- “Sunak battles to unite Tories as Rwanda crisis exposes cracks” – Efforts to push through immigration deal have alienated MPs on all sides, reports the Times.
- “A Labour win will be a disaster. Too many Tories don’t care” – It’s not good enough for the Tory Party to resign itself to defeat, says David Frost in the Telegraph. A Keir Starmer-led Labour Government will be a catastrophe. Time to change the leader?
- “Reform U.K.’s surging support could cost Tories up to 35 seats” – Richard Tice and Nigel Farage’s party sees its share of vote more than double in the space of a year, which is bad news for Rishi Sunak, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sunak on Borrowed Time?” – Sunak may have just days to save his premiership, according to Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
- “Go for the Kill, Tory Right” – On Substack, J’Accuse urges the Tory Right to engage in another act of regicide before the election.
- “Brexit was a vote of confidence by Brits in our country and it’s working” – Did you know that we recently overtook France to become the eighth-largest manufacturing nation in the world? Or that our economy has recovered more strongly from Covid than Germany or France? Kemi Badenoch makes the case for Brexit in the Sun.
- “Kemi is right: trans ideology is a threat to gay kids” – So called gender-affirming care is merely a new form of gay conversion therapy, argues Dennis Kavanagh in Spiked.
- “Despite her flaws, Liz Truss was ahead of her time” – Liz Truss was right to highlight the problem of Britain’s flatlining growth, argues Ben Cope in CapX.
- “The day the Empresses’ clothes fell off” – Did the Congressional hearings in which three Ivy League presidents equivocated about condemning calls for the genocide of the Jews finally expose the rot at the heard of American higher education? Andrew Sullivan on Substack certainly hopes so.
- “Universities have let evil grow on campus. They do not deserve to survive” – If these university leaders had been asked the question about any other minority, their answers would have been different, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Retired professor who suggested ‘blowing up’ Jewish Labour conference stripped of honorary titles” – An Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol has been stripped of her honorary titles, reports the Telegraph.
- “There is nothing ‘anti-racist’ about identitarian activism” – Why has the perennially divisive Shola Mos-Shogbamimu been given an honorary doctorate, asks Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “Is TikTok really making young Americans antisemitic?” – In UnHerd, Noah Carl takes issue with a claim made by a U.S. Congresswoman that merely being on TikTok for 30 minutes makes people 17% more antisemitic.
- “The NYT is wrong about Israeli intelligence” – The New York Times is wrong to criticise Netanyahu’s Government for not acting on intelligence revealing Hamas’s plans for Israeli massacre, argues Edward Luttwak in UnHerd.
- “Moment Jewish woman kicked in the head and left ‘unconscious’ on UK street” – CCTV footage captured a sickening incident in which a Jewish woman was beaten unconscious by two teenage girls, reports the Express.
- “Covid and Death: Part 1 – The Exponential Phase” – On Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson launch a new series in which they look at the early days of the pandemic.
- “‘RSV Wave Underway’ screeches the German press, as winter viruses rise unremarkably and in accordance with long-standing seasonal trends” – On Substack, Eugyppius pours scorn on panic-mongering news reports in the German media about season respiratory viruses.
- “NHS hospitals have started banning visitors after a surge in norovirus” – Some 498 beds were occupied by norovirus patients or closed as part of infection control measures last week, up 19% compared to seven days earlier, NHS England data shows. Time to start panicking, asks the Mail?
- “Corruption, corruption everywhere – how the Covid debacle made the scales fall from my eyes” – Liz Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman describes how she was red-pilled by the pandemic.
- “AstraZeneca vaccine linked with ‘spike’ in cases of rare disease that can paralyse victims” – The Telegraph speaks to people who developed Guillain-Barré syndrome after receiving a Covid vaccination.
- “The mysterious case of the disappearing remote control” – Why is Dr Mike Yeadon’s testimony missing from Andrew Bridgen’s Parliamentary event, asks HART?
- “Abu Dhabi-backed Telegraph bidder rejects plan to ease press freedom fears” – Jeff Zucker, the head of the group seeking to purchase the Telegraph and the Spectator, rules out making any changes to the bid to appease regulators, says the Telegraph.
- “The UAE is not fit to own the Daily Telegraph” – It should not be normal for a member of a foreign government to buy a British media group, argues David Davis in the Telegraph.
- “Sir Paul Marshall eyes setting up rival to Telegraph” – Sir Paul Marshall is considering launching a rival publication to the Telegraph if his attempt to buy the paper is scuppered by an Abu-Dhabi backed takeover, reports the Times.
- “Major new speed limit changes could see further rollout of 20mph roads despite Wales backlash” – Scotland is due to follow Wales’s lead in enforcing a 20mph speed limit on numerous major roads, according to GB News.
