- “Riot police storm Columbia campus and drag pro-Palestine protesters from barricade” – Police in New York City arrest dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed-up in an academic building on Columbia University’s campus, reports GB News.
- “Columbia University calls upon NYPD to clear pro-Palestinian activists from an occupied building, as adversarial leftist protests return to American campuses” – The events at Columbia University reflect the decaying alliance between activists and university administrators, and portend an important shift in leftist dynamics both on and off campus, argues Eugyppius on Substack.
- “They aren’t revolutionaries. They’re bigoted brats” – The Columbia cranks rant about killing Zionists one minute and demand hot meals the next, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “We have a freedom problem” – At Columbia University and elsewhere, a generation of students, who take their liberties for granted, behave shamefully, writes Hannah E. Meyers in City Journal.
- “Is anti-white prejudice fuelling anti-Zionist protests?” – For Left-activists, Israel-Palestine is an allegory telling a story about the horrors of white supremacy and settler colonialism, says Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
- “Illegal migrants set to be deported to Rwanda handcuffed at home” – The first migrants set to be deported to Rwanda have been detained, reports the Mail.
- “Dublin’s tent city is destroyed and all 200 asylum seekers taken away” – Irish authorities launch an operation to move asylum seekers who created a ‘tent city’ in Central Dublin amid an ongoing row with the British Government over immigration, says the Mail.
- “The Republic’s migrant crisis threatens Northern Ireland” – Dublin now seems to be calling for a hard border on immigration, remarks Owen Polley in CapX.
- “The French are now channelling migrants to Ireland” – In the Telegraph, Michael Murphy reports from Dublin’s migrant camp, where he witnessed the chaos engulfing the Republic.
- “Ireland has made its bed with the EU. It must lie in it” – On one level, the migrant row is a mutually-helpful farce. But has something changed in U.K.-Irish ties? wonders Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Telegraph.
- “Labour would give 50,000 in limbo asylum seekers chance to stay in U.K.” – Labour would allow more than 50,000 asylum-seekers currently in limbo to make claims to stay in the U.K. if it wins the General Election, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why Sweden got it right on Covid” – We were told during Covid that Sweden would suffer mass fatalities. Instead, it had one of the lowest excess death rates in Europe. Does that suggest our response was wrong? asks Dan Hannan in the Mail.
- “The two sides of AstraZeneca’s vaccine ‘miracle’” – Jamie Scott was fit and healthy before the jab, but it nearly killed him – now he and others like him are suing the firm behind the drug, writes Jamie Scott in the Telegraph.
- “The true tragedy of the COVID-19 vaccines” – The jabs undoubtedly saved lives, but overblown claims damaged the reputation of vaccines in general, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Scientists tried to give people Covid – and failed” – Researchers deliberately infect participants with SARS-CoV-2 in ‘challenge’ trials — but high levels of immunity complicate efforts to test vaccines and treatments, reports Ewen Callaway in Nature magazine.
- “U.S. states move to oppose WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’, assert states’ rights” – Utah and Florida pass laws to prevent the WHO from overriding states’ authority on matters of public health policy – and Louisiana and Oklahoma are set to follow suit, reports the World Council for Health.
- “Perimenopausal women ‘40% more likely to have depression’, study shows” – Researchers from University College London found women were more vulnerable to depression and anxiety in the months and years leading up to the menopause, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pensioners at risk of snooping by officials under new law” – David Davis warns that a newly proposed law will allow the Government to access pensioners’ bank accounts without them knowing, according to the Express.
- “The SNP hasn’t realised that ‘socially conservative’ is actually normal” – With ‘progressive’ leaders like Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, the Scottish National Party has become the farthest Left in the U.K., argues Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan and the tyranny of high-status opinion” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill explains how Sadiq Khan turned London into a cultural playpen for the woke.
- “Sadiq Khan is holding London back” – Khan has been Mayor for eight years and has patently failed to deliver, says Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “The dead hand of the state would kill our railways” – Under renationalisation, the railways would be pitted against a dozen other petitioners bidding for state hand-outs, warns William Yarwood in CapX.
- “The Net Zero leviathan is crushing the economy” – Britain has shot itself in the foot by leading the fight against climate change, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “BBC weather map row heats up over confusing colours” – The BBC is under fire for the colour scale it uses to represent temperatures, with lows of 11°C shown as yellow while 41°C is depicted as dark red, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why climate change isn’t going to end the world” – Cambridge professor Mike Hulme argues that climatism is an ideology that places too much importance on stopping climate change, when there are other more pressing issues that face humanity, according to the Mail.
- “Actor Martin Freeman eats pork pies again after 38 years” – Martin Freeman has quit vegetarianism after nearly four decades because meat replacement is “very, very processed”, reports the Mail.
- “Badenoch asks people to report public bodies which fail to offer single-sex spaces” – Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch is urging members of the public to give examples of state bodies failing to provide single-sex toilets, says the Telegraph.
