News Round-Up
- “Two dead and 10 injured in Mannheim after Alexander S. – reportedly a 40 year-old native German with no migrant background – drives his Ford Fiesta into carnival crowds” – On Substack, Eugyppius reports on the latest from Mannheim, where a native German with no migrant background plowed his Ford Fiesta into a carnival crowd.
- “Thugs attacked police ‘because social workers tried to take children’” – Violent clashes in Gateshead, which saw police brutally attacked by Romanian thugs, are believed to have erupted when social services “tried to take two children from a home”, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer’s Churchill tribute act should fool no one” – Starmer’s Churchill act is just a smokescreen – he loathes the working class, panders to the EU and would send Brits to war for globalist brownie points, says Paul Sutton on his Substack.
- “‘Europe plus’ won’t save Ukraine” – Behind the grand verbiage and the impressive group photos, the true purpose of the London summit was to patch things up between Zelensky and the White House, writes Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “Britain is on a ‘war footing’? We can’t even police our borders” – If Starmer is serious about UK defence, he must do things differently, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “‘We can’t even defend Kent let alone Kyiv’” – Prof David Starkey sits down with GB New’s Steve Edginton to discuss the war in Ukraine.
- “Trump accuses Europe of weakness for reliance on US” – President Trump has accused European leaders of weakness for their reliance on America and threatened to pull the plug on support for Ukraine, reports the Times.
- “Volodymyr Zelensky’s massive blunder” – On Friday, the President of Ukraine had one job; keeping Donald Trump happy, says Alex Berenson on his Substack. He failed, and the consequences are enormous.
- “Nigel Farage blames Zelensky for Trump White House row” – The Reform UK leader has accused Zelensky of “overplaying his hand” and sparking the televised spat with Trump and J.D. Vance, reports the Mail.
- “Farage’s role as Trump’s cheerleader might stop Reform” – Can anything stop the rise of Reform – and even the prospect of Nigel Farage becoming PM? wonders Dominic Lawson in the Mail. Yes: his good friend, Donald Trump.
- “What’s the real reason some on the Right hate Volodymyr Zelensky?” – Ukraineophobia and Israelophobia are both blights on the body politic, as demonstrated by the furious reaction against Zelensky, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Trump lays into Europe in latest transatlantic salvo” – President Trump says that the US should worry more about “migrant rape gangs and drug lords” than Vladimir Putin or “end up like Europe”, reports the Mail.
- “Trump renews attack on Ukraine’s Zelensky” – Donald Trump has slammed his Ukrainian counterpart, saying he isn’t interested in finding peace, says the Mail.
- “US in secret talks with Putin’s friend to revive Nord Stream 2 pipeline” – A friend of President Putin and figures with close ties to the Trump administration have been conducting secret talks to revive the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany with American funding, reports the Times.
- “Angela Rayner risks writing a charter for youth unemployment” – Angela Rayner’s workers’ rights overhaul threaten to block struggling youth from landing their first job, warns Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner is exercising her ‘right to switch off’ Britain’s growth” – The Employment Rights Bill will burden companies with extra costs and won’t “kickstart growth”, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s plan for hereditary peers is more constitutional vandalism” – Labour’s latest bout of constitutional vandalism boots out hereditary peers while stuffing the Lords with party loyalists, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Starmer’s House of Lords reform is just a power grab” – Removing hereditaries from the Upper Chamber will not make it more democratic, says Eliot Wilson in the Telegraph. It will simply assure it is rammed with cronies.
- “Taxpayers’ millions have yet again been squandered on a white elephant” – Britain’s digital pound has all the signs of being another national disgrace, writes Neil Record in the Telegraph.
- “Conditions imposed to keep tractors away from farmers’ protest” – The Met is urging anyone planning to attend a farmers’ protest taking place in Central London on Tuesday to leave their tractors at home.
- “BBC News chief watched Gaza documentary but did not question it” – BBC News chief Deborah Turness is understood to have watched the controversial Gaza documentary weeks before broadcast but failed to question its content, reports GB News.
- “Channel Four used Hamas official’s son in award-winning coverage” – Channel Four News featured the son of a Hamas official in its Gaza coverage – the same teenager who narrated the controversial BBC documentary, says the Telegraph.
