- “Israel tells 100,000 people to leave Eastern Rafah ahead of ground invasion” – After weeks of uncertainty, in the wake of U.S. opposition, the IDF appears poised to launch an operation in Rafah, reports the Telegraph.
- “Outrage as pro-Palestine activists stage protest outside Auschwitz” – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators sparked outrage after staging a protest near the grounds of Auschwitz as Israelis, including October 7th survivors, marched to honour victims of the Holocaust, says the Mail.
- “Green Party investigates councillor who shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ after election” – The Green Party is investigating a councillor who shouted “Allahu Akbar” after his election and said Palestinians had the right to “fight back” after the October 7th attacks, according to LBC.
- “The poison of Islamic sectarianism” – Councillors chanting “Allahu Akbar” and defending Hamas reveal how Muslim identity politics has infected our democracy, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “A Holocaust Remembrance Day like no other” – On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, the unsettling parallels between recent attacks to the atrocities committed by the Nazis are all too apparent, writes Melanie Phillips on Substack.
- “America’s new antisemitism bill will backfire” – Whatever one thinks about the intentions of America’s new Antisemitism Awareness Act, far from stopping angry or hateful talk about “the Jews”, it will likely encourage it, warns Malcolm Kyeyune in UnHerd.
- “Do local election results point to a hung Parliament?” – On the BBC, polling expert John Curtice dismisses the prospect of a hung Parliament, saying that the biggest threat to the Tories will come from the Right.
- “Why Reform’s polling results weren’t translated into council seats” – On his LinkedIn page, stats wizard Nigel Jacklin explains why Reform had a disappointing night last week.
- “‘Reader, we blew it. The route back for my party is steep and narrow’” – The Tories must promise patriotism and national security to avoid falling into the abyss, says Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Corbyn blasts ‘fascist’ Rishi Sunak and claims Brits want higher immigration” – Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accuses Rishi Sunak of embarking on the “slippery slope to fascism” and argues that the U.K. wants higher levels of immigration, according to GB News.
- “Sadiq Khan and four more years of pushing the Great Reset” – Londoners face four more years of ‘building back better’, a Smart City of digital surveillance and a cultural Marxist morass, warns Niall McCrae in TCW.
- “Britain’s rural voters are being pushed out of the modern world” – Solving the countryside’s ‘notspot’ crisis has become a national priority, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “What really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted” – Fresh evidence, drawn from confidential files, reveals Chinese scientists spliced together deadly pathogens shortly before the pandemic, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Scientists create vaccine for coronaviruses that are undiscovered” – Scientists have developed a jab to help protect against multiple coronaviruses, including ones “we don’t even know about yet”, says the Mail.
- “Vinay Prasad wants it both ways” – University of California Professor of Epidemiology Vinay Prasad wants desperately to be the edgy hero revealing the truth about the Covid vaccines while still lauding them as a miracle, writes Jonathan Engler on his Substack.
- “Don’t hesitate: get a Covid shot and prevent a traffic crash” – In Medium, Dr. Eyal Shahar remarks that a recent study about vaccination and traffic crashes might just be the worst misinterpretation of a study on Covid vaccines he’s ever seen.
- “Another virus challenge trial spectacularly fails…” – What the researchers didn’t mention is that the vaccinated got more Omicron infections than the unvaccinated, says Jonathan Engler on Substack.
- “‘My second win against Covid vaccine mandates!’” – On Substack, Dr. Raphael Lataster celebrates his second win against the absurd Covid policies in the state of New South Wales.
- “Of cancers, cures and LNPs” – A cancer ‘cure’ cloaked in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) is coming to a theatre existence near you, says Jessica Rose on her Substack.
- “Unscientific American” – Science journalism has surrendered to progressive ideology, laments James B. Meigs in City Journal.
- “Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating” – A new study suggests you had better sell your car or the snakes will get you, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “‘What’s gender got to do with the price of beans?’: the bosses reclaiming the diversity narrative” – As corporate America slashes its inclusion budgets, U.K. bosses are tempted to follow suit, writes Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “Compulsory single-sex lavatories for all restaurants and offices under new laws” – Single-sex toilets are set to become a legal requirement for all new bars, restaurants, offices and shopping centres under new laws proposed by the Government, according to Sky News.
- “U.K. university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts” – The Guardian reports that U.K. university courses on race and colonialism are under threat due to budget cuts.
