News Round-Up
- “Foreign Office to open talks on slavery reparations” – The Foreign Office is to open talks on slavery reparations with Caribbean officials demanding trillions of pounds from the UK, Caribbean sources have told the Telegraph.
- “Labour Minister sacked for vile jibe about pensioners and the election” – Labour Minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked after the Mail on Sunday found racist and sexist social media messages, including one post saying he hoped a pensioner who didn’t vote Labour would die before the next election.
- “Labour ‘trying to rig elections’ by giving 16-year-olds vote” – Labour will give 16 and 17 year-olds the vote before the end of the year in a move decried as an attempt “to rig future elections”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Keir Starmer’s flimsy excuse for the Chagos deal” – The Government has defended its controversial decision to relinquish control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius with an excuse so far-fetched it could be mistaken for a plot from a spy novel gone wrong, says James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s Chagos betrayal is the first step in destroying the last vestiges of British greatness” – The self-hatred of our legal elites goes a long way to explaining why Starmer is embarking on the worst deal this century has seen so far, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer tried to stop BBC revealing he earned less than Sue Gray” – The PM enlisted Britain’s most senior civil servant to keep his Chief of Staff’s pay rise quiet, reports the Times.
- “Overpaid university bosses show what is wrong with Starmer’s Britain” – Labour preaches about growth, but hasn’t the foggiest what that really means, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “‘A Marxist who hates academies’ – is that why Phillipson abhors excellence?” – Why on earth would the Education Secretary pit herself against a headteacher most parents in Britain wish was in charge of their children, asks Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The coming 10 million: How unprecedented immigration will reshape Britain” – With the UK population set to balloon to 72.5 million by 2032 due to a further vast influx of migrants, the Telegraph examines the potential consequences.
- “Why we shouldn’t trust the Tories on immigration again” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin offers his thoughts on Kemi Badenoch’s latest policy offer.
- “US foreign aid funded legal advice for trans asylum seekers in Britain” – US foreign aid funded legal advice for transgender asylum seekers in Britain as well as a raft of diversity initiatives in the UK, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Trump: I’ll revoke Biden’s security clearance and stop his intelligence briefings” – Donald Trump has announced that he will revoke Joe Biden’s security clearance and stop him receiving daily intelligence briefings as he claimed his predecessor could not be trusted with sensitive intelligence because of the 82 year-old’s “poor memory”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Is Ed Miliband giving up on the Net Zero dream?” – Governing is about choices, and the indication is that this Government is choosing economic prosperity over Net Zero, says John Oxley in UnHerd. If that’s the case it will have to repeal the Climate Change Act.
- “Miliband is in full-scale retreat – and that is good for Britain” – The defeat of the UK’s fanatical green commissar is a desperately needed reprieve for the economy, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Stretched defence budget put towards ‘woke’ rally car mudflaps” – John Healey, the Defence Secretary, has now cancelled a £5 million contract for electric racers with McLaren after being left “speechless” by the “waste”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Lucy Letby inquiry operating on ‘false premise’ of guilt and must be halted, lawyer tells Streeting” – Lucy Letby’s barrister has called on Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, to halt the Thirlwall Inquiry, claiming it is operating on the “false premise” that the nurse is guilty, reports the Telegraph.
- “The devil’s advocates” – In Spiked, Christopher Snowdon restates the case against Letby.
- “I’m a Democrat politician. This is why I sterilised myself after Trump’s election” – Thirty-six year-old Laurie Pohutsky talks to the Telegraph about her mad decision to voluntarily forgo having children rather than raising them under Trump’s new Republican administration.
- “Trump rules out deporting Prince Harry: ‘He’s got enough problems with his wife’” – Prince Harry can breathe freely in Montecito, because President Donald Trump has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal, reports the New York Post.
- “Kemi Badenoch has a secret weapon in the fight against Nigel Farage” – Kemi Badenoch’s level of specificity is something that neither Labour nor the Reform party are currently offering, says Robin Ashenden in the Spectator.
