News Round-Up
- “Mandelson scandal could finish Keir Starmer, says Harriet Harman” – Sir Keir Starmer looks “weak, naive and gullible” after apologising for accepting Lord Mandelson’s claim — before he was appointed ambassador to the US — that he “barely knew” the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Baroness Harman, a former deputy Labour leader, has said, reports the Times.
- “Sir Keir’s authority is collapsing” – What possessed the Prime Minister to make Lord Mandelson ambassador? asks the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Starmer’s crippling isolation reeks of the last days of Boris” – With the PM’s character deficiencies exposed and support from his party eroding, the mood is reminiscent of Johnson’s exit from No 10, writes David Frost, a former minister in Boris Johnson’s administration, in the Telegraph.
- “Rayner’s tilt at No 10 hit by tax inquiry” – Angela Rayner risks being prevented from launching a leadership challenge against Sir Keir Starmer over an unresolved investigation into her tax affairs, says the Telegraph.
- “Get ready for Prime Minister Streeting” – As doubts about Starmer grow, Wes Streeting has quietly emerged as Labour’s most obvious heir apparent, suggests Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Rubio raised alarm with Labour over Mandelson” – Senior US figures quietly warned Labour about Lord Mandelson’s past links and foreign entanglements, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mandelson faces police interview within days” – Lord Mandelson is expected to be brought in for police questioning within days, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Naomi Campbell and Mick Jagger lived the high life with Epstein” – British supermodel Naomi Campbell was in repeated contact with Jeffrey Epstein before and after his 2008 conviction for sex offences with an underage girl, reports the Mail.
- “Beware the excessive hounding of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor” – We expected much better of a working royal, but we must not confuse seediness with criminality, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Lithuanian who killed girl as she played in street convicted of murder” – A Lithuanian killer who stabbed a nine year-old in the heart at random while she played with a hula hoop in the street has been convicted of murder, says the Mail.
- “Tories call for retrial of Palestine Action activists” – The Tories have called for a retrial of Palestine Action activists acquitted of a raid on an Israeli defence company’s British factory, reports the Sun.
- “Surely it’s a crime to hit a police officer with a sledgehammer” – The acquittal of Palestine Action protesters following a break-in which left an officer injured highlights a failing in the justice system, writes Rory Geoghegan in the Telegraph.
- “India orders British tourists to leave for placing pro-Palestine stickers” – Two British tourists have been ordered to leave India after plastering pro-Palestine stickers over an ancient city popular with Jewish and Israeli visitors, reports GB News.
- “Europe’s war on free speech is worse than Trump fears” – Across Europe, politicians are leaning on online safety laws to clamp down on awkward opinions, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Trump backs Starmer’s Chagos deal” – Donald Trump has backed Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal, a fortnight after calling it an act of “great stupidity”, says the Telegraph.
- “Nike investigated for discriminating against white workers” – Nike is being investigated by the US Government over allegations it discriminated against white employees and job applicants, according to USA Today.
- “AI’s apocalyptic jobs prophecy is about to become reality” – Long-dismissed warnings about AI wiping out white-collar jobs have started to look uncomfortably real, says Matthew Field in the Telegraph.
- “JLR driven to £310 million loss by cyberattack and slowing sales” – Jaguar Land Rover has taken a heavy financial hit after hackers struck and sales slowed, reports ITV News.
- “Electric car market goes into reverse amid pay-per-mile tax tax threat” – Britain’s electric car boom has stalled as motorists baulk at Labour’s plans to impose a pay-per-mile tax, says the Telegraph
- “France is outlawing open fireplaces. Britain could be next” – France’s crackdown on open fires has sparked fears that Britain’s cosy hearths could be next in line, reports the Telegraph.
- “Holocene warming” – Today probably isn’t the warmest the Earth has been in the last 7,000 years, says Anthony Watts in the Watts Up With That?
- “The Mountains of Kong” – In Cliscep, John Ridgway uses the story of the fake “Mountains of Kong” to show why it’s okay to question popular beliefs, especially when most of us can’t check the facts ourselves.
- “Olympian-level dumb” – The Washington Post can’t seem to enjoy the Winter Olympics without dragging in climate panic, says Joseph Vazquez in Newsbusters.
- “I don’t believe the ‘experts’ who say trans athletes have no advantage over women” – Claims that trans athletes have no competitive edge contradict the experience of every human being going back thousands of years, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The dissolution of society” – Everything feels broken and nobody in charge seems competent, laments Dr Hugh Willbourn on his blog.
- “Civilisation would be broken without real men” – The quiet sidelining of traditional masculinity has had far bigger consequences than politicians care to admit, says Lara Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Andrew Doyle on the Joe Rogan Podcast” – On Substack, Andrew Doyle flags his latest appearance on the Joe Rogan Podcast.
- “He has been incredibly courageous in standing up on this particular issue” – On GB News, Toby pays tribute to the sacrifice made by Graham Lineham for speaking out on behalf of sex-based women’s rights.
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“Get ready for Prime Minister Streeting”
The next step in a glitteringly successful political career.
