News Round-Up
- “Wales’s FM Gething denies wrongdoing as he resigns” – Wales’s First Minister Vaughan Gething has announced his resignation four months after taking the job, reports the BBC.
- “Trump shooting: the footage you didn’t see” – The Telegraph has behind-the-scenes clips showing every second of the moment that shook America.
- “Five unanswered questions about assassination attempt on Trump” – There are many questions remaining about how would-be assassin Thomas Crooks perched on a rooftop and took aim at Donald Trump before he was taken down, says Paul Farrell in the Mail.
- “‘Sloping roof’ used by assassin was too dangerous for our agents, says Secret Service chief” – Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle has revealed the bizarre reason why her agency failed to place an agent on the roof used to carry out an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, according to the Mail.
- “Insider details of why Secret Service botched Trump shooting” – In the Mail, Andrew Neil reveals alarming insider information on why the U.S. Secret Service botched the job or protecting Trump.
- “Trump’s phone call with RFK Jr. is leaked” –A private phone call between Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been leaked, revealing new details about the shocking attempt on the ex-President’s life, reports the Mail.
- “Britain will be an Islamist country under Labour, claims Trump VP pick” – Donald Trump’s running mate joked that the “first truly Islamist country” to obtain nuclear weapons would be the U.K. after Labour won the election, according to Sky News.
- “J.D. Vance as Trump’s running mate is the death knell of American conservatism” – How is it ‘conservative’ to back Putin? asks Isaac Schorr in the Telegraph.
- “David Lammy is a national embarrassment” – With the prospect of a second Trump Presidency looking increasingly likely, we need a Foreign Secretary who can unite rather than divide, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler” – Reckless comparisons with fascism degrade our political discourse, writes Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “College professor suspended over ‘unacceptable’ comment about Trump” – A Kentucky professor has been placed on unpaid leave following an insensitive comment about the failed Trump assassination attempt, reports the Mail.
- “Jack Black issues shock update after bandmate’s Trump comment” – Jack Black has cancelled Tenacious D’s tour after bandmate Kyle Gass said he wished Trump’s would-be assassin hadn’t missed, says the Mail.
- “How the American Left jumped on the conspiracy theory bandwagon” – The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has led to wild speculation online, inspired partly by political indignation, writes Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk ‘to give Trump campaign $45 million a month’ after shooting” – Elon Musk reportedly plans to give up to $45 million (£35 million) a month to support Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign, reports the Hill.
- “Britain has reached its immigration breaking point” – Labour has no plans to address open borders, declining public services or the housing crisis, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Record number of migrants cross in single day since Starmer became PM” – More than 1,000 migrants have arrived in the U.K. after crossing the Channel since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister, reports the Standard.
- “Starmer’s plan to stop the boats might not be what it seems” – It comes as a relief to learn that Keir Starmer doesn’t believe setting up an organisation to “smash the gangs” will stop illegal immigration, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Boston’s unskilled migrants are proof that the benefits of Brexit have been squandered” – Puritans left Lincolnshire for America 400 years ago to create a better place; the masses pouring into the county today have no such intent, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Labour is about to crush what’s left of Britain’s economy” – This will be the most anti-business Government we’ve experienced in 50 years, predicts Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s tax raid could ‘decimate’ Jewish schools” – A charity that supports Jewish independent schools says Keir Starmer’s VAT raid and plans to remove business rate exemptions would force many to close, according to the Telegraph.
- “Tour de France reintroduces mask mandate amid COVID-19 concerns” – The Tour de France has reintroduced COVID-19 protective measures, mandating masks for race organisers, media and guests in any interaction with riders and team staff, reports Cycling News.
- “Boris Johnson urges Trump to stand by Ukraine” – Boris Johnson has urged Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine after the former President picked a running mate who strongly opposes American support for the war, according to the Telegraph.
- “German Interior Minister bans AfD-adjacent ‘Right-wing extremist’ magazine, raids homes of editorial staff, seizes assets, in the latest effort to defend democracy by abolishing democratic freedoms” – German politicians appear to be caught in an ever-escalating authoritarian spiral, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “British commentator unloads at ‘woke’ Australia” – Toby says Australia is surrendering its larrikinism to the “woke mind virus”, according to the Mail.
