- “Fury as comic Guz Khan is given job of hosting the BBC’s Have I Got News For You despite string of antisemitic remarks” – The BBC is facing criticism after giving comic Guz Khan the plum job of hosting Have I Got News For You, despite a string of anti-Israel tweets accusing the Jewish state of “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing”, reports the Mail.
- “Nine year-old Israeli hostage thought she had been in captivity for a year” – Emily Hand believed she was held hostage by Hamas for a year and now only speaks in a whisper after her release, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch praises Israel for keeping to international law” – Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has said Israel should be “applauded” for “taking great pains to stay within the confines of the law”, reports the Mail.
- “What’s behind China’s mysterious wave of childhood pneumonia?” – Scientists expected a surge in respiratory illnesses in China after the population was released from lockdown, says Gemma Conroy in Nature. So probably not a dangerous new virus, then.
- “Fears swine flu could be spreading under the radar” – Swine flu could be silently spreading in Britain, experts fear, as officials scramble to contain a potential crisis, reports the Mail. In case you’ve been missing the fear porn.
- “Matt Hancock knew Tier 3 restrictions would not work, Covid Inquiry hears” – The Covid Inquiry has heard that Matt Hancock knew Tier 3 restrictions would not work when he imposed them on Greater Manchester, says the Telegraph.
- “What was in Matt Hancock’s missing messages?” – Britain came tantalisingly close to avoiding lockdown in March 2020. Would it have been better if we had, asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “The Hallett Inquiry: Eminence-based medicine Part Three” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan present the third in a series of posts focussing on the evidence given to the Covid Inquiry by the Chief Scientific Advisor Prof. Dame Angela McLean. They’re less than impressed.
- “Top U.S. health official says pandemic could have started with one man” – A retired high-ranking health official has revealed that a Wuhan scientist, who was secretly working on a Covid vaccine months before the pandemic broke out, could have been the cause of the global crisis and then been murdered for it, reports the Mail.
- “Dr. Kadlec admits covering up the COVID-19 origins” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone highlights a recent Sky News Australia interview in which Dr. Robert Kadlec admits that he directly assisted in the Fauci and Collins cover-up of the origin of Covid.
- “China covered up the origins of Covid. It’s time the Inquiry asked why” – Beijing’s lies denied the world a chance to stop the spread of Covid, costing millions of lives. Why isn’t the Hallett Inquiry looking into this, asks Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Mother battling Long Covid wants to end her life in Switzerland” – Kelly Louise Smith-May, 39, from Gloucestershire, is trying to raise £10,000 so she can travel to an assisted dying facility in Switzerland after suffering complications from a Covid infection in 2021, reports the Mail.
- “Working from home – Money and gas bills for free!” – Town Halls across Britain have been paying the utility bills of staff who can’t be bothered to turn up at the office, reveals Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
- “L’etat, c’est Pfizer” – On Substack, Alex Berenson gives an update on his lawsuit against the White House and Pfizer officials.
- “The people’s letter to the World Health Organisation” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett highlights Stand Up Now Australia’s call to action, urging Australians to reject the proposed amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations by signing ‘The People’s Letter’ before December 1st.
- “I’m a Celeb accused of ‘dirty tricks’ to limit Nigel Farage’s airtime” – Nigel Farage appears to be featuring less and less on I’m a Celeb and his supporters believe the left-leaning producers are doing it deliberately, says the Mail.
- “New study: Natural CO2 emissions nearly six times higher than man-made sources” – Analysis of CO2 residence times, which refer to the length of time it stays in the atmosphere, suggests that 65% – 96.5% of the CO2 concentration increase since 1958 is natural, reports Climate Change Dispatch.
- “House buyers in Scotland may be forced to install heat pumps within two years of purchase” – Scots may be forced to rip out their gas boilers and replace them with heat pumps within two years of buying a home, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain is at risk of becoming a nation of green ghost towns” – Heavy-handed regulation is accelerating a downturn in commercial property, warns Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “The common sense majority is being cowed into silence by activist zealots” – Small groups are being allowed to impose their dogmatic views on climate change and minorities on all of us, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Bristol University to strip slaver trader Edward Colston’s emblem from its logo” – The University of Bristol is to remove the dolphin emblem of Edward Colston from its logo, reports Sky News.
