News Round-Up
- “Migrant crossings surge as temperatures rise” – Around 550 migrants crossed the Channel on Wednesday as they took advantage of the warmest day of the year, reports the Telegraph.
- “Russia sends migrants into Europe through secret tunnels” – Russian authorities are reportedly funnelling migrants into Europe via concealed tunnels leading toward Poland, says the Sun.
- “When Kemi called Sir Keir’s lot ‘the Paedo Defenders party’ Labour MPs screamed in fury and the clerks nearly swallowed their Biros” – Kemi Badenoch sent MPs into meltdown by labelling Labour the “Paedo Defenders party”, recounts Quentin Letts in the Mail.
- “Starmer on brink of by-election disaster” – Keir Starmer is staring down a potential humiliation in Gorton as polls suggest the Greens might snatch a shock victory, reports James Tapsfield in the Mail.
- “Labour accused of by-election dirty tricks over ‘fictitious’ tactical voting group” – Labour is embroiled in a dirty tricks row over a campaign leaflet featuring a “fictitious” tactical voting company, according to the HuffPost.
- “This abominable by-election is a final warning for Britain’s democracy” – The sectarian horror of the Gorton and Denton by-election cannot be the future of British politics, warns Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Embarrassment for Labour as government is saved from strike action by Tory curbs on unions” – Ministers have been left red-faced after being saved from strikes by Tory curbs on unions – months before they are due to be scrapped, reports the Mail.
- “Greens plan to hand illegal migrants a free house, a wage and NHS care” – The Green Party has unveiled plans to give illegal migrants free housing, wages and immediate NHS access, reveals the Mail.
- “The Christian preachers who have been arrested, locked up or abused in the street” – Several Christian street preachers have been arrested, detained or harassed while exercising their right to free speech in public spaces across Britain, reports Arthur Parashar in the Mail.
- “Men ‘armed with axe and knife’ enter Manchester Central Mosque” – Police have launched a manhunt after two men armed with an axe and knife entered Manchester Central Mosque during Ramadan prayers, says the Mail.
- “Home Office allowed to appeal Palestine Action court ruling” – The Home Office has been given the green light to challenge the High Court decision which said that banning Palestine Action as a terrorist group was unlawful, reports the BBC.
- “University feared expelling Nottingham killer because it could have caused him stress” – The university attended by the Nottingham killer was reluctant to expel him because it would have caused him “stress”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Almost half of people delay contacting their GP about health concerns” – Nearly half the population has put off seeing their GP about health worries in the past year because of frustration with the appointment systems, says the Mail.
- “John Lewis abandons plan to build 10,000 homes” – John Lewis has quietly dropped its ambitious scheme to construct 10,000 new homes after running into planning headaches and rising costs, reports This is Money.
- “Sexual revolution has gone too far, says Reform’s Danny Kruger” – Reform MP Danny Kruger argues that Britain is paying a heavy price for an entirely unregulated “sexual economy” born from the sexual revolution, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why is Britain educating China’s scientists?” – Elite universities have more Chinese than British students taking Stem courses, notes Juiliet Samuel in the Times.
- “Gibraltar is still British but must follow EU rules” – The full legal text of Gibraltar’s post-Brexit deal has confirmed the Rock will remain British while requiring it to shadow significant EU regulations, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump explodes at Democrats for refusing to stand for Americans” – Donald Trump has ripped into Democrats and his own Supreme Court justices during a marathon State of the Union address, says the Mail.
- “Behind the theatre, Trump has a serious message for Iran” – As the US amasses its largest concentration of sea and air power in the Middle East since the second Gulf War, the Ayatollah will no longer doubt Mr Trump’s willingness to use it, writes Connor Stringer in the Telegraph.
- “Are the strongest nor’easters getting stronger? A closer look” – Claims that America’s biggest storms along the East Coast have become noticeably fiercer don’t hold up when you dig into the numbers properly, claims Roger Pielke Jr. on his Substack.
- “Rooftop solar fraud: the damage continues” – The US rooftop solar boom has turned into a bit of a bust, leaving homeowners stuck with dodgy contracts and underperforming panels, writes Robert Bradley Jr. in Master Resource.
- “Out of 300 Trump energy moves, these 10 actions changed the game” – In Climate Change Dispatch, Thomas Richard revisits the key decisions that have powered Trump’s US energy reset.
