- “Police should turn their zeal towards real criminals” – Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine’s absurd arrest is typical of how officers react when someone complains about being offended, according to yours truly in the Times.
- “The police have become the rent-a-goons of the easily offended” – A couple were arrested and held for eight hours after criticising their daughter’s school on WhatsApp, writes Tom Slater in Spiked. The police need to get a grip.
- “The Thought Police came for me and I fought my corner – free speech must be preserved at all cost” – the GB News website reports that Charlie Mullins, the founder of Pimlico Plumbers, has slammed the state’s attempt to silence him by stripping him of his OBE and joined the Free Speech Union.
- “JK Rowling wades in on trans toddler row: ‘totalitarian insanity’” – The Harry Potter author said that any adult who punishes a toddler for being able to recognise biological sex is a “dangerous zealot” and should not be allowed near children, reports the Mail.
- “The liberal state is going full Big Nanny” – After Le Pen’s ban, a Quakers raid and a transphobic toddler suspended from school, can MPs save us from authoritarianism? asks Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “It is not an accident that the crime rate is on fire in Britain… it is deliberate” – Alex Story on the GB News website says taxpayers are being forced to pay for the destruction of their own country.
- “Sentencing Council ‘drops two-tier justice sentencing plan’” – The Sentencing Council has agreed to suspend the new guidelines due to come into effect tomorrow, according to the Mail.
- “‘Two-tier justice’ quango member attacked illegal migrant crackdown” – Johanna Robinson, a Sentencing Council adviser, spoke out against the Tories’ “Illegal” Migration Bill in 2023, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Two-tier justice’ police chiefs criticised for saying ethnic minorities can be treated differently” – The Shadow Home Secretary has condemned police advice to treat ethnic minorities more leniently as “unacceptable social engineering”, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s small boats record worst of any PM’s since crisis began” – More than 6,600 migrants have crossed the Channel in the first three months of this year, a record-breaking number, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour has changed precisely nothing on illegal immigration” – Practical things not gimmicks, the Home Secretary advises when it comes to stopping illegal immigration. Yeah right, says a leading article in the Telegraph.
- “Alleged people smuggler can’t be sent to Belgium ‘because of mosquitos in prison there’” – Ziarmal Khan, 25, was arrested in Britain last year for people smuggling but is fighting extradition on the grounds that he cannot be imprisoned in Belgium because of the bugs in the jails, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Smashing the gangs’ may prove to be an expensive waste of time” – We need to address the problem of people who come on short-term visas and then came asylum, writes Karl Williams in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s sickness benefits claims surge at fastest rate in the West” – Britain’s ballooning welfare bill outpaces other developed nations despite Labour’s reforms, according to the Telegraph.
- “Private schools accuse Government of refusing to consult them over VAT raid” – The Independent Schools Council claims ministers refused to engage with private schools before storming ahead with their sweeping tax raid, writes Poppy Wood in the Telegraph.
- “All the Judges Presiding Over School Tax Court Case Went to Private School” – It isn’t just all the lawyers defending the Government’s VAT raid on independent schools that are privately educated, says Guido Fawkes. It’s also all the judges presiding in the case.
- “‘Rats gnawed through my sister’s car. Now there’s no escape’” – The horror of Birmingham’s bin strike has seen rodents grow to “the size of cats” leaving residents fed up and worried, reports the Telegraph.
- “Miliband urged to scrap windfall tax to avoid mass job losses in North Sea” – Britain’s declining production of North Sea oil and gas is dooming the UK to increasing reliance on US imports unless Milliband does a U-turn, says the Telegraph.
- “Prince Harry ‘sent unpleasant and imperious message’ to charity boss” – The Duke of Sussex allegedly demanded the Chair of Sentebale “explain herself” after she refused to issue a statement defending his wife, according to the Telegraph.
- “No free trade with US without free speech, Starmer warned” – The PM’s hopes of avoiding Donald Trump’s tariffs may hinge on the case of pro-life activist arrested for peaceful protest, reports the Telegraph.
- “The pro-lifer whose protest in Bournemouth triggered free speech row with Trump” – The US is ‘monitoring’ the court case of a retired medical scientist who’s on trial for holding up a placard outside an abortion clinic, says the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s tariffs will hit Britain as US rebuffs ‘carve-out’ deal” – Concessions on AI, tax and agriculture are “on the table” in US-UK trade talks, but a deal will not be signed in time to avoid import charges on British good of up to 20%, according to the Times.
