Smart TVs to Switch on More Slowly Under EU Net Zero Rules

 Another article for our 'This Mad World' category ...

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Smart TVs will be forced to power up more slowly under plans to align Britain with the EU’s Net Zero rules capping the power usage of devices on standby. The Telegraph has the story.

Ministers are planning to impose new power restrictions on home devices, including TVs, robot vacuum cleaners and voice-activated light bulbs.

A consultation published by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has suggested reducing the amount of power that internet-enabled devices can use when in standby mode.

The rules would probably mean smart TVs and other devices have to disconnect from WiFi when not in use, slowing down their ‘wake-up’ time when a user switches them on again.

They would also stop some devices from downloading software during the night, which could force users to wait for them to complete updates before being used.

Smart TVs and games consoles would be required to enter ‘standby’ mode after 20 minutes of inactivity.

Meanwhile, internet-connected devices would be capped at using two watts of power when in standby.

An Amazon Fire TV Stick, one of the most popular internet-enabled dongles, uses about 2.2 watts of power when in standby mode to allow it to remain connected to the internet.

A robot vacuum cleaner typically uses between two and five watts of power to allow it to begin cleaning immediately after receiving a command from either an app or voice-activated smart speaker, such as an Alexa device.

The new rules mean users could face a delay of several seconds before their devices connect to the internet and respond to commands.

They could also apply to devices that have been switched off but run a display, such as microwaves with LED clocks. The clocks would be forced to run on lower power and probably be dimmer than current models....<<<Read More>>>....

From The Ridiculous To The Sublime - “Mother and Father” is Unacceptable Language, Says Green Party

“Mother and father” is unacceptable language, the Green Party has said, with members threatened with sanction under the party’s code of conduct if they fail to use gender-neutral terminology and ‘inclusive language’. The Telegraph has the story.

Green Party members have been told to replace terms such as “mothers and fathers” with gender-neutral terminology under new guidance on inclusive language.

They have been advised to use the terms “parents and carers” when referring to a child’s mother and father and also said people should never be referred to as “elderly”.

The guide also instructs members to use the phrase “black, Asian and minority ethnic” (Bame) with caution because “many people are uncomfortable with grouping diverse experiences under a single label”.

The same applies to “homosexual” and “transsexual” – the latter because it “does not encompass non-binary people”.

“Sexual preference” is also labelled as “unacceptable” because it “implies that attraction is a choice and should be avoided”.

The terms “lunatic” and “nutter” also do not comply with the rules because they “reinforce negative stereotypes and stigma about mental health”. The guidance tells members it “widely reflects common usage in the UK”.

It warns members that using the wrong words, as determined by the Green Party, “can create environments that feel unwelcoming or exclusionary”. This could contribute to bullying and harassment, which would be in violation of the party’s code of conduct.

The Greens have also recently launched a “healing toolkit” for its members amid growing tensions under Zack Polanski’s leadership....<<<Read More>>>...

Labour Minister Claims That Visions of Britain Based on Warm Ale, Pubs and Black Labradors Are a “Far-Right” Fantasy that “Never Really Existed”

 Another crazy member of the Loony Party, sorry the Labour Party. Her claims are pure insanity .... proving just how insane this government really is. However, it begs the question, does she really believe her delusion? Or is it a script she has been given to use? 

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Labour Minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter has said that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs and black labradors are a “far-Right” fantasy that “never really existed”. The Mail has the story.

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, who was appointed nature minister in July, told a fringe meeting at the party’s conference that she fears the far-Right will launch a battle at the next election using this supposed fantasy.

She said she is kept “awake at night” thinking about how the far-Right will weaponise the countryside at the next election.

Riddell-Carpenter told party members: “This is one of the things I do stay awake at night about, and think about, and fear.

“One of them is that if we don’t make the case for nature, for rural communities, and what we believe rural communities look like, I do believe that the next election is going to be fought on a battle line of nature and rural affairs.

“And there’ll be the far-Right deciding and determining what that looks like.

“It’ll be a vision, a nostalgic vision of Britain, that never really existed.

“It’ll be that warm ale, a black Labrador by your feet in a pub that doesn’t exist, and with symbolism of fox hunting all around them, it’ll be a very far-Right nostalgic vision of Britain that we don’t want to have, [and] never really existed.”

Despite Riddell-Carpenter’s claim that the Labrador and warm ale vision of Britain has never existed, official figures suggest otherwise. …<<<Read More>>>....

