- “Britain’s statistics watchdog to examine Hamas’s Gaza death toll figures” – The U.K. Statistics Authority is examining fresh claims that death toll figures from Hamas cannot be trusted, according to the Telegraph.
- “Furious protest in London against the police: ‘Met have allowed antisemitism to thrive!’” – Pro-Israel campaign group Enough is Enough have taken to the streets of London against the continued pro-Palestine marches, reports GB News.
- “Met Police mocked as pro-Israel protester wears ‘don’t arrest me’ hoodie” – A pro-Israel demonstrator mocked the Met Police by wearing a hoodie with the message “Please do not arrest me”, after a Jewish man was held by police during a pro-Palestine march in the capital last week, says the Express.
- “Enough is enough. Mark Rowley must go” – In the Telegraph, Suella Braverman says Sir Mark Rowley “needs to accept responsibility” after a “litany of failures” in policing pro-Palestine protests.
- “U.S. expected to sanction IDF unit for human rights violations in West Bank” – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to announce sanctions against the Israel Defence Forces ‘Netzah Yehuda’ battalion for human rights violations in the West Bank, reports Axios.
- “Google has the right answer to revolting employees: sack them” – Other companies looking for clear instructions on how to deal with revolting employees need only perform a basic Google search, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Oxford University college scraps St. George’s Day event but will host Eid dinner” – A University of Oxford college that traditionally hosts a St. George’s Day celebration has been accused of replacing it with Eid for the second year in row, reports the Telegraph.
- “Belgian PM takes flak over late response to NatCon event cancellation attempt” – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is under fire for failing to act when Brussels mayors wanted to cancel the National Conservatism conference, says Brussels Signal.
- “Study finds ‘significant increase’ in cancer mortality after mass vaccination with third Covid dose” – A new study reveals “statistically significant increases” in mortality rates of all cancers following mass vaccination with the third mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Lockdown to blame for ‘concerning’ surge in number of potentially deadly falls” – A top British medical professor has blamed lockdown for a concerning jump in the number of potentially deadly falls suffered by people, reveals the Telegraph.
- “FBI found it ‘alarming’ that Fauci-funded virus research at Wuhan lab would leave no trace of ‘human manipulation’” – Emails from FBI agents show that the bureau was tipped off in April 2020 to gain-of-function virus research in China, funded by the agency formerly headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, that “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation”, according to the NY Post.
- “Twenty hours in Rome challenging the WHO and the ‘official’ Covid narrative” – Watch Prof. Norman Fenton’s speech at a CMSI event in Rome, reviewing pandemic management and protection of health, freedom and national sovereignty.
- “The long and winding Covid” – In TCW, Dr. Roger Watson discusses recent reports suggesting a link between Long Covid and COVID-19 vaccines.
- “Bird flu, censorship and 100 day vaccines: seven predictions for ‘the next pandemic’” – In OffGuardian, Kit Knightly predicts how “the next pandemic” will unfold.
- “The rise in suicide” – Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years, writes Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
- “No one told me how hard it would be to come off anti-depressants” – Is it time to make antidepressants available over the counter? No way, says Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
- “The house sale document that could nail Angela Rayner” – Angela Rayner’s attempts to ride out her two-homes row have been dealt a significant blow by the emergence of a key document signed by her former neighbour, reports the Mail.
- “Liz Truss is right – Tory MP selection has been taken over by wokery” – A whistleblower tells the Mail’s Anna Mikhailova and Glen Owen that the Tory party’s MP selection process has been so taken over by wokery that even a raging communist could be picked as a candidate.
- “The real tragedy of Liz Truss is far more depressing than we realise” – A low-tax pushback cannot begin until Liz Truss owns her mini-Budget mistakes, says Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
- “Welcome to the jungle – the new Cold War era of investing is upon us” – Deglobalisation and rearmament will reshape the economy, predicts Barry Norris in the Telegraph.
