News Round-Up
- “David Lammy criticised for removing Israeli hostage badge to meet Palestinian PM” – David Lammy has been slammed for removing a yellow pin badge expressing solidarity with Israeli hostages when meeting the Palestinian Prime Minister, reports the Mail.
- “Radical Islamic preacher invited on BBC to discuss riots” – The BBC interviewed a radical Islamic preacher who has been condemned by the Government’s counter-extremism commission and blamed the riots on those with a Zionist “agenda”, says the Telegraph.
- “Jailed for riot comments: justice or creeping censorship?” – Tough sentences have been handed out to those who fanned the flames of disorder online but did not take part. Where will it lead? wonders Will Lloyd in the Times.
- “Prominent legal commentator leaves chambers” – A prominent barrister and Spectator columnist, who came under criticism for social media posts about the Southport knife attack, has retired from his chambers, according to the Law Society Gazette.
- “Police will pay ‘zombie knife’ owners to surrender their weapons” – Police are offering zombie knife owners cash to hand over the menacing blades before they are officially banned in the U.K., reports the Mail.
- “Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism” – Extreme misogyny will be treated as terrorism for the first time under Government plans to combat the radicalisation of young men online, says the Telegraph. Under new plans, boys expressing admiration for Andrew Tate will be referred to Prevent.
- “‘I came here to escape radical Islam’: the asylum seekers who understand the rioters’ fears” – In the Spectator, Charlotte Eagar speaks to an Iranian refugee who has some sympathy with the rioters.
- “Men are arrested for wearing shorts by Iran’s feared morality police” – Disturbing footage has emerged of men being arrested for wearing shorts by Iran’s morality police, as the country debates a new bill around “improper clothing” for males, reports the Mail.
- “Army chaplain stabbed outside barracks as gardaí probe terror link” – Gardaí are trying to establish if there was a terror link to an attack on an army chaplain who was stabbed outside a barracks in Co Galway, reports Irish Independent.
- “Train drivers’ pay has grown twice as much as wages for teachers, doctors and soldiers” – New analysis shows that train drivers’ pay will have increased by twice as much as that of teachers, doctors and soldiers over the past decade if their pay deal is accepted, says the Telegraph.
- “France’s pension system is crumbling – and Britain’s will be next” – Burdened with a ballooning pension bill, Starmer may be forced to follow in Macron’s footsteps and raise the U.K. retirement age, writes Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
- “‘Conservatives must have core principles around which we can unite – here are my 10 propositions’” – In the Telegraph, Robert Jenrick outlines 10 principles that should define the Tories’ common creed.
- “Why should my mixed-race children have to pick a side?” – Our children deserve a country where the colour of their skin is no more relevant than the colour of their hair or eyes, says Kemi Badenoch in the Mail.
- “Bridget Phillipson accused of censoring Facebook comments critical of private school tax raid” – Parents and teachers claim that the Education Secretary’s Facebook profile routinely removes statements questioning Labour’s controversial private school tax raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour is taking us back to the 70s – with an added dollop of wokery” – The Government’s list of failures gets longer every day and they are not just economic, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer turns down HarperCollins book deal” – Keir Starmer’s register of interests shows he no longer intends to write a book which was set to be published by HarperCollins, according to the Telegraph.
- “How much Nigel Farage earned a month from GB News” – Nigel Farage is thought to be Britain’s highest-paid MP after his register of interests revealed he makes almost £1.2 million a year from appearing on GB News, reports the Mail.
- “Forget Farage’s salary – follow the (green) money” – It’s definitely interesting how much Farage is paid, but what about Ed Miliband getting a £99,000 donation from the Green Finance Institute? asks Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
- “‘Foreign funding of U.S. higher education predicts campus erosion of democratic speech norms and antisemitism’” – New analysis by the Network Contagion Research Institute links foreign funding of U.S. higher education to a rise in antisemitism and the erosion of free speech on campus.
- “The global fertility crisis is worse than you think” – If you’re 55 or younger, you’re likely to witness something humans haven’t seen for 60,000 years, including during wars or pandemics: a sustained decrease in the world population, writes Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde in the Spectator.