- “Lawyer refuses to serve Israeli client” – A lawyer has been accused of “blatant discrimination” after refusing to represent an Israeli client because it conflicted with his Muslim faith and his opposition to Israel, the Telegraph reports.
- “MP’s brother organised pro-Palestine protest during October 7th massacre” – A campaign group run by the brother of a pro-Palestinian MP helped organise a march through London that was planned as the October 7th massacre was taking place, the Telegraph reveals.
- “No one can now deny the evil that is Hamas” – Anyone seeing the pictures of emaciated Israeli hostages surely must finally realise what the Jewish state has been up against, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
- “Sports edict makes Trump a feminist hero” – The man who used to boast about pussy-grabbing is being lauded by women after a commonsense stroke of his pen, says the Times‘s Janice Turner.
- “Trudeau caught on hot mic talking about Trump’s plans to annex Canada” – Justin Trudeau suffered an embarrassing hot-mic moment this week as he inadvertently revealed details of his conversations with Donald Trump about the future of Canada, the Mail reports.
- “Dominic Cummings on Johnson’s fall: Obviously I orchestrated it” – Boris’s one-time Chief Adviser gives an interview to the Times in which he claims credit for ousting his old boss.
- “Making things happen – Trump’s lesson for Labour” – The new US administration has a thing or two to teach Britain’s Labour Government, says Darren Gee in TCW.
- “Home Office orders Apple to let it snoop on encrypted files” – Apple is said to be considering withdrawing encrypted storage for UK users rather than break its pledge of privacy after the Home Office ordered the company to allow it blanket access to encrypted files uploaded to the cloud by any user worldwide, the Times reports.
- “Our diversity obsession was killing the West – will Britain wake up in time?” – Trump’s America is doing the ‘undoable’ – reversing the DEI juggernaut. But the UK remains a bastion of wokery, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Accenture ditches diversity and inclusion goals” – As Accenture ditches its diversity and inclusion goals, Chief Executive Julie Sweet tells its 799,000 staff that the decision was taken following “evaluation” of the US landscape, report the FT.
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“Is Ed Miliband giving up on the Net Zero dream?”
Scroll down John Oxley’s UnHerd article and the most-voted commenter nails it:
“Overall, the UK public has bought into environmental responsibility
The UK public has bought into a few things: the false idea that CO2 is the greatest threat to our environment, along with the false idea that rapid decarbonisation is compatible with prosperity, combined with the false idea that pursuit of Net Zero in the UK will make the blindest bit of difference to global emissions.
We should focus on building a resilient society, with food security, energy security, border security and social cohesion, so that we’re ready for whatever the world throws at us, whether it’s warming, cooling, war, or solar flares.”
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Building a resilient society, with food security, energy security, border security and social cohesion…
…And for decades, the UniParty does the exact opposite.
Treason against the unspoken hippocratic oath of government to act in the interests of its people. Madame Guillotine, your hour is again upon us.
From a link in the UnHerd article, this is what we’re up against, Sceptics – usual caveats re YouGov and survey now 18 months ago:
“To what extent do Britons think human activity is responsible for climate change..?”
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/45998-what-extent-do-britons-think-human-activity-respon
“…Most people think humanity is ‘entirely or almost entirely’ responsible, or responsible for a ‘large majority’ of the change.”
Specifically, “Only 4% think that climate change is taking place but is being driven primarily by factors other than human activity.”
Duly reinforced by the YouGov observer being part of the grotesque national energy experiment (although from natters with anyone prepared to discuss, am inclined to anecdotally think 4% is a serious underestimate – suspect influenced by how question framed).
How to go from 4% in 2023 to 80% in a 2029 YouGov survey?
Therein lies the question. Answers on a postcard, please?
YouGov polls, along with all polls, get the answers they want by leading questions. They are then used by the people that want those answers as ‘proof’. BBC etc then broadcast them to further frighten those that don’t think for themselves who don’t realise it’s all a load of c**p.
