- “Starmer accused of ‘gravely misrepresenting’ meeting with Muslim community” – An Islamic centre visited by Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Labour leader of bringing it into “disrepute” amid the Israel-Gaza conflict, reports the Telegraph.
- “Four Labour shadow cabinet members are on resignation watch over Starmer’s stance on Gaza” – Four Labour shadow cabinet members are threatening to step down after Keir Starmer failed to quell Labour wrath over the Israel-Hamas conflict, says the Mail.
- “Six people could have U.K. visas revoked because of antisemitic behaviour” – At least half a dozen foreign nationals could have their visas revoked for antisemitic behaviour or comments, reports the Telegraph.
- “Moment pro-Palestine protesters shout ‘boycott McDonald’s’ in Bristol” – The Mail has a video of Palestinian supporters shouting “boycott McDonald’s” outside a branch in Bristol, after the firm faced backlash for providing free meals to Israeli soldiers.
- “NHS physician celebrates Hamas terror attacks on Israel” – NHS medic Farah Bouamra has celebrated the Hamas terror attacks on Israel in a series of disturbing social media posts, according to the Mail.
- “My old friend is ripping down posters of kidnapped children” – Around the world, young people are tearing down photographs of innocent Israelis abducted by Hamas. Candace Mittel Kahn, of the Free Press, knows one of them.
- “Man tears down Hamas hostage posters and brands Israelis ‘terrorists’” – A man was filmed tearing down posters of civilians kidnapped by Hamas before screaming “Israel is a terrorist organisation”, reports the Mail.
- “The Guardian has hit new low with ‘unbelievably crass’ Holocaust headline, says Board of Deputies” – The U.K.’s largest Jewish organisation has said the Guardian has hit “a new low” after publishing an “unbelievably crass” opinion piece about the Holocaust, says the Telegraph.
- “How Israel-Hamas war has sparked a wave of U.K. campus ‘cancel culture’” – Academics have warned that the murder of 1,500 Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists has had a “chilling effect” on free speech on U.K. campuses, reports the Mail.
- “Met police seem to be clear on homophobia but not on jihad” – In Christian Today, Julian Mann relays his dealings with the Met Police over the arrest of a Christian street preacher, observing that officers are very clear on what ‘homophobia’ is, but less sure on the meaning of ‘jihad’.
- “Prominent journal editor fired for endorsing satirical article about Israel-Hamas conflict” – eLife’s Michael Eisen has been ousted for social media posts perceived as siding with Palestinians over Israel, according to Science magazine.
- “Ah, persecuting people over speech is bad now?” – In the Critic, Ben Sixsmith discusses the recent consequences of ‘cancel culture’ in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel.
- “The real jihad-chant scandal” – Spiked’s Tom Slater takes on the grotesque double standards of Britain’s speech police.
- “Not even bestial terrorist violence can shake the smugness of the Left” – October 7th ought to have been a ‘line-in-the-sand’ moment for the Western Left. But it wasn’t, laments Robert James in TCW.
- “The ultimate condescension toward Palestinians” – There is a patronising racism in the idea that slaughtering innocent people equates to noble freedom fighting, as if this were the only way to respond to oppression, writes John McWhorter in the Free Press.
- “Anatomy of a blood libel” – City Journal’s Eitan Fischberger explains how mainstream media outlets continually botch stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- “Safety of monovalent Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Novavax COVID-19 vaccines in U.S. children aged six months to 17 years” – In a recent study, published on medRxiv, it was reported that myocarditis, pericarditis, seizures and convulsions were all detected following COVID-19 vaccinations in children.
- “Revisionist lockdown history” – The Covid Inquiry is a colossal waste of money, says Christopher Snowdon in the Critic.
- “The U.K. Government is flying blind. Their health data is unusable.” – The U.K. Office for National Statistics’s official Government health data is deeply flawed and cannot be used to make any health assessments, asserts Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “The war on vaping is bad for our health” – A crackdown on e-cigarettes will do far more harm than good, argues Jack Rowlett in Spiked.
- “Farage calls for cut to Alison Rose’s possible £10 million NatWest exit pay” – Nigel Farage has said NatWest must slash the severance pay of its former boss Dame Alison Rose after she was found to have broken data protection laws by discussing his bank accounts with a journalist, reports the Telegraph.
