News Round-Up
- “Britain agrees to ‘Eurostar’ border controls for Gibraltar” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of surrendering Gibraltar after striking a deal that allows Spain to check passports on the Rock, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer is teeing up Gibraltar for another great overseas betrayal” – Handing over Gibraltar’s border security to Spain is a fundamentally anti-democratic gesture, says Samuel Ramani in the Telegraph.
- “The world is laughing at Britain, and only Starmer hasn’t noticed” – In the Telegraph, Robert Taylor savages Starmer for handing £30 billion and the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while voters face tax hikes and broken promises at home.
- “Irish fury over asylum crisis: thousands attend anti-migrant protests” – In the Mail, Elena Salvoni reports on a rising tide of Irish resentment over surging asylum seekers.
- “Centre ‘being used as emergency accommodation for immigrants’ on fire” – A leisure centre used as an emergency centre for families has been set on fire during a third night of violence in Northern Ireland, reports the Mail.
- “What caused the Ballymena riots?” – The violence in Ballymena points to another British community that feels powerless to protect its children, uphold its way of life or retain its identity, in the face of changes that have been forced upon it, writes Owen Polley in the Spectator.
- “It’s no surprise that Prevent has gone to the dogs” – Of the 6,817 people referred to Prevent in the year ending March 31st 2023, just 11% were suspected of Islamist extremism, notes Toby in the Spectator.
- “Love Western culture? You’re a terrorist” – On the Restoration Substack, Connor Tomlinson reveals how the UK Home Office’s branding of “cultural nationalism” as Right-wing terrorism has sparked US State Department outrage.
- “Fears of rise in tent cities as rough sleeping is decriminalised” – Rough sleeping is to be decriminalised by Spring next year under radical plans by Labour to stop people becoming homeless in the first place, reports the Mail.
- “Outrage as pensioner is ‘kicked out of her home by foreign squatters’” – Squatters seized the London home of a frail pensioner while she was visiting a friend, triggering an “absurd” two-month legal battle to have them removed, reports the Mail.
- “Council tax set to rise to fund police” – Council tax will increase to fund policing after Rachel Reeves announced a 2.2% cut to the Home Office budget in her spending review, says GB News.
- “Sadiq Khan swipes that Rachel Reeves risks ‘levelling down London’” – Sadiq Khan says that he is “disappointed” that the Chancellor’s review has not committed to any new infrastructure in the capital, according to the Mail.
- “Khan takes a pop at Reeves over spending review” – There were always going to be winners and losers in Chancellor Reeves’s spending review and it appears that Sadiq Khan’s London has pulled the short straw, writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “It is now too late for Britain to avoid financial Armageddon” – Rachel Reeves is the Chancellor that lazy, feckless Britain deserves, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “The markets won’t be fooled by Rachel Reeves again” – The Chancellor has no credibility left and interest rates will keep rising, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves’s spending review is a recipe for trouble” – Britain is heading for a very deep fiscal crisis, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Rachel Reeves may have just killed Nato” – In the Telegraph, Ben Wallace warns that Rachel Reeves’s reclassification of spending as defence disguises a failure to properly fund the military.
- “Starmer and Farage have doomed Britain to an endless spiral of decline” – Our inability to cut entitlement spending to people who don’t need it illustrates why we are in a terrible state, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
- “Reform was meant to be the party you can trust on immigration. So what on earth is going on?” – It’s one thing to move Left on welfare, but quite another for the new chairman to parrot smug clichés about multiculturalism, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Reform’s Zia Yusuf to stand as MP” – Zia Yusuf has rejoined Reform UK and plans to stand in the next by-election where the party has a realistic chance of winning, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sizewell C looks like an expensive mistake” – In UnHerd, David Rose argues that pouring another £14 billion into the troubled Sizewell C project is less a “golden age” for nuclear energy than a costly gamble on outdated, over-budget tech.
- “Miliband has got his nuclear plans wrong. Here’s what we should do” – We need more than romantic notions of golden ages if we’re to keep the lights on, says Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
- “Oxford council want to impose £5 congestion charge on every car” – In what critics call the latest strike in its “war on motorists”, Oxford is set to become the first city in over 20 years to bring in a congestion charge, reports the Mail.
- “‘More wind farms in the South’ under Miliband’s regional energy blueprint” – Plans to overhaul Britain’s energy market are set to prompt a surge in the number of wind farms in the South of England, says the Telegraph.
