News Round-Up
- “Prisoners to be freed after serving a fifth of their sentence” – Prisoners are to be freed after serving as little as 20% of their sentences under the Government’s early release scheme, reports the Telegraph.
- “Releasing prisoners early is a ‘roll of the dice’, warns probation head” – The Chief Inspector of Probation warns that ministers are “rolling the dice” by releasing thousands of prisoners in an effort to tackle the overcrowding crisis, says the Times.
- “Man assaulted three Asian women he berated for their appearance” – A man was sentenced to six months, suspended for two years, after berating three women as “prostitutes” for not wearing traditional Asian dress and for putting on make-up, and then violently attacking them, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tommy Robinson facing jail after repeating claims about Syrian refugee” – Tommy Robinson could face jail after being issued with a new contempt of court claim against him following the airing of a film at a protest in Central London, according to Bolton News.
- “Yvette Cooper faces legal battle over restoring hate crime measures” – Labour has been warned that it will face a legal battle over plans to restore the requirement for police officers to record non-criminal hate incidents, reports the Times.
- “The Times view on recording hate offences: surveillance state” – Placing people on police databases for unverified hate offences is an abuse of power, says the Times in a leading article.
- “Church of England stops Grade II-listed church being converted into mosque” – The Church of England has intervened to stop a disused Grade II-listed church from being turned into a mosque, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer leaves door open to EU-wide youth-movement scheme” – Keir Starmer has left the door open to a freedom of movement-style deal for young Europeans during a Euro love-bombing mission in Berlin, reports the Sun.
- “Wealth tax looms amid pressure from Labour’s union paymasters” – Rachel Reeves has opened the door to a wealth tax ahead of her maiden Budget, says the Telegraph.
- “Fuel duty could be next tax grab for Labour” – Keir Starmer suggests that anti-motorist measures are on the table for the Budget, despite his pledge not to penalise working people, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer plots outdoor smoking ban” – Nightclub smoking areas, restaurant terraces and even shisha bars could all be axed in shock new plans by Starmer’s Labour Government, says the Mail.
- “Pollsters overestimated Labour’s support by largest margin in 50 years” – The final opinion polls ahead of the General Election overestimated Labour’s vote share by 4.2 percentage points, and underestimated the Conservatives’ vote share by 2.9 percentage points, reveals the Telegraph.
- “France charges Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, releases him on €5M bail” – French authorities on Wednesday indicted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with six charges related to illicit activity on Telegram, according to Politico.
- “Free speech is dying online” – Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that his social media platforms were pressured to censor public discussion should worry us all, writes Silkie Carlo in the Telegraph.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part one” – In part one of a three-part series for TCW about Hope Not Hate, Karen Harradine slams the charity for replacing its fight against extremism with a campaign that labels mainstream views as “radical Right”.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part two” – In the second instalment of her three-part exposé for TCW, Karen Harradine reveals how Hope Not Hate not only distracts from genuine extremism but also brands any serious investigation into it as “phobic”.
- “Britain’s campus free speech crisis is not a Chinese plot” – Is it true that British universities are in hock to the Chinese Communist Party? The answer is yes and no, says Austin Williams in UnHerd.
- “Private schools VAT raid will fail to bring any benefits, Labour peer warns” –A Labour peer has warned Keir Starmer that the Government’s VAT raid on private schools will hit middle- and low-income families hardest and deliver no extra funds for the state sector, according to the Telegraph.
- “Governing based on misleading stereotypes? Who’d have thought it!” – Hardly any independent schools fit the “Eton/Harrow” stereotype, and hardly any parents are millionaires, notes Mr. Chips on his Substack.
- “No wonder children can’t behave. Adults won’t discipline them” – From indulgent parents to slack teachers, young people are growing up without any authority figures, warns Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Gold is soaring on fears of the economic catastrophe Kamala Harris is about to unleash” – A continuation of unchecked spending threatens to put the global monetary system on a path to ruin, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Why our political establishment has become so childish and naive, and so deranged by the phantom ‘extreme Right’” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses the ascendancy of the Left, the cultural dominance of the 1968 generation and the growing prominence of head girl-types in the systems that rule us.
