News Round-Up
- “Defiant FA stands by multicoloured St George’s Cross despite Rishi Sunak’s intervention” – Former players have criticised tweaks to the England kit, reports the Telegraph, with one asking: “Will they change Three Lions to three cats?”
- “England shirt fiasco two years in making – and Nike ‘originally proposed rainbow colours’” – Inside story in the Telegraph of how Nike’s “playful update” to the England kit backfired in spectacular fashion.
- “England and the English are treated with contempt by our Anglophobic elite” – No other country in the world would be expected to see its flag messed with, and just put up with it, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Glasgow Greens bid to ditch Union flag in favour of Palestinian and transgender ones” – Tories criticise “loony Left” plan to replace the Union flag with woke alternatives, according to the Telegraph.
- “Humza’s Hate Bill” – Daily Sceptic contributor C.J. Strachan has launched a Substack – and one of his first articles is about Scotland’s crazy new hate crime law.
- “Trans-hating ‘parody of J.K. Rowling’ was created by Police Scotland officers” – Doubts have been raised over Police Scotland’s ability to enforce the new hate crime law after its revealed that the training exercise that created a caricature of J.K. Rowling and claimed she wanted to send trans people to the gas chambers was created by Scottish police officers, reports the Telegraph.
- “TfL bans Tube advert claiming social media is ‘killing Muslims’” – TfL has been accused of censorship after blocking a provocative ad campaign for a new Muslim social media network, says the Telegraph.
- “Watch: Justin Welby takes a pop at CofE ‘whiteness officer’ job” – The Archbishop of Canterbury is not happy about the Diocese of Birmingham advertising for a ‘whiteness officer’, according to the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer is right to ignore Doreen Lawrence” – Lady Lawrence, a Labour peer who was made the party’s race relations adviser, claims she’s being ignored by the Labour leader. Quite right too, opines Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “How activism swept the civil service” – The Scottish parliament’s decision to ban its staff wearing campaigning lanyards is an important step, writes Stephen Webb in the Spectator.
- “It is time to stop worrying about allegedly right-wing ‘political extremism’ and to start worrying about our overtly extremist and truly crazy political establishment” – Eugyppius responds to Jeremy Stern’s Tablet article, ‘Can Germany’s Far Right be Stopped?’
- “Countryfile’s John Craven says there is ‘disturbing’ evidence of racism in rural areas” – The presenter of the BBC show cites a survey produced by Leicester University that he claims proves Britain has a problem with rural racism, according to the Telegraph.
- “Police investigate Tory donor alleged race comments” – West Yorkshire Police are looking at whether comments about Diane Abbott by Frank Hester were a hate crime, says the BBC.
- “The ‘nuclear option’ stalking GB News” – Ofcom is under growing pressure to act after repeated clashes over impartiality, reports the Telegraph.
- “Surely Ofcom has bigger fish to fry than sanctimoniously lecturing GB News?” – The media regulator’s latest report is just plain silly, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Lawfare against Donald Trump is approaching a new and dangerous phase” – Will New York state Attorney General Letitia James really try to seize a half-billion dollars in Trump’s assets as punishment for a non-existent crime? asks Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Trump says he has $500 million cash as bond deadline looms” – The former President says money meant for his campaign will now have to be used in his legal case, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Offshore Wind: Follow the Money” – U.K. energy bill payers are subsidising overseas investors and getting expensive, unreliable energy in return, writes David Turner on his Substack.
- “Texas Schools Pull $8.5 Billion From BlackRock Over ESG” – More problems for BlackRock and its ESG crusade, reports WhatsUpWithThat.
- “‘Trust science,’ Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics” – There will be no air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms at the Paris Olympics, which has pledged to host the “greenest ever” Games, according to WhatsUpWithThat.
- “SNP told ‘you can’t negotiate with reality’ over 2030 Net Zero target” – The Scottish Government has said it may loosen the legally-binding targets it has set itself, which is good news says Andrew Montford on Net Zero Watch.
