- “Highest number of migrants since Starmer became PM cross Channel in a day” – A total of 703 migrants crossed the English Channel on Sunday – the highest number on a single day since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister, reports the Express.
- “Labour decision to drop plan to ban terrorists from social housing branded ‘disgraceful’” – Labour has been accused of putting the interests of violent criminals above those of “hard-working British families” after dropping Tory plans to ban terrorists from social housing, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sellafield worker jailed after sharing ‘offensive’ Facebook posts” – A 51 year-old Egremont man has become the latest person in the county to be jailed for an online social media posts objecting to immigration, reports the Cumberland News and Star.
- “White riot: anarchy in the U.K.” – It has been obvious that the recent riots have been brewing for some time now – obvious to everyone, that is, except the blind men who actually rule us, says Steven Tucker in Taki’s Mag.
- “Here comes the free speech crackdown – which we must resist” – On his Substack, Matt Goodwin explains how Labour and the Left plan to erode our right to free speech.
- “State of free speech in the U.K. is worse than Russia” – Joe Rogan has claimed that more people get arrested in the U.K. for “thought crimes” on social media than they do in Russia, according to Modernity.
- “EU threatens Musk over ‘harmful’ speech ahead of Trump interview” – The EU’s top digital official has warned Musk to do something about “harmful content” on X, according to Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
- “Our friend, Douglas Murray” – Nothing will stop Douglas Murray from telling the truth. The more they try to silence and intimidate him, the more they prove him right, says the Free Press in a powerful editorial.
- “The pitiful death of John Bull” – On his Courageous Discourse Substack, John Leake decries the arrest of Englishmen in their homes for posting ‘inaccurate’ information on Facebook.
- “Why did ‘anti-fascists’ go after football fans at a Wetherspoons?” – So much ‘anti-racism’ is just class hatred by another name, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Britain is being pushed to the brink by official neglect of the white underclass” – It would be a mistake to interpret the riots as merely a backlash against immigration, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph. Britain’s white underclass has more to grumble about than just immigration.
- “Labour MP accused of blaming Israel for far-Right riots” – Clive Lewis MP has blamed “rising Islamophobia” on “the daily inhumanity being metted [sic] out to Palestinians”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Israel accuses BBC presenter Mishal Husain of pro-Palestinian bias” – Israel has accused Mishal Husain, the BBC presenter, of pro-Palestinian bias in a row over the broadcaster’s coverage of the Gaza conflict, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer warns Iran: Do not attack Israel” – Sir Keir Starmer urged the Iranians not to attack Israel last night in a rare telephone call with Tehran’s President, according to the Telegraph.
- “Justin Welby ‘plainly wrong’ over blacklisting of gender-critical chaplain” – The Archbishop of Canterbury was “plainly wrong” to dismiss concerns about the blacklisting of a gender-critical chaplain according to a leading lawyer in the church, says the Telegraph.
- “The Archbishop of Cant” – Justin Welby is siding with those who have abandoned civilisation and surrendered to barbarism, says Melanie Phillips on her Substack.
- “Islamist majorities terrorise Hindus and Christians, but the West looks away” – The persecution of Hindus in South Asia is a bit like the purge of Christians in the Middle East or Africa. We all agree it is wrong and then we look the other way, writes Konstantinos Bogdanos in Brussels Signal.
- “In defence of Labour’s ‘communist land grab’” – No society – not even one committed to free markets – can allow itself to be held to ransom by landowners, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Self-checkouts have been a self-inflicted disaster for Britain” – Having ruthlessly replaced cashier staff with self-checkout terminals to speed up purchases and save on wages, boardrooms now want the humans back, writes the Telegraph’s Lucy Burton.
- “Dr. Fauci infected with Covid for third time” – Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed that he has been infected with Covid for a third time despite having been “vaccinated and boosted six times”, according to Modernity.
- “Labour’s energy policy is economically and environmentally illiterate” – The greatest irony of abandoning North Sea oil is how much it will hurt the transition to Net Zero, writes Andrew Bowie in the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s extreme Left policy team” – SpAds are often relied on to temper the barmy ideas of their Cabinet Minister. No chance of that in Ed’s team, says Guido Fawkes.
