- “Far Right National Rally win first round of elections in France with leader Marine Le Pen declaring President Macron’s alliance was ‘almost wiped out’ as it is forced into third” – Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won the first round of legislative elections in France yesterday, leaving incumbent president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in third place, reports the Mail.
- “Marine Le Pen’s hard-right party humiliates Macron in French polls” – The National Rally is on course to take 33% of votes in first round of France’s parliamentary election, according to the Times.
- “French elections: far right on course for first round victory. What happens now?” – The Guardian explains what happens in round two of the French parliamentary election – in essence, if no candidate in a constituency polled more than 50% of the votes cast, any candidate who received less than 12.5% is eliminated and a second ballot is held on July 7th.
- “Boris Johnson urged to hit campaign trail in Clacton to help beat Nigel Farage” – Boris Johnson has been urged to hit the campaign trail in Clacton ahead of the General Election to help beat Nigel Farage and clear the way for a political comeback, reports the Express.
- “Starmer hopes July will be wet to reduce number of Channel crossings” – Keir Starmer will be hoping that the start of next month is unseasonably wet – to reduce the chance of his likely premiership being torpedoed by rows over his migrant policy, write Dan Hodges and Glen Owen in the Mail.
- “‘Nigel Farage is today’s Julius Caesar’” – Classical historian Mary Beard says that populism has always been fuelled by “dissatisfaction and discontent”, according to the Telegraph. Comparing Farage to Julius Caesar is meant to be a smear, but it’s not a very well-chosen one.
- “Tory Remainers are the authors of their party’s defeat” – Just as Europe recognises the costs of the EU, we’re about to make a terrible mistake, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Italian study showing a reduction in life expectancy with increased Covid vaccination has been published” – A recent Italian study shows that, when health and age confounders are accounted for, the single and double doses of the vaccine have a detectable and negative effect on all cause mortality, write Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil on their Substack.
- “Summer Covid wave ‘building’ after rise in hospital admissions” – Scientists say that a summer Covid wave is “building” following a rise in hospital admissions amid the emergence of the new ‘FLiRT’ variants, reports the Telegraph.
- “Thousands of heart patients are dying due to waiting for specialists” – A new study shows most patients who see their GP with heart failure symptoms, such as breathlessness, extreme fatigue and swollen ankles, wait at least a year to get a diagnosis, says the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer’s Gaza’s stance could cost party in the General Election” – A Muslim backlash against Keir Starmer’s stance on Gaza could cost the party key seats this week, according to the Mail.
- “No, Israel is not starving the people of Gaza” – There’s more food in Gaza now than when Hamas was in charge, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “‘The keffiyeh isn’t a fashion statement. To me, it’s a symbol of hatred’” – The Telegraph’s Zoe Strimpel explains why she has no time for the keffiyeh.
- “Enfranchising 16 year-olds is vote rigging” – Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner can wax lyrical all they like about the virtues of giving children the right to vote, but we all know the game they’re playing, says Esther McVey in the Mail.
- “The Netherlands stung savers with 100% tax rates – and now owes them billions” – A Dutch Supreme Court decision serves as a warning for other countries seeking to raise revenue from taxes on savings and investments, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bin Laden aide says he wants to mentor British Muslim children” – A former aide to Osama Bin Laden says he is keen to mentor British Muslim children after spending 20 years in jail for his involvement in terror attacks, according to the Mail.
- “Biden ‘will discuss major decision with family’ after debate disaster” – Joe Biden is set to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with his family at Camp David, says the Mail.
- “White House photographer says aides knew for months Biden wasn’t fit for office” – After Joe Biden’s horrendous debate performance, current and former aides are saying the quiet part out loud and revealing what the President is like behind the scenes, writes Katelyn Caralle in the Mail.
- “Democrat insiders reveal Joe Biden was set up to fail in a ‘soft coup’” – Sources tell the Mail on Sunday that Biden was deliberately set up to fail in his recent debate with Donald Trump. Is it all part of a plan to replace him with Michelle Obama?
- “Cock-up or conspiracy? Thoughts on Joe Biden’s spectacular debate failure and whether it reflects a deliberate takedown by rivals in his own party” – On Substack, Eugyppius considers the theory that we’re witnessing the deliberate destruction of Biden’s candidacy by forces in his own party.
- “Wimbledon hires thousands of security guards to prevent protesters” – Wimbledon is braced for a series of protests, with eco-zealots and pro-Palestinian activists set to target the tennis championships, reports the Mail.
- “Just Stop Oil activist is arrested and dragged out of her home” – The Mail has dramatic footage of a Just Stop Oil activist being carried by her arms and legs, as police arrested her on suspicion of plotting to disrupt U.K. airports.