- “Farage more popular with 2019 Tory voters than Sunak” – Nigel Farage is now more popular among 2019 Conservative voters than the Prime Minister, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Bank of England’s sinister role in pushing Britain into effective bankruptcy” – The losses from unwinding the Bank of England’s QE programme are eye-wateringly vast, says Philip Pilkington in the Telegraph. Yet Threadneedle Street remains above reproach.
- “I don’t have much sympathy for the Waspis, and neither should you” – If compensation is offered, perhaps I’ll sue the state for sex discrimination on the grounds that women were given an earlier retirement age, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Assessing the evidence for excess cardiovascular deaths” – Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson, in Trust the Evidence, say they’re keeping an open mind about the cause of the uptick in cardiovascular deaths.
- “The FDA settled with us because they knew they were going to lose” – Pierre Kory MD recounts the tale of his battle with the FDA over Ivermectin on Substack.
- “After earnings plunge, BioNTech pins hopes on cancer drug launches” – BioNTech has seen its profits decline 90% year-on-year now no one is taking the Covid vaccines and is pinning its hopes on a new cancer drug, reports Reuters.
- “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism” – Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanised suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetisation for breaching various speech codes, writes Matt Taibbi on Racket News.
- “Ketanji Brown Jackson Defenestrates the First Amendment” – The Supreme Court Judge claimed she lacked the expertise to define a ‘woman’, says Brownstone. But she’s perfectly happy to redefine the First Amendment in Murthy v. Missouri.
- “Debate: Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?” – In the Free Press, Geoffrey Cain and Walter Kirn debate the pros and cons of banning TikTok.
- “Will the nurse who supported J.K. Rowling see justice?” – Amy Hamm is a Canadian nurse being disciplined for supporting J.K. Rowling and we’re about to learn how far the Canadian authorities are prepared to go to enforce woke dogma, according to UnHerd.
- “Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire cuts ties with Candace Owens following Israel-Hamas comments” – The conservative commentators clashed over the conflict in Gaza, reports the Independent, and now Candace Owens has left to set up her own thing.
- “How MeToo became too cringe for America” – Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd says the MeToo movement has run out of steam in the U.S.
- “Sexist skyscrapers. Non-binary pigeons. Winston Churchill the Nazi” – On X, Andrew Doyles documents all the occasions on which something Titania McGrath made up to satirise the wokesters came true a few months later.
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Not at all a fan of CNN for sourcing anything reliable but their updated article on the Moscow attack by ISIS does tally with other reports. Seems Putin did a Netanyahu and did not heed the warnings given that a terrorist attack was imminent and large gatherings were most likely targets; ”ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack at a popular concert hall complex near Moscow Friday after assailants stormed the venue with guns and incendiary devices, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145. The terror group took responsibility for the attack in a short statement published by ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq on Telegram on Friday. It did not provide evidence to support the claim. Video footage from the Crocus City Hall shows the vast complex, which is home to both the music hall and a shopping center, on fire with smoke billowing into the air. State-run RIA Novosti reported the armed individuals “opened fire with automatic weapons” and “threw a grenade or an incendiary bomb, which started a fire.” They then “allegedly fled in a white Renault car,” the news agency said. State media Russia 24 reported the roof of the venue has partially collapsed. The fire had been… Read more »
Is that the same ISIS, the one with the brand new shiny pick-ups, that morphed out of Al Qaeda (and before that the Mujahideen, funded by the CIA/Pentagon) to sow discord in countries in the Middle East that the US wants to destabilise?
Yes indeed. If I had to do a poll on Twitter of the responses to who orchestrated this attack, the front-runner would be CIA closely followed by a false flag by Russia itself. But, being Twitter, there’s quite the mixed bag in there, inc Mossad.
Thank God, I don’t do Twitter, Mogs!
LOL, I was adding to my comment above but, yet another disadvantage with this software DS use is that if somebody responds to your comment you then can’t edit in the 15min allotted timeframe, and you responded and cancelled me 😉 So I’ll just add on this;
I was more keen to see the death/casualty toll this morning, plus if any info had been extracted from the arrested terrorists yet. I guess we await more details on this one.
