- “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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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/24/crown-estate-make-billions-ed-miliband-wind-farm-spree/
No wonder Chuckles and Co are keen on Nut Zero.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/starmer-and-the-stink-of-the-welsh-cesspit/
Patrick Benham-Cresswell at TCW taking a look at the utter corruption in the Welsh Synedd and concluding it is a match for Westminster. I cannot disagree.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/07/24/from-trumps-assassination-to-bidens-disappearing-act-its-all-theatre/
Kit Knightly rightly pointing out that ‘the politics’ is nothing more a pantomime designed to keep us amused, confused and distracted while the gates are slowly pulled shut.
Referencing the US election:
“Maybe there’s even more twists to come – an exciting season finale from a writing team so desperate to keep the ratings up they’re pulling out all the stops.
Spectacle and theater designed to keep us in amnesia about the fact that win or lose, the good guys and bad guys are just actors working for the same people and they get paid whether or not their character survives to the see the credits roll.”
Thanks, HP – an interesting and provocative read.
I must say, I found it hard to agree with Kit Knightly, who seems to be implying that the assassination attempt on Trump was not real but staged, and that Trump is not really on the side of “the citizens” against the Deep State. An excerpt captures this:
“Hey guys, remember the second shooter? Remember the patsy? Remember when the Secret Service were told to stand down?
Hey all you libertarians and Truthers out there – see, Donald is just like JFK, he’s on YOUR side. He’s opposing that mean old Deep State you don’t like. Honest.
The remake of course is cheaper, cheesier and catered to small, bruised and confused modern minds no longer fully able to remember what real reality looks like and who will easily fail to notice
a) Trump didn’t actually get his head blown off.
b) in his previous 4 years in office he never opposed the Deep State at all; and
c) The Warren Commission wasn’t a collection of scripted questions posted to Twitter piecemeal by PR teams trying to make their candidates look tough.”
I would be interested in your thoughts, but my (naive, in KK’s opinion) view is that Trump (like JFK) is genuinely anti-establishment and anti-Deep State and is sincere in his wish to reform or dismantle the Deep State and to “make life better for ordinary Americans”.
for what it’s worth, I think nothing is ever black and white. i agree that Trump wants to change things but he has his limits and biases. This will never be good enough for those truthers who want total overhaul of the system. question is whether Trump is better than nothing and supporting him will be more productive than holding out for the ideal, ie best.
Wednesday Morning Crowmarsh Gifford & Crowmarsh Hill Wallingford
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/taking-back-control/
Much to commend in this article by Kim Rye at thenewconservative but the naïvity is embarrassing.
“Twenty twenty-four is mired in doom and gloom; the country is in a dreadful state. Hostile cultures that want to take up residence here, but hate us and our way of life, are busy creating fear and oppression. The ‘politics of the subcontinent’, as Nigel Farage recently put it are being played out on the streets of Britain. For example, the disputes raging in Bangladesh are now being fought over in East London. They had nothing to do with this country; we cannot be the world’s policeman.”
Followed by this:
“It began in 2020, with the biggest error of judgement ever: the response to Covid-19 and the reaction of the world government.
“The truth is that whoever we are, the system in which we operate is managed by politicians. If we don’t like how they are running things, we need to change it ourselves.”
Politicians running the country? As if.
There was NO Pandemic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13669975/Rochdale-police-station-protest-Manchester-airport-arrest-video.html
War is being declared in Rochdale.
Leeds last weekend. It’s all brewing up a treat.
Oldham next.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz1IXIw651k
Kamala cannot use Sleepy Joe’s campaign funds and Obama dingalong won’t support her. More manufactured pantomime.
”I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
“How the failure of carbon capture risks causing a Net Zero nightmare”
Carbon Capture? a sort of Sisyphean task where the task as well as been non achievable is also pointless and it matters not whether of not it is achieved. The war against carbon seems to me like a never ending non winnable war the only real point of which is to impoverish us all and keep us all enslaved.
“J.K. Rowling attacks Labour’s Lisa Nandy over trans athletes row”
”Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
Except for Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola”
”You should see Polythene Pam
She’s not good-looking, but she looks like a man
Well you should see her in drag, dressed in a polythene bag
Yes, you should see Polythene Pam”
Red deer stags are now growing their Antlers ready for the Autumn rut, I have never come across a trans red deer, the very idea is preposterous. I rest my case.
Well there are 2 impossible things for us to believe before breakfast, I am sure others can think of more to add to the list.
Carbon’s being captured already, by the greening of the planet, indeed, it is so successfully being done that the eco-loons are now protesting that we must protect the deserts.,,
Not preposterous – an evolutionary dead-end to be ignored by the rest of the herd.
Russia to lose one million men in Ukraine advance
Russia is losing this war, badly. They occupy less of Ukraine now than when they started.
Their original 100,000-strong invasion force has grown to 520,000, with a goal by the end of 2024 of 690,000 men.
