News Round-Up
- “Police take pro-migrant protesters to asylum hotel” – Essex Police admit escorting pro-migrant protesters to an asylum hotel before violence erupted, according to the Sun.
- “Pro-migration protest group escorted by police is funded by trade unions” – The pro-migration protest group escorted by police to a migrant hotel is partly funded by trade unions and led by Diane Abbott, reports the Telegraph.
- “Migrant hotels are radicalising Middle England” – Epping is a charming, close-knit community, writes Guy Dampier in the Telegraph. Locals are well within their rights to be horrified by what has been imposed upon them.
- “Epping is a warning to complacent Britain” – The decision to disperse asylum seekers into hotels around the country is a baffling one, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Canary Wharf migrant hotel ‘epitomises London’s decline’” – Canary Wharf was once a symbol of London’s capacity for reinvention – but London’s banking district is now at risk of epitomising the city’s decline, warns Samuel Montgomery in the Telegraph.
- “Protest fears over plan to house 35 migrants in high street shop” – The Home Office is facing a protest over plans to house migrants in a converted high street clothes shop in Hampshire, reports the Telegraph.
- “The men masterminding the Channel migrant crossings” – An Albanian crime boss, a former police translator and a Hawala banker are among 24 people smugglers ‘named and shamed’ by the Foreign Office, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s grotesque lies about illegal migration are finally being exposed” – A self-annointed elite simply cannot understand what most of the country can see so clearly, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “All the times Rayner and Starmer championed immigration” – The Telegraph has dug up old quotes showing just how far Sir Keir and Ms Rayner have flipped on immigration.
- “I’d do it all again, says suspect accused of punching police officer six times” – Muhammad Amaad, who assaulted a police officer at Manchester Airport, says there is nothing he would change about his behaviour, according to the Telegraph.
- “HMRC hands ‘Expert of the Year’ award to civil servant behind tax raid on farmers” – Staggeringly HMRC has handed its annual internal “Expert of the Year” award to the staff member who helped design Reeves’ disastrous Farm Tax, says Guido Fawkes.
- “Labour councillor found guilty of sex offences against teenage girl” – Former Labour councillor David Graham has been found guilty of sexual offences against a teenage girl over a seven-month period in 2023, reports STV.
- “Why did James O’Brien recycle an antisemitic lie on live radio?” – What kind of person would unquestioningly believe that British Jewish children are taught that “Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed”? wonders Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph... step forward James O’Brien.
- “Wikipedia threatens to limit UK access to website” – Wikipedia could be forced to limit access in the UK unless crucial elements of Britain’s online safety rules are changed, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “Britain could be sued over climate change” – The UK could be sued over its contribution to climate change after an International Court of Justice ruling that countries are responsible for their emissions, says the Mail.
- “Europe is committing economic suicide with climate change cult” – The European Union is offering Democrat-led states a cautionary tale in how to hamstring an entire economy in the name of green dogma, writes Bjorn Lomborg in the NY Post.
- “Claim: heatwaves to increase in frequency, duration under global warming” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts sets his sights on yet more modelled doom on the horizon.
- “Tesla’s Cybertruck is a bust” – The truck that was supposed to revolutionise everything is flopping fast, says Luc Olinga in Gizmodo.
- “Another day, another model of future climate doom” – In WUWT?, Anthony Watts mocks the latest high-resolution climate model as yet another doomsday press release.
- “Trump has golden opportunity to blow up climate agenda’s crown jewel” – The Trump administration is on the precipice of ending the Endangerment Finding, a rule that Democrats have used for years to impose harsh climate regulations, according to the Daily Caller.
- “The energy subsidy trap: how the one big beautiful bill proved subsidies are nearly impossible to remove” – The One Big Beautiful Bill Act promised to end government meddling in energy markets but ended up proving that energy subsidies are the most stubborn form of state intervention, writes Cullen Neely in RealClearEnergy.
- “COPocalypse Now” – In WUWT?, Willis Eschenbach slams the upcoming COP30 climate summit as a taxpayer-funded fantasy fest.