Ah, I see – no one is safe until everyone is safe. Cue increased security at airports for example? Another push for digital ID?
I’d say it could be more simple than that, how about the murder of the only real opposition to putin in a siberian prison?
and his, not unappreciable amount of followers being slightly miffed with that!
To avoid political headlines it might be easier to just blame muslamics!
One of Victoria ‘F*ck the EU’ Nuland’s nasty little surprises she promised before she was
sackedresigned? As kimdotcom says:Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom – 21:01 UTC · Mar 22, 2024
Sanctions didn’t work. Billions in weapons didn’t work. Unwavering support didn’t work. Counter-offensive didn’t work. Non-stop propaganda didn’t work.
Rules-based terrorism is all they have left. It won’t work either. It just shows how evil and desperate they are.
And this:
Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill – 10:08 UTC · Oct 12, 2022
Now Al Qaeda & other Salafist Jihadist groups are reportedly entering Ukraine to fight Russia directly. Coincidentally, last week an ISIS recruiter the Taliban captured said he received funding via Ukraine. The Taliban only released this video domestically.
Yes, all part of the playbook from the paranoid sociopathic US Government, get others to do the dirty fighting for you.
👍
What’s really going on?
Putin still proceeds with his plan to force Moldova into the Russian ‘Union State’, joining existing members Belarus and Eastern Ukraine.
Annexation of the Polish Suwalki corridor will then encircle the Baltic States and set up a new iron curtain from Kaliningrad in the north to Odessa in the south.
‘Shor stated on March 22 that his current trip to Russia is aimed at building a “clear plan” for future Russian and Moldova cooperation.’
‘Shor stated that his goal is the “total resignation of the current pro-Western regime” ‘
‘Shor last visited Russia on February 7 and met with Russian Duma official Leonid Kalashnikov, the chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Eurasian Integration, and Relations with Compatriots Abroad.’
‘Shor is a prominent Kremlin political proxy in Moldova.’
Moscow Times
“Countryfile’s John Craven says there is ‘disturbing’ evidence of racism in rural areas” Where I live is a very traditional rural area and in the local town, I see people of other colour and ethnic origins all the time and see no evidence of any overt racism. They sit in the same cafes and go the same pubs and no one bats an eyelid. I would say that incidences of racism are quite rare but you are never going to get everyone to have the same attitude at the same time. Not when we are being overloaded with immigrants and many of our seaside towns and cheaper hotels are crammed full of people, predominantly young men, who probably won’t assimilate or learn our cultural ways and won’t want to. I know there are areas in the country that have a much higher percentage of immigrants than where I am and I can understand that people are angry about how these men are foisted upon communities and if you dare to complain, you’re called a racist. You might even be arrested for lodging a complaint! On the whole, we are an extremely tolerant country and I am fed up with these… Read more »
I don’t have a Telegraph subscription so I can’t read the article and can only go by the headlines.
The word “racism” seems to me to have become meaningless because it is used to mean whatever people want it to mean. My default reaction, if I cannot directly question whoever is making statements about “racism”, is to ignore it or think “so what?”.
You don’t need a subscription. Either hit the ‘esc’ button (if you’re on a Mac) just as the article loads (might take you a few attempts) or, much easier, copy and paste the URL into this https://archive.is/
And it’ll load up the article for you.
Thanks. The article cherry picks a handful of incidents of “racist abuse”. No doubt this happens, as it does in cities and suburbs, everywhere on planet Earth. I’ve encountered physical assault and verbal abuse from all sorts of people in my life – I don’t think any of it was “racially aggravated” as the phrase has it, but that wasn’t any consolation. Sometimes you are somewhere, wrong place, wrong time, face doesn’t fit for whatever reason, dickheads or thugs will have a go.
Should read “Countryfile’s John Craven says there is ‘disturbing’ evidence of Englishness in rural areas”
John Craven – the count in Countryfile
I thought John Craven would be forming the base of a compost heap by now.
Why do we continue to employ old buggers who are past retirement age?
