- “Six hostages’ bodies retrieved, Israel’s military says” – The bodies of six hostages being held by Hamas have been retrieved from an “underground tunnel route” inside the Gaza Strip, says the BBC.
- “Rioter who shouted in a police dog’s face jailed for 20 months” – A rioter who shouted at a police dog has been sent to prison for 20 months, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s red dawn” – The Government has taken on the role of judge, jury, and executioner for anyone daring to oppose unrestricted immigration, writes Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “U.K.’s draconian ‘online safety’ laws are turning traditional values into criminal ‘hate speech’” – New U.K. surveillance measures could criminalise encrypted messaging and other private communications as part of a broader effort to suppress dissent, says Frank Wright in LifeSiteNews.
- “Keir Starmer faces fresh questions about the influence of union barons” – Some 13 union barons sit on the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee, including the boss of the rail union that called strikes just 48 hours after accepting a deal that gave his union a 14.25% pay hike, reports the Mail.
- “Getting talent back into the political clown show” – On Substack, Ed West agrees with Dominic Cummings’s guide to fixing Britain which involves, among other things, slimming down the Civil Service and paying top Civil Servants more.
- “Labour are setting the stage for a Tory revival” – There has been a positive change in morale in the Conservative Party, notes Bruce Anderson in CapX.
- “People of the lie” – Evil flourishes in a world grown comfortable with constant lying, writes John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “PM continues to face backlash over scrapping winter fuel payments” – Keir Starmer is continuing to face a backlash over scrapping winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners as he boasts of making Britain an “energy superpower”, reports the Mail.
- “Angela Rayner overrules Labour council to approve airport expansion” – London City Airport has been given the green light to fly millions more passengers each year after Angela Rayner overruled the Labour-run Newham Council, says the Express.
- “Council forces households to use 10 bins for rubbish and recycling” – Families in some parts of the country are forced to sort their rubbish into as many as 10 different bins and bags, reports LBC.
- “Ultra-processed food and elite opinion” – Simon Wroe’s article in the FT, which calls for bans on ultra-processed foods, is just another flashy idea that misses the mark on tackling obesity, says Christopher Snowdon on his Substack.
- “‘Disaster’ for locals as motorists shun car park after 600% tariff hike” – A council has been accused of “raking it in” at the expense of local businesses and residents after hiking charges in a car park by close to 600%, reports Kent Online.
- “New Gail’s store at centre of gentrification row announces opening” – The new Gail’s store at the centre of a gentrification storm in Walthamstow has put up signs featuring a bearded hipster to announce it’s opening, despite a petition from locals to shut it down, says the Mail.
- “Silent prayer could soon become a crime” – Labour’s plan to beef up the buffer zones around abortion clinics would literally criminalise the thoughts in your head, warns Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
- “Fenced in by fear: our world is run by the anxious” – Across Britain, we see all sorts of things fenced off, our way constantly barred by some local official, writes Spaceman Spiff on his Substack.
- “Pupil laptops axed to fund pay rises” – The SNP has been accused of “shamefully” breaking its flagship manifesto promise to give every pupil a laptop after using the cash for pay deals instead, reports the Scottish Express.
- “Scotland’s drug deaths still worst in Europe after 12% rise” – The number of people who died due to drug misuse in Scotland has risen sharply, according to the BBC.
- “The ‘toxic’ chat show powering the French far-Right” – What do you get when a Tunisian Jew walks into a TV channel owned by an ultra-conservative billionaire? You get one of the most popular chat shows in France, which in July lost its broadcasting licence due to thousands of complaints, writes Rose George in the Telegraph.
- “Australia’s eSaftey Commissioner gives the censorship game away on Q+A” – Amid bipartisan calls to tighten the screws on social media platforms in Australia, an appearance by the eSafety Commissioner on the TV panel show Q+A accidentally gave the game away, says Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “Lucy Letby’s case must be urgently reviewed, says Dorries” – Former nurse and ex-Tory Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has urged the Justice Secretary to “become involved” in a growing debate over Lucy Letby’s convictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Doctors sue British tabloid for libel and win first battle round” – Two doctors have scored a major victory in the U.K.’s High Court, highlighting how journalists cover scientific issues and discredit those who challenge the official narrative, says Dr. Maryanne Demasi on her Substack.
- “Doctor who earned £10,000 moonlighting at two hospitals returns to work” – A trainee doctor who pocketed almost £10,000 in sick pay while moonlighting at two different hospitals 160 miles away has been cleared to return to medical duties, reports the Mail.
