- “Police attempts to shut down conservative conference ‘extremely disturbing’, says No. 10” – Downing Street says attempts by police in Belgium to shut down a conservative conference featuring Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman are “extremely disturbing”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The sinister censorship of NatCon Brussels” – European public life is in real trouble if recent goings on in the Belgian capital are anything to go by, says Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Police state: cops in Brussels prevent conservatives from freely meeting” – No sooner had the totalitarian drama in Brazil started to calm down than a fresh new one erupted in Belgium, writes Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “ADF International backs emergency legal challenge after Brussels police shut down NatCon conference” – Alliance Defending Freedom International is supporting an emergency legal challenge against the Brussels Mayor’s order to shut down NatCon, arguing it is contrary to the fundamental rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
- “Humza Yousaf faces Tory vote to repeal hate crime law” – Humza Yousaf is facing an embarrassing vote at Holyrood today to repeal his “disastrous” hate crime laws amid warnings that a deluge of complaints is placing an intolerable strain on Police Scotland, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trans women will be protected under misogyny law: Yousaf” – Scotland’s First Minister says transgender women will be protected under any new misogyny laws, according to the BBC. J.K. Rowling isn’t best pleased.
- “Liz Truss: ‘The people who claim I crashed the economy are either very stupid or very malevolent’” – The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson sat down with Britain’s shortest-lived Prime Minister to find a defiant and logical woman who was her own worst enemy.
- “‘Liz Truss was right and I can prove it – the dark forces that destroyed the former PM have smashed democracy in the U.K. and we should all be worried’” – On his Outspoken Substack, Dan Wootton reveals the shocking antics of the economic Establishment and the MSM conspiracy against the woman who threatened their hegemony.
- “The deep state lies in wait for Trump” – In the WSJ, Liz Truss warns Trump that his second term will be much like her time in office if he doesn’t confront the entrenched bureaucracy.
- “British workforce growth driven entirely by migrant labour, says IMF” – Britain’s economic prospects have been downgraded again by the IMF, with a warning that the country has become dependent on foreign-born workers for growth, reports the Telegraph.
- “As the world continues to resist the office, whatever happened to doing as you were told?” – From City institutions to universities and even schools, the very notion of heirarchy is now off-message, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson, Channel Four, part two” – In the second part of a review of The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson, J’accuse slams Channel Four for perpetuating falsehoods and overlooking key aspects of Boris’s character.
- “A tragic legacy in Hull” – In Hull, it seems that even burying the dead can be turned into a scam, says Jack Watson in Country Squire Magazine.
- “How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown – part three” – In TCW’s final instalment of ‘How Dominic Cummings pushed us into lockdown’ by Paula Jardine, the focus shifts to Cummings’ relentless pursuit of his Advanced Research Projects Agency.
- “New paper on Czech population-level vaccination data disproves claims vaccines are safe and effective” – On Substack, Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil react to a new Czech study that drills down into the fact that mortality rates are higher in the unvaccinated than the vaccinated, across numerous age groups and finds that this effect isn’t attributable to the Covid vaccines.
- “‘Massive cancer deaths study vindicates my warnings over Covid boosters’” – Anyone taking a spring booster Covid vaccine will be at risk of increasing their chances of dying of cancer, warns Prof. Angus Dalgleish in TCW.
- “mRNA pseudo-vaccines: current research” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone highlights a new study showing worse outcomes post-vaccination for Long Covid sufferers compared to the unvaccinated.
- “Whites twice as likely to die of Covid in California than non-whites” – On Substack, Igor Chudov flags the surprising statistic that, despite constituting only 37% of Californians, white people make up 60% of recent Covid deaths.
- “Ten years ago, microbiologist Ralph Baric told Tony Fauci and the world he would make coronaviruses more lethal. Then — with Fauci’s backing – he did” – On Substack, Alex Berenson gives his theory on why Fauci largely denied knowing Dr. Ralph S. Baric, the world’s top coronavirus researcher, when questioned under oath in 2022.
