- “Robert Jenrick becomes the third confirmed Tory leader candidate” – Robert Jenrick has become the third Tory leadership candidate to declare, claiming that he already has the 10 MP backers needed to make the ballot, according to Sky News.
- “Has Tom Tugendhat blown up his leadership campaign at launch?” – Tory leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat says he is willing to leave the ECHR, but Patrick O’Flynn, writing in the Spectator, isn’t buying it.
- “Tom Tugendhat mocked after leadership campaign slogan spells out ‘TURD’” – Social media users have poked fun at a Tom Tugendhat’s leadership campaign slogan after it accidentally spelt out “TURD”, says the HuffPost.
- “Official behind May’s Brexit deal ‘lined up to lead Civil Service’” – Theresa May’s ‘Brexit bungler-in-chief’ Sir Olly Robbins is being lined up to become the new head of the Civil Service, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer should never lower the voting age – we’re all extremists at 16” – Idealism is admirable and appropriate for young people, but let’s keep it away from the ballot box, says George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Protesters chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ after policeman ‘stamps on man’s head’ at Manchester Airport” – Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a Rochdale police station and chanted “Allahu Akbar” after an armed officer was filmed stamping on a man’s head at Manchester Airport, reports GB News.
- “Why there’s rioting in Leeds” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle investigates who, precisely, was setting fire to buses in the Harehills area of Leeds last week.
- “Bibby Stockholm asylum seekers say ‘hope has returned’” – Suella Braverman has accused Labour of signalling that Britain is “open for illegal migrants” after announcing it was closing the Bibby Stockholm, says the Mail.
- “Former RAF base used for asylum seekers ‘could become mega-jail’” – A former RAF base, currently accommodating around 500 asylum seekers, has been mooted as a site for a ‘mega-jail’, reports the Mail.
- “Netanyahu has exposed the West’s gross moral hypocrisy” – The Israeli leader’s address to Congress demonstrated true statesmanship in the face of hard-Left intimidation, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Iran ‘plans to target Israelis during the Paris Games’” – Israel has reportedly warned French authorities of an Iran-backed plot to target its athletes during the Olympics, reports LBC.
- “Will we always have Paris?” – If the Olympics go off safely it will be because of months of preparation by every arm of law enforcement, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Unredacted RKI protocols lay bare the entire Covid farce yet again” – Newly released Robert Koch Institute documents reveal that Germany’s Covid response was heavily influenced by politics rather than science, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Shoplifting epidemic is even worse than official figures show” – Industry figures say underreporting means shoplifting is even more endemic than currently thought, with many store owners not bothering to report offences, says the Mail.
- “TV boss Kevin Lygo slams BBC for plugging American shows” – ITV’s boss has hit out at the way the BBC used the Euro 2024 football tournament to plug old U.S. shows it had bought, at the expense of its own British content, according to the Radio Times.
- “Cambridge University is in a state of moral collapse” – Cambridge University has gone from being a beacon of excellence to a swamp of third-class ideas, poisoned by the worst of the social sciences, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Royal Mint to stop making coins from scratch after 1,100 years” – The Royal Mint plans to stop producing coins from scratch at its facility in Wales from December with staff diverted to mining gold from laptop circuit boards, This is Money can reveal.
- “‘What about penny arcades?’” – Brits have reacted with howls of dismay to the news that the Great British penny could be at risk of being scrapped, says the Mail.
- “Council to melt down thousands of ‘love locks’ on famous bridge” – Health and safety zealots have announced that ‘love locks’ are to be permanently banned from a famous bridge in the Peak District, reports the BBC.
- “Biden mumbles as he reveals why he decided to ‘pass the torch’” – President Joe Biden mumbled his way through an 11-minute farewell address to the nation and claimed he could have served another four years if he wanted to, says the Mail.
- “We all know who’s really running the White House” – President Biden has again shown America that he’s no longer fit to serve. Not that you’d know it from the glowing coverage of his all-too-brief primetime address, writes Maureen Callahan in the Mail.
- “The Biden Presidency is ending as dishonestly as it began” – Biden’s ambition, lust for power and epic self-regard meant that he refused to give way until he had no choice, says Freddy Gray in the Telegraph.