- “The rise of ‘super healthy’ young women with colon cancer” – Oncologists across the world are alarmed by an obvious, and thus far unexplainable, spike in colon cancer rates among under-50s, says the Mail.
- “Biden’s swan song convention speech is delayed until the dead of night” – President Joe Biden cried and then stumbled over his words during his swan song speech at the DNC before being bumped off primetime, reports the Mail. How the mighty…
- “Transgender Paralympian breaks silence on criticism ahead of Paris” – The first transgender Paralympian has issued a defiant statement about being a “role model” ahead of competing at Paris 2024, says the Mail.
- “Creator of BBC drama Sherwood to make the Sheriff of Nottingham queer” –Sherwood creator James Graham is hoping that a “young, queer and female” Sheriff of Nottingham appearing in season two of the series will help modernise the ancient fable, according to the Mail.
- “Star Wars’ $180 million-budget prequel series The Acolyte cancelled by Disney+” – The ‘go woke, go broke’ mantra rings true as The Acolyte gets the chop amid dismal ratings, reports GB News.
- “National Gallery hires social media influencers to attract Gen Z” – The National Gallery has hired social media influencers in a bid to attract Gen Z visitors and promote its art to a new audience, says the Mail.
- “BookTok row after influencer complains her novel has ‘so many words’” – A row has erupted on BookTok – a TikTok subset hailed for “making reading cool again” – after an influencer complained that the novel she was reading had “too many words”, reports the Mail.
- “How Gen Z uncancelled Michael Barrymore” – Thirty years ago a man’s death at his home ended Michael Barrymore’s career. But now ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ has reinvented himself as the darling of TikTok, say Abigail Buchanan and Natasha Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Security for Sussex faux royal tour cost poverty-hit Colombia £1.5 million” – Local media claim Harry and Meghan’s four-day quasi-royal tour of Colombia cost eight billion pesos, sparking outrage in a country where a third live below the poverty line, reports the Mail.
- “Wise words from Timandra Harkness” – An UnHerd journalist explains why you need to tolerate disagreeable speech if you believe in free speech at Free Speech Union event.
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The ONS refusing to increase data transparency is proof that the Covid vaccines are not safe and/or not effective.
If releasing all the relevant data showed that the vaccines were safe and effective, the ONS wouldn’t hesitate.
Stop Forcing Deadly Electric Vehicles –
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Once the new WHO treaty is passed its game over.
Surely the main story above Is from The Naked Emperor showing the Gov Document bigging up the WHO PPTreaty ! , no time to read it all now as I’m off to work but just caught the paragraph where HMG welcomes Climate change as a health hazard even addressing Tedros Terro ist as DG in an arse licking way !! I think we’ve had it !!!..
I agree.
The tone of this statement, despite it stating the UK will retain it’s sovereignty, means the end of individual sovereignty.
The drive for equity is chilling.
But maybe there is a glimmer of hope. Some African countries don’t like it. Declaring a Monkeypox pandemic turned into damp squib.
If they continue to overplay their hand the people might just ignore.
…and when you can’t travel anywhere or even go shopping – possibly not even access your bank account – because you’ve not provided all your biometric and genetic data or received the latest mandated jab, what then? As Hux says below, this is the final Hill.
Freddy, read my post because its the official gov.uk and only one page long.
Yes you are right, with absolutely NO authority government intends to try to sign away our national sovereignty.
What’s really going on?
‘Russia has been reckoning with a demographic crisis since the beginning of the 1990s due to declining birthrates, an aging population, low life expectancy (particularly amongst males of working age), and high emigration levels. Russia’s war in Ukraine has also impacted some aspects of Russian demographics, particularly as men of reproductive and working age are the main Russian demographic fighting in Ukraine. Between 800 to 900 thousand Russians additionally fled the country after the start of the war in February 2022, including up to 700 thousand after Putin’s partial mobilization order in September 2022. A demographic forecast from the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in October 2023 notably forecasted that Russia’s population will decrease to 138.77 million people by January 1, 2046 and that the rate of natural population decline will exceed 600,000 people per year between 2024-2032, slowing to 400,000 people per year from 2032-2046.’
‘Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanovis…….(accuses) the Russian government of short-sightedness and of prioritizing political goals over demographic issues. “The main thing that has disenchanted me [in 2019] is the authorities’ complacency about everything,” Kasyanov tells RFE/RL. “The authorities do not want to change anything…. They all admit that we have big problems but no one can do anything about them because Putin cannot bring himself to change either domestic or foreign policy.’
