- “The horror of turning children into thoughtcriminals” – A ‘non-crime hate incident’ can haunt a child for life, says Toby in Spiked.
- “Non-crime hate incidents are out of control” – In the Spectator, Andrew Tettenborn makes some practical suggestions as to how to improve the dire state of free speech.
- “Starmer must tell cops – police streets, not tweets” – In the Mail, Boris Johnson laments the decline of Britain from the ‘free country’ of his youth.
- “Any one of us could be next, say female journalists as they rally around Allison Pearson” – Female journalists are rallying around columnist Allison Pearson, saying they could be next to face police investigations for their social media posts or columns, reports the Telegraph.
- “I too had visit from police over tweet, says writer” – In the Telegraph, Julie Bindel reveals that officers visited her home over an alleged hate crime after a complaint “from a transgender man in the Netherlands”.
- “The story so far” – On X, Allison Pearson defends herself against allegations that the tweet being investigated by the police is “racist”.
- “Police refuse to pursue ‘hate crime’ after Swastika sent to Jewish group” – Unlike Allison’s case, Cambridgeshire police refused to prosecute a man who sent an image of the Star of David intertwined with the Nazi swastika to a Jewish students’ organisation, on the basis it was not offensive enough, reports the Telegraph.
- “Group that wants to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ shares address with Labour Together” – The Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which vowed to “kill Musk’s Twitter” and was founded by Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, shares an address with Labour Together, it has emerged, the Telegraph reports.
- “Farmers besiege Welsh Labour conference” – Angry farmers have besieged the Welsh Labour Party conference with tractors and farm trucks in protest at the Government’s inheritance tax changes, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves accused of exaggerating time spent working for Bank of England” – The Chancellor told a magazine she “spent a decade” at the Bank of England but her online CV lists only six years there, says the Telegraph.
- “Without America, Britain’s economy will stall” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark says he agrees with the comments of Stephen Moore, Donald Trump’s economic adviser, that Britain needs to choose between free trade America and socialistic Europe.
- “Record number of asylum seekers claiming to be gay allowed to stay under ECHR rules” – It appears some people may be gaming the system by pretending to be gay so their applications get accepted, says the Telegraph.
- “Is Starmer really proud of this rubber dinghy crackdown?” – That the arrest of a single suspect has brought forth statements from both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary shows how desperately slowly the ‘crackdown’ is proceeding, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “The Revolution of 2024” – Trump’s appointments represent the coming together of MAGA, MAHA and DOGE, the fulfillment of disparate groups of dissidents, says Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone Journal.
- “Health warrior RFK Jr. faces coalition of formidable enemies” – Niall McCrae and Roger Watson in TCW look at who is lining up to take shots at Trump’s Health Secretary pick.
- “A Letter to Elon Musk” – In Persuasion, Francis Fukuyama explains how to actually make Government more efficient – and it’s not slashing the workforce, he claims.
- “Bluesky offers speech policing for users fleeing Musk’s X” – Millions of social media users have migrated from X to alternative platform Bluesky this year, resulting in an online subculture defined in opposition to Elon Musk’s platform, says Laurel Duggan in UnHerd.
- “War will end sooner with Trump in White House, says Zelensky” – The Ukrainian President says the conflict with Russia must be concluded next year “by diplomatic means”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk Declares ‘The Hammer of Justice is Coming’ for Fauci” – Musk has declared his pronouns are still “Prosecute/Fauci”, says Nicolas Hulscher on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “New Hampshire legislature special committee issues scathing report that eviscerates the federal and state Covid response” – Steve Kirsch has had advanced sight of a New Hampshire legislature Covid report that slams lockdowns, but finds those in Government are still clueless as to how bad it all was.
- “Confected emergencies and the new world order” – On Substack, Richard Lyon links airport security, men in dresses, Covid and bad weather in Spain.
- “Killer superbugs mainly emerging from hospitals, not animals and environment — study by Indian, U.K. scientists” – Superbugs responsible for life-threatening infections and highly resistant to last-resort antibiotics may be emerging in hospitals primarily due to the misuse and abuse of such drugs, rather than environmental pressure, according to a study from India reported in the Print.
- “Call that Net Zero, Sir Keir? Britain has an astonishing 470 delegates at climate change summit that’s a 5,000-mile round-trip flight” – Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after the sheer scale of the U.K. delegation sent to the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan was revealed, reports the Mail.
