- “Rotherham grooming gang jailed for total of 106 years” – Seven members of a Rotherham grooming gang have been convicted at Sheffield Crown Court, reports the Mail.
- “Low-skilled migrants cost taxpayers £150,000 each” – The Office of Budget Responsibility says low-skilled migrants are a drain on the public finances, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Left can no longer hide from the terrible costs of mass migration” – Far from benefiting the country, too many unskilled migrants are a net cost to other taxpayers says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer ‘seeks to emulate’ Italy’s crackdown on illegal migration” – The number of migrants arriving in Italy across the Mediterranean has fallen by 62% under Giorgia Meloni’s government. The PM will meet her for talks on Monday, hoping to repeat her success, says the Times.
- “Prisoners released early are already back in jail” – Some of the prisoners released this week are already back behind bars, according to the Telegraph. They were released on license and some have already breached those conditions.
- “Prisoners should jump housing queue to cut crime, says Sadiq Khan” – The London Mayor says the recently released prisoners should be given council houses to reduce the likelihood of re-offending, says the Telegraph. Is he for real?
- “Labour MPs’ Hypocrisy Over Winter Fuel Allowance” – Guido Fawkes trawls through the social media accounts of Labour MPs and finds numerous instances of them condemning the hated Tories for supposedly planning to cut the pensioners’ winter fuel subsidy.
- “The first rule of Labour: if it’s terrible, they’ll do it” – The Labour Party seems to have adopted a grimly predictable modus operandi: “If it’s terrible, they’ll do it”, says Laura Dodsworth on her Free Mind Substack.
- “Police minister’s purse stolen at police conference” – The minister in charge of policing had her purse stolen at a conference about… policing, reports the BBC.
- “Starmer set to leave US without approval for Storm Shadow strikes by Ukraine” – Sir Keir Starmer was set to leave Washington last night without any announcement on allowing Ukraine to fire long-range missiles into Russia, says the Telegraph.
- “The asteroid may finally be approaching the EU” – The Brussels elites have run out of road, writes David Frost in the Telegraph, as it will soon have to dawn even on Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
- “Graham Brady reveals secrets of how five Tory PMs were ousted” – The new tell-all memoir from the former 1922 Committee chief – Kingmaker – lifts the lid on backstabbing at the heart of Westminster, according to the Telegraph.
- “Controversial census claim of 262,000 trans people downgraded” – The number of trans people in the U.K., as assessed by the Office for National Statistics, has been reduced after Oxford sociologist Michael Biggs persuaded the ONS that some of the respondents misunderstood the question, says the Times.
- “National Trust under fire over artwork that looks like ‘pile of poo’” – The National Trust has come under fire for hosting an art installation that has been compared to a “big pile of poo”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Households face £630 million bill as Miliband takes control of Britain’s electricity network” – Ed Miliband has announced a £630 million deal that will see the Government take control of the national electricity grid, with the cost being borne by households via increased energy bills, reports the Telegraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: Another £12 billion down the Net Zero drain” – Paul Homewood in the Conservative Woman documents another instance of our climate change-obsessed ruling class spunking taxpayers’ money up the wall.
- “Plans for Britain’s first coal mine in 30 years scrapped after landmark legal defeat” – Approval for Britain’s first coal mine in 30 years was “legally flawed”, says a High Court Judge in victory for climate activists, according to the Telegraph.
- “Fiat pauses production of electric 500 city car due to slump in demand” – Fiat has suspended the production of its electric 500 model for four weeks due to a slump in demand, says the Mail.
- “Britain needs energy abundance – that means going nuclear” – James O’Malley in CapX says the Labour Government needs to start turbo-charging nuclear energy.
- “Swiss Parliament adopts motion to “immediately suspend” support for UNRWA” – The Swiss Parliament’s lower house, the National Council, adopted a motion earlier in the week to “immediately suspend” support for UNRWA, reports UN Watch.
- Suddenly we’re in the grip of a 1970s-style brain drain” – Like a great murmuration of migratory birds, the millionaires of Britain are massing in the departure lounges, writes Boris Johnson in the Mail. They are revving their private jets and stubbing out their Cohibas in the bars of Mayfair.
