- “Columbia University boss quits over Gaza protests – to work for David Lammy” – The President of Columbia University has resigned to take up a job in the Foreign Office following heavy criticism of her handling of pro-Palestine protests on campus, reports the Telegraph.
- “David Lammy’s new hire shows the Foreign Office’s true colours” – Minouche Shafik appears to be another prominent public figure with a blind spot when it comes to antisemitism, writes Nicole Lampert in the Telegraph.
- “Boy, 15, first person charged with offence of rioting over U.K. disorder” – A 15 year-old boy has become the first person in the country to be charged with the offence of rioting after a judge suggested those involved in the disorder should face more serious charges, reports Sky News.
- “Meet the three types of rioter” – Far-Right thugs weren’t the sole perpetrators of the recent civil unrest, says Simon Cottee in UnHerd.
- “Husband of ‘keyboard warrior’ who called for mosque to be blown up says jailing her ‘over the top’” – The husband of the 53 year-old grandmother sentenced to 15 months for posting something “hateful” on Facebook says her sentence was “well over the top”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The persecution of ‘the plebs’” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray discusses the uneven and unpredictable application of the law in the wake of the Southport riots.
- “Douglas Murray vs the mob” – Douglas Murray is quite wrong. We are all doing as we’re told, and Hope Not Hate has won, writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “The U.K.’s war on free speech” – Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour Government desperate to clamp down on un-PC opinion, says Fred de Fossard in the Critic.
- “Pressing the panic button” – On Substack, Isabel Oakeshott takes aim at Sir Keir Starmer for using state power to suppress dissenting voices on immigration.
- “Police launch hate crime inquiry after Israelis ‘hounded out’ of Edinburgh Fringe show” – Comedian Reginald D. Hunter says he regrets “unfortunate incident” in which two Jews were hounded out of his Edinburgh show as Police Scotland launches a ‘hate crime’ investigation, reports the Telegraph.
- “Home Office ‘considering banning silent prayer outside abortion clinics’” – The Home Office is weighing up whether to ban silent prayer outside abortion clinics, says the Telegraph.
- “A freedom worth having” – On Julie Bindel’s Substack, Akua Reindorf KC makes a compelling case for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023.
- “Freedom of speech and expression” – A 1942 essay by former Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies defending freedom of speech provides a timely reminder of the enduring importance of protecting open debate and dissent.
- “The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad” – On Substack, Ed West considers whether the liberal elite really are going to leave X this time or whether it‘s an empty threat, as it always has been before.
- “Labour’s train driver capitulation is the first step to fiscal ruin” – The decision to award train drivers a pay rise of 15% will end with a Labour Government leading the country to fiscal ruin, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Thousands of train fare prosecutions set to be quashed” – As many as 74,000 prosecutions for alleged rail fare evasion in England and Wales are set to be quashed following a landmark ruling, according to the BBC.
- “Two-tier concerns must be addressed by police, says Cleverly” – Police must treat all groups equally says James Cleverly, the former Home Secretary, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour still planning tax rises despite economy boost” – The Government is set to press ahead with tax rises and spending cuts, despite aBritain being the fastest-growing major economy, reports inews.
- “Council tax takings are growing two-and-a-half times faster than inflation” – Council tax receipts collected in the past financial year amount to a 214% increase since 2000, according to the Telegraph.
- “School leavers should choose their options carefully” – The way university is sold to young people needs to change, says Henry Hill in CapX.
- “On the fantasy of collapse, the robust nature of modern states and what kind of political change is possible” – The countercultural Left and the countercultural Right nourish two equivalent political fantasies, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Heat pumps could bring the German economy to its knees” – The companies that poured billions into building the industrial infrastructure for the transition to Net Zero are running into trouble one by one, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Entitlement and laziness are crushing the life out of Britain” – A devastating cultural shift during Covid has left too many believing that the world – or the taxpayer – owes them a living, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “How lockdown sparked an epidemic of hostile and angry boys” – More than 120,000 parents of sons with a behavioural disorder were receiving Disability Living Allowance in February 2024, compared with just under 62,000 girls, reports Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Labour is in danger of failing the lockdown generation all over again” – High expectations and rigour are the best ways to help poorer students, not ‘progressive’ reforms, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Eye issues skyrocket after the Covid shots rolled out” – If something other than the Covid jab is causing such a huge increase in eye problems, what is it? asks Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
- “On Gov. Tim Walz, Covid lockdown fanatic” – How badly did Minnesota Governor Tim Walz panic in the autumn of 2020? He essentially destroyed Thanksgiving, says Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
- “The Japanese monkeypox vaccine” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass gives her thoughts on the monkeypox vaccine programme and the actual cause of death in what is generally a very mild illness.
