News Round-Up
- “Revealed: How Pro-Palestinian mob organised via WhatsApp to ‘Hunt Jews’ across Amsterdam” – It has emerged that the attacks on the Jewish football fans were planned in advance and co-ordinated using WhatsApp and Telegram, some of the posts from which the Telegraph has obtained and published.
- “Don’t close your eyes to the chilling return of antisemitism” – The time for zero tolerance of Jew-hatred on our streets is long overdue, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “Amsterdam shows the limits of liberalism” – Stephen Daisley in the Spectator blames mass immigration for meaning the “wake up calls” following antisemitic violence never seem to be heeded.
- “A pogrom in Amsterdam” – The thuggish attacks on Israeli football fans recall Europe’s darkest days, says Spiked‘s Tim Black.
- “Democrats lost the election because they misunderstood the truth of the culture war” – Harris had bet on a blue landslide on abortion rights, but forgot that voters care most about guarantees over basic needs, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “America has abandoned student politics and got serious again. Will Britain follow?” – The real issues were not race and abortion but illegal migration, the cost of living and government overreach, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage is clearly the best choice to woo Donald Trump – and that’s a problem for Labour” – The Reform U.K. leader’s special bond with the returning U.S. President could be fruitful for Britain – but Keir Starmer won’t let it happen, says the Telegraph‘s Gordon Rayner.
- “National conservatism has won its first great victory” – The lesson the Tories must take from Trump’s landslide is that there’s nothing wrong with patriotism, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Smiling, winking, Biden looked delighted that Kamala Harris lost” – At least he beat Donald Trump once: that was more than any of his Democrat critics managed, says Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
- “It’s not racism that cost Kamala the election” – The Clinton campaign was right about what wins votes – “It’s the economy, stupid” – and it’s still true today, says Andrew Roberts in the Telegraph.
- “Is California turning red?” – A staggering 40% of Californians voted for Donald Trump, with Republicans leading in several of the most competitive House districts, and in San Francisco the uber-progressive Mayor London Breed has been voted out, says Soledad Ursúa in UnHerd.
- “Trump-deranged David Lammy is a liability for Britain” – The Foreign Secretary’s unhinged outbursts about the U.S. President-Elect reveal a mind broken by populism, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Trump ‘will go easy on Britain because of Brexit’” – The President-Elect’s “sympathy” for the U.K. may save it from sweeping trade tariffs, a U.S. state Governor has suggested, according to the Telegraph.
- “2028” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley takes a look ahead to the 2028 U.S. Presidential race <groan>.
- “In which insane German delusions about the near-certainty of a Harris Presidency are dashed on the rocks of Trump’s decisive victory” – “Every now and then,” writes Eugyppius, “reality emerges from the shadows to crush the hollow propaganda of the press and the hallucinations of our politicians. We must enjoy these times.”
- “‘What should I do if I’m scared because of Donald Trump?’ – Spiegel consults a behavioural therapist on how to deal with the mental health consequences of Trump’s victory” – In a German newspaper’s interview with psychotherapist Maren Vogel, Eugyppius discovers a nation apparently suffering quite literally from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
- “Farmers plan breakaway protest after union declines to back mass demonstration” – Farmers are planning a breakaway inheritance tax protest after the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) declined to back a mass demonstration, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour paves the way for four-day working week” – Labour is paving the way for the introduction of a four-day week in the public sector by scrapping Whitehall opposition to shorter working hours for the same pay at South Cambridgeshire council, days after imposing a £25 billion tax rise on businesses, says the Telegraph.
- “Council tax could rise to pay for Rachel Reeves’s NI raid, policing chiefs warn” – Several forces say they are facing budget “black holes” due to the National Insurance hike that can only be filled by raising local taxes or cutting front-line officers, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Seriously?’: Economist blasts Treasury’s ‘dubious’ tax raid tweet” – The department’s official social media account’s claim that National Insurance is not rising is met with incredulity and derision from economists, according to the Telegraph.
