News Round-Up
- “A sea of flags. Chants about Keir. Then fists thrown” – Tommy Robinson and his supporters are definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, but they gave the most vivid expression yet to the despair felt by many over migration, says the Mail‘s Ian Gallagher after attending the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London.
- “Police chiefs blast anti-migrant protesters after 26 officers injured” – The ‘Unite The Kingdom’ march saw an estimated 150,000 people march through central London today, with police reporting that they faced “unacceptable violence” from the crowd after 26 officers were injured and 25 protesters were arrested, reports the Mail.
- “Musk blames Government for ‘rapidly increasing erosion of Britain’” – Elon Musk criticised the UK Government for a “rapidly increasing erosion of Britain” during Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protest in London on Saturday, reports the Mail.
- “There are three explanations for how Keir gave Mandelson a job – none are pretty” – Read Jeremy Clarkson’s withering take on the Mandelson fiasco in the Sun.
- “Is this the end for Morgan McSweeney?” – Labour’s calamitous start to life in Government has exposed Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff to scrutiny like never before, says Patrick Maguire in the Times.
- “Starmer appointed Mandelson without proper checks” – Sir Keir Starmer appointed Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the United States without fully vetting his links to Jeffrey Epstein, confirming his appointment even before formal security checks on him had begun, the Telegraph reports.
- “Whatever happens next for Labour, Keir Starmer’s days in office are clearly numbered” – It is over for Sir Keir Starmer and, deep down, he knows it, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Powell’s arrogant dismissal of Pakistani rape gangs would doom her as Labour deputy leader” – If Labour elects Lucy Powell as its new deputy leader, she could be about to become a poster girl – not for her own party but for Reform UK, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Oxford Union backlash after celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination” – The Oxford Union is facing a growing backlash, with prestigious speakers cancelling forthcoming appearances, after its incoming president made gloating remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, reports the Mail.
- “I was once Oxford Union president. I don’t recognise what it has become” – In the Telegraph, James Price makes the free speech case for removing George Abaraonye from being head of the Oxford Union, arguing that Abaraonye has previously been explicit in calling for violent action and has already rowed back his non-apology.
- “Oxford Union president to face ‘disciplinary proceedings’ over Charlie Kirk messages” – George Abaraonye is set to face both disciplinary proceedings and a vote of no confidence when he takes up the post next month, reports the Telegraph.
- “Former BBC star sparks uproar over ‘gross’ Charlie Kirk statement hours after his death” – Former BBC star Nadiya Hussain is facing fierce backlash after posting a lengthy statement online branding Charlie Kirk an “Islamophobe and bigot” just hours after his murder, reports the Express.
- “Charlie Kirk’s UK campaign group warns of death threats against its members as Left-wing activists call for Trump and JK Rowling to be targeted ‘next’” – Free speech must not be allowed to die with Charlie Kirk, Toby tells the Mail, as Kirk’s British campaign group says its members have received death threats online.
- “How Charlie Kirk made conservatism great again” – Kirk is irreplaceable, says Poppy Cockburn in the Telegraph. “Let’s hope whoever comes next as standard-bearer for the young Right shares his humility, curiosity and grace.”
- “Funerals should comply with Net Zero, says Labour” – Labour is plotting to make UK funerals ‘greener’ by banning gas cremation ovens and forcing grieving families to choose eco-friendly wicker or bamboo coffins, reports the Telegraph.
- “Blades fall off 250ft wind turbine” – The blades of a controversial wind turbine standing more than 250ft tall have broken off and crashed to the ground after being in use for less than a year, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘We want to leave’: inside Gordon Brown’s eerily quiet eco-town” – The “soulless” eco-town of Northstowe in Cambridgeshire has become a cautionary tale for Labour’s ‘green’ housebuilding ambitions, says the Telegraph.
- “Wildfire Data Undercuts Al Jazeera’s Claims Of Climate-Driven Pollution Surge” – Data show global wildfires and smoke pollution are declining, contradicting claims they’re worsening due to climate change, says Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Sadiq Khan racks up enough air miles to fly to the Moon and back” – London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of “preaching Net Zero from the comfort of his many plane journeys” after clocking up enough airmiles for a return trip to the Moon.
- “Britain’s public sector pension albatross hits £5.8 trillion” – Taxpayers face a bill twice the national debt to fund public sector gold-plated retirements, says the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hodge: Supreme Court had a duty to rule on gender” – The Supreme Court’s Deputy President has no regrets about the landmark ruling on the definition of a woman within the Equality Act, says the Times.
