- “Met Police officer cleared of murdering Chris Kaba is set to be promoted to the rank of inspector” – Armed police officer Martyn Blake has been promoted just weeks after he was cleared of the murder of gang member Chris Kaba, reports the Mail.
- “How street market traders tackled ‘knifeman who stabbed man to death’” – Heroic street market traders wrestled a knifeman to the ground in South London after one man was fatally stabbed and two others were injured, says the Mail.
- “Labour’s total ignorance of the reality of a farmer’s life will undoubtedly lead to mass protest” – Farmers could soon take direct action against Labour’s punitive inheritance taxes. Is No.10 ready for when the manure hits the fan? wonders William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Labour are coming for the farms.” – On Substack, Tom Ed lets rip at Rachel Reeves’s state-sanctioned land grab.
- “Jeremy Clarkson to protest against tractor tax alongside rebel farmers” – Jeremy Clarkson is set to rally with rebel farmers next week to protest the Chancellor’s tractor tax, reports the Telegraph.
- “Clarkson accuses Labour of ‘ethnically cleansing’ the countryside” – Jeremy Clarkson has accused Labour of wanting to “ethnically cleanse” the countryside in order to build “new immigrant towns” and Net Zero windfarms, says the Mail.
- “‘We’re getting married to dodge inheritance tax – there’s no romance in it’” – Pensioners are considering a trip down the aisle following Rachel Reeves’s bombshell Budget, writes Maya Wilson-Autzen in the Telegraph.
- “Chancellor’s National Insurance raid claims first victim” – British manufacturing company Connectix Cabling Systems, a specialist cable manufacturer with revenues of £50 million in 2023, says it will close down its four factories and move abroad because of Rachel Reeves’s Budget, according to the GB News.
- “Hotel tycoon scraps £20 million investment after Reeves’s tax raid” – A hotel tycoon has scrapped plans to invest around £20 million in his hospitality empire as he hit out at Rachel Reeve’s inheritance tax raid for being “anti-business”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pubs and restaurants tell Reeves they face closures and ‘drastic’ job cuts after tax raid” – Top pub and restaurant bosses have warned the Chancellor that tax rises in last month’s Budget will “unquestionably” cause closures and job losses, according to the BBC.
- “The Times view on campus free speech” – Labour’s surreptitious retreat on legislation intended to safeguard free speech at universities has dismayed even its natural allies, says the Times in a leading article.
- “Celtic fans sing pro-IRA songs as Remembrance Sunday tribute scrapped after nine seconds” – A minute’s silence before Kilmarnock’s clash with Celtic was abandoned after nine seconds yesterday when fans of the Scottish Premiership champions booed and sang pro-IRA songs, reports the Belfast Telegraph.
- “Israel warns of planned attacks at large events, including in U.K.” – Authorities say they have intelligence suggesting pro-Palestinian groups intend to target Israelis and Jews at sporting and cultural events, according to the Express.
- “‘Starmer has got to start taking this antisemitism seriously’” – In the Telegraph, actress Tracy-Ann Oberman opens up on how she became a spokesperson for Britain’s Jewish community and why Shakespeare’s Shylock is still relevant today.
- “Why our young people are scared to wear the poppy” – Far from being proud to wear it, many members of the younger generation seem confused about what our symbol of remembrance represents, says George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “The establishment blocked me from laying wreath at Cenotaph, claims Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage has blamed “the Establishment” for not allowing him to take a public facing-role with other party leaders at the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph, according to GB News.
- “Pressure grows on Justin Welby to resign for ignoring sex abuse” – Vicars have launched a petition urging the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign for ignoring sex abuse – and a top bishop has declined to defend him, reports the Mail.
- “The Church of England has lost its way – there is only one route back” – Justin Welby has said he “considered” resigning after the John Smyth Review. That’s not good enough, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “If the U.S. imposes tariffs it will be an act of self-harm, but it may just push Labour to embrace Brexit” – Trade barriers make us all poorer – and are worst for the country that imposes them. But cosying up to the EU would make things worse, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump takes Arizona in swing state clean sweep” – President-elect Trump has won Arizona, claiming all seven battleground states in a thumping victory, reports the Washington Post.
- “After the election, the rage against white women” – The Democrats are once again shocked to discover that women do not vote in accordance with their genitals, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Trump Derangement Syndrome” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson is finding the Left’s meltdown over Trump’s stomping victory just too delicious to ignore.