- “Now doctors told to lecture us on climate change!” – Doctors have been told to use their status as “trusted members of the community” to warn patients about the dangers of climate change, reports the Mail.
- “This is just the start of Ed Miliband’s green energy madness” – Large scale ‘solar parks’ are not the best and cheapest way to reduce Britain’s carbon emissions, says Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph.
- “The alarming rise of the ‘far-wrong’” – On Substack, David Turver takes a light-hearted look at what might happen in a parallel universe if the Guardian decided to worry about the rise of the ‘far-wrong’ rather than the far Right.
- “Labour to ban conversion therapy in King’s Speech despite fears for parents” – Conversion therapy will be banned under a new law to be announced in the King’s Speech, reports the Telegraph.
- “Transwomen can be excluded from female-only jobs, watchdog rules” – The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has ruled that companies can legally block transwomen from taking jobs intended only for women, says the Irish News.
- “Former SNP equalities officer who wanted ‘to beat up terfs’ jailed for sexual assaults” – A former SNP equalities officer who once said he wanted to “beat the f***” out of gender critical feminists has been jailed for a string of sexual and physical ofences, according to Sky News.
- “Musk vows SpaceX and Twitter will flee California over school trans law” – Elon Musk has hit out at a new California transgender law and pledged to move the headquarters of SpaceX and X out of the state in protest, according to NBC News.
- “U.K. death chart shows the futility of lockdowns” – On X, Miriam Cates points to a recent ONS chart on U.K. deaths as evidence that draconian Covid lockdowns were completely out of proportion to the threat.
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Boris Johnson urges Trump to stand by Ukraine
‘I know that he (Trump) will give the strong and decisive leadership necessary to protect democracy against aggression’
What’s really going on?
President Trump has been a negotiator all his life.
The deal offered by Trump to Russia will be a ‘frozen conflict’, referendums within the disputed areas monitored by international electoral organisations, then a peace settlement.
Carrot and stick; the stick will be, for Russia, massive support for Ukraine, escalation via de-restricting long range weapon systems; for Ukraine, withdrawal of U.S. support.
Putin will never go for that deal because:
‘Only 33% of residents of the east of Ukraine are ready for negotiations, and almost as many (34%) are against them. And almost as many (32%) are still undecided.’
Razumkov Centre’s poll 20/28 June 2024
And that is just the civvies…..
Trump’s new VP candidate is an ex U.S. Marine. He will back Trump and Trump will, as a consequence of Putin’s intransigence, back Ukraine.
Oops!
Trump’s security staff, as well as improving their rooftop scrambling skills, will need to improve their ‘poison in the underpants’ detection skills as well…….
It’s not Trumps actual own security team , it’s provided by Bidens administration, wonderfully & diversely useless isn’t it !!
The roof was a bit slopey, like, you know, a normal sloped roof….. ‘That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof’ (Cheatle) Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is surely going to have to resign, isn’t she? Or not really? An ex President shot and a veteran killed, two others wounded due to an ‘unsafe’ slopey roof? She has to resign….. ‘Trump’s security detail included three women, who former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker told The Post appeared totally ill equipped when Crooks opened fire. “The women I saw up there with the president — they looked like they were running in circles. One didn’t know how to holster, the other one didn’t seem to know what to do, and another one seemed not to be able to find her holster,” he said. “DEI is one thing, competence and effectiveness is another, and I saw DEI out there.” Trump’s Secret Service detail during the first night of the Republican National Convention underway in Milwaukee featured only male agents — all of whom… Read more »
They ended up with the overwatch snipers on another sloped roof anyway… I wonder if they’ve recovered the gunman’s body though, what with it being so dangerous?
Major escalation in the whitewashing department. If it’s not an inside job then why are Homeland Security stepping in to obstruct the investigation? But I guess we’re all expected to believe the attempt on Trump’s life was all down to that incompetent woman and her obsession with sloped roofs. But then the FBI took 5 hours to release the identity of the gunman, just enough time to scrub all of his social media, if we’re expected to believe that a 20yr old has no online activity;
”UNBELIEVABLE: @RepBoebert
reports that the DHS is now obstructing a congressional investigation into the Secret Service’s security failures leading up to the Trump assassination attempt.”
