News Round-Up
- “Nigel Farage has driven the Tories to a state of near-total psychological collapse” – We could be just days away from a tipping point in the polls when Reform overtakes the Conservatives, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Tory poll lead over Reform down to just two points after Farage return” – A new poll from YouGov has the Conservatives on 19% and Reform on 17%, reports the Mail.
- “Reform hopes ‘Farage factor’ will bring millions in donations” – Party enjoys a bounce of 7,000 new members and in the wake of its new leader’s announcement that he will stand for Clacton in the election, says the Times.
- “Tory grassroots fury as party chairman parachuted into safe seat” – Richard Holden is set to contest Basildon & Billericay in a move described by the local Conservative association as “shameful”, according to the Times.
- “Nigel Farage, Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt in BBC election debate” – Nigel Farage, Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt will face off in a potentially explosive election debate on Friday night, says the Mail.
- “The Nigel Farage milkshaking is no laughing matter” – Emerging from a pub after his campaign launch in Clacton, Essex, on Tuesday afternoon, Nigel Farage was milkshaked, reports Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
- “Diane Abbott anti-racism group ‘encouraged and celebrated’ milkshake attack” – Stand Up to Racism posted a laughing emoji above a picture of a milkshake being thrown over the Reform leader, reports the Telegraph.
- “Woman, 25, arrested for chucking milkshake at Nigel Farage is OnlyFans model” – The woman who chucked a banana milkshake over Nigel Farage is a Labour-supporting OnlyFans model, according to the Sun.
- “Keir Starmer is either a liar or a fool” – The public no longer believes the NHS is the envy of the world. So why on earth wouldn’t the Labour leader treat a family member privately? asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Why Sunak claims Labour will add £2,000 to your tax bill” – A deep dive shows that most of the maths underpinning Tory claim does indeed come from Treasury number crunching, says Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Martin Lewis accuses Labour of living ‘in fairy-tale land’ over spending black hole” – MoneySavingExpert founder isn’t impressed by Labour’s spending plans, reports the Mail.
- “On Sunak’s maths, Tories will lift taxes by £3,000 per household” – There are serious issues at stake in this General Election and the Tories have just released nonsense figures that they’ve falsely attributed to the Treasury, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s tax raid on private schools could mean no more Billy Elliots” – The Head of the Royal Ballet School says Labour’s tax raid on private schools plans will “destroy opportunity”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Former Just Stop Oil donor Dale Vince hands £5m to Labour” – The green energy billionaire has bolstered Labour’s war chest ahead of election, according to the Telegraph.
- “Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething loses confidence vote” – Vaughan Gething has lost a vote of no confidence after just 81 days in office following the collapse of a co-operation deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru, says the Mail.
- “Radiohead face boycott threats after guitarist accused of ‘artwashing Gaza genocide’” – Jonny Greenwood says calls for band to “be shut down” after he performed with Israeli musician are “unprogressive” and “silencing”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Majority of young Britons think Israel should not exist” – A majority of Britain’s young people do not believe Israel should exist, a new UnHerd poll has revealed.
- “Baillie Gifford ‘set to withdraw funding from all book festivals’” – The Scottish investment firm may cease all sponsorship of book festivals after threats of boycotts from authors and protests by activists over its alleged links to fossil fuels and Israel, reports the Times.
- “Book festivals don’t deserve political bullying” – Activists who object to sponsor Baillie Gifford know that arts organisations will cave in quickly, writes James Marriott in the Times. That’s why they target them.
- “The activists’ war on book festivals spells disaster for authors” – Stopping Ballie Gifford sponsoring book festivals is bad news for authors, says Alexander Larman in the Spectator.
- “Work on North Sea’s ‘best remaining oil field’ delayed amid fears of Labour tax raid” – Project’s future in doubt as Starmer vows to raise levies on profits and halt new licences, according to the Telegraph.
- “Olympic heroes see off solar panel development” – A controversial bid to carpet picturesque Gloucestershire fields with solar panelling has been quashed, says Richard Eden in the Mail.
- “Treat fossil fuel adverts like smoking and ban them, says UN chief” – António Guterres has called for a ban on fossil fuel ads in latest example of environmentalist authoritarianism, reports the Times.
