- “Iran-backed Houthi rebels threaten battle against U.S. and U.K.” – Furious Houthi forces have vowed to retaliate on a scale “beyond the imagination” of the West after heavy U.K. and U.S. air strikes pounded targets across rebel-held areas of Yemen last night, reports the Mail.
- “Britain and America must be ready to bomb Houthi bases to rubble” – Missiles must pour into terrorist bases until they get the message: give up and go home, argues Hamish Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “This Yemen flashpoint could explode” – For weeks, the bloodthirsty Yemeni militia has been attacking Western shipping in the Red Sea, disrupting international supply chains and causing millions of dollars’ worth of damage to the global economy. Could the West’s retaliation plunge Britain and America into war? asks Mark Almond in the Mail.
- “France refused to support British and U.S. airstrikes on Houthis” – Paris has ruled out joint action with its Western allies, reports the Telegraph.
- “South African national cricket team removes Jewish captain” – Cricket South Africa had removed the Jewish captain of the under-19 side after pro-Palestinian activists threatened disruptive protests during the forthcoming world championships, reports the Jerusalem Post.
- “Researcher who may have made Covid still receiving $50million from US” – Records show that the EcoHealth Alliance will continue to be funded to capture and test bats, pangolins and other animals for viruses in countries including Myanmar and Thailand until August 2027, reports the Mail.
- “Smokescreens – Part 10” – Part 10 of Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan’s deep dive into the way death statistics are compiled in the U.K.
- “How Net Zero fuelled Germany’s devastating house price crash” – Mortgage applications in Germany dropped 40% between January and October last year thanks, in part, to the raft of new ‘energy conserving’ regulations that have been imposed on houses, says the Telegraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: Gerrit and Henk, storms in a teacup” – Storms Gerrit and Henk are nothing to worry about, says Paul Homewood in TCW: Defending Freedom.
- “The EV fiasco has descended into farce. Just ask Hertz” – Whether it’s heat pumps or electric cars, the Government’s efforts to reach Net Zero by 2050 are becoming farcical, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Women deserve better than Munroe Bergdorf” – Why does this mediocre, scandal-prone man keep being called upon to represent women? asks Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Three cheers for Camilla (no, the other one)” – Camilla Tominey eviscerates an uncomfortable Bridget Phillipson, says Mr Chips on his Substack.
- “Prosecutor appeals Bible-tweet case to Finnish Supreme Court” – The state prosecution against Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola continues, despite the Finish Appellate Court confirming the ‘not guilty’ verdicts, according to ADF International.
- “Khan’s Brexit BS” – Why is the Mayor of London pretending Brexit is unmentionable? asks Will Dunn in the New Statesman‘s Substack.
- “Jan Latham-Koenig charged with child sex offence” – A 70-year-old British conductor, who was appointed OBE in 2020, was arrested at Victoria railway station on Wednesday and charged with a child sex offence, reports the Times.
- “How German taxpayer-funded fact-checkers conducted covert surveillance of a private meeting for the purpose of smearing Alternative für Deutschland and justifying calls to ban the party” – The dirty tricks to make the AfD go away have now begun, reports Eugyppius.
- “How Nazis invaded Silicon Valley’s writer utopia” – Substack is under pressure over its light-touch editorial approach, reports the Telegraph, with users divided over whether ‘Nazi’ accounts should be banned or not.
- “Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal” – The leader of the Liberal Democrats is repeatedly asked by an ITV interviewer whether he’d like to apologise to the victims of the Post Office/Horizon scandal and repeatedly refuses. Now only a matter of days before he falls on his sword, surely?
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“Bomb Houthi bases to rubble.”
Thus Britain’s diplomacy and foreign policy nowadays, even when (as one respondent said on GB news yesterday) “I thought we were skint?” The Saudis, backed by the US, have been bombing Yemen to rubble for many years, creating the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis in the process. I guess there are always more people left to bomb.
Which snowflake was it who used to say “Jaw jaw, not war war”? Oh yes, it was Churchill, wasn’t it.
An where is the EU in all this? Do they not use these waterways for their imports and exports? Why isn’t Germany or France bombing “houthi bases to rubble”?
A potential beneficiary could be Sino-Europe rail freight. It’s been growing over the years, although the Russia/Ukraine war is a problem, no doubt. https://www.zieglergroup.com/the-best-china-to-europe-freight-transport-methods-compared/
As long as they drop bombs, it creates a demand for more. BAE share price showed a predictable increase.
Remember Aden? I bet Ansar Allah do….
Morning all! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
https://www.euractiv.com/section/circular-materials/news/recycling-market-in-europe-faces-collapse-after-eu-waste-export-ban/
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Well I’ve been banging on about this for ages now. The fact that it is the persecuted Christians in majority-Muslim countries who should be given priority as far as granting them asylum in the West goes. To be fair though, I’ve no idea on the stats of who makes up what percentage of ‘refugees’ who come to our lands. I just presume they’re mostly Muslim because those are the countries they’re coming from.
Raymond Ibrahim has been shining a light on the persecution of Christians in other parts of the world for years. Here he gives the rationale as to why these people should be prioritized, but also explaining why they are not;
”All emotionalism and name-calling aside — that is, the stuff of American politics — there are, in fact, several objective reasons why the West should give priority, if not exclusivity, to Christian refugees from the Muslim world — and some of these are actually to the benefit of western nations. Consider:
Christians are real victims of persecution. From a humanitarian point of view — and humanitarianism is the chief reason cited in accepting refugees — Christians should receive top priority simply because they are the most persecuted group in the Middle East. As former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop once put it, “I think that Christian minorities are being persecuted in Syria and even if the conflict were over they would still be persecuted.”
Indeed. While they are especially targeted by the Islamic State and other professional jihadists, before ISIS, Christians were and continue to be targeted by Muslims — Muslim mobs, Muslim individuals, Muslim regimes, and Muslim terrorists, from Muslim countries of all races (Arab, African, Asian, etc.) — and for the same reason: Christians are infidel number one.
Conversely, Muslim refugees are not fleeing direct persecution, but chaos created by the violent and intolerant teachings of their own religion, Islam — hence why violence and intolerance follows Muslims into Europe.
Muslim persecution of Christians has been further enabled by western policies. Western nations should accept Christian refugees on the basis that western actions in the Middle East are directly responsible for exacerbating the plight of Christian minorities. Christians were not terrorized in Bashar Assad’s Syria, or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or Muamar Gaddafi’s Libya. Their persecution grew exponentially only after the U.S. and other western states interfered in those nations in the name of “democracy.” All they did is unleash the jihadist forces that the dictators had long kept suppressed.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/what_if_the_west_only_accepted_christian_refugees_from_the_muslim_world.html
Surprised that this isn’t being covered here. Journalist and podcaster Gonzalo Lira has died while held captive in Ukraine. Tucker Carlson has given his death the coverage as a political prisoner it deserves. RIP Lira.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1745863377493143906
Agreed. I followed his Ukraine coverage closely. He predicted his own death in his last video when he was a few miles from the border with Hungary I think. While exhaling cigarette smoke. He was a very brave man and I salute him.
A US citizen denied the protection or assistance of the US because he did not follow the warmongers’ line… or rather, he helped expose it for the criminality it is.
““Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal””
Channelling his inner Diane Abbott. He and people like him should be dragged “of coursing” from their chairs into the street and hung from the nearest lamppost while their legs kick uselessly and their faces turn black. Of course.
Seconded. Davey is another Lib Dim – no misspelling – nutjob. A complete drain on the planet and the people on it. The reality – an oxygen thief.