News Round-Up
- “Musk says investigating journalists for non-crimes ‘needs to stop’ after Allison Pearson case” – Elon Musk and senior British politicians have led a growing backlash against police for investigating a social media post by the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, writes Freddie Attenborough for the Free Speech Union. To join the FSU, click here.
- “The police have gone full Orwell” – The recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ has got to stop, says Charlie Peters in Spiked.
- “The dystopian police investigation into Allison Pearson” – The British experiment in policing ‘hate’ has become as farcical as it is authoritarian, writes Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “More than 30 Church officials face the sack after Archbishop of Canterbury quits” – Thirty members of the Church of England clergy face being sacked over their failure to stop the most prolific child abuser in the institution’s history, according to the Telegraph.
- “The four bishops under pressure to follow Welby and resign” – The Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation has intensified demands for accountability as a child sex abuse scandal engulfs senior clergy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Farmers hit with tractor ban at London inheritance tax protest” – Police have imposed a tractor ban on farmers planning a mass protest over the Chancellor’s inheritance tax raid, says the Telegraph.
- “Farage rated most favourable of Britain’s politicians” – As Keir Starmer’s fortunes go from bad to worse, things only seem to be improving for Nigel Farage, notes the Spectator’s Steerpike.
- “The world isn’t listening to Keir Starmer’s climate preaching” – Keir Starmer said he was travelling to COP29 in Baku intending to “lead the world on climate change”. The truth is different, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Rich care more about climate change than poorer households” – An ONS survey has found that wealthy households are more likely than the working class to care about the environment, according to the Telegraph.
- “The effectiveness of lockdowns, face masks and vaccination programmes vis-à-vis mitigating COVID-19” – In a ResearchGate paper, Dr. Martin Sewell claims that Covid became a pandemic of overreach, with lockdowns costly, masks useless and vaccines ultimately causing more harm than good.
- “Woman fired for refusing Covid vaccine wins record $12 million” – A Detroit jury has awarded over $12 million to a former Blue Cross Blue Shield employee fired for refusing a Covid vaccine on religious grounds, reports Newsweek.
- “Let’s all join the Massachusetts Medical Society” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson suggest you join the Massachusetts Medical Society, where retractions and conflicts of interest seem to pay quite well.
- “German retiree facing criminal charges for retweeting a meme implying that the Minister of Economic Affairs is a moron” – On Substack, Eugyppius reports that a retiree was raided by police for retweeting a meme implying that the Green Minister of Economic Affairs might be a “professional moron”.
- “Italian president rebukes Elon Musk for wading into migrants row” – The President of Italy warned Elon Musk to keep out of Italian politics after the tech tycoon demanded the sacking of judges who blocked Giorgia Meloni’s migrants policy, according to ABC News.
- “U.S. Government employee charged with leaking Israel’s plans to attack Iran’” – A U.S. Government employee faces charges over an online leak of classified documents about Israel’s potential plans for a retaliatory strike against Iran, reports CBS News.
- “Trump gets unchecked power as Republicans keep House majority” – Republicans will maintain their slim grip on power in the House of Representatives giving President-elect Trump and the GOP total control of Congress, says the Mail.
- “Trump to go after ‘woke generals’ with ‘warrior board’ executive order” – Donald Trump is considering establishing a “warrior board” to review senior officers in the U.S. military and weed out “woke generals”, according to the Mail.
- “No Trump bump: MSNBC heamorrhaging viewers since Election Day, sheds more than half of primetime audience” – MSNBC averaged 1.1 million viewers in October but plummeted to an average audience of only 736,000 following Trump’s historic landslide victory, reports Fox News.
- “What does RFK Jr. mean for healthcare?” – U.S. healthcare is broken. RFK Jr. is an unpredicable and chaotic force. With the right direction, he may do what has been unthinkable: a deep reform of the system, writes Prof. Vinay Prasad on his Substack.
- “Trump is a racist, says Sadiq Khan” – Sadiq Khan says Donald Trump criticised him in the past because the President-elect is “racist”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Anger as CofE commission suggests congregations are ‘racist’” – The Church of England has sparked fury after its racial justice commission suggested congregations in rural parishes around Britain are racist, reports the Mail.
- “What the Boots Christmas advert backlash is really about” – Christmas television adverts are meant to be comforting, homely and traditional. Didn’t Boots get the memo? asks Patrick West in the Spectator.
- “The Guardian quits Elon Musk’s ‘toxic’ X after Trump victory” – The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on X.
- “The Lefties leaving X because of Musk and Trump (but only once they’ve posted about it first)” – A host of celebrities talked of leaving the U.S. if Trump won the election. But in the wake of his historic victory, they’ve already started a mass X-odus, reports Kate Wills in the Telegraph.
- “The Guardian leaving X is Elon Musk’s greatest gift” – In the Telegraph, Tom Slater hopes the Guardian and the Bluesky converts and the celebs do stay, or return. Not for the articles, or the insights, but for the laughs.
- “What is Bluesky Social and why are people flocking to it after Trump victory?” – Bluesky, an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, has surged in popularity in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, reports the Telegraph.
