- “Gary Lineker’s latest outburst about Israel is his worst yet” – Western progressives are always far quicker to condemn Israel than other warring nations – and St. Gary seems to be no different, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Kennel Club rejected Jam and Jerusalem as puppy name over Gaza war” – The Kennel Club told a breeder they could not name their dog “Jam and Jerusalem” because of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, reports the Jewish News.
- “The right to protest shouldn’t trump the rights of the rest of us” – Empowering extremist marchers only weakens the rest of us. Such coercion is corrosive to British democracy, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Injured and ignored: long list of vaccine victims that shames the Government” – The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme was designed to aid those harmed by vaccines. So, why hasn’t it? asks Sally Beck in TCW.
- “If Covid EUAs are legal, the virus must be a potential bioweapon” – On her Substack, Debbie Lerman explores the legal context in which Emergency Use Authorisation – the type of authorisation granted to Covid mRNA vaccines – operates.
- “Why are important Covid documents not being released?” – The Cabinet Office is refusing to release vital evidence to the Covid Inquiry in case it “excessively focuses” the public’s attention on lockdown-decision making, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “Nigel Farage joins campaign to reform the WHO and stop ‘terrifying’ pandemic treaty” – Nigel Farage vows to confront the WHO’s “billion-dollar global health empire” by teaming up with Action on World Health (AWH), according to GB News. You can join and donate to AWH here.
- “Half of Scots want Hate Crime Act repealed” – It’s been over a month since Yousaf’s controversial Hate Crime Act came into force and it still isn’t going down particularly well with the people of Scotland, writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The Civil Service is trying to cover up the true scale of migrant crime” – If a social democratic, high-trust country like Denmark can publish data on migrant crime rates, there’s no reason why Britain can’t, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Is Suella about to cross the floor?” – Suella Braverman’s recent proposals to reform the welfare state have left Ian Price choking on his cornflakes, as he recounts on his Substack.
- “EU countries demand the right to introduce Rwanda-style schemes” – The Czech and Italian PMs are leading a 19-strong group asking Brussels to let them transfer migration procedures outside the EU bloc’s territory, reports the Mail.
- “Germany’s crackdown on free speech is out of control” – The conviction of an AfD influencer is an outrageous attack on democracy, says Spiked’s Sabine Beppler-Spahl.
- “The sad farce of German ‘democracy’” – In Germany, parties advocating censorship are called democratic, while those championing direct democracy are labelled fascists, laments Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “Japan has much to teach Britain – its lessons could make this island a happier place” – Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto are clean, well mannered cities with minimal anti-social behaviour. London, Paris and New York are anything but, remarks Luke Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “Columbia University’s Minouche Shafik showed her true colours when she voted on campus free speech” – In the New York Post, Rikki Schlott points out that the President of Columbia’s commitment to free speech was nowhere in evidence in 2022 when she voted against Clause 4 of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill.
- “Solar panels must not be built on good farmland, ministers say amid concerns over food security” – Councils will be urged by ministers not to approve planning permission for solar farms on high-quality farmland as part of Rishi Sunak’s drive to protect food security, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.S. condemns U.K. for praying woman’s abortion clinic arrest” – A U.S. Government agency has condemned the U.K. for “targeting religious expression” over the arrest of a woman who prayed silently in an abortion clinic “buffer zone”, according to the Telegraph.
- “LGBT rainbow lanyards won’t be banned in Whitehall despite ‘common sense’ minister’s announcement” – Rainbow lanyards will not be banned in Whitehall despite a crackdown on “inappropriate backdoor politicisation” by the ‘common sense’ minister Esther McVey, reports the Telegraph.
- “Teachers must tell pupils gender ideology is a ‘contested belief’” – Education Secretary Gillian Keegan is to tell teachers that they will have to make clear that gender identity ideology is a “contested belief” if they bring it up in lessons, says the Telegraph.
- “Teacher who went viral for teaching critical thinking gets fired” – On Substack, the Naked Emperor is outraged over a teacher’s firing for promoting critical thinking on the debate over J.K. Rowling.