From The Ridiculous To The Sublime - BBC Slammed Over Claim That Bare Fingernails Are “Racist and Classist”

 And this is from the gang of commie dictators who still demand everyone pays for TV licence to finance their bilge!!

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The BBC has been slammed after publishing a piece arguing that the popular “bare-looking” manicure trend is rooted in racism, classism and “white supremacy”. GB News has more.

The article explored the growing demand for minimalist fake nails and has been seen as an attempt to politicise personal beauty choices.

Accusations that the broadcaster was pushing a “woke Left-wing agenda” through such content quickly gained traction online, with critics dismissing the piece as absurd and divisive.

The BBC’s article featured an interview with Paloma Buddemeier, owner of Wumman Spa in London, who described how clients were increasingly requesting natural-looking artificial nails inspired by a “quiet luxury” aesthetic trending on social media.

The piece went on to argue that nail art has historical ties to black, Latino and Asian communities, and that the elevated status now afforded to the pared-back style risks stigmatising bolder manicures.

Beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo said that the minimalist trend amounted to both classism and racism.

She told the BBC: “That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities.”

Rodulfo further argued that such styles “are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty”....<<<Read More>>>...

Why are 20% of male cattle in America producing milk?

 Male counterparts to heifers and cows, as a rule of thumb, aren’t evolutionarily designed to produce milk from their teats. Neither are human males.

Yet, as Benjamin Bartee describes below, through the use of chemicals and hormones, both male cattle and human men are defying God’s natural order. The cattle have been given no choice. Men, however, are wilfully rebelling.

For years, smug corporate media twinks, the ones who read teleprompter propaganda for their paymasters in full makeup for a living and can’t rightly condescend to anyone, scoffed condescendingly as – from a place of simultaneous total ignorance of actual biology yet full confidence in the talking points they’d been fed, a combination of attributes unique to such sock-puppets of the ruling class – they ridiculed Alex Jones for claiming that agricultural runoff leaching into the tap water was “turning the freaking frogs gay.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Councils Buy Thousands of £3,500 Robots Which ‘Represent’ Anxious Schoolchildren in Classrooms so They Can Join Lessons From Home

 Kids too anxious to go to school can now send a £3,500 robot instead, letting them sit in on lessons from home. The Mail has the story:

The AV1 robot has a camera, microphone and speaker enabling a child at home to see, hear and speak to classmates via an app.

More than 2,000 are being used nationwide, many by children with “emotionally based school avoidance”, or EBSA – a chronic refusal to go to school driven by anxiety.

Teachers place the robot on the child’s usual desk and ask them questions as though they were there, while the pupil at home can simply reply, as well as swipe their screen to turn the robot’s head through 360 degrees.

A ‘whisper mode’ lets the absent pupil speak quietly to a classmate sitting beside the robot, rather than letting the whole room hear.

The camera is one-way, so the pupil at home can see and hear the lesson without being seen....<<<Read More>>>...

Migrants Are Taking Britain for a Ride – and We’re Letting Them

 Britain has now become such a soft touch that migrants know they can break the law and lie and they will not face deportation, while Brits hamstring themselves with actually obeying their own rules, says Steven Tucker.

Far be it from me to cast aspersions upon the honour of the daughter of the Prime Minister of Kurdistan, but she would appear to be a woman of distinctly easy virtue. According to the testimony of a Home Office whistleblower revealed in the Times this week, the number of Iraqi asylum seekers who have claimed that they have been in a relationship with this highly accommodating lady, thereby necessitating their being allowed to stay here in the UK to escape the jealous wrath of her possessive Islamic father, is “in the hundreds”.

Meanwhile, a similar number of Pakistanis have likewise claimed asylum here from their notably homophobic home-nation on the sole basis that they are in possession of an Official Letter of Gayness from the exact same easy-loving gentleman back home who claims to have slept with each and every one of them; isn’t that how AIDS got started? It may be simpler for the British state, all things considered, to just give this single highly promiscuous individual asylum here in Brighton, before he can seduce anyone else and leave them in need of an immediate free passport.

The whistleblower’s account demonstrates how laughably simple it is for people from Muslim nations to gain easy access to Great Britain. Around 99 out of every 100 asylum applications “at best” are bogus, says the Times’s Home Office mole, with initial interviews with such liars after they land ashore being wholly insubstantial, allowing them months on end to concoct a supposedly ‘plausible’ story about them once having been kissed on the lips by Saddam Hussein in a public bazaar....<<<Read More>>>...

