- “Sir Patrick Vallance’s contempt for Boris Johnson is clear – but what mistakes did others make?” – Baroness Hallett’s decision to reveal only parts of Sir Patrick Vallance’s pandemic diaries makes them a partial account only, remarks Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sir Patrick Vallance’s full pandemic diary to be kept secret” – The complete pandemic diary of Sir Patrick Vallance is set to remain confidential, as his lawyers say publishing the journal in full would breach his human rights, reports GB News.
- “The pro-lockdown fanatics can’t be allowed to rewrite Covid history” – The Covid inquiry seems to be proceeding with on the assumption that policymakers did not impose nearly enough restrictions, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “The Covid Inquiry is ignoring the one number that would blow lockdown out of the water” – This sham Covid Inquiry is achieving nothing apart from protecting reputations and lining lawyers pockets, writes Prof. Karol Sikora in the Telegraph.
- “How lockdowns broke Britain” – The Centre for Social Justice’s Andy Cook joins Freddie Sayers in the UnHerd studio to talk about the impacts of lockdown on mental health, economic activity, drug abuse and crime.
- “The Covid totalitarians’ state of origin” – On Substack, Paul Collits delivers a scathing critique of Australia’s political class and its mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- “Nudgers, nudgers everywhere – the ubiquity of behavioural science” – State-embedded behavioural scientists quietly manipulate public opinion towards globalist ideals, sidelining rational debate, argues Dr. Gary Sidley.
- “How the guardians of German democracy aim to protect our democratic constitution by punishing those who argue that the pandemic response was anti-democratic” – What modern liberal democratic systems and their increasingly insular elites have lost all sight of is any pretence of simple, pragmatic government for the benefit of their native populations, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “An abortive Christmas quiz” – Dr. Tom Jefferson has put together a festive quiz on the subject of… the construction of hospitals.
- “The staggering naivety of the Israelophobes” – Western outrage over the IDF’s rounding up of Hamas suspects is ridiculous, luxuriant moralism, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The great Jewish realignment of 2023” – On Substack, Richard Hanania explains why the next generation of American elites will be more Right-wing.
- “Plan to reduce net migration by 300k is ‘by no means certain’ to work” – The U.K. Migration Advisory Committee says that factors influencing the U.K.’s net migration, which currently stands at 745,000 per year, are hard to control, reports the Mail.
- “Migrant films himself hiding in lorries and travelling on a dinghy” – The Mail profiles the story of an illegal Tunisian migrant to the Britain who has not received permission to stay but has been allowed to work.
- “Europe’s turning right. Here’s why” – What’s unfolding across Europe is the start of another major populist rebellion, writes Matt Goodwin on Substack.
- “Mark Drakeford quits as First Minister of Wales” – The Welsh First Minister has announced his exit after seeing his popularity crash amid NHS woes and the 20mph row, says the Mail.
- “The decline of Wales under Mark Drakeford in five graphs” – The Telegraph has empirical evidence of the public services in Wales that have got worse under Mr. Drakeford’s tenure.
- “Good riddance to Mark Drakeford” – In Spiked, Austin Williams says no one should miss the outgoing Welsh First Minister.
- “Kemi Badenoch’s velvet façade slips and her steely core emerges” – The Telegraph’s Madeline Grant was impressed by Kemi Badenoch’s performance yesterday in front of a House of Commons committee.
- “Tory MP defends homeless man from attackers” – Former SAS reservist David Davis stepped in to stop two men attacking a homeless man near Parliament, according to the Telegraph.
- “French schoolgirl threatens to kill teacher with a knife” – A 12 year-old girl threatened a teacher with a knife at a French school, adding to a surge in violent incidents in France’s school system, reports the Mail.
- “COP’s pledge to move away from fossil fuels is a farce” – The share price of Shell and BP is unmoved by the COP28 pledge, notes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “It is morally wrong to blindly adhere to Net Zero – we must abandon it before it’s too late” – At COP28, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman was right to call out delusional Western leaders with their pie-in-the-sky nonsense, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Doubt over Port Talbot’s ability to make new steel” – An industry boss has claimed that the U.K. steel sector risks a “slow death” unless it stops making new steel, according to the BBC.
