- “Who won the Sky News general election TV battle? Our writers give their verdicts” – Starmer faced scrutiny on his support for Corbyn. Sunak was grilled on his record. Tim Stanley, Tom Harris and Janet Daley give their verdicts in the Telegraph. Meanwhile, a YouGov poll says Starmer was the clear winner.
- “Sunak blames lateness for TV interview on D-Day event that ‘ran over’” – Grant Shapps denies Prime Minister was ‘tone deaf’ on commemorations as leader also reveals he “went without Sky TV” as a child, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rishi’s Sky TV blunder says more about class than cash” – The Prime Minister has once again show how out of touch he is with his Sky News comment, says Michael Hogan in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer called out by Andrew Neil over claim he did not have Sky TV growing up” – The veteran broadcaster ridicules the Labour leader for claiming he didn’t have Sky TV as a child, given that he would have been 27 when the service was launched, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak aide bet £100 on July election three days before it was announced” – Craig Williams MP, Sunak’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, who is seeking re-election in Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr, is under investigation by the Gambling Commission for betting £100 on a July election three days before his boss announced it.
- “The Tories’ doomsday scenario is worse than they could’ve imagined” – The Lib Dems winning more seats than the Tories is now a real possibility, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph. Which will make Ed Davey’s mob the official opposition.
- “Britain is heading for a populist tsunami far greater than anything seen in Europe” – In the Telegraph, Allister Heath says Labour’s coming supermajority will be the last hurrah of the failing, neo-Blairite political elite.
- “I’m a Tory peer, and I’m dismayed by the Conservatives” – As the party heads for extinction, Dame Helena Morrissey in the Telegraph says the Tory high command’s incompetence is inexcusable.
- “Labour VAT raid ‘could shut half of small prep schools within a year’” – Many of the 500 or so establishments catering for 200 or fewer pupils already operate on fine margins and could go bust if Labour sticks VAT on school fees, reports the Telegraph.
- “The bankrupt Queen of the Third Way” – Travis Aaroe in UnHerd casts a withering eye over Rachel Reeves and Labour’s economic policy and predicts a catastrophe.
- “It’s boom time for the lazy public sector – and we’ll all pay the price” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lesh says the public sector will suck up even more money and perform even more poorly under a Labour government.
- “Why Rishi Sunak can’t weaponise the ECHR” – The Tory manifesto claims a Conservative government would “stop illegal migrants bringing spurious legal challenges”. But leaving the EHRC is politically very difficult, says Alexander Horne in the Spectator, not least because it would jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement.
- “Even worse than Greens’ awful manifesto is just how very boring they are” – The party is a repository of far-Left activists without any of the redeeming features of the Corbynistas, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Hunt: My seat could be won on 1,500 votes or fewer” – The Chancellor is at risk of losing his seat to the Liberal Democrats, reports the Telegraph.
- “Home Office offers Nigel Farage extra security after objects thrown at him” – the Reform U.K. leader has been attacked with a milkshake and wet cement during this General Election campaign and, as a result, has been offered additional security by the Home Office, says the Telegraph.
- “Man charged after objects were thrown at Nigel Farage” – The man who threw cement at Farage has been charged with a criminal offence, according to the Telegraph.
- “Attack on Nigel Farage is an ‘affront to democracy’, says Jo Cox charity” – A foundation set up in memory of a murdered Labour MP urges people to treat all election candidates with respect, reports the Telegraph.
- “Half of voters think smaller parties should have fairer deal at elections” – A majority of Britons think our electoral system should be changed, according to polling expert Sir John Curtice, reports the Telegraph.
- “Matt Hancock libelled Andrew Bridgen ‘to devastating extent’” – Andrew Brigden, the former North West Leicestershire MP, is bringing a libel case against Mr. Hancock for calling him “antisemitic“ after he quoted a cardiologist saying Covid vaccines were the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust, reports the Mail.
- “My son died after the AstraZeneca vaccine gave him a blood clot” – MY lovely son, Adam Bounds, died from vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) 11 days after receiving the AstraZeneca jab, Lesley Bounds tells the Mail. He was 41, fit and healthy.
- “Father reveals partner’s last harrowing words before she was killed” – Scott Peden, 30, from Cambridge, lost his partner Gemma, 31, and their children Lilly, eight, and Oliver, four, during a blaze caused by an e-bike battery he had bought online, says the Mail.
- “Dr Anne McCloskey jailed over Covid fine” – Anne McCloskey, a former doctor in Northern Ireland, has been jailed over her refusal to pay a Covid fine even though she’s standing as a candidate in Foyle in the upcoming Westminster election, reports the BBC.
- “How Jacinda Ardern almost drove New Zealand to blackouts – and why Starmer should be worried” – The devastating impact of the oil and gas drilling ban in New Zealand casts doubt on the wisdom of Labour’s North Sea policy , according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour must drop ‘unviable’ net zero plans, warns GMB” – The GMB trade union claims Keir Starmer’s clean power pledge will lead to “power cuts and blackouts”, reports the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling hits out at BBC over sports editor’s trans comments” – The gender-critical author says it was “utterly predictable” that the BBC should appoint Alex Kay-Jelski, who dismissed women’s concerns over transwomen being allowed to compete against biological women in women’s sports, as its new Director of Sport, according to the Telegraph.
