- “Petition: call a General Election” – Sign the petition on Parliament.uk calling on the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and call a General Election. At the time of going to press, it had nearly 250,000 signatures.
- “‘No pathway’: Australian Government drops controversial misinformation bill amid Senate opposition” – In a major victory for free speech, Albert Albanese’s Government in Australia has dropped controversial plans to outlaw ‘misinformation’, reports SBS News. Meanwhile…
- “Yvette Cooper plans to expand non-crime hate incidents despite Pearson row” – The Home Secretary ignores the public outcry over Essex Police’s bullying of Allison Pearson and says she wants even more ‘non-crime hate incidents’ to be recorded, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s liberal reputation has been trampled by the bleak reality of our DEI police state” – Police and Crime Commissioners were supposed to hold the force to account, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph. But instead they have made excuses for the end of free speech.
- “Police accused of ‘turning blind eye’ to anti-Semitism to pursue ‘nonsense’” – The Campaign Against Antisemitism says it has launched half a dozen private prosecutions in cases where the police refused to act, according to the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: The ridiculous ‘hate incidents’ probed by police” – Non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) are meant to be reserved for cases that are “clearly motivated by intentional hostility”, reports the Mail. But officers have recorded some ridiculous things as ‘hate incidents’, including a tweet about identifying as a fish and a boy calling another a leprechaun.
- “Police log hate incident for refusal to shake hands in gender row” – More than 13,200 hate incidents have been logged by U.K. police forces in the past year, according to the Times, including against schoolchildren, vicars and doctors.
- “Dirty pants on washing line recorded as non-crime hate incident by police” – ‘Soiled underpants’, hedge disputes and secondary school taunting are examples of 13,000 NCHI reports this year, says the Telegraph.
- “Cops must stop wasting time chasing petty tweets while REAL crimes go unsolved” – Cops must stop wasting time investigating “petty incidents” while real crimes go unsolved, says the Sun, reporting on the campaign against NCHIs being waged by the Free Speech Union.
- “Free speech row after regulator bans advert for mocking Virgin Mary” – A poster promoting Fern Brady’s stand-up tour has been ruled as ‘offensive’ to Christians by the Advertising Standards Authority and banned, according to the Telegraph.
- “How to end the free speech crisis” – In the Critic, Fred de Fossard says the free speech crisis in Britain has become an international laughing stock, particularly in America.
- “Starmer and his Justice Secretary represent two of England’s most crime-ridden constituencies” – Analysis of police data shows the constituencies of the Prime Minister and the Justice Secretary are among the most crime-ridden in England, reports the Telegraph.
- “What’s Starmerism?” – Despite appearances, this Labour Government does have a vision – and it’s bloody awful, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Labour commits £70m to foreign aid food security while taxing farmers at home” – Anneliese Dodds has promised millions to farming businesses in Asia and Africa, reports the Telegraph.
- “Elderly farmers pressured into ‘suicide window’ by inheritance tax changes” – Families fear their parents will kill themselves as a result of Rachel Reeves’s IHT raid on farmers, says the Telegraph.
- “My day at the farmers’ protest that ended in chaos” – In his Sunday Times column, Jeremy Clarkson describes the chaos that ensued after he spoke at the farmers’ protest last week.
- “MoD under fire for importing eco-friendly steel rather than buying British” – Net Zero wokery is being blamed for the MoD’s betrayal of thousands of skilled British workers, according to the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s promises of cheap and easy energy don’t add up” – The Shadow Energy Secretary, Claire Coutinho, says in the Telegraph that Ed Milliband’s disastrous, head-lone rush towards Net Zero are raising household energy bills and destroying British businesses.
- “Winter is coming” – As the madness of Net Zero deepens, time has already run out for many of our most vulnerable citizens, says Richard Lyon on his Substack.
- “Is Big Oil back?” – While shale oil and gas has been the story of America’s quest for energy security, there is a renewed boom in drilling for offshore oil, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Equality law applies to ‘pregnant men’, SNP tells Supreme Court” – The SNP reckons the Equality Act prohibits discrimination against “pregnant men”, according to a legal submission it’s made to the Supreme Court, says the Telegraph.
- “Welby criticised for ‘egregious failure’ to act over convicted paedophile” – The Archbishop of Canterbury, while Dean of Liverpool Cathedral, allowed a priest to continue officiating despite being told he was a convicted sex offender, reports the Telegraph.