- “‘Man overboard’ is offensive term, says Royal Yachting Association” – The phrase ‘man overboard’ is an offensive term that should be avoided, the Royal Yachting Association has said, reports the Telegraph.
- “Europe’s Iron Dome plans at risk over anti-Israel backlash” – Europe’s plans to construct an Iron Dome-style missile and drone shield risk being scuppered by mounting anti-Israeli sentiment over the war in Gaza, according to the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: 100 new Epstein emails ‘that could destroy’ Prince Andrew” – “Well-placed” sources have revealed to the Mail that potentially “incriminating” emails between Andrew and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein are contained in documents currently being reviewed by the US Congress.
- “NHS spends £130k a day on translations for non-English speaking patients” – NHS translation and interpretation spending has more than doubled over the past five financial years to £64 million, Telegraph analysis reveals.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zxp1y5lwo What’s really going on? ‘We are doing our best to make the killing stop through diplomacy, through sanctions that are about to be activated against Russia. Every report I am hearing from the House and the Senate is that we are very close to passing secondary sanctions that will cripple Russia’s economy and make it impossible for them to continue waging war, unless they receive support from nations like China,” …..we may be forced to start a real war in Moscow. “That is not what we want, but we will do it if they refuse to come to heel. This sends a strong signal to the world that we will not allow tyrants and bullies to attack or destroy smaller nations simply because they can. That is not good for humanity, and it is not good for the will of people around the world. Every nation deserves sovereignty. Every nation deserves the right to govern itself without the threat of being crushed by another nation’s force. The path must always begin with diplomacy,” “But if diplomacy fails, trust me, my brothers and sisters, knowing the president for over twelve years, being in his inner circle long before he ever… Read more »
Funny that. That is why Russia intervened in Ukraine – to defend the defenceless in Donbas.
‘Despite the existence of some long-term baseline separatism, the Donbas was neither outstandingly prosperous nor excessively economically depressed—relative to the rest of Ukraine—to warrant an armed uprising of its own volition.
Even before Putin’s War on Ukraine 2.0, the evidence presented here points to the paramount role of exogenous political agency (i.e., the Russian military intervention) and of endogenous military geography (dense urban environment in close proximity to the Russian border) in explaining the outbreak of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in April 2014’
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2019.1684447
Where do you find such obscure references from? It is a review of an essay presented by Vlad Mykhnenko, a Fellow of St Peter’s College and Associate Professor of Sustainable Urban Development.
The original essay was published in 2020.
‘I read international relations as an undergraduate and graduate student at the Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Ukraine), before doing another Master’s degree in international relations and European studies at the Central European University, Budapest (Hungary). Afterwards, I moved to Darwin College, Cambridge to work on a doctorate concerned with the political economy of post-communist transformations in eastern Europe’s two largest old industrial regions – Upper Silesia (Poland) and the Donbas (Ukraine).’
Vlad Mykhnenko
Post communist transformations! Really up to date.
The war in Donbas was principally the end result of foreign instigation, intervention and invasion, aided and abetted by collaborating elements of the Yanukovych regime (Malyarenko & Wolff Citation 2018).
Zhukov (Citation 2016)…..found that armed insurgents in Donbas were able to establish control more quickly in densely populated localities that were accessible by road, situated at relatively high elevation and close to the Russian border, thus concluding that military geography was strongly and consistently predictive of armed conflict.
More sanctions? Which exactly?
USA wage war – Russia would wipe the floor with it.
