- “Assad may be on the brink, but would Syria’s rebels be any better?” – Even if its advance towards Damascus is successful, the coalition of forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham might not bring the freedom the war-ravaged nation craves, says Samuel Ramani in the Times.
- “Why Syria’s army has collapsed so suddenly” – Regime forces have fallen back from Aleppo, Hama and Homs in quick succession – and it’s all Assad’s fault, according to the Telegraph.
- “Religious charities are promoting Islamic extremism ‘with impunity’, warn campaigners” – The Home Office has been told that the “toothless” Charity Commission must do more to rein in “hateful” Islamist ideology spread by registered groups and their members, says the Telegraph.
- “‘If we don’t defend our culture, who will?’” – Conservative Home has published the text of Kemi Badenoch’s Washington speech in which she says she’s proud to be called a “culture warrior”.
- “Tories were too ‘laissez-faire’ over Gaza demonstrations, Badenoch says” – The Conservative Party should “champion our values” rather than allow protests that were “used as cover for intimidation”, according to the Leader of the Opposition, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why do the Left march against Israel but not Russia, Iran’s mullahs, or the Taliban?” – In the Telegraph, Zoe Strimpel takes aim at the hypocrisy of the British Left
- “Anti-Jewish hatred has become normal in Britain. We need decisive action” – Why is this country, with its proud history of standing against racism, not furious about the record-breaking rise in racism against Jews? asks Karen Pollock in the Telegraph.
- “Oxford Union speaker who ‘expressed support’ for Hamas faces counter-terror investigation” – The son of a Holocaust survivor accuses Oxford’s oldest debating society of letting “forces of bigotry” rule after pro-Palestinian activist’s Oct 7th comments, reports the Telegraph.
- “Emmanuel Macron owns his despair” – The French President, Emmanuel Macron, is reported to be depressed, disagreeable with colleagues and sulking in his palace, writes Jonathan Miller in Spectator World.
- “Inside the awe-inspiring new Notre-Dame, the pride of Paris once again” – Five years after the devastating fire, the interior of the restored Gothic cathedral is a luminous joy to behold, says Henry Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “We all know Britain is broken. The answer is less red tape, not more” – We are so addicted to legislation that even those things we do well – like English football – risk being strangled by bureaucrats, writes Dan Hannan in his Telegraph column.
- “Labour transport advisers back Extinction Rebellion and 20mph zones” – Labour has appointed three “anti-motorist activists” at the Department for Transport who want to bring traffic to a halt, according to the Telegraph.
- “London council ‘unlawfully’ used LTNs to balance books with fines, court to hear” – Croydon council made six Low Traffic Neighbourhoods to raise millions of pounds, yet the zones had “no environmental benefit and dispersed traffic” to nearby roads, according to the Telegraph.
- “School counsellor sacked for ‘misogynist views on traditional marriage’” – A teacher sacked by a Catholic school for posts on Instagram expressing her Christian beliefs is taking her former employer to the Employment Tribunal, reports the Telegraph.
- “With a push from the polls and Elon Musk, is Reform U.K. edging ahead?” – As Sir Keir Starmer trudges towards his ‘milestones’, Nigel Farage is winning support, writes Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times. But it’s the Tories who should be looking over their shoulder?
- “The post-war consensus is in tatters – no liberal leader is safe from the fallout” – Western leaders are struggling to grasp the anger which is spreading like wildfire among their populations, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph. How many will survive?
- “Ignore the BBC’s woke list. Here are the real women of the year” – The BBC included a male scientist on its list of 2024’s 100 most ‘inspiring’ women. Michael Deacon in the Telegraph has a go at compiling a better list.
- “How Ricky Gervais took on the ‘woke brigade’ – and won” – The comedian’s provocative stand-up tour Mortality is a sellout, despite lukewarm reviews, because he’s a fearless anti-woke warrior, reports Will Lloyd in the Sunday Times.
- “Police have grown too powerful and scornful of public” – “For years I have feared that the police have grown too powerful and too scornful of the public they are supposed to serve,” reflects Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday. He’s right, obviously.
