- “Peter Murrell’s re-arrest has plunged the SNP into crisis” – There is what can only be described as a mood of despair in SNP circles after the re-arrest of former party chief executive Peter Murrell, says Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
- “The SNP faces an electoral calamity” – According to polling guru John Curtice, the SNP may be wiped out at the next election, says the Telegraph.
- “BBC Scotland slammed for ‘sinister’ interview with father of transgender child” – Murdo Fraser MSP has condemned BBC Scotland for being too sympathetic towards the father of a trans child who was critical of the Cass Review, says the Express.
- “Radical LGBT charity encourages teachers not to tell parents their children are trans” – LGBT Youth Scotland, which receives nearly £1 million a year in public funding, has been advising schools not to tell parents if their children are trans, reports the Telegraph.
- “My daughter was ‘radicalised’ by Scottish LGBT club in school” – A Scottish mother was forced to pull her child out of school after uncovering ‘cult-like’ materials shared between members, according to the Telegraph.
- “Anxiety may not qualify for disability benefits in Rishi Sunak’s reforms” – The PM has set out his “moral mission” to end Britain’s “sick note culture”, says the Times.
- “Sunak: Everyday problems are no excuse not to find work” – The P.M. says people with mild mental health conditions should be given help to stay in employment, reports the Telegraph.
- “GPs dishing out sick notes to patients they haven‘t even seen” – GPs are routinely writing sick notes for patients they have not seen, according to the Mail. Doctors admit 95% of requests are waved through without assessing the patient first.
- “5.4 million Brits could be on health-related benefits by 2029” – As Rishi Sunak launches a “moral mission” to help more people into work, the IFS has released estimates underlining the mounting scale of the problem, says the Mail.
- “Fourteen years of Tory rule have left Britain a lazy, dangerous, Left-wing mess” – It hardly matters that Labour will be worse, when voters feel so betrayed by the Tories, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Campaigner says Met Police are ‘making no-go areas for Jews’” – Gideon Falter, the chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, was pulled aside by an officer who said he was “breaching the peace” after he tried to cross the road in the middle of a pro-Palestinian protest march because he was “quite openly Jewish”, reports the Mail.
- “Met Police apologises again after apology over Jewish arrest threat” – London’s police service issued a statement on Friday afternoon apologising for its poorly-worded apology to Gideon Falter after he was stopped from walking through a pro-Palestine march on Saturday, reports the Mail.
- “Islamists and the woke Left are uniting to topple the West” – In his Telegraph column, David Frost says the same forces that tried to shut down NatCon4 are marching through our major city every Saturday – a toxic cocktail of Islamists, the far Left and the Woke.
- “How NatCon was saved” – In the Critic, Freddie Attenborough takes us through the story of how NatCon4 was saved from the Brussels mayors determined to shut it down.
- “How Israel launched a ‘birthday surprise’ attack against Iran’s nuclear defences” – Israel launched a surprise attack yesterday on an Iranian missile production complex, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour MP: U.K. should have followed Sweden on Covid” – Graham Stringer MP has praised Sweden’s pandemic response, saying Britain should have looked to the Nordic country as it “came out the best of the countries in Europe in terms of deaths”, according to UnHerd.
- “Italian study calculates Covid-19 vaccine reduces average life expectancy by four months” – In Where are the Numbers, Martin Neil and Norman Fenton write about a new Italian study that suggests the Covid vaccines reduce life expectancy
- “Kemi Badenoch: ‘U.K.’s wealth isn’t from white privilege and colonialism’” – The Business Secretary tells TheCityUK’s international conference that that Glorious Revolution of 1688 is what paved the way for Britain’s economic success, not slavery and colonialism, reports the Guardian.
- “I’m a woman of colour. DEI is just woke indoctrination” – The pitfalls of diversity and inclusion drives are not theoretical to me, says Raquel Rosario Sanchez in the Telegraph.
- “J.P. Morgan Warns of Delay to Global Energy Transition” – According to a J.P. Morgan report, the global energy transition may be delayed quite a long time due to inflation, high interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty.
- “Climate: The Article” – Doomberg gives his thoughts on the new climate documentary you’re not supposed to watch.
- “An unaccountable Net Zero elite has seized control of Britain” – The zealous drive to net neutrality is making business less competitive, hitting taxpayers, and acting as a drag on economic growth, says Liz Truss in the Telegraph.
- “Hate speech bill needs ‘radical surgery’, warns Charlie Flanagan” – The Irish hate crime bill has become a “runaway train” that needs to be stopped, says the former minister who first instigated the proposed reforms, reports the Times.