- “‘The only time to future-proof our freedoms is now’” – On the BBC’s Politics Live, Miriam Cates MP explains why mandatory ID cards are a terrible idea.
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This is a good idea and I don’t know why nobody thought of it sooner, given that family reunification is where the numbers of migrants entering a country are boosted significantly and is obviously going to be rife with fraud;
”Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants to curb the influx of migrants entering the country due to family reunification by utilizing DNA tests and other checks. However, the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) of Austria is calling for far more stringent controls on family reunification, including setting the chain migration quota to zero.
On Sunday, the head of Austria’s government announced the increased use of genetic tests to prove family relationships, a move that he announced in the run-up to the EU parliamentary elections as his government comes under enormous pressure due to record levels of immigration.
The issue of family reunification is plagued with fraudulent activity across the Western world, often with migrants openly flouting the system to bring in dozens of so-called family members and charging a fee for it, as is the case in Germany involving one notorious Nigerian migrant. Austria is having the same issues.
According to City Councillor for Education Christoph Wiederkehr, schools need to find spots for 350 new children every month. As a result, schools are turning to building construction containers for new classrooms to deal with the unrelenting flow of newcomers.
The Austrian Ministry of the Interior registered around 6,900 asylum applications in the first quarter of 2024. Of these, 45 percent were made by migrants who obtained an entry permit as part of family reunification. In 2023, this proportion was only 16 percent, signaling that more and more migrants are using chain migration to gain a foothold in Austria.”
https://rmx.news/article/austria-will-now-use-dna-tests-to-limit-family-reunification-but-rival-fpo-party-wants-complete-ban-on-chain-migration/
The amount of leeway these parasitic illegals get is beyond anything resembling even the old pretend normal logical Governmental behaviour ! We in the western world are having The Michael Ripped out of us every minute of every day !!
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/20/real-photos-of-putin-s-palace
What’s really going on?
‘In 2021, days after the Anti-Corruption Foundation released its first documentary film describing how Russia’s president embezzled and cheated his way to a private mansion………..billionaire and longtime Putin associate Arkady Rotenberg told a pro-Kremlin media outlet that he, in fact, owns the seaside residence. Rotenberg said the site would open “in two or three years” as an “apartment hotel” — in other words, as a getaway for the spectacularly rich.
Three years later, the most recent renovations to the complex are long finished, but “Putin’s palace” is still exactly that — a palace, not a hotel….
‘FBK and Proekt identified significant changes in the paintings displayed in the palace’s common spaces. The relatively neutral romantic frescoes are now reproductions of paintings of historical battles, such as the Battle of Borodino in 1812 and the Battle on the Ice in 1242.
Step into what was the music room, and you’ll now find artwork devoted to famous Russian naval figures like Pavel Nakhimov and Fyodor Ushakov.
The palace’s new interior also suggests that Vladimir Putin has a renewed interest in God: In place of the gambling and gaming room, there is now a chapel (though FBK says some of the old design’s “not very Orthodox” style remains).
The wall of icons and religious paintings in the chapel indicates that it is named after Prince Vladimir, the grand prince of Kiev who converted to Christianity in 988 and Christianized Kievan Rus.
The chapel also has a stasidia pew for sitting during lengthy services. (In the Russian Orthodox tradition, this is technically a throne intended for the tsar.)’
‘According to FBK, the money needed to construct and maintain Putin’s Black Sea palace still comes from state companies under the guise of non-existent services. For example, investigators say two Transneft subsidiaries pay 660 million rubles ($7.3 million) a year to rent certain non-residential premises in the palace.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation’s new investigation ends with a nod to its January 2021 documentary film, which Alexey Navalny narrated. The videos provided to FBK include footage recorded inside one of the bathrooms used by the palace construction workers, and scribbled on the wall above a filthy toilet are the words: “Lyokha [Alexey], you were right!”
Meduza 06 May 2024
When I saw the title to this post I wondered if it would give some answers to the key questions of the day that really effect the ordinary folk of the UK.. Are there now already NATO troops active in Ukraine? Never mind his ill gotten Palace, if we push Putin too far is he really going to push the nuclear button? Is it the case that without direct NATO intervention Ukraine will collapse?
No I do not like Putin, nor do I like Biden or Sunak or Macron……… a plague on all their political posturing nonsense. But what is really happening and how will it affect the ordinary folk of the UK?
The point is to open all on here’s eyes to the kind of man Putin is and his real intentions. Believe me, that is the most important question of all for the ordinary folk of this country since it may involve the survival of each and every one of them.
