- “Who is the new IOC President?” – In Forbes, Blythe Lawrence profiles the next President of the International Olympic Committee, Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry.
- “Olympic medallist urges new IOC President to protect women’s sport” – New International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry is facing immediate calls to protect the women’s category after securing a landslide election win, reports the Mail.
- “There’s only one way to save the welfare state: end mass immigration” – Labour MPs against the Government’s welfare cuts want extra money for the benefits system, yet they ignore the obvious fix, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Why the Tories failed to tackle Britain’s ballooning benefits bill” – The Conservatives promised to “make work pay” while in power, so why has it taken a Left-wing government to actually deliver? asks George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “The British dream is now full benefits, a council flat and a state-funded car” – In the Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes beholds Britain’s welfare mess.
- “David Lammy told Cabinet his family member should not be on benefits” – The Foreign Secretary has reportedly told ministers that he has a family member who is on benefits when they probably shouldn’t be, according to GB News.
- “Growth forecast halved in blow to Starmer” – The official economic growth forecast for 2025 will be halved next week, delivering a major blow to Keir Starmer, reports the Express.
- “Angela Rayner’s cuts ‘threaten efforts to tackle Islamophobia’” – Police chiefs warn that slashing funds for Tell Mama, a charity tracking anti-Muslim hate, will hinder efforts to tackle surging anti-Muslim incidents, according to the Times.
- “Ideology is at the heart of terrorism, says extremism tsar” – A landmark study has challenged the Home Office’s push to redefine terrorism, concluding that ideology is the key driver of terrorist violence, says the Times.
- “Tommy Robinson kept in isolation ‘over murder threats after conflict with Muslim prisoners’” – Tommy Robinson has been moved to a “closed wing” in prison after reports that he had a “mark on his head” and would be killed by “a lifer”, according to STV News.
- “The ‘Boriswave’ of mass migration has destroyed British patriotism” – How can we feel as if we’re all in it together when we plainly aren’t? asks Neil O’Brien in the Telegraph.
- “This young band openly loathe Britain. So why is Labour giving them our money?” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon takes aim at the Lambrini Girls – the band who think Britain is full of “racist uncles” and whom the Government has just awarded a big fat chunk of taxpayer money.
- “‘Kemi, I’m proud to have been a reality TV star’” – Trump and Zelensky did all right with a showbiz past, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph. Perhaps the Tory leader should try the jungle…
- “Home Office worker sacked for sharing post by Richard Tice” – A man who worked for the Home Office has been sacked for sharing a social media post made by Reform MP Richard Tice, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour-run council plots to seize 11,000 empty homes” – A Central London council is plotting to seize control of thousands of empty homes and use them to shelter homeless families, reports the Telegraph.
- “Two MPs reported to police by watchdog over election spending” – A Lib Dem MP and Labour MP have been referred to police by the election watchdog after new data suggested they had breached spending limits in last year’s campaign, says the Express.
- “Labour’s Net Zero push ‘could cause 1970s-style energy crisis’” – Leaked documents warn that Labour’s Net Zero drive risks returning Britain to the 1970s, according to the Telegraph.
- “Too warm for bonfires, Khan tells Londoners” – Sadiq Khan has warned Londoners that it is too warm for bonfires as a “Spanish plume” brings a high pollution alert from mainland Europe to London, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hugely controversial LTN in one of London’s most affluent neighbourhoods is shelved” – Plans to introduce a low traffic neighbourhood in one of North London’s most affluent areas have been ditched after a backlash from residents, says the Standard.
- “Ed Miliband hires Daisy Lowe for heat pump ‘desperate propaganda’ drive” – Ed Miliband is being panned online for using Daisy Lowe to sell his heat pumps in a bizarre Pride and Prejudice-themed PR stunt, reports the Mail.
- “Greenpeace hit with $660 million damages bill over oil pipeline protest” – Greenpeace must pay a Texas-based pipeline company nearly $667 million in damages for its role in the 2016-2017 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, according to Euronews.
- “The downfall of climate change poster boy Michael Mann” – Michael Mann’s hockey stick is still wielded to club critics, but he is revealed as a liar and his dismal legacy – from the wind turbines despoiling your horizon to the Net Zero rules killing your business – lives on, writes James Delingpole in the Spectator.
- “We’ll never have an energy transition” – History shows the Green New Deal vision is not inevitable – it’s impossible, says Mark P. Mills in City Journal.
