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by Richard Eldred
21 February 2024 1:08 AM

  • “Jewish baby’s birth certificate returned from Home Office with ‘Israel’ scribbled out” – The Home Office has been accused of scribbling out the word “Israel” on a six month-old Jewish girl’s birth certificate, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Londoner whose baby’s birth certificate was ‘defaced’ feels ‘unsafe’” – A Londoner, whose baby’s birth certificate was ‘defaced’ by Home Office staff, no longer feels safe in the U.K. as cases of antisemitism continue to rise, says the Mail.
  • “Prince William’s plea to end Gaza fighting risks diplomatic rift with Israel” – The Prince of Wales has called for an end to the fighting in Gaza in an intervention that risks sparking a diplomatic rift with Israel, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Prince of Wales knew Gaza plea would court controversy – and did it anyway” – Prince William’s statement on the Gaza conflict was not composed on the hoof. The next question, of whether he will make it a habit, will define his legacy, says Hannah Furness in the Telegraph.
  • “The West is about to hand victory to Hamas” – It is chilling how many are beginning to forget that this war started because of the terrorists’ atrocities, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
  • “Sir Keir changes stance on Gaza for fifth time as he backs ‘immediate ceasefire’” – Keir Starmer set out his fifth new position on Gaza as he backed an “immediate” ceasefire to avoid another damaging internal rebellion, reports Nick Gutteridge in the Telegraph.
  • “Keir’s moral mess” – Keir Starmer is not the man he tells you he is, writes Stewart Slater in the New Conservative.
  • “The Times view on the failure to jail pro-Palestinian marchers” – A judge who decided not to imprison Hamas sympathisers has undermined trust in the judiciary, says the Times in a leading article.
  • “Royal Society of Literature refers itself to Charity Commission as authors pen petition” – The RSL has confirmed that it is referring itself to the Charity Commission after an open letter urging it to do so was signed by leading authors including Ian McEwan and Alan Hollinghurst, according to the Guardian.
  • “Amy Winehouse and the fanaticism of the Israelophobes” – The defilement of Amy Winehouse’s statue was an act of racial animus, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “The devastating impact Covid and austerity had on children in England” – The Association of Directors of Children’s Services says a wide-ranging national plan for childhood is needed in England to address the profound impacts on young people of austerity, poverty and the legacy of the pandemic, reports the Guardian.
  • “Florida grand jury finds average citizens aren’t buying ‘follow the science’ propaganda on masks and social distancing” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker delves into the findings from a Florida grand jury that is looking into the pandemic response.
  • “Excess deaths last year were two thirds lower than expected” – New modelling from the ONS suggests that excess deaths in Britain last year were two thirds lower than previous estimates, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Covid vaccine mRNA can ‘spread systemically’ to placenta and infants of women vaccinated during pregnancy ” – A new report demonstrates for the first time the ability of mRNA Covid vaccines to penetrate the fetal-placental barrier and reach the intrauterine environment, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “The failure of science is worse than you think” – It will be a generation or two, or even longer, for people to regain their trust in science. And rightly so, says Jeffrey A. Tucker in the Epoch Times.
  • “How the global managerial gambit ensures no one ever has to take accountability for their policies” – The WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty is a partnership that allows the WHO to say “we didn’t make you do anything” and allows politicians to say “we were just following advice”, writes Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
  • “WHO pandemic treaty negotiations resume while concerns mount about censorship threats” – The WHO pandemic treaty threatens freedom of expression by requiring governments to manage “infodemics” – defined as “too much information”, says ADF International.
  • “Labour backtracks over Sue Gray’s announcement on citizen assemblies that will bypass Whitehall” – Labour has backtracked on plans to create dozens of citizens’ assemblies to deliberate on new laws following a backlash against the “stupid idea”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Is Sue Gray the new Dominic Cummings?” – UnHerd’s John Oxley examines Sue Gray’s role in shaping party policy under Starmer’s leadership.
  • “Lucy Frazer says public interest concerns remain in UAE bid for the Telegraph” – The Culture Secretary has reiterated her concerns over a United Arab Emirates-funded bid to buy the Telegraph in a letter to a cross-party group of MPs, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The social care visa is a trojan horse for mass migration” – Despite having repeatedly promised to reduce immigration, the Conservatives have hugely increased it. Voters are fleeing in droves, writes Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
  • “Switzerland to get referendum to stop asylum seekers as population soars” – The Swiss people are due to be offered a referendum on immigration after a petition calling for the population not to go above 10 million by 2050 reached 100,000 signatures, according to the Express.
