- “Antisemitic hate crimes rise at eight times the rate of Islamophobia in wake of October 7th” – The number of antisemitic hate crimes in the U.K. has more than doubled in the year to March 2024, from 1,543 to 3,282, a 113% increase and the highest on record, reports the Telegraph.
- “The terrifying rise in Left-wing antisemitism has been laid bare” – The progressive Left are more likely to sympathise with terrorist group Hamas than Israel, according to a new poll. Should we be surprised? wonders Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Gaza protesters target Picasso and spill paint at National Gallery” – Protesters have tried to paste a photograph of a Gazan mother and child over a Picasso painting at the National Gallery to demand a two-way arms embargo on Israel, reports the Standard.
- “These art vandals are just self-indulgent idiots” – Believing yourself to be uniquely virtuous does not give you the right to behave like a mindless lout, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Amazon criticised as Tommy Robinson book tops bestseller chart” – Amazon has been accused of funnelling “thousands of pounds into the pockets of Britain’s best known far-Right extremist” after Tommy Robinson’s latest book topped its bestseller charts, reports the Guardian.
- “Guardian deletes controversial October 7th review” – The Spectator’s Steerpike reveals that the Guardian has spiked its review of One Day in October, a gripping documentary on the Hamas terror attack, after it sparked a furious backlash.
- “Sadiq Khan under fire for allowing Tube advert of Islamic preacher burning dollars” – Transport for London has been criticised for allowing adverts on tubes and buses that show a controversial Islamic preacher holding a briefcase full of burning U.S. dollars, says the Telegraph.
- “A nation without faith ends up killing its infirm” – For believers and non-believers alike, our society’s core values are underpinned by Judeo-Christian morality, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Jenrick urges Tories to ‘get serious’ on immigration in leader battle” – Robert Jenrick warned the Tories “won’t survive” unless they “get serious” about immigration as the leadership battle enters its final phase, reports the Mail.
- “Tory blame game erupts after Cleverly crashes out of leadership race” – From Grant Shapps’s spreadsheet to claims that James Cleverly spent too much time in the pub, the Tory blame game has broken out in earnest, says Daniel Martin in the Telegraph.
- “Centrist Conservative group refuses to back Badenoch or Jenrick” – Senior Conservatives warn of a potential party split if Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick adopt a populist leadership style, after the party’s centrist group declined to endorse either candidate, reports the Guardian.
- “The age of the Tory centrists has ended” – The Tory party has a new opportunity to change the shape of mainstream political discourse, just as it did so memorably a generation ago, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Lord Alli investigated over undeclared role in tax-haven firm” – The Labour donor at the heart of Keir Starmer’s freebies row is facing an expanded investigation by Parliament’s standards watchdog, reports the Times.
- “Yvette Cooper wants to lock up your sons” – In the Spectator, Toby slams Yvette Cooper’s proposed changes to the U.K.’s counter-terrorism strategy, specifically her suggestion to broaden the definition of extremism to include “misogyny”.
- “Liberals are not just stupid – they’re dangerous” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle skewers the absurdities of immigration policies.
- “Britain is sliding towards an alcohol ban. Don’t say we weren’t warned” – With tobacco now facing literal prohibition, drinkers are likely to be next in the firing line. Enjoy the pub while you still can, says Christopher Snowdon in the Telegraph.
- “Tax raid fears spark £1.1 billion withdrawals at City fund giant” – One of the U.K.’s top asset managers has blamed fears of a tax raid in Rachel Reeves’s upcoming Budget for sparking withdrawals of £1.1 billion from its funds, according to This is Money.
- “A simple person’s take on tax” – On Substack, Alex Klaushofer urges citizens to question the purpose and accountability of taxes in a system that feels increasingly detached from the public good.
- “British intel’s censorship war goes global” – On the Global Delinquents Substack, Kit Klarenberg reveals how the U.K.’s Counter Disinformation Unit (now renamed as the National Security and Online Information Team) is spearheading a global campaign to manipulate narratives and crush dissent in the name of combating misinformation.
- “‘I received death threats, but tougher hate speech laws are not the answer’” – Australian lockdown sceptic Gigi Foster says she received death threats during the pandemic, but doesn’t believe Victoria’s draconian anti-hate speech laws are the answer.