- “Federal employees surviving in the private sector” – On X, a clip of David Attenborough watching an orangutang fumble with a hammer and saw is compared to Elon Musk watching federal employees survive in the private sector.
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/is-there-a-bigger-agenda-to-the-farmers-inheritance-tax-sick-joke/
This really is the last chance saloon for our farmers.
“Supermarkets will be entirely reliant on overseas produce which – as the recent floods in Spain show – is a fragile and unreliable ecosystem.
‘What we will see in the next 18 months is a rushed sell-off of farmland, likely to overseas developers. Those who remain in the industry will halt all investment. The countryside economy will slow, splutter and die. By April 2026, British farming will be a forgotten phrase.”
This really is about destroying the people of the greatest nation on earth.
Short of a nuclear war the Deagel forecasts for Britain’s population in 2025 look wrong but perhaps there was a misprint and it should read 2035. Depopulation is the aim.
Agreed. More on the farming theme here;
”Welsh pressure group Enough is Enough has just called on “those who are able” to begin a week-long strike, stopping to produce food.
Welsh farmer and media personality, Gareth Wyn Jones, posted on his social media: “British farmers have simply had enough, and for those who are able will be going on strike for the first time in history on Sunday the 17th of November for one week.
“We are being suffocated by a government that seems determined to destroy our livelihoods,our future and our ability to feed the nation.
“This country wilĺ be facing massive food shortages with potential significant price increases and the demise of the rural economy, along with serious implications of food security.
“We simply cannot allow the destruction of our industry to continue and our responsibility to feed our nation be taken away.
“This is a last resort but we as farmers are in despair as we simply cannot afford to provide food to the public.
“We ask this govt to talk to us,to listen to us,and allow us the freedom and flexibility to feed our nation.”
https://www.farmersguide.co.uk/business/politics/britain-may-face-national-farmers-strike-next-week/
https://youtu.be/-k_ZvwxU0bg?si=Zid0EiSmpQC4sII0
And here is ‘the bowlerhat farmer’ with a warning about the fragility of our food system. His advice – stock up.
This evil PoS is not going to get very far with his deliberately obtuse and childish behaviour once his trial begins, is he? He will have to actually show his face and speak at some point. Is this why all we ever get is the same photo from when he was a kid? ”Axel Rudakubana will face a trial lasting up to six weeks over the Southport stabbings. The 18-year-old, of Banks in West Lancashire, appeared before Liverpool Crown Court this afternoon, Wednesday, via video link to HMP Belmarsh. Wearing a grey prison issue tracksuit, the jumper of which he used to cover his face throughout the hearing, Rudakubana did not speak when twice asked to confirm his identity. Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, told the court: “As far as the identification of the defendant is concerned, he has taken the position he has on every occasion he has appeared so far.” Carmel Wilde, defending, instead confirmed his identity on his behalf. Rudakubana was due to be arraigned today but was not ultimately asked to enter any pleas. This will instead take place on December 12, and he was remanded into custody by Mr Justice Goose ahead of a four to six-week trial which is… Read more »
It should be illegal to allow a defendant to cover his face in the dock.
Definitely. Well, even during the Covidmania weren’t trials taking place where people weren’t allowed to wear masks? I presume so, anyway. I’ll be very interested to see how things proceed once the trial gets going. I’m wondering if it’s his defence that’s advising him to behave like this, but surely adopting such an uncooperative manner will both not be acceptable or advisable once his court case begins, so what’s the point of going on like this now? We’re going to see his identity sooner or later. And can you imagine the national outrage if we don’t and he’s given permission to hide his face?😵 I’m also wondering why we haven’t seen/heard hide nor hair of his parents. As far as I’m concerned there’s a high probability they were complicit, so surely this needs to be ruled out or they need arresting as well. They seem to be shrouded in mystery. There’s rumours going around, and I’ve no source to back it up, that his father is something to do with the Rwandan government and complicit in committing genocide and they’re getting protection from Starmer so their identities cannot be revealed, but I’m not sure how much, if any, of that… Read more »
I’ve heard exactly the same story Mogs.
There has to be a reason why the alleged terrorist connections and the story itself was kept under wraps for so many months.
This may have something to do with border inspections beginning on the Dutch/Belgian border as reports elsewhere say he came over from Belgium. This happened in Rotterdam ( see video ) but his previous poor homeless victim unsurprisingly died; ”A man suspected of embarking on a murderous rampage across Western Europe and crushing the skulls of sleeping homeless men with concrete slabs has been arrested in France. A 37-year-old Cameroonian national was detained by French authorities at Toulon train station on Tuesday evening after he reportedly attacked a young woman on board a train, according to Europe 1. Police detained the suspect at around 7 p.m. when train controllers alerted authorities to his violent behavior. Levis E. is understood to have previously been served an order to leave French territory; however, he remained in the country and traveled freely across Europe indiscriminately targeting multiple victims. He is accused of murdering a homeless man in Lyon by slamming a concrete slab down on his head, a brutal assault that sparked outrage across the country. It is believed the suspect is also responsible for an attempted homicide in Rotterdam a few days later, an attack reported by Remix News in which CCTV footage… Read more »
Literally an animal.
