- “Three attacked in Leicester Square ‘for being Jewish’” – Three people were attacked in Leicester Square on Saturday night after they were overheard “speaking Hebrew”, according to the Telegraph.
- “We must fight this creeping antisemitism” – Across the U.K., open hatred of Jews is becoming normalised. Decent people must stand against it, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “‘I was so naive to think the UN would help us uncover Hamas’s rape atrocities’” – Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy talks to the Telegraph about her frustration at the global reluctance to investigate Hamas’s appalling crimes on October 7th and her campaign to expose the truth.
- “The myth of ‘the Muslim world’” – The Israel-Hamas War has exposed the danger of Islamic identity politics, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Multiculturalism is becoming a Trojan horse for Islamist domination” – The Michaela scandal is another clash between this hostile ideology and British values, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Government handing £230 million to refugee charity that opposes Rwanda scheme” – The Government handed a contract worth more than £200 million to a charity that has campaigned against its flagship Rwanda scheme, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Mass migration has been a disaster for Britain. It’s time to cut the numbers” – Those who say the U.K. cannot function without mass immigration are simply scare-mongering, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Simon Reeve blasts mass migration ‘racket’ as he hits out at lefties on BBC show” – BBC travel journalist Simon Reeve has blasted mass-migration as a “racket” as he slammed lefties during a conversation on Laura Kuenssberg’s Sunday Morning politics show, according to the Express.
- “Germany: so much for the ‘grown-up country’” – The model nation for centrist liberals is in political and economic turmoil, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Will excess deaths ever be investigated?” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan discuss the ongoing concern about excess deaths and Parliament’s recent debate on the subject.
- “Yet another Lancet paper applied the ‘cheap trick’ to claim vaccine efficacy” – On Substack, Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil question the overall credibility of the studies purporting to show the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
- “Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia could spark terrifying new pandemic, scientists warn” – Scientists are warning that ancient viruses frozen in the Arctic permafrost could be released by Earth’s warming climate and unleash a major disease outbreak, according to the Guardian.
- “How bogus Arctic warming attribution enabled the climate crisis scam ” – Abnormal warming over the Arctic Ocean and Arctic sea ice loss have been falsely blamed on rising CO2, says Jim Steele in WUWT.
- “After Covid: the deepening decline of the Church of England” – New data shows just how bad Covid was for the Church of England, says David Goodhew in Covenant.
- “Labour’s North Sea drilling ban will bring forward rig closures, warns Enquest chief” – A major North Sea operator has warned that Labour’s plan to ban new oil and gas drilling is “economically senseless” and threatens to bring forward rig shutdowns by a decade, reports the Telegraph.
- “Scottish rape crisis centre’s trans boss called for those who disagreed with gender ideology to be fired, says tribunal witness” – A Scottish rape crisis centre forced out a female councillor for her gender-critical views following the appointment of a trans-identified male as CEO, reports Reduxx.
- “Boarding schools allow trans pupils to sleep in dorms of their preferred gender” – Boarding schools are allowing trans pupils to stay in dorms of their preferred gender, according to policies seen by the Telegraph.
- “Harry and Meghan’s cellist says Rule, Britannia! should be banned from the Proms because it upsets people” – The cello player from Harry and Meghan’s wedding has called on the BBC to axe Rule, Britannia! from the Proms, as the patriotic anthem makes him feel “uncomfortable”, according to GB News.
- “How the National Maritime Museum is trying to decolonise Lord Nelson” – The use of objects in museums to tell a distorted picture in the interests of DEI and Critical Race Theory is a betrayal of what museums are supposed to do, writes David Abulafia in the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer wants to end the Tories’ war on woke” – Keir Starmer has accused the Tories of getting tangled up in culture wars in a desperate attempt to cling to power, according to the Sun.
- “Stonewall’s stealthy erosion of our values must be checked” – At least 300 schools in England are signed up to Stonewall programmes that urge them to avoid calling pupils ‘boys’ and ‘girls’, says the Mail on Sunday in a leading article.
- “Are we suffering from generational sink?” – A clash is brewing between generations, warns Connor Tomlinson the Critic.
- “DeSantis backs down” – Ron DeSantis’s political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down’. Well, he just did, dropping out of the 2024 race, writes Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “Aussie academic fights dismissal” – Sacked Australian academic Andrew Timming, who was let go over a Greta Thunberg tweet, tells GB News’s Andrew Doyle that he has the “right to be shocking and offensive”.
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Amused to see that Paul Staines is apparently in favour of freedom of speech, given the comments system used on Order-Order that’s so pathological that it censors such vile unacceptable hate language as “dirty”, “damn”, and the name “Paul Staines”.
I was blocked there long ago.
