News Round-Up
- “‘Grinning’ Syrian man ‘stabs 14 year-old boy to death’” – A 14 year-old boy has been knifed to death after a ‘grinning’ Syrian refugee randomly stabbed passersby in the Austrian city of Villach today, leaving five others injured, the Mail reports.
- “Defence spending may have to treble if Putin wins in Ukraine, Lammy warns Reeves” – David Lammy has warned Rachel Reeves that defence spending may need to treble to Cold War levels if Russia is allowed to win in Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump sparks fury as ‘Europe excluded’ from Ukraine-Russia peace talks” – President Donald Trump’s envoy has sparked fury among European leaders after they were told they would be excluded from the Ukraine-Russia peace talks, causing Emmanuel Macron to call for an emergency summit, reports the Mail.
- “This is how Ukraine’s war ends. But Trump’s plan for what comes next is even more radical” – Negotiations aimed at freezing the conflict could finally put an end to the fighting – and lay the foundation for a new world order, says Roland Oliphant in the Telegraph.
- “Why J.D. Vance’s Munich speech matters” – When was the last time a new US Vice President gave a truly memorable speech, asks the Spectator‘s James Heale.
- “J.D. Vance has signed the death warrant of the status quo” – His intellectual waterboarding of Europe’s elites was a joy to watch, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “We can’t let Labour drag us back into the shrinking orbit of the anti-Trump Eurosphere” – J.D. Vance’s speech in Munich just confirmed the obvious: Britain can no longer avoid the choice between the EU and US, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “I’m the abortion campaigner name-checked by J.D. Vance. I’m glad he exposed UK censorship” – Army veteran Adam Smith-Connor, who was convicted for praying silently outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic and whose case was highlighted by J.D. Vance in Munich, says he’s glad the censorship is being shown up, reports the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump has blown apart America’s failing status quo” – President Trump has blown away America’s status quo responses to difficult issues such as the war in Gaza, says Gwythian Prins in the Spectator.
- “Royal Society to debate expelling ‘Bond villain’ Elon Musk” – The Royal Society has summoned its fellows to a meeting next month to discuss growing calls for the expulsion of Elon Musk over his backing of President Trump and downplaying of climate change, reports the Times.
- “‘We’re sick of Downing Street’: Labour Ministers lift the lid on the brutal civil war raging in No 10 as one whispers ‘we’re about to commit electoral suicide’” – The Mail‘s Dan Hodges has the inside track on the recriminations inside Downing Street as Labour’s approval ratings sink out of sight.
- “UK’s £9 billion Chagos Islands deal is ‘reparations’, say Mauritian politicians” – Senior politicians in Mauritius have described the £9 billion Britain is expected to pay to hand over the Chagos Islands as “reparations” and a “fair” price, though the Foreign Office has rejected this characterisation, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s Chagos giveaway under fire as deal mastermind interrogated in money-laundering probe” – Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands giveaway was plunged into fresh controversy on Saturday night after the former Mauritian Prime Minister who masterminded the deal was interrogated in a money-laundering scandal, the Telegraph reports.
- “Asylum seekers to be given more money to fight claims under Labour plans” – The Government is set to boost spending on lawyers for immigrants by almost a third, despite growing anger over a string of controversial asylum rulings, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour MPs turn on Lord Hermer as ethics watchdog urged to investigate” – Senior Labour figures were turning on Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, on Saturday night as he was reported to the Prime Minister’s ethics tsar in an escalation of concerns over perceived conflicts of interest after he refused to declare his financial interests, reports the Telegraph.
- “Blow to Reeves as endangered spiders halt Government’s plans for 1,300 new homes” – A small colony of endangered spiders has halted the development of more than a thousand new homes in a blow to the Government’s growth plans, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour has outlawed banter” – The purge of MPs after the leaks from the Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp group shows that black comedy has become taboo, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “Is Our Five-Year Nightmare Finally Over?” – RFK Jr.’s confirmation is a symbolic repudiation of the most egregious public policies on record. And yet, the repudiation so far is implicit, with “no commission, no admission of error, no one truly held responsible, and no real accountability”, says Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone Journal.
