- “Albanian criminal allowed to stay in Britain – after four illegal entries” – A convicted Albanian criminal who was expelled from the UK three times after trying to enter illegally has been allowed to stay after sneaking back in for a fourth time, reports GB News.
- “A million illegal migrants live among us. It’s time for mass deportations” – With mass deportations of illegal immigrants, Britain’s streets would be safer and British workers would no longer be undercut, argues Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer faces councillor exodus over benefit cuts” – Keir Starmer is facing a mass resignation of Labour councillors over his decision to cut benefits payments, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Benefits claimants can still get subsidised BMWs despite welfare cuts” – Benefits claimants can still apply for subsidised top-of-the-range BMWs worth more than £50,000 despite the Government’s welfare cuts, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves will have no choice but to break her manifesto pledge and raise taxes” – Rachel Reeves’s no-tax-rise vow is doomed as a £40 billion shortfall in Government finances looms, writes Adam Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Criticise Bridget Phillipson and prepare to be silenced” – Why is the Education Secretary trying to dismantle the reforms that have made England’s state schools among the highest-performing in the world? asks Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Blow for Government as Lords vote against ending tax relief for private schools” – The House of Lords has voted against ending tax relief for private schools in a major blow for the Government, reports the Standard.
- “Cutting down GCSEs will coddle children” – Young people must learn to become emotionally resilient, says David James in UnHerd. The initial report of the team carrying out the curriculum and assessment review is worrying.
- “Ministers to force firms to reveal ethnicity pay gap” – In a move designed to reduce pay disparities, firms with more than 250 employees will have to set out annual figures on their ethnicity and disability pay gap, says the Times.
- “Labour’s Race Equality Act will hurt those it is meant to help” – Labour’s DEI plans risk limiting chances for ethnic-minority progression and the fostering of healthy community relations, warns Dr Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer looked scared of Badenoch at PMQs” – Keir Starmer got a proper grilling at PMQs for a change, writes Lloyd Evans in the Spectator.
- “Kemi Badenoch has won her first battle against the eco zealots in the Tory Party – but they’ll be back” – Despite the Conservative leader’s decision to abandon the 2050 Net Zero target, there are still plenty of green fanatics in her party, warns Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “The real reason why heat pumps are eye-wateringly expensive” – Generous grants do little to curb the climbing costs of installing heat pumps – and allow installers to cash in, explains Tom Haynes in the Telegraph.
- “China’s BYD could kill Tesla” – There is growing evidence that China’s EVs are not just cheaper, but better as well, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Tesla attacks investigated as potential terrorism by FBI” – The US Attorney General has called the recent spate of arson attacks and vandalism against Teslas “nothing short of domestic terrorism”, according to ABC News.
- “Jacob Mchangama on free speech” – On The Good Fight podcast, Yascha Mounk and Jacob Mchangama explore the different approaches – and proliferating threats – to freedom of expression. Well worth reading.
- “Letby public inquiry will not be paused” – The public inquiry into Lucy Letby’s crimes will not be halted despite requests from hospital executives, reports Sky News.
- “Why the Government must act on the Sullivan Review and fix the sex data problem urgently” – Sex Matters cheers the release of the Sullivan Review and urges the Government to fast-track its call to fix the public data “mess” by collecting sex – not gender – identity to halt risks in healthcare, policing and policy.
- “‘We blew the whistle on the Covid lab leak five years ago and were written off as cranks’” – A top-level group of scientists and academics told the Government the virus could be man-made in March 2020 – but they were ignored, writes Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “Sovereign is he who decides when schools close” – Boris Johnson’s 2020 school closure decision exposed Britain’s constitutional order as a political construct, not a legal one, says Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “US CDC and COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ statements” – In a guest post for the TTE Substack, Dr Carmen Huemmer slams the CDC’s vague and potentially misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy.
- “Pharma industry looks to get more and more people on lifelong medication” – On the Freedom Research Substack, Dr Clare Craig blasts Big Pharma’s grip on regulators and medicine, demanding a cultural shift away from piling drugs onto patients.
- “RFK Jr. suggests letting bird flu spread naturally through poultry farm” – RFK Jr.’s proposal to let bird flu rip through poultry farms has scientists up in arms, says Phys.org.
