- “Michael Gove shaped Britain – and divided it. What’s next?” – Tim Shipman has written a political obituary of Michael Gove for the Sunday Times that’s well worth a read.
- “Michael Gove: the most powerful Tory never to have been prime minister” – Michael Gove’s decision to stand down ends the career of arguably the most powerful MP of this century never to have been Prime Minister, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “The Tories have lost the one man who knew how to defeat the Blob” – After his triumph at Education, it is sad Michael Gove wasn’t given another big department to transform, writes Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “‘Stalinist’ Sunak threatened with legal action for blocking pro-Boris candidates” – The Tory party has been threatened with legal action amid claims that “Stalinist” Rishi Sunak is blocking pro-Boris candidates from standing as MPs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson will be abroad for most of election campaign” – According to friends, Boris Johnson will be out of the country for the majority of the election campaign, says the Telegraph.
- “Crying in the rain” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland rips into Rishi Sunak’s performance and the state of the Conservative Party.
- “The end of politics” – On Substack, Paul Sutton envisions an impending global conflict amid a backdrop of cultural decay, corruption and the rise of authoritarian powers.
- “Noisy minorities are being allowed to bully the rest of us into silence” – The attempt to drown out the PM’s election speech outside No.10 reflected a sinister trend in our politics, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “‘The Madman’ who puts Britain’s bland leaders in the shade” – At the same time as Rishi was receiving a new umbrella from one of his MPs, the President of Argentina was leaping about on stage, writes Janet Street-Porter in the Mail.
- “Labour could allow 16 year-olds to vote in first year of government” – Keir Starmer has confirmed that he wants to give the vote to 16 year-olds, reports the Mail.
- “Voters know they will regret supporting Labour, but they’re going to do it anyway” – Let me guarantee you one thing: if Sir Keir Starmer wins, nobody will call him a heavyweight, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “How bad will a Labour Government be?” – Labour is a mishmash of coalition interests that will need identity politics to keep it together as a reconciler of contradictions, writes Ed West in the Spectator.
- “Britain’s reality check threatens to be nasty, brutish and far from short” – Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Labour offers an alternative to Tory chaos, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Tactical voting threat to Tories as Lib Dems target 90 seats” – Sir Ed Davey has launched his party’s General Election campaign with a strategy to secure dozens of blue wall seats, reports the Times.
- “Alan Bates brands Paula Vennells ‘Cruella de Vil playing Mary Poppins’” – Campaigner Alan Bates dismissed the tears of disgraced former Post Office boss Paula Vennells at the Covid Inquiry, likening her to “Cruella de Vil trying to play Mary Poppins”, according to the Mail.
- “‘More than 10,000’ migrants have crossed the English Channel this year” – More than 10,000 small-boat migrants are thought to have arrived in Britain via the Channel so far this year, reports the Mail.
- “The smoking ban will be back” – The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is not going to disappear. It is only delayed, writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “Losing faith in our police” – The recent behaviour of many police officers around the country indicates how far forces have departed from Peelite principles, says Julian Mann in Christian Today.
- “Covid Inquiry criticised for ignoring study on lockdown harms” – The Covid Inquiry has been accused of ignoring one of the biggest studies on the harms of lockdowns, reports the Telegraph.
- “Excitable media act as Big Pharma salesmen” – In TCW, Jonathan Angler is taking the hype surrounding weight loss injections with a large pinch of salt.
- “Putin wants a ceasefire in Ukraine ‘because the war costs too much’” – Russian sources claim that Putin is ready to “freeze the war” in Ukraine if a ceasefire, which recognises the current battlefield lines, can be agreed, reports the Mail.
- “Net Zero efforts could cause rise in air pollution deaths” – A new study warns that Net Zero measures, such as making homes better insulated, could increase the number of deaths from air pollution, according to the Telegraph.
- “Gas bills could rise by £1,000 to pay for wind power” – Gas bills are projected to rise by around £1,000 to pay for wind power under official plans being considered by the Energy Secretary, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ireland’s Green Party election manifesto calls for hate speech legislation” – Ireland’s Green Party has renewed its call for hate speech and hate crime legislation in its newly-released European election manifesto, says Gript.
