- “Five times the Met Police stood aside during pro-Palestine protests” – Only 10 people were arrested during a recent pro-Palestine rally in London, where protesters scaled buildings and called for ‘jihad’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Surely police can arrest protesters calling for eradication of Israel” – The fact that elements of a 100,000-strong crowd appeared to be calling for a holy war to wipe Israel off the face of the earth didn’t seem to trouble the police – unlike GC feminists on Twitter – writes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
- “It’s not up to police to enforce taste and decency, says Met Chief after ‘jihad’ protest row” – Sir Mark Rowley has called for changes in the law around policing extremism as he said officers could not be expected to “enforce taste and decency”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot” – “I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications for jihad”, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Tube driver who led chant of ‘free, free Palestine’ suspended TFL says” – A Tube driver who led a chant of “free, free Palestine” on a London Underground train has been suspended pending further investigation into the incident, reports the Mail.
- “‘This is why Jews aren’t safe in London’” – In a video on X, the Israel Advocacy Movement demonstrates how the police treat Islamists with an al-Qaeda flag versus a Jew with an Israeli flag.
- “Police pressure leads to pro-Israel rally being cancelled in North London” – The Telegraph reports that the Met urged the organisers of a pro-Israel prayer walk in Golders Green to cancel the event, even though they allowed a pro-Palestinian march in Central London to go ahead.
- “Leader of group that held protests in London hails Hamas as ‘heroes’” – Luqman Muqeem, the leader of Hazib ut-Tahrir, said after the October 7th attack on Israel that Hamas were “heroes” for having “broken through the enemy lines of yahood (Jews)”, according to the Mail.
- “EU envoy to Gaza filmed paragliding in the region before Hamas attack” – A former EU diplomat filmed himself paragliding over Gaza and saying “once we have a free Palestine, you can do the same thing” – three months before Hamas terrorists paraglided into Israel to carry out a barbaric massacre of civilians, says the Mail.
- “IDF screens unthinkable Hamas video to prove depravity of attack” – The Israeli Defence Force invited foreign journalists to a grisly screening of bodycam footage of Hamas’s October 7th terror attack in Israel, according to the Times.
- “Video Israel claims shows Hamas terrorist admitting order to ‘behead’” – The Israeli military has shown the Mail footage of a Hamas prisoner interview and reports on its grim contents.
- “ITV’s due diligence disaster” – It seems that another major broadcaster has slipped up in their coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict, presenting a Palestinian correspondent for Iranian state television as an “ordinary British Muslim”. This time it is ITV News, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The day the delusions died” – A lot of people woke up on October 7th as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed, asks Konstantin Kisin in the Free Press.
- “Why are so many young people anti-Semitic?” – The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Counter-extremism lead: Blasphemy codes are chilling free speech” – The Commissioner for Countering Extremism has warned that allegations of blasphemy are suppressing free expression in the U.K., according to the National Secular Society.
- “Media decides censorship is bad now that it hits the Left” – Pro-Palestinian voices shouldn’t be censored, and neither should other disfavoured voices, say Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “Elite disinformation is a far greater problem than fake news on Twitter” – Those in authority tell us to ignore the evidence of our own eyes and ears, and believe that all is well, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “A political reawakening?” – Call it a realignment, call it a political awakening, call it a vibe shift. Something has changed since the attacks on Israel, say Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman in the Free Press.
- “Greta Thunberg removed from Israeli curriculum over Gaza support” – Israel has announced that it will remove all references to Greta Thunberg from its school curriculum after the Swedish climate activist expressed support for Gaza, reports the Telegraph. But why was a truant on the curriculum in the first place?
- “Free speech under threat in Israel, activists say” – Jewish and Arab Israelis are detained, fired from jobs and even attacked for expressing sentiments interpreted as pro-Hamas, reports the Guardian.
- “How the Democrats betrayed the Jews” – There is no more cosy mystery about the antisemitism of the Democratic Party, says David Mamet in UnHerd.
- “The U.S. stands on the brink of global war with the Middle East and Asia” – Washington must stand firm if it is to avoid direct conflict with Iran and China, says Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
- “How Western politics got so crazy and why they seem poised only to get worse” – A great part of what is happening today reflects the fading “unipolar moment” of unchallenged liberal American hegemony, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Hospital trust asking visitors to wear face masks again” – A hospital trust has asked staff, patients and visitors to go back to wearing face masks due to a rise in Covid and flu cases, reports the Mail. It seems they haven’t read Dr Tom Jefferson’s Chochrane Review.
