News Round-Up
- “Putin demands Ukraine surrender the Donbas as price of peace” – As Trump abandons his ceasefire ultimatum and prepares to host Zelensky, Russia is turning the screw, reports the Times.
- “The European press are having a big stroppy sad following the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska” – On his Substack, Eugyppius writes about the hatred of the European press for President Trump and their reluctance to admit his peace talks may succeed.
- “Global Governance vs. Democratic Sovereignty” – Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Ramesh Thakur traces the similarities between the global pandemic response and the push towards Net Zero.
- “Council ‘too scared to remove Palestine flags’ takes down British ones” – Bankrupt Birmingham City Council insisted on the removal of hundreds of Union and St George’s flags recently hung around the city, claiming they “could put lives at risk”, says the Mail.
- “France Is Being Held Hostage by Islamism” – The cancellation of a Barbie screening by Muslim youths is a reminder of France’s ongoing Islamisation, writes Lauren Smith in the European Conservative.
- “Britain is a tinderbox. This crackdown on Union flags could make it explode” – Labour councillors say they’re just worried about health and safety. But can they really not see how banning the Union Jack could backfire? asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Migrant hotel made our village ‘no go zone’ – we’re scared to let our kids out” – A migrant hotel has turned a pretty village into a no go zone, say furious residents scared to go out at night, according to the Sun.
- “Put Navy and drones in Channel to stop boats, says Labour peer” – Lord Glasman, founder of the ‘Blue Labour’ group, urges the Prime Minister to get tough on Channel crossings, reports the Telegraph.
- “Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history” – History has become a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues, writes Sumantra Maitra in the Critic.
- “Labour attack ad highlights Nigel Farage’s praise for Andrew Tate” – In Labour’s latest attack ad, the Reform leader is accused of being a supporter of Andrew Tate’s, says the Times.
- “Tell us how much graduates really earn” – For years students were sold the myth of the £100,000 premium that attached to graduates in some subjects, but many courses leave them with no salary advantage, according to the Times.
- “At least six unis at risk of going bust before 2025 freshers finish their degrees” – Students have been warned that their university, department or course might not exist in three years, with cuts expected to hit a wide range of institutions, reports iNews.
- “UK government worked with charities behind anti-Vance and anti-Musk protests” – Rainbow Migration and HOPE not hate have both engaged with the Home Office in spite of their involvement in organising anti-Vance and anti-Musk protest, writes Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
- “Boys’ underachievement putting Britain’s world standing ‘at risk’” – Writing in the Mail, Professor Alan Smithers says the issue of boyhs’ underachievement is being ignored because of “fashionable narratives” that frame boys as “privileged”.
- “Selina Scott interview: I blame Sadiq Khan for the day I was mugged” – A former TV presenter says she blames the London Mayor for the fact that she was mugged on Piccadilly in broad daylight, reports the Telegraph.
- “We must speak up for old British values before they are destroyed by our elites” – It should not take a man like Trump to tell us that the UK has a big problem when it comes to free speech, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Edinburgh has turned from a cultural paradise into a woke hellscape” – The city at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment is witnessing some of the worst excesses of Left-wing activism, according to Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Hamlet issues trigger warning for containing ‘coercive’ behaviour” – Those visiting London’s National Theatre to watch Robert Hastie’s adaptation of Hamlet have also been told to prepare themselves for upsetting scenes, says the Mail.
- “‘Eco-hypocrite’ Miliband refuses to reveal his number of domestic flights” – The Tories have accused Energy Secretary of ignoring his own Net Zero sermons on air travel, according to the Telegraph.
- “If Labour gives £2.3 billion of our cash to retired British Coal staff, it has truly lost the plot” – Rachel Reeves can’t expect to fill the £50 billion black hole if the Treasury is handing out billions to former mineworkers, writes John Ralfe in the Telegraph.
- “Shortage of fuel cells leads to new problems on world’s first hydrogen train line” – Only four of 14 hydrogen trains are still running on Germany’s H2 rail service, reports Hydrogen Insight.
- “Five new EVs to qualify for Labour’s Electric Car Grant announced” – Car dealers have lashed out at Labour’s latest EV subsidy, claiming buyers have been delaying purchases to understand which models might get the full £3,750 discounts, says the Mail.
