News Round-Up
- “People celebrate death of Ayatollah in London” – Hundreds of Iranians have brought a North London street to a standstill in joyous celebration of Ayatollah Khamenei’s death, reports the Mail.
- “The Islamic Republic is in survival mode” – Before his death, the Ayatollah made plans for the Islamic Republic to outlive him. But how long can the system survive this crisis? wonders David Blair in the Telegraph.
- “Greens’ Polanski says UK should cut ties with US after Iran strikes” – Green leader Zack Polanski has branded the US-Israeli strikes on Iran outrageous and suggested Britain should cut diplomatic ties with America, reports the Mail.
- “Khamenei’s death is not the end of all this, but merely the beginning. What comes next could open the first crack in Iran’s regime, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS” – The killing of long-time dictator Ayatollah Khamenei might just be the start of something much bigger that could finally fracture the Iranian regime, says David Patrikarakos in the Mail.
- “Jeremy Corbyn accuses Trump of ‘clearly illegal attack’ in Iran” – Jeremy Corbyn has slammed the US-Israeli strikes on Iran as a brutal, illegal and catastrophic escalation, reports the Mail.
- “Putin condemns killing of Khamenei as ‘violation of international law’” – Vladimir Putin has condemned the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei as a shameless breach of international law and basic morality, says the Mail.
- “The Pope sends warning to Trump as he breaks his silence on Iran war” – Pope Leo XIV has sent a pointed warning to Donald Trump over the escalating military actions in the Middle East, reports the Mail.
- “‘Islamic terrorist’ Texas bar shooter who killed two was ‘wearing an Iranian flag’ and ‘had Quran in his car’” – Investigators have revealed that the Texas bar shooter who killed two people had an Iranian flag and a Quran in his car, reports the Mail.
- “Khamenei joins Saddam in Hell, but Iran 2026 is not Iraq 2003” – In the Free Press, historian Niall Ferguson argues that the current US-Israeli campaign against Iran is likely to be short and very different from the long quagmire of Iraq in 2003.
- “Regime change wars: a history of epic failure” – History has shown again and again that forced regime change usually ends in years of chaos, civil war and failure, warns John Leake on his Focal Points Substack.
- “Iran declares ‘jihad’ as anti-US riots spread across Middle East” – Senior Iranian clerics have issued a fatwa calling vengeance on America a religious duty as anti-US protests erupt across the region, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Emergency evacuation plans for Britons stuck in Middle East” – The Foreign Office has warned Brits to avoid Iran, Israel and Palestine completely and prepared emergency evacuation plans for those already in the region, reports the Telegraph.
- “Noted geopolitical nonentity Ursula von der Leyen announces her determination to begin intensively monitoring the Iran situation as soon as the weekend is over” – EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has solemnly promised to start “intensively monitoring” the Iran crisis – right after the weekend, mocks Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “Farage: I will ban foreigners from voting in Britain” – Nigel Farage has called for a total ban on foreigners voting in UK elections to stop what he calls sectarian cheating, reports GB News.
- “Migrants lose right to permanent asylum” – Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has rushed through changes so that new arrivals will only get temporary refugee status from now on, reports the Telegraph.
- “Streeting: Labour must not go Left after Greens loss” – Wes Streeting has warned Keir Starmer not to lurch further Left after the humiliating Green Party by-election win, reports the Telegraph.
- “Andy Burnham ‘to cut a deal with Zack Polanski’ as PM sweats over his future” – Andy Burnham has reportedly been mulling a pact with Green leader Zack Polanski as Keir Starmer reels from the by-election disaster, reports GB News.
- “Starmer’s poll rating slumps to new low in after by-election disaster” – Keir Starmer’s approval rating has crashed to a record low of -49 in the wake of Labour’s crushing by-election defeat, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer’s Chagos deal facing legal challenge from Maldives” – The Maldives has started looking at ways to legally fight Keir Starmer’s plan to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius, reports the Mail.
- “The town brought to its knees by Labour’s jobs crisis” – Redditch has been hit hardest by Labour’s jobs crisis, with unemployment soaring faster than anywhere else in the country, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “New Labour peer is suspended after it emerged he quit college role over ‘inappropriate’ sexual liaisons during work hours” – Freshly appointed Labour peer Lord Joe Docherty has been stripped of the whip while the party investigates claims of inappropriate sexual behaviour at work, says the Mail.
- “Grooming gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver takes government to court for ‘failing to act’ after £200million child sexual abuse inquiry” – Grooming gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver has taken the Government to the High Court for failing to deliver grooming gang inquiry recommendations, reports the Mail.
- “Why anti-racism kills” – Fears of appearing racist have apparently contributed to the disastrous decision to release triple killer Valdo Calocane back into the community, writes Michael Murphy in the Spectator.
- “Pro-Palestine activist who harassed Matt Lucas at Tube station ‘is Walter Mitty fantasist who named himself after Jason Bourne and converted to Islam in the back of a taxi’” – The pro-Palestine activist who stalked Matt Lucas on the Tube has turned out to be a self-mythologising fantasist with a wild backstory, claims the Mail.
- “The persecution of Hamit Coskun” – The CPS has gone all out to prosecute Hamit Coskun simply for burning a Koran, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Pushy parents are making the special needs crisis worse” – A savvy minority of parents have figured out how to game the SEND system for extra one-to-one help, making the whole crisis even worse for everyone else, says Rosie Lewis in the Spectator.
- “Graduates are right to be furious about student loans” – Young graduates have every right to feel furious now that the Government has quietly turned student loans into a giant stealth tax, says Ellen Pasternack in the Spectator.
- “What we now know about Covid vaccine shedding” – A growing pile of evidence shows that Covid vaccines really do shed from the vaccinated to others, often causing noticeable symptoms, explains a Midwestern Doctor on Substack.
