- “Galloway’s landslide means all bets are off for the next election” – Tom Harris in the Telegraph says George Galloway’s by-election victory poses a huge challenge for Keir Starmer.
- “The left’s deathly embrace of Islamic identitarianism” – The Rochdale by-election confirms that the working classes lose out when identity politics rules, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The new woke segregation is an insult to white and black people” – Writing in the Telegraph, Mutaz Ahmed says the producers of Slave Play have forgotten the lessons of the civil rights movement.
- “Six months on, Ulez is doing more harm than good” – With unfair fines, false advertising and a huge legal scandal, Sadiq Khan’s Ulez scheme is a shambles, write Ed Wiseman in the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan admits LTN is ‘causing huge problems’” – Even the Mayor is turning his back on the disastrous LTN introduced by Lambeth Council.
- “Motorway 60mph restrictions to be scrapped” – Air pollution will ‘ultimately be solved at the tailpipe’, National Highways admits as it ditches speed curbs on M1 and M6
- “AstraZeneca under fire after LGBT+ staff group issue training saying ‘sex is not binary’” – is this peak woke? Documents circulated by the LGBT+ affinity group within AstraZeneca claiming “biology has a spectrum” are condemned by Lord Winston and Richard Dawkins as “scientifically ignorant”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us” – Another Guardian article commits the naturalistic fallacy, arguing that because whales can be gay, being gay is therefore good.
- “Google’s brave new woke-AF world” – When DEI merges with AI, the post-truth dystopia will become impossible to escape, says Andrew Sullivan on the Weekly Dish.
- “Suella Braverman fears she could be criminalised if trans conversion therapy is banned” – The former Home Secretary expressed concern in a parliamentary debate about Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s private members’ bill banning conversion therapy, saying she could be sent to prison under the Brighton MP’s new law because she tells her children that “a boy cannot be a girl”, reports the Telegrpah.
- “‘Most dangerous’ conversion therapy Bill falls at the first hurdle in Westminster” – Russell-Moyle’s bill was talked out in the House of Commons yesterday, reports Let Us Pray. So Suella is safe for now.
- “I listen to money singing” – David McGrogan takes up the cudgels against programmable money in his News From Uncibal Substack.
- “Oompa-Loompas reveal: how the Willy Wonka Glasgow Experience went wrong” – Expectant parents paid £35 per ticket to access a sparsely decorated warehouse, says the Times in a piece about Glasgow’s Willy Wonka Experience.
- “Three people injured in Clapham shooting” – Emergency crews were called at around 5pm on Friday to an incident in Clapham, according to the Mail. Welcome to Khan’s London.
- “Fury as white working-class people excluded from the Guardian‘s ‘work experience scheme’ but rich people from minorities can apply” – Only black, Asian or minority ethnic people can apply to the Guardian’s work experience scheme, reports GB News.
- “It’s official: we can pretty much treat Covid like the flu now” – The Wall St Journal reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally dropped its advice telling people infected with Covid to isolate for five days. You should now follow the same precautions as you would take with the flu, says the CDC.
- “Epic skit from Michael Rappaport” – The American comic roasts Hollywood’s Jewish celebrities in an imaginary Oscar speech for failing to speak out against the Hamas attack on October 7th or stand up for the Israeli hostages. Savage but true.
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“My view is that the Labour Party could be put under real pressure in forthcoming elections. Pro Muslim candidates but not Labour could devastate their base and at this stage they don’t necessarily have to be white clearly.
If Kneel is not concerned he should be.
The Tories face annihilation and Labour are certainly not a shoe in.”
My post from yesterday.
Maybe a double trouncing would do them all some good.
I’m fairly sure many people on either side think they’re ‘helping.’
Fewer people understand what that ‘help’ implies.
Both sides need a damn good scare and to see what other powers are challenging theirs.
The best medicine to cure the uniparty infection is Reform (or, just don’t vote, it’s pointless anyway)
Reform is just another sub-branch of the Uniparty – Tice is establishment through & through.
The only way to vote is for a true independent. Otherwise you’ll get the situation again with Galloway – a perfect foil for the problem, reaction, solution scenario. Galloway has form of being an establishment anti-establishment character. He promoted lockdowns, restrictions, jabs.
Just another actor on the stage to further the globalist agenda.
