- “Blair predicts £50 billion Labour tax raid” – According to a report from the Tony Blair Institute, Keir Starmer will have no choice but to slap the public with a tax hike of £53 billion, says Guido Fawkes.
- “‘Living under Labour will cost me millions – it’s unbelievably depressing’” – Wealthy taxpayers are quitting the country “by the plane-load” amid fears Labour is plotting to turn the screws on the rich, reports the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner drops ‘Levelling Up’ from her Whitehall department” – Angela Rayner has ditched ‘Levelling Up’ from her Whitehall department as she vowed to drop “gimmicks and slogans”, says the Mail.
- “‘Smearing’ Reform U.K. won’t win back voters for Tories, says Braverman” – Suella Braverman has warned that “smearing” Reform U.K. and its voters is not an effective strategy for the Conservatives to win back support, reports the BBC.
- “‘Tory leadership rival Robert Jenrick is on Left of party’” – Suella Braverman has accused Robert Jenrick of being a “centrist Rishi supporter” who is “from the Left of the party”, according to the Times.
- “Rwanda dismisses idea of returning any of £290 million for U.K. migrant scheme” – Rwanda’s Government has dismissed suggestions it could hand back any of the £290 million committed to the now-junked migrant deportation deal with Britain, reports the Mail.
- “Most failed asylum seekers set for deportation are released instead, report finds” – A new report reveals that drug use by migrants at one of the U.K.’s main detention centres is so widespread that detainees openly smoke cannabis, says the BBC.
- “People want immigration controls, Blair tells Starmer” – Tony Blair has warned Keir Starmer that “people want controls” on immigration, according to the Express.
- “Cheerio, Chipping Norton set. Here comes the Kentish Town crew” – In the Times, Kentish Town local Esther Walker explores Keir Starmer’s NW5 background.
- “What now for the Conservative Party?” – There are so few Tories left in Parliament that it hardly seems worth appointing one as leader, writes Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The fake news about Reform’s ‘fake’ candidates” – Supposedly sensible centrists have fallen for another batsh*t conspiracy theory, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “People condemning Russia but not Israel are hypocrites, says Humza Yousaf” – Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has compared Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war against Hamas, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Letby: serial killer or a miscarriage of justice?” – The Telegraph examines the scientific concerns in the arguments used to convict Lucy Letby.
- “Lucy Letby: killer or coincidence? Why some experts question the evidence” – There was no forensic evidence to prove her guilt and no one saw Lucy Letby – who continues to maintain her innocence – causing harm, writes Felicity Lawrence in the Guardian.
- “Lucy Letby – child killer or scapegoat of the system?” – Is the NHS placed on such a pedestal that the justice system would prefer to find a human guilty over the nation’s sacred cow? asks the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “France faces ‘financial crisis’ after shocking election, minister says” – The victory of the hard-Left NFP has forced France’s elite to consider how their fortunes would fare given the prospect of a dramatic tax-and-spend economic policy, reports the Mail.
- “White House admits Parkinson’s specialist evaluated Biden” – The White House has admitted that a Parkinson’s expert, who’s visited the executive mansion eight times in as many months, has evaluated President Biden, according to the NY Post.
- “The tactics Biden’s gatekeepers use to hide his ailing health” – Biden’s inner circle of staff have been working for at least a year to conceal the aging President’s cognitive decline, reports the Mail.
- “Concerns as Hunter Biden acting as ‘gatekeeper’ to U.S. President” – Hunter Biden is acting as his father’s “gatekeeper” as calls for the U.S. President to step aside ahead of the November election continue to mount, says Slate.
- “Why Joe Biden is railing against the ‘elites’” – Biden’s strategy is to paint those calling for him to quit as out of touch and white, writes Rozina Sabur in the Telegraph.
- “Why the oil giants are beating a hasty green retreat” – Big Oil has, on both sides of the Atlantic, decided to focus on new oil and gas projects, cutting costs and dividends, says Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
- “NYT admits the seas only rise in some areas, and islands aren’t disappearing. And the ‘science’ was looking at aerial photos over time. Duh” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass flags a recent NY Times article that appears to contradict the mainstream climate narrative.
- “The BBC’s ‘diverse’ Battle of Hastings drama is a farcical distortion of our history” – These days it would be outrageous for white actors to play non-white historical figures. But of course it’s fine the other way round, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Suella Braverman slams flying of Progress Pride flag across Whitehall” – Suella Braverman has criticised “far, far too many Tory politicians” who supported flying the Pride flag in Whitehall to showcase “how liberal and progressive we are”, reports the Mail.
- “After some Germans reject Pride Month by displaying the national colours instead of the rainbow flag, domestic intelligence release a PSA declaring their action anti-constitutional and anti-democratic” – It’s quite curious how our leaders, under the guise of promoting sexual freedom, seem to justify suppressing ordinary people for simply speaking their minds, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Bartleby’s daughters” – We have, inadvertently, created the conditions in which love, commitment and family have either lost their appeal, or are slipping out of reach, writes Dr. David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “There’s a reason Eton is cracking down on smartphones” – In the Spectator, Kristina Burkett responds to Eton’s announcement that new pupils will no longer be allowed to bring smartphones to school, but will receive school-issued Nokias instead.