- “Ultra-wealthy Democrats race to buy London boltholes after Trump win” – Trump’s election triumph has sparked a flurry of interest from ultra-wealthy Democrats who want to buy prime U.K. property as a “safety net”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ruling by fear and cutting 80% of the workforce: Musk’s public sector revolution” – If Musk is truly planning to treat the Government as he has treated his businesses, employees are in for quite a ride, says Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
- “Stanley Johnson’s China links spooked the CIA” – Connections between Boris Johnson’s father and Beijing diplomats were so notorious that COP conference officials were ordered to keep them apart, writes Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times.
- “Flat owners face £66,000 bill each for council’s new green heating” – Residents in a London estate claim they may have to pay up to £66,000 each towards a new heating system to help a Labour council reach its Net Zero targets, reports the Times.
- “Trump is about to expose the lie at the heart of Net Zero” – America’s inevitable turn away from its climate commitments will pave the way for Britain, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Time for think tanks to think again” – It’s time free market think tanks started to challenge the Net Zero orthodoxy, says David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “U.K. faces calls to pay into $1 trillion pot to help poor countries tackle climate change at COP” – The U.K. faces pressure to contribute to a $1 trillion climate fund for developing countries at COP29 in Baku, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s farmers brace for Miliband’s solar shock wave” – Tenant farmers warn they face being cleared out as landowners sell up to Net Zero developers, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s wind power falls to virtually zero as Miliband prepares to cut reliance on gas” – Britain’s wind generation is set to plummet to virtually zero this week as Ed Miliband presses ahead with plans to increase the nation’s reliance on renewable energy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Airline to double size of £414 ‘all you can fly’ scheme” – Wizz Air is set to double the size of its controversial “all you can fly” scheme in a rebuke to climate campaigners who say it encourages people to make unnecessary journeys, says the Telegraph.
- “Fluoride in the water” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson write about RFK Jr.’s fluoride scepticism, suggesting his questions are more justified than critics might think.
- “No place for war hawks in my father’s Cabinet, says Donald Trump Jr.” – Donald Trump Jr. says there’s no place in his father’s administration for “war hawks” amid growing signs the President-elect will follow through on plans to bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine, according to EconoTimes.
- “Russia becoming more aggressive on British soil, defence chief warns” – Adml Sir Tony Radakin says the U.K. is not without threat in a “new era of competition and contest that will last for decades”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Assisted dying ‘could divert NHS funds from cancer patients’” – Health experts question whether end-of-life treatment will compete for funds with serious illness treatments, as a bill to legalise assisted dying is set to be published on Tuesday, reports the Times.
- “One NHS trust in ten has a male menopause policy” – About a tenth of hospital trusts have policies to assist staff members undergoing the male menopause, even though the NHS describes the term as “unhelpful and misleading”, says the Times.
- “Trump killed woke. For now” – Tuesday’s election was not a landslide, but it was at least a temporary triumph over wokism, writes Bo Winegard in Aporia.
- “School the Education Secretary chose as the first sixth form college to visit after Labour took power ‘will trial a gender affirmation fund to give clothes and makeup to trans children’” – The Sheffield school the Education Secretary chose as the first sixth form to visit is introducing a “gender affirmation fund” that will allow trans and non-binary students to apply for financial support to buy “clothes and make-up”, reports the Mail.
- “How Boris Johnson and King Charles clashed over slavery reparations” – Tim Shipman’s new book reveals that Boris Johnson clashed with the King over the issue of slavery, fearing he had been captured by “woke ideology”, says the Mail.
- “Confusion rules in Chomsky’s take on world power” – Noam Chomsky’s Who Rules the World? misses the true power players, leaving readers with little more than a Marxist who can’t see the forest for the trees, writes Niall McCrae in TCW.
- “Climate change’s ‘substantial impact’ on mental health” – On X, our own Ben Pile tells TalkTV’s Peter Cardwell about the false link between climate change and mental health problems.
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Somebody or bodies must gain financially from this.
Can someone here name them for me please?
Or is this all being done free of charge for the good of the world?
The WHO advised the ‘wrong thing’ at nearly every point of the Covid pandemic.
They missed the start of the pandemic; advised against restrictions on international travel when it might have made a difference, then pushed for draconian lockdowns when it was clear that they’d not help; they advised against the use of generic drugs which we now know would likely have worked; then pushed vaccines as the ‘way out’ when it was soon clear that they wouldn’t help control the pandemic.
But worst of all, now that the pandemic period is over, they haven’t had any critical analysis of their response but have instead announced that their performance was exemplary and that all the problems were due to countries ‘not doing what they were told’. The arrogance of the WHO is unbelievable.
The WHO acts as a tinpot dictatorship, with absolutely no critical self-assessment and absolutely no way for anyone to do anything about them. Really we should get rid of the whole of the senior WHO and start again, because their behaviour is now very worrying.