- “SNP’s new Net Zero wind farm ‘will harm golden eagles’” – Ministers are being urged to block an eight-turbine scheme in the Scottish Borders after conservationists warned it is likely to harm rare golden eagles, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Conversation’s Greenland ice melt hype: history and data say otherwise” – On WUWT?, Anthony Watts blasts the Conversation’s Greenland ice meltdown hype as alarmism, showing that the data reflect natural cycles and seasonal melt – not an apocalyptic climate crisis.
- “David Frost is wrong about the Elgin Marbles” – Daniel Hannan argues in the Telegraph that the Parthenon friezes were legitimately acquired. If Greece wants them back, it must pay the market rate.
- “US demands Britain drops sanctions on Israel ministers” – The US has demanded Britain drops sanctions on Israeli ministers for “inciting violence” against Palestinians, reports the Mail.
- “PA President says Hamas must exit Gaza” – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for Hamas to “hand over its weapons”, immediately free all hostages and cease ruling Gaza, says the Times of Israel.
- “Greta Thunberg’s reaction when asked about group member’s Hamas links” – Greta Thunberg says that she was not aware that some of those involved in the “freedom flotilla” voyage had previously shown support for Hamas and Hezbollah, according to the Mail.
- “No, Nato: Brits had not ‘better learn to speak Russian’” – The real threat from Russia lies less in direct military action and more in its ‘hybrid war’ tools of subversion and division, says Mark Galeotti in the Spectator.
- “Russia planning attack on NATO as a test, says Germany spy chief” – Germany’s spy chief has warned that Vladimir Putin is plotting an attack on NATO territory to test the Western alliance’s mutual assistance clause, reports the Mail.
- “Donald Tusk has found his own ‘special place in hell’” – Despite surviving a vote of confidence, Polish PM Donald Tusk now faces years of being hobbled by a new veto-wielding opposition president, writes James Crisp in the Telegraph.
- “US immigration protests spread nationwide as National Guard sent to other cities” – Days of protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration measures have sparked demonstrations across the country, reports Axios.
- “Will the LA immigration riots reach Europe?” – The anti-ICE protestors in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the US are in the minority, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Los Angeles has fallen” – How can riot-rocked LA be trusted to host the Olympics? asks Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “French drivers sue Tesla over claim Musk made cars ‘extreme-Right’ symbols” – Tesla owners in France have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, claiming the tech mogul has turned the cars into symbols of the “extreme-Right”, according to LBC.
- “Elon Musk admits posts attacking Donald Trump ‘went too far’” – Elon Musk has admitted regretting some of his posts about Donald Trump last week, reports the Mail.
- “US-China trade deal is done, says Trump” – Donald Trump says that the US has struck a trade deal with China following 48 hours of talks between the two countries, according to LBC.
- “Hongkongers warned not to download mobile game ‘promoting secessionist agenda’” – Hong Kong police have warned residents against downloading a mobile game advocating Hong Kong and Taiwanese independence or risk breaking national security laws, reports the SCMP.
- “The new slate of ACIP members” – The new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices signal a hopeful shift towards restoring public trust in immunisation policy, writes Dr Meryl Nass on her Substack.
- “Unraveling autism’s surge” – On Substack, Dr Robert W. Malone pins the surge in autism on genetics, societal changes and possible vaccine links.
- “Green politician expelled over ‘harmful’ gender critical views” – Norfolk councillor and parliamentary candidate Dr Pallavi Devulapalli has accused the Green Party of acting “like a cult” after it expelled her for raising concerns about trans ideology, according to the Eastern Daily Press.
- “Academics lose discrimination case over trans-critical film” – Two academics have failed in their attempt to sue their union for stopping their trans-critical film from being shown to students at the University of Edinburgh, reports the Telegraph.
- “Only 7% of ethnic minority Britons have ever used the term ‘global majority’” – Just 7% of ethnic minority Britons have ever used the term “global majority”, with most preferring “ethnic minorities” or “BAME”, according to YouGov.
- “There’s no such thing as the ‘global majority’” – Ethnic-minority groups are right to reject the latest activist jargon, says Benedict Spence in Spiked.
- “Ed Sheeran identifies as Irish despite being born and raised in England” – Ed Sheeran has sparked an outcry after revealing he identifies “culturally as Irish” despite being born and raised in England, reports the Mail.
