- “What does it take to get you cancelled at the Edinburgh Fringe?” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill gives his take on Father Ted creator Graham Linehan’s Edinburgh Fringe show being cancelled.
- “Graham Linehan and the Fringe’s new puritanism” – No good will come from Graham Lineham’s cancellation at the Edinburgh Fringe, writes Euan McColm in the Spectator.
- “How the King of Comedy became an untouchable” – The Mail breaks down how Graham Lineham went from hero to zero after his views on gender made him public enemy number one for trans activists.
- “Graham Linehan and the idiocy of the cancellers” – In cancelling Graham Lineham, the comedy police have just proven their critics right, argues Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “U.K. banks shun companies trading with Ukraine” – Business chiefs warn that British companies are “afraid to trade with Ukraine” due to the threat of account closure from risk-averse banks, reports Politico.
- “Big Short trader Michael Burry bets $1.6 billion on stock market crash” – Michael Burry, the man who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, is gambling on a new slump by the end of the year, according to the Times.
- “Fury of the silent majority is driving a global Right-wing counter-revolution” – Across the Western world, anger at a woke ruling elite is benefiting the Right –except in Britain, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “The Vax-Gene Files: Have the regulators approved a trojan horse?” – The alarming discovery of DNA contamination in vials of Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines raises serious questions, say the Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Julie Sladden and Julian Gillespie.
- “The British public challenge ceding of sovereignty to World Health Organisation” – A U.K. Parliamentary hearing has taken place in response to a petition urging the Government to refrain from signing any WHO Pandemic Treaty, says PANDA.
- “Drivers’ red ribbon protest in Wales against 20mph speed limit” – Motorists in Wales have been tying red ribbons to their cars to protest against plans to cut the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph, reports the Times.
- “The real cause of the Maui wildfire disaster” – The Maui wildfire was not the result of climate change, Hurricane Dora or an extended drought, says Professor Cliff Mass in WUWT.
- “NATO aide suggests Ukraine surrender land to secure membership” – Ukraine has angrily rejected the suggestion by a NATO official that it should surrender land to Russia in exchange for an invitation to join the Western military alliance, reports the Times.
- “It’s time to abolish the university” – Let’s stop pretending academic study is worthwhile, writes Terry Eagleton in UnHerd.
- “Sunak must hit pause on Online Safety Bill” – The Online Safety Bill is the product of too many ministers and not enough thought, says Iain Martin in the Times.
- “An intellectually cowardly idea is spreading from Left to Right” – A desire to push awkward voices out of the public square is now springing up on the Right, reports Anne McElvoy in the Evening Standard.
- “How pornography forged the trans movement” – Womanhood has been turned into a fetishised commodity, laments Genevieve Gluck in Spiked.
- “How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?” – In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future, says Richard Dawkins in the Evening Standard.
- “Oliver Anthony and the snobbery of American conservatives” – If metropolitan journalists dislike a country record, then, to conservatives, it’s a heartlands masterpiece, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “The ‘free speech Twitter’ PSYOP” – Twitter (or X) is not the free speech platform everyone thinks it is, warns C.J. Hopkins in OffGuardian.
- “‘A 71 year-old man is accused of inappropriately touching a 12 year-old girl…’” – Watch the moment an unfortunate error during a newscast implies that President Joe Biden “inappropriately touched a 12 year-old girl”. Put the sound on.
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“The Big Short” was an excellent movie – anything with Christian Bale is worth a look – although the central role of the Federal government (Barney Fwank et al) in creating the housing crisis was passed over without the slightest reference.
Michael Burry has been wrong far more often and costly than right since then.
A bit like Odey.
He wasn’t a fan of lockdowns
Where’s the outrage?
How come the DS doesn’t cover Julian Assange?
It seems to me that his persecution is the single most important event in journalism in the last 10 years. In fact, could it be the reason that mainstream journalists have become enthusiastic cheerleaders of the establishment and have ceased to question authority properly?
Assange definitely showed what the establishment will do to you if you embarrass it really badly.
I’m with you 100%….He has now spent his fifth birthday (in July) in Bellmarsh..it’s an absolute travesty….and an egregious stain on reputation of the United Kingdom…..
Every single MSM platform should do the Convid thing and have his days imprisonment in the top corner ticking down, and they should have regular updates about him..the fact they say and do nothing speaks volumes….and every time they talk about the plight of journalists throughout the world, they sounds insincere, stupid and hypocritical….
