- “Israel ‘kills Iranian commander with strike on consulate in Damascus’” – Tehran has promised a “decisive response” after blaming Israel for the missile attack which flattened a building near the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital, reports the Times.
- “Serious questions for the Met after Swastika row at Palestine protest” – The Met Police has been accused of “losing control of the streets” after an officer was caught on video telling a Jewish woman that swastikas “need to be taken into context” when they are displayed at pro-Palestine protests, according to the Mail.
- “‘It‘s not about context, it’s about antisemitism’: David Lammy says police should have known swastika is hate symbol” – David Lammy says that the swastika is a symbol of “vile antisemitism” and the police should bear down hard on those who display it during protests, reports LBC.
- “Labour cuts ties with organisation named as Islamist by Gove” – According to the Telegraph, Labour has severed ties with Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), which is in the frame to be labelled an ‘extremist’ organisation according to the Communities Secretary’s new guidance.
- “Emotional Braverman offers support to October 7th survivors” – Suella Braverman broke down in tears amid the ruins of burnt-out houses in Kfar Aza as she surveyed the carnage wrought by Hamas on October 7th, reports the Telegraph.
- “Braverman accuses U.K. of ‘backsliding’ on support for Israel” – The former Home Secretary says she is “ashamed” by the levels of antisemitism in Britain and that “Hamas must be eliminated”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Teacher banned for saying Islam would take over and Westernised girls were ‘lunatics’” – A Muslim teacher who suggested Islam was going to take over and claimed Westernised girls were “lunatics” has been banned, reports the Telegraph.
- “Simple arithmetic” – The very minimum that citizens of the West should demand is an end to the sentimentalisation and psychologically unhealthy fetishisation of ‘diversity’, says Mark Steyn.
- “The unbearable sanctimony of the ‘pro-Palestine’ set” – Palestine activism has become a way for the graduate elites to lord their moral supremacy over the rest of us, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “When Hatred of the Left Becomes Love for Putin” – In Persuasion, Cathy Young explains why some conservatives have a blind spot about Putin.
- “Fear that new Scottish hate crime law may be used to gag free speech” – Scottish police say they expect to be bombarded with a “huge uplift” in reports of alleged hate crimes, including from people trying to use the SNP legislation to silence anyone they disagree with, according to the Mail.
- “J.K. Rowling could be arrested for misgendering trans people, says SNP minister” – Siobhian Brown admits police could investigate complaints against J.K. Rowling under Scotland’s new hate crime law, reports the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling’s ‘come and get me’ retort to Hate Crime Act is direct challenge to Yousaf” – Any thought that J.K. Rowling would sit back quietly and wait to be arrested under the SNP’s latest legislative foul-up was too daft for words, says Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
- “‘Why aren’t I more afraid of Scotland’s Hate Crime Act?’” – In Spiked, Graham Linehan explains how Humza Yousaf’s authoritarian overreach could soon come back to bite him.
- “Thousands of Scottish police still not trained on new hate crime law” – More than a third of Scotland’s police officers have not received training on Humza Yousaf’s “confusing” new hate crime law, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Scotland ended up with the Hate Crime Act” – If there was no Scottish parliament there would be no Hate Crime Act, remarks Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Scotland’s hateful hate-crime law” – In UnHerd, Kathleen Stock says the Hate Crime Act is a frivolous distraction from the country’s real problems.
- “Labour to throw hereditary peers out of the Lords – but not the bar” – Sir Keir Starmer intends to abolish all hereditary peers in the first term of a Labour government if he wins the election this year, reports the Telegraph. But they will still be allowed to enjoy Parliament’s subsidised bars and restaurants.
- “Labour is accused of being ‘ashamed’ of the Union Flag” – Labour has been accused of being “ashamed” of the Union Flag after backbench MPs warned Keir Starmer over using it too much in campaign literature, reports the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer’s tax on private schools to hit the poor” – Some 18% of parents who send their children to private schools say they would ‘definitely’ take their child out school under Keir Starmer’s VAT proposals, while 21% would ‘probably’ do so, says the Mail.
