- “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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I’m not sure if I feel sorry for the woman on TikTok being so paranoid or just want to mock her. However I’m sure the best thing she could do to protect her health would be loosing at least 50lb.
“A woman ventured out of her house in Portland, Oregon, for the first time in three years to go see Barbie“. If it were possible to capture everything that’s wrong with society in one short sentence, then there it is. No, I wouldn’t feel sorry for her. These people are too stupid to see they’ve been played in multiple ways and are contributing to the destruction of society.
…I’ve seen the videos from Portland on the ‘net…it’s one of the worst US hellscapes….….people are leaving in droves..and homelessness is ‘up’ by 50%’…..the Democrat lead city decriminalised personal possession drug use, in 2021…looks like a hell-hole…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10923923/Portland-resembles-open-air-drug-market-legalizing-hard-drugs.html
..and she’s worried about Convid?? LOL! ..bless….
You’d think she might like to go out into nature and experience a forest, a stream and the sounds of birds after being locked away in her house for three years but no, it’s Barbie, a film about a woman who leaves her fantasy land to explore the real (so called real) world. The irony.
“The public still isn’t being told the full, horrifying truth about the Net Zero permanent revolution”
As this article points out, this is now getting to the stage when this all gets gritty. IMO the first crunch point comes with the ban on the sale and installation of new oil boilers in 2026. Around 2 million homes and 4-5 million people depend on oil boilers for heating, every year a proportion of those 2 million boilers breakdown beyond repair and need to be replaced. Many of these oil boilers are in rural homes where fitting and successfully operating a heat pump is problematic if not to say downright impossible.
What this article makes clear is that beyond some marginal tinkering of dates and details, TPTB cannot legally do much to radically alter any of these net-zero madness requirements. To do this they would need to rescind the Climate Change Act, there seems little chance of our present eco-obsessed uni-party parliament doing any such thing. If the 2026 oil boiler ban goes ahead as scheduled then there will soon be news reports of poor rural households freezing in unheated homes because their oil boiler has broken down beyond repair and they cannot replace it. If we get a cold snap there will doubtless be reports of rural pensioners dying of hypothermia in unheated houses. Is this all going to be accepted as sad but necessary collateral damage in the greater good of net-zero?
I am rather afraid that for our current uni-party eco-politicians it is fast getting towards the time when it will be too late to stop the slide that sees immiserated poor UK citizens allowed to die in the higher interests of net-zero.
Seems as if we are locked inside a rocket heading for a head on collision with an asteroid. No matter how much you tell the pilot that there’s an asteroid ahead of us, he keeps to his course and ignores all warnings. Much of the peripheral evidence supporting the Net Zero narrative have already been shown to be a sham: EVs, solar panels, wind farms, the climate vs weather, sea ice, and even polar bears! It doesn’t make one iota of difference how much evidence you present because those pulling the levers on behalf of the ones pushing the narrative have too much invested in it. There’s a lot of money to be made through people’s misery and death. It would take a popular revolution to do something meaningful but that’s not going to happen. The only place where we can do something is at the local level – exactly what TPTB are doing through things like C40 etc. At this level, you can actually get up and challenge a councillor across the council floor. Write to your MP and he sends back the pre-agreed text. And speak to people, as many people as you can about it and tell them what is coming and where to read about it. We can find the reverse booster (dodgy word – sorry!) button on the rocket before it’s too late!
“It would take a popular revolution to do something meaningful but that’s not going to happen.”
I think a Trump presidency with a supportive House could stop the madness.
But, as we all know, the US Deep State will do everything in their power to stop that. And, as JFK proves, that would include assassination…but also, if they lose control of the voting machinery, they might even trigger a societal collapse (bank closures, emergency measures, etc) to prevent the Election going ahead.
