- “On the sexual atrocities Hamas committed on October 7th” – We cannot ignore the depravity of the October 7th attacks or what they mean for women, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “2023 has exposed the moral depravity of the radical Left” – Jews, women, the working class – leftists have betrayed everyone they once claimed to speak for, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “How Hamas weaponises victimhood” – Also in Spiked, Frank Furedi says that Hamas are the masters at weaponising victimhood.
- “Broken codes of conduct” – In Taki’s Magazine, Theodore Dalrymple takes delight in the Harvard President’s plagiarism kerfuffle while scolding the ever-expanding power of the bureaucratic state.
- “The Elgin Marbles weren’t stolen – Greece is just exploiting our weakness” – In the Sunday Times, Jonathan Sumption argues it would demean the British Museum and its universalist mission to return the Elgin Marbles.
- “Five-day work from home deals for pampered civil service mandarins” – Hundreds of civil servants are on full-time ‘home-working contracts’ and do not go into Whitehall at all, reveals the Mail on Sunday.
- “The year the pandemic ended: A retrospective” – On Substack, Eugyppius reflects on the year when the Covid circus finally packed up its tents in Germany.
- “Senior lawyer drafting Rwanda Bill told Rishi Sunak it would not work” – A senior lawyer who advised on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill warned ministers that it was far from guaranteed to protect deportation flights from legal challenge, reports the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: Rishi Sunak’s secret talks to bring back Dominic Cummings” – The Sunday Times recounts the story told in Dominic Cummings’s latest blog of his meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss a return to Downing Street.
- “Delors and Thatcher clashed, but their visions combined might now save Europe” – Vladimir Putin has proven Margaret Thatcher’s fears right, yet only a united Europe of the kind envisaged by Jacques Delors can bring him to heel, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Jacques Delors destroyed the European Left” – Jacques Delors enabled the populist Right, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Jacques Delors was the father of Brexit – without the U.K., his vision is turning to reality” – Jacques Delors dreamt of a unitary, centralised European state. This is what the EU is now fast becoming, argues Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Biden won’t run, Labour won’t win a landslide, Middle East may find peace” – In the Telegraph, Janet Daley gives her optimistic predictions for 2024.
- “Military shuns heat pumps in favour of cheaper cutting-edge electric boilers” – The military is shunning heat pumps and instead warming soldiers’ homes with electric boilers that cost less to run, according to the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is about to get even more painful” – Few would challenge the need to decarbonise – eventually. But our current approach will be economically ruinous, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “U.S. university chancellor sacked for vegan porn videos” – A U.S. university chancellor has been sacked after it was discovered that he had filmed vegan-themed pornographic videos with his wife and posted them online, according to the Telegraph.
- “Have Ireland’s Gen Z been duped?” – For Gen Z, talk about ‘choice’ and ‘equality’ seems particularly cruel given many of them will spend their 20s and 30s living in the box room upstairs, says Donal Horgan in Gript.
- “Why are theatres so cowardly?” – Good luck finding a play that criticises the NHS, remarks Lloyd Evans in the Spectator.
- “Straight men at fault for Hollywood failures on diversity, says Sofia Coppola” – According to Sofia Coppola, Hollywood is failing to produce diverse cinema because “99% of the people giving money in film are straight men”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The American Museum of Supernatural History” – By embracing indigenous superstitions, the West’s great science museums are abandoning their mission to educate and compromising their scientific integrity, warns Elizabeth Weiss in Reality’s Last Stand.
- “Facebook censors podcast hosted by pro-Israel Arab” – Facebook has removed a pro-Israeli post by an Arab commentator, reports the Telegraph.
- “Federal Government operatives and Soros money behind plot to keep Trump off ballot” – The public-private model used for censorship is now being used to undermine U.S. democracy, says Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “Not with a whimper but a bellow…” – Mark Steyn discusses the ban on Trump from running in Maine’s election, drawing unfavourable comparisons with Russia.
- “When the Bernsteins hosted the Black Panthers” – The Leonard Bernstein biopic, Maestro, skips a key chapter in his life, which is fortunately resurrected in a new documentary about his nemesis, Tom Wolfe, says Gregg Kilday on the Ankler Substack.
- “Non-crime hate incidents are deeply sinister” – On Free Speech Nation, Andrew Doyle takes issue with the police’s recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’, an authoritarian, Orwelllian concept.
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A revolutionary moment is one when the people don’t want to go on being governed as they have been anymore, and the rulers cannot go on governing as they have done anymore.
The USA reached that moment last year. The result is a new sheriff in town.
And as JD quite correctly pointed out, a day after Two Tier allegedly promised to spend more money on expensive – and likely ineffectual – toys for the military to fight some imaginary bogey men, the main enemy of the British people lies within. Government – locally and nationally – is our enemy.
Many on here have been saying that these things are all deliberate, designed to destroy our society. It’s hard to argue when examples like this occur just about every day. What other explanation is there? They want you to think it’s all incompetence, but they are not as stupid as they would have you believe.
Same all over the place, and of course Germany is just the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to these stories. We’ve done ‘chicken nuggets’, just how much more ludicrous can these lame-arse excuses get? ”Oh, we can’t deport them back to Syria/Afghanistan/Pakistan because the weather’s too hot and would cause unnecessary stress. It would infringe on their human rights because they’re now acclimatized to the much cooler British climate.” Nothing surprises me in Clown World anymore. Anyway, bet this human turd didn’t vote AfD;
”A Syrian migrant has an incredible arrest record, including smashing the windows of 245 cars, beating and injuring an 84-year-old woman, and possessing illegal weapons, but the courts have decided to let him stay in the country.
The man, Firas A., is a chronic repeat offender in theory, but in practice, this designation has also been dropped by the criminal police office of Hamburg. No deportation is currently planned, which has been revealed due to a parliamentary inquiry by the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Firas A. arrived in Germany in 2015 and was issued a permanent residence permit in December 2021. He has also driven without his license on numerous occasions, but had his car keys taken away during the second time he was arrested for this offense, according to Bild.”
https://rmx.news/germany/germany-syrian-wont-be-deported-despite-smashing-windows-of-245-cars-beating-an-elderly-woman-and-possessing-illegal-weapons/
No ECHR – No decision to make. Back to Albania you go.
These people are fucking clowns.
(Sorry hardliner, but no other word fits)
Twenty uptick’s Jack (if I could 😏 )
Hear hear !
Surely there was no suggestion of forcing the Albanian/Romanian couple to live in Albania? They could live in Romania. No?
‘A valuable member of society’ – really!!! On that note, how was ‘valuable’ and ‘society’ defined? Unbelievable but it goes on, time and time again. We are all living in a corrupt madhouse.
He should not be here, so he broke the law, he then committed crimes here, so there is no excuse for him being here. So his wife can’t speak Albanian, she is Romanian she learned English, she can learn Albanian.
How much exactly are we paying in legal aid? Could I as the product of many generations get legal aid? I don’t think so. Get them out
Nuts we need to rid ourselves of these people both the judges and the offenders.
If he is a valuable member of society, I am beyond priceless.