- “Palestine rally hits London with officers watching for hate speech” – Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters flooded the streets of Central London on Saturday shouting the controversial ‘From the river to the sea’ chant, reports the Mail.
- “Watchdog to crack down on charities hosting antisemitic extremists” – The Chair of the Charity Commission has pledged to crack down on mosques that host antisemitic extremists amid “serious concerns” about activities linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict, says the Telegraph.
- “The dangers of criminalising the anti-Israel bigots” – Expanding the offence of ‘glorifying terrorism’ would threaten all of our free speech, warns Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
- “Here in Israel, there’s no ‘crisis of confidence’. It’s stronger than ever” – Faltering faith in Israel? Bad news for the clever pundits of the West: Israelis have never been stronger, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “‘From the river to the sea’: The significance of a slogan” – Not all of those who advocate for a single state ‘from the river to the sea’ have genocidal intent, but their recommendation, if acted upon, would very likely to result in either the genocide or ethnic cleansing of Jews, warns David Benatar in Quillette.
- “China discovers close virus to Covid in bats 1,000 miles from Wuhan” – The discovery of a new wild coronavirus that has the same freak mutation as COVID-19 is being hailed by some scientists as proof SARS-CoV-2 was not made in a lab, reports the Mail.
- “Females and young adults at higher risk of COVID-19 vaccine side effects” – A new study has found that females and young adults are at an increased risk of suffering from side effects after COVID-19 vaccinations, says the Epoch Times.
- “Chris Whitty is wrong about herd immunity” – In UnHerd, Kevin Bardosh looks at several common misconceptions which Prof. Chris Whitty and others continue to spread about herd immunity.
- “Unprecedented mass migration threatens to erode our national values” – It is almost impossible to effectively integrate such a large number of people at once, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “British liberals are sheltered from the devastating impact of mass migration” – Our first-past-the-post electoral system and the dominance of progressive thought have contained public anger about high migration numbers. But it cannot last, warns Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Ireland and the fury of the cancelled” – The recent chaos in Dublin was a morbid symptom of Europe’s decaying technocracy, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “This is just the beginning of Ireland’s riots” – The Irish Government still isn’t listening to voters’ immigration concerns, warns Conor Fitzgerald in UnHerd.
- “Diversity stabbing of the day” – Mark Steyn gives his take on the recent stabbings in France and Ireland.
- “‘Dutch Trump’ divides Holland” – The election victory of Geert Wilders and his eurosceptic supporters has left Holland deeply divided, reports the Mail.
- “The EU has only itself to blame for Geert Wilders” – The Dutch voters aren’t fascists; they’re fearful about what the future holds, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Geert Wilders, Javier Milei and the crumbling of the elites” – On the latest episode of the Spiked podcast, Candice Holdsworth joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the political earthquakes in Argentina and the Netherlands, how the Israel-Hamas war has sent the West mad and the dangers of ‘trans inclusion’ in sport.
- “A historical victory, also for climate realism” – The triumph of Geert Wilders in the Dutch General Elections was mainly attributed to the immigration issue, yet it’s crucial to acknowledge the PVV’s longstanding climate scepticism, says Marcel Crok in Clintel.
- “Germany’s Reichsbürger movement is anything but a joke” – Germany’s Reichsbürger movement is growing, increasingly well-connected and willing to use violence to overthrow the state, writes Katja Hoyer in the Spectator.
- “Labour denies Starmer pushing to water down £28 billion green plans” – Labour has strongly denied reports that Sir Keir Starmer is set to abandon the Party’s pledge to spend £28 billion-a-year on green initiatives, says the Mail.
- “We use Britain’s biggest EV hub – paying is a nightmare and expensive” – Britain’s vast new super hub for charging electric vehicles has a major shock in store for eco-punters: It’s more expensive than fuel, and paying is a nightmare, according to the Mail.
- “Government to pay £350 for EV chargers in flats” – On WUWT, Paul Homewood reacts to the news that the Government will pay you £350 towards a charging point in your… flat.
- “New Oxford political party wants ‘return to democracy’” – A new Oxford political party has been launched which says it is calling for “a return to real democracy” and councillors who “listen to residents’ views on LTNs”, reports the Oxford Mail.
- “The Tories have capitulated to the heat pump extremists” – The Green lobyy’s iron grip is squeezing the life out of our economy, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Climate, CO2 and the Sun” – In WUWT, Andy May challenges the common belief that human-produced CO2 alone causes global warming, suggesting that solar cycles might have a more substantial impact on temperature changes.
- “Major coal port remains blocked by climate protesters” – Protesters in Australia have blockaded the world’s largest coal port over what they say is the failure of the Government to act on climate change, reports the Mail.
- “An about-turn on tobacco” – Prohibitionists are changing course on cigarettes and Rishi now stands alone, says Christopher Snowdon in the Critic.