Our boiler packed up last winter. It took about a week to get a new, essentially like for like one fitted. Imagine if you couldn’t just do a like for like but had to get a heat pump in. External works, which in our case would require planning permission plus heritage planning, a can of worms! New double size radiators. Can you use micro-bore pipes with a heat pump? It’s a big project, I’d say you’d be doing well to get it sorted in a month. What’s more, I can imagine the cowboys locking their lips in anticipation of this market taking off.
A friend’s husband is a plumber. He spends much of his time either taking out ASHP ‘heating’, or adding additional systems. He has never come across an ASHP system that actually keeps the occupiers warm.
All part of the plan I’m afraid. Rural communities, people living in the countryside must be removed first before dealing with the suburbs. Destination.. new smart cities.. housing greatly reduced numbers of course..
I wonder how much longer before they make moves towards banning woodburners (‘cos climate innit?). It’ll be coming at some point no doubt.
Bloody certainty Aethelred. I expect this year.
That’s definitely the plan George. Allegedly we are not building enough houses in this country. Complete and utter bullshit. It doesn’t matter where I travel to these days EVERY town has massive homebuilding schemes under way. EVERY damned town.
The push to empty the countryside will require a bit if a kick although at the moment I cannot see where this will come from. Cancelling boilers won’t do it in my opinion.
We have oil CH. Like many counties we live in an area of scattered villages whose heating choice is solid fuel, oil or LPG. I think that the metropolitan green types probably think it’s just a few country piles that would be affected by an oil boiler ban, not realising that ordinary working people in 2 bed terraces can have oil CH as well, and this includes social housing.
Anyway, I am seriously considering buying a spare oil boiler and storing it for as and when needed.
“If the 2026 oil boiler ban goes ahead as scheduled then there will soon be news reports of poor rural households freezing in unheated homes because their oil boiler has broken down beyond repair and they cannot replace it. If we get a cold snap there will doubtless be reports of rural pensioners dying of hypothermia in unheated houses. Is this all going to be accepted as sad but necessary collateral damage in the greater good of net-zero?”
Or is part of the plan to cause an exodus from the countryside and in to towns and cities where dense populations can be more easily monitored and controlled and if required killed with perhaps table d’hote viruses and infections?
I’d rather just put on another jumper, HP!
Remember when the mRNA jib jabs being called ”gene therapy” was classed as ‘conspiracy theory’?
”A team of researchers has used lipid nanoparticles loaded with mRNA—the starring technology in some COVID-19 vaccines—to noninvasively and selectively trigger cell death in living mice’s blood stem cells. And in a second experiment, they used the nanoparticle system to remove a sickle cell–producing gene in human cells.
The new advance involves a single injection and uses antibodies to target the payload to its intended destination. And it makes its cellular or genetic modifications directly in the body without the need for cell extraction.”
https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/gene-therapy/mRNA-loaded-lipid-nanoparticles-reprogram-cells/101/web/2023/08
Interesting piece about the role of behavioural scientists and the significant role they play in manipulating the masses for the benefit of the global elite and their agendas.
”If the gross neglect of ethical principles was not troubling enough, the recent pronouncements by prominent UK behavioural scientists – the enforcers of stage 3 of the authoritarian template – also indicate escalating stridency and duplicity.
Professor David Halpern (the chief executive of the Behavioural Insight Team [BIT], aka the ‘Nudge Unit’) exemplifies this increasing confidence.
In a January 2023 interview with The Telegraph, Halpern described how he had nudged Boris Johnson, the serving Prime Minister, into wearing a mask: ‘We did share with him a slide pack at one point. It had a series of images of pretty much every single world leader wearing a mask, and then a picture with him not’. This subliminal prod, to covertly exert normative pressure on Johnson, was used to point out that ‘a normal thing for a world leader to do right now is wear a mask’. In the same interview, Halpern goes on to express his intent for a behavioural ‘scaffolding’ to be put in place to encourage mask wearing in Britain.
So despite the wealth of empirical evidence that the wearing of face coverings in community settings is both ineffective and harmful, Halpern felt justified in promoting widespread masking, presumably because such a policy chimed with his own ideological beliefs.”
https://www.hartgroup.org/nudgers/
Why is Halpern not prosecuted for malfeasance in a Public Office?
