News Round-Up
- “Shots fired at Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania” – Donald Trump was injured in the ear as he ducked at a rally as shots were fired at the former President, reports the Mail.
- “This shocking incident will have just won Trump the Presidency” – His campaign, already trouncing Biden in a number of key swing states, will only benefit from this public act of bravery, says Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
- “Gary Lineker claims he did not call England ‘shit’ at Euro 2024” – Lineker claims he said “it” was shit on his podcast, “it” being the game, reports the Telegraph. Erm, right, let’s see what he actually said: “I can’t imagine anybody that is English that would have enjoyed England’s performance. Because it was lethargic. It was dour. I mean, you can think of all sorts of words and expletives, if you like, but it was shit.”
- “Sunak held secret talks about Farage Red Wall deal” – The possibility of candidates in Red Wall seats running on a joint Tory-Reform U.K. ticket was discussed by the Tories in the run-up to the election but allegedly kiboshed by the centrists around Sunak, according to the Telegraph.
- “It’s about to become painfully clear that Rachel Reeves doesn’t have a clue” – After a very lacklustre first week, for all her boasting, the Chancellor doesn’t seem to have any ideas at all, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The insufferable gushing of the pro-Starmer media” – They are carrying on like a cross between Pravda and Smash Hits, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Tory Governments failed to roll back Blair’s Leftist agenda – that’s why we lost” – In the Telegraph, Liz Truss examines the failure of 14 years of Tory rule.
- “Angela Rayner is already being frozen out, allies fear” – We are just over a week into the new Labour Government and sources are claiming that tensions between the top two are bubbling under the surface, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Palestinian MP told rally there was ‘no difference’ between Israeli Government and Isis” – Speaking in Hyde Park in 2014, Adnan Hussain told the crowd: “Isis are terrorists and so are the Israeli Government,” according to the Telegraph.
- “Farage: Campaign to reform voting system ‘would be more irresistible than Brexit’” – Farage raises the prospect of a campaign to move the U.K. to a proportional voting system – something Starmer himself favoured back in 2020. Not so keen now, for some reason.
- “David Lammy ‘closely considering’ resuming funding for UNRWA” – David Lammy is “closely considering” resuming funding for the UN’s humanitarian body for Gaza, despite its links to Hamas, reports the Telegraph.
- “Humza Yousaf faces review over £250k Gaza funding” – Former First Minister Humza Yousaf faces a probe into a series of donations the Scottish Government made to UNRWA while members of his family were trapped in the warzone, a day before his parents finally obtained safe passage out, the Telegraph reports.
- “Why is antisemitism such a problem at elite universities?” – In the Spectator, Joanna Williams looks at why America’s top universities are such hotbeds of anti-Jewish feeling.
- “Joe Biden defies calls to quit as Democratic donors threaten to withhold $90m” – Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are thought to oppose the President’s re-election bid, as a poll suggests even Kamala Harris would fare better against Trump, reports the Times.
- “Is Lucy Letby innocent? I’m a miscarriage of justice expert – here’s what I think” – As the chorus of voices raising concerns about the conviction of “killer nurse” Lucy Letby grows louder, former commissioner at the Criminal Cases Review Commission, David James Smith, looks at how seriously they should be taken for the Independent.
- “What if Lucy Letby is innocent?” – Peter Hitchens brings the growing case for Letby’s innocence to the readers of the Mail.
- “Mother wins battle to stop son having Covid vaccine she feared could kill him” – The devoted mother says the landmark case to protect her disabled son Tom was a “Kafkaesque nightmare” that nearly bankrupted her, reports the Telegraph.
- “Russia loses ‘astronomical’ 70,000 troops in 60 days” – The reported uptick in the Russian loss (death and injury) rate reflects the opening of the new Kharkiv front, according to the MoD, the Telegraph reports.
- “Big Brother is Watching You. So Where is the outrage?” – Dr. Robert Malone on Elon Musk’s disturbing revelation that the EU has been engaging in illegal secret censorship deals with social media companies by blackmailing them with its draconian Digital Services Act.
- “Did the European Union Just Try to Illegally Censor U.S. Free Speech?” – WUWT‘s Eric Worrall looks at the simmering battle over free speech between Musk and the EU.
- “Censors Everywhere We Look” – Lori Weintz links growing censorship even in private Google forums with the Supreme Court’s refusal to step in on Government social media censorship.
- “Ireland’s ridiculous racism tsar” – Ian O’Doherty in the Spectator laments the state of the race debate in Ireland, with one Dr. Ebun Joseph appointed as a “Special Rapporteur for the National Plan Against Racism”.
