- “Keir Starmer says Gaza conflict ‘must stop now’ in Scots Labour speech” – Keir Starmer insists fighting in Gaza “must stop now” as his allies dodged question of whether Labour MPs will back an SNP motion demanding an “immediate” ceasefire, says the Mail.
- “Pro-Palestine activists attack man with sign calling Hamas terrorists” – Shocking footage has shown the moment pro-Palestinian activists marching through London attacked and yelled abuse at a man who called Hamas terrorists, reports the Mail.
- “Michael Gove leads criticism after peer axed for his attack on Hamas” – Michael Gove led the criticism of a Birmingham housing association that suspended its Chairman, a former Labour MP, over a social media post attacking Hamas, according to the Mail.
- “‘We are witnessing a growing trend where public servants face intimidation and threats’” – “Little did I know a demonstration outside my house would trigger a wider debate about the state of British politics,” says Tobias Ellwood MP in the Telegraph.
- “Government must be ‘faster and bolder’ in tackling antisemitism, warns extremism tsar” – Britain’s counter extremism tsar Robin Simcox has accused the Government of being “cautious and timid” in using its powers to crack down on terror offences, according to the Telegraph.
- “The torment of British Jews” – There is a sadistic feeding frenzy to this anti-Jewish crusade, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “‘I see it as payback for an antisemitic industry’: inside daring Jewish musical Cable Street” – As a dramatisation of the famous 1936 Battle of Cable Street comes to the stage, its makers reveal to the Telegraph why its message is so important.
- “Meet the modern-day censors, wielding their purse-strings over artists and their work” – An ominous warning from Arts Council England over controversial statements reveals the dangers bureaucrats pose to freedom of expression, says Sonia Sodha in the Guardian.
- “Lockdown damage risks lasting for generations, warns World Bank” – Lockdown disruption to education will scar multiple generations, a World bank official has warned, with the children of people at school during the pandemic likely to have worse prospects than those born later, according to the Telegraph.
- “Did lockdowns cause more harm than good?” – There is a strong case to be made that severe lockdowns caused more misery – deaths included – than they averted, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator. Ya think?!?
- “Vaccinated people can still transmit disease, FDA and CDC officials admit” – Public health officials from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control admitted that people who’ve had the COVID-19 vaccine can still get and transmit Covid, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Covid vaccine shedding is ‘real’, FDA and Pfizer documents are proof: clinicians” – The topic of COVID-19 vaccine shedding has long been controversial, but now some doctors say it is real, writes Marina Zhang in the Epoch Times.
- “Follow the narrative, not the evidence” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan discuss their open letter to the Cochrane Board raising concerns about rushed reviews of pandemic interventions.
- “Ex-Post Office Chair claims Government told him to delay compensation” – The Government has denied claims by the former Post Office Chairman that he was told to “stall” on compensation for victims of the Horizon scandal ahead of the General Election, according to the Mail.
- “Tory backlash at Rishi Sunak ‘wasting Brexit freedoms’” – Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash over claims he has undermined the benefits of Brexit by quietly writing EU equality rules into British law, reports the Mail.
- “Britain’s worklessness is the result of years of poor political decisions” – Successive governments have failed to make the tough reforms needed to get people into work, writes Henry Hill in CapX.
- “Dangerous splits threatening our free society” – The real winner of the recent by-elections was the ‘None Of The Above’ Party, says the Mail in a leading article.
- “Free speech for everyone, except…” – We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it’s convenient, writes Alan Sokal in the Critic.
- “We need to talk about immigration” – The failure to integrate record numbers of newcomers is a social catastrophe in the making, warns Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “At least four cops hurt in Hague riots sparked by rival Eritrean mobs” – At least four police officers were hurt during a violent riot that erupted on the streets outside the Hague last night after two rival groups of Eritreans clashed, according to the Mail.
- “EU ‘suicide pact’ threatens to flood continent with 75 million more migrants” – The EU has passed a migration pact dubbed “the suicide of Europe” which could lead to the continent being flooded with as many as 75 million new migrants, writes Paul Joseph Watson in ZeroHedge.
- “Kremlin threatens to unleash Armageddon on West if it loses in Ukraine” – Dmitry Medvedev says that if a military defeat were to result in a return to Russia’s 1991 frontiers, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Moscow would unleash Armageddon, reports the Mail. What was it Putin told Carlson about never having threatened the West with nuclear weapons?