‘Next week, the lawmakers said, they will urge colleagues “on both sides of the aisle to join us in advancing this legislation and standing with freedom against tyranny.”……secondary sanctions on nations such as India and China that are effectively propping up Moscow’s wartime economy.’ 13 Sept 2025 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/13/gop-russia-hawks-have-a-new-sanctions-strategy-00563106 ‘Russia’s poor performance has likely been caused by several factors: the Russian military’s reliance on dismounted infantry and mechanized forces to take Ukrainian territory, Russia’s failure to use operational fires in a coordinated way that enables maneuver, and Ukraine’s effective utilization of defense in depth. Wang Guanjung and Zhang Renbo were captured fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine earlier this month. Handcuffed and wearing military fatigues at a briefing organised by Ukrinform, the Ukrainian national news agency, the pair said: “All Russia fed us are lies. They’re fake. Russia isn’t as strong as they claim…. Russian forces have advanced an average of only 50 meters per day in such areas as Kharkiv, slower than during the Somme offensive in World War I, where French and British forces advanced an average of 80 meters per day. Russian rates of advance have also been significantly slower than during such offensives as Galicia in 1914… Read more »
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“Former BBC star sparks uproar over ‘gross’ Charlie Kirk statement hours after his death”
You can always tell a lefty as they will flap their gums trying to prove political points, when the situation really demands some quiet introspection. Then they talk all over anyone who has something else to say. Nadia got lucky with Bake Off, got a couple of cookery series, sold some books, made enough to live comfortably with her family. Why she feels the need to vex about Charlie Kirk, lord only knows. If she didn’t like him, fair enough, but now is the time to shut up, go about your business, and not make insults into the faces of people who think he is a hero and martyr.
Well I think it’s sad that she thinks these things but good that she expresses them publicly – never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. She is quite well known I believe and lots of people who watch that kind of show, moderate people,
may now see that she is not as nice and cuddly as they had believed.
Many people don’t fully appreciate the cleansing effect of free speech.
Nicely put
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/13/funerals-comply-net-zero-labour/
“It cites the example of Redditch, just south of Birmingham, where the local authority has connected its crematorium to the local swimming pool.
Doug Henderson, from Bromsgrove District and Redditch Borough councils, said: “The waste heat generated from each cremation is used to heat the leisure facilities. It feeds the leisure centre with all the heat it needs to operate the swimming pool.”
The stupidity of governments never ceases to amaze me, they have time to work out how to rule on the minutiae of our lives. But heating a swimming pool from the heat from a crematoria feels decidedly ‘yuk’. Heading into Soylent Green territory I feel.
Actually seems to me to be a good idea. Not dissimilar to a district heating system. Nothing like “Soylent Green”
Sorry – we overlapped, but great minds and all that. It all has to start somewhere.
Soylent Green anyone?
Ok maybe Soylent Green ref a bit too much but I’m sorry, it might seem like a good idea not to waste ‘heat’ but yuk. I want to be cremated but the thought of me going up in smoke and heating the local leisure centre just seems wrong.
“A good idea” in the treatment of the dead is what the community and its customs consider appropriate, which in our culture, like most others, is what is respectful. It may be environmentally useful and financially lucrative to sell the ashes as phosphate fertilizer, but that is unlikely to resonate with a majority of grieving relatives.
Likewise, most people are likely to think of their cremated relative’s spirit ascending to heaven in some way, rather than being measured in fractions of pool hours of heat.
Thank you
“Funerals should comply with Net Zero, says Labour”
This is absolutely top priority stuff. I’ve jokingly said to the family, when the awkward question is raised, no burial, no cremation. Just leave me out by the bins. And here we are.!
Hope you don’t live in Birmingham!😆
“Police chiefs blast anti-migrant protesters after 26 officers injured”
Can we have a breakdown of ‘Physical injury’/’Hurty words’ please..?
Actually there is a distinct possibly that the lefties caused the injuries to plod. A mob of the “love everyone” brigade attacked plod on Westminster Bridge with wood and missiles and I have seen the video.
Video posted below.
What problems arose yesterday are also of course primarily the fault of the little khant who refused permission for “that lot” to use Parliament Square.
“‘Man overboard’ is offensive term, says Royal Yachting Association”
It is important to ascertain the victim’s pronouns before yelling for help.
I spent many years of my life sailing professionally, sailed with many thousands of people, never once had someone object to anything procedural (except a lady who did not understand the high heels ban), if someone finds MoB objectionable them perchance sailing just isn’t for them….?
“A sea of flags. Chants about Keir. Then fists thrown”
This seems to follow both the Mail’s and Telegraph’s line of painting a picture of violent thugs when anybody watching the event could see it was remarkably orderly.
It is not yet clear exactly who hit whom, and why, but the fact that it occurred just where police kettled freedom of speech marchers (too) close to to shouting the Antifa crowd is telling.
Perhaps the reason the MSM were back in that area was because they were told they were not welcome to misreport by the stage. Or perhaps the script was written before the thing even started.
One of the more interesting revelations was that Westminster City Council tried to cancel the event 2 days before, knowing full well that hundreds of thousands would still turn up. Fortunately the police overruled the ban. But it doesn’t seem the council banned the opposing Antifa demonstration, which would have avoided any risk of violence.
