- “Israeli singer Eden Golan receives a hero’s welcome as she flies home” – Eden Golan arrived in Israel to a hero’s welcome after leaving Malmo under armed guard just hours after the Eurovision competition finished, reports the Mail.
- “Hidden pro-Palestinian messages in Eurovision contestants’ outfits” – It’s meant to be a joyous celebration of European musical kitsch, but instead, this year’s Eurovision was packed with anti-Israel messaging, says Codie Bullen in the Mail.
- “Pro-Palestine Irish singer Bambie Thug row with Eurovision deepens” – Bambie Thug claims the Eurovision organisers did not support her after Israeli TV branded her semi-final performance “satanic”, reports the Mail.
- “The dignity of Eden Golan” – What qualifies a street mob to rule that Eden Golan should carry the blame for everything that has happened in Gaza? asks Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
- “I’m A Celeb star is slammed for comment about Eurovision performance” – In the Mail, former Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik has upset all the usual suspects by highlighting the “vulgarity” of Olly Alexander’s Eurovision performance.
- “How anti-Israel bias claims rocked TikTok” – Israeli and Jewish TikTok employees have accused the company of anti-Israel bias and raised concerns about its response to a surge of online antisemitism, according to the Telegraph.
- “The UN has betrayed Israel again” – International institutions must stop giving succour to those seekig to destroy the West and all it stands for, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Biden’s sudden betrayal of Israel is a terrible miscalculation” – Washington fails to see that even if Netanyahu fell from power, his successor wil still want to destroy Hamas, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Birmingham University threatens pro-Palestine students with arrest” – Birmingham has become the first British university to threaten students with legal action if they do not shut down their American-style, anti-Israel encampment, reports the Mail.
- “Radical protest leader linked to the anti-Israel campus demonstrations traveled to communist Cuba for ‘resistance training’” – We are witnessing the unification of the radical Islamic and Marxist movement in America, says Jim Hoft in the Gateway Pundit.
- “The West’s multi-racial societies cannot survive woke doctrines being promoted on campuses” – Intolerant and illiberal, the identity politics that has taken root in our universities will ultimately have to be stamped out, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “The slow death of academia” – By cultivating an environment which deprives students of the best that the Enlightenment has to offer, our universities are rearing a generation of fanatical, myopic bullies, says Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
- “The truth about Covid’s origins is finally coming out” – Under questioning from Congress, two key figures have unwittingly strengthened the lab-leak theory, writes Matt Ridley in Spiked.
- “Welsh Labour using satellites to spy on homeowners and hike tax” – The Welsh Government is using satellites to identify homeowners with big gardens so it can increase their council tax, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s workers’ rights plans ‘could add £225 to council tax bills’” – Labour’s shake-up of workers’ rights could add £225 a year to council tax bills due to taxpayers having to pay billions more on social care, reports the Mail.
- “Lib Dems ‘broke equality laws’ over deselection of Christian candidate” – The Liberal Democrats have been accused of deselecting a candidate “based on his Christian faith” in a breach of equality law, says the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting ‘put me in danger’ with tweet, says Susan Hall” – Susan Hall says Labour’s Wes Streeting “put me in danger” by claiming that a victory for her in the London mayoral election would be a “win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The great devolution disaster – an upsurge in nationalism” – We were told that Scotland and Wales would be better governed under Devolution than they had been from Westminster. Has a political forecast even been so comprehensively debunked? asks Stephen Glover in the Mail.
- “Our shallow political elites have given up on democracy altogether” – Guiding principles and meaningful debate have been carelessly neglected. All that’s left is a dangerously hollow consensus, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Why the CofE cries out for direct democracy” – For the Anglican Church to thrive, it needs more input from the pews and less from the woke high-ups argues Andrew Cadman in TCW.
- “How the EU brought Poland to heel” – Brussels all but forced out a populist government in Poland under the guise of defending democracy, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Meditations on the deeply stupid cultural pathologies that are ruining our society and subverting our politics” – In the absence of aristocratic appeal, the upper-middles have entered a self-cannibalising downward spiral, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Russia ‘captures nine villages in two days’ after attacking Kharkiv” – Putin’s forces have taken nine villages in two days as Ukraine warns of “around the clock” enemy fire, according to the Express.
- “Taxpayer-backed Net Zero group donates to Labour” – A government-funded organisation that raises cash for Net Zero projects has donated £100,000 of support to Labour, reports the Telegraph.
