- “Farage is telling uncomfortable truths on Ukraine” – Vladimir Putin is obviously responsible for the war. That doesn’t mean we can’t debate what happens next, says Tony Brenton in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage is a Putin appeaser, says Sunak” – In an interview with the Telegraph, Rishi Sunak tells voters only the Tories can prevent potentially “decades” of Labour rule.
- “The plain-speaking appeal of Nigel Farage” – Voters are turning to the Reform leader because he tells a story that chimes with their lives, says John Gray in the New Statesman in a piece about why populist parties are thriving across the Western world and technocratic elites are floundering.
- “How Nigel Farage became the Left’s greatest weapon” – Nigel Farage is about to turn British politics upside-down for a third time, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “Let’s be clear where blame for this Tory disaster really lies” – In the Telegraph, David Frost says the real reason for the Tories’ impending defeat is their failure to pursue genuinely conservative policies.
- “Donor who gave Tories £500,000 tells them to ‘get stuffed’ and backs Farage” – Sir John Hall, a former Newcastle United owner, says he is voting Reform because he fears English culture is being “destroyed”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour to shut loophole in VAT raid on private school fees” – Labour will prevent parents paying private school fees in advance to avoid VAT, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalise Barclays and JP Morgan buildings” – The Leeds offices of JP Morgan and a branch of Barclays in the city have been vandalised by pro-Palestinian activists, reports the Telegraph.
- “Plumbing company vets customers and won’t serve Zionists” – A London plumbing company has refused to provide its services to anyone supporting Israel and has a policy of blackballing customers if they sympathise with Israel, according to UKLFI.
- “1/200 chance of death in context of new bird flu injection – five times higher than placebo according to clinical trial” – The new H5N1 bird flu vaccine Audenz poses serious risks, warns Jessica Rose on her Substack.
- “First death linked to E.coli outbreak” – A patient in England has died in a case linked to the ongoing E.coli outbreak, the U.K. Health Security Agency has said, reports the Telegraph.
- “During the Covid pandemic, the BMJ massively published Zero Covid zealot views and seldom the other side” – The BMJ failed to live up to the role of a scientific journal during the Covid pandemic and revealed the bias of its editor, says Prof. Vinay Prasad.
- “‘USA Today published our op-ed calling for the questioning of Trump/Biden Covid policies in debate’” – Disastrous pandemic policies straddled two presidencies and left a legacy of unnecessary death, disability and poverty. The candidates need to answer for their actions, says Dr. Pierre Kory on his Substack.
- “The youth vote is turning Right” – Across the Western world, young voters are turning conservative, writes Yascha Mounk in the Spectator.
- “The Muslim Vote campaign is poisoning democracy” – The cranks and conspiracy theorists that The Muslim Vote has endorsed do not speak for British Muslims, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “How the German Foreign Office collaborated with asylum NGOs and pressured foreign embassy officials to grant entry visas to thousands of fake refugees with forged passports” – Germany’s borders aren’t just open by accident, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Le Pen threatens Britain’s economy, Bank of England warns” – The Bank of England has warned that the French election poses a threat to Britain’s financial stability if Macron loses to Le Pen, reports the Mail.
- “France’s ‘Somewheres’ want revenge” – The French ‘Somewheres’ have suffered this century, but on Sunday they hope to take their revenge, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Labour considers ‘Office for Net Zero’” – Labour is planning to create a new office for Net Zero to push through the green transition, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT? Never has a proposed Whitehall taskforce been so aptly named.
- “The true cost of Labour’s Net Zero plans is slowly being revealed – and the sums are staggering” – Electricity bills would have to double by 2030 to achieve Labour’s goal of decarbonising our grid, says Gordon Hughes in the Telegraph.
- “The problem with Reform’s plan to scrap Net Zero money” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark has spotted flaws in Reform’s energy proposals.
