News Round-Up
- “British Medical Journal ‘played along with Hamas’, claims leading U.S. doctor” – The British Medical Journal has been accused by a leading doctor of “playing along with Hamas” in its coverage of the Gaza war, reports the Telegraph.
- “Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron is slammed for ‘sniping’ at Israel” – Foreign Secretary David Cameron has been condemned for “sniping” at Israel after warning how he was “deeply concerned” by the Gaza ground offensive, according to the Mail.
- “Maureen Lipman and Vanessa Feltz blow whistles for Israeli hostages” – Maureen Lipman and Vanessa Feltz were among a crowd of hundreds who gathered in London to show solidarity with the dozens of hostages being held in Gaza, reports the Mail.
- “Blasphemy demos ‘are growing in radicalism’” – A new report warns that Britain faces an alarming rise in intimidation and threats of violence against those perceived to have insulted Islam, according to the Times.
- “Politicians’ families targeted as threats escalate amid Gaza war” – Pro-Palestinian activists are targeting the parents of MPs in a “dangerous” escalation of the threat to their safety, says the Mail.
- “Legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’” – Michael Gove wants ‘trailblazer’ Government departments to pilot a scheme to ban individuals and groups deemed extremist from public life, reports the Guardian.
- “Name extremist groups or your crackdown will fail, Gove told” – Michael Gove has been warned by ex-ministers he must name Islamist groups or his crackdown on extremism will not work, says the Telegraph.
- “Targeting Islamism higher priority than redefining extremism” – Michael Portillo says that targeting Islamism should be more of a priority for Michael Gove than redefining extremism, according to the Telegraph.
- “Is it illegal to call Hamas terrorists?” – The arrest of an anti-Hamas counter-protester shames the Metropolitan Police, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Moment pro-Palestine student mob disrupt Israeli historian’s lecture” – The Mail has video of the moment a group of pro-Palestinian students called for an eminent Israeli historian to be kicked off a university campus after he was accused of being a racist.
- “The callousness of the virtue signallers” – The progressive folk of TikTok have viciously dogpiled a woman as she was dying of cancer. Her crime? Following the Instagram account of the Israeli Defence Force, writes Kirsty Stark in the Critic.
- “‘New arrivals in this country must live by our values. I am worried about the state of democracy’” – The Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Faulkner speaks to the Telegraph about the failure of integration in Britain.
- “Syrian refugee who was in BBC documentary convicted of raping girl, 13” – A Syrian refugee who was in a BBC documentary about the plight of asylum seekers has been convicted of raping a 13 year-old girl seven times, reports the Mail.
- “Where did the white clots come from?” – Numerous funeral directors report struggling to embalm bodies because of finding white “calamari-like” clots blocking the veins. What do we know about them? asks HART on Substack.
- “Nudge denialism: why are the state’s psychological experts distancing themselves from behavioural science?” – Denials by government advisors of using behavioural science to manipulate the British people during the pandemic sound rather hollow, says HART.
- “NatWest hires City law firm as it tools up for Nigel Farage battle” – NatWest has drafted in City law firm Addleshaw Goddard to defend a looming legal challenge brought by Nigel Farage over debanking, reports the Telegraph.
- “Royal Navy’s flagship £3 billion warship HMS Queen Elizabeth catches fire” – In another embarrassing incident for the Royal Navy, its flagship £3 billion warship HMS Queen Elizabeth has caught fire, according to the Mail.
- “Angela ‘two homes’ Rayner is branded a ‘f***ing liar’ by ex-neighbour” – Angela Rayner has been called a “f***ing liar” by a former neighbour for insisting that she lived apart from her husband for the first five years of her marriage, enabling her to avoid paying a capital gains tax bill, reports the Mail.
- “GB News-backer Paul Marshall ‘unfit to own a newspaper’, claims Telegraph bidder” – Billionaire hedge fund tycoon and GB News co-owner Sir Paul Marshall is “unfit to own a newspaper” according to the U.S. news executive leading a rival bid to buy the Telegraph, according to the Telegraph.