‘If they carry on as they are, it would probably take the Russians five years to grind their way to their minimum objectives of the four oblasts’
‘At the current rate of attrition of dead and wounded, that puts them probably well north of 1.5 million people – casualties – to achieve that with untold billions of [pounds of] lost equipment.’
General Sir Roly Walker
‘So I think in that sense, it’s hard to see how this is going in Russia’s favour. But maybe their calculus is different to ours’
Their calculus is most certainly different to ours.
‘Established in 2014, the 1st Slavyansk Brigade spent eight years fighting in Ukraine’s east. The unit would go on to suffer heavy losses during the siege of Mariupol and during subsequent attempts to storm Avdiivka. Over the course of the past two and a half years, it’s managed to advance about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in total.’
No wonder
‘Their commander greeted them by saying, “The Russian meat has arrived,”
‘“[He had] a knee injury and an arm injury. Nothing was fully treated, and the shrapnel wasn’t removed. And that’s how he went into that assault — lame, with a bandaged leg,”
‘In February, his toes turned black from frostbite but he still wasn’t hospitalized. “There wasn’t really any treatment [in the unit]. They just applied ointment and bandaged it,” he told his sister.
‘Bykov got shoes a size larger so he could walk and the command staff continued to send him on extraction missions.’
‘Of the 252 soldiers from Maxim Bykov’s battalion, only four are definitely alive — the rest of the draftees are listed as missing or dead.’
‘Larisa Mamaeva, whose brother disappeared two months ago, said that the soldiers refer to the unit’s mortality rate as “the algorithm.” “No one serves there for more than six months: If you make it through one combat mission, you won’t make it through the next one,”
That is why Britain must play its part in rebuilding the post WW2 conventional deterrent in Europe.
So that this madness ends and never happens again.
Thank you for your daily dose of misinformation and anecdote. You weren’t missed yesterday.
The camera does not lie
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1816199292887208441?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Are you really that naive? Of course the camera lies, as do the people posting videos and as do the people doing the translations.
So the Russians are assaulting Novomikhailovka, according to the video.
I have some bad news for you. They have taken that village and have moved on west to Konstantinovka, which is expected to fall in the next few days.
I think that video is several moths old and was taken when Russia made an ill judged massed assault in spring. It was acknowledged as a mistake by the Russians and changes were instituted to the command structure.
The tactics in use now are completely different and Ukrainian resistance is crumbling at an increasing rate, as they rush troops from place to place to plug the gaps.
What is needed is a realsitic appraisal of the situation. CNN and NYT are increasingly acknowledging the current bleak outlook for Ukraine, although the British MSM are still in denial.
As for Western military analysts, they should all be sacked.
I retract the bit about the video being old. I have now seen a geolocated version, which shows it took place at the edge of Constantinovka and represents the start of a serious assault on that village.
The war is not going well for Russia
Problems with discipline:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1816390921904112089?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Problems with equipment:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1816381224828518654?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Problems with basic survival:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1816379605885878510?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Russia’s ability to continue gradually expanding the amount of manpower and materiel it has committed to Ukraine faces significant constraints in the medium to long term. The Russian military has extensively relied on refurbishing stocks of Soviet-era weapons and military equipment to sustain the tempo of its offensive operations in Ukraine.
Russia is currently not producing enough to cover its current equipment losses in Ukraine.
Russia will likely be able to sustain losing over 3,000 armored fighting vehicles annually for at least two or three more years (until about 2026–2027) by refurbishing Soviet-era vehicles in storage.
This is the U.S. strategy:
To weaken Russia to the extent that it can no longer conduct the kind of operations that it is conducting in Ukraine.
Russia has already lost well over nine thousand armoured fighting vehicles. As Russia depletes its finite Soviet stockpiles, the Russian defence industry will be not able to produce enough vehicles to sustain a high level of equipment losses even with further economic mobilization.
Additionally, further economic mobilization would be deeply unpopular among Russians who are largely apathetic towards the war so long as it does not impact their daily life.
The U.S. strategy is working.
When reality bites…Looks like this MSM journalist had quite the wake-up call. Well now Syria has been declared a safe country there’s no excuse not to deport this nasty specimen and his family;
”A journalist for Germany’s left-leaning Spiegel Magazine, known for its pro-migration views and efforts against the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, stepped in to protect two elderly women near the North Sea coast, which resulted in a 13-year-old Syrian punching him in the face. Now, he is complaining about a lack of consequences for the youth.
Christian Neef is a well-known journalist for the outlet and has been working for many years for Spiegel. However, Neef himself said he “defended two elderly” women in Husum in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which resulted in consequences.
“Today, I had my own experience with a so-called refugee. In Husum, a Syrian punched me in the face. I had defended two elderly women who asked him to get off the back of a public bench on which they were sitting and not to continue to spit at their feet. The interesting thing: The police told me that it was a 13-year-old Syrian who was well-known in the city and who had been caught over 50 times for theft and violent crimes since the beginning of 2024 alone. Sanctions available: none.”