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Tuesday
Wednesday Morning White Hill & Wargrave Road Remenham Henley-on-Thames
”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, seems appropriate nowadays. But unlike throughout history, what we’re seeing now is the rise of the ‘traitor class’ and a significant number of native useful idiots who are an integral part of the replacement project which is happening across most of Europe and the West; ”It’s one thing for a nation to have competing powers within the existing framework (think: Democrats and Republicans), but it’s another thing altogether if the competing power wants to split off a quarter of the nation or wants to impose Sharia law. Recent events have demonstrated exactly how deep the problems are. Across Europe over the last two years, there have been giant pro-Hamas demonstrations, some of which devolved into violence. Across the United States, Donald Trump’s attempt to begin to ramp up deportations has been met with violence against ICE agents, and in California, it devolved into riots with law enforcement members being pelted with rocks, bottles, and various incendiaries while cars were set afire, stores looted, and the LAPD headquarters attacked. Of course, demonstrations and riots happen in any country, but when they are symbols of a bigger fissure, that’s a problem. In… Read more »
What we’re seeing in LA would not be possible without the traitor class and their army of useful idiots. All of these people rioting are not of foreign descent, and then there’s treasonous organ grinders like Gavin Newsom; ”There it is: a violent repudiation, on American soil, of American sovereignty, American law, and America itself. That, and the assertion of the primacy—again, on American soil—of a foreign culture and its state. You would have to be blind not to see it. But people are blind. In our conversation, Camus said the reason he first got in trouble, and was cast out of the left-wing literary world of Paris, is because he noticed what no respectable person is supposed to notice today: namely, the displacement of native peoples and their traditions by foreigners. Camus had made clear that the “great replacement” of the natives has occurred because the elites of these nations have long engaged in what he calls the “great deculturation”—that is, the systematic devaluing of what is our own. If the peoples of the West knew what they had, and loved it, they would have defended it. But most of them do not. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is one… Read more »
I think this is an informative, well-reasoned ( 4min ) video by Miriam Cates about the proposed abortion legislation which must not be allowed to go through;
”Next week, MPs will vote on extreme proposals that would allow abortion up to birth in Britain.
Such a move would be deeply unpopular, but most people—including MPs—are completely unaware of how the tactics of the pro-abortion lobby have brought us to this point.
This video explains why we are on the verge of removing all protections for unborn babies—and what you can do to stop it.
Please watch, share and write to your MP. ”
https://x.com/miriam_cates/status/1932845709687943585
You can’t help suspecting that there are quite a few women out there who actually think abortion is actually a wonderful thing that should be encouraged and promoted.
I really don’t know what to say any more. This, above all, is for me a sign of how deep we have fallen. The abomination of desolation.
Undoubtedly there are. And this is another reason why I’d very much like to see these 130 MPs, who are supportive of such an abhorrent change to the legislation, publicly named. I cannot fathom what goes on somebody’s head for them to be onboard with this proposal. As a realist, not an idealist, I am pro-choice, as previously mentioned, because I don’t look at at any situation as ‘cut and dried’, as there are many different circumstances and nuances to consider for each individual case in reality. My view on assisted dying/euthanasia is another example of this. Personally, I’d prefer the abortion limit to come down to 12 weeks max. Speaking more generally, I think this topic, likewise the subject of ‘transing’ kids, is just further evidence that it’s naive and foolish to deal in stereotypes. Gender stereotypes, in these scenarios. Aren’t women theoretically supposed to be the ‘caring and nurturing’ sex? How much more evidence to the contrary do we need? There is not one single personality trait or even crime which is sex-specific. A quick search on the internet will show you all the females who have been found guilty of child abuse, murder and neglect of kids,… Read more »
Oh, I totally agree, the idea that all women are compassionate, caring, empathetic creatures whereas men in general are cruel, violent bullies is just propaganda.
It is true that men are more prone to physical violence, that is statistically proven and we all see it in action. Yet, in my experience, a fight with a man is about dominance: once the hierarchy is established, the fight is over. Women, in contrast, are more prone to committing psychological torture.
When it comes to abortion, I’m not going to deny that I am against it, except in rare objectively justifiable medical reasons (serious life threatening problems.) I would not ban it because that would just make it go underground. But at least let’s be honest about it: it is the killing of an unborn baby. Let’s not cover it up with “oh, it’s a fetus, a clump of tissue”.
We agree to disagree, somewhat, on the abortion topic. Meanwhile, although I try not to make assumptions, it’s surely an observation made also by others that people onboard with one specific agenda are very likely to also be supportive of most, if not all, the government-backed/globalist-pushed agendas. This is that Labour MP, Tonia Antoniazzi again. How much you betting she’s of the ”refugees welcome” camp, was pro-lockdown and has had several death jabs? There’s a type and she’s definitely the ‘type’. Probably the type that thinks men can have babies and women can have penises; ”The Labour MP pushing to legalise abortion right up to birth: Tonia Antoniazzi, the MP for Gower, has tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would decriminalise abortion at any stage, so long as it’s the woman herself taking the action—even in the final days of pregnancy. In an interview with The Times yesterday, she discussed the proposal while laughing midway through… During a conversation that involved the hypothetical killing of a viable, full-term baby… She also suggested the Catholic faith was “propaganda” (doubtful she’d say this about other religions…) It might come as little surprise that Antoniazzi also backs radical transgender… Read more »
As I said, I no longer know what to say, apart from “the abomination of desolation”.
