- “Who won tonight’s debate?” – Both leaders survived the latest election debate – but searching questions were put to both by the Sun’s Harry Cole, especially the Labour leader about his credibility, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Tories beg for more money as ‘union barons and champagne socialists’ boost Labour coffers” – Tory activists have been asked to “close the gap” in campaign funding as Keir Starmer’s party secures major donations, reports the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer to appoint dozens of peers within weeks of taking office” – Keir Starmer will appoint dozens of new peers in an attempt to push through his policies, says the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer is about to suck the last remaining joy out Britain” – Britain will soon become a paternalist’s paradise, where egalitarianism and bureaucracy reign supreme, warns Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “The ‘conspiracy of silence’ behind Labour’s secret plan for a wealth tax raid” – Perhaps the most notable part of the Labour manifesto was what it did not say, writes Melissa Lawford in the Telegraph.
- “Farage goes on the attack after Ukraine criticism” – Following Boris Johnson’s condemnation of Farage’s Russia remarks, the Reform leader’s tone has changed, writes James Heale in the Spectator.
- “Nigel Farage’s Ukraine comments aren’t ‘disgraceful’” – Farage’s critics’ fulminations over his latest comments only reinforce the impression of a condescending political class that brooks no dissent, says Noah Carl in UnHerd.
- “Farage’s views on Putin aren’t just wrong, they’re weird” – The Reform leader has urged us not to “poke the Russian bear with a stick”, but what is one supposed to do when the bear advances unpoked? asks Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “People who vote Reform will get the opposite of what they want” – Labour will hike taxes, open our borders and undermine our sovereignty. We must not let them ruin Britain, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Election Selection: II” – On Substack, Jack Watson provides a brief summary of the Conservatives’ manifesto.
- “How tactical voting will influence the election” – Several websites appear to be encouraging people to vote across party lines in key constituencies to “stop the Tories”. So, are the Conservatives heading for a 1997 moment? asks Tom Calver in the Times.
- “Netanyahu says war in Gaza is winding down but warns of conflict with Hezbollah” – In a rare TV interview, Benjamin Netanyahu says that the IDF will soon be able to redeploy troops to the northern border with Lebanon, according to the NY Times.
- “Doctors union ‘a vehicle for antisemitism’ warn religious leaders” – At the British Medical Association’s annual meeting, members shouted “shame” as a female medic told delegates she was a “practicing Jew”, reports the Mail.
- “Deadly quiet” – On Substack, Justin Smith discusses the wall of silence surrounding excess deaths.
- “Human rights were violated during Covid” – Many Australians got vaccinated to avoid losing their jobs or being separated from loved ones. Those who refused lost everything but their integrity, writes Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “The great lockdown swindle” – A credible case could be made to say that some vested interest groups wanted to see a terrible overreaction to Covid, provided it was accompanied by enough money printing, says Alex Kriel on Substack.
- “The Pfizer/White House files” – On X, Alex Berenson discusses the fallout from leaked documents exposing Pfizer and Biden administration officials colluding with Twitter to silence Covid vaccine critics.
- “Standing on the corner” – The FDA seemingly allowed activists, Big Pharma and the Government to expose healthy individuals to an untested vaccine, say Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on Substack.
- “Elderly patient forced to urinate in the corridor in NHS care crisis” – The Mail documents the moment an undercover reporter was moved to tears inside an A&E unit after an elderly man was forced to urinate in a bottle in full view of staff and other patients.
- “Met Police ‘leaked names of betting-scandal Tories’” – Scotland Yard has been accused of leaking the identities of the Tories implicated in the General Election betting scandal, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer attended private school on Saturdays” – Starmer, who has repeatedly claimed his background was “working class”, actually attended a private music school on Saturdays, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Migrants in France ‘waiting for Labour Government’” – Migrants in northern France say they are waiting for a Labour Government before crossing the Channel after Keir Starmer pledged to scrap the Rwanda scheme, reports the Telegraph.
- “Record number of migrants cross Channel in first six months of year” – The number of migrants arriving in the U.K. after crossing the Channel has hit a new record for the first six months of a calendar year, says the Standard.