- “It’s high time to end this ludicrous COP jamboree – but it just won’t die” – Eco-summits in petro-tyrannies sound like something out of a comic novel, but sadly, they are all too real, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “COP is dying” – In the near three-decade history of the annual round of UN climate conferences, the Baku COP29 stands out for being singularly marked by indifference and mass absenteeism, says Rupert Darwall in the Spectator.
- “Why Ed Miliband’s Net Zero dream is doomed to failure” – Starmer wants Britain to be a “climate leader”, but the obstacles facing the Government’s ambitious plans seem increasingly insurmountable, argues Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
- “Horrifying moment parents ‘try to choke their daughter, 17, to death in an honour killing’ outside her school’” – Ihsan Ali and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali were charged with attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after their arrest on October 18th in Washington, USA, reports the Mail.
- “Photos that prove Tories had group sex in the Commons” – In the Mail, Nadine Dorries exposes the sordid antics of some gay Tory MPs and the impact its having on their young staffers.
- “Science journal editor resigns after calling Gen X fascists over Trump win” – The Editor of prominent science journal Scientific American, Laura Helmuth, has resigned after calling Gen X “fascists” following Donald Trump’s election, the Telegraph reports.
- “Geology is racist, claims university professor” – The study of the Earth’s rocks and natural resources is racist and linked to “white supremacy”, according to Geography Professor Kathryn Yusoff at Queen Mary University of London.
- “Assisted dying bill ‘could open door to involuntary euthanasia’” – Safeguards promised by supporters of the planned assisted suicide legislation will not hold, warns the former Chief Coroner Thomas Teague, according to the Telegraph.
- “Losing friends over politics? Sadly, it’s becoming an everyday event” – The culture wars have marched from the periphery – the preoccupation of journalists and tweeters – to the centre, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
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You are right to emphasize “local” action. The Llandudno protest by Welsh Farmers shows the way forward for the UK, by rallying local farmers and local people to protest in their own local towns and villages, with their own tractors and farm equipment, instead of enduring all the stress and expense of travelling to London and back, only to be ignored by MPs who aren’t even there, and harassed by Sadiq Khan’s mini-Caliphate mob.
London is no longer the centre of the nation, so why not focus on local protests all over the country instead? Then the National Farmers Union could collect all the reports from their members in each area, and compile a map of the UK, showing all the protests and numbers of people attending, and issue the map as a national and international press release.
Rachel Reeves accused of exaggerating time spent working for Bank of England
I don’t know if this checks out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SIdVk-L3GA
Discusses post by ‘Kev Gillett Director of Banking Lloyds HBOS’ on Linked In two weeks ago.
Rachel Reeves was in fact a Complaints Support Manager at Halifax/HBOS, spent a lot of time on Labour Party business before resigning.
Her C.V. was changed (https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/16/rachel-reeves-changes-online-cv-after-economist-myth-exposed/) in the last few days from claiming she worked as an economist at Bank of Scotland to now say that she worked in the retail arm of HBOS ‘drawing on her background as an economist’
Is this enough to bring her down? Probably not.
But it’s a start…..
Oh! She is a ‘practising christian’ (surprise, surprise…not!)
But not, apparently, practising christian charity to old age pensioners…..
Yet another ‘whited sepulchre’ in politics….an unpleasant whiff of ‘back to basics’ level hypocrisy on the air this morning…….
I had to look up “whited sepulchre” (I’m not very educated). Nice phrase.
If this wakes a few people up to doubting the notion that it’s only the horrid Tories that are sleazy, it’s a good thing, though I am not a fan in general of this kind of digging into people’s pasts, and prefer them to be judged by their declared policies and by what they actually do in office that is related to their office.
“Any one of us could be next, say female journalists as they rally around Allison Pearson”
Can anyone suggest why this is being pushed as a feminist issue, rather than as the free speech issue it is? Is there any evidence that NCHIs are being pursued more against women by police forces that wants to bully women, in particular?
I wondered the exact same thing when I read that. I haven’t clicked on the link but I fail to see how this is a sex-specific issue or why male journalists wouldn’t be equally as concerned about what’s happening to colleagues and the wider public. Strange indeed.
Edit: Just had a quick skim, seeing as it’s miraculously not paywalled, and the writer of that piece is a man, so go figure.
