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by Richard Eldred
22 August 2024 12:32 AM

  • “Pakistani man accused of spreading lies about Southport attack charged” – A web developer accused of spreading misinformation about the Southport knifeman has been charged with cyber terrorism in Pakistan, reports the Mail.
  • “Yvette Cooper’s chilling crackdown on ‘harmful’ beliefs” – A war on ‘harmful’ beliefs would give the Government a blank cheque to demonise views that are old-fashioned, possibly unpopular or just not very PC, warns Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
  • “Expressing an opinion is not incitement to violence” – In Spiked, Aaron Terr says the U.K.’s vaguely worded speech laws are a recipe for authoritarianism.
  • “They spouted hate online. Then they were arrested” – The recent anti-immigrant riots in Britain have raised questions about the limits of free speech, writes Mark Landler in the NY Times.
  • “Prison works – if Labour abandons this principle our streets will descend into chaos” – Our judicial system is too ready to give habitual offenders short sentences – and the situation will only get worse with Keir Starmer, warns Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
  • “Rachel Reeves has already run out of cash” – Rachel Reeves has to confront a harsh truth: the state has run out of cash, and cuts will have to begin, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
  • “Empowering unions will stifle growth, businesses warn Keir Starmer” – Business leaders have called on Keir Starmer to abandon plans for a radical extension of union power in Britain amid warnings it will stifle economic growth, reports the Times.
  • “Keir Starmer is being humiliated by the rail unions” – Taxpayers are getting nothing whatsoever for the extra money they are going to be spending propping up a chronically unprofitable rail industry, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “Public sector payouts will worsen our debt crisis” – Taxpayers’ cash is being used to repay debt interest rather than being spent on vital public services, writes Shimeon Lee in CapX.
  • “Labour is losing fiscal credibility ” – Just how much longer will the Government be able to sustain its assertion that the Conservatives left behind a £22 billion hole in the public finances? wonders Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “Left and Right come together to back Kemi Badenoch for Tory leadership” – Two MPs on opposite wings of the Tory Party have backed Kemi Badenoch, saying she’s the only candidate who can “see off” the threat of Reform and “neuter” the Lib Dems, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Private schools urge Labour to delay putting VAT on fees in January” – Private school leaders have asked the Treasury to delay adding VAT to fees in January or risk a “mid-year surge” of pupils overwhelming the state sector, says the Mail.
  • “Third of teachers say GCSE pupils missed exams because of anxiety” – One in five students in England was persistently absent from school this year, failing to attend at least 10% of their lessons, according to the Telegraph.
  • “‘Social justice’ is damaging education” – Teaching at universities is at risk of degenerating into indoctrination, warns John Armstrong in the Critic.
  • “Primary school teacher is banned from classroom after police uncovered offensive WhatsApp chat” – A primary school teacher has been banned from the classroom following the discovery of a WhatsApp chat containing sexist messages, reports the Mail.
  • “Robin Hood in reverse: foreign aid spending in regions that are richer than parts of the U.K.” – Millions of pounds of foreign aid cash have been squandered on projects in areas where people are wealthier than those in the poorest parts of Britain, according to new research by the Institute of Economic Affairs.
  • “Madness and the evaporation of authority” – On Substack, Dr. Hugh Willbourn rails against modern society’s obsession with abstract ideas and rigid policies over practical solutions.
  • “How Israel is clearing Hamas out of Rafah” – In the Spectator, Andrew Fox describes the IDF’s mission to destroy Hamas’s booby-trapped tunnel network in Gaza.
  • “Pro-Palestine protesters who caused £1 million of damage jailed” – A group of Pro-Palestinian protesters who caused over £1 million of damages at a weapons factory have been jailed for a total of five years and two months, according to the Mail.
  • “Pro-Palestinian protesters burn flags and clash with police in Chicago” – Anti-Israel demonstrations continued through the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with protesters burning an American flag and chanting “Free Palestine” outside the Israeli consulate, reports Fox News.
  • “Tory peer distances himself from daughter-in-law’s Israel remarks” – Tory donor Lord Farmer has defended Israel following his daughter-in-law Candace Owens’s controversial anti-Semitic remarks, according to the Times.
  • “Ukraine attacks Moscow in one of largest ever drone strikes on Russian capital” – Ukraine’s drone strike on Moscow, involving at least 11 drones, was described by Russian officials as one of the largest since the war began, reports Reuters.
  • “West risks WW3 if it allows Ukraine to keep attacking Russia” – A top Putin ally has warned the West that it risks triggering a Third World War if it allows Ukraine to carry on its invasion of Russia, says the Mail.
  • “How Britain fell behind in the global race for nuclear power” – Decades of decline have meant the U.K. has fallen rapidly behind in the global nuclear race, jeopardising the country’s energy security in the process, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
  • “Volkswagen attacks EU over ‘incomprehensible’ electric car tariffs” – Volkswagen has slammed Brussels over plans to charge the German car giant higher import tariffs than its Chinese rivals, according to the Telegraph.
  • “New green diktats risk turning me off recycling for good” – We’re already living in an age of anxiety. Ten separate rubbish bins is enough to drive anyone round the twist, writes Rowan Pelling in the Telegraph.
  • “More students asking to sit exams away from main hall in ‘post-Covid phenomenon’” –The Sixth Form Colleges Association reports that, since the pandemic, more students have been applying for special exam access arrangements due to anxiety about crowded exam halls, according to the Independent.
  • “Deep learning analysis of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy on Twitter in six high-income countries: longitudinal observational study” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Dr. Peter A. McCullough highlights Twitter’s role in highlighting vaccine safety concerns in the face of widespread censorship in the MSM.
  • “‘Coding’ errors prompt retraction of paper on Long Covid in kids” – JAMA Pediatrics has retracted a 2023 paper on Long Covid in children due to coding errors that underestimated the condition’s risk, according to Retraction Watch.
  • “Investors beware: MPox disaster cronyism” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone follows the money to find out who exactly financially benefits from the World Health Organisation’s PHEIC declaration.
  • “Assisted suicide and the NHS are a truly toxic mix” – People are right to fear the elderly may face pressure to end their lives to reduce pressure on the NHS, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
  • “Female Barclays bank exec wins discrimination claim against male boss” – A tribunal has ruled that a Barclays executive faced discrimination when her male boss assumed she didn’t want a promotion after she mentioned family pressures, reports the Mail.
  • “What exactly does the gay Pride flag signify?” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, John Leake questions the meaning of the gay Pride flag flying above the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
  • “Labour’s war on history is a war on the nation itself” – Cardiff’s policy of making Wales “an anti-racist nation” by 2030 could turn out to be a prototype for the rest of the country, warns Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
  • “Who is Tim Walz?” – The media have been running cover for Tim Walz for years, says Ann Bauer for the Brownstone Institute.
  • “X’s Grok is the unwoke solution to Google’s Gemini” – You may be disturbed by Grok’s AI-generated images, but the idea that someone needs to stop them being made isn’t just deeply authoritarian; it’s practically antihuman, writes Kat Rosenfield in the Free Press.
  • “Starmer’s claim that these riots were organised by far right agitators was itself fake news” – Toby on GB News says the news out of Pakistan, with the arrest of a web developer for being the first person to falsely claim the Southport attacker was an “asylum seeker”, suggests Keir Starmer’s claim that the “far-Right” instigated the riots was fake news. Should he be arrested for breaching s179 of the Online Safety Act?

