- “Britain’s population explosion” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin discusses shocking new data on how the country is on the brink of radical transformation.
- “Is the U.K. prepared to welcome one million migrants a year?” – In the Spectator, Michael Simmons reveals that government policy alone will drive the U.K.’s population up by five million this decade – but with a crumbling NHS, a housing crisis and stretched services, can Britain cope?
- “The Tories remain hamstrung on migration” – Until Badenoch has new a new immigration policy, her angles of attack are going to remain severely constrained, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “The Chancellor’s big speech won’t fix the damage of the Budget” – Rachel Reeves should have set out her plans for growth in August, immediately after taking office, and then followed it up, if necessary, with tax rises on businesses in October, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Reeves’s speech was more a pitch to keep her job than a real plan for growth” – The Chancellor says the key to prosperity is stability, which feels like an unsubtle hint at a time when her own position is on the line, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Is Rachel Reeves right that there is no trade-off between growth and Net Zero?” – To pretend that no trade-off exists between economic growth and Net Zero is foolish, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Starmer must sack lunatic Miliband to save Britain” – Rachel Reeves says she is pro-growth – but that will remain a lie so long as the Energy Secretary is in post, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Birmingham Council seeks 10% rise in tax bill while cutting £135 million in services” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty slams Birmingham Council for wasting nearly £1 billion, hiking taxes by 9.99% for two years, slashing services and calling it a “balanced budget”.
- “‘Non-crime hate incidents’ are a threat to free speech” – Police officers may face pressure to record more NCHIs, warns Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “James Tooley’s ordeal is over – but why was he ever suspended?” – In the Spectator, Toby highlights the Kafkaesque ordeal of Prof. James Tooley, the Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, who has been reinstated after baseless allegations.
- “The ‘plot’ to cancel the ‘anti-woke’ university chancellor” – A long-time champion of the ‘cancelled’, James Tooley has been exonerated of accusations levelled at him by his critics, reports the Telegraph.
- “If liberals oppose the death penalty, they must oppose assisted dying too” – Liberals don’t appear to recognise that both capital punishment and assisted dying risk the loss of innocent life, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Why I’m not convinced heat pumps are worth the money (yet)” – Heat pumps are better for the environment, but installation is expensive and some complain they don’t work well. In the Times, Alexis Conran looks at the evidence.
- “Climate change: a tale of two theories” – On Substack, Stephen Andrews challenges the “settled science” narrative that climate change is driven by man-made carbon emissions.
- “Joe Rogan’s blistering take on claims climate change caused wildfires” – During the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan argues that LA’s longtime windy and dry conditions – not climate change – are the cause of the disaster, reports the Mail.
- “Britain relying on foreign mothers to keep fertility rates up” – In 2023, one in three babies were born to a foreign-born mother, up from a quarter in 2008, and one in four were born to parents who were both foreign-born, says the Telegraph.
- “The MHRA papers – part 16” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan expose the MHRA’s habit of ignoring harm signals – like thrombocytopenia – lest they frighten the public, all while licensing vaccines without understanding their effects.
- “Overview of President Trump’s executive actions on global health” – KFF examines the effect of Trump’s executive actions on U.S. global health efforts.
- “‘I’m not antivax, and I never compared officials to Nazis’” – RFK Jr. says he is ‘pro-safety’ and will not be confiscating McDonald’s and Diet Coke during his Senate confirmation hearing to lead the HHS department, according to the Times.
- “Like the Louvre, Macron’s presidency is falling apart” – Eight years on and the Louvre, like Macron’s presidency, is falling apart, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator. At least the museum can be restored.
- “In historic first, anti-migration resolution passes the German Bundestag with support from Alternative für Deutschland” – For the first time in history, Germany’s CDU has passed an anti-migration resolution with AfD support, shattering the cordon sanitaire and sending the Left into a full-blown meltdown, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Germany under attack from China, warns intelligence insider” – A senior opposition MP has warned that Germany is under attack from China, as Berlin grapples with a fresh wave of cyber attacks and espionage plots, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Russian spy ship in Britain’s waters preparing ground for war” – A confrontation with a Russian trawler known as the Yantarmay looked peaceful but for the Royal Navy the fight is below the surface, writes Memphis Barker in the Telegraph.
