- “Police hunt for protester with ‘coconuts poster’ and men who hurled racist abuse” – Met Police officers are searching for Armistice Day protesters, including a woman who mocked the Prime Minister and Home Secretary as ‘coconuts’, says the Telegraph.
- “Poppy sellers forced to move their stall amid pro-Palestine protest” – Footage from social media shows dozens of protestors surrounding poppy sellers on Armistice Day, chanting ’Free Palestine’ and forcing them to move, reports the Mail.
- “Met Police officers pose with child protester waving Palestine flag” – Scotland Yard has apologised after officers posed for a photograph with a masked child holding a pro-Palestinian placard during the recent march in London, reports the Mail.
- “Braverman says pro-Palestinian marches ‘can’t go on’ as tougher protest laws considered” – According to the Telegraph, Suella Braverman has said that weekly pro-Palestinian marches, which have “polluted” the streets with hate, “can’t go on”, as the Government considers tougher protest laws.
- “London demonstration: Hate march or peace protest?” – UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers and Flo Read report from the pro-Palestinian protest in London.
- “The march for Palestine was a far-Right march” – Polite society obsesses over Right-wing ruffians while ignoring literal antisemites, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “How the Left abandoned the working class and embraced… Hamas” – On Substack, Ian Price links the rise in anti-Israel sentiment to the Left’s abandonment of the working class in favour of minorities.
- “80 years after Hitler failed, Nazis finally seize London” – The Babylon Bee casts a satirical eye over the pro-Palestinian march in London.
- “SNP’s Stephen Flynn slammed for ‘refusing’ to sing national anthem at Remembrance service” – Stephen Flynn has been criticised for not singing the national anthem at the Remembrance Day memorial service, according to GB News.
- “Khan advisers accuse Starmer of ‘supporting genocide’” – Two advisers of Sadiq Khan’s have accused Israel of genocide, reports the Telegraph.
- “CPS hate crime panel dissolved amid lack of ‘public confidence’” – The Crown Prosecution Service has disbanded an advisory panel on hate crime after the new Director of Public Prosecutions concluded it had lost “public confidence”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Gary Lineker should stick to football – and shut up about geopolitics” – Social media allows celebrities to spout off as would-be activists. That doesn’t mean they should, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “How multiculturalism fuels hate” – Multiculturalism is an elite ideology that has cultivated and inflamed ethnic tensions, writes Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “In Israel there is grief and there is fury. Beneath the fury, fear” – In the New York Times, Bret Stephens reflects on the devastating impact of the October 7th attacks and wonders what it will take for the country to recover.
- “The bright line between good and evil” – The Free Press highlights a recent episode of Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast in which he explains exactly why the Islamists who murdered Israeli civilians on October 7th thought they were doing God’s work.
- “Catching a cold might prevent a severe case of COVID-19” – Prior encounters with the common cold may explain why some people remain immune to COVID-19, even after exposure, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Elon musk says people were killed by ventilators not COVID-19 virus” – Elon Musk says that bacterial lung infections in patients hooked up to ventilators killed more people than the COVID-19 virus itself, according to the Epoch Times.
- “The declaration that wasn’t supposed to happen” – The problem with the Great Barrington Declaration was not that its policy recommendations were ineffective. It’s that it flew in the face of one of the most well-funded and elaborate industrial plots in the history of government boondogles, says Jeffrey A. Tucker for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Farage to seek millions in damages from NatWest and former CEO Rose” – Nigel Farage has instructed Grosvenor Law to pursue damages claims against NatWest and Dame Alison Rose, according to Sky News.
- “Ofcom boss: It’s not watchdog’s job to tell TV firms who to hire” – Ofcom’s chairman has stressed it’s not the regulator’s job to tell broadcasters who they can or cannot employ, reports the Express, after complaints were made about the channel’s hiring of current and ex-politicians.
- “The EU and the WHO’s sinister collusion against vaping” – The EU and WHO are waging a campaign against vaping based on unsubstantiated claims, says Martin Cullip in CapX.
- “Heat pumps ‘too noisy’ for millions of British homes, Government told” – Ministers have been told that heat pumps are too loud to be installed in millions of homes under the Government’s noise guidelines, according to the Telegraph.
- “Sahara expert says desert shrinking, calls alarmist tipping points ‘complete nonsense’” – In WUWT, P. Gosselin highlights a recent interview with German geologist and Sahara expert Dr. Stefan Kröpelin who contradicts alarmist claims about expanding deserts and the imminent approach of climate tipping points.
