- “Boris Johnson sensationally quits as an MP over Partygate probe” – In a furious letter resigning as an MP, the ex-Tory leader calls the Privileges Committee a ‘kangaroo court’ and blames its damning Partygate verdict on Remainers and political opponents trying to drive him out of office, says the Mail.
- “Boris Johnson resigns as MP over Partygate report” – The Telegraph’s report on Boris’s resignation.
- “Trump Is Charged in Classified Documents Inquiry” – The New York Times reports on the charges facing Donald Trump, which include conspiracy to obstruct, wilfull retention of documents and false statements.
- “Trump’s chances of White House return unlikely” – David Cay Johnston in the Mail says Trump’s attempt to become the Republican nominee in 2024 may have been derailed by the fact he’s been charged with federal crimes.
- “Why did USAID fund the Wuhan lab?” – Ashley Rindsberg asks in UnHerd how U.S. taxpayers ended up financing the creation of deadly pathogens in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- “Hyping non-Covid waves in Japan: media finds other viruses to fearmonger about” – Guy Gin says that, contrary to the warnings, the lifting of all Covid restrictions in Japan hasn’t resulted in a surge in Covid patients.
- “Querying the existence of a covid ‘pandemic’” – HART expresses doubt about whether there really was a Covid pandemic.
- “I’ll never throw out my DVD player – the woke police can’t delete my box sets” – Michael Deacon in the Telegraph advises people not to throw away their DVD collections, given that streaming platforms are now censoring classic movies like The French Connection.
- “Oxfam has unwittingly exposed the folly of trans extremism” – The pitiful state of Oxfam stands as a dire warning of what can happen to organisations that are captured by Stonewall, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “How Auntie excludes” – Why can the BBC interview Andrew Tate but not gender critical feminists, asks Cath Walton in the Critic.
- “Women’s spa with compulsory nudity ordered to admit trans women” – A court in Washington has ordered a women’s-only spa to admit transwomen, even if they’ve got penises.
- “Universal basic income would put us on the road to authoritarianism” – Universal basic income is a terrible idea, writes Lord Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Net zero isn’t working – but Conservatives refuse to grasp the nettle” – A vast coalition is forming against excessive green regulations. The first party that taps into it will reap electoral rewards, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “‘A girl at our school has decided she identifies as a cat’” – From rainbow crossings to tampons in the gents, a selection of Telegraph readers detail how woke culture has infiltrated their daily lives.
- “Why the eye-watering cost of Labour’s green pledge didn’t add up” – Rachel Reeves has been forced to back away from Labour’s ‘green’ plan to spend £28 billion a year for five years on solar and wind power, leaving Net Zero zealot Ed Miliband furious, reports the Telegraph.
- “Borrowing costs are far from the only problem with Labour’s ‘Green Prosperity Plan’” – Ross Clark in CapX explains why Labour’s plan was completely bonkers.
- “Secret recording ‘proves dam explosion was Russian sabotage gone wrong’” – Intercepted call between soldiers proves Russia blew up the Kakhovka dam, according to the Telegraph.
- “Good riddance to Caroline Lucas” – The departing Green MP embodies everything that’s rotten about environmentalism, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Rishi Sunak indicates he will change the law to protect single-sex spaces for women” – The Prime Minister indicates he will reform the Equality Act 2010 to make it clear that biological sex is a protected characteristic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Most Princeton students say it’s OK to shout down campus speakers” – More than three-quarters of Princeton students say it is sometimes acceptable to stop a campus speaker by shouting over them, a recent survey has revealed, says the Mail.
- “Twitter Files: FBI asked Twitter to censor western journalists on behalf of Ukraine” – The FBI asked Twitter to censor accounts it accused of spreading ‘Russian disinformation’, including a number of American and Canadian journalists, according to new emails released via the Twitter Files.
- “Elon Musk’s free speech crusade against Left-wing censorship is winning” – Musk’s Twitter takeover was important, says Michael Shellenberger in an interview with Steve Edginton in the Telegraph. Now we have to demand our free speech rights.