- “Why Obama has not yet endorsed Kamala Harris’s Presidential bid” – A source close to Biden’s family says Obama is “very upset” about Harris’s candidacy and “knows she can’t win” against Trump, according to the Mail.
- “The curious rise of Kamala Harris” – In the Spectator, Kate Andrews charts the remarkable rise of Kamala Harris.
- “Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris by two points in Times poll” – Donald Trump remains ahead in the race for the U.S. Presidency with a lead of two points over Kamala Harris, according to polling by YouGov for the Times undertaken after President Biden’s decision to withdraw.
- “Kamala Harris is a danger to the security of the West” – We can guess how Putin and his fellow dictators would react if Kamala Harris wins the Presidency in November, says Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
- “FBI director casts doubt on whether Trump was actually shot” – FBI’s Director Christopher Wray has cast doubt on whether Donald Trump was struck by a bullet during the attempt on his life, reports Newsweek.
- “How the secret service succumbed to ‘diversity hires’” – On SpectatorTV, Freddy Gray is joined by writer Roger Kimball to discuss the security failures surrounding the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
- “Losing grounds for trust” – Conspiracy theories are flourishing everywhere – and that’s a good thing, says El Gato Malo on Substack.
- “U.S. fighter jets scrambled as Russian and Chinese bombers spotted over Alaska” – Four Russian and Chinese bombers have been intercepted operating together for the first time by American and Canadian fighters near Alaska, reports the Express.
- “North Korea cyber spies campaign to steal nuclear secrets revealed” – A cyber group backed by North Korea has been accused by the U.K., U.S. and South Korea of carrying out an online espionage campaign to steal military and nuclear secrets, according to inews.
- “The athletes getting involved in activism – and protests you might see at the Olympics” – Taking a stand isn’t an afterthought for a new generation of Olympic athletes this year. It’s an essential part of their identity, notes Simon Usborne in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer flip-flops on vow of £300 bills cut amid GB Energy drive” – Keir Starmer has borken an election vow to slash energy bills by up to £300, reports the Mail.
- “The great big GB Energy swindle” – The supposed strengths of GB Energy are already falling apart, says Callum McGoldrick in CapX.
- “Ford loses $50,000 on every electric car” – New financial reports from global car manufacturer Ford have revealed that the brand loses almost $50,000 (£38,700) on every electric vehicle it sells, reports GB News.
- “Everything you need to know about La Niña, the climate phenomenon behind this year’s extreme weather” – El Niño’s exit might just be the prelude to another weather fiasco, writes Lilia Sebouai in the Telegraph.
- “Are we really experiencing more ‘extreme’ weather?” – No, BBC, we are not being battered by extreme weather of all kinds, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Leonardo DiCaprio’s eco-venture in trouble as company has $3.5 million loss” – Leonardo DiCaprio could be set for a titanic loss after investing in a British vegan shoe brand, reports the Sun.
- “Swinney must not hide behind Starmer on conversion therapy” – Scotland’s First Minister is said to be considering adopting a new law that will pit children against their parents. He should be supporting families, writes Lois McLatchie Miller in the Times.
- “Constable’s The Hay Wain to be presented as ‘contested landscape’” – The National Gallery’s upcoming exhibition will feature John Constable’s The Hay Wain as a “contested landscape” that neglets the plight of poor workers, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Decolonise Choir” – There seems to be no end to empowering initiatives to “decolonise” things, says Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
- “Progressive parents have brought up a generation of entitled, selfish brats” – Teaching children that the world revolves around them and their whims lays the groundwork for their future careers as activists, warns Ella Whelan in the Telegraph, writing about Just Stop Oil protester Cressida Gethin.
- “What next?” – Dr. David McGrogan updates readers on the future of his News from Uncibal Substack.
- “Elon Musk rechallenges tech boss rival Mark Zuckerberg to cage fight” – Elon Musk is talking about physically fighting Mark Zuckerberg again, says Amanda Yeo in Mashable.
