- “Defence boost brought forwards after Trump intervention, says Starmer” – Keir Starmer has signalled that Trump pushed the Government to fast-track its defence budget boost, according to Sky News.
- “This is a once-in-a-generation moment for the security of our Continent” – Labour will take the right decisions to keep our country safe as our defence spending commitments show, writes Rachel Reeves in the Telegraph.
- “‘Europe must step up on defence spending’” – Rachel Reeves has urged European allies to follow Britain and increase defence spending, according to Reuters.
- “How Starmer bounced Lammy into foreign aid cut” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Martin reveals how Keir Starmer’s defence splurge left David Lammy eating his words on foreign aid cuts.
- “Starmer’s defence spending hike isn’t enough” – If Starmer thinks he is taking a fattened calf to Washington, he may find President Trump’s assessment disappointing, writes Eliot Wilson in the Spectator.
- “Tractor tax ‘has wiped out hope for farmers’” – In his first address to the NFU Conference, NFU President Tom Bradshaw has called on the Government to set a new course for British food and farming, according to NFU Online.
- “Minister apologises to farmer whose elderly mother is ‘wishing her life away’ over tax raid” – Environment Secretary Steve Reed has apologised to a farmer whose 90 year-old mother is “wishing her life away” over the Government’s tractor tax raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC removed references to ‘Jews’ and ‘jihad’ in Gaza documentary” – The BBC has been accused of “whitewashing” the views of participants in its controversial Gaza documentary after repeatedly mistranslating references to “the Jews” and omitting praise of “jihad”, says the Telegraph.
- “Non-crime hate incidents could be renamed rather than scrapped” – A senior policing figure has suggested that non-crime hate incidents could be renamed rather than being scrapped, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Why I’ve decided to take legal action against the police’” – The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson is taking legal action against the police, calling out a system that allows citizens to be intimidated for expressing lawful opinions.
- “Free speech is not a virus” – On his Substack, Andrew Doyle says Ursula von der Leyen’s defence of censorship is a new low for the EU.
- “Indefinite Leave to Remain is wrecking the UK” – Britain is a soft touch when it comes to letting people stay here who will be a burden on the rest of us, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “The endless entitlement of Waspi women” – In this godforsaken era of feigned victimhood, is there any group less worthy of our sympathy than the Waspi women? asks James Hanson in the Spectator.
- “They don’t like us, we shouldn’t care” – The British Right must abandon ‘respectability’, says Pimlico Journal, and become more like Millwall.
- “Why BP is ditching renewables” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark reacts to news that BP is dropping its target to operate 50 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030.
- “Net Zero has rendered the energy price cap useless” – In the Telegraph, Jeremy Warner blasts the absurdity of the energy price cap, arguing that thanks to clueless government meddling, we now have a system that’s worse than just letting the market decide.
- “AR7 changes show Net Zero is not working” – If offshore wind is so cheap, why the endless subsidies, rule changes and taxpayer-funded bungs? asks David Turner on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Donald Trump humiliated Emmanuel Macron” – The French media is repeating the Elysée line that Macron has rekindled his bromance with Donald Trump, but this is disconnected from reality, says Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
- “NATO scrambles warplanes in Poland as Putin’s bombers pound Ukraine” – NATO has been forced to scramble its warplanes in Poland after Vladimir Putin used strategic bombers and missiles to attack neighbouring Ukraine, according to the Mail.
- “Putin signals he could agree to massive cuts in defence spending” – Putin has signalled he could agree to Trump’s proposals for massive defence cuts in return for the US doing the same, reports the Mail.
- “Zelensky ‘says yes to rare minerals deal with Donald Trump’” – Ukraine has agreed a minerals deal with the US in a big step towards a peace settlement just days after rejecting the plans, says the Mail.
- “Donald Trump is utterly wrong about Ukraine’s leadership” – “It’s unacceptable for any foreign leader to humiliate our President, decide when we should hold elections and lie about who started the war,” says Daria Kaleniuk in the Spectator.
- “Trump – not Zelensky – is Ukraine’s only hope” – Ukraine has become a paradox: a nation fighting for its sovereignty while dismantling its own democratic foundations, writes Oleksiy Kosach in the Spectator.
- “J.D. Vance responds to Trump’s refusal to endorse him” – In an interview with the Mail’s Rob Crilly, J.D. Vance shrugs off Trump’s non-endorsement, slams Europe’s woke elites and reminds Zelensky that public tantrums won’t sway the boss.
- “Some agencies urge staff not to comply with Elon Musk’s performance email” – FBI director Kash Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others have told employees not to respond to a directive from Elon Musk to summarise their accomplishments, according to Republic World.
- “‘We make our staff fill in time sheets – it’s only right the Civil Service does the same’” – In the Telegraph, Elliot Hammer, a law firm partner who makes his team log every six minutes, thinks Elon Musk is right – government staff should justify their time, just like the rest of us.
- “Trump is doing us a favour by targeting our dreadful tech laws” – Much like the EU, the UK has been concentrating on how to regulate technology instead of working out how to create a vibrant, growing industry of its own, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “North Korea steals $1.5 billion as it pulls off world’s biggest ever heist” – State-backed North Korean hackers have stolen £1.2 billion of cryptocurrency in the largest heist in history, according to Silicon.
