- “Labour councillor who called for far-Right rioters’ throats to be cut is arrested” – A Labour councillor who was filmed saying far-Right rioters are “disgusting” and should have their throats cut has been arrested, reports Poitico.
- “Woman who shared false information on Southport attack is ‘mortified’” – A British businesswoman, accused of being the first to falsely claim that the Southport stabbings suspect was an asylum seeker, says she is ‘mortified’ by the incident, according to the Mail.
- “Starmer’s prison overcrowding plan could mean some rioters will be released early” – Far-Right rioters jailed over recent disorder could be released from prison early under the Government’s scheme to tackle overcrowding, reveals the Telegraph.
- “I’m not safe as a Muslim politician, says Sadiq Khan” – Sadiq Khan says he is not safe as an openly Muslim politician in the wake of the riots, according to the Telegraph.
- “Two-Tier Keir showed his true colours years ago. We should have seen the warning signs” – Far-Right rioters are worthy of condemnation, but accusations of two-tier policing are becoming harder to deny, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Why Britain riots” – Starmer has played into the hands of those who claim the white working classes are discriminated against, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The British migrant dream is thriving. It’s poor white boys who are in trouble” – If Starmer wants to pick an agenda from the wreckage of the last few days, he needs look no further then the problem of left-behind whites, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Britain set for ‘sustained inter-ethnic conflict’ as David Starkey wades in on chaos” – Dr. David Starkey warns that Britain’s current unrest signals the onset of “sustained inter-ethnic conflict”, reports GB News.
- “The riots and the social media blame game” – Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings, writes Fred Skulthorp in the Critic.
- “Blaming Andrew Tate for a rise in violence against women is a cop-out” – Police chiefs are scapegoating online influencers for their own failure to tackle misogynistic crimes, says Paul Chapel in Spiked.
- “In defence of Elon Musk” – Without Elon Musk, we would likely have seen only one side of the violence of this past week, writes James Price in the Critic.
- “Tommy Robinson is copying the progressive playbook” – The Right has minimised the rioters’ agency, says Simon Cottee in UnHerd.
- “Labour warned over attempt to define Islamophobia” – Labour is considering enforcing a controversial definition of Islamophobia – despite warnings it could harm free speech, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Poked by the bear” – If the Russians are throwing a few lighted matches in our direction, then we probably ought first to establish why it is that our societies are full of such dry kindling, says Dr. David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “Taylor Swift terror suspect plotted to drive into crowd and launch machete attack” – The suspect arrested for plotting a terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna has confessed to planning to drive a car into a crowd of fans outside the arena and attack them with machetes, reports the Mail.
- “Noah Lyles tested positive for Covid but kept it secret from his 200m rivals” – Noah Lyles revealed that he tested positive for Covid but kept it secret from his competitors following his failed attempt to emulate Usain Bolt’s 100m-200m Olympic sprint double, says USA Today.
- “Multiple counties in blue state recommend N-95 masks for Covid” – Multiple counties in California have started recommending masks indoors, amid a four-fold Covid spike in some areas, reports the Mail.
- “Emails show Zeynep Tufekci is a master at flimflam” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker uncovers how social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci’s mask crusade had Cochrane flip-flopping on its own review.
- “Give couples £5k tax break to have more children, says think tank” – A report by Onward suggests that parents should be given a £5,000 tax break to encourage them to have more children, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour donor bags plum U.K. Treasury job” – A banker who donated over £20,000 to prominent Labour figures and worked for the party in the months leading up to the election has been given a top civil service job in Britain’s finance ministry, says Politico.
- “Cambridge doubles down on freedom of speech rules” – Cambridge University has implemented its new freedom of speech code, in spite of the legislation it was based on being suspended by the new Labour Government, according to Varsity.
- “Lord Saatchi’s bid for Telegraph is rejected” – Advertising tycoon Lord Saatchi’s bid for the Telegraph has been rejected after the Abu Dhabi fund selling the newspaper said it was not a serious offer, reports Sky News.
- “Mining giant abandons plan to ditch coal as boss admits ‘cash is king’” – Glencore will keep its coal operations after investors reversed their decision to ditch coal, says Axios.
- “Why driving an electric car isn’t green at all” – It takes seven years for an electric car to hit net zero CO2. With batteries lasting only 10 years, you only see a carbon reduction for the final three – before losing all those gains when it’s time for a replacement, explains Mark Keenan in TCW.
- “Food is freedom” – Modern “sustainability” efforts risk imposing food scarcity and limiting individual liberty, warns Thomas Buckley on his Point Substack.
