- “Nicola Sturgeon squirms as she is grilled at Covid Inquiry” – Nicola Sturgeon broke down in tears as she faced an intense grilling over deleting her Covid WhatsApps, according to the Mail.
- “Sturgeon denies ‘burning desire’ for independence influenced decisions” – Nicola Sturgeon was accused of letting a “burning desire” for independence drive her response to the pandemic as she appeared at the Covid Inquiry, reports the Telegraph.
- “One by one, the lockdown myths are crumbling” – Even the shutdown’s most fervent supporters cannot hide from the impact of that calamitous policy, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Proof the CDC knowingly lied when claiming the mRNA vaccines ‘reduce hospitalisations and deaths’” – The vaccinated were systematically being classified as unvaxxed when entering U.S hospitals, writes Dr. Pierre Kory on Substack.
- “Maybe more people objected than we knew” – Discerning the level of public compliance with Covid measures is muddied by evidence suggesting the U.S. Government worked with tech and media to suppress dissenting voices, says Jeffrey A. Tucker for the Brownstone Institute.
- “David Cameron is in a muddle over Palestine” – Western foreign policy’s persistent push for a Palestinian state is more of a religious belief than a practical solution, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Britain is facing a constitutional crisis that could end Sunak’s premiership” – The row over the Rwanda policy has turned political attitudes to the House of Lords on their head, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Europe’s war on farmers is playing with Eurosceptic fire” – We don’t need agricultural ‘degrowth’ to decarbonise the economy, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “Rolling your eyes is a microaggression, civil servants told” – Since 2021, the Government has spent over £160,000 hiring consultants to train staff in recognising perceived slights, according to a Times investigation. Although how they can do that while working from home is a mystery.
- “Families on benefits can be better off than those earning £70,000” – Generous welfare payments allow some London households to cash in, says the Telegraph.
- “Private schools will be forced to cut scholarships under Labour’s VAT raid” – Headteachers have warned that private schools will be forced to cut scholarships and bursaries for the poorest students in response to Labour’s planned VAT raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Migrants will account for 92% of the U.K.’s population boom” – Data from the Office for National Statistics indicates that higher-than-expected immigration figures will see the U.K.’ population grow by 6.6 million to 73.7 million by 2036, says the Mail.
- “Impact of immigration – when fact-checking goes silent” – It is worth looking at the consequences of immigration in Sweden, which serves as a cautionary tale, remarks Theo L. Glück on Substack.
- “The UN’s annual $8 billion budget to support global migration” – The UN mission to encourage global migration has resulted in multiple avoidable political crises, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on Substack.
- “Europe is finished, condemned to death by its deluded, third-rate elites” – Europe is incapable of recovering from its present economic, military and demographic crisis, laments Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “85% of U.S. colleges limit free speech” – An overwhelming majority of American universities impose regulations on students’ free speech, according to UnHerd.
- “Milei proves that ideas matter” – Rather than the thin gruel of economic grievance offered by American Right-wing populists, Milei’s policies are built on his vast knowledge of sound and successful, albeit politically unpopular, economic thinking, writes G. Patrick Lynch for the American Institute for Economic Research.
- “Ignore the French: Net Zero is destroying British industry, not Brexit” – Our fixation with decarbonisation will be economically ruinous. On the continent, it could be even worse, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Being Christian is now enough to get you cancelled” – Any power-hungry busybody can become a ‘police officer’ with the power to crush our religious freedom. What happened to fighting crime? asks Nana Akua in the Mail.
- “No army for white men: Britain’s self-inflicted recruiting crisis” – In wartime, countries depend not on ideological quotas but on fighting talent, says Harrison Pitt in the European Conservative.
- “Why is a full-grown man competing against teenage girls in swimming?” – Spiked’s Lauren Smith reacts to a 50 year-old male professor being allowed to identify as a woman and admitted to a teenage girls’ swimming league.
- “Meet the ‘trans apostate’ enraging all sides of the gender war” – Debbie Hayton’s memoir Transsexual Apostate tells of her gender reassignment and how she came to doubt what she had believed about herself, says Helen Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Russell Brand claims neo-Nazi holocaust denier was ahead of the curve” – Russell Brand recently appeared on Tucker Carlson’s X show to not only discuss his admiration for David Icke but also to deny the multiple rape allegations he’s faced since September, reports the Mail. See him talk to Tucker Carlson here.
- “‘I will never divide the children according to race or religion’” – On Triggernometry, Katharine Birbalsingh defends her controversial decision to ban prayer in her school.
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A good piece of journalism here, looking at the effect identity politics has had/is having on schools. I would take issue with the author’s stance though, as I think it’s both;
”The aggressive imposition of Muslim cultural practices on to education has very little to do with Islam and everything to do with decades of multicultural policymaking.”
Especially knowing what we know about Islam by now and their whole ethos, but no doubt the policy makers have screwed us over and are seriously to blame for allowing the colonization of our schools to happen. What happened to that Batley teacher was a stand-out example of this;
”What the incidents at St Stephen’s, Batley Grammar and Kettlethorpe High show is that multiculturalism is corroding the secular basis of our public institutions. It has fuelled the creation of an aggressive Muslim identity politics, which constantly asserts its victimhood, its offendedness and its demands for recognition. It has given rise to an infrastructure of complaint and grievance, dedicated to seeing Islamophobia everywhere. Above all, it has helped to sacralise Muslimness, turning the hitherto private matter of faith into a crusading public identity.