Of course MSM needed these headlines so as you say hold & push the UT Kingdom people back via horses with helmeted & truncheoned police everywhere – Bingo there’s your story of the day, also the same news outlets said the crowd was approx 100-000, + the antifa mob just got police in normal uniform .
Freddy, see the very short video by Don Keith I have just posted below.
If the BLM riots were “mostly peaceful” then yesterday’s events were a vicar’s tea party.
For context, the internet says over 400 arrests at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. If there had been, for example, an organised protest next to the carnival, featuring people who wanted the carnival banned, what would have been the arrest count? We will not find out because it would never have been allowed.
How many arrests during the miners strike? How many during the poll tax protests? All of those were different though of course- police brutality against people fighting for freedom.
I think much of the violence took place when the police prevent some of the marchers from moving forwards.
Absolutely. Thanks Jon. I agree. I was there.
Nazi scum! 🙂
The sea of Union flags, English, Irish (and Republic) Scottish and Welsh was a beautiful sight to behold and a reason to lift the heart and soul with hope for the future!.
Meanwhile, inside the Albert Hall, the upper and elitest classes held loft the European flag finally nailing there true colours to the mast.
Fu@k the Proms from now on! It’s no longer a celebration of Britain it should be relocated to Brussels and good riddance to it!
As always it will be the working salt of the earth classes that save Britain not the academic elitest who only pretend to be patriotic! Here’s to the real people of Britain 🍺
You mean the sort of people who were first against the wall when the glorious revolution took place at the turn of last century.
Seconded 👍
Here here! I was there too. The crowd were well behaved and good humoured. A magnificent day I will remember for a long time. Loved the different NATIONAL flags. Not sure about the Union Jack as “the British” (i.e. the deep state) are hell bent on splitting up England and thus the English.
“Sadiq Khan racks up enough air miles to fly to the Moon and back”
Can we just make it a one way ticket?
Brilliant. 👍👍👍
“Man overboard’ is offensive term, says Royal Yachting Association”
A cacophony of desperate shouting amongst the crashing waves:
“Help, help im drowning”
“What’s your pronouns?”
(Apologies Jon Garvey, didnt see your earlier post, sorry 😐)
Great minds have the same pronouns.
Person of Gender overboard.
As opposed to… person of NO gender overboard.
Gaslighting on a national scale to cover up the truth of yesterdays protest march. They are all scared. Robinson started off the march by telling the participants not to use violence, wear masks, or drink alcohol.In the main, they didn’t. The police were so overwhelmed by the numbers attending that they prevented a large number of people listening to the speeches, and in doing so triggered a violent reaction by a very few. The police also misrepresented the numbers attending by an order of magnitude, and these figures were quoted by the press. The press also told us yet again that Robinson was not using the name he was born with – perhaps if he was using Janet and wore a skirt he would have avoided this. The Telegraph and Mail comment columns reveal the mood of many of the public. The Telegraph had over 10,000 comments and only a handful supported the paper’s position. A good number said their subscriptions had been cancelled as a consequence. This is only the beginning. GB News and Talk Radio seem to be the only national news outlets that are covering this in the least bit accurately. PS I note that the counterdemonstration… Read more »
Even GBNews ‘dead named’ Robinson yesterday, much to my annoyance. I’m fine if Tommy’s real name isn’t the one he is best known by. They dont do this to anyone else.
The stupid thing is that he’s not even ashamed of his real name. I’ve heard his freinds call him “Yax” and one of the speakers yesterday twice thanked “Lennon.”
Yes, the press never say “Elton John, real name Reginald Dwight”, do they?
Or “Freddy Mercury, real name Farrokh Bulsara”…
I expect it would be relatively easy to form a good estimate of crowd numbers using a few cameras or drones plus AI.
But I suspect few would want good estimates – the Powers That Be would prefer to downplay attendance and protestors (especially counter-protestors) would prefer to exaggerate their numbers.
https://x.com/GSGB01/status/1966832337897091276
Have a look at this. Shock and awe.
Apparently Wembley Stadium can hold 90,000 people. It seemed to my untrained eye that the x.com film showed several Wembley’s worth of people thus an estimate of 100,000 or 150,000 is well short.
Exactly.
