News Round-Up
- “Rishi Sunak faces another by-election as Chris Skidmore quits over new oil and gas licences” – Chris Skidmore, a Net Zero zealot, is the latest Tory MP to resign, thereby giving the Prime Minister another by-election headache, reports the Telegraph. Skidmore’s reason? Legislation that will allow new oil and gas licences in North Sea.
- “Labour prepares to scale back flagship £28 billion green pledge” – Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves fear billions of pounds’ worth of cuts in the Spring budget will leave them with no room for meanoeuvre, reports the Times.
- “This catastrophic flooding reminds us there is nothing natural about rewilding” – Right now what we need is to intervene in nature to protect homes and livelihoods – not pursue some romantic notion of rewilding, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “The tyrannical cult of Greta Thunberg” – The political elite cannot continue to exploit Greta’s moral immaturity to impose its punishing eco-agenda, argues Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “Horizon scandal: Police investigate Post Office ‘potential fraud’” – More than 700 sub-postmasters across the country were prosecuted in what has been branded the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Now, the Met has opened an investigation into Post Office grandees, reports the Times.
- “Post Office scandal enrages nation… what till you read what happened” – The villains behind the scandalous persecution of hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters which has been brought to life in a hit ITV drama have not been brought to justice, says Guy Adams in the Mail.
- “The threads that tie the rich and famous to Jeffrey Epstein” – The identities revealed by a New York judge in Wednesday’s documents paint a complex picture of intricate social and professional ties, according to the Telegraph.
- “From presidents to a prince: what we’ve learnt about names on Epstein court files” – Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and Stephen Hawking feature in depositions made in a defamation case brought by one of the paedophile financier’s alleged victims, reports the Times.
- “Stephen Hawking: how the ‘flawed genius’ wound up in the Epstein scandal” – The celebrated cosmologist had “human weaknesses” as well as his “more obvious almost supernatural gifts”, says Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer ups pressure on police to launch probe into Prince Andrew” – The Metropolitan Police has no plans to open an investigation into Prince Andrew, much to the Labour leader’s consternation, according to the Mail.
- “In praise of Israeli women” – In the Spectator, Julie Burchill says Israeli women know the cost of freedom and what it means to fight, literally, against misogyny.
- “Commons Speaker denies planning to fly Palestinian flag at Parliament” – Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who has been accused of “baffling behaviour”, says he doesn’t have any plans to meet Palestinian officials and fly the Palestinian flag above the Commons in spite of earlier reports, according to the Telegraph.
- “NHS spends £30m a year on health and wellbeing coaches” – Patients’ groups question proliferation of such roles and suggest money would be better spent on recruiting more GPs, says the Telegraph.
- “Flu and Covid pile pressure on hospitals” – NHS England data shows there were nearly 4,000 Covid patients taking up beds in the week to December 31st, up by more than two-thirds since the start of December, reports the Mail. Don’t panic, Mr Mainwaring!
- “Spanish holiday regions reintroduce Covid-mask rules” – The Covid and flu epidemic in Spain has prompted a number of holiday regions to reintroduce obligatory mask-wearing, says the Mail.
- “Smokescreens – Part 4” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson continue their series on influenza in Trust the Evidence.
- “Buying a house not that difficult, says NatWest boss” – Sir Howard Davies, the NatWest Chair, has been accused of being out of touch after his impolitic remarks on the Today programme yesterday, reports the Times.
- “NatWest Chairman Defends Decision to Back Alison Rose in Debanking Scandal” – The NatWest chairman Howard Davies failed to defend his decision to back Alison Rose in his Today interview, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Sturgeon finally urged to ‘come clean’ over whether she deleted WhatsApp messages” – The former First Minister set to be the star witness at the Covid inquiry in Edinburgh, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Wokeism is destroying the industry’: why modern TV ads are so bad” – Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ are forcing us to watch more and more ads just as ads have become completely unwatchable. What went wrong, asks Stephen Armstrong in the Telegraph.
