- “Pro-Palestinian protesters bring Oxford Street to a halt” – Pro-Palestinian protesters targeted Zara on Oxford Street, bringing London’s most famous shopping district to a standstill on one of its busiest days of the year, reports the Mail.
- “Jewish volunteers putting up posters of Gaza hostages assaulted in north-west London” – Jewish volunteers putting up posters of Gaza hostages have been assaulted in north-west London in an antisemitic attack, according to the Telegraph.
- “Germany now our closest European ally, says Israeli ambassador” – In an interview with the Telegraph, Israel’s ambassador to Berlin stated that Germany has become Israel’s “second strategic partner” after the U.S., in part because of its “amazing” response to the October 7th Hamas attacks.
- “Obama lobbied to keep Claudine Gay as Harvard President despite antisemitism, plagiarism allegations” – Barack Obama privately lobbied on behalf of Harvard President Claudine Gay, according to the Post Millennial.
- “A two-state solution is the West’s latest luxury belief” – We remain glued to an impossible idea that has brought nothing but pain to Israel and the Middle East, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Actors report being ‘blacklisted’ for unvaccinated status” – American actor and director Dorian Kingi says he hasn’t had a job in the entertainment industry in three years because of his vaccine status, according to Matt McGregor in the Epoch Times.
- “Why Australians are saying ‘no’ to the WHO” – There’s growing concern in Australia about the WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations, writes Rebekah Barnett in Umbrella.
- “The wealthy and talented are fleeing the high-tax U.K. for places that don’t punish success” – In 2023, the U.K. witnessed the third-largest exodus of millionaires globally. In 2024, the threat of a Keir Starmer government will accelerate this trend, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Our corruptocrats and their eager acolytes” – In Quadrant, Anthony Daniels sets his sights on Britain’s corrupt and self-serving bureaucratic class.
- “The road to autocracy” – The woke Left, the reactionary Right and the corporate oligarchy are dragging us towards tyranny, warns Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “British politics needs more Dominic Cummingses” – You don’t have to like Dominic Cummings, but he got things done, says Henry Oliver in the Critic.
- “Twelve good causes to save the world this Christmas (and climate change isn’t one of them)” – In the Telegraph, Bjorn Lomborg has compiled a list outlining how developed nations should focus their fiscal firepower to make the world a better place.
- “Polish Government takes over state broadcaster TVP Info, takes several channels off air” – The new Donald Tusk-led Polish Government has been accused of engaging in “a barbaric attack on freedom of speech and journalistic independence” after seizing control of the state broadcaster, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Teacher is banned for ‘misgendering’ pupil” – A teacher has been banned for ‘misgendering’ a pupil on the same day the Government issued guidance on trans issues, reveals the Telegraph.
- “The BBC has exposed the sinister face of woke” – The choice of Olly Alexander as the U.K.’s Eurovision contestant shows how in thrall the BBC is to the fashionable theory of intersectionality, says Robin Aitken in the Telegraph.
- “Our Godless era is dead” – A second religiousness is sweeping the West, writes Paul Kingsnorth in UnHerd.
- “The decline of the Post Office” – Across the country, Crown Post Offices have made way for counters in convenience stores, turning the Post Office into a gateway to addiction for children, writes Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
- “Transgender disc golfer wins settlement forcing professional association to drop new restrictions on male participation in women’s categories” – The Professional Disc Golf Association has been forced to drop its new regulations on men who want to participate in women’s competitions after being sued by a trans-identifying male player, according to Reduxx.
- “Tucker Carlson: Shadow statesman or David Icke conspiracist?” – No one can predict what Tucker Carlson will say next, writes Fred Skulthorp in UnHerd.
- “Let the train take the strain” – On X, Richard Tice has shared a scathing piece of satire by YouTube comedians Larry and Paul, who have created a brutally ‘honest’ advert for U.K. trains.
Let the train take the strain…..
— Richard Tice
Brilliant humour…..
pic.twitter.com/6tyQR83d2D(@TiceRichard) December 22, 2023
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“Tucker Carlson: Shadow statesman or David Icke conspiracist?”