- “Physically-healthy Dutch woman dies by euthanasia” – A physically-healthy Dutch woman died by euthanasia soon after turning 29 because she didn’t want to live with depression and anxiety, reports the Mail.
- “J.K. Rowling says she’d ‘love to know how Labour defines a woman’” – The Harry Potter author has suggested that Keir Starmer’s recent “back-pedalling” on transgender issues is insincere, according to the Mail.
- “Biden derangement syndrome” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson has become aware of another derangement related to Joe Biden.
- “Here is the film Nova” – Watch the documentary about Hamas’s attack on the Nova music festival. Viewer discretion advised.
Here is the film “Nova”.
— Andrew Fox (@Mr_Andrew_Fox) May 25, 2024
It is footage recorded by Hamas themselves, victims and first responders at the Nova festival on 7th October.
For all those who think the festival-goers were killed by IDF Apaches
Viewer discretion advised. pic.twitter.com/BBGdKLeqVN
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“Fears that restrictions could be in place until Spring”.
Nah, it’ll be much longer than that. Would they bother with all this “vaxport” stuff and so on if this was going to end soon?
Oh and Fon et al, if those “vaccines” are so good, why would they be talking about continued restrictions with all the vulnerable having been offered these injections and 94% (or whatever) volunteering for these trials? An unprecedented rate and still not enough.
Spring? Which one?
I initially thought the vaccine passports were the end goal, but I now think that’s just part of the coercion campaign. The restrictions are obviously part of the coercion campaign, and the new goalpost shift is that not enough people have been stabbed twice.
The goal, in my opinion, is to inject as many people as possible ASAP.
My hypothesis is that they will release a new bioweapon (called “Covid-21”) that will be designed to bypass the s-protein antibodies.
I’m convinced that ADE will occur anyway, but it won’t happen fast enough to prevent the sheep waking up and going violently batshit crazy when they realize what has been done to them.
“Give us our liberty” – Sir Graham Brady.
A pity he’s too principled to be PM…
I think we just have to accept that the majority of the population don’t want liberty. They want to be swaddled, suck on a dummy and call that life.
Slow infantilisation of the British people especially since the death of saint Diana aided by MSM pushing moronic drivel such as “strictly”,repair shop and endless keep fit/exercise “stars” such as Joe Wicks, and don’t get me started on “footie” etc.
Sadly you are correct. Most people don’t want liberty, I find it very strange.
“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
Patrick Henry, 1775
And Fon, why do pharma need a trend of “altering Covid practices” to make “vaccines2 look “positive” if they are so good? Just asking, like.
(Don’t know why I’m asking, they has never once properly addressed my points. I’m all for free speech, but they seems more interested in rudeness and preaching than engaging in good faith).
Bunter is a weak coward, scared out of doing the right thing by a bunch of bought off scientists, if he really did want to end these ridiculous restrictions there are plenty of qualified people available to back that up. The buck stops with him he can’t stand behind Chris Whitty forever. There will be a brief respite over the summer school holidays to appease the middle class skive at homers and then it is another long winter.
Always was the plan. BLiar and co were always after stopping re-opening on June 21st, too risky to leave for too long, before the autumn virus season restarts.
I feel for the young who are destined by the million to a future with no purpose, not those supine middle classes who deserve what is coming.
You are correct. There will almost certainly be a lockdown again this autumn. As you say though sooner or later this will catch up with the self interested middle classes who have enjoyed the last 15 months lazing at home and they will richly deserve everything they get.
The only difference is how much of a reprieve they deign to give us in the meantime. The autumn.winter/spring lockdown is a done deal.
Johnson has abdicated his duty to a dubious group called Sage. He is allowing them to run the country as they see fit, and as they are communist members, anarchists, NGO’s, it’s not looking good. The Tory party need to get rid of Johnson, who got his majority by default.
“they are communist members, anarchists”
Grow up and stop sucking that ludicrous comfort blanket. There’s enough wild fantasy on the Covid side.
These down-votes are a useful measure of the ‘duggie quotient’ on the site – the proportion of hobby-horse jockeys using it to push political fantasies.
Theresa May speech is not good if you break down her speech she basically just saying. Give vaxxed the ability to travel abroad.
I suppose so but at least she is arguing for some form of foreign travel. Johnson seems hellbent on destroying the travel industry.