- “Europe’s largest renewable producer scales back plans for wind and solar plants” – Statkraft has cut its wind, solar and battery storage targets as part of a strategy update under its new CEO, reports Forbes.
- “Denmark imposes world’s first carbon tax on flatulent farm animals” – Denmark is to start taxing livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs, according to Fox News.
- “David Tennant’s pride and prejudice” – Pride has gone far too far, and most of us are thoroughly bored of it, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Why won’t Dawn Butler show solidarity with Kemi Badenoch?” – Labour MP Dawn Butler has weighed in with her usual tact to the Tennant-Badenoch showdown, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Gender-critical social media accounts on X are temporarily suspended” – Hundreds of accounts on social media giant X have been temporarily suspended in a new twist to the trans debate, reports the Mail, although some of them have now been restored.
- “‘A transwoman with a penis would use which lavatory?…’” – On LBC, the Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson can’t tell Nick Ferrari which toilet a transwoman with a penis should use, the Ladies or the Gents.
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Satisfying to see some of these eco-nutters being arrested, although they don’t look remotely bothered and I’m sure will be out the same day and treat it like a badge of honour. Now, people like Tommy Robinson, on the other hand….
But what do you notice here? Well, not all of them are conveniently ”white middle-class women”, which does kind of throw a spanner in the works of the misogynists’ working theory on here doesn’t it? When actual evidence effortlessly demonstrates certain people are full of shit…LOL!
Now then, Misogynist Society&Co, ( I know how much you rely on the Shadow-Lurkers for support ) how much do you hate me for debunking your theory, contradicting your delusion and shining a light on how exceedingly foolish you look? Show us all how much you enjoy being owned.
3,2,1 GO!!
”Police arrest Just Stop Oil protest organizers as they eat soup.
6 people were arrested in London over the activists groups plans to protest at airports over the summer.
The arrests come over a week after the group threw orange paint over prehistoric monument Stonehenge.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1806473171408736713
Just to ram the point I’m making home, we could consider the fact ( I know, I know. Facts are inconvenient buggers, aren’t they? ) that the co-founder of JSO and XR is Roger Hallam. Maybe I’ll get some ‘bonus points’ for pointing this out, let’s see. We know how much they enjoy being challenged on here..
Don’t take yourselves so seriously, chaps.
”Hallam, from Walworth, is accused of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance and was due to appear at Westminster magistrates court later on Tuesday.
He is a co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion movement and is involved in protest groups including Animal Rebellion, Insulate Britain, and Just Stop Oil.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/roger-hallam-charged-just-stop-oil-m25-disruption-extinction-rebellion-insulate-britain-b1038324.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12644701/met-police-arrest-just-stop-oil-founders-dawn-raid.html
Ooh look. A lady too. Anyone would think these woketards came in both genders, eh?
Nag, Nag, Nag. The Neverending Story.
Farage is telling uncomfortable truths on Ukraine
What’s really going?
No-one has a clue what caused Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, least of all the Foreign Office, Sir Tony Brenton and Mr Farage.
But Mr Sergey Radchenko does, because he was in Moscow at the time of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFIFSSZkG1A
No-one in Moscow thought the invasion was going to happen. No-one ‘admired’ the ‘special military operation’ or its operator. The reaction from those in government in Moscow, including Putin’s Foreign Minister, was that it was an extremely bad idea.
So there we have it, a stupid idea in a long line of stupid ideas formulated by totalitarian dictators, completely isolated from their staff and, indeed, reality. All a bit ‘Crab Key’, in fact. No sense of ‘encirclement’, ‘encroachment’, ‘proximation of missile batteries’ by countries all incapable of putting even one armoured division in the field……..only one man’s delusions of imperial grandeur.
‘Putin’s Ukraine invasion was inspired by the subjects of one of his books that documents Russia’s longest-reigning empress Catherine the Great’
‘Montefiore says that it’s his only work that he knows Putin has read because he discussed it with George W. Bush when the US president visited St Petersburg. It charts Potemkin’s annexation of Crimea and conquering of some of southern Ukraine, creating the cities of Kherson, Mikolaev and Odesa – territory they called “New Russia” and which Putin wanted back.’