- “Hey, regulator, leave those teachers alone” – In the Critic, Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall, who was sacked by a Christian school for encouraging pupils to question LGBTQ+ dogma in the classroom, takes a stand against authoritarian tolerance.
- “Force all businesses to embrace ESG, urges New Labour think tank” – All businesses should be forced to embrace the environmental, social and governance movement, New Labour’s favourite think tank has argued, according to the Telegraph. Trust Labour to be behind the curve.
- “The OpenAI soap opera is a lesson in why greed is good” – The ChatGPT creator’s radical experiment in corporate governance has unambiguously failed, says Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
- “Trans women banned from competing against biological women in another sport after cricket clamped down” – The Angling Trust, which is the governing body for recreational fishing, has decided to ban transwomen from competing with women, reports GB News.
- “Doctors forced to tick ‘penis or vagina’ form as ‘nonsense’ trans row erupts” – Doctors are being asked to tick a box saying whether patients have a penis or vagina – not whether they’re men or women – under a new NHS medical form being rolled out at some hospitals, according to GB News.
- “‘Anti-racist’ doctors would put social justice above medical expertise” – A working group affiliated with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada believes medical training should focus more on social justice and anti-racism than “medical expertise”, writes Michael Higgins in the National Post.
- “Fury as library shows signs by pro-trans group who heckled J.K. Rowling” – Gender critical feminists are in uproar after a library displayed pro-trans placards from an activist group which heckled J.K. Rowling during a women’s rights conference, says the Mail.
- “The fight for the future of publishing” – Ideological fanatics have crippled the major publishing houses. But new publishers are rising up to take the risks they won’t, writes Alex Perez in the Free Press.
- “Blair’s children: The rise of the globalist sinecure class” – In TCW, John Wycliffe questions the motivation behind the U.K. Government’s decision to spend £40 million promoting LGBTQ+ rights around the world.
- “‘Disrespectful’ health and safety warning tags put on graves in Norfolk village” – Yellow health and safety warning tags placed on graves in a village churchyard have been described as “disrespectful” by local residents, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pity Justin Trudeau, whose failed premiership is coming to a crashing end” – Justin Trudeau’s political descent mirrors that of other ‘progressive’ leaders in recent times, notably New Zealand’s Jacinda Arden, says David Collins in the Telegraph.
- “The moral cowardice of the managerial elites” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill gives his take on why Leo Varadkar failed to make a full-throated condemnation of the monsters of Hamas.
- “Politicians have created a multicultural monster beyond control. Who gets the blame? We do” – Politicians are branding recent riots in Dublin as violently ‘far-Right’ – but it’s mass migration that presents the real danger, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “After the Dublin riot, the free-speech crackdown” – The Irish Government is using last week’s unrest to promote its draconian hate-crime laws, says Ian O’Doherty in Spiked.
- “Leo Varadkar’s Ireland is flirting with a new form of totalitarianism” – Now the whole world can see that Ireland is poised to pass one of the most draconian pieces of legislation in modern times, writes Eilis O’Hanlon in the Telegraph.
- “Silencing the Irish to save them from themselves ” – Any Irish person who has a critical thought about mass migration better keep their mouth shut and not write, tweet or say anything about it on TikTok, or face prison, warns Rod Dreher in the European Conservative.
- “U.S. senator criticises Ireland’s Hate Speech Bill as international scrutiny mounts” – U.S. Senator James David Vance has criticised Ireland’s proposed hate speech legislation as international scrutiny around the law mounts, according Gript.
- “‘We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good’” – On a video posted on X, Ireland’s Green Party Sen. Pauline O’Reilly attempts to justify Ireland’s draconian hate speech bill.
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Why is it antisemitic to accuse Israel of genocidal acts against the native Palestinians?
Answers on a postcard.
Some of Israel’s actions over the years have been concerning, heavy handed perhaps, but calling them genocidal is just hyperbole. Maybe you should head to a dictionary and acquaint yourself with what ‘anti-semitic’ and ‘genocide’ actually means. Perhaps we ought to include Hamas in the conversation as a separate group to Palestinians. Hamas has been the government of Gaza since 2005 when Israel withdrew. Do you think they have done well in trying to achieve Statehood and looking after the interests and welfare of their people.?