Well, he managed to find space between his regular radio appearances to attend the Bilderberg meetings in Stockholm last summer, so he’s probably in line to be chosen.
“Beware the excessive hounding of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor”
He keeps being punished, but he hasn’t stood in a court of law, and been tried for any crime.
Diversion, distraction tactics? From what I wonder?
I’m no fan of the Royals , The Queen covered a lot of cracks ( mind you so has Randy Andy 🙃) Anyway the bloke has now suffered more Flak then The Battle of Britain produced , soon his only move might be suicidal while thousands of others escape the glare .
“Trump backs Starmer’s Chagos deal”
The deal is a matter for the UK government, although the US has a vested interest in what happens. Trump has simply explained what he will do if it all goes boobs skyward. As it happens, it looks like Starmer wont be around to force it through parliament if they have decided to park it up until after the May recess and elections.
For how long before changing his mind again?
No, Starmer’s treasonous handover of the Chagos Islands cannot be done without the express permission of the US government, apparently because of the 60-year-old treaty between the UK and US. Also, Trump may not have the authority to abrogate a treaty without consulting Congress.
After Cotfordtags posted (see Jay Arrow below) Andrew Bridgen’s astonishing revelations about the Chagos Fraud, thanks to a heroic whistleblower from Scotland Yard, I wonder what Starmer & his Trilateral Commission mates offered Trump for his sudden U-turn. Surely not money, since Trump is already a billionaire, but then again, you never know.
Greenland?
Re-posting a comment from Cotfordtags under yesterday’s article by Will Jones: ‘Starmer Blames MI5 and MI6 For Failing to Flag Mandelson’s Well-known Epstein Ties . . .’
Thank you Cotfordtags.
“Please let this be true and pray that it has legs.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Kb2md4YwD/
Brave move, considering the bunch of lawyers targeted.”
If it looks like a duck, walks, swims and quacks like a duck… Quack, quack.!!
“France is outlawing open fireplaces. Britain could be next”
You might imagine that with our countries both going down the toilet at a rate of knots, breakdown in social cohesion, mounting debt, ineffective public services, and the rest, that the mighty brains of Paris and Whitehall might be put on greater tasks than petty regulation making that adversely affects a small number of the citizens to no real advantage.
I was chatting to some random blokes in the changing room at the club. Lots of them live in big nice houses in semi rural areas, and lots of them have fireplaces. I told them to enjoy it while it lasts because it might get banned soon. They thought I was nuts. Next time I see them I’ll tell them it’s not as nuts as they thought. I keep discovering new conspiracy theorists there all the time so there’s hope.
Expect Ten Plod in multiple squad cars to drag you from your glowing hearth !
That would close off the last remaining solution for warming a home during the coming power cuts.
That’s exactly what the Globalists plan, to help their Depopulation Agenda in the next Ice Age they know is almost upon us.
The only good news is that all the Third World Invaders will go fleeing back to their tropical homelands as the glaciers advance across the British Isles.
That’s obviously their plan 😬
The governments of the west are quickly becoming mass murderers of the not to distant future and will go down in the anuls of history as such!
More than one heat source is a necessity not a luxury, breathing in smoke takes a lifetime to affect the human body, cold can kill overnight, this is plain common sense to a child!
The thing about France administrative is it is in two parts. The Prefect is a State representative as one part, the local Mairies and councils on the other. There is considerable tension between the two, with locals resisting the stooge for the State.
Central government edicts need the co-operation of the local mairies police municipale, gendarmes and local councils to be implemented and policed.
Since most of France is rural and most of that local administration is rural, anything that they don’t want, affects them, or don’t have the time for results in the “Gallic shrug”.
You can be sure most of the locals will have open fireplaces, or family members who do. Also “la cheminée” (inglenook as we call it, is a big attraction for tourists hiring holiday lets, an important part of the rural economy.
Wood-burning stoves and inserts are popular, and all have doors on the front so they can be opened or closed as desired.
Banning open fireplaces-places – good luck with that.
Harriet who?
Harperson, I assume. Does she count as a Labour grandee in an age of mediocrity?
Mrs Dromey?
An old paedo.
Harridan Harman !
You remember Harriet Harman, famous for her past support for The Paedophile Information Exchange, which campaigned to completely abolish the age of consent…
Patricia Hewett as well. Now in the Lords natch.
What sort of tourist travels with political stickers in their luggage?
😀😀😀
“Surely it’s a crime to hit a police officer with a sledgehammer”
If jurors refuse to convict a criminal for political or religious reasons, despite irrefutable evidence, shouldn’t they be held in contempt of court?
That’s what I said yesterday…
Apparently Zack Polanski celebrated the fact these reprobates were found not guilty but failed to show any empathy or even comment on the the officer whose back was broken during the aggravated burglary and subsequent assaults. Maybe he could offer his services and fix her back with hypnotism. Nob….
“Surely it’s a crime to hit a police officer with a sledgehammer”
Not in Bristol… the whole place is a cesspit of Lefty scumbags.