- “Two men, aged 32 and 29, are charged with spying for China” – One of the two men arrested for spying for China is the public school-educated son of a GP who co-founded an influential policy group with Security Minister Tom Tugendhat, reports the Mail.
- “Vetting of UN agency staff for pro-Hamas bias needs improving, report finds” – An independent review concludes that the UN’s Palestinian refugee committee must improve its screening of staff to weed out Hamas supporters, says the Telegraph.
- “Why couldn’t the law-abiding Jewish Londoner cross the road?” – Blame our politicians, not our police officers, for the creation of a dystopian society in which basic liberties are sacrificed to the interests of the mob, writes Patrick O’Flynn on Substack.
- “The Met has an antisemitism problem” – If an ‘openly Muslim’ man wanted to peacefully walk through a pro-Jewish protest in London, he would come to no harm at all, remarks Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Rwanda Bill finally passed by House of Lords after months of wrangling” – Rishi Sunak claims a crucial victory after the Rwanda Bill is finally passed by the House of Lords, reports the Mail.
- “Huw Edwards resigns from the BBC” – TV news presenter Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC on “medical advice”, the corporation says.
- “Lucy Letby launches second bid to appeal convictions” – Lucy Letby is trying again to appeal her conviction, reports the Times.
- “The idea of free will is dead. Long live the NHS” – After two thousand years, our all-knowing MPs have decided individual choice was a foolish experiment, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Humza Yousaf’s house is crumbling around him” – The Scottish Greens are extremist activists parachuted into government jobs. Unless Yousaf ditches them, he’ll condemn his party to share that reputation, warns Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Alcohol-related deaths soar to an all-time high in wake of Covid” – Official data reveals that deaths from alcohol have soared to an all-time high in the wake of Covid, with experts particularly alarmed by an increase in booze-related fatalities among middle-aged women, reports the Mail.
- “How politicians and nudgers deliberately terrified an already frightened population” – In TCW, Dr. Ros Jones highlights the state’s strategic deployment of fear, shame, peer pressure and scapegoating to promote compliance with Covid restrictions.
- “Twitter/X restricts freedom of reach” – On Substack, Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil accuse X of “selective censorship” after a recent post by Prof. Fenton was shadowbanned on the platform.
- “The EU’s war on cars is destroying its economic foundations” – In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Electric cars are a Trojan horse for the destruction of driving” – EVs are on track to become yet another doomed Net Zero project – and it’s motorists who will suffer, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Landowners cover countryside with solar panels in ‘sunrush’” – A new solar panel ‘sunrush’ is being driven by cheaper technology, carbon targets and government subsidies, explain Adam Vaughan and Will Humphries in the Times.
- “Sixteen year-olds who have anorexia could be granted right to die” – Experts warn that teenagers with anorexia could apply for state-backed ‘suicide’ under “extremely dubious” laws proposed in Scotland, reports the Mail.
- “Transphobia at Edinburgh University ‘driving out staff’” – Staff at Edinburgh University claim they are being “subjected to anti-trans rhetoric in the workplace”, says the Times.
- “How Sweden fell again for transgender madness” – In the Spectator, Paulina Neuding reacts to Sweden’s new law which makes it easier to change your legal gender.
- “Now Isla Bryson is claiming to be a victim of hate crime” – Could trans double rapist Isla Bryson have the same impact on Scotland’s illiberal Hate Crime Act as he did on Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID plans? Fingers crossed, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “The Scottish Greens are morphing into the Flat Earth Society” – Co-leader Patrick Harvie would rather listen to the rantings of trans activists than the evidence in the Cass Review, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Gender dysphoric children facing ‘greatest abuse scandal in modern medicine history’, claims ideology campaigner” – On GB News, gender ideology campaigner Chris Elston hits out at the diagnosis of gender dysphoric children and labels it the “greatest child abuse scandal in modern medicine history”.
- “Kemi Badenoch is right – Empire didn’t make Britain rich” – The Left clings to the idea colonialism was the root of all our wealth. In fact, it was a white elephant project – the HS2 of its day, says Kristin Niemietz in the Telegraph.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part one” – In the first of a new three-part series for TCW, Karen Harradine scrutinises Hope Not Hate’s role in deflecting focus from genuine extremism.
- “Ex-Manchester City player’s police visits: Joey Barton’s troubling encounters raise questions about U.K. speech police” – Ex-footballer Joey Barton criticises police visits over Twitter posts, drawing parallels to North Korean intimidation, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Turn of the woke tide will leave many stranded” – Students may be starting to reject pronouns and BLM, but the ideology is embedded in organisations, writes Kathleen Stock in the Times.
- “The cult of ‘my truth’” – NPR is only the latest institution to fall to woke relativism, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Terms of Enslavement” – The CheckMate Substack examines NewsGuard’s censorship-based business model.
- “The lawfare against Donald Trump hits new heights” – New York vs. Trump is a joke – 34 felonies for what comes down to misclassifying spending in a payment ledger – but the elite media is keeping a straight face, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Trump’s persecution has put the rule of law itself on trial” – The State of New York’s reputation for legal excellence is imperilled by the civil case against former President Trump, writes Richard Porter in the Telegraph.
