- “Kemi Badenoch announces she is standing for Conservative leadership” – Kemi Badenoch has thrown her hat into the ring for the Tory leadership with a promise to trigger a “renewal for capitalism”, reports the Mail.
- “‘People won’t vote for us if we don’t know what we want to be’” – The Conservatives must rebuild their party from top to bottom, says Kemi Badenoch in the Times.
- “‘I’ve been branded mad, bad and dangerous by my own party – so I will not lead it’” – “Our failures on migration, taxes and trans ideology cost us at the election, but my fellow party members refuse to face up to them,” says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph, announcing she won’t be standing for Tory leader.
- “Tommy Robinson ‘arrested under anti-terror laws’” – Tommy Robinson has been arrested under s5 of the Terrorism Act, according to his supporters, after a protest at which a film was allegedly screened in contempt of court, reports the Standard.
- “Male victim of October 7th describes horrific gang rape by Hamas” – A man who was held down and gang raped by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival has told the MailOnline that he was used as their “doll” where they did whatever they wanted to him.
- “Church of England bishop calls Israel an apartheid state” – The female Bishop of Gloucester has angered Jewish groups by publicly calling Israel an apartheid state, reports the Telegraph.
- “Schooled in propaganda” – Why has the U.K. Government reinstated funding to UNRWA? asks Laura Dodsworth on her Free Mind substack.
- “Will we learn anything from the Harehills riot?” – Britain is long overdue a reckoning with multiculturalism, says William Clouston in Spiked.
- “Video of Paris 2024 opening ceremony ‘deleted from Olympics account’” – The official video of the Paris 2024 opening ceremony appears to have been deleted from the Olympics account as viewers’ backlash grows, reports the Mail.
- “Not even France can escape the West’s cultural decay” – Our civilisation is surely doomed when the best Paris can offer is a parody of The Last Supper, featuring an overweight lesbian as Jesus Christ, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “BBC brings in new guidelines on how not to abuse ‘celebrity status’” – BBC staff have been handed guidelines about how to report “potential grooming” and “rumours or evidence of a potential relationship involving an imbalance of power” in the wake of the Huw Edwards scandal, reports the Mail.
- “Kamala Harris is the Meghan Markle of American politics” – The similarities between the Vice President and the Duchess of Sussex are truly uncanny, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Kamala’s Ministry of Truth” – The Democrats’ memory-holing of the Vice-President’s record reveals their contempt for democracy, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “‘White Dudes for Harris’ hold mass online meeting to support Kamala” – A group calling itself “White Dudes for Harris” will hold a mass video call to support the Presidential hopeful’s campaign and end the “culture of masculinity”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Can Kamala’s knitting-obsessed, topless-modelling stepdaughter help her to the Presidency?” – The Telegraph’s Susie Coen profiles Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter and examines her potential impact on the upcoming Presidential election.
- “How Dems staged coup after coup – skirting democracy to hold power” – In the NY Post, Victor Davis Hanson delves into the Democratic Party’s rich history of palace coups.
- “Trump might regret picking J.D. Vance” – Running with another white male who speaks fluent Rust Belt doesn’t give Trump an edge against Kamala, says Madeleine Kearns in the Free Press.
- “Justin Trudeau’s ruinous agenda” – Canada is disintegrating under the weight of its Prime Minister’s far-Left ideology, writes Michael Bonner in City Journal.
- “Just Stop Oil activists ‘waltzing’ round their jail cells to music” – Two Just Stop Oil activists jailed for disrupting thousands of motorists after they scaled a gantry on the M25 say they have been “waltzing” around their prison cell to music, reports the Mail.
- “Janet Yellen calls for $78,000,000,000,000 to tackle climate change” – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced that the global shift to a low-carbon economy will require $78 trillion in financing by 2050, according to the Daily Caller. Is that all?
- “Whatever happened to ‘women’s liberation’?” – The free-thinking brilliance of the early women’s movement has given way to timid conformism, says Elroy Rosenberg in Spiked.
- “Adverb English” – Why do young people talk almost exclusively in adverbs? asks Christopher Gage on his Oxford Sour Substack.
- “Girling the Boy Scouts” – With the final erasure of “boy” from Boy Scouts of America, the progressive war on American institutions notches up another victory, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Majority of Brits no longer own a home phone” – It could be the end of an era for the landline as data suggests the majority of Brits no longer own a home phone, reports the Mail.