- “Thunberg’s speech in Amsterdam hijacked by man who appeared on stage” – Greta Thunberg was interrupted at a climate rally by a man who grabbed the microphone and told her “I’ve come for a climate demonstration, not a political view” after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to join her on stage, reports the Mail.
- “Coldplay to travel 4,000 miles to Australia just to play two gigs” – Coldplay are flying 2,000 miles from Jakarta, Indonesia to Australia – and then another 2,600 miles back to Kuala Lumpur – for just two concerts, despite the band’s goal of making their world tour sustainable, says the Mail.
- “National Trust launches calendar that excludes Christmas and Easter” – National Trust members have complained about a calendar that excludes Christmas and Easter, while including other religious festivals, reports the Mail.
- “‘Violent colonialist’ Magellan is unfit to keep his place in the night sky, say astronomers” – A group of astronomers has called for galaxies named after the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan to be renamed because of his “violent colonialist legacy”, says the Guardian.
- “Newcastle United fan has club membership suspended while police investigated tweets on trans women” – A gender-critical Newcastle United fan says the club has suspended her membership because police investigated her for tweeting that “trans women are men”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Will AI lead to tyranny?” – Philosopher Nick Bostrom sits down with UnHerd’s Flo Read to discuss the existential risks posed by AI.
- “Bureaucracy’s unstoppable parasitic growth” – The management of the Federal Reserve has become integrated into the interests and culture of the permanent bureaucracy, writes Dr. Robert W. Malone on Substack.
- “Nigel Farage is the first star to arrive in Australia after agreeing to bumper ITV payday” – Nigel Farage has landed in Brisbane ahead of his forthcoming appearance on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, according to the Mail.
- “Thank you” – On X, the European Jewish Congress gives thanks to the thousands who gathered in Paris to express their solidarity with the Jewish community amidst a surge in antisemitism.
Thousands gathered in Paris today to stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, in the wake of an alarming rise of antisemitism.
— European Jewish Congress (@eurojewcong) November 12, 2023
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12739817/poppy-sellers-victoria-station-surrounded-pro-palestine-protestors.html
Plod obviously too busy looking for the coco nutters to deal with real criminals –
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/12/met-police-search-pro-palestine-protesters-hate-crime/
The Met – the joke that just can’t stop.
You are so right
Thanks Dinger
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/12/suella-braverman-pro-palestinian-marches-cannot-go-on/
It’s beginning to look like Suella has not exactly played a blinder. Despite the anticipated civil war which would have provided a sort of legitimacy for more stringent anti protest legislation the sad fact is that nothing really kicked off this weekend. This dismal result for the Davos Deviants may well mean that Fishy has been placed on notice. So what next?
Should we expect a bombing or a shooting and will it be pro Hamas or a right wing extremist, or even a mixture of the two?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/11/sadiq-khan-advisers-israel-settler-colonialism-genocide/
It would not be difficult at this time to make a case against the khant charging him with ‘conspiracy to commit genocide.’
If Gaza is being “colonised” by Israel, the West is being colonised by Islam
No two ways about that.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/12/how-multiculturalism-fuels-hate/
Good to see that Frank has caught up with me.
It’s the whole point of multi-culti.
Indeed.
I have been wondering for years how my life has been enriched by multiculturalism and all I can come up with is Ska, Reggae and Ganga. Fortunately these delights do not come with heavy doses of islam.
Vesta introduced me to curries
years ago and as a now pretty decent cook I have no problem putting authentic Indian cuisine on the table. I therefore see no need for further imports thank you very much. In fact it is clear that huge numbers of said imports do not wish to be here as this weekend proved, so realistically we should be assisting their repatriation
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/cut-taxes-or-drown-in-debt-warns-thatcher-economist/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ignored-danger-signals/
“The purpose of randomised controlled trials is to make comparisons such as these. At the time of this report in May 2021 it was already clear that there was an unexpected rise in cardiac arrest calls to ambulances in England. Not only were all these alerts ignored at the time, they have continued to be ignored ever since despite increasing evidence that there is a risk of sudden cardiac death associated with these novel drugs.”
Another good demolition of the “safe and effective….”
I had to google ‘boondogle’. I see the word ‘boondoggle’, ie spelt with double o, means: A boondoggle is a project that is considered a waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations.
They forgot monetary motivations.
Useless Solar Power Industry Risks Bankruptcy – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Campaign to stop your local council destroying local countryside and finances with such schemes. By the way there has been some success on Wiltshire, Surrey and Berkshire stopping some 5g towers at least.
Good on Germany for banning the protests. However, I wonder if this is yet another temporary ban, like the one that came into place early last year.
