- “Asylum seeker declared a child… despite having receding hairline” – An asylum seeker whom the Home Office determined to be at least 23 years old, with a receding hairline and thick facial hair, has been declared a child by judges, according to the Mail.
- “Sri Lankan sex offender allowed to stay in Britain because he is gay” – A convicted Sri Lankan sex offender has been allowed to remain in Britain because he is gay and would be at risk of persecution if he was returned to his home country, reports the Telegraph.
- “Home Office refuses to reveal number of deportations halted by ECHR” – Border Security Minister Angela Eagle says it would be a “disproportionate cost” to provide data on the number of deportations of foreign criminals or illegal migrants that have been stopped as a result of ECHR claims, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Multiple’ buses explode in ‘suspected terror attack’ in Israel” – Israel has narrowly avoided mass carnage after three empty buses exploded into fireballs, reports the Mail.
- “The murder of the Bibas family: a crime that shames humanity” – In the Free Mind, Laura Dodsworth lays bare the unspeakable horror of Hamas’s murder of Shiri Bibas and her sons.
- “Nandy demands urgent talks with BBC over Hamas ‘propaganda’” – The Culture Secretary says she will raise concerns with BBC bosses about a documentary on Gaza that was narrated by the son of a Hamas official, according to BBC News.
- “At long last, we have the BBC’s smoking gun moment” – A documentary purporting to show the horrors of the Gaza Strip may leave viewers misinformed about Israel’s intentions, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “What sort of idiot thinks the BBC is biased towards Israel?” – Pro-Palestine vandals clearly have not watched one second of the BBC’s coverage, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “‘It’s not racist to ask who is committing rapes says broadcaster Alex Phillips” – On the latest Planet Normal podcast, Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson discuss broadcaster and journalist Alex Phillips’s new documentary on serious sexual crime in the UK.
- “Angela Rayner under scrutiny over how long she worked as a home help” – Angela Rayner has become the latest Cabinet minister to face questions over their employment history after conflicting accounts emerged around how long she worked as a carer, according to the Mail.
- “Miliband’s Net Zero promises are false, Tony Blair’s think tank warns” – Ed Miliband has been warned that investing in green technology is unlikely to reverse the long-term decline of British industry, reports the Express.
- “Mercedes to cut costs as electric car sales plunge” – Mercedes-Benz has announced a cost-cutting drive as profits plunged by nearly a third amid a slowdown in its electric car business, says Fortune.
- ‘Blunt’ electric car targets put thousands of jobs at risk, warn unions” – Union chiefs have warned that thousands of jobs are at risk if the Government refuses to water down “blunt” electric car targets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain faces Trump tariffs if it does not ease free speech restrictions, says Nigel Farage” – JD Vance says letting in “millions” of unvetted immigrants is the biggest threat to Europe and relations with the White House, according to the Telegraph.
- “JD Vance was right that ‘there is no room for firewalls’ and if the CDU is not careful, it may well prove his point with its own destruction” – JD Vance was right: the CDU’s obsession with the firewall will either doom them to irrelevance or force them into a humiliating surrender to the Left, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Ukraine could get instant Nato membership if Russia breaks peace deal” – Ukraine could be granted instant Nato membership if Russia violates the terms of the peace deal being negotiated by Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “Musk echos Trump and says Zelensky is ‘despised’” – Elon Musk claims that Volodymyr Zelensky is “despised” by the Ukrainian people and is “feeding off the dead bodies” of his countrymen, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain has the worst government at the most dangerous possible time” – Zelensky is not a dictator, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. But Britain can only offer Ukraine fake outrage and pledges it cannot afford.
- “White House reveals Trump’s personal problem with Zelensky” – President Trump is said to be “very frustrated” with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, as relations between the two leaders appear to have reached a new low, according to the Mail.
- “Putin is watching Trump attack Zelensky with glee” – The Kremlin will be delighted by Trump’s sulphurous attacks on Zelensky – and the US President’s seeming willingness to throw Ukraine under the bus, says Lisa Haseldine in the Spectator.
- “The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right” – The Spectator’s Freddy Gray argues that, while Trump’s rhetoric on Ukraine is offensive, his assessment – that the West has failed, Zelensky isn’t blameless and only Trump can end the war – may not be entirely wrong.
- “‘I would welcome back Russia and Putin to the Olympics if Trump restores peace’” – Lord Coe has opened the door for Putin and Russia to end their sporting isolation if Trump succeeds in his plan to stop the war in Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “A game-changer for liberty: President Trump’s latest Executive Order unleashes the DOGE revolution!” – In WUWT?, Charles Rotter hails Trump’s latest Executive Order as a full-throttle assault on the administrative state.