- “The vast scale of vaccine damage America tried (and failed) to hide” – In TCW, Sally Beck explores the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to withhold vital COVID-19 vaccine reaction data from its ‘v-safe’ app.
- “Long-term sickness surges to record high as labour crisis deepens” – The number of people out of work and not looking for a job has jumped to 9.4 million, reports the Telegraph.
- “Making a diagnosis of overdiagnosis” – Overdetection and over-definition of diseases are major causes of overdiagnoses, which ultimately cause more harm than good, say Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan.
- “Prescription drugs are the leading cause of death” – Overtreatment with drugs kills many people and the death rate is increasing, writes Dr. Peter Gøtzsche for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Doctors who prescribe puberty blockers to children could be struck off, says Health Secretary” – Victoria Atkins says “nothing is off the table” to ensure that “clinicians who subscribe to gender ideology” cannot “get around the rules”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why can’t Stonewall’s ex-boss come clean about its trans obsession?” – Stonewall’s former boss should come clean about what really unfolded on her watch, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Just Stop Oil activist admits it was wrong for protest to force driver to miss father’s funeral” – A Just Stop Oil protester has admitted it “doesn’t sit easy with me” that a motorway protest forced a driver to miss his father’s funeral, according to the Telegraph.
- “Is the global EV bubble bursting? As global demand falls by up to 40%” – In the first quarter of 2024, the two biggest manufacturers of electronic vehicles, Tesla and its Chinese rival BYD saw dramatic sales drops compared to last year, reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk to cut 14,000 Tesla jobs amid electric car slowdown” – Tesla is axing more than 10% of its global workforce as it grapples with falling sales, says This is Money.
- “The BBC’s 1970s climate alarm – a new ice age” – In TCW, Paul Homewood reminds readers of the media’s ice age scares in 1970’s.
- “It’s time to talk about eco-anxiety” – It’s little wonder that people feel “grief, guilt, fear or hopelessness about the future of the planet due to climate change” if experts are competing to tell the most terrifying horror story about climate change, says Tom Ed on Substack.
- “Saying you are a ‘non-feminist’ at work could be act of discrimination, tribunal rules” – A judge has ruled that not agreeing with equality and diversity in the workplace is a “questionable” belief that conflicts with the rights of colleagues, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hilary Cass’s biggest gift is to resurrect free speech” – Dawn French spoke for many in saying she was tired of being lectured on the strictures of social justice vocabulary, writes Joanna Williams in the Times.
- “Aggers is right: this absurd new woke jargon is ruining sport” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon sympathises with Jonathan Agnew, the BBC’s Chief Cricket Correspondent, over his irritation with the sport’s recent switch to gender-neutral terminology – ‘batter’ instead of ‘batsman’, for instance..
- “Games Workshop engulfed in gender row with Warhammer squadron fans” – A ‘woke’ gender row has broken out among Games Workshop fantasy fans after women were added to an army squadron for the first time, reports the Mail.
- “New NPR chief Katherine Maher’s guide to the holidays” – What might America’s future national holiday calendar look like? A trip around the calendar with new National Public Radio chief Katherine Maher, current world champ of unintentional comedy, offers a clue, writes Matt Taibbi on his Racket News Substack.
- “‘What just happened in Brussels this afternoon was a disgrace’” – On X, Nigel Farage lets rip on the Brussels authorities after they ordered a conservative political conference taking place in the city to be shut down.
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“The deep state lies in wait for Trump”. It’s not waiting.
It’s never going to go away it it? Any physios in the house?
”The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), which is the “professional body” and trade union which represents member physiotherapists in the UK, has launched its first “definitive position statement on transphobia” with the publication of its “position statement on transphobia.” The publication has sent a chill through the profession, as anonymous whistleblowers express concerns about censorship.
The “transphobia” statement describes the aim of “eradicating [transphobia] from our profession” by instructing members that they “must raise concerns about colleagues” if they think that the colleague’s “personal values, biases and beliefs” have led them to “discriminate” against others, with discrimination including “denying” someone’s “gender identity or refusing to accept it.”
