News Round-Up
- “Climate of harassment and censorship threatens free speech, warns Government advisor” – Dame Sara Khan says politicians and individuals are being subjected to abuse and rape and death threats to stop them expressing their views, according to the Telegraph.
- “UN Security Council demands ceasefire in Gaza” – The Government is facing a backlash from Tory MPs after Britain helped pass the first UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, reports the Telegraph.
- “Candace Owens and the batshit Right” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill explains why both the woke Left and cranky Right are swimming in the cesspit of antisemitism.
- “Why did the SNP make allowances for Spain during Covid?” – In the Spectator, Stephen Daisley highlights a recent Covid Inquiry revelation that a senior civil servant in Scotland advocated for Spain’s inclusion in the ‘travel corridor‘ list due to concerns over Spain’s potential refusal to approve EU membership for an independent Scotland.
- “Humza’s dreadful April Fool law is no laughing matter” – Murdo Fraser MSP lights into Humza Yousaf for his dreadful Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act and explains how (with the help of the Free Speech Union) he’s fighting back.
- “The WHO wants to rule the world” – The new pandemic treaty will change the WHO from a technical advisory organisation into a supra-national public health authority exercising quasi-legislative and executive powers over states, warns Ramesh Thakur for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Alarm over mystery cancer ‘epidemic’ striking under-50s” – Scientists are scrambling to find the cause of a mystery cancer ‘epidemic’ which is striking under-50s, reports the Mail.
- “Whoops! FOIA response from Santa Clara County reveals that the Covid shots INCREASED your risk of getting Covid!” – The Covid vaccines worked in reverse making people more susceptible as revealed by new documents released by Santa Clara County, says Steve Hirsch on Substack.
- “Suella Braverman: Rishi Sunak refused to meet for a year to discuss legal migration” – Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman says the Prime Minister didn’t think soaring levels of immigration was “an important issue for the British people”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Germany needs migration ‘pause’, says senior opposition MP” – Berlin is facing mounting pressure to reform its immigration policies, reports the Telegraph.
- “Yousaf’s ‘Tory free’ Scotland is no longer free” – The SNP’s Hate Crime Act is liberal hypocrisy in its purest form, defending only the beliefs of its authors, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “‘My country is returning to totalitarianism’ warns daughter of legendary Czech freedom fighter” – On the Public Substack, Cecílie Jílková vents her suspicion that the U.S., the EU and George Soros are funding a crackdown on free speech in the Czech Republic.
- “Lies, ideology and repression: China seals Hong Kong’s failed-state fate” – Under new security laws, known as Article 23, life imprisonment awaits Hong Kongers who defy the behemoth to the north, writes Simon Tisdall in the Guardian.
- “Threats, fear and surveillance: how China targets students in the U.K. who criticise regime” – Chinese students tell the Guardian they are scared to return home and worry for their families after being harassed by Chinese authorities for criticising the CCP on British soil.
- “Is reform possible?” – People in Britain and France should pay close attention to what is happening in Argentina, for it is a laboratory for their own future, writes Theodore Dalrymple in the Epoch Times.
- “Fury as 4x4s drivers in Oxford to be taxed more under ‘outrageous’ plan” – People who drive SUVs in Oxford will pay more for parking under a brand new plan being brought in by the city’s council, reports the Express.
- “Labour’s Net Zero plans ‘will cost £116 billion’” – Keir Starmer’s pledge to decarbonise the U.K. by 2030 will require more than £15.5 billion additional investment per year until the start of the next decade, says the Telegraph.
- “‘I was wrong about renewables’ says former green energy executive” – A 20-year veteran of clean tech now says we need to use more, not less, energy, especially natural gas and nuclear, writes Brian Gitt on the Public Substack.
- “Tribunal rules that not every workplace incident involving Muslims will be related to religion” – An employment judge has rejected claims that a doctor was ‘racially profiled’ when she was asked to roll up her sleeves in accordance with hygiene rules, reports GB News.
- “John Craven claims there is ‘disturbing’ evidence of racism in country” – Countryfile presenter John Craven says that while some white people claim rural areas are free of racial prejudice, academics argue bigotry can manifest in “mundane ways”, according to the Mail.
- “BBC’s Woman’s Hour faces backlash over ‘porn series’” – Woman’s Hour is facing a backlash from listeners after it announced a series of debates on pornography, says the Telegraph.
- “Trans zealots are a threat to kids’ welfare” – Why did a CBBC presenter lead a protest against evidence-based medicine? asks Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “MacKenzie Scott channels most of her $640 million to Left-wing causes” – Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott is giving away much of her whopping $640 million in charity to extreme Left-wing causes, including pro-LGBTQ and illegal migrant funds, reports the Mail.
- “The Government has empowered left-wing activists to behave in the way the Khan review outlines with no consequences” – Dr. Neema Parvini reacts to Dame Sara Khan’s report which said Britain is struggling to tackle extremism on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s show on GB News.
