Extinction Rebellion has stunk up the planet with its stupid actions
HOW dare they? I reckon that will be the reaction of millions to the preening, planet-polluting morons of Extinction Rebellion who, in the early hours yesterday, attempted to silence free speech in this country.
They failed. They did their very best to silence the British newspaper industry — but they failed.
As they will always fail.
The virtue-signalling simpletons blocked printing presses producing The Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, The Financial Times and The Sun.
That is the cream of the British newspaper industry right there — and XR used every means possible to shut it down.
And really — how bloody dare they?
Who gave them the right to paralyse the free press? Who gave them the right to stop the British public from reading the morning newspaper they choose?
Who gave XR the right to play God?
So many people were hurt by their moronically destruc- tive actions — the men and women who work at the printing presses they picketed, the lorry drivers attempting to distribute the newspapers, your local newsagent who is trying to make a living, your paperboy or girl — and YOU, denied your right to read the newspaper you choose.
Do not forget this outrage. Do not forgive it.
Yesterday’s copy of The Sun included a wonderful interview with Sir David Attenborough, headlined Humanity Is At A Crossroads But We Can Do Lots To Help.
Extinction Rebellion attempted to censor David Attenborough.
It must be so proud!
And it did not work — today The Sun on Sunday reprints Sir David’s vital message about healing our planet and our species on page 26.
Do these monumentally destructive idiots really think they can silence a voice like David Attenborough? Do they truly believe they can cancel our national debate? Their arrogance is off the scale. Do they imagine their cause is served by attempting to silence the free press?
I can think of few things more likely to make the British public despise them.
When my Sun was late arriving yesterday, I popped in to see my local newsagent, who was desperately trying to do his job after the night’s disruption.
He was exhausted, but had a big grin on his face when he placed the (slightly late) copy of The Sun in my hands.
Get the message, you sandal-wearing saddos?
No matter how hard you try to annihilate free speech, in the end you will fail.
The printing presses will not be silenced, the lorries will continue to roll.
Oh dear, what an own goal
The newsagent will be in his little shop at the crack of dawn, the paperboy and girl will do what they have done for generations.
And the British public will read the morning paper of their choice over that first cup of tea or coffee.
This country has the greatest and most diverse newspaper industry in the world — it is perhaps time that we all remembered that fact and decided that it is worth fighting for against all those who love to exterminate it.
Exactly how stupid is Extinction Rebellion? Not only has it launched an assault on the free press, the absolute bedrock of our democracy, it has also stunk up the planet with its stupid actions.
Does it really think our poor, groaning planet is served if hundreds of thousands of newspapers are left to rot? Oh dear, what an own goal.
Tell your children, Extinction Rebellion is not the solution to what ails this planet. It is part of the problem.
Only Extinction Rebellion could give saving the planet a bad name!
Strictly a mystery
IT is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – and moaning that you have never heard of the celebrities on the next Strictly.
Jason Bell (a former NFL star who apparently had a baby with Nadine Coyle of Girls Aloud), Jamie Laing (a reality TV star who pulled out of the last series because of injury), Max George (formerly of The Wanted, it says here), Clara Amfo (Radio 1 DJ), Maisie Smith (EastEnders bad girl) – to be honest, I am struggling to put faces to the names.
There is also a mystery YouTube star among the celebs.
Why bother?
Most of them are already a mystery.
I know Nicola Adams, set to take part in Strictly’s first same-sex pairing, because I am a boxing fan and I vaguely remember Caroline Quentin from Men Behaving Badly.
But there’s no denying Strictly has now reached the point where the dancers are bigger names than the celebrities. Oti Mabuse, above, is more famous than this lot put together.
LET’S VOTE THEN, NIC
NICOLA STURGEON, the SNP’s thin-lipped supremo, cares more about defying Westminster than defeating terror.
Plans to give convicted terrorists lie-detector tests, to see if they have truly reformed before releasing them from prison, have been blocked from being brought in across the whole of the UK by Sturgeon’s SNP minions.
A polygraph could have prevented the release of Usman Khan, who slaughtered two young probation volunteers last year.