- “How decriminalisation made Vancouver the fentanyl capital of the world” – Overly liberal drug laws have sparked a catastrophe in Vancouver, write Sarah Green and Simon Townsley in the Telegraph.
- “‘Novak Djokovic was right’ about Wimbledon boos, claims BBC presenter” – BBC presenter Sara Thornton has come out in support of Novak Djokovic’s claims he was booed by Wimbledon’s Centre Court crowd, claiming “absolute jerks” used chants for Holger Rune as a “disguise” to target the Serb, reports the Mail.
- “Pride is now anti-gay” – Pride month is finally over, and many people, including gay people, will be breathing a sigh of relief, says Andrew Doyle in a video for Spiked.
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“Bomb Houthi bases to rubble.”
Thus Britain’s diplomacy and foreign policy nowadays, even when (as one respondent said on GB news yesterday) “I thought we were skint?” The Saudis, backed by the US, have been bombing Yemen to rubble for many years, creating the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis in the process. I guess there are always more people left to bomb.
Which snowflake was it who used to say “Jaw jaw, not war war”? Oh yes, it was Churchill, wasn’t it.
An where is the EU in all this? Do they not use these waterways for their imports and exports? Why isn’t Germany or France bombing “houthi bases to rubble”?
A potential beneficiary could be Sino-Europe rail freight. It’s been growing over the years, although the Russia/Ukraine war is a problem, no doubt. https://www.zieglergroup.com/the-best-china-to-europe-freight-transport-methods-compared/
As long as they drop bombs, it creates a demand for more. BAE share price showed a predictable increase.
Remember Aden? I bet Ansar Allah do….
Morning all! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
https://www.euractiv.com/section/circular-materials/news/recycling-market-in-europe-faces-collapse-after-eu-waste-export-ban/
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Well I’ve been banging on about this for ages now. The fact that it is the persecuted Christians in majority-Muslim countries who should be given priority as far as granting them asylum in the West goes. To be fair though, I’ve no idea on the stats of who makes up what percentage of ‘refugees’ who come to our lands. I just presume they’re mostly Muslim because those are the countries they’re coming from.
Raymond Ibrahim has been shining a light on the persecution of Christians in other parts of the world for years. Here he gives the rationale as to why these people should be prioritized, but also explaining why they are not;
”All emotionalism and name-calling aside — that is, the stuff of American politics — there are, in fact, several objective reasons why the West should give priority, if not exclusivity, to Christian refugees from the Muslim world — and some of these are actually to the benefit of western nations. Consider:
Christians are real victims of persecution. From a humanitarian point of view — and humanitarianism is the chief reason cited in accepting refugees — Christians should receive top priority simply because they are the most persecuted group in the Middle East. As former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop once put it, “I think that Christian minorities are being persecuted in Syria and even if the conflict were over they would still be persecuted.”
Indeed. While they are especially targeted by the Islamic State and other professional jihadists, before ISIS, Christians were and continue to be targeted by Muslims — Muslim mobs, Muslim individuals, Muslim regimes, and Muslim terrorists, from Muslim countries of all races (Arab, African, Asian, etc.) — and for the same reason: Christians are infidel number one.
Conversely, Muslim refugees are not fleeing direct persecution, but chaos created by the violent and intolerant teachings of their own religion, Islam — hence why violence and intolerance follows Muslims into Europe.
Muslim persecution of Christians has been further enabled by western policies. Western nations should accept Christian refugees on the basis that western actions in the Middle East are directly responsible for exacerbating the plight of Christian minorities. Christians were not terrorized in Bashar Assad’s Syria, or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or Muamar Gaddafi’s Libya. Their persecution grew exponentially only after the U.S. and other western states interfered in those nations in the name of “democracy.” All they did is unleash the jihadist forces that the dictators had long kept suppressed.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/what_if_the_west_only_accepted_christian_refugees_from_the_muslim_world.html
Surprised that this isn’t being covered here. Journalist and podcaster Gonzalo Lira has died while held captive in Ukraine. Tucker Carlson has given his death the coverage as a political prisoner it deserves. RIP Lira.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1745863377493143906
Agreed. I followed his Ukraine coverage closely. He predicted his own death in his last video when he was a few miles from the border with Hungary I think. While exhaling cigarette smoke. He was a very brave man and I salute him.
A US citizen denied the protection or assistance of the US because he did not follow the warmongers’ line… or rather, he helped expose it for the criminality it is.
““Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal””
Channelling his inner Diane Abbott. He and people like him should be dragged “of coursing” from their chairs into the street and hung from the nearest lamppost while their legs kick uselessly and their faces turn black. Of course.
Seconded. Davey is another Lib Dim – no misspelling – nutjob. A complete drain on the planet and the people on it. The reality – an oxygen thief.