- “Enough climate action – shut the money spigot” – We’ve poured trillions into climate programmes that mostly seem to line the pockets of the well-connected without much to show for it, says Issues & Insights.
- “Tell the truth, WCNC NBC, climate change hasn’t harmed coffee production” – That NBC News story blaming hotter weather for a decline in coffee production doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, says H. Sterling Burnett in ClimateRealism.
- “Leftist Australian PM Anthony Albanese heckled by environmental activists” – Aussie PM Anthony Albanese was berated by green activists demanding an end to fossil fuel yesterday, interrupting a speech at an event in Melbourne, according to Breitbart.
- “The Baftas n-word row has been very revealing” – John Davidson’s involuntary use of the n-word at the Baftas because of his Tourette’s has sparked an extraordinary row that exposes plenty about modern sensitivities, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “What happened to ‘inclusivity’ at the Baftas?” – The furious reaction to a man with Tourette’s being allowed to attend the Baftas has laid bare the selective nature of today’s inclusivity brigade, argues Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “Why did they sit him behind a microphone?” – John Davidson has blamed the Bafta organisers for placing a microphone right in front of where he was sitting despite knowing about his Tourette’s, reports the Mail.
- “Nadiya Hussain claims she is a victim of racism in the ‘broken’ TV industry” – Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has accused the television industry of racism and claims her Muslim faith makes executives uneasy, according to the Mail.
- “We know that in the medieval period, it was warmer than today” – On Triggernometry, the Economist’s former science editor Matt Ridley dismantles the “climate crisis” narrative.
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Behind the theatre, Trump has a serious message for Iran
‘Tehran had “already developed missiles that can threaten Europe”’
‘Europe’ in this context means Britain.
Let’s see how the ‘Little Britain’/’Iran and other aggressor nations are no threat to this country’ approach plays out when the first ICBM (against which we have no defence) strikes the United Kingdom.
Hands up how many people know what it feels like to be under imminent missile attack with air raid sirens shrieking?
But can they be used within 45 minutes?
No-one could possibly say…so it really is a question of: ‘Do you feel lucky…’
‘Israeli officials reportedly estimated the size of Iran’s remaining arsenal to be 1,500 missiles and 200 launchers at the war’s end…Iran was working on replenishing its stocks…focused on improving the combat-readiness…a self-imposed missile-range limit of 2,000 km. Iran could, however, abandon the limit at any time, and indeed has deployed a system, the Khorramshahr, that could almost certainly reach longer ranges if equipped with a lighter warhead. The emphasis on combat readiness led Iran to focus on developing solid-propellant missiles…’
https://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/weapon-program-background-report/table-irans-missile-arsenal
I expect there’ll be a dossier along any moment…
Not a chance. Do you really think this government cares about your defence, your borders?
Not for a second.
And then, only if Starmer thinks it might be his ‘Falklands moment’… and that’s more about him, not us.
But, you can surely see the parallels with another Labour government and Iraq, here?
I don’t see any sign of this government doing anything much at all about anything. Another Iraq would be completely beyond them…not least because this country at the moment could not deploy much more than a mechanised battalion with perhaps a dozen tanks, 12 aeroplanes on any kind of extended operation overseas, a force that would be cut to pieces in a fortnight.
“We know that in the medieval period, it was warmer than today”
This brings up a question I have never seen answered: Given the huge variation in CO2 levels over millions of years, at which point was it optimal, and why?
The question is academic because we cannot control the CO2 levels. But my suggestion is the level that gives the best plant growth for the crops we use without side effects.
Climate Change is not a side effect of increasing CO2.
Well, indeed… but, if you’re going to set a pretend target for something, you should at least know what it is and why, surely?
And then there is the question as to how much the level of carbon dioxide had on the average air temperature, or were other factors more important? I suspect the latter, rather than the simplistic argument that we have much effect on by reclaiming stored energy in certain substances.