- “J.K. Rowling is playing with fire” – In the Spectator, Debbie Hayton advises J.K. Rowling to stop attacking people on social media.
- “Peru officially classifies trans people as ‘mentally ill’” – The Peruvian Government has officially categorised trans and intersex people as “mentally ill”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Dame Judi Dench brilliantly rips apart PC trigger warnings on old shows” – According to Dame Judi Dench, people who require trigger warnings before theatre performances should stay at home, says GB News.
- “Judge says eSafety’s global content ban order ‘not reasonable’” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett provides an update on the judge’s decision in the eSafety vs X matter in Australia.
- “America’s unprotected class – and Europe’s” – In the European Conservative, Rod Dreher sits down with Jeremy Carl to discuss Jeremy‘s new book, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart.
- “Glenn Loury: an intellectual force of nature” – Glenn Loury’s Late Admissions is an unflinching memoir from a courageous enemy of orthodoxy, writes Cory Franklin in Spiked.
- “‘They would have worn those goddamn masks for the rest of their life if the payoff would have been they could feel morally superior’” – When people read the history of Nazi Germany, they always think they’d be Schindler, says Jordan Peterson. Did you watch people during the pandemic?
PETERSON: When people read the history of nazi Germany, they always think they’d be Schindler.
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) May 14, 2024
They never think they’d be the perpetrator. They think “I wouldn’t have done that.”
Did you watch people during the pandemic???pic.twitter.com/rSWvg93AhC
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“they always think they’d be Schindler,”
Except for those:
– who appear on the news for having Nazi views and Nazi memorabilia, something else appeals to them
– who are openly critical of the policies, Schindler wasn’t
– who left the country
Some would readily acknowledge they don’t know what they would do in such a situation.
In answer to: did you watch people during the “pandemic”? Yes and Peterson makes sweeping generalisations similar to those imposing policies and enthusiastically following them.
I don’t know what you saw. I saw people step into line and even enthusiastically embrace draconian measures with minimal threat of consequences for not obeying, compared to what you would have faced in Nazi Germany.
That’s what I saw.
Did everyone do that?
Interesting downvotes. Peterson Cult? Bots triggered by “Schindler” and “Nazi” and a failure to understand the criticism of the generalisation made by Peterson?
Take for example Toby Young. He would seem to fall into the category of those “who are openly critical of the policies, Schindler wasn’t”. I see that as a good thing and many on here have highlighted it.
Is Suella about to cross the floor?
In the unlikely event that Ms Braverman considers these comments, I would ask her to reflect on this:
‘In 2023/24, UK government raised around £1,095 billion (£1.1 trillion) in receipts – income from taxes and other sources. This is equivalent to around 40% of the size of the UK economy, as measured by GDP, which is the highest level since the early 1980s.’ (H of C library)
And this:
‘There were an estimated 5.93 million employees in the public sector in December 2023, which is 32,000 (0.5%) more than in September 2023 and 138,000 (2.4%) more than in December 2022.’ (ONS)
That being the case, anyone seeking to increase the public purse, size of the public sector, is quite simply looking through the telescope from the wrong end.
That someone so senior in the party, someone perceived to be right of centre, should be looking at the big picture in that fashion explains what has just occurred at the polls and the further disaster that beckons….
What to do?
In a spirit of helpfulness:
Invite retired senior public sector staff from Denmark to this country, on an attractive stipend and allow them to design and implement ‘shadow’ ministries with different names (and a completely different culture, no staff recruited from the existing public sector) which gradually assume the tasks of the existing ministries that they are to replace.
The public sector in Denmark is rated globally fourth both in terms of effectiveness and accountability.
Ms Braverman clearly believes the State should do more, not less. As such, she is part of the problem and not the solution.
Given the desire for a bigger State, when discussing a housing wealth tax or ‘means testing’ pensions (what the Lib Dems called a Mansion Tax at one point), many do not consider how the equity in the property would have to be released. Proponents of this idea suggest that larger homes will be occupied by younger families – which is rank foolishness. I have had decently paid jobs throughout my working life and was able to go mortgage free when I was effectively forced into early retirement by my last employer. I’m certainly not ‘poor’ but my family were never in a position to buy a home as large or private as we would have liked. The idea that we could have bought a retired person’s 3-bed detached house in a nice area at a time when it would have significantly benefited my kids’ childhood is laughable.
