- “British Jews have been left ‘terrified’ by Gaza protests” – Jeremy Hunt claims that British Jews have been left “terrified” and afraid to leave their homes because of vitriolic protests over the war in Gaza, reports the Mail.
- “Former EastEnders star told not to leave theatre because of pro-Palestinian protests” – Jewish actress Tracy-Ann Oberman was advised against leaving a London theatre because of pro-Palestinian protests taking place outside, says the Telegraph.
- “Jewish man unable to walk through Central London wearing his skullcap” – A Jewish father-of-three, who was told by a tube passenger “your religion is killing Muslims”, has said he feels unable to walk through Central London wearing his skullcap due to the “hate marches”, according to the Mail.
- “Four ‘Islamist extremists’ including minors arrested by Belgian police” – Police in Belgium have arrested an 18-year-old and three minors suspected of plotting a jihadist attack, reports the Mail.
- “Will Tower Hamlets follow Rochdale?” – Tower Hamlets has become an increasingly oppressive landscape for many of its non-Muslim residents, writes Nicole Lampert in UnHerd.
- “What happened to Sunak’s new policing? Fury as Palestine yobs scale monuments” – Pro-Palestine activists have clambered all over our historic monuments, despite Rishi Sunak’s vow to crack down on the demonstrations, reports the Express.
- “Why is it Islamophobic to want to expel extremism?” – Even now, after Parliament caved to threats of violence from a mob of Islamist and far-Left extremists, there remains a state of denial in our political and media establishment, writes Robert Jenrick in the Mail.
- “Speaker Lindsay Hoyle’s allies warn MPs plotting to oust him” – The Speaker is still under threat after 93 MPs signed a confidence motion in him, reports the Mail.
- “BBC News – obsessive, biased and unaccountable” – BBC News is not just skewed against Israel. It is unethical, opaque, hateful and antisemitic. Worse still, there is no accountability at all, says David Collier.
- “Does the BBC hate Telegraph readers? Let’s have intelligent radio back” – The mindset and attitudes that attract people to the Telegraph is repellent now to the whole BBC, writes Simon Heffer.
- “The Iranian people have had enough” – The recent record low turnout for parliamentary elections in Iran is another blow to the regime’s attempts to pretend that all is well in the country, says Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
- “COVID-19 and its vaccines linked to sudden hearing loss, considered an ‘emergency’” – Several studies have linked sudden hearing loss to the Covid vaccine, reports the Epoch Times.
- “The young are growing up in a post-lockdown society riddled with entitlement” – It is time to ask whether the harms wrought by Covid restrictions can ever be undone, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Sopranos star blasts Hollywood after blacklisting amid Covid vax scandal saw her forced to turn to OnlyFans to survive” – Sopranos actress Drea de Matteo has slammed Hollywood after being blacklisted by the studios for refusing to get the Covid vaccine, reports the Mail.
- “U.K. maternal mortality on the rise” – Compared to 2017-19, there was a statistically significant increase in the overall maternal death rate in the U.K. in 2020-22, report Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson.
- “Post Office should be ‘handed over’ to postmasters chairman tells MPs” – Ousted Post Office Chairman Henry Staunton has told MPs that the company should be “handed over” to postmasters in the wake of the Horizon scandal, according to the Mail.
- “New poll hints at looming populist revolt in Britain” – UnHerd’s Henry Hill discusses a new ONS survey revealing that only 12% of the public trust political parties, while 68% don’t.
- “Seaside village where homes have fake windows to stop thieves” – A seaside village has been forced to plaster abandoned homes with posters of windows and doors to deter thieves after residents left the area, reports the Mail.
- “Former SAS soldier in his 60s jailed for six months” – A former SAS hero is to be jailed for refusing to appear at the inquest of three members of an IRA ‘death squad’, reveals the Mail on Sunday.
- “Germany spills British military secrets to Russia” – The head of the Luftwaffe accidentally leaked British military secrets to Russia by using off-the-shelf video phone technology to discuss missiles in Ukraine and the whereabouts of British troops on the ground, reports the Telegraph.
- “Eco-clowns pour jam over Queen Victoria bust and spray-paint ‘c***’” – The Mail has video of the moment eco-clowns poured jam and porridge over a bust of Queen Victoria, before spray painting the word ‘c***’ on the plinth.
- “Show-off vicars are ruining the Church of England” – Attention-seeking vicars, like the Reverend Richard Coles, are doing nothing to help the ailing Church of England, says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “‘Parents need to reclaim authority over their children’” – In the Telegraph, Celia Walden profiles U.S. writer Abigail Shrier, who argues that therapy culture is damaging young people.
- “It’s time to eliminate the concept of ‘mental health’” – The concept of ‘mental health’ is a hypochondriac’s, narcissist’s, shirker’s and social security fraudster’s charter, says Theodore Dalrymple in the Spectator.
