- “Nigel Farage accuses West of provoking Russia into war with Ukraine” – Nigel Farage has provoked fury by suggesting the West was partly to blame for Russia invading Ukraine, reports the Mail.
- “The Tories are morally bankrupt” – The Conservatives look like a dodgy tenant who, when he knows he’s being evicted, takes the lightbulbs and toilet seat with him, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “This betting scandal has exposed the rotten heart of our political class” – For the foreseeable future, the Conservatives will be synonymous with corruption and venality, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Ignore the centrist gloom. To win, the Conservatives must offer a Right-wing path to renewal” – No party has a divine right to exist if it can’t offer policy propositions that are distinct from others’ and respond to the wishes of a voting coalition that can win an election, writes David Frost in Conservative Home.
- “Labour manifesto raises ‘red flag’ free speech concerns: FSU” – According to the Free Speech Union, there are numerous “red flags” in Labour’s manifesto, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Labour has dismissed women like me. I’ll struggle to vote for it” – In the Times, J.K. Rowling says she’s far from convinced that Keir Starmer has changed his spots when it comes to defending women’s rights.
- “Keir Starmer’s moral vacuum” – Labour’s ethical limits remain unclear, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “The Downing St. Deprivation Index” – What does it say about a country and its leaders when political leaders must brag of their childhood deprivation? wonders Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The BBC has given up any pretence of impartiality” – The BBC continues to employ staff who have shown support for October 7th. This needs to stop, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “All eyes should be on Al Jazeera for being founded, funded – and directed – by terrorists” – There were a lot of good reasons for the Israelis to stop Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, writes Douglas Murray in the NY Post.
- “Lockdown showed the horrors of what a Labour Government will be like in practice” – None of the major parties have said what they’d do in the event of anotehr pandemic, says Sarah Ingham in Conservative Home. Do we really trust Labour not to lock us all in our homes again?
- “String of Reform candidates said Britain’s Covid response was ‘like the Holocaust’” – A string of Reform candidates likened Britain to Nazi Germany during the pandemic, reveals the Mail.
- “Has the pandemic made us sicker?” – The pandemic had a profound impact on health ecosystems globally – but its legacy goes beyond a possible immunity debt, write Maeve Cullinan and Sarah Newey in the Telegraph.
- “Scientific American’s Laura Helmuth continues campaign to embarrass and humiliate herself” – Like many science writers, Laura Helmuth at Scientific American can’t see beyond her own bigotries and personal politics, says Paul D. Thacker on the DisInformation Chronicle Substack.
- “Birth rates in rich countries halve to hit record low” – A new study shows that birth rates in the world’s rich economies have more than halved since 1960 to hit a record low, according to the FT.
- “Nobody is confronting the great Remainer lie about Brexit” – It’s now eight years since the referendum and Leave backers aren’t doing enough to counter pro-EU propaganda, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “A revolution in workers’ rights will hurt the worst-off” – Labour’s plans to increase the living Wage plans would see many, perhaps all, teenage jobs disappear, says Len Shackleton in CapX.
- “The tyrannical tendency” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan examines the preconditions for the extinction of freedom.
- “The French Left is sharpening the guillotine” – France, once again, is set to become an unpredictable, business-averse place, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
- “‘Is this a joke?’ Polish PM given democracy prize despite crackdowns” – Donald Tusk’s receipt of the Chatham House Prize for “restoring democracy” has sparked widespread derision, according to Thomas O’Reilly in the European Conservative.
- “The climate scaremongers – this turbulent professor” – Any area of research remotely connected to climate change is likely to be showered with grant funding, while other areas are starved of cash, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
- “BBC Sport head criticised for trans article pledges to ‘leave views at door’” – The new Head of BBC Sport has pledged to leave his personal views “at the door” after writing an article in which he seemed to compare women concerned about trans athletes to racists, reports the Mail.
- “Brontë sisters included in LGBT events because of their androgynous pen names” – The Bronte sisters have been included in LGBT Pride events because they wrote under androgynous pen names, says the Telegraph.
- “Death by red tape” – “Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of woke universities trying to shut down heretical speakers, writes Rhianwen Daniel in the Critic.
- “Taboo by Eric Kaufmann review – how woke conquered the world” – In the Times, Kathleen Stock reviews ‘cancelled’ academic Eric Kaufmann’s new book explaining the roots of wokeness.
- “Rob Winnett scraps move to Washington Post after staff revolt” – A Telegraph journalist who was hired to edit the Washington Post has decided not to take the job after a staff backlash, according to the Times.
- “‘We should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm’” – Katherine Birbalsingh argues against the idea of the West paying reparations for slavery, pointing out that while slavery existed everywhere, only Western civilisation came to see it as morally wrong.
