- “UN workers in Gaza kidnapped Israeli woman and gave weapons to Hamas, according to dossier” – According to Israeli intelligence, UN workers in Gaza kidnapped an Israeli woman during Hamas’s October 7th attack and handed out ammunition to its gunmen, reports the Telegraph.
- “UNRWA is worse than you think” – For too long, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency has provided moral cover to the antisemitic haters of Israel, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “‘Disgraceful’: Dutch University Postpones Holocaust Education Lectures” – The University of Applied Sciences in Holland announced it was postponing a lecture series on the Holocaust on Holocaust Memorial Day, causing uproar, reports the European Conservative.
- “One in nine children has a disability after post-pandemic surge” – One in nine children now has a disability after a post-pandemic surge driven by mental health conditions such as ADHD, reports the Times.
- “SNP’s aim to ‘destroy the U.K.’ drove their Covid response, says Gove” – Michael Gove has told the Covid Inquiry that the SNP response to the Covid pandemic was partly driven by its aim to “destroy the U.K.”, says the Telegraph.
- “Covid research waste – antivirals” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan discuss the Government wasting a further £1.2 billion on stockpiling unused antivirals for potential influenza and COVID-19 pandemics.
- “‘The vaccine cover-up is rapidly unravelling’” – In TCW, Andrew Bridgen talks about his hopes for a packed House of Commons at a debate on excess deaths by Easter.
- “The insane experiment behind the Covid pandemic and Disease X – Part Three” – In TCW, Paula Jardine suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic was a test for DARPA’s P3 Pandemic Prevention Platform project.
- “Government Covid measures impact research” – A U.K. researcher is looking at how the Covid measures in both higher education and retail sectors affected their service provision during the first year of the pandemic. If you’d like to help, an online survey, that takes just a few minutes, can be found here for parents of young adults in higher education, and here for high street retail consumers.
- “Nearly half the deaths observed in U.S. households judged to be due to the Covid vaccine” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch discusses a survey conducted in 1,000 American households, revealing that nearly half of respondents have attributed deaths since 2021 to the Covid vaccine.
- “Alzheimer’s passed to patients from corpses” – Scientists have shown that Alzheimer’s was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses, according to the Telegraph.
- “Petition: Review how to turn MHRA into a fully transparent, patient first regulator” – Sign a petition calling for a review of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to ensure patient safety is prioritised over commercial interests.
- “Kemi Badenoch is member of ‘Evil Plotters’ Tory WhatsApp group” – Kemi Badenoch is a member of a Conservative WhatsApp group called “Evil Plotters” despite telling party rebels to “stop messing around” and get behind Rishi Sunak, reveals the Guardian.
- “New model army” – Perhaps we will not see conscription any time soon, but when it comes, I don’t think many people will be killed in the stampede, says Prof. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “French farmer vows to ‘starve Paris’” – A tractor blockade has been established at eight points around Paris to “starve Parisians”, a French farmer has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Farming is in peril throughout Europe” – Bureaucrats are risking food supply security across Europe with little thought to the consequences, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “EU plans to cripple Hungary’s economy if it blocks Ukraine aid” – Hungary has vowed to challenge EU “blackmail” after a draft plan emerged to cripple the country’s economy if it blocked a €50 billion aid package for Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “Poland and the ‘demon’ in democracy” – Since entering office, Poland’s new PM Donald Tusk immediately began suspending democratic norms in the name of defending democracy, writes N.S. Lyons on Substack. It’s a foretaste of things to come, he says.
- “Carlton Club accused of cancelling peer over Armenia talk” – Baroness Cox has accused the Carlton Club of “cancelling” her by pulling the plug on an event intended to highlight alleged ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan, reports the Times.
- “Laurence Fox loses high court libel battle” – Laurence Fox has vowed to appeal a £2 million High Court ruling after he lost his libel battle with two people he referred to as paedophiles on social media in retaliation for calling him a racist, says the Mail.
