- “Ireland plans to send migrants back to U.K. under emergency law” – Dublin claims the Rwanda Bill has caused asylum seekers to pour into the country, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tories warn U.K. won’t take back migrants from Ireland amid Rwanda row” – Tories have dismissed the prospect of the U.K. taking back migrants who cross into Ireland to avoid being deported to Rwanda, says the Mail.
- “Met Police deny responsibility for covering up Holocaust memorial during pro-Palestinian march” – The Government’s adviser on antisemitism says it was “sad but necessary” to cover the Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park during a recent pro-Palestinian march, according to the Telegraph.
- “Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at annual White House media dinner” – Public outcry over the Israel-Hamas war produced a noisy protest outside the Washington hotel hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, reports the Telegraph.
- “Protesters call for Islamic state in Germany” – More than 1,000 people marched through Hamburg calling for a caliphate in Germany, according to the Telegraph.
- “Gillian Keegan to axe 50% rule on faith school admissions” – The Education Secretary plans to scrap the 50% cap on what percentage of their places new faith schools are allowed to prioritise for pupils of a particular faith, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tory MP Tim Loughton detained and deported by African country with close links to China” – The Telegraph reveals that a former minister, who was sanctioned by China, was detained and deported by Djibouti, which has close ties to the Chinese state.
- “‘Why should I return to fight?’ Ukrainian men living abroad say” – A new ruling by the Ukrainian consular service requires men between the ages of 18 and 60 to return to Ukraine if they need to replace their passports, putting them at risk of being drafted into the army, says the Telegraph.
- “AstraZeneca admits for first time its Covid vaccine can cause rare side effect” – AstraZeneca admits that its Covid vaccine can cause a rare side effect, in an apparent U-turn that could pave the way for a multi-million pound legal payout, reports the Telegraph.
- “New York – it was widespread well before anyone noticed.” – On Substack, Jonathan Engler challenges the official pandemic narrative, highlighting the lack of evidence for excess deaths or reports of unusual illnesses before the declaration of a novel pathogen.
- “Remote working? It’s time you lazy, work-shy parasites got back to work!” – The message to those still working remotely is simple: the game is up you lazy f*cks, get back to the office, or find another job, says Darren Birks in Vision News.
- “Tory critics urge Sunak to promote Right-wingers to ‘election war Cabinet’” – Tory critics are pressing for a Right-wing “election war Cabinet” after the local elections, which are predicted to deliver sizeable Tory defeats, according to the Telegraph.
- “Humza Yousaf threatens snap election amid confidence vote chaos” – Humza Yousaf has been warned the price of his survival is getting “higher” the more he “dithers” ahead of a confidence vote, reports the Mail.
- “Humza Yousaf is everything that’s wrong with modern politics” – Humza Yousaf is what wokeness in power looks like, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Humza Yousaf’s last stand” – Regardless of whether Humza Yousaf stays or goes, his lack of judgment, foresight and grace should go down as a case study for how not to govern, writes Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
- “Tories accused of ‘cover up’ over early release of violent criminals” – The Government has been accused of a “cover up” for refusing to publish details on the number of violent criminals being released from prison early to deal with the overcrowding crisis, reports the Telegraph.
- “Truss book becomes a bestseller” – In the Spectator, Steerpike notes that Liz Truss’s Ten Tears To Save The West is now number three on the Sunday Times’s definitive bestseller list for general hardbacks.
- “Britain’s high street banking massacre” – Since 1986, more than 10,000 high street banks and building societies have shut their doors, the Mail reveals.
- “Welcome to the disability benefits capital of Britain” – Knowsley embodies the U.K.’s toxic triangle of worklessness, poverty and poor health, write Szu Ping Chan and Melissa Lawford in the Telegraph.
- “‘I’d much rather teenagers drink alcohol than protest climate change’” – Compared to the po-faced causes and neurotic fear of intimacy that have dogged the younger generation, a spot of excess in the booze department is welcome, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “World’s best city can’t have four more years of its worst-ever mayor” – Before Londoners cast their votes for London Mayor, Nick Candy in the Mail urges them to consider Khan’s dismal track record.
