- “Every KC hired by Labour to defend its VAT policy went to private school” – Guido Fawkes reveals that all four of the KCs the Government has hired to defend its imposition of VAT on private school fees went to private school.
- “Paedo migrant allowed to stay in the UK ‘because he’s an alcoholic’” – A paedophile who assaulted a teenage girl has been permitted to remain in Britain after a court ruled his deportation would violate his human rights, reports the Mail.
- “Illegal migrants could remain indefinitely under new sentencing plan” – The Sentencing Council – already embroiled in a political storm over its ‘two-tier justice’ measures – plans to slash the maximum jail terms for a range of immigration crimes, says the Mail.
- “£2 billion migrant hotels are here to stay, admits Labour’s new quango” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty highlights the ongoing £2 billion annual cost of housing migrants in hotels.
- “Britain ‘must rely on immigration’ to compensate for falling birth rate” – An ageing expert has warned that a rise in women choosing to have children later in life means Britain must rely on immigration to boost its birth rate, reports the Telegraph.
- “This is the end of Rachel Reeves” – Rachel Reeves will be able to recall the precise moment her political career ended, says Dan Hodges in the Mail. The hands of the House of Commons clock stood at 1.06pm when she sat down after her Spring Statement.
- “Britain has just been pushed into the abyss” – Benefits are still surging, taxes are still going up, jobs are still being annihilated and the UK is still going bust, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer must overhaul honours committee involved in free speech row, says senior MP” – David Davis has called for reform of the UK’s secretive honours committee after the Prime Minister was accused of threatening to rescind Charlie Mullins’s OBE, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage gets NatWest payout over debanking row” – NatWest has paid Nigel Farage an undisclosed sum to settle a debanking dispute after his Coutts account was closed because of his political views, says LBC.
- “‘Reform’s leadership have proven themselves to be deceitful cowards’” – On X, Rupert Lowe slams Reform UK’s investigation as a politically motivated smear campaign.
- “Forever 20” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley argues that gerrymandered districts allow elected officials to adopt extreme, unpopular positions without fear of losing their seats.
- “The University of Sussex has learned nothing from the Kathleen Stock debacle” – The message that the times have changed does not seem to have got through to the University of Sussex, writes Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
- “‘Climate change is going to fade from view like overpopulation did’” – On the Public podcast, Michael Shellenberger and Roger Pielke, Jr. discuss the striking lack of climate change protests, despite President Trump’s aggressive rollback of climate policies.
- “‘It was a cold January’” – Despite all the caterwauling about “it’s always hotter” and “the end of snow”, NASA says the US had an anomalously cold January 2025, says Kip Hansen in WUWT?
- “Left torching Teslas” – The same idiots who scolded that the world will “burn” unless the government forces every one of us to buy an EV, are now torching the world’s best EVs with Molotov cocktails, writes Craig Rucker in WUWT?
- “Trump tears into ‘Left-wing billionaires’ behind Tesla fire bombings” – President Trump has blasted “Left-wing billionaires” for being behind the attacks on Tesla lots, reports the Mail.
- “The vile assisted suicide Bill is on its last legs. Now let’s kill it off” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon argues that the assisted suicide Bill is on its last legs and should be helped to die.
- “Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya confirmed by Senate as FDA commissioner and NIH director” – The US Senate has voted to confirm Marty Makary as the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Jay Bhattacharya as Director of the National Institutes of Health, according to STAT.
- “Immune changes from repeated mRNA jabs are linked to a higher risk of Covid” – On Substack, Alex Berenson highlights a Spanish study linking repeated mRNA Covid vaccines to higher IgG4 antibody levels, suggesting a potential increased risk of repeated infections.
- “The 21st Century’s most controversial play is back” – Seven Jewish Children was described as “Jew-hating pure and simple” when it premiered in 2009, writes Liam Kelly in the Telegraph. So why is it now a film backed by Brian Cox?
- “Disney ‘boosted Gal Gadot’s security’ after Snow White co-star’s Gaza tweet” – Disney increased security for Israeli actress Gal Gadot in the wake of her Snow White co-star’s “free Palestine” tweet, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- “‘Hamas out’ protests spread across Gaza” – In a rare public show of opposition, hundreds of Palestinians have protested in northern Gaza, chanting “Hamas out”, says Reuters.
- “Armed Palestinian gangs call for ‘march of anger’ to oust Hamas from Gaza” – As protests continue into a second day, armed gangs in Gaza have called for an “uprising” against Hamas, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why are there more protests against Hamas in Gaza than Britain?” – If Palestinians vented their Hamas criticism in Britain, they would get an earful from ‘progressives’, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Gazans are seeing Hamas for the murderers they are, only its Western fellow travellers remain blind” – Ordinary Palestinians are rising up against Jihadis, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph. Why is not more being made of it by the Saturday marchers?