- “Graham Thorpe asked wife to help him end his life” – The grieving widow of Graham Thorpe has revealed that his mental health was “spiralling down” following a combination of Covid lockdowns and his dismissal by the England and Wales Cricket Board, reports the Mail.
- “Vaccine cheerleaders leave the facts on one side” – In TCW, Dr Roger Watson slams the relentless promotion of COVID-19 vaccines.
- “Contraception used by thousands increases risk of brain tumour” – A new study shows that women on a widely-used contraceptive jab are three-and-a-half times more likely to suffer a potentially fatal brain tumour, reports the Mail.
- “Hamas leader’s wife ‘smuggled from Gaza tunnels to Turkey’” – The wife of slain October 7th mastermind Yahya Sinwar fled Gaza before her husband was killed and has now gotten remarried in Turkey, says the Free Beacon.
- “Trump’s friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell was once a liability. Now it could save him” – Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend could rescue Mr Trump from his biggest political crisis since taking office, writes Benedict Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron launch libel case against Candace Owens” – President Macron and his wife have filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens over the US commentator’s claim that the French First Lady was born a man, reports the Mail.
- “M&S advert banned for featuring ‘unhealthily thin’ model” – Britain’s advertising watchdog has banned a Marks & Spencer ad featuring a model deemed to display an unhealthy appearance, says GB News.
- “Alan Turing Institute scraps diversity drive under pressure from ministers” – Britain’s leading AI institute has scrapped a key diversity scheme after coming under pressure from ministers, reports the Telegraph.
- “The BBC is no longer a broadcaster. It’s an activist group” – Journalists have a duty to report the plain facts, not advance an ideology, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “‘I would still take the knee’” – Ian Wright says he would continue taking the knee if he were still playing professionally, despite the England women’s team choosing to abandon the practice, according to GB News.
- “Trans athletes banned from US Olympics women’s sports” – The US Olympic & Paralympic Committee has changed its eligibility rules to comply with Trump’s executive order banning trans athletes from competing in women’s events at the Olympics, reports Politico.
- “The mediocrity feedback loop” – If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much, says Charlotte Allen in Quillette.
- “‘We’re not in a period of unprecedented warmth’” – On Triggernometry, the Economist’s ex-Science Editor Matt Ridley comprehensively deconstructs the climate agenda.
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“Epping is a warning to complacent Britain” – The decision to disperse asylum seekers into hotels around the country is a baffling one”
Baffling? Not if you require an eager low cost well dispersed standing army at short notice, for example, should there be an uprising or something!
Exactly.
“An Albanian crime boss, a former police translator and a Hawala banker are among 24 people smugglers ‘named and shamed’ by the Foreign Office”
‘Named and shamed’?
A foreign office official said
“that showed em, huh!”
I bet they are beside themselves with grief now they’ve been shamed by the foreign office! Way to smash the gangs hey Kier!
(My take on this, they should be lined up against a wall and shot! just saying)
Just thought I’d highlight what I experienced yesterday over here in Ireland, it’s coming to a country near you!
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.
Did any datacentres go offline? Thought not.
Reminded me of the NUM strikes in the early 1970s, when it was done to cope with the shortage of coal at the power stations.
But it is summer now, what is going to happen when it gets cold.
Precisely 😲
Didn’t seem to make the UK news as far as I can tell… not something they’d want to report I’m sure
What kind of person would unquestioningly believe that British Jewish children are taught that “Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed”?
It seems unlikely, but we’d find it less hard to believe the inverse, perhaps that’s a grievous calumny against your friendly neighbourhood madrassar.
It’s all a horrendous mess.
Yeah, isn’t it awful?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy
All those poor people having to live longer more healthy lives because of the white European industrialised world of colonialism and progress, the poor mites!
The days of the early 80s famines in the horn of Africa are gone because of the introduction of foreign aid and western technologies,medicines and transport infrastructure, and they want to sue us!!!