- “Civil servants held meeting on Why I Don’t Talk to White People About Race book” – Civil servants held a diversity meeting to discuss the book Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race and encouraged each other to keep the discussions private, reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants told to check up on colleagues who don’t list pronouns” – Civil servants were told to check their colleagues’ email signatures for their pronouns and not assume each other’s gender in an internal memo discussing victims of anti-transgender violence, according to the Telegraph.
- “U.K. ‘conversion therapy’ bill tabled by Lib Dem Peer” – A bill seeking to ban so-called conversion therapy across the U.K. has been introduced as a Private Members’ Bill in the House of Lords, says the Christian Institute.
- “Who is Sandi Toksvig to lecture ‘radical feminists’ like me?” – Whatever Sandi Toksvig’s reason is for adding fuel to the misogynistic fire, it is cowardly, craven and deeply disrespectful towards those women who have fought for the rights she enjoys, writes Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
- “Trans scepticism makes its way home to the Netherlands” – Once a model for other Western countries, the Dutch are now backtracking on transgender medical research, says Laurel Duggan in UnHerd.
- “Ontario museum scrubs female powerlifter from exhibit following her calls for fairness in women’s sports” – A museum in London, Ontario, has removed a female powerlifter from an exhibit on resilience in retaliation for her opposition to males participating in women’s sports, according to Reduxx.
- “Calls for AI tax overhaul amid concerns machines ‘cheaper to use’ than humans” – The creative industries have called for an overhaul of the U.K.’s tax regime for the AI era amid concerns it will be cheaper to use machines than hire humans, reports the Telegraph.
- “Greta Thunberg is more of a ‘genocide activist’ than ‘climate activist’” – On X, Dr. Eli David has shared a video of Greta Thunberg chanting “Crush Zionism”, i.e., calling for the genocide of Jews in Israel.
.@GretaThunberg chanting “Crush Zionism”, i.e. calling for genocide of Jews in Israel
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) November 25, 2023
She's more of a “genocide activist” than “climate activist”
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Imagine how much money we could save and output we could improve if we got rid of both the civil service and Royal Air Force.
Would we miss them?
To your list of organisations for abolition, it is with a heavy heart that I would add the RNLI for its enthusiastic (and presumably paid) complicity in illegal immigration and the National Trust for abject wokeism.
In both cases their sensible and laudable founding principles would be better served by County or area based organisations that could focus on the core job in hand and be less susceptible to being hi-jacked by National political Dogma.
5G Consistent pattern of adverse effects
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Your neighbours must really be getting fed up with all the rubbish you are stuffing through their letterboxes.
I hope it is rubbish ! Imagine if the 5G could actually damage health , it’s reassuring that at least you are here to tell us that’s it’s nothing to worry about , phew
We can also live in the confident belief that the BBC and HMG would investigate objectively and tell us fairly if there were any risks from G5. Neither of them would be influenced by the big business lobbyists nor by the sunk costs narrative.
Two more of the FEMALE terrorists released as part of the prison exchange deal. Yes, I guess it’s an actual fact that they do indeed exist, and to deny reality just makes one look very, very silly indeed. I think Israel needs to take tips from Egypt on how to reinforce their barrier after having people like this now freed and living next door;
”Part of the exchange today to free 2 year old Aviv Asher involved having to exchange Hamas terrorist Asraa Jabes.
The 38 year old Palestinian woman detonated a car bomb back in 2015 attempting to kill Israelis.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1728222214011453515
”In exchange for the release of Israeli hostages like 5 year old Emilia Aloni today,, Israel had to exchange Palestinian prisoners, as part of the deal
One of the prisoners sent back to Palestine today was Shorouq Dwaiat.
In 2015 she went on a stabbing spree, stabbing 1 Israeli man and attempting to stab another.
She received a 16 year sentence.
While Israeli hostages are simply innocent civilians the Palestinian prisoners being exchanged are terrorists.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1728221322625356207
Hopefully the Israeli’s managed to attach miniature satellite trackers to the terrorists and will get them in the next airstrike.
Yeah, this must be true ‘cos there’s no way the virus could spread as far as 1,000 miles. Stands to reason dunnit?
Er.
Those bloody scheming bats, they’ve clearly been planning this for millions of years in those caves in China. Clever barstewards…
At last, their cunning plan is being put into action! Today, the cave, tomorrow, the whole cave system!
Why the hell don’t we just keep the f#@k away from them? They politely stay in deep dark caves all day, then when we’re asleep the come out to eat, surely they are doing their bit to keep away from us! Why don’t we do the same for them?
If this is true (and there are lots of reasons to doubt it – it’s had 4 years minimum to spread to other bats FFS), then maybe it’s not a “freak” mutation after all. Perhaps it’s fairly common and not actually something world-ending to panic about.