- “‘Dad, it’s just ISIS’” – An SNL sketch from the archive predicts an all-too-real future.
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Twitter/X restricts freedom of reach
I have said it many times here, and I will say it again:
Mr Elon Reeve Musk is no fan of Free Speech.
Judge the man by his actions, not his words.
If you are prevented from reaching your audience, you do not have free speech; you are being censored.
If you speak alone from inside a soundproof box, have you really spoken?
I hear what you say and I may be being naive, but… it appears to me that many things are stated on Twitter that are censored and/or not covered by the MSM or other social media. For example, anti mainstream-narrative angles on covid, vaccines, climate, Ukraine, Trump, Jan 6.
But millions of Brazilian Patriots are right to thank him for defending the True President of Brazil, The People’s Choice: Jair Bolsonaro, and boldly challenging the Evil Lula & corrupt judge De Moraes.
Bolsonaro supporters hit streets of Rio and hail new hero Elon Musk | Jair Bolsonaro | The Guardian
I read the piece by Fenton and the Twitter issues sound more to me like clumsy programming/processes than a sinister agenda to silence them.
For now, I’d give Musk the benefit of the doubt. At the moment he appears to be on our side; imagine if he wasn’t how awful that would be.
Maybe he’ll see the light on the climate change hoax soon (even now his line is ‘it is one problem of many that needs to be solved long term’)…strangely coinciding with the unexpected release of a petrol-hybrid Tesla! One can hope.
“Electric cars are a Trojan horse for the destruction of driving”
An accurate, if rather belated, comment on the impact of the current ‘Zero emissions Mandate’ . However, it seems much too optimistic that the Government will simply be forced to row back on this mandate. By the time this mandate really bites we could have Starmer in charge? and as this mandate is designed to implement the aims of the Climate Change Act, it is hard to see this mandate simply being dropped or changed.
As this article points out Ford have already stopped production of the Fiesta, presumably because they can see the end of cheap and cheerful motoring for the masses. Cars and motoring are about so much more than basic transport needs and given this, what I call the Top Gear effect, I foresee that it is with cars and motoring that Net Zero will start to get gritty and difficult.
Never underestimate the will of the people Steve, when the gritty and difficult green agenda shyte hits their home fan, people will oppose it!
The former Czech PM knows the score. This is his speech regarding immigration and the Migration Pact, which was recently approved here in the EU. He’s right, Western Europe is doomed, but there’s still a chance for other European countries, who obviously look at us as a warning of things to come;
“(Interior Minister) Vít Rakusan and Fiala’s migration pact is not a medicine that will cure the European Union, but a poison used for the assisted suicide of Europe and its culture. The rejection of migrants from a completely different cultural environment is not a manifestation of a lack of solidarity, but an instinct for self-preservation,” said Babiš.
He further warned that migrant quotas are coming to Czechia, which will force the country to accept thousands of newcomers.
“The migration pact was negotiated and pushed through by the Fiala government during the Czech EU Presidency and passed through the European Parliament last week. The vote on this absolutely insane, monstrous agreement, which contains hidden refugee quotas and obliges the Czech Republic to accept migrants from Africa and the Middle East exactly as Brussels envisages, could change our country beyond recognition in a few years. Without any exaggeration, Fiala and Rakusan have traded our security, culture and way of life for uncontrolled migration, an explosion of crime and the disintegration of our society, just as is happening in many countries in Western Europe today.
I’m going to say it bluntly here and I’m not afraid of it. Mass illegal migration of people with a completely different culture, customs and mentality is a cancer that is destroying European society. If we do not start doing something about this insidious disease, in a few years the Czech Republic may find itself in the same situation as France, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, Italy, or Sweden.
“This must be clear to anyone who sees what is happening in Western European cities. Unfortunately, I think it is too late to save Western Europe. In the Czech Republic and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, however, that situation is still avoidable. Even if it’s ‘5 minutes to midnight,’ we still have time and the opportunity to fight illegal migration. That first step is to reject the progressive open border ‘welcomers,’ eco-fanatics and social engineers who want to forcefully ‘improve our world’ and elect people who will fiercely defend our national interests and oppose illegal migration in the European Parliament elections.”
https://rmx.news/czech-republic/assisted-suicide-of-europe-former-czech-pm-babis-delivers-historic-speech-against-eu-migration-pact-in-czech-parliament/
Add to this the EUs destruction of one of it’s major economic drivers;
“The EU’s war on cars is destroying its economic foundations”
And it appears that that Western Europe is determined to destroy itself. Little need to invade or take-over Western Europe, just sit back and let Western Europe do the job itself!