- “The week in numbers” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson take a numerical look back at the week’s top health-related stories.
- “The credibility of the Paralympics is already in jeopardy” – Now, biological males are competing against women in the special Olympics, says Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Prince Harry should apologise for slavery, Colombian townsfolk say” – Prince Harry should apologise for his family’s role in the slave trade, residents of South America’s first “free town” have said, according to the Telegraph.
- “When will bishops be held to account?” – If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England, says Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall in the Critic.
- “Why can’t the Church say ‘church’?” – Justin Welby is an ecclesiastical embarrassment, writes Giles Fraser in UnHerd.
- “Tried for a tweet” – In Public Discourse, Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen shares what she has learned during the five years that the Finnish state prosecuted her for her faith.
- “Ralf Schumacher’s ex-wife breaks her silence after he came out as gay” – Cora Schumacher, ex-wife of former Formula 1 star Ralf, claims she “feels used” after he came out as gay in July, according to the Mail.
- “Notes on weirdness” – “Weird” is currently the American liberal Left’s adjective of choice to describe Republicans, remarks Ben Sixsmith on his Zone Substack.
- “X draws the line in Brazil, shuts down local operations amid censorship clash” – X has immediately ceased operations in Brazil after a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice threatened its legal team, following secret orders to comply with censorship directives, according to Dan Frieth in Reclaim The Net.
- “‘Justin Welby should quit!’” – It seems as if the leadership of the Church of England are doing their absolute upmost to change the Church into something other than a church, says Emma Webb on GB News.
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“Police are offering zombie knife owners cash”
Pray tell – what is a zombie knife and how can I make a few of them?
Seriously, precisely which sort of blithering idiot comes up with this idea?
…before they are officially banned in the U.K. https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives How much more banned do they need to be? The maximum penalty for an adult carrying a knife or weapon illegally is either 4 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both. You’ll get a prison sentence if you’re convicted of carrying a knife or weapon illegally more than once.Basic laws on knives and weaponsIt’s illegal to use any knife or weapon in a threatening way.It’s also illegal to:carry most knives or any weapons in public without a ‘good reason’sell most knives or any weapons to anyone under the age of 18The exception to these 2 rules are folding pocketknives that:have a cutting edge no longer than 3 inchesare not lock knives (they do not have a button, spring or catch that you have to use to fold the knife)Good reasons for carrying a knife or weapon in publicIf the knife or weapon is not banned, some examples of ‘good reasons’ include using it:for your workfor religious reasons, such as the kirpan some Sikhs carryas part of any national costumeA court will decide if you’ve got a good reason to carry a knife or a weapon if you’re charged with carrying… Read more »
These are zombie knives, not real knives as such because they ain’t sharp but, look offensive!
Meanwhile the self respecting terrorist will be packing a very real machete that can purchased from a garden centre!
https://tass.com/world/1830461 ‘We need to decompress this conflict as quickly as possible, and we need to get back to negotiations with Russia, Ukraine and other players. What Russia essentially wanted was neutrality from Ukraine. That is absolutely simple’ Jill Stein, a 74-year-old physician and an environmental activist, was officially nominated as the Green Party’s presidential candidate for the upcoming election during a party convention on Saturday. Her running mate is Professor Butch Ware.’ What’s really going on? So there you have it. If you think that negotiations are going to solve anything, then you are part of the ‘Green Blob’, the problem, not the solution. Russia is not interested in good-faith negotiations with Ukraine to end the war. Putin and the Kremlin have notably intensified their expansionist rhetoric about Ukraine since December 2023 and have increasingly indicated that Russia intends to conquer more territory in Ukraine and is committed to destroying Ukrainian statehood and identity. Russia has been preparing for a possible conventional war with NATO in the future, and the Kremlin likely views anything short of Ukrainian capitulation as an unacceptable threat to Russia’s ability to fight such a war. Putin outlined uncompromising demands on June 14 for Ukrainian capitulation… Read more »
The response to the ‘Lesson 0’ series has been overwhelming so I am happy to accede to the supplications of its fast growing legion of fans. Conventional Deterrence for Dummies: Lesson 0 A document written in 1977 shows us, in stark clarity, how badly we have been led since 1991. ‘A stable nuclear balance makes imperative a stable conventional balance in Europe. Without that stability there can be no political or military counter to expanding (Russian) influence in the Near East, South Asia, Africa, or in the great ocean basins upon which an interdependent world relies. Not the least of these ocean areas are the North Atlantic and North Pacific-vital to North Americans.’ ‘It is in the context of the objective of preventing and controlling war that the subject of land forces must be addressed. (‘There is one air-land battle, one thing, one operation.’ <A subject to be addressed on another day>) If the “what” of modem strategy includes preventing the outbreak of conflict, the psychological effect of military force during periods of nonactive conflict becomes all-important. An Atlantic community paralyzed by its military inferiority in Europe could only wring its hands as (Russian) power and influence moved unimpeded into… Read more »
Do you really think the perpetrators of military conflicts of today have anything to learn from the 1970s?
