News Round-Up
- “Badenoch blames grooming gangs abuse on people from ‘peasant backgrounds’” – Kemi Badenoch says that rape gang perpetrators are “peasants” from “sub-communities” in other countries, according to Sky News.
- “Are grooming gang perpetrators really from ‘peasant’ communities?” – Kemi Badenoch’s remarks on “peasants” from “sub-communities” in group-localised child sexual exploitation echo studies showing that Pakistani men dominate such prosecutions, says Rakib Ehsan in UnHerd.
- “To avoid prosecution in Britain, Neil Gaiman joins Islamic grooming gang” – Authorities in the U.K. were outwitted once again this week when famed author Neil Gaiman, seeking to avoid prosecution on charges of sexual assault, joined an Islamic grooming gang, according to the (satirical) Babylon Bee.
- “Chagos deal ‘set to be signed this week’ ahead of Trump’s inauguration” – Mauritius is poised to take control of the Chagos Islands from the U.K. amid claims Labour will pay billions to cede British sovereignty, reports the Mail.
- “Hiring outside London plunges after regional employers battered by Budget” – Hiring by companies outside London has fallen sharply following Rachel Reeves’ tax raid, with regional employers scrambling to save money, according to Business Matters.
- “Labour-run council hits buyers of empty homes with previous owners’ tax bills” – A Labour-run council is hitting buyers of empty homes with massive council tax bills left by previous owners, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves forced to defend £600 million investment deal from China trip” – Rachel Reeves has scrambled to defend her Beijing and Shanghai visit amid criticism over Chinese slave labour and jailed British citizen Jimmy Lai, says the Mail.
- “Hong Kong offers rewards for arrest of six activists abroad” – Hong Kong police have offered rewards of £103,000 for information leading to the arrests of six pro-democracy activists living in the U.K. and Canada, says BBC News.
- “Labour won’t cut spending until Britain is bankrupt – but we’ll soon be there” – The Prime Minister may soon be forced into huge cuts and the Left will never forgive him, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer turns to Trump to fuel growth” – Keir Starmer is seeking to boost U.K. growth by forging a “partnership” with the U.S., reports the Telegraph.
- “Scottish Tory leader warns against Reform ‘protest vote’ as Farage’s party ahead in poll” – The Scottish Tory leader warned that Unionists casting a “protest vote” for Reform U.K. in next year’s Holyrood election would keep the SNP in power, according to the Scotsman.
- “Tulip Siddiq resigns as anti-corruption minister” – Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned after being embroiled in a corruption scandal, reports the Standard.
- “Bangladesh files criminal case against U.K. minister Tulip Siddiq” – Bangladesh has filed a criminal case against Tulip Siddiq, accusing her of misusing her position as an MP to gain influence and illegally acquire land with her aunt, the ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to the Guardian.
- “Mastermind behind the ‘EdStone’ becomes Treasury minister after Tulip Siddiq’s exit” – Torsten Bell, the man who dreamt up the “EdStone”, has joined the Treasury following Tulip Siddiq’s exit, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘No financial experience’ required for Bank of England roles” – Liz Truss has accused the Bank of England of being “captured by Leftist ideology” after it said in job ads that the applicants do not require any financial experience, says the Telegraph.
- “Bridget Phillipson to revive free speech laws after backlash from academics” – The Government is set to U-turn on its decision to quash the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act after a backlash, reports the Telegraph.
- “PM to pay damages to Gerry Adams” – Ministers have come under fire for a “wholly inappropriate” law change which paves the way for Gerry Adams to receive tens of thousands of pounds in compensation, says the Mail.
- “Prison service using Zoom to ‘hire officers who can’t lock doors’” – The National Chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association has slammed the prison service’s Zoom recruitment and poor training, warning it leads to hiring under-qualified officers who can’t even lock doors, reports the Times.