- “Why don’t we hear more about Israel’s stunning blow against Hamas’s fascists?” – We’re in a situation where Israel can score stunning victories over murderous Islamists and people don’t even know it happened, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “US judge blocks Trump’s transgender military ban” – A US District judge has struck down Trump’s transgender military ban, deeming it likely unconstitutional, according to Reuters.
- “Disney’s painful remake was cursed from the start” – Disney executives, it is reasonable to assume, did not whistle while they worked on the latest reimagining of Snow White, says Brian Viner in the Mail.
- “Disney’s exhaustingly awful reboot axes the prince and makes the dwarves mo-cap” – Even the Guardian thinks Disney’s woke reboot of Snow White is rubbish.
- “Snow White review — Disney has trashed its crown jewel and its reputation” – Believe the anti-hype. It’s that bad, says Kevin Mayer in the Times.
- “J.K. Rowling appears to take aim at Harry Potter stars in cryptic tweet” – J.K. Rowling has taken aim at Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in a social media post shared to her 14.3 million followers, reports the Mail.
- “Gareth Southgate warns of ‘toxic influencers’ harming young men” – Ex-England manager Gareth Southgate has warned that young men are falling victim to “callous, manipulative and toxic influencers”, says LBC.
- “Gary Lineker ‘hiding skeletons in the closet’, claims Matt Le Tissier” – Matt Le Tissier has launched an astonishing attack on Gary Lineker, claiming that the pundit is “hiding skeletons in his closet”, according to the Mail.
- “Give TTE readers one good reason to keep paying the BBC licensing fee.” – On the TTE Substack, Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan argue that the BBC’s biased and misleading coverage fails to justify its licensing fee.
- “The absurd Brigitte Macron conspiracy theory sweeping America” – False rumours about the French First Lady’s gender have been making headlines for years, says Marianka Swain in the Telegraph. Now the rumour has resurfaced in the US.
- “That huntsman lied to me!” – Check out this AI mash up of Snow White, starring Sydney Sweeney as Snow White and Nancy Pelosi as the wicked queen.
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“US CDC and COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ statements”
“Preventing asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections…”
…CDC still peddling the 5-year old lie (among other weasel words).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/20/europe-donald-trump-western-alliance-nato
‘Putin promised Trump a ceasefire for at least 30 days concerning energy and other infrastructure objects in Ukraine.
Second, there was a clear agreement about the Black Sea, about the security of shipping. Specifically, the grain corridor
Third…..an agreement was made to immediately start so-called technical negotiations…..genuine substantive negotiations between the American delegation and Russia. And between the American and Ukrainian delegations on the next steps towards, and here’s the key point, towards a real ceasefire.’
‘Recently, a family from Novosibirsk named their newborn son Trump, to be more exact – Trump Vladimirovich – ironically the newborn Trump’s father has the same name as Putin.
In Ukraine, the scandal in the Oval Office has caused President Zelensky’s rating to soar, and even those who have constantly criticized him have declared their support for the Ukrainian president.’
The result, in Europe at least?
The drums of war have commenced their ominous beat once more; softly for now.
“We understand the worries, we understand the criticism…..We have, for at least a decade, felt a false sense of security.” Germany had now to face a “paradigm shift”, which Merz said required “us to rebuild our defence capabilities, in part from scratch”.
According to the official President of Russia website (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76477), your statements are not correct.
With regard to your point on energy infrastructure, the Kremlin website reports:
During the conversation, Donald Trump put forward a proposal for the parties to mutually refrain from strikes on energy infrastructure for 30 days. Vladimir Putin responded favourably to the proposal and immediately gave the relevant order to the Russian troops.
So there was, firstly, no promise but Putin agreed to the idea and passed on the order to the troops, which will take corresponding time for the idea to be passed on down the ranks. Secondly, the proposal referred to energy infrastructure only, not “other infrastructure objects”.
Concerning your point on the Black Sea:
Just as favourable was the Russian President’s response to Donald Trump’s suggestion to implement a well-known proposal regarding the safety of navigation in the Black Sea. The leaders agreed to begin talks to further work out specific details of such an agreement.
So the only “clear agreement” was to begin talks to work out specific details.
With regard to your point on “technical negotiations”:
The leaders confirmed their intention to continue efforts aimed at reaching a settlement in Ukraine bilaterally, with due regard in particular to the aforementioned proposals by the US President. For this purpose, a Russian and an American expert task forces are now being formed.
