News Round-Up
- “Recognising Palestine ‘is a reward for Hamas’, says Trump” – Donald Trump has warned Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state will do nothing to help Israelis held hostage by Hamas and is a “reward” for the terror group, according to the Times.
- “What will Keir Starmer’s Palestine declaration achieve?” – In the Spectator, Jonathan Sacerdoti asks whether Starmer’s reasons for declaring Palestinian statehood make any sense.
- “The Palestinian ambassador to UK who refused to condemn murder of Jews” – Palestine’s ambassador to the UK refused to condemn the murder of seven Israelis outside a synagogue on Holocaust Memorial Day, reports the Telegraph.
- “Macron’s UN theatrics cannot hide deep divisions in Europe” – The French President prompted a wave of recognition of a Palestinian state, but Europe remains divided over the war in Gaza, writes James Crisp in the Telegraph.
- “Forget Palestine – when will Starmer recognise Britain?” – A PM who can’t control borders at home has no business playing state-builder abroad, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer accused of rule-breaking regarding aide Morgan McSweeney” – The Tories say that the PM may have broken the MPs’ code of conduct by failing to declare past support from the Labour Together think-tank, previously run by his Chief of Staff, according to the Mail.
- “Farage plan to save £234 billion from migrant benefit cuts ‘falling apart’” – Nigel Farage’s claim that Reform UK will save £234 billion by banning foreigners from claiming benefits is facing mounting scrutiny after it emerged there would be a temporary carve-out for EU citizens, reports the Times.
- “Ed Davey hints Lib Dems open to Labour deal to keep Reform out of No 10” – Ed Davey has dropped a major hint that he’s prepared to prop up Labour after the next election to keep Reform out of power, reports the Mail.
- “Sultana ‘determined’ to reconcile with Corbyn” – Zarah Sultana says she will not pursue legal action in a bid to repair the rift that has torn apart her new political party with Jeremy Corbyn, according to Sky News.
- “Labour is driving its tribe towards Reform” – The Labour Party, as it gathers for its conference next week, needs to reflect on whether it really has been listening to its own tribe, says Trevor Phillips in the Times.
- “Trump for PM? It might just be possible…” – Britain needs a leader who can act like WD40 on the levers of power to lift the country from the doldrums, says Jacob Rees-Mogg in the Telegraph.
- “Labour ignored fire chiefs’ warning over rewilding plans” – Labour ignored warnings from fire chiefs that its rewilding plans would increase the risk of wildfires, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Rewilding means wildfires. Environmentalists and ministers can’t ignore it” – Rewilding sounds great, but it’s fuelling wildfires, warns the Telegraph in a leading article – and ministers should start listening to fire chiefs, not eco-zealots.
- “Red Ed survived the reshuffle, only to have his beloved Net Zero agenda torn up” – The wholly discretionary rush to Net Zero increasingly looks like an act of wanton vandalism, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Miliband poised to overrule Nimbys to build nuclear waste dumps” – Ed Miliband could change the law to allow nuclear plants to dump radioactive waste near countryside communities without their consent, reports the Express.
- “Are climate change cafes helping people process their anxieties?” – Climate cafes let people obsessively fret over doom together. In WUWT?, Eric Worrall calls it the climate-activist version of a wet house.
- “Rigged report by National Academies aims to thwart Trump energy agenda” – The National Academy of Sciences has just released its “review” of the Trump EPA’s plan to rescind the greenhouse-gas endangerment finding – and it’s every bit the rigged, foregone conclusion we expected, says Steve Milloy in the Daily Caller.
- “New study: modern warmth is merely part of a natural cycle” – Modern warmth is just another turn in Earth’s natural climate cycle, with past Holocene periods often hotter, writes Kenneth Richard on NoTricksZone.
- “Billionaire-backed liberal group pledges $7.5 billion for green energy in poor nations” – A green energy coalition tied to billionaire-backed outfits such as the Bezos Earth Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation is preparing to funnel $7.5 billion into global projects, according to the Daily Caller.
- “Al Gore blasts Trump’s ‘jihad’ on climate while profiting from emissions-heavy sectors” – Al Gore claims Trump has created a political “distortion field” despite his own investments tied to dirty energy sources, reports Breitbart.
- “Trump links paracetamol use with autism” – Donald Trump has urged Americans not to take paracetemol, warning about an alleged link to developing autism, says the Mail.
