- “Study finds Covid vaccination independently associated with Long Covid syndrome” – A new study has found that developing Long Covid appears to be more likely after two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Global excess mortality update” – Swiss Policy Research takes a fresh look at the real numbers and true causes behind global excess mortality.
- “Banned: Book by Dr. Peter McCullough & John Leake” – On Substack, John Leake responds to Amazon’s recent banning of The Courage to Face COVID-19, the best-selling book he co-authored with Dr. Peter McCullough.
- “We sacrificed their childhood at the altar of our choices” – Children should never have had to go through the experience of lockdown, says Dr. David McGrogan for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Top 10 Covid events of the year: Revealing the facts unspoken and unknown” – The Epoch Times has listed the top 10 major Covid-related events that took place in 2023.
- “Mayor Adams says NYPD is bracing for potential anti-Israel disruptions, terrorist actions during New Year’s Eve in Times Square” – The New York City Mayor says there will be a heightened police presence for New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square in preparation for potential protests in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Post Millennial.
- “Prominent Austrian university severs ties with Harvard” – A prestigious Austrian university has severed ties with Harvard over its response to the Israel-Hamas war and the rise of antisemitism on campus, reports the Mail.
- “Claudine Gay, we hardly knew ye” – Claudine Gay will be gone by spring, predicts Daniel Oliver in Taki’s Magazine.
- “Stephen Fry and the rise of woke antisemitism” – The response to Stephen Fry’s Christmas message confirms that Jew hate has returned with a vengeance, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg is ‘most popular Tory backbencher’” – Jacob Rees-Mogg has been crowned the most popular Conservative backbencher in an annual survey by Conservative Home, reports the Telegraph.
- “This attack on Churchill is appalling – and nonsensical” – Walter Reid’s vicious book says Churchill was “malign, cruel, obstructive and selfish” toward India – but its argument doesn’t hold water, writes Andrew Roberts in the Telegraph.
- “Pub boss and Brexit campaigner Tim Martin is handed a knighthood” – Wetherspoons founder and Brexit campaigner Tim Martin is to be knighted in the New Year Honours, reports the Mail.
- “Research finds higher likelihood of extreme snowfall. And: Greening Africa” – In NoTricksZone, P. Gosselin flags new research showing that there is a higher likelihood of extreme snowfall in the French Alps in the coming decades. And Africa is greening.
- “Have we reached peak ESG?” – Ethical capitalism no longer pays the bills, says Ashley Rindsberg in UnHerd.
- “Trans charity insists under-sevens should still go to NHS gender clinic” – Trans charity Mermaids has argued that under-sevens should continue to be referred to the Tavistock, reports the Mail.
- “‘Terf island’ took on trans ideology in schools – and won” – Schools guidance on trans-identified pupils is a significant step forward. But the campaign isn’t over yet, says Mary Harrington in the Telegraph.
- “This gender ideology is a crime against a generation” – It’s a national scandal that hundreds of our young people are being pushed towards irreversible surgery in the name of progressive ideology, writes Julie Bindel in the Mail.
- “BBC feeds viewers a ‘diet of woke bias’ in breach of its own impartiality rules, campaigners say” – The BBC has been accused of feeding viewers “a steady diet of woke bias” as research suggests the broadcaster has failed to uphold its own impartiality standards, reports the Telegraph.
- “Murder Is Easy review: Finger-wagging lecture on colonialism” – The BBC’s new adaption of Murder Is Easy is a finger-wagging lecture on colonialism that treats nostalgia for Agatha Christie’s Britain as a thought crime, says Christopher Stevens in the Mail.
- “Why wokeness really is like fascism” – Wokeness corrodes from the inside out. And the corrosion is spreading, warns Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “Is it still a wonderful life?” – The values Frank Capra celebrated seem to be dying out, laments Noel Yaxley in the Critic.
- “Why does everybody lie about social mobility?” – In Aporia, Prof. Peter Saunders challenges the conventional wisdom about social mobility.
- “Stop telling children the world hates them ” – What ought to be possible is for adults – even those who disagree with one another – to behave responsibly when it comes to telling children what the world thinks of them, writes Victoria Smith in the Critic.
- “Did Richard Dawkins’s ‘New Atheists’ spark a Christian revival?” – A new book claims Richard Dawkins, the pioneer of the New Atheism movement, has inadvertently converted people to Christianity. But Theo Hobson in the Spectator is unconvinced.