- “Police officer tells singer she is ‘not allowed to sing church songs’” – A volunteer police officer wrongly told a Christian singer that she was “not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds”, according to the Mail.
- “Disposable vapes to be banned to stop children getting ‘hooked for life’” – Disposable vapes will be banned, and other e-cigarettes placed behind shop counters, as part of the Government’s efforts to stop children becoming “hooked for life”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Brighton shows why you shouldn’t vote Labour” – “I surely wasn’t the only Brighton citizen who breathed a sigh of relief when the Green council was turfed out by Labour last May,” says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Too many Labour MPs hate Britain and its allies – Starmer must purge the Corbynites” – Time and time again, the hard Left of the Labour Party undermines the party leader by cosying up to the West’s enemies, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “There’s a reason the public turn to populists” – Voters are bored with dull, unidentifiable politicians, so it’s no wonder Kemi Badenoch is favourite to be next Tory leader, says Trevor Phillips in the Times.
- “The hysterical style in Western politics” – On Substack, Eugyppius explains why the political rhetoric of Western nations is growing ever more insane and unhinged.
- “Donald Trump: We are on the brink of World War Three” – Donald Trump says Joe Biden has left the globe on the “brink of World War Three” after a drone attack on a base in Jordan killed three U.S. troops, according to the Telegraph.
- “BBC staff told not to hire candidates who are ‘dismissive’ of diversity” – BBC staff have been told not to hire candidates who are “dismissive” of diversity and inclusion, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Parents urge Archbishop of Canterbury to scrap trans guidance for schools” – Christian parents have urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to withdraw Church of England guidance that says children should be allowed to change their gender in school, according to the Telegraph.
- “School prayer bans don’t make Britain a secular state” – Plenty of British Muslim parents are happy to pick a high-performing school over a religiously observant one, remarks Rakib Ehsan in CapX in a comment piece about Michaela Community School.
- “Universities are in for a painful lesson: go woke, go broke” – Why would anyone donate to their universities when academics pour scorn on their benefactors? asks Lawrence Goldman in an excoriating piece for the Telegraph.
- “Network Rail is criticised for its ‘Pride Pillar’” – Network Rail has unveiled a ‘Pride Pillar’ in one of the country’s busiest stations – featuring flags representing ‘gender fluidity’, ‘demisexuality’ and ‘polyamory’, reports the Mail.
- “I’ve had a sex change operation but am not and never will be a woman” – In the Mail, a biological male post-op transexual argues that Britain’s schools must stop pandering to the trans lobby.
- “No, there’s no ‘epidemic’ of anti-transgender violence” – Human Rights Campaign’s own data suggest trans Americans suffer a homicide risk that’s actually less than the U.S. average, writes Brad Polumbo in Quillette.
- “Montana family loses custody of teenage daughter after expressing opposition to her gender transition” – A family in Montana is accusing the state’s child protective services of “kidnapping” their teenage daughter after she began to identify as a transgender boy, according to Reduxx.
- “Joe Biden: I’d shut Mexican border ‘right now’ if Congress let me” – Joe Biden has said he would close the U.S.-Mexico border “right now” if Congress handed him the power by passing a sweeping immigration bill, reports the Telegraph.
- “How America’s fact-checkers became Biden’s Pravda” – ‘Fact-checking’ website Snopes has been caught trying to cover-up Joe Biden’s latest gaffe, says Thomas Osborne in Spiked.
- “Date set for Supreme Court hearing on major free speech Big Tech case” – The Supreme Court has announced a date for when it will hear arguments for a big case involving free speech, government agencies and social media, reports the Washington Examiner.
- “Voices across the globe standing up for free speech in Ireland” – On X, the Alliance Defending Freedom International is asking viewers to share its video asking people to stand up against Ireland’s proposed hate speech bill.