- “Police update regarding the Manchester airport assault” – On X, Andrew Lawrence returns as Sergeant Constable Detective Officer Peter Pisspot from Twat Valley Police to discuss the unfortunate events that took place at Manchester Airport.
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Odd that no publication or climate institute – such as the Met Office with the ceaseless “hottest whatever evah evah” blabbering, will mention the Hunga Tonga eruption…
https://www.carbonbrief.org/tonga-volcano-eruption-raises-imminent-risk-of-temporary-1-5c-breach/
Wondered where all that rain came from? What goes up must come down…
“The eruption of Tonga’s underwater volcano in 2022 may cause global temperatures to rise, raising the risk that at least one year in the next five will temporarily exceed the 1.5C warming threshold, new research finds.
On 15 January 2022, an underwater volcano in Tonga – the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai – erupted violently, releasing billowing plumes of soot, water vapour and sulphur dioxide high into the atmosphere.
Major volcanic eruptions typically cool the planet temporarily, because, until they dissipate, sulphur dioxide particles reflect sunlight away from the planet. However, the study – published in Nature Climate Change – finds that the Tonga eruption in the south Pacific expelled an unprecedented amount of water into the atmosphere.”
And what is not odd is that the institutions tend to be selective with the truth, so as to promote their position.
Thank you for posting about this. We need to make more people aware of it. 13% more water vapour into the stratosphere. Must come down eventually.
If the plot thickens any more it’s going to solidify. And for anyone still subscribing to the ‘cock-up’ theory, or ”It was all that useless woman’s fault” then you’re a denialist, pure and simple;
”A whistleblower is alleging that the U.S. Secret Service declined to use drones at the deadly Pennsylvania rally for former president Donald Trump on July 13, even though the technology was repeatedly offered by local law enforcement, Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said on Thursday.
The Secret Service has fallen under intense scrutiny for failing to prevent a gunman from opening fire and attempting to assassinate Trump at the July 13 rally. Amid a series of reported operational failures, Hawley revealed in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday that a whistleblower had told him that the Secret Service repeatedly rejected offers from law enforcement in Pennsylvania to utilize drones for security purposes.
“The night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally. This means that the technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site. Secret Service said no,” Hawley wrote in his letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday. “The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack.”
Hawley wrote in the letter that the whistleblower also told him that the drone technology that was allegedly offered to the Secret Service had the capability to “neutralize” potential threats as well as monitor them.
“It is hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered, particularly given the fact USSS permitted the shooter to overfly the rally area with his own drone mere hours before [the] event,” Hawley wrote in the letter. The gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, flew a drone over the rally site hours before the event began to scope out the area.”
https://thepoliticsbrief.com/whistleblower-secret-service-repeatedly-rejected-offers-to-use-drones-at-deadly-trump-rally/
Listen to the 5min vid of Senator Josh Hawley speaking with Fox News. He’s receiving multiple reports from whistleblowers telling him what really went on, such as: most security personnel on the day weren’t even members of the Secret Service and they were using various radio channels to communicate but they weren’t linked up. Snipers had eyes on that gunman for 20mins but allowed Trump on stage and did precisely nothing;
”BUTLER, Pa. – Whistleblowers have told Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that a law enforcement officer who was assigned to monitor the roof of a building that would-be former President Trump assassin Thomas Crooks fired from on July 13 left their post because it was “too hot.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/whistleblower-reveals-why-trump-rally-officer-assigned-shooters-perch-moved
Security still looking as good as ever, then. The hotel Netanyahu was staying at got an unwelcome surprise from the lunatic hate mob outside. Well it could have been worse, in that it could’ve been a bomb, I suppose;
”Anti-war protesters in Washington DC appear to have released maggots and worms in and around the hotel where Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is staying during his US visit.
The Palestinian Youth Movement, a grassroots advocacy group, shared an Instagram video showing the worms, and suggested it was done in protest against Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, which has killed over 39,000 Palestinians according to the region’s Hamas-run health ministry.
The video, which showed insects crawling inside the Watergate Hotel where Mr Netanyahu is staying, was reportedly sent anonymously to the Palestinian Youth Movement, which put it up on social media.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/netanyahu-washington-hotel-maggots-pro-palestine-activists-b2585619.html
“U.S. fighter jets scrambled as Russian and Chinese bombers spotted over Alaska”
“over Alaska” sounds ominous but it turns out to be nothing.
