News Round-Up
- “Morgan McSweeney’s resignation won’t save Starmer ” – In the Spectator, Tim Shipman says Morgan McSweeney leaving won’t save Starmer’s skin.
- “Morgan McSweeney, the man who remade Labour, leaves PM adrift” – In the Times, Patrick Maguire warns that McSweeney’s exit leaves Starmer’s premiership on the brink.
- “The fall of the house of Blair is now almost complete” – Morgan McSweeney was doomed the moment Keir Starmer said he had “full confidence” in him, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “More bad news for PM as freebiegate donor Lord Alli is named in the Epstein Files” – Fresh embarrassment has followed the Prime Minister after Labour donor Lord Alli appeared in newly released Epstein documents, reports the Mail.
- “The Mandelson scandal is far grubbier than the Profumo affair” – In the Spectator, Julie Burchill says the Mandelson-Epstein scandal is far grubbier and darker than the Profumo affair, with no glamour or redemption in sight.
- “Statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein’s death emerges from files… but it’s dated a day before he killed himself” – Newly released paperwork has fuelled fresh suspicion after recording Epstein’s death a day early, reports the Mail.
- “More small boat migrants come to Britain under Starmer than any other PM” – Some 65,703 migrants have reached Britain across the Channel since Labour won the election 19 months ago, at an average rate of just over 790 a week, says the Telegraph.
- “Is Starmer too deluded to see that failed multiculturalism feeds the ‘politics of grievance’ he purports to despise?” – Starmer has missed how failed multiculturalism is feeding grievance politics, writes Richard North in TCW.
- “Leicester is no multicultural success – it is a stark warning to the rest of Britain” – Leicester is a cautionary tale, with rising violence and fraying trust undermining claims of multicultural success, says Simone Hanna in the Telegraph.
- “White victims of grooming gangs ‘betrayed’ by prosecutors” – Prosecutors are betraying grooming victims by failing to treat rape gang offences against white working-class girls as hate crimes, reports our own Laurie Wastell in the Telegraph.
- “I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, says terrorist standing for election” – A convicted terrorist jailed in Yemen for plotting to bomb the British consulate, an Anglican church and a Swiss hotel, is standing to become a Birmingham councillor. He says he accepts he is “not everybody’s cup of tea”, according to the Telegraph.
- “White British pupils falter in race for a grammar school place” – Times research reveals that white British pupils are being muscled out of grammar school places, sometimes by overseas applicants from thousands of miles away.
- “Residents refuse to pay council tax over ‘undemocratic’ cancellation of elections” – A council tax boycott has begun to gather pace as residents protest against cancelled local elections, reports the Telegraph.
- “The rebellion brewing in London against Labour’s LTN cash cow” – Londoners are pushing back against low-traffic neighbourhoods by refusing to pay fines, says Alex Marsh in the Telegraph.
- “My ultimate goal is to reverse Brexit” – Sir Sadiq Khan says his “ultimate goal” is to reverse Brexit and he believes it will happen in his lifetime, according to the Telegraph.
- “EU tells Britain it must agree to ‘onerous terms’ to join defence fund” – British firms will be forced to source key technology and parts from Europe if Sir Keir Starmer signs up to a £130 billion EU defence fund, reveals the Mail.
- “Donald Trump threatens to ‘do a Venezuela’ on Iran unless it agrees to nukes deal” – Donald Trump has ramped up his rhetoric by threatening Iran with crushing action if it refuses a nuclear deal, reports the Sun.
- “AI productivity boom may fail to deliver, warns Andrew Bailey” – The Governor of the Bank of England has warned that the AI productivity boost might not live up to the hype, according to Bitget.
- “The hijacking of Bitcoin” – Bitcoin is drifting away from its original promise of decentralised digital cash, warns Aaron Day for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Ninety-nine per cent denied: the failure of the Vaccine Damage Payment scheme” – The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme has been exposed as rejecting almost everyone who applies, despite being meant to help the seriously injured, reveals the Together Declaration.