- “Trans rights activists in Civil Service ‘undermine’ policies, claims gender-critical group” – A gender-critical group claims that trans-activist civil servants have “actively undermined” government policies, reports the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling says ‘it happened again’ as man caught filming in toilets identifies as woman” – According to the Telegraph, a man caught filming women in a female lavatory claimed to be a woman upon arrest, prompting J.K. Rowling to comment, “It’s happened again.”
- “The Army’s poster girl for diversity sues over alleged racist abuse” – The Army’s poster girl for diversity is suing defence chiefs after allegedly suffering a catalogue of racist abuse, reports the Mail.
- “‘We cannot allow the woke to bring back racism’” – A West End theatre’s plans to host two black-only audience nights is just straightforward racism, says James Whale in the Express.
- “The 10 woke responses that highlight the bias of Google’s Gemini AI” – Gemini AI is still generating woke and controversial answers despite the company claiming to have stripped the tech of its liberal biases, reports the Mail.
- “Washington Post reporter says shoplifting not a big deal because U.S. built on ‘stolen land’” – A Washington Post reporter has come under fire for condoning crime in America’s cities, according to the New York Post.
- “Trump called racist – so why are black and Latino voters backing him?” – Recent polls have shown U.S. working class minorities, who historically vote Democrat, are turning their backs on the party in droves, reports the Mail.
- “Tortured art” – In Taki’s Magazine Theodore Dalrymple reviews a new film depicting the brutality and evil of the post-war Romanian communist regime.
- “Obi-Wan Kenobi: Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough… Cristal beer!” – A poster on X has shared an amusing advertising anomaly from Chile, where commercials were stitched into the films themselves.
Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in. pic.twitter.com/wC7N2vPNvv
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Another interesting round-up to complement the above.
Pandemic Treaty Dangerous & Stupid – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
This was published on Saturday, but it is a brilliant essay on the relationship between power and legitimacy:
https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/rochdale-and-the-future-of-democracy
And who holds hamas leaders to the same principles? Oh yes, no one does, they just do and say what they like unquestioned!
I guess telling lies day after day gets everybody down in the end. It is alleged that officers under Hagari in the Israeli propaganda operation have resigned.
https://www.jordannews.jo/Section-20/Middle-East/High-ranking-Israeli-army-officials-resign-34616
See also: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/mass-resignations-among-senior-iof-spox-unit-officials–isra
Al-Jazeera not reporting it, so it may not be confirmed.
Here’s one on PressTV reporting Israel Channel 14:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/04/721243/Israeli-military-officers-Daniel-Hagari-resign-Gaza-war
This is the original report on Israel’s Channel 14:
https://www.now14.co.il/%d7%96%d7%a2%d7%96%d7%95%d7%a2%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%91%d7%93%d7%95%d7%91%d7%a8-%d7%a6%d7%94%d7%9c-%d7%9c%d7%9e%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%9c%d7%97%d7%9e%d7%94-%d7%92%d7%9c-%d7%a2%d7%96%d7%99/
It appears to declare that Hagari has gone, too. Perhaps s hebrew speaker could confirm the content of the page?
Not from the Hebrew but apparently he has, with some interesting reasons given (Middle East Monitor via Now 14, another Hebrew language site):
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240304-israel-sees-wave-of-senior-israeli-army-officers-resign/
I think that is based on the same story in Hebrew as Tamir Morag is the same reporter.
It’s refreshing to know and important to be reminded that people like this ‘pro-Palestinian’ chap do exist. He’s from Gaza, living in the U.S, and has lost many family members in proxy killings, courtesy of Hamas, but he correctly assigns the blame to where it belongs;
”Hamas continues to criminally & recklessly play roulette with the fate of 2.3 million Gazans by not accepting current ceasefire terms that even its chief backer, Qatar, is pressuring the group to take. It is well understood that a 6-week ceasefire will likely lead to a longer-term arrangement that sees all hostages released and prevents the resumption of hostilities. Sinwar & the Islamist psychopaths who lead Hamas want an Israeli invasion of Rafah during Ramadan because that’s their final desperate hope that the West Bank & entire region would be further inflamed during the holy month.
They think that mass civilian casualties would save them from a dishonorable defeat and are hoping to escape accountability by hiding behind tragic scenes of dead children and women who are going to be slaughtered; Hamas knows how deeply hated it is in Gaza and understands that when the war ends, there will be a reckoning and it will never again be able to fully control the coastal enclave like it once did. The group is not only holding Israeli hostages, but is effectively holding its own people captive to a rotten ideology, a failed political program, and a worthless regional alliance with Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”. The only ceasefire that Hamas wants is a fanciful one in which things go back to how they were on October 6th which begs the question: why do October 7th in the first place?”
https://twitter.com/afalkhatib/status/1764300900439601414
Are the terms of the ceasefire publically available then? I’d like to read them.
