News Round-Up
- “Labour ditches £28bn green investment pledge” – Kier Starmer is due to announce tomorrow that it is ditching its policy of spending £28 billion a year on its green investment plan in a major U-turn.
- “Labour’s home insulation policy will cost double what it claims, says Treasury” – A new Treasury analysis has found that Labour’s plan to improve energy efficiency across millions of homes would cost more than double the amount the party has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ursula von der Leyen scraps pesticide reduction bill, in gift to farmers” – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that she will scrap a contentious upcoming bill that aimed to slash the use of chemical pesticides in agriculture, reports Politico.
- “Wind farm operator forced to cut hundreds of jobs” – Ørsted, one of Britain’s largest offshore wind developers, has been forced to cut hundreds of jobs and quit several global markets as it battles spiralling costs, says the Telegraph.
- “Pret axes last three vegetarian-only stores” – Pret a Manger is set to axe its last three vegetarian-only eateries and convert them into normal outlets due to a slump in demand for meat-free sandwiches, reports the Mail.
- “The great electric car lie is a monstrous deception against the British public” – It’s laughable for eco zealots to blame Rowan Atkinson for the low take-up of EVs. It’s just not rational for most people to buy one, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Is the public’s love affair with electric cars over?” – Sales of new electric cars have been slowing down in Britain, raising questions over whether the public could be falling out of love with the green machines, reports the Mail.
- “Fact check: Tim Spector’s frightening climate claims” – The BBC just can’t seem to stop itself trying to frighten people over climate change, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Gary Lineker’s latest claim is utterly humiliating for BBC bosses” – When Gary Lineker gets the BBC in trouble, they don’t sack him. Instead, they indulge him even more, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “A proportionate response” – Informed by Jewish law, Israel has sought to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza, writes Shlomo Brody in City Journal.
- “GB News presenter Neil Oliver cleared by Ofcom over ‘turbo cancer’ claims” – Presenter Neil Oliver has been cleared by the broadcasting watchdog after he pushed claims that the vaccines caused ‘turbo cancer’, reports the Times.
- “Lockdown generation lacks basic workplace skills, Tory grandee warns” – Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith says the disruption to education caused by the Covid lockdowns has robbed British youngsters of the chance to learn technical skills, according to the Mail.
- “The cost of lockdown is still becoming more devastating by the day” – Young Britons will continue to pay the price for lockdown for a generation to come, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Official COVID-19 claims – untouched disinformation or when fact-checking goes silent” – Those in power who have declared “the fight against disinformation” to be a key challenge for humanity have spread a lot of it during the Covid crisis, writes Theo L. Glück on Substack.
- “New emails show Amazon caved to Biden admin pressure to censor Covid books that expressed dissenting views” – New emails show Amazon colluding with the Biden White House and censoring Covid-related books, reports Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
- “Fluoride to be added to drinking water under new legal powers” – Fluoride will be added to drinking water for millions of Britons under new legal powers in the biggest expansion of the health measure since the 1980s, says the Telegraph. Should we be worried?
- “NHS dentistry crisis exacerbated by immigration, Sunak told” – Tory MPs and Reform U.K. say the number of new arrivals in Britain is driving an “unquenchable demand” for health services, reports the Telegraph.
- “How to get Brits to have more babies” – The common denominator in countries with rising fertility is economic growth, observes Madeleine Armstrong in CapX
- “‘Londoners deserve a new kind of politics’” – The Social Democratic Party’s Amy Gallagher talks to Spiked about why she is challenging Sadiq Khan in the London mayoral election.
- “Fascism expert warns that ‘2024 might be the new 1933’ because ‘disinformation’ is driving the rise of ‘far Right parties’ that will allow Vladimir Putin to annex Eastern Europe” – Maybe, just maybe, the National Socialists are dead and gone, and these stupid historical comparisons have no relevance to modern politics, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “How primed for war Is China?” – China’s risk signals for a conflict are flashing red, say Profs. Michael Beckley and Hal Brands in Foreign Policy.