While slavery was common to all civilizations, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it: Western Civilization
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) June 21, 2024
“Rather than be ashamed as Westerners, we should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm.”https://t.co/oF8TuKntPD pic.twitter.com/0g14u3yzZ5
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-recommends-pre-flight-testing-passengers-china-wastewater-testing-airports-2023-01-04/
…and on another note if anyone has booked a holiday to Thailand, it is resurrecting the vax pass.
Happy holidays…
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2476069/proof-of-covid-jabs-for-all-visitors-revived
A very good new 45min documentary, The New Constitution, which consolidates much of Sasha Latypova and Katherine Watt’s research, translating it into plain English so that it’s easier to grasp, of how the US laws have gradually been changed over the years. This has been integral for the criminal elite’s plans and, amongst other things, the film explains how the US government is now totally impotent as the secretary of the HHS has full authority, therefore if he declares a ‘public health crisis’ they have no power to stop it. These new pseudo-laws now mean that the criminals can act with impunity as they have full protection. It’s a bit depressing actually as it means, if this is correct, DeSantis is destined to get nowhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9cmYNRgXXg&ab_channel=BookofOurs
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/05/irelands-dangerous-experiment-in-self-id/
When I looked at this article it seems to me that there is a failure to differentiate between sex and gender. I feel the two terms should be clearly defined and seen as very different and not inter-related, changing your gender should not be seen as changing your sex.
I Work in nature conservation and observing nature you can see that sex, breeding and reproduction are one of the top priorities and indeed springtime is approaching when nature bursts into a frenzy of reproduction and babies to ensure the continuation of the species.
To my mind your sex relates to how you fit into breeding and reproduction and can never be changed. Your gender relates to the style, appearance and mannerisms you present to the world. Previously the two have been closely linked but they are very different and in the light of current social concerns need to be seen as such. And so I have 2 questions;
1, Is there a word in the English language to describe an adult human being with a womb, ovaries and mammary glands, who is capable of conceiving, bearing and suckling a child?
2 Is there a word in the English language to describe an adult human being who has testes and is capable of providing sperm to facilitate the fertilisation of a human egg and the creation of a new human life?
It is no coincidence that activists have obfuscated (or flatly denied) the difference between biology and a lifestyle choice. The deliberate confusion is the key to understanding the whole issue (and it was just beginning when I studied social psychology in 1972-3).
I would imagine that Keir Starmer and his motley crew would have great difficulty in providing a truthful answer.
Is the answer to 1 not “female adult” and to 2 “male adult”?
It might have been in the past but now that it seems possible and to some extent and in some places legal to change your declared sex this no longer seems to be the case. Consequently we now have some adult human beings with testes and the ability to produce sperm declared and accepted as female. Consequently I no longer know what term to use when referring to people by virtue of their binary and unchangeable biological reproductive potential?
Oh, I hadn’t realised that. I thought it was just the terms “woman” and “man” that had been changed to include the trans version of each. But what you are saying is that the terms “male” and “female” have also been similarly broadened.
“Wikipedia”
Character assassination and de-credentialling on Wikipedia has been going on for years. For example, challengers of orthodox Neodarwinism, whether Intelligent Design proponents or secular critics like James Shapiro tend to find their PhDs and awards disappearing and “pseudoscience” labels being attached to them. The same is true of those questioning materialist science in other ways, like Rupert Sheldrake. It’s not a question of critical analysis of their views, but of poisoning the well against examining them dispassionately at all.
Those cases seem to have been orchestrated by cabals of anonymous “pro” editors broadly following the old New Atheist ideology, working full time so that if you corrected your biography in the morning, it would be doctored again by midday.
Well, now the Twitter files confirm that deep state operators have been at exactly the same game – at taxpayers’ expense – making Wikipedia, on issues where there is controversy, just another branch of state propaganda. Think about that not only when you look up Malone or Heneghan, but also when you’re after a quick biography of Vladimir Putin or an overview of the performance of wind turbines.
The political left seem to have more energy and spare time than the right. They are all over Wikipedia – it’s pretty much a lost cause as far as political bias goes.
I didn’t know anyone still used Wikipedia much, certainly not as a trusted source. Like you, I noted the defamations/character assassinations etc years ago which ramped up immediately the plandemic hit. The quickest defame I spotted was Dr Peter McCullough, practically within hours of his first address to Senate!
Yes, I remember reading the piece on Richard Littlejohn about 15 years ago, because I wanted to check on something related to his latest book. The Wikipedia article bordered on being defamation. On the editor comments, someone pointed this out. In essence, the reply was that Littlejohn was such a scumbag that he deserved it and could cope with it. I never used Wikipedia ‘seriously’ again.