- “Interview of Ex-CDC Chief Dr. Robert Redfield” – On his Substack, Robert Malone says Chris Cuomo’s interview with Dr. Robert Redfield, former head of the CDC, about the origins and ongoing impact of COVID-19, was extremely revealing.
- “In sworn Congressional testimony, Tony Fauci admits he fibbed to the New York Times, but what’s a lie among lovers?” – On his Disinformation Chronicle Substack, Paul D. Thacker writes about Fauci’s latest admissions.
- “Second Mannheim Stabbing: Local AfD politician victim slashed with a carpet cutter six days after the Sulaiman Ataee’s knife attack” – Heinrich Koch was assaulted after confronting apparent leftist vandals who were ripping down his party’s political posters, says Eugyppius.
- “Deselected Christian sues the Lib Dems over alleged discrimination” – Former BBC journalist David Campanale is suing the Lib Dems for deselecting him after discovering he was an orthodox Christian, according to the Telegraph.
- “Gang guilty of raping and sexually assaulting two girls in Rotherham” – Girls aged between 11 and 16 at the time were groomed and often plied with alcohol or cannabis before being raped or sexually assaulted by a Rotherham grooming gang, reports the Mail.
- “Didn’t earn it” – For more and more Americans, the words “Didn’t earn it” spell out the real meaning of DEI, writes John Tierney in City Journal.
- “Inconvenient Facts about Slavery” – Historical sources show that after gaining freedom, many ex-slaves were quite willing to own human chattel themselves, says Lipton Matthews in Aporia.
- “BBC accused of ‘monumental double standards’ for not dropping ‘racist’ cricket pundit” – Qasim Sheikh continued to commentate on cricket for the BBC, despite sharing antisemitic post on social media, says the Telegraph.
- “Ovarian cancer can strike people of any gender, charity claims” – Organisation has come under fire for Pride Month post entitled: “Can men get ovarian cancer?” reports the Telegraph.
- “Russian-Ukrainian ‘terrorist’ arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport” – A suspected Russian-Ukrainian terrorist, 26, has been arrested in Paris after causing an explosion close to Charles de Gaulle airport, reports the Mail.
- “Remote tribe gets hooked on internet porn” – Introduction of high-speed Starlink internet turns some Brazilian tribesmen into “lazy addicts” glued to their phones, says the Telegraph.
- “He’ll be a giant among pygmies” – In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, Nick Dixon and I look forward to Nigel Farage taking part in the next televised election debate.
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Remote tribe gets hooked on internet porn
A friend told The Telegraph he believed he searched for Dominators – a brand of combine harvester.
‘The situation was, funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at, so I did get into another website with sort of a very similar name and I watched it for a bit, which I shouldn’t have done.’
Now that the internet is beginning to reach remote Suffolk some individuals have got hooked on Tractors, especially Bishops.
I used to like tractors but I gave it up..they suck,so
I’m an extractor fan!
Boo! (More!)
Wednesday Morning Windsor Rd & Winkfield Road Ascot
An important article because it focuses on something which doesn’t get enough airtime when it comes to all things ‘trans’: autogynephilia. Personally, a red flag for me is a man who identifies as a woman but does not undergo sex reassignment surgery, yet still expects to have access to female single-sex spaces, or who wants to participate in female sports, and who is also sexually attracted to females. Contrast that with a man who does undergo all of the necessary surgeries, which will result in him producing much less testosterone, because he’s had his testicles removed and uses cross-sex hormones, and he’s attracted to men. Which person would pose the biggest potential threat to females? Obviously the latter example would not suddenly become a woman, nothing can accomplish that, but I do think it important that we differentiate the people who fall under the term ‘trans’, because not everybody is some deviant sexual predator or somebody who wishes to rob females of sports achievements. ”When a nation’s laws subsist on an ideology like Islam, it subjugates about half of its population. I have written for years about the ways in which Islam deprives women of autonomy, choice, and personhood –… Read more »
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/are-novel-viruses-really-that-new/
Paula Jardine at TCW with a terrific article which more or less concludes that the C1984 is a fictional disease – which blows the Fauci lab leak story out of the water – and which is a conclusion Dr Mike Yeadon reached many months ago.