- “Sadiq Khan’s ‘vanity projects’ as Mayor hikes ‘stealth tax’ by 71%” – In the Mail, Dan Brennan looks back over Sadiq Khan’s shocking profligacy as Mayor of London.
- “Cars will slow down if drivers are speeding under EU safety tech in new cars” – Cars will beep, vibrate or slow down if drivers are speeding under new mandatory safety technology which comes into effect this summer, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ford lost $1.3 billion in a quarter, a loss of $132,000 on every EV sold” – Ford CEO Jim Farley still plans to continue with his electric vehicle gamble despite mounting losses, says Jo Nova.
- “Pack of eco piffle from the Baseless Bias Corporation” – In the Mail, Andrew Pierce calls out the BBC over Chris Packham’s baseless attack on the Daily Sceptic during Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
- “Why the polar bears don’t need to worry” – In TCW, James Dent puts paid to the notion of low sea-ice cover.
- “MPs must stop assisted suicide – it’s deeply worrying and here’s why” – The problem is that you cannot write an assisted suicide law that will not be bent, abused or simply expanded over time, writes Danny Kruger in the Sun.
- “The BBC has joined the war on our culture” – Introducing the likes of Sam Smith to the Proms is part of a cultural assault on classical music, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s Got Talent fans threaten to call Ofcom after three acts from Japan audition” – Fans of Britain’s Got Talent are upset at the number of Japanese acts and want to take the issue to the broadcast regulator, reports the Mail.
- “Trinity College Cambridge has rushed to judgement on Captain Cook” – Cambridge has made a mistake in returning some spears collected by Captain Cook’s men in 1770 to the tribe they took them from, writes David Abulafia in the Spectator.
- “Meet the mean boys of trans activism” – Gareth Roberts in Spiked writes about how a loud bunch of gay men became the chief online enforcers of trans dogma.
- “Social worker suspended over gender critical views awarded £58,000” – A social worker who was suspended over her gender critical views has been awarded almost £58,000 in damages from Westminster City Council and Social Work England, reports the Sunday Times.
- “What to do when you’re cancelled” – In City Journal, Ilya Shapiro offers a comprehensive guide on how to survive cancellation.
- “In praise of nationalism and the diversity of nations” – Watch Dr. Robert W. Malone’s speech at the Make Europe Great Again Conference in Bucharest.
- “Nicola Sturgeon had one too many Tennent’s Supers at Humza’s leaving party…” – Amusing video of a woman who looks like Nicola Sturgeon dancing at what appears to be a male strip club.
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Not sure why they insist on sharing the paywalled version of this when you can access it without the damn thing here. Anyway, huge congrats to Rachel and I hope this sends a message to other stupid, woketard employers. Common sense for the win!
”A social worker who was helped by the FSU has been awarded almost £58,000 in damages from Westminster City Council and Social Work England in a landmark judgment.
Meade, from Dartford, Kent, brought a case against the council and Social Work England in 2022 for harassment and sex discrimination after she was suspended for posting gender critical views on her private Facebook account.
The dedicated social worker with an unblemished 20-year record was suspended from her job at Westminster City Council after a single complaint was made by a Mr Aedan Wolton, then a colleague of hers and now Sport England’s ‘Diversity Champion’, about allegedly “transphobic” posts on her private Facebook page.
According to Mr Wolton, Rachel’s “transphobia” was evidenced by the fact that she shared links to news articles, including one from the Mail on Sunday, about transgender issues, as well as to blogs and petitions relating to the national debate over whether it should be made easier for people to legally change their gender.”
https://freespeechunion.org/social-worker-suspended-over-gender-critical-views-awarded-58000/
Social Media Censors Your Freedom – 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.
What’s really going on?
Nothing at all….nothing to see here….at all…….definitely……..