- ”Doctor who helped convict Letby previously said there was ‘no objective evidence’ against her” – A doctor whose testimony helped convict Lucy Letby had previously said that there was “no objective evidence” against the nurse, says Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
- “Carol Vorderman’s manifesto is lazy, narcissistic and deeply depressing” – Savage, one-star review of Carole Vorderman’s new memoir by Kara Kennedy in the Telegraph.
- “Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments” – In Quillette, Greg Lukianoff sets out how to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.
- “German Foreign Office try to dunk on Trump’s debate performance but get their numbers wrong and provoke the ire of a close adviser to the man who may well be the next president of the United States” – On Substack, Egyppius criticises the German Foreign Office for siding with the ABC ‘moderators’ in the US Presidential debate.
- “Resistance is Futile!” – Douglas Adams would have noted the link between the Labour Party and 1978, says Mr Chips on his eponymous Substack. And it’s not what you think.
- “U.K. could follow Australia in banning social media for young teenagers” – U.K. Ministers are considering ways to prevent children under the age of 16 from accessing harmful content online, citing its impact on mental health, reports the Times.
- “Scenes from the literary blacklist” – Widespread censorship is killing America’s literary community, say Elizabeth Kaye Cook and Melanie Jennings in Persuasion.
- “Nigel Farage lashes out over fears he could lose GB News job” – Politicians’ media appearances are under scrutiny as part of efforts to improve standards, reports the Telegraph.
- “Oxbridge told to cap private school intake at 10% of admissions” – A new book about the British class system suggests using a lottery of the best performing 5% of pupils to select future students at Oxford, Cambridge and the Russell Group universities and capping the total number so it’s no more than 10% of the total, according to the Times.
- “Commonwealth chief candidates all back slavery reparations” – All three contenders to replace Baroness Scotland as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth want Britain to make amends for colonialism, says the Times.
- “Protester who joked she’d be deported is given community service” – Shenissa Govanni wore a black and white T-shirt displaying an image of one of Hamas’ spokespeople, Abu Obaida, at the London march on February 17th, reports the Mail. But she was not sent to prison. Two-tier criminal justice system?
- “Pope says Kamala Harris supports ‘killing babies’” – The 87-year-old has said the election is a choice between two evils for the American people, with Kamala being the more evil of the two, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Grand Tour was the last gasp of un-woke TV for dads” – After 22 years, Clarkson and co have split up for good, reports Michael Deacon in his Telegraph column. Is this the last we’ll ever see of them?
- “Australia threatens fines for social media giants enabling misinformation” – The Australian PM, Anthony Albernese, says the Government will fine social media companies for allowing ‘misinfrormation’ to appear; according to Reuters.
- “’This for me is a spectacular blunder’” – Rakib Ehsan rails against the ONS for over-estimating the number of trans people living in the UK.
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Mmmmmmmm, the Covid is strong, in this one.
Best wishes to all for a gradely chocolate weekend.
And to you, too. Good tidings of some sort would be very welcome.
Hope you have a grand Easter weekend AE.
Thank you.
First of all: downvoter, I hope you enjoy those vegan easter eggs carved from turnips.
Second of all: huxley, I do believe you left a reply comment for me the other day. It was an advisory comment, if I can say that without triggering anyone, but I got distracted and by the time I logged in the comment had been removed. Just wanted to say I did see it and thanks for the suggestion.
How do you know when someone has replied to a post, without scrolling through to find it? This site is unusual in not advising of replies and votes… or, have I got some settings wrong?
Click the bell icon on the left of “post comment” before you post and you’ll get notified of replies.
Thank you… I hadn’t even noticed it!
Thanks Gregory. All the best.
Downvoters are out in numbers today I see. They seem unusually agitated by the reference to chocolate and the expressing of best wishes. Maybe some sort of Easter trauma? Anyway, thanks Huxley for the good vibes.
Or perhaps they just find these kinds of comments twee, unnecessary, self-indulgent, faintly embarrassing and diluting of the high quality of on-topic commentary and analysis below the line here. Also, didn’t people stop wetting themselves with excitement over being first poster in about 2003?
Thank you for being brave enough to say, loopDloop. Increasingly tiresome to have to scroll past this drivel every single b___ day, from a few people who have decided the btl section of this site is their own private chat room for some reason.