- “World at ‘tipping point’ following government debt binges, says HSBC boss” – The head of HSBC has warned that the world is at a debt “tipping point” that threatens to spark a global crisis after years of government borrowing binges, says the Telegraph.
- “Unaccountable regulators must not be allowed to strangle innovation and investment” – New laws could make the Competition and Markets Authority the legislator, investigator and executioner, warns Matthew Lesh in CapX.
- “A vote against mass immigration and green climate nonsense” – The recent electoral success of the Swiss People’s Party was a vote against mass immigration and climate policies, says Janice Davis in TCW.
- “Watch: Gang cuts down speed cameras with angle grinders” – A gang of quad bike-mounted vandals have been seen cutting down speed cameras with angle grinders, reports the Telegraph.
- “Arsenal’s apology for lack of diversity is part of insidious culture” – Real racism would be to include black players in the Arsenal women’s team for the sake of ‘the optics’, says Nana Akua in the Mail.
- “BBC Newsround sparks fury over article about ‘white privilege’” – The BBC has sparked fury over an article teaching children about white supremacy, featuring an academic who described the Queen as a “symbol of white supremacy”, reports the Mail.
- “Plaque honouring ‘first black Briton’ removed as she was ‘Cypriot’” – A plaque honouring the “first black Briton” has been removed after DNA analysis suggested ‘Beachy Head Lady’ was not actually of African origin, says the Mail.
- “Don’t call transgender rapists women, Braverman tells police” – Suella Braverman has told women’s campaigners that police should not refer to transgender rapists as women because it is “offensive and factually incorrect”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ask about sex, not gender, to protect the truth, public bodies told” – Gender-critical group Sex Matters says schools and the NHS continue to mix up sex and gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “The smear campaign against Graham Linehan” – Why is Pink News spreading false claims about Graham Linehan’s book sales, asks Nick Tyrone in Spiked.
- “Iceland’s PM strikes over gender pay gap” – Tens of thousands of women in Iceland, including PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir, have taken a ‘women’s day off’ in protest at the gender pay gap and gender-based violence, according to the BBC.
- “Canada’s euthanasia programme is flirting with eugenics” – The Canadian plan to expand medically assisted dying to drug addicts is utterly barbaric, argues Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
- “Welcome to the cashless dystopia” – Your digital identity is the world’s most precious currency, says Rachel O’Dwyer in UnHerd.
- “We are sleepwalking towards digital dystopia” – The digitisation of everything will place ordinary people at the mercy of the powers-that-be, warns John King in Spiked.
- “Kemi Badenoch condemns the hostility towards Jews in Britain since October 7th” – Kemi Badenoch MP in the House of Commons stands with British Jews.
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Apology not accepted. The top brass were and still are on board with the aims, and will have known the general drift if not the fine detail. Apology to the whistleblower not accepted either as their first instinct was to silence and punish. They got caught but will do it all again tomorrow more carefully.
My thoughts, exactly: They’re dishing out some money the government collected from the taxpayer and will henceforth cover their tracks more carefully. The mere fact that the air force has a diversity plan, IOW, that objective requirements are lower for the right kind of applicants, should be sufficient grounds to get rid of everyone involved with this starting with the top brass. Richard Knigthton is responsible for ensuring that something like this doesn’t happen, not for apologizing after his subordinates where caught breaking the law for the personal benefit of applicants to their liking while harming national security as a side effect.
Pushing the boundaries for positive action implies that they were well aware that they were acting illegally but hoped to get away with it in order to create a precedent for more law breaking with damaging side effects by other departments.
Ridiculous. People should be hired purely on their suitability for the role and nothing else. Speaking of diversity, more on the delusional fibber, Sadiq Khan and the state of the UK;
”Sadiq Khan’s claim that London was “built by migrants” is bizarre and without foundation, unless he means to refer to the Germanic tribes – Angles, Saxons, Frisians, and Jutes – who arrived in England two thousand years ago, and whose major legacy was linguistic: the Anglo-Saxon that developed into English. These tribes did not “build London.” Unlike the U.S., Great Britain is not a country of immigrants, and there was little immigration until the mid-20th century, when migrants started to arrive from the Caribbean in the 1950s, and then, in the 1960s, the migration of Pakistanis began. The Pakistani presence has been an unalloyed catastrophe. Many of them arrived – and continue to do so — as economic migrants, eager to take advantage of the full panoply benefits offered by the British welfare state, including free or subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits (even without having held jobs in the U.K.), family allowances, and more.
