News Round-Up
- “Crystal clear new video raises horrifying questions about killing of Minneapolis nurse by DHS” – New footage raises serious questions about the shooting of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, reports the Mail.
- “How the shooting of Alex Pretti by immigration agents unfolded” – The Times reconstructs how immigration agents shot Alex Pretti.
- “Barack Obama makes rare political statement condemning Trump’s administration over Alex Pretti’s Minnesota shooting” – Barack Obama has condemned Trump’s administration after the shooting in Minnesota, according to the Mail.
- “Starmer allies block Burnham from standing for Parliament” – Sir Keir Starmer’s allies have blocked Andy Burnham from standing as a Labour candidate in a by-election, notes the Telegraph.
- “Andy Burnham speaks out on his ‘disappointment’ over being blocked from returning to Westminster to avoid a leadership challenge – and takes dig at how ‘Labour Party is being run’” – Andy Burnham has vented his disappointment at being barred from Parliament, reveals the Mail.
- “Wes Streeting ‘has support of 200 MPs for leadership bid’ against Keir Starmer from his other flank as PM fights off Burnham power grab” – Wes Streeting has the backing for a leadership bid, claims the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer can block Andy Burnham but can’t save his premiership” – Starmer’s blockage of Andy Burnham has exposed a party leadership crisis as his authority ebbs away, says Patrick Maguire in the Times.
- “‘It’s a clever way of shutting us up’ – in the city denied elections” – Residents accuse local councils postponing elections of a stitch-up, reports the Times.
- “Mahmood to scrap non-crime hate incidents” – In an interview with the Telegraph’s Charles Hymas, Shabana Mahmood has pledged to end the investigation and recording of non-crime hate incidents.
- “Policing to cost £5 million at migrant camp converted from barracks” – Security plans have put the policing bill at £5.6 million over the next 12 months for the new asylum barracks site in Crowborough, reveals the Telegraph.
- “How the lying, contemptuous Home Office completed its betrayal of Crowborough” – Crowborough residents have accused the Home Office of betrayal as migrants arrive at a nearby army barracks, writes Madeleine Gillies in the Conservative Woman.
- “Thousands chant ‘Keir Starmer’s a traitor’ as they march through Crowborough protesting against migrants at their town’s former army camp” – Protesters have marched through Crowborough chanting “Keir Starmer’s a traitor” over the migrant camp, reports the Mail.
- “How 81 seats could torpedo the chances of the ‘Loony Left’ seizing power: Study reveals pact between Conservatives and Reform could win scores of constituencies the Right would otherwise lose” – A new study suggests a Conservative-Reform pact could secure 81 seats, according to the Mail.
- “Labour council under fire over trans Pride flag” – Ipswich council has been accused of breaching neutrality rules by flying a Progress Pride flag, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bridget Phillipson’s lecture on private school growth is fantasy economics” – Bridget Phillipson is guilty of ‘fantasy economics’ on private schools and growth, says Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Letby’s lawyer demands involvement in baby death inquest” – Lucy Letby’s barrister has demanded a role in an inquest as new evidence emerges, reveals the Telegraph.
- “NHS midwives record gender identity of newborns” – NHS forms ask midwives to record newborns’ ‘gender identity’ and ‘sexual orientation’, says the Times.
- “Covid vax worsens long Covid – only 2% improved, 33% worse off” – A new study has linked Covid vaccinations to long Covid, notes Robert W. Malone in the Malone News.
- “Green leader Zack Polanski ‘bad for nature’ because his hard Left social and economic views could harden voters against mainstream environmental causes, Tory warns” – A Tory MP has warned hard Left Green rhetoric could alienate voters from environmentalism, says the Mail.
- “Dale Vince, the eco-millionaire who now hates heat pumps” – In an interview in the Times, Dale Vince has vented his frustration with heat pumps.
- “Are green energy subsidies driving California’s plan to expropriate the wealthy?” – In WUWT? Eric Worrall asks whether historians will regard soaring green energy prices as the final straw which broke California’s economy or the insane wealth expropriation bill?
- “Antarctica saw its coldest October in 14 years” – On October 15th of last year, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station reported a record low temperature of -61.3 degrees Celsius, marking the coldest October temperature measured in the Southern Hemisphere since 1981, says P Gosselin in NoTricksZone.
- “British AI boss to quit Britain after entrepreneur crackdown” – A tech chief has warned he will leave the UK over taxes and red tape, according to the Telegraph.
- “Chagos Islands deal ‘cannot go ahead for weeks’” – A Chagos deal cannot go ahead for at least 21 days – and that’s assuming Trump withdraws his objections, notes the Telegraph.
- “In impoverished Mauritius, talk of a Chagos deal rings hollow” – Chagossians in Mauritius have complained UK talks about their home’s future feel remote amid grinding poverty, reveals the Times.
