News Round-Up
- “George Galloway is sworn in as MP and compares Israel to the Nazis” – George Galloway likened Israel to Nazi Germany, suggesting the country was committing a “holocaust” in Gaza after taking his seat as Rochdale MP, according to the Mail.
- “Tories divided over new definition of extremism” – A Government plan for a new definition of extremism has sparked concerns in cabinet that it could inadvertently penalise groups opposed to gay marriage, abortion or transwomen invading single sex spaces, reports the Times.
- “Politicians remain in total denial over extremism” – Rather than confront the real issue, the intelligentsia live in a fantasyland where death threats are the norm, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “‘Elites have allowed this to happen!’” – On The Winston Marshall Show, Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses how Islamism first came to Britain, grooming gangs, the failure of integration and much else.
- “The rampant Israelophobia of Germany’s elites” – The Berlin International Film Festival was dominated by an unhinged hatred of the Jewish state, reports Sabine Beppler-Spahl in Spiked.
- “Scientists may have finally found the cause of Long Covid” – Scientists at Cambridge University believe low iron levels in the blood could be a key driver of ongoing issues with Long Covid, says the Mail.
- “Can population declines be beneficial?” – On Substack, Igor Chudov challenges readers to explain to him how Japan and South Korea would benefit from having more people.
- “Is it time to hit the brakes on healthcare research?” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson explain why they’re calling for a halt on all medical research and what it could mean for the future of healthcare.
- “Police solve no burglaries in half of the country” – Police have failed to solve a single burglary in nearly half of all neighbourhoods in England and Wales in the past three years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain can boom. That’s the story the Chancellor must tell” – This week’s Budget needs to set out a vision, one that reminds voters Labour will put our prosperity at risk, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “It’s time to take a chainsaw to the British civil service” – Do we really need a Department for Culture, Media and Sport? asks Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
- “The tyrannical jailing of Sam Melia” – Imprisoning someone for producing offensive stickers is an outrage against freedom of expression, says Brendan O’Neil in Spiked.
- “Luftwaffe brass hold unsecure online meeting about using Taurus missiles, are shocked when Russia Today publish the full audio recording” – On Substack, Eugyppius gives his take on the recent German ‘wiretapping’ scandal.
- “Why does the American Right love Viktor Orbán?” – UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers is joined in the studio by Gladden Pappin to discuss why the American Right seem so enamoured with Viktor Orban.
- “Supreme Court orders ex-prez back on Colorado primary ballot ahead of Super Tuesday” – The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Donald Trump can stay on the election ballot in Colorado, handing him a landmark legal victory, reports the New York Post.
- “No.10 slams ‘irresponsible’ Chris Packham over Just Stop Oil protests” – Downing Street has condemned “irresponsible” BBC presenter Chris Packham after he defended Just Stop Oil’s call for eco-zealots to protest outside MPs’ homes, according to the Mail.
- “Scientists expose major problems with climate change data” – Temperature records, crucial for predicting manmade global warming, face serious data problems and corruption, say scientists interviewed by the Epoch Times.
- “Three in 10 U.K. scientists believe sex isn’t binary” – Every day brings new evidence of how deeply gender ideology has penetrated every aspect of our lives – and the urgent need to stand up for reality, writes Joan Smith in UnHerd.
- “BBC tried to discipline journalist for saying men cannot scientifically be women” – A former BBC journalist was subjected to a disciplinary process for tweeting that there was no scientific support for the idea that “males can be women”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tempers flare at vote to ban trans bathers from Hampstead Heath Pond” – A proposed ban on trans swimmers at Hampstead Ladies’ Pond descended into chaos after a group of female swimmers lost their bid to ban men identifying as women from using the pond, reports the Mail.
- “The unbearable ignorance of the trans lobby” – Tory MP Alicia Kearns is rewriting gay history in her push to ban trans conversion therapy, says Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “Fury as Exeter School scraps names of Walter Raleigh and Francis Drake from buildings” – Exeter School in Devon has pledged to remove the names of Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake from its buildings in an ‘inclusivity’ drive, according to Devon Live.
- “Woke madness as academic claims British Museum is promoting fascist imagery” – An archaeologist has triggered a scathing response with her claim that ‘Legion’, the British Museum’s latest exhibition, features “unrelenting fascist imagery and sexism”, according to the Express.
- “Why billionaires are so uncool” – Billionaires’ geekiness distracts from their political influence, remarks W. David Marx in UnHerd.
- “Labour’s Shadow Culture Secretary slammed for ‘political correctness’ after claiming ‘Rule Britannia!’ ‘alienates’ many Britons” – Labour’s Shadow Culture Secretary has said ‘Rule, Britannia!’ “alienates” many Britons and welcomes a “good debate” about its performance at the Last Night of the Proms, reports GB News.
