- “Nigel Farage has driven the Tories to a state of near-total psychological collapse” – We could be just days away from a tipping point in the polls when Reform overtakes the Conservatives, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Tory poll lead over Reform down to just two points after Farage return” – A new poll from YouGov has the Conservatives on 19% and Reform on 17%, reports the Mail.
- “Reform hopes ‘Farage factor’ will bring millions in donations” – Party enjoys a bounce of 7,000 new members and in the wake of its new leader’s announcement that he will stand for Clacton in the election, says the Times.
- “Tory grassroots fury as party chairman parachuted into safe seat” – Richard Holden is set to contest Basildon & Billericay in a move described by the local Conservative association as “shameful”, according to the Times.
- “Nigel Farage, Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt in BBC election debate” – Nigel Farage, Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt will face off in a potentially explosive election debate on Friday night, says the Mail.
- “The Nigel Farage milkshaking is no laughing matter” – Emerging from a pub after his campaign launch in Clacton, Essex, on Tuesday afternoon, Nigel Farage was milkshaked, reports Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
- “Diane Abbott anti-racism group ‘encouraged and celebrated’ milkshake attack” – Stand Up to Racism posted a laughing emoji above a picture of a milkshake being thrown over the Reform leader, reports the Telegraph.
- “Woman, 25, arrested for chucking milkshake at Nigel Farage is OnlyFans model” – The woman who chucked a banana milkshake over Nigel Farage is a Labour-supporting OnlyFans model, according to the Sun.
- “Keir Starmer is either a liar or a fool” – The public no longer believes the NHS is the envy of the world. So why on earth wouldn’t the Labour leader treat a family member privately? asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Why Sunak claims Labour will add £2,000 to your tax bill” – A deep dive shows that most of the maths underpinning Tory claim does indeed come from Treasury number crunching, says Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Martin Lewis accuses Labour of living ‘in fairy-tale land’ over spending black hole” – MoneySavingExpert founder isn’t impressed by Labour’s spending plans, reports the Mail.
- “On Sunak’s maths, Tories will lift taxes by £3,000 per household” – There are serious issues at stake in this General Election and the Tories have just released nonsense figures that they’ve falsely attributed to the Treasury, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s tax raid on private schools could mean no more Billy Elliots” – The Head of the Royal Ballet School says Labour’s tax raid on private schools plans will “destroy opportunity”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Former Just Stop Oil donor Dale Vince hands £5m to Labour” – The green energy billionaire has bolstered Labour’s war chest ahead of election, according to the Telegraph.
- “Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething loses confidence vote” – Vaughan Gething has lost a vote of no confidence after just 81 days in office following the collapse of a co-operation deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru, says the Mail.
- “Radiohead face boycott threats after guitarist accused of ‘artwashing Gaza genocide’” – Jonny Greenwood says calls for band to “be shut down” after he performed with Israeli musician are “unprogressive” and “silencing”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Majority of young Britons think Israel should not exist” – A majority of Britain’s young people do not believe Israel should exist, a new UnHerd poll has revealed.
- “Baillie Gifford ‘set to withdraw funding from all book festivals’” – The Scottish investment firm may cease all sponsorship of book festivals after threats of boycotts from authors and protests by activists over its alleged links to fossil fuels and Israel, reports the Times.
- “Book festivals don’t deserve political bullying” – Activists who object to sponsor Baillie Gifford know that arts organisations will cave in quickly, writes James Marriott in the Times. That’s why they target them.
- “The activists’ war on book festivals spells disaster for authors” – Stopping Ballie Gifford sponsoring book festivals is bad news for authors, says Alexander Larman in the Spectator.
- “Work on North Sea’s ‘best remaining oil field’ delayed amid fears of Labour tax raid” – Project’s future in doubt as Starmer vows to raise levies on profits and halt new licences, according to the Telegraph.
- “Olympic heroes see off solar panel development” – A controversial bid to carpet picturesque Gloucestershire fields with solar panelling has been quashed, says Richard Eden in the Mail.
- “Treat fossil fuel adverts like smoking and ban them, says UN chief” – António Guterres has called for a ban on fossil fuel ads in latest example of environmentalist authoritarianism, reports the Times.
- “Interview of Ex-CDC Chief Dr. Robert Redfield” – On his Substack, Robert Malone says Chris Cuomo’s interview with Dr. Robert Redfield, former head of the CDC, about the origins and ongoing impact of COVID-19, was extremely revealing.
- “In sworn Congressional testimony, Tony Fauci admits he fibbed to the New York Times, but what’s a lie among lovers?” – On his Disinformation Chronicle Substack, Paul D. Thacker writes about Fauci’s latest admissions.