Bankrupt Council to Spend £2.6 Million Removing British Flags From Streets

 Birmingham City Council is set to spend £2.6 million removing British flags from the streets despite being bankrupt and the most indebted local authority in the country. The Telegraph has the story.

Birmingham City Council said removing British flags lining the streets would cost £2.6 million, court documents reveal.

The bankrupt council – run by a coalition of Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents – said removal works would cost the equivalent of £132 per flag.

St George’s and Union Jack flags have been plastered across Britain since last year as part of Operation Raise the Colours, a movement in favour of promoting national pride.

Around 20,000 flags were installed on lamp posts across Birmingham, which will cost approximately £2.6 million to remove, according to documents submitted to the High Court.

Birmingham City Council has more than £3.5 billion of debt, the most of any local authority in the country. In September 2023, it issued a section 114 notice, effectively declaring itself bankrupt, after over a decade of Labour majority control.....<<<Read More>>>...

Birmingham to Become England’s First 20mph City

 In plans updated last week, the Liberal Democrat, Green Party and independent-led council said it wanted all routes except A-roads to become 20mph zones.

The council said it wanted to ensure that cars “no longer dominate street life” by promoting walking and cycling as the best ways to travel. However, opponents have claimed the “anti-motorist policy” will make travelling around the city harder.

The move comes amid Andy Burnham’s push for devolution, which could give local authorities greater power to impose similar controversial policies on their areas.

Birmingham, once regarded as the motor capital of Britain because of its vast car production and trailblazing road designs, adopted a plan in 2021 to expand the rollout of 20mph zones.

The new council coalition has gone further and committed to lowering speed limits across the city.

In its plan, which was put out for public consultation last week, Birmingham City Council said: “A limit of 20mph will be standard on all local roads.....<<<Read More>>>...

Left-wing politicians’ disdain for patriotism and British culture is behind their war on national flags

 The display of national flags, such as the Union Jack and St George’s Cross, is being met with hostility from left-wing politicians, who claim it creates “fear and division” in local communities.

The true reason for the ban, Paul Embery says, is their disdain for patriotism and traditional British culture.

What is it about our national flag that brings out such hypocrisy in the metropolitan elites? Why do these people, who seem entirely relaxed about the display of virtually every other kind of flag, even politically contentious or divisive ones, exhibit such hostility towards the colours of their own nation?

In recent days, Oxfordshire County Council became the first local authority to successfully impose a legal ban on the placement of flags on lampposts, after activists from the ‘Raise the Colours’ campaign had festooned some streets with the Union Jack and St George’s Cross.

The council is run by – no surprises here – the Liberal Democrats. In the high court, where it was seeking an injunction against the activists, the council claimed that the display of flags from roadside infrastructure gave rise to serious safety concerns.

But its leader, Tim Bearder, had already disclosed what appeared to be the real reason for the ban, telling the media before the court hearing that the flags were creating “fear and division” in local communities...<<<Read More>>>....

Green Councils Want to Scrap School Exams, Get Rid of Prevent and Refuse to Co-Operate With Immigration Enforcement

 Green-led councils are eyeing a range of crackpot policies, including ditching school exams, scrapping Prevent and refusing to co-operate with immigration enforcement. The Telegraph has the story.

Three London councils – Hackney, Lewisham and Haringey – said they wanted to lobby the Government on a series of national issues over education, home affairs and counter-terrorism following Green wins in the local elections on May 7th.

The Greens won 441 seats and seized control of five councils for the first time in the party’s history. But concerns have been raised that the Left-wing party could use its powers to “undermine vital safeguarding measures”.

Scrapping “high-stakes formal testing” in schools, such as GCSEs and A-levels, is one of the policy ideas being explored.

In Hackney, East London, Green councillors said they would refuse to share data of migrant victims of domestic abuse with immigration enforcement agencies.

Instead, they advocated a firewall to be established between the police and the Home Office, which could frustrate attempts by the Government to tackle Britain’s illegal immigration crisis. …

The Green Party’s manifesto also includes plans to lobby the Government to axe Prevent, the Government’s deradicalisation programme aimed to stop people from “becoming terrorists and supporting terrorism”. …

They also hope to convince the Supreme Court to rewrite the Code of Practice, which would “allow for trans inclusion in single-sex services”, undermining efforts to keep biological men from participating in women’s sports or entering female prisons. …<<<Read More>>>....

