- “Protests have no place in an educational setting, government told” – Sara Khan, the Government’s independent social cohesion adviser, has published a report calling for protests outside schools to be banned and revealing that 76% of people have refrained from expressing their views in public for fear of harassment and intimidation.
- “Mail reveals Gaza doctors are long-time supporters of Hamas” – A Mail on Sunday investigation reveals that six medics interviewed by the BBC for a report on the torture of hospital medics by Israeli forces in Gaza have posted antisemitic slurs on social media.
- “Cinema’s Eurovision film is axed because Israel is a contestant” – A historic cinema, founded by a Jewish businesswoman over a century ago, has provoked outrage after cancelling a screening of Eurovision in protest at Israel’s participation, reports the Mail.
- “MPs warn Britain is being changed forever by unelected activists” – A string of MPs have warned that Britain is in the grip of a far-Left surge which could severely undermine democracy and free speech, according to GB News.
- “‘I used to be unequivocally pro-multiculturalism. How naive I was’” – We have not created a harmonious melting pot, but a society where prejudices and tensions can fester, says Bella Wallersteiner in the Telegraph.
- “Massive German document release sheds still more light on the entire Covid farce, as if any more light were needed” – On Substack, Eugyppius reacts to the release of over 2,500 pages documenting the meetings of the German ‘Covid Crisis Team’ between January 2020 and April 2021.
- “Pandemic preparations are unhealthy” – The proposed WHO pandemic treaty would compromise national and health sovereignty, writes Anjuli Webster in the Mail & Guardian.
- “Elon Musk’s X to pay legal bills for vaccine-doubting Canadian doctor” – Elon Musk’s X says it’s funding legal bills for a Canadian doctor previously chastised by regulators for her tweets about COVID-19, according to the National Post.
- “‘Has ‘our’ NHS finally hit rock bottom? I fear it has much further to fall’” – An iron rule of British life must now be that not a single week will ever pass without tales of dismal failure emerging about ‘our’ NHS, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Lee Anderson hails ‘staggering’ new polling development for Reform U.K.” – Reform U.K. has overtaken the Tories among male voters and those in the Red Wall, reports the Express.
- “The gravediggers of British conservatism” – The Conservative Party is in its death throes, writes Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
- “Penny Mordaunt: the perfect head for the headless Tories” – Penny Mordaunt is the epitome of Blob ambition, says Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
- “Moral arguments over the state pension are irrelevant. There is no money” – The question of whether women born in the 1950s are “entitled” to extra money is beside the point. We’ve run out of cash, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Nearly all private schools plan to increase fees, Telegraph poll reveals” – Labour’s VAT tax grab on private schools could put seven out of 10 out of business, reports the Telegraph.
- “The English town where children grow up doomed to worklessness” – Middlesbrough offers a devastating snapshot of how young people’s prospects are being destroyed, write Melissa Lawford and Ben Butcher in the Telegraph.
- “How to speak to a human at HMRC” – In a time when it’s harder than ever to speak to a human at HMRC, the Telegraph’s Pieter Snepvangers explores the secret tips to help you beat the helpline queues.
- “Fujitsu to win digital ID cards contract despite Horizon scandal” – The company that built the faulty Post Office Horizon software is in line to run a nationwide digital ID card scheme to be used in pubs and supermarkets, reports the Telegraph.
- “It’s painful to see how far Scotland has fallen” – Libby Purves has written a moving lament for the land of her father, despairing over the sheer idiocy of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act.
- “Fringe will be ‘busier than normal’ for police due to SNP free speech crackdown” – Performers heading for Edinburgh this summer have been warned they may face questioning by Police Scotland if they push boundaries with ‘offensive’ material, says the Scottish Express.
- “Police Scotland admits investigation policy risks helping criminals” – Police Scotland admits that a plan to stop investigating all crimes risks helping criminals, according to the Telegraph.
- “Scotland and Canada, united in confusion over freedom of speech” – Nobody in Scotland or Canada knows what their new hate crime legislation is going to look like in real life. That’s a terrible feature in any law, says Chris Selley in the National Post.
- “Leo Varadkar vs. the people” – Good riddance to the man who turned Ireland into a laboratory of the new illiberalism, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Putin must now realise he’s been fighting the wrong war” – The deadly attack in Moscow will serve as a painful reminder of the threat posed by Islamist terrorism, writes Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
- “Wind farms investigated after ‘overcharging customers by £100 million’” – Wind farm owners are being investigated by the energy watchdog for alleged market manipulation after overcharging consumers by £100 million, according to the Telegraph.
