- “Trump’s victory is now more likely, not less” – He’s a felon. He’s a criminal – and he is the first President in U.S. history to be convicted of such serious offences. By all the laws of politics the Trump campaign should today be a smoking ruin. In fact, his conviction will help his chances, says Boris Johnson in the Mail.
- “Trump’s conviction is an assault on democracy” – The conviction of Donald Trump by a Manhattan jury is a dark day for American democracy, argues Michael Lind in UnHerd.
- “Donald Trump guilty verdict Q&A” – The jury of seven men and five women at Manhattan Criminal Court deliberated for nearly 10 hours before convicting the former President of all 34 charges of falsifying business records. The Mail answers any questions you might have about the Trump verdict.
- “Keir Stamer caves in and says Diane Abbott can stand as candidate” – The Momentum group, which was set up to support former leader Jeremy Corbyn, hailed Starmer’s flip-flop as a “huge victory”, reports the Mail.
- “How the Diane Abbott saga showed Starmer the limits of his power” – The Labour leader is facing questions after capitulating to the unions and party colleagues, with Rishi Sunak poised to take advantage in next week’s TV debate, according to the Times.
- “Keir Starmer’s revolutionary past that gives lie he is a moderate” – Sir Keir Starmer has risen to the top of the Labour Party without anyone really noticing that he’s a Trot, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Axed Labour candidate accuses party of ditching socialists” – Faiza Shaheen, known as the ‘Chingford Corbynite’, says the party is targeting left-wingers because it is so far ahead in the polls, according to the Telegraph.
- “Corbyn leaflet endorsed by mosque chairman who praised Hamas founder” – Mohammed Kozbar of Finsbury Park mosque, once cited in a counter-extremism review, has endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy in Islington North, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hamas reported to have stolen $100m from Gaza banks” – Hamas has plundered $100 million from banks in Gaza, according to the Jewish Chronicle.
- “Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak is making an extraordinary comeback” – With Starmer floundering, Farage flailing and Ed Davey acting a fool, a Tory revival is now on the cards, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Tories on brink of wipe out as devastating poll gives Labour a majority of three hundred with Conservatives only just beating Lib Dems” – A poll of 10,000 voters suggests the Tories would return just seven more MPs than the Liberal Democrats, says GB News.
- “The right must unite” – Douglas Murray in the Spectator says Conservative MPs need to stop demonising people (like him) with genuinely conservative views.
- “Iain Dale ends bid to become Tory MP of town he ‘never liked’” – The LBC presenter quit his job on Tuesday to stand as potential Conservative candidate in Kent, but has now withdrawn after some disparaging comments he made about Tunbridge Wells were unearthed by the Lib Dems, according to the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage demands apology from Fiona Bruce after fiery Question Time” – The Reform U.K. President says Fiona Bruce interrupted him with “incorrect facts” about the NHS and should apologise, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mass immigration is about to tear apart British society” – Nobody voted for mass migration; taxpayers have had no say in it; and everybody has been told that they must accept it, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “Germany stabbings: Six people injured in Mannheim attack” – A policeman suffered life-threatening injuries and a hard-right activist was wounded in an attack by a knife-wielding Muslim in Germany, says the Times.
- “The Theatre of Victimhood” – There’s something deeply distasteful about trial by social media, whoever’s side you might find yourself on. The onslaught is relentless, and has driven people over the edge. But this week’s victim – Carl Benjamin – suffered a gross injustice, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Woke-washing is ruining art” – Poe-faced preaching spoils the Tate’s ‘Sargent and Fashion’ exhibition, says Laura Dodsworth on her Substack.
- “To use terms like ‘global boiling’ is clearly absolute nonsense” – Professor Ian Plimer tells Freedom Research that the climate alarmism movement and the renewables industry has nothing to do with protecting the environment.
- “The climate scaremongers: Media wrongly frighten air passengers about turbulence” – Paul Homewood in TCW – Defending Freedom says the media is wrong to blame extreme turbulence on climate change.
- “Chelsea Flower Show’s ‘apocalyptic’ climate change boutique” – On her Substack, Charlotte Gill pours scorn on an absurdly alarmist boutique at the Chelsea Flower Show, purporting to show what life will be like in 2099 when the entire human race has been wiped out by climate change.