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1813422132174508202
Tbh, I was surprised they were able to release the id so soon… to give chapter and verse on someone with no documentation on them in short order was almost like they already knew who he was… I doubt we’ll ever find out and the story will eventually be filed with 9/11 and the moon landings. 🤷♂️
Ah, there may not have been documentation on the body…but I suspect they found his passport (which fell out of his pocket) at the foot of the ladder used to access the roof…
Real men are not fazed by the gradient of a roof while they’re washing away evidence at a crime scene;
https://x.com/amuse/status/1813420195991474649
One report suggests that the regular agents had been temporarily assigned to a Hilary Clinton event on the same day, so Trump’s security was handled by local agents instead.
According to the BBC propaganda service a couple of hours ago, the new VP candidate is not in favour of supporting the Ukraine war. If that’s true, we could be looking at a change there next year.
Once the next administration begins negotiations with Putin, attitudes will change. Of that, I have no doubt. ‘Russia is an empire: it perceives itself as an empire, it has an imperial history, and currently in geopolitics it sees itself as continuing to play the role of an empire. For this reason most Russian negotiations, not only those by the Russian government, but also those conducted by Russian business people, come from a power perspective. Russians perceive negotiation as a “power game,” as a “сила” (force). They will typically present a very tough position at the beginning of a negotiation, and they will offer tough responses to their counterparts even at the final stages of negotiations. Although negotiation theorists speak about the overall opportunity, and finding “win-win” outcomes that can benefit both sides, Russians find it difficult to adapt to this negotiation approach. Indeed, the word “victory” itself in the Russian language means that the other side loses or leaves the game. The Russian negotiation mentality is a very strong approach, and a rather inflexible one, which to some extent ignores emotional and psychological considerations often discussed in negotiation theory. Russian negotiation culture is based on force, rooted in an empire… Read more »
MOSCOW/LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond.
Three of the sources, familiar with discussions in Putin’s entourage, said the veteran Russian leader had expressed frustration to a small group of advisers about what he views as Western-backed attempts to stymie negotiations and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s decision to rule out talks.
‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on July 15 that Ukrainian plans for a second peace summit should be ready by November 2024 and reiterated that a Russian representative should attend. Zelensky stated that in preparation, Ukraine will hold a meeting in Qatar on energy security in late July or early August 2024, a meeting on freedom of navigation in Turkey in August 2024, and a meeting on prisoner of war (POW) exchanges and the repatriation of deported Ukrainian children in Canada in September 2024 — three issues on which the communique of the first Ukraine-initiated Global Peace Summit in Switzerland in June 2024 focused. Recent Kremlin statements continue to demonstrate that Russia is inflexible on negotiations with Ukraine, however, and Kremlin officials have directly stated that Russia would not participate in a second peace summit because its terms are a non-starter given Russian demands. Ukrainian officials emphasized that the purpose of the first peace summit was to facilitate a peace based on international law, including laws to which the Russian Federation is party. Ukraine’s demands that Russia completely withdraw from Ukrainian territory are provided for under international law and are therefore reasonable. Russia’s demands for Ukraine’s complete capitulation and continued… Read more »
The summit is a lot of Western leaders stamping their feet.
Peace negotiations is a bilateral affair. Do you have no concept of diplomacy?
There never was a peace summit, there was only a meeting of European leaders licking their wounds in having supported a hopeless cause, a corrupt regime (Ukraine) and having emptied their sources of defence weaponry and bankrupted their countries further.
If you are losing a war then you have very little room for negotiations. You should never have started a war, especially against a superior opponent.
And no way does either India or China support the west in its idiotic support of USA dominance.
Finally, Ukraine’s bilateral security agreements are not worth the paper they are written on. They have not even been signed by a legitimate representative of Ukraine: Zelensky is a pure dictator, a slave of his US masters.
Russia occupies less of Ukraine than it did in the days after it invaded. It has lost ground. Russia, formerly the world’s second land power, is, therefore, demonstrably losing the ground war.
The USA seeks to weaken Russia. That has happened in spades.
China, India and parts of Europe are benefiting from cheap Russian energy.
And it’s going to get even worse for Russia.
‘Ukraine will produce thousands of long-range drones capable of deep strikes into Russia in 2024 and already has up to 10 companies making drones that can reach Moscow and St Petersburg,‘“In December alone, drone deliveries were 50 times higher than in the entire 2022. Just imagine, the system was not prepared for that, and I think the logistics did not realize that such volumes were possible.”