- “Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory” – Russia has found oil reserves totalling 511 billion barrels – about 10 times the North Sea’s entire 50-year output – in the British Antarctic, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Terrified residents blast plans for ‘huge’ Wiltshire solar farm” – Lower Wyke Solar Farm in Wiltshire is set to provide electricity for 7,252 family homes. But locals say the project will cover “productive” farmland with acres of panels and ruin biodiversity, reports the Mail.
- “Elderly priest and retired teacher charged over Magna Carta attack” – Two protesting pensioners have been charged with criminal damage after they attacked the glass encasing the Magna Carta at the British Library, says the Shropshire Star.
- “Psychology expert says trans darts athletes playing vs women is unfair” – Middlesex University’s Associate Professor of Sports Psychology Dr. Linda Duffy believes that there are scientific reasons why biological men should not be allowed to compete in female-only events, according to GB News.
- “J.K. Rowling doubles down on trans row over transgender football manager” – J.K. Rowling has doubled down in a new trans row by insisting a transgender football manager is a “straight, white, middle-aged bloke”, reports the Mail.
- “Dannii Minogue and the heterosexual ‘queers’” – Why do so many life-long straights want to identify as part of the ‘LGBTQ+’ community? asks Julie Burchill in Spiked.
- “#MeToo was wrong – women can be just as predatory as men” – While men certainly commit the vast majority of sex crimes, women aren’t all coy little maidens falling prey to masculine lust, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. adults look at their phones more than Americans, French and Germans” – A representative poll of 8,000 people suggests that 44% of adults in the U.K. look at their phone every hour, reports the Mail.
- “‘I was interviewed for a job by a robot’” – In the Telegraph, Noah Eastwood highlights the growing trend of companies using AI to hire staff.
- “Millions funnelled into lobbying effort by TikTok’s biggest competitors” – Meta, Google and YouTube worked furiously behind the scenes to make sure nothing stood in the way of Congress passing legislation to force TikTok to divest from its parent company ByteDance – or face a U.S. ban, according to the Mail’s Congress Reporter, Morgan Phillips.
- “The vanguard behind Australia’s Misinformation Bill” – Australia has been out in front in shaping the bureaucratised internet, writes Andrew Lowenthal on his Network Affects Substack.
- “Legion of the sick” – In the New English Review, Theodore Dalrymple explores the lasting impact of totalitarian regimes.
- “‘Climate denial is dangerous!’” – On GB News’s Free Speech Nation, Andrew Doyle dismantles meteorologist and eco-loon Jim Dale’s batty proposal to make climate change ‘denial’ illegal.
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Interesting to listen to Andrew Doyle interviewing Jim Dale the meteorologist. All he could argue was that he’d seen the data.
He made no other points except that denial was dangerous.
Did he not pause to consider that the main sticking points for me and many others is that the climate is always changing, that’s not in dispute. But where is the proof that man is causing it? And if man is causing it, then where is the proof that it’s CO² and CO² alone? And if it is solely CO², how does building dirty great wind turbines and solar farms fix the issue better than nuclear?
I don’t think he ever went through that thought process. He’s just looking at the graphs and going “oo-heck it’s getting hotter!” and then listening to Al Gore to discover the cause. Now he’s a fervent crusader and yet he’s strangely vapid and light on detail. It can’t hurt his ego either that he’s called to give this message on TV.
Science as a process has been reduced to credentialism, ego and the need for scientists to pay their mortgages. The notion of what constitutes ‘proof’ is lost on so many.
A theory, no matter how predictive of reality, can be instantly called into question when a single piece of contradictory evidence is found. That discussion must be allowed and it must be robust and yet be conducted in a civil manner.
He’s over-specialised, an expert in a narrow field which is largely maths based, not science in the strictest sense. He’s seemingly incapable of abstract thought and has probably never thought deeply about the nature of scientific endeavour.
Andrew totally nailed him but he doesn’t even realise it.
I’ve more or less given up.
With Covid, it was sort of believable that the population at large would be taken in by the government’s scare mongering. Maybe some people weren’t taken in by it, but went along to get along. That’s forgivable up to a point.
With climate change, no ameliorating circumstances exist. It’s been around for ages as a topic, and, despite the scaremongering, not many people believe that it’s a full scale emergency that needs dealing with tomorrow. So there has been time to think about it at leisure.
Furthermore, even if you believe that net zero is necessary due to ‘climate change’, how can you deny that what Britain and even what the West does is of trivial impact, given that China and India and the third world are (quite rightly) doing sweet fa to reduce their emissions.
How can you deny that poor countries needs to burn more fossil fuels to help them lift themselves out of poverty?
How can you deny that shutting down factories in Britain, reopening them in China, fuelling them with coal power, and importing the goods to Britain by shipping them across half the globe, completely lacks common senses?