- “NHS refuses to force-feed anorexic woman at ‘imminent’ risk of death” – The NHS is refusing to force-feed a 25 year-old anorexic woman who is so malnourished that she has not walked for two years, according to the Telegraph.
- “Hospices at risk: the unintended consequences of the Assisted Dying Bill” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth warns that the Assisted Dying Bill could force UK hospices receiving public funds to offer assisted suicide.
- “Record number of pupils missing more than half of lessons” – Over 170,000 pupils are missing more than half of lessons five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting bans NHS changing children’s gender on medical records” – Health Secretary Wes Streeting has banned the NHS from changing children’s gender on their medical records amid fears it could leave them at risk of harm, reports the Mail.
- “How the NHS gave up on recording biological sex” – We all have a sex, and that sex matters far beyond the mechanics of our reproductive systems, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “COVID-19 jabs are not safe for human use” – On X, Dr Nicolas Hulscher highlights the largest COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ safety study ever conducted, involving 99 million people, which confirms the injections are not safe for human use.
- “Matthew Guthrie hits a home run for the injured with his sensational new documentary” – On Substack, Jessica Rose hails Matthew Guthrie’s award-winning new documentary, Follow The Silenced, which dives deep into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data.
- “Conor McGregor ‘will run for president’ after meeting with Trump” – Conor McGregor has announced his bid to become Ireland’s President just days after meeting Trump at the White House, reports the Mail.
- “France issues ‘survival manual’ to prepare citizens for invasion” – France is set to issue a survival manual to households across the country, warning citizens how to respond to an invasion or any other “imminent threat”, says the Mail.
- “Debtpocalypse” – On Substack, Eugyppius slams Germany’s ‘cartel’ parties under Friedrich Merz for ignoring voters, scrapping the debt brake and pushing green boondoggles.
- “Mark Carney to call snap election in Canada” – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call a snap election in April, according to CBC News.
- “King Charles set for bold move to ‘bring USA into Commonwealth’ during Trump’s state visit” – King Charles is preparing to offer the US associate membership in the Commonwealth during Trump’s upcoming state visit to Britain, says the Mail.
- “Donald Trump signs order to dismantle US Department of Education” – President Trump has signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of the country’s Department of Education, deriding it as wasteful and polluted by woke ideology, reports Sky News.
- “How Biden enabled Trump’s censorship” – In Compact, Jenin Younes argues that the Trump administration’s suppression of pro-Palestinian speech vindicates her warning that progressives who supported censorship would soon face its consequences.
- “Trick question: when is trying to get around unfavourable court decisions a Constitutional crisis?” – It’s a crisis when Trump challenges judges, but it seems just politics when Biden dodges the Supreme Court on student loans, notes Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
- “The JFK files will infuriate conspiracy theorists” – The released JFK files lead to more questions than answers, says Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
- “Police refused to say that wanted ‘female’ is actually male” – Women’s rights campaigners have blasted police after they referred to a wanted individual as a woman – despite his photo clearly showing a man, reports the Mail.
- “Netflix’s Adolescence is far from perfect” – Netflix’s smash-hit new series Adolescence isn’t just a television drama; it verges on being a morality play, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “If we don’t value boys and masculinity, it is no wonder that so many turn toxic” – Sherelle Jacobs argues in the Telegraph that traditional male ideals have failed to evolve with the times, resulting in catastrophic consequences.
- “Oxford set to make 800-year-old Latin ceremony non-binary” – Oxford is set to make an 800-year-old Latin ceremony gender-neutral for the benefit of non-binary students, according to the Telegraph.
- “Something is rotten in Stratford-upon-Avon” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray slams the “decolonisation” of Shakespeare as a ridiculous bid to paint his genius as white supremacy.
- “How new Harry Potter show is J.K. Rowling’s revenge” – The new Harry Potter TV series will be a chance for J.K. Rowling to “totally eradicate” the movie memories of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint with a new cast of child stars, an insider has told the MailOnline.
- “Snow White review – Disney has trashed its crown jewel and its reputation” – Disney’s sanctimonious Snow White reboot marks a new low, says Kevin Maher in the Times. Bring a sick bag.
- “Televisual poison” – Netflix’s Adolescence proves it’s easier to blame Andrew Tate than to make an honest drama about who is really committing violent crime in the UK, says comedian Andrew Lawrence on his X channel.
