News Round-Up
- “Would raising employer National Insurance break Labour’s pledge?” – Basically, yes, says the BBC.
- “Reeves accused of hypocrisy after admitting NI raid would hit workers’ pay” – Rachel Reeves has been accused of hypocrisy after it emerged she previously admitted that increasing National Insurance for employers would hit workers’ pay, saying Rishi Sunak’s 2022 proposal was “the worst possible tax rise at the worst possible time” and would affect employees’ pay packets, the Telegraph reports.
- “National Insurance raid will be a disaster – and even the Chancellor knows it” – The manifesto promise-breaker will affect working people in the end as additional costs are inevitably passed through to real wages, writes Jeremy Hunt in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer rules out slavery reparations to Caribbean countries” – Downing Street has ruled out paying slavery reparations to Caribbean countries ahead of a major Commonwealth summit, the Telegraph reports.
- “Lammy’s latest slap down is good news for Britain” – Today’s taxpayers do not deserve to be punished for crimes committed long ago, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer met with Taylor Swift after she was granted police escort” – Sir Keir Starmer met with Taylor Swift after the decision was taken to grant her a royal-style police escort, No. 10 sources have confirmed, the Telegraph reports.
- “Sue Gray’s son had free Taylor Swift tickets for gig where she ‘intervened on star’s police escort’” – Sue Gray’s son, Labour MP Liam Conlon, took two seats worth £1,660 for the Wembley concert to which the singer was accompanied by a police motorbike convoy, the Telegraph reports.
- “Now Labour plans to give the unemployed free fat jabs: Keir Starmer to hand out weight loss ‘wonder’ drug to get jobless obese back to work” – The Health Secretary believes the latest generation of weight-loss medicine could have a “monumental” impact on obesity in the U.K. and ease the financial burden on the NHS and the economy, reports the Mail.
- “Wes Streeting’s jabs are no panacea – my own experience of Mounjaro was miserable” – The wonder drug can play its part in tackling obesity, but it is not a magic cure, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “The ‘fat jab’ has worked for me – and it can help cure our economy” – The Telegraph‘s Allison Pearson says that her weight-loss journey with Mounjaro has been wholly positive and many people would welcome help to improve their lives for the better.
- “BBC locked in row with Conservatives over leadership debate” – The Conservative Party has reached an “impasse” with the BBC in a row over who should select the audience for a live debate between leadership contenders Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick, the Telegraph reports.
- “Have scientists suppressed the truth about Covid’s origins?” – Matt Ridley speaks to Fraser Myers on the Spiked Podcast on the “overwhelming evidence for the lab-leak theory”.
- “Anthony Fauci: The Man Who Thought He Was Science” – Fauci will be remembered as a cautionary tale when power is invested in a single person, writes Prof. Jay Bhattacharya on the Illusion of Consensus Substack as he reviews the ex-public health official’s new memoir.
- “Freedom Research Podcast #17. Dr. Clare Craig. Consequences of the Covid Crisis: We Have Not Had the Pushback We Need” – In the latest episode of the Freedom Research podcast, diagnostic pathologist Dr. Clare Craig says that principles of medical ethics were overwritten during the Covid crisis and we have not had the pushback we need.
- “Apple Watch spookily predicts flu days before symptoms start” – Apple watch owners are shocked by the latest update which can predict when you’re sick days before you actually start experiencing symptoms, according to the Mail. Will this be the next pingdemic?
- “Vauxhall owner hauls staff back to the office in effort to reverse sales slump” – Stellantis, the owner of Vauxhall, has ordered staff back into the office, becoming the latest big business to reverse pandemic-era work-from-home rules, reports the Telegraph.
- “Norway court rejects environmental injunction against oil and gas fields” – A Norwegian appeals court said on Monday it had ruled in favour of the Government in a case brought by environmental activists who sought to halt the development of three oil and gas fields, Reuters reports. So, is our problem our courts or our laws? Both, obviously.
- “Chris Packham ‘smears’ in explosive new book” – Chris Packham has just suffered the publication in America of a marmalade-dropper of a book, says the Mail‘s Richard Eden.
