- “Asian man who posed as far-Right hooligan to stir up racial hatred against Muslims is jailed” – An Asian man who posed as a far-Right hooligan on Telegram to lure the English Defence League into an ambush has been jailed for more than two years, reports the Mail.
- “Prisoner freed early by Starmer back in jail 48 hours later” – A former actor freed from jail early under Keir Starmer’s prisoner release scheme is back behind bars after assaulting his ex-partner, according to LBC.
- “Starmer is running out of options to stop the boats” – Labour’s interest in Italy suggests it isn’t as confident in the strategy of smashing the gangs as it might have claimed, notes Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “The Netherlands demand opt-out of EU migration rules” – The Netherlands has become the first EU country to demand an opt-out of mandatory EU migration rules to try to reduce the number of refugees coming in, reports the Mail.
- “Quarter of pupils with three Ds at A-level get first-class degrees” – According to the Telegraph, the Office for Students has found that almost half of top degrees cannot be justified.
- “Labour ‘risking security of nation’ with private school tax raid” – Rachel Reeves is under pressure to raise the private school allowance for military families by 20%, effectively exempting them from the tax raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s spiteful war on private schools has betrayed military families” – There are few benefits to Army life and the Labour Government has just removed another, says Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves’s £10 billion windfall raises pressure to drop winter fuel cut” – Rachel Reeves has been given a £10 billion budget boost by the Bank of England, increasing pressure on her not to cut the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance, according to the Times.
- “Starmer initially failed to declare money towards clothing from Lord Alli” – Keir Starmer initially failed to disclose that he received £16,200 of free clothing from Labour donor Lord Waheed All, reports the FT.
- “PM says it would ‘cost the taxpayer a fortune’ if he didn’t accept free Arsenal tickets” – Sir Keir Starmer’s efforts to justify accepting free box tickets at Arsenal are making a difficult situation even more embarrassing, reports Sky News.
- “Keir Starmer’s glaring hypocrisy is why Two-Tier Keir is now a household name” – We can see Free Gear Keir or Two Tier Keir for exactly what he is – the same kind of crooked politician who puts himself before the rest of the country, says Matt Goodwin on his Substack.
- “Socialism means never having to say you’re sorry” – In opposition, Sir Keir Starmer liked to preach about Tory avarice. Meanwhile, he takes every freebie going, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Head of Civil Service expected to resign amid tensions with Sue Gray” – Britain’s most senior civil servant is expected to formally resign next month amid tensions with Sue Gray, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Hope Not Hate embeds itself into Labour Government” – Two of the six trustees of Hope Not Hate have now made their way into Parliament as Labour MPs. And it doesn’t stop there, says Guido Fawkes.
- “Labour councillor caught ‘covered in lipstick’ in illegal sex den promoted” – A Labour councillor who was caught in a police raid of an illegal brothel has been promoted to the leader of his local authority, reports GB News.
- “The gap between those in corporate and public sector jobs and those who are self employed or work in SMEs is growing ever wider” – Despite claims to be champions of growth, the Government is creating working cultures that are anything but and appear to be doing so at the behest of an increasingly privileged nomenklatura, says C.J. Strachan on his Substack.
- “‘I went from middle class to working class after McDonald’s job’” – Kemi Badenoch claims that serving burgers and cleaning toilets alongside single parents at McDonald’s taught her “humility”, according to Sky News.
- “Nigel Farage surrenders ‘all my shares’ in Reform U.K. as he gives up ownership ahead of party conference” – Reform members can now remove Farage, or any other party leader, in a no-confidence vote, reports GB News.
- “The Huw Edwards case exposes the sickening priorities of our justice system” – Why are pedophiles treated more leniently than those responsible for ‘grossly offensive’ speech? asks Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “The tyranny of lawyers” – The big lie is that our courts are above the fray and never beholden to the ephemeral influence of politics, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “U.K. interest rates held at 5%” – The Bank of England has held interest rates at 5% after voting by 8-1 for no change to monetary policy, reports the BBC.