OK amanuensis.
Are they doing it for the good of humanity or because there is money in it for someone?
If so then who is it?
It’s for central bank digital currency & Jabs for everyone !!
Well for starters they are an organisation whose existence and funding depends on them seeming important to people, so anything that promotes that – such as fake pandemics – is a direct benefit to those who work in WHO – money and power, fame.
Secondly I suspect a lot of them are left wing collectivist types (or pretend collectivist) – utopianists who think they are involved in fixing the world, dispensing cosmic justice.
At the top level they will have connections with business, science and politics – common interests. They are part of the medical-industrial complex which has the potential to far surpass the lobbying power and money wasting capability of the military-industrial complex because while war is nasty and requires more effort to sell as “just”, “saving lives” or “public health” is like motherhood and apple pie.
Very nicely laid out.
Thanks. It seems so obvious to me I don’t know why the general public don’t see it. SAGE only exists if there’s an emergency, so what incentive do they have to take steps to mitigate the emergency or declare it over or say there wasn’t one. Ditto IPCC and “climate change” and every other special interest body that exists to deal with some supposed “crisis”.
Just like Oxfam, which was an Oxford charity for the relief of Famine.
Generally well intentioned if still a bit dubious in how they operated and with a strong whiff of Socialism.
When famines became rarer due to a little dialing back of warfare in the third World after the collapse of the USSR, and after revolutionary improvements in agriculture, Oxfam and similar “charities” realised that their jobs were at risk and repurposed their efforts on all manner of GangGreen concerns, avidly supporting Zero Carbon scams and Ruinable Energy fraud.
Thus actively promoting famines.
Power. Money will follow naturally to those who will then wield the real power.
And on the signatories side: evading responsibility for unpopular measures or outcomes. That one is particularly attractive to the British political class, above all to the hereby being outed as phonies ‘It’s all about sovereignty, mate! ‘ Brexiters, who got burned with it.
And as most of the people are now directly or indirectly dependent upon government money and as everything is now primarily moral and emotional, especially for the young, they were and are overwhelmingly just fine with it and with their resulting ever tighter enslavement.
https://www.takimag.com/article/electoral-economics/
The purpose of this Treaty is to strengthen control by the “elites” under their one world government.
Moving on from the Treaty will come CBDC’s and digital ID’S probably UBI and further tightening and enlargement of the 15 minute ghettos.
The intention is to create a slave class which will be controlled 24 hours per day. Ultimately as the slave class is deemed to have exceeded its usefulness it will be disposed of.
The “vaccines”, or deliberate instruments of murder are being used to slim down the current population. I suspect their initial target date for the first level of population reduction will be 2040 with a stability level set for 2050.
Who is the down voter, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus?
“They missed the start of the pandemic;”
Pandering to their vocabulary and “logic” does not serve our cause:
There has been NO pandemic.
Don’t fall for the narrative to such a degree. Travel restrictions would have made no difference, it was calculated that if all international travel had been shut down when anyone first decided a disease that kills 1.5 old people in a thousand all age, it would have slowed the spread by up to 1 week.
As it happens, I flew into Heathrow on Jan 28th 2020, from Singapore where Chinese New Year celebrations were in full swing, their Pandemic Hospital built after SARS 1 was in use for the first time, some temperature checks and handrail wiping when visiting museums, a little more mask wearing but nothing very unusual.
We did expect delays when arriving at Heathrow. Absolutely no interest there whatsoever.
We know better now but it did seem curious then that there was already panic in the Papers but no-one gave a shit at Heathrow
It involves both the International Health Regulations (IHR) and the pandemic treaty.
The IHR amendments don’t need parliamentary approval, but would affect health sovereignty of the nation.
Seeing how the WHO is funded, undemocratic and was wrong on multiple occasions in their advice on SARS-CoV19 this should not happen.
This debate has been running for well over 1 year and is reaching its final stages.
I have written to my MP to get this addressed in Parliament, for what it is worth.
“Seeing how the WHO is funded,”
Tell me how Myra
China and William H Gates (well known for his visits to epstein’s pedo island).
Yes, but the WHO also receives funding from national governments including the USA and UK, but certainly most Western governments.
Not much funding from China, but huge power and influence.
Hence Tedros’s appointment.
Billy Gates big investment and big influence. USA and Europe, much greater funding than China but little overt influence but a great deal covertly through the likes of Fauci and Farrar.
The Donald’s turning off US funding was one of his better moves.
I would be happy to see WHO blown to smithereens and the rubble salted.