- “Military families told to find cheaper schools after VAT raid on fees” – The Government has helpfully advised military families on how to find cheaper private schools if they are priced out by its VAT raid, reports the Telegraph. Meanwhile, the Armed Forces are suffering a recruitment crisis…
- “Labour appoints Chagos chief to run national security” – The guy who just bartered away the Chagos Islands, Jonathan Powell, has been announced as the new National Security Adviser in No.10, says ‘Steerpike’ in the Spectator. Safe pair of hands…
- “The Bank has fluffed its chance to stop a new inflationary storm” – Threadneedle Street went ahead with its pre-programmed cut just when the warning signs were flashing red, says the Telegraph‘s Matthew Lynn.
- “Ed Miliband’s £296 billion clean energy bill doesn’t add up” – In UnHerd, David Rose dismantles Mad Miliband’s latest implausible Net Zero plans.
- “Trump’s return is a disaster for Ed Miliband – his Net Zero dreams may soon lie in tatters” – The President-Elect has made no secret of his disdain for this “radical Left” agenda, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Prince William to follow in father’s footsteps by attending COP climate summit next year” – The Prince of Wales will attend the COP30 climate summit in Brazil next year as he follows in his father’s footsteps, reports the Telegraph.
- “SNP ban on woodburning stoves scrapped because alternatives are ‘more polluting’” – SNP ministers have scrapped a controversial ban on installing woodburning stoves in new homes after a huge backlash in rural Scotland and a recognition that the alternative would often be diesel generators, the Telegraph reports.
- “The climate scaremongers: The rain in Spain” – Paul Homewood’s latest TCW column looks at the dubious BBC claims about the Spanish floods and the Budget’s impact on energy bills.
- “Senior Labour figures voice concern over assisted dying bill” – Growing numbers of senior Labour MPs are concerned about whether to vote in favour of legalising assisted dying, with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones the latest to warn that a fortnight is not enough time for debate, reports the Mail.
- “Farage: ‘I won’t vote for assisted dying’” – Reform leader Nigel Farage says the way the issue has been dealt with in Canada gives him the “shivers” ahead of a free vote later this month, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘God is not a white man’ declare Church of England clergy in Jesus diversity drive” – Church of England clergy have declared that “God is not a white man” and are working to make images of Jesus more diverse in the name of “racial justice”, reports the Telegraph. Somehow I doubt giving the Bible the Bridgerton treatment will get the masses flocking back to the pews.
- “Oxford University to spend more than £3.3 million ‘decolonising’ the curriculum and encouraging reporting of microaggressions” – Under the programme, EDI officers at Oxford will spearhead an £841,000 campaign to prevent “racial harassment and bullying”, reports the Mail. Sounds like another university to be avoided by the sane.
- “Why do so many private school students get extra time in exams?” – With data showing that approaching half (42%) of private school pupils qualify for extra time in exams due to a “learning disability”, compared to (a still considerable) 27% in state schools, the Spectator‘s Simon Cook wonders if independent schools have worked out how to game the system.
- “Ofcom’s vendetta against GB News” – The media watchdog is cracking down on views it disapproves of, says William Yarwood in Spiked.
- “Transgender men sue NHS over ‘half-built’ genitalia” – Some transgender men (i.e., females) have threatened to sue the NHS after being left with “half-built” genitalia, reports the Telegraph.
- “President Trump superb in taking on the Net Zero climate nonsense” – Change is coming, says Richard Tice on X as he posts a video of Trump declaring that “one of the most urgent tasks for our country is to decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax”.
