News Round-Up
- “The North Korean missile that exposed defenceless Ukraine” – Russia ihase fine-tuned projectiles from Pyongyang to make them accurate to an area of tens of metres, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump is repeating all the mistakes of appeasement, except it’s worse this time” – The US president is openly on Putin’s side, refusing to condemn the invasion and instead shifting all the blame onto Ukraine, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Kyiv mayor says Ukraine has to concede territory to achieve peace” – Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has warned President Zelensky that he’ll have to “give up territory” to Russia to achieve peace in Ukraine, according to the Mail.
- “Spare me the hand-wringing over Ukraine” – The great unbreakable rule is supposed to be that no country can change another nation’s borders or government by force, but since when has the United States recognised this rule? asks Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Mark Carney is about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory” – Canadians have been able to watch the Liberal leader up close during the election campaign. Many don’t like what they see, says Michael Taube in the Telegraph.
- “The jaded English town where Nigel Farage could hammer Labour” – Westminster is champing at the bit to see if Reform UK wins a crucial by-election against Labour next week, but the locals are indifferent, reports Politico.
- “Reform set to win two mayoral elections” – Reform UK is on course to win the mayoralties of Greater Lincolnshire and Hull and East Yorkshire, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch says there’ll be no Tory-Reform deal” – The Tory leader continues to face questions about a potential pact with Nigel Farage’s outfit, who are consistently outperforming the Conservatives in the polls, reports the Mail. But the lady’s not for turning.
- “Stop running Robert, you’ll kill the Tories” – Robert Jenrick’s actions have the hallmarks of a tilt at power but his party is one leadership challenge from oblivion, writes Fraser Nelson in the Times. He should get back in his box.
- “That sound you can hear from DC? It’s Reeves shooting herself in the foot” – The Chancellor risks making a costly mistake if she prioritises trade with the EU over a US trade deal, says Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “Yvette Cooper considers ‘one in one out’ EU youth mobility scheme” – The Home Secretary is considering several options which would allow British and European young people to work and study across the Continent, reports the Times.
- “Germany ‘optimistic’ over deal to allow young EU migrants to UK” – The Youth mobility scheme could signal a “good direction” for both countries amid trade reset, according to the Telegraph.
- “Teenage boys allowed on girls’ hospital wards under NHS gender rules” – Trusts in every region of England are letting children choose facilities based on their ‘self-defined’ gender identity in spite of the Supreme Court judgment, reports the Telegraph.
- “JK Rowling blasts India Willoughby for Wayne Couzens tweet” – The Harry Potter author has condemned India Willoughby’s attack on the Supreme Court’s judgment in which she said it would be welcomed by Wayne Couzens, the convicted rapist and murder, according to the Mail.
- “SNP lands taxpayers with ‘staggering’ rise in lawyer costs amid court defeats” – The Scottish Government has disclosed its extravagant spending on in-house lawyers during its fight against For Women Scotland and other feminist campaigners, which amounted to nearly £17m in 2023-24, says the Telegraph.
- “Financial censorship in Canada?” – In the Critic, Josephine Bartosch writes about the debanking of Meghan Murphy, a candidate for the People’s Party of Canada in the forthcoming federal election.
- “Good Law Project launches legal challenge to Supreme Court trans ruling and says it will lose” – Jolyon Maugham has not been able to contain himself since the Supreme Court ruled that biological sex trumps ‘gender identity’ in the Equality Act and has launched a crowdfunder to raise money to challenge it, even though he concedes the challenge will probably fail, says Guido Fawkes.
- “The glorious failures of Jolyon Maugham” – The fox-killing, case-losing KC continues to beclown himself with his embrace of trans idiocy, according to Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “America’s electric car crash is over. Europe has finally noticed” – Trump’s reversal of the Biden-era EV mandates is putting huge pressure on the UK and the EU to follow suit, reports the Telegraph.
- “Wood-burning stoves will be allowed in new homes” – Wood-burning stoves will be allowed in new-build homes across England, the Government has confirmed, says the Mail. So much for concerns over their impact on air pollution and carbon emission.
- “Rachel Reeves: We’ll rip out ‘insane’ environment rules that block growth” – The chancellor has told the IMF that “well-meaning” regulations have gone too far and are hindering the construction of windfarms, houses and railways, according to the Times.
