News Round-Up
- “Starmer is least popular PM on record, poll finds” – Only 13% of voters are satisfied with the Prime Minister, the fewest of any leader since polling began in the 1970s, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain embraced authoritarianism long before Starmer’s ID cards” – Starmer won’t stop illegal migration, but he could leave us with a China-style social credit system, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Petition saying no to Keir Starmer’s digital ID card plan hits Two Million – as Farage brands scheme ‘un-British’” – A petition on the Parliament website against the Government’s plans for new digital ID cards has reached two million signatures, the Mail reports.
- “Total Surveillance, Censorship and Behaviour Control are Real Goals of Digital ID Advocates” – Michael Shellenberger on Public explains why Americans should be alarmed by what Bill Gates, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Keir Starmer are pushing.
- “The SNP’s hypocrisy over digital ID” – The Spectator spotlights SNP hypocrisy over digital ID given the party’s record on vaccine passports during Covid and its 2021 digital identity service proposals.
- “A migration catastrophe unfolds in Calais” – Multitudes of destitute and desperate men originating from across the world are in the French city of Calais, which increasingly resembles a giant refugee encampment, according to Sue Reid in the Mail.
- “Labour mayor sought visas for Bangladeshi family and friends” – Labour mayor Mohammad Amirul Islam abused his mayoral office to try to secure immigration visas to bring 41 family members and friends from Bangladesh to Britain, a Telegraph investigation has found.
- “Nigel Farage has a point about migrants eating swans” – In the Spectator, our own Laurie Wastell looks at the evidence on migrants mistreating UK wildlife.
- “Migrants eating swans: a white-wing myth?” – In Spiked, Georgina Mumford says Nigel Farage’s claims may have been sensationalist, but they weren’t entirely groundless.
- “Crime and no punishment in Khan’s London” – In the Spectator, Mary Wakefield details the dispiriting reality of living in Khan’s London, where trivial behaviour is penalised while flagrant crime goes unpunished.
- “Green Meltdown: Trump’s Second Term Breaks the Back of Climate Activism” – In Legal Insurrection, Leslie Eastman says Trump’s second term has delivered a killer blow to the Net Zero project.
- “Claim: Climate Change is Making Amazon Rainforest Trees Fatter” – In WUWT, Eric Worrall highlights a study that tries to spin the tree-boosting benefits of carbon dioxide as a negative.
- “Billions Spent, Atmosphere Doesn’t Notice” – The UK’s flagship carbon capture and storage (CCS) installation will sequester annual emissions so tiny they’ll barely make a dent, at a price per tonne you’d expect to see on a luxury cruise, says Willis Eschenbach on WUWT.
- “‘Climate Pragmatism’: The New Retreat” – In Master Resource, Robert Bradley Jr detects a changing of the tide among green activists.
- “Ofcom Spends More Than a Million to Propagandise Online Safety Act” – State regulator Ofcom has spent more than £1 million advertising the Online Safety Act since early last year, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “Second Massive Population Study Finds COVID-19 ‘Vaccines’ Increase Risk of Six Major Cancers” – A South Korean study of 8.4 million adults has found higher risks of lung, prostate, thyroid, gastric, colorectal and breast cancers across both mRNA and viral-vector platforms, contributing to higher cancer rates overall among the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated.
- “Tylenol, Leucovorin and Child Neurodevelopment” – On Substack, Robert Malone has an overview of “just the proven biochemical, pharmacologic and clinical facts” in relation autism, paracetamol and the new treatment drug Leucovorin.
- “Two women die after 100 migrants overwhelm small boat in Channel” – Two Somali women have died after 100 migrants overwhelmed a makeshift small boat in the English Channel, reports the Telegraph.
- “Next Archbishop of Canterbury should remain silent on migration, says Lord Carey” – The next archbishop of Canterbury should keep silent on migration, Lord Carey has said in an apparent attack on Justin Welby, the Telegraph reports.
- “Reed to veto Islamophobia law if free speech threatened” – Labour will overrule its independent advisers on the definition of Islamophobia if they suggest “blasphemy laws by the back door”, Communities Secretary Steve Reed has said, the Telegraph reports.
- “J.K. Rowling: ‘I no longer believe in assisted suicide’” – Assisted suicide risks the coercion of the sick and vulnerable, J.K. Rowling has warned in a post on X to her 14 million followers, reports the Christian Institute.
- “Trump orders troops to takeover ‘war ravaged’ Democrat-led city to handle ‘domestic terrorists’” – President Donald Trump has ordered troops to be sent to Portland, Oregon, a Democratic-run city he described as “war-ravaged” and besieged by Left wing “domestic terrorists” following protests that turned into a riot.
- “What Kneecap said is far worse than you think” – The collapse of their case is good news, but we still need to talk about their unhinged Israelophobia, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “George Galloway and wife stopped by counter-terrorism police after landing at Gatwick airport” – The former MP George Galloway and his wife have been detained by counter-terrorism police at Gatwick airport, reports the Mail.