- “Study on Covid vaccines in elderly should raise alarm, negative effectiveness again?” – A little-noticed study on Covid jabs in the elderly has reignited concerns about their effectiveness and outcomes, writes Dr Raphael Lataster on Substack.
- “NHS-funded study of cousin marriage is ‘biased’ and downplays the risk of birth defects, expert says” – An NHS-funded report has been accused of glossing over serious health risks linked to cousin marriage, reports the Mail.
- “On marriage” – On Substack, Dr Robert W. Malone defends marriage as a cornerstone of culture, population stability and everyday wellbeing.
- “I had an abortion due to climate anxiety. How can I come to terms with it?” – In the Guardian, a mother reveals how climate anxiety drove her to terminate a wanted pregnancy, leaving lasting grief.
- “Ed Miliband’s energy department HQ powered by fossil fuels” – The headquarters of Ed Miliband’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is powered by fossil fuels, despite the ministry promoting renewable energy, reports the Times.
- “Scroby Sands lights the fuse of the decommissioning timebomb ” – Huge discrepancies in offshore wind decommissioning costs have raised awkward questions about who will foot the bill, writes David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Negligible future Greenhouse warming from: CO2 – CH4 – N2O” – Future warming from carbon dioxide and other gases is far smaller than climate models suggest, says Ed Hoskins on his blog.
- “Goodbye to diesel: British scientists develop an engine that runs on seawater and promises to revolutionise maritime and land transport” – British scientists have unveiled a system that turns seawater into hydrogen fuel, promising cleaner ships and vehicles, according to EcoNoticias.
- “Greenpeace turns to Dutch courts in bid to overturn €292.6 million US fine” – Greenpeace is turning to the Dutch courts in an attempt to have a multimillion-dollar fine awarded by a US jury set aside, says Brussels Signal.
- “The auto industry’s gamble on electric cars has turned into a catastrophe” – The major American and European auto manufacturers who jumped on the EV bandwagon are suffering enormous losses, writes Mathew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The godfather of electric cars sucks the joy out of driving” – Modern electric cars like the Toyota Prius are turning driving into a dull, joyless experience, argues Mathew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Chris Packham ‘harassed’ huntsmen for five hours” – Chris Packham has been accused of harassing huntsmen as he joined forces with his daughter, also a BBC presenter, and saboteurs to follow a hunt through the Dorset countryside for five hours, says the Telegraph.
- “My new novel is dangerous for my career and reputation” – In the Telegraph, Lionel Shriver tells Claire Allfree how her latest satire about immigration risks alienating today’s progressive readers.
- “Olivia Colman, 52, says she feels nonbinary and describes herself as a ‘gay man’ to her husband” – Olivia Colman has revealed that she has always “felt sort of nonbinary”, according to the Mail.
- “What’s going on with Holly Valance? She’s rumoured to be dating Tommy Robinson and has just had her anti-woke song banned” – The Mail profiles Holly Valance, the new poster girl for the firebrand Right.
- “It’s pretty clear where the state’s priorities lie” – Outside Lord Hermer’s office at the Ministry of Justice, Toby points out how Lucy Connolly got 31 months for a deleted X post, fast-tracked by the CPS with a last-minute sign-off from the Attorney-General, while the case against Mo Chara of Kneecap collapsed thanks to a CPS delay in securing Lord Hermer’s consent for the prosecution.
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“In the Times, Patrick Maguire warns that McSweeney’s exit leaves Starmer’s premiership on the brink.”
So I don’t know much about this McSweeney guy (I only know about McSween’s haggis) but… this almost mystical qualities that he’s supposed to have… the brain behind Labour’s strategy… the guardian of their success…
You really have to ask yourself: what on earth has he achieved?
Labour got into power by default: nobody could be bothered to vote for the fake conservatives.
Their governing can be characterized as total failure. Rising taxes, everything broken, incompetence, dithering, embarrassment, fiasco, humiliation.
And yet somehow when this guy leaves, it’s as if he had been some intellectual giant that will be sorely missed.
