Ross Clark has written a brilliant piece for the Daily Mail pointing out the double standards of the people currently demanding Jeremy Clarkson be fired from all his jobs for ‘hate speech’. We never hear a squeak out of Chris Packham, Ayesha Hazarika, Carol Vorderman et al when people on the left say equally nasty things about people they don’t like.
The backlash against Clarkson has also highlighted the monumental and ceaseless hypocrisy of the Left.
For while its commentators, politicians and Twitter warriors erupt into outrage at a columnist in a Conservative newspaper, the truth is that the Left has its own despicable record of making horrible remarks, some of which might be said to verge on incitement to violence.
I am not in any way trying to excuse Clarkson — just pointing out that many of the voices now demanding his head will have been conspicuously silent over even viler comments from the Left.
When they cause offence, they rarely seem to pay a price or even apologise. Different standards seem to apply.
As evidence, here the Mail presents just a small selection of egregious remarks made by Left-wing figures in recent years — and examines what happened afterwards…
ACID REMARKS ABOUT FARAGE
During Britain’s last round of European Parliament elections in 2019, Nigel Farage, then leader of the Brexit Party, had a milkshake thrown over him.
A few days later, comedian Jo Brand said on the Radio 4 programme Heresy: “Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid.” She followed up her remark by saying: “That’s just me. I’m not going to do it. It’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”
In spite of acid attacks being a very serious problem, and the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox three years earlier, the BBC refused to apologise for broadcasting Brand’s comments, saying they were made on a “deliberately provocative” show.
A ‘BAD END’ FOR BORIS
This week, children’s author Sir Philip Pullman described Clarkson’s column as “poison”. Yet in 2019, when the debate over the Brexit Withdrawal Bill was reaching its heated climax, Sir Philip weighed in by tweeting: “When I hear the name ‘‘Boris Johnson’’, for some reason the words ‘rope’ and ‘nearest lamp-post’ come to mind as well.”
When he was criticised for what he said he had intended as a joke, far from apologising, he merely switched his proposed method of execution — throwing in for good measure some language parents wouldn’t want in their children’s bedtime stories.
“For goodness’ sake,” he wrote. “Of course I wasn’t advocating hanging the b*****d. But rulers who try to do away with democratic parliaments come to bad ends. As I pointed out on Twitter some time ago, the axe and the block are still in working order.”
In an interview with the ^ shortly afterwards, he was still revelling in his ‘joke’, saying “the upshot of it was that I gained 2,000 Twitter followers”.
GOVE “LOOKS LIKE A FOETUS” TAUNT
In a 2013 edition of BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, chaired by Sandi Toksvig, one of the guests referred to Michael Gove, then education secretary, as having “a face like a foetus in a jar”. Not to be outdone, another guest on the show replied that Gove had “a face that makes even the most pacifist of people reach for the shovel”.
Cue laughter all round.
SICK JIBE OVER GRAVELY ILL PM
In an edition of Channel 4’s late-night comedy show The Last Leg in May 2020, just days after Boris Johnson had narrowly escaped death from COVID-19, actress Miriam Margolyes attacked the Government’s handling of the pandemic before adding: “I mean, I had difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die. Then I thought, that will reflect badly on me and I don’t want to be the sort of person that wants people to die.”
Since she is a confirmed member of the ‘outspoken’ liberal Left, her comments have not prevented her being invited onto Channel 4 shows since.
BOVINE ATTACK ON PRITI PATEL
The Guardian is never slow to call out racism, whether real or imagined. But in March 2020 that did not stop the paper publishing a drawing by its in-house cartoonist, Steve Bell, depicting then Home Secretary Priti Patel as a bull. Sitting alongside Boris Johnson (also as a bull) in the Commons, she had cloven hooves for hands, a ring through her nose, horns and a demonic expression.
Patel, as the paper’s editors surely knew, is a Hindu and it was deeply offensive to portray her in this way. Yet it declined to remove the cartoon or apologise, merely stating that “politicians of all parties are quite often caricatured as animals”.
Ross has plenty more examples
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: I thought I’d identified the most over-the-top reaction to Clarkson’s Sun column by a hysterical lefty when I wrote about the affair a couple of days ago. But in a classic ‘hold my beer’ moment, Dr Louise Raw has launched a crowdfunder to finance a legal action against Clarkson.
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“Killing terrorists is not a crime” – It is absurd to punish soldiers for effectively prosecuting a war, says Sam Bidwell in the Critic.
Meanwhile Attorney General Lord Hermetic seeks compensation on behalf of a former IRA terrorist leader, and colludes with Generals behind desks, barristers in fancy dress and politicians who wouldn’t know a terrorist war zone until it blew out what pass for their brains, in persecuting British soldiers for doing a necessary dirty job on behalf of Queen and Country in Northern Ireland decades ago.
Warped, bent and twisted political times we live in.
Variously attributed to Kipling, Churchill and Orwell…
“…We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
This is just what serving members and veterans alike have come to expect from governments, Labour or Tory.
