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by Toby Young
24 February 2024 1:30 AM

  • “The peer, the pollster and the rumblings of a plan to oust Rishi Sunak” – The Times reports on the plotters trying to oust the Prime Minister before the election.
  • “Who could replace Rishi Sunak? These are the agents of change” – The same paper weighs up the runners and riders in the race to succeed the PM.
  • “Liz Truss backs Nigel Farage to return to the Conservatives” – The ex-PM wants the former UKIP leader to return to the Conservative fold, according to the Mail.
  • “Reform would raise 40p income tax threshold to £70,000” – A tax-cutting manifesto unveiled by Reform leader Richard Tice piles pressure on the Chancellor to go further with tax cuts in his spring Budget, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Parliament has taken the knee to the Islamists who rule by fear” – This week’s parliamentary shambles was merely a symptom of a wider malaise: too many in the West feel the need to apologise for our values, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
  • “Not in our name” – On the website of the British Friends of Israel, Allison Pearson writes about a troubling week in which MPs were bullied by Islamists to vote for a ceasefire in Gaza.
  • “Are Islamists in Charge of Britain?” – In the Free Press, Konstantin Kisin reflects on the depressing implications of what happened in Parliament on Wednesday evening.
  • “The trouble with defining genocide” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray wonders why seemingly quite sensible people like the historian William Dalrymple have lost their minds over Gaza, describing Israel’s war on Hamas as ‘genocide’ when it’s plainly no such thing.
  • “Apprentice star Dr. Asif Munaf is suspended from the medical register” – The Apprentice star Dr Asif Munaf has been suspended by the General Medical Council over a string of antisemetic remarks just one week after the BBC dropped him, reports the Mail.
  • “A sinister agenda down on the farm” – In TCW – Defending Freedom, Sally Beck says English farmers are in the cross hairs of shadowy bureaucrats pursuing a Net Zero agenda.
  • “Guy Adams joins farmers’ fight against Mark Drakeford” – A game of ‘cat and mouse’ played out on the highways and byways of North Wales this week. The cats drove rather big tractors, reports the Mail’s Guy Adams.
  • “Net Zero’s days are numbered” – Rupert Darwall in the Spectator predicts that the Net Zero target will be abandoned “sooner rather than later”.
  • “Vegan food fans left disappointed as burger chain is forced to close” – The British fast-food chain, The Vurger Co, which used ingredients such as tempeh, soya and Beyond Meat to make its creations, has permanently closed its doors, says the Mail.
  • “Record fines for 20mph speeding despite PM’s pledge to scrap zones” – The Times has found no reduction in tickets being handed out to motorists for breaching 20mph speeding limits, with the Met issuing one ticket for every four cars in London.
  • “Mercedes-Benz chief vows to build petrol cars ‘well into’ 2030s” – The German car giant has watered down its targets for electric vehicle sales as demand slumps, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Left-wing anarchist made plan to kill 50 politicians” – Student Jacob Graham, who said he wanted “to stand up for the working classes” and is a member of the Green Party, is convicted of preparing to murder 50 politicians, reports the Telegraph. Not just the Far Right, then.
  • “We need to talk about eco-terrorism” – The anarchist terrorist who wanted to kill 50 politicians was also a fervent environmentalist says Fraser Myers in Spiked. Should we be worried about eco-terrorism?
  • “Huge spike in cases of deadliest cancer” – Cancer experts have warned of a “frightening” explosion of pancreatic cancer rates among younger women with incidence, reports the Mail.
  • “Fertility rate plunges to an all-time low” – The Office for National Statistics says the fertility rate – the average number of children a women has – in England and Wales slumped to 1.49 in 2022, says the Mail.
  • “Vice to shut down website and sack hundreds of staff as free news model collapses” – More misery for Vice, the once mighty new media company brought low by the hubris of its owner, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Why gaudy Vice was rejected by clean-living Generation Z” – Drugs, sex, and war zones: how the publisher’s provocative coverage led to its demise, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Expect Google’s Gemini 2.0 to be even worse” – According to Daniel Kalder in UnHerd, the revamp of Gemini, supposedly less politically correct than the current one, will be even more woke.
  • “Google’s push to lecture us on diversity goes beyond AI” – It’s not just its new AI that reveals Google’s woke agenda, says Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
  • “Byline Times, Vorderman and Maitlis face threat of legal action from Dan Wootton” – Ex-GB News presenter Dan Wootton, having been told by two different police forces that they’re dropping their investigation of him, is now preparing to sue Byline Times, Carol Vorderman and Emily Maitlis for reporting the fact that he was under investigation, thereby ending his career.
  • “Daily Mail publisher says it needs to buy the Telegraph to tackle Google’s power” – DMG Media says news publishers must consolidate to compete with Google and Meta, according to the Telegraph.
  • “King formally removes CBE from ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells” – The chief executive who ran the Post Office while it wrongly prosecuted sub-postmasters has forfeited her CBE after “bringing the honours system into disrepute”, says the Telegraph.
  • “Former Tory MP Bob Stewart has racial abuse conviction quashed” – The MP for Beckenham was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence last November for telling a protestor outside the Bahraini embassy to “go back to Bahrain”. But justice has prevailed and the conviction has been overturned by Southwark Crown Court, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Police watchdog orders ‘lesbian nana’ officer to apologise” – A West Yorkshire Police officer has been accused of using “inappropriate” language while arresting a 16 year-old autistic girl who compared her to her “lesbian nana” and has been ordered to send the girl a letter of apology, says the Mail.
  • “Killer who carried out sadistic murder claimed she he was a cat” – Scarlet Blake, the gender-confused man convicted of murdering a complete stranger and whom the mainstream media insist on calling ‘she’, at one point identified as a cat, reports the Mail.
  • “The woke colonisation of London” – Does Trafalgar Square really need a tribute to transgender sex workers, asks Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
  • “How the luxury beliefs of an educated elite erode society” – Whether attacking marriage, calling out white privilege or seeking to defund the police, the elite espouse ideas that confer status on them at little cost. But it’s the least privileged who suffer the effects, says Rob Henderson in the Times.
  • “The Speaker of the House says the real threat to MPs come from ‘white fundamentalists’ and ‘far Right extremists” – Leo Kearse is unimpressed by Lindsay Hoyle’s cognitive dissonance.

