- “Tony Blair admits influx of migrants under his premiership placed ‘strain’ on communities” – Tony Blair’s administration almost directly aligns with the start of modern mass immigration to the U.K., writes Max Stephens in the Telegraph.
- “Blair is still in denial about the mass-migration emergency” – Blair now admits that free movement put “real strains” on our society, but accepts no blame for today’s crisis, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Hamas leaders charged by U.S. for role in October 7th attack on Israel” – The U.S. has charged six senior Hamas leaders with terrorism charges linked to the October 7th attack on Israel, reports LBC.
- “‘From the river to the sea’ posts don’t glorify Hamas, says Facebook” – Facebook’s oversight board has ruled that posts containing the phrase “From the river to the sea” did not glorify Hamas and should be allowed to remain online, according to the Mail.
- “Jenrick is the candidate to beat – for now” – The Conservative commitment to a long, barely-watched leadership contest might come back to haunt them, warns Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “History shows Kemi is the right choice for Conservative leader” – Kemi Badenoch is the only candidate to truly grasp the Herculean scale of the reform effort before the Tories, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “‘My 10 brilliant ideas to save the Tories’” – If the Conservative Party wants people to sit up and notice it again, it needs to tackle the issues in life that really matter, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Five out of six pensioners below the poverty line set to lose Winter Fuel Payments” – LCP analysis has found that many individuals below the poverty line are at risk of losing Winter Fuel Payments.
- “Why are we punishing pensioners when Gen Z refuse to even go into the office?” – Blaming retirees for Britain’s mess is as illogical as it is vindictive, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Blundering Labour is about to hammer its working class heartlands” – Our shameful leaders have chosen to reward the public sector, while punishing the elderly, writes Ben Wilkinson in the Telegraph.
- “There’s a sinister lie at the heart of the Labour Government – and it’s finally out in the open” – Keir Starmer is proving that Labour is now the nasty party, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “It’s time for England to cut Scotland loose” – Scotland should fix its own black hole. It’s time for fiscal independence, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Macron’s search for a Prime Minster is a complete farce” – Macron’s intemperate narcissism has plunged Europe’s second largest economy into chaos, says Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
- “Berlin DJ, AfD party members caught destroying democracy and furthering fascism by singing and playing the 1999 Italodance club anthem ‘L’amour toujours’” – Who knew a dance beat could subtly indoctrinate listeners with fascist views? writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Stop trying to make ‘weird’ happen” – The accusation of weirdness is a striking example of the decline of political rhetoric, says Niall Gooch in the Spectator.
- “Putin ally orders scientists to unlock the secrets of eternal life” – Russian scientists have been ordered to come up with anti-ageing remedies by an official close to the 72 year-old President Putin, reports the Express.
- “Housebuilding revolution will fail unless green rules are axed, Rayner is warned” – Britain’s biggest developer warns that Angela Rayner’s housebuilding revolution will fall flat unless the green rules that hinder planning are reformed, says the Telegraph.
- “What happened to your ‘wettest summer’, Met Office?” – In WUWT?, Paul Homewood calls out the Met Office’s May claim of a record-breaking wet summer as a clear case of alarmist spin, failing even to align with their own three-month outlook.
- “This is not ‘leading the world’. It’s economic suicide” – Electricity prices will keep rising if we continue subsidising renewables, making the U.K. less competitive and hurting consumers, warns Neil Record in the Telegraph.
- “Oxford and Harvard study finds no link between amateur concussions and long-term cognitive decline” – A new study suggests that amateur athletes who suffer concussions while playing sports may not face the long-term cognitive decline often associated with head injuries, according to Rayo.
- “The war against the lab leak hypothesis” – At the Brownstone Institute, Prof. Pat Fidopiastis claims that dismissing the SARS-CoV-2 lab leak theory is like O.J. Simpson’s defence – more about spinning a story than facing the evidence.
- “The future of Where Are The Numbers?” – Profs. Martin Neil and Norman Fenton present their new book Fighting Goliath and provide an update on the future of their WATN? Substack.
