- “Tories narrowly back Sunak to lead party into next election” – A new opinion poll shows that Rishi Sunak is narrowly backed by Conservative voters to lead the party into the next General Election, according to the Telegraph.
- “Tugendhat lined up as ‘unity candidate’ as Tory plotters discuss Sunak replacement” – A core group of Right-wing Tory MPs have been openly discussing how to get rid of Rishi Sunak and replacing him with a ‘unity candidate’ such as Tom Tugendhat, reports the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch: Britain’s diversity drive has backfired” – The Women and Equalities Minister tells the Telegraph that inclusive policies in the workplace should not come at the expense of white men.
- “Compulsory pronouns and rainbow lanyards are not the way to foster inclusion” – Most employers mean well, writes Kemi Badenoch in the Telegraph, but clumsy diversity drives are worse than useless.
- “The BBC’s anti-Israel bias is becoming dangerous” – Instead of fixing the problems with its coverage, the BBC has hit out at legitimate criticism, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “Excess mortality still correlated with Covid vaccination rate” – On Substack, Igor Chudov looks at data from last December showing a strong positive correlation between excess mortality and Covid vaccination rates.
- “Why would mortality data by vaccine exposure be withheld from Parliament and Jane/Joe Public?” – How can you have informed consent if you do not know exactly what is going on? ask Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on Trust the Evidence.
- “Ofcom’s patrician war on GB News” – The broadcast regulator thinks viewers are too dim to discern opinions from facts, writes Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
- “Telegraph takeover by RedBird IMI faces regulatory probe” – Ofcom warns the Culture Secretary that a UAE-backed takeover of the Telegraph would potentially be against the public interest, reports the FT – although it’s all a bit academic now that Government has announced it intends to ban foreign states owning British media companies.
- “Why the push for a four-day week is backfiring” – Forget ‘4gust’ – when it comes to a shorter week, with no decrease in pay, the stats and facts just don’t stack up, says Charlotte Lytton in the Telegraph.
- “German democracy researchers publish report on the tyrannical countries that ban opposition parties and restrict freedom of expression, which would never ever happen here” – On Substack, Eugyppius mocks German democracy researchers for focusing on the autocracy of developing nations, while overlooking problems at home.
- “Councils could be stopped from making profits out of traffic fines” – Analysis by the RAC finds that a fifth of the 100 most profitable yellow box junctions are potentially not compliant with traffic sign regulations, reports the Times.
- “Britain’s energy system will not hit Net Zero until 2035, National Grid tells Labour” – The National Grid says that Britain’s electricity networks will not hit Net Zero until 2035, undermining a key 2030 pledge by Labour, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour will bring back ‘boiler tax’, pledges Ed Miliband” – The Shadow Energy Secretary backs plans, previously abandoned by the Tories, to impose fines on homeowners for failing to install useless, unworkable heat pumps, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s dangerous Net Zero fantasy” – Ed Miliband’s promise to decarbonise electricity by 2030 and save us money in the process is doomed, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The Tories are stuck in a Net Zero trap of their own making” – Wind is an intermittent source of energy, which means the grid can do without it, but it can’t do without fossil fuel and nuclear generation, writes Rupert Darwall in the Spectator.
- “Climate change is ‘off the charts’, with records smashed in 2023” – A new report from the World Meteorological Organisation warns that climate change is “off the charts” and presents a “defining challenge” to humanity, reports the Mail. Paging Chris Morrison…
- “Climate change – perspective is not a dirty word (Part 2)” – On Substack, Stephen Andrews discusses how a misleading portrayal of data supports the climate narrative.
- “King’s Cross station faces backlash after ‘Islamic’ message appears” – King’s Cross station bosses have hit back at critics after an Islamic message appeared on its customer information board, reports the Mail.
- “Labour accused of letting kids change gender without telling parents” – Just 28% of 68 Welsh schools say they would directly inform the family of a student’s decision to change gender, according to the Mail.
- “Teacher sacked for refusing pupil’s preferred pronouns” – A gender-critical teacher has told a tribunal he was sacked after refusing to use a trans student’s preferred pronouns, reports the Mail.