Russian ‘preparations for a conventional war’ with NATO couldn’t have gone well, given the evidence of their performance so far. Their army isn’t going to be in Paris for Christmas. Berlin looks unlikely.
The limitations revealed in the re-supplying of and recruiting for both armies have become obvious. There will be no war of industrial production as between 1941 and 1945. Huge minefields laid by both sides have frozen the fighting. Drones are the 21st century Gothas.
Neither side can replicate the outcome of the original Kursk battle. If anything, this ‘incursion’ – by three brigades, not an army corps – demonstrates Russia’s weakness to, well, incursion, not NATO’s.
In any case, how would a ‘conventional war’ between Russia and NATO end? By negotiation?
Deterrence is about preventing war.
It is the psychological effect of credible Land Forces that achieve the desired effect of deterrence.
We may well perceive that Russian air/land forces are poorly equipped and badly led. But ‘quantity has a quality all of its own’ as Britain, America and everyone else discovered when the Chinese army attacked in Korea.
Meanwhile furrowed brows in the Kremlin become unfurrowed, their owners emboldened as numpty western politicians make much play of ‘The Peace Dividend’. The Kremlin’s perception remains the same: ‘how many divisions does the Pope have?’
There is no longer, arguably, even one single formed armoured division in Western Europe.
That is why Russia believes it can engage in population driven imperialist expansionism with impunity.
Unsurprisingly, those closest to Russia display the greatest enthusiasm for conventional deterrence.
Poland will shortly be able to field 1500 modern main battle tanks. Finland can put an army of half a million in the field very quickly.
We should be doing our bit. We are not. And, without us, the U.S. is, understandably, increasingly reluctant to participate.
We know how a conventional war between Russia and Western Europe ends: a new iron curtain.
I looked across the old one into East Germany and what I saw was extremely unpleasant. The many, often fatal, attempts to escape westwards indicate that an existence there was extremely unpleasant.
That is why NATO has expanded.
Nothing to do with ‘aggression’, everything to do with nation states exercising their rights, guaranteed by OSCE Treaty, to determine their own foreign affairs/international agreements. And they all, unsurprisingly, wish to deter Russia by joining NATO.
Russia also made the same OSCE commitment, of which it is now in flagrant breach. That is another reason why negotiations/agreements with Russia cannot be relied upon.
From an EU briefing on the OSCE
The Helsinki Final Act was signed with the goal of advancing a “true and lasting peace” in the region. The signatories agreed to foundational guiding principles such as respect for sovereignty, political independence, and territorial integrity of states. It also included respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and fulfilment of obligations under international law. Russia has itself endorsed OSCE Summit and Ministerial decisions reaffirming those same principles. But in its war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has demonstrated utter disregard for every Helsinki Final Act principle. ‘Determined, in consequence, to give full effect to the results of the Conference and to assure, among their States and throughout Europe, the benefits deriving from those results and thus to broaden, deepen and make continuing and lasting the process of détente, The High Representatives of the participating States have solemnly adopted the following: The participating States will respect each other’s sovereign equality and individuality as well as all the rights inherent in and encompassed by its sovereignty, including in particular the right of every State to juridical equality, to territorial integrity and to freedom and political independence. They will also respect each other’s right freely to choose and develop its political, social, economic and… Read more »
And your point is?
