- “Climate of harassment and censorship threatens free speech, warns Government advisor” – Dame Sara Khan says politicians and individuals are being subjected to abuse and rape and death threats to stop them expressing their views, according to the Telegraph.
- “UN Security Council demands ceasefire in Gaza” – The Government is facing a backlash from Tory MPs after Britain helped pass the first UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, reports the Telegraph.
- “Candace Owens and the batshit Right” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill explains why both the woke Left and cranky Right are swimming in the cesspit of antisemitism.
- “Why did the SNP make allowances for Spain during Covid?” – In the Spectator, Stephen Daisley highlights a recent Covid Inquiry revelation that a senior civil servant in Scotland advocated for Spain’s inclusion in the ‘travel corridor‘ list due to concerns over Spain’s potential refusal to approve EU membership for an independent Scotland.
- “Humza’s dreadful April Fool law is no laughing matter” – Murdo Fraser MSP lights into Humza Yousaf for his dreadful Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act and explains how (with the help of the Free Speech Union) he’s fighting back.
- “The WHO wants to rule the world” – The new pandemic treaty will change the WHO from a technical advisory organisation into a supra-national public health authority exercising quasi-legislative and executive powers over states, warns Ramesh Thakur for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Alarm over mystery cancer ‘epidemic’ striking under-50s” – Scientists are scrambling to find the cause of a mystery cancer ‘epidemic’ which is striking under-50s, reports the Mail.
- “Whoops! FOIA response from Santa Clara County reveals that the Covid shots INCREASED your risk of getting Covid!” – The Covid vaccines worked in reverse making people more susceptible as revealed by new documents released by Santa Clara County, says Steve Hirsch on Substack.
- “Suella Braverman: Rishi Sunak refused to meet for a year to discuss legal migration” – Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman says the Prime Minister didn’t think soaring levels of immigration was “an important issue for the British people”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Germany needs migration ‘pause’, says senior opposition MP” – Berlin is facing mounting pressure to reform its immigration policies, reports the Telegraph.
- “Yousaf’s ‘Tory free’ Scotland is no longer free” – The SNP’s Hate Crime Act is liberal hypocrisy in its purest form, defending only the beliefs of its authors, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “‘My country is returning to totalitarianism’ warns daughter of legendary Czech freedom fighter” – On the Public Substack, Cecílie Jílková vents her suspicion that the U.S., the EU and George Soros are funding a crackdown on free speech in the Czech Republic.
- “Lies, ideology and repression: China seals Hong Kong’s failed-state fate” – Under new security laws, known as Article 23, life imprisonment awaits Hong Kongers who defy the behemoth to the north, writes Simon Tisdall in the Guardian.
- “Threats, fear and surveillance: how China targets students in the U.K. who criticise regime” – Chinese students tell the Guardian they are scared to return home and worry for their families after being harassed by Chinese authorities for criticising the CCP on British soil.
- “Is reform possible?” – People in Britain and France should pay close attention to what is happening in Argentina, for it is a laboratory for their own future, writes Theodore Dalrymple in the Epoch Times.
- “Fury as 4x4s drivers in Oxford to be taxed more under ‘outrageous’ plan” – People who drive SUVs in Oxford will pay more for parking under a brand new plan being brought in by the city’s council, reports the Express.
- “Labour’s Net Zero plans ‘will cost £116 billion’” – Keir Starmer’s pledge to decarbonise the U.K. by 2030 will require more than £15.5 billion additional investment per year until the start of the next decade, says the Telegraph.
- “‘I was wrong about renewables’ says former green energy executive” – A 20-year veteran of clean tech now says we need to use more, not less, energy, especially natural gas and nuclear, writes Brian Gitt on the Public Substack.
- “Tribunal rules that not every workplace incident involving Muslims will be related to religion” – An employment judge has rejected claims that a doctor was ‘racially profiled’ when she was asked to roll up her sleeves in accordance with hygiene rules, reports GB News.
