- “Starmer admits ‘mistakes’ after CPS criticised for pursuing postmasters” – Keir Starmer insists he has “no skeletons in the closet” as he faces questions over his role in the Post Office scandal, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tory donor embroiled in Post Office scandal given Government role” – A Tory donor, caught up in the Post Office scandal, was given a non-exec role on the Board of the U.K. Health Security Agency, according to the Telegraph.
- “Netanyahu tells the U.S. he opposes a two-state solution” – Benjamin Netanyahu has said he told the U.S. he opposes the creation of a Palestinian state, declaring that Israel must be “capable of saying no to our friends”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Primary school embroiled in Palestine row may be forced to close” – A second school accused of Islamophobia may be forced to close over its decision to ban children from wearing pro-Palestinian badges, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Antisemitism – what is to be done?” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth discusses what can be done to combat rising antisemitism.
- “Professor defends ‘biased’ anti-terrorism training: ‘We’re not woke’” – A senior professor at King’s College London has denounced claims (made in the Daily Sceptic last week, among other places) that counter-terrorism training given to civil servants is “politically biased”, reports the Times.
- “The ‘trial’ of Katharine Birbalsingh is a battle for the future of Britain” – There’s a vital principle at stake in the case against Michaela Community School: whether or not minority rights are allowed to trump social cohesion, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “In defence of Katharine Birbalsingh’s prayer ban” – The episode with Katharine Birbalsingh’s Michaela School tells us a good deal about the way rights culture has ballooned in the last few decades, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Teacher’s ‘blackophobia’ claim shows the tangle we are in” – If ever there was a sorry tale for our times, it is the saga of Andrea Mairs, writes Nana Akua in the Mail.
- “Chinese lab sequenced COVID-19 weeks before Beijing disclosed data” – A China-based researcher had already mapped the COVID-19 sequence two weeks before Beijing revealed such details to the world, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Covid smoking gun” – Genetic patterns in SARS-CoV-2 are a ‘smoking gun’ for a lab-made origin, says the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “The system for reporting adverse drug reactions should come with a warning” – The cost to the health system of adverse drug and device reactions is substantial and failure to act will only lead to more harm, warn Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on Substack.
- “Vaping while pregnant is safe for both babies and mothers, experts rule” – Women who feel nicotine cravings while pregnant can rest assured that using a vape won’t harm their baby, according to results from a British study involving over 1,100 expectant mothers, reports the Mail.
- “Rishi Sunak hit by new no confidence letters from Tory MPs” – A rebel source says many backbenchers are “deeply upset” at the Government’s handling of its controversial Rwanda Bill, says the Telegraph, and are sending in letters of no confidence to the 1922 Committee.
- “Put a stop to mass migration – while we still can” – Immigration is not a viable way to fix our demographic problems. We need a near halt for a decade or so, argues David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is on the brink of another 1973-style disaster” – Repeated failure to control inflation and political dysfunction point to a catastrophe ahead, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Is humanity doomed? Doomsday Clock will be updated next week” – The Mail has everything you need to know about the Doomsday Clock before it’s next update.
- “What are the safest countries in the world if World War Three starts?” – The surge in global conflict throughout 2023 has led to speculation that World War III could be on the horizon. The Mail has a list of the safest countries to be in if it all kicks off.
- “Inside China’s impending population disaster” – Latest data shows the number of residents in China fell by two million last year, marking the second year in a row that its population has shrunk, reports the Mail.
- “How China’s collapsing birth rate risks wrecking Xi’s dreams of global supremacy” – Women are rejecting motherhood in China, says Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “Teenager ‘enraged by global warming’ plotted terror attacks, court hears” – A jury has been told that a teenager wanted to kill at least 50 people in revenge for “living in a society that was destroying itself”, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.K. turns to last coal plant amid Arctic blast for electricity boost” – During a recent cold spell, the U.K. depended heavily on its last coal power plant, contributing 3.4% to the country’s electricity production, according to Energy Live News.
- “Drax carbon capture could cost bill payers £40 billion” – Drax has received permission to fit carbon capture technology to its North Yorkshire wood-burning power plant in a project that could cost bill-payers more than £40 billion, according to WUWT.