The world has changed massively since 1975. Perhaps you can tell us whether anything the Soviet Union signed is still valid for Russia.
Clearly, the study of history is, in part, an exercise in avoiding the mistakes of the recent past. The Helsinki Conference (1 August 1975) established the respect of borders in Europe in ‘The Helsinki Final Act’ around which the OSCE, of which Russia is a member, was established. https://www.oscepa.org/en/members/member-countries/russian-federation The OSCE Charter confirms the principles of ‘The Helsinki Final Act’ Justifying the invasion of Ukraine by claiming a feeling of insecurity is an attempt to dissimulate a conscious and complete violation since 2014 of all the provisions of the text of ‘The Helsinki Final Act’, which reaffirmed the international borders that had resulted from the conclusion of the Second World War. Russia joined the Council of Europe on February 28, 1996. At the time of the illegal annexation of Crimea the Assembly reiterated that this act constituted a serious violation of international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, the Helsinki Final Act of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as the Statute of the Council of Europe and the commitments undertaken by Russia upon accession to this Organization. By now, the entire world knows exactly what Putin is up to. After all, for decades,… Read more »
I do not wish to be impertinent but are you being paid to pump out a mass of anti-Russian propaganda on a daily basis? If not, what is driving your compulsion? The only Ukrainian I know (whose family left the country when he was a child) says he does not understand why Ukraine could not remain neutral, i.e. not join NATO, and thereby avoid any Russian aggression. You have previously accepted that Ukraine will not be allowed (by NATO) to join NATO, and Putin has no objection to Ukraine joining the EU, so what exactly is Ukraine fighting for? To retrieve their lost territories, perhaps? Well they should not have shelled those territories daily since 2014 then, or do you disagree with that? If they had not murdered 16,000 of their own citizens in those territories then perhaps those territories would have voted to remain part of Ukraine in the recent referendums, who knows? Why are you quoting texts from 1977, written during the Cold War era and hardly relevant to today? You refer to an “Atlantic army”: is that supposed to be NATO? What exactly is the point of any country joining NATO which, freely admitted by US officers,… Read more »
Excellent post.
Good points, but you’re trying to reason with AI fella. You’ll find most of the bots last post here https://osce.usmission.gov/the-russian-federations-ongoing-aggression-against-ukraine-77/ and here https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/russias-violation-of-osce-principles-undermines-comprehensive-security-in-europe-uk-statement-to-the-osce
Agreed. Why do we have to put up with a robot spewing out endless propaganda on only one subject, all day every day, covering the comments pages and wasting everybody’s time?
Moderator, anyone???
It’s literally a copy and paste machine. All anyone needs to do is copy fragments of the bots posts into Google and you’ll get, word for word, the source. And I mean word for word – the bots algorithm doesn’t even mix it up a bit. Anyone expending their energy replying may as well use that time to write love letters to a kettle instead.
Wow— nice bit of sleuthing you’ve done! And it will help everybody to stop wasting time and energy on writing letters to a kettle, as you so aptly put it. Thanks for that!
Got it, thank you. Have a good evening!