‘No one knows what is happening to the health of Putin and his entourage. Authoritarian leaders should have no health at all, much less illness; they appear almost incorporeal. They have no private life in general, or even a private appearance. They appear in front of cameras in suits and ties (what about Biden in a T-shirt and shorts on a bicycle, not ashamed of his senile pale legs), hide their families: Putin’s daughters from his marriage to Lyudmila have different surnames, the president talks about them “these women”, his relationships and children after the divorce are known only through gossip. These are the people-gods, everything human is alien to them, because for some reason they consider the human to be a manifestation of weakness that they cannot afford.
In general, if “your” politician openly talks about his ailments, this is a sign that everything is fine with him. Dictators, even potential ones, hide their well-being – then Nightingales and other gossips begin to hover around them (the circumstances of Stalin’s death were classified for many years, which gave rise to many conspiracy theories and rumors about an alleged murder), and real data can remain a state secret even for many years after their deaths.’
Anna Matveeva 26 April 2024
What really going on? – ”It’s the Economy stupid”
Despite all sorts of dire apocalyptic predictions of imminent collapse, the world financial system seems to stagger on with a remarkable degree of resilience. And yet the Global Times is not convinced, yes I know the Global Times is hardly a bastion of unbiased free-speech but it can be interesting; anyway they have an article on financial matters;
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1311456.shtml
Events of recent years have lead to a number of pressures for financial change and I understand some of Trump’s team are calling for the introduction of sanctions to prevent the escalating trend to ‘de-dollarisation’. If the dollar is now so unattractive that people have to be sanctioned to use it then things are in a poor way. The power of the USA was in a combination of the strength of the dollar and its military, it does look as thought the dollar side of that combination may be faltering. Who knows maybe the future shape of the world’s financial system may come to be seen as the significant outcome resulting from all the turmoil of recent years?
For clarity, as you suggest, the Global Times is owned by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
So they have an ‘unusual’ way of putting things.
This is what they couldn’t quite say but nevertheless implied, in their understated and necessarily convoluted way:
‘China is in the midst of a profound economic crisis. Growth rates are flagging as an unsustainable mountain of debt piles up; China’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached a record 288% in 2023.
But even that eye-popping figure does not capture the uncomfortable fact that much of it was borrowed to buy assets that no longer yield enough income to repay the debt.
This is especially true in the housing sector, where sales have fallen by a third since the pre-pandemic peak, and new construction is down 60%. This is one of the worst housing crashes in the world over the last three decades.
Many Western pundits and politicians view this crisis as a sign of the bankruptcy of China’s leadership and economic system.
But it is more akin to the cyclical debt crises that have plagued capitalist countries throughout history.
An apt comparison is Japan’s crisis of 1989, which ended decades of high growth and rising asset prices, fueled by a ballooning debt bubble.
Japan’s Nikkei stock index peaked in late 1989 and fell almost 80% over the next 13 years.
Real estate prices fell for two decades starting in 1991.
Neither of these major asset classes has exceeded the pre-crisis price peak ever since.
Japan transitioned from being the fastest growing major economy during 1954-73, typically growing over 10% per year, to the slowest, with growth averaging only 1.75% per year from 1981 to 2023.
China may be facing similarly prolonged difficulties.’
Prof. J.H. Nolt, N.Y. University
The collapse of the fiat money system is inevitable and intended to be the gateway for CBDC and thus total control – until an effective barter system is up and running.
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/my-review-of-ten-years-to-save-the-west-by-liz-truss
A review of Liz Truss’s book
‘Gillian Shephard explains that in her long political career, which started as parish councillor and culminated as a cabinet minister, she always felt that power was held at the rung above the level she had just achieved. She concluded in the end that real power lay with the prime minister. When she told this to the then prime minister John Major, he said he felt the same, but didn’t feel he had the power as prime minister which most people assumed he had. The reason for that is twofold. Firstly, prime ministers are not dictators and do not have carte blanche to do what they want. And secondly, it’s the “system” that wields the power – especially the power to obstruct.’