None of these bottom-feeding worms give a tuppenny fig for service personnel either while we are in, or afterwards. Sub-22-year pensions are a joke compared to other branches of gov, there is very little support for veterans, the gov does not want to know you the second you pass out the main gate for the last time.
They are filth, and are not fit to lick s*** from the boot soles of any service person.
“The ‘Boriswave’ migrants will soon become eligible for Indefinite Leave to Remain, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph. Only those who contribute should get to stay.”
Well, contributing is the minimum. But let’s say we have the chance to bring 100 million law-abiding Chinese* geniuses to the UK – do we want to? NO – because as well as wanting a “contribution” from our citizens we want and need most of them to be White British or European** in order to preserve the delicate balance of OUR civilisation – a civilisation that has achieved so much but above all it’s OURS and what we are USED TO and it DESERVES TO SURVIVE. Bloody Telegraph missing the main point, AGAIN.
*Random example – I have nothing in particular against Chinese people.
**Prefer British but White Europeans are our close cultural and genetic cousins so coexistence with them is easier than with people from further afield.
I mentioned yesterday, when posting about Starmer having an HIV test, that there might be a rise in cases which could be linked to the relentless, ongoing migration. It seems Connor Tomlinson has found some supporting evidence. This should surprise nobody, really, because we know that the whole of Africa seems to have an HIV problem. Not sure about the Middle East. So surely this will be replicated in other European countries’ too, though I’ve not time to do a check just now;
”53 percent of the rise in HIV cases in England are due to immigration.
These cases we previously diagnosed abroad — meaning the government is knowingly bringing thousands of AIDS patients into Britain.
A few hundred immigrants then contracted it within two years of arriving.
Then they make a show out of testing for it.
We could just not import thousands of people who are already HIV positive. That is an option.”
https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1889228087398658119
There’s just no end to the ways in which mass immigration is a Bad Idea.
And thousands of HIV positives will of course have a massive negative impact on rNHS. Well I never. Another undisclosed cost for taxpayers.
Yeah, that’s what I said yesterday. They’ll queue-jump too because most will need interpreters, I assume anyway. Someone saying in the comments they’re coming over specifically for free treatment for their underlying diseases. There’s TB and Hepatitis commonly found in the ‘tent city’ dwellers at Calais too. This linked article is paywalled, unfortunately;
”With the surge of Channel migrants there has also been a surge of HIV cases. Over 6,000 cases were diagnosed, a jump of 51% last year.
It is blamed mostly on sub-Saharan Africans, half coming from East Africa.
The cost of HIV treatment per year in the UK is £11,000.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1889248299334389834
Actually, this doesn’t have a pay wall and it’s the same info. From Oct last year. So is it any wonder Starmer is trying to normalize this, in order to hide the significant hike?
”A rise in HIV diagnoses to hit a 15-year high is partly due to an increase of cases among migrants coming to England, an official report suggests.
A total of 6,008 new HIV cases were recorded last year, including those previously diagnosed abroad – an increase of 51 per cent.
For the first time, over half of all HIV diagnoses were made among those previously diagnosed abroad, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) found.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13915237/Migration-fuels-surge-HIV-cases.html
We want to keep what’s left. Its culture, isn’t it.
All other cultures must be respected and preserved, apparently, except ours.
I will gladly second that tof.
Thanks for your support! Someone has downvoted my original post. Too many capital letters? Or does someone disapprove of my “racism”? Or maybe they think I’ve been too accommodating towards our continental cousins?
The thing about migration from continental Europe, apart from them being quite like us and therefore will assimilate more easily, is that we simply would not (and did not) get swamped because they are rich countries with their own appealing features and most of their people want to stay in their own countries. That isn’t quite the case for much of the rest of the world.
“World Athletics is looking to introduce a mandatory cheek-swab test as part of tougher new rules for athletes who want to compete in the female category, reports the Independent.”
It’s good that they are wanting to prevent men from cheating by pretending to be women, but imagine you are a woman and having to prove it by getting a cheek swab. I think I would rather just show them my bits, or better still only those who are suspected of being men have to prove anything. I guess they want a clear process they can apply to everything – sad that it has come to this.
Personally I’d have a cheek swab willingly if it’d stop a man cheating me out of a place. You just know some whingers will complain about ‘discrimination’ or bring a court case.
Apart from the Adam’s apple sometimes it’s hard to discern the difference by sight nowadays.
I guess it can be hard to tell the difference sometimes, where a woman has low body fat and is not that curvy.
A cheek swab is no biggie, top level athletes already have to submit to frequent (weekly during competitions?) blood tests for banned substances.
That’s a good point. Still think it might wind me up to have to prove something that’s obvious.
“On Substack, Dr David McGrogan exposes how the Left wages lawfare to reshape policy, while the Right brings a debate club to a knife fight.”
Well I don’t want to use “lawfare” because that’s inimical to how I think life should be conducted. We have to win arguments otherwise we are vulnerable.
