News Round-Up
- “Starmer’s claim that Farage hates Britain is his biggest own goal yet” – Rather than putting an arm around Reform voters worried by migration, the PM has punched them in the face, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Is Farage racist? Labour can’t seem to agree” – Labour has attacked Nigel Farage and Reform for “racism” throughout its party conference, writes Genevieve Holl-Allen in the Telegraph. The problem is, they can’t quite decide if he’s racist, his voters are, his policies are or none of the above.
- “Labour’s leave to remain overhaul is thin gruel” – Has Labour, which was happily doing its best to sabotage any efforts to control a growing influx of migrants, now seen sense on the issue? wonders Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Locals fume as ‘tourists avoid pretty little village’ after asylum hotel opens” – An asylum hotel in the small Sussex village of Copthorne is having a “negative impact” on tourism and social cohesion, says the Express.
- “Union boss reveals ‘thousands’ of members want to back Nigel Farage” – A union boss has confessed that his members have zero interest in Jeremy Corbyn’s new party – but thousands want to back Nigel Farage, reports the Sun.
- “Minister paves way for nationwide facial recognition rollout” – Policing minister Sarah Jones has cleared the way for a nationwide rollout of live facial recognition cameras, with seven forces getting the “game-changer” tech already used to catch criminals in Croydon, says the Register.
- “The police are behaving like an occupying force” – Our national flags should not be seen as dangerous or a provocation, says David Shipley in the Telegraph.
- “Parents rage at school after teacher told kids ‘some see England flag as racist’” – A school has issued an apology after a teacher told students she had joined a counter-protest at a hotel for asylum seekers and claimed St George flags could be seen as a “racist symbol”, reports the Express.
- “Moment drunk ‘terrorist’ hotel migrant stabbed man at nightclub” – A drunken Turkish migrant who stabbed a man with a broken bottle will not face automatic deportation – despite being accused of belonging to a terrorist group in his home country, says the Mail.
- “Police release update on gang rape probe in Oxfordshire town” – Police have revealed that a “white man” is among those suspected of gang raping a woman in a churchyard, according to the Bicester Advertiser. They have yet to reveal the ethnicities of the others.
- “Labour kick Owen Jones out of conference” – In the Spectator, Steerpike revels in Owen Jones being booted from the Labour conference on “safeguarding” grounds.
- “Why the elites keep being hoist by their own petard” – Establishment overreach has created an angry, distrustful public, warns Matt Ridley in Spiked.
- “Rachel Reeves ‘to scrap two-child benefit cap’ at Budget” – Rachel Reeves is poised to scrap the two-child benefit cap and replace it with a “taper system”, reports the Mail.
- “Reeves is incapable of understanding that higher taxes crush growth” – Spending money lavishly then clawing it back from the taxpayer is still the Labour way, writes Alex Brummer in the Mail.
- “Labour’s civil war is pushing Britain towards a bond crisis” – Labour Party rebels risk destroying what little confidence remains in the UK’s long-term prospects, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “Resisting national ID cards was a noble cause in 1950. It remains so today” – Digital IDs would enable the state to intrude into every aspect of our lives, including how many holidays we would be allowed to take, warns Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “New trans rules go too far, says Labour deputy leadership frontrunner” – Labour’s frontrunning deputy leadership candidate Lucy Powell has suggested that the new trans rules are “not right” and should be reviewed by MPs, according to the Telegraph.
- “I’ve claimed disability benefits since I was 14 because of my OCD” – In the Mail, Emma Harris admits she has claimed disability benefits for OCD since she was 14. It was just a phase, she says – but she still claims the money, like thousands of other young people.
- “Why is the NHS praising cousin marriage?” – An NHS article praising cousin marriage is yet more evidence of the NHS‘s pander-to-politics-over-science mindset, writes David Shipley in Spiked.
- “Who will take responsibility for closing schools during Covid?” – Now that the national Covid Inquiry is getting round to considering the experiences of children, school closures are in the spotlight, says Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
- “Babies could be born without biological mothers” – Scientists have discovered a way to fertilise eggs made from the genetic material of human skin cells, reports the Independent.
- “Britain paying highest electricity prices in the world for second year running” – New data shows the price paid by UK industry for power is 63% higher than in France and 27% higher than in Germany, according to the Telegraph.