- “‘I was wrong to call Trump a danger to the world’” – Lord Mandelson has dismissed speculation that the White House could reject him as U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. over his past remarks, reports the Mail.
- “Mandelson grovels to Trump on Fox News” – Oh Mandy. It’s now nine days since Donald Trump was elected – and our new man in Washington still hasn’t been confirmed says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Is it time to take Trump’s Gaza resettlement plan seriously?” – Trump’s audacious idea of relocating Gaza’s population is rooted in pragmatism, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti.
- “Trump launches antisemitism crackdown and targets pro-Hamas students” – President Trump is ordering the deportation of foreign students who took part in pro-Hamas protests on college campuses, reports the Mail.
- “Shaken migrants deported by Trump issue stark warning to others” – Undocumented migrants who were deported back to Colombia this week have warned others to not go to the United States, because President Donald Trump is “deporting everyone”, reports the Mail.
- “Inside Selena Gomez’s decision to delete crying video about migrants” – Selena Gomez deleted her tearful video about Trump’s mass deportation of undocumented immigrants because she was worried it showed “weakness” – and feared it could “alienate” Republican fans of her beauty brand, according to the Mail.
- “Hollywood luvvies have become Donald Trump’s useful idiots” – Trump has been decried by Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and now, Selena Gomez. He couldn’t have chosen more helpful opponents if he’d tried, says James Hanson in the Spectator.
- “The chemical and surgical mutilation of children is finally banned” – Many children’s lives have been ruined by gender ideology, but Donald Trump’s latest executive order is an important step towards restoring sanity, writes Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Trump’s ban on gender transitioning has turned the tide on an indefensible cult” – The President’s prohibition on gender transitioning is another nail in the coffin of a cruel ideology, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph. But those who led the charge will never admit they were wrong.
- “Vogue launches vile attack on Melania” – Vogue has launched a vicious review of Melania Trump’s newly-revealed White House portrait, comparing the First Lady’s look to that of a magician, reports the Mail.
- “Historic private gentlemen’s club votes against allowing women to join” – The Savile Club in Mayfair has voted against admitting women for the first time, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Calls for Bishop of Liverpool to step down after sex abuse allegations” – A group of church leaders from the Bishop of Liverpool’s own diocese have called for him to “step aside” and say his position is “currently untenable” after he was accused of sexual assault and sexual harassment, reports the Mail.
- “The £1.3 million failed attempt to impose DEI on the publishing industry” – With substantial public investment and lofty ideals, The Good Literary Agency vowed to change British literature. What went wrong? asks Ben East in the Telegraph.
- “The French navy is full of ships named after men who beat us. Don’t rename HMS Agincourt” – Given the pride shown by La Royale in its glorious history of bashing the Brits and being bashed in return, it would be surprising if it had been upset by our calling a submarine Agincourt, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Give all the islands back“ – Starmer’s low approval ratings are a reliable indicator that he’s on the right track, says Tatiana McGrath (aka Andrew Doyle) in the Critic.
- “Sky News going bust?” – To celebrate the rumours that Sky News could be going bankrupt by the end of this year due to plummeting viewership, Basil the Great has compiled a list on X of their bias, lies and woke establishment pandering.
- “In praise of shabbiness” – Genteel shabbiness isn’t uniquely English but is without doubt something we’re experts at, says Paul Sutton on his Substack.
- “When the mushrooms kick in…” – Nigel Farage is accosted by a dragon during an ITV interview on Chinese New Year.
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Compare and contrast:
Blair gets a big majority and has Human Rights Act in place within 12 months
Bunter gets a big majority and, three years on, the Bill of Rights is only on its second reading.
No wonder the Conservatives are being annihilated by the electorate.
They are completely rubbish at government.
“Blair gets a big majority and has Human Rights Act in place within 12 months”
And thereafter sets in train the dismantling of this country institution by institution, corrupting our education, flooding the country with immigrants, ratcheting racial tensions, destroying the health systems, grotesque and unnecessary spending on fake organisations like the WHO and on and on. Illegal and catastrophic wars that killed millions.
Tony Bliar – prior to the murderous Bozo the most evil man ever to occupy Downing St. Yes, Tony effing Bliar.
