- “Care homes in England ‘risk being vilified’ if forced to allow visitors” – The Chair of the National Care Association has warned against giving residents the legal right to see guests due to staff and funding shortages, the Guardian reports.
- “Yet another wave: Japan’s past and future ’emergencies’” – So it’s official, says Guy Gin: “The eighth wave is coming! And with it comes the Government’s updated plans to request yet more ‘self-restraint’.”
- “What’s going on with births down under in Australia?” – Unacceptable Jessica says the data are quite stunning.
- “Is this the beginning of the end for Jacinda Ardern?” – For the first time, there is genuine speculation about how long Ardern will stay on as leader and Prime Minister, writes Nicholas Sheppard in the Spectator.
- “Are Lockdown Zealots Incapable of Introspection?” – Professing ignorance now cannot excuse the brutality and severity of pandemic measures, says Ramesh Thakur in the Brownstone Institute.
- “Bush and Obama will hold disinformation conferences next week” – Organisers said the conferences were not planned together, but will focus on the rising threats from authoritarianism and disinformation, the Mail reports. Um, they do realise that the war on ‘disinformation’ is authoritarian, right?
- “The Frank Report XLIV” – Frank Haviland’s column at the New Conservative comes this week from his sick bed as he has been struck down with a bad case of the Wu Flu.
- “How Britain’s electric car revolution took a wrong turn” – After decades of success, the U.K. risks losing its car industry to more muscular rivals, write Howard Mustoe and Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak urged to get tough on China by ripping out smart meters” – On the eve of the G20 summit in Indonesia, the Prime Minister was urged to get tougher with China by potentially ripping out hundreds of thousands of ‘Chinese smart meters’ which could be allegedly used to shut down U.K. power supplies, reports the Mail.
- “Far-Left Durham University students use legal ruse in a new bid to ‘crush’ BBC presenter Jeremy Vine’s old student paper and torpedo press freedom” – Durham Students’ Union was lambasted for attempting to secretly seize control of the legal rights to use the name Palatinate – the title of the university’s award-winning student newspaper, reports the Mail.
- “Durham’s free speech crisis shows how far it has fallen” – Toby writes in the Mail that since he set up the Free Speech Union two and a half years ago, it’s received more cries for help from students and academics at Durham than from any other British university.
- “A gingerbread person? Morrisons takes the biscuit for wokery as the supermarket chain brings gingerbread men bang up to date after getting complaints from shoppers” – One Morrisons shopper quipped: “Maybe now it will have to be rewritten as ‘Run, run with maximum exertion! You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread Person!”, according to a report in the Mail.
- “Twitter ‘blue tick’ scheme to return after platform flooded by impostor accounts” – Elon Musk says the $8 Twitter Blue verification is likely to relaunch “next week”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Europe has picked a side in the new Cold War – China” – Germany and France are growing closer to Beijing as tensions with the U.S. deepen, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Stonewall urges employers to give trans staff two email addresses so they can swap gender identities” – The LGBT charity has drawn up new guidance for hundreds of organisations vying for spots on its “workplace equality index”, the Telegraph reports.
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How free speech is being hacked to death: Simplicius76 on Substack and how he and others are being targeted both through Substack and through Stripe, the payment system (which, incidentally, has kyboshed a natural product company I use. Captured, much?)
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/year-of-troubles-the-hatchets-come
Terrific Brownstone article on how the globalists’ ‘pandemic preparedness’ schtick doesn’t seem to take account of actual risks.
https://brownstone.org/articles/before-preparing-for-pandemics-we-need-better-evidence-of-risk/
“Trans row causes Labour to lose safe council”
Sqwakbox has a very different take on this! The Tory who won was previously a LibDem, votes gained were mainly from the LibDems, and in their view it was more to do with anti-Starmerism and local ethnicity than the trans teapot storm!
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/01/19/labour-loses-london-seat-of-mostly-jewish-and-muslim-voters/
“Conservatives Cheer Mass Layoffs at Sports Illustrated”
“They put a dude with t**s on the cover so I’m not surprised.”
Tim Pool
2020 Flu Disappears Renamed Covid
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online
https://www.aier.org/article/the-gramscian-march-trips-up/
“….a long march through the institutions”
‘….in the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”
Antonio Gramsci
‘…..a strategy for class-cultural hegemony achieved by progressively expanding socialist ideology from the top down.’
‘….it wasn’t until the late 1990s (Clinton/Blair/Brown) that things began to skew heavily left in academia.’
‘ The strategy aimed at shaping collective consciousness seems to have backfired, as the population, witnessing the institutional embrace of socialist ideologies, lost faith in the very institutions ostensibly meant to guide them.’
‘Gramsci gets the last laugh. If the “long march” ends with a complete overhaul or elimination of major institutions themselves, then perhaps his goal of societal revolution will have been accomplished. Not quite in the way he imagined, but a revolution all the same.’
2024 elections set fair to be ‘interesting’
I note the measles marketing campaign fails to mention the importance of good diet and nutritional supplements to mitigate the disease. Vitamin A supplementation for a start. How many children get an egg for breakfast nowadays?
Multivitamins would go a long way to preventing severe childhood illness, but the fear porn articles never mention them!
It also does not mention that Measles had declined since WWII only to increase again after “vaccinations” began in the 1960’s…? No connection of note….apparently.
If there were no climate change, there would be no fruit-loops driven mad by it to set forest fires, and therefore no increase in forest fires caused by climate change. Do try and keep up!
