- “Jewish students ‘deeply concerned’ that university encampments will fuel antisemitic attacks on campus” – Jewish students at Oxford and Cambridge fear further “intimidation” and “harassment” by pro-Palestine protesters, reports the Mail.
- “Oxford students told to ‘sign radical manifesto’ to join pro-Palestinian protest camp” – Oxford Action for Palestine is insisting that students who want to join their encampment agree with a radical manifesto, which effectively calls for the end of Israel as a country, says GB News.
- “Sunak summons university leaders after ‘unacceptable rise in antisemitism’” – Rishi Sunak has summoned university vice-chancellors to Downing Street to discuss the safety of Jewish students amid an “unacceptable rise in antisemitism”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalise First World War memorial” – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Manhattan vandalised a First World War memorial and burned an American flag in Central Park after being held back from the Met Gala by police, says the Telegraph.
- “Why are pro-Palestine protesters heckling Holocaust survivors?” – It seems that Jews cannot even commemorate the horrors of Auschwitz in peace anymore, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Hamas will be destroyed in Rafah, against the wishes of the West” – Israel must push on with its plans to invade Rafah and not buckle to international pressure, no matter how great, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “Israel’s Rafah operation is tragically necessary” – The invasion of Rafah will be another tragic chapter in the tragic history of the Jewish state, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
- “It’s not racist to air concerns about immigration, says BBC review” – An independent report finds that the BBC refuses to air people’s misgivings about high levels of immigration because journalists fear being considered “racist”, reports the Times.
- “Belgian PM wants European boycott of Israeli business” – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is pushing for an EU ban on imports of Israeli products, says Brussels Signal.
- “Facebook to investigate ‘From the river to the sea’ posts” – Facebook’s ‘supreme court’ is investigating the social media giant for allowing users to post the controversial pro-Palestinian slogan ‘From the river to the sea’, according to the Telegraph.
- “AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine, months after admitting rare side effect” – The AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide after the pharmaceutical giant admitted that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Long Covid risks ‘going the same way as ME’” – Some doctors still consider Long Covid a mental health problem, but campaigners insist two million sufferers are being badly neglected, writes Miranda Levy in the Telegraph.
- “A limited hangout on vaccine harms” – In the Epoch Times, Jeffrey A. Tucker celebrates the New York Times finally acknowledging the damage caused by Covid vaccines.
- “Film Covid Collateral exposes pandemic policy errors and science censorship” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker interviews documentary film producer Vanessa Dylyn on her new film Covid Collateral.
- “Prof. Ramesh Thakur and Ben Falconer on The Chris Smith Show” – On The Chris Smith Show, Prof. Ramesh Thakur discusses the WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty reforms, and Ben Falconer talks about the Supreme Court of Western Australia dismissing his case over refusing the Covid jabs.
- “Reeves hints people will pay more income tax if Labour wins election” – Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says that workers may face higher income tax under a Labour government after refusing to commit to unfreezing static thresholds that have dragged millions into higher rate bands, reports the Mail.
- “Prolific burglar first to be jailed after private prosecution” – A burglar who broke into a M&S store has become the first person to be jailed in a private prosecution following the Met Police’s decision not to investigate, says the Mail.
- “The poetry of gin and tea” – On Substack, Paul Sutton explores ideological indoctrination in education.
- “Nearly half of British schools do not have a male senior leadership team member” – A new study reveals that a quarter of British schools only have white female teachers to act as role models for pupils, reports the Mail.
- “Bright kids shouldn’t be expected to help bad schools” – On Substack, Mr. Chips doubts that forcing private school kids into the state sector will improve the academic performance of their peers.
- “‘Levelling up’ chess tables costing £50,000 installed across the North West” – The BBC reports that expensive chess tables have appeared in parks across the North West thanks to the Government’s levelling-up programme, with critics questioning whether the money could have been spent more wisely.
- “Argentina’s President admits the Falklands are British and says Margaret Thatcher was ‘brilliant’” – Javier Milei admits the Falkland Islands are currently “in the hands of the U.K.” and describes former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as “brilliant”, according to GB News.
- “It’s time to reverse the Left’s long march through the institutions” – WASP domination has merely been substituted with the new woke elite class. America needs a true meritocracy, says Michael Lind in the Telegraph.
- “Vladimir Putin is sworn in for his fifth term as President” – Vladimir Putin has been sworn in for his fifth term as Russia’s President in front of dignitaries, celebrities and friends, including U.S. actor Steven Seagal and a Hell’s Angel known as ‘The Surgeon’, reports the Mail.
- “Can Putin survive a Chechen civil war?” – According to reports, Ramzan Kadyrov, the ruthless leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, is suffering from a fatal pancreas condition. Is Russia ready for a bloody succession battle? asks Ian Garner in UnHerd.
- “EV private sales fall and market downgrades 2024 sales expectations” – Shrinking appetite for EVs means the U.K. automotive sector has been forced to revise its sales forecasts for 2024 downwards, reports the Mail.