Some of the comments from some of the members are absolute drivel and that’s without the trolls and idiots responding to them, but I rarely post a rude response.
I suspect there are some of us on here who like to think we have a connection, however tenuous, with fellow posters.
Perhaps it’s a weird humanity type thing which is becoming increasingly rare these days.
Maybe The Groan would be more to your liking.
How very strange to see this expression of such distaste and a sense of martyrdom to others on Good Friday.
Greetings, when they are offered, are pleasant interactions with others; who may respond or not as they choose. Fancy thinking of that as “drivel”.
Those greetings would take, for the slowest of readers, a maximum of ten seconds to “scroll past” (that’s if it’s read out loud). I had no idea that ten seconds could be tiresome!
We live and learn, hp. However, I’m unconvinced by the reprimands and wish to let you know that I shall happily respond to greetings offered by you and any other offenders.
They make me smile. If that’s twee, unnecessary, self-indulgent, faintly embarrassing and an indication of a very low-quality person who doesn’t know any better, so be it.
Many thanks for your kind and thoughtful response.
I agree that for those who don’t enjoy the salutations it is seconds to scroll past. Trolls hi-jacking threads and destroying them is far more annoying.
I shall continue with my attempts at communal uplift as circumstances permit.
I should add that, thanks to your wise counsel (and my earnest and necessary efforts at self-improvement), I no longer respond to trolls: NO MATTER WHAT THE PROVOCATION!!!
I might try an experiment. I think I’ll come on here every morning and declare “F*ck you!” Just that alone as my greeting. I’m going to see if I can accumulate more dislikes than you and Hux with your “Good mornings”. Because you guys may as well be swearing like troopers, the amount of ‘thumbs down’ action you get!
I would back you all the way Mogwai.
Much appreciated.
100% concur!
The misery guts are crawling out the woodwork finally. Took them long enough to own up to their petty, childish behaviour.
And the really odd thing is that we know who they are now they have identified themselves.
Wonder if they are the downtickers?
Dead right!!
Seconded.
I love to see the greetings.
What is wrong with a bit of community – especially when it seems to be what TPTB seem determined to eradicate?
I know, Deborah T.
And I think it is brilliant! I love it!
You know, we have been subject to some of the most depressing and profoundly disturbing events in human history these past two years. One of the things that keeps me going is the belief in human beings and our ability to connect at the heart level. Huxley and others, myself included, have been involved in commentary of the type you mention here on many, many occasions. However, it’s refreshing sometimes to come up from the trenches and breathe some fresh air. To denigrate what is an entirely human interaction as ‘twee, unnecessary…’ etc is perhaps missing the point of the last two years.
My feelings precisely – beautifully put.
I have seen distaste and vitriol poured out on this site for entire nationalities. I don’t agree with that, but I understand that people are angry; that anger can lash out in all directions; and that anger is human.
Saying “Good morning” here is a verbal equivalent of smiling at others. That is also human. I understand that there are those who disapprove, and I’m sorry that they find it so distasteful. But not so sorry that I shall desist from responding to such warmth.
They’ll just have to go on scrolling through the tiresome offensiveness; perhaps sparing the time for a downtick along the way.
I hope you have a very pleasant weekend, Aethelred.
You can only imagine what these face-aches are like in real life, right?? LOL
Thanks, AE! You too.
Appreciate your well considered response and wholeheartedly second.
Quite right. If people can manage to keep their peckers up, and exchanging some pleasantries and warm greetings on here makes just a bit of difference to somebody to lift them out of the doldrums then I say, “Sod the miserable buggers!” Face like a slapped arse, the lot of ’em!
Thank you kindly Aethelred. A pleasant Eater weekend would be appreciated by many I’m sure.
…Proves beyond doubt that the NHS is beyond repair and urgently needs to be reformed – but not in the way they want to steer it.
It needs to be purged of politics – particularly the sort that favours global communist control and eradication of the British people.
Have a look at Taylor’s CV and look left. Has he any medical expertise? You would get more sense out of a bowl of cornflakes.
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I know meme bait when I see it!
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by Paul Homewood
(let’s not forget CO2 is vital for all Life on Earth)
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What is Conversion Therapy?
Is it being strapped down, like Alex in Clockwork Orange and having electric shocks administered, in an attempt to persuade you that you are not gay?