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Hamas (2006) was supported and funded and encouraged by Likudniks in order to prevent a two state solution won on a plurality and immediately led to Israeli cutting off of Gaza into a giant prison, which has periodically been attacked, bombed and starved of essentials for normal life. In what basis? Their culture, and ethnicity. That basis is required for genocide, which is occurring now on steroids with 75% of the population displaced without clean water, electricity, or sufficient food to eat. Not genocidal? Right.
You did not answer my question. Because you cannot I presume. How is it anti Semitic to call out Israeli policies? The dictionary comment is weak. I would suggest to you that the anti semitic slur is the usual cover required to hide the atrocities of the Israeli state that has been founded on anti Arab dislocations, murders, and terrorism for almost 80 years.
You should acquaint yourself with some history books.
Here’s a Holocaust survivor’s brief interview on this for you:
https://youtu.be/ph9XF39yjgU?si=A-tFt0Kha4Bs4YU6
You said it was genocide. It isn’t.
You said it was apartheid. It isn’t.
You concentrate on Israel’s ‘atrocities’, and no mention of Hamas. In fact you seem to refuse to accept that Hamas has any responsibility for the position in which Gaza finds itself. For that reason, you can continue the conversation talking to yourself, as I suspect you will always get the answers you want to hear.
The population of Gaza was 200,000 in 1948. Now it is 2.3 million.
So? The natives that were refugees from the forced expulsions of 1948 have been allowed to breed?
The settler population of the Palestinian territory of the West Bank was near zero in 1948. Today it’s in excess of 700,000 on illegally occupied lands. Theft and violent removal of local populations.
So is that a partner for peace?
So hardly genocide which was your original accusation.
As regards the West Bank this could have been a separate Palestinian state if the Arabs had accepted the UN Plan, but instead their armies invaded to exterminate the Jewish state. The West Bank was ioccupied by the army of Transjorda, then renamed Jordan, who did not want a separate Palestinian state. This stayed until they attacked again in 1967. Since then there ere settlements on the West Bank mainly for protection. The terms of a Peace Agreement were negotiated years ago including what to do with these settlements, but Arafat was unable or scared to commit, so it is quite clear who is really interested in peace; even before Hamas’ latest brutal attacks.
I’m not keen on taking sides on this one as I don’t know enough about the history, but I do think people should be allowed to disagree with what Israel is doing without being labelled “antisemitic”.
Yes criticising Israel is one thing but accusing them of things like genocide is quite another
“‘We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good’”
I think the lady has forgotten completely who she works for…
”The common good’ a phrase to strike a chill in your heart, tyranny and oppression presented as ‘common good’ communitarianism. Whose common good? and who decides what it is? Many tyrants and oppressors throughout history would probably tell you they were acting in the common good.
Its a bit like the medieval torturers where they racked and drove spikes into people amongst other things in order to save the souls of the tortured.
What a truly frightening person she is, no doubt for the common good, she was in support of injecting the entire population with an experimental product, and destroying those that didn’t take it, or forcing it into them, I wonder what else she considers appropriate under her measure of “the common good”.
truly a shining example of the banality of evil.
‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.’ C.S. Lewis
Once “the common good” is rolled out it becomes the go-to catch-all for each and every fascist imposition that the state seeks to impose. Where does this end? Oh that will be mandatory vaccinations when the Davos Deviants let loose with another Scamdemic next year.
The usual lazy catch-all for their draconian measures – “but its all for the common good.”
This woman is yet another drain on the taxpayers and a drain on the planet. Oxygen thief.
And who decides *what* the common good is, and what it is acceptable to do in its name?
Known as the Ben Tre defence:
‘It became necessary to destroy the town to save it’
NYT 08 Feb 1968
A very interesting 20min vid from five years ago, filmed in Gaza. It specifically focuses on Hamas and their expert use of propaganda to manipulate the West. There is no way even useful idiots could watch this and continue to bang on about a two-state solution. To say these ‘people’ want to peacefully coexist is beyond farcical, but don’t take my word for it. Anyway, a fascinating insight and recommended;
https://vimeo.com/271528743
This is extremely worrying and should concern everybody. A criminal conviction for sharing a blatantly inoffensive meme! But if the corrupt and obviously *unjust* judge deems it a ‘hate crime’ then it is so. The guy in question wasn’t even a serving police officer any longer;
”Can an implication be a crime? Britain’s hate-speech laws are notoriously draconian—except for those who are chanting “jihad” at a pro-Palestine event, apparently. For the rest of society, a recent ruling has expanded the scope of hate-speech laws to a grim new level.