Off topic but does anyone have the graphic or stats about how only 833 under 50s have “died solely of covid”? It was posted BTL recently but I can’t find it.
Hope this is helpful – https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/only-6183-people-died-solely-of-covid?r=2mnu5&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Desperately needed in Sturgeon’s Dark Fiefdom!
No doubt Blair is smugly content with the the results of his “devolution” designed by Globalists to wreck the UK – it seems to have worked a treat !
Looking forward to the event tonight!
Best wishes to all those involved. Anything / body seeking to protect freedom of speech deserves and needs support.
“Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.”
Yay! Free Speech!
Breaking one of my rules but…
Hey EF,
Fuck Off.
Careful, I can smell that ban coming for you!
Thanks, but he is an utter waste of space.
Your free speech is not violated by the site having rules
Yes. This comment led me to write the following response to another of your posts.
Reply to Hugh
No, she was a censor who believed everyone except her had no brain at all.
Your ‘both ways’ doesn’t exist, she was a totalitarian.
Reply to Moist Von Lipwig
From the person who said that this site having rules doesn’t curtail freedom of speech?
I hadn’t heard that she was in favour of banning opinions. Merely upholding parts of the Obscene Publications act that she considered important. Why shouldn’t people object to swearing on tv before the watershed (for example)?
I still say campaigning for standards of basic decency is not necessarily the same as being anti-free speech. She was campaigning about analogue t.v. and radio broadcasts which are easily accessible to the general population, rather than something, for example, available via mail order. For me, that makes all the difference. Absolutely there should be different standards for a private members club than for things done in public, i.e. a tv broadcast which may be watched by half the country.
She was campaigning for censorship.
She gave so much publicity to what she campaigned against, Alice Cooper sent her flowers for the career boost he received from her.
https://edernet.org/2022/03/15/mary-whitehouses-pursuit-to-stop-alice-coopers-song-schools-out-from-airing-on-british-media/
“During the twentieth century, a moral activist and former teacher named Mary Whitehouse waged a battle against the BBC. According to Whitehouse and her group, the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association, the network continued to show content that damaged the public.
She expressed her displeasure with Doctor Who for teaching youngsters how to make bombs. She voiced her displeasure with comedy characters that used the phrase “bloody.” She expressed her dissatisfaction with BBC coverage of the liberation of concentration camps (“It was destined to shock and offend,” she stated, describing the coverage as “extremely off-putting”).
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/26/ban-this-filth-ben-thompson-review
“Should the BBC’s function be to improve public morals? Or should freedom of expression, even if that involves broadcasting a once-great rock’n’roll guitarist’s wretched foray into the innuendo-laden novelty single genre, always be paramount? And was the “My Ding-a-ling” imbroglio really the right forum for these issues, as old as Plato and still vexed, to be debated?
The then-director general, Charles Curran, thought not. “‘My Ding-a-ling’,” Curran had written to Whitehouse on 21 November 1972, “begins with such a clear account of the contraption in question including bells, that although the possibility of a double entendre was recognised, we decided that it could be broadcast … We did not think it would disturb or emotionally agitate its listeners and we believe that the innuendo is, at worst, on the level of seaside postcards or music hall humour.” That phrase, “contraption in question including bells”, is surely worth the licence fee alone.”
“The exchange was typical of the collection of letters that Ben Thompson has so astutely assembled and comments on so drolly in this book. Here, the bottomless capacity for affront of morally upright, often evangelically Christian, middle England clashes repeatedly with the patrician disdain of those men (and they were overwhelmingly men) who ran the culture industries, be they telly, theatre, cinema, magazines or pornography. Thompson ingeniously suggests that Whitehouse shared much with her punk contemporaries – both were socially excluded, both rebelled against establishment values they detested. Mary as a punk rocker? Not quite. But both she and Johnny Rotten knew how to needle grandees and relished the experience.
But here’s the twist. At the end of his Ding-a-ling letter to Whitehouse, Curran wonders “whether the record would have remained in a high position in the charts for such a long time without the publicity attendant upon the publication of your comments.” Intriguing point. Perhaps Whitehouse, far from cleaning up society, was instrumental in bringing about the nightmarish scenario she prophesied.
Certainly her complaints could have unintended consequences. On 21 August 1972, Whitehouse wrote to the BBC’s head of light entertainment, Bill Cotton, complaining about Top of the Pops giving “gratuitous publicity” to Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out”. “Because of this millions of young people are now imbibing a philosophy of violence and anarchy … It is our view that if there is increasing violence in the schools during the coming term, the BBC will not be able to evade their share of the blame.” Cooper sent Whitehouse flowers in gratitude for the publicity her campaigning brought him.”