- “Narrative control: Vaccines and excess deaths” – The media’s use of propaganda techniques to delegitimise MP Andrew Bridgen’s speech on excess deaths signals its role in shoring up Government and corporate interests, writes Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
- “Revealed: Evidence that the drug companies knew about the SV40 promoter, yet decided to conceal it from the regulators” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch sits down with three experts to discuss the evidence that drug companies deliberately concealed the presence of the SV40 promoter sequence from regulators.
- “The Tories are doomed, and deserve to be” – What is the point in voting for a Conservative Party that promises higher taxes and immigration, asks Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Woke ideology is in retreat around the world – except in Britain” – When Labour wins, it will double down on kneeling and rainbow flag waving, even as the rest of the world lurches Right, predicts Louise Perry in the Telegraph. But she believes Keir Starmer will be a one-term Prime Minister.
- “Right-wing populist party tops early Swiss election results” – The Swiss People’s Party, which campaigned against mass migration and “woke madness”, is ahead in the early results in the Swiss General Election, reports the Mail.
- “Russian anti-war activist dies after ‘fall from height’” – A Russian anti-war protester, who became a symbol of resistance to the Kremlin, has died in a mysterious fall, says the Telegraph.
- “Welsh beauty spot could be surrounded by thousands of solar panels” – Villagers have hit out at plans to surround one of Wales’s most renowned beauty spots with thousands of solar panels, reports the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan’s biking tsar accused of ‘distorting’ London cycling stats” – Sadiq Khan’s cycling tsar has been accused of using “distorting” data to suggest the number of cyclists in a busy part of London has tripled, says the Mail.
- “North Wales magistrate steps down in 20mph scheme opposition” – A magistrate has quit his post because punishing drivers for breaking a new 20mph limit makes him “uneasy”, reports the Denbighshire Free Press.
- “Private school slams chaotic LTN scheme causing teachers to quit jobs” – The £20,000-a-year Magdalen College School has become the latest critic of the hated LTNs, which has led to gridlock mayhem in the rural Oxfordshire countryside, says the Mail.
- “World Rugby launch investigation into South Africa’s Bongi Mbonambi after Tom Curry’s racism allegation” – South Africa has hailed Bongi Mbonambi as a “great character” as World Rugby launched an investigation into Tom Curry’s allegation of racial abuse against the Springboks hooker, reports the Telegraph.
- “The decolonisation of mathematics” – In a recent study, Dr. John Armstrong and India Jackman have concluded that the evidence presented to argue that mathematics and colonialism are inseparable is weak, and appears to be primarily rhetorical.
- “The Observer view on gender dysphoria: Criminalising therapy poses a risk to children’s welfare” – NHS England’s shift to a “watchful waiting” approach regarding trans identity faces challenges from campaigners seeking a criminal ban on ‘conversion’ treatment, says the Observer in a leading article.
- “The dangers of banning ‘trans conversion therapy’” – People who feel uncomfortable in their own bodies need therapy not affirmation, says Jo Bartosch on Spiked.
- “We don’t want British Jews to be living in fear” – On GB News, Daily Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson explains why a group of journalists created the October Declaration, which secured more than 32,000 signatures in its first 24 hours.
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Never seen him so angry. He’s usually well-spoken and contained. The number of downtickers on your post however, HP, show how people are still in thrall to something else. I’m not sure what the solution is – if I did, I’d be up for a Nobel! But I hear you and get what you’re not saying
Thanks Aethelred.
Morning Huxley , Mayhar Tousi having TR on to put things in perspective is a breakthrough which has already harvested you 16 downticks showing that a percentage of us still don’t get it ,or it’s Palestine supporters showing their dissent ! Tommy is correct , strip away the veneer of respectability from TROPeace & it’s like a giant organism moving as one, taking the moderate thinking people that it has ,which do exist with it !! Remember Paris , the cartoon reprisal , The Bataclan , The Tunisian Beach , Manchester, various London carve ups & explosions , the list is endless & I’m afraid the western world has given them a free hand to slowly complete the takeover! The funny thing is the idiots that have engineered this – “Think” they will be able to live as they do now !! Well they will be in for a shock !!
People need to read the Koran and try and understand Islam. It is full of rhetoric against anyone who is not on board and specifically singles out Jews and Christians as being sort of misguided. It can’t bear any criticism, constructive or not, it is simply fanatical which is probably why it has spread so successfully throughout the world. I don’t pretend to have read it all or even really understand it but I get the gist from the Surahs (like chapters) I’ve read in English. It makes sweeping statements about truth, instills fear in believers and I can see that it is not exactly tolerant – those are very broad statements to make but it ain’t exactly about love and tolerance!