Triple hard hats all round, comrade!
Sorry, but repeating nonsense (Russia occupies less of Ukraine) does not make it true. And Russia is stronger than ever, with an economy that most European leaders would die for.
And Ukraine will produce …. What exactly happened to all those billions of dollars and euros that have flooded Ukraine? Where did all that money go – apart from in the pockets of rich Ukrainians (including Zelensky) buying Swiss chalets and other luxury properties around the world?
Two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has recaptured 54 percent of occupied territory, while Russia still occupies 18 percent of the country.
Here lies a paradox: for two decades, Russia deliberately fostered corruption in Ukraine to keep its neighbour firmly under its influence, and now Russia is seeking to leverage Ukraine’s reputation for corrupt practices to undermine Ukraine’s ability to resist Russia’s invasion.
Of course, Ukraine still has a serious corruption problem, and not every corruption-related story or scandal pushed by Russia or its agents is false. But Russian propaganda consistently overstates the actual extent of Ukrainian graft and ignores the significant strides Ukraine has recently made in its fight against corruption. Even in wartime, Ukraine has established several new anticorruption agencies, has successfully carried out aggressive investigations into military fraud, and is bringing about a gradual improvement in its anticorruption metrics.
Monro has no idea what a full scale invasion looks like, and why is he or she so obsessed with land area? It is only a matter of months before Trump pulls the plug on this expensive, futile grandstanding of little Vlod.
Well, if it was on the BBC it must be true.
The people of “East Ukraine” consider themselves part of New Russia so are very unlikely to be taking part in Ukrainian polls.
“Draconian lockdowns might be justified in some circumstances….”
And what would those circumstances be?
Sounds awfully like we got it wrong this time, but next time it will be justified.
Exactly. I feel the red mist descending every time I see these types of ‘critical’ comments. No, FFS, Draconian lockdowns are NEVER justified. If there’s one thing that became crystal clear from their experiment, it’s that the populace are remarkably easily frightened and will do whatever they think might buy them some more time in this life – including the very elderly expecting the very young to sacrifice their lives for them. W*nkers. When the masses smell fear they’ll naturally hide behind their sofa, there is zero need to enforce it. Ever.
I’ve just finished reading “Emergency State” by human rights lawyer Adam Wagner, this was precisely the issue I had with that book. It’s certainly depressing that such educated, highly intelligent people think that lockdowns are ever justified. If there is a plague around, I’m confident most people would stay home anyway.
If doctors really think that they are ‘trusted members of the community’, I think they’re misreading the signs…
I couldn’t agree more. Now probably on a par with estate agents.
Isn’t there something radically wrong when the so called ‘The Equality and Human Rights Commission’ can declare there are female only jobs?
it sounds very much like Orwell’s newspeak.
To me it sounds like common sense… I can see why a rape crisis sanctuary, for instance, may want to have female only jobs. Or, a woman’s football team, for that matter… it’s rather chilling though that what used to be common sense has to be legislated for.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/regulator-updates-guidance-around-job-adverts-and-transgender-applicants-XJWEWMBCJ5IRRIGOEST4R56YDM/
Well the good news is that The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has accepted that there are female only females 🙄
I think you have hit on the solution to trans terminology. Male males, female males, male females and female females.
Thanks roubles. 👍
No t’rouble as we say up North.
This short article shows the dire mess left by the Conservatives. Kneel’s bunch of apprentices are so out of their depth that our plight can only get worse. Which is the plan of course and then we can be sold off to the money men.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/pop-goes-your-pension/
“BRITAIN is bankrupt. Our gross domestic product in 2023 was around £2.274trillion. But our debt at the end of the year was £2.721trillion. Moreover, our debt increases every month as we are running a deficit. In the financial year 2023/24, government revenue from taxes and other receipts was £1,095billion (£1.1trillion) while government spending was £1,216billion (£1.2trillion). The deficit was therefore £121billion, equivalent to 4.4 per cent of GDP. Moreover, the government pays £102billion a year on debt interest, which is equivalent to 3.8 per cent of GDP or 8.4 per cent of government spending.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13637313/Now-doctors-told-lecture-climate-change-Health-leaders-tell-medics-look-eco-distress-promote-remote-appointments-cut-emissions.html
So doctors – alleged ‘trusted members of the community’ can push dangerous, faux vaccines; doctors can lecture patients on the faux climate change claims – but doctors cannot countersign passport applications.
