- “Democratic dynasty heir RFK Jr. endorses Republican Trump” – Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House and endorsed Donald Trump, reports the NY Post.
- “How will the RFK Jr. bombshell alter the Presidential race?” – Democrats will try to minimise it, but a Kennedy endorsing Donald Trump is big news, says Tim Donner in Liberty Nation News.
- “RFK, Jr. full speech” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone links to Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s powerful speech delivered at Trump’s recent rally in Arizona.
- “Kamala and Keir are a match made in ‘progressive’ hell” – Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer are united in combining woke ideology with socialist economics, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Kamala Harris: creature of the oligarchy” – The Democratic nominee is a tribune of the elites, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “Unserious people making for serious times” – On the Bad Cattitude Substack, El Gato Malo argues that growing government power combined with increasing incompetence is creating major risks.
- “Imams blame riots on Zionists” – Imams around the country are blaming the riots on “Zionists”, reveals the Telegraph.
- “NatWest debanks one of Britain’s biggest Holocaust memorial charities with no explanation” – Education charity Yad Vashem U.K. has been informed that, “following a recent review”, NatWest has decided “to cease” all relations with the organisation, reports the Mail.
- “Notting Hill Carnival is ‘ultimate example of two-tier policing’, says ex-inspector” – In the Telegraph, a retired Scotland Yard detective claims that officers are hesitant to make arrests for fear of being accused of racism.
- “Rachel Reeves spoke out on immigration tensions eight years ago. Where is her voice now?” – In 2016, Rachel Reeves warned that Britain was on the brink of chaos if immigration wasn’t addressed post-Brexit. So, why has nothing changed? asks Alp Mehmet in TCW.
- “Crack down on racist hate speech, UN tells U.K.” – The United Nations has urged the U.K. to take action to curb racist hate speech, says the BBC.
- “Islamic State claims responsibility as two arrested over knife attack” – Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack at a festival in Germany which left three people dead, reports Sky News.
- “Synagogue ‘terror’ attack suspect wears Palestinian flag around waist” – An armed man with a Palestinian flag wrapped around his waist set fire to a synagogue in France in what Emmanuel Macron has branded a “terrorist attack”, says DW.
- “Pro-Palestine protesters in Dublin criticise U.S. support of Israel” – A pro-Palestine demonstration has been held in Dublin to criticise U.S. support for Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and call on the Irish Government to do more to help Palestinians, reports the Standard.
- “London council cancels Reginald D. Hunter stand-up show over ‘antisemitic’ joke” – American comedian Reginald D. Hunter has had his upcoming performance at Harrow Arts Centre cancelled after facing a backlash for making a joke about Israel at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, says the Standard.
- “BBC under fire for describing Hamas suicide bomb attacks as ‘military operations’” – The BBC has been accused of whitewashing Hamas’s terrorist activities after describing suicide bomb attacks which killed dozens of civilians in Israel as “military operations”, reports the Mail.
- “BBC has made Jermaine Jenas a scapegoat, claim friends” – According to one of the former footballer’s friends, Jermaine Jenas has been made a scapegoat by the BBC following criticism it received for its handling of the Huw Edwards affair, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s war against freedom of speech is built on a lie” – An elementary safeguard of liberal rights and intellectual values should be uncontroversial. But Bridget Phillipson has blocked it, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?” – Students should be taught to do more than agree, says a concerned academic in the Critic.
- “Hidden in plain sight: the real international student scandal” – On the HEPI blog, two anonymous professors from Russell Group institutions discuss the quality crisis threatening higher education in the U.K.
- “Union demands time off if temperatures get too high” – A major union has told Keir Starmer that all employees should have the right to stop working under a national maximum temperature for workplaces, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour is one step away from turning Britain into France” – European labour protections combined with Soviet productivity is the fate that awaits us, warns Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “No.10 pass for Labour donor who gave £500,000” – As cronyism claims swirl around the Government, the TV mogul Waheed Alli – Starmer’s biggest personal donor – gains access normally reserved for staff and officials, write Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire in the Sunday Times.