”Chancellor Olaf Scholz has now announced a ban on Hamas activities in Germany. The organization Samidoun, which is affiliated with the Palestinian terrorist group PFLP, will also be banned. “Whoever supports terror organizations like Hamas commits a criminal offense,” Scholz said.
Banning the actions and organizations means their gatherings and activities are no longer permitted, nor can their logos be used. Organizational assets may also be confiscated. Whoever persists despite the ban would be committing a criminal offense.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser also intends to take action against other supporters and sympathizers of Hamas in Germany. This would include people who collect donations for the organization. At the same time, she is examining the possibility “of deporting offenders from the Islamist scene, if they are not German passport holders.”
But there are supporters and sympathizers. ‘We must therefore assume that that the number of people in the supporter scene is in the thousands,” Middle East expert Guido Steinberg, from the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), told DW. The group of sympathizers is even broader. While supporters take concrete action in support of Hamas, for example, advertising or collecting money, sympathizers often do not figure publicly at all, Steinberg explained.
“These bans are one of the most important instruments a democracy has to prevent money flowing to terrorist organizations,” Hans-Jakob Schindler from the transatlantic think tank Counter Extremism Project (CEP) told DW. However, he added: “It is always difficult, because in Germany associations and non-profit organizations enjoy a certain degree of protection, and investigations by authorities such as the Office for the Protection of the Constitution are limited when it comes to finances.”
The line is crossed when violence is openly called for or endorsed. “As long as individuals restrain themselves in this regard, it will be very difficult,” Schindler explained, adding that suspects usually pay close attention to what they say, so as not to attract attention from the authorities.”
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-takes-action-against-hamas-supporters/a-67085873
A reminder of the luxurious life the Hamas top brass billionaires get to enjoy from miles away. It’s easy to talk of a ”nation of martyrs” and sacrificing the people of Gaza for a cause when you are so far removed from real life there and incur no personal risks;
”The three Hamas billionaires have stolen, from the people of Gaza, eleven billion dollars. They luxuriate in their residences, and luxury suites, in Doha, as well as in their villas in Beirut and Istanbul, where they have been photographed lolling on beds, working out in private gyms, flying about in their private planes, eating at the most expensive restaurants, completely indifferent to the conditions in which the people of Gaza live. Think of how many apartments, electricity plants, water purification plants could have been built in Gaza with those eleven billion dollars. The only people trying to help the Gazans directly — thus avoiding sending aid through the thieving Hamas rulers — are the Israelis, who until October 7 had been providing jobs to 20,000 people from Gaza, who earned between three and five times as much working in Israel than they could have earned at home, even assuming there were jobs to be had in the Strip.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/hamas-billionaires-getting-the-attention-their-riches-deserve
“…as the Government considers tougher protest laws. ” No. It just needs the useless, common purpose goons of the met to enforce the existing laws instead of posing for selfies with terrorist supporters.
And spot the risk of abuse of power by certain politicians. I seem to remember there was a fair bit of that recently, perhaps a few years back.
Congratulations Eldred, once again you have picked the dumbest DM articles you could to rile up division.
Biased much?
Skeptical of division politics…not a jot.
From what I’m seeing BTL, it looks like the more prolific DS posters are united. The rest of us can only look on in horror at the disappearance of any broader, more nuanced discussion, while the rest of the world looks on in bewilderment.
Thankfully there are indeed great BTL contributors.
In
we find:
It sounds like dementia.
In other news, Home Secretary Suella Braverman is sacked, thereby confirming the mandate for two tier policing. We are living in an ant-white apartheid state.
Disgraceful. I had to find the link; I thought you may have been juststirring the pot.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/13/suella-braverman-sacked-rishi-sunak-cabinet-reshuffle/
“SNP’s Stephen Flynn slammed for ‘refusing’ to sing national anthem at Remembrance service”
I too chose not to sing ‘God save the King’, mostly because he is a captured globalist cnut. How disappointed his father would have been.
I largely agree but the whole Windsor tribe are affiliated if not actually deeply embedded amongst the Davos Deviants and have been for God knows how many years. They work for themselves and couldn’t give a F about the people of this country.
He isn’t the King as his mother abdicated when she signed sovereign powers away to the EEC in 1973 & as a mere head of state signed further sovereign powers away in 2001 with the Nice Treaty, at which point the Barons invoked Article 61 of the Magna Carta.
If one’s parent has abdicated, then there is no crown to inherit. All he could inherit is head of state, which has no regal function.
One cannot sing ‘God save the King’ for a non-existent one.
So many dilemmas for those of us who want to show support for our nation and the values we thought we stood for. Are there any songs, anthems or symbols that faithfully represent what we have lost?