  • “The border crisis has brought chaos to America” – Joe Biden has shown how much can go wrong when a government gives up on enforcing its border, writes Sean Collins in Spiked.
  • “We’re on the new road to serfdom: our property is no longer our own” – From your body to your house, the assumption is that it’s fine for the state to make decisions for you, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
  • “British parks could lose their swings because of EU health and safety rules” – Parents have been warned that swings are at risk of being ripped out of British playgrounds because of EU health and safety rules, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Bleak options” – The successful politician of today seems to have no mental or cultural hinterland, no real character other than ambition and a desire for the limelight, writes Theodore Dalrymple in Taki’s Magazine.
  • “U.K. documentary listens to both sides on Ukraine’s frontline with Russia” – The Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh reviews Sean Langan’s new documentary, Ukraine’s War: The Other Side.
  • “Alexei Navalny was killed ‘by punch to the heart’” – A human rights activist claims that Alexei Navalny had been weakened in sub-zero temperatures at his prison in the Arctic before being struck by one of Putin’s henchmen in a classic KGB technique, reports the Times.
  • “The farmers’ revolt comes to Wales” – Welsh Labour’s green policies are making farming impossible, says Myfanwy Alexander in Spiked.
  • “Net Zero will be far more expensive than public thinks, Lords warned” – An ex-IMF chief economist says that transitioning to a low-carbon economy is “necessary” but will be “much more expensive than people imagine”, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Europe’s green taxes risk destroying jobs and industry, Sir Jim Ratcliffe warns” – Sir Jim Ratcliffe warns that Europe’s green taxes are driving away investment and risk destroying its €1 trillion chemicals industry, reports the Telegraph.
  • “‘We bought an electric car, and it was a total disaster’” – GB New’s Keith Bays issues a warning to anyone thinking of switching to an electric car.
  • “New study: climate models get water vapour wildly wrong” – A new study published in PNAS has demonstrated, once again, that climate models fail to simulate what happens in the real world with regard to fundamental climate change variables like water vapour, says Kenneth Richard in WUWT.
  • “Trans women in the military allowed to live in female-only accommodation” – An official Government document states that trans military personnel born as men can live in female-only accommodation, reports the Telegraph.
  • “A church has been banned from displaying a Pride flag on its altar” – A church in Leicester had hung a ‘Progress Pride’ flag from the altar before it was replaced by one with a chevron representing marginalised people of colour and trans people, says the Mail.
  • “Lord Botham accused of ‘untruths’ over cricket’s racism report” – The author of a cricket racism report has accused Lord Botham of “untruths” and hit out at the England and Wales Cricket Board for not having the “backbone” to call him out, reports the Telegraph.
  • “A colonialist’s head on a stick would be a more honest sculpture” – Sadiq Khan is degrading London’s public realm in the name of diversity, says Christopher Howse in the Telegraph.
  • “The nonsense of ‘indigenous ways of knowing’” – The DEI agenda is a menace to science and reason, argues Stephen Knight in Spiked.
  • “Emily Bridges says British Cycling ‘violated’ her his human rights over trans participation rule change” – Emily Bridges is ready to go to the European Court after accusing British Cycling of violating his human rights by banning transgender cyclists from female competition, according to Cycling Weekly.
  • “The truth about John Lewis’s trans takeover” – John Lewis’s internal staff magazine Identity, set up by the department store’s LGBT network, is unintentionally revealing, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
  • “‘Self-ID has been a complete disaster’” – Transsexual writer Debbie Hayton speaks with Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill about why gender ideology also harms trans people.
  • “High school basketball game abandoned after trans player ‘hurts girls’” – A Massachusetts high school girls basketball team was forced to forfeit its game after a transgender player on the opposing team injured three players, reports the Mail.
  • “Madame Web’s box office flop has canceled plans for a new franchise” – Sony Pictures’s Madame Web scored one of the lowest superhero box office debuts in recent memory, essentially cancelling a possible franchise at the studio, says the Mail.
  • “Why even Julian Assange’s critics should defend him” – The WikiLeaks founder must not be extradited, writes Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
  • “Elon Musk receives nomination for Nobel Peace Prize” – Elon Musk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as a “stout proponent for free speech”, reports the Mail.
  • “Social media is destroying a generation, and China knows it” – It’s increasingly impossible to deny that smartphones are doing irreversible damage to children and childhood, says Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
  • “‘In Syria a few million lost their lives. In China, Uyghur people are being prosecuted… but when Jewish people involved everything changes’” – In a Sky News interview, the Jewish man whose daughter’s birth certificate had the word “Israel” scribbled out opens up about the rise of antisemitism in the U.K.