- “Schools are at risk of closure after a massive fall in the birth rate” – Hundreds of U.K. primary schools could be forced to close by the end of the decade because of a dramatic fall in the number of births, reports the Mail.
- “Labour’s ‘fake news’ plan won’t help children” – In UnHerd, Fred Skulthorp discusses Labour’s proposal to use maths and history lessons to tackle the threat of fake news and conspiracy theories among young people.
- “Has BBC Verify done more harm than good?” – Some areas of journalistic inquiry have been, in effect, ‘cancelled’ at the BBC, says Charlie Walsham in the Spectator.
- “Sadiq Khan’s woeful mayoralty has destroyed London’s once great nightlife” – In London, knife crime is surging, red tape is proliferating and bars, clubs and restaurants are closing. It’s time to fix this mess, writes Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Why is Macron suddenly pro-Ukraine? Fear of Le Pen” – Macron’s startling declaration that the West should not rule out putting troops on the ground in Ukraine is a strategy to stymy the Rassemblement National’s 10-point poll lead ahead of June’s EU elections, says John Keiger in the Spectator.
- “Portuguese voters go to election that could see socialists ousted” – Portugal’s 10 million voters are due to vote in an election today that could see the nation reject the Socialist Party that has been ruling for the last eight years, reports the Mail.
- “Ulez lottery revealed: TfL charge drivers without compliance data” – London’s motorists are facing a secret ‘Ulez lottery’ as the Mail reveals that the emissions released by older cars have little bearing on whether they’re fined or not.
- “The German energy transition threatens to be an unaffordable, unrealisable disaster, according to the Government’s own independent auditors” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses a new report by the German Federal Audit Office that says what everybody knows but nobody in charge will acknowledge, namely that wind and solar are intermittent power sources.
- “How CO2 starvation caused the greatest extinction event” – We must ensure that attempts to reduce CO2 concentrations do not result in devastating CO2 starvation again, writes Jim Steele in WUWT.
- “Ireland’s referendum was a rejection of Dublin liberalism” – It remains to be seen whether the defeat of Ireland’s family and care referendums is an exception or part of a growing Irish disillusionment with liberalism, says Theo McDonald in UnHerd.
- “Liz Truss bids to change the legal definition of sex to ‘biological’” – Liz Truss has brought forth a Private Members’ Bill to end an “absurd and dangerous situation” where biological males, self-defining as women, can access female toilets or compete in female-only sports, reports the Mail.
- “Trans activists urge Scottish police to arrest JK Rowling over ‘misgendering hate crime’” – Trans rights activists are attempting to have J.K. Rowling arrested by Scottish police over ‘misgendering’ after a complaint was dismissed in England, says the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling sparks Twitter spat with controversial Mother’s Day post” – J.K. Rowling has sparked another Twitter spat with a Mother’s Day post wishing her followers “Happy Birthing Parent Day”, according to the Mail.
- “Dylan Mulvaney and Lady Gaga spark backlash over IWD photoshoot” – Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and pop star Lady Gaga have sparked backlash over a joint International Women’s Day photoshoot, reports the Mail.
- “‘I’m Just Ken’ has helped young boys deal with emotions, Barbie songwriter claims” – The songwriter behind Barbie’s ‘I’m Just Ken’ says the power ballad, sung by Ryan Gosling, allows boys to understand that “it’s OK to be runner-up”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Scottish Government grants £85,000 to film featuring ‘hardcore sex’” – A Scottish Government quango has awarded almost £85,000 to an arts project featuring hardcore sex acts, reports the Mail.
- “How Canada became a cauldron of authoritarianism” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill on the Trudeau Government’s proposal for a new law that would allow for the house arrest of individuals if there are concerns they might commit a ‘hate crime’.
- “WPATH is the leading world authority on gender medicine and leaked meeting recordings reveal leading medical childcare practitioners know they have been doing irreversible surgeries on patients who can’t give informed consent” – Andrew Doyle devoted an episode of Free Speech Nation on GB News to the WPATH leak, which the rest of the media is ignoring.
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A new week begins the same as the last one ended ! No good news ! Same SH1T Different Day ! 🤯
To be fair, it’s not the “Daily Optimist”.