- “‘My electric car has been soul-destroying – I can’t wait to go back to petrol’” – Telegraph readers pull the plug on EVs as range anxiety and charger woes worsen.
- “Falkland Islands eyes economic boom in talks to exploit huge oil field” – The Falkland Islands has opened the door to oil exploration in its waters for the first time in history in a move that could trigger an economic boom for locals, reports the Telegraph.
- “Almost half of Labour voters are in step with Tories on gender laws” – A new poll suggests that even Labour voters are not convinced by the Party’s stance on sex and gender, according to the Mail.
- “Audiences attending the Slave Play are offered ‘self care tips’” – Theatre-goers attending Slave Play in London’s West End are being offered “self-care” tips to help them cope with the production’s plot and sexually explicit themes, reports the Mail.
- “Glastonbury is thrown into chaos as hundreds sneak in for just £50” – Hundreds of people have snuck into Glastonbury by vaulting the fences – causing stages to be shut down from overcrowding and people to panic from the crush, according to the Mail. So much for the crowd’s support for open borders.
- “Google’s Jigsaw expands efforts to combat online ‘toxicity’ and invest in censorship tools” – A new Google initiative has been launched to “identify and mitigate toxicity that frequently reduces participation in online debates”. What could possibly go wrong? asks Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
- “Muslim entrepreneur and former Tory Zia Yusuf just gave THE SPEECH of this election campaign for Reform UK” – Dan Wootton clips a speech by Zia Yusuf at a Reform rally, which he and others think heralds the arrival of a new political star.
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https://x.com/danwootton/status/1807413108110938514
I have only seen the Dan Wootton clip – smarten yourself up lad – and it is good. Nigel Farage was however mesmerisingly good. Thirty-five minutes off the cuff, honest, forthright, and no flannel. I have not heard a speech like it in my lifetime.
Absolutely first class.
Farage’s Sunderland speech is on YouTube. I’m off to bed.
I watched the Reform Rally speeches last night and Zia Yusuf was a breath of fresh air. Call me sentimental but he came across as passionate and sincere. Ann Widdecombe was forthright and statemanlike but we need younger, inspirational contributors to the debate.
Agreed.
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Renewables are a pipe dream for eco nut jobs. Every Winter we get weeks of cold calm weather. Short dull days, so hardly any solar. I make candles as a hobby, Iv’e started to store them.
The press acts in dishonest sneaky ways to rig the system in favour of established power.
One clear way is calling anything that opposes establishment dogma as “far right” or “populist”.
It’s deliberately done to frighten voters because they know very well it brings to mind certain political movements of the 1930s.
The term is applied systematically to anyone who opposes the technocratic agenda.
In some cases, like Trump, they go even further and openly suggest he is a dictator, that will end democracy.
True but still the People are beginning to break through, like in France. The press and MSM are getting desperate and sloppy and even the most propagandised are beginning to wake up.
“Classical historian Mary Beard says that populism has always been fuelled by “dissatisfaction and discontent””
Sounds a lot like the People voting the incumbents out because the People don’t think they’ve done a good job. Reminds of something. Democracy? It’s clearer than ever that large numbers of people don’t really believe in democracy as the lest worst political system, it’s just a convenient vehicle to hide behind, as long as the right sort of people with the right sort of ideas get to really run things.
Yes. We are being far too independent in our thinking and not listening to the “right” views. David McGrogan comments on the Sceptic podcast about the attitude of many of the political class, ie that we shouldn’t have access to alternative views. I’m proud to be labelled “populist” because I interpret it as meaning “democrat” in the true sense of the word. (I’m also resigned to being called an anti-vaxxer, virus-denier, climate-denier, etc. because that’s what comes from being a free speech absolutist.)
The election result in France was on the BBC news last night. I counted the words ‘far right’, only mentioned 2 times….
Exactly. I have always been a little to the right of centre, what used (and I emphasise ‘used’) to be considered a typical conservative voter. Now, with my views not having changed, they are considered ‘far right’. Strange times.
Strange times indeed.
The trouble with that is that the public at large doesn’t differentiate between populist and popular.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/01/at-least-30-reform-candidates-have-cast-doubt-on-human-induced-global-heating
Well, that’s Reform stuffed then; nobody will vote for them now that The Guardian has exposed them as heretics
Only 30?
There’s two things here:
This means no Guardian subscribers will vote for Reform.
It also means no Reform UK voters will take up Guardian subscriptions.
