- “This D-Day cock-up is final proof that Rishi Sunak is an embarrassment to Britain” – Just when you thought the Conservatives’ election campaign couldn’t get any worse, the PM chose to snub veterans by leaving the D-Day commemoration event in Normandy early. Is this his idea of National Service? asks Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Senior Tory adviser quits over Sunak’s show of ‘disrespect’ for D-Day” – Ian Acheson, a leading adviser to Michael Gove, has quit the Tory party over Sunak’s “cynical” decision to leave D-Day commemorations early, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Sunak’s D-Day snub has exposed his staggering aloofness” – The PM must be the only man in Britain who doesn’t understand the significance of the D-Day anniversary, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “The West’s choice in 2024: will it be more like 1944 or Nineteen Eighty-Four?” – The PM’s Normandy error is a symptom of something much bigger in the current condition of the allies, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The weather forecast for D-Day” – On Substack, Paul Sutton reflects on his grandfather, the meteorologist Sir Oliver Graham Sutton, whose forecast identified a brief weather window, crucial for the D-Day invasion.
- “Pugnacious Farage lands blows that leave rivals reeling in BBC election debate” – Nigel Farage, unleashed into a live debate for the first time this election, was polished, pugnacious and popular, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “The BBC audience could hardly bring itself to cheer on Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage knows that it’s the watching TV audience, not the one in the BBC studio, that really counts, says Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage won the debate” – According to More In Common, which polled viewers of last night’s television debate, Nigel Farage won.
- “Rees-Mogg calls on Sunak to do election deal with Farage” – Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged Rishi Sunak to strike a deal with Nigel Farage before the General Election, reports the Telegraph.
- “Conservatives fail to field candidate in Rotherham” – The Tories have announced that they will not field a candidate in Rotherham in a boost to Reform’s chances of winning the seat, says the Telegraph. Although it looks like a cock-up rather than a gesture of good will.
- “The Tory ‘nepo baby’ candidates handed plum seats” – Rishi Sunak’s top aides, Cabinet ministers’ special advisers and MPs’ bag carriers are among the political “nepo babies” to be handed safe seats by the Tories, reports the Telegraph.
- “Selected for greatness” – If Will Tanner, the PM’s Deputy Chief of Staff, fails to win his ‘safe’ Suffolk seat, he could always apply for a job at Facebook, says Parliament Square in the Critic.
- “Political violence is no laughing matter” – For the first time, all candidates in the General Election are being offered security, write Theo Zenou and Sam Bidwell in CapX.
- “Israel fury at being added to list of offenders who harm children” – Israel is furious after the UN has added the country to the global list of offenders who harm children, reports the Mail.
- “Literary festivals have caved to the anti-Israel cranks” – A handful of petulant activists and C-list celebs have dealt a hammer blow to Britain’s cultural life, says Jake Wallis Simons in Spiked.
- “‘Mob’ of Pro-Palestine protesters lock university students inside debate chamber” – Pro-Palestinian protestors formed a human chain outside the Durham Union, preventing a debate on the Israel-Hamas conflict going ahead, reports the Telegraph.
- “Open letter to Professor Cooke, interim co-chair at U.K.’s MHRA” – Should the need for a product recall of the AstraZeneca SARS-CoV-2 sterile injectables be investigated by the Defective Medicines Report Centre? asks PharmaFlow’s Hedley Rees.
- “The dam has broken” – The MSM is finally starting to report on Covid vaccines and excess deaths, says Suzanne Burdick in TCW.
- “Alternative media giants sue the censorship industrial complex” – Webseed and Brighteon Media have filed a lawsuit accusing several U.S. Government agencies and Big Tech companies of orchestrating a vast censorship campaign to suppress dissenting viewpoints, particularly about COVID-19, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Three quarters of people would use private healthcare if relative was stuck on NHS waiting list” – The Telegraph reports that three-quarters of people would choose private healthcare for a relative awaiting surgery, contrary to Keir Starmer’s stance in his recent TV debate with Rishi Sunak.
