- “Rishi Sunak backs J.K. Rowling’s right to free speech” – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak backed J.K. Rowling after she dared police to arrest her under Scotland’s controversial new hate crime laws, reports the Mail.
- “Police Scotland receives more than 3,000 complaints under new hate crime laws” – More than 3,000 complaints have been made to Police Scotland under the SNP’s new hate crime laws, following warnings that the force would be overwhelmed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Sturgeon ‘blocked changes’ to Scotland’s hate crime laws” – Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of blocking changes to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act that would have protected feminists’ freedom of speech on trans issues, reports the Telegraph.
- “Yousaf’s ‘hate crime’ laws have turned Scotland into a nation of snitches – Stalin would be proud” – It’s only a matter of time before the SNP’s sinister new act will be used against Police Scotland and Edinburgh’s own government, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Polish Government proposes prison for LGBT defamation” – The Polish Government, in an apparent attempt to out-SNP the SNP, has published a draft bill which would make offensive comments about LGBT people punishable by up to three years in prison, according to Brussels Signal.
- “Tory faction plots ‘Truss-style’ leader if party loses General Election” – The Popular Conservatism group has launched a plan to install a ‘Liz Truss-style’ candidate as the next Tory leader, after a presumed General Election loss, reports the Times.
- “Tory grassroots group launches campaign to oust ‘wet’ MPs” – Conservative Post, a website linked to Lord Cruddas, has launched a campaign to oust ‘wet’ MPs and move the party to the Right, according to the Telegraph.
- “Downing Street blames weather for surge in migrant Channel crossings” – Downing Street has blamed the improving weather for the surge in small boats crossing the Channel this year – despite claiming a previous fall in crossings was not linked to the weather, says the Telegraph.
- “Nobody has a plan to stop the boats, but it’s Sunak who will pay the price” – Deporting a few migrants to Rwanda will not end the pull factors encouraging the Channel crossings, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Muslims have won power battle between prison gangs, says hero of London Bridge attack” – The convicted murderer turned hero of the 2019 London Bridge terror attack claims Muslim gangs are altering prison power dynamics through violence and religious conversions, according to the New English Review.
- “Police still recording petty rows as hate crimes” – Police are continuing to record petty misbehaviour as ‘non-crime hate incidents’, despite a change to the statutory code of practice regarding the recording and retention of NCHIs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trying to tell the truth about Covid” – On X, Dr. Claire Craig presents a video touching on the spiritual side of what has happened since 2020.
- “Two weeks to flatten became eight months to change the election” – U.S. voting rules were relaxed during the pandemic, justified under the guise of science but driven by the desire for a different electoral outcome, says the Brownstone Institute in a leading article.
- “France creates ‘national mobile force’ as radicalised students threaten schools” – France’s Education Minister has announced the deployment of a “national mobile force” to try to keep schools safe from radicalised students, reports Brussels Signal.
- “German intelligence chief defends efforts to police the ‘thought and speech patterns’ of citizens, outlines the novel offence of ‘systematic delegitimisation of state conduct’” – The German Interior Ministry continues to defend its controversial and widely criticised plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Excluding election-winning populists merely acts as rocket fuel for their poll ratings – this is what Portugal’s Luis Montenegro is about to learn” – Don’t be surprised if Chega becomes Portugal’s leading centre-Right party in the near future, remarks Henry Olsen in Brussels Signal.
- “Nobody is buying into the Net Zero madness” – There’s no consensus that climate policy needs to hurt the living standards of ordinary Britons, writes John Redwood in the Telegraph.
- “Team GB vows to stick with traditional Union flag on 2024 Olympic kit after merchandise backlash” – Team GB athletes will wear the traditional Union Jack at the Olympics this summer, following a backlash over the team’s pink and purple redesign, reports LBC.
- “German football fans barred from personalising kits over ‘Nazi symbolism’” – German football fans have been blocked from buying kits for the national team customised with the number 44 because of a resemblance to the infamous SS ‘lightning bolts’ symbol, says the BBC.
- “Sharron Davies claims ‘hundreds of males are stealing from females in sport’” – Olympic medallist Sharron Davies claims “hundreds of males are stealing from females in sport” after a trans cyclist won a bronze medal in a U.S. race, according to the Mail.
- “Rates of suicide attempts doubled after gender-reassignment surgery: study” – According to a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Urology, attempted suicide rates among people who identified as transgender more than doubled after receiving a vaginoplasty, reports the Epoch Times.
- “How the American Psychological Association is harming society” – The American Psychological Association’s new plan, focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, threatens the credibility and objectivity of the profession, warns Prof. Jon Mills in the New English Review.
- “Oregon recriminalises hard drugs after huge increase in overdose deaths” – Oregon has U-turned on a short-lived liberal policy that decriminalised the possession of hard drugs, reports Fox News.
- “British universities in 2024” – A video circulating on X depicts an Orwellian maths class, where one plus one equals ‘multiculturalism’.
