- “The possibility Covid is man-made is not a ‘divisive’ issue – the world needs to know” – If COVID-19 was engineered in a Chinese lab, failure to act stops us preparing for a devastating outbreak in the future, warns Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
- “FDA shuts down enquiries about DNA contamination in Covid vaccines” – The recent findings of DNA fragments in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines has led many to question why the FDA has failed to sound the alarm, writes Dr. Maryanne Demasi on Substack.
- “The Hallett Inquiry – Eminence-based medicine Part Four” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan present the fourth in a series of posts focussing on the evidence given to the Covid Inquiry by the Chief Scientific Advisor Prof. Dame Angela McLean.
- “Proving evil” – In the Critic, Laura Dodsworth gives her reaction to a screening of Bearing Witness, a compilation by the IDF of raw footage from the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel. It was very different from Owen Jones’s.
- “The problem with Tommy Robinson’s arrest” – The police have far too much power to clamp down on protest and assembly, says Mark Birbeck in Spiked.
- “Israel-Premier Tech cyclists to be issued with blank training kit due to safety concerns after Israel-Hamas war” – Chris Froome’s Israel-Premier Tech is set to introduce new ‘safety measures’ in light of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, including a blank training kit for riders, according to Cycling Weekly.
- “Gigi Hadid posts grovelling apology after deleting Instagram post” – According to the Mail, American model Gigi Hadid has backtracked after sharing claims on Instagram that Israel is “the only country in the world that keeps children as prisoners of war”, a post she illustrated with a boy who went on a stabbing rampage in Jerusalem.
- “Sunak doesn’t realise the trouble he’s in on immigration” – Among 2019 Tories, immigration and asylum is currently the number one issue by 11 clear points, ahead of the economy, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “France could be on the brink of civil war” – For decades, French governments have avoided confronting migrant crime and disorder. It is now reaching a tipping point, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
- “Europe in open revolt” – Geert Wilders’s landslide victory in the Netherlands has shocked the chattering class. It shouldn’t have, writes Oliver Wiseman in the Free Press.
- “‘Bedlam’ erupts in London as thousands of Albanians block cars to ‘celebrate independence day’” – Thousands of Albanians have descended on the streets of London, launching fireworks and throwing bottles as they celebrated their independence day, according to GB News.
- “Barclays closes branch – and tells customers to use van in graveyard” – Barclays customers in Hove will have to do their in-person banking from a van in a local graveyard, as the bank closes its last branch in the area, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak to cut down on council tree fellings ahead of COP28” – Residents must be consulted before authorities chop down trees in their areas as part of a new pro-environment drive unveiled by Rishi Sunak, says the Telegraph.
- “What you could earn for switching off appliances as households get cash rebates for first time this winter” – The Government will pay households to cut electricity use by turning off washing machines, dishwashers, ovens, TVs and even lights during the evening peak, says the Mail.
- “Cooking oil won’t help the aviation industry reach Net Zero” – Using waste plant material to generate energy makes sense from a waste disposal perspective, but how much is actually available, asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Pensioners are owed a lockdown thank you. It’s time to scrap Net Zero” – The money saved from scrapping Net Zero could be used to fund the triple lock, giving our elderly the support they deserve, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Volkswagen to reduce headcount at ‘no longer competitive’ VW brand” – Volkswagen’s brand chief Thomas Schaefer has warned that high costs and low productivity are making its cars uncompetitive, according to Reuters.
- “Two men and a baby” – In the New Conservative, schoolboy Jack Watson is disturbed by a new children’s book that claims men can get pregnant.
- “BBC accused of escalating Elgin Marbles crisis by referring to them by their Greek name” – The BBC have begun referring to the Elgin Marbles as the ‘Parthenon Marbles’ during coverage of the ongoing diplomatic feud between the U.K. and Greece, according to GB News.
- “Dylan Mulvaney named in Forbes’s ‘30 Under 30’ list – despite Bud Light fiasco” – Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been named on Forbes’s list of ‘30 Under 30’, despite his disastrous advertising partnership with Bud Light, reports the Mail.
- “Why is Doctor Who lecturing us about pronouns?” – In Doctor Who, the muddy, physical human reality of two sexes is increasingly presented as some sort of oppressive trap, writes Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “Is the mainstream press beginning to turn on Bill Gates? ” – Bill Gates, who once could do no wrong, has had numerous disparaging articles written about him in recent weeks, observes the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “In continued defence of ‘effective altruism’” – On Substack, Dr. Scott Alexander has compiled a list of reasons to be grateful for ‘effective altruism’.
- “Why the managers are not great” – On Substack, Eugyppius explores the primary pathologies of managerial society.
- “Hotel bans mince pies from Christmas menu after saying customers don’t want them anymore” – A Scottish hotel has banned mince pies to reduce the amount of food that is thrown away every year, says the Scottish Daily Express.
- “‘During [Ireland’s] oppression, we still maintained our invisibility cloak of white privilege’” – Gript has posted a video on X featuring Irish politicians discussing “white privilege” and the necessity of racial quotas, with one recalling the “very dull, white, pasty Ireland” that he grew up in before mass migration.
