- “BBC’s own ex-exec demands inquiry over ‘bias’ in Israel-Hamas coverage” – Danny Cohen, the Director of BBC Television from 2013 to 2015, says the U.K. Jewish population has been “harmed” by the broadcaster’s “unbalanced reporting”, according to GB News.
- “New Nova festival footage shows Hamas chase down fleeing Israelis” – Horrifying new footage captured during the Nova festival massacre shows Hamas terrorists shooting down two women at point blank range as they tried to flee, reports the Mail.
- “Emily Hand’s father says she’s facing ‘sheer terror’ in Gaza tunnels” – The father of a nine year-old girl who has been held hostage by Hamas for six weeks says he’s terrified that his daughter is enduring “sheer terror” in the airless Gaza tunnels, reports the Mail.
- “Watch: IDF uncovers 55 metre-long ‘Hamas tunnel’ underneath al-Shifa Hospital” – Israel has published footage of a 55-metre tunnel used by Hamas terrorists under Gaza’s main hospital, says the Telegraph.
- “Al-Shifa Hospital and the pathological distrust of Israel” – From CNN to the radical Left, why won’t people accept the truth about Hamas’s horrors at al-Shifa, asks Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The new antisemitism” – Jews are being attacked as the root of all Western evil, says Tomer Persico in Persuasion.
- “Hamas has unleashed the West’s monsters” – In the West, Hamas’s butchery has unleashed eruptions of antisemitism and massive, increasingly violent displays of support for the terrorists, writes Prof. Jacob Howland in UnHerd.
- “Bring the children home” – On World Children’s Day, we must remember the child hostages held by Hamas, says Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
- “10 clues the hospital you’re at is actually a Hamas base” – The Babylon Bee has assembled a list of 10 rather obvious clues to help you discern if the hospital you’re at is actually a Hamas base.
- “Care home nailed window shut to stop me holding mum’s hand” – A sports broadcaster has told how care home staff nailed a window shut and left her feeling “bullied and abused” by refusing to let her see her mother during the Covid pandemic, reports the Mail.
- “Patrick Vallance’s diaries: Eight extracts that lift the lid on No.10’s Covid chaos” – At the Covid Inquiry, Sir Patrick Vallance, the former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government, has lifted the lid on the chaos and dysfunction inside Downing Street, says the Telegraph.
- “‘There is no such thing as ‘the science’, Sir Patrick Vallance says” – Sir Patrick Vallance has said it was “completely wrong” for ministers to claim they were simply “following the science” during the pandemic, reports the Mail.
- “Patrick Vallance: Hancock had habit of saying things that weren’t true” – Sir Patrick Vallance says Matt Hancock had a “habit” of saying things which were not true, according to the Mail.
- “The mRNAs didn’t end Covid, Omicron did” – The Society of Actuaries has released a report on deaths during the pandemic that shows what really ended the pandemic – and it didn’t come from Pfizer or Moderna, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Should Britain have adopted the Swedish approach to fighting Covid?” – Sweden avoided lockdowns and had one of the lowest number of excess deaths in Europe, says Tom Whipple in the Times. But the diehard lockdowner still finds reason to reject the Swedish approach.
- “Teachers ‘self-censoring lessons for fear of offending Muslim pupils’” – A new study by Policy Echange has found that up to one in five teachers are self-censoring in lessons for fear of offending Muslim pupils in the wake of the Batley Grammar School controversy, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s addiction to mass migration is becoming dangerous” – While less prominent than the small boats, legal net migration is a much bigger problem, writes Gavin Rice in the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants temporarily deleted clause barring teachers from pushing political views” – Civil servants deleted a clause banning teachers from pushing their political views from contracts with free schools and academies, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain must ‘acknowledge our past’ when providing foreign aid, says Government” – The Government has said that Britain must act with “humility” and “acknowledge our past” when providing foreign aid, says the Telegraph. In other words, we have to give money to developing countries and apologise to them at the same time.
