News Round-Up
- “Nigel Farage ‘held secret talks with Dominic Cummings’” – Nigel Farage has held secret talks with ex-Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings about how Reform UK can take on the Tories, reveals the Mail.
- “‘Unite the Right’ plot to oust Kemi Badenoch” – Former Tory and Reform aides are discussing a “Unite the Right” plot to oust Kemi Badenoch, reports the Express.
- “Locals in Clacton reveal whether they are still backing Nigel Farage” – Farage’s feud with Rupert Lowe may be tearing Reform apart, but in Clacton locals care more about potholes than party politics, says Piriyanga Thirunimalan in the Mail.
- “The shocking rise of Albanian gangs who now control UK drug trade” – Around one in every 36 Albanian men living in England and Wales is in jail, says the Mail.
- “One in five British terror suspects are children, new report claims” – AI-driven radicalisation is accelerating youth terrorism in the West, warns David Averre in the Mail.
- “Islam Channel facing investigation over claims it incites extremism” – A UK-based Muslim TV channel is facing an Ofcom investigation after it was accused of inciting extremism and breaching rules on impartiality, says the Mail.
- “Rayner tax raid ‘will render swathes of the North unbuildable’” – A new cladding tax threatens to render swathes of land in the North and the Midlands unbuildable by piling costs on the construction industry, reports the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting warns against ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health problems” – The Health Secretary has admitted that doctors are “overdiagnosing” mental health conditions as Labour tries to get a grip on Britain’s ballooning benefits bill, says the Mail.
- “Wes Streeting prepares to axe even more health quangos” – The Health Secretary says the NHS is “addicted to overspending” as he prepares to swing the axe across hundreds more quangos, according to the Mail.
- “Civil servants blew taxpayer cash on celebrity cardboard cut-outs” – Civil servants splurged taxpayer cash on celebrity cardboard cut-outs, a Bahamas yacht club and Fortnum and Mason hampers, reveals the Mail.
- “Starmer is wrong – size matters when it comes to Britain’s bloated state” – Dead weight in the public sector is holding back the UK’s productive capacity, warns Gerard Lyons in the Telegraph.
- “Labour dismantling education to appease unions, warns ex-Ofsted boss” – The ex-head of Ofsted has accused the Education Secretary of putting the interests of unions ahead of children in a scathing attack on Bridget Phillipson’s school reforms, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s school reforms are mad, say academy chiefs” – The founder of one of the country’s biggest academy chains says that Labour’s plans to reform academy schools are “madness” and would harm “the most disadvantaged families”, according to the Times.
- “Number of men becoming secondary teachers plummets to record low” – The proportion of male secondary school teachers has dropped from 46% in 1994 to just 35% today, reports the Mail.
- “Home Office U-turn on fine for couple’s bike-rack migrant” – The Home Office has done a reverse ferret on its decision to fine a couple £1,500 after they found a migrant hiding under a bike-rack cover attached to the back of their motorhome, says the Mail.
- “Elon Musk’s X loses out on millions as Government pulls ad spending” – A MailOnline analysis of social media spending across Whitehall has revealed how departments dramatically halted their advertising on X last year.
- “European tourists are deserting London because of our bad attitude” – Rain, Brexit and phone and watch thieves on mopeds are some of the factors putting off continental visitors to London, writes Amanda Hyde in the Telegraph.
- “There are just three nations that Britain can truly trust. The US is not one of them” – We must form a solid alliance with Canada, New Zealand and Australia, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph – and it would be a huge vote-winner for the PM.
- “Pensioner is threatened with court again by solar panel firm” – A solar panel firm under investigation by Ofgem is threatening to take one of its customers to court again – just months after being forced to drop a £320,000 defamation case against him, reports the Mail.
- “Shopkeepers in Health Secretary’s constituency criticise new vape laws” – Retailers in Wes Streeting’s constituency have criticised new vape laws – as a shock poll shows 95% of UK traders believe they will hurt small businesses, says the Mail.
- “Labour minister ‘rubbished’ dossier on lab leak theory during pandemic” – Lord Vallance is at the centre of an explosive row over claims he rubbished high-level intelligence pointing to Covid’s origins in a Chinese laboratory, reports the Mail.