- “Google buys world’s first private mini-nuclear reactors” – Google has struck a deal to buy the world’s first private mini-nuclear reactors, as technology companies race to secure power for their data centres, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.S. gives Israel 30-day ultimatum to increase aid to Gaza – or face arms embargo” – The United States has threatened to suspend arms deliveries to Israel if it does not drastically increase the amount of aid entering Gaza in the next 30 days, the Telegraph reports.
- “Watch: Met Police officer refuses to accept Hezbollah are terrorists” – Metropolitan Police officers have been filmed refusing to call Hezbollah a terrorist organisation and saying that the description is a matter of “opinion”. Watch the exchange in the Telegraph.
- “Amazon executive wears pro-Palestine necklace in promotional video” – A senior Amazon employee has provoked a backlash after wearing a controversial pro-Palestinian necklace in a promotional video for the business, says the Telegraph. The video has since been removed, and the company says it “was not meant to be a political statement”.
- “Boris Johnson: Tories allowed migration to soar because we couldn’t stack shelves” – Boris Johnson has claimed migration to Britain was allowed to soar to record levels because there were not enough workers to “stack shelves” following lockdown, the Telegraph reports.
- “Donald Tusk has challenged the EU’s migration consensus” – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk shocked Europe this weekend by announcing that his Government would be “temporarily” suspending migrants’ right to asylum, a cornerstone of international migration law, says Michael Kranz in UnHerd.
- “Why EU’s ex-Brexit chiefs are sounding more and more like Nigel Farage” – Now in roles in their native Poland and France, Donald Tusk and Michel Barnier have both drastically changed their tune since doing the bloc’s bidding in the battles over Brexit, says the Telegraph‘s James Crisp.
- “Sara Sharif’s father called police from Pakistan to say he ‘legally punished her and she died’” – Ten-year-old Sara Sharif’s father contacted police from Pakistan, where he had fled, and told them he “legally punished her and she died”, a court heard, the Telegraph reports.
- “Enjoy your local pub while it lasts – before Labour’s ‘banter cops’ arrive” – The local boozer is a safe haven of impropriety and good humour, not one to be policed by our current killjoy Government, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “How the Stonewall gravy train came to an end” – As high-profile organisations cut ties with the influential LGBT charity, criticism is mounting against its pervasive gender ideologies, says Sanchez Manning in the Telegraph.
- “As a GP, I see how assisted dying would be a recipe for abuse” – In the Telegraph, GP Katie Musgrave says she dreads being asked to provide assisted dying services as the conflicts of interest and potential for abuse are overwhelming.
- “I was cancelled by Cambridge – and Starmer’s Labour bears the blame” – In the Telegraph, Suella Braverman says that thanks to the blocking of the Tories’ freedom of speech protections, campuses are turning into no go zones for people like her.
- “Woman to get payout after being hounded out of rape crisis centre over gender critical beliefs” – Roz Adams, who was hounded out of a scandal-hit “trans-inclusive” rape crisis centre run by a biological male in a “heresy hunt”, is to receive £35,000 in compensation, the Telegraph reports.
- “AI tools refuse to write in style of controversial French author Michel Houellebecq, publisher says” – The world’s favourite French misanthrope writer Michel Houellebecq is too controversial for the world’s new AI tools, which find his views so offensive that they cannot be repeated, reports France24.
- “Mystery as university Vice Chancellor famous for his free speech campaigning and ‘anti-woke’ views is suspended amid ‘serious allegations’” – James Tooley, Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, is barred from working while an inquiry takes place, students have been told, the Mail reports.
- “Canada’s woke Stasi” – An elderly school trustee who questioned trans ideology has been subjected to a legal witch-hunt, writes Meghan Murphy in Spiked.
- “Why was the world’s richest man @elonmusk not invited to Labour’s U.K. investment summit?” – On X, watch Nigel Farage ask why the “world’s greatest entrepreneur” Elon Musk was snubbed by Labour. “Because he believes in free speech, and we can’t have that now can we.”
