- “Tim Davie should resign over hate chant, says Israeli minister” – BBC boss Tim Davie is facing mounting calls to resign over the broadcaster’s controversial Glastonbury coverage, reports the Express.
- “Justice demands that Connolly and Vylan are held to the same standard” – If social media posts are to be policed, then so too should hate speech from a Glastonbury stage, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Bobby Vylan’s chant was far worse than Lucy Connolly’s tweet. So why is he not in prison?” – It seems like many institutions don’t take anti-Semitism seriously, writes Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
- “Bob Vylan was grotesque, but arrest would be wrong” – Believing that the criminal law ought to get involved in Bob Vylan’s “Death to the IDF” chant is wrongheaded, says our own Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
- “Starmer’s peace deal with Labour benefits rebels on brink of collapse” – Keir Starmer is facing demands for even more concessions to defuse a disastrous Labour welfare revolt, reports the Mail.
- “Burnham’s defiance over benefits shows Starmer is doomed” – Greater Manchester’s Mayor has never ruled out another tilt at the Labour leadership, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph, and his time may be coming.
- “McSweeney on resignation watch after Starmer’s media freelancing” – There are swirling rumours about the fate of the man who made Starmer, says Guido Fawkes.
- “It only took a year for Reeves to destroy Britain” – Months of Labour misrule have pushed the country to the brink, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph. But what comes next will be far, far worse.
- “Starmer has shredded Reeves’s credibility – how long can she last?” – Changing her fiscal rules would be a resigning matter for the Chancellor, says Adam Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Politicians, not ChatGPT, caused the recruitment slump” – In the Spectator, Matthew Lynn argues that the recent 32% slump in graduate recruitment is not caused by AI, but by Government policies.
- “Rachel Reeves to announce cash Isa cut” – Rachel Reeves is poised to unveil a cut to the tax-free cash Isa allowance in a bid to encourage British savers to invest in London-listed firms and breathe life into the UK’s ailing capital markets, reports City A.M.
- “Albanian with 50 convictions can stay in UK as crimes ‘not extreme enough’” – An Albanian burglar with nearly 50 convictions has won the right to stay in the UK as his crimes are reportedly not extreme enough to “revolt” the public, says the Mail.
- “Now even Labour seems to have understood our courts are out of control” – An obscure Bill on citizenship shows the Government realises the judiciary cannot have untrammelled control over who resides in the UK, writes Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
- “Channel migrants pose for selfies as they head for Britain” – Channel migrants have brazenly posed for selfies aboard an overcrowded dinghy as they head for Britain, reports the Mail.
- “Grooming gang paedophile member builds house in Pakistan” – A ringleader of the notorious Rochdale grooming gang has built a house in his native Pakistan – despite receiving £285,000 of taxpayers’ money while fighting deportation, reports the Mail.
- “‘He is likely to have been very vulnerable at the time that he committed the sexual offence’” – On Substack, Dr David McGrogan charts the madness of a system where a foreign sex offender dodged deportation on the back of a dodgy psych report.
- “England no more” – Whatever replaces cockney London, it will no longer be England – and it’s coming to a town near you sooner than you think, says Frank Haviland on his Substack.
- “Energy companies are not ripping you off – the Government is” – The Government is using your bills to fund stealth taxes, green schemes and welfare, then blaming suppliers for the cost, explains Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
- “The state needs to chill out about the hot weather” – In the Spectator, Robert Taylor urges the state to “chill out” and allow people to use common sense rather than treating normal summers as a crisis.
- “The Bob Ward teller of forecast fortunes” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts brands Bob Ward and the Met Office’s forecasts as little more than self-serving “fortune teller” nonsense, aimed at protecting funding rather than the truth.
- “Meet France’s new anti-green movement” – A new anti-green social movement is gathering momentum in France seven years after the Yellow Vests rocked the establishment, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Senate GOP takes sledgehammer to Biden’s green energy subsidies in big, beautiful Bill” – On the Climate Change Dispatch, Thomas Richard reports that Senate Republicans are slashing Biden-era wind and solar tax credits in their latest reconciliation Bill.