- “Climate campaigner appointed National Portrait Gallery director” – The National Portrait Gallery has appointed an eco-campaigner as its new director, according to the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is becoming a threat to our basic security” – Turning off street lamps to cut emissions is insane. But with Ed Miliband as Energy Secretary, we can expect many more such measures, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The simplest way to show the Covid shots increase ACM” – Vaccines are designed to cut overall deaths, but Covid shots fall short. Steve Kirsch lays out what he thinks is the clearest evidence yet on his Substack.
- “Colleagues who asked black worker about her hair were not being racist” – A black sales worker who sued for discrimination after her co-workers asked about her hair has been told by an employment tribunal panel that they were not being racist and only showing a “genuine interest” in her, reports the Mail.
- “Taxpayers pay millions to ‘eradicate’ racism in Wales – while NHS waiting lists soar” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty kicks off a new weekly series that reveals the shocking ways taxpayers’ money is misused. This week, the spotlight is on Wales.
- “The dystopian stupidity of woke” – Lionel Shriver’s new book Mania is a stunning satire of progressive intolerance, says Neil McCarthy in Spiked.
- “Musk has put me off Twitter, says Lineker” – Gary Lineker says that Elon Musk taking over Twitter has put him off using the platform, according to the Telegraph. His BBC managers must be relieved.
- “Ukraine to send troops to Britain to help overthrow communist dictator” – The satirical site the Upper Lip reports that Ukrainian President Zelensky has vowed to deploy troops to Britain to “liberate” the nation from its “communist dictator”.
- “Wetherspoons founder hits back at Ryanair demand for drink limit” – Sir Tim Martin says that calls from Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary to restrict alcohol sales in airport bars to two drinks per person are unnecessary, according to LBC.
- “‘Why I have endorsed President Trump’” – We must resist Marxist-Socialism, neo-Malthusianism and transhumanism with everything we have for the sake of our families, culture, children and humanity, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “‘When people read the history of Nazi Germany, they always think they’d be Schindler’” – People like to see themselves as heroes in history, says Jordan Peterson on X. But the pandemic revealed how quickly they turn to moralising and snitching to boost their own sense of superiority.
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Ukraine to send troops to Britain to help overthrow communist dictator
‘We’ve seen this before,” Zelensky warned. “First, they make you put your pronouns in your email signature. Next thing you know, you’re on a collective farm, waiting in line for your turn at the communal Wi-Fi.’
‘Reports suggest that Ukrainian forces are already preparing for the operation, which has been dubbed “Operation Red Dawn 2: Electric Boogaloo.” British citizens have been advised to brace for a wave of freedom, brought to them in the form of Eastern European soldiers who’ve had quite enough of authoritarianism in their own country and are eager to take on the challenge abroad.’
‘Meanwhile, Starmer’s office has dismissed the threat, with an official statement saying, “Sir Keir has faced many challenges, but Ukrainian soldiers storming Westminster wasn’t on our bingo card.’
What’s really going on?
Now, finally, do you see, comrades, why Ukraine invaded Kursk?
Clue: It was a rehearsal, stupid!
Now, finally, do you see why the Conservative government sent all our three tanks and our field kitchen cook to Ukraine?
Clue: Egg banjos will shortly be served in No. 10
Emergency Cobra Meeting: “Cancel the supply of Starmer Shadow missiles to the comedian in Keeev! Spend the millions on Winter fuel allowances for the UK’s OAPs! And get someone who believes in borders for Ukraine to check the identity of the Channel boat refugees; those Ukrainian marines have had practice crossing the Dnieper! Last year it was people in rubber rings landing on the fabled Kentish beaches; today it’s 50-man inflatables!”
And pot holes!
