- “On the sexual atrocities Hamas committed on October 7th” – We cannot ignore the depravity of the October 7th attacks or what they mean for women, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “2023 has exposed the moral depravity of the radical Left” – Jews, women, the working class – leftists have betrayed everyone they once claimed to speak for, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “How Hamas weaponises victimhood” – Also in Spiked, Frank Furedi says that Hamas are the masters at weaponising victimhood.
- “Broken codes of conduct” – In Taki’s Magazine, Theodore Dalrymple takes delight in the Harvard President’s plagiarism kerfuffle while scolding the ever-expanding power of the bureaucratic state.
- “The Elgin Marbles weren’t stolen – Greece is just exploiting our weakness” – In the Sunday Times, Jonathan Sumption argues it would demean the British Museum and its universalist mission to return the Elgin Marbles.
- “Five-day work from home deals for pampered civil service mandarins” – Hundreds of civil servants are on full-time ‘home-working contracts’ and do not go into Whitehall at all, reveals the Mail on Sunday.
- “The year the pandemic ended: A retrospective” – On Substack, Eugyppius reflects on the year when the Covid circus finally packed up its tents in Germany.
- “Senior lawyer drafting Rwanda Bill told Rishi Sunak it would not work” – A senior lawyer who advised on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill warned ministers that it was far from guaranteed to protect deportation flights from legal challenge, reports the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: Rishi Sunak’s secret talks to bring back Dominic Cummings” – The Sunday Times recounts the story told in Dominic Cummings’s latest blog of his meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss a return to Downing Street.
- “Delors and Thatcher clashed, but their visions combined might now save Europe” – Vladimir Putin has proven Margaret Thatcher’s fears right, yet only a united Europe of the kind envisaged by Jacques Delors can bring him to heel, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Jacques Delors destroyed the European Left” – Jacques Delors enabled the populist Right, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Jacques Delors was the father of Brexit – without the U.K., his vision is turning to reality” – Jacques Delors dreamt of a unitary, centralised European state. This is what the EU is now fast becoming, argues Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Biden won’t run, Labour won’t win a landslide, Middle East may find peace” – In the Telegraph, Janet Daley gives her optimistic predictions for 2024.
- “Military shuns heat pumps in favour of cheaper cutting-edge electric boilers” – The military is shunning heat pumps and instead warming soldiers’ homes with electric boilers that cost less to run, according to the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is about to get even more painful” – Few would challenge the need to decarbonise – eventually. But our current approach will be economically ruinous, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “U.S. university chancellor sacked for vegan porn videos” – A U.S. university chancellor has been sacked after it was discovered that he had filmed vegan-themed pornographic videos with his wife and posted them online, according to the Telegraph.
- “Have Ireland’s Gen Z been duped?” – For Gen Z, talk about ‘choice’ and ‘equality’ seems particularly cruel given many of them will spend their 20s and 30s living in the box room upstairs, says Donal Horgan in Gript.
- “Why are theatres so cowardly?” – Good luck finding a play that criticises the NHS, remarks Lloyd Evans in the Spectator.
- “Straight men at fault for Hollywood failures on diversity, says Sofia Coppola” – According to Sofia Coppola, Hollywood is failing to produce diverse cinema because “99% of the people giving money in film are straight men”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The American Museum of Supernatural History” – By embracing indigenous superstitions, the West’s great science museums are abandoning their mission to educate and compromising their scientific integrity, warns Elizabeth Weiss in Reality’s Last Stand.
- “Facebook censors podcast hosted by pro-Israel Arab” – Facebook has removed a pro-Israeli post by an Arab commentator, reports the Telegraph.
- “Federal Government operatives and Soros money behind plot to keep Trump off ballot” – The public-private model used for censorship is now being used to undermine U.S. democracy, says Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “Not with a whimper but a bellow…” – Mark Steyn discusses the ban on Trump from running in Maine’s election, drawing unfavourable comparisons with Russia.
