- “Huw Edwards will now be remembered in a very different way” – The newsreader who told the world of Queen Elizabeth II’s death will forever be remembered as the presenter at the heart of the latest BBC scandal, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “How the mob turned on Huw Edwards” – The media frenzy surrounding Huw Edwards exposes our society’s obsession with the downfall of the mighty, at the expense of more important issues, argues Giles Fraser in UnHerd.
- “The shameless hypocrisy of Huw Edwards’ defenders” – Those who would cancel you for an off-colour joke think it’s outrageous to expose Edwards’ alleged misdeeds, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “If Labour seizes on the Huw Edwards story to regulate the press, we all lose” – Attempts to gag free and fearless newspapers would do serious harm to the functioning of democracy, warns Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “The Left is using Huw Edwards story to attack free speech” – “But be in no doubt,” says Richard Littlejohn in the Mail, “The real battle here isn’t about the future of a BBC newsreader, it’s about the very survival of our free press.”
- “The BBC is self-destructing” – The BBC’s handling of recent allegations reveals a “familiar pattern of denial, evasion and disregard for public concerns”, leaving Rod Liddle unimpressed in the Spectator.
- “In praise of Milan Kundera” – The Czech-born author Milan Kundera, who wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died in Paris at the age of 94. His powerful insights into political correctness, censorship and totalitarianism remain alarmingly relevant today, says Toby in the Spectator.
- “Milan Kundera’s last joke” – Milan Kundera’s genius has become a victim of history, says David Samuels in UnHerd.
- “Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature winner we never had” – Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale than Milan Kundera, says Robin Ashenden in Quillette.
- “I expected more from Caitlin Moran” – Toby reflects on his once-positive relationship with Caitlin Moran in the Spectator, now marred by her Twitter attacks and hypocrisy.
- “Boris Johnson ‘can’t remember passcode’ to phone with Covid WhatsApp messages” – Concerns have arisen over the attempt to unlock Boris’s old iPhone, potentially erasing crucial messages, says the Independent.
- “Germany on track to bin 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses” – Germany has thrown out 83 million doses of Covid vaccines at a rough cost of €1.6 billion and has 120 million more doses sitting unused in stock, reports Politico.
- “Wuhan officials tried to suppress Covid info when pandemic began” – Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet, told the Covid Inquiry that Beijing failed to inform international health bodies of the rapidly rising virus threat, reports the Mail.
- “Journalist notices that ‘post-vac syndrome’ hardly exists outside Germany” – Germany, with just 1% of the world’s population, reports half of all post-vac syndrome cases. Eugyppius asks whether this is a reporting quirk or if health officials are hiding their own malfeasance.
- “Study finds Covid measures delayed the development of Japanese five year-olds by 4.4 months” – A shocking study reveals that children exposed to the pandemic in Japan experienced notable developmental delays, says Guy Gin.
- “Quality Australian vaccine data” – Dr. John Campbell talks about the Western Australian Vaccine Safety Surveillance Annual Report 2021, describing the shockingly high adverse events reported following Covid vaccinations in 2021.
- “How Beijing made its way into the heart of British academia” – British academics are being offered bribes to ensure that they do not criticise the Chinese regime, MPs heard, as part of an inquiry which exposed Beijing’s growing influence in U.K. universities, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hydrogen won’t replace natural gas to heat homes, says Grant Shapps” – Energy Secretary Grant Shapps admits ripping out standard boilers would cause upheaval and slow down the U.K.’s pursuit of Net Zero, says the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan draws up plans to charge motorists with pay-per-mile scheme” – Sadiq Khan is looking at introducing a pay-per-mile charging scheme to cover the future fall in Ulez revenue when more cars become compliant, reports the Mail.
- “Major automakers criticise EPA’s ‘extreme’ electric vehicle push” – Carmakers Stellantis and Toyota have criticised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “overly optimistic” plans to promote EVs, warning that they are unrealistic and require an increase in mining, reports the Epoch Times.
- “VW electric car sales ‘fall to zero’ as Tesla and China EV makers win price war” – Executives at some Volkswagen plants say demand for particular battery-electric models has fallen “to zero”, with car dealers blaming the decline on subsidy cuts, high inflation and high prices, reports the Driven.