Zelensky UK invasion aims: ‘A new world is being born before our eyes. Ukraine’s military operation in UK has opened a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, domestic one. Here a new period begins both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth discussing separately a little later. Ukraine is restoring Britain’s unity – the tragedy of 1999, this terrible catastrophe of Britain’s history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a de facto civil war, because now brothers, divided by their belonging to the Scottish and English armies, are still swearing at each other – but Scotland as anti-English will no longer exist. Ukraine is restoring Britain’s historical completeness, gathering the British world, the British people together – in all its totality of Great Britain, Scotsmen and Little Welshmen. If we had refused this, had allowed the temporary division to become entrenched for centuries, then we would not only have betrayed the memory of our ancestors, but would also have been cursed by our descendants – for allowing the disintegration of the British land. Zelensky has… Read more »
Back in the real world, while Putin, his apparatchiks and assorted western dupes dream of a Union State of 250 million people, Russia has just been invaded for the first time since 1941, two of its oil depots still burn and Ukraine has launched its first ballistic missile. Just as well, then, for the rest of the world, that Britain and the U.S. managed to persuade Ukraine to surrender its nuclear warheads in 1994 in return for security assurances concerning its territorial integrity……and then let Russia annex Crimea in 2014.
Nevertheless, the U.S. strategy of weakening Russia so that it can no longer invade its neighbours is working well.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html The referenced document was published too early by the Kremlin mouthpiece, RIA Novosti, before being quickly taken down. It assumes Ukraine has been conquered! It is interesting for many reasons but particularly because it gives the exact reasons why Russia invaded Ukraine Demography, a falling Russian birth rate The threat that a successful European capitalist democracy in neighbouring Ukraine would represent to the present Russian establishment of Putin, his cronies and the security agencies (Siloviki). Tellingly, no mention of NATO. It is also interesting for these particular paragraphs: ‘….the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlantists, this is Russia returning its historical space and its place in the world.’ ‘Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in geopolitical terms as a single whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees Russia returning to its historical borders in Europe’ It is our old friend, isn’t it: the ‘Union State’! And what were the historical borders of Russia? Oh! Ukraine, Moldova, yes, and all the Baltic… Read more »
er, no … if the Russians want to restore their historical border, they would have to give back a whole chunk of Poland, not take even more.
Well, I have to congratulate you Monro. That really was an interesting and funny article on so many levels and the hidden message was interesing too.
Or a waste of column inches! Who knew? (Or cares?)
The Ria Novosti link is to an opinion piece written in February 2022, congratulating Putin on welcoming Ukraine back into the Russian fold – one of our friend’s favourite topics. But, firstly, it is one man’s opinion and, secondly, he talks about the three Russian states – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – acting as one (not being one), i.e. in unison, which is probably how it will become. The last paragraph is prescient – remember it was written 2 years ago:
China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West rules the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not just challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global dominance can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of forces, of course, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
They’re pushing out an RSV vaccine at wife’s surgery. Eligible to 75-80 and pregnant women over 28 weeks. Very specific right? I mean, you know, if it’s so safe why the restricted demographics? So I did a bit of digging… The vaccine being rolled out in the UK is, as far as I can tell, a traditional attenuated virus version and made by… guess who? Yup, our friends at Pfizer. There are three – GSK, Pfizer & Moderna, and only Moderna created a mRNA version. Both GSK and Pfizer use what they call a ‘subunit protein’ vaccine, so the same technology. And this is where it gets really interesting; GSK has taken legal proceedings against Pfizer for stealing their IP https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/blogs/2023/08/gsk-sues-pfizer-for-patent-infringement-over-rsv-vaccine , so the vaccines will be very, very similar, if not virtually identical. Therefore both must have a great safety profile right? Nope. GSK stopped their trials in pregnant women as the stuff increased the risk of premature birth by 37% https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv/study-details-why-phase-3-trial-gsks-rsv-vaccine-pregnant-women-was .Thirty seven percent! Yet, Pfizer’s vaccine, which is pretty much the same stuff, has been authorised and recommended for pregnant women over 28 weeks. I wonder how Pfizer managed that…$$$…$$$…? The official NHS guidance acknowledges there was… Read more »
They had to monetise all that spare jab junk hanging around in their warehouses.
