News Round-Up
- “It’s a wonder Starmer can keep a straight face” – It’s not the dishonesty that stings. It’s how Labour insults our intelligence. Sir Keir Starmer’s attempt to shift the blame for his coming tax rises is so brazen, says Daniel Hannan in the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer can’t blame the Tories forever” – Keir Starmer’s garden speech aimed to lower expectations by heaping extra blame on the Conservatives for the state of the nation, but he can’t keep whistling that tune forever, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Middle classes brace for Keir Starmer’s capital gains tax raid” – The Prime Minister has prompted panic among landlords and investors as he waters down Labour’s election promises, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour ‘amnesty’ may add 44,000 illegal migrants to welfare bill” – Of 63,053 people previously earmarked for deportation, as many as 70% will now be allowed to stay in Britain, reports the Mail.
- “British pensioners to keep winter fuel allowance – if they live in EU” – British pensioners living in Europe are set to keep the winter fuel allowance this year while millions of the elderly at home are stripped of the payment, owing to a quirk of the Brexit agreement, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hate crime measures axed by Tories over free speech fears back on agenda” – Labour is set to strengthen hate-crime laws watered down by the Tories over free-speech concerns in order to crack down on antisemitic and ‘Islamophobic’ abuse, according to the Telegraph.
- “The liberal media’s gushing over Kamala Harris is an embarrassment to journalism” – Fawning over a politician is bad enough. But it’s even worse to fawn over one who’s spent a whole month dodging press scrutiny, says the Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon.
- “Emmanuel Macron sparks chaos by refusing to appoint PM from Left-wing coalition” – Emmanuel Macron has rejected the French Left-wing candidate for Prime Minister, saying he must be confident any pick can maintain cross-party support – sparking a furious row as the country continues to be led by a ‘zombie’ government, the Telegraph reports.
- “Attorney General under fire after refusing to confirm ban on arms sales to Israel” – Pro-Gaza MPs have attacked the Attorney General, Richard Hermer KC, over his refusal to confirm a ban on arms sales to Israel, after he said he will not approve a decision to ban some weapons sales until the Foreign Office can say for certain which could be used to break international law, according to the Telegraph.
- “Zelensky says Kursk offensive is collateral in a victory plan” – Zelensky has confirmed that the objective of the Kursk operation is “one of the key points” as collateral in a negotiation which, he says, will “force Russia to end the war through diplomacy”, writes Svitlana Morenets in the Spectator.
- “How Zuckerberg censored Covid on Facebook” – The social media giant regularly bowed to White House pressure to remove anti-vaccine posts, says James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
- “How Facebook became Biden’s personal censor” – Mark Zuckerberg’s semi-apology is not all it seems, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Tucker Carlson interviews RFK Jr.” – On Dr. Robert Malone’s Substack, watch Tucker Carlson interview independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on teaming up With Trump, Pavel Durov’s Arrest, the CIA and the Fall of the Democrat Party.
- “Denmark, Finland, and Norway graphs show all-cause mortality kept rising after the shots rolled out” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch takes a look at mortality data from Denmark, Finland and Norway and finds deaths have kept on rising since the Covid vaccines were introduced in 2021.
- “Letby hospital inquiry ‘should be postponed until conviction concerns are investigated’” – The public inquiry into baby deaths at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked should be postponed until concerns arising from her conviction have been investigated, two dozen scientists, statisticians and medics have said, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘The ocean is overflowing’: UN chief issues warning about Pacific sea level rise” – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has claimed that “surging seas are coming for us all” as he issues a call to “listen to science” and “save the Pacific”, reports ITV News.
- “Is there nothing the BBC won’t blame on climate change?” – The state broadcaster has swapped factual journalism for breathless eco-activism, says Andrew Montford in Spiked.
- “Massive Google data centre in Dublin blocked over blackout fears” – Plans for a vast Google data centre on the outskirts of Dublin have been blocked amid fears it would put pressure on the electricity grid and heighten the risk of blackouts, says the Telegraph. Er, maybe they should focus on producing more and more reliable power?