- “High street giant warns of store closures after losing £30 million legal battle” – Next says it could be forced to close stores after losing a landmark legal battle over equal pay, according to the Sun.
- “‘Now we’re afraid of phones and laptops’: Beirut on edge after attacks” – After pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon, people in the capital are wary and expect Hezbollah to retaliate against Israel, says Edmund Bower in the Times.
- “Lebanon warns Israeli invasion will be ‘doomsday’” – Lebanon’s ambassador to the U.K. says the Middle East is on a “perilous path” and an escalation of the conflict could lead to the radicalisation of a new generation in Europe, reports the Times.
- “Israeli jets disrupt Hezbollah leader’s speech” – Israeli jets triggered huge sonic booms during a speech by Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, according to LBC.
- “It’s time to let Ukraine join Nato” – We must abandon the idea that the Ukrainians will do a deal. They have fought too long, says Boris Johnson in the Spectator.
- “Why the rapid death of North Sea risks leaving taxpayers on the hook for billions” – Reeves’s looming tax raid on oil and gas threatens an eye-watering bill for British households, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Why Ed Miliband risks a smart meter shock” – If Labour intends to follow through on its Net Zero commitments, homeowners will not only have to be sold on the benefits of smart meters – they will need more confidence that the devices actually work, says James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda will leave Britain in the dark” – If Labour continues to drive us down the path to Net Zero, none of us should be surprised to see more power cuts, more often, warns James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “SNP scrap ban on woodburning stoves after rural backlash” – The Scottish Government have scrapped plans to outlaw the use of wood and peat-burning sources of heating after concerns were raised by rural residents who rely on them during power cuts, reports the Scottish Express.
- “Abolish the NHS to save lives, institute demands” – In a new report, the IEA calls for the NHS to be replaced with a system of social insurance, given that countries with such models achieve far better outcomes.
- “3.9 million on sickness benefits as Covid continues to take toll” – According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, one in 10 adults of working age are on sickness benefits amid a surge in claims for mental health conditions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ministers have learnt nothing from lockdown” – Teachers should be more present in schools, not less. So why are politicians promoting the opposite? asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Covid emerged from animals at Wuhan ‘wet market’ insist scientists” – Scientists believe they’ve uncovered the true origin of the Covid pandemic – and have rejected the theory that it leaked from a laboratory, reports the Mail.
- “COVID-19 vaccine counting window issues confirmed in Government reports, and they won’t/can’t share the data” – New South Wales’s Covid vaccine data is being slammed for mixing up the jabbed and unjabbed, sparking suspicions of a government cover-up, writes Dr. Raphael Lataster on his Substack.
- “A stunning new paper suggests Covid jabs sharply raise the risk of death or heart failure after heart attacks” – A new Spanish study finds that Covid vaccines might double the risk of death or heart failure after a heart attack, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Collider bias and the problem with vaccine case-control studies” – On the WATN? Substack, Profs Norman Fenton and Martin Neil highlight how ‘collider bias’ can skew vaccine study results, revealing misleading efficacy claims in recent COVID-19 data reanalyses.
- “Brains of conservative voters have larger ‘fear centre’” – MRI scans show that the amygdala – the organ involved in processing negative stimuli such as threats – is smaller in those who see themselves as progressive, according to Health Imaging.
- “Conservatism and human nature” – Conservatives accept mankind’s flaws and value order and discipline, avoiding idealistic visions of a perfect society, writes Bo Winegard on the Aporia Substack.
- “The New Yorker doesn’t care about facts when they’re making shit up about Trump” – The Donald destroyed journalists’ ability to think clearly, but do they even care? wonders Paul D. Thacker on his Substack.
- “Biden-Harris border official claims cover-up as he was allegedly ordered to hide release of migrants” – The former Border Patrol official responsible for securing nearly 1,000 miles of America’s frontier claims the Biden-Harris administration intentionally covered up the ongoing migrant crisis, according to the NY Post.
