- “Iran launches a wave of drone attacks at Israel” – Iran has launched waves of drones and missiles to attack Israel that are set to hit within hours, after Israel announced it was closing all schools amid fears of an upcoming attack from the rogue state, the Mail reports.
- “The West must stand behind Israel after Iran’s attack” – In different times and with a different Prime Minister in Jerusalem than the gun-shy Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran’s attack is the kind of inflammatory move that could have provoked a much graver Israeli response than we are likely to see, suggests Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Number waiting 18 weeks for NHS heart care soars to all-time high” – More than 163,000 patients in England have endured delays of at least 18 weeks, an all time high, reports the Mail.
- “Why did Tony Fauci say under oath he barely knew top coronavirus scientist Ralph Baric – when in fact Fauci hosted a daylong 2013 meeting where Baric laid out his plans for risky research?” – Peter Daszak – another scientist connected to China whom Fauci claimed under oath not to remember – was also at the 2013 meeting, reports Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Even Labour thinks the Tories are too Left-wing on the NHS” – The Telegraph’s Kate Andrews is full of praise for Wes Streeting’s bullish plans for the NHS.
- “Real experts never warn of climate apocalypse” – The UN ‘climate chief’ is yet another interminable prophet of doom, says the Times‘s Dominic Lawson.
- “The human rights cult has replaced common sense compassion” – The noble belief that all people are entitled to basic freedoms has become a narcissist’s charter, argues Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Switzerland ‘should quit European Court of Human Rights over climate ruling’” – Céline Amaudruz, Vice-President of the country’s biggest political party, tells the Telegraph the judgment is a threat to sovereignty.
- “It’s time to finish the work of Brexit, and finally bring control back to our sovereign Parliament” – A ludicrous decision in Strasbourg proves that we must leave the ECHR or be governed by the whims of judges, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations” – Hundreds of ‘ghost’ climate stations are no longer operational, instead they are assigned temperatures from surrounding stations, reports WUWT.
- “Khan legally committed himself to exploring pay-per-mile” – In his official transport strategy, which has a formal legal status, the London Mayor says Transport for London would “investigate proposals for the next generation of road user charging”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The RSPCA’s new advert proudly shows off exactly who they are – bigoted Left-wing extremists” – Having spent millions on a new look, the charity just couldn’t stop itself from producing two minutes of pure propaganda, blasts the Telegraph‘s William Sitwell.
- “J.K. Rowling and the Cass report reckoning” – Was ever a ‘liberation’ movement ever so risible from the start? Did any other oppressed group claim its freedom by dressing up as another oppressed group, asks Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “The spell of trans ideology has finally been broken” – Every time people tried to bring this scandal to public attention, they were shut down, but finally the truth is out, says Graham Linehan in the Telegraph.
- “I was prevented from raising alarm about puberty blockers, says leading medic” – When neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale questioned NHS treatment for gender dysphoria, she found herself the subject of sustained abuse, reports the Telegraph.
- “Cass review shows why the ‘tartan Tavistock’ clinic in Glasgow must be shut down” – Dr. Jenny Cunningham, who was a paediatrician in Glasgow for more than 30 years, fears Scotland will become an outlier if it fails to follow Hilary Cass’s recommendations for gender care for children and young people in England, the Scottish Daily Express reports.
- “‘Secretive’ gender clinics back down over puberty blocker data” – Six NHS trusts had initially refused to divulge information on trans children for the Cass review of gender services but will now do so, according to the Times.
- “Cass Review is a breath of fresh air – we now need one for gender-distressed adults” – In the Telegraph, Dr. Kathryn Webb argues adult healthcare is likely to be affected by the same issues and the same principles should be applied.
- “J.K. Rowling accuses politicians of ‘snuggling up’ to trans groups” – The 58-year-old called for there to be an investigation into why political parties are embracing the opinions of “privileged” pro-trans groups such as Stonewall and Mermaids, the Mail reports.
- “Kemi Badenoch attacks gender ‘cowardice’ of NHS, politics and police” – The Business Secretary with the equality brief says the attitude of the public sector is “worse than the ravings of the militants“, reports the Times.
- “NatCon Brussels: Conference Goes Forward Despite Mayor’s Attempt to Cancel” – The venue for next week’s National Conservatism conference in Brussels announced on Friday afternoon that it had pulled the plug on the event after political pressure from the Left-wing mayor of Brussels, reports the European Conservative.