Or, is it having your genitals and breasts removed, or modified in an attempt to show that you can literally convert your body from one sex to another?
I may not be in favour of either, but I know which is worse…
Hmm, actually it’s the other way around Mr. Taylor: the ‘health service’ needs a clear message about early treatment protocols for Covid that save lives, instead of checking whether people spit blood several days after catching the bug.
Mr Taylor needs to be reminded of who pays his wages and who funds the NHS, and crucially what the primary role of the NHS is.
Matthew Taylor is a useless, dumb bureaucrat : this man
still thinks wearing masks on the underground stops Covid!
If he is so poorly informed about such a matter then he should be sacked. A prime example of what is wrong with the NHS.
Yep – as he has moved on from one sinecure to another, he has become progressively more evil. I would say that the sewer needs draining except that that, literally, is where he belongs.
Matthew Taylor is in desperate need of Conversion therapy because his understanding of the purpose of the NHS is decidedly arse about tit.
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2022/04/14/what-defines-a-good-drug/
Worth a read, discussing the pros and cons of commonly used drugs in terms of their benefit to the patient and the possible side effects of taking them. Eye-opening!
Great article MM.
“the average 70 year old who is on five drugs continuously will probably at best only benefit in any measurable way from one of those drugs. The other four are not providing any benefit, they’re just contributing to side effects (which become increasingly likely, and increasingly deadly, the older you get). Things get even worse when you consider that drugs interact in unpredictable ways to increase the risk of side effects, so the risk of harms increases exponentially with each additional drug added. Which is why it used to be considered bad form to have a patient on more than five drugs simultaneously.”
Worried me a little when I think of the people I know living on carrier bags of meds their GPs prescribe for them.
And if this is the case for pharmaceutical drugs then what on earth must it be for mandated jabs???
One size fits all is no way to practice any kind of healthcare when you consider the massive differences between every man and woman due to gender, life experiences, diet etc and all of the impacts those things have on gene expression.
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I just wanted to share an upsetting experience on a crowded mainline train yesterday afternoon.
On the seat behind me, there was a masked woman (probably one of only a handful using masks on the whole packed train), who was refusing to let anyone use the seat next to her. She was complaining in a loud voice that she was terrified of Covid, that it was irresponsible of the train company to run such a crowded train, and couldn’t possibly let someone sit next to her. She was challenged several times in the course of the journey by standing passengers. From her reaction, she thought she was being entirely reasonable. I heard her weeping for about twenty minutes and then she phoned a friend for sympathy about the way she had been treated,
My reason for posting this here is to demonstrate the degree of unnecessary anxiety that has been induced in people especially those that were previously vulnerable anyway (as I suspect was the case here). If it were happening in other circumstances it would be called abusive behaviour and open to criminal charges.
Hypochondria is a debilitating condition. It has been triggered/induced/validated/encouraged/channeled by the evil lies
The government deliberately tried to induce what is effectively some sort of OCD / anxiety disorder – and ‘evil’ is definitely the right term for that. Those who are unfortunately familiar with this type of condition are likely to have spotted what they were up to at once.
…and only around 2 years later than we should have.
NHS Confederation Chief Executive Matthew Taylor: The logical conclusion of what he’s saying is permanent health fascism – we’ve had multiple “vaccines”, lockdowns, masks and we now need them forever because people will keep getting covid because of variants and weakened immune systems. Exactly as predicted two years ago – another conspiracy theory.
Perhaps Mr Taylor should go and have a look at how the Swedish NHS is doing.
Don’t panic, this doesn’t mean people were not at it like rabbits. It means the Cult of Death still marches on, and, naturally, we had a record high number of babies murdered in the womb in 2020:
‘210,860 abortions were reported in England and Wales in 2020, the highest since records began.’
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2020/abortion-statistics-england-and-wales-2020
While society was ‘so concerned’ with the preservation of human life, we had the most murders in the womb carried out since records began. The Cult of Death was not going to allow a pseudo pandemic and its ‘efforts to save lives’ to get in the way of its mass genoicide of the unborn:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2020/abortion-statistics-england-and-wales-2020
Feel warm and fuzzy yet?
