- “MP investigated by Police Scotland under new hate crime law” – Neale Hanvey, an Alba Party MP, has been reported for a ‘hate crime’ by a trans activist over something he said on X on April 1st, according to the Times.
- “Police Scotland criticised over mistake in new hate crime training” – There’s been yet another balls-up by Police Scotland in connection with the new Hate Crime Act, reports the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling likens trans post critics to ‘those who hushed up paedophile priests’” – The Harry Potter author compares those who refuse to acknowledge that trans sex offenders are men to people who protected paedophile priests, says the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling’s victory over Humza Yousaf’s hate crime laws is a victory for all women” – The author humiliated the SNP with a lesson in solidarity, sisterhood and the simple but incendiary power of saying no, writes Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling Is Right to Protest Hate-Speech Laws” – In the Wall St Journal, Jacob Mchangama says Sctoland’s new hate crime laws will harm the very people they’re intended to protect.
- “Police Scotland hate crime shambles as Murdo Fraser’s details not held say force” – The over-recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’, as well as the Hate Crime Act, has caused chaos amongst the police service in Scotland, says the Express, with Murdo Fraser MSP calling out ‘political bias’ after Humza Yousaf dodged an NCHI but one was recorded against him.
- “How to fight misinformation without censorship” – Taiwan’s approach to tackling ‘misinformation’ puts other countries to shame, says Jacob Mchangama in Persuasion.
- “Government-funded NGOs, linked to Nato, are interfering in European elections” – Correctiv and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue are military and intelligence front groups spreading disinformation about German farmers and politicians, according to Gregor Baszak and Michael Shellenberger in Public.
- “On the brave new Post-Liberal Political Order of the West, its nature and its prospects” – In his latest Substack post, the peerless Eugyppius discusses Germany’s new, Post-Liberal Political Order (PLPO).
- “Patronising sentencing guidelines make a joke of equality before the law” – Our justice system must be accountable to the public it serves or it risks undermining the fight against crime, says Esther McVey in the Telegraph.
- “It would be insane for us to ban arms sales to Israel” – In his Daily Mail column, Boris says the proposal to ban arms sales to Israel is an example of Western civilisation’s death wish.
- “Politicians, not lawyers, must decide our policy on Israel in the interests of Western security” – An open letter from the legal profession calling for a halt to arms sales to Israel fails to grasp that there are times when the defence of civilisation depends on the use of lethal force, says Charles Moore in his Telegraph column.
- “Keir Starmer and Lindsay Hoyle face inquiry over Gaza ceasefire vote” – Penny Mordaunt, the Leader of the Commons, is backing a motion by rival MPs to refer claims of coercion by the Labour leader to the Privileges Committee, says the Times.
- “France’s schools are succumbing to the Islamist threat” – Few teachers, his wife included, feel the French state will protect them from Islamists in the classroom, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Electric cars are out and petrol is in, just as it should be” – The proportion of car sales made up by EVs is falling fast, points out Ross Clark in the Telegraph. Turns out, no one wants to buy one of these
greenwhite elephants. - “Now scientists say wearing jeans is bad for the environment” – ‘Scientists’ have warn that even a simple pair of jeans could be as bad for the environment as driving 6.4 miles in a car every time you wear them, says the Mail.
- “Strasbourg court could rule that governments have to protect people from climate change” – The European Court of Human Rights is about to rule in three climate-related cases that could make it easier for green activists to sue states for not doing enough to protect them from the harmful effects of climate change, according to the Telegraph.
- “Apple axes 600 jobs after giving up on electric cars” – The tech giant makes its first redundancies since the pandemic in a pivot away from electric vehicles, reports the Telegraph.
- “Eco-zealot co-founder of Extinction Rebellion avoids jail” – Roger Hallam and other eco-activists tried to close Heathrow in September 2019 by flying drones into restricted airspace, but avoided jail sentences, reports the Mail. Of course they did.
- “Christian social worker has job withdrawn because LGBT patients ‘might kill themselves’” – Rev. Felix Ngole had a job offer withdrawn by a Stonewall-backed NHS provider because of his views on homosexuality, an employment tribunal hears, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Fragile’ councillors can hold up cards to leave meetings for mental-health reasons” – Norfolk Council has introduced a new policy, whereby councillors can hold up cards asking if they can leave meetings, after a Green councillor suffered a “psychiatric emergency”, reports the Telegraph.
- “FGM and sex reassignment surgery are two sides of the same coin” – One form of genital mutilation inflicted on girls is illegal, the other is provided by the NHS, says Laura Dodsworth on her Substack, The Free Mind.