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What time do you call this?? Well, it’s time to piss off the terrorist supporting antisemites with some more inconvenient truths once again, naturally. But only on days of the week with a ‘y’ in them.
You do not need to watch the full 12mins of this video on how they train kids to be jihadis in Gaza. Just a few mins will suffice to see the extent at which the mindset of hatred is efficiently imbedded in these young kids, who enthusiastically talk of killing Jews and their aspirations to be ‘martyrs’ while they receive terrorist training. I know what my version of a summer camp looks like but this is a summer camp with a difference, because it’s ran by UNRWA, so Hamas basically then. Nice to know that this is part of the ”education” element taken care of, funded by donor nations over the years. Any surprise they end up as complete hate-fueled psychos?
https://twitter.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1752007479423053889
The WSJ article is behind a pay wall but this here is the bare bones of it. Hillel Neuer is a human rights lawyer and head of UN Watch, who will give his testimony to U.S Congress today, presenting all the evidence of how donor nations have been funding terrorism for many years, despite this being a widely known fact anyway. With all these countries pulling funding ( and how can they go back to funding UNRWA after this? ) I guess the Hamas billionaires will have to think about putting their hands in their pockets if they really give a stuff about the people of Gaza.
”BREAKING: The “few bad apples” line pushed by the UN has just been obliterated. The Wall Street Journal front page is reporting that an estimated 1,200 Unrwa employees in Gaza are actual “operatives” of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and about half have close relatives who belong to the Islamist terrorist organizations, according to Israeli intelligence estimates shared with the U.S. government.
The report said 23% of Unrwa’s male employees—the agency has a total staff of 12,000 in Gaza—took active part in the Hamas organization’s military or political framework, a higher percentage than the average of 15% for adult males in Gaza.
The information in the Israeli intelligence reports is based on sensitive signals intelligence as well as cellphone tracking data, interrogations of captured Hamas gunmen and documents recovered from dead terrorists.
Nearly half of all Unrwa employees—an estimated 49%—also had close relatives with official ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups.
The Oct. 7 intelligence reports seen by the Wall Street Journal identified an Unrwa Arabic teacher who was also a Hamas terrorist commander and took part in a terrorist attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, where 97 people were murdered, and about 26 people were kidnapped and taken as hostages to Gaza.
Another Unrwa employee, described in the dossier as an Unrwa social worker, played a role in absconding with the body of a dead Israeli soldier, which was taken to Gaza, the reports said. He also coordinated trucks and munitions distributions for Hamas before being killed.”
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1751955667035025729
Net Zero Massive Taxes Same Climate
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online
This issue deserves more attention.
https://www.worcester-bosch.co.uk/about/news/clean-heat-market-mechanism
So any pretence that this anything other than a tax on gas boilers and a subsidy for heat pumps, disguised as Saving The Planet, has now been dropped? Follow The Money!
What’s really happening?
‘The Russian elite is ready to end the war, but is against returning the occupied territories to Ukraine. Journalists from the Russian opposition publication “Verstka” came to this opinion after talking with anonymous interlocutors representing the country’s elite.
The elite also complain that vacations both in Russia itself and in “friendly countries” are becoming more expensive, the media writes.
The source reports that officials working in government and military circles are in favor of ending the war, however, on the condition that Kyiv recognizes the occupied territories as part of Russia.
Another part of the elite advocates the complete destruction of Ukraine, so that Moscow can then “quietly and calmly” plan its future without Europe.
The publication also quoted the words of Russian political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov regarding the results of the Russian presidential elections. The Kremlin is in vain hoping that on the eve of the elections the Russian elite will somehow become more active. On the contrary, it will be in a sleepy state, since everyone knows perfectly well the results of the elections themselves.
The elite does not expect any big changes in Putin’s foreign and domestic policies. At the same time, the so-called “new elite”, which emerged after the annexation of a number of Ukrainian territories, understands perfectly well that they will not jump over their heads and will not achieve new gifts from the Kremlin, and the “old elite” understands perfectly well that their political control in the Russian Federation is limited.