- “Jewish students ‘suffer toxic atmosphere’ at Oxford college” – St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford has been accused of creating a “hostile environment” for Jewish and Israeli students, according to the Telegraph.
- “Morgan McSweeney is not your mate” – Morgan McSweeney has charmed the Right-wing press with his ‘Blue Labour’ persona – but his real legacy is weaponising kompromat, crushing the Labour Left and keeping skeletons firmly locked in Starmer’s closet, says J’accuse.
- “Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists” – Elon Musk’s fellowship of the Royal Society remains intact after a meeting of the scientific body, the Guardian has learned.
- “Net Zero crashed the car industry – it’s coming for the property market next” – “Unrealistic” energy efficiency rules risk bringing down City skyscrapers, warns Pui-Guan Man in the Telegraph.
- “Cost of HS2 ‘bat tunnel’ 20% higher than previously thought” – The final price tag for the notorious High Speed 2 bat tunnel is on track to be a fifth higher than previously thought, reveals the Financial Times.
- “Ireland is on a knife edge” – Ireland’s Government insists there’s no migrant crime problem – because it refuses to collect the data, says Ian O’Doherty in the Spectator.
- “DailyMail.com launches Trump approval tracker” – President Trump’s rapid pace of spending cuts, deportations and foreign policy flexes are winning him new admirers, according to a new DailyMail.com poll.
- “Assisted dying plan outsources provision to private companies” – Assisted dying would be provided by private companies under plans to stop a flood of requests hampering efforts to bring down NHS waiting lists, reports the Times.
- “Why won’t supporters of assisted dying use the ‘s-word’?” – If assisted dying isn’t suicide, why are its supporters so afraid of the ’s-word’? wonders Mark Taubert in the Spectator.
- “Freedom is bad for you, Covid study concludes” – Stanford’s latest study blames Western freedom for our high Covid death toll, suggesting we should be more like the obedient East, says Dr Roger Watson in TCW.
- “‘Measles outbreak is call to action for all of us’” – In an opinion piece for Fox News, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stresses the importance of vaccines in preventing measles outbreaks.
- “Men are turning against ‘women’s rights’ in record numbers” – As boys continue to fall behind girls, resentment is growing, warns Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “Britons ‘were mostly black 5,000 years ago’, new study suggests” – With Stonehenge having been constructed around 5,000 years ago, experts say we can safely assume the builders behind it had dark skin, reports the Mail.
- “The Imperial War Museum’s betrayal of history” – The closure of Lord Ashcroft’s gallery is the latest act in the ‘wokeification’ of the Imperial War Museum, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Council bans term ‘hard-working families’ in case it offends jobless” – A council has banned its staff from using the term “hard-working families” out of fear it could offend the jobless and make them feel “undeserving”, reports the Mail.
- “Playboy has finally remembered what men like – slim, beautiful women” – It’s no wonder Playboy’s post-MeToo rebrand, mired in woke ideology, failed… there’s nothing less sexy than tyranny, says Rowan Pelling in the Telegraph.
- “Told to ‘compromise’, ‘be more inclusive’ and get ‘re-educated’ for not wanting to get undressed in front of a man at work” – Watch the Darlington nurses discuss their story.
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There’s zero chance RFK endorsed the MMR vaccine… this article is paid propaganda!
Yesterday I checked the BBC weather forecast before going out, it said zero chance of rain. It rained. Why didn’t it say 1% chance of rain, just to be on the safe side? It seems my understanding of “zero chance” is not the same as other people’s understanding of it. To me, zero chance means literally zero chance.
The article to which you refer was written by RFK himself, as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Anyone with any intelligence can see that with the measles outbreak in Texas, RFK is in a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ situation. He’s not stupid. His statement is very carefully worded.
I believe that measles is harmless if treated intelligently and children are raised healthily, but this is often not the case.
That is how it used to be when me and my two older siblings got it – no one batted an eyelid. And what no one ever mentions is that maybe getting some of these childhood illnesses tunes up the immune system in some way?
The word “literally” doesn’t mean what it did either!
