News Round-Up
- “Plane crashes with 72 on board on Christmas Day in Kazakhstan” – Footage of the crash in Kazakhstan shows the plane bursting into flames as it hit the ground and thick black smoke then rising, reports the Mail.
- “Officials report 29 survivors and 38 killed as plane crashes in Kazakhstan” – Aircraft carrying 62 passengers and five crew was en route from Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, according to the Guardian.
- “Did Russians shoot down jet that crashed and killed 38?” – The flight from Azerbajian’s capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny crashed with 67 passengers and five crew members on board near Aktau, western Kazakhstan, this morning. Was it shot down by the Russians? asks the Mail.
- “Whitehall ‘braced for private schools collapse’ due to fee rises” – Contingency plans are being drawn up in Whitehall for an influx in demand for state school places amid fears private schools will go bankrupt and close because of fee increases, according to the Times.
- “Bear Grylls under fire for branding Mary a ‘Palestinian refugee’ in Christmas message” – The British adventurer posted a Christmas message that has led to several critics hitting out at Grylls including the Campaign Against Antisemitism, says the Telegraph.
- “Red Wall MPs tell Starmer to get tough on immigration or we will lose our seats to Reform” – A Labour pressure group has urged the Prime Minister to be more vocal about border control, as well as tackling anti-social behaviour and GP access, if Labour is to have a hope of hanging on to seats in the red wall at the next election, according to the Telegraph;.
- “Police log parking and Snapchat rows as hate incidents” – Schoolgirls falling out on social media and an offensive dog name are among more than 14,000 non-crime hate incidents dealt with by U.K. forces in the past year, reports Ben Ellery in the Times.
- “Luigi Mangione and America’s broken moral compass” – Supporters of the alleged murderer of health-care CEO Brian Thompson applauded his choice of target, even though he was innocent. What has gone wrong with America? asks Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Progressives lost their minds in 2024 – and alienated people with their nastiness and extremism” – Activists, whether campaigning for Palestine, Just Stop Oil or trans rights, did ittle to endear themselves to Britain’s tolerant citizens, writes George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Amazon Prime slammed for removing main scene of It’s A Wonderful Life” – It’s a Wonderful Life fans have expressed outrage that Amazon Prime cut the scene in which the angel shows him what life would be like in Potterville if he had never existed, says the Mail.
- “It’s not such a wonderful life in Rachel Reeves’s Britain” – Had Labour lost the election, the U.K. would still face difficulties – but it wouldn’t be this bad, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Martin Gurri: Cuba Enters the Dark Ages” – It isn’t just the power grid that’s failing. The entire infrastructure of the country—its entire Communist system—is crumbling to dust.
- “Merry Christmas, Bond fans” – The official James Bond X account has created a compilation of Christmas moments from Bond films.
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“Police log parking and Snapchat rows as hate incidents”
Saves doing real risky policing doesn’t it?
“Martin Gurri: Cuba Enters the Dark Ages” – It isn’t just the power grid that’s failing. The entire infrastructure of the country—its entire Communist system—is crumbling to dust.
Apart from the “communist system” (which is thriving) the rest sounds exactly like the UK!
USA has sanctioned Cuba since 1962. The Cubans expect Trump to increase the sanctions. If you do not align yourself with US ‘values’ …
Bear Grylls under fire for saying something true.
Someone send him a belated Christmas gift – a year’s Daily Sceptic subscription.
Downvoters… Teach me something, please!
I was neither of your downvoters. But if you had read the article it pointed out what is true; that rather than a Palestinian refugee, Mary “was a Jewish woman from Judea, under Roman rule
The region wasn’t called ‘Palestine’ until 100 years later when the Judeans (Jews) were exiled and Emperor Hadrian renamed it Syria Palaestina after the Bar Kokhba Revolt to try to sever the Jewish connection to the land,”
Here is something else that is true:
The Impostor “Virgin Mary” was a Liar and a Baby Thief who stole Newborn Jesus from his mother Elizabeth and his twin brother John the Baptist at Ein Karem.
“…Amazon Prime cut the scene in which the angel shows him what life would be like in Potterville if he had never existed.” By sheer coincidence, my family and I watched It’s A Wonderful Life (1947) together for the first time last night. I am happy to say it was obtained from a torrent site, not that cesspit, Amazon Prime, and as such did not have anything deleted from it. Without the removed section with Clarence the Angel (Second Class), there is literally no story. Who are these people who think they should remove all conflict from life and art? These inhuman, Satanic types who will prevent any lessons being learned? Who do not understand (or perhaps they very well do understand) that bringing up healthy, wealthy and happy people necessitates the learning of hard lessons and that pain and suffering are an inevitable part of the whole process? These overgrown head girl types who will keep us all dependent upon their devilish systems to satisfy their controlling natures? The same with an ebook copy of Orwell’s 1984 which I downloaded from Amazon for free in 2022. It had had whole passages either removed or changed so completely that you’d… Read more »
“Red Wall MPs tell Starmer to get tough on immigration or we will lose our seats to Reform” And guess what news this morning? The Globalists have evidently instructed the media to change the dinghy criminals from “migrants” to “people” and “passengers” needing to be “rescued”. See the wording in this news item by a Greek woman in Paris: France rescues more 100 people trying to cross to UK on Christmas Day “French maritime authorities carried out 12 RESCUE OPERATONS along the COAST OF NORTHERN FRANCE on Christmas Day, RESCUING 107 PEOPLE IN DISTRESS in small boats trying to cross to the UK.” “On Christmas morning, 30 PASSENGERS WERE RESCUED from a boat near DUNKIRK, while the others onboard WISHED TO CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY and were taken into British custody once they reached UK waters.” “Another boat experiencing [deliberate] ENGINE DAMAGE was spotted later in the day, also near DUNKIRK. Its PASSENGERS CALLED FOR HELP and ALL 51 PEOPLE ONBOARD WERE RESCUED.” **************************************************************************** Do you see what they are doing with this change of language? Pulling psychological tricks to justify transporting illegal aliens all the way across the English Channel from Dunkirk to Britain, while taking £millions from UK Taxpayers… Read more »