News Round-Up
- “Carsley will not sing national anthem before Republic of Ireland match” – The new interim England manager will take charge of the national team against the Republic of Ireland for the opening game of what is set to be a six-match trial, says the Mail. But he refuses to sing the National Anthem.
- “I was just trying to help, says 81-year-old charged over riots” – A pensioner has been accused of using abusive or threatening behaviour during a riot in Nottingham, according to the Telegraph. He told the Court he was trying to assist officers in making an arrest.
- “Man jailed after saying he was only at protest to buy meat” – Jack Wood has been sentenced to 13 months in jail after pleading guilty to violent disorder at a protest in Whitehall on July 31st, reports the Mail.
- “Man who set fire to asylum seeker hotel handed longest sentence yet for U.K. riots” – Thomas Birley, a 27 year-old from Swinton, has been jailed for nine years over his part in what the judge calls “grotesque” violence, according to BBC News.
- “The Government’s narrative fallacy on the summer’s disorder” – For a Government that promised to “tread lightly” on its citizens, Sir Keir Starmer’s administration is stomping pretty heavily on how we choose to think and speak about the riots and counter-protests, says Ian Price on his Substack.
- “Lindsay Hoyle’s war on free speech” – The Commons Speaker is abusing his position by demanding tighter censorship of the internet, argues Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Rich ready to leave U.K. over budget tax threat” – The Prime Minister has warned that “those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden”, i.e., tax rises are coming this Autumn, according to the Times. And the rich are preparing to leave the country.
- “Starmer’s ‘nanny state’ may tax sugar and salt” – The British Heart Foundation has been lobbying for more ‘joy taxes’, says the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband ‘considers scrapping wind power target’” – The oxymoronic Department for Energy Security and Net Zero may be about to accept reality when it comes to wind power, according to the Telegraph.
- “The anti-Sue Gray agenda creates a dilemma for Keir Starmer” – The PM’s Chief of Staff is making headlines, and not in a good way. Who is orchestrating the attacks and leaks against her? asks the Times.
- “Labour to allow staff to sue bosses for making them work too hard” – A Workers’ Rights Bill planned for the Autumn will include reforms to employment tribunals and give staff protection from their first day at work, says the Times.
- “No 10 defends Rwanda deportation scheme axe as EU considers using it” – Sir Keir Starmer branded the Rwanda scheme introduced by the previous Tory administration an “expensive gimmick”. Yet now other European countries are embracing it, according to the Mail.
- “Europe’s tough asylum plans are humiliating Starmer” – Germany’s sharp U-turn on asylum policy reflects a broader trend of resistance to mass uncontrolled immigration, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Stripping the Lords of the hereditaries would be an act of harm against our historical DNA” – Even Labour accepts that the 92 hereditary peers do a great deal of good. Why, then, must they go? asks Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “It’s still Kemi Badenoch’s race to lose” – Those who top the first ballot of a Conservative leadership election rarely go on to win, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
- “If you think Trump is losing, you’re in for a nasty surprise” – Polls pointing to a Kamala Harris victory appear to be skewed by including too many Democrat voters, according to the Telegraph.
- “Resignation letter from a John Lewis Partner” – The John Lewis Partnership is abusing its female staff and customers, according to an anonymous resignation letter published on Graham Linehan’s Substack.
- “Kamala’s dad calls her a ‘travesty‘ and Walz’s family is voting Trump” – After Tim Schmaltz’s older brother Jeff announced on Facebook last week that he’s voting for Trump in November, another devastating family dirty bomb HAS exploded on social media, reports the Mail.
- “Kamala Harris U-turns on plastic straw ban” – The Democrat nominee for president has flip-flopped on the plastic straw issue, says the Telegraph.
- “Galway Councillor says area is experiencing ‘gang wars‘ amid recent spate of violence.” – According to Gript, an ongoing gang war between travellers and Muslims has been happening in Galway for at least a year.
- “Can you be ‘a‘ racist?” – The question, “Is he a racist?” doesn’t really make sense, argues Noah Carl in Aporia. At the very least, it requires further clarification.
- “Irish schoolbook pulled over ‘potato and cabbage-munching family’ stereotype” – The publisher of the controversial children’s book contrasting white Irish families with more attractive diverse families has been withdrawn, reports the Telegraph.
- “Can Trump finally expose Kamala’s pathetic question dodging?” – Kamala Harris’s campaign to be president has stalled, says Andrew Neill in the Mail.