- “Garrick Club to allow female members for first time” – For more than 190 years, the Garrick has refused to admit women as members – but this has been overturned following a vote by its 1,500 members, says the Telegraph.
- “Darts star who refused to play against a transgender player speaks out” – British female darts player Deta Hedman has explained why she withdrew from the quarter final of a women’s darts tournament after she learnt she’d be competing against a transgender player, reports the Mail.
- “Lynne Pinches lauds Deta Hedman for her refusal to face trans opponent and withdrawing from darts tournament” – British pool star Lynne Pinches has heaped praise on darts player Deta Hedman for her refusal to face a transgender opponent at the Denmark Open, claiming that female athletes “should not be have to make these decisions”, according to the Mail.
- “Olly Alexander slammed as Eurovision star sparks flag row” – The U.K.’s Eurovision entrant Olly Alexander says he feels “ambivalent” about the Union Jack flag, and hopes to “reclaim the flag in a positive way”, reports GB News.
- “Women-only exhibit becomes a toilet to keep men out” – An Australian museum that was ordered by a court to admit men to a women-only exhibit plans to circumvent the ruling by transforming the exhibit into a ladies’ lavatory which are allowed to be single sex spaces, says the BBC.
- “Canada to imprison anyone who has ever posted ‘hate speech’ online” – A new Canadian law gives police the power to retroactively search the internet for ‘hate speech’ violations and arrest offenders, reports the People’s Voice.
- “Jack Dorsey leaves Bluesky board and calls X ‘freedom technology’” – Bluesky co-founder Jack Dorsey has left the company’s board a year after setting the company up to challenge X, according to Time magazine.
- “TikTok fights back against ban” – TikTok is mounting a legal challenge against a new U.S. law that it says not only threatens its existence but may also set a dangerous precedent for free speech online, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “This wins the internet today!” – Scotland’s new First Minister John Swinney makes an ‘alternative’ speech at Holyrood.
OMG! This wins the internet today!
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) May 7, 2024
Utterly brilliant. I'm crying.pic.twitter.com/pcerF4r8KU
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by Xi Van Fleet
So this AfD politician has been fined 6,000 Euros and now has a criminal record just for sharing actual data on who is committing the sex crimes in Germany. Echoes of the Scamdemic years here;
”Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Marie-Thérèse Kaiser has now been convicted for publishing gang rape statistics in response to news that Afghan migrants would be moved to her district.
The 27-year-old politician was found guilty in the Verden regional court in Lower Saxony on Monday for “inciting hatred” against local Afghan workers.
She is ordered to pay a fine of €6,000 and being charged €60 a day for 100 days. She will also have a criminal record.
The case relates back to a post from August 2021, in which she made a post on social media, writing: “Afghanistan refugees; Hamburg SPD mayor for ‘unbureaucratic’ admission; Welcoming culture for gang rape?”
The politician linked an article showing that Afghans in Germany feature particularly high levels of gang rape activity. Kaiser was responding in 2021 to Hamburg’s First Mayor, Peter Tschentscher (SPD), who announced that 200 Afghan workers would be arriving in Hamburg. Kaiser protested this decision with her statistics, saying she was concerned about immigration and the potential for rape from “culturally alien masses.”
Kaiser had perhaps mistakenly believed resorting to data would protect her, which shows that foreigners are represented in half of all gang rape cases, according to official government statistics. Afghans’ roles in serious crimes, including rape and gang rape, are tremendously high relative to their population.
The case has sparked international attention, with major X accounts reacting to the news of the conviction, including X’s owner, Elon Musk, with at least two of the posts generating over 40 million views.
Kaiser’s statements allegedly led to hatred of a nationally determined group, according to the judge.”
https://rmx.news/article/germany-young-afd-politician-convicted-for-publishing-gang-rape-statistics-in-connection-with-afghan-migration/
Can Putin survive a Chechen civil war?
What’s really going on?
‘Although rumours about (Kadyrov’s) health have cropped up repeatedly in recent years, this time things do not look good.’
Events in Chechnya are instructive, because it offers a window into the future for whatever part of Ukraine, if any, is retained by the Russian ‘Union State’ once hostilities cease.
That is because Chechnya was the first victim of Russian revanchist colonialism on display every day in Eastern Ukraine.
Chechnya declared its independence in 1991, and Russia took twenty years to force the Chechens back into the ‘Union State’.
What happens in Chechnya is what will happen, in due course, in Eastern Ukraine.
For now, the question is: will Kadyrov’s successor be able to keep Chechnya quiet while Putin has his hands full in Ukraine?
“Other university towns and cities where similar protests have happened include London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds, Warwick, Swansea and Bristol.”
Let’s not omit the University of Edinburgh particularly given the presence and location of their camp is related to Arthur Balfour’s long association with the university at the time when the Balfour declaration was penned.
