News Round-Up
- “Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel, report reveals” – Only one in four British Muslims believe that Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7th, a major report has found, the Telegraph reports.
- “Chief Magistrate disciplined for ‘worthy cause’ comment to Hamas supporter” – The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office has “issued formal advice” to a senior judge after he “gave the impression that he endorsed” the Palestinian cause in one of his judgments, reports Jewish News.
- “Britain has turned against Israel. It’s an unforgivable betrayal” – The false accusations of Israeli malice and international-law flouting have been hysterical, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. has failed to prepare itself for war, warn former defence ministers” – Britain has failed to prepare itself for war as a “whole nation endeavour”, former defence ministers have warned in a stark wake-up call to the Government, the Telegraph reports.
- “Disbelief as undermanned Royal Navy spends £2.4m on ‘diversity team’” – The Royal Navy has splashed out £2.4 million on dedicated diversity and inclusion staff in recent years at a time when defence budgets are more constrained than ever, ministers have admitted, according to the Mail.
- “Almost half of Tory councillors think Government is too Left-wing” – Two thirds of local representatives are dissatisfied with the Conservative party nationally as they fear a “bloodbath” at the May elections, reports the Telegraph.
- “The tax-raising Tories deserve to be wiped out” – A heavy defeat would allow the Conservatives to return to their conservative roots, argues Rocco Forte in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer is too Left-wing to govern like Blair, and the country will pay a heavy price for it” – There’s no guarantee that this will lead to an immediate Tory turnaround, but eventually Starmer will be sniffed out, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Proof that Angela Rayner ‘lied about home at centre of tax row’” – The Mail says it has photographic evidence that the Labour Deputy Leader has been telling porkies.
- “The recklessness of William Wragg” – In the Spectator, former Commons Clerk Eliot Wilson says Wragg should step down from his positions and lose the whip after sharing MPs’ contact details with a stranger on a dating app.
- “Covid support scheme fraud has cost taxpayer over £10bn” – The British taxpayer has lost more than £10 billion on Covid support schemes as a result of fraud and error, figures released by the Government show, according to the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer accused of ‘bringing discredit’ on pharmaceutical industry after Covid social media posts” – Pfizer has been accused by the U.K.’s pharmaceutical watchdog of “bringing discredit” on the industry after senior executives used social media to promote the unlicensed Covid vaccine, the Telegraph reports.
- “Are Correctiv and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue ‘military and intelligence front groups?” – Eugyppius casts a critical eye over the latest explosive report from Public.
- “The MHRA and Bell’s Palsy” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson focus on Bell’s Palsy as a side-effect of the Covid vaccines.
- “Modelling our Scientific Crisis” – Toby Green in Café Américain looks at how models became the blueprint for reality.
- “MPs accuse Charity Commission of legal breach over climate sceptic thinktank” – The Charity Commission is facing a legal challenge by MPs over its failure to investigate “campaigning” by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, reports the Guardian.
- “Greta Thunberg is detained twice by Dutch police during protest” – Greta Thunberg was detained twice by Dutch police during a protest over fossil fuel in The Hague, reports the Mail.
- “J.K. Rowling accused of ‘spreading disinformation’ about hate crime law” – Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf tries to turn the tables on the Harry Potter author, reports the Mail.
- “Scotland’s hate crime law will force police to make cuts, warn senior officers” – The Scottish hate crime law will force police to make cuts, senior officers have warned as staff work overtime to deal with the volume of complaints, the Telegraph reports.
- “Police overtime bill soars by £100m despite drop in crime solving” – Just 5.7% of offences are solved yet spending on extra hours has ballooned to more than £400m, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mere words are now criminal. We are inching towards totalitarianism” – Politics has become entangled with subjective experience, yet nobody seems to realise how dangerous this is, comments the Telegraph‘s Janet Daley.
