News Round-Up
- “A brutal firefight with ‘a lot of gunfire’, a spy on the inside and a fleet of stealth drones: the story of how Trump’s commandos snatched Venezuela’s Maduro” – Details of one of the most audacious military raids in modern history have been revealed by Trump and his closest advisers, reports the Mail.
- “Chaos in Caracas: supporters of captured Nicolas Maduro take to the streets to decry ‘absurd’ raid” – Armed loyalists have surged through Caracas and Valencia demanding Maduro’s return, says the Mail.
- “Venezuela’s new leader Delcy Rodriguez is a hardline socialist who kept Maduro in power for years… and she is already making threats against Trump” – Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodriguez has hurled threats at Trump after the capture of the country’s President, reports the Mail.
- “Colombia’s former Vice-President claims Maduro’s second-in-command Delcy Rodriguez ‘handed him over’ to the US” – Ex-Colombian Vice-President Francisco Santos says he is “absolutely certain” that the woman due to be formally sworn in as Venezuela’s new interim leader betrayed Nicolas Maduro by handing him over to the US, according to the Mail.
- “Trump has a mad plan to run Venezuela. Can it actually work?” – The US President’s scattergun approach may conceal shrewd deal-making, says David Blair in the Telegraph.
- “Maduro’s gone – but how will Trump’s raid look a year from now?” – Whatever you start, be sure you know how to finish it, warns the Mail on Sunday in a leading article.
- “No dictator in the world can sleep safe any longer” – The ripple effects of Trump’s audacious seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are already being felt across Eastern Europe and the Middle East, says Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “When ‘the system’ becomes ‘the enemy’” – Once systems are captured and lose legitimacy, people stop defending them and start tearing them down, writes El Gato Malo on his Substack.
- “The Labour apologists for Maduro trying to turn Starmer against the US” – The raid on Venezuela has left the PM squeezed between Trump, international law and the Labour Left, says Amy Gibbons in the Telegraph.
- “The Left’s taste for tyrants is exposed once again” – It seems no cause is too unworthy or embarrassing for the British Left, writes Daniel Johnson in theTelegraph.
- “My Christian faith shows me it’s right to curb jury trials” – David Lammy says that religion has guided him to put victims at the centre of his decision-making amid Crown Court backlogs, according to the Telegraph.
- “PM ready to align UK with EU single market if it is in ‘national interest’ – but claims there will be no return to free movement of people” – Keir Starmer has teed up a new Brexit battle after he signaled closer alignment with the EU, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer seeks deal for lawyers in Brexit reset” – Sir Keir Starmer is seeking a deal that would allow British lawyers and architects to work in the EU more easily, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s persecution of veterans is a ‘national disgrace’” – Kemi Badenoch has called Sir Keir Starmer’s Northern Ireland veterans law a “national disgrace” for leaving open ex-British soldiers to prosecution, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fury as UK prison is bombarded by squadrons of drug drones at night” – A prison is being bombarded by squadrons of drug drones in an attempt to overwhelm guards, says the Sun.
- “Albanian burglar who cannot be deported taunts Home Office from Mayfair nightclub” – An Albanian burglar who cannot be deported from the UK despite being jailed twice has taunted the Home Office in a video while celebrating New Years in a London nightclub, reports the Mail.
- “ECHR ‘stops prisons keeping extremists under control’” – The UK’s terror tsar warns that human rights law is preventing violent extremists from being kept under control in prisons, according to the Telegraph.
- “A thousand residents march in Crowborough against plans to house hundreds of male migrants in barracks” – A thousand residents have taken to the streets to protest plans to house hundreds of migrants in a Sussex town’s former army barracks, reports the Mail.
- “Where ‘soft-touch’ Britain’s new citizens are really coming from” – Campaigners warn that British passports are being “cheapened” by the Home Office’s lax citizenship system, according to the Mail.
- “Neo-Nazi group preparing for race war in Britain” – A neo-Nazi group has launched a recruitment campaign “in preparation for a race war”, reveals the Telegraph.
- “The pseudoscience behind Britain’s open borders” – Britain’s immigration policy has been run by researchers who were never right – and rarely challenged, says Rob Bates in the Critic.
- “The great questioning” – Even those who were pro-immigration are now asking questions, writes Spiff on his Substack.
- “BBC’s The Repair Shop leaves out any mention of Jews from Kindertransport story” – BBC One’s The Repair Shop entirely failed to include any mention of Jews in an extensive story on the Kindertransport in its Christmas special, reports the Jewish Chronicle.
- “How migrants dominate the great social housing divide” – Social housing in London is a taxpayer-funded lottery locals can’t win, while migrants cash in, writes Alp Mehmet in TCW.