‘Starmer’s claim that these riots were organised by far right agitatiors was itself, fake news.’

Director of Free Speech Union, Toby Young, reacts to a man in Pakistan identified for allegedly giving a false name for the Southport attacker. pic.twitter.com/6OfmSwfELh

— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 21, 2024

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Wednesday Morning Mill Lane & South Hill Road Bracknell  

Vaccine Injured Wayne Snaith
you tube
Wayne gives his own personal account on how he believes the AstraZeneca vaccine caused his disability.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago

Morning Campers 👍 Can anyone shed light on a question I’ve posed before & is constantly bugging me – WHY is HMG , Police , Media & anyone on the Left constantly intent on appeasing Iz Lamb ??

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Possible answers (all of which could apply to some degree and in some cases)
1) Genuine respect (unlikely as same respect often not shown to other beliefs) 2) Fear (some people claiming to represent Islam engage in violence in the name of Islam, more so than other beliefs 3) Part of the “white guilt” virtue signalling disease 4) Part of a plot to destroy our civilisation.

Unfortunately it’s one of many topics on which I find it almost impossible to have a sensible conversation with people on (people who disagree with me that is) – it just descends into name calling.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Its a way of suppressing the white populations?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I think covered by point 4 – a means to and end rather than an end in itself – divide and rule.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Point 3 has my vote.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

The answer is Point 4.

Point 3 is being used as a means to reach Point 4.