Or, at least, struck off the psychologists´ register for misuse of psychology?
Because the regulatory body is also captured & used to enforce the political agenda not ensure the integrity & quality of the professionals thus regulated.
Ho well, they can always full back on the polar bears…ho no, they’re doing well also? damn!.. Haha, the ice sheets,.. wot, they’re increasing? Alrighty, global wildfire inferno!..What do mean it was worse in the 1930s? and that 85% are caused by human activity? Balls…right then,..global boiling, there, beat that!
We’d better hope that global boiling convinces them or they’ll never believe the world ends a week on Tuesday!
When in doubt blame it on Putin…LOL….Damn! That man has got a lot to answer for….
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putins-war-threats-aliens-26017787
Vladimir Putin’s war threats are why aliens haven’t made first contact, expert claims
Russia’s Vladimir Putin’s constant threats risking World War Three erupting is hindering chances of aliens making first contact with humans on Earth, a UFO expert has said…
Nanu Nanu!,,,,,,,LOL!….
Clowns out in force, I see. But the Daily Star was only ever a clown central rag anyway.
Oh I agree, it was just a bit of fun…although Putin is actually to blame for everything according to the MSM…..and Nick Pope did use to work for the UK Government ‘alien Department’ many years ago..and is considered some sort of expert!!? LOL!
Can you imagine the aliens arriving in Washington DC and demanding to see the leader of the free world. They’d still be laughing light years from here…
Dr John Campbell’s latest about WHO global digital vaccine passports. He appears as a concerned angel next to the Director General’s right shoulder. To complete the picture a smug looking Bill Gates should be appearing next to his left shoulder: –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ZGbqXrfD8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66367224 ‘Where people have to choose between food or home insurance’
The BBC article starts with the assertion ‘As extreme weather events multiply, home insurance providers in the US are rapidly raising rates – or quitting the business altogether – forcing many into severe financial distress.‘
The first thing to address is that extreme weather events are not ‘multiplying’ – that’s hyperbole. They may be increasing slightly though that in itself needs proof that it’s not the outcome of increased reporting or increases in the area occupied by people which results in the same number and intensity of weather events causing more trouble for mankind.
Multiplying? Only if we’re talking about multiplying by numbers close to one.
The article goes on to say:
Hmm… ‘devastating storms‘…’routinely crash against its shores‘? So it’s normal for New Orleans then.
The article is a story about inflation (in the economic sense) affecting the insurance industry. Insurance underwriters are in the businesses to make money – if they find they’re paying out more than they used to they will raise their prices (premiums) to protect their profits. If they can make more money elsewhere they’ll withdraw from the business completely, leaving less competition to help keep prices down.
So are insurers paying out more than they used to and if so, why? Yes, of course they are paying out more. The value of household goods and properties has increased as the population has expanded and the number of genuinely ‘poor’ has decreased. In the event of a total loss of a household property the average replacement costs are far higher than they used to be; prices for property, vehicles, furniture, white goods, entertainment equipment all have increased over the years – and so have insurance premiums to compensate.
At the same time that insurance prices have increased people have come to feel entitled not to carry any personal risk. As an anecdotal example, I was surprised that an ex-colleague made a claim on their household insurance when their child accidentally cracked the rim of the lavatory by dropping the seat on it – I was even more surprised that his claim was paid in full and the replacement works left him with a distinctly improved bathroom.
An attitude seems to have developed that people must claim for anything and everything in order to benefit more than the insurance premium costs them. This results in a kind of arms race between the insurers and the insured. Those, on either side, not able to keep up have to drop out of the race.
We are living through a period of high inflation mostly caused by the majority of governments spending scarce resources on futile attempts to curb a not very deadly disease. High inflation is a consequence and manifests in many different ways.
Is Esther McVey going to get the Andrew Bridgen treatment?