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by Richard Eldred
12 March 2024 12:57 AM

  • “Lee Anderson joins Reform U.K. and as many as nine other Tory MPs could follow” – Lee Anderson has announced his defection to Reform U.K., declaring “I want my country back”, according to GB News.
  • “Why Starmer shouldn’t celebrate Lee Anderson’s Reform defection” – With Lee Anderson’s defection, there’s a real prospect of the Tory vote share in Red Wall seats switching to Reform in bulk, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
  • “Rishi Sunak has time on his side to save both economy and Tories before election” – Rishi Sunak may need to sack his Chancellor but it is not too late for him to rescue the country and his party, says John Longworth in the Express.
  • “Welsh First Minister frontrunner admits ‘embarrassment’ over deleted WhatsApps” – Vaughan Gething, the Wales Health Minister during the pandemic, told the Covid Inquiry it was a matter of regret his messages had not been kept, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Vaughan Gething ducks and weaves like a boxer at the Welsh Covid Inquiry” – You would be hard pressed to find a single moment at the Covid Inquiry where Mr. Gething admitted to getting a single thing wrong, says Will Hayward in WalesOnline.
  • “Four million at risk of abandoning work permanently as benefits surge” – A think tank warns that nearly four million people are at risk of permanently abandoning work amid a post-lockdown surge in benefits, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Harvard tramples the truth” – When it came to debating Covid lockdowns, veritas wasn’t Harvard’s guiding principle in spite of being the university’s motto, writes Martin Kulldorf in City Journal.
  • “Are you being sold your own watch?” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan question the UKHSA’s transparency, accountability and use of public funds.
  • “The ‘can we’ and the ‘should we’ of science” – On Substack, the Twilight Patriot discusses how scientific knowledge can be put to absurd and harmful uses.
  • “Why can police sue for being asked to do their jobs?” – We seem to be entering a more litigious era, one in which tragedy becomes industry, remarks Gus Carter in the Spectator, reflecting on the class action suit being brought by police officers who attended the Grenfell Tower fire.
  • “Labour comes out against Emirati bid for Telegraph” – The Spectator’s Fraser Nelson heralds Labour’s recent conversion to the view that foreign governments should not own national newspapers.
  • “Cambridge to scrap ‘unjust’ state school targets” – Cambridge University is scrapping its state school target for undergraduate admissions amid accusations of bias against independent school applicants, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Universities may reduce British student numbers as financial collapse looms” – One university in England is facing bankruptcy as frozen tuition fees, high costs and falling international numbers bite, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Did we really need Warsi and Baddiel’s podcast?” – A Muslim and a Jew Go There is yet another podcast from the centrist industrial complex, argues Lloyd Evans in the Spectator.
  • “Irish voters have delivered a stunning blow to the establishment” – Ireland’s rejection of the family and care amendments reminds us why direct democracy matters, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
  • “A new referendum has exposed the woke cause. Labour should tremble” – Few thought Ireland would reject its elites’ attempt to change the constitution. It could be a prophetic result, argues Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
  • “Macron has spied an easy win with his assisted dying bill” – Macron is swimming with the tide of popular opinion with his assisted dying bill, says Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
  • “Trudeau demands life in prison for speech crimes” – Canada’s Liberal Party is seeking incarceration for crimes that haven’t even been committed, writes Stephen Moore on the Public Substack.