- “U.K. technocrats sharpen the knives of manipulation” – In every sphere of daily life, our thoughts and actions are being manipulated by state technocrats for our supposed benefit, writes Gary Sidley for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Toby Young on Speak Free with Simon O’Connor” – On Reality Check Radio, Toby Young joins Simon O’Connor for a discussion on free speech in the U.K. and New Zealand and the challenges we’re facing.
- “The pervasive belief in the eternal progress of mankind has been a crucial, driving element of Western liberalism for generations. It is starting to break down” – Millions of people support policies that make their lives objectively worse, while parties responsible for these policies appear utterly immune to their own failures, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Le Pen’s party promises to ban mobiles in schools and end inheritance tax for middle classes” – Jordan Bardella pledged to ban phones in all French schools and drop inheritance tax on the lower-middle classes in the manifesto launch of his National Rally party, reports the Telegraph.
- “The UN: We must all work to eradicate (hate speech) completely” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone takes aim at the UN’s global plan to eradicate free speech.
- “Why can’t Carla Denyer practise what she preaches?” – Not even the co-leader of the Green Party is prepared to sacrifice her living standards to reduce emissions, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Judicial activism will not solve climate change” – A landmark Supreme Court ruling has empowered misguided eco-zealots, writes Andy Mayer in CapX.
- “Labour will ban conversion therapy despite ‘test case’ fears” – Labour will ban conversion therapy if it wins the election, despite warnings from Hilary Cass and others that it may stop parents and therapists talking to children about gender identity issues, reports the Times.
- “Keir Starmer will not allow ‘gender ideology’ to be taught in schools” – Keir Starmer has over-ruled the Shadow Education Secretary and promised Labour will not allow gender ideology to be taught in schools, according to the National.
- “Labour offers to meet J.K. Rowling amid transgender row” – Labour will meet with J.K. Rowling in a bid to offer her “assurances” over the protection of women-only spaces, reports the Herald.
- “Labour has chosen trans extremists over J.K. Rowling” – It is foolish for Starmer to believe trans activists can ever be satisfied. We should prepare for his Government to be railroaded by fanatics, warns Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “What does Labour really think about gender issues?” – In the Times, Max Kendix gives a brief history of Labour’s views on women and trans rights – and how they have evolved.
- “Sue Barker: trans women should not compete against biological females” – Wimbledon and BBC legend Sue Barker has backed calls for a ban on males identifying as women competing against females in sport, reports the Mail.
- “Labour’s dreadful gender recognition reforms” – If Labour gets its way, someone will be able to change their legal sex without making any changes whatsoever to the way they live their lives, warns Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Meet Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s anti-Trudeau” – Pierre Poilievre’s insular communications strategy is a necessary defense against Canada’s anti-American psychosis, says Sam Forster in the Spectator.
- “‘Guys, I might still be Prime Minister this summer’” – Rishi Sunak is added to the ‘Ex Prime Minister’s’ WhatsApp group chat. Worth watching to the end.
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Missed it by “that much”! (The big story of the day/week/month…)
‘unpoked?’. Oh, do f*ck off Moore. I assume you didn’t get the memo? Most of us can see through all the MSM BS propaganda. You might still be able to squeeze some life out of the climate though, try that.
It might help if Charles had read Farages comments. How on earth could he draw those conclusions if he had…
What do we make of Charles Moore? He is clearly highly influential amongst traditional conservative voters as well as being intelligent and well-read.
I don’t think he sincerely believes what he saying (that Russia’s invasion in 2022 was unprovoked), which suggests that either he or the Telegraph or both are being incentivised to push this narrative.
“incentivised to push this narrative.”
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which suggests that either he or the Telegraph or both are being bribed.
Thanks, HP. I think I also had in mind other means of encouragement that might be used to obtain cooperation or obedience from people in positions of power or influence, such as threats. But maybe that applies more in the USA than here. Who knows?
‘I said I disliked him as a person, but admired him as a political operator’
Farage 21 June 2024
‘Asked which current world leader he most admired, Farage replied: “As an operator, but not as a human being, I would say Putin.’
Farage 31 March 2014
Farage is entitled to his view.
But 80% of his fellow countrymen think Putin is the worst world leader.
‘February 27, 2015: The reformist former regional governor and deputy prime minister who was a rising political star in the 1990s but became one of Putin’s most vocal opponents is shot dead in a gangland-style killing on a bridge near the Kremlin, at age 55.