- “Encouraging signs of awakening in Australia” – The land down under is fighting back against globalist agendas, says Dr Gary Sidley on Substack.
- “Monkeypox mania continues to take its toll on common sense” – Monkeypox is simply the latest vector for vaccine-derived profit, and the poor people of the Democratic Republic of Congo are simply the latest victims of the scam, says Dr Roger Watson in TCW.
- “‘Ed Miliband’s latest mad move just cost UK £112 billion – your taxes will plug gap’” – Ed Miliband would be a menace at the best of times. Today, he’s a national threat, says Harvey Jones in the Express.
- “David Starkey: ‘I’ve witnessed the disintegration of everything that I loved in Britain’” – The historian – once dubbed ‘the rudest man in Britain’ – speaks to the Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley about cancel culture, free speech and why he refuses to “shut up”.
- “Our warnings went unheeded: how neo-Marxists’ anti-racism destroyed British education” – In TCW, Dr Frank Palmer says he was part of a group of researchers that included Sir Roger Scruton warning about the dangers of ‘anti-racism’ ideology in 1986, but their alerts went unheeded.
- “Hundreds charged with online ‘speech crimes’ under ‘Orwellian’ crackdown” – Almost 300 people have been charged with online ‘speech crimes’ amid claims from the Trump administration that civil liberties are under threat in Britain, says the Telegraph.
- “Inside the NHS tribunal that has reignited the trans debate” – Sandie Peggie, a nurse, and Beth Upton, a trans doctor, have clashed over use of a changing room at Victoria Hospital in Fife, reports the Times.
- “Badenoch urges Britons to ‘fight for’ free speech” – Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has urged Britons to “fight for” free speech, warning that causing offence was being criminalised under Labour, the Telegraph reports.
- “Pro-Palestine protesters shout anti-Semitic threats and insults in London march” – Pro-Palestinian protesters shouted anti-Semitic insults and threats against supporters of Israel as they marched through London on Saturday, reports the Telegraph.
- “FA’s LGBT rainbow laces used to ‘strong arm’ trans women into female sport, High Court hears” – Linzi Smith has launched legal action against football’s governing body to force it to scrap the rainbow laces campaign, which she claims goes against its own ban on political activity, reports the Telegraph.
- “Violent Pole’s deportation blocked because he is ‘father figure’ to nephew” – A violent Polish serial criminal’s deportation was blocked under human rights laws after he claimed to be a “father figure” to his nephew, the Telegraph reports.
- “Woman claims she can’t be deported as husband can’t cope with hot food” – A woman from the Caribbean staying illegally in the UK says one of the reasons she could not be deported is because her Latvian-born husband doesn’t like spicy food, reports the Mail.
- “Police reissue IS terrorist’s mugshot after she complains she was not wearing a niqab” – A police force reissued a mugshot of a convicted Islamic State terrorist after she complained she was not wearing a niqab in it, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS hires diversity staff on double the salary of junior doctors” – Trusts are continuing to recruit for highly paid EDI roles despite concerns about the cost and effectiveness of such programmes, reports the Times.
- “Jeremy Clarkson issues cancel culture rant as he defends Gino D’Acampo” – Jeremy Clarkson has gone on a furious rant against cancel culture as he defended under-fire stars Gino D’Acampo, Wynne Evans and Gregg Wallace, the Mail reports.