- “‘The idea that ‘Rule, Britannia!’ is inextricably linked to slavery is for the birds’” – On GB News’s State Of The Nation, Jacob Rees-Mogg hosts a panel debate on whether or not ‘Rule, Britannia!’ is offensive or if it’s a celebration of the Royal Navy’s role in securing freedom, including that of 150,000 slaves.
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Do not be concerned Tory Ministers, the Government plan for re-defining extremism will advertently penalise groups opposed to gay marriage, abortion and transwomen invading single sex spaces. Nothing inadvertent about it.
What a surprise ,it’s the exact opposite of reason & truth ! To any sane person the groups pushing the agenda’s you mention are the REAL Extremists ! Mean while we sit on our hands while the Clowns all across HMG present a never ending sideshow of pathetic political pantomime which offers NO Benefit whatsoever to descendants of two world wars who just want to Live & Let Live !
Let’s be honest – they’re going to define ‘extremism’ as anything that doesn’t agree with government mandated
propagandainformation. We’re half way there already.Pandemic Treaty We Must Say No – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Monday morning London Rd & Reading Rd Blackwater
Luftwaffe brass hold unsecure online meeting about using Taurus missiles, are shocked when Russia Today publish the full audio recording
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans
When the age of peace and plenty has begun.
We must send them steel and oil and coal and everything they need
For their peaceable intentions can be always guaranteed.
Let’s employ with them a sort of ‘strength through joy’ with them,
They’re better than us at honest manly fun.
Let’s let them feel they’re swell again and bomb us all to hell again,
But don’t let’s be beastly to the Hun.
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans
For you can’t deprive a gangster of his gun
Though they’ve been a little naughty to the Czechs and Poles and Dutch
But I don’t suppose those countries really minded very much
Let’s be free with them and share the B.B.C. with them.
We mustn’t prevent them basking in the sun.
Let’s soften their defeat again-and build their bloody fleet again,
But don’t let’s be beastly to the Hun.
So is Jerry’s offence that it is fighting an undeclared proxy war against a world power whilst telling its taxpaying and conscriptable citizens that it is not?
Or is the Boche’s problem that it is stupidly spilling the beans about fighting an undeclared proxy war against a world power?
Or is the Huns’ fault that by spilling the beans and mentioning Britain it is sneaking on the fact that Britain is also fighting an undeclared proxy war against a world power whilst telling its taxpaying and conscriptable citizens that it is not?
Or by stupidly spilling the beans have the Krauts actually told the taxpaying and conscriptable citizens of the Western world that ALL their governments have been fighting an undeclared proxy WORLD war whilst telling them that they were not?
Whichever it is, it’s time the Kaiser’s head rolled.
Don’t let’s be beastly….
Britain has, doubtless, had personnel in Ukraine since 2014 in line with commitments made in 1994 to assist Ukraine in the event of an attack on it.
It’s all a bit of a non-story, as usual.
Who is the present day Kaiser, I wonder?
Is it time to hit the brakes on healthcare research? ‘In 2005, John Ioannidis pointed out research is more likely to be false than true, particularly when effect sizes are small when too many outcomes are presented and when there are financial interests. Moreover, “with increasing bias, the chances that a research finding is true diminish considerably”. Like here, for example: Scientists expose major problems with climate change data ‘In peer-reviewed studies, they cite a wide range of flaws with the global temperature data used to reach the dire conclusions; they say it’s time to reexamine the whole narrative. Problems with temperature data include a lack of geographically and historically representative data, contamination of the records by heat from urban areas, and corruption of the data introduced by a process known as “homogenization.” The flaws are so significant that they make the temperature data—and the models based on it—essentially useless or worse, three independent scientists with the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES) explained. The experts said that when data corruption is considered, the alleged “climate crisis” supposedly caused by human activities disappears. Instead, natural climate variability offers a much better explanation for what is being observed, they said. Some… Read more »
I thought the healthcare research article was worth reading. It sounds like a sensible proposal to me and one worth trying, though not convinced that giving the money saved to the NHS would be the best way to spend it.
The NHS needs to be facing budget cuts of 10% per annum. All senior non medical heads need to be informed that they will be placed on a decimation list and if services fail as a result of the cuts, and they will, then 10% of their numbers will be out on their arse. Strike and they get fired anyway.
Enough is enough.