- “When the Bernsteins hosted the Black Panthers” – The Leonard Bernstein biopic, Maestro, skips a key chapter in his life, which is fortunately resurrected in a new documentary about his nemesis, Tom Wolfe, says Gregg Kilday on the Ankler Substack.
- “Non-crime hate incidents are deeply sinister” – On Free Speech Nation, Andrew Doyle takes issue with the police’s recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’, an authoritarian, Orwelllian concept.
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Risk averse? The man is wearing 2 masks!
Yes: not for nothing is he known as Justin Case!
Sad to say… that photo of the Most Rev Justin Welby is the definition of clown world.
For Christs sake man, take the face diaper off!
To be fair I think it’s one mask with fancy patterned top and bottom flaps. Other than that he should take the friggin thing off.
I was once travelled by air from Rome to Tripoli (Libya). On the plane was a priest. When we landed I saw him make his preparations for what was normally an awful passport and document checking procedure. But there was no hesitation for this Christian soldier, he took out a large cross which he hung around his neck, strode straight to the head of the long queue and starting explaining to the policeman that he was on god’s mission and should be immediately let through; which he was. I remember thinking he was a very brave man.
Our present day Christian soldiers have failed miserably so far. They need to urgently wake up and take the lead (yes the lead) in the battle for our salvation.
‘Very brave’? Hmm, seems more like an extreme queue jumper.
Indeed… meanwhile over in Canada…at last a man of God I can believe in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziWXH7T15zw
Or this man – James Coates of Edmonton. They put in a maximum security prison for keeping his church open without restriction. They have let him out but have fenced off his church and surrounded it with armed guards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At_DbhWAnQo
This is the next video of him speaking to Newsmax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QYb2-pVOMI
I’m struggling tonight to see what the fucking point is of all this bullshit. There’s no way out of this hellhole. Whoop-di-doo we can sit in a pub or restaurant garden next week. It’s still bullshit. There’s no fun or joy in life anymore
Sitting outside freezing your nethers off but still having to give your details for trap and trace! They can get effed. I really hope the hospitality industry sees how this is going to affect them because I for one, ain’t playing along with this B/S.
Time for all pubs to do what the Italian restaurants did a while back.
Who do they think is going to sit in a pub or restaurant garden given the weather we are currently having
Yes that global warming’s really working isn’t it?
Dear Welby, what do you think Jesus would do?
When one is jolted out of the matrix narrative of what’s going on Bartleby, it can be demoralising for sure. We non Covidian Cult members are in the minority, around 30% of any fallen nation under the clutches of the BUILD BACK BETTER agenda.
My work balance has been greatly affected by this destruction of our old normal routines, but this is deliberate of course, on the part of the Great Reset pushers.
What’s key is to quickly snap into a WWII French resistance mind-set. My 1980s craft tools were honed in top flight London ad agencies, so I do what I can on forums to prod the undecided into the awakened camp, with frequent multi-platform postings.
And yesterday when on my daily sea air, walk I ran into a very fit 70 year old Buddhist beliefs stranger (Ben), who once we got talking – sharing the disappointment with the ongoing mass hysteria – we walked along together for around 30mins, side-by-side.
When we parted in front of a panoramic viewpoint café stand in front of around twenty or so other socially-distanced folk I gave him a sincere hug, and shook his hand, added with a genuine vocal; …”a real pleasure meeting you stranger…”
The looks….? Well, you only can imagine!
These small acts of defiance may seem insignificant, but still can be greatly meaningful for both you and many others.
Every little helps.
The simple fact is that you are a dressed-up creep Welby.
So he came to the realisation he had made a mistake in May/June, then doubled down on it in July. No wonder the protestant church is struggling in this country, amd please will somebody tell him what a prat he looks in that get up and a double muzzle. Where’s his faith?
He has none.If he believed a particle of the Christian message, churches would never have been closed at all, to anybody.
Did Christ die so that we might inherit eternal life and not fear death? I believe he did.
Maybe you don’t. That’s your decision.