Visit Twitter and you’ll see countless men, household names as well as general public, sharing their disgust at what happened to Allison but also outrage at what is happening regarding this increased censorship and behaviour by the police generally. Everybody’s up in arms about it, but here’s an article which is trying to put a nonsensical, divisive spin on what’s happened to a person who happens to be female. I fully expected the piece to be written by a female and therefore demonstrate bias, but no.
I would guess it would be to do with the NCHIs pursued against the women journalists / academics / writers who speak out against men in women’s toilets, changing rooms and sports. There are proportionately more women vocally speaking out on this in public discourse.
You’re right, it is a free speech issue and totally not gendered but this is probably a reason.
The story so far
Blair’s Britain. An absolute disgrace! Very much like the man himself.
Remind me, which year was the Criminal Justice Act passed?
Oh! 2003…..
‘So, yet again, the courts are faced with a sample of the deeply confusing provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and the satellite statutory instruments to which it is giving stuttering birth……..we find little comfort or assistance in the historic canons of construction for determining the will of Parliament which were fashioned in a more leisurely age and at a time when elegance and clarity of thought and language were to be found in legislation as a matter of course rather than exception.’
High Court 2005
Cameron and Johnson, your job was to remedy all this nonsense.
Instead, you made it worse……!!
War will end sooner with Trump in White House, says Zelensky
‘I’ll get it done. I’ll get it negotiated, I’ll get out. We gotta get out. Biden says ‘we will not leave until we win.’ What happens if they win?”
President Trump
Makes sense. The first step must be a ceasefire, but that will allow Russia to re-arm so a ceasefire agreement will have to contain provisions for an immediate buffer zone and monitoring force.
Problem No.1
No such force of the required size exists outside the U.S.
That’s your ‘peace dividend’: no peacekeepers…..
Britain signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 giving security ‘assurances’ to Ukraine and then unilaterally disarmed!
Well done that nice Mr Major…….or not really…….
“The Revolution of 2024” – Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone Journal.
I’m concerned by this article. Does JT think the US is now going to engineer (good) change? I hope I’ve totally misunderstood what he’s saying, as JT has usually been excellent. However if he thinks the US (or indeed the rest of the West) is headed anywhere good, he will undoubtedly be in for a shock!
What makes you say that?
The vast majority of us have already have amazing lives, so good we have to invent first world problems (like a common cold coronavirus ‘pandemic’) to allow us to feel sorry for ourselves!
And it is going to get even better for the next generation…..if President Trump can achieve peace….he did it before…and security for the citizen from massive state mission creep.
What happens in America never stays in America.
Well, first of all I don’t think he is going to achieve peace; he may achieve the start of WW3 if he goes for Iran! I daren’t say some of the other things I think on this website!! Sorry, we probably have to agree to disagree. I’m more on James Delingpole’s and Bob Moran’s page than on this one, but I’m being allowed to comment for a month so thought I might as well go for it and test the waters here again!!
You may be right but the judgement of the previous Trump team on foreign affairs was sound. His judgement on ‘Big State’ socialist fascism, the arrogance of the public sector, seems equally sound. So I, for one, am following U.S. politics ‘if only out of idle curiosity’.
Fair enough. Time will tell.
Can we please drop the rather large amount of stories that lead to paywall links?
I’am never going to pay for the mail or others just to read one story, so stop linking to them!
I just signed up to look at the mail online, does not cost me a penny, unless I opt for Mail+, which I have no intention of doing.
In Toby’s good article in Spiked, he ends with: “If you believe an NCHI has been recorded against your child (the police don’t have to notify you or your child of this), contact the Free Speech Union. We can help you submit a subject-access request to find out what
information the police are holding on your child and, with luck, get it removed. “
I presume the same would apply for adults. If this were the case and sufficient numbers of people sent subject-access requests to the police, the whole NCHI insanity would quickly collapse. Rather than go through the FSU each time, a template or “how to guide” would be handy – so that people could directly apply.
Why would anyone pay any attention to what Francis Fukuyama writes?
He was the writer who claimed the end of history had arrived. Henceforth (written about 20 years ago) he claimed there would be social democratic governments throughout the world. There would be liberal democracy and fairness and no incentive to war and conflict.
All happy families. No need for a defence budget or national vorders.
Well that worked out well, didn’t it!
Samuel P Huntingdon wrote the response and he has been proven right. No prizes for guessing whether the worl’s elites have followed the correct or incorrect analysis.