- “Assisted dying Bill could be scrapped before vote” – The assisted dying Bill could be scrapped before it is voted on after a group of cross-party MPs tabled a “wrecking amendment” to stop it, reports the Independent.
- “Why you can’t trust the polls on assisted dying” – The ‘right to die’ lobby is wrong to claim it has the public’s support, says Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
- “‘Why I cancelled my trip to Dignitas’” – A society which values convenience over care detracts from the meaning and purpose of life for everyone around the vulnerable, writes Michelle-Anna Moffat in the Spectator.
- “Britain cannot become a country that nudges its most fragile towards the grave” – The risk of abuse remains clear in the assisted dying Bill, which could eventually lead to state-sanctioned killing, warns Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
- “Three former Tory prime ministers oppose assisted dying Bill” – Boris Johnson, Baroness May and Liz Truss are the latest former Conservative prime ministers to oppose the assisted dying Bill, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan comes out against assisted dying Bill” – Sadiq Khan has revealed he would vote against the assisted dying Bill, warning it could lead to the “coercive control” of vulnerable people, reports the Standard.
- “Global deaths from assisted dying surpass 30,000 in a year” – Doctors helped more than 30,000 people to kill themselves last year, setting a record for euthanasia and assisted dying in countries where it’s legal, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lammy vows ‘100%’ co-operation with ICC after Netanyahu arrest warrant” – David Lammy has pledged full cooperation with the International Criminal Court to ensure its work proceeds “without obstruction” following the arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s youth ‘back-to-work’ cash cut plan already happens: minister” – A senior minister has admitted that Labour’s threat to strip teens of their benefits if they don’t try to get a job or train is just a continuation of the current system, says the Mail.
- “Starmer dodges crackdown on sickness benefits” – Labour is set to unveil a flagship back-to-work plan that does not include a crackdown on sickness benefits, reports the Telegraph.
- “Junk food could be hit with more taxes as part of Government’s back-to-work drive” – New taxes on junk food are being lined up to bring down the multi-billion pound sickness benefits bill, says the Sun.
- “Businesses could face further tax raid despite Reeves’ pledge” – Rachel Reeves’ promise not to raise taxes again appears to be in doubt after a Cabinet colleague failed to repeat it, according to the Mail.
- “The proof older voters have turned on Starmer’s Labour” – Labour’s alienation of older voters is laid bare by analysis of the recent viral petition demanding another general election, reports the Mail.
- “Record non-crime hate incidents even if ‘victim’ does not think it is one, police officers told” – Police officers were instructed by bosses to record non-crime hate incidents, even in cases where the supposed victim did not believe a hate incident had taken place, says the Telegraph.
- “‘I‘m bruised but vindicated – and going to war with the police’” – The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson blasts the U.K.’s Orwellian policing of free speech and vows to fight back against this creeping censorship.
- “Abolish recording of non-crime hate incidents, former Supreme Court judge urges” – Lord Sumption thinks non-crime hate incidents should be scrapped because they have become a vehicle for settling grudges, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police forces withdraw from X after Elon Musk takeover” – Several British police forces have largely withdrawn from Musk’s X social media platform, reports Reuters.
- “Don’t expect an end to Europe’s migrant crisis any time soon” – Britain remains a magnet for migrants, and Calais remains the principal assembly point for migrants desperate to reach England, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Giorgia Meloni claims ‘higher incidence’ of immigrants in rape cases” – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni claims that illegal immigrants are responsible for a disproportionate number of rapes in Italy and that the police presence in cities must be upped to make public spaces safer, according to the Mail.
- “Girl admits lying that teacher was Islamophobic before he was beheaded” – The Muslim schoolgirl who accused her teacher of Islamophobia and began rumours that led to a jihadist decapitating him in the street in France has admitted lying and apologised to the victim’s family, reports the Mail.
- “Vauxhall to close Luton factory with 1,100 jobs at risk amid EV row” – Vauxhall’s parent company Stellantis has announced plans to close its van plant in Luton, days after it warned the Government that it could slash production in Britain over Labour’s electric vehicle sales targets, according to the Mail.