- “The Amish: a control group for ‘technofeudalism’” – Because the Amish have rejected modern life, they have effectively become a control group for the ills of Big Tech, Big Education and corporatised medicine, says Tracy Thurman for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Free speech under global attack” – A Freedom Research video compilation of global attacks on free speech shows a concerted effort in different countries to push Western civilisation closer to authoritarianism.
- “Man who prayed for his unborn son near abortion goes on trial” – An Afghanistan veteran who “hid behind a tree” near an abortion clinic to silently pray for his unborn child has gone on trial accused of breaching a prohibition on protesting in the “buffer zone” surrounding abortion clinics, says the Mail.
- “Female pianists favoured over men under major competition’s rules” – The jury of the Leeds International Piano Competition has been instructed, in the case of a tie between a male and female contestant, to “consider advancing her first”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Charity head ‘won’t quit’ over hindering of rape victims’ access to female counsellors” – The head of a charity that oversees Scotland’s rape crisis centres has refused to quit after a report found that victims were “damaged” by a policy that obstructed their access to biologically female counsellors, says the Telegraph.
- “Scotland became the laboratory for trans extremism – and it’s not just the SNP’s fault” – North of the border, Holyrood is not alone in capitulating to gender extremism, notes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “How Britain ‘hugely overstated’ its trans population” – For the first time ever, Britain’s most trusted source of statistics stands accused of publishing false census data, says Sanchez Manning in the Telegraph.
- “The trouble with Trafalgar Square’s transgender tribute” – How and why did trans people become the focus of Londoners’ attention on the fourth plinth? asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “The latest fourth plinth excrescence proves Britain has become a self-loathing country” – The long march of gender ideology through the institutions has now arrived at the door of Trafalgar Square, says Lara Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Can a Dachshund be ‘genderfluid’?” – Let’s hope that with the case of the transgender Dachshund we have reached peak gender lunacy, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Schoolboy ‘allowed to identify as a wolf’” – A schoolboy is understood to have been allowed by his school to “identify” as a wolf after suffering from “species dysphoria”, according to GB News.
- “Ricky Gervais has become an anti-woke champion – but is it just his latest act?” – Ricky Gervais has charged into the culture wars – and gained a new Right-wing audience, says Liam Kelly in the Telegraph.
- ““Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest”” – Pressure to ban X is growing in both America and Europe, warns Hannes Sarv on the Freedom Research Substack.
- “A singer in the UK is going viral for taking to the streets to sing the things he isn’t allowed to say on Facebook!” – Matt Wallace flags up a protest singer in Leicester Square on X.
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Woke is evil
He was arrested for defending a Christian Cllr’s right to object to the gender perverts and mentally ill deniers of chromosomes, dna and mitochondria. If the other Cllr had been a Mahometan or Hindu no arrest by the Pervert Gestapo. As in the DisUnited States, the Plod is simply a Gestapo for Gov’t special interests.
What are Cllr Lawal and Stevens doing in the Tory party if they believe in the principal of freedom of speech?
The worrying thing about this story is the extent to which it is now normalised. We have already had victories over precisely this, yet the police are persisting with the same approach. Suella Braverman has even addressed precisely this, yet the police are ignoring all she has said. These stories are multiplying despite crossing legal bounds and no one is held to account. And now, dare I say it, even the commenters annoy me (in the Telegraph not here – here is much better). When they express outrage now they just look to me like birds who, with the publication of the story, have been fed some bird feed and while they are pecking away the real culprits are moving on, setting the next domino in place ready to start the show and flip our world into totalitarianism.
The UK is increasingly a Christophobic country.
There is not one single case of the plod arresting a Mahometan for objecting to the mentally ill pervert cult.
Woke is evil
Sheesh! Welcome to clown world eh?
The decision makers in Plod-world should be made accountable for this nonsense.