- “How the Big Beautiful Bill will lower energy costs, shore up the electric grid – and unleash American prosperity” – In the NY Post, Chris Wright says the One Big Beautiful Bill will cut energy costs and fix the grid by ending costly green subsidies and backing reliable power.
- “Senator Tillis breaks secrecy oath to smear energy expert opposing wind and solar subsidies” – On the Climate Change Dispatch, Alex Epstein accuses Senator Thom Tillis of breaking a secrecy oath and deliberately misrepresenting expert testimony to defend ongoing subsidies for wind and solar projects.
- “Big, beautiful Bill imposes excise tax on Chinese-made green materials” – Senate Republicans have slashed clean energy credits and taxed Chinese green materials, risking renewable projects ahead of a July 4th deadline, reports the Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Senate hearing exposes China’s role in backing climate lawsuits against US energy” – Lawmakers warn that China is bankrolling US climate lawsuits to undermine energy independence, according to the Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Toward a new climate paradigm” – On WUWT? Willis Eschenbach argues that Earth’s climate is not a fragile system but a robust, self-organising heat engine.
- “Science fights back” – On Climate Scepticism, John Ridgway says that Stephan Lewandowsky’s Anti-Autocracy Handbook weaponises climate change to label sceptics authoritarian, while ignoring the intolerance and self-censorship already rife within climate academia.
- “Power Suitability Index, v.1.0” – On Climate Scepticism, Jit explores which generator is most suitable to power modern civilisation.
- “Cabinet minister’s alarm at ‘worrying’ decline in birth rates” – Bridget Phillipson has warned of “worrying repercussions for society in the future” as a result of falling birth rates, says the Mail.
- “‘At 41, I found out I was the child of a sperm donor, not my dad’” – In the Telegraph, an anonymous author reveals how learning at 41 that her “dad” was a sperm donor shattered her world – but DNA tests and support helped her rebuild identity and find family beyond blood.
- “Mark Carney caves in on tech tax to appease Trump” – Canada has abandoned plans to impose a new digital services tax on US companies in a bid to revive trade talks with Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fatwa declared on Trump by top Iranian cleric” – A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa against Donald Trump, declaring him an “enemy of god”, according to the Mail.
- “Democrats turn on Zohran Mamdani over antisemitism accusations” – Democrats have begun to turn on the party’s New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani over antisemitism concerns, reports the Telegraph.
- “Harvard ‘wilful participant’ in harassment of Jewish students, Trump report finds” – An investigation by the Trump administration has found that Harvard University is a “wilful participant” in the harassment of Jewish students and staff, according to the Times of Israel.
- “Woolworths cancels the Spectator” – In the Spectator, Lukas Degutis reacts to South African retailer Woolworths pulling the magazine from its shelves.
- “Labour council ‘breaking law’ after hoisting pro-trans flag” – A council has been accused of breaking the law after erecting a trans-inclusive Pride flag outside its town hall, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Ofcom has just demonstrated its contempt for women, the truth and the law” – By chastising GB News for its request to define women by biological sex, Ofcom has infringed on free speech in broadcasting, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Pride group founder, 42, who raped boy he met on Grindr is jailed” – The founder of a Pride group, who raped an “extremely vulnerable” boy who he met on Grindr, has been jailed for 24 years, reports the Mail.
- “Young people aren’t having sex any more – and I know why” – The draconian dating rules that Gen Z place upon themselves make Cistercian monks look like Woodstock hippies, says Rowan Pelling in the Telegraph.
- “From the Man Cave IV” – In the New Conservartive, Dr Roger Watson takes a satirical broadside at everything from Glastonbury’s “virtue-signalling hypocrisy” to breastfeeding men.
- “Anushka is like soooo confused about all the hate & complaints towards this year’s Glastonbury Festival” – The incomparable Intel Lady takes a break from impersonating Angela Rayner to mimic a Glastonbury Festival-goer confused about accusations of hate.
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“Rachel Reeves is poised to unveil a cut to the tax-free cash Isa allowance in a bid to encourage British savers to invest in London-listed firms and breathe life into the UK’s ailing capital markets”
Well surely the money invested in cash ISAs is lent out by banks to to individuals and also to firms? It doesn’t just sit there. Isn’t that how fractional reserve banking works?
