- “BBC staff’s anger after Lineker shares Israel-Gaza ‘genocide’ video” – BBC staff are said to be “furious” after Gary Lineker endorsed comments from an academic who described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “textbook genocide”, reports the Times.
- “Gary Lineker must be out to destroy the BBC” – Every time Lineker opens his mouth he gives ammunition to the BBC’s enemies, says Robin Aitken in the Telegraph.
- “Accusing Israel of genocide is despicable doublethink” – Gary Lineker’s Israel-bashing has exposed the moral rot of the metropolitan elite, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Celtic fined for fans display of Palestinian flags in UCL draw” – Celtic have been fined by UEFA over pro-Palestine displays led by the Green Brigade fan during their Champions League fixture against Atletico Madrid, according to ESPN.
- “Gaza ceasefire: Israel and Hamas agree deal to release at least 50 hostages” – The Israeli Cabinet has approved a deal with Hamas to release the hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and a pause in hostilities in the Gaza Strip, reports the Times.
- “The Democratic oligarchs funding pro-Hamas nonprofits” – The pro-Hamas, antisemitic Left is bankrolled by the same nexus of progressive oligarchs and dark-money slush funds that finance the Democrat party establishment, writes Park MacDougald in UnHerd.
- “Second lockdown could have been avoided, says Prof Chris Whitty” – Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty says that the second lockdown could have been avoided if ministers had made different decisions over the summer of 2020, reports the Telegraph.
- “I first heard about ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ on TV, says Van-Tam” – Former Deputy Chief Medical Officer Prof. Sir Jonathan Van-Tam says that the first he heard of the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme was on TV, says the Telegraph.
- “The Covid Inquiry gets worse by the day – can no one take responsibility for anything?” – Scientists are throwing Boris under the bus in the Covid Inquiry, but their focus on flattening the curve ended up flattening a whole society, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Boris may be one of the few politicians to come out of the Covid Inquiry with any credit” – Boris was right to challenge his scientific advisors, say Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson in the Telegraph.
- “Transparency and financial conflicts of interest in science and medicine” – Policymakers must intervene and develop rules to avoid future scandals and continued loss of confidence in science and medicine, writes Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
- “Quarantine doesn’t work: Japanese survey finds lower earnings for close-contacts” – On Substack, Guy Gin delves into Japan’s slavish adherence to Covid measures, shedding light on the societal fear of self-isolation and its social consequences. And they’re still wearing masks!
- “Reasonable for protesters to call Iain Duncan Smith ‘Tory scum’, court rules” – The High Court has ruled that two protesters were “reasonable” in calling Iain Duncan Smith “Tory scum” outside the Conservative party conference, reports the Guardian.
- “Culture Secretary minded to intervene in Abu Dhabi’s Telegraph takeover” – According to the Telegraph, the Culture Secretary has told Lloyds that she will intervene to safeguard press freedom as it seeks to complete a £1.2 billion debt repayment deal that would hand control of the Telegraph to a fund backed by Abu Dhabi.
- “Once again, Truss is being proven right” – Liz Truss understood that growth was our ticket to prosperity. But Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement is unlikely to revive our ailing economy, writes Mark Littlewood in the Telegraph.
- “The EU’s shameful smear campaign against Hungary” – Even the most innocent and well-meaning of initiatives by Hungarian lawmakers is now portrayed by Brussels as tainted by far-Right extremism, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Once more on the managerial menace, its rise and its causes” – On Substack, Eugyppius explores the tendency of organisations as they grow to allocate increased resources to bureaucratic expansion rather than improving their core purpose.
- “Toyota SUV adverts banned in U.K. on environmental grounds” – The U.K. advertising watchdog has banned two Toyota adverts for condoning driving that disregards its environmental impact in a landmark ruling, reports the Guardian.
- “Scottish Government ‘asleep at the wheel’ over Grangemouth closure” – Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s energy and chemicals empire is to shut Scotland’s only oil refinery amid surging energy costs and fears that a Labour crackdown on the North Sea will make it unviable, says the Herald.
- “Offshore wind farms, dead whales and the row that’s started a green-on-green civil war” – Clean energy crusaders are at loggerheads with conservationists over claims wind turbines are killing cetaceans, according to the Telegraph.
- “Schools are discouraged from letting pupils change their pronouns” – Long overdue transgender guidance will establish a “presumption against” young people changing their names, pronouns and uniforms in classrooms, reveals the Mail. But does it go far enough?