- “A new Right-wing party will replace the Tories if they keep surrendering to the Establishment” – On tax and migration, half measures threaten to miss the scale of public anger, warns Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Angry I’m A Celeb viewers slam ‘cheap’ Brexit jokes about Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage’s army of fans are irate after he was immediately the butt of a series of Brexit-related jokes on the first night of I’m A Celebrity, reports the Mail.
- “Javier Milei isn’t ‘hard Right’. He could be Argentina’s free market saviour” – Argentinian President-elect Javier Milei’s proposals are eminently sensible, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Javier Milei: Argentina has ‘non-negotiable’ sovereignty over Falklands” – Javier Milei believes the Falkland Islands belong to his country, but says the islanders must have a say in their future, reports the Telegraph.
- “Javier Milei vows to scrap Argentina’s version of BBC” – Argentina’s President-elect has vowed to privatise his country’s version of the BBC and stop all public construction projects as he outlined a programme of radical transformation, according to the Telegraph.
- “South Africa to withdraw from UN refugee treaties in order to restrict immigration” – South Africa is planning to temporarily withdraw from United Nations refugee conventions so it can restrict immigration, reports the Telegraph.
- “Richest 1% cause more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, study” – According to new research by Oxfam, the richest 1% emit as much carbon dioxide emissions as the poorest two-thirds of the world’s population, says the Mail. I wonder how many of them attend ‘climate summits’ in their private jets?
- “Italy bans lab-grown meat to protect farmers and culinary tradition” – Italy has become the first country to ban the sale of laboratory-produced meat to protect the farming sector, reports the Times.
- “Flawed census that recorded 260,000 trans people ‘must be investigated’” – Britain’s statistics quango faces an official investigation over a faulty census question which appears to have drastically overestimated the number of trans people in the country, says the Telegraph.
- “King’s College London tells academics to back Stonewall if they want to get ahead” – King’s College London has told academics that showing support for the LGBT charity Stonewall could help them achieve a promotion, reports the Telegraph.
- “Don’t burn down the ivory towers” – The pursuit of knowledge and truth is more important than ever, which is why we must fight to save our universities, argues Joshua Katz in the Free Press.
- “Roman Emperor Elagabalus was transgender and must be referred to as ‘she’, museum says” – A British museum has sparked uproar among historians by claiming a Roman emperor was transgender, reports the Mail.
- “Transgender woman footballer, who broke knee of a player, quits team” – Francesca Needham, a biological male footballer whose physical power on the pitch left female opponents “terrified”, is considering taking legal action for discrimination after opposing teams refused to play against him, says the Mail.
- “The female pool player who won’t play against trans women” – Women’s pool is the latest sport plunged into disarray and division over the inclusion of transgender competitors, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Of course a womb charity has appointed a trans woman as CEO” – On Substack, Ian Price gives his take on the appointment of a biological male to run Endometriosis South Coast.
- “Democrats’ need to censor and spread disinformation behind media war on Elon Musk’s X” – In the wake of allegations by Media Matters that X placed ads near pro-Nazi content, Public attempted to replicate their findings – and found no such ads.
- “Teachers ’self-censoring’” – Speaking to Martin Daubney on GB News, Toby reacts to reports of teachers ‘self-censoring’ for religious pupils.
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I guess a home football match is an interesting experiment to tell if mass migration was a good idea and multiculturalism actually works;
”Controversy surrounding mass migration has once again come to the fore in Germany after ethnic Turks booed the national football team during Germany’s game against Turkey on November 18.
Commentators said the German team was effectively forced to play what felt like a hostile away game. The number of Turkish fans vastly outnumbered German supporters despite the fixture taking place in Berlin.
The Turkish fans are also said to have acted disrespectfully towards their German hosts during the game.
Video footage of some fans shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is greater”) has also gone viral online, while others were seen giving the salute of Turkey’s Grey Wolves nationalist paramilitary group.
Speaking after the game, German politicians expressed anger and frustration at the actions of the Turkish fans, many of whom are thought to hold German citizenship.
“It must hurt all of us when people born or raised in Germany boo the German national team during an international match in Germany,” said Bijan Djir-Sarai, a federal MP for North Rhine-Westphalia.
