- “Labour backs down over grooming gangs with ‘rapid audit’ of issue” – Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced that a Whitehall fixer will undertake a “rapid audit” into the scale of rape gangs across Britain, reports the Mail. But only five cities will be in scope of the inquiry.
- “Labour attempts to stem grooming gang backlash with new local inquiries” – Yvette Cooper has been blasted for not giving local rape gang inquiries statutory powers to compel witnesses to appear and give evidence, says the Telegraph.
- “The answers Starmer must give” – The anger the country feels about the rape gang scandal is real and won’t be assuaged unless real action is take, writes Michael Gove in the Spectator.
- “Fact check: The Rest Is Politics’ grooming gang claims” – In the Spectator, Steerpike fact checks Rory Stewart’s claims about rape gangs on The Rest is Politics and finds the former MP guilty of spreading misinformation.
- “Suspended MP Mike Amesbury pleads guilty to assault by beating” – Mike Amesbury, the suspended Labour MP, has pleaded guilty to assault by beating after being filmed punching a man in the street, according to the Times.
- “Brothers accused of attacking police at Manchester Airport in court” – Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammed Amaad, 25, two brothers accused of attacking police at Manchester Airport last July, have appeared in court, reports the Mail.
- “The Muslim Brotherhood relies on the West’s self-censorship, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali” – On the Telegraph’s Planet Normal podcast, Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains to Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan how the Muslim Brotherhood exploits Western self-censorship to fuel radicalisation.
- “Migrants not interested in integration ‘should not be here’, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has declared that migrants who refuse to embrace British culture should find somewhere else to live, reports the Sun.
- “Badenoch warns Brits are not ‘rich’” – In a straight-talking speech, Kemi Badenoch has warned Brits that we are not “rich” and must start “living within our means”, says the Mail.
- “New minister allowed to make decisions on China despite ‘lobbying for its businesses’” – The new City Minister will be allowed to make decisions on China despite reportedly lobbying on behalf of its businesses, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer’s law chief in new row over SAS ‘war crimes’ inquiry” – The Attorney General is under fresh pressure after he was accused of a conflict of interest over a “war crimes” inquiry into the SAS, says the Telegraph.
- “Attorney General was paid £30,000 to represent Gerry Adams” – The Attorney General has been paid £30,000 to represent Gerry Adams in a High Court case against IRA bomb victims, reveals the Times.
- “U.K. economy grows less than expected as GDP rises 0.1% in November” – The U.K. economy returned to growth for the first time in three months, but the expansion was less than expected, reports Reuters.
- “Reeves and Starmer are out of ideas – and running out of time” – If we don’t have growth, we will have a forced reckoning with the affordability of our lifestyles, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Why was everyone fooled by Rachel Reeves?” – There was never good reason to believe that Labour knew what it was doing, says Matthew Parris in the Spectator.
- “Braverman refuses to rule out defecting to Reform” – Suella Braverman has refused to rule out a move to Reform U.K. just weeks after the ex-Home Secretary’s husband joined the party, reports GB News.
- “Tories forced MP’s elderly mother to do diversity training after she liked immigration post” – Andrea Jenkyns says the Conservative Party forced her mother to undergo diversity training after she liked a social media post about illegal immigration, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s politics is fragmenting – and it’s looking like Reform is here to stay” – One in six of those who voted Conservative in July have now switched over to Nigel Farage’s insurgent party, says John Curtice in the Telegraph.
- “Endgame” – You only have to listen to David Lammy’s recent Foreign Secretary speech to see the political regime is falling apart, writes Dr. David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “Is Europe really faring better than Britain?” – Europe is becoming a macrocosm of Athens, where past glories look down on the tawdry reality of the present, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Drill rapper promoted by BBC who boasts about murder is killer of Jimmy Mizen” – A balaclava-clad rapper who boasts about killing in his lyrics and was promoted by the BBC has been unmasked as the murderer of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, reports the Sun.