I’d still rather risk reform than stick with the status quo, they certainly won’t be any worse so what have you lost? Nothing
I think Tice may be planning a “Bait & Switch”, withdrawing after election victories to allow the evidently generous Pakistani Muslim donor he appointed as “Co-Deputy Leader” to become Leader of the Reform Party. The Globalists are determined to have another “non-white” PM, no matter what the political party.
Nigel tried the same thing with UKIP, lining up yet another Pakistani Muslim “deputy” so he could withdraw later, leaving the Pakistani Muslim in charge of UKIP. That plan fizzled out, but watch Tice carefully.
Stop Net Zero Closing Down Farms – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
I don’t know what people think of the case of Sam Melia, who was sentenced to two years yesterday at Leeds, for ”inciting racial hatred” by sharing stickers which were all of an anti-immigration nature. Police did find a poster of Hitler in his home and he is apparently an antisemite, which does give a certain impression and not a warm one at that, but that’s a punishable offence which warrants jail time? Yes I’m sure he meets the criteria that MPs would class as ”far-right” but that doesn’t make him a law-breaker.
Now check out the type of person the same judge let go free and see who you think is the biggest danger to society. This is obviously all about ”sending a message” isn’t it?
”A British right-wing activist has been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of inciting racial hatred for sharing stickers online that warn about the consequences of mass immigration.
Sam Melia, 34, was convicted at Leeds Crown Court on Jan. 24 for distributing printable stickers via a Telegram channel with the intent of stirring up racial hatred.
A regional organizer for the right-wing organization Patriotic Alternative, the young father set up a group called the Hundred-Handers on the encrypted messaging app. He amassed 3,500 subscribers to whom he offered ways to download the stickers.
According to the Guardian newspaper, the offending stickers were of a right-wing nature and in opposition to the government’s long-term commitment to mass immigration. They bore the slogans: “Reject white guilt,” “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066,” and “Diversity – designed to fail, built to replace.”
Following Melia’s arrest in 2021, a search of his home by authorities found far-right insignia including a poster of Adolf Hitler. The stickers for which he was accused of inciting racial hatred had no association with Nazi Germany and, viewed in isolation, contained messaging largely commonplace across wider Europe’s cultural debate surrounding mass migration.”
https://www.rmx.news/crime/brit-jailed-for-two-years-for-posting-anti-immigration-stickers-online/
I suppose ”inciting racial hatred” is all in the eye of the beholder though, as it were. Otherwise this toxic clown would’ve been banged up years ago. To be fair, I think any sane Israeli can live with with the fact they’re not welcome in ‘desirable’ Bradford. Even I wouldn’t want to go back there now;
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1763583651311133092
I think as far as possible we should stick to punishing people for actions, not speech.
Stickering is low tech subversive & can be carried out repeatedly. Can’t be monitored online, can’t be tracked & given online sanctions.
Too much of a threat to the narrative. Can’t have folk thinking for themselves. Encouraging folk to ask questions frightens them. Too many are beginning to think for themselves as the agenda has been speeded up.
In case you didn’t see Toby Young’s excellent defence of Sam Melia, here it is again:
“Founder of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young said: “Sam Melia’s conviction points to the shortcomings of the ‘stirring up’ clauses in the Public Order Act.
“Why is he guilty of ‘stirring up’ racial or religious hatred, but not George Galloway, some of whose comments about Israel and Zionism have been equally incendiary? Yet Galloway is now the MP for Rochdale, while Melia has gone to prison for two years.
“Either the law is applied consistently, without fear or favour, or it’s not fit for purpose.
“It cannot be one law for right-wing white working class men and another for left-wing politicians.”
Sam Melia: Free speech activists outraged after man jailed for two years for running ‘far-right’ stickers library (gbnews.com)
Toby is absolutely bang on.
Our judiciary is no longer fit for purpose. It is in fact corrupt.
Yes! I liked Peter Hitchens’ idea that both the Supreme Court and the Judicial Appointments Commission should be abolished.
What’s really going on?
Defence of the realm? Everything’s fine:
‘Other than a modest uplift does Europe collectively need to spend that much more?
Russia is Europe’s only direct threat, China is too far away to pose any great military threat to European territory. Russia has a GDP smaller than Italy’s and has failed to conquer a comparatively weak neighbor, who at the start of the war was heavily reliant on old Soviet kit. Russia in a conventional hot war wouldn’t stand a chance against the European states collectively. The nuclear umbrellas of the France and UK further ensure we will never directly be in a hot war with Russia either.
