- “Should banks be able to refuse customers based on their politics?” – Two experts, with opposing views on whether commercial firms should be able to choose their clients, put their arguments forward in the Times.
- “How the Left learned to love the banks” – The Nigel Farage banking scandal has exposed the ‘progressive’ Left as the stooges of the elite, says Patrick West in Spiked.
- “Hardcore bosses can save the West” – The virtue-signalling sloganeering that dominates corporate leadership must end, according to Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Complacent, unelected bureaucrats are the ultimate enemies of economic growth” – The whole point of Brexit was to get rid of meddling Brussels officials, but we have just replaced them with faceless Whitehall ones instead, writes Liz Truss in the Telegraph.
- “Covid test sales up by a third as expert warns virus ‘still lurking’” – Sales of Covid test kits have jumped by a third as people experience more coughs, sore throats and headaches, reports the Mail.
- “How often do USC basketball players get cardiac arrests?” – On average, only one University of South Carolina basketball player has a heart attack every 100 years. So how can there be two in the last year, asks Steve Kirsch.
- “The Office for Shambolic National Statistics on Covid” – TCW has a new summary of the statistical analysis done by Norman Fenton and his team on mortality by vaccination status.
- “The true and the false vision: Towards a general theory of political stupidity” – The stupidity of the Covid response was in no way unique; a lot of what modern states do is mind-numbingly idiotic, says Eugyppius.
- “Rhodes residents say wildfires spread because they cannot cut down trees” – Rhodes residents, who cannot cut trees on their own land without a permit, have said for years that the island’s forests have been poorly maintained, which experts said added fuel to the wildfires, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour council hits diesel drivers with higher parking fees” – A Labour-run council is charging motorists extra to park polluting cars in a double blow for those about to be hit by the expansion of London’s Ulez scheme, says the Mail.
- “Why cars could hold the key to a Conservative victory” – Swerving anti-motorist measures could be a way for the Tories to win back voters angry at Ulez expansion, low traffic neighbourhoods and blanket 20mph zones, reckons Nick Gutteridge in the Telegraph.
- “The political battle for Net Zero is only just beginning” – Any party which wants to win the next election is going to have to convince the public that green policies are not going to make them poorer, argues the Spectator in a leading article.
- “Electric cars not up to the job for armed response units, police force says” – Essex Police has warned electric cars are not fast enough to respond to emergencies, reports the Mail.
- “Labour council using diesel generators to charge electric bin lorries” – Cardiff Council has been using diesel generators to charge its new electric bin lorry fleet, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ban on gas boilers in new homes may halt housebuilding” – Home building leaders have warned that a ban on gas boilers in new homes, and a switch to heat pumps, could stall housebuilding without urgent upgrades to the electricity grid, says the Telegraph.
- “Sunak strikes back against anti-car zealots” – It is right to seek to lower emissions, but not through coercion and a war on motorists, according to the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “The risks and limitations of computer models” – Models are good for homes, aeroplanes, cars and trains. Not so good for setting policy in complex systems, says Harley Smedlapp.
- “Climate hysteria is a serious threat to mankind’s survival” – Wild claims about climate change will only serve to depress and alienate. The way forward has to be rational argument and human ingenuity, argues Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Parents’ concerns over trans pool official using women’s changing room” – British Swimming has revised its changing room policy due to concerns from parents about a transgender pool official using the women’s facilities alongside young girls during a teenage swimming competition, says the Mail.
- “Police Scotland stands by as gender-critical feminist is attacked” – What happens to men who attack women in Scotland? Not very much, according to Joan Smith in UnHerd.
- “Tennyson classed as ‘queer’ despite lack of evidence he was gay” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson has been named as an LGBT historical figure, despite a lack of evidence that the poet had any homosexual relationships, says the Telegraph.
- “Gender-critical social worker ‘blacklisted’ for trans views” – Louise Chivers has been told she can’t apply for social services jobs, pending an investigation by Social Work England after her comments on trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, according to the Telegraph.