- “The Unbreakable Message” – Quantum communication tech has left the lab and is now being rolled out in the real world, and it could completely change who can keep secrets and win wars, says Dr Robert Malone on his Substack.
- “Womb transplants are a miracle. We must stop worshipping at the altar of ‘natural’ births” – Successful womb transplants have opened up new hope for women with fertility issues, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “More controversy over the puberty blocker trial” – Should someone’s views on trans issues disqualify them from overseeing puberty blocker research? wonders Sonia Sodha on her Substack.
- “Labour’s energy bill shell game” – Labour has been moving energy costs from bills to general taxation, but the ever-rising price of renewables keeps pushing total costs higher anyway, explains David Turver on his Substack.
- “One in three electric car stations charges drivers wrong fees” – A shocking one in three public EV chargers has been overcharging drivers due to billing errors, reports the Telegraph.
- “The tide is turning on ludicrous net zero policies” – The punishing cost of Labour’s North Sea restrictions has finally started to make even Net Zero zealots think twice, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Andrew’s history of ‘serial sex addiction’ revealed” – Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor’s insatiable history as a “king of kink” has been laid bare in a new book, reports the Mail.
- “Fury as Wuthering Heights hit with trigger warning despite steamy movie” – A university has slapped a trigger warning on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights – even though a far steamier film version exists, reports the Sun.
- “Much revered, Kind of weird” – On X, Ayatollah Khamenei gets the Not the Nine O’Clock News team treatment.
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Putin condemns killing of Khamenei as ‘violation of international law’” – ‘Vladimir Putin has condemned the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei as a shameless breach of international law and basic morality’
Putin has no international credibility whatsoever, has made himself look ridiculous. He personally authorised attempted assassinations within the United Kingdom resulting in the death of one British citizen and serious injuries to a Police Officer.
President Zelensky has survived at least a dozen assassination attempts personally authorised by Putin. In March 2024, he narrowly avoided death in the Black Sea port city of Odesa when a Russian missile exploded 500 meters from the convoy carrying him and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis…The Russian Defense Ministry took credit for the strike, claiming, “The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a high-precision missile attack on a hangar in the industrial port district of Odesa.”
Putin’s war crimes are a matter of international record.
Ah yes…. International Law. Passed in which Parliament by which MPs elected by whom?
“I’d take Putin into custody, hold him account for these war crimes, hold him account for what I saw in Bucha on one of my first visits to Ukraine,”
John Healey, Defence Minister, United Kingdom
Can somebody just get the memo to the ‘pro-Pally’/pro Islamic regime twonks that it was in fact the IR that bombed the Palestinian hospital, NOT Israel, which you’ll likely see on the BBC;
”Iranian missile hit East Jerusalem’s main Palestinian hospital Al Makased, now closed.”
https://x.com/gnuseibeh/status/2028222271232647537
So true. Weak men create hard times and Starmer just can’t get enough of being humiliated on the world stage, seemingly. I expect his loyalty to the Ummah over the US allies, as he doesn’t want to upset the UK Muslim population, has something to do with it;
”Summing up the British approach to Iran here:
1) US asks to use British bases, we say no.
2) Tell everyone we weren’t involved and hope they leave us alone.
3) oh dear, they didn’t leave us alone. They’re shooting missiles at us.
4) claim that the only way to stop this and protect British citizens is to destroy the missiles at source.
5) allow the Americans to use our bases to destroy the missiles at source.
6) refuse to help destroy the missiles at source, even though we just said destroying them at source is the only way to end the threat to British citizens.
7) tell everyone we’re not involved and hope they’ll leave us alone. ”
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/2028251009152156132
Your daily dose of common sense;
”International law – particularly post-9/11 – supports action against terror regimes like Iran’s IRGC under Article 51 self-defence when they continue to sponsor terror groups and attacks (including those in the UK, which I’m sure you know – or are supposed to know) and carry out massacres of Persians in Iran. The mass killings of innocent people was the last straw – so this is more than justified.
From MI5: “Since January 2022, with police partners, we have responded to twenty Iran-backed plots presenting potentially lethal threats to British citizens and UK residents.”
https://x.com/dshensmith/status/2028378119879438691
“Womb transplants are a miracle. We must stop worshipping at the altar of ‘natural’ births”
Womb transplants are SATANIC, like ALL TRANSPLANTS, which are cut out of LIVING DONORS WHOSE HEARTS ARE STILL BEATING. That’s why PARALYZING drugs are administered, because otherwise, the supposedly “brain-dead” donors often exhibit physical signs of pain during “harvesting”, movement, grimacing in agony, some even shedding tears.
The false state called “brain-dead” was invented specifically to facilitate organ harvesting, which must be carried out when the donor is STILL ALIVE, or else the transplants won’t be successful.
Frankenstein Transplants are horrific and very profitable Organ Trafficking, and all transplants should be banned worldwide. If you are infertile, then accept it and move on. And when your time is up, it is up.
May I add this to the Round-Up:
How Meloni quietly flooded Italy with migrants
She went to India for a “Trade Deal” with Modi, who always demands unlimited Indian invasion as part of any “Trade Deal”, because it keeps Indians voting for him and keeps him in power in India. Meloni also wants to stay in power in Italy, so the Italian farmer was no doubt paid handsomely to hire these Sikhs, who will work for the lowest wages, and will end up buying his farm and importing more Sikhs who will work for next-to-nothing, and buy up more Italian farms nearby, to create their own little Khalistan in the Italian countryside, and all vote for Meloni in the future.
She is a Traitor to the Italian People.
A Globalist Traitor with a pretty, smiling face, masquerading as a Patriot.