Some more escorts to protect European shipping and undersea infrastructure wouldn’t go amiss, but we really do only need to spend in the region of 2% of GDP collectively.’
Or not really?
‘I don’t think it’s appreciated how run down European militaries are and how badly neglected they are. Taking the German army for example, last year it declared it has 20k artillery shells left in stock. The Russians are firing over 20k in a single day in the current war. In a hot war European armies would be out of ammo within a couple of weeks if they were lucky.
On the equipment front it’s just as bad. The British army had a theoretical fleet of somewhere around 230 tanks, which is just a tenth of the number of tanks the Russians have lost since the start of the war. But of those tanks under 150 are actually operational, the rest having been cannibalised for parts to keep them running – Britain is no longer producing new tanks hence the issues with parts. The German army is probably in a worse state. It was estimated only 30% of the stated number of tanks and artillery pieces available are actually operational – it couldn’t put together a single brigade of 30 tanks together for the NATO VHRF in 2023.
Cumulatively the underfunding on equipment over the last couple of decades can be measured in the hundreds of billions of Dollars (or Euros). Almost no country meets the NATO minimum spending of 2%. And that’s a minimum, the ideal would be to be closer to 3% which means a doubling of spending plus making good on the missed spending on infrastructure and equipment over the last 3 decades.’
In the 1950s, when this country had a clear view of the threat, defence spending was 6% GDP (before the Korean War) and health spending £460m (circa 3.6% GDP)
Britain’s defence spending is now 2.3% of GDP, health spending is 12% of GDP.
And Russia? Defence 7% of GDP (and the rest……).
“Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us”
In other news, it’s cool to learn asexuality from stick insects.
Come to think of it, the recent news puts flesh on that old parody of the universal leftist slogan: “Gay whales against the Bomb.”
Gay whales for palistine
The Guardian: “Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us”
Does anyone still take this fu#£ing rag seriously?
Are they all on drugs?
Insightful article by Jonathan Cook about how a good deal of the ramped-up hysteria surrounding the situation in the Middle East is being manipulated to bring in even more police powers and restrict the rights of citizens.
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/first-it-was-corbyn-now-the-whole
…those demanding that international law be upheld – and castigating the political class for failing to do the same – are now finding themselves demonised as potential terrorists.
Already, the talk on both sides of the Commons – and in the media – is of the need for new police powers curbs on the right of the public to protest, and further security measures to keep politicians shielded from the people they are supposed to represent.
“Fury as white working-class people excluded from the Guardian‘s ‘work experience scheme’ but rich people from minorities can apply”
Who the f@#k in their right minds would apply? Have they not got a life?
“Galloway’s landslide means all bets are off for the next election”
I was more interested to see that an independent candidate came in second. If Galloway hadn’t been on the ballot, would the independent have won, I wonder – and does that give a tiny ray of hope for the coming GE? Any movement away from the WEF Uniparty must be a good thing, surely..
“It’s official: we can pretty much treat Covid like the flu now”
I always did!
An article adding some balance to the one-sided reporting of the Jerusalem Times 2.0:
https://www.unz.com/jcook/first-it-was-corbyn-now-the-whole-british-public-is-being-smeared-over-gaza/
“The smearing of Corbyn over his criticisms of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians largely worked. But gaslighting much of the public as a dangerous “mob” for opposing even more egregious Israeli crimes may yet backfire.
Only 13 percent of the public share the two main parties’ view that Israel is justified in continuing to take military action.”
And what % of the public justify or condemn the ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Libya, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Colombia, and Mali ?
Or don’t they matter because Jews aren’t involved?
Snap, JB – I posted it above from Cook’s substack.
Don’t forget that for the DS, like the rest of the MSM, it appears to be the egregiously fallacious case that any anti-genocide sentiment = anti-Judaism. Which I utterly and profoundly reject.
We can all remember how Cameron-Clegg sold off or physically destroyed a renovated fleet of Harriers, AWACS and two small carriers. They also joyfully destroyed almost all our cioal fired power stations.
Now this same Conservative branded government is decommissioning a fleet of perfectly servicable fast reaction fighter aircraft.
Have they not noticed how 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s military hardware has been used in Ukraine. Have they not noticed our budget deficitm accumulated debts and the poor state of our armed forces?