- “Covid vaccine damage consultants paid more than victims” – Consultants assessing Covid vaccine damage claims on behalf of the NHS have been paid millions more than the victims, says the Telegraph.
- “Five years into Covid, why do reporters and health bureaucrats keep lying about the mRNA jabs?” – On his Substack, Alex Berenson blasts Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee’s NY Times op-ed defending mRNA vaccines, arguing that global data exposes the shots as a failure – and that public trust is collapsing with them.
- “Next time perhaps we shouldn’t shout down the pandemic pariahs” – What we sacrificed during the lockdown was an appetite for the truth, says Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
- “Why is NHS planning a clinical trial of banned puberty blockers?” – In the Sunday Times, Ben Spencer reports on the fierce debate surrounding NHS plans to give adolescents puberty blockers as part of a clinical trial.
- “Retired pastor facing court over open-air Sunday service near abortion buffer zone” – A retired pastor from Northern Ireland is facing court for holding an open-air Sunday service close to an abortion clinic at the Causeway Hospital in County Derry, reports Gript.
- “Was he vetted? Convicted rapist here few days before raping 18 year-old” – With increasing frequency, the horrendous consequences of letting massive numbers of people into Ireland without vetting them are playing out in the courts, writes Niamh Uí Bhriain in Gript.
- “France plots radical tax on super-rich to rearm – and Britain could be next” – President Macron is eyeing France’s rich citizens as the solution to all his financial woes, says Noah Eastwood in the Telegraph.
- “EU’s culture of harassment and fraud laid bare” – A damning report into Eurocrats has revealed a swathe of sexual and psychological harassment, religious abuse and fraud within the EU’s top institution, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Protests against pro-Russian leaders sweep Eastern Europe” – Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest on Saturday for separate pro-Europe and anti-Russia protests, reports the Telegraph.
- “EU resists US pressure to weaken censorship laws amid escalating trade tensions” – In Reclaim The Net, Dan Frieth reports on the EU’s defiance of US pressure to relax its strict censorship laws.
- “Greenland election result” – On the Restoration Substack, Courage Media breaks down Greenland’s recent election.
- “Free speech hypocrites” – The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and the threat to go after others prove the hollowness of Trump’s claims to be a champion of free speech, says Jacob Mchangama on the Persuasion Substack.
- “There’s a difference between free speech and persecuting Jews” – Deportation of all US green-card holders who foment pro-Hamas activity could easily cost a trillion dollars, but it would be money well spent, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Trump silences biggest US global broadcaster for ‘radical propaganda’” – President Trump has signed an order to strip back federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being “anti-Trump” and “radical”, reports BBC News.
- “A user’s guide to wrecking the global financial system” – Did ordinary Americans who voted for Trump realise they were signing up for a reactionary economic project? asks Niall Ferguson in the Free Press.
- “Elon Musk’s silence is deafening as Trump wrecks his business” – America’s ‘first buddy’ will have to choose between being the ‘first buddy’ and his role as the CEO of Tesla, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The International Criminal Court is not doing its job” – The ICC should be prosecuting Hamas, not Benjamin Netanyahu, says Guglielmo Verdirame in the Telegraph.
- “Liverpool fans boo national anthem – as Newcastle try to drown them out” – Liverpool fans booed the national anthem before Sunday’s Carabao Cup final – a tradition rooted in the belief that the British establishment had abandoned their city, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Why can’t I get pregnant?’” – The Telegraph’s Michael Deacon discusses recent headlines claiming men can get pregnant, noting that the ‘men’ getting pregnant are actually biologically female.
- “‘We are building the world’s first family-centred economy’” – Hungary is taking decisive action to reverse declining birth rates by making the largest tax cut in the Western world, with mothers of two children or more exempt from income tax for life.
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Poland seems to be the new powerhouse of Europe.
This is a surprise:
Good, they worked for it, and deserve it.