It is sad they take advantage of young pregnant women who have no idea of past disasters like Thalidomide.
“Net Zero is becoming a threat to our basic security”
If the planet really does need saving from emissions, does it make more sense to (a) switch off street lights, freeze pensioners and ban meat, or (b) switch off the power-hungry AI used for mass-surveillance?
And, critically, if you only produce < 1% of global emissions you need everyone else onboard of course. Strangely, nobody ever seems to want to talk about that. How…. ‘odd’. Still, if you’re real goal is control, then you want to create an irreversible dependency on the global project by reducing farmland to erect ‘sustainable’ energy sources, and you use an ’emergency’ to manipulate minds as a precursor to control of behaviour. Whilst you get the masses to look the other way, you build a surveillance system which only the Chinese can rival. Destroy the old, build the new. Once enough of the new global system is ready, all that is left to do is flick a switch.
Ironically, it may in fact be the high electricity demand of AI and the rising costs of electricity that may slow and perhaps even halt the advance of AI.
Is there a point where it just become uneconomical? There must be.
So far with computer tech it has seemed as if power requirements are inconsequential. But perhaps it will be different with AI.
And we may end up discovering (once again) what an amazing self powering, highly efficient, intelligent organism homo sapiens is and that we are still light years away from becoming the gods we sometimes think we are.
Is it not more likely that governments will ban it for the public “to save the planet” whilst increasing it at GCHQ etc with no accountability?
It’s hard for all governments to ban it, especially if not banning it gives one country an edge over one that does.
What I wonder is whether there are practical physical limits where the cost of taking it further due to the energy requirements makes it unviable.
At least lurve-bombing Berlin is humane compared to the other sort that was once carried out there.
Seriously, if you’re going to release prisoners after they’ve served a fifth of their sentence, why not just cut to the chase and not imprison them at all?
Think of the savings… no prisons, no prison officers, no courts, no lawyers, no legal aid… it’s a win/win, surely? 🙄
And police officers could be multi tiered in their own time as we would not need any.
we would have costs in fencing in Notting Hill and Kentish Town to ensure the main villains can’t get out – MPs!
How long before trans men in women’s prisons go to law to challenge early release.
Yes exactly. It’s an absolute joke. We have actual criminals, such as that dirtbag that was found guilty of historical rape from 2005 ( I’m still not getting how people can be found guilty so many years later ), or the misogynist who attacked the three women at the petrol station or the mugger in London who broke his victim’s elbow in the process of robbing his watch or the Pakistani men assaulting police at Manchester airport, and many more examples I’m sure we could all find, but they’re all able to avoid being sent down because the government is so myopically focused and obsessed with making examples of so-called ‘right-wing thugs’, or ‘meme terrorists’, as I call them. I mean, shouting at police officers/dogs or posting an anti-establishment opinion vs rape or actual bodily harm? It should be a no-brainer who gets sent to jail, right? Wrong. The show trials must go on.. ”Most crime victims in England and Wales lack faith in the criminal justice system to do its job and deliver justice. That is according to a new report by the independent Victims’ Commissioner, drawing upon the largest study—of over 3,000 victims of crime—it has ever undertaken. 73% of… Read more »
There is someone masquerading as “Victims commissioner”? It isn’t April 1st you know.
Do we need further proof that Germany has gone to the dogs because it’s governed by hideous Woketards? Not really, but here’s some anyway. Men didn’t used to be incarcerated in women’s prisons years ago but the times they are a-changing. Yes, even the ones doing time for sex crimes; ”Germany has begun transferring violent male convicts who “identify” as women into female prisons, despite the fact the nation hasn’t yet formally enacted its gender self-identification law. Among them are dangerous sex offenders and pedophiles. On April 12, the German Parliament, or Bundestag, passed one of the world’s most far-reaching sex self-determination policies, known as the Self-Determination Act (SBGG). But while the gender identity policies are not set to come into effect until November, correctional institutions are already transferring male criminals into the female prison estate in anticipation of the law. Women‘s rights organization Initiative Lasst Frauen Sprechen (Let Women Speak) requested figures from all ministries of justice in the federal states in Germany on how many men have been or are currently imprisoned in women’s correctional facilities since 2023. The campaign group also asked for information on the nature of the crimes the men had committed. The response from government officials show that males are… Read more »
The comments of the ‘spoons man, in response to Ryanair’s plea to moderate drinking in airports, makes me wonder just how much people are really drinking before they get on an airplane?
