News Round-Up
- “‘We can’t walk safely day or night’: how an Essex town reached boiling point over a migrant hotel” – The behaviour of asylum seekers has left Epping residents living in fear, says Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “The women of Epping don’t need Tommy Robinson’s help” – The people of Epping have a message for Tommy Robinson: stay away, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
- “Fears of a ‘summer of riots’ grow as Rayner warns about migrant anger” – Angela Rayner has warned that anger at high levels of illegal immigration is risking social cohesion in Britain’s poorest communities and must be addressed, reports the Mail.
- “Afghans ‘exploit leaked list to trick their way into Britain’” – Migrants are exploiting a family reunion scheme set up after the Afghanistan “kill list” scandal to trick their way into Britain, says the Telegraph.
- “‘My investigation proves the trafficking racket in Calais is evolving at frightening pace’” – In the Telegraph, Isabel Oakeshott reveals how French police are not just turning a blind eye but actively assisting the migrant trafficking trade in Calais.
- “What Suella Braverman’s plan for quitting the ECHR gets right” – Whisper it quietly, but human rights scepticism is becoming the new mainstream, says Andrew Tettonborn in the Spectator.
- “Blair’s secret scheme to make immigration more popular” – Sir Tony Blair considered a secret plan to make immigration more popular when he was prime minister – just weeks before opening Britain’s borders to thousands of Eastern Europeans, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Farage is right: our police must be tougher” – Men and women with physical and moral courage are required more than ever, says Ian Acheson in the Spectator.
- “Labour voters back plans to stop wealthy non-doms fleeing Britain” – Labour voters would back plans to stop ultra-wealthy individuals fleeing the UK after Rachel Reeves’s tax raid prompted thousands to leave, reports City A.M.
- “Red alert for Reeves as borrowing hits record outside Covid in June” – The public sector borrowed £20.7 billion last month – far higher than the £17.6 billion analysts had pencilled in, says the Mail.
- “Britain is broke” – We’re paying Greek levels of debt interest on Canadian levels of debt, warns Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “AstraZeneca to invest $50 billion in US amid fears it could quit Britain” – AstraZeneca has unveiled plans to invest £37 billion in the US by the end of the decade amid fears it could ditch the London stock market, reports the Telegraph.
- “Junior doctors’ strike to go ahead after talks fail” – Wes Streeting has accused junior doctors of a “complete disdain for patients” after talks with the medics’ union collapsed, says the Sun.
- “‘State pension age will have to rise faster’” – Nigel Farage warns that the state pension age will have to rise ahead of its planned date of 2046, according to the Birmingham Mail.
- “You can thank Gordon Brown for Britain’s pension crisis” – Labour has poor precedent when it comes to helping people plan for retirement, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “How much bins strike has cost cash-strapped city council” – Birmingham City Council has admitted the ongoing bins strike is piling further financial pressure on the already cash-strapped authority, reports the Birmingham Mail.
- “Ex-union boss McCluskey took private jet flights arranged by building firm, report finds” – Former Unite boss Len McCluskey enjoyed private jet flights and football tickets arranged by the firm building a multi-million pound hotel for the union, says the BBC.
- “Laws to allow UAE stake in the Telegraph approved by Lords” – The House of Lords has approved legislation to enable the United Arab Emirates to become part-owner of the Telegraph despite significant cross-party opposition, according to the Telegraph.
- “Sir James Cleverly to return to Tory front bench” – Kemi Badenoch has brought her former leadership rival Sir James Cleverly back onto the front bench in a move to boost party unity, reports the Dunfermline Press.
- “The banter ban marks the death of the Great British pub” – Britain – a nation of mickey takers – is fast becoming a breeding ground for those who relish the opportunity to be offended, writes Max Thompson in Conservative Home.
- “Why don’t we let Thames Water go bust?” – Water companies which get into financial trouble should be allowed to go bust, argues Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “As Britain’s Leftist puritans enforce rationing, America lives in abundance” – Anti-growth elites say the answer to our water woes lies in depriving us of basic comforts, says David Frost in the Telegraph. They’re wrong.
- “Oil refinery to shut after runaway owners leave it in ‘untenable’ position” – Lindsey refinery is to shut after being left in an “untenable” position by its runaway millionaire owners, reports Reuters.
