News Round-Up
- “Asylum seekers loitering outside school is ‘cultural’ issue, say police” – Police have told migrants to adhere to “cultural expectations” following reports they were loitering outside a primary school, reports the Express.
- “Tech giants ‘risk second Southport’ if they don’t take down extreme content, Yvette Cooper warns” – Following the conviction of Axel Rudakubana, the Home Secretary has called on social media companies to remove harmful content that could inspire further violence, according to the Mail.
- “Britain is on the brink of a full-blown fiscal crisis” – Reeves may have talked the talk in Davos – but everything back home is going to hell in a handcart, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Trump allies urge President to block Starmer’s Chagos deal over Iran spying fears” – Trump is facing calls from top Republicans to block Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal over fears it will make it easier for Iran to spy on the U.S. military, reports the Telegraph.
- “It’s time to ditch the Chagos Islands deal for good” – The Chagossian, American and British people would all be safer if this deal with Mauritius found its way into the shredder for good, says Louisiana Senator John Kennedy in the Telegraph.
- “The Left are turning on Starmer – and it could be his undoing” – Just six months after taking Labour to power, the PM now faces an uprising from party members enraged by broken promises, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Cold, hard self-interest will force even Keir Starmer to embrace the opportunities of Brexit” – Labour’s economic policies are pushing Britain to the brink – but it will be Labour too which will start on the repairs, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Sonnet to Starmer” – On Substack, Paul Sutton laments England’s decaying middle class and failed leadership.
- “Our philanthropists and their oligarchs” – Some foreign billionaires are more welcome than others in British politics, eg Bill Gates is okay, Elon Musk is a “danger to democracy”, notes Ed West on his Substack.
- “‘How I became a Labour school-fee exile in Dubai’” – In the Telegraph, Isabel Oakeshott reveals how Labour’s tax on school fees drove her family to swap the Cotswolds for Dubai’s desert.
- “Oxford and Cambridge to move away from ‘traditional’ exams to boost results of minorities” – Top universities have been given the green light to move away from “traditional” exams in a bid to boost the grades of minority groups and poorer students, reports the Mail.
- “Boomers are 33 times as wealthy as Gen Z – and they’re getting richer” – New data shows that Baby Boomers are getting richer at the fastest rate of any generation and are now 33 times wealthier than Gen Zs, says the Telegraph.
- “Households face £3 billion bill to switch off turbines during high winds” – British households could face costs of up to £3 billion annually by 2030 to pay windfarms to stop generating electricity, reports GB News.
- “‘Ed Miliband sees himself as Greta Thunberg!’” – Ed Miliband’s colleagues fear he could be about to turn the lights out on the Government – literally, says Dan Hodges in the Mail.
- “Untested – the mass-produced Covid vaccines that skipped clinical trials” – In TCW, Dr. Clare Craig reveals how regulatory failures allowed mass-produced COVID-19 vaccines, untested in clinical trials, to be distributed globally, resulting in 13 times higher adverse reactions.
- “Reporting a fatal event to the yellow card system” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan expose a damning account of MHRA’s sluggish and careless investigation into a fatal vaccine reaction.
- “The latest round in the $2 Million debate” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch lays out his argument for the $2 Million debate, a high-stakes challenge to prove COVID-19 vaccines caused more harm than good.
- “Mike Pence’s Big-Pharma-funded advocacy group attacking RFK Jr. has ties to Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson” – On the Illusion of Consensus Substack, Rav Arora exposes Mike Pence’s Big Pharma-funded group, Advancing American Freedom, attacking RFK Jr. while it has ties to Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and other pharmaceutical giants.
- “Secret depravity of the Davos global elite” – The secret depravity of the global elite coming to the World Economic Forum in Davos has been laid bare, with escort agencies revealing that the demand for sex parties, NDAs for prostitutes and trans women has increased, reports the Mail.
- “Masked Hamas gunmen parade Israeli women in ‘cynical’ hostage handover” – Four Israeli hostages were released on Saturday amid growing anger in Israel at the “psychological warfare” waged against them by Hamas, reports the Telegraph.
