- “Banning Palestine marches will help Greens, Blunkett warns Starmer” – Lord Blunkett has warned Sir Keir Starmer that banning pro-Palestinian marches will “play into the hands” of the Greens, reports the Telegraph.
- “Polanski vowed to ‘get a grip’ on antisemitism in Greens… seven years ago” – Zack Polanski accused the Green Party of “concerning” levels of antisemitism and vowed to sort it out back in 2019 – seven years, and rather a lot of antisemitism scandals, ago, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s Potemkin asylum system” – In the Spectator, David Shipley reveals that a shadow industry of law firms and advisers is churning out thousands of identical, fraudulent asylum claims – and the people running the system know perfectly well it is happening.
- “Working from home has been exposed as a massive con” – Accountability has become an alien concept in the civil service – and the working-from-home experiment has played a starring role in its collapse, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants paid £5000 extra for ‘London jobs’ despite working from home” – Civil servants are pocketing thousands of pounds in London weighting allowances while quietly working from home in cheaper parts of the country, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Suspect arrested over McSweeney phone theft” – A 28 year-old man has been held on suspicion of trying to sell the mobile phone stolen from Sir Keir Starmer’s former Chief of Staff, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer hands Tory turncoat a knighthood” – Sir Keir Starmer has nominated an anti-Brexit former Conservative MP for a knighthood, prompting a row with Kemi Badenoch, according to the Telegraph.
- “Andrew threatened by balaclava-clad man” – A “balaclava-clad” man has been arrested for the possession of a weapon after threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor close to his home in Norfolk, says LBC.
- “Never forget: it was Trump who sunk Starmer’s Chagos surrender” – Whatever you think of the US President, his intervention in the Chagos deal saved the special relationship from an act of reckless self-harm — and it is worth remembering that Sir Keir tried his hardest to go through with it anyway, write Dr Kevin Roberts and Nile Gardiner in the Telegraph.
- “Trump admin declare Europe an ‘incubator’ for terrorism” – A new US counterterrorism strategy has labelled Europe an incubator for terrorism fuelled by mass migration, reports the Mail.
- “Trump axed ‘Project Freedom’ in less than 48 hours after backlash” – Saudi leadership was apparently blindsided by Trump’s plan to secure shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and has forced the White House to quietly change its plans, says the Mail.
- “Smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat the internet blackout” – A clandestine network is smuggling Starlink terminals across the Iranian border to help citizens bypass the regime’s internet blackout and show the world “the real picture”, reports the BBC.
- “WHO chief warns there could be more hantavirus cases around the world” – The head of the World Health Organisation has warned that there could be more hantavirus cases around the world after the rat-borne illness hit a luxury cruise, leaving three passengers dead, according to the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan uses botched research to call for state clampdown on the internet” – Guido Fawkes reveals that the specially commissioned research Sadiq Khan is using to push for more internet censorship is riddled with holes.
- “UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn” – In the Register, Carly Page reports that privacy groups are warning ministers’ age-verification plans target access rather than Big Tech’s data-hungry business models – and could do serious collateral damage to the internet in the process.
- “Australia’s under-16 social media ban fails: 73% ignore it” – In Reclaim the Net, Cindy Harper reports that compliance with Australia’s teen social media ban sits at just 27%.
- “Miliband’s Net Zero ‘obsession’ risks families using more heating, not less” – A Government-commissioned report warns that Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plans could backfire, with insulation, double glazing and heat pumps prompting families to use more heating rather than less, says the Telegraph.
- “Feed in tariff subsidies cost £1.8 billion last year” – In Not a Lot of People Know That, Paul Homewood reveals that feed-in tariff subsidies cost bill-payers £1.8 billion last year – a figure Ofgem published back in December and which has attracted almost no press attention.
- “Why electricity costs more than we think – and why, in Germany, solar is about 10x more expensive than coal” – Keeping the lights on reliably costs far more than headline electricity prices suggest – and Germany’s solar experiment is a salutary lesson in what happens when politicians ignore that inconvenient truth, says Dr. Lars Schernikau in Watts Up With That?
- “Being white and male is bad for the climate” – In Watts Up With That, Eric Worrall highlights a Euronews piece promoting “ecofeminist” theory – which holds that white male behaviour is a primary driver of environmental damage.
- “Two bets on the future of wind energy: who is right?” – America is slamming the brakes on wind farms while China is covering the landscape in turbines, notes Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian, wagering that Beijing’s “green boom” is a subsidy-soaked money pit waiting to implode.
- “We need to talk about seepage” – In Climate Scepticism, John Ridgway ridicules the ‘seepage’ thesis that scepticism has corrupted climate science.
- “Retired Christian pastor fined by court after preaching biblical verses near a hospital” – A 78 year-old retired pastor from County Tyrone has been fined for breaching abortion buffer zone laws after preaching Bible verses near a hospital in Northern Ireland, reports GB News.
- “Arts Council-funded magazine cancelled poet over her anti-porn views” – Legal documents reveal that an Arts Council England-funded magazine cancelled a poet because she was critical of pornography, according to the Telegraph.
- “I was no friend of Israel… then I went there” – On the latest episode of the Brink podcast, Baroness Fox tells Jake Wallis Simons and Andrew Fox how Britain has lost its way… and why she changed her mind on Israel.
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I am concerned about Mahmood revoking entry permission for people on the basis of their political views. It started with Eva Vlaardingerbroek and now 2 Americans and one Spanish person have also been refused entry.