The only way such a scheme could work is for the Government (no doubt through an quasi-autonomous agency) to take equity in these properties in lieu of tax. Effectively taking the Inheritance Tax that will inevitably become payable eventually, earlier rather than later – and more of it. Having seized the inheritance of pensioners’ offspring they can then rent the property back to the same group. Nobody should believe that the Civil Service could do any of that efficiently.
Whether she actually holds these views or whether she is trying to soften her image in advance of the inevitable leadership election post (or pre) the general election, either way it’s disappointing. It may well be that ‘tough on immigration/soft on benefits’ has electoral appeal.
It would be refreshing to hear somebody tell the truth: successive governments have created a huge group of people that are dependent on the state. It is not sustainable to have such a large proportion of the population economically inactive. The benefits needs to cease. Many people will manage ok, but others will not and we will see homelessness, death and pain. The fact that we as a people are not willing to accept these consequences says a lot.
I fully expect to sell all my assets and pass them to my children well before I die in order to avoid inheritance tax. Of course, my house might not be worth much by the time Sadiq has completed his project to turn London into Detroit-on-Thames.
Timing is key.
Today we may well hear who is to be the new Dutch PM, as Wilders et al conclude their discussions in The Hague this morning. It appears this Labour leftie is to switch and is rumoured to be the main contender;
”As coalition negotiations continue in The Hague, Ronald Plasterk has emerged as a prominent contender for the role of prime minister, sources close to the talks told RTL Nieuws. The former interior minister and longtime member of Dutch Labour party PvdA is seen as Geert Wilders’ preferred candidate to succeed caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and lead a new extra-parliamentary Cabinet.
Plasterk helped guide the first rounds of talks between Wilders’ far-right PVV and the NSC, BBB, and Rutte’s VVD, now led by Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz. Talks between the four parties have been ongoing since the November elections, and briefly broke down in February. To get the process back on track, the four party leaders agreed that none of them would become the next prime minister, and would instead return to the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Parliament.
Plasterk has been with the left-wing PvdA for 46 years, and the party requires someone to resign their membership should they choose to represent another party in the Cabinet, RTL Nieuws reported. Plasterk would then join the PVV.”
https://nltimes.nl/2024/05/14/next-dutch-pm-labour-partys-ronald-plasterk-emerges-wilders-first-choice
The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme was designed make people think the government was doing something.
And to limit the cash flow from the Treasury, exploiting the naivety of many people related to damage payments. Ask a solicitor.
The sum is derisory, a token gesture.
Correct. Any normal suit for damages that involves a loss of income over a future period can lead to a much higher sum, depending on the age and potential income for the person concerned. Been there, done that, and won a case in a County Court that way.
“Peru officially classifies trans people as ‘mentally ill’”
I hope the part about intersex people is an editorial mistake – the tiny number of intersex patients I had were completely sane and usually mentally well-adjusted to an entirely physical affliction.
Thank you for saying this – I was a bit peeved when I saw that as a good friend has Klinefelter’s syndrome.
I completely agree and empathize with Eve’s observations here and what she’s saying can perfectly apply to the Scamdemic years too. People showed their true colours during those few years just as people have done after Oct 7th. Never before have I been so acutely aware of living amongst such morally bankrupt people as I have since March 2020, irrespective of context;
”Here is what I have observed in the last five years. People can’t be wrong about anything any more, or you’re attacking their identity. Their identity is so lost that all they consider themselves to be are people of moral and intellectual superiority. Despite the fact they know nothing. We Jews on the other hand have a very strong identity. Not allowed! Oh no. Can’t have that. Can’t have pride. God forbid. They don’t even know which flag to post in support of the people they purport to be supporting. There is no accountability for their mistakes or their actions. Their ego is more fragile than it ever has been. And they can’t be wrong in public because the consequences are beyond frightening – the consequences that they have created and spurned onto others who transgress from the collective hive mind.
