- “Israel assassinates senior Hamas leader in Beirut” – Israel has assassinated a senior Hamas leader in a Beirut drone strike, reports the Telegraph.
- “Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard President over handling of antisemitism” – The President of Harvard University has resigned following criticism of her handling of antisemitism on campus and her alleged plagiarism, reports the Times.
- “Claudine Gay: My part in her downfall” – In UnHerd, Christopher Brunet recalls writing numerous articles over the last two years highlighting dozens of examples of plagiarism attributed to Claudine Gay’s academic record.
- “Onward with inclusiveness” – Claudine Gay’s resignation as Harvard President is unlikely to change much at the university, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Plagiarist Harvard President resigns. Her scientific wrongdoing was fine until a month ago” – On Substack, Igor Chudov has mixed feelings about the recent resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
- “Israeli lecturer in U.K.: ‘I am being threatened and I am afraid, there is no one to turn to’” – Dr. Amira Halperin, a lecturer at Coventry University, claims that the university hasn’t taken any action despite her receiving threats from students supporting Hamas, according to ynetnews.
- “GP surgeries could be earning almost £1 billion from ‘ghost patients’” – There were almost six million more patients registered to GPs in England last year than the total population size of the country, according to the Telegraph.
- “Record number of excess deaths amid NHS strikes” – Britain experienced a record number of excess deaths last year amid repeated NHS strikes and the continued cost of the Covid pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Smokescreens – Part One” – In the first of six Substack posts, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan delve into the perennial NHS ’winter crisis’.
- “My dog gets better care than my children – the solution to our healthcare crisis is obvious” – As NHS waiting lists continue to balloon out of control, we should be looking at a system more akin to the way we protect our pets, says Lucy Denyer in the Telegraph.
- “COVID-19 vaccines linked to increased risk of swollen lymph nodes in children: Study” – Researchers have found that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are associated with a higher risk of lymphadenopathy, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Long Covid rare in children: Study” – According to a new study, fewer than 1% of children who tested positive for COVID-19 still had symptoms six months later, says the Epoch Times.
- “Ireland confirms their pandemic was just a psy-op ” – New research has found no excess deaths in Ireland between 2020-2022, writes the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “An overview of the WHO negotiations” – On Substack, James Roguski provides an overview of what is going on with the WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty and the amendments to the International Health Regulations.
- “Tony Blair’s think tank paid to advise countries with poor human rights” – Tony Blair’s think tank is being paid to advise countries with poor human rights records as it expands its global influence, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain has become a safe haven for terrorists and foreign criminals” – Human rights law stops us from protecting national security and politicians are doing nothing about it, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Reform a bigger threat to Tories and country than Labour, claims Lee Anderson” – Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson has warned Richard Tice to be “careful what you wish for”, according to the Telegraph, claiming a surging Reform will hurt the Tories more than Labour.
- “Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘cult of personality’ made me uncomfortable, admits Deputy Leader” – SNP Deputy Leader Mhairi Black says Nicola Sturgeon was a “massive asset to have” but that the SNP “shouldn’t be relying on one face or one person”, reports the Telegraph.
- “We’re about to turn our backs on good examples” – The rest of the world is moving in the right direction on school choice, while Labour proposes the opposite, says Mr. Chips on Substack.
- “Ukraine’s new year may end with a brutal Western betrayal” – Spineless leaders are preparing to hand Putin victory, writes Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
- “The circulation state: People, energy, data, money” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan discusses how the modern state governs and where it’s leading us.
- “Numale German Green endorses the ecosocialism of Jason Hickel, implicitly calling for a socialist revolution to disarm and deindustrialise the West” – On Substack, Eugyppius flags the recent endorsement of ‘ecosocialist’ Jason Hickel, a leading intellectual of the Degrowth movement, by a member of the Green Bundestag.
- “Why are Gen Z ageing so differently to millenials?” – As the oldest members of Gen Y approach their mid-40s, many people have been left baffled as to why they look younger than Gen Z, according to the Mail.
- “How progressive ideology hijacked the festive season” – Sadiq Khan can’t just sit back and let Christmas follow its well-established course, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Sadiq Khan embodies the worst excesses of the new Left” – While presenting a picture of feel good inclusivity, London’s Mayor presides over a failing city, argues Louise Perry in the Telegraph.
- “Trans model shouldn’t represent women, activists tell UN” – Seventeen women’s rights groups have signed a letter to the charity UN Women U.K. expressing concern about its choice of a biological male as its U.K. champion, reports the Times.
