- “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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Greetings, earthlings
Greetings, Greetings.
Greetings. Live long and prosper.
You too, hp.
Cheers AE.
All the best
Greetings HP. And commiserations (if you’re interested in the football. The way some of these clubs is run is a disgrace).
Yes, very sad. Oh for the likes of another Joe Royle.
Hey, you stole my line! “There’s life Jim, but not as we know it”. There, I feel whole again.
I was about to go into the IDIC, but I thought it might start an online debate.
Nanu Nanu.
Also in the news: the Ukrainian holdout in the steel factory in Mariupol. I wonder whether any SAS or SBS guys are there?
Whatever Boris Johnson went to Kiev for, it wasn’t to go walkabout.
Several Russian generals have been killed in the Ukraine. Odd, that.
If there’s about to be a “Look at these captured SAS personnel” story, you can bet there will be a distraction, or something to “justify”, even retrospectively, their participation in this war – such as the type of false flag attack that the Russian military are saying may be imminent either in Lisichansk (in the LPR) or in Odessa.
If we assume that accounts of children being in the steel factory are accurate, one has to ask why ON EARTH children have been taken to stay in a STEEL FACTORY during WARTIME, when such factories are considered according to the laws of warfare to be “legitimate military targets”. The accusation of “using civilians as a human shield” flies around a lot nowadays. Well here you seem to have a very clear case of that particular war crime.
I’ve also heard stories of children at Azovstal. This, as you say, is a factory – not a suburb. Children would have had to be taken there; confirming the persistent reports that portions of the Ukrainian armed forces (I’m choosing my words carefully) are indeed using civilians as human shields.
It might well be the reason the Russians have said that they will wait for the surrender; rather than storming it.
Factory may be understating it slightly, I understand it is quite a large complex with underground tunnels. Still with their supplies cut off, there is only so long they can last out there.
The Ukrainians describe it as a metallurgical combine; we’d call it an iron and steel works. It’s enormous, in the Soviet style – complete with bunkers. The Russians are saying that they have two week’s worth of supplies.
It must be hell in there; particularly if you are there against your will. I understand that at least some of those inside have been pleading for permission to surrender.
And I understand some have been deterred from surrendering by being shot by their “comrades”.
I assume the story would be that it is a case of civilians who couldn’t, or wouldn’t get out making a last stand. It is the last area not under Russian control, apparently. There was a story that over 100,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted from the Ukraine and taken to Russia to be brought up as Russians, and are never likely to be heard of again. If this is true, or at least believed to be true, civilians in the region might certainly be expected not to give themselves up to the Russians.
War is a dirty business. No-one comes out of it with clean hands.
Pretending that somehow this is ‘The Devil vs. The Angels’ is crushingly naïve.
Absolutely. War (and history in general) is generally shades of grey (except maybe when told by people trying to push a narrative.
In any case, the wider point is that there is a strong demographic element to this war. I suspect demography, one way and another, is going to be a major driver of events in the coming years.
I think that may be referring to the children, mostly from the DNR and LNR who have been evacuated from the fighting – if I remember correctly, several thousand had needed evacuation before the invasion, because of the Ukrainian attacks on the Donbass in mid-February.
It sounds like it has been spun to sound like an evil Russian plan to steal kids, but the Russian Ministry of Defence are quite open about evacuating civilians from the battlegrounds and publicise the numbers – unlike their adversaries in the Azov battalion, they seem quite proud of getting children out of harm’s way.
If you look at their Telegram channel, they quite often post of having evacuated people, for example, on 16th April, they evacuated 15,387 people from “the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and also from other dangerous areas of the Ukraine in the course of the day”.
Are they somehow different from those who were “abducted” to the West to be brought up there.
There have been lots of stories coming from Ukraine – I treat them all with a healthy dose of scepticism.
That story is extremely unlikely to be true: the Russian government has no need to steal children on such a scale, the annual abortion rate in Russia exceeds half a million, and the logistical resources required would be enormous.
However,
Ah, more Corbynite propaganda against Israel
For the same reason that civilians, including children used to shelter in underground stations during the Blitz, perhaps? They’re further underground than the coal cellar… I imagine if you were in that position and being shelled with heavy artillery, you’d probably find the deepest hole you could find to hide yourself and your kids in too?
Putin’s actions are creating a second Holodomor
Good. Apparently the FDA union boss said this was insulting. What planet are these people on?
The same one as us. But we have lost the ability to hold them to account. When a service is paid from general taxation you need to pay for an associated service to police these activities. This itself is prone to hijacking too.
In sum, we are only seeing a rare glimpse into the normal workings of the public sector. This is their norm. Only the naive think the public sector provide good value.
To hell with the polite notices. They either get their Rs back into the workplace or they are fired.