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12b Stop Preferred Pronouns Tyranny – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
Pronouns…the bastardisation of the English language. I’m wondering if preferred pronouns are used in other languages, especially where gender is given to material objects – La Plume (or le Plume) de (du, des) ma/mon/notre/leurs Tante?? It’s a bloody minefield!
Tuesday Morning Nine Mile Ride & New Wokingham Road, Wokingham
Scientific Fact CO2 Doesn’t Control Climate
https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/botswana-will-20-000-elefanten-nach-deutschland-abschieben-87716972.bild.html
Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in trophy hunting row
Classic preachy do as I say, not as I do from Germany
“It is very easy to sit in Berlin and have an opinion about our affairs in Botswana. We are paying the price for preserving these animals for the world,” he said.
Germans should “live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to”.
“This is not a joke,” said Masisi, whose country has seen its elephant population grow to some 130,000.
Botswana, home of the world’s largest elephant population, has already offered 8,000 elephants to Angola and another 500 to Mozambique, as it seeks to tackle what Masisi described as “overpopulation”.
How many bison, bears, are there in Germany, where they are native animals? Errr……20 bison, no bears…..
Oh! Britain is saying the same thing…..
‘The Hunting Trophies Prohibition Bill is due for its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday, and officials from Botswana as well as five other southern African nations are in the UK to campaign against it.
Botswanan officials say a ban would negatively impact safari hunt revenue, hamper wildlife conservation, make anti-poaching efforts more difficult, and impoverish African villagers who make their living from such tourism.’
‘Dumezweni Mthimkhulu, Botswana’s wildlife minister, said: ‘I hope if my offer of elephants is accepted by the British government, they will be kept in London’s Hyde Park because everyone goes there.’
How many bison, bears in the wild in Britain? About five bison, no bears…..
So, let’s all have bison and bears in our gardens before we start preaching to Botswana
Or just stop being silly about trophy hunting which funds the conservation required for key species in Africa………..
If the UK had the responsibility for 20,000 elephants, we’d still kill the ones we didn’t want. We just wouldn’t call it that. We’d say we are culling the population and would do it by supposedly humane methods. Probably involving chemicals. We might also sterilise some of them, which is very humane.
All of it decided and regulated by bureaucrats.
Assisted dying?
I dare say that if asked the elephants would refuse the “assistance” but they would be treated to it anyway.
Great sketch on Scotlands new legislation:
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1775220991188140135?s=20
What, no comments on the tragic deaths of James Henderson, John Chapman, Jim Kirby and the 4 other aid workers (Polish, Australian, US/Canada & Palestinian)
unintentionally killed by the IOF? There’s a surprise.Israel has claimed that its slaughter of seven World Central Kitchen food aid workers was an ‘error’ and says it is investigating. The attack consisted of three separate bombings – across a distance of 2.4km.
… the attacks were spread across time, too – with the first strike hitting one vehicle then two more as survivors tried to escape with their wounded in the remaining two: an attack designed to make sure no one got out of it alive..
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/04/03/video-israels-error-killing-of-wck-food-aid-workers-was-3-attacks-over-1-5-miles/
“picked off Gaza aid cars one by one” sounds ominous and that’s Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-sorry-as-details-emerge-of-strike-that-picked-off-gaza-aid-cars-one-by-one/
I did a search yesterday for the story on Bing. Copilot usually has lots to say but for “IDF kills aid workers” the response was:
“I apologize, but I cannot continue this conversation. Thank you for understanding”
That was interesting so I tried “IDF saves aid workers” and got a puff-piece on IDF humanitarian work.
I don’t bother trying to do internet searches any more, even with Brave: the propaganda capture is complete.
On the subject of intentional killings, an example of what the IDF does to converts to Judaism when all they see is a Palestinian.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/disturbing-video-shows-jewish-convert-fatally-shot-by-idf-in-west-bank-posed-no-threat/
“Feminist group For Women Scotland (FWS) say that as first minister, Ms Sturgeon forced Humza Yousaf, then her justice secretary, to withdraw amendments to the legislation during its final parliamentary stages in 2021.”
I’d rather see this being criticised as legislation that shouldn’t exist to begin with, not because it lacked provisions for particular groups.
In practice it will be like that.
Everyone knows that only white males are hateful, bigoted and racist.
Everyone else are victims.
Any update on the Daily Sceptic censorship of comments on this article?
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/29/are-we-being-gaslit-over-the-cause-of-the-princess-of-waless-cancer/
None.
Obviously someone told the DS to shut comments down and it’s all too embarrassing to talk about.
Indeed. Was it Marcus Aurelius Knew who said he had received an explanation from Toby?
We all pay for the right to comment, so a removal and closure of a comment stream without giving a reason concerns us all whatever the subject
Yes it was MAK.
It’s disappointing.
If there are any mainstream journalists reading this, perhaps you could do an article on the curious case of DS censorship? Raising the profile might get us an answer and MSM gets to report on hypocrisy rather than being the source of it for a change.
In the meantime, I’ve suspended my payments (a more positive outlook than cancellation) which was due tomorrow.
Think I might do the same, DHJ. We have a right to be informed about this. Come on Toby, give us the explanation.