- “‘Kory and Marik were just stripped of their specialty board certifications. So was I, but the ABIM never even bothered to tell me’” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass reveals her shock at discovering that the American Board of Internal Medicine had revoked her certification – without any notice, investigation or chance to respond.
- “Laura Woods reveals death threats to unborn child over post about Telegraph gender-row article” – TV presenter Laura Woods has revealed she received “numerous death threats” online after praising a Telegraph article that was critical of the Olympic champion boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, according to the BBC.
- “Why Imane Khelif’s biggest fight yet could be against J.K. Rowling” – In the Telegraph, Marianka Swain updates on the cyberbullying lawsuit involving Algerian gold medal boxer Imane Khelif, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
- “Kamala Harris’s campaign ‘editing news headlines to make it look like publishers back her’” – Kamala Harris’s campaign has been accused of secretly editing news headlines in Google advertisements to make it appear as if well-known media organisations have endorsed her, reports the Mail.
- “New mothers breastfeed in front of endangered orangutan to try to show her how to care for baby” – Thirty women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland, says Sky News.
- “‘You under cook fish? Jail’” – A satirical video on X shows Keir Starmer in full dictator garb, listing the many innocuous offences that could land you in jail.
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It’s easy to Hate having no Hope !
Haha, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with the lawsuit, of course! Jeez, desperation tactics or what? No amount of make-up and blow dries will change your chromosomes, love. The only person you’re deluding is yourself;
”Algerian boxer Imane Khelif shows off dramatic new feminine makeover, days after winning gold at the Paris Olympics.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1824079314674921960
Same person;
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1824264821468205098
Prosecuting children now are we & don’t the media love it !
Rioting is the Buzz word cos it’s double the sentence ! What about the youthful knife Zombies storming a train ? Won’t be a riot you can be sure
It’s a funny old world. The violence associated with the Miners’ Strike in 1984-5 was at least as extreme as anything we’ve seen in the last few weeks, yet the liberal media hold them to different standards because they were “only trying to protect their communities and their culture”.
Thursday morning Bath Road, Henley Rd & Cannon Lane
Maidenhead (The Return of Monkey Pox)
People will forgive you for being wrong,
but they will never forgive you for being right
—especially if events prove you right
while proving them wrong.
Thomas Sowell
Thanks Szu, it’s always good to get an insight into male behaviour from a twenty something-female. And, of course, it’s lockdown wot dunnit. As a male, however, the actual reason is all too obvious and I’ve been banging the drum about this for a long time. If you keep kicking and humiliating a dog, at some point that dog is likely to snap. The rise of idiot male teenagers is an inevitable product of a system in which one specific demographic has been under a sustained attack for decades – white men and boys. The current crop of lads are simply pushing back against the abuse, but in the worst possible (but entirely predictable) way. Some mothers also understand, as they’ve witnessed first-hand what’s going on and haven’t signed up to the social destruction cult of modern feminism. One of the comments…
“As a mother of 4 boys I can tell you exactly why they’re angry. The feminisation of primary school is a major problem, boys are no longer allowed to run around, rough and tumble, they’re expected to sit and study and color in as the girls do. Demonised by female teachers for not being able to sit still in class. These boys need exercise. Also the characterisation of white boys having privilege, whilst giving all other ethnic minorities priority. By changing the exam system to multiple choice and coursework favours the girls, boys thrive on competition and usually do better at exams. I’m not surprised they are rebelling. Mrs B”
Quite Mrs B.
https://tass.com/politics/1829427
What’s really going on?
The level of Russian resistance to the first foreign invasion for 80 years has been weak and hard to comprehend.
The Kursk operation, by all but official Russian accounts – which deny it – has netted the Ukrainian military more Russian prisoners of war than any other two-week period of fighting since Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The exact number of Russian soldiers that surrendered to Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region, is still not clear. Most analysts set it at several hundred, with some unconfirmed reports putting it at above 1,000.