- “NHS to launch first service for trans patients wanting to return to birth gender” – The NHS is to launch its first ever service for transgender patients wanting to return to the gender of their birth, reports the Mail.
- “Should the NHS really be spending money on child gender clinics?” – The correct number of NHS paediatric gender clinics is not one, nor two and certainly not eight; it is zero, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Olympic meddling” – The whole point of the Games is not to be inclusive, but exclusive, says Theodore Dalrymple in Taki’s Mag.
- “Together 3rd Anniversary Event – with Neil Oliver, Zuby, Allison Pearson, Baroness Claire Fox, Bev Turner, Dominic Frisby plus more” – Together’s 3rd Anniversary Event is set to attract around 2,000 people to London on Friday, 20th September, with speakers including Neil Oliver, podcaster Zuby, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, Baroness Claire Fox, broadcaster Bev Turner and more announced soon. Daily Sceptic readers can get £5 off early bird tickets for a limited time by using coupon code SCEPTIC at checkout.
- “Victory as GARM is dead!” – On X, Ben Shapiro celebrates the World Federation of Advertisers “discontinuing” the activities of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) following an antitrust lawsuit filed by Elon Musk.
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I’ve not posted for a while! Because I need a break! I’m sick of the powers that be!
Im done with f***ing Britain ! F*** Britain, its over! The rest of the west will follow!
This once proud western world is OVER!
https://youtu.be/w7zvjfrx4zI?si=jCs_2sNSEGdehesQ
Sorry Hux, but Elon Musk is the difference maker! There is no one else!
Hang in there Dinger, I love your posts.
Take a break. Something to restore your will to cope with the madness and believe in humanity. For me it’s a walk in the woods.
Great post , we all need a breather atm , hang in there
I have to do the same sometimes – definitely helps to keep sane. You’re right though, England is no more. It’s over. Done and dusted. It’s been deliberately smashed into pieces by far-left governments, far-left w*nkers that read the Guardian, and – and this bit does tickle me – the real enemy of the far-left who are a large radical Muslim contingent who want to stone to death rainbow-wearing far-left queers and dress far-left feminists as letter boxes… I suppose there’s still something to look forward to!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/08/uk-riots-far-right-violence-protest-latest-updates/
And no you Next Tuesday you should not ‘feel safe’ you grubby little caricature.
Cocky , Smug , supercilious, condescending, smarmy , race baiter in chief , in fact a perfect character for our version of what happened in Europe just one man’s lifetime ago , he represents along with Rowley , Cooper , Starmer , etc actual Tyranny against the UK !!!
I second that Freddy.
Thanks , he is such a horrible human that you could see him sanctioning execution’s if he could !
Thursday morning B3340 & A33 Basingstoke Rd, Riseley
Wokingham
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-police-arrest-labour-councillor-ricky-jones-alleged-protest-call-cut-throats-fascists/
Hmm, could he be – what was that term Angela Rayner used to describe the Tories? – ah yes. Scum. Dangerous scum. Dangerous, violence promoting scum. Dangerous, violence promoting Labour scum.
Quite a few people here yesterday posted that vaccine pushers should be hanged. I don’t think he should have been arrested.
Two people talked about hanging as an option after due process. You need to be a bit more careful with your language.
Two, quite a few, no material difference to my point. I agree regarding due process.
He’ll go far , he actually said what the freaks in charge probably all think !!
“A Labour councillor who was filmed saying far-Right rioters are “disgusting” and should have their throats cut has been arrested, reports Poitico.”
I’m not keen on people being arrested for things they say. This looks like cover to me – they are throwing him under the bus so they are not accused of being “two tier”.
Point of order, Chairman… he did not simply say their throats should be cut (by some avenging angel), but that “we” should cut their throats. “They ought to be flogged and hanged” carries a very different connotation from “We must flog them and hang them.”
That’s a fair point. I’m still unsure as to whether he should have been arrested for a vague threat. It’s so easy for speech to be restricted too much.
True – enough: understandably the problem now is equal treatment under the law, when a left-wing murder threat is equivalent to sharing a video of a riot.
In my view, it ought to be the people in the crowd who cheered his remark who should be arrested: speakers can be high on adrenaline, but listeners expressing agreement with their madness are more culpable, even if (as in this case) they appear to be members of Amnesty International.
Culpable of what? The challenge is to draft a law restricting speech that’s clear and hard to distort.
Incitement to Murder.
Normally I’d agree with you, I’m all for free speech but in the next breath he chants “Free Palestine”. I think it’s safe to say that some of the people who chant that and possibly support Hamas, would be quite willing to follow through with that. We’ve seen what they’re capable of with machete attacks and stabbings.