WHO funding
Over 10% is from Bill Gates directly
8% from GAVI Alliance which is itself funded 30% by Bill Gates
Plus unlike most contributions from governments he actually pays up on time
So it is obvious that Gates has more influence than anybody else including elected governments
+ Farrar & Michie both work there now & that’s all you need to know !
Multi-millionairte communist, Susan Michie?
The same.
Will she have Professor Pantsdown Ferguson along with his super Computer Models?
I oppose it 100% but I can’t stop it !! Is there someone who can ? Doubtful isn’t it ! I think this is going to be the tipping point !!
Read this. There are 2 imminent threats and the Treaty isn’t even the main one;
”Anyone who is focusing on, or even discussing the proposed ”Pandemic Treaty” is distracting attention away from the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations, which are a completely different set of proposals that will NOT need to be signed by any President or Prime Minister, nor would the proposed amendments require the advice and consent of the senate or Parliament.”
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/reject-digital-enslavement
The DT has received significant levels of funding from Bill Gates, who has excessive influence in the WHO.
I strongly suspect that the real reason the DT is serialising Handcock’s WattsApp messages is to demonstrate that vain, publicity-seeking, egotistical, venal and scientifically-illiterate Ministers should NOT have control of pandemic controls.
It would be so much better if that was done by scientific experts at the WHO ….. experts, like Jeremy Ferrar and Susan Michie …. people who understand “the science” and “can be trusted” to do the right thing.
“Experts” who don’t have to bother themselves with the need to be re-elected ….. in other words they aren’t accountable to the people whose lives they want to control. “Experts” who most definitely aren’t far too closely associated/controlled and effectively paid by Big Pharma.
These messages are being publicised at just the point the WHO is pushing for the new Pandemic Treaty ….. and control of the world’s countries.
But I don’t get the impression that the DT is pushing for a repeat of lockdown. Or am I reading their features wrongly?
I don’t think the WHO or the WHO pandemic treaty are really pushing for lockdowns.
The opposite, in fact. It seems to me that their whole idea is to have a SWAT team of virus vigilantes scouring the globe for “dangerous” virus and to pounce quickly and decisively when they find out.
Pouce means very local isolation and then most importantly the warp speed roll out of vaccines to administer to the world population to preempt infection.
For that they need:
Lots of vaccines.
Vaccine passports.
Masking until people are jabbed.
Have you seen any widespread criticism of jabs, vax passports or masks?
Criticism of lockdowns helps in fact to focus people’s minds on the other stuff. As in, follow our instructions or we’ll all need to lockdown and we all agree that’s horrible, right?
I’m pretty sure that’s the game.
I admire your optimism that they would be content with that limited role.
They are keeping their powder dry.
This situation lays bear what a complete farce our system of democracy is.
The WHO is almost certainly going to pass the treaty and the UK is almost certainly going to sign up to it.
It involves our political representatives signing away sovereignty. It will affect the majority of people in our country in a substantial way, not immediately perhaps, but at some point.
And almost nobody in the UK has a clue it’s happening. If they did they and took the time to understand what it meant they would almost certainly oppose it.
We don’t live in a democracy or anything close to one. We live in an evermore authoritarian and tyrannical technocracy.
“The WHO is almost certainly going to pass the treaty “
So who makes the money out of it, Stewart?
The point is enslavemant of the proles …
No point in enslaving them if you don’t make money.
Who does?
What do slaves do?
The modern hybridisation of Cultural Marxism and Neoliberalism requires absolute control of a populations’ behaviour and freedom to speak out in order to preserve stability of the market. Enslaving populations, controlling their food supply and movement guarantees income for the existing hegemonies. There will be no more ‘disruption’, no more inconvenient ‘new kids on the block’; just a bland, controlled world where nothing exciting happens unless a few people kick against the status quo, at which point it will be easy to cut off an entire area’s food or fuels supply and rely on the panicked population to rat on the ‘rebels’.
Who benefits the most? The giant investment banks for finance, the internet entrepreneurs of the last three decades and Chinese manufacturers.
Correct.
Lots of people. Yes I get that the money is the driving force. Obviously.
But that’s not the point.
There has to be system for the money to capture. Our political class, the media, our bureaucrats, our institutions, all these people and entities that are nominally set up serve us do not serve us at all.
What we all need to wake up to is that there can be no freedom and no democracy with large institutions that concentrate power.
There is no point in bickering over the text of a pandemic treaty. There isn’t even any point in trying to fight the treaty itself. The entire system, the edifice is rotten.
Sadly this only gets fixed after things get a lot worse.