Well, actually the judiciary doing their job during covid would have been welcome in overturning laws that were inconsistent with our legal precedents. A sovereign parliament is not a panacea. Ideally you want some checks and balances and a legal, political and cultural respect for basic rights even in an “emergency”. But the only real backstop is the non-compliance of the people, but they were easily fooled by a few images and dodgy stats repeated over and over, and a costly advertising campaign.
A better prescription against tyranny would have been to remove the mechanisms by which the government manufactured consent – the BBC, SPI-B, any ability to buy advertising space.
As for the Bill of Rights, it’s a crock of shit.
Compare the US guarantee regarding free speech, freedom of religion and protest:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
…very brief, clear language, no caveats, with ours – full of caveats, wordy, worthless:
Article 9
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
1.Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right
includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or
in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or
belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
2. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such
limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society
in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or
morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
Article 10
Freedom of expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom
to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without
interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall
not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or
cinema enterprises.
2.The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities,
may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are
prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of
national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of
disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of
the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information
received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the
judiciary.
Article 11
Freedom of assembly and association
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of
association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for
the protection of his interests.
2. No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of these rights other than such
as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests
of national security or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for
the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms
of others. This Article shall not prevent the imposition of lawful restrictions on
the exercise of these rights by members of the armed forces, of the police or of
the administration of the State.
I’m increasingly coming to the conclusion that the Covid pandemic was used as a test run.
Thanks to the pandemic we now have a State run Citizen ID system that also has the mechanism for command and control at the national level – the Covid Pass and its inbuilt QR Status Code.
Then we get to the legislation. It’s no coincidence that the first piece of legislation to be enacted was the Police and Crime Bill which allows the State to break up protests. That will be necessary as the consequences of subsequent Bills manifest themselves.
Part two is the Online Harms Bill which they can use to suppress dissent from the ‘approved narrative’ online. A site like this would be starved of oxygen as nobody would be able to find it, search engines like Google would remove it from its listings and its even possible that it could be blocked at the DNS level by the service providers – a taste of this is already being experienced by TCW which finds itself on the BBFC adult filter list which many mobile network providers use to block ‘adult’ (i.e. p o r n) content unless the user specifically contacts them to disable it. Not a great leap to get to the point where you can no longer disable the filter and it’s permanently enabled across the board – hello CCP Great Firewall, i’m looking at you!
Thirdly and most importantly we have this piece of legislation which allows current or future Governments to legislate to erode or remove any of our rights piece by piece. I’m not convinced that it prevents one of the most egregious abuses of power during the scamdemic either – the ruling by fiat through statutory instrument. If a future Gover decides we need Climate Lockdowns to ‘protect us’ this will be manna from heaven for that.
All in all, a very worrying direction of travel.
“All in all, a very worrying direction of travel.”
We have been for a very long time.
The Human Rights Act was not needed as we already had our rights enshrined in legislation dating back to 1285 Magna Carta in which it is written that no other laws or statutes can over ride it…. Anna de Buisseret has a brilliant take on the legislation which already exists & in which neither Judges or parliamentarians can meddle.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/conversation-with-anna-de-buisseret_IuK4yn4YBG2PGgm.html
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/anna-de-buisseret-open-mic_45jx2WObTpolGaH.html
Please send positive thoughts & prayers her way today – she’s in court seeking to use the law to make a foundational case to protect the forced injecting of disabled adults by CCGs just because they’ve been told to…. A young woman’s life is being shielded by this formidable & compassionate truth warrior.
From reading the article it seems to me that the most simple remedy for judges imposing their lefty* social policy views on us is to amend the HRA to remove Section 3.
Blair entered No.10 in 1997 and within a few years, had completely changed this country’s Constitution: HRA; Supreme Court; Devolution; Lisbon Treaty.
After 12 years of so-called Conservative Government (albeit 5 in Coalition with the LibDems) the CONs have done SFA to reform anything …… apart from semi-leaving the EU, which they did through gritted teeth because otherwise the Party would have been utterly destroyed.
They have made it perfectly clear that if you want rid of the disgraceful House of Frauds; want the English to have democratic parity with the devolved nations; want a fairer electoral system; want the Supreme Court reined in etc THERE IS NO POINT VOTING CON.
*Please don’t use the term progressive – there is nothing progressive about their attempts to dismantle British society. It is destructive.
Question:
Where does the Magna Carta sit in all of this?
Does it protect individual rights?