- “Summary of Trump’s WEF Speech” – Trump’s WEF outline for Amercianism far surpasses what anyone could have hoped for, writes Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “The pre-Trump world was no haven of peace and stability” – The era of ‘humanitarian’ interventionism wrought chaos and misery. Good riddance, says Tim Black at Spiked.
- “Civil servants given one day off a week to promote ‘gender ideology’” – HMRC staff are being given the equivalent of one day off a week to “promote gender ideology”, as call waiting times reach record levels for people trying to fill in their tax forms, reports the Mail.
- “DEI’s demise” – In Takimag, Theodore Dalrymple celebrates the long overdue downfall of the racialist, unjust and corrupt DEI regime.
- “‘I never minded people wolf-whistling. I always thought that was tremendous’” – In the Telegraph, Joanna Lumley explains how we were all tougher back in the day, her fight to end factory farming and what she sees in the mirror.
- “‘It’s so sickening, it’s so demoralising. It’s almost unspeakable’” – On Piers Morgan Uncensored, Jordan Peterson laments how the U.K. has fallen, spiralling into the ground due to political correctness and gaslighting people who are telling the truth.
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https://global.espreso.tv/world-about-ukraine-china-welcomes-trumps-intentions-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine-believes-it-can-be-achieved-through-negotiations Peace en marche. “We are pleased to see that all parties are playing a constructive role and creating conditions for de-escalation and political resolution of the Ukrainian crisis” Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Russia is ready for negotiations regarding Ukraine,” said Putin. I wonder why? ‘To illustrate the severity of the situation, one only needs to look at Trump’s first term, where his energy policies contributed to a historic drop in global oil prices. In April 2020, the price of Russian Urals crude fell to below $14 a barrel for the first time since the 1990s, a level that was critically below production costs. This resulted in Russia being forced to shut down many of its oil wells, leaving only those that were too old and worn out to be closed.’ a 2019 survey by Rosnedra found that 33% of Russia’s oil fields were already unprofitable. With current conditions worsening, the situation could be even graver today. In addition to these challenges, Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure have already caused an 18% reduction in Russia’s oil export capacity. If these attacks continue with the same intensity, Russia’s oil refining sector could experience… Read more »
Meanwhile, on Putin’s home front, parsnips remain unbuttered…….
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1883206235287077096?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
and not just due to the shortage of butter……..
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1883137023592038604?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Any fule kno what can happen next……..in Russia……….
“I wonder why?”
You have clearly missed the fact that the Russians have always been willing to negotiate, however the other party has legislated to prevent his side from negotiating with Putin. It has always taken two to tango.
As far as I am aware that legislation still stands
‘We are not demanding that Ukraine surrender. We are demanding that Zelenskyy gives the order . . . to stop resisting.”
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, May 1, 2022.
Firstly, Trump has frozen all foreign aid for 90 days. Secondly, he has reportedly fired all the US Military officers and their staff, as well as the civilian contractors that were at the Pentagon managing the flow of Ukraine aid and weaponry.
Assuming all this is true, it will be interesting to see how long Ukraine can continue fighting.
As far as Russia’s economy is concerned, Russia’s “Total revenue in December reached more than 4 trillion rubles ($40 billion), up by 28% compared with the same month of the previous year, according to Bloomberg calculations based on Finance Ministry data published late Tuesday. That’s the highest level recorded in ministry data that starts from January 2011”, as reported by Bloomberg/Simplicius.
Furthermore, “The volume of non-oil and gas revenues in 2024 significantly exceeded estimates in the 2025-2027 budget law, including from the largest tax sources” and Russia is enjoying “robust economic growth”.
Under such conditions, one can assume any shortage of butter will soon be overcome.
What to expect from ‘once in a generation’ Storm Éowyn warns the BBC
but then: Éowyn strongest storm in 10 years, says Met Office
I’m pretty sure that a generation that short is not legal.
Interesting that they had to go to Ireland not UK to get their figures.
