- “We’re on the brink of World War Three – and only one country can stop it” – Iran now presents an intolerable threat to global stability, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. We must suppor the only country that stands between us and armageddon: Israel.
- “Israel’s options for retaliatory strikes against Iran” – Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing up his next move – from targeting oil assets and missile programmes to assassinating Iran’s leaders, writes Jotam Confino in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. Armed Forces ‘not up to defending Israel from missile attacks’” – Defence experts warn that Britain’s Armed Forces lack the necessary firepower to shield Israel from Iranian ballistic missile assaults, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Hezbollah are acting rationally’: The BBC’s Israel problem laid bare” – What exactly is Hezbollah? The BBC does not seem to know it’s a terrorist organisation, says George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer’s top donor Lord Alli under investigation” – Keir Starmer’s top donor Lord Waheed Alli is being probed by a House of Lords watchdog over “alleged non-registration of interests”, reports the Mail.
- “Labour received gifts worth £1 million from gambling sector” – Keir Starmer and three members of his Cabinet have received more than £1 million from casino bosses, on top of tens of thousands in freebies from bookies, says the National.
- “Starmer ‘exempt’ from paying £48,000 tax on freebies” – According to accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg, HMRC “appears to exempt” politicians from paying tax on gifts from donors and political allies despite requiring taxpayers in other sectors to do so, reports the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner’s VIP Ibiza trip to a DJ’s booth was an £836 freebie” – Angela Rayner racked up £836 in freebies during a wild night at Ibiza’s Hi nightclub, including a VIP trip to the DJ booth, says the Mail.
- “Tube drivers threaten to strike, saying £70,000 a year is not enough” – Tube drivers have voted to go on strike after rejecting a pay rise that would take their salaries to £70,000 for the first time, reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants threaten to strike over back-to-office push” – Hundreds of workers at the Office for National Statistics have backed an all-out strike to protest against being ordered back to the workplace two days a week, says the Telegraph.
- “The full, alarming truth about mass migration is finally being exposed” – Robert Jenrick is right – the risks of mass migration have become so great they should be impossible to ignore, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “The demise of the Tory party has been greatly exaggerated” – It is too soon to write off the democratic world’s most successful party, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Net Zero: only fanatics fail to see the hopelessness of the ruinous policy” – Setting arbitrary, unrealistic green targets only serves to threaten our national and economic security, no matter how morally superior it makes our policy-makers feel, says Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband reveals plan to prevent Net Zero blackouts” – Giant flywheels are to be installed around the U.K. to minimise the risk of blackouts as the power system goes carbon-free, reports the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is becoming synonymous with economic suicide” – There is a reason why every developing country’s plan for industrialisation involves a steel plant. It is critical to everything else, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Electric Fiat 500 production freeze extended over ‘struggling’ EV sales” – No one is buying the new Fiat 500, writes Brian Silvestro in Motor1.com.
- “Fraser Nelson will be a hard act to follow – he made the Spectator the success it is today” – From trans ideology to Covid lockdowns, the Spectator has been fearless in challenging lazy dogma, says James Kirkup in the Telegraph.
- “Free speech row at Durham University after debating society blocked from campus events” – Durham University is embroiled in a free speech row after its debating society was banned from the freshers’ fair over unresolved racism allegations, reports the Telegraph.
- “McEntee confirms Government will seek to pass hate speech bill after General Election” – Ireland’s Justice Minister confirms to Gript’s Ben Scallan that the Government will seek to pass hate speech legislation during the next government term.
- “In praise of Elon Musk” – Elon Musk deserves respect for his defence of online free speech, says Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
- “Man, 34, contacted GP six times during lockdown then died of cancer” – An inquest revealed a man died of cancer just three days after seeing a doctor, with an earlier diagnosis possible if it hadn’t been for Covid, reports the Mail.
- “The Hallett Inquiry – evidence given on September 26th, 2024” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson provide an overview of Professor Whitty’s responsibilities as England’s Chief Medical Officer.
- “These four heartbreaking words show why we must never do lockdown again” – We cannot say Covid is over when we have condemned a whole generation of innocent children to a lifetime of pain, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Moderna under fire after children offered cash to test Covid vaccine” – Regulators have blasted Moderna after the pharmaceutical company was found to be offering children money to test the Covid vaccine, reports GB News.