- “Smart motorway ‘computer glitch’ led to six-car pile-up on M6” – A car was left like a ‘sitting duck’ after breaking down on a lane on the M6, leaving the vehicle stranded on an inside lane which used to be a hard shoulder, says the Mail.
- “Tory mayor hits brakes on his anti-LTN stance after report shows fines make £2.5 million a year” – A Conservative mayor, who campaigned against low traffic neighbourhoods, has done a U-turn after learning his council will make £10 million a year from fines, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lithium battery warehouse goes up in flames” – A warehouse in France storing lithium batteries has caught fire, amid growing safety fears, reports the Telegraph.
- “Squirrels chemically castrated and deer cull meat served in prisons under Net Zero plans” – Squirrels will be chemically castrated and deer will be culled, cooked and served to prisoners under Net Zero plans to protect England’s trees, says the Telegraph.
- “The posh background of Just Stop Oil’s pink-haired poster girl” – JSO’s Phoebe Plummer was brought up a far cry from the world of civil disobedience, handcuffs and prison cells. She grew up in a £4 million Chelsea home, went to a £45,000 a year private school and enjoyed a life of privilege, reveals the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan, the Overground and the reification of ‘the Blob’” – The Overground overhaul is the natural culmination of widespread institutional capture, says Tom Jones in CapX.
- “Train lines to nowhere” – All aboard the Windrush Line! The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism, writes Sam Bidwell in the Critic.
- “Why full-fat milk and dairy was better for us all along” – Whole milk has become cool again, and it’s not just the Gold-Top generation who are lapping it up, writes Clare Finney in the Telegraph.
- “Trans-women’s milk as good as breast milk, says NHS trust” – An NHS trust has said that breast milk produced by trans women, i.e., men, is as good for babies as that produced by a mother who has given birth, reports the Telegraph.
- “Now theatre bosses slap a trigger warning on My Fair Lady production” – Theatre bosses staging the latest revival of My Fair Lady were so concerned it may upset some members of the audience they attached a trigger warning to the show, says the Mail.
- “John Lewis slammed for ‘inclusivity’ ad featuring employee who is a transgender BDSM fetishist” – John Lewis is under fire after featuring a transgender BDSM fetishist in a new ad campaign highlighting ‘diverse’ employees, according to Reduxx.
- “Lesbian members bar will only admit biological women” – A feminist campaigner is to open Britain’s first lesbian members bar that will only allow biological women to join, reports the Telegraph.
- “One of the most remarkable interviews ever” – On X, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. flags a recent Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz, in which Benz explains how the Pentagon and CIA have created a Censorship-Industrial Complex to influence U.S. elections.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/17/we-must-better-protect-those-who-serve-the-public/
Oh dear. Makes a change from the general public facing intimidation and threats from so-called public servants.
Green Jobs Don’t Exist
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
My friend was a Greenkeeper on my local course. Isn’t that a green job?
More 15 Minute City Event Revisited – 1st Anniversary
Heyford Hill Roundabout, Littlemore, Oxford
Saturday AFTERNOON
Vaccine shedding, Epoch Times has info but I can’t open it , is it a thing ?
Subscriber-only page. If you don’t want to subscribe, try Pierre Kory’s substack, he’s been researching it for many months. This is the most recent article.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/cp/141429490
…from having looked into this extensively, I am relatively sure of the following:
1. Shedding is very real.
2. People’s sensitivity to it greatly varies.
3. Most of the people who are highly sensitive to shedding have already figured it out, so if you do not already believe it is an issue for you, you probably don’t need to worry about it.
4. There is still no agreed upon mechanism to explain why it happens.
What does “shedding” mean in this context?
From Kory’s article:
Typically, shedding occurs (e.g., from a live viral vaccine like MMR or polio) because an individual “sheds” a self replicating form of the disease. This results in the low concentration of the pathogen which the shedder expels into their environment [through body fluids/sweat/breath, etc] then amplifying within the recipient and eventually reaching a comparable concentration to what was found in the “shedder.”
Also the midwestern doctor posted about shedding in January.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/unraveling-the-mystery-of-mrna-vaccine
Oh yes, great article, great substack all round.
Kremlin threatens to unleash Armageddon on West if it loses in Ukraine
Exactly how dim is Dmitri Medvedev?
What does he not understand about:
“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”
He isn’t going to be alive, Putin is not going to be alive, by the time Russia decides that it is deliriously happy to demilitarise Crimea and welcome the headquarters of a Multinational Force of Peacekeepers to Sevastopol to monitor a Military Line of Demarcation.