A liberal lawmaker early in Putin’s presidency, Nemtsov helped lead protests against stacked parliamentary elections and Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012. He staunchly opposed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in 2014, calling it “despicable,” “impudent,” and “harmful for Russia.”
At the time of his killing, he and associates had been working on a report detailing evidence of the extent of Moscow’s interference in the neighboring country.’
Not really surprising…..
Do you have any evidence of the 80% figure?
In the absence of a response I guess you will still not engage in dialogue.
It is quite clear that Farage has no clue regarding this matter.
‘The Helsinki Conference (1 August 1975) established the respect of borders in Europe and gave birth to the OSCE, of which Russia is a member. Its Charter confirms the above-mentioned principles.’
‘They (states) also have the right to belong or not to belong to international organizations, to be party or not to bilateral or multilateral treaties, including the right to be party or not to treaties of alliance’
‘At the time of the illegal annexation of Crimea the Assembly reiterated that this act constituted a serious violation of international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, the Helsinki Final Act of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as the Statute of the Council of Europe and the commitments undertaken by Russia upon accession to this Organization.’
‘Justifying the military gathering at the Ukrainian border by claiming a feeling of insecurity, is an attempt to dissimulate a conscious and complete violation since 2014 of all the provisions of this text…’
https://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/european-issues/0623-russia-ukraine-and-international-law
Farage is talking nonsense….weird nonsense.
https://ctgroup.com/uk-perceptions-of-war-in-ukraine/
In Israel, “today’s delusions are tomorrow’s policy and the next day its reality”
On the subject of Lebanon and the messianists desire to occupy it.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-06-18/ty-article/.premium/lebanon-part-of-the-promised-land-israels-messianic-right-wing-targets-new-territory/00000190-2b9d-d340-a1f8-2b9d18220000
Lebanon used to be a Christian country, then they took in many Muslim refugees …
Julian Assange is free.
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1805390138945528183
That is great news.
I have long come to the conclusion that the persecution of Assange is a major reason why the press voluntarily turned themselves into the mouthpiece of state power and authority and abandoned all meaningful criticism.
One only wonders why it took Rishi Sunak so long to approve his release. If he had only done it immediately on becoming PM, his ratings today would be quite different.
He could hardly have left it much later.
But was it part of Biden’s deal with Sunak that if Sunak released Assange to the US authorities in that tiny Pacific island, Biden would persuade Trudeau to arrest Tommy Robinson the very next day in Canada?
Was it a kind of swap, to keep Tommy out of the way before the UK election?
Apparently the Australian government’s pressure, which in turn was under pressure from the public thanks to his wife’s relentless campaigning, is what might have done it.
But at this point the message was out and clear and the press was put on notice. Reveal our secrets and we will come for you with such viciousness you will wish you were never born.
I do hope this is true.
Monday morning London Road & Oak Avenue Wokingham
“Labour will ban conversion therapy if it wins the election”
Can we please stop using the phrase “conversion therapy” – it refers to something (assuring someone that the person they are is the person they are, as it were, including their sex) that is the exact opposite of “conversion”. The real “conversion therapy” is the evil lie that you can change your sex, or that there is a meaningful thing called “gender” outside the world of grammar.
Farage’s views on Putin aren’t just wrong, they’re weird
What’s really going on?
‘There is little sign that waving the white flag to tyrants is popular with British voters.
Polling by Crosby Textor, conducted shortly before the general election was called, shows consistently high British support for Ukraine in the war, with 80 per cent rating Putin least favourably of all world leaders’
Support for Putin is weird. It’s official.
Farage doesn’t support Putin. He gave some analysis, 10 years ago, of what he thought would happen if the EU and NATO continued to move eastwards, and as if by magic, he was right.
Semantics
‘I said I disliked him as a person, but I admired him as a political operator’
Farage 22 June 2024
Weird.
‘July 16, 2009: The body of the renowned human rights activist, with bullet wounds to her head and chest, is found in Ingushetia, hours after her abduction near her home in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny.
Natalya Estemirova had been investigating hundreds of suspected rights abuses in Chechnya, including kidnapping and murder. The rights group she worked for, Memorial, said initial investigation pointed to the possible involvement of local law enforcement officers.