- “Covid disinformation unit made ‘hourly contact’ with tech firms, its leader reveals” – Sarah Connolly is named by the Telegraph as the head of Counter-Disinformation Unit, the secretive government ‘cell’ that flagged critics of lockdown policy.
- “David Davis says secret unit that targeted lockdown dissent should be shut down” – The former Cabinet minister tells the Telegraph his tweets were monitored by the Counter-Disinformation Unit and calls for it to be shut down.
- “Mark Zuckerberg says he was asked by Covid experts to censor posts about the virus that turned out to be true” – Watch a clip from Zuckerberg’s podcast in which he expresses regret for complying with requests to remove Covid ‘misinformation’ in 2020 that was in fact true.
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Lest we forget, a link to a few of his achievements:
Election Address by Boris Johns-On – The Daily Sceptic
Bye bye Peking Piffle. If his next stop isn’t The Hague, it jolly well ought to be.
And don’t forget the people in places like Kenya who suffered as a direct result of UK lockdowns.
Oh yes. Definitely a more appropriate summary of all that Bozo has done for this country.
Shouting “Get Boosted” from his brightly yellow & red postered Lectern is enough to have him sent down for crimes against humanity !! Loved the bloke when he seemed to be the underdog , read his biography & thought he was going to change things for the better !! How wrong I was ! It was my Robert The Bruce moment ( in Braveheart) when I realised he is in fact a Charlatan of the worst kind !!
Yep..sad to say I voted for him because I thought he would get ‘brexit done’….the amount of good will that man wasted is tragic…
Absolute wanker of the highest order…..I apologise to everyone for my stupidity….
You are immediately forgiven!
(I voted for Blair!, God save me from the fires!)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12179163/Boris-Johnson-sensationally-QUITS-MP.html
Bozo flounces out because he’s up against a ‘kangaroo court.’
Aw diddums.
The guy who couldn’t care less about Met goons wading into peaceful protesters, who couldn’t care about gym owners, bar owners, cafe owners being arrested and fined while he and his toadies had piss ups in Downing St.
Sod off you WEF lickspittle.
That as well!
Incidentally, what newspapers are not beyond the pale these days (apart from The Light obviously)?
Too much cash to be made on the public speaking circuit, probs.
He’ll earn a fortune and the House of Johnson will be gilded and embroidered in tapestries and he will go on spouting his nonsense and the media will lap it up. But this is not the last we have heard of him. To be honest, he was quite entertaining for a while and that was the problem – he was never really serious. He just made it up as he went along without any real understanding about ordinary people’s lives. Quite how he became PM is beyond me but I feel it’s because Westminster is just full of very bland and uninteresting types – look at some of our most recent PMs – Cameron, May, Truss. Someone with his brain, and he has got one, was always going to make an impact in such the crucible of the Commons. He may get ennobled so he can sit in the Lords but if he is found guilty, then it’s unlikely. Regarding the plandemic, I get the distinct feeling that this wasn’t even up to him, he was just the mouthpiece of a more sinister cabal – lockdown or else we’ll get someone who will. I get the impression that his journeys to Italy and whatever happened there when he was Foreign Sec, compromised him. He’ll now hang about like Blair but without Blair’s organisation behind him. People like Blair and Starmer are far more dangerous in my opinion because they have conviction, Johnson never had any.
Spot on.
Good post Aethelred and the comments re Bliar abd Kneel are very much on the money.
Thanks HP! Much appreciated.
Excellent analogy Piglet my old Sunny Saturday morning chum
Thank you Freddy.
100%
Thanks ebg.
https://www.hartgroup.org/pandemic-definitions/
HART group asking if there was a ‘Pandemic.’
Actually, No. Dr Mike Yeadon also on this same page as are many on here.
The “pandemic” was just a pretext, same as the climate scare, and the same as all those excuses for “more Europe”.
Indeed. There was No “pandemic,” only a Scamdemic.