- “Elon Musk tells advertisers to “go f**k” themselves” – Elon Musk has made plain his view of the widespread advertiser boycott of X during an interview at the New York Times DealBook Summit.
BREAKING: Elon Musk tells advertisers to “go f**k” themselves if they are going to try and blackmail him on his own platform.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 29, 2023
And this is exactly why Elon was the perfect person to buy Twitter
“If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with… pic.twitter.com/33dPDu8wZC
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I was sceptical about Trump. He royally f*cked up with the ‘vaccines’, and I’m very uncomfortable with the formalised union of state and business, but they do actually seem to be doing all the right things atm. Elite theory explains a lot I believe. Anyway, back to the rugby.
Yeah, I feel something similar.
I can’t say I’m too enthusiastic about him. He’s bit of an oaf.
But… I like what he’s doing.
Declaring there are only two genders – tick.
Deporting illegal immigrants – tick.
Getting rid of DEI – tick.
No men in women’s sports – tick.
The ticks just keep coming.
Actions speak louder than words.
And nominating RFK for Health Secretary.
You do know the bbc was paid a lot of money as were many other msm outlets to brainwash you. Calling Trump an oaf proves their brainwashing worked. What has Trump ever done to the UK? Now if you wanted to call a few of your recent pms. An oaf, it would be more appropriate, don’t you think? Clean your own house. It is one big mess.
He needs to shrink the administrative state. US AID is a small part and low hanging fruit (easy to sell to the public).
I hope he is just getting started and directs his guns at more of these agencies which are little more than parasites living off the productive population.
So the USAID reduction to 600 (for now) according to my calculations is a ~93% reduction in staffing. Imagine the massive savings across the US government if only a quarter of the alone was achieved? A return of depts to their core focus, due to not having time or resource to waste – I’d guess with the right leadership this would improve efficiency, because if they don’t they’ll be gone as well – focuses the kind I’m sure…
Yes go back to your rugby…glad England won yesterday. When you wake up, you might just want to see where all the money you pay in tax goes here in little Britain. You may be due a a refund.
Posted before, and posting again…
…Bonfire of the vanities, inanities and insanities taking off nicely. Burn baby, burn.
Time of early February evening to fire up the woodburner.
Need to light the woodburner?? Isn’t this the hottest February the planet has ever known?
Only in Shepherd’s Flaming Bush
“The United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, states, “The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.”
Don’t think the founding fathers envisaging giving it away to aliens.
Funding a cement plant for Hamas. I wonder what they used all the cement for….
Hospitals, duh. Sewage systems, highway bridges, that kind of thing.
What are you implying?
Good!
It is GREAT.
Just the beginning.
Winning.
Slightly Off-T
Kim Rye at The New Conservative pointing out how Labour are intent on pushing the crime of islamophobia. Of course this has nothing to do with Labour haemorrhaging muslim votes, oh definitely not.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/islamophobia-and-the-politicisation-of-islam/
“Interestingly, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is now under full political control of an exclusively Bangladeshi-Islamic male-only political party, that goes under the Moniker of ‘Aspire’. This is one such example of Muslims breaking away from the Labour party.
With all attention focused on Islamophobia, the rise of political Islam has been studiously ignored by politicians (including feminist ones) and the mainstream media alike. Yet in the case of Aspire, an individual previously banned from office for electoral fraud and “undue spiritual influence”, namely one Lutfur Rahman, is back in charge running his private empire.”
Thanks for the link.
Trade, not Aid, is how poorer countries develop. And reading what much of the £billions of US Aid have gone to promote, it is obvious that it was being used “inappropriately” to push extreme left-wing/woke policies.
If it has a knock-on effect here and the large left-wing charity-quangos lose funding, so much the better.
WHAT HAS DOGE FOUND!!!! That is the whole point of this investigation. Not how many people have been sacked! Was there cia involvement? Who approved the outrageous spending.
Since this article was posted, a judge in the USA has banned Trump’s order. Any comments, especially from American friends?
Smaller companies with specialities like global health care could go out of business.
Global health companies have no business save pocketing tax dollars. There is no such thing as global health, ie, health abstracted away from the people who are healthy (or not).
and if they do go out of business because they were so dependent on the teat of US aid, then they were never a sustainable, real business
That’s the point I was trying to make: Global health care isn’t a business specialization that’s manifestly different from health care. It’s entirely unclear what that’s supposed to be at all. I could think of parachuting in US medics to deal with emergencies abroad. But that’s just my best guess. It might as well be covaxx bombers dropping syringes from the sky.
Indeed – I’d say it’s 99% politically driven – influence abroad etc at heart, however like all these things if not kept in check it becomes a monster that forgets its original, and only, purpose. The only answer is burn it to the ground and start again
Highlight of USAID spending (from DM video): $2,000,000 to fund so-called sex change operations in Guatemala. That’s going to help poor people there. Not.