- “John Craven claims there is ‘disturbing’ evidence of racism in country” – Countryfile presenter John Craven says that while some white people claim rural areas are free of racial prejudice, academics argue bigotry can manifest in “mundane ways”, according to the Mail.
- “BBC’s Woman’s Hour faces backlash over ‘porn series’” – Woman’s Hour is facing a backlash from listeners after it announced a series of debates on pornography, says the Telegraph.
- “Trans zealots are a threat to kids’ welfare” – Why did a CBBC presenter lead a protest against evidence-based medicine? asks Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “MacKenzie Scott channels most of her $640 million to Left-wing causes” – Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott is giving away much of her whopping $640 million in charity to extreme Left-wing causes, including pro-LGBTQ and illegal migrant funds, reports the Mail.
- “The Government has empowered left-wing activists to behave in the way the Khan review outlines with no consequences” – Dr. Neema Parvini reacts to Dame Sara Khan’s report which said Britain is struggling to tackle extremism on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s show on GB News.
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‘Town Crier Championship to be held in Silence’.
Servile surrender to the new puritanism, might as well write an essay about how you would win a game of football.
5 seconds of thought = Each Town Crier takes it in turn to do his/her thing from the town hall clocktower to the Socially Distanced crowd of the great and the good down below. Simples.
I thought that one had to be just taking the piss.
… but then I woke up, and remembered the last year of the piss being constantly taken.
‘Letter to an MP from a daughter’.
Clearly the author and her mum deserve our sympathies and let’s hope they go out walking again soon.
Going off topic, the letter says that her mum recieved a second vaccination ‘several weeks ago’.
“Despite all best efforts Covid did enter the home in January taking mums best friend .”
She does not link the two.
These care homes sound just like prisons. Better to take your elderly relatives out of them and bring them home to live with you, so they can have quality lives before they die.
‘Kier Starmer has betrayed a chilling truth about lockdown.’ Jonathan Sumption.
I saw Starmer being interviewed by the BBC after his fracas with the Bath hero publican and noted that he accused Rod Humphris of denying the Pandemic which he had not.
I was sure that I could remember Starmer further accusing him of ‘*spreading misinformation*’ about the well known negative effects of lockdown but could not subsequently find the clip, perhaps removed, so did not mention it yesterday.
I am grateful to Lord Sumption for confirming my memory.
I’m afraid Sumption betrays one or two fixed misapprehensions.
“Why has Sir Keir failed to live up to his initial promise?”
What initial promise? The recent leadership election was the first in which I couldn’t see a candidate worthy of any vote.
And then :
“No sensible person disputes that there is a pandemic or that it is serious.”
Sorry – but facts are facts. It is only a ‘pandemic’ because the WHO eliminated the part of the definition that related to unusually high mortality. In terms of ‘seriousness’, judged by mortality, this is at a lower level than a third of ‘flu seasons. And this in a country that has a relatively high rate!
Yes, and below the line I also pointed out to him that all of this evil is not just murderous and wilful ignorance – there is clearly a plan (Agenda 30 etc)…and he needs to re-analyse. Lord Sumption’s use of ‘limited/trimmed argument’ reminds me a bit of someone else…..
Kev’s response was basically ” He’s entitled to have an opinion, but I profoundly disagree with his opinion. So much so, that I got Big Vern to rough him up a bit”
The last year we’ve seen politician, after politician being caught in what would normally be career ending episodes and yet, not a single one has been kicked out.
Dan Wooton in the Màil also comes down in favour of the Hero of Bath, noting how he was bullied on Good Morning Britain the following day (worth watching btw).
Dan also says
“I believe what the government is putting us through to socialise is inhumane.
On Friday night I booked to see five friends in one of those outdoor dining pods. But it was rendered completely useless because the sides had to be left open to the buffeting winds thanks to another stupid state sanction.
I deeply resent having to sit outside in the freezing cold to see a loved one”.
Good. Now you know how smokers felt after the indoor ban with Council wonks worrying publicans about what constituted a ‘covered smoking area’ or what they considered to be an ‘enclosed’ one.