- “A risk-free life is not worth living” – Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban will turn the next generation into permanent infants, warns Lionel Shriver in Spiked.
- “Fine Gael MEP wants to ‘call out’ those using words like ‘sovereignty’” – A Fine Gael MEP says it’s important to “call out” the use of words like “sovereignty” and “we must protect our borders”, according to Brussels Signal.
- “No go zones” – Are ‘no go zones’ conspiracy theory fact or fiction? asks Dr. Robert W. Malone on Substack.
- “A byword for resistance” – Salman Rushdie’s new memoir chronicles the price he paid for speaking freely, writes Corbin K. Barthold in City Journal.
- “Katherine Birbalsingh’s victory hides a dark truth about education” – Many teachers are having to submit to the whims of their students, says Abbie MacGregor in CapX.
- “London drivers ‘could pay per mile’ so that Sadiq Khan can hit Net Zero target” – Documents reveal the Mayor of London’s ambitious plans for decarbonisation are “only possible” by charging motorists, reports GB News.
- “LTN caused 30% surge in pupils arriving late” – A London head teacher reveals that an LTN that brought gridlock to public transport caused a 30% surge in school pupils arriving late as they navigated “heavy traffic and fumes”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Muggers target school children impacted by London LTN” – Teachers have been patrolling a ‘ghost town’ low traffic neighbourhood where gangs of thieves have been targeting pupils on the unnaturally quiet streets, reports the Mail.
- “Cycle lane on London roundabout would increase congestion by 800%, report says” – An independent report claims that a cycle lane planned for one of London’s busiest roundabouts will cause an 800% increase in traffic congestion, according to the Telegraph.
- “Welsh Government plans 20mph speed limit U-turn” – Roads in Wales will revert to 30mph following backlash at the Welsh Government’s 20mph zone rollout, reports the Mail.
- “Welsh Labour’s speeding U-turn shows devolution is beginning to grate” – The tragedy of Wales’s 20 mph speed limit, which is now to be relaxed, was that it took a good idea and ruined it by taking it to extremes, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Netherlands may reverse motorway speed limit cut which ‘barely reduces emissions’” – The Netherlands is considering reversing an unpopular speed limit imposed because of EU climate targets, after a study showed it barely lowered nitrogen emissions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak has set us back, head of climate change watchdog says” – In a BBC interview, head of the Climate Change Committee Chris Stark says the PM has not made climate change “as much of a priority as his predecessors”.
- “Biofuel lunacy and the return of the hungry horses” – Australia’s pro-ethanol policy pits plant farmers against animal farmers and green politicians against food consumers, writes Viv Forbes in TCW.
- “Evaluating the model projections” – It’s easy to predict the future… as long as it’s just like the past, says Willis Eschenbach in WUWT.
- “MPs oppose funding disinformation ratings agency in blacklisting row” – MPs raise concerns about the prospect of the Government investing in a disinformation ratings agency that has been criticised for effectively blacklisting gender-critical columnists, reports the Times.
- “Call for public inquiry into transgender ideology in NHS and schools” – More than 130 MPs, peers, doctors and psychiatrists have written to Rishi Sunak demanding a probe into the “pervasive influence” of transgender ideology in schools and the NHS, says the Telegraph.
- “Support for Stonewall crumbles after Cass review” – The NHS and other public bodies are reviewing their association with LGBT rights charity Stonewall following the release of the Cass review, writes Geraldine Scott in the Times.
- “Stoke hospital hung banner celebrating 21 genders and sexualities” – Its waiting list for operations is the fourth worst in the country, yet a Stoke hospital found time to hang a banner celebrating 21 genders and sexualities. No wonder patients and nurses are calling it “absolute madness”, says Paul Bracchi in the Mail.
- “King’s College London bars staff from promotion unless they support pro-trans diversity policy” – King’s College University has been warned that it risks breaking the law with a woke employment policy aimed at staff seeking promotion, according to the Mail.