‘[People] aren’t thinking about or planning their lives five or 10 years in advance like they did in the early 2000s, when birthrates started rising again,” he says. “Today we have returned to 1998, when there was a crisis situation and people could only think about their lives day-to-day — what should they do tomorrow? Their planning horizon is no more than one year.’
Robert Coalson
Still. look on the bright side…that’s more money available for Putin to dish out to all his oddball cronies across Europe……..
Well done Putin and his supporters……..or not really……..
2024 has been designated the Year of the Family in Russia. I’d say that’s a damn sight more healthy than the genderf*ucked Pride Month, school drag queen hours, child abuse gender reassignment tropes and climate suicide being pushed over here, don’t you think?
http://en.kremlin.ru/acts/news/72792
Hear, hear.
Except that 2024 isn’t really a great year for families in Russia, is it?
So it’s not really healthy at all, given that so many Russian families are being destroyed:
‘An organization named the ‘Council of Mothers and Wives’ was set up following the announcement of ‘partial mobilization’. Its goal was to coordinate activities across the country by relatives of those mobilized, including pressuring the authorities to resolve issues such as men being called up illegally or being given faulty equipment.
The council tried to engage directly with Putin but its members were rebuffed.
…….the council was labelled a ‘foreign agent’ in May of this year (2023) and subsequently closed in July.
Connected via social media, a growing informal regional network joined together wives and other relatives of the mobilized. This grassroots movement is united by a simple goal: to secure the return of their loved ones.
On 27 November 2023, ‘The Way Home’ published an ‘appeal to the people’
It notes that Putin has decreed 2024 to be the ‘year of the family’ in Russia – and the bitter irony of this, when ‘wives wail without their husbands, children grow up without their fathers, and many have already become orphans’.
https://nemoskva.net/en/2023/11/27/manifest-obrashhenie-k-narodu-opublikovalo-dvizhenie-put-domoj-kotoroe-vystupaet-za-vozvrashhenie-mobilizovannyh-s-fronta/
‘Tackling the movement is a delicate matter for the Kremlin, says Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, based in Moscow. “These wives and mothers are not part of the traditional liberal and urban anti-Kremlin movement. Many of them come from Putin’s core base of support.’
My heart goes out to all families who are losing loved ones in the many ongoing wars, and the response by Russian women is entirely understandable. The response by the Russian govt is equally understandable – note I do NOT say acceptable – given the level of censorship and authoritarian control being rolled out globally. It could readily be compared to the silence and pushback in the West received by the vaccine damaged/killed and subsequent destruction of the family and incomes, or to the unvaccinated being labelled ‘enemies of the state’ (which we undeniably were). But in any event, a Year of the Family is still a healthier concept than perverse ideological indoctrination leading to mutilating surgery and sterilising drug therapy of minors, no? Can’t see the Uni Party doing anything like it over here any time soon, it would upset the alphabet minority too much and ruin their ESG scores.
The batty and dangerous promotion to children in this country of ‘gender dysphoria’, a real problem for a vanishingly small number of people (0.005–0.014% of the population for biological males and 0.002–0.003% for biological females) is, of course, an outrage, an absolute disgrace.
‘The year of the family’ in 2024 Russia is, as Russian families themselves state, bitterly ironic when so many more Russian children will become orphans in 2024 as a consequence of the madness of Putin’s war.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/23/ministers-turned-holocaust-memorial-into-controversy/
Given what has happened these last four years and the deaths that will continue to occur in coming years it is difficult not to conclude that in reality this government are actually pushing this installation more as a marker – we are doing it once again – than as a memorial. When survivors of the death camps object we owe it to them to call a halt to what can only be a grotesque and grotesquely expensive vanity project.
One hundred and forty million? Another reason these degenerats polishing seats in Westminster, albeit only occasionally, need evicting promptly.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/who-executive-board-22-27-january-2024
I posted this last night on the Canadian thread which is from Gov.uk. And this comment:
“And here the downright lying UK government confirming they have signed us up to the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty and naturally the revised International Health Regulations.
Sovereignty be damned.
That’s 630 in the H of C and about 800 in the H of L that will be receiving their P45’s soonish.”
Probably the most disturbing news in all of the seriously disturbing last four years. This is the formal announcement that the government intends to surrender our national sovereignty. Which of course makes all of them redundant.
Ladies and gentlemen this is our Hill.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/uk-confirms-its-commitment-to-who?publication_id=602373&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=2lfyy
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/23/shakespeares-globe-misogynoir-trigger-warning-cleopatra/
The correct course of action – BOYCOTT.