Nor does the Archbishop of Canterbury. That’s a very strange decision on his part.
Totally agree. Our independent fellowship has remained open throughout this nonsense
You tell him Annie !
I just sent this to him by e-mail….
Dear Most Rev Welby,
I have a myriad of health problems, but I believe in God. Death is nothing to fear, but I fear this oppression we are under. It is the work of Satan. You should be standing up against it.
Do you believe in anything that is in the Bible or our Lord Jesus Christ said or did? He didn’t fear the Lepers, he touched them and healed them. He died so that all who believe in him will have internal life and not fear death. We take our instructions from God not men.
Churches should never ever have been closed and should never ever be closed again. Face masks should be banned in churches and we should sing hymns and praise the Lord loudly, proudly and without fear, for there is nothing to fear.
Be a leader and show courage and do what the Lord Jesus Christ and God tell us to do. Stop being political and so wet.
A totally disillusioned Christian.
Excellent.
I don’t think he is a man of God at all, then again I don’t think the Pope is either.
If he gets Covid and Karks it then he’s off to a better place anyway so what’s he worrying about.
A better place? With his record? Sub-deputy arselicker to the Borgia pope in hell is more in his line.
‘To see the right and not do it is cowardice’ – Confucius
It’s a start. Let’s see if he has any other Damascene moments.
Certainly though, he should ditch the mask and any ideas he might be entertaining about Covid certification before allowing in the unclean to hear a quick service and then hurrying them away.
Damascene moments? Don’t hold your breath.
It’s real Christians that are finding it hard to kick against the Pricks.
Isn’t this just another example of members of the establishment failing to take responsibility for their actions?
He accepts that he made a mistake – a very serious one that has had serious consequences for thousands of members of the church he leads over a period of many months.
If he had any honour or decency he would have resigned in shame.
That’s because you abandoned God and worship Satan, Welby.
LOL! Even without the masks he would still look ridiculous!
So Welby has recognised that he ‘got quite a few things wrong’. Really?
Well if he is REALLY repentant, and I beg leave to doubt that, this is what he COULD do NOW:
If he did these things he could actually save the CofE.
Will he do it?
I’m not holding my breath! In any case Welby is not the man – he should resign and allow someone to take over who actually believes in life after death.
Thanks. My final question was, of course, rhetorical. I cannot he imagine that he will but I would like to see a VERY public challenge to the man. But who am I?
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Good stuff. I agree with all you say. The church could still make a stand – it’s not too late, but there is a rapidly closing window of opportunity. No doubt this person was chosen for exactly the ‘qualities’ he possesses. A useful idiot.
The worst Archbishop of Canterbury in my lifetime and almost certainly ever. And the bar was very low.
I’m struggling to recollect what happened in the 1980s wrt Aids; there was similar panic about the common cup (but obvs no question of bolting the churches).
Many letters were published in the Church Times about whether you could catch Aids through sharing the chalice; now we are persuaded that sharing a hymn book may be fatal.
I wonder if Welby will ease the restrictions in church or whether that will be another decision surrendered to SAGE.
Piers Corbyn challenged Welby to a debate on the Anglican church’s role in the new normal. I am still waiting for this to happen. No doubt Welby will go along with vaccine passports, masking and the like. He’s not showing any repentance, he’s just bending with the wind.
Flaccid does not bend but just droops!
Is it possible to have a Balls re-installation op?
Welby is a disgrace, a Man of God? I don’t think so! He should resign!
”…barring clergy from their church buildings”…. Well, they certainly took THAT edict to heart, didn’t they? There was nothing to stop them visiting church precincts – perhaps using the church porch or even the old preaching cross as a place to sit with a garden chair and speak to people passing by. That’s what I’D have done as a committed priest or pastor. Ours hasn’t been seen. He even cancelled the outdoor remembrance service at the last minute. What effete people they are, most of these ”clergy”.
(Unlike the pastor in Calgary, who certainly puts his views forcefully! Good for him. Oh, for a leader like that.)