- “Second Mannheim Stabbing: Local AfD politician victim slashed with a carpet cutter six days after the Sulaiman Ataee’s knife attack” – Heinrich Koch was assaulted after confronting apparent leftist vandals who were ripping down his party’s political posters, says Eugyppius.
- “Deselected Christian sues the Lib Dems over alleged discrimination” – Former BBC journalist David Campanale is suing the Lib Dems for deselecting him after discovering he was an orthodox Christian, according to the Telegraph.
- “Gang guilty of raping and sexually assaulting two girls in Rotherham” – Girls aged between 11 and 16 at the time were groomed and often plied with alcohol or cannabis before being raped or sexually assaulted by a Rotherham grooming gang, reports the Mail.
- “Didn’t earn it” – For more and more Americans, the words “Didn’t earn it” spell out the real meaning of DEI, writes John Tierney in City Journal.
- “Inconvenient Facts about Slavery” – Historical sources show that after gaining freedom, many ex-slaves were quite willing to own human chattel themselves, says Lipton Matthews in Aporia.
- “BBC accused of ‘monumental double standards’ for not dropping ‘racist’ cricket pundit” – Qasim Sheikh continued to commentate on cricket for the BBC, despite sharing antisemitic post on social media, says the Telegraph.
- “Ovarian cancer can strike people of any gender, charity claims” – Organisation has come under fire for Pride Month post entitled: “Can men get ovarian cancer?” reports the Telegraph.
- “Russian-Ukrainian ‘terrorist’ arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport” – A suspected Russian-Ukrainian terrorist, 26, has been arrested in Paris after causing an explosion close to Charles de Gaulle airport, reports the Mail.
- “Remote tribe gets hooked on internet porn” – Introduction of high-speed Starlink internet turns some Brazilian tribesmen into “lazy addicts” glued to their phones, says the Telegraph.
- “He’ll be a giant among pygmies” – In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, Nick Dixon and I look forward to Nigel Farage taking part in the next televised election debate.
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I think they’re just worried about catching Covid.
Besides, they can’t ban them; aren’t they traditional dress?
Which country? I believe Wales and Scotland are particularly welcoming. In Northern Ireland they’ll have surface travel paperless access to the EU too. .
“Electric car sales forecast slashed as drivers turn to secondhand market”
Taken at face value, the Governments EV policy makes the technically naive assumption that we can replace all our petrol/diesel (ICE) vehicles with Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs). I have read a number of articles on BEVs which suggest that, given all the issues with lithium-ion batteries, the best we could possibly hope to achieve would be to replace 30% of our ICE vehicles with BEVs. This could of course all change if some new technology comes along but with lithium-ion batteries there seems to be a distinct limit to how many we can have, use and re-cycle.
For private buyers, car purchase is to some extent a discretionary spend and can in most cases be postponed for a year or two. which is of course what people are doing given the current lack of clarity over future car policy and all the difficulties of BEV ownership and operation.
Whilst I would happily drive a BEV, I would not want to own one, or to be more precise I would not want to own and be responsible for a large lithium-ion battery. Scrapped BEVs are already piling up in scrapyards because the re-cycling process cannot keep up with the supply of scrapped vehicles. For various reasons, including the insurance industry’s readiness to ‘write-off’ BEVs rather than repair them, BEVs look like have a significantly shorter average life span than ICE vehicles.
Running a BEV requires a lifestyle change compared to running an ICE car. On you tube you can find countless videos showing the challenges, costs and technicalities of living with a BEV. These issues are such that many people will find that if they use a BEV at all it will just be for local utility travel, possibly a BEV borrowed from the local community car club rather than a vehicle they themselves own. Which brings me back to my opening point, does the Government really believe that we can replace most of our ICE vehicles with BEVs? Or are they just stringing us all along knowing that the intended end result is that for the hoi-polloi this will be the end of private motoring and the freedom of the open road.?
The “shorter average life span than ICE vehicles” must undermine the claim that they are better for the environment. The manufacturing end of it, on account of the large Li ion ones, is heavily loaded with various emissions compared with the other. Some say that one would have to cover at least 70,000 miles to break even. They don’t say ‘no emissions at time of use – we’ve done it all up front’.
I’ve been running petrol hybrids for several years, and they do a good job, but the obsession with cutting down on CO2 emissions has been around for a long time now. About 11 years ago, there was variable road tax, which was down to zero for a car that produced less than 100 g/km. At that time, the diesel engine Honda Civic achieved that under the formal tests (with specific tyres on), so the road tax was zero. I had to declare to the DVLA that I had paid nothing every year to keep it taxed. The official figure for my current Toyota hybrid is almost exactly the same – 98 g/km, but the variable road tax regime was abolished a few years ago for new cars.