- “Shooting just happened at The Trump rally” – Watch the moment shots were fired on X.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/07/13/gary-lineker-refutes-claims-call-england-podcast-euro-2024/
So Gravy Lineker won’t own up or defend his own comments.
Commonly known as cowardice.
Loathsome man but, his best defence here, surely, is that he was right?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/13/labours-first-week-allies-fear-angela-rayner-frozen-out/
Oh goody, something to look forward to.
Mind, the Tameside Trollope won’t go quietly.
I like Tameside Trollope and also Stockport Slapper. Those bike sheds at her school must have seen some action in their time.
She’s also known locally as Ranting Rayner.
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Apart from Rachel Reeves not having a clue, which she doesn’t, if the previous government had implemented all her policies already there’s not much to change! Perhaps she’s just realising we had a socialist government for all intents and purposes, as it sure wasn’t Conservative.
Morning all , I’m not on twatter X but my Wife just read David Lammy,s response to Trump getting shot , can someone post it on here because it’s Unreal !!
This one? It seems pretty innocuous.
https://x.com/DavidLammy/status/1812279017073934404
Thanks , that one was normal, the one I saw was off the scale but it’s gone now 🤦🏼♂️
What an impressive feat by the Ukrainians in achieving such an attrition of the Russian forces in Kharkov Oblast, despite their lack of ammunition and the fact that their defence lines remained unbuilt due to corruption and incompetence. You would think that such a massive onslaught would have pushed the Russians out of Volchansk and their other recently occupied villages, but the pesky Ivans are hanging on and retreating in a negative direction over the Volchaya River. Yet again British Military Intelligence is coming up with fantastical claims without a shred of evidence, and the btl comments in the Telegraph are equally devoid of a common-sense assessment of the fact that even Ukrainian mappers are showing increasing forward movement of Russians along the entire front line. It is Ukraine that is critically short of manpower, juggling its troops, moving them from place to place wherever there is likely to be a breakthrough. This is now leading to regular gaps in defence lines which of course the Russians are exploiting. Perhaps the West might soon come up with a realistic assessment of this conflict and admit that the slow, methodical movement of Russia is a planned attrition that has the primary… Read more »
I hope it’s not fact but how would it be possible to kill 70,000 troops ?
The report and the Round Up sub-headline does make it clear that the 70,000 includes dead and injured. I wonder how many might have injuries similar to being shot in the foot? Even so, over 1,000 per day? ‘Kin’ell!
Take any number quoted by anyone and add a big pinch of salt. Numbers are easy to make up, a rounding here, a rounding there, double it, triple it, adding a nought on the end, that sort of thing…
Since the start of the full-scale war, journalists from Mediazona and BBC News Russian have been working with a team of volunteers to compile data on the number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. Their main sources of information are obituaries published by local authorities, schools, or relatives; funeral announcements; and photos from burial sites. The team does their best to ensure the list includes as many deaths as possible, but their criteria are stringent: for a death to be added to the list, there must be clear evidence that the person in question was a Russian soldier and that his death was related to the war. Data from Russia’s National Probate Registry can help get a more accurate estimate of the true number of Russia’s military dead. This registry publicly records inheritance cases opened in Russia so that potential inheritors will know when there’s an opportunity for them to claim property. While the odds of a death being recorded in the Probate Registry vary by age groups and economic status, inheritance cases are opened for a significant portion — more than 70 percent — of all deaths in Russia. It’s also important to note that more than 90 percent of inheritance claims… Read more »
That is a fair assessment of the situation over the last two and a half , which does rather call into question the 70,000 in the last few months. Artemovsk (Bakhmut) was not a typical operation because of the use of Wagner assault troops and the conventional artillery-heavy nature of the fighting. Many commentators note the reduction in Russian casualties since then and the increase in Ukrainian ones due the the use of poorly trained and equipped troops of generally unsuitable age or fitness.
It could also explain why there is now pressure on Mediazona to change its method of assessing the number of deaths to get it up to a level that is compatible with Western claims.
I feel the use of the term ‘assassination’ lends legitimacy to the perpetrator. It suggests the possibility of some noble motivation. There’s a perfectly good common term for what happened at that Trump rally: Murder. And attempted murder, of course.
“This shocking incident will have just won Trump the Presidency”
Yes. As someone said,
“The AntiChrist needs to survive an assassination attempt.
It’s in Revelations.”