- “Will Cambridge Support Free Speech?” – In Project Syndicate, Peter Singer examines the Cambridge University’s ongoing case against Nathan Cofnas, a research fellow who advocates “race realism”.
- “Orwell Watch: NPR and the Death of Fairness” – A story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale, says Matt Taibbi on Racket News.
- “The West’s useful idiots” – The solipsism and self-censorship of the campus intelligentsia has spread throughout society, but demand for instruction in progressive doublespeak is dwindling, writes John Gray in the New Statesman.
- “‘I spent a day in Britain’s asylum courts – and found out why the system is fundamentally broken’” – We no longer know who lives in the country, are unable to remove those with no right to be here and lack a plan to resolve the situation, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “When churches go woke, they die” – Traditional Christianity is what worshippers seek, says Michael Coren in the Telegraph.
- “Hate speech laws should be abolished” – Since when did it become the business of the state to audit our emotions, asks Andrew Doyle on X.
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Iran launches a wave of drone attacks at Israel
Right….so now we know what we are up against…….
Are Britain’s air defences capable of defending multiple large conurbations against drone swarms combined with simultaneous cruise and ballistic missile attacks……in excess of 300 different tracks all arriving from different directions over multiple targets at the same time?
What do we have in the locker located here in Britain?
A handful of Typhoon interceptors, a few ground/ship launched missiles operated by three different services………….and Corporal Jones……
Don’t panic!
Once those 800,000 pro Palestine marchers arrive at R.A.F. Coningsby to confront the Company strength Royal Air Force Regiment detachment, about 100 bayonets, that’s it….game over…no airborne air defence whatsoever……
The bottom shuffling in Westminster/Whitehall right now is palpable
34 years of dereliction of duty from the British government….pathetic…..what an absolute and utter disgrace…..
Action is required, this day!
Well maybe I’ll be safe here from the resident Miserable Git Association, posting about Iran, but yes, I totally agree. It is a bloody shambles, not just with the UK military but many other countries too. They’re more interested in meeting their DEI targets, and unsurprisingly nobody wants to join up anymore. All of these immigrant men might come in handy for something then! <sarc>
This is what we’re contending with though. This is the U.S but you can bet your bottom dollar these terrorist-supporting traitorous idiots will be making themselves even more obvious now, due to the escalation. This really riles me. These people are disgusting;
”After the news broke that Iran had launched an attack on Israel, a crowd of communists in Chicago chanted, “Hands off Iran.” Look at these losers with their face masks. I can only imagine the number of pronouns being used in that room.”
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1779386460002816428
Spot on.
I’m not too sure the randomers you refer to have yet got the memo:
‘Iran uses its nuclear program to build negotiating leverage and respond to perceived international pressure. Tehran said it would restore JCPOA limits if the United States fulfilled its JCPOA commitments and the IAEA closed its outstanding safeguards investigations. Tehran down blended a small quantity of 60 percent enriched uranium and significantly lowered its rate of production from June to November 2023.
Iran continues to increase the size and enrichment level of its uranium stockpile, and develop, manufacture, and operate advanced centrifuges. Tehran has the infrastructure and experience to quickly produce weapons-grade uranium, if it chooses to do so.
Iran probably will consider installing more advanced centrifuges, further increasing its enriched uranium stockpile, or enriching uranium up to 90 percent in response to additional sanctions, attacks, or censure against its nuclear program.
Iran probably aims to continue research and development of chemical and biological agents for offensive purposes. Iranian military scientists have researched chemicals, toxins, and bioregulators, all of which have a wide range of sedation, dissociation, and amnestic incapacitating effects.’
https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2024/mar/11/2024-us-intelligence-report-iran#:~:text=On%20March%2011%2C%202024%2C%20the,and%20a%20nuclear%20energy%20plant.
They’re going to need a better face mask……..
Thanks for the link to USIP, Monro – it’s fascinating and an eye-opener if not a jaw-dropper to read the US intelligence community’s threat assessments (from Feb 5, 2024) without a hint of irony – I quote from page 31:
“Digital technologies have become a core component of many governments’ repressive toolkits even as they continue to engage in physical acts of transnational repression, including assassinations.”
Page 33: “Climate-related disasters and economic losses in low-income countries are poised to continue contributing to cross-border migration.”
There’s far more and I’ve only gone through it in brief but by reading between the lines, you get an idea of what is planned. 41 pages of a lot of paranoia – not all but a lot – playing straight into Agenda 21.