Presumably, for him to say anything at all suggests that he recognises a two drink limit will be severely detrimental to his business… drunk people on airplanes; what could possibly go wrong?
It never ceases to amaze me, if I happen to be at a British airport in the small hours of the morning, that people are actually drinking pints of beer at that time. Mind you, they are often eating Burger King, which is just as nauseating at that time of day.
Technically you can buy a far larger amount of alcohol in duty free and swig it while waiting for the plane. But if you want to do the civilized thing and sit down in a pub and order a drink served in a glass, while paying the higher price because you are not an uncultured low life, then the government takes offence.
Leary has clearly never had to wait for a delayed flight in an airport. An absolute limit on drinks inrespective of the time spent waiting for a plane is simply inhuman.
They’re the future don’t you know?
Sounds like an overheated chip pan!
https://youtu.be/FukHCA-Rza0?si=pPz0uoKokLDDrQkH
Net Zero is becoming a threat to our basic security” – Turning off street lamps to cut emissions is insane. But with Ed Miliband as Energy Secretary, we can expect many more such measures, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
When I was a kid, the street lights in our road (and presumably many roads) were always turned off at around 11pm, in the winter coming on again at around 5am. I seem to remember reading a long time ago that the timers used in street lamps, which obviously at times failed, were becoming too expensive and time consuming to replace, so it was decided to leave the lights on all night as the cheaper option. Personally I don’t think it’s an insane idea. While they are at it they should encourage the turning off of lights in unused offices. Aerial night time photos of our country/world always amaze me with the amount of light from towns and cities. I couldn’t give a fig about emissions, but I do detest waste.
So why was street lighting created in the first place? Answer: it lowered crime rates!
But that doesn’t matter anymore cause they do it in broad daylight! sign of the wonderful diversity we now enjoy, turn them all off they are no longer relevant
and furthermore there is overproduction of electricity at night.
Odd that. Lineker put ME off MOTD…
Well done Mr Musk another win
“A nation of immigrants”
Name a nation that isn’t! It all depends on how far back you want to look
“Prisoners to be freed after serving a fifth of their sentence”
Which prisoners?
Oh yes, the harmless rapists,muggers,burglars and murderers
But if you DARE disagree with the government your looking at a ten stretch!
Tweet tweet 🐦
“Church of England stops Grade II-listed church being converted into mosque”
Brava 👏
Pity that horse has long since bolted!
Yes, they only did that because it was a legal condition set down by the previous owner that the building could not be used for the worship of any other religion than Christianity.
Just Stop Oil (painting)
Break out the Campbells carrot and coriander!
Commander in chief soup slinger gets top job at portrait gallery!
Fox..chickens..?
“Starmer plots outdoor smoking ban” – Nightclub smoking areas, restaurant terraces and even shisha bars”
OK, you’ve lost me! What’s a shisha bar?
(Even the spell checker doesn’t know what it is)
I’ve just looked it up, it’s were you go to get a hookah! (It’s not where I would go to get a hookah!)
“Taxpayers pay millions to ‘eradicate’ racism in Wales – while NHS waiting lists soar”
Eradicate racism? How prey tell does one achieve that? You’d might as well try to eradicate breathing
“Musk has put me off Twitter, says Lineker”
“Oh well, how sad, never mind”
Windsor Davis
Electricity from wanedwops!
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/china-energy-raindrops-water/5878/
” and then we went to the zoo and I had an ice lolly that made my tongue turn gween!”
For pity’s sake!
“Ukraine to send troops to Britain to help overthrow communist dictator”
This satire brilliantly illustrates our own politicians’ folly in sending British Taxpayers’ Money to Ukraine.