“The four aircraft remained in international airspace and did not cross into American or Canadian airspace”
What’s really going on?
“UK Leads Crimean Air Reconnaissance Operations Against Russian Air Defenses”
The RAF remained in international airspace also but unlike the Chinese, appear to be participating in an ongoing conflict and provoking a foreign power that the UK government is openly keen to have a war with.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36381
You are of course referring to the former Russian area now known as Akaska.
It might be ‘appropriate’ but it sure as hell isn’t ‘admirable’. It’s decades of myopic childlike thinking that’s got us into the dire mess we’re now in. Young people are, by definition, immature and we should call out their idealism for what it is – immature, clueless, virtue signalling.
Kamala Harris is a danger to the security of the West
What is really going on?
Kamala Harris is a danger only to herself and her own chances of electoral success.
There is no ‘West’ any longer.
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia are, arguably, no longer part of what used to be called ‘the West’. Turkey is moving away from secularism and ‘the West’.
Nationalism is on the rise, nowhere more evidently than in Ukraine. Russia has been attempting to stamp out Ukrainian nationalism since, at least, the secret decree of (then-Interior Minister of the Russian Empire Pyotr) Valuev in 1863. The decree prohibited the use of the Ukrainian language. Ukrainian culture and language were actively suppressed. With the USSR, as now, this suppression became genocidal. Crimean Tatars were expelled, ‘relocated’ in 1944.
USSR policy involved changing the demographic landscape of a region through deportations and mass murder and then settling Russians in replacement.
This process is now being repeated in Ukrainian regions now occupied by Russia.
However, many of the ‘Russian speakers’ remaining in the occupied regions by no means consider themselves as Russians. Let us not forget that all regions of Ukraine voted in favour of independence in 1991, 92% of the entire population.
As a reaction to Russia’s aggression in 2014, certain politicians were saying that Ukraine must protect its Russian-speaking citizens.
Silly nonsense.
For decades, no-one could express their opinions in Ukraine, except in Russian.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36381
Air traffic data reviewed by Kyiv Post confirmed the RC-135W with the call sign RRR7224 took off from Waddington, England and flew across Europe before reaching the Black Sea at about 11:00 Universal Metric Time (UMT).
What’s really going on?
At the UN Ocean in Lisbon 2022 a collection of state and non-state actors came together and committed to tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by supporting the IUU Fishing Action Alliance Pledge.
Britain and the Royal Air Force are working hard on data collection regarding harmful fishing practices related to IUU fishing, including labour abuses in the seafood supply chain, and increasing collaboration to better identify and address forced labour, unsafe working conditions, and other labour abuses in the fishing industry.
What’s really going on?
You didn’t provide a link between the reported RAF “Crimean Air Reconnaissance Operations Against Russian Air Defenses” and illegal fishing.
Now that really is a funny story. Kiev invents a cover story about Britain sending a surveillance plane across Europe (escorted, as I understand it, by two fighter aircraft) to monitor illegal fishing in the Black Sea.
Meanwhile, a jet ski packed with explosives, identified as comeing from Ukraine by the local authorities, is washed up on the Black Sea coast of Turkey
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia are, arguably, no longer part of what used to be called ‘the West’. Turkey is moving away from secularism and ‘the West’.
Nonsense! Germany or, to be more exact, its Chancellor sacrificed the Nord Stream pipelines for the West. Hungary is attempting to negotiate a peace settlement in Ukraine, which of course goes against the grain of all those willing to sacrifice the country and its people in support of US hegemony. Turkey moved away from secularism a long time ago.
Nationalism is on the rise … Valuev in 1863 … With the USSR, as now …
You continue to confuse today’s Russia with yesteryear’s USSR. There is no comparison. Russia is led by a President determined to better the country and protect if from the sadly united forces of your West. The fact that he is successful in both matters should be something the West could learn from: peace is less destructive and less expensive than war.