I’ve never met an animal that wandered around crushing people’s heads with concrete slabs.
Wednesday Morning Windsor Rd & Holyport Rd
Maidenhead
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-12/finland-s-president-sees-trump-seeking-peace-in-ukraine-quickly Maybe Peace Trump needs two things in the realm of foreign policy: to win the upcoming trade war with China and to find a way to exit the war in Ukraine in a way that his voters perceive as a “dignified withdrawal.” Donald Trump is very serious about getting a peace deal sooner rather than later. There’s a window of opportunity for these negotiations between the election and inauguration day (20 Jan 2025)’ Finnish President Alexander Stubb Or maybe not ‘(President Trump) reminded the Russian president “of Washington’s sizeable military presence in Europe” “I think the scenario where Putin and Trump don’t find common ground is the most favorable for us,” Bronzhukov said. “Because that would mean increased military aid and substantial financial support. Putin will choose peace (to rearm) but peace will be doubly difficult: ‘Maria (64) knew Illya Navalny well and saw him on March 12 when he was shot by Russian soldiers. “We entered our apartment block at the moment Illya came down the stairs. I told him: Don’t go out, there’s shooting going on. But he still wanted to go out for a moment to smoke a cigarette. Then I kept hearing shots.” When Maria… Read more »
So the residents did not actually witness the death. They found him dead. The rest is supposition.
Two tier policing? Surely as long as they keep moving at 1 mph like the JSO protesters they’ll be fine.
Was just typing the same.
Blatant two tier policing in action. Can’t stop the purple haired eco zealots blocking roads under any regulation, but British farmers!
Exactly.
“We are equipped with legislation to prevent obstruction and breaches of the peace”
Well the next demonstration by eco nutters, pally supporters should be interesting.
I can’t wait to see them arrest the drivers and then decide what to do with the now stationary tractors.
Like to see them finding the tow trucks to move them.
Or will they use wheel clamps
Have you seen the size of tractor wheels?
one of them is racist, and it’s not Trump!
“Trump is a racist, says Sadiq Khan” – Sadiq Khan says Donald Trump criticised him in the past because the President-elect is “racist”, according to the Telegraph
You do realise that makes you a racism denier, don’t you? 🙂
Thanks for the link to “The effectiveness of lockdowns, face masks and vaccination programmes vis-à-vis mitigating COVID-19”. It’s a useful summary – and quite a large document, with 651 pages, published as a 32MB pdf file. Just browsing through it, but if you’re short of time, dive into page 60 which is a UK financial analysis.
And in the “Lockdown” section, their conclusion is: “Most of the quality empirical research is consistent with lockdowns having no significant impact on the transmission of COVID-19. Whilst there is overwhelming evidence that lockdowns have had negative impacts on physical and mental health. With, most notably, an increase in heart
disease deaths and the diagnosis and treatment of cancer being compromised, lockdowns have caused significant collateral damage. Not to mention the huge financial costs in the form of tax rises and inflation. Children and the third world had the least to gain and the most to lose from lockdowns, and the costs were severe and long-term. To conclude, the data is consistent with lockdowns having no significant impact on COVID-19 infections or deaths, with an increase in non-COVID-19 deaths in both the short term and the long term, and a long-term financial burden.” Amen.
In the meantime the following is happening with bird flu, H5N1. CDC in the USA did serological testing of a cohort of dairy farm workers and found 7% seropositivity. Not always clear that they had symptoms. CDC now advises that all farm workers should be (PCR) tested, so antivirals can be used. No mention of the ineffectiveness of these drugs, side effects, the rapidly appearing antiviral resistance mutations in the virus.
And by the way… there was an association between seropositivity and speaking Spanish.. You cannot make it up.
That would be the PCR test that Kary Mullis who invented it warned should not be used for diagnostic purposes.
I see.
There’s a palpable feeling in the air that Trumps presidency cannot arrive soon enough!
Would anyone have even noticed a Boots advert if it wasn’t controversial. It is a deliberate ploy by Boots marketing wonks to increase the viewing figures and penetration of their message. Their target audience is women, and most women seem to like the advert.
This one doesn’t!
I suggest the problem with procurement of paper in Grmany for an election is the difficulty of making sure the “X”s go in the right place.
It’s difficult to print large batches of papers with apparently different Xs on each. Gotta try to make it look realistic.
Of course, once thev green messiah had left, the orang utan went back to building his dining suite in privacy.
“Anger as CofE commission suggests congregations are ‘racist’”
Since 8 of the 11 commissioners are Ethnic Africans, Ethnic Orientals and Ethnic Indian Subcontinentals, may we ask them in all fairness to investigate rural parishes in their own ancestral homelands to decide if they are also “racist”.
“Farage rated most favourable of Britain’s politicians”
He really is the Prime Minister that Britain needs most.
His words in defence of British farmers were truly eloquent:
“Remember this: Our landscape is one of the most beautiful in the world, and the reason is the farming practices we’ve used over centuries. All of that, all of that, is directly under threat.”
Labour’s plan to destroy family farms. – YouTube