Absolutely. It was just the most recent and destructive example of the “Beneficial Crisis”, a ploy that was first pioneered and institutionalised by the EU but which has now been adopted by the UN etc.
There is a pandemic still going on – the iatrogenic genocide one. The one Nuremberg was supposed to protect us from.
An excellent point and thanks for making it
Isn’t that a human rights abuse?
Because “trans cats” are cats. Miaow!
Wil they provide her with a litter tray?
I hope she gets a saucer of milk.
Nah. She’s just taking the piss. Go for it
girlcat!This might be the tipping edge against the trans movement where youngsters are identifying with pretty much what they like. I would like to see whether such a girl would like to be fed cat food or asked to move out of her bedroom and occupy a large cat basket in the kitchen instead. Some cats like raw fish or raw meat too. It’s the little details of actually ‘being’ a cat that might help the girl to re-evaluate her life choice!
Cats don’t have to sleep in a cat basket in the kitchen, many sleep in a bedroom. And cats don’t necessarily have to eat “cat food”, they can live on foods humans eat, chicken, fish, etc. Meat is cat food, it doesn’t have to be raw. She could live on the Lewis Schaffer diet.
But what’s to stop her from identifying as a vegan cat if she wants? You could say that doesn’t make sense, cats can’t be vegan, but none of this makes sense, men can’t be women.
The NHS are going to ban puberty blockers for minors, although they do state only for outside of research purposes. I honestly don’t know what kind of parent would allow their teen/kid to participate in such research but there you go. And isn’t 7000 a depressing and alarming figure? What’s happening to our youngsters?
”An NHS spokesperson said: “The NHS is today publishing an interim specification for gender services for children and young people in line with advice and recommendations from the Independent Cass Review – this will allow the new centres to finalise their preparation for service provision later this year.
“The NHS is now engaging on the proposal that puberty blockers will not be made routinely available outside of research. We will develop a study into the impact of puberty blockers on gender dysphoria in children and young people with early-onset gender dysphoria, which aims to be up and running in 2024.”
The new service will take a new “holistic” approach, focusing on the needs of each child individually with “careful therapeutic exploration”.
It will be updated further after the final report by Dr Cass is published.
In order to be prescribed puberty blockers on the NHS, a patient would currently need to first be assessed by Gids and referred to an endocrinologist.
More than 7,000 young people under the age of 18 are awaiting their first appointment, with the waiting list thought to be more than three and a half years long.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65860272
I may have missed something (I admit I didn’t read the linked article): Surely, except in very rare cases, puberty blockers would only be effective on minors? So this is effectively a ban. Again, except in different very rare cases I think this ban is a good thing.
haha, yes I think it’s my wording there. Puberty blockers only to be given to kids in clinical research. Thankfully people have gone through puberty by the time they’re legally an adult. I’ll blame the earliness of the day ( again ).
This ‘guy’ really is convincing as a man, but that’s not what this 2min video is about. Very moving and also raises important issues about both men’s and trans men’s mental health.
”This is actually a very powerful video. A woman tries to become a man but then discovers the profound isolation that many men in modern society experience. But because she’s really a woman, and therefore more relational and empathetic by nature, she is not equipped to cope with the loneliness. Yet she’s stuck in this pseudo-male identity, unable to recapture the femininity that she destroyed. Truly a tragic tale, but so much is revealed about our culture. None of it good.”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1667344800679448579
Aww, that is so sad. I feel quite upset watching that video.
Feel upset that this is the daily experience of many men, especially young men who find it difficult to establish a relationship with a young woman, yet are told they are dangerous misogynists, incels, who can’t talk to girls for fear of becoming ‘sex pests’, and that they bear the burden of guilt for all the ills of society.
Yes, very sad to watch and listen and I hope its message is spread to those thinking of transitioning because being a man or a woman is so much more than just putting on the ‘uniform’ of a male or female body and an awful lot of pain, anger and bitterness could be avoided.