Think of the perverted self-contradiction and self-deception involved in a society that pretends to care so much for human life yet marches on relentlessly murdering human life in the womb. Our society does not value human life at all; ours is a culture of death.
No society that justifies the murder of human life in the womb has the moral resources at its disposal to pontificate on the value and preservation of life.
Heart rending but thank you for posting.
Did any women die / end up injured as a result of using those drugs without medical checks first?
And what about the women who have had their fertility trashed by the jabs who cannot go on to carry a baby or who were jabbed when pregnant and go on to deliver a franken-type baby.
The level of evil all around us is mind blowing.
Mr Taylor needs to get back in his box. So far as I can see, the ‘NHS Confederation’ is simply another layer of bureaucracy, and offers no medical input that might be useful to either an NHS employee at any level or a patient.
It appears to be simply a membership body, like a union, but without the potential usefulness. In short, a gravy train. I bet there are some fab annual ‘conferences’ that are all expenses paid for the NHS bigwigs who attend.
In fact, a quick online search reveals that while doctors are doctoring and nurses are nursing, the administrators and ‘leaders’ will be on a two-day NHS Confederation p1ss-up in Liverpool in June this year. So if you have an op booked for 15 or 16 June (or, say a week afterwards, bearing in mind the hangovers), I’d be prepared for postponement and cancellation as I expect the ‘systems’ will be down.
Here are this year’s ‘Expo’ themes, taken from the website: (the tl:dr is: waffle, pointless drivel, who can we sell personal data to, and more waffle)
The keynote speaker is a gentleman called David Olusoga. Mr Olusoga is a historian, broadcaster and filmmaker. His most recent TV series include Empire (BBC 2), Black and British: A Forgotten History (BBC 2), The World’s War (BBC 2), 3 seasons of A House Through Time (BBC 2) and the BAFTA winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners (BBC 2). All not really in the slightest relevant to running a hospital, but very interesting no doubt.
The event is sponsored by Palantir, a US software company specialising in ‘big data analytics’, and by Google Health, which is a LOL if ever I’ve heard one (data harvesting, I imagine).
Everyone’s welcome, so you can buy a ticket (900 quid if you’re not a member or can’t rustle up any accreditation by some charity or another), though it’s members or NHS only at the conference dinner, soz (so you won’t be able to see your local NHS CEO on the pull and grass them up).
link: https://www.nhsconfed.org/events/nhs-confedexpo
I am lost for words.
Taxpayers, WE, are paying for this crap.
Covid “positive” tests; the gift that never stops taking.
Our local branch of Lloyd’s Bank in a tiny South Shropshire town with a staff of 3 and sometimes only 2 and which only opens 3 days a week never goes a full month without a sign appearing in the window stating that “This branch is temporarily closed due (wait for it) to one of our staff testing positive, blah,blah, etc etc”
Like I say: The gift which never stops “taking the p×ss!
Which pushes everyone online and then you get a message along the lines of: ‘Due to exceptionally high demand, you may experience long waiting times…’
The Zionazis are shooting people today in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound – so far “only” with rubber bullets, but more than 100 have been injured.
Meanwhile, Sweden and Finland may apply to join NATO.
And “someone” may have sunk the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet.
So all in all, things are coming along nicely.
The Palestinians are the Nazis, they wave the swastika at Israel, they are the haters of Jews, Hitler is extremely popular in Islam.
Your smear of Israel as Nazi is quite revealing.
Your leftism is showing.
Matthew Taylor of the NHS Confederation is a bog standard leftie agitator. What’s the point of having Tory governments if these bolshies are still in positions of power?
So the “science is grey” now, is it? For the last two years it has been so clear cut and settled that you ran the risk of having your career terminated for suggesting otherwise. Maybe Walensky should now share the fate she was happy to see inflicted on others.
Given what has been forced on the people of the world these last two years I consider this a somewhat restrained response.
Termination only of her career?
Chunt !!!!
It seems so easy for a few dozen reincarnation-head poshies from Extinction Rebellion Yah to take over the bridges in one of the world’s leading cities that maybe Vladimir Putin should offer them a job in the Ukraine?
Oh wait – the London bridges weren’t defended against such types.
Does anybody know what MI5 do all day?
I think that sums up the situation very well.
Extinction rebellion state actors? Never.