- “English football must stop dithering over transgender players and take action” – The national game has fallen behind other major sports in ensuring fairness and safety for women – now the FA must show some gumption, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Teacher who threw a pen at pupil may be prosecuted” – A teacher who is at risk of prosecution for throwing a pen at a pupil is being held up as a symbol of the malaise in French education, reports the Times.
- “Laurence Fox arrives at High Court with girlfriend for libel trial” – Laurence Fox is facing a lawsuit from former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on social media in October 2020, according to the Mail.
- “BBC declares ‘Black women most likely to die in medieval plague’” – The internet is presently having a laugh at the BBC for their declaration that “black women” were “mostly likely to die” in the 14th-century plague, says Eugyppius on Substack. Turns out the ‘researchers’ have based their findings on a sample of… three.
- “How religious belief can strengthen British society” – Spirituality can be a source of optimism, self-discipline and resilience in British life, says Rakib Ehsan in CapX.
- “Government disinformation unit rebrands following accusations it suppressed free speech” – The Government has rebranded its Counter-Disinformation Unit following accusations that it sought to suppress free speech, reports the Telegraph. It is now called the National Security Online Information Team.
- “New documentary: The Censorship Files” – The team at Public present The Censorship Files, a new documentary delving into the Twitter Files and the race to the Supreme Court, which will hear the Missouri v. Biden censorship case early next year.
- “Miss Universe collapses on itself” – City Journal’s Paul du Quenoy tries to suppress a smile as the Miss Universe pageant implodes following a disastrsous woke turn.
- “Canadian Human Rights Commission claims Christmas is rooted in ‘identity as a settler colonial state’” – A recent paper from the Canadian Human Rights Commission argues that Christianity in Canada essentially constitutes discrimination, reports PM.
- “‘I wouldn’t worry about the bloody boats, look at what’s happening at the airports!’” – On GB News, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Kelvin MacKenzie and Tessa Dunlop discuss reports suggesting net migration could hit a record 700,000 people.
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So a whitewash then as always seemed likely, and will presumably limit itself to such questions as whether Peking Piffle partied too hard and whether enough had been spent on health since 2010.
Just out of interest, is there any point in contributing to the enquiry (as radio adverts are now urging), and are any serious attempts being made to prevent it being a complete whitewash, and ensure that pharmaceutical companies, the media (including Oliver Wright and the Times muppets) and other collaborators (such as ICL, or the people behind the rigged vitamin D trials) are held properly to account for their actions?
If you’re referring to EveryStoryMatters then contributing is a good idea. Otherwise, it could be dominated by stories that may be critical of selective aspects of the government response but generally support the narrative.
Like any government consultation, it may not make any difference on the outcome but the point is to ensure the information is there so it cannot be claimed there was no criticism of lockdown, unethical use of psychology, bypassing of informed consent by coercion, computer modelling etc.
An alternative is to be less critical and put in a positive experience: how uplifting it was when you saw those around you start to shed their trust in the government and mainstream media.
“may be critical of selective aspects of the government response but generally support the narrative.”
I think this part of your statement says it all! This is the target the inquiry is already aiming for, the arrow is already heading for the bullseye!
I have never heard or seen any such advert. Perhaps their agency did not chose GB News or Daily Sceptic?
GBNews did an article on it but there doesn’t appear to be a link in the article.
https://www.gbnews.com/health/covid-lockdown-pandemic-rules-inquiry
Here’s the site:
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/every-story-matters/
Interestingly enough, I just watched a film, Death Comes To School” (1953), a murder mystery about an unpopular teacher who was murdered. In the end, it turned out that it was one of her fellow teachers who did it, to protect a niece at the all girls (and all female teachers) school, from having her father forced into a divorce by this teacher (Miss Cooper) who was having an affair with him. Now I absolutely don’t condone murder, and accept that there is a legitimate debate to be had about affairs. However, the point stands that in general, those who are prepared to make great sacrifices to protect children are greatly to be admired (see the Birkenhead Drill) – the exact opposite, shamefully, of what happened with the lockdowns and their “obsessive safetyism” (Toby Young) – but not for the safety of children. Of course we know now (if we didn’t after Diamond Princess) that they didn’t make anyone safe. Put that in your “covid” enquiry.