The publication was accompanied by an announcement by the CPS declaring that the “Transphobia statement is a milestone for the profession.”
Citing a definition by “TransActual” the statement goes on to say:
“The consequence of transphobia is that trans people struggle to live openly and comfortably in society. An ultimate outcome may be the erasure of trans people as a viable class of people. Transphobia includes, but is not limited to:
Attempting to remove trans people’s rights.
Misrepresenting trans people.
Abuse.
Systematically excluding trans people from discussions about issues that directly affect them.
Other forms of discrimination.
(Source: TransActual)”
https://reduxx.info/exclusive-uk-physiotherapist-leaders-announce-goal-to-eradicate-critics-of-gender-ideology-from-the-profession/
For perspective trans people do not constitute much by way of population numbers:
The 2021 census reported there were 262,000 trans people, equivalent to 0.5% of the population. It was the first time the decennial survey had asked if people identified as a gender that was different from their registered birth sex. The move was heralded as a “historic step” by trans rights campaigners.
8 Nov 2023 The Guardian.
Of these 262,000 I doubt there are even 20,000 who are living openly as trans and the rest will quietly accept their lot and get on with their lives – their transness locked away so to speak.
That so much meddling in the life of the nation is taking place for so few people is frankly disgraceful. The push to hi-light transness is malevolent in the extreme and should be treated as such. I very much doubt that the majority of those who consider themselves as trans appreciate all this publicity. As I have stated previously on DS the majority just want to be left alone. The trans activists are in no way representative of the trans population as a whole.
The rubbing our faces in trans has a deeper and darker purpose and it is nothing to do with helping trans people.
I wonder how many women there are who have been traumatised by sexual assault and don’t want to be in intimate situations with strange men. Where is the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s position statement on these women?
The Sun Drives Climate Not CO2 – 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.
Freedom Drinks, Maidenhead
Looks like these residents are getting a mosque next to their homes whether they like it or not;
”A group of Bulwell residents packed into a room at the Riverside Centre on Friday, April 12, to discuss their efforts to halt the proposed building of a mosque in the town. Around 30 people attended the 75-minute meeting to speak their thoughts on the likelihood that the place of worship will go ahead.
An application was submitted to Nottingham City Council in January for the building of the mosque, on vacant land behind Cinderhill Road. But the plan has caused outcry among some locals, with one at the meeting saying she “feels racist” for her opposition to the proposal.
She said: “I think we’re known as the local racists now. I’ve been told I’m a racist and it makes me feel like one because I don’t want a mosque. But I just feel we’re being driven out. Our area of community is going to be completely overtaken.”
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/bulwell-mosque-locals-told-absolutely-9222606
What’s really going on?
Oh! A totalitarian dictator is presiding over a corrupt and incompetent government useless at doing pretty much anything…….
https://twitter.com/i/status/1780363833560781243
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLRbWDmX0AAI0Ex?format=png&name=360×360
And there’s another one, just over the border, who is enabling the selling of prime Ukrainian farmland, arguably the best and most fertile soil in the world, to Monsanto. And that’s just the farmland! Apparently, one of the conditions for receiving all this weaponry and support etc, was to turn over the national assets to corporations. It is so utterly corrupt, it stinks to high heaven.
“Apparently, one of the conditions for receiving all this weaponry and support etc, was to turn over the national assets to corporations. It is so utterly corrupt, it stinks to high heaven.”
Spot on Aethelred. I think I posted something similar a couple of years ago. If not I should have because I was aware of it. Anyway good on you for putting this information out there once more.
The clear intention behind the land grab is control of the food supply. Ukraine used to supply much of the wheat required for Europe.
Or not really:
‘Ukrainian law allows foreigners to own real estate in Ukraine but there are a number of important restrictions that may apply. The Land Code of Ukraine prohibits foreigners, foreign companies and foreign countries from owning agricultural land in Ukraine. It also precludes foreign companies from purchasing plots of land other than:
These restrictions also apply to joint ventures, ie companies established under Ukrainian law with the participation of foreign investors and Ukrainian legal entities and/or individuals.
