News Round-Up
- “Prepare for economic collapse: last week the 2026 British financial crisis became inevitable” – Starmer’s U-turn on welfare cuts now makes the UK’s coming reckoning irreversible, argues Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Middle classes flee Britain for the Med after Reeves tax raids” – Countries in southern Europe have reported a surge in middle class families fleeing Britain for the continent since Labour’s election victory last summer, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s love affair with welfare is a disaster for the working class” – Support for our indefensible welfare state is the glue holding the Labour Party together, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Small boats are causing Labour big problems” – The Spectator‘s James Heale with an update on how Labour is faring in ending the illegal immigration crisis.
- “Demographics is the new dividing line on the Right” – In the Spectator, the Daily Sceptic‘s own Laurie Wastell says it’s a demographic question that now divides older and younger conservatives.
- “Give us our country back – quit the ECHR” – In TCW, Matt Goodwin explains why it’s essential that the UK quits the European Convention on Human Rights.
- “Tories strike unprecedented deal with Reform on migrant crime” – MPs from both parties will back a Bill amendment that will require the nationalities of offenders to be revealed, the Telegraph reports.
- “It’s not the Conservatives that are facing an existential crisis. It’s Labour” – The Right lost the last election so badly only because it was divided. The Left, on the other hand, is facing an existential crisis of identity, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Tom Skinner and the triumph of Essex Man” – In the Spectator, Julie Burchill says ‘Essex Man’ Tom Skinner is now her favourite to be “the one who might give the ghastly ‘Sir’ Sadiq Khan a run for his money” in London.
- “How Palestine Became the Left’s Omnicause” – Palestine Action being proscribed as a terrorist organisation will not force the British left to abandon their Gaza obsession, says Connor Tomlinson on the Restoration Substack.
- “How do Muslims affect politics?” – In Aporia, Noah Carl offers a nuanced look at the data.
- “BBC reprimanded over Glastonbury ‘death to IDF’ chant” – The BBC has been reprimanded by the Government after it broadcast a rap group leading chants of “death to the IDF” on stage at Glastonbury on Saturday, with Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy demanding the Director-General explain why the performance by rap duo Bob Vylan was shown live, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police launch probe after Glastonbury crowd chants ‘Death to the IDF!’” – Police have launched a probe into the comments made by punk band Bob Vylan, says the Mail.
- “Kneecap lead Glastonbury chants of ‘F*** Keir Starmer’” – During their headline set at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, Irish band Kneecap led chants of “F*** Keir Starmer” and urged crowds to riot in the Westminster courts when their lead rapper next appears there on terrorism charges.
- “Middle-class youngsters chanting for death shows how sick Britain now is” – Now we see its true face, it is beyond time the BBC stopped fawning over Glastonbury and the Eavis clan, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “How Glastonbury became a playpen for the turbo-smug and talentless” – There is nothing countercultural about this annual gathering of correct-think farts, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Islamophobia definition could have chilling effect, says peer” – Lord Walney, a former anti-extremism tsar, said the Government’s plan to define anti-Muslim hatred needed to avoid “protecting a religion from criticism”, reports the Times.
- “UK Pulls Plug on £24 Billion Desert Power Fantasy” – It comes as little surprise that yet another grandiose techno-utopian vision has ended not with a triumphant march toward Net Zero, but with a flick of the off-switch, writes Charles Rotter in WUWT.
- “Virtue-signalling climate budgets don’t meet urgent human needs” – By refusing to prioritise, the UN ensured none of its goals would succeed, says Bjorn Lomborg in the Telegraph.
- “Labour considers copying Macron’s Net Zero housing laws” – Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner are considering copying French laws that impose strict Net Zero limits on housebuilders, despite those laws being blamed for driving up construction costs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Raise a Glass to the Shuttering of Climate.gov” – It isn’t just a budget cut but the vanquishing of one of the most lavishly promoted panic-mongering platforms in government history, says Charles Rotter in WUWT.
- “The climate scaremongers: Summertime and the lying is easy” – The UK Environment Agency has said England is running out of water and blamed climate change, but the truth is summers are no drier than they have been since 1840, nor are they any wetter, says Paul Homewood on TCW.
- “Cleaner Air, Sunshine and Temperatures” – England has been getting more sunshine in recent decades, much of it, it seems, due to the air being cleaner of pollution. How much of the recent warming in the country might this explain, wonders Paul Homewood.
