- “Galloway’s landslide means all bets are off for the next election” – Tom Harris in the Telegraph says George Galloway’s by-election victory poses a huge challenge for Keir Starmer.
- “The left’s deathly embrace of Islamic identitarianism” – The Rochdale by-election confirms that the working classes lose out when identity politics rules, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The new woke segregation is an insult to white and black people” – Writing in the Telegraph, Mutaz Ahmed says the producers of Slave Play have forgotten the lessons of the civil rights movement.
- “Six months on, Ulez is doing more harm than good” – With unfair fines, false advertising and a huge legal scandal, Sadiq Khan’s Ulez scheme is a shambles, write Ed Wiseman in the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan admits LTN is ‘causing huge problems’” – Even the Mayor is turning his back on the disastrous LTN introduced by Lambeth Council.
- “Motorway 60mph restrictions to be scrapped” – Air pollution will ‘ultimately be solved at the tailpipe’, National Highways admits as it ditches speed curbs on M1 and M6
- “AstraZeneca under fire after LGBT+ staff group issue training saying ‘sex is not binary’” – is this peak woke? Documents circulated by the LGBT+ affinity group within AstraZeneca claiming “biology has a spectrum” are condemned by Lord Winston and Richard Dawkins as “scientifically ignorant”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us” – Another Guardian article commits the naturalistic fallacy, arguing that because whales can be gay, being gay is therefore good.
- “Google’s brave new woke-AF world” – When DEI merges with AI, the post-truth dystopia will become impossible to escape, says Andrew Sullivan on the Weekly Dish.
- “Suella Braverman fears she could be criminalised if trans conversion therapy is banned” – The former Home Secretary expressed concern in a parliamentary debate about Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s private members’ bill banning conversion therapy, saying she could be sent to prison under the Brighton MP’s new law because she tells her children that “a boy cannot be a girl”, reports the Telegrpah.
- “‘Most dangerous’ conversion therapy Bill falls at the first hurdle in Westminster” – Russell-Moyle’s bill was talked out in the House of Commons yesterday, reports Let Us Pray. So Suella is safe for now.
- “I listen to money singing” – David McGrogan takes up the cudgels against programmable money in his News From Uncibal Substack.
- “Oompa-Loompas reveal: how the Willy Wonka Glasgow Experience went wrong” – Expectant parents paid £35 per ticket to access a sparsely decorated warehouse, says the Times in a piece about Glasgow’s Willy Wonka Experience.
- “Three people injured in Clapham shooting” – Emergency crews were called at around 5pm on Friday to an incident in Clapham, according to the Mail. Welcome to Khan’s London.
- “Fury as white working-class people excluded from the Guardian‘s ‘work experience scheme’ but rich people from minorities can apply” – Only black, Asian or minority ethnic people can apply to the Guardian’s work experience scheme, reports GB News.
- “It’s official: we can pretty much treat Covid like the flu now” – The Wall St Journal reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally dropped its advice telling people infected with Covid to isolate for five days. You should now follow the same precautions as you would take with the flu, says the CDC.
- “Epic skit from Michael Rappaport” – The American comic roasts Hollywood’s Jewish celebrities in an imaginary Oscar speech for failing to speak out against the Hamas attack on October 7th or stand up for the Israeli hostages. Savage but true.
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Time for a Stalinist purge on the Civil Service.
100% (evil scum bags)
“stopping primary school children from adopting new pronouns”
Except you can’t really “adopt a new pronoun” unless you’re talking about yourself. All you can do is ask or force other people to “adopt new pronouns” when referring to you. Compelled speech.
Yet again the legal profession is the enabler for society’s current ills.
I would say it’s more about encouraging others to police speech otherwise how else would mis-pronouning be identified? Children might report fellow-pupils for a laugh or out of malice and will not know how dangerous it is. It then becomes embedded in society.
Time the state was effectively abolished as it’s failed. Monetary freedom is the only way this can actually be achieved. Whilst the state has a monopoly on money it can largely do as it pleases, including stealing our money with impunity either through taxation or inflation. God bless Mrs Thatcher but she was not anything like radical enough.
Yes, Minister. Appleby crawling out of the woodwork? Maybe not much has changed in the Service.
I fail to see how civil servants can think that age based equality allows a 5 year old to enjoy the same rights as adults to “change gender” yet a 20 year old with a wife, baby and mortgage is not entitled to the full minimum wage.
Tge Tories will not get sympathy but brick bats for enabling the supremacy of the blob. When Blair and Brown were undermining the institutions the Tories were supportive or irrelevant. Since coming into government in 2910 they have carried on with it.
we must get rid of them.
Getting rid of the Tories is all well and good but let us not forget we now live in a one party state. Changing the name of the notionally party in power will not alter the colour of the politics it will simply change the shade.
Nobody in the UK is forced to vote for either the Tories or Labour. The problem is that there are too many people like some people here, who are opposed to the (current) Tories and Labour, who don’t vote. Not voting is a vote for the status quo of Tories or Labour.
Voting for Independents or a centre Right challenger is an option.
We need to move to the system they have in the US whereby each new government appoints what are currently permanent secretaries und deputy secretaries in each department and if they don’t do the minister’s bidding, including making sure the people under them stay in line, they get sacked.
I was looking for examples of right wing rather than socialist dictatorships and many so-called information sources immediately equate right wing politics with totalitarianism. It would seem that the internet has been taken over by the left.