We’re back on the airwaves talking about the ‘Bibby Stockholm’ and her massive hull…plus we’re picking the bones out of light fingered museum curators. We cover the awful story of Lucy Letby, whilst also chatting about the usual madness that swirls around the woke, namely Graham Linehan.
https://therealnormalpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1268768/13442825-ep-53-get-your-big-bibby-stockholm-s-out
PLUS SILLY SONGS you unfortunate proles!