- “Geothermal Energy: Another Nail in the Coffin of Wind and Solar Power?” – Geothermal’s potential to join fossil fuels and nuclear energy in powering America’s economy in the years to come far exceeds anything that weather-dependent wind and solar could ever match, writes Bonner Cohen for CFACT.
- “NHS trains midwives in trans breastfeeding workshops” – NHS midwives have been trained by a trans workshop that promotes male breastfeeding, the Telegraph reveals.
- “The Radical Left’s New Lawfare Tactic” – On Substack, Dr Robert Malone outlines the Left’s latest lawfare stratagem “to destroy President Trump and his administration”.
- “For the offence of tweeting three thumbs-up emojis, a 64 year-old German woman has been fined €1,800” – On Substack, Eugyppius offers some “thoughts on the anarcho-tyranny of the mass migrationist state” following yet another outrageous German conviction for thought crime.
- “Obama’s CIA Director Plots Global Censorship As Germany And Brazil Intensify Their Crackdown On Free Speech” – On the Public Substack, Michael Shellenberger brings a global free speech and censorship update.
- “Lord Falconer’s selective constitutional memory” – The Spectator reminds assisted suicide advocate Lord Falconer that he has previously voted in the Lords to bring down Commons bills.
- “The MSM can’t give up demonising vaccine sceptics” – No sooner had the plight of the Covid vaccine-injured started making its way into the pages of the mainstream media than the Daily Mail was up to its old tricks of demonising anyone who doubts the safety and efficacy of the jabs as a conspiracy theorist, says Kathy Gyngell in TCW.
- “A Blueprint for NIH Reform” – In the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, Dr Martin Kulldorff sets out his proposals for reform of the US National Institutes of Health.
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So… if ‘for all I care’ is a direct incitement to murder and arson, that leads to a 31 month sentence what is telling people to riot in the streets worth?
And, by providing a platform for these ‘edgy’ musicians to make their demands, what responsibility do the Eavis family have to take for aiding and abetting a crime to occur?
We already know that nobody actually has to do anything for it to be considered incitement… but, given the febrile state of the middle class pro-Palestine kids, already demonstrated by actuality, there’s a good chance the riots asked for might happen as a result?
I hope Eavis has his solicitor on speed dial…
A 31 month senetence with absolutely none of the concessions allowed normal prisoners, like familty visitation; even early release seems to be taboo for her, unlike for all other classes of criminal.
Tice believes that they are deliberately attempting to goad a reaction so that they can keep her banged up… if that’s true, and I simply don’t know, they must be terrible afraid of what she might reveal when she gets out.
I can highly recommend Brendan O’Neill’s coruscating article about Glastonbury in Spiked (see link above). It’s vituperative and highly amusing. The opening couple of sentences sets the tone:
“For once I am grateful for Glastonbury. For on this gloriously sunny weekend they’ve done us normal Brits a solid by huddling together on Worthy Farm every pompous tit in the land.”
He does have some brilliant turns of phrase. I liked the line -“Open borders! they cry while surroundd by a fence that the screws at Alcatraz would have envied”
And the MoD are totting up the cost and musing along the lines of “we can’t afford that much for Brize Norton…!” Anyway, they appear to have 5 suspects now.
The “identity crisis of the Left” looks like exactly what Steve Sailer said when he wrote about the US Democratic Party voter base being the “coalition of the fringes”.
Hopefully it won’t hold.
For those of you missing the regular updates on Ukraine, let me say that Russia has now started to move into Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions in its “stalemate”.
It was a pity Paul Homewood’s charts and the text were not better linked in the article in WUWT. Essentially he was saying that more sunlight is likely a cause of rising temperatures and vice versa. We know the warmists are reluctant to study the effects of the sun, volcanoes and other drivers of temperatuire because they can’t even build a model using the siumplistic and false narrative they have promoted.
I took his article to suggest that atmospheric pollution (smoke) in the industrial age had suppressed natural warming trends and recent moves to curtail pollution had allowed the warming to proceed – with reduced industrial activity in 2020 offered as evidence.
“Tories strike unprecedented deal with Reform on migrant crime” – MPs from both parties will back a Bill amendment that will require the nationalities of offenders to be revealed”
Good, but it must be retroactive and include Dual Nationals and 2nd & 3rd Generation Immigrants, in order to allow statisticians to correctly correlate the numbers of criminals with their Ethnic Origins, reaching as far back into previous years as possible.
Otherwise, the figures will be artificially skewed to label huge numbers of Third World Ethnic criminals as “British”, concealing their true identity under the guise of mere “Nationality” instead of their “Ethnicity”.