News Round-Up
- “Civil servants threaten to strike over two days a week in the office” – ONS staff are threatening to strike over an instruction to return to the office, the Telegraph reports.
- “Martin Kulldorff: Fired by Harvard for getting Covid right” – Watch the Great Barrington legend’s new interview with UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers.
- “Freedom of Thought vs Mentality Control” – ‘Mentality control’ is widespread in authoritarian regimes, but also a distinct tendency in Western administrations and academic institutions, as exemplified by the recent sacking of Martin Kulldorff by Harvard, says Freedom Research‘s Theo L. Gluck.
- “Hallett Inquiry: The Extraordinary” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson continue their coverage of the Covid Inquiry on Substack, this time criticising the setting up of a Covid testing centre in Cardiff without telling the Welsh Government.
- “Modest earners are now being taxed ‘as if they are rich’, figures show” – Present-day workers only have to earn 3.6 times the average pay to be taxed at the highest rate, up from 6.2 times in 2010, says the Telegraph.
- “Jewish lobby has insidious influence in U.K. politics, civil servants told” – A series of meetings have been held by hundreds of civil servants discussing how to force the Government to change its policy on the Israel-Gaza war and have featured numerous antisemitic tropes, the Times reveals.
- “Parliament has finally shown the autocracies what money can’t buy” – The U.K. is more exposed than many thought to influence-laundering, but better able to defend itself, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Fitzwilliam Museum rehang caters to the new ruling class” – If you’re an aspirant member of the 21st-century ruling class, you must be scrubbed free of place or history, says Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
- “Farage: Free speech under threat from Government’s extremism definition” – The Reform party President warns that the guidelines to identify high-risk fringe groups could be used to shut down legitimate debate, the Telegraph reports.
- “The evil trans ideology is in retreat, at last” – A landmark victory has been won, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. “We must now end the indoctrination of innocent children in our schools.”
- “Trans athletes: Sharron Davies and Caitlyn Jenner on sport’s greatest debate” – In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, female sport’s biggest advocates unite to address what the International Olympic Committee tries to shy away from.
- “Gender-neutral toilets at all Euro 2024 stadiums” – This summer’s European Championship will be the first major tournament to introduce gender-neutral toilets at all venues, according to the Telegraph.
- “Scotland Yard axes 60 murder detectives to save millions” – The Metropolitan Police’s 20 homicide squads will each lose three detective constables to save £4.2 million from budget despite London’s high murder rate, the Telegraph reports.
- “Dan Wootton on his fall from grace, friendship and a fresh start” – Laura Dodsworth interviews former GB News presenter Dan Wootton, who now runs his own independent media platform Outspoken on Substack, with a daily news and opinion show of the same name launching later this year.
- “Keir Starmer is dead wrong about assisted suicide” – ‘Assisted dying’ is a threat to the most vulnerable and must be resisted, argues Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
- “Labour’s class warriors refuse to see the injustice of imposing VAT on school fees” – Parents on modest incomes struggling to do the best for their children will pay the price for a policy aimed at “toffs and plutocrats”, argues Andrew Gimson on ConservativeHome.
- “Ep. 81 They’re still claiming the Covid vax is safe and effective. Yet somehow Dr. Pierre Kory treats hundreds of patients who’ve been badly injured by it” – Why is no one in the public health establishment paying attention, asks Tucker Carlson as he interviews Covid ‘frontline doctors’ hero Pierre Kory.
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The headline says “Jewish lobby” but the content quotes it being the “Israel lobby”. That’s misleading.
The Israel lobby does have an insidious influence. Why else would the government provide “unequivocal” support for Israel, not just now but “always”? That’s a free-pass for all manner of horrors. The government doesn’t even exhibit that level of commitment domestically, preferring to treat us like an enemy.
“the pro-Israel lobby in our body politic is the most powerful political lobby. There’s nothing to touch them”
A report from 2014. Cameron, Netanyahu, slaughter in Gaza and silence from the UK regime. All very familiar.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-truth-about-the-uks-powerful-jewish-lobbies-9702262.html
“While it would be folly to overstate the Lobby’s power these is no doubt, as the occasional leaks suggest, that there is a well-oiled and well-financed machine at work, in which blackening the character of people opposed to or merely critical of Israel’s expansionist policies is part of the daily routine.”
