- “Nigel Farage accuses West of provoking Russia into war with Ukraine” – Nigel Farage has provoked fury by suggesting the West was partly to blame for Russia invading Ukraine, reports the Mail.
- “The Tories are morally bankrupt” – The Conservatives look like a dodgy tenant who, when he knows he’s being evicted, takes the lightbulbs and toilet seat with him, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “This betting scandal has exposed the rotten heart of our political class” – For the foreseeable future, the Conservatives will be synonymous with corruption and venality, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Ignore the centrist gloom. To win, the Conservatives must offer a Right-wing path to renewal” – No party has a divine right to exist if it can’t offer policy propositions that are distinct from others’ and respond to the wishes of a voting coalition that can win an election, writes David Frost in Conservative Home.
- “Labour manifesto raises ‘red flag’ free speech concerns: FSU” – According to the Free Speech Union, there are numerous “red flags” in Labour’s manifesto, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Labour has dismissed women like me. I’ll struggle to vote for it” – In the Times, J.K. Rowling says she’s far from convinced that Keir Starmer has changed his spots when it comes to defending women’s rights.
- “Keir Starmer’s moral vacuum” – Labour’s ethical limits remain unclear, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “The Downing St. Deprivation Index” – What does it say about a country and its leaders when political leaders must brag of their childhood deprivation? wonders Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The BBC has given up any pretence of impartiality” – The BBC continues to employ staff who have shown support for October 7th. This needs to stop, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “All eyes should be on Al Jazeera for being founded, funded – and directed – by terrorists” – There were a lot of good reasons for the Israelis to stop Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, writes Douglas Murray in the NY Post.
- “Lockdown showed the horrors of what a Labour Government will be like in practice” – None of the major parties have said what they’d do in the event of anotehr pandemic, says Sarah Ingham in Conservative Home. Do we really trust Labour not to lock us all in our homes again?
- “String of Reform candidates said Britain’s Covid response was ‘like the Holocaust’” – A string of Reform candidates likened Britain to Nazi Germany during the pandemic, reveals the Mail.
- “Has the pandemic made us sicker?” – The pandemic had a profound impact on health ecosystems globally – but its legacy goes beyond a possible immunity debt, write Maeve Cullinan and Sarah Newey in the Telegraph.
- “Scientific American’s Laura Helmuth continues campaign to embarrass and humiliate herself” – Like many science writers, Laura Helmuth at Scientific American can’t see beyond her own bigotries and personal politics, says Paul D. Thacker on the DisInformation Chronicle Substack.
- “Birth rates in rich countries halve to hit record low” – A new study shows that birth rates in the world’s rich economies have more than halved since 1960 to hit a record low, according to the FT.
- “Nobody is confronting the great Remainer lie about Brexit” – It’s now eight years since the referendum and Leave backers aren’t doing enough to counter pro-EU propaganda, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “A revolution in workers’ rights will hurt the worst-off” – Labour’s plans to increase the living Wage plans would see many, perhaps all, teenage jobs disappear, says Len Shackleton in CapX.
- “The tyrannical tendency” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan examines the preconditions for the extinction of freedom.
- “The French Left is sharpening the guillotine” – France, once again, is set to become an unpredictable, business-averse place, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
- “‘Is this a joke?’ Polish PM given democracy prize despite crackdowns” – Donald Tusk’s receipt of the Chatham House Prize for “restoring democracy” has sparked widespread derision, according to Thomas O’Reilly in the European Conservative.
- “The climate scaremongers – this turbulent professor” – Any area of research remotely connected to climate change is likely to be showered with grant funding, while other areas are starved of cash, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
- “BBC Sport head criticised for trans article pledges to ‘leave views at door’” – The new Head of BBC Sport has pledged to leave his personal views “at the door” after writing an article in which he seemed to compare women concerned about trans athletes to racists, reports the Mail.
- “Brontë sisters included in LGBT events because of their androgynous pen names” – The Bronte sisters have been included in LGBT Pride events because they wrote under androgynous pen names, says the Telegraph.
- “Death by red tape” – “Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of woke universities trying to shut down heretical speakers, writes Rhianwen Daniel in the Critic.
- “Taboo by Eric Kaufmann review – how woke conquered the world” – In the Times, Kathleen Stock reviews ‘cancelled’ academic Eric Kaufmann’s new book explaining the roots of wokeness.
- “Rob Winnett scraps move to Washington Post after staff revolt” – A Telegraph journalist who was hired to edit the Washington Post has decided not to take the job after a staff backlash, according to the Times.