“Death to the IDF” does not mean death to Jews. Jews are one thing, The IDF are another thing. I don’t care what people people think that bloke meant or didn’t mean. To equate everything that has some Jewish link or can somehow be associated to Jewish people to the entirety of Jewish people is dangerous.
Where does it end?
Will criticising Netanyahu be anti-semitism? At this rate it seems like it’s just a question of time.
It clearly does means death to jews as most jews have no choice but to serve in the wonderful IDF. Pure jew hatred.
I’m not sure if your comment is serious or sarcastic.
Obviously, not all Jews have to serve in the IDF. Most Israelis of a certain age do, but Jews and Israelis are not the same thing.
There are about 16 million Jewish people in the world of which less than half are Israeli.
Agreed. And why would the Trump admin want such human trash in the country? Fair play to them for taking this approach. Check out the BS statement from ‘Bob the Nob’;
Leo Terrell, Head of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism:
“Getting a visa is a privilege. That man incites violence — and under the Trump administration, we’re not gonna allow that.”
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1939829785393602950
Correct, in principle. After all, there are many Jews who may disapprove of the activities of the Israel administration – perhaps even some of the Israeli citizens. Conflating criticism of the IDF activities with anti-semitism is a deliberate tactic, promoted via the usual suspects. Whether it will stand up in court may depend on the politics of a jury, at the end of the day.
It is a metaphor, and it is easier to rhyme than “Jews”.
The problem is that the moment we start mind reading and making our own interpretations of what people mean, we’ll, where does THAT end?
Ive watched the footage and my interpretation is that the bloke is a vapid idiot who thinks he is being an edgy artist but is actually not edgy.and not an artist but a that.
But that’s my interpretation. I don’t mean to impose it on anyone.
Entirely the point I have been making for years on here about all the Putin mindreaders, who tell us he is planning to take over Europe and nuke us all.
With regard to Pascal, I think the message behind him on the stage was perfectly clear that it was meant to cover the entire country of Israel and not just the military forces.And the fact that he is not well endowed in the brain department doesn’t excuse him one jot
Who is excusing him?
The issue is, do you lock people up for saying things, even horrid ones, or not.
He certainly wasn’t shouting for love, peace and harmony was he now? “River to the sea”
means total eradication of isreal!
So?
I dont like it or agree, to say the least, but do you want a society in which people who say things you don’t like are shut up or worse prosecuted and imprisoned?
I think the answer to your question as far as many here are concerned is yes. They don’t like the way the speech laws are currently enforced because they favour left wing views, but their solution to that is to replace that with enforcement they agree with.
This article, on which comments have been disabled, seems to agree: Might the BBC’s Tim Davie Soon Find Himself Replacing Lucy Connolly in Jail? – The Daily Sceptic
The revenge instinct or just too stupid to see their own hypocrisy?
Trying to be charitable, neither. I think some just think that what they believe is right and proper, and in some future world people who agree with them will be in charge and institutions will once more be worthy of trust.
So stupid then, because that’s pretty much what the people who don’t object too much to the treatment of Connelly think, including astonishingly the last bit in which they think institutions are controlled by right wing, borderline fascists shilling for corporations and need to be purged of them so they can be worthy of trust again.
I know because I’ve spoken to such people. Ordinary people, not lefty, radical, studenty types.
The landscape really is pretty bleak out there.
If not stupid then optimistic/naive.
Yes I know lots of such people.
Unfortunately many people like the idea of free speech, but not if they have to hear things they don’t like… as far as I’m concerned, they can say what they like (which may not be a wise move, depending on where you choose to say it, but that’s a fact of real life, or used to be). Say what you like, but you may lose your teeth in the process – natural selection, if you like…
So??
Calling for the total eradication of any country or population is the definition of genocide!
I think it’s just not our way in the West to chant “Death to whatever” and, while I don’t think the guy deserves to be imprisoned, it would clearly be another example of two-tier justice if he isn’t.
The fact that the BBC didn’t stop the transmission on the other hand is completely unacceptable, so I’m really hoping there will be serious repercussions.
I agree the double standard is appalling.
But, I don’t agree the BBC should switch the programme off. I don’t need the BBC nannying me, shielding me from things that it seems I shouldn’t hear.