Too many things to say about this disgraceful incident and not enough time, therefore I’ll leave it to the late, great George Carlin. He could be talking about any government in the laughably labelled ”free and democratic” West here. As long as governments overreach and employ goon squads to trample all over our liberties and keep us in check basic rights such as freedom of speech and democracy are just one big, fat illusion. A privilege to be given and taken away at their behest.
“Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government does not give a f*** about them. Government doesn’t care about you or your children or your rights or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a f*** about you. It’s interested in its own power, that’s the only thing, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible. Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights or we have no rights at all.
And rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter. You see how it’s going?”
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1695813659883434338
Thanks for that Mogs. Very true.
When’s the kick back going to start…
Andrew Tate and Alex Jones get together and discuss the state of the world, propaganda, control and feminisation of men.
https://youtu.be/aAQ8pKYnsHM?si=Elw__oDPCDWq5XbS
A bit shouty but makes one second guess the relentless attacks. He’s awake.
Wokery in conjunction with the Liberal Progressive virus denies you the right to have an opinion on Equality, Diversity, Race, Gender or Climate. Whoever thought that in a supposedly free country that we would be denied an opinion? If you have an opinion that does not comply with the tenets of the 5 agenda’s I listed you are committing a crime of HATE. —–How totally absurd. I disagree so I am guilty? But this article shows another extension to that absurdity where someone who then neither agrees nor disagrees with another persons allegedly hateful view gets into a spot of bother for saying that person should be free to have his opinion. —–What a dreadful slippery slope where non Progressives will soon all be in the woke gulag.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Your distillation of the current state of play is absolutely spot on.
We now have Stasi ..Official .
Again totally disproportionate Police action .
The law needs changing ..
The people are sovereign. The government is there to serve.
Legally unenforceable manifestos presented at 4 or 5y intervals give governments no right to remove a millennium of rights.
The globalists don’t think so and are laughing at such a quaint assertion. And at the moment they are winning.
As a resident of Northamptonshire I’ll be dropping the Chief Constable a line on the line he has crossed.
I know his PA!
I cannot get my head around this, how is this even possible ?
So police really turned up to someones house and arrested them over a tweet and locked them up for 9 hours.
The police are not fit for purpose,
How many police officers did that tie up in a nice & easy job with no need to patrol streets, a smart middle class family to terrorise with ease and no nasty loudmouthed perps to nick? What’s not to like?
Quite. I hope he sues Northamptonshire Plod. Incidentally, during the Covid nonsense wasn’t it the head of Northamptonshire Plod who threatened to have his minions search people’s shopping for “non-essential” items?
Well it took 6 or 7 to arrest that poor autistic teenage lass who had the temerity to say one of them looked like her lesbian nana. Would they even send that many if some violent thug was kicking off in town on a Saturday night? It’s a chuffing joke. Let it never be said, should you ever have the misfortune to be burgled, that the police can’t be with you for 5 hours due to lack of resources.
Mogs, the plod will not attend household burglary cases.
Well it took 6 or 7 to arrest that poor autistic teenage lass who had the temerity to say one of them looked like her lesbian nana. Would they even send that many if some violent thug was kicking off in town on a Saturday night?
It depends. If bouncers call the police, they’ll usually act, as that’s one of their peer groups. Ordinary members of the public or even bar staff are usually told to get lost. They’re supposed to hire bouncers for protection. But that’s certainly not a racket. No, no, no, this cannot be!
To answer that you need to consider what is going on at a deeper level. Consider, there is a relationship between this and Donald Trump’s arrest. It might sound tenuous, but consider what is driving those two things and that is the level that answers your question. No of course it’s not a single coordinating entity – if there is one they haven’t directly asked for this, but it IS a confluence of interests and philosophies where the centralisation of greed and power is leading the world to a very dark place.
No manpower issues for Northants police, then; though looks like some of them have been ‘wasting police time’ and ‘impersonating a police officer’.
