- “Trump picks firebrand senator J.D. Vance as running mate” – Donald Trump has picked the author of Hillbilly Elegy as his running mate after promising to unite the nation following his attempted assassination, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump has pulled off another triumph – and chosen a VP who’d be an even better President than him” – J.D. Vance is a man who will carry forward the populist revolutionary flame, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “How J.D. Vance went from calling Donald Trump ‘America’s Hitler’ to his running mate” – Raised in an unstable home by a drug-addicted mother, Trump’s pick for VP couldn’t have come from more different beginnings to the ex-President, says Rozina Sabur in the Telegraph.
- “‘Trump 2.0’ ditches old rhetoric for new mission to unite America” – Donald Trump has changed his election strategy to focus on a message of national unity after the attempt on his life, writes Tony Diver in the Telegraph.
- “Trump supporters tried to warn cops about gunman” – The Mail has video showing a Trump supporter alerting a police officer to the presence of a gunman on a roof close to where the ex-President was speaking in Pennsylvania.
- “Trump’s shooting helps Biden to stay, but not to win” – “If I were a Democratic legislator looking for electoral success this November, I would be worried,” says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Courage and cowardice in Pennsylvania” – In trying to assassinate Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks inadvertently provided the ex-President with an opportunity to display the very qualities that have made him a cult icon, writes Claire Lehmann in Quillette.
- “The shot that created a martyr” – Biden’s defeat is now inevitable, says Lionel Shriver in UnHerd.
- “Edge of the abyss” – America’s divides are as much epistemological as political, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Leftist media downplays Trump assassination attempt” – In the European Conservative, Michael Curzon takes aim at the elements of the media either downplaying the seriousness of events in Pennsylvania or placing a portion of the blame on Trump himself.
- “Donald Trump racing ahead in key swing states, Times poll reveals” – New polling for the Times reveals that Trump has moved ahead of President Biden in every swing state, even before Saturday’s assassination attempt.
- “Trump classified documents case dismissed” – The classified documents case against Donald Trump has been dismissed by a federal judge, reports the Mail.
- “Cash-strapped Tories will use conference to replace Rishi Sunak” – The Conservatives are expected to use their party conference to hold the hustings between the final two candidates for leader amid concerns that the party doesn’t have enough money for a longer contest, says the Times.
- “What’s going to be in the King’s Speech?” – Wednesday’s King’s Speech will include plans to bolster housebuilding, enhance workers’ rights and give 16 and 17 year-olds the vote for the first time, reports the Times.
- “Starmer and the Blob” – The Conservative Party should propose a new constitutional reform act that reboots the primacy of freedom, equality before the law and human dignity, says Doug Stokes in the Critic.
- “Merciless Labour is following the Blair-Brown playbook” – Starmer is waging a forever campaign, re-burying the Tories in a blizzard of bad policies, writes Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “In conversation with A.D.M. Collingwood” – On the Bournbrook Podcast, Michael Curzon talks to A.D.M. Collingwood about the launch of Labour’s programme of radical constitutional reform, the Americanisation of British politics and the troubles besetting Reform.
- “David Lammy calls for Gaza ceasefire” – The immediate challenge for David Lammy is the thorny question of whether to limit or stop weapons sales to Israel over the loss of civilian life, says Katy Balls in the Spectator.
- “Yes, David Lammy’s old tweets are a problem” – If Trump does win the Presidency in November, David Lammy will be in an awkward situation, given how sophomoric he’s been about him on X, writes Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
- “World’s leading vaccinologist, and his compatriots, have just capitulated regarding the lack of vaccine safety!” – After decades of Dr. Stanley Plotkin and his vaccinologist disciples insisting vaccines are the most well studied products on the planet, they have just penned an article admitting precisely the opposite, says the team at ICAN.
- “Former CDC director says FDA underreported adverse vax side effects to prevent vaccine hesitancy” – Ex-CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield says that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pushed a false “safe and effective” Covid vaccine narrative by underreporting adverse events, according to American Greatness.
- “YouTube still censoring content questioning efficacy of the vaccines” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton recounts another hostile encounter with YouTube regarding vaccine-critical content.