- “An unappealing case” – In TakiMag, Theodore Dalrymple scrutinises the excessive leniency, general incompetence and politically correct turn of Western European ‘justice’ systems.
- “The day Maga descended on a desert stadium to immortalise Charlie Kirk” – If the assassination of Charlie Kirk was an attempt to silence American conservatives, then his memorial service marked a stunning repudiation of that plan, says Benedict Smith in the Telegraph.
- “BBC editor sparks fury after calling Charlie Kirk ‘far-Right’ during funeral coverage” – The BBC’s North America Editor has sparked fury after calling Charlie Kirk “far-Right” during televised coverage of the political activist’s funeral, reports the Mail.
- “Why did the BBC call Charlie Kirk ‘far-Right’?” – The mainstream media are still demonising a man who was killed for his beliefs, says Georgina Mumford in Spiked.
- “After Charlie Kirk, will the Right fight or forgive?” – Charlie Kirk’s assassination has split the Right between forgiveness and fury, writes Fin de Pencier in the Spectator.
- “Trump goes against Charlie Kirk’s grieving widow’s call to ‘forgive’” – President Trump has apologised to Charlie Kirk’s wife for refusing to join her call to forgive the man who assassinated her husband in cold blood, reports the Mail.
- “Trump peddles hate, Starmer rewards it” – The US President’s remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial were un-Christian and are likely to foment violence, warns Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Charlie Kirk and America’s fifth great awakening” – America’s MAGA movement now wears religion like armour – a strident, cross-faith political Christianity that looks like a “fifth great awakening”, says Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “Jimmy Kimmel show to return after being taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments” – Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show will return to the airwaves after it was cancelled indefinitely over his “offensive” comments about Charlie Kirk’s death, reports Sky News.
- “US ready to bail out Milei’s Argentina, says White House” – US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that the US is “ready to do what is needed” to help stabilise Argentina’s escalating financial turmoil, according to the BBC.
- “Archbishop of Canterbury ‘should talk less about politics’, poll finds” – A quarter of Brits believe the next Archbishop of Canterbury should avoid political issues, with new polling showing immigration and asylum are particularly divisive topics, reports Premier Christian News.
- “Sarah Ferguson is dropped as patron of children’s hospice” – The Duchess of York has been dropped by seven charities including the Teenage Cancer Trust and British Heart Foundation after new revelations about her contact with late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, says the Mail.
- “Tory new mum hits out at ‘patronising’ Labour MP in ‘chestfeeding’ row” – A new mum Tory MP has accused a Labour rival of being “patronising” after they clashed over NHS advice about ‘chestfeeding’.
- “‘Nonsense’ civil servant network events banned during work hours” – Civil servants are to be banned from “nonsense” network events during work hours, after past themes included ‘Guilt of Being British’ and veganism, reports the Telegraph.
- “Welsh Labour Government spends £83,000 asking itself how to be ‘anti-racist’” – Guido reveals that Welsh Labour has blown £83,000 on an “anti-racism” report packed with equity vetoes and micro-aggression training.
- “Harry Potter fans outraged as women audition to play Lord Voldemort” – Harry Potter fans have shared their outrage after it was revealed that HBO are auditioning females to play Lord Voldemort in the upcoming “woke” rebrand of the characters, reports the Mail.
- “Woke Nato bans ‘offensive’ word ‘airmen’ when it should be deterring Russia” – NATO says the word airmen is offensive and must be replaced by the gender-inclusive term “air force personnel”, according to the Sun.
- “Israel has just announced that they formally recognise Great Britain as a Palestinian state” – In a tongue-in-cheek jab at Starmer’s recognition of Palestine, Wall Street Mav has shared a picture of pro-Gaza supporters outside Parliament, joking that Israel has formally recognised Britain as a Palestinian state.
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There’s some brilliant videos on youtube that, hopefully, sum up how most people in this country feel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oCx6lbstuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xta_6cNUM8&list=RD6Xta_6cNUM8&start_radio=1
First one is “unavailable”, so must be good!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15122847/Ed-Davey-Lib-Dem-coalition-deal-Labour-Reform.html
What is new? As ever, LibDem will get into bed with anyone in order to get a seat at the table. Despicable lot.
You are spot on! One commenter said,
“The LibDems are THE BRIGADOON PARTY, who only appear just before a general election, wait for the election results, then disappear again until the next election.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-will-keir-starmers-palestine-declaration-achieve/
Perhaps it will go a long way to appease a certain stream of voters?
