- “Sutton man, 61, who chanted ‘Who the f*** is Allah’ is jailed for 18 months” – A 61 year-old man who made threatening gestures at police and chanted “Who the f*** is Allah” during disorder in Whitehall has been jailed for 18 months, according to Your Local Guardian.
- “Man described by judge as the ‘least involved’ in riot jailed for a year” – A former soldier described by a judge as the “least involved” person he had dealt with over the riots has been jailed for 12 months, reports the Telegraph.
- “13 year-old becomes youngest girl to be convicted over riots” – A 13 year-old girl has pleaded guilty to violent disorder following a protest at a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot, says the BBC.
- “Jailed for a Facebook post” – Isn’t it about time we had a sensible discussion about incitement to violence? asks Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Keir Starmer is going on a terrifying crusade against free speech” – 55 year-old Cheshire woman is the victim of a witch hunt – and it’s all because the Prime Minister is desperate to shut down uncomfortable debate, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Is justice turning into vengeance against some of the rioters?” – “Am I getting soft in my middle age, or are some of the sentences being handed down to the rioters a tad stiff?” asks Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Labour responds to riots by going after free speech” – More evidence has emerged that the recent rioting across Britain is being used as a pretext for further limiting freedom of speech, writes Michael Curzon in the European Conservative.
- “Free speech in Britain: readying the ratchet (again)” – Whatever else is happening, another front in the fight over online content has clearly now opened up, says Andrew Stuttaford in National Review.
- “Yvette Cooper has just confirmed that two tier policing is here to stay” – People don’t want officers chatting to ‘community leaders’. They want bobbies on the beat keeping our streets safe, writes Rory Geoghegan in the Telegraph.
- “A commonwealth of communities” – ‘Two-tier’ societies are inevitable, says Ed West on his Substack.
- “Keir Starmer should not dismiss riots as ‘far-Right thuggery’” – By wanting to be seen as adopting a ruthless law-and-order approach to the disorder, Starmer runs the risk of trivialising the summer riots, writes Rakib Ehsan in UnHerd.
- “Don’t blame football for the riots” – Hooligans didn’t cause Britain’s summer of violence, says Jonathan Wilson in UnHerd.
- “The tyranny of twee” – Ghastly Kumbaya-ism infests our times, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “A very British revolution” – For the first time in its history, Britain is in grip of state terror, says Pimlico Journal on Substack.
- “This sceptred isle” – On his Armas Substack, Joshua Treviño reflects on the riots in England and puts them into the context of a progressive regime that appears to have the history, heritage and native people of Britain.
- “Britain’s leaders have blinded themselves to the growing Islamist threat” – MPs are right to condemn the far-Right. They need to find a similar clarity of approach to other threats, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph, like Islamism.
- “Romanian migrant who falsely claimed he was chased in riots is jailed” – A migrant who broadcast a TikTok video falsely claiming he was being chased during the riots has been jailed for three months, reports the Mail.
- “White police officers lost out on job after order to pick Asian candidate” – Three white police officers have won a discrimination case after an employment judge ruled that they were passed over for promotion because of their race, says the Telegraph.
- “Meet Britain’s asylum hotel tycoon” – Even if you’ve never stayed at a Britannia hotel, as a British taxpayer, you’ve helped line the pockets of Alex Langsam, the so-called “Asylum King”, who has profited from Home Office contracts to house asylum seekers, writes Robert Watts in UnHerd.
- “Watch out, Sue Gray’s about – but how powerful is she really?” – She became famous as the Partygate investigator. Now, Sue Gray is Keir Starmer’s gatekeeper. Is she as tough as some say, wonders Damian Whitworth in the Times.
- “Labour kicks out non-execs given Whitehall jobs by the Tories” – Labour has begun sacking independent Whitehall directors amid claims that ministers are “purging” the Government of advisers who were appointed under the Tories, reports the Times. File under things the Conservatives are too wet to do.
