News Round-Up
- “Special needs children not protected from private school VAT raid, says Bridget Phillipson” – The Education Secretary says that parents who pay to send children with special educational needs to private schools will not be shielded from Labour’s tax raid, according to the Telegraph.
- “VAT raid ‘simply won’t work’, warns Labour MP” – Labour MP Rachael Maskell says the Government’s VAT raid on private schools will leave children with special needs “nowhere else to go” as state schools “aren’t working” for them, reports the Telegraph.
- “Envoys say French and German schools in U.K. should avoid VAT” – European envoys warn that imposing VAT on U.K. international schools could force hundreds of their students to leave, says the Times.
- “Starmer warns that Brits face higher taxes forever ahead of Budget” – Keir Starmer says the idea that governments can “lower taxes and that your public services will run properly” is a “fiction”, according to the Mail.
- “Labour has ‘embarrassing’ problem with senior women, admits top Starmer aide” – One of Keir Starmer’s top aides claims that Labour has an “embarrassing” problem with women in leadership positions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer suffers biggest fall in popularity for new PM” – Sir Keir Starmer’s approval rating has plunged from a high of plus 11 after his landslide election win to -38 – a net drop of 49.
- “Labour MP suspended after allegedly ‘hitting constituent’ on night out” – A constituent was punched to the ground by Labour MP Mike Amesbury after a row about cuts to the winter fuel allowance and the closure of a local bridge, reports the Standard.
- “Badenoch ‘wary’ of saying she wants to be PM because of toll on family” – Kemi Badenoch says that she is “wary” of saying she wants to be Prime Minister because of the “sacrifice” the job would entail for her and her family, according to the Telegraph.
- “Paedophile avoids deportation under ECHR because it would be ‘unduly harsh’ on his children” – A convicted paedophile avoided deportation by arguing it would harm his children, a case Robert Jenrick calls “madness” and proof Britain should leave the convention, reports the Express.
- “Hamas used hospital as a military base, says ambulance driver” – An ambulance driver at a hospital in the Gaza Strip confirmed that Hamas uses hospitals for terror-related purposes during an interrogation by security officials, according to the Jerusalem Post.
- “The humiliation of Iran” – Iran, for all its rhetoric, has been proven to be a paper tiger, says Yossi Melman in the Spectator.
- “When will Sally Rooney boycott Britain?” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill takes aim at highbrow chic lit author Sally Rooney for putting her name to a letter calling for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions that are “complicit in genocide”.
- “Authors criticise plan to boycott Israeli book industry” – Lionel Shriver and Howard Jacobson are among a group of authors who have signed a letter opposing the boycotting of Israeli authors and publishers, according to the Times.
- “How ‘big tech’ barons are plotting to steal Britain’s creativity” – Starmer is about to hand our copyright ‘crown jewels’ over to AI, warns Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “‘Woke’ chatbots back rent controls and dislike free speech” – The FSU’s Freddie Attenborough discusses a pioneering new study that has found AI chatbots are biased towards Left-wing ‘woke’ thinking in the information they provide to users.
- “Sharron Davies warns free speech is under attack: ‘Cancel culture is a plague’” – Olympic medalist Sharron Davies has taken to social media about the need for laws to be applied “equally” to everyone, reports GB News.
- “Ireland announces new online safety rules for video-sharing platforms” – Ireland has adopted a new online safety code for video-sharing platforms such as TikTok and Facebook to protect people from harmful internet content, according to euronews.
- “Russian ‘floating bomb’ ship docks at U.K. port after weeks of limbo” – A damaged Russian cargo ship packed with 20,000 tonnes of explosive material has been allowed to dock at a British port after weeks moored off the coast, reports the Mail.
- “The village at the front line of Miliband’s march on the countryside” – Lincolnshire locals are protesting to save their countryside from renewable energy infrastructure, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain urged to store nuclear waste in the Earth’s crust” – Ed Miliband has been urged to dispose of Britain’s nuclear waste by drilling boreholes up to five kilometres deep into the Earth’s crust, reports the Telegraph.
- “VW labour chief sounds alarm on mass lay offs and three German plant closures” – Volkswagen plans to shut at least three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of staff and shrink its remaining plants in Europe’s biggest economy as it plots a deeper-than-expected overhaul, according to Reuters.
