News Round-Up
- “‘High levels’ of illegal family voting in Gorton and Denton by-election” – Observers have spotted what looks like quite a lot of dodgy family voting going on in the Gorton and Denton by-election, according to ITV News.
- “Greens plan to cut the defence budget, cull the Army and scrap the nuclear deterrent” – Zack Polanski and the Greens have floated slashing defence spending, scrapping Trident and switching to a “proportional and legal” response to any attack, reports the Mail.
- “The Greens’ Urdu ad is Zack Polanski at his worst” – Zack Polanski has once again shown he’ll chase whatever’s trendy, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “The Green Party are playing with fire in Gorton” – The Greens have risked turning themselves into something far removed from an environmental party by chasing votes in Gorton, warns Ed West in the Spectator.
- “Do we really want our politicians to be uneducated?” – The attack line that Reform’s Matt Goodwin is somehow unfit for Parliament because he’s educated is deeply peculiar, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Trump tells Starmer: Let me strike Iran from Chagos or I’ll sink deal” – Donald Trump has thrown a massive spanner in the works by telling Keir Starmer he’ll only green-light the Chagos handover if the UK lets the US use the islands to hit Iran, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Chagos Islanders avoid eviction for two more weeks” – The Chagos Islanders have won themselves another fortnight before any forced removal, reports the Telegraph.
- “We’ve returned to Chagos – and this time we are not going anywhere” – In the Telegraph, Chagossian Misley Mandarin says he and fellow islanders have returned to Chagos to reclaim their homeland, reject Starmer’s Mauritius deal and demand self-determination.
- “Inside the daring plan to reclaim the Chagos Islands” – A gutsy operation to take the Chagos Islands back into British (or islander) hands has been quietly taking shape, reports Paul Wood in the Spectator.
- “Has it all gone wrong between Trump and Starmer?” – After Trump shot down the Chagos deal and differences over Iran and Ukraine widened, it looks like the so-called Special Relationship is on pause, says Tim Shipman in the Spectator.
- “Spain will be able to block Brit travellers from entering Gibraltar under post-Brexit treaty” – Under a new post-Brexit deal, Spanish officials will have the right to stop British travellers entering Gibraltar if they’re seen as a security, health or diplomatic risk, reveals the Mail.
- “Now Peter Mandelson faces EU fraud probe over Epstein files” – EU fraud investigators are looking into Peter Mandelson’s long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein amid allegations he tipped the financier off about a huge euro bailout, reports theMail.
- “Epstein didn’t break Keir Starmer, but it may finish him” – Keir Starmer was wobbling well before the Epstein scandal blew up, but it’s brought his day of reckoning that much closer, says Niall Ferguson on his Substack.
- “Epstein Files claim another scalp: President of World Economic Forum quits following speculation over links to paedophile” – World Economic Forum President Borge Brende has stepped down after persistent rumours tied him to Jeffrey Epstein, reports the Mail.
- “The Epstein conspiracy wasn’t what we suspected” – The evidence that’s emerged so far has failed to back up the theory that Epstein was running a classic intelligence blackmail honey-trap, say Alex Gutentag and Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “Kemi Badenoch refuses to apologise for Labour ‘paedo defenders’ jibe” – Kemi Badenoch has flatly refused to say sorry for branding Labour as “paedo defenders”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer’s selective ageism” – Labour’s apparent plan to put 81 year-old Margaret Hodge in charge of Ofcom has left Toby in the Spectator scratching his head about the party’s sudden tolerance for the elderly.
- “The no 1 quango that deserves the axe” – In the Spectator, Martin Vander Weyer singles out one particularly bloated quango as the perfect candidate for the chop.
- “I will stop innocent lives being sacrificed at the altar of political correctness” – In the Telegraph, Reform’s Zia Yusuf promises the party will put an end to innocent people paying the price simply because someone is afraid of being called racist.
- “The horrific halal slaughter video and a troubling question” – Shocking new footage shows lambs having their throats cut while fully conscious in a UK halal abattoir. Sue Reid exposes the cruelty in a special report for the Mail.
- “Deborah Turness dismisses BBC-Trump scandal as bad edit” – The ex-BBC boss who quit over the Trump Panorama scandal has brushed the whole affair off as nothing more than a sloppy edit, says the Telegraph.
- “The real reason I left Britain” – In the Spectator, Lionel Shriver reveals how crushing taxes combined with endlessly intrusive journalists finally drove her out of the UK for good.
- “Yookay’nt misbehavin’” – Britain has quietly rebranded itself into something unrecognisable – “Yookay” – and the cultural shift has been anything but subtle, says Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “No, the Southbank Centre is not beautiful” – In the Spectator, James Innes-Smith discusses Brutalism and the Left.