- “Taxi drivers warn they will be ‘wiped out’ by council’s new eco-ban” – Operators say they are facing a bill of tens of thousands if Hampshire’s New Forest District Council bring in a ban on pre-2021 petrol and diesel taxis, reports the Mail.
- “The Hertz meltdown reveals scale of the EV debacle” – Biden’s plan to phase out gas-powered cars in favour of electric vehicles comes as we are flooded with overwhelming evidence that EVs are a market loser, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker in the Epoch Times.
- “Harvard shuts geoengineering project to preserve climate narrative” – It turns out, the climate change business thrives on more climate change alarmism. Whodathunk? says Cauf Skiviers on Substack.
- “Toward ruin or recovery?” – The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all, says Larissa Phillips in Quillette.
- “BBC presenters told to challenge guests who label others ‘transphobic’ after J.K. Rowling errors” – BBC presenters have been told to challenge guests who accuse others of transphobia after news items on J.K. Rowling fell short of editorial standards, reports Deadline.
- “Fans display giant St. George’s Cross amid row over ‘woke’ kit” – England fans displayed a huge St. George’s Cross at Wembley in a ‘massive statement’ amid a row over the football team’s ‘woke’ kit design, says the Mail.
- “Nike drew up plans for ‘rainbow England kit’ to take shirt to drastic new levels” – Nike reportedly drew up plans which would have seen England play in a ‘rainbow’ kit at the Euros this summer, according to the Express.
- “U.S. investment funds pull $13.3 billion from BlackRock in anti-ESG campaign” – Red-state investment funds have pulled about $13.3 billion from the world’s largest asset manager as part of an anti-ESG campaign, reports the FT.
- “California proposes restricting ‘influential’ anonymous online speech” – A proposed California bill aims to curb large-scale anonymous online free speech by mandating that social media platforms require personal ID from accounts with over 25,000 followers, according to the Washington Examiner.
- “Everyone, yes everyone, is far right’ – Elon Musk has tweeted Dominic Frisby’s ‘Far Right’ song and it’s gone ballistic.
Everyone, yes everyone, is far right!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2024
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Morning all , my tech skills are Zilch I’m afraid so I can’t post links !!. If I could I would put IVOR CUMMINS talk he’s just done in Southampton called “How the World is Run” onto here ! I URGE you all to watch it ( Mogs I raised it yesterday ) It’s clear & Concise ! It puts everything into perspective . Let’s have a chat about it later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ooqNaj4rw
Cheers
What do you think of Ivor’s presentation 
He is always very good.
This is a bit too long for me.
I prefer to read rather than listen….
But he is, as usual, on the money.
LOL, I was just about to post something but Monro beat me to it. But I think mine isn’t the one you meant, not watched it either;
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1765361884641845527
Thanks , this is the same presentation so have a look if you get 5
Hope And Freedom Not Woke Tyranny – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
Too right, but unfortunately ‘conservative’ has become a dirty word even with a small ‘c’.
This is because the Conservative party should be charged with crimes under the Trades Description Act. They have CONSERVED NOTHING: not our country, not our borders, not our heritage, not our culture, not our laws, not our economy, not our freedom of speech, not even our freedom of thought in the woke crapfest that gives more rights to men pretending to be women than real XX women. Woe betide anyone who mentions this publicly.
The Tories have been too busy trying to be faux-socialists, globalists and multiculturalist cowards to conserve anything of what used to be Britain. Instead of cleaning up Bliar’s filthy mess they have compounded it.
That is why they’re heading for a meltdown. Maybe they need a few years in the political wilderness to find themselves again. Or maybe they’re finished altogether.
Putin must now realise he’s been fighting the wrong war
Afghanistan has once more become a base for global terror attacks. Well done (not) President Biden.
No question that the Moscow terrorist attack was ISIS-K
‘Reports in Russia suggested the four main assailants detained by the FSB on Saturday were all from Tajikistan, a central Asian country whose citizens make up a large proportion of the members of Isis-K, according to analysts who monitor the group.’