- “‘We should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm’” – Katherine Birbalsingh argues against the idea of the West paying reparations for slavery, pointing out that while slavery existed everywhere, only Western civilisation came to see it as morally wrong.
While slavery was common to all civilizations, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it: Western Civilization
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) June 21, 2024
“Rather than be ashamed as Westerners, we should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm.”https://t.co/oF8TuKntPD pic.twitter.com/0g14u3yzZ5
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“Unconscious bias” is an interesting component of contemporary madleft anti-whitism. It’s founded on the Kafka-trap idea that if a white person thinks he’s not a “racist” then that’s proof that he is. And you have to admire the sheer bovine effrontery of the people who promote such nonsense. But why are white people promoting anti-whitism? It can only be because they’re decadent (in Nietzsche’s sense of a people or individual choosing the thing that will destroy them). Also, when a person gives up on in-group preference, love of one’s own people, love of one’s culture and civilisation, yet is still paid to influence public policy, then that person becomes a danger to those of who haven’t given up these things. In other words, creatures like Baronnes Royall are a danger to our people and our country.
“ then that person becomes a danger to those of who haven’t given up these things”
You can throw in Starmer, most of Parliament & Whitehall into the mix.
Re’ your first three lines. I wonder if Joseph Heller realised he was writing an instruction manual for the ‘woke’ when he penned ‘Catch-22’?
“But why are white people promoting anti-whitism?”
To prove they do not have unconscious bias, but by their own reasoning (such as it is) it shows they are unconscious racists because they are over-compensating trying to prove they are not.
As you say Kafkaesque. In fact mentally ill, I would say.
”….there was “irrefutable evidence” of a link between racism and transphobia and unconscious bias.”
Total cobblers. Not least because ”transphobia” is another made-up nonsense word pushed by the odious Leftards. Meanwhile, maybe the silly woman thinks the security guards that slung five men pretending to be women from the female loos at Butlin’s are racist and deserved to be suspended, simply for protecting women and sticking up for their female sex-based rights;
”Butlin’s has faced backlash after security guards allegedly forcibly removed five transgender women from the women’s toilets.
This took place during a music event at their Skegness resort on October 5.
The security staff are said to have “violently dragged” the individuals from the lavatories, prompting Butlin’s to remove the guards from duty and reaffirm its commitment to being an “inclusive business.”
The removal of the guards has led to criticism, including from author J.K. Rowling, who called on Butlin’s to clarify its stance on women-only spaces.
In a tweet, Rowling said: “Does Butlins think the desire of cross-dressing men to enter women-only spaces is more important than women’s and girls’ right to privacy and dignity?
“Hopefully Butlins will explain their policy, so women and families can make an informed choice about where to go on holiday.”
According to Jae Roberts, one of the trans women involved, the altercation began when a security guard confronted a person with facial hair in the women’s toilet instructing them to leave on the grounds that they were a man.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1960396/butlins-security-guards-suspended-trans-row
Because the security guard went away and returned with 10 colleagues to turf out these impostors, presumably because they wouldn’t leave when asked, I also agree with comments online that there’s more to this than what the MSM are reporting. As somebody says, if these men lie about their sex then what else are they lying about? It’d be interesting to hear from the suspended security team members for their side of the story. These security guards were absolutely in the right. Men do not go to the toilets in groups, so I’ll bet they were having one of their ‘sausage parties’ or perving on women or something, either before or after doing their make-up. It’s autogynephilic men getting their fetishist kicks from invading women’s spaces. Gay men don’t have any interest in entering female toilets. I know what this person’s referring to because there was loads of footage during Pride ( especially from the U.S and Canada ) posted on Twitter but it was too graphic to post on DS;
”Listen.
PRIDE in NYC this year was some of the craziest shit that I have ever seen, and I was born and raised in this shithole city.
That is why I know there is more to this story than these men just wanting to “pee.”
On West 4th this year during PRIDE, MEN were literally fu*cking each other in the street, and NOTHING could be done to stop them.
That is what PRIDE is now.
MEN are doing the most, but NOW…MEN are allowed to do the most in Women’s spaces, and they all get off on it.
Why do you think every gay man in NYC is NOW identifying as a “Trans Woman”?
Every gay man in NYC identifies as Trans and they are doing it because the city gives them full permission to get away with murder.
There was a brawl in the Starbucks on 14th, and it was a Trans Identified Male and a Woman, and he beat the shit out of her in the STREET.
No one said a WORD.
The LAW behind them makes them even more wild than they were 10 years ago.
There is def more to this story.
MEN and SEX.
MEN and SEX.
It is always about SEX with these MEN.
They just want to normalize it so that we all have to get used to seeing them screw each other in the street.