Very sad and very insightful. As part of a course I once did, we all had to dress up in the normal clothes of the opposite biological sex, walk down a street and go into a restaurant for dinner. Despite rarely wearing a frock myself, I found the whole emphasis on being a bloke for a few hours altered the way I walked, talked, sat and even ate, that’s how different we are. Many in the group found it quite disturbing but it was certainly an interesting and educational experience. Which makes the current trend all the more horrific, especially when you consider Matt Walsh’s expose on what the trans ‘healthcare’ providers are doing in the States, ably analysed by JP Sears.
https://rumble.com/v2t5hlk-matt-walsh-exposes-them.html
That does sound an interesting experience, especially “interesting” for the guys wearing women’s clothes i expect, given that women have always had the convenience of being able to wear
and nobody would look twice if we walked down the street in a man’s shirt. The problem with all of this transitioning lark, both taking meds and having surgery, is that the science demonstrates it does not necessarily follow that the troubles and mental health issues of the person suffering gender dysphoria will resolve. In fact these people have worse mental health according to what I’ve read. Trying to ‘cure’ a mental health issue, or just the regular growing pains of confused teens going through puberty ( a difficult time for all anyway ) with radical, life-changing medical/surgical interventions just smacks of a total lack of ethics in the medical establishment.
Which is why when I worked with trans male to female patients, back in the 1990s, for voice therapy, the patients always had to be under the care of a psychiatrist & they only got to my clinic after living as a woman for a couple of years & only after undergoing rigorous psychiatric support, working through any psychological issues, were they started on hormone treatment & put forward for surgery.
These individuals had serious psychiatric issues which if not addressed before surgery, were still present afterwards.
How things have changed for the worse.
I’m part of an online collectors community which is almost 100% male (I’m female). I really admire the friendships between the men as they cheer each other on in their collecting endeavours. To me it is an insight into men and how nice they are to each other. Occasional spats break out but all in all these are really lovely friendships in my opinion based on shared interests and mutual respect. In fact, to me it’s a breath of fresh air compared to some female friendships that can be an endless round of performative mutual obligations.
California still demonstrating that it’s a horrible place to live. ”California dreaming”…the stuff of nostalgia that bears no resemblance to the reality on the ground nowadays. I just see the enabling of child abuse via the state, ironically.
”An updated bill in California has introduced the inclusion of “affirming” a child’s sexual transition as a requirement for parental responsibility and child welfare. This means that failing to affirm transgenderism for a child would be considered abusive according to the proposed California State Family Code.
The proposed California bill that would charge parents who do not affirm transgenderism with child abuse has ignited a contentious debate. As the bill makes its way through the legislative process, it is likely to face further scrutiny and potential modifications.”
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/breaking-california-bill-would-charge-parents-who-dont-affirm-transgenderism-with-child-abuse-mace/?utm_source=cw
In:
We find a reference to Oxfam’s TERF video:
(My emphasis added)
How has this been permitted? How are they allowed to get away with apologies when they conceal the evidence from later scrutiny? Scrubbing their conscience clean?
Not aware that anyone anywhere is apologising yet to TERFs or straights of either biological sex for their heinous and divisive ideology.
On a similar note, was in a BHF charity shop the other day when their pride message was played. It made me feel physically sick. It strongly implied that equality is for everyone except the majority of the population (straight and white) – despite the fact that the vast bulk of its donation income comes from that group. Indeed, a very upset chap was bringing in heaps of items from someone who had clearly been elderly and patriotically British. Not yet cold in their grave but already turning, I suspect.
BHF? Ah yes, Flora (Upfield) corporation.
BHF a thiroughly dishonest “charidee.’ I have made my case against this wholly disreputable organisation more than once on DS so I won’t repeat.
‘Covid disinformation unit made ‘hourly contact’ with tech firms, its leader reveals’
Article from the Telegraph republished by Meryl Nass on her Substack about the actions of the CDU to censor dissenting voices over lockdowns, etc.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-uk-censorship-unit-that-directed?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Nothing us DSers didn’t suspect already, but still shocking to see.