- “The fantasy of Ed Miliband’s promise of lower electricity bills” – Mr. Miliband has made himself a hostage to fortune by promising lower electricity prices, says Jermey Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Germany joins backlash against EVs as Scholz criticises emission fines” – Germany has joined a growing backlash against fining car makers who miss Net Zero targets – suggesting the firms should be allowed to keep the money to invest in cutting emissions, reports the Mail.
- “Porsche to stick with petrol engines for ‘much longer’ amid electric car climbdown” – Porsche will stick with petrol engines for “much longer” than previously planned as it pulls back from electric cars, according to motor1.com.
- “‘Zealous’ vegan couple starved three year-old son to death and buried him in garden, court hears” – A court has heard how a “zealous” vegan couple failed to give their three year-old adequate food or summon medical help, then buried him in their back garden, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown measures were necessary despite harm done to pandemic generation, minister insists” – Employment minister Alison McGovern has defended lockdown measures as “necessary” despite concerns they contributed to rising depression among young people, says the Telegraph.
- “Censorship: alive and well” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan reveal how their evidence-based critique of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine regulatory data collided with Facebook’s ideological brick wall.
- “NORTHGroup Denmark calls for investigation and moratorium on modified mRNA products” – On Substack, Jessica Rose spotlights NORTHGroup Denmark’s bold demand for an investigation into – and moratorium on – modified mRNA tech.
- “HHS and MAHA Appointments” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone explains why the MAGA/MAHA agenda faces an uphill battle.
- “The bureaucratic imperative” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley explores the maddening feedback loop of bureaucracies, where more people mean more problems.
- “J.K. Rowling accuses BBC of ‘spitting in women’s faces’ over Barbra Banda football award” – J.K. Rowling has accused the BBC of “spitting in women’s faces” for naming a Zambian player, withdrawn from a 2022 tournament over sex eligibility rules, as its Women’s Footballer of the Year, reports the Telegraph.
- “The days of woke bullies and their hate campaigns are coming to an end” – HBO’s backing of J.K. Rowling shows that if companies stand firm instead of giving into bleating liberal trolls, the mob is rendered powerless, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Why are the police allowing trans officers to strip-search women?” – Vulnerable women should not be told that a biologically male officer is going to strip search them, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
- “Sacked Santa: Blackpool grandfather ousted for immigration views” – Two local Santas have been given the ‘sack’ for expressing Right-wing political views, reports the Mail.
- “Wolf Hall is now a joyless exercise in virtue-tainment” – Colourblind casting can be a legitimate artistic choice, but not in a realist docu-drama, say Maren Thom and Alex Dale in Spiked.
- “Jaguar’s idiotic response to Nigel Farage has made its PR disaster even worse” – The Telegraph’s Michael Deacon mocks Jaguar’s woke PR disaster as a tone-deaf attempt to woo youth while alienating loyal, older buyers.
- “Walmart’s DEI rollback signals a profound shift in the wake of Trump’s election victory” – Walmart will be cutting back its diversity, equity and inclusion programmes and other forms of what conservatives deride as corporate wokeness, reports Victor Morton in the Washington Times.
- “The anti-white, anti-West ideology poisoning young minds is about to face a reckoning” – Abolishing the U.S. Department of Education and rolling out school choice will hand power from woke educational bureaucrats to parents, says Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
- “Woke is waning: was it ever more than a fad?” – Most people haven’t forcibly rejected pronouns or deplatforming; they were never particularly invested in them in the first place, says James Marriott in the Times.
- “Royal Society scientist quits in protest over ‘Bond villain’ Elon Musk’s fellowship” – A professor at the Royal Society has quit in protest over Elon Musk’s fellowship at the institution, accusing the billionaire of “modelling himself on a Bond villain”, according to the Oxford Mail.
- “Stars round on Ed Sheeran over Band Aid row, telling him to ‘shut up’” – Celebrities have turned on Ed Sheeran in the escalating row over the new Band Aid single – with Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley telling him to “shut up”, says the Mail.
- “And they wonder why Hollywood is on life support” – Jack David comments on a clip from the press junket for Wicked which, even by woke Hollywood standards, is OTT.
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Woke is evil
He was arrested for defending a Christian Cllr’s right to object to the gender perverts and mentally ill deniers of chromosomes, dna and mitochondria. If the other Cllr had been a Mahometan or Hindu no arrest by the Pervert Gestapo. As in the DisUnited States, the Plod is simply a Gestapo for Gov’t special interests.
