Denis Healey famously likened being taken to task by his Tory opposite number Geoffrey Howe to being “savaged by a dead sheep”. The same could be said about David Clews, co-founder and lead correspondent of Unity News Network (UNN) who, this weekend, has managed to unite the Left-wing and Right-wing legacy media in condemnation of him.
The Left, represented by Scotland’s Daily Record and the Right represented by the Sunday Times, have both published articles about Clews referring to him as being a “far-Right” influencer.
UNN, an online newspaper and alternative news channel co-founded in 2018 by Clews and former UKIP member Carl Pearson, has long featured Clews as an anchorman on its nightly shows. The shows offer Clews’s unique take on world events and feature a cast of interviewees on all manner of subjects. UNN, along with the Daily Sceptic, was quick off the blocks in 2020 with a critical perspective on COVID-19, lockdowns, face masks and Covid vaccines.
Clews’s unique take on the news is always entertaining and his joining of disparate dots to form conclusions has, of course, led to him being called a “conspiracy theorist”, something he denies. However, he does give airtime to some cringeworthy characters such as the arch conspiracy theorist David Ike and the prominent anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield. Clews is a free speech absolutist and, in giving a platform to some people who are considered beyond the pale, he is careful to tell his viewers that
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Just out of interest,and as an aside does anyone know if ‘Prominent Antivaxxer’ Andrew Wakefield has an opinion on the covid jabs and if so what it is?
https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/the-riots-in-great-britain-a-dream?r=ylgqf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I really liked Mattias Desmet’s article, highlighting the role government is playing in creating division.
“...give(s) airtime to some cringeworthy characters such as the arch conspiracy theorist David Ike and the prominent anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield.”
A staggering assertion by a clearly ill informed Roger Watson. The jury might be out on David Icke – he hasn’t even spelt his name correctly – although on the globalists One World Government issue he is correct but since when did “prominent anti-vaxxer” Andrew Wakefield equal “cringeworthy?”
Unbelievable.
Yes he has let himself down there and anyway they may be cringeworthy to Dr Watson but that’s just his opinion – if nobody publishes what these people say, how can we assess what we think?
If he’s a free speech absolutist, then I already like him.
Government Policy on issues of concern.
All I can saw is the only people to have died in all of this are the 3 murdered girls. They are now just a footnote in history as far as the media and politicians are concerned.
Bonfire of Teenagers by Morrisey
And the silly people sing: “Don’t Look Back in Anger”
And the morons sing and sway: “Don’t Look Back in Anger”
I can assure you I will look back in anger ’till the day I die:
Contrast the verbal litter of this broadcasting outfit with the state’s blasphemous use of the funeral of a murdered child to make a public service announcement by a uniformed person.
Whether this person was invited or invited themselves, their presence starkly illustrates the fact that the Service they represent only arrives after someone has been injured or killed as a result of violent crime.
The uniformed person making the address at the funeral expressed sorrow at the fact that the grieving family had to suffer the affront of the looting and arson that followed the murder of their child. As a visible representative of the state, this person made no apology for the fact that the institutions of the state have been long absent from effectively dealing with and, indeed, uninterested in, the everyday crime the ‘communities’ must endure.
Like the Roman Empire which had no police force but only a Praetorian Guard, Britain’s police service is deployed to shore up the authority of the state when it is insolently challenged by the tattooed barbarians.
I suppose he might have done but, I guarantee, based on my own quick survey of 30, if you asked 1000 people in the street you’re unlikely to find anyone who even knows who he is…
Its the first time I’d heard of UNN tbh…..
Dr. Watson is right: David Clews did not “fan the flames” of the riots. Here is one fact that came to light in the DM public comments:
“Did he also say that immigrants were exposing themselves in the hotel windows, which is what started the rioters throwing things at the hotel? The real story has not been told.”
The Sunday Times was in full regime message mode yesterday, complete with “10 Years in Prison – if we see you on the street trying to make us listen (you dumb, inarticulate pleb)” headline.
It has become an ethical priority for the progressives to lie factually about what their opponents have done or said in order to do them harm. That does not appear to count as misinformation requiring to be scoured by the team of police officers seconded from investigating actual crimes.
As regards the riots, though, has anyone arrested the Hope not Hate guy who spread the malicious rumour that a Muslim woman had been attacked with acid, thus sparking Muslim violence? I thought not.
It is very frustrating that those including Starmer who liberally spice their speech with ‘Far Right’ are not called out and held to account.
We are witnessing the usual Left and Far Left fake news misinformation and propaganda.
Specifically, what is the evidence they rely on?
Whom specifically do they identify as ‘Far Right’?
Whom specifically do they allege were the organisers of the fake 100 ‘Far Right’ demonstrations which never happened – because of course if there is anyone who is ‘Far Right’ there are so few it might be difficult for them to be in 100 different places at the same time either at all or in any numbers.
What are the names of the ‘Far Right’ groups they allege were involved – only the EDL has been named and that ceased to exist a decade ago.
What is their evidence for defaming 4 million Reform voters as ‘Far Right’?
Starmer is going to have to tread carefully on revising the Online Safety Act because unless he exempts government from its provisions he personally might find himself the subject of legal proceedings for spreading fake news and disinformation along with a lot of other politicians and government departments.
Robinson, Musk, Douglas Murray…they’re targeting more and more outspoken people and they’re going to keep going. They’re comical in their desperation. It’s also interesting to see how Americans perceive what’s happening in the UK. Mainly condemning the government, Leftards and thanking God for their guns, pitying the British for not having the same rights as them, criticizing those who let it get to this point, but I’ve seen support from other countries, people out with their pro-England banners. The UK has gone viral, basically, and the world is watching;
”Holy moly, what has happened to the home of the Magna Carta? Did MI5 rip that document to smithereens? Years ago, the wayward nitwit Prince Harry got into some hot water by dressing up as a Nazi for a costume ball. The public was aghast that a member of the Royal Family could be so daft as to minimize the atrocities of the fascist thugs who nearly conquered Europe. Little did they know that Harebrained Harry was way ahead of the game. The threat of fascism isn’t buried in Britain’s past; it’s choking Britain’s future. Maybe Meghan Markle’s leashed poodle should find his old German uniform now that Keir Starmer’s stormtroopers have taken Westminster.
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Yet the international condemnation will make no more impression on our captured institutions than the astonishment at Trudeau’s overreach in Canada, over the truckers, did.
Does the author know something I don’t. I’m aware the animal that slaughtered three girls was a child of Rwandan parents who were supposedly Christian, but that doesn’t necessarily make the animal a Christian. I’ve been waiting for the inevitable ‘fact’ that the animal was actually a Christian member of the EDL (or something as ludicrous). Have I missed anything?