- “Sixty Tories turn on Sunak over Rwanda bill” – Rishi Sunak suffered the biggest rebellion of his premiership as 60 Tory MPs voted for amendments to toughen up his Rwanda bill, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resign over Rwanda bill” – Two Conservative Party deputy chairmen have resigned after being told their positions were untenable, having joined a Tory rebellion against Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill, reports the Times.
- “The only thing shocking about a 1997-style wipeout is that Sunak might keep 169 seats” – In the Telegraph, Allison Pearson, who’s been nominated for Broadsheet Columnist of the Year, says it’s not surprising the Tories are losing support, given this Government’s contempt for its natural supporters.
- “Why Tory talk is turning – again – to a change of leadership” – Also in the Telegraph, Camilla Tominey says apocalyptic YouGov polling and Rishi Sunak’s nose-diving approval ratings mean the question of leadership has once again reared its ugly head
- “Study discovers biggest cause of ‘alarming surge’ of excess deaths in U.K.” – A new study reveals that heart failure is the biggest driver of an alarming surge in excess deaths in the U.K., says the Express.
- “Saint Nicola is set for her greatest humiliation yet” – Sturgeon’s pandemic narrative could be completely destroyed as the Covid Inquiry heads north of the border, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Was COVID-19 a pandemic caused by a novel pathogen or was it created solely by harmful policies and fear propaganda?” – On Substack, Dr. Pierre Kory summarises the main arguments surrounding the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- “Smokescreen – Part 12” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan examine the problems of waste, fraud and profiteering that beset the Government’s Covid response.
- “Three big Covid whoppers Fauci confessed to Congress this week” – Fauci has confirmed many of the worst fears of those who spoke out during his reign of terror, says Dr. Pierre Kory in the Federalist.
- “Rochdale grooming report exposes police Islamophilia” – Just when you thought you had heard the most horrendous stories of the terror unleashed on thousands of girls by Rochdale grooming gangs, more horrors emerge, writes Julie Burchill in the Mail.
- “How Sadiq Khan has ‘wasted’ £123 million of taxpayer cash” – In a new report, Sadiq Khan has been accused of wasting £123 million of taxpayers’ cash on “misplaced priorities”, reports the Mail.
- “Avanti tells train managers to ‘roll up’ for free taxpayer money” – Managers at Avanti West Coast joked about being able to “roll up, roll up” for “free” taxpayers’ money in an internal presentation, according to the Times.
- “Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh taken to High Court over Muslim prayer ban” – Britain’s most effective headteacher is in a row with Muslim pupils over her decision to impose a prayer ban at the school, reports the Telegraph.
- “The collapse of our universities is the best thing that could happen to Britain” – We need to rethink the purpose of higher education. Sadly, we aren’t going to do that until the current system falls apart, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law arrested again after man ‘falls from flat window’” – According to the Sun, Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law has been nicked by the cops again, this time in connection with an incident where a man plunged from a flat window.
- “‘Climate change’ and ‘war’ top Oxford Children’s Words of the Year” – According to Oxford University Press, the Children’s Word of the Year is “climate change”, followed by “war”, reports the Times. Er, “climate change” isn’t a word.
- “How the leaders of the German farmers’ protest are committed to neutralising their own movement, and what the farmers must do if they want change” – On Substack, Eugyppius files his latest report on the farmers’ demonstration in Berlin.
- “Third of U.K. teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows” –YouTube videos are being blamed for a rise in climate scepticism amongst young people in the U.K., reports the Guardian.
- “Are kids starting to see through the climate cult?” – It restores faith in the current generation of teenagers to realise that a third of them can see through this climate guff, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Finnish prosecutor takes MP to Supreme Court for tweeting Bible verses” – Despite having been acquitted of hate speech twice, Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen may still have to face another day in court on the same charges, according to the European Conservative.
- “Ursula von der Leyen: misinformation is world’s gravest problem” – Forget conquest, war, famine, and death. Ursula von der Leyen tells Davos that the world’s most serious problem is ‘misinformation’, according to UnHerd.
- “Elon Musk among the international figures voicing dismay over Leo Varadkar’s hate crime bill as pressure group Free Speech Ireland redoubles efforts to get it scrapped” – Elon Musk has voiced his disquiet at Leo Varadkar’s planned new hate crime law, reports the Belfast News Letter.
- “Little evidence that hate speech causes real world harm” – At Environmental Progress, John Morrison examines the evidence that hate speech serves as a precursor to violent actions and concludes it does not.
- “The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood” – On Claire Fox’s Substack, the co-writer of a powerful new film on the dangers of gender ideology explains why people need to see it.
- “A jarring opera on jarring themes” – City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald reviews the Metropolitan Opera’s recent revival of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
- “Rice University unveils ‘Afrochemistry’ class” – Rice University in Houston is offering an ‘Afrochemistry’ class entitled ‘Black-Life Matter’ that promises to analyse science through a “contemporary African-American lens”, reports the Mail.
- “Elite psychopathology driving Democrats’ ‘soft coup’ attempt” – To stop Donald Trump from becoming President, journalists, activists and Government officials are undermining democracy in the name of saving it, writes Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “The Bidenomics experiment is headed towards disaster” – The President’s scheme to reboot the American economy is proving unpopular with the American public, observes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The Traitors US viewers brutally slam ‘bully’ John Bercow” – John Bercow has managed to make a terrible impression in just one episode of The Traitors US, says the Express.