If only we’d have kept the f@#k out of Africa from day one of its discovery and left it be, what would it be like now? I would suggest the North Sentinal islands as a good example albeit with far more constant and widespread tribal wars!
Let’s not forget the requirement to look at all of the issues raised by ‘climate change’. How about these suffering countries be required to give us a rebate for increasing their food production capacities, through higher crop productivity caused by our intemperate provision of the essential fertilizer, CO2, entirely free of charge for so many years?
When are they going to send in the Internaional Police Force to arrest Starmer and friends.
Ooooh! I’ll hold the door open for them.
More to the point when are they going to try to arrest Trump?
See the massive collapse in life expectancy in Asia and hence to a lesser extent in the world in 1960.
Thanks to Chairman Mao and his Great Leap Forward and to his inspiration from Lysenko.
Any sensible politician would tell the ICJ to go and explore the world of sex and travel.
Sensible politician? That’s a tough one.
“24 people smugglers ‘named and shamed’ by the Foreign Office”
Macron and Starmer have been regularly named, but show no signs of being shamed even as elected politicians. The same for Serco. So I doubt that the less accessible participants in the trade will have any bones broken by words, without the application of sticks and stones.
Well of course Ian Wright will continue to take the knee. I am sure he agrees that Black lives matter.
Not good, is it? But they shouldn’t have time or opportunity to do this in the first place. Just like they shouldn’t for loitering outside schools, hanging round parks filming kids, sexually assaulting girls/women, shoplifting, trying to break into people’s property, drinking alcohol and defecating on flower beds etc etc. Where is their ‘programme’ once they arrive? They need structure, their days filled with meaningful activities ( learning English and the UK laws, customs etc, menial jobs and physical tasks ) in order to keep them out of mischief, their leisure time should be kept to a minimum and it should ideally be supervised. They shouldn’t be able to just go around their local communities, willy nilly, with nobody knowing where they are at any one time. Is it really any wonder all these crimes and misdemeanors are occurring as a result? ”The Home Office has launched an investigation after PoliticsHome revealed that asylum seekers across the UK have been using taxpayer-funded payment cards for gambling. When asylum seekers enter the UK, they are given an ‘ASPEN’ card by the Home Office. These are used for spending on essential items while they wait for a decision on their asylum claim.… Read more »
You omitted one key skill from the list of traininmg: learn how to pay your own way in your own country and go back there.
What I also failed to mention is they shouldn’t have the time/opportunity to go work cash-in-hand for Deliveroo either. Basically, there should be no such thing as ‘money for nothing’. They learn the language, laws and customs in a classroom environment, with tests set in order to ensure they’re taking it all in ( so that’s their personal development ) and whatever constitutes ‘community service’, such as when paedos walk away with a suspended sentence and are given so many hours to complete, this is the sort of thing they should be doing as a way of contributing to the community in which they reside. But in these migrant hotels they don’t even have to lift a finger. They don’t have to clean up after themselves at mealtimes, clean their own bathrooms/bedrooms or even do their own laundry. So they come over with this entitled and superior attitude and then that’s reinforced when they get natives acting like scivvies and running around after them, then pocket money on top? They’re even taken on trips out, yoga sessions, play stations etc. Is it any wonder so many want to take their chances crossing the Channel when they’ve got it so cushy… Read more »
I can’t agree with you on this Mogs. As posted above / below we just have to reopen the pits.
Now if this country did something sensible like re-open the pits we could use this gimmigrant army usefully until their deportation orders were processed.
As pit props?
“Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron launch libel case against Candace Owens”
I think they are quite right to do this, because Owens has been relentless in her pursuit of her foolish theory, amounting to harassment, even a type of stalking.
What I don’t understand is why such a capable, intelligent woman as Owens ever got enmeshed in this nonsense. What was the point? Everyone said the same thing about Michelle Obama, and that was ridiculous, too.
Was it some kind of attempt to gain favour with the Trans Mob? I just don’t understand it, and I’ll bet Owens’ husband is livid at the prospect of paying out £millions to the French President and his wife, because of his own wife’s bungling mistake.