Following this woman’s logic, if abortion is acceptable at any stage, why stop there?
How about after birth? Maybe for a few days?
You have raised some very important points about the Propaganda on Domestic Violence. My eyes were opened many years ago by a book called “Not Guilty: In Defence of the Modern Man” by Oxford journalist David Thomas:
“A rebuttal of feminist charges against men discusses such issues as child sexual abuse, the sexual harassment of males, husband battering, and the presupposition of men’s guilt.”
Normal, decent men will feel instinctively protective towards women and children.
When the Titanic sank, 75% of women survived but only 20% of men.
A normal, decent man will take it for granted that women and children get in the lifeboats first.
Obviously there are exceptions. I don’t doubt that there is domestic violence. I don’t doubt that some children get abused.
But even as a boy, I remember there was an unsaid rule: no physical fighting with girls. If you win – you will be considered a despicable bully. If you lose, you will be a pathetic wimp. (Verbal exchanges were OK but mostly won by the girls, so not worth it.)
But in my view, it was WRONG of those men to sacrifice their lives for the women, especially since there were reportedly plenty of empty spaces left in the lifeboats after all the women who wanted to got in. It’s also WRONG for women to stand outside a burning house screaming “Save my children!” until some poor noble-hearted man runs in to save them and dies himself. Is the woman grateful to him? No, I don’t think so, because she thinks only of herself first, which is why she ran out of her burning house without them. I also think it is WRONG to train boys from infancy to “never hit a woman”. This should be changed to: “Never hit a woman, unless she hits you first! She won’t do it again.” I remember an old work colleague decades ago telling me how his tiny female partner was such a relentless, nagging shrew that one day he just couldn’t stand it anymore, and swung his arm out to knock her across the room, and she landed behind the sofa. She rose up staring at him in amazement, and asked, “How did you do that?” She treated him with more respect… Read more »
Hamas murdered their fellow citizens, Gazan aid workers, and possibly took some hostage. To the resident terrorist-supporters: what is the moral of this story? What kind of spin will you put on this to make it Israel’s fault and absolve your heroic ‘freedom fighters’ of all responsibility?
”The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said Wednesday that Hamas operatives attacked a bus transporting its local Gazan staffers, killing at least five, injuring others and potentially taking some hostage.
The bus was ferrying the staffers to one of GHF’s aid distribution sites near the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Younis at around 10 p.m. on Wednesday when it came under attack, a GHF statement said.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-aid-group-says-hamas-killed-at-least-5-local-staffers-possibly-abducted-others/
Here is the statement from the GHF;
”Nothing says hypocrisy and destroys the entire fake outrage narrative of the pro Hamas movement, the anti Israel media and the UN like the total silence and failure to condemn or even say anything about the fact that Hamas have just murdered 5 actual aid workers in Gaza in cold premeditated blood.
Everything… every word they’ve ever said condemning Israel is worth absolutely zero.”
https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1933038895593054445
What kind of spin will you put on this …? Firstly, you are quoting Israeli sources. Secondly, whether a bus was attacked and whether it was attacked by Hamas or others, I have no idea. There is no question, however, that Israel has been repeatedly murdering at will, all the time, across Gaza. Thirdly, according to numerous sources (including one I cited recently in answer to one of your posts), the whole GHF has been founded to, firstly, lure starving Palestinians into southern Gaza to eventually forcefully remove them and, secondly, to lure the same Palestinians into murder traps, where they are simply mass-murdered while queuing up to collect food. Here is one report on how the GHF was set up. UNRWA was the original organization that faithfully delivered food to the concentration camp of Gaza and was trusted and respected by the grateful Palestinians. Of course, the Israeli nonsensical reports that somehow UNRWA was undermined by Hamas were faithfully repeated and amplified (as Israel desired) by our subservient mainstream media. But GHF is another story and there will be good reasons why its CEO resigned before it was recently set up as another death trap for Palestinians. Here, again,… Read more »
People really need to understand that the state is basically a protection racket. We do what the state tells us, the state protects us in exchange. You might not be happy with what you get back in the form of protection for what you are forced to give. But that’s the deal.