As it happens, some of our people from the anti-lockdown church had a bit of a Christmas knees-up towards the end of December, 2020, and we make no apologies for it. Never forget, Peking Piffle’s crime was locking us down and the associated human rights abuses. The parties just rubbed salt in the wound.
Where are the reports of how many people were hospitalised or died as a result of civil service parties and lockdown gatherings? Would that not be the headline story? The event highlights the hypocrisy, the silence on the consequences highlights the fraud.
There are of course three genders – masculine, feminine and neuter ( der, die, das). I dare say though that he didn’t mean to bully the Germans…
let’s not be beastly to the Germans noel coward at DuckDuckGo
The Hallett Inquiry sounds like an (expensive) attempt by The Blob to lay down an “official” history of the Covid years. Probably won’t work these days quite as well as in former eras.
I suppose if a partially sighted person happened to spit at this particular junction, it would count as “hateful behaviour”. Maybe fines could be issued to such partially sighted people so that the council could recover some of their costs…
And where are the
child poverty crossing/disabled crossing/heterosexual crossing/abused women/mental illness crossing and many other underrepresented minorities (and unrepresented majorities) in the UK? all deserved of note, but, no, just gay crossings!
Diverse my @r$£!
And an insult to Zebras! Pelicans will be next, mark my words…
Federal judge rules MA student’s ‘there are only two genders’ T-shirt invades the rights of others
Clearly woke nonsense, the student’s right to wear the T-shirt is surely covered by the First Amendment.
Which organisation financially backed whoever took legal action against the student?
The student should claim to be a Christian, even if they aren’t, and being banned from wearing the T-shirt breaches their freedom of religion. Years ago when the woke mob wasn’t as powerful as it is now several students won the right to wear T-shirts saying “homosexuality is a sin” on a freedom of religion rather than freedom of speech defence.
According to the judge, wearing the shirt within the school is not covered by the First Amendment:
‘Citing multiple precedents, the judge ruled that “A school need not tolerate student speech that is inconsistent with its basic educational mission, [ ] even though the government could not censor similar speech outside the school.” So there was no constitutional violation that occurred.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12205705/Chinese-military-expert-filed-patent-Covid-vaccine-died-mysterious-circumstances.html
‘…in Wonderland, nothing is as it seems.’
‘“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice…’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/17/smart-meters-are-a-trial-run-for-an-even-greater-heat-pump/
It increasingly seems to me that the net-zero fervour of the western world is looking like the deranged rantings of a demented and irrelevant cult. Meanwhile the rest of the World seems to be getting on with real life in the real world.
China has just donated 20,000 tonnes of fertiliser to the Philippines to aid rice production.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1292736.shtml
Russia has sold a load of oil to Pakistan with the trade settled in Chinese yuan. A group of African leaders have met with Putin in Russia to discuss peace in Ukraine. The Russian and Chinese air forces are carrying out joint flying exercises over the Pacific.
I have a premonition of the UK in the future as a country of immiserated, hungry, cold people struggling to survive in our new net-zero third world status. Maybe by then the BRICS nations will have grown so prosperous and powerful that they will send us food parcels and blankets?
Totally agree
any country that holds on to cheap energy will rule the world, in some cases, they already do!
Or walk in an invasion force and use the country as a prison island.
A guy from Take That was cancelled from singing at a Pride event because he liked some Tweets. But that’s not the worst bit. The worst bit is his pathetic, arse-kissing apology for doing so. What a pitiful excuse for a man you are, Howard Whatsyername!
”Sharing his own statement to Instagram, Howard wrote: ‘I have made a huge error in my judgement liking social media posts that are derogatory towards the LGBTQIA+ community and for that I a deeply sorry and I know I have let everyone down.
‘I am really disappointed in myself and I am sorry for any hurt that I have caused by my uneducated actions I clearly have a lot to learn and it’s a priority for me that I do this.’
MailOnline has contacted representatives for both Howard and Nottingham Pride for comment.
Prior to his account being taken down, Howard had liked Tweets such as: ‘Only women have periods! Men cannot menstruate. Transgender ‘women’ cannot menstruate,’ according to PinkNews.
Howard had also liked a Tweet from Turning Point UK founder Charlie Kirk as he called for Disney to be defunded for holding a pride concert.