- “Truss calls for probe into Bank of England as bond crash ‘not my government’s fault’” – Liz Truss has demanded an investigation into the Bank of England after its analysts linked the bond market crash during her brief tenure to risky practices in the pensions industry, reports the Telegraph.
- “Inside Sunak’s disastrous gamble to call the election early” – In an extract from his new book, Telegraph Political Editor Ben Riley-Smith reveals how Rishi Sunak defied his campaign manager and paid the price for calling an early election.
- “‘I was the MP in honeytrap scandal. I felt such guilt and horror’” – Will Wragg tells the Times how a dating app match one lonely night in Westminster cost him his career and destroyed his mental health.
- “What is the point of foreign aid?” – Taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for aid projects in countries which don’t need it, says Daniel Freeman in CapX.
- “Ukraine has found a path to victory” – If given sufficient quantities of Western aid, Kyiv would have the capability to begin restoring its territory in 2025, writes Michael Bohnert in the Telegraph.
- “The fall of Vladimir Putin is now only a matter of time” – Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk will have been intended to bring forward the end of the Putin’s rule, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s war on cheap energy has only just begun” – Labour is willing to embrace higher prices to achieve its fanatical Net Zero ambitions, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Ofgem price cap rises” – On the Eigen Values Substack, David Turver explains the reasons behind the latest increase in energy bills.
- “Existing gas pipes would need massive retrofit or crippling de-rating to carry hydrogen” – A new peer-reviewed study has found that existing fossil gas infrastructure is “mostly unusable” for hydrogen without major investment, according to WUWT.
- “Can tree rings really tell us the earth’s temperature 1,488 years ago to 100th of a degree?” – In TCW, Ivor Williams casts a sceptical eye over today’s climate data and interpretations.
- “WHO co-conspirator in creation of SARS-CoV-2, cover-up of the laboratory origins in Wuhan” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Dr. Peter A. McCullough slams the WHO’s choice of Dr. Peter Daszak to investigate SARS-CoV-2, claiming it was a cover-up intended to obscure the virus’s origins.
- “World-first lung cancer vaccine trials launched across seven countries” – Doctors have begun trialling the world’s first mRNA lung cancer vaccine in patients, according to the Guardian.
- “The week in numbers” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan provides a numerical overview of the week’s top health-related stories.
- “Study of ‘sustainable’ Romani Gypsy lifestyle given £811,000 of taxpayer funds” – A study into how the “sustainable” lifestyle of Romani Gypsy communities can help combat the environmental crisis has been given £810,703 worth of taxpayer money, reveals Charlotte Gill in the Telegraph.
- “How ‘tranny’ became a slur” – The t-word was coined by gay men and used by everyone – until one day, it was rebranded as transphobic, says River Page in the Free Press.
- “Kirstie Allsopp’s fury as social services probe son’s Interrail trip” – Kirstie Allsopp says she was outraged at being quizzed by social services for allowing her 15 year-old son to go interrailing across Europe, according to the Mail.
- “Little Britain creator David Walliams slams cancel culture” – Famed U.K. comedian David Walliams has slammed “cancel culture”, saying that comedy needs to have an “edge” for it to be “explosively” funny, reports the Mail.
- “‘My Führer… RFK Jr. just dropped out of the race’” – On X, the movie Downfall’s Hitler bunker gets a makeover into the Deep State war room, just as the news breaks that RFK Jr. has withdrawn from the Presidential race and endorsed Trump.
A live look inside the Deep State war room after RFK Jr. and Trump joined forces!
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) August 24, 2024pic.twitter.com/HLcPrktB0s
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“Kirstie Allsopp’s fury as social services probe son’s Interrail trip”
Poor Kirsty. I seem to recall that she was all in favour of official interventions, when it suited her, or she wasn’t to be affected by them. Now she finds herself on a list. Boo-hoo.
Personally speaking, even though the kid had a 16 yo companion for the trip, and regardless of whether he is a sensible lad etc, I’m not sure barrelling around Europe without appropriate supervision is a smart play especially in these times.
The older one will have the vote soon and they are both able to request life changing surgery without reference to their parents.
I agree completely. The boy is too young. Travelling around Europe or anywhere else unsupervised is for young adults who have, or are just about to, come of age at 21.