A couple of days ago Steve Bell did a cartoon for the Guardian..you can see it before it goes to a paywall here…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/aug/14/steve-bell-reports-julian-assange-offered-plea-deal-cartoon?CMP=fb_cif
Assange Plea Bargain: For What Crime Exactly?…”
Caitlin Johnson hit the nail on the head for me…
“It really is nuts that there’s talk of Assange being offered a “plea bargain” for rightly exposing US war crimes. What’s he meant to plead guilty to? Good journalism?”
FREE ASSANGE NOW!
Caitlin’s article..
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/an-assange-plea-deal-for-what-crime
Hear, hear, Stewart! Assange continues to languish in a high security prison despite never being formally charged. Five years now! His extradition case lingers on in vain hope of reprieve and every day is a step closer to being bundled into plane and across the oceans to rot in a maximum security hellhole that could only ever designed and devised by the cruellest minds. The fact that so few journalists want to talk about Julian Assange shows how utterly spineless they are and how corrupt their editors are. This is about freedom of speech and they are in the free speech business, the opinion business, but of course they are not. The Overton window only allows so much lateral movement after all. It’s sort of obvious that orders come from above never to touch this story but to try and pretend it doesn’t matter. Just how an ambitious journalist can live with this set of conditions placed upon them is probably explained by the fact that they have debts, mortgages, bills, families and children and it’s so easy to have your life destroyed just as Julian Assange’s life was destroyed. He is the cautionary tale of journalism, the dark woods you should never venture into because there are monsters in there and they are real.
On the news in NL:
Plans to create a pipeline to pump CO2 under the seabed are to go ahead. The pipeline will run from the Rotterdam harbour (apparently responsible for 1.5 % of Dutch CO2 emissions) to the North Sea bed.
What could possibly go wrong?
Interview with Gambian asylum seeker…’I will go on holiday to Gambia as soon as I can’…
The CO2 carbon capture industry seems like the perfect scam, how will anybody ever know if you actually ever captured or stored anything? Whether it works or not? it will make no difference to ourselves or our lives, we will just all be poorer paying for a pointless industry to do nothing of any consequence. Nice work if you can get it.
Yes, just a few important looking pipes and some bubbling water and ‘hey presto!’ you could even get a government grant and become rich beyond your wildest dreams…just like every other self-serving government contractor!
The people behind bottled fresh air businesses will be sensing an opportunity: –
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2021/mar/01/take-a-deep-breath-how-cornish-air-sells-for-60-a-bottle-even-if-its-from-devon
‘The great replacement’ appears to be going great guns and has already succeeded in some European cities, and there are data to demonstrate this is so;
”The fear of the peoples of Europe in the face of mass immigration is constantly described as “xenophobia”. This is the fear that the camarillas in charge can denounce as “racism”, raising the specter of a democratic apocalypse, while the accepted “narrative” evokes an inclusive majority and an excluded minority which, thanks to hyper-tolerance policies, will benefit from it.
But only the blind can deny the ongoing disintegration which validates the sociological thesis of the disappearance of the majority and the birth of a cottage cheese society.
“Buying vegetables from the Moroccans, meat from the Turks and olives from the Greeks is nice, but that’s not enough. If we really want to live together, even people without a migration background will have to do their best. Now they are the minority in many cities”. Such are the findings in a study by Professor Maurice Crul (VU University Amsterdam). He examined six major cities in five countries: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Malmö, Hamburg, Vienna and Antwerp.
“The selection is not random”. This is where native Europeans are no longer the majority.
In three out of four provinces in Spain there are more arrivals of migrants than births. Most of the new Spanish population now comes from abroad. In 2037, one in four Spanish residents will be born abroad. Already today, 8 percent of all those born in Spain are Moroccans. And the total number of Muslims in Spain has increased tenfold in thirty years.
And in Italy? We’re getting there. 100,000 migrants have landed since the beginning of the year alone, an average of 450 foreigners a day and an increase of 135 percent compared to the same period in 2022.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375483
If anyone wishes to nerd-out here is the 2021 paper Professor Crul et al wrote on which he subsequently wrote a book ( ‘The New Minority ) this year, but I can only find it in Dutch so here’s the study;
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2021.1906925
Not great news from NZ;
”There were 38,442 deaths among all ages for July 2022-June 2023 compared to 33,753 deaths in the 2018/19 comparable period. This is an increase of 4,689 deaths (up 14%) which occurred at a rate of 90 excess deaths per week.