There’s no individual – only the group. So if you disagree you will be treated as a threat. You have made an attack. When you zoom out, you start to contemplate the impossible divide: we live in an age of misinformation and people identify as being right all the time. Holy shit. Which means that people who are fighting for their humanity – like us – are being excommunicated from the world. All because social media made the everyday human experience a spectacle.
Goodbye to all my old friends. More and more of them keep leaving. There’s no closure. No conversation. Just – out the door. No goodbye. It’s been that way with most of those people for years now. They drop off. But I will keep fond memories and I hope one day they realize that they turned their back on humanity to accommodate their weak spines.
The UN admitted this weekend that it has overestimated the death count of women and children in Gaza by 50%. So hang on a second. The terrorists organization Hamas lied to the UN about how many women and children had been killed in the war? Is that what we’re saying? Who bloody knew. We did!
50%, eh? So Israel has been correct all along. Most of the dead may well be male Hamas militants. The claims of starvation and mass child deaths may not be substantiated. It smells like blood libel, ladies and gents, because it may well be blood libel. But nobody’s going to hear it now. The mainstream media has become very attached to its scripted fake numbers. Too inconvenient to change it now. It’s sensational and people love it. People love the death toll. They’re very into the genocide. I mean – that’s the great irony, isn’t it? They’re desperate for a genocide in Gaza, so they can be vindicated, so they can be right. They would rather it was true so that they don’t have to admit error. That’s how fucking egomaniacal these progressive twits are.”
https://evebarlow.substack.com/p/i-hate-them?r=aoc7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Brilliant. Thanks Mogs
“Japan has much to teach Britain – its lessons could make this island a happier place”
I agree. Clue – the reason Japan is cleaner and less crime ridden has to do with something that starts with ‘i’.
The only way we can get back there is through draconian law and order policies – violent offenders as well as repeat offenders of less violent crimes put away for life.
There’s no room in the prisons. The only thing they fear is permanent deportation.
“Nigel Farage joins campaign to reform the WHO and stop ‘terrifying’ pandemic treaty”
It doesn’t need to be reformed, it needs to be abolished.
Discouraging news this morning: it seems Nigel Farage and Rees-Mogg are about to betray patriots yet again, by forcing the Reform Party to be swallowed up by the Tories, who are offering Nigel the knighthood he craves.
After Nigel destroyed his own UKIP and then Brexit parties, and boasted that he had single-handedly destroyed Nick Griffin and the British National Party, he said he deserved a knighthood. So now with Reform, it seems four destroyed parties will finally fix it for him. It’s so sad— millions of us really believed in Nigel, we were thrilled by his stirring, defiant speeches against the EU, battling for 20 years to win our freedom, so proud of him after the Brexit referendum, and wanted him to be knighted and become Prime Minister. Just like poor deluded patriots still believe in Drumpf. May their eyes be opened.
What probably will reform (sic) itself is the Conservative party. It has form for that, over the years. Any brand new organisation struggles against the first past the post system, after all.
Too late! They’ve had their chance and blew it. As some across the Pond are saying, everyone needs to ditch the Fake Two-Party System (or in our case, the LibLabCon Uniparty) and launch out boldly with new third parties.
To take Neil Oliver’s advice during the lockdowns, “Hold the Line!”
Forget tactical voting, crawling meekly, tail-between-legs, back to LibLabCon, or Republicans/Democrats, or SNP, and stand steadfast for Reform.
I try to read from a wide variety of sources and stumbled across this Australian publication today, reading the comments I had to double check if it was a parody site.
Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds (thedriven.io)
Thanks for that great link. How encouraging to know that the “Fossil Car Lobby”, as the indignant woke author calls it, has been quietly battling the Globalist agenda on Net Zero all this time. In addition to “Japan is the worst”, the Aussies are again leading the charge. Who would’ve imagined that the Japanese would start fighting back against all the Globalist plans on vaccines, Mass Third World Invasion, and Net Zero? Well done to them and the Aussies.
The only car better than a “Fossil Car” is a “Fossil Car Without Computer Technology”.