News Round-Up
- “Netanyahu to ‘settle the score’ with Hamas after six hostages shot in the head” – Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “settle the score” with Hamas after the Israel Defense Forces recovered the bodies of six “murdered” hostages from a tunnel in Gaza, reports the Mail.
- “Why Netanyahu is being blamed for the Israeli hostage deaths” – Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of sabotaging negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza, writes Limor Simhony Philpott in the Spectator.
- “Pret a Manger facing protest after ‘caving in to pressure to boycott Israel’” – Campaigners are up in arms against Pret a Manger, accusing the popular sandwich chain of bowing to anti-Israel boycotts amid the ongoing war in Gaza, reports the Express.
- “BBC slammed after giving platform to Palestinian chief” – The BBC has been branded “shameless” after providing a platform to a Palestinian politician who celebrated Hamas’s October 7th massacre, calling it “a glorious day”, says the Mail.
- “Are we Jews only wanted in Israel? Sadly, it’s beginning to feel rather like it” – “In a sickening departure from my childhood years, it’s young Americans that are the most committed to today’s poisonous campaign of hate,” says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Executive confidence plummets as Reeves plots tax raid” – Fears of an autumn tax raid and a radical strengthening of workers’ rights have triggered a collapse in confidence among business leaders, reports the Express.
- “Top earners and entrepreneurs already fleeing Britain over tax raids” – Wealthy individuals and entrepreneurs are already fleeing Britain as fears grow over a raft of tax rises in Rachel Reeves’s first Budget, says the Telegraph.
- “Councils demand power to impose unlimited tax hikes” – Council chiefs are demanding the power to impose unlimited tax rises on residents ahead of next month’s Budget, reports the Express.
- “Education Secretary to clamp down on ‘absence epidemic’ in schools” – Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has vowed to tackle the “absence epidemic” in Britain’s schools and warned she will make no “apologies” for fining the parents of frequently absent children, says the Mail.
- “One-word Ofsted school ratings scrapped” – Ofsted’s one-word ratings, ranking all schools ‘Outstanding’, ‘Good’, ‘Requires Improvement’ or ‘Inadequate’, are being scrapped from Monday at the behest of teaching unions, says the Telegraph.
- “Minister wriggles over mooted ban on smoking in pub gardens” – Commons Leader Lucy Powell was left squirming as she denied claims that the proposed ban on smoking in pub beer gardens constituted an “attack on the hospitality industry”, reports the Mail.
- “Outdoor smoking ban could cause violence outside pubs, landlords warn” – Landlords warn that Labour’s outdoor smoking ban could trigger violence outside pubs and thrust bar staff into the firing line, according to the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer’s popularity delusion” – Keir Starmer has showed not a trace of understanding for the concerns of much of the electorate over a loss of border control or high crime, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Jenrick warns of Labour ‘war on middle class’ as Tory battle heats up” – At a slick U.S.-style rally on the eve of Parliament’s return from the summer break, Robert Jenrick says he is ready to “sock it” to Keir Starmer, according to the Mail.
- “Couple chanting ‘we want our country back’ jailed after Hanley riots” – A couple in Stoke-on-Trent have been jailed for, among other things, chanting “we want our country back’, says Stoke-on-Trent Live.
- “Doctor Who won’t make me shut up, says Badenoch ahead of leadership launch” – Kemi Badenoch says Doctor Who won’t make her “shut up” as she announces a date for the launch of her Conservative Party leadership campaign, reports the Telegraph.
- “British GCSE textbooks remove Taiwan references after CCP complaints” – The AQA GCSE Chinese textbook has deleted references to Taiwan after receiving a letter of complaint from Chinese officials, reports the Telegraph.
- “The day of the DfIDs” – In the Critic, Chris Bayliss outlines the real problem with foreign aid.
- “The crocodile jaws that will crush Net Zero” – On Substack, David Turver explores the yawning gap between Government projections for renewables prices and reality.
- “Ed Miliband betrayed families with energy-saving pledge, says Claire Coutinho” – The Shadow Energy Secretary says Ed Miliband’s breaking of his vote-winning pledge to lower household energy bills by £300 a year was a “betrayal”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Even Germany is talking tough on illegal immigration” – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to be seen to crack down on illegal migration, but it is unlikely to help his centre-Left Government in the upcoming elections, says Katja Hoyer in the Telegraph.
- “East German elections post” – The day has come that Germany’s rulers have long feared: Thüringen and Saxony are electing their new state parliaments, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “German far-Right to win first state election since Nazi era” – The AfD is on course to win an election in a state parliament for the first time in its history, says the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Letby inquiry should ‘consider growing doubts’ of her conviction” – David Davis has written to the chair of the forthcoming Countess of Chester Hospital Inquiry, expressing concern that the probe assumes Ms. Letby’s conviction was safe, reports the Mail.
- “Most variation in all-cause mortality explained by mass COVID-19 vaccination” – New analysis suggests a rise in all-cause mortality in heavily vaccinated Australia, with at least two-thirds of regional variation attributed to mass COVID-19 vaccination, writes Dr. Peter A. McCullough on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “NYC’s ‘Covid only’ deaths in spring 2020” – There are signs that the Big Apple’s big ‘Covid only’ death spike might be specious, says Jessica Hockett on Substack.
- “Thriving in the age of fear” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett explores how to live well in challenging times, amid poor governance and constant fear mongering.
- “NHS trust’s new diversity role branded as ‘insult to taxpayers’” –An NHS trust’s advertisement for an £80,000 a year diversity and inclusion officer role has been criticised as an “insult to taxpayers”, reports the Telegraph.