Sturgeon doesn’t give a damn – it’s only the English, right? She wants a once-in-a-lifetime referendum on Scottish independence. Another one.
Let her have it. But let the 700,000 Scottish-born voters living in England also have a say in Scotland’s destiny.
For they are all just as Scottish as Nicola Sturgeon.
She might find they do not hate the UK quite as much as she does.
HARRY’S DEAL HITS BUM NOTE
THE Only Way Is Sussex! The great thing about Harry and Meghan’s megabucks production deal with Netflix is that finally it takes them off the UK’s payroll.
No doubt the cheque for renovating Frogmore Cottage, their abandoned mansion in Windsor, is already in the post.
The happy couple were planning to pay the British taxpayer £18,000 a month for the next 11 years for Frogmore.
But after signing a deal worth up to £112million with Netflix, there is no excuse for not settling the bill right now.
The downside of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix deal is that they are now confronted with the grubby reality of doing business in the market place.
Netflix plans to air a musical about Princess Diana that is tacky beyond belief.
Diana: A New Musical features grotesque inventions such as the Queen saying of Diana, “She’s going out dressed like a tart”, and informing the late princess: “In the old days we would have chopped your head off.”
Did it happen? Of course not.
This is cheap, nasty, unspeakably exploitative American garbage.
Diana: A New Musical – originally a Broadway show – features the kind of chortling, nudge-nudge, wink-wink innuendo that would even have made Benny Hill reach for the sick bag.
The James Hewitt character seems especially prone to remarks about riding lessons, climbing in the saddle and the size of his stallion.
Prince Harry is now free to do what he likes with his life and his career.
But millions of British people who mourned his mother will be disappointed if he does not insist that Netflix pulls this disgusting piece of trash.
You sold Netflix a production deal, Harry.
Not your soul.
BIDEN THE LIGHTSABER
JOE BIDEN excitedly compares the race for the White House with a battle between light and darkness.
“I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness,” proclaims Joe.
Biden is deeply unconvincing, seeming prone to what my mum called, “old timer’s disease.”
Does the 77-year-old truly understand he’s running for President – and not attempting to destroy Darth Vader’s Death Star? Maybe tell him after his afternoon nap.
NEW BOSS GIVES THE BBC HOPE
FUTURE historians will record that the BBC stopped being an impartial national broadcaster in the summer of 2016.
Since then the Beeb has relentlessly smeared the 17.4million who voted for Brexit as thick, ignorant, racist bigots.
The biggest vote for anything in the world’s greatest democracy, has been treated with unbridled contempt.
Driven totally bonkers by Brexit, every cranny of the corporation has been infested with the same political bias, from the Newsnight yawn-fest to right-on comedy shows.
Is it really so surprising we stopped loving the BBC?
The problem facing Tim Davie, the likeable new Director-General, is that we lavishly fund the corporation but it is staffed by middle-class, metropolitan globalists who despise everything about the average Brit – our patriotism, our pride in our history, our belief that this country is worth celebrating and loving.
Davie deserves every credit for reversing the monumentally moronic decision to ban the lyrics of Land Of Hope And Glory and Rule Britannia! from the Last Night Of The Proms on just his second day in the office.
But he has a very hard job ahead in the age of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky, BT and the rest.
Now that the Beeb is as brazenly partisan as any newspaper, why should it trouser £4billion a year from millions of people it does not represent?
It is complacent, arrogant, unaccountable, out of touch and institutionally stupid.
Can one good man change such an historic shift?
I wish Davie every success. At last the BBC has a decent boss who knows the difference between being a proud British patriot and a goose-stepping, slave-owning Nazi.
But it is a genuine tragedy for the BBC – and for the nation – that he was not in the job five years ago.
LOOKS LIKE CULTURAL CELEBRATION
WITH the Notting Hill carnival cancelled due to coronavirus, Adele saluted the event with her hair in Bantu knots, a Jamaican flag bikini and a feather headdress.
In these thin-skinned times, the Tottenham-born singer was predictably chastised for cultural appropriation.
It looked like cultural celebration to me.
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