- “Feminists accuse pro-trans activists of ‘intimidation’ on Scottish march” – Women demonstrating against the new hate crime legislation in Scotland called the counter-protest “abusive and homophobic”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Resisting oppressive hate crime laws will come at a cost” – Julian Mann wonders what impact the new Scottish hate crime law will have on Christians in Christian Today.
- “Preparing for the worst” – The Critic‘s Shonagh Dillon on how gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act.
- “Scotland’s Hate Crime Act may have done us all a favour” – Iain MacWhirter in the Spectator argues that the debacle has actually boosted free speech in unintended ways.
- “Children allowed to ‘socially transition’ face psychological harm, review warns” – Children face grave psychological consequences if they are allowed to “socially transition” to a different gender, the landmark Cass review is expected to say this week, according to the Telegraph.
- “Euthanasia is too cruel to doctors” – Dr. John Wyatt warns of the impact on medics of having to kill their patients (and then falsify the death certificate) in the Spectator.
- “Swiss To Hold Referendum That Will Restrict Population to 10 Million Until 2050” – In a move intended to restrict mass migration, Switzerland will hold a referendum to restrict its population to 10 million until 2050, Modernity reports.
- “The Age of Underpopulation is Here” – The lesson from the overpopulation debacle is that people adapt to their environment, says Steve Goreham in WUWT.
- “Hilaire Belloc’s children poems given trigger warning over ‘hurtful’ rhymes” – Classic children’s poems have been given a trigger warning by a publisher because they may be “harmful” to modern readers, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Is it wrong to compliment a man on his speedos?” – The war on workplace banter is puritanism posing as progress, argues Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Hollywood’s Sydney Sweeney heralded as proof woke culture is dying” – The uninhibited actress is being held up as evidence that woke prudery is not here to stay, according to the Mail.
- “British MP, Mark Francois: The WHO is attempting to grant Tedros — an ‘unelected’ and ‘unaccountable’ individual — ‘unprecedented levels of power’ to declare public health emergencies on a whim; mandate vaccines, vaccine passports, lockdowns, masks and travel restrictions; and censor dissenting voices, among other things” – Watch on X the MP speak in Parliament against the WHO Pandemic Treaty courtesy of Wide Awake Media.
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WHO Treaty Healthcare Tyranny – 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.
There was no pandemic. Obvious from the very beginning.
But I do honestly believe that those who haven’t figured this out by now cannot be told. Trying to tell them just causes more problems. They have to wake up through some random realisation. God knows how that works.
I agree with you. Many people know things are not as they are told but can’t cope with reality so keep their heads in the sand. The truth is too much for them, perhaps especially if they are older. They behave in an agitated, irrational way unwilling to discuss all the problems we face. They continue to look for someone, anyone, to blame for their discomfort but don’t have the courage to identify the real culprits. I just hope that more younger people will eventually find the courage to wake up and break out of the groupthink pressure before it’s too late. In the meantime we must keep questioning and speaking the truth as much as we can.
Ditto. The numbers of people who just watch their friends and family have heart attacks, get cancer, or any number of other ailments or who drop down dead with a sort of shocked acceptance as if this is perfectly normal and . who show absolutely no curiosity about it, is disturbing. They seem to be in a trance. I guess, maybe, at some deep level, they do know but carry on hoping they are not going to be affected and by not talking about it, making it real in other words, they can make it go away. Of course, they think the pandemic was real too.
…’or who drop down dead with a sort of shocked acceptance’ – I’d say it’s the ones who deal with sudden deaths with shock and total bewilderment every time it happens who are the most disturbing in the self-preserving, hypervigilant cognitive dissonance stakes. I’ve noticed its far more prevalent in the multi-jabbed ‘retired intelligensia’ than the average person, who seems to have twigged exactly what’s going on.
So Greta Thunberg was detained twice. What happened, did a better photo opportunity came up so they let her go the first time to get ‘detained’ again?
Released, then back to her nice hotel for a good dinner after a tiring day protesting.