- “Peter Hitchens on Lucy Letby – ‘I am uncomfortable about this trial’” – On SpectatorTV, Michael Simmons is joined by Peter Hitchens to discuss the key evidence presented in the Lucy Letby trial.
- “Labour shelves foreign worker crackdown despite population surge” – Labour has shelved a legal crackdown on foreign workers amid the biggest rise in the U.K.’s population for at least 75 years, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain has entered a birth rate crisis” – This year, England and Wales are almost certainly going to cross a remarkable threshold: the number of deaths will exceed the number of births, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “‘The London of my youth is gone’” – In the Spectator, American Monica Porter recounts how she fell in love with London when she moved there in the early ’70s – and why she now wants out.
- “Private school exodus begins in Surrey” – State schools are being flooded with new pupil queries as parents brace for a planned tax raid on private schools, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ukrainian army deserter shot dead as anger grows over recruitment drive” – A Ukrainian army deserter has been shot dead and a military recruitment centre has been bombed as tensions rise over the country’s aggressive mobilisation drive, says the Telegraph.
- “Putin is leading Russia into a demographic catastrophe” – “Moscow can always find more men,” one hears people say, justifying a fatalistic attitude to the war in Ukraine. But it is simply not true, writes Francis Dearnley in the Telegraph.
- “National Grid: Britain will remain dependent on gas for years” – According to the National Grid, Britain will be forced to rely on natural gas for years to come, says the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband is the new face of Britain’s Net Zero folly” – We are 1% of emissions (and 1% of the world’s population). So why not – more sensibly – aim to never be more than 1% of global emissions? suggests Neil Record in the Telegraph.
- “The Science Museum will pay a high price for surrendering to the mob” – Museums and galleries petulantly refusing to take any donations from the oil and gas industry will only put more pressure on the public purse, warns Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting is right about the evils of puberty blockers” – We need brave adults in the room to defend vulnerable families from the policy demands of gender activists, says Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
- “‘Censorship isn’t working’” – On SpectatorTV Australia, Toby Young explains to host Alexandra Marshall how the censorship drive of our ruling elites has backfired, prompting more populist revolts not less.
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That’s a great slogan.
“A Beaver County police officer warned a command center of seeing a man with a rangefinder before former president Donald Trump was shot on Saturday. The officer had also warned the man was scoping out the roof of the building he was stationed in as a counter-sniper, and that the man returned with a backpack before ultimately scaling the building.“
https://beavercountian.com/content/daily/beaver-county-officer-warned-of-seeing-man-with-rangefinder-before-trump-was-shot
Putin is leading Russia into a demographic catastrophe
‘That conflict underscores that army size is only part of the equation.
Indeed, many of the vital components necessary to win wars – like military adaptability and modern tech – work in Kyiv’s favour. That’s before one considers its will to survive as a free nation. And one cannot put a figure on that.’
What’s really going on?
The irony is that Putin’s motive behind the barbaric aggression has been to increase the population of the ‘Union State’ of Russia by expanding its borders; and he has been planning that for a very long time:
‘And, if you believe the forecasts and the estimates are based on actual work, the real work of people who understand this, who have devoted their whole lives to this, in 15 years, there may be 22 million fewer Russians. I ask you to think about this figure: a seventh of the country’s population. If the current trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy’
Putin 2000
It isn’t going to work
“And now it is worth noting that it is not the west of the country, but the east, which is under daily attack by Russian aerial bombs, that is the one that is most reluctant to negotiate. Only 33% of residents of the east of Ukraine are ready for negotiations, and almost as many (34%) are against them. And almost as many (32%) are still undecided,”
‘83% of respondents do not agree with the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts within their administrative borders.
84% of respondents are against ceding these oblasts to the Russian Federation.
77% of Ukrainians do not agree that all Western sanctions against Russia should be lifted.’
‘Most of the passionate volunteers are at the front.
It is now impossible to study the opinion of the army, which bears the burden of the war and has the right to have the most significant voice, if not the decisive one, in negotiations with Russia.