- “Was there a spike in neonatal deaths when Lucy Letby worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital?” – If Lucy Letby ever does get a re-trial, then the judge should not allow any of the statistical evidence to be presented since it has almost no value, writes Prof. Norman Fenton on the WATN Substack.
- “U.K. fertility crisis: birth rates drop to lowest since records began” – According to the Office of National Statistics, women of childbearing age in England and Wales have, on average, only had 1.44 children each as of 2023, reports the Mail.
- “China to create TV shows and films that promote ‘childbearing culture’” – China will create TV shows, films and plays promoting “marriage and childbearing culture”, as the world’s second-largest economy grapples with a plunge in the number of births, says the Telegraph.
- “How close were hospitals to collapse in Covid?” – Senior NHS staff have revealed to the Covid Inquiry just how close some hospitals were to collapse during the pandemic, reports the BBC.
- “The most devastating report so far” – The U.S. House report on the Department of Health and Human Services Covid propaganda is devastating, writes Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Eric Trump warns Keir Starmer risks ‘poisoning’ U.K.-U.S. relations” – Eric Trump says Keir Starmer risks “poisoning” relations with America by interfering in the U.S. election, according to the Mail.
- “The true scale of migrant crossings under Kamala Harris revealed” – The number of migrants who have crossed illegally into the U.S. under Kamala Harris is 25% higher than official figures suggest, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk sued over $1 million voter giveaways” – Philadelphia’s chief prosecutor is suing billionaire Elon Musk and his pro-Trump political action committee to halt his $1 million giveaways to registered voters, reports the Hill.
- “Donald Trump will owe his boy Barron if U.S. election is 2016 all over again” – If the Kamala Harris campaign continues to flail, it could be 2016 all over again… and Donald will owe his boy Barron, says Harry Cole in the Sun.
- “‘Children can’t be transgender’” – Tory leadership frontrunner Kemi Badenoch insists children cannot be transgender and warns it is “critical” they are not allowed to make irreversible decisions, according to the Express.
- “NHS says it is ‘transphobic’ for staff not to share toilets with trans colleagues” – NHS staff have been told that women are “transphobic” if they do not want to share ladies’ bathrooms with transgender colleagues, reports the Mail.
- “Woman wrongly sent to male prison because she had ‘masculine features’” – A woman was wrongly sent to an all-male prison and forced to stay there overnight because she had “masculine features”, says the Mail.
- “Get your Progress Pride poppy” – It appears that even the Royal British Legion can’t resist the pull of wokeness, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Is this why Britain is failing?” – On his Mad World blog, Russell David observes that many British companies have shifted focus from core products to broader ‘woke’ cultural initiatives.
- “Che Guevara was a sadist” – In the Spectator, James Bartholomew reveals the brutal legacy behind Che Guevara’s iconic portrait and challenges his status as a symbol of rebellion.
- “Why Elon Musk’s plan to put a million people on Mars is doomed to fail” – The winners of the Royal Society Trivedi science book prize say that even if the engineering problems are solved, our biology will scupper plans to create a Martian colony, according to the Times.
- “MSNBC compares Trump rally to pro-Nazi rally 85 years ago” – If you don’t yet believe that the culture wars have driven everyone insane, just look at this recent MSNBC coverage of Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, says Andrew Doyle.
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The Trump Madison Square Garden Rally / Hilter comparison is off the scale but maybe he baited the Hook by doing it there & the usual media dummies have been caught 👏👍
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“VW labour chief sounds alarm on mass lay offs and three German plant closures”
When one of the icons of Germany Industrial strength starts to decline, it is an indication that things are looking bad. In many ways Germany was the economic powerhouse bankrolling the whole EU project. If the German economic well is now running dry how will they find the funds for net-zero? how will they find the funds to pay the huge sums they have promised Ukraine? how will they fund social care for all the unemployed ex-VW workers?
The UK may have left the EU but I rather think that we are not immune from the industrial and economic woes facing Germany and the EU, I guess we will get a clearer view of that in the budget tomorrow.
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Sorry, replied to wrong person!