Western civilisation is to be destroyed in order to facilitate a One World Government. Once the West falls the Third Worlders will fall in to line and will have no choice about it anyway.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Thanks for all your reply’s including yours Hux but my next questions is now posed ??? IF Part 4 is the answer WHY would / do TPTB think that the militant iz lam ists will be easier to control / subdue than us ???

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

The islamists at the moment want to be the dominant force from a religious perspective and would like to be in a position where they could impose sharia but much beyond that they are clueless. Muslims could not run a bath and one look at the performance of the Khant in London confirms this. The reality is that they are and always will be third worlders. It might be the case that Muslims will out populate the native population but they will not be able to wrestle power from what will become an entrenched elite class. And there will be an elite class eventually if we lose this war. For the Davos Deviants muslim populations wrecking havoc across Europe are just a means to an end. Politically they are not seen as a threat.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Good synopsis Hux thanks , I’ve said before that western populations since the War have got used to the good life whilst we were needed to work in factory’s etc ! Everything is now outsourced & we are surplus to requirements but our numbers are many so we have to be crushed .

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

It’s called “The Unholy Muslim-Marxist Alliance”, also called “The Red-Green Alliance”.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  Heretic

👍

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

For any man who’s a father of a daughter whilst simultaneously defending/being a Tate brothers fan AND railing against the Pakistani rape gangs, that’s some sizeable challenge for your cranium to house such an epic amount of cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy *and* a ( allegedly ) functioning brain. Surely your head would explode with the effort, like an over-inflated balloon! LOL Toxic narcissism at its finest;

”BREAKING: “Andrew and Tristan Tate have been charged with sexual intercourse with a MINOR and trafficking of minors.”

“Today, 21.08.2024, the prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Central Structure, together with policemen from the Ilfov Organized Crime Service, implemented 4 home search warrants within the Ilfov county and Bucharest municipality, in a criminal case regarding the commission of the crimes of forming an organized criminal group, trafficking in minors, trafficking in persons, sexual intercourse with a minor, influencing statements and money laundering. The hearings are held at the headquarters of DIICOT – Central Structure.

The action benefits from the support of gendarmes from the Special Intervention Brigade of the Gendarmerie. Specialist support was provided by the Technical and Forensic Service within DIICOT – Central Structure and Special Operations Directorate of the Romanian Police.
We make it clear that, during the entire criminal process, the investigated persons benefit from the procedural rights and guarantees provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as the presumption of innocence”, the authorities say.”

https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1826145902270230824

”Andrew and Tristan Tate are pedophiles, and just had their home raided in a criminal case concerning sexual intercourse with a minor and trafficking of minors.

Andrew Tate admits on video to recruiting 15 year olds for sex and for his pornographic webcam business by DMing them on Instagram.

He’d target 20 per day, per his own admission.

Will Tate promoters like patrickbetdavid and Candace Owens finally denounce these creeps?

What’s the difference between supporting the Tate bros and supporting Jeffrey Epstein?

The answer, of course, is absolutely nothing.”

https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1826230237421543896

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Mogs does this mean you believe all that 🤔

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

The DT has just discovered “Decades of decline have meant the U.K. has fallen rapidly behind in the global nuclear race, jeopardising the country’s energy security in the process”

A couple of decades or three behind the times, DT.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Someone on the Lockdown Sceptics forum refers to MonkeyPox as MoneyBox.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I tend to refer to monkeypox as moneypox.

See the Paula Jardine article I have linked to.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-making-of-monkeypox-part-two/

Paula Jardine at TCW with Part 2 of her look in to Moneypox and as usual it is all about money.

“If there’s one thing you can be as certain of as death and taxes, it’s that PHEICs are all about introducing new pharmaceuticals. This one is no exception. There is apparently a global shortage of mpox vaccine (no surprise there as smallpox is meant to have been eradicated), which Bavarian Nordic uses chicken eggs to manufacture. Expect to hear imminently that phase 3 testing of mRNA smallpox vaccines, or even emergency deployment, is about to start. A manufactured crisis won’t be allowed to go to waste.”

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago

“Pakistani man accused of spreading lies about Southport attack charged”

Again & again we are bombarded with this Globalist Lie perpetuated by Liberal Handwringers Clutching Their Pearls:

” Oh dear me! If only those violent “Far-Right Rioters” had known it was an Ethnic African White-Hating Terrorist who stabbed 13 Ethnic Europeans, trying to murder them all, instead of a Muslim White-Hating Terrorist trying to stab Ethnic Europeans, as they have so often done in the past, everywhere in the West, then they would never have rioted!”

“So that’s why we must crack down on Freedom of Speech, don’t you see?”

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