News Round-Up
- “A chilling warning of the dangers of Britain’s ever-more fractured society” – It wasn’t only a bus that went up in flames in the Harehills suburb of Leeds on Thursday night. So did any remaining sense that our society is secure or that the police can be relied on to keep peace, says Brendan O’Neill in the Mail.
- “The police have lost control. Welcome to the era of mob rule” – Public disorder like that seen in Harehills will soon become the norm if justice is not seen to be done, warns Rory Geoghegan in the Telegraph.
- “The dark heart of Starmer’s Labour has been revealed: total surrender to unelected elites” – This King’s Speech saw a doubling down of the trend that began under the Tories – handing power to bureaucrats and quangos, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer to hand teachers and nurses bumper pay rise” – Sir Keir Starmer is poised to hand above-inflation pay rises to teachers and nurses worth £3.5bn, despite warnings that the move may need to be funded by extra taxes or borrowing, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Trump shooting has exposed the scourge of safetyism” – Secret Service agents were more concerned with protecting themselves than the former President, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “How liberal elites turned on Usha Vance” – Back when J.D. Vance was anti-Trump, his lawyer wife Usha was a liberal darling. Not anymore, says Laurel Duggan in UnHerd.
- “Robert Jenrick: ‘I’ve been branded very Right wing, but my views are shared by millions’” – In an interview with the Telegraph, the ex-Immigration Minister gives his plan for the Tories and insists he has nothing bad to say about Suella Braverman.
- “The climate scaremongers: Miliband’s mania will cost us a trillion” – In TCW, Paul Homewood says Ed Miliband must be the most expensive politician this country has ever known.
- “Anti-Israel lawfare has reached a dangerous new low” – The verdict of the ICJ is a staggering misuse of the tools of justices and tears up the framework of the Oslo Accords, says Natasha Hausdorff in the Telegraph.
- “October 7th and the Alt-Media: a critical examination” – In Fathom, John Ware examines the disturbingly widespread denial that Hamas committed atrocities on October 7th.
- “NHS hospital told nurse who tried to support Lucy Letby ‘she shouldn’t give evidence’” – Hospital staff say the hospital advised them against getting involved in the case and coming to Letby’s defence as it could harm their career, according to the Telegraph.
- “No, Ursula von der Leyen’s husband does not work for a company owned by Pfizer” – A fact check sets the record straight on a social media rumour that Orgenesis is owned by Pfizer.
- “Germany halves Ukraine aid amid European war fatigue” – Fiscal reality is setting in in Germany, says Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
- “Immigration: The view from across the Irish Sea” – In TCW, Laura Perrins with a dispatch from her increasingly unrecognisable and unstable homeland.
- “Hyde Park’s Albert Memorial now ‘considered offensive’” – The Royal Parks have claimed the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park is “highly offensive” because it reflects a “Victorian view of the world” in drawing on “racial stereotypes” in its depiction of people from other countries, the Mail reports.
- “Sadiq Khan set to spend over £2.5 million on new TfL diversity programme” – A four-year drive is being launched by the Mayor of London to create a more “inclusive culture” and “address inequalities” across Crossrail, Transport for London and the Department of Transport, the Mail reports.
- “How banning ‘conversion therapy’ threatens our freedoms” – Labour wants to make it a crime to question someone’s sexuality or gender identity, says Jacob Williams in Spiked.
- “Spain proposes tightening rules on media to tackle fake news” – Spain announced measures on Wednesday designed to curb the spread of fake news, an initiative blasted by the country’s conservative opposition as an attempt to censor critical media, reports Reuters.
- “Japan Communications Ministry Experts Issue Disinformation Report, Recommend Social Media Operators Delete Posts, Strengthen Screening” – Operators of major social media should be urged to establish systems to promptly respond to the spread of disinformation by deleting illegal posts and strengthening their screening processes for online advertisements, according to a draft report compiled on Tuesday, reports the Japan News.
- “Rumble CEO Discusses Ad Centre as Free Speech Solution to Pro-Censorship Ad Cartels” – Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski has called out the Global Alliance for Responsible Media as an “advertising cartel”, says Reclaim the Net.
- “Conservative News Outlet Sues German Interior Ministry” – The mainstream media’s apparent tip-off on the Compact raids contrasts with Interior Minister Nancy Faeser’s subsequent refusal to respond to press queries, says the European Conservative.