- “Censors are trying to trick you into thinking Substack has a ‘Nazi problem’” – The “Weimar Fallacy” shows censoring Nazi views can backfire, say Zaid Jilani and Alex Gutentag on Public.
- “Royal Navy forced to advertise for rear-admiral on LinkedIn” – Advert for director of submarines exposes ‘shameful’ recruitment gaps, according to the Times.
- “Firefighters taught biological sex is ‘just a label’ and may ‘run along a spectrum’” – West Sussex Fire and Rescue is training staff on trans and non-binary inclusion and how “white Western cultures” see gender as an either/or choice when, in fact, it’s a spectrum, says Craig Simpson in the Telegraph.
- “Carole Hooven On Harvard’s Existential Crisis” – A Harvard lecturer who lost her job because she told the truth about biology tells Andrew Sullivan her alma mater is suffering an existential crisis.
- “Russia revives Smersh, Stalin’s anti-spy unit made famous by James Bond” – The feared counterintelligence organisation has made a comeback, according to the Times.
- “Biden’s bogus memorialisation of January 6th” – Today, the U.S. President will travel to Pennsylvania to mark the third anniversary of the
minor disturbanceriot on Capitol Hill on January 6th 2021. According to the Spectator’s Freddy Gray, it’s a cynical ploy. - “I’m thankful assisted suicide wasn’t an option when my mother was dying” – Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph says if assisted dying had been available when her mother was on her way out she would have insisted on being flown to a clinic in Switzerland and she’d have missed a special moment at the end of her life.
- “I don’t care who you are, or what your politics are, join this organisation, because they are doing some amazing things!” – In an interview with yours truly, Carl Borg-Neal, who was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against by Lloyds Bank, urges people to join the Free Speech Union, who helped him get justice.
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The need to end your own life isn’t about you Camilla, regardless of how you want to wrap it up to the contrary. In many situations, often involving the elderly, it’s the most humane act possible. Yes, it obviously needs careful monitoring, but we treat animals with more compassion than we do humans.
Can there be anything more demeaning than requiring the state to rubber-stamp your wish to end your own suffering? What must that feel like? I’ve been a good citizen, paid my taxes, abided by the law, played nicely within the system. But now that same system has ruled that I must die at a time of their choosing. Perhaps only then would it really dawn on you that the system doesn’t exist to help you, it exists to own you
Allowing people to die is not as lucrative for Big Pharma, nor for their minders and enablers. Most of the poor buggers don’t even have enough estate for the aforementioned enablers and minders to rob from their children upon their death, so the taxpayer is robbed instead. Even if they might have had something to pass on, years of “care” makes sure they don’t.
The steadily increasing life-expectancy from about 2005 onwards is mainly because of the quantity of (taxpayer-funded) existence-extending drugs pushed into people who had no life to lead and should have been allowed to die already.
We saw very clearly through ThePandemic™ how deeply the attitude of simply keeping people alive (as opposed to prioritising Life) has set in.
It’s as if they believe we should live forever. It’s satanic.
I’ve got to admit, I’ve never really thought about that, but that makes perfect sense. Keep the proles where they belong by diverting the flow of money away from them and back into the system. Even the hard-earned partial tax refund (pension) they grudgingly give you back can be retaken this way. You’re right, it’s evil. It does seem to run counter to the depopulation theory though.
Correct! It’s about the uncohearst wishes of the patient on a case by case basis.
I’m not sure why you’ve got so many down votes.
My brother was dying horribly from cancer. his suffering was immense. He therefore took all the medication at his disposal while he still could in order to end it all. He was found unconscious by a friend…and ultimately survived. (I have asked this friend why they just didn’t leave him to die, but I never got an answer. I suppose it is the easier thing to do – to call an ambulance). The upshot of this was that all his medication was taken away from him, instead to be administered by several daily visits by nurses – who then often failed to arrive, leaving him in terrible pain. He most certainly didn’t have any lovely moments in the remaining few months of his life, it was a living hell for him and everyone around him who was forced to watch. It he had been an animal we would have been prosecuted for cruelty.
Absolutely we should be able to end our own lives at the time of our choosing because I have seen the alternative. It has also made me determine certain things if the same ever happened to me.