I think you can combine the approaches. You have a week to get back in. If you are not there a week on Monday don’t come back at all.
What’s the point of leaving a note on an empty desk? The occupant won’t be there to see it…
FDA are lazy know it alls who consider themselves a cut above EVERYBODY.
What’s the point of leaving notes on desk when there is no-one there to read them? Maybe he should tie balloons, they are full of air, a better way to highlight the issue to the people who are in the office. (And who actually might quite enjoy being there with fewer colleagues and actually get on with some work.)
Question is, even if BJ goes, do the Conservative party still have that system where the MPs vote for candidates, and the party members get to vote for the two who get the most votes from the parliamentary party? And if so, is there actually any chance of Mr. (if you’ll forgive the presumption
) Baker becoming leader, however popular he may be with the grassroots?
Leading with some comedy today.
Man With Colossal Brass Balls Leaves Notes On Unoccupied Desks.
Faaaaaark
Our kitties will be remaining carnivore, as nature intended. At what point will these loons say to themselves, ‘I know this is like the next step in our ideology, but its a bit stupid. Maybe we’ve taken this too far.?’
My friend from the Baltic states told me how in Soviet times people used to feed the cats whatever the humans were eating (i.e. an omniverous diet) and as long as they had this from being a kitten, they would be perfectly happy with it, and indeed live for many years. They told of a dog that lived for well over 20 years before the modern custom of feeding pets processed pet food.
I remember a story too about a dog in a James Herriot book that got mostly chips… still, it probably wouldn’t be very sensible to feed cats or dogs an entirely vegan diet (or humans – I hear “veggan” (vegan apart from eggs from your own hens) is increasing in popularity though).
I confess, I find most vegans nowadays to be terribly shallow, not like the pasty skinned, emaciated vegans of old, who would rather die than e.g. wear leather.
Many of them are just VINO’s, vegans in name only, cramming highly processed ‘burger-like’ down themselves rather than minced beef and a little seasoning. Still, its ‘healthy’, and of course fits in with the whole ‘everyone’s going to starve in 20 years time’ nonsense. Look at people in the streets in most countries you can name. Anyone look like they’re starving..?
Not yet…
Exactly. Fatness is our problem. Which is primarily sugar, processed foods, hydrogenated vegetable oils and lack of exercise.
But fixing that is boring and doesn’t come with smugness attached.
Except they want to normalize obesity and disguise it as a problem by using the whole “Body positivity” movement. Anti-fatness is based on anti-blackness apparently now. You need to watch this short vid. Shawn Baker calling out more dysfunctional loons; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIOhvXQPCIQ&t=23s
“vegans of old, who would rather die than e.g. wear leather.”
There’s a rather nice story in one of the papers this morning of a vegan activist, who has an interesting sideline selling leather handbags online.
Absolutely. If they say ‘Vegan’, look at the shoes…
And ask them if they checked the contents of their tattooists ink bottles…
Hard to avoid everything that’s a byproduct of animals. Wonder if you can get vegan fireworks or glue…? https://www.treehugger.com/everyday-products-you-didnt-know-had-animal-ingredients-4858750
My wife lived in Moscow and in 1998, after the economic crisis, cat food wasn’t available for a bit, so they tried to feed it smetana (sour cream). The cat wasn’t impressed. It ate enough to keep it alive, though.
Left to itself our labrador would subsist entirely on long grass and fox poo. Our old one on one occasion ignored a juicy dead rabbit in favour of some hazel masts lying around.
Dogs are nature’s waste disposal operatives, if there’s a nutrient in it they’ll scoff it. Mine liked cat poo when it was a pup, apparently there’s enzymes in it that they need. I guess they used to clean up around human encampments before we invented waste disposal methods.
Cats need raw foods like mice. Ours take half a dozen a day each. They are expert dissectionists, leaving the unpalatable parts like the bowel. Brains get eaten first, nice and fatty. All the official pet foods just seem to be fibre waste from cereal production, ash and a sprinkling of essential nutrients.
Half a dozen mice a day? Each??? Do you live off grid or something? LOL I don’t know many places that have that many rodents handy on the regular.
Yep, I live in a very rural area. If I am working outside, I can see the cats hunting and eating, I was quite surprised when I saw how many they caught over the course of a day. And most of their hunting is in the night or early morning when the mice are active, so it may be more. You can see mouse tracks into long dead grass, if you know what to look for, mice are everywhere, the cats can hear them and smell them. No idea how many calories a cat needs a day, maybe a few hundred, can probably figure it out from a cat food box, and I reckon a mouse might be around 40 calories, they weigh less than an egg.