- “Limitless ‘white’ hydrogen under our feet may soon shatter all energy assumptions” – There’s a real possibility that vast reserves of natural hydrogen can be extracted at competitive costs, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “What’s causing Europe’s heatwave? Scientists reveal” – A deadly heatwave dubbed Cerberus is sweeping across Europe, reports the Mail. But what is causing this heatwave across the continent, and why isn’t the U.K. experiencing the same high temperatures? Informative article if you ignore the climate change pseudo-science.
- “Inside Elon Musk’s plan to turn Britain into a ‘virtual power grid’” – Billionaire Elon Musk is eyeing Britain’s retail energy market, despite criticism that his attention is already spread too thin, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer should beware a Left-wing insurgency” – A socialist-populist party could still outflank Labour, warns John Oxley in UnHerd.
- “Trans activist who told crowd to ‘punch TERFs in the face’ is arrested” – Trans activist Sarah Jane Baker, who spent 30 years in jail for kidnap and attempted murder, has been arrested for urging a cheering crowd at a Trans Pride rally to ‘punch TERFs in the face’.
- “The cruelty of a trans beauty queen” – 22 year-old trans Rikkie Valerie Kolle may have won the Miss Netherlands beauty pageant, but it is women who are the losers, says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “The ideological subversion of biology” – Progressive ideology is infiltrating all fields of science, say Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja in the Skeptical Inquirer. Unless scientists reclaim their voice, it is doubtful that we will recognise it as science at all.
- “New U.K. law proposals would legally curb algorithms that promote Andrew Tate” – Changes under the U.K.’s new Online Safety Bill would tighten the grip on tech companies, risking freedom of expression and stifling user experience, says Reclaim The Net.
- “Who’s afraid of Moms for Liberty?” – A growing cadre of angry mothers is taking over school boards and winning influence as GOP kingmakers. Why are they being called a ‘hate group’, asks Robert Pondiscio in the Free Press.
- “Is the FTC the latest agency to be weaponised against free speech?” – Critics say the Federal Trade Commission is unfairly targeting Musk’s Twitter, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “A crusading clerisy” – Helen Dale and Lorenzo Warby explore how ‘wokery’ performs religious functions and inhibits open discussion.
- “Meta pushes back on Australia’s plan to criminalise harmful ‘disinformation’” – Australia is planning a majorly authoritarian speech law, warns Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net, but Meta is putting up a fight.
- “Where is everyone? Disney World ‘just about empty’” – Sky-high prices and a ‘woke’ backlash may have contributed to one of the slowest periods at Walt Disney World in Orlando on July 4th in a decade, reports ZeroHedge.
- “The transgender empire” – In a new short film, Christopher F. Rufo explains how the trans movement gained power and connects the dots between its key intellectuals, a billionaire benefactor and large-scale medical experiments in a Detroit ghetto.
The transgender movement has conquered America life. In a new short film, I explain how the movement gained power and connect the dots between its key intellectuals, billionaire benefactor, and large-scale medical experiments in a Detroit ghetto.
— Christopher F. Rufo
This is the transgender empire: pic.twitter.com/UaQSGD5RL8(@realchrisrufo) July 12, 2023
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Runaway calf???
is that like an uncontrolled bunny?
believe me, the calf would have been worried and easily controlled by someone with animal experience. Likely the police officers thought beef came from Tesco or MacDonalds.
“Police were ‘probably right’ to ram a runaway calf with their 4×4, a farmer and union chief has claimed “
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”― George Orwell, 1984
Exactly.
And the so-called farmer who agreed with the police. Fiction farmer.
I work with farmers, escorting the calf to safety would be routine for them. Hell, even a couple of us wallers could’ve managed this.
Monday morning Reading Rd & Toutley Rd Winnersh, Wokingham
They’ll never ever stop going after Tommy Robinson will they? Another court case and possible jail time. The ”Communist hate group” he’s referring to here are ‘Hope Not Hate’, who were predictably smug when breaking this news on Twitter yesterday;
”I’m amazed that I get to hear about this first from a far left Antifa linked Communist hate group run by a man who you would never employ as a baby sitter.
What does that tell you?
He and his team of communist wankers have petitioned the CONservative attorney general to prosecute me for a documentary I made years ago for people in America.
I told the judge the footage was in the hands of people in the USA BEFORE he slapped an injunction on me, to SILENCE me.
The documentary was eventually published by people in the USA, and now, I’m facing two years in Isolation in the prison system for something I didn’t publish.”