““Kemi is a reformed Conservative – she has learnt from her mistakes” – In the Telegraph, Camilla Tominey assesses Kemi Badenoch’s first 100 days as Conservative leader.”
Did I miss the announcement where she apologised for her part in the covid scam?
I don’t know which Badenough Ms Tominey is following but it’s not one I recognise.
I am actually more of a Kemi “fan” than most here (it’s a low bar though…) but unless and until she genuinely and thoroughly recants her covidianism as Bridgen and De Santis did, she won’t get my support – the same goes for the Tory party as a whole. I think we know that is not going to happen.
This BBC News article from two days ago, ‘Can you really boost your immune system?’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2m8d44v4go
quotes Dr Margaret McCartney saying that for “the vast majority” taking Vitamin D supplements is pointless and just a waste of money.
However, the BBC News article then states:
“However, the evidence around vitamin D is hotly debated…”
Later in the article, Dr McCartney is again quoted saying:
“But there are things you can do to improve your immunity against particular individual infections and that is to be vaccinated.”
This time the BBC News article totally accepts this claim without even a hint that there is any debate about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, not even when the vaccine was rushed out without time for proper testing.
The BBC has never so much as even questioned the Covid vaccines, not even when a coroner ruled that a BBC presenter, Lisa Shaw, died due to being vaccinated:
“Lisa died due to complications of an AstraZeneca Covid vaccination.”
The BBC has never allowed any medical expert to express any criticism or scepticism about the Covid vaccines, not even one in more than four years of many medical experts speaking out against the vaccines elsewhere. The BBC, which broadcasts opposing opinions about most other issues, pretends these dissenting medical experts don’t exist.
That’s ‘our BBC’, liars by omission, which we are forced to pay for even if we only ever want to watch GB News or Sky Sports, and possibly soon even Netflix. We are paying for Big Pharma marketing and propaganda.
Want a good laugh? The Guardians latest call for its virtuous supporters to stand up to tyranny – appended to the bottom of some its propaganda pieces…
Got to laugh. This level of bullsh*t should be criminal. And the ‘clever’ people still think it’s their bible.
Another of the Guardian’s cognitively-challenged purveyors of word salads, working from home in vacuo from reality. Probably has a gas boiler purring away in the background.
“Donald Trump has full command of the US government”
Not at all. He has full command of the executive branch of the federal government. His powers are limited by the constitution. Although there is a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, I don’t think they will give him a pass on everything, and neither will the Republican majority in Congress. The federal government also has limited powers – many powers are reserved to the various states. The writer is either being unprofessionally ignorant or deliberately misleading. Actually Keir Starmer has WAY more power than Trump because our Parliament is sovereign.
“the backing of immensely powerful tech barons. “
Other than Musk, who? Zuckerberg has half-heartedly come out in favour of free speech (I guess favouring free speech means you are a Nazi). Google still seem pretty left wing to me, ditto Gates, the people who do AI.
Thanks for posting.
“…the reality of the climate emergency.”
It’s an absolute s***rag, I wouldn’t sully the bottom of a budgie cage with it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/10/how-net-zero-plans-to-cut-pollution-have-backfired/
Says James Hansen the climate scaremonger who wants to dim the sun. Oh gosh, the same as Bill Gates anyone would think they’re in cahoots. What doesn’t Gates have his sticky fingers in? Gates of the god delusion and constant need to make more money under the guise of philanthropy.
I’m fed up with the constant scaremongering, about everything.
Yesterday’s Home Office exercise: https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-images-illegal-migrant-deportations-19000-removed-labour Quite well co-ordinated, as a campaign, by the look of it. Spot the cynicism on the GBN publication. It Doesn’t say which airfield was used for the charter – presumably not a normal commercial one – Northolt perhaps. Handy for the invited media outlet etc.
I don’t believe this. If these so-called illegals are going anywhere it will be to a staging post prior to them returning via the dinghies. Utter BS.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1889022594302796172?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
By the way, three years ago, on February 10, 2022, the Russian foreign minister publicly stated that, after drills in Belarus, Russian troops would not invade Ukraine but would return home.
Two weeks later, Putin went ‘the full tonto’ and launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.freespeechbacklash.com/article/time-action
An extremely heartfelt and positive open letter to Reform UK from Tom Armstrong at ‘Freespeech Backlash’ calling for Reform to lead the way in orchestrating a programme of peaceful disobedience against our anti British government.
“And for that we need the leadership ReformUK is so well placed to provide. We call on you therefore to form a mass movement, a bringing together of the anti-globalist and patriotic majority of the British people, from all parties and organisations. It is, surely, time for a peaceful campaign of mass civil disobedience. It is time to show them our strength. This is an ideal time for Reform to cement itself as the nation’s great hope.”
Chelsea star Sam Kerr cleared of racially harassing Met officer – BBC News
She called him “stupid and white”.
I think “racial harassment” should not exist as a crime, but what do we think the outcome would have been had a white person called an officer “stupid and black”.
About five years.
Definitely not two-tier justice.