- “The good soldier Svejk: a hero for troubled times?” – On his Air Power Delusion blog, Neil Datson takes a satirical look at the decline of modern Britain through the lens of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s downfall.
- “Ofgem blows £3.5 million a year on empty office” – Ofgem pays £3.5 million a year for its luxury Canary Wharf offices despite seven out of eight of its employees working from home on a typical day, reports the Telegraph.
- “Anger at U.K.’s ‘bonkers’ plan to reach Net Zero by importing fuel from North Korea” – A U.K. plan to burn biomass imported from countries including North Korea and Afghanistan has been described as “bonkers”, with critics saying it undermines the credibility of the U.K.’s climate strategy, says the Guardian. Credibility?
- “Ed Miliband unlocks billions to build giant dams across Britain” – A string of giant dams are to be built across Britain’s mountain landscapes after Ed Miliband offered developers billions of pounds in support for the projects, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ron DeSantis’s climate bill has nothing to do with Hurricane Milton” – Hurricane Milton threatens to be a mortal threat for those in its path. It also appears to be a stick to beat Florida governor Ron DeSantis, notes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Spain threatens to bring in hard border at Gibraltar” – Spain is insisting the U.K. accepts a “generous” post-Brexit deal which would either see Spanish troops stationed in Gibraltar or a hard border, reports the Mail.
- “Desperate China is gearing up for a war with the West” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Henderson warns that China’s economic woes are driving Xi Jinping towards dangerous aggression that could spark conflict with the West.
- “CBS editing of Harris ‘word salad’ gives Trump cause to bash media” – Donald Trump’s campaign is calling for CBS News to release the full transcript of Kamala Harris’s interview on its flagship 60 Minutes show after it edited out a “word salad” answer and substituted a more snappy response, reports the Times.
- “Kamala Harris may be panicking: she knows Donald Trump is winning” – If you judge solely by the behaviour of the two candidates, former President Donald Trump will return to the White House, writes Jim Antle in the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Letby: police and CPS handling of case raises new concerns about convictions” – As the Thirlwall inquiry continues to hear evidence, the questions about the safety of Letby’s convictions are mounting, say David Conn and Felicity Lawrence in the Guardian.
- “The world is heading for doomsday – and humanity for a brush with extinction” – Modern living may turn out to be incompatible with sustaining the human population, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Government interventions linked to higher excess mortality – vaccines show no positive effect on all-cause mortality” – New analysis of 2020-2023 all-cause mortality data suggests that stringent lockdowns, rising poverty and pre-existing health issues were the main drivers of increased excess deaths, writes Ben on his USMortality Substack.
- “Walz’s COVID-19 legacy” – Governor Walz’s tenure during the Covid crisis was a stark lesson in governance overreach, lack of accountability and fiscal irresponsibility, says Anita Jader for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Pro-life buffer zone residents could face £10,000 fines” – The Spectator’s Steerpike reacts to Scotland’s SNP slapping fines on anti-abortion views being expressed within 200 metres of clinics, all under the guise of protecting free speech.
- “White Islam convert ‘told to remove hijab at work’ sues for discrimination” – A British convert to Islam who claims she was ordered to remove her hijab by her employer is claiming she was racially discriminated against because she is white, reports the Telegraph.
- “Student Suhel Ali who called Bukayo Saka a ‘monkey’ is let off because he ‘was not intending to be racist’” – A black law student who called England star Bukayo Saka a ‘monkey’ in an online rant was spared jail after insisting he was not being racist, according to Court News U.K.
- “Fury over Nottingham Building Society’s ‘inclusive’ rebrand” – Nottingham Building Society has become embroiled in a wokeism row after removing Robin Hood from its logo as part of an “inclusive” rebrand, reports the Sun.
- “‘My friend, Amy Wax, the pariah’” – In the Spectator, Lionel Shriver goes to bat for her friend, Amy Wax, a University of Pennsylvania law professor who has faced censure for her remarks on race and sex.
- “‘This would be a huge betrayal of academic freedom’” – On X, Claire Coutinho signal boosts Labour MP Graham Stringer’s claim that Chinese state influence is behind Bridget Phillipson’s decision to scrap the Freedom of Speech Act.
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So Tommy Robinson’s book, Manifesto, is outselling Boris’ memoirs. That must sting!