- “Absolutely horrific” – Dame Andrea Jenkyn, the Reform UK MP, revels the appalling abuse she’s suffered as an MP and the seeming indifference of the police to threats on her life.
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European press are having a big stroppy sad following the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska ‘their reluctance to admit his peace talks may succeed.’ Europe may have Trump Derangement Syndrome but President Trump’s peace talks have already failed. And President Trump doesn’t care. The U.S. President deserves great credit for his initiative…..but both he and Western European leaders are looking at the situation with the myopia of the short term. President Trump, a here today, gone tomorrow President, is only interested in peace within the next few years. That is reality. He cannot influence the longer term. Russia will not consider itself constrained by any treaty. And even if it did, Ukraine will not. As soon as Russia descends once more into anarchy, and you know it will, Ukraine will strike. This conflict has been going on for over a century and Ukrainian revanchism will ensure that it carries on and off for the foreseeable future if Ukrainian 2014 borders are not restored. Ireland offers British leaders a unique perspective which makes their perfidious lack of backbone even more egregious. And the root cause of the end of the ‘Long Peace 1945-2014’ is the stupidity, feebleminded incompetence of Western European leadership,… Read more »
If Ukraine strikes again, as you suggest, they will be beaten again, just as they have been in the operation. If NATO and the globalist west just leave them alone (a long shot I agree) as a neutral state, then maybe the ‘slavic brothers’ can peacefully just rub along for a few decades at least. But hey, none of us are going to affected by this in the long term!
The most important success for the Globalists is that Putin & his secret pal Zelensky have between them managed to kill off A MILLION SLAVS.
The Depopulation Agenda going along nicely, especially White Genocide.
Probably nearer 2 million now, the majority being Ukrainians.
How many of these would still be alive if Boris Johnson hadn’t gone to Kiev in 2022 and ‘instructed’ Ukraine to not accept the peace deal discussed in Istanbul, that was initialed for agreement between Ukraine and Russia. This was just one month into the operation.
That’s a lot of blood on your hands BoJo – and all of the globalist cheerleaders who still want to keep this war going!
Shame on you all.
That is appalling— the whole war could have lasted only 4 weeks!
But Russian casualties are just as high as Ukraine’s:
“According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Russia has suffered massive casualties since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Estimates suggest that more than 800,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or severely wounded, making this one of the deadliest conflicts for Russia since World War II. The report indicates that Russian forces have relied on poorly trained recruits and convicts to sustain their offensive operations, leading to exceptionally high casualty rates. Despite these losses, Russia has continued its large-scale assaults, particularly in eastern Ukraine, while struggling to replenish its ranks with adequately trained personnel.”
How Many People Have Died in the Russia-Ukraine War? – Newsweek
I don’t believe much of what IISS are concluding. It’s only speculation, being backed up by questionable statements regarding Russia’s recruitment practices and capabilities. I can see anti-russian bias in the background of at least one of the 2 authors of IISS numbers.
Don’t forget too that the globalist propaganda has been quoting ludicrously exaggerated numbers about Russian casualties, whilst offering unrealistically low numbers for Ukraine’s.
One good lead is the soldier body-swaps recently undertaken between Russia and Ukraine. Russia returned around 6k corpses, Ukraine a fraction of this number. Why? And why did Ukraine actually stop the body swaps while Russia wanted to transfer more? Have they run out of corpses to swap? How could this be if both sides are suffering equal numbers of deaths?
Best not to over-speculate I suppose. We will find out in time – if we can get some analysis untainted by propaganda.
By late July the names of 120,343 Russian soldiers killed during the full-scale war had been identified. That probably makes up about 45-65% of the real death toll, which would equate to between 185,143 and 267,500 dead.
https://200.zona.media/
In my view, regardless of the exact number of deaths and wounded, NONE of them were justified or necessary.
We have been affected by it and will continue to be affected by it through energy bills and taxation, increased defence spending.
This war has been going, on and off, since the mid seventeenth century.
It makes no difference which side is militarily successful. The war will continue.
After all, Cromwell ‘conquered’ Ireland but the desire for a united Ireland has never gone away since.
That “desire” comes only from the Catholic Maryolaters, who have been taught to hate Protestants everywhere more than any other religion.
You could say the same thing about Pakistan & Bangladesh, which are only about 70 years old, carved out of India’s Territory.
