- “Brazil suspends X after fight with Elon Musk” – Brazil has suspended X after a judge claims it promotes extreme rightwing content, reports the Telegraph.
- “Musk slams Brazil judge over Starlink frozen accounts, X shutdown threat” – Elon Musk’s Starlink says that Brazil’s top judge has issued an order that “freezes” the internet satellite business’ finances in the country and prevents it from conducting financial transactions, according to Axios.
- “Freedom is on a knife’s edge worldwide, as Brazil’s ban of X shows” – Are we headed towards 1984, asks Michael Shellenberger on his Substack.
- “Switzerland: The End of Free Speech” – Ordinary citizens face hefty fines and jail for “wrongthink”, says Nor Bin Laden on her Substack.
- “The global war on free speech online” – On the Spiked podcast, Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the arrest of Pavel Durov, Mark Zuckerberg’s censorship mea culpa, the return of Islamist terror in Europe and Labour’s outdoor smoking ban.
- “The Kamala interview was a missed opportunity” – Kamala Harris’s first major TV interview since she became the Democratic presidential candidate was disappointing, says Amber Duke in the Spectator.
- “Flip-flopping Kamala’s primetime humiliation” – As president, Harris would have to deal with the world’s most powerful dictators, like Russia ‘s Putin. Yet she couldn’t face a middling broadcast journalist like CNN’s Dana Bash without being babysat by Tim Walz, says Andrew Neil in the Mail.
- “The rise and stall of Kamala Harris” – In the Weekly Dish, Andrew Sullivan gives his verdict on Kamala Harris.
- “Who will win the 2024 US election? Polls and predictions” – The Times rounds up the latest opinion polls in the US presidential election.
- “Harris v Trump is Barbenheimer Mark 2!” – I’ve seen this movie before, says Sir Niall Fergusson in the Mail. Or rather, both movies. On one side, it’s: ‘I’m a Barbie girl in a Barbie world.’ On the other, it’s a ‘destroyer of worlds’. Except now it’s the 2024 presidential election.
- “Angela Rayner is spotted raving in a DJ booth on party island Ibiza” – The Deputy Prime Minister was shown dancing on the Spanish party island in a video posted by actress Denise van Outen, reports the Mail.
- “Cronyism investigation launched into Labour civil service jobs” – A Whitehall Watchdog is going to review Labour’s unusual public appointments in the aftermath of the party’s election victory, says the Telegraph.
- “Swathes of green belt land could be used for building new homes” – Classifying areas as being part of the ‘grey belt’ would make them available for development under Labour plans, according to the Times.
- “Ed Miliband is putting Britain’s future in the hands of eco-fanatics” – No one voted for anti-growth, anti-capitalist green groups to use lawfare to control our economic fate, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Why Labour’s four-day week plan could backfire” – Employees will have the right to ask their employers to compress their hours into four days a week rather than five, reports Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Gail’s chairman warns four-day week would strangle businesses” – Luke Johnson condemns Labour’s plans for a four-day week, while a Tory MP says it is “as mad a way to run an economy as a three-wheeled car”, reports the Mail.
- “It’s good news for us, say migrants after Rwanda threat lifts” – Migrants in Dunkirk have welcomed the end of the last government’s Rwanda policy and are now more determined than ever to cross the Channel, according to the Times.
- “Yvette Cooper is now the most dangerous woman in Britain” – If only the current Home Secretary had lost her seat to a Reform U.K. challenger, the country would have been spared her disastrous policies, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Tube drivers’ union threatens strike after rejecting £70,000 pay offer” – Industrial action, if train drivers vote for it, could take place over the October half term and Halloween, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s age of miracles” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray marvels at how little fuss Rachel Reeves’s decision to abolish the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance has caused. Just imagine the uproar if a Tory Chancellor had done it!
- “Reeves’s tax raid on the rich has already flopped” – A near-certain increase in the capital gains levy will raise far less than the Chancellor is hoping for, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Labour is redoubling on the Tories’ worst mistakes – now is the chance to change course” – The policies of both parties on immigration, Net Zero and the economy have failed, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph. This is an opportunity for an agile opposition.
- “Keir Starmer ‘has a problem with women’, say Tories after No10 Thatcher portrait removed” – The Prime Minister faces criticism over his “petty-minded” removal of Margaret Thatcher’s portrait from a room in Downing Street, says the Telegraph.
- “Priti Patel mocks Starmer for removing Thatcher portrait” – The Tory leadership contender says Sir Keir’s priorities “are not on serving the country” but “tinkering at the margins” at her campaign launch yesterday, reports the Telegraph.