‘This phenomenon is now present right through the core of government. “What did you personally do to change this, during your ten years as a minister?” I asked her during our 83 minute long interview. She replied that there was nothing, as a junior minister, or even a cabinet minister, she could have done to change things. Even as prime minister she said she’d have needed years to bring forward any meaningful change.’
‘Twice I read passages where she sought to palm off the blame and exclaimed out loud “But YOU were the fucking prime minister!”
Reform of the civil service is very straightforward if, no doubt, somewhat time consuming.
Simply set up new ‘shadow’ ministries with different names, a different culture, and let them gradually take over the functions of the old ministries….new people, new culture….and allow the old ministries to wither on the vine, no new recruits.
This will also permit a useful pruning back…..to the regulatory framework and staffing levels of 1990 as a maximum……….
P.S. ‘If you read Twitter you could be forgiven for thinking that she was the devil incarnate and was in favour of slaughtering the first born, and probably the second too.
The general consensus was that she was so evil…….How dare she write a book? After all, no one will buy it. It just shows how out of step social media can be.‘
Indeed!
‘Within 24 hours the book had sold out of its first print run and had reached number 4 in the Amazon bestseller chart. And it stayed there for two or three days. That is some achievement….’
https://www.visionnews.online/post/remote-working-it-s-time-you-lazy-work-shy-parasites-got-back-to-work
‘The message to those still working remotely is simple: The game is up you lazy f*cks, get back to the office, or find another job.’
This looks like an article with a self indulgent summary written first and the rest shaped to fit.
Oh! No-one wanted to put their name to this evidence (of productivity) free article.
No wonder:
‘A study by Stanford over 9 months found that working from home increase productivity by 13%. This increase in performance was due to more calls per minute attributed to a quieter more convenient working environment and working more minutes per shift because of fewer breaks and sick days.
In this same study workers also reported improved work satisfaction, and attrition rates were cut by 50%.’
Probably the truth of the matter is:
‘…..leaders say that the “shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive.” More concretely, 49% of managers of hybrid workers “struggle to trust their employees to do their best work.” This lack of trust in worker productivity has led to what Microsoft researchers termed productivity paranoia: “where leaders fear that lost productivity is due to employees not working, even though hours worked, number of meetings, and other activity metrics have increased.” 07 Feb. 2024
https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivity-statistics/
Oh! I wonder what is causing high levels of paranoia in the drinking (and smoking) classes?
https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/cocaine-paranoia#prevalence
Most managers I have experienced are crap at managing anything, usually they just cause problems. They just love having people around them to “manage”. It makes them feel big. Without those people, they feel empty inside. They also feel jealous of people who actually provide a useful service and who enjoy their work.
“Managers” = Extroverts
People who actually do useful stuff = Introverts
Not a cast iron rule, but true more often than not.
The late David Graeber had a lot to say about this.
As a general rule of thumb, extroverts should be outward facing: sales & marketing.
And introverts inward facing: design, engineering, production, accounts.
But most people are a mixture of both, which is where leadership comes in; to get the best out of the available team.
And leadership requires a combination of cerebral self discipline and charisma, rarely found together.
That is why your comment around ‘managers’ will strike a chord with most.
And why ‘The Office’ was so funny………..
As others have remarked on here, getting the best out of ‘WFH’ is simply a question of good (so adaptable, concerned with employee satisfaction, retention as well as performance) leadership.
If there is one term that really gets my back up it’s the term “gender critical”.
WTF is gender critical?
Someone who thinks that, you know, a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl? Basically someone normal who sees the world as it is and doesn’t live in a a delusional fantasy?
The left win the language battles every f**king time. We never learn. We just pick up their nasty little mind bending terms and use them over and over again as if it didn’t matter. You know, for expediency, so that people can quickly know what you mean.
So self defeating.
You’re right, and that’s why I NEVER use that ridiculous term, especially as the word ‘gender’ has been so overused and abused that it’s become tedious.
When stating the facts I prefer pointing out that there are XX-chromosome females and XY-chromosome males.
No one can alter their chromosomes, therefore no one can change their SEX.