- “We have a problem with radical Islam” – We have a problem with radical Islam in the U.K., says Joe Baron in the New Conservative.
- “Manchester airport brawl” – Paul Bracchi in the Mail reveals the truth about the men who attacked the police at Manchester Airport.
- “Meet Trump’s free speech warrior taking on America’s ‘censorship cartel’” – Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick to run the FCC, is eyeing a crackdown on the censorship-industrial complex, starting with NewsGuard, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Government the greatest perpetrator of misinformation,’ says Trump’s pick to head the FDA” – The Naked Emperor on Trump’s latest appointing – one of the best yet.
- “How the ‘deep state’ will fight tooth and nail against Trump’s revenge presidency” – The President-elect’s plans to take on the federal bureaucracy has sent U.S. Government employees into blind panic, reports Tony Diver in the Telegraph.
- “MAGA men love Trump and his war against the age of wokeness” – The Trump campaign seems to be as much about Making Guys Great Again as America, argues Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Trump-hating celebs must be crazy to quit the US for Starmer’s miserable Britain” – There’s no bigger sign of Trump Derangement Syndrome than flouncing off to a country that’s now poorer than any American state, i.e., the U.K., says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Hollywood luvvies heading to the Cotswolds will learn that cattle grids and high heels don’t mix” – In her Telegraph column, Isabel Oakeshott says the Hollywood A-listers flocking to the Cotswolds are unlikely to get a warm reception
- “Violent clashes in Montreal as anti-Israel protestors set cars ablaze” – In another blow to Justin Trudeau’s credibility, an anti-Israel protest in Montreal descended into public disorder, with demonstrators clashing with police, smashing windows, and setting vehicles on fire, according to the Mail.
- “The ICC has granted succour to terror organisations around the world” – The message that is sent by this disgraceful development is one of encouragement to terror organisations the world over, says Natasha Hausdorff in the Telegraph.
- “The world is full of tyrants. Why is the ICC so obsessed with Israel?” – In his Sunday Times column, Rod Liddle lets fly at the ICC’s crazy plan to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister for war crimes. Surely, there are more deserving targets of their arrest warrants?
- “Lucy Letby hospital outlines 15 reasons why ‘baby killer’ was innocent” – A neonatal ward manager has produced 15 reasons why Lucy Letby could not be behind the deaths of babies at his hospital, reports the Telegraph.
- “The paper mills helping China commit scientific fraud” – In one Chinese research paper into prostate cancer, 50% of the patients named were women – who do not have prostate glands, says Ian Williams in the Spectator.
- “How Nick Clegg plotted the downfall of Facebook’s biggest rival” – Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is lobbying to ban TikTok which, if he’s successful, would entrench Meta’s social media stranglehold, reports the Telegraph.
- “An Unscientific American” – Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from Scientific American last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology, argues Michael Shermer in Quillette.
- “Stonewall and the search for meaning” – In UnHerd, Kathleen Stock tries to explain the extraordinary rise of Stonewall.
- “Who did this?” – On X, Paul Embery asks who made the brilliant ‘sequel’ to the now infamous Jaguar ad, in which an actual Jaguar leaps on the transgender models prancing around in rainbow colours.
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“The paper mills helping China commit scientific fraud”
At medical school one of my tutors mocked the faith healer Harry Edwards for writing in a book, “Cancer of the prostrate [sic] is very rare in women.” Lo and behold, it’s now mainstream science.
https://neweasterneurope.eu/2018/12/10/holodomor-2018-public-scholars/
Yesterday was Holodomor commemoration day.
‘The reports that Muggeridge and Jones sent to the UK on their return from the Soviet Union about the Holodomor (this name was not used until the 1990s, and the atrocity was usually referred to as an “artificial” or “man-made” famine) were met with disbelief and attacked in the left-wing press.
Significantly, Orwell emphasized that the famine Jones had uncovered was centred on Ukraine, and even gave an estimate of the number of victims. He wrote: “The years Mr. Lyons spent in Russia were years of appalling privation, culminating in the Ukrainian famine of 1933, [during] which it is estimated that no less than three million people died of starvation.
Orwell was impressed by what he learnt from Lyons’ book about what Jones’ had done. He is certain to have used this information, and everything he later learnt from Muggeridge about the famine and the USSR, when writing his classic Animal Farm.