- “Tories made 2050 Net Zero pledge without a plan, Badenoch to admit” – Kemi Badenoch is expected to admit that the Tories’ pledge to reach Net Zero by 2050 was made without a clear strategy, calling it a “mistake”, according to the Telegraph.
- “600,000 households to be forced to fit smart meters” – Over half a million households will be forced to fit a smart meter or face higher bills within six months when the BBC switches off a 40 year-old radio service, reports This is Money.
- “The draconian Net Zero rules being rolled back by stealth” – Amid growing pressures, Starmer is quietly softening green policies – but what does this mean for businesses, voters and your wallet? wonders Ella Nunn in the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s Net Zero fantasies are falling apart – and only he can’t see it” – In the Telegraph, Annabel Denham argues that Ed Miliband’s Net Zero fanaticism is wrecking industries for no good reason.
- “Police inspector sacked for comparing Just Stop Oil to ‘special needs kids’” – A police inspector with 27 years’ experience has been sacked for calling Just Stop Oil protesters “retards” and likening them to “spoilt special needs kids”, reports the Mail.
- “Families failed by Covid vaccines tell inquiry of their pain” – Families of those harmed by Covid vaccines have told the Covid Inquiry that they were forced to support each other during the pandemic because there was no other help, says BBC News.
- “WHO disinformation on the Covid origin story” – The Wall Street Journal has published an “opinion” from the WHO that is unabashed political propaganda, writes Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “‘How I fell foul of YouTube’s fact-checkers’” – In the Spectator, Matt Ridley reveals how YouTube’s fact-checkers banned his podcast interview for citing a confirmed historical fact about a 1977 flu outbreak.
- “Hamas must be eradicated. If it isn’t, this Gaza ceasefire is a failure” – In the Telegraph, Col. Richard Kemp argues that Hamas must be eradicated for the Gaza ceasefire to be deemed a success, warning that anything short of total victory will enable the terrorists to regroup and strengthen their hold on Gaza.
- “Elon Musk ‘helped free Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from Iran’” – Elon Musk was instrumental in securing the release of a young Italian journalist who was jailed in Iran on trumped-up charges, reports the Times.
- “Biden’s farewell speech divides nation ahead of new Trump era” – Joe Biden’s final speech has divided the American public, with people on all sides declaring it a disappointing and even disturbing affair, says the Mail.
- “Trump in front of a camera again as he vows Hollywood ‘golden age’” – Donald Trump has tapped A-list stars Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight for jobs in his administration as ambassadors to Hollywood, reports the Mail.
- “The Cyrus family’s very different politics” – Billy Ray Cyrus is set to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, much to the likely dismay of his daughter, says the Mail.
- “Kamala Harris to ‘pen tell-all book about losing to Trump’” – Kamala Harris is reportedly planning to write a tell-all book about her presidential run and defeat to Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC The Traitors at centre of ‘sexism’ storm as fans issue complaints over contestant’s remark” – A female contestant on BBC’s The Traitors has sparked a sexism storm after insisting on selecting only female Traitors, says GB News.
- “The child-free influencers waging war on motherhood” – In the Spectator, Kara Kennedy explores the rise of child-free influencers who glamorise rejecting motherhood.
- “The National Trust took the knee” – In the Spectator, Charles Moore slams the National Trust for bowing to wokeism and activism, losing sight of its founding mission to preserve beauty and history.
- “The Baftas are becoming an assault on Britishness” – In the Telegraph, Ella Whelan slams the Baftas for ditching merit in favour of woke politics.
- “The day DEI went up in smoke” – DEI is annoying in entertainment. It is wasteful in government. But in a fire department it puts lives at risk, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Is the tide turning on restitution? ” – The case for the return of the Benin bronzes seems to be unravelling, notes David Abulafia in the Spectator.
- “School cannot use £700,000 pitch after neighbours complain about noise of referee whistles” – A school has been unable to use a new £700,000 sports pitch for months after neighbours complained about the noise from referees’ whistles, reports the Express.