The little khant is responsible for whatever problems occurred yesterday because he refused Tommy’s request to use Parliament Square. I spent the day at the top of Parliament St in front of Screen Three. Some time mid afternoon there was a bit of a hullabaloo and I asked a buddy what was going on. Plod had decided to block off entry to Parliament Street but some off the Patriots, clearly being pushed from behind, wanted to get closer to the viewing screens and eventually the sheer weight of numbers broke the line of constables and people poured through. There was no violence and I watched the action unfold.
As i posted above 99% of any trouble was down to the little khant.
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For clarification:
Masks are banned at Patriot Rally’s.If anyone is seen wearing a mask they are approached by Stewards and asked to remove it. If they refuse they are escorted away from the venue. I’ve seen it happen.
“The press also told us yet again that Robinson was not using the name he was born with…”
What is their obsession with this: it clearly is an obsession? What are they trying to imply, what are we supposed to infer?
Most actors and celebs don’t use their real names but the media never says, Elton John real name Reginald Kenneth Dwight every time he is mentioned.
Yes, or “Freddy Mercury, real name Farrokh Bulsara”
I find it hard to believe the security file on Mandleson did not open decades ago.
MI5 was able to brief Prime Ministers on prospective appointees with minimal delay in the days of one, ink and typewriters. To suggest they did not have time to do it properly over Mandleson is an insult to our intelligence.
Oxford Union president to face ‘disciplinary proceedings’ over Charlie Kirk messages”
‘George Abaraonye is set to face both disciplinary proceedings and a vote of no confidence when he takes up the post next month’
He’s young, he’s a fool, he should have resigned. He won’t. The Oxford Union will no doubt expel him.
On a blog elsewhere it suggested that the previously solid ‘Diplomatic Immunity’ for the far left has now come to an end. Perhaps some way to go still, but the realisation that you can be censured, even cancelled, might moderate the debate. Or (shudder) a few nutters to go to extremest because of the increased ‘far right’ resistance.
Expel him? I hope so for their sakes.
Just saw a headline along the lines of “Vote paves way for return of Chagos to Mauritius. As far as I know until very recently the Island of Mauritius was a colony of various countries and before then it was just an island, not a country. The headline suggests we somehow took Chagos away from some country called Mauritius and now we are giving it back. What actually seems to have happened is that Chagos happened to be part of a job lot of territories which also included Mauritius and when some of that job lot gained independence, Chagos didn’t. Not the same thing at all.
The sneering approach taken by The Daily Sceptic has angered and upset me.
I am fucking fuming.
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See below tof.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/a9YAmk64Kmwgh2289
As this comment makes clear.
https://x.com/mattuthompson/status/1269708110635175936
The anti British mob on manoeuvres.
https://youtube.com/shorts/o7baxnvhHj8?si=ibdSIkPfLFavno8b
Don Keith pointing out something most of us will have missed. The Police very cleverly have a “presentation” style depending on which groups they are “policing.”
“… with police reporting that they faced “unacceptable violence” from the crowd after 26 officers were injured and 25 protesters were arrested, reports the Mail.” The police screwed up. Having been made aware big numbers were expected… 1 million… even if that’s an exaggeration, they should have been prepared for big numbers. They say 110 000 turned up, but they then say there were too many people and to avoid congestion and a crush, the agreed routes were blocked so thousands could not proceed along the routes they were told to follow. They were blocked by police with pepper spray and battons drawn and police horses – acceptable violence. So, thousands found alternative routes which led them to the Lefti-loonie counter-demonstration. Some say police directed them down these streets. Police reinforcements were brought in from outside London and it appears they were not properly briefed, and poor communication between different police units and confusion followed. Of course blame the participants in the rally, don’t tell the full story, and above all do not take any responsibility for poor policing – and do hype up the few incidents which brought conflict and ignore the main event of hundreds of thousands which passed… Read more »
“Police chiefs blast anti-migrant protesters after 26 officers injured”
Great comment from the public in the Daily Mail:
“Notting Hill carnival:
528 arrests, 46 weapons taken, 18 sexual offences, 61 police officers injured.
Media Narrative: ‘GOOD FAMILY DAY OUT’.
Every year the same offences.
Yesterday’s Unite the Kingdom rally:
9 arrests, 0 weapons taken, 0 sexual offences, 26 police officers injured.
Media Narrative: ‘EXTREMIST FAR RIGHT RACIST YOBS’.
Explain that”