I despair of these people and they include my extended family and virtually all my acquaintances.
Absolutely spot on.
It was Andrew’s point concerning the Spanish Inquisition and the Wuhan Lab leak theory that really summarized the point he was eloquently making (one totally lost on the interviewee). That being namely, that in both cases, the maverick theory in question – Galileo’s support of the Copernican heliocentricity theory and the Lab Leak theory – were ultimately revealed to be correct, or at least much closer to the truth than previously.
Secondly, in both cases, it was boldly asserted by the zealots who believed in geo-centricity and the “wet market” theory of the origin of Covid that there was no room whatsoever for any doubt or discussion on the topics. The science appeared to be – in the spirit of history repeating itself – “settled”!
In fact both theories gained traction, not despite their marginalization and the attempt at neutralizing them but because of it! When the truth (or a hypothesis) is buried its advocates become all the stronger and more determined to reveal it to the world.
Thus, playing devil’s advocate and assuming Jim Dale is correct and all deniers of man-made climate change are deluded and purveyors of toxic ideologies, shutting them down will achieve the opposite effect to that which he desires. If the climate is, on the other hand, changing principally due to natural factors and the so-called “deniers” are ultimately correct, criminalizing this “denial” will be looked back upon as every bit as suppressive, illogical and downright ridiculous as the Spanish Inquisition.
Sunday Morning Mill Lane & South Hill Road Bracknell.
Yellow Board:
“Net Zero Hell – Insects in Food”
Most stupid comment of the year from a driver:
“The agricultural industry is killing the planet.”
I applaud for your constant efforts locky!
Well done
Digital Currency Digital ID Digital Communism – 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
“Welsh Labour using satellites to spy on homeowners and hike tax”
Am I correct in calling Council Tax a regressive tax? Certainly it seems to be a tax based on perceived wealth rather than income and ability to pay. In Devon and I expect much of the rest of the England, a huge portion of Council expenditure is Adult Social Services and Children’s support services, both of these are national statutory obligations. Would it be more realistic if these huge statutory demands on expenditure were dealt with by income tax?
By including garden size in the council tax assessment it raises all sorts of questions about what is a garden? what is a small-holding? what is a wildlife haven area? At most such land will generate a little income from apples sold at the garden gate, it will not provide the income to pay your council tax. Does this all rather smack of the politics of jealousy and envy?
About 85% of local authority funding comes from government, ie the general tax take. Council tax makes up only a small part of LA funding.
See it as a way of discouraging the ownership of land that may be used productively by a household whilst also being a shameless cash-grab.
Being dependent on the corporations that do pharma and food for your immune system and ‘nutrition’ is ideal for controlling the masses and taking anything they have of value. Far less barbaric and more efficient than room 101’ing people.
Depends to what extent the value of a home is correlated to the owner’s ability to pay. Classic example is a poor pensioner living in valuable house they bought thirty years ago for peanuts. “Move then” is an unrealistic argument. That pensioner may not have the energy and health to move, and may not be able to build a new social network in a new location, if they are forced to move.
I’m befuddled as to why the need to use drones in the first place – doesn’t the Land Registry hold property land area information, to which I assume LAs & councils have the same access as the rest of us? There is no need to be so sinister & intrusive. I suspect something far more nefarious going on, like planning additional charges for larger sheds/outbuildings/summer houses (which might be used for undeclared holiday rental, for example), greenhouses, tennis courts, swimming pools, croquet lawns – damn, even growing your own veg: it’s illegal in some parts of the US already….
https://sustainableamerica.org/blog/believe-it-or-not-it-may-be-illegal-to-grow-your-own-food/
Or built outside planning regulations!
Sending an inspector round is expensive and time consuming, and ,you might see them coming, a drone on the other hand is easy,cheap and quick! Lots of lovely extra lolly for the local authority from any lawbreakers brazen enough to erect a lean-to without their permission!
Scotland has a Land Use Framework project in progress which covers all land use and requires percentage use for whatever the current ecological or green energy push is. I think the UK government is supposed to be doing one for England.
Land Registry won’t give the current use of the land.
Time to buy some camo netting. And perhaps some anti-drone jamming tech so they crash land when they fly over.
It probably won’t be drones but plain old Google earth.
To hear someone who purports to be a scientist use the phrase “you only have to look at the evidence of your own eyes” shows how little he knows of science.
It turns out Eden Golan is considered an enemy of Ukraine for performing in Crimea when she was 12. It’s not a surprise to see someone on there for historic ‘crimes’ as a child when there’s children on there just for having the wrong parents.