- “Ian Hislop: regime satirist” – The once irreverent Private Eye editor can now be relied on to parrot the official, centrist line, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
- “David Lynch: Twin Peaks film director dies at 78, family says” – David Lynch, the legendary American filmmaker whose works include Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, has died aged 78, according to BBC News.
- “‘There are waiting lists to get on the waiting lists to get on the waiting lists’” – On Question Time, Liam Halligan calls NHS reform a “matter of life and death” and says we need to talk about reforming the service without “everybody completely freaking out”.
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Let’s supposed everyone acted like Coutts and refused to provide service to those who don’t adhere to what is clearly a pre-established way of thinking.
Does that mean the supermarket should stop selling to Farange, so he couldn’t buy groceries anywhere? Should all the petrol stations stop serving him? The train companies and airlines would obviously have to stop selling him tickets. Restaurants should ban him.
If everyone took the same high and mighty stance that Coutts did (and the other banks who refused him an account subsequently), then he could effectively be cancelled from life.
And if they don’t, does that mean that they are socially irresponsible for not imposing the right belief system? I guess that is what proponents of ESG, DEI, CSR and all the bullshit actually must believe.
When the left’s ideas are taken to their logical end, you end up with grotesque totalitarianism. That’s if you get there and don’t get driven to insanity first, if you can survive the trans lunacy, the climate lunacy and all the other waypoints to their totalitarian hell.
This creates great opportunities for businesses who don’t discriminate in this way. In fact, new businesses such as Public Square (https://publicsq.com/in-the-news) and other unwoke companies in the US are expanding massively by taking advantage of this very opportunity.
It is a belief system without any conviction from its adherents. I doubt whether the individuals in those banks actually believe 100% in the righteousness of their stance but they do it because it looks good to everyone else doing the same thing.
Of course CBDCs are the ultimate wet dream since they absolve all the banks and businesses of any responsibility whatsoever in terms of transactions, since it’s out of their hands – and there is nowhere one can take one’s complaints. If this had happened – and I’m sure it has – to someone less high profile than Nigel Farage, then that person would still be languishing in the social doldrums, cancelled from society.
We heard about the Canadian truckers’ bank accounts being “frozen”. Does anyone know if they were ever “unfrozen”?
A spotlight needs to be shone on the creepy companies that trawl personal data, build profiles on us all and sell these profiles to the banks amongst others.
Swamp banks with subject access requests to find out.
They’ll just stop replying.
People have been given a legitimate reason to ask so they can’t be readily dismissed. Unlike FOI, it can’t be conveniently categorised as “malicious”.
Non-response requires the regulator to take action.
If the regulator doesn’t take action that poses its own questions.
Your last thought has a precedent. MHRA were swamped by COVID vaccine yellow cards, so they simply excluded them from analysis because they upset the pattern.
This is a different process. It requires data to be provided to the requestor. Yellow Cards is more of a black hole.
I’m not suggesting that people would receive a response or that the regulator would take action. It’s what should happen and if it doesn’t it highlights yet more issues.
As soon as Poland’s GDP gets to the point where they would have to become a contributor to rather than recipient of EU largess, they will Pexit, if not before.
With most of Europe destroying itself through mass immigration of economic migrants from Islamic countries and the imposition of net zero madness, countries like Poland and Hungary stand out as beacons of common sense and hope.
Not when you see their foreign policy viz the war on their borders..
Please expand / explain…
Meant to reply to you and replied to myself instead…The fog of war and all that.
US Army stakes out permanent presence in Poland with ‘Camp K’ | Stars and Stripes
Russia-Ukraine war live: US-supplied cluster bombs ‘having an impact’ on Russian defences, Washington says (theguardian.com)
Poking the bear is not standing out as beacons of common sense and hope IMO.
Their right as a nation to do what they want.