- “France’s churches are burning – and no one seems to care” – France’s churches are under attack, yet the media and political establishment are pretending not to notice, says James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
- “Why do so many Zoomers think Britain is racist?” – Disenfranchised young people are taking out their frustrations on their own nation, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
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This is how Ukraine’s war ends. But Trump’s plan for what comes next is even more radical This is an outstanding article, a great summary of where things stand and likely outcomes. This article is also a good read for fusty old wannabe soviets still living the 1980s ‘To academics, “multipolarity” is a theoretical term referring to a world with equally influential centres of global power, and the subject of obscure papers by International Relations professors. But in the late 1990s Yevgeny Primakov, the prime minister who is credited with establishing the world view Putin still pursues, made it a Russian foreign policy objective.’ Trump is playing on that as he massages Putin’s vanity. ‘it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power.’ Does that sound like what has been happening since 1945? Or does this: ‘The academic studies of multipolarity warn that when you create multiple hegemonies, you get multiple conflicts: between the rival great powers who cannot agree on where their spheres end, and between those of their satellites who do not want to submit.’ The world has always been, will always be ‘multipolar’. Unipolarity is, in fact, a mental health condition characterised by periods… Read more »
I believe many are and intend to do so by voting for Reform.
To be fair, being head of the Conservative Party at this point must be one of the toughest jobs out there. An impossible task, I would say. Everything you say is just going to be a joke.
True. Andrew Bridgen and Ron De Santis both backtracked on their initial stance on “covid” – if she did something like that, and looked like she meant it, it would give her some credibility. Tougher for her though because neither Bridgen nor De Santis were leaders of a political party. I still don’t really understand the point of the Conservative Party any more. If you’re an actual conservative, join Reform, if not then join the Lib Dems. There are probably some actual conservatives left in the Tory party, clinging on to past glories, but I suspect not many.
Perhaps while executing a reverse ferret on The Pandemic of the Iatrogenic, Mrs Badenoch could also backtrack on climate claptrap.
Come to think of it, same goes for Messrs Farage and Tice.
I don’t really know what Badenoch has said about “climate change” and I don’t much care right now. It might become important later on. While the “climate change” thing is in the process of wrecking our lives, I regard it in a different category to the other two big (in my mind) issues of the present time – “covid” and immigration. It’s different because I think it’s possible to be a conservative and still support “climate change”, by being a bit naive and not thinking things through – but support lockdowns and mass immigration IMO immediately disqualifies you from claims to being a conservative. She seems vaguely in the right direction regarding “cultural” issues but until she recants her covidianism she will never get my support. I think Farage and Tice have said enough on “climate change” to satisfy me that they deserve my support. I would like them to be more explicit regarding “covid” but I will probably hold my nose and vote for them when the time comes. No party will ever be perfect, just have to decide where your red lines are and what is at stake – Trump supported operation Warpspeed which was a terrible thing… Read more »
I work on the premise that it doesn’t make any difference who you vote for because the system has its own direction and is so entrenched, large and powerful that it will thwart any political initiative that opposes it.
However, I’m watching the Trump revolution with great intrigue, hoping I have to revise my premise.
So far there has been a lot of activity, a lot of bluster and a lot of promise. I really hope in time we see actual tangible results.
I think it makes some difference – just a lot less than politicians claim or that one hopes for (assuming you want things to change a lot). I think that’s quite normal and natural and healthy actually (up to a point, anyway), though also frustrating. My life has not changed enormously since Labour got in, but certain financial plans have been changed, I work less and I am very glad I work for a small non-woke firm and my kids are grown up. Life in Sweden was much better than here during “covid”. Life under Stalin and Mao was pretty terrible for most.
Trump is not a king – he has limited power. Within those constraints, I think he is doing about as much as can reasonably be expected. What I and maybe you would like to see happen in terms of rolling back the state is much further off, if it ever happens. Probably Javier Milei will get closer than Trump does, but even he is not a king – Argentina has similar separation of powers that the US does.
Also bear in mind that any politician or party who gets too far in front of public accepted views will fail.
Yes indeed
Some progress can be achieved through leadership but it is not unlimited
Better check with America’s Republican voters on that? The Donald didn’t get where he is today by being wishy washy.
Understood, except that misguided energy policy and net zero folly follow from climate fallacy.
The Count Climate Dracula that’s sucking money from our energy bills and economies needs a stake through the heart once and for all.
Thankfully The Donald and The Vance get that. There’s hope yet.