- “British Red Cross guide asks staff to use ‘inclusive’ language” – The British Red Cross has come under fire for its controversial “inclusive” language guide advising employees to avoid using the terms “maiden name”’ and “ladies and gentlemen”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Extreme Misogyny” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson imagines how Labour’s proposed new law against “extreme misogyny” might work in practice.
- “Children prefer Dahl and Blyton unsanitised, says McCall Smith” – Sir Alexander McCall Smith has criticised the “censoring” of children’s books by authors such as Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, arguing that they present a “sanitised world view”, reports the Telegraph.
- “What is the probability that the Bayesians died by chance?” – Less than three months after their acquittal and return to the U.K., business partners Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain were killed in separate freak accidents. This was unlikely, say Norman Fenton and Martin Neil on Substack, but not as unlikely as most are assuming.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit” – In TCW, Karen Harradine does some digging into the murky foundations of the far-Left censorship outfit Hope Not Hate.
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Starmer ! What a character !
Also the Yacht & Jogging deaths , complicated article but their lawyer went down to DJ locker as well + all the crew survived ! I’m crap at maths so I’m sticking with “Well Dodgy” !
“‘The ocean is overflowing’: UN chief issues warning about Pacific sea level rise”
It is like a re-run of the King Canute story; The UN Chief blithely states that sea level rise is entirely the result if actions by humans. Wow and I thought the movement of tectonic plates in the Americas had something to do with it? What i find so breathtaking is the arrogance and hubris of these people who think they know with absolute certainty what is causing sea level rise. And what is worse they seem convinced that, like King Canute’s courtiers, they know that humans can take actions now that will halt the rise in sea temperatures.
It seems to me that these mad, bad and dangerous to know net-zero zealots will merrily sacrifice mankind on the altar of net-zero only to find that sea levels rise and fall as they will. Maybe some of the human folly was in building coastal communities so close to sea edge? as Johnny Cash once put it;
Well, the rails are washed out north of town
We gotta head for higher ground
We can’t come back till the water goes down
Five feet high and risin’
“Come into the garden, Maud.”
Sir Keir leads the country into the No.10 garden. There to have a ‘difficult’ conversation with them. Not unlike the setting of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem.
How strange, one of the rose-sniffers might have argued in the tone of Tennyson’s protagonists, that Labour needs the Tories to justify rinsing the public.
A British prime minister, looking at the country frankly, might have said instead, “England was as a cool hospitable garden over which a desert wind has blown unkind. Our lives are now seared with the deliriums of mankind.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/zelensky-says-kursk-offensive-is-collateral-in-a-victory-plan/ ‘…allies will have to rethink their vague commitment to support Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’ – or the war will go on forever.’ Both Russia (adverse demographics) and Ukraine (independence) see this as a war of national survival. That means it will not end. Peace will depend on a settlement that gives Ukraine defensible borders. The idea that Putin went to war over NATO enlargement is dotty. He went to war because of a declining Russian population. ‘If the current (demographic) trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy’ (Putin 2000) In 2006, Putin declared the need to address population decline as “the highest national priority,” Whereas, in the words of someone actually at the meetings between James Baker and Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘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 was incorporated in Article 5 of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect… Read more »
The cut and paste king strikes again, and again he wears no clothes.
Many people here are perfectly able to look at both sides of an argument and draw their own conclusions. What they do not need is a self appointed “champion of openmindedness” who manages to see only one side and appears not to see through blatant propaganda.
By the way I am banned from the DT and DM comments sections and don’t subscribe. Ionly ever see the Graun if it comes top of a search, when it reminds me to my delight how many times I have visited and not paid for the pleasure. Its comment section is a complete no-go area.
And again, most here do not think an attribution to a partisan comment counts as evidence.
I judge a source of information by subsequent analysis of its information judged against sunsequent events.
For example, Russia is manifestly still and increasingly launching missiles of all sorts at Ukrainian troops and infrastructure. It shows no signs of the oft predicted shortage of these weapons.
Bakhmut is now well behind the contact line, it has not been retaken by the Ukrainians, as is the case for many Donbas towns.
Himars, Partriot systems, M777s, Bradleys, Abrams, Challengers,Storm Shadows were not the wonder weapons that would change to state of the conflict.
By the way, I post on here comments about the Russo-Ukrainian war for the interest of those visitors of an open mind.