Original post by Nick Knowles. I hope Tommy gets even more patriots and supporters attending his next freedom rally in London next month now.
”BREAKING NEWS! Tommy Robinson has been charged with contempt of court after he is alleged to have broken a court order preventing him from reporting lies relating to the Jamal Hajazi case. Attorney General took on the case after @hopenothate
compiled a dossier of evidence.”
https://x.com/lowles_nick/status/1802639733849194696
Nick “Mr TV DIY” Knowles
For the U.S. to target Putin’s nuclear defences is reckless beyond belief
What is really going on?
Another poor quality article regarding Ukraine on TCW. A great pity the editors aren’t more discriminating….all a bit of a nutty crank show.
A sputnik video showing nothing and some references to an little known and dotty U.S. academic previously featured on Russia Today.
There are various errors of fact, never a good sign:
Ukraine can only use U.S. long range guided munitions to hit Russian forces in the process of attacking or preparing to attack Ukraine from the Belgorod and Kursk Oblasts.
The Voronezh radar station is a long range radar station, not a Russian nuclear early warning station.
The radar sites at Orsk and Armavir were taken out on the 26th of May 2024 by Ukrainian drones.
The plain fact is that Moscow currently occupies less territory now (16%) than in June 2022 (24%) so the U.S./Chinese strategy of weakening Russia at minimal cost (in fact at a profit in China due to much lower Russian energy costs now) is proceeding well.
I just read the article too, and what a load of ignorant fiction and shoddy Russian talking-points it was. But the key thing is that those nuclear early-warning systems are also used for long-range air defence… so very legitimate targets.
Quite so…..one of many such legitimate targets which are taking quite a hammering. Dozens of launchers, more than 15 radar stations, and more than 10 control points have been destroyed in Crimea.
Interesting that so few have woken up to what is really going on here…..part of the reason for my clearly quite annoying regular posts on here.
A comprehensively overmatched adversary is holding, regularly strategically interdicting, the world’s second most significant land power.
This, potentially, has major implications regarding European peace and stability for future generations. If today’s generation can get this right, it may, at least in some measure, compensate for the disgracefully shabby and incompetent economic and ecological legacy that same generation appears to be handing on to the next.
‘A major fire is burning at an oil depot in the southern Russian city of Azov after what the regional governor called an attack by drones overnight on June 17-18.’
Oops!
There is no comparison between the tactical radars allegedly destroyed in Crimea and the Voronezh system.
And your barrel scraping comments are an amusement, not an annoyance. In my case they simply prompt me to find out what the truth is, to separate it from the Western propaganda that you fall for all the time.
P.S. Over the horizon radar is an antique but cheap technology useful when (as in the case of Russia) airborne warning and control systems are, for one reason or another, unavailable. They can be very useful in tracking ships, low-flying aircraft, and cruise missiles far below the radar horizon and so represent a valid target for Ukraine drone strikes, against which, due to their poor resolution, they are extremely vulnerable.
See my reply to IR. Voroezh is state of the art radar technology. There is a chain of these around Russia. They are clearly pointing in strategically chosen directions to give full coverage of the sky around the country. They have extremely high resolution due to the large array antenna backed by considerable computing power to give fast interpretation of any signal.
They are useless as tactical battlefield radars since they lack a variable direction capability and operate from (very) static locations.
The only bit you got right is their vulnerability to drone strikes, but then these are a minor irritant since the array (the bit that even a blind UAV operator could see) is modular and the entire complex is designed to function even whilst array components are being replaced.
Voronezh M is a long-range stationary over-the-horizon radar. It is designed to detect space and aerodynamic targets, including ballistic and cruise missiles.
Just the sort of thing to use tactically on the battlefield.
If there is to be a War bigger than the one already in progress ,the blame is with USA/ NATO & all their hangers on !
Clearly the OTH radar was not the key target.
Ukrainian drones damaged the Voronezh-DM in the Krasnodar Krai late May 23 evening, and then early morning May 24, ATACMS hit the satellite communication node near Alushta.
Previously, satellite images that have been made publicly available confirm that a Ukrainian drone also hit russian over-the-horizon 29B6 Container radar. This attack became public knowledge on April 17, 2024.
Unluckily, it took almost 15 years from the beginning of the development and production of this radar, including the period of long-term “experimental combat duty” until its final commissioning. Russia had only one 29B6 Container radar. Commissioning of the second radar of this type is at least four years behind schedule.
