- “Sunak says Met chief has questions to answer over ‘appalling’ treatment of Jewish man” – Rishi Sunak refuses to offer his backing to the Met Police Commissioner after one of his officers threatened to arrest an “openly Jewish” man for walking in Central London during a pro-Palestine protest, according to the Telegraph.
- “Met Police treatment of Jewish man at protest ‘indefensible’, says Government adviser” – The Government’s adviser on Political Violence and Disruption says the Met Police’s threat to arrest a Jewish man at a Palestinian rally is “indefensible”, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Sadiq Khan slammed by Government over handling of Palestine rallies” – Government ministers want Mayor Sadiq Khan to do more to help Jewish people feel safe, says the Express.
- “Met Police scramble to try and defuse ‘openly Jewish’ scandal” – The Met Police are scrambling to try and diffuse the “openly Jewish” protest scandal as a private meeting has been offered to the man who was threatened with arrest, reports the Mail.
- “How Met has faced growing criticism over policing of protests” – Several incidents have brought the Met’s handling of demonstrations into the spotlight, writes Ben Ellery in the Sunday Times.
- “Met Police appeasement” – Can the Met Police’s appeasement of the mob get any worse? Without an end to their political correctness, the answer is very probably yes! says Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
- “The Met doesn’t care about antisemitism” – How lonely British Jews must feel, seeing the swastikas paraded about on the streets of the capital they have contributed so much to, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Embrace pluralism over racialism” – All of us, Jewish or not, have an interest in defeating the racialist ideology that enables antisemitism to flourish, says Reihan Salam in City Journal.
- “Je suis Salman” – Salman Rushdie’s Knife is a defiant defence of freedom in the face of Islamist terror, writes Tim Black in the Spectator.
- “Australia is in danger of tearing itself apart” – In the wake of the terror attack on a Sydney church, many Australians are angry and feel afraid about the future, says Terry Barnes in the Spectator.
- “One in eight Labour voters say St. George’s Flag ‘racist and divisive’” – A new study reveals that one in eight Labour voters think the English flag is “racist and divisive and should not be displayed”, according to the Mail.
- “Zelensky: $61 billion U.S. aid deal gives us a chance to win” – Washington has finally approved another $61 billion in military aid for Ukraine, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Foreign Office tried to scupper Rwanda deportations, leaked papers show” – Leaked Government documents show that the Foreign Office tried to scupper the Rwanda deportation scheme over concerns it could breach human rights laws, according to the Telegraph.
- “Mark Menzies resigns as Tory MP after fraud and misconduct claims” – Mark Menzies has resigned as an MP, although he won’t stand down and force a by-election, after a Times investigation reveals he misused campaign funds and demanded thousands of pounds from an elderly activist to pay “bad people”.
- “Britain on the edge as memories of Truss refuse to fade” – Labour faces a miserable inheritance, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Reform’s success is a mirage. Even a Canada-style Tory wipeout won’t change that” – Nobody disagrees with Reform’s basic list of policies. They simply have no realistic way of delivering them, writes Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Complaints over bank accounts being shut down have soared 44%” – Figures show that Britons have made 4,000 complaints about their bank accounts being shut down, according to the Mail.
- “Debanking complaints surge after Farage scandal” – Nigel Farage accuses banks of treating customers “with contempt” after a surge in complaints about account closures, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mindless ‘compassion’ is leading us towards the end of our civilisation” – Rishi Sunak is right to say we can’t afford our “sick note culture” – but we can’t afford tax loopholes either, says Matthew Syed in the Times.
- “The Authoritarian Populism Index 2024” – The latest Authoritarian Populism Index shows surging immigration has fuelled support for Right-wing authoritarianism and populism, while the radical Left faces a steady decline.
- “‘Bad people’ in flats, camper vans – this is what absolute power does” – The SNP has been in charge for 17 years and it’s under the same delusions as the Tories, says Rod Liddle in the Times.
- “Starmer hasn’t criticised Scotland’s Hate Crime Act – beware it creeping into England” – What about the prospect of a Hate Crime and Public Order (England and Wales) Bill? Watch this space, says the Free Speech Union’s Toby Young for GB News.
- “More than one in five Londoners attacked or threatened in past five years” – A new poll has found that more than one in five Londoners have been attacked or threatened with violence in the past five years, according to the Telegraph.
- “New poll reveals loss of trust in police” – A new survey reveals that only 37% of voters believe the police are doing a good job, and most think they are doing a worse job than 30 years ago, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Oxford University has ‘allowed political diversity to wither’” – Oxford dons have accused the university of allowing political diversity to “wither away” after its head of equality celebrated the Belgian police’s attempt to shut down a conservative conference, says the Telegraph.