Wouldn’t it be a refreshing change if Starmer – or indeed
alla significant number of politicians, nationally or locally – concentrated on the betterment of the U.K. and its citizens instead of interfering in foreign affairs?But that is not why they are in politics. Do catch up. Your idea is so mid century and laced with a nostalgic hankering for democracy.
Should have included something about Antifa’s violent reaction to Meloni’s refusal to go along the path of recognising a Palestinian state.
“Miliband poised to overrule Nimbys to build nuclear waste dumps”
There’s a strong case for new nuclear but this is no different to what Thatcher tried to do to Fulbeck in Lincolnshire in the 1980s.
Disposal of nuclear waste is still its Achilles heal that will still take some solving!
Disposal is certainly something to be solved. The French run a lot of nuclear stations. What do they do with the stuff?
I don’t think we want to make it too difficult to recover the stuff if we find a use for it in future. If it’s still highly energetic/radioactive I can certainly imagine future technology being developed to re-use our present nuclear ‘waste’.
Clearly not enough actual work to occupy their time. Thin them out starting with those who are at ‘events’ rather than at their workplaces (real or virtual).
“Trump links paracetamol use with autism” The Mail article, like the Telegraph’s, implies that Trump shot his mouth off in a vacuum, and all the doctors in the world are objecting. In fact he introduced a 1 1/2 hour presentation by his health chiefs, who presented the strong evidence they have adduced to change the indications for paracetamol, and described the shortcomings of current research, and further studies being commissioned on the whole question of the massive and unexplained increase in autism. Not surprisingly, the comments under the articles largely mock Trump’s inexpertise – because as always they have been deliberately misled by the British press as to the real situation. The worst part are the experts saying “there is no conclusive evidence that paracetamol causes…” which is true of all the other drugs withdrawn or limited in their indications when there is highly suspicious evidence of harm. If Trump was at fault, it was in saying (quite clearly, were he quoted in full) that his scientific colleagues were awaiting full evidence, but that as a non-scientist he advocated minimising paracetamol use unless essential. That is considerably more balanced than what our politicians said about everyone needing a COVID vaccine… Read more »
Some might say that part of the increase in the number of cases of Autism is changes in the related discipline. There is plenty of published detail about Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which might not have attracted much attention years ago.
There are many chemicals which people ingest to a greater extent now than in earlier generations. Various plasticisers, surfactants, microfibres, sweeteners, artificial fats and oils and many others before we start on self- or prescribed medications or vaccines. My particular bête noire (I exaggerate for effect) is rinse-aid in dishwashers; I hate the taint it leaves. Certainly, when I was a lad I observed adults recommend that if someone had a bad headache to take an ‘aspirin’ (not paracetamol, which was not available over the counter at the time). I recall the foul taste of paracetamol when my parents first gave me that before I acquired the skill of swallowing tablets whole. According to Wikipedia: Concerns about paracetamol’s safety delayed its widespread acceptance until the 1970s, but in the 1980s paracetamol sales exceeded those of aspirin in many countries, including the United Kingdom. When my wife was pregnant in the 1980s, I recall her saying the her GP recommended her to try to avoid taking paracetamol or any other OTC medication throughout her pregnancy and to limit (not eliminate) alcohol consumption. Paracetamol is a useful drug and clearly has significant effects on the body – or we wouldn’t use it.… Read more »
“The day Maga descended on a desert stadium to immortalise Charlie Kirk”
An eerie, Oscar-winning, over-the-top public performance from his dry-eyed Catholic widow, who quickly took control of the Evangelical Protestant American Patriot movement he built. Where were the rest of his family? Pushed into the background.
The Vatican must be breathing a sigh of relief, now that the danger of an Evangelical Protestant becoming US President has been averted. Will his Catholic widow also try to become US President, after disgracefully snuggling up to Trump? So many of these women have a voracious lust for power, like Candace Owens, Hilary Clinton, Ilhan Omar married to her own brother, Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke, Angela Merkel, Ursula vonderLeyen, and countless others.
“The Monstrous Regiment of Women”, as someone once said.
She even displayed his corpse in the casket in her supposed “private” moments of grief, whispering to him as she draped herself over it, beautiful hair cascading, her long fingernails stroking his embalmed hand.
It was macabre.