- “Army soldier stabbed in attack near barracks as ‘wife screams for help’” – A British Army soldier was repeatedly stabbed in an attack outside his home while his wife looked on, reports the Independent.
- “Kent soldier stabbing: counter-terror police helping investigation into attack on lieutenant colonel” – Counter-terrorism police are reported to be supporting the investigation into the stabbing of a lieutenant colonel outside an Army barracks, says the Telegraph.
- “PMI figures show economy surging as Rachel Reeves sounds gloom” – Despite Rachel Reeves’s looming doom-and-gloom report, evidence suggests the U.K. economy is thriving, writes James Tapsfield in the Mail.
- “The truth behind Labour blood-curdling claims about what was left” – Labour made a number of blood-curdling claims about the situation they inherited from the Tories. But they should all be taken with a large dose of salt, says the Mail.
- “‘I’m ready to leave the ECHR’” – Tom Tugendhat has become the second senior Tory to announce a leadership bid (James Cleverly was the first), indicating he would be prepared to quit the ECHR to protect the U.K.’s borders, reports the Express & Star.
- “The Tory party faces disintegration if it fails to get the next leader right” – In the Telegraph, David Frost outlines five key questions that Tory leadership candidates must answer to stand a chance of success.
- “We need an immigration referendum” – It’s time we put membership of the ECHR to the people, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “More under-30s voted for Reform than Conservative” – According to YouGov analysis, more voters aged 30 and under backed Reform than the Conservatives at the General Election, reports the Times.
- “It is madness to close down the Bibby Stockholm barge” – The Bibby Stockholm was good enough to house oil rig workers – but weeping human rights lawyers demand only the best for migrants, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s universities can no longer act as visa mills – they have nowhere left to turn” – There is only one appropriate reaction to the news that universities are in crisis, with 40% set to run deficits this year: “Good. Now let them go bust,” says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Letting the worst universities collapse would be an act of kindness” – We probably have too many universities, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Shoplifting at record high as thieves ‘operate without fear’” – Shoplifting has reached its highest level since records began as thieves operate “without fear of apprehension”, reports the Times.
- “Democrats boycott Netanyahu as pro-Gaza protestors flood D.C. streets” – Capitol Police confronted pro-Palestinian protesters with pepper spray and riot shields as chaos erupted during Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, says the Mail.
- “Antisemitic violence is out of control in Canada” – Montreal is now the most dangerous place for Jews in North America, writes Hardeep Singh in Spiked.
- “Cambridge University is in a state of moral collapse” – Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph laments Cambridge University’s capitulation to the pro-Palestinian protestors who set up a camp outside King’s College.
- “Kamala Harris’s leading VP candidate choice labelled ‘too pro-Israel’” – According to the Telegraph, a New York Times columnist claims that the Jewish Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is too “pro-Israel” to be selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate.
- “The Democrats do not care a whit about democracy” – The Democrats believe that “democracy” means “rule by Democrats”, says Roger Kimball in Spectator World.
- “Trump says J.D. Vance ‘doing really well’ despite record low polling” – Polling shows that J.D. Vance has a negative six point rating among the electorate, according to Susie Coen in the Telegraph.
- “The flaws in the Lucy Letby case” – In UnHerd, criminal barrister Adam King explains why Lucy Letby’s convictions should be referred back to the Court of Appeal.
- “GPs are the most entitled ‘workers’ in Britain” – Bottom-up reforms in medical personnel would go a long way towards improving patient services in the NHS, says J. Meirion Thomas in the Telegraph.
- “Labour goes soft on civil servants working from home” – Keir Starmer has been accused of backtracking on efforts to force civil servants to work in the office for at least three days a week, reports the Telegraph.
- “British holidaymakers heading to Greece issued urgent Covid warning” – Brits preparing to travel to Greece for their summer holidays have been warned they are at risk of catching a new Covid variant, says the Mail.
- “Australian drug regulator goes on record: Pfizer mRNA shots ‘not contaminated’” – At least four independent labs around the world claim to have detected excessive levels of plasmid DNA contamination in mRNA Covid vaccines, writes Rebekah Barnett on her Substack. But Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) denies that the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine is contaminated
- “Russia to lose one million men in Ukraine advance” – The head of the British Army says that Russia will lose a million more soldiers if it continues its “grinding” advance, according to the Times.
- “Nine Just Stop Oil protesters arrested at Heathrow” – Nine Just Stop Oil activists have been arrested at Heathrow during a summer “international uprising” by the environmental activist group, says LBC.
- “Crown Estate to make billions of pounds from Miliband wind farm spree” – The Crown Estate is poised to rake in billions of pounds from Ed Miliband’s green energy blitz, as it rents out swathes of Britain’s seabed to offshore wind farms, according to the Telegraph.
- “How the failure of carbon capture risks causing a Net Zero nightmare” – Labour’s green pledge hinges on technology that is proving less transformative than hoped, says Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Nandy changes her tune on the culture wars” – Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has done a U-turn, first criticising the Conservatives for waging ‘culture wars’ and now championing the inclusion of biological males in women’s sports, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “J.K. Rowling attacks Labour’s Lisa Nandy over trans athletes row” – J.K. Rowling has blasted Lisa Nandy after the Culture Secretary waded into a row over trans athletes competing in women’s sports, reports the Mail.