- “EU urges all citizens to prepare with ‘survival kits’ amid WW3 fears” – The EU is pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc to have a three-day survival kit ready in case of war or natural disasters, reports the Mail.
- “Someone made a big mistake with chat leak, says Trump’s Secretary of State” – Marco Rubio has admitted that the Trump administration made a “big mistake” by accidentally leaking US war plans to a journalist, according to the Telegraph.
- “Trans policy will ‘raise awareness of menstruation in men’s toilets’, says NHS trust” – A Scottish NHS trust has boasted that its new trans policy will raise awareness of “menstruation in men’s toilets”, says the Telegraph.
- “National Trust manager accused of being ‘white saviour’ in race row” – A National Trust worker who sued the charity and accused her boss of trying to be a “white saviour” after she was invited to join a diversity group has lost her race discrimination claim, reports the Mail.
- “The woke institutions backpedalling on trans ideology owe the public a huge apology” – The belief that ‘gender identity’ is more significant than biological sex lies in tatters in mainstream thought, writes Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Snow White ‘review bombed’ by livid viewers as film suffers fresh blow” – Disney’s Snow White nightmare refuses to end, with the woke reboot currently rated a shocking 1.7 out of ten on IMDb, according to the Mail.
- “Paddington Bear and the new idolatry” – A statue of Paddington Bear was stolen in Newbury, but the judge’s remarks turned a prank into a theological spectacle, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “This woman is the blonde version of Robin DiAngelo” – During a congressional hearing, Rep Brandon Gill brings up all of NPR President Katherine Maher’s old tweets, including one claiming that “America is addicted to white supremacy”.
Rep. Brandon Gill brings up all of Katherine Maher's old tweets claiming that "America is addicted to white supremacy" and supporting looting, reparations, and BLM.
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Amazing ! If only we had known these things before this Crucial Survey ! Life could have been so much different , we are so far up our own arses now ( if you’ll pardon the pun) that I wonder if it would be better if we did die out due to chasing the chocolate starfish instead of the bonus hole !
Couldn’t resist. Not sorry!
https://todayleaked.com/why-is-huw-edwards-trending-on-twitter-snapchat-photo-leaves-internet-scandalized-amid-bbc-presenter-scandal/
Oh, I say.
“chocolate starfish instead of the bonus hole !
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Oh, I say.
I vote Freddy for giving sex ed in schools. He’s quite the wordsmith and has the lingo nailed! Who could fail to enjoy such imagery?
Go on. Behave like macaques. It’ll be fine.
And here’s me thinking it was only the bonobo that was into this sort of behaviour. I consider myself enlightened! lol
Many mammals have private lives that make those of BBC presenters look tame by comparison – dolphins really are sleazy, for example. However, they’re not ‘gay’, even if they have lots of same-sex action.
Firstly it’s one of my bug bears when animal studies are extrapolated to imply anything whatsoever to do with humans ( like that mouse city article the other day ) but also my heart sinks whenever I see ‘ICL’. They’re like the QAnon of the academic world, so ridiculous is the bilge that we’re used to seeing them produce. I mean, of course this stuff will get published straightaway ( and not get retracted ), unlike quality and meaningful work which has significant impact, such as the McCullough et al Lancet paper about the autopsies proving the death jabs are just that. I just assumed monkeys did this because they couldn’t get a girlfriend anyway, but if the majority were that way inclined I guess they’d eventually die out. Same as the human race really.
Ref mouse city, there was no mention of the Douglas Adams report on the vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings that are the white mice that gave us the answer of 42, for the meaning of life. Pour me another pangalactic gargle blaster. no ice.
Let’s face it, monkeys just don’t care. They’ll have sex with a scooter if they could. Their sex drive is legendary, just ask Tarzan…
Gives a new meaning to the line “I’m the King of the Swingers” from the Jungle Book song.
LOL
Yeah, and worms are asexual.
So what?
I’m actually self-identifying as a Gibbon for the entirety of this thread, and I don’t want any smartarse remarks suggesting I’m ‘out of my tree’..
Would that be one of the Funky ones?
Here, have a 
But of course.. is there another sort..
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/under-starmer-or-sunak-things-can-only-get-worse/
An OT Dump.
Simon Dolan failing to understand that our politicians are now simply order takers and their orders are to destroy the country socially, politically and economically. Very naiive.
