- “Elon Musk pledges to fund legal bills of X users ‘unfairly treated’ by employers for their posts” – Elon Musk has offered to cover the legal costs of those treated unfairly by employers over posts on his platform, reports the Evening Standard.
- “Red Wall voters want legal right to pay in cash” – According to polling, Red Wall voters overwhelmingly believe that they should have a legal right to pay with cash in shops, reports the Telegraph.
- “Carol Vorderman and woke banks prove Brexit was just start of fight to save Britain” – From Carol Vorderman’s tweets to NatWest trying to cancel Nigel Farage’s bank account, the last month has proved that Brexit was just the beginning, writes David Maddox in the Express.
- “Employment levels still lower than before pandemic, analysis suggests” – Figures reveal worklessness is higher than before the pandemic in nine out of 12 U.K. regions and nations, according to the Express & Star.
- “Kids almost never transmitted Covid in schools, a major new study shows” – A study of 18,000 American school children found just 44 potential cases of in-school transmission, including no infections of staff members, says Alex Berenson.
- “Myocarditis caused by COVID-19 vaccine spike protein is not detected by typical cardiac tests” – Megan Redshaw in the Epoch Times investigates the alarming story of Joseph Keating, 26, who died from severe heart damage caused by myocarditis just days after his Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster.
- “The forgotten victims of Covid lockdowns” – The Class of COVID-19 suffered cancelled A-level examinations and are now being issued with blank degree certificates. They deserve better, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Just Stop Oil demands ‘contemptible’, says Starmer” – Keir Starmer has said Labour would keep the 100 new drilling licences Rishi Sunak plans to grant, and described Just Stop Oil’s demands as “contemptible”, says the Mail.
- “End costly pursuit of these arbitrary Net Zero deadlines says, Sir Iain Duncan Smith” – Poll after poll tells us the majority of people are tired of being hit with extra charges in the pursuit of arbitrary Net Zero deadlines, says Sir Ian Duncan Smith in the Express.
- “No, Sadiq Khan’s Ulez is not going to ‘save lives’” – It is just not true that air pollution in London is leading to thousands of premature deaths, says Linda Payne in Spiked.
- “Eco-warriors glue themselves to road to disrupt elite cycling race” – The group that sprayed the Scottish Parliament building red has claimed responsibility for disrupting the Cycling World Championships by gluing themselves to the road, reports the Mail.
- “Farage accuses SNP of ‘hypocrisy’ over 16 million trees felled for wind” – Nigel Farage took to social media to condemn the SNP for cutting down millions of trees to make way for wind turbines, reports the Express.
- “The U.K.’s Net Zero zealotry is harming the world’s poor” – Much of our foreign aid is being used to stop the developing world industrialising, says Tom Ryan in Spiked.
- “Environmentalism: where democracy goes to die” – Britons have never been given a proper say over our draconian, punishing climate laws, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “U.K. security must not be sacrificed to Net Zero” – A new free trade philosophy is needed that mitigates the risks of those, like China, who exploit the trade rules while corrupting the system, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Appetite for distraction: The Government needs to be honest about Net Zero or people are going to hit the roof” – The transition to Net Zero is going to involve enormous upheaval and the public should be given a more realistic estimate of the costs, writes John Ashmore in CapX.
- “Mothers of ‘vulnerable’ teenage daughters take the NHS to court” – Two mothers of ‘vulnerable’ teenage daughters are taking the NHS to court, claiming their girls are being fast-tracked into “irreversible” gender reassignment, reports the Mail.
- “Hospital cancelled my surgery after I complained about transgender nurse” – A woman whose surgery was cancelled because she asked for the nurses providing intimate care to be the same sex as her says she could have been killed by the delay, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak’s war on wokery is both morally right and electorally popular” – The culture war is no ‘concoction’; it’s a real danger to society and should be fought with all the Prime Minister’s power, writes Nigel Biggar in the Telegraph.
- “The BBC deserves its declining audience figures” – Gareth Roberts in the Spectator writes about the BBC’s long, agonising death.
- “Fury as Porsche ‘airbrushes out’ statue of Jesus in 911 promo advert” – Porsche has come under fire for ‘airbrushing’ the famous statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro in a video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the 911 sports car, reports the Mail.
- “New Atheists allowed the trans cult to begin. Christianity can now end it” – By discrediting religion, Richard Dawkins and his acolytes created a void that the woke religion filled, argues Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk: The New York Times actually has the nerve to support calls for genocide!” – According to John Eligon of the New York Times, the chanting of the South African song Kill the Boer at a political rally in Johannesburg should not be taken as a literal call for violence. Elon Musk, a white South African, disagrees.
- “James Bond’s job safe as GCHQ scientist says AI can only do ‘extremely junior’ spying” – GCHQ finds chatbots such as ChatGPT are not good enough to be intelligence analysts, says the Telegraph.