I’m not against all vaccines, I’ve had most of the childhood ones (not rubella, that was after my childhood) and there side effects where not serious or as widespread as other types (mRNA based)
I’m against the mRNA messenger based vaccines, they should be banned outright
Sadly we have learned the hard way that vaccines damage the immune system. RFK jnr has promised a new approach to research and public health campaigns that should save the next generation from some of the neurological harms done to our young people. Look at the shocking rates of severe autism in the UK. See new substack called The Autism Tribune. Post on MMR today:
.https://theautismtribune.substack.com/p/in-wakefields-wake-in-perpetuum
See what you mean!
I remember having the TB shot, polio, mumps and diphtheria but no rubella or measles shots, chicken pox was regarded as harmless, so generally it was the mmr combined jab that started the problems?
There’s no “Ukraineophobia”, Brendan. We need to rebuild Britain, not fight unwinnable proxy wars.
What is the point in rebuilding Britain if we simply swap domination of our domestic and foreign policy by the EU and now the U.S., for domination of our domestic and foreign policy by a totalitarian dictator and war criminal?
The rebuilding that is required is that of an independent self confident Britain able to offer reassurance and security to its allies in return for international trade agreements.
That requires 5% of GDP spent on defence to restore our conventional deterrent to assist the rest of Europe in the containment of Putin.
President Trump (and the Ukrainophobes) is making the same mistake that President Roosevelt made before him, quite possibly for the same reason. ‘I think that if I give him everything that I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work for a world of democracy and peace.’ President Roosevelt Yalta 1945 That remark has not aged well. ‘I mean by that FDR’s well-known conviction that although Stalin was a rather difficult character, he was at bottom a man like everyone else; that the only reason why it had been difficult to get on with him in the past was because there was no one with the right personality, with enough imagination and trust to deal with him properly; that the arrogant conservatives in the Western capitals had always bluntly rejected him, and that his ideological prejudices would melt away and Russian cooperation with the West could easily be obtained, if only Stalin was exposed to the charm of a personality of FDR’s calibre. There were no grounds at all for this assumption; it was so childish that it was really unworthy of a statesman of FDR’s standing.’ George… Read more »
Roosevelt was determined to end the British Empire and in that he succeeded. Churchill entered the war to protect Poland but ended up giving it to USSR. Still, we can be happy now since USSR no longer exists. It is just a shame that our PM (and others) appears to still believe in the glorious days of the past when UK was a dominant force in the world.
But Roosevelt did Britain a big favour:
‘There is a lot to be said for a ‘warts-and-all’ approach to history, which does not gloss over or relativise the darker chapters of a country’s past. But the problem with the above narrative is that it is bad economics. While imperialism was undoubtedly extremely lucrative for some people, it is not at all clear whether Britain as a whole benefited economically from it. If such overall gains existed at all, they must have been very modest, and it is quite possible that the empire was a net lossmaker for Britain.
Before modern container shipping, transport logistics, telecommunication technologies, etc., made high volumes of trade possible, trade and overseas investment accounted for much smaller proportions of the British economy than they do today. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the great bulk of Britain’s economic activity was domestic.
Even then, Britain’s most important trading partners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were not its colonies but other industrialising powers, such as Britain’s Western European neighbours.’
IEA Niemitz 2024
Spending on defence like all government spending is a doddle. How it is spent is another matter. We could spend 50% of GDP but it still won’t produce the armed forces required by this country.
In 2009, former Chief of Defence Materiel Sir Bernard Grey wrote that ‘acquisition reform … is a subject only about five minutes younger than the acquisition of military equipment itself …while some initiatives have undeniably delivered improvement, few, if any, achieved all the change that was originally intended. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, politicians seldom invest sufficient time and effort to understand, and then oversee, the activities of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the armed forces. Secondly, the single services, the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force, have the power either to rework unpalatable reforms to the extent that they become acceptable, or resist them altogether. Unless these two issues are addressed, the successful reform of UK Defence management is likely to remain an impossible task. Following the Levene Reforms in 2011, the MoD headquarters – known as Head Office – was supposed to set the strategic direction for Defence, impose a strong, pan-department corporate framework and hold others to account. However, as part of the reform’s implementation, considerable personnel resources were moved out of Head Office and into the single service headquarters……even the most all-encompassing change programme is doomed to failure if the… Read more »
I prefer Trump’s idea to halve nuclear weapons around the world. Just what are France and UK doing with nuclear weapons? And it is better to create friends rather than enemies, so Trump’s moves to align himself with Russia are clearly beneficial for world safety. He now only has to be convinced to do the same with China. Sadly, there are so many voices like yours that just promote a world being full of enemies instead of being full of human beings like ourselves.