- “Now NHS staff will tell patients their preferred pronouns” – An NHS diversity training module for medics tells them to inform patients of their pronouns to create a ‘safe space’, reports the Mail.
- “Is it safe for women to trust Labour again?” – The Labour Party’s self-destructive stance on gender has been shelved but there will be no apology for the damage done to many, laments Janice Turner in the Times.
- “The culture war will be an election issue, and the Tories can’t allow the woke to win” – The Conservative Party is hamstrung by its own role in promoting an ideology that threatens the Western way of life, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The Equality and Human Rights Commission is the latest battleground in the Left’s assault on our institutions” – The EHRC has been subjected to multiple attacks by the identitarian Left, according to Andrew Tettenborn in CapX.
- “Call for The Old Bulldog pub to change name branded ‘woke overreach’” – Animal rights group Peta penned a letter to The Old Bulldog pub, asking the owner to rebrand to The Old Mutt to raise awareness of the health issues facing flat-faced dogs, says the Telegraph.
- “Who killed comedy?” – Far from needing guts, comedy is now the tamest trade in town, argues Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Leave men alone” – The woke elites might soon regret their culture war on masculinity, warns Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe gets trigger warning from publisher” – The 1939 novel, The Big Sleep, considered among the greatest works of crime fiction ever written, has been given a trigger warning by its publisher over “outdated language”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson: Barbie is a rallying cry for humans to have more babies” – Boris, writing in the Mail, expands on his takeaway from the hit movie Barbie, namely that it’s “a great Mussolini-esque rallying cry for human fecundity”.
- “Postcard from Montenegro” – Russell David pauses his much-needed break from the toxic identity politics of home to send us a postcard from Montenegro.
- “Majority of college students favour reporting professors for ‘offensive’ opinions: poll” – According to a new survey, 74% of all U.S. students believe professors should be reported for saying something they think is offensive, reports the Hill.
- “Illinois college to pay Christian arts student $80K for ‘silencing’ conservative views” – In a rare culture war victory for the Right, the New York Post reports that an Illinois college will pay a Christian arts student $80,000 after she hit them with a lawsuit, claiming they’d silenced her conservative political views.
- “Trudeau Liberals studied ways to ban federal funding of groups ‘unaccepting’ of LGBTQ” – Justin Trudeau is requiring organisations wanting to access federal funding to swear an attestation to the Liberal Party’s view on LGBTQ rights, abortion access and gender theory, reports Rebel News.
- “Hunter Biden scandal so grave even U.S. Left-wing media can’t ignore it” – Joe Biden’s rotten House Of Cards is teetering on the brink of collapse, and the web of lies around alleged corruption in the Biden family is unravelling, says Richard Littlejohn, mixing his metaphors in the Mail.
- “Meta files patent to scan users’ voices to make a ‘voiceprint’” – Social media giant Meta intends to patent a system that leverages voiceprints for user identification, says Reclaim The Net.
- “Sadiq Khan’s anti-misogyny campaign that’s based on birds” – The Headliners team at GB News react to the Times story that Sadiq Khan’s anti-misogyny “maaate” campaign is based on research about how birds communicate with each other.
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“Covid test sales up by a third as expert warns virus ‘still lurking’”
The real problem is that we still have Covid ‘experts’ lurking.
And how do we know this assertation is even true anyway? Recovering covidians, reading this, will rush out to buy test kits just in case, which will lead to further headlines about ‘shortages’ of test kits. It’s just like the run on loo rolls in March 2020.
Exactly.. I don’t believe it for one minute.. especially from the Daily Fail..
BINGO. They are apparently trying such shenanigans in the USA as well. Well, aside from a few zealots here and there, we won’t get fooled again!
“Hunter Biden scandal so grave even U.S. Left-wing media can’t ignore it”
They wont ignore it, but they will have the ‘School of Topsy-turvy Morality’ turn him into some kind of victim, and weep salty tears for the mistreatment of this poor man.