- “Silent prayer in abortion clinic buffer zones not unlawful, Government says” – The Home Office says that silent prayer around abortion clinics in England and Wales may not be an offence under the Public Order Act, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Watchdog to name universities and colleges that fail to uphold free speech” – Universities, colleges and students’ unions in England which fail to uphold free speech duties are set to be named publicly – and fined – by the Office for Students, says the Independent.
- “PEN America’s new president is no free speech champion” – UnHerd’s Eliza Mondegreen is sceptical about Jennifer Boylan’s free speech credentials after she was elected as PEN America’s new president.
- “Newspeak, liberals and ‘privilege’” – On Substack, Mr. Chips discusses the harm of imposing VAT on independent school fees.
- “White male recruits must get final sign off from me, says Aviva boss” – Aviva CEO Amanda Blanc has said that all senior white male recruits must receive final approval from her as part of a diversity drive to stamp out sexism in the financial services industry, according to the Telegraph.
- “Campus speech codes should be abolished” – Let students exercise their First Amendment rights, says James Kirchick in the New York Times.
- “Izzard pledges to campaign ‘via Zoom’ while playing Hamlet in New York” – Eddie Izzard has announced that if he’s selected as the Labour candidate in Brighton, he’ll “campaign via Zoom while in New York” where he is performing his one-man adaptation of Hamlet, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Secret U.S. Government censorship sold as ‘cybersecurity’ undermines national security” – On Substack, Michael Shellenberger recounts his recent testimony before Congress, addressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s violation of free speech rights through censorship initiatives.
- “Donald Trump sells cut-up pieces of suit he wore in mugshot – for $5,000” – Donald Trump is selling pieces of the suit he wore when he was arrested for nearly $5,000 a piece, according to the Mail.
- “Gaza’s sky is black but Qatar is always sunny” – Israeli sketch comedy show Eretz Nehederet has created a satirical hip-hop video highlighting the Hamas leadership living high on the hog in Qatar.
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That too could backfire & morph into a digital ID for children, the very society which needs to be avoided at all costs, for their ‘safety’.
It will be tracking & tracing of children. Truly terrifying.
How about parents take some responsibility for setting up controls? Difficult to do? Yes. But parenting isn’t easy.
treason
/ˈtriːz(ə)n/
noun
the crime of betraying one’s country.
The abuse of our language becomes more aggregious day by day so I thought it pertinent to provide a dictionary definition and this is from ‘Oxford Dictionaries.’
Is anybody, certainly on here, under any allusions that our government is and has been for over 2.5 years acting daily in a treasonous manner?
We are being insulted, betrayed, denigrated, laughed at on a daily basis. Just one example from yesterday, the F & C spending, whoops ‘investing,’ £11.6 million, or was it billions, and who cares, in taking over coffee plantations in Mexico. Yet this government knows very well that people in this country will shortly be facing live or die questions such as ‘heat or eat.’ If this is not bald, naked treason I don’t know what is.
Would it be surprising if the BBC even now was rehearsing some funeral footage or doctoring some old Stalingrad films in order to present the nation’s dire Winter plight? The queues outside the soup kitchens doubling as warm centres and the pitiful sites outside food banks.
Let’s be in no doubt and no need to corrupt our wonderful language, we are being assaulted and betrayed by a treasonous government.
Government = Mafia
I wish I felt this wasn’t an eternal truth.
Knowing this makes a lot of things easier to understand and deal with.
I’ve posted this before but it bears reposting as it seems to me an excellent from the horse’s mouth insight into how these people think. It’s from Michael Wendling of the BBC disinformation unit, in answer to a complaint I made about unbalanced reporting of an early anti-lockdown protest. He clearly doesn’t see his customers as adults and he’s not ashamed to admit it.
“Of course those who believe in conspiracy theories are not going to call their beliefs conspiracy theories, and are going to call themselves mainstream, moderate people.