  • “It may now be too late for the West, a corpse that cannot be galvanised” – Elected governments no longer have the power or will to do what is needed to save our free societies, laments Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
  • “Britain risks losing out to Germany in £16 billion Net Zero scheme” – The developer behind a £16 billion cable that will link Moroccan solar and wind farms to Britain has threatened to instead send electricity to Germany, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The ‘elephant in the room’ that risks exposing Britain’s Net Zero agenda” – The U.K.’s ‘hidden’ carbon emissions fail to show the bigger picture, says Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
  • “Net Zero costs to hit poorest households hardest, warns Ofgem” – Ofgem warns that the costs of hitting Net Zero could hit the poorest households hardest, according to the Telegraph. No, really?
  • “We must end the Net Zero delusion before it’s too late” – Net Zero threatens our economy, society and democracy, and we urgently need a change of direction, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
  • “Doubts raised over Sadiq Khan’s clean air claims” – Sadiq Khan has been accused of concealing the real impact of expanding the Ulez scheme from voters ahead of the mayoral election, say the BBC. Yes, the BBC!
  • “EVs have one third less range than advertised, magazine test finds” – According to tests, electric cars have up to a third less range in reality than advertised, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Diversity row erupts after Alan Turing Institute hires male scientists” – The U.K.’s national AI institute has been riven by a diversity row after staff signed a letter questioning the appointment of four male senior scientists, says the Telegraph.
  • “Starmer finally says ‘common sense has to prevail’ as he backs trans athletes ban” – Keir Starmer has backed the banning of biological men from women’s sport – after previously refusing to do so publicly, according to GB News.
  • “Police ‘broke rules by logging misgendering complaint against J.K. Rowling as hate incident’” – A woman’s advocacy group says that police broke freedom of speech rules by recording a ‘misgendering’ complaint against J.K. Rowling as a ‘hate incident’, says the Telegraph.
  • “Dylan Mulvaney calls out Bud Light for failing to stand up to bullying” – Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has revealed he wanted to win back Bud Light customers by doing a commercial with a cowboy and a trans person, according to the Mail.
  • “Can Australia endure the woke onslaught?” – Australia appears to have been infected with the same mind virus as the rest of the Anglosphere, says Konstantin Kisin on Substack. Yet all is not lost because Australia is about 10 years behind Britain and America.
  • “Woke big tech has launched a fatal crusade against free speech” – AI has transformed the way we collect data. In the wrong hands, it could prove disastrous, warns Joel Kotkin in the Telegraph.
  • “Netanyahu tells Biden his ‘red line’ is ‘destroying Hamas’” – Benjamin Netanyahu has hit back at Joe Biden by laying out his own red line in Gaza, according to the Mail.
  • “How the Gaza Ministry of Health fakes casualty numbers” – In The Tablet, Abraham Wyner explains why the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers should not be trusted.
  • “London police under fire after arresting man ‘for telling the truth’ about Hamas” – In the European Conservative, Michael Curzon discusses the Met’s recent arrest of a man for holding a sign reading “Hamas is terrorist” – a statement which the U.K. Government describes as fact.
  • “‘We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness’” – Oscar-winning writer and director Jonathan Glazer decides to feed the Hamas crocodile in his Oscar acceptance speech by declaring, “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict.”