What we are witnessing – out in the real world – is the global coup, the taking of the global commons, the subordination and destruction of sovereign nation states eradicating customs, language, habits etc (DEI), ending traditional farming by manipulation and regulation, making food scarcer which is enabled through weather modification and blaming it on ‘climate change’ and the impoverishment of us all.
So, the wars that are being ignited all over the place are just part of it because then shipping and transport of resources and goods can be blamed on them leading to scarcity, rationing, energy hikes, banning of traditional ways of cooking and heating etcetera etcetera etcetera.
Rather than adopt a position here (although I am firmly against wars – wars that are never won), I would point you to the much bigger picture, part of which I referred to above, as this is what is really happening – in my view anyway. I could be wrong of course but I feel the main drive is to depopulate the planet, take it back from the useless eaters (us), enslave the rest and advance transhumanism, a sub-breed of Morlocks, to do the human work. Sounds crazy but then….mRNA, right?
Blimey Aethelred your post almost reads like one of mine.
You are very much entitled to your view.
Does it presuppose some form of governmental coordination, malign leadership?
If it does, then we must part company.
Governments, as we have seen, are hopeless at running anything.
Please explain the acronyms.
Did the previous “multiverse” word-dump response not ring an alarm bell this account might be a bot?
JCPOA – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-statement-on-joint-comprehensive-plan-of-action-jcpoa-transition-day
IAEA – https://www.iaea.org/
Isn’t d hand job an old silly billy.
https://ucsd.libguides.com/govspeak
We do have an army.of aggressive woke activists. Can they be used in any way?
Private don’t tell him your name Pike has been detailed off to run their basic training and organise the issue of woollen scarves to every man or woman or……
As sandbags!
Any volunteers to fill them……..?
“J.K. Rowling and the Cass report reckoning”
This article includes the lines;
”Boyish girls, climb the nearest tree and give a Tarzan whoop of victory – girly boys, fashion a floral crown and caper copiously. Thanks to the Cass Report, failing to follow sexist stereotypes (which decree that girls play with dolls and boys play with themselves) will no longer get you marched off to the sex-correction clinic.”
If this is indeed now the case then that is good news but it does not address the issue that societies reaction to a boyish girl is hugely different to its reaction to a girly boy. If a girl called Charlotte decides to call herself Charlie, wear Doc Marten boots and climb trees she tends to be seen positively as a spirited girl. If a boy called Stephen decides to call himself Steph, wear floral scarves and enjoys skipping, society finds it disturbing. To some extent this disparity in societies reaction to boyish girls and girly boys has played into this trans issue.
A few years ago there seemed to be a move away from gender stereotyping with things like Children’s toys but these days Children seem to be presented with very gender stereotyped toys and activities. Our twin Grandsons have spent some time overseas and developed a liking for ‘Frozen’ and Princesses and Unicorns but on starting school in the UK they soon saw that boys were not allowed to be interested in such things and dropped them quickly in order to fit in. Maybe, following on from this Cass report society needs to re-examine the whole subject of gender stereotyping and why it finds the whole concept of a boy liking Princesses and Pink Unicorns so disturbing. Maybe the boy is perfectly OK and it is society that needs to change it’s views and be a bit more accepting?
Good points. There is possibly some evolutionary reason for the difference in how those two things are viewed.
“Iran launches a wave of drone attacks at Israel”
Al Jazeera quotes Iran as saying: “…it carried out the attack in response to an Israeli raid on the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1 and says the matter can now “be deemed concluded”.
Oh, but it won’t be concluded. Not one bit of it. This is just what they’ve been waiting for, the pretext for escalating a war against Iran. Iran took the bait of the consulate attack and now the main feature can commence. Iran has huge gas and oil reserves and other natural resources which the west wants. Iran has played a dangerous game over the decades and its support for Hezbollah hasn’t helped its hand. Now, we’ll see Russia perhaps enter the theatre, possibly Pakistan too. We have no way of knowing how this war will be conducted but I imagine the playbook starts with destruction of oil refineries, military airbases, communications and transport (Iran has excellent roads) etc. When that happens is another thing. I would have thought they need another event – maybe even a False Flag to fly on the back of the drone attack. Some unconscionable act. This is a very dangerous moment. You can already see, hear, read what the world’s media is saying and how the stakes will be ramped up very quickly. It certainly will not be ‘concluded’.