- “Ed Miliband admits Sizewell C nuclear plant to cost £38 billion” – Ed Miliband has greenlit Sizewell C, admitting the nuclear plant will cost at least £38 billion, according to Sky News.
- “The great ‘zero-carbon renewables’ deception” – When a Chinese solar panel is installed in a California desert, it arrives with a massive carbon debt, reveals Vijay Jayaraj in the California Globe.
- “Biden’s green dream of EV postal truck fleet is a $10 billion failure” – In Legal Insurrection, Leslie Eastman exposes the Biden administration’s $10 billion plan to electrify the US Postal Service’s truck fleet as a costly failure.
- “West Arctic, NW Passage see third highest sea ice extent in over two decades” – Analysis of summer sea ice areas in the West Arctic, including the NW Passage, shows that ice area levels remain above average, reports P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
- “Slow on the uptake” – In Climate Scepticism, Mark Hodgson exposes Labour’s green hypocrisy – preaching international law while sidelining treaty obligations to push through renewables.
- “CBC brings Soviet-style propaganda to Canada” – On Clintel, Michelle Stirling slams the CBC for parroting a taxpayer-funded study that brands climate sceptics as narcissistic psychopaths.
- “Hail no! NBC, climate change isn’t making hail more damaging” – In ClimateRealism, Anthony Watts blasts NBC for peddling the myth that climate change is making hailstorms worse.
- “Trump’s nuclear plan faces major hurdles” – Trump’s plan to quadruple US nuclear power by 2050 faces significant challenges, including slow permitting, reliance on Russian uranium and limited domestic fuel production capacity, says Felicity Bradstock on OilPrice.
- “Symbiosis gone wrong” – On Substack, Dr Matthew Wielicki explains how media, climate scientists and politicians spin a narrative for profit and power.
- “American nuclear weapons return to British soil” – The US military has moved nuclear weapons to British soil for the first time in close to two decades, reports Newsweek.
- “Will one final push by Israel destroy Hamas?” – In the Spectator, Jonathan Sacerdoti reports that Israel has launched a decisive assault on Hamas’s last stronghold in central Gaza, signalling a final push to end the war.
- “Zelensky’s war on Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies is a disaster” – Zelensky’s government seems to have seriously miscalculated the mood of ordinary Ukrainian people, says Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “Twist in Epstein case as Bondi’s DOJ to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell” – In a remarkable twist in the winding Jeffrey Epstein case, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell will meet with Donald Trump’s Justice Department, reports the Mail.
- “Nurse at centre of trans doctor row accused of racism after suspension lifted” – A nurse who complained about a trans doctor using a hospital’s female changing room was accused of racism by senior NHS staff, says the Telegraph.
- “Fans turn against football’s wokeist kit” – Forest Green Rovers fans have hit out at their “horrendous” new kit after the club unveiled the “world’s first” vegan strip, reports the Mail.
- “Britain’s most persecuted group: white men” – Britain is suffering a crisis of masculinity, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph – just not the kind the identity politics-obsessed Left believe.
- “This feminist could spend 25 years in prison for calling a man a man” – On the Public Substack, Michael Shellenberger interviews Isabela Cêpa, a Brazilian feminist who risks 25 years in prison for calling a man a man – despite breaking no law.
- “The BBC’s mistreatment of the Proms” – The Proms is becoming a compound of sporting event and talent show – because the BBC is embarrassed by the fact that orchestral music has been composed over the past four centuries by white men, says Michael Henderson in the Spectator.
- “The strategy of the mind: Maoism and culture war in the West” – The Maoist conception of the political realm possesses an enduring, but little explored, influence upon the contemporary practice of politics in the West, writes David Martin Jones in Military Strategy Magazine.
- ““Social trust has really eroded”” – Francis Fukuyama sits down with Quillette’s Matt Johnson for a wide-ranging discussion about social capital and trust, wokeness, populist anger, protectionism and the struggle for democracy everywhere.
- “Stephen Colbert’s Late Show should have been axed long ago” – America deserves to know why The Late Show was kept on air for so long when it was losing cash hand over fist, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Is this really helping societal cohesion?” – On X, James Esses flags the BBC’s Black Woman’s Guide to Workplace Microaggressions – a training video that turns every white colleague into bumbling caricatures of idiocy.