- “Primary school teachers ‘hiding social transitioning’ from parents” – Some schools in Devon and Cornwall are allowing children to wear breast binders, contrary to the Government’s new trans guidance (which is still being consulted about), reports the Times.
- “Trans ideology is as pervasive as ever – our children are the first victims” – We need hard laws to safeguard school pupils, not mere guidance which teachers can seemingly ignore, says Camilla Tominey in her Telegraph column.
- “True blue Tories ‘banned from standing in the general election’” – No 10 has been accused of purging “high-quality” Right-wing candidates with traditional Conservative values to ensure the Party is dominated by centrists, reports the Telegraph.
- “Even a young Margaret Thatcher wouldn’t get on the candidate list in today’s Tory Party” – Allison Pearson comments on the sorry state of affairs in the Conservative Party when it comes to candidate selection in her Telegraph column.
- “Rishi Sunak bowled out by a child at the Oval” – The Prime Minister visited a schools programme at the Oval after he promised £35 million in funding for grassroots and state school cricket – and was bowled out by a child, reports the Telegraph.
- “ONS staff vote to strike over demand to work two days in office” – ONS staff are so cross about being forced to actually come into the office for two days a week they’re threatening to strike, says the Times.
- “Garrick Club grandees ‘moving towards’ allowing women to join” – The Garrick’s governing committee has endorsed an opinion by Lord Pannick KC that the rules don’t need to be changed to admit women. That means if a simply majority of the members ratify that position, women will now be admitted, reports the Times.
- “Michael Gove admits ‘moral cowardice’ over Brexit on George Osborne’s podcast” – The Levelling Up Secretary has told George Osborne that he didn’t intend to deceive David Cameron, then Prime Minister, when he told him he wouldn’t actively campaign for Brexit, but admits to “moral cowardice” nevertheless, according to the Times.
- “EU commissioner ‘grandstanding’ for saying ‘Gibraltar is Spanish’” – Margaritis Schinas, a Vice-President of the European Commission, said Gibraltar is Spanish at a breakfast briefing yesterday in Seville, reports the Mail.
- “Weight loss jabs like Ozempic linked to 20 deaths in Britain” – Health chiefs tasked with policing the safety of the weight-loss jabs admit there is “a suspicion” they may be to blame for 20 deaths, according to the Mail.
- “Greg James issues apology over Roald Dahl Twits follow-up video” – Radio 1 DJ Greg James and his former newsreader Chris Smith have apologised for referring to a cartoon character in their new book with a glass eye as “disgusting” after a backlash from blindness charities, reports the Mail.
- “The snowman, white. Santa Clause’s beard, white. Every petal on the daisy, white.” – A video of Humza Yousaf denouncing ‘whiteness’. But don’t report him to Police Scotland for a ‘hate crime’ – it’s a parody.
This edited version is great.
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What a depressing list of stories.
Can someone ‘normal’ with common sense please,please make all this shyte go away?
Could be worse Dings – we could be in the US in the path of a solar eclipse on Monday and being told to stock up on food, fuel and water and stay indoors, & the National Guard is being called in, just in case!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/states-warn-people-to-stock-up-on-food-water-and-fuel-before-solar-eclipse/ar-BB1kf3sZ
Dr Robert Malone does a good take-down:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/solar-eclipse-a-national-emergency?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Holy moly! The devastating path of a shadow!
Hurty words are nothing compared to a hurty shadow…
Same shiz different day ! Idiot are making a mockery out of all of us ! People are acting like we are still in the dark ages ! The Salem Witch trials are being reinacted 24/7 !
World Health Organisation Evil Power Grab – 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.
If you feel like you’re hearing about more stabbings than previous years that’s because there are indeed more knife crimes, and there’s not exactly much of a deterrent in the UK either;
”The lax British judicial system is sparing more repeat knife crime offenders from prison than at any time since the government introduced a so-called two-strike system in 2015.
According to an analysis of Ministry of Justice statistics conducted by the Independent website, almost four in ten of the over 4,000 repeat knife crime offenders did not face prison time in the year leading up to September of 2023 in England and Wales.
The report found that 38 per cent of repeat knife criminals avoided immediate jail terms, an increase from 35 per cent the year prior and the low of 28 per cent in 2019.
Additionally, the rate of those merely given suspended sentences climbed to 23 per cent last year, which tied the record high set in 2021 and in one per cent of cases, the repeat knife crime offender was merely handed down a fine.
The focus on actual crimes has also waned during Tory leadership, which has seen an increased emphasis on monitoring speech restrictions and offence taking, with police spending their limited resources recording hundreds of thousands of so-called non-crime hate incidents, which as their name implies are not even considered criminal under British law.
