- “Police drop ‘terrifying’ hate crime investigation into Maya Forstater” – Police have dropped a “terrifying” investigation into a gender critical activist over a tweet she posted, reports GB News.
- “‘Incompetent’ Essex Police set up terror-style incident group for single Allison Pearson tweet” – Essex Police has set up a “gold group” usually reserved for dealing with major crimes to handle the investigation into a Telegraph journalist’s social media post, says the Telegraph.
- “Allison Pearson’s ‘racist’ tweet is at centre of Telegraph’s row with police” – The Guardian believes it has found the post at the centre of the Allison Pearson row.
- “Keir Starmer told to ‘police streets, not tweets’” – Keir Starmer has been told to “police the streets, not tweets” after he backed the controversial investigation of ‘non-crime hate incidents’, reports the Mail.
- “Non-crime hate reports can ruin your chance of getting a job, says former chief prosecutor” – A former director of public prosecutions says that non-crime hate reports can ruin people’s job prospects and police should avoid using names when recording them, according to the Telegraph.
- “Chagos handover will get ‘messy’ now Trump is in power, warns Ed Balls” – Ed Balls has warned that the U.K.’s decision to give away the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will “get messy” with Donald Trump in the White House, reports the Telegraph.
- “It’s official: Reeves did deliver biggest tax-raising Budget on record” – Rachel Reeves has been handed an unwanted historical distinction – as official figures showed her Budget was the biggest tax-raiser on record, says the Mail.
- “Reeves hits City with Net Zero rules despite pledge to cut red tape” – Rachel Reeves is to impose Net Zero mandates on the City despite pledging to rip up red tape and relax rules she believes are holding back the economy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain needs a radical new growth strategy, but Reeves won’t deliver it” – In her Mansion House speech, the Chancellor needed to wow the crowd, but she did not find the words and deeds to enthuse investors, says John Redwood in the Telegraph.
- “Why Britain needs its own Elon Musk to trim down Whitehall waste” – Britain’s bloated Civil Service could benefit from Musk’s cut-throat approach to public spending, writes Melissa Lawford in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. must treat Trump like a ‘best mate’ who needs correcting, says Sadiq Khan” – Sadiq Khan has vowed to give Trump “the benefit of the doubt”, despite previous criticisms stretching back to the President-elect’s first term in office, reports LBC.
- “Khan’s Trump derangement is punishing London” – The only thing that the Mayor of London knows less about than American politics is the grim state of our crumbling capital, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “No.10 apologises for serving meat and alcohol at Diwali party” – Downing Street has issued a grovelling apology to British Hindus after serving meat and alcohol at a Diwali celebration, reports the Mail.
- “Electric car drivers face new £2,000 luxury tax” – Electric car drivers have been warned they will face a new £2,125 luxury vehicle tax from April next year, in a move that conflicts with the U.K.’s Net Zero ambitions, reports GB News.
- “Energy operator tells Miliband: Your plans cannot work” – In TCW, Paul Homewood roasts Miliband’s zero-carbon fantasy as unworkable and Starmer’s COP29 speech as pointless.
- “Boy dies in Great Ormond Street after judge rules his care stop” – A one year-old boy, who had a severe and irreversible neuromuscular disease, has died after a High Court judge ruled his treatment should end, despite his mother’s plea, reports the Mail.
- “‘I asked for an ambulance and the midwife wanted to try oils instead’” – A mother says she will suffer with PTSD for the rest of her life after the loss of her newborn daughter who died because of the ineptitude of “dishonest“ midwives, according to the Mail.
- “The new faces of cancer, as fit women in their 20s and 30s fall ill” – While cancer has long been considered a disease of old age, a surge in cases among Gen Z and millennials is gradually turning that trend on its head, reports the Mail.
- “Trump, RFK and the autism dilemma” – Kennedy and the President-elect are asking why more kids are disabled by autism. They have the power to find real answers – and it’s not due to vaccines, writes Jill Escher in the Free Press.
- “RFK Jr. pledged to declare Covid-style health emergency ‘on day one’” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he will declare a Covid-style public health emergency on his first day in office ahead of his appointment as Trump’s health secretary, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Repent! My call to Church leaders over their Covid sin’” – Divisive Covid rhetoric, policies and the Church’s complicity have wreaked havoc on societal cohesion and church communities, writes Dr. Elizabeth Evans in TCW.
- “Mural honouring Holocaust victims defaced in Milan” – A mural honouring two of Italy’s most prominent Holocaust survivors has been defaced in Milan, reports the Jewish Chronicle.
- “Scholz holds first call with Putin in two years in bid to ‘end Ukraine war’” – Ukraine accused Olaf Scholz of opening a “Pandora’s box” after he held a phone call with Putin in an effort to bring about an end to the war, says the Telegraph.
- “Independent senators to block misinformation Bill” – The Australian Government lacks the crossbench support needed to pass its controversial misinformation Bill, says Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
- “Banker who sued Barclays after boss called women ‘birds’ wins £50,000” – A female investment banker who sued Barclays for sex discrimination after her boss kept calling women “birds” has won £50,000, reports the Mail.
- “ECB under pressure over ‘unsafe’ transgender policy in cricket” – The England and Wales Cricket Board has been warned its policy on transgender cricketers in the recreational game is “unsafe, unfair and discriminatory”, says the Telegraph.
- “How universities teach students to shame” – Claustrophobic colleges breed discontent, and Alexander Rogers’s death is a tragic example, writes Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “Doctors migrating to bluesky is like Harris declining to speak with Joe Rogan” – Doctors flocking to Bluesky is like Kamala Harris dodging Joe Rogan: a self-sabotaging aversion to open dialogue, says Prof. Vinay Prasad on his Substack.