It’s why we need roaming moggies, not house bound ones, they do a terrific job in rodent control, you just don’t see it unless you are looking. Too many mice are a menace if they get into animal feed sacks in barns, ie unlimited food, you get over run in a few weeks without half a dozen cats on patrol. Towns and cities are full of rodents. Probably got worse since the do gooders did away with unowned cats and rubbish disposal has been made so difficult. What is worse, roving moggies or complex chemical poisons in the environment?
They say that in London you are never more than 6 feet from a rat….
Yes my cat is a good mouser. She’s too generous though as she brings them home! Our neighbour over the back keeps chickens and the mice are attracted by the chicken feed and the neighbourhood cats are attracted there by the mice. I suppose it’s a win-win situation really. I used to try and save the mice, while she was tormenting and playing with them, but one bit my daughter so now I don’t so much, though I go out with cat treats to try and distract her. It’s not the most humane ending to the poor critter’s life and I’m a sap like that.
The giveaway that veganism is posturing is in the proselytizing. If you switch to a new diet for personal health reasons you tend to just get on with it. Broadcasting it implies something else.
Veganism is life on hard mode. It is clearly not healthy. Throw in a dollop of climate alarmism and you have the beginnings of a (for now) socially acceptable cult most people don’t have the discipline to maintain providing automatic smugness.
Veganism helps the lost feel the hardship of life is worth it. Their empty void is temporarily ignored while they Tut Tut at all that meat and of course the damage to the planet. The forthcoming economic collapse will sort it all out.
My local vegan neighbour also enjoys wild swimming throughout the year. When I enquired whether she uses a wet suit she snorted that she goes in in just her knickers.
And yet YT is full of videos of vegans who’ve gone back to eating meat due to health issues. Especially the raw vegans. It even f*cks up their teeth so god knows what it’s doing internally. Yes a “socially acceptable cult” sums it up nicely.
I follow a keto/low carb way of eating and nobody notices. Well, apart from if I go overboard with the cauli…
I’ve noticed the prematurely aged, toothless vegans too. Best evidence it is more a cult than a lifestyle. That gaunt, haunted look they seem to have while they cram a turnip through an industrial strength juicer and try to look authentic when they force it down. Tastes great with some turmeric and spinach!
I’m fully keto myself. I’m convinced much of what we see around us.l, from depression to succumbing to covid (or colds and flus as it really was) are a result of longterm low level inflammation. With the opposite being true, the uninflamed are healthier.
Agreed. It’s bad enough that they lace wet cat food with pineapple, goji berries and everything in between. I even have to dodge the tomato and carrot-laden cheaper stuff in the supermarkets. They’re wanting our obligate carnivores diabetic and ill with completely inappropriate ingredients.
Yes, when I cat sat for someone a few years ago I was shocked to discover what its cat food ( big bags of pellets ) largely consisted of; masses of vegetable fats and hydrolysed vegetable proteins, a tiny percentage of fish or meat ( and probably the so-called “recovered” stuff from industrial meat processing ), plus vitamin and mineral supplements. Horrible stuff. It smelled rancid too, of overheated vegetable oils.
The poor animal. And anyone who feeds their cat exclusively dry food is basically guilty of neglect and animal abuse. Just a look at the ingredients label would be a clear indication as to why. Even the ones that proudly announce they’re free from cereal need to add rice or something in order to get the consistency and shelf-life required. Cats on a dry diet are very prone to urinary problems and kidney disease is not uncommon, diabetes too obviously, due to addition of carbs. It never used to be this hard but now you have to scrutinize labels carefully before you buy.
When we cat-sit for our son it turns its nose up at salmon and fillet steak and prefers the dried food. It is however thriving. His dog, though, does love sausages.
I have never seen cats in our garden stalking a cabbage.
me neither
Everything I’ve learnt in the last two years suggests to me that all vaccines should be avoided.
On the subject of Mariupol a quick search on the internet produced this which seems as good as any other reason for Russian action.
https://groupegaullistesceaux.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/a-secret-nato-bioweapon-laboratory-in-the-underground-of-mariupol/
“Sajid Javid inquiry into gender treatment for children”
Seems a bit rich for a minister who has allowed vaccination of children, against all advice.
Javid is incidental. A temporary character as they all are.
The real scandal is we have let a tiny group of loudmouths (admittedly well funded) to erode one of the main planks of our society, namely the protection of children. The fact this is not immediately and comprehensively condemned is telling. I don’t know anyone, including gays, who approve of pandering to transgender nonsense with kids.
I’d also propose we pay more attention to the cultural origins of people like Javid. All verboten these days of course. But he is Pakistani. In Pakistan children are not treated well. Even here in the UK there is something of a silent scandal known to social care workers about how Pakistani Muslims treat their own disabled kids, a growing issue because of first cousin marriages in their culture. Lots of anecdotes from Bradford about inbred kids with difficulties shut away from sight, and worse.