Despite the government telling the police to stop the practice — although not going so far as to abolish the category through law — a report this week found that forces across the country are continuing to log thousands of cases including online arguments, drunken rants, or disputes between neighbours as “hate incidents”.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/05/four-in-ten-repeat-knife-crime-offenders-spared-jail-time-by-lax-british-judiciary/
Well I think this is a very reasonable and practical course of action for the Swiss to take. At what point will other countries say that enough is enough?
”Switzerland will hold a referendum on whether to implement measures to ensure the country’s population does not exceed 10 million people after a right-wing party garnered enough signatures to initiate a public vote on stricter immigration controls.
The populist Swiss People’s Party (UDC) submitted to the Federal Chancellery on Wednesday a petition that complied with the requirements necessary for the government to call a referendum.
Under Switzerland’s direct democracy system, referenda on any issue can be called should a petition reach 100,000 signatures within 18 months of its launch. The UDC harvested 114,600 signatures in just nine months in its bid for the government to implement “sustainable demographic development” by ensuring the permanent resident population of Switzerland does not exceed 10 million people by 2050.
Under the proposal, the Swiss government would have to take urgent measures as soon as the permanent resident population exceeds 9.5 million by, for example, suspending the ability for migrants to obtain residence permits, Swiss citizenship, or any other right to stay in the country.
The move could also see Switzerland forced to withdraw from international treaties including its bilateral agreement with the European Union on free movement and the U.N. Global Compact for Migration.”
https://www.rmx.news/article/swiss-to-hold-immigration-referendum-on-restricting-countrys-population-to-10-million-until-2050/
I hope the Swiss population has the sense to vote this proposal in to law.
The Swiss system of direct democracy and decentralised government has much to commend it. The more power is concentrated the more the citizenry will be abused by those with the power.
It would be good also to have a written constitution containing individual rights that cannot simply be overwritten by “the elected government”.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno
Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a toxic idea in UK?
Hmmmm……tricky one……..
Errrr….because not many people like them?
‘Popular among upper-middle-class urban professionals in central neighbourhoods, they’re of little interest to those who commute long distances and are fed up with the green restrictions.’
‘(Hidalgo elected mayor 2014) Paris’s population fell by about 75,000 people between 2014 and 2020. The exodus, which is likely to have increased during the pandemic, does not seem the sign of a flourishing city. But Hidalgo insists “Paris is not emptying . . . Paris was very dense. We’re de-densifying the city.”
Top down egocentric totalitarian socialist planning?
‘But here in Porte de la Chapelle, as elsewhere in Paris, Hidalgo (Socialist Mayor of Paris) has a radical blueprint. She wants fewer cars, wider pavements, more trees. “And of course, bicycles, because without bicycles, it wouldn’t be me!”
They don’t work?
‘making the capital less easy and less pleasant to live in. Some on social media use the hashtag #SaccageParis — “Ransacked Paris” — to label photos of botched tree-planting and cycle lanes, as well as what they see as increased litter on the streets.
They (and the mayor) are a bit dumb?
‘Hidalgo is one of the few in power to ask citizens to accept the inconveniences of climate action. Fewer cars are one example. Another is air conditioning. Paris summers are increasingly exceeding 40C, but to save energy, the Olympic Village where athletes will stay will not have air conditioning. “Why do we think we need air conditioning?”
‘In a part of northern Paris once known for train terminuses, drug addicts and refugee camps, Anne Hidalgo surveys a series of massive building works. In front of her is a main road with a four-lane traffic jam. “All this was chaos,” says the city’s mayor. Was? “OK, is!’
‘Hidalgo has struggled to sell her message to a broader public: last year her presidential campaign won just 1.75 per cent of the vote, the worst ever result for a Socialist party candidate.’
https://www.ft.com/content/8fbad76c-6705-43d8-b57e-292ee3563539
So, essentially, London is heading back to the 1970s and Paris back to the 1960s
We shall see which is worse………
Sounds like they’re preparing for energy shortages (no air con, no cars). I wonder why.
What happens when a black person ages? Their hair goes white!
Re:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ons-strike-staff-wfh-policy-end-sb7gtmp3n
Begs the question – will anyone actually notice they’ve gone on strike?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/05/councillors-red-cards-leave-meetings-mental-health/
‘fragile’
Why on earth would anybody want to hold a card up in a meeting which states…
I’m a Nutter.
Presumably these cards will be pre written.
I wonder if it will just be a card – or a card on a long stick? What about if some are too fragile to hold a card, or a card holding stick, up? Will they get assistance?