Have not read either, but the only reason Mr Robinsons book is selling well is because people are buying it (obviously), the left do not like it when things happen they do not like.
perhaps they should ask amazon for a push on the Karl Marx collection
“The world is heading for doomsday – and humanity for a brush with extinction”
Sam needs to be told that all this Malthusian hand-wringing, isn’t good for his ‘mental health’. When I was born, there were 3bn people on the planet. Now there are 8bn, and we kept everyone fed and we all got richer. Rather than trying to turn back the clock on development, we need more economic development. It is poor countries in Africa and Asia who are leading the population boom. Once people attain some financial security, all kinds of positive things happen. Birth rates down, life expectancy up, but also interest in environment and sustainability (real sustainability…). Yet we have leaders who imagine that returning the west to a level of East African poverty is the solution. Too much money and too much power in too few hands…
“Yet we have leaders who imagine that returning the west to a level of East African poverty is the solution.”
The solution for us, not for them. “Sam” can go and do one. Does he subsist with a vegetable patch and a few rags in a hovel, and eschew medical treatment? Like “public health” fascists, he’s only willing to make sacrifices if it’s imposed on everyone.
“Anger at U.K.’s ‘bonkers’ plan to reach Net Zero by importing fuel from North Korea”
“Ed Miliband unlocks billions to build giant dams across Britain”
And next will be the plan to equip every home in Britain with a bicycle generator so that in times of low renewable energy production you will, by law, be obliged to get on your generator bike and pedal like crazy to produce the required amount of energy. This will be measured by your smart meter and failure to reach your target production will result in the loss of the social credits you need to buy the maximum half a pint of beer you will be allowed in the glorious future being built for you.
Getting the nation pedalling for electric has a number of advantages; all that pedalling will make you so warm you will not need any home heating, all that exertion will see the demise of some of the sick folk who are clogging up the NHS and at the end we will all be so tired we will not have any energy to criticise the government, it is a winning solution all round!
As the last human being alive once said:
“Face it Cat, it’s just not possible to fry an egg with a bicycle powered hair dryer!”
Dave Lister, Red Dwarf.
Classic series…
Someone was wondering about notifications.
The comment box at the bottom of each article has a “subscribe” option top left of it, next to an envelope icon. You can choose to be notified of all new comments on the article or just replies to your posts.
Whenever you make a comment, either in reply to someone or at the “top level”, there is a bell icon bottom right next to the “post comment” button – click that to be notified of replies to that specific comment. Notifications come via email and contain the contents of the comment, who made it and a link to that comment on the article page.
I am not aware of any way to subscribe to all comments by default. There might be something like that on the forums, but I don’t really use those.
Thanks TOF, did not know any of that.
Thank you. Did not know this and will give it a try.
Government interventions linked to higher excess mortality – vaccines show no positive effect on all-cause mortality
‘An often-cited argument—that governments responded because COVID-19 levels were higher—is flawed. A novel pathogen, alleged to cause COVID-19, should theoretically spread equally across all populations.’
‘……excess mortality was largely driven by the impacts of lockdowns, which exacerbated existing health & environmental issues, such as cardiovascular diseases linked to unhealthy lifestyles, drugs & alcohol, and possibly pollution.’
‘Contrary to prior assumptions, stringent government interventions may have contributed to higher excess mortality, and vaccination did not show the anticipated reduction in all-cause excess mortality. There remains a possibility that vaccines may have increased mortality due to known side effects, including heart and neurological issues.
Countries with minimal interventions appeared to have lower excess mortality from 2020 to 2023 compared to those with stricter measures. Vaccination did not show a clear positive impact on all-cause mortality.’
These conclusions are supported elsewhere:
‘Using individual case records, we also show that higher PM (Particulate Matter) 2.5 exposure at the time of case confirmation increases risk of later mechanical ventilation and mortality. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the severity of respiratory syndromes such as COVID-19.’
