- “Slovakian PM Robert Fico in serious condition after assassination attempt” – Slovakia’s pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life after being shot several times in an assassination attempt, reports the Times.
- “The BBC’s reasons for not calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ just don’t stack up” – The U.K. Government has labelled Hamas as ‘terrorists’, so why is the BBC still being so stubborn? asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Biden can’t be trusted to take on antisemitism” – The same identitarian worldview that is driving campus antisemitism is rife within Joe Biden’s White House, says Heather Mac Donald in Spiked.
- “The pornographic awfulness of Eurovision” – In TCW, Dr. Tom Goodfellow remarks on the sheer awfulness on Eurovision 2024.
- “It’s taken the near-breakdown of Britain’s borders to properly debate mass migration” – The immigration trade-off is reaching a tipping point, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Reform has stalled while waiting for Nigel” – All is not well at Reform U.K. and its putative white knight, Nigel Farage, appears to have other priorities, writes Iain Martin in the Times.
- “Ending stop and search was a disaster for black kids” – “Every week I am contacted by grieving parents who have lost their child to knife crime. We must get weapons off our streets,” says Shaun Bailey in the Telegraph.
- “Stop pampering the Left’s attack dog” – Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism, writes a Tory insider in the Critic.
- “Sadiq Khan thinks knife crime is a joke” – The ‘right-on’ and well-off mock and dismiss those who are concerned about violence on London’s streets, says Ike Ijeh in Spiked.
- “NHS bosses destroy careers of whistleblowers who stood up to protect patients’ lives” – A group of medics warns that NHS managers are destroying the careers of whistleblowers who raise concerns about patient safety, according to the Telegraph.
- “Covid Inquiry costing £300,000 a day” – The Covid Inquiry may become the most expensive ever having spent almost £70 million in the last financial year, reports the Times.
- “‘Why the NHS cancelled my talk’” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton shares the NHS response he received to his subject access request about the cancellation of his talk at the NHS Health and Care Analytics Conference 2023.
- “Stanford’s censorship: rescind the disgraceful Atlas censure” – If Stanford is to remain a true academic institution, it must reverse its shameful Covid-era censure of Dr. Scott Atlas, says the Stanford Review.
- “Louisiana did it! SB133 passed the House. No WHO tentacles in Louisiana” – On Substack, Meryl Nass welcomes the fact that Louisiana has rejected the WHO having jurisdiction in the state.
- “Trust the science? 19 scientific journals shutting down simultaneously after being rocked by retractions and fraud” – Wiley, one of the largest academic publishers in the world, is being forced to shut down 19 journals thanks to the black market industry of “paper mills” submitting thousands of fake papers, says Allison Anton in the Western Journal.
- “Net Zero car targets will create vehicle shortage, MPs told” – MPs warn that Net Zero targets will cause shortages of cars on Britain’s roads as manufacturers “restrict the supply of vehicles” in the U.K. to avoid punitive fines, reports the Telegraph.
- “Debunking the cheap renewables myth” – We keep getting told that wind and solar renewables are cheap, yet our bills keep going up. So, what’s going on? asks David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Climate professor thinks we should ‘cull’ the human population to reach emissions targets” – In WUWT, Paul Homewood reacts to well-known volcanologist and climate scientist Prof. Bill McGuire’s idea to cull the human population to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown.
- “Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘farts’ full of methane emissions to stop ‘climate change’” – In Axios, Dan Primack and Ben Geman reveal that an investment fund founded by Bill Gates is behind a vaccine to reduce livestock methane emissions.
- “Trump twirls the windmills of doom: the Guardian’s theatrical take” – In WUWT, Charles Rotter takes aim at the Guardian for their latest ‘eco-villain’ hatchet job on Donald Trump.
- “What the new sex education guidelines mean for schools and parents” – In new Government guidance, schools in England will be banned from teaching sex education to children under the age of nine, reports the BBC.
- “Stonewall ‘muddying waters’ on gender law, says former top judge” – Baroness Butler-Sloss, a retired senior family judge, accuses the campaign group Stonewall of “muddying the waters” of equality law to promote transgenderism, according to the Times.
- “The plot to erase the Anglo-Saxons” – The assault on the Anglo-Saxons has begun again, with Cambridge renaming its Anglo-Saxon England journal Early Medieval England, writes Ed West in the Spectator.
- “Oxford University drops plan to vet new chancellor after wokeism row” – Oxford University has dropped plans to vet candidates standing in the chancellorship election after being accused of trying to “stitch up” the process to prevent another white, male politician from getting the job, reports the Times.
- “Australians topple statue of colonial governor” – The statue of former Tasmanian Premier William Crowther has been sawn off at the ankles and dumped next to the plinth the day before a tribunal upheld a council’s decision to remove the monument, says the Mail.
- “‘Hypersensitive’ Japanese academic fails to sue boss for liking sushi” – An employment tribunal has ruled that telling a Japanese person that you like sushi is not racist, according to GB News.
- “Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson demand Kevin Spacey be allowed to resume Hollywood career” – Kevin Spacey must be allowed to resume his Hollywood acting career after being wrongly cancelled for seven years, Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson have told the Telegraph.
- “‘My tearful interview with Kevin Spacey proves he’s MeToo’s greatest casualty’” – After being cleared of sexual assault, Kevin Spacey is out to save his career – and Channel 4’s latest attack convinced him to fight back, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “YouTube removes 35,000 EU videos for ‘misinformation’, enhances content censorship ahead of 2024 elections” – YouTube amps up its election role in the EU with a robust crackdown on what it deems misinformation. What could possibly go wrong? asks Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
- “U.K. Government refuses to say whether Parliament will get a vote on the WHO’s Pandemic Accords” – In a Commons debate, parliamentarians were fed excuses, caveats and non-answers to their requests for assurance that Parliament will get a ratification vote on the WHO Pandemic Accords if the Government decides to sign up.