It should be noted that on 31 March 2020 the Law of Ukraine “On amending some legislative acts of Ukraine regarding conditions of the agricultural land circulation” was passed. The respective law allows foreigners to purchase and own agricultural land only subject to the consent provided by Ukrainian people in a national referendum.
A number of other limitations exist under the Land Code, especially with respect to agricultural land.’
DLA Piper (updated 22 March 2024)
Why does this nonsense keep reappearing?
‘Claims of this kind are not new. They can be found in articles on Russian media from as early as 2014. A piece by RIA Novosti from back then, under the title “The colonisation of Ukraine by American agriculture cartels is gaining momentum” features the same accusations against Ukraine and the United States and mentions the same companies we are seeing today.
When Russia began sabotaging the export of Ukrainian grain last year, the claims that this was a question of the West’s commercial interests were reactivated.
In May a statement to that effect was made by Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzya. He said that food exported from Ukraine was being sold by American companies motivated by their own desire for profit rather than by the needs of starving people around the world. Those claims were actively used in attempts to discredit the Black Sea Grain Initiative for the export of Ukrainian grain, which Russia put an end to in July.’
‘Ukraine’s Land Act states in its article 1 that “land is the prime national asset and is under the special protection of the state.”
According to the law agricultural land in the country can be owned only by Ukrainian citizens, companies whose ownership is wholly in the hands of Ukrainian citizens, as well as by local councils and the state.
Article 130 prohibits foreign citizens, stateless persons or legal entities from acquiring shares in companies or being members on organisations that own agricultural land.
The law says also that those restrictions on land ownership can only be removed through a referendum.
Between 1992 and 2021 a moratorium on the trade in agricultural land was in place in Ukraine. It did not allow any land sales, even between Ukrainian citizens.’
A random tweet and an unattributed quote. Very convincing.
I feel for the woman tweeting, but there’s plenty of coverage of the floods in Russia and they are ‘doing something’ – quite a lot, actually. That said, when you are in the middle of it – and I speak from personal experience – it can often feel very lonely, isolating and frightening. Remember how long it took Cameron to waft down to the Somerset Levels back in 2014? The MSM were all over it like a propagandist’s wet (sic) dream, but there was very little mention of the intense flooding in other parts of the country at the same time.
You can definitely understand how people might be upset:
‘At a spontaneous rally on April 8, people demanded that the mayor of Orsk explain how their housing would be restored, what compensation they would receive, and why the police were not protecting their property from looters. Kozupica did not answer the questions and returned to the administration building.
On April 3, a couple of days before the emergency, the mayor once again inspected the dam together with his deputy for municipal affairs, Sergei Yeger, and stated that there was no risk of flooding.’
‘Peskov told reporters on April 9 that Putin did not plan to visit the Orenburg region at the moment, stressing that the president “is taking care of the issue” without being at the site.’
In late 2013 we were told there was little or no danger of flooding in our area – until it did. My one and only contact with ‘authority’ was a fireman calling out from the road then moving on while I waded about my home in over a metre of water. No PM, MP, local council or even parish council person ever visited the area. Gangs of looters moved in, stealing from and damaging many properties – fortunately they only got as far as crow-barring my front door. No refuge centres were ever set up locally, everyone had to rely on friends, family and dry neighbours for help until insurance companies agreed T&Cs. I know of several people who were still fighting their insurance companies for payments years later. Those without adequate insurance lost everything with no govt compensation whatsoever.
So your point is that it’s the same the world over, is it?
My point is that Putin is a totalitarian dictator running a corrupt and hopelessly incompetent totalitarian socialist government.
You may very well conclude from your experience that the socialist fascist coalition government of Britain in 2013 was similarly incompetent. Certainly the useless Clegg’s remarks regarding any nuclear stations being built at that time only being ready by 2023, (precisely when, as it turned out, they would be needed) so why build them, seems to support that view.