- “How Humza Yousaf’s growing anger amid trans row shows he’s buckling under the pressure” – Humza Yousaf is stirring up a culture war based on identity rather than focusing on kitchen-table politics such as the state of the NHS, our failing schools and the housing crisis, writes Susan Dalgety in the Scotsman.
- “What Kemi Badenoch gets right about colonialism” – Kemi Badenoch has developed a habit of truth telling, remarks Robert Tombs in the Spectator.
- “Villainy: the only role left for white men” – The campaign to airbrush white males from society (customarily euphemised as ‘diversity’), is almost complete, writes Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Woke Exeter University threatens anti-vegan student with expulsion” – A philosophy student, overheard through the wall of his room saying “veganism is wrong” and “gender fluidity is stupid”, was threatened with expulsion by his university, reveals the Mail on Sunday.
- “Thought police: home visit for U.K. man who expressed anger online about Sydney bishop being stabbed by Islamist” – In Modernity, Paul Joseph Watson flags a video out of the U.K. showing a man being visited at home by two police officers and an NHS psychologist after he expressed anger online about the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney by an Islamist.
- “Orwellian Sydney police: we will be the ‘source of truth’” – Sydney residents are questioning the implications of centralised truth and censorship in the wake of the Government’s push to police online discourse, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “How Antifa went mainstream“ – From Brussels to California, illiberalism is thriving, says Geoff Shullenberger in UnHerd.
- “Brazilian judge pushes nationalist conspiracy theory to weaponise federal police against defenders of free speech” – Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice claims that Elon Musk is part of a vast extremist conspiracy to undermine Brazil’s sovereignty and democracy, says Public’s Michael Shellenberger.
- “‘We all have different truths’” – Ben Pile debates the European EV sales slump and the SNPs climate target U-turn with eco-loon Donnachadh McCarthy on Peter Cardwell’s TalkTV show.
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More protests in Israel where the leadership is receiving heavy criticism.
“Former IDF chief of staff, Dan Halutz, said that the Netanyahu government is an existential threat to the State of Israel and that the prime minister is not interested in the return of the hostages, ‘because this is the sign of the end of his rule.'”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-20/ty-article/.premium/this-govt-must-understand-it-has-no-legitimacy-to-rule/0000018e-fce0-db42-a99f-fdfff1d00000
They Monitor Speech and Thought – 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.
Labour’s Wes Streeting on his website shows he wants us all to believe he had a real job “in the voluntary sector” and so is not a career politician from childhood, through school, university and beyond.
But guess what that ‘real job’ was?
He worked at Stonewall. Which is not really a charity but a political campaigning organisation which is actively working to undermine democracy by creating division where none is wanted or needed nor helpful.
“Support for Stonewall crumbles after Cass review” – The NHS and other public bodies are reviewing their association with LGBT rights charity Stonewall following the release of the Cass review, writes Geraldine Scott in the Times.
What’s really going on?
Finally:
‘The U.S. House of Representatives on April 20 voted to approve a much-delayed aid package for Ukraine.’
‘….the Pentagon is preparing to quickly approve a package of urgently needed weapons for Ukraine — including artillery shells and air defenses — to deliver if and when the aid is approved.
The report quoted one official as saying the Defense Department is working on putting together a package of U.S. military equipment “that can move quickly through the bureaucratic process once the legislation passes and is signed by the president.’
The Iranian bombardment of Israel sparked the United States Congress into action.
Meanwhile the blundering goons carry on killing their own:
‘Russian sources recently claimed that Russian propagandist, former DNR serviceman, and US national Russell Bonner Bentley III disappeared in Donetsk City on April 8.
Russian sources alleged that elements of the Russian 5th Tank Brigade (36th Combined Arms Army [CAA], Eastern Military District [EMD]) detained and interrogated Bentley under the impression that Bentley was a Ukrainian spy due to his foreign accent and later killed Bentley.