- “Germany is descending into chaos – and it will take the rest of the eurozone down with it” – A decade of catastrophic mistakes are coming back to haunt Europe’s former economic powerhouse, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Pope Francis repeats homophobic slur weeks after apology” – Pontiff reportedly says there is an “air of faggotry” inside the Vatican in reference to gay priests, according to the Telegraph.
- “A new low for the W.H.O.” – Lockdown enthusiast Christopher Snowdon reconnects with his libertarian side and attacks a new WHO report written by hard Left public health loons on his Substack.
- “I Went to Cover a Protest. I Was Surrounded by a Mob” – Olivia Reingold writes for the Free Press about being mobbed by a group of Pro-Palestinian protestors in New York after someone in the crowd identified her as a ‘Zionist’.
- “Banning the office romance is a dystopian sign of a world gone mad” – BP’s edict that its employees must inform the board of any “intimate relationships” they have with their colleagues is deeply sinister, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Supreme Court considers turning First Amendment inside out” – The Supreme Court will soon issue rulings in two pivotal Big Tech disputes about free speech in which the U.S. Government and social media companies are arguing that the First Amendment protects their right to suppress other people’s speech, says the Washington Times.
- “The Sky News audience laughs at Keir Starmer saying his dad was a toolmaker” – Watch the Sky News audience at last night’s debate laugh when the Labour leader tells them his dad was… wait for it… a toolmaker.
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I wonder if this is something to do with the difficulty of counting people in the occupied parts of Ukraine? I don’t understand why but it is almost bound to make it a problem even defining if someone is part of the Ukrainian population or not.
We’ve just had a census yet, as Prof Norman Fenton keeps illustrating, we haven’t a clue how many people there are in the UK.
I suspect the authorities have got a pretty good idea of how many people there are in the UK, but they pretend not to because it suits them. I expect whatever figures there are have been kept vague enough to allow for plausible deniability.
And Russia has lost at least a million citizens to emigration.
‘This exodus is a terrible blow for Russia,” said Tamara Eidelman, a Russian historian who moved to Portugal after the invasion. “The layer that could have changed something in the country has now been washed away.”
Some say many more have emigrated. More than 3.8 million Russians left the country in the first three months of 2022, according to data from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
https://www.fedstat.ru/indicator/38480
So now some state institutions are now asking even medium-level figures to refrain from foreign travel and banned from travelling more than two hours’ drive from Moscow without official permission.
The FSB have asked former officials who previously had access to state secrets to surrender their passports, and even some who never had access.
“Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,”
Alexandra Prokopenko, former Russian central bank official
I followed that link but couldn’t make much sense of it. Any tips? It’s not clear whether these are permanent departures.
Where would 3.8 millions Russians be able to go and live, legally?
I’m not questioning the statistics particularly, but Fedstat isn’t Russian, it’s a division in the US Department of Commerce… and I suppose were Russia quoting figures for America we would be expected to treat them with some scepticism?
….the Russian comparison would be Rosstat….
Not only have Ukraine lost 8 million legally, there have been thousands of men leaving illegally, numbers vary from 12,000-15,000 depending on who you read…as this is what they are willing to admit, it could be many more?
As the population is @ 43 million V 146 million, in Russia’s favour …. Russia probably have a long way to go before they are depleted!
The Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (EMISS) was developed as part of the implementation of the federal target program “Development of State Statistics of Russia in 2007-2011”.
The purpose of creating the System is to provide access via the Internet to state bodies, local governments, legal entities and individuals to official statistical information, including metadata, generated in accordance with the federal plan of statistical work.
EMISS is a state information resource that combines official state information statistical resources formed by the subjects of official statistical accounting as part of the implementation of the federal plan for statistical work.
Access to official statistical information included in the statistical resources included in the interdepartmental system is carried out on a free and non-discriminatory basis.
The system was put into operation by a joint order of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia and Rosstat dated November 16, 2011
No. 318/461 .
The EMISS coordinator is the Federal State Statistics Service.
The EMISS operator is the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation”.
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info@fedstat.ru , emiss@digital.gov.ru
…as usual I have no idea what this is about..
So Rosstat use a computing system called EMISS…?
You can bet your life they won’t be going anywhere near Ukraine, which actively discriminates against Russian speakers.
Those who did run away to escape the anticipated conscription were clearly listening to Western misinformation, since it was clear that the process would only involve reservists, not raw recruits. And they claim these people were the “elite”. Clearly not very bright and a little yellow.
The FSB reported a slight uptick in Russians traveling to war-torn Ukraine — 328,435 (Jan-Mar 22), up from 316,286 in January-March 2021.
That sounds suspiciously like the number of Russian troops in the liberated regions.
Or maybe something else?
‘RVC reports that it “again visited” Bryansk Oblast, where the fighters managed to perform “combat tasks”, communicate with residents, hand them their postcards and “ask them to hide during the hostilities”.