- “On conservative despair” – Qualities like courtesy, modesty and humour no longer make sense like they used to, laments Ben Cobley in the Critic.
- “The real Singapore-on-Thames” – Is ‘Michaela multiculturalism’ our only hope? asks Ed West on Substack.
- “Dumb taxpayer-funded legal bloggers pen a 36-page manual outlining all the things Alternative für Deutschland should not be allowed to do if they ever come to power” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses yet another ham-fisted pseudo-academic taxpayer-funded propaganda operation targeting AfD.
- “Young kids nearly five times more likely to be hospitalised with RSV after Covid pandemic” – New research suggests the COVID-19 pandemic is responsible for severe resurgences of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children younger than five, reports the Epoch Times.
- “The decline in birth rates means the decline of Western civilisation” – The underlying reason for the West’s population collapse is that increasingly marriage and family formation has been discincentivised, says Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack in TCW.
- “Outrage over Just Stop Oil plot to derail Britons’ summer holidays” – Just Stop Oil has been slammed as “selfish” after details of the activists’ plot to spark travel chaos this summer emerged, reports GB News.
- “The long, hard road to Cass” – Spiked’s Jo Bartosch explains how whistleblowers, detransitioners and gender-critical activists took on trans ideology – and won.
- “Outrage as SNP claims it’s not just women who go through the menopause” – Fury has greeted SNP ministers after they issued guidance to NHS Scotland claiming “it’s not just women” who experience symptoms from the menopause, according to the Express.
- “Dawn Butler is spreading deranged disinformation about the Cass Review” – Labour MP Dawn Butler has a long history of spouting abject nonsense about gender, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Double rapist Isla Bryson claims to be a hate crime victim” – A prison governor has apologised to double rapist Isla Bryson after the trans sex offender complained about being called ‘son’ and refused make-up by prison guards, reports the Mail.
- “Bill Maher calls out Hollywood paedophilia and the gay agenda in schools” – Bill Maher’s latest monologue covers an issue everyone has known about for years but almost no one in the media has been willing to address because it involves many of their friends in the entertainment industry, says ZeroHedge.
- “Tory MP set to earn millions from sale of slavery plantation to Barbados” – A Tory MP, under fire for his ancestors’ role in the slave trade, is set to receive a significant pay-out from the Government of Barbados for the purchase of his ancestral home, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Ship which transported resources during World War II to be scrapped” – A ship which defied the terror of the Nazi U-Boats to transport vital resources around Britain has been destroyed and will be replaced with a slavery reflection room, says the Mail.
- “In praise of hate” – Canada’s ‘Philip K. Dick’ laws pre-empting online hatred can be linked with the overall woke attempt to recreate humanity, writes Paul Sutton on Substack.
- “‘My top 10 novels’ – part four” – On Substack, Nick Dixon names J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace as the fourth novel in his top 10 list.
- “BlackRock boss steps up security after anti-woke backlash” – BlackRock spent nearly $800,000 last year on security for its Chief Executive Larry Fink following a backlash by activists over the company’s ‘woke’ stance on investing, reports the Telegraph.
- “Blaming victims: San Francisco’s irrational grocery store proposal” – In the Epoch Times, Theodore Dalrymple ridicules the latest leftist gobbledygook coming from one of the centres of American progressivism.
- “‘It comes from… something called science’” – Chris Packham says at the end of this clip that the Daily Sceptic is put together by people with close connections to the oil industry. A flat out lie. None of the editors have any such connections. You’d think someone so quick to sue others for libel would be more cautious.
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Chris fighting the good fight. Well done. Keep it up.
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I wonder what it would cost to privately fund a fleet of class one or two sites and start record keeping now.
The repeated adjustment of historic data is also worrying. It appears to be trying to match the recorded data to the hockey stick.
The NOAA in Amerca are doing something similar but it goes unreported. https://wattsupwiththat.com/u-s-surface-temperature/
Tony Heller is the master of identifying and calling out junk (adjusted) data, and the organisations doing it.
Ask any friend or family member, “Is it getting warmer”? I am pretty sure they will all say YES. Then ask them “Have you looked at any data? They will likely say “NO”. So how do they think they know it is getting warmer? The answer is that they don’t know at all. —Officialdom state that the global average temperature (whatever that is supposed to mean) has gone up by one degree centigrade since about 1860. No one can detect that in their lifetime. A 40-year-old person cannot detect a fraction of a degree rise in temperature over their life.
