- “Too many want to believe Hamas’s hospital lies” – Despite all the evidence, some in the West refuse to believe the IDF’s claims that Hamas uses hospitals and other civillian sites for terrorism, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “Will Zarah Sultana quit Labour if it is ‘institutionally racist’?” – Corbynista Labour MP Zarah Sultana has accused her party of being “institutionally Islamophobic”, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Why Osama bin Laden is taking TikTok by storm” – Western wokesters and Islamist terrorists have more in common than you might think, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “The ugly side of the European Left” – Many people on the Left long ago gave up protecting free speech and a growing number appear prepared to tolerate violence, warns Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Why can’t ‘intersectional feminists’ condemn Hamas’s misogyny?” – A disturbing number of women’s groups have downplayed the rape of Israeli women, writes Candice Holdsworth in Spiked.
- “‘The London I grew up in is slipping away’” – Bethnal Green school kids are chanting antisemitic slogans – and no one seems to care, laments Ike Ijeh in Spiked.
- “Following Covid science became millstone around our neck, says Whitty” – Boris Johnson’s insistence that the Government was “following the science” during the pandemic became a millstone around the necks of his advisers, the Chief Medical Officer has said, according to the Telegraph.
- “On Covid, scepticism of ‘the science’ was justified” – The question that the Covid Inquiry needs to answer is whether the lockdowns made a fundamental difference, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “‘The Covid generation is still suffering – we will see the effects for years to come’” – Experts warn that children’s social and emotional development remains hindered following Covid lockdowns, according to the Telegraph.
- “Secret warnings about Wuhan research predated the pandemic” – Unreported correspondence over U.S.-funded research in China highlights the tension between Government scientists favouring collaboration and those concerned about advanced technologies reaching the wrong hands, writes Katherine Eban in Vanity Fair.
- “The accountability deficit” – On Substack, UsForThem explains how ministers and officials evaded accountability, misled the public and breached democratic norms during the pandemic.
- “The plan to reduce birth rates by 81% in the next 70 years” – On Substack, Igor Chudov reacts to WEF and UN proposals to reduce the number of births in the next 70 years from 130 million a year to 24 million.
- “Where is the populist backlash over immigration in Britain?” – British voters are annoyed by small boats, high immigration and pro-Palestine marches, but most do not yet realise the transformative scale of today’s immigration levels, warns Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
- “Top Gear’s cancellation is not just the death of machismo – it’s a major headache for the BBC” – It may be lucrative and a global brand, but Top Gear’s demise is no surprise in today’s climate, writes Ben Lawrence in the Telegraph.
- “Oxford to ban gas hobs in new homes” – Fossil fuel appliances are to be forbidden from 2025 in Oxford City Council’s Net Zero push, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why is the UN speaking up for two jailed Just Stop Oil activists?” – The UN is becoming increasingly foolish, selective and, frankly, irrelevant when it comes to matters such as free speech, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Are the richest 1% really to blame for climate change?” – To combat climate change, Oxfam seems to be proposing wealth taxes to take away private jets, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Who’s afraid of Javier Milei?” – The success of Javier Milei and his upstart party, Liberty Advances, rests above all on the collapse of the Argentinian political establishment, argues Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Cricket chiefs ban transgender players born as men from international women’s cricket to ‘protect the safety’ of female players” – Biological males have been banned from international women’s cricket after the world governing body ruled to prioritise “integrity… and the safety of players” above “inclusivity”, reports the Mail.
- “Scotland doesn’t need a ‘non-binary action plan’” – Scotland’s non-binary equality action plan should be consigned to the bin, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Women are fighting back against the trans takeover of sport” – From pool players to boxers, female athletes are refusing to compete against biological men, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Germany may ban buying sex as nation is dubbed ‘the brothel of Europe’” – German politicians are pushing to ban prostitution, more than two decades after it was legalised, reports the Mail.
- “The Georgetown effect” – Left-wing ideology at a university that produces American diplomats is having a deleterious effect on U.S. foreign policy, warns Eitan Fischberger in City Journal.
- “‘Never embrace the ideals of socialism’” – On X, Argentinian President-elect Javier Milei explains the dangers of socialism to Tucker Carlson.
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Not mentioned on “Ceefax” though, even on the Tyne and Wear section. However the BBC do cover the doctors’ strike (no hint it could be connected to lockdowns of course) and “Covid jabs for under fives”. I repeat, do not pay the licence fee.
Are you saying “stop watching live golf and football on Sky and do not pay the licence fee” or just “do not pay the licence fee”?
I totally resent paying the licence fee, but feel uncomfortable about breaking the law (even when the law is an ass).
Interested in other thoughts.
I don’t pay it, but I don’t legally have to, i stopped watching terrestrial TV 15 years ago (and all of the other things that require a license). If they add it to council tax or otherwise it’ll be interesting trying to find a way to vote with my feet because I wouldn’t pay the BBC on principle.