Therefore, the results of the poll cannot be considered the opinion of the entire country. This is the opinion of the home front,”
Razumkov Centre poll conducted from 20 to 28 June 2024
Ukrainian army deserter shot dead as anger grows over recruitment drive
“One of the fugitives attacked the border guard while trying to escape. In response, he used his service weapon and shot the attacker…..the guard used the firearm in self-defence.’
What’s really going on?
Meanwhile, on the Russian side…..
‘According to preliminary information, two servicemen insulted a fellow soldier, who first gave them a warning, and when the mockery was repeated, he responded by killing them with a machine gun…….The military serviceman, who was stationed in Russia’s Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine, shot dead two of his comrades and wounded another on July 11 before he deserted his unit with a weapon.’
So this war is not popular on either side.
Why, then, not just stop it?
And, yes, 44% of residents of Ukraine believe that the time has come for official peace talks between Ukraine and Russia to begin.
But The poll was conducted by the Razumkov Center on June 20-28. Only civilians were interviewed.
Worse, 83% of respondents disagree with the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts within their administrative borders. Also, 84% of respondents are against giving these oblasts to the Russians and 77% of Ukrainians do not agree that all Western sanctions against Russia should be lifted.
America, China are winning, Russia is losing and Ukrainian nationalism is undimmed.
Any statesman worthy of the name in Russia would settle this now………
Zelensky enacted a law specifically to forbid him from negotiating peace with Russia. Any statesman worthy of his name in Ukraine woukd settle this now.
The Minsk Agreements look even more generous than they did in 2015, yet Merkel used the time to rearm.
As does the draft Istanbul agreement which was reputedly sabotaged by Johnson.
PS I forgot that Zelensky is no longer the president but simply the figurehead presiding over martial law, which has been extended yet again. Can anyone explain the difference between a continual extension of martial law and a dictatorship?
Yes – dictators like Putin hold elections that, by definition, are rigged.
Democratic leaders like Zelensky don’t hold elections.
Pay attention at the back…
Can you highlight any ither dictators who hold election but only get 80% of the vote.
Rwandan Dictator Kagame just held an election and miraculously got 99% of the vote…
Now that is what true dictators do!
Any statesman worthy of the name in Russia would settle this now before any more of this happens to their people:
‘A Russian soldier from the 138th Brigade, which participated in the battle for Volchansk, informs the relatives of his fellow soldiers that he was not able to get everyone out alive. This is the same battle that Putin so frivolously described as creating a “sanitary zone.” For him, a couple of thousand here, a couple of thousand there have no meaning. Meanwhile, warmongers will say that Russia must keep pressing, and Ukraine must surrender.’
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1812612460840423799?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Many people fail to understand the scale of the front-line fighting. I the main it is carried out with small groups of men, often well fewer than a dozen. Armoured personnel transport is used to deliver a group which then abandons the vehicle to engage in combat on foot.
When the casualty figures are larger this is usually due to shelling and bombing of remote assembly locations and in the case of Volchansk these are in Russia and are not packed with troops because of the Russian use of small assault groups rather than massed attacks.
The other thing to bear in mind that whatever Russia claims (we keep being told that they don’t tell the truth) the true purpose is to divert Ukrainian troops from other points on the front line – a tactic that appears to be working since withdrawal of troops is almost precisely matched to Russian territorial gains.
As for the frivolous description, do you have even a shred of evidence that the statement was made frivolously? It was stated at a press conference, which I assure you are not frivolous affairs.
It is a phrase that has been used by many Western media outlet without questioning its validity, I suggest that you are using frivolous frivolously.
Russia occupies less of Ukraine now than it did immediately after irs original invasion. The USA, China, India, the EU are winning. Russia is losing.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on July 15 that Ukrainian plans for a second peace summit should be ready by November 2024 and reiterated that a Russian representative should attend. Zelensky stated that in preparation, Ukraine will hold a meeting in Qatar on energy security in late July or early August 2024, a meeting on freedom of navigation in Turkey in August 2024, and a meeting on prisoner of war (POW) exchanges and the repatriation of deported Ukrainian children in Canada in September 2024 — three issues on which the communique of the first Ukraine-initiated Global Peace Summit in Switzerland in June 2024 focused.