Latika Bourke 20 March 2022
Putin read a book one day and decided that he wished to emulate the heroine; very ‘Dr Julius No’.
The real cause of the invasion of Ukraine was Putin himself; paranoid, capricious, vainglorious as all totalitarian dictators come to be. Perhaps he woke up a bit early, for whatever reason, and ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’.
Let us recall that Russia currently occupies less of Ukraine today than it did immediately after the initial invasion while energy rich America and China (buying Russian oil cheap) are laughing all the way to the Bank.
No-one knew, no-one could have known, predicted, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
So well done, Mr Farage for predicting something in 2014 that Putin himself (or anyone else in Moscow) didn’t even know he was going to do until…..oh……let me see….about 0430hrs on 24 February 2022……..
Even a stopped clock………
In this clip Tucker Carlson talks about the role of Boris Johnson in causing Ukraine to pull out of a potential peace deal with Russia, is he correct in his statement?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Q3WToAvRk
There are serious doubts as to whether, particularly, the Ukrainian delegation had much authorisation to negotiate anything.
The draft of the Russian-Ukrainian agreement which was discussed in spring 2022 has never been revealed.
Contrary to Putin’s statements, the parties never agreed on its wording.
Unofficial reports suggest that Russia demanded that Ukraine should assume the status of a neutral state and should be banned from joining military alliances, hosting foreign military bases on its territory and organising drills with the participation of other states, and that it should be demilitarised (which would involve a radical reduction in its armed forces, the introduction of limits on its weapons and military equipment, and a ban on deploying rocket systems and weapons of mass destruction on its territory).
Furthermore, Russia demanded that the Russian language should be given equal status with the Ukrainian language, as well as the process of so-called ‘de-Nazification’ (meaning the adoption of legislative solutions to ban the activity of individuals and organisations which Russia views as hostile towards it).
When presenting their demands, the Russians expressed a reservation that should Ukraine obtain security guarantees, these would not apply to Crimea and the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (within the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts), and that Kyiv would be required to formally accept these regions’ annexation by Russia (Crimea) or their nominal independence (Donetsk and Luhansk).
The document also envisaged that a ceasefire would be followed by a gradual withdrawal of Russian troops from the territories which they have occupied since 24 February 2022 (with the exception of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts).
If Ukraine yielded to these demands, that would effectively equate to it losing its sovereignty, the right to pursue its independent foreign and security policy (as well as its domestic policy), and its ability to successfully defend itself.
The idea that Mr Johnson, without even a single armoured division at his disposal, could single handedly veto, or even needed to veto, a staggeringly unattractive even whimsical draft agreement, at a time when Russian forces were being given a good stuffing, is not worth either your time or mine.
My question was whether or not Tucker Carlson was correct in saying Boris Johnson played a role in whatever negotiations were taking place at that time?
My reason for this question is that in recent times various people in the Western World have made the comment that it is not for the West to tell Ukraine what it should do, they must decide for themselves. And yet if Tucker Carlson is correct then a prominent western politician did, on behalf of the western powers, play a significant role in discussions between Ukraine and Russia.
Mr Carlson is incorrect, as I explain above.
‘The Russians had been defeated. Zelensky understood that he could perhaps get better, more advantageous into this war by fighting on the battlefield.
People say it was Boris Johnson who came there and stopped the Ukrainians from doing a deal with Putin. That is just naive, right? This is just too simplistic. Zelenskyy was in charge. He had options that he was looking at……..The fact that now Kyiv was not taken, and he could be receiving military support from the West was another important issue. The outrage following the discovery of the atrocities the Russians committed at Bucha helped Zelenskyy rally public support for the continuation of war. And it was a pretty, I would say the deal that the Russians were trying to arrive at certainly was not a very pretty deal for Ukraine’
Do you really think Russia seriously intended to take Kiev militarily with just 40,000 troops and no artillery preparation? That is just naive, right.