I write on here to inform the uninformed. For example, you ask why members of NATO need their own armed forces. Ignorance of this degree is surprising. Ignorance but still the confidence to comment on such matters is, frankly, a great deal worse than surprising. NATO has no armed forces of its own, only those of its members. It is a defensive alliance of member states, not a military establishment in its own right. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9426/#:~:text=Does%20NATO%20have%20its%20own,AWACS%20early%20warning%20radar%20aircraft How many countries have Russia and China attacked? Korea, Tibet, India, Taiwan, Vietnam, Burma, Malaysia, The Philippines, Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine (twice)………… INF Treaty? Russia deployed an operational unit of the treaty-noncompliant cruise missile now known as the SSC-8. On March 8, 2017, General Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that “violates the spirit and intent” of the INF Treaty. The United States revealed both the U.S. name for the missile of concern, the SSC-8, and the apparent Russian designation, the 9M729. After repeatedly denying the existence of the 9M729 cruise missile, Russia has since acknowledged the missile. Russia cheated by conducting legally allowable tests of the 9M729, such as testing the missile at over 500 km from a fixed launcher (allowed… Read more »
How many countries have Russia and China attacked? Korea, Tibet, India, Taiwan, Vietnam, Burma, Malaysia, The Philippines, Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine (twice)………… Please forgive my ignorance and elaborate. Are we talking about WWII? Twenty years ago, Noam Chomsky listed the crimes of each US president since Eisenhower, as presented in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc. I have transcribed the video below. It is fascinating reading (in my opinion). Eisenhower: Overthrew the conservative nationalist government of Iran with a military coup. Led to 25 years of brutal dictatorship, finally overthrown in 1979. Overthrew the first, and last, democratic government in Guatemala by military coup and invasion, which led to massive atrocities which are still continuing – that is after almost 50 years. In Indonesia he conducted the major clandestine terror operation of the post-war period up until Cuba and Nicaragua, in an effort to break up Indonesia, strip off the outer islands where most of the resources are, and undermine what was then considered as the threat of Indonesian democracy. Indonesia was too free and open, it was allowing a political party of the poor to participate: they were gaining a lot of ground, so Eisenhower supported and helped instigate a military rebellion in the outer… Read more »
Contd.: Reagan: Reagan was the first president to have been condemned by the International Court of Justice for what they called the unlawful use of force, meaning international terrorism, in the war against Nicaragua. The Security Council endorsed it in two resolutions, both of which were vetoed by the United States. Bush: We can begin with the invasion of Panama, which according to the Panamanians killed about 3,000 people. Since it was never investigated, we do not know if that is true or not. This was done in order to kidnap a disobedient thug who had been supported by the United States right through his worst atrocities – Noriega. Noriega, who was brought to Florida and tried for crimes that he had committed mostly on the CIA payroll. You could go into the details of the war in Irak but there were plainly opportunities – they might not have worked but there were opportunities – for diplomatic settlement which the Bush administration refused to consider and, incidentally, the press would not report, with a single exception: Long Island Newsday, which did report the whole story throughout accurately, and is the only newspaper in the country to have done so. The Bush administration then did attack… Read more »
Post WW2 Russian and Chinese foreign interventions Stalin: China, Finland, Poland, East Germany. Malenkov: Korea Kruschev: Hungary, Poland, Albania, Brezhnev: Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, China, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Congo, Indonesia, Yemen, Afghanistan Gorbachev: Georgia, South Ossetia Yeltsin: Abkhazia, Transnistria, Tajikistan, Chechnya Putin: Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine (twice), Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso Mao Zedong: Tibet, Korea, India, Vietnam, Malaysia Liu Shaoqi: Laos, Vietnam Lia Xiannian: India Hu Jintao: Mali Xi Jinping: India, Burma, Malaysia, The Philippines, Indonesia. We know what both Russia and China are up to because they have told us: ‘And, if you believe the forecasts and the estimates are based on actual work, the real work of people who understand this, who have devoted their whole lives to this, in 15 years, there may be 22 million fewer Russians. I ask you to think about this figure: a seventh of the country’s population. If the current trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy’ Putin 2000 For decades, Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia is on the path to extinction. His war has killed untold numbers of people — but it’s also an attempt to force millions of people into Russian citizenship. China’s 2019 Defence White Paper shows… Read more »
Britain’s interventions overseas since WW2 are a bit of a mixed bag, particularly regarding Egypt, Cyprus, Kenya, Aden, Iraq, Libya.
Nevertheless, interventions in Korea, Malaysia, Borneo, Kuwait, Oman, Zimbabwe, The Falklands, Sierra Leone, have been generally welcome.