Climate policy damage can be reversed
The destruction of our civilisation through immigration cannot
Agreed. But lest we forget, a modern civilisation also stands or falls on its energy supply.
Our energy supply is being eviscerated which is turning us into a Third World shithole and rapidly. Our governments are working to ensure we have a population to match.
Of course. But the Covid scam and mass immigration are in my view related to fundamental beliefs about what life is all about and what human freedom means. Climate idiocy can be just an error of judgment.
Seconded.
The garbage put out this week around Nut Zero has not done Reform any good whatsoever.
Badenough – A joke leader heading a joke party.
That would be the “CON Party” that between 2020 and 2023 waged a propaganda war against its own people; operated a coercive control policy; suppressed dissent; silenced critics and systematically LIED to the British people on a daily basis.
I guess Ms Badenough must have objected to that; resigned from the Cabinet and surrendered the Tory Whip?
No. Well colour me surprised.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/12/looking-at-women-looking-at-war-by-victoria-amelina-review-a-precious-and-powerful-work-of-literature ‘On 27 June, 2023, Victoria Amelina, author of Looking at Women Looking at War, was in a restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk when it was hit by a Russian missile. She died of her injuries a few days later, leaving the book she was working on unfinished. Shock and grief at her killing continues to reverberate among those close to her, and among her wider circle of friends, of whom I was one. She was 37 and the mother of a young son. Her grandfather was a Soviet fighter pilot In this book, her only work of nonfiction – written in English to reach the widest possible audience – she set down a personal account of the terror of unfolding events. She interviews the parents of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a poet and children’s author. He had been arrested by the Russians and never came home, his distraught mother searching for him that whole terrible summer of occupation. (His body would later be identified in exhumed graves outside Izyum, shot with a Makarov pistol.)’ ‘Her text – some of which is in first draft, in other places only notes – feels, by its very awkwardness, like the most… Read more »
And here is an old video from July 2022 on how Ukraine continued killing children in the Donetsk People’s Republic, also with Western weapons: https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/ukraine-continues-killing-children-in:f?lid=375573ed222074153220958b40356704ae21887e As Eva Bartlett reported: In addition to eight years of Ukraine’s war on the Donbas Republic, since before Russia’s military operation began in February, Ukraine has near daily deliberately murdered Donbas children and adults. It is criminal and you can bet that, were the perpetrator Russia, media would be screaming about the injustice. Instead, utterly unscrupulously, they not only do not report on Ukraine’s bloodbath of Donbas civilians but also time and again depict scenes from Donetsk as being scenes in Ukraine under Russian bombing. Or mendaciously lie and say it is Russia bombing Donetsk. The children and adults being murdered by Ukrainian strikes on completely residential, non-military areas, including apartment blocks, hospitals, parks, busy city streets, are frequently being killed with weapons coming from the West. In the video, one mother of a child wounded by shrapnel stated: She was 5 years old when we started hiding in the basements in 2014. She once asked, “Mum, what year did the war begin, has the war been going on forever?” A school headmistress reported on the… Read more »
Bartlett has lived in Russia since 2019. She has been making videos and posts on social media during the Russian invasion, sometimes with journalists from Russia Today. She often appears as a guest on RT.
‘..in 2021, Bartlett claimed that Russian military personnel were not present on the territory of Ukraine until February 24, 2022.
“People from outside, who are far away, probably don’t read the media we read… And they have the impression that the Ukrainian army is fighting against the Russian military on the front line. Although in reality, these are volunteers from Donbas who have left their professions to defend their own country.”
In reality, Russian troops and equipment have been present in Donbas since 2014. For example, in 2014, NATO published satellite images of Russian military equipment crossing the Ukrainian border.
Russian intervention was also confirmed by its direct participants: Strelkov-Girkin, Pavel Gubarev, or Russian political figure Sergey Kurginyan.’
Oh! She has a book to sell.