“Was there ever a pandemic at all?”
By Paula Jardine.
June 6, 2024
A RECENT review by Professor Martin Neil and Jonathan Engler of the research literature on coronaviruses has conclusively found that ‘the emergence of a novel engineered pathogen [SARS-CoV-2] is the least likely explanation for the event called the “covid pandemic”.’ Engineered gain-of-function was, they said, more accurately ‘claim-of-function’ that didn’t withstand scrutiny.
With both origin stories now crumbling, it opens space for another discussion as to whether SARS-CoV-2 was exploited to create the appearance of a pandemic precisely because it was known to be already endemic.
Compelling.
That’s a very interesting article, hux, along with the original article by Martin Neil and Jonathan Engler, well worth studying.
https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/virus-origins-and-gain-claim-of-function
Just to be clear, when you say the article “more or less concludes that the C1984 is a fictional disease”, the authors are not denying that something(s) caused a lot of people to become ill and many consequently died, but, according to Neil and Engler:
“…the evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that the ‘covid pandemic’ was an iatrogenic phenomenon and was not caused by a novel and deadly virus”.
And Paula Jardine concludes:
“…it opens space for another discussion as to whether SARS-CoV-2 was exploited to create the appearance of a pandemic precisely because it was known to be already endemic.”
I refer to the C1984 as a fictional disease because I believe it was simply a re-badged ‘flu, there was nothing new or novel about it. The real pandemic, as Dr Mike Yeadon has pointed out was a pandemic of testing which certainly was novel and especially so given it was undertaken with a PCR test never designed for the purpose.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/05/bbc-accused-double-standards-failing-drop-cricket-pundit/
Ah, the coloured version of Gravy Lineker. BBC keeping things balanced.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/democracy-in-decay-can-sun-king-nigel-save-our-country/
Can Farage and Reform effect change?
Good question….
I really hope so, we cannot carry on like this or it will be Oblivion for the majority of western countries
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/what-a-shower/
I posted this yesterday in the DS blurb thread thinking it would appear in today’s ATL section. A good article by Roger Watson rightly taking apart the Tories.
And it’s an amusing read.
Having effectively drawn attention to her OnlyFans activities, I do hope she has ensured her tax affairs are in order. /s
She will be let off for good behaviour! The Woke Lefty kind !
No, no. She’s been a very naughty girl and must be punished by the judge. After which she will be let off.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13498737/grooming-gang-guilty-raping-sexually-assaulting-girls-Rotherham.html
Apart from being an extremely ugly set of barstewards what else do this lot have in common?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/05/radiohead-boycott-guitarist-accused-artwashing-israel-gaza/
i do hope the guys in Radiohead stick to their beliefs. I’m sick and tired of three letter rent a mobs jumping on any body they can for the sake of publicity.
Sod off ‘bds.’
Saw a tik tok clip today suggesting Sir Kneel will resign in 18 months or so & Khant will take over as PM ! Sounds like it could be a plan !
— “Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething loses confidence vote” So did he submit to democracy and resign? No, he shed tears to get sympathy because all the waycists voted against him, and decided to IGNORE the vote and cling on… — “Didn’t earn it” perfectly describes DEI, as one Breitbart commenter wrote about Gething: “Everything to do with DEI. Same goes for Sunak, Yousaf and Varadkar. All installed, not elected.” — “Remote tribe gets hooked on internet porn” The horrible result will be that these tribesmen will soon lose interest in their own women, and lust after “yellow women”, just like Mo promised his followers 1400 years ago. It’s as if the Satanic Porn Merchants are inviting the whole Third World to come to the West and rape white people. All porn should be banned worldwide. It serves no purpose except to corrupt and enslave humanity. — “He’ll be a giant among pygmies” Yes, that’s a good description, but the giant will be shouted down by the shrieking harpies, relentlessly interrupting him to break his train of thought, and the whole thing will be set up just like Nick Griffin’s invitation to Question Time. The thing is, Nigel doesn’t even… Read more »