I was rushed to my local hospital at the height of covid, due to a severe (near fatal – according to the discharge notes) asthma attack. I spent two days in ITU, then five on a respiratory ward – actually a whole floor with dozens of beds. When I left ITU the place was empty. On the ward – actually about a dozen rooms, with four beds in each, there were two of us. We both left the same day, leaving the place deserted. There was a full compliment of staff though – including six physios.
Quite so….and let us not forget the unused Nightingale pop up hospitals designed to pick up the overflow from overwhelmed NHS hospitals.
Pretty much the only service they performed was to reveal to horrified military medics, staff officers, the hopeless bureaucracy and inefficiency of the NHS.
I recall that in the early days of Covid, when the Nightingale hospitals were being planned, around 700,000 ex NHS employees answered a government appeal to return to work to relieve the pressure on the NHS. Many of these people could have been deployed at Nightingale hospitals but presumably this was all abandoned because they would have had to go through long re-training much of which would have entailed social diversity type courses. All of this would have taken so much time that the whole project was deemed impractical and eventually unnecessary.
I can well believe it. I was at medical school with someone who is lead consultant for ITU in a large district hospital. At a recent reunion he described Covid as boring as there was hardly anything to do due to lack of surgical and emergency admissions. This caused some disquiet amongst the more pathetic of our former classmates.
Great to have a young and sceptical medic here on DS.👍
Not so young unfortunately, but thank you!
I always think of those ‘dancing nurses’ videos that appeared. Often seemingly much practiced and professionally shot. I always wondered about their appearance, which was not just a UK thing, they came from all over the world. What part of the instructions for the management and promotion of ‘covid fear’ did these emanate from? I find it hard to believe they were spontaneous.
The dancing nurses videos were a deliberately organised show intended to take the P. out of all the stupid sods who had fallen for the scam.
The cognitive dissonance required to view all of those videos but stand outside every week, banging your pots and pans for the ”heroes” allegedly slogging their arses off at the hospitals is impressive really, in terms of how effective the PsyOp was. Next level denialism or what? And why is it that there’s been no whistleblowers, nobody who took part or saw those dance routines being rehearsed come forward? That is very strange indeed. There’s cover-ups but this is something else.
VW labour chief sounds alarm on mass lay offs and three German plant closures This is probably a good opportunity to salute the British Army (On the Rhine) of Alanbrooke and Montgomery. ‘In 1945, a rare and curious Volkswagen car was shipped from its bomb-damaged German factory to England. Here, a commission of leading British motor manufacturers, chaired by Sir William Rootes, inspected the small, streamlined saloon. It would be “quite unattractive to the average motorcar buyer”, the commission reported. “It is too ugly and noisy”, while “to build the car commercially would be a completely uneconomic enterprise.” This damning judgement proved as ill founded as that of Decca record bosses who, in 1962, declared “The Beatles have no future in show business” ‘Production of the Beetle outstripped that of Henry Ford’s Model-T when the 15,007,034th car rolled off the line at Wolfsburg in 1972. The very last Beetles were made in Mexico in 2003 by when more than 21.5 million had been built worldwide.’ ‘The Czech car company, Tatra, claimed that Porsche had infringed several design patents, notably those by Hans Ledwinka, an Austrian engineer much admired by Hitler. Tatra took legal action, but Hitler invaded Austria, seized its… Read more »
Bit surprising there’s nothing about Tommy Robinson today, Richard. Not to worry, I shall remedy that. A more critical look at Robinson here ( written before he was sentenced ), but I wouldn’t say he’s a narcissist, would you? And as for any claim to victimhood, perhaps try being arrested more times than some have had hot dinners and the prospect of yet another stretch in prison spent in solitary, basically for demonstrating the courage to be disobedient. He’s no need to claim anything, he IS being targeted and victimized by the state due to who he fearlessly represents and what he’s uncovered, fact; ”Tommy Robinson is a paradox: he is a brave and enormously successful activist-journalist with a mean right hook. At the same time, he’s prone to sentimentality, sensitive to criticism and sees himself as a victim, tethering his own private troubles — mortgage fraud, travelling to the US on a false passport and an upcoming contempt of court case to name just a few — to the political grievances of the white working class he claims to represent. His greatest contradiction, though, is that while he’s a trenchant critic of identity politics, mercilessly mocking the whiny victimhood of Black Lives Matter, the transgender movement and… Read more »
I read this yesterday and was underwhelmed to say the least.