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“Now Labour plans to give the unemployed free fat jabs”
If I might be so bold. The reason people are out of work is somewhat more complex than their BMI, and indeed their BMI is more complex than just requiring the force feeding of lettuce and compulsory star jumps.
For those who haven’t worked it out yet, Labour have no strategy. None at all. They have an ideology, and they have people whose views on the world haven’t matured one bit since they were 19. Pick on the ‘next thing’ to promote, spend public money without thinking anything through. Realise that its a terrible idea, spin around not knowing what to do next, pick the ‘next thing’ and repeat. This is what happens when essentially, you believe in nothing, have no moral standards, and little experience of life. We’re all living in a bad joke.
Spot on, that sums up Labour perfectly.
I suggest their apparent random walk around what we regard as daft or damaging policies is in truth their plan all along.
The more they can damage the economy and society thebetter their chance, they think, of running a Venezuelan or East German economy here.
Destruction of the country is Labour’s aim. Let’s not be kidded by their alleged incompetence. They know exactly what they are doing.
People who want to work will work regardless of body size. One look inside any hospital is proof of that.
22 out of 34 press sources quoted (not including ‘X’) are The Telegraph. So that’s 22 sources I am unable to check as I don’t want to pay them any money.
You can get a year’s subscription for around £45- just remember to cancel
Whisper it… if you use Firefox broswer and pick ‘reader view’ you can read articles from many sites without a subscription. Other sites such as the Spectator or The Times have more effective paywalls but allow their articles to be archived in the Wayback Machine and similar. Visiting https://archive.ph and pasting the web address of the article you’re interested in into the blue box may allow you to read it without subscription. It’s a bit of a faff but it works for many sites if you’re determined not to pay.
If you find that you’re wanting to read all 22 Telegraph articles linked today then I think perhaps you ought ‘cough up’ and subscribe.
You can often find paywalled articles for free on MSN.
Chris Packham ‘smears’ in explosive new book” Packham, the narcissist, is not much use to anyone, it seems. But maybe he isn’t a narcissist? ‘“Not everyone who is self-centered, self- absorbed or exhibits low empathy is a narcissist. Some people are, in fact, just jerks.” ‘Raptor Rescue decided to end its association with the BBC star because he was not doing any work for the charity and was dividing their membership with his campaigns….’ Mr Packham has long campaigned against countryside pursuits including shooting and hunting and has increasingly attacked the Government over its environmental policies. In recent months he has also said he had come to the conclusion that breaking the law to campaign against climate change is “the ethically responsible thing to do”. He also voiced his support for controversial eco-protest groups Just Stop Oil, Animal Rising and Extinction Rebellion and suggested that protesters could soon consider “blowing up an oil refinery”. The presenter remains the chairman of the RSPCA and vice president of the RSPB and holds roles at a number of smaller charities. Malcolm Robbins, chairman of Raptor Rescue…… (said) that Mr Packham had been removed as patron more than a year ago, but his name had remained on their… Read more »
I’m not sure about the need to differentiate between ‘a narcissist’ and ‘someone who acts and behaves like a narcissist’. The effect appears to be exactly the same.
Time to trim his sails before a vulnerable eco terrrorist takes up Packham’s ideas and causing damage and destruction. If he was not a rabid leftie he would have been cancelled for writing this comment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/15/north-korean-troops-ukraine-russia/
North Korea has sent 10,000 soldiers to Russia to boost its war efforts against Ukraine.
Concerns over the deepening military ties between Moscow and Pyongyang have escalated dramatically this week.
Sending solders to help Russia’s war effort against Ukraine could earn valuable foreign currency for Kim Jong Un’s regime and bolster their strengthening ties. Russia is also transferring embargoed weapons technology to North Korea. This is, of course, less than popular in China.
It is a clear indicator how far Russia and its military have fallen over the last 2.5 years that it is having to beg, borrow and buy support from North Korea.
Our military capability has fallen sharply too. Who do we borrow soldiers from.?
Why do you ask?
We are not fighting a war which always makes recruitment more difficult.
But, in any case, the figures are readily available to you.
Why not look them up?
We are importing replacement soldiers from the Calais Yacht Club. Daily.