Don’t listen to me. Listen to one of the world’s foremost experts on Russian leaders:
‘He’s not crazy at all, he’s projecting a vision of Russia that he was brought up with that many people in Russia still adhere to – a vision of the Russian state as an empire that has to expand, and expansion is how you judge leaders’
‘Putin is now set on hegemony over the Soviet and Romanov empires. At a dinner at his Kuntsevo dacha at the end of the Second World War, Stalin called for a map and approvingly reviewed his conquests, pointing with his pipe: “Let’s see what we’ve got then,” he told his henchmen. “In the north, everything’s all right; Finland wronged us so we moved the frontier back; Baltic states which were Russian territory in old times are ours again; all the Belorussians are ours now; Ukrainians too; and the Moldavians are back with us too. So to the west everything’s all right.” If he wins in Ukraine, Putin might have a similar conversation with Patrushev and his defence minister Sergei Shoigu.’
Montefiore
‘Are there now already NATO troops active in Ukraine?’
The real question affecting ordinary folk is whether there should be NATO troops active in Ukraine?
Putin is not mad but he is expedient. He will not go nuclear unless he profits by it. And the U.S. have made it clear that he will not profit by it.
The U.S. strategy of weakening but not catastrophically defeating Putin may very well be the least worst option.
”The U.S. strategy of weakening but not catastrophically defeating Putin may very well be the least worst option.”
Living here in the rural boondocks of North Devon, I have no real means of judging these matters but I do wonder exactly who is getting stronger and who is getting weaker as a result of the Ukraine War, USA? Russia? China? UK? EU?
As we have already discussed, China has its own problems:
‘China is in the midst of a profound economic crisis. Growth rates are flagging as an unsustainable mountain of debt piles up; China’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached a record 288% in 2023. But even that eye-popping figure does not capture the uncomfortable fact that much of it was borrowed to buy assets that no longer yield enough income to repay the debt. This is especially true in the housing sector, where sales have fallen by a third since the pre-pandemic peak, and new construction is down 60%. This is one of the worst housing crashes in the world over the last three decades.
Many Western pundits and politicians view this crisis as a sign of the bankruptcy of China’s leadership and economic system. But it is more akin to the cyclical debt crises that have plagued capitalist countries throughout history. An apt comparison is Japan’s crisis of 1989, which ended decades of high growth and rising asset prices, fueled by a ballooning debt bubble. Japan’s Nikkei stock index peaked in late 1989 and fell almost 80% over the next 13 years. Real estate prices fell for two decades starting in 1991. Neither of these major asset classes has exceeded the pre-crisis price peak ever since. Japan transitioned from being the fastest growing major economy during 1954-73, typically growing over 10% per year, to the slowest, with growth averaging only 1.75% per year from 1981 to 2023. China may be facing similarly prolonged difficulties.’
Putin is busy wiping out an entire generation………
In comparison to these, our own ‘first world’ problems, the price of socks, for example, pale into insignificance……
Equal this Shiz up with similar analysis of Obidenbama who isvconstantly fanning the flames
of global unrest !
Why don’t you enlighten us……
Blimey , are you asking for substantiation of The Wests destruction by the phoney American Government & it’s allies ?
You said you wanted to equal the shiz up.
Do you or don’t you?
Done
Or not really……..
So this is what The Muslim Vote are demanding of Starmer. I can’t even see him agreeing to this. Well nobody can say all of these Muslims who are being elected all over the place aren’t being transparent. It’s pretty damn obvious where their loyalties lie by now;
”Glad they’ve been transparent about what they stand for and their priorities for Britain.
Let this list be brought up during the next general elections to remind people where the Islamists stand when it comes to their vote.
The Muslim Vote issued the following demands to Sir Keir Starmer in a series of tweets:
‘1. Apologise for your comments greenlighting a genocide and for not backing the ceasefire in Oct/Nov 2023.
‘2. Sanctions on companies operating in occupied territories. Sanctions on settlers.
‘3. Recognise Palestine state
‘4. Travel ban on all Israeli politicians that prosecuted this war and support illegal occupation.
‘5. End military ties with Israel.
‘6. Issue guidance that Muslims are allowed to pray at school.
‘7. Implement findings of people’s review of prevent – not Shawcross.
‘8. Remove ‘extremism’ definition [Michael] Gove introduced.
‘9. Commit to full implementation of Royal charter re media regulation.