- “Shoplifters almost certain to avoid prison” – Suspected shoplifters investigated by police have a 98% chance of avoiding prison, reports the Telegraph.
- “The public can’t be blamed for distrusting our increasingly hopeless police force” – Street thieves operate with relative impunity because the chances of a bobby on the beat turning up are nearly non-existent, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “Monetising misery” – The tort system is both corrupt and corrupting, writes Theodore Dalrymple in Law & Liberty.
- “Reform and the real populist threat” – Demands to stop Reform UK are obsessing the liberal Left, notes Patrick West in the Spectator.
- “Thatcher’s revolution gave me false hope for Britain’s future” – I have a horrible suspicion that the 1980s were a blip in a longer downward trend, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “UK university degree no longer a ‘passport to social mobility’” – A leading vice-chancellor has argued that UK students must accept that a university degree is no longer a “passport to social mobility”, reports the Guardian.
- “Protesters shot dead in Iran as demonstrations continue nationwide” – Protesters have been shot dead in Iran as demonstrations continue in at least 40 cities across the country, says the Mail.
- “Fears in Greenland of US takeover after Venezuela operation” – The attack on Venezuela and the capture of the country’s President has sparked fears that the US plans to take over Greenland, a territory which Trump has repeatedly said is vital to America’s security interests, reports the Mail.
- “UK approves experimental self-amplifying mRNA injection” – It’s a catastrophic mistake to approve a technology shown to induce severe blood abnormalities in 93% of recipients, warns Nicolas Hulscher on the Focal Points Substack.
- “What not to do in a national power outage” – On Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson slam the Chief Medical Officer’s blackout advice as patronising common sense.
- “Labour’s Chagos deal will have ‘catastrophic’ impact on endangered species” – The Policy Exchange think tank says the move to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius threatens hundreds of species of rare fish, birds and coral life, according to the Telegraph.
- “Shell eyes return to Venezuela to claim gas billions” – Shell could earn billions of dollars from new Venezuelan gas projects following Trump’s ousting of Nicolás Maduro, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ministers urged to back floating nuclear power barges” – Ministers are being urged to back the rollout of nuclear-powered ships that could halve the time it takes to move freight across the oceans and provide mobile sources of electricity, says the Telegraph.
- “Electrical equipment shortage threatens Net Zero, Hitachi warns Miliband” – Hitachi, the world’s leading producer of high-voltage transformers, says a critical lack of kit could leave UK power operators unable to expand the grid fast enough to achieve clean electricity by 2030, reports the Telegraph.
- “Miliband staff in conflict of interest row over National Grid shares” – Ed Miliband is up to his neck in another energy mess, after it emerged staff at his shiny new energy watchdog can still cash in on shares from the very company they are meant to oversee, says Conservative Post.
- “Clean Air Zones to ‘become more common’ in 2026 as petrol and diesel drivers face new daily costs” – An expert has predicted that drivers will see more Clean Air Zones introduced in 2026, according to GB News.
- “RSPB accused of neglecting two nature reserves in favour of the one used on BBC Springwatch” – The RSPB has been accused of focusing resources on its television showcase site, reports the Mail.
- “This is the worst possible time to double down on Net Zero” – British industry is buckling under energy costs and regulation, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Berlin power switched off by ‘extreme Leftists’” – Far-Left extremists carried out an arson attack in Berlin over the weekend which could leave up to 45,000 households without electricity until Thursday, reports ABC News.
- “Scots pine ‘could be wiped out by climate change’” – Horticulturalists warn that the Scots pine could be wiped out in the UK by climate change, according to the Telegraph.
- “English courts defy own ruling on trans toilets” – English courts are still allowing biological men to use women’s toilets in defiance of a Supreme Court ruling, reports the Telegraph.
- “National Trust helper sacked for pointing out spelling errors” – A National Trust volunteer who was sacked after complaining about spelling mistakes on its website has uncovered a further 1,000 errors, says the Mail.
- “Gregg Wallace claims he is the victim of a ‘terrible injustice’ after MasterChef sacking” – Greg Wallace says his lawyers believe he has been badly wronged, according to the Mail.
- “Tricky call for Lewis Goodall” – White liberal LBC presenter Lewis Goodall cuts off an African caller after he sings the praises of “colonisation”.
