News Round-Up
- “Discrimination wins on shameful night at Villa Park” – In the Telegraph, Oliver Brown reports on a shameful night at Villa Park, marked by antisemitic abuse and Israeli fans left unprotected.
- “British Islamism is flexing its muscles more and more openly as it rises to power” – In the Telegraph, Jake Wallis Simons warns that British Islamism is rising openly, gripping our police, government and society.
- “BBC star said he would disown his child if they left Islam” – YouTuber Chunkz has sparked controversy after he said he would disown his child if they left Islam, reports the Mail.
- “Hundreds of small boat migrants arrive in Britain after two-week gap” – Home Office Border Force vessels and an RNLI lifeboat have made repeated trips into the middle of the Channel to pick up boatloads of migrants, says the Mail.
- “Only leaving the ECHR can bring rights back home to Britain”– The Strasbourg’s impact has meant the UK courts have changed the law in thousands of cases to avoid a violation, writes Jonathan Sumption in the Telegraph.
- “Lammy branded a ‘bullsh***er’ on live TV over prisoner release bungles” – David Lammy was dramatically accused of “bullsh**” on live TV as he faces mounting pressure over prisoner-release bungles, reports the Mail.
- “Pressure on Lammy over 90 violent criminals released by mistake” – Ninety violent or sex offenders have been mistakenly released from prison in the last year, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Police chief warns of crimewave after two inmates released by mistake” – Police chiefs warn that Labour’s soft-justice reforms will unleash a crimewave on the streets, according to the Mail.
- “Huntingdon train attack suspect ‘slashed man in the face’ a month ago” – Police are set to reopen the case of a taxi passenger whose face was slashed by a knife-wielding stranger, after witnesses insisted the attacker was the same man held over the Huntingdon train rampage, reports the Mail.
- “Why are psychiatrists scared of sectioning dangerous patients?” – In the Spectator, John Power exposes how cuts and political pressure are making it near impossible to section dangerous mentally ill patients.
- “The inconvenient truth about cannabis and mental illness” – In the Spectator, Harriet Sergeant exposes how potent cannabis, especially in the African Caribbean community, is fuelling a hidden mental health crisis linked to psychosis and violence.
- “Assisted dying will be funded by NHS, minister admits” – Care Minister Stephen Kinnock says assisted dying will probably be funded by the NHS, according to the Telegraph.
- “Time to end the mental health scam” – In the New Conservative, Neil Liversidge tears into what he calls the mental health scam – a cosy con for the workshy and their compliant doctors, all fleecing the taxpayer.
- “Wes Streeting accuses junior doctors of ‘holding country to ransom’” – The Health Secretary has hit out at the British Medical Association ahead of their planned five-day strikes later this month, according to the Mail.
- “The Motability scheme is the apogee of Britain’s fake economy” – In the Telegraph, Chris Bayliss slams Britain’s warped “fairness” economy, where ministers prop up schemes like Motability only to tax them back again.
- “Tony Blair sounds alarm on Labour’s employment Bill” – Sir Tony Blair has warned that Labour’s plan to strengthen workers’ rights risks harming jobs and hurting growth, according to Personnel Today.
- “I’m resigning the Tory whip to make the case for markets” – The IEA spearheaded the Thatcher reforms. Britain needs as radical change today – and that is why I am proud to take the think tank’s helm, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s dumbed-down curriculum is a betrayal of aspiration” – Scrapping the English Baccalaureate will hurt the prospects of poorer children, warns Nick Gibb in the Telegraph.
- “Labour are betraying the children they want to help” – Labour is taking a wrecking ball to British education, says Mouhssin Ismail in the Mail.
- “Nandy broke rules by appointing donor as football regulator chief” – Lisa Nandy has been forced to apologise to Sir Keir Starmer after appointing a Labour donor as chair of the independent football regulator, reports GB News.
- “The devastating memo that plunged the BBC into crisis” – The Telegraph has published the internal dossier that has plunged the BBC into crisis.
- “Davie must explain BBC dossier or resign, says Johnson” – Boris Johnson has led calls for Tim Davie, the BBC Director-General, to “explain or resign” over the bias scandal engulfing the broadcaster, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC forced to withdraw ‘thoroughly wrong’ racism allegations” – The BBC has been forced to take down an article that claimed car insurance companies are racist, says GB News.
- “You can’t trust the BBC” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle takes aim at the BBC’s “dim-witted liberal grads”, making bias the new normal.