— UsForThemUK
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Well done Chile!
It’s quite possible there was some reasonable stuff in there but they’ve obviously overreached – huge own goal.
Surely a mistake to try and cover too much. The US remains the model to follow – the main aim was to set out the limits of government/state power.
Considering that all of the the woke nonsense emanates from the USA, that’s a very dubious claim.
Not sure how that follows. I don’t see the role of a constitution as preventing “woke nonsense” but setting out a workable structure of government that strikes the right balance between the powers and reach of the state and those of the individual, which will undoubtedly be abused and come under attack and may fail, but it’s worth trying, and IMO the US is the best example and the one that has endured and provided the best outcome. Of course the US isn’t perfect, or how we’d like it to be, but it’s notable to me as the rich “liberal” “democracy” with the most robust active movement pushing back against wokeism and its ilk. The political right in the US, which has mainly provided resistance against covid folly and evil, is mainstream both in politics and media. Not so much in the UK and continental Western and Central Europe.
It doesn’t follow at all, it’s just a fact: This is a genuinely American phenomenon and is mostly about inherently American issues which don’t really exist in other parts of the world, except insofar ardent fans of the so-called American left are cosplaying what their idols do.
Taking a bit of a broader perspective, the USA is also traditionally a very aggressive power principially hell-bent on destroying all political systems which differ from the American one, except that this doesn’t always work and/ or sometimes turns out to cost more money and effort than the American public is willing to spend on it (eg, in Afghanistan).
My point was about the best approach to construct a constitution, or what I think one should contain/focus on, as it seemed to me they had made the mistake in Chile of chucking in all sorts of stuff that’s currently trendy that IMO has no place in a document/structure that’s meant to endure over time. Nothing to do with wokery per se.
As far as the USA goes, they are indeed not overly pleasant to their enemies nor to those that are not close allies. More pleasant to their own citizens. This they share with most great powers now and throughout history (though many of them were not that nice to their own people either).
The USA isn’t exactly pleasant to their allies, either. Eg Eisenhower breaking the neck of the British empire by siding with Egypt during the so-called Suez crisis. But that’s sort-of besides my point which is still that the woke movement is as American as hamburgers and black friday. That’s a political movement the political organization of the USA gave birth to. Which is not exactly an argument for combatting it by aping this political organization.
“ That’s a political movement the political organization of the USA gave birth to.”
Well, correlation is not causation, and I don’t really see wokeism as anything especially American or a consequence of anything in their structure of government or bill of rights. They tend to have more extremes there than in many other places. I’m not sure why they seem to have wokeism there so badly. Maybe a follow on from the legacy of slavery and racism then anti-racism, a victim culture developed/was encouraged/exploited. A big topic I think. But as I said, the opposition there is more robust – by comparison we’re just rolling over here. I’d still rather live in the USA than anywhere else except England, though these days that’s not saying much.
Regarding US allies, I would rather be an ally of the US than China, though that’s not saying much either.
But not because of the constitution.
In Chile they are sufficiently poor, they are more prone to properly question and think about these things before spending money. It seems we in the UK won’t have to worry about woke politics for much longer either.
And of course, when you write “poor” you’re probably referring to so-called “public finances” being poor, in other words, the government is not effective at the taxing the people. I would hazard a guess that regular Chileans are better than many in “The West” at preserving their wealth and keeping “their government’s” hands off it, and as such, there is much more of a culture of being sceptical about governments, and they are more practised at making better financial decisions (and decisions in general) for themselves.
Measures of a country’s wealth are an essentially arbitrary thing, because they will never properly take individual wealth into account; individuals are not citizens of a country by any natural mechanism.
And “poor” countries will have less well-developed mechanisms to measure it anyway. And the measures come from governments.
As Oscar Wilde said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Do my layperson’s ramblings make sense?
It got firmly rejected, but do not presume they won’t keep voting on some proposals till this woke bilge is passed.
To be honest, there did seem to be some bits that might have been good for indigenous people who get a pretty raw deal in South America. The trouble is that the young new Prez wanted to appeal to everyone and I suspect there is a large contingent of highly conservative voters in Chile who still have pictures of Generalissimo Pinochet on their dining room walls and couldn’t stand this sort of lefty posturing. Still, they’ll work on a new draft and try and ram it home in another year.
They serve great ice creams in Santiago – I managed to drop mine three steps out of the ice cream parlour because it was such an enormous serving, a mini-Andes Mountain Range of ice cream.
The Chileans need to prepare to vote again so that next time they can return the correct result.
This is a new sort of democratic process where you keep hitting the round peg repeatedly until finally it assumes a squarish shape and slots into the square hole. There…done. Democracy in action.
That’s it exactly.
The tyranny of Pridehttps://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/04/the-tyranny-of-pride/It’s time for a fightback against rainbow authoritarianism.
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62% reject poverty and discrimination, shock horror!
(I wonder if the UK will be recognised as a “plurinational” state, with the rights of the indigenous populations to their land and resources recognised?).
I don’t think it will be too long before the Albanian brothers claim, via some convoluted, Orwellian and historical chicanery their indigenous rights to these islands.
Thank goodness there is at least one country with its head screwed on right.
Let me guess …. 36 yr old President Boric, who himself cannot possibly be very experienced at that age, is a WEF Young Leader?
I’m not sure that he is…I did a search, several searches, and couldn’t find a connection. Still he’s young enough to be invited in…