- “Free speech concern after Ipso rule against open court reporting” – Press watchdog Ipso has been labelled “disgraceful”, while fears have been raised over free speech following its decision to sanction a news website for its reporting on a rape trial, reports GB News.
- “A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland” – A High Court judge has overturned a new law in Northern Ireland preventing people suspected of sexual offences being named in the press, says Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
- “Trans athletes dehumanised by term ‘biological male’, says Olympics” – A 33-page ‘Portrayal Guidelines’ document, published ahead of the Paris Games by the International Olympic Committee, urges journalists not to use phrases like “born male” or “biologically male” to describe transgender athletes, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Conservatism’s future must be counter-revolutionary’” – At the NatCon Conference in Brussels, N.S. Lyons gives his answer to the question: What is to be done?
- “New York scraps congestion charge plan at 11th hour” – In a surprising U-turn, Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has cancelled plans to impose a contentious $15 (£11) congestion fee, saying it would be an “obstacle” to the city’s economy, reports the Evening Standard.
- “London doesn’t need an African Goddess, Sadiq Khan. Why not British abolitionists?” – If the statue of a slaver is to be replaced, perhaps it should not be with the deity of an African nation that participated in the slave trade, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “‘I should keep my big mouth shut’: Stephen Fry apologises for cricket remarks” – Stephen Fry has apologised for his remarks about the “beetroot-coloured gentlemen” of Marylebone Cricket Club, reports the Times.
- “Hatred of the working class behind attack on white rural Americans” – Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Second Class is the antidote to Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman’s White Rural Rage, says Pete Anderson on the Public Substack.
- “Man in Mexico dies with first human case of H5N2 bird flu” – A 59 year-old man in Mexico has died with a type of bird flu – H5N2 – never recorded in people before now, reports the BBC.
- “‘We need a global bird flu lockdown NOW’” – On X, comedian Damien Slash suggests an immediate global lockdown following the news of a man in Mexico dying from a new strain of bird flu.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/07/jacob-rees-mogg-electoral-pact-tories-reform-nigel-farage/
Tell Rees-Mogg to investigate some sex and travel destinations.
I hear Symi is nice, this time of year.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/06/06/the-latest-bird-flu-death-is-covid-all-over-again/
This is getting a bit tiresome.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cneejz1kdzmo
Its deeply concerning Hux. I didn’t think I had to worry about Bird Flu, being a bloke. Maybe he/she was trans or something.
https://x.com/damienslash/status/1799032383632711991
Comedian eh?
Firkin hell I wouldn’t want to encounter this comic when he wasn’t being funny.
Where’s Chubby?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/stephen-fry-says-sorry-for-cricket-club-jibes-but-could-still-be-out-mszw75n2m
Permanently.
Master Fry says he should keep his big mouth shut, but if we didn’t know already he has clearly stuck his colours to the mast.
I visited a photo exhibition at the Barbican a few years ago. The subject was the British through the eyes of others, or something like that. The overriding impression I got was a nation of ugly, ill mannered and uncultured yobs, both upper and lower class. I did not recognize similarities with any of the people I know. The photo collection reminded me of the photos the N a z i s put together of Jewish people in a light that was intended to delegitimize and create hatred towards them.
Friday morning Twyford Rd & Bell Foundry Lane, Wokingham
“Conservatives fail to field candidate in Rotherham”
Shame they didn’t think of this for about 600 other seats.
Absolutely.
“Hatred of the working class behind attack on white rural Americans”
An everyday story of the wilful ignorance of the left who can read a few stats and totally misinterpret them. Silly buggers.
It’s nearly too late. We should cull all bird species and any animal species in which H5N2 has been detected.
If it will save just one human life…
And don’t forget all the other H and Ns!
Is there an official measure of just how much respect one has to show those who gave their lives D-Day?
The third one in a row, which Sunak failed to attend, was an international one involving many who had no connection to the Allies. It included representatives of countries who were not involved, not in existence or were in fact responsible or killing our Allied soldiers, and excluded our ally who was a major contributor to the ultimate victory – Russia.