Another example of the not-so-subtle feminist division and destruction of society. I expect the usual reprimands for repeating this point. Of course, any other topic can be rehashed and repeated until the cows come home, just not the single most important topic there is i.e. why did society collapse so spectacularly? And definitely don’t mention the elephant in the room! A cult so powerful and so normalised and ingrained in society that even those that can see the harm it does refuse to criticise it. Extraordinary.
As something of a libertarian I am not wholly against the idea of lesbian only bars, though I accept that the whole business becomes trickier when you find yourself excluded from absolutely everything based on some random characteristic or your beliefs.
I agree that identity politics of any kind are unhelpful ultimately, though they are a natural human tendency I think.
I’m a bloke so this comment is probably not worth much but I don’t think I would describe myself as a “feminist” where I to be female. The ladies in my life I don’t think would either, though they do have strong views on how women are treated in certain countries, I get the impression they feel the “battle” has long since been “won” here.
At what point do you think “feminism” became unhelpful? Would you give women the vote? What parts of “feminism” as you see it are unhelpful?
I think all civilisations collapse eventually, for all sorts of reasons, and then remake themselves, as ours hopefully will. Ultimately whatever tendencies the average female (a fairly meaningless term) might have of which you disapprove, they make up 50% of the population so some kind of compromise needs to be found.
Bit disappointing – lots of downticks for FL but no engagement, and one downtick for my post which was neither approving nor disapproving of FL but merely exploring his views. Is that really in keeping with the spirit of this site?
“Squirrels chemically castrated and deer cull meat served in prisons under Net Zero plans” – Squirrels will be chemically castrated and deer will be culled, cooked and served to prisoners under Net Zero plans to protect England’s trees, says the Telegraph.
Whut? Prisoners will dine on venison?
That’s what I thought! It’s sometimes on sale in Morrison’s, but packaged as a top end product. Perhaps the Home Office isn’t any good in the retail trade?
I thought they were going to castrate the prisoners, feed them squirrels, and cull the deer to promote Net Zero. Though that’s no more crazy than the actuality.
If the greenies in and out of government get their way there won’t be anything else to serve.
I love venison and partial to squirrel.
Well, actually I love all game.
“Squirrels chemically castrated and deer cull meat served in prisons under Net Zero plans”
Isn’t ‘chemically castrated’ essentially poisoning, and ‘deer cull meat’ normally called venison? Lucky lags is all I can say – but what’s with the gross manipulation of language here: clickbaiting or something more sinister? I’d call both of those actions practical landscape management: grey squirrels are a destructive vermin invader and with no natural predators uncontrolled deer grazing is devastating to the landscape. But tag ‘Net Zero’ on the end and lo and behold, it becomes cynically manipulating.
‘Squirrels chemically castrated’ … well, that’s a waste of perfectly good meat as they are good eating and plentiful, and also are already eaten by many people. Perhaps at the same time they could encourage breeding of the native red squirrel (rather than putting their energies into repopulating the country with beavers).
I have never seen a red squirrel in the flesh, which is very sad.
From a cost perspective would make more sense to feed prisoners the squirrel and sell the ‘culled meat’ in supermarkets!
Shame squirrels and deer are not Carnivores otherwise there would be yet another possibility.
Take a trip to Brownsea Island or inset in a holiday in the Scillies – both crawling with them.
To be fair, they’re probably culling squirrels as part of a red squirrel comeback. reintroducing pine-martens seems to be a good strategy too, as they’ve been found to target the greys over the reds.
“Trans-women’s milk as good as breast milk, says NHS trust”
Words fail. The continuous chemical drench required by these chaps to produce ‘milk’ is off the scale – how on god’s earth can that possibly be safe to pass on to newborns?
All done under a Conservative branded government and Parliament.
“One of the most remarkable interviews ever”
The Benz interview suggests that US election interference is only one of our worries: closer to home the security state was active in trying to engineer the Brexit vote outcome – and no doubt the failure to implement it since. Look no further to explain why Rishi Sunak ended up as our duly unelected PM, and why Keir Starmer promises the same only more so.
Most of all, the interview casts light on how what has long been the experience of countries across the world, from Pakistan to even Italy, of regime change and US/UK interference in their national self-determination, has now become the bitter experience of our own citizens.