- “European electric car market suffers ‘devastating’ collapse after tax breaks scrapped” – Falling EV sales in Germany dealt a “devastating” blow to the European car market last year, as Chinese carmakers powered ahead, says the Telegraph.
- “YouTube censored my Covid Inquiry evidence as vaccine misinformation, barrister says” – Anna Morris KC, who is representing family groups injured by the jab, has told the Covid Inquiry that a YouTube video of her preliminary submissions to Baroness Hallett had been taken down, reports the Telegraph.
- “Vaccine injury scheme has cost taxpayers more to run than it has paid out to victims” – Official figures suggest that the payment scheme for people injured by vaccines has cost taxpayers more to run than it has paid out to victims, says the Telegraph.
- “Why did maternal mortality in white women but not black women increase after 2020?” – On the WATN? Substack, Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil reveal that higher Covid vaccination rates among white women may explain their post-2020 surge in maternal mortality, unlike black women whose rates fell.
- “Immense COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ antigenic sin research library published” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Nicolas Hulscher flags a research library of 131 peer-reviewed studies suggesting that COVID-19 vaccines imprinted recipients’ immune systems via the Wuhan spike protein.
- “GPs vastly outnumbered by other clinical staff at surgeries, report finds” – The Nuffield Trust think tank says that there are now almost three times as many healthcare professionals without medical degrees working in general practice as there are family doctors, according to the Telegraph.
- “Bowel cancer screening rolled out to over 50s by NHS” – All 50-74 year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years, reports BBC News.
- “French theatre faces bankruptcy as 250 migrants refuse to leave” – A Left-wing theatre in Paris facing bankruptcy after organising free event for 250 homeless African migrants who then refused to leave and are still there five weeks later, says the Mail.
- “Here’s what Greenland should do about Donald Trump” – Greenland’s sovereign protector, Denmark, is itself a strategic minnow. Is it time for the world’s largest island to turn to Trump’s America? asks James Lewisohn in the Spectator.
- “Jack Smith says he thought Trump would have been convicted” – Donald Trump has blasted Jack Smith as a “lamebrain” in a late-night rant, slamming the special counsel’s January 6th report as a baseless political hit job, reports the Mail.
- “J.D. Vance faces MAGA backlash over pardons for January 6th rioters” – Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is facing heat for saying people who committed violence on January 6th, 2021, should not be pardoned, according to Newsweek.
- “The LA wildfires have left the diversity industry in ruins” – The California wildfires have awoken countless Americans to the downsides of DEI, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “‘I was in the Democrat ‘cult’. Now I raise money for Trump’” – A former high energy Democratic fundraiser, congressional candidate and social media influencer is now raising money for President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, reports the Mail.
- “‘First Buddy’ Elon Musk given office in White House complex” – Elon Musk has been given an office in the White House complex for his Department of Government Efficiency, says Business Standard.
- “China ‘in talks’ to sell TikTok to Elon Musk” – Chinese officials are in preliminary talks about a potential option to sell TikTok’s operations in the U.S. to Elon Musk, should the short-video app be unable to avoid an impending ban, reports Reuters.
- “Nurse is struck off after using N-word amid string of racial incidents” – An NHS nurse in charge of a women’s psychiatric unit has been banned after using racist slurs, reports the Mail.
- “Netflix secures more viewers than BBC One for first time” – Netflix overtook BBC One for the first time as it became the most watched TV service in the U.K. for three months last year, says the Mail.
- “Lazio falconer sacked for sharing explicit photos” – Italian club Lazio have sacked a man responsible for handling the club’s eagle mascot after he shared videos online of his prosthetic penis, reports the BBC.
- “‘Every pub’s a parliament’” – On X, Nigel Farage takes a swipe at Labour’s war on pubs and free speech, saying that if we can’t hit the pub for a pint and some nonsense, what’s the point of even going?