More drama to make the climate alarmists think they are the opposition, the ones pushing back, and not the mainstream, the wolf in sheep’s clothing, who they really are. The Mail is full of utter tripe and the very well-off Thunberg just plays her part. Not bad for someone who hasn’t done a day’s work in her life and doesn’t know what it is really like to have to make ends meet.
“British MP, Mark Francois: The WHO is attempting to grant Tedros etc
I think we were waving red flags about this a good year ago, maybe longer. The Treaty has been in circulation, discussed in the HoC, and NOW , only now are a few Tory MP’s waking up to the potential threat it poses. But they’d never do it, and if they did, our leaders would push back, its only a treaty and it can be ignored, etc etc. You think.
At least two (Francois, McVeigh) is better than the total lack of interest from the other side of the house…
Our MPs are nothing but traitors, I’m sorry to say. Write to an MP about something that matters and you’ll just get stock answers. Start a petition to be debated in parliament, and you’ll get the same. MPs know they have a cushy number. Not bad pay, expenses paid and no real oversight about their activities and possibly a few nicely paid speaker events and then a board seat somewhere. I know that’s a broad brush stroke to paint them with but you only have to look at things like the WHO, the jabs, Covid, unchecked immigration, Digital ID and CBDC to know that these people do not have our best interests at heart. Where’s the pushback? I am frankly disgusted by them. Where are our champions? Good orators like Galloway are not wholly on our side either and you need good orators. Johnson knew that – he could talk but he was just another cowardly, little sh*t, grifting his way through like so many others. MPs dont seem to understand that simply disagreeing and ending the conversation there is not debating. It is nanny politics. We deserve better. Or maybe we do deserve them as so many of the… Read more »
I agree with your sentiments. They don’t seem to understand that we are in WW3 and courage is needed to confront all the attacks on western democracy. We can but hope that good people will stand up and take on the elites before it’s too late.
I so agree with you about MP’s. We (as a community) have had major problems with lack of investment in infrastructure which has left us at the mercy of flooding, (rain and sewage), caused by houses being built in our rural area, but no builders upgrading any systems, just adding on to existing old systems. Apparently she can’t get involved with planning matters! Whatever problem it is, it seems it’s not hers to deal with. Yet she sends out her newsletters showing her cutting ribbons, visiting the (not too) sick and other non contentious activities. I am waiting to bump into her (she lives close by) and ask her what her plans are after the election!
PS. The parliamentary petitions are a total waste of time, I think they are there to give you the impression that you have a voice. You don’t.
We have an MP who believes her constituency is in Kashmir.
…and now there is increased talk about bringing conscription back in many countries in readiness for war 😡 The ‘UK’ isn’t worth risking a single life for in the created, phoney wars our ‘betters’ manufacture in order to further their own squalid aims. It was captured a long time ago and continues in a downward spiral to hell. The occupants / losers who are living / existing here have no value to TPTB, apart from their continued extraction of monies from us – and as fodder for their ugly wars. We are constantly abused, denigrated, manipulated, coerced, forced to comply – all under the leaky umbrella of democracy in a corrupt state. I now have no national pride – yes, I was probably stupid – in being British and I think many others feel the same. I suspect many living in other countries feel the same about their own country and the tainted democratic values imposed on them by their corrupt leaders. Am I being defeatist? Probably but I know this – I will fight to my last breath to resist and challenge those tyrants intent on harming mine and others kin, especially the children and youths who deserve a… Read more »
Terrific post ellie.
Thank you hp. it’s probably apparent that yesterday – with the tone of my post – that, as my dear old mum would say ‘I had it on me’ 😃
I had read online about some euro tosspot advocating that conscription should be brought back. I was infuriated. It’s not enough that TPTB have done their best – or worst – depending on how one views it, pushing for all our youngsters to be jabbed and incapacitated, they are now planning to use the teens onwards as cannon fodder in their poxy wars.
I am not reassured that the vertically challenged twit in number 10 has said conscription won’t happen. He – and his cesspool Tory party and associates have done nothing but spout falsehoods and dangerous lies. I wouldn’t put it past him to bring it in before he’s ejected from his den of iniquity.