- “Stephanie Davies-Arai” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth interviews one of the most effective feminist fighters in the transgender trenches.
- “U.S. intelligence has been manipulating Wikipedia for over a decade: Wiki co-founder” – The co-founder of Wikipedia has dropped a bombshell about U.S. intelligence agencies interfering with the online encyclopaedia, according to ZeroHedge.
- “‘I’m not even going to dignify that with an actual response’” – On Sky News, climate contrarian James Woudhuysen gets a frosty response from a Just Stop Oil spokesperson after asking her, “What makes you so confident that you’re right about the world being hotter now than it was 125,000 years ago?”
"What makes you so confident that you're right about the world being hotter now?" – author @jameswoudhuysen
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 2, 2024
"I'm not even going to dignify that with an actual response." – Just Stop Oil spokesperson @ZoeatShinehttps://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3#KayBurleySky 501 / YouTube pic.twitter.com/CL9IhruQki
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Cracking post.
In the US, the FBI has labelled any Catholic group not supporting Vatican II a terrorist organisation….an open door to eventually persecute all Christians.
JRM is a Catholic. White. Male. He is of course the quintessential alt right-extremist-whack job-literally Hitler and I am shaking right now- archetype.
Stasis in our midst? Certainly. Gestapo along the outlines of the Rona fascism, coming into clearer view.
Love it. But I am sure the satire will be mistakenly submitted as evidence in your forthcoming trial for High Treason, Mr Dixon; these people don’t have a sense of humour.
Aren’t “right” and “left” very one-dimensional ? As far as I know, the terms come from the French Revolution, and vaguely mean “royalist” vs. “republican”, or “small-state” vs “”big-state”. There’s at least one other dimension: liberal vs authoritarian. Could be there are other dimensions. As for “terrorist”, doesn’t it actually mean you commit un-state-sponsored atrocities like blowing up random people? It’s worrying, and worryingly destructive that the language in which we might speak to each other has decayed into, almost literally, slime.
The terms go back to the revolutionary French national assembly and refer to the radicals, who wanted a democratic republic (left) and the more conservative deputies who wanted to keep a constitutional monarchy (right). Neither group entertained ‘neoliberal’ US tax-avoider fantasies of the 1980s.
I don’t know much about JRM’s political views, though he was certainly in a senior position during covid and IIRC did bugger all squared to oppose covid folly and evil. Does he represent “mainstream Conservative views”? Not sure. He has been a senior member of the umpteenth Tory government that has done bugger all squared to reverse the extreme leftward drift of this country. He’s supposedly on the political right of the party – perhaps this is true, but it’s not much of an achievement given how left wing it has been for so long.
There are various references to “far right” views and how JRM and his supporters are not “far right”. I’m not happy about that. The implication is that people who are really “far right” are a legitimate target for this kind of thing, but today’s definition of “far right” might well encompass a lot of people who post here and millions in the UK. “Far right” makes people think of Nazis, goon squads marching down the streets beating their opponents, locking people up without trial, totalitarian propaganda, control of information, politicisation of the police, sending people to camps etc – all common tactics of the left, and many of them used in the name of “keeping people safe” during covid by rich world governments.
In short, I don’t think this helps us as much as people might think, in fact I think it does the opposite – normalises the idea that there is a “far right” that needs keeping an eye on.
You make a good point particularly in your last sentence. Given that I was a senior local Tory politician in Scotland, I would say that my political views are 50% Margaret Thatcher and 50% Clement Attlee and I do wonder what that makes me. I have friends who think I have Socialist principles such as the provision of more social housing and other friends who think my views are to the right of Genghis Khan.
They are both wrong; my views are sensible, moral and treat Covid Lockdowns and Net Zero as the two greatest debacles of our time…. and I was born in the 1940s.
I suspect Clement Atlee was more conservative than most modern Tory politicians, especially on social issues.
If Rees-Mogg is right wing what does that make us lot?
Literally Hitler
One of my virtue signalling dimwit over educated colleagues compared me to Hitler during Covid
Bernard Lown experienced similar behaviour from his colleagues when he went against the “obvious” medical consensus of the day by daring to suggest that bed rest was the wrong treatment for heart attacks https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/a-chair-to-the-rescue/ It was his colleagues’ preferred treatment that was killing millions, not Lown’s.
Thanks
A fascinating story that shows the problems with the profession highlighted by the Covid folly run deep
This is the first time I’ve heard about Prevent.