When Orwell heard on the radio that all the male inhabitants of the Czech village of Ladice had been shot as punishment for harbouring the assassins of Gestapo chief Rienhard Heydrich, he drew up his own list of the worst atrocities after 1918 atrocities. He included the “Ukraine famine” among them.
In his 1945 essay “The Prevention of Literature”, Orwell wrote: “The fog of lies and misinformation which surrounds such subjects as the famine in the Ukraine, the Spanish Civil War, Russian policy in Poland, etc., is not entirely due to deliberate dishonesty”,” but is tantamount to active collusion with the Kremlin.
Today we can extend this to Russia’s disinformation and fake news about its genocidal war against Ukraine and its 1984-like regime that tolerates no dissent and worships “Big Brother” Putin.
And also, to those who seek a cynical deal with despotic Russia at Ukraine’s expense and forget the lessons of the Holodomor, Guernica, World War II, 1984, MH17, Bucha, Mariupol and the existence of the hostile anti-democratic alliance of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.’
Hardly any wonder that Ukraine fights on……
‘In the Kursk region, missile and UAV threats persisted for several hours. Witnesses reported nearly continuous air defense activity and the sound of explosions. The Governor of the Kursk region, Alexey Smirnov, reported an alleged interception of 27 UAVs and two missiles in the skies over the region.’
Other sources suggest the enemy may be employing ATACMS missiles
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1860470535060124154?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Do you really believe that anyone cares about Ukraine in the West? USA? UK? EU? Do they care one iota about the country and its people, or do they only care about serving USA’s determination to retain global hegemony, while USA additionally wants to weaken Russia for future exploitation.
The Ukrainian ex-President has literally sold out his country: BlackRock is the new owner of Europe’s ‘bread basket’, whereby Zelensky and his fellow dictators are rolling in cash. Poroshenko’s income has increased 25-fold since the beginning of the war. Zelensky himself is now the owner of numerous luxury residences around the world.
Anyone who seriously supports the people of Ukraine would stop the hostilities immediately. The price will be denazification of the current government and military as well as an agreement never to join NATO. Is that so bad? Eastern Ukraine will remain in Russian hands but your Banderites always wanted rid of the ethnic Russians there anyway. It would be wise to surrender now before Odessa is lost, thereby removing access to the Black Sea. Each day of conflict is costing thousands of Ukrainian lives and those lives can never be won back.
U.S. strategy, Ukraine
“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”
That meant Russia should “not have the capability to very quickly reproduce” the forces and equipment that had been lost in Ukraine.’
Russia strategy, Ukraine
Nothing scares a Russian autocrat more than a democratic Ukraine, because if Ukrainians can build a democracy, then the supposedly fraternal Russian people might too. Thus, combined, identity, security, and the interaction between the two drive Russia’s policies towards Ukraine since the 19th century. And demography.
Of the two, only the first one is succeeding. That is because of corruption and incompetence.
Even the latest ‘super weapon’ (a bit like the V2) is useless.
‘Russian bloggers note the alleged absence of damage to the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro, which was attacked by the mega-missile “Oreshnik,” something the so-called president of Russia has been boasting about for days:
“November 24, 2024
Dnipro, Ukraine
Satellite images of Yuzhmash, which was struck by the “Oreshnik” missile, have surfaced.
The workshops are intact; nothing has been “reduced to dust.” However, it seems the private residential area above took some damage.”
Not many Western leaders take Putin seriously any longer. Maybe they should, but they don’t and, to get their attention, he will have to destroy Russia…..and they know that he will not do that…..although the inhabitants of Kursk are less sanguine.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/Events/2024/Intent-to-Destroy-Russia's-Two-Hundred-Year-Quest-to-Dominate-Ukraine-Cold-War-Studies-Project-Seminar
‘What drives Russia’s violence in and against Ukraine from the 19th century to 2024?
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the single most important event in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is also arguably the major global geopolitical development since 9/11. Prof Finkel’s main argument is that violence and repression are deeply rooted in the history of Russo-Ukrainian relations. Since the mid-19th century, dominating Ukraine and denying Ukrainians an independent identity, let alone a state, has been the cornerstone of Imperial, Soviet and eventually, post-Soviet Russian policies.