- “‘Sensitivity readers nearly killed me’ – inside the publishing problem” – An anonymous novelist at a prominent publisher describes being told to make changes to their manuscript in an interview with the Times.
- “‘It was ludicrous’: The civil servant who saw the scandal of Britain’s benefits fraud unfold” – DWP worker says the removal of checks during Covid made the benefit system “fraudster-friendly”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Grenada demands Bank of England pay slavery reparations” – Grenada wants the Bank of England to atone for “atrocious enslavement of Africans” in 18th Century, according to the Telegraph.
- “Memorial to Royal Navy heroes who freed 150,000 slaves is in doubt” – Campaigners had been in talks to install a memorial in Portsmouth harbour for the West Africa Squadron, which rescued 150,000 slaves during the 19th Century. But Land Securities has vetoed it on the grounds that it wouldn’t be “inclusive”.
- “Black victimhood and white guilt has torpedoed a tribute to history” – The heroics of HMS Black Joke, a Royal Navy clipper that waged a fearless five-year war to put an end to the slave trade, are worthy of a Hollywood action movie, says Nigel Biggar in the Mail, decrying the decision to cancel the West Africa Squadron memorial.
- “Mispronouncing a name could breach equality laws” – The Employment Tribunal has found that an Indian bathroom salesman had his dignity violated by repeatedly being called by the wrong name, reports the Times.
- “Victory for press freedom after anonymity law declared unlawful” – Legislation in Northern Ireland, which prevented the naming of sex crime suspects, has been successfully challenged, according to the Times.
- “This is horrific and I want to see it fail as a political strategy” – Lionel Shriver tells Spectator TV that Trump’s conviction has made it fractionally more likely that she’ll vote for him.
— The Spectator (@spectator) May 31, 2024
‘This is horrific and I want to see it failed as a political strategy.’
Americano | Lionel Shriver on why the lawfare against Trump could influence her to vote for him
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What’s really going on?
Ukraine develops its own long range cruise missile.
The driver for this development is the reluctance of Ukraine’s partners to provide long-range weapons
The R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missile, two of which were used to sink the Russian missile cruiser Moskva a year previously, clearly offered a suitable platform for modification as a long-range surface-to-surface missile (SSM).
Technological improvements to the R-360 include a new stand-alone GPS guidance system which takes the missile close to its target before a seeker head homes in on a pre-loaded image of the final objective and guides a terminal attack.
This system, a combination of two target acquisition technologies called Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation (DSMAC) and Automated Target Recognition (ATR) means the missile will be hard to jam.
The system can deliver a 150-kilogram high explosive fragmentation warhead out to 300 km.
Part of the missile development will be to extend the range of the missile to enable it to strike Moscow (a distance of at least 600 km) and other targets inside Russia.
If the missile can achieve that range, it represents a step-change in Ukraine’s ability to strike Russian rear area locations with big implications for the conduct of the war.
Historically Ukraine was a centre for the development of both missile and aviation technology while part of the Soviet Union.
Latest update:
31 May 2024 Cruise missile attack on Russian Kavkaz port near Kerch.
The Russian Federation Ministry of Defence announced attacks by anti-ship missiles “Neptune” on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The partial damage to the oil depot, as well as the disabling of the “Avangard” railway ferry, as a result of a missile attack on the Kerch port the day before, will complicate logistics for the Russian army in Crimea and on the southern fronts.
It is a shame that military supplies for Crimea go by rail using the land route skirting the Sea of Azov. It means yet more missiles wasted on vengeance attacks
The destruction accomplished by this attack now forces Russia to rely on road and rail links across occupied Ukraine — which puts trains and trucks into easier range of Ukrainian attack.
“Considering the fact that the railway line Russians are building through the occupied territories of Ukraine is not finished yet, this civil ferry was their army’s main logistics route,” Pletenchuk said. “Their sea logistics is also long gone after Ukraine destroyed four and damaged five of their landing ships,”
I don’t blame Nigel Farage for choosing to focus on the US election rather than stand in the UK one. Whoever wins here will sign us up to any global agreement going and kowtow to any global body – the UN, the WHO, Human Rights courts. America, with Trump in charge, still has enough clout to refuse to comply or endorse as he showed with NATO. And if they can do that, we have some chance in the UK that these treaties fail and be spared what any of the parties will merrily sign us up to.
