- “British Jews suffer ‘explosion in hatred’ amid hundreds of assaults” – According to a new report, the number of antisemitic incidents in the U.K. jumped 147% last year to record levels, with a massive surge in the wake of the Hamas atrocities on October 7th, reports the Mail.
- “Israeli rappers call for Dua Lipa, Bella Hadid to be killed” – Two Israeli rappers have called for the murder of Muslim celebrities in a controversial rap song that has become their county’s unofficial war anthem, says the Mail.
- “Eurovision operators rule Israel is allowed to compete in 2024 contest” – Calls for Israel to be banned from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest because of the war in Gaza have been rejected by organisers, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.S. seizes massive stash of Iranian weapons headed for Houthi rebels” – U.S. forces, operating in the Arabian Sea, have seized a massive arsenal of Iranian weapons that were bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to the Mail.
- “Tory mayor expelled over alleged antisemitic comments” – A Tory mayor, who was expelled from the Conservative Party in an antisemitism row, says that Jewish people are responsible for Jesus’s death, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Knife crime prison sentences hit record low” – Jail sentences for knife offenders have hit a record low as judges have been told to send fewer people to overcrowded prisons, reports the Telegraph.
- “Should the Inquiry have legal powers?” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan advocate for a Covid Inquiry with judicial review powers to assess the legality of Government decisions.
- “German newspaper forces correction at Science Magazine, while Americans ignore study that undermines market theory for pandemic origin” – Recent revelations confirm the suspicion that American science writers are allergic to real journalism, says Paul D. Thacker in the Disinformation Chronicle.
- “Study finds Japanese ‘anti-vaxers’ tend to be Left-wing” – On Substack, Guy Gin reacts to a new study on anti-vaccine sentiment in Japan, challenging its portrayal of such views as just Right-wing.
- “U.S. officials concede no active surveillance on long-term effects of COVID-19 vaccines” – U.S. health officials have side-stepped a question about whether the Food and Drug Administration is conducting safety surveillance on those who received early COVID-19 vaccines, reports the Epoch Times.
- “How worklessness and school truancy drove Britain into recession” – Jeremy Hunt will deliver next month’s Budget against an economic backdrop of recession, rising worklessness and soaring debt, say Tim Wallace and Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “‘For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished’” – The country’s self-image as tolerant, decent and hard-working is being smashed. It’s only going to get worse, laments Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “By-election Super Thursday is big test for Sunak” – Voters are heading to the polls for a double by-election in both Wellingborough and Kingswood, two current Tory holds, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “A vote for the Tories is a vote for Labour is a wasted vote” – If Reform UK won’t reform, some other gang had better step up soon, says Dr. Hugh Willbourn.
- “Elderly couple told they had to sell home to house asylum seekers” – An elderly couple, who had just moved into their £200,000 house, were horrified to receive a letter from their council suggesting their property could be subject to a compulsory purchase order so it could be used to accommodate asylum seekers, reports the Mail.
- “Greedy universities don’t seem to care about white middle-class British kids” – In giving preferential treatment to high-paying international students, our universities are discriminating against their own, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Give children brick phones, not smartphones, says Sophie Winkleman” – Actress and campaigner Sophie Winkleman says schoolchildren should be given ‘brick’ phones instead of smartphones to protect them from the toxic effects of social media, reports the Telegraph.
- “Most Germans ‘against Ukraine joining EU’, poll reveals” – A new poll has found that a majority of Germans are against Ukraine joining the European Union, says Brussels Signal.
- “Vladimir Putin says he prefers Joe Biden over Donald Trump in U.S. election” – Vladimir Putin said he would like to see Joe Biden re-elected for a second term, in the Russian President’s first comments on the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to the FT.
- “CIA ‘cooked the intelligence’ to hide that Russia favoured Clinton, not Trump, in 2016, sources say” – The Russians didn’t fear a Hillary Clinton presidency, says the Public team on Substack. It was Trump they feared.
- “Decarbonisation is Labour’s next green policy disaster” – The Spectator’s Ross Clark questions the feasibility and affordability of Labour’s green energy plan.
- “The trans takeover of John Lewis” – John Lewis’s Identity magazine can only be described as a calculated attempt to force adherence to gender identity ideology within the company, writes James Esses on Substack.