- “Rishi Sunak risks backlash with trans swipe at PMQs” – Labour was accused of “weaponising” the murder of trans teenager Brianna Ghey amid a row over an attempt by Rishi Sunak to mock Keir Starmer’s position on gender rights, says the Mail.
- “No, Rishi Sunak should not apologise for his ‘trans jibe’” – It is the chattering classes’ weaponisation of Brianna Ghey’s death that is truly offensive, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “A social media ban is not the way to protect children online” – Tragedies make for bad policy, and the murder of the teenager Brianna Ghey is no different, says Matthew Feeney in CapX.
- “Another pillar of Queen Nicola’s woke legacy has crumbled” – None of Nicola Sturgeon’s mistakes can compete with her insistence that trans women are women, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Swansea University censorship row after pulling Trans book from shelf” – Swansea University has been accused of censoring Helen Joyce after library staff pulled her book from a display following a single complaint, reports the Mail.
- “Feminism run amok” – On the Aporia Substack, Eirik Garnås explains how feminism hurts both men and women.
- “Angry Christians say Canterbury Cathedral’s silent disco should be cancelled” – Angry Christians are calling for an “absurd” silent disco being held in Canterbury Cathedral to be cancelled and are planning a protest, according to KentOnline.
- “Why Elon Musk and a Star Wars actor are going to war with Disney” – Mandalorian star Gina Carano claims her politics got her fired – and she has a billionaire on her side. What happens next could change Hollywood, says Ed Power in the Telegraph.
- “Biden’s AI plan to censor you revealed” – A new Republican report reveals how the Biden administration is spending millions on AI research designed to make anti “misinformation” tools which could then be passed to social media giants, reports the NY Post.
- “YouTube CEO vows to censor ‘hate speech’ and boost ‘authoritative sources’ in recommendations when people look for election news in 2024” – Big Tech is taking a bigger role in moderating online speech in 2024, writes Christina Maas in Reclaim The Net.
- “Newcastle United fan banned over gender-critical posts ‘not an isolated case’” – The Free Speech Union’s Toby Young warns the Premier League might have been investigating 1000s of people’s social media accounts for wrongthink, according to GB News.
- “‘She is one us and it could have happened to any of you!’” – On TalkTV, Julia Hartley-Brewer urges fans to boycott Newcastle United games in support of Linzi Smith, the fan who was banned for posting her views about transwomen on X.
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We need to keep taking in immigrants to avoid a devastating population collapse, so says the Spectator in a recent article. This is a very good take-down of said article; ”Under the headline “Who’s Afraid of Population Growth?” the Spectator’s editors cited the fast-declining populations of South Korea and Japan as threats to those countries’ economic prospects, and further noted that “in almost every country in Europe the working–age population has already started to decrease.” In Britain, by contrast, “our working-age population is projected to keep rising.” “Newcomers to the UK,” they write, “tend to have larger families, which is the main factor in maintaining our birth rate. Almost a third of all British babies are born to immigrant mothers. In London, it’s closer to 60 per cent. This has not prompted the country to come apart at the seams. Instead, we have created a multi–faith society whose cohesiveness is envied by much of Europe.” “Multi-faith society”? It’s more accurate to refer to the U.K. as “a society in which Christianity is shriveling and virtually every institution has capitulated to Islam.” “Cohesiveness”? British elites have long since come to understand that when Islam is part of the mix, there’s no cohesiveness… Read more »
As an aside, I hadn’t noticed previously but Easter holidays are classed as Spring Holidays in the School Holiday calendar. Perhaps it has always been the case. I wonder how long it will be for Christmas holidays to be renamed Winter holidays.
Yes, we’re talking about the forever victims that are the Alphabet people, just one arm of the Useful Idiots who are all above the law nowadays; ”The truth of the matter is that the LGBT+ movement in the UK, and certainly the West, is a privileged class. There is nothing left to fight for, because they have rights that the majority of people don’t have. In Scotland, they can change their gender on a daily basis and enjoy the protections under the law afforded to whatever gender they are that day. To quote Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek, they can boldly go to places where “no man has gone before”: into the women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. It is a criminal act to deliberately misgender someone. The war has been won for these groups and these people, but I put the blame on the organisations. They need to remain funded, and in order to receive money they need to create gripes on a regular basis. It has all culminated with men dominating women in sports. That’s what gay progress looks like in the West. It is the very worst of a religious cult. White liberals are incredibly racist, we… Read more »
Wednesday morning Grove End & London Rd, Bagshot
They only ban speech they hate.
