- “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.
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It’s incredibly sad and telling that even in health care, people are mislead about health and diet!
If this poor lady was advised to follow a low carbohydrate or zero carbohydrate lifestyle for even 4 weeks, she would have lost a considerable amount of fat and have many ailments cured too… Instead, she was no doubt advised to use this snake oil.
Is it really that sad? Was she really so misinformed? She didn’t know that a good diet and exercise gets you to a healthy weight?
To me it seemed as if she just couldn’t do it the long hard way and resorted to a pharmaceutical short cut.
And I don’t judge her for it. I really don’t have a problem with people using drugs to try to lose weight. It’s their responsibility to find out the risks, weigh them up against the possible benefits and make their own decision.
The nanny state doesn’t need to get involved beyond making sure the pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies are completely open and transparent with the information they provide.
Hey, she gambled and lost. It happens. Not a tragedy in my books.
Sure, but did she know the risks? Was the information correct, or was it a COVID ‘vaccine’ job all over again? Did the pharmacy advise her that the injection could kill her, or did they just hand it over?
My view is that by the time one reaxhes adulthood one should understand that anything you ingest has pros and cons, and especially pharmaceutical drugs. This is not a hard lesson to expect people to learn before they become grown ups.
That includes nuances such as, if so.ethi g is very new, be wary. If someone is making money from telling you it works and it sounds it sounds too good to be true, be wary.
These are basic common sense notions that used to be widely held not so long ago, when people were more self reliant.
I generally agree. I would favour emphasising a more “natural” solution but that is not always easy – this vid is interesting, from someone who knows all about health and fitness and diet, is the opposite of lazy or inactive, but has an eating disorder that is hard to control, who is currently taking small doses of this stuff, with success: I Tried The “Miracle” Fat Jab | Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro – Drugs For The Lazy?
So you agree with the resident victim-blaming sociopath that this woman’s death is neither sad nor tragic? Well there’s a surprise!
Sorry, far be it from me to interrupt this longterm bromance. Please continue…
Death is always sad. Whether she’s a “victim” – I am not sure. It depends on what information has been released about this drug, whether information has been withheld deliberately. Most drugs have side effects. I object to being forced to take medical treatments, I object to medicine regulators being enablers using our money, I object to Big Pharma lying about their products, I am deeply sceptical about most “miracle drugs”, I object to my tax money being spent on dangerous or useless products, but I also believe in freedom of choice and caveat emptor.
I didn’t say it wasn’t sad. I said it wasn’t a tragedy.
Two very different things.
What I think you’re missing is the fundamental point.
The article is clearly being manipulative trying to present this woman as a victim of a bad information and pharma gone rogue again.
I just don’t agree with that. That’s my point. And I don’t like the “every death is a tragedy” “poor person tragically misled by the evil or corrupt or broken system” arguments. They’re manipulative.
I think my post may have been misunderstood.
I genuinely don’t judge people who for example take weight loss medication. I am only too aware of human frailty and so totally respect people’s decision on how they live their lives.
Strange as it may seem to somebody such as yourself, yes it is sad that a person died through their own naivity and wishing for a shortcut to losing weight, just like I think it’s sad people died due to believing government propaganda and took a toxic jab they never ever needed. Needless deaths are sad. This is the general sympathetic feeling of people who are not callous or psychopathic by nature, and I’m sure her family would disagree with your cold-hearted, dismissive opinion and absolutely view her death as a tragedy. Do you even hear yourself?
I suppose it boils down to how one defines the word tragedy.
If a woman who dies in a medical intervention of her choice is a tragedy, which word do you keep in reserve for hundreds who die drowned and buried alive in a flood? Or dozens of people who burn to death in a raging tower fire?
I don’t see this lady’s death as anything different to say a mountain climber dying on an attempt on K2, for example.
And just because I don’t engage in virtue signalling calling any death a tragedy does it mean I’m callous or psychopathic as you imply. I’m just not a virtue signaller.
I suspect about 90% of obesity problems are due to bad diet, especially processed food. So I’m very sceptical of these “jabbing” solutions.
When I was young, obesity among young people was virtually unheard of. Now apparently about a third of schoolchildren are overweight. What are they going look like in 30 years’ time?
Well, you can say there is a certain consistency in eating a lot of processed food and then turning to even more processed pharma products to correct the problem.
Yeah, as they say: “medical science has made massive progress in the last 50 years – there are hardly any healthy people left!”.
There are reportedly 23 deaths so far linked to Mounjaro in the UK.
For those worried about their.weight they could try eating less & exercising more.
It’s always worth remembering that the drug merely suppresses appetite.
And they still allow it? Mind you they allow another jab that kills and injures tens of thousands….. Incredible that some country stopped a canine jab after just 10 deaths.
The problem I’m finding with my weight loss journey is that while i eat less, as I’m exercising more, the old adage of ‘muscle is heavier than fat’ kicks in and my weight stays the same.
The problem for any dieter though is finding a diet that’s suitable for the long term, so all these short cut fixes, whether its some miracle wonder drug or a slimming company like slimmers world or weightwatchers don’t work in the long term as they don’t change habits.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-ozempic-scam-and-safer
Very similar, and similarly dangerous weight loss drugs it would seem.