Interviews with POWs and accounts by Ukrainian soldiers report that repeatedly, Russian units, cut off and made up of young conscripts, have agreed to down weapons and hand themselves over to Kyiv forces after hours of resistance and having suffered moderate casualties.
https://news.sky.com/video/russian-prisoners-of-war-captured-by-ukraine-in-kursk-region-speak-to-sky-13197471
https://english.pravda.ru/world/160188-venezuela-maduro/
I understand that we only experienced the full-scale war for one day. Ukrainian citizens have been going through the same thing for two and a half years.
Many people in the border areas didn’t understand this. When the Russian military started shelling Sumy, people in local social media groups were thrilled. Some shouted, “Hit the pigs! Let’s show them! Go, Russia!” And then these same people were rushing to evacuate under the same conditions.
Now everyone is scared, everyone is hurting. War is terrible. Some still say that if Moscow had known about the Ukrainian offensive, they wouldn’t have allowed it to happen. You know how it goes: “The Tsar is good, the boyars are bad.” But who appoints the boyars?
I want people abroad to understand that not everyone in the border regions is an “orc” or part of some wild tribe living in ignorance. There are also people here who have found this whole situation deeply repulsive from the start, and who wish there was more truth and justice in this country instead of all these lies.
But what can we do now? We’ll have to suffer.
The Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions are taking the hit for all of Russia, and not by choice.
Residents are asked to evacuate from the Ukrainian Pokrovsk.
The Russian army has “almost come very close” to the city, said the head of the local administration, Sergei Dobryak.
Reports this morning of another Russian column that was badly hit last night at Korenevo, Kursk Oblast. It was apparently similar to the Ryl’sk attack last week.
“This is not random, aberrant behavior……This is orchestrated as part of (Russian) state policy to intimidate, instil fear, or punish to extract information and confessions.”
Alice Jill Edwards, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture
To report a war crime or get advice:
Testimony 95 from the document UKRAINE’S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (2022-2023):
Anton Alexandrovich Baitrakov (36 years old). PoW, Soldier of the 36th Marine Brigade of the AFU.
“A woman was brought to us. It turned to be that she was a former prisoner and escaped from the colony. Her name was Inna and she was 40 years old. She stayed in the weapon storage room, so I opened the door and asked her to leave the room, but she refused to go as she said, in another place she was shot at. I asked her to leave three times, but she would not. She said: ‘If you like, shoot me here’, so I shot her in her head”.
And here you cite a report on Venezuela: what has that to do with Ukraine?
And you seem enthusiastic at completely innocent civilians being involved in a war. Russia has always done its utmost to minimize civilian casualties, many of which in eastern Ukraine are anyway ethnic Russians; Ukraine has always done its utmost to cause civilian casualties, particularly Russians, ethnic or not, starting already in 2014.
Reported in the FT.
Comment from Ukrainian attacker
“We killed many of them on the first day, because they were unarmed and didn’t expect us.”
So killing unarmed soldiers OK. Not mentioned was that these were likely young conscripts.
Once again you cite a Tass link which has no bearing on what you then write.
The Sky news video says nothing other than some Russians were caught by the Ukrainians and that they hoped they would be released or exchanged soon. A very positive and positively naive reporter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU
I am sure some of you have seen this speech before, but I think it is one of the best speeches on Free Speech I have heard.
https://www.fontanka.ru/2024/08/14/73958639/
A press officer for the Kursk governor’s office said on Thursday that dozens of trench-digging vacancies listed on the classifieds platform Avito are fake. The region already has enough construction workers, she explained, and the government hires through different channels.
What’s really going on?
Scam alert
For the gallant volunteers on here anxious to help out, please don’t apply for any agricultural drainage job vacancies in the Kursk region.
The press service of the Kursk Region government suggested contacting the department’s official Telegram channel , which today reposted a statement that such advertisements are fake.
Here is a statement on Kursk from John Mearsheimer. I love his last sentence.