- “How the worklessness crisis has made Britain dangerously dependent on foreign labour” – Starmer’s goal of driving up GDP is in jeopardy, as 9.5 million people are economically inactive, says Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s failing universities need a basic lesson in economics” – Like any other broken business model, higher education requires reinvention – not bailouts, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Scottish Catholic boarding school closes citing Labour VAT plan” – Scotland’s only Catholic boarding school has closed with immediate effect, citing proposed changes to the VAT exemption for private schools as a factor, reports STV News.
- “Lessons about ‘fake news’ are indoctrination masquerading as education” – Labour is exploiting the unrest to bring politics into the classroom, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “In defence of beauty” – In an article for the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation, Robert Jenrick reacts to Labour’s troubling deletion of multiple references to “beauty” in the National Planning Policy Framework.
- “Elon Musk issues foul-mouthed retort to EU in clash over Donald Trump” – Elon Musk issued a foul-mouthed retort to Thierry Britton after he threatened action against his X social media site, reports the Mail.
- “Thierry Breton’s smug authoritarianism” – What is civilised about unaccountable, supranational bodies determining what can and cannot be said? asks Jacob Reynolds in the European Conservative.
- “It’s not all fake news on Twitter that Musk’s critics would ban. It’s fake news they don’t like” – It is not really ‘misinformation’ as such that bothers X’s progressive critics. It’s the fact that they are no longer quite as hegemonic on that platform as they once were, says Kristian Niemietz in the Telegraph.
- “If Jess Phillips hates Elon Musk’s Twitter/X so much, shouldn’t she just quit it?” – Politicians may dislike criticism on social media, but as a class they remain addicted to it, remarks Tom Slater in the Telegraph.
- “Duke of Sussex’s Chief of Staff quits after three months” – Prince Harry’s Chief of Staff Josh Kettler has left his position after just three months, with both sides agreeing “it wasn’t the right fit”, according to Tatler.
- “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘revolving door’ of employees” – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have now lost at least 18 staff since they married in 2018, with nine or more having left since they moved to California, reports the Mail.
- “British judge upholds sentences against Hong Kong activists” – Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, the British law lord who sits on Hong Kong’s highest court, has been condemned by human rights groups after he upheld the verdicts and prison sentences against some of the city’s leading pro-democracy activists, says the Times.
- “NHS has ‘blood on its hands’ over failings in treatment of Nottingham killer” – Services that cared for Nottingham knife attacker Valdo Calocane before he stabbed three people to death have been accused of having “blood on their hands”, reports Sky News.
- “AstraZeneca becomes Britain’s first £200 billion company” – AstraZeneca has become the first U.K. firm to be valued at £200 billion as its push into developing a pipeline of cancer drugs pays off, says This is Money.
- “European Vaccination Card will be piloted in five countries” – A European Vaccination Card, set to be piloted in Latvia, Greece, Belgium, Germany and Portugal from September, aims to “empower individuals” by consolidating all their vaccination data in one location, according to Vaccines Today.
- “Deranged regime virologoid Christian Drosten explains that lockdowns were necessary in Germany because Germans lack education, social cohesion and respect for Government recommendations” – On Substack, Eugyppius lights into German virologist Christian Drosten.
- “Galleri promises to detect multiple cancers – but new evidence casts doubt on this much hyped blood test” – A widely trialled blood test in England is facing growing scrutiny as evidence mounts against its use as an early cancer screening tool, write Margaret McCartney and Deborah Cohen in the BMJ.
- “TfL fare crackdown cost 20 times more than it saved” – A crackdown on London Tube and bus fare dodgers cost around 20 times more than it clawed back over the past year, reports the BBC.
- “Chris Packham is winning the war for the British countryside” – If green activists have their way, it won’t only be this season that grouse will be missing from menus, says Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
- “China just built the biggest ever offshore oil platform. There is no green energy ‘transition’” – New technology is unlocking new oil and gas fields – and the world is buying, just not the West, writes David Blackmon in the Telegraph.
- “Minister vows to save Italy’s Vespas from ‘eco-craziness’ of EU” – Matteo Salvini’s nationalist League Party wants to protect the Vespa, a symbol of Italian culture and postwar freedom, from future environmental restrictions, says James Imam in the Times.