The whole climate change boondoggle is to further enrich the rich and immiserate the rest of us. It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
Yes, we must remember that YouGov is owned by none other than disgraced Iraqi Muslim Nadhim Zawahi, yet another Wannabe UK Prime Minister.
I’ve never seen a response to the question: If mankind’s 3-4% contribution to the world’s CO2 levels are apparently capable of destroying the planet, why is nature’s 96% contribution wholly benign?
Most people really have no idea at all about climate change, they give the ‘right answer’ to polls etc. because (1) it’s a ‘motherhood and apple pie’ question; who doesn’t want the planet to ‘survive’?, but also (2) They really have no idea about the extent of change needed to achieve net zero.
You can’t blame the public for this because they haven’t read the UK Fires report, because the press/publicists are constantly talking up things like sustainable aviation fuel and Carbon Capture and Storage and Nuclear Fusion as if they were about to be rolled out at scale, but mostly because even the politicians in charge don’t really have a clue.
I finally got a reply from my MP about her support for the Climate and Nature bill and she doubled down on the need to support net zero – she really thinks it’s achievable by 2030! But then she never was any good with numbers. One of her arguments was that she had met with the local branch of Greenpeace, which was very supportive!
i have found that most MPs don’t apply even their limited brain power to the topic and rely on boiler plates supplied by the Party.
Anything to avoid thinking… or provided by their ‘system’ to avoid the danger of ‘wrong-thought’… imagine what AI will do to MP’s offices… they’ll trumpet a 100% success in responding to the public, without saying each reply is a load of bs
Brilliant !!!
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“Foreign Office to open talks on slavery reparations” The Atlantic Slave Trade was pretty awful, but it wasn’t the only slave trade. We saw the evil in it and stopped that trade about 200 years ago and made everyone else stop too at a considerable cost in money and lives. However, the slave descended people in the Caribbean have ended up with Reggae, Jerk Chicken and Curry Goat, on beautiful islands with 360 days of sunshine and can grow banana’s and oranges in their back garden. Their ancestors were made to make sacrifices, but their lives post slavery have been improved significantly. They are living much better, richer and longer lives than if they’d remained in Africa, in the lands of their brothers who cruelly captured and sold them. It seems to be assumed that British people lived comfortable lives off the slaves backs. However, at the same time, my ancestors were being sacrificed digging for coal, working 12 hour days in mills, or iron works or toiling in fields from dawn to dusk. They watched one out of every four kids die before they were five, and succumbed to death ourselves at 40, in grinding poverty and disease. They… Read more »
Well said. My family’s antecedents going back 250 years were smallholders, artisans and shop-floor workers in an industry derived from British labour, raw materials, and an energy source extracted from British soil. Nothing whatsoever to do with the slave trade. Two members of a particular generation did time in the murky, mucky and murderous end of Flanders and Picardy, serving King and Country in The War to End All Wars, and thankfully returning battered but intact to the Land Fit for Heroes to Live In. I expect no reparations for generational damage done, specifically a tormented death from emphysema, directly attributable to all that muck and murk, and to a lifetime’s bad habit started by ciggies handed out by officers to calm Tommies’ nerves. I’m given to understand the older brother got shot at the Somme, discharged, and later re-conscripted to serve in India, where malaria caught to plague returning hero for ever more. If gilded descendents of royalty, aristocracy and commercial wealth feel guilty about benefiting from their ancestors’ deeds, that’s their prerogative, but don’t expect the rest of us to share your self-imposed guilt. Cognitively-biased metropolitan politicians with no sense of history should under no circumstances give away… Read more »
From what I can gather from my ancestry, my antecedents would be well suited for characters in a Dickens novel – poor and labouring. The truth is that anyone living in Britain around 1800 who wore a cotton shirt, smoked, or put sugar in their tea, was inadvertently complicit in slavery. But that wasn’t me. Actual slave owners were comparatively rare and well outside the social orbit of my forebears. In any case, we’ve already paid. The West Africa Squadron was created to put down the slave trade after parliament voted to halt it in 1807. And this was at a time when Britain was stretched to the limit fighting Napoleon who reinstalled slavery in France’s colonies. We owe nobody nowt on this issue.