The ‘freak’ mutation they’re talking about is a particular sequence which is often used in laboratory constructed genetic material. It’s presence in the Covid bug was part of what drove the lab-created-leak theory – as distinct from the naturally evolved bug leaked from the lab or the ‘wet market zoonosis theory. The sequence hadn’t been seen in nature so finding it was a bit like finding a zipper in a leather jacket and saying it evolved in a natural animal skin.
Given that the other theories on the origin of Covid require a bug that evolved in another animal to make the leap to humans and given that the Covid bug has changed over time (Original, Alpha, Delta, Omicron etc etc ad nauseam), it does not seem impossible that a lab-created Covid bug spreading through mankind (considerably further than 1,000 miles) might not cross the species barrier from humans to bats and continue to evolve there – complete with its man-made ‘zipper’ (OK the analogy does break down there).
Not entirely sure what the bat story is trying to prove.
Finding a bat with a virus 1000 km from Wuhan.
How funny…
“Compared with birds, bats are relatively short-distance migrators, with maximum migration distances being <2000 km”
I think the point of the story is the fact that the virus was genetically very similar to Covid and this is meant to be proof that it didn’t leak from a lab. It’s theoretically possible that someone from Wuhan caught covid from a bat while on holiday and returned home before becoming ill. Obviously the evidence in favour of a lab leak is still far stronger than the evidence for a natural origin.
It’s a red herring, in my view, designed to bring the Covid story back to what they originally said it was and take blame away from any pesky little lab just innocently GoF’ing its little way towards designing better and nastier viruses. In fact, in honour of Prince Philip, since it was his wish, I feel we should call the next ‘virus’ Philip so people can claim a mild does of the ‘Philips’ or ‘I’ve been Philiped’ etc.
Knowing the way that China deals with its perceived problems I can imagine a bat eradication plan…similar to how they dealt with the little birds eating the grain in the ‘Great Leap
ForwardsBackwards’. It’s a peculiarly Chinese govt thing which is to blame everyone and everything for the myopic shortcomings of their paranoid grip on power.Are you sure you meant 2000 Km range?
Laden or unladen?
Laden with a coconut, like the swallows!
Which bit of “stop messing about with bat coronaviruses” don’t they understand from last time? Leave it alone.
I haven’t seen any news outlet prioritise the horrific stabbing of little children in Ireland as the story. It’s all about the riot. Yet if it was a gunman in America shooting little kids at school it would be front page news.
He was an Algerian immigrant, what more reason do you want for the lack of media attention.
Was he far right? Or was it all caused by systemic racism and colonialism and not his fault at all?
Mental health problems! The go to get out clause for embarrassed governments!
“Yet if it was a gunman in America shooting little kids at school it would be front page news.”
Unless the shooter was black or a muzzie.
“An about-turn on tobacco” It’s interesting to look at the whole Tobacco story. Tobacco was a herb much revered by the Native American Indians and other indigenous peoples. It is considered the ‘master teacher’ plant in fact and for reasons more to do with spiritual and shamanic uses. It was never meant to be a plant to be abused the way it has been but of course the fact that it contained a highly addictive substance, just like caffeine did for coffee and tea and sugar also, meant that it was the perfect consumer drug with a ready, willing and addicted clientele. I used to be one of them and back in the day loved nothing more than a ‘roll up’ and a cup of coffee or a pint. They just seemed to go so well together! During Native American ceremonies, Tobacco is used but not a pack of Marlboro or Camels, but a rawer purer version that hasn’t been adulterated with chemicals to make it burn better and faster .
Of course, tobacco became a huge industry and the marketing of tobacco was one of the success stories all the way through to the eighties or whenever it was banned. I do remember going into a pub, aptly named The Blue Flame, near Bristol but out in the sticks, sometime in the early 2000s to smoke in a pub legally for the last time. Nowadays, I can’t stand the smell of commercial tobacco but sacred raw tobacco is different. It is stronger and you don’t take the smoke into your lungs but only into your throat – don’t ask! Conversely, it is also one of the most powerful shamanic purification tools, the smoke being blown over people to dispel bad energies. And if you think about it, it does dispel gnats and other flying biting mites. Anyway, just thought I’d share that with you on this murky November morning…
In “The Cosmic Serpent”, anthropologist Jeremy Narby comments that Amazonian tobacco can contain up to 18x the nicotine of tobacco used for industrial cigarettes and is not contaminated by chemical fertilizers or the added ingredients. It’s considered a remedy and cancer rates amongst Shaman that use copious quantities of the Amazonian variety were non-existent.
Very interesting – thanks for sharing…
We need an “about turn” on all the other drugs too: “save our youth! End Prohibition!”
Just as the alcohol prohibition gave rise to Al Capone, so the continued drug prohibition has given rise to mobsters like Escobar in Colombia and Guzman in Mexico.
Since then, they have suborned police and all institutions of government, drug money has corrupted all the banks and gangsters have infiltrated corporations until all the power sources in America have devolved to criminals. Thus has America become a Mafiosi state.