Writer/director Jonathan Glazer stood at the #Oscars  and said, “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict”

There is a lot to debate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but let’s be clear -… pic.twitter.com/o0ksYjKTsi

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) March 11, 2024

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Excess Deaths Mainly in Covid Jabbed – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.

06a-Excess-Deaths-Mainly-in-Covid-Jabbed-MONOCHROME-copy
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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Monday morning Broad Lane & Bagshot Road Bracknell 

Remember climate change propaganda is 
another way of telling blatant lies.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Well this is a tad concerning, but then it is Londonistan, where the Khant reigns supreme and the police are mere lap dogs that hate patriots so nothing should surprise us anymore. Plus, who in their right mind would convert to Islam anyway? Well, nobody right-minded, clearly. You’d have to be a mentally ill masochist ( i.e Sinaed O’Connor springs to mind ) or a West-hating egomaniac sleaze who demonstrably hates women ( i.e Andrew Tate ).

”Amidst a cunning charm offensive, the terror-linked Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) launches a dangerous campaign targeting British non-Muslims, leaving many unsuspecting Britons vulnerable to conversion tactics and raising concerns about their understanding of the consequences of leaving Islam.

London finds itself at the center of a heated debate as the terror-tied Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) launches a campaign aimed at converting tens of thousands of non-Muslims to Islam. Dubbed “#DiscoverTheQuran,” the initiative, which deploys its members to the streets to target non-Muslims and try to convert them to Islam, has sparked concerns and raised eyebrows over its tactics and objectives. Especially troubling is the fact that individuals previously deployed by iERA to the streets for conversion efforts later joined the Islamic State in Syria, highlighting the potential risks associated with such initiatives.

The campaign, launched over the weekend, has drawn criticism for its dissemination of a whitewashed version of Islam and the Quran. Critics have accused the group of promoting a distorted portrayal of Islam through the distribution of propaganda posters and billboards featuring selective Quranic verses. Notably, the controversial group has consistently sought funds to support an ongoing campaign aimed at financing these billboards promoting Islamic messages.

The campaign will also distribute to Londoners 60,000 copies of the Quran, which teaches supremacy, hatred, and hostility. It dehumanizes and stigmatizes non-believers, making it easier to rationalize (or ignore) their mistreatment in the name of Islam.
Far from teaching universal love, the Quran incessantly preaches the inferiority of non-Muslims, even comparing them to vile animals and gloating over Allah’s hatred of them and his dark plans for their eternal torture. Muslims are told that they are destined to dominate non-believers, against whom harsh treatment is encouraged.”

https://rairfoundation.com/warning-muslim-terror-tied-group-launches-dangerous-campaign/

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

“The developer behind a £16 billion cable that will link Moroccan solar and wind farms to Britain has threatened to instead send electricity to Germany, reports the Telegraph.”

Why on earth would we want to buy and therefore end up relying on Moroccan electricity?

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Ask the locals in Lincolnshire? https://www.gbnews.com/news/locals-clash-national-grid-plans-build-forest-pylons-countryside I don’t sub to the T, but presumably there’s no local market across the Mediterranean, as there is plenty of nuclear generation in France, with it’s surplus being used by us and others.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

Well if it has to be wind then yes let the Moroccans ruin their landscape (probably less to ruin?) but wind doesn’t seem sensible to me. If we really think we should move away from so-called fossil fuels in order not to have to rely on unstable regions for power, why then build in a reliance on some other potentially unstable country.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Remember, it is an ambition of France to extend the EU to all countries around the Med. maybe that is why the political class wants rid of Israel?

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I don’t think we should be relying on French nuclear energy either. They might sell to Germany instead. We need energy security with the ability to meet 100% of our foreseeable demand with a bit extra to help out friends from time to time.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Totally agree. And that is surely a very realistic goal.

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The old bat
The old bat
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

You would have thought that Morocco would want and need the power for itself, and any excess could be sold to their neighbouring countries. The idea of ‘plugging us in’ to somewhere so far away seems ridiculous to me, but then everything is bonkers now.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Probably because the lights are going to go out soon when all our power stations have been decommissioned 🤯

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Because we do not make it ourselves and life itself depends on energy.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Mark my words, if it is ever built, to here or to Germany, there will be a big fat coal or gas plant built in Morocco, for ‘intermittent supply’ of wind and solar energy.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Lol.

It’s possible that enough “wind farms” could be built across the whole planet that enough electricity could be generated for everyone all of the time, given that the wind is probably always blowing somewhere. There might not be any room left for people, but the planet would be saved.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

OSCAR for ’20 days in Mariupol’: BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

‘Watched the 20 days in Mariupol. Honestly, I had no idea of the cost of bringing all this footage to the world. I used to think that these reports just emerged somehow. Thought I already knew everything, but no.

Yet, now it’s all recorded for future generations. Russia will never wash off this terrible crime and shame. It is what Russia will be remembered for.

And everyone responsible will undoubtedly pay for the blood they spilled, all the shills included. You can yell, lie, mock, but everything has already been recorded up there.’