- “Justin Webb and the trans row causing a ‘meltdown’ at the BBC” – The Today presenter Justin Webb’s rebuke for a remark about ‘trans women’ has enraged his colleagues – and raises questions about the BBC’s true agenda, write Robin Aitken and Liam Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “‘Woke’ people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests” – Psychological researchers in Finland have discovered a negative correlation between progressive ideals and levels of happiness, reports the New York Post.
- “If the woke generations are even triggered by ‘guinea pig’, it’s no wonder they’re so unhappy” – Lloyds’ new bible of ‘inclusive language’ invites us to imagine a cowardly new world without pain, hardship or loss, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “‘Seeing aborted foetus gasp for breath scarred me’” – “My months on the gynaecological ward had been the happiest and most rewarding of my short career – until I was asked to help during the termination of a pregnancy at 27 weeks,” recalls Nadine Dorries in the Mail.
- “Cambridge college axes mixed gender choir” – A Cambridge college is embroiled in a row over plans to scrap an Anglican choir to make way for more diverse musical offerings, reports Varsity.
- “Actors face prosecution for ‘abusive’ speech in SNP hate crime crackdown” – New fears have been raised that actors could be targeted by the SNP’s hate crime crackdown after police officers were told that a “public performance of a play” could be used to broadcast “abusive material”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Adobe Firefly follows in Google Gemini’s woke footsteps with photos of black Nazis, black and female founding fathers” – Adobe’s Firefly seems to be following in the woke footsteps of Google’s Gemini AI, generating photos of black Nazis and black and female founding fathers, reports the New York Post.
- “‘Google’s woke AI wasn’t a mistake. We know. We were there’” – Multiple former Google employees tell the Free Press that the Gemini fiasco stems from a corporate culture that prioritises DEI over excellence and good business sense.
- “Another ‘conspiracy theory’ is now ‘good for you’” – The Deep State exists, and according to the New York Times, is now good for you, remarks Igor Chudov on Substack.
- “SCOTUS ponders whether the Government coerced social media platforms to censor speech” – The U.S. Supreme Court appears doubtful about claims the Biden administration is guilty of breaching the First Amendment in urging social media platforms to suppress information it deemed inaccurate or false during the pandemic, reports Reason.
- “A turbulent day for free speech at the Supreme Court” – A ‘once in a lifetime pandemic’ is no excuse to throw the First Amendment out the door, says the Washington Examiner in a leading article.
- “A compilation of Dems using the word ‘Bloodbath’” – Someone has put together a compilation of Democrats using the word ‘bloodbath’ after prominent Democrats and liberal news publishers led a pile-on against Trump for using the word in a recent speech, claiming he was threatening insurrection if he loses in November.
Here's a compilation of Dems using the word Bloodbath. Ouch. pic.twitter.com/ziVkJLrYd6
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Somebody else who has their eyes wide open and can see right through the intention of installing a Muslim statue and what it really signifies. The giveaway is the timing, plus the ability to look around and be aware of what’s happening to our societies in the West. Why did they not install a war memorial for Muslims 20 or 30 years ago, for instance?
”Timing is everything.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the government will fund a national war memorial to those Muslim soldiers who fought on our side during the two world wars and in subsequent conflicts. We have also been reminded that other religions have similar memorials.
And that is true. But is there anything more that this particular commemoration might represent?
Whether mass immigration was encouraged because it was seen as a solution to falling birth rates, a pension crisis or a darker death-wish for Christian culture, it was founded on a profound ignorance of what Islam believed and how it acted.
At the same time, an entirely false distinction was made between Islam and Islamism, as if Islamism described an entirely separate and unconnected political extremist variant among Muslims. Whereas, in fact, Islam is a well-balanced hybrid of religion and politics, aspiring to create a seamlessly faithful Islamic society in terms of both spirituality and political and ethical expression.
We might explore the demographic acceleration of Islamic presence in our country, but we would end up arguing about variables. The most useful wake-up call for many was provided by French novelist Michel Houellebecq in his novel Submission, in which he explored both the desire of Islam to change the face of French society and its means of doing so.