They will never ban alcohol. Never. Provide official advice on “safe limits” and appear to discourage it maybe, but never an all-out ban. Why? Because it’s the single most effective way of keeping the proles in check. It’s a distraction that numbs the senses and provides fleeting moments of happiness. Fleeting moments of happiness lives can revolve around. Fleeting moments of happiness that make you look the other way. No, remove the elixir and the proles may just notice something is rotten to the core… not just notice, but be angry and focused enough to do something about it. Alcohol is here to stay.
The Puritans are on the march
Maybe, but there seems to be a strong strand of puritanism running through humanity and it has been much in evidence in recent times. I am sure it’s roots are complex in psychology but it seems related to power, control and a fear of people enjoying themselves.
It does not seem enough for some people that they sit in abject misery with their head stuck where the sun don’t shine, they seem to want everyone to do the same. Fortunately yeast is everywhere and people have made use of it throughout history, long may it’s use continue.
”say for what were hop-yards meant?
and why was Burton built on Trent?”
Look at the changing religious mud in this country. It won’t just be alcohol that is banned but various personal preferences too. Wake up gays.
I suspect they will only allow Victory Gin
It worked wonderfully well in the US ……
With regards to the articles above about the headteacher fighting against Islamification of her school, she definitely must win because this example from Germany is what happens if you don’t set firm boundaries and rules from the get-go. Schools should not be bending over for Islam. ( in German );
”High school students wanted to enforce ultra-strict Islamic rules at a comprehensive school in Neuss and behaved like a “Sharia police”. They rejected democracy and put their classmates under pressure.
BILD now learned from classmates how the Islamists put pressure on the school. It is a frightening event that took place in the middle of Germany.
Some young men from this group left school before classes ended on Friday to attend a Friday prayer at a mosque. “There was a clear message from the teachers that they were not allowed to do this,” said a student to BILD.
Even when Muslim teachers were called in and explained to the students (led by a 19-year-old ringleader from the 12th grade) that they could postpone their Friday prayers as this was permitted by religion, this had no effect.
A short time later, these students demanded a prayer room. There were complaints from other students that they were being pressured to follow Islamic rules. According to witnesses, the group didn’t even stop at Muslim teachers at school. They were also warned for not complying with Islamic rules.
Several students followed the group’s instructions, apparently out of fear. Some non-Muslim students converted to Islam . The group then called for gender-segregated events to take place at school and during swimming lessons.
But that’s not all: “During lessons you could see how the seating arrangements in the classes changed,” said one student. “The students were seated separately by gender, with boys sitting at the front of the class and girls relegated to the back. When they spoke to them, the students no longer looked the male teachers in the face.”
When the school responded, members of the Islamist group rejected the German legal system. According to Focus magazine, the group is said to have spoken of stoning as punishment for violations.”
https://www.bild.de/regional/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-aktuell/scharia-eklat-an-schule-erste-schueler-konvertierten-bereits-zum-islam-86817796.bild.html?t_ref#fromWall
Further account from a teacher. ( German );
”Teacher Birgit Ebel tells “Bild” that she teaches German and history at the Herford comprehensive school in North Rhine-Westphalia. Ebel is certain: “In my opinion, never before has there been such a commitment to radical Islam from students as there is now.”
Especially since Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, there has been an increased “open, loud commitment to the Muslim world” at her school, which has around 800 students. “Many people haven’t done that before,” says Birgit Ebel.
The attack caused an emotional reaction among the students. “Many of them have no idea, but they still have an opinion.” Some students in the schoolyard shout “Hamas, Hamas!” or write “Free Palestine” on the blackboard.
The students in question also show no respect for Birgit Ebel as a teacher, on the contrary. Because the teacher, as a member of the Green Party and the “Kurdish Community of Germany” association, is clearly against racism, some students have already insulted her as a “Jewish whore”.
Things are similarly bad at other schools – even without “Shariah police”. “I know of cases from other schools where almost 20 teachers of high school students with a migrant background feel sexually harassed and humiliated in a sexist manner. When the women step in front of the class, adolescent boys shout: ‘Great tits’ or ‘great ass’ or otherwise harass them,” the teacher from North Rhine-Westphalia reported to “Bild”.”
https://www.derwesten.de/region/nrw-schulen-islamismus-scharia-polizei-neuss-lehrerin-schueler-hamas-terror-israel-a-id300792921.html
The latest Hannibal Lecter sequel – “The Clucking of the Chickens”.
The banning of Christian praye is the root cause of every problem the UK faces today.
When I was a schoolboy, mid 60s to late 70s, every day we had morning assembly, the Lord’s prayer and a Psalm read out.
It established a Christian framework for everything the school did and shaped the lives of millions.
Blair killed this off. Successive woke governments criminalised Christianity.
When men give up on God, God gives up on men.
And yet Bliar converted to Roman Catholicism. Given that many RC schools still incorporate religious services and icons in their buildings, was religion only given up in Anglican and Protestant schools?
If Bliar is a Roman Catholic I am a Muslim. Beyond ridiculous.
The u turn on immigration is finally starting to happen in ireland, guess there won’t be any hotels left at the rate their being turned to ashes!
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41313214.html
An excellent article on measles DS 22/9/23, Well worth another look
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/22/the-measles-scaremongering-doesnt-stand-up-to-scrutiny/
Very inconvenient for the Harridan @ UKHSA