- “30 lawmakers sponsor bill to end liability protection for vaccine makers” – A new bill in the U.S. House aims to strip vaccine makers of the liability protections granted by the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, according to Children’s Health Defence.
- “Daniel Andrews statue is a painful insult to Victorians who suffered under his bans, curfews and failed hotel quarantine” – The plan to erect a Daniel Andrews statue in Melbourne will be a permanent reminder of the destruction he wrought with his Covid-era policies, writes Caleb Bond for Sky News Australia.
- “Tim Walz admits he ‘misspoke’ about Tiananmen Square protests” – Gov. Tim Walz tried to explain during the Vice Presidential debate why he falsely claimed he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989, reports the Mail. It did not go well.
- “Vance is the future of MAGA” – J.D. Vance has emerged as a potential leader for the future. The question that lingers is, will he be able to carry the torch and lead the way? wonders Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “School assistant challenges dismissal after criticising LGBT teaching” – A school assistant who says she was fired for her Christian beliefs has begun a court challenge over her dismissal after criticising plans to teach primary school pupils about LGBT+ relationships, reports the Mail.
- “The nurses fighting the NHS for women-only spaces” – In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, four NHS whistleblowers reveal to Lucy Denyer why they’re suing their hospital for allowing a man to use the women’s changing room.
- “London’s failed night czar resigns” – At long last, and not a day too soon, it transpires that London’s ‘night czar’ is standing down, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “‘The BBC threw Giovanni Pernice under the bus to placate Amanda Abbington – I hope he sues’” – The BBC’s handling of Amanda Abbington’s allegations against Giovanni Pernice has not only tarnished his reputation but also put Strictly on shaky ground, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “We have a name. As do the Mail and the Telegraph. We have a birth certificate” – Paul Staines talks to Dan Wootton about the Keir Starmer scandal all Westminster is talking about, but which no newspaper has (yet) published.
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Those up to no good always want their faces covered
And those who think they will spread the virus without a mask should really think, and stay at home.
It’s a shame that England won’t in practice be much different – at least on public transport I’m expecting all the operating companies to mandate masks, led by TFL. Otherwise England could be the control group for the study of the efficacy of mask mandates. Pick a few towns and regions in the two countries with similar climate, geography, demographics, vaccination rates and current “case” rates and then see which one fares better over time.
From the people Ice spoken to, they all want masks on tubes and buses to continue and say they will use them regardless. They’re scared shitless of this thing
Not shitless. They are full of the stuff.
‘Witless’ is the word.
Muzzle will be part of the T&C of carriage. That’s contract law and British Transport Police have no remit in contract law. No statute and they have no power.
And what of cross-border public transport? Will you have to muzzle up/free-face as you cross the border?
I live in Hereford; the train to Shrewsbury is run by Arriva Trains Wales. Will I have to be muzzled to make a journey that is entirely in England?
They cannot make face nappies part of the conditions of carriage. Firstly, because the conditions of carriage are national, not a Welsh Assembly responsibility. Secondly, it would have to include an exemption clause, which renders it pointless. You only have to look at the situation with airlines and support animals to see that.
You say “cannot” as though that has any meaning to these lunatic despots.
The question is not who will allow them, it is who will stop them.
It’s who will and does defy the
Me, for one.
Who can stop them, not who will. The government has a monopoly of violence and no tyranny in history has lacked thugs willing to do its dirty work. There are dark days ahead.
It’s quite likely the National conditions of carriage will mandate masks
TFL will lead the way and others will follow
It will also include an exemption clause which will make it pointless, just as it did in the so called ‘mask mandate’
This is to protect the train operator from the public rather than to protect the public from ‘the virus’.
I think this is the most likely scenario
The logical answer it to declare oneself as ‘exempt’; they have no right to inquire as to why, and they never have done.
Which is exactly what makes a mockery of the whole mask mandate, as it can’t be enforced, and nor should it. TFL etc. should also take note of the latest landmark Danish study on masks that concluded no benefit.
That’s already been done in the States. Masks mandates make no difference. They don’t work for reasons explained by Fauci.
Yet I know intelligent, frightened people who think they do.
It’s already occurred with North Dakota and South Dakota – no difference in the proportion of cases!