- “Why I used to suck, and (hopefully) no longer do” – Richard Hanania addresses the recent hit job carried out on him by the Huffington Post.
- “‘Potentially this is game-changing news!’” – Toby joins Andrew Doyle on GB News’s Free Speech Nation to discuss Elon Musk’s suggestion that X (formerly Twitter) will fund the legal bills for any user who has been treated unfairly by employers due to their posts or likes on the platform.
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“Let’s hear it for ambition and ruthlessness in politics and for their latest alpha exponent – Robert Jenrick”
What a pity that the Tories were so busy delivering manifesto promises while in office, that they didn’t have time to do this too.
What we have lost
We have gained a great deal more than we have lost
And the losing is, in my view, simply part of the inexorable, inevitable march of human history.
That so many wish to come to this country is a clear demonstration that what we have is still well worth having.
The more things change etc etc
Britain in the fifties, the seventies, was dire. The thirties must have been dire, and the nineteenth century, for the vast majority, does not even bear thinking about.
We are in the doldrums again, it is true. But, thanks to technology, we can see this now with greater clarity.
That does not make things worse.
It makes it a great deal easier to do something about it.
Simply read, for example, the IEA paper ‘Universal Healthcare without the NHS’.
One of the country’s major problems addressed head on; a clear exposition as to how to solve it.
We know what the massive elephant etc is: a bloated and over-mighty public sector.
There is very little wrong with this country that cannot be righted by the simple expedient of downsizing the state.
We know what to do. We have done it before. It works.
Unless we deal with the elephant in the room all other reforms will fail.
Elephants, multiple…
Just completely ludicrous. Presumably this is all a ploy and his wife is in on this. Funny how he only ‘came out’ after his first claim was rejected. Europe is so doomed as long as we have imbeciles like these officials in charge of who is allowed in.
So does this mean the floodgates open for men with families to suddenly claim they’re gay in order to get asylum?
”The case of a father-of-five Muslim who has been granted asylum in Austria, claiming persecution in his home country due to his homosexuality, has stirred significant public debate in the country with political figures expressing outrage over the ruling.
The Russian-Tajik dual citizen entered Austria illegally via Turkey and Saudi Arabia on Sept. 22, 2023, seeking asylum for himself and his family, news outlet Heute reports.
Initially, he cited better job prospects and fear of Russian military service as his reasons for fleeing. His first asylum application was rejected in April 2023. However, during an appeal at the Federal Administrative Court in Vienna, the man introduced a new claim that he faced discrimination, stigmatization, and violence in both Russia and Tajikistan due to his newfound homosexuality.
Despite being a devout Muslim and having recently completed a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, the man stated during the court hearing that he is homosexual and sought refuge in Austria to live openly and meet men without fear.
The court ruled in his favor, noting that his marriage and fatherhood did not contradict his sexual orientation. The man’s previous work in his home country as a butcher, car painter, and construction worker, and his ongoing communication with his wife and children in Turkey via WhatsApp, were also considered in the case.
The asylum decision allows the man to remain in Austria, and he is now eligible to bring his immediate family to join him through the family reunification process.
The individual in this case is not alone in using the protected characteristic of sexual orientation to overturn rejected asylum claims across Europe.
In November last year, a Nigerian man who was granted asylum in Britain after telling authorities he faced persecution by the Boko Haram terrorist organization for being gay went on to father three children and marry a woman in the U.K. He was subsequently found guilty of masterminding a €252,000 Facebook and eBay parcel fraud scam.”
https://rmx.news/article/gay-father-of-five-granted-asylum-in-austria-sparking-heated-political-debate/
The naivety of people who’s only interest is ‘being kind’
He could have sought asylum in Saudi Arabia.
This is a misquote – I heard her describing their actions as “prison-type bad” which is subtly different.
Now everyone can see Iran is the aggressor
But there will still be a few on here that ‘cannot’, in fact will not, for reasons they choose not to divulge.
That also applies to Putin’s barbaric and criminal invasion of Ukraine.
This is why some choose not to acknowledge what is staring them in the face:
‘Russian opposition outlet Astra reported on September 30 that the 2025-2027 (Russian) draft budget allocates 4.5 billion rubles ($47 million) and 49 million rubles ($511,000) in state funding towards the Solovyov Live Telegram channel and Readovka online news aggregator, respectively.
A 2023 joint investigation by Russian opposition outlets Meduza and The Bell found that Readovka posed itself as a semi-opposition outlet prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but then actively started voicing pro-Kremlin views and working with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) after March 2022.
The joint investigation noted that Readovka founder Alexei Kostylev “always wanted to be in the center,” suggesting that the Kremlin viewed Kostylev’s personal ambitions and affiliations as exploitable factors and co-opted Readovka to further the Kremlin rhetorical line following the full-scale invasion.