Journalists have come to the conclusion that most of the Russian elite are “apathetic.”
They have already learned and even accepted the social consequences of the war with Ukraine.’
Pavlo Usov
‘Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a series of economic and technological agreements on January 29 advancing the Kremlin’s efforts to further integrate Belarus into the Union State structure.
Putin and Lukashenko approved three agreements on the implementation of the Union State Treaty, joint scientific and technological development, and the coordination of both countries’ foreign policies during a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State in St. Petersburg. Putin reiterated claims that Russians and Belarusians are “fraternal peoples,” united by a common history and values.
Lukashenko highlighted Russian and Belarusian cooperation in Africa, claiming that he coordinated his December 2023 trips to various African countries with Putin, and stated that Russia and Belarus have not yet resolved the issue of creating common markets for gas, oil, and petroleum products under the Union State framework.
Lukashenko has previously resisted the Kremlin’s efforts to further integrate Belarus into the Union State, but the fallout of the Wagner Group’s armed rebellion, which Lukashenko reportedly played a role in mediating, and the death of Wagner financier Yevgeny Prigozhin may have hindered Lukashenko’s ability to resist further Union State integration efforts.’
belta_telegramm
‘The (Ukrainian) Armed Forces have a lot of night FPVs in the Kherson/Zaporozhye directions, they hunt for all our vehicles at night. Be careful, bros.’
Osetin
Wooooo…….!
Reality check:
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1752092529388888341?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Voters aren’t going off the Conservatives because their politicians are not colourful enough. What crap is that?
People aren’t being represented, that’s the problem. They’ve had enough of NetZero, of trans insanity, of woke garbage, They see the country drifting more and more towards a Soviet style state and the Conservative Party not only haven’t done anything to stop it, they’ve presided over the whole operation.
Voters aren’t bored. They’re livid. Or so completely despondent they’ve given up altogether.
“Donald Trump: We are on the brink of World War Three”
The drone strike in Jordan is not going to start WW3
‘As the enemy drone was flying in at a low altitude, a U.S. drone was returning to the small installation known as Tower 22, according to a preliminary report cited by two officials, who were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity.
As a result, there was no effort to shoot down the enemy drone that hit the outpost. One of the trailers where troops sleep sustained the brunt of the strike, while surrounding trailers got limited damage from the blast and flying debris. While there are no large air defense systems at Tower 22, the base does have counter-drone systems, such as Coyote drone interceptors.
Aside from the soldiers killed, the Pentagon said more than 40 troops were wounded in the attack, most with cuts, bruises, brain injuries and similar wounds. Eight were medically evacuated, including three who were going to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.’
But it will make a lot of not very nice people very uncomfortable……which is a good thing, isn’t it…….
‘Western media outlets reported that Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah launched the attack from Rutba, Anbar province, western Iraq…….Iranian officials claimed that the attack is part of a conflict only between “resistance groups and the US military,” adding that these “resistance groups . . . do not take orders” from Tehran.
Iranian officials frequently consult with their Iraqi proxies and partners, including Kataib Hezbollah, during periods of increased military action in the region. The Iranian supreme leader, for example, has issued fatwas that have ordered Iraqi militias to cooperate with one another and to listen to IRGC Quds Force Commander Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani as the supreme leader’s representative.
Social media users and Iraqi sources claimed that IRGC Quds Force Commander Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani traveled to Baghdad on January 28……Ghaani would likely use such a visit to meet and coordinate with Iran’s Iraqi partners and proxies ahead of an expected US strike in response to the attack in northeastern Jordan.
Ghaani frequently travels to Baghdad to meet and plan with Iran’s Iraqi partners and proxies, presumably to ensure alignment…….in June 2023……Iraqi proxies stopped threatening to attack US forces following IRGC Quds Force Commander Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani’s visit to Baghdad that month. The cessation of proxy threats suggested that Ghaani had directed the proxies to deescalate.