If only we had that choice here in ireland! If you have a tv, you must pay a licence fee, even if the tv is in the shed somewhere broken!, if it’s repairable, you still have to pay for rte! Seriously.
I got the impression from over here that the COVID propaganda was even stronger on RTE than the BBC.
Correct, they are still pushing the booster campaign over here! it’s nonsensical
cricfree DOT sc for all your Sky & BT Sport needs. Or small sub to Jokerhdpass, so I am told….
PIA “London streaming” option allows VPN access to iPlayer, so I am told….
Thanks, Jeremy
They do have something on their website: –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-65187992
Apparently side affects are ‘very rare’.
I just call them effects – there’s nothing ‘side’ about them, most especially in this case.
The effects they ‘wanted’ didn’t materialise.
The effects they ‘didn’t want’ materialised in spades.
The product is a poison therefore.
Something else you might like to do is acquire one of these lovely dolls, immortalised by the wonderful Enid Blyton. Don’t worry, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a sissy…
I’m not sure about this one – I think I’d probably avoid a pub that had these on display.
Your choice…
I’d be more likely to order in such a pub, one that cocked a snook to all the rollocks we are now battered with.
I dont give downticks I’d sooner give an opinion. It wouldn’t really bother me if I walked into a pub that had these things! They are just that,..things, it’s the people that matter irrelevant of race colour or creed.
Just conjures up childhood memories of marmalade labels to me.
Also metal badges/brooches you could collect…
Pretty sure I had one as a teddy.
I’m sure I wanted one. I know my friend had a cuddly one.
Exactly, Punch is a caricature of a wife beating white man, I’m not offended by it! Far from it,it’s a reminder of happy days(not that I’ve ever beaten any of my wives!)
Like the black and white minstrels, I never even thought anything about racism it was just good entertainment
If the B&W Minstrels are good enough for jab-pusher Lennie (Lenny?) Henry it’s surely good enough for the rest of us.
(Be great to catch up with the celebrity endorsers – see if they’ve changed their minds or spent the money or had a son die of a rare cancer. Now that’s a documentary I might pay the licence fee for).
I can see that gollies might not be to everyone’s taste, but I’m afraid that’s what it comes down to in the end. Flying a confederate flag, or a rainbow flag, or supporting the Azov brigades. It’s all a tad political. Gollies are way down the list.
Titter…
BBC wanted to interview this fine feller (from Oxford – one of the estates, natch), but told him he had to take the Golly doll off.
He, bless him, told them where to shove it.
Good on him, what a great guy! I bet he’s a good laugh and a great personality..sadly lacking these days
For a long time now, black babies’ dolls are being made just as much as white ones, to accommodate diversity – fair enough. So why would anyone want to call the ownership or display of black dolls a “hate crime”? Surely the only discriminatory hate crime happening here is the confiscation of black dolls, where white dolls would surely be spared!
Line up some white dolls on a shelf and it’s lack of diversity, line up some black dolls and it’s a “hate crime”!
“A growing number of scientists are reconsidering the dangers of prospecting for unknown viruses,”
You don’t say..?
Do scientists have a ‘sense’ gene missing, perhaps? I mean what could possibly go wrong if you’re constantly looking for something to wipe us all off the face of the map?!
“Big Obstacles in Store for Buildout of Nationwide Charging Network”
Rich, thick people buy electric cars! The vast majority are neither!
Another grand waste of money
Easy to get run over by an electric car as you can never hear them coming! I always see people’s virtue being signalled when I see one and yes they are usually quite well-off people who haven’t really thought it all through…
In the UK, since July 2019, all new EVs have been fitted with acoustic sound systems so that they can be heard by pedestrians.
Well, not the ones I’ve recently seen. I guess I am looking at ‘old tech’ then!
No, sepulchrave is correct, they are all fitted with a replicated engine noise, but, not many use it as its another drain on the battery, like wipers, heater, lights, AC, and other meaningless creature comforts we all take for granted
..if you have a normal car that is!
This modern age, 21st century technological advances!
I bet, when the old one stops spinning, the new ones do too!
On the windless days its back behind the shed with his demijohn of cider for windy Miller!
No, no, these days Windy Miller will be out catching bugs on still days in order to grind them into the flour.
CBI not WEFfie enough. Not big corporation Mussolini enough.
OK.
https://www.technocracy.news/the-waiting-for-pandemic-transhuman-cult-of-biodefense/
“All natural biological pathogens are already perfectly optimized and balanced and cannot be “modified,” despite the sci-fi narratives of hackable “software of life” and gene splicing. No complex life form can be “genetically modified” and continue as a viable life form, because that modification will interfere with its living balance, and deviate it from the perfect current state of equilibrium. In multicellular organisms, you have to modify all cells (not possible with single injection), and keep modifying all of them in perpetuity.”
Sacha Latypova utterly destroying the transhumanist argument.