News Round-Up
- “Starmer to say it will take 10 years to rebuild Britain” – Keir Starmer will warn it will take a decade to rebuild Britain, amid accusations he’s laying the groundwork for Rachel Reeves to announce major tax hikes in the upcoming Budget, reports the Mail.
- “Rachel Reeves is about to hoodwink Britain with a disastrous tax raid” – In the Telegraph, Adam Smith explains how Thatcher’s chancellor could be the unlikely inspiration for Labour’s capital gains tax.
- “Violent offenders let off if they say sorry” – Police are increasingly letting knife and sex offenders escape prosecution if they say sorry, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Shattered illusions” – The authorities’ record contradicts denials of two-tier policing, says Alex Story in the Critic, writing about the grooming gangs.
- “‘No whites’ graffiti investigated by police in Birmingham” – Anti-white graffiti has sprung up across three different locations in Birmingham, reports GB News.
- “The immigration debate is over” – When the crimes, costs, and cultural decay caused by mass immigration are so obvious, why relitigate its non-existent merits instead of acting? asks Connor Tomlinson in the European Conservative.
- “Met says it’s ‘tired of seeing crime’ at Notting Hill Carnival after mother is stabbed” – The Metropolitan Police says it is “tired of seeing crime scenes” at the Notting Hill Carnival after three people, including a mother, were stabbed, according to the Standard.
- “We need more anger about Islamist terrorism, not less” – After Solingen, it’s time for a fightback against both the Islamo-fascists and our complacent elites, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Labour’s outrageous attack on academic free speech” – The recent cascade of disastrous decisions emanating from the DfE has shown all too clearly how the application of crude ideology is a source of danger to all of us, writes David Abulafia in the Spectator.
- “Oxford’s outside bets for chancellor: from anti-woke reverend to hand surgeon” – Fringe contenders are throwing their hats in the ring for the Oxford chancellorship this year, including a banned academic, a plastic surgeon and an anti-establishment lawyer, says the Times.
- “The arrest of Pavel Durov raises awkward questions” – Do the French authorities believe that paedophiles, fascists and Islamists will somehow cease to communicate if the founder of Telegram is put in jail? wonders Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “The outrageous arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov” – Criminalising social-media executives for user-generated content could set a chilling precedent, warns Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “New Zealand’s Net Zero green energy disaster is a terrible warning” – The Ardern Government’s eco obsession has left NZ facing blackouts, says Bryan Leyland in the Telegraph.
- “Covid bad behaviour wave set to hit classrooms” – Experts warn that schools should brace for a wave of bad behaviour as children affected by Covid reach their difficult teenage years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Letby’s conviction leaves nurses ‘terrified’ to continue working for NHS” – Nurses have written to Keir Starmer, warning that the Lucy Letby case has left them “terrified” to work in the NHS for fear of being wrongly blamed for patient deaths, says the Telegraph.
- “Roxanne Tickle proves that trans rights now trump women’s rights” – A landmark discrimination case in Australia has found for a trans woman banned from a women-only chat forum – this fake liberalism is a smokescreen, writes Suzanna Moore in the Telegraph.
- “‘We live in such bizarre times’” – On GB News, Andrew Doyle speaks to Sall Grover, CEO of Giggle, who has been found by an Australian court to have discriminated against a trans-identified male for barring him from her women-only app.
- “Doctors quit over review into gender identity services for children” – Doctors are quitting the British Medical Association in revolt at its opposition to banning puberty blockers, reports the Mail.
- “‘Racist’ libraries” – Welsh libraries should focus on providing better services rather than pursuing a divisive anti-racist agenda, says Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
- “Robin DiAngelo plagiarised minority scholars, complaint alleges” – White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo, who believes white people should always give credit to minorities when relying on their work, is now facing a complaint for failing to credit several scholars – two of whom are minorities – in her Ph.D. thesis, reports Aaron Sibarium in the Washington Free Beacon.
- “Darts to bring back walk-on girls on BBC for first time since 2018” – Six-and-a-half years after they were controversially axed, darts’ walk-on girls are set to return to TV screens, says the Daily Star.
- “Ship over troubled waters” – On Substack, Jack Watson gives his take on the sinking of the Bayesian yacht.
- “Kamala Harris and the myth of the glass ceiling” – A female candidate can only break the glass ceiling if she conforms to various Leftist shibboleths, notes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “How a beloved TV star became liberal Hollywood’s public enemy number one” – Cheryl Hines played Larry David’s wife in Curb Your Enthusiasm. But her real-life marriage – to Trump supporter RFK Jr. – is proving less funny, says Alexander Larman in the Telegraph.
