- “Anger, denials and apathy over Tory ‘plots’ to oust Rishi Sunak” – In the Times, Steven Swinford identifies the moment of maximum danger for the PM as immediately after the May local elections.
- “Kemi Badenoch dismisses speculation about ousting Rishi Sunak” – The Business Secretary says that the “small minority” of Tory MPs talking about replacing the PM should “stop it”, according to the BBC.
- “Mordaunt could lose seat – so stick with Sunak, say PM’s allies” – Penny Mordaunt is at risk of losing her seat at the next election, according to current polling – an argument allies of Rishi Sunak are using to warn against a leadership change, reports the Telegraph.
- “Penny Mordaunt is a red herring only ‘Howard’s Way’ could save the Tories” – The prospectus Michael Howard put before the country in 2005 would sweep the board two decades later. But this generation of Tory MPs will never offer us that, says Patrick O’Flynn on Substack.
- “March towards the guns, Ben Wallace tells Tory MPs” – The former Defence Secretary says it is “too late” to replace Rishi Sunak and it is time for Conservative MPs to “march towards the sound of the guns” and “get on with it”, reports the Telegraph. Into the valley of death rode the 348…
- “Netanyahu says Israel won’t accept Gaza peace deal” – The Israeli PM says the country won’t accept a Gaza peace deal that leaves Israel “weak” and “unable to defend itself” against hostile neighbours, according to the Mail.
- “The future of the lab leak theory” – Now that a lab leak seems all but certain, what can be learnt from a deeper enquiry? A lot, says Dr. Jonathan Latham in Independent Science News.
- “Migration surge drives London population to new record” – London’s population has surged to a new record high after a sharp rise in migration and a reversal of the Covid-era ‘race for space’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Home Office ‘wastes millions’ converting Dambusters base into asylum camp” – The Home Office has been accused of wasting tens of millions of pounds on converting the Dambusters’ former base into an asylum camp without a single migrant being housed on it, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Multiculturalism’ is damaging our society. There is only one way to stop it” – It was foolish to think we could integrate so many people from different cultures in so little time. We must reduce immigration – and fast, warns Ben Habib in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s private school tax raid ‘could cost taxpayer £1.6 billion a year’” – A new report suggests Labour’s private school tax raid could cost the taxpayer £1.6 billion a year if it forces a quarter of pupils into the state sector, reports the Telegraph.
- “Humza’s Hate Crime Act is an authoritarian mess” – The Mail’s Stephen Daisley reacts to the chilling new law which aims to police what Scots say in their own homes.
- “German domestic intelligence services target political dissidents considered guilty of ‘delegitimising’ the state in yet another ominous development reminiscent of the DDR” – We were always told that, in the West, unlike in totalitarian countries, you can criticise your government and your politicians all you like. In Germany, that’s no longer the case, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups” – The University of Cambridge will halt funding from fossil fuel companies – totalling £19.7 million from BP and Shell between 2016 and 2023 in research funding – following a campaign from its students and academics, according to the FT.
- “97% of scientists agree climate change is manmade… or do they?” – On Substack, Mr. Ed takes a wrecking ball to the 97% climate change myth.
- “BBC ‘should stop straying from Agatha Christie’s storylines’” – Award-winning author and Agatha Christie expert Andrew Wilson says the BBC has committed a number of offences against her original work, according to the Mail.
- “Is enjoying the countryside racist?” – Taxpayer money is no longer merely being used to enable wokery, but to incentivise it, says Tom Jones in CapX.
- “Cambridge University doesn’t need DEI” – Affirmative action is an affront to meritocracy, writes Prof. David Abulafia in UnHerd.
- “Will Keir Starmer legalise euthanasia?” – On the latest episode of The Current Thing podcast, Nick Dixon sits down with Rev. Dr. Jamie Franklin to discuss Starmer’s push for euthanasia, Sunak’s spiritually bereft woolly liberalism and the benefits of aristocracy over meritocracy.
- “France could introduce ‘hair discrimination’ law in the workplace” – The French Parliament will debate a proposed law tackling racist “hair discrimination” in the workplace, according to the Telegraph.