- “The mRNA jab is the most horrific medical product in history” – Watch Dr. Aseem Malhotra tell Talk’s Alex Phillips that thousands of doctors are calling for the suspension of mRNA jabs through the Hope Accord.
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“Robert Jenrick: ‘I’ve been branded very Right wing, but my views are shared by millions’”
He’s not right wing. He’s certainly not right wing enough. He stood by and let the last government take us on the folly of leftism, and didn’t say a word.
“Hyde Park’s Albert Memorial now ‘considered offensive’”
Can’t these b’stards leave anything alone.? Well, no. No they can’t. Its never ‘enough’, and there’s always one more target for their rank stupidity.
Totally agree
“Considered highly offensive because it reflects a victorian view of the world ”
Derrr, yes it would, it was built in victorian times! That’s what history is, just because it doesn’t suit modern beliefs doesn’t mean it should be vilified
Are they burning ancient native American totem poles?
Ancient Greek or Roman effigies? Both were Colonialist powers!
European works of art? Maybe the Sistine chaple should be raised to the ground? Demolish the coliseum..look what that stood for!
The building of the Easter island statues lead to the extinction of the people of rapa nui, they most be pulled down!
As you say, can’t these bas#@ds just be proud and grateful of the people who came before that gave them their easy modern lives they now enjoy?
“The police have lost control. Welcome to the era of mob rule”
The job of the Police is to uphold the law. But for many people coming here the first thing we do is allow them to break our law by stepping foot on our soil, and then we reward them like a game show winner, with phones, and visa’s and cash. They must think we’re stupid. Well, we are stupid, aren’t we.?
“Starmer to hand teachers and nurses bumper pay rise”
I truly believe that paying public servants over the odds will motivate them to continue to deliver the excellent and efficient services they already provide to us. God Bless them all..!
And it’s all pensionable.
“Sadiq Khan set to spend over £2.5 million on new TfL diversity programme”
I’m tempted to ask how diverse it needs to be, but equality seems a strange thing to try and try and force, unless what he really means is ‘we’re going to tax the do-ers, and give it away to people who don’t deserve it.’. Its probably that…
Looking at TfL staff, to diversify they need to recruit a lot of white people.
“The mRNA jab is the most horrific medical product in history”
I notice the ‘Trump must admit he was wrong…’ at the bottom of the Tweet. I doubt very much that The Don had a great deal of competence in assessing novel medical techniques. But people around him, like Fauci probably did. They promoted mRNA as if it was a cure-all, and many of them got very rich on the back of it. Thinking about it, if there’s one leader who is big enough to admit this mistake instead of burying it for the sake of their careers, its Donald.
I didn’t have a great deal of competence in assessing novel medical techniques either – very, very, few of us did – so I made this judgment: is it a well tested vaccine? No. Actually, is it a vaccine? No. Are the side effects known? Of course not, that’s impossible given the time. How deadly is the virus? Not very. Who’s mainly at any risk? The elderly. It’s there even a pandemic? I can’t see one. Hmmm. Should I take the product then? Absolutely not. Should anyone under 70 be given the product? Absolutely not. Should anyone be given the product? Probably not.
Millions of us went through a thought process that was more rational than Trump. Millions of us kept a cool head when Trump didn’t (and the assumption here is that Trump stands alone in not being onboard with the whole globalist plot – an assumption I don’t take for granted but does appear likely given recent events). Yes, Trump had advisers, but as President of the US he failed the biggest test in modern history. That shouldn’t be quickly dismissed.
I agree. In his first term he failed to drain the swamp or take on the deep state/military-industrial-pharmaceutical-complex. Of course Fauci and the elites understand what they are doing. They think they are doing it for their greater good. They hope they will be immune to the consequences. I just hope that if Trump gets in again he has amassed enough advisors to take them all on and bring them down. It will be very messy as he will have to overturn the rot in academia and the media, persuade the public that modern medicine – and the “convenient” environment we’ve created around ourselves – is killing us as well as tame the corporatists. We need to get back to a society and democracy where the majority of people take interest and responsibility for themselves, and are active in restoring accountability rather than looking to the corrupt state for direction on how to live their lives.