- “John Lewis launches staff magazine advising parents how to find breast binders for trans children” – John Lewis has launched a magazine for staff which advises parents on how to find breast binders for trans children, reports the Mail.
- “Wokery doesn’t win wars. It guarantees defeat” – An obsession with diversity targets is ludicrous when Putin is still threatening the security of Europe, says Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
- “Trans ideology has taken over Shakespeare’s Globe” – In Spiked, a former Globe employee recounts how her employer dismissed her concerns about women’s spaces and child safeguarding.
- “J.K. Rowling labels Guardian journalist ‘progressive misogynist’ over Parkrun trans row” – J.K. Rowling has branded the Guardian’s chief sports writer a “progressive misogynist” with “disdain for women’s sport” after he dismissed concerns about transgender women being allowed to compete in Parkrun’s female category, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why are trans activists raging against a gay-rights hero?” – Stonewall co-founder Simon Fanshawe is loathed by the LGBT lobby because he still believes in same-sex attraction, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked. Confused? Read the article.
- “TikTok says it will censor politicians who promote ‘misinformation’” – TikTok has threatened to censor politicians it believes are promoting ‘misinformation’ in the run-up to the European elections, reports Brussels Signal.
- “Trudeau, Freeland sued by Freedom Convoy protesters following Federal Court ruling” – A number of Freedom Convoy protesters, who had their bank accounts frozen by the Trudeau Government, are suing the Prime Minister, according to the Counter Signal.
- “Labour ‘is proud to be both anti-racist but also antisemitic’” – Sadiq Khan has been caught making a Freudian slip during a news interview.
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The EU has obviously not yet reached peak diversity, but will Hungary now cave under the pressure to be more culturally enriched, and how many of them will inevitably relocate themselves to the UK?
”The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which is expected to flood Europe with as many as 75 million new migrants, was approved on Wednesday by the European Parliament’s LIBE committee.
One of the key provisions of the migrant pact is that it contains a migrant distribution system that has proven ineffectual since 2015, Róbert Gönczi, an analyst at Hungary’s Migration Research Institute, told daily Magyar Nemzet.
A number of European conservatives, such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, have warned against the migrant pact, saying it will force countries like Hungary to accept migrants or face a severe financial penalty.
The migration pact states that member states can choose between accepting asylum seekers or pay a financial penalty that costs up to €25,000 per migrant. The EU often claims that diversity is the continent’s strength and that continuous waves of migrants are an economic boon. Based on this logic, Hungary’s Orbán said that Western European nations should be scrambling to accept more migrants, not distribute them to countries like Hungary. And yet, the bloc claims that member states that do not accept migrants must pay a fine to help subsidize the cost of these migrants.”
https://rmx.news/european-union/eu-parliament-committee-approves-migration-pact-previously-labeled-the-suicide-of-europe-by-frances-le-pen/
This is interesting because we normally don’t get to see crime statistics based on the country of origin of the suspect and these are data released by the Dutch police. This guy’s done a mega thread here to illustrate the breakdown so it’s easier to see in graph form. This also pertains to the above post because if those with a migrant background make up a disproportionately high number of criminal convictions then this doesn’t exactly bode well for Europe going forward, if we can expect another 75 million of them, before family reunification. Imagine if all countries had this sort of data available to the public?
”Immigration & crime
The Dutch police releases crime statistics by country of origin. Accumulated over 10 years, they provide a fantastic dataset of 2 million data points.”
https://twitter.com/Marc_Vanguard_i/status/1727350705126797651
The debate is over (if one still exists). This latest official NZ data FOI release, combined with Barry Young’s data, demonstrates unequivocally the vaccines are bad:
https://x.com/stkirsch/status/1758322882663551298?s=20
Of course our authorities have had this data all along too.
Yes but you MUST NOT UPSET THE MUSLIMS. Surely you know that?!
“…Jewish people are responsible for Jesus’s death…”
As far as I can possibly know either way, I believe this is actually true. No? So why should a party mayor be expelled for saying it?
This couldn’t be an exercise in political point-scoring, could it?!
“Look, we Tories take antisemitism seriously! Vote for us!”
I thought it was Biggus Dickus who was responsible…….
Fnah!
You find this wrisible?
In the 1960’s the RC church decided that Jews were not responsible.
Given how recent that is, such a proclamation could have been motivated by the same politics and beliefs that drive current events.