- “Cambridge in free-speech row over researcher’s ‘race realism’ blog” – Emmanuel College has terminated Nathan Cofnas’s fellowship after he published a controversial, race realist blog post, but Peter Singer, Steven Pinker and the Free Speech Union have come to his defence, says the Times.
- “Quarter of parents would quit private schools if VAT added to fees” – A new survey indicates 26% of parents with kids at independent schools would send them to state schools instead if Labour slaps VAT on school fees, casting doubt on Labour’s claim that policy will raise £1.6 billion, according to the Times.
- “King’s College London bars staff from promotion unless they support pro-trans diversity policy” – King’s College London has breached equality law, a top barrister says, by insisting that a candidate for an internal promotion endorse its EDI policy, reports the Times.
- “Queen Charlotte was ‘person of colour’, museum claims in LGBT guide” – Royal Museums Greenwich tells visitors that despite what “insecure white boys” say, George III’s wife was from a non-white background (even though she wasn’t), says the Telegraph.
- “Birbalsingh tells Braverman to ‘take a hike’ for using her school as a ‘political football’” – The Headteacher of Michaela Community School has lashed out at the former Home Secretary after she claimed the school wouldn’t exist without the Conservative Party’s free schools policy, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Endless tech’ at schools has been a failure, says Sophie Winkleman” – The actress and campaigner wants the millions spent on education technology to be invested in teachers instead, reports the Telegraph.
- “Spies must stop displaying ‘alpha behaviours’ such as ‘strength’, according to leaked intelligence diversity plans” – Diversitycrats have told Britain’s spies to use gender neutral language, spend an hour a week on diversity and celebrate Black History Month, reports Steven Edgington for GB News.
- “More CO2 is good for the planet” – Professor William Happer Tells Sky News Australia’s Outsiders that far from suffering from too much CO2, the planet actually needs more.
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What’s really going on?
‘I would honestly not expect Ukraine to collapse this year or next year. Closer to autumn, another turn is possible, which few people are talking about now.
The fact is that the United States can unblock military assistance to Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will receive more powerful long-range systems and increase attacks on our territory, already on our rear.
Why is this option possible?
Because it makes sense within the American political process. The aid itself was frozen last fall as part of the struggle between the Democratic and Republican parties. If Trump wins, then this factor goes away.
Why continue to starve the American military-industrial complex and deprive it of the opportunity to earn additional income, if the ultimate goal of the struggle for power, for the White House, and the overthrow of Biden and his entourage has already been accomplished?’
Tsargrad Military analyst, Vlad Shlepchenko (Tsargrad TV is a Russian television channel owned by Konstantin Malofeev. It was named after Tsargrad, the old Slavic name for Constantinople. It is known for its pro-Kremlin and Russian Orthodox stances.)
‘Olga Skabeeva, who has been broadcasting hatred of Ukraine and the West on TV screens for a decade, gave a master class on propaganda for young students in Kaluga.
She openly stated that Russian strikes on Ukraine are just a matter of interpretation and that the strike itself does not matter, only our attitude towards it.
Thus, Skabeeva paints a picture of Russian propaganda – all statements, regardless of the events described, must favor state interests.
And there is nothing particularly secret about this. However, for the first time, we hear such a frank confession from the main mouthpiece of propaganda of the so-called Russian Federation.’
https://twitter.com/i/status/1781231093464596648
P.S. Shhhhh…….whisper it softly……one or two ‘mouthpieces of propaganda of the so-called Russian Federation’ may pop up on here from time to time……….
What’s really going on?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/
Cutting out the middle man
Cutting out the middle man might be unwise……for you……
‘Russia has covertly spent more than £260m……the Kremlin had used Brussels as a hub for foundations and other fronts that back far-right candidates.
Fictitious companies were said to be used to fund European parties and to buy influence elsewhere.’
‘State-owned Russian companies have directly funnelled covert funding in…..cash, made payments in cryptocurrencies, and sent “lavish” gifts…..Putin had spent huge sums “in an attempt to manipulate democracies from the inside.’
‘…..these are minimum figures and that Russia likely has transferred additional funds covertly in cases that have gone undetected’
Errr, okaaay. So I should go straight to the BBC, that’s what you recommend?
Your entire worldview is seen through the overton window, and I’m 99% certain your account is one of a child or very, very young adult – probably a child using AI (as suggested by another commenter yesterday). Unless you can add something that is not parroted ad verbatim by MSM you’re contribution to this site equates to exactly zero.
You love the sound of your own voice but you have nothing worthwhile to say.
What an utterly pointless comment.
Why not find something useful to say, make an effort, instead of posting trite and objectionable nonsense.
And get your English sorted out while you are at it.
Your weird!
Yet another (misspelt) comment which contributes precisely nothing.