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Killing Farming Is Killing Humanity
leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
“Tory capitulation to the soft-Left orthodoxy has ruined Britain”
The late George Carlin used to talk about ‘where interests converge’. That there didn’t need to be a formal conspiracy driving us towards a totalitarian future, because the people driving it went to the same university, same country club, their children went to the same schools, and so on. They didn’t need it writing down. They knew what was good for them, and they didn’t rock the boat.
This in my mind is what has happened to parliament and our MP’s. Far too many people with the same outlook on life and all things. The Labour party in government is likely to bring this to a whole new level. No longer the Union man off the steel-works shop floor, arguing with the landowners and bankers. The Commons are full of people who have went to the same Universities, read the same subject, go to the same dinner parties and gained their work experience in local councils, Think Tanks, NGO’s and charities.
“‘Disbelief’ as under-manned Royal Navy seeks to re-deploy officers to diversity and inclusion team”
Disbelief, really.? Its exactly what I would have expected from something that has lost its connection with core values, and its true mission. Its very sad.
Here’s a little video of when our Navy was filled with courageous recruits.
https://youtu.be/gFeUO1R3-eg?t=161
“The SNP’s Covid reckoning”
Its not the language. I can overlook the language. It is the utterly narcissistic way that they treated the entire situation, and the opportunism of using it for other ends that should hang them. It was nothing more than a game that they were playing. However it was one that required the deaths of real people who were doing nothing more than being caught up in a gigantic game of ‘who’s got the biggest dick’..?
“Britain halts aid to UN agency after claims staff helped Hamas attacks”
Article behind paywall.
Britain, Italy, Canada and Australia followed the United States in withdrawing financial support for the UNWRA for Palestinian refugees. [Plus Germany and Finland so far. Ireland following international law and maintaining payments pending investigations.]
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-canada-australia-united-states-funding-unrwa-united-nations-hamas-israel/
-while 400,000+ people literally starve. Its payback for the ICJ interim decision.
As Max Blumenthal notes:
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1751110691103113456
“2003: GW Bush justifies invading Iraq with testimony by Ibn al-Shaykh Al-Libi, who was tortured into confession by CIA-trained Egyptian security services.
2024: Biden [and Sunak et al] justifies cutting UN aid to Gaza with testimony by Palestinian detainees tortured into confession by Israeli security services.”
And as posted elsewhere: ‘So an allegation that 7 people from 30,000 employees derived from intelligence ( confessions) made under torture from prisoners and without any court ruling or evidence presented is now acted upon by western nations. Hypocrites to the procedures of law. As the west always says, wait for a court to prove allegations especially when its against politicians for corruption etc. All this the day after an adverse IJC finding against Israel’ [which has wanted UNWRA out of Palestine for years] How convenient.
Do Sunak and all those other soulless hegemonic puppets realise that they could eventually be done for complicity in genocide?
#Notinmyname
“they could eventually be done for complicity in genocide”
Quite the opposite, I think we can safely conclude they know it will never happen.
The same people just presided over the killing of swathes of their own electorate without consequence other than the odd embarrassing headline.
Dr Mark Trozzi, professor, ER specialist & covid warrior, has his licence revoked in Canada, an egregious political decision that has nothing to do with patient care.
https://drtrozzi.substack.com/p/unrepentant-cpso-revokes-dr-trozzis
In reaching its decision, the Tribunal rejected Supreme Court cases, dating from 1939, which hold that Canadians enjoy an absolute constitutional right to express minority opinions on any subject. This allowed the Tribunal to rule that the College has a right to regulate the expression of its members in the name of the public interest.
The Tribunal’s ruling also rested on the prior discipline hearing decision, where the Tribunal found that Dr. Trozzi had caused harm by spreading misinformation, even though expert witnesses for the College failed to tender evidence that Dr. Trozzi’s statements had caused harm to a patient or a member of the public.
In support of its ruling, the Tribunal also rejected a 41-page report Dr. Trozzi submitted in 2021 in which he defended himself against the College’s initial allegations, citing 29 references from mainstream sources such as Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, Public Health Ontario and Statistics Canada. This was done without mentioning that the College’s main expert witness, Dr. Andrew Gardam, had admitted on cross-examination during the discipline hearing that he had never attempted to refute the Trozzi report.