Well Jesus was a Jewish person, so was Mary, so was Joseph, so were the Apostles, so anyone who is claiming that “Jewish people are responsible for Jesus’ death” is saying that Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Apostles are responsible for Jesus’ death.
It’s like saying the English are responsible for the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry and the Irish are responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings. Should we English and Irish people all start apologising to each other for these murders that we’re all apparently ‘responsible for’?
Another way of looking at this is that according to Christian teaching, if Jesus hadn’t been crucified we would be forever separated from God, through his death on the cross Jesus gave us eternal life, so where would Christians be if Jewish people hadn’t crucified Jesus? Shouldn’t Christians therefore all be very thankful for Jewish people?
Shouldn’t Christians therefore all be very thankful for Jewish people?
Yep. That’s partly why we pray for them on Good Friday.
Christians also pray for ‘those who do not believe in Christ’ and ‘those who do not believe in God’ on Good Friday, so does that mean Christians are very thankful for those who do not believe in Christ and those who do not believe in God?
Yes.
Who could we try to convert otherwise?
‘For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished’
Nobody is voting conservative.
Prof John Curtice told the BBC that the Conservatives share of the vote was down by “nearly 38 points compared with the general election. That is the biggest ever drop that the Conservatives have suffered in a post-war by-election in a seat that they were trying to defend.”
This is not surprisinhg
Skidmore’s seat lost……Skidmore was a nut zero
Bone’s seat (Wellingborough) lost……The Commissioner found the following allegations proved: Allegation 1: Mr Bone “verbally belittled, ridiculed, abused and humiliated” the complainant, and this was bullying. Allegation 2: Mr Bone “repeatedly physically struck and threw things at” the complainant, and this was bullying etc etc
Lots of people are voting for Reform…….is anyone listening? They soon will be……..
Ben Habib, the deputy co-leader of the Reform UK party has secured 13% of the vote in the Wellingborough byelection………..Standing on an anti-net zero platform, the former London MEP for the Brexit party had said he had been encouraged by people waving and tooting support at him while he campaigned on the party’s battle bus around the constituency………
Sadly, “waving and tooting” does not translate into votes at the ballot box
13% would be about four million votes in a general election.
That got the lib dims 11 seats in 2019…….
Well done Mr Habib.
Covid Booster Cancer Time Bomb – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends
An interesting report on the involvement of Israeli companies and intelligence services in the UK and their access to our data, arguing that Britain cannot be considered sovereign.
https://youtu.be/pDuIVcWH2-U?si=yb8bA2UZCPy9dN8N
Thursday morning Wargrave Road & New Bath Road Twyford Wokingham
The more we get the message out,
The more people will know.
When more people know
The more they will naturally resist.
‘Putin is still threatening the security of Europe, says Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.’
What’s really going on?
‘A war is not won by taking heights or cities, a war is won by defeating armies-Kutusov
The counter offensive failed, so why mobilise, right? ….but we seem, resolutely, to refuse to learn….we are simply driving people into poorly resourced and organised attacks……an exchange that washes away our reserves…so, by the summer, we may again find ourselves in a situation of shortage of forces and a lack of reserves…..’
Russian volunteer Murz 16 Feb 2024
What was the U.S. strategy again? Oh yes: ‘To weaken Russia so that it can no longer do the things that it has done in Ukraine’
Seems like a plan…….
It might have been commented on already but following all the anti-Russian rhetoric, Zelensky selected a Russian as their military commander.
‘Syrsky was born in Soviet Russia, in July 1965, and studied at a Red Army academy in Moscow.’
So the Ukrainians have got the ‘red teaming’ cracked…..
Oh! And the ‘blue teaming’
‘Сol. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces……has since 2013 been involved in the Ukrainian army’s effort to adopt NATO standards.’
‘Syrskyi has been credited with two significant successes. One was the defence of Kyiv in February and March 2022……also in 2022…..he clandestinely amassed light infantry in the eastern Kharkiv region to break through Russian defences and liberate the entire region despite Russia’s superiority in artillery.’
Also interesting that Syrskyi has put together a whole new ‘head shed’
‘The only top officers who have kept their jobs are the ones who commanded successful operations against the Russian fleet on the Black Sea, along with some heads of the air force and air defence force who “demonstrate success or stability in repelling Russian attacks’
Sounds a bit like ‘Brookie’ and ‘Monty’………
In
“How worklessness and school truancy drove Britain into recession”
We find a classic example of (planned) action without evidence.
