The video below this post is from a Gloucester City Council meeting on 25th January 2024, at which it appears that a member of the public was prohibited from speaking, not due to time constraints, but due to content.

The glib response and appalling body language of the attending police constables demonstrates well the complete absence of autonomy or critical-thinking at this level; not to mention the utter failure to grasp the profundity of the wider issue at hand.

If you wear uniform, it is not OK to stand with your hands in your pockets. If you've sworn an oath to accord 'equal respect to all people', then you blinking well mean it.

Ironically, the agenda for the meeting is in the 'democracy' section of the website.

In UK Column News Extra on 24th January we were talking about what we can do. Taking a leaf from this gentleman's book would be a good place to start.

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https://democracy.gloucester.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=141&MId=7452

I have spoken about the situation in Somaliland a couple of times now, on UK Column News. Despite its location in the Horn of Africa, this is not a story that the legacy media wants to deal with. HMG has washed its hands of it, thus far, despite creating the tension in the first place.

This is a handy update, with useful context.

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https://haadka.com/blog/2024-01-26-the-somaliland-ethiopia-mou-a-new-era-in-the-horn-of-africa/

'Ethical Hacking' joins a very long list of other 'ethical' offences being carried out by, or at the behest of, HMG.

As a frame of reference, this slide shows the current Bereavement Compensation 'where the death of an individual was caused by service in the UK Armed Forces', from the most recent edition of JSP 765 Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.

Grant Shapps and Patrick Sanders should have this at the top of all promotional material which advertises war with Russia as a 'good idea'.

Strewth! Even if Mystic Mog and Nostradamus had been working on this at The Speed of Science™️, surely they wouldn't have predicted it.

But, yer man in the street would have had his last few bob on it.

The Spectator does ask some idiotic questions; this corker from the wife of Dominic 'Eye Test' Cummings.

Hard as it is to believe that the cult of Covid still has any followers–four years on–the reality is that many remain under the spell.

This clip of Nick Hudson articulating the absurdity of the timeline is a very useful one. It may be employed to confirm that you have not gone mad.

Mostly, though, it serves as a powerful reminder of the deceit, corruption, complicity, collusion and inhumanity of those that served up, and went along with, the most diabolical and divisive falsehood.

Nevena just found another gear. Social media has made for some incredibly undignified and highly personal wrangling and people using it in such a manner should not be surprised to lose sympathy

If you have ever posted anything on 'X' which has a whiff of the counter-narrative to it, you will know that hot chicks flock to it as though their lives depended upon it. They sure do love dissent.

With apologies to all the other scantily clad freedom wallahs chasing down the truth, I think Lorene has just taken.....pole position.

These maniacs have some extremely alarming ideas about 'war'. However, it is amusing to be reminded that someone called Oliver Dowden is both Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Disaster Preparedness. It is not entirely clear whether he helps the Prime Minister prepare the disasters, or whether he does it on his own.

'Finest hour?
Indeed, for all the foreboding about societal collapse, facing a common threat could give Britain a new-found sense of unity – something many Ukrainians speak of. Just as there was the “Clap for Carers” during the pandemic, similar rituals might take place for those serving at the front. And for every shirker or draft-dodger, others might take pride in national duty, be it manning a machine gun post or cleaning the streets.

“Covid showed our ugly side, with people getting upset when all they were being asked to do was sit on the sofa at home,” said the former TA soldier. 

“But I do think that, under threat of invasion, Brits would pull together, just as Ukraine has done. It might be for the best in some ways – right now all we do is bitch and complain about things.”

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/27/what-would-happen-britain-at-war/

In a special UK Column Extra we are joined by Chaka Artwell, better known to his friends as Artwell, an enthusiastic activist from Oxford. Highly knowledgeable about his local council and their activities, Artwell has recently been challenging implementation of the Oxford LTN Low Traffic Neighbourhood. He describes this initiative as East Oxford’s road block and anti-car policy, and he highlights that by shutting off side road connections with the main arterial routes through the city, the council is creating mayhem for drivers and local people alike.