Muslim migrants have had difficulty integrating into a society of Infidels, whom they are taught to regard as “the most vile of created beings.” Their unemployment rate is three times that of the British. Their rates of criminality far exceed those of the native British, and of other, but non-Muslim, immigrants as well. Muslims make up 7% of the population, but 30% of those in prison. Perhaps most unsettling has been the deliberate debauching of many thousands of English girls by grooming gangs of Pakistanis, who first ply the girls, many of them in their early teens, with drink and drugs, engage in sex with them, and then pass them around as sexual toys to be used, repeatedly raped, by dozens of fellow Pakistanis. The police often chose to look the other way, afraid that they would be accused of “racism” if they started to round up Pakistanis.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/06/sadiq-khan-claims-london-was-built-by-migrants
A tenuous link to the article being; just as you should face no discrimination in getting any job and nobody should be overlooked or turned down based on race etc, the same would naturally apply to criminals. The law should prosecute the person who commits the offence, irrespective of race etc. Not turn a blind eye and give a free pass to reoffend because police are performing some sort of tick box exercise, thereby basically enabling and encouraging the criminals to just keep at it. Have people not learnt anything from the whole Jimmy Saville fiasco?!
Should it be concluded that, for the purposes of justice, it was an advantage that Saville wasn’t a migrant?
That’s a generic lie. It’s mirrored by the German Greens claiming that Turkish immigrants were really responsible for rebuilding Germany and reacquiring general prosperty after the second world war when – in reality – the so-called Wirtschaftswunder happened in the 1950s while so-called Gastarbeiter (guest workers) weren’t imported in numbers before the 1960s. Why did none of these supposed extraeuropean Übermenschen ever accomplish anything noteworthy in their native countries?
In the late 19th century, Chinatown in London consisted of just one street, Limehouse Causeway. At the time, the population of London was about 3 million.
In the 1911 census, the number of people in England and Wales with the surname of Patel numbered just 11 people.
In the late 1930s, a newspaper article called ‘The Foreign Bits of Britain’ related how a small country estate in Hertfordshire had been purchased by a German count in 1901 to be used as a ‘farm colony’ where German immigrants who had fallen on hard times could go to live and work at their trade to earn enough money to return home. The several hundred men who had lived there before the Great War had, by the 1930s, become a handful of old people. That was the extent of the ‘foreign bits of Britain’ that this newspaper could identify.
Today, in Tooting, South London, there is a blue plaque on a building which ‘celebrates the migrants who built Tooting’. Photographs of this area from the 1950s show no obvious migrants. Admiral Lord Nelson referred to the estate of the Hamiltons, not far from Tooting, as ‘paradise Merton’. The area was built up in the late 19th century and, as the 1911 census shows, was inhabited by lower middle class tradesmen, clerks and their families.
But all this is irrelevant. The claim that London, or any part of it, was built by migrants is not an assertion about the past. It is a claim to current ownership.
How do you square the circle of practising affirmative action whilst not discriminating against those you’re not affirming? Like everything nowadays, the policy appears incoherent.
You can’t and everyone knows that but they don’t say it.
So the result is that officials must prepare abject apologies both for not selecting minorities AND discriminating against majorities, and trot them out as occasion demands, without meaning either.
Likewise when an MP offends trans activists, they fill in a boilerplate apology form and mean nothing, because they would as readily apologise for insensitivity to de-transitioners. And in this way, basic morality soon disappears from a nation.
The primary cause of this is the Equalities Act 2010 brought in by Harriet Harman and immediately adopted by the following Tory government. Bin this and we could return to leading a normal life whereby we can call anybody names without fear of prosecution.
Just imagine for a minute that the discrimination had been against black men.
And then try and imagine that an apology would be all that was required.
Air Chief Sir Richard Knighton should resign or be sacked.