Older cars will be kept on the road for longer than previously. A near neighbour’s son runs a 2008 Ford Fiesta. Large dents and scrapes all over and the front grill and valance and wings are visibly held together with cable ties – I helped him do it so he could get the car home after yet another bump. It seems to smoke quite badly when it drives off. Somehow it has passed its MOT recently. I don’t know for sure but it wouldn’t surprise me if favours were exchanged.
The article mentions the second hand market holding back sales of new EVs but it’s referring to sales of second hand EVs. Keeping really shonky old ICE cars on the road keeps the second hand market cheap enough to undermine EV sales.
I don’t suppose our neighbour will be in the market for an EV any time soon.
Personally I run a 2004 petrol car which I maintain in good condition. I hope to keep it until I give up driving and that it will then be worth having for someone else.
You cannot force people to believe a narrative when their very own eyes and experiences tell them a contradictory story and they’re essentially being told they must deny reality. A reality that the political class, for the most part, don’t have to deal with because ‘elites’ do not move in the same circles as ordinary citizens do. For the majority there’s no trust in the government ( regardless of party ) or the MSM ( the scamdemic saw to that ) and what’s happening now is the natural conclusion of a slow-motion train wreck that’s been happening for a lot of years. Cracking down further, in true authoritarian style, on free speech and increasing censorship is only going to cause more resistance, distrust and rioting.
Matt Goodwin wrote a great piece about what’s happening to society now;
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”, so wrote George Orwell in his classic book 1984. This is the quote that came to mind as I watched Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour government struggle to respond to protests that erupted after three girls were brutally murdered by the son of Rwandan migrants.
But why this quote?
Because that’s exactly what Keir Starmer and much of the elite class are now asking us to do —reject the evidence of our eyes and ears.
When Keir Starmer first responded to the protests, he could have made it crystal clear that while there is absolutely no place for violence, his government does understand why so many people are so utterly frustrated and fed-up with the state of Britain.
He could have made the point that while everybody in Britain opposes violence it is clear that many people also hold legitimate concerns about the failure of successive governments to control the borders, lower migration, and maintain law and order.
Had he spoken to protestors, it would have become immediately obvious to Starmer and his team that this was not just about mindless violence or even the tragic events in Southport; it is chiefly about people’s concerns over legal and illegal immigration.
And after clips of marauding Muslim gangs attacking white people went viral, both Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper could also have made it clear that the rule of law will be applied equally, to all groups, irrespective of race and religion.
But they chose not to do that.
Which is why so many people are now even more disillusioned with what they feel is not just a Labour government but an elite class that is deeply biased and out-of-touch with the rest of the country; a class that is more interested in criticising and attacking the British majority than addressing the reasons they feel so utterly disillusioned.
Unlike Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and much of the ruling class, most normal people in this country know full well that these protests do not begin and end with “far-right thuggery”. Only an elite class that has become dangerously disconnected from the rest of the country would see the protests through this incredibly narrow and warped lens.
These narratives are a coping mechanism for an elite that is visibly struggling to make sense of what is unfolding around it, explanations that help it make sense of these troubling and shocking events but which make little sense to everybody else.”
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/no-this-is-not-just-far-right-thuggery
Short clip of Matt talking on GB News;
”What you are seeing -in the attacks on people like me- is a concerted effort by the elite class that created this mess to “manage” the debate and shut down dissent. Don’t fall for it. We need to radically change the way this country is governed.”
https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1820581019822522682
He’s getting attacked online by people like Tim Montgomerie;
”There really is something sulphurous about Matt Goodwin.
Incendiary views.
Suspect opinion polls.
Massive self-obsession.
British public life would be so much better without him.”
https://x.com/montie/status/1820201530256990453
Mass immigration, which began under Blair, is the problem.
Cessation of mass immigration and assimilation through education is the solution. Michaela free school, Ms Birbalsingh, show the way forward.
Starmer, voted in by about 12% of the population, is in favour of mass immigration and against free schools.
Britain now requires a referendum on ECHR membership, net zero and proportional representation.
86% of those who voted chose to vote for parties that support, explicitly or implicitly, mass immigration – Tory, Labour, Greens, Lib Dems, SNP, the Welsh lot, Sinn Fein. Decades of the “anti-racism” message being pushed have done their job. There will no referenda and mass immigration will continue in the UK and most other rich world countries until their cultures and our civilisations have been destroyed.
“These narratives are a coping mechanism for an elite that is visibly struggling to make sense of what is unfolding around it, explanations that help it make sense of these troubling and shocking events but which make little sense to everybody else.”
This might be part of the explanation. But we should also suspect that Starmer and Cooper might simply be following orders from above to stoke the fire, in order to give them some notional justification for introducing authoritarian measures, like on-line censorship, ID cards and the ability to label protesters and rioters as “terrorists”.
Michael,
Exactly. I have just posted the same without reading your commendable comment.