One must hope that the schools currently in the firing line of the religious identitarians are able to hold firm. That Barclay defies the intimidation and sticks to its ban on political symbols in school. And that Michaela wins its High Court case, and persists with its own strictures on prayer rituals. Not because of the merits or otherwise of the bans and rules themselves. But because it would represent, at long last, a form of resistance to the state-backed multiculturalism fuelling division at the school gates.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/28/how-muslim-identity-politics-colonised-education/
Culture is by definition MONO; it pertains to a specific group of people. Multiculture” simply means NO culture; and a country with no common culture is doomed.
As we are witnessing
No Good Reason To Abolish Cash
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online
Well, there are reasons to prefer electronic payments: convenience etc.
The real question is why the government doesn’t make it easier to make anonymous electronic payments.
It would be extremely easy to build such a system.
It already exists in fact – for example Amazon voucher cards can be bought in the supermarket. That technology could be used for generic cash (a Bank of England voucher if you will).
We know the answer.
The logical conclusion is that the government has no business policing private transactions and must not be given the technology to do so.
Sell that to Mr and Mrs Normie.
Piggybacking off your post!
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/paper/2024/responses-to-the-digital-pound-consultation-paper
The BoE/Treasury response to the public consultation on the digital pound was published the other day.
They say they will continue to provide cash. They don’t say whether there will be a transaction limit for cash, what denominations the cash will be in and how much cash they will print/circulate. It strikes me they could withdraw the current notes and print a smaller number of new “digital pound notes” with strict transaction limits.
They say that future laws will guarantee that neither the BoE nor the Government can control how you spend your money. What they don’t say is that your bank might do it on their behalf (think current debanking issue or recent vaccine passport issue where private entities took it upon themselves to enforce Government policy.)
They say initially you will only be able to hold £5000 or £10000 worth of your money in the new digital pound, to stabilize the transition to the new currency. I would say beware anyone who has savings above this limit. Your excess savings will wither and die, trapped in the old currency because the death of the old currency is the mechanism for writing off the national debt.
Wednesday morning Sandhurst Rd Finchampstead Rd Wokingham
Woke-ingham – heart of the enemy?
So this is good to know isn’t it? Can either Islamic extremists or paedophiles/rapists ever be reformed? Looks like they can be neither reformed nor deported! But this is what constitutes ‘justice’ these days, the onus on ‘human rights’ lies squarely with the perpetrators, never the victims, no matter what the crime;
”At least 11 key members of Rotherham sex grooming gangs sentenced to over 180 years in jail have been quietly released after serving half their sentences or will be released on parole in the next few weeks.
A MailOnline investigation has revealed that 11 out of 22 core members of linked Rotherham sex gangs are back on the streets despite being involved in the abuse and trafficking of up to 1,400 girls.
A twelfth member, Zalgai Ahmadi, now 51, was told on Friday 26th January, 2024, that the Parole Board had recommended his release. He was serving a nine-and-a-half year sentence for being part of a gang that held a 14-year-old girl in his flat against her will.
The panel ruled that the abuser, convicted of conspiracy to commit sexual assault and false imprisonment and jailed at Sheffield Crown Court in May 2017, was no longer a threat to the public.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13018849/Half-Rotherham-sex-gang-core-members-streets-despite-involved-abuse-trafficking-1-400-girls.html
Is he now a post op Tranny with all his bits chopped off ? If not I’m sure his self control will stop him , NOT !!!…
The attack on farmers has all the signs of a mob racket by giant producers to destroy the smaller competition and take all the business.
They’re even going for home producers:
https://news.yahoo.com/carbon-footprint-homegrown-food-five-200247599.html
“We don’t need agricultural ‘degrowth’ to decarbonise the economy”
correction: we don’t need to decarbonise the economy!
“The numbers living in the UK will grow by 6.6 million to 73.7 million by 2036”
Funny how such an admission has suddenly been deemed OK?!
Why, after decades of lies about the population of the UK ,for political reasons of course, have they quickly decided to announce such awkward and unpopular (no pun intended) news?
Here’s a thought
How would you answer a question like the sudden and prolonged increase in heart attack deaths across all age groups over the last few years? Well obviously it’s down to the increasing population! Sorted, not vaccines then?
https://rumble.com/v4acbpt-russell-brand-responds-to-coordinated-smear-campaign-against-him.html
Bl**dy hell fire – way to go, Daily Mail. Of all the things that could have been highlighted in Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russell Brand, you pick up on Brand mentioning David Icke for about 3 seconds in a 40 minute chat? Not his admirable stance on big pharma (which has had him in their cross-hairs since day 1), not his erudite criticisms of globalism (ditto) or his total distain for main stream media (natch), not even his deep and sincere beliefs in god, spirituality, community and the bonds of family. Well done DM – and well done DS for picking probably the most blatantly biassed clickbait headline out there.
“…and well done DS for picking probably the most blatantly biassed clickbait headline out there.”
WyrdWoman, I wasn’t quite sure if you meant that literally or sarcastically, and then I noticed that you also said, “Well done DM”, so you meant it sarcastically.
But the Daily Sceptic is pointing to how the Daily Mail has reported the Tucker Carlson interview with Russell Brand. Would you prefer not to know that this is how the Daily Mail reported it, or would you prefer the Daily Sceptic to bring it to our attention?
The Daily Sceptic quoting what the Daily Mail said does not mean the Daily Sceptic endorses it – quite the opposite in this case.