“Royal Society to debate expelling ‘Bond villain’ Elon Musk”
Same Royal Society founded over 350 years ago by pioneers of empirical physical sciences that included Boyle, Hooke and Newton:
https://royalsociety.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/
“The Royal Society’s motto ‘Nullius in verba’ was adopted in its First Charter in 1662. It is taken to mean ‘take nobody’s word for it…’
…an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment.”
Nowadays populated by Professors, Sirs, Dames and Professor Sirs appealing to the voodoo science of climate claptrap – derived not from experiment, but from dominant authority of computer modelling.
You couldn’t make it up if you tried…
…Upon which principle voodoo scientists have been up to mischief for decades.
‘My wife fears sex, I fear death’ – impacts of the USAID freeze according to the BBC Life for Mike Elvis Tusubira, a motorcycle taxi rider with HIV in Uganda, has been turned upside down since US President Donald Trump halted foreign aid last month. I have a lot of sympathy for Mr Tusubira and his family. It must be a terrible worry. One thing though – they don’t seem to have considered abstaining from sex to save Mrs Tusubira’s life. In addition, the BBC lies: Trump has not ‘halted foreign aid’. If you take away this major contribution by the United States government, we expect that in the next five years, there’ll be an additional 6.3 million Aids-related deaths”Winnie ByanyimaHead of UNAids Major contribution by the US government? Government has no money that it does not take from its people. The ‘major contribution’ is from the US people – and nobody has asked them if that was OK. If USAID is the charity arm of US government then make funding it optional for the US people – and while you’re at it ask them what they think ought to be the beneficiaries. From WorldAtlas: While currently small, the oil… Read more »
Regarding your last point, the extremely watchable Scalia touches on this here: Antonin Scalia, Is Capitalism or Socialism More Conducive to Christian Virtue? 09/06/2013
Worth watching in full.
Thanks for the link.
“My wife fears sex, I fear death.”
So stop having sex. And everyone dies; it’s just a matter of when. There is no reason why American taxpayers should pay for you to extend your life.
Rupert Lowe shoots from the hip, as per. It’s not just housing, it’s not just affordability, it’s also the changes ( and definitely not for the better ) happening in society. Our communities ( particularly the inner city areas ) are morphing into something quite unpleasant and unrecognizable from when we were growing up, and public safety is now, more than ever, a very real concern for many; ”Having a child is an incredibly difficult decision for young men and women now. The brutal truth is – we need Brits to have more children. We are dying out. The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest ever level on record, just 1.44 children per woman. Think about what that means… This is not good. What’s happening? We’re importing millions of low-skilled migrants, and our own people are not having enough kids. There’s no point just moaning – we need serious policy to reverse this, and urgently. The most important move is to brutally slash tax across the board. Messing around with subsidies for this and that won’t solve the fundamental issue. Parents don’t need to hand their salary to the state, to have it returned with… Read more »
Yep, pretty much;
”Two tribes on either side of the river: 1) Tribe A is infected with unequivocal pacifism. Nothing that you can do to Tribe A will ever get them to retaliate. Rape their women, rape their children, destroy their culture, enslave them. Nothing is more important than to adhere to pacifism; 2) Tribe B is astoundingly war-like and believes in its religious doctrines that the entire world and its spoils belong to its members.
Do you have to be a game theorist to play out the outcome?
Goodnight the West.” Gad Saad
i am sure you and many know that “affordability” has nothing to do with cost, price or rent. The term is a euphemism for social housing. Tax payers provide the subsidy.
in rural and some suburban areas there is a demand for truly economical housing for those with limited funds to buy. They are no longer viable in large part because of the planning system.
Rupert Lowe talks of subjects that matter to ordinary Brits. Farage is too often just wrong and Tice is at times a massive liability.
Perhaps Europe could have talks with Russia if they had started a dialogue with Putin. It is rather stupid complaining about no dialogue when they have for several years refused to talk to him.
Precisely, they know Trump will wade in and put an end to the slaughter and the EU will be left with egg on their faces for not being able to do the same after all these years, so suddenly, they are having a “once in a generation emergency meeting”
What the hell Starmer has to do with it I don’t know!