- “Gender clinic now accepting only children backed by experts can still treat 1,000 self-referrals” – A Scottish child gender clinic dubbed the “tartan Tavistock” will still treat more than 1,000 children and young people who believe they are trans, despite not accepting self-referrals, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Doctors refused to let me admit my transition was a mistake. Now I want to reverse it’” – As the NHS commits to help people reverse gender-altering surgery, the Telegraph talks to one patient who says it can’t happen soon enough.
- “Justin Welby ‘plainly wrong’ over blacklisting of gender-critical chaplain” – A leading lawyer working for the church has ruled that the Archbishop of Canterbury was “plainly wrong” to dismiss concerns about the blacklisting of a gender-critical chaplain, according to Head Topics.
- “Just Stop Oil – Cressida’s brother opens up!” – A parody video on X reveals the enormous strain eco-activist Cressida Gethin’s incarceration has placed on her brother’s wedding plans.
Just Stop Oil – Cressida’s Brother Opens Up !
— WeGotitBack
Cressida Gethin's four-year sentence which "means she will not be present at her brother's wedding next summer." pic.twitter.com/qtGWDLBEQv(@NotFarLeftAtAll) August 13, 2024
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Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the “lesbian Nana” cop story is the fact that none of the other officers had the courage to take their college to one side and politely say “the kid didn’t mean it to be offensive, grow up and get over it”. No doubt if they did she would’ve made a complaint against them for being homophobic.
‘Maaate’..?
LOL!
Because we’re back to the whole conformity thing again, as demonstrated by Ashe, Milgrim, Nazi Germany and more. What I find mental is that police have been used to taking verbal abuse for decades and they haven’t arrested everyone that’s called them a “pig”, for instance. Call someone something that isn’t an insult and is yet to be established to be factually correct and they descend on you like you’re an armed and dangerous terrorist! The girl made an observation ffs!
I’m just glad the mam is taking legal action. The whole world’s seen the evidence of West Yorkshire police’s brutality and lack of professionalism now. I’d say this police thug and her bully cronies are all going to be in deep shit because of the high profile of the case and resulting public pressure and scrutiny.
Let’s hope so
It’s about time that police officers were made personally responsible for paying damages for false arrest, assault, illegal searches etc. That might focus the mind somewhat.
Seconded.
Agree, Mogs. What I find disturbing is that police are not being trained to approach domestic situations in a calm, non-confrontational, common sensical way. Police are meant to keep the peace, here we see no evidence of that. They are reacting and in this case, reacting like a bunch of entitled thugs because they were ‘offended’ FFS!
The police constable’s oath highlights this ““I do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly service the Queen in the office of constable, with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality, upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all people; and that I will, to the best of my power, cause the peace to be kept and preserved and prevent all offences against people and property…”
They do nothing of the sort in this case. I’d like to suggest that psychological assessment of all people seeking to join the police becomes mandatory!
“What I find mental is that police have been used to taking verbal abuse for decades and they haven’t arrested everyone that’s called them a “pig”, for instance”
My stepdaughter was arrested at a anti Bush Blair rally way back. Cops at her trial testified she had terrified them, for example (btw, she is the sweetest most gullible innocent young woman), by chanting such as
“Arse cheeks” at them.
“Our streets” was what she was chanting
FFS
I’m not sure the police actually serve us any more…
Whatever happened to Sticks and stones may brake my bones but calling will not hurt me! Ahrrrr the poor little police women, diddums do it?
Big blokes, in fact. Been policing London streets for years, but were “terrified” by my stepdaughter. Oddly, at appeal, when the judge threw out the magistrate’s ruling, noting “she clearly did not understand the law as applied”, the rozzers said nowt.
Good grief Jeremy, I sympathise whole heartedly! It really does make you say WTF!
Further to the subject of conformity; I’ve often wondered who this person was and the story behind the famous shot. There’s those that go along to get along and will always take the path of least resistance, then there’s those ( probably the minority ) who have the courage to stand up for their principles and what is morally right, no matter the unpleasant consequences of doing to. This is the story of August Landmesser;
”The photo was taken at the launch of a German army vessel in 1936, during a ceremony that was attended by Adolf Hitler himself.