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How is this even possible? France has had ID cards for decades. Don’t ID cards solve the immigration problem?
Also, why are they not being housed in 4 star hotels?
“Two women die after 100 migrants overwhelm small boat in Channel” – Two Somali women have died after 100 migrants overwhelmed a makeshift small boat in the English Channel, reports the Telegraph
Don’t care
Surely it should be treated as murder? Or does it fall outside of the preferred narrative?
It should be treated by the Somali government, whose £98 MILLION POUNDS of British Taxpayer’s Money should be immediately stopped.
Oh dear
How sad
Never mind
“In the Spectator, Mary Wakefield details the dispiriting reality of living in Khan’s London, where trivial behaviour is penalised while flagrant crime goes unpunished.”
In my experience (London resident most of my life) it depends what “trivial” behaviour you are talking about. Plenty of antisocial and threatening behaviour mainly by young men/teenage boys (that’s what some of them do) and plenty of just terrible use of the road by pedestrians, scooterists, moped riders, cyclists, cars, vans etc. All of which may be considered trivial but certainly goes unpunished – one of a number of reasons we left. Big cities are often like this – but for example Stockholm is not.
I am told that the suburbs of Stockholm are however problematical, with reports of numerous police no-go areas.
Quite possibly- I have only ever been to the centre, which has seemed dickhead-free every time we’ve been.
I met a Swedish national who works here and told me she will not go back to her former home in a N Stockholm suburb; it is unrecognisable because of immigration, and unsafe to boot.
Shame – I expect Sweden was a magnificent country (apart from the nutty booze laws, now relaxed though not completely gone).
The nutty booze laws included giving alcoholics a half bottle of vodka every morning on prescription. The consequence was that ouside our local shopping mall they could be seen slumped semi-concious just living for the next bottle. That was in the 80s when I worked there
I did not know that
I read you had to be ordering a substantial meal before they would serve you booze, think that ended a while ago
It’s very expensive there
As always, when a Labour minister says something, it will be a lie and the opposite will be true.
Only 13% of voters are satisfied with the Prime Minister.
From t’intenet “Around 20.2% of adults in England had a common mental health condition in 2023/24.”
What is not clear with the effects of Covid vaccines is whether the effect of successive shots is cumulative, or whether it is the formulation of the boosters that causes these risks.
Since the effect seems to be disruption of the body’s immune system, then my gut feeling is the more you have the greater the risk. Certainly among my acquaintances, who tend to be in their late 70s plus, ill health and death seems to be striking the shot takers more than the sceptics like me.
Climate change….
We have had the best summer since glorious 1976.
It seems the planet has not been damaged. Indeed, it is a bumper years for fruit and berries.
Seems they like the sun.
I do as well.
“Nigel Farage has a point about migrants eating swans” – In the Spectator, our own Laurie Wastell looks at the evidence on migrants mistreating UK wildlife.” Very important article by Laurie Wastell. Another example of Third World invaders decimating Britain’s glorious wildlife is the cuisine of Turkey and Turkish Cyprus, in which small songbirds like the “Cirrik” are eaten, also called the “CIRL BUNTING” (Emberiza cirlus), but other small birds will do. Another form is “Ambelopoulia”. Here is a quote from the Turkish restaurant in London actually named “Cirrik”, slyly inviting customers to catch their own Cirl Buntings to bring to the restaurant for cooking: Our Story – Cirrik | Turkish Restaurant London | Turkish Street Food “The Cirrik is a famous bird found in the South East of Turkey, renowned for it’s unique, delicate taste. It’s a specialty of Ocakbasi barbeque restaurants in the district of Adana. During spring time, bird hunters would come from all around to catch themselves a Cirrik bird to be grilled on the Ocakbasi.” “Huseyin trained some of his finest chefs, as they planned to London to start some of authentic Turkish Ocakbasi restaurants. Years later they heard that their master had passed away, so… Read more »
“In Britain, it is illegal to catch, kill, or eat songbirds. All wild bird species, including songbirds, are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which prohibits intentionally killing, injuring, or taking any wild bird.“
“Tylenol, Leucovorin and Child Neurodevelopment” – On Substack, Robert Malone has an overview”
Added to this is evidence that childhood vaccines cause damage to the central nervous system, called by other names like “cerebral palsy”:
Movement disorders, cerebral palsy and vaccination – PubMed
“Several reports of neurological adverse events, including movement disorders in children without neurological disabilities after various types of vaccination, were found.”
Thank Heaven that the real dangers of childhood vaccines are now being exposed by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who wisely chose scientist Robert Malone to be a member of the panel.
RFK Jr vaccine panel targets childhood vaccinations in first meeting
“Only 13% of voters are satisfied with the Prime Minister…”
Labour Party cronies who pay increases.