More specifically, Prof Finkel will show that Russian and Soviet policies were driven by two factors: identity and security. The idea of the shared origin and fraternity of Russians and Ukrainians is a staple of Russian self-perception and historiography. The second key factor is security. Western powers often passed through Ukraine to attack Russia; Ukraine’s fertile soil was crucial to feeding and funding the Russian and Soviet Empires. Even more than geopolitics, it was regime stability that drove Moscow and St. Petersburg’s obsessive focus on Ukraine.
Nothing scares a Russian autocrat more than a democratic Ukraine, because if Ukrainians can build a democracy, then the supposedly fraternal Russian people might too. Thus, combined, identity, security, and the interaction between the two drive Russia’s policies towards Ukraine since the 19th century.’
And, to that, I would add demography.
In 1991, Solzhenitsyn said that Ukraine’s independence meant that Russia ‘lost twelve million Russians and 23 million more Russian speakers’.
In 2000, Putin said this:
‘And, if you believe the forecasts and the estimates are based on actual work, the real work of people who understand this, who have devoted their whole lives to this, in 15 years, there may be 22 million fewer Russians. I ask you to think about this figure: a seventh of the country’s population. If the current trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy’
Russia has had a ‘Ukraine problem’ since the mid 19th Century.
NATO was only founded in 1945.
More complete nonsense. Firstly, Ukraine was part of the USSR. Secondly, Russia and Ukraine were working side by side all the years since the USSR until USA stepped in and set up the Maidan Coup. Instead of your daily tirades against Russia, you should be attacking USA for the death and destruction they have brought to Ukraine. Istanbul was Ukraine’s finest chance of peace with minimal losses but, no, Zelensky believed in sacrificing his country for what, a chance to join the outdated NATO, the dictatorial EU?
But, fortunately, Putin is not expecting Western leaders to take him seriously.
‘Why make these same claims time and again when the Kremlin has no intention of following through on them?
The escalatory rhetoric plays extremely well with the vocal nationalist crowd on digital platforms like Telegram, a popular source for consumption of news in Russia. On state-run Telegram channels, reports of the Kremlin’s braggadocio often cause excitable pile-ons in comment threads.’
Ian Garner
So just a dotty load of vodka soaked old duffers then…….
Blimey, the numbers on that petition are moving fast! Of course they are not going to call another GE, but it does send a message, and they will have to respond to it.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143
Just shy of 450k at 10:12 am.
Now 516k (11:05 am)
I reckon it will be at a million by the end of the day.
It looks as though you may be right: now 720k (1:20 pm)
It passed one million at 4.00 pm.
A lot of “buyer’s remorse” here, I would guess.
Much as I would like there to be a new election, it seems obvious o me that the e-petitions site has been got-at by ‘bots’. When I first looked at it it was on 278 thousand ‘signatures’, In the length of time my tea took to brew it reached 280 thousand. It’s now (08:52 UK time) on over 327 thousand. Unfortunately this gives Sir Keir’s mob excellent justification to ignore the petition.
If they are this easy to be got at by bots how do we know if any petitions are valid?
What’s the point of them?
We don’t.
09:52 350,259 ‘signatures’
There were 28,809,340 votes cast out of an electorate of 48,253,193 in the 2024 GE. So apparently the petition is signed by 1.2% of the turnout at the GE or 0.72% of the whole electorate. I don’t think that many people have heard of the e-petition site.
Dammit. That was supposed to be 09:12 350,259 ‘signatures’. In other words 20 mins after my 08:52 comment.
But they are experiencing labour’s gov!
Maybe they are looking for some way to be heard?
This might just be the vent of their spleens they’ve been looking for?
The British are just realising how much they have been shat upon in such a short period of time!
Over a million signatories now (16:40 UK time). @Valerie_London (below) pointed out that the map of where the signatories claim to be from is consistent with Labour heartlands not voting for it. I hope it’s real! Over 3.7% of the votes cast at the last GE.
I’m certainly not offended by your (later) comment above. I hope nobody else is either!
Is it not necessary to confirm ones vote after first doing so.
Yes it is. I’ve just done so. That makes bot voting more difficult. Besides, why doubt the depth and severity of hatred for the Labour branch of the elites.
Indeed, there is plenty of it out there it seems.
Yes, they’re hated but far too many think they’re better than the alternative(s).