Money is perhaps not so much the main incentive as a combination of influence and proximity to the source of money. The Cantillon Effect – the temporal trickle down effect of real wealth from the money printing machine at the centre at the expense of those at a distance – can be used as a stick as well as a carrot. Who controls the machine controls the world.
Used wisely it can stimulate economies. In a rigidly controlled society though, the opportunity it provides to ‘pick the winners’ creates a system of rewards and incentives for loyalty, and its inflationary effect provides a way of enforcing compliance by keeping the wider population at a level of precarious dependence.
It’s nothing new, it just hasn’t previously been used to this degree in the ‘free world’ and on a global scale. CBDC and endless ’emergency measures’ will probably see to that though..
And part of the reason is the same as why our Beloved Civil “Servants” love the EU so much.
Let the EU and the UN / WHO do almost all the work. And then aspire to a few years working for the EU or WHO, on huge tax free salaries and massive pensions. Fabulous free travel perks and adulation from the Media.
What’s Not to Like?
Sweden didn’t show equity, they outperformed and thus must be brought to heel.
James Roguski’s been all over this for some time, but what he’s recently brought to our attention, which I’ve never heard of before, is this so-called ‘silence procedure’;
”Often the “silence procedure” is the last step in adopting or agreeing to specific text after the basic premises of the text have been agreed upon in previous negotiations.
Those who remain silent are taken to agree. Amendments were adopted in this manner on May 27, 2022.”
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/silence-procedure
Its easy to see how this is going. The One World New Order being driven by the 5th columnists in the civil service aided by the elected government minions, herding us like cattle into pens to be jabbed and controlled by unelected billionaires who despise the human race. We need a Revolution, a bloody one if necessary!
The political and media class are inherently statist. Brexit and wider populism, which they fear and resent for obvious reasons, have driven them deeper into this position than ever.
The EU, UN and other supranational organisations who draw their bureaucrats, leaders, crony capitalists and sponsored policy enforcers from this class, represent the ultimate borderless State, and will place their interests above all else. They hardly need any encouragement to offer unconditional support for their agenda.
If those of a centre Right political outlook cannot even be bothered to join centre Right challenger parties in large numbers what hope of getting them out on the streets for a ‘bloody revolution’? Is it not likely that if there is a big populist push back it is more likely to take place in a European country where the organisation, guts and determination needed is more likely to be found than in these Isles?
“Indeed, article 4 goes on to ominously assert that “previous pandemics have demonstrated that no one is safe until everyone is safe””
This is exactly the thinking behind the ‘zero Covid’ policy, which anyone with half a brain pointed out at the time would not work. As it turned out, it didn’t work, unless by ‘work’ one means destroy an economy, national morale, trust in any institutions, poison mental health and lead to a generation of children with developmental problems.
Consolidating and centralising incompetence in a demonstrably hubristic, unelected, unaccountable supranational organisation engaged in political horse-trading, boot-filling and empire building would seem to be a very bad idea. Great for national politicians though, for whom the opportunity to pass the buck when things get uncomfortable is golden.
the greatest lie told during covid – by el gato malo (substack.com) This piece suggests a different point of view i.e. that pandemics aren’t actually that frightening or dangerous. If we can all learn to laugh at the emperor’s new clothes and point out that viruses are un-isolated and therefore un-proven we may be able to turn the fear into courage to look anew at what we have been repeatedly told and asked to believe. A very good read.
Thanks, that’s an interesting article discussing possible underestimates of iatrogenic death during pandemics. It’s a pretty big claim and el gato malo makes some compelling arguments. I couldn’t find anywhere in the article that claimed viruses were ‘unisolated’ or unproven though. Gato malo explicitly acknowledges their existence and effects in the article:
”please don’t misunderstand: i am NOT arguing that covid did not kill anyone or at least pull forward some deaths that likely would have occurred soon afterwards shortening lives by weeks and months (but not years) and thus causing spikes in deaths.”
It’s the beginning of one world government, which China has been seeking for over a millennium. Once the Pandemic Treaty is in place, expect many more based on ‘equity’. This will likely involve harmonisation of taxation, UBI, digital currencies and mass surveillance. We’re facing global governance via treaty and the the leading country will be China through a mix of military might and bribery of Western politicians and businessmen.
I have written to my MP on at least two or maybe three occasions, so he is fully aware but and it’s a mighty but all he said he’d do is “keep an eye on things” yeah right. My worry is he a Socialist MP and judging by his “follow the party line” voting pattern and his boss’s preference for Davos Man I suspect he’d be only too willing to sell us out together with the rest of his cohorts.