2 days after Islamist threats to MPs intimidated him into subverting parliamentary process, the Speaker of the House says the real threat is "white fundamentalists" and "far-right extremists".
This country is an absolute clown show. pic.twitter.com/2bVrPfYTCx

— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown (@LeoKearse) February 23, 2024

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Grim Ace
Grim Ace
2 months ago

That’s all well and good. But Hermer is a traitor to the safety and security of our native people. He places the interests of immigrants and terrorists – who have murdered and injured our people, over us. His name will go on a list of those who must be tried and sentenced for their treason against us.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 months ago

Too highbrow for me, I am afraid.
My observation is that powerful people change laws to suit themselves just until more powerful people come along and change them again.
Lawyers are simply interpreters of the law of the day, whatever they would like to think.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

This is what people like him, who make up the traitor class, are supportive of. Quite shameful and concerning, in my opinion. All due to ‘multiculti’, of course, and supports the data from Matt Goodwin. Fair play to Alex Armstrong for highlighting this;

”72 schools across England have no white British kids. 454 schools have less than 2%”

https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1931630733753241969

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harrydaly
harrydaly
2 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

If the highbrow is to be like this, let’s have more of it.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 months ago

Lucy Connolly’s fundraiser has reached its goal, and will surely keep on growing. A big ”Fk You!” to the government and judiciary;