- “NHS equality training tells staff using the wrong pronouns for trans people raises risk of suicide” – NHS staff have been told during equality training that using the wrong pronouns for trans and non-binary people increases their risk of suicide, according to the Telegraph.
- “Autistic kids are at the mercy of trans activism” – Teens with autism are being funnelled into gender clinics, while their real needs go ignored, writes Ian Stewart in Spiked.
- “Piers Morgan wades into Strictly row” – Piers Morgan has vowed to “save the day” by offering himself up as a contestant for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing amid ongoing bullying and abuse claims, reports the Mail.
- “There is more to the Strictly scandal than meets the eye” – As a huge fan of Strictly, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson can’t understand why the BBC is not standing by its best-loved dancer.
- “How woke universities demoralise their best people” – On Konstantin Kisin’s Substack, an anonymous U.S. academic explains what woke universities are like from the inside.
- “The Dukes of MAGA” – A new trailer on X reveals that The Dukes of Hazzard has had a MAGA makeover.
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Lol #BeKind
Picky point – there’s no such thing as a biological man as distinct from a man – the two sets overlap 100%. Same goes for women. Don’t use the language or concepts of our enemy who seek to corrupt language in an attempt to normalise their evil ideas
I agree. I think using these terms like ”cis” or ”biological” before you mention the gender is just fluffing ridiculous and I will never stoop that low. I never did it before so I’m not about to start now.
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1687372801634668545/photo/1
It has to be a red line.
Making any concession to these loonies will lead to trouble.
Agreed.
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1686182685981421568/photo/1
Nice one——Man and Biological Man are indeed the same thing. Control the language and you control the argument.
I’ve read this twice as its content is on the cusp of my comprehension of this stuff. I mused how such posting would be interpreted (if at all) by a UK reader going back say 20 years, or better yet, to ’68 the year I went to University. As Bob Dylan presciently opined five years earlier: ‘The times they are a-changin’. (Not for the effin better either. Bob Dylan didn’t write that).
I know, right? And we wonder where all the real men have gone…
https://twitter.com/Based_Ninja_San/status/1687176508023156736
Sums it up perfectly Mogs.
Maaan. What a F*****g world we live in
At the moment…
This must be us. Always.
https://twitter.com/SpillTheMemes/status/1687317283834589184
All the “bathroom facilities” in my house are ungendered and have locks on the door to prevent these stupid issues arising.
And how I hate the American euphemism for toilet in British documents.
But memes aside, does it really take around a year to get referred to a specialist at the hospital??? And they’re still doing PCR tests??? WTAF? I was appalled reading this from a GP. Maybe you guys in the UK can confirm this, although I expect there’ll be differences amongst Trusts. I think if I was still in the UK I’d be paying out to go private. The place has gone to the dogs.
”In-patients are regularly being made to have PCR tests. I can infer that a patient has been admitted as an in-patient when I receive a PCR result. I cannot remember when there was last a positive result, and again, it is unclear why this costly and flawed procedure is still being used.
The main problem facing the NHS now is waiting times. My surgeries are filled with patients who have already been referred and are waiting for hospital appointments. The patient rings the hospital to chase their appointment and is told that the waiting list is 50/60/80 weeks long. The only way to be seen sooner is to go back to the GP and ask the GP to expedite it. Where appropriate, I then duly send another letter, but the hospital triages it back down to ‘routine’ status and we are no further on. More time wasted at both points of service. As one consultant gastroenterologist said to me recently “there is no such thing as an urgent referral any more”.
https://www.hartgroup.org/frontline-gp/
Somebody stop me!
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1685530664186363904/photo/1
Maaate…
If any women are uneasy about sharing a toilet with a ‘trans’, then they should just use the Men’s. They’d be much safer in there and no weirdos.
Won’t that start p*ssing off the men too? I have used the gents before but always made sure no one was in there beforehand, out of curtesy!
That’s the “caring” NHS for you. It doesn’t care a jot if you won’t obey.
Nurse Ratched is alive, well and cloned for the NHS.
Love the English, “applicants applying for a job”.
I was in a queue with some patients next to a door with Gender Neutral on. We were all killing ourselves, laughing at it, and summilary embarrassed a young nurse by pointing to it. We remarked it sounded like a London Underground Tube Station
Ok when are we going to label the woke as crazy? That’s what it is…..
Non wokes are probably 98% in the majority. ———–All that is required is that they UNITE and refuse to be bludgeoned. They have the power to stop this total CRAP.
I wonder when they will start the self criticism sessions, I wonder when they will form groups to call out non group think and betrayal of the ideology, or perhaps they have already began, I just guess the next step will be punishment beatings for wrong think.
In all my years of work, from 1968 and counting I’ve never asked any colleague which bog they use. It’s none of my firkin business.