- “Something stinks” – Another day, another Guardian article pushing Net Zero, by virtue of yet another report specifically commissioned by a charity for just that purpose, writes Mark Hodgson in Climate Scepticism.
- “Trump throws $625 million lifeline to coal industry and opens federal lands to mining” – The Trump administration will spend $625 million to modernise coal plants to keep them operating and open 13.1 million acres of federal land to coal mining, reports the Washington Times.
- “Emeritus Profs from MIT and Princeton write to EPA administrator Lee Zeldin disputing the ‘science’ on climate change” – Emeritus MIT and Princeton profs Lindzen and Happer have hit back at the Environmental Protection Agency, saying climate models fail real-world tests, writes Meryl Nass on her Substack.
- “UPenn provost resigns after boosting social media post likening Charlie Kirk to ‘Hitler Youth’” – Left-wing climate loon Michael Mann has resigned as Vice Provost at the University of Pennsylvania after comparing Charlie Kirk to the “Hitler Youth”, reports the Free Beacon.
- “Dr Michael Mann finally gets his comeuppance” – The man who spent decades accusing others of undermining science has been undone by his own inability to separate activism from scholarship, says Anthony Watts in WUWT? The irony is delicious.
- “Mid-Holocene South China Sea level 2–3 meters higher than today due to 1–2°C warmer temps” – The mechanisms driving the meters-higher sea levels a few thousand years ago do not support claims that CO2 is a driver, writes Kenneth Richard on NoTricksZone.
- “Flashback: when the New York Times reported fairly on climate change – in 1989!” – A historical review of climate alarmism and sceptical science shows the media once covered both sides fairly – but the NY Times has certainly changed, says Robert Bradley Jr on the Master Resource blog.
- “Gandhi statue vandalised with ‘terrorist’ graffiti in London” – India has demanded “immediate action” after a statue of Mahatma Gandhi was vandalised in Central London, reports the Mail.
- “Ireland to offer migrant families up to €10,000 to drop asylum claims” – Ireland is offering migrant families up to €10,000 to drop their asylum claims, hoping to ease pressure on its housing crisis and collapsing asylum system, says the Mail.
- “We will cease to exist as an open society if we don’t reverse mass migration policies” – On the Public podcast, the editor-in-chief of Germany’s fastest-growing new social media company describes “the complete collapse of literally every single major political idea [the establishment] has pushed for in the past 15 years”.
- “Trump’s Gaza peace plan changes everything” – Trump is making it clear that Hamas must be eliminated, says Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
- “Trump’s peace plan is the Western Left’s worst nightmare” – By turning the screws on Hamas, Trump has exposed who’s really responsible for this dreadful war, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Do Palestinians want Hamas gone?” – Most Palestinians still back Hamas, so Trump’s Gaza plan is facing a reality check, warns Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Will Meloni give in to the pro-Palestine mob?” – Protests, riots and strikes over Gaza have pushed the Italian PM to waver on her principled defence of Israel, says Dominic Standish in Spiked.
- “Forget Trump and Blair. Let’s put Greta Thunberg in charge of Gaza” – Greta and her fellow Left-wing celebrities have done so much for the Palestinian cause, handing them the reins in Gaza would be the perfect way to reward them, suggests Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “‘Volodymyr Z’ arrested over Nord Stream sabotage” – A Ukrainian national named ‘Volodymyr Z’ has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the Nord Stream explosions in 2022, reports the Express.
- “South African ambassador falls to death from Paris hotel room” – South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has been found dead near the four-star Hyatt Regency Hotel in Paris, says the BBC.
- “Was democracy really ‘saved’ in Moldova?” – Allegations of Russian meddling have become an excuse to steamroller opposition to the ruling pro-EU party in Moldova, writes Mary Dejevsky in Spiked.
- “White students blocked from barrister work experience scheme” – The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, is allowing only black or mixed-race university students and graduates to join a six-week summer internship, reports the Telegraph.
- “Emma Watson is everything wrong with woke, luxury feminism” – Emma Watson has become a one-woman foghorn for the luxuriant moralism that passes for virtue in celebrity circles, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer just made one of the biggest, most basic mistakes when you’re dealing with insurgent Right parties” – Reform will be “delighted” by Starmer branding them ‘racist’, says Fraser Nelson on Times Radio.