So I now know I’m talking to a bot. The bots algorithm didn’t understand a deliberately misspelt ‘ok’ or/and hasn’t been programmed to understand Latin. The fact I’m still taking to a bot is more of a problem
Not only is your English extremely poor, but you are not even aware that it is extremely poor.
Why not try and find something that you might be good at, you know, like, maybe, folding paper napkins?
Pardon me for brething
Breth away, old fruit, but careful how you go:
‘A stroke cam doune that .. all tobrast a grete bem and sparkeled the gobettes all aboute the churche .. and after sewed an helle brethe as hit semed and derkenesse.’
1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)
“Spies must stop displaying ‘alpha behaviours’ such as ‘strength’, according to leaked intelligence diversity plans”
I’m making the assumption that real spies – the sneaky, devious and above all anonymous types, not the Hollywood tropes – will treat this with the utter distain it deserves.
Islamists and the woke Left are uniting to topple the West
Lord Frost does a great job of explaining the puzzle that is these strange marches which are ‘pro-palestine’ but, no, perish the thought, absolutely in no way, definitely do not condone (or not really) the barbaric atrocities of Oct 7 2023
This is not confined to Britain.
It explains the many ‘Socialist Worker’ placards on the pro-palestinian marches in London.
This political combination has a name: islamo-gauchisme, coined by Pierre-André Taguieff in his book: ‘La nouvelle Judéophobie’ 2002.
It has been going on for some time:
“I criticised political Islam and identity politics. And suddenly I’m a Rightist. Why? The world has simply gone mad. Atheist “progressives” defend the freedom of women to veil. Reactionary Islamists cheer them on. Both agitate against “the white man”. Anyone who doesn’t go along is “radical right”. What’s at stake is enlightenment and free thinking”.
Kacem El Ghazzali, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2019
It seems complicated:
‘In 1962, that dark prophet, Carl Schmitt, delivered two lectures on Die Theorie des Partisanes – The Theory of the Partisan.
He identified the emergence of ideologically-rooted revolutionary conflict within states as a decisive trend of the age, heralding the end of Europe’s 300-year old political and jurisprudential imperium and the replacement of conflict between nations by conflict within……….
He drew, of course, on personal experience of two world wars and his own shameful role in a catastrophically partisan episode in German history……..
He foresaw the radically unmoored communitarianism of Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, Hamas and Hizbullah and the unravelling of the Arab state order.
He knew only too well how an ideological assault on the very symbols that make it possible for others collectively to imagine a polymorphous but rooted national political community could make it impossible for such a community to be imagined anywhere. Its replacement would need no history, no memory and no physical location, simply a scripture, a sense of absolute virtue and belief in historical inevitability.
It would reject the classic liberal position where rights belong to individuals who are equal before the law in favour of a shift to identity-essentialist groups which make untestable claims about unchangeable hierarchies of worth and reject forms of social order associated with an illegitimate ancien régime.’
It isn’t complicated.
Carl Schmitt had been a prominent member of the national socialist (nazi) party, editor in chief of the nazi newspaper for lawyers: the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung. So he knew what he was talking about.
‘….for those who reject the Hegelian construction of subjectivity, social identity, dominance and submission through the purposeful gaze of others, auto-ethnography – the assertion of a self reflexive identity that envelops the world and rejects external interrogation or subjection – is so important.
The Islamist construction of an essentialist “Islamic” identity is a characteristic example of this manoeuvre. And it chimes with the wider identitarian obsession of the modern Left.
This is precisely where critical theory intersects with Islamism.’
https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Islamism-and-the-Left.pdf
This ‘islamo-gauchisme’ is simply totalitarian socialism or, as created by Mussolini:
Socialist Fascism
Through Blair’s Britain, socialist fascism has infected the senior ranks of political discourse, political parties, at both local and national level as exemplified, made clear, by ‘lockdowns’ and the breadth of support for them throughout the country.
You will even find elements of it on here. Does this sound familiar? This refrain has a sinister origin……
‘We know who the enemy is; we know that it’s the west, it’s the NATO countries.’
Azru Merali, Malcolm X Movement (MXM), 2014
What to do?
Oh for heaven’s sake, we know what to do and we voted in Bunter to do it.
Roll back the ‘state’, an overmighty public sector where so much of this nonsense festers, is funded, ‘Blairism’, and reset Britain. The yard stick is the 1990 regulatory framework formed from the social and economic thinking of Sir Keith Joseph and Nigel Lawson.