Yes, the prior Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy is strangely missing from MSM. Anyone capable of thinking independently from the popular narrative should consider that the West seem to be itching for global conflict, and have been since phase 1 of their plan ran out of steam – Covid. Of course, the bears that are Russia and Iran don’t need a lot of poking, and the elites who are reshaping the economy and society, laying the foundations for another stab at communism, are well aware of that. Why anyone who saw through the Covid and Climate scams would suddenly believe these same people are unquestionably trustworthy is beyond me. Framing the conflicts as wars of values (e.g. the ‘free’ west Vs bullying/corrupt Russia, the ‘free’ west Vs Islam etc) is clever though, I’ll give them that, as it psychologically nudges people, even normally sceptical people, to choose the propaganda that reflects their values.
None of what’s happening is coincidence, it’s all part of the same thing.
“… the bears that are Russia and Iran don’t need a lot of poking …” then why does the west keep poking them?
Russia has shown enormous constraint over the last 10 years after signing the Minsk peace agreements, which Merkel and Hollande recently admitted were a ruse to enable the west to ship more arms to Ukraine and to continue training its military. For all the last 10 years, Ukraine has been shelling its own civilians and infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, in an attempt to drive the ethnic Russians away from their own land, whereby many, if not most, of the munitions used were provided by the west. The CIA recently admitted in a New York Times article to running a dozen ‘secret’ centres on the Russian/Ukrainian border, training Ukrainians to carry out essentially terrorist activities in Russia. Russia’s insistence that Ukraine was a red line when it came to NATO membership has also been repeatedly ignored over a far longer period, and remember that Ukraine was prepared to sign peace negotiations at the end of March 2022 before Boris Johnson turned up and convinced Zelensky not to sign, but to fight – for what cause? Finally, the west has provided hundreds of billions of financial and military aid to Ukraine in the conflict against Russia; not only that, you have politicians like Lord Cameron preaching to USA they should release the next $61 billion because of the “value for money” in supposedly destroying Russian armaments at zero cost to USA lives.
Just how much poking does anyone need?
And then Israel destroys part of a consulate in a foreign country – a breech of the most basic diplomacy that in the history of the ‘civilized’ world has only ever been carried out by one other nation: USA. And the US warmongers have long been itching to start a war against Iran, not only because of Iran’s support against Israel’s continuing genocide (or mass murder, if you prefer) of the Palestinians in Gaza.
And, unfortunately, Iran has apparently reacted to the destruction of its consulate in Syria, which now means USA can assert its belligerent self in distant reaches of the world again. Wonderful.
How about just stopping all the poking around the world and letting civilizations – the people themselves – live in peace and prosperity?
Apologies for my appalling English: “Russia has shown enormous restraint …” not constraint. And breach of security, not breech. Dear, oh dear.
It’s not just your English that is appalling……
‘Russia has shown enormous restraint……’
Why is this complete flim flam?
‘”I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war….If our unit hadn’t crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out — like in [the Ukrainian city of] Kharkiv, like in Odessa……..There would have been several dozen killed, burned, detained. And that would have been the end of it. But the flywheel of the war, which is continuing to this day, was spun by our unit. We mixed up all the cards on the table,”
Igor Girkin, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Nov. 2014
“In order to block and disarm 20,000 well-armed [Ukrainian soldiers], you need a specific set of personnel. And not just in numbers, but with skill. We needed specialists who know how to do it……..That’s why I gave orders to the Defense Ministry — why hide it? — to deploy special forces of the GRU (military intelligence) as well as marines and commandos……’
Putin, March 2015
The Iranian Consulate annex was used as a Command Centre by Iran.
Members of the IRGC’s expeditionary Quds Force were meeting with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
That’s why Mohammad Reza Zahedi—the top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander in the Levant was present.
Killed alongside his deputy and five other officers, Zahedi is said to have been accredited as a staff member of the Iranian embassy in Damascus.
Israel has in past months signaled that all IRGC targets are fair game—regardless of any dual diplomatic credentials.
A group of elderly women should counter-sue – the Swiss government should be trying to increase warming.
The chart above shows the average number of deaths per week among women aged 85+ over the period 2000-24. Note there are significantly fewer deaths per week in the warmer part of the year.
Nice work! Well done.
“Number waiting 18 weeks for NHS heart care soars to all-time high”
And where pray tell, are all these extra heart problems coming from?
Several people have commented over time regarding downtickers not coming out and stating their issue with a comment.
I made a comment today which incurred 12 down ticks. I am quite thick skinned, but could not really fathom why people disagreed with my comment which was not controversial in my book.
But with just a down tick I have no idea what the other person is actually thinking.