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In reality we are all racist and prejudiced. The issue is whether and how we act on our prejudices.
Most decent people would agree that no one person should be treated badly based on their race or religion or any characteristic of that sort.
But many do believe that Britain should remain predominantly white and Christian.
To eliminate all prejudice is a totalitarian enterprise that requires us all to case to be human.
The response to being called racist or prejudiced should not be “no, Im not”. It should be “yes, but not in a bad way.”
Very well put
“But many do believe that Britain should remain predominantly white and Christian” – Adapt that statement to suit every non-white country on the planet and nobody would be outraged by it – in fact quite the opposite.
Yes. I do want my country to remain 98% white.
Well done for telling the truth that so many fear to say. I remember a few years ago, when Tommy Robinson was under relentless attack by the Unholy Muslim-Marxist Alliance, and in his desperation, he welcomed the Sikhs who wanted to use him as part of their Third World battles with Muslims. Tommy declared to them in a rush of enthusiasm, “The Sikhs are the Most English of the English!” Trying to defend himself against accusation of “racism”, he also declared that he didn’t want to live in an all-white country. The Sikhs never told him the awkward truth about their own ancestral homeland of India, which is that no foreigners can get a work permit in India unless they have “A Certificate of Indian Origin”, which declares that they are genuinely, racially, ancestrally Ethnic Indian, not just “born in India” like Cliff Richard was. Why do the Indians require that? For the same reason the Chinese do: They want to live and work among their own people, their own ethnic group, in their own ancestral homeland. There’s nothing wrong with that. And there’s nothing wrong with Ethnic Europeans wanting to live in a white country among their own ethnic… Read more »
”In reality we are all racist and prejudiced.”
You don’t get to speak for me in your sweeping and inaccurate statement. Let’s do something radical and defer to an actual dictionary definition, just so’s we’re all clear and dealing in facts;
”racist: noun;
someone who believes that their race makes them better, more intelligent, more moral, etc. than people of other races and who does or says unfair or harmful things as a result.”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/racist
Ergo, I am most certainly not racist.
That’s one dictionary definition of racism. There are others.
In any case, I think most people believe there are inherent differences between races. And from the moment that there are differences some things will be better, others worse.
Every study on IQ concludes that black IQ is lower than white which is lower than Asian. On average. Without saying anything about any individual in particular.
The question, in my view, is not whether we have prejudices, which is the most human thing in the world, but whether we act on them and how.
I’m not speaking for you. The comment is in my name, not yours or anyone else’s. It’s an opinion. My opinion is that everyone is prejudiced in some way. It’s impossible to be human and not have prejudice. Including you. My opinion.
Well said, Stewart. Your opinion is as valid as everyone else’s, and you have every right to express it.
Decades ago, I was with a walking group in the countryside, and a young school teacher took great umbrage at my views on the Third World Invasion of the West. After haranguing me for some time about my “racist views”, he exclaimed in exasperation, “Here I’ve been trying for years to teach my students to accept Mass Immigration, but people like you ruin all my efforts!”
I said, “Are you trying to tell me how to think?”
I think Rupert Lowe said it best:
“Get called a racist? Xenophobe? Islamophobe? Far-right? Who cares. Honestly, it doesn’t matter. Trust me. They are now just meaningless words.
Don’t moan. Don’t bite. Don’t care.
Don’t give those words, and those who use them so flippantly, power over you.
This is the way.”
But if you know that a Somali is many times more likely to be criminal minded, and that Somalis are black and have certain facial features, is it not sensible to decide that you won’t have them in your home (land). ?
Not quite the same, but it did remind me of the reaction years ago to the scientific ‘discovery’ that sperm could be engineered and the possibility of living in a world where half the human population was exterminated. The glee, the laughter, the unbridled joy that came after the announcement from many, many, so-called feminists (aka misandrists) was extraordinary. From a moral perspective, the utter euphoria that followed was one of the lowest points in modern history. It was mainstreamed – let’s consider a world where we can simply abolish men. What a hoot. Here’s a little reminder from our good old friend at the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8142104.stm . Enjoy following the links to the hate, excitement, and occasional pity.
And some people wonder why I believe modern feminism is a very serious problem.
