- “Sunak says emergency law will ensure legal action can’t delay Rwanda migrant flights” – Rishi Sunak has announced an ‘emergency’ law to overcome the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that his plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful, reports Reuters.
- “Rishi Sunak’s new Rwanda plan does not go far enough, say Tory rebels” – Tory rebels have warned that Rishi Sunak’s emergency law to declare Rwanda safe does not go far enough and could still be obstructed by the European Court of Human Rights, says the Telegraph.
- “Suella Braverman’s allies threaten ‘grid of sh**’ to topple Rishi” – A former minister has claimed that six more Tory MPs are joining her in submitting a letter of no confidence in Rishi Sunak amid the fallout from the Rwanda flight decision, reports the Mail.
- “The Tories’ calamitous failure to control our borders has driven them to the verge of oblivion” – Sunak’s Rwanda fightback will fail unless he explicitly rejects anachronistic international conventions, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Don’t blame ‘lefty lawyers’ for the Rwanda debacle” – Rishi Sunak promised to do “whatever it takes” to stop the boats and yet has failed to do so, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “We can’t let unelected judges dictate our border policy” – The Supreme Court’s Rwanda decision is an affront to democracy, writess Luke Gittos in Spiked.
- “Starmer suffers biggest revolt of leadership over Gaza ceasefire” – Sir Keir Starmer suffered the largest rebellion of his leadership as nearly a third of his MPs, including Jess Phillips, defied him to back a ceasefire in Gaza, reports the Times.
- “Khamenei told Hamas chief Iran will not directly enter war” – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly told Hamas that since Tehran was not given prior notice of the October 7th attacks it would not join the war against Israel, according to the Times of Israel.
- “Turkey’s President Erdogan declares Israel a terrorist state” – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said Israel is a “terror state” committing war crimes and violating international law, reports the Mail.
- “On the ground inside Gaza, where Israel is trying to save civilians from Hamas” – In the NY Post, Douglas Murray reports from the frontline in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
- “Israel ‘concrete’ evidence Hamas used Gaza hospital as terrorist base” – Israel has claimed to have found “concrete” evidence that Gaza’s biggest hospital was being used as a terrorist base after hundreds of commandos raided it, reports the Mail.
- “Senior Walsall Labour councillor quits after investigation into ‘abhorrent’ Hitler post” – A senior Labour councillor has quit the party after he was suspended for an “abhorrent” social media post comparing Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler, according to GB News.
- “The struggle for black freedom has nothing to do with Israel” – The belief that Israel is analogous to apartheid South Africa or Jim Crow America has no basis in history, says Coleman Hughes in the Free Press.
- “Orthodox Jews aren’t safe in New York” – In UnHerd, Kelsey Osgood writes that Jews are walking around the city with targets on their backs.
- “Gargling with salt water really can ward off Covid, new study suggests” – In a recent study, researchers found Covid patients who gargled water mixed with saline had up to 40% lower hospitalisation rates, says the Mail.
- “How to make Covid vaccines appear to be ‘safe for pregnancy’” – A recent study on Covid vaccine safety for women aiming to conceive seems to deliberately omit those at a higher risk of miscarriage, specifically within the vaccinated group, writes Igor Chudov on Substack.
- “Mayo Clinic is sued for suspending doctor over online posts on Covid and transgenderism” – Dr. Michael Joyner is suing the Mayo Clinic over disciplinary actions related to his public comments on gender differences in athletic performance and COVID-19 treatment, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Whatever happened to the AstraZeneca FOI?” – HART provides an update on its Freedom of Information request regarding AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
- “The return of moderniser Dave completes the Tory cycle of self-destruction” – David Cameron, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary, was the leader who first set the Conservative party on the road to ruin, writes Gerald Warner in Reaction.
- “Charities ‘debanked’: Regulators blast banks for closing accounts” – The U.K.’s three charity regulators have criticised big banks for “suddenly closing or suspending” charities’ bank accounts, according to This is Money.
- “Why are so many young people single?” – In the Spectator, John Mac Ghlionn explores the reasons why an increasing number of young Brits are single.
- “Bill Gates is buying up land, threatening farms, new book claims” – A new book claims to reveal how billionaires like Gates, Jeff Bezos, George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg plan to control every aspect of daily life, says the Mail.
- “Glasgow City Council makes almost £500,000 from LEZ” – New figures have revealed that Glasgow City Council made £478,560 from the Low Emission Zone in the four months from June to the end of September, reports the BBC.
- “Activists shut down Edinburgh Castle smashing open the case holding the Stone of Destiny” – Edinburgh Castle was partially locked down after eco-activists smashed a glass case containing the Stone of Scone, says the Independent.
- “Scholz Government in crisis after budgetary manoeuvre to fund Green climate fantasies with unused Covid funds is declared unconstitutional” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses the latest financial crisis in Germany after a court invalidated a 2021 budget redirecting pandemic funds to climate initiatives.
- “Woman’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett clashes with transgender CEO” – The transgender CEO of an endometriosis charity had to be pressed into using the word ‘woman’ in a car crash BBC interview, reports the Mail.
- “Scotland’s ‘Read Woke’ scheme will have Shakespeare turning in his grave” – The Scottish Government is treating literature as a tool for political indoctrination, says Joanna Williams in CapX.
- “Female boxer withdraws from competition after being matched against male fighter” – A female boxer withdrew from a provincial championship in Quebec after learning that her opponent was biologically male, leading to him winning the competition by default, reports Reduxx.
- “Awful scenes – pro-Palestinian protestors climbing all over the Royal Artillery Memorial” – IncMonocle on X records the desecration of a military memorial in London by the protestors who were outside Parliament earlier in the day.