Thanks Freddy.
If other Arab countries refuse to take any Palestinian refugees then it would be wise to ask ”why?” and not be so insane as to allow them into Europe or the US;
”Egypt’s continued closure of the only exit point for Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip is a wakeup call for the world regarding the attitudes of moderate Arab leaders towards Hamas and radical Palestinian Islamic jihadists.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi personally knows Hamas. The Palestinian group is a long-standing member of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt, along with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have labeled a terrorist organization.
The Brotherhood briefly ruled Egypt after coming to power following the Arab Spring in 2011. El-Sisi then launched a coup against it when the Brotherhood tried to impose a strict and unpopular Islamic constitution on the Egyptian populace.
It should not be a surprise, then, that Egyptians don’t want hundreds of thousands of radical Palestinians pouring into their country. They’ve encountered many armed conflicts with Islamic jihadists coming from the Gaza Strip.
As the BBC reported on Oct. 17, Egypt’s restrictions on Palestinian movement “have mostly been about security concerns in North Sinai where the Egyptian authorities have long been involved in a deadly conflict with jihadists.”
Cairo’s anti-Palestinian policy is only the latest example of the disdain with which moderate Arab leaders view the Palestinians and their cause.
….In their private, off the record statements, I was surprised by their utter disdain for the Palestinians. Saudis repeatedly told me that, in the Arab world, there is a pecking order. The Palestinians, they said, sat at the lowest possible rung of respectability.
Saudi officials carefully explained that they regarded the Palestinians as “shiftless, lazy and untrustworthy” and “the lowest of the low.” All said they would never do business with them.”
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/22/arab-leaders-secret-condemnation-of-the-palestinians/
“In a recent study, Dr. John Armstrong and India Jackman have concluded that the evidence presented to argue that mathematics and colonialism are inseparable is weak, and appears to be primarily rhetorical.”
Well here we are – we’ve arrived at the point where someone thinks we need a “study” to decide that mathematics and colonialism are not inseparable.
Anyway, who cares whether they are “inseparable” or not?
Do you think the study proves its point with mathematical rigour? If so, no doubt it will have to be withdrawn on ethical grounds.
‘argue that mathematics and colonialism are inseparable‘ I’ve never actually heard such drivel suggested.
If people don’t like Whitey’s mathematics perhaps they can teach their own version. I wonder how well that will go?
That said, Whitey has nicked good mathematical ideas from all over the place. Maybe they could teach that Maths is cultural appropriation instead?
On a different slant on things – I believe Israel is imposing a mask mandate again. I wonder if they will bring back the green pass.
I’m thinking they’ve got bigger ( and more deadly ) things to worry about than catching a cold virus. No amount of masking or clot shots is going to save them from the homicidal savages that want them dead living next door.
Article ( part 3 ) explaining why radical Muslims get to commit atrocities and then play the victim for max sympathy, also looking at the support the Muslim Brotherhood gets;
”To summarize, core values and narratives in the foundational texts of Islam promote the idea that Muslim victimhood is a very great evil, and this is used to justify killing non-Muslims. From this perspective, non-Muslim deaths are not as bad as Muslim suffering. This asymmetrical instinct underlies the many angry Muslim objections to condolences expressed by Western politicians for the massacre of 1500 Jews on October 7.
It must be emphasized that not all Muslims think like this. My point is that some Muslims do, and there are very strong reasons in the canonical texts of Islam for this bias. The origin story of Islam bases the morality of its turn to violence upon an appeal to Muslim victimhood. Downplaying Muslim victimhood undermines Muslims’ claimed right to militancy. It undercuts their right to fight.
Let’s now turn from the theological to the practical.
The three countries that provide the most direct support for Hamas, as an official policy of the state, are Iran, Turkey and Qatar. Key Hamas leaders live in Qatar, which also supports the Muslim Brotherhood, as does Turkey. Normally Shi’ite Iran would be a natural opponent of Sunni Hamas, however it suits Iran’s geopolitical goals to sponsor Hamas’s military arm with weapons, training and intelligence.
