News Round-Up
- “Tory MPs accuse Sunak of committing ‘hari-kari’ with his party” – Rishi Sunak has been accused of “committing hara-kiri with his party” by Tory MPs who have been left “absolutely seething” at the surprise announcement of a July election, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tories challenge Starmer to a record six TV debates” – Sir Keir Starmer has been branded a “Knight afraid to fight” by senior Tories demanding he commit to six telly debates, says the Sun.
- “Rishi Sunak is playing a risky game by making this a presidential campaign” – Ministers are dismayed by this early election, but the PM judged the situation would only get worse, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Sir Keir Starmer isn’t ready for this fight” – Labour is still a party weighed down by the Corbyn era. Unlike Blair, Starmer’s reform of the party is not yet done, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “This is the best thing Rishi has ever done” – Even those who are sick to the back teeth with Sunak must give him credit for inviting us to tear off the Band Aid, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage ‘was all set to run as MP’ but changed mind over early election” – Nigel Farage was preparing to announce his candidacy for the General Election but ditched the idea when Rishi Sunak called an early election, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage has blown his chance to destroy the Conservatives” – Farage’s decision not to stand may have averted an extinction-level loss for the Tories, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “Why Farage not standing could actually be bad news for Sunak” – The former UKIP leader will not seek his own seat – and that leaves him free to pop up campaigning wherever the Tories least want him, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Rosie Duffield snubbed from Labour’s election launch in her own county” – Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield has taken a swipe at Keir Starmer after being excluded from a Labour event near her constituency, according to GB News.
- “Germany will arrest Netanyahu if he enters the country amid ICC charge” – Germany will arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters the country after allegations of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, reports the Mail.
- “The father and son Hamas rapists” – An evil father and son have revealed to Israeli investigators how they killed and raped innocent civilians after taking part in the Hamas invasion, according to the Mail.
- “Ken Loach and Mike Leigh resign as patrons of London cinema over Israeli film festival screening” – Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have resigned as patrons of the Phoenix cinema in East Finchley because it’s showing a film about the Nova music festival massacre, reports the Guardian.
- “Did Daszak resubmit DARPA DEFUSE?” – On Substack, Jim Haslam discusses emails from Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance talking to Dr. Fauci about avoiding FOIA requests.
- “Peter Daszak gets DOD and CIA funding. Why don’t they ask about that?” – Is the U.S. House Committee’s work just another example of bureaucratic incompetence and “waste, fraud and abuse” of our precious taxpayer dollars? asks Debbie Lerman on her Substack.
- “Fauci aide triggers deeper concerns about hidden emails on Covid origins” – Testimony from David Morens, a senior aide to former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, has added weight to concerns about potentially hidden or deleted emails regarding ties between the Institute and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to U.S. Right To Know.
- “Fauci actively hid his communications from the public on lab leak” – The Congressional investigations and emails are damning, says Prof. Vinay Prasad on Substack.
- “Kickbacks, mysoginy, black humour and hiding emails: Dr. Fauci’s lieutenant on the hot seat” – Dr. David Morens’ Congressional hearing was the craziest thing ever, writes Justin Hart on his Rational Ground Substack.
- “The nature of lab origin investigations” – On Substack, Dr. Alex Washburne explains how investigations into scientists, including those supported by the Covid Select Committee, have inched us closer to uncovering the truth behind the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
- “We were right! The ONS now admit that deaths in the vaccinated were categorised as unvaccinated in 2021” – The ONS admits to misclassifying vaccinated deaths as ‘unvaccinated’ deaths in 2021, according to Where are the Numbers.
- “Sex dysfunction warning to millions on antidepressants” – Patients taking antidepressants are being warned to beware of side-effects that could leave them ‘asexual’ even after they stop using them – a problem that could affect millions of Brits, reports the Mail.
- “Abortions surge to record 250,000 in a single year” – Approximately one in every 50 women in England and Wales between the age of 15 to 44 had a termination in 2022, says the Mail.
- “GB News is going from strength to strength – and the media elite is terrified” – GB News’s astonishing audience growth proves an alternative to the BBC is needed, writes Robin Aitken in the Telegraph.
- “What will Europe look like in the future?” – Absent a populist electoral uprising, European authorities will get serious about border control only once it’s too late, warns Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “What happened to the electric car revolution?” – Unless EV sales soar, car manufacturers are going to be facing enormous fines in just a few months’ time, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Are ultra-processed foods really so bad?” – Food-type blaming can be a comforting evasion of a simple truth: overeating makes you fat, writes Matthew Parris in the Spectator.
- “The plants in your garden that could get you cancelled” – The borrowing of plants from around the world has been called ‘horticultural appropriation’ – and many of them are already in your garden, says Boudicca Fox-Leonard in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk slams Warsaw’s plans to reduce discrimination” – Elon Musk has hit out at Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski over his plans to ban religious symbols in City Hall, require staff to respect preferred pronouns and show regard for the rights of same-sex couples, according to TVP World.