100%. Unfortunately, society is accelerating in the exact opposite direction. It is no coincidence that there has been a huge proliferation in risk assessment that affects all walks of life. Inject ‘risk’ everywhere and everywhere you need people to assess and categorise that risk, and everywhere you make people unnaturally consider risk and become more demanding in having other people remove that risk i.e. you create a set of people with responsibility (ever expanding state) and a set of people with little responsibility (the proles). And this is just one strategy being used to implement a society based on Marxist beliefs. The sad fact of the matter is most people are content with not having to think or have responsibility – that became crystal clear during Covid.
“In his first term he failed to drain the swamp or take on the deep state/military-industrial-pharmaceutical-complex.”
Were you expecting him to do it singlehandedly?
He was new to DC, and he lost his ‘navigator’, Mike Flynn early on, after he was removed by Obama skullduggery. And then he found that the rot was even more than he could imagine. How could you remove it, when the three letter agencies, majority of lawyers and judiciary were corrupt?
Hence Plan B, which hasn’t yet been completed, if persistent rumours are correct.
Yes. The task is enormous and so many hurdles to cross. Perhaps all we can hope for is some sort of cease-fire where he manages to get the globalists to back off for the time-being.
“Trump had advisers, but as President of the US he failed the biggest test in modern history” I personally think that is extremely harsh on Trump. What he did through Operation Warp Speed was to remove the financial barriers that might prevent Covid vaccines being available (key word) earlier than would usually be the case – so, instead of the usual sequential process of development, testing, approval, manufacturing, distribution, he provided funding to enable some of these processes to be run in parallel. That makes good sense to me. Better to have the vaccines available for roll-out than not to have them – it’s always better to have an option than not to have it, IMO. He did not approve the vaccines, nor did he introduce mandates for employees of the public sector or larger companies or companies providing goods or services to the public sector. Healthcare in the USA is within the remit of individual states, so each state could determine its own strategy for roll-out. It is ludicrous to suggest that as President, he should have overruled the regulators that approved the vaccines. So, what did he do wrong? – other than (miscalculatedly) boasting that the vaccines were… Read more »
You make some good points but I think you underestimate the wrongness of enabling activities such as the ones you describe to run in parallel. There’s a good reason why some things need to take longer.
Boasting that the “vaccines” were a success is not a miscalculation- it’s either a lie or a statement made without evidence which is unforgivable on such a serious subject from a person in a leadership position.
Also a Chief Executive bears ultimate responsibility for the actions of agencies under his control, including making sure that mechanisms in place to prevent wrongdoing are adequate. From his public pronouncements I suspect Trump instinctively knew that it was a scam and going along with the “vaccines” was an entirely political decision.
Instinct didn’t wash with the Press, and Trump did promote HCQ, when the medical profession dismissed it.
I’m a doctor, trust me?
Standing up to a hostile press to try and prevent a terrible wrong is part of leadership. He failed that test.
Quite. Saves me posting pretty much the exact same points.
Thanks, TOF. There are good “safety” reasons why things need to be run sequentially, but there are also financial reasons why it usually makes sense to run sequentially. Why undertake phase 3 trials if the products haven’t yet passed phase 2? Why start building manufacturing capability until you are sure the products have passed all the regulatory hurdles? These purely financial reasons can be removed by throwing money at the issue, which is what Warp Speed was all about. I agree that boasting about “the success” of the vaccines is wrong and politically stupid as well. But not nearly as evil as the roll-out to young adults and children or the introduction of vaccine mandates. I also think it is unrealistic to expect a CEO, during an emergency, to override the mechanisms that have been put in place for emergency use authorisations. In any case, he was by that time a lame duck President who had just “lost” the 2020 Election in dubious circumstances. And, furthermore, he wasn’t technically CEO, given that health is within the remit of individual states – so each Governor is technically CEO and is the one who needs to determine whether the regulatory process has… Read more »
The CDC and the FDA both Federal agencies under the control of the President.
You can’t make medicine development safe by throwing money at it unless your money buys you a machine to compress time. You need to do long term safety trials.
It is entirely reasonable for a CEO to question absolutely everything and anything at all times, especially when there’s an “emergency” that is obviously not an emergency, which Trump clearly knew (so did our political leaders and others, as they were partying and shagging). It was obvious that the “vaccines” would be rushed through for political reasons, so every reason to be extra attentive. Trump was weak in this regard and it’s evil to have participated or contributed in any way to the “vaccine” horror.