James Ward, mathematician:- “If you’re trying to run an NHS or even (sic) run an economy, the peak matters.”
These people have completely lost touch with any reality, even assuming they had it in the first place.
How can any country without an economy, which has been destroyed by the government of the day, assisted by the Opposition parties, think it can afford an “NHS”, let alone run one? The same applies to universities (e.g. Imperial, Warwick et al), the police, the Armed Forces, education, industry, transport, housing and the rest.
If you wreck the country, for personal and political reasons, and continue on this track, then the country is well and truly buggered. It’s high time people like Ferguson, along with the cretins that pass for politicians, have any pay withdrawn immediately.
“How can any country without an economy, which has been destroyed by the government of the day, assisted by the Opposition parties, think it can afford an “NHS”, let alone run one? “
It can, as it is demonstrating. The NHS is ‘afforded’ by the people that work within it. Since we are all clearly fed and watered with all our basic needs fulfilled, and yet we still have many people on furlough and the NHS is fully staffed, then we can obviously afford it. We don’t need those working in the NHS to do anything else.
The economy is doing its job and has been since the start of this. What is clear now is that the economy doesn’t work in the way that quite a lot of people believe it ought to. And it is that belief that many are struggling to let go of.
Those on the other side of the debate already knew that the economy can be run like this. So it isn’t a surprise to them when it functions perfectly adequately, nor have they any desire to return to a belief in the way the world works that patently isn’t true.
I don’t agree. The “economy” is now based upon yet more borrowing and QE, which bears no relationship to anything that is sustainable in the future, and won’t be if interest rates rise. The furlough scheme, if it indeed ever ends, will carry future consequential costs, if only in those of unemployment.
I would suppose “basic needs” to include adequate and timely medical treatments of all sorts, which isn’t happening, but I’m delighted to know that the NHS is fully staffed, which appears to run counter to the narrative of there being shortages of nursing staff and doctors.
Whether we are all clearly fed and watered is also questionable. I would agree that there aren’t large numbers of people dying on the streets through starvation, but there are many who live “on the brink”.
I’m afraid I don’t share your Panglossian view, and we must agree to differ.
I don’t agree. QE is propping the country up at the moment and this situation cannot go on forever. It will either cause rampant inflation or the international markets will loose confidence in the U.K.
To use a basic analogy, the U.K. is currently like a person who has lost their job using their credit card and overdraft to fund their lifestyle. While this situation lasts in the short term sooner or later they will hit the buffers and so will the U.K.
Try telling this drivel to families using foodbanks..
I agree, ideally they should also all be made to hand over their personal assets to the state to go towards paying for the damage they have caused but that will never happen. Part of the problem is that many government advisors and senior politicians have never done a days work in the real world and so have no idea how to run things. It should be made into law that nobody can enter government until they have achieved success in business.
ITEM: “Digital certificates for vaccinated Aussies who’ve had Covid jab ” – Australians who receive a Coronavirus vaccine will get a digital certificate to prove they’ve had the jab, according to the Daily Mail Australia“.
Well, it’s here, the vaccine passport heavy-lifter in the push for mass ‘vaccination’. Note that the federal government (a ‘Liberal'[!] Party government, take double note) is leaving it up to the six state and two territory governments to decide if, when and how it will be used to discriminate re access to venues and services. This stance displays all the moral detachment of the armaments manufacturer (‘we just make the things – it’s up to others if they use them’). The second level governments will also likely fob off their ethical responsibility by simply allowing private enterprises and public institutions to make the running on its use. Here’s betting that none will do a de Santis and ban the vax passport’s use in their state. It’s almost as if they sense there is something wrong with medical apartheid and want to keep at arms length from it whilst reaping its benefits.
All sorts of ideas are being floated for vax passport restrictions on Australians’ freedoms – to travel overseas, to cross state borders, to enforce lockdowns, withholding ‘franking credits’ (a key source of income for self-funded retirees), going to the movies, etc.
Ugly!
Phil
South Australia
Who would have thought we would get that from the fit, butch Aussies.
Until Spring? Next year?