- “Huw Edwards expected to be named BBC’s highest-paid newsreader despite scandal” – Huw Edwards is the BBC’s highest-earning newsreader this year even though he hasn’t appeared on the channel for more than 12 months following a seedy sex scandal, reports the Telegraph.
- “Farage at 60: there’s more to come” – We approach the 2024 General Election with Farage’s name back on everyone’s lips, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Nearly 800 migrants cross the Channel over Easter weekend” – The Prime Minister’s pledge to “stop the boats” has come under increasing scrutiny with record numbers making the journey in dinghies in the first three months of this year, reports the Mail.
- “Britain is now irrationally terrified of freedom. It should just rejoin the EU” – The reason that Brexit has failed is because Britain is terrified of freedom, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “The fury of Europe’s farmers” – The continent-wide revolt against the green agenda has shaken the EU elites to their core, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Germany becomes biggest EU country to legalise recreational cannabis” – Germany has legalised recreational cannabis, with thousands flocking to Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to light up joints in celebration, according to France24.
- “More than 250 deaths occur each week due to agonising waits in A&E” – A study suggests that soaring waits in A&E for hospital beds led to more than 250 needless deaths a week in England last year, reports the Mail.
- “NHS dentists offer Botox amid Britain’s dental crisis” – MailOnline has found multiple NHS dentists are now offering aesthetic treatments like lip fillers for up to £400 a pop amid the long-running dental appointments crisis.
- “U.S. physicians received billions from pharmaceutical and medical device industry, new research finds” – Despite potential conflicts of interest, U.S. physicians received more than $12 billion in payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry over a 10-year period, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg reveals losing her job at U.C. Davis over polarising vaccine myocarditis research” – On The Illusion of Consensus podcast, Prof. Jay Bhattacharya talks to Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg about how conducting honest research on vaccine myocarditis cost her her position at U.C. Davis.
- “The WHO’s power grab” – The last thing we need is a new and unaccountable global pandemic tsar, says John Tierney in City Journal.
- “Reform pledges Net Zero referendum in fresh challenge to Sunak” – Reform U.K. has pledged to hold a referendum on Net Zero in a fresh challenge to Rishi Sunak, reports the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero now threatens our national security” – The Energy Secretary has warned Labour is moving too quickly on Net Zero. But Tory plans are hardly much better, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Welcome to Britain – where energy rationing risks becoming the norm” – Unfortunately for consumers, smart meter surge pricing is not the greatest of their concerns, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Can ‘clean energy’ schemes get any crazier?” – The materials, costs and viability of Team Biden’s wind turbines on massive floating platforms defy reality, says Paul Driessen in WUWT.
- “It’s no joke! National Trust secretly makes all its scones vegan” – The National Trust, which has 280 cafes, is facing the ire of diners after admitting its scones have gone vegan – and that they “may taste different to the traditional version”, according to the Mail.
- “An age that rejects God ends up killing its old” – When we stop believing that life is sacred, we head down the utilitarian path to extinguishing the infirm, warns Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “We need more cultural Christians like Richard Dawkins” – Cultural Christians understand – as many do not – what exactly makes our inheritance unique and special, says Niall Gooch in UnHerd.
- “Shakira says Barbie film is ‘emasculating’ for men” – Shakira has criticised the Barbie movie as “emasculating”, adding men and women both have a “purpose” in society and one shouldn’t be at the expense of the other, according to Sky News.
- “Bye ‘Lenna’! Iconic Playboy pic banned from research papers” – A photograph of a Playboy model that has been used by engineers in image processing tests since the 1970s has been dropped because it is not ‘inclusive’, says Interesting Engineering.