“This shows once again the failures and deficits in integration policy. Why do these people live in Germany if their love continues to be for Turkey and its president?”
https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/11/german-national-football-team-booed-by-turkish-germans-in-home-match-against-turkey/
So Norman Tebbit’s Cricket Test was right.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/07/13/norman-tebbits-cricket-test-never-xenophobic-could-do-liberal/
Ummah transcends national boundaries.
Covid Jab Triples Icelands Covid Deaths – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Germany taking in Gazan refugees, but how many terrorists? Their national security went to pot years ago so what’s a few more?
”Fears are mounting in Germany that the federal government is preparing to accept a large influx of refugees from bomb-stricken Gaza, the country’s biggest-selling newspaper has reported.
According to Bild, staff at the German embassy in Cairo have erected a large makeshift processing center on its grounds and recruited crisis support teams to assist with applications.
The foreign office in Berlin announced on Monday that it was successfully repatriating hundreds of German citizens from the war-torn region, but security personnel are reportedly concerned that Germany will soon play host to a larger reception of asylum seekers.
“We have so far been able to ensure that around 320 Germans, including their family members, have been able to leave Gaza safely,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday, but when her office was pressed by Bild on how many of those being brought to Germany were actual German citizens, it opted not to reply.
Photographs from the garden of the German embassy in the Egyptian capital suggest a larger operation may soon swing into action with several staff setting up shop at workstations tasked with handling asylum applications.
The newspaper revealed there is now “great concern” among security officials that members of the Hamas terrorist organization may be flown to Germany under family reunification rules, as the Islamic militant group seeks to flee the oncoming Israeli ground invasion.”
https://rmx.news/crime/germany-preparing-to-accept-large-influx-of-gaza-refugees-leading-newspaper-reports/
What? Toning down the LGBTxyz rubbish?
Not bamboozled by “The Science” but by “The Scientists”.
From https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bamboozle
Bamboozle: to trick or deceive someone, often by confusing them
Occasionally, some on here ask for a Ukraine update.
Here’s what is really going on:
The inability of the Russian defence industrial base to support replacement-level production of tanks and armoured vehicles has confined Russian units to light infantry-style attacks.
Russian forces face periodic localized artillery shortages that disrupt their offensive and defensive operations.
Ukraine needs air superiority, more tanks and armoured engineering equipment.
However Europe now lacks a military/industrial complex of the requisite scale and the U.S. strategy is: ‘We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.’
Nonsense.
Zelensky is on the verge of leading his victorious army of teenagers, OAPs and trannies into Moscow. And Putin will keel over from six different types of cancer – any day now.
Keep the faith!
Thanks!
I can see that this new feature is so popular that I will do another one tomorrow.
On the other hand:
“Admittedly, hindsight is 20/20. At the start of the war, many thought, including many in Russia, that the shock and awe sanctions would cripple Russia, ideally lead to Putin’s ouster or at least severely destabilize Russian leadership, and undermine industrial, particularly military, output. The West also believed what is now clear was its own nonsense, that Russia had a poorly armed and led military, when it was was the US and NATO that had optimized their forces to fight insurgents, and had gotten very good at building super expensive, fussy weapons systems that didn’t necessarily perform all that well when tested. Even worse, it still has not been adequately acknowledged that Russia is ahead in many critical categories, such as air defense, hypersonic missiles, and signal jamming.
What is striking about the current state of play is not simply that Ukraine is losing the war with Russia, and it’s just a matter of time before Russia dictates terms, but that the Ukraine government is acting in ways that benefits the Russian military, to the destruction of what is left of its society and economy.
Militarily, Ukraine is approaching a catastrophic condition. That does not mean a collapse is imminent; key variables include whether the Ukraine military leadership revolts against Zelensky and how hard Russia pushes into growing Ukraine weakness. Russia may prefer to go slowly (mind you, it is making a concerted effort to crack the well fortified Avdiivka1), not just to reduce losses of its troops, but also to more throughly bleed out Ukraine and give the West time to adjust psychologically to Ukraine’s prostration.