Solovyov Live is a Telegram channel run by Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov and has been a major platform through which the Kremlin has sustained its information narratives and dispelled the information space’s criticism since the start of the war.
Solovyov has been using the Solovyov Live Telegram channel to amplify his other online initiatives, such as podcasts, and most recently used the platform to defend the commander of a Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) unit who disbanded a specialized drone unit and sent specialized drone operators to their deaths while conducting an infantry assault.
Both Readovka and Solovyov Live have a decidedly pro-Kremlin bent, and the Kremlin’s sponsorship of these online platforms and initiatives suggests that the Kremlin is increasingly adapting its state-run propaganda machine, which previously focused on traditional TV and print media, to emerging social media platforms.’
Follow the money…..
‘The trolls with Western education may be considered the highest caste of Iranian trolls. American Universities’ alumni are fluent in English and constitute the elite of Iranian Government-backed trolls. They are small in number, but are far beyond their Russian counterparts in terms of quality. Almost 80 percent of these trolls are English-speaking.
They are used for “pinpoint attacks” on particular persons, foreign or Iranian dissidents and activists outside Iran. Comments they post are usually voluminous, distinguished by correct punctuation, competent questions, which attests to proficiency in English and in a subject matter.
Sometimes, an Iranian troll from the highest caste is on the payroll in a prestigious State institution, and acts as an expert in the Western mass media. At the same moment, media outlets, which publish these trolls, do not even know that their “Iranian expert” moonlights as a “pro-government troll” in his country.
There are also trolls among Iranian students studying abroad and secular in appearance Iranians, who have been residing in the West for a long time. The majority of these trolls “work for free”.
That is why they are not the subject of my study.
Creation of fake “persons” is a separate topic. It is widespread in Iran. These fake accounts are, usually, created in social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin. Fake accounts are mainly used for espionage and trolling.
Iranian activists in a conversation with me mentioned a few times that since the beginning of 2017 the Iranian Government’s need for Arabic-speaking trolls has increased dramatically.
I think Iran needs them to use in Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen and Lebanon, as well as in the Syrian issue and mainly against Saudi Arabia, and also to strengthen Iran’s authority among internet-audience of these countries.
The number of Iranian pro-Government trolls is an important issue.
Putting aside voluntary trolls working for free, we may narrow it down. Iranian activists said there may be about 4-5 thousand government-affiliated trolls.
In their opinion, this number can include trolls from various categories, including those who work in State institutions.’
Ali Hajizade, Al Arabiya
Typical condescending government mouthpiece RTE telling you how to keep warm in the winter FFS!
https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/living/2024/1001/1472978-ways-to-keep-warm-at-home-without-cranking-up-the-central-heating/
With gems like “wear slippers” and “clothing”
Re VAT on university fees.
I cannot see any reason to exempt them if schools are to be subject to VAT. It seems books will have to be VATable too as otherwise the use of VAT free books in a Library would be at odds with paying VAT for tuition by their authors.
On extracurricular activities the DT says these are not exempt. Private schools will need to pay VAT on any additional education. I am not sure why state schools would not have to charge VAT on these additional non-educational services and perhaps they always should have done.
Of interest, I reviewed the accounts of a local school’s PTA a few years ago. I learned the PTA, which is s aseparate legal entity from the school, was buying larger VATable items through the school’s suppliers and the school recovered the VAT before selling the item, VAT-free, to the PTA. My management letter naturally referred to possible breaches of the VAT regulations. Similarly with entertaining costs in excess of HMRC rules as the officers of the PTA could be held to be quasi-workers and subject to the PYE regulations.
I wonder if anyone at HMRC/HMT has thought all this through.
Excellent work.
Welcome to the Daily Zionist Parrotting..
Full of debating “Sceptics”…
Do you want the total dismantling and destruction of the state of Israel?
Typical polarisation of the debate, absolutely typical on here, lacking any nuance..
Answer.. No (obviously)
Do I want to see Israeli illegal settlements, Israeli lobbying in parliament, the MIC controlling government policies, politicians around the world having conflicting interests (ie shares) in the MIC, the corrupt politicians taking back handers from Israeli lobby and the slaughtering of innocent civilians to stop.
Answer.. Yes (obviously)
Noticed how nuanced it is….
Oh forgot one… Do I want people to stop parrotting the Zionist narrative, as if what ever they say is the truth..
… I think you might know the answer to that
You aren’t paying attention.
Joker
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13913385/Kemi-Badenoch-Whitehall-civil-servants-bad-prison.html
Unfortunately this confirms how woefully out of touch Ms Baddenoch is. There are perhaps 10% of civil servants truly worth their money. Sixty percent are taking money under false pretences, twenty percent are wholly unemployable anywhere and the rest belong in prison.