‘One area where the UK could demonstrate its commitment to a robust nuclear deterrent is by considering the adoption of a nuclear capability outside its current Continual at-Sea Deterrent construct.
Currently, the UK relies solely on its submarine-based Trident missiles. While this system has proven effective, diversifying the nuclear arsenal to include a second delivery method could enhance flexibility and resilience. The original Polaris Sales Agreement could serve as a model for future engagement and additional capability.
The signals sent by Labour’s ongoing review will be particularly significant in the context of an increased emphasis on allied burden-sharing. A clear and unambiguous commitment from the UK to a fully resourced nuclear modernisation programme, to include a second delivery platform, would serve as a powerful demonstration of burden-sharing and alliance solidarity.
Moreover, a strong UK nuclear posture would help maintain strategic stability in an era of renewed great power competition.
As Russia continues its aggressive behaviour and China rapidly expands its nuclear capabilities, the deterrent value of Western nuclear forces has only grown. The UK’s nuclear arsenal, though smaller than that of the US or Russia, plays a vital role in this broader deterrence landscape.’
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/uk-nuclear-modernisation-crucial-us-uk-relations-and-natos-future
Brenda O’Neill – he has a talent for foot in mouth. So far removed from real life that he spouts this drivel.
I’m still waiting on his mandatory vaccine apology.
Yes, and while people like O’Neill are inventing new “phobias”, when is he going to start talking about “WHITEOPHOBIA”, for example?
The story out of Mannheim is horrific, more so when we learn children were victims, and is certainly a turn up for the books. Not what anyone was expecting at all. But it just shows that these homegrown psychos still exist and are still out there committing atrocities. If it’s not ‘the usual suspects’ there’s still one common denominator though… Knife crime, rapes and sexual assaults, other serious crimes, with very few exceptions they all have one thing in common. Look at these names; ”In Liverpool 7 men are charged with violent disorder with knives. They are: Mohammed Tariq Saleh, 30 Sina Mohammadi, 24 Homed Heydari, 31 Samim Habib, 29 Fahad Al-Tharfiri, 19 Fawad Habib, 31 Ghalib Habibi, 18, is also charged with GBH with intent.” https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1896672430527250938 There are 117 prisons in England and Wales, only 13 of them are women’s. Let’s look at the stats; ”In 2024, there were 87,869 men and 3,635 women in prisons in England and Wales. Compared with the previous year, this represented an increase for both men and women.” https://www.statista.com/statistics/283475/england-and-wales-prison-population-by-gender/ So what does this tell us? Well, it obviously tells us that the blame for the breakdown of society and ever-increasing crime rate lies… Read more »
Give it a rest, Mogs… The vast majority of commenters here, male or female or I-couldn’t-care-less, are balanced and courteous.
I value greatly the rest of your contributions.
Seconded! These rants are getting wearisome
Can you explain to me which part of my post qualifies as a “rant” in your opinion?🤷♀️ What kind of a peculiar person gets triggered by mere facts? Offended by reality, in a post nobody forced you to read….Pathetic.😏
“Give it a rest” says the man to the woman on a site that’s supposedly pro free speech! 🤡 Well, you’re certainly not the first man on here to laughably attempt to censor me and I’m sure you won’t be the last. It’s “free speech” but only when it suits, eh? BTW, show me where I’m not being courteous. Triggered, much? Can’t think why…🤔
It’s fine, carry on as you believe is best.
I just thought you might value the opinion of one who really values your presence here, regardless of my sex or your sex. Take it or leave it 🙂
Erm, no they aren’t. I have only once posted here – under the Hunting topic – and was subjected to a wholly unexpected and exceedingly nasty pile on. I am also completely fed up of the lazy assumptions made about any woman with tattoos, piercings and/or coloured hair.