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President Trump superb in taking on the Net Zero climate nonsense Superb: ‘These people are crazy!’ So crazy, in Britain, that they want their armed forces to choose cheaper boarding schools for their children when they are deployed on extended overseas operations. Terrific! Great thinking! : ‘The real problem is with nuclear weapons we may only have six months……That’s the real global warming…..’ Finally someone in power has got the hang of it. That demonstrates how serious President Elect Trump is about Ukraine. He will freeze the conflict and tell Europe to pay for and man a ‘Green Line’ Cyprus style buffer zone, only this one will be 2,000 km long. The British Army, which will have a zone of at least 200 km to patrol, has the capability to deploy one Brigade on extended overseas operations. Let me see…on a good day…….rotating troops as they must, at best, a real stretch, that’s about a section of infantry per kilometre. For comparison purposes, the Cyprus Green Line of 180 km was manned by a Division, so three or four times anything the current British Army is capable of managing for any length of time. How’s that ‘peace dividend’ working out… Read more »
There may be an opportunity now to talk about climate and environmentalism in sensible terms. I suspect that most of us want to cut pollution and look after our world better. The stumbling block has been the conclusion drawn by the left that everything bad is down to capitalism, and therefore we must destroy capitalism to ‘save the world’ (sic). This is not the case despite all the hyperbole. Capitalism has lifted billions out of very real poverty, like $2 a day poverty, and as people get richer they have other choices than abusing their environments just to survive. We have to stop seeing economic development as a bad thing. It isn’t bad. It needs to come with boundaries to ensure it is sustainable. Not sustainable like shipping wood pellets from Canada to burn in our power stations, but a sustainability that allows us to preserve the Earths resources sensibly. I was reminded a while back, that one of the biggest industries in the world in 1880 was whaling for oil to light homes. The industry disappeared when paraffin was invented and disappeared completely when electric light generation took hold. The whale was saved, and that’s great. Technology will be… Read more »
Yup, I banged out early, and so did 3 other colleagues – on the same day. I would have done anything for this country when I joined up. Now I would not lift a finger to defend it.
Systemic reform is required, particularly in the public sector and most particularly within Whitehall, the MoD.
Ofcom’s vendetta against GB News
‘Ofcom’s power has ballooned under recent legislation, particularly the last government’s Online Safety Act 2023. This granted Ofcom new authority over not just traditional broadcasting, but also social-media companies and online streaming services. This means activists can flood Ofcom with complaints to get content, individuals and platforms that they do not approve of shut down or fined.’
’10 out of 14 members on Ofcom’s content board are ex-BBC employees. It’s no wonder they don’t hold their former employer, or other aligned outlets, to the same standards.’
Yet another in a long list of reasons why 175 Conservatives lost their seats at the last election.
Unless they really do come up with a plan for ‘systemic reform’, they won’t be getting those seats back anytime soon.
The Fake Conservatives had 14 years to do something about OFCOM and the BBC. They had their chance and blew it. They won’t be getting another chance from me.
Nor me.
https://kyivindependent.com/anne-applebaum-russia-is-one-of-the-worlds-most-unstable-autocracies/ The world view that just got blown out of the water: ‘A group of 100 nations could come together to tackle offshore tax havens, anonymous companies……If these countries committed to the cause, they could create a meaningful plan to combat these problems. That’s the kind of coalition worth building and focusing on moving forward.’ ‘There’s a growing political will to push back against these practices, so I don’t think it’s an impossible task. Of course, much depends on the outcome of the next U.S. election. Kamala Harris, for example, has a background as a prosecutor and a strong interest in the rule of law, so she might champion this issue. The Biden administration has already made some progress.’ In fact there is a growing international will, that calls itself BRICS, and a return to a multi-polar world, which now dictates that international business will take place according to the laws of individual nations on their territory. The time of corrupt, inefficient and bureaucratic supranational unelected and antidemocratic regulatory bodies is long gone. Nations do not want to be preached to, do not want ‘a group of 100 nations’ tackling anything that affects their national sovereignty. We must take each nation… Read more »
Jesus, if he existed, never did look like Robert Powell in his portrayal of the Christ. As a man of the middle east, he would have had an olive or swarthy skin. But as God made man in his image, and man is in many forms, whats to say that God doesn’t look exactly like you. Maybe this is the point that is being missed. Maybe, within you, you have the power to be your own God.