It’s very useful to check on where I am on my seven-season US Mission: Impossible TV series Blu-ray set, to make sure I get to the right episode quickly after a couple of weeks’ break. Even then, the information and write-ups for movies and TV shopw are often stolen from fan sites.
Wikipedia is useful to find episode synopses and transmission orders of old TV episodes. For anything important, it’s a load of extremist-manipulated tosh.
More useful background from JC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26zP0YhEdmg Great Western Hosp records over the last few years on heart problems.
The church of England has become a farce religion that doesn’t even believe in its own beliefs! Simple,Christians, just stop going until they learn to believe again. Preaching to an empty church is the future their looking at!
Sorry to repeat this but I’ve only just read the story of the Finla Coffee shop this morning and was moved by their stand. They’ve lost the business but still have fines to pay. Fines! The response to their crowdfunder has been fantastic though and a true reflection of real community in action. So far, they’ve managed to get over £11,000 towards their £17,000 goal. If anyone missed it and is moved to donate, please visit the story above where the link to the crowdfunder is.
It’s well worth a repeat.
https://donorbox.org/supportfinlacoffee
Well done tof.
Great news. I’ve just checked the crowdfunder website and they’ve surpassed their target. It currently stands at nearly £20,000 and rising. Many thanks to Toby for highlighting this family’s desperate plight.
This Jeff the Fact Checker story doesn’t surprise me. Anyone who rally knows their facts would probably not deign to lower themselves into the gutter for such verbal prostitution. It’s this mentality of sitting at desks and playing god that gets me. Less successful ‘journalists’ with zero scientific or medical qualifications with a brief to edit out anything that goes against the scriptures. Well done to Texas Lindsay for her Twitter thread in highlighting this.
As I posted a few days ago, anybody who admits to referring to ‘fact checkers’ is really saying – “I’m fik.”
A more blatant way of exposing one’s stupidity would be difficult to find.
Morning all…I’ve been busy this week and haven’t been able to follow everything….so apologies if this has already been posted…
An interesting article from John Dees Almanac, looking at the appearance and disappearance of flu over the centuries….and how it spreads regardless of distance….and how this is not a new phenomena……this is part 1….
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https://jdee.substack.com/p/flip-flop-flu-part-1?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
https://expose-news.com/2023/01/05/pfizergate-disaster-excess-deaths-mortality-rates/
Imagine if a vaccine was administered to a large number of people in every age group. Then just a few months later there were millions of excess deaths.
Whilst at the same time, official figures showed mortality rates per 100,000 population were significantly lower among the unvaccinated in every single group than they were in the vaccinated.
This would be a significant cause for concern. Because this scenario would suggest that the vaccine was causing harm to those who received it, rather than protecting them from illness or death.
It would in fact be a catastrophic event that would require a thorough investigation and response.
An excellent ‘roundup’ article of where we are…
Perhaps consider sending this to Prof Heneghen.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/05/we-lost-our-cafe-and-got-fined-42000-because-we-refused-to-comply-with-covid-restrictions-can-you-help/
Another bump for this article. They deserve our support. I can’t imagine what they have and are still going through.
Brave, decent people.
https://expose-news.com/2023/01/04/bill-gates-gives-ukaid-tens-of-millions/
Very interesting but deeply alarming. Billy is developing the:
International Barcode of Life (IBOL)
To complete this project he will genetically modify every plant and animal on the planet and once that is achieved he OWNS every plant and animal on the planet.
Is their an element of genetic modification in some of the clot shots?
I believe the shots have not yet been fully identified. Maybe the shots are a mixture of “varieties.” Some are maim and kill and others will have behavioural implications not yet manifested.
We really have not yet fully grasped the cess pit that is the mind of Lord Bill of the Gates of Hell.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-05-food-company-france-reduces-production-80-percent.html
More worrying developments on the food front and the culprit is the cost of energy.
As predicted a manufactured food crisis.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-05-wef-eliminate-care-ownership-walk-share-happy.html
This explains how car ownership is to be reduced and ultimately eliminated.
Those lovely people at the WEF.
Another definition of “Safety”? https://www.gbnews.uk/news/police-chief-claims-london-is-fantastically-safe-despite-885-murders-in-last-seven-years/419060 Perhaps Rowley is in the same club as those that claim C-19 jabs to be safe. You can do the sums, but if a murder rate of about 0,01% is tolerable, it looks like being in the same range!
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/05/how-global-strikes-play-right-into-the-great-resets-hands/
Kit Knightly at Off-G warning as I have been doing repeatedly that striking unions are a threat to us all and not for the usual reasons.
Reset?
“You’ll have nothing and be happy
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Cluse Adolf hitler swchwb will be the first to give up ALL his worldly goods to prove his total belief in his own statement?