Not off topic because it’s all part of the same divide and control strategy.
Not at all like being a smoker, however (I was one). Smoking genuinely affected other people other people (as I came to realize).
My point was about forcing smokers not only to go outside, fair enough, but getting petty and vindictive about how little shelter they were allowed from the elements. Non smokers were not involved.
Probably just a limited trial run to gauge reaction for the big one.
There is a designated smoking area at my small regional airport. It consists of a bus stop shelter from which the perspex walls forming the sides have been thoughtfully removed.
If not the shelter is considered an ‘enclosed working space’ since someone has to clean it once in a while.
Hahahah….loved the pic of celebrity yachts spelling out shite. Who are they appealing to…. aliens or satellites?!
It’s a satire site.
By ‘they’ I was referring to the celebrities with their yachts….message seen from above!
I keep reading reports of
many people not wearing masks in supermarkets and putting staff in danger on e-news reports.
My wife and myself go shopping in our local Sainsburys at least once a week since mask wearing became mandatory and I have seen no more than 6 people (exempt) not wearing them in all that time.
So where are all these people who go to supermarkets that don’t wear masks?
Perhaps I live in a parallel universe?
I see a far higher proportion of unmasked staff with Exempt lanyards than customers and good for them.
Risk to their health from extended wearing is much greater, as we all know.
Agreed.
Our younger son is one of them.
Tim Spector in the ZOE app disparaging Vit D. He is however focussing on it’s ability to stop people catching Covid rather that it’s proven ability to enhance the immune system, which is designed to fight infection not stop it.
Although the App has done some good I believe Spector is a ‘tame critic’. He makes it look as if he’s standing up to ‘The Science’ but when it matters he’s totally ‘on message’.
That’s my impression, too.
Never trust any app especially if its collecting medical data.
Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out ‘We’re All In This Together’ With Their Yachts.
Photoshop on steroids. I reckon that only six different yachts are used.
“UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove arrived in Israel Monday night on a fact-finding mission to see how the country is opening up from COVID-19 restrictions.
He and Jonathan Van-Tam, one of England’s deputy chief medical officers, met with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi Tuesday morning.”
Be afraid. Be very afraid – wherever the state of Israel pops up its head.
The links between Israel and the black arts of the government, Cabinet Office, ‘security’ services and international affairs in general well known and documented, usually manifesting itself in the interference of what, for shorthand is called the ‘Israel Lobby’.
Never good news for democracy and liberty.
Just one word; Rothschild.
May 6th and a habitual Tory voter?
Then do this quick test:
1. Type Conservative into your search engine
2. If you are or ever have been a Party Member, please apply some critical thinking
3. Ding, dong the conservative party is dead, long live the WEF Great Reset party!
4. Cut up your membership card and join the resistance
Just a thought; if more than 6 people meet up/if you don’t wear a face nappy/ if you don’t eat all your meals outside/ if you don’t use a gallon of hand sanitizer each and every day then “You have blood on your hands and everybody is going to die”.
Thousands of unmasked football fans gather to protest, etc and ( unless I’ve missed something) there has not been a squeak from the government, heath experts and most of all the MSM.
It has occurred to me that the ‘spreading misinformation’ comments made by that idiot Starmer may have opened a door. They were made outside of the protected bubble of Parliament hence they are subject to the laws of slander/libel. If challenged in court he would have to prove his statements were true. At the very least this would provide a public airing of the arguments on both sides, something that the Government and MSM have suppressed up to now.
I for one would chip in to a Crowdfund for this. Maybe the FSU might take a look?
To be frank, you couldn’t build a viable court case on that issue – and trying to do so would cost a fortune. It’s not slander or libel.
That’s debatable. It’s an accusation of lying from a public figure. A statement that simply isn’t true and is intended to damage the reputation of the target.
Also known as oral or spoken defamation, slander is the legal term for the act of harming a person’s reputation by telling one or more other people something that is untrue and damaging about that person. Slander can be the basis for a lawsuit and is considered a civil wrong