What are Cllr Lawal and Stevens doing in the Tory party if they believe in the principal of freedom of speech?
The worrying thing about this story is the extent to which it is now normalised. We have already had victories over precisely this, yet the police are persisting with the same approach. Suella Braverman has even addressed precisely this, yet the police are ignoring all she has said. These stories are multiplying despite crossing legal bounds and no one is held to account. And now, dare I say it, even the commenters annoy me (in the Telegraph not here – here is much better). When they express outrage now they just look to me like birds who, with the publication of the story, have been fed some bird feed and while they are pecking away the real culprits are moving on, setting the next domino in place ready to start the show and flip our world into totalitarianism.
The UK is increasingly a Christophobic country.
There is not one single case of the plod arresting a Mahometan for objecting to the mentally ill pervert cult.
Woke is evil
Sheesh! Welcome to clown world eh?
The decision makers in Plod-world should be made accountable for this nonsense.
Too many things to say about this disgraceful incident and not enough time, therefore I’ll leave it to the late, great George Carlin. He could be talking about any government in the laughably labelled ”free and democratic” West here. As long as governments overreach and employ goon squads to trample all over our liberties and keep us in check basic rights such as freedom of speech and democracy are just one big, fat illusion. A privilege to be given and taken away at their behest.
“Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government does not give a f*** about them. Government doesn’t care about you or your children or your rights or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a f*** about you. It’s interested in its own power, that’s the only thing, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible. Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights or we have no rights at all.
And rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter. You see how it’s going?”
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1695813659883434338
Thanks for that Mogs. Very true.
When’s the kick back going to start…
Andrew Tate and Alex Jones get together and discuss the state of the world, propaganda, control and feminisation of men.
https://youtu.be/aAQ8pKYnsHM?si=Elw__oDPCDWq5XbS
A bit shouty but makes one second guess the relentless attacks. He’s awake.
Wokery in conjunction with the Liberal Progressive virus denies you the right to have an opinion on Equality, Diversity, Race, Gender or Climate. Whoever thought that in a supposedly free country that we would be denied an opinion? If you have an opinion that does not comply with the tenets of the 5 agenda’s I listed you are committing a crime of HATE. —–How totally absurd. I disagree so I am guilty? But this article shows another extension to that absurdity where someone who then neither agrees nor disagrees with another persons allegedly hateful view gets into a spot of bother for saying that person should be free to have his opinion. —–What a dreadful slippery slope where non Progressives will soon all be in the woke gulag.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Your distillation of the current state of play is absolutely spot on.
We now have Stasi ..Official .
Again totally disproportionate Police action .
The law needs changing ..
The people are sovereign. The government is there to serve.
Legally unenforceable manifestos presented at 4 or 5y intervals give governments no right to remove a millennium of rights.
The globalists don’t think so and are laughing at such a quaint assertion. And at the moment they are winning.
As a resident of Northamptonshire I’ll be dropping the Chief Constable a line on the line he has crossed.
I know his PA!
I cannot get my head around this, how is this even possible ?
So police really turned up to someones house and arrested them over a tweet and locked them up for 9 hours.
The police are not fit for purpose,
How many police officers did that tie up in a nice & easy job with no need to patrol streets, a smart middle class family to terrorise with ease and no nasty loudmouthed perps to nick? What’s not to like?
Quite. I hope he sues Northamptonshire Plod. Incidentally, during the Covid nonsense wasn’t it the head of Northamptonshire Plod who threatened to have his minions search people’s shopping for “non-essential” items?
Well it took 6 or 7 to arrest that poor autistic teenage lass who had the temerity to say one of them looked like her lesbian nana. Would they even send that many if some violent thug was kicking off in town on a Saturday night? It’s a chuffing joke. Let it never be said, should you ever have the misfortune to be burgled, that the police can’t be with you for 5 hours due to lack of resources.
Mogs, the plod will not attend household burglary cases.
Well it took 6 or 7 to arrest that poor autistic teenage lass who had the temerity to say one of them looked like her lesbian nana. Would they even send that many if some violent thug was kicking off in town on a Saturday night?
It depends. If bouncers call the police, they’ll usually act, as that’s one of their peer groups. Ordinary members of the public or even bar staff are usually told to get lost. They’re supposed to hire bouncers for protection. But that’s certainly not a racket. No, no, no, this cannot be!