- “I bet Maggie’s portrait is glad to be gone” – In his Mail column, Boris Johnson reminds his readers that six months ago Sir Keir was praising Margaret Thatcher.
- “Keir Starmer has a new Iron Lady: her name is Sue Gray” – William Atkinson in the Telegraph predicts it won’t be long before Sir Keir defenestrates Sue Gray.
- “The useless Conservatives are betraying the British public once again” – As Labour wreaks havoc on the economy, the official Opposition has been twiddling its thumbs, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The case against Lucy Letby” – Ignore the armchair detectives – there is overwhelming evidence that she murdered babies in her care, says Christopher Snowdon in Spiked.
- “Lucy Letby and the problem with statistics” – First Fred West, now Lucy Letby. At this rate, it won’t be long before Herefordshire has produced more serial killers than it has miles of dual carriageway, says Rory Sutherland in the Spectator.
- “Charity allows men identifying as women to apply for ‘women-only’ role” – A domestic abuse charity has been criticised for encouraging “men who identify as women” to apply for a senior female-only post, reports the Mail.
- “German supermarket chain takes brave stand against the colour blue in latest effort to stamp out fascism and preserve our democracy” – In Germany, all political parties have a colour and blue is now being banned because it’s associated with the AfD, says Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “Racism or scam? Groups of Travellers are behaving bizarrely in pubs” – Guy Adams in the Mail investigates a new phenomenon whereby Travellers are behaving bizarrely in pubs, then filming the landlord refusing to serve them so they can sue him for discrimination.
- “Gail’s boss breaks silence in gentrification row” – Gail’s Chief Executive Tom Molnar disputes that the chain is ruining high streets, telling the Mail that new branches are welcome 99% of the time.
- “If I only had a brain!” – In a brilliant AI mash up based on The Wizard of Oz, Sir Keir Starmer tells Angela Rainer just how good life would be if he only had a brain.
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https://rks.global/public/files/surveil_2024_en.pdf
Given the state of British democracy (or socialist fascism as I prefer to call it), it would be good to be able to rule out this stuff, below, happening here…..but can we?
‘Russia’s federal censor has been throttling YouTube playback speeds for the last month or so, just like it slowed Twitter data transfer speeds back in 2021. Throughout August, Russian Internet users have reported sudden and widespread outages in access to popular apps and services like Telegram, WhatsApp, Skype, Wikipedia, Steam, Discord, and more. While the RuNet crackdown has become a familiar feature of the Putin regime, its technical side is hard to understand.’
Here you go:
‘For help with the science of Russian Internet censorship and surveillance’
https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2024/08/24/the-science-of-russian-internet-censorship-and-surveillance
Coming to a town near you shortly (in fact no doubt already there for some time!):
‘Rostec has learned to identify the owners of anonymous channels in Telegram and is going to make money on this by selling the service to security forces’
https://thebell.io/rostekh-budet-postavlyat-silovikam-po-dlya-deanonimizatsii-tele-kanalov
Friday Morning Eversley Road & Nine Mile Ride Extension,
Arborfield Green Wokingham
The reason they’ve been pushing Monkey Pox
is they want to put a tail on all of us
This is so disproportionate it’s ridiculous. If JSO did this they’d probably still get the cops leaving them alone, apart from when they bring them water on a hot day, but throw a bottle and you get 2+ years in jail;
”A couple have been jailed for their involvement in the Hanley riots. Ciaran Lockett chanted songs, took part in a sit-down protest, stopped a police van driving through the city centre, and threw a bottle at police.
Partner Deana Evans filmed the incident, shouted and chanted.
Now 34-year-old Lockett has been jailed for 32 months and Evans locked up for 20 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.
Jailing the couple, Judge Graeme Smith said: “The seriousness of the offence means appropriate punishment can only be achieved by immediate custody.”
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/couple-chanting-we-want-country-9521154
Well they’ve started deportations of Afghan failed asylum seekers, including offenders, in Germany. Only 234,000 to go. Then there’s all the Syrians on top of that, plus every one of them gets 1000 euros as a bribe. Let’s see how that works as a deterrent;
”The German left-liberal government is trying to get tougher on immigration after the knife attack in Solingen that left three innocent people dead and a country shocked and angered about the rise of crime among migrants. The steps may prove to be too little, too late, as anti-immigration parties look to dominate the upcoming regional elections in three eastern states.
After years of failing to address the root causes of the problem, the federal government, consisting of the Social Democrats, the Greens, and the liberal FDP, has announced new measures to toughen knife controls and curb benefits for some illegal migrants.
As we reported, a 26-year-old failed asylum seeker from Syria attacked festivalgoers with a knife in the western German city of Solingen last week, killing three people and injuring eight.