Incidentally being obese is not normally a cause of diabetes. It’s the other way round – diabetes causes obesity.
It’s that pesky immune system degrading proper insulin production..
And said degradation is caused by….
Vaccines
mmRNA gene therapies.
A glorious opportunity for the MHRA to demonstrate that OF COURSE IT TRACKS THE SAFETY OF DRUGS VERY VERY CAREFULLY.
Whilst sad about what has happened to this lady, that’s what jumped out with klaxons and flashing lights to me: MHRA tracking yellow cards!!!! Couldn’t manage it during the biggest experiment on humanity?
Except the Lady appears to have obtained her drug online. So the regulation goes out the window, even for prescription drugs, if you can find someone outside of the UK to send it to you.
You wanna lose weight fast?
OK. Think about it.
There were no fatties in Auschwitz when the Russians arrived. Think about why that was. It’s really simple: NO FOOD. Exercise had almost nothing to do with it (neither too much nor too little).
I am not proposing that fatties be put into labour camps. Certainly not! I merely propose that fatties be honest with themselves about the reason they are fatties: it is because they EAT TOO MUCH.
When they have openly admitted this, they can then go on to address the precise reasons behind their overeating. There are many and often very complex reasons why each fatty eats too much. And they can be very difficult for each fatty to overcome.
But without first admitting that they are fatties for the simple reason that they eat too much, they will never overcome the problems causing them to eat too much.
You are right, but I think there is a bit more to it: it’s not just the quantity of food but the quality of it.
Processed food is very poor in nutrients. Because it’s full of crap, it doesn’t fill you up and, as I result, you will be hungry again soon afterwards, which will make you want to eat more, but again, you will just eat more crap. And the cycle continues.
Effectively you eat a lot (so you’ll get fat) but your body gets very little out of it.
I can testify this experience: mostly we avoid processed food (my wife, PBUH, cooks every day) but occasionally when we resorted to buying processed food (e.g, cooker broken) the contrast was astonishing.
You’re right, but I think the underlying problem is many people eat the wrong kind of food.
Far too much carbohydrate, sugar, low fat alternative, lactose free, gluten free, vegan, plant based, most processed vegetable oils , it’s all rubbish.
Eat dairy, meat, freshly cooked vegetables, fresh eggs. Set aside the time to cook from fresh ingredients. Avoid ready meals like the plague.
And get exercise.
Spot on.
These people eat a lot but in actual fact their bodies are starving.
And yep, get some exercise.
Yes they eat too much. But they also eat the wrong things and quite often at the wrong time.
To be fair to nurses, police etc it is harder for people working shifts to regulate their body clock to eat at the right times.
I recall an Hibernian frioend used to say that it is not your genes its what goes in your gob that makes you overweight. Cruel but mostly true.
I accept there are genetic or body reasons why different people react to food differently, as they do to alcohol and tobacco.
Genuine question – so is this stuff more or less deadly than mrna covid quackcine?
Because for many people ay least it brings some benefits. Unlike the mrna covid jabs.
I wouldn’t say the mRNA Covid jabs didn’t bring anybody any benefits. I’m sure Pfizer’s senior management benefited very handsomely.
A very good question.
Another question might be as to when she had last received her Mrna mix and whether this might have played a part in her demise.
Probably not I have not seen elsewhere reports of the covid jabs leading to wholesale organ failure, just pericarditis myocarditis turbo cancer impaired immune system, and reproductive disfunction.
Oh yes,and an increased risk of catching a cold.
The takeaway here. Steer clear of this drug, it injures and possibly kills.
Very sad, but she could have lost weight by eating a low-carb, high protein and natural/animal fat diet.
I think the picture shows that some people’s idea of “a wee bit of extra weight” is a bit off kilter.
It was Mike Adams of Natural News who tried to warn people that these new weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro and others are derived from LIZARD VENOM, in particular that of a venomous reptile called the “Gila monster”, native to southwest of the US and the north of Mexico.
In an article from last year, which I can’t locate now, he described how the venom works by PARALYZING THE STOMACH MUSCLES to prevent the stomach from being emptied, leaving a false feeling of fullness in the patient, thereby decreasing the desire for food. He also pointed out the horrific side-effects of the Gila monster venom, including continuous vomiting because your stomach muscles continue to be paralyzed even after stopping the injections, sometimes for YEARS.
The article below from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland describes the connection with lizard venom:
The rise of Ozempic: how surprise discoveries and lizard venom led to a new class of weight-loss drugs – Faculty of Medicine – University of Queensland
A Gila monster (Latin name “Heloderma suspectum”).
People are injecting themselves with POISON from this reptile.
” …Unlike snakes, the Gila monster and beaded lizards lack the musculature to inject venom immediately. They have to chew the venom into the flesh of a victim. Heloderma venom is used only in defence.”
Colorado man was killed by venom from his pet Gila monster, autopsy finds
But he lost a lot of weight before dying.
It is true about the snake peptides. It sounds crazy and outlandish and superstitious but not really if you look at what they are trying to bring into being. It fits perfectly when you understand the rest of it.