- “BBC employee who called Jewish people ‘Nazis’ no longer works at corporation” – A BBC scheduler who referred to Jews as “Nazis” and white people as “parasites” no longer works at the corporation, reveals the Telegraph.
- “BBC journalists ‘liked’ antisemitic tweets despite promise to crack down on bias” – BBC journalists endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theories and statements that Israel is “pure evil”, despite the corporation promising to crack down on anti-Israeli bias, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mike Freer and the Islamist assault on democracy” – Islamist extremists have attacked, murdered and menaced parliamentarians. Where’s the anger? asks Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “mRNA COVID-19 vaccines caused more deaths than saved: study” – mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause more deaths than they save lives, according to a new study whose researchers called for a “global moratorium” on the shots, reports the Epoch Times.
- “A cup of tea with Lady Hallett and Jamie Dawson KC before the Inquiry leaves Scotland, home of the brave” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan assess what we have learned from the Covid Inquiry’s shift to Scotland.
- “The SNP’s miserable autocracy” – The Covid Inquiry has exposed the rot that was at the heart of Sturgeon’s Scotland, says Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Another flawed Covid pregnancy study?” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton and Mr. Law find plenty of holes in yet another flawed study published in a top journal, this time arguing that pregnant women should have the Covid vaccination.
- “Florida 22nd Statewide Grand Jury releases first report” – The Florida 22nd Statewide Grand Jury has released its first interim report, concluding that masks and lockdowns were harmful and ineffective.
- “‘Forty Bibby Stockholm migrants converting to Christianity’ after Clapham chemical attack suspect did the same” – Forty asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge are converting to Christianity amid growing fears that migrants are claiming to have changed their religion in order to stay in the country, reports LBC.
- “Too many churches are facilitating bogus asylum claims. This must stop” – Far too many asylum seekers are bogus and using our laws against us, says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
- “BBC journalist paid to help at least 15 Somali criminals fight deportation from Britain” – A BBC editor was paid as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation and remain in the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
- “Uncontrolled immigration is the Tories’ fault – and it will cost them the election” – Far from cutting the number of migrants, the Tories nodded through 745,000 legally approved migrants in 2022 alone, says Trevor Kavanagh in the Sun.
- “Fed-up Tory activists ‘are on strike and turning to Reform U.K.’” – Tory activists are going “on strike”, Rishi Sunak was warned, as a survey suggested that half could vote for Reform U.K., according to the Mail.
- “Don’t be fooled by the Blob, Brexit is already paying dividends” – Controlling our own trade policy means we are able to negotiate the right deals for Britain, says Peter Lilley in the Telegraph.
- “Our enemies are prepared for the fight. It’s time to rearm to avoid World War Three” – We could be on the brink of global conflict. We need to get serious if we are to have any chance of defending ourselves, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Screens in schools are harming our children” – Evidence that books, paper and pens are more effective learning tools than screens and tablets is reverberating globally, says Sophie Winkleman in Politics Home.
- “Role reversal” – On Substack, Edrith flags the case of Newcastle United fan Linzi Smith to highlight the need for organisations like the Free Speech Union to defend individuals against being punished for expressing their lawful beliefs.
- “How Britain learned to love the ban” – You can take our disposable vapes, Mr. Sunak, but you’ll never take our freedom, says Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
- “Is Europe facing another fall of Constantinople?” – This isn’t the first time the continent has faced a geopolitical crisis and survived, writes Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
- “Another Net Zero retreat? Tories ditch ‘boiler tax’” – The Energy Secretary is planning to scrap the so-called boiler tax, reports the Times.
- “Wood pellets aren’t CO2 neutral, emit more than coal… double of natural gas” – Wood pellets are often viewed as an alternative, climate-friendly energy source, especially for heating. But an analysis shows this is not the case at all, says P. Gosselin in WUWT.
- “Greta Thunberg is a ruffian masquerading as a latter-day saint” – Since Hamas’s invasion of and massacre in Israel, the fate of trees seems to have gone by the wayside for Thunberg and her crew, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “University researchers feel powerless to take personal climate action” – Why are academics yielding to pressure to travel frequently, if every flight brings us closer to a lethal climate tipping point? asks Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “I was cancelled at my own dinner table – that’s how toxic the arts world can be” – Countless people in the arts face ostracism, harassment and the loss of their livelihoods for dissenting from the newly entrenched moralistic beliefs that have become dogma in the sector, says choreographer Rosie Kay in the Standard.
- “Microsoft CEO says the company is working to address election ‘disinformation and misinformation’” – Big Tech is taking a bigger role in monitoring and moderating online speech as a glut of elections approach, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “The world would be a better place without Facebook” – The first reason social media platforms succeed is this: they are scarily, dangerously addictive, writes Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “‘What I got wrong about Trump’” – In UnHerd, the American conservative thinker Andrew Sullivan revisits his earlier views about Donald Trump.
- “‘Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Oscars’” – An alternative version of the Oscars has surfaced on X, with Nicola Sturgeon picking up the Best Actress gong for her testimony to the COVID-19 Inquiry.
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A salient observation. Perhaps they should declare their interests in related branches of the trade, if it results in more use of legal processes!
The other (perhaps trivial) coincidence is that it is Guy Fawkes day in England on the same day as polling day across the pond.
I guess we all suffer to some extent when there is sloppy redefinition of anything, or using a word for more than one function rather than inventing a new, more precise, one. Consider the difference between Official Standards, Guidelines, Legal Requirements, optional compliance. When does it become a legal requirement to comply with this or that etc? Sometimes it depends on the practical outcome of an event, if it’s examined in an Inquiry of some kind.