“Now NHS staff will tell patients their preferred pronouns”
Its become more important than patient care.
Electric cars not up to the job for armed response units, police force says”
But, they all seem quite boxy, so making it easier to get your rainbows to stick on down the sides.
Someone was telling me last evening that Police Scotland have purchased 250 electric cars, at enormous expense and they don’t have charging points at most police stations. Sounds feasible…
Reminds me of a chum who approached a copper with the phrase “you look like an lntelligent copper. Recite your number.”
“Climate hysteria is a serious threat to mankind’s survival”
I think thats what they were hoping to achieve. Another ‘hey, I think I’m waking up to this’ article spoiled by accepting the hysterical premise of man made warming and their latest hysterical proof, heatwaves across the Med. That’s heatwaves created by replacing the ‘3’ as the first number of the temperature with a ‘4’. By golly its hot, Missus.!
” accepting the hysterical premise of man made warming ”
This acceptance then goes on to the more mind boggling and arrogant idea that they ‘the climate experts’ know, without a shadow of a doubt’ that if we all don sackcloth and ashes and immiserate ourselves it will then all be OK. Most likely the climate will do whatever it is going to do irrespective of our sacrifices to the great god of net-zero.
I dream of a day when people can do second and third order thinking, and realise that if this is an existential emergency, how come 70% of the planet don’t care. Do the Chinese love their children less than we do..?
Good reply Neil..
“The political battle for Net Zero is only just beginning”
Sadly, I think the battle is over. There is such a head of steam behind this utter futility that it wont be stopped. The struggle continues, but as a resistance. We already lost…
“The true and the false vision: Towards a general theory of political stupidity”
Excellent series of articles, but there has to come a point where a question is asked. Why do all our stupid politicians make so many mistakes, and why do they all flow in the same direction.?
“Sunak strikes back against anti-car zealots”
A few mealy mouthed platitudes about being nicer to motorists is hardly striking back. This article still states that electric cars are the future, really? have they done the maths? By my estimate, at best and with current technology and electric supply we can only hope to replace 10 – 15% of our 30 million petrol/diesel (ICE) cars with electric. Most of those will be corporate and business use vehicles. Consequently for most if electric cars are the future, the future is no car and on the bus.
Rather ironically this article argues that the development and introduction of electric cars should be allowed to happen ‘spontaneously’, recent events suggest that the only thing spontaneous about electric cars is combustion!
Or Shank’s Pony here in East Devon until they rehouse us in camps on the disused site of Exeter airport.
On yer bike!
It won’t be disused for long, once the Home Sec gets wind of it. Plenty of hard surface for marquess etc.
Is that the beautiful Cranbrook development of which you speak?
No that’s already bespoke. We must await the outlawing of air-travel for Exeter airport to become an overflow for those purged from the re-wilded countryside.
A bare minimum “strike back” would be to abolish the Climate Change Act 2008 and to impeach Milliband, Veggie Benn, Deben, Baroness Worthington, Potato Ed Davey and more.
That would be an acceptable first step.
I’ll buy an electric car once they can guarantee the ingredients of the batteries are ethically sourced and fully recyclable without damaging the environment, and non-fossil fuel based electricity supplies can be maintained to meet demand. There, does that help, Sunak/Starmer/JSO/Guterres/Thunberg etc, etc, etc?
And even then Wyrd.. the construction of a ‘new’ car requires sources of materials and energy. A no no in my book. I’m sticking to my 1998 banger for as long as possible..
“Internal combustion vehicles”
Electric cars should have a similar name:
“Spontaneous combustion vehicles!”
But they are internal combustion – so much so that they can’t be extinguished from outside if the battery suffers thermal runaway!
Alfred Tennyson…
Not the first time. They made an entire film about lesbian Mary Anning, although her notebooks are peppered with Scriptural texts and hymns, and she left the local Anglican church for a non-conformist one because it had become doctrinally unsound.
When you realise it’s because the cultist who has no actual data has to make it up, all is explained.