Why doubt the e-petition votes? To be well prepared when the inevitable ‘we considered debating it but decided against’ response comes down from Parliament.
(My emphasis)
You do have to verify your email address before voting. If it helps, here is their map of signature locators. https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=700143
Interesting view.- I see the north is very well represented…
My permanently Labour London borough has very low numbers…
Interesting. If it was ‘bots’ I would have expected a more even distribution. We can hope it’s real. At 12:13 it was at 619,295, 2.1% of the number of votes cast at the 2024 GE.
I note Aunty Beeb hasn’t covered it – I wonder why?
Soundofreason,
Maybe Real people are this pissed off at labour’s lies?
Maybe you’ll get your wish and it is real people after all?
850000 and counting, at time of comment!
This could go viral!
I agree it might not change anything, but it’s a hell of a kick in the bollocks to Starmer!
Sorry about the profanity, I unreservedly apologise. Touch of the vapours!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/23/climate-change-weekly-526-some-suggestions-on-climate-and-environmental-policy-for-the-new-sheriff-in-town/
Notes on U.S. Climate/Energy policies that may be useful for an incoming centre right government in Britain to emulate:
‘1. Paris Climate Treaty and Endangerment Finding. Repeal the Obama/Biden EPA determination that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are threats to the public health and welfare (the “endangerment finding”).
2. EV mandate and California waiver. Request legislation clarifying that the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA)
3. Green New Scam and Grid Security. Ask Congress to repeal all the energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act through budget reconciliation. For national and economic security purposes, bar electricity grid reliance on variable sources of electricity generation such as wind and solar.
4. Oil and Gas. Lift moratoria on offshore drilling in areas put off limits by prior presidents. Reverse the Biden moratorium on federal leasing for coal mining. Streamline the permitting process for energy production. End the Biden moratorium on LNG export terminals.
5. Presidential Appointments. Appoint officials at federal agencies like EPA, Interior, DoE, FERC, and other key agencies that will aggressively permit new oil and gas pipelines, LNG terminals, and other infrastructure required for producing oil, gas, and coal. Streamline the permitting process. Terminate all existing federal science advisory boards and reconstitute only those that are legally required. Appoint qualified and pro-energy individuals to the boards.
6. Offshore Wind. Offshore wind developers, which happen to be foreign companies in most instances, threaten consumers, endangered species, and iconic maritime communities whose prosperity depends on the fishing. The industrialization of fisheries by offshore wind development should be terminated by delisting unleased wind energy areas.
7. Coal. Repeal all the anti-coal regulatory actions of the Biden administration and promote coal as a preferred means of producing electricity. Commence a review of related air quality regulations issued by EPA.
8. Litigation. Re-staff the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division attorneys who will zealously defend administration priorities.
9. Regulatory Reform. Request legislation to require that federal courts no longer defer to regulatory agencies on scientific matters.
10. Regulatory Burden. Require congressional authorization of regulations with a significant economic impact, including but not limited to those with an economic impact of $100 million or more.’
Simply delete ‘Congress’ and insert ‘Parliament’.
I checked Miri AF last night and found this excellent piece…
https://miriaf.co.uk/invasion-of-the-flat-snatchers-2/
Huddersfield Council have “sequestered” shall we say some student accommodation just outside Huddersfield centre and it will be used to accommodate 400 immigrants. Doubtless as Miri suggests these immies will be single, male and in the age range 18-40 i.e 400 soldiers.
I have just been informed that Oldham Council have been given a seven storey ex DWP building in the centre of town complete with tram stop. No information on its likely use but I suspect something similar to Huddersfield.
Another clampdown looks likely but this time ‘policed’ by mercenaries. So me banging on about an invading army for over three years is beginning to look bang on.
The petition for a general election has now got nearly an astonishing 500,000 signatures. If you haven’t already done so, do consider signing: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143.
Duly signed and shared widely.
I do suspect we are shouting at the moon however. 2TK knows he and his “government” are detested but doesn’t care, hence the importing of hundreds of thousands of voters.
Nothing less than the subversion of democracy, as we are seeing in Europe.
According to Lloyd Austin about N Korean soldiers “Based on what they have been trained to do, and how they have been integrated into Russian formations, I am absolutely certain that these soldiers will soon be taking part in combat operations,”
Oh, so they are not there yet. What a surprise.