- “Fleming told my father that James Bond was never a gentleman – his Lefty portrayal now is a betrayal” – 007 was intended by Fleming to be a sexist cad and a libertine – he should either revert to type, or be retired, writes Petronella Wyatt in the Telegraph.
- “Untrue believers” – In Taki’s Magazine, Theodore Dalrymple calls attention to the latest absurd, woke nonsense emanating from England.
- “Social networks could quit Britain under online safety laws, Reddit claims” – Reddit says that incoming online safety laws could force social networks to quit Britain because of the burden of complying with the new rules, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why Elon Musk thinks Earth will have more robots than humans” – Elon Musk says that the number of two-legged robots on earth will one day surpass the eight billion humans on the planet, reports the Telegraph.
- “It’s an attack on ordinary people” – On Headliners, the GB News regulars take aim at the new Team GB flag which looks nothing like the Union Jack.
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The 99 Women list.
So the BBC thinks women need a bit of help from men to achieve greatness.
The Beeb is trolling us. That’s a point, who is in charge at the BBC nowadays? It surely must be a woman or gay man as everybody knows straight men aren’t guilty of being woketards, and besides, said men are never guilty of making a hash of things…are they?
Yes …. they are deliberately gaslighting. Best ignored …. and don’t PAY them the telly tax.
Same with men though when you really think about it.
You, if you are a licence payer, are paying for this.
defund the BBC.
“The broadcaster said: “BBC 100 Women acknowledges the toll this year has taken on women by celebrating those who – through their resilience – are pushing for change, as the world changes around them.” …”
You know full well that they aren’t talking about the men dressing as women as being a toll, but rather the “far right” and Trump crowd as being a toll…
BBC is a pile of crap
And here is why men who parody women should not be allowed to enter womens’ sports. And to think that Canadian lady was banned for two years from competing by her sporting body for protesting about this. Can you imagine many male competitors being threatened by any female to male ( FtM ) trans people stealing their medals in comparison? Male athletes get to keep their medals/trophies/opportunities while women get theirs nicked by male impostors;
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1863498525616554366
“The BBC says the scientist uses a “queer lens to analyse landscapes and species in a bid to expand the notion of ‘nature’ to better protect ecosystems”.
wtf does that even mean? What shape is a queer lens? This isn’t science its gobbledegook!
Bent. It distorts the image.
One fundamental problem with being woke, in my opinion, is this: you have to live your life in a tangled web of lies.
War is peace. Slavery is freedom. A man is a woman.
There is no way you can escape from this psychologically (and spiritually) unharmed.
The rule for the BBC should be “do no pontificating”, given its unique position of getting 100% of license fee money, everybody else getting nothing. Pontificating is both political and biased.
For me, nothing says ”It’s Christmas!” like hanging a used Tampax on a Christmas tree. I’ve often fought the urge to make wings for my angel out of bloody sanitary pads too. Right at the top of the tree, of course, out the way of the cat. Well here we take the word ”queer” back to it’s original meaning, although the word ”rank” is probably more appropriate, to be honest. Yes, we’re in Germany ( the gift that doesn’t stop giving ) yet again;
”While many in Europe are preparing for Christmas, students from the German University of Göttingen have been setting up an event using festive decorations made from bloody tampons and “butterfly decorations from pads”.
The Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss (AStA), the political representation of the students, will host a lecture under the title “Oh my bloody mess. Trans and non-binary people bleed too”.
Following that lecture, the AStA will offer to create themed Christmas decorations and ornaments.
In the talk, the group said: “The basics of transitions are explained”, with ‘bloody’ insights into the different lives of menstruating trans and non-binary people.”
“Have you always wanted to hang a bloody tampon on your mom’s Christmas tree or make a beautiful butterfly decoration out of sanitary pads?,” AStA asked on its Instagram account on November 26. “Then it’s your evening. Welcome. The event is open to everyone.”
