- “Labour suspends second parliamentary candidate in wake of Rochdale antisemitism row” – Keir Starmer has been forced to suspend Graham Jones, a former MP standing for Hyndburn, after he was recorded saying Britons fighting for “f***ing Israel” should be “locked up”, according to the Telegraph.
- “How three hours of Starmer dithering left Labour’s Rochdale by-election campaign in ruins” – A prominent Labour member has said that Sir Keir Starmer had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” into disowning Azhar Ali after he took five hours to publicly act over fresh antisemitic comments by the prospective MP, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour MPs are at risk from the pro-Palestine vote” – Starmer dithered on Azhar Ali because he fears encouraging anti-Zionist candidates like George Galloway who can wreck his majorities, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “What the Rochdale disaster says about Keir Starmer” – What Starmer’s appalling handling of an obviously open-and-shut case of indefensible bigotry offers is a troubling glimpse into the likely course of his looming premiership, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “The real reason for Labour’s Rochdale muddle over Islamists” – For his unscrupulousness Azhar Ali deserved to be disowned, but if George Galloway wins, extremists will be overjoyed, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “When Gaza came to Rochdale” – For UnHerd, Michael Crick reports from inside the nastiest by-election in modern history.
- “Jews ‘hounded out’ of comedy show after refusing to stand for Palestinian flag” – Soho Theatre is investigating an antisemitic incident during comedian Paul Currie’s stand-up gig at the London venue, reports the Telegraph.
- “Paul Currie is not a comedian – he’s an intolerant fool with a microphone” – Paul Currie’s treatment of an Israeli audience member crossed a line, says Stephen Armstrong, the Telegraph’s comedy critic.
- “Three women guilty of terror offence for Hamas paraglider images” – Three women who glorified Hamas with images of paragliders, days after the worst attack in Israel’s history, have been found guilty of a terror offence but not punished, reports the Mail.
- “The UN is siding with terrorists” – Spiked’s Daniel Ben-Ami on the discovery of a Hamas data centre beneath UNRWA’s Gaza City headquarters.
- “A malign inversion” – David Cameron and the Americans are doing the Palestinian genocidists’ work for them, writes Melanie Phillips on Substack.
- “The commodification of Palestinian pain” – Western activists have turned the war in Gaza into a moral snuff movie. It is obscene, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Why progressives don’t face real consequences” – There’s one law for progressive and non-progressive alike, but the punishments differ, observes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – part 5” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan navigate the maze of COVID-19’s asymptomatic transmission.
- “Planning laws must be eased because of immigration crisis, minister insists” – Planning laws have to be eased because of the “pressure” record immigration is putting on housing a minister has said, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak should ignore this biased Rwanda Bill report” – In the Spectator, Andrew Tettenborn scrutinises a critical report on the Rwanda Bill, and advised the Prime Minister to ignore it.
- “Could the Lords stop the Emirati bid for the Telegraph and the Spectator?” – The best thing that politicians can do for the press is leave it alone: protect its independence (from politicians and government) but also protect it from politicians and governments of other countries, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “Too many people in Britain aren’t working” – The number claiming out-of-work benefits in the U.K. has hit 5.6 million, reports Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “The SNP can’t handle that Scots were the real ‘oppressors’” – In their resentment of all that is British, foolish Scottish nationalists are willing to rubbish their own heritage, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “The tyranny of the 20mph limit” – The 20mph speed limit in London has led to many a speeding ticket and speed awareness course. But it’s unfair, says John Sturgis in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s North Sea tax raid will ‘trash oil and gas production’” – Energy experts warn that Labour’s proposed North Sea tax increases would drive out investment, destroy up to 100,000 jobs and cost the Treasury £20 billion in lost revenues, reports the Telegraph.
- “The deindustrialization of Europe in five charts” – On Substack, Robert Bryce illustrates how industrial electricity use in the EU is collapsing.
- “Britain no longer has a military” – A well-organised and targeted attack is underway against our national defence, and few seem to care, says Tom Collins in the Telegraph.
- “Diversity and inclusion won’t fix an army unprepared for war” – In such uncertain times as these, anything other than the army’s core purpose is simply irrelevant, writes Robert Clark in CapX.
- “I’m an Army recruiter – I dread being made to meet woke targets” – “As a white male, I am well aware that the Army no longer actively tries to recruit men like me,” says Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Is diversity actually good for business?” – When you take off your blinkers and look at the evidence with a clear head, you can see the glaring errors in these widely touted diversity studies, writes Alex Edmans in the Spectator.
- “The obsession with ‘diversity’ is putting Britain in danger” – Identity politics is crushing the vital Western principle of meritocracy – just ask the Armed Forces, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Scottish parents at risk of jail if they refuse to allow children to dress provocatively” – A KC warns that loving parents, who refuse to allow their teenage children to dress in a sexually provocative manner, could face jail under the SNP’s conversion therapy ban, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gender-critical Stonewall founder named Edinburgh University rector” – The University of Edinburgh has announced that the writer and Stonewall co-founder Simon Fanshawe will be its next rector, according to UnHerd.
- “Cosmetic clinic loses legal action against negative reviewer” – A cosmetic surgery clinic, that is suing patients over bad reviews, has been criticised by a judge for bringing oppressive legal action and making threats, reports the Times. Another victory for the Free Speech Union!
- “Why did three journals reject my puberty-blocker study?” – Trans children deserve to know the facts, says Sallie Baxendale in UnHerd.
- “Coleman Hughes on the New Racism” – The rise of a new race consciousness has turned elite American institutions into neo-racist strongholds, writes Coleman Hughes in the Free Press.