Artwell is also deeply concerned about the loss of wider freedoms in our Constitutional Monarchy and he sees that Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals are frequently to be found at the core of Oxford’s, and other councils’ policies. Supposedly designed to make the lives of local people better, in practice, they quickly seem to do the opposite.

Artwell’s upbeat and challenging approach to contentious matters within Oxford recently made him the focus of an Oxford Mail article, written by politics reporter Albert Tait. In what should have been an article recognising the importance of Artwell’s questions and challenges to unwelcome Oxford Council policies, Tait attempted to smear Artwell and his former hard work as a prospective parliamentary candidate, by dismissively calling him a ‘Former MP Wanabee.’

In fact Artwell had discovered that so sensitive was Oxford Council to his challenges, his emails, setting out questions that he had wanted to ask at formal council meetings, had been ’disappearing’ into an ‘un-monitored' council inbox. Without Council acknowledgement of his questions, Artwell was subsequently denied his rightful attendance and participation as a member of the public in those supposedly democratic meetings.

Please join Brian Gerrish, Alex Thomson, Mark Anderson and Artwell in our relaxed UKC News Extra conversation and learn more about Artwell and the importance of simple local activism in a uni-party world.

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-extra-29th-january-2024

There is something pathetic about the techosphere (which might be a new word). Nobody has sufficient imagination or creativity to make up new words for things. We are left in a blancmange of confusion, unsure of the meaning of tablet, mouse, ram, chip and the rest of it.

Here, it looks as though this chap is opening his mouth to accept the cookies on offer.

A note on Andrew Bridgen, following the swirling comment in relation to the posts of ‘tweets’ from his wife.

Everyone has their own definition of what it is to be controlled opposition and what the potential consequences of such a situation are. As far as I am concerned, the argument Bridgen has chosen is not the one I would have pressed. He is vaccine harmed. Given his position in the first instance, which was that he was mostly in support of Government restrictions, the jabs themselves and—even—mandates for healthcare workers, it looks as though he has only changed direction because of the effect on him, personally.

It also looks very much like he is, in principle, supporting the Government’s position that ‘vaccines’ should be imposed on people and that the only reason that he does not is that these ones are not ‘safe and effective’. Only retrospectively—as well as on wider issues—has he suggested that the freedom to make choices on such matters rests with the individual. As far as I am concerned, this is the ONLY point which matters, as it may not be subverted by circumstance. Looking back, this is precisely the reason why the ‘vaccine passport’ was available to those that had not been jabbed but had, in effect, signed up to the scheme by taking part in a clinical ‘trial’ or by getting a medical exemption. The underlying message is that ‘we would have got the jab if….’

However, the specific issue upon which he is campaigning is the harm and excess death created by these pharmaceutical products. Since he is the only MP in a chamber of 650 to speak out about this, to dismiss him outright looks a lot like cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face. It is a message which needs to shouted from the rooftops and I think it is a mistake to imagine that it detracts from the core message surrounding liberty, choice and risk. Remember, these are Members of Parliament we are talking about; a collection of the most narcissistic, self-interested and small-minded individuals in the country. How much are they likely to care for their constituents’ views on their individual freedoms?

Andrew Bridgen will forever be tainted by his support for the unsupportable and for his failure to speak out about the wider point. He is also rendered extremely vulnerable by a number of bad smells which follow him around. But, if he stops banging the drum on excess deaths and vaccine harms, complete silence will fall upon Westminster and I really cannot see who benefits in such an eventuality.

The bizarre and undignfied spat with his wife on Twitter may well signal the beginning of the end for Bridgen. Or, it may not. Either way, may I recommend spending a little less time concentrating on whether you think Bridgen a good bloke or a prize ratbag and a little more time concentrating on how you can amplify the message that there is a very specific reason for the excess death toll? The more people that understand that message, the more people will question the direction they were being pushed in in the first place.

He'll need quite some movement off the seam to get out of this one.

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Ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan sentenced to ten years in prison https://www.rt.com/news/591517-imran-khan-pakistan-jail/