The post led to widespread mockery on X as a case of a liberal journalist suddenly confronting what tens of thousands experience every year, with violence, sexual assault, and robberies skyrocketing in Germany due to mass immigration.
One X user wrote, “It could be that they learned more in this moment than in their 26 years at Spiegel.
If they’re lucky.”
Ex-AfD politician Tatjana Festerling wrote, “Oh well! The Big Thinking people in the Refugees Welcome whining editorial offices need their own ‘experiences’ before they realize that low-trust cultures can never be integrated into high-trust societies. When I explained this in Pegida speeches in 2015, the reaction was ‘Racist!’”
https://rmx.news/article/germany-journalist-for-pro-migrant-spiegel-magazine-complains-on-x-after-being-punched-in-the-face-by-13-year-old-syrian/
“NHS equality training tells staff using the wrong pronouns for trans people raises risk of suicide”
Support your evidence-free NHS.
Trump and his team have been advised by the Secret Service to not hold any more outdoor rallies. Well if their performance on the 13th is anything to go by doesn’t this just sound like they’re effectively admitting how incapable they are and how they cannot be trusted? But how will this effect Trump’s campaign going forward? Getting rid of the ( conveniently DEI-obsessed female ) scapegoat/fall guy isn’t going to make a blind bit of difference when the system is corrupt from roots to branch. If they want you dead they want you dead, no matter what the gender of SS agents or director. Cheatle reported to DHS Secretary Mayorkas and he reports to Harris and Biden. We don’t need Sherlock Holmes;
”The bipartisan hounding that got Jill Biden’s inept choice for Secret Service director kicked to the curb (new regime and all) didn’t solve anything. It’s rarely just one man or woman and even more rarely the one at the top. The top guy, whether it was Cheatle, Mayorkas, Biden or Garland, is usually just the buffoon and fall guy out front while the radical pros with actual ideas implement their agenda.
So no, nothing is going to change.
Since the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pa., Secret Service officials have communicated the agency’s concerns about large outdoor events featuring Trump to his campaign advisers, encouraging them to no longer hold the 78-year-old Republican nominee for president’s rallies out in the open, according to the Washington Post.
That significantly reduces the possible number of venues, raises costs, and will likely reduce the number of events. This is a heckler’s veto that benefits one side in this election and it’s not the side that got shot.
Sure, the Secret Service could do its job, but like most of the federal government these days, the job, as defined by the top echelons, is to ‘fortify democracy’ by sabotaging Republicans and electing Democrats.
The idea here is to either cripple Trump’s rallies, the strongest part of his campaign, or if the campaign keeps doing them and there’s another assassination attempt, to blame it on Trump for not listening.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/secret-service-tells-trump-not-to-do-outdoor-rallies/
It is also an admission that altering the electronic voting system is not available this year as they are so desperate to stop Trump. Maybe Elon has been the catalyst?
Just to put the Heathrow kicking into perspective.
I’m not saying it’s right I’m just saying the first bit was not filmed, the bit were the accused seriously attacked officers!
“The footage came moments after three officers were subject to a violent assault which saw them punched to the ground, Greater Manchester Police said.
A female officer has suffered a broken nose – and all three cops were taken to hospital for treatment.”
It’s the same with History: if you don’t explain what happened just before, the action usually appears incredulous to the unthinking.
But then, that’s the intention.
https://youtu.be/dC1MKPxtAkA?si=qyN6mKoqTxPeV5Oh
A short vid from Patrick Christys at GB News outlining the lead up.
Not sure the lead-up, beyond a certain point really matters all that much… a pretty good rule of thumb, if you don’t want to get a kicking is: don’t be a dick and start punching other people, especially not women, be they police officers or otherwise.
Creepy how the media are featuring this story of “evil white police” attacking “helpless innocent Muslim terrorists”, while downplaying the story of the Nigerian Muslim Terrorist attacking an unarmed, uniformed British soldier from behind, with typical cowardice, then licking the soldier’s blood off the blade, in full view of witnesses, before escaping on a motorbike.
They have already started trotting out the “mental health issues” excuse, ignoring the direct correlation of this attack, as well as the stabbing of a prison officer in Durham, with the conviction of Muslim Terrorist Filth Anjem Choudary, at whose door these attacks can be laid.
“The Dukes of MAGA”.
Nauseating insult to the original Dukes of Hazzard.
FBI director casts doubts on Trump being struck by bullet during assassination attempt (msn.com)
“When questioned by committee chairman Jim Jordan as to whether the FBI had accounted for all of the bullets at the scene, Wray said that eight spent rounds were recovered from the rooftop of the building from which the gunman opened fire.
“With respect to former president Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” the FBI chief added.
“As I sit here right now, I don’t know whether that bullet… in addition to causing the grazing, could have landed somewhere else.”
He added: “But I believe we’ve accounted for all the shots in the cartridges.”