News Round-Up
- “NHS is ‘broken’ and must ‘reform or die’, says Keir Starmer” – Keir Starmer warned that the “broken” NHS must “reform or die” after a damning report found billions of pounds in extra investment has failed to boost performance, reports the Mail.
- “Alarming graphs lay bare the catastrophic failures of the NHS” – The nightmarish state of the NHS has been revealed in a series of shocking charts crafted by the Mail.
- “This report is a damning indictment of the NHS” – Lord Darzi has delivered a damning diagnosis of the state of the NHS, writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “The Darzi investigation of the NHS” – To fix the NHS, reduce bureaucracy, target high-value care and make better use of what’s already available, suggest Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on the TTE Substack.
- “‘Why I believe Lucy Letby’s trial was unfair’” – Even Horace Rumpole could not have secured an acquittal for Lucy Letby, says Peter Hitchens in the Spectator.
- “Asian man used fake ‘Chris Nolan on Telegram to stir up racial hatred during riots” – An Asian man has been convicted of stirring up racial hatred against Muslims after posing online as a far-Right hooligan called ‘Chris Nolan’, reports the Mail.
- “The public were failed by the official silence over the Southport atrocity” – The refusal to brief the media in a sensible way about the Southport attacker was an unforgivable mistake, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “MPs including Nigel Farage could face crackdown on paid TV appearances” – MPs could face a crackdown on paid TV appearances under a review of Commons rules, reports the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer suffers first defeat in Lords on winter fuel payments” – Keir Starmer has suffered his first defeat in the House of Lords, as peers condemned the removal of the winter fuel payment, according to the Mail.
- “Starmer plots vast expansion of nanny state in battle to save NHS” – Keir Starmer is preparing a raft of “nanny state” interventions on public health as he scrambles to save the NHS from collapse, reports the Telegraph.
- “The real reason the Treasury can’t find the fiscal ‘black hole’” – The Chancellor’s economic “black hole” is just a crude political device, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Britain’s choice: spiralling debt, £40 billion in spending cuts or tax rises every 10 years” – The spending watchdog has issued a stark warning that British families face an additional £40 billion in tax rises or spending cuts every decade to avoid a “spiral” of public debt, reports the Telegraph.
- “Resistance is futile!” – We’re being governed by Vogons, says Mr. Chips on his Substack.
- “Policing minister Diana Johnson has purse stolen at police conference” – The Policing Minister’s purse has been stolen at a police event while she was decrying the “epidemic” of theft plaguing the nation, according to the Mail.
- “Thousands of offshore wind turbines to blight Britain’s holiday hotspots” – Wind farms are to be built off the holiday coasts of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and South Wales under Crown Estate plans to accelerate offshore turbine expansion, reports the Telegraph.
- “Wind industry is killing sea life on East Coast, fishermen say” – On the Public Substack, Donna Andersen has uncovered a scandal in plain sight: the wind industry is destroying the fishing industry.
- “Ban on junk food advertising online and TV before 9pm from next year” – Junk food ads will be banned online and on TV until after 9pm from next year, despite ‘nanny state’ criticisms and broadcaster concerns, reports the Mail.
- “‘Strengthened protections’ for free speech in Australian Government’s revised misinformation bill, but fundamental flaws remain” – Australia’s revamped misinformation bill may be less draconian, but it’s still a slippery slope towards government-sanctioned censorship, says Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “German Foreign Office try to dunk on Trump’s debate performance but get their numbers wrong and provoke the ire of a close adviser to the man who may well be the next U.S. President” – On Substack, Eugyppius mocks Germany’s latest diplomatic misstep, lampooning their attempt to score moral points over Trump’s cat-eating immigrant claims.
- “Why one U.S. city believes migrants are eating their cats” – Trump’s claims of Haitians stealing pets are masking real concerns in Springfield, Ohio, writes Edward Helmore in the Telegraph.
- “Lessons from Covid” – In an article for the Jubilee Centre, Rev. Dr. Ian Stackhouse argues that the lockdown’s overreach and church closures revealed a troubling readiness among Christians to trade their faith for fear.
- “U.S. House passes bill to require Senate approval of any international agreement on pandemic preparedness to be subject to Senate ratification” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass reports that the House has passed a bill requiring Senate approval for WHO pandemic agreements. Two years ago, such bills were non-starters.
- “Trans population in Britain could be far smaller than previously thought” – The statistics watchdog claims that the census data indicating there are 262,000 transgender people in the U.K. is unreliable and should be disregarded, according to the Mail.
- “Ethical limits to the pursuit of knowledge” – The Cass report called for a moratorium on the use of puberty-blocking drugs until more is known. But how can more be known by means that are ethical? asks Theodore Dalrymple in the Epoch Times.
- “SNP tells schools to ditch blazers” – The SNP is advising schools to replace blazers with generic, gender-neutral clothing to reduce costs and promote inclusivity, according to the Scotsman.
- “The CofE’s raving madness” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray skewers the trend of churches turning into nightclubs.