Stephen Mold
Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire
Email- Commissioner@northantspfcc.gov.uk
https://www.stephenmold.com
Please drop Mr Mold a polite, factual line on this travesty.
I hereby politlely request that people self-identifying as Northamptonshire police beings refrain from acting as strongmen for the local Labour party in future, something they’ve been factually doing so far?
No bloody chance of that leading to anything except maybe laughter and some other police forces being tipped off wrt potential troublemakers which could do with some proactive policing. Didn’t you ever wonder why open sale of stolen goods and trading of supposedly illegal drugs is happening everywhere in plain sight? Hint: It’s not because the police alone cannot see this. They just know why they ought to turn a blind eye to it.
He needs to name the scumbag labour councillor.
Isn’t it about time a senior copper was fired for promoting this sort of conduct amongst the lower ranks? Unless and until serious consequences follow this behaviour will continue.
Are the police given any training these days? The incidents where plod goes rogue seem to be occurring with increasing frequency. It’s almost as if they are trained to act outside the law. No surely not…
I’ve just sent Stephen Mold, the Northamptonshire Police Commissioner a message.
Please consider dropping him a polite, respectful and factual message.
Sir,
As Christian who lives in the county I’m frankly appalled by the treatment by Northamptonshire Police of Messrs Lawal and Stevens in this case of woke policing.
For the record, I hugely respect our force.
It seems the Chief Constable is now targeting Christians who hold the traditional Biblical view of homosexuality.
I wish to raise a formal complaint over this matter. As a published author and local speaker who has many Christian friends within the county, I also need to make you aware we feel intimidated by this woke policing. It seems policing ‘without fear or favour’ is no longer the ethos.
Sincerely
Thank you Neil.
Yet another fine advert for the Free Speech Union. It could be one of us next and I am not being glib with that comment.
This seems eminently winnable for the FSU. Go on Toby, tear them a new one!
We’d better all sign up and pay our subs then.
On the other hand, so far as I know the police do not harass the High Street Bible-thumpers that I see and hear every week who warn me of all manner of Evil in the world sometimes referring to activities banned by Leviticus. Perhaps police policy, guided by the Home Office, is to turn a blind eye unless the preacher or tweeter also holds a position of actual political influence?
The clue is he had been reported to the police by a local Labour Party member. Labour party members don’t enlist the police to help them furthering the political agenda of their party wrt to street preachers whose ranting and raving is of no conceivable concern to them. They probably could, though, which is bad enough.
I’m on a roll here … now written to Chief Constable Nick Adderley, copied to Police Commisioner and local MP.
Please do likewise if you can – remember they’ll be coming for you next.
Enough is enough.
Sir,
You will no doubt be aware of the action of your force against Anthony Stevens who was arrested, then held in custody for 9 hours simply for tweeting a link for a petition to defend King Lawal, both Northamptonshire councillors. The context is that King was sharing his traditional, Bible-based Christian beliefs.
For the record, I have long held our county’s police in high regard, publicising its efforts for motorcycle safety on my YouTube channel, the 3 videos now with over 100,000 hits. Your officers have always been highly responsive and effective on the occasions we have needed assistance. As an advanced rider, my mentor and riding buddy is an ex-police instructor. I was best man for a police sergeant’s wedding and have always held the thin blue line in the highest regard.
As a Christian myself of 50 years faith, I am frankly appalled by your officer’s treatment of Mr Stevens, and that in front of his family. This was clearly designed to intimidate, to send a message.
These actions bring Northamptonshire Police into disrepute, clearly abandoning the principle of policing ‘without fear or favour’. It is obvious now that some groups get more favour than others. I would remind you that Sir Robert Peel was a committed Christian and UK law is strongly rooted in Judeo-Christian principles.
I have raised the issue with the Commissioner and hope you focus your resources – paid for by people like me – on real crime and not wokism.
Sincerely
Excellent
Excellent letter. But will it get an equally excellent reply?