Is there an inherent desire to Islamify a society in which the numbers of Muslims and their political and cultural influence grows? There are Muslim voices that speak to this, but that might be countered by the argument that they are not sufficiently representative.
Either way, the present tensions in our democracy appear to reflect the growing leverage of Islamic preferences.”
https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-choose-now-for-a-national-muslim-monument-to-the-brave-soldiers-who-died-for-us-during-two-world-wars/
And is it just coincidence that the 2024 Brittania coin struck by the Royal Mint has Britannia, the personification of Britain, being looked down upon by a crescent moon which just happens to be exactly the same orientation as the crescent moon on so many Muslim flags?
https://www.royalmint.com/britannia/commemorative/2024-britannia/
Well-spotted! The crescent moon symbol is also the symbol of Shiva/Satan, “god” of Destruction. Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other cults are all worshipping the same thing: KaliAllah the Moon Spider Goddess of Death and her Toyboy Shiva/Satan.
The Black Cube of Mecca is built directly upon the foundations of a Hindu temple to KaliAllah, also called Durga, the remains of the apsidal wall of which can still be seen jutting out from one side of it. And the rituals of white-robed people running counter-clockwise around the Black Cube is derived from Hinduism. The name Allah is not Arabic, but one of the many Sanskrit names for Kali.
The last several times I have looked at war memorials they did not have words to exclude soldiers, sailors or airmen of any race or religion. They were gender, race and belief inclusive.
If there is to be a separate memorial to muslim dead from the forces, why not for each other religion, for atheists, for men and women and for urban or rural fighters. Gay and straight.
Clearly this is a divisive proposal which is designed to divide.
Crime rate due specifically to non-Germans in Bavaria ( it’s not just in that state ) is on the rise. These figures will not be accurate given Germany’s new accelerated citizenship process for migrants ( unsure if that’s started yet ), which could see a foreigner arriving in the country five years ago, getting their German papers then any crimes they commit they’d go down on record as ”German”.
”An increasing migrant population has contributed significantly to a spike in crime across the German state of Bavaria, the state’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann claimed on Monday.
Speaking after his ministry’s publication of the state police’s crime stats for last year, the CSU politician assured the public that Bavaria remains a particularly safe area of the country, but bemoaned the fact that crime had increased across the state and attributed much of this increase to foreign nationals.
“We will not accept the increase in crime, even if it is a nationwide trend for which foreigners and immigrants are particularly responsible,” Herrmann said in a press release on Monday.
“We have commissioned the State Criminal Police Office and our police headquarters to analyze crime developments in detail in order to adapt operational concepts and police presence if necessary,” he added.
According to the crime stats, a total of 39.6 percent of the 266,390 suspects in crimes across the state last year were non-Germans despite only comprising 16 percent of the state’s population. This corresponds to an increase of 20.5 percent compared to 2022 when 32,037 immigrants were suspected of criminal offenses.”
https://www.rmx.news/crime/foreigners-to-blame-for-sky-rocketing-crime-stats-says-bavarian-interior-minister/
tells us:
In what fantasy world will we have spare energy to export? Lunacy.
Very occasionally we’re exporting to continental Europe – I think when the wind is blowing a lot. But net for the year we import roughly 10% from EU. We do export to Ireland, but that’s not what they are talking about.
Good point – but I was talking about what the situation will be in 2030/35 when so many more people will be plugging in their BEVs and running heat pumps. At that point I’d expect us to be importing energy from French nuke stations just to keep the lights on and warm.
When the wind is blowing for the UK it’s likely blowing throughout northern Europe. When the UK has a glut of wind power – so will they (mostly).
Of course, ‘we’ may miss our BEV and heat pump targets – in which case why can’t we also miss ‘our’ carbon-free grid target?
Indeed. If the 2030/2035 evil comes to pass I doubt the Europeans will have enough juice either. Either the targets will slip or we will have power cuts/power rationing which will either be enforced with quotas or huge price increases or both.