- “Martian orders” – In Takimag, Theodore Dalrymple returns to the curiously disturbing rise in ugliness – from fashion to rap to architecture and art – in our modern and economically prosperous world.
- “Trump jokes he ‘can’t get Elon Musk out of Mar-a-Lago’” – Donald Trump teased Elon Musk that he can’t get him to leave Mar-a-Lago following reports the Tesla billionaire has spent days hanging out at the President-elect’s Florida resort, according to Newsweek.
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A cynic might note that long statements are good for the balance sheet of certain people. However, I’m sceptical about the validity of the whole process, unless some useful witnesses turn up and with their evidence properly recorded. There appear to be plenty of built in assumptions, and the use of deliberate selective redefinition of established terms, perhaps to deliberately obfuscate the results.
So, another one of those pointless exercises that always seem to come to the conclusion that everything is caused by a lack of “Social Justice”, “Brexit”, “Climate Change”, “Government Cutbacks, and “Racism” etc etc etc etc etc.
Every Public Enquiry I can call, began with a set of assumtions. They then, slowly, over several months or years, prove those assumptions right and beyond reasonable doubt. Why would you have an Enquiry at all if you didn’t get the answer you were looking for…
So Brexit caused the Rona plandemic.
Brexit meant that the full fascist power of the state was curtailed.
Brexit was to blame for the 0.3% death rate.
Brexit meant lockdowns had to be enforced and 2 million vials of midazolam issued.
Brexit meant we had no choice but to roll out 5 rounds of quackcines to save us all from the scamdemic.
Brexit meant that we were forced to spend £34 billion on the useless track and trace, because so many Brexiteers refused to follow fascist guidance.
Brexit philosophy and white nationalism inflamed the anti-stabs into revolt and led to online disinformation much of it linked to white-supremacist-nazi orgs.
Got it. And how many millions will this cost us? Right on. $o much $cience.
The UK and Scotland? Does he know something we don’t?
You can imagine a prosecutor in a criminal case who already knows the evidence which will be presented giving such an introduction. He clearly anticipates the proceedings to be adversarial. So now we know he’s the Prosecution’s lawyer; let’s make sure that the Defence evidence is presented convincingly.
As I posted above whole thing is invalid on its face.
There was no pandemic. It starts and finishes there. Go any further and you get down a rabbit hole.
“Mr. Keith, the lead KC of the Inquiry, started proceedings with a very long statement. The Inquiry
As I have said before and will continue to repeat in case anyone new is reading, there was no pandemic. The Inquiry is invalid on its face because the assumption has been made that there was a pandemic for which we needed to be prepared, indeed a “national civil emergency”.
See the way he has prefixed “national civil emergency” by the word “next”? The emerging emergency/crisis industry/industrial complex.
With you tof.
And “to befall US” not the next generation or beyond. I give it two years max.
This is not an inquiry because the outcome is already known and has already been announced by this lawyer: The so-called inquiry is set to demonstrate that – in 2020 – a horrible natural disaster named COVID struck a UK woefully unprepared for one because Labour hadn’t been in government since 2010 and evil Tories had championed all the wrong policies. This caused many avoidable COVID deaths and poor bereaved relatives will be allowed to wax and wail about their losses at length. Thankfully, all so-called public health policies of 2020 – 2023 were extremely beneficial and came with absolutely no cost to the general public. That’s why there aren’t any other victims one would need to take into account. Nobody got ever injured or killed by the safe and efficient vaccines. Nobody has any reason to complain about being robbed of almost 3 years of his life. No harm was done by tearing families apart and let confused people die miserable, lonely deaths in hosptials and care homes. And lastly, this evil economy had – at best – remained abolished as it was never good for anything.
To use that Brecht quote again: Ich kann gar nicht so viel essen, wie ich kotzen möchte.
I’m also having serious difficulties to understand how this guy can look into the mirror when shaving and not start to throw up immediately as well. But I guess that must be because he’s really a shape-shifting rept^W^W^W just a typical civil servant.
He’s a KC who makes his living by seeing black is white if that favours his client. In other words, he lies for his living. And this living is improved the longer it takes to make his point. That’s the curse of paying the legal ‘profession’ by the hour.
Just out of interest who is the drag act in the headline picture?
A better headline picture would have been a tractor towing a mechanical muck-spreader
We are plagued with incompetence
Everything flows from the top
Pay £85k for an MP and this is where we find ourselves
The British are very good at shooting themselves in the foot for money envy
Should be £250k
Then the job would attract quality not the unsuitable
Yes £250K but with a caveat. If they’re caught engaging in any outside business dealings that have been leveraged or enhanced through their position, in anything from big pharma to buying shares in a burger van, they are summarily executed.
This whole inquiry is obviously Horseshit the Musical so its only purpose must be to soften the ground and groom the public for the looming WHO pandemic treaty.
Correct.
Hallett doesn’t seem concerned that she is competing with public inquiries in other countries or that public opinion may have shifted by the time she’s done. Maybe satire could help?
The piece is not well written and, not for the first time, could have benefited from editorial input and/or authorial time out to reflect on phrasing and argument sequence.
If you want to hurl these general charges at the authors perhaps you would be good enough to specify exactly where these errors occur?
How surprising, NOT, that a Government inquiry, once again, is not seeking after the truth but only looking to cover the backsides of officialdom.
The Inquiry now has 5 purposes:
It’s the final act in the Establishment’s Covid policy of extracting £millions from taxpayers for nothing worthwhile, and stuffing it in their own pockets and/or passing it to their chums
Final? If only.
So not just a whitewash, but a dung-spreading in the opposite direction.