“‘Weakened’ Ukraine can’t launch offensive against Russia and must focus on defence, say US officials”
Good idea because this (labelled ‘fake’ by Russian authorities, ring any bells?) is what it is like for Russian families:
‘The Russian government has turned its backs on soldiers and their families.
We’re being betrayed and exterminated by our own people. […] We were f*cked over and you’ll be f*cked over. All this time, all they showed us was lazy stability, reliability, and safety. We remember how the president promised that reservists wouldn’t be called up, that only professional volunteers would fight in the special military operation. And then they sent our loved ones to Ukraine. The promises proved empty. Many will never return. Mobilization turned out to be a terrible mistake. We were punished for our law-abidingness. Behind the smokescreen of stability, our men pay with blood, and we pay with our health and tears.
The president has declared 2024 to be the Year of the Family. It’s ironic, given that wives are crying without their husbands, children are growing up without fathers, and many have already become orphans. Meanwhile, a satanist cannibal who re-offended after his first prison sentence will be released again in six months, having atoned for his serial murders by fighting in the special military operation. Our president does have a sense of humor after all! Apparently, our motherland is being liberated for the very best of society: killers, drunks, migrants, and outrageously wealthy officials and their children (speaking of whom, why aren’t they in the trenches?).’
The Way Home December 2023
“The ICJ has been captured by antisemitic propaganda”
Article behind a paywall but anyway – was under the impression that the whole right to self defence thing wasn’t part of international law for an occupying force which Isreal is identified as being with regard to Gaza, the West Bank, Golan Heights and the southern part of Lebanon. This has been discussed many times by numerous geopolitical experts over the years and particularly in the last few months. It appears to be a particularly West-centric viewpoint which ignores both existing law and the overwhelming view of world opinion, especially the Global South. Don’t exactly know what the complaint is anyway as Israel and it’s supporters – as expected – have completely ignored any and all measures the ICJ have stipulated. If you’re above the law, why complain about it?
What’s probably getting them rattled isn’t the ICJ interim decision per se, but the consequences of it on the global ‘street’: As Dr Razmy Baroud, editor in chief of the Palestine Chronicle has noted in a very thoughtful piece:
We should no longer submit to the direct accusation that boycotting Israel is an act of antisemitism. To the contrary, boycotting Israel now has some serious and legitimate legal basis in international law.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/as-we-celebrate-gaza-is-disappointed-with-icj-ruling-this-is-why/
Given the following views:
Legally, the Israelis are occupiers.
Ideologically, all the non-Jews are occupiers.
Which one is consistent with the response of the Israeli regime?
International law?
That’s just fiction. Only when it suits.
Morning All
I was looking for some commentary to send to my brother on Chemtrails – he had never heard the term. I thought the DS is bound to have written about this, given its nefarious anti-democratic nature and related denials by the MSM, but nothing at all popped up on entering “chemtrails” into the Search Box.
DS Team – not sure if you agree that this would be a good topic for a researched article.
Morning Michael,
A good place to start is Dane Wigington’s website: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
He has been following this for a very long time. If you search for geoengineering online you’ll come across various articles purporting to be about ‘combating climate change’ or similar. Anyway, hope this helps.
Thanks Aethelred – that looks ideal.
Chemtrails seems to be one of those baffling so-called “conspiracy theories” because the evidence is pretty clear – I’ve seen with my own eyes on numerous occasions one or two planes creating a latticework of clouds in beautiful clear skies. I don’t live anywhere near a flight path and most days you wouldn’t see any planes in the sky at all. And yet, there seems to be a resistance to looking at it from sceptical sites. For example, the word “chemtrail” doesn’t appear on the Conservative Woman website when you put it in the search bar. I doubt the DS will cover it but thanks for raising what I consider to be an important issue.
Thanks for that insight, DS99.
“Curiouser and curiouser” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – George Orwell, from 1984.
Morning Mike I also have become interested in Chemtrails which I previously dismissed , due to having too much other stuff to digest ! We now live near the Welsh border & you can see criss cross patterns which are like layered waffles amongst the clouds ! Something is taking place & it won’t be for the best !!…
Evening, Freddy – totally agree with you.
Bah! Germany could have signed that declaration. 3 times nothing is…?
So says the DT. The rag that gleefully supported one of the biggest socialist coups in history in 2020. Too little too late. The ship has sailed.
Electric car acceleration ‘makes crashes more likely’: The other side of the coin is that the other side is not aware of it, and may assume that there is enough time to nip across the gap, etc.