You may not have been brought up in the nanny stae but many of the mindless idiots who were chanting along with him were, and they definitely need a broader education than they are getting from today’s nanny state.
PS Not meaning to make any assumptions about your age or education.
People need to check out his 2min preamble for context, then it becomes even more obvious why the US have banned his sorry Jew-hating ( oops, anti-Zionist! ) arse from entering, consequently that’s 26 gigs over there cancelled, because spreading and encouraging hate must have consequences;
”In all the furore about #BobVylan, most people have conveniently forgotten that the ranting was preceded by a rabidly antisemitic story – live on the BBC – about his former Jewish boss, who he called “a f*cking Zionist” and “bald-headed c*nt”.
We know what you meant, Pascal.”
https://x.com/londonette/status/1939653789117809060
If the chant had been from a ‘far right’ audience I reckon the usual left wing suspects would have accused them of using a ‘dog whistle’. That is a softer form of words standing in for other words that might attract more criticism. Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?
What if he’d started a ”Death to the British Army” chant? I wonder how many of the audience would have joined in. Probably many because they’re predominantly made up of Lefty muppets that just follow the crowd like sheep. I also wonder if Tim Davie would’ve seen fit to broadcast it.
I’d just be made up if an act started chanting ”Free, free the hostages” or ”Death to Hamas”. I’d love to see the reaction that got! lol But as long as Jews/Israelis are the target, not many seem to give a shit. Hate speech is minimized and dressed up as ‘free speech’. I wonder how many Jews are ‘free speech absolutists’..
Are you serious?
I can’t think of a group of 16 million people of which a bigger fuss is made than the Jewish people. In both directions, in both a positive and a negative way.
Jewish people get a lot of stick. But they also have many people looking out for them, some very powerful.
To say not many give a shit is a gross misrepresentation of reality.
“I can’t think of a group of 16 million people of which a bigger fuss is made than the Jewish people.”
Are you for real? So these continuous mass public protests calling for the death of Jews and the eradication of Israel as a Jewish state ( we know what “Intifada” and “From the river to the sea” is code for by now ) are just Scotch mist, are they?
Tell me, where are the equivalent protests against the insidious creep of radical Islam and subsequent Islamification of the British Isles? Sure, there are ‘patriotic protests’, but is anyone brave enough to wave placards publicly stating “Islam out!”, “Death to Islamist extremists!” or “F**k off Sharia”? And I wonder why that is… 🤔
I can certainly think of a group of people for whom a bigger fuss is made, a way bigger group, who appear to have the majority of those in authority, as well as countless useful idiots, wrapped around their little finger. I’ll give you a clue: they hate Jews and will come chop your head off if you show a picture of their paedo prophet.
It would appear that we both have different interpretations of what a “gross misrepresentation of reality” means.
You obviously missed the part I wrote saying a big fuss in both directions.
Switch off their access to social media while there, and 95% of them won’t be able to receive todays instructions about what they are angry about today…
Whipping a crowd up to mindlessly chant death to xxxx any group of people, crosses the line in any civilised society. I doubt disciplined armies even do this, they evoke inspirational ideas of justice and honour instead, they do not want soldiers to identify with a sub human chant .
For anyone interested in how your tax is being spent, I looked into the government’s procurement of 5 million doses of H5N8 bird flu vaccines for humans.
https://open.substack.com/pub/myrauk/p/avian-influenza-uk-government-procures?r=ylgqf&utm_medium=ios
Good, tenacious work against Britain’s bureaucracy. I am sure you did not expect to succeed but maybe you can achieve more publicity, especially after a year has passed when one may question how many vaccines were actually administered.
Good question. I expect it to be close to zero…
From BrexitFacts4EU.org
Public engagement on a scale rarely seenOver recent days, more than 100,000 people engaged with Facts4EU.Org and SovereignUK.Org coverage, sharing articles, emailing MPs, and making calls. In the 10th year since Facts4EU launched, no topic has prompted more activity in such a short time.
Voters cared. Westminster did not.
In one of the most extraordinary evenings in recent parliamentary history, MPs and peers agreed to let a minister control part of the country’s business according to a post-Brexit EU regulation. They did so without proper scrutiny – and with no debate in the Commons before the vote was rushed through.