The knife attack is the latest in a series of similar violent crimes committed by mostly Afghan and Syrian migrants in recent months. According to a police report, “in relation to the total population, non-Germans are statistically six times more likely to resort to knives in an attack than German citizens.”
Following public outrage, the government has finally decided to take action—although the measures announced on Thursday, August 29th, seem more like a desperate attempt to show something is being done rather than attacking the root cause of the problem: a failure to stop illegal immigration.
Perfectly timed to try to demonstrate that the government is already taking action, on Friday, August 30th, it carried out the first deportation of Afghans back to their home country since August 2021. “These were Afghan nationals, all of whom were convicted offenders who had no right to stay in Germany and against whom deportation orders had been issued,” a government spokesman said.
A chartered Qatar Airways flight bound for Kabul took off from Leipzig airport in the early hours of Friday, with 28 Afghans on board. The operation was the result of two months of “secret negotiations” in which Qatar acted as the go-between between Berlin and the Taliban authorities, Der Spiegel reported.
Each one of the Afghans, among them child molesters and gang rapists, received €1,000 in cash, prompting conservative publication Junge Freiheit to comment:
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/too-little-too-late-german-government-talks-tough-on-immigration/
Brazil V Musk is the main story in this SH1TShow of morning news clips !
When I first encountered the Great Firewall of China as the monumental Chinese Internet censorship apparatus has been known, the last thing I imagined was that any western country would even attempt to replicate such a monstrosity.
Now I think it is practically a certainty that we will have it everywhere in some form or other.
Yvette Cooper is now the most dangerous woman in Britain.
Surely the Torygraph has got this wrong. Wasn’t the most dangerous woman some grandma carer who wanted to burn down the Reichstag or something? Nanny, what did you do on unsocialist media to become a political prisoner?
Poor Yvette. What’s a head girl to do? Tough on pre-crime and the causes of non-crime and she’s a female Cromwell, a Lady Protector. Mercifully releasing prisoners from these reservoirs of evil called prisons and she’s more softly liberal than Jesus of Nazareth forgiving a quisling, collaborationist tax collector. Is there no justice in the world?
As for Reform UK failing to beat the Lady in the General Election, is that surprising when the electorate is supposed to be moved to conservative patriotic fervour by a full-page advert for this party/company in a Thanet newspaper depicting Farage walking with a pride of lions. Even allowing for ‘global frying’, or whatever is the latest temperature check, Clacton-on-the Serengeti is a bit implausible.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/30/the-case-against-lucy-letby/
Well worth a read for the many – majority on here I believe – that are so convinced with Letby’s innocence. I’ve always maintained that only Letby knows, but to ignore all evidence that points to her guilt is a little odd. And I’ll repeat, we would not be having this conversation if Letby was male – Letby would have been banged up, the key thrown away, and, after the usual media and societal denouncement of the evil of men, would have been resigned to the history books.
The Spiked article which you find so persuasive is by Christopher Snowdon, the same Christopher Snowdon who in February 2021 wrote:
‘The vaccines changed everything…within six weeks, everyone who has more than a remote chance of dying from Covid-19 will have been offered a vaccine. This once-in-a-century health crisis is thankfully nearly over.
…Even if the vaccines do not give 100 per cent protection against death – and much evidence suggests they do – they provide more than enough to “protect the NHS”, and therefore to protect us from further lockdowns.’
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2021/02/why-zero-covid-cure-could-be-worse-disease
Christopher Snowdon believed “much evidence suggests” the vaccines “give 100 per cent protection against death”, and now he believes much evidence suggests Lucy Letby is a serial killer. Much evidence suggests Christopher Snowdon is not a good judge of evidence.
Safe and effective
Well that knocks Snowdon down definitively.
I agree. His stance during Covid will (and should) forever fundamentally undermine his credibility.
I didn’t say I found it persuasive. It’s no more persuasive than anything else I’ve read on Letby. And I know exactly who the type of people that write on Spiked are, I don’t need a lesson on that thank you. The point remains, however, that there is something strange going on in people’s minds who seem to have removed all possiblity of Letby being innocent. The fact that an outlet that I detest has condensed the case against Letby reasonably well is neither here nor there. It is irrational to have such complete faith in Letby being innocent, and to ignore all evidence to the contrary.
To bring Covid into the equation is one monster of a strawman argument.
*removed all possiblity of Letby being guilty.
All I’m saying is that it’s impossible to be certain – one way or the other.
Then she’s not guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
And I’ve never ever said she is. All I’ve ever said is that she’s not innocent beyond reasonable doubt.
I note the BBC hasn’t carried the Jess Phillips A&E story.
What a surprise. Two tier ‘journalism’.