”I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
The so-called ‘pro-free speech crowd’ on here ( who are also supposedly anti-censorship, laughably ) are out and out hypocrites. They’ll wheel out quotes such as the one above or the one about offense being taken but never given when it suits them, but as you can see, what they lack in integrity and authenticity they more than make up for in double standards and intolerance. Opinions are allowed, but only if it’s the opinions permitted by those inhabiting the DS echo chamber. ”Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…” and here we are, lol.
A pile on. Of words. It’s called free speech. No-one was actually piling on.
To sum up Paul Sutton’s substack:
Politicians Love Villains Hate Heroes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14454011/Britons-black-study-stonehenge.html
Probably because hot water was not available on tap and soap had not been invented.
😀😀
Desperate stuff..chimps are white under their fur aren’t they?
Indeed.
“Starmer’s Churchill tribute act should fool no one”
Sir Two-Tier, the new Churchill, proferring British Armed Forces to serve in Eastern Europe, while Sir Two-Tier, the Human Rights Lawyer, condones persecution through the courts of soldiers who served in Northern Ireland decades ago.
Par for the Two-Tier course.
Absolutely this. If you know any young people thinking of joining up (unlikely, I know), tell them that most veterans, including this one, would strongly advise against it.
You will be treated like sh1t and cast onto the trash heap as soon as they’re done with you. Look at the way this pathetic country treats its veterans – with a big fat “F**K YOU”.
Well the chickens are coming home to roost now.
Why,should any of our,armed forces still left fight anywhere when Starmers human rights lawyers are out to get them for simply doing their job, fighting the enemy
Conveniently glossed over…
“Freedom is bad for you, Covid study concludes”
Latest offering from Cognitive Bias, Word Salad and Waffle Industry.
No chance of being retracted by a feeble-minded editor.
About time. Only the narcissistic and slightly unhinged would not be able to see its gone too far the other way. Time to rebalance.
I can’t read the DT but any article that mentions “women’s rights” needs to define what the writer means by that term. It has become meaningless. It may be what the author means is “preferential treatment for women” – quite possibly men (and women) might be “turning against” that. I don’t think many people want to remove “rights” from women that are equally shared by men. The main “right” that is being threatened is for women to be in traditionally female-only spaces like toilets, and to compete against other women in sport – a “right” threatened by the political left (composed of men and women).
“Alexander S. – reportedly a 40 year-old native German with no migrant background”
Oh well that’s ok then, other ethnicities and religions do the same thing too so it’s not a problem anymore!
The facts are the facts the majority of these attacks are radical Muslim based islamists
Absolutely, Dinger. Facts are facts. The uncomfortable facts being that it’s almost exclusively men that are the perpetrators of violent/sex crimes. Nothing sexist about that, because the evidence supports this, as do the amount of male prisons vs female prisons. However, it would appear that the ‘pitchfork brigade’ don’t do well with certain facts. Possibly it’s an overload of cognitive dissonance, the reality contradicts their narrative that the opposite sex must always be blamed for what is wrong in society. “Men committing most violent crime is because women have too many rights”, said no rational person, ever. But it’s like the elephant in the room around here.
And so, when we consider that the whole ethos of this site is ‘freedom of speech’, FoS goes out the window, attempted censorship from intolerant posters comes in and the hypocrites with their double standards show themselves.
“Certain opinions won’t be tolerated and step outside the DS echo chamber at your peril”, is my take away from being a long-time user of this site.
*Never fear, haters. I’ll be gone as soon as my next payment is due. Equilibrium will be restored to the Echo Chamber once more. People-pleasers for the win! 😉
They still haven’t told us if he was a convert..
Good point
“What’s the real reason some on the Right hate Volodymyr Zelensky? asks Brendan O’Neill, coining a new word “UKRAINEOPHOBIA”…
Answer: Because he’s a Nasty, Ungrateful Little Weasel endlessly demanding that the West must give him huge amounts of their Taxpayers’ Money, and even the Blood of those Taxpayers’ Sons, Husbands and Fathers, so that the Nasty, Greedy Little Weasel can cling to power, and send thousands more Ukrainians to their deaths in the Meatgrinder War.
That’s why, you idiot Brendan O’Neill.
Absolute agreement 🤝