Have they not heardthe drums of war rumbling across Europe?
As our industrial capacity, scale and range has been depleted and the ability to manufacture even steel is being lost, it will not be possible to make some urgent programme to restock, as the shortage of everything from uniforms to bullets and shells has shown. The stocks of missiles is pathetically small.
It is clear the political class / elite hates us but do they realise the urgency of the issues. They might, this time, be caught holding the baby or Net Zero, demilitarisation and economic failure. The social and health consequences of lockdowns are yet to bite.
I suppose from their country houses or urban ghettos the politicians just cannot see why we all complain.
Excellent comment— well done for remembering the Harriers scandal, some of which were snapped up by India, if I remember correctly.
The decimation of the Armed Forces of the West is deliberate treason.
My grandfather was Jewish. I am very proud of my Jewish heritage. I am proud of those Jews who fought for freedom, from Abel Meeropol who wrote Strange Fruit, to Joe Slomo who stood along side Mandela in condemning apartheid in SA. The list is long.
But I am appalled at what Israel is doing in Gaza. This has nothing to do with anti-semitism, Islamaphobia or any form of racism. It is about basic human values.
What Israel is doing is wrong, not because it’s Israel or because they are Jews, not because those suffering are Palestinians.
It is wrong because slaughtering human beings is wrong. Starving people, destroying health facilities, schools, denying water is wrong. Going onto someone else’s land, taking their houses, farms and businesses and throwing them off is wrong.
It’s not about who, it is about what is being done.
I cannot understand how anyone can think that killing 10,000 children can be justified. How is it okay to shoot starving people as they desperately try to get food.
Those who do such things would ordinarily be called psychopaths.
Anti zionism isn’t anti-semitism. I am against the actions taken and the ideology which is used to justify it. Not the people who do it.
It seems to me a simple moral position. No-one has the right to slaughter others – ever. Cruelty is always wrong.
Just as we needed to take a stand over the removal of freedoms in lockdown, we also have to take a stand about what is happening in Gaza.
Well said RS.
No, we don’t “have to take a stand” about Gaza.
And so the “epic skit” above of the Israeli comedian “roasting” Hollywood celebrities for “failing to speak out against the Hamas attack on October 7th or stand up for the Israeli hostages” is, in my opinion, truly distasteful: firstly, to joke about an on-going conflict (no matter whose side one is on) and, secondly, what was he trying to achieve? Did he expect people to spend more money for Israel, after the billions the USA is donating, not to mention the incessant arms’ deliveries to shell and bomb even more people, whose only crime is to be Palestinian?
And the Hamas hostages are indeed to be pitied because they are very likely to be eliminated by the Israeli forces, as documented in this detailed report on the events of 7th October: https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-really-happened-on-october-7/. Here are some opening sentences from the report:
Israel claims that during the attack, Hamas fighters massacred some 1,200 Israelis, the majority civilians, while committing unthinkable atrocities.
A close review of events on 7 October shows that Hamas fighters instead carried out what amounted to both a military assault and mass kidnapping operation to break Israel’s decades long siege on Gaza, which many view as the world’s largest concentration camp.
In the process, they did kill hundreds of Israelis, including soldiers, police, and civilians, while taking hundreds more as captives back to Gaza.
At the same time, many of the claims made by Israel about the scale and nature of Hamas atrocities, including the most horrific, have proven to be fabrications.
Shockingly, many of the Israeli civilians and soldiers who died that day were killed not by Hamas, but by Israeli forces themselves, both as a result of friendly fire and the controversial military policy known as the “Hannibal Directive.”
The policy dictates it is better for Israel to kill its own soldiers or civilians rather than allow an enemy to take them captive.
“Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us”
If you look carefully at the queer-seeming photo provided by the self-confessed “career of cetacean voyeurism” author, and then look up a diagram of the anatomy of whales (below), you will see that the drooling perv has jumped to the wrong conclusion in his lecherous excitement:
How humpback whales survive in the marine environment: Part II (orcaireland.org)
“The new woke segregation is an insult to white and black people”
No, actually, it’s a good idea. People naturally feel more relaxed and comfortable living and working among their own tribe and ethnic group, and the Ethnic Africans in this case are just being honest.
But what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and all other ethnic groups can do the same.
And they can do that best in their own ancestral homelands of Africa, India, South America and the Orient.