I really must stop but every entry you make is full of challenges. If Putin maintains that Russians are dying out then he is correct: fertility rates have halved world-wide compared to 60 years ago. See: https://expose-news.com/2024/08/16/fertility-rates-in-western-countries-are-below-replacement/. Russia’s reaction to the problem is to financially assist couples wishing to have children, as opposed to the West’s policy of inviting unlimited numbers of immigrants. In May, Putin signed an Executive Order on Russia’s development goals through 2030 and for the future until 2036, with the following content: In order to ensure sustainable economic and social development of the Russian Federation, strengthen its state, culture and values, and economic sovereignty, increase Russia’s population and raise the people’s living standards while relying on traditional national spiritual and moral values and the principles of patriotism, human priority, social justice and equal opportunities, ensure state security and public safety, openness to the outside world, economic development based on fair competition, entrepreneurship and private initiative, high efficiency and technological effectiveness, the President set forth the following national development goals of the Russian Federation through 2030 and for the future until 2036: – preservation of the population, strengthening health and improving the wellbeing of people, supporting families; – self-fulfilment of each person, unlocking their talents, and educating a patriotic and socially responsible person; – comfortable and safe living environment; – ecological well-being; – stable and dynamic economy; – technological leadership; – digital transformation of state and municipal administration, the economy, and social sphere. I… Read more »
Of course Putin is trying to encourage an increase in the birth rate within Russia……but, unsurprisingly, given the state of the country, the misery of incompetent bureaucratic totalitarianism, it isn’t working. Russia’s population declined by one million in 2021.
So, instead, through invasion, the Kremlin accumulates cheap labour power, appropriating Ukrainian state investment in the birth, care, and education of its former citizens; their reproductive labor; and even their personal relations that allow them to survive in Russia without state support. This — together with the appropriation of companies and the devastation of territories now to be redeveloped — is a typical process of imperialist accumulation by dispossession.
There were an estimated 1.34 million excess deaths in Russia during the so-called pandemic, which had nothing to do with the global drop in fertility. Plus Russia is at war. There is more than one reason for recent demographic changes (world-wide).
Cheap labour power through invasion? What labour power? The poor Ukrainians are dying in their thousands or have fled to Europe. Imperialist accumulation by dispossession – what nonsense.
Here are your Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region, wearing WWII Waffen SS helmets, taunting a poor Russian passer-by, calling him “Ivan” and making him agree he is a “Swine” in German. He is only hoping he will not be machine-gunned. Charming people, the Ukrainians.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-81424-zelensky-doubles-down?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-cf2a4f10-ba34-495a-8b59-8e2abaa987b4
Russia is at war because Putin wished for war.
There was no pandemic, ‘excess deaths’, just a bad ‘influenza like illness’ season.
Putin has talked about a declining population as an existential threat to Russia for decades. Read his speeches.
But, like do many totalitarian dictators before him, he has just made things worse; millions dead or fled.
If you can’t see that, then you clearly can’t see much of anything at all.
Yes – and I see another Maidan Coup has just occurred in Bangladesh, with renta-mob ousting a democratically elected government, and just happening to install a chronically US-tamed PM – enabling NATO to control the Bay of Bengal.
How many US backed coups have occurred even since the start of the Ukraine War? Pakistan, Somalia, Bangladesh… too many to remember. The defence of democracy is the strongest anti-democratic force in the world today.
It seems very popular in Moscow.
In a message addressed to Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain, the Russian Foreign Minister said he was glad to learn about Hossain’s appointment to the post of the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
“The Russia-Bangladesh relations are based on the solid foundation of friendship, traditionally binding the peoples of our countries,”
Russian Minister Lavrov.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Press release on the situation in Bangladesh.
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On August 5, Bangladeshi media reported the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet, which was preceded by mass protest rallies whose participants demanded to bring to justice the officials responsible for deadly anti-government student protests in July.
The situation in the country is controlled by the Bangladeshi Army. A transitional government is expected to be formed soon.
According to our Embassy in Dhaka, no injuries of Russian citizens were reported.
Moscow operates on the premise that changes in the Bangladeshi government constitute an internal affair of that country. However, we look forward to the internal political processes in that friendly country returning to the constitutional norms as soon as possible.