“If he can rein in his narcissism and temper some of his rhetoric, who knows what heights this community leader might reach. And if he is jailed this week, he will be able to bathe in the musky smell of martyrdom and hope to return from prison with even greater renown and credibility.”
The author doesn’t seem to understand that Tommy Robinson surrendered himself to the police and knowing he faced arrest and prison. Soak that up. That took real guts so clever wordplay around Tommy Robinson and what the author concludes is his modus operandi is not required. On top of which Tommy has been locked up in High Security Belmarsh. He surrendered himself for God’s sake. What bloody risk is he to anybody?
Meanwhile a Labour MP thug, Mike Amesbury is still walking our streets.
Two pakistanis are still free despite a vicious assault on three police officers.
Peter Lynch is dead – murdered by the state and the Kaba mob are attempting to make a saint out of a now ex violent gangster.
Tommy Robinson walks on water.
The media are also ignoring the fact that Tommy nearly starved to death in Belmarsh last time, because the prison allowed Muslim Inmates to prepare all of Tommy’s meals !!! The prison said they were protecting him from Muslim Inmates by putting him in solitary confinement, and then allowed Muslim Inmates to cook all his meals. It’s a deliberate, conspiratorial failure to protect him at all. They are also reportedly doing the same to all the British Patriots everywhere in the country, putting them in with Muslim prisoners who hate them.
Of course he knew the evil b*stards would contaminate his food, so he had no choice but to live on tins of tunafish from the prison shop, as that was the only food he could trust. That’s why he was so emaciated when he was finally freed.
As someone said, “He is Britain’s Navalny.”
I’m sure the British patriots don’t want to see their country go the way of Sweden, or France or Germany, but it’s fast becoming that way. We know this already but a new report looking at crime in Sweden serves as further confirmation. It’s Gad Saad’s ”suicidal empathy” again and these are the results; ”As Sweden’s murder rate soars, new data shows how much migrants are overrepresented in this growing trend. According to Swedish government data, three out of four murders are committed by migrants, and the rate of gun murders per capita in Stockholm is 30 times that of London. In 2018 alone, 162 bomb blasts rocked the country — almost one every two days. In Sweden, the number of fatal shootings has increased significantly since 2017, resulting in a record-high number of shooting murders. Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Brussels has included this data in a new report on the profound and often out-of-control effects of mass migration on Swedish society. The report, “Multiculturalism in Flames,” examines key issues related to crime, political freedom and social cohesion, and calls for a national reckoning and re-evaluation of Swedish multiculturalism policy. The report also highlights growing concerns about freedom of expression; In… Read more »
Thanks for this link. I’ve just read the whole of the report by Goran Adamson it’s probably the best account of what’s gone on in Sweden I’ve ever read. I wish some of our politicians would read it and take note.
Expecting our politicians to read anything beyond their bank statements is asking far too much. Crikey, that might even count as WORK.
The untouchable turd that is Nick Lowles. What a nasty little arse-weasel, clearly in the pocket of the government. Comments swithed off, of course, because he knows how much he’s hated;
”Hope Not Hate is monitoring accounts of several of Lennon’s close supporters, many of whom have also uploaded the film onto their X account. Only this morning, Danny Roscoe linked to the film from his X account. We will be reporting all these people to the Attorney General”
https://x.com/DANNYUNFILTERED/status/1850870219280892270
Just a reminder of how he really is evidently ”untouchable”. This was pure hoax, lying with the intention of inciting hate and violence;
https://x.com/BritLad95/status/1851065940017836389
Not known as Hate not Hope for nothing.
“Britain urged to store nuclear waste in the Earth’s crust”
That sounds a like better idea than cave/bunker storage , it might even encourage a new interest in nuclear power if there’s someway of safer disposal
Certainly better than acres of turbines and solar panels
Or salt-mines full of captured CO2!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/28/viktor-orban-georgia-hailing-ruling-party-election-victory
‘A team from the European parliament sent to observe the elections said it found one case of ballot box stuffing, as well as “physical assault on observers attempting to report on violations, observer and media removal from polling stations, tearing up of observer complaints, intimidation of voters inside and outside of polling stations, presence of multiple party-affiliated observers posing as citizen observers”.