Key is Benz’s insight that the buzzword “democracy” actually means, to those in control, the preservation of “democratic institutions” like the WHO, IMF, IPCC – and of course the CIA, FBI and MI6 – from the dangerous attacks of The People. Understanding that we (ie ordinary people, not just card-carrying sceptics) are the “threat to democracy” explains much of why we seem to be treated as enemies in our own countries.
In other words, as Benz says, in the West we all actually live under a military-security Junta centred on the US deep state.
I recommend reviewing the script of the old “Yes, Minister” comedy programmes in this context. They probably would not produce that kind of show now, but it’s evident that most established institutions are essentially undemocratic, and tend to sustain themselves. I’m still a member of a couple of them that fit the bill that way.
Of course, we all make use of technical products that are manufactured to standards that are supra-national, and, err, dictated by various industries. Not criticising that, but there are limits to the idea of democracy, and the competence of politicians in general.
Is it just me but if there’s Eritreans in Europe who are supportive of the government over there, so much so that they riot against those who oppose the regime, then what the hell are they doing in Europe in the first place? You want to live under those conditions then why the hell did you come here just to cause havoc on our streets??
”Eight police officers were injured on Saturday during riots at a conference centre in The Hague, Mayor Jan van Zanen wrote in a letter to the city council. Police previously reported that six officers suffered injuries. The mayor said that a group of about 700 supporters of the Eritrean government had a party at the conference center on Fruitweg. Parties in parliament want clarification about what happened.
Opponents of the dictatorial regime – rioting youth from the Eritrean organization Brigade Nhamedu, according to the mayor – showed up at the location to confront the supporters. That led to riots in which the police were pelted with objects. The mayor said that the meeting center had increased security because it has been known for some time that “meetings of the Eritrean community can lead to mutual tensions.”
PVV leader Geert Wilders posted about “arresting and deporting” the rioters on X. As Prime Minister, he wants to “severely” put things in order.
According to Lilian Helder (BBB), these were not riots but criminal behavior. “Arrest, detain, have damage compensated, and then get out,” Helder posted on X.”
https://nltimes.nl/2024/02/19/eight-cops-hurt-hague-riots-saturday-mps-want-clarification
My default position for ANY immigrants who break our laws and cause trouble is to round them up and ship them out. No pussy footing about, no pissing about with courts and grifter legals – get rid and PDQ.
…but what about those poor souls who can’t remember and converse in the language of their birth country? Should interpreters be provided
Exactly the same, hux. You don’t show your gratitude and appreciation to be given safe haven and being allowed to stay in a safe country by breaking laws, attacking citizens or basically making a disrespectful nuisance of yourself. Obviously such behaviour demonstrates the polar opposite. This makes me come to the conclusion that a) the migrants are not fleeing a war-torn country or persecution at all, or b) they’ve been told already by the authorities/lawyers/NGOs that they can literally do whatever they want and they won’t get deported. It’s probably both of the above.
It’s starting to feel like we have a two-tier society but this time it’s nothing to do with a scamdemic/vax pass.
It would appear that Muslims, migrants and black people are a protected people who enjoy special status and are above the law in many cases. Basically anyone who isn’t white then!
This one picked up by Larry Johnson, the Uke govt list of ‘Russian propagandists’ in the West (I’d post the graphic but it’s a huge file).
https://voxukraine.org/en/the-network-of-russian-propaganda-what-connects-western-experts-promoting-narratives-beneficial-to-russia
From Johnson’s website:
I am proud to say I know most of the people on that list and consider them friends. Fighting the mainstream tends to create bonds of friendship and camaraderie. I am shocked by who they left off. What about the boys of the Duran …? They do one of the best jobs of blowing the whistle on a daily basis on Ukrainian and Western bullshit. Leaving them off the list is an insult.
https://sonar21.com/looks-like-we-made-it-and-mike-turners-russian-threat-scam/
And in other News, the gorgeous Bev Turner is back from holiday with a lovely tan. —–Eh sorry where was I? I was distracted there for a minute.
Not a problem, pour another glass.
I see you have great taste in women as well.
“Ex-Post Office Chair claims Government told him to delay compensation”
Sunak must be sacked for allowing his father-in-law, one of the world’s richest men, to delay compensation to the UK postmasters. It is scandalous Third World corruption imported to the highest levels of the UK government.
“Sunak’s in-laws are up to their necks in this, and stand to lose a great deal of money if compensation is paid out. They have millions invested in Infosys/Horizon/Liberty Global and his father-in-law is a director.”