- “Jimmy Lai’s fraud conviction overturned by Hong Kong court” – Hong Kong judges have thrown out Jimmy Lai’s fraud conviction tied to his pro-democracy paper’s headquarters lease, reports DW.
- “MAGA-nomics is working” – Donald Trump’s economic playbook has been quietly delivering results despite the constant criticism, says Gavin Rice in the Spectator.
- “Israel data shows over a 500x increase in rate of heart attacks in teens on the day of their Covid shot” – Israeli health data obtained under FOIA showed teen heart attacks soaring 500-fold on the day they got the Covid jab – then the records vanished and no one in authority asked why, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack.
- “Matt Ridley on Chinese biolabs in America, Covid and the reality of biowarfare” – On the Spectator’s Americano podcast, Freddy Gray is joined by biologist Matt Ridley to discuss the recent discovery of an illegal Chinese biolab operating in a Las Vegas apartment.
- “The Alternative Covid Inquiry: the speeches in full” – The Spectator revisits its recent Alternative Covid Inquiry, featuring Matt Ridley, Sunetra Gupta, Jonathan Sumption, Christopher Snowdon and Tom Whipple.
- “UK’s Reddit fine forces users into mass biometric surveillance” – Reddit has responded to a £14.47 million fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to properly verify the ages of kids by making adult British users hand over face scans and ID to a third-party checker, reports Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
- “Visions of a jobs apocalypse are greatly exaggerated” – All the doom-and-gloom talk about AI wiping out jobs has turned out to be way overblown, says Tom Stevenson in the Telegraph.
- “Unearthed docs show DEI dominated Biden-era science” – Freshly dug-up papers have revealed just how deeply DEI ideology got baked into the Biden team’s “scientific integrity” rules, reports the Daily Caller.
- “EPA’s CO2 reversal is welcome opening for developing world” – The EPA has finally backed off treating CO2 like a pollutant, and that’s opened a much-needed door for poorer countries to keep developing without crazy restrictions, explains Vijay Jayaraj for CO2 Coalition.
- “RealClear Politics is right: the climate hoax is a massive financial scam” – RealClear Politics has nailed it by calling out the whole climate scam as one enormous money pit with trillions down the drain, says Linnea Lueken in ClimateRealism.
- “Lessons from history – part 2” – All the current climate panic has stopped us from learning some pretty obvious lessons from history, writes Mark Hodgson in CliScep.
- “Seven lies we’re told about climate change” – On the Epoch Times YouTube channel, Michael Shellenberger lays out seven of the biggest whoppers we keep getting fed on climate change.
- “No, Bridget Phillipson. Five year-old boys shouldn’t be allowed to wear dresses to school” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon slams Bridget Phillipson’s muddled claim that five year-old boys should wear dresses to school.
- “The truth about Nadiya Hussain’s BBC sacking” – TV insiders have told the Mail that Nadiya Hussain lost her BBC shows because she’s not that famous, her recipes were rubbish and she was a nightmare to work with – not because she’s a Muslim.
- “Mike Tindall criticised for wearing ‘Make England Great Again’ hat” – Mike Tindall has taken flak for sporting a “Make England Great Again” cap while commentating on the Six Nations, according to the Mail. He was talking about the England rugby team, surely?
- “My night at the Baftas” – The Baftas turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable and almost blessed in a way that’s hard to explain, writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “A gold-embossed invitation for activists to wage political lawfare” – In the Lords, Toby slams Green Party peer Baroness Jones’s push to let the “misleading the public” offence apply to MPs and lords, warning it would unleash activist lawfare over every election promise.
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Honest to god, the collective toddler tantrum from the usual suspects over a man of Mike Tindall’s calibre wearing a cap. Imagine a man who played for his country for years causing outrage for wearing a hat demonstrating his pride and loyalty to England, FFS. These people are beneath contempt, especially that vacuous, race-baiting, attention-craving, professional agitator and non-entity: Narinder Kaur. I think this sums up these tossers to a T; ”Once you understand the psychology of the modern leftists, the last decade makes a lot more sense. The endless outrage, hypersensitivity, and rejection of rational debate was nothing more than a crisis of self-worth masked as a moral crusade. What I mean by leftist: – Socialists Collectivists LGBTQ activists Climate cultists What unites all of them isn’t just ideology but psychology. Inferiority, low self-esteem, powerlessness, guilt, self-hatred, and depressive tendencies. Many leftists “ally” themselves with groups perceived as weak or inferior, not out of compassion, but because they unconsciously project their own sense of weakness onto these groups. They hate strength, success, and rationality, which is why they direct so much venom at America, Western civilization, white men, and science itself. The same flaws they denounce in the west… Read more »
The critics will almost certainly have no idea who Mike Tindall is, never mind his exploits over a long career. All they care about is their narrow view of the world and society. I’ve become immune to them, in large extent, and I ignore them. As Churchill said “You will never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones each time a dog barks at you.”
