- “Protester jailed after chanting at police” – A 67 year-old man has been jailed for 20 months after chanting “You’re not English any more” at police officers during a demonstration in London, reports the BBC
- “London imam claims ‘Zionists’ were behind far-Right riots” – An imam at a London mosque, led by an extremist preacher, has claimed that Zionists were behind the recent riots, says the Times.
- “The police can’t be impartial while discriminating against white men” – Police chiefs must reject the divisive identity politics that has torn our nation apart, writes Rory Geoghegan in the Telegraph.
- “England’s prison crisis grows after influx of rioters into jails” –The prisons crisis has deepened, as the number of available places for adult male offenders has dipped below 300 for the first time, reports the Mail.
- “Nearly 2,000 prisoners to be released on single day” – About 2,000 prisoners are to be released early on a single day next month in an attempt to tackle the jail overcrowding crisis, says the Telegraph.
- “This rush to define Islamophobia will harm free speech” – Any definition of Islamophobia must have genuine legal value that protects individuals and is free from the invidious blanket term “Muslimness”, writes Fiyaz Mughal in the Times.
- “Tory members back Cleverly but Tugendhat is public’s favourite” – James Cleverly leads the pack among Tory members in the first major poll since all six candidates declared (a poll commissioned by Cleverly), but Tom Tugendhat wins the public’s vote, reports the Mail.
- “Boris Johnson memoir will be unleashed in heat of Tory leadership battle” – Boris Johnson’s eagerly awaited memoir, Unleashed, will be released just weeks before Tory party members vote on their next leader, reveals the Times.
- “More than half of Brits believe U.K. is heading in the wrong direction” – According to a new poll, Keir Starmer’s favourability rating has dropped to zero and more than half of Britons believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, reports the Mail.
- “Labour’s misogyny review won’t help women” – Censorship will not solve society’s woman problem – citizens will, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s pound shop populists are now heading for a humiliating fall” – The real calamity is not that the new Government is socialist, but that it hasn’t got a clue what it’s doing, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s pothole-ridden roads so bad ‘they are damaging the economy’” – Factory bosses say that the appalling state of the country’s infrastructure is adding to manufacturing costs, according to the Telegraph.
- “Post Office scandal: understanding computer evidence in cases” – Speaking to the British Computer Society, Dr. Sam De Silva explores what part the legal assumption that “the computer is always right” could have played in the Horizon scandal.
- “Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in fraud trial dies after being hit by a car” – Mike Lynch’s former colleague and co-defendant in his U.S. fraud trial has died after being hit by a car, just days before the billionaire tech tycoon vanished off the coast of Sicily when his superyacht was caught in a freak whirlwind, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer backs working from home as ‘culture of presenteeism’ is bad for productivity” – Keir Starmer has backed more working from home after No.10 warned that a “culture of presenteeism” is bad for productivity, says the Telegraph.
- “Public fears GPs would encourage assisted dying to ease NHS pressures, poll finds” – A new survey reveals that more than four in 10 members of the public fear legalising assisted suicide could lead doctors to encourage patients to end their lives to ease pressure on the NHS, reports the Telegraph.
- “MPox/monkeypox: summer 2024 update” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone separates the hard facts from the self-interested noise surrounding monkeypox.
- “Merck MMR case ruling: ‘You can defraud the American people when government agencies go along with it’” – A recent Appeals Court ruling has huge negative implications for whistleblowers, says Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
- “COVID-19 vaccines cause far more myocarditis than infection, overall risks greatly outweigh theoretical benefits” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Dr. Peter A. McCullough discusses new analysis that challenges the prevailing narrative that SARS-CoV-2 infection poses a higher risk of heart damage than being vaccinated against it.
- “More evidence that the Covid shots did not reduce mortality” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch counters the Lancet’s claim of 20 million lives saved by Covid vaccines with two public data sources that indicate the vaccines carried only downside risk.
- “Far more flu tests were given in 2019-2020” – The absence of a death spike despite rising flu or Covid symptoms before Covid was officially recognised suggests the virus was likely not very deadly at all, writes Bill Rice Jr. on his Substack.
- “Rachel Zegler derails Snow White trailer with another woke comment” – According to the Mail, Snow White remake star Rachel Zegler has sparked further outrage while promoting the long-delayed Disney film, saying, “And always remember, free Palestine.”
- “IS attacks erase Christian cultural heritage for Assyrians and Iraqis” – Premier Christian News marks the 10th anniversary of the Islamic State’s genocide, which saw thousands from Iraq’s marginalised communities, including Christians, slaughtered in Mosul.