- “The NHS crises that damned its low-profile boss” – Amanda Pritchard’s departure as NHS chief has come as a surprise to many – but failures and complacency sealed her fate, writes Laura Donnelly in the Telegraph.
- “Assisted dying committee votes down palliative amendment” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reflects on the baffling move by MPs to reject an amendment requiring patients to consider palliative care before opting for assisted suicide in Kim Leadbeater’s Bill.
- “Civil servants complain about working in office three days a week” – A survey by the FDA reveals that civil servants claim to work less effectively when forced into the office three days a week, reports the Mail.
- “Civil Service chief defies unions and MPs on working from home” – The head of the Civil Service has rejected calls to rewrite rules requiring staff to come to the office three days a week, saying that the policy is “about right”, according to the Times.
- “MS patients suffer side-effects after NHS England switches to cheaper drug” – Scores of people with multiple sclerosis have suffered debilitating side-effects after being put on to a cheaper new drug as part of an NHS drive to save money.
- “Doctors sound alarm over mystery illness after 50 people die suddenly” – A mystery disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo just hours after symptoms began, reports the Mail.
- “Violins out for the ‘traumatised’ Covid journalists” – In TCW, Dr Roger Watson slams the Italian media’s lingering Covid PTSD.
- “Open letter to RFK Jr. from Sasha Latypova” – In an open letter on Debbie Lerman’s Substack, Sasha Latypova urges Secretary Kennedy to end the contrived Covid emergency, scrap the PREP Act shield protecting Big Pharma and prove he truly cares about vaccine victims.
- “The FDA’s top regulator just took a senior job at Pfizer” – On Substack, Alex Berenson calls out the FDA’s top regulator-turned-Pfizer exec Patrizia Cavazzoni for a 25-year track record of prioritising Big Pharma over patient safety.
- “None of the 70,000 adverse events of puberty blocking drugs were a ‘safety priority’ for Biden’s FDA” – On Substack, Dr Robert W. Malone exposes how Biden’s FDA ignored 70,000 adverse events from puberty blockers.
- “Unilever boss quits as company struggles to move on from ‘social purpose’” – The boss of Unilever has been ousted as the business struggles after backing progressive causes for years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nelson makes way for Yvette Cooper portrait in Parliament’s diversity drive” – Paintings of Lord Nelson have been taken down under plans to make Parliament’s artworks more diverse, says GB News.
- “A girl and her dad” – Read the latest instalment in Paul Sutton’s Drenching Arms series.
- “Chris O’Dowd becomes latest star to back ‘cancelled’ Graham Linehan” – Chris O’Dowd is the latest star to back Graham Linehan after the Father Ted creator was “cancelled” for his outspoken criticisms of transgender issues, reports the Mail. Better late than never.
- “The Left are hypocrites on diversity – and here’s how to prove it” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon calls out the Left’s quota-driven mindset for ignoring common sense and merit.
- “Apple investors defy Trump and vote to keep diversity policies” – Apple shareholders have voted to keep the iPhone maker’s DEI policies, despite pressure to drop them from President Trump and conservative activists, reports the Times.
- “Kathleen Kennedy was supposed to save Star Wars – instead she ruined it” – So-so TV shows, a bungled trilogy, countless films stuck in limbo… the outgoing head of Lucasfilm has turned Star Wars into a spent force, says Robbie Collin in the Telegraph.
- “South Park summed her up” – Watch the clip of Kathleen Kennedy demanding more gay female characters in all Disney films on South Park, courtesy of End Wokeness.
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Typo: Is the Twitter Event “Saturday, Jan 8th” (as stated above, or on Saturday Jan 7th or Sunday Jan 8th”?
The Twitter link says “tomorrow” which as of this writing is Sunday Jan 8th.
Very well articulated, thank you.
Please correct typo – ‘Noble prize winners’
It is perfectly clear that we need a Nuremberg II set of trials of those accused of these horrendous Crimes Against Humanity – worse crimes outside of actual wartime atrocities are hard to imagine.
But there’s a limit to what any such investigations and trials can achieve. The fact is, the vast majority of people willingly and even enthusiastically went along with this narrative, even though it was patently absurd from the outset. Are they to be put on trial too?
The Great Barrington Declaration actually came comparatively late in the late as regards suppression of arguments. In the early days (e.g. March 2020) anyone questioning the narrative was accused of being callously selfish, of ‘just wanting people to die’, and even of being a murderer.
When so many people are just so gullible – led like dumb asses, their stupidity being their rings through the nose – what hope is there for our society?
Sorry, much as I detest the perpetrators of this shitshow, what hope is there when so many people in our society have actively abandoned the ideas and principles which a minority of the rest of us regard as fundamental to life itself?