1 in 7 People Now Ask AI Instead of Seeing a GP, Study Finds

A new UK study says one in seven people are already using chatbots for health advice instead of contacting a GP or another NHS service. One in ten say they have used AI for mental-health therapy or wellbeing support instead of seeing a trained professional. 25% of people making the switch to digital, unregulated medical advice cite long NHS wait times as part of the reason, 20% of people said AI did not encourage them to seek professional help, and 21% said they decided against professional advice because of what a chatbot told them.

The new study by King’s Health Partners reveals a worrying change in behaviour rather than a passing curiosity. According to the results, people have transitioned beyond just asking ChatGPT if their headache may be down to stress, and we’re seeing a growing share of the public letting unregulated consumer AI models shape decisions about whether or not to see a GP. Professor Graham Lord, the lead author, said the country is seeing “an unregulated AI healthcare system alongside the NHS.”

Along with Responsible AI UK and the Policy Institute at King’s College London, King’s Health Partners surveyed more than 2,000 adults and found that convenience was the biggest reason people turned to chatbots for medical advice, cited as 46% of adults, followed by “curiosity” at 45%, uncertainty about whether the issue was serious enough for a GP at 39%, and NHS waiting times at 25%. The combination of frustration, convenience, and doubt is a revealing one, as it means people are not turning to AI because they trust it more than professionals. Instead, they are using chatbots simply because they are easier, faster, and more available....<<<Read More>>>...

Defra wants to replace native white Britons with anything but white to “diversify” the countryside

 More mad world stuff .... they want the racist white people gone from the UK countryside (Places like the Lake District, Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, Snowdonia etc) to be replaced by the diverse non-racist imports from other parts of the world .... this pantomime has reached popcorn time .... the white hating satanists are in full flow ... imagine a typical scene in say Ambleside (Lake District) .... non-whites on all the streets, in all the shops and cafes; in the cars. Cafes and restaurants not selling bacon, pork, salami ... NO more pubs will exist .... no doubt a mosque or two will appear in Ambleside ... all churches will probably be converted .... a horror story in the making .... enter DEFRA and its woke satanism.

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The British government has launched a project to increase ethnic minority visitation and employment in the English countryside. Why? Because it is “too white” and therefore, in the skewed minds of left-wing ideologues, “racist.”

So, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has embarked on a project to replace the “whiteness,” i.e. the natives, of the English countryside with non-whites.

Defra’s initiative is an attempt to erode the cultural continuity of the native British people and impose a multicultural ideology, rather than addressing the actual reasons for low ethnic minority participation in rural areas.

In the early months of 2026, the British state has formalised a remarkable project: the engineered diversification of the English countryside, long characterised – accurately, if now scandalously – as a “white environment.” Initiatives driven by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (“Defra”) and adopted by National Landscapes (formerly Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) explicitly target increased ethnic minority visitation and employment. These efforts, rooted in reports decrying rural spaces as “exclusive,” “white middle-class” and potentially “irrelevant” to a multicultural society, include tailored outreach to Muslim communities in urban centres such as Luton, revised marketing featuring greater diversity, multilingual materials and recruitment drives.

Anything but a benign expansion of access, this move represents a polemical assertion by a deracinated elite that the native British people possess no legitimate claim to cultural continuity in their ancestral landscapes. Where once the countryside offered solace – a living repository of history, quiet and a slower rhythm of life consonant with the temper of the English character – it is now to be refashioned as a theatre for demographic demonstration. The implications are profound, and the pessimism that they evoke reflects clear-eyed recognition of civilisational erosion rather than nostalgia....<<<Read More>>>...

Trans Green Party Candidate With No Permanent British Visa is Elected to Holyrood

A biologically male trans Green candidate, who had been crowdfunding for a temporary UK visa days before the election, has now been voted into Holyrood as an MSP. The Mail has more.

Q. Manivannan, 29, began a fundraiser for a temporary graduate visa before [his] election to Holyrood as an MSP this week.

Dr Manivannan, a non-binary Indian immigrant who came to Scotland in 2021, sent messages to party colleagues asking them to donate to a fundraiser seeking to collect £2,089 for the visa, which would allow [him] three years to work and live in the UK.

A newly-elected regional list MSP who stood in Edinburgh and Lothian East, Dr Manivannan said the time-limited right to stay in the country would allow [him] to save for the £5,047 cost of applying for a global talent visa. …

Former Conservative MSP Sue Webber, who failed to win a seat on Friday, had previously said: “Voters will be astonished that this candidate doesn’t even know if they will be able to stay in the country going forward.”