- “The top 10 inconvenient facts about climate change” – Climate Discussion Nexus’s Dr. John Robson examines 10 facts about climate change that activists, politicians and journalists won’t talk about.
- “Covid is still causing chaos for learner drivers” – The post-pandemic backlog is causing misery for learner drivers, writes Ellen Pasternack in CapX.
- “Tim Walz’s Covid policy as Minnesota Governor” – On Substack, Prof. Vinay Prasad examines Democratic Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz’s pandemic record.
- “Take two Lefts” – Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz as her running mate confirms the impression of a Democratic ticket far more progressive than the median voter, writes Lexi Boccuzzi in City Journal.
- “Why Trump is winning outside of America” – Trump’s support base extends from China to Gaza, says Lily Lynch in UnHerd.
- “An interview with Graham Linehan” – Graham Linehan joins Andrew Doyle on GB News’s Free Speech Nation to discuss his cancellation and the ongoing gender wars.
- “Why don’t women actually want equality?” – The well-publicised case of the WASPI women (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is far more intriguing for what is not being said, than for what is, writes Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “We must fight for the right to ridicule ‘Raygun’” – Australia’s farcical breakdancer should not be shielded from internet mockery, says Simon Evans in Spiked. She deserves it all.
- “Google’s chokehold must be broken – here’s how to do it” – Google’s monopoly faces a reckoning as antitrust cases and global scrutiny threaten Silicon Valley’s unchecked power, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer intends to use the riots as an excuse to clamp down on free speech” – On X, the Free Speech Union has compiled alarming headlines and social media posts from politicians, journalists and academics cheering on Keir Starmer’s authoritarian crackdown on free speech.
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— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) August 12, 2024It's now clear Sir Keir Starmer intends to use the riots as an excuse to clamp down on one of our most fundamental human rights: the right to free speech. Many politicians, journalists and academics are cheering him on… pic.twitter.com/zYQdmFZbIj
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A slight correction:
‘Digital Pound Ends Freedom.’
It is as simple and Orwellian as that.
Additionally, Yvette
Copper Cooper wants to restore ‘respect for the police’.As the police were the visible representatives of the state in these recent disturbances, our Dear Lady Leader must mean ‘respect’ for the state.
I am sure that Iran is quaking in its boots after Starmer’s warning.
I see we’ve gone into overdrive already on the political party blame game. I suspect most people can see it for what it is: they need you to believe in the party system. Need you to believe your choice matters. Need you to believe you’re the boss. You’re not. Probably never were. But the system can only be maintained if you believe what they want you to believe.
This current party is just a more direct version of the one that came before. The fake Tories laid solid foundations and this lot are simply building on top of those foundations. Be in no doubt that the foundations were carefully designed for the building.
I agree. The “two-tier Keir” stuff, whilst both amusing and true, hides the truth that he’s only performing on a stage set up by his predecessors. The danger is that, as time goes by, the slogan will become “get Labour out,” thus fooling the people into voting his clones in.
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
It’s funny and depressing at the same time.
It’s like watching a child get fooled by the same simple card trick over and over again.
https://theins.ru/en/politics/265749
What’s really going on?
This is what socialist fascism looks like in its advanced state.
Britain has had socialist fascist governments since 1997. Their mission creep leads inexorably towards the state of affairs that exists in Russia.
Its leitmotif is control of communications:
‘For the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), it is crucial to learn how to block and slow down websites not only based on IP addresses but also based on protocols.
Until recently, the regulatory authority did not possess the technical capability to filter traffic based on protocols. Following the mass blocking of VPNs this summer, we learned that this capability is now available to the regulator. Moreover, thanks to the leak of data from the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRChTs, from Russian «Главный радиочастотный центр»), The Insider revealed the specific equipment used by Roskomnadzor. We’ve discovered the capabilities it provides for internet blocking in Russia, how many “customs checkpoints” have been established by Roskomnadzor on the networks of Russian telecommunications operators, and who manufactures and imports this equipment into Russia.
Most of the servers and components for them between 2019-2022 were supplied to Russia by Huawei itself.