Hungary too. They are constantly flipping the finger at the EU PTBs
Spent a month in Budapest last year, getting my teeth fixed. Fantastic job, cost maybe 1/3r of what I’d pay over here. Fell in love with Budapest, and were I 21 and 71 I’d be out there in a shot. This is the Great Market, down near the river. If you are a meat lover (my wife and I are Carnivores) it’s a place to go!
“Broadcaster Jon Sopel has issued an apology to Nigel Farage after previously poking fun at the former UKIP leader’s cancelled account with bank Coutts,”
I know he’s not apologising to me, but apology not accepted. How can it be a sincere apology?
““Nigel Farage: Coutts owner apologises for ‘inappropriate’ claims” – In a letter to the former UKIP leader, Dame Alison Rose insisted the assessment of Mr. Farage “does not reflect the views of the bank”, reports the Times.”
Again she is not apologising to me, but apology not accepted. Of course the assessment reflects the views of the bank – the bank bloody produced it, no doubt following their own policies. How can it be a sincere apology?
In both cases, they’ve been caught red-handed, underestimated who they were dealing with and the public reaction.
The Sopel apology includes a dig at the BBC for producing mis-information.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1681970843675443200
Thanks – that is interesting. Perhaps his apology is sincere.
“Scientists think they’ve cracked the secret of Covid ‘super-dodgers’”
This article tries to indicate that this genetic immunity is rare by stating;
”Only about one in ten people within the general population are believed to have the genes offering them this form of protection. ”
But surely 1 in 10 = 10% ? which in the UK equates to 7 million people. If the article had in fact said ” 7 million people in the UK are believed to have this genetic immunity” it would have had a different ring to it but then that might be seen as playing down the significance of covid and TPTB’s over-reaction to it.
“people who got Covid never got ill…” Suggests that the Mail article is oxymoronic. How can one have a disease without being ill? However, if they were more accurate (I know it’s the Mail), they might have said that most of those that got Covid were not seriously ill. Wouldn’t sell very well, perhaps.
Yes. Covid is the disease, not the bug. A large bunch of people were exposed to the bug and never developed the disease; it happens all the time with other bugs.
One’s body can detox without any overt symptoms of detox & it is these products being excreted from cells that the PCR tests assess for the presence of. Very easy for a casedemic to be manufactured in this way.
Well, if microwave exposure causes the same set of symptoms labelled as covid in susceptible individuals prior to the bioweapon injection rollout, then it’s not going to be a transmissible disease.
If this is the case, then no virus exists so the lab leak theory is just a major diversion & no “vaccine” was ever going to be effective against microwave radiation.
There is a temporal association between every major influenza epidemic & an increase in the EMF exposure of the planet.
Beverly Rubik, whose work I have come across via MD4CE zoom meetings, gives an explanation in this Rumble video.
https://rumble.com/v30y8oi-adverse-health-effects-of-wireless-communication-radiation-by-berverly-rubi.html
The Comments section in the Daily Mail article about suggested genetic predisposition to immunity is encouraging.
I’ll take my chances with the risks from the disease rather than those of the jab!
That’s a sad indictment isn’t it?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Other Interests are frustrated that their JSO protestors had not yet achieved martyrdom due to an irate driver. Perhaps their view of human nature isn’t the same as that of the majority.
The JSO speaker in the video was correct on one key point though: “this government does not have our best interests at heart”.
In the above article we find
Er, no. Where’s the evidence of this?
Then we get:
OK so we’re not eviscerating kids yet (though we seem to be encouraging them to have their ‘bits’ mutilated (reminds me of FGM outrage)), but we are sacrificing their future well-being on the altar of Green alarmism.
“Just Stop Just Stop Oil” my response to these entitled dweebs. As a paid up member of the middle classes, they are a disgrace to said middle class!
ps. W no more choose our class than we do our parents…
Reminds me of the song:
I’ve danced with a man, who’s danced with a girl, who’s danced with the Prince of Wales.