Ukraine’s invasion (of Kursk) was a major strategic blunder, which will accelerate its defeat. The key determinant of success in a war of attrition is the casualty-exchange ratio, not capturing territory, which Western commentators obsess over. The casualty-exchange ratio in the Kursk offensive decisively favors Russia for two reasons. First, it has caused relatively few Russian casualties because Ukraine’s army effectively overran undefended territory. Second, once alerted to the attack, Moscow quickly brought massive airpower to bear against the advancing Ukrainian troops, who were in the open and easy to strike. Unsurprisingly, the attacking forces lost many soldiers and a huge proportion of their equipment.
To make matters worse, Kyiv removed top-notch combat units from the front lines in eastern Ukraine – where they are desperately needed – and made them part of the Kursk strike force. This move is tilting the already lopsided casualty-exchange ratio on that critically important front further in Russia’s favor. It is no wonder – given what a foolish idea the Kursk incursion is – that the Russians were caught by surprise.
Your attempts are becoming pretty feeble. Why bother.
The three
speciestypes of rioter (a term only correct for those so convicted) are described under the microscope of the academy, and with the discerning fascination of the sociobiologist for classifications, as if they were creatures from the Black Lagoon.Strangely marked primitives, like the coelacanth, surfacing due to some unusual currents in the mysterious depths. Creatures that have been diverted onto a withered branch of evolutionary development in the abyssal plain of deindustrialised Britain, where the visible remnants of industry are like fragments of bleached coral reefs.
Or observed with the botanist’s curiosity as species of fireweed sprouting rudely from a British culture that stands in elegant ruin after the attentions of the Cardinal Wolseys and Thomas Cromwells of our age.
And if elevated to personhood by the academics, seen like the religious turned out of their monastic houses and nunneries who were nevertheless still bound by their oaths to follow a life that was no longer required by the state. But persons, unlike the superiors of those Tudor religious houses, unable to adapt to the changing conditions of the new world created for them.
If, as progressives assert, crime is caused by deprivation, why aren’t these persons who cause violent disturbance given treatment and understanding? Why not give them education of the sort that our Ange thinks that those men on a night out in Glasgow who do not respect the personal space of a female reporter should be given?
Why weren’t there any XY chromosome humans at Dublin Zoo to show apes how to breast feed. The elites won’t be amused by this omission.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labours-train-driver-capitulation-is-the-first-step-to-fiscal-ruin/
Has Ross Clarke not yet realised that fiscal ruin of the United Kingdom is Kneel’s intended destination?
“The persecution of ‘the plebs’
Here are a few other examples of rather uneven sentencing.
1) People protesting against Third World Immigration and the Mass Stabbing of 13 British people, including 3 children who died:
— 18 months in prison for throwing a rock and a drinks bottle that had landed in front of him, and for knocking a teenager off his bike.
— 26 months for swearing and spitting at police.
— 32 months for kicking a man in the leg, shouting racist and homophobic insults when arrested, and hiding a stone in the cuff of his trousers.
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2) People convicted of raping children and possessing child pornography:
— 22 months for collecting 82,000 images of children being raped and tortured, including one newborn baby that appeared to be dead. Almost all the images were of little boys from birth to 10 years old, many in obvious pain and distress.
— 36 months for raping a 10-year-old boy.
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3) Third World illegal alien convicted of hitting a female police officer in the head and swearing at her, as she tried to arrest him for persistent sexual harassment of female joggers:
— 0 time in prison, 0 time in community service, allowed to roam freely awaiting his “asylum” application.
“Pressing the panic button” -“Isabel Oakeshott takes aim at Sir Keir Starmer for using state power to suppress dissenting voices on immigration.”
And yet, why has no one called out Starmer for giving political orders to judges about sentencing, while ignoring the Sentencing Council Guidelines, such as these:
“The consultation proposes sentences of up to 16 YEARS IN CUSTODY FOR THE MOST SERIOUS OFFENDERS, such as those who facilitate the ILLEGAL ENTRY of large numbers of people for commercial purposes in a manner that puts those individuals or rescuers at a high risk of serious injury or death.”
“Other proposed guidelines include sentences of up to EIGHT YEARS FOR POSSESSING FALSE IDENTITY DOCUMENTS with an improper intention, and THREE YEARS IN CUSTODY FOR KNOWINGLY ENTERING THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.”
Why haven’t all the illegal aliens been convicted and sentenced within days or weeks, like the British People protesting against them?