- “Knock, knock. It’s the thought police” – On the Triggernometry podcast, Allison Pearson tells Konstantin Kisin and Francis Fosterabout her run-in with Essex Police over a year-old tweet.
- “De-transitioner, 20, claims doctor pushed her into sex change” – A 20-year-old has filed a lawsuit against a top, yet controversial transgender youth doctor claiming the practitioner forced her into a sex change at age 12, reports the Mail.
- “Richard Reeves on the Gender Gap” – Yascha Mounk and Richard Reeves in Persuasion discuss why most young men aren’t becoming reactionary.
- “Michael Gove vs Lionel Shriver: are politicians due a Covid reckoning?” – On Spectator TV, Michael Gove and Lionel Shriver debate the lockdown policy.
- “More pointers that something is stirring in the Chicken Pot” – Will influenza H5N1 finally arrive? ask Drs. Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson on Trust the Evidence.
- “The Man Who Fought Fauci – and Won” – In the Wall St Journal, Tunku Varadarajan interviews Jay Bhattacharya about Trump nominating him to be the head of the NIH.
- “The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family | Torsten Bell” – A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%, argues Torsten Bell in the Guardian.
- “Live not by lies” — Michael Shellenberger exposes some of the outright lies the mainstream media and liberal politicians are demanding we believe.
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Wow! Humans are their own worst enemy!
You don’t see animals fu#£ing each other over for a percentage!
I just figure that if someone who sits on the board of directors of a major pharmaceutical company is making recommendations, those recommendations are in no way, shape or form intended for the benefit of the public at large, but only for the shareholders of the company. The fact that Gottlieb was continually presented as “former head of the FDA” rather than “current member of the Pfizer board of directors” is very telling of the poor quality of MSM. His interference with social media platforms warrants investigation and lawsuits. Spreading misinformation for drug company profits, very naughty, some would say criminal.
As for the intelligence agencies – changing the name from the appropriate title of Public Health England to the UK Health Security Agency was enough of a give-away. Since when do we speak of health in terms of security? About the same time we switched from phrases like environmental protection to climate security, food security and other nonsense terms like that. By throwing in the word security they create both a sense of threat and the need for a higher authority to deal with that threat. That this is simply a power grab should be clear from the fact that while speaking of food security, they are simultaneously doing everything they can to reduce the food supply.
Tip o’ the hat.
“Since when do we speak of health in terms of security?”
It has been going on for at least sixty years.
The MoD for decades had an observer/member representing them on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. It is recorded in the attendance records at the start of the minutes. Now available because of Freedom of Information but then kept confidential.
Here is a set from Oct 1970 with the details of the MoD representative added in manuscript [but after that time the details were typed like the names of all the others attending].
Don’t forget Gulf War Syndrome. During the second Gulf war the Royal Navy is reputed to have tipped all the vaccines overboard into the sea. A very sensible way of protecting national security by preventing them disabling our naval forces.
See also my earlier comment here regarding the use of the UK security services:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/30/scott-gottlieb-and-the-cias-takeover-of-americas-pandemic-response/#comment-906221
Many of us assumed that the Rona scamdemic was a CIA-DoD project. Just another ‘conspiracy’ being proven true.
That is the USA but the same stuff goes on in the UK with our security services.
The drug industry is so tightly bound to Whitehall that vaccines are a matter of national security. That is not a joke and it is not misinformation. The drug industry has convinced Whitehall, the security services and the MoD that vaccines are a vital part of protecting national security.
The cynical point of view is that it is part of maintaining control.
Does this sound familiar?
Imagine a biological and chemical attack – yep just like the non-existent Iraqi weapons of mass-destruction in Tony Blair’s ‘sexed-up’ dodgy dossier or even a man-made ‘virus’ from a Wuhan lab.
If you want to keep control and stop the population doing their own thing and mayhem breaking out you will want all the sheeple to line up quietly and politely with their masks on to get their jabs.
It is irrelevant whether those jabs work or not. What is important is keeping the population under tight control.
And of course don’t mention the deaths.
That’s it folks.