“anyone living in Britain around 1800 who wore a cotton shirt, smoked, or put sugar in their tea, was inadvertently complicit in slavery”
And the people to whom you refer had a choice?
You really need to think this through.
Do you need help in looking up the meaning of the word “inadvertently”? Its meaning can be found in a big book full of long words called a dictionary.
I suggest you make a start then. Your rudeness is an embarrassment to this site.
You said, “The truth is that anyone living in Britain around 1800 who wore a cotton shirt, smoked, or put sugar in their tea, was inadvertently complicit in slavery.”
Codswallop!!!
It isn’t possible to be “INADVERTENTLY COMPLICIT IN SLAVERY”.
Shame on you for spreading Evil Communist Propaganda!
I know that truth sometimes hurts the hard of thinking, but the fact is that commodities such as cotton, sugar and tobacco were produced in the Caribbean and Southern USA on plantations, though there was, of course, some small trading. As evidence, Lancashire cotton workers (who number in my ancestry) were thrown out of work when the USA civil war broke out, because the North blockaded Southern ports.
Why is that codswallop? You are trying to fashion a history which chimes with your world view, rather than as it was. As such it is you who is the useful idiot for communists.
Damned right.
Amen to that 🙏
As I think Mogwai linked some time ago, Dave Atherton said:
David Atherton on X: “Coal miners in 1910 after a 14 hour shift showing us all their privilege. https://t.co/40XRY9bl34” / X
Stretched defence budget put towards ‘woke’ rally car mudflaps Under the deal, MoD staff received free tickets to the rally events. That sounds a bit illegal…… The MoD lost the plot a long time ago. Conversations with its occupants resemble dialogue from the books of Lewis Carroll and Enid Blyton. Reality check: The UAV war is simply the latest in a long struggle for air superiority-nothing more. Things are moving quickly, as they did in the air 1916-18, 1943-45. Today’s technical superiority is tomorrows obsolescence The winner of that battle will be able to freely use armoured vehicles in the manoeuvre battle as did Britain in 1918, Germany in 1940 and the Allies in 1944. Oh! ‘Ukrainian military, using armored vehicles, advanced toward the territory held by the enemy…..the 11th Airborne Brigade of the Russian Army were surrounded in the area of Cherkaski Konopelki……Defense Forces advanced 5 km in one day.’ The idea that deterrence can be based solely on technical and organisational superiority is nonsense. Why? Because Russia, for example, quite clearly doesn’t give a stuff about technical and organisational superiority, demonstrably quite clearly hasn’t given a stuff for the last ten years. But Britain is an island off the… Read more »
The latest reports indicate that this was wishful thinking and that this tiny village is far from being surrounded, other than by the hulks of damaged and destroyed Ukrainian vehicles taken out mainly by fibre optic drones.
Given the rate of Russian advance the British Isles have nothing to fear from them this century.
Russian military command reportedly removed the 11th VDV Brigade’s commander….the MoD is blaming the commander for failing to sufficiently man and defend Russian positions near Cherkasskaya Konopelka
‘Russian forces are forming new military divisions, building additional defense-industrial base (DIB) facilities, planning to increase military personnel by over 100,000 soldiers, and deepening military cooperations with North Korea. Then–Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced in January 2023 that Russia would create 14 new military divisions”
’Sir Richard Dearlove said it is time “to face up to the fact” that Russia thinks it is in a state of war with the whole of the continent, and has already carried out “very aggressive moves” on certain European countries.’
It is hardly surprising that it holds this view when everything the West does is aggressive towards it and has been for a couple of decades.
‘Putin now holds the view that what he perceives as the imposition of liberal democratic values by the Western order must be brought to an end through the dismantling of the order itself….He frequently communicates to Russian society a binary vision of the future: either the Western system will continue to exist, leading to Russia’s strategic defeat (strategicheskoe porazhenie),or Russia will continue to exist, and the Western system will be dismantled and replaced.