“After earnings plunge, BioNTech pins hopes on cancer drug launches”
Nice little perpetual earner, eh? Design a jab for a designer virus that, amongst other diseases, enhances turbo-cancer risk, and then design more drugs – often with the same underlying platform – to treat those cancers, knowing full well that the expected success rate is a lot less than the allegedly ‘safe and effective’ virus jabs. I don’t use the word evil often, but this surely must be.
A small but potent victory in the covid wars – FDA ordered to remove ‘that’ tweet and other social media posts about Ivermectin.
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/best-day-ever-for-ethical-physicians
“‘Trust science,’ Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics”
What a cock!
Several years ago after a really bad harvest in North Korea the regime promoted the idea that the population was eating too much and less food was healthier.
We in the west treated this with mockery.
It seems as if mockery may be turning into imitation. I expect to see plenty of instances going forward in energy starved Europe of officials telling us that both aircon and heating are bad for you, that walking is much better than mechanised transport, that raw food is better than cooking it, etc.
It’s not that we’re short of energy, no no, it’s all deliberate and for our own good…or when the case is too preposterous, for the good of the planet.
Oh Stewart, you are SO right mate!👍
“The Scottish Government has said it may loosen the legally-binding targets it has set itself, which is good news says Andrew Montford”
Good news? No, good news would be the total and utter annihilation of the snp and a complete reversal of all its insane policies!
“I don’t have much sympathy for the Waspis, and neither should you”
Ross Clark, go f%#k yourself!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/22/the-bank-of-england-is-pushing-britain-into-bankruptcy/
The bankrupting of the United Kingdom is deliberate and the aim once we accept that we are beyond broke is to sell the country off, probably to the IMF or possibly a conglomerate of criminal gangs such as Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street etc. The sell-off will be comprehensive – even down to our houses.
Spot on Hux. I’m curious about these new ‘National Landscape’ areas KCIII implemented as part of his coronation ‘gift’ to the nation,
vastly extending previous national park boundaries. Are these areas going to be sold off, us peasants cleared & herded into the cities, and the land converted to private playgrounds like the deer parks of old, where trespass could lead to the removal of a hand, blinding or death? One wonders mightily. The Norman extent of deer parks was 2% of land: these new areas are nearly 25%…
Thanks WW.
No question there will be some malign logic behind these ‘National Landscape arenas.’ I tend to think your assumptions are probably spot on.
Another conspiracy theory bites the dust:
It was said that those-in-the-know were give a saline only (neutral) jab instead of the unsafe and defective C19 jabs; well now the sudden onset cancer cluster in the Royal family seems to discredit that. Firstly the late Queen (bone cancer), KC III, Fergie, Princess of Wales, perhaps another one or two…
My wife and I had this same conversation last evening!
I don’t trust any of these “diagnoses”. There’s a huge difference between being “diagnosed” with something and actually having it, as Farid Fata of Michigan proved. The Globalist aim is to put an African on the throne, and they only need to remove the six others in the line of succession to make Meghan Smirkle’s dreams come true. Why else do all the main UK media, even GB News, have special tabs placing Meghan & Harry next to the tabs of the main royals, at the top of the page, and keep featuring endless flattering photos of Meghan and “news” stories about her, when nobody is the least bit interested? Both King Charles and Princess Catherine were given the all-clear after surgery, then when they returned for check-ups, the doctors had mysteriously found cancer cells, so they could ruin their happiness and blast them both with chemo and radiation. How likely is it that they and Fergie would all suddenly be “diagnosed” with cancer within days of each other? Reliance on dodgy Third World “doctors” is not a great idea, and you should always get a second, third & fourth opinion for potentially lethal “diagnoses”. Imagine the nightmare if the… Read more »
“Ketanji Brown Jackson Defenestrates the First Amendment” – The Supreme Court Judge claimed she lacked the expertise to define a ‘woman’, says Brownstone.”
OK Ketanji, easy one for you,: define a man?
“Sexist skyscrapers. Non-binary pigeons. Winston Churchill the Nazi.”