“Eden Golan has been accused of engaging in “anti-Ukraine” propaganda” (RT so must be disinformation)
https://swentr.site/pop-culture/597421-israeli-eden-golan-eurovision-mirotvorets/
“In 2016, she performed at the so-called “Children’s “New Wave” in the occupied Crimea, including performing her hit “Howl at the Moon” in a duet with Nyusha.”
https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/holan-eden/
Back in 2023 when I asked why we would support the government of a country that finds it acceptable to put children on a kill-list, my MP didn’t have an issue with it.
Where is this list of children to be killed evidenced, may I ask?
Anyone can go through Myrotvorets themselves. We can also pretend this website is for benign purposes.
A couple of examples:
Born 2012, posted 2023.
https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/solovev-ivan-vladimirovich-2/
Born 2010, posted 2023.
https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/solovev-vladimir-vladimirovich-2/
This is just plain silly; ridiculous.
DeSmog publishes a list of ‘climate disinformation’ individuals.
David Bellamy has (Deceased) next to his name.
https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/
That is not a kill list either; but it is a complete joke…..
For anyone who thinks Myrotvorets is a joke, G7 Ambassadors and the US Government didn’t think so in 2016 – a time when Ukraine was widely considered a corrupt country with a neo-Nazi problem.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g7-ambassadors-statement-regarding-journalists-personal-data-on-myrotvorets-website
https://www.state.gov/reports/2016-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ukraine/
Oh for heaven’s sake!
The Pope is listed on Myrotvorets! So is (Pink Floyd) Roger Waters!
‘Myrotvorets does not advocate violence against those on its database, and there is no conclusive evidence that it’s ever been used as a “kill list,” as Waters claims. Also, while the list has been used by Ukrainian authorities and agencies to keep track of those whom they suspect of undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty or promoting the Kremlin’s agenda, it has no known or official links to the Ukrainian government.’
Newsweek
This heavy pro-Israel diet on the DS is starting to get tedious.
Hell yeah.
And the pro palistine diet, everywhere, isn’t?
At least that’s just the news. The pro-Israel diet in Parliament influences policy and in turn, quite a lot else.
I understand TY and others have strong views on the subject but they might persuade more people to their point of view by publishing some robust debates between people on opposite sides of this. I for one would welcome seeing some grown up argument on the subject as I don’t share the certainty that either side seems to have on this – I’m either accused of being anti-semitic or supporting a Zionist cabal, neither of which seems to be true to me.
“#MeToo was wrong – women can be just as predatory as men”
No one ever denied that some women can be just as predatory (and, I might add, manipulative) as some men – and sometimes even moreso – the problem with #MeToo is that it started from a sound basic principle of wanting to expose serious sexual assault as powerplay, which had previously been covered up and denied, to being weaponised as a blunt instrument with which to control all aspects of male/female relationship and demonise men in general. In this sense the headline is rather misleading.
“Hidden pro-Palestinian messages in Eurovision contestants’ outfits”
Well done Bambi, now go away and accept your irrelevance like a good little they, you were never going to be the next ABBA! and that goes for all these self important idealistic little sh!ts who think they glean ultimate power from their 15 mins worth of fame!
Uh oh.
This is either what all the Russia bashing is about or another confected excuse to try to get us all to agree to go to war with Russia.
No thesis post from the Monro account asking for evidence? That’s very uncharacteristic.
Evidence of what – 511 billion barrels of oil reserves?
Why would I want evidence for that?
I mean if that is what Russia says – it must be true…it was on RT……
Oh!…..Hang on……
‘Klaus Dodds, professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway College, an expert in Antarctica, who also gave evidence, said Russia’s activities were far closer to prospecting for oil and gas than to genuine science…..’
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/russia-finds-vast-oil-and-gas-reserves-in-british-antarctic-territory/ar-BB1mduF3
Why would the discovery of loads of oil in the British Antarctic persuade us to go to war with Russia?
“Pro-Palestine Irish singer Bambie Thug row with Eurovision deepens”
What? Who the f@ck cares?
“I’m A Celeb star is slammed for comment about Eurovision performance”
I’m with lembit on this one, Alexander’s act was fu#king disgusting and brought shame to the UK! So art is now 5 homosexuals in a filthy toilet? How low can we go?
“Just Stop Oil should be banned like terror groups, report says”
No they should not! They should, however, be treated with the full force of the laws that the rest of us have to adhere to
Remove them forcefully and immediately if they block a public highway, make them personally pay for any damage done to public property and assign the appropriate criminal record for their actions