You could say that “The Desire for a United India” has never gone away.
Tell that to the Muslim Pakistanis & Bangladeshis.
There is no desire for a ‘United India’ other than the one that currently exists.
There never has been a ‘United India’ except as the current Republic of that name.
“At least six unis at risk of going bust before 2025 freshers finish their degrees
Only six.? Pity…
Choose your Uni and course wisely… maybe even consider getting a 3-year head-start in the employment race over your uni friends. Still want more qualifications? Consider self-funded part-time courses.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/16/britain-tinderbox-union-flags-crackdown-could-explode/
This is exactly why the flags are being removed.
“Put Navy and drones in Channel to stop boats, says Labour peer”
Trivial, ineffective. I’m tempted to say pathetic – but I don’t feel pathos is appropriate.
We can’t stop migrants in mid-Channel without violence – and I don’t think we’ve reached that stage, yet. What we need to do is make it unappealing to come here and attractive to leave again. Bed, board and soap and security from each other – and that’s it. Hard-nosed decisions on asylum: ‘You were in France? Clearly you don’t need asylum’.
The Ukrainians have turned the Black Sea into a ‘no-go zone’ for the Russian navy, so there’s an opening for ingenious developments in that field here at home to use marine drones to puncture inflatables in very shallow waters. But the real solution is blindingly obvious. When anything is banned, it creates a market that ingenious commercially astute entrepreneurs (a.k.a ‘the gangs’) will devise fiendishly cunning ploys to supply. Smugglers, have been a feature of human societies as long as there have been authoritarian States to declare any product or service illegal. To destroy a market, eliminate the demand, and the market collapses. If they really want to ‘Stop the boats!’ then Starmer could instantly make migrants stop wanting to come here – just stop giving migrants freebies. A simple solution for a truly simple government. Ah, but I forget – there’s quite a demand for freebies within the government itself. Damn – back to the drawing board!
In France, they didn’t get “bed, board and soap and security.”
In Australia, they weren’t allowed to even set foot on Aussie soil.
The illegal migrants insist on camping near the Channel coast. They’d have bed, board and soap and policing if they stayed in the cities.
I don’t think illegal migrants should be in our cities. They should be ID’d (they’ve just committed the crime of entering the country illegally) and held in detention with the afore mentioned services. If they abscond before being assessed for asylum then they clearly don’t want to be considered for asylum. If they get rejected for asylum then they can stay in detention until they make arrangements to leave (how? more their problem than ours – maybe an escorted day trip to France or Ireland.). Absconders should be arrested and detained until they leave if discovered working illegally or breaking any more laws.
No. A Total Ban on All Asylum or Refugee Claims, and All Immigration from the Third World, for at least FIVE YEARS, renewable, is what is necessary.
A more realistic view of the Alaska talks is that Putin, after numerous attempts, has finally got Trump to listen to what he has been saying consistently for years.
He wants to protect his borders by ensuring that NATO is not right on his doorstep supporting a fascist-inspired Ukraine military, plus decent treatment for all things Russian there, like being able to speak, write and worship in their traditional manner.
The other feature is that there is a defined timescale for Trump, on account of the US system. Not too long until the electoral campaign for his successor starts, after all.
I hope you are right that Trump is actually listening to what Vladimir Putin has been saying, consistently since June 2024, about the need to address “underlying causes” in order to stop the operation in Ukraine. I actually suspect that Trump does know this (and JD Vance seems well aware, so will inform Trump). His problem is being a relatively solo voice when being confronted by the Neocon majority in Washington (eg powder-puff, forever-war-mongering Lindsey Graham) and the relentless barrage of lies from such people, the wretches of NATO (now led by a complete failure of a former Dutch PM) and, of course, the irrelevant European children (yes, Starmer, I mean you as well) – the so-called Coalition of the Willies! Oh, and the media! What an embarrassment we have in the UK media, who just propagate neocon and NATO propaganda with little or no effort to seek nor provide balance (truth is far too much to hope for!). Sadly this includes channels such as Talk and GB News who were/are supposed to be better than this. It seems like they really learned nothing from 5 years ago, when the power of blanket state propaganda led to people believing absolute… Read more »
Hear, hear!
Boys’ underachievement putting Britain’s world standing ‘at risk’.