Within the picture, a lone man stood with arms crossed as hundreds of men and women around him held up their arms in salute and allegiance to the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler. Everyone in attendance is showing their undying support for Der Führer by throwing out their very best “Sieg Heil”.
August Landmesser, grimacing with arms crossed, stood strong and defiant as he showed his disapproval by not displaying support for the Nazi Party.
What made this photo and Landmesser’s defiance unique is that it represented the protest of one man, in its most sincere and pure form. The source of Landmesser’s protest, like many great tragedies, starts with a love story.”
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/august-landmesser-1936/
Wow, that is bravery.
How would I have dealt with this?
Did his bravery achieve anything beyond him being true to his beliefs?
He was true to himself. It takes bravery to do that, but in modern times, when lying is now the main MO of the political classes, it behoves us all to speak the truth, whatever the consequences. Else how do we live with ourselves?
Thanks for this Mogs. A heartbreaking story.
Not to mention that it could quite easily have been a compliment… “looks like my lovely lesbian nana”…
When did the police get the right to interpret the law, rather than just enforce it?
I’ve been saying all along that control of people through their banking isn’t a result of banks going rogue. Its something that the state has forced banks to put in place. It’s a longtime project of the state bureaucracy.
It’s just that most people haven’t been affected by it. But all the levers of control are in place and can be deployed against anyone at ant time. And they have been for some time. Farage is just the first very public case.
CBDCs are merely a refinement of a system that is already in place. It makes it more efficient, easier to execute.
But the laws and regulations to switch someone off are all in place already. And the state bureaucracy isn’t about to roll it back one single inch.
It’s the whole premise of where we’ve been heading these last 3,1/2 years ! The State SheepDog has now almost got us corralled into the CBDC pen
Wrote to my more-than-useless MP, Andrew Murrison, the other day about cash and CBDCs. No reply yet and not surprised at that either. They all know the game. Another letter and another will be sent. Our MPs are all part of this. We live in a dictatorship in all but name.
What a horrible typo, the state of the British press today is very sorry.
But don’t you see these sort of typo’s everywhere? I blame poor education standards. a spell checker is all very well, but they often suppy the wrong word, or won’t correct a word, and if the writer doesn’t know any better, they will go along with it. My particular bugbears are misunderstood common phrases written down wrongly, such as ‘taking up the reigns’ and ‘escape goat’ or even the popular ‘chester draws’. To me it just shows a lack of general reading.
At the time of writing, The Daily Sceptic had repeated the error. Is this an example of AI in action?
“The office has been much-maligned of late, but working life, and indeed the wider economy, would be much poorer if everyone stayed at home, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.” Mr Marlow can speak for himself. In my firm, we have a lovely new office, plenty of desks for those who want to be in the office, and no-one is forced or encouraged to work from home. Staff have voted with their feet and largely stayed away. Would some of them, in my view, be better off coming in to work? Probably. Is it up to the firm to tell people how to run their lives? Not in my view. Has our productivity suffered? Absolutely not.
I guess that you are not concerned with the profitability of “my firm”?
I am very much concerned with it, as a major shareholder. What is it that I wrote that makes you think I would not be concerned with profitability? I did specifically write that our productivity has not suffered. Other firms may have different experiences – it is for them to determine what works best for them (though from what I have seen directly and read, a lot of the drive to get people back into the office seems misguided – sunk cost in long term office space leases, bosses who like to survey their domain, bosses who measure productivity by hours spent at the desk rather than work produced).
Reckoning on public servants working from home is that they are from 8% to 40% less productive. As the public sector’s productivity falls year by year as its higher salaries and huge pensions at the top are less and less deserved. Why on earth should someone who cannot afford tto save for their own pension be forced to subsidise public workers who complain about being taxed too much on their ONE MILLION POUND pension pots. Why the hell can’t they fund their own? (Even then it will be money generated in the private sector)
I’m not aware of such studies but they mat may well be the case. I would regard that as a sign of poor management and organisation rather than anything intrinsic to where people are working.
It’s the public sector. The sense of duty to the taxpayer that once informed civil servants is long gone. They no longer serve us. We on the other hand, serve them.
Indeed
Simple solution – don’t go to pride events. If you take your kids to a festival of Moloch, you must expect them to be passed through the fire.