- “When the Left-wing media starts to mock one of its own…” – A Comedy Central Daily Show skit rips into Kamala Harris’s word salads.
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If you define ‘conspiracy’ as any wrongdoing done by two or more people together, then yes it’s a ‘conspiracy’. But by that definition the only wrongdoing which isn’t a conspiracy is wrongdoing done by an individual completely on his or her own without any help from anyone else.
I don’t think the word ‘conspiracy’ is a useful label to describe what the ONS have done. It distracts from what they did. They did what they did. It is what it is.
“a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful”
You think it was an innocent mistake? And they kept thinking they were right for ages, when questioned?
Collins Dictionary:
“Wrongdoing is behaviour that is illegal or immoral.”
If I thought it was an innocent mistake, I wouldn’t have described it as wrongdoing.
Yes, I agree with you that if you use a definition of ‘conspiracy’ as any wrongdoing which is done by two or more people together, then it is a conspiracy.
When people plan “to do something unlawful or harmful”, they generally keep it secret.
If you’d like to offer a different definition of what you mean by ‘conspiracy’ – which doesn’t mean all wrongdoing is a conspiracy unless it’s done by one individual with no help from anyone else – I’d be very interested to see it.
I would indeed agree that a lot wrongdoing involves conspiracy.
“Are ultra-processed foods really so bad?”
Ah! My personal favourite. Some skinny middle class bloke, pontificating about the sins of others (in this case over eating) without the first clue about their lives. First smoking, then drinking, then eating. How long before we are all on government approved ‘life plans’ with penalties for exceeding our legislated calorific intake…?
Sadiq Khan is co-chairman of C40.
C40 aims to have people reduce their meat consumption by 2030.
16kg meat per year is 44g per day which is about 1.5 rashers of bacon per day (Aldi dry cured back bacon is about 30g/rasher).
90kg dairy per year is less than 250g per day which would be less than a pint of milk every two days – and you can forget the butter, cheese or yoghurt.
That’s presumably what London voted for recently.
Updated to add: I had a lovely 6oz steak for lunch at the pub on Sunday – 170g.
If we have the misfortune to get a Liebour Government, Khan will be in the front of the queue banging on the door of number 10 demanding “Where is my Knighthood. Where is my Office.” Then once he is in there, together with Just Stop Oil & Stonewall & the WEF & Gates & WHO & the migrant supporters clubs, he will be demanding all the idiot policies put forward by C40 MUST be implemented across the whole of the UK in time for Christmas which is when the WHO & Gates will declare a permanent pandemic …
ULEZ schemes will be in every city. Railways will be nationalsed with no compensation for anyone and the drivers union will be in ‘Lockdowning Street’ every week demanding a pay rise and then just before the very last Chrismas in the UK (because the WEF have abolished it) … they will demand the right to ‘work from home’ which Liebour will agree to …
An enjoyable post and pretty accurate.
If?
In the unlikely event we get a Conservative Party led government after July 4 we’ll have much the same.
I thought this an excellent potted history of Muslim colonialism because it’s what we’re experiencing now. Only the suicidal Leftards and their thicko ‘useful idiots’ on the streets and campuses don’t seem to have twigged yet. We’re talking about the phenomena of ‘suicidal empathy’, happening in real time; ”College students being indoctrinated on campuses to take part in Muslim prayers are also taking part in a thousand-year-old process of Islamic colonialism that made Islam a worldwide religion. College students believe by embracing Islamic rituals, they are opposing colonialism when they’re actually practicing it. The discovery of America and the apogee of European civilization which ushered in the modern world were based on resistance to Islamic colonialism. Since then, European nations withdrew from the Muslim world to avoid colonialism only to be colonized by millions of Muslims from their old colonies. Rather than ending colonialism, Europe went from the colonizers to the colonized, and European governments were called on to once again rule over millions of Muslims, no longer in the Middle East, Pakistan, North Africa or Asia, but in London, Paris, and across their own nations. With that the rulers swiftly became the ruled. Where the old European governments had looked… Read more »
More on the persecution of Christians and the censorship of what’s happening worldwide by Western media;
”There’s a global pandemic right now, but you won’t read about it in our media. It’s claiming thousands of lives, in a dozen countries. I’m talking about the Muslim persecution of Christians. If the situation is so bad, then why is it virtually unknown in the West? Millions of Christians live there, who presumably would want to know about it.
But the powers that be have done everything in their power to conceal it.
In this article, we’ll take an in-depth look at the many tactics the media employs to transform the atrocity, which has led to the slaughter of thousands and the abuse of hundreds of millions, into a non-story.
I have been documenting that persecution for nearly two decades. So I have ample experiences with outright censorship and am constantly “shadowbanned” on social media. In some nations, most notably Canada, my website is completely banned, while other networks claim it is “pornographic” (even as half-naked women appear in the adjoining ads on permitted sites).