They want bathhouses back.”
Disturbing. A very serious case of the mind derangement virus spreading.
It is disturbing but autogynephilia is quite intriguing actually, once you start reading about it. Though I’m pretty interested in what makes people tick anyway, especially the weirdos;
”Two different types of men change their sex. To anyone who examines them closely, they are quite dissimilar, in their histories, their motivations, their degree of femininity, their demographics, and even the way they look. We know little about the causes of either type of transsexualism (though we have some good hunches about one type). But I am certain that when we finally do understand, the causes of the two types will be completely different.
To anyone who has seen members of both types and who has learned to ask the right kinds of questions, it is easy to tell them apart. Yet the difference has eluded virtually everyone who cares about transsexuals: talk show hosts, journalists, most people who evaluate and treat them, and even most academics who have studied them. One reason is that the superficial similarity of the two types is so striking – both are men, usually dressed and attempting to act like women, who want to replace their penises with vaginas – that it prevents us from noticing more subtle, though also more fundamental, differences. Another reason is that the two types of transsexuals rarely show up side by side, where they would be easily distinguishable… The most interesting reason why most people do not realize that there are two types of transsexuals is that members of one type sometimes misrepresent themselves as members of the other. I will get more specific later, but for now, it is enough to say that they are often silent about their true motivation and instead tell stories about themselves that are misleading and, in important respects, false.
From soon after birth, the homosexual male-to-female transsexual behaves and feels like a girl. Unlike most feminine boys… these transsexuals do not outgrow, or learn to hide, their femininity. Instead, they decide that the drastic step of changing their sex is preferable. They unambiguously desire and love men, especially heterosexual men, whom they can attract only as women… one type of transsexual man is a kind of homosexual man…
Honest and open autogynephilic transsexuals reveal a much different pattern. They were not especially feminine boys. The first overt manifestation of what led to their transsexualism was typically during early adolescence, when they secretly dressed in their mothers’ or sisters’ lingerie, looked at themselves in the mirror, and masturbated. This activity continued into adulthood, and sexual fantasies became increasingly transsexual – especially the fantasy of having a vulva, perhaps being penetrated by a penis. Autogynephilic transsexuals might declare attraction to women or men, to both, or to neither. But their primary attraction is to the women that they would become.”
https://feministwiki.org/wiki/Autogynephilia
It’s notable that people with “irrefutable evidence” never present it. (See: climate change).
”Irrefutable” bestows in of itself verity, so that scrutiny, testing if the evidence is superfluous.
“Irrefutable” usually means “I possess Wise and Numinous Knowledge” (W.A.N.K. for short) “and you people from the lower orders better obey me”.
The common factor in all this Leftie/Wokerie nonsense, is its claims and assertions are unfalsifiable, which follows on from them being unprovable.
If bias is unconscious, therefore not deliberate, then intent cannot be proven, nor its manifestation be identified, and so cannot be falsified.
So-called Man-made climate change cannot be proven, nor can the causal relationship between C02 and temperature. All weather events, too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, normal are attributed as being consistent with climate change. Hot weather confirms climate change, but cooler weather not only doesn’t refute it, it is evidence too of climate change. So this cannot be falsified.
It’s safe ground to make claims and assertions that cannot be proven. The stock answer in defence is: Well you can’t prove me wrong. That’s is not proof they are right.
When a claim rests on non-evidence based belief, ideology becomes dogma, no amount of contrary evidence will be accepted as falsifying that claim.
And as Jonathan Swift commented: you cannot reason a man out of something which he hadn’t reasoned himself into.
An exam that shows full allegiance to the cult, much like the tape recording you submit to when you join the Scientologists. This corrupt divisive PoS and her bovine cabal need to be buried by history.
Presumably, the ‘correct’ answer – the answer students were required to give to score 100% – was ‘Yes’.
Being perverse, I’d answer ‘Yes’ to that question which covers both alternatives.
My real frustration in running my own businesses is that the opportinuty to attend an unconscious bias training course and really enjoy the ‘sport’ is not going to happen !
Hatchet-faced Harpie.
I’d be astonished if more than a tiny percentage of senior University staff/leaders actually believe in freedom of speech.
Read her Wiki bio. The most depressing sort of political mediocrity. Read Spanish at a dismal uni somewhere. Worked as a flower importer and did a secretarial. Then into politics courtesy of the Kinnocks.Failed in every election she stood in.
Swam through the pc world of low ability committees and has been rewarded for just being a loyal apparatchik. Now hoping to run Oxford.
Toby, if I could, I would give you decibels. All power to you, my friend.