Excellent point, because the gleeful misandrists would soon be floundering in a world without men to do all the heavy lifting.
“Babies could be born without biological mothers” – Scientists have discovered a way to fertilise eggs made from the genetic material of human skin cells, reports theIndependent.
They’d still need a ‘biological’ mother to take the donor egg from… that’s the only place eggs come from, regardless of whether the mother is a woman or a hen.
Gaza-bound flotilla is funded and owned by a Spanish based Hamas front company.
https://www.jns.org/whoever-violates-gaza-security-blockade-is-violating-international-law/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywdmz7xpgo
‘German reports say seven suspects have been identified in connection with the Nord Stream blasts, although one has since died. Among the group were former members of a private diving school in Kyiv.
Germany, Denmark, and Sweden all opened investigations into the incident but the Swedish and Danish investigations closed in February without identifying any suspect.’
‘There is no evidence so far linking Ukraine, Russia or any other state to the attacks.’
So, evidence free….hmmm…….
They are all in De Nile not De Baltic.
Michael Mann loosing the VC role. Is this not a free speach issue and one for the FSU? I think not, but I find it hard to reason why. and some people will be glad because it is Dr Mann- but that is not the point and irrelevant to the case. I think to consider cases like this one has to think of the person of somebody else- somebody we do not know- a Dr X. look at it with more objective eyes.Personally I think the University’s decision was correct- this is a case of Dr Mann’s own attitude and what he said threatened the free speach of the University surely?
As it’s in the USA, free speech is enshrined in the constitution, so he couldn’t be arrested for writing something tasteless. Apparently he wasn’t sacked either.
The 1st Amendment applies to the Federal government (“Congress”) and by extension to state legislatures (I think the whole of the bill of rights has been accepted as applying to the states) and I think to any govt agency. I don’t think it applies to private businesses, though it may apply if some entity is partially funded by the state (or maybe the state just withdraws their funds?).
And were does common human decency come in all this? He represents a university on the world stage, language like this is offensive and not just to do with freedom of speech, its not illegal but does it advertise this university in a positive light?
Surely our enthusiasm for free speech does not extend to allowing employees to trash the reputation of their employer.
Tricky one for me. I might post something online that is a personal comment on a matter not related to my work – let’s say that “covid” was a scam, or immigration should be cut to zero – and my employer might decide that this has trashed our reputation. Who decides if that’s fair or not?
Your employer! They pay your wages and its their reputation on the line, if the ceo says distasteful things the the board has to call it
So you’re fine with my employer firing me for posting online in a personal capacity on matters entirely unrelated to my work?
your employer doesn’t own you, you just work for them…
Was democracy really ‘saved’ in Moldova? Errr….probably yes: ‘Ami, a black retriever, gives every suitcase that rolls in on the baggage claim belts a good sniff on all sides. If she detects cash, she will freeze. Back in May she was doing that a lot. That is when customs officers began finding large amounts of money on passengers arriving via connecting flights from Moscow. People who had never left Moldova before were returning from a few days in Russia with wads of notes. “Almost everyone had money: 2,000, 3,000, 7,000 euros”, the head of customs at Chisinau Airport, Ruslan Alexandrov, remembers. The amounts themselves were not illegal but the patterns were suspicious. “There were certain flights: Moscow-Istanbul-Chisinau, Moscow-Yerevan-Chisinau,” the customs chief explains. “Normally people don’t come in with that much money. Not from Moscow.” But then the author of the referenced article, Mary Dejevsky, is the very same prescient seer who wrote the following in December 2021: ‘Quite simply, an invasion, and a winter invasion at that, makes no sense. The last thing Russia wants or needs is more territory. It can be argued that there was a strategic imperative for Moscow to annex Crimea…. There is no such imperative… Read more »
Gang rape in Oxfordshire:
“The incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning, September 28 and involved a group of men attacking a woman in her 30s.No specifics have been released on all men, or how many they are looking for, but police have confirmed one of the men is white. A police spokesperson said on Monday September 29: “We only have a description that one of the men was white.”
So by implication the rest weren’t.
Good point
And was the ‘white man’ ‘British white’? (By implication)
“Has Labour, which was happily doing its best to sabotage any efforts to control a growing influx of migrants, now seen sense on the issue?”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seen sense? They couldn’t see sense if it hit them in the face!