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Why one U.S. city believes migrants are eating their cats It is said that cats are quite good to eat. China, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Syria and Switzerland are known to be cat eating countries. However most obligate carnivores taste bad and have really stringy meat, not ideal on the open grill. Heavily seasoned meatballs may be the best choice for getting them down, sluiced with rakiya. A good friend of mine ate a cat many years ago as a student in Eastern Europe. After eating the cat, in a stew, with mushrooms, he pronounced tortoise to be preferable, if you could get it. Tortoises are to be found in the wild in parts of Eastern Europe, quite possibly introduced by the Romans, who favoured Tortoise potage as a pot au feu on campaign. This basic tortoise meat and grain potage could be elaborated with chopped vegetables, bits of meat, cheese, or herbs to produce dishes similar to polenta or risotto. “Julian stew” (Pultes Iulianae) was made from spelt to which was added two kinds of ground meat, pepper, lovage, fennel, hard bread, and a wine reduction; according to tradition, it was eaten by the soldiers of Julius… Read more »
Safety notice: If the cat has one of those leather or raffia collars with bell attachment, the collar may be added to the stew but the bell should be discarded unless fabricated from materials known to have nutritious content like, for example, the well known laughing cow baby bell.
God, he really can’t stop persecuting the elderly can he? I’d like to think this would never get voted through in parliament, because it’s just one unnecessary cruelty after another and we know it’s not the elderly that are a drain on the economy. We know full well where all the big money is going. But the fact the public aren’t being reassured these other concessions won’t get scrapped too means don’t hold your breath; ”Prime Minister Keir Starmer has not ruled out scrapping the free bus pass and council tax discounts for state pensioners. In the House of Commons, Treasury minister James Murray refused to confirm whether benefits, such as the free bus pass for older Britons, will remain in place. Conservative MP Kit Malthouse asked the minister about the likely fate of the various discounts available to older people when travelling the UK. He said: “Yesterday in the other place, the Transport Minister cast doubt on the continuation of travel concessions for pensioners. “This has caused significant alarm in my constituency and others. Notwithstanding the discussion we’re having today, could you just reassure us that travel concessions for pensioners will continue under a Labour Government?” As it stands, the Autumn Budget is set to… Read more »
Many pensioners use their free bus pass as their only means of photo I.D. Your bus pas is acceptable as photo I.D. for voting in elections. So as well as saving money, abolishing the bus pass will stop some of us pesky pensioners from voting for the wrong party.
Thursday Morning Sopwith Rd & Harvest Ride Warfield Bracknell
“The Cass report called for a moratorium on the use of puberty-blocking drugs until more is known. But how can more be known by means that are ethical? asks Theodore Dalrymple in the Epoch Times.”
Maybe this is an indication that “more” should not be known.
Meanwhile, Sir K issues a rather open-ended invitation to Putin to stop the war in Ukraine ahead of the start of unrestricted missile warfare. Gosh, Sir K, the great dictator might take you up on that. But not at the United Nations (where they?). Wasn’t the unrestricted use of primitive submarines rather ‘problematic’, as they say, in the Great War?
How strange that there’s always money for wars. The pensioners can freeze. There can be a ‘black hole’ in Britain’s finances. And though ostensibly neutral, from the war to end war a century ago the UK can pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a war no one can end today.
This latest sabre rattling is based as an as-yet unproven assumption that the containers on a ship from Iran that recently crossed the Caspian sea to Russia contain missiles.
The war would end immediately if the West stopped funding the massacre of primary Ukrainian, but also Russian, citizens. Lammy will send another £600 million to the black hole of the Ukraine financial world (i.e. into Zelensky’s deep pockets) with no care of the scarcity of funds in UK. There are obviously more Ukrainians available to be sent to their slaughter in the name of western democracy.
The black hole cannot be substantiated, the number of trans people cannot be reliably quantified, the racial make up of the criminal fraternity is not available, the outcomes of Covid are obfuscated, temperatures are quoted to 3 decimal places when the most measuring devices are only accurate to within 2 to 5 degrees.
What is the point of Government officials?
I have come to the conclusion that their only purpose is to dispense propaganda.
Realistically the only way to treat government pronouncements is as lies until we have conducted our own research. The “black hole” is an example and one that we cannot verify.but it could be “filled” simply by ending the laundering of cash to renewables companies. That this won’t happen simply confirms that said black hole is nothing more than a fiction or more bluntly a bloody lie.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-another-12billion-down-the-net-zero-drain/
Talking of which Paul Homewood at TCW discussing Millibrain’s efforts to destroy the country with another £12 billion being laundered via renewables.
Another one joining the club, as it were, in one the well known organisations: https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/bbc-the-repair-shop-jay-blades-charge-coercive-behaviour
What an idiot she was to marry such a creepy individual in the first place !
“This report is a damning indictment of the NHS” – “Lord Darzi has delivered a damning diagnosis of the state of the NHS.”
Armenian immigrant Baron Darzi and other analysts of the NHS all ignore The Elephant in the Room: Mass Invasion from the Third World, all given free healthcare on the NHS, which is funded by British Taxpayers to insure THEIR OWN HEALTHCARE, not healthcare for the rest of the entire world.
If you pay insurance on your house, and then the government allows everyone else in the country to claim insurance for their houses using YOUR INSURANCE POLICY, what will happen to you, your house, and your insurance company?
“Asian man used fake ‘Chris Nolan on Telegram to stir up racial hatred during riots”
When are we going to ditch this useless term “Asian” to describe people?
It covers about 60% of the world’s population, everywhere from the eastern Mediterranean to the Caucasus, the Indian Subcontinent, China, places like Borneo and vast swathes of Russia.
Why not just call him what he is, a Muslim Pakistani man?
Or “an Ethnic Indian man”, faking a “hate crime”, as so many others, both male and female, have done in the past, as proven by the “Tell Mama” scandal?