Essex police and electric cars. Slight misrepresentation here, I think. The article speaks about cost and infrastructure, but the one thing electric cars seem to have is performance – my son loves to impress us with the acceleration of his Tesla, and it has a top speed of 155mph.
I agree, EVs are fast and powerful with loads of torque and hardly any lag! But same with everything, one size does not fit all!
So long as police and thieves agree to start with a full charge. Otherwise those exciting car chases will end up on foot.
“Sunak strikes back against anti-car zealots” – It is right to seek to lower emissions…..
No it isn’t.
First if all you/he/they/someone needs to come up with genuine, fact based, model free EVIDENCE that trivially higher levels of a trace gas essential to all life on Earth is anything but beneficial and likely to remain so.
Absa-bloody-lutely.. great answer..
“How often do USC basketball players get cardiac arrests?”
A young woman taking part in the Ladies World Cup has collapsed, thought fortunately not died, from something that looks very cardiac related. Nothing suspicious in young fit people having heart problems, i’m sure.
What a stupid article at the top of the list, not that I’ve read it but just based on the title. As I said the other day if anything banks should be able to refuse criminals or people who’ve demonstrated behaviour which is a danger to others. Political views are neither here nor there. Rapists, murderers, paedophiles, hate preachers, e.g Muslim extremists and people like that trans nutter who cut off his own balls in prison and wants people to punch women who want to stand up for their rights in the face, are all examples of people who should be cancelled by banks before the likes of bloody Nigel Farage FGS! However, Clown World logic dictates that the reverse must happen; nasty, aggressive pieces of work and criminals get to have bank accounts whilst anyone critical of the woke cult or colonization of their country get’s booted out. What a reflection of the state of society in 2023!
There are probably some who see Nigel Farage as a “hate preacher” whose behaviour is a danger to others.
I think it best to limit the scope to not touching money that comes from the proceeds of crime or that will be used to fund criminal activity.
and decided by a court not the bank!
Good point
Well he hasn’t been daft enough to burn a Quran yet so there is that, lol!
The Greek authorities have been aware of the problem of forest/wild fires for many years. The people they have consulted are also well aware that increased fuel load will lead to worse fires. However, forcing farmers to stop food production and abandon polluting farms is clearly more important than maintaining sensible land management.
From his own CV: In winter 1999 Dr. Xanthopoulos was asked to serve as advisor to the Minister of Public Order on forest fires related issues.
In April 2012 Dr Gavriil Xanthopoulos released a pamphlet Cypress and forest fires: a practical manual. In it we find:
Maybe look at this.. exactly the same happening as in the Californian fires, and the neat line of fire across Rhodes island more or less confirms it.. DEW’s Directed Energy Weapons..
https://twitter.com/ronin19217435/status/1685393185424465920?s=52&t=XtXXkprB00GKKJU8eRS8RA
and this below.. vital information..
https://rumble.com/v2t0typ-looking-for-clues-in-the-canadian-fires.html
Dear Liz, told you so. Brexit was mainly, an exercise to get back all those cosy senior civil service jobs back from furreinas to Brits, so that the useless offspring of the elite here can again be looked after. Anyone who didn’t understand that at the latest after the £20million penthouse purchase in NYC is it the sharpest pencil in the drawer.
You’d still have made a far better and more legit PM than Sunak.
And as a furreinas and Remainer, and despite Brexit being oversold and botched, I am now happy it took place for other reasons.
Mainly the corruption, authoritarianism and financial and economic suicide they are intent upon committing.
“Should banks be able to refuse customers based on their politics?”
NO!
A propos the ever increasing globalist controlled censoring going on, out of curiosity I read through PayPal’s current update to their privacy agreement (I know, I know, should’ve cancelled but not used & forgot). They now claim the right to collect every bit of information about you from every single digital action you make (including sexual orientation/preferences and biometric data) plus the right to make inferences ‘…that reflect your behaviour patterns and personal preferences, browsing and purchasing habits, and creditworthiness’. This is for their own ‘monitoring’ and to sell on to other – unnamed – third parties. I looked up cucumber pickle recipes this morning – what inference can they draw from that regarding my creditworthiness, do you think? No wonder Starmer wants to ban VPNs.