‘Isis’s media channel Amaq published a gruesome video late on Saturday that was apparently filmed by one of the attackers. In it, a gunman can be seen shooting in the hallway of the auditorium at bodies on the floor, while another attacks people with a knife’
Polina Ivanova
‘Isis-K has planned several attacks in Europe in recent months but they were foiled…..’It’s about the convenience of the target.’……Previously the FSB focused almost entirely on the Islamist terror threat but since 2022, the majority of its statements have related to Ukraine.
Vera Mironova, Davis Center, Harvard University
Isis-K launched a suicide attack against the Russian embassy in Kabul in September 2022…….“Isis-K has even rolled out a Russian-language propaganda wing,”
Lucas Webber, MilitantWire
Many of those members come from Tajikistan, Mironova said — a poor country where large numbers of people travel to Russia as migrant workers. “In the Isis doctrine, Russia is as bad as the US, China and Iran,”
Asfandyar Mir, Institute for Peace.
“Russian foreign policy has been one big red flag for ISIS [ISIL]……..The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Russian actions in Chechnya, Moscow’s close relationships with the Syrian and Iranian governments, and especially the military campaigns that Russia has waged against ISIS fighters in Syria and — through Wagner Group mercenaries – in parts of Africa.”
Michael Kugelman, Wilson Centre
“Russia’s engagement in the global fight against ISIS and its affiliates, especially through its military operations in Syria and its efforts to establish connections with the Afghan Taliban – ISIS-K’s rival – marks Russia as a key adversary for ISIS/ISIS-K,”
Prof. Amira Jadoon Clemson University
A brand new, comprehensive face-recognition system across Moscow that has been widely used to identify opposition protesters also failed to stop Friday’s attack.
And it took authorities an hour and a half to deploy special forces to the site in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk because of heavy traffic jams.
“Where are the helicopters for speedy deployment to critical sites in the metropolitan conditions of Moscow? Where are the armed vehicles? Where are these pumped-up stern guys from [promotional] videos?” Mitrokhin (Nikolay Mitrokhin, research fellow at Germany’s University of Bremen) asked.
“We know where they are – burned down with their vehicles on the roads of the Kyiv region, sitting in underground holes near Donetsk or patrolling the Luhansk region … not where the real danger is but there the crazy president decided to wage a war,” he said.
Yep, and here are their evil mugs, looking like they’ve walked into a few doors. We all know the IDF would show Hamas scum they’d captured more mercy and better treatment then they’ll receive in Russia. I watched videos of them slicing a man’s throat repeatedly and they methodically just mowed innocent people down, including children, like they were playing Laser Quest. Sick, callous, vile dirtbags that deserve all they get;
”Moscow islamist terrorists appear in court.
One is literally unconscious in a wheelchair and the others are visibly banged up, with one having his ear sliced off and fed to him in a video circulating online.
If this treatment had been dished out by the IDF, there would be global protests, calls for ceasefire, and a case lodged at the ICJ.
137 people were killed, including three children, and more than 150 injured.”
https://twitter.com/MarkWRowley/status/1772138520112673068
The thing about Putin’s Russia (and the country under any of its leaders I suppose) is that they are quite unselfconscious about their brutality to attackers and it gets shown on TV. If those vile killers were on a ‘suicide mission’ I bet they’re now wishing they really were dead. Serves them right.
But how many of the Leftard anti-Semites whining about Israel’s justified retaliation against hamas rapists, kidnappers and killers will be off to Russia to protest about the terrible treatment of the isis scum?
Nah, London is a much nicer, safer venue to dump their manufactured outrage than Moscow. And the Met police are SO co-operative, arresting anyone who dares to protest that hamas is a terrorist group – as defined by the government, not to mention tear-gassing Tommy Robinson just for turning up.
Who performed the atrocity in Moscow is now clear so the question is who organized it. Both the US and UK consulates in Moscow warned their citizens in early March that a terrorist attack on a concert was imminent, apparently without directly informing their Russian colleagues. A concert at the same location (Crocus City Hall) around the time of the warning was heavily policed, so much so that it is postulated the terrorists may have postponed their attack.
Since the terrorists were heading towards the Ukrainian border when their car was stopped, it appears possible that the whole business may have been organized by Ukraine: somebody chose the venue, somebody sought and found the killers, somebody supplied the weapons and transport, somebody provided the cash.
In view of the recent New York Times article explaining that the CIA had a dozen or so secret sites on the Russian/Ukrainian border, training Ukrainians in subversive operations against Russia, one wonders if the CIA was involved in the Crocus City Hall attack. Ex-CIA operatives certainly think it is possible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uLiE1NsL1A.