Excuse me? Have I woke up in a different dimension?
When “ffs” is just not enough!
Off topic ……
It occurred to me the other day that pre the c19 paradigm there was much in the media about the 5G rollout and the infrastructure contracts going to the Chinese with the obvious security concerns. I also remember some health concerns being raised about the particular frequency emitted by 5G.
Now that 5G masts are all over the place I’m wondering whether this rollout was slipped in during the distraction of C19 etc.
Does anybody have any info on this?
“Cyclists must have ‘identification, a licence or insurance’ under new plans from ‘Mr Loophole’ Nick Freeman”
Yes yes yes👍👍!
ALL road users should be made accountable!
And go swivel downtickers! Cyclists should be made to pay their way like other road user have to! All road users should pay for the roads, and don’t come out with the “well I’ve got a car as well” chestnut, if you own two motorcycles you have to pay for both!
…”identification?”
Another excuse for digital ID.
Maybe the cycle could be registered to an owner much like a car to save having to carry Id? I certainly don’t agree with having to carry identity cards!
Moscow Islam massacre !! What’s the story ?
Putin has good relations with Muslims, married a Muslim athlete and his two sons by her are being raised as Muslims, reportedly. Russian troops have also been sent to Muslim Chechnya to be trained for the Ukraine War.
This supposed “Moscow Islam Massacre” is just Putin’s attempt to distract global attention away from the video evidence of ballot-stuffing that got him elected.
Russian Social Media Swamped With Video Evidence Of Ballot-Box Stuffing (rferl.org)
Video emerges of ballot box stuffing in St. Petersburg, Russia during presidential elections (youtube.com)
More here, Freddo. ISIS-K apparently. Tragically, the death toll is climbing as more bodies are being pulled from the burned ruins. We need to wait and see what these arrested terrorists say; ”Last night, masked men in camouflage gear wielding automatic weapons stormed the Crocus City Hall – opening fire and hurling explosives into a crowd. Some 6,000 people are believed to have been inside the venue watching Russian rock band Picnic when the bloodshed began. The gunmen began shooting civilians at point-blank range – through glass doors, turnstiles and then the concert hall itself, traumatised witnesses said. At least 143 were killed – including three children – and over 121 wounded – but the death toll continues to rise as bodies are pulled from the smouldering rubble. The US says it has intelligence that confirms the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility for the bloody massacre – and argued it was led by an Afghanistan-based splinter cell, ISIS-K. While the attack by ISIS-K in Russia on Friday was a dramatic escalation, experts said the group has openly opposed Russian Vladimir Putin in recent years. Colin Clarke of Soufan Center, a Washington-based research group, said: “ISIS-K has been fixated on Russia for the… Read more »
Remarkably similar to Bataclan.
“No point in making any big statements on the Moscow shooting, but I wouldn’t rule out a false flag operation,” researcher Pekka Kallioniemi wrote. “This is what FSB/Putin did in 1999 to justify the Second Chechen War and improve Putin’s popularity and image as a strong leader.”
“Russia is a police state which fails every time it attempts to police anything other than unarmed peaceful protesters,” journalist Alexey Kovalyov wrote in response to Bondarev. “That, or I’m now more than ever convinced that the 1999 Moscow bombings were indeed Putin’s false flag.”
Putin Critics Suggest Moscow Concert Shooting Was ‘False Flag’ Operation (newsweek.com)
Other reports said that the Russian Special Forces took an hour and a half to arrive, because they were “stuck in traffic”.
“Humza’s Hate Bill”
Notice that the “Hate Monster” is not only blatantly phallic, as C.J. Strachan pointed out in his article, but also the colour of “gammon”. That word “gammon” is also used as a racial insult, referring to the skin colour of Ethnic Europeans = “white people”. No one has ever been arrested or charged with “hate crime” for using that word, but just try using words referring to the skin colour of other ethnic groups, and see what happens.
I do not understand how any Indigenous Scot in the Scottish assembly could have voted for this viciously anti-Indigenous Scottish bill.