Putin uses this vision of a choice between Russia defeated or Russia triumphant to justify his move to extreme forms of action—revolution and war—to achieve his aims.
For Putin’s Russia, the Western system must be replaced.’
Mind reading again?
‘Ukrainian Nazism is free from such “genre” (essentially political technology) frameworks and restrictions, it freely unfolds as the fundamental basis of any Nazism – as European and, in its most developed form, American racism.
Therefore, denazification cannot be carried out in a compromise, on the basis of a formula such as “NATO – no, EU – yes.” The collective West itself is the designer, source and sponsor of Ukrainian Nazism’
‘Russia will have no allies in the denazification of Ukraine. Since this is a purely Russian business. And also because not just the Bandera version of Nazi Ukraine will be eradicated, but including, and above all, Western totalitarianism, the imposed programs of civilizational degradation and disintegration, the mechanisms of subjugation to the superpower of the West and the United States.’
I saw this and thought of wor hux, lol. Anyway, words of wisdom from Paul Weston, as always. It is not racist to know your history and state facts;
”England is part of Western Civilisation, which was built by one race, one culture and one faith. African culture and Islamic faith did not build our civilisation. When Badenoch states we are the successful product of multi-anything, she is waging war against Western Civilisation.
Badenoch states: “The UK is a multi-faith, multi-ethnic, multicultural success story”.
This isn’t true. The UK is a thousand year old + success story built on one race and one faith. The UK as described by Badenoch is a very recent creation and one that is failing at a rapidly increasing rate.
In essence, Badenoch’s UK represents the collapse of Western civilisation, with the end-date somewhere around 2040-2050.
I am glad we have Rupert Lowe, but what we really need is a Cromwell. The majority of the electorate are too stupid to vote for a party capable of sorting out this country. I believe this is only possible via 10% of the population who realise our future will not be decided at the ballot-box.”
https://x.com/PWestoff/status/1888180093161210180
Thanks Mogs. I wonder if Paul Weston secretly follows me on DS because I have certainly posted a similar commentary here and elsewhere.
For those not familiar…
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
Haha, quite possibly. Although I think a fair few people have come to the same conclusion now and share the same views as you. What I do hope, however, is that people have also realised the damage not voting at all consequently does. People need to get out there and vote Reform in future. Hell, vote for anyone as long as it’s not the dratted Uniparty, which would make somebody nothing more than some demented, masochistic Stockholm Syndrome muppet. 4.5 years is a long time, so what else is going to happen in this time frame I dread to think.
Well done to that courageous patriot Paul Weston! I’m glad he is still battling for truth and justice, even though he has been pushed into the background.
He seems to be one of the few people who see Olukemi Olufunto for what she is, remembering her own words:
“I am Proud to be part of the Project that is Great Britain”.
“Project”??? What Project might that be, Olukemi Olufunto?
You mean The Great Replacement Project, don’t you?
‘A project is defined as a sequence of tasks that must be completed to attain a certain outcome.’
So Kemi – what’s the outcome you are working to achieve specifically?
Another child sacrificed at the alter of ‘diversity’. Sure, indigenous murderers and rapists haven’t gone away and have always been with us, but there’d be a hell of a lot less violent crime, often committed against white people, if we didn’t import so many that turn out to be psychos ( and their descendants are even more over-represented in crime stats );
”The investigation into the murder of Louise, 11 years old, found dead in a wood in Longjumeau (Essonne)in the night of 7 at 8 February, focuses on Rayane Ben Said, 23 years, of North African origin, the main suspect in this case. According to information from Sunday Journal (JDD), he is already known to the police with six mentions in the criminal record file (TAJ).