They didn’t think it through!
https://news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-speech-interrupted-by-banner-showing-smirking-vladimir-putin-13161154
‘Led By Donkeys noted Mr Farage’s comments from 2014, where he told GQ magazine Mr Putin was the world leader he most admired.’
What’s really going on?
The world leader he most admired…….words fail………
‘Everyone in Russia learns to live with a feeling of helplessness. You have to get used to the fact the government doesn’t care about you and will try to harm you.
One reason why Russia opens these criminal cases against activists is to ruin their lives even from afar.
I stayed quiet out of fear for my safety. It was clear that this criminal case was mainly an attempt to silence me. I knew there were more risks involved if I continued to do my activism publicly, so I stopped.’
‘This fear might sound silly to people unfamiliar with how Russian citizens have had to live since the start of the invasion. But since Feb. 24, a lot of Russians, particularly those opposed to the war, have felt like the ultimate bad guys. While the Russian government hunts us down, many democratic countries don’t want to let us in, close our bank accounts, and tell journalists poisoned on their territory that they should have been more careful.’
‘Elena Kostyuchenko, Natalia Arno, and Irina Babloyan, have long worked to expose the Kremlin’s lies. While traveling through Europe in the last year, each was poisoned by unknown toxins.’
‘Kostyuchenko’s book on Russia’s descent into fascism is due out in a few weeks, and the German police have told her the publicity may do her no favors given that whoever was sent to kill her in Ukraine or Berlin could well be incentivized to try again.
Kostyuchenko has written her own recollection of her suspected poisoning in Russian for Meduza. She urges any other Russians who have fled their homeland and now reside overseas to be careful and to immediately report unusual physical symptoms to medical professionals — also to get in touch with The Insider, which is actively investigating all suspected cases of poisoning.’
https://theins.ru/en/politics/264280
The world leader he most admired……..
‘Who put that up there? Someone at the Columbine Centre needs to get the sack.’
I do not doubt for a moment that Russia is not a utopian garden of Eden and that life there may not always be a barrel of laughs. On the other hand, as I understand it when Putin rose to prominence the Russian Federation was something of a corruption ridden basket case and it does seem that Putin has made huge efforts to hold the federation together and build it into a stronger country albeit that his operating methods are open to question. There are some in the west who would like to see the Russian Federation broken up and thus ironically it may be Putin’s success in strengthening the Federation that has lead to the West giving huge support to Ukraine in the hope that this will break the Russian Federation. Having regard to the old adage ”what does not kill you, makes you stronger” the West’s thinking on this could of course end up having the opposite effect.
I have to wonder if Starmer or Sunak could have done what Putin has managed to do? Indeed I do wonder if, as seems likely, we end up with a Starmer Government, whether at the end of 5 years we will not look to Russsia and wonder if life there is all that bad?
The Putin Paradox by Richard Sakwa. Very instructive on the mess Putin inherited, and how he has steered a way through it.
A Knight of the realm putting poison in Britain’s underpants? Good Lord! I suppose it’s possible but it does seem somewhat unlikely, certainly to me?
You have evidence that Putin had access to those underpants or that he gave a direct order to do what you allege of course?
Or, if it is proven to be Russian, it couldn’t possibly be rogue security services still operating using the Soviet playbook could it?
Of course, rogue CIA operatives are not unknown and nor are CIA sponsored assassinations, neither are false flag operations to discredit Russia.
Just saying.
“You know that the Russians, because of our sanctions, have the strongest economy they’ve ever had. They are now immune to sanctions. Putin is more popular than he was when we started attacking.”
Robert Kennedy Jnr.
I think you are confusing Russia with Ukraine.
Wait! What? Starmer has a ‘dinghy policy’? And, it’s apparently to hope it rains? Jesus…
HA ha , he is so thick he doesn’t realise it’s the WIND that stops them.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2024/06/back-ussr-soviet-flags-wave-svalbard#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20tradition%20has%20been%20revived,in%20both%20Pyramiden%20and%20Barentsburg.
‘The Soviet flag on the mountain peak of Pyramiden was hoisted on on June 21. The flag is 5 by 3 meters and larger than any Norwegian flags on the archipelago where Norway has the full and absolute sovereignty.’
What’s really going on?
Not content with Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltic States, the Russian ‘Union State’ now has designs on Norway as well!
‘“The application of Soviet symbols in Barentsburg and Pyramiden are framed as a key part of Arctikugol’s development of tourism, while at the same time it serves as a strategy to bolster Russian presence on Svalbard and evoke ideas of Soviet greatness and historical revanchism,”
Professor Kari Aga Myklebost, UiT, Arctic University of Norway. 30 June 2024
Context: “Pyramiden is an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard which has become a tourist destination.”