Indeed
The US doesn’t exist according to our media
Covid is a total scam, masks can only have a down side.
This is no longer about public health – this is about power and a reluctance to relinquish that power..
Remove the words “no longer” for full accuracy.
Level 0 = masks
New Normal.
Level -1 = no masks
Abnormal.
That so many people are happily obedient enough to stretch bacteria-ridden snot rags over their faces in public will be the everlasting legacy of these times.
I’ve heard that some mask wearers have been hospitalised due to mask fibres being found in their lungs.
The whole point of everything now is to abolish, or render meaningless by diluting, or making statistically insignificant every imaginable control group, so that they can continue to implement and justify every absurdity already tried out, or still to be dreamed up in the future.
Build Back Better
But they’ve failed in the Stares. Stay strong.
I live in Hereford; I using some Prof Fergusson-type modelling; I predict an increase of Welsh people shopping in Bristol, Gloucester, Ross, Hereford, Shrewsbury, Chester.
Local car-boot sales have been full of traders from South Wales since English boots opened and Welsh ones remain shut.
You presuppose that most English traders won’t continue to mandate muzzles anyway. I fully expect all large retailers to do so, if they know what’s good for them.
Oi, stop kicking. “if they know what’s good for them” refers to the calls that they’ll receive from their masters: it’s not my position.
Sainsbury’s have already said it will be personal choice. Asda have said they’ll want folk to wear them. I’ve been using Asda Hereford for 10 years; on 19 Jul, I will go in and if I am told I need to wear a face nappy, I’ll ask to see the duty manager and they’ll be politely informed that my trade will be going to Sainsbury’s until their attitude changes.
Drakeford and his rapist son should wear masks of shame forever.
“…to help keep us all safe.” Glad to see they’re following The Science…wait a minute…
“Safe” is literally my most hated word right now. Every time I hear or read “stay safe!” a bit of me dies. I decide if I want to be safe, no one else decides for me! But we all know that SAFE = CONTROL.
I get the urge to physically attack people who tell me to stay safe.
Hear, hear. ‘Safe’ has become an obscenity.
I detest that phrase – “keeping everyone safe” – and its variants so much that I have actually had a bit of a rant at colleagues who have used it. I have asked them to explain how these measures are keeping people at risk of suicide or self-harm “safe”. How they are keeping victims of domestic violence who are cooped up with their abusers “safe”. How they are keeping the chronically lonely “safe”. How they are keeping kids and students whose educations are being blighted “safe”.
No answers are forthcoming, of course.
More proof if any were needed that this is a cult
Two cults and two leaders who each believe they are the one true god
The adherents have zany theories about the magical life giving properties of a cheap piece of paper imported from China
Based on exactly the same ‘data’ and science’ (produced by the high priests) the argument goes that if you behave in exactly the same way in two different locations the outcomes will not be the same.
if one follows that thinking to its logical conclusion then changing location will save your life
As an aside there has been speculation over the year as to who built Offa’s Dyke and why. Perhaps they were visionaries. Did they know that one day we would need to be able to define which side of a line maskless death would occur
Makes no fucking difference.
Those who don’t wear them now will continue to ignore the legislation (like me). Meanwhile, the longer this is perpetuated, the more angry people get as it becomes common knowledge that this whole thing is a pre-planned and pre-meditated collusion between the pharmacutical companies and the World Health Organisation, using a US created bio-weapon.
………that this whole thing is a pre-planned and pre-meditated collusion between the pharmacutical companies and the World Health Organisation, using a US created bio-weapon.
And as Doc David Martin has told Reiner Fuellmich, he has evidence relating to 73 US patents which clearly show that there was nothing novel about the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus.
The coronavirus “pandemic” has been planned for decades and while in itself it is largely hype, its real purpose is to scare or coerce the great bulk of the global population into allowing themselves to be injected with the likely purposely lethal Covid vaccines.
I can’t find the words to describe just how much I loathe that man. Living in Wales and having only recently plucked up the courage to ditch the lanyard in shops, I can now expect to get hassled every time I go shopping, Welsh shopkeepers and assistants assuming that the unmasked are English and need reminding of the Welsh rules. The anxiety Drakeford refers to is his own, but I think ultimately the decision to keep the masks is a political one, to further drive home the idea that Wales is independent of uk government control, and the UK is a defunct concept. These power-crazed morons are playing god.