Earlier this month, Michael Chadwell, a former officer in London’s Metropolitan Police, was found guilty at London Magistrates’ Court of one count of sending by public communication grossly offensive racist messages.
Chadwell retired in 2015. The message, a meme he had not created but merely shared, was sent last year in a private WhatsApp group of other retired police officers. Now convicted under the Communications Act 2003, this “grossly offensive” message could land the 62-year-old former officer with a prison sentence of up to six months when he is sentenced in December.
The image that Chadwell shared showed parrots of different colours and children of different ethnicities with the words “Why do we cherish the variety of colour in every species except our own?” Below this was a Facebook comment: “Because I’ve never had a bike stolen out of my front yard by a parrot.”
The image contained no racial slur, nor did it mention any specific ethnicity. Chadwell was convicted not for the meme’s content, but for what it allegedly implied. The “absolute clear implication” of the post, ruled district judge Tan Ikram, is that “black people steal.” “It’s a clearly racist generalisation and characterisation, and caricature of ethnic people,” he added. “I have no doubt in my mind that it’s grossly offensive.” He rejected Chadwell’s argument that the image was merely a silly joke in the style of Monty Python.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/britains-captured-justice-system/
Shutting Down Farms Evil Global Control –
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.
My sincere sympathies are with the Gloucestershire Lady who wants to end her life due to long covid , she’s been ill since Dec 21 , it would be interesting to know her jab status !
This article pertains to the vid I shared above. Under no circumstances should Western countries be taking in Gazan refugees. We know why the Arab countries aren’t and we know ( also alluded to in the vid ) why even women and children are not allowed into Egypt, so would it not be sensible to look and learn from those nations? We are screwed up enough now due to the effects of mass immigration but to import more who demonstrably have this hateful and destructive ideology, including their very anti-West views which they make no secret of, would be the final nail in the coffin.
”Two weeks ago, MK Danny Danon, former Israeli ambassador to the UN and one of the most prominent political figures in Israel, co-authored an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal with MK Ram Ben-Barak, former deputy director of the Mossad, titled, “The West should welcome Gaza refugees.”
Danon and Barak called on Western nations to take in Gazans in the wake of the current Israel-Hamas war. Right-wing Danon and Center-Left Ben-Barak were showing bipartisan Israeli support for this idea.
Earlier this month, a similar position was taken by current Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel on these pages. After laying out the failures of past attempts to solve the Gaza problem, Gamliel presents a similar solution to that of Danon and Ben-Barak.
“We will still have around two million people in Gaza, many of whom voted for Hamas and celebrated the massacre of innocent men, women, and children,” Gamliel wrote.
“Gaza is a breeding ground for extremism.”
But it’s not only about messaging. Resettling Gazans, who, as Gamliel points out, mostly support Jihadist ideology, in Western nations is destructive to Israel’s national security in the long run as well.
Considering what we are seeing in the streets of London, New York, and on college campuses, do we really think it’s a good idea to ship the Middle East’s problems to the West? How will this help stem the tide of the growing anti-Israel sentiment in these countries?”
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-775407
I’ve been pointing out for ages that it isn’t in our interests to support Israel because a consequence of the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population of Palestine would be enormous numbers being resettled here.
Well none of the surrounding Islamic countries want them, that we have known for decades.
This worth a read, on the history of “Palestine” (first occupied by Jews some 3,700 years ago, 3000 years before Islam was even a fart in the wind.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-big-lie-about-israel-threatens-us-all/
“China covered up the origins of Covid. It’s time the Inquiry asked why” – Beijing’s lies denied the world a chance to stop the spread of Covid, costing millions of lives. Why isn’t the Hallett Inquiry looking into this, asks Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
I smell bullsh*t. Once the bad cold was spreading in Wuhan it was unstoppable. …’costing millions of lives’. More BS.