- “Owen Jones being sued for libel over BBC Gaza article” – A BBC editor has sued Owen Jones over an article falsely claiming he was the architect of the BBC’s supposedly pro-Israeli coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, reports the National.
- “Telegraph bidder under investigation over undisclosed investor at AC Milan” – The US private equity firm seeking control of the Telegraph brought an unidentified investor into AC Milan without meeting its obligation to notify football authorities, says the Telegraph.
- “Prince William warns the world is ‘edging dangerously close to climate disaster’” – Speaking at COP30, the Prince of Wales warned that the world is “edging dangerously close” to disaster, according to the Mail.
- “‘Consensus is gone’ on global push to tackle climate change as COP30 begins” – Sir Keir Starmer has admitted the global “consensus is gone” on climate change as he delivered a speech to COP30, claiming Britain is “all in” on Net Zero, reports ITV News.
- “Flying 5,700 miles to lament the ‘climate crisis’ perfectly captures our elites’ nauseating hypocrisy” – Politicians’ carbon footprints are growing – but fear not, they’ll offset them with a PowerPoint at COP30, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Our Net Zero crusade profits competitors” – This Government refuses to use the oil and gas under our own feet while importing from elsewhere, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “The taxman is coming for your electric car” – An annual charge of three pence per mile is just the beginning, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “British energy policy – not cheap, not home-grown and not secure” – On his blog, Prof Sir Dieter Helm reveals how costly contracts, reliance on foreign imports and intermittent renewables are locking in high energy prices.
- “Wrong, Detroit Free Press, Hurricane Melissa wasn’t caused by climate change” – In Climate Realism, H. Sterling Burnett dismantles claims that Hurricane Melissa proves climate change is intensifying hurricanes.
- “Pakistan’s deadly floods are not worsened by climate change, BBC” – The BBC claims Pakistan’s deadly floods are getting worse due to climate change. This is false, says Linna Lucien in Climate Realism.
- “Associated Press publishes absurd video targeting pet ownership due to climate change hysteria” – In the Western Journal, C. Douglas Golden exposes AP’s bizarre crusade blaming pets for climate change.
- “The British press must resist the poison of Chinese state interference” – In the Telegraph, Rahima Mahmut warns that China’s influence over the British media threatens more than press freedom – it threatens truth itself.
- “The Left wanted my father dead” – In the Telegraph, Eric Trump tells Tim Stanley about his unorthodox upbringing, Britain’s decline and whether he’ll run for the White House.
- “Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk” – Tesla shareholders have approved a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could reach $1 trillion, according to RTÉ.
- “Newcastle United drops ban on fan who shared gender-critical views” – Newcastle United fan Linzi Smith, who was banned from matches for expressing gender-critical views on social media, has been allowed back to games thanks to the support of the Free Speech Union, reports the Telegraph.
- “As a Jew, when a bully makes a statement about where I can go in my own country, that makes me go ‘no, I’m going to come here’” – GB News’s Josh Howie explains why it was important that he attended the counter-protest against pro-Palestine demonstrators at the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv game.
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Tuesday Morning Ascot
“Why are psychiatrists scared of sectioning dangerous patients?”
Because the pro rata majority of mentally ill patients are black so sectioning majority black people would make them appear racist and as we know being racist is a far more serious crime than releasing maniac mentally ill murders into the public domain!
I don’t buy that it’s down to fear of being accused of racism at all. I think these professionals are guilty of a dereliction of duty but I don’t think it’s because of this. Reason being: as you can’t prove a negative, the onus would be on the person doing the accusing to actually prove the professional was guilty of racism. I think that’d be almost impossible to do, and the professional would have stats and actual evidence to support their decision. If they’re working with a fixed criteria ( for sectioning an individual, in this context ) then that would be applied to everyone, regardless of the ‘protected characteristics’.
As long as the criteria for sectioning people is applied consistently for all then they’ve nothing to worry about and nobody will be able to prove otherwise.
Similar to the Pakistani rape gang situation, I think a lot of people fail in their duty to protect the public due to cowardice, complicity or incompetence.
The DEI/woke scourge doesn’t help either, of course. The damage that crapola is responsible for cannot be underestimated.
I think what you say is part of it, but as with the Pakistani rape gangs the main reason for cover-ups is racism, pure and simple
It was reported that police, and I think even Councillors, were taking part in the abuse too. Not even looking the other way, thereby enabling and being complicit, but actively participating. The whole thing was very incestuous with cover ups galore. Islam isn’t a race. The main way in which any racism was demonstrated at all in this national scandal was in the deliberate targeting of vulnerable white girls.