“Bilateral” actually implies without Ukraine but one can argue USA (the country that actually instigated and promoted the war) will indeed discuss matters with Ukrainian representatives. Russia considers Zelensky not to be a bona fide President of Ukraine due to his refusal to hold elections after his term of office expired. Also, the only statement was to form “task forces” to discuss what the Russians would call the “root causes” of the war. As you are aware, Russia will not accept a cease-fire but only the complete capitulation of Ukraine, and subsequently a new government that must assure the permanent neutrality of the country.
And I bet no-one wants to talk about Russia bring down its own drones whilst in flight at the time of Putin’s agreement so that Russia could be seen to be immediately compliant. I siuspect it is the debris from these that Zelensky is using to claim that Russia immediately breached its ceasefire.
And no-one will mention the incursion by massed Ukrainian troops toward Belgorod after Zelensky said he would accept a ceasefire
“Benefits claimants can still get subsidised BMWs despite welfare cuts”
Surely if you have attention deficit you shouldn’t dri… Oh look a squirrel!
Bird flu: epizootic globally in wild birds, especially waterfowl and waders. It is not going away, it is here and remains here. We will have the occasional spillover into other species and commercial flocks, who are more affected by the virus in general either due to genetics, their naive immunity and/or housing conditions. Culling won’t eliminate the virus.
The reason why the medical establishment is worried is that the virus could mutate through antigenic drifts and shifts and become more infectious and pathogenic to humans. Quite a few genetic changes would be needed for this to occur, but at the same time these genetic changes could affect viral fitness (as it did in the ferret experiment).
There are so many unknowns…
Anyway, ‘could’…’may’….. Time will tell….
https://open.substack.com/pub/myrauk/p/avian-influenza-in-humans?r=ylgqf&utm_medium=ios
Time for the British Broadcasting Commentariat to wheel out the movie “Contagion” again.
Panic, Pandemic, Pandemonium.
The film’s tag line is ‘Nothing spreads like fear’. That’s appropriate, so I don’t think the BBC will ever show it again.
I just looked it up on Wikipedia. It seems there was an Aussie horror film of the same name – that might be more entertaining.
Rabbit-hole alert.
Better yet would be the film ‘Outbreak’ where the authorities try to incinerate a whole town and its occupants to stop the spread.
And bird flu is used as an excuse to kill, for example, thousands of chickens, resulting in a reported shortage of eggs in USA.
Are our lives really supposed to be under threat whenever a chicken has a cough? What about other species? Horse flu, cow flu, sheep flu?
We have horses behind our house and one had a cold a while ago. Should we panic?
Yes!
That’s exactly what the Green loons want you to do. Panic and go ‘Vegan’: stop eating meat, eggs and dairy or riding (or eating) horses.
No.
Cross contamination – otherwise known as fearmongering. There have been no significant crossovers in my lifetime. It’s bollox.
? I guess you don’t believe in the existence of viruses?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/deconstructing-hhs-influenza-vaccine-propaganda/
Robert Malone taking a sledgehammer to the influenza “vaccine” crap.
Marvellous.
Is there an ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health problems?
As a commenter says to the Two Old Geezers, tongue in cheek…
“…I’d go to my GP but I’m depressed. I’m still trying to figure it out though. Could be the Borna Virus proteins or all that Roundup I ate last night murdering my dopamine. ‘Course can’t rule out the Cominarty hammering my adrenals.
I should probably stop the Semaglutide, maybe I’m crashing my sugar… ‘Course I can’t rule out that evil doer ADV 36 getting loose from fat stores, that’ll play hell with my Serotonin / Dopamine / GABA levels once it hits my hypothalamus. Or maybe it’s that SSRI…
Guess I should go walk the dog… I think it’s called quadruped therapy.”
I think all that introspective navel-gazing is called “mindfulness” nowadays.
Psycho-babble re-branded.
Hmm, ‘toxic influencers’, eh? Talk about avoiding the herd of elephants in the room. I’m in full agreement with Charlotte here;
”I’m honestly appalled by the intellectual dishonesty of the “Andrew Tate is the biggest threat to Western men”/ “we need to tackle misogyny in schools” crowd. It’s not that these aren’t issues, per se, but women and girls face far greater threats that our leaders completely ignore – and actually create the conditions for! Look at the statistics on crime and sexual offences committed by men arriving in the UK from Afghanistan. Afghan men are the biggest group to arrive on small boats (nearly 6k a year at the last count) and 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens.