- “An expat’s life in Singapore” – Singapore is the only nation on earth designed to be rid of bottom-feeders at every level of society, writes an anonymous resident for the Pimlico Journal on Substack.
- “‘I struggle to find any way in which this is not a racist policy’” – On GB News, historian and broadcaster David Oldroyd-Bolt says that asking teachers to “challenge whiteness” in schools is effectively saying there is “something sinful and wrong about being white”.
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““Starmer to say it will take 10 years to rebuild Britain” – Keir Starmer will warn it will take a decade to rebuild Britain,”
So that’s two 5-year plans?
Absolutely true once he leaves office, in fact almost certainly longer.
Quite. As I’ve said before, I believe the first term will be spent pulling levers and twisting knobs to guarantee a second term, whilst laying the groundwork for what is to come, and the second term will instill a form of Marxism that is so blatantly clear that it cannot be mistaken – even by Guardian readers. We’re already past the point of no return.
Yes Notting Hill carnival. No matter the level of crime or policing required it’ll never ever be cancelled, in my opinion, because that would be deemed ”racist”, and we know who rules the roost in London. The last thing the police want is to come across as ‘white supremacists’ blah blah, so ‘those who must not be offended’ will carry on enjoying playing the race card and the elevated status it brings them. This from an ex-Met police officer;
”It is a stab fest of degeneration and virtue signaling. Posh white twats get robbed buying crap cannabis. Mass stabbings, sexual assaults. It needs to be shut down.”
https://x.com/TPointUK/status/1828195177116131575
Quite the contrast. Which would you choose to take your kids to?
https://x.com/DANNYUNFILTERED/status/1828132136349794724
The Khant would refer to it as a ”fantastic celebration” wouldn’t he? That’s his beloved ‘diversity’ being showcased right there, for all the world to see, thanks to social media. But he also refuses to accept the reality of the ever worsening crime figures for London, so denial it is. I’m sure the mother who got stabbed at this ‘fantastic celebration of multiculturalism’ would agree with him.
Always remember, it’s the ”far right thugs” that are the real problem!
”Notting Hill Carnival FILLED with VIOLENCE, DISORDER, and SEXUAL ASSAULTS.”
https://x.com/JamesHarvey2503/status/1828129718841024985
https://cepa.org/article/russia-a-confused-and-embittered-nation/ ‘Putin and Russia’s imperial nationalists have constructed a schizophrenic state without fixed borders, built on lies, which attacks Ukraine and the West under the cover of falsehoods…….. The European values that it represents — military expansionism, minority hate, a brutal repression of dissent, and the demonization of opponents — are the very worst of our continent and have no place in its future.’ The Kremlin claims Russia’s superior civilization is the guardian of true European values, which it says have decayed in the West because of multiculturalism, LGBT+ rights, a decline in religious faith, and an erosion of national sovereignty by globalization. This attitude to Europe is built on long-standing inferiority complexes about the West. Never able to overtake it, Moscow instead claimed it was decadent and inferior to Russia’s civilization. After 1991, Russians moved from Soviet communism toward imperial nationalism, and not as is commonly viewed towards liberal democracy. Russian imperial nationalist hypocrisy is evident when denouncing Ukrainians as fascists and Nazis. “Fascists calling other people ‘fascists’ is fascism taken to its illogical extreme as a cult of unreason. It is a final point where hate speech inverts reality and propaganda is pure insistence. It is the apogee… Read more »
Perhaps there should be more concern about whether Britain is the ‘confused and embittered’ nation. And why.
No one is interested in this diplomatists’ war.
Is it likely that a pensioner living in Middlesborough will be worrying about the Russians capturing a destroyed village in the steppes? Is it likely that a mother in Wakefield frantic with worry about her missing daughter will be exulting over the destruction of a Russian warship?
The repeatedly sexually-abused girl who is the xx-thousandth victim of gang rape sacrificed by the ‘authorities’ for better community relations anywhere in Britain, is she going to ask her abusers for five minutes respite so she can bang saucepans in support of Ukraine? If she did, the ‘authorities’ would probably give some civic award to her abusers.
It may very well be that many in this country see the war in Ukraine as a ‘quarrel in a far away country, between people of whom we know nothing’ (Chamberlain 1938)
But, unfortunately, ‘we may not be interested in this war, but it is interested in us’ (Fannie Hurst 1941}
No doubt the friends and family of Dawn Sturgess were little interested in Anglo-Russian disputes….but they certainly will have been in the years following her death from the Russian nerve agent, Novichok, in Amesbury in 2018.