“Cars will slow down if drivers are speeding under EU safety tech in new cars”
From the article:
“TRL admits that sometimes the mapping data can take a while to update when a speed limit has changed, but says it still helps most of the time.”
I can’t imagine what could go wrong.
I’m sure this has been posted before but worth a reminder – Kit Knightley’s 7 predictions for the next plandemic:
https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/19/bird-flu-censorship-100-day-vaccines-7-predictions-for-the-next-pandemic/
I’d also add a no 8: the WHO’s catastrophic plandemic treaty and IHRs will be forced through to allow govts to deny any responsibility and pass the buck for the deaths caused.
Yes, I posted this when it appeared on Off-G.
Your point 8 – definitely.
Yep, thought it was you!
I don’t think any of that will happen because a large proportion of the population have wised up and won’t be up for either livkdiwns or any rushed jabs.
Put this way. I hope they try, because what it will do is spark off the revolution against the system that we really need to have. I don’t think it will even be violent. I just think people will be pushed over the edge and won’t stand for it.
Maybe I’m an optimist, but that’s how ot looks to me.
The government has never come clean about the effect of releasing criminals before the end of their given sentences. We do know, but only by careful attention to published news, that many violent men (usually men) come out early and commit further rapes, other criminal violence and even murder.
The government refuses to make the data available.
Clearly the wilful decisions of the liberal left in the Home Office and their prisoner release panels are giving rise to deaths and other serious crimes.
The government doesn’t report data on many things that would be interesting to know, such as what is the ratio per population of crimes committed by non-whites compared to crimes committed by whites?
How many attacks reported on whites have been committed by non-whites (including grooming gang sexual assaults) compared to attacks on non-whites by whites?
Of all the anti-Semitic attacks reported, how many have been committed by muzlims (who are instructed by the koran to hate Jews) compared to attacks by the non-muzlim population?
How many muzlims have committed terror attacks compared to those committed by so-called ‘far right’ terrorists?
The government is too cowardly and hypocritical to tell the truth about these matters. It would spoil their leftist narrative.
“Cars will slow down if drivers are speeding under EU safety tech in new cars”
And does this technology know when your overtaking?
And is the navigation system so exact it can tell you are not on a parallel road only a few yards away? No!
Last week I was driving a hire car in southern Italy and it was constantly flashing the fact I was exceeding speed limits of neighbouring roads or junctions. And I never quite worked out the repetitive 50kph speed limits on open motorways, apparently completely unjustified, which all Italians anyway ignored.
So the dumb, but presumably inevitable, EU safety technology will really make driving fun – and dangerous – when a preceding car slams on its brakes because the software thinks the car is driving too fast.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/28/cars-to-obey-speed-limits-automatically/
Allegedly these speed restrictors are intended to save lives. Thousands of lives. Rather at odds with Agenda 2030. Does Klaus know?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/28/gillian-keegan-to-axe-50-per-cent-rule-faith-school/
So more muslim only schools.
More anti-British, anti-West indoctrination.
ALL faith schools should be banned. Religion is not Education.
“Ireland plans to send migrants back to U.K. under emergency law”
But Northern Ireland has just made a Fake Refugee from a wealthy family in Kenya the first African Mayor in Ireland. Here she is posing with her proud brother who is a SENATOR in Kenya, so nothing scary there to cause her to “flee”:
Senator Ledama celebrates as baby sister elected mayor in UK (the-star.co.ke)
Watch her in action here:
Irish Councillor Lillian Seenoi-Barr Says Irishmen are the Problem – NOT Migrants Stabbing Children (rumble.com)
She reminds me of that Ethiopian woman “refugee” in Finland, who complained that there were “Too Many Finns in Finland”, but she hoped all that would soon change. Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.
“Tories warn UK won’t take back migrants from Ireland amid Rwanda row”
So if Rishi Sunak can stop Rwanda-shy migrants who have fled to Ireland being sent back to the UK, why can’t he prevent bogus asylum-seekers crossing from France, ignoring our borders and living off the backs of UK taxpayers?