That is the mass formation I guess. Until established wrongdoings have been widely admitted and accepted, that point where a critical mass changes the perception that crimes have been committed, we can’t move on with any principles. That limit of where do we draw that line even within the ‘only following orders’ precedent? Who can we fault for being under the propagandised mass formation psychosis? I haven’t the answers and I’m neither equipped intellectually nor qualified to make those decisions but I would’ve thought in a general consensus those who were given responsibility and didn’t act in good faith when they knew of obvious inconsistencies within their profession and said nothing, they need to at least argue their case and then potentially be held accountable in some respect. Others that might miss that threshold are only to live with their decisions once the dust settles for us all to be able to move on and never make the same mistakes again.
Interesting where the line should be drawn between the culpable and merely stupid. My feeling is it has to be pretty high up the food chain, or otherwise we couldn’t afford the jails.
Most of the minions – the useful idiots – should be left to live their lives quietly, with the more reflective among them aware that they’d been put to a test and failed.
I’m clear on one thing though: lessons have to be irrevocably learned, and that means facing up to what we’ve done and going through the concomitant pain.
The scariest thing for me in this whole debacle was seeing so many people I knew to be intelligent and open-minded swallowing the propaganda whole, without the slightest attempt at critical analysis. Glib parallels with the 1930s easily come to mind, and we are now seeing this same scenario played out over the climate ‘crisis’ and the war in Ukraine.
In the quote variously attributed to Hitler and Goebbels “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it” it seems the word ‘eventually’ may be redundant. This strategy worked for the powers that be from day 1 of the pandemic.
I don’t think most people would accept that the burden of guilt and appropriate punishment between Hermann Göring on one hand and some German youth put into a uniform and given a rifle in 1945, were quite equivalent.
Those who headed up this disaster with relish (for example Professor Pantsdown Ferguson of “reaised we could get away with it” fame. But also whoever appointed him despite the fact that he had a long record of absolute incompetence. Or Fauci. Those people must go on trial.
To the author:
I believe the twitter account of ‘TCW – Defending Freedom’ is still closed, could you perhaps exert some pressure to have the account unlocked?
I frequently test the waters by asking friends, family, other doctors, if they have heard of the Great Barrington Declaration, the WEF, Klaus Schwab, etc.
I am yet to meet anyone who has heard of these, other than my few red-pilled friends.
Despite Twitter opening up, most social media and all MSM merrily continue the censorship leaving the vast majority of the populace blissfully ignorant of what’s really happening in the world.
That’s perfectly true.
Many, quite intelligent people are quite prepared themselves to accept that things here in 2023 are obviously seriously amiss. Some have crackpot theories about what should be done ( often involving slime like Kneel Starmer), but very few are willing, or perhaps able, to look deeply into what is going on.
Obviously, not a new phenomenon. How many extremely intelligent Jews in early 1938 could see which way the wind was blowing and get the Hell out? Dreadful. Should you just blame them for being unable to control their hope that basic humanity would in the end, save them?
Absolutely true… The times I’ve mentioned some of the above have seen me being called a conspiracy theorist, a fantasist and willing to believe anything I read on the internet. It would seem that, as a reasonably intelligent person, I’ve lost the plot. The conversation is swiftly moved on to something else.
Sadly I seem to have no red-pilled friends but my husband now knows who Klaus Schwab is… He doesn’t believe that the WEF could expect their plans to come to fruition. It’s one of a few elephants that we live with.
My husband says I believe everything I read – my silent response to him is at least I read… Hs is very well educated and believes and trusts the establishment and doesn’t want to think that anything is amiss, however one of his friends has told him that he believes everyone who has been vaccinated will be dead in 5 years. I said I hoped that wouldn’t be the case…(husband 3 x jabs, terrible headaches with the AZ) so we live with elephants too.
I didn’t think I would be alone. My husband is well educated too but reads the MSM and watches BBC News. However, he has also taken to watching GB News recently and has learned a few things from it. We never discuss the vaccinations – he’s had 2 – and he must have heard about the unwanted side-effects of them. His own health has been compromised but it’s explained away by the fact that heart issues are A Thing in his family, The fact that in his case his issues didn’t appear until after his second vaccination is never mentioned.
I have told him about the concern about the vaccines’ effect on fertility and the spike protein appearing to concentrate in ovaries. This is something I find worrying as one of my sons and his wife are planning to have a baby in the near future and the possibility of infertility is something I’m very aware of. However, said son and his wife are vaccinated up to hilt and I’m not an interfering mother-in-law so there’s nothing I can do and certainly nothing that I will say. Another elephant to ignore!
And now they’re turning their attention to climate change…
Government used fear and the tool was MINDSPACE practised by psychologists from the benign sounding Nudge Unit.
“Truth”————–A judgement or proposition that is true. A statement in accord with reality. ————-Now who could possibly disagree with “Truth”? —Apparently this happened on a regular basis in places like Twitter to such an extent that statements in accord with reality were often not permitted. ——Are we to assume this state of affairs no longer exists?
Well argued article, short and hard hitting. Thanks.
A “Hallelujah!” Feature. Thankyou. I have saved this with all the other features and articles that I have gathered over the last 3 years. A historical record of one of the most infamous periods in human history. And yet it continues. 3 years down the clown road and many STILL believing the propaganda machine. The cork is slowly coming out now….Surely!