I know some will find that racist. But I think it is high time we had it out with them. Some people don’t belong here. And if true, why the fuck are they running our health ministry?
Is there any connection between having the Sunaks, Khans, Patels, Zahawis, Javids, etc. in power, and Britain turning into the sort of third world places they’ve originated from? You get what you order!
Good point. And the cartoon sums it up rather well.
Come on Mogwai don’t encourage him.
Is Kim Jong-Johnson Asian? Or Michael Gove?
No I agree, absolutely. I’d also sound bloody racist to many people if I mentioned my observations from trips to certain areas in London where I’ve literally been the only white person on a busy high street. So I feel for the old people who’ve lived in these ares for decades and seen the changes, so dramatic that they are now the ‘non-ethnic minority’ in their home towns, people speaking foreign languages all around them, nothing familiar left.
People are allowed to notice these changes and not like them without being labelled “racist” or “xenophobic”. A certain degree of immigration and change is acceptable but feeling like a stranger in a town you’ve lived in your whole life is not going to feel pleasant for most people.
What I’d like is a comparison to the British being evicted from what was then India, because we were colonising foreigners. And compare to our own situation.
In 1947 it was obvious we had not become Indian. That was not in dispute by anyone.
Those who work closely with Asians, including third generation ones, will be aware of what racial and cultural differences look like, even if you both have similar accents.
Kipling was born in Bombay and spoke Punjabi like a native but no one thinks he was Indian.
In other news: the Rothermere press in the form of the Mail on Sunday has accused Angela Rayner, deputy leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition, of distracting Tory prime minister Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs at him in the House of Commons. According to the said newspaper, Tories are complaining that she “goads” him and puts him “off his stride” by deploying tactics taken from Sharon Stone’s character in the film “Basic Instinct”.
Angela Rayner seems to really wind the Tories up for some reason.
Go for it, Angela!
All she needs to do is to wait until the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the next general election and then reprise the unforgettable move played in 2013 against the then Serbian prime minister Ivica Dacic by interviewer Branka Knezevic.
If they really want to put him off they should get Diane Abbott to do it.
I couldn’t find a link to the longer video from 2013, but it is even more hilarious than that clip, because you see prime minister Dacic enter the building “like a boss”, demonstrate to the shaven-headed security guys that he’s more “alpha” than they are, and then you see him almost collapse into a sweating shivering heap when a pretty woman – whom you see earlier preparing for the event in a matter-of-fact way – gives him a flash. She flashes, and he folds. It’s a classic.
Yes, go for it, Corbynite hag
Is it just me or is Steve Baker that rarest of things a credible Tory MP?
I take that back.
I just looked at the linked Telegraph article and he is posing doing the ‘hidden hand’ symbol thus communicating to his Masonic brothers that he is on their team.
Message to Daniel Hanna: Kim Jong-Johnson should be ousted for imposing lockdown, he did it for show, he did it three times and only a backbench rebellion prevented a fourth.
Being a great fat communist fraud is grounds for his dismissal.
““It is clear that a section of society needs to be in a cult of ‘the current thing’,” writes Romy Cerratti in the Conservative Woman. “Emergencies give one immediate purpose and justification of one’s existence””
Ayn Rand wrote about this, ‘The ethics of emergencies’. It’s altruism put into practice.
French presidential election, 2nd round, Macron vs Le Pen
(2nd-round results for these three overseas departments in 2022 were leaked this afternoon to a Belgian newspaper; results for 2017 were taken from Wikipedia, and ditto for 1st round 2022):
Martinique:
2017: Macron 78%, Le Pen 22%;
2022 first round: Mélenchon 53%, Macron 16%, Le Pen 13%
2022: Macron 39%, Le Pen 61%
Guadeloupe:
2017: Macron 75%, Le Pen 25%
2022 first round: Mélenchon 56%, Le Pen 18%, Macron 13%
2022: Macron 30%, Le Pen 70%
Guiana:
2017: Macron 65%, Le Pen 35%
2022 first round: Melenchon 51%, Le Pen 18%, Macron 14%
2022: Macron 39%, Le Pen 61%
Someone could perhaps check that I’ve got these figures right, because they seem so remarkable. I don’t know about Guiana, but Martinique and Guadeloupe have been two of the most resistant territories in the entire world, resistant against Covid-themed oppression.
Those figures are fascinating: what a lesson for the French Left.
““Sir Anthony Blair’s call for 70% of young people to go to university,””
My first day at uni, back in 1980, the pep talk from the VC included the phrase “You are among the top 2% of the country”
Now, a mere 42 years later, it would appear that Sir Richard Cranium-Blair thinks that somehow, the majority of people are now qualified and suited for a university education