- “C’mon, Tucker!” – I know you hate American support for Ukraine and want more isolationist foreign policy, Tucker Carlson, but you only hurt your case when you play footsie with Nazi apologists, says Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Official Covid vaccine death count 50% higher than thought” – Death data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals the number of people who’ve died after taking Covid vaccines is higher than thought, says Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
- “Transgender athlete Valentina Petrillo takes aim at J.K. Rowling” – The Italian Paralympian says he has “never read Harry Potter“ in response to JKR calling him an “out-and-out cheat“, reports the Telegraph.
- “Feral children and their feckless parents are leaving the rest of us living in fear” – A new rot has set in since lockdown – as the rise in crimes committed by young people shows, argues Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Eco-madness left our roads paved with weeds, say furious residents” – Lambeth residents have found themselves on the frontline of an experiment that promised to turn back the ecological clock to better, more bee-friendly days, after a weedkiller ban was introduced in 2021, says the Mail.
- “National Trust set to make half of its cafe food vegan” – Jeremy Clarkson has ridiculed the National Trust for embracing veganism, given the number of livestock farmers on the charity’s land, according to the Telegraph.
- “Cost of furnishing asylum seeker flats too ‘sensitive’ to be released, says watchdog” – The Information Commissioner has ruled in favour of the Home Office, which refused to reveal the cost of furnishing Hampshire accommodation for asylum seekers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Prove you can’t afford private school fees, council asks parents” – Buckinghamshire Council asks mother for evidence of her financial situation in order for her daughter to be considered for state school, according to the Telegraph.
- “Family of American hostage in Gaza shocked by antisemitism of New York” – There are plenty of bad things happening in Kathy Hochul’s New York. But one thing that has become increasingly clear is how willing Hochul is to allow racism and bigotry to thrive in this city, says Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
- “Why the West must fight for its history” – Frank Furedi warns in Spiked that if we forget our past we will jeopardise our future.
- “Security concerns over Chinese college on Oxford’s doorstep” – Peking University HSBC Business School wants to expand its U.K. outpost at Boars Hill, Oxfordshire, but its neighbours are unhappy about the plans, reports the Times.
- “Department of Justice official admits inducting Trump was a political decision and it has backfired spectacularly” – Check out this great undercover work from Steven Crowder and pals that reveals the mendacity of the liberal elite.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_LTg0NlZK4
Resist the Unjust State – Dr G Ashenden
Nine years for burning a wheelie bin. Clearly, the government is very worried that civil unrest is coming its way….
Clearly Labour are using this tactic to cause chaos and unrest. Disproportionately targeting and persecuting those opposing the government, whilst going soft on dangerous criminals by letting them out early or others who don’t even make it to jail in the first place; ”Anarcho-tyranny refers to a societal condition where the state fails to enforce basic law and order against serious crimes (anarchy) but simultaneously imposes excessive control, regulation, and punishment on ordinary, law-abiding citizens (tyranny). The goal of anarcho-tyranny is to maintain power and control by targeting the compliant majority while neglecting or enabling more serious, disruptive elements within society. This dynamic serves to suppress dissent and maintain the status quo, often at the expense of individual freedoms and true justice. The concept of anarcho-tyranny was coined by Samuel T. Francis. His “Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America” offers a profound critique of the socio-political developments in the United States during the 20th century. Francis examines the rise of what he calls the “Managerial State,” a system in which power is increasingly centralized in the hands of a bureaucratic elite that manages both public institutions and large corporations. He argues that traditional structures… Read more »
Interesting. But with a huge majority, and most branches of public life badly infected by the left wing, how much more power does Starmer want or need?
All of it is what Marxists always want and take.
Samuel T Francis is an interesting individual. Certainly worth a read – I’ve started “Shots Fired”An original thinker, and of his time.
C’mon, Tucker! ‘I know you hate American support for Ukraine and want more isolationist foreign policy, Tucker Carlson, but you only hurt your case when you play footsie with Nazi apologists’ Mr Berenson describes Darryl Cooper, the nazi apologist in question, as a historian. So, apparently, does Tucker Carlson: ‘According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper is “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” I had never heard of Cooper until this week and was none the wiser when I went to look for his books. There are none. ‘ Put downs don’t come much better. A lot of what Niall Ferguson, a real historian who has written a long list of what we call ‘books’, has to say explains a fair bit about ‘opinion’ in general and website comments sections like that of the ‘Daily Sceptic’ in particular. ‘history proceeds from an accumulation of evidence, some in the form of written records, some in other forms……….a reconstitution……..: what essentially happened. Darryl Cooper offers a series of wild assertions that are almost entirely divorced from historical evidence and can be of interest only to those so ignorant of the past that they mistake them for daring revisionism, as… Read more »
“Eco-madness left our roads paved with weeds, say furious residents”
It amazes me that people/councils are only worried about glyphosate used to reduce weeds on our streets. Our crops are sprayed with this weedkiller as a desiccant to encourage even ‘drying up’ and enable a speedy and even harvest. God knows how much of the stuff finds it’s way into our bodies and what the effects are. There are many other ways of removing weeds without resorting to chemicals. The real reason, as we all know, for not weeding and saying you are ‘saving the bees’ is to save money on local authority labour.