Yes, quite. I can’t help having the nagging suspicion that this horse may already have bolted…
Putin’s war aims: Demography In 2006, Putin declared the need to address population decline as “the highest national priority,”….the Kremlin uses forcefully displaced Ukrainians to refill the population pool with educated, predominantly Slavic, Russian-speaking new citizens…….. approximately two million Crimeans who received Russian citizenship after the annexation in 2014……over 2.8 million Ukrainians who had to move to Russia since the beginning of the invasion….more than one million people from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions who had to move to Russia ‘De-europeanisation/De-americanisation’ ‘Ukrainian Nazism is……a fundamental basis for all types of Nazisms – as European, and, in a rather development form, as American racism. The collective West is itself a designer, source, and sponsor of Ukrainian Nazism. Ukraine, as history has shown, cannot exist in the form of a national government, and attempts to “build” it as such, naturally leads to Nazism. Ukrainianism is an artificial anti-Russian construct.’ Violent political repression ‘The Banderite leadership has to be liquidated a forcibly neutral and de-militarized Ukraine, with Nazism banned on formal grounds. The liquidation of armed Nazi formation (which is understood to include any Ukrainian armed formations, including the Armed Forces of Ukraine) Lustration, publicizing the names of the accomplices of the Nazi regime, engaging them in forced… Read more »
Are they your words or someone else’s. You usually make it clear when you are quoting. They appear to be the words of a sociologist.
As an aside, it is highly debatable whether sociology is a science due to the high degree of subjectivity in its application. It needs a psephologist to comment objectively on the vality of any voting cohort.
Sociologists use polls to understand social attitudes and behaviors, while psephologists are specialists in election analysis.
‘Even VTSIOM, the sociological body closest to the Russian state, admits that only a small minority of people polled believe their participation in surveys allows them to express their opinions. This figure is 22%.
Moreover, only 18% of people believe that the authorities are interested in their opinions. This has significant implications for how seriously we should treat surveys as a reliable barometer of public sentiment.’
I don’t understand your point here. On the one hand you quote your unnamed sociologist as suggesting that we shouldn’t necessarily treat surveys as a reasonable barometer of public sentiment – I would agree – but this follows a lengthy screed (from the same ‘unnamed’ sociologist?) as part of a huge anti-Russian propaganda rant, but purportedly linked with opinion polls. Hypocricy?
Or am I misunderstanding how to read and attribute all that you have quoted?
The Russian people are neither for or against the war. They do not react to the war.
Consequently Putin will continue his demographic imperialism until his last breath in around 2030.
Negotiations are simply a pause to regroup.
What ‘demographic imperialism? You have no evidence for such an outlandish statement. It’s just a figment of your overactive imagination.
Of course you could provide proof (and I mean proof, not speculation or globalist propaganda) that such nonsense is actually true.You can’t of course.
Irrational Russophobia is pervasive in this country just as throughout Western Europe – especially among those ‘leaders’ who are most hated by their own peoples. Coincidence? No, it’s far easier to seek war-based support while killing lots of slavs, then to actually do anything to make their peoples’ lives better.
“… a pause to regroup” So just like Minsk II and Minsk III were set up by US, France and Germany for Ukraine to regroup then!
There are none so blind as those that will not see.
‘And, if you believe the forecasts and the estimates are based on actual work, the real work of people who understand this, who have devoted their whole lives to this, in 15 years, there may be 22 million fewer Russians. I ask you to think about this figure: a seventh of the country’s population. If the current trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy’ Putin 2000 ‘In 2006, Putin declared the need to address population decline as “the highest national priority,” ‘In 2013 — the year before the annexation of Crimea, which brought Russia two million new citizens — major daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an article with the alarming headline “Russia is facing a colossal deficit of the working-age population.” The introduction claimed that “Russia has only five years left to get out of the ‘demographic hole.’” Not only economic consequences were discussed, but also threats to the Russian army, given that the demographic crisis “will jeopardize the country’s defense capability (by 2020, the number of men of military age will be reduced by more than a third, and by 2050, by more than 40 percent’ “The natural population decrease in Russia in 2021 amounted to 1.042 million people, compared to 688,700 people in 2020… Read more »
Western governing elites seem to be in some sort of permanent state of delusion, and are constantly battling reality. It seems to be the pattern in every major issue. Ukraine: Russia has basically won. The only thing left is to negotiate a peace on their terms. They were delusional about Russia’s weakness and we all paid the price. Climate: There is no man made climate catastrophe. The attempt to hypnotise the world into eliminating fossil fuels (and the power they confer) is failing. But they persist and we all pay the price. Public spending: Every single year since basically ever the state spends more than it collects, like an out of control gambler. Debt rises, and our money is worth less every year. Weve become so used to being robbed by the state in multiple ways we don’t even think its strange any more. But we all pay the price. Immigration: western countries are being flooded by people of very different cultures, and our societies are being radically transformed in ways most people dont like. It seems it is costing a fortune too. And yet our governembtsp persist with it because they insist that we need the additional work force.… Read more »
Excellent post – I couldn’t agree more… where will it end?