- “Iran execute protesters in hospital beds, with fears the death toll now surpasses 30,000 in ongoing crackdown” – Iranian forces are reported to be executing wounded protesters in hospital beds, according to LBC’s Poppy Jacobs.
- “The Ayatollah’s rot has given the West a path to redemption” – Iran’s weakening regime has opened a strategic chance the West may squander, says Sherelle Jacobs in her Substack.
- “Top Chinese general ‘leaked nuclear secrets to US’” – China’s People’s Liberation Army chief has been ousted amid claims he leaked nuclear secrets to America, reports the Telegraph.
- “Secrets, scandal and ‘nuclear treason’: inside Xi’s military purge” – Xi Jinping has been busy purging China’s military elite, notes the Times. Why?
- “Palestine Action protesters storm Wormwood Scrubs prison in support of hunger striker” – Palestine Action activists stormed Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday evening in support of a hunger striker, reveals the Mail.
- “No-go Knightsbridge: Residents claim exclusive area is ‘no longer a billionaires playground’ as everyone with real money has fled the tyranny of ram-raiding gangs and moped driving machete thugs who rule the streets” – Knightsbridge residents say that ram raids and machete crime are driving the wealthy away, reports the Mail.
- “The true cost of being cancelled: Bust businesses, tax bills and millions in lost earnings are a nightmare for scandal-hit stars – but who has the biggest financial safety net if they never work again?” – Cancelled celebrities have faced bust businesses, tax bills and lost earnings running into millions, according to the Mail.
- “Karenocracy – The New Regime of Managerial Meddling” – Workplace ‘Karenocracy’ has turned HR officers into ideological enforcers of woke dogma, says C.J. Strachan on his Substack.
- “Most arguments against free speech are contrived nonsense” – Common objections to free speech are contrived sophistry, says Spiff in his Postcards from the Abyss Substack.
- “No one escapes the Stasi in Britain” – Basil the Great draws attention to the arrest of an elderly woman for the ‘crime’ of peacefully protesting.
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“Crystal clear new video raises horrifying questions about killing of Minneapolis nurse by DHS”
Rather than endless frame-by-frame analysis or phone/gun discussions, could the DM or the DS not re-enlighten us about why ICE involvement in Michigan has increased over the last two to five years? IIRC, this started with investigations into the (lawful) air-borne exodus of millions of dollars to Mogadishu over the last five years, which then developed into various fake childcare charities during 2025. Focussing on one or two deaths of “observers” is a distraction from the big picture of the rapidly changing demographics of Minneapolis and the alleged lack of diligence over funding the childcare and other charities.
One bad incident does not ‘prove that ICE must be stopped’. As you say, it confirms the need for ICE to be involved.
Whatever the videos from the various sources might eventually show, I can’t help the feeling that, ultimately, taking a gun to a riot is a spectacularly bad idea?
Basically it looks as if the leftist machine has declared war (almost literally) on ICE – like Hamas (whom they naturally support) they think a few collateral deaths are helpful for the greater cause.
It’s an extremely ugly situation and I can’t see it ending well.
As I understand some comments from USA (united states – I don’t believe it), some of the protesters set out to provoke this very reaction from ICE members and no doubt deem this outcome as a success.
Absolutely right you are! And instead of George Soros funding these shadowy groups, it turns out there’s an even more shadowy Indian/Chinese Maoist billionaire behind it all, named Neville Roy Singham, “a self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai”, whose Sri Lankan father “Archibald” Wickeramaraja Singham married a Chinese woman calling herself Shirley Hu Ne, now Leftist professor at Seattle and various other US colleges, who has focused on feminism and racism for the past 30 years.
Woke vigilante chat groups accused of dispatching Alex Pretti to Minneapolis DHS arrest where he was shot dead | Daily Mail Online
What I don’t understand is why this is such a big issue over here. The unfortunate deaths of two protesters in the US took a big chunk of the news on the radio this morning, whereas the murder of countless thousands in Iran didn’t get a mention. I think it’s basically all about Trump, and attempts to discredit him.
“Karenocracy – The New Regime of Managerial Meddling”
I have said this for some time.
