- “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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Why are we not surprised. After 13 years of useless Tory government this is what the civil service stands for.
And how many years of useless, bigoted Labour government before that?
Conservative = Labour = The Political Class. Left and right wing now only exist in the minds of the populace. The entire system has shifted aggressively to the left. Far left actually. Communism is but a stones throw away. A theory that this article supports.
Welcome to the new Lebanon by the Atlantic.
50 plus years of leftist undermining has led to this. Not just the last tory government. This has been a sustained attack on the west. I blame the soviets: they instigated a disinformation and propaganda warfare campaign against the west from the 1930s onwards. Although the USSR has fallen, the virus they injected (metaphorically) into the west has spread and metastasised. It is powerful against weak and uninformed minds. There are also many neo communists in western institutions, media and the establishment. It has almost become the accepted norm that socialism is the only sensible way to order a society. The soviets have actually won the cold war. Fighting back would take similar decades. The only rapid solution is civil war, or major disorder that governments could not resist. Unfortunately.
“It is powerful against weak and uninformed minds”. Yes, Britain’s swathes of professional and managerial classes have sucked it up haven’t they?
“Find other ways to suppress them” The Nazis used Concentration Camps. The Soviets used the Gulag. Is that the kind of suppression our “politically impartial” Civil Service has in mind?
The Americans use solitary confinement for those they wish to define as insurrectionists for political gain. The Brits use it for Julian Assange. So I take your question as purely rhetorical, because the cards are already on the table.
Oh there’s no misunderstanding- they know exactly what they are doing
Thank you for a good, if deeply depressing, article.
By the way, this YT channel … https://www.youtube.com/@Travelingisraelinfo … from an Israeli tour guide, has some well-argued pro-Israel material … not that facts, logic or commonsense figure in anti-Israel rhetoric.
Concur about this YouTube channel. He’s an interesting guy. His observations about our religion of love and peace friends, is well observed.
I think this has to be one of the most worrying things I have ever read on DS.
What is it called when an organism starts attacking it’s own parts? It boils my you-know-what that my taxes go towards paying these traitors.
“Facilitating this relatively new three-day course were senior lecturers from the Security Studies Department.”
The evidence presented indicates to me that the WEF or subsidiaries therof have infiltrated the Security Studies Department. In the Civil Service attitudes and strategies are all top-down so crap logic at the top soon infects those at the bottom. Those tiddlers swimming in the middle soon get the message for fear of losing their spot on the greasy pole.
I know, I was in it.
This must be heartening to know if you’re a parent in the UK. That the authorities could not give a rat’s arse about determining the legit age of migrants before putting full-grown, beardy men in a secondary school, all because they identify as a child. So they’re presumably very up on doing background, CRB checks for teaching staff applicants but this pretense at ‘child safe-guarding’ ends when a migrant 30 odd year old man wants to pretend he’s a teenager. So I guess he’s whatever age he says he is then!
I know Tommy Robinson has been reporting on this and has videos on Rumble, talking to concerned parents and school kids because 13yr old girls are being approached by men posing as school kids and being sexually inappropriate, but all is enabled by sackless school staff. Why/how in the world is this allowed to happen?? Yet one more example of adults in a position of responsibility failing kids miserably.
”Half of all asylum seekers who claimed to be children in Britain since 2020 have turned out to be adults, with dozens even being above the age of thirty.
The practice of migrants claiming to be children, which increases their chances of the UK government granting them asylum in Britain, has increased to such a level that 45 per cent of the 8,766 migrants who claimed to be “kids” were reality adults, equating to 3,944 cases.
According to information from the Migration Watch UK reported by The Sun, there were 1,582 cases of migrants fraudulently claiming to be children in 2022, compared to 227 a decade prior. The think tank went on to reveal that 887 asylum seekers, at least 52 of whom were older than 30, falsely told border officials that they were children between January and September of last year.
The most prevalent country of origin for the fraudster migrants was Afghanistan with 1,361 cases, followed by Iran with 612, and Sudan with 550.
Migration Watch chairman Alp Mehmet told the paper: “That so many still go for this ruse, even when they obviously look much older, tells me it’s a deception that often works.”
The issue of asylum seekers posing as children has been longstanding in Britain, with minors being afforded increased welfare and protections compared to adult migrants and increased chances of being granted the right to remain in the country.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/09/nearly-half-of-uk-asylum-seekers-who-claim-to-be-children-are-adults-with-4000-cases-since-2020/
Well done for standing up to it.
Direct democracy, direct action is the way forward, as modelled by the severing of speed cams.
They don’t like it up ’em Capt Mainwairing.
Terrorism is a strategy (usually by minority extreme groups) of using spectacular acts of violence or threat thereof, to frighten, panic, destabilise civil society so that it pressurises its Government to give in to the demands of the group.
I thought the definition was well known.
Terrorism can also be a strategy of Governments to pacify and force compliance of the population by instilling fear, uncertainty, threats, coercive power – eg CoVid scamdemic.
What a terrifying article, thank goodness it’s been written and appears here.
It’s a dreadful article and badly written by someone unable to join the dots.
What do you think is wrong with it? To what dots are you referring? I think the happening here (at our expense) shows that the CS is totally out of control, it is acting against its own supposed principles. We know that “education” is now ruined with nonsense, it is time for severe action against all these leftie idiots. Have you spoken to any recent graduate, they are basicly ignorant of everything that underpins all society. Their subject knowledge is also abysmal, but that is because the whole time is spent being indoctrinated!
I knew people could Sleepwalk. —Apparently my dad used to walk about in the middle of the night in his sleep. —But I did not know a whole continent could Sleepwalk. ——That is exactly what Europe is doing. The Liberal Progressive mentality thinks it can socially engineer all crime away. ——How is that working out? –Not so good is it?
I see this article is now pinned to the top of zerohedge.com … over 500 comments so far … gaining traction.
The civil service is now an enemy of the people. These augian stables neednto be cleaned
When the islamists make their move, and the great civil war breaks out, the civil service traitors (and, it seems, shockingly, RUSI faculty) will suddenly be faced with reality as it smashes them hard in the face.
I shall not be putting out my hand to help anyone in the establishment that calls for assistance. I shall stand on the side of the righteous and fight for and with my people.
Spent a while reading this sentence before realising there maybe should be a break such as a dash or semicolon after “oppressed”:
“Thus, the Palestinians are inherently oppressed an axiom that fuels the view that Israel is a terrorist state and Hamas’s atrocities are justifiably ‘contextualised’.”
Good article though, despite its depressing message.
It’s bad enough Stanly considers it provocative to question that the pursuit of terrorists can lead to the infringement on civil liberties – has she not heard of Edward Snowden? Yet with witless irony, Stanley considers others naive and uninformed, yet falls for the 70% of terrorism is Islamic trope. Operation Gladio anyone? And how is it she can prove ‘anal rape’ (while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’) when Haaretz and the Times of Israel cite statements by Israeli Police who found no evidence of rape or when thousands of festival attendees with mobile phone footage posted at https://www.october7.org/post/three-terrorists-aimed-kalashnikovs-at-our-heads-and-told-us-to-get-out – no rape claims. Released hostages say there were put in Hijabs – not raped. Maybe she should connect with former CIA counter-terrorism expert Larry Johnson who will tell her that of the 1,129 (on the official Israel ONS equivalent website), 695 were Israeli citizens, 80% of whom were killed by Israeli Security services. By the sounds of the presentation, Anna Stanley may no longer be perfect recruitment material for the civil service counter-terrorism unit – naive, racist and wholly unable to join up the dots. No surprise she sits so comfortably here at the Daily ‘Sceptic’.