Well said Sir! Once you see it all like you have outlined, it is impossible to unsee it…
… which makes the sense of anger even worse.
‘The top European importers of Russian fossil fuels in July 2025 were Hungary, France, Slovakia, Belgium and Spain, according to an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, an international research organization. Hungary and Slovakia accounted for the vast majority of crude oil imports, according to the analysis, while the others import mostly liquefied natural gas.’
Putin already dominates the politics of Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Austria. Czechia, Romania, Bulgaria may follow. Should Poland also fall under Russian sway, Putin’s political domination of Eastern and Central Europe would be complete.
Britain’s domestic and foreign policy might continue to be dominated by the U.S. but the rest of Europe would become a Russian demesne in all but name…a violent repressive fascism in play across the continent.
Complete and utter tripe! Get over yourself – you know bugger-all!
…..is not an argument.
“Putin demands Ukraine surrender the Donbas as price of peace” Regardless of the outcome of these peace talks, Stalinist Starmer has already vowed to send British troops to Ukraine as “peacekeepers”. 5,000 troops ‘cobbled together’: The reality of UK peacekeeping in Ukraine The minimum projected number of troops is 5000. “Committing 5,000 British troops to Ukraine would mean another four brigades training to take over a six-month tour – putting the total number of soldiers involved at 25,000.” That is ONE-THIRD OF THE ENTIRE BRITISH ARMY. Meanwhile, in only the past two years, a Muslim Army of Military Age Men have arrived in Britain illegally, already outnumbering the entire British Army, and they have been allowed to run free, wreaking havoc upon the Indigenous British Population, hundreds of whom have been thrown into prison for protesting against it. Retired Royal Navy Lt Cmdr Brian Gerrish of the UK Column warned of this over a decade ago, while exposing the Marxist “Common Purpose” Subversives in Fake Tory Prime Minister David Cameron’s government. Brian Gerrish said it was “as if a gigantic fishing net were being drawn around the British People”. The sheer scale of this TREASON is horrific, and it’s time… Read more »
“The European press are having a big stroppy sad following the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska”
And now Weasel Zelensky has gone running in tears to Mummy Ursula von der Leyen, who has comforted him by organizing a whole gang of European leaders to go with Weasel to the Trump meeting, to hold his hand and protect him from Big Bully Trump! Hilarious.
Perhaps the Weasel will perform his signature piano-playing for the assembled throng.
The Ukrainian people should kick him out and replace him with the true leader he sacked out of envy: former General Valerii Zaluzhnyi. “The now-former military chief remains one of the most popular leaders in the country.”
Trump faces White House ambush ahead of Zelensky meeting | Daily Mail Online
You mean like the absolutely horrific threats and abuse hurled at Tommy Robinson and his family? Even attacking him on London Transport, or sexually groping his little daughter on their family holiday at a Spanish swimming pool, or coming in gangs to his family home, or Daily Mail journalists harassing him and his family, and now using lawfare against Tommy for trying to protect his family against their intrusion? Or throwing him in prison with Muslim Terrorists for a civil offence?
Oh, but it seems Tommy doesn’t matter, because he’s not a “politician”, and he’s “working class”, and Nigel once called him “scum” for defending British children.
And they nearly starved Tommy to death in prison, by actually allowing Muslim Criminal Gangs to prepare all his meals in the prison kitchen they control, so they could spit in his food or worse, to contaminate it. He had no choice but to eat uncooked tinned food like tuna fish for months on end, bought from the prison shop, for at least then he could be sure that Muslims couldn’t contaminate it.