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A great post by Pete North. He’s describing the very real Horseshoe Theory, where most of us fall somewhere in the middle but the extreme ends mirror each other. He’s also alluding to the fact there’s a hell of a lot of vile, racist abuse and trolling happening on Twitter by these neo-Nazi types who are hostile to anyone of a different ethnicity and those of us who advocate for shared values over skin colour. They seem to have quite the blind spot for all the white Socialists and Commies, though. You know, the ones who are actually responsible for the problems in the first place…An excerpt, as it’s long; ”Just because the left have abused the term “far right” to the point of near uselessness doesn’t mean that there isn’t a far right. The term does actually have a meaning. For my part, though, I struggle to see it as especially right wing in that the doctrinaire ethno-nationalism cohort that exists in the UK is collectivist, socialist, anti-capitalist and profoundly antisemitic. It has more in common with the far left than anything discernibly right wing in the modern context. I say this as someone who doesn’t have any real… Read more »
Sounds extreme but I see where he’s coming from;
”PROPOSED: If every white first-world human were notionally erased from the face of the earth, the entire globe would quickly revert to a state of third-world savagery lasting forever.
In contrast, if every non-white third-world human were notionally erased from the face of the earth, the remaining humans would live a golden era lasting forever. DISCUSS.”
https://x.com/TheBrancaShow/status/2007666676343681075
”who is stopping white people from procreation? this question must be answered.”
”A: The tens of millions of you third-world savages in America consuming our resources and increasing our cost of living so that Americans can’t AFFORD to have children.”
What exactly is “Far Right”. By definition it must be more rigorous than merely Right.
So are people on the Right mildly racist becoming more racist if they travel farther until mega-racist as they reach Far Right status?
Race does not define culture, nor vice versa – so why are those who object to our cultural cebauchmeht and adulteration by other cultures “racist” therefore “Far Right”?
The Far Right is a deceit meant to mean National Socialist – referred to as Nazi, so the connexion with Socialism is hidden, and Fascism which is not National Socialism but which is conflated with it on the grounds of “racism” when in fact NS did include racist ideology, Fascism didn’t.
And in any case the racist element of National Socialism does not define it, it is only a minor part.
The Far Right must be the polar opposite on a linear spectrum. – horseshoe theory is horseshit – and therefore must espouse individual sovereignty not collectivism, property Rights not collective ownership, free market capitalist economics not centrally planned and controlled economy.
I largely agree though I think “nationalism” in its various forms needs to be included in this mix. There are “nationalist” lefties – though fewer than there once were – and “internationalist” people on the political right. But in general, these days, “nationalism” interpreted as wanting to reduce immigration, protect national culture, perhaps intervening less outside your own borders, prioritising your own citizens over others, etc. is seen as more “right wing” – especially anything to do with immigration. So “far right” is used to describe people who conform to your description of the right but also oppose immigration. And yes, it’s meant to lead people DIRECTLY to thinking about Nazis.
“David Lammy says that religion has guided him to put victims at the centre of his decision-making amid Crown Court backlogs”
What should be at the centre of his decision-making about the Justice System? I wonder if there is clue in the name. Having had the pleasure of walking past it daily for many years, I swear I remember the statue on top of the Old Bailey is holding a pair of scales in one hand, that are in balance. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Clearly not for Lammy.
Also worth mentioning that Lady Justice, atop the Old Bailey, holds the scales but is also blind folded. Hence ‘blind justice’. It does seem a bit outmoded now. Perhaps we should replace her with a figure filling in an ethnicity questionnaire.?
According to Clive Anderson on that most accurate source of information, QI, the figure of Lady Justice on the Old Baily is not blindfolded.
Actually, after extensive research you are right, and that is true. I thought I had seen that with my own eyes, but apparently not. There are many other Lady Justice statues which do show a blind-fold. I wonder if that is a convention, or just artistic licence..?
in balance…
…and in the other hand a broadsword – don’t mess with her!
Where is Penny Mordaunt when you need her
Fury as UK prison is bombarded by squadrons of drug drones at night
Fury?
I don’t see any signs of fury. A bit piqued maybe. If there was fury we’d be doing something about it.
Ah. But human rights!
The vid shows someone’s hands with identifiable tattoos. He’s showing the food he’s been sent using a contraband camera (probably phone). The implication is he could have had anything delivered. Will he be subject to any significant punishment for this? Not a chance.
So… net over all the outside areas inside the prison walls… job done?
CCTV technology from 15 years ago could pickup anything being ‘dropped off’ if setup correctly. As you rightly said, we clearly aren’t bothered
Interesting listening to Lewis Goodhall. He appears to be a classic white liberal who has shoehorned every black person into his concept of “black Africans hate the white oppressors” and you can almost hear his brain going into “can’t compute” mode when someone who, to judge from his accent is an immigrant (not UK born) praising colonialism.
I am sure that LG would say that Idi Amin did great things for Uganda after getting rid of the white “oppressors”.
you mean, apart from kicking out the South Asian population?