The USA would have to graft to defeat Russia so how could an ex game show host plant with a massive Villa in Florida manage it ?
‘With upwards of 175,000 troops deployed in regions along the Ukrainian border, and naval dominance in the Black Sea, Russia’s forces were expected to steamroll into Ukraine, taking Kyiv in a few days and toppling President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government.
Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008 was lightning fast — almost all fighting ended after five days — but the conflict highlighted glaring problems with Russia’s armed forces, spurring a sweeping effort to modernize and move away from Soviet legacy equipment and practices.
After smaller-scale successes in Ukraine in 2014 and then later in Syria, Western observers concluded that the reforms had improved Russia’s ability to move quickly, to coordinate movement across disparate units, to communicate better, and to use better, “smart” technology.
In 2020, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declared that as much as 70 percent of the armed forces vehicles, weaponry, and equipment has been modernized.’
‘I see by the quality of the analytics that is available in Russia today, by the way it assesses its place in the world, how it assesses its relations with neighbors, how it assesses the ongoing processes– it’s all very far from reality’
‘In principle, they do not have a real picture of what is happening in the world, including in Ukraine’
I did think of countering the rubbish you cut and paste but since you are too much of a wimp to address my comments directly all you deserve is an anonymous down vote..
The only way that the Conservative party can recover after the election is if they purge the non-conservatives in their ranks. It has to get worse before it gets better does not just apply to our country’s economy, wellbeing or culture but to the people who led us here.
Why doesn’t he just join Reform? What’s wrong with Reform? Why are all actual conservative Conservatives not just deserting the Tories now? Is the Tory party in the wider world full of closet lefties? Or are they still in denial? Or a bunch of snobs for whom Farage is a bit too nouveau riche?
It reminds me of when a music group splits – who gets to keep the cool name that they’re known by?
They should beware they’re not hankering after a toxic name.
H/T soundofreason
To try to renew the Conservative Party is like trying to make the Post Office a leading financial services brannd or to re-launch Ratners as a luxury jewellery brand. It is beyong tainted. It is not just the lies for 20 years, the rank incompetence these past 14 years, the sleaze that keeps coming to the surface, the hurray henrys parachuted into constituencies, high taxes, etc; it is not any one of these or even the totallity of them. The Conservative Party has been completely disfunctional, split and with no apparent purpose other than to ensure social democrats get office which they wouldn’t if they joined (stayed in) the LibDems.
It is over!
Reform must be very careful who it lets in after the election. We saw it in the UKIP days when the bigger problem of infiltration was from the Tories. While the BNP were a known risk there were inumerable Tories who joined in the hope of resurrecting their non-existent political career. They over estimated their ability, they were demanding and entitled and they did not deliver.
The UK Health and Security Agency, a title that should send shivers down your spine.
No, no! It’s catching bird ‘flu that sends shivers down your spine.
Its title is the UK Health Security Agency. It used to be Public Health England but its remit was expanded to the whole of the UK because it was doing such a wonderful job. Er…
In “France’s ‘Somewheres’ want revenge” in the Speccie a fantastic line from someone you might expect to be a leftie luvvie:
A too rare moment of enlightenment.
Presumably this compilation of news was completed before Biden’s car crash of a debate against Trump.
U.K. Employers Supporting Division and Intolerance says C.J.Strachan
“David Tennant’s pride and prejudice” says Douglas Murray
“Why won’t Dawn Butler show solidarity with Kemi Badenoch?” says Brendan O’Neill
So the tally so far today is three more articles to keep the Globalist Manchurian Candidate for UK Prime Minister in the news, milking it for all it’s worth, and no longer mentioning the Nigerian woman’s Racist Anti-White Male comments.
Yawn.