This process is now being repeated in Ukrainian regions now occupied by Russia.
More nonsense. The eastern regions refused to accept the 2014 Maidan Coup overturning the democratically elected (and for the West, sadly pro-Russian) Yanukovych government, and fought against the neo-Nazi Ukrainian Banderites who were (and are) being funded and supported by USA, Germany and France.
Russia organized completely democratic referendums in the four eastern regions it defended from the Banderites and the four regions overwhelmingly voted to becoming part of Russia – hardly surprising since Ukraine has been shelling the areas daily since 2014 at the cost of around 16,000 lives: men, women and children.
It was furthermore the new Ukrainian government that forbade the use of the Russian language in Ukraine, not the other way around.
Let us not forget that all regions of Ukraine voted in favour of independence in 1991, 92% of the entire population.
Again, that was in the days of USSR, not today’s Russia.
As a reaction to Russia’s aggression in 2014, certain politicians were saying that Ukraine must protect its Russian-speaking citizens … Silly nonsense … For decades, no-one could express their opinions in Ukraine, except in Russian.
Again, USSR.
What Russian aggression in 2014?
And, with reference to your Black Sea fishing scandal, just what on earth is the RAF doing scrutinizing fishing in the Black Sea? They should perhaps first defend British coastal waters or are the French still allowed to fish right up to our coastline?
1863 was, of course, well before USSR. Alexander II was Tsar at the time. Was there a Ukraine in 1863? Apparently not. Western Europe certainly looked very different.
‘Kievan Rus’ – a medieval state that came into existence in the 9th century and was centred around present-day Kiev – is regarded as a joint ancestral homeland that laid the foundations for both modern Russia and Ukraine. But from the time of its foundation to its conquest by the Mongols in the 13th century, the Rus’ was an increasingly fragmented federation of principalities. Its south-western territories, including Kiev, were conquered by Poland and Lithuania in the early 14th century.
The Orthodox East Slavic population of these lands gradually developed an identity distinct from that of the East Slavs remaining in the territories under Mongol and later Muscovite rule. A distinct Ukrainian language had already begun to emerge in the dying days of the Kievan Rus’. Following the incorporation of present-day Ukraine into Poland-Lithuania, the Ukrainian language evolved in relative isolation from the Russian language.
In 1667, Poland-Lithuania had to cede to Moscow control of the territories east of and including Kiev. The Cossack statelet in the eastern territories gradually turned into a Russian vassal state, but its relationship with Russia was rife with conflict. Sporadic Cossack uprisings were now directed against the Tsars. Following the final Partitions of Poland in the 1790s, the Russian Empire absorbed the remainder of modern-day Ukraine (apart from its extreme west, which was annexed by Austria).
The territories of Ukraine remained a part of the Russian state for the next 120 years. Russia’s imperial authorities systematically persecuted expressions of Ukrainian culture and made continuous attempts to suppress the Ukrainian language. In spite of this, a distinct Ukrainian national consciousness emerged and consolidated in the course of the 19th century.
When the Russian Empire collapsed in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1917, the Ukrainians declared a state of their own.
After several years of warfare and quasi-independence, however, Ukraine was once again partitioned between the nascent Soviet Union and newly independent Poland.
From the early 1930s onwards, nationalist sentiments were rigorously suppressed in the Soviet parts of Ukraine, but they remained latent and gained further traction through the traumatic experience of the ‘Holodomor’, a disastrous famine brought about by Joseph Stalin’s agricultural policies in 1932-33 that killed between three and five million Ukrainians.
Armed revolts against Soviet rule were staged during and after World War II and were centred on the western regions of Ukraine that had been annexed from Poland in 1939-40.
It was only with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 that Ukraine gained lasting independent statehood of its own – but Ukrainian de facto political entities struggling for their autonomy or independence had existed long before that.’
Bjorn Alexander Duben
Thank you for the interesting summary. Which is also why Poland, Hungary (Austro-Hungarian empire) and Lithuania (?) may be interested in reclaiming their piece of modern day Ukraine.
No. Only the totalitarian fascist state of Russia.
This is not a time of war.