I agree with your earlier comment, he’s probably being thrown under the bus to try to ward off two tier accusations.
I’ll bet I won’t get arrested for calling for Putin’s throat to be slit, as some politicians have called for (perhaps with different words).
People don’t really understand free speech.
It’s not for speech you agree with, it’s for speech you DON’T agree with.
Indeed.
”Congress shall make NO law restricting the freedom of speech…”
Here’s what you can and can’t say under the First Amendment (freep.com)
What the First Amendment protects:
What the First Amendment does not protect:
Thanks. I think the crucial one is this:
“What the First Amendment does not protect:
I believe the landmark ruling is this one:
Brandenburg v. Ohio – Wikipedia
“The Court held that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action””
However you do it, it’s going to be open to interpretation and you’re in the hands of judges or maybe a jury who may be biased/captured. The above is a good test though I think. I don’t think what that loathsome bloke had to say meets this test, but that’s just my view. I guess you might call me paranoid about restrictions on speech being used to impose the state’s narrative, but I think I have reason to be.
But this is not America. This is Great Britain.
Well yes but I think the Americans got this one right and we could learn from them. Their thinking on the constitution was strongly motivated by limiting state power given their recent experiences.
So you wouldn’t mind if he incited a mob to attack your house and family in a similar manner of throat-slitting, because of your extreme free speech beliefs?
Or would you prefer that he be arrested, and anyone in the mob who cheered him on and was ready to follow his advice to attack your house and family?
I’m not aware he incited murder of someone specific.
I’m not sure how a court could decide if someone was “ready to follow his advice”.
Completely agree, my point is though you calling for Putin’s throat to be slit won’t make any difference in the grand scheme of things but in the tinder box of today, those that have the imperative to uphold their beliefs are unhinged enough to follow through.
I’ve previously supported the right to freedom of speech of Corbyn on occasions, someone I most certainly don’t agree with!
“Possibly”. I don’t think that’s nearly sufficient.
No probably not but as there are ‘Gays for Palestine’ there are a large number of turkeys voting for Christmas among them.
It was incitement to violence and immediately followed by demands to free Palestine.
What has Palestine got to do with it?
That’s kind of the question, at a supposedly anti-racist riot.
I’m not sure it’s relevant to the point I am making, which is that I think speech should generally not lead to arrest. I very much want to know what people really think, and I want others to know too.
You quoted United States law. This is Great Britain.
Well I wish we had that law. I don’t know what the law is here exactly, but from what I have seen, it criminalizes too much – including lots of people on “our” side.
Well go over there across the Pond and incite a mob to murder a group of their rivals, for example, and see how that works out for your freedom of speech.
Quite
Maybe if the playing field was level but it’s actually as far off kilter as it’s possible to be ! Someone just got 3 years I’m told for shouting Front doors are being cut down & kicked in for the odd tweet Comrades don’t like !
Two wrongs don’t make a right
I understand that threats of physical violence, as well as actual attacks, qualify as assault under the law.
Probably, though I would think the threats would need to be towards a specific person or persons, which I don’t think this was
Incitement to Murder.
Yes, it’s Incitement to Murder, previously the Common Law offence of Incitement, now changed to
“Encouraging and assisting an offence” in the Serious Crime Act 2007.
Called an “Inchoate” offence.
I was going to post something similar.
Speech is not a crime. Or it shouldn’t be.
In the absence of direct specific evidence that those words led to someone being killed, there is no crime, in my books.
To arrest someone for this is the thin end of a terrifying wedge.
We will live.to regret this moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-1P2YHvLBg How will the MET Police Deal with This? (sic) by BlackBeltBarrister.
Well if this woman has been arrested for something so trivial ( the articles I’ve looked at don’t share precisely what she shared ) then this psycho ( especially given he’s a Labour councillor ) should definitely have been arrested for what he said. Tommy Robinson’s been arrested for way less. Just being Tommy Robinson, in fact. They’re coming for people up and down the country just for silly, inconsequential posts they’ve made online;
”A woman has been arrested in relation to a social media post containing ‘inaccurate information about the identity of the attacker’ in the Southport stabbings.
The 55-year-old woman from near Chester, was arrested on Thursday (August 8). She was taken into custody on suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred and false communications.
She is in police custody where she is assisting with enquiries, Cheshire Constabulary said.”
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-arrested-sharing-inaccurate-information-29704663
I don’t think any of them should have been arrested
Yes – the crime there was believing information that turned out to be false and led to wrongdoing. Kind of like believing Starmer that a Far Right fifth column is responsible for the protests and repeating it at a counter-protest.