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Andy Warhol is quoted as saying this in 1968, long before any concept of the internet and social media. In those days if you had an opinion you had a rant down the pub, you wrote to the local paper or maybe you got on a soap-box at Hyde Park Corner. This caused me to reflect how the internet and social media has in some strange way bought Andy Warhol’s prophecy to be true, although as we are seeing at the moment for some people it is proving to be more 15 minutes of infamy. “Jailed for riot comments: justice or creeping censorship?” Back in the days of my youth none of these people being jailed for facebook posts would have come to the attention of TPTB. They would have had the same opinions and would have expressed them to anyone prepared to listen but rarely would those opinions have go them into any trouble. From my work days I know that different people vary greatly in their ability to express themselves well by the written word. When email started people were having to be advised that you should not… Read more »
I couldn’t help noticing the BBC’s almost obsessive interest in Nigel Farage’s earnings. They kept going on about it on R4 and it was a prominent news item on the evening news too.
What’s the problem? He presents a program, he gets paid.
Besides, this coming from an organization that pays millions to Gary Lineker for nattering about football and paid Hew Edwards 400k after he was taken off air.
It’s the drip, drip, drip effect of a type of Chinese whisper. I expect they hope that if they keep on mentioning it, it will work it’s way almost into the subconscious of their listeners, causing them to form the thought that there is something ‘shady’ about Nigel Farage. I would have thought by now though that they are preaching to the converted though. most right minded people long ago gave up listening to or watching their drivel. I detest the BBC.
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I wonder what will happen to Simon Goddek now X ceases to function in Brazil?
I am sure he will be fine as he is resilient, but Brazil does not appear to be heading towards a free society.
Brazilian Patriot Jair Bolsonaro is the True Leader of Brazil.
Guess you don’t know about virtual private networks then?
The most chilling, Orwellian, news item is this:
So if boys express an interest in masculine stereotypes then they will be reported to an agency that will ‘fix’ the wrong-think. It’s important for the state to keep society feminised; by doing so they can continue unabated with their bloodless coup. We’ve made it ridiculously easy for them.
“‘Justin Welby should quit!’”
Yes, Emma Webb is right, but let us point out that ANYONE can criticise, insult or “mock” Christianity without being IMPRISONED.
And yet two Englishmen have just been IMPRISONED for 8 months each for “MOCKING ISLAM”.
The Globalists are sneaking Sharia Law into English Law on the back of alien “hate” laws, claiming that mocking Islam is “racist” or a “hate crime”. No one ever claims that about Christianity.
ISLAM IS NOT A RACE. Mocking Islam or any other religion is not a hate crime. Hate crime does not exist in the West. It is an alien concept being forced upon western democracies by alien cultures opposed to Freedom of Speech.
These two Englishmen, Phil Hoban and James Gettings, should be immediately released from prison, all charges dropped, and their FAKE CONVICTIONS OVERTURNED.
UK Man Jailed After Mocking Muslims at Non-Violent Anti-Migration Protest (breitbart.com)
Welby is a place man ! Just like Khant he’s there to help destroy England & the uk as a whole !
Welby is certainly working for Satan.
“Tried for a tweet”
Well done to the Daily Sceptic for also featuring Freedom of Speech problems in other countries, such as Christians in Finland.
Here’s one from Australia:
I refused to do a Welcome to Country at my Christian conferences. Now I’m being taken to the Human Rights Commission | Daily Mail Online
“Civil servants lashed out at Queensland’s Department of Justice and Attorney-General office the following month, after staff were told to remove their shoes and wiggle their toes.”
“Mr Pickering said a majority of Aussies would be confronted by having someone regularly ‘welcome them’ to the land their families have lived on for 100 years.”
No. This is weird:
🎜 I can feel it coming in the air tonight 🎜
It’s the Ginger Growler he’s got a whiff of !
My Lad just put the kick off of Man City v Chelsea on Sky ! They Kneeled !!!! What The Living F-CK is going on , I thought that was history ?? What have I missed , 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Oh no! How awful— I thought all that nauseating, shameful grovelling was over. They might as well lick the boots of all the Ethnic African players, while they’re at it.
The fans should turn their backs on the whole grotesque spectacle, and vote with their feet, refusing to attend any more matches until the grovelling is banned.
RadioGenoa on X: “Lion among sheep. https://t.co/JPHySaHelQ” / X
RadioGenoa on X: “”Get up you old Swedish woman, I must sit down now!” How much longer do we have to endure this? https://t.co/SvD9q53THh” / X