“A vast coalition is forming against excessive green regulations. The first party that taps into it will reap electoral rewards, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.”
Rather naive I think. There was and is a vast coalition against mass immigration, which probably had a partial influence on the Brexit vote. The Conservatives probably tapped into that and did reap electoral rewards, but then carried on doing the same thing they always have – pretending to want to reduce immigration. I expect we’ll see the same thing with “green regulations”.
Who are “the establishment” who asked you to censor things on Facebook, Mark?
Sorry, “the establishment” isn’t good enough.
This is the tyranny of bureaucracy. Power without responsibility. Nobody will be named, nobody will be held to account, and our evermore powerful bureaucracies will continue to expand their power over our lives free of the consequences of their harmful effects.
Unless names start being given and the lives of a few bureaucrats are destroyed Then next time they might think twice before using the awesome power of the bureaucratic machine against us.
My memory is hazy on this but didn’t he actually offer to help in the first place? Knowing full well that it would involve censoring non-compliant/dissident voices? Pull the other one Zuckerberg, we all know you’re just another puppet of the regime, you’re just embarrassed to have been called out about it.
“Universal basic income would put us on the road to authoritarianism”
In other words, a country full of layabouts!
Just what the future needs!
The Eloi!
It’s already a country full of layabouts !
Looks like Tobes has upset Delingpole with his Nick Dixon discussion , I’m not on twatter but James has kicked off !!
So Zuckerberg now sees the number of people, including his customers, who find his willing or enthusiastic censorship for governments to be offensive.
now he tries to be the innocent victim. It won’t wash. He should be convicted.
Rishi Sunak indicates he will change the law to protect single-sex spaces for women
Just abolish the word ‘gender’ from all discourse. Restore the correct word – ‘sex’ – and most of our problems immediately go away. Sex is immutable. Gender is a descriptive word accompanying someone’s actual sex that has been perverted since the scientific community accepted and developed an idée fixe about the fraudulent research of the child molester Prof John Money, the subjects of whose studies ended up dead at a young age. One died from a drug overdose and the boy he tried to turn into a girl killed himself. There’s no such thing as ‘identifying’ as something it’s impossible to be.
The Equality Act doesn’t need reform: it needs abolition. Let’s not forget, it also effectively abolishes the Judeo-Christian basis of our country laws.
I’m truly beginning to wonder how I didn’t know until recently, that every single thing is run by some ‘shadowy’ nefarious cabal….??
Interesting question via David Bell, Twitter…
For those who still think the World Bank is a Bank, WHO is a public health org, and neither are agents of corporate authoritarianism…
Why is World Bank so concerned about young immune minimally-vulnerable people hesitating to be injected with mRNA?
https://blogs.worldbank.org/health/vaccine-hesitancy-10-lessons-chatbotting-about-covid-19-17-countries
(…and what kind of pressure did they bring to bear on the countries with whom they have financial leverage?)
Why does the World bank have a Mind, Behavior, and Development (eMBeD) unit? Supported by the Alliance for investing in health online…
..a two minute search brings this up……The Alliance for Advancing Health Online (AAHO) is a newly forming and evolving coalition of stakeholders across the technology, health, global development, and academic sectors who are united in exploring how social media and online engagement can increase the health and resiliency of communities around the world. Currently, stakeholders involved with the AAHO include the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, the CDC Foundation, The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. The $40 million multi-year initiative, funded by Meta and Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ USA (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada)…..
A great find. Thanks ebg.
Thanks HP…..And a present for you from Twitter….
Knight Commander of the Garter James Delingpole
@JamesDelingpole
.@toadmeister
you are a mendacious little shit and you had better get your excuse ready for Monday. Snake.
Sorry ebg I’m baffled.
From Thursday’s Times:
“Bike theft ‘decriminalised’ as 98% of cases unsolved.”
So that’s how Plod get the crime figures down.