To answer that you need to consider what is going on at a deeper level. Consider, there is a relationship between this and Donald Trump’s arrest. It might sound tenuous, but consider what is driving those two things and that is the level that answers your question. No of course it’s not a single coordinating entity – if there is one they haven’t directly asked for this, but it IS a confluence of interests and philosophies where the centralisation of greed and power is leading the world to a very dark place.
No manpower issues for Northants police, then; though looks like some of them have been ‘wasting police time’ and ‘impersonating a police officer’.
Stephen Mold
Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire
Email- Commissioner@northantspfcc.gov.uk
https://www.stephenmold.com
Please drop Mr Mold a polite, factual line on this travesty.
I hereby politlely request that people self-identifying as Northamptonshire police beings refrain from acting as strongmen for the local Labour party in future, something they’ve been factually doing so far?
No bloody chance of that leading to anything except maybe laughter and some other police forces being tipped off wrt potential troublemakers which could do with some proactive policing. Didn’t you ever wonder why open sale of stolen goods and trading of supposedly illegal drugs is happening everywhere in plain sight? Hint: It’s not because the police alone cannot see this. They just know why they ought to turn a blind eye to it.
He needs to name the scumbag labour councillor.
Isn’t it about time a senior copper was fired for promoting this sort of conduct amongst the lower ranks? Unless and until serious consequences follow this behaviour will continue.
Are the police given any training these days? The incidents where plod goes rogue seem to be occurring with increasing frequency. It’s almost as if they are trained to act outside the law. No surely not…
I’ve just sent Stephen Mold, the Northamptonshire Police Commissioner a message.
Please consider dropping him a polite, respectful and factual message.
Sir,
As Christian who lives in the county I’m frankly appalled by the treatment by Northamptonshire Police of Messrs Lawal and Stevens in this case of woke policing.
For the record, I hugely respect our force.
It seems the Chief Constable is now targeting Christians who hold the traditional Biblical view of homosexuality.
I wish to raise a formal complaint over this matter. As a published author and local speaker who has many Christian friends within the county, I also need to make you aware we feel intimidated by this woke policing. It seems policing ‘without fear or favour’ is no longer the ethos.
Sincerely
Thank you Neil.
Yet another fine advert for the Free Speech Union. It could be one of us next and I am not being glib with that comment.
This seems eminently winnable for the FSU. Go on Toby, tear them a new one!
We’d better all sign up and pay our subs then.
On the other hand, so far as I know the police do not harass the High Street Bible-thumpers that I see and hear every week who warn me of all manner of Evil in the world sometimes referring to activities banned by Leviticus. Perhaps police policy, guided by the Home Office, is to turn a blind eye unless the preacher or tweeter also holds a position of actual political influence?
The clue is he had been reported to the police by a local Labour Party member. Labour party members don’t enlist the police to help them furthering the political agenda of their party wrt to street preachers whose ranting and raving is of no conceivable concern to them. They probably could, though, which is bad enough.
I’m on a roll here … now written to Chief Constable Nick Adderley, copied to Police Commisioner and local MP.
Please do likewise if you can – remember they’ll be coming for you next.
Enough is enough.
Sir,
You will no doubt be aware of the action of your force against Anthony Stevens who was arrested, then held in custody for 9 hours simply for tweeting a link for a petition to defend King Lawal, both Northamptonshire councillors. The context is that King was sharing his traditional, Bible-based Christian beliefs.
For the record, I have long held our county’s police in high regard, publicising its efforts for motorcycle safety on my YouTube channel, the 3 videos now with over 100,000 hits. Your officers have always been highly responsive and effective on the occasions we have needed assistance. As an advanced rider, my mentor and riding buddy is an ex-police instructor. I was best man for a police sergeant’s wedding and have always held the thin blue line in the highest regard.
As a Christian myself of 50 years faith, I am frankly appalled by your officer’s treatment of Mr Stevens, and that in front of his family. This was clearly designed to intimidate, to send a message.
These actions bring Northamptonshire Police into disrepute, clearly abandoning the principle of policing ‘without fear or favour’. It is obvious now that some groups get more favour than others. I would remind you that Sir Robert Peel was a committed Christian and UK law is strongly rooted in Judeo-Christian principles.