Series of studies point towards natural coronavirus spillover event, scientists suggest
“The data that we have in our paper offers an observation that animals capable of being involved in Covid transmission were present in Wuhan up until the point of the epidemic being declared,” Dr Chris Newman, an evolutionary ecologist at Oxford University and co-author of the report, told The Telegraph. “But we don’t know if they had Covid.”
So no bats and no Covid but it all points towards natural emergence of course.
And no comments allowed – of course!
Did anyone seriously think we’d get our ‘freedom’ back on 21st June? If we want this to end WE have to do it! The government sees compliance as consent and it ain’t ever gonna stop! I’ve trying to tell people this over and over, that the unlawful Coronavirus Act is in place until AT LEAST September 2022, to give them enough time to destroy our society, our economy, our health, our minds…and bring in all sorts of new laws, diktats, and biosecurity measures to ensure we can never go back! They’re gas lighting us all the time, whilst laughing in our faces – you’ve only got to look at the marvellous jolly they had in Cornwall, keeping the plebs at arms length, or fully muzzled if they are servants, whilst they all mingled and chatted – rule free. Rules for thee but not for me!
And traveled here by aeroplane with no quarantine
Restrictions “until spring”. I would be quite happy to see restrictions placed upon Johnson, Hancock, Whitty, Vallance, Ferguson, etc., until spring. To only allow them half an hour each day out into the prison exercise yard until the spring… of 2099.
What a turn around.
Teresa May making “libertarian “ Boris look like an irresponsible fool.
Not only that but Boris Johnson has managed to be an even worse Prime Minster than Theresa May – a feat many thought unachievable.
The individual may change, but the script doesn’t.
It isn’t a difficult task – essentially just a statement of the bleedin’ obvious.
https://twitter.com/SpookdBlog/status/1403922367831678980 Have a laugh. Trump spoof.
To give her her due Theresa May is now a very good back bench MP with many sensible ideas and suggestions
Well, one or two (maybe).
Agreed. She was excellent.
She should have been shot as a traitor
Indeed.
“We are not seeking a competitive advantage”
What is the point of having a Prime Minister who thinks like that?
Now that she has received her bribe (AKA fees for a “speaking tour” of the US) for doing her utmost to stymie Brexit she can afford to be.
Her paymasters know she did her best and have released her from further obligations – for now.
Kim Jong-Johnson has never been bold and, in answer to the Daily Mail, Britain will never be free.
I should imagine there are quite a few nervous jabbed footballers around Europe today considering getting a full heart checkup ASAP.
It’s now being claimed that Eriksen had not been jabbed
In the (sort of ) words by Mandy Rice Davies “Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they? “
Isn’t it strange how a number of very senior doctors have suddenly turned into crackpot conspiracy theorists over the past 12 months or so?
Dr Peter McCullough has chaired several medical boards and is one of the most published researchers in his field of medicine. Poor bloke has completely lost it.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-peter-a-mccullough-fighting-against-this-fake-covid911-hoax_oTqJFiOPAQn5GVf.html
He’s the same doctor he always was.
Meanwhie the world around him has gone insane.
Yes I know he is.
I suspected so but irony doesn’t always comme across well on the internet.
Fair point. It’s probably the way I tell ’em.
It’s just an international p*ssing contest, financed by MMT, which this has degenerated into completely.
Boris&co now concerned that Germany’s numbers are falling whilst ours are rising again- God and the vaccines forbid!
And so on, a vicious circle we’re trapped in.
Until the money has run out.
“We all continue to pay the price of not following a policy of Focused Protection.”
The woke brigade in politics, media and medicine decided to play God instead, financed by MMT and not giving a toss about any collateral damage and victims, least of all in the 3rd world, of course.
To anyone sane, it was always clear how this would end.
“A senior minister has told the Telegraph of his fears that the planned four-week delay to the reopening will leave too short a window to open up before calls to lock down again in the autumn, with the risk that restrictions will remain in place until the Spring”
Well f. me, I never thought of that! Quelle surprise!
(And I never would have believed that the thought : “I thoroughly agree with Theresa May” would ever have crossed my brain).
“We won’t be free until Boris dares to be bold”
“Boris” is now proven beyond doubt to be a eugenicist globalist. If anyone thinks he is somehow going to save us they are exceedingly foolish.
Another useless speculative graph. Reminiscent of the 4000 a day lie.