- “The people who backed Huw Edwards – from Andrew Marr to Emily Maitlis” – When allegations concerning Huw Edwards were first reported last summer several figures in the media industry came to his defence, including Edwards’s former BBC colleagues such as Andrew Marr and Emily Maitlis, writes Alex Farber in the Times.
- “BBC bosses’ ‘unforgivable’ handling of Huw Edwards scandal” – The BBC faces yet more damaging questions after another of its biggest stars was revealed to be a sex offender, reports the Mail.
- “The Huw Edwards cover up and why it proves the BBC is rotten to the core” – The idea that Brits should have to keep paying for this morally bankrupt broadcaster is a sick joke, says Dan Wootton on his Outspoken Substack.
- “Why the BBC is one of Britain’s greatest scandal magnets” – Huw Edwards is the latest in a long line of high-profile controversies at the Beeb, but will they ever learn from their mistakes? wonders Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “BBC Chairman accused of dismissing staff complaints of antisemitism” – “Jews don’t count” at the BBC, staff have warned as part of a complaint about “systemic antisemitism”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour face a brutal awakening about the realities of governing modern Britain” – The Government must address concerns over preferential group treatment, or risk more disorder on the streets, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “What did you expect? Britain’s protests reflect decades of elite failure” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin shares his thoughts on the latest atrocities in Britain – and the reaction to them.
- “Political violence must never be tolerated” – It takes an authoritarian mindset to choose violence over the ballot box, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “How censorship made Tommy Robinson” – The attempts to silence Tommy Robinson have only fuelled his grift, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Jenrick overtakes Badenoch as bookmaker’s favourite to become Tory leader” – William Hill says the odds on the former Immigration Minister winning the Tory leadership battle have narrowed following Lord Frost’s endorsement, according to the Telegraph.
- “Don’t ‘drive me’ to join Reform, Braverman tells Tory MPs” – Suella Braverman says she hopes she is not “driven out” of the Conservative Party by Tory MPs, insisting that she has no intention of defecting to Reform U.K., says the Telegraph.
- “Bank of England cuts interest rates for first time in four years” – Rachel Reeves has indicated she might still raise taxes after the Bank of England cut interest rates for the first time in four years and more than doubled its growth forecast, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves has just admitted the grotesque truth about her plans for Britain” – The Chancellor has given the game away. She will punish the prudent and successful to reward the feckless, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Hamas terror chief boasted of his freedom – hours later, he was dead” – The fear now is that the Hamas leader’s funeral could be the first of many, if his assassination triggers a wider war in the Middle East, write James Crisp and Akhtar Makoii in the Telegraph.
- “Israel has shown it can still hit back – and now the world can sleep safer” – Leaders in London and Washington don’t like Tel Aviv’s tactics. But Tehran’s losses are the West’s gain, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Giving up Ukrainian territories is ‘a very, very difficult’ question” – In an interview with Le Monde, Ukrainian President Zelensky discusses the possible outcome of the war and calls on China to put pressure on Russia to open the way to negotiations.
- “Biden hails ‘feat of diplomacy’ as U.S. journalist freed in biggest prisoner swap since Cold War” – The American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been freed by Russia as part of the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War, reports the Independent.
- “TV commentators silent on Olympics boxing gender row” – TV viewers were kept in the dark about the mounting Olympic gender row as a masculine Algerian fighter felled an Italian opponent with one ferocious punch, says the Telegraph.
- “IOC is betraying women in worst possible way” – Olympics organisers are putting female boxers at risk of extreme harm by allowing fighters with abnormally high testosterone levels to compete, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “The simple way to protect women’s sport at the Olympics” – Someone with XY chromosomes who went through male puberty has no business competing in women’s sports, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Female high school volleyball player, 17, is left paralysed with brain damage by trans opponent” – A female volleyball player, partially paralysed by a transgender opponent, has slammed the Olympics for letting two boxers who failed gender eligibility tests last year compete against women, reports the Mail.
- “England’s GPs vote to take industrial action” – For the first time in 60 years, family doctors have voted for collective action, writes Lucy Dunn in the Spectator.
- “The militant BMA is becoming an enemy of the people” – Calling on the NHS to lift the ban on puberty blockers will embolden trans extremists and put children at risk, warns Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Sir Paul Marshall leads race to buy the Spectator” – Hedge fund magnate and GB News shareholder Sir Paul Marshall is close to securing a deal to buy the Spectator, says City A.M.
- “U.K. police special enquiry team to examine role of Washington Post chief in email deletions” – Following a tip-off from Gordon Brown, British police are investigating whether Washington Post CEO Will Lewis destroyed evidence while working at News International 13 years ago, reports the Guardian.
