- “‘It’s about time’ – Bates hails move to quash postmasters’ convictions” – Alan Bates said that it was “about time” as his 21-year campaign for justice won a historic victory that will lead to hundreds of postmasters’ convictions being quashed, reports the Times.
- “Post Office paid out bonuses for every conviction under Horizon scandal” – It has emerged that Post Office investigators were offered cash bonuses for every sub-postmaster convicted during the Horizon scandal, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ex-Post Office chief Paula Vennells nearly became Bishop of London” – Disgraced former Post Office Chief Executive Paula Vennells narrowly missed out on becoming the Bishop of London, reports the Mail. She was the favoured candidate of Justin Welby.
- “Sir Keir Starmer was in charge of the CPS when sub-postmasters were taken to court” – Sub-postmasters were taken to court by the Crown Prosecution Service during Sir Keir Starmer’s time as its head, according to the Sun.
- “Calls for Davey to resign ramp up while Lib Dems paint him as a victim” – Ex-postmistress Sally Stringer has called for Ed Davey to resign over his role in the Post Office scandal, while the Lib Dems have been sending out emails painting Davey as a victim, says Guido Fawkes.
- “Postmistress plots election challenge to Sir Ed Davey amid anger at his role in Post Office scandal” – Ed Davey is facing an election challenge from a former postmistress amid warnings that his role in the Post Office scandal will cost him votes, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Trial by media’ saved the sub-postmasters. Ministers should know better than to attack the press” – We have ended up with the media in control of the Horizon story because the criminal justice system failed so spectacularly, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “JN.1: Major dominant Covid variant since XBB.1.5 – what you need to know” – JN.1, the latest COVID-19 variant, has rapidly spread across the U.S., with the variant reportedly accounting for over 60% of all cases, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Covid hasn’t gone away so where’s the plan?” – Mainland Europe is taking the threat of the Juno variant seriously, but Rishi Sunak is sticking his fingers in his ears, writes Alice Thomson in a typically hysterical piece in the Times.
- “Keep calm and resist ‘muzzle mania’ over face masks” – The evidence-light campaign to get us all to go about with soggy pieces of cloth on our faces is back, laments Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Covid jab gave me ruinous side effects, but Facebook is censoring me” – A woman who says she suffered chronic health complications after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine, claims to have been censored from sharing her story on Facebook, reports the Mail.
- “Controversial zoologist is gathering pathogens with pandemic potential” – A British zoologist says he’s found a close relative of the Covid virus living in bats found in Thai caves, according to the Mail.
- “Embalmer survey 2023: Over 75% are still seeing novel white fibrous clots” – The mainstream medical community, media, FDA, CDC, NIH and Congress are still not investigating the issue of novel white fibrous clots and determining which are Covid jab-related, says Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “Smokescreens – Part Eight” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan explore the challenges in understanding and identifying respiratory viruses given their constant mutation.
- “Will Israel be charged with genocide at The Hague?” – The Telegraph’s Paul Nuki discusses the impending charge of genocide against Israel shortly to be considered by the International Court of Justice.
- “The double-standards of Israel’s critics” – In the New Conservative, Peter Harris suggests that the holding of Israel to a higher moral standard may be rooted in a form of condescension from the liberal Left.
- “Why I quit my dream job at MIT” – In the Free Press, Mauricio Karchmer discusses why he refuses to teach students who lack basic critical thinking skills or who condemn his Jewish identity.
- “Starmer to embrace ‘nanny state’ with plan for toothbrushing in schools” – Keir Starmer has announced plans to improve child health under a Labour government, including supervised toothbrushing in schools, says the Guardian.
- “Why Mandelson’s links to Epstein could come back to haunt Starmer” – Lord Mandelson, one of the best-known New Labour spin doctors, features in the latest tranche of released Epstein court documents, notes Victoria Ward in the Telegraph.
- “Varadkar has no ‘sustainable figure’ in mind for asylum seekers” – Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that he has no “particular figure” in mind for what would be a “sustainable” number of asylum seekers Ireland could accommodate, reports Gript.