Veteran Russian propagandist and RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan announced Bentley‘s death on April 19.
Deputy Head of the DNR Main Directorate of Rosgvardia, Commander of the DNR’s special rapid response and riot police (OMON and SOBR), and former DNR Security Minister Alexander Khodakovsky called for an investigation into Bentley’s reported kidnapping and murder and “exemplary punishment” for the perpetrators.’
Oops!
There’s a lot of it about:
‘Russian efforts to cover up Bentley’s death are the latest in what appears to be a concerted Kremlin effort to censor or coopt DNR officials and DNR/Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR)-affiliated voices within the Russian information space.
The Russian Investigative Committee arrested former Russian officer and argent ultranationalist Igor Girkin (Strelkov), a prominent DNR commander in 2014, on charges of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces on July 21, 2023.
Russian authorities also arrested milblogger and former DNR serviceman Andrei Kurshin who reportedly ran the “Moscow Calling” Telegram channel in August 2023…..
Russian milblogger and sergeant in the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade (2nd LNR Army Corps) Andrei Morozov reportedly committed suicide after refusing the Russian military command’s orders to censor his reporting about high Russian casualty rates around Avdiivka in February 2024.’
When thieves fall out………
The cost of one US-manufactured 155mm shell is said to have increased from $8,000 to $100,000. Nice business if you can spin a conflict out long enough.
It is true that operating and support costs for the M982 Excalibur — a GPS-guided 155-mm artillery shell supplied to Ukraine — nearly doubled between 2011 and 2022 to roughly $100,000 per shell. However, part of that increase is an upgrade to evade Russian countermeasures. The rest is required maintenance of electronic components. This compares to about $3,000 for an unguided U.S. manufactured 155-mm shell.
The U.S. are better placed to increase production and control prices than Europe since they use Go-Co government-owned, contractor-operated munitions plants.
‘NATO’s senior military officer, Adm. Rob Bauer, said that the price for one 155mm shell had risen from 2,000 euros ($2,171) at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion to 8,000 euros ($8,489.60).
For comparison, the U.S. currently pays $3,000 for its most modern shells, according to an Army spokesperson. That price includes the charge, fuze, and shell body.
Unlike the U.S., European 155mm production is primarily in the hands of the commercial market……
European countries can incentivize production increases through purchases, but cannot order factories to invest in automation, double shifts, or build new plants, as the U.S. has.’
Defense One Nov. 2023
It is the high prices, due to high demand, constricted supply, in Europe that lead Companies to invest in more capacity.
Doesn’t affect my comment that dragging it out for longer is a boost primarily for American manufacturers. I note you are quoting 2022 prices, presumably from Business Insider. I can’t find a current price, can you?
‘Dragging it out for longer’ is not a boost for anyone.
It is the U.S. strategy so that ‘(Russia) can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine’ (Lloyd Austin)
But that does seem to be going quite well.
If the U.S. was primarily interested in the profits of its defence manufacturers, Congress would not have delayed the latest aid package by 480 days!
Yes, I can find a current price.
There are over thirty different types in service, each with a different price.
“Britain’s statistics watchdog to examine Hamas’s Gaza death toll figures”
Would this be the same statistics ‘authority’ that massively overstated the with/from covid deaths and is currently sprinkling the excess jab deaths data with fairy dust and unicorn tears? Riiiight.
Gaza looking appealing this time of year, don’t you think? They were obviously ready for a break from being victims of genocide and starvation.
”Palestinians have been flocking to the beach in Gaza this week, as temperatures soared and families took advantage of a lull in fighting in most of the area.
At the same time, Israeli authorities — urged by the U.S. — are accelerating the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. There is so much food entering Gaza that the prices of commodities like flour and eggs have collapsed.”