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“Angela Rayner has warned that anger at high levels of illegal immigration is risking social cohesion in Britain’s poorest communities and must be addressed”
The usual ‘cloth eared’ twaddle. Social cohesion is risked by the high levels of immigration not by the anger it is provoking from the people who are being told to shut up about the consequences of this brainless policy.. Has Raynor or Starmer ever said why we really need to keep inviting people that are poorly educated, often don’t speak English, and have no knowledge of our customs and society into the country. Why we feel the need to pay for them to sit in hotel rooms, for ever more, with money we can ill afford from the public purse.? What sort of social cohesion can be achieved with them.?
I don’t know exactly what it is that draws people here, though there are some strong indicators, not least the fact that whatever they seek is worth paying £50k for a fake visa.
How many people do you know who, from a standing start, could put away £100 a week for the next ten years, let alone get the cash up front?
“Red alert for Reeves as borrowing hits record outside Covid in June”
ANOTHER £20bn..! Looks like our solution to being deep in debt, and heading for the cliff is just to max out another credit card. Has there ever been a less credible government than this.?
Some years ago, my partner went to a talk by some Labour politician, Stephen Twigg perhaps, and came home convinced that the country didn’t have enough debt…
Fortunately, I was able to disused her from applying the same logic to domestic finances, despite the advice of my ‘financial advisor’ that I was under leveraged!
Those with longer memories recall intense competition for the last sentence of your posting. From 1964 until 1979 the economy and government finances were run very badly indeed.
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“Labour voters back plans to stop wealthy non-doms fleeing Britain”
There is a hard core of Labour voters who hate the wealthy. Many of them appear to be pretty comfortably well off.
“State pension age will have to rise faster”:
Nigel Farage
Don’t you start jumping on the bandwagon too! CUT THE WASTE INSTEAD!
Foreign aid, Quangos,NHS, NGOs, immigration etc etc, theres plenty of money to save without punishing those who have already paid in…..Do a Milei!
Zelensky’s war on Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies is a disaster On the one hand: ‘The vote came a day after Kyiv’s domestic security agency arrested two NABU officials on suspicion of ties to Russia and conducted sweeping searches into agency employees on other grounds.’ ‘The SBU said it had arrested a mole working for Russian intelligence inside NABU, who had passed information to his handler on at least 60 occasions. Separately, it had detained a senior NABU detective on suspicion of acting as an intermediary in his father’s sales of industrial hemp to Russia.’ Reuters On the other: ‘On Tuesday night, Kyiv Post reporters on the ground observed around 2,000 to 3,000 people – mostly young – rallying near the Ivan Franko Theater in central Kyiv, close to the presidential complex. The protest took place despite martial law, in effect since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, which officially bans public demonstrations. The peaceful protesters are appealing to Kyiv to slash Bill No. 12414, which, once it becomes law, would effectively abolish the independence of anti-corruption law enforcement bodies in conducting investigations’ ‘We all wanted to see Ukraine free of corruption, and independent anti-corruption bodies gave us that chance. Today’s vote takes that chance… Read more »
Wow, look at all this food and aid delivered to Gaza but the UN can’t ( or won’t ) organize themselves to distribute it to the citizens so the naive muppets of the world will conveniently blame Israel, because it’s always Israel’s fault; ”Nearly 4,500 trucks have entered Gaza recently including 2,500 tons of baby food and high calorie food for children. While Israel has facilitated the aid into Gaza, humanitarian aid organizations have left around 950 aid trucks uncollected.” https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1947900012975034742 ”Baroness Foster, the trucks sit there because that’s the script. Misery must be prolonged. Aid must be stalled. Starvation must be staged. Not because Israel blocks it, but because a steady drip of suffering sustains the narrative. You see, for the Leftist-Islamist alliance, Gaza isn’t a humanitarian crisis – it’s a propaganda asset. The goal isn’t to feed the people. It’s to weaponise them. People like David Lammy, Francesca Albanese, and Jeremy Corbyn are invested in the narrative. They need Israel cast as the villain. They need the images of hunger, rubble, and despair – not to help Palestinians, but to keep the West morally paralysed and politically submissive Lammy won’t tell you that Hamas hijacks aid. Albanese won’t… Read more »
”Middle East expert Andrew Fox: The UN and others were asked to work with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. They refused. They’d rather let Gazans starve than cooperate with @GHFupdates and IDF.