- “Der Spiegel sets out to ‘identify evil’ and asks which of our Right-populist politicians might be ‘secret Hitlers’” – On Substack, Eugyppius savages Der Spiegel’s recent cover story, ‘The Secret Hitlers’, dismissing its claim that modern leaders like Trump and Orbán are comparable to fascists.
- “Energy bills to surge by £150 as Reeves prepares to scrap winter fuel payments” – Energy bills are forecast to rise by nearly £150 later this year in a move that will pile further pressure on millions of pensioners set to lose their winter fuel payments, says the Express.
- “LTNs could be forced on Bath with no say for residents” – The installation of low traffic neighbourhoods could proceed in Bath, despite a petition signed by 250 locals opposing them, reports the Telegraph.
- “Price gouging is a nonsense narrative” – On the Bad Cattitude Substack, El Gato Malo explains why price controls never work.
- “The funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe” – According to the Guardian, U&Dave announced the winner of its Funniest Joke of the Fringe award, with Mark Simmons taking the prize for his one-liner: “I was going to sail around the globe in the world’s smallest ship, but I bottled it.”
- “LBC presenter is sick of the far-Right scum…” – On X, Andrew Lawrence channels his inner James O’Brien with a cheeky spoof of the LBC host railing against anyone vaguely patriotic and critical of mass immigration.
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https://en.topwar.ru/248493-putin-podpisal-ukaz-o-podderzhke-inostrannyh-grazhdan-razdeljajuschih-tradicionnye-rossijskie-cennosti.html
Here you go, comrades:
‘Foreign citizens who share the values accepted in Russia now have the right to apply for a temporary residence permit without taking into account the quota approved by the government of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, it is no longer mandatory for foreign citizens and stateless persons who have expressed a desire to move from other countries to live in Russia to submit a document confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, knowledge of the history of Russia and the fundamentals of the legislation of the Russian Federation.’
You don’t even have to speak Russian!
Don’t get trampled in the stampede!
The Channel boats will now be heading for the Baltic Sea.
Knowing people who actually choose to live there, it seems a better place to live than UK under Starmer.
If you can be jailed for ”religiously aggravated distress” then you’re not living in a free country, you’re living in a totalitarian state. If, by comparison, the people who chant and scream on the streets for the death of Jews, whilst they wave their Jihad flags and demonstrate their allegiance to terrorists and hate for the West remain free to do so with impunity, then you undeniably have proof of double-standards and two-tier policing. The ‘blasphemy law’, which appears to already be here, only applies to one religion, and these people must be protected and given preferential treatment at all costs, because the government has already submitted to them, and now they expect the same from the citizens;
”Sporadic race riots popped up across Britain as white working-class Britons expressed outrage over migrant crime and the fact that the UK government does little or nothing to stop wave after wave of asylum seekers from entering the country. The Labour government of Keir Starmer responds to the violence in part by cracking down on free speech.
As Frank Haviland detailed in The European Conservative, stories of ordinary Britons arrested and even given harsh jail terms for things they said on social media are now common. And, as Haviland showed, the enforcement is selective, aimed at whites and non-Muslims; the Starmer government gives racial minorities and followers of the Prophet far more leeway. ‘Two-tier’ policing also shows up in policing speech.
The situation is so dire in the United Kingdom that former MP and Tory official Lord David Frost declares that Britain is no longer a free country. Lord Frost points out that the country’s speech laws grant despotic powers to the state—powers that the Labour prime minister is now exercising remorselessly.
One practical problem of all this, he says, is that it has now become impossible to debate with honesty the very real crises Britain faces over mass migration and crime. How can any society deal with its serious problems if merely talking about the problems in a way the authorities dislike can land someone in prison?
“We prided ourselves on being a free country in which we could speak freely. We simply cannot say that now,” writes Lord Frost. “We are, in fact, all vulnerable. Say the wrong thing in the wrong way at the wrong moment, and any of us might find the police at our door.”
No wonder European Commissioner Thierry Breton send a chilling warning to Elon Musk over information appearing on X. Musk’s social media network is one of the few places Britons can get information about the race riots that conflicts with the official line. Breton must fear how, in the case of migrant-related rioting in Europe, X could falsify the official story mandarins like him want people to believe. If these elites—including media elites—can demonize Elon Musk and Viktor Orbán, they can avoid accountability for their own failures—including their failures to tell the truth to European peoples.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-free-country/
Those British citizens shouting ‘not my king’ at the King will now be sent to the great reservoirs of evil called prisons?