- “Are Hamas misunderstood?” – Performing at London’s Comedy Unleashed, Andrew Doyle unravels the true meaning behind such terms as ‘jihad’, ‘intifada’ and ‘from the river to the sea’.
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Cracking post.
In the US, the FBI has labelled any Catholic group not supporting Vatican II a terrorist organisation….an open door to eventually persecute all Christians.
JRM is a Catholic. White. Male. He is of course the quintessential alt right-extremist-whack job-literally Hitler and I am shaking right now- archetype.
Stasis in our midst? Certainly. Gestapo along the outlines of the Rona fascism, coming into clearer view.
Love it. But I am sure the satire will be mistakenly submitted as evidence in your forthcoming trial for High Treason, Mr Dixon; these people don’t have a sense of humour.
Aren’t “right” and “left” very one-dimensional ? As far as I know, the terms come from the French Revolution, and vaguely mean “royalist” vs. “republican”, or “small-state” vs “”big-state”. There’s at least one other dimension: liberal vs authoritarian. Could be there are other dimensions. As for “terrorist”, doesn’t it actually mean you commit un-state-sponsored atrocities like blowing up random people? It’s worrying, and worryingly destructive that the language in which we might speak to each other has decayed into, almost literally, slime.
The terms go back to the revolutionary French national assembly and refer to the radicals, who wanted a democratic republic (left) and the more conservative deputies who wanted to keep a constitutional monarchy (right). Neither group entertained ‘neoliberal’ US tax-avoider fantasies of the 1980s.
I don’t know much about JRM’s political views, though he was certainly in a senior position during covid and IIRC did bugger all squared to oppose covid folly and evil. Does he represent “mainstream Conservative views”? Not sure. He has been a senior member of the umpteenth Tory government that has done bugger all squared to reverse the extreme leftward drift of this country. He’s supposedly on the political right of the party – perhaps this is true, but it’s not much of an achievement given how left wing it has been for so long.
There are various references to “far right” views and how JRM and his supporters are not “far right”. I’m not happy about that. The implication is that people who are really “far right” are a legitimate target for this kind of thing, but today’s definition of “far right” might well encompass a lot of people who post here and millions in the UK. “Far right” makes people think of Nazis, goon squads marching down the streets beating their opponents, locking people up without trial, totalitarian propaganda, control of information, politicisation of the police, sending people to camps etc – all common tactics of the left, and many of them used in the name of “keeping people safe” during covid by rich world governments.
In short, I don’t think this helps us as much as people might think, in fact I think it does the opposite – normalises the idea that there is a “far right” that needs keeping an eye on.
You make a good point particularly in your last sentence. Given that I was a senior local Tory politician in Scotland, I would say that my political views are 50% Margaret Thatcher and 50% Clement Attlee and I do wonder what that makes me. I have friends who think I have Socialist principles such as the provision of more social housing and other friends who think my views are to the right of Genghis Khan.
They are both wrong; my views are sensible, moral and treat Covid Lockdowns and Net Zero as the two greatest debacles of our time…. and I was born in the 1940s.
I suspect Clement Atlee was more conservative than most modern Tory politicians, especially on social issues.
If Rees-Mogg is right wing what does that make us lot?
Literally Hitler
One of my virtue signalling dimwit over educated colleagues compared me to Hitler during Covid
Bernard Lown experienced similar behaviour from his colleagues when he went against the “obvious” medical consensus of the day by daring to suggest that bed rest was the wrong treatment for heart attacks https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/a-chair-to-the-rescue/ It was his colleagues’ preferred treatment that was killing millions, not Lown’s.
Thanks
A fascinating story that shows the problems with the profession highlighted by the Covid folly run deep
This is the first time I’ve heard about Prevent.
I’ll have to go and look it up. But that says something about our “free society”. It seems that there is some sort.of publicly funded agency out there that spies and produces reports on us that a fairly well informed person was completely unaware of.
Our system is broken and out of control.
I knew about Prevent.
Probably thought it was a good idea at the time; now I am not so sure.