It may be a good idea to make the comment section a bit more dynamic in that you can only down tick if you state why. And may be the site can alert you with an email if your comment has incurred replies.
Just a thought.
I agree, Myra. Like you, I couldn’t care less about downticks. You say your piece and let people deal with it. I feel we could follow The Conservative Woman’s example and that is to be able to see who upticks and who downticks. It might encourage more debate as well as people might feel that they can’t just vote without stating why. Also, just a thought.
Out of interest – what was your comment on?
Well I find the whole ‘like/dislike’ function on here pointless and surplus to requirements. In fact, I view it as a tool of manipulation which plays into the hands of shadow-lurking trolls, the professional voyeurs that are the 77th Hamster Penis Brigade and petty, juvenile posters who’ve taken an obvious dislike to other people on here or are just too bone idle to offer up anything in the way of an opposing viewpoint and are incapable of an intelligent debate. I know from personal experience that there’s people on here who cannot cope with other posters challenging them so they resort to ad hominem and all the toys get chucked out the pram, cue the inevitable spat as a consequence.
Last I looked I was a reasonably intelligent human being, not a Pavlov’s dog or a pigeon in a Skinner’s box, so I refuse to be manipulated and drawn into the silly, childish little green/red thumb toy. I’d bet the farm that the vast majority of people who use this function are those without accounts. Certainly I read posts ( not all if the comments section is super busy and I don’t even click on most articles any more as they hold no interest for me ) and I might agree or I may disagree, but I don’t take the bait and use the thumbs to reflect that. No doubt there are people on here who get a little dopamine hit when they see their post has received a million little green numbers of positive reinforcement but that’s very lame and it should not influence a person’s motivation to post what they want going forward. We aren’t characters in an interactive video game, after all.
Seconded
Fair enough, Mogs.
You’re making the mistake of applying logic and reason. Myra. Don’t over think it as there is no logic or reason involved. It’s purely a tool of manipulation, which is obviously super popular with the haters and trolls, given that they don’t need an account in order to use it and they get to kid themselves that they’re actually influencing anybody. I could have a million little red numbers and I’d still be back whenever I want posting whatever I want.
The worst thing you can do is give them what they want: acknowledgment. If you take the bait and post your irritation then you’re just playing into the haters’ hands. ”Don’t feed the trolls”, that includes the shadow-lurkers. I swear these obsessive saddos have no life and hanging out here is their idea of entertainment. I don’t know why DS doesn’t just scrap the thing. It’s not like there are any algorithms to be effected on here, unlike FB, YT, Twitter etc.
In case RW is reading.
We happened to be down your way last night and popped into the Allied Arms for a drink. It was a pleasant experience.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/12/rspca-rebrand-extremist-left-bigots-animal-rights/
The new RSPCA advert uses Chris Packham for the voice-over and wonders why people have switched off.
Head. Sand.
An example of self-censorship spreading throughout society:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/29/are-we-being-gaslit-over-the-cause-of-the-princess-of-waless-cancer
Accommodating untruths allowed intellectuals to survive in communist countries according to “The West’s useful idiots” but until society goes full Red here, there’s opportunities to be had monetising free speech.
Yawn.
Exactly the response many would like to see when discussing COVID. People made their money, gained power and moved to new challenges so the rest of us should move-on as well.
“The West must stand behind Israel after Iran’s attack”
Fighter jets sent by the UK have already been shooting down drone attacks over Israel.
Britain combat aircraft: 130
Israel combat aircraft: 280
174,740 Armed Forces of Britain, including reserves and paramilitary
642,500 Armed Forces of Israel, including reserves and paramilitary
So no, we do not want to send our boys to be killed and maimed in yet another foreign war, to help a country whose Armed Forces are considerably larger than our own, and to whom we already send massive amounts of foreign aid, as well as £57,000,000 of military exports to Israel since 2022.
Let the Middle East sort out their own problems.
We in the West have enough of our own.
The UK armed forces protects the interests of the UK regime. The UK government is closely tied to Israel so it is to be expected that the military lends support.
The British Armed Forces can barely protect themselves at the moment.
The Royal Navy off the Red Sea and the Royal Air Force from Cyprus are participating because they know they also rely on the U.S. and Israel for their own security……nothing to do with the ‘UK regime’, whatever you may be insinuating by that.
Once they have the range, those doodlebugs, scuds, will be heading over here.
I am very happy that our Royal Navy and Royal Air Force are already getting some live practice against these threats.