And coincidentally he is over ruling Reeves and wants to increase defence spending all of a sudden! just when his EU pimps mention it is now required
The latter action really underlines what he said last week, that he has full confidence in her.
‘we’re about to commit electoral suicide’
They are already hanging from a tree and gasping their last breath.
A local council election Wales returned its first Reform Councillor this week: 47% of the vote and the Labour vote halved.
I refuse to pay anything to the Daily Fail. Interested to have a synopsis of the article if you can?
A lot of attention is being given to Trump’s plan for Ukraine, however we are being asked to take his statements at face value.
The most recent statements from Putin have indicated that he will not engage in a ceasefire, will treat foreign troops in Ukraine as combatants and will not accept any deal with Ukraine unless signed by someone with legitimate authority to do so, which excludes the expired President of Ukraine.
It takes two to tango.
Another day another round of repeated demands I log in to DS. Please find whoever moved the settings at your end and tell him/her to fix it.
Ditto.
He’s certainly not wrong; ”Over my adult lifetime I have watched in horror as Britain (and now Ireland on steroids) was betrayed to the third world by our corrupt politicians and their puppet media journalists. When I was born in 1963, Britain was much the same in racial terms as the country my parents and grandparents were born into. My grandparents died around the very beginning of the Great Racial Betrayal. They died in innocence. The idea that what HAS happened could ever happen was unimaginable to them. My parents died with full knowledge of the betrayal. They were both journalists, and met in the late 1950s working for the Leicester Mercury newspaper. They couldn’t believe what happened to Leicester over their lifetimes. Hopefully, I will live another couple of decades. Sadly though, I will witness the end of England, the end of Britain and the end of Ireland if I make it to 2045. Time speeds up as one ages. The demographic imbalance via high and low birth rates also speeds up. For example, when 100,000 Muslims became 200,000 in the 1960s and 1970s no one really noticed. The number was just too small in a country of tens-of-millions.… Read more »
You and me both Mogwai.
When I was born in the late ’50s, the UK was 98% white British. Now it’s 75% and within the next 25 years it will become minority white British.
The British people, specifically the English, are being eradicated in the lifetime of one person.
I loathe the evil people who have deliberately destroyed the race which created democracy, free speech, the rule of law and exported it around the world.
Yesterday I listened to The Coming Civil War and it is obvious that this appalling Government, like every one since the 60s, has been systematically destroying the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gid48FgiHho
Paul Weston nails it.
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It is unreasonable for Ministers to complain when “a small colony of endangered spiders” stops development. Parliament and previous governments brought in these rules and gave authority to a quango to stop development so they had better suck it up.
Clearly there is a point where we should not allow development and it needs clarity. What we do not want is the abandonment of all controls in the way the IEA wants – they want the Green Belt to be abolished so housing can be built there.
May I add this bit of worrying news here about Santorini?
Greek premier sees Santorini tremors as unprecedented
“Repeated tremors over recent days were succeeded by A CONTINUOUS TREMOR on Friday night lasting several hours. Seismologists believe that subterranean liquid magma is causing the phenomenon but remain unsure.”
“Most residents have left. Those remaining hear A VIRTUALLY PERSISTENT LOW DRONE, described as a LONG-DURATION HARMONIC VOLCANIC TREMOR.
Santorini is part of a large ancient caldera formed by a massive volcanic eruption some 3,600 years ago.”
“ [A HARMONIC TREMOR] is a long-duration release of seismic energy, often containing distinct spectral lines. VOLCANIC TREMOR OFTEN PRECEDES OR ACCOMPANIES A VOLCANIC ERUPTION. Being a long-duration continuous signal from a temporally extended source tremor CONTRASTS DISTINCTLY with transient and often impulsive sources of seismic radiation typically associated with earthquakes or explosions.”
If Santorini blows, as it did when the Minoan Civilization was wiped out, everything will change for all of us. Just sayin’…