More cushy numbers for council workers, and an outbreak of blackholes all over local government, and the police thanks to Reeves. Financial black holes don’t just disappear. They get broken into lots of tiny black holes as the Police chappy is commenting. The way to close a financial black hole is to STOP SPENDING SO MUCH. I have to draw the comparison between the UK and USA. In the UK we are creating a new body (People, buildings etc) to keep an eye on how we spend money, overseen by someone on £250k a year with a dubious track record of running anything to time and budget. In the USA, Trump is about to give that role to Elon Musk, who fired 80% of twitter staff without a drop in service with the words ‘Turns out you just don’t need that many people’. I wonder which will be more successful.?
I am waiting for the announcement that recruitment to the Civil Service has been halted. I am not holding my breath for fear of falling over.
Climate change hoax – that’s definitely the right way to refer to it.
If Trump can make that catch on and kill expose the climate insanity he will be perhaps the greatest US president of all time.
…working to make images of Jesus more diverse in the name of “racial justice”
Or they could work to make images of Jesus more Jewish in the name of truth.
It would appear that not only was this attack in Amsterdam planned but Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora warned the Dutch authorities in advance but they seemingly ignored this intelligence, the police apparently stood down. Many accounts of people who were there surfacing which back up this fact;
https://x.com/Preschel/status/1854821499007389931/photo/1
An account from a caller to Talk TV who was there and attacked;
”Caller Peter went to the match in Amsterdam vs Maccabi as an Ajax supporter. He saw a man being assaulted by Moroccans. Trying to save him he was asked if he was Jewish, punched & glasses broken.
It seemed highly organised, ~300 people. Some were thrown in a canal & I have read elsewhere a Jewish woman was r*ped.
There was a car attack & they had knives, “they were looking to hurt people”.
Peter concludes it is a “problem of mass immigration”. An Uber refused to take him to a hospital.
The police appeared scared, “they were overrun.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1854976405039145189
“We asked the police for help. We said, ‘Please, take us to the hotel.’ And they said, ‘There’s nothing we can do.’ We were helpless, really helpless… The way it looked… I think it was planned.”
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1855007747768508735
”Violent attacks against Maccabi Tel Aviv fans following a soccer match in Amsterdam on Thursday evening left several Israelis wounded and were likely to have been a result of a pre-planned attack against Jews organized in a Telegram group, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported on Friday.
An alleged “Jew hunt” was announced well in advance in the messaging app Telegram, prompting rioters to travel from far outside Amsterdam to attack Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and Jewish people, De Telegraaf reported.”
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-828211
Unrestricted immigration is clearly undesirable for nationalist reasons but obviously wanted and impelled by the dubious forces somehow controlling the will of practically all western politicians.
I have no sympathy for any country committing genocide against anyone and it is unfortunately the case that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
The first step to solving this problem is for governments to acknowledge the fact and the second step is for those governments to react accordingly, i.e. to do everything possible to ensure the genocide ceases. Turning a blind eye to the ongoing genocide is inexcusable – but that is exactly what western politicians are doing, and the result is the violence we experience here.
Whatever happened 80 years ago is hardly relevant to today’s world and neither did this conflict start on 7th October 2023.
If you are against an unlimited Muslim immigration in a European country then you must understand how equally unpopular an unlimited Jewish immigration in an Arabian country can be.
And yet, which ethno-religious group has been most enthusiastically promoting The Mass Third World Invasion of the West (but not into Israel)? Listen to this voice, the voice of “Sweet Reason”, so soft… so gentle… iron fist in velvet glove:
American activist Barbara Lerner Spectre calls for destruction of European ethnic societies
There was another female recorded on YouTube saying that the Talmud clearly states Jews have a ‘biblical’ right to occupy Palestine and that all non-Jews have no rights whatsoever. I would need a while to find that video again. I have no patience for religious extremism.
No-one is turning a blind eye to genocide, because there is no genocide being committed. I regret that people of Palestine and people of Israel are in conflict, but Hamas have never had any intention of coming to a peaceful resolution. They have had opportunities, and it has been in their hands, but they have turned away to pursue a narrow ideologic fantasy of wiping Israel from the map. Curiously, if they succeeded in that aim, that would indeed be a genocide.