Blackening the character of those even “merely critical”? Sounds insidious.
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/the-israel-lobby-at-work/
“Exposé unmasks Israel-led disinformation team that meddled in dozens of elections”
Then there’s the election meddling that we are only told the Russians do.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/expose-unmasks-israel-led-disinformation-team-that-meddled-in-dozens-of-elections/
The “meddling” may have included secret promises to make Priti Patel the next UK Prime Minister, during her secret meetings with Israeli government officials while ostensibly “on family holiday”, which got her sacked by Teresa May. She should have been arrested for treason.
Then there was the odd decision by Teresa May on the night before taking office as Prime Minister. Instead of feverish preparations for the next day, she chose to have dinner alone with the UK’s chief rabbi.
Only a year later, Priti Patel was having secret meetings with a foreign power. Was May also angry that her replacement was already being lined up?
Fears? What, no evidence of lost productivity? That smacks of mis-management.
On a lighter note:
I’d have thought building HS2 through your living room would make a hell of a mess. Still, better than ruining the countryside, eh?
“Fears? What, no evidence of lost productivity? That smacks of mis-management.”
Exactly.
I know a civil servant who much prefers to work from home as he is much more productive there. However he certainly would not go on strike over this – what he would do however is to take this into account when considering his options for the future, and give preference to opportunities that offered more flexibility. He would be a sad loss to the civil service as he is intelligent, hard working and “right wing”.
“He would be a sad loss to the civil service as he is intelligent, hard working and “right wing”.”
Anybody matching that description is in for a miserable future in the Civil Service and will have severley restricted promotion opportunities. Loners cannot fight the CS wokery and group think.
I can’t believe he has lasted as long as he has especially as he could easily walk into a private sector job. He is a lot more tolerant than I would be and I think his bosses so far have been actually quite reasonable.
The other thing to consider is that there is plenty of woke bullshit in the corporate private sector too
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“Dan Wootton on his
fall from grace,unwarranted persecution friendship and a fresh start”There, fixed it for you.
Triggernometry Had a guest on, giving a thought provoking rundown on Lenin who is revered in certain circles !
“Civil servants threaten to strike over two days a week in the office”
In the 70s the union’s used to strick for softer toilet paper but at least they new it was a five day working week!
“Scotland Yard axes 60 murder detectives to save millions”
And replaces them with 120 ‘hurty words’ operatives!
“Trans athletes: Sharron Davies and Caitlyn Jenner on sport’s greatest debate”
I dont understand how having a cock or a c×@t became sports greatest debate?
That’s it, off for another fry up!
I’ll never lose weight at this rate😊
Depends what you are frying and what you fry it in. I have bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomato and sometimes a sausage, cooked in lard, almost every day and have never been slimmer. Lay off the heavy carbs, especially if cooked in processed vegetable oil, and you’ll never regret it.
I lost 2 stone last year doing similar, giving up carbs and enjoying butter, lard, bacon, cheese, etc. Read our friend Ivor Cummins on it. Blood sugar levels back under control, too
Totally agree, the best diet I was ever on was the paleo diet, lost loads but got fed up of eating so much meat!
I always use lard and butter👍
New Welsh First Minister ( as if we needed one ) The Blair Devolved UK now has a full set of ethnic so called leaders !!
Exactly, including Ireland: 3 Indian Subcontinentals and 1 African. Northern Ireland soon to follow, no doubt.
Most of the Welsh commenters on various reports are livid that the Zambian wrecked the NHS when he was in charge of it, then wrecked the economy when he was put in charge of that, fully supported the 20mph limits, and was handed the leadership by a Trade Union Stitch-Up disqualifying the Indigenous Welsh candidate on a technicality.
“Gender-neutral toilets at all Euro 2024 stadiums” . So these Rape Stations will be installed, despite the UK government reversing this policy for new buildings here.
Meanwhile the UN Secretary-General calls for global action to defend women’s rights, but only focuses on non-western countries. You really couldn’t make it up.