- “‘Chatbot romances could be the norm for the next generation’” – In the Telegraph, Guy Kelly interviews philosopher and author Nick Bostrom, who has, in recent years, become something of a prophet in the field of AI.
- “Singer Morrissey calls out Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and Dr Fauci” – During a recent performance in Las Vegas, Morrissey sang about ‘criminals’ while pointing to images of Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci displayed on a screen.
Singer Morrissey calls out Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and Dr Fauci.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 28, 2024
During a performance in Las Vegas, the English singer sang about ‘criminals’ as he pointed to images of Klaus Schwab on the screen alongside images of Gates and Fauci.@me_mate_argyle pic.twitter.com/WdqTAZLYGT
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Interesting comment from Braverman on why she’s not standing as leader – I tend to agree with her though I wonder why she doesn’t quit the party and join Reform or sit as an independent – it doesn’t make much sense to be a member of a party you don’t want to lead because they are not on the same page as you.
It would look churlish if she joined Reform straight away. Give it a few months!
I think it’s likely.
“Death of the landline”- as people try and save money. Including work has done the same (mostly). The problem is if you need to dial 999- now where is my mobile? oh dear it is flat!
Landline tech is being switched-off in 2025. According to the letter I received, you can request a battery-backup for your hub in case of power cut however that could be just increasing complexity at the point of use which may be a problem for some.
The Mail doesn’t appear to mention this switch-off but here’s the BBC informing the children in 2021:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58233766
Edit: and BT claims for most it will be a case of connecting the phone handset to the hub (not on my BT hub). A wireless handset with a mains-powered base unit will still be a problem in a powercut.
https://www.bt.com/about/all-ip
And the real reason for it… so BT can sell
off the telephone exchange buildings and land
Absolutely obvious State persecution: when did you last hear of someone being arrested for contempt of court under the Terrorism Act the day before a court hearing to decide whether he was in contempt of court? If showing a “libellous film” is now terrorism, then we’re well into totalitarian territory.
My reading is that Robinson was pretty certain that the Judge would jail him for the showing of the film in the USA last year, and decided he might as well be jailed for making the film widely known as for a hole-in-corner showing.
Ah, I see. The Terrorism Act was used because (a) there is no right to silence, so that refusing to answer makes you guilty of terrorism, and (b) they can demand access to your phone, and although there is an exemption for journalists with privileged information (about police corruption!) on their phone, they can ignore that when he refused, and he’s guilty of terrorism for refusing.
It sounds rather like the Trump case where you can be convicted of a felony without anybody actually demonstrating that a felony was committed, or what it was.
And so if some bent cop wants to silence a whistleblower, the Terrorism Act is as useful as Section 58 was in the USSR. No actual terrorism was used in the making of this vendetta.
Here is Tommy’s ‘controversial’ film ( 1hr 45mins ) ‘Silenced’. I’ve only watched half so far but it’s excellent and I’d urge everyone to give it a watch. It reveals the depth of corruption and lies of the media, judiciary and politicians as they collectively continue to manipulate and work against the citizens. Excellent, high quality production from Tommy and his team once more;
”They do not want you watching this movie.
They have detained Tommy under the terrorism act.
SILENCED exposes the corruption and coverups by our politicians and mainstream media.
The Establishment is not on the side of the people.”
https://x.com/calvinrobinson/status/1817527443013390591
The film is no doubt benefitting from the Streisand effect. Having never heard of it, I went to see what was so controversial (also available on more than one YouTube channel). Certainly worth watching.
I’ve watched it. I can’t say I was entirely convinced, and his tactics have perhaps placed individuals in danger, but nevertheless, the state appears to be behaving in a heavy-handed way.
The Mail has another rape “exclusive” from Natalie Lisbona. For some reason, these don’t seem to be big stories in the Israeli media. The Grayzone has an interesting article on her previous Mail “exclusive”.
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/06/27/palestinian-father-son-confession-debunked/
A distraction might be beneficial right now:
“Netanyahu pulled one of the oldest tricks in the book: He came into Washington riding on a promise, and then – after the Israeli public saw him receiving his standing ovations in Congress – decided to quickly revert back to his rejectionist position…The Congress members who were in the chamber, serving as props for Netanyahu’s political campaign, now share part of the blame. Instead of using the opportunity to pressure him, they stood up to clap for him. The hostages and their families will pay the price.”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2024-07-28/ty-article/.highlight/netanyahu-pulled-an-old-cruel-trick-on-congress-and-on-israels-hostages/00000190-fa3e-d43d-afd2-fe3ee7710000
“Janet Yellen calls for $78,000,000,000,000 to tackle climate change”
I guess human hubris is irrepressible? We have the well known story of King Canute proving that he could not control the tides and yet we are supposed to believe that by spending all this money the climate on earth will be different than is we do not spend all this money.
