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01’] Children as young as nine years old have been asked at school to draw a picture of a dead loved one.
04’] Lord Ashcroft’s book has sharply criticised his former ally David Cameron.
09’] Kathryn Hudson, the Parliamentary ombudswoman who very surprisingly cleared Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind (who has since resigned as Chairman of the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee) of wrongdoing was partly appointed by Rifkind.
13’] UK Column research indicates that Sarah Champion, the MP for Rochdale whom Jeremy Corbyn has just appointed to a role in the prevention of child abuse, underwent Common Purpose training in the 1990s.
15’] The Huffington Post quotes a general as threatening that if Corbyn downgrades the British armed forces, there is likely to be a mutiny or a military coup.
18’] The Crane Report (“Humanity vs. Insanity”) is at 19:30 tonight and focuses on ethnic cleansing in the Middle East.
19’] In the Daily Telegraph, Liam Halligan warns Corbyn that “large-scale money-printing always ends in tears”.
23’] A reason why the BoE should never be trusted: Andy Haldane, one of the BoE’s committee members for the setting of interest rates, is suggesting (in the Daily Express) the abolition of cash. If this is done, it will of course be undertaken by the banks at a time when interest rates are low. If all money is digital and the only way to spend is to use a card, people will have no opportunity to withdraw funds from their bank accounts. How democratic is that? Brian Gerrish points out that with sufficient trust, local currencies could work perfectly well, but that the aim of such initiatives and suggestions is total control.
26’] A financial adviser’s e-mail to Gerrish is read out and displayed on screen. He has noticed that moveyourmoney.org.uk has removed information on all but the supposed top three institutions per category, and he knows that the institutions selected are not actually the best performers.
29’] Plymouth City Council has given a “Criminal Behaviour Order” to the owners, Nigel Healey and Karen Chan, of a building which the Plymouth Herald calls a “million pound slum”. The CBO requires the property to be tidied up by a certain date.
32’] The Stop the War Coalition published a poetic invective against the Queen (whose title begins “God save the Queen …”) on its website this past weekend. This occasioned Corbyn’s resignation as chairman of the StWC.
38’] The Buxton Advertiser (Derbyshire) reports “[Rotherham] Council chiefs back police calls for an end to protests in South Yorkshire”.
41’] The Cliff Richard investigation by police is looking unstable. Making sure that police do not investigate is a good way for there to be no crime recorded.
42’] Gerrish concludes by saying that the freedom of the press is the only factor preventing full dictatorship in Britain.