Memorial’s chief, Oleg Orlov, was later sued for defamation after accusing Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov of orchestrating Estemirova’s killing, but he was eventually acquitted.’
The list is a long one.
Putin has been President of Russia for 25 years now. The murders you quote, are just a fact of life in many countries. Was Putin involved, wasn’t he.? Well thats conjecture, but being the head man of a state like Russia, and still widely supported is the achievement of a very shrewd and powerful political player. It only becomes weird to think of it in those terms when you compare it to what you think of him. There is no ‘moral view’ on Putin. He is where he is because from time to time, threats to his position miss their step by the window, or accidentally shoot themselves in the back of the head. In those terms he does what any politician does, get elected and stay elected…
President of Russia in contravention of the two term limit of the Russian Constitution.
Russia has broken its commitments to the principles of the OSCE of which it is a member and broken the security assurances that it gave to Ukraine in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
You and Mr Farage are, of course, entitled to admire that and other ‘facts of life’ like murdering people at home and abroad.
I do not admire that and neither do 80% of the people in this country.
That makes your admiration weird in the eyes of about fifty six million people.
It has also restricted Reform now to somewhere close to its core vote.
Why is it weird?
Two examples:
1.’Ukraine recorded 715 cases of Russian chemical weapons use on the battlefield in May, 271 more than in the previous month, the Ukrainian military’s Support Forces said on June 24.
The Support Forces said that, from Feb. 15, 2023 to May 24, 2024, a total of 2,698 cases had been recorded which had led to 1,385 incidents of Ukrainian soldiers needing medical attention.’
2.’October 7, 2006: One of Russia’s most prominent journalists and a persistent chronicler of rights abuses in Chechnya, Politkovskaya is shot dead in her apartment building, in an execution-style killing.
Two men were sentenced to life in prison and three others to long prison terms in 2014 for their involvement, but relatives, colleagues, and Western governments suspect that Russian authorities will never pinpoint or punish the masterminds of her killing because a thorough investigation would lead too close to Putin’s government or the Kremlin-backed leadership in Chechnya.’
The list is a long one.
Weird….sick, actually……..
Your faith in what you choose to read is quite touching, as is the arbitrary way you interpret the word evidence.
My ‘Reform’ boards are going up today.
Lots of scaremongering from both sides of the Unaparty, all the usual MSM cheerleaders whining.
Time for change, methinks.
Betting scandal:
“If it emerges that police had leaked names of suspects, the implications could be disastrous. The force may be accused of interfering with the outcome of the election itself.”
Let’s be clear, the Met along with the rest of the tax payer funded secor are all keen on a Labour victory. They see direct financial benefits from excess pay rises and increased staff with comensurate increased status. They are inherently pro big spending and government control because the leaders come from Universities which taught them that and their associations have been riddled with leftery for years (all financed by tax payers).
The implications will not be disastrous because Starmer will express his appreciation the usual way – bigger salaries, more gongs and all past errors wiped away by an enquiry.
This item https://www.gbnews.com/news/julian-assange-plea-deal-no-extradition-us was actually reported n the Beeb propaganda channel early this morning; it sounded like good news to me. A few clips of the departure flight under this link to GBN,
The Tories are appealing for money. Have you noticed their MPs never seem to contribute to party funds.
£10,000 from each outgoing MP and triple from each outgoing Cabinet Minister would surely fill a large hole.
You know, that is a really good point!
“Meet Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s anti-Trudeau”
Wonder what he thinks of Tommy Robinson’s arrest on “immigration charges” in Canada only a day after Julian Assange was released by the UK?
Strange coincidence. Biden persuades Sunak to release Assange, after Biden promised to get Trudeau to arrest Tommy in Canada?
Was it a kind of swap to keep Tommy out of the way until after the UK election?
Tommy had already been in Canada for a week, after a gruelling three-hour immigration interview when he first arrived, and was then cleared for his journalism visit within Canada, sponsored by Canadian Rebel News. Then the very day after Assange was released, Tommy was suddenly arrested, then released, but his passport is being withheld “indefinitely” so that he cannot return to Britain.
Meanwhile illegals hostile to Canada are swarming into Canada on the nod every day…