News Round-Up
- “University free speech law is set to be watered down” – New laws protecting free speech on campus are likely to be given the green light in the new year, reports the the Times.
- “Defence is more important than Net Zero” – We need proper armed forces much sooner than 2030, and yet the Government won’t commit, says Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “The death of the high trust society” –Andrew Doyle says we should regret the death of the high trust society on his substack.
- “All English cows to be given controversial Bovaer feed by 2030” – According to the Daily Mail, all English cows are about to be given Bovaer.
- “Five charts that show how Sadiq Khan has ruined London” – From road congestion to an increase in knife crime, the capital feels like it’s in decline – yet the London Mayor is set to be knighted, according to the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk pumped $260 million into Trump’s campaign — and his reward has been handsome” – Tech mogul has found himself at the heart of political power and with a huge financial reward to boot, reports the Telegrarph.
- “Spymaster’s top job was kept a secret — even from his children” – Ken McCallum, head of MI5, reveals how his life changed when he emerged from the shadows, according to the Times.
- “Teachers told to spot ‘toxic’ incel culture in class to prevent attacks” – Education Secretary warns that ”poisonous influencers” pose a serious risk to teenage boys, reports the Times.
- “Irish government-funded NGO links to online ‘brothel agency’” – Gript reveals that an anti-racist charity has links with a brothel.
- “Sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media agreed in principle” – The Scott Trust has sold the Observer to Tortoise media in defiance of Guardian and Observer journalists who weren’t happy about it, says the Guardian.
- “Autism to blame for my inappropriate actions, Gregg Wallace expected to tell inquiry” – Friends of the MasterChef presenter are convinced he suffers from neurodiversity condition that explains behaviour. Will that really wash, asks the Telegraph?
- “Can Reform UK win in 2025? Labour and the Tories are getting nervous” – Nigel Farage’s party boasts of having 100,000 members and is casting its sights towards next year’s local elections. Can it win in 2029, asks the Times?
- “Connie Shaw sets out her stall (very convincingly ) on GB News” – The 20 year-old undergraduate investigated by Leeds University student union for nothing at all explains why she’s been the victim of an injustice.
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“Autism to blame for my inappropriate actions, Gregg Wallace expected to tell inquiry”
What we have learned so far from cancel culture is that ‘saying sorry’ and perhaps pointing out some mitigating circumstances is completely pointless. If they come for you,, better to jut out your chin and go down fighting. As for Gregg, he is ill advised to try and play a ‘mental ‘elf’ card. He is a 60 year old white working class male, and therefore not eligible to be afflicted by any such condition, beloved of the middle classes.
Agreed, BUT, according to Allison Pearson whom I consider a fairly sound type, his behaviour really was out of order, but hidden or ignored for years by bosses more concerned about ratings than common decency.
A very (modern) British tale.
What constitutes out of order is radically different depending on the circumstances. The fault should lie with the producers who should have said ‘Tone down the barrow boy a bit, these lot are emotional flakes’, rather that let him blunder on for more than 10 years making the odd person a bit uncomfortable with his robust working class manner.The manner that is exactly why he is on the show, as the foil to John Torode in the first place.
Having worked on building sites for the past 45 years, I have met many similar men, they are no more than bully’s, I have found having a “quiet word” normally works, if it does not then throwing them off the job definitely works.
Did you just vomit ” toxic masculinity”… 🤮
Having met him in real life at a chocolate market (I was helping my ex run a stall), I can only agree that he is completely obnoxious and did cross a line somewhere. Ulrika Johnson has taken part in many comedy shows and does not come across to me as a snowflake. Neither does Allison Pearson. I think arrogance and being cowtowed to for years, did create a monster.
“Teachers told to spot ‘toxic’ incel culture in class to prevent attacks”
Ah.! Influencers. Not that TikTok is full of influencers of tween and teenage girls, with ‘toxic’ messages about their behaviour.
“Five charts that show how Sadiq Khan has ruined London”
He’s done exactly as he was told to do, and has been rewarded thus.