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Every pub’s a parliament Mr Farage makes a good point. Discussion, debate in Britain today definitely seems to be more circumscribed than it used to be. Why? This may be caused by Britain’s state education system today, created in large measure by the labour party. ‘Memorisation is less useful as problems become more difficult.” In the data that (Schleicher) showed, in many countries, there seems to be a significant gap between what teachers report to be desirable pedagogies and what actually happens in classrooms. What was surprising was that UK has highest level of prevalence of memorisation in classrooms.’ ‘Pisa measured the creative thinking skills of 15-year-olds in 64 countries but sadly none of the four home nations chose to participate.’ I wonder why? ‘No matter how many vague platitudes my secondary school spewed, the dominant emphasis was never on creative thinking or independence of choice, but on a subject’s supposed ‘utility.’ Miranda Stephenson So, a narrow education involving a great deal of ‘memorisation’ is what the state offers in Britain. The $64 million dollar black hole? Critical thinking. What is critical thinking? “Active, persistent, and careful consideration of a belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds… Read more »
Peasants is a word for rural low paid workers. I was brought up among them in Cambridgeshire. Their morals were better than todays self-designated elites.
to dismiss grooming gang members as irresponsible, violent snd misogynistic because of their alleged rural origins is an insult to all country people.
Such excuses are also incompatible with the decades long claims by the elites that all immigration is good for us, enhances our country and makes us better off. It is not and never was true.
I believe Mrs Badenoch was making a different point:
‘The men flooding Britain and Europe as immigrants are not coming from the relatively well off urban cores of their countries. They come from rural areas where the tribal and strict religious codes of conduct apply. They also come from failed states overrun by Jihadis and controlled by guerrillas, gangs and tyrants.
Their views of women are appalling. And their views of white women are beyond disgusting.
When they get to Europe they find ghettos of like minded men where their prejudices are reinforced by relatives at home and Islamists in the mosque.’
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
https://x.com/Ayaan/status/1879157776565305437
An ill educated and archaic tribalist background is the problem, not a rural one.
Yes. Exactly my point. It is not where they come from within Pakistani but the fact their former national home and their religious and cultural beliefs make the behaviour acceptable.
it is not just the culprits. Their families snd the right communities in which they live cannot have failed to know about it. Their mosques too. All kept quiet and still keep schtum
She was making a point about rape gangs in established enclaves, not about recent illegal immigrants.
Education has nothing to do with it, or not mostly. It’s IQ.
‘If you’re a young man growing up in Somalia or Afghanistan or Egypt or Iraq, your attitude has already been culturally, socially, and religiously shaped to view women as either good or bad.
Then on top of that, you also view women as a commodity, as property. In Somali poetry, women and livestock are compared all the time—like men lamenting that they have so few camels and so few women. Then the rich men, “I envy so-and-so, he has all these camels and horses and women.” Some of these men are not conditioned to think of women as equal human beings.’
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Hear, hear.
What she is getting at, I think, is that it is not due to Islam per se. That sounds right to me; if you look at Turkey for example, European admixture is high, and average IQ is slightly higher than in Pakistan, and Turkey is more economically developed. For this reason, even if all Brits converted to Islam, we’re not going to start grooming gangs the next day.
It’s politically useful that you don’t have to call out Islam, and whilst saying that the average muslim is bit thick, not because they are muslim but because of ethnicity, is too waycists to roll off a politician’s tongue, ‘uneducated peasants’ is a more acceptable turn of phrase and everybody knows what it means.
In summary I think she made a fair statement!
You are spot on, Epping! The Nigerian Birth Tourist revealed more than she intended in that statement, because her family name Adegoke is one of the Wealthy Upper Caste “Royal” Families in Nigeria. Hence her Bloated Sense of Entitlement to “rule” over the Brits, to whom her “royal birth” means nothing. We have plenty of our own royals, and don’t need to import foreign ones as well.
Her reference to “peasants” comes directly from her attitude to “Lower Castes” in Nigeria, and in the British Isles.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/no-financial-experience-bank-england-diversity-role/
No financial experience needed for a job at the Bank of England?