- “The breakthrough test” – A new prostate cancer test boasts 90% accuracy, but with only 32% of positive results truly indicating cancer, it’s a reminder to look beyond the hype and understand diagnostic limitations, write Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan on the TTE substack.
- “The persecution of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich” – The real reason attorney Reiner Fuellmich is detained in Germany isn’t embezzlement, as authorities claim, but for challenging COVID-19 policies, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “Insight into what U.S. House members are thinking about Covid vaccine injury” – A celebrity’s Congressional advocacy for individuals affected by vaccine injuries suggests that Congress remains staunchly pro-vaccine, notes Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
- “Twenty six Republican governors say ‘We will not comply with… one world control over health’” – Republican governors have joined together to state that they will not comply with the WHO’s attempt to impose a global health policy.
- “Diversity won’t make your company more (or less) productive” – A new study shows that when it comes to performance, there isn’t much to either fear or gain from diversifying, says Zaid Jilani on the Persuasion Substack.
- “‘Trans widows’ reveal heartbreak after husbands came out as trans” – The Mail profiles a new documentary, Behind the Looking Glass, which explores the stories of “trans widows” – women who have split from, or wish to split from, their transitioning partners.
- “Students scared to speak their minds for fear of being cancelled, Oxford dons claim” – Oxford dons claim that university students are too scared to speak their minds in seminars because they fear being cancelled, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gen-Z mean girls are aggressive and progressive” – A new generation of female bullies is rising – young, Left-leaning and ruthlessly determined to take control, says Zoe Strimpel in the Spectator.
- “Has Starmer committed a criminal offence under the Online Safety Act?” – On the New Culture Forum’s Deprogrammed podcast, Toby flags the absurdity of prosecuting social media posts from the riots, suggesting that the Prime Minister himself might be guilty of peddling misinformation.
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Regarding risk aversion the problem is one of balance with regard to imposing that aversion on everyone else. It seems to me that we had fairly well established boundaries, more recently those boundaries have been trampled on.
Indeed. And it is something that both genders (or should I say these days, ALL genders) are guilty of.
‘How else to explain the emergence of ‘safety’ as a sacred value in all areas of public policy?’
Another great article.
I think ‘safety’ as a sacred value also derives from ‘The Precautionary Principle’, itself a product of German, then EU, environmentalism.
Feminisation itself is now under threat from the monster of progressivism; no idea how that one ends.
But nut zero, a product of the replacement of scientific method by radical, expedient, venal zealotry, seems to me now to be the greater threat to the Humanist Democratic Capitalist way of life.
P.S. Mr Young, if you really are intending to take statins, why not set up a debate regarding their merits on here first?
‘….these drugs sometimes may cause neuromuscular side effects that represent about two-third of all adverse events. Muscle-related adverse events include cramps, myalgia, weakness, immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy and, more rarely, rhabdomyolysis. Moreover, they may lead to peripheral neuropathy and induce or unmask a preexisting neuromuscular junction dysfunction.’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9369175/ dated 28 July 2022
Another possible explanation is that socialism as it was having suffered a resounding defeat, people who love to force other people to live their lives in a certain way needed to find new pretexts for doing so.
Aseem Malhotra is not keen on statins!
Very impertinent of me to bring up the matter of statins but, from observation of a relative, I am a bit suspicious of them:
‘There is no evidence that high levels of total cholesterol or of “bad” cholesterol cause heart disease, according to a new paper by 17 international physicians based on a review of patient data of almost 1.3 million people.
The authors also say their review shows the use of statins – cholesterol lowering drugs – is “of doubtful benefit” when used as primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.’
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391
And statins do seem to have unpleasant side effects.
Indeed there is limited evidence linking statin use to cognitive impairment or dementia.
I would say not impertinent at all-
of all places people of sincerity should speak freely here.
It wouldn’t be the only time that the medical industry has oversold and under tested a product.
The “statin shuffle” walk. Also, statins deplete C0Q10 which is needed for mitochondrial function. Bet they are not good for the brain either.