Really?
He is Irish. I want to know why he was (according to his resignation letter) in the government. I thought we we governed by our elected representatives
Irish and committed Republican. See the article posted above.
It occurred to me in the wee small hours of this morning that the problem we have today might, perhaps, be laid at the doors of the universities that offer PPE degrees that churn out identikit and interchangeable ‘politicians’ who see politics simply as a career choice, where they can line their pockets?
Very few of them have actual political views, as can be seen by the presence of focus groups and people like McSweeny, who guide them in how to package whatever they are saying to try and sell it to as broad a spectrum of the electorate as possible suggests they neither know what they’re talking about, nor believe it.
The ease with which they can cross the floor and accept a ‘broad church’ approach to the membership of their party, when there should really be two or more separate parties is too, further evidence that they have little conviction in their beliefs.
I see Starmer is to speak to the nation today. I imagine he will have been shacked up again with his voice coach all weekend, practising his angry voice and his sorrowful voice…
https://labourheartlands.com/the-labour-oligarchy/#:~:text=The%20Labour%20Oligarchy%3A%20Tracing%20the%20Starmer%2DMcSweeney%2DMandelson%20Network%20of%20Power
Excellent article providing lots of background to McSweeney. Mandy was his bessie.
Chris Packham ‘harassed’ huntsmen for five hours
‘The most tragic thing that we are likely to see today is that young woman on a horse…’
Very little concern from Mr Packham regarding the consequences of the ‘Hunting Act’, dramatically increased numbers of foxes shot, shot and wounded foxes in their thousands every year left to die an unspeakable lingering death unrecovered as a direct consequence of the Hunting Act’s two dog follow up limit, useless in thick cover.
Packham is only interested in himself.
Packham is an appalling specimen.
Goodbye to diesel: British scientists develop an engine that runs on seawater and promises to revolutionise maritime and land transport
Almost? I do hope they’re on to something – but solid H2 storage at scale sounds too good to be true. I like most SciFi.
It’s an interesting article, especially about the storage mechanism for Hydrogen, but “The system uses advanced electrodes that split hydrogen directly from seawater using renewable electricity.”. And where is that going to come from, either out at sea or on land? It says nothing about thermal efficiency, either; probably not very good, a cynic might say.
Yes, I wondered that, too… I think, from what the article says, the electricity for the cracking is to come from 100%‘renewables’, which suggests that they will recharge in port, probably from battery arrays for those occasions when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine… not unlike bunkering a conventional vessel, I suppose?
No indication of the time required to recharge the vessel, or course, though at this stage they probably don’t know… it would be interesting too, to see a EIEO calculation for the system.
Still, everything has to start somewhere and I don’t imagine the first ICE demonstrations would have suggested the massive engines these devices are proposed to replace?
I Dont think we’ll be waving goodbye to diesel just yet as this quick peice of googling explains
Producing solid hydrogen is energy-intensive and currently not cost-effective for large-scale, commercial use. It remains primarily in the experimental phase.
Yes. I have it filed in the same category as cold fusion, but not in the same category as dilithium crystals.
Diesel is here for the foreseeable future. Whether it is produced from crude oil or biomass, it’s here for the long haul – figuratively and literally. Whilst the most efficient way to move large loads long distances is by electric freight train (supplied by overhead catenary systems), medium and short range distribution will continue to rely on diesel vehicles.
“…. sounds almost like science fiction…” No it sounds like gimme-a-grant and taxpayer cash harvesting scam.
Theatre for the proles. Better to entertain the savages than to have them burn your house down.
Absolutely.
But I’m coming round to the idea that the proles want the theatre.
Our society is like a pretty fat, unfit person that smokes, that knows he has a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and makes noises every now and then about how he should really quit smoking, join a gym and start getting healthy, but actually has no intention or will power to do it and knows it will never happen.
Talking of which… when are the arsonists , now allegedly five people, due in court?
“I had an abortion due to climate anxiety. How can I come to terms with it?”