Anyone living in Hull, Edinburgh, Barrow in Furness should also be taking an interest since those places are all on Russia’s nuclear target list.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/putins-secret-files-reveal-russias-top-targets-for-nuclear-strikes-on-uk/
As former Defence Secretary Mr Wallace has reminded us this morning
‘in Putin’s version of history, it is Britain, not the US, which is at the heart of Russia’s failures…..One of the most senior members of the Russian Siloviki (security agencies) recently commented: ‘We know Britain is behind the invasion of Kursk’…..make no mistake, Putin is coming for us…….’
Excellent points. I don’t understand why this person/robot Monro is allowed to blatantly USE someone else’s website as a platform for his relentless, obsessive propaganda about a foreign war, completely ignoring every article by every author on here, in order to fill the comments sections with his own irrelevant drivel.
You’re on the wrong website.
Try the Guardian comments section.
I’m blocked from that.
Which bit of “and the West” have they attacked?
We can always rely on the Centre for European Policy Analysis and Latvian outlets for balanced articles on Russia.
Note that the graphic included on the “About” page for CEPA shows the EU flag sandwiched between two American flags – symbology at its most telling – and refers to Atlanticism.
Russian imperial nationalist hypocrisy is evident when denouncing Ukrainians as fascists and Nazis.
Nazis are easily recognizable by their wearing WWII Waffen SS helmets, by their swastika tattoos and the like, as well as treating their fellow ethnic Russian citizens with contempt, forbidding them from speaking their language, killing them and openly destroying their schools, hospitals and housing. The Ukrainian Nazis also specialize in targeting ambulances and fire engines attending the scenes of such atrocities. There are so many examples of all these events.
Why negotiations with Putin will never work.
Because the attack on Kursk (using German armoured vehicles, reminiscent of the largest tank battle of WWII) and the continued attacks on nuclear power plants prove that the Ukrainian government is beneath contempt; also, the West has on numerous occasions (e.g. the Minsk peace agreements, the promises on NATO expansion) proven that it is not to be trusted.
And we know that he also wants Moldova, the Baltic States and parts of Poland.
You maintain this at every opportunity: I maintain it is completely untrue.
Putin’s regime is a true fascist regime. ‘the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State’ Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism 1932 ‘Ruscism, also known as rashism, russism or simply Russian fascism, is the ideology that forms the backbone of Vladimir Putin’s decades-long dictatorial rule. The term was coined by journalists to describe Russian ultranationalism in Chechnya and Georgia in the late 1990s. However, it began to crystallise into a fully-fledged ideology, complete with an omnipresent symbol – the Latin letter Z – after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ruscist ideology undoubtedly has deep fascist roots. Its foundations were laid by Russian political ultranationalist thinker Ivan Ilyin (1883–1954), whose work Putin has frequently referenced in speeches. More recently, Putin has been inspired by the works of modern far-right thinkers Alexander Dugin and Timofey Sergeytsev. The latter published an article in April 2022 calling for the total destruction of the Ukrainian state and its national identity. Ruscism, like other forms of fascism, upholds an ultranationalist and dictatorial political system with a strong supreme leader who demands complete obedience from citizens (including all those living in Russian speaking territories). It does,… Read more »
You could have left out the first dozen or so paragraphs which are of little interest to the matter in question. And quoting the Ukrainian Moscow Times or supposedly secret FSB documents is equally not impressive/credible. And it is easy to write that “even Gorbachev has clearly stated that there never were any promises regarding the Baltic States joining NATO” but the point was there would be no NATO expansion, i.e. without specification of any countries.
Offering advice on the back of narrow minded and unevidenced assertions, no substance, is, frankly, a waste of everyone’s time. Those paragraphs will be of little interest to you because you have already made up your mind, based, as far as you have so far shown, on nothing other than your own opinion. They may be of some interest to those who wish to understand the background to Putin’s fascism. That is why I included them. Regarding NATO, you will not listen to someone who was party to the discussions, but I place it here for others who have an open mind. It speaks for itself. ‘What the Germans, Americans, British and French did agree to in 1990 was that there would be no deployment of non-German NATO forces on the territory of the former GDR. I was a deputy director on the State Department’s Soviet desk at the time, and that was certainly the point of Secretary James Baker’s discussions with Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze. In 1990, few gave the possibility of a broader NATO enlargement to the east any serious thought. The agreement on not deploying foreign troops on the territory of the former GDR… Read more »
The evidence in Mr Story’s article in The Critic doesn’t just contradict the claim that there isn’t two-tier policing. It reveals a complete dereliction of duty on the part of the servants of the state. Indeed, it’s more like two-tier justice.