- “‘Bring on the fight’, Miliband tells net zero critics” – The Energy Secretary has hit back after a US delegation has claimed that staunch climate policies “harm lives”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Greens aren’t cuddly environmentalists. They are Corbynistas on steroids” – Disillusioned Tories should beware of voting for a party with so many deranged policies and extremists in their midst, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Labour donor applauds Kneecap after taxpayer-funded band praised Hamas” – Dale Vince, the green energy tycoon, offers message of support to the controversial, Hamas-supporting band, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ireland’s anti-Semitism laces ignorance with self-righteousness” – The vitriol of Belfast’s Bafta-winning band Kneecap is typical of Ireland’s virulent Jew hatred, writes George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Topless trans protesters claim climate change hits them hardest” – Three women are arrested as trans activists blockade a US air force base in Suffolk, says the Telegraph.
- “Tory peer backs total nicotine ban” – The generational smoking ban is (slowly) making its way through parliament, as part of Labour’s plan to ban nicotine purchases for anyone born after 1 January 2009 – and some Tories in the Lords, such as Lord Bethel, are supporting it, according to Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Workless youths won’t get out of bed for less than £40k, Lords told” – Workless youths who are “on the internet 24 hours a day” won’t get out of bed for a salary of less than £40,000, a Lords committee was told by an expert witness, reports the Telegraph.
- “Young people are right not to get out of bed for less than £40k” – For today’s 16-to-24 year-olds, work just doesn’t pay. In fact, sleeping in looks increasingly tempting, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Laurence Fox denies sharing upskirting photo of TV star Narinder Kaur” – The actor and activist appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court on two charges under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, according to the Times.
- “Ex-wife of top free speech academic ‘stole £12,000 from firm”” – Cynthia Tooley, 42, who is going through a “toxic” divorce from James Tooley, 65, the Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham, is accused of stealing £21,000 from a cosmetic firm she worked for set up by Ian Clayton-Smith, 70, whom she dated, reports the Mail.
- “The welcome fall of Klaus Schwab” – Hubris has a way of catching up to people – and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, writes Samuel Gregg in the Spectator.
- “The hypocrisy of Virgin Atlantic’s flights to Saudi Arabia” – This Virgin-Saudi deal takes the baklava. You will search in vain for any of that woke Western waffle in their bumf for this enterprise, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Telegraph ownership saga prompts High Court threat to Lisa Nandy” – The Free Speech Union has written to the Culture Secretary over her mishandling of an attempted takeover of the Telegraph Media Group by Abu Dhabi, according to Chris Williams in the Telegraph.
- “I don’t think I’m the only member of this House who thinks that future will be pretty bleak if it doesn’t include the Telegraph” – Watch my speech in the House of Lords yesterday in which I criticised Lisa Nandy for failing to put pressure on RedBirdIMI to sell the Telegraph.
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https://truthsummit.substack.com/p/live-reiner-sentenced-3-years-9-months?triedRedirect=true
Reiner Fuellmich sentenced:
“Reiner has been sentenced to 3 years and 9 months, minus one year and one month of time already spent in prison, with 5 months of the time spent in prison not to be counted as the court held that the trial had been deliberately and needlessly prolonged. So prison time is to be 2 years and 8 months. Plus Reiner is to pay back the 700,000 Euros that were not put into his account – which is the reason he could not pay back.”
Talk about injustice. That poor man.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/remember-you-are-english/
Remember you are English.
Painful yet moving and inspiring.
Yes, it dammed well is worth reading in full.
“Mark Carney is about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”
Oh, I do hope so…
Oh, yes please.
“The welcome fall of Klaus Schwab”
There will be another one pop-up to take his place.
There is, some ex boss of Nestle, looks to be made of plastic, with a rug
His most famous line…
“Nobody has the right for access to water”
“Trump is repeating all the mistakes of appeasement, except it’s worse this time”
Charles’s TDS seems to be getting worse. Trump has flexed his power to try and get the two protagonists talking, to stop the war, the bloodshed, and try to find a way of being at peace. It is not in his gift to ‘end the war’. Zelensky spat it back in The Dons face and Putin has cocked a deaf ear. Nothing left for The Don but to wash his hands of them both.
It is not in President Zelensky’s gift to end the war on the terms suggested. Only the Ukrainian people can give away Crimea via a referendum, according to the Ukrainian constitution. A referendum can only be held after a ceasefire. A genuine ceasefire will, first, permit a Presidential election. President Zelensky may not even stand for re-election…….. ‘Russia, through its 2014 invasion of Ukraine and its attempted annexation of Crimea, sought to undermine a bedrock international principle shared by democratic states: that no country can change the borders of another by force. The states of the world, including Russia, agreed to this principle in the United Nations Charter, pledging to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. This fundamental principle – which was reaffirmed in the Helsinki Final Act – constitutes one of the foundations upon which our shared security and safety rests. As we did in the Welles Declaration in 1940, the United States reaffirms as policy its refusal to recognize the Kremlin’s claims of sovereignty over territory seized by force in contravention of international law. In concert with allies, partners, and the international community, the United States… Read more »
Fine talk from a country where only multi-millionaires can become President, from a country renowned for numerous invasions and regime changes all over the world, for supporting dictatorships, napalm bombing campaigns, massive and illegal supply of weapons to war zones, support of genocide and so on. It would be interesting to calculate how many millions of the world’s populations have been killed directly or indirectly by US bellicosity and sanctions since WWII.