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/18/photos-palestinians-hit-the-beach-in-gaza/
The starvation myth can easily be debunked many times over if you see footage on Twitter. It’s pathetic really, that they have to resort to such easily proven lies. Got to keep the propaganda going at all costs though because international sympathy=non-stop gravy train. It’s like an I.Q test for the captured West-hating Leftards;
“There is no food shortage in Gaza, and there never was,” said an Israeli official familiar with the details. “The stores are full, the markets are bursting with goods, fruits, vegetables, shawarma, pitas—there is everything. Do you know why they no longer loot convoys? Because there is no shortage. The quantities entering are not normal.”
https://www.jns.org/gaza-stores-full-markets-overwhelmed-with-goods/
‘…(Pro Palestine) captured West-hating Leftards’ were a bit of a mystery to me.
Pro Palestine marches are infested with ‘Socialist Worker’ placards. Why?
Apparently this link up between the radical left and Islamism kicked off in 1994
‘….with the state never, with the Islamists sometimes……. On some issues we will find ourselves on the same side as the Islamists against imperialism and the state.’
The Prophet and the Proletariat, Chris Harman 1994
France adopted the term ‘Islamo-gauchisme’ in 2002.
The radical left in France celebrate ‘the veil’, see liberal Muslims as inauthentic. Critics of Islamism in France are accused of being rightist, reactionary or racist. However, in much of the Muslim world, it is, in fact, Islamists that are accused, instead, of being degenerate or apostate.
Many ‘progressives’ in France identify with reactionary Islamist positions on blasphemy, gender inequality; have shared attitudes towards Israel, Zionism and Jews that they see as emblems of an unhealthy capitalist modernity.
In 2021, the French government conducted a review into into the influence of postcolonial studies and “Islamo-gauchisme” in the country’s universities.
On August 24, President Emmanuel Macron signed a law providing authorities broader powers to monitor and close down religious organizations and groups they determined to be promoting ideas contrary to French values.
In Britain, there is a clear perception that unchecked extremist activity is taking place on university campuses. That has clearly contributed to the extended, expensively policed and disruptive, unending, pro-Palestinian marches in London.
Britain now needs a similar far reaching review to that of the 2021 review in France, to suggest how best to ensure a greater range of thought within the country’s educational and research institutions; permitting and protecting reasonable criticism; policing the obligations of universities and other bodies to protect freedom and diversity in thought and speech.
https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Islamism-and-the-Left.pdf
And, above all, Britain urgently requires a rolling back of the state that itself funds so much extremism……
“Documents reveal the Mayor of London’s ambitious plans for decarbonisation are “only possible” by charging motorists, reports GB News.”
As I’ve pointed out before, all drivers of ICE vehicles pay a “per mile” charge to drive in the UK – it’s called Fuel Duty.
For anyone who thinks commercial vehicles should ‘pay more’, we run small vans which are also available in a version classified as a mini-MPV, ergo, a car. In car form, the annual road tax is £30. As a van it is £325. I’m already paying 10 times the road fund licence.
Indeed. I guess you also pay more per mile as larger vehicles will use more fuel per mile and a commercial vehicle would most likely be in use for more miles per day. I don’t really see why a commercial vehicle should necessarily pay more anyway as they are providing a service to the public.
The engine is exactly the same in the van as the mini-mpv version. As you say, the difference in mileage is more than covered in fuel duty and VAT
It ultimately puts the price of goods up so us mugginses end up paying in the end.
“London drivers ‘could pay per mile’ so that Sadiq Khan can hit Net Zero target”
Khan will Soon be banning road tax and fuel duty then?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/20/statistics-watchdog-examine-hamas-gaza-death-toll-figures/
We cannot trust this shower with accurate reporting of our own statistics so they have no business interfering with stats from the other side of the world.
More taxpayers money wasted.
When will they provide accurate British stats about the impact of Covid, lockdowns and clotshots?
PS I understand that the Red Cross figures are in broad agreement with Hamas figures. Now, who do I believe: Hamas, Red Cross or IDF?