We ought to expect politicians to be unprincipled, dishonourable, and self-serving. They typically are, everywhere and always. The solution involves radical reform reducing the power of politicians over the citizenry and making them more accountable to the citizenry. A constitutional settlement akin to Switzerland’s would be a great improvement.
I seem to remember reading one MP airily dismissing concerns by stating that the UK would always retain sovereignty, and essentially no ‘johnny foreigner’ is going to tell us what to do in our own country, so stop worrying!
(I am worried).
As numerous others have pointed out, the word ‘shall’ appears 164 times in the current version of the Treaty & 168 times in the IHR (up to March 13th). My assumption is that the political class are so used to ignoring the populace, law, ethics and truth simply to serve their own ends, they just can’t see the enormity of what it is they are signing up to. It’ll be up to us to resist and reject.
McVeigh
“Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel, report reveals” – Only one in four British Muslims believe that Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7th, a major report has found, the Telegraph reports.The survey also found that just over half (52 per cent) of British Muslims want to make it illegal to show a picture of the Prophet Mohammed, compared to just 16 per cent of the public.A third of British Muslims (32 per cent) want to see Shariah law implemented in the UK versus nine per cent of the public. I think we can assume that the percentage of non-Muslims who would like to see a law banning showing pictures of the prophet or who would like to see Sharia implemented in the UK is negligible. If we make this assumption we can calculate what percentage of the public are Muslims according to this survey. On the question about the picture of the prophet, Muslims seem to be 16% / 52% = 31% of the public surveyed. On the question of implementing Sharia, Muslims seem to be 9% / 32% = 28% of the public surveyed. The two calculated… Read more »
Do you or anybody else know where this dodgy ‘rule’ of not drawing or showing a picture of their paedo ‘prophet’ originates? And does this apply just to non-Muslims? Because nobody should be complying with that ‘rule’ as far as I’m concerned.
Also, if I were to draw a picture of a man with a beard, wearing a hat and a psycho expression on his face, then I wrote ‘Mohammed’ above it, I’m hardly going to be narrowing down the possibilities of him being identified am I? LOL
Just some insanity from across the pond. Completely and utterly bonkers, but what does this tell you? Can Western women go wear a bikini on the beach in Pakistan and expect to be respected and not hassled, do you think? ”New York City has agreed to pay a whopping settlement after a pair of women claimed their rights were violated when they were forced to remove their hijabs for mugshots. A hijab is not a full-body garment. It covers only the hair and neck. The city said it will fork over the $17.5 million settlement, which still needs approval from Judge Analisa Torres of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the New York Times reported Friday. The case surrounds a 2018 class-action lawsuit involving a pair of Muslim women identified as Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz. “Damages from the settlement, which total just over $13 million once administrative costs and lawyers’ fees are deducted, will be split among the thousands of people who are expected to file eligible claims,” the Times report continued: Ms. Clark, who was arrested on a violation of an order of protection in Manhattan in 2017, said she “wept and begged to put her hijab back on” while standing… Read more »
A novel way of avoiding being fed into the meat grinder that is the Ukraine – Russia conflict; ”Thousands of fighting-age Ukrainian men are exploiting a loophole in the country’s martial law and marrying disabled women to avoid being sent to the frontline — and intermediaries are making big money by facilitating sham marriages. An investigation by Ukrainian outlet NGL Media dug deep into the practice that is becoming increasingly more common across the wartorn country as men continue to find elaborative methods to evade mobilization and flee the country. The platform, which describes itself as an independent anticorruption center, immersed itself in the world of Facebook and Telegram groups where men post marriage proposals, disabled women offer marriage for a price, and intermediaries seek to connect couples for a cut. Fake marriages are not criminally punishable in Ukraine and so the scheme is completely legal, the site explains, although those seeking to facilitate such arrangements for financial benefit are on shaky ground. The social media groups offering such opportunities are not subtle. NGL Media found several groups titled “Fake Marriage,” “Fake Marriage Odesa” and “Dating Kyiv” where adverts are posted regularly. The disability of a potential spouse is an important factor… Read more »
““Almost half of Tory councillors think Government is too Left-wing” – Two thirds of local representatives are dissatisfied with the Conservative party nationally as they fear a “bloodbath” at the May elections”
So these more senior members of the Tory Party have been going to Conferences and raising the issue with MPs, CCHQ and their party leader to say so, have they. I think not. Just as they have not raised objections to planning law changes and confusion, illegal immigrants being put into local hotels and much more that is the proper concern of local councillors.