Indeed.
“Only the Ukrainian people can give away Crimea via a referendum, according to the Ukrainian constitution.”
The Ukraine is only marginally worse than the UK in its disregard for the law, human rights and political convention so this comment is beyond naïve.
‘The debate over Ukrainian elections reflects the challenging wartime realities in the partially occupied country. Ukraine was scheduled to hold presidential and parliamentary votes in 2024 but was forced to postpone both ballots as the Ukrainian Constitution does not allow national elections during martial law, which was introduced in 2022 and remains in place.
Zelenskyy has vowed to hold elections as soon as the security situation allows, but argues that it would be impossible to stage free and fair votes in the current circumstances. The majority of Ukrainians appear to agree.
Two of Zelenskyy’s main political rivals, Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, have publicly rejected the idea of wartime elections as impractical and illegitimate. Ukraine’s vibrant civil society has also voiced its opposition to the return of elections before a peace agreement has been signed. Meanwhile, a new opinion poll conducted in February 2025 found that 63 percent of Ukrainians are against holding any national votes until the war with Russia is over.’
Friday Morning
Crowmarsh Gifford & Crowmarsh Hill Wallingford
That’s powerful 👏
I notice from the polls that Reform seem to be taking votes from Labour but not from the Fake Conservatives. Badenoch certainly talks a better fight than Sunak (low bar though) and has bigger balls (again a low bar) but FFS are these the same people who voted for Sunak’s shower at the last election? The excuse that Reform are not a credible threat does not wash. What do the Fake Conservatives have to do for people to stop voting for them? I can only conclude that millions who support them are basically Socialists.
Anybody voting Uniparty is an idiot, full stop, intelligent or otherwise as discussed on here more than once.
Spare me the hand-wringing over Ukraine
Another Aunt Sally……
‘Hand wringing’?
The real problem is that there hasn’t been any genuine hand wringing by governments outside Ukraine despite security assurances signed up to in 1994. What there has been is supine acceptance in 2014 and grudging, just in time, subsidy since 2022.
What voters have seen, certainly in this country, is politicians, as usual, willing the mission but not the means.
Peacekeepers? We don’t even have the means to protect our own borders.
Elsewhere, the U.S. has made its own strategy clear, to weaken Russia; an outstanding success.
And the U.S. is now intent on exploiting that success by manipulating a stricken Russia once more into commercial deals that are not necessarily in the best interests of the people of Russia.
America is not a country, its a business….and businesses don’t do genuine ‘hand wringing’,………
The mendacity, duplicity on display from governments across the world is as nothing to the flagrant dishonesty that we will witness as Russia subverts Moldova and seizes the Suwalki corridor…..but that is probably a decade down the line for now. Moldova, the Baltic States, Poland, will all be sold down the river……. ‘Don’t speak only the language of sanctions and ultimatums. Learn to speak their language — not to excuse, but to understand what they are saying. Not to forgive, but to prepare for what comes next. That doesn’t mean becoming a Putinversteher — German shorthand for those who rationalize Putin’s actions under the guise of understanding. It means recognizing the system for what it is and the people inside it for who they actually are and what they might become.’ ‘From day one, we were taught that Russia is and must remain a derzhava— a “great power.” Not just one country among many, but a pole in a multipolar world. A country destined to challenge the West. That belief — fused with resentment, imperial nostalgia, and a constant sense of grievance — forms the backbone of Russian diplomacy.’ ‘At MGIMO, we were taught to cite international law while violating its spirit, to… Read more »
And how does this position differ from that of the USA.
‘All Russia’s international negotiations had a single goal: to increase the mother country’s power. This meant pursuing wars that were advantageous, while insisting to the outside world that we sought peace in the face of violence and treachery. But be in no doubt: Putin believes it totally.’
Inna Bondarenko, Graduate, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
‘When Russia launched its attack on Ukraine, people who could be described as “Putinversteher” — including prominent German politicians and talk show pundits — would for example point out that NATO’s eastward expansion should be understood as a real threat to Russia, or would compare the invasion of Ukraine to the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq, which was another illegal war.
heir attitude towards President Putin and the way he is leading Russia might involve some sort of “Yes, but you have to understand Putin’s position.”
Also widespread among “Putinversteher” is a strategy widely known as “whataboutism,” or deflecting criticism of Russia by pointing to different abuses committed in the West.’
