- “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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Wow. That’s cosmic.
They hadn’t reckoned on Mr Isherwood being a member of the Free Speech Union.
Hope this sets a president
Absolutely has (set a precedent, that is
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Spread the word!
Thank you. Need all the help I can get with spelling. Was rubbish at English but excelled at maths.
You are forgiven. Like French, English is a crazy language. On the other hand, languages like Spanish, once you know the rules, are a lot easier to spell, being entirely phonetic and almost 100% predictable.
Well done
An organisation worth supporting
Well done, FSU. Case Law will spell the beginning of the end for the race hustlers. Can’t imagine the payouts will be less than what big companies pay their “Diversity Consultants” who trot out all this useless, offensive tripe. All the black folk I know hate all this white privilege stuff; they want to be measured on their merit alone.
Excellent.
These slimeballs have been getting away with this nonsense unchallenged for far too long.
Why is this undoubtedly contentious? Assuming that societies are inherently organized in such a way that members of the dominant ethnic group will be favoured over others, it’s perfectly sensible to assume that black privilege must exist in countries where this dominant ethnic group is black. At least insofar one accepts this US simpleton theory of the people of the world being naturally grouped into whites and non-whites. In reality, a real lot of different peoples subdivided into different tribes are living in Africa and they don’t exactly love each other just because woketards don’t want to be bothered with such insignificant (to them) distinctions.
The reaction of the employer is also noteworthy. That’s
We respect the decision of the Tribunal. West Midlands Trains is an inclusive employer and there is no place for discriminatory behaviour within the rail industry.
my understanding of that is The company has money enough and can as well pay up for unfortunate tribunal decisions like this one. We’ll do it again on the next opportunity.
They may think they have enough (of other people’s) money. But once the floodgates open…
‘We respect the decision of the Tribunal. West Midlands Trains is an inclusive employer and there is no place for discriminatory behaviour within the rail industry.’
Sure, you are an inclusive employer but not if a person has differing opinions to the wokeacracy.
This is code language for We are operating based on the tenets of critical race theory and the theory that wrongspeak is harmful to others. In other words, that’s basically an assertion that – regardless of the decision of the employment tribunal – questioning the concept of white privilege implies and intends victimization of members of oppressed groups. Isherwood was removed for his harmful, racist behaviour and WMT will do that again in future, regards of which court says what about this.
It’s basically a committment to keep breaking the law in the name of a cause that’s deemed more important. Very similar to the Halifax customer services guy.
This is how things work nowadays. We are all inclusive if you agree with us, otherwise we’re not. It’s a return to tribalism.
There is something seriously wrong with this society when somebody can lose their job for something said, not to a work colleague, or in their place of work, but for a comment made to a spouse in the privacy of your own home.
By God we have sunk to awful depths. Actually I am not sure we will ever climb out of this mess.
And from a managerial angle why didn’t the manager who took the initial complaint wag his finger at rhe complainant and say:
OK sonny, private comments between a man and wife have nothing to do with us. Now Foxtrot Oscar and don’t mither managers again with woke rubbish.
Some hope I suppose.
The reasoning behind this is presumably that Isherwood accidentally imposed himself as disgusting and dangerous racist hell-bent on coming after members of oppressed groups. Presumably, the manager was happy that this happened before he came to work with L7A2 GPMG and opened fire on wrong-coloured colleagues, something which was bound to happen sooner or later.
The privacy angle is unfortunate. He should be able to say that in public without fear of the sack.
Well done to Toby for setting up the FSU; Mr Isherwood for standing up for himself and the FSU for beating the woke bullies.
As someone who has travelled extensively around the world for both work and leisure I can answer his question…yes black privilege does exist in other countries. Brazil, Mauritius, Kuwait are three places I can think of immediately where being white was definitely a disadvantage.