Thanks HP – just read your version, which is much more eloquent and on point than mine.
Matt Goodwin always comes up short because he still views the world through a pre C1984 lens. He refuses to acknowledge that the reset started in March 2020 and believes the myth of current Government mishandling. There is NO mishandling. Kneel and his bunch of pirates are acting under WEF orders. The chaos on the streets is deliberate, two tier policing is deliberate, the lack of policing when it suits is deliberate.
Government policy is intended to increase tensions and violence. Yvette Cooper is going to disperse migrants across the country. The reality is that she intends to place incendiary bombs throughout the nation in the expectation – with a little help – that these will explode. Kneel and Co are aiming for martial law, lockdowns and “papers please.”
Wake up Matt.
All this two-tier Keir stuff just feeds the establishment propaganda BS that politics is alive and kicking. Remember – and some people have incredibly short memories – two-tier policing, and two-tier government narratives, went on under the nose of the Con Servatives who actively promoted it. Even Farage has called for the Army to be brought in to crush a populist revolt. What we are experiencing will not be fixed by our current system, because what we have is a single, unified elite class who masquerade as different political classes but who are, in reality, all within a gnats cock of each others beliefs – those beliefs centre around a two tier society which is based upon a bastardised form of Marxism (I’m no fan of Marx btw), which will put the elite capitalist’s in complete control of the people; what we must do, how we must do it, what we must say, what we must think. The romantic notion that an establishment-approved Farage-type will sweep in and save the day is absolutely cuckoo.
Agreed. Whereas, in the US, I do think the system does allow a non-establishment non-globalist to become President and, potentially, make massive changes. Similarly, the US constitution, including the separation of federal and state authorities, provides significant protection for the man on the street.
True, but the US system is pretty good at hamstringing, prosecuting and, potentially, killing such a president. They make up for their incomplete success by jailing his followers on trumped(!) up charges, using solitary confinement and long delays in due process to discourage any such election in the future.
Agreed. My heart goes out to the J6ers who were treated as domestic terrorists simply for being in attendance at the Capitol on J6. Truly appalling and evil behaviour by all those who enabled this to happen – including Biden, Obama, Clinton … the list goes on and on. Part of the reason the 2024 Presidential Election is so high-stakes is that many of these people could legitimately (and deservedly) end off in jail if Trump wins. Which is why they will do everything in their power to stop him being elected, including assassination and suspending the election, if necessary.
Also true, but the US system also provides the right of citizens to bear arms. That right allows them to overthrow a corrupt system. The issue in the US, as it is in the UK, is the divide of the people – split pretty much straight down the middle. That’s their real stroke of genius – dividing the people before enacting totalitarianism.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/05/the-grotesque-rise-of-white-identity-politics/
Tom Slater on the money again.
FFS what planet is this muppet on? Myopic, ignorant and deliberately disingenuous. This article is up there with Brendan O’Neill’s piece calling for mandatory “vaccines” of health care workers.
Appalling.
Erm. Very poetic.
I didn’t know Demons slept at all or that they actually have their own fires which are not always on or that once they are lit that they are pretty much guaranteed to spread beyond the immediate environment of the demon.
It sounds decidedly mediaeval.
And this is what ethnic conflict is like? Right. Got it.
“The appalling scenes of violence across the country cannot be allowed to happen again”
Again?
Do you seriously think it’s over Nick Timothy?
“The grotesque rise of white identity politics” – In Spiked, Tom Slater explores how multicultural sectarianism helped to kindle the racist carnage on our streets”
It’s not racism!
The British people are not racist! Their just fed up with being ignored!
“Disorganised uprisings have few prospects of realising their political goals and are often a gift to the regime, says Eugyppius on his Substack.”
Wrong! What do you suggest then Eugppius? a vote maybe?
Exactly. Here’s a great quote on this from the DM comments:
“To be fair, the people of this country have been very tolerant. We’ve seen murders, bombings, grooming gangs, teachers still in hiding. We’ve prayed for the victims, candles lit, songs and speeches. Communities flooded with illegal immigrants and the ramifications of such we have to tolerate. Anyone who does not have to deal with this really should not condemn when people have had enough, and the politicians should be forced to live amongst it.”
“The grotesque rise of white identity politics” by Tom Slater, editor of Spiked
Talk about “grotesque”! What a nauseating Anti-White article, that could easily have been written by Yvette Cooper or Kneeling Starmer.
“Race riots are the logical endpoint of identity politics”
Paul Joseph Watson said,
“How would one characterise a sustained government policy over the course of decades, which no one wanted, no one ever voted for, namely the accelerated importation, at great cost to the public, both financially and in terms of their safety, of millions of people who despise us?
A government policy that has turned large areas of towns and cities into unrecognisable, crime-ridden hellholes.
Is that not extremist in nature, too?”