The Chinese telecom giant still uses Intel processors in its equipment, despite the U.S. attempts to restrict the use of American technologies in Huawei’s products since 2019. To adapt to U.S. sanctions, the company is constructing secret factories to manufacture microchips.
The British company Mykines Corporation LLP, which is known to have previously supplied electronics to Russia in circumvention of sanctions, remains a major supplier.’
If you support Putin, you support socialist fascism.
You are on the wrong site.
You should be on ‘Portal Kombat’ which cites Russian state-owned media, like Tass or RIA, and often quotes pro-Russian Telegram accounts that publish in local languages.
Oh! You already are…….
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-12/russia-evacuates-180-000-as-ukraine-is-said-to-take-28-towns
Putin interrupted the governor of Kursk Oblast who spoke about “depth of penetration in the region”
What’s really going on?
Ukraine has seized 1,000 square km of Russian territory
180,000 Russian civilians are being evacuated.
The Ukrainian OMG-K has continued to expand its territorial holdings in Kursk oblast. This includes a likely front line that includes Snagost, Malaya Loknia, Cherkasskoe Porechie, and Martynovka.
Break throughs have occurred, particularly around Korenevo, Olgino, and towards Kauchuk and Berdin. Breakthrough battles are expected to continue over the next few days.
Due to the dislocation of their communications, a complete lack of interoperability, a lack of any credible intelligence, professional incompetence at senior command level, the Russian response to the Kursk offensive is in total disarray.
Retired Gen. Andrei Gurulev, a member of the lower house of the Russian parliament, criticized the military for failing to protect the border.
“Regrettably, the group of forces protecting the border didn’t have its own intelligence assets,” he said on his messaging app channel. “No one likes to see the truth in reports, everybody just wants to hear that all is good.”
Another Russian commentator:
‘So let’s keep our fingers crossed and pray for our troops’
It hasn’t “siezed” the territory any more than a burglar siezes a house when he breaks in. Most of the claimed territorial gains are from small, mobile groups rushing along a road, hopping out, taking a picture by a village sign and dashing back.
The losses taken by the Ukrainians are staggering for such a small force. They have now reached over 1600 dead and injured in the seven days.
Those who survive are contained in an ever-tightening net with retreat to their start point being the only way that further catastrophic losses can be avoided.
It is crystal clear from comments on this site, and, indeed, from the very highest level in the Kremlin, that no-one on the Russian side has a clue what Ukraine’s Kursk operational mission is.
That is not surprising since those commentators have very little, if any, relevant military experience and, obviously, not much in the way of academic analytical ability either.
This is also reflected in the poor response of Russian forces.
‘Kursk Oblast Acting Governor Alexei Smirnov claimed that Colonel General Yevgeny Nikiforov, who is reportedly the Chief of Staff of the Russian Ground Forces, arrived in Kursk Oblast and is coordinating “with all security forces.
It is unclear at this time if the Kremlin has designated Nikiforov as an overall commander of Russian military and security forces in Kursk Oblast or if Nikiforov is operating within the FSB-led counterterrorism operation headquarters.
Smirnov claimed that Russian forces are having unspecified issues since there is “no clear front line” and it is unclear where the “military units” are located — likely referring to Ukrainian forces quickly engaging Russian forces near a settlement and then withdrawing from the area, which is reportedly leading to conflicting Russian reporting from the ground about Ukrainian advances in Kursk Oblast.
Putin appears to be tasking the FSB and Rosgvardia with countering Ukrainian “mobile groups” that have been operating deeper into Kursk Oblast, while simultaneously tasking the FSB, Rosgvardia, and Russian MoD with conducting defensive and offensive operations in the region.
The disparate Russian force grouping responding to the Ukrainian incursion is complicating Russia’s ability to establish the C2 structures necessary to coordinate operations.’
This plodding mindset is by no means confined to Russia and Russian commentators.
‘It is the kind of strategic risk-taking that I don’t think is well understood in many Western capitals anymore. For nearly two generations now, Western nations have been able to cut military spending. None of them have faced existential threats, even though the War on Terror did require a significant response for more than a decade after 9/11.