Another factor that bears repeating is that Russia knows well this is a war against NATO. That will make the eventual defeat more consequential, even if the US and its minions come up with a face-saving pretense, like Putin was going march all the way to Paris (or Poland) and they succeeded in stopping that. That is one aspect that Big Serge gives short shrift: that this was a messy coalition war, which meant that for Ukraine to message success often trumped realistic assessments (how often was Russia just about to run out of missiles? Or having to raid washing machines for chips?). So not only were Ukraine’s backers not making enough weaponry to keep up with Russia’s output (which Russia then kept increasing), it was not the right equipment. Ukraine first stripped NATO cupboards bare of old Soviet style gear, which their troops were trained to handle. They then got a hodge podge of Western materiel, which they were often not well trained enough to handle proficiently, plus the mix of weaponry created a logistical nightmare. Scott Ritter argued that so many different types of equipment put Ukraine in a worse position.
And that’s before getting to poorly (barely) trained forces. Depending on how you are counting, Ukraine is on its third or fourth army. A recent story in Time Magazine serves as one-stop shopping for the deteriorating state of its forces and its difficulty in replenishing losses. The average age at the start of the war (30 to 35, due in part to a demographic dearth of men in their 20s) is now up to 43. …”
And for more of this nature:https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-end-game-putin-medvedev-discuss-maps-putting-kiev-menu
there is interesting conjecture regarding Russias potential endgame plans for Ukraine.
Obviously Ukraine needs to conscript some toddlers to bring the average age down.
‘Zero Hedge has become “a forum for the hateful, conspiracy-driven voices of the angry white men of the alt-right. Racists, anti-Semites, extreme right-wingers, and conspiracy nuts…..’
Seth Hettena
‘…….former (zero hedge) website staffer Colin Lokey…….: “I can’t be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing……anymore. It’s wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but it will kill your brand over the long run. This isn’t a revolution. It’s a joke.” Lokey told Bloomberg that he was pressured to frame issues in a way he felt was “disingenuous,” summarizing its political stances as “Russia=good…….’
“New Nova festival footage”… The fact that a festival like that was organised so close to the border with a known enemy on the other side might be part of the problem. Imagine going to Glastonbury if Taunton was known to be full of enemies capable of attacking the whole lot. Was there a lack of intelligence (to use the military definition) in the Israeli government?
Mossad is feared and respected worldwide. Are they now considered a failure or seen as exceptionally good at what they do?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-global-government-ultimate-goal-billionaires/5835182
Posted last night but doubtless few will have seen it.
I have mentioned this subject previously – they intend to steal our homes.
Dr Mike Yeadon is now on board with this. Truly:
‘You will own nothing and be very unhappy.’
This should be self-evident by now to any home owner except it won’t be stealing as the policies are being changed to strongly encourage people out of their homes so just like vaccine recipients, it’s their choice and no-one will be forcing them.
Cue many pointless crowdfunders to enrich the legal profession rather than a swift backlash to dispose of the government and those influencing it.
If “they” were hell bent on this, the Treasury Wokeists would implement a – compulsory non negotiable charge on property to pay for social care. It might take some decades but it would happen very naturally. It might incite a deep downwards curve in the housing market….and a rush to gift property into trusts…
“Property” might also include pension funds ( not final salary schemes of course – they would not shoot themselves in the foot, surely?)
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/can-front-runner-trump-survive-this-sinister-clampdown-on-free-speech/
When I post – our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box it applies everywhere. Kathy Gyngell at TCW with an excellent summary of the forces being raised against Donald Trump.
Democracy – it’s over.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sunaks-numbers-game-in-pursuit-of-votes/
A quick summary of the two of Klaus’s little helpers at the top of government – Fishy and Chunt and their economic fiddling. They have halved inflation apparently. And I am going to win on the pools. FFS!
It certainly wins this week’s Star Prize for services to gaslighting – I prefer a dagger up…….you can visualise the rest.