Carlson is a fine journalist, prepared to interview anyone, ask awkward questions and come to unpopular conclusions. I think he has a questioning mind, rather than believing he has the gift of special knowledge, like Icke. Like all those who ask questions sceptically, we can sometimes skate a little close to the rabbit holes. If you’d laid out the whole covid scam 20 years ago and asked people if they thought it could happen, they would think you mad. Nothing should be ‘off-limits’, but it shouldn’t lose touch with reality.
I don’t quite understand what’s the big panic if a journalist gets a little conspiratorial. Isn’t that precisely what investigative journalism is based on? Are we to expect every single line of enquiry to be bang on the money?
As if the establishment media didn’t get things wrong all the time or twist things around, often deliberately.
This idea that the moment someone starts suspecting the establishment of nefarious actions or bad intentions without an ironclad body of proof he is automatically David Icke (who btw gets plenty right), is just stupid. It betrays the mind of slave who is terrified of questioning master.
“The decline of the Post Office”
I think Laura is getting herself a bit back to front. Bemoaning the decline of Post Offices to the convenience sector then complaining that’s where kids buy vape fluid. They buy it in the shop Laura, not the Post Office. Kids don’t go to the Post Office, they go to the shop. The decline of the Postal Service under the weight of Courier firms and technology is one thing. Vaping fluids being sold 20 feet away is another.
Agreed – in many small villages like mine, the PO in the local shop, or the PO extending facilities to a bit of convenience shopping, is an absolute lifeline. There used to be 3 in the local town – which is growing like topsy with all the new housing developments – now there’s only one counter in a convenience store. And what of all the vape shops springing up everywhere anyway, pray tell? Dodsworth needs to get out more before she pontificates so loudly on ‘franchised gateways to addiction for children’ ffs.
“Why Australians are saying ‘no’ to the WHO”
Even after the debate in Parliament, there seems little interest in the UK in turning away this over-reach. But then giving an autocratic body, sponsored by your biggest potential enemy, the power to decide when there is a ‘pandemic’, and control your responses to it, just doesn’t sound like a wise move. ‘The WHO is a paper tiger’, they say ‘It would never do this, and we can always say no’. Really.? Well why would we give them a power, if we don’t think they would use it, or we can over-rule it. Just another sign that we have lost WW3 without a shot being fired.
Correct ! It seems like a done deal ! Call me old fashioned but it seems certain that Terror Ted will soon have the Power Mr Hilter was after !!..
ROFL. Cummings the lockdown fanatic (“Manhattan project”).
Only for the plebs though! Lest we forget…
Indeed. That reminds me that Oakeshott and Tice were “caught” at a (probably illegal at the time) BBQ on the Isle of Wight and replied when questioned that they were “testing their eyesight”.
I don’t recall thst report so could you share a link please.
Tory MP attended lockdown barbecue with journalists | Coronavirus | The Guardian
The report focuses on some Tory MP but Tice and Oakeshott are mentioned.
Barnard Castle was a weird one ! I’m sure GSK or Phizer have a depot of some sort there
“Mostly owned by – but obviously not run by – Germans”.
How did the Gaza hostages get to North West London to be assaulted?
Tunnel
I can’t read Laura Dodsworth article as it is behind a paywall but just how many children go to post offices these days … they text and snapchat!
The Home Secretary, James Cleverly, has been caught making a joke in a private conversation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67813689
A women’s rights organisation has called on Mr Cleverly to resign.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said “It is truly unbelievable that the home secretary made such appalling jokes”
This week Keir Starmer will unveil Labour’s mission to reduce appalling jokes by 25 per cent over the next decade if his party is elected to Government. Labour plans to increase funding to the police’s anti-appalling-joke unit, give more powers to MI5 to listen in to light-hearted private conversation, and nudge members of the public to report appalling jokes – defined as any joke that anyone finds appalling.
Lovely job!
I do think Mr Cleverly must have had a few too many drinks to pass such a joke in front of a bunch of journos though. Perhaps Mrs Cleverly put something in his cocoa?