The reason I don’t buy this:”We’re afraid of doing anything in case we get accused of racism” thing is that it’s a cop out. An excuse that lets cowards, as well as the complicit and incompetent off the hook.
Remember the Manchester Arena bombing, where the security guard failed to approach the dodgy-looking non-white dude with the huge bag? He’s now got multiple deaths and severe injuries on his conscience because he failed to do his job. Saying “I was scared to be called an Islamophobe” or whatever, is a bogus excuse for legitimising your own cowardice and/or incompetence. Nobody should be either using this as a ready-made excuse or accepting it from others. You’re outsourcing your failure, which only you should be held accountable for.
Excellent work Mogs 👏
It’s also because there are no long-term asylums, and chronically disturbed/non-medication-compliant patients make acute units hell for more ordinary patients with severe depression, etc. Decades ago my local community shrink would agonise over whether admitting my acutely ill patients to a ward full of badly disturbed patients would do them more harm than good.
https://medium.com/@navpil/donbas-is-ukraine-2b92b3fc2740 ‘In 1991 there was a referendum in Ukraine about independence. Both Donbas regions voted YES with a majority of votes (more than 83%). In 2001 there was a census of Ukrainian population and 57% of Donetsk and 58% of Luhansk regions identified as Ukrainians. In 2014 there was a sociological research on whether they wanted to join Russia, similar research was repeated in 2021. Both researches show that majority of Donbas population did not want to join Russia. In Donetsk percentages of those who wanted to join Russia were 28% in 2014 and 10% in 2021. Same numbers for Luhansk were 30%/12%. Please note — there was indeed a big support for joining Russia in 2014, but it was not a majority. People in Donbas do indeed speak Russian, and comparing to other regions majority of Donbas chooses Russian as a mother tongue. Numbers are 69% for Luhansk and 75% for Donetsk. Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, closest contestants, are at 45% and 48% respectively. Please be warned — Russian propaganda often use this language statistics to prove that people in Donbas support joining Russia. And that is a trap I don’t want you to fall into.’ ‘Durnev reported from the… Read more »
“Prince William warns the world is ‘edging dangerously close to climate disaster”
Says the dim-witted prince with nothing more to do than fly around the world in private jets and spend everyone else’s money living his privileged life! Fu@king hypocrite!!
The royal family died with the queen as far as I’m concerned
The ice in my full glass drink has melted, but the glass hasn’t over flowed.
It is just dislacement activity.
That’s just localised climate change. Now if the melted ice had over flowed I think a global warming investigation might be called for.
We are reaching a tipping point, but not the one he has been told about in his climate fantasy world.
120 years ago, the Prince of Wales would keep himself busy shooting pheasants, getting drunk at house parties, and pleasuring himself with a myriad of courtesans. Just a suggestion…
The Queen was just as much part of the problem. She kept her gob shut and failed to warn the country that joining the EU was constitutionally a no-no. She basically gave away our sovereignty and it was not hers to give away.
“Boris Johnson has led calls for Tim Davie, the BBC Director-General, to “explain or resign” over the bias scandal engulfing the broadcaster, reports the Telegraph.”
Keep your big trap shut, DePfeffel. You did nothing about the BBC while you were PM.
BBC forced to remove ‘thoroughly wrong’ article that suggested car insurance companies were racist
“The memo read: “BBC audiences were being encouraged to believe Britain’s major insurers were, intentionally or unintentionally, racist, and charging high prices to customers based on their ethnicity.”
What bollocks. How can you possibly be “unintentionally racist”? Racism requires intent. What they possibly mean is that their policies disproportionately affected some racial groups, but that’s not racism, that’s just the way the cookie crumbles. “Disparate impact” is a pernicious concept that has polluted especially US public policy and legal judgements for decades.
“You can’t trust the BBC” In other news, the pope is a Catholic and bears s#1t in the woods.
“Prince William warns the world is ‘edging dangerously close to climate disaster’”. He should stick to what’s he knows, flying helicopters. Otherwise STFU and stop gaslighting the public.
When leaving ECHR we must also legislate to prevent courts applying precedent which was made using ECHR rules in the past. Foreign law must cease to have effect.
Prince William will damage support for the monarchy by taking sides in a political dispute. Whatever his views, learned from his father and honed by inappropriate advisers perhaps, he must not get involved.