Monday Afternoon Eastern by Pass Rd
Heyford Hill Roundabout,Oxford
“The working class is enslaved in the name of the working class”
from The Power of the Powerless By Václav Havel.
It is my sad duty to bring you the news, comrades, that, on account of the poor standard of commenting here, this site is now generally referred to as ‘Dumbs.net’.
Today’s second edition of commentators guidance notes for ‘Dumbs.net’ in the, no doubt, vain hope of remedy.
Example post from ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ in 2020 from the distinguished Mr Mark Gobell
First he starts with what we call a ‘citation’ (which you may remember from yesterday’s little homily?):
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-lessons-from-the-asteroid-that-didnt-hit-earth-11585780465
Then he uses what we call a ‘quotation’ from the ‘citation’ (hoping you are with me so far…):
‘Several researchers have apparently asked to see Imperial’s calculations, but Prof. Neil Ferguson, the man leading the team, has said that the computer code is 13 years old and thousands of lines of it “undocumented,” making it hard for anyone to work with, let alone take it apart to identify potential errors. He has promised that it will be published in a week or so, but in the meantime reasonable people might wonder whether something made with 13-year-old, undocumented computer code should be used to justify shutting down the economy.’
Based on the quotation he then comments concisely:
‘Scary projections based on faulty data can put policy makers under pressure to adopt draconian measures.’
He then adds another apposite ‘citation’ and ‘quotation’:
https://x.com/neil_ferguson/status/1241835454707699713
‘I’m conscious that lots of people would like to see and run the pandemic simulation code we are using to model control measures against COVID-19. To explain the background – I wrote the code (thousands of lines of undocumented C) 13+ years ago to model flu pandemics…’
And leaves it at that, point made, ‘Res Ipsa Loquitur’, a latin expression, much broader than its narrow legal usage, which simply means that ‘The thing speaks for itself’
Now, some example posts from ‘Dumbs.net’:
‘Fuck off.’
‘self important ars%#ole. It is spoiling what DS is all about, freedom of speech!’
‘I’ve just reported…..to DS’
‘you are witless…’
Compare and contrast, in the hope, comrades that you can now all see where you may be going wrong……?
What on earth are you doing posting here on dumbs.net then? Your way to clever for us dimwits so please feel free to join others of your intellectual capacity on some other site and leave us thickys alone!
😀 😀 😀
Are you ok? You’ve gone from writing screeds to diatribes, or is it from diatribes to screeds? Maybe you need a holiday, a break from DS and media in general.
He obviously needs his meds!
Aaah. Poor Munro, does nobody like you.
If you marshall your clearly superior intellect you might note that no-one else receives such comments which means it is more likely to be a common response to you rubbish than a characteristic of all DS contributors.
Morning Monro, many thanks for galvanizing my thoughts..
You’re a complete idiot….
I’m confused. Where and when did these “example posts from ‘Dumbs.net'” appear? Who generally refers to this site as ‘Dumbs.net’, and where are these references?
What are you going on about?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ignorant-millions-who-cant-read-the-writing-on-the-wall/
Harry Hopkins writing at TCW on the problems we face as a result of illiteracy within the population.
“It is hard to comprehend that in the UK today one in six of the adult population is classified as functionally illiterate. In Scotland this is one in four. This equates to 16.4 per cent of the adult population. Without such basic skills these people have a hard life indeed….
That to me has brought in another dimension as to how and why the authorities can get away with doing whatever they think fit. Nine million of the adult population haven’t the skills to offer any criticism or opposition to what they are being told. Mass hypnosis, stupidity, career considerations and now functional illiteracy; no wonder the government get away with what they do. It puts a whole new interpretation on the saying that we get the government we deserve.”
Looks like some DS subscribers have been upsetting the Ukrainian correspondent / 77 Brigade.
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It’s lovely to start the day with a smile.
Fun, isn’t it?
👍 😀
https://t.me/DmitriySteshin/11469
Today’s ‘Who is this guy and what is he saying?’ competition.
Clue:
The man who appears in a recent selfie video promoted by Z-bloggers urging men in the Kursk region to stay and fight the Ukrainian military is actually the owner of a tombstone and funeral business in St. Petersburg.
Four years ago, Kirill Vlasikov changed his name to Suvorov (apparently to boost his tombstone business that bears the Suvorov name — which means “severe” in Russian and is the name of a famous 18th-century Russian general and military theorist).