- “The bus took 11 minutes before LTNs — now it takes 45” – Cycle lanes and low-traffic zones have been blamed for making bus travel in London a misery. Mutinous drivers are on the verge of strikes, says the Times.
- “Prince Harry loses latest legal challenge against Mail on Sunday” – Prince Harry’s efforts to have the Mail on Sunday’s defence against his lawsuit thrown out has been unsuccessful, reports the Telegraph.
- “Met police officers avoid jail after sharing racist WhatsApp jokes” – Six former Met police officers have been convicted of sharing offensive jokes and memes in a private WhatsApp group chat, reports the Mail.
- “Joey Barton says Alex Scott ‘shouldn’t comment on men’s football’” – The former Bristol Rovers boss has come under fire for his posts about female broadcasters and pundits this week, having tweeted that women “shouldn’t be talking with any authority in the men’s game”, says the Mail.
- “Justin Trudeau’s woke dystopia is a warning to the world” – From radical new euthanasia laws to attacks on Canada’s proud history, Trudeau has destroyed his country’s reputation, says Jason Kenney in an interview with Steve Edginton in the Telegraph.
- “British MPs ask FA to ban trans players from women’s game” – A group of MPs has urged the FA to ban biological men from competing against women in women’s football, reports Reuters.
- “Tory councillor arrested for ‘hate crime’ has case dropped” – Cllr Anthony Stevens was reported to the police by a Labour Party member for tweet in support of free speech, but the police have finally decided there’s no case to answer, according to the Telegraph.
- “We didn’t just close down our coal-fired power stations, we blew them up” – Peter Hitchens gives George Monbiot both barrels on Question Time, arguing that further reductions in the U.K.’s carbon emissions would be completely pointless.
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Amongst friends whose views I know, we adopt a form of conversation of which a transcript would read as “compliant” but the tone and facial expressions make quite clear that the opposite is meant.
“Of course we all believe that there is no difference between men and women other than the way they are classified at birth.”
Is there no end to this madness.
I am becoming harassed, alarmed and distressed. I feel abused threatened and insulted by our own, lol, government.
Even the threat of such a Law has caused me to become fearful
I am thinking of making a complaint to the Police as HMG is clearly committing an offence under S4.A of the Public Order Act 1986.
I am with you al the way on that. I have been offended by the global warming narrative for the past 2 decades, since the point I actually sat down and thought through the concept of a climate tipping point, which actually had me worried for a time.
When I realised that there are a plethora of natural, scientifically logical checks and balances that would mitigate this claimed disaster then I have pulled up anybody I heard making ludicrous, doom laden claims.
Why stop with pubs, though? I was at the bus stop the other day and there were people talking ungrammatically. I was so offended that I had to roll on the floor like a child and scream about my “rights” being violated. This has to stop – and it’s up to this completely mad government to protect me.
Clenching your fists and stamping your feet keeps your clothes cleaner. Have you seen the state of the pavement around bus stops?
I thought that was how Free Gear always looked smart but now I find he just chucks the old ones in the bin and Alli buys him new ones. Must be another reason he always looks like he is weeing himself and stamps his feet when he is asked a question.
Personally, I’ve seen sheep that are made of sterner stuff than these pitiful wet blankets. I can’t begin to tell you how many take to social media and film themselves having an emotional meltdown because somebody in a shop ”misgendered” them. But anyway, I have more respect for sheep than these crybaby wimps;
https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1845164045441151294
Sheep are indeed wonderful animals.
With mint sauce
Even that!
I think I have upset my golf club’s Secretary by commenting on the use of the genetive apostrophe inappropropiately. I pointed out that it was used 3 imes on an email about the progress of the new Club Committee and it offended me to such an extent that I had to email him immediately. I have received no reply and fear that I may be personna non grata but I still won my Seniors match against a neighbouring club, which I hope will mitigate his hurt feelings.
Well God forbid anyone who isn’t Christian would be traumatized by overhearing someone reading some English literature out loud which makes references to Christianity. Maybe we should all go to the pub with ”Trigger Warning: I’m about to open my mouth!” written on a hat. Just more censorship on steroids pushed by pathetic woketards;
”They are the acclaimed works of medieval literature that tell the story of a religious pilgrimage to one of the most important cathedrals in all of Christendom.
But to the astonishment of critics, a leading university has slapped a trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales – because they contain ‘expressions of Christian faith’.
Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, said: ‘Warning students of Chaucer about Christian expressions of faith is weird. Since all characters in the stories are immersed in a Christian experience there is bound to be a lot of expressions of faith. The problem is not would-be student readers of Chaucer but virtue-signalling, ignorant academics.’
Historian Jeremy Black added: ‘Presumably, this Nottingham nonsense is a product of the need to validate courses in accordance with tick-box criteria. It is simultaneously sad, funny and a demeaning of education.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13953897/Woke-Nottingham-University-Geoffrey-Chaucer.html
Imagine the fuss if anyone in their English department ever reads Milton.