Those with a mind of a different bent who do not enjoy these comments or (evidenced) opinions that differ from their (unevidenced so easily dismissed) assertions may prefer to move across to the distinctly narrow minded site of The Guardian newspaper.
I am banned there…….
It might be of interest to explain why there are so many dupes of Russian propaganda:
‘Fear is the basis of propaganda. When a person is frightened, critical thinking doesn’t work well.’
‘How propaganda works’ Tamara Eidelman
Ah, so your fear of Russia induces your belief of propaganda. Thanks for explaining it.
Here is a refreshing and very positive video of how happy people are at Crimea having been returned to Russia: https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/smf-int2:7. It was uploaded by Eva Bartlett less than a week ago and is the statement of Yuri Gempel, a Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Standard Commission on Inter-Ethnic Relations of the Parliament of Crimea.
“Crimea, under Ukraine, was robbed,” Gempel says. “Everything was taken by the government and representatives of the ruling elite of Ukraine. For the 23 years Crimea was a part of Ukraine, they robbed Crimea. Not a single kindergarten was built in Crimea during those years. Kindergartens built during Soviet times stopped functioning.
But the main issue is that during that time, the people still felt themselves to be in Russian territory, not Ukrainian, in language, culture and in spirit. Under Ukrainian rule, Crimeans were made to speak Ukrainian, although Crimeans’ native language is Russian. People were deprived of the right to be in state service if they did not speak Ukrainian.”
He also addresses the often quoted accusation that Russia kidnapped children from Ukraine.
Such testimonies are worth far more than endless paragraphs written by unknown personalities decades ago.
They are right to be afraid.
Alexei Navalny, whose death in prison is as yet unexplained, had previously fallen ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow in 2020 after being poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent.
Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who defected and was a prominent Putin critic, was murdered with polonium-210 in London in 2016.
Boris Nemtsov, shot dead near the Kremlin
Stanislav Markelov, assassinated in Moscow alongside journalist Anastasia Baburova.
Natalia Estemirova, abducted and found dead in Chechnya
Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist murdered in her Moscow apartment building
Segei Magnitsky died in custody following severe beatings and medical neglect.
Dawn Sturgess died on 8 July 2018 after coming into contact with the nerve agent novichok.
Eva Bartlett is a Canadian blogger and independent journalist. She contributes op-eds on the Russian state-controlled channel Russia Today’s website. She lives in Russia currently. She promotes pro-Russian content about the conflict in Ukraine. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) identified her as spreading pro-Kremlin disinformation about the Russo-Ukrainian War. In July 2022, she was a speaker at the Russian-organized sham human rights tribunal – International Public Tribunal on Ukraine – which aimed to gather information to prove allegations of “war crimes by the Kyiv regime, discrimination against its own citizens, persecution on linguistic, national and ideological grounds.” In fact, since 2014, Crimea is the epicentre of human rights violations in occupied Ukraine. The Crimean Tatars have again found themselves on the brink of an existential challenge, as they did in the late 18th century when they were under the occupation of the Russian Empire. Server Mustafayev was born in 1986 in Uzbekistan. The family later returned to Crimea, specifically to the city of Bakhchisarai. Server finished school in Bakhchisarai and then enrolled in the Bakhchisarai Construction College at the National Agrarian University. He studied at Kyiv National University, specializing in heat and gas supply and ventilation. Afterward, he worked… Read more »
The point is that nobody wants the people you promote on a daily basis – except for the globalist European leaders who cannot bow low enough to their US masters.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-has-already-lost-ukraine-opinion-1935532
The U.S. strategy is to weaken Putin’s barbaric invasion forces to the degree that they can no longer invade their neighbours.
Since their neighbours have just invaded them, that strategy would appear, by any measure, to be a rattling success.