We need a Verdi to write an unofficial national anthem for Great Britain – chorus of the Hebrew Slaves became the unofficial anthem of the repressed Italians. I really don’t know when it comes to English/GB anthems as the two are conflated – think sporting events, England anthem is ‘God save the King’ unless it’s the Commonwealth Games when it’s ‘Jerusalem’.
A lot of folk songs are about local areas & whilst lovely don’t capture what is required for a national anthem.
I’ve embraced my rugby national identity when it comes to an anthem – Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau – despite being from Yorkshire originally.
“Met Police officers pose with child protester waving Palestine flag”
OMG!
Let’s have some balance in the reporting.
Flags at UN facilities around the world are today being flown at half-mast, to honour the memories of the 101 Unrwa staff who have been killed in the Gaza Strip.
Civilian deaths in Ukraine vs Palestine (bear in mind that Putin has been labelled a war criminal whereas Netanyahu hasn’t).
Under the Geneva Convention, the use of civilian buildings to hide military people and armaments means that attacks on such are legitimate.
And if you want genocide, do yourself a favour, educate yourself out of your ignorance, and read the Hamas Charter and the Quran.
Hint. One of the first things Muhammed did was to behead hundreds of Jews.
You probably should learn the difference between the Hadith and the Quran.
And you are wrong about the Geneva convention as well.
Some of the demonstrations globally over the last couple of weeks demanding a ceasefire and humanitarian aid, millions involved. All N@zis, obs.
https://twitter.com/shawna_burley/status/1723203772199899312
Israeli doctors comprehensively breaking the Hippocratic Oath.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/israeli-doctors-urge-the-bombing-of-gaza-hospitals/
Frontline reporting from docs inside Gazan hospitals courtesy of Medcins Sans Frontieres. Snipers shooting inside hospitals wounding staff and patients (I understand a nurse has been killed).
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/voice-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-we-are-alone-now-no-one-hears-us
Emotional piece from Chris Hedges, Pulitzer prize-winning journo with 15 years experience reporting on the Middle East.
https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/11/chris-hedges-the-horror-the-horror/
Middle Eastern Eye doing live updates. All made up Jihadi nonesense, obvs.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/
A different view of the march in London on Saturday (damn, even RTE was more balanced than the UK MSM).
Even amid a shocking spike in antisemitic incidents, members of the British Jewish community still attended the march to show their solidarity with Palestinians.
“I feel especially as a British Jew that it’s really important to show up and say Israel is not the same as Jewishness,” said Rebekah, who did not share her surname.
Speaking about her mother, the child of Eastern European parents who survived the Holocaust and fled for New York, Rebekah said: “She feels like this war that’s happening in Gaza is a desecration of the memory of those people who died in the Holocaust.
“It feels quite personal because we’re being used as a justification, Jews more broadly and especially in the UK, to shut down debate and peaceful protest,” Rebekah added, referring to claims that all criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitic.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-one-million-protesters-take-part-historic-london-protest
It looks like some don’t like the whole truth, when it conflicts with their point of view, given the number of negative ticks.
Quite.
And finally – don’t forget the international community, many actors from which are working night and day to bring an end to the genocide.
Thank you for getting some balance on here.
I tried.
There’s no need to ban any marches by whomever wishes to do so, just don’t allow them in the first place on certain days that are important to British values!
Contradictions in terms:-
Military intelligence.
Police powers.
Border force.
Government intelligence.
There’s a worrying increase in the state intervening on the behalf of the NHS via the Courts to let people die who either want to try treatments elsewhere or whose parents want to do so.
An eight month old is the latest victim of a new form of state sponsored euthanasia:
“ Indi Gregory loses her fight for life: ‘Angry and heartbroken’ parents who fought to continue treatment for the terminally-ill eight-month-old say she has passed away after ‘the NHS took away her chance to live’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12742237/Indi-Gregory-loses-fight-life-Parents-fought-legal-battle-save-reveal-eight-month-old-passed-away-life-support-switched-off.html
You will note that this has nothing to do with the Middle East so knee jerk down-ticking my post shows you guys can’t even be bothered to read.
Unsurprising really.
“No good deed goes unpunished, but lying for the establishment is a path to success…” says Neil Oliver: https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-but-lying-for-the-establishment-is-a-path-to-success-says-neil-oliver
So they want to rename the Magellanic Clouds, the Straits of Magellan, etc.?
Well, they´d better rename Newton´s Laws: he must have held some unorthodox views.
And that fellow, Einstein, didn´t he support Zionists?.
Balls to king Charlie Chortles, how about god save us!