The effect of CO2 on the heat budget, ie difference between the rate of incoming heat energy v outgoing, peaks at 20ppm. It peaked millions of years ago. After that the effect is logarithmic, and so small as not to be significant. That is why if CO2 concentration were to double from its present ~ 420ppm to 880ppm, the increase in temperature would max at 1C. A further doubling to 1 760ppm would max at 1C. Therefors to go from 420ppm to 1 760ppm would cause no more than a 2C increase. This assumes no other factors unrelated to CO2 are involved. At the rate of increase of the recent past, if it continued, it would take about 2 300 years from now to reach 1 760ppm. So the nonsense that we should keep warming under 2C, in fact 1.5C means we have about 2 000 years to do it – if we believe the insanity that Mankind causes warming and can stop it. In any case, 2 000 years doesn’t say urgent! crisis! emergency! Don’t panic Mr Mainwearing! to me. The major effect and without which Earth would be an ice-ball, is water vapour which is between 4 000ppm… Read more »
“Men ‘armed with axe and knife’ enter Manchester Central Mosque”
So, burn as many churches as you like but don’t enter a mosque with an axe and knife!
Sounds fair! No doubt the Islamic police force of Britain will pull out all the stops to catch these infidels!
It’ll probably turn out that they were just handing them in for storage, like the officer advised during the Stockport kerfuffle.
”We found these outside and thought they must be yours?”
Brilliant! 🙂
Mosque.. or armoury as it is otherwise known
Yes I remember the officer talking to Muslim crowd:- “please leave your weapons in the mosque ” i think were his words,..please!! Wow, the difference if they’d have been white British
The Sun doesn’t seem to realise that Belarus is not Russia.
‘In 1997…they signed the Treaty on the Union of Belarus and Russia (‘Союз’)…the Treaty on the Creation of the Union State (‘Союзное государство’), signed on 8 December 1999…was ratified by the Russian State Duma and the Belarusian Parliament on 22 December 1999 and 26 January 2000 respectively’
The Union State is planned to incorporate Ukraine, Moldova and the Baltic States.
‘A leaked internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s executive office…outlines in granular detail a creeping annexation by political, economic and military means of an independent but illiberal European nation by Russia…The strategy document…belongs to the Presidential Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation, a subdivision of Putin’s Presidential Administration, which was established five years ago. The rather innocuously named directorate’s actual task is to exert control over neighbouring countries that Russia sees as in its sphere of influence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.’
Nadia Hussain …… after having been successful and making money she now publicly whines about her woes ….so very tedious and predictable.
Too right! The Muslim woman’s Bloated Sense of Entitlement can’t handle the fact that she wasn’t guaranteed a television series for life, as she feels is her due. Many have pointed out that she was a mediocre cook with an ugly rag on her head, who was given unmerited wealth and fame as a “Diversity Hire”, and should consider herself lucky, instead of endlessly whingeing.
It does seem strange that someone who was given the role as the friendly face of Islam, a gift for the BBC, should see race as the reason for the end of her TV career and not the reason for the beginning of it.
Having missed the BAFTA’s show I do not know which N word was shouted out by John Davidson. If it was the Ni word that is genuinely offensive, but if it was the Ne word that is in all honesty only offensive to the wokery who seem to feel their opinion on any matter is the only one that counts. The Ne word that now offends so many is merely a way of describing a particular group of people, white people used to be described as caucasians, no insult is intended by its use. So which word was it? Anyone know?
It was the word that’s okay for them to use, that features, relentlessly and without comment, unless a white person sings along, in the music they celebrate at the MOBOs.
White people are now described by Third World Ethnics & their White Marxist Enablers as “Gammon”, a reference to skin colour and “Swine Eaters”, as the English were historically described in Scotland, oddly enough.
“The Christian preachers who have been arrested, locked up or abused in the street”
Matthew 6:5
Jesus said, “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the HYPOCRITES are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in THE CORNERS OF THE STREETS, that they may be SEEN OF MEN. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”
May I add this appalling news to the Round-Up:
Britain’s best fish and chip takeaway is revealed as judges heap praise on brothers running it for their ‘sensational’ food | Daily Mail Online
The Globalist “judges” gave the award to TWO SIKH BROTHERS from India.
That makes sense, considering that the original Sikh Empire was TOTALLY LANDLOCKED, and most Sikhs are vegetarians & vegans (eye-roll). That doesn’t stop them from carrying Disembowelling Daggers beneath their clothing. They are also prohibited from drinking alcohol, which doesn’t stop them from buying up breweries and pubs in Britain. One Sikh commenter said,
—“Congratulations my brothers. Showing english (sic) how to do it properly.”
You see how the Globalists will leave no stone unturned in hunting down every aspect of the White Man’s culture and handing it to Third World Invaders.
The Great Replacement.