The North Korean missile that exposed defenceless Ukraine
‘For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind’
Churchill, Coventry, 1940
And what does that mean?
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Yes but what does it mean. That Ukraine will rebound like Britain did and Germany suffered as a consequence? Whoops.
Russia is believed to have fine-tuned projectiles from Pyongyang to make them accurate to an area of tens of metres.
So what? Simple conjecture which is either true or false. And how many weapons from how many countries are being fired by Ukraine (including with hands-on assistance from NATO forces) at Russian targets – both military and civil?
Western propaganda is a great source of hypocritical outrage.
So presumably the NK missiles weren’t that good to start with and needed Russian expertise to turn them into a fearsome weapon. Just like they did converting gravity bombs to glide bomps, souped up the Iranian drones to Geran, and are now using fibre optic drones which are immune to electronic countermeasures.
Does anyone remember when Javelin anti-tank systems were going to have the Russians on their knees?
To be born an Englishman is to have won first prize in the lottery of life.
‘Germans reported a significant drop in overall satisfaction between 2013 and 2022. As of last year, they had self-reported the second lowest score overall among 29 countries for which there was data.
Only Bulgarians reported lower scores of satisfaction with life, 5.6, the difference being that Bulgaria had experienced a shift upwards from 4.8 in 2013.’
Labour will prioritise trade with the EU over the US but it won’t be a mistake. It will be policy.
It’s you who needs to get back into your box, Frazer- signs of early onset dementia
Good grief, these people are beyond annoying. Since when did people have the right to protest *inside* a supermarket in the UK? The manager is obviously a ‘free speech absolutist’;
https://x.com/NoContextHumans/status/1915952499707596965
Yes, I saw this a week or two back. Whatever position the staff member holds he should be sacked. Doesn’t this idiot realise that without customers he is without a job – a point I have made in shops and stores more than once.
I’d be giving him a piece of my mind then walking out and taking my business to a rival supermarket that actually wants my custom. They can do all these sorts of demos in town centres and exercise their right to free speech there, without being given permission to inconvenience customers like this. Bloody ridiculous.
100% 👍👍👍
I’m an absolutist but I don’t believe in a right to stage protests on private property and anyway this is action (obstruction) not speech. Deliberate obstruction is not excused by “protest” and I support the vigorous moving on of obstructors by force if necessary.
“Spare me the hand-wringing over Ukraine” says Peter Hitchens.
— Um, remember when the British People in Britain voted for Brexit in a referendum in 2016, deciding to BREAK AWAY FROM THE EU?
— And remember when the Ukrainian People in the Crimea voted in a referendum in 2014, deciding to BREAK AWAY FROM UKRAINE?
— And remember when the Irish People in Northern Ireland voted in a referendum in 1973, deciding to BREAK AWAY FROM IRELAND, just as they also did 100 years ago in 1921?
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— So are we expecting other countries the world to give the EU £millions in order to VIOLATE & OVERTURN our democratic decision? NO.
— And are we expecting other countries of the world to give Southern Ireland £millions in order to VIOLATE & OVERTURN the North’s democratic decision? NO.
— So why in blazes are we expected to join other countries of the world to give Ukraine £millions in order to VIOLATE & OVERTURN the Crimea’s democratic decision?
‘On 27 March 2014, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in which it stated that the referendum in Crimea was not valid and could not serve as a basis for any change in the status of the peninsula. On 17 December 2018, the UN General Assembly confirmed its non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea. The EU’s policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol includes a set of restrictive measures against entities and individuals responsible for actions against Ukraine’s territorial integrity. In March 2019, on the fifth anniversary of Crimea’s annexation, the EU reiterated its position of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol.’ ‘The supposed ‘expression of the people’s will’ and the motley crowd of far-right, neo-Nazi or extreme left-wing politicians who were invited to oversee it……The team was led by Mateusz Piskorski. He once had links with the Polish far-right, but his main focus, and that of the new Zmiana Party which he headed early in 2015 seems to be an aggressively pro-Russian position on everything, including Ukraine. Piskorski himself has for years now faithfully served as a mouthpiece in support of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, with this including rubber stamping Russia’s ‘electoral’ stunts in, for example St. Petersburg, Moldova, Crimea… Read more »
‘Cite international law while violating its spirit, to defend norms while dismantling them and to speak of peace while justifying and waging wars. Georgia. Syria. Ukraine. These weren’t deviations. We deployed whichever claim of “Territorial integrity” or “self-determination” suited the day’s talking point. This is Russian anti-normism in action.’
Inna Bondarenko, Graduate, MGIMO, Russia’s elite diplomatic academy