According to some posters that bemoan the pitfalls of a response that may further radicalise a group (a problem I actually agree with) NONE of this happened. It was all lies apparently. But if it wasn’t ALL lies, then it definitely wasn’t Hamas (because they can be trusted without question). No, if it happened at all, according to these people, it was Palestinian civilians. Hamas can be trusted, the West cannot. Simple.
The irony, of course, is that these people who point out the dangers of being radlicalised seem to have no understanding that their views have become radical.
Textbook example of a straw man argument.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/19/this-week-in-the-new-normal-77/
A quick round up:
NHS data collection
Turkey’s Green Fund
You will eat the insects.
And Bob Moran’s latest cartoon which is righly cruel but brilliant.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12771269/Matt-Hancock-habit-saying-things-werent-true-Sir-Patrick-Vallance-tells-Covid-Inquiry-calls-shamed-ex-Health-Secretary-enthusiastic.html
Whereas Paddy Valance never told a porky. Ever. Honest gov.
Well done Patrick for realising what we, the great unwashed, realised way back in 2020.
Funny that none of the underhand, behind the scenes shenanigans & dealings related to Cameron have been raised ATL in relation to his connections with getting covid injections into the arms of the UK public….
Thanks to Lawyers of Light for their diligence.
David Cameron has today been made a “Lord” after being parachuted in so he can take the job as foreign secretary.
Aside from his dodgy connections ref Greensill and the Paradise papers, interestingly he is also linked to Illumina. They are the company who provided the digital genomic code to both Moderna & Pfizer for their “gene therapy jabs”.
“He also worked for a gene-sequencing company, Illumina, which won a £123m government contract during the pandemic”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/15/david-cameron-urged-to-disclose-the-jobs-he-gave-up-to-make-cabinet-return
From 2021
“David Cameron has denied commercially lobbying the government on behalf of a genetics company he worked for”.
“It comes after it emerged he encouraged Health Secretary Matt Hancock, (yes him again), to speak at a conference co-hosted by the firm, Illumina, shortly before it won a £123m government contract”.
“According to the Times newspaper, Mr Cameron wrote to Mr Hancock personally to recommend he attend the conference”.
“The Times reported that a week after the conference at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Hampshire, in September 2019, the company was given a multi-million-pound contract for genetic sequencing without competition. The contract is with Genomics England, a company wholly owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58146567
More here on “Lord Cameron
It really does beggar belief.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/david-cameron-met-vaccines-minister-firm-he-advises-won-health-contracts/
Here is Illumina
“Providing technology and support to track transmission, develop therapies and vaccines, and ensure long-term global safety and security”
Not dodgy or into global control at all…..
https://emea.illumina.com/company/supporting-covid-19-efforts.html#:~:text=Providing%20technology%20and%20support%20to,it%20for%20the%20long%20haul
Illumina and DARPA are connected too
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/wellcome-leap-nabs-300m-ex-darpa-illumina-execs-to-battle-global-health-problems
“There’s just a really small circle of sh!ts isn’t there, all swimming in their own sh!t, passing it back and forth to each other, before they sh!t on us.
Politics is just the front for the sh!t fest. The sooner you accept that, the easier it becomes to deal with it all.”
Excellent post Bertie. I’ve been wondering about ammunition against the Lord. Too many people I know are actually pleased with his return because, you know, “he’s better than Sunak.”
As a general rule, if they get this high up and get air lifted in, they’re dirty as f.
Thank you.
BB
Many will have seen this news report:
“The decision by Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the German government could not simply repurpose billions of euros originally set aside to respond to the coronavirus pandemic for climate change instead.”
The idea that a government can transfer budgets from one category to another is shocking but I suspect it is routine. How often do we hear about UK overspending or underspending against busget lines – we should hear about it because it goes to the heart of accountability.
Funds voted for relieving those in need should not be transferred by civil servants or Ministers to instead support LGBQXYZ political roles and propaganda and to do so ought to be an offence. If done mistakenly it should be a career changing disciplinary issue for civil servants who authorised or tolerated it.