I am not sure you are right about using glyphosate to kill off the crops but it is widely used to kill weeds and re growth after harvest. It breaks down rapidly in the soil.
I use it as part of a management programme for fields.
The damage which the roots of weeds and bushes can do to roads, pavements, buildings and railways will be very expensive to repair in years to come. But the damage might not be repaired, tge faster to turn our places into the conditions most new inhabitants are used to from back home.
I think the killing off crops refers to oilseed rape doesn’t it?
The indeterminate growth of oilseed rape can make the crop a challenge to harvest. Such growth results in uneven ripening between the early- and late-formed branches. As a result, pre-harvest glyphosate applications are more common in oilseed rape crops, compared to cereals
“Starmer’s ‘nanny state’ may tax sugar and salt”
Well, Sugar tax worked really well, so why not salt?. Although with dietary targets etc, salt has been reduced considerably in what we buy anyway.
Despite the good work that I expect the BHF put in, the absolute truth, is we all have to die of something. What they are doing is not ‘saving lives’, but ‘delaying the inevitable’, often with expensive and painful treatments just to say it can be done. At 63, if they offered me another 10 years of life, I’d want the ones between 20 and 30 please. I don’t want the ones I have now with arthritis and daily pain. Its not an easy message because no-one wants to die, or see loved ones pass away, but we live too long. Our DNA never intended us to get to 80 and beyond.
The BHF is a bad piece of work. Fully on board with all the Covid crap.
Is it a coincidence that this cartoon mocking a ‘traditional’ Irish family was published at a time when there have been protests across the island of Ireland over mass immigration?
If progressives were really against racism and xenophobia in principle, this cartoon would not have seen the light of day in the first place. Thankfully, Ireland only has a patron saint and not a prophet.
What’s also noteworthy, according to Ivor Cummins, is that the book was never published in the Irish language, so was never disseminated to Irish-speaking schools where English is taught as a second language. I’m not sure how many of those there are without doing a search, though.
Why does Charles Moore of the Telegraph think that the Labour Government is interested in Britain’s ‘historical DNA’?
As Peter Hitchens has repeatedly observed, the hereditary principle lies behind many things. Such as private property and the inheritance of it. Does Sir K think that all property is theft? When he talks about ‘working people’, as he constantly does, he means people without savings. (Though it was the Conservative Party that originally created death duties. Taxation that decimated the landed classes during the Great War).
Additionally, the hereditary principle lies at the heart of monarchy. Once the hereditary peers go, who’s next, Your Majesty?
I’m no fan of government by the hereditary principle (Kim Jong Un?), but note the Labour party doesn’t seem to want to get rid of all the other unelected peers – obviously it would be foolish to give up the power of patronage!
Has anyone noticed any significant improvement in the performance of the House of Lords as the number of hereditary peers there dwindles?
Performance.? Do they actually do anything other than claim their expenses.?
“Stripping the Lords of the hereditaries would be an act of harm against our historical DNA” by Charles Moore.
For perhaps the one and only time, I agree with Charles Moore. Tony Blair’s wrecking crew got rid of almost all the hereditary peers, replacing them with party political appointments and ludicrously calling it “more democratic”. The truth is that many members of the hereditary aristocracy do have a sense of “noblesse oblige”.
I don’t remember ever being asked to vote for a member of the “more democratic” House of Lords, do you?
If it were up to me, I would re-instate all the hereditary peers and give the rest the boot, unless they were truly worthy. And abolish the copycat UK Supreme Court with its Judicial Overreach, and bring back the Law Lords.
And then they should reinstate the House of Lords TV room.
I would be much happier knowing that most peers were either asleep or simply watching television (particularly the bishops) rather than meddling with things with which they have only a passing acquaintance.
The bars in the Commons perform a similar function and should be greatly subsidised.
The beatings shall continue until morale improves.
Trump “inducted”? Into what? The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Lovely misprint.