One has to ask if this is deliberate race-baiting by the Globe by bringing attention to it and if so, for what reason? If the actress is good had the acting chops to inhabit the role, the colour of her skin shouldn’t make any difference to the performance. This is not the Jada Pinkett version of Cleopatra based on someone’s granny’s opinion, this is Shakespeare, where Olivier has played Othello, for god’s sake. Continuing to import USA-style critical race theory and spurious ‘white privilege’ to the UK is insanity.
FWIW, I saw an all-black version of Hamlet at the Barbican once, it was rather good. Don’t remember seeing any ‘racial sensitivity’ signs up about it though.
“deliberate race-baiting by the Globe”
I suspect you are right.
Win win.
If there is a fuss and a boycott we are all racist neanderthals. If there is no kickback their propaganda has been successful.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/britain-isnt-a-free-country/
What we thought was a free country evaporated four years ago.
Free speech? Thank God for the FSU but what in itself an indictment of the lack of free speech in this country.
Rule of Law – an absolute lottery. Justice? Not much of that about any longer.
And to cap it all we have a treasonous parliament which will shortly be signing it’s own death warrant when the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty and the International Health Regulations Treaties are signed in a few weeks.
Welcome to the Land of the free.
Dr Pierre Kory does a good summary of the alarming issue of spike protein shedding from jabbees with Jimmy Dore (Kory has written several long articles about it on his Substack).
https://rumble.com/v48t8l9-you-wont-believe-the-newest-danger-from-covid-vaccines-w-dr.-pierre-kory.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=4
(First 17 mins, last 4 is just studio banter.)
Gen Z staff ‘miss a day’s work a week due to mental health’
Mental health has changed since my general practice days. I’ve known mental illness cause struggles in daily life until it put people off sick for weeks, months or even permanently. I’ve never known it lead to occasional days off.
I read the Gen X chapter of Jean Twenge’s book on the generations yesterday.
One observations was:
Gen X is the generation that bridges a generation for whom nothing is trauma with one for whom everything is trauma.
“I’ve never known it lead to occasional days off.”
Usually Friday or Monday. The long weekend. It’s very stressful.
“Misogynoir” – you cast a black women into a white role and then blame the playwrite for racism. Presumably they will next cast a man as Cleopatra and then call Shakespeare homophobic.
It seems to me that if the Globe has created a racist play out of nothing by their casting, they should be boycotted as initiators of hate-speech. Or maybe a visit from the thought-police would give them a non-crime record to celebrate.
I couldn’t agree more.
Ooh, I’d like to see them try the homophobic trope, given that men played all parts when the plays were written! (First known Shakespearean women actresses not until 1660s.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/23/keir-starmer-take-knee-culture-wars-blm-rnli-national-trust/
I love this photo, it encapsulates everything that is rank, rotten, fetid and diseased amongst the political class of this country. A nominal party leader with little between his ears who has never managed an original thought in his entire life and who has achieved a prominence beyond any measure of merit and by his side a single mother.
Yes, Ranting as she is nicknamed up North, who desecrates Parliament the moment her foot steps over the threshold – crude, vulgar, uneducated , a massive fistule on the rotting remnants of our body politic.
This is indeed a photograph of our time. A symbol of a once great country brought to its knees by avarice, jealousy greed and hatred.
Kneel and Ranting. A couple for our time.
They’re also silent when Chris Packham tosses out “climate collapse” on Winterwatch, thus contradicting the whole premise of the programme. I’ll believe in climate collapse when we get Autumnwatch in January bemoaning the earliness of the daffodils.
Ha – spotted a couple of patches of daffs and snowdrops just coming into bloom in a couple of sheltered spots hereabouts yesterday. How seasonally appropriate, I thought.
Scanning the headlines of the feeds above and it is just noise, bleating, distraction on symptoms, which is precisely what the administrative state wants us to waste our energy on.
Time for focus, coordinated action, direct democracy, local opposition.
No more talk.
Agree. It’s easy for us to get lost in the weeds. Better to go back to the big picture. Ivor Cummins is good on this eg recent discussion with Dr Malik. We don’t know all the details but TPTB have a long game, indoctrinating the masses and enslaving us. It’s all in the Rockerfeller archive as researched by Jacob Nordengard. They seek to control us by fear of global threats and manufacture distractions like Ukraine and Gaza conflicts to keep us confused and alienated from one another.