- “Labour would fast-track countryside wind turbines and solar panels under Net Zero drive” – Labour has pledged to fast-track the building of wind and solar farms in the countryside, raising concerns that rural communities will struggle to block Net Zero projects, reports the Telegraph.
- “Electric cars and heat pumps seem destined to make us freeze” – “There is no point in telling us we’ve got to get to Net Zero if you can’t tell us how we cope when we reach sub-zero,” says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Male British actors overlooked for Bafta nomination for first time in nearly 50 years” – No male British actors were included in this year’s Bafta nominations for the first time in nearly 50 years, reports the Telegraph.
- “White men no longer want to fight for a nation that scorns them” – If you can’t recruit for the military among the largest group, you’re going to have trouble filling the ranks, argues Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
- “‘Why I left Harvard’” – In the Free Press, Harvard lecturer Carole Hooven explains how she found herself entangled in a DEI web without the support to continue her job after stating facts about human biology.
- “With revenues declining, corporate media demand Substack censorship” – The censorship campaign against Substack is largely based on exaggerations and half-truths, say Zaid Jilani and Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “How to beat an ideologue” – On Substack, Somewhere, Anywhere explores the do’s and don’ts when dealing with dishonest activists.
- “The President of Argentina’s rallying cry for libertarianism” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone celebrates Javier Milei’s recent speech at Davos.
- “Javier Milei shocks Davos” – Argentina’s newly elected President’s 23-minute speech at Davos was a masterclass, says Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “‘Long live freedom, dammit!’” – Argentine President Javier Milei roasts the elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Javier Milei’s address at Davos was very impressive. I like the cut of his jib.
Wouldn’t trust him further than I can spit. Impressive speech certainly, lots in there for entrepreneurs and capitalists but call me cynical, there was very little for the people already at the bottom of the heap on whom this economic nirvana depends – struck me as more of the same ineffective trickle down schtick we’ve had for decades. Plus the guy is a dyed-in-the-wool WEF puppet.
https://www.weforum.org/people/javier-gerardo-milei/
I’m also cynical WW, yet there he was, saying words that you’d never imagine would be listened to at a WEF forum. I tend to judge by actions rather than words, but his action since talking the Presidency, vs. e.g. the actions of our own government over Brexit, provide stark evidence that he might just be the real deal.
As has been pointed out by numerous geopolitical commentators who know far more about Milei than me, don’t listen to his words, follow his actions, most of which are shaping up to be along similar lines to what fellow WEF puppet Meloni has done and is doing in Italy. She was a firebrand speaker saying all the right things and feted as new blood before getting into power too, yet here we are. What is notable is the lack of pushback on what he said at Davos: if he was really ruffling feathers it would make at least a few headlines, but it’s not – almost like they know he’s on their side and is a nice distraction for the great unwashed. As they say hereabouts – he’s all fur coat and no knickers (I think the Yanks say all hat no cattle). IMHO, of course.
I agree. Words are cheap even if they are the most stirring words you’ve ever heard spoken. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Has Milei actually carried out his threats against the big state? By being invited to Davos, I can imagine that Schwab etc had an idea of his speech. Maybe they like a bit rough. My take on it is that this is a masterclass in cunning: it makes us rebels all heave a sigh of relief, it gives us some small amount of hope as if right in the heart of Davos there is a glitch. If Milei stood up and excoriated the WEF and the Davos crowd themselves that would be the glitch but he didn’t. One thing he did say was:
“Today’s world is more free, more rich, more peaceful, and more prosperous than in any other time of human history.”
More free? More rich – for who? More peaceful??? More prosperous?? This man doesn’t inhabit the normal world. It is certainly not as free or as prosperous for many of us and as for peaceful, well South America might be but we have the possibility of regional conflicts becoming WW3. Cheap words as I say.
Yep – more free and more rich for the already free & rich, just like everywhere else puppets are in power. His ‘brutal’ economic ‘adjustment’ has already bitten hard and he’s promised ‘prison or bullets’ for anyone demonstrating against it.