Re the video look at the date it was first made, you think they had a time machine? even back then, some people could see
Israel are really going into April with a bang. This comment by Mohammad Alsafin plus a rely by Edward Snowden: Geneva and Vienna in one day. History making stuff – and not in a good way….
…and Arnaud Bertrand’s comment on the bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Syria. Only one prior example by the US (natch), and it cost them bigly.
It was interesting to read the article on Lionel Shriver, “Will Discrimination on the Basis of Intelligence Be Banned Next?” and seeing the large percentage of down-ticks given to any commenter daring to question any action Israel takes. Why are so many DS readers obviously convinced Israel can never do wrong?
Below is an excerpt from a report by https://electronicintifada.net/ on how Israel is actively destroying medical facilities in Gaza.
Israel has turned the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip into a charred wasteland, a slaughterhouse, a cemetery.
During its two-week siege on al-Shifa Hospital, Israel destroyed “all buildings and departments without exception, in a clear crime that shames humanity,” Gaza’s government media office stated.
The army withdrew at dawn on Monday, after facing fierce battles from Palestinian resistance factions.
When the families of patients, medical staff and displaced persons – who were trapped inside the hospital and its grounds during Israel’s raid and massacre – returned to retrieve their loved ones, many found bodies in fragments, flattened under bulldozer treads.
Children’s corpses were discovered burned beyond recognition.
“Inside the complex and its surroundings, the occupation army killed more than 400 martyrs and attempted to hide its abominable crime by executing hundreds of civilians, the wounded, and the sick within the walls of the al-Shifa Medical Complex,” the media office added.
“They covered the bodies with piles of sand, bulldozed them, buried them, and mixed them with the ground of the Complex. Moreover, more than 300 prisoners were arrested, while over 100 Palestinian civilians are still missing as a result of the occupation’s shocking crime.”
And the western world supports these people?
I know, right? Particularly when you consider that many Israeli newspapers seem to be far more willing to discuss such issues than ‘our’ propagandist MSM (and I include the DS here). The only consolation is that an increasing percentage of the global majority are entirely cognisant of the fact that Israel is now to all intents and purposes a pariah state, to be treated as such.
I hear they’ve already built the altar on the Mount of Olives to sacrifice a red heifer before April 22nd…
“campaign to oust ‘wet’ MPs and move the party to the Right”
Well that can’t work because CCHQ and past leaders have already stuffed the approved candidate list with mirror images of themselves.
They’re all wet….soaking wet from the blood of our dead democracy.
A statement worthy of future history books – if they are allowed.
Thanks Aethelred
Cheers HP! Hope you’re well.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-mystery-of-the-phantom-covid-jabs-on-my-nhs-record/
The author reports that his medical records show he has had three C1984 “vaccinations” when he has had none. Disturbing stuff.
“Team GB vows to stick with traditional Union flag on 2024 Olympic kit after merchandise backlash”
Good. Honestly, reading the statement by the design agency – Thisaway – shows their utter idiocy. The more idiotic parts of their statement are underlined and in bold:
The full statement on the Thisaway website reads:
“As with many sport brands, colour was a point of contention. Obviously red, white and blue is synonymous with Great Britain, but it’s far from unique, with other competing nations such as France and USA also sporting the same colours.
“We needed to find a way of refreshing Team GB’s colour palette in a way that is both flexible and ownable.
“Rather than trying to look beyond the traditional colours, we decided to embrace them and push the iconic red white and blue as far as we could.
“The result is a vibrant and varied colour palette that has the versatility to be restrained and traditional in one breath, and bold and contemporary in the next.
“We needed to find a way of refreshing Team GB’s colour palette in a way that is both flexible and ownable.”
The flag doesn’t need “refreshing” and by the way Thisaway we already own our flag.
A non standard standard – sort of. A Publicly Available Specification (PAS) developed by the BSI is a kind of draft standard that they want to dish out quickly. E.g. PAS 63100:2024 to do with domestic battery storage systems has emerged recently. Should be available for free here: https://pages.bsigroup.com/PAS63100:2024 Note the Gov logo on the front cover.
It’s likely that there are quite a few forthcoming non-standard installations, encouraged by the department mentioned which might have created their own risks.
“Nobody has a plan to stop the boats, but it’s Sunak who will pay the price”
It’s actually the ordinary Brits who will pay the price, but here’s some good news from Switzerland’s real democracy:
Swiss set to vote on limiting immigration (msn.com)
And more good, very surprising news on Richard Eldred’s News Round-up today:
“Oregon recriminalises hard drugs after huge increase in overdose deaths”
While Germany has just legalized cannabis consumption.
“Polish Government proposes prison for LGBT defamation”
I still do not understand why the Polish people, who finally enjoyed real conservatives running their government, ousted them after a short time, and brought back Evil Communist EU Traitor Tusk to destroy the Polish people again. It defies belief, just like the Evil Communist Traitor Lula was brought back after trying to assassinate Bolsonaro, even from prison where Lula deservedly was for corruption.
It’s as if they’re all following Stalin’s advice: “It’s not the voters who matter. It’s the people who count the votes.”