Hydroxychloroquine, A Drug Trump Promoted To Treat Covid-19, Linked To 17,000 Deaths, Estimates Showhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2024/01/07/trump-promoted-hydroxychloroquine-to-treat-covid-19-a-drug-now-linked-to-17000-deaths
He could hardly stop the medical juggernaut, he was only the president, after all, but he did offer a valid response.
And there is a difference between the vaccine and the logistics for the vaccine.
“He could hardly stop the medical juggernaut, he was only the president,” I believe the CDC is under the ultimate control of the President.
“And there is a difference between the vaccine and the logistics for the vaccine.”
That’s a bit like saying there’s a difference between supplying the rifles and & bullets and pulling the trigger, when the supply of rifles & bullets is expressly for the firing squad.
“The climate scaremongers: Miliband’s mania will cost us a trillion” In this article it describes electric cars as useless and then moves on, if you are looking for some detail to back up this description you may be interested in this video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXj2HB4tggY A road trip from Cornwall to Corby in a Renault Zoe EV. A litany of inadequate charging networks, broken chargers, very high electic charging costs, phone calls to charging companies and poor charging. In one shot there is a picture of the Zoe plugged into a charger with a wind turbine in the background the charger stops charging before the car is full and will not charge anymore, presumably the windmill was not going round fast enough! The presenter has also worked out that the Renault Zoe is costing £18 a day in depreciation. My conclusion from this is that even with a Renault Zoe which is a small supposedly low cost EV, we are being led up the garden path with EVs. My take from this is that as things stand at the moment us hoi-polloi ordinary income folk are not meant to own an EV and we are not meant to go on long road… Read more »
Every component of NET Zero has problems at the very least. Most are wealth destroyers, otherwise it would have been done already, at least in one place, somewhere in the world.
From Windmills on land and at sea, Solar, Heat Pumps, the Hydrogen Economy, EVs, Biofuels, Hyper-insulation of buildings, storing compressed air, very large storage batteries, hydro and tidal power: none can be the national solution. Yes, there are a few niche opportunities, but just because it’s possible doesn’t mean it’s economical, money or energy wise, and it requires skilled operators to always be available.
Yes, it’s an emergency, so we don’t have time for prototypes, or formulating a plan. We just need to find people who can promise the Earth, and give them loads of money.
Germany halves Ukraine aid amid European war fatigue ‘Zum leben zu wenig, zum sterben zu viel’ Der (perfidious) ‘Friedenskanzler’ Scholz is betting that he will not have to pick up the final bill He may be correct. He will be gone, but Germany certainly will have to pick up a big slice of the tab. Garcon! Bezahlen, bitte! Euro 500bn and rising. What’s really going on? The 2023 Ukrainian counter offensive was a shambles: No deception plan; preparations and possibly even plans available to enemy intelligence/surveillance. Air defence/Close Air Support inadequate Concentration of force on main point of effort was inadequate, in particular a shortage of obstacle breaching equipment. Logistical support, resupply, stocks of combat supplies inadequate. Ukraine’s best troops used to fix the enemy, not used in the assault. Inadequate ECM And so on and so forth…….. The offensive was, therefore, a bit like the Dieppe raid of 1942, or Kursk 1943: ‘When all else fails, a total pig-headed unwillingess to look facts in the face will see us through.’ The consequence: ‘We’ve been sitting here since Christmas 1914, during which millions of men have died, and we’ve advanced no further than an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping.’… Read more »
And yet Ukraine is still said to be winning. Just imagine what they could do with the combined might of the West behind them. Just a few more wonder-weapons and the final victory will be theirs.
To, effectively, decide to go to war and not have sufficient military, sufficient equipment, sufficient ammunition, sufficient logistics, even sufficient fuel and steel, takes some doing. It is especially true when there was no direct threat to us and the Minsk Agreements were there for the taking.
It takes a government, full of Law, PPE and History graduates, not to understand the consequences of a breakdown in Law and Politics and the resulting war.
If only we had developed the Military Tank with a ‘Zero Carbon Footprint’, we might have had a chance.
History is studied, so it can be repeated.
Unfortunately, certainly in this country, we are very rarely, if ever, prepared for war.
Duke of Wellington 8 May 1815:
“I have got an infamous army, very weak and I’ll equipped, and a very inexperienced Staff.
In my opinion they are doing nothing in England.
They have not raised a man; they have not called out the militia either in England or Ireland.”