What did the boy’s father Ben Anderson say about it? I think we can guess the answer: he was browbeaten into acquiescing, and if he ventured an opinion in opposition to hers, it was ignored. They have been together for 20 years and raised two children without bothering to get married, so he is still just her “partner”. And of course to feminists, he’s only a man, so what does he know?
“Existing gas pipes would need massive retrofit or crippling de-rating to carry hydrogen”
They dash from ‘solution’ to ‘solution’, proclaiming that this one is THE one, that will solve all the problems that have been concocted and confected to enable the useful idiots to dismantle our society. It must be pretty obvious to anyone except Chris Packham that there is no climate ’emergency’, just a million projects that end up putting our money in rich peoples pockets. We have enough time to choose the technology sensibly, (small scale nuclear…), and implement it to ensure we get reliable, cheap and abundant energy, without wanting to re-invent the world from ground up every time the wind changes direction.
Next plan – Helium is heavier than hydrogen, so would leak less from gas pipes. Let’s base our energy strategy on Helium production instead, and save the infrastructure work! You know it makes sense.
It solved the airship problem, just look at how important the airship is now.
“London council cancels Reginald D. Hunter stand-up show over ‘antisemitic’ joke”
I must confess that I’m not a big fan of Mr Hunters comedy, but I do find it amusing that if they don’t get you from one side, they come round the back and get you there. I don’t recall seeing anything about Mr Hunters position on standing up for the right of comedians to offend when it was others who were getting cancelled. Anyone know.?
“Union demands time off if temperatures get too high”
After winning a massive pay-rise to ‘end strike action’, without needing to make any concessions on productivity or costs, then ignoring their committment a fortnight later and calling strikes again, I must admit i have begrudging respect for the sheer brass neck of the unions in their latest demands. Lesson no.1 for the government is that appeasement, even to your paymasters, is never the answer.
I seem to remember that civil servants had (probably still have) the right to walk out if an office temperature gets too low. Actually saw this in action during one of those cold winters in the early 80s, when the boiler broke down. The rest of us non civil servant saps in the building had to carry on working wrapped in outdoor clothing, while they all went home. I am willing to bet they added a ‘too hot’ caveat as well, so perhaps it’s a bit of ‘we want what they’ve got’.
That reminds me of the news a couple of years ago about the British Army recruit who launched a lawsuit against the British Army for failing to provide him with special protective clothing for cold temperatures, because he said that as an Ethnic African, he was adapted to high temperatures, but not to the cold weather of Northern Europe.
He complained that he suffered from the cold more than his Ethnic European colleagues, and so deserved better equipment and special treatment. I never heard the outcome, but I’d imagine that he has no doubt been awarded “compensation”, so he never has to work again…
It was interesting that an Ethnic African himself admitted that his tropical people were not physically, biologically adapted to live in Northern Europe.
They’ve arrested someone for the mass stabbing in Germany. Reports elsewhere say he’s Syrian. If it is the killer he didn’t exactly try hard to get away and go on the run;
”Elite police officers from the special operations command (SEK) stormed a refugee shelter following the terrorist attack in Solingen. A suspect was arrested.
A police spokeswoman said that it was “a person who is connected to the crime”. However, she did not initially provide any further information about the age or origin of the arrested person.
The asylum accommodation is located just 300 meters from the Fronhof, the site of the attack. And 150 meters from the place where investigators found the suspected murder weapon in the afternoon – the knife with which the attacker killed three people and seriously injured eight on Friday evening.
As BILD learned, a police man-tracking dog led investigators directly from the location where the knife was found to the asylum on Wupper- / Goerdelerstraße in Solingen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The special unit then surrounded the building and finally stormed it at 8:18 p.m. A suspect was arrested. Whether the man is connected to the crime is currently being investigated. Investigators are also questioning residents of the home.”
https://www.bild.de/news/inland/terror-anschlag-von-solingen-sek-stuermt-asylheim-syrer-festgenommen-66ca26d72789423d83e3170a#fromWall
You have to see it to believe it. These people are rank traitors. Already, off the back of this stabbing they’re painting the ‘far right’ rioting as the main issue. People who are opposed to being taken over, their culture eroded, killed or raped by migrants are to be demonized, no matter what. Meanwhile the Leftards happily submit, sit back and let it all happen. Talk about deflection;
”Sky News panel fears that a Syrian asylum seeker being arrested for three murders at a Festival of Diversity in Germany will empower “the Far Right”
If “the Far Right” will deport all illegal migrants who stab innocent people, then they should be in power.”
https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1827474878519287815
“What is the point of foreign aid?”