I suspect that the reason that they have not installed more Konteyner radar systems since 2019 is that the Voronez modular system has superseded it for the reason that it only takes a year to build one and that it can operate, presumably at lower resolution, during the construction process.
Clearly OTH radar was the target in both cases.
None of this invalidates the claim made in this article. They are very definitely not tactical radars and also very clearly failed to spot the attacking vehicles.
The 77YA6DM Voronezh-DM BMEW radar in question is located at the Armavir Radar Station in southwest Russia. Unlike the 77YA6M this particular radar has a range of 5,399nm (10,000km) and transmits Ultra High Frequency (UHF: 300MHz to three gigahertz) signals.
Voronezh radars are positioned to cover the northern, western and southern approaches to Russia. Although primarily designed to detect and track incoming ballistic missiles, they may detect conventional air threats. The comparatively low frequencies used by these radars help detect and track aircraft with low Radar Cross Sections (RCSs).
The Voronezh series probably does not provide the sharp accuracy surface-to-air missiles need to successfully intercept an air target. Nonetheless, they are well capable of providing information on the location of incoming aircraft and of tracking these targets, sharing this data with air defence C2 systems.
That is why the Armavir Radar station was put out of action 23 May in preparing the ground for the ATACMS strike early AM 24 May on the communication centre of the Russian FSB near the village of Semidvorye, Alushta.
Also destroyed on 24 May three Russian launchers, 5P85SM2-01 TELs, S-400 air defence system & 96L6 radar by ATACMS strike Mospyne, Donetsk region.
On 27th May, a Nebo-M, the first example which only entered Russian service in 2017, a multi-purpose long-range radar system, and KU-RLK command vehicle were destroyed close to the nearby aircraft repair plant and former Luhansk Higher Military Aviation School, quite possibly by ATACMS.
So it is an early warning not anti-missile system. Well spotted.
But what has any of this to do with targeting early warning sytems, which you have now admitted are not anti-missile systems? They are therefore only of defensive use for warning of ballistic missile attack from extreme distances; as you say 10k km. As I am sure you realise anti-ballistic missiles are fired much closer to the target as they have a much smaller range, once the EW system has determined where they are headed.
Not sure anyone is still looking at this thread but as an alternative here is the Katie Hopkins take on Ukraine;
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6DZGEe_DVik
Did you actually listen to this before posting the link?
Ms Hopkins:
‘And finally we have Putin saying he is very happy to have a peace deal to stop the war if Europe could just stop being arseholes….’
I don’t know Ms Hopkins. She is perfectly entitled to ask people to take down the Ukraine flags from their personal profiles (whatever those might be). But she might be more successful, like, I may say, others on this site, in convincing others if she presented at least some credible evidence.
Mr Putin has said many strange things but he has not, as far as I am aware, ever suggested in public that the entirety of Europe, which includes Russia, was a bunch of arseholes.
That was, in fact, Mr Medvedev, in reference to the French:
‘“We never liked the French. Kind of froggy, fought with us. And generally, fa**ots. And [now I’m] convinced of it. I wrote the French Foreign Ministry. They called the strike on Belgorod with cluster munition a ‘right to self-defense.’ Scum. Sons of a whore. Assholes.” 03 Jan 2024
https://t.me/medvedev_telegram/429
Ms Hopkins and Mr Medvedev should get together. It sounds as though they have a lot in common.
In common with my French neighbour too (see reply to Steve Devon).
Some of us pop back to see if Munro is still declining to address his comments to me but uses poor old muddled Ian Rons as a proxy.
Thanks for the light relief. I have not seen much of the lovely Katie lately. Se looks just like my French neighbour (who hates France).
Voronezh OTH is a multi purpose system.
The Voronezh radar is crucial to Russia’s missile early-warning system. It is not designed to detect ICBM launches (for which Russia has other systems, including satellites), but to track hostile incoming missiles (and aircraft).
Voronezh radars feed the targeting information to the air defence missiles. Without these radars, strategic threats to Russia are considerably increased — Russia is ‘blinded’,
The Voronezh-M radar has a processing capacity of 100 billion operations/second, and the Rezonans computing system consists of a series of single-board quad-core seventh generation computers and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the cognitive function of the radar for tracking targets.
