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  Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal Subscribe JOE ROGAN: UK’S SPEECH CRACKDOWN REMINDS ME OF SOVIET RUSSIA “The fact that they're comfortable with finding people who've said something that they disagree with and putting them in a f—king cage in England in 2024 is really wild. Especially, they’re saying you can get arrested for retweeting something.” Source: The Vigilant Fox/Joe Rogan ... The current government in England and the UK looks like it is adopting a totalitarian attitude.  People who do not agree with the government facing jail time for speaking out may be forced to flee  the country.  The current government in the UK should be defeated.

James Lewis: How could Muslim doctors want to bomb innocent young party goers in their own country? Because for decades the BBC has been telling them how evil Britain and the West really are, every single day, without ever being questioned. Even without imported Pakistani imams to brainwash gullible young men into bloody jihad, sixty million people in Britain receive daily wall-to-wall indoctrination from the Left. Forget those two million Pakistani Muslims in London; the tax-funded BBC has become the single most suicidal force in Britain. As Gerard Baker wrote in the London Times , "You really do have to leave the country to appreciate fully how pernicious the BBC's grasp of the nation's cultural and political soul has become. The groupthink and assumptions implicit in almost everything broadcast by BBC News , and even less explicitly by much else of the corporation's output, lie like a suffocating blanket over the national consciousness. This is the mindset ...that...

Robin Aitken: I experienced a sense of vindication recently when I read that the BBC was about to publish a document admitting a pervasive liberal-left bias in its output. As this was the theme of my recent book, "Can We Trust the BBC?," it seemed I would be able to indulge in a spectacular bout of I-told-you-so-ing. Alas, that brief, heady moment proved premature. For while the report is a careful piece of research, it pulls its punches when it comes to bias within its own News and Current Affairs department--where it matters most. Richard Tait, chairman of the BBC's "Impartiality Steering Group," point-blank denied that there is any bias in its news output. The Beeb has never been distinguished by a culture of robust self-criticism. I know this from experience: Toward the end of my 25 years as a BBC reporter I began writing a series of internal memos, first to senior news executives and finally to the BBC's Board of Governors, detailing an entrenched liber...

Mark Steyn: A year or so after the Ayatollah Khomeini took out an Islamist mob contract on Salman Rushdie in 1989, the novelist appeared, after elaborate security arrangements, on a television arts show in London. His host was Melvyn Bragg, a longtime British telly grandee, and what was striking was how quickly the interview settled down into the usual cozy, literary chit-chat. Lord Bragg took Rushdie back to his earlier pre-fatwa work. "After your first book," drawled Bragg, "which was not particularly well-received." That's supposed to be the worst a novelist has to endure. His book will be "not particularly well-received" – i.e., some twerp reviewers will be snotty about it in the New Yorker and the Guardian. In the cozy world of English letters, it came as a surprise to find that being "not particularly well-received" meant foreign governments putting a bounty on your head and killing your publishers and translators. Even then, the litera...

Daniel Henninger: In America, presidents end speeches with, "God bless you." In the U.K. last week, Prime Minister Tony Blair ended a big speech with: "I know it will be rubbished in certain quarters." Mr. Blair's subject was the media. Rubbished it was. Simon Jenkins of the Sunday Times smashed a bottle of printer's bile against the wall and dumped the following shards on Mr. Blair's head: Only by "dismantling their footling reputations and hounding them from pillar to post will we ever get a noose round their necks." "They" are the British political class and "we" the British press. With a few exceptions, the fellows around London's newsrooms averred that the prime minister's criticism was, yes, rubbish. Perhaps the trashing flowed from the talk's most quoted line, that the media today is at times a "feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits." In my experience, no subject triggers longe...

Telegraph: The BBC was accused last night of risking the safety of British forces in Iraq after trawling for information on troop movements in the war-torn country. Politicians reacted in disbelief to the revelation that for over two hours yesterday, the BBC News website carried a request for people in Iraq to report on troop movements. The request was removed from the website after it sparked furious protests that the corporation was endangering the lives of British servicemen and women. But according to accounts last night, a story on a major operation by US and Iraqi troops against al-Qa'eda somewhere north of Baghdad contained an extraordinary request for information about the movement of troops. Last night the BBC confirmed the wording of the request was: "Are you in Iraq? Have you seen any troop movements? If you have any information you would like to share with the BBC, you can do so using the form below." The BBC confirmed last night that this form of words had ap...

Melanie Phillips: The primary duty of any government is to protect its citizens. In any normal society, people who are thought to be dangerous are jailed. Those suspected of terrorist leanings are either locked up or, if they are foreign nationals, thrown out of the country. But not in Britain. Some of the foreign terrorist suspects are not locked up at all. Instead, the Government allows them to remain in their homes under ‘control orders’. And then it loses them. Two days ago, three terrorist suspects absconded while under such control orders and are now on the run. We now learn that ’solid intelligence’ indicated that the three absconders intended to blow up British and other Allied troops abroad. This brings to a total of six the number of terror suspects whom the British security authorities have managed to lose while the subject of control orders. The system is a farcical shambles. Even worse, the Home Office tried to keep these earlier disappearances secret. We know abou...

Zev Chafets: IN 1930, poet Humbert Wolfe wrote his immortal ode to the English press: You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God) the British journalist. But seeing what the man will do Unbribed, there's no occasion to. Eight decades have done nothing to alter the essential character of England's Fourth Estate. That was demonstrated last week, at the convention of the National Union of British Journalists when, by 66 to 54, delegates of the 40,000-member group voted to impose a boycott on Israeli goods. This may not be as dire as it seems. Presumably, British journalists will now avoid Jaffa oranges, Negev tomatoes and other Zionist fruits and vegetables. They may swear off kosher wine, too. I sent an e-mail to the NUBJ in London, asking for details, but it has gone unanswered. This raises the possibility that British journalists will no longer be allowed by their union to talk to Israelis (although, as an Israeli, this seems a lot to hope for). It's not every day that a ...