Terrorism is anything that undermines the state’s protection racket with the purpose of pressuring the state to do something.
It should be really clear by now that any attempt to pressure the government and its bureaucracy, be it through protests, stirring things up online and of course acts of violence is going to be considered terrorism.
And the state can play favourites at any time with whoever it wants. If it wants to give special extra protection to black people, or immigrants, or asylum seekers, or gay people, or trans, that’s for the state to decide. And any attempt to change the state’s priorities or favourites by coercion is going to be deemed terrorism.
That’s the deal, folks. If you don’t like it…. you don’t have anywhere to go because you are powerless and we live in an anarchic system where power dictates. Suck it up.
“Miliband has got his nuclear plans wrong. Here’s what we should do”
Use lots of self produced coal, gas and steel to plug the time gap it takes to bring 1 nuclear facility on line!
If Sizewell C is anything to go by, the gap will be quite a bit longer
Something else related to nuclear plans that emerged from coverage of the spending review was that of using Rolls-Royce SMR reactors at some of the sites with redundant old nuclear stations, such as Oldbury. A quick search of these outline plans reveals that it is not a new idea, but has been mulled around by previous chancellors in the previous government.
Yes that’s been thought about for years – the idea being the sites will usually have access to lots of water for cooling, possibly still remaining grid connections + be on or near existing secure sites… naturally this would be too sensible for governments to actually *do* though!
“French drivers sue Tesla over claim Musk made cars ‘extreme-Right’ symbols”
As Hitler made VW beetle into extreme left symbols? Happy to drive those aren’t you?
This YT entry came to light recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8z_wKF83kw&list=WL&index=2 “The John Campbell story”. It’s almost 40 minutes, and is presented as a conversation with Neil Oliver & Tim Kelly. The story being about JC changed his mind during the panic a few years ago.
Well OF COURSE they reject it !!!
Because it REMOVES THEIR ETERNAL VICTIMHOOD STATUS,
which has been so extremely profitable to them all,
and THEY WANT TO KEEP BLAMING the WHITE MAN for their own failures,
while driving him to EXTINCTION.
I suspect/hope that some of them reject it because they don’t want to be lumped in with hundreds of races that are nothing to do with their race, many of whom they probably feel pretty racist towards.
No.
“Ed Sheeran identifies as Irish despite being born and raised in England”
Ed Sheeran is completely right to point out the huge difference between ETHNICITY and NATIONALITY.
He is an ETHNIC EUROPEAN (= “white”) OF THE IRISH TRIBE, not English, but part of the Irish Diaspora around the world, and like most of the Catholic ones, no doubt hates the English.
— Just as Tommy Robinson is an ETHNIC EUROPEAN of the Irish & English Tribes.
— Just like Mohammed Zia Yusuf is an ETHNIC INDIAN SUBCONTINENTAL.
— Just like the new Leader of Kent County Council, who is an ETHNIC INDIAN SUBCONTINENTAL, despite her false claim that “I’m a Kentish Girl through & through!”
— Just like Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke is an ETHNIC AFRICAN.
Some great public comments in the Mail:
— “It’s not where you’re born. It’s your bloodline that determines what you are. Cliff Richard was born in India. Is he Indian? You can be born anywhere in the World. That doesn’t automatically make you part of that culture.”
— “He has roots. Nothing wrong with identifying with your heritage. He looks like us too.”
“Irish fury over asylum crisis: thousands attend anti-migrant protests”
And yet, just like the similar protests in England, notice that it’s THE POLICE who are injured, and some of the protesters, while…
NOT A SINGLE HAIR ON THE HEAD OF A THIRD WORLD CRIMINAL is harmed.
Nor are the Judges, Lawyers, Politicians, Activists & Satanic Globalists who caused the Third World Invasion of the West harmed in any way by the protesters.
It’s always THE POLICE who are harmed, despite the fact that they had no say in any of it.
Jesús polished luxury vehicles at an LA car wash for years. Then ICE showed up according to the BBC
Can someone enlighten me please? How is it possible to earn and pay your taxes if you’re an ‘irregular migrant’? I’d have thought it’s the same here in the UK – black economy.
…black economy…”
😀😀😀
US-China trade deal is done, says Trump” – Donald Trump says that the US has struck a trade deal with China following 48 hours of talks between the two countries, according to LBC.
Is Chinese President Xi Jinping – the great architect of the Covid lockdowns – about to be defenestrated? Those are the rumours coming out of China – and the fallout from the crippling lockdowns is part of the reason. Francis Pike in the Spectator has more.
Timing is everything.