Besides tombstones, Suvorov’s business offers cremation, burial, and transportation services specifically for soldiers killed in combat.
He told Agentstvo directly that he believes men living in Kursk should stay and help resist the Ukrainians and said he sends humanitarian aid to Russian troops in Ukraine.
He declined to answer when asked if he plans to enlist with Russia’s armed forces.
If he was a true entrpreneur he would have a Ukrainian branch as there is about 5 times the custom there.
Roger Watson at thenewconservative with a punchy, sarcastic look at Fuehrer Starmer who clearly is pushing for a massive civil uprising or outright civil war…
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/starmers-red-dawn/
“But back to Operation Early Dawn. The fact that prisons are being cleared and that fewer potential criminals are being sent there on remand means that legal eagle Sir Kier Starmer and his associates have already adjudged that those arrested in the wake of 3 August are guilty. Our government has become judge, jury and executioner of anyone who has the audacity to express their opposition to the main plank of their policy to bring the UK to its financial, social and cultural knees – that of unrestricted immigration.”
A quick check on wiki reveals that the ‘petition’ signed by Bath’s residents objecting to the proposed introduction of LTNs, represents just one quarter of one percent of Bath residents… strangely not sufficient to sway the argument.
That’s new to me that society has a “woman problem”. What is it?
When will parliament get a chance to debate Starmer’s dictats.
Is there an opposition?
I suspect there may be Labour and Lib Dems who are not enamoured with Starmer’s policies.
An interesting article which points out some ridiculous and inconsistent assertions surrounding Mpox/Monkeypox. That confusion over the disease name leading some to think that people can or usually catch it from monkeys, when actually people and monkeys can catch it from rats.
In it, Dr Malone quotes extensively from the WHO and the Pasteur Institute’s March 2024 Monkeypox article:
Erm. That’s animal-to-human transmission – not human-to-human. This sort of mistake does not make me think the Pasteur Institute has paid great attention to detail.
There seems to be an emphasis within the WHO’s article about human-to-human transmission via skin-to-skin contact among men who have sex with men. Presumably they think sex among heterosexuals does not involve skin-to-skin contact. Unless, of course, what they are trying and failing to describe is promiscuous sexual activity with multiple partners.
[The emphasis above is in the Pasteur Institute’s article – it was not added by Dr Malone]
OK. So they’re trying to bang the humans bad/climate change drum here. Remember that people catch this from rats, not monkeys? Although diseased rats are usually wildlife (not domestic/pets) they proliferate on the detritus of human poverty living. To reduce the human-rat interactions it would be a great idea to try to bring DRC or other under-developed countries up to Western standards of water supply, sewage treatment/disposal, food abundance/distribution/preservation and general hygiene. But that will require energy (oh, and a huge reduction in corruption). The West has got our mortality and average age of death to our current levels by using hydrocarbon energy and products for engineering, refining, transport, refrigeration, plastics, fertilisers,… the list is very long. Refusing to allow or encourage similar development in DRC and neighbouring countries is evil.
Wait! Have a look at this:
German Doctor Warns Monkeypox Is Really Covid Jab-Induced Shingles (infowars.com)
“Dr. Wodarg asked why other doctors aren’t questioning why people are being diagnosed with Monkeypox based on a positive Rostar test, which is an expensive product profiting Big Pharma.
“They’re scaring us again,” he said of the medical establishment. “It’s a business, exploiting the effects of the corona shots they pushed on us. They’re using corona side-effects to create new schemes and scare us again.””
The European medical professional also wondered why more doctors don’t “see through” the perversion of the medical industry.
It wouldn’t be shocking for the medical tyrants running groups like the World Health Organization to portray Covid jab adverse reactions as symptoms of a new outbreak, in order to hide their crimes against humanity.”
“MPox/monkeypox: summer 2024 update”
Please see this:
German Doctor Warns Monkeypox Is Really Covid Jab-Induced Shingles (infowars.com)
“Dr. Wodarg asked why other doctors aren’t questioning why people are being diagnosed with monkeypox based on a positive Rostar test, which is an expensive product profiting Big Pharma.
“They’re scaring us again,” he said of the medical establishment. “It’s a business, exploiting the effects of the corona shots they pushed on us. They’re using corona side-effects to create new schemes and scare us again.””
The European medical professional also wondered why more doctors don’t “see through” the perversion of the medical industry.
It wouldn’t be shocking for the medical tyrants running groups like the World Health Organization to portray Covid jab adverse reactions as symptoms of a new outbreak, in order to hide their crimes against humanity.”