I take it from this remark that it a “trigger” to see someone in Muslim dress in the street, which consequently should be banned. The recent shouting in the London marches triggers me completely as presumably every bit of this is illegal. Strangely His Majesty’s plod does nothing, but if an Englishman opens his mouth he is sent to jail. As a Christian in a Christian country, (Fid Def on coins), Charlie needs to sort this out very quickly. Two tier comes nowhere near the correct description of a Country where racism against the indigenous population is permitted and even encouraged by the “Government”!
This sounds to me remarkably like a form of State Censorship, Authoritarianism and Coercive Control.
Not that our kind, caring and definitely not Two-Tier Government would do anything so dreadful.
Won’t these Banter Bouncers also be employees? Don’t they deserve protection from the offensive conversations they patrol? Presumably, landlords could sue themselves if they’re subjected to offensive conversations!
Excellent!
How about this Pub Landlord as a ‘banter cop’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HcB6ZrCLEY
So what happens when the one Jewish customer in a pub is offended by a group of Muslims making a crude antisemitic Joke and wearing t-shirts that read “From the River to the Sea”? Will they get barred from the establishment? Or is this “acceptable” offense?
Proper Muslims don’t drink, but they could be there talking over some tea. It seems to be rare to see this in pubs, probably because it would cause severe violence in many rather good ones! The LAW has nothing to do with it.
“The Worker Protection Bill” just passed is now being superseded by Labour’s new “Employment Rights Bill”???
Isn’t there any kind of quality control for Parliamentary laws, weeding out such pointless repetition?
I think we should have a clean slate, wiping out all laws, especially those originating during our disastrous enslavement to the EU, and starting again from scratch, limiting each law to no more than a ONE PAGE DOCUMENT, and making a maximum number of 100 laws on the books at any one time.
Mankind survived perfectly well for millennia without hundreds and thousands and millions of “laws” regulating their daily lives. So can we.
Yes, the “quality control” are supposed to be the opposition and the backbenchers but as we all know the opposition is always weak and the backbenchers might as well be shouting into the void. For example, the kinds of new “laws” that were churned out during the so-called pandemic were fast-tracked into effect through the parliamentary loophole of the “statutory instrument”, which is meant to be a last-minute tweak to the main body of a new piece of legislation, but in fact entire new laws were passed in this way. The “Coronavirus Act” was one of these (weird, there was never a Flu Act!) So quality control is often just absent, and bits and pieces just get added and taken away at a whim, which is why the statute books are a labyrinth of Articles, sections, sub-sections, clauses and sub-clauses.
Plus, even Parliament only ever get a say in what happens to proposed legislation when it suits ministers to let them.
Brilliant idea.
Probably 10 laws might be adequate, say the 10 Commandments? If keeping to them you are unlikely to break many of the 10,000 dross ones. Unfortunately many of those in Government seem quite happy to break all 10 some days, and a slightly lesser number all the time!
Yup, I think you wouldn’t be far off with that. Trouble is people who go into politics seem to want to fiddle with things – and people seem to expect them to do so.
Yet more garbage from a crap “government”, it is what it is, control, censorship, and time people seriously bloody woke up and started fighting back, surely against my human rights?, well works for a certain element of society!!.
I’m sure even universities will see sense when bar,cafeteria ,coffee shops and other safe spaces takings are down
Why not extend this to the House of Commons, Lords, the subsidised bars and restaurants? Indeed, why not every single public place? Where does it all end? Banter Police at every conveyor belt in Sainsbury’s (not that they have many running)? Thousands of Banter Police at concerts and football matches.
In fact, the Banter Police would need Banter Police because they are also employees and must be protected. Funny how Labour do not seem to be suggesting that Antisemitic protests calling for all white people and Jews to be murdered require Banter Police.
Can you imagine a debate in the Commons following these rules? There would be a very long silence, which would stop anything happening, which would be a good outcome!
I wonder if the Deputy Prime Minister, a well-known thief and bung taker, has taken note of this? After all, her well documented mode of banter generally consists of calling anyone remotely Tory C___s and claiming they all look at her legs – have you actually looked at her legs? Stupendously bandy. The country as a whole needs protection from her thieving, bung taking gob.
Incidentally, the most documented spout of gobshiteness from her was in a Bar at the Commons. How many Banter Police will Westminster require?
It would need a few thousand, but it is the penalty that needs to be discussed. How about being sent to France in a very unseaworthy plastic boat with a duff engine on a stormy night? That would soon sort everything out.
Don’t forget that Ranting is also an electoral fraudster by being registered to vote at both her homes and therefore should be banned from public office for life.
Isn’t this the sort of dogma that started in the 30’s?