As proof, the corps released a video in which its fighters really communicate with the residents of the village of Sluchovsk and conduct combat operations there.’
06 Apr 23
Oops……!
In case of problems while working with the system, please contact us:
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or
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/13/russia-diaspora-war-ukraine/
Take your pick
What she says she said to the FT was “Russia’s security services have almost total leeway to interpret the rules under revisions to laws on state secrets, espionage and treason. Basically any information can be deemed secret, so the embedded FSB officers start telling you that you have sensitive information. What is it? Why is it secret and who decides that? Nobody knows,”
Not quite the same thing.
It is highly likely that Ukraine have lost hundreds of thousands of troops.
Former Pentagon adviser Colonel Douglas McGregor shared secret data on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“When Zaluzhny was in the US, he met with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Milley. He secretly told them that Ukraine had lost 257,000 people since the beginning of the conflict,” the retired officer shared.
A Turkish publication, citing Israeli intelligence agency MOSSAD, claims to show the real number of casualties for both parties in the conflict as Ukrainians killed in action reaches staggering 157,000 with 2,458 NATO soldiers dead and 234,000 injured.
Russia 18,480 dead with 44,500 injured.
US Military analyst William Schryner wrote in January 2023 that “Ukraine has now suffered approximately 500,000 irretrievable (military) casualties and virtually the entirety of their original inventories of military hardware – the equivalent of ALL the personnel and equipment (both active and reserves) with which they commenced this conflict.”
Telegram channels from the frontline show Nato heavy weapons being destroyed on a regular basis and Ukrainian troops and Nato country mercenaries being destroyed by the hundreds every day which confirm the above figures may be accurate with very little Russian losses.
In February 2022 Ukraine passed a law where they would compensate the families of servicemen killed in action.
Ukraine are so corrupt that they would rather designate those killed as “missing” instead so they don’t have to pay out the compensation.
https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/ok-doomer?publication_id=1085164&post_id=95312586&isFreemail=true
This was posted by geo-political analyst Pepe Escobar.
Ukraine have lost 387,000 conscripted soldiers killed in action.
Plus 31,240 mercenaries have been killed.
Ukrainian Telegram channel “Observer”: Open Source INTelligence (Intelligence from open sources), based on reports from funeral agencies, extracts from morgues, as well as the results of an analysis of radio, cellular and satellite exchange of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reports that as of October 20, irretrievable losses of The Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 402,000 people, of which 387,000 were killed. At the same time, to date, the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Ukraine has allegedly prepared more than 320,000 appeals “about the fate of the missing soldiers,” but the SBU has forbidden filing applications with the prosecutor’s office for national security purposes.
https://vk.com/wall578617852_26297
Even the pro-Nato propaganda merchants the BBC stated that only 16,071 named Russian troops had died in total up to March 2023.
They daren’t tell the world the Ukrainian losses which are in the hundreds of thousands.
https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-64840229?ocid=wsrussian.social.in-app-messaging.telegram..russiantelegram_.edit
The BBC have revised this figure to just 17,375 named Russian troops.
https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-64984414
..a whole generation of young men…a whole generation who won’t be father’s…it’s a fuc***g tragedy……
Peace talks NOW….….
but no the USA has just authorised (yesterday) a new $2.6 billion package of U.S. military aid to Ukraine which includes $500 million for immediate supplies…
They weren’t kidding when they said…’to the last Ukrainian’…..that’s what literally will be left……
It is a sad situation. I speak to Ukranians and Russians frequently and they seem remarkably bright and many of them have a wonderful facility for language and really enjoy learning more about English. I think people’s names sound much more beautiful in Russian and they have the patronymic and the diminutive which we seem to have lost so long ago that nobody could possibly notice anymore.
You should always be mindful of the western neurotic fear of death. Terrorist organisations and intelligence agencies all over the world know and have perceived this reality. If you are in that state, the state they want you to be in, then you have to grasp it and snap out of it. Because very shortly there aren’t going to be any comfortable options. You either apply yourself to working with others in order to survive or you don’t.
None of us really appreciate how much we need the next man, whether its taking out bins or whatever, We need to be mindful of just how fragile life is for most of the people in this country, who live in cities. We are moving into a different phase now. I don’t care what happens I know where my loyalty lies. At least in the horror to come we will find out about true character.
There is an assumption that it being encouraged here – that if you knew the reality you could control it. Believe me by the end of this year you are going to see governments showing their people some rather unpleasant tactics. Of course in the volatile times we live in, I would say that the average life expectancy of any government is about two weeks.
Look at the current trajectory in terms of econmics. The dollar based system has a couple of weeks left and the pound is totally subservient. This is a major disruption but people pretend it isn’t going to happen. I can tell you that it is going to happen very soon.
I know how hysterical people are at the moment and really worried and looking for guidance, When this situation g ets seriois you are going to have millions of people who haven’t got the faintest idea about it. A lot of people are simply going to crack up. You have to accept this reality.
It isn;t easy trying to make people understand about the reality to come. We can obviate that if we comne together. If I have one desire it is to keep our people together.