”You probably know of Lucy Connolly as the “Tory councillor’s racist wife” who posted a horrible tweet on the day of the Southport massacre in July last year. A bereaved mother herself, Lucy was horrified by the murder of three little girls at a holiday club and expressed her distress on social media. When she’d calmed down, a few hours later, Lucy deleted the tweet. It did not represent who she was as a person, as a wife to Ray, a loving mother to a twelve-year-old daughter, as a devoted and hugely popular childminder to small children of many different nationalities.
Lucy Connolly has paid a high price for a moment of anger. An unimaginably terrible price. Sir Keir Starmer threatened there would be heavy punishments for anyone arrested in connection with the Southport riots. He called them “far right thugs”. Lucy was arrested, she was denied bail to which she was entitled as a person of previously exemplary character and taken to prison. She was petrified. Lucy was advised by her solicitor to plead guilty because she’d be “out by Christmas”.”

https://democracythree.org/helplucyconnolly

But what of the others that were jailed for similar? Does Wayne O’Rourke have a fundraiser to help him rebuild his life? Are we even familiar with any of the other people’s names, and do we know how they’re bearing up, or have they vanished from our consciences due to lack of interest/exposure, even by so-called ‘citizen journalists’?

”Many may not be aware but…

When certain Southport protestors were held on remand last year, some were given reeducation courses on “diversity”.

This is what happened to Daffron Williams (pictured), an Afghanistan and Iraq veteran suffering from PTSD, while he was at HMP Swansea.

His crime? Social media posts.

One post said: “Civil war is here. The only thing that’s missing is bullets. That’s the next step.”

Another: “I am racist as f***, only to those who sap the life out of society and disrespect culture. Our future as British is so uncertain it is unreal.”

Another post included an AI image one of a child dressed as a medieval knight carrying sword next to lion. The caption read, “Time to wake up the lion to save our children’s future”.

He was sentenced to 2 years in prison after pleading guilty to stirring up racial hatred.

Just sent an FOI request over to HMPPS and the MoJ to see exactly what this “diversity” module at HMP Swansea entailed…

Could be interesting.

Williams should be released fairly soon as half his sentence is to be served on license.”

https://x.com/StarkNakedBrief/status/1931013502962926024

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
2 months ago

Three long time friends with serious Communist links are Sir Kneel , Lord Herbert & hate not hopes Nick Lowles , these people are hell bent on crushing the life out of the uk ! Three Enemies of the State walking amongst us !!….

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RW
RW
2 months ago

Hermer is either a liar or an idiot as what he refers to as post war consensus was a violent reorderding of the world by military force with huge civilians casualties as perfectly intended side effect (and sometimes, not-so-side-effect) and the only thing which got rebuit by it was the failed league of nations, an unprecedented idea of a certain US president from second decade of the 20th century meant to guarantee “eternal world peace”. Neither the original nor the copy ever came close to achieving that.

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JXB
JXB
2 months ago

There is no such thing as “international law” – just national sovereignty and the law is the people. Called Common Law – which is discovered law not invented rules by a bunch of self-serving galoots.

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Curio
Curio
2 months ago

Spectator: “Yet this week the clock seemed to have been turned back to around ad 650. Hamit Coskun was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence motivated ‘by hostility towards followers of Islam’. His crime? Setting fire to a Quran, shouting ‘fuck Islam’ and declaring the faith a ‘religion of terrorism’ outside the Turkish consulate.”
I wonder whether the Professor has any comments to make about this case in particular, and in general, on democracy in Turkey, Turkey’s islamisation and Erdogan‘s condemnation of Israel and backing of Hamas after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.

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Keith C
Keith C
2 months ago

“Kemi Badenoch said Lord Hermer “is calling people who disagree with him Nazis”. No, he wasn’t. He didn’t mention Nazis once.”
This strikes me as rather obtuse. Hermer would not have mentioned Schmitt at all had he not been a Nazi speaking at a time of Nazism.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
2 months ago

When it comes to it being a lawyer is probably considered worse than a serial killer as at least you can trust what they will do.

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