As for flags on mountain peaks: “Sir Edmund Hillary flew the Union Jack when he, along with Tenzing Norgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953″. This did not signify a land grab by the British.
“‘My electric car has been soul-destroying – I can’t wait to go back to petrol’”
I notice that 2 of the EV owners in this article have their EVs on a lease deal and plan to wait until the end of the lease deal and then hand them back. This seems to add weight to the argument against the outright ownership of an EV; lease one, borrow one or hire one but do not buy one. Lease deals for private users seem to start at about £300 a month, although when the huge depreciation on EVs is increasingly factored in, these lease costs may well rise.
If this argument is correct then you need to be looking at paying £4000+ per annum to have an EV on a lease deal. This raises a huge barrier to motoring for many low and middle income earners. It is also a huge amount to pay for vehicles which many of these owners are reporting only have a much lower range than advertised, so much so that they are only suitable for local utility travel and do not fit the bill for carefree long distance leisure motoring.
It seems that the incoming Labour Government is hell bent on getting rid of petrol/diesel (ICE) cars as soon as possible. Whether they will up the tax and restrictions on ICE cars so as to ‘drive’ them off the road, I do not know, but if EV uptake is low they may well take such action. Many at the lower income end will be forced to give up motoring. or at least give up car ownership. I think that there will be an increasing number of Community EV Car clubs set up so that you can borrow one from time to time (Boris bikes for cars) and indeed that seems like the only way I will ever drive an EV.
It is a huge economic and social change for our Country and I am not sure people realise that this is what they are voting for on Thursday?
I was chatting to a friend who leases an EV via the firm he works for, so it’s a very attractive deal financially. He said there was no way he’d pay market price with his own money for an EV.
So yet another type of subsidy for EVs. The government is forgoing tax on benefits in kind.
I believe a lot of EVs are “purchased” this way. At our firm it’s done by salary sacrifice so typically employees are saving 40%.
My neighbour has one which he openly admits is a tax saving measure. His is a plug-in hybrid which is never plugged in.
I think they get cheaper than normal electricity too
Battery Bangers are crap. End of.
I was telling my friend with the EV about milk floats – he’s foreign and young so had no idea what one is
If motoring becomes impossible the economy will grind to a halt. For millions of people public transport cannot get them to their workplace.
All the factory and warehouse workers will be working from home. No problem!
Thanks Hux, you have made my day.
That makes evs a ‘disposable item’ like a mobile phone, have it for three years then get the latest model, THE most sickening outcome for the environment !
Quite a list, where to start.
Marine le Pen thrashes Macron, best news this week.
Starmer hopes July will be wet to deter Channel crossings. The sea is wet you idiot, it’s the strong winds that deter crossings. Talk about thick.
Italian study finds reduction in life expectancy after covid jabs. You don’t say Sherlock.
Summer covid wave building. Fearmongering bullshit. Go away.
My electric car is soil destroying. Well we did warn you.
Almost half of Labour voters in step with gender laws. I fail to see how this can be judged.
Google jigsaw increases online censorship. F*ck you Google.
Nice one.
“Italian study showing a reduction in life expectancy with increased Covid vaccination has been published”
“Summer Covid wave ‘building’ after rise in hospital admissions”
I don’t believe this is a coincidence.
Bird ‘flu, H5N1 due late Autumn / Winter 2024.
Starmer hoping for a wet July because that keeps people inside and not getting vitamin D from sunshine which of course increases susceptibility to ‘flu and colds.
H5N1? Oh noes!
Do you realise how many people died in the terrible worldwide outbreak of H5N1 from 2004?
Nearly 250!
Two hundred and fifty? A Super Pandemic then?
“Muslim entrepreneur and former Tory Zia Yusuf just gave THE SPEECH of this election campaign for Reform UK”
“This is a movement for British people of all races and faiths who love their country – a movement for those who want to see British values protected”, said the Pakistani Muslim millionaire who made his fortune in Britain.
“A star is born!”, gushed Dan Wooton, forgetting that Muslims are permitted by Islam to say and do anything in order to establish The Global Caliphate.
Get ready for the “Bait & Switch”…
Well maybe but on the other hand I personally know various foreigners very well, including a lapsed Muslim, and have done for many years, and they are either very good actors or they love this country and both love and live what used to be its values more passionately than a lot of white British metro liberal champagne socialists I know. So this bloke might be for real – as far as that’s true of any politician.
Milktoast.
I just call things as I see them, based on the evidence in front of me
So it will be better if we stick with what we’ve got and don’t take any risks!
Cobblers!
Vote reform, see what we get, let’s face it, it won’t be any worse!