A Reform PM would be bound to advise the King and heir that speaking for Net Zero and climate catastrophism is not compatible with government policy and Parliamentary support. Imagine when new reliable power plants are authorised, abolition of ICE vehicles reversed and exploration restarts: we cannot have the Palace cheering on the opposition.
The Prince has his Fathers condition, bothersome meddling is social issues that he is poorly placed to comment on.
Speaking of which, as an Aston Villa supporter, well done to him for speaking out about the ban of Maccabi supporters from the game, and disgraceful scenes of antisemitism at Villa Park. Of course that bit is a fantasy. Not a peep. Some people appear to be more equal than others.
Just look at the news, the likely budget punishment and the general state of the country and the world.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1900712116
This article suggests we are all heading for an early grave. I hear people comment that they are glad they will not be around to see the consequences of government policies. What a teriible condemnation of the past 25-30 years.
I should imagine the globalists will be delighted with this news.
Edging close. Nearly, On the verge. Just around the corner. About to tip into.
For twenty years now.
He’s an absolute first class Idiot just like his brain dead dad.
The weakness of the DS News Service is its reliance on published articles in other media sources. If something isn’t being reported, it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
Right now there’s plenty of focus on the hypocrisy of COP30, whilst the UN Second World Summit in Doha goes under the radar. Under the banner of “Agenda 2030” you’ll find so many of the control measures being implemented in the United Kingdom, none of which are put to democratic mandate:
Come on, who really believes that Starmer, Khan and company have the nous to come up with such unpopular schemes, or that they’re piloting this country on a different course to other nations?
Despite being able to log on to the UN, WEF, and other websites and read all about it, I still know people who claim its just a big conspiracy theory.
Davey wants to ‘work with government’ on electoral reform according to the BBC
We’ve announced giving children the vote but it turns out many of them will vote Reform even though their teachers have threatened they’ll fail their GCSEs if they do. Quick! How can we frustrate the will of the people?
May I add this interesting snippet to the Round-Up today, ignored by the mainstream?
Italy welcomes more immigrants than ever despite far-right in power
“Three years after Giorgia Meloni came to power with her hostile immigration rhetoric, Italy has paradoxically opened its doors to more foreigners. Official ISTAT figures reveal a steady increase since 2022: 336,000 arrivals that year, then 378,000 in 2023 and 400,000 in 2024. The far-right government thus breaks the records of its left-wing predecessors.”
Two comments from the public:
— “This is exactly what happened under 14 years of Tory rule – they talked tough on immigration, and by the time they were booted out of office, net immigration was headed towards 1 million!”
— “The UN are behind all of this. Paying off every nation’s politicians to do what they’re told…”
Brilliant BBC quiz to see if people understand what a ‘trillion’ is. All except the last question are single answer multiple choice. The last one is: Select all that applyOne million grains of rice weighs roughly the same as a four-year-old child.How much does one trillion grains of rice weigh?Select all that applyAn average sized comet80 CybertrucksOne million four-year-old childrenOne thousand lions OK. A trillion is a million million. If a million grains of rice weighs the same as a 4-year-old kid we can call this amount 1 ‘kid’. So: 1 trillion grains of rice = 1 million ‘kids’. Check. Yes, that’s correct. 1 million ‘kids’ = 1 average sized comet? Damifyno. Guess not. 1 million ‘kids’ = 80 Cyber Trucks? 1,000,000 / 80 = 12,500, so 1 ‘truck’ = 12,500 ‘kids’. Guess 1 ‘kid’ = 16kg. so 1 ‘truck’ = 12,500 x 16 kg.= 200,000 kg. 1 ‘truck’ = 200 tonnes?. Nah, not a chance. 1 million ‘kids’ = 1,000 lions? So, 1 ‘lion’ = 1,000 ‘kids’. 1,000 x 16 kg = 16,000 kg. 1 ‘lion’ = 16 tonnes. Nah, not a chance. Guess what? BBC says the Cybertrucks and Lions answers are correct (as well as the 1… Read more »
Today the quiz has been updated and the question altered to match the answer instead of the answer to match the original question. It now asks if 1,000,000 kids weigh the same as 6,500 Cybertrucks. Yeah, that’s about 2.5 tonnes per truck.
However, it also now says that a million kids weigh the same as 10,000 lions. Which makes a lion weigh about 100 kids or about 1,600 kg = 1.6 tonnes. Still crazy.
BTW a really heavy male lion is apparently less than 300 kg – so they’re only out by a factor of 5.
Well done BBC. Even when they correct themselves they cock it up.
Just as well they’re checking somebody knows what a trillion is, eh?