Recent Kremlin statements continue to demonstrate that Russia is inflexible on negotiations with Ukraine, however, and Kremlin officials have directly stated that Russia would not participate in a second peace summit because its terms are a non-starter given Russian demands.
Ukrainian officials emphasized that the purpose of the first peace summit was to facilitate a peace based on international law, including laws to which the Russian Federation is party. Ukraine’s demands that Russia completely withdraw from Ukrainian territory are provided for under international law and are therefore reasonable. Russia’s demands for Ukraine’s complete capitulation and continued Russian occupation of Ukrainian land are and would be violations of international law, however. ISW also continues to assess that Putin’s demands for Ukrainian capitulation would allow Russian forces and occupation administrations to continue their large-scale and deliberate ethnic cleansing campaigns in occupied Ukraine, and the complete reinstatement of Ukraine’s territory integrity is necessary to liberate the Ukrainian people from Russian occupation.
An acceptance of anything but Ukraine’s liberation of its people is an implicit endorsement of Russia’s illegal occupation of over five million Ukrainians.
Does Monro not have any other strings to his/her bow? She/he has been playing that particular tune incessantly despite the fact that it is irrelevant in the context of Russia’s aims and their tactical approach to the SMO.
Between Bilderberg and his funders, David Lammy can probably be relied upon to make the ‘right’ decisions. Different government, same influences.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/
“Ed Miliband is the new face of Britain’s Net Zero folly”
The article points out that currently the UK has 1% of the wordls population and emits 1% of the world’s emissions, it asks why we do not simply agree to keep in lockstep with the rest of the world. The problem with this sort of approach is that it is sane, rational, realistic and logical and therefore not in the spirit of ‘Net-Zero’ which is a mad, deranged neo-religious, nihilistic cult, funded by weird eco billionaires.
In the UK ‘Net-Zero’ is enshrined in the Climate Change Act. We cannot do anything to row back on deranged Net-Zero demands without radically changing or rescinding the Climate Change Act. I see little chance of any UK Government being prepared to rescind or change the Climate Change Act until we have had to endure a lot of Net-Zero pain, suffering and immiseration.
It might have a negative effect on some industries, but there are opportunities as well. Some will profit from it.
Who will profit from it, and how? Please cite examples of who has already profited from it, and how, and comment on whether it’s a net benefit or disbenefit to the people of this country, taking into account the arguable importance of energy independence/security. Also explain the compelling reasons to risk a secure energy supply for an untried set of technologies that have no track record in reliably supplying a nation’s energy needs.
tof, I doubt you will receive a sensible reply.
Seems not. Of course, “covid” offered lots of opportunities, and some people certainly did profit from it. Ker-ching! Fake “vaccines”, “masks”, stupid plastic sticks to put in your nose, fake “apps” to track you, “contact tracing”.
Plenty of opportunies for Chinese industry. Also plenty of opportunities for American LNG suppliers and other oil exporters with his ban on new UK oil and gas development.
Plus extra business for overseas shippers bringing in all these imports.
Terrific for UK balance of payments.
Vincent Dale??
So be it! There’s no better driver for change than the lived experience of hardship and poverty, I’m sure there’s many around the third world that would agree with that!
If you start off from a well healed position then hardship seems to effect you quicker as you are totally oblivious to it, never having experienced as sudden a drop in your living standards before
The problem is that rebuilding the infrastructure for a credible Energy Supply will take a long time, even if we had sufficient, appropriate knowledge and skills to do it.
If North Sea Oil exploration is wound down, as the Energy Secretary indicates, the remaining reserves will be lost, for ever, as the infrastructure and the Geology will deteriorate to the point of it not functioning as it is currently.
In addition, the oil companies will avoid the area, as they are doing already. And with a reliable Energy supply gone, so will even more of our manufacturing.
“lived experience”
Come on Dings. What’s with crap like this?
“Experience” is the only word required.