Kataib Hezbollah’s statements before and Iraqi militia actions after the January 28 attack suggest that the attack came from Iraq.
Kataib Hezbollah said on January 25—three days before the attack in Jordan— that it would expand its scope of militia attacks to include additional US interests in Iraq and the Middle East. Kataib Hezbollah published this statement in response to the January 23 US airstrikes targeting three Kataib Hezbollah facilities.
A telegram account affiliated with Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr reported that Iraqi Popular Mobilization Commission Chairman Faleh al Fayyadh ordered Iranian-backed Iraqi militias in the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to vacate their bases in al Qaim, Jurf al Sakhr, and Albu Aitha. The order suggests that Fayyadh fears a US strike in response to Iranian-backed Iraqi militia attacks on US forces in Jordan.
US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Kataib Hezbollah controls the al Qaim border crossing between Iraq and Syria. The group also committed acts of sectarian cleansing in Jurf al Sakhr, which it now controls.’
Sky News Arabia
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13018183/police-officer-christian-singer-oxford-street-church-songs-outside.html
There are loads of videos of this foreigner / immigrant plod all over YouTube English is NOT her first language. She is about as popular as a fox in a hen house.
It is increasingly becoming obvious that training in legal matters is an irrelevance for most police forces. DIE box ticking seems to be the order of the day.
Apparently she’s not even a real plod but an unpaid volunteer, HP. Quite how that works is beyond me. If she’s a volunteer then she has absolutely no right to tell anyone what to do. I would also prefer my local plods to have a good command of the English language. This one, who probably hails from Eastern Europe, doesn’t seem to have a grasp of English or the law. She is an absolute disgrace to the uniform but then so are so many of the police these days. Where’s Dixon of Dock Green when you need him?
Thanks Aethelred. I know she is a volunteer. Very smart. The MET obviously spends more on uniforms than training.
What is it with female plods?
Lesbian Nana
Chinese – let’s have a word and now this little commie.
The problem is that not that what is legal and not legal has become unnecessarily complicated. No long ago long ago, it was pretty simple and uncomplicated. Everyone know what was right and what was wrong. Stealing, killing, physically harming others: wrong. Not those things: fine. The wrongs were pretty unambiguous.
However, since the law has been coopted to drive through social and political agendas, it’s not so clear what’s legal and illegal. I’m not 100% sure myself. We’ve entered a world in which apparently praying to yourself in the wrong place might be illegal. Saying certain things might be illegal.
The left wing social revolutionaries are destroying our civilisation in many ways, and one of them is by keeping everyone confused and on their toes about what is legal and ilegal.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/29/bbc-staff-hire-candidates-dismissive-diversity-inclusion/
A self-fulfilling prophecy more like. Any body with any common-sense would surely stay well away from employment at el Beeb.
Once upon a time, in a far away land, the role of the Police was to ENFORCE the law.
Now, it is to INTERPRET the law. and act upon that.
She went on to add the condition “unless authorised by the church.” It’s hard to see any actual law she could have misunderstood. She made it up out of whole-cloth.
“Excuse me, Pastor – will anyone mind if I sing hymns at home?”
“Oh, I don’t know Sister. I’ll have to raise it at the next leaders’ meeting. We tend to take a firm line on singing hymns off the premises. Don’t you have any David Bowie or Black Sabbath you could sing along to?”
Not really. The laws have been changed and made more ambiguous and confusing. Deliberately. To create social change. And to control not just our behaviour but our thoughts and words. It’s sickening.
I don’t entirely disagree Stewart but plod training should at least provide potential staff with a warning –
If you are not sure, ask.
If you don’t know, ask.
On no account place yourself beyond the law by making things up.
It’s not rocket science is it?
This woman represents a substantial training failure and clearly a recruitment failure.