In the last few years Afghan men have doused women and girls in acid, raped women and girls (aka we have small boat PAEDOPHILES), including one man who twice raped a 12-year-old Albanian refugee who lived in the same Home Office-funded hotel, murdered (one man was a fugitive who had murdered two in Serbia and then fled to Britain where he pretended to be a child and was put in foster care), and there was another who decided he would try and find an English person to stab to death. He failed (in a supermarket in Croydon). These are men from one of the most misogynistic countries on earth (if not the most misogynistic) and the Establishment says nothing. They just go for easy targets, which is white British boys in schools.
To reiterate, I’m not even saying that Andrew Tate isn’t a problem. Clearly he is. But it’s about risk – and we can clearly compare these risks and see that girls and women are at much higher risk on aggregate from men coming over from misogynistic cultures than boys watching Andrew Tate. That none of our political elite can bear to say this is sickening and cowardly. They are essentially allowing young girls and women to serve as “The Home Office”; they can wait to see if our new arrivals rape or hurt them, and then the authorities can decide whether they need to be deported or not (and they probably won’t be due to their human rights to be vile). All because the people in power are spineless and lazy – and would rather fawn over Netflix than do their jobs.”
https://x.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1902410440350499144
Tate, it seems to me, is less of a problem because a good deal of his words trickling into the media are self-evident tosh, and are quickly labelled as such by many voices on all sides. In other words, his controversiality more or less forces young men to think whether they accept him as a role model.
Contrast Tommy Robinson, whose demonisation depends almost 100% on things he hasn’t said or done.
And, as you imply, the big issue is the fact that there is not such a furore against the Muslim “cultural expression,” especially from within their own community. And hence there is no incentive for those influenced to think about their actions in the light of public disgust.
You could also look at it in terms of exposure. How many people are really being exposed to some chronically online toxic narcissist ( you would have to go looking for his content, after all ), compared with how everybody, from all walks of life, is being exposed to the kind of real threat being imported on a daily basis and seldom deported, no matter what atrocious crimes they might commit. Just a quick look at news reports and who’s committing most crimes or a look at the crime stats ( per capita ), or the terrorism threats, can assure everybody of the actual threat they face in their day to day lives. Women, men, boys, girls..the biggest threat for everybody is Islam, as Charlotte states, and this is obviously not just within the context of misogyny.
Islam is like a virus but with killer potential.
Just as an example, which also serves as a reminder, because the silence is deafening from the media and the only way I knew this trial had started is from this article which is several weeks old now. The woman who worked at a migrant hotel in Walsall and was followed out and stabbed to death by a Sudanese migrant. Who poses the biggest threat? The community at large are exposed to this particular real threat. I’m afraid the reach of some chinless, woman-hating pimp kind of pales in comparison to what regular folk have to contend with on a daily basis. And it’s not like this is some sort of isolated, cherry-picked case either;
”A 19-year-old man accused of killing a hotel worker at a railway station has made a further appearance before a Crown Court judge.
Deng Chol Majek, who pleaded not guilty at a previous hearing to the murder of Rhiannon Skye Whyte, was assisted by an Arabic interpreter as he appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court by video-link from HMP Manchester on Friday.
Prosecutors allege Majek, understood to be an asylum seeker originally from South Sudan, used a screwdriver to kill the 27-year-old, who died in hospital three days after being injured at Bescot Stadium station in Walsall, West Midlands, on October 20 last year.
Majek, formerly of Bescot Crescent in Walsall, was further remanded in custody.
Judge Michael Chambers KC told him: “The case is listed for trial at Coventry Crown Court to start on the 17th of March.”
https://hellorayo.co.uk/hits-radio/birmingham/news/trial-railway-station-murder-walsall/
Good essay which further highlights the irrationality of the Leftards and hypocrisy of women who refer to themselves as feminists. You cannot possibly declare you’re all for women’s rights then support the ultimate patriarchal ideology which for 1400 years has subjugated and abused the female sex and who also kill gay men, and also be supportive of another major source of misogyny, the transtifa mafia, whereby you show solidarity for predatory men to access women’s changing rooms to perv at/assault your daughter, just because he wears a chuffing dress and self-I.Ds as a woman! Mentalists. An excerpt;
”Over the past few decades, segments of the political left have aligned themselves with Islamist movements—a paradoxical development given that left-wing ideology traditionally champions secularism, sex equality, and LGB(T) rights—values that Islamism fundamentally opposes. Yet, despite these contradictions, many on the left excuse or defend Islamist groups, often at the expense of their own stated principles. This shift is rooted in a combination of postcolonial guilt, identity politics, hostility toward Western power structures, and, more disturbingly, a pattern of double standards when it comes to human rights, free speech, and the enforcement of Islamic practices in Western societies.