Specifically what part of this is naive and fails to recognise that they are “order takers”? If you mean the bit where he talks about them wanting to get elected, I sort of agree as I’m not sure they care much – certainly the top people on both sides seem to have more of an eye on their next job with the WEF, EU, UN or whatever.
But his sentiments about the wrongness of what’s being done are correct.
I suppose anyone who has used the “homosexual behaviour is aberrant – you don’t seen animals doing it” has kind of walked into this one. I would answer this though:
But agree with points BTL that applying this to humans is a bit daft to say the least. If none had been “gay” the authors may not have been so keen to draw conclusions and would have said “ah well humans are different”.
Some points: one, are these people actually telling us to behave like a more primitive species of primate? Two, are they hence suggesting that we should be violent, careless, tribal, unthinking? And three – the standout point – why do they fail to emphasise the extreme rarity of exclusively homosexual behaviour (1 monkey in 236)? We know why, of course, because, following their own logic, it suggests that it might indeed be regarded as an abnormality.
Now compare the way that foolish fellow Tom Holland, with his latest rubbish about ancient Rome, is saying that antique sexuality was vastly different, that it didn’t matter with whom or with what a person “went to bed” etc. But only thirty years ago, in “Courtesans and Fishcakes” among other publications, another author – whose name escapes me – pointed out that whilst casual buggery was not uncommon in ancient Greece, those who could not or would not consort with women at all were derided and mocked. From these two examples, we can see that today accounts of the past are being twisted to accommodate either extreme “liberalism” or its ugly “woke” offspring.
Surely the truth, emerging both from this study of monkeys and earlier studies of ancient society, is this: that where erotic behaviours are concerned there has always been a degree of flexibility among humans – think of old style public schools and prisons; and the marker is not what a person is willing or capable of doing but that of which they are incapable. And anything which blocks a vital biological and species function, such as reproduction, is ipso facto an abnormality.
If we’re going to draw conclusions from nature studies, this strikes me as the most germane and powerful to emerge from this peep into the lives of macaques. But nobody in public life dares even to hint at such a possibility. Perhaps the scientists have put out this nonsense about the splendours of bisexuality to cover themselves against “cancellation” for the other, much more important findings of their research.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if you cold measure the amount of gay people that existed throughout history, starting right from before records began, and obviously taking into account relation to population size? I wonder if humans are gay due to our highly evolved brains. Of course it can’t possibly be called ”natural” in the context of reproduction because being homosexual is hardly conducive to the survival of the human species, which is why they will always remain a minority, but they are sizable minority.
I’m also wondering if there are more gay people now just because it’s more socially acceptable or are there just literally more gay people now anyway? However, if Islam didn’t condemn homosexuality would there be more gay Muslims? It’s a very interesting topic once you scratch the surface. I don’t even know if there were gay cave men and women, but that’s something we’re never going to know for sure with no records. Any way you look at it having a highly evolved brain is a double-edged sword.
I’m convinced that there is a good deal of truth in what you say, which – if I may extrapolate – seems to suggest that the relations between sexuality and consciousness are not as simple as we’ve all been taught to think; that erotic desires and behaviours can themselves be affected by the wider condition of the consciousness and that if this is diseased or oppressed in some way, sexual processes can be adversely affected.
I’m absolutely not convinced that a majority of humans have highly evolved brains.
The question is really immaterial. Homosexual behaviour is perfectly normal for humans and has been documented for millennia. It’s ubiquitious in Xenophon’s Anabasis, Thucydides mentions it normal occurence in Athenian society and at his time, Caesar’s enemys mocked him as someone who Was a woman for men and a man for women. Different cultures have and had different appreciations of it: The monotheistic religions from the near and middle east (Islam, Christanity and Judasim) reject it as against the will of God. The ancient Greeks considered it perfectly normal, explicitly including men having sex with boys. The Romans regarded it as normal but somewhat shameful for Men who were women to other men. Historic Icelandic society (presumably extending to other Germanic peoples) strongly disapproved of it as unmanly and dishonourable conduct. Germanic and Christian traditions caused it to be strongly disapproved of in Europe from the end of antiquity until the end of the 20th century. The postmodern, hedonistc consumer society of today celebrates it in the same way it celebrates all (lucrative) ways of achieving instant physical gratification of some animal desire.
But aren’t you ignoring the point about exclusively homosexual behaviour? How acceptable has that been? Has it ever been enshrined as preferable? Or preferable for the majority? Or the norm? Would societies which managed any such tricks survive?