The content of the reply doesn’t really matter, Neil has set an excellent example of what we all need to do in our locality in similar cases if we wish to be both heard and the issue remedied. We are in the situation we find ourselves in because good people do nothing.
Response received 29/8 …
Thank you for emailing the Chief Constable, when this matter was brought to the attention of the Chief Constable he commissioned a review into the circumstances and facts. This is a live investigation so no comment will be made at this stage and will await the findings of the initial review.
Regards
Xxxx
Inspector xxxxx
Staff Officer to CC Nick Adderley / Head of Executive Support
Why is Toby Young saying the police have made a serious mistake? Is there evidence that it was a mistake rather than policy?
First question to Police…who has made the complaint?
Isn’t it about time that the ‘complainers’ were clearly identified?
If the police won’t tell you, don’t let them in in the first place…it’s about time that the people who make these bogus complaints were identified, so that they can be equally smeared by the publicity and hopefully successfully sued……?!
Someone must be wondering if Jesus Christ can save these two gentlemen. Chiefly from themselves. An elephant only has itself to blame if it lumbers into a pit. Or gets eaten by a pride of lions.
It’s never wise to defend the indefensible. Burning a book is hardly a matter of speech, free or otherwise. Being fascinated by these book burnings is ignorant. Tweeting a photo of the scripture concerned being placed on the floor would be offensive. Adding the strife of tongues to the plotting of men that is politics is not being slow to speak, as the Christian scripture would advise the counsellor.
Christian virtues do not rule England. If the Christian counsellor had been more aware of the nature of the ‘formidable season’ in which we live, and which, as a Christian he could have learned about quite easily from his Apostle, Paul (2 Tim. iii. 1-5), he could have saved himself a lot of unnecessary inconvenience. And Paul would have advised the counsellor to give respect to whom respect is due.
Book burning is a perfect example of free speech.
Quit rimming the islamists – they hate useful idiots like you as much as they hate the people applying a match to their handbook – you are the kuffar – you are beneath the animals to an islamist.
Before you start with the “not all muzzies” nonsense – consider this
“Radical” islamists demand the global caliphate as soon as possible and by any means necessary.
“Moderate” islamists are happy to wait for the radicals to deliver…
TRUST NOT A ONE OF THEM.
“Someone must be wondering if Jesus Christ can save these two gentlemen”
Save them from what?
Please give examples of “speech” and please clarify what speech you think should be prohibited by law and why.
What “respect” is due, to whom? Why is saving yourself inconvenience a virtue?
Do you think either of the men has committed a “hate crime”?
If you don’t think burning a book is “speech”, consider what action would have been taken had the book being burned been some bland volume such as a dictionary. Do you seriously think any action would have been taken? It’s absurd to think that would have been the case, therefore the action of burning a religious text is quite obviously speech.
So many of these cases seem to result from police not being very bright, and not understanding the laws that they are supposed to be upholding.
This seems to be repeated so often. Time for our Home Secretary to provide unambiguous orders to the police forces that speech upsetting senribilities in others us NOT an offence. This ‘hate crime’ thing has to stop.
The UK Keystone Cops are woefully Incompetent. They don’t understand that the day of reckoning will be upon them.
It seems that the only written part of our constitution is being torn up, the Magna Carta. It is probably the most important legal document ever written, and the fact that the Police do not understand it speaks volumes about their now undeclared purpose. This “hate speech” thing is bad law, made by idiots in Parliament without a clue of life, because pressure groups wanted it to kick back at some “foreign practices” which were criticised by the indigenous population. I am sure you all know what these include, rape, grooming etc.
I found this one of the most extraordinary actions to date by our woke police. I hope the FSU will help this councillor sue the pants off Nottinghamshire Police. It is also indicative that he was reported to police by a Labour councillor, which suggests what we might be in for when Labour next get into power.
Just a piece of advice if this should ever happen to you. The first thing you must do at the police station is ask to see the duty solicitor and not say anything else until you have spoken them.
This is now England . Banana Republic