Working age people were also affected. Deaths among 15 to 64 year olds were up by 6%. Figures released by the Household Labour Force Survey reports rates of disability sufficient to preclude joining the workforce among this age group has increased by 37.5% over the same period and now stands at 14.3% of the workforce. That is huge. Why?
Alarmingly, natural live birth increase (births minus deaths) fell from 26,500 in 2018/19 to 19,185 in 2022/23 a decrease of 7,400 or 28%. This is an absolutely unprecedented drop. Nothing even remotely like this has been recorded previously.
Covid deaths over this whole period reported by Our World in Data appear insufficient to explain the increase in deaths. Nor is an ageing population sufficient explanation for the figures that is a long term gradual trend, this is a sudden rise.”
https://hatchardreport.com/deaths-are-up-natural-births-are-down-and-disability-is-up/
Jinx!…..was just putting this on from Australia….very similar….
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/all-cause-mortality-started-trending
All-cause mortality started trending upwards with vax rollout, not Covid, report finds
Prior to the pandemic, Australians were living longer, with death rates amongst older Australians trending downwards. But in 2021, that trendline upturned, and Australia started chalking up excess mortality at rates not seen since WWII.
The numbers are truly frightening….
You’re right, gums, it is frightening. It’s all in line with what Ed Dowd is reporting from the US data but also the UK data, whereby he demonstrated significant increases in disability in working age people. All of this correlating data from various countries…
Well this may not go far..even Buckhault’s classes himself as a ‘nobody’….…but if you have been following Kevin McKernan’s discovery of the fact that the vaccines are contaminated with Plasmid DNA..you’ll know that Buckhault’s has repeated Kevin’s experiments and confirmed them…
Just putting that up so you will understand the context of the tweet…and I really believe every little thing helps..especially if it’s based on a purely scientific basis?
Phillip J. Buckhaults, Ph.D.
@P_J_Buckhaults
An open appeal to health care workers around the world. The Pfizer vaccine is contaminated with plasmid DNA. I want to test tissue and blood samples from people recently vaccinated and see if there is any evidence of this DNA integrating into host genomic DNA. PM me if you would like to help. Thanks. -Dr B.
https://twitter.com/P_J_Buckhaults
“The real cause of the Maui wildfire disaster”
So a strong wind blows down a mountain side and a town below bursts into flames?!
Also stated are strong winds that snap off power poles and rip rooves of! Compare the ariel photos of the Maui fires/hurricane winds to real hurricane damage , the roads are blocked by debris within seconds, why are all the roads in the town perfectly unaffected by debris? Was there a wind or wasn’t there? swimming pools clear of debris, tarmac unaffected by searing heat, buildings raised to the ground while trees around them still have their leaves! I didn’t see and power poles down in the pictures and not a one of them laying across a road!
I think it seems to be arsonist season in various countries; Canada, Greece, Maui ( Jeff Bezos’ place is apparently untouched, as is Oprah’s, so that’s OK then ) and now Tenerife. What happened in Maui though is extreme and especially bad due to the loss of lives, including many kids, and also still so many unanswered questions. Like why did their warning system not go off, why did they have no water and where were the fire brigade? And apparently the vulture estate agents are already offering residents money for their properties.
”A wildfire that ignited within a mountainous national park on the Spanish island of Tenerife on Wednesday has rapidly expanded, officials said.
Hundreds firefighters are trying to bring the major blaze under control on the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands.”
https://www.dw.com/en/wildfire-on-spains-tenerife-burning-out-of-control/a-66555063
Arsonists season is a very real explanation.
Best way to check wether it’s a natural fire or not: if it’s naturally caused look for a reported volcanic event, a lightning storm or on the infinitesimally small chance of a meteor impact!
Non of those? = Human causes !
Agreed, Dings. But I’m a bit ignorant on the whole subject of wildfires. We’ve obviously always had countries which are prone to them due to having longer spells of hot, dry weather, creating a dry tinder environment, so what would cause a naturally-started wildfire without any human involvement whatsoever, aside from your above examples? I don’t know what the score is in Tenerife and were the fires in Greece established arson? The problem is when it’s a huge area, like the case with the Canadian fires, or somewhere out in the sticks, even if arson was suspected how on earth would you even ever catch the culprits? Apparently Maui has previous form for arsonists starting fires, according to Ed Dowd.