What’s really going on? ‘………the influence of sovereign great powers, like Russia, extends beyond their geographic borders, catering to a wider maximalist ideological interpretation of the “Russian World” (Russkiy Mir). Putin’s previous statement that “Russia’s borders do not end anywhere.”…….a state’s strategic borders, which he differentiated from a state’s geographical borders, directly depend on “how strong and sovereign” the state and its authorities are……..the more “powerful” a state is, the “further its strategic frontiers extend beyond its state borders” and the larger the state’s sphere of “economic, political, and socio-cultural influence.” Putin made similar remarks recently that suggested that he views weaker states that are unable to unilaterally impose their will upon others, such as Ukraine, as having a truncated sovereignty…….Russia “probably” must seize and occupy Kyiv City, which he labelled an historically “Russian” city, at some point in the future…….the existence of a Ukrainian rump state in Kyiv Oblast — even after a hypothetical Russian-led negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine — may be temporary and subject to future Russian attacks. ‘…….did not specify to where Russia’s “strategic” borders would extend should Russia’s “geographic” borders expand as shown in the hypothetical map he presented. The map is notably… Read more »
“Tories divided over new definition of extremism”
“inadvertently” is implausible considering the identical moves around the Western world and their association with suppression of ordinary people. “Crassly” or “ideologically” would be more accurate.
Whether it be the terrorists and their supporters from Gaza or the lowlife, entitled black people shoplifting at leisure ( because ‘reparations’ ) then crying ”racist!” when the white security guard stops them, everybody seems to feel justified in being a menace to society and holding the victim card apart from white people, because the roles of ‘victim’ and ‘oppressor’ are fixed. How on earth can this ever be rectified and social equilibrium reached when you cannot reason with brainwashed, deluded people and the Leftards are the ones enabling it all? ”At the heart of everything from the debate over the Gaza War to DEI to toxic interpersonal relationships is a disastrous loop known as the “self-reinforcing victim/villain” cycle. The self-reinforcing victim/villain cycle is a deceptively simple and incredibly destructive paradigm for any kind of relationship, national, communal or personal, in which one party constantly attacks the other while claiming that it is the victim fighting against oppression. The paradigm is guided by the idea that there is a permanently fixed victim and villain, that the victim is constantly suffering attacks from the villain and that anything the victim does is justified because he or she has no agency except… Read more »
Varmint – the link you requested.
https://miriaf.co.uk/about-miri/
So what if Rule Britannia is linked to slavery? Nobody is forced to listen to it and if the BBC were privatised nobody would be forced to pay for it either.
It was actually written at a time when Barbary slavers were still raiding our south coast villages. A strong navy was a strong deterrent (even though manned by sailors kidnapped by press gangs from south coast villages!).
“Woke madness as academic claims British Museum is promoting fascist imagery” – An archaeologist has triggered a scathing response with her claim that ‘Legion’, the British Museum’s latest exhibition, features “unrelenting fascist imagery and sexism”, according to the Express.
Aha – another conceptual fly in the woke ointment. A propos yesterday’s jolly article about Hadrian’s wall being a ‘queer’ icon, slamming this exhibition for being fascist and sexist must surely be considered right-wing/extremist/[add your own label here]/anti-LGBTQXYZ hate speech, right? When will she be arrested for it, then?
“Fury as Exeter School scraps names of Walter Raleigh and Francis Drake from buildings”
I’d argue it’s a classic case of racial, cultural and historical exclusion on the altar of DEI wokery, but what do I know?
“No.10 slams ‘irresponsible’ Chris Packham over Just Stop Oil protests”
So – he was their protected darling when he first mouthed off on this, but now it’s affecting them personally he’s irresponsible. Go figure. Can someone send Packham a few of Chris Morrison’s articles for the DS, or Paul Homewood’s website? He might learn a thing or two.
“It’s time to take a chainsaw to the British civil service” – Do we really need a Department for Culture, Media and Sport? asks Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
Brilliant. But let’s be careful we don’t go down the track of expelling ‘undesirables’ from the civil service. You know, some sort of Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.
I particularly liked the idea that Argentina has abolished or amalgamated half of its government departments. Way to go.
Do we need a separate Department for Culture, Media and Sport? No. Does it do any good at all? Yes, but at ridiculous cost. Cut the damn thing and pare back what it does to essentials.
Israelis have been comparing Israel to Nazi Germany for quite a few years now thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/08/the-israeli-general-who-compared-the-jewish-state-to-nazi-era-germany/
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Hebrew-U-professor-Todays-Israel-similar-to-Nazi-Germany-497731
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-general-likens-military-control-of-west-bank-to-nazi-germany/
“Can population declines be beneficial?”
Igor Chudov’s article dares to ask an awkward question, and he is absolutely right to do so. For example, Finland’s land area is 40% larger than Britain’s, and yet Finland somehow seems to thrive on its population of only about 5 million people.
London alone now has a population of 7.5 million people, and the UK’s true population is estimated to have already reached 100 million, judging by food sales and water consumption. We have all seen how this mass Third World Invasion is overwhelming every part of our infrastructure, while our treacherous politicians welcome millions more and tell us we need them to benefit the economy.
We don’t.