It would be a more productive start to ask Jeremy Farrar and Patrick Vallance why they covered up the lab leak in league with Fauci and Co, rather than speculating about the othger side of the world.
Under oath by the Police …..
Because they were told not to ….stick their noses in and concentrate their snouts in the taxpayer funded trough ..
A lawmaker admitting openly that people’s freedoms need to be restricted for the common good is a terrifying moment.
Hypocrisy has its value. It’s a mechanism for doing what needs to be done when it goes against otherwise firmly held principles. It’s a way of doing something one shouldn’t with some embarrassment and the embarrassment of the hypocrisy acts as a sort of limiter ensuring we don’t break our principles too much or too often.
Openly admitting freedom has to be curtailed for the common good though, that’s the thin end of the wedge. Once that principle is openly spoken and tacitly admitted, what limits are there on the common good? None. So what limits are there on the curtailment of freedom? None.
Terrifying. Simply terrifying. Western civilisation is no longer crumbling but rapidly going into collapse.
There seems to be a trend in politicians “pushing” their electorates almost as if they are egging them on to open revolt .Dublin and the Auchinlek ,may have misspelt, show how close we are to a big bang . The Hamas lovers protests in London are also part of it .
Are we being goaded so they have an excuse for the great reset clampdown “For your own safety” of course.?
Yes.
Swine flu could be silently spreading in Britain, experts fear…
‘Silently’ as in not doing anything to attract attention you mean?
“‘We are restricting freedom but we’re doing it for the common good’” If you ever hear words like this being uttered in a place that is meant to represent the people, take that person out of there, invite them into the back of a police car and take them directly to jail. These are the snake oil salesman words of a politician making out that you are being repressed/oppressed for your own good – that is totalitarianism and this woman is a danger to us all.
Here are a couple of answers to Senator Pauline O’Reilly and her chilling words.
I take these quotes from the great C.S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
and
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
We are truly living in very dark times, the Witch burners have been resurrected
Thanks for the reminder of CS Lewis’ quote, Hester. So very, very true.
“… the Witch burners have been resurrected.”
It is time we had some of our own.
Re: Dame Angela McLean. Net Zero is a disaster and the establishment has got the donkey so far up the minaret they can’t back down. One thing that might help would be if the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (McLean) wrote a paper reviewing recent work which points to CO2 NOT being the main cause of climate change (Lindzen, Happer, Dagsvik, Alimonti et al) – suggesting we don’t need to decarbonise after all. A world leading / world helping message. When the facts change, etc. I wrote to her, email and hard copy.
No answer, as yet.
Meanwhile, this is making waves in the US and on X. The ring leader of the new axis of evil censorship CTIL is a British woman.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1729537450752811097.html
Do people really STILL watch that heap of ordure?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12798867/Fury-comic-Guz-Khan-given-plum-job-hosting-BBCs-Got-News-despite-string-anti-Israel-tweets-branding-Jewish-state-genocidal-latest-controversy-backlash-Priti-Patel-jibe.html
Absolutely done with the intention of polarising viewers. An F. You statement if ever there was one and doubtless with government support.
So predictable
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/11/28/environmental-standard-risk-britain-commerical-property-epc/
Of course this has nothing to do with 15 minute cities and the push for everybody to shop on line thereby feeding the behemoths such as Amazon.
Can someone please enlighten me – if a disease is spreading “silently” (from this, I assume they mean that it is indistinguishable from all the other repsiratory diseases doing the rounds at this time of year, and certainly isn’t leaving a trail of dead bodies in its wake) – then what is the problem?
https://sciencefiles.org/2023/11/29/zum-weltkirchentag-der-klimasekte-wasserdampf-macht-klima-nicht-co2-neue-studie/
Worth looking into for the climate guys: new study showing that water vapour has an effect on the climate, but CO2 doesn’t. Plus 2 more discussed.
The Covid kids starting school unable to speak
FFS No! They’re not Covid kids. They’re lockdown kids.
My daughter works with nursery kids. She’s been telling us that she’s been seeing a huge increase in non-verbal kids and kids who have never played with other kids and are frightened of them.
No. Shit. Sherlock.
What cretin wrote that and what cretin of an editor allowed it to be published?
Irish politicians are heading for a serious backlash from their people. Are these vile despots real?