The question is not whether the climate is changing or not, nor is it whether humans had any impact on the climate in the past, the question is whether any action we take now will have the slightest impact on the future climate of the world? It seems to me that it is the height of human hubris, conceit, ego and arrogance to think that humans can take actions now that will cause the weather to be different in 30 years time to what it will be if we do nothing.
Over the last few years it seems the agenda has been to condition people to believe nonsense and impossible things culminating in this sort of breathtaking spending of huge amounts of money on something that may or may not do any good and which we cannot properly assess in any case. My prediction is that the environmental, economic and political impacts of trying to fill the world with solar panels, windmills and electric cables will cause the whole project to collapse but then maybe that has been the plan all along?
And inflation is such that the energy used in printing all the money needed will raise global temperatures by several degrees.
So this is ridiculous and reminiscent of that South African runner who would beat the female competitors by a country mile, not because they’re trans but because they have the testosterone levels of a man and XY sex chromosomes, but they have a vagina so get lumped in with the women. Just let these people have a category of their own then, so they can compete against each other. Why is that so controversial? If it’s not a level playing field then it’s not a fair competition, as Captain Obvious would say;
”Two athletes competing at the Paris Olympics as “women” were previously disqualified from a women’s world championship for having “XY chromosomes.” Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in Olympic women’s boxing next week despite past questions surrounding their biological sex.
The Women’s World Boxing Championships took place in March of 2023 and was hosted in New Delhi, India. A total of 324 boxers from 64 nations competed during the 10-day trial, marking the largest participation in any iteration of the championship ever recorded.
However, the grand event was marred by controversy after Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), announced the disqualification of multiple boxers from the championship.
Kremlev said that IBA executives had met towards the championship’s grand finale to discuss “fairness among athletes and professionalism,” after concerns were raised about the biological sex of some participants. He added that after “a series of DNA-tests,” the IBA “uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretend to be women.”
But following the controversial disqualification, a female boxer came forward to discuss her experience fighting Khelif in the ring at the championship.
“When I fought with her I felt very out of my depth,” Mexican boxer Brianda Tamara wrote on X. “Her blows hurt me a lot, I don’t think I had ever felt like that in my 13 years as a boxer, nor in my sparring with men. Thank God that day I got out of the ring safely, and it’s good that they finally realized,” Tamara said.”
https://reduxx.info/breaking-two-female-boxers-set-to-compete-at-paris-2024-were-previously-disqualified-from-womens-world-championship-for-having-xy-chromosomes/
so men punching women is now an olympic sport?
Yes it’s a sick joke. They apparently have all of these super strict rules around doping and taking various stimulants but the fact your opponent has the testosterone levels of a man and XY chromosomes somehow doesn’t fall under the category of what’s considered cheating. I don’t know what the repercussions would be for these ladies if they refused to compete because they might lose sponsorships, funding etc, but surely they’re well within their rights based purely on health and safety grounds! But this here is cheating, pure and simple. These ‘faux women’ shouldn’t be allowed to compete. They can’t even compete against eachother because one of them would still most likely get to the final and win the title, robbing the actual women of their rightful achievement;
”Absolutely disgusting that this Italian lady Angela Carini has to fight this Algerian man Imane Khalif in the Olympics. On Aug 1st. How is this fair..????”
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1817843579915583596
“Tommy Robinson ‘arrested under anti-terror laws’”
Please take time to watch his banned documentary film “Silenced”, exposing the appalling injustice of that case— it is well worth it:
Silenced – A Tommy Robinson Documentary (rumble.com)
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/where-labour-could-build-thousands-greybelt-homes-3194065-3194065
500,000 houses to be built on green belt.
https://youtu.be/-TXTeOvTknQ?si=XFsIgPkpRP4sLRl3
Tommy Robinson released on bail.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/the-muslim-vote-set-to-go-it-alone/
Frank Haviland discussing the muslim vote.
No surprises, inevitable and depressing. Every muslim vote is a vote against this country. It is SICK.
Good for Morrisey. Bloody awful row he makes though; do people really pay to hear that?