I’m very sorry to hear that. It must have been awful.
I can only assume the downvotes are because many people think it could be abused by authority, but nobody’s had the decency to explain that. Either that, or they’ve never seen anyone at the end of their life and simply don’t understand pain.
Abuse by authority was the blanket issuing of DNR’s in care homes during the ‘covid crisis’.
I remember a very sad case some years ago of a young rugby player who was rendered quadriplegic during a match here and decided that life was no longer for him, so he was taken back to his home country of Belgium where he was allowed to pass peacefully away. That is the humane way of dealing with it, instead of overruling those that wish to die, however horrible (and usually terminal) their suffering.
Go back and read the assurances we were given when abortion was first legalised. Assisted suicide would go the same way.
Possibly. That is a danger. But that’s a reason to be vigilant of authoritarian intent, not a reason to dismiss this most basic human right. To not want to help people end their suffering is inhumane at best.
2023 Was Not Hottest Year Ever
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
What p’s me off is the authoritarian b’stards manufacture crises ( climate, Covid, for e.g ) as an excuse to persecute and control us but they ignore and deny a very real, ever-growing threat, which is the constant influx of migrants, most of whom are members of a medieval death cult and are not shy about expressing how much they disrespect our culture and despise us. No need to invent or look far for the evidence that this is incredibly damaging both to Western citizens personally but also economically; ”The spread of political Islam through Western Europe has been made possible by a failed, German-led migration policy that has led to an increased risk of terrorism across the continent, the chief security advisor to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has warned. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, György Bakondi took aim at the way Western European governments had not just turned a blind eye to, but actively encouraged illegal immigration following the migrant crisis of 2015, and claimed that the future of the continent is in doubt without a radical U-turn on immigration. The newspaper, considered one of Germany’s leading broadsheets, claims that Hungary’s isolationist approach to migration… Read more »
Something which doesn’t get enough attention, in my opinion, is the persecution of Christians worldwide. Why is it not these very people who make up the majority of asylum seekers arriving at our shores? They have a seriously sh*t life in many countries but their plight is seldom given any attention in mainstream media. Here’s Middle East/Islam expert, Raymond Ibrahim, talking about this subject; “Overall, the persecution of Christians worldwide is higher than ever before with 360 million believers facing high levels of discrimination and violence. In 2022, 5,621 Christians around the world were killed for faith-related reasons. Another 4,542 Christians were illegally detained or arrested, and 2,110 churches were attacked, many destroyed,” says Raymond Ibrahim. The figures come from the World Watch List 2023, which was recently published by the international humanitarian organization Open Doors. Each year, the report provides an overview of the 50 nations in the world where Christians are most persecuted because of their faith. According to Raymond Ibrahim, Western governments should do much more to preserve Christian culture in the world. “After all, most Western politicians are part of the same culture as the free-thinkers, who in these years harbor a greater and greater hatred for their own… Read more »
The Archbishop thinks it is all our fault and who believes the testaments any more. “Yeh Marxism” he might cry.
This is doing the rounds. Tucker Carlson discusses the WHO’s planned world coup with Brett Weinstein of the Darkhorse Podcast.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1743405833667371329?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Timestamps
08.05 MRNA jabs
28.57 WHO coup
37.43 Censorship
54.58 Facing Goliath
“Censors are trying to trick you into thinking Substack has a ‘Nazi problem’”
Bill Rice Jr’s piece on this, cross-posted by Robert Malone:
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/and-so-it-begins
Thr Post Office scandal is outrageous. I like the Daiky Mail description of the Boss Class. I worked in the civil service for 30 years and I saw Boss Class behaviours every day. Particularly prevalent in the public sector where Boss Class mates promote their mates.(and with a rising preponderance of female Boss Mates to the increasing exclusion of males).
And well done Free Speech Union (of which I am a proud member) Giving enemies of free speech a well deserved bloody hard time.
Keep up the good work. Everyone should join.
“And well done Free Speech Union (of which I am a proud member) Giving enemies of free speech a well deserved bloody hard time.