Ditto. Had Prevent training as I was working in Brum at the time, clinical patch covering areas like Sparkhill, Alum Rock. The installation of cameras in those areas didn’t go down very well for some reason….
The Wokerati appear to have infiltrated counter-terrorism. As far as I understand it, Prevent was initially set up post 9/11 and initially targeted Muslim extremists, managing to create all sorts of cultural fractures while doing so alongside plenty of calls for its abandonment (it was already described as a ‘busted flush’ back in 2016). As that’s now considered supremacist-inspired racism, clearly they need another target and who better than the privileged white cisgenders who won’t stick to the narrative, eh?
Old, but provides useful background:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/even-its-staunchest-advocates-can-see-prevent-busted-flush
‘A heavy focus on combatting non-violent extremism with an unhelpfully vague definition of how that actually manifests, has meant people are being superficially trained to subjectively spot signs of radicalisation.
There are no assurances given to stop this playing into existing and quite prolific biases and prejudices – any government policy should at the very minimum be aiming to dispel prejudice, but Prevent encourages it.’
Maybe they’re worried about him becoming a presenter on GBN; not that they would admit to that.
Yes, that would put the country on red alert: A “far-right extremist” presenting on “dangerous” broadcaster to us helpless victims of “misinformation”!
We live in an upside down world where moderate views a extremist and extremist views are moderate.
The IRA committed heinous crimes but are now just part of the Globalist Establishment. In other words the continue to commit heinous crimes.
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Definitely outside of the quotation marks. Unless the full stop is an integral part of the quote, in which case there would be a case for a second full stop outside of the quotation marks. Don’t quote me on this though…
If you define “right wing” as anything the BBC does npot approve of there must be a loit of them about. But any rational definition leads to the inevitable conclusion there are very very few of them.
Furthermore, they are all-but pointless and harmless. Best kleft alone.
Those running these things know what they are doing and it amounts to a coup d’etat in open air.
In Germany, he would already have been deemed and arrested as a Reichsbuerger.
I felt a bit like one and being among them at the TCW event: almost everyone was well-groomed, polite and wearing suits or tweed jackets.
On top of that, everyone was sane and didn’t spout nonsense.
Very dangerous!
I am passively patriotic and proud so I suppose that makes me a Division Two terrorist. My father, from India, invented the Tebbit Test long before the eponymous Lord, so I cheered yesterday at every English try, along with the many thousands actually at Twickenham who along with all those who actively support England at cricket, and the UK at the Olympics, must also be terrorists.
Oh dear. Perhaps we might take comfort in the old saw that those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
The left are losing and they know it
As someone said a few years ago (it may have been Nancy Pelosi, but i am not certain) —————“We are all Socialists now”. In the Liberal Progressive western world where right wing politics is to be demonised and even criminalised, it is not entirely unexpected that the focus will be on terrorism that emanates from extreme right wing thinking and does all it can as far as it can get away with to sweep under the carpet Islamist terrorism which clearly is the major problem if we look at the numbers and the data. This is ofcourse because multicultural dogma is more important than applying “equal justice” to all. Somehow or other the liberal left and it’s welfare dependency, open borders and global government aspirations at the expense of Nation States by use of a phony climate crisis to “unite us all” gets the nod. Which is really surprising since socialism makes people’s lives worse not better. You see people in the UK still clamouring to be back in the EU despite us having voted on that 7 years ago and despite them mostly not even knowing who the Presidents are, because no one elected them. They were simply put in place by the Commission. Can you imagine the spitting fury if a Conservative had simply been made Prime Minister without an election in 2019. So an unaccountable and unelected EU government is where these people want to go back to. Instead of freedom they want their leaders to control everything they do except maybe how they cut their toenails. How absurd is that? ———So demonising and ad hominin attacks on people seen as to the perfectly legitimate political position as right of centre is one of the major tools of the Liberal Progressive, who would have everyone compared to Nazi’s at every opportunity.
I have not heard of Prevent until now – it seems Pervert may be a better name.
As for JRM despatching someone with a polite remark, he also would pay to have a Mass said for the repose of the soul of the departed.