Poked by the bear
What’s really going on?
The bear has been poked back
Don’t panic!…….Panic!
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1821650609055182918?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
The Kremlin assesses that significant Ukrainian territorial gains in Russia would pose a threat to the Kremlin’s efforts to frame itself as a stable regime in control of the internal security situation within Russia and an effective manager of the war in Ukraine.
The majority of Russian reporting indicates that most Russian forces operating in Kursk Oblast are elements of less combat effective units.
The Northern Grouping of Forces likely launched the offensive operation into northern Kharkiv Oblast before it reached its reported planned end strength and has since suffered heavy casualties that have likely constrained Russian efforts to build out the grouping.
The redeployment of significant elements of the Northern Grouping of Forces to focus on pushing back Ukrainian forces in Kursk Oblast would likely further stretch these elements and create vulnerabilities in Russian defenses elsewhere along the border.
One Russian milblogger criticized the Russian military command for failing to observe and react to Ukrainian forces allegedly massing on the border near Kursk Oblast.
Russian forces have failed to internalize lessons learned about the difficulties of mechanized manoeuvre on an assumed transparent battlefield in Ukraine. Ukraine, however, appears to be learning and adapting to this aspect of the battlefield, given its ability to achieve apparent operational surprise in this instance.
Russian milbloggers claimed that small Ukrainian armoured groups are advancing further into the Russian rear and bypassing Russian fortifications before engaging Russian forces and then withdrawing from the engagements without attempting to consolidate control over their furthest advances.
Russian milbloggers noted that the prevalence of these armoured groups is leading to conflicting reporting because Ukrainian forces are able to quickly engage Russian forces near a settlement and then withdraw from the area.
Ukrainian forces appear to be able to use these small armoured groups to conduct assaults past the engagement line due to the low density of Russian personnel in the border areas of Kursk Oblast.
Larger Ukrainian units are reportedly operating in areas of Kursk Oblast closer to the international border and are reportedly consolidating and fortifying some positions.
Constituent parts of ‘The Bear’ are, understandably, not very happy:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1821597721582551209?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
So it is an irritant and not a serious threat. It has resulted in losses of a high percentage of elite Ukrainian troops and disproportionate amounts of equipment for a few days of PR opportunities.
Russian Emergency Service:
“The situation in the Kursk region is now classified as a federal emergency
The region has a federal level of response.
This decision was made by the Government Commission for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations and Ensuring Fire Safety at an extraordinary meeting”.
It is currently only a threat to the civilians living there who are being deliberately shot at as they drive civilian vehicles and those who have not yet been evacuated.
It will not be too good for the health of the Ukrainians either although some have refused to take part, resulting in the replacement of at least one commanding officer
A large fire is occurring in Rylsk
Reportedly, a Russian column was destroyed at night
Rylsk would be a key target for Ukraine to cut off most Russian logistics going to the border with Ukraine’s Sumy region.
It’s within HIMARS range.
Don’t panic!
Powerful explosions and air defence activity reported over Kurchatov in the Kursk Operation Zone, the town where the Kursk nuclear power plant is located.
The next target for Ukrainian forces might be the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. The plant, which supplies energy to 19 regions of the Central Federal District, is about 30 km away. Currently, the plant is guarded only by women, according to the Vazhnyye Istorii Telegram channel, citing a plant worker. According to him, the plant’s management has no plan in case of an attack, and employees have not been instructed on what to do next.
So what is your prediction for the outcome of this attack on Russian territory?
Neil Oliver and Ivor Cummins interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx5j_lVOG30
The closure of GARM does not seem to me the end of the matter. It was transparently the creature of its creators to whom litigation might be expected to “cut through” so the owners, financiers and motivators of GARM might be held liable for its actions.
Courts in the US and in the UK have long been prepared to allow such claims.
I look forward to similar litigation in the UK. Our market abuse legislation should be amended to facilitate private litigation, damages and injunctions. The state appears to be on the side of monopolies and oligopolies as so often happens in authoritarian leftist regimes which used to be simply described as fascist.
https://unherd.com/2024/08/tommy-robinson-is-copying-the-progressive-playbook/
I’m glad I’m not one of Simon Cottee’s students.
This is worth reading, especially the part that starts
“In the fall of 2020, I was teaching a group of 2nd and 3rd graders”
The Virus Telenovella – Teaching the Plandemic – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)
Brilliant read, thanks
Glad someone saw it – I found that part quite uplifting.
His elephant story was inspired, would work for some adults I know
. Would have helped some fight the ‘nudging’ that was incessant during Rona times.
Yup though adults are better at doublethink