I’m not aware that the latest one pager Netanyahoo put forward has been made public, but it has been widely reported to be reinforcement of military control of the strip and all access points/food/humanitarian aid, etc. for the release of the Israeli hostages. No mention of the West Bank or any reciprocal release of the over 7,500 Palestinians currently held in Gazan prisons, although it was reported yesterday that they were having to release some to make way for the dozens of new ones captured. Mainly women and kids, natch.
Thanks. The chap Mogwai cites seems to know exactly what they state, though, and what they will lead to.
“Rishi Sunak prepares to launch crackdown on foreign Islamist hate preachers entering Britain”
Cop out!
What about the ones already here?
“accusing senior officers of running a culture of ‘bullying, discrimination, racism and sexism”
It’s the army love and there called orders!
Remember the US DoD data about military jab injuries that came out a couple of years ago and was rapidly manipulated then buried? Intriguing article on Robert Malone’s substack by Dr Crisanna L Shackleford about the implications of forced vaccination on military readiness for the US (and byi mplication other armed forces subject to similar mandates).
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/us-warfighter-and-force-readiness
While the [Secretary of Defence] may not be fully aware of the ramifications, his actions, along with those of the Biden Administration, inadvertently triggered the PACT Act … and [Toxic Exposure Risk Activity] memorandum legislation. The passage of the PACT Act in 2022 underscores the critical nexus between toxic exposure, national security, warfare capabilities, and defense readiness posture. The mandate for COVID-19 injections represents a forced toxic exposure with catastrophic implications for our national security and defense readiness posture.
…the VA has a fraudulent [Standard Operating Procedure] that restricts acknowledging C19 toxic injections as qualifying for Toxic Exposure Risk Activity (TERA), despite legal frameworks intended to facilitate such recognition. How much more evidence will be needed to demonstrate the toxicity of these jabs and service-connected jab-injuries?
“UnHerd’s Henry Hill discusses a new ONS survey revealing that only 12% of the public trust political parties, while 68% don’t.”
I read the UnHerd “article” but it is thin on detail and links to the FT – behind a paywall. I know the DS has a limited budget but unless you’ve got multiple subscriptions to MSM sites it’s hard to go beyond the headlines.
Regarding this one, it’s only sign of a possible “looming populist revolt” if the figures historically have been higher, but I am not convinced they have. Don’t forget, we’re in an economic downturn and getting towards the end of a government that hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory. A lot more than 12% trusted the state (government and bureaucracy) enough to enthusiastically follow “covid” restrictions and take experimental medical products marketed as “vaccines”.
If I have interpreted this correctly (I think I have but it’s vague), I find this disappointing. Part of an email I received from the Free Speech Union, of which I am a member:
As Kemi Badenoch, the Business Secretary, pointed out in an exchange with Dodds, if this definition of ‘Islamophobia’ was universally accepted – and we all agreed it should be stamped out – it would create a blasphemy law via the back door.
The subject is this essay Banning Islamophobia: Blasphemy Law by the Backdoor – The Free Speech Union, the thrust of which I agree with. My concern is the phrase in bold, which seems to be saying that “Islamophobia” (presumably as defined by the FSU rather than the over-broad definition they are opposing) should be stamped out. I’m not sure that the FSU should be wanting to “stamp out” anything, except censorship and restrictions on freedom of speech, nor should it be attempting to define “Islamophobia”. Whatever happened to “I do not like what you say but defend your right to say it”?
Interested to hear what others think.
Well spotted.
The problem I have is with the term “stamped out”. My understanding of all phobias is that they are irrational fears. Irrationality is normal but not conducive to reasoned debate. The answer is to encourage free thinking with regard to whatever the topic of a phobia is, not censorship.
Yes I don’t find the term “stamped out” appealing
“It’s time to eliminate the concept of ‘mental health’” – The concept of ‘mental health’ is a hypochondriac’s, narcissist’s, shirker’s and social security fraudster’s charter, says Theodore Dalrymple in the Spectator.”
Absolutely spot on! Another crucial point he made was this:
“If you play a part long enough, after all, it is what you become: habit changes character.”
I never understood why people claiming to be “depressed” were given extra benefit money, much more than a “healthy” unemployed person. What was the extra money for, I asked someone, but received no reply. Prescription drugs? No, that’s on the NHS. What then?, I wondered.
It seems the Globalist plan is to physically and mentally debilitate the UK population, by tempting and bribing them with extra money if they pretend to be ill. And as Theodore Dalrymple said, if they play a part long enough, that’s what they become.
“Former SAS soldier in his 60s jailed for six months”
How odd that only a year after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced this legislation:
Plan to end all NI Troubles prosecutions confirmed – BBC News
“The government has confirmed it intends to bring forward legislation to ban all prosecutions related to the Troubles.
Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said the legacy proposals would allow Northern Ireland to “draw a line under the Troubles”.”…
…he was ousted by Catholic Liz Truss, and all mention of this legislation was buried and forgotten.
Is the Vatican now in charge of the UK?