Instead, Bunter went native………
Just unbelievable this, but another man set himself on fire yesterday outside of the courthouse where the Donald Trump trial was taking place. I had to check this wasn’t fake but further footage showing him still alive as they placed him on a stretcher confirmed that this in indeed real. Really, really messed up. **Graphic**
https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1781511473035960782
As to his motivation? One very psychologically disturbed man, sadly. He surely could not survive this;
“This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup,” the page reads.”
https://www.newsweek.com/who-max-azzarello-man-fire-outside-trump-trial-1892377
“An unaccountable Net Zero elite has seized control of Britain” – The zealous drive to net neutrality is making business less competitive, hitting taxpayers, and acting as a drag on economic growth, says Liz Truss…
Isn’t that the point? Its all part of the deliberate de-industrialisation of the West.
Well the silly woman voted for this when she voted for the introduction of the climate change act and Teresa May’s subsequent tightening of the screw. What did she expect?
“Italian study calculates Covid-19 vaccine reduces average life expectancy…..”. Spot the opportunities for fraud in the pharmaceutical trade. While it may be true that there is some long term damage caused by the use of something, it will likely be hard work to prove it in any individual case.
The world at the moment is so against the vast majority of people’s wants,needs and beliefs, its not funny anymore!
“The SNP faces an electoral calamity”
Good!
Then repeal every law they have put in place and let Scotland start again with a clean sheet and some common sense for once!
“Radical LGBT charity encourages teachers not to tell parents their children are trans”
And how on God’s green earth do ‘teachers’ know which children are trans, gay or any other shade of gender?
Just get the fu@k on with teaching (of which you seem to struggle with anyway!)
and keep out of OUR kids lives!
Do you get a mechanic coming round to your house telling you what you should be doing with your life just because he services your car on a regular basis?
“Islamists and the woke Left are uniting to topple the West”
Tell us something we don’t know!
“Your openly Jewish, your under arrest ”
“Your openly white, your under arrest “
“Your openly English and so, racist by default, your under arrest “
“Your openly not islamic, your under arrest “
“Hate speech bill needs ‘radical surgery’, warns Charlie Flanagan”
Wrong Charlie, it needs abolishing!
“Spies must stop displaying ‘alpha behaviours’ such as ‘strength’, according to leaked intelligence diversity plans”
And only shoot white people and Jews from your electric Aston Martin ev5!
You’ll be pleased to know its Saturday fry up time so now I’ll stop ranting on! Bfn
Hates the royals, but openly uses her connection to sell jam! Has she no limit on shame?
Next she’ll be sitting in a window with a red light behind her to advertise her brand of prince’s crumpet! (To put your jam on)
Talk about desperate for dosh!
https://www.gbnews.com/royal/meghan-markle-king-charles-royal-feud-jam
Our household has just received six, yes 6 letters each addressed:
‘To all residents’
Followed by the property address.
There are two people in our house.
The letter “invites” all residents of said address to sign up and take part in the UK’s “largest ever health research programme.” The scam is being run by an outfit called …
+ Our Future Health
…in partnership with NHS.
“An opportunity to take part in research and learn new information about your blood pressure, cholesterol and future risk of disease.”
The final paragraph…
“In the future you will have the option to receive information on your risk of some diseases including diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. This will be calculated using information you provide and analysis of the DNA in your blood sample.”
If I cop for any other life threatening occurrence I’m basically Tom ducked.
So, our sainted NHS wants my DNA and MY permission to use it in any way they see fit.
Hmm?
By way of a sweetener if I scan the QR code at the bottom of the letter I will be eligible for a £10 voucher “to recognise the time and effort of volunteering.” Nice.
What the voucher entitles me to I have no idea.
EVERY person “over the age of 18 living in the UK is eligible to take part.” A quick search of t’internet indicates about 45 million adults, minimum. This suggests the initial costs of this firkin money laundering scam is approaching £100 million with God knows how much more beyond and to achieve F A.
This is the sainted NHS where GP’s are 4-6 weeks away. The same NHS which has cancelled and rescheduled a ticker appointment for me four times in six months. The NHS which wanted to pump me full of a killer “vaccine”, an NHS that had me on bloody statins for years.
An NHS that is now a real danger to its citizens.
This is a bloody outrageous, useless and disgraceful waste of taxpayers money. The NHS which is always short of money cannot even do the basics.
I suppose that this wee scam does however go some way to continuing the process of driving the country to bankruptcy.
What’s next?
Good grief! Have they really stooped to this level?
Regarding “Emmanuel College has terminated Nathan Cofnas’s fellowship after he published a controversial, race realist blog post, but Peter Singer, Steven Pinker and the Free Speech Union have come to his defence, says the Times.”
“Controversial”. Noticing reality is apparently controversial.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/cambridge-fires-cofnas-for-mentioning-racial-gaps-in-iq/