Unfortunately the sowed the seeds of their own destruction by electing an EU fanatic as PM
Protests against pro-Russian leaders sweep Eastern Europe This is the process (it hasn’t changed since the collapse of the USSR): ‘The Soviet Union took a very long-term perspective on its influence activities. The former journalist and KGB propaganda expert Yuri Bezmenov described their four-step subversion process after he defected. First, there would be a long demoralization phase, taking subversive action against a society over a period of 15–20 years. Second, there would be a destabilization phase of two to five years, exploiting conflict lines in areas like the economy, law and order, the security apparatus, the media and so on. third phase, this would be escalated into a crisis where society would cease to function normally, creating the pretext for intervention and a regime change. Finally, there would be a normalization phase, solidifying the gains under Soviet control.’ These recent widespread protests confirm that this subversion process is incompetent ‘…how likely is it that an authoritarian, corrupt and dysfunctional country also has world-class secret services running high-end influence operations……Their effort is often not successful, even in places like the Baltic States…..Russian attempts to mobilize their diaspora there have largely failed because of a growing awareness of Russia’s real objectives, and… Read more »
But the protests are about more than that:
‘Those who cheat on their own nation should end up in the dustbin of history,” Mr Magyar, a former Orban ally, told the huge crowd. “Our time has come.”
Mr Magyar has pledged to create a stronger Europe, bring an end to what he views as an entrenched system of corruption….’
This is one of the forms of corruption that he is talking about:
‘In the late 1970s, the Czechoslovak critic of communism, Vaclav Havel, helped to develop another key piece of terminology, ‘post-totalitarianism’, to describe the contradictory world of European communism. In his essay The Power of the Powerless, he argued that post-totalitarianism was a form of totalitarianism where the powerful become subordinated to a blind, automatic instinct to preserve the system. This system had, however, become meaningless, and he explained communist totalitarianism had become ‘a world of appearances, a mere ritual, a formalised language deprived of semantic contact with reality and transformed into a system of ritual signs that replace reality with pseudo-reality.’
And that is the kind of totalitarianism that Blair has institutionalised in Britain……
“Protests against pro-Russian leaders sweep Eastern Europe / Large rallies took place in Hungary, Romania and Serbia” is the title of your cited Daily Telegraph (behind paywall) article.
You cite alleged (probably correct) KGB subversion phases: demoralization, subversive action, destabilization, intervention and regime change.
You are surely not so naive as to believe that Western intelligence has not learnt from such processes and applied them itself? Or maybe the Russians even originally learned these processes from CIA or MI6? Or maybe it is just something many governments do as a matter of course?
Are you not aware that recent Romanian election results were cancelled – just simply cancelled? Why did the EU cancel a democratic election result of one of its countries?
You are also certainly aware of the ‘Maidan Coup’, overturning another democratically elected parliament. How many US and EU politicians turned up to encourage the crowd there to demonstrate against that democratically elected government?
I once again recommend listening to Noam Chomsky on “The Crimes of U.S. Presidents”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc.
The West has been overthrowing governments for a long time and we continue to do so – a disgraceful state of affairs.
“Home Office U-turn on fine for couple’s bike-rack migrant”
Well, it certainly did seem another case of two-tier justice, since nobody has been fining the RNLI for bringing hundreds of immigrants in without checking their lifeboats.
I guess SCOTUS will kick this into the long grass.
“Labour dismantling education to appease unions, warns ex-Ofsted boss”
No more the old Jesuit saying, “Give me the child and I will show you the man…”
…But instead the new Bridget Phillistine saying, “Give me the child and I’ll show you the Party Manifesto, Stonewall and the 37 genders.”
..more likely the short workkng hours, long holidays, sickness days without question, and early pension…
The new Ofsted chief will love that Give me the child quote , 😵💫🤯
“Number of men becoming secondary teachers plummets to record low”
Therein Lads lies a problem…
https://twicefire.com/ritesofpassage/manhood/
“…Biddulph makes use of the metaphor of the “River of Masculinity”. The river here represents the handing on of wisdom from men to boys; the preparation that boys go through to join society as adults.
It represents the rites of passage, initiations, apprenticing and skill-sharing that tribes, or villages would go through to prepare male youth for sustaining the community. It flows like a river, from generation to generation, over the millennia.”
Pretty obvious, really – youths needs men in order to know what to aspire to.
“Home Office U-turn on fine for couple’s bike-rack migrant” It showed that the local MP did a good job – raised in the HoC as a question, not just a written note. Some might say that the Home Office didn’t want to encourage couples like that to turn a blind eye, given the MSM coverage of it all, rather than reporting it to the old bill.
Agree, that was one question that Starmer could not obfuscate in reply.
And literally, at the end of the day, the bike-rack stowaway is in this country and will have got his claim for asylum in.