If that isn’t a job offer in waiting for Reeves, then I’ll eat my hat!
Yes why the outcry? She worked there and look where she’s ended up! /sarc
Judging by how the BoE handles things though, they all have no financial experience and they haven’t for years. Time is right for her to return.
“The Scottish Tory leader warned that Unionists casting a “protest vote” for Reform U.K. in next year’s Holyrood election would keep the SNP in power”
Mate, why would anyone vote for you if that’s the best argument you can offer? Perhaps think about why someone would cast a “protest vote” and maybe get yourself some policies that address the reason for that “protest”. It’s called politics.
Pass the Scottish Tory leader some aloe vera – he just got burned!
“On X, Nigel Farage takes a swipe at Labour’s war on pubs and free speech, saying that if we can’t hit the pub for a pint and some nonsense, what’s the point of even going?”
That is exactly the point. Labour do not want tongues loosened by pub booze to be plotting an insurrection. Or even strengthening the bonds of defiance.
“Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) in 1912 warned the English: “change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them”. Once that disaster occurred, however, he recognised that something terrible would happen: “when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England”.
Quote taken from :
https://thecritic.co.uk/when-england-has-lost-its-pubs-it-will-no-longer-be-england/
I go to the pub about 4 times a year and that is only to meet a right wing mate to blow off steam about the state of the country. If we couldn’t go to the pub we’d either meet at home or not meet.
Excellent quote! As a former member of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) many years ago, I remember how they also campaigned against pub closures, pointing out that pubs were the traditional place for centuries where people could gather together and talk about politics, and how important that was for democracy and freedom.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/taxing-tourists-labours-latest-line-in-stupidity/
Here’s another great instruction from the Davos Deviants to Rachel from Accounts. Well helping to destroy tourism has to be a good thing obviously. If you are a Davos Deviant that is.
Law student suing Cambridge University after failing PhD The Telegraph tells us.
He’s now a qualified barrister… Words fail me. As they did him in his viva voce.
If he was “less able” why do a PhD? Idiot.
Not only “less able” but “less able than other candidates of the same ability”.
I can see he’s going to be highly convincing as a barrister.
Or did I mis-read that? Is he perhaps a qualified barista?
“Bowel cancer screening rolled out to over 50s by NHS” – All 50-74 year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years, reports BBC News. Great progress has been made in reducing deaths caused by some types of bowel cancer. The chart above shows age-standardised death rates for the two main types: C18=Colon and C19-21=Rectal/Anus. Deaths from C18 have declined since 1994 (I only have data going back to 1994; the decline may have started earlier) but deaths from C19-21 have remained almost level. In the most recent decade the decline in death rate seems to have levelled off. The dotted trend lines in the chart show the trends from 1994-2006 projected to 2023. In 2006 the NHS introduced bowel cancer screening for the over 60s. The data is from two sources: The annual ‘Deaths registered in England and Wales’ covering 1994-2022 (tab 8) and Nomisweb covering 2013-2023. The almost exact match in the overlap from 2013-2022 shows the data splice to be justified. https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdrreferencetables/2022/dr2022corrected.xlsx (solid line) https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/ (dashed line) It appears that there has not been as great a reduction in death rate associated with bowel cancer since the introduction of screening in… Read more »
Not only are these millions of “kits” a vast waste of Taxpayers’ Money, but they also provide a convenient pretext for bent doctors to “DIAGNOSE” cancer in the target population that doesn’t actually exist.
Remember that Muslim “Doctor” Farid Fata in Michigan, “mastermind of one of the largest health care frauds in U.S. history”, who gave hundreds of patients FALSE DIAGNOSES OF CANCER, so he could blast them with radiation and chemotherapy.
I got a kit in the post last year, have left it untouched. My trust in the “public health” industry is low. Heneghan if I recall is sceptical about a lot of these “screening” programs.
The kits have a limited shelf life. Chuck it. It is most certainly no good now – if it was ever any use at all.
Thanks – will do