Other Tweets included anti-vax messages and conspiracies.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12205931/Take-Thats-Howard-Donald-axed-Nottingham-Pride-liking-transphobic-homophobic-tweets.html
The equivalent of a conquered tribe being led through the streets of ancient Rome in chains. What an idiot! Then again, so many have suffered the same fate and done exactly the same thing. Like Clarkson grovelling and apologising on bended knee to the Sussexes (Windsors?). Where are the backbones? Of course, women are the only people who can menstruate! How daft do you have to be to not say the effin’ obvious? Since when did lies become truths? I would bear the fact of being cancelled at a Pride event for such tweets as a badge of honour – something to be really proud of. You know, speaking the actual truth and not being cowed into some subservient groveller agreeing with lies.
Totally, Aethelred. The guy has just demonstrated he has zero credibility or balls, thus is not worthy of our respect. It’s ”Howard the Coward” from now on from me. Somebody else we can not add to our list of allies in the fight against this madness. Hope he doesn’t have kids if this is his attitude to this extremely damaging ideology sweeping the world. What sort of message would he be instilling in them if this is the kind of person he’s proven to be? Everyone should be standing up for reality and biological facts, not pandering to the fantasies of the crazies just because you’re trying desperately to remain relevant now that your heyday is long past. Utter Woketard!
Howard the coward is an absolute canker.
See what I did there?
“There is still time for us to do right – and save Julian Assange from dying in U.S. dungeon” Perhaps in many people’s minds this is not the most pressing issue of our times yet still this is the metre by which we can judge our own society. Assange has still not been convicted anything yet he has been held in Belmarsh high security prison for 5 years now. Before that, he had a netherworld existence in a cramped space in the Ecuadorean Embassy because he knew that if he was arrested, he would be extradited to Sweden – on trumped up charges subsequently dropped – and from there to the US. This man has suffered. And for what? For exposing the crimes of the US government and NATO. All that power focused on this one man because they hate the fact that he briefly shone a light on their nefarious activities and broke the spell that the US is a force for good. The US is a gangster state disguised as a democracy. They are evil beyond understanding. Nothing the US government and its deep state string pullers does is for the collective good of humanity – they might think they do, in their twisted reasoning, but really they don’t. If Assange is extradited – and it looks like he will be – then it is an awful reflection of a system that doesn’t stand for truth, life, or liberty, if it ever did, but one that crushes, silences, censors, cancels, constricts, stamps on and kills to protect its veneer of respectability, patriarchal concern and quiet uncontested authority – and it is just a veneer and veneer peels off in the light and heat! Sadly, all truth seeking journalists will be just a little bit more wary in holding aloft the torch of truth and shining a light on the dark festering heart of the establishment.
Totally agree….do you remember Sunak on 3rd May ‘World Press Freedom Day’?
He talked about how important it is, and how he stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the US on Russia’s detention of US journalist Evan Gershkovich…
..but on one of the most egregious arrests ever…crickets!!?
The fact that the UK is supposed to send him to a banana republic where the wannabe dictator is currently arresting his political rivals, is the cherry on the cake!
Great post, Aethelred – I agree with every word – and love your description of the US as “a gangster state disguised as a democracy”.
A quality post Aethelred.
So the New York Times thinks Russia blew the dam?…well they thought Russia bombed Nordstream initially as well….?
I have no more idea than anyone but I know that the UK have sent Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, and lo and behold, one of the functions of the missile is that it can penetrate a structure before it explodes!……
Wikipedia…..
The Storm Shadow’s BROACH warhead features an initial penetrating charge to clear soil or enter a bunker, then a variable delay fuze to control detonation of the main warhead. Intended targets are command, control and communications centres; airfields; ports and power stations; ammunition management and storage facilities; surface ships and submarines in port; bridges and other high value strategic targets.
When engaging hard targets, such as Hardened Aircraft Shelters or bunkers, the missile will strike the target at the estimated optimum dive angle, selected during mission planning. On impact the detonation sequence commences. The precursor charge will perforate the target structure, and any soil covering, and the follow through penetrator warhead will continue to penetrate inside the target to be detonated after a pre-selectable fuse delay.
Just putting out there!!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/twenty-four-reasons-why-net-zero-must-be-abandoned/
A pretty comprehensive take-down of the myths around Co2 and its impacts on non-existent anthropogenic climate change.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/blogs/truro-diocese-on-the-way-to-closing-churches
The destruction of English churches and in this article specifically Cornwall. Indicative of the systematic dismantling of the British way of life.
I don’t but doubt similar destructive practices are under way in other counties. All led by senior members of the clergy. Well I never. It’s almost as if Satan was taking over.