“In Syria a few million lost their lives. In China, Uyghur people being prosecuted, on a daily basis sent to the concentration camp, you can't hear a word about that. But when Jewish people involved everything changes.”

His daughter’s birth certificate was returned ripped with… pic.twitter.com/qZ2r8nv8u9

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) February 20, 2024

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Silke David
Silke David
3 years ago

In Hamburg, 3 weekends now, the young people have met in the Stadtpark, a huge park, which the police have broken up in the early hours of the morning and it takes 6 hours to collect the rubbish.
The police top people have now said it is not their job to break up these parties.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

Were there

Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
Join our Stand in the Park – Bracknell – Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago

Wonderful to see! The energy is so high, and there is so many there that the police have withered down into a few small groups. This is probably better that what would have happened in normal times! They’re just making their way down to Doris’s gaff now…

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

BBC doing their usual with zero coverage…

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

The BBC are finished. This is being filmed and shared worldwide, same as yesterday’s march, by the people. Don’t need the MSM.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

Sadly the majority of the public don’t believe sources other than the MSM broadcast media…
Great to see the footage elsewhere.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

Lots of Soy Boys, they ain’t gonna get your freedom back for you

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Dobba
Dobba
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Where’s all the ‘real men’ been during this whole shit show? The football firms and wannabe gangsters? Being a ‘man’ has nothing to do with appearance. It’s what’s in your heart, being free of mind and thought and how you treat others that counts.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago
Reply to  Dobba

Oh Jesus, pass the sick bucket we are done for

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Dobba
Dobba
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Grow up man and have some integrity.

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Tillysmum
Tillysmum
3 years ago
Reply to  Dobba

Agree. And use less of the blasphemy.

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Lockdown_Lunacy
Lockdown_Lunacy
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

At least they had the balls to get out there and be heard. Plenty of people I thought were real men are still wandering around Tesco in bitch muzzles.

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Hypatia
Hypatia
3 years ago

Is this related to the “Danser Encore” flash mob/ protests in France and other parts of Europe? Very encouraging, go young people and dance! I’m not as young as I was but I would join in!

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actualinterview
actualinterview
3 years ago

I streamed the event today.

https://youtu.be/Jti7o5s7ICI

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actualinterview
actualinterview
3 years ago

I streamed the event today.
https://youtu.be/Jti7o5s7ICI

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

Katie Hopkins: Angela Merkel banning Brits from EU. Alright for her to fly to G7 Though?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_eCQyuETE4

Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
Join our Stand in the Park – Bracknell – Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell

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Cranmer
Cranmer
3 years ago

Why is there always someone lurking in the background with a mask on, taking a picture with his phone? It stands out like a man keeping his hat on in church.

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