’10. Adopt APPG definition of Islamophobia.
’11. Commit to review of public sector equality duty.
’12. Increase council and public health funding for the 10% most deprived areas in the country to finally address systemic and chronic health inequities as detailed in the Marmot Review and revisited by the Health Foundation 10 year later.
’13. Deliver alternative student finance.
’14. Ensure sharia compliant pensions are available at every workplace. So the 1/3 of Muslims without a pension get one.
’15. Ensure insurance quotes don’t cost more for someone called ‘Muhammad’.
’16. Commit 7% of the LGPS/ public sector pensions to ethical and Islamic funds.
’17. Oppose BDS bill. Kick it out of law.
’18. Remove the archaic ‘spiritual influence’ offence from statute.”’
https://twitter.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1787471147816177965
One of the problems is that not only do they have a strong foothold standing for Labour in local elections, they are now increasingly standing as Independents – and winning! Those voting who are sick and tired of the political uniparty and want change are looking at the Independents / political others for some salvation but are then being let down by some of the Independent / Others successful candidates who have their own agendas and objectives to fulfil. Look at the recent Green Party local shenanigans!
Then there are the councillors who once elected decide to about turn and ‘cross the floor’ to another party, despite the electorate voting against that party.
It seems we are snookered whoever we vote for…
Apologies, I know it is badly phrased but I have a banging headache this morning.
Battle lines have been drawn.
Net Zero Lights Out Freedom Dead – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
Reader, we blew it. The route back for my party is steep and narrow
It’s like deja vu all over again.
”I have always hated the Conservative Party,’ Lord Carrington told me towards the end of his life.
‘Nothing made me hate it more than being chairman of it. Individual members, all right. Collective, so awful. Look at it now. Going down the plughole.’
They knew what to do:
‘Carrington recalled a dinner at the start of Thatcher’s premiership when she decided to have all Permanent Secretaries and their wives to dinner at No 10.
He recalled: ‘This was unheard of, never been done before and those involved were extremely gratified. Iona [Carrington’s wife] and I were asked to dinner – all went well until Thatcher rose to speak. She had them in the palm of her hand, but then told them they were not the sort of people who got things done, that she was not going to put up with any obstruction with what she wanted to do, and they must get on with it.’
But they didn’t do it.
‘…the Argentinians invaded the islands on April 2, 1982, while Carrington was on a diplomatic trip to Israel, leading to the 74-day conflict and his resignation on a ‘point of honour’
Christopher Lee
Most particularly, with regard to the SARS-CoV-2 common cold coronavirus, lockdowns and vaccines, they were not, are not honourable….
Even the councillors who have recently lost their seats deserve no sympathy. Where were they when some backbone was required? All of them were making themselves ridiculous by banging their pots and pans together on the street, jeering at those who refused to participate in that utterly stupid ‘performance’.
I am afraid they all thoroughly deserve what has happened and what is coming…..
Can I suggest you read your posts before you commit? Very little of this makes any sense at all.
Can I suggest that, unless you have anything worthwhile to contribute, you do not comment.
The conservative party used to know what to do and at least some of them used to be honourable. The £400bn debacle, the banging of pots and pans, jeering, over a common cold coronavirus clearly demonstrated that to be no longer the case.
If you are incapable of understanding that, then you are part of the problem not the solution.
I’m just tired of you cluttering up the feed with nonsense and non-sequiturs.I am fully aware of the problems in the Conservative Party but what the hell has Christopher Lee got to do with it? It seems to me you just cut and paste paragraphs you like and randomly put them in a post. It is tiresome.
Agreed, can the editors of DS get this AI thing removed? Purely human imput is imperative for this website
You seem to assume that everyone visiting this website is of the same mind as you.
That is fortunately incorrect because it would make this site a very dull and superficial medium.
Well perhaps you would like to elucidate on Christopher Lee’s role in the Falklands War. He had a varied career but I wasn’t aware of the part he played in that conflict. Or did his inclusion relate to the following paragraph? Was he, perhaps the pantomime villian behind the development of the vaccine? I think he was dead at the time, but he was well known for playing the undead, so perhaps this was a reprise of his Dracula role? Do tell.
Keep taking the pills.
Nothing like as tiresome as silly little paragraphs dashed of in a fit of petulance because either a. you disagree or b. you are too dim to understand what is being said!
By all means ask questions of details or present an evidenced contrary view. Otherwise, far better to keep your own counsel.