“There are just three nations that Britain can truly trust. The US is not one of them” – We must form a solid alliance with Canada, New Zealand and Australia
I’ll trust decent Aussies, Kiwis and Lumberjacks, but the last people on earth I’d trust are followers of Trudeau, Carney, Ardern, Morrison and cronies.
I fully agree.
Thank goodness they are still democracies and can sack these people eventually.
I could be wrong but aren’t Canada, New Zealand and Australia already nations knee-deep in the machinations of the Five Eyes FVEY alliance?
Switching alliances because of liberal distaste for America’s POTUS is not sensible. The three nations mentioned are not comparable to the USA in any respect.
“Labour minister ‘rubbished’ dossier on lab leak theory during pandemic” – Lord Vallance is at the centre of an explosive row over claims he rubbished high-level intelligence pointing to Covid’s origins in a Chinese laboratory
Whatever Lord Sir Sir Vallance thinks, believe the opposite. Self-declared expert on virology, vaccines and climate claptrap who knows zilch, de nada, nothing.
Scroll down the comments section for insider verdicts, on how in a previous life Lord Sir Sir sluiced away 720 million bucks of GSK’s money, alongside the sidekick who later headed Operation Warp Speed…
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sirtris-compounds-worthless-really
“…And what, if this paper is at all accurate, did GSK buy with their $720 million?”
“Next time perhaps we shouldn’t shout down the pandemic pariahs” – What we sacrificed during the lockdown was an appetite for the truth, says Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
Says a newspaper that five years ago shouted down from the rooftops as loudly as the rest of the chattering classes.
Sell newspapers now, recant five years later.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14504613/Nigel-Farage-held-secret-talks-Dominic-Cummings-Reform-UK-replace-Tories-poll-shows-voters-half-seats-better-PM-Keir-Starmer.html
Hmm – he’s probably asking Cummings for recommendations where to get a good eye test. Farage is a great disappointment but he’s got form for that.
I was shocked to read about that. It seems Nigel was plotting even last year to do a deal with the Machiavellian Cummings, gloating over his success at ousting Boris, to drag Reform supporters by main force back into the Tory Party, so that Nige can be PM and get the knighthood he craves.
So much for his vow to destroy the Tory party completely, and thereby make a real change in British politics. Now it’s just same old, same old, “Bait & Switch”.
“The shocking rise of Albanian gangs who now control UK drug trade” Here are some apt comments from the public on this invasion: Locals in town set to have more asylum seekers than residents claim they have been ‘silenced’ for fear of facing a ‘woke backlash’ — “Have you noticed that these so called asylum seekers (mostly young men by the way) have been placed in places nearly all around Britain. Very much a take over, very much an invasion. The Trojan Horse and yet Ministers can not see it.” — “Oh THEY see it, all right. See, most of us think logically, and assume this is all a mistake. But it is NOT a mistake. This is a planned invasion. A definite take-over planned and orchestrated by those who want to force us into a global society. Our lands, our homes, our history, our cultures across the West are now being changed, re-written, stolen by squatters and thieves. All without firing a shot.” — “I suspect that a lot of these asylum seekers have military experience and know how to operate handguns and assault rifles. They will bide their time and then, when a supply chain of weapons and ammunition into the UK… Read more »
“Protests against pro-Russian leaders sweep Eastern Europe”
All stirred up by the GLOBALIST WARMONGERS like Starmer, who has just announced this:
Keir Starmer ready to send ‘thousands of UK troops to Ukraine for years’ to face down Putin – The Mirror
Here he is, flanked by two British Lions, the cossetted lawyer who never had to fight anyone in his life, now eager to send THOUSANDS OF WHITE MEN TO DIE in yet more foreign wars,
“FOR YEARS” !!!
FOR NOTHING !!!
No sooner does one pointless, decades-long foreign war end than the Bloodthirsty Globalist Filth start another one. Since Starmer likes dressing up in his Pretend Soldier Kit, give him a gun and send him ALONE to fight in Ukraine, since he is holding the post of PM ILLEGALLY, and has no right to send anyone to die anywhere.
Courtesy of Bob Moran (https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/paintings/world-stage-original-artwork):
… and Blue Tara.
Blue Tara? You mean the hideous type of Buddhist monster version of KaliAllah associated with death, corpses, skulls and blood???
Good find!