- “MP resigns as Shadow Minister in protest over Labour’s position on a Gaza ceasefire” – The Shadow Minister, Imran Hussain, has resigned to “strongly advocate“ for a Gaza ceasefire, reports the Telegraph.
- “Met chief says ‘no law exists’ to stop pro-Palestine protest on Armistice Day” – The Met Police Commissioner has said he cannot ban a pro-Palestinian protest on Armistice Day because there is currently no “threat of serious disorder”, says the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Palestine protestors declare ‘the Met Police are with us!’ as they feel ‘vindicated’ by Sir Mark Rowley” – The leader of a pro-Palestine protest group has claimed that the Met are “with them”, as they plan to march again on Remembrance weekend, according to GB News.
- “Sunak to hold Met chief ‘accountable’ for decision not to ban pro-Palestine march” – Rishi Sunak has vowed to hold the Met Police Commissioner “accountable” for his defiance of demands for a ban on a pro-Palestinian march planned for Armistice Day, reports the Guardian.
- “Suella Braverman brands Met biased over Gaza march” – TheTimes summarises Suella Braverman’s article accusing the Metropolitan Police of “playing favourites” with protesters.
- “Police must be even-handed with protests” – There is a perception that senior officers play favourites when it comes to protesters, writes Suella Braverman in the Times, contrasting the heavy-handed treatment of anti-lockdown protestors to the knee-taking fawning towards BLM protestors.
- “Pro-Palestinian Armistice Day march must go ahead, says Churchill’s grandson” – Nicholas Soames, Winston Churchill’s grandson, has said that a pro-Palestinian march on Armistice Day must be allowed to go ahead, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘It’s controversial, but I think Hamas are freedom fighters’” – The organisers of the anti-Israel marches say they are peaceful. The Campaign Against Antisemitism spoke to attendees to see for themselves…
- “Extremism is thriving in Britain and our leaders have already surrendered” – So far the Government’s response to the eruption of antisemitism has failed to meet the scale of the problem, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “‘Torrent of antisemitism’ at UCL must be investigated, say 500 alumni” – University College London is being urged to investigate an ‘‘appalling torrent of antisemitism’’ that has swept the institution, reports the Telegraph.
- “TikTok teens have an antisemitism blind spot” – The tide of antisemitism that has poured out since the October 7th attack shows that Jews are the last minority it’s acceptable to hate, observes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “When poppy sellers cannot honour the dead, we must take a stand” – It shows how weak our country has become if a patriotic day raising money for veterans ends with them surrounded by enemies of Britain, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Queers for Palestine? More like turkeys for Christmas…” – This rainbow coalition of Hamas-lovers and LGBTQ activists is bound to end in tears, says Julie Burchill in Spiked.
- “When will those ‘marching for Palestine’ do the right thing?” – Every demo so far has involved nasty flashes of the world’s oldest hatred, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Hamas terrorists’ last stand at Gaza hospital” – In a showdown relayed by a Telegraph reporter, Israeli warplanes, tanks and infantry cornered the last remains of a 1,000-strong Hamas battalion.
- “Israel is running out of time before Biden damns it to defeat” – We should be alarmed: The U.S.’s support for Israel is rapidly eroding, in part thanks to Iran’s propaganda efforts, warns John Bolton in the Telegraph.
- “Muslim antisemitism and the Western Left” – The pro-Hamas demonstrations are driven by the identification of Israel with ‘colonialism’ and the idea that the Palestinians are anti-colonialists. This approach is based on ignorance, says Benny Morris in Quillette.
- “Ex-pro soccer player appears to flash Nazi salute to pro-Israel demonstrators” – Stefany Ferrer Van Ginkel, a former player in the U.S.’s National Women’s Soccer League, was filmed giving the ‘Sieg Heil’ Nazi salute at pro-Israel protestors in Los Angeles, according to Fox News.
- “Debanking complaints surge in wake of Nigel Farage’s NatWest scandal” – New figures show that complaints about bank account closures have jumped in the wake of the Nigel Farage debanking scandal, reports the Telegraph.
- “Burning bridges, giving up, forgiving and reconciling” – Covid fractured many relationships. Can they be salvaged, asks Igor Chudov on Substack.
- “Vorderman fired from BBC over social media posts” – BBC Wales has fired Carol Vorderman after she continued to breach the BBC’s social media impartiality rules, says Guido Fawkes.
- “Just Stop Oil activists block ambulance trying to ‘save a life’” – A paramedic begged police to clear Just Stop Oil protesters out of the road so he could attend a ‘life or death’ emergency as they held up traffic on Waterloo Bridge, reports the Mail.
- “New documents reveal U.S. Department of Homeland Security conspiracy to violate First Amendment and interfere in elections” – On the Public Substack, Alex Gutentag and Michael Shellenberger make the case that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a Stanford think tank were involved in censorship and election interference.