The recently publicized telephone conversation of German Air Force officials discussing the transfer of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, pointed out that German troops were necessary to operate the missile system. Does the same apply to UK’s Storm Shadow missiles? Does that mean that British forces at least assisted in firing a Storm Shadow at the market in Donetsk a few weeks ago? Were the British (MI6) also involved in the Crocus City Hall attack? I certainly hope not.
Was UK among the first countries to offer their condolences to Russia for the terrorist attack? I hope so.
It was a false flag by Putin, to distract the world from the massive election fraud videos of ballot boxes being stuffed in Russia.
Believe what you will, but the ISIS video of the attack makes the idea of Ukrainian involvement look a bit silly.
Also:
‘Meduza, an independent Russian-language site based in Latvia, reported state media employees saying that there had been an order to emphasise “traces” of Ukrainian involvement.’
Oh! ‘State media employees’ no doubt randomly posting nonsense on stilts……..
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1881128/England-kit-Nike-FA-rainbow
FGS – rainbow logos
sick of the sight – and site – of them.
Rainbows have been downgraded to the ideological and political equivalent of tatty tinsel instead of being a beautiful natural phenomenon.
The Islamisation of the West isn’t multiculturalism. It’s a take over by a single mono culture.
Not that Islam is mono, though. Sunni versus Shia, e.g.
“Mono” is correct, because they both worship KaliAllah the Moon Spider Goddess of Death and her Toyboy Shiva/Satan.
Yeah, the only real hope is that they’ll start an internal war and cancel each other out. Preferably in the 52 or so izlamic countries from which migration to the West aka hijrah* should be banned.
*hijrah = migration of muzlims to spread izlam through numbers. For those who can’t serve izlam as jihadis.
A couple of points:
1. There’s money for Ukraine, there’s money for migrants, there’s money for people who don’t want to work. In fact there’s money for everyone except the taxpayer themselves. The economy is the target of a controlled demolition.
2. Of course women shouldn’t be entitled to more money. Equality isn’t a one-sided ticket. Incidentally, I took a day off last week and found myself in the cafe of a garden centre mid afternoon. I was surprised to find it absolutely packed. Packed full of working-age women who looked to have taken early retirement. Early retirement whilst their partners haven’t. More proof of the traumatic lives created by the horrible patriarchy. Still, nice to eat some cake in the afternoon. Always the cake.
Come off it, Free Lemming, let them eat cake…
I haven’t followed this debate – I’m not old enough for it to have impacted me but I guess the thinking might be that they would have not worked in paid employment and therefore paid into a pension fund? Being a mother isn’t much valued by society in terms of being paid to do it but it is quite an important job nonetheless.
Regarding the last verse of the far right song video, I’ve noticed very recently – last two or three years – that far more people are seeking diagnoses for conditions such as ADHD, autism etc. I’m in two minds about this – why this, why now is always a good question.
Personally, I think the heavy childhood vaccine schedule combined with glyphosate (see Stephanie Seneff’s excellent book on glyphosate before dismissing this) and other environment toxins plus the general change in what childhood actually looks like – for generations up to the 1990s, kids would play outside, climb trees etc without constant adult supervision have all contribued to this gob smacking increase in developmental delays such as autism.
However, I can’t shake the feeling that the mental toll of the last few years has led people who wouldn’t otherwise have sought a diagnosis to seek one? It does seem to me that people I would never have suspected of having autism are telling me they’ve just got a diagnosis. Is this just me or have others noticed this?
Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gil is the Canadian paediatrician who was ordered to pay $ 300K in legal fees after her trial for tweeting about lockdowns and vaccines.
a crowdfunding platform was started and $197 K was raised. Musk then offered to make up the difference.
I heard Spain has banned Telegram?
They should ban tiktok as well before the younger generations’ brains turn to mush.
“Police Scotland admits that a plan to stop investigating all crimes risks helping criminals”
My suspicions are correct! we have slipped through a portal into another dimension, somewhere even stranger than Alice’s wonderland! The police these days ought to be wearing top hats with 10/6 labels poking out the band instead of helmets!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/23/fujitsu-digital-id-cards-contract-horizon-scandal/
Digital ID by the back door to address a problem that barely exists. The excuses are bullshit.