A major factor behind this alliance is the left’s deep-seated postcolonial guilt. Many leftist intellectuals view Western nations—particularly Britain, France, and the United States—as historical oppressors responsible for imperialism, racism, and the subjugation of Muslim-majority countries. From this perspective, Islamist movements are not seen as religious fundamentalists with oppressive goals but as resistance forces fighting against Western imperialism. For example, when the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, some left-wing commentators framed their victory not as a disaster for women and minorities but as a legitimate response to Western intervention. This view ignores the fact that Islamist ideologies predate European colonialism and have long been oppressive toward other Muslims, particularly women, LGB(T) individuals, and religious minorities. However, because many Islamists position themselves as anti-Western, the left often reflexively supports them or downplays their abuses.
Even within feminist and LGB(T) circles, those who challenge Islamism often face backlash. The treatment of Maryam Namazie, an Iranian ex-Muslim and secular activist, is another example. When she was invited to speak at Goldsmiths University in the UK, the university’s Islamic Society (ISOC) disrupted her talk, accused her of being Islamophobic, and called for her to be de-platformed. Shockingly, the university’s feminist and LGB(T) societies sided with ISOC against Namazie, despite the fact that she was speaking out about women’s rights and secularism—causes they supposedly support.”
https://x.com/AjaTheEmpress/status/1901982229007376592
Is “let it rip” phraseology from the Sceptic or the original source? I hope it’s the latter, because it has a bad track record from COVID mismanagers.
I just appreciate the common sense of the message and surely it is intended to wind up the jabberati.
“RFK Jr. suggests letting bird flu spread naturally through poultry farm”
It’s absolutely brilliant— hats off to him!
Bridget Phillipson is working hard to cause chaos in education. There’s a review of Special Educational Needs (SEND) underway that includes the usual wishful thinking and raises the red flag of the ‘gift’ of ‘neurodiversity’ … orwellian double-speak for more inclusion of children with autism and neurological disability. The Autism Tribune on substack has a new post on the topic. It calls for understanding the cause of the problems … although more realistically, we wait for Kennedy, Trump and MAHA to say it out loud. https://open.substack.com/pub/theautismtribune?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1s85wn
“Benefits claimants can still get subsidised BMWs despite welfare cuts”
Motorbility = how to prop up the failed ev agenda using yet more taxpayers money!
“China’s BYD could kill Tesla” – There is growing evidence that China’s EVs are not just cheaper, but better as well, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.”
For a start, I couldn’t give a flying one about Tesla or any other shyte box manufacturer ,but to state that Chinese shyte boxes could be better? Jesus, there’s 8 ev fires a day in China! Welcome to the Chinese future
I’ve seen lots of pro-BYD articles in the MSM over the last week, there’s obviously a campaign running at the moment on the back of the anti-Musk sentiments.
It’s amazing especially after the last 5 years the propaganda seems so obvious if you open your eyes. Sadly too many people are lulled by bread and circuses to notice.
The animal, which has a gelatinous, tadpole-like body, It has a bulbous head, and loose, flabby skin, blobfish morph into mushy creatures with an unfortunate appearance!
I prefer the blob fish!
Thank you for the photo. I’ve printed it off and placed it on my mantlepiece to keep the kids away from the fire.
Sadly there is a vague resemblance to Wallace of Wallace and Gromit fame in that picture.
Ha-ha!! That made me laugh…
A priceless find!
“Ministers to force firms to reveal ethnicity pay gap”
This plan was first launched by Teresa May in 2018, after her Tory government’s ridiculous “Race Disparity Audit”:
Ethnicity pay gap: Firms may be forced to reveal figures – BBC News
Now launched again by Labour. Identical policies by False Opposition Parties.
So, Mr. Stalin-Starmer, when is this going to happen in countries like Nigeria or India or China or Israel?
“Labour’s Race Equality Act will hurt those it is meant to help”
It’s touching to think there are people who believe that Labour or any other politician are truly interested in “helping people” (other than themselves and their mates) – especially poor, non-white people.