But isn’t it interesting that the author: Colin Strachan, a man with extensive experience in this field, is able to write article after article from an objective standpoint without finger-pointing or resorting to the blame game in order to support any kind of bias? Almost like he’s aware of the bigger picture and won’t frame this issue in a reductive manner, as being all the fault of one sex over another, but acknowledging instead the fact it’s the policies within organizations, pushed by BOTH sexes, which are the real problem. Strange that, isn’t it? I guess it’s what happens when you don’t have an axe to grind or inbuilt prejudice. Even the examples he cites have men in positions of leadership at the time of writing; ”Importantly, “Karen” here isn’t gender-specific. It’s a mindset and a mode of rule. Men can be Karens too. Some notable cases are Thames Valley Police, found guilty for racial discrimination against employees; the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), unlawfully firing a senior executive who dared point out the Department’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy on Black Lives Matter and Trans rights broke the Civil Service Act and the Equality Act 2010. This last one is… Read more »
Indeed. This is where the slow but steady emasculation of society inevitably leads. And those that point to the emergence of eunuchs pulling levers of power as a rebuttal to the argument have entirely missed the point. Shouting ‘misogyny’, rather than seriously considering the impact of rabid, swivel-eyed, feminism impressed onto a society (in fact, an entire civilisation) over decades, quite amusing underlines the point being made. Douglas Murray is quite good on this – pointing to inherent character trait differences between the sexes that have the potential to mould a society into a risk-free ‘utopia’ where conflict is settled indirectly, and priorities become based on short-sighted ‘kindness’ rather than long-sighted wisdom. My words, not his.
Perhaps Karenocracy would be good for Myanmar?
“Wes Streeting ‘has support of 200 MPs for leadership bid’
I wonder which of Streetings achievements as a Minister have convinced so many Labour MP’s that he can run the country better than Starmer.?
Dale vince vents his frustration with the laws of physics .
He’ll have done very nicely out of it I’m sure, as ever…
“Mahmood to scrap non-crime hate incidents”
“Pledge”? No change in law required – just an order from her to police forces, which she could do last Friday if she meant it.
Probably she cannot order police in that way, yet. However, guidance from one of several quangos would do the trick.
“NHS midwives record gender identity of newborns”
And there was I thinking that “Gender assigned at birth” was the whole cause of the problem. It seems that grown-up feelings are the gold standard after all.
What do they do, ask the baby?
Or does some purple-haired Sexual Commissar inform the parents that their new baby wishes to use the pronouns “Zey/Zem” and likes men?
How, exactly, do they propose to determine if a one day old child is gay or lesbian, I wonder?
Will there be a quota and a token for them to carry? Perhaps some kind of discrete tattoo…
So “stop the votes” Starmer is safe until his next u-turn.
“Covid vax worsens long Covid – only 2% improved, 33% worse off”
Long covidlong vaccine!Fuck sake. Go to a protest armed with a loaded pistol, harass the agents, get shot. Would that we had an ICE. Rather than Fabians happy to let anyone settle here, especially if crims and sexual threats
As I understand things (based on media that has been so far released), it does not appear that Mr Pretti drew his weapon at any stage. I also understand that carrying a personal weapon is legal in the jurisdiction where this incident took place.
If the above is true, the shooting of Mr Pretti seems like a vast overreaction precipitated by the poor training and unprofessional conduct exhibited by some of these agents (which I have mentioned before).
We, (the Right), need to be objective and measured in our responses to this incident otherwise we are no better than those who condemned and vilified the January 6th protestors and fabricated all the lies that surround that. Are we better, or just as bad as those we oppose?
From what I’ve read, Mr Petti was, apparently, carrying a pistol and two spare clips?
If that’s true and without further information about his motivation, it’s impossible to know for sure but, one might conclude two possibilities: one, that he intended harm to others, or two he was afraid for his own safety and was carrying a weapon for protection.
The second possibility might be most easily addressed by not being there in the first place which leaves us with the first option…
Given the febrile atmosphere, whipped up by people like Walz, encouraging assaults on, and doxing of, ‘literal Nazi’ ICE agents in the name of ‘resistance’, it wouldn’t be too surprising if this was the case, nor would it be any great surprise to see things escalate further.
But since when do nurses take guns with extra magazines to a peaceful protest instead of a sign?
“The handgun that intensive care nurse Alex Pretti was carrying when he was shot dead in Minneapolis has a history of unintentionally discharging, it has emerged.”
“I believe it’s highly likely the first shot was a negligent discharge from the agent in the grey jacket after he removed the Sig P320 from Pretti’s holster while exiting the scene,’ Rob Dobar, a lawyer for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, wrote on X. ”
“It has not been confirmed whether Pretti’s gun fired any shots.”
Shocking history of handgun Alex Pretti was carrying when he was shot by Border Patrol is revealed… as judge bans Trump administration from ‘destroying evidence’ from scene | Daily Mail Online
Make sure pupils don’t ever use phones at school, Phillipson tells teachers according to the BBC
What a bloody stupid paragraph. The letter was sent to schools and was incidentally seen and reported on by Aunty. Hardly exclusive is it?
Whatever our views on the rights and wrongs of pupils using mobile phones at school or Phillipson’s real motives, surely Aunty Beeb could do a better job at basic use of English and/or comprehension.
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