FFS. Want to understand where all the woke identity politics started? There’s a clue.
Irelands inept government strikes again!
Legally required posters at every garage displaying distances per 100km for petrol/diesel and ev performance!
There are so many variables to this it makes it absolute nonsense
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/filling-stations-to-be-required-to-display-ev-price-comparison-poster-1603312.html
erm. Usually 100km per 100km. Unless you’re going so fast that Einstein would be interested.
Yes, I do get your point – very silly posters. Mind you, they can hardly deny they ever told these lies if they publish them that widely.
The UK price of an entry level petrol Vauxhall Corsa is £22,255; the electric one is £32,445. So, the electric one is £10,190 (€11,924) more. Difference in price between petrol and electric per 100km is €10.04 – €3.18 = €6.86 per 100km. To save the €11,924 difference in purchase cost at €6.86 per 100km you will have to travel 173,823km or over 100,000 miles.
Happy motoring.
Sorry my mistake, price per 100km !
That’s if your ev can actually go that far according to all the manufacturers lies on range!
“King’s Cross station faces backlash after ‘Islamic’ message appears”
The “message of repentance” coming from a “hadith” is a total fraud. Repentance for sin is a Christian concept, and has no place in Islam or Judaism or any other religion, as far as I am aware.
Hadiths have no validity at all in Islam, being just imams down through the centuries making up stuff and sticking them into a list. They like copying things from other religions, and in the King’s Cross one they are just trying to imitate Christianity.
I don’t know whether it has validity in Islam, but it certainly does in Judaism.
See for example 2 Chronicles 7:14.
“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Also here:
https://www.brandeis.edu/jewish-experience/holidays-religious-traditions/2021/september/atonement-yom-kippur-mirsky.html
No, actual repentance for sin is replaced in Judaism by “atonement”, which is not repentance, but only a ritual to protect yourself from being blamed for your sins in the next year. The Yom Kippur “Day of Atonement” means performing a ritual in which you transfer all your sins for the past year into a helpless chicken, swing it over your head, slit its throat, watch it choking to death slowly in agony, then give it to “The Poor” to eat your sins. You also take the Kol Nidre Vow, which allows you to lie and cheat and break any oaths sworn during the next year.
Then you go on sinning as much as you want.
“Labour will bring back ‘boiler tax’, pledges Ed Miliband” – The Shadow Energy Secretary backs plans, previously abandoned by the Tories, to impose fines on homeowners for failing to install useless, unworkable heat pumps”
WRONG. The plans were not “abandoned” by the Tories. They were delayed by one year, until after the election.
In other words, Tory and Labour policy on the boiler tax is now identical – they would both impose it after the election. But they are both pretending there is a difference between them on this issue.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/boiler-tax-shelved-until-after-election-following-tory-backlash/ar-BB1jUqTZ
Wow. Well done for exposing that vital piece of information.
“Tugendhat lined up as ‘unity candidate’ as Tory plotters discuss Sunak replacement”
I think he’s a good choice, as he has often bravely spoken out about things that matter, defying the Globalists.
No, it turns out that he’s not legally eligible for the post of Monarch’s Prime Minster, as yet another of the extraordinary number of Catholics and Closet Catholics in the government, far outnumbering Protestants. Only Mordaunt and Gove are eligible, it seems.
Boris Johnson was a fellow left-footer.
Well, Boris did convert to the Protestant Church of England at university, when he found out that as a Catholic he would not be able to legally hold the post of Prime Minister. Teresa May was a Closet Catholic, like her father, and therefore secretly holding the post illegally, as pointed out by none other than Michael Gove when she was PM.
Jewish Disraeli also converted to Anglicanism in order to become Prime Minister, and Tony Blair had to wait until leaving office before announcing his conversion to Catholicism. Truss and Sunak both were given the post illegally.
What has he spoken out about?
I don’t remember a peep out of him during “covid”.
“Tories narrowly back Sunak to lead party into next election”
Great, Sunak’s staying, time to leave
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(All tories with a precarious seat, like Anderson!)