I watched a Marcus Waering programme last night. Bloody hell does he like to double his word count.
“Chop up.” “Chop down.” “Reduce down.” “Benefits from the hot heat of the oven.”
Utter rubbish.
Although it would mean the same thing with “the lived experience of” completely erased.
Yes, I missed that but spot on.
I take it you meant well heeled rather than completely recovered.
I think you mean “well-heeled”.
The aim of Nut Zero is “pain, suffering and immiseration.” Ultimately depopulation.
“pain, suffering, immiseration and enrichment of the high priests of that religion”.
All hail to the great god of selective statistics.
A Delingpod Thought For The Day – In line with the notion that TPTB always have to indicate what they do to us ! Well blow me down with the old proverbial feather – Trumps shooters initials are TMC which equal out as The Manchunian Candidate !
Is the suggestion that Trump is a Manchurian Candidate acting on behalf of TPTB against the American people?
No but the Book is about a brainwashed assassin who is sent to eliminate a presidential candidate
Ah, I see – thanks Freddy
Good defence of free speech from our gracious host TY. I do sort of take issue with the implication that part of the point of free speech is to counter “harmful” speech, because I take issue with the idea of harmful speech. I mean, there’s speech I disagree strongly with that I believe to be harmful – but that’s just my opinion. I’m not keen on selling the idea of free speech as a good thing to the bien pensant middle class “intelligentsia” as a way to counter stuff they don’t like. I think you have to stick to the line that in a functioning democracy, no-one should decide what is and is not harmful, and it’s fundamental to have all views aired so that we all get a chance to see what others think, consider our positions. But almost no-one thinks like this.
I think like this.
Good! I guess a fair few DS readers do, and certainly the crowd on the Lockdown Sceptics subreddit I frequent, including the moderators. In the wider world, not so much, in my experience. Ask someone if they believe in freedom of speech and they will usually say yes, then give some examples of speech they are likely to find upsetting, offensive, “misleading” and see if they think those things should be allowed on social media etc. Then watch them back-pedal.
Yup, agree. I was thinking about Tucker in Australia eviscerating reporters for saying his words were responsible for mass shootings, appositely how can you say the words on the left are responsible for the assassination attempt? There are always crazies, those that say crazy things and those that do crazy things.
Yes I’m not keen on any suggestion of blaming the shooting on Trump being demonised by the left – though I’m fine with pointing out the hypocrisy.
Well said, tof. I totally agree.
I liked Matt Gaetz’s (US Congressman) recent exchange with an interviewer after he had said in a speech something along the lines of “Isn’t it funny how many of the women who attend pro-abortion rallies are fat and ugly?”
Reporter: Is it safe to say that, based off your comments, you’re suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?
MG: Yes.
Reporter: What do you say to people who think those comments are offensive?
MG: Be offended.
Yeah I saw the clip, a real hoot. We need more people like him in politics.
He’s free to say whatever he wants in my opinion but personally I find it disappointing when people resort to dismissing the opinions of others based on whether they’re attractive or not.
Possibly though he makes an observation that may be relevant to the arguments – I think you’d need to ask him why he said that. From the quote alone I don’t think you can say that he is dismissing their opinions based on their looks.
Love that.
“What’s going to be in the King’s Speech?” – “Wednesday’s King’s Speech will include plans to bolster housebuilding, enhance workers’ rights and give 16 and 17 year-olds the vote for the first time”
— But…but…but… I thought Labour promised to nationalise the railways, energy, water and Royal Mail !!!!
BEFORE THE ELECTION:
Labour vows to nationalise railways, water, energy and Royal Mail | The Independent | The Independent
AFTER THE ELECTION:
Labour retreats from pledge to nationalise energy, water and mail if it wins next general election (inews.co.uk)
BEFORE THE ELECTION:
Labour promises skills shakeup to cut net migration – BBC News
Yvette Cooper promised that “Labour wanted to go further to cut reliance on foreign workers in sectors including construction, IT, social care, health and engineering.”
AFTER THE ELECTION:
“Labour shelves foreign worker crackdown despite population surge”