That is why Russia is losing, badly, by any measure, and the U.S. strategy of weakening Russia is succeeding.
Apparently Sir Richard Knighton, a Cambridge graduate and now Chief of the Air Staff, is a notorious bon viveur extremely fond of caviar.
So he has sent his lads off in force to find out what is causing the scarcity of his favourite hors d’oeuvre.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-13671559/Royal-Mint-stop-making-coins-scratch-1-100-years-staff-mining-circuit-boards-gold-instead.html
A prelude to a cashless society? Or the usual thing- we are giving up on another manufacturing and industrial process in the UK. No doubt we will have less cash due to a lack of blanks? (indeed banks which is already happening)
In the Royal Mint article by This is Money, it says that the Mint is expected to lose £30M this year. Stamping their own loss, by the look of it!
One thought that I can’t shake about the attempted assassination of Trump, and whether it was incompetence or something more sinister, and it’s this: given the highly technological age we live in, isn’t there a way to kill Trump that has less risk and more likelihood of success? If the USSS wanted to take him out then they’d surely want to do it in a way where analysis of the event is minimised. Conspiracy theories will arise from any type of attempt, but why provide potential evidence, and risk failure, by using the good old loan gunman tactic in front of the eyes of the world with countless angles of many locations being recorded through phones. That doesn’t make sense to me. Instead, they could have slipped someone within his inner circle, created a fatal ‘accident’, ricin etc. all would trigger conspiracy theories but could be more easily controlled in terms of observational evidence.
I’m more than open to the idea of an inside job, but at the moment I am – and I’m surprising myself a little here – leaning more towards the fact that there were just too many people that had been placed into positions for which they were not suitable. Both Cheatle and the women ‘protecting’ Trump were very clearly DEI hires rather than hires on merit. You could, of course, then theorise that the incompetence has been deliberately injected into the service for exactly the reason of opening opportunities, but that seems too complicated and fragile to me. We’ll probably never really know.
It was all so theatrical wasn’t it?
What’s your point, ELH? (genuinely interested)
My point is that whether it was real or contrived matters not – it was very filmic: good for photographers and tv news and social media. It was a huge distraction at the time, all eyes on the US.
Thanks ELH – it certainly was amazingly dramatic…
Yes, it most certainly was! Glad someone noticed that.
A miserly application of a chemical compound administered to underpants would surely have been a more effective clandestine method of untimely dispatch by ‘them dark forces’……..
Well, clandestine unless the poisoned unfortunate rang up the perpetrator and cozened him into admitting his guilt…….
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/
I think that horse has been flogged to death.
“Ford loses $50,000 on every electric car”
Where is this whole EV business going to go? Next year the Chinese BYD car company is bringing their small low range, low cost seagull EV a sort of city utility EV to the UK.
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/byd/362943/new-byd-seagull-will-come-uk-2025-rival-dacia-spring
It is as if we are being browbeaten with all these EV horror stories so that in the end we will be grateful if we can manage to stagger on with some utility motoring in a BYD Seagull. Even then I think that the EV business will force many UK motorists to give up motoring. If people have either no car or a low range utility car, the effect of this on the wider motor related industries, commuting, the leisure and tourism industry and our general way of life will be huge.
Well that is just one thought on the matter. As to how this EV business plays out in the end it is hard to predict but whatever, it does look as if EVs along with much of the other net-zero wonder technology is leading us into a big mess.
“Council to melt down thousands of ‘love locks’ on famous bridge”
Good! This is an evil “Binding Ritual” to violate the Free Will of the Victim, equivalent to witchcraft “love potions”, trying to force another person to love you and stay with you.
It originated after a WW1 soldier in Serbia cheated on his village fiancee and married a Greek woman in Corfu, after which his fiancee pined away and died of a broken heart, as one does, so all the other women in the village started this ritual with padlocks to bind their own lovers and husbands to them forever. It became popular in Italy after some Italian wrote a miserable romantic novel, and now it has spread all over Europe.
Get rid!
“Protesters chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ after policeman ‘stamps on man’s head’ at Manchester Airport”
The policeman’s actions came after one of those being detained attacked the officers, leaving one of them with a broken nose and two others also requiring hospital treatment.