Difficult to extrapolate for the rest of the world but also difficult to rule out.
Watch out, buddy:
‘Russia’s lower parliament unanimously passed a law on Friday morning that will criminalize sharing what the Kremlin determines is “fake” information about the country’s armed forces, with punishments ranging from fines of $45,000 to prison terms of up to 15 years.
While the new law is being seen primarily as yet another nail in the coffin of a free press in Russia, the wording of the legislation is so broad that it applies not only to journalists and media outlets, but to any citizen expressing their opinion.’
04 March 2022
I don’t think the long arm of Russian law extends to Cheshire.
No-one thought it extended to Salisbury either.
Check under the car every morning.
Change your routes daily.
Do you have a dog? You need one.
Baikal is, like his namesake, a big boy and then there are the guard cats Barsik and Marsik, and their acolyte Darsik.
Aggers is right: this absurd new woke jargon is ruining sport
What is ruining sport is the broadcast media and, quite possibly, the state education system.
‘Batsman’ is, has always been, gender neutral, just like ‘oarsman’, ‘helmsman’, ‘ombudsman’ and so on.
The only exception used to be ‘woman’………..
I wonder if Nige is aware that Police selectively enforce in the U.K. as well, at least in London.
I had no idea Farage wasn’t entirely convinced Brexit was the right thing. How interesting.
Being flagged by many – Dr Ian Brighthope officially brands mRNA as a class 1 carcinogen (although Dr Jessica Rose did it the day before). I’d actually change it slightly and call it a carcinogenic bioweapon, particularly given the speed with which the mRNA platform is being developed over a whole raft of medical interventions, and the WHO’s obsession with gain-of-function aka biological warfare. Not about health, is it?
https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/mrna-is-a-class-one-carcinogen?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
The Brussels NatCon outrage perfectly explains why the powers that be genuinely believe that the far right is a bigger terrorist issue than any other. Because they define ordinary conservatives as far right. That’s all of us who don’t believe the big socialist lies of our day.
Could we be seeing the beginning of the outlawing of parties on the right? Conflating conservatism with far-right and far-right with racism and racism with white supremacism isn’t too far a stretch of the imagination. Clearly any real pushback against the unchecked immigration is to be quashed. The project is to flood Europe with migrants, attack traditional customs, habits and religions, destroy families and small businesses, create enmity and division, alter voting outcomes and so on in order to erase national identities and sovereign peoples. You can see this happening everywhere in the UK and any talk of turning boats around is immediately jumped on by bleeding heart liberals as racism. They still need millions more of these migrants but certain areas of the country are already lost.
It was interesting, and alarming, to read that Covid deaths in California were more likely to be white people and we need statistics over here too. The fact that pregnant women were being advised to take the shot makes me wonder whether the batches causing miscarriages were more likely to be among predominantly white areas in the UK. If so, it would certainly lead one to make a wild guess that white births are significantly down while Muslim births are normal. Worth investigating I think.
My take on this is slightly different. Those on the left at the top see “conservatives” or “right wing” people as a threat because they know that left wing arguments are weak and left wing regimes lead to worse outcomes for ordinary people, and smearing the “right” as “far right” is much easier than winning a rational argument – it whips up a frenzy against the “right” and allows them to use the power of the state to impede the “right”.
“The BBC’s 1970s climate alarm – a new ice age”
Ah, those were the days – I remember them well. And as Homewood says, nary a mention of CO2…
“Trans women will be protected under misogyny law: Yousaf”
So a man pretending to be a woman who rapes a real woman now gets as much protection as the victim?
Then rape is no longer a crime!
“Aggers is right: this absurd new woke jargon is ruining sport”
“‘batter’ instead of ‘batsman’,
That’s what I use to make my pancakes!
It’s all batshit crazy, Dings!
If I were to describe this ‘modern world’ in one word, that word would be
Hypocrisy!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/belgian-court-strikes-down-order-shutting-down-natcon-conference/
Good news.
Now the mayor should be arrested and put on trial for making illegal enforcements beyond his remit!