My guess is that it was even stronger out in the Atlantic; they have missed a trick with that,
😀😀😀
‘US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a “very good job thus far” and that the pair have a “very good relationship”.’
‘”I get along with him well. I like him a lot,” Trump said of Sir Keir.
“He’s liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he’s a very good person and I think he’s done a very good job thus far.
“He’s represented his country in terms of philosophy.
“I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him.”‘
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjvyyn7k99o
A lot of people on Twitter/X are claiming the BBC are lying about this. A lot of people are stupid. They think the BBC would blatantly lie. It’s like Trump Derangement Syndrome, they suffer from BBC Derangement Syndrome. The BBC lie, but their lying is much more subtle. Often they lie by omission. They don’t make up fake quotes. In many ways, up to a point, BBC reporting is trustworthy and can be relied upon to be accurate more often than most other news sources. Anthony Zurcher is a very fair BBC reporter.
Trump could be being ironic in a diplomatic way !
Where are all those people who say that Trump always talks rubbish?
I strongly doubt that Trump has much time for Starmer, but as Trump is not the buffoon that he is often regarded as, he is being diplomatic.
He’s using “liberal” in the US sense of the word, which equates more or less to “illiberal” in practice.
From 2015 onwards when I watched CNN, I was convinced that Trump was stupid, but the reality is quite the opposite. Another lie was that Trump has no sense of humour. I find him hilarious and very entertaining now.
I find it astonishing that supposedly intelligent people can’t get past his somewhat eccentric facade.
From Nigel’s viewpoint, I’m sure that he agrees with President Trump’s (ironic) endorsement! A really great job, indeed,
“‘Ed Miliband sees himself as Greta Thunberg!’”
It’s 2025. You can be anything you want to be Edina.
“Boomers are 33 times as wealthy as Gen Z – and they’re getting richer”
That’s because we worked bloody hard for everything we have and invested more wisely than current generations and we didn’t blame everyone and everything else for the bad times, we just got on with work and life, maybe Gen z should give it a try?
Spot on.
Not spot on. It’s patronising and stupid. There is nothing spot on about suggesting that people who are starting out in life are not as wealthy as people who have done a lifetime of work because they’re lazy.
This is just thoughtless provocative news.
ONVIOUSLY, on the whole people who are at the end of their long working life are going to have much more wealth than those who are just starting out.
Let’s see your average GenZer has worked for two or three years at most. The average boomer has worked for 40 years maybe? And you get to accumulate most of your wealth in the second half of your life, when you’ve become more senior and earn more.
Saying people entering retirement are far more wealthy than people starting their working lives is basically an observation of a logical, natural thing.
It’s also a product of the fact that we have very little domestic industry – gone are the days when a graduate or an apprentice could work their way up through a company and eventually end up as a department head or senior engineer, for example, and benefit from a final-salary pension. It’s a result of greed, outsourcing, lunatic industrial policy, etc.
It was always a pyramid. Not many could ever do that.
“Households face £3 billion bill to switch off turbines during high winds”
Which just goes to prove investors don’t give a rats ass wether they save the planet or not… Cha-Ching! 💷 💷💷💷
On minorities being given exam concessions to boost their results: How could minorities accept this with any self-awareness or good conscience and hold their heads up at graduation? The elephant in the room will be that everyone knows they were given a leg up, thus diminishing their achievements.
Will this have the opposite effect to that desired, in that employers will know this too, and be more reluctant to hire people who may not have the depth of knowledge and competency demonstrated by those who passed “fair and square”?
This could easily work against their prospects, and all so that certain universities can trumpet their “inclusiveness and diversity” – at the cost of their reputations.
Except that they will be forced to hire these people who haven’t had to work for their gains, so that the calibre of their workforce will go down. And everything circles closer to the plug-hole.
The Sceptic is an oasis in a sea of madness. Thanks Lord Toby Young.
Most people I speak to are still brainwashed or just in their own private bubble and out of touch with the real world decline. Can’t wait for Farage to be PM to make a dream team with Trump.