Fujitsu? Fishy looking after father-in-law. Such a thoughtful little boy.
“Fujitsu to win digital ID cards contract despite Horizon scandal”
“Fujitsu is a partner of Infosys. Infosys is owned by PM Sunak’s wife’s family.
Gillian Keegan’s husband was the CEO of Fujitsu
Tory gov gave £4.9B contracts to Fujitsu post-Horizon scandal, Sunak alone accounted for £3.6B.”
“The overlapping personnel between Fujitsu, Infosys and the upper echelons of the Conservative Party is no coincidence. This is what 40 years of neoliberalism has done to democracy.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13232037/England-flag-looks-like-Nike-Fans-display-giant-St-Georges-Cross-amid-row-woke-kit.html
Pretty much as I predicted. I will take some smug satisfaction in this news item.
“Something tells me that the England games at Euro ’24 will be awash with traditional England shirts and flags with a healthy dose of Union Jack’s on top.”
Posted 22nd March.
“I wonder if Nike would care to provide a full size version of their revised flag just so that the non footballing public can have sight of this monstrosity? And the Football Association should be charged with a hate crime at the very least. Might as well get Govey’s garbage off on the right foot –
… think about it.”
Posted 23rd March.
Nike can’t provide an oversize flag but the fans can. A real flag too.
Good stuff, HP. Nike can take a hike. I’m pleased to say I don’t possess one Nike item and if I did I would probably burn it in front of the FA HQ. Phuckers!
Thanks Aethelred
Dan Hannan says “The question of whether women born in the 1950s are “entitled” to extra money is beside the point. We’ve run out of cash, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.” yet the government he supports can find large amounts for all the favoured groups in society and those who come here from societies overseas.
Governments mishandled the change in OAP entitlement ages and compensation should be paid. If you really feel a jesture should be made to the difficulty in funding it, take the cash out of the salaries and pensions of DHSS executives and managers who screed up, along with their political masters (sic).
Hannan thinks he’s a radical thinker. The reality is he is a bullshiter ready to hop on the nearest slightly outre topic.
The arrogant tosspot George Osborne bragged how he robbed millions of women of their pensions, saying it was the easiest thing ever done to save money (…so it could be squandered later on scamdemics, lockdowns, and wars and stuff).
https://youtu.be/ATSyOAAYNxc?si=kQgGLo5D8REdLOgc
The main argument from women is the lack of appropriate notice of the changes, the impact and the escalation of the timeframe to implement the changes. The later age change to the state pension then affected men, too. The government expectation is that the plebs work until they drop, preferably dead.
Your last sentence is spot on. In the old days, men passed away before or soon after retirement, leaving the government quids in, pocketing the years of pension contributions without having to pay out.
Now the government are annoyed that the peasants are living longer, usually with plenty of years to actually enjoy the retirement pensions they worked hard for and paid into all their lives. That’s where the clotshots came in handy, so the government could keep all the pension money and spend it on the Imported Muslim Army.
I’ve always thought that men should have the same retirement age as women, especially since women statistically outlive men by many years. Not one feminist shrieking about “equality” ever said that it was unfair that men had to work five years longer than women, for no apparent reason.
“Leo Varadkar vs. the people”
Unfortunately, his replacement Simon Harris had this to say about the Indigenous Irish protesting against the Fake Refugee Men attacking Irish women and children last year:
“Groups gathering in the streets calling for the removal of migrants from the Republic, shouting “Get them out”, were not “protestors” and were more akin to an intimidating mob, Minister for Justice Simon Harris has said.
“It irks when it’s called protest because some of what we’ve seen has been thuggish, mobbish, intimidatory behaviour,” he said. “I don’t think it’s protest in the view of any decent person of sound mind.”
So “The Who” are again proven right:
“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. We won’t get fooled again…”
“Everyone, yes everyone, is far right’
Absolutely brilliant video by Dominic Frisby— it really made me laugh.
Well done to Elon Musk for tweeting it to give it a wide audience.
“Fans display giant St. George’s Cross amid row over ‘woke’ kit”
Turns out it was actually a Sikh named Navin Singh who was responsible for approving the destruction of the England flag on that kit, and then he scarpered, failing upward to become Chief Commercial Officer at Six Nations Rugby. Sikhs don’t normally play rugby for fear of their turbans getting knocked off, as they do in any kind of battle, so why he was chosen remains a mystery.