Absolutely. People like LG live in a fantasy world that exists only in their naive Student Union-esque belief system and his reaction is typical of those types when that belief system is challenged. Colonialism brought a lot of exploitation, sure, but also brought industrialisation, infrastructure, modern agriculture, reduced infant mortality and so forth. In the world of LG and his ilk however, pre-colonialism is an image of happy, culturally homogenous natives frolicking on beaches in perfect harmony and perpetual balance with nature. Challenges to this fantasy by white people are easy to defend by simply screeching (as these people are wont to do), but when they come from the “oppressed”, they simply shut down.
A couple of decades ago I had the joy of working in Lagos (Nigeria, not the one in Portugal) for a few weeks. When I arrived at the hotel I noticed a large black and white photograph of a local roundabout road junction from sometime in the 50’s judging by the cars. The roundabout was ringed by palm trees that had been whitewashed up to head-height and neat pedestrian pavements with black and white men and women in neat office attire presumably walking to work.
On the way to the office the next day we drove through that junction. All the trees had been chopped roughly down, the place was filthy and black men in tee-shirts (or shirtless) lounged about. My driver said he wouldn’t normally risk that route but there were reports of road closures elsewhere. It was very depressing.
It’s a pity his “brain” didn’t just explode resulting in one less metropolitan elitist muppet to put up with
“PM ready to align UK with EU single market if it is in ‘national interest’ – but claims there will be no return to free movement of people”
“there will be no return to free movement of people”
Because our borders are rock solid!!!
The Monroe doctrine:
the Monroe Doctrine, first declared by President James Monroe in 1823, stating European powers (plus China and Russia and anyone else for that matter!) should not colonize or meddle in the Western Hemisphere, establishing it as a U.S. sphere of influence. While not a formal “law,” it became a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, later expanded by the Roosevelt Corollary, which justified U.S. intervention in Latin American affairs to prevent European influence, solidifying American dominance.
Trump is a real leader!
Any other south American leaders who are cuddling up to China, beware!
– Sir Keir Starmer is seeking a deal that would allow British lawyers and architects to work in the EU more easily, says the Telegraph.
i am amazed how many in these professions are left wing.
Given the apparent backlogue of court cases in the UK British lawyers should be told they can consider working in Europe once the cases are cleared. We educated them, we trained them. Payback time.
“Hundreds of schools closed across Britain as parts of the UK blanketed in snow amid amber warnings”
Blanketed you say? Wow, must be 2 inches of chaos! if only we could have a proper winter like 47,62,79,81 how would these mamby pamby mealy mouthed pussys deal with that i wonder!
We’re bound to have something far worse due to the Climate Change Crisis. Probably the Wrong Sort of Snow™.
This is utterly risible! Lammy’s “CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST COMMUNITARIAN FAITH” has nothing to do with Christianity, but was invented by the charlatan Henri de Saint-Simon, who made a vast fortune by buying up newly nationalized land during the French Reign of Terror, squandered it all, then turned Socialism into a “religion”.
“He was imprisoned in the Palais de Luxembourg during the Reign of Terror and emerged to find himself enormously rich because of the depreciation of the Revolutionary currency. He proceeded to live a life of splendour and license, entertaining prominent people from all walks of life at his glittering salons. Within several years he had brought himself close to bankruptcy. “
When Lammy squandered nearly £600 on a taxi from Italy to France for himself and his Jewish wife, he was merely following in the footsteps of his hero Henri de Saint-Simon…
“During the Reign of Terror, at least 300,000 suspects were arrested; 17,000 were officially executed; and perhaps 10,000 died in prison or without trial…”
“Colombia’s former Vice-President claims Maduro’s second-in-command Delcy Rodriguez ‘handed him over’ to the US”
That diplomat is telling the truth!!! That explains Trump’s strange decision to announce Delcy Rodriquez as the new leader, despite the fact that she is the Evil Marxist Terrorist Daughter of the Evil Marxist Terrorist Scum Jorge Antonio Rodriquez, whose Marxist gang KIDNAPPED AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN WILLIAM NIEHOUS and held him hostage for three years, CHAINED TO A POLE IN A CABIN in the Venezuelan jungle.
Her Evil Marxist Brother Jorge Rodriquez is also President of the National Assembly of Venezuela for his fifth term, so it seems these Spawn of their Evil Marxist Terrorist father are now in charge of Venezuela— talk about NEPOTISM!
Evil Marxist Delcy Rodriguez’s statements in defiance of Trump are nothing but a smokescreen… “Illuminati Theatre for the Masses”.
“…the chances of a bobby on the beat turning up are nearly non-existent…”
The chances of a bobby on the beat turning up were always nearly non-existent – but now, for various reasons, many more people have started to take advantage of this fact. THE QUESTION IS WHY.