—–So no one knows it is getting warmer, they only think they do. There is only one reason they think it is warmer and that is because they are told that on their TV news nearly everyday. But even if it is slightly warmer over a period of time, that does not mean that humans caused that warming. They certainly could not have caused the similar warming that occurred in the 1920’s and 30’s as we were not emitting much in the way of CO2 from Industry, cars and aeroplanes back then.
—–So the global warming narrative goes something like this. From a dogs breakfast of a global temperature record that has been fiddled about with more than a prostitute’s knickers, government funded data adjusters have concluded that the temperature of the planet is warming and despite no human signal in the data they are determined that this alleged warming is all caused by humans. Then our governments have no choice but to “act now”.—–But bear in mind that the same solutions to the global warming scare are the very same solutions to the cooling scare back in the seventies. —-More government control over every aspect of our lives. ——This is all politics masquerading as science.
I am old enough to remember the Summer of 1959, now that was a Summer and a half, we have rarely had a summer that good, Global Warming?????????? bah humbug.
CO2 is not to blame in any way (now or in the 20/30’s), the whole “Carbon” theory is just meaningless drivel.
They can’t prove the link in a small rise of temperature over decades to increases in CO2 because the link does not exist, except in the opposite direction.
Increases in temperature over decades, slightly warm the worlds oceans which as they warm release increasing amounts of CO2 in solution. Cold water can hold more CO2 in solution than warmer water.
If the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere were 4% (as some uninformed zealots believe) and not the actual 0.042% things might be very different.
The IPCC itself have recently said that they see no human signal in the data. We can all argue about the “science” all day long but as you and I know this has nothing to do with science and never did.
The reason the Met Office won’t do anything about this issue, is if they do their whole support for dangerous heating will collapse. They need highly erroneous readings to maintain the narrative.
Yesterday (Monday 12th August) was apparently the warmest day of the year (yes it was warm, no doubting that), and the high was apparently measured somewhere in Cambridge, no idea where, or what the class of the device was, or the veracity of the actual siting!
Take away the context and the detail and that claim will be simply accepted by almost everyone, and their narrative survives intact, because only a Conspiracy theorist would challenge the MET right?
The MET spends increasing amounts on ever more powerful supercomputers so they can report how wrong they are to increasing numbers of decimal points.
Botanic gardens where the Met Orifice rushed to check the equipment – while totally ignoring the environment – a few years back to claim a new UK record which was then surpassed by 3 Typhoon fighters on the runway at RAF Coningsby. Most likely a 4 or 5 site with varying surroundings and noticeably warmer than another site nearby.
Thanks for the update, call me cynical (because I am), but I don’t expect this site to be a pristine Class 1 (or 2) site.
In fact I seem to recall in a previous Chris Morrison article the Botanical Gardens in Cambridge were mentioned!
Could be in a glasshouse!!
I read somewhere that the Botanical gardens station is read in the *morning*, so how they could quote “hottest” later on the same day is a mystery. Would need to check that ‘observation time’ though.
Warmest day of the year. In mid august? How unusual!
Well quite.
But it was probably the hottest August 12th at 16:24 since records began.
Actually it isn’t that unusual. The UK climate is extremely variable so you can tell the public anything you want and they are likely to believe it, which they mostly do. In 1995 we had blue skies here in Central Scotland all the way from April to September with not a cloud in sight. (This is easily checked). If that was to have happened this year the government, the Just Stop Oil imbeciles, the BBC and all the other climate activists would have a field day. The lunatics would be blocking us getting on planes and blocking every major City and Town by laying down in the street and gluing themselves to banks and businesses. Climate Change has become a pseudo scientific cult all because of the propaganda being spread by government and its bought and paid for media.
I was in central london yesterday – it was a bit warm at 32ish, but as you say – it’s august and summer – it’s supposed to be warm…
When will they be put in gaol for “misinformation”?
I wish I had the link to hand but at some point in the last few months someone posted a link to an essay on weather measuring which made the point that if the set of measuring stations has evolved over time so you are using MORE of them, comparisons with the past are not overly valid as you are not comparing like with like. All you can say is that we now MAY have a more accurate picture of the weather (or not as the case may be…). I think it might have been Marcus Aurelius Knew but I am not certain.
“I wish I had the link to hand”
I know DS has limited funds etc but it would be invaluable to me and I suspect other readers, to have some sort of searchable database of articles and comments.
Nothing fancy but better than the basic search function we have at the moment. So many gems get buried within a week or two and become impossible to find again.
There is a search function but no way I could see to filter it.
Mabel Cow late of these parts and now on Lockdown Sceptics subreddit was mirroring the site for a while and archiving it, but that’s long gone.
“The compliant media are uninterested” until they are implicated as the prime culprits of peddling mis/disinformation. Perhaps mass complaints to the police should be raised?