Rachel Reeves’ implied solution is simple: throw more money into the the NHS machine to get sick people better and back to work.
One problem with that:
Making sick people better would obviously be a Good Thing but in many cases it’s not possible. In those cases where it is possible and achieved there’s no guarantee these people will return to work. This is obvious precisely because the majority of non-workers are not ‘off sick’. Those recovered are probably as likely to return to work as the ratio of workers to non-workers in the non-sick population – unless, of course, there is evidence to the contrary.
My suggestion is that we seek more evidence of what works in getting non-workers back to work. The article indicates that the UK has at least six example countries (the other G7 nations) to examine to find out what worked. One theory (guess) to test would be that the other nations are less tolerant of idleness and do not financially support non-workers to the same level as the UK. That guess might also help explain why the UK is considered so attractive to migrants that they risk their lives leaving France to reach us – but that needs evidence, not just my guess.
A propos yesterday’s climate discussion, for the stats geeks out there ‘John Dee’s’ latest offering in his Singin’ in the Rain series appears to indicate a gradual increase in UK rainfall over the last 100 years or so.
On a side note, I went to a talk by a paleoecologist yesterday who discussed climate change over millions of years, pointing out that the planet was substantially more lush and fecund when the CO2 level was around 1200ppmv as opposed to our puny 420ppmv. Yet when challenged by an irate audience climatista, STILL vomited up the same Climate Narrative™ trope. It was crashingly disappointing.
https://jdeeclimate.substack.com/p/singin-in-the-rain-part-5
… this incremental increase in rainfall isn’t a new thing but has been a feature of the UK climate for decades. This being the case we ought to ask how much of this whizz-bang climate change malarkey is genuinely novel and how much part of a longer-term trend that was already rumbling before Al Gore opened his mouth and broadsheets like The Guardian and The Telegraph succumbed to globalism. …
The weather has been slowly changing over time but it’s not falling into line with the alarmist’s rather naïve narrative of CO2 driving everything. Neither is there any sign of a climate emergency because it has been just as wet and windy (and therefore stormy) in the past.
Unfortunately people are going to continue die in storms like they’ve always done. Damage and injury will be sustained on land and sea; flights will be delayed and travel chaos will reign regardless of whether a named storm system is promulgated. None of this is new but what is new is the sensationalisation of British weather by the media and authorities. I have every confidence that named storms will be rammed down our throat with increasing vigour and that the legacy media will serve to keep the nation in a state of fear…
Flagged by James Roguski, the latest ‘Proposal for negotiating text of the WHO Pandemic Treaty’ (but without Article 12) at Health Policy Watch:
https://healthpolicy-watch.news/exclusive-read-latest-pandemic-agreement-draft-ahead-of-mondays-negotiations/
Health Policy Watch has obtained portions of the latest draft of the pandemic agreement that member states will negotiate over at the eighth intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) starting on Monday, 19 February.
At the time of publishing, only member states had access to the draft, although a number of civil society organisations recognised as stakeholders have requested a draft from the World Health Organization (WHO) Bureau that is overseeing the negotiations for some time.
“Elderly couple told they had to sell home to house asylum seekers”
Clickbait headline – the council thought the house was empty. The letter does, however, raise uneasy questions about how far councils will go with this – second homes, for example?
Who blew up Nordstream, Aussie style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfEje1DSOTo
(Snowflake sensitivity warning: grossly offensive language from the start. Of course.)
Something that emerged today: https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/02/15/southern-water-admits-data-breach-may-impact-nearly-half-million-customers A Southern Water loss of private data.
Reminiscent of Obama talking about his “Muslim” faith then desperately backpedalling…
Kazakhstan: Methane mega-leak went on for months
Still, at least we’re going to get rid of the pesky Port Talbot blast furnaces, eh?
Wonder what the methane output of the recent sabotage of one of Iran’s gas pipelines is going to cause then….
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-main-gas-pipeline-hit-by-sabotage-oil-minister-says-2024-02-14/
Oh dear; another reason to support a sceptical view: https://www.gbnews.com/science/fossil-identity-revealed-archaeology At least they’ve discovered that it was a real fraud!