I’m starting the WGAFAG Party, who gives a f about Gaza, my policies are to outlaw the wearing of the arafat teacloth, and to outlaw the issuance of political manifestos in any language other than English, Welsh, gaelic or cornish.
No state funding for university courses, with a simplified loan scheme for British STEM students.
And Rupert Lowe as God president.
And how did his party do up against Reform?
I was disappointed by the reform result I thought they would be closer.
The chief positive from this result is that now the greens’absurd and mental policies will get a LOT more scrutiny and their ridiculous sucking up to Muslims and the brain dead humanities students will fall apart and consign them to a footnote in the history books.
It was 427th on Reforms list. A good opportunity to put the pressure on Labour, but by no means a given in terms of a winnable seat. The Greens wont be able to put that much energy and support into seats generally. May elections will be a truer outcome.
The green vote was I think mostly labour voters protesting / wanting to give 2TK a kicking…
They weren’t going to. As soon as SWP decided not to stand a candidate in an historically left wing area, it was clear Far Left would win… as it happens, by almost exactly the number of votes SWP got last time.
With a 46% turnout, the real ‘winner’ was the ‘can’t be arsed party’, who sadly didn’t put forward a candidate.
So, yet again a constituency is represented by a candidate for whom 80+ plus didn’t vote… I know that’s how it works but, forgive me for not feeling that’s necessarily a good thing.
Can we also campaign for the definition of genocide to be updated. If genocide was being visited upon the Palestinians, Israel could start on Monday and kill them all by Wednesday afternoon, leaving enough time to bulldoze it flat, and have ‘Building Land for sale’ signs up by the weekend. The biggest question is would the Arab nations care..? Maybe Syria, maybe Iran.? Birmingham, and Manchester, out on the streets…
I GAF about the kids, at least. They didn’t choose to born into an environment in which they are used as pawns in a game.
It is their parents who have created the environment and are using them as pawns. They are also indoctrinated and know how to use an AK-47 to kill Jews by the age of 7 or 8. They are the same violent terrorists as their fathers, only smaller. I make no distinction. Big terrorists, little terrorists. Whats the difference?
I remember during the period ISIS were in full swing in the middle east, seeing a picture of a father letting presumably his 11 to 13 year-old son have a go at decapitation with an obviously sharp knife. The practice was of course on a live subject. Muslim killing Muslim. It wouldn’t have been the quickest of deaths.
In that moment you can’t blame the kid. He is being poisoned by his father. However, there comes a time when everyone is mature enough to understand the consequences of their actions.
I think from that moment the kid was lost to radicalism, violence and barbarism, but you have to hope that somehow they come back from the brink. The problem for us here in the UK is that successive governments have allowed such people to land on these shores and to stay here.
Fair comment.
Greens plan to cut the defence budget, cull the Army and scrap the nuclear deterrent ‘Zack Polanski and the Greens have floated slashing defence spending’
The Greens seize the centre ground…a bit late…Britain no longer has an army, only a poorly equipped militia.
People regularly emphasised Nigel Farage’s characteristics in the by-election, they regularly pilloried Keir Starmer but they stayed very quiet about Zack Polanski’s Jewish heritage. Zack Polanski was born David Paulden but changed his name to Polanski when he was 18 to emphasise his Jewish roots.
66% of those who voted in the byelection voted for far left parties
and more than 50% didn’t vote.
Yeah well they had the opportunity to keep the far left out and they declined to do so
If you don’t like anyone on the ballot paper then write your own candidate on it
No sympathy from me
Up to a point, if it were only them who suffer the consequences, but in fact it’s bad for all of us when these weasels get into parliament, therefore I propose a requirement of a quorum- if less than 50% turnout you don’t get an mp.
All party votes from non quorum seats go into some sort of party list system.
Interesting idea – be curious to see if it motivated people
In a far left area. Well, far left until a certain demographic takes over, then left or right will be irrelevant.
As I wrote elsewhere, I am sure plenty of white British people voted Green or Labour. I guess they want a different country to the one I do. I believe they or their children will live to regret it.
Well, fraud is an EU speciality, Innit.