- “The Southern Poverty Law Centre’s new enemy: Americans who accept biology” – A new Southern Poverty Law Centre document claims to “expose” a vast “anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network” that is targeting trans people, according to Quillette. What it means is: people who believe biological sex differences are real.
- “Google’s new patent: Using machine learning to identify ‘misinformation’ on social media” – Google has submitted a patent application for a tool that employs AI to identify content deemed to be ‘misinformation’ on social media, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement” – The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement, reports the Mail.
- “‘I am woke now, and I can prove it!’” – On X, Darren Grimes has shared a clip from Ricky Gervais’s new comedy special, “pulling the piss out of hypocrite Gary Lineker”.
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Powerful evidence that should prevent any merger of Reform UK with the ‘Conservative’ Party.
Though the greatest puzzle is why so many people still vote Tory.
Indeed. The Tories must never be trusted with power again.
Good enough for my father and his father before him.
Seriously, I was brought up to think that The Conservatives were the right party to vote for – and indeed did so for many years. Cameron/Clegg put a dent in that for me and then Cameron with his reluctant Brexit referendum. It slowly dawned on me that recent PMs are barely tolerated by their party for a while and that the idea of a united Party backing certain policies (even if they’re in the Manifesto) is a pipe-dream – and to Hell with what the electorate want.
I know most here will realise but I think it worth repeating that the 2016 Brexit referendum was only the third time a UK-wide referendum had been held. The first was about staying in the EEC, the second about the voting system to elect ‘our’ MPs and the third about staying in the EU. Note there was never a referendum about joining the EEC or EU.
The pro-EEC campaign led by the government spouted a mass of lies that led one minister to hope that the people never found out or they would be toast. Moving forward to the 2016 the Call Me Dave government which should have stayed out of campaigning spaffed £9m of taxpayers money on a propaganda booklet full of lies sent to every household. The establishment went full on Remain and I think that won the vote for Leave, given their campaign was woeful, as people wanted to give them two fingers.
It is the Civil Service that run the show. They are mostly OxBridge and the same Universities that Russia recruits it’s anti-western spies.
Puzzle too is why the article title wasn’t headed ‘Tories use tax payer money to promote pro immigration charities’
Our money being spent on the Establishment’s project of The Great Replacement. This must be the first time in history that a people has had to pay for the invaders who are being imported specifically to replace them.
Labour is Marxist
Tory was Labour
Reform is Tory
Far Right a figment.
Hoolie blowing through open Left Overton Window for decades. Lord Cameroon threw away Right Window key, Mrs Maybee boarded Right Window up, Mrs & Mrs De Pfeffel climbed in through Left window and commissioned ruinously-expensive designer-makeover of soft furnishings.
Meanwhile, Tommy’s window has bars.
We Got a Problem; The Lie That Never Dies. Hits the nail on its head in his usual blunt way:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXNe1Vc6dKk
Meanwhile, back in the real world ( and well away from the ‘NIMBY’ peeps ), what happens if these migrants abscond from their digs? Are they actively monitored in any way? I guess they need a fixed address in order to get their handouts but they’re also ripe for getting involved in gang life and other criminality, which I presume pays more than the state;
”The quality of life is rapidly degrading in the country, attributed often to mass immigration. A follower tells where absconding migrants end up & what they get up to.
“Hi David I was speaking to two men a few weeks ago that work for a major car park company in the north who came to collect materials from my work I give away for free to local garage’s etc. for soaking oil spills.
“They came to collect some for wait for this, Mopping up urine, faeces & vomit from 5 car parks in the north that are overrun with migrants who sleep in the car parks at night & defecate in stairwells lifts etc every night.
“They told me around 15 are in each carpark on a nightly basis and they are ones that have run away from hotels, He said they beg on the streets during the daytime and shoplift etc.
” They told me the police aren’t interested and border force have been told but nothing has happened 2 years into it starting. The police told them it’s a civil matter because it’s on private property.”
“Keep up the good work”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1905583016572842443
All intentional for the great revolution? The following must be recognisable in today’s Britain, or any Western nation.
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
Lenin
“The best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency.”
Lenin
“There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.”
Lenin
“It is acceptable to suffocate democracy for the sake of socioeconomic equality”
Lenin
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth”
Lenin
“To speak the truth is a petit-bourgeois habit, a luxury of worry-free and aimless people. To lie, on the contrary, is often justified by the lie’s aim”
Lenin
“To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.”
Solzhenytsin