Don’t comply with their tyranny.
Speak your mind.
My husband and I were watching the series about the PO Horizon scandal and we were both amazed at the persistence of Alan Bates and thought society needs those outliers because of the way he just wouldn’t let it drop. Neither of us have that quality but we’re both admirers of it – you have it LS!
Coming Soon Disease X 100% Fake
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Seriously, leftard Eurocrats have a collective Tiswas, wanting to ban Tucker Carlson from Europe because he interviewed Putin. Well we all know Zalensky is a saint and like starry-eyed acolytes they won’t hear a word said against him. Safe to say this interview is going to break the internet then; ”Left-wing EU lawmakers called for an investigation into U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson after he visited Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, with some even demanding a “travel ban” to Europe — but Hungarian government officials said they would veto such a move. Brussels erupted with mass hysteria after former Fox News host Carlson announced he had sat down with the Russian president in the Kremlin and would soon be airing the interview unedited on X — a social media platform already detested by many European liberals because of its owner Elon Musk’s commitment to free speech. “Two years into a war that’s reshaping our world, most Americans are not informed,” Carlson told followers as he explained why he had traveled to the Russian capital. He claimed that Western mainstream media had fawned over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky throughout the entirety of the current conflict, and insisted that the public… Read more »
‘Fascism expert warns that ‘2024 might be the new 1933’ because ‘disinformation’ is driving the rise of ‘far Right parties’ that will allow Vladimir Putin to annex Eastern Europe‘ This is an excellent article, highly recommended: ‘…..maybe there aren’t any fascists anymore. Maybe there is only on the one hand the turboliberal postwar political order, which is sparing no effort to subvert and dismantle liberalism itself lest unwashed voters make the wrong choice at the ballot box; and on the other hand a lot of ordinary people who demand a say in policies that effect their everyday lives in profound ways.’ I would, of course, say that the ‘turboliberals’ are, in fact, not the social democrats that they fondly believe themselves to be but are, in fact, totalitarian socialists, socialist neo-fascists’ But I part company with the author when he states ‘Every criticism of liberal military intervention is the Munich Agreement from 1938 all over again;’ There are distinct parallels between 1938 and today. Take Putin’s 2021 interview, for example: Putin admits that there is no written record of any NATO promise regarding Eastern European states joining NATO. He then goes on to dismiss NATO ‘I’m not sure why it… Read more »
King’s College London professor Tim Spector – who advocated giving children the “covid vaccine”. I have a special revulsion for people who did that, especially people in a position of power and influence who ought to have known better.
I can’t believe that I foolishly downloaded the Zoe app. It was removed PDQ!
I had it for a while for the purpose of contributing stats for a normal healthy unvaccinated non hypochondriac
When he started pushing the vaxx I deleted it
In the piece about the Premier League investigation into social media accounts – are these accounts public or do they have access to social media accounts where only your “friends” can read it? If the latter, then this is sinister.
“Wind farm operator forced to cut hundreds of jobs as it battles spiralling costs”
Bol@!ks, as it battles falling government subsidies more like!
What happened to the green powerhouse jobs generator?
This will be a temporary blip Dinger. Once elections are out of the way taxes can be hiked once more in order to get the bandwagon rolling once again.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gb-news-presenter-neil-oliver-cleared-by-ofcom-over-turbo-cancer-claims-8tt5087s3
In other words the courageous Neil Oliver is being allowed to remain on air as a nominal free speech sop to the “conspiracy realists.”
Novel bloodstream clots: What are these? By Dr J Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z06xBRCwGp0 If you are squeamish, don’t watch this – it is an “Age-restricted video” on YT. 8746 comments in it at 9:39.