- “Westminster Hall excess deaths debate” – On YouTube, Dr. John Campbell presents Andrew Bridgen’s Westminster Hall speech yesterday on excess deaths.
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Present-day ‘decoloniziation’ is what happens when people in charge of manageing a certain (perceived) problem suddenly find themselves without it because it has been solved. They then take their terminology and use it to go on rampage elsewhere in the hope that it’ll take a long time for people to notice that there really isn’t a need for them anymore. Real ‘decolonisation’, the original political goal of the UN, ended over 40 years ago. OTOH, the last European (really Americans of European descent) holdouts of the ancient practice of slavery were forced to let go of it over 150 years ago. The so-called progressive don’t really seem capable of much progress.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for all decolonisation and anti slavery experts:
https://visitukraine.today/blog/1797/how-to-join-the-international-legion-of-defense-of-ukraine-detailed-instructions-for-foreigners
The requirement for combat experience has meanwile been dropped:
https://visitukraine.today/blog/2228/updated-rules-for-joining-the-international-legion-of-ukraine-for-foreigners-simplified-procedure-current-requirements-application-instructions
Scotland was never colonised, England was! Sure, eventually, the English ran Scotland as they partly do today, but that was, and is, because the Jocks have bugger all under their kilts and they agreed to be ruled. When They had a referendum they lifted their kilts and found a Laughing Emoji and voted to continue to be ruled by the big, bad Colonisers. Why on earth am I paying towards this and not the Italians?
Actually it was the Scots who ran England when their King James VI inherited the Throne from Elizabeth I to become James I of England and Ireland.
Then the Stuart dynasty reigned until 1688 – aside a brief interruption when Charles I lost his head – when James II was given the elbow and replaced with the House of Orange.
Most certainly it was and, therefore, do the Scots not owe us reparations? We did not colonise them at any point in history. Hell, arguably even the Romans didn’t because Scotland was an arse of a country and they just wanted to keep them out. Hence, Hadrians Wall.
Weren’t Picts also massacred by the Scoti – from Scotus, a Roman name for the Irish lands – who invaded and colonised Scotland (giving it its name) prior to and during the Roman colonisation of Britain?
How are we doing with reparations from Italy for the British slaves taken by Rome?
How about the reparations from slavers who took, or killed, everyone from a village in Cornwall let alone all the thousands of others they took from all around Western Europe?
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barbary-Pirates-English-Slaves/
What? You mean the Scoti moved out of Ireland because what became Scotland was better? ‘Kinell!
No idea why the Irish moved, perhaps it was because it was easier to take on whatever Scotland was previously called than head South and take on England? I shall have to have a look at this because it is a huge hole in my historical knowledge, such as it is.
The seriously dangerous part of all this crap is that what they really intend to do is erase history. The Nazi’s were really nice to Jews and the Jews have nothing to complain about (see antisemitic protests every Saturday, laughably “Policed” by the Met who somehow manage to only charge and beat up Jews.
We all know the “First they came for the Jews” but now they are well down the line and into you territory. We already have the “they came for the Anti-Vaxxers” and “They are in the processing stage of Sceptics”. We are facing the destruction of the past, the present and the future.
I now laugh at George Orwell, he was way off the mark, the Aspidistra fell long ago.
Jews were further down the list. First they came for the Communists.
It’s interesting that the Netflix mini-series on Hitler only really mentions the Jews but shows Hitlers cohorts pulling down Communist posters. I have to admit though Robert Carlyle would get an Oscar as Hitler if it was a film.
My, historically inaccurate of course, point was to highlight the fact the same people are, once again, coming for the same people. What else is Ukraine about and what are the Met Knee Benders about? Change the shirts and what do you get?
Carlyle was great in that, I had the DVD once.
Bruno Ganz in Downfall topped the lot.
For a different historical perspective, The Holy Kingdom by Adrian Gilbert based on the research of Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett is worth a read.
“Britain was never fully conquered by the Romans but retained its culture, it’s royal families intermarrying with the Caesars”
There’s an interesting interview by Richard D Hall with Adrian Gilbert where non-conspiratorial Gilbert describes the curious way the book was brought to a quick end in hardback and then paperback despite having the market indicators of being a reliable seller.
It will give someone the opportunity to see colonistaion and Britain in a new light, with the Brits being colonised by Rome. I look forward to recommendations to seek reparations from Italy.
Time to start decolonising the decolonisers.
That’s a neat idea. This so-called colonial perspective is really only theirs and maybe, they should get professional help to overcome it instead of forcing it onto all others.
That’s really a hallmark of present-day liberalism which has long since ceased to be about empowering people to be what they are while tolerating that others may and likely will be something different. Instead, it’s now about the liberal-controlled state oppressing the population majority and trying to force them to become something they are not for the nominal benefit of all kinds of so-called minority groups. The benefit is nominal because actual members of these groups are also only allowed to conform to the official dogma and if they don’t, they end up being ruthlessly abused in public at the very least.
This has really been turned completely on the head. It used to be about liberating the individual from state oppression. Nowdays, there’s a state definition of liberal and people are forced – sometimes seriously violently forced, cf the police brutality in Australia, New Zealand or Germany during the so-called ‘pandemic’ – to conform to his particular definition, the motto being one of the fundamental dictums of post-war Germany, namely No freedom for the enemies of freedom. An orwellian statement if there ever was any as this simply means No freedom for anyone.