The point, I repeat, about ancient Greece – as some say with modern Afghanistan – is that an overarching commitment to heterosexuality for most people, most of the time confines alternative practice to some people with some others at certain moments of their lives.
No society before ours has pretended that it is just a matter of “choice”; or that there is no difference between the sexualities when it comes to the foundations of family life. And no society before ours has pretended that the two forms of expression are each as central to humanity or its survival as the other.
The traditional variables, I put it to you, are merely forms of permission and / or toleration, and these were always limited by social factors. Even the monotheistic religions in deciding heavily against even that, in practice left wide areas of latitude through wilful ignorance.
And had the whole business been viewed as purely abstract and symmetrical, such that the choice between which sexuality should prevail or predominate would appear as arbitrary, then I put it to you that the society indulging in such anti-natural nonsense would have sunk into the desert sands.
Yes, there has always been homosexuality, but there has always been cancer, madness, genetic disease. To say, therefore, that these are “normal” in the way that health, sanity and heterosexuality are normal is no more than a hackneyed abuse of language.
No society before ours has pretended that it is just a matter of “choice”
It’s a matter of choice for Xenophon’s Greeks fighting their way back into Greece from Persia: After conquering another city, some of the men of the army prefer taking female prisoners, some prefer male prisoners and some take both. The difference is that it’s not regarded as some form of hallowed, innate identiy which is to be celebrated as the ultimate meaning of life. The warriors Xenophon describes are, first and foremost, warriors and expected to have some very traditional (from our viewpoint) male qualities like courage, strength and a readiness to sacrifice themselves to accomplish some higher end if need be. They have little in common with contemporary effiminates wearing high heels and painting their nails.
What I’m trying to get at is that (to the best of my knowledge) no society before ours has ever openly chosen sex as the golden calf to dance around.
I read it decades ago – in English translation -but remember Xenophon regarding the queers with mild contempt.
Didn’t seem that way to me. The one episode I remember was one of the men being slightly mocked because he was so much infatuated with a certain boy, ie, not because his sex partner of choice was a boy but because he overvalued him so much. But I read it only once and may well have missed something.
A one-off observation of 236 monkeys from a colony of 1700 (Why were 86% of the colony excluded? Desired phenomon not showing up?) means absolutely nothing for monkeys, let alone humans. That’s just another case of someone having been provided with a budget to go and find something the people the budget came from wanted to be found.
Well, it does certainly put the lie to the tired old zombie canard that homosexuality/bisexuality is somehow “unnatural” and therefore wrong, because reasons. And it does dovetail nicely with what we already know about bonobos, as well as various ancient and so-called “primitive” human cultures too. The famous book “Sex at Dawn” by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, as well as “The Bonobo Way” by Dr. Susan Block, certainly come to mind.
And while of course we should not read too much into studies like these, they still provide important information nonetheless. And for those who think it is somehow a million miles away from humans, especially modern humans, please feel free to take a look at the Kinsey Reports or the Wolfenden Report. Or any number of studies done after that as well.
To all the downvoters, you know it’s true. Methinks they doth protest too much, lol.
Blindness and deafness are natural.
Talk about missing the point, lol.
Anyone else fed up with ‘experts’ & ‘scientists’?
A hole is a goal to a non centiant creature!
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It’s not by intention it’s a safe guard to ensure the procreation of the species. I’m sure humans are intelligent enough to know males can not give birth to young and no matter how much you shag the male he never will!??? …and right there is a problematic box of frogs
True, humans are not monkeys. We are in fact the only species dumb enough to do the following:
1) Pay to live on the planet on which they were born.
2) Believe that if they work themselves into an early grave to make the rich richer, they too will become rich via the “trickle down” theory.
3) Turn billions of barrels of dead dinosaurs into…microliters of dopamine.
4) Wage large-scale wars for fun and profit, and also access to #3 as well.
5) Believe that infinite growth on a finite world is somehow possible or desirable.
6) Destroy the Earth in pursuit of the above.
“Homo sapiens” is a misnomer, as we are not very sapient after all, it seems.
If you believe that oil is made out of dead dinosaurs you’re operating on an intellectual monkey level.
Perhaps the abiogenic petroleum hypothesis is correct after all. I am on the fence about that myself. In fact, I was waiting for someone to say that.
I can believe that homosexual men have the sexual self-control of monkeys.
Reminds me of one of my bosses back in the 80s who went on holiday to Gibraltar and sent us a postcard (remember those) picturing some of the macaques. “Help! It turns out “monkey” is Spanish for gay,” he wrote, continuing, “And I only wanted to feed them fruit and nuts.”
Are they incestuous?