A Russian soldier tells his father: “Our commander was killed, a good commander, he took pity on everyone. Eleven bullet wounds.” When questioned about who was responsible, the soldier replied: “The officers said they shot him, and that was it. No questions. Eleven bullet wounds. He was riddled with holes.” The father, expressing dismay at the situation, responded: “They don’t spare anyone there,” and accused Russian frontline troops of lawlessness. He implored his son: “That’s why I’m telling you not to fight.” This incident comes amid growing reports of discontent within Russian ranks. Soldiers are reportedly ill-equipped, under-trained and being used in ‘meat wave’ assaults as part of Moscow’s relentless offensive in eastern Ukraine. Further intercepted communications reveal a broader pattern of dissatisfaction and resistance among Russian forces. In several conversations, soldiers discuss methods to quit military service and avoid further deployment to the front line, while civilians express concerns about potential conscription. One Russian soldier was overheard claiming that a portion of their battalion had defied orders and was “idle in the forest, not engaged in combat.” In another instance, troops complained about not being granted leave for nearly two years, with one suggesting: “Soon we’ll gather a crowd… Read more »
I think you are referring to Ukrainian soldiers, not Russians. The former are the young and old being dragged into vans by thugs in Ukrainian cities and being sent to the front within a few weeks. Of course, the thugs doing the kidnapping would be best on the front line but they have paid their bribes not to be conscripted. When the poor kidnap victims reach the front lines they are not only insufficiently trained to fight but also suffer from lack of arms and munitions. They are happy and lucky if they can surrender, but have to be aware of possibly being shot from behind by their more patriotic colleagues.
‘Soon we’ll gather a crowd and head towards Russia’ Well, it could be a Ukrainian saying that……. But, more likely, it was Alexey Derevtsov or someone like him Alexey Derevtsov lived in the semi-abandoned village of Kopun, Shelopuginsky district. Kopun is near the border of China and Mongolia. Alexey earned at his job in the village 20,000 rubles a month (USD $200). He was drinking heavily. His wife gave birth regularly and she is saying they didn’t even think about contraception or birth control. There is practically no work in the village. There are no prospects at all. You can move to a town, but the nearest towns are just as abandoned and destitute. In the cities that have a better quality of life, the Derevtsovs couldn’t afford to buy or rent a home. Derevtsov had another 15-25 years ahead of him of exactly the same impoverished, hopeless life. There are tens of millions of people like Derevtsov and his family in Russia. It is these people, and not the regulars of cafes in the center of Moscow, that are representative of the real Russia. This is what you need to understand: the Russians who sign up to kill Ukrainians because of… Read more »
So we move from an anecdote about one person, with no attribution, to millions. I wonder if Munro understands how pathetic this looks.
And all Ukrainians are rich and happy?
How can you support a regime that worships Stepan Bandera, that burnt dozens of peaceful protesters to death in Odessa?
Then you have US senators like Lindsey Graham saying financing the war in Ukraine is “the best money we’ve ever spent” because Russians are dying at no cost to US American lives. Or the US President and the European leaders promising to continue the debacle until the last Ukrainian.
So Ukrainians may die in huge numbers while the cynical leaders sit in their comfortable armchairs.
Is that something we should all support? The democratic desire to join that defunct collection of retired generals, NATO, is worth all this destruction?
I do not think so.
The 2011 riots across multiple cities with multiple deaths seems to have become an inconvenient memory. Much of that seemed to be an excuse for looting and destruction rather than anger at the event that triggered it.
Notice how many Tories who went along with the policies of the past 14 years or promoted them are now claiming to be “right wing”. This is just self branding so their left liberal WEF friends might elect them to the leadership where they can continue as before.
Indeed. Vaguely on this subject was very disappointed to read this from Sir Desmond Swayne who at one point stood virtually alone in critcising lockdowns: Party Leadership (desmondswaynemp.com)
He says the members should be allowed to elect the leader because they produced Corbyn and Truss, rules out Reform because their leader is apparently an apologist for Russia invading Ukraine and “worships at the shrine of Donald Trump”.
I now think I understand a bit more about the mentality of Tories who think they are right wing (or actually are) but want to be seen to be “nice”. As long as this remains the case, we will continue our slide into mediocrity.
Only mediocrity!
I think it is affecting the ability to hold onto Reality. It is like living on ‘Animal Farm’, where the best you can hope for us is a change in ‘management’.
Indeed eventually it will be worse than mediocrity