I wasn’t aware that Toby was contemplating taking statins. If Toby reads these comments, please do as Monro suggests. My brother-in-law was put on them some years ago but went downhill in various areas so my sister got him to agree to come off them and they used mineral and vitamin supplements instead. He died last year, aged 96, on no medication, with no pain, in his own home, with good care and those he lived beside him. The pharmaceutical industry gains from as many people as possible being on such drugs, which should make us think carefully before taking them. Has that industry proved trustworthy?
Very well said, and much appreciated.
Mr Young mentioned it in last week’s Spectator.
Research gives very mixed signals, but ‘brain fog’ does appear to be quite common on commencing statin treatment, not, one would say, a ringing endorsement of that treatment but maybe it is balanced out by the benefits?
I agree with you. Exercise and diet are so important. The zeal with which statins are pressed upon the unwary also makes a convinced sceptic even more so!
I am with your last sentence 100%!!
Toby I wish you would stop using the ‘cisgendered’ bollocks. We’ve got perfectly good word for that, it’s ‘man’. You were at it on this week’s pod cast as well.
Thanks for pointing that out and seconded. We must not use the language of the enemy because it is deliberately designed to confuse and corrupt.
Before this nonsense I was aware of the term cis from Cisalpine Gauls, Gauls who lived this side of the Alps from Rome’s point of view compared to Transalpine Gauls who lived on the other side.
Is gender something you’re therefore either on the near side or the far side of, from which perspective, and what does the word gender in this context actually mean?
Your comment is stirring long lost memories of Latin O Level studies!
Absolutely. We must not fall for the language of the oppressors.
Men who believe they have been physically misgendered by evil, supernatural forces are also men. The best one can do with this inane pseudo-theologic terminology is to avoid it.
I’m not saying there isn’t a kind of female privilege BUT we’ve had years or decades of policy wrong-turns by men as well – QE by Ben Bernanke, liberalisation of the banks by Bill Clinton, Iraq war courtesy Bush, Blair etc. Maybe these were all “reckless” male policies as opposed to the “safety-oriented” policies ascribed to women.
I don’t think TY or any of us are saying that men don’t make bad decisions or that all “male” type decisions are good, just that certain shifts over the decades could be ascribed to increased “female” type thinking influencing decisions.
I see what you mean. Fair point.
Fairly based, for Toby.
I’m concerned that without James as a counterfoil, and no disrespect to Nick (surely the greatest podcast host of all time), he will retract into cuckery.
The relish with which he disavows the “conspiracy theory” that the US 2020 election was stolen annoys me every week. Specifically, it is the relish that annoys me.
“Fairly based, for Toby.”
And “based” means what exactly?
Talk about ceding the language.
From what I have gathered it means “talking sense”, but I may be wrong…
“It’s very recent internet slang, used as a compliment. Someone is “based” when they are courageously stating an opinion or otherwise being themselves without worrying that they might be unpopular. A “based” person doesn’t care what other people think. It was used a lot on 4chan and is sometimes associated with that crowd.”
This is one definition offered on Reddit.
Thanks, sounds about right. I’m not against it as it seems like a neutral term rather than a nonsense one designed to deceive, confuse and corrupt.
Just sounds like yet another made up American slang word that’s been exported over here to Europe and insidiously becomes mainstream before you know it. Well, in a certain age group anyway. Kiddo keeps saying ”slay”, like WTF is slay? I keep telling her it means to kill something, although probably more in a ‘George and the dragon’ dramatic type of way than merely swatting a housefly. I blame TikTok.
Historically “base” was a term for the lowest of the low of society. It may be construed that being based means your have reached the lowest level of todays’ society. In King Lear, there is a reference to being base bast**d base and another ref from where I cannot remember other than being a base footballer. I would suspect, that not unlike the Shakespeare reference towards the gutter, the modern one could be construed as from the gutter.
It was originally coined as the opposite of “debased”, I think.
The election actually was not stolen though. No more “stolen” than any other election, at least.
On average, women don’t make policy decisions and hence, claiming that certain policy decisions would be due to women being on average more risk averse makes no sense.
Spot on.