Exactly… I suppose like many, I used to think that foreign aid was sent to foreign countries who spent it wisely. I didn’t think that it was sent through a miriad of NGO’s with absolutely no audit on what this money had been spent on. I can reveal though that the top spending is on NGO wages, bonuses and new BMW’s for the bosses, Mercedes Benz for El-Presidente, and some nice AK-47’s for the Head of the Army to suppress dissent with.
The same applies to charitable donations for water and eye health. Poor people in rich countries sending money to rich people in poor countries…
Donations to charities are just secondary taxation for the gullible.
On the matter of Water Aid why don’t we set up teams and do the work ourselves? There is no reason whatsoever that people on this planet do not have access to cleam water in 2024.
I did some research about this during lockdown, and discovered that the cost of providing clean water via a well and a storage facility and rudimentary sanitation (reed bed) was about £12k for a village of 1,000 people, or £12 per head. Therefore for a sum of roughly £25m, you can fix this problem for 21m people or about the average population of the central countries in Africa. It doesn’t sound like a vast amount. This isn’t water and WC in every house or hut, but village facilities, a wash-house, toilet block and a ground water pump. Of course you have to have electricity which 1bn people still don’t have access to, and people prepared to do the work without pockets getting filled on both sides. It also doesn’t cover my naivety on what else would have to be done to make it work, but I thought it was at least a discussion point. If you know better, educate me…
Exactly the points I am getting at.
I disagree with the author’s second paragraph in this article because I don’t think a lot of the people getting sent to jail are deserving of this punishment. Yes, obviously arson has always carried a custodial sentence and people breaking into shops and looting them are just opportunistic idiots, not proud patriots and concerned citizens. But he does make a good point about if the government are wanting to free up space in over-crowded prisons then why aren’t they deporting the many foreign-born prisoners, which is about 1 in 8?
”Despite countless imported horrors, from industrial rape gangs and endemic knife crime to sectarian in-fighting and Islamist intimidation, only now that a backlash has been triggered among Britain’s host population do we see a sudden concern for ‘law and order’ setting in among our otherwise feeble leaders. Ministers and magistrates have rushed to exhibit a sentimental toughness that would have made Richard Nixon blush amid the turmoil of 1968.
As Justice Minister Heidi Alexander boasted on the BBC, “all elements of the criminal justice system stand ready” for the accelerated delivery of over 500 new prison places for those causing—as well as a few supposedly inciting—disorder. Why is such severity only employed when native Britons riot, however disgracefully, in response to the horrific consequences of fatal and disastrous policy-making?
Now that we live under a Labour government, the anarcho-tyranny is as much the result of cynicism as ideology. At least since Blair, the former party of the proletariat has been consciously dependent on minority voting blocs, having long ago ditched solidarity with the working man for the politics of racial, ethnic, and religious grievance. What Eric Kaufmann calls “race taboos” are still very much at work. However, Starmer’s exclusive focus on the ‘far Right’ and his neglect of the root problem also indicate a more sinister motive: punishing enemies—in this case, the white working classes who overwhelmingly oppose mass immigration—and rewarding clients, if not quite friends, among imported diasporas.
Indeed, while otherwise respectable citizens get imprisoned for horrible rage rhetoric online, this sternness is conspicuously lacking elsewhere, not least in areas where it is most needed. Due to overcrowding, a mass release of prisoners—many of whom can be guaranteed to have a more alarming track record of violence and recidivism than intemperate old ladies on Facebook—is also currently underway.
Earlier this year, Prisons Minister James Timpson was arguing that prison does not work and berating the UK system for being “addicted to sentencing and punishment.” Albeit with highly selective swiftness, