- “Mourners gather at vigil for three girls killed in Southport rampage” – Thousands of heartbroken mourners gathered for a vigil to remember the three young girls who were killed in the Southport rampage, reports the Mail.
- “Moment Sir Keir Starmer is heckled on his visit to Southport” – The Prime Minister was repeatedly asked “how many more children will die?” as he placed flowers at the scene of the Southport knife rampage, says the Mail.
- “In praise of Southport’s heroes” – The extraordinary courage of ‘ordinary’ people should never cease to inspire us, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Huge crowds clash with police in Southport as activists throw bricks” – Rioters chanting “English till I die” have clashed with police outside a mosque in Southport, near to where three girls were killed in a horrific knife rampage, reports the Mail.
- “Southport: the end of the line” – Southport is the end of the line, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative. Let’s hope our politicians break the habit of a lifetime, and start prioritising the safety of the British people. If they do not, things are going to get real ugly very soon.
- “Legislation for the taxation of education – let your MP know what you think” – Labour have put the accelerator down on Corbyn’s education tax, and never mind the collateral damage. Please write to your MP, says Mr. Chips on his Substack.
- “Are Labour scared of hearing things they don’t like?” – Like any freedom, freedom of speech has to be defended and maintained, writes Eliot Wilson in CapX.
- “Labour’s radical new maternity leave proposal will do more harm than good” – They may have good intentions, but Labour’s proposed maternity rights, which extend protections from day one, might backfire, warns Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Robert Jenrick is the Thatcherite the Tories need” – We need a patriotic party that believes in small business, entrepreneurship and the family, say Lord Bellingham and Lord Murray in CapX.
- “‘Why Robert Jenrick has my support to be Tory leader’” – Not only is Robert Jenrick speaking honestly about Britain’s problems, but he has the courage to act on his views, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch is the straight-talking conservative who will maximise our chances of victory” – After 14 years in government, the Conservative Party needs a leader like Kemi Badenoch who will attract new voters as well as winning back those who have abandoned us, writes Andrew Griffith in the Telegraph.
- “They lie to us, all of us, and nonchalantly admit they lie” – On the OTN Substack, Dr. Raphael Lataster slams the hypocrisy of branding vaccine safety sceptics as conspiracy theorists while the U.S. Government itself ran an anti-vax campaign.
- “How an asylum NGO, Pakistani authorities and the German Foreign Office collaborated to secure German entry visas for literal Pakistani spies” – The visa scandal rocking Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs just gets weirder and weirder, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Can Elon Musk beat the EU censors?” – Brussels’s war on ‘disinformation’ and ‘hate speech’ is an affront to free speech and democracy, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “European politicians reject re-election of Maduro in Venezuela” – MEPs have signed a statement rejecting the results announced by Venezuela’s Electoral Council that officially proclaimed Nicolás Maduro’s re-election as President, reports Brussels Signal.
- “In Venezuela, fighting for freedom ‘until the end’” – Across Venezuela, the people are rising up over a contested election – and tearing down statues of Chávez, says Jonathan Jakubowicz in the Free Press.
- “Kamala Harris reverses liberal positions as Republicans launch attack ads” – The presumptive Democratic nominee appears to have adopted new stances on fracking, border control, healthcare and policing after her previous liberal views were attacked by Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘White Dudes for Harris’? Kamala is the queen of cringe” – The Democratic elites cannot help but racialise everything, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
- “Illinois’s equity illusions” – When Democrats meet in Chicago next month, they need only venture outside the convention hall to see the dismal results of the progressive agenda, says Paul G. Vallas in City Journal.
- “Google’s election interference?” – Do people search for “president donald duck” so much? Or is Google playing games with us? wonders Igor Chudov on his Substack.
- “Biden’s Supreme Court reforms are unconstitutional” – There’s nothing wrong with Biden’s Supreme Court proposals – beyond, you know, being unconstitutional, says Madeleine Kearns in the Free Press.
- “Just Stop Oil poster girl who threw soup on Van Gogh painting sprays paint at Heathrow” – Protesters from Just Stop Oil, including an activist awaiting sentencing for throwing soup over a Van Gogh painting, have sprayed orange paint around Heathrow airport, reports the Mail.
- “‘Refineries will shut across Europe as West abandons fossil fuels’” – The boss of oil giant BP says that oil refineries across Europe will be forced to shut as the West abandons fossil fuels in the race to Net Zero, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband needs to scrap Britain’s gas network but experts fear it will cost billions” – Achieving Net Zero by 2050 relies on a shift that risks being as complicated as it is costly, writes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
- “How climate catastrophists at NOAA mislead without lying” – In WUWT, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner explains how NOAA’s global warming graph exaggerates temperature changes.
- “Someone could get killed: why are boxers who failed gender tests fighting women at Olympics?” – Why have two boxers, who failed testosterone and gender eligibility tests only last year, been given a free pass by the IOC to face female opponents? asks Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Darts star forfeits event as she refuses to face another trans player” – British female darts star Deta Hedman has refused to face another transgender opponent after she withdrew from a tournament, reports the Mail.
- “Dear England? Dear God!” – Gareth Southgate made me hate the England team – because I’m English, says Steven Tucker in Taki’s Mag.
- “The real reasons why pornography is wrong” – Pornography is more than just a harmful influence; it fundamentally degrades human values, writes Dr. Frank Palmer in the Free Speech Backlash.
- “Keep crypto free” – Efforts to regulate the crypto industry out of existence – or to create a government-controlled digital currency – are deeply misguided, says Corbin K. Barthold in City Journal.
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After a hot and sticky night here in England, somebody has updated Olympic logo:-
https://x.com/FatEmperor/status/1818032953492128249/photo/1
Spot on !
Terrific
Southport. Other than knowing that the animal is a refugee we’re not told anything, which of course tells us everything. According to our MSM filth all we know is ‘misinformation’ is spreading and the ‘far-right’ are on the rampage in an unhinged revenge mission. Then there’s this beauty from the enemy within…
Russian misinformation. Right. How many more children have to do die before we stand together as the people of our own country and defend it? By their current definition, I’m ‘far-right’ and proud to be. Anyone else?
My take on last night: probably preventable, so why wasn’t it?
I know exactly who started or propagated the Al-Ali Shakati rumour because I follow that account and saw the post come up at the time. The moment I saw it, I thought, ‘Christ, you’d better be right about this.’ Several hours later, the MSM started putting out the story that the name was wrong, but I’d figured out within minutes that there was no source cited anywhere, but by then it had gone viral.
Some protestors were claiming last night that the immediate cause was a person arrested with a knife at or near the vigil. I have no idea whether that is opportunism, or whether it is true.
It was apparent when Starmer visited, that trouble was brewing. It is not just brewing in Southport, it is brewing all over the country.
My cynical mind was thinking as the rumour spread yesterday – you have this reporting restriction that you cannot name a 17-year-old, but you could have made it absolutely clear that the boy was a Christian and not a jihadi. Would that have prevented last night? It might have. The bottom line is that if you deliberately create a low information environment then people will try and fill in the gaps for themselves.
What will happen now: it will be blamed on X, and X will be told that if it wants to continue to operate in the UK, then it will have to allow itself to be sanitised by the censorship industrial complex.
Good points. I do keep wondering “is this what they want?”, but then I become aware of something – like more children being slaughtered without any information about the perpetrator, which is normally all the information you need – and my blood boils and I feel shivers of rage run throughout my entire body. We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place – fight back without all the details and risk getting it wrong or do nothing (again) and all but condone it… just allow it to continue. Given that we’re being worked over day after day by evil forces that are hellbent on destroying Western civilisation, we cannot wait any longer to fight back. That is my view.
The lack of information allows people to make up their own minds in the vacuum. Then you can discredit those who get it wrong. It doesn’t matter overly much when you, or I, do it but, it matters a great deal when politicians do, I think? They need to learn to be more circumspect and keep their council until the facts do come out.
“… it matters a great deal when politicians do”
The days of trusting the words of a politician are long gone.
What do these destructors of Western Civilisation actually want ?? Are their comfortable lives not enough ?? Every move they make is destructive to productive life & I’ll just point out that in Leeds the police left the scene but in Southport where Horrific events brought people onto the street after their children were murdered the Police got stuck in !
Good point Freddy.
This guy nails it, in my opinion. The story about the ”boy from Cardiff” ( you, know? The child-murdering ”boy” ) is definitely being ”managed”.
https://x.com/CartlandDavid/status/1818558728372638086
He could be one of those 30 year old child type refugees who were actually put into school classrooms ! Until we know we don’t know
They want to get rid of or convert every jew and Christian and the rest of the population
It occurs to me that both the PM and Home Secretary visited the scene to lay flowers and have their pictures taken and, we’ll, that was it.
A proper politician might have used the occasion to speak to the crowd, acknowledge the awfulness of the crime and urge them to please stay calm and allow the police to do their job, to tell them things were still murky and the perpetrator was in custody and, yes, given a little background, as anyone with eyes and ears can see the groundswell of opinion.
Sadly, we have these cutouts instead who are incapable of saying anything in public that isn’t written for them in a way that some spotty SpAd believes will address the widest audience and focus groups. No speaking from the heart for modern politics, which is, perhaps, why turnout at the election was so poor?
Kneel in particular is not a real politician but more a mechanical box of tricks. He strikes me as a robot, seriously. He dials in to the Institute for Global Change and receives updates for the coming day. He’s no more in charge than I am.
Yes. Two things are inexplicable as far as the authorities are concerned:
1. Why were the police not prepared for trouble? Clearly, they decided to confront the rioters, but, from the footage I’ve seen they initially had no protective clothing & insufficient numbers.
2. Why wasn’t it made clear that the guy wasn’t the named Islamist?
Still, other issues look very odd. It was widely reported that police raided a house in Bank 20 mins prior to the stabbings. Was this related?
Also, is there any accuracy that the lad was on a watch list?
I suspect a lot more to come out, but I doubt it will any time soon.
Part of the problem is that they are not supposed to publish the identity of the culprit, on account of his age. However, it’s quite likely that a psychiatrist will end up being involved. A few years ago, there was a case near where I live when someone was stabbed when cycling home late at night, and it turned out that the (alleged) murderer was a local resident. The outcome was that he was guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and was sent to Broadmoor hospital, being a paranoid schizophrenic.
Anyway, we haven’t got the whole picture yet, although the reaction of the usual sources is not unusual. After all, we are supposed to be sceptical about media coverage.
Where is Munro, the fount of all information about Russia, when you need him or her?
No idea. What time does AI normally wake up?
Thanks for the downtick, Munro.
Anyone Ordinary who would happily just get on with life if TPTB weren’t interfering with every aspect of the way we live is now FAR Right so yes I must be as well .
Isn’t far right the new name for the white working class?
Count me in as I have never had to pay anything other than basic rate tax.
“Isn’t far right the new name for the white working class?”
Love it. I’m pinching that.
Excellent news worthy of celebration.
“Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran state media reported early this morning in Tehran.”
Haniyeh had just met with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1818483760666431583
“European politicians reject re-election of Maduro in Venezuela”
“In Venezuela, fighting for freedom ‘until the end’” – “Across Venezuela, the people are rising up over a contested election – and tearing down statues of Chávez”
This is wonderful, astonishing news! The Courageous People of Venezuela have finally had enough. May the people of North Korea also be inspired by the Venezuelans to kick out their own Communist Dictator.
North Korea must be the only country in the world where the Communist Revolution resulted in an Imperial Dynasty, forcing the people to worship their “Communist Emperor” as a “Communist God”.
And soon they’ll be forced to worship his “Communist Empress” daughter as a “Communist Goddess”.
“The real reasons why pornography is wrong”
This is a brilliant, most unusual article! Dr. Frank Palmer is to be congratulated for his courage in discussing
“…how pornography is an abomination, because it is an attack on what should be our cherished values. It is an attack on art and an attack on life in its deepest sense.”
Thanks to the DS team for that link and interesting website.
“Moment Sir Keir Starmer is heckled on his visit to Southport”
Two points:
1) Comment from the FreeSpeechBacklash site:
“Politicians are desperately trying to make public anger at outrages like the Southport infanticide socially unacceptable…
“Go to the inevitable vigil, cry, sing sad songs, light a candle – that’s what they want you to do. That’s what is socially acceptable.
Getting angry? They don’t want you to get angry.”
2) The Southport Mosque, where only the windows were broken and no Muslims harmed at all (unlike the countless Islamic terrorist attacks on the West), was once a Christian church.