Rayane Ben Said was arrested on the night of Friday to Saturday in Épinay-sur-Orge, at his home, in the company of his partner Cléa G., 20 years old, of European type, who was also taken into custody. Unlike him, she does not appear in police filesThe couple are currently being questioned for kidnapping, sequestration and murder of a minor under 15 years of age.”
https://entrevue.fr/en/affaire-louise-rayane-ben-said-le-principal-suspect-deja-connu-des-services-de-police/
I think you can tell a great deal about a government that wants to keep evil, dangerous trash like this in the country rather than kick them out. Who would vote for parties that enable this? They’re complicit, if not outright responsible, for the crimes these human detritus commit; ”A brutal murder occurred right in the middle of the street in France, in the multicultural neighborhood of Saint-Seine-Denis in Paris, and it was all caught on video. The video, which captured the murder on Monday shortly before 8:00 p.m., shows the 37-year-old suspect Soufiane Ourraoui, clearly a man of North African origin, stabbing a 37-year-old victim to death. The video shows the suspect, Ourraoui, stabbing the lifeless body over and over again almost casually. He then gets up and walks away. Ourraoui was arrested a few hundred meters at the Allée de Chartres, and officers were able to recover a knife and a machete they say were used during the murder, according to French news outlet Actu17. Currently, it is not known why Ourraoui killed the man or what led up to the murder. The suspect has been charged with murder, and once again interred in a psychiatric institution. He was… Read more »
If I understand it correctly, Andrew Gwynne expressed the desire to see a specific pensioner die (perhaps because she didn’t vote Labour). Other people in public life who have recently made similar comments, humorous or otherwise, about wanting someone dead have been arrested within hours and held in the cells overnight by Plod. As we all know from Pearson, Plod’s process is part of the punishment. Has Gwynne been arrested and held in custody?
Or are some animals more equal than others?
Are Scottish animals likewise more equal than others? It seems that the missing £600000 is still…missing
Of course Gwynne should be forced to resign because he is clearly unfit to hold public office and a by-election called but given the drubbing Kneel’s mob would receive that is never going to happen.
A criminal prosecution should spur the constituents on to remove him. Come on, Reform, go to war! A YouTuber was arrested last week for far less
“Trudeau caught on hot mic talking about Trump’s plans to annex Canada”
The best way to counter this move from the USA would be for Canada to allow its businesses to crack on and exploit the mineral (and hydrocarbon) wealth they’re sitting on. It will boost employment and trade revenue as well as direct tax revenue into the government. Instead, Canada will probably continue to ignore the wealth and remain a ‘Green’ under-developed country until its people call for outside help.
“Foreign Office to open talks on slavery reparations”
Maybe the foreign office (David ‘thick’Lammy) could open talks on reparations with ireland on its slave taking era involving England and Wales? St Patrick was one of those slaves taken!
It makes me so bloody angry to even think of this f-ing traitorous treasonous government giving away tax payer’s money so willfully and wastefully to any cause they see fit, ITS NOT THEIR MONEY TO GIVE AWAY!
Exactly. We need a National Referendum on the ridiculous concept of “Slavery Reparations”, including a question about “White Slavery” reparations to all Ethnic Europeans from every Muslim on the planet.
Why open a dialogue at all? Why not say ‘nope’ or even ignore the asks altogether? What are they going to do – sue us?
“Trudeau caught on hot mic talking about Trump’s plans to annex Canada”
James Perloff points out that Trump’s seemingly bizarre plan to annex Canada and Greenland is “nothing more than a repackaging of an old satanic plan to establish world government through regional stepping stones.” [Notice from the map that Muslim Turkey = Ottoman Empire is to be superglued onto Western Europe, while Eastern Europe is to be once again swallowed up by Russia. Thanks to Canadian Henry Makow’s website for this link!]
Donald Trump: Rebranding Globalism as Nationalism | James Perloff
“The coming 10 million: How unprecedented immigration will reshape Britain”
No.
As others have said many times, the real UK population was estimated to be at least 80 million nearly 20 years ago, in 2007 !!! It must be at least 100 MILLION by now.
2007 Independent article by Martin Baker:
City Eye: Facts on a plate: our population is at least 77 million | The Independent | The Independent