They have good reason to be anxious. A number of councils which are usually elected by thirds are this time up in full because of boundary changes. I can see a lot of councils changing hands. People who have been loyal for too long to the CP are almost looking for a personal excuse to not vote or to support someone else. The shame is Reform have not yet enough candidates.
If Mark Francois is so concerned hy does he not persuade his fellow Tories to refuse the current treaty amendment and ask why it was ever allowed to get even this far. Any suggestioin along the lones proposed should have been rejected years ago. Unfortunately for him and us, his party is riven with globalist attitudes.
“Euthanasia is too cruel to doctors”
Would these be the same doctors who wrote out all those morphine and midazolam scripts for the elderly during the plandemic (and falsified the death certs), or the ones who pushed mechanical ventilation and remdesivir on covid sufferers while withholding antibiotics and steroids, or the ones still pushing covid jabs on pregnant women and children, or the ones who still champion masking & lockdowns for airborne viruses? Those doctors, you mean?
Spot on!
note: when I wrote spot, it was initially automatically changed to spit! On reflection, that expression and action would suffice, too.
…or the ones completely willing to mutilate kids’ genitalia in the name of ‘kindness’
Is Frank really that stupid that he doesn’t understand the basic concept of hypocrisy? I very much doubt it. More likely he’s one of the many wet men that signal their virtue by calling themselves feminists in the vain hope it might increase their chance of getting laid. You’re apparent lack of understanding of hypocrisy makes you perfect for the freedom loving/pro-‘vaccine’/antivax shaming Spiked. Prat.
Imho, the vast majority of men wearing speedos shouldn’t be (like the vast majority of women doing the weekly shop in skintight onesies) so his point is moot. 😁
Well I wear them and I believe I definitely should be! I’m the only person who does where I go swimming- I missed the memo that said to stop which must have gone round a few years ago. I sort of see what you mean but honestly if you saw some of the blokes at our pool there is no garment appropriate for that setting which would make the sight more attractive
It has only been obliquely referenced on these hallowed pages that just under a thousand UK-based or qualified lawyers, legal academics and former members of the judiciary have signed an open letter reminding the UK government for the second time of its obligations to avert and avoid complicity in serious breaches of International Humanitarian Law in Gaza. “We write in the light of these developments to remind you of your Government’s obligations under international law, which require you to take, amongst others, the following five actions: (1) to work actively and effectively to secure a permanent ceasefire in Gaza; (2) to take all available measures to ensure safe access to and delivery of the essentials of existence and medical assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, including confirmation that UK funding to UNRWA will continue with immediate effect; (3) to impose sanctions upon individuals and entities who have made statements inciting genocide against Palestinians; (4) to suspend the provision of weapons and weapons systems to the Government of Israel; and (5) to suspend the 2030 Road Map for UK-Israel bilateral relations and negotiations towards an enhanced trade agreement and to initiate a review into the suspension of the UK’s bilateral trade agreement with… Read more »
Well reminded, CGW. 👍 I was going to flag it yesterday under the would-I-lie-to-you Bojo piece (UK should become anther pariah state and flout international law because he said so, etc) but didn’t have the energy.
Thank you, WW. Bojo, voted PM at a time when he could have achieved so much (for Brexit, against Corona) to ensure a place in the history books, but failed at every turn. Now he laments the world is even contemplating restricting arms’ sales to Israel. Amazing.