My own personal view is that the police response was entirely appropriate. As Patrick Christys of GB News pointed out, do we want a “Police Service” that runs away from rioters, or a “Police Force” that can and will respond to criminal violence with force?
The thing that always fascinated me with cases like this is: in the recesses of his tiny mind, how did the perpetrator imagine things were going to work out when he took his first swing at the WPC?
Popper’s dictum about tolerating the intolerable comes to mind. By repeatedly failing to take action, we have encouraged this kind of behaviour. Worse to come, I think…
Spot on.
Yes, there are some great comments from the public in the Daily Mail about this which I will try to post below.
“Shoplifting epidemic is even worse than official figures show”
That’s because shoplifting has turned into looting, thanks to Globalists blocking all efforts to punish criminals.
“Why there’s rioting in Leeds” The Spectator article is behind a paywall, so here’s the reason:
“Her Honour Judge Trotter-Jackson explained that the Family Court had given permission for the children to be removed because of fears they would be taken out of the UK.
Leeds Children’s Services had been told “by a third party” that family members planned to take them to Romania.
The court heard the children were all foreign nationals without settled status in the UK, and it could be difficult for them to return to Britain.
All were already subject to Family Court orders, which would make it unlawful to remove them from the UK without the permission of either the local authority or the court.
Those orders were made in April, after a baby in the family was taken to hospital with unexplained injuries.”
Children returned to extended family after Leeds disorder – BBC News
All the Romanians involved should be charged with “Wasting Police Time” and sent packing back to their ancestral homeland.
That is the only thing they fear: permanent deportation.
“Police update regarding the Manchester airport assault”
Here are some great quotes from the public about this, as well as Reform MP Lee Anderson’s:
—“Do we want to see counter terrorism police officers nullifying potential threats quickly and efficiently, or do we ask Sgt Wilson to ask them politely if they wouldn’t mind awfully not making such a fuss? When you lay your hands on a uniformed officer of the law expect consequences.”
—“Having watched the videos and having listened to various MPs, in particular Mr Anderson from the Reform Party, my only regret now is that I didn’t vote for them. The only one talking any sense.”
— Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has said he would give the police involved in the kicking incident in Manchester “a medal”. “The message I am getting loud and clear from my constituents is they are fed up with seeing police dancing around rainbows and being nice to people and running off from rioters. They want police to do their job, and I think these police yesterday should be commended. In fact, I’d give them a medal. Hardly heard anything from them about the female officer who had her nose broke or the officers taken to hospital. I will back our police and said this earlier to the BBC. Brace yourself for the nonsense in the studio.”
—“In many other countries the police would simply have shot them. Think about that for a moment. Regardless of a single police officer’s potential over-reaction, the individuals involved chose to assault another passenger, then resisted arrest and assaulted police officers, and potentially threatened the safety of other members of the public at the airport. They are responsible for the decisions they made and the actions they decided to take. Until they are subdued, no-one knows what their intentions are – now they are being portrayed as innocent victims of police violence……”
—“Cops with firearms cannot get into a physical altercation, or struggle, with a suspect due to the risk of being disarmed, and having their firearms used upon them, or others by the suspect. Consequently they have to rapidly dominate, subdue and restrain, in such circumstances.”
—“So different in other countries. In Spain, an on-the-spot fine is issued if you disrespect the police, or if you’re rude to them or ignore their requests. If a minor is rude or there is anti-social behaviour, their parents are issued with a fine. In cases like the one in Manchester, the police would receive the full backing of the public and the politicians and indeed would be treated as heroes… In Spain, it’s automatic jail for any assault on a policeman/woman, they do have the backing of the public and the courts… Their actions would not be questioned. I feel sorry for all of the officers involved and I am not a fan of the police.”
—“Although the Policeman’s actions seem harsh and inappropriate, you have to consider that he was called to an ongoing incident where 3 Police Officers had been assaulted. And because he is a Firearms Officer, he has to protect his weapon at all times. So he used reasonable force with his foot to make the assailant comply. It does look awful but what else could he do if his hands were protecting his weapon.”