Yes, agreed. Important to note it’s not just Europe, but this scourge is happening across the Western world, as we know. These videos are sadly 10 a penny. Various surveys and research of Muslims in countries here reflect what this guy says. This is why I say that the so-called ‘moderates’ bother me, because you don’t need to be some out and out fundamentalist or radical preacher to have these views, and it’s these people, in their ever-increasing numbers, who will have meaningful influence when it comes to politics and general elections. We’re seeing it now. Add to that traitors such as George Galloway and Jeremy Corbyn, people of that ilk, then you can wave ‘bye bye’ to our country as we know it in 50 years from now. God only knows what our kids and grandkids will inherit in the way of a society in years to come. And I’m obviously not just referring to Islam here, but the culmination of all the agendas we’re being bombarded and assaulted with. But WTF is ”gayism”?
https://twitter.com/kwilliam111/status/1782311003453059121
5G 400 Experts Cancer Dementia Depression – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
Monday Morning Foresters Way & B3430 Nile Mile Ride Bracknell
Every town and parish should have a
yellow board event
every day of the week
even just 1 person
Make a cheap A1 (594×841 mm) Yellow Board
A4 yellow paper 9 sheets
Black & red paper for cutting out letters
6 words per message maximum
1 message per side
Clear Wide Tape 48mm x 66m to cover everything
Hello England
Kemi Badenoch is right – Empire didn’t make Britain rich
Ms Badenoch knows a thing or two.
Many argue that the late nineteenth century expansion of empire derived from the need for coaling stations which then became an important rationale for empire.
E.G. Aden: the existence of the (coal) station became the justification for Britain to create a protectorate (a collection of vassal states, in effect) over 100,000 square miles of the Arabian Peninsula.
Consequently the upkeep of Empire far outstripped its economic utility.
It is true that the East India Company (EIC) made its shareholders rich but the EIC was answerable only to its shareholders.
And, hey, guess what: the idea of the joint-stock company is arguably one of Britain’s most important exports to India.
Since 1991, the Indian information and communications technology (ICT) sector had developed by virtue of its distance from, rather than proximity to, government. Indian ICT firms adopted exemplary governance standards, were listed on international stock exchanges, and thrived in the global marketplace, very much like the EIC had done.
So the British Empire, ultimately, made today’s India rich…….
“Sixteen year-olds who have anorexia could be granted right to die”
Blimey. I wonder if even Mary Gilleece is surprised at the speed with which this has happened, after her dire post-trans predictions yesterday. Whatever happened to actually caring for and protecting children?
Two articles above, next to each other, one about electric cars, the other about solar panels, got me thinking. If a close friend or relative visits your house, and they have an electric car, would you be happy for them to charge their vehicle using your electricity, assuming of course you have the facilities for them to do so? Isn’t it a bit like them taking you to the petrol station and expecting you to pay to fill up their car (and from what I’ve read, the costs are almost on a par)? What if it’s not a close friend or relative, but a tradesman or similar? The answer is obvious of course – you charge them for the power they are using, but that creates complexities of its own. Has anyone been put in this situation?
(Having said that, I sincerely believe that electric cars will eventually go the same way as Betamax video recorders.)
I had some guests once who charged up their bicycles overnight: had no idea how eye-wateringly expensive it would be! I’d probably let close family charge up (and moan loudly about the cost until they offered to pay or bought me dinner!) but otherwise, absolutely not.
As it is at present we find that if people come to do work on your house their first action is often to ask if they can plug in the charger for the batteries for all their cordless tools. But as you say it is a huge step to then ask if they can plug in and charge their electric van. If you have a car charging point at home you will doubtless also have a smart meter linked to your smart phone, I guess it should be possible to link up all this technology so that other people paid for their car charging at your home?
It all does seem a bit like hi-tech fantasy land, fraught with pitfalls.
“Now Isla Bryson is claiming to be a victim of hate crime”
You’ve got to give it to Bryson – s/he sure knows how to play the system. And the system seems quite happy to play along. DEI, doncha know.
Not ‘s/he’, simply ‘he’ – unless you think there’s some doubt about it.
One for the sky watchers. No, it’s definitely NOT weather manipulation. The short embedded vid is a hoot /sarc. Mad scientist in mask playing god:
https://metatron.substack.com/p/dubai-floods-a-corollary\
And just in case you’re not convinced, here’s another one:
https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1781094026630029573
And another on which the above is based:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3Ltk6ANotr/?igsh=eWxleGRwOHR2bzhv
Hey, downticker – you missed one!
“Two men, aged 32 and 29, are charged with spying for China”
I hope they had their pronouns checked before they were arrested….
That surely depends on which sort of prison they want to end up in. Males, Females or mainland China?
It’s hard for me to understand why these two successful young Brits would risk everything… for what? What can be their motive? Pots of money? Or are they being blackmailed or something? It’s very odd…
Then again, after watching the superb classic “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” movie, I still couldn’t understand the traitors’ actual motives for betraying their own ancestral homeland, their culture, their people, their friends and colleagues, to a hostile enemy country.
National Food Strategy commentary on “Harry’s Farm”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJCrfujVZIk&list=WL&index=6&t=11s
Here is the strategy bumf: https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/
“‘Dad, it’s just ISIS’”
This is just astonishing! How long ago did Saturday Night Live do this?
“Terms of Enslavement”
A fascinating article about the sinister NewsGuard company making a fortune out of helping the US government violate the American Constitution’s First Amendment by proxy. (NewsGuard has also been scuppering the Daily Sceptic’s efforts to attract funds from advertising.)
Just as a quick summary for those of us unfamiliar with the First Amendment:
“The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adoped on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.”