— Inc.Monocle (@IncMonocle) November 15, 2023
AWFUL SCENES: Protesters climbing all over the Royal Artillery Memorial – the police make zero arrests. The level of disrespect is incredible. Look at where they climb on to at the end. I feel sad for my country. This needs to stop now. Police do nothing
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In the final stages of their grasping attempt to keep control they will make more and more blatant attacks on human liberty. At the same time the grasp will always be weaker than it was before. Like unto a Chinese finger trap where the more they try the weaker they become. The final few months will be nasty and when they leave the building there will be a nasty vacuum. It will take decades just to disentangle and rectify the evil structures that they have created
In fairness to the SC justices, the social media scum where only too happy to censor, the federal government and their agents where pushing at an open door.
I’m not sure they were to be honest, although they are large organisations now with many people, some of whom perhaps were happy to be censors.
But on the whole, companies don’t want to be regulated. Social media companies much prefer the early days when anything went and nobody bothered them about what was on their platforms.
So that the government was coercing social media companies to censor people isn’t refuted. It’s just that the harm previously or ongoing to the plaintiffs is unproven, is that it?
The law is an ass.
I think the issue is that the previous concrete harm is now over and the present and future harm is hypothetical. It’s just about plausible, though Thomas dissented and I rarely disagree with him about anything. The underlying principle is that the court isn’t there to scrutinise the executive or legislative branches, but to resolve ongoing disputes between injured and injuring parties – I think that’s a good principle, perhaps in this case not applied correctly.
It’s already important that the censorship is recognised and recognised to be probably illegal. Maybe the mistake was not to have dealt with this while the censorship was ongoing.
In better news the court ruled here that federal courts have the authority to say what the law is even if “expert” executive agencies disagree with them about what the law says. This overturns precedent whereby the court deferred to “experts”. This has potential implications for example on the leeway a body like the CDC has: 22-451 Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (06/28/2024) (supremecourt.gov)
I don’t even know why it comes a surprise that corporate and state power have become fully merged. Surely this is the obvious goal and ultimate endpoint of power centralised to the maximum. And of course it is a mathematical surety that this snowball will accelerate as it fattens. A runaway train doesn’t do it justice because a runaway train gets faster but doesn’t get bigger. We enter a time of the giant snowball where they are defeated internationally and the only option left to them is to cannibalise their own countries in an effort to extract the last drop of blood. And they will do that because they don’t just want 99 percent of your vitality they want all of it.
The similarities between this case and the Finch / Surrey Council case are remarkable but in contradictory ways.
Leggatt in the Finch case managed to extend the law, albeit in only one direction, such that he deliberately flouted the bedrock of law itself and effectively disregarded the reasonableness principle which is that determinations should be based on what would be reasonable to the common man. To infer that a decision to grant a drilling permit such that the potential outputs of the drilling should be taken in to account is proper cart before the horse stuff. Leggatt made the grotesque assumption that any oil derived from drilling would lead to CO2 emissions without even taking in to account the many ways in which crude oil is used. Furthermore, and by extension he obviously was of the opinion that CO2 is in itself bad. His opinion,which many dispute, was used to rewrite law. Perhaps he could advise his scientific credentials.
In the US the majority judges chose to shrink their viewpoint – just because Government agencies have threatened social media companies in the past does not mean they will use similar tactics in the future. And Joe Biden is really a saint sent to save the U. S. A.
Like virtually everything in the world today language is being stretched, manipulated beyond reasonableness and mangled in order to serve political purposes. Wholly symptomatic of this abuse is the now frequent appearance of the word ‘lawfare’ where the law is being routinely abused in search of malevolent ends – the above two cases being prime examples.
On a more vicious front lawfare is being used to shut down dissenting voices eg Tommy Robinson, Reinar Fuellmich, the ex Ambassador to Azerbaijan (?), Alex Bellfield, Julian Assange and certainly others I have missed.
Orwellian times indeed.
I think the Finch case is nuanced. There is not necessarily anything wrong with the notion that a licence for a new product should include understanding and accounting for the known knowns, and how or if it will leave a trail of pollution, such that you might not want it after all. The problem with the Finch case is that the judges on the one hand believe we know more than we do, and on the other have not invoked a reasonable cost benefit criteria for assessing what we do, and finally have not sought to remedy unclear regulation by sending it back to parliament and have instead made a decision themselves – which actually makes everything worse.
” “That’s a nice little social media platform you’ve got there – be a real shame if the Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation into it,” etc”
That’s not so subtle. What they are doing is bypassing the 1st Amendment onto social media platforms.
We should remember the social media platforms were very willing to do the Administration’s bidding on most things. The radical left seem to be in control in the whole of the swamp and most of the boardrooms of America.
This is outcome of this decision is best discussed by a constitutional legal expert. Do you have one daily sceptic?
Hi Freddie
The American principle of “a man of standing” i.e. someone who is actually inured and so there is a case to answer (which is a principle which may of course apply elsewhere), is a key reason why the American constitution did not save its people from the overreach of covid, and also will not do so over net zero issues – when in principle it should. It can only fight a rear guard action when of course it’s too late and people have been injured.
The principle skews the basis of law making in favour of the meddling progressives.
Surely any new law or action is not required to have a single man of standing. Instead new laws are based on cost benefit analysis based on your average man in the street – not some literal man of standing.
So where the defence of a constitution is concerned the same principle should apply. If the Government or someone were to do such and such it would likely undermine people’s constitutional rights.
Until we get ‘constitutional court systems’ which can actively defend constitutions based on principle rather than waiting for someone to be injured and then them being able to afford to stand up to a government in court, injustice will continue to reign.