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Defence is more important than net zero Nut zero is of zero importance. Defence of the realm is of paramount importance. This government, and every previous government since about 1982, has willed the mission but not the means. In Whitehall speak: ‘“Every review in my working life has failed, generally within two years…because they have left an enormous gap between ambition and resourcing.” Man on the street speak: ‘Realistically the uk isn’t under hard military threat. Any threat is far away, such as Russia needing to get through all of Europe first. It means the general public don’t perceive the need for defence. Which is a positive and negative.’ Deja vu all over again. Another man on the street: ‘Its all just pointless “noise” without more money and manpower. Given the apparent demand from the Treasury that SDR is cost neutral, it looks set to be more cuts to conventional forces in order to spend a bit extra on supposed game changers such as AI, drones, UCAV’s, space, cyberwarfare, hypersonics … I’ve just been reading about the end of the Roman Empire. It concludes that the main reason that it fell was that the political elite just couldn’t believe that… Read more »
But can’t you see? The real threat to this country and what’s left of our way of life after a quarter century of of bliarism resides not in Moscow, peking or pyong yang… they are in Westminster, Whitehall, the once great universities, council buildings and charidee organisations up and down the country.
No reform of the Army is going to help us – indeed you can be damn’ sure that any reform will be designed to reduce even further the already miniscule possibility that decent elements of the Army in any way help us to resist.
I still haven’t worked out why they’re doing it, but what they are doing is crystal clear.
But we shall resist, fight back and win.
Our forefathers always did.
Democracy: the least worst form of government.
The 1970s were not dissimilar.
President Reagan was portrayed in similar vein to President Trump.
But defence of the realm, like nuclear power, cannot be switched on and off.
Long term strategic thinking is required.
General Sir Richard Barrons will give us that. But, without the means, the mission will fail all over again, as it did in Iraq and then Afghanistan….pretty much leading the world down a slippery slope to the dangerous destination we see before us.
Things could go pear shaped a great deal more quickly than anyone in or outside Whitehall appears to realise….and, at that point, the strangeness of our institutions becomes the very least of our problems.
Oddly, perhaps, Reagan apparently was a fan of the ideas of The Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that are behind Project 2025 that the Democrats were pushing hard as the next step to dictatorship and which, I think, Trump has said he will not be adopting?
As far as defence of the realm goes, my army chum tells me we are currently so short on munitions that we would run out in a week to ten days, were we to engage… they are also concerned that in the event that things really did kick off, the Americans may not turn up.
“All English cows to be given controversial Bovaer feed by 2030”
This seems to me like an insidious plot to destroy the dairy industry, they wanted to end the dairy industry but they knew that dairy products are incredibly popular. And so they decide to adulterate all the dairy products with this monstrous snake oil in the name of net-zero in order to make dairy products unpopular and kill of the dairy industry.
How can we defend ourselves in the face of this insidious enemy from within that seems to be eating away from within at all that we hold dear?
We need to form networks at a local level.
People living in cities will mostly be fucked, but frankly, they don’t care about us so why should we gaf about them?
I live in a small town in 1950’s Surrey (most of the shops still shut on a Wednesday afternoon),
Following the recent news regarding the introduction of Beaver, I decided to only buy organic milk, I did not realise how difficult it would be, none of the local shops sold it, the farm shop only gets one delivery a week, selling out the same day (I did suggest perhaps more deliveries, only to be greeted by a look of horror by the owner)
The local 24 hour garage/shop, run by a very very good Muslim family, said they would get some in, which they did last Wednesday,it is selling very well, with them upping the redelivery now to daily.
I simply cannot understand the reluctance for the rest of the local food shops not to see what the public are moving to and adjusting their stock to suit.
Richard Vobes discusses the organic supply issue on his YouTube channel. He believes the government intends to crush the organic supply side with excess demand.
It occurs to me that with the public’s apparently overwhelming reaction to the addition of Bovaer to cow’s feed, the government have played a blinder in working towards their stated aim to significantly reduce the amount of meat and dairy we consume.
They must be rubbing their hands together as they contemplate new additives for Pork, poultry and lamb (which also must pass wind), next and then the imminent demise of the farming sector…
That may be true, but it relies on the complicity of the dairy industry to destroy itself.
Well, they do seem to be making a pretty good fist of it at the moment.
“An evil man will burn down his nation to rule over the ashes”, sometimes ascribed to Sun Tzu though he apparently never said it… he should have!
I agree. We are heading rapidly towards Kneel’s Holodomor.
Next up, a law that will say you can’t compare Labor Party apparatchiks to those in the former DDR. Punishable by prison time and fines.