What a stupid statement to make
“Minister paves way for nationwide facial recognition rollout”
I hope those blagards don’t decide to wear face coverings of any kind because that’s not cricket!
So what else could it be used for, hmmm 🤔?
“A union boss has confessed that his members have zero interest in Jeremy Corbyn’s new party – but thousands want to back Nigel Farage, reports the Sun.”
And recently in The Telegraph: “The Marxist teaching union leader planning to use strikes to ‘reorganise Britain’. A hardened protester who called the education system ‘racist’, Daniel Kebede is readying teachers for industrial action with militant zeal”.
The majority of the National Education Union’s members are reported to have little interest in the union and do not vote. Indeed, in the most recent leadership election for the UK National Education Union (NEU), held in April 2025 for executive positions, the turnout was reported as 12.1% of eligible members – and this was an increase from previous years!
Union power that is not backed up by grassroots support is an open goal for Reform. Why not set up new Public Sector unions (offering political support for Reform) which would divert large amounts of cash currently sent to The Labour Party, weaken the power of the unions, better represent members’ political views and enhance Reform’s coffers?
I’m no doubt missing something, but it seems a win win to me.
UPenn provost resigns after boosting social media post likening Charlie Kirk to ‘Hitler Youth’
So this is where Lammy got his inspiration from, saying Farage once flirted with the Hitler Youth disbanded 19 years before he was even born. Our Deputy Prime Minister, the man second in command…
Isn’t the Tottenham Turnip a history graduate?
Yes, Lammy the Lummox hasn’t an original idea in his head.
“PM brands Channel crossings ‘Farage boats’ because Brexit has hampered returns – UK politics live”
So he’s implying its the fault of the majority of Britain’s for voting for brexit then?
My God! Does this man have no shame?
Tony Blair started this and every consecutive government has carried it on!
Is it actually Brexit or really the intransigence of the French because they still have a cob on over Brexit.
You could see it that way but to call them farage boats!?
As if that exonerates the Tories or labour
While I do think the insults thrown around by the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister (sic) and others referring to Nigel Farage and/or Reform and/or Reform members and/or Reform supporters was wrong and foolish, I do not welcome the insult as some commentators say Reform will do. The damaging effect on Labour may be welcome but I am sure many Reform supporters are disgusted by the shallow, unjustified and plain wrong insults we have had to suffer for years.
Those of us who were formerly in UKIP recall the succession of Tory leaders who insulted us because we wanted to live in a free, sovereign country. They implied we were mentally deficient, racists and simply an irritant to the self regarding elites. The media joined in when it should have called-out the poor language of the over mighty.
It’s just childish and stupid – why do it and make yourself look like an arse? Clearly shows they have no concrete policies to talk about instead, or what they have is total crap…
Here’s a wonderful photo of a Miner’s Statue up North, showing that the Raise the Colours campaign is still alive and kicking:
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1NwWtY.img?w=612&h=407&m=6
May I add this fascinating article by Rhoda Wilson from The Expose website:
Gen Z is losing the ability to write by hand; handwriting plays a key role in cognitive development – The Expose
And this one, too:
Climate madness: Australian Human Rights Commission demands that speech about climate change be censored – The Expose
Meloni’s cave in to the mob is typical female cowardice. I’d turn the army on them and and do full on counter messaging that these protestoes are jew haters and Muhamamdan allies. And I’d have tear gas and rubber bullets used against them. We are at war with a communist left that allies itself with the vile ideology of Muhammadanism. This will lead to our demise and takeover if we do nothing about it. The left and the muhammdans are a noisy minority. Get behind the silent majority Meloni. Cowardess!
Excellent post! At last someone is calling out the Fake Italian Patriot Meloni for what she is: a Cowardess concealing her true identity as Globalist Traitor to the Italian People.
She was bizarrely chosen by “The Brothers of Italy” to represent them, and was elected on her promise of tackling the Third World Invasion of Italy, but she soon backtracked and delayed and even refused to support the True Patriot Leader of Italy, Matteo Salvini, who was assaulted with “Lawfare” by the Unholy Muslim-Marxist Alliance after he courageously tried to stop their Soros-funded Invader boats from docking at Italian ports.
She’s a Globalist Fraud.