Dr Manivannan was elected as one of the first two transgender MSPs to sit in Holyrood …

Dr Manivannan was able to stand for Holyrood despite not being a UK citizen because of legislation passed under the SNP Government in 2020.

Under the updated election law anyone with the right to live in the UK, including those with a temporary right to vote, can stand as a candidate at elections to the Scottish Parliament. …<<<Read More>>>...

UK Government’s obsession with controlling our lives continues: Net Zero Zealots are targeting tumble dryers

Just when are people going to wake up to this insanity and utter madness?

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 Ed Miliband, the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, is implementing regulations to phase out the sale of traditional tumble dryers (including vented and condenser models) to meet Net Zero targets.

This policy, part of the proposed replacement of ‘Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Household Tumble Dryers) Regulations 2021’, bans new models with an Energy Efficiency Index (“EEI”) above 85.

“The government will repeal and replace the current ecodesign and energy labelling standards for household tumble dryers in GB with new regulations that will bring in requirements in line with the European Union (EU) Regulations,” the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s response to a consultation on raising standards for household tumble dryers said.

“The policy does not prohibit owning or using existing tumble dryers, but instead restricts the sale of new, less-efficient models in order to achieve Net Zero targets,” Express reported.

Critics, including Reform UK and the Conservative Party, have condemned the move as ludicrous and a “mad” form of “Soviet control.”

Miliband’s machines are more expensive, require longer drying times and heat pumps are noisy; according to the Hearing Health Foundation, anything above 70dB is enough to damage hearing over time. Additionally, certain heat pump models have technical faults that have caused the machines to burst into flames. In December, the owners of 85,000 heat-pump tumble dryers were warned about a fire risk with their machines....<<<Read More>>>....

The Devon Experiment That Could Plunge Britain Into Darkness

 In the Telegraph, Lauren Shirreff reports that Exeter is switching off its street lights to save money and the planet – but locals say it feels like a nightly curfew, with women in particular feeling unsafe getting home. Here’s how her article begins:

“It’s like having a curfew,” says Rose Lelliott, 23. Outside her flat, on a quiet road in Exeter – the sort of place you’d imagine your mother would encourage you to live, were you a young woman moving away from home for the first time – the street lights that once guided her way to the local train station are all either broken, working at half-power or permanently snuffed out.

Lelliott commutes to London once a week, where she works as a researcher at the House of Commons. To make the train for her 9am start, she has to be out the door by 5.15am, but the streetlamps along her road are turned off between 12.30pm and 5.30am. After 9.30pm, they’re dimmed to just 40% of their usual power.

Lelliott used to make the 20-minute journey on foot, “but I wouldn’t chance it now”, she says. So she spends £9 each way on taxi fares, on top of the cost of her return ticket. “I’m having to pay because I don’t feel safe,” she says, “but I’ve also heard from a woman who’s given up her job completely because she was doing shift work. She had to choose between financial independence and her own safety.”

This is a student city, but for many women here, a night on the town is now out of the question....<<<Read More>>>...

The Low Alcohol Era is Now Upon Us – and It Will Bore Us Silly

 Bridget Jones era women cackling over a bottle of Chardonnay, men in quarter zips knocking back the negronis, highlighted blondes ordered vat-like glasses of rosé or ‘lady petrol’, groups of lads downing pints of Stella a.k.a. wife-beater, Cheltenham racegoers consuming lakes of Guinness, west country teenagers sloshing plastic glasses of sui-cider, couples sharing a bottle of Burgundy and a bag of kettle crisps on a Friday night – what was once a great nation of heroic drinkers is evaporating into a temperate nation of 0.0 boredom.

My own recent drinking experiences – or lack of them – mirrors the news that the UK’s appetite for alcohol is shifting. The low-alcohol market is growing apace and 35% of younger people are said to avoid drink altogether. Mintel, the market research firm, suggests that the low/non-alcohol market at £330 million in 2024 is set to grow to £800 million by 2028. 

A combination of better products and a greater interest in health and wellbeing are understood to be driving the trend. 0.0 Guinness tastes, I’m told, exactly the same as real Guinness and is the UK’s top-selling non-alcoholic beer with over half of Ocado’s deliveries being the 0.0 version. While it’s tempting to celebrate this trend – let us not forget the tragedy of approximately 10,000 alcohol-specific deaths a year – am I wrong in thinking, Basil Fawlty-like, it’s a pity that that particular avenue of pleasure has been closed off?...<<<Read More>>>...