Surely that is not in keeping with Free Speech Britain?
My daughter, a Dual National, was forced to buy an ETA on a recent flight to the UK. She is a British National, with both passports in her possession at the time, so why, I hear you ask?!
Her British passport had expired. She was travelling on her other passport.
So, according to the British Home Office, British citizenship is automatically lost when your passport expires 🤯
It feels as if idiots and nasties are in charge, everywhere, doesn’t it?
Rubber dinghy, anyone?
It’s actually much worse than that now; since the start of March a Dual National cannot enter the UK using an ETA and must use a British passport – even if they have never previously had one!
If one of the parents is a UK-born British citizen, the child is automatically a British citizen – even if they are born thousands of miles away and do not want to be.
Therefore, the choice for such a person now if they want to visit friends or elderly relatives in the UK is to either renounce their unwanted British citizenship (which costs a staggering £513) or get hold of a British passport (£130 if applying from abroad, then repeat every 10 years).
… or take a dinghy from Calais, as you suggest!
Not really. Travel between Countries requires a valid Passport.
No she isn’t a British National, she is a Dual National. Using her other Passport means she is not travelling as a British National.
You are so wrong about this. Nationality and Passport are two different things.
“Not travelling as a British National.”
She IS a British National (and could prove it) and therefore travels as British National, eats as a British National, shits as a British National…
They were preventing her from entering a country of which she is a citizen. Get it? The fact that she was travelling with a non British Passport is totally irrelevant, and the law supports me in this matter.
People are thick…
But there is no actual free speech, is there? Only the pretence. Otherwise people wouldn’t have gone to jail for posting words. It’s ‘permitted speech’ only, based on what the people in charge say that is. This should be accepted common knowledge by now. The people being banned are laughably banned on the basis that their presence is ”not conducive to the public good”, whilst consistent and countless undocumented men arrive from hostile cultures and countries, whose presence is demonstrably not ‘conducive to the public good’. The double standards are blatant.
Which poses the greatest threat: words spoken which don’t hurt anyone or men running around raping, stabbing and planning to blow up people? Men who fail to acquire approved asylum-seeker status but aren’t detained then deported, instead they disappear and end up doing god knows what to support themselves. Probably joining gangs or delivering your next takeaway courtesy of Deliveroo.
“Lord Blunkett has warned Sir Keir Starmer that banning pro-Palestinian marches will “play into the hands” of the Greens”
It’s good that he’s thinking about the moral and legal rights and wrongs of banning marches rather than petty party political gains or losses.
None so blind as those who cannot see.
“Suspect arrested over McSweeney phone theft”
There’s nothing at all odd that the police can precisely pin down the middle man slam-dunk (presumably someone who shifts hundred of these things and won’t remember any particular one), but they know nothing whatsoever either about the person who stole it (who could describe the circumstances and maybe what they found on the phone), or who received it (who could say what happened to the contents).
But it does invalidate claims the phone wasn’t stolen at all.
Yes of course. I believe that.
p and M… Shocking I tell you, shocking. Never mind all the appalling political goings on.
“Never forget: it was Trump who sunk Starmer’s Chagos surrender”
God, this really boils my…
It’s Trump sank the deal not sunk. Sink. Sank. Sunk… Why can’t anybody conjugate a verb anymore?
I know… I sunk into despair when I seen it!
Indeed! Curse the illiteracy up with which we have to put.
Put-up is a noun – put-up job – or a phrasal verb, like call in, come in, look after, so the rule not to end a sentence with a preposition does not apply.
To be perfectly honest, I think a grammatically perfect message is of zero importance; it’s the message itself that matters. Not everyone took education seriously in their youth – including me!
Eats, shoots and leaves.
Eats shoots and leaves.
Your message, changed totally, by a single comma. Each sentence is grammatically perfect. The message? Less so.
It’s the language we have, so use it.
I have the same problem with spell checkers (now called autocorrect, that’s another subject). They’ll just check spelling, not word choice. And they “correct” its to it’s and it’s to its and get it wrong, every single goddamn time.
Yes, the message is very important.
Of course, but that’s a different point to the one I was making – albeit not very well it seems. My point was that, assuming the intended message is clear, it’s the message that is of the most importance, not the grammar. It’s a bit sniffy, in my opinion, to be constantly pulling people up because they didn’t, for whatever reason, attain the same levels of education that you may have.
It’s the grammar that makes it clear! Grammar is, if you will, a cypher. In order for the message received to be interpreted as the message sender intended, and without ambiguity, both sender and receiver must use the same cypher… ie, same grammar.
In English one can say: I read the book I had been given. The literal French translating of that: J’ai lit le livre J’ avais été donné.
That is gibberish in French because it does not follow French grammar rules – the subject of a sentence cannot also be the object. Correct translation: J’ai lu le livre que l’on m’a donné. Literally: I read the book that the one to me gave. L’on is idiomatic = someone.
The importance of learning another language is it teaches the importance of grammar in your own language.
The message depends on the grammar.
As outlined in that book: “Eats, shoots and leaves”.
That is why we have grammar rules, so the message we want to send is the one received.
Person: “He was sat on the bus and -”
MAk, interrupting: “Who sat him there?”
Person: “What?”
🤭
And… cooking instruction: pre-prepare your vegetables in advance.
Then pre-planning instead of post-planning (always recommended), put the dish into an oven pre-heated to 180C, better than an oven at 180C.
Vot are you sinking about?!