Speaker at the event on December 5 will be Alexander Hahne, who identifies as a gay trans man, specialising in sexual health, sex education, sexological bodywork, systemic sex therapy, dance and pleasure activism.
Sexological bodywork is described as a client-centred approach to empower, educate and bring attention to felt experience through movement, breath-work, touch, sound, and placement of awareness. Systemic sex therapy addresses the cognitions, emotions and behaviours surrounding sexual behaviour.”
https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/12/german-university-to-host-workshop-on-christmas-decorations-from-used-tampons/
I would have thought this was some sick satire if I had not wasted half an evening of my life listening to a real female BBC comedian also telling jokes about used tampons.
we’re in Germany ( the gift that doesn’t stop giving)
In German, ‘gift’ means poison…
They’ve got a drag artist as a contestant on the Christmas day edition of “Strictly”. I have no problem with drag but it is an adult entertainment and should not be pushed on a family audience at 5.30 on Christmas Day.
Exactly. Look at the state of this, but it’s very common in the U.S and Canada, apparently. Mams and dads cheering and encouraging this drag queen with this little girl. They are complicit in the grooming. Totally inappropriate. But according to some on here, straight men cannot be woketards, it’s all women and gay men, but there’s more evidence floating around and contradicting this biased viewpoint than you can shake a stick at;
”No one should be influencing children to dance for adults for money. This teaches them that their self worth is only equal to outwards attention and monetary value.
It is irresponsible for drag queens to involve children in their lifestyle and it makes the LGBT community as a whole look bad.
This is not representing inclusivity and love. This is inappropriate behavior that will only confuse children and can put them in dangerous situations.”
https://x.com/againstgrmrs/status/1863588446272410073
Pure child abuse. Look at both parents sat there, endorsing this treatment of their daughter;
https://x.com/HazelAppleyard_/status/1863899280852885757
As you say it is pure child abuse and I do not think he understands that he will never have a viable penis or be able to father children.
p
It has changed since the days of Danny La Rue.
Well of course it did!
Quite obviously a bloke with fake boobs and a bad wig. Definitely not a woman – except in the opinion of the imbeciles at the BBC.
Excellent. It’s all grist to the mill of rendering the BBC irrelevant also in the opinion of normies.
We must be reaching a tipping point soon!
They couldn’t resist using the word ‘resilience’ and this is a big tell because it is a word beloved of the Anglo-Americans in their dying days and if you look at how how the word is used you will notice a trend of pure evil.
The argument from nature is irrelevant in this context. There may well be elements of genderfuildity in all species but human beings don’t base the shaping of their culture on a natural model. You could argue that civilisation is measured by how far man is taken away from his animal nature. This appeal to biology has always been weak and pathetic whichever side uses it. We adopt ways of being that promote the long term health of society and this is based on sacrifice. A man might want to have sex with many women but he accepts that marriage is a sacrifice and the whole point of his wife is to put him off sex forever. He realises that more is gained than lost by the denial of cheap gratification.
Or he could consider hiring one of these. I definitely wouldn’t walk down the street in it though. Mind, it’d probably go down a storm at a Pride parade;
https://x.com/BritLad95/status/1863851997708845353
Those that seem most lost right now will be our greatest heroes. I feel that he is chanelling something.
TNT Sport did not bother with any tea or lunch programming for the NZ – England test series and just broadcast some NZ produced player clips and one had a pair of lesbians NZ cricketers and ‘their’ child. So these days if they are not men pretending to be men they are lesbians.
Its no wonder other countrys are laughing at us, the BBC, supposedly a fine upstanding “corporation” now cannot but help dig its own grave even quicker, born male, male, same with female, live how you choose, but despite claiming nature has the “ability” to be “queer”, you will find it doesn’t, and to think these people get paid for this bias!.
Turn off all msm it simply is not fit for purpose.
I am sick to death of the BBC’s agenda. For godsake, turn the bbc off. Stop funding it. It is not fit for purpose.