The example of the two girls charged and convicted of being drunk and disorderly while there was no investigation into the activities of the men must rank as state-sanctioned misogyny. And where, it must be asked, were the feminists? Were they staging vigils?
After the multitude of these examples the British state must be questioned as to its role in spreading disinformation whenever one of the ‘authorities’ declares that there is no two-tier policing.
When the likes of Liz Truss as foreign secretary declares that those Russian troops responsible for sex crimes in war will be brought to justice, it’s clear that the British state is more interested in protecting Ukrainian women than British ones.
One might muse about how much an ameliorating influence following religion has on ‘certain men’ in their treatment of women. In contrast, the Good Book declares: Vain is the help of man (Psalm lx.11).
I will be convinced about trans women when they start supporting feminist causes.
10 years to rebuild Britain
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We KNEW printing money for furlough would cause high inflation. We KNEW borrowing billions for test and trace would indebt us. We KNEW it wasn’t “ok because interest rates are low” because we KNEW interest rates go up and and cause more debt.
And NOBODY in politics objected and especially not Labour who wanted harder, longer, more and 100% furlough. It would be 20 years to rebuild Britain if Labour had been in charge.
Most of today’s politicians are Keynsians, if they know any economics at all. Like politicians pushing a Keynsian agenda, they are more Keynsian than Keynse himself.
I am puzzled about the Notting Hill Carnival being touted as multicultural. It is blatantly a celebration of Afro-Carribean culture (4% of England and Wales) and nothing else. Whiteys (80%) are invited to spectate and interact with the subcultures by becoming the victims.
Asians (10%) don’t seem to be interested in multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism is blatantly disinformation.
“Five more people were stabbed and 230 were arrested on the closing day of Notting Hill Carnival.”
Still,.. “largely peaceful”
When prey tell, does it become not peaceful?
10 dead? 20?
And these were just the ones they couldn’t get out of the area before the crimes were recorded.
“Kamala Harris and the myth of the glass ceiling” – A female candidate can only break the glass ceiling if she” sleeps with Willie Brown!
Is Willie Brown a euphemism?
🤣 no, he was the mayor of San Francisco
I very powerful man at the time kamala was dating him!
She’s never had a proper job, just slept her way to the top
I am not interested in hearing the Met say it is tired about crime at an event it has allowed to be crime infested since it started. We all remember the officers joining in and playing instead of doing their duty and the long list of excuses made by the Met senior officers about repeated high levels of criminality there.
We are tired of two tier policing, of the failures of the police to keep law aboding people safe and their high level of politicisation. In fact we are utterly fed up with it.
We are tired of two tier policing – we want more tiers.
Be careful – it will all end in tiers.
“Historian and Broadcaster, David Oldroyd-Bolt, says that teachers challenging whiteness in schools is effectively saying there is ‘something sinful and wrong about being white’. pic.twitter.com/FrlFYLhUBy
David Oldroyd-Bolt and Rees-Mogg do a splendid job of getting their points across while not allowing the Marxist Harpy to constantly interrupt them by spewing Communist propaganda.
Rees-Mogg acknowledged that “There is a problem of racism, and that should always be tackled, and racism is a bad thing, unquestionably.”
On a personal level, I disagree with that statement. Racism is just Tribalism, preferring to live and work in peace among your own ethnic group, with whom you feel most comfortable. It is perfectly normal, natural and has helped humanity survive for thousands of years.
Every person on the planet is Racist/Tribalist, whether they admit it or not, and yet it is only The White Man who is savagely denounced for it. It’s time to say,
“No! We do not consent! We are proud to be white, proud of our ancestors, and proud of our civilisation. And if you don’t like it, you know what you can do.”
“The immigration debate is over”
A very powerful analysis by Connor Tomlinson.
“Violent offenders let off if they say sorry”
While British Patriots are jailed for social media posts and shouting at a dog
“Ship over troubled waters”
Jack Watson brings some good points to the debate about the Bayesian
“New Zealand’s Net Zero green energy disaster is a terrible warning”
It’s good that DS doesn’t forget our Kiwi & Aussie cousins