The Spanish centre-right MEP Antonio López-Istúriz White, who led the delegation, also said there had been efforts “to undermine and manipulate the vote”, such as pressure on state employees to take part in campaign events and vote, as well as misuse of state resources to benefit the ruling party. “We express deep concern about the democratic backsliding in Georgia’
Meanwhile
‘Viktor Orbán has landed in Georgia……’
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1850933606631489682?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Heavens to Betsy! He seems popular, doesn’t he?
You should tell the European Parliament about the threat to democracy in Germany, where there are moves afoot to ban a political party which has large (and growing) support.
There are some excellent journalists already doing exactly that.
‘Perhaps unsurprisingly, the loudest calls for an AfD ban have come from the most aggrieved election losers. Georg Maier, a member of Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) and interior minister of Thuringia under the last administration, argued on social media that the ‘incidents in the Thuringian parliament have shown that the AfD is acting against the parliamentary system in an aggressive, belligerent way. I think this this means that the preconditions for the process towards a party ban are fulfilled’.
Maier’s party now only holds 6 seats in Thuringia and is trailing in third place in national polls after the AfD and the conservatives. An SPD drive towards banning the party that won the regional elections is unlikely to strengthen people’s trust in parliamentary democracy, a system whose peaceful transition of power hinges on the principle of losers’ consent.
‘….using the legal system and parliamentary procedure to circumvent the wishes of vast swathes of the electorate is not the way to strengthen the country’s post-war democracy.’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/banning-germanys-afd-wont-make-it-disappear/ 29 Sept. 2024
And while the Georgian electoral commission has declared the success of the Georgian Dream Party winning 54% of the votes, Georgia’s President, Salome Zourabichvili, contests the result and calls for public protests while she claims to be the only independent body remaining in Georgia. This was quickly followed by Charles Michel, president of the European Council, also calling for an investigation into the results. Salome Zourabichvili was born in Paris (in 1952), holding French citizenship until 2018. She studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, particularly interested in the Soviet world. According to Wikipedia, she joined Columbia University in 1972–1973 where Zbigniew Brzezinski, at the time director of the Trilateral Commission, trained her on Soviet politics and Cold War diplomacy. She then joined the French diplomatic service, working in Rome, then at the UN. She was First Secretary to the French Embassy in Washington D.C., working in the political and military section and focusing on US-Soviet affairs. It was during this posting that she visited Georgia for the first time in 1986, taking her Georgian mother with her. She became Second Adviser to the French Embassy in Chad, her term there coinciding with the takeover of power by Idriss… Read more »
A group of Georgia’s leading election monitors told a news conference Monday that they had uncovered evidence of complex, large-scale fraud that altered the election outcome in favour of the ruling party.
Opposition politicians have said they will renounce their mandates and will not enter the newly elected parliament.
Georgia’s central election commission said it will recount ballots Tuesday at some 14 percent of polling stations.
“District Election Commissions (DECs) will conduct recounts of ballots from five polling stations randomly selected in each election district,” the commission said in a statement.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241029-georgia-launches-partial-vote-recount-after-opposition-protests-election-results
Well, he’s demonstrated the second half of that to be true, anyway.
A brief trip to Europe, particularly Denmark, will demonstrate that Starmer is talking nonsense (as usual)
Britain’s OECD tax competitiveness ranking of 30 is pathetic, as are its public services. Denmark has eye wateringly high taxes, excellent public services and is ranked two places above Britain.
https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/global/2024-international-tax-competitiveness-index/
And its going to get worse……which is why #uslabour will rightly be eviscerated in five years time.
P.S. Denmark has one of the best civil services in Europe. Time to recruit some of their retirees to sort things out over here.
“Paedophile avoids deportation under ECHR because it would be ‘unduly harsh’ on his children”
Please see this 7 minute video called “Nationalism Explained”.
I wonder if you will disagree with any of it:
The Homeland Party – Nationalism Explained – YouTube
Fuji is the new Kilimanjaro, if the BBC are to be believed.