News Round-Up
- “Rishi Sunak urged to stop ‘dithering’ over Ukraine funding” – Former defence secretaries call on the Prime Minister to pledge at least another £2.3 billion to the Ukrainian war effort, reports the Telegraph.
- “Drakeford’s rotten legacy in Wales is the nightmare future under Labour” – Be under no illusions, as bad as the Tories are, Labour will be much worse, warns Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “The revenge of the Blob” – In 2023, the technocratic elite made big strides towards taking back control, remarks Mick Hume in Spiked.
- “What’s going wrong at Harvard?” – Once a centre of excellence, Harvard University is now mired in allegations of campus antisemitism and racism, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “The Great Christmas Trust the Evidence quiz” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan pose a series of questions to test their readers’ pandemic knowledge.
- “Eco developers set to ruin Peak District by building a giant solar farm the size of 120 football pitches” – Furious residents living in stunning countryside are fighting plans to build a giant solar farm the size of 120 football pitches on a 200-acre greenbelt site in Leicestershire, reports the Mail.
- “Ed Miliband accepts £230,000 donation from billionaire family” – Labour’s green champion Ed Miliband has accepted a £230,000 contribution from the billionaire family behind the Tetra Pak packaging empire known for its contribution to global landfills, reports the Mail.
- “No one wants used EVs, making new ones a tougher sell too” – Drivers don’t want to buy second hand electric vehicles, which is damaging the market for new ones, writes Monica Raiment for Bloomberg.
- “Church nativity scene featuring two mothers of Jesus sparks accusation of blasphemy” – A church nativity scene featuring two mothers of the Baby Jesus, instead of the conventional Mary and Joseph, has sparked anger in Italy, according to Sky News.
- “The trans takeover of social work” – Social workers are being bullied and coerced into accepting a dangerous ideology, writes Ken McLaughlin in Spiked.
- “All I want for Christmas is a rise in birth rates” – As a society we need to think ahead to the empty cradles and classrooms of the future and ask if we have our collective priorities right, says Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
- “The Baby Boom” – In Aporia, Arctotherium examines the Baby Boom, drawing lessons for today’s West amid declining fertility rates.
- “Doctor Who writer Russell T. Davies brought ‘racism’ into anniversary specials” – The writer of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials has explained how he brought “racism” into a landmark episode, reports the Telegraph. Not what the Doctor ordered.
- “Hatred, brainwashing and mass psychosis behind Democrats’ war on democracy” – On the Public Substack, Michael Shellenberger gives his take on the recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling that Trump cannot be on the ballot because he supposedly encouraged insurrection on January 6th.
- “Is America heading towards civil war?” – In the Spectator’s Americano podcast, Freddy Gray speaks to classicist, military historian and author Victor Davis Hanson about antisemitism in the U.S., the battle between Right and Left since 2016 and a future Trump presidency.
- “A Christmas Eve election surprise” – On X, Tucker Carlson interviews House of Cards’ Francis Underwood (aka Kevin Spacey) about a possible 2024 presidential run.
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Seconded, Hux. We may have moaners about DS, but it is doing a valuable job. It is getting an alternative narrative out to people prepared to listen and do their own thinking. Its a long road before us, and our opposition to the global blob is bound to fail, but not to try would be the greater shame.
Merry Christmas, if you do, Happy holidays, if you don’t.
Much appreciated Neil.👍
It depends how ‘alternative’ you want to be, but then we’d spend all day arguing about nano-bots. The MSM does report many of the ‘events of the day’ but many with a strong left bias. We should not reject the MSM completely, but rather see the picture behind what they are offering, i.e. an alternative view. If there is a site with better alternative view, perhaps you’ll share its location.?
Merry Christmas, hux, and to all of the decent, respectful posters to this most valuable site, who still make up the majority, thankfully. My living room looks like an explosion in a wrapping paper factory, but the cat’s enjoying herself so I’m leaving it… 🙂 And what could be more appropriate than a Christmas monologue from our Neil Oliver;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBS16GjWsPk&ab_channel=GBNews
Thanks Mogs. Have a good one.🥂
Seconded.
I wonder if the DS were more transparent about income and costs whether more would donate – I suspect they may be getting kept going currently by the personal largesse of one or two people and perhaps often unpaid work. Not intended as a criticism – just a suggestion. I think people would love it go from strength to strength but sometimes we have unrealistic expectations. I’m sure running a site like this and expanding the coverage to include more original content is far from simple or cheap.
Agreed!,
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to one and all of you! 🥂🌲
Yes, Merry Xmas. Merry Xmas to everyone. Particularly those who are incapable of respecting different opinions and utterly consumed by hate – I wish you all the very best.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/time-to-start-thinking-the-unthinkable-about-king-charles-iii/
This short article posted today over at TCW. Very disparaging about Charlie Windsor. He’s got to go as I have been posting for many months.