Milei’s “free-market” hokum, promising that investors will magically replace government-provided services and jobs and that Argentina will regain its old glory as one of the richest countries, has been exposed as an empty cover to justify an intensification of the state-directed transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent to the richest few.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/12/15/argentina-milei-announces-first-batch-of-class-war-measures-dictated-by-imf/
I didn’t say I trusted him. I’ve lived through the last few years which have shattered any trust of authority. As you say, actions speak louder than words. But to me his words were close to the mark and a fairly accurate diagnosis.
Elon liked it but David Icke didn’t
I loved it Btw !
Like what?
Of course, it’s only the corrupt, who have an agenda to push and are generally up to no good, who wish to clamp down on ”free speech” ( quite the fluid concept nowadays, it seems ) and ”mis/disinformation” ( anything they don’t agree with, basically ). So obviously von der Leyen fits into this category perfectly;
”What kind of dictator-wannabes are turning up at Davos these days?
It shouldn’t be surprising that one of them is European Union Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen, a German bureaucrat with big ambitions for what you are to be allowed to read.
According to UnHerd:
She didn’t say what that disinformation she’s so upset about might be, but a good guess might just be in her history as a German bureaucrat, making secret phone calls with pharmaceutical companies and then lying about it when Germans filed the equivalent of Freedom of Information Act inquiries trying to find out just what she was up to.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/ursula_the_davos_witch_urges_suppression_of_free_speech.html
‘Fond of lying’….fond of lying. What a surprise.
That’s because they know we’ve rumbled “climate change” and Covid. So another target is needed.
I can’t blame the Chinese people for deciding against having kids. Who would want to bring a child into a world where you’re being constantly surveilled ( I know the feeling ) and your entire quality of life and future are dictated by your social credit score?
However, lower births are happening in many places ( I’m guessing not in the Muslim world though ) and here’s the latest from France. Therefore, keep those immigrants coming!
”The number of births in France has fallen to its lowest level since the Second World War in a grim indicator of Western demographic collapse.
Figures released this week from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) reported that 678,000 babies were born in France last year, a decline of 48,000 over 2022 and the lowest of any year since 1946.
As with other countries in the West, France has long faced a declining birth rate, falling nearly every year since 2010 when 832,799 babies were born in the country, approximately 20 per cent higher than in 2023. However, according to Insee, the speed of decline has been increasing, with the birth rate standing at 1.68 children per woman in 2023, compared to 1.79 in 2022 and 1.99 in 2013.
A rate of 2.1 babies per woman is typically considered the baseline requirement for a modern nation to maintain its population rate. While France was well below this rate, the population did not in fact decline, given a 6.5 per cent decline in deaths, which stood at 631,000.
This was driven by an increase in life expectancy to 85.7 for women and 80 for men, representing a 0.6-year increase for women and a 0.7 per cent rise for men over 2022. While welcome news, the ageing population will likely put further strain on the pension and healthcare systems, with one in five people in France now being 65 years of age or older and one in ten being 75 or older.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has argued that governments throughout the West have been engaging in national “suicide” by adopting “Great Replacement” policies, a theory coined by French writer Renaud Camus, who argued that globalist politicians view their people as cogs rather than individual humans and therefore can merely be replaced with mass migration.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/18/demographic-decline-france-sees-lowest-number-of-births-since-wwii/
Covid Manipulated Death Data
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Well we know that when they used (for the first time for any disease), “WITH” Covid, as opposed to “FROM ” Covid. Oddly, the ONS released data on this, the true count – Feb 2020 to Dec 2021
<10k
1 < age 14
<100 < age 50
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/covid19deathsandautopsiesfeb2020todec2021
Average – c FIFTEEN per diem.
One thing Javier Milei said was how the idea of “market failure” is an oxymoron – where it seems to occur, look (he said) for manipulation of the market by governments.
Lo and behold, later yesterday I was watching a video on the catastrophe Big Pharma has wrought through its corruption on COVID, and the commentator said this was a market failure clearly requiring government intervention.
Maybe Milei was wrong, I thought. But then consider how government in the West has paid for the drug company research, provided regulators but allowed Big Pharma to control them, made exclusive contracts preventing litigation, and forced the vaccines on everyone, etc, etc…
If snake-oil salesman turn out to be frauds, they’ll be quickly run out of town, unless the sheriff is involved in the scam.
