Short of modern China’s mass surveillance society, communist East Germany was perhaps one of the most spied-upon in history. Combining typical communist paranoia with Teutonic efficiency, the Stasi secret police deployed twelve times as many secret police officers per head as the Gestapo. Worse, with an informal network
13th November 2020 Well, it had to happen. Today saw the departure of Lee Cain, Director of Communications at 10 Downing Street. He made the mistake of getting offside with Carrie Symonds (Johnson’s partner) and her coterie of women pals at Downing Street. Ably assisted by the PM’s
Prince Harry is rapidly finding that he can’t have his cake and eat it. He has chosen to “resign” as a Royal in favour of pursuing celebrity status in the United States. So he has little call, one would think, for whining at being refused the opportunity to make
Information Satire Our dear leader Mr Goosestepper congratulated Ms Ardern after her victory in the New Zealand elections. He noted the success of her campaign in which her style of froth, bubble and fairy dust triumphed over the presentation of facts and policies. This confirmed his own previously reported preference
When the iconic Notre Dame de Paris cathedral went up in flames last year, the Western world was shocked and saddened. The cause of the fire is yet to be definitively established – although investigators are claiming electrical faults as the likeliest culprit – but it was unsurprising that many immediately suspected
The fallout from the announcement of the lockdown continues. Today, the Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance and the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty appeared before the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. Labour MP Graham Stringer asked Sir Patrick if he believed he had frightened people with
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Rodrigo Ballester Rodrigo Ballester cooperates with Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest. He holds a law degree from CEU San Pablo University in Madrid and an LL.M. from the College of Europe in Bruges. A European civil servant now on personal leave, he spent several years in Brussels including two
2 November 2020 The leak that wasn’t continues. As the search for the leaker(s) progresses there are more denials than from a Daniel Andrews government. It appears there were 15 people in the know. This includes the four ministers, Johnson, Gove, Sunak and Hancock, science advisors and the
As Slade’s Noddy Holder explained, regarding his perennial Christmas hit, Merry Christmas, Everybody, Christmas cheer has for centuries been one of the few bright spots in even the darkest British winters. The winter of 1973 was a particularly grim one, with Britain wracked by terror, strikes and shortages. A
UK Labour has finally admitted what has been common knowledge for years: the party is riddled with anti-Semitism – all the way to the very top. In a stunning move, the party has suspended the most recent leader to lead it into a general election, Jeremy Corbyn. Former leader Jeremy
31st October 2020 I am sitting here waiting for the announcement of a new lockdown in England. It was scheduled for 4pm, then deferred to 5pm, then sometime after 5pm and then 6.30pm. As the contents of the speech due to be made by the Prime Minister have been
As Theodore Dalrymple has noted, the Scottish National Party are nationalists and socialists: they are National Socialists. In fact, the ties of the SNP to Nazism run all the way back to its founding. Founding member and second chairman, Andrew Dewar Gibb, frequently quoted Hitler in speeches, and although he
delingpole.podbean.com Dr Mike Yeadon has a degree in biochemistry and toxicology, a research-based PhD in respiratory pharmacology, has spent over 30 years leading new medicines research in the pharmaceuticals industry, and founded his own biotech company which he sold to the world’s biggest drug company Novartis
In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers were hysterically predicting every calamity from World War III to instant economic calamity if Britain voted to leave the EU. Suffice to say, the world failed to self-immolate in a cloud of radioactive fire and any economic calamity can be
The position just gets madder and madder. The latest revised guidance from the Welsh government now states that it is not permissible to buy a non-essential item unless it is essential to buy a non-essential item. They still haven’t produced a list of non-essential items but