- “Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault” – Former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of sexual assault for kissing a player without her consent after the Women’s World Cup final in 2023, reports Sky News. But its a bit of a stretch.
- “Luis Rubiales and Spain’s war on machismo” – It seems a pity that the Spanish Government can’t bring itself to fight corruption with the same enthusiasm that it shows in the struggle against machismo, writes Jim Lawley in the Spectator.
- “Social workers too busy for assisted dying panels, Leadbeater told” – Social work chiefs say the sector is “at capacity” and will need more funding to meet the needs of the assisted dying Bill, according to the Telegraph.
- “The real truth about breast cancer screenings that you must know” – Women are being lied to about the benefits of breast screening, and not being told at all about the real risks, warns Dr Susan Bewley in the Mail.
- “Covid vaccine injury study published on preprint server because the mainstream medical journals refused to publish it” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch highlights the Yale Listen study, which found significant immune and neurological differences in 42 post-vaccine injury patients.
- “The end of college vaccine mandates” – For Brownstone Institute, Lucia Sinatra covers President Trump’s Executive Order halting federal funding to all schools that impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates on students.
- “NY vaccine clinics called ambulances to be ‘on standby’” – Six weeks into the mRNA rollout, FOIA’d data from New York reveals a shocking surge in emergency calls from vaccine clinics and frantic requests for ambulances “on standby”, writes Dr Pierre Kory on his Substack.
- “JD Vance admits perhaps up to 111 million Americans had painful reactions to Covid shots” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. highlights JD Vance’s shocking admission that over 111 million Americans may have suffered painful Covid jab side effects.
- “Censorious Cureus” – Zenodo nuked Miki Gibo’s updated paper after its Cureus retraction, citing a Reuters fact check – another case of lazy editorial censorship, says Anandamide on Substack.
- “Why progressive activists feel superior” – In the Spectator, Patrick West highlights the Guardian’s belated admission that progressives dismiss conservatives as immoral while masking their own intolerance as compassion.
- “The Doge department documents its recent hisory.”
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Nothing surprises me about these savages. They didn’t even return the mother’s ( Shiri ) body. It was a completely different woman in the coffin who isn’t even a known hostage;
”Slain hostages Oded Lifshitz and brothers Ariel and Kfir Bibas were identified after their remains were returned to Israel by Hamas on Thursday, but the military said another body sent by the terror group was not the young boys’ mother Shiri Silberman Bibas.
Specialists at Abu Kabir Forensic Institute were not able to identify the fourth body, the Israel Defense Forces announced early Friday morning.
The shocking statement came after the return of the remains, in a propaganda-filled ceremony, had already sparked anger and mourning across Israel. Hostages’ families demanded the freeing of all the captives, alive and dead, still held by terror groups in Gaza, and leaders vowed to destroy Hamas.
Using forensic evidence and intelligence, authorities assessed that the two young boys were ”brutally murdered” by terrorists in November 2023, according to the IDF statement. Ariel was 4-years-old and Kfir was 10-months-old when they were killed.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/remains-idd-of-oded-lifshitz-ariel-and-kfir-bibas-but-other-body-isnt-the-boys-mom-shiri/
”Islam is known, the world over, for its humanity”, says the ‘innocent civilian journalist’ released prisoner. I think he’s got potential for integrating into our culture, don’t you?
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1892741056841601056
Quoting Jeremy Scahill from DropSiteNews:
On Thursday morning in Gaza, Palestinian resistance factions handed over the bodies of four Israeli captives to the International Committee of the Red Cross. According to Hamas, all four of the Israeli citizens were killed in Israeli airstrikes. Among them are Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.
While major media consistently identify Hamas as the party that took the Bibas family, a different armed faction took responsibility. The Mujahideen Brigades, which started as an offshoot of the ruling Fatah Party’s armed wing, released a statement on Wednesday saying “they were bombed by the Zionist occupation missiles and were killed, along with the captor group” in November 2023. The deaths of the Bibas family were originally announced in late 2023, yet Israeli political leaders and media outlets have continued to suggest they were still alive in what some analysts believe was a cynical campaign to tap into public anger among Israeli society to justify resuming the full-scale war against Gaza.
If it turns out the remains were not from the mother, then I think it is more likely that somebody else’s bodily remains were unintentionally assumed to be those of the mother. There is no reason to assume this was some intentional act of deceit. There are many reports of groups of people being actually completely vaporized by the 2,000lb bombs that Israel has dropped in great numbers.