- “Marine Le Pen already rules France” – Macron may hope the appointment of a new PM will revive his Presidency, but it’s highly unlikely, says Gavin Mortimer in the Telegraph.
- “France gives up on meritocracy” – Can you guess where France’s youngest Prime Minister graduated from? asks the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “Welsh village cut off because 20 mph limit means buses don’t have time to go there” – Residents of a Welsh village say they are being isolated after a bus company axed the only local route as a result of the new 20 mph speed limit, according to ITV News.
- “Replacing Westminster gas lamps with LED replicas would be ‘cultural vandalism’, say Tory MPs” – Senior Conservative MPs have warned that a Net Zero push to replace London’s historic gas lamps with LED replicas would represent “cultural vandalism”, says the Standard.
- “Met Police: Ignored eco activists risk becoming radicalised” – The Met Police warns that eco activists risk becoming radicalised as they sense “they are not being listened to by the Government”, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Chris Skidmore and the scourge of the Tory eco-zealots” – Chris Skidmore’s political tribe has done untold damage to his country, writes Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
- “How the ideological fantasy of a permadrought caused German dam operators to overfill their reservoirs and exacerbated the massive December floods” – On Substack, Eugyppius blames dam mismanagement for the recent flooding in Germany, where ideological influences led to dangerously full reservoirs.
- “The disgusting attempt to silence Joey Barton” – What’s more “dangerous” and “disgusting”, Joey Barton sounding off or a Government minister threatening to clamp down on speech? asks Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “An unhappy ending for the gender war telltales” – Let’s hope the case of the social worker Rachel Meade is the last time anyone is persecuted merely for stating scientific facts, writes Janice Turner in the Times.
- “Banksy and the death of satire” – Progressive comics who attack the Establishment don’t realise it’s their view that dominates, remarks David James in CapX.
- “Stop moaning about ‘fatphobia’ – obesity is nothing to celebrate” – It’s no more bigoted to tell people they shouldn’t eat too much than it is to tell them they shouldn’t drink too much, argues Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Tennis bodies are monitoring social media, aiding in speech removal ” – Tennis organisations are actively getting on board the (online) content surveillance and suppression bandwagon, says Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
- “An open letter to Armando Iannucci” – In Spiked, Graham Linehan asks why Britain’s most-celebrated satirist has turned a blind eye to woke authoritarianism.
- “Scotland is abandoning children to trans extremists” – Encouraging young gay people to think they should change gender in order to become ‘straight’ is surely itself a form of conversion therapy, argues Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “The Washington Post is collapsing, and only Donald Trump can save it” – Jeff Bezos’s prized paper is losing $100 million a year, writes Jordan Schachtel on Substack.
- “Group preps to sue MIT, alleges it rejects male applicants for less-qualified female ones” – A group of MIT alumni are set to sue the school for unlawfully rejecting male applicants for less-qualified female ones to advance gender equality, according to the College Fix.
- “Marvel went woke, now it’s going broke” – The superhero-film studio is paying a heavy price for trying to lecture its fans, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
- “Police wrap blankets around eco-activists” – A video posted on X shows police delivering warm blankets to eco-activists frightened by global warming…
Police brought warm blankets to eco-activists who are frightened by global warming
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https://youtu.be/02cxttcA02w?si=kPMV_qtnscPmbMFZ
Donald Tusk in Poland arresting and locking up political opponents.
No surprise really.
I believe the EU fine Poland for daring to use coal. But I thought all countries in the EU were “Independent”?. ——At least so said the wicked witch Sturgeon
https://www.youtube.com/live/abhmHqj7WCk?si=rJCR9lh1q_-27BfS
Sir Kneel doesn’t know the sex of his children.
Midazolam Health Secretary The Covid Con
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Bringing blankets to cold eco activists worried about warming is about as absurd and pathetic as it comes. All institutions today are infected with the Snowflake virus. They would want to bring Ian Huntley some extra bottles of bleach to make sure his house was clean and free of evidence. They would ask Harold Shipman for advice on their mother in law. They would make sure Hitler had enough corn beef and beans in his bunker.