We viewed footage of the speakers and spoke to people who were there.
We have no obligation to give a platform to erroneous ideas. We don’t, to take an extreme example, broadcast the manifestos of mass murderers alongside police statements so that people can “make up their own minds”.
I’m not saying the people there were violent. Some of them were (as the story reflected) were drawn by legitimate concerns. But the speakers (Mr Icke and others) were not expressing mainstream views that would benefit from airing and debate.”
It’s that 1% again… 99% are worried about energy costs, rising prices, jobs, crime/policing, education, medical care, but top of the agenda for the 1% is climate change, ‘misinformation’, Russia/Ukraine, gender/homosexuality, racism, hate speech.
Indeed
A nut job conspiracy theorist would think that small groups of powerful people are manipulating the narrative and pushing the 1% issues for their own ends
I have a YouGov account and every second survey has questions about sustainability and diversity etc regardless of the subject- they want to make people think these things are what we should be worrying about
Why do you have a YouGov account?!
I started during covid when they kept quoting polls that said the public supported lockdowns. I thought I should try and correct the imbalance. I’ve carried on doing the same thing with questions regarding their or their clients’ woke agendas. They give you a bit of money from time to time, though that’s not my main reason for doing it.
Fair enough. I tried that for the same reasons but the endless questions about B list personalities was eroding my brain.
I’ve never heard of any of them so I just switch off for those bits
I find it an interesting insight into what the enemy are thinking
I would pay good money to know the extent to which all the woke agenda type questions are requested by clients or suggested by YouGov staff. I reckon mainly the latter as they are almost always worded the same.
The left are better at pushing their causes in general because they find the most abhorrent opponents to their causes and then paint everyone who doesn’t support them with the same brush.
If the right did the same thing then anyone who even said a peep in favour of the Online Safety Bill, even if the views were reasonable like wanting to make sure children didn’t see pornography, then we would loudly and aggressively call them totalitarians.
Our “problem” is that we don’t do that. We try to engage reasonably. But of course it’s a losing battle. We’re bringing knives to the fight while they’re bringing semi-automatic assault rifles.
Funny you should mention this, because this popped up in my YouTube suggestions today and Victor Davis Hanson from just under 4 minutes in has some interesting things to say on this subject: Victor Davis Hanson: This is why the left feels ‘morally superior’ – YouTube
Good stuff. VDH is a legend. I love the clarity with which he conveys his messages.
Unless some mandatory, digital ID scheme which can’t be forged, at least not easily, is introduced, there’s no way to determine if someone sitting in front of a web browser is legally minor or not. Hence, it makes ‘fuck all’ of a difference if this bill is said to be about child protection or about the proper rearing of wild Tibetan donkeys. The effect will be universal censorship by default in order to ensure that no unsupervised children can ever access something the goverment says they must not access.
Policing their children’s behaviour is responsibilty of the parents.
“Policing their children’s behaviour is responsibilty of the parents.”
Absolutely, and there are already lots of tools available to help with this, though I still think the best approach is to talk to them, set an example, and trust them as long as they repay that trust.
Precisely. To see what happens when it goes wrong, look to the publicity given to Ian Russell
Yes, but where ARE the adults these days, hm?
I would argue that the greatest source of misinformation in the last 50 years has been the US Government.
The list of prohibited subjects will be attached in a Statutory Instrument because that can be amended almost immediately by a Minister if “there is an emergency” – with no oversight by Parliament whatsoever.
It will be a Dictators charter.
We have been bombarded with misinformation by the Government for the past 2 years but they have sought to silence whistle-blower experts who were challenging the official narrative. That alone is proof that an Online Harms Bill should never go ahead. It will silence dissenters and critical-thinkers. It’s the equivalent of the Medieval Inquisition and the ban on the Bible being translated from Latin into languages ordinary people could understand for fear it would “challenge the Priesthood.”
But how can we posibly disagree with more censorship when Ian Russell is assuaging his feelings of guilt over his daughter’s suicide by emoting all over the MSM?