I’ll have to go and look it up. But that says something about our “free society”. It seems that there is some sort.of publicly funded agency out there that spies and produces reports on us that a fairly well informed person was completely unaware of.
Our system is broken and out of control.
I knew about Prevent.
Probably thought it was a good idea at the time; now I am not so sure.
Ditto. Had Prevent training as I was working in Brum at the time, clinical patch covering areas like Sparkhill, Alum Rock. The installation of cameras in those areas didn’t go down very well for some reason….
The Wokerati appear to have infiltrated counter-terrorism. As far as I understand it, Prevent was initially set up post 9/11 and initially targeted Muslim extremists, managing to create all sorts of cultural fractures while doing so alongside plenty of calls for its abandonment (it was already described as a ‘busted flush’ back in 2016). As that’s now considered supremacist-inspired racism, clearly they need another target and who better than the privileged white cisgenders who won’t stick to the narrative, eh?
Old, but provides useful background:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/even-its-staunchest-advocates-can-see-prevent-busted-flush
‘A heavy focus on combatting non-violent extremism with an unhelpfully vague definition of how that actually manifests, has meant people are being superficially trained to subjectively spot signs of radicalisation.
There are no assurances given to stop this playing into existing and quite prolific biases and prejudices – any government policy should at the very minimum be aiming to dispel prejudice, but Prevent encourages it.’
Maybe they’re worried about him becoming a presenter on GBN; not that they would admit to that.
Yes, that would put the country on red alert: A “far-right extremist” presenting on “dangerous” broadcaster to us helpless victims of “misinformation”!
We live in an upside down world where moderate views a extremist and extremist views are moderate.
The IRA committed heinous crimes but are now just part of the Globalist Establishment. In other words the continue to commit heinous crimes.
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Definitely outside of the quotation marks. Unless the full stop is an integral part of the quote, in which case there would be a case for a second full stop outside of the quotation marks. Don’t quote me on this though…
If you define “right wing” as anything the BBC does npot approve of there must be a loit of them about. But any rational definition leads to the inevitable conclusion there are very very few of them.
Furthermore, they are all-but pointless and harmless. Best kleft alone.
Those running these things know what they are doing and it amounts to a coup d’etat in open air.
In Germany, he would already have been deemed and arrested as a Reichsbuerger.
I felt a bit like one and being among them at the TCW event: almost everyone was well-groomed, polite and wearing suits or tweed jackets.
On top of that, everyone was sane and didn’t spout nonsense.
Very dangerous!
I am passively patriotic and proud so I suppose that makes me a Division Two terrorist. My father, from India, invented the Tebbit Test long before the eponymous Lord, so I cheered yesterday at every English try, along with the many thousands actually at Twickenham who along with all those who actively support England at cricket, and the UK at the Olympics, must also be terrorists.
Oh dear. Perhaps we might take comfort in the old saw that those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
The left are losing and they know it
As someone said a few years ago (it may have been Nancy Pelosi, but i am not certain) —————“We are all Socialists now”. In the Liberal Progressive western world where right wing politics is to be demonised and even criminalised, it is not entirely unexpected that the focus will be on terrorism that emanates from extreme right wing thinking and does all it can as far as it can get away with to sweep under the carpet Islamist terrorism which clearly is the major problem if we look at the numbers and the data. This is ofcourse because multicultural dogma is more important than applying “equal justice” to all. Somehow or other the liberal left and it’s welfare dependency, open borders and global government aspirations at the expense of Nation States by use of a phony climate crisis to “unite us all” gets the nod. Which is really surprising since socialism makes people’s lives worse not better. You see people in the UK still clamouring to be back in the EU despite us having voted on that 7 years ago and despite them mostly not even knowing who the Presidents are, because no one elected them. They were simply put in place by the Commission. Can you imagine the spitting fury if a Conservative had simply been made Prime Minister without an election in 2019. So an unaccountable and unelected EU government is where these people want to go back to. Instead of freedom they want their leaders to control everything they do except maybe how they cut their toenails. How absurd is that? ———So demonising and ad hominin attacks on people seen as to the perfectly legitimate political position as right of centre is one of the major tools of the Liberal Progressive, who would have everyone compared to Nazi’s at every opportunity.
I have not heard of Prevent until now – it seems Pervert may be a better name.
As for JRM despatching someone with a polite remark, he also would pay to have a Mass said for the repose of the soul of the departed.