Amusing to note that they were all wearing hi-tec fossil fuel based clothing and happy to accept fossil fuel based blankets too…
He was a vegetarian because he objected to animal slaughterhouses so beans only. I suppose Blondi, Negus and Stasi would have enjoyed the corned beef.
“France gives up on meritocracy”
Brilliant comment underneath this article:
‘Writing from France, I need to say this:
Firstly, Macron was never supposed to be elected president in 2017. He was having a go to build up his CV but, suddenly, a scandal engulfed the front leader, Francois Fillon, and forced him out. A vaccum opened up, and Macron walked in. Pure luck and coincidence.
He had huge momentum behind him and set up a new party, “En Marche” and just about every chimp with that label got elected – Attal being one of them.
Macron’s first choice of premiere was Edouard Philippe. A fairly competent and steady person who soon started attracting rumours of presidential standing. Macron reacted by sacking him and replacing him with the most awful gormless oaf imaginable, Jean Castex, who was premiere during covid. He is now in charge of the Paris metro, and he still wears a mask (whenever on TV, that is).
At the last elections, Macron lost his majority in parliament and appointed Elizabeth Borne, who has one quality in common with Castex: totally gormless.
Now he replaced her with this kid.
I remember Attal vividly from the covid nightmare. He was the media spokesman nervously lying through his teeth. He was so nervous and so dishonest you could see him visibly shaking. He has no guts, no brains and no spine.
What he does have in common with previous holders of the office (after Macron learned his lesson with Edouard Philippe), is that Attal is absolutely no threat to the boss.
Macron chooses people not because of their abilities, but because of the exact opposite: no one in government can outshine him. Given that it does not take much to do so, he is scraping the barrel ever harder.
Meritocracy vanished in France ages ago. Not just now.
Unfortunately, the mass/legacy media is totally pro-Macron, who pays McKinsey consultants to tell him what he should do. It is a muppet show here. (Sorry Kermit, Ms Piggy.)’
Let us never forget Micron’s complicity in bullying the spineless Bunter into lockdown.
‘We had prepared the closure of our border and told Prime Minister Johnson we would implement it that day if there was no evolution [of British measures],” a senior French official familiar with the conversation told POLITICO.
French paper Libération reported Saturday evening that Macron had “threatened” Johnson. The French official said that was “too strong a word” to describe the call.’
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-was-ready-to-shut-border-had-uk-not-toughened-coronavirus-measures/
Micron always reminds me of ‘Inspector Clouseau’. Where is Chief Inspector Dreyfus when you need him……..
The ‘news round up’ above is dominated by the Horizon scandal. How I wish that the outcry, attention from politicians and column inches dedicated to it over the last few days were also being directed to the (ongoing) wrongs of the covid era. One can only dream how quickly the population would wake up if all the press were trumpeting the government wrongs and lies about being stabbed and the tremendous harms (and excessive deaths) that have been caused.
Yes, yes, yes!
‘‘Trial by media’ saved the sub-postmasters. Ministers should know better than to attack the press”
Attack the press? The press are in their fecking pockets! Msm are the government mouthpieces, this is just a one off
Smokescreens part 8 was a good article. Made me think that it might be wise to add the affair of the last 4 years to the same bucket list as the Horizon scandal.
In
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And right there is the problem. It’s not their job. It’s our job or the NHS/GP businesses job to take it as seriously as we/they deem appropriate. Telling us how to (they think) avoid infection is a medic’s job, not government. Deciding how to sub-allocate the enormous piles of taxpayers money which has been given to the NHS – that’s their job.
I know a number of retired medics from drinking with them in our student days. I can assure you they were no more intelligent than other people and just as unconcerned about drinking to excess.
I work with a just retired GP one or two days a week. He’s a nice enough chap but in all other respects thoroughly mediocre. Very much BBC informed. Medically too much a fan of pharma solutions. He never ventures to discuss the Scamdemic, well at least not in my presence but I get the impression he is / was fully on board.
Not nice but dim but certainly nice but mediocre.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/gas-lamps-westminster-led-replicas-jacob-rees-mogg-tory-tories-b1131514.html
Cultural vandalism is the comment. Exactly. This is the Khant’s true, undeclared Manifesto. London must be destroyed.