- “Labour and Conservative stalwarts in race for University of Oxford chancellor job” – Peter Mandelson and William Hague are both in the race to become the next chancellor of the University of Oxford, says the Mail.
- “Sending them back: the Horniman Museum and the restitution of its Benin bronzes” – In History Reclaimed, Mike Wells gives a critical review of a new book by Nick Merriman, the former Director of the Horniman Museum, who gave away its Benin bronzes.
- “Will the real Kamala Harris please stand up?” – Should Kamala Harris win in November, there will be no change. The same people in control now will remain in control, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Media gaslighting about Kamala Harris nears totalitarian levels” – Ever since Kamala Harris became the Democrats’ Presidential nominee, we have been told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears in favour of party propaganda, says Michael Shellenberger on his Public Substack.
- “Right-wing court shocks MAGA with brutal ruling” – On YouTube, the State Attorney for Palm Beach County reacts to Ron DeSantis’s “Stop Woke Act” being shut down by Florida’s conservative district court for violating the First Amendment.
- “Just Stop Oil Heathrow Airport protest fails – again” – Just Stop Oil protesters have been removed from Heathrow airport following another failed protest, reports the Mail.
- “Hillary Clinton-run group helps fund Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion” – U.S. financial disclosures reveal that Just Stop Oil’s stunts are partly funded by a campaign organisation run by Hillary Clinton, reports the Telegraph.
- “Young eco-catastrophists are clueless about real nature” – Childhoods are no longer being spent outdoors, but lost in an online world that spreads climate doom, says Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Campaigners call on Labour to end foxhunting ‘loophole’” – Anti-fox hunting activists have urged the Government to shut down a so-called loophole which they say facilitates the sport to take place on Ministry of Defence land, reports GB News.
- “The inconvenient truth about ‘rewilding’” – Why is the cost of rewilding being dumped on new housing? asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “German start-up brings cryonics to Europe” – Hoping to have your body deep-frozen and reanimated at some distant point in the future? A fleet of repurposed ambulances is on standby to oblige, reports William Hunter in the Mail.
- “Another spot on South Park prediction” – A video on X reveals another South Park prediction that hit the mark.
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Why would it blow up in the Government’s face? If opposition exists at all, it is in disarray.
That’s a really good question because when Tories simply adopt everything Labour would want to implement as well, voting becomes an obvious farce. “Don’t want to be buried alive? Sorry, that’s not on the ballot paper. But you may chose your own undertaker!”
Is there something except mask mandates, covaxx coercion and Christmas lockdowns Rishi hasn’t yet back-pedalled on? If not, when can we expect these last three crowning achievements of his career as Mr Open Hands, “Want to see policies implemented? Remember to include the cheque in the envelope, otherwise, they won’t be considered!”
Kid:
Mum, Dad ‘Surrogate Parents – I want to talk to you, I don’t know if I’m a boy or a girl’SP – Sorry, person, it would be illegal for us to advise you. Just note that currently, caucasian boys are accused of inherent white privilege and all boys are emblematic of patriarchal control, while the whole concept of girls is being systematically erased from the English language. Unless they’re 4th gen Disney-esque girlbosses who don’t need love, children or a sense of community to get them through the day, that is. In the meantime, the concept of transgender is based on biologyphobic ideology and primary colour hair dye, combined with sterilising drugs and mutiliating surgery. Take your pick.’
“the whole concept of girls is being systematically erased from the English language”
Also very confusing. Isn’t that misgendering 99.9% of girls?
Is that going to be a crime too?
Or not?
Likewise, isn’t affirmative genitital mutilation an attempt to change someone’s sex and gender? And what about Stonewall adepts proselytizing in schools?
I saw this on a BTL somewhere a while ago –
i find the logic confusing. if gender is a social construct, how is transgender in and of itself not also a social construct? what I mean is, would I have to be trans to be trans? how can trans be any more legitimate than either the male and female that they’re grown from? can you claim to have a gender when gender isn’t real? if woman has no definition how can you even know you’re trans? aren’t you really just a topographically redesigned person?
Topographically redesigned. Love it.
Topography
Definition 1 of three for this word.
“daddy, I know I’m your eldest son and I know you insisted I’m not supposed to, but I *really* like my friend”
“You bigot! She’s female and you’re male. I guess you didn’t ask “insert-ideological-term-of-compliance-here” (her/him/they/fk-off-not-your-business) for consent before you enjoyed your lurid dreams and your thought-crimes.
Yes, I’m told she has a bonus hole and perhaps a few other interesting contours, but I reject your obsession, but now I have to spew.