Oh, how we used to look up to doctors, well I did a little bit, and now? Average, average, average and that’s a good one. Some, far too many are a menace to society as the horrific Lucy Letby case makes clear.
Whenever people mention doctors in this context my mind always goes back to Harold Shipman
My mind goes back to medical students and (graduates) I used to drink with. ‘Kin’ell.
Trust me. I’m a Doctor…
My mind always goes back to the third leading cause of death in advanced societies – iatrogenesis:
BMJ, 2016:
https://archive.is/1DNqd#selection-1625.0-1629.114
‘Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US’
BMJ 2016; 353 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i2139 (Published 03 May 2016)
‘Medical error is not included on death certificates or in rankings of cause of death.
The annual list of the most common causes of death in the United States, compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), informs public awareness and national research priorities each year. The list is created using death certificates filled out by physicians, funeral directors, medical examiners, and coroners. However, a major limitation of the death certificate is that it relies on assigning an International Classification of Disease (ICD) code to the cause of death.1 As a result, causes of death not associated with an ICD code, such as human and system factors, are not captured…’
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/vance-for-vp-a-fantastic-choice/
Kathy Gyngell at TCW full of support for Donald Trump’s choice for Vice President
“Vance is a fantastic choice. He has an affinity with America’s working classes, especially those in rural areas. He’s a son of the Rust Belt and grew up in poverty, far from the country clubs and chambers of commerce of Republicans like Romney and the Bushes.”
‘Sloping roof’ used by assassin was too dangerous for our agents, says Secret Service chief Another example of the trend towards removing all risk – quite extraordinary in this example of course. We need an adult conversation about the physiological differences between men and women, and, before the usual tired old arguments get trotted out by the usual suspect(s), I’m obviously referring to general, but very real, differences between the sexes. It has always been widely accepted, until recent times where truth is an inconvenience, that women, in general, are more risk averse and there are plenty of evolutionary theories for why this might be (of which is a topic in itself). We have, without any doubt, seen a steady march of female-orientated, almost entirely left-wing, ideologically-driven thinking sweep through our institutions and society. We no longer have a balance between masculinity and feminity, and one of the many entirely predictable outcomes is the attempt to reduce risk in life. Like masculinity, feminity has traits which are both good and bad, but we now live in a society that outcasts anyone for daring to question whether the emasculation of society might not be such a good thing after all. We… Read more »
I can’t help noticing how the word ‘Ban’ is thrown around so readily at anyone or anything that the lefty woketards don’t agree with! Seems like if they can’t win the argument then ‘Ban’ the opposition!
I thought it was they who were trying to protect democracy?
In a rational world, this is game over: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-record-level-data-from-czech
An American court decision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6WtrX1h3M4&list=WL&index=4 “Supreme Court Drops Bombshell Ruling On Electric Vehicles”.
I’ve loved watching the Tour de France but started noticing the odd person with a mask – now they’re all going to be at it. I’m on the verge of giving up
“British commentator unloads at ‘woke’ Australia” – Toby says Australia is surrendering its larrikinism to the “woke mind virus”, according to the Mail” Great article and public comments in the Daily Mail ! Here are a few: —“Being the chairman of the Free Speech Union does not make him ‘Controversial’; he is just patriotic with common sense.” —“”patriotic with common sense.” Often referred to as ‘far right’ by the modern journalist.” —“We’ve definitely taken a few steps backwards in larrikinism and fun in recent years but I get the feeling that the worm is turning ….” —“What on earth is controversial about Toby Young? Being an advocate for free speech is controversial now? For whom? The sort of people that dislike free speech and little things like democracy?” —“In the 80’s Australia was brave fearless and exciting, what happened?” —“Nothing controversial about Toby Young. He has opinions of his own and gets those heard, and he does not mind if people disagree and argue.” —“”Crocodile Dundee’s awaiting trial for hate speech somewhere in Victoria”. Or defending himself and others from youth gangs & home invaders. Thank our progressive Attorney General.” —“He’s right. Too worried about offending our multi cultural folk! Where… Read more »