It was a political event, and indeed was used as such in some of the speeches.
That is how our marvellous system of democracy works. We are pushed and encouraged to discuss the trivial continuously and loudly so that established power can get one with deciding substantive issues as far away as possible from public view.
And then:
Oh, didn’t we tell you? You won’t be able to drive an internal combustion engine vehicle after 2030. Oh sorry, we thought you knew. Ah well climate change and all that, ti’s for the best.
Or, ah, didn’t we tell you? The WHO changed the definition of a pandemic in 2016 (or whenever it was) so that a pandemic is no longer defined by deaths but by infections, regardless of how dangerous the infection is. I thought we mentioned it. Well, don’t worry, it’s to keep you safe, not so the pharma industry can flog billions of vaccines. Trust us. Oh look, that MP said something that I could have sworn was really anti-semitic!
Etc. etc.
Totally agree – who really cares if Sunak was there or not? There’s an argument for a representative of the UK state to be there, but we could send the Royal Family, whose job it is to represent our country in a non-political manner. I don’t care if Sunak shoplifts from bloody Sainsbury’s or cheats on his wife, the damage he has done to this country is immense.
I don’t take it so personally. If it wasn’t Sunak whichever puppet was in his place would have done the same things. And if not they’d have encountered the same fate as Truss.
There’s no shortage of volunteers to do the job the way they want it done.
What you say is true but each one of us is responsible for the choices we make. Many were bullied, frightened or forced into complying with convid, he had a choice – he had a well paid position in the private sector. For whatever reason, he sought public office. From some of his comments, I think he knew it was all nonsense.
Oh please! The Russians raced to “liberate” the Prisoner of War camps and dragged thousands of British, American & Allied troops back into Russia, where they were held as hostages, in order to force Churchill to send the White Russian Cossack refugees in Britain who had helped the Allies so much, forcibly back to certain torture and death at the hands of the Maniac Psychopath Stalin.
The Iron Cage: Are British Prisoners of War Abandoned in Soviet Hands Still Alive in Siberia? Hardcover – 5 Nov. 1993 by Nigel Cawthorne
“A staggering 30,000 British prisoners of war “liberated” from German POW camps by the Soviets at the end of World War II were never returned home. In investigating the fate of victims of the Cold War, Nigel Cawthorne travelled to Siberia to follow their trail.”
“The Iron Cage tells the true story of the 31,000 British, 20,000 American and countless French, Dutch and Belgian prisoners of war of the Germans in 1945 who were “liberated” by the Red Army and disappeared into the Soviet Gulags.”
I am not sure about this one.
These are ‘suspects’ rather than ‘convicted’.
So what happens to a person falsely accused of a crime? The damage of a false accusation should not be underestimated.
I’m with you. If we learned anything from #MeToo, is that destroying a mans reputation is ridiculously easy. Convicted.? Go nuts. Not convicted.? Should not be open.
Agreed. Who said it was a victory and why do they think it is?
Myra wrote, “The damage of a false accusation should not be underestimated.”
Absolutely spot on, and not just for men. But the media, happy to show photos of police helicopters raiding Cliff Richard’s house, are always careful to pixilate the faces of Third World Ethnic attackers, and careful never to mention their names. And social media companies do nothing about the horrific DeepFake Porn websites targeting innocent women.
It’s shocking how many people, including those calling themselves “Christians” and “Catholics”, are fond of Breaking the Ninth Commandment:
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
I realise it is the fashion these days to pretend that WWII was a fight between the allies and Nazis and to pretend that France was in there to the full. The reality was different.
If they wanted to have a NATO meeting or a G5 meeting then do it after the D-day commemoration.
BTW why is Canada rarely mentioned. They made a significant contribution and should nhave priority over the French and Germany should not have been there. No wonder children do not understand history.
Listening yesterday to The Weekly Sceptic podcast, I found myself once again aghast at Toby Young’s take on Trump, and was keen to see what others think.