My thoughts entirely..you beat me to it…one has to wonder what they thought they would be seeing at a ‘shame’ parade??
For everything there is a season. Pride has had its. Now Pride Parades seem in reality to be Perve & Gimp parades. Back in the day my wife went on Pride parades. She wouldn’t go near one now. Cult Transgender, as with everything it touches, had corrupted and perverted it
Can we just take 20secs to behold what a complete tit this person is? I’m wondering if you’re gullible enough to swallow one lot of propaganda it automatically follows that you’ll buy into all the other BS narratives, thereby losing *all* your self-respect. I mean, you surely must because is it possible to be a critical thinker only on select subjects? That’s why it’s my hypothesis ( and does data on this exist? ) that people who believe the climate change narrative are the very people who fell for the pandemic narrative, that they’re jab zealots and fully paid-up members of The Cult of Woke. It wouldn’t surprise me if they tick all the boxes! My god, we have to live among these pitiful saps.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1690455293786779648
Celebrity or non-celebrity, it’s always the mothers. Are we experiencing a ‘pandemic’ of women with some sort of personality disorder? And the ones that are encouraging and supporting their kids doing irreparable damage to their bodies through transitioning medically and surgically are they very worst. Why is child abuse being legitimized? But most of all, for the umpteenth time, where the heck are the dads??
https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1690255606307762176
I predict that some time in the future these children, having broken the ties to their parents, will exact a terrible and savage revenge.
Very interesting discussion with Byron Bridle….about Health Canada’s push to enforce new laws onto natural health products…. (While they are de-criminalising class A drugs!)
also @30 mins in a discussion about the fact that Moderna is going to do a study about the bio-distribution of the nano-particles…..something Byram Bridle pointed out very early in the scam, and whose life was basically wrecked by it…
https://brightlightnews.com/health-canada-changes-to-nhps-dr-byram-bridle/
This is a welcome sensible ruling:
‘Unvaccinated driving instructor wins payout’
‘Man wins over £6,000 after tribunal rules that the DVSA discriminated against him over his beliefs for not taking medicine’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/12/driving-instructor/
‘The judge ruled that Mr Green’s anti-medication belief was legitimate and said: “The tribunal found that his belief was genuinely held. We find that it is a belief and not an opinion or viewpoint.
“We find that the belief is a facet of the claimant’s right to decide about his own bodily integrity. This is clearly a fundamental human right.”’
Coercion was used to try to make Mr. Green take the experimental jab.
This in in contravention of the Nuremberg Code and indeed, of our own Public Health Act.
“How many perfectly good cars will be wasted by Ulez scrappage scheme?”
Not mine! My duster is going to run until it rots into the ground, then, I’m going to buy a brand new one and keep that till I die!
Ironic, the first brand new car I have ever owned will be the last car I ever own!
Here are the “gamechangers” in the latest battery technologies (that,strangly, never seem to actually materialise)
Salt batteries, diamond batteries, solid state batteries, sand batteries, gold batteries and now…wait for it…..Concrete batteries! The world is saved!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/concrete-buildings-could-be-turned-into-rechargeable-batteries/
“Brighton rock bottom: How the Greens nearly destroyed the city I love”
Nearly??
Look again love, its a shyte hole! Sodom and gomorrah comes to mind!
“Rich men North of Richmond”
John Lennon himself would have been proud to have wrote a song like this! Genius
With regards to rental properties the EPCrating is a farce as it doesn’t take into account how warm the tenants want to be. For me I like about 24c others slightly. Less.
Also in2025 it will be compulsory to have cental heating installed.
My house is a two up two down terraced house with two super efficient gas fires. No central heating needed.
At that point I will sell my house with all of the super efficient insulation I have installed.
Yet another piece of useless legislation hammering the landlord.
….video about vaccine injuries….from America, but of course still salient to everyone…
Steve Kirsch is on it and is going to reveal the list of names…
https://rumble.com/v35iycg-retired-nba-all-star-john-stockton-says.html
Retired NBA All-Star John Stockton Says He Knows of 150 Pro Athletes Who’ve ‘Dropped Dead’ Since COVID Vaccine Rollout