Funny how for nearly 60 years they’ve failed to cover the lasting grief of many millions of mothers who had abortions, of which I saw plenty in my medical career. The grief and guilt were compounded by the fact that “society” conspired to tell them there was nothing to feel bad about.
Self-genocide.
That’s what the white western population is engaged in.
Sadly, there are a significant number of women that have been brainwashed by the machine into believing their gift is a curse. So brainwashed that they will passionately sing the tune of the machine whilst it tears their babies from the womb and slams every door to true meaning around them. As the machine looks down and smiles they celebrate their empowerment by gleefully planning their own funeral in an empty church.
I gather that as a byproduct it turns lead into gold, and it gets the energy required from rainbows.
Ahhh, that explains it, and the Unicorn?
The news of the enormous funds and time needed to refurbish the Palace of Westminster was published last week. It is ludicrous.
Another plan is needed.
I start: build a new Parliament. Use maybe the Treasury building (way too big for its current use and you could build the upper and lower debating chambers in the courtyard) and Old Scotland Yard. You may have to compulsory purchase another building next to it.
Then turn the Palace of Westminster into a history museum.
I briefly thought of moving the new Parliament out of London, but it would be quite tricky to move all of Whitehall.
Other ideas welcome!
Get quotes other than from establishment mates. Listen to Jacob’s talk about it.
And, while you’re at it, build in living quarters for 650, so that they might have somewhere to lay their heads whilst not in their constituencies, and stop this ludicrous gravy train of second homes that we pay for…
This is an absolute ‘must do.’
Or give them vouchers for the Holiday Inn?
To be fair, there are security issues these days, which are probably better managed in a special secure unit, though not sub-contracting prison officers for the job, apparently…
Build a new one on the site of the proposed Chinese embassy. Give parliament to the Chinese for their embassy. Sorted.
I wonder where the “renewable electricity” is going to come from on these boats that are electrolising sea water? That seems to be the bit that is being glossed over’
Perhaps they plug in to a handy wind turbine, or have an array of them mounted on deck.
And if they have handy renewable electricity why don’t they power the ship with electic motors directly and cut out the inevitble losses of electrolysis and storage.
Power out can never exceed total power in. Entropy rules OK.
Absolutely this. My first thought. Every time energy is converted, some of it is lost.
Electic motors!? you’re infringing my patent.
I agree but I think the article suggests fueling the boat with solid hydrogen (presumably actually some sort of adsorbtion onto some other material). The hydrogen is produced on-shore from the plentiful and reliable renewables… Oh.
The article this piece is derived from, suggests that the entire thing will be done ‘on board’.
The energy will come from the vessel’s own renewables, either solar or wind, and will convert the sea water to hydrogen and oxygen, storing it in solid state on nano-films, having apparently sidestepped the production of chlorine gas.
The solid state hydrogen thus produced is then immediately burned , as required, in modified diesel engines, with a buffer storage to maintain supply when neither wind nor solar are available…
Outside all the other issues, the trick appears to be to produce the fuel at the rate is required, direct to engine, depending on whether the engine is idling, under full load, or somewhere in between?
Thanks for that.
Presumably then the boat will have a nuclear reactor to make electricity to split the seawater and store it in the wonder-storage-material before letting it out again and burning the H2 in the infernal combustion engine to make the boat go along.
I think I can see a shortcut.
So the Governor of the Bank of England is now an expert on the economics of AI. He does not know how to manage inflation within the requirements given to him but he has spare time on his hands to lecture us about AI.
The BoE like all other government agencies use has time and money to operate works policies, lecture us on partisan policies it wants us to support and to give a running commentary on all social, economic and political issues of the day.
When will we be rid of this turbulent Governor.
“More bad news for PM as freebiegate donor Lord Alli is named in the Epstein Files”
With the revelations that keep tumbling out of Epstein’s cupboards, are the claims of the ‘fantasist’ paedophile Carl Beech gaining credibility or, are they still just the wishful musings of a conspiracist? 🤔