It was early , I was thinking more of the lack of Retribution , some news of positive push back , a possible poke in the eye of the enemy or such like 🤞😉👍
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Why is Macron suddenly pro-Ukraine? Fear of Le Pen ‘It’s not that Macron is so great — it’s that this lot are so useless.’ That may include the ‘Friedenskanzler’ Being pro Ukraine allows Macron to lead in Europe which he likes because he doesn’t have anything else to do…….. Remember this? ‘In November 2020, the FSB’s strategic objective in Moldova was to bring about ‘The full restoration of the strategic partnership between Moldova and the Russian Federation’ FSB Outline of Operational Aims and Means, 21 November 2021. Here you go: ‘….infrastructure development and strengthening of transportation networks will be an important template of Russia’s counter-strategy. Moscow is not waiting for a conclusive end to the conflict in Ukraine for the integration of the new territories into its economy from a long term perspective. The crux of the matter, in geopolitical terms, is that Novorossiya is rising from the ashes like the phoenix and becoming, as Catherine the Great envisaged, Russia’s most important all-weather gateway to the world market connecting its vast untold mineral resources and huge agricultural potential. George Soros knows it; Wall Street knows it…..’ ‘At various times, Novorossiya encompassed the Moldavian region of Bessarabia, the modern Ukraine’s regions of… Read more »
“Schools are at risk of closure after a massive fall in the birth rate” – Hundreds of U.K. primary schools could be forced to close by the end of the decade because of a dramatic fall in the number of births, reports the Mail.
Well, what a surprise. No kids, no need for schools. Primary schools first (they only get 4-5 years warning of too few kids to fill the school) then it will filter up to secondary schooling but they still won’t take the obvious forecast numbers into account. There’ll be less need for teachers too.
As this works through the system there will be opportunities for smaller, more specialist schools to make their mark and be selective about their intake of both pupils and staff.
Not necessarily. If there is a surplus of teachers it unfortunately isn’t necessarily the best and brightest that get to keep their jobs, but those with long tenure and also willingness to tow the woke line.
“Nudge denialism: why are the state’s psychological experts distancing themselves from behavioural science?” – Denials by government advisors of using behavioural science to manipulate the British people during the pandemic sound rather hollow, says HART. Whenever I hear anything about the ‘nudge unit’ or ‘nudging’ the population to think in a certain way I think of the ‘Nudge, nudge’ Monty Python sketch. The business with the ‘Nudge denialism’ referred to in the HART article seems strikingly similar to the lines: Nudge nudge man: Could be, could be taken on holiday. Could be yes – swimming costumes. Know what I mean. Candid photography. Know what I mean, nudge nudge.Man in pub: No, no we don’t have a camera.Nudge nudge man: Oh. Still (slaps hands lightly twice) Woah! Eh? Wo-oah! Eh?Man in pub: Look, are you insinuating something?Nudge nudge man: Oh…no…no…Nudge nudge man: Yes. Of course, I probably shouldn’t dismiss government engaging in ‘nudging’ so lightly. I’ve often wondered if some commercial advertising is actually intended to cause some people to feel superior and think they’ve seen through the the advert scam – but they still lodge knowledge of the product in their minds. If it works in the commercial world, why… Read more »
“but I still remember the Gorilla ad for it”
There was a time when we made absolutely sublime adverts in this country…
Only the crumbles, flakeist chocolate
Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet
Go to work on an egg
Etc.
Now what? Black and white couples who bear no relation to the real world and adverts for what? I cannot recall any products. And on the odd occasion the stupid box is on we press the mute button anyway.
“Go to work on an egg.”
I remember that on a station platform next to “Travel by train – it’s less of a strain.”
“Schools are at risk of closure after a massive fall in the birth rate”
There is another reason: UK babies under 5 are more than twice as likely to die than any other western European country except Malta. And no one can explain it. Nothing to do with sticking 72 eniccav needles into them, of course. Or the prevalence of dodgy doctors from hostile alien cultures, perish the thought. A complete mystery.
Why is the UK’s infant death rate so high? – BBC Newsnight – YouTube