The slow decision-making cycles in Western military and political circles, and in military procurement, is indicative of institutions that no longer understand the imperative to act quickly and decisively while taking major risks.’
Mick Ryan
In the West, as in Russia, no clue what Ukraine is doing; no clue as to Ukraine’s future intentions.
When clearly the most important ability is that of cutting and pasting without any attempt at quality control or independent verification.
As for knowing what Kiev’s intentions are we don’t. Neither do all contrary commentators know what Moscow’s intentions are, depite many claiming an inside knowledge of what is in Putin’s head.
The one thing that is clear is the almost total lack of strategic planning ability of the Ukrainian high command, given that they are performing an almost exact copy of the Wehrmacht’s death throes in the closing moments of WW2.
74 Russian settlements are now under Ukrainian control.
Because no-one except a very few subject matter experts, and most particularly not the eccentric Putin supporting duffers on here, has a clue as to Ukrainian Forces actual operational mission, the Ukrainian government has issued a statement that, in accordance with international law, it has no intention of annexing another nation’s territory.
Well written piece on the amount of cake the cake eating brigade enjoy.
“Dr. Fauci infected with Covid for third time”
– Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed that he has been infected with Covid
for a third time despite having been “vaccinated and boosted six times”…
Spot the deliberate mistake.
I find it very hard to believe Fauci has taken the mRNA vax. He will have taken a placebo “vaccination” six times instead, so that he is technically not lying when he claims to have been vaccinated six times. His use of self-deprecatory humour is just another evil ploy, IMO.
Most sensible people eg DS people would consider this story a joke so what is the purpose behind it? Fauci has never had the C1984 and won’t have gone within a continent of a so-called “vaccine.”
I cannot bring myself to watch the ‘Raygun’ video, lest my skin crawl entirely from my body, but…
It occurs to me that the lady in question should ‘educate’ herself and also check her ‘privilege’ as a white, middle class woman, being able to go all the way to the olympics to take the mickey out of black urban culture and still pretend to be the real victim…
The left, woke are nauseating…
You’ll have a job to view it in its entirety (well, I haven’t managed, unless anyone else knows different). A lid is desperately being tried to be kept on it I think, not because it is embarrassing to the contestant, but to the Olympic authorities, who have made several ‘miss steps’ in the past few weeks (as they call them these days).
The bits I have seen on You Tube are also amusing for the looks on the faces of the spectators. It’s really like a clip from a comedy sketch show.
It surely was something which cannot be unseen. Absolutely hilarious. However, it really reminded me of this classic. Maybe that’s where she got her inspiration. I felt like if she could’ve got a group of friends to join her it’d resemble how synchronized swimmers must look doing their routine on dry land! lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAi4VBoBSM
That is embarrassing
From the government’s On-line Harms white paper.
Can anyone explain how behaviour on-line can hurt someone physically? I can understand how it might incite another person to cause this harm but I fail to see any mechanism through which “the internet” can have any physical impact on anything.
Sloppy wording.
Taki says the elites rule us. How true. We were supposed to be governed.
on another story, who knew that after 14 years of the Tories, terrorists were entitled to social housing. No doubt they often get priority over Brits. Maybe that’s why so many seem to live in central London at fancy postcodes.
but where do terrorists and illegals from the boats get the money for branded clothes and iPhones.
Turns out the man who stabbed the girl in London yesterday is Romanian. We still await more details such as if he knew the victims and what his motive was, or was this just a random attack on randomly chosen passersby? The sicko only stabbed the girl, not the lady, it was later confirmed;
”Ioan Pintaru, 32 of no fixed address has been charged with attempted murder & possession of a bladed article.
LinkedIn suggests he is of Romanian heritage.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1823253179535921347
Source;
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/leicester-square-stabbing-man-charged-girl-injured-london-met-police-b1176170.html
Melanie Phillips writing in her usually rather hectoring style does not draw the conclusion from her observations about British policing.
The government and the police are like a colonial administration trying to maintain the civil peace between different ethnic groups and adjusting their approach accordingly. This approach produces suspicion and resentment.