“Keir Stamer caves in and says Diane Abbott can stand as candidate”
Good grief, Starmer is about as tough and decisive as a wet rag! What a disastrous choice for a so called leader
At risk of sounding like a right biatch ( but being a ”better out than in” type of person I’ll plough on anyway ), I think Diane Abbot looks like a hippo. Especially if you see photos of her with her mouth agape. She totally needs a stylist because that severe bob and blunt fringe do no favours for a person with that sort of face. Even the glasses don’t suit her. She should try different shape frames or contacts. Just her entire look is completely unflattering, in my opinion.
I’m off for a saucer of milk now…
I like pussy cats.
Worse than her appearance are her arrogant character and hoity toity personality.
I recall her on Andrew Neil’s late night discussion show with the equally egregious Michael Portillo. She was reasonably presentable then, but her insistence that all and sundry should be allowed to come to the UK was strident and grating.
Immigrants always seem to think they’re much more important and necessary than the historical population that created this country. To ‘enrich it’ as Leftards always dribble. Our culture has not been ‘enriched’ but degraded beyond what anyone could have imagined before mass immigration was forced on us without a ‘by-your-leave’.
Pity the poor constituency flippy floppy Queer Smarmer lets Abbott stand in, though it’s probably going to be a Labour stronghold, so Labour voters will get what they deserve.
Chosen or Placed ! SIR is a clue & member of The Tri Lateral commission the rubber stamp that Starmer is upto no good !!…
The WHO assembly draws to a close.
For now the Pandemic treaty and IHR amendments are off the table.
Big protest in Tokyo.
Today a freedom rally in Geneva (wish I was there…).
They will keep trying though, so this will need to be a long campaign.
Yes it’s ongoing ,also have you seen Tedros the Terror-st telling us that anti vaxers are the cause of people being wary of Fauci,s brew !
Tedros – the disgusting lackey of the Chinese communists.
Not being a specialist in legal or tax matters, let alone American ones, my question is whether Donald trump personally filled in his company tax returns or simply takes responsibility for everything his tax advisers write by signing them off.
If they are good enough for the tax man and at least two previous jurisdictions who declined no to take action, surely Trump himself would not be expected to spot these irregularities.
And the real criminal, to me, is Daniels, who apparently signed a legal document and accepted the cash ensuring her silence, and who then totally ignored her contractual commitment to silence.
Does all this make him a criminal or a dupe? Maybe he would rather be seen as a victim in this election.
“With Starmer floundering, Farage flailing and Ed Davey acting a fool, a Tory revival is now on the cards, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.”
Please, no.
Can’t Ms Tominey have the decency to call out the likes of Fishy and Kneel for the treasonous bar stewards that they are?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/dwp-worker-benefits-fraud-checks-not-enough-stop/
I can confirm that I was routinely in the same position as this DWP whistlblower. I used to say to colleagues that If I had been paid just 10% of the value of the frauds I detected I would have been able to retire a millionaire after twelve months. Fraud is rampant in the benefits system.
About fifteen years ago our office suffered a presentation from a senior manager. Said manager went in to some detail about how in the previous twelve months DWP had achieved a 15% reduction (something ludicrous) in benefit fraud. Unable to avoid stating the obvious I pointed out to the manager that as in the previous twelve months one third of fraud investigators had been re-allocated (non fraud jobs) the reduction in fraud was hardly a surprise because “If you don’t look for it you don’t find it.”
hux received a wagging finger summons for that statement of the bleeding obvious.
The tales I could tell.
Never try to present truth or reason to a lying fool.
“This is horrific and I want to see it fail as a political strategy” says Lionel Shriver
“Trump’s victory is now more likely, not less” says Boris
Of course! That was the whole idea, to stir up mass sympathy for the AntiChrist Drumpf. As he boasted,
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
It’s like watching Mass Hypnosis take over the minds of patriots everywhere…
I’m not a “fan” of Trump or any politician for that matter, but how would you vote if you were in the US? Trump or Biden or Kennedy or someone else? And who would you have voted for in the Republican primaries (assuming you’d be a registered Republican)?
Florida Governor Ron De Santis
Yup with you on that
I would vote Trump now though, because the Democrats are just terrible- clearly you see grave dangers from Trump that I don’t