Voronezh radars can simultaneously interface with command posts and automated control systems (ACS) of air-defence systems, in particular with the Polyana-D4M1 complex; VIP-117M3; Akatsiya; CP-1; Galaktika ATC integrated control system; HLCP-2; and the S-350, S-300, S-300V, and S-400 ground-based air-defence systems.
Why hit Voronezh?
To demonstrate Ukraine can rock Russia’s world even without Western weapons.
To blind Russia’s ability to monitor missiles in flight towards its territory, key to any overwhelming response to Russian first use of CBRN.
Voronezh stations don’t offer a complete view but cover specific sectors. Air defence sectors facing China are still protected but with this strike, and a similar one in Krasnodar Krai, Russia’s long-range missile detection capabilities, integral to their nuclear defence strategy, facing Europe, is degraded.
Politically, perceived red lines and the fear of nuclear escalation, are demonstrated not to be a constraint.
The Voronezh-M radar at Aramir in Krasnodar coverage included Crimea and Kherson at its northern edge, so its incapacitation is a precursor to the delivery to Ukraine of F-16s this summer, preparing deep airspace through interdiction prior to establishing air superiority (F-16s) over tactical lines.
The strike opens further undefended corridors for ATACMS strikes.
Talking to yourself now.
The battle of Orgreave, 40th Anniversary: https://www.gbnews.com/news/south-yorkshire-miners-battle-orgreave-anniversary-never-forget Some might remember how it was reported by the old BBC One channel then in 1984.
The Boris story in DT May be true at headline level but the thought that the PM who failed to complete Brexit, brought in millions of immigrants and blew the budget, could possibly help Sunak is for the birds.
Boris has lost his shine.
He won’t turn things around!!
Johnson is guilty of crimes against humanity. End of.
Indeed – apart from all his other faults, he was PM during “covid” and somehow switched from “herd immunity” to “lockdowns”, knowing full well (as his subsequent actions confirm) that this was not the right thing to do.
While he was probably conned into it by various suspects, he reportedly had a day or two in hospital, allegedly with C-19. At the time, one of the workers at that place (probably incorrectly) mentioned his weight etc. If you did the sums, you could observe that he was a wee bit overweight, thus likely vulnerable to poor health on account of that.
I guess we may never know. Whatever, he is either a liar or exceptionally stupid and incompetent. I know where my money is going, but either way he’s not fit for public office and cannot be taken seriously in any political or leadership capacity.
Yes, it’s bizarre that he ever made it to be a PM, especially having been on display as Mayor of London. I can still remember the old footage of him being stuck on a zip wire across the Thames in his old role.
It’s bizarre that Starmer will be PM, bizarre that Sunak made it to PM – though Johnson is more obviously a chancer probably, but more “likeable” too.
Memories are short. Many seem to have forgotten just how toxic Johnson had become. Funny we never hear about Carrie any more.
Not to be contrarian, but it’s thanks to “big tech” that we now have access to non-curated news and opinion.
That may of course come to an end, but to be clear, that isn’t because tech companies want censorship. It’s because governments and bureaucracies all over the world are trying to pass new censorship laws and have also done illegal things behind the scenes to pressure tech companies into censorship.
You could accuse many tech companies of not pushing back or giving in to easily perhaps. But what alternative information we get, it’s thanks to them.
I agree and you make a good point, however I also think it’s true that some of the tech companies seem to be run by pretty woke left wing people, and they push those agendas – this goes well beyond censoring things. You only need to look at the recent stuff about the AI images, and what certain Google searches return.
Yet another healthy 20 something dead of non suspicious circumstances
2 (known) in a week!
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/rose-of-tralee-contestant-found-dead-in-new-zealand-1638881.html
and another
https://www.news24.com/sport/rugby/new-zealand-super-rugby-player-25-dies-after-medical-event-20240618
“Reform candidate who urged people to vote BNP in 2010 quits” – Reform’s candidate running in Kemi Badenoch’s seat has resigned after historic comments emerged in which he urged people to vote for the BNP.
“Asked whether he had chosen to resign, he said the party had forced him to.
‘To be honest, I wouldn’t have stepped down. I would have let the people decide’, he said.”
I hope the good people of North West Essex will still vote for St.Clair-Armstrong anyway, as his name is still on the ballot. It is outrageous that people can be hounded out of their jobs or careers or electoral candidacy for things they said years ago. Freedom of Speech is the very basis of western civilisation.