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November….” – V
Underlying and overriding everything is, of course, Common Law, which is conveniently omitted by the article’s author (and most writers and lawyers).
Nice piece of reporting on the rotten to the core corruption of the vacuous, cackling puppet lady, complete with video explainer;
”KAMALA SOROS CORRUPTION: Kamala Harris as Attorney General refused to prosecute the George Soros owned OneWest Bank for over 1,000 violations of federal law. A one year investigation had uncovered evidence of widespread misconduct, but she refused to prosecute Soros and Mnuchin.
On March 19, 2009, a seven member investor group, IMB Holdco, led by Steven Mnuchin, which included billionaire George Soros, Christopher Flowers, John Paulson and Michael Dell purchased Independent National Mortgage Corporation (IndyMac Bank) of Pasadena, California for $13.65 billion from the FDIC and created OneWest from the remains of IndyMac.
In an internal memo published on Tuesday by The Intercept, prosecutors at the California attorney general’s office said they had found over a thousand violations of foreclosure laws by OneWest bank during that time, and predicted that further investigation would uncover many thousands more.
But the investigation into what the memo called “widespread misconduct” was closed after Harris’s office declined to file a civil enforcement action against the bank.
The previously undisclosed 2013 memo from top prosecutors in the state attorney general’s office alleges that OneWest rushed delinquent homeowners out of their homes by violating notice and waiting period statutes, illegally backdated key documents, and effectively gamed foreclosure auctions.
George and Alex Soros continue to support Kamala Harris with millions of dollars. Alex Soros recently shared an image with Kamala Harris and wrote: “It’s time for us all to unite around Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump. She is the best and most qualified candidate we have. Long live the American Dream!”
Elon Musk posted on September 17, 2023 “The Soros Organization appears to want nothing less than the destruction of Western Civilization.” and posted on May 15, 2023 regarding George Soros “You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.” Elon Musk is correct and that is why he joined President Trump in the fight for America and humanity.”
https://x.com/SpartaJustice/status/1833215615450194364
I’m sure we’re all aware of these desperate and obvious tactics already, with regards to the rushed mass immigration in the U.S, courtesy of the Biden-Harris government. They need the votes so the more illegal migrants they can legalize speedily the merrier;
”The publicly-stated goal by almost all leaders of the Democratic Party is to legalize the ~15 million illegal migrants as soon as possible, as well as bring in tens of millions more.
That would immediately make all swing states deep blue, just like happened in California with the 1986 amnesty, turning America into a permanent one-party state.
This is the last real election if Trump loses.”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1833349210818920783
So easy for illegals to vote in the upcoming election;
”Here is how easy it is for illegal aliens to vote in U.S. elections.
This is an intentional flaw in the system. It is a loophole created to defeat election integrity.
That is why Arizona is being *SUED* to ensure that illegal aliens don’t register to vote in our elections.
The fact that nearly ALL Democrats oppose the SAVE Act to ensure illegal aliens don’t vote in our elections is the HUGE RED FLAG that this is an intentional design flaw that facilitates voter fra*d.”
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1833501427630497955
The quarter council (Bezirksverordnetenversammlung) of Berlin-Pankow has recently changed the bylaws for sports facilities to exclude members of the far right from the group of people being allowed to use them. That’s obviously based on a positivist interpretation of the nature of law, namely, law is whatever the people who can vote to create laws chose to make one and their power to create whichever laws they desire is only limited by their desire to legislate on something (Starmer’s proposed outdoor smoking ban would be another example of this category).
Under such a regime, individuals are in the fairly poor position of only being allowed to do what nobody has chosen to declare illegal so far and nobody can tell what will be declared illegal tomorrow. This could also be called slow motion totalitarianism: While the totality of everything is within the power of the law makers to regulate as they see fit, they haven’t yet gotten around to regulate a lot of things and individuals are thus still relatively free to do a lot of things (to wit: A ban on people speaking to other people they happen to meet in the streets was nominally in place during COVID).
Something like this can obviously not be called a free society. In a free society, the power of legislators to issue decrees must be limited according to some set of rules which respect Fuller’s inner morality of law and that’s how our political systems were supposed to work and did actually operate for a fairly long time. This only changed after Ferguson’s law (as in law of nature) “We will get away with it if we really want to!” was discovered in 2020.
The problem we’re facing is thus how to put the Ferguson positivists back into the place they were occupying prior to the Anything goes with COVID! outbreak. For this to be possible, we’ll need to neutralize their attempts to divide is into ever more splintered groups of factions warring for minor political advantages while being overseen by them.
It shall be interesting to see what caterpillars and beetles crawl out of the Kackler’s word-salad tonight.
I tend to find David’s essays too long to hold my interest but this one has been his best. It helped that I have a philosophy masters (mostly forgotten these days!), but I found it got to the essence of what’s been happening since “the madness” in a way that was genuinely enlightening. I’m sure this movement towards technocrat authoritarian rule has been building since the 90s, but it’s shown it’s hand in the last four years in a brazen, almost mocking way (think Khan) – for our own good, of course!
Have forwarded to my children
Perhaps David could write something on the difference between something being illegal and something being unlawful. It seems you can get away with acting unlawfully until you are dragged (expensively) to court. I think of unlawful arrest for example!
All these coincidences! I’m not sure I believe in coincidence any more!
If law is law only because it is possessed by an authority that can wield it, and that authority says it is law, has law become like fiat currency?
A piece of cotton paper or a piece of polymer has no intrinsic value. But if government says it has a value and everyone acts as if it does, it becomes money. What are the consequences if ‘law’ is thought of and used as such?