- “A game of Jenga and two bits of good news” – On his blog, Dr. Hugh Willbourn highlights the importance of scepticism and curiosity as sources of hope amid frustration over wars, economic challenges and the impact of COVID-19 interventions.
- “Lloyd’s of London will pay £52 million over historical slavery links” – Lloyd’s of London will pay £52 million to charities in recognition of its historical links to the slave trade – but it will not pay reparations directly to the descendants of slaves, says the Mail.
- “Piers Morgan vs Douglas Murray under fire at Israel-Gaza border” – Douglas Murray deals with incoming rocket fire and Piers Morgan in an interview for TalkTV from the Israel-Gaza border.
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Once again, this demonstrates that the youngest of the population was hit the hardest – disproportionally.
Imagine having already taken your theory test and passed, only to find out, through no fault of your own, you have to fork out for another one along with additional lessons, all because the government decided to abandon it’s pandemic strategy and locked down the country needlessly.
The issues arising from a locked down country are only now really rearing their ugly heads: suicides, depression, NHS waiting lists measuring years, hugely reduced population immunity, failed businesses, etc. 🙁
Which is severely affecting some youngsters employment chances. My son and next doors son (both 21) are in this situation, luckily they have Mums who will/can be taxi not all are so lucky. We live in an area where many jobs are not accessible by public transport. As if having their education f**ked up for the last 2 years wasn’t enough.
Early during Lockdown lite (last summer) I met a young chap who had to take two lengthy bus journeys to get to work in a distribution centre.
Previously he had made the much shorter cross country journey on his motorbike.
Sadly his Provisional licence was ‘timed out’ since the DVSA were not conducting tests because lockdown. Not only that but so had his theory test so, when the DVLC finally got back to work, he would have to start from scratch.
I posted about it at the time here at Lockdownsceptics under the general topic of unintended consequences.
Ed. Exactly as described by JIGR1969 above at the very same time of posting
I doubt this is news to the majority of us who predicted from the start many of, if not all, the problems we are encountering now. Whenever anyone brings them up I do not hestitate to tell them that they are a consequence of lockdown policies and all associated restrictions.
Likewise, lost count of the number of times someone has blamed their misfortune on the Covid when in reality it was caused by lockdown. They require remaining.
“Hundreds of thousands of learner drivers are waiting up to 24 weeks to take their test in some parts of the UK due to a backlog caused by the coronavirus pandemic.”
DM as usual playing its part in maintaining the panicker propaganda.
An honest, but cautious, way of expressing the truth would have been:
“Hundreds of thousands of learner drivers are waiting up to 24 weeks to take their test in some parts of the UK due to a backlog caused by
the coronavirus pandemicthe government’s policy choices in response to the coronavirus“.Much more honest and accurate would be:
“Hundreds of thousands of learner drivers are waiting up to 24 weeks to take their test in some parts of the UK due to a backlog caused by
the coronavirus pandemicthe government’s panic over-reaction to the latest new cold virus to hit humanity“.That Lockdow/Covid Pandemic willful ‘confusion’ has been an irritating constant from politicians and the media since April last year.
There’s a better word than ‘confusion’ that I can’t recall offhand, confabulation or something.
Yes, “if you fuck up or just don’t wish to do something, just blame the pandemic” has been the mantra from day one.
It’s shocking that nobody up there is talking about the “moral hazard” from tolerating this sort of attitude (which was quickly picked up from politicians by all other sorts of tossers across society).
“Moral hazard” used to be a big topic during the financial crisis (if we rescue the bankers, they will just laugh at us and keep behaving the same or worse), but somehow these concerns have completely disappeared during The Pandemic.
Along with the concerns about limitless resort to the magical money tree…
Could have been worse
It’s ok. It’s pointless to get a driver’s licence anyways, since under the New World Order we won’t own cars and we will depend on public transport.
Yes but you will be happy
even if it takes a lot of medicating.
Public transport needs to get a lot better then. Son works at a power station, no public transport services it. He and the other young engineers drive or they run out of workers and we all run out of power.
Coincidentally the govt will likely announce silly e-scooters can be driven on a provisional licence, and blammo, the push towards a prohibition on cars for the plebs moves ever closer,
In a video showing yesterday’s Halloween March in London the seried ranks of ‘boris bikes’ can be seen. Not one of them in use.
Similarly, when the regime forced motorcycle training to halt, and 2-year Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) certificates started to expire, there was a back-bench, genuinely cross party motion to extend them. Amazingly, even my own socialist MP agreed to support it, on the basis that Poors are likely to rely on small capacity motorcycles and scooters, and that it would allow nothing more than riders continuing to do what they’d already been doing safely for 2 years.
Of course, the regime laughed it off and said no, you have to do another training course. Except, you can’t, because we shut the training centres down. Tough.
https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/news/2021/february/government-refuses-cbt-extension-during-lockdown
https://www.bitchute.com/video/40Ho2GR6t86Z/
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