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Justin Welby The Slave To Woke – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
What’s really going on?
To those of you just waking up, you are not alone.
Your starter for ten; who just said this?
‘We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists’.
Clue: It was Vladimir Putin.
Oh! And they have had an ear cut off and fed to one of them, another had his b*llocks subjected to electric shock therapy and so on but none have so far said ‘It were them Ukrainians wot made me do it’ (in Tajiki, obviously).
So it must have been, clearly…….or is that just a naughty tiny weeny made up silly little fib……
False flag attacks are definitely a thing.
But why would the US contradict Putin and accept the claim it was ISIS?
Wild shot in the dark: maybe the ISIS video filmed by the terrorists within the readily identifiable Crocus City Hall and then released by ISIS onto social media channels?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eymyUKrZ93U
So what’s your theory? Russian intelligence set up a false flag using ISIS operatives so that Putin could then say that Ukraine used ISIS operatives?
Is that it?
No theory. ISIS-K have been planning this attack on Russia for some time as payback for Russian brutality in Syria, as the U.S. warned Russia (and were ignored).
Putin has made himself look silly by inventing an illusory Ukrainian connection to try and justify his, frankly, mad invasion of Ukraine.
Who exactly do you think he would be trying to sell the story to?
His country; you know, the one that has had 355,000 casualties and whose National Welfare Fund of $132bn runs out next year due to the cost of the utterly pointless war.
Nah. They’re already largely behind him. He doesn’t need to make up stories to get their support.
Nope. ‘For weeks, members of Put’ Domoi (Way Home), a group of mostly wives and mothers of mobilized soldiers, have called for the return of their loved ones from extended service on the front lines. But on Monday, they accused Putin of “driving people to the brink” and pressed for an end to what the Kremlin insists on calling a “special military operation.” “We Russians have no hope left under your leadership… sit at the negotiating table,” the group said in a message addressed to the Russian leader. “Let us live in peace! Or go to the frontline yourself and die there,” it added. Put’ Domoi’s message, shared on the messaging app Telegram, was accompanied by a video of what appeared to be a mobilized Russian soldier calling himself Alexander and expressing dismay over the fact that Putin ignored the group’s request to impose a one-year service limit for mobilized troops. “I watched ‘Direct Line’ with our president… and there’s no hope, no signs that our mobilized boys will return home in the foreseeable future,” Alexander said. “How cynical do you have to be to continue this mayhem and put on a brave face?” Put’ Domoi asked the Russian president in… Read more »
CIA probably , Assange soon to be sent Stateside , Snowdon in Exile so it’s anyones guess !
Brendan O’Neil on Candace Owens. I’m not going to comment on her anti-Semitic rhetoric. My only comment there is to note the George Carlin phrase “it’s a big club and you ain’t in it” also applies to the vast majority of Jews, but probably/certainly not to all and much of the difficulty is that by (the club) setting off waring factions in the commentariat, that distinction can be obliterated and certain members of the club can’t be talked about, and that’s the point. Because there is evidence of a high level pedo ring and I can’t say it it is particularly Jewish; though Epstein was, of course, Jewish and probably working for Mossad, but that doesn’t make high level pedophilia a particularly Jewish thing and I’m pretty sure there is a fairly even racial distribution of pedophiles. That there is evidence there are high level pedophiles in operation however is far from “conspiracy theory” stuff. And O’Neils tendency to conventionalism then leads him on to conclude Owens must also be wrong about Bridget Macron. She herself admits she has no ultimate proof. But really Brendan, look at the facts that are known. On Macron Owens is right.
A further note on the Bridget Macron claim. I have forwarded that Owens video on to a few friends, some more open minded and others more conventional and closed minded. I’m truly amazed at how few of the conventionalist minded set, think the story is true. To me, on the evidence presented, and on the assumption there is no countervailing evidence (I haven’t personally checked but take the very apparent “fact” of such a lack as an important part of the mix) there is no doubt it is true (or rather the doubt is so minuscule it doesn’t bother me). The pattern is that clear. Yet the number of people who are ready to ignore the implications of multiple overlapping pieces of strongly indicative circumstantial evidence and act like they mean nothing is quite staggering. IMO such is indicative of a lack of strategic capacity. Such people can’t weigh up the facts on the ground with clarity, but immediately reach for the conventionalist bag of answers, right in the face of evidence they shouldn’t be so doing. This inability to analyse is so common it’s scary. Time and again we have seen those who can and do analyse the facts… Read more »
Judges’ decision on Julian Assange at 10.30 this morning. All digits crossed.,
https://stellaassangeofficial.substack.com/p/this-is-it?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
This news item on GBN https://www.gbnews.com/news/us/baltimore-bridge-maryland-boat-collision reminded me of the old Severn Railway Bridge disaster in 1960.