On Rumble without the age restriction i.e. a requirement to send personal data to Youtube/Google.
https://rumble.com/v4bzxwr-what-are-these.html
Embalmers in the USA have been reporting these from way back.
Sent reports to the top bod in the Embalmer’s Association (can’t remember what they are called, easily searchable)
Response. None reported here…. what a surprise…
British funeral director John O’Looney has been interviewed many times on alternative media reporting these clots from the time the jabs started. Here’s one he did with Rebel News.
https://rumble.com/v1zqmri-exclusive-33-funeral-director-john-olooney-shares-what-hes-finding-in-the-v.html
And another related issue – this time around 46 minutes, by JC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BhC0BCYQwo&list=WL&index=2 A discussion with With Dr. Peter McCullough and Nicolas Hulscher.
As it’s quite a long article, this snapshot from around 28 in might be of interest, showing probable characteristics.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/07/fluoride-added-drinking-water-teeth-dental-health/
“It is part of the NHS Dental Recovery Plan, which was released on Wednesday.”
Problem. Reaction. Solution.
So the efforts of successive Conservative governments to destroy the nation’s dental health have finally been realised and their solution is to fill our taps with a chemical known to have degenerative effects on the brain.
Nothing to see here….
I’m surprised they’re still going ahead with this, given the (relatively) high profile case going on in the US at the moment (see statement from UKFFFA below) – need to get rid of their industrial waste somewhere, I suppose. In any case, it’s not so much dental health they want to destroy, its children’s IQ & mental capabilities and reproductive health (fluoride is, amongst other things, a hormone disruptor). The research on this is pretty comprehensive.
https://www.ukfffa.org.uk/
7th February 2024: Still waiting for the announcement of the Public Consultation for the North-East of England. As soon as it is announced, we will highlight it here and on our sister website – www.newfc.org.uk .
However, it may never happen because, this February in the USA, the US Bench Trial relating to fluoride’s developmental neurotoxicity is coming to a close. The last day of the trial is 13th February after which we expect Judge Edward Chen to thoughtfully deliberate on the evidence before concluding the process. We are optimistic.
“Problem. Reaction. Solution.” Sorry but the internet tells me that PRS is a conspiracy theory proposed by David Icke so it can’t possibly be true. I mean, no government would ever act dishonestly would it? Obviously there are dishonest people in the world, but none of them would go into politics.
😀😀😀
All just a cock-up, thoughts of a cabal are just fantasy:
When Yanis met the Prince of Darkness – An extract from ‘Adults in the Room’ – Global Justice Now Global Justice Now
‘There are two kinds of politicians,’ he said: ‘insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price of their freedom is that they are ignored by the insiders, who make the important decisions. The insiders, for their part, follow a sacrosanct rule: never turn against other insiders and never talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do. Their reward? Access to inside information and a chance, though no guarantee, of influencing powerful people and outcomes.’
With that Summers arrived at his question. ‘So, Yanis,’ he said, ‘which of the two are you?’
https://capx.co/how-to-get-brits-to-have-more-babies/
Which is why our economy has to be destroyed. It’s not bloody rocket science.
What Next? Here is the answer;
Yet more articles on the EV scam;
“The great electric car lie is a monstrous deception against the British public”
“Is the public’s love affair with electric cars over?”
These articles go over many of the EV issues regularly discussed on this site and so the question arises; what next?
Geoff Buys Cars has some thoughts on how TPTB are looking to answer their transport problem; they are looking at stopping you repairing older cars and forcing you to scrap them;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LIe1a6U50
Admittedly this is an EU initiative but I am rather afraid that if Labour form our next Government they will be parroting much of this EU net-zero stuff. Any such moves will have the effect of raising the financial threshold for car ownership and significantly reducing the number of drivers and cars on the road. I am afraid Geoff is quite right this is not about getting you to switch to an EV, it is about removing cars and travel freedom from the low/middle income hoi-polloi and putting us all back under their control.
“How to get Brits to have more babies” – The common denominator in countries with rising fertility is economic growth, observes Madeleine Armstrong in CapX”
Easy. Follow Hungary’s example and place the nuclear family at the heart of a stable society.
As once we did here.