I have raised the issue with the Commissioner and hope you focus your resources – paid for by people like me – on real crime and not wokism.
Sincerely
Excellent
Excellent letter. But will it get an equally excellent reply?
The content of the reply doesn’t really matter, Neil has set an excellent example of what we all need to do in our locality in similar cases if we wish to be both heard and the issue remedied. We are in the situation we find ourselves in because good people do nothing.
Response received 29/8 …
Thank you for emailing the Chief Constable, when this matter was brought to the attention of the Chief Constable he commissioned a review into the circumstances and facts. This is a live investigation so no comment will be made at this stage and will await the findings of the initial review.
Regards
Xxxx
Inspector xxxxx
Staff Officer to CC Nick Adderley / Head of Executive Support
Why is Toby Young saying the police have made a serious mistake? Is there evidence that it was a mistake rather than policy?
First question to Police…who has made the complaint?
Isn’t it about time that the ‘complainers’ were clearly identified?
If the police won’t tell you, don’t let them in in the first place…it’s about time that the people who make these bogus complaints were identified, so that they can be equally smeared by the publicity and hopefully successfully sued……?!
Someone must be wondering if Jesus Christ can save these two gentlemen. Chiefly from themselves. An elephant only has itself to blame if it lumbers into a pit. Or gets eaten by a pride of lions.
It’s never wise to defend the indefensible. Burning a book is hardly a matter of speech, free or otherwise. Being fascinated by these book burnings is ignorant. Tweeting a photo of the scripture concerned being placed on the floor would be offensive. Adding the strife of tongues to the plotting of men that is politics is not being slow to speak, as the Christian scripture would advise the counsellor.
Christian virtues do not rule England. If the Christian counsellor had been more aware of the nature of the ‘formidable season’ in which we live, and which, as a Christian he could have learned about quite easily from his Apostle, Paul (2 Tim. iii. 1-5), he could have saved himself a lot of unnecessary inconvenience. And Paul would have advised the counsellor to give respect to whom respect is due.
Book burning is a perfect example of free speech.
Quit rimming the islamists – they hate useful idiots like you as much as they hate the people applying a match to their handbook – you are the kuffar – you are beneath the animals to an islamist.
Before you start with the “not all muzzies” nonsense – consider this
“Radical” islamists demand the global caliphate as soon as possible and by any means necessary.
“Moderate” islamists are happy to wait for the radicals to deliver…
TRUST NOT A ONE OF THEM.
“Someone must be wondering if Jesus Christ can save these two gentlemen”
Save them from what?
Please give examples of “speech” and please clarify what speech you think should be prohibited by law and why.
What “respect” is due, to whom? Why is saving yourself inconvenience a virtue?
Do you think either of the men has committed a “hate crime”?
If you don’t think burning a book is “speech”, consider what action would have been taken had the book being burned been some bland volume such as a dictionary. Do you seriously think any action would have been taken? It’s absurd to think that would have been the case, therefore the action of burning a religious text is quite obviously speech.
So many of these cases seem to result from police not being very bright, and not understanding the laws that they are supposed to be upholding.
This seems to be repeated so often. Time for our Home Secretary to provide unambiguous orders to the police forces that speech upsetting senribilities in others us NOT an offence. This ‘hate crime’ thing has to stop.
The UK Keystone Cops are woefully Incompetent. They don’t understand that the day of reckoning will be upon them.
It seems that the only written part of our constitution is being torn up, the Magna Carta. It is probably the most important legal document ever written, and the fact that the Police do not understand it speaks volumes about their now undeclared purpose. This “hate speech” thing is bad law, made by idiots in Parliament without a clue of life, because pressure groups wanted it to kick back at some “foreign practices” which were criticised by the indigenous population. I am sure you all know what these include, rape, grooming etc.
I found this one of the most extraordinary actions to date by our woke police. I hope the FSU will help this councillor sue the pants off Nottinghamshire Police. It is also indicative that he was reported to police by a Labour councillor, which suggests what we might be in for when Labour next get into power.
Just a piece of advice if this should ever happen to you. The first thing you must do at the police station is ask to see the duty solicitor and not say anything else until you have spoken them.
This is now England . Banana Republic