In addition to this state support, there are Muslims all over the world who support Hamas financially through donations via a form of religious tax. Every Muslim is required – as one of the five “pillars” of Islam – to give away a proportion of their wealth every year in a religious tax, which is known as zakat. Hamas is known to siphon off funds given for social projects to support its military activities. At the same time, although zakat is sometimes described as “charity,” helping the needy is only one of its legitimate uses. Another is jihad. By the rules of Islam, Hamas’s military arm would be seen by some Muslims as a legitimate recipient of “alms for jihad.”
https://www.meforum.org/65073/a-primer-on-hamas-part-3-who-supports-hamas
Yawn yawn yawn…
A beautiful piece by Dr Naomi Wolf appealing for us to end our tribalism: https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/grief-enough-for-all
She thinks that Spain under Muslim rule experienced a “Golden Age”.
The whole era is known as ‘The Golden Age of Islam’. They were way ahead of us in science and medicine. I’m sure you’ve seen the architecture they left behind. They were the preservers and developers of the knowledge of Ancient Greece, and kickstarted our Enlightenment.
Nope, she was specifically talking about Muslims, Jews and Christians all getting on jolly well in that particular part of the world at that particular time.
And the Muslim “Golden Age” has been thoroughly debunked countless times.
She says “gloriously productively”, not “getting on jolly well”.
In an article about peace and mutual understanding, why would you home in on a small detail you disagree with?
Have you got any book recommendations for the countless debunkings?
Useful update on the geopolitical sh*tfest by The Duran:
https://rumble.com/v3r7xya-neocons-cannot-be-stopped-they-will-get-war.html
For some reason this reminds me of the phone alerts trial.
I’m a fan of the Alexes..and as they point out, the Israeli war is only a regional battle in a bigger geopolitical conflict….
I note that although the talk is all Hammas…the two biggest conflicts in the world are being prosecuted by Western Countries, with the USA being the predominant partner in both….
They are going to have to get these ‘chubsters’ in order if they are thinking of talking on China and Iran as well…!!
https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/nearly-70-of-american-soldiers-are-obese-or-overweight-study/
Nearly 70% of American soldiers are obese or overweight — compromising national security: study
Overweight, jabbed up to the eyeballs and ‘pronouned’. They might have more toys to play with but I don’t fancy their chances against their leaner, meaner non-pronouned oppos.
The BBC’s Parliament Live broadcast putting up captions while Mr Bridgen was speaking and aiming to contradict him is a step beyond ‘fact checking’ his speech after the event.
‘NHS vaccines do not overload or weaken the immune system, including vaccines used for children’
In the Hansard record there is no mention of the words ‘overload’, ‘weaken’ or ‘immune’
‘Official NHS guidance states that government-administered vaccines are safe and often essential for public health’
Two things:
1) ‘government-administered vaccines’? WTAF?
2) ‘safe and often essential’. At least they’ve dropped ‘safe and effective‘
‘The NHS says Covid-19 vaccines used in the UK are safe and the best protection from getting seriously ill with the disease’
That’s odd. I thought it was the MHRA’s job to say whether it was safe?
Surely the BBC has gone too far this time?
“Official NHS guidance states that government-administered vaccines are safe and often essential for public health’”
Government administered and essential for public health.
Let’s be blunt – that is code for mandated.
Efrat Fenigson doubles down: https://rumble.com/v3qx921-efrat.html
Kudos to Efrat..
As she rightly says she questioned the Government lies about Covid, and this is no different….notwithstanding the emotions she feels….
Um, the link is in fact to the video of the Israeli Defence minister ripping Victoria Derbyshire a new one…
Wonder why this court judgement from New Zealand hasn’t been aired in the MSM….
A positive development towards ending this medical torture
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/wakaminenga-maori-government-is-magic
My congratulations to the Daily Sceptic for finally allowing some space in their News Roundup for a few articles like Michael Shellenberger’s, taking a consistent anti-censorship line on criticism of Israel’s war against Palestinians.
No one should live in fear..I think we all agree on that…but can someone point out what the horrendous offences are, and where they have happened?
I read a lot of news, and other than some ‘hate crimes’ which seem to involve people calling each other names….(and on both sides according to the met police) what exactly has happened?
I’m minded that we had the ‘children scared to go to school and told not to wear uniforms’ story..which, if you read the actual article said ‘no children have actually been threatened…..
I think someone has also been charged with taking down some posters..and while I think they are nutters, and it’s probably annoying and upsetting to some…I’m not aware of anything much worse….
In the present climate, and when the propaganda is at an all time high…can we just all keep a grip on reality….please….
…amazing that the press can find time to seem to go to, no report on every supposed ‘Pro-Palestinian’ rally …and whip-up the required hate and division….
but couldn’t report one one single rally to do with masks, lockdowns and jabs over the last three years…..
Honestly, if I was a conspiracy theorist I’d think they were nudging me into an agenda!!