I think we can all agree that the current system is broken beyond repair, but somebody needs to do independent checks on drug production quality, safety and efficacy, and we definitely don’t want the drug companies to do it, so who is left other than government in one shape or form?
An alternative is to stop taking any prescription drugs if possible.
I agree. Government should manage and fund the regulation – just as an independent police force should enforce laws without fear and favour, and an independent judiciary should adjudicate them.
That means Big Pharma does not provide the funding, does not provide government scientists, and is forbidden to employ those involved in regulation when they leave their regulatory jobs.
MHRA is a government body. Entirely captured, and open about it, by Big Pharma; as Raine said in public, they are there now to “enable”.
Anyone with faith in government after Covid is completely deluded. Sorry
This is a deeply troubling way of framing this. After all, this is exactly how they poured scorn, shame and ridicule onto the unvaxxed. It’s f*ck all to do with “minority rights” and everything to do with cultural integration. If Muslim schoolchildren want to pray to Allah during school time then their parents, irrespective of generation, need to resettle in an Islamist country. If, however, they’re not prepared to do this, then they need to suck it up and start respecting the country that has given them a home by respecting the people and the values of the society that has foolishly made them so comfortable that they feel emboldened to attack it.
Seconded in full.
“This is a deeply troublingThis way of framing this. After all, this is exactly how they poured scorn, shame and ridicule onto the unvaxxed. It’s f*ck all to do with “minority rights” and everything to do with cultural integration. If Muslim schoolchildren want to pray to Allah during school time then their parents, irrespective of generation, need to resettle in an Islamist country.”
Why should English school children have their school day and their learning disrupted for the faux religiosity of some islamic kids? If the parents don’t like it they need to F O back to some muslim shit hole.
Fraser Nelson with the wrong end of the stick again. This issue has nothing to do with minority rights. If these children want to be part of Britain they need to be “persuaded” to think British. Disrupting a school day every day for prayers in the religion of peace does not cut it.
Cohesion will follow when the muslim children have been fully anglicised and not by allowing them to have one foot in both camps. This is a recipe for trouble.
Any rights other than British rights come a long way down the pecking order and with the state of the country currently I would say they are wholly unaffordable.
Fraser Nelson phrasing this matter around “minority rights” is actually ceding the argument. The rights that count above all others are English / British. Get a grip man and stop bloody pandering.
“…everything you need to know about the Doomsday Clock before
it’snext update.”its update
as in:
her update
his update
“it’s” means “it is”
Why the downticks?
Jus’ preservin’ the high standards of this excellent endeavour here!
I will uptick it Marcus, but only because I am a dreadful pedant.
And I have upticked also because I too am a pedant, particularly where the English language is concerned.
Most of us are, quite rightly, pendant’s.
Aarrggghhhhh!
Hahaha, Jon.
If one does not understand the requirement for language to be accurate, that is, proper grammar, spelling and semantics, one can never be sure that what one is saying or writing is what you mean. In the same way, one would not employ a bricklayer who does not know how to put brickwork together.
Stopping the teaching of grammar at schools is and was a complete disaster. Regardless of pedantry (yes. me too!)
I agree wholeheartedly.
When using the vocative case, Neil, which you were using in your reply to Marcus – i.e. you were directly addressing Marcus – it is considered proper grammar to separate out a person’s name using commas. Therefore you should have put a comma after ‘it’, before ‘Marcus’, as well as after ‘Marcus’: “I will uptick it, Marcus, but only because I am a dreadful pedant.”
I have eaten, shot and now leaving..
I read that statement and don’t understand a word of what that means.
What are “minority rights”?
What is “social cohesion”?
The problem I see is that these are incredibly fuzzy, politically charged concepts that can be defined in multiple different ways, depending on who you ask.
Why are we trying to make rules and policies based on these fundamentally nebulous ideas?
Isn’t the world a hell of a lot more simple? Didn’t we always have the all the rules we needed and simply failed to apply them?
Simple rules like, don’t insult others unnecessarily, try to be kind, don’t be violent towards others. Do any of these need to be qualified depending on the identity of the people involved or their political views? I don’t think so.
We don’t need so many rules. We just need a few simple ones and let’s apply those.
And most importantly, let’s not lose our heads the moment any of the those rules are broken. Let’s just deal with it when it happens.