Why? Because GHF is the biggest blow yet to Hamas’s grip on Gaza.
It’s that simple.”
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1947905896190722479
Did the BBC fund that piece of garbage from their employees pockets? or was it from ours?
“The BBC has created a ‘Black woman’s guide to workplace microaggressions’.
Unsurprisingly, it paints all white people out to be nothing but bumbling caricatures of idiocy.
Is this really helping societal cohesion?”
The aim is certainly not to help societal cohesion.
“Labour voters would back plans to stop ultra-wealthy individuals fleeing the UK after Rachel Reeves’s tax raid prompted thousands to leave, reports City A.M”
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“around 67 per cent of the British public would support carve-outs to keep wealthy individuals in the UK. ”
The headline looks as if it was written as click bait. The story is not about “stopping” the wealthy from leaving but discouraging them.
The wealthy and everyone else should be worried that this socialist government might do what the City AM headline suggested and “stop” (prevent) them leaving. If a wealth tax is indeed imposed there would have to be exit taxes and controls on transfers of wealth overseas similar to the exchange controls which lasted from WWII until Mrs Thatcher’s administratioin withdrew them. We don’t know where wealth tax will start but if it is not low enough to catch me they will raise so little money for so much effort even a socialist would think it a waste of time.
If I were wealthy to the degree that would be relevant to this story then I would be moving my assets out of the UK just now.
Look at all this fancy talk to describe electricity rationing across Ireland today!
Just had a blackout from 4am until 10am, it’s on purpose not by accident, this is how energy security works in Ireland is it?
ESB and Electric Ireland
Yes, there are power outages across Ireland today due to controlled demand reduction protocols initiated by ESB Networks. This is a response to insufficient electricity generation to meet demand, requiring short-notice disruptions to protect the system. ESB Networks is implementing these disruptions on a rotating basis, impacting one zone at a time, with temporary outages for some customers.
Because diversity…
Migration to Ireland at highest level since 2007 – BBC News
100%.. more people, more usage
“Is this really helping societal cohesion?”
Good find. It demonstrates very clearly that the BBC is fomenting White Genocide.
“The women of Epping don’t need Tommy Robinson’s help” writes David Shipley
The truth is that the Epping Patriots: men, women & children, have been urging Tommy Robinson to stay away from their protest FOR HIS OWN SAFETY, because they don’t want him to be stitched up by the Globalists and and thrown into prison again!!! They say he has done enough and suffered enough punishment for defending British children, and now they are taking up the cause themselves in their own towns.
And he has been lauding the local patriots of Epping, Diss & now even Canary Wharf for organizing their own local protests with local people.
Now David Shipley should write a more honest article to make amends for his Leftist propaganda.
May I just add this news to the Round-Up?
Dozens of students sent to isolation for wearing Union Jack just days after ‘culture’ row
“Dozens of students have been sent to isolation for wearing Union Jacks on a ‘culture day’ at school. Pupils at Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy in Oldbury, West Midlands, were reportedly asked to wear outfits to reflect their heritage, prompting lots to proudly wear colours of the Union Jack.”
Isobelle’s mother said, “”Isobelle was put into an isolation room almost immediately, as were about 30 other kids. Yet many other children wore flags from the countries where their families originated, such as Jamaica and Spain, and had no problem.”
“Isobelle and her friends were made to feel like wearing something British was dirty.”
“When she asked the head why, all he could say was, ‘Because it’s not allowed’.
Isobelle never gets into trouble – not until this happened, at least.”
“Jenny Priest claimed her daughter Scarlett, 13, was also placed in isolation for sporting a white t-shirt with a Union Jack pattern on it.”
Well done to the DS & Spectator for featuring this important news, clearly showing the true despotic, anti-Ukrainian nature of Zelensky the Weasel.
“The law will hand sweeping control to Zelensky and permit political interference in corruption investigations.”
And he doesn’t want to answer any awkward questions about where all those £millions in foreign aid have gone.
The largest wartime protests ever in Ukraone are currently taking place.
Brilliant! Well done to them.
I remember reading comments from anonymous Ukrainians begging the West to save them from Zelensky’s despotism.
Zelensky’s just as Bad as Mad Vlad.
I wonder why Ryanair has a bad press from quite a few of the comments on this short clip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0prBq9gUPM&list=WL&index=5 Shot at Fairford last weekend.