- “Girls developed urinary infections because school had gender-neutral toilets, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch claims that girls at a school developed urinary tract infections because they did not want to use gender-neutral toilets, according to the Express.
- “Keir Starmer put trans extremists ahead of women. Now he wants to pretend it never happened” – In deciding to edge himself back to reality from the most extreme transgender ideology, Starmer appears to be deluding himself that none of us will notice the shift, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer is as slippery as ever on the trans debate” – Keir Starmer may have finally admitted that only women have cervixes, but that doesn’t mean he cares about women’s rights, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Daniel Radcliffe promises not to back down on LGBT rights after J.K. Rowling rebuke” – Daniel Radcliffe has reignited a row with J.K. Rowling by saying his beliefs don’t have to align with the author’s just because she made him a star, according to the Mail.
- “Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism” – People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances, says Victoria Smith in the Critic.
- “DEI was never about profitability” – DEI advocates from business giants like McKinsey and Mark Cuban have been proven wrong – and in the process reveal their real agenda, writes Christopher Brunet in the American Conservative.
- “Don’t knock feminism – having children is about personal priorities” – To ‘have it all’ meant we had to behave like men… but it can be hard to give up the new-found freedom that came with it, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Americans don’t want Kamala to be their ‘Momala’” – Drew Barrymore’s interview with the U.S Vice-President was a toe-curling display of sycophancy, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
- “Pizza with no bread” – Many memes have been produced about the pro-Palestinian protestors at Columbia asking for food, but this is one of the better ones.
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Farmers want to be ‘militant’ in response to IHT raid, NFU warns
You want more bangs for your butter? Then you gotta invade your neighbour…..in our case, that would be France, you know, the one that is sending us everyone that they don’t want. Sounds like a plan?
This is what butter activism really looks like:
‘In the 19th century, a quarter of the world’s butter was produced in Siberia, and the income from its export exceeded the income from gold mining.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Siberian butter brought Russia more income than all the gold mines combined.
The butter fever in the Russian Empire began with the commissioning of the Great Siberian Route and ended with the outbreak of World War I. Russia became the second largest butter exporter in the world (after Denmark). Vologda, Yaroslavl and Kostroma butter went to the domestic market, and Siberian butter went abroad. Moreover, half of it went through the Omsk commodity exchange.
In 1911, the Governor-General of the Steppe Region, Yevgeny Schmidt, reported to Tsar Nicholas II: “Siberian butter production produces twice as much gold as the entire gold industry.”
All this was because Siberian butter was considered to be of higher quality due to its high fat content and stable taste.
Not a trace remains of its former glory. Now in Russia, as once in the USSR, a shortage of not only Vologda butter, but any butter in principle is brewing.
Before the Russians had time to recover from the winter “egg fights,” supermarkets and retailers have prepared a new surprise for them. Butter, one of the basic products in the standard consumer basket, has disappeared from the shelves.’
‘Butter packs are being stolen. Prosperity is evident. We need to try to seize something else to spread this advanced lifestyle across the planet.’
‘Patrushev (who runs agriculture in Russia) ordered a halt to the rise in food prices within two weeks.
There are different ways to act here: you can go shopping, hug packs of butter, persuade:
“What are you doing, silly butter? Why are you getting more expensive? Don’t get more expensive.”
Or you can do the opposite – swear and stamp your feet.
Ah, under Stalin, when there was order, they would have simply shot a dozen of the most impudent cucumbers, and the rest would have understood everything themselves and become cheaper.
But now there is no political will. There is little manhood in people.’
Handy hint for our famously first female robot chancellor ever, ever:
The trouble with butter activism is that it exports butter production.
‘Russia has started importing butter from the UAE. The average Arab cow produces about 42 liters of milk per day. In Russia, depending on the region and technological equipment, such figures are almost never met, the average figure is about 20-25 liters. At the same time, farms in the UAE can keep up to 100 thousand cows at a time. Considering that there are not very many pastures in the desert, almost all farms rely on feed, and they cope.
The dairy industry was supplied to the Arabs by Icelanders, feed is purchased in Australia, the main problem for Arab farmers is the fight against heat stress in animals, therefore, high-tech climate control systems with fogging and ventilation. The only thing that is used from local resources is sand, which is used for cows instead of bedding, but it is also processed in a continuous mode, cleaning it from impurities and secretions, so that the cows always lie practically on the beach sand. In essence, it is a seaside resort, how can it not produce record milk yields?’
‘At the end of the year, Putin personally visited both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, where he declared the UAE as Russia’s main trading partner in the Arab world. Reportedly, topics of discussion during these meetings included trade in advanced technology.
Russian supplies of weaponry became constrained by sanctions, export controls, Russia’s prohibition from using the SWIFT payment system’
Guns for butter.
‘Spain removed 133 Dams last year because of the EU. Make of that what you will.’
Well, well, well.
Very quiet here today – is everybody glued to the US election instead?
Quite possibly a lack of interest in paywalled articles.