Igor, heat-up the irons to red-hot, this supposed (soon-to-be-ex) son of mine needs an object lesson in humility and agony.
No – it doesn’t count because the DEI score says so…
I have no idea what that means.
All I do know is that denying childrens’ gender identity is misgendering and Great Ormond Street Hospital has in effect banned the use of words like ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ and issued guidance threatening staff with disciplinary action.
But that is still misgendering 99.9% of the patients.
So it is OK to misgender children who are boys and girls but it is not OK to misgender children who are boys and girls who don’t want to be boys and girls.
I am really very confused by all of this.
Just what the public want and need – more laws telling them new things they can’t do.
My life still feels too free, there are still areas of my day to day existence that I get to decide for myself. Can parliament please step it up a bit and hurry up making some more laws. I want every little nook and cranny of my life to be legislated and regulated. So I don’t have to think at all.
Or, actually, better still, just shoot me in the back of the head now and get the same result quicker.
Why do they always look like they stink of fish and old meat?
This is unbelievably confusing and precisely because all of the woke trans ideology has turned our world upsides down.
What exactly is the controversy about?
Is it to be criminal to help a child decide to transition or not to transition? Which is it? Or is it both or none of the above.
The answer is this is another crap feelgood law with no intelligible meaning which lawyers and judges can interpret in whichever way they want to interpret it.
So, you’re liable for up to a 7 year prison sentence for counselling in support of FGM under the 2003 FGM Act.
But, you’ll be liable for a prison sentence if you counsel someone to not move towards genital mutilation if it’s for trans reasons?
Mmmm, someone smarter than me needs to explain that one to me.
(not aimed at NickR, healthy sarcasm involved)
Comrade, you nailed the double-think, you must either have MANY extra vodka rations (as your only salary) or be punished for your precocity because, while your your vote-for-me is absolutely mandatory, your positive-opinion of me is also mandatory, whether expressed in public or private..
Did I just hear a peep of dissent from you? I’m told Siberia is lovely in June, but I couldn’t care less as my Dacha is in Odessa. It’s only my winter-house. Saying that, there’s a wonderful job opportunity coming-up but it’s far, far, far to the east of us.
Comrade Orwell tried to warn us before, but it was only in a novel and so very easily disregarded (what a-wheezy-‘karen’ non-entity he turned out to be, lol)
I get that you’re just holding-up the hypocrisy for scrutiny, I’d truly wonder if you really believed this stuff. Mr Orwell would be proud of you.
The ambiguity will get me caught soon – just one unguarded opinion and I’ll be on the trains…
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We are being taken into Hell.
Dark untold truth of transgenderism
Once again our enemies have hijacked the language and sadly even the headline here sort of falls for it. “Conversion therapy” is actually the opposite of what it appears to mean. The people who are attempting to “convert” the confused are the “trans” activists. You are either conceived as a man or a woman, and that’s it. You cannot be “converted” to what you already are – that is nonsense.
Perhaps one-day gassing will be referred to as a ‘zyklon-b-hug’
They are utterly insane and EVIL.
Guy Fawkes had a very good point me thinks.
But sadly he was betrayed by the conscience of a still unidentified supporter who wrote an anonymous letter in late October 1605 to Lord Monteagle, a Catholic.
Monteagle intended to attend the opening of Parliament a few days later, on November 5.
The unsigned letter stated: “My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation, therefore I would advise you as you tender your life to devise some excuse to shift of your attendance at this parliament . . . for though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow.”
Monteagle he forwarded the letter to Robert Cecil, chief minister of King James I and the rest, as they say, is history.
I write ‘sadly’ but do not condone the purpose of the plotters who would have succeeded in an act of terrorism with terrible consequences had it not been for the conscience of the writer of that anonymous letter.
It was a remarkable plan which anticipated and predates modern terrorism by four centuries.
Notice these words from that letter “out of the love I bear to some of your friends“.
So the writer was known not to Monteagle but to ‘some of his friends’. And of course must have been known to Fawkes or someone close to him or his plotters.
That means potentially Cecil could have identified the writer but presumably Cecil got the information he wanted of the identities of Fawkes’ co-conspirators from torture inflicted on Fawkes.
Of course, Monteagle was given little choice but to pass on the letter.
Had he not done so and excused himself from attending Parliament on 5th November that would cast suspicion upon him.
And so we can also see how this 400 year old precursor to modern counter-terrorism worked then but based on luck and intelligence from an unwitting informant instead of by design.
Sadly, those who love freedom in the UK these days are very few. And virtually non-existent in Parliament.