It is the usual cut and paste job.
You have the option not to read my posts if they are a bit too complicated for you.
Why not exercise it?
I don’t. I was just explaining to The Dogman your modus operandi.
You haven’t really got the hang of selective reading or evidence based commentary, have you……..
Why not do a bit of work yourself, for a change?
https://www.port.ac.uk/student-life/help-and-advice/study-skills/research-reading-referencing-and-citation/writing-about-others-works-using-direct-quotations
It’s a bot! It’ll just call you vaporous and tell you not to comment!
It’s okay not to understand stuff.
Just say what it is that has confused you and I will explain.
https://www.snp.org/snp-leadership-2024-john-swinneys-acceptance-speech-in-full/
It’s the way he tells them:
‘Our party must continue and will continue to be a light.’
‘I know that Humza will continue to make a substantial contribution to the public life of Scotland..’
‘I know there is controversy for some that I am the only candidate to stand for the leadership. Perhaps not surprisingly I take a different view. For me, the fact that I am the only candidate demonstrates the Scottish National Party is now coming back together again.’
‘Scotland wins when the SNP wins.’
‘A country where people have good jobs, the climate is protected, the vulnerable are lifted up…’
Another nutter running a country…….oh for heaven’s sake!
“the climate is protected.”
Thank goodness God has arrived to save us. Swinney has turned up in the nick of time. I was beginning to think we’d had it. He might not have the skill and swagger of John Wayne but Swinney, just like Wayne’s Davy Crockett at the Alamo will fight to the end, all guns blazing.
A hero has descended from the heavens, or risen from the fires of hell depending on perspective I suppose.
Hail Ceasar, whoops, hail John Swinney. A stickleback amongst the minnows.
“Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating” – A new study suggests you had better sell your car or the snakes will get you, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
Quick! Fill in the channel tunnel!
Strangely, I have never seen a snake in the wild in this or any other country in my life.
Do you mean the ones that slither in the grass / on the ground? There are plenty of 2-legged ones.
“Scientists create vaccine for coronaviruses that are
undiscoverednot yet developed”“Britain’s rural voters are being pushed out of the modern world” Sadly, I can’t read this as it’s behind a paywall. We live rurally, and if being pushed out of the modern world means we have very light traffic (more likely to be a pony than a car), children playing on their bikes in the road, extensive public footpaths where you are unlikely to bump into another soul, and virtually no crime – well, bring it on.
My only concern for the future of the rural idyll are the aforementioned children who in my village are more often glimpsed through their windows glued to a computer screen or are on the street “chatting” to their friends with their phone-fingers.
My village is facing the loss of its monthly news magazine because the editorial team is retiringf and no younger replacements can be found, mainly, I suspect because they don’t value printed media. A village Facebook is much easier.
When I was editor many years back we had a debate about changing to a smaller format, but that was rejected on the basis that some of the elderly inhabitants would find it more difficult to read. Those who remain amongst us will now be totally excluded as they have zero computing skills.
I will also be excluded because FB has banned me for security reasons, and I can’t find out why without going through their security rigmarole which I really can’t be ar$ed to do.
Our village in southwest ireland has all that, two pubs, a shop straight out of the 1960s and real ordinary people and kids that actually play! I know it’s days are numbered, but I’ll take it while I can
Unlucky!
The article in question is very much related to phones & phone services. With regard to the mobile phones, which I do not understand, they have some sort of G rating and some of the G ratings are going to be switched off and it has an impact in rural areas where coverage is poor. Also, it seems the switch over from analogue to digital phones/broadband is of concern, again this is technology I do not understand but it is part of this article.
Maybe someone who understands the technology can explain this better than i can!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/whats-in-a-flag/
A cracking article on the validity of our flags by Frederick Edward at TCW.
“As I write, the results of various elections across the UK are coming in. Reported turnouts linger as low as 20-30 per cent. Seven or eight out of each ten voters cannot be bothered to go out and vote. And why should they? An entrenched elite poses us the fraudulent opportunity of change. It is a charade, a sham.”
What did my grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather put their lives on the lines for in the trenches and on D-Day? What was the point? What are we becoming? A democracy where nobody can be bothered to vote because they know it will mean nothing and where the country becomes more unrecognisable by the day?”
ID cards to stop the boats . Of course that will do it when they already know who we the indigenous Tax payers are, the incomers are surely unidentifiable & never will be but let’s get Bliar,s scheme up & running