The truth being that Minorities have the same rights as the majority and have done since the Equality Act of 2008, not that it wasn’t fairly equal before that.
Social cohesion is what you strive for after breaking your society into an infinite number of ‘Communities’. They are not ‘communities’, but disparate and dysfunctional groups of people who have been lumped together for convenience for sharing one characteristic. However that hides that the members of ‘the community often have nothing to do with, nor share any common ground with other ‘members’. i.e, the LGBT ‘community’. Then you concoct the notion that they could have committee meetings like a Village Council, do a bit of work on the Summer Fete and speak as one voice on issues of the day. They do not. It is a fabrication and a fantasy that seeks to show how we can all live in peace and harmony, and predictably, it has broken our society..
What a good turn of phrase. I’m going to steal it and use it.
We are closer to war in Europe now than at any time since the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1967.
‘…..the responsibility for freedom does not lie on the shoulders of those in uniform alone.
In order to strengthen our collective defence and at the same time support Ukraine in its existential fight, we need a whole of society approach.
We need public and private actors to change their mind-set from an era in which everything was plannable ,foreseeable, controllable, focused on efficiency…. to an era in which anything can happen at any time. An era in which we need to expect the unexpected. An era in which we need to focus on effectiveness.
In order to be fully effective also in the future, we need a warfighting transformation of NATO. That will be the main focus of today’s session led by the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. For this too, public-private cooperation will be the key.’
‘This is not charity. Support to Ukraine is a direct investment in our own security.
The only way to get a lasting, negotiated solution is to strengthen the Ukrainian position on the battlefield.’
Head of NATO’s Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer
If you wish for peace, then prepare for war.
We have war in Europe. Ukraine is part of Europe.
Thanks for pointing that out.
My other error, of course: Russia invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Whether Russia sees itself as part of Europe and whether a Ukraine under Russian control would be considered part of Europe is, no doubt, partly what this war is about:
‘To put the plan of denazification of Ukraine into practice, Russia itself will have to finally part with pro-European and pro-Western illusions…’
RIA NOVOSTI 04 April 2022
Are you still, after all that’s happened, not aware of what public private partnerships are?
I think the Admiral is really only talking about a change of mind-set.
No chance that will happen without armed confrontation, as we have seen in Eastern Europe. It never does.
If you wish for peace, then prepare for war.
Possibly the most non-sensical phrase ever uttered. I can imagine it was first coined by some bankers.
“Is humanity doomed? Doomsday Clock will be updated next week”
I presume to about 10 past Midnight..?
“U.K. turns to last coal plant amid Arctic blast for electricity boost”
We should have shut it down. Don’t worry! We won’t need it soon due to the global boiling.
Presumably it was a bit difficult to find a prosecutor?
Some lawyers vow to not prosecute climate activists
Lawyers’ “Declaration of Conscience”
Judge sentencing Insulate Britain protesters ‘inspired’ into climate action
So how’s that all going now?
“Vaping while pregnant is safe for both babies and mothers, experts rule”
So – vaping and mRNA jabbing is ‘safe’ but eating brie, pate and taking Vitamin A aren’t? Riiiiight……
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33606584/
Thus, long-term vaping of e-cig can induce cardiovascular disease similar to TCS [tobacco cigarette smoking], and the severity of this toxicity increases with exposure duration and vape nicotine content.
https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-well/foods-to-avoid/
Netanyahoo uses phrase “From the River to the Sea” in public rebuke to Biden administration insisting all of the land will be under Israeli control and there will be no 2 state solution…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-blistering-rebuke-us-post-war-plans-israel-will-control-entire-area-river
Wonder if the countries that have banned the phrase as ‘hate speech’ will rescind their laws, now that the politically acceptable guy is saying them?
That effing Domesday clock…what is it now? Seconds away from catastrophe? Microseconds? Milliseconds? Nanoseconds perhaps? I think it’s just another scaremongering tactic that the Mail and other nonsense msm can write pointless articles about to scare the living bejaysus out of ordinary folk. Ignore it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/18/keir-starmer-post-office-scandal-cps-prosecutions-itv/
Perhaps I’ve missed something. Did Kneel actually do anything while he was polishing a chair at the CPS? Apart from polishing said chair that is.