Consequently, this is not solely a law and order issue, as she and other writers, commentators, journalists and politicians have attempted to frame it, albeit understandably.
Not to do that would inevitably require the acknowledgement that in 21st century Britain, and not in the England of the 13th century, and under the watch of the progressives, there are pogroms against places of worship.
Back again after a stint in a cold dark room having a strong word with myself!
“Highest number of migrants since Starmer became PM cross Channel in a day”
703 migrants x £1500 = 1,054,500!
703 ” ” ” x £1200 = 843,600!
Why does no one ever ask where these migrants, North,South Sudanese, Nigerian, Moroccan etc get their avg £1500 from per seat on one of the dinghies?
Surely if everyone in the these countries has that kind of financial access they really shouldn’t need to leave their own countries?
Per capita, that would make it a moderately wealthy state wouldn’t it?
They’re never short on smart phones either, are they? It’s because they’re being supported by NGOs and George Soros is behind the scenes, implementing his plan to screw over our European culture, heritage and population generally, by bringing in millions of these people every year, as I’ve shared previously on here.
There’s an inconvenient herd of elephants having a party in the house and we mustn’t, whatever we do, acknowledge that the majority of them are male. Keep playing along though….
But remember, we’re all meant to be placing the blame for the downfall of society solely at the door of feminism.
Well the combo of balaclava and an Eastern European accent does seem a wee bit suss, to be fair. How to stoke the conspiracy flames even further…
”In Ireland a lady concerned citizen investigates a site which is earmarked for asylum seekers.
Two guards escort her out, one at least one has a foreign accent.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1823261449797423105
Given the balaclavas and the male voices and stature I presume these two guards are but a very small percentage of the military age men invading the United Kingdom which some on here conclude are an army.
It sort of looks that way.
Playing Devil’s Advocate, it could also be that they’re security guards hired to keep the place safe from ‘hostile’ locals who might try and burn it down. Although I don’t think it’s usual for common or garden security guards to wear balaclavas either.
“Sellafield worker jailed after sharing ‘offensive’ Facebook posts”
This is yet another shocking example of “Judicial Overreach”, “Legislating from the Bench”, and a Two-Tier justice system. The man posted three images of Third World immigrants, with the caption “Coming to a town near you”:
— One image showed a group of them committing the crime of entering the UK illegally by sea, which they have been doing for years, now at over 700 a day.
— One image showed a group of them committing the crime of brandishing knives in front of the Palace of Westminster, which they have also done recently in other towns.
— One image showed a group of them at Egdemont Crab Fair, 2025
For these so-called “crimes”, the Judge John Temperley sentenced him to 8 weeks immediate custody in prison, which would have been 12 weeks if he hadn’t agreed to plead guilty and apologise. You can be sure he will be locked up with Third World ethnic criminals to “rub his nose in diversity”.
The judge insisted that these images were “grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.” Really? The judge also lauded the “Zero Tolerance” approach to British Patriots, in marked contrast to the “Turn a Blind Eye” approach to Armed Muslim Gangs brandishing machetes, Muslims attacking police at airports, and Muslim Gang Rapists of thousands of British children.
Meanwhile, Third World ethnic men caught with tens of thousands of child porn images have received nothing more than a slap on the wrist, suspended sentences and “community service” (in communities with children???)
And one who resisted arrest, assaulted and escaped from the female police officer trying to arrest him for sexual harassment of British female joggers, was allowed to avoid even community service, because despite shouting at the police officer to eff off, he claimed he couldn’t speak English.
“Clause 39 of the Magna Carta of 1215, as translated from the original Latin, provides that:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.
This clause was included as Chapter 29 in the 1225 version of Magna Carta and is regarded as England’s First Statute.”
The English protesters are being imprisoned by single judges, without Trial by Jury, without “the lawful judgement of their equals”.
However, the false change to “statute law” was a trick to allow it to be thrown out by later statutes.
This clause was included as Chapter 29 in the 1225 version of Magna Carta.
It is not Statute Law. It is COMMON LAW.
So that’s the end of Habeas corpus too!
The right to trail before a jury of peers!
What a bloody country its being turned into