The ICJ issued the following ORDERs to Israel, requiring Israel to cease its genocidal actions against the Palestinian people: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240328-ord-01-00-en.pdf https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240524-ord-01-00-en.pdf They all carry the title APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP The ICJ unanimously agreed that Israel: Take all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay, in full co-operation with the United Nations, the unhindered provision at scale by all concerned of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance, including food, water, electricity, fuel, shelter, clothing, hygiene and sanitation requirements, as well as medical supplies and medical care to Palestinians throughout Gaza, including by increasing the capacity and number of land crossing points and maintaining them open for as long as necessary; Ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit acts which constitute a violation of any of the rights of the Palestinians in Gaza as a protected group under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, including by preventing, through any action, the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance; Of course, Israel is ignoring all these court decisions as Israel has ignored every UN resolution requiring Israel… Read more »
I don’t care for the terrorist apologists of the ICJ, and you still need to finish reading those history books you got from Waterstones to make you look knowledgable. Israel will be done when it has dealt with the threat of Hamas and Hezbollah to its people. You can argue technical and historical and legal points all you like, but this is the reality.
Sorry, knowledgeable, with an ‘e’. ‘Israel will be done …’: what right has Israel to be done with anything, considering that the Middle East region has been the subject of regular outbreaks of violence since the founding of the State of Israel? Not from Waterstones but UN (https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-206581/), with my emphasis in bold letters: Early in the second century A.D., the Emperor Hadrian prohibited the Jews from entering Jerusalem. From that period dates the dispersion of Jews throughout the world. Since then, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, no Jewish Government has existed in Palestine. Although some Jews have always lived in Palestine, their numbers have fluctuated depending on the tolerance of the successive rulers. After the partition of the Roman Empire in 400 A.D., Palestine was under Byzantium’s rule until the Arab conquest in 637 A.D. On the then deserted site of Solomon’s Temple, the Mosque of Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock were constructed and called Haram-el Sharif. Second only to Mecca and Medina, Haram-el Sharif became a place of great sanctity for the Moslems. After the interlude of the Crusades, from 1099 to 1190, Saladin, the Arab ruler, invited the Jews to return to Palestine.… Read more »
Lets agree to disagree. You are welcome to hold your view, and I take it I am likewise..?
Such is life. No problem, see you next time!
“Ed Miliband’s £296 billion clean energy bill doesn’t add up”
£22 billion black hole! Why all the fuss about that when Milibrain is happy to spend this amount on farts and sunbeams?
The BBC has an article Four arrests after 11m cigarettes seized in which we find ‘HMRC said £6m in duty and taxes had not been paid on the cigarettes’. So, just over 54p duty and tax per cigarette or £10.90 per pack of 20.
£10.90 tax and duty? Then add the cost of the product and the profit in the supply chain.
I’m an ex-smoker and still hanker after summer evenings sitting outside a pub nattering and smoking and drinking with friends.
I know this huge amount of tax is a deliberate policy to deter smoking but there’s no wonder why some people are trying to dodge the tax to make a big profit.
I once bought a pack of Marlborough Lights during a business trip in Shanghai. Counterfeit, of course; the first one tasted horrible so I binned them. My guess is we in the UK can expect more black market activity as increased taxes bite harder.
The BBC has an article Fireworks destroy van after exploding in blaze. The article states that:
So,
1) The van caught fire and that set off the fireworks – not the other way around.
2) The fire was allowed to burn itself out and the fire crew maintained a cordon for about 9 hours.
3) I’ve zoomed in on the engine compartment in the picture of the destroyed van. I suspect it was an e-van.
“‘God is not a white man’ declare Church of England clergy in Jesus diversity drive”
You see where this is going, don’t you?
From “God is not a white man” to “God is a black woman”.
Hollywood has already tried this in a few films.