Around 8pm on Monday, the Commons voted by 315 to 4 to approve the Marking of Retail Goods Regulations 2025, a measure imposing EU-derived labelling requirements across Great Britain, as well as in Northern Ireland.
Just hours later, the House of Lords debated and approved the same measure, with 9 peers – all from Northern Ireland – the only ones to say No.
Ah yes, democracy at work.
However, it may well be (and I haven’t read the Bill so I don’t know for certain), that this EU regulation refers to the mandatory labelling of foods which contain GM ingredients, in which case it is to be welcomed with open arms.
I don’t have a problem with the UK choosing to adopt some EU regulations, because amazing as it may seem, some of them are actually quite good – gems in the spoil heap, if you like.
So long as we do not have to adopt them all, or have to go along with the ECHR, then all good.
My apologies to all concerned for having royally screwed up the comments section of the article “Criminal Investigation Launched into Bob Vylan and Kneecap’s Glastonbury Performances …” last night. A link I provided, which worked fine on my home computer, apparently wreaked havoc.
I was unable to edit my input and I could not find any way to contact the DS editors, so I eventually found an old Toby Young e-mail address and wrote him an e-mail, but it was late at night and he presumably receives piles of e-mails each day.
Anyway, apologies all round again and I will avoid using URLs in future (assuming I am not thrown off the website!).
Have a good day.
Yesterday’s great news about Rupert Lowe launching, NOT a political party, but a movement welcoming members of all political parties or none: RESTORE BRITAIN, was dampened a bit by the Relentless, Nauseating Pakistani Ben Habib deliberately announcing, on the very same day, his own new “Me,Me,Me Party to Make Me,Me,Me Prime Minister”, having quickly changed the name from “Integrity”, which nobody wanted to join, to “Advance UK”, in close imitation of Rupert Lowe’s movement name.
I hope people watching Habib’s launch video will finally awaken to his true nature, after desperately trying to ride into power on Nigel Farage’s coat-tails, then on Rupert Lowe’s coat-tails, offering Rupert a place in Habib’s Me,Me,Me party (which Rupert very wisely refused), and now trying to draw people away from Rupert. Habib’s obsessive actions are a bit worrying, because Envy always turns into Hatred.
Stephen Wolfe on Dan Wooton’s Outspoken show also made some very useful comments, pointing out that Nigel has always been a member on the fringes of the Elite Club, but not accepted enough to suit him, and that he did expect to be rewarded with a knighthood for hobbling both UKIP and Brexit to hand the Tories a massive majority.
Amazing news today:
Three former hospital bosses arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in Lucy Letby investigation
Do you know, I think they’re trying to prepare a way to soften their stance on Letby to allow for a “Well these are the real culprits gov, new we can let her go and not lose face”!
I hope you’re right!
“Pride group founder, 42, who raped boy he met on Grindr is jailed” – The founder of a Pride group, who raped an “extremely vulnerable” boy who he met on Grindr, has been jailed for 24 years”
I don’t understand the difference between these two things:
1) Depraved White Paedophile who lured ONE 12-year-old boy with drugs and raped him was jailed for 24 YEARS. That is JUSTICE.
2) Depraved Pakistani Muslim Paedophiles who lured THOUSANDS of 11-13 year-old girls with drugs and Gang-Raped them were usually jailed for 4-5 YEARS EACH. That is a TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE.
While everyone is focused on Israel, spare a thought for your local postie, because this is Royal Mail’s annual DOG AWARENESS WEEK.
The UK cities where postal workers are most at risk from dog attacks | UK | News | Express.co.uk
“She told the BBC: “The dog jumped up at me and bit me three times just above the right knee. When I looked down, I could see the flesh on my leg hanging.”
She added: “I started screaming and the owner and his daughter came rushing out. I also startled the dog as it ran back into the house. I had to do my own first aid as the man and his daughter were crying.”
“Since the attack, she says she has developed a deep fear of dogs.
She said, “If I hear or see a dog now—any dog—I’ll freeze. I’ll literally stop and wait until the owner walks past me because there’s no way I’m taking a chance.”
“I feel as though I have to be ready to fight off an attack rather than it happen and I’m not aware.”