Let me be clear that I don’t think anyone should be calling for the extermination of anyone. That said, I can’t help thinking there is an awful lot of misrepresentation of the position of pro-Palestine protestors. It reeks to me of the gross misrepresentation of anti-lockdown, anti-vax passport protestors during covid.
Are all protestors really anti-semites? Is that what it’s all about or is it a genuine concern for what people in Gaza are going through?
I have no doubt that there are people in the crowd with awful ideas and opinions. There always is in practically most protesting crowds. But do they really represent what the protests are about?
When I read:
I think, ok, that’s not my view. But is that any different to an Israel that refuses (in reality) to contemplate a two state solution and therefore is in effect advocating and pursuing the end of Palestine as a country?
The more I see of this the more the whole thing reeks of an instigated psyop.
Agreed – it’s exactly the same playbook as the anti-lockdown/anti-vax passport propagandist MSM coverage, and exactly the same coverage of the anti-war protests when this conflict first started. I’ve seen several interviews on alternative sites in which people attending the current student protests are reporting events which bear absolutely no resemblance to how they are presented for general consumption. And come the next plandemic protest, or biometric IDs, or CBCDs, etc they’ll roll the same playbook out again and again. That’s if protest of any kind hasn’t been completely outlawed across the ‘democratic’ West by then.
I may have said this before but on the whole I see protests as a good thing. To me it’s a healthy sign of a population that is engaged and actually gives a sh*t.
God forbid the plebs should have a contrarian view or actually care enough to raise their voices. No doubt the ruling classes would much prefer everyone to sit quietly at home absorbing BBC information, only to go out to work and consume. Basically the lockdown regime.
The Nazi organised protests against the Jews were very effective with Kristallnacht being a particularly successful evening and it certainly engaged the population.
I don’t think your example is a protest as much as a mob assault.
You think the pro-Palestine protests are like kristalnacht? Really?
In general I agree. I’m sure there are people using the situation for psyop purposes. I find the flavour of some the protests somewhat unsavoury but I think we need to hear what everyone thinks.
FAT PIG NEWS
Cambridge plonkers protest and upset the resident GAMMON (our gorgeous pig)
See HIS take on what’s going on in the latest video!
“EV private sales fall and market downgrades 2024 sales expectations”
As this article sets out, the Gov’s Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEM) means that at this level of EV sales manufactures will be hit with fines at the end of the year. How will manufacturers respond to this? well Ford have to some extent lead the way by ceasing sales and production of their Fiesta model. And so they have ceased production of a product that in its petrol form was too popular, if they had continued with the Fiesta they would have sold too many and collected fines. So they are ‘focusing’ on higher priced models – fewer models sold but with higher price tags.
As it is, EV sales are propped up by corporate fleet sales, presumably mostly as lease deals. If EVs continue to depreciate as fast as is currently the case, these leasing costs will go up and these costs will be passed on to the customers of the firms leasing the vehicles.
Having looked at EVs my conclusion is that a full car sized EV is not a viable option for private ownership. The liability of EV ownership seems to great to consider actually owning one. As a private motorist the cheapest EV lease cost would be at least £300 a month for a full sized car and probably more. And so as a low budget private motorist looking to the future what can I hope for? Clearly the supply of cheap and cheerful secondhand Ford Fiesta’s will dry up as they are no longer made, I cannot buy or lease a full sized EV. It would seem the best I can hope for is that they eventually bring out a small, low range EV that I can use for local utility trips with no more motoring holidays around the countryside and trips to see friends and relatives to be done by train. For most of my three score years and ten we have mostly looked to the prospect of things getting better and improving we have now entered a strange period of spending a lot of time money and effort into making things worse, people will not be happy and it will not end well.
There’s an awful lot of Israel/Palestine in the DS news round-up.
I don’t know about everybody else, but I resent so much of public discourse, including on this website, being dominated by this issue.
Ultimately, this is just another regional war in a troubled region.
Well, its still wall-to-wall in the bought-and-paid-for propagandist MSM: as that’s mainly where the DS gets its news, plus the DS’s obvious biases in this matter, it’s not surprising. That said, coverage is so skewed these days it is getting rather tedious. Neither skeptic nor septic; sadly, conformity to this particular message seems complete.
“Prolific burglar first to be jailed after private prosecution”
He was stealing Prosecco amongst other things. Surely the death penalty is in order?
This needs to be spread far and wide: Dr Tess Lawrie and the World Council for Health send a ‘cease and desist’ notice to Billy Gate’s puppet Teddy at the WHO:
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/the-notice-of-liability-delivered?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
On behalf of living men, women and all their sons and daughters living right now and those yet to be born on Earth, we hereby place you: a man: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, doing business as the Director General of the World Health Organisation (hereafter W.H.O), on notice that:
Worth reading in full, as they say.
Fantastic.
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/the-notice-of-liability-delivered?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
An excellent read.
Obviously this ‘cease and desist’ will be ignored but it puts the whole bleeding lot of them on notice.
Right Billy, don’t say you haven’t been warned. And that goes for any of those chemists you are paying to “mess around” with mRNA concoctions.