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069623000335
‘In conclusion, excess mortality has remained high in the Western World for three consecutive years, despite the implementation of COVID-19 containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines. This is unprecedented and raises serious concerns. During the pandemic, it was emphasised by politicians and the media on a daily basis that every COVID-19 death mattered and every life deserved protection through containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines. In the aftermath of the pandemic, the same morale should apply. Every death needs to be acknowledged and accounted for, irrespective of its origin. Transparency towards potential lethal drivers is warranted. Cause-specific mortality data therefore need to be made available to allow more detailed, direct and robust analyses to determine the underlying contributors. Postmortem examinations need to be facilitated to allot the exact reason for death. Government leaders and policymakers need to thoroughly investigate underlying causes of persistent excess mortality and evaluate their health crisis policies.’
https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000282 June 2024
‘Via its Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the government in mid-March adopted a policy, executed by NHS England and NHS Improvement, that led to 25,000 patients, including those infected or possibly infected with COVID-19 who had not been tested, being discharged from hospital into care homes between 17 March and 15 April—exponentially increasing the risk of transmission to the very population most at risk of severe illness and death from the disease. With no access to testing, severe shortages of PPE, insufficient staff, and limited guidance, care homes were overwhelmed. Although care home deaths were not even being counted in daily official figures of COVID-19 deaths until 29 April, some 4,300 care home deaths were reported in a single fortnight during this period.’
‘Between 2 March and 12 June 2020, 18,562 residents of care homes in England died with COVID-19, including 18,168 people aged 65 and over, representing almost 40% of all deaths involving COVID-19 in England during this period.2 Of these deaths, 13,844 (76%) happened in care homes themselves; nearly all of the remainder occurred in a hospital.3 During the same period, 28,186 “excess deaths” were recorded in care homes in England, representing a 46% increase compared with the same period in previous years.’
https://www.amnesty.lu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/UNITED-KINGDOM_AS-IF-EXPENDABLE_2020_EN.pdf
But that’s okay because we have an inquiry looking into all of this, don’t we, Lady Hallett?
Such stunning hindsight by Amnesty International. Pity they didn’t want to see what was happening at the time, as with all of the human rights brigade.
Absolutely! Not a peep out of them in 2020. It is very hard to believe their statement that they’re independent as they say in that document.
In Adam Wagner’s book Emergency State (he is a human rights lawyer) he talks about being contacted by numerous people urging him to stand up for human rights and describes his own thoughts on this. It seems highly likely that many contacted AI during this period and yet they chose to remain silent on basic human rights like denying the frail and elderly contact with their families – even murderers in prison usually get visiting rights!
No response is a response, silence speaks louder than words etc etc.
Although I confess I am no great fan of Amnesty, in this case I should point out that their report that I reference above was published in 2020, 04 October.
They have recently also issued this further demand;
‘The government must review all ‘Do Not Attempt CPR’ orders on care home residents that have been added without proper process. Blanket ‘Do Not Attempt CPR’ orders imposed without considering a person’s individual circumstances, is unacceptable – they violate a person’s right to life and health.’
I think that also redounds to their credit.
Also not a fan and indeed a very commendable report, except where were the street protests at the time? They can certainly drum up protesters for their pet projects (as below) maybe they were happy just to write reports and not turn out to actually do something. Unless I missed their attendance at the lockdown protests?
“People across the UK continue to come together in peaceful protest to protect human rights for all.
The UK has a long and important history of street protest. From anti-apartheid protests, marches for climate action, and the recent protests in solidarity with Palestinians and calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.”
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/scrap-anti-protest-laws
I know we (the UK) have wind farms in the North Sea and presumably they mostly remain standing in and after stormy weather. I’m also aware that we don’t get hurricanes (pace Michael Fish and the BBC weather forecast). Does anyone know how do wind farms or solar farms fare when hit with category 5 hurricanes elsewhere? (I’ve seen the effect of a hail storm on a solar farm).
“Amazon criticised as Tommy Robinson book tops bestseller chart”
I’ve got an idea
Let’s pile all his books up in the street and set fire to them!
Ho,hang on a min, that’s already been tried hasn’t it? how did that end? Ho yes, revolution, censorship and war!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/10/britain-is-sliding-towards-an-alcohol-ban/
“Change your hearts, or you will lose your inns, and you will have deserved to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves – for you will have lost the last of England.”
All in the plan isn’t it Kneel?
As I have posted previously, it is now our responsibility to avoid paying tax wherever and whenever possible. Cash is King.
https://alexklaushofer.substack.com/p/a-simple-persons-take-on-tax
“Anger at UK’s ‘bonkers’ plan to reach net zero by importing fuel from North Korea”
Last British person out of Britain, please turn off the lights…..oops,sorry, forgot they won’t be on!
Have you seen this?
Report: North Koreans Are Using AI and Fake IDs to Get Remote Work in West (breitbart.com)