- “If the British Red Cross wants to be woke, it should start by changing its name” – The British Red Cross has given staff a handbook for avoiding causing offence, but why stop there when its own moniker is triggering? wonders William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “First transgender manager ignites row by signing biologically male goalkeeper for women’s team” – Sutton United’s women’s team abruptly postponed their scheduled match at Ebbsfleet United on Sunday amid mounting anger over the signing of a biological male goalkeeper, reports the Telegraph.
- “British soap opera Crossroads is given trigger warning” – TV bosses have warned that the long-running soap opera Crossroads might cause offence, in a move that has been criticised as “pathetic” and condescending by viewers, according to the Mail.
- “Falsifying history can only increase racial tension” – In his new book, Frank Furedi argues that historic memory is the key to the identity of any coherent community, and that attacking it undermines a population’s solidarity, writes Jonathan Sumption in his review for the Spectator.
- “Robin DiAngelo, the anti-racist doyenne caught in her own trap” – The woke activist and best-selling author Robin DiAngelo has chided others for not giving credit to people of colour. Now, she’s embroiled in a plagiarism row focusing on her use of the work of Asian-American scholars without proper attribution, says Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times.
- “‘WTF you playing at you dirty commie c**sucker?’” – On X, a satirical sketch has Donald Trump ringing up Keir Starmer to uncover the truth behind rumours that he’s jailing people just for posting memes.
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Yes, and just have a look at this latest appalling news of Communist and Third World ethnic teachers and officials targeting white children in schools: Racism in schools surges with SIXTY children as young as age four sent home every day (msn.com) “In total, 11,619 [white] children were suspended for racist behaviour in 2023 –” “Dr Shabna Begum, who heads up Racism Think-Tank the Runnymede Trust, said: “The fact that children and young people are picking up and articulating racism in schools feels entirely predictable in this current climate.” “Begum”? Any relation to Bangladeshi Terrorist Shamima Begum? A Muslim Bangladeshi woman put in charge of ridiculously-named Runnymede Trust, where the Magna Carta was written and signed by White People, who are the Indigenous Peoples of the British Isles? “Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, added: ‘These figures should be a wake-up call. We have had years now of divisive, hateful language and negative, racist stereotypes from some politicians and in sections of the media.'” Then we have Ethnic African Kebede, who scorned his own Ethnic African women to have a child with a white woman, sticking his oar in. The we have Ethnic African Dr. Patrick Roach… Read more »
NHS trust’s new diversity role branded as ‘insult to taxpayers’
How much more diverse does the NHS have to be..?
How blind can you be? Not only does the NHS discriminate against treating dogs and cats, but the number of them in medical roles can be counted on one hand.
“One-word Ofsted school ratings scrapped”
If I may be so bold, ‘requires improvement’ is two words. Notice the letters, then the space, then more letters. Two words…
No,no! you misunderstand. They’re banning the one word ratings. That means all schools will now be rated ‘Requires Improvement’. They can’t tolerate ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ schools and they don’t understand the meaning of the word ‘Inadequate’.
On the beeb propaganda channel, they emphasised that the previous rating led to the suicide of a former head teacher, and said that this was a reason for the change being made.
As in every bureaucracy, the problem is centralising standards, which always leads to corruption. A school is now excellent if it persuades small children to undergo surgery behind their parents’ back, to believe cultic prophecies about the climate, and if it cultivates exam results rather than education.
Before OFSTED some schools were bad. Now they all are, on pain of shame and sanctions.
I don’t think you are suggesting this but does the Beeb really suggest that it was the one word nature of the assessment which led to this suicide?
As I understand it from now on Ofsted are going to use similar words to describe each of a number of features of a school. So Discipline: Requires Improvement; Core skills: Requires Improvement; Truancy: Requires Improvement. See, so much better.
I recall the case.Very sad.I also recall being told that to be happy and content in work, you need to be in the top 25% of performers,at that level. And that people in the bottom half are never going to be achievers in the role. They will therefore always be under stress, because they can never improve enough to avoid it. If people are struggling at a level, then they should be encouraged to drop back one or two levels until the work is well within their capabilities.
There are far too many people chasing ever loftier careers who are just not up to it. The saddest part is you only really find out when they have gone beyond their competence, and the Peter Principle bites them in the bum. Then they wont give up the big salary and the car to achieve contentment.
Worcester EV Charging Point Survey
Geoff Buys Cars has a rant about the Worcester EV charging point survey;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgi_tfa9QE
As with many others; Geoff is now clear that the move to EV’s is not about getting us all out of petrol/diesel (ICE) cars and into EVs, it is about getting us out of cars full stop.
He muses on the comparison between the totally free market driven world of ICE cars to the State intervention, State subsidised world of EVs.
He also notes the introduction by TPTB in Worcester of the term ‘ruralism’? go figure!
He also notes that one of the facebook replies to this survey that discussed the role of China in the production of EVs and renewable technology seems to have been removed.
What I find really offensive is one-letter rating for children’s exams. My sugestion is for a three level classification = absolutely spiffing, not quite so absolutely spiffing and far right candidate.
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That’s the funniest thing I’ve watched since the Starmer Downfall parody 🙂
Re The Critic article, note this:
”For many of the intervening years, only Britain and Denmark met this ambitious target; a fact that bought DfiD a huge amount of influence and credibility within the global humanitarian establishment; not only among their counterparts in peer countries, but also with the multilateral institutions and mega-NGOs that dominate the sector.”
It seems to me the UK gained no benefits whatsoever. Likely it was the contacts list of the civil servants that gained.
The author calls for a change to legislation so our money goes to poorer places. It should not need legal enforcement just good management.
One change that a conservative government would introduce, if we had one, would be to fund only those social and economic structures that are preconditions for economic development. These are private property rights, legally enforceable contracts snd open markets. Come to think of it they could spend money here to reinstitute such things.