Any overnight Court hearings to deal with the huge criminality at Notting Hill Carnival? How many 55 year old ladies banged up for ‘hate thoughts’ (to be fair, most of them probably hated the very idea of going to the NHC). Media lashing out the blame ‘Far Left’, as usual? Strange that…..perhaps someone will ask Starmer for an update after his ‘garden’
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This article explains just how easy it is, with a bit of inside knowledge of how the system works, for failed asylum seekers to evade the authorities in Germany, thereby avoiding deportation. This is ridiculously simple to exploit and then go on to carry out your jihad mission, as per the recent case in Solingen; ”New details have emerged about how Issa al Hasan exploited Germany’s asylum system to remain in the country despite clear warning signs. According to sources from BILD, al Hasan used various tactics to manipulate the system. He claimed to have an uncle living in Germany, which authorities could not verify. It is now suspected that this claim was fabricated to strengthen his asylum case, although even if true, it would not have legally prevented his deportation. Al Hasan was reportedly well-informed about the legal intricacies of the German asylum system. Upon arriving in Germany in 2022, he was supposed to be deported back to Bulgaria, the country where he first arrived in Europe. However, German authorities had only six months to carry out the deportation. If they failed to do so within this period, al Hasan would be allowed to stay in Germany. It appears that al… Read more »
Surely handcuffing them to the seat and binding their feet would do the trick. Stick them on a plastic sheet as the toilet trip would certainly be high risk…Crikey, I’d flipping sedate them, whatever it takes. People are way too soft. Just get rid, FGS! After all, how does one transport dangerous prisoners? ”Migrants are deliberately injuring themselves or behaving abusively to get thrown off deportation flights, the chairman of a major German police union has claimed. Andreas Roßkopf, chairman of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP), said some migrants who are about to be deported behave so badly that pilots refuse to take them. “Many people subject to deportation behave abusively as soon as they reach the airport,” he told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). They behave so negatively that the flight captain often has to abort the repatriation in order to show consideration for the other passengers. Some even injure themselves at the airport to avoid being deported. Following Saturday’s mass stabbing in Solingen, in which a failed Syrian asylum seeker killed three people and injured eight more, the GdP has demanded more places in deportation detention centres. It has also called for more charter flights to handle the number of people who need to be… Read more »
There are plenty of NGOs and busybodies (also lawyers) providing masses of any required information to asylum seekers. When police wish to actually deport someone (yes, it has happened!), that someone is often warned beforehand by these people and they just dive under cover for a while. Of course, in UK it is exactly the same – and presumably in every other European country. A few years ago I listened to a German radio reporter interviewing an Indian, who had spent some years in Scotland, before coming to Germany and applying for asylum. The reporter did not ask him on what grounds a person from India needed political asylum in Germany, nor did he ask why he left Scotland and what he had been doing there. Two obvious questions I would have asked. There was also a report some time ago on one ‘refugee’ who had been caught out collecting his monthly wages from multiple asylum centres. He apparently held 10 different identities in Germany and was therefore earning an exceptionally decent monthly wage – far more than most highly qualified people. Maybe, in the meantime, they have introduced a system where asylum seekers are finger printed or would that… Read more »
Not the cowardice during Covid, not the lies, not the nonstop vitriol thrown at dissenting voices, not the censorship, not the lockstep of MSM, not the turning a blind eye as girls get raped, not the betrayal of English people, not the acts of treason. No, what’s “an embarrassment to journalism”, apparently, is supposed journalists fawning over the useless Harris. F*ck off Deacon, you’re one of many who should be serving a sentence for crimes against their country, not be free to peddle more propaganda.
So true.
Scanning the above headlines, re the Telegraph, Spiked et al, you wonder why they’re 3 years behind the curve.
He who pays the piper picks the headlines.
I’d taken the DT for 30 yrs, but totally reinvented my media sources in Nov 2020, the year of the great steal, ditched every MSM feed and am better informed for it.
“It’s a wonder Starmer can keep a straight face”
Yes, and it’s a wonder Liz Truss can keep a straight face, after the latest revelations:
Liz Truss considered scrapping all NHS cancer treatment after crashing economy, book claims (msn.com)
“Emmanuel Macron sparks chaos by refusing to appoint PM from Left-wing coalition”
For once, he did the right thing, but only because:
French election: ‘We will topple any Left-wing PM you appoint,’ Marine Le Pen warns Emmanuel Macron (telegraph.co.uk)
The Pacific rises but no mention of the Atlantic or other oceans?
How does that work?
They have kept the gates shut on the Panama Canal?
If we don’t get boiled like eggs in the oceans we will get drownded.
Firkin idiots.