“Mary Whitehouse didn’t only fight against the BBC. During the 1980s, unsurprisingly, she was affronted by and complained about Channel 4’s output. “I am glad to see the home secretary’s unexceptional reply to your unnecessary letter,” wrote Jeremy Isaacs, C4’s chief executive, in 1984, responding to some dyspeptic jeremiad. She also took on the pornography industry: “Thank you for your letter concerning our bookstall at Crewe Station,” wrote John M Menzies on 28 May 1984, after Whitehouse complained about finding a pile of Knave magazines at a level where “almost any child could see and pick it up”. “Our policy … is not to sell these magazines to children.”
She tried to stiffen the established church in what she thought should be its homophobic resolve: “Will you state publicly and quite specifically,” she wrote to the Bishop of Southwark on 22 June 1979, “whether you are endorsing the practices of mutual masturbation common among some homosexuals, and whether you expect the church to do the same and whether you see such practices as the will of God.” “Yes, I jolly well am and jolly well do,” replied the bishop. I’m kidding. If only he had.
She demanded politicians revise obscenity laws. That prompted a reply from David Mellor, home office minister in 1983, arguing that her proposal that depictions of explicit acts of human urination or excretion be banned would outlaw “a picture of a baby urinating in a nappy advertisement; or a photograph of the mannequin in Brussels which serves as a fountain”. Similarly, Mellor argued, the NVALA’s proposal to ban depictions of mutilation, flagellation or torture would ban King Lear, certain religious paintings, and the films of Tom Brown’s Schooldays and Nicholas Nickleby.
She campaigned against blasphemy and homosexuality, especially when, as in James Kirkup‘s poem “The Love that Dares to Speak its Name”, they came together. Whitehouse privately prosecuted Gay News’s editor, Denis Lemon, in 1977 for publishing Kirkup’s necrophilic account of sexual assault on Christ’s crucified body. After Lemon’s conviction for blasphemous libel, she received a letter from the clerk of the Scottish Free Presbyterian Church Synod, informing her of its unanimous motion thanking Whitehouse “for your unflinching stand against Sodomites in a recent court case”.
For Whitehouse, taking offence and imputing mucky motives to those who didn’t share her worldview weren’t so much tactics as irrepressible ways of being. In 1990, she was sued for libel by Dennis Potter’s mother. During an interview with Dr Anthony Clare on his Radio 4 series In the Psychiatrist’s Chair, Whitehouse had claimed that Margaret Potter had “committed adultery with a strange man and that the shock of witnessing this had caused her son to be afflicted” with the skin disease psoriasis. Whitehouse thereby confused a storyline from Potter’s The Singing Detective with the playwright’s life. No doubt her misdiagnosis and jejune psychosexual analysis was prompted by her loathing for Potter’s TV drama, which she believed had “made voyeurs of us all”. Similarly, perhaps, TV made Whitehouse a voyeur, though sometimes not a discerning one.”
Yes. I heard about the “Alice” Cooper business (vile toerag, even if he was on Top Gear), and some of the other stuff. She’s entitled to her opinions though at the end of the day. And if people don’t defend their culture, it will not survive – a point not lost on the Russians.
Besides, are some of the liberal woke fascists today very different.? And as for you satanists…
Remember that in the 1960’s the BBC was engaged in a biased campaign of subterfuge which helped result in changes which have since led to the deaths of millions of children. The BBC, who push minority views when it suits them, and other times refuse to give voice to minority views they consider beyond the pale, all the while posing as an impartial public service broadcaster. Of course there was going to be pushback.
Alice Cooper is a Christian.
This one elementary fact blows your flatulent balderdash completely out of the water.
Mary Whitehouse is the kindred spirit of today’s woke Maoists.
As for Satanists, I’m not one so your accusation is entirely the work of your imagination.
Mary Whitehouse didn’t defend ‘her culture’, she demanded witless, mindless, brainless conformity, something Russia has had centuries of, with the result being centuries of absolute monarchy, three quarter of a century of Communism, a religion that worships the omnipotent state, followed by the socialist dictatorship of a former Communist secret police officer who hasn’t essentially changed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed.
Russian culture has long worshipped death, the evidence speaks for itself.
Your anti-culture is the hatred of man’s mind.
Alice Cooper is in no way vile, he’s essentially an actor, comparable to Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, his shows are theatre, fantasy.
By contrast, Mary Whitehouse, in her quest to obliterate the individual human mind, was the villain from ‘Inherit the Wind’ in drag.
Her spiritual father was William Jennings Bryan and her effect was to give publicity to what she most hated, thereby ensuring it became far more popular than it would have been without her truly cretinous intervention, such was her mindlessness that she couldn’t comprehend that people didn’t take to have Nanny tell them she knows best.
We’ve just had two years of Mary Whitehouse in full control in Scotland.