Another reminder, if one were needed, of the immensity of the ‘scam’..it’s enough to make your head explode..and frankly I’m not sure what I am now, as I’m beyond ‘incandescent with rage’….
https://brokentruth.com/nihgate/
Does the NIH have a process in place to ‘take down’ studies, papers, or people that go against the NIH’s financial interests? Is a member of the NIH who works on a US Army Base colluding with researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
Apparently, yes. Read on to find out what we’ve uncovered so far in our developing NIHgate series.
WHY aren’t people going to jail?
More on the horrific sexual assault in France. It appears that the monster that did this was known to the authorities and had previous form, including the sexual assault of his little sister. FFS though! And they let this dangerous psychopath roam free to strike again at will?!! Can we expect some rioting any time soon do you think??
”The 18-year-old suspect in custody for the barbaric rape of a 29-year-old woman in the French port city of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin already had a rap sheet consisting of 17 offenses involving violence, theft, and the incestuous sexual assault of his younger sister.
Oumar Ndiaye was arrested by French authorities on Aug. 10 for an attack that has rocked the nation and prompted several interventions from high-ranking politicians.
Dubbed “the monster of Cherbourg” by French conservative activist Damien Rieu, Nidaye allegedly broke into his victim’s home before subjecting the young woman to multiple counts of rape, which included the use of a 29-inch broomstick to penetrate her and inflict life-threatening injuries.
Several high-profile politicians across France have expressed their anger over the attack with conservative lawmakers warning that such crime is on the rise in the country.
“Courage to the 29-year-old victim, the umpteenth life shattered by the barbarism that is gaining in France,” tweeted Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally.
“I dream of a France where a young woman is not in danger of ending up in a coma after being robbed, raped and horribly tortured by Oumar, a repeat offender, in her own home,” added former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour.”
https://rmx.news/crime/teen-suspect-for-barbaric-rape-of-french-woman-with-broomstick-was-already-being-investigated-for-sexually-assaulting-his-minor-sister/
“It’s time to abolish the university”
A pretty poor attempt at satire by Eagleton IMHO (who unfortunately was required reading on my last uni course). The comments section (especially the first ‘by Pil Grim’) is far better.
As a related aside, two independent organisations I’ve done short courses with recently have both been thrown off their platforms with no notice and had to scramble to relocate. It seems that any attempt to break from the stranglehold of The Narrative™ is in the firing line.
The problem of the “university” is not new:
What’s a’ your jargon o’ your schools-
Your Latin names for horns an’ stools?
If honest Nature made you fools,
What sairs your grammars?
Ye’d better ta’en up spades and shools,
Or knappin-hammers.
A set o’ dull, conceited hashes
Confuse their brains in college classes!
They gang in stirks, and come out asses,
Plain truth to speak;
An’ syne they think to climb Parnassus
By dint o’ Greek!
– Robert Burns (1785)
Yea Gods I thought he was long gone!! I remember doing a ‘Marxist reading of Frankenstein’….LOL! There’s a few hours I’ll never get back!!
Although this was way back at Sheffield University..the home of Labour/Socialism…so he was considered to have deity status!! LOL!
You too eh?! I had to wade through The Idea of Culture – what a joy. Not. He did a good take-down of Richard Dawkins though. (According to Wiki he’s still at it at U Lancaster at the age of 80. Don’t these people ever let go??!!)
Births in 2022 in England and Wales ONS publication just out
https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/birthsinenglandandwales2022
There were 605,479 live births in England and Wales in 2022, a 3.1% decrease from 624,828 in 2021 and the lowest number since 2002
Don’t have time to look at it properly, but I’m posting up so others can see.
This is the ONS chart showing live births, note this doesn’t adjust for female population size in childbearing ages
Thanks for taking the time to post these…I just don’t know what to make of it all…
I do know that right back at the beginning of this crap shoot I was looking at the 6 monthly Pfizer Vaccine Updates as they released them….and they never once said anything other than they didn’t have enough data for pregnant and lactating women…..
I have never known how that translated so quickly into ‘all pregnant women need to be jabbed’….?
Where did the people who decided to jab get their data if it wasn’t from the vaccine manufacturer?…….and who made those decisions…and why? Seems like someone should answer it doesn’t it?
It would be ironic if court action resulted in the staff of the Leith Arches living under the arches in Leith.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/08/16/isis-are-back-and-theyre-faker-than-ever/
Kit Knightly with another excellent take-down of the return of ISIS.
Desperation.
Paul Weston´s latest talk today on YouTube spells it all out – in his inimitable fashion.
I gather he´s been debanked and fled England. Where to?