Rural Britain Needs To Be Less White

 Whatever Next! Britain is a WHITE country. We do not want any more dilution of the true Brits ... it has gone far enough .... 

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Anyone who has watched the hit Netflix show Bridgerton might have raised an eyebrow or two at the sight of an elegant Georgian England that bears little or no resemblance to the historical reality. The line-up of characters features a dramatic display of ethnically diverse characters that serves almost as a parody of the tick-box casting the BBC has recently been told to stop indulging in.

Reinventing the past for the sake of entertainment, however misleading, is one thing. Now it seems the present is to be reinvented too.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has put together plans to diversify the countryside and make it “less white”, according to the Telegraph, though perhaps it should be called the “Bridgertonisation” of rural Britain:

The plans follow Defra-commissioned reports that claimed the countryside would become “irrelevant” in a multicultural society, as it was a “white environment” principally enjoyed by the “white middle class”.

National Landscapes – previously called areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) – and their local councils have since committed to a number of diversity targets.

The Chilterns National Landscape team has set out proposals that include community outreach schemes to attract more Muslims to the area, particularly from nearby Luton.

More diverse staff will be recruited, marketing material will be produced featuring people visibly from ethnic minorities, and written in “community languages”.

Research has also been commissioned to support this work, some of which suggests that dogs should be kept under tighter control, as some groups are scared of them....<<<Read More>>>...

DEI and a stark admission – it’s a war against straight white males

A MONTH ago Compact magazine published The Lost Generation, an article by the leftist millennial writer Jacob Savage. It went viral and divided opinion. To conservatives it was old news or even faintly humorous. To millennial leftists it was an uncomfortable revelation, though it’s highly unlikely Savage will effect any long-term change in their ideology or behaviour since their entire ethos has an inbuilt requirement pushing it towards ever greater extremes.

What was it he wrote that made them – risking a thrashing in the waters of the online moment – share, and thus acknowledge, their shock and discomfort?

Savage explains, in a way more devastating for being regretful rather than vicious, what the impact of DEI policies looks like. He describes the rather obvious fact that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies might better be described as Discrimination, Entitlement and Injustice. It also comes from an insider, a signed-up fellow traveller. Savage is a screenwriter who ticks all the boxes in terms of the politics and ideology now demanded in his industry.

This is a writer who ‘cared about social justice’, voted Democrat, and subscribed to all the uniform opinions and highly delusional leftist self-image of themselves as bringers of justice, righters of wrongs, and champions of the poor, the oppressed and the vulnerable.

Savage begins his critique with personal details of hardship, referencing his poverty as he struggled in his career and talking about a specific incident when a screenplay and a writing post were denied to him because he is a white male (explicitly stated to him by the industry figures involved in the decision). He doesn’t phrase this in an angry or even annoyed fashion, but almost wistfully, like a man describing a beloved girlfriend he let go.

The use of personal experience is of course entirely in line with woke prioritisation of emotion and feeling, especially in ‘lived experience’ narratives of discrimination and the tendency towards ‘my truth’ accounts. What makes it so effective is that Savage knows this literature and has spent much of his life agreeing with it, but turns its devices back upon his own treatment and that of white millennial males generally....<<<Read More>>>...

Thought police arrive in Pennsylvania: Court greenlights warrantless search of your Google history

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled police do not need a warrant to access an individual's Google search history.

The court argued users have no "reasonable expectation of privacy" because tech companies routinely collect and sell data.

The decision stemmed from a rape investigation where police used a "reverse keyword warrant" to identify a suspect.

Legal experts warn the ruling treats private thoughts as public data and sets a dangerous national precedent.

The logic suggests opting out of surveillance requires abstaining from essential modern internet use.

In a ruling that privacy advocates warn fundamentally reshapes the boundaries of government surveillance, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared Tuesday that law enforcement does not need a warrant to access an individual’s Google search history. The decision, which originated from a 2025 rape investigation in Pennsylvania, concluded that internet users cannot reasonably expect privacy for their online queries because data collection by corporations is now commonplace. By equating corporate data harvesting with a public surrender of constitutional rights, the court has granted police a powerful new tool to probe the private thoughts of citizens, setting a precedent that threatens to chill free inquiry and expand the surveillance state....<<<Read More>>>...