“Trump has violated plenty of democratic norms himself … he’s lied … while President he paid off a porn star to prevent her talking to the press … he lies a lot … he’s an egotist … his greatest sin was claiming that he couldn’t lose in 2020 … and then maintaining when he did lose that it was fraud …”
My main observation on this is that any open-minded person with a passing interest in the integrity of the 2020 Election should in 2024 ascribe at least a 30% probability (I’m way higher myself) to the Election being rigged to a meaningful extent through illegitimate means. Does Toby, given an assumption of a rigged election, believe Trump should have meekly accepted the result?
Compared with the use of election fraud, use of lawfare against political opponents, massive use of censorship and propaganda, etc, Toby’s tabling of lying, egotism and paying hush money to a porn star as threats to democracy are laughable, in my opinion.
I’m with you Michael.
Thank you, HP.
With all due respect to TY, and much is due, I think he’s possibly guilty of the classic middle class intellectual’s disdain for Trump, a man you might not want to invite to your dinner party or have marry your daughter. It’s his manner that colours how people judge him more than what he does. Who knew that politicians lie and are egotistical?!?!?!??
Toby Young is to be commended for daring to challenge the Nauseating Worship of Lying, Cheating, Windbag Drumpf, ogling his own daughter and making incestuous sexual comments about her.
The Fawning, Mindless Adoration of Illuminati Drumpf is truly shocking.
A shame that Mr Moore does not extend his argument to encompass the ‘sustainable development’ goals and the impoverishment to be imposed though Net Zero. WEF’s stakeholder capitalism is merely a method to reduce choice until there is no choice other than Net Zero – and to Hell with the facts of the matter.
Does anyone know what the ‘D’ stands for in D day?
I’ll tell you, it stands for Day!
Yes, day day!
“New York Kathy Hochul has cancelled plans to impose a contentious $15 (£11) congestion fee, saying it would be an “obstacle” to the city’s economy,”
An obstacle to sleep joe winning the upcoming election more like
“If the statue of a slaver is to be replaced, perhaps it should not be with the deity of an African nation that participated in the slave trade”
Replace it with an effergy of the worlds richest man! The richest man in history was the Emperor of the Mali empire, Mansa Musa, who made his vast fortune selling millions of his own black people to North African Arabs and enslaving the rest in his massive gold mines
Good find! I didn’t know about him!
Other News Round Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7vReIN-shs
Gaza War Day 222: IDF drone footage shows Hamas gunmen inside UNRWA logistics centre in Rafah
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/07/tory-adviser-ian-acheson-quits-over-d-day-row/
There may well be something very cynical behind this outrageous show of disrespect but on this occasion I am going to state the obvious – Sunak is not British. He has no understanding of British history and no understanding of the British psyche.
And, stating the bloody obvious, he doesn’t look British.
So reducing families’ electricity consumption pales into insignificance and is pointless compared with flying. OK got it.
Updated to add: If, as claimed, 1 tonne of CO2 represents 48 years of a standard family’s electricity consumption and a Sunak family flight to California emits 24 tonnes, then the standard family will have to do without electricity for 24 x 48 years = 1,152 years to make up for it. I doubt they’re up for that.
“Political violence is no laughing matter” – For the first time, all candidates in the General Election are being offered security…”
It’s about time— Nigel Farage’s security team were absolutely useless, completely ignored the Porn Slut attacking him, didn’t even try to help him wipe off whatever substance was in the liquid, and didn’t bother to chase down the criminal.
It took a spirited member of the public to chase her— he found the police standing around and asked them desperately why they weren’t doing their job, told them about the attack, and helped them find her. He was so angry at her nasty attack that he shouted at her while the police were arresting her, for which they then arrested HIM, but luckily released him without charge.
“Man in Mexico dies with first human case of H5N2 bird flu”
He must be like the man killed in a motorbike accident who was listed as dying of Covid.
There is no such thing as bird flu, swine flu, covid, or polio. It’s all just different kinds of toxins deliberately administered, like arsenic in the old days.