And your rage should also be directed at Netanyahu who never made any attempt to negotiate with the kidnappers, but instead insisted on carpet bombing a densely populated area of the world. Netanyahu’s actions, or lack thereof, show he never cared in the slightest about the hostages which is another reason to wonder whether 7th October was not a ‘false flag’ operation, which was allowed to happen by the higher authorities.
Why the hell should Netanyahu negotiate with killers?
To save the lives of hostages. That is what police forces do the world over when hostages are taken.
If, for example, you were taken hostage in a bank, would you expect the police to have a tank fire at the building you were in? That is exactly what the IDF did on 7th October.
“The end of college vaccine mandates” – Lucia Sinatra covers President Trump’s Executive Order halting federal funding to all schools that impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates on students.
Item by item, the narrative is being dismantled, and the spotlight shone on lies, cant and hypocrisy…
“…Over 1,000 colleges announced Covid vaccine mandates by the summer of 2021. By the summer of 2023, very few colleges imposed the mandates on faculty and staff, but students were still required to comply.”
Maybe the light at the far end of the tunnel will be prosecution of Pfizer and Moderna, and revocation of immunity from prosecution granted to Fauci by Slippery Joe.
Bring it on.
Hear, hear. And I hope Billy’s arse is starting to twitch.
I hope this will be extended to all the Armed Forces of the West, who were compelled to get the clotshot. No one should be injected with anything against their own Free Will, and that includes the Armed Forces, who have been used as guinea pigs for at least half a century.
“Social workers too busy for assisted dying panels, Leadbeater told” – Social work chiefs say the sector is “at capacity” and will need more funding to meet the needs of the assisted dying Bill.
More Grim Reapers needed. Applicants must meet Social Services DIE criteria.
“A game-changer for liberty: President Trump’s latest Executive Order unleashes the DOGE revolution!” – In WUWT?, Charles Rotter hails Trump’s latest Executive Order as a full-throttle assault on the administrative state.
“The core mission here is crystal clear: refocus the federal government’s enforcement powers on regulations that are actually authorized by law—meaning those pesky, made-up rules conjured by unelected bureaucrats are about to get the axe…
…It’s a win for liberty, a win for prosperity, and—dare I say it—a win for common-sense science over ideological nonsense.”
Bliss to be alive this dawn.
This is who you’re going to get in the UK. Lovely people. Look at all of these ”innocent civilians” partying over the murder of babies. They should integrate into British culture no problem;
”Hamas blasts celebratory music as thousands of Gazans line the streets to celebrate as coffins with the bodies of 4 murdered Israelis are paraded.
Among those inside the coffins are Kfir Bibas who was 8 months old when he was kidnapped.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1892580586172080525
More footage of happy, death-cult followers. Why wouldn’t you want to grant them asylum in Europe?
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1892521331742122370
I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want your kids to have play dates with these children when they come over. Just maybe hide the carving knives;
”Gazan children CELEBRATE and CHEER as they stand on the same stage where the coffins of the Bibas family and 83 year old Israeli grandfather Oded Lifshitz were paraded just moments earlier. ”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1892633755849719830
Death-cult followers? Again, who is killing whom en masse in Gaza? There is something called ‘proportionality’ in the list of possible war crimes and there is no question that proportionality has never played a role in the actions of Israel the past 80 years.
Having been bombed over and over, having had their properties and livelihoods destroyed multiple times, do you seriously expect Palestinians to love Israelis?
And nobody is trying to find a solution – other than genocide.
And thank you, Richard Eldred. As ever, fascinating set of Ironies of the Day to illuminate this Friday-morning dawn. May the force stay with you.
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Net Zero’s Tangled Web of Lies
“Multiple’ buses explode in ‘suspected terror attack’ in Israel”
Were they electric buses? if so, it may not be an attack at all, its just normal!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-progressive-activists-feel-superior
Good article that I found useful in trying to understand ‘progressive activists’, so thought I’d check out the Guardian article it referenced. The article was also well written and explained about how the activists denigrate others who don’t have the same opinions, then at the end of the article the Guardian printed this:
“This is what we’re up againstBad actors spreading disinformation online to fuel intolerance and undermine democracy.
A media ecosystem dominated by a handful of billionaire owners.
Teams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see.
Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science.
Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.”
None so blind as those who don’t wish to see.
Most of that Guardian shtick is true but in exactly the opposite way they mean it.
I would love to see their collection of letters from the lawyers of the rich and powerful trying to stop them publishing stories.
Exactly, they don’t realise that THEY are the progressive activists in the article.
Sinn Féin to boycott White House St Patrick’s Day celebrations says the BBC
I’m sure they’ll be sadly missed.
Meanwhile , at home, the “Ourselves alone” are being overcome by “anyone else so long as they are not English” Especially if they are Muslim.