I think it is more nuanced than that. For lockdowns and such, men were the ones who originally imposed them and were most gung-ho about them, while women were the ones who were more likely to maintain such measures long after the curve was flattened. While men were more likely to intiate the the lockdowns, they were also the ones more likely to want to end them sooner. For men, acute lockdowns were a perversion of the hero instinct, while for women, chronic lockdowns were a perversion of the caregiver instinct.
It is entirely possible for both to be true at the same time, however. There is much nuance to this story that gets glossed over. Patriarchy (or androcracy) still exists in some form, but it is gradually (then suddenly) hollowing out as it inevitably gives way to what comes next.
As for what comes next, the late, great Buckminster Fuller, the Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th century, saw the writing on the wall:
https://fullerfuturefest.com/2013/01/14/why-women-will-rule-the-world-by-buckminster-fuller/
What tragic figures Toby quotes. They make me weep, particularly as our eldest grandson (22) currently makes up part of the prison population.
Women haven’t necessarily benefitted from so-called ‘equality’ (in the workplace, in the home, wherever). When was anyone or anything created equal?
Maybe boys fare worse than girls at school because they’re late developers, which is why 35,000 fewer 18-year-old boys will go to university this month than 18-year-old girls. Perhaps men are more likely to be addicted to drugs and alcohol and account for three-quarters of all suicides because they don’t talk about their feelings as freely. And perhaps men make up 96.2 per cent of Britain’s prison population because they commit more crimes (women are more risk averse, remember?) and are 23 times more likely to die at work than women because they are stronger and oftentimes are the ones performing more physically demanding jobs. The Committee of 300 is mostly made up of men who orchestrate the divide and rule Punch n Judy show that has kept them (and the bankers and aristocrats) in power for so long. So don’t worry, you’re still in charge. And yes, there is going to be a minister for men.
Maybe boys fare worse than girls at school because they’re late developers, which is why 35,000 fewer 18-year-old boys will go to university this month than 18-year-old girls.
Assuming this would be true, the conclusion would be that the educational system is stacked against men who are expected to compete against their physical betters at a time when they still can’t.
I think a word that needs to be introduced here is ‘entitled’. Women are far more entitled than men and always have been. This starts early when little girls are treated far better than little boys who “have to be toughened up”. Then, as puberty arrives, we get the curse that boys fancy 80% of girls, but girls only fancy 5% of men. The result is that young men spend a lot of time sucking up to girls who play them one off against each other. So for the first 15 years, girls get treated like little princesses by the whole of society, then from 15-35 men (except alpha men) treat them as goddesses. This used to do much to ‘equal’ the sexes in society. Women retain this sense of entitlement, as a type of defence, for as long as they can – often for their whole lives.
The feminisation of society now means everyone can have a sense of entitlement and judging by the younger generation they have! However, this does not equal equality as men find entitlement and sitting back expecting things to be handed to them, goes against their genetic hard-wiring.
After 10,000 years of doing things one way, the radical feminist have taken society in an entirely different direction. I can’t say it looks good unless you are one of those globalist who are just trying to bring down white western cultures for the greater good.
‘Women are far more entitled than men and always have been’. Says a man. Men want power to get sex, women use sex to get power. It’s called nature.
Women may still be a minority in the chancelleries of Europe – although for how much longer? – yet because they’re so much more confident and morally forthright than their ‘privileged’ male colleagues, they’ve become the key decision-makers. How else to explain the emergence of ‘safety’ as a sacred value in all areas of public policy?
A truly heroic logical leap. Can Toby really think of no other explanation? He might consider, for example, that we have more to lose these days or that this is an increasing litigious society or ….. there must be hundreds of possible explanations. Here is an idea for seeing if women are the key decision makers – count how many of them are in a position to make key decisions compared to men – I think we all know what the answer will be.
One possible explanation would be that this is simply wrong: While the Corona-policymakers used to bang on about safety without end, the policies they actually implemented where all untried, reckless and very harmful.
Some people get mixed up between the words ‘equal’ and ‘same’.
Women and men are equal but they are not the same.