Ah, the mainstream media. As though Russia needs any help fighting Ukraine, as though Russia would accept foreigners fighting to protect Russia.
And how would the two groups communicate? Would each soldier be assigned a translator? Sure.
The WaPo – a news source noted for its accuracy and probity.
Ukraine has lost 600,000 men… It’s over..
Stop swallowing msm nonsense…
(I know there’s zero chance of that 🎣)
Update:
Of the first North Korean Battalion to be deployed, 18 soldiers have already deserted their positions in Bryansk and Kursk oblasts even before the unit has been committed to combat operations.
Since North Korea feels it has Russia’s support, it has become less dependent on Beijing.
China is not pleased with these developments, as they do not fit into its peace plan.
Making an enemy of the United States is unfortunate. Making an enemy of China in addition is unlikely to end well.
The proposal is comprised of five points: an invitation to join NATO, a defense aspect, deterrence of Russian aggression, economic growth and cooperation, and a post-war security architecture.
The plan involves three secret addenda that have been shared with international partners.
“If the plan is supported, we can end the war no later than next year,”
“I was cancelled by Cambridge – and Starmer’s Labour bears the blame” – In the Telegraph, Suella Braverman says that thanks to the blocking of the Tories’ freedom of speech protections, campuses are turning into no go zones for people like her.
The Tories really are behind the times. The idea of cancelling people was never intended to be balanced and was always intended to close down anyone not adhering to the views and policies of the elites.
And they are equally guilty of the same behaviour themselves at times… what goes around…
Now Labour plans to give the unemployed free fat jabs: Keir Starmer to hand out weight loss ‘wonder’ drug to get jobless obese back to work”
What happened to all this “green” prescribing? Have they considered the climate impacts of Ozempic?
Or does the prescription of healthy lifestyle changes only apply when it suits the “green” agenda and an expensive new pharmaceutical product is not on the market?
These obesity jabs wouldn’t be based on mRNA would they.
Twenty two of the thirty five articles above are from the pay-walled Telegraph.
Shabby. And that is being polite.
Using the Brave browser enables me to see both DT and DM articles and comments. I have this set up specifically to allow me to access such content without any complaints. Otherwise I use Opera browser.
Yes, perhaps they could have saved time on that segment by writing “See today’s Telegraph”.
I used to use the Brave Browser for accessing some Torygraph articles but it no longer opens as previously.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I think it depends who’s putting the Round-Up list together. I’ve not seen Richard Eldred ( sp? ) all week and he not only provides a longer list of articles but also there tends to be more of a variety of sources, such as substacks and different alternative news sites. He usually also posts articles later in the evening, whereas Toby and Will post the last one at 5pm or even 3pm on a Friday/weekend.
Let me give you my personal experience of the drug Mounjaro. I a nutshell I was borderline obese six weeks ago (you have to be to use it if purchasing privately from a reputable source and I am using the on-line service of a high-street multiple pharmacy), and I am no longer obese as I have lost about 7 kilos in 5 weeks.
You are interviewed on-camera before they will send it to assure themselves that you qualify. There are follow up phone calls every month before each new supply is released and there is a help line for any concerns.
The dosage supplied increases each month, and it is agreed with you whether to increase the dosage, keep it the same or reduce/discontinue.
I was mentally attuned to losing weight anyway, but experimented with the drug to help. I had previosly lost several stone (4″ off waistline) and have not put it back on in 7 years. Knee problems was the push I needed to take it further.
The only significant effect apart from weight loss was getting used to the effects of a considerably reduced through-put of food.
https://daily-pouch.com/member-states-should-reject-the-eus-ideological-smokefree-recommendations/
So this is where Kneel’s anti-smoking legislation comes from – the EU. Quelle surprise.
“Now Labour plans to give the unemployed free fat jabs: Keir Starmer to hand out weight loss ‘wonder’ drug to get jobless obese back to work”
Can people please remember that the main ingredient of Ozempic is the reptilian GILA MONSTER VENOM, which paralyzes the stomach muscles, and can have horrific, long-lasting effects such as constant vomiting.