I ditched the lanyard two months ago. You have nothing to fear at all. Shopkeepers are all too happy to see customers, they don’t care. I am now declining to register too, since I see providing a false name and phone number (which they are undoubtedly aware happens a large majority of the time), is an exercise in futility.
Believe me, I’ve been enjoying every minute of being lanyard-free. Never stopped, never questioned. But I expect that to change, when the English and Welsh “rules” on mask-wearing in shops part company. I’m expecting the Welsh to stop assuming that all unmasked are “exempt”, instead suspecting they’re English and ignorant of the local rules.
Have never given my details for track and trace. And I feel more determined than ever to resist engaging with this shitshow.
This is Cold War thinking, replace the bogeyman Soviet bloc with a bogeyman virus. Replace the subject of the 2 minute hate (can’t remember the name offhand) in 1984 with SARS-CoV-2 as the enemy of the state.
Emmanuel Goldstein, the figure behind every plot against the State (who almost certainly didn’t exist).
Thank you for reminding me, it’s a while since I read the book.
Very soon the subject of the 2 minute hate will be those of us who harbour crazy, subversive thoughts, such as that our own immune system are perfectly adequate for the vast majority of people, and that wearing a loose, damp, bacteria laden muzzle can only have deleterious health effects.
Don’t you simply loathe the phantom mouth that appears when these goons try to speak from under their nappies?
Cameltoe
Dungford has certainly not gone away.
May it please his controllers, the powers of Hell, to remedy that forthwith, immediately, and without delay.
Garden forks and rope available at B&Q!
This is going to work really well on trains, isn’t it? The Transport for Wales train opeerator (controlled by the Welsh government) operates most of the services in adjacent parts of England, including the Marches line which goes down the border and is the main operator at several sizeable English places (Shrewsbury, Hereford). And it weaves in and out of Wales. So what’s the law? People have to check on a map whether they have to wear a mask or not at that particular point?
Of course, it’s highly likely that the train operator will try to insist on masks as a condition of using their services, even well outside Wales (they go as far as Manchester). Let’s hope that the English train operators don’t try the same trick – I’m not hopeful, though.
I live in Hereford and posted about this earlier. Point is, if muzzles are a T&C of carriage, then that’s contract law and no police force in the country has the power to enforce contract law. There may well be a Statutory Instrument for muzzles in Wales, but BTP can only enforce it while the transport device (there’s plenty of x-border buses too) is in Wales.
There’s a precedent: IIRC smoking was banned in indoor public places (including trains) in Scotland about a year or two before England. The train companies which ran services across the border and which still had smoking carriages (I think there was only one company) banned smoking on the whole service, despite it being legal, as the alternative would have been everyone having to stub out their fags when the train crossed into Scotland.
If Cymruzombies are worried and anxious about going out, they can bloody well stay in.
I saw a good few out and about today, outdoors, including one man on a bicycle! I can only put it down to mask-induced oxygen deprivation having caused brain damage.
Asda in Caldicot empty those inside muzzled.Where are all the shoppers weird.Are they cowering indoors or fuming with rage like me?
That’s my September holiday in Wales cancelled, it looks like England again.
It really isn’t that bad
Don’t do the BBC. Masks don’t work and in any event Sars-Cov-2 is simply a massive scam. See David Martin giving evidence to Reiner Fuellmich. https://www.bitchute.com/video/anNY7jqPAiiD/
https://planetlockdownfilm.com/full-interviews/
“In this interview with Sucharit Bhakdi he disc[r]ibes a study just released regarding children and masks stating that they are intolerable and unhealthy.” And more regarding vaxx and clotting.
Won’t the mask be their undoing? First, policy on mask use flip-flopped at the start; second, aren’t there now studies confirming not only uselessness but harm (Bhakdi above et al.). Their stance looks increasingly like purposed deceptiveness.
Spineless bed wetter’s…get a life.
In Wales we have the worst waiting lists , poor health outcomes compared with England. Drakeford is a pleasant man who is in search of a good tailor and a scientific background!
Drakeford would prefer to have his hand over our mouths
just like his son
It’s the Welsh govt that are the danger to people, not the virus.