Dmitri

The Ukrainian director of ’20 Days In Mariupol‘ said he wished he “never made” his award-winning documentary about the war, in a powerful speech at this year’s Oscars.

AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov won Best Documentary Feature for documenting the attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol by Russian forces. It was made from news dispatches and personal footage taken while he and his colleagues were trapped in the besieged city.

“I’m probably the only winner on this stage who wishes they had never made this film” he said.

Holding his Oscar he went on: “I wish I could exchange this for Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities”.

More details here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMrviHOLlB4

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

This is terrible isn’t it? How many other sex offenders are walking around free to offend at will all because the police don’t even try to catch the perverts? No wonder people have lost all respect for the police as the examples of their failures, corruption and incompetence never stop coming. Excellent work by this man;

”A sex crime victim has filed a formal complaint against the police, saying he was left to track down his own abuser after police claimed they couldn’t find him.
Keith Hinchliffe said he found his abuser, who targeted him as a teen in Twickenham, in “a couple of hours”.
Yet police had just closed his case, claiming months of investigations had failed to trace him.

He now knows his abuser was already a convicted paedophile and registered sex offender, meaning he should have been on police databases all along.
Thanks to Keith’s own detective work, Philip John Saunders was convicted of seven sex offences and jailed for six years.
Keith, who now lives in Monmouthshire, Wales, has waived his right to anonymity to tell the Richmond and Twickenham Times about his concerns over the police investigation.”

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-said-abuser-couldnt-traced-050000372.html

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“EVs have one third less range than advertised, magazine test finds” – According to tests, electric cars have up to a third less range in reality than advertised, reports the Telegraph.

Surely car makers’ claims have always been known to be exaggerated? The test of running the car until it stops is not ‘real world’; I’ve only ever once run out of petrol when I was young and it was bloody embarrassing and inconvenient. However, I can say that the range of these prestige EVs looks rubbish. The £50k Tesla Model 3 Long Range gets you 293 miles? The furthest I’ve driven my £1k Skoda Fabia between fill ups is just over 500 miles – not in one journey though. I know, I’m a nerd; I keep records.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“Britain risks losing out to Germany in £16 billion Net Zero scheme” – The developer behind a £16 billion cable that will link Moroccan solar and wind farms to Britain has threatened to instead send electricity to Germany, reports the Telegraph.

Planning documents published on the European transmission system operator’s website show that Xlinks, the company behind the project, has floated Germany as another end destination for its proposed undersea cable.

The move will ramp up pressure on the UK Government to throw its weight behind the project, which could prove critical for hitting net zero targets.

What? You mean we’ll have to compete with other countries to buy energy? Bastards!

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago

“influencer Dylan Mulvaney has revealed he wanted to win back Bud Light customers by doing a commercial with a cowboy and a trans person, according to the Mail.”.

Yep, that would do it. 😂

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Downvoters: please grow up. Downvoting because you don’t like someone is akin to calling people names in the playground. Worrying immaturity.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“Britain risks losing out to Germany in £16 billion Net Zero scheme”

Risks?? Could benefit more like! F#@k Moroccan solar and get building proper gas and coal power stations and who do you think would end up with a more reliable and secure source of electricity?

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“EVs have one third less range than advertised, magazine test finds”
Why would anyone find this surprising?
Vehicle manufacturers have been doing this since they were invented.
They have their own perfectly flat test tracks with no hills and built in camber laid with low friction surfaces, fit the cars with the hardest rubber compound tyres they can muster, use the smallest, lightest test driver alive, order him/she to drive like the pope, remove all uneeded weight (spare wheels etc), run tests on the calmest day of the year to avoid wind resistance and usually grow tall trees around the track to cut wind shear!
Then you will get the “manufacturers performance figures” on mpg or kilowatts per mile!

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
1 year ago

Australia: 10 hours ahead, and 10 years behind.

We New South Welshmen used to make the same joke about Queensland.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

…and the Victorians.

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