He’s a treasonous barsteward.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/propaganda-roundup-hillary-claims-climate-change-targets-pregnant-women/5843773
“We know, and estimate*, that we probably could measure about 500,000 deaths [from climate change last year], and the majority of those are women and girls, and particularly pregnant women,” Hillary Clinton declared at a climate change summit recently — one she almost certainly transported herself to via private jet.”
Firkin evil cow.
This is a cracker.
A group of protesters go in to a Bezos Whole Food store, steal food and exit wearing Bezos face masks.
God Bless them.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/road-freedom-one-liberated-apple-time/5844029
Apologies. I forgot the bloody link.
(Re – stealing from Bezos / Whole Foods).
I’m not even a Christian and I celebrate Christmas, because it’s tradition here in the West and how I was brought up. I also manage to respect the important festivals and holidays of other religions throughout the year. This seems beyond the capabilities of many members of society, apparently, with videos and stories all over social media of hateful yobs trashing Christmas trees and decorations, gatecrashing Santa’s grotto and scaring the kids or the decapitation of nativity figures in various countries. Basic respect for others appears to be an old-fashioned concept which is losing value these days, evidently. Nobody should be spoiling anybody’s festivities and important celebrations, end of. It comes to something though, when the bleeding obvious needs pointed out. 🙁 ”With Europe’s Christian identity in the crosshairs, Christmas is under fire, both literally and metaphorically. On the one hand, extremists threaten to target festive gatherings and celebrations. On the other hand, the woke agenda is attempting to cancel Christmas as a non-inclusive holiday. This year especially, security concerns are of unprecedented gravity. “With the upcoming holiday season, there is a huge risk of terrorist attacks in the European Union,” said Ylva Johansson in early December. The EU Home Affairs Commissioner… Read more »
I utterly despise any body or organisation which seeks to undermine Christians and Christmas. I hope they rot.
Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. There is no evil in Christ’s message and fundamentally the modern celebration of Christmas is all about family. It is the breakdown of family and family values that is undermining our society.
I will always celebrate Christmas.
Well said, HP. I would add that the deliberate undermining of Christianity and religion generally by “the globalist machine” (let’s call it) has left a massive hole in people’s lives. I think, even for non-practicing Christians, Christian culture and values (humility, kindness, respect for others, etc) hugely underpinned European society.
Happy Christmas all…
Well put Michael.
Thanks HP
Quite! I may add that when I lived in Easton, inner city Bristol 30 years back, where many Muslims also lived, our Muslim neighbours would always say “Happy Christmas” to us, and admire the rather fabulously decorated Xmas tree we had in our front window. They were also largely responsible for the economic regeneration of the area. Not multicultural, but multi-ethnic, with many Indians and West Indians there, it was a community at ease with itself.
Sadly, further generations have thrown that all away
The loss of Christianity as the core behind the West means quite simply the collapse of the West. Any culture that loses the common belief that binds it together is in a death spiral.
As we are witnessing.
Impossible not to agree.
It is apparent the Tories have been round all their sympathisers in the MSM to get favourable stories. The best Heffer could do was to say Labour would be even worse. Hardly a basis for enthusiasm among their remaining members!
Vote Reform!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/it-was-christmas-day-at-the-sunaks/
A little bit of light-hearted relief from TCW although there’s anger in the doggerel.
A very Merry Christmas to you all , including your family’s & friends & everyone at The DS 🎄🎅🍻🥰
200 acres of glass in Peak District is bad enough but we are getting 900 acres on the one bit of reclaimed marsh on Swale/Thames Estuary that is not a SSSI or nature reserve. It includes a 700 MWh battery to game the system by smoothing the supply troughs it causes; also the toxic fumes when it explodes of course.
https://www.favershameye.co.uk/post/project-fortress-previously-known-as-cleve-hill
It’s not just Harvard – it’s all of US and UK academia. Better still, over here we fund the production of economically useless graduates, who leave University hell bent on destroying the civilisation that reared them.
Stop public funding, and it will be stopped in its tracks
Of course Harvard and places like it have huge endowments and are financially independent. Probably Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial too.
But I agree.
Much less so at UK universities, Cambridge did look at option of detaching itself from HMG teat. Cambridge at least saw off the ghastly Toope and 87% of Regent House voted to substitute ‘tolerate’ for ‘respect’ in his sinister ‘Free Speech’ proposals (the complete opposite of course). Prof. Ahmed has been appointed Director of freedom of speech and academic freedom, which is some progress at least, he lead the revolt against Toope.
https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/prof-ahmed-appointed-director-freedom-speech-and-academic-freedom
That’s interesting about the vote – I didn’t know that. Regent House consists of academics – I had to look that up. The other two amendments were good too. I wonder how the students would have voted.
Cambridge has an endowment of £9 billion and an annual budget of £2 billion so they’d still need to charge fees, but I can’t see them having trouble finding people to pay fees that are not paid for by the so-called “student loans”.
Wishing everyone a peaceful Christmas. Stay strong and keep asking questions. Don’t self-censor. We will prevail. Support free speech above all.
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