Keep up the good work. Everyone should join.”
Seconded.
Also proud to be a member of the FSU.
Great piece analysing Wikipedia’s hit piece on the World Council for Health. Badge of honour indeed.
https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/wikipedia-smear-piece-wch
Since the Covid phenomenon began, the degree of flack has become a navigational aid in the pursuit of Truth. Wikipedia’s hit piece on the World Council for Health (WCH) is evidence that their message of health sovereignty has become a threat to the establishment.
It seems the Met is only interested in high profile fashionable cases. They were not interested in the PO scandal even when the Court of Appeal found against it on grounds that amounted to fraud, dishonesty snd possible corruption.
now it has hit the TV screens they and all the luvvies who ignored the sun-postmasters a decade and more ago want to be part of the story.
this is further evidence of the inherent evil of unaccountable government departments. It shows the ineffectiveness of the governments since it kicked off but none of the Westminster parties have clean hands so they will wring them in public.
“It seems the Met is only interested in high profile fashionable cases.”
I suspect the real reason the Met were not interested in the P O case was that it would have involved real work and require skills and competencies which the organisation no longer possesses.
Prof. Angus Dalgleish at TCW: “…this manipulation of weather history is no different from analysing the effects of the covid vaccine programme. What is going on? Two words spring to mind: specious and sophistry. In all cases the conclusions of the problems are ‘specious’, that is misleading information where two facts are presented to imply a causation between them when there is none. All other facts are censored and selective using only the facts that fit the arguments and where all those that do not are ignored or ridiculed (sophistry). Scholars of Politics, Philosophy and Economics will realise that this is standard practice in politics, which is why so many ministers have PPE degrees, usually from Oxford. The question is how has this become accepted as standard practice for running big companies, Institutions, handling pandemics and predicting the climate? All three cases, the Post Office scandal, the covid response and the climate change zealotry, manifest a management class with blind faith in technology that they could never truly understand, and a frightening propensity for self-righteousness even in the face of undeniable facts which they continue to ignore whatever the outcomes. They lie to themselves and others even when their asinine conclusions are leading to the… Read more »
Professor Dalgleish’s interpretation of events strikes me as being incredibly naiive. To conclude as he does that the world is being run with a mixture of sophistry and speciousness is failing to understand that we are in the middle of a worldwide coup. Those I have categorised as the Davos Deviants have decided they will formally take over the running of the planet and that includes the people on it and everything this world has or produces. The aim of One World Government is potentially a reality. Part of the One World Government plan is depopulation which is why dangerous poisons were forced in to millions of bodies across the world but Professor Dalgleish cannot see this. He also appears to believe that there was indeed a pandemic. Pseudoscience is being deployed deliberately precisely because it is Pseudoscience; it is intended to mock, confuse and disrupt. Anybody with half a brain can work out for themselves that Nut Zero is a complete and utter sham which has failure built in but that is the point. The intention is the total immiseration of the pleb classes driven in to cold and poverty and thus so dependent on Big Brother as to… Read more »
‘The tyrannical cult of Thunberg’.
Rubbish.
It wouldn’t be news at all if platforms ignored her and stopped reporting. A hateful, embittered, uneducated m
Marxist agitator with nothing to say.
My 2024 is that were was a filter that could be flipped to remove any content naming her, The Beckhams, Markle …
“I am writing to flag a truly important document that should be widely circulated and read carefully by anyone interested in the ongoing Gaza War…
The 84-page “application” that South Africa filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.”
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/genocide-in-gaza
“If Israel loses the ICJ case, British ministers, civil servants and military personnal could end up in the dock for genocide – not only in the Hague, but in the UK.”
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/01/sunak-cleverly-and-shapps-could-be-in-the-old-bailey-dock-for-genocide/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12932027/post-office-scandal-itv-drama-gilded-lives.html
This is an enraging article. Why all the characters listed have not swung for this is beyond me. I am not normally in favour of capital punishment but these unbelievably evil and incompetent shysters have destroyed thousands of innocent lives and they should be made to suffer and pay.