Forget 1984. This is a whole new level of mindf*ck totalitarianism beyond even Orwell’s worst nightmares.
Piggybacking off your comment, for those who are interested, Rob Braxman Tech on Rumble, Odysee, YY is good at explaining how to prevent being profiled online:
https://rumble.com/v2n6m2f-supercharge-your-privacy-with-these-10-tips-all-free.htm
Latest on the burning ship off the Dutch coast;
”The towing of the burning cargo ship Fremantle Highway to a site north of the Wadden Island of Schiermonnikoog has been canceled for the time being, Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) reported. According to RWS, the smoke development from the fire and the current wind direction currently make this operation impossible.
The wind is pulling over the tug during the towing operation. “Should the salvage company begin towing now, it is not without risk, and the safety and health of the crew always comes first,” RWS said. Winds will continue to come from the southwest in the coming days, so towing may not occur for several days. “Until then, the ship will remain in its current position,” RWS explained.”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/30/towing-burning-cargo-ship-canceled-time
“Until then, the ship will remain in its current position,”
or, many meters lower!
Indeed.. and I’m lead to believe those batteries will still burn underwater..
Evidence that ‘The Great Replacement’ is working in the Netherlands. I’m nowhere near Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Den Haag and I was just remarking yesterday how many more Muslims there are now in our neighbourhood. In fact, they mention it in the news here that there are more people dying than are being born so they are relying on more immigrants coming to boost the numbers, so this migration crisis we’re seeing is not going to go away any time soon, even when they report the struggles regarding conditions in asylum centres, housing crisis etc, they just keep on coming.
”People without a migrant background are increasingly becoming a minority in many Amsterdam neighborhoods and are not integrating sufficiently, according to a study reported by Trouw on Thursday.
Maurice Crul, a professor of education and diversity at the VU, along with social worker Frans Lelie, conducted interviews with over 3,000 residents without an immigrant background in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Malmö, Hamburg, and Vienna. They discovered an increasing number of people residing in ethnically diverse neighborhoods where everyone, including those without migrant backgrounds, now belongs to a minority group.
The researchers highlighted that in Amsterdam, only a third of people under the age of 15 currently have both parents born in the Netherlands. Furthermore, in 40 percent of Amsterdam’s neighborhoods, individuals without a migration background are now in the minority. The researchers highlighted that their study refers to people without a migration background as individuals whose both parents were born in the Netherlands. This means that the group surveyed also includes people with a third-generation migration background.”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/30/people-two-dutch-parents-becoming-minority-amsterdam-study
“Covid test sales up by a third as expert warns virus ‘still lurking’” – Sales of Covid test kits have jumped by a third as people experience more coughs, sore throats and headaches, reports the Mail”
This unjabbed untouchable has had one cold in years – previously a sniffle every four or five years. Had a stinker a few months after they allowed us to mix again.
Called it the LID Cold
Lockdown
Immuno-Deficient
Cold.
That was maybe 18 months back. Since then just fine…
It’s a long time since we met anyone with a recent case of Covid who had NOT been jabbed.
““Sunak strikes back against anti-car zealots” – It is right to seek to lower emissions, but not through coercion and a war on motorists, according to the Telegraph in a leading article”
Yeah, but his record on WORDS versus ACTIONS is NOT good, is it?
”“Parents’ concerns over trans pool official using women’s changing room” “
How have we got to the point where this is even up for debate?
There’s examples of the descending of society into madness everywhere now, all of it being enabled by TPTB. Would you want your kid playing in a park if you saw this person?
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1685459339006345216
I do think that for many individuals it’s April 1st every single day, lol!
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1685467711386595329
If it were still up for debate it wouldn’t be such a problem. But the Science, of course, has been settled (by ideology).