- “Trump is plotting the biggest tax rise in global history” – The burden for paying the bulk of the president’s Liberation Day tariffs will fall on American consumers, potentially at some $600 billion a year, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “US will not help Europe if Russia attacks: leaked Pentagon document” – Europe would be on its own if Russia attacks, according to leaked Pentagon documents, reports the Mail.
- “Mark Carney is another Justin Trudeau: a woke, broke, Net Zero fanatic” – Canada will not survive the green, elitist, doomsaying, central planners who will triumph with Mark Carney at the helm, writes Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
- “Marine Le Pen’s party calls on supporters to take to the streets” – The leader of France’s Right-wing party has called for a peaceful “mobilisation” after Marine Le Pen was banned from running for office following an embezzlement conviction, says the Mail.
- “Snow White suffers worst humiliation yet after woke remake tanked” – The woke Rachel Zegler-led remake of Snow White has reached a new low after after getting the lowest ever rating on IMDB, reports the Mail.
- “Tesla dealership goes up in flames in Italy with 17 cars destroyed” – Italy’s anti-terrorism police unit Digos is leading an investigation into an arson attack on a Tesla dealership in Rome, according to the Mail.
- “Billboard Chris vs. Australia: Court battle over censored trans social media post kicks off” – On her Substack, Rebakah Barnett writes about day one of the court battle between Canadian gender-critical activist Chris Elston and Australia’s online harms regulator.
- “White Lotus dropped trans child storyline after Trump won office” – Carrie Coon, an actress in White Lotus, says a decision was made to drop a trans character in response to the US President’s attacks on transgender rights, says the Telegraph.
- “Putin drafts 160,000 men into Russian army despite peace talks” – President Putin is drafting the largest number of men yet into the Russian Army, suggesting he’s not serious about peace talks, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour faces a serious threat from Gaza independents and the Greens” – The Labour Party’s traditional white working class base has crumbled, writes Paul Goodman in the Telegraph. It is now losing votes to Muslim independents and Greens.
- “British Empire taught Muslims homophobia, claims historian” – A “horror of same-sex relationships” did not exist in Islamic culture before the 19th Century, says a woke Oxford professor, according to the Telegraph. It’s all the fault of the horrid homophobic British Empire. April Fool? Apparently not!
- “Adolescence director celebrates as episodes will be shown in schools” – Philip Barantini, the director of Adolescence, posted a celebratory story on Instagram saying “We did it” as Sir Keir Starmer announces the series will be shown for free in schools, reports the Mail.
- “Liberal Democrats can you please be a serious party of opposition and actually do something to hold this dreadful Labour government to account?” – CCHQ takes the Mickey out of Ed Davey’s launch of the Lib Dems’ local election campaign.
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Going way back to 2007 we had Martin Durkins first film “The Great Global Warming Swindle” highlighting the diabolical disgrace of poor third world Africans with no electricity because wealthy so called environmentalists in the western world keen to control wealth and resources using climate as the excuse cannot bear these people living on a dollar a day having the same standard of living as them.
This whole Eco Socialist charade has very little to do with the climate which is simply “science” hijacked for political purposes. Even the IPCC admit the worst case scenarios from their phony models are very unlikely to ever occur, so the silly activists no longer have the excuse of a climate emergency on their side.
These brainwashed dreamers should go for a year without electricity and see how they get on. They don’t know what hardship is and that is the problem. Once they have sat in the street all day truly believing they are saving the planet, off they go back to their cosy house and turn up the gas central heating, put on the kettle and watch their ridiculous protest on SKY NEWS, all courtesy of FOSSIL FUELS.
Not ‘go without electricity for a year’, I’d like to see them go without oil – and its derivatives, for just one month.
It is both Andy. I just chose to highlight the effect of not having electricity———-I don’t think people realise the effect on people’s standard of living, health, and life expectancy not having electricity has. No refrigeration, no lighting after it gets dark, no appliances, no kettle or proper cooking facilities, no ability to manufacture things, all resulting in a death from a short life of back breaking labour, and from preventable disease. ——Fossil fuels and their ability to provide the essentials of modern civilisation like transport, heating, lighting, and industry that does the work of thousands of people quickly etc are what keeps us out of the Stoneage, which is where the phony planet savers would send us all if they got their way. Climate Change policies are far worse for us, and especially for poor people coerced into not having access to cheap reliable energy than the alleged climate change itself which is based mostly on un-validated models which do not actually match what the real world is doing. There is no evidence that CO2 is causing or will cause dangerous changes to climate and that is the excuse given for keeping the developing world un-developed.