“Politicians, not lawyers, must decide our policy on Israel in the interests of Western security”
These would be the same politicians who:
-enforced global lockdowns despite all the evidence of their ineffectiveness & longterm social and economic damage – for a globalist agenda applicable to only the rich few;
-oversaw the biggest wealth transfer in recorded history from the poor to the very few, very rich;
-partied while we stayed indoors & our family members died alone;
-genocided thousands of elderly with a deliberately murderous policy, just because they could;
-told us covid jabs were ‘safe and effective’;
-have given us Net Zero & the massive poverty that will go with it, all while encouraging urban terrorist groups like JSO & ER;
-have given us ludicrous ‘hate speech’ and censorship laws just to shut us up;
-control every aspect of the MSM and are desperate to shut down every single independent voice;
-actively discriminate against the vast majority of the population to serve the unfair biasses of a vanishingly small rainbow minority;
-want to control every single aspect of our lives with CBDCs, social credit scoring and ‘smart home’ surveillance, while trying to ban alternatives;
-appear to be absolutely intent on destroying Christianity;
-are using indoctrination in schools to pervert the young;
-have left national borders wide open;
-have WEF hands shoved so far up their backsides you can see the fingertips in their lying mouths;
-want all us ‘useless eaters’ dead.
You mean those politicians? Yeah, I’d trust them to sort out Israel. Not.
Brilliant. Thank you.
The very same…
“Politicians, not lawyers, must decide our policy on Israel in the interests of Western security”
Oh, god help us!
They can have any policy they like as long as it doesn’t involve giving them money. We’re already broke.
In political terms “policy’ is actually code for spending taxpayers money.
The end of cash will end all crime! But for now, let crime become rife by policing hurty words sooner than ‘real crimes’ and the public will be crying out for CBDC as an answer to it all! Job sorted, wef can dust their hands together
Another take on it is: the end of cash will promote crime…
…crime against humanity, the biggest bloody crime every-perpetrated (including all the other crimes that are part of the one big crime).
Seconded
“‘Fragile’ councillors can hold up cards to leave meetings for mental-health reasons”
Is there an emoji for holding your head in your hands to signal total despair?
Councillor’s could print it on cards and hold it up when their feeling venerable!
What a bunch of F#£ing W@<Kers!!!
“True blue Tories ‘banned from standing in the general election’”
Oh well, I’m sure they’ll win now! That showed em, ugh!
“Strasbourg court could rule that governments have to protect people from climate change”
And there it is. Cue climate lockdowns.
Omg Wyrdy! Where is this strange new world heading?
“ONS staff vote to strike over demand to work two days in office”
And I bet first world war soldiers were very cross about getting wet feet in the trenches!
F-f-s!
Humza Useless is the ipitome of racial hatred! Why hasn’t he been arrested ?
Anyway, Saturday morning, fry up time!
I’m seriously thinking about making a sort of counter-news list to help us get over the stupidity of the world. Sort of a list of victories and real science that will prove that everyone isn’t all in clown world.
A good news release for the day filled with puppies and good people
Let me know if I should put in the effort, and if so I’ll reach out to TY and see if he’s interested.
Upticks from me mate!
A great idea.
These articles from the Round-Up today are good news, aren’t they?
“Electric cars are out and petrol is in, just as it should be”
“Apple axes 600 jobs after giving up on electric cars”
“Now scientists say wearing jeans is bad for the environment”
“The snowman, white. Santa Clause’s beard, white. Every petal on the daisy, white.”
“Rishi Sunak bowled out by a child at the Oval”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13267731/JEANS-bad-environment-Study-reveals.html
Only yesterday I was thinking about buying another pair of jeans.
I will be off to the shops shortly. I’ve got to do my bit for “climate change.”
What a firkin racket.
Remember, HP, that once Schwauby takes charge via his minions, you’ll only be allowed three pieces of clothing a year. Stock up on those jeans!
ps. Schwauby WON’T be taking charge, he’ll be in prison awaiting sentencing.
Thanks Aethelred
“Weight loss jabs like Ozempic linked to 20 deaths in Britain”
This is extremely important:
“Ozempic contains venom peptides that paralyze the Vagus nerve that allows your stomach to empty its contents, so that you feel full and will lose weight. The problem is that Ozempic is based on the Gila Monster Venom…There’s an entire UK company based on venom research called Venomtech…The problem is that if you keep injecting yourself with freaking Gila Monster Venom… eventually your stomach nerves stop working altogether…And then you just vomit every meal every day for years after you stop taking the drug…”
(Mike Adams discussing Dr. Brian Ardis)
“FGM and sex reassignment surgery are two sides of the same coin” – “One form of genital mutilation inflicted on girls is illegal, the other is provided by the NHS, says Laura Dodsworth”
Luckily, MGM, the horrific ritual male genital mutilation called “Circumcision of baby boys” is not provided by the NHS.