- “Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression rebukes Harvard with ‘lifetime censorship award’” – A prominent free speech advocacy group has rebuked Harvard University with an ironic ‘lifetime censorship award’, according to the Washington Times.
- “Quite unbelievable” – A GB News report reveals that Heba AlHayek, one of the three women convicted of terrorism offences for celebrating Hamas’s tactics by displaying images of paragliders, sought asylum in the U.K. from Gaza for fear of persecution from Hamas.
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It could never really happen anyway. If such a treaty were to be accepted it would be an implicit destruction of any country’s sovereignty and thus and ruling power structure would immeditely become defunct. All of the power players know this. They just feed you this to give you the impression that you’re still in Kansas. We were very lucky to be exposed to the film The Wizard Of Oz because it contains several hints and warnings and they have become subsumed into our psyche.
That’s why I’m amazed sunak hasn’t signed it. Yet..
The Jabs are dangerous ! Hopefully they will soon be like trying to sell a car with square wheels ( mind you if it was classed as Eco friendly some muppets would buy them
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So I imagine the WHO might just tweak that little part of the treaty, and let countries hold on to all their domestically produced jabs. So now the deal becomes: We, the WHO, will repeal the sovereignty of all signatory states during times of pandemic, “potential” pandemic or “potential” global health alert, deny the autonomy and freedom of their citizens and halt all democratic processes as we know them – and that is all fine because we’ve taken away the clause that requires the governments of such states to poison citizens of other countries as well as just their own.
What? Won’t sign because
our sovereignty would be given away? No, because the poison death and injury shots would be given away. Unbelievable. Clown World.Absolutely correct not to sign it. We should only think about compliance in the event that we’re mandated to hand over the lot, 100%. Having ‘got rid,’ we should then refuse to sign in any circumstances.
The real rulers know that we are heading for cataclysm or reset. The game is to keep the charade going on long enough to maximise their gains. Part of that is having a much reduced population after the catclysm. If you look at events from the perspective of a coming catastrophe then they start to make more sense.
That is ‘their’ hill to die on!
Look at investments in areas that are currently desert they know that things are shifting. In Russia the pole shift is common knowledge. They are already building a trade route in the Arctic with China which will bypass Anglo-American channels. To begin with it will be with high tech icebreakers but they know that the far north is going to thaw very soon. Similarly the Brits know the fate of this country in terms of climate – significantly worse. It makes a big difference if you are armed with this knowledge. How many people actually think about their people or brethren.
I fear that this is just part of the scam.
UK Gov: Look! We’re being all tough about this, Protecting our sovereignty. Not putting up with any bullshit.
WHO: OK. You don’t have to do that bit about sharing stuff. You just have to do lockdowns and masks and stuff and closing schools and doing tests and surveillance when we say so.
UK Gov: Great! (Trebles all round! See, we aren’t pushovers. We were really tough with them!)
Once again, currently-sovereign nation states are shying away from the risk of becoming outliers assuming the the WHO is going to form a kind of “club of nations” (much like the UN), this time comprised of the signatories to the Pandemic Treaty and the amendments to the IHR. Much as local populations of potential member states have absolutely no desire to be part of such a “club”, the governments of those member states probably feel themselves pressured into joining so as to avoid the the vilification and isolation from the rest of the world that they fear might result from the abstention from signing. All of this is completely unfounded, of course, as people hold national and individual sovereignty to be of greater importance than their representatives in government do. So any state that boldly refuses the coercive offer to serve under a “pandemic dictatorship” will earn the respect of the world as one who stood up for the sovereignty of the nation and its people.
Given the regard that the recent vaccines are held in by many, it seems to me that giving 100% of them to the WHO would be ideal provided that Tedros, Gates and their cronies are required to be injected with all of the doses.
Jacob Rees Mogg pushing the establishment line with no counter argument. Where is oFcom! Only joking, would not want to entertain that state censor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Hmz9-Ok34
Yes I guess the UK thinks it is absolutely fine to give away its sovereignity to the WHO, but dear Lord don’t take away are unsafe and ineffective vaxxes
. This country, this government has its priorities mixed up.
‘has its priorities mixed up’
That’s too kind, too gentle a way of describing the government – not the country, by the way: the government of whatever tint is not the country, nor does the government represent the views of the vast majority of people – far from it. We don’t live in a real democracy, for heaven’s sake!
The Uniparty government represents only its own views. An elite cabal of liblabcon has been managing this country for 100 years and mismanaging it appallingly since the end of WW2.
It doesn’t matter if it’s the cons or the labs who sit on the front benches or the opposition benches; they take turn and turnabout again and again (only fair!) with the limp dims occasionally allowed to snuggle up to whichever faction needs propping up after a doubtful ‘election’ result.
There are alternative ways of viewing the bubble-dwellers who have a stranglehold on this country’s politics: they are either incompetent morons or they are cowardly traitors to every British man, woman and child.
Only incompetent morons would even think of signing up to China’s lickspittle Tawdry Tedros’s Treaty and the WHO’s blatant attempt at a power grab to further the ends of the globalist malefactors.
Only cowardly traitors intent on selling us all down the river for personal gain and approval from their masters would sign up to the Treaty of aforesaid globalist malefactors who care nothing for nations, national sovereignty, and the native people’s rights to freedom, independence and self-rule in their own land.
‘Mixed-up priorities’ don’t come into it. The Uniparty Undemocrats who misgovern our country are either unfit for purpose or they are treacherous scoundrels.
This is Sunak electioneering, trying to look tough, standing up for British sovereignty. Two years earlier and he’d have signed it. Had the election been last month, he’d now be signing it
Starmer will be signing it soon after the next election, if Sunak hasn’t signed it by then.
To my mind, the biggest threat facing humanity is the political class, on a par with the super-rich.