Short of this, the media employ more subtle tactics.”
https://stream.org/how-western-media-cover-for-and-enable-the-muslim-persecution-of-christians/
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https://cepa.org/article/russias-military-shaken-as-top-level-purge-unfolds/ What’s really going on? Putin and his commissars conduct Stalinist purge of Russian Generals! ‘One by one, military officials are being thrown into jail. With the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine looking more favorable for the Kremlin than for some time, Putin appears to think this an appropriate moment to punish the army for the failures of 2022. His repressive instrument of choice is, as always, his security service the FSB. Deputy Minister Timur Ivanov Lt-Gen Yuri Kuznetsov, head of the personnel department Maj-Gen Ivan Popov Commander 58th Guards Combined Arms Army Lt-Gen Vadim Shamarin, deputy head of the general staff The Investigative Committee uses the materials provided by the Military Counterintelligence department of the FSB (DVKR – Department Voeinnoi Konttrazvedki.) The DVKR’s name suggests it aims to identify foreign spies in the Russian army, but that’s not exactly the case: the department has been always considered a tool to keep the military obedient, a way to secure the army’s loyalty to the existing regime.’ Meanwhile, in other news: ‘…..more than 8 thousand cases of AWOL and desertion have been opened, and courts pronounce up to 700 sentences per month.’ “90 percent want to leave. Everyone is tired.… Read more »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-69054807
What’s really goiung on?
A man has been charged with assisting Russian intelligence after being arrested by UK counter-terror police.
Howard Michael Phillips, 64, from Harlow in Essex, was arrested in central London and is due at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday afternoon.
Two British men have been charged with helping Russian intelligence services after a suspected arson attack on a Ukraine-linked business in London.
Dylan Earl, 20, from Elmesthorpe in Leicestershire, and Jake Reeves, 22, from Croydon, were investigated following a fire at a warehouse in east London in March.
Three other suspects linked to the fire have been held on other charges.
A former Royal Marine commando who was charged with spying for the Hong Kong intelligence service has died, police have said.
Matthew Trickett, 37, who was on bail, was found by a member of the public in a park near where he lived in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
.“What happened to the electric car revolution?” . Clouds so swift Rain won’t lift Gate won’t close Railings froze Get your mind off wintertime You ain’t goin’ nowhere It looks to me like whatever faction of the uni-party gets to form a Government after July the 4th, that Government will be a hostage to fortune over net-zero. So many people in the UK seem to have been terrified by the climate change propaganda machine that any idea that our future Government is rowing back on net-zero will be met with howls of outrage and anger and probably legal action. I far as I can see any attempt to row back on the all the net zero car stuff would require a significant change to the Climate Change Act. Whatever Government we get after 4th July? I do not think it will be in a position to do anything to change the zero emissions mandate or the ban on ICE sales. In 2025 the Chinese BYD Company is due to bring its budget ”Seagull” EV to the UK. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/byd/362943/new-byd-seagull-will-come-uk-2025-rival-dacia-spring I suspect that our future Government will simply do a deal to enable the mass importation of cheap Seagull EVs into the… Read more »
Albatros
Democracy: the least worst system of government.
Starmer and his shower or Sunak in the rain?
A decisive move by the PM. I am happy to support a bold and decisive PM.
Putin for PM then.
You keep telling us how decisive he is.
”A decisive move by the PM”
Ah yes but where is he decisively moving too? and whatever or wherever it is? I expect it will be good for him but he will not be taking us with him!
Maybe he has lined up a role to advise the Chinese Government on flooding the UK with cheap Chinese EV’s.
Members of the Azov battalion get a warm welcome in the UK Parliament on Wednesday. You’d think this would have made the news but at least it was reported in South Africa.
Maybe the neo-Nazis gave Sunak his marching orders?
https://x.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1793619922779779509
https://albertonpost.co.za/news/blog/2024/05/23/uk-mps-applaud-ukrainian-neo-nazis-photos/
Azov representatives of the Association spoke to members of two parties: the Conservatives and Labour.
They told the MPs about Russia’s war against Ukraine, the history of Azov, Russian crimes in Mariupol in 2022, as well as their own experience in Russian captivity and the importance of supporting the struggle to bring home about 900 captured Azov servicemen who are still in captivity for the third year.
The roundtable was supported and facilitated by Sir John Whittingdale and Bob Seely, Chair of the UK-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group.
“Abortions surge to record 250,000 in a single year” – Approximately one in every 50 women in England and Wales between the age of 15 to 44 had a termination in 2022, says the Mail.Abortions surge past record 250,000 in a single year, with experts blaming cost of living crisis forcing women to terminate pregnancies ‘for purely financial reasons’ Although there has been a clear increase in the rate of abortions since 2016 (see chart) I doubt that it is purely caused by cost of living increases. In particular I think there has been a steadily increasing number of early detections of congenital problems which might have been considered ‘too late now’ in earlier times. I have an anecdote in support of this: A young woman I know has recently had a child which when she was several months pregnant was found to have under-developed, leaking heart valves and pulmonary hypotension (low pressure). She considered abortion but decided to continue the pregnancy. Her new daughter is small, but now developing well and pretty much out of trouble. Who knows what she might have decided if she’d had different people on her medical team? I also worry if there has been… Read more »