Beautifully put.
Agreed
Yes, a good number would die due to lack of petrochemical drugs!
Let’s all remember the correct spelling of “Sci£nce”
I like that one, but the first letter should be $.
There’s surely evil at work in all this. Possibly the worst genocide ever planned. Sick stuff.
I had the same thought independently. You beat me to it though. The imf policy towards Africa of banning investment in fossil fuels and making lending conditional on promoting lbgt is a form of genocide.
There are 8 billion of us apparently.
Useless eaters that is.
And it is all “for our children and grandchildren”. ——Anyone who says that really needs a lesson in economics, science, morality and politics. ——-The most recent person to utter this nonsense was Isabel Webster on GB News this morning. No surprise there as this woman was schooled in climate propaganda at SKY
Did anyone else see the video where the Millionairess Poison Dwarf rehearsed being “awwested” with The Police?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXuHAg6W38k
The world bank ban on funding coal fired power in Africa bought in by Obama was actual genocide. Worse than even Hitler’s gas chambers in terms of lives lost no doubt.
Excellent peice of common sense
He’s a fantastic young man.
Brilliant article and puts so many things in perspective and should be compulsory reading at every University and School in the West.
According to various globalists keeping large numbers in poverty is desirable and even necessary because starving people work harder.
A fine writer in the wake of the late Fiona Kobusingye, who was equally eloquent in voicing her dismay at western politics.
He only needs to realize that CO2 and climate alarmism is nothing but alarmism, but maybe he is already aware it is nonsense and is just taking one step at a time.
And he should please not criticize tourism in Africa which is naturally a huge boost to their economies. And I imagine that the vast majority of tourists are aware of Africa’s plight and are happy to leave at least a small part of their wealth in the country.
“Africans emit just 2% of the total world emissions”
Good point but by addressing emissions as a problem, you are playing into their hands.
“The energy sector supports every other industry.”
That’s the whole point of the CO2 climate change hoax. To de-industrialise, and de-populate. The stupidity of the whole thing is that with plentiful cheap energy (fossil or nuclear) we could feed ourselves using much less land and protect the environment.
The only way leaving African oil in the ground makes sense is if you do not want Africa to industrialise or develop, and prefer people being hungry and poor. The climate change scam is a massive transfer of wealth from the world’s poorest to the richest.
Excellent article which needs to be seen by more people, not just the converted on here.
absolutely correct – well said, Jusper
Insofar our political overlords are concerned, we won’t be enjoying the benefits of fossil fuels for much longer, either. Hence, addressing this to the people in Europe seems misplaced. At best, they’re obeying to the mask mandate (figuratively spoken) of the day because they’ve been brainwashed into believing that it is really the best possible choice by endless repetition of propaganda on all official and semi-official (BBC etc) news channels. At worst, they know what game is being played here but are entirely powerless to do something about it because the would-be world government has made its decisions and won’t be swayed by the plight of the people.
Well you should know all about that in Germany who have about 40,000 wind turbines and after Fukushima got rid of all the Nuclear energy. The good news is they had to open up some coal plants to keep the lights on. I imagine the same thing will happen when the UK’s silly wind fantasy prices us all out of using electricity and cannot provide base load.
—–All it will require is for one big football match or dancing show on a Saturday night to be unavailable because the wind isn’t blowing, and all hell will break loose.
I would like substack to have a “buy me a coffee” button. It is a nuisance signing in then remembering to cancel just to reward one good article. That is the business model hook, I suppose. The tenners I don’t pay must be fewer than those I forget to cancel.
Makes many valid points, but I disagree with the opinion that mankind should control instead of Nature.
I’ve tried several times to buy Jusper some ‘fruit’ but the payment system refuses to accept my email address, telling me it’s invalid
Brilliant article and beautifully written, unlike the dross we have to put with on a daily basis from the Telegraph. Even the Spectator is bad.
I am copying and pasting this article for future reference, if nobody minds. I attended a seminar a year or two back and one of the presenters said exactly this: that nothing will bring Africans out of poverty more than increasing their food production via fertiliser, yet the arrogant EU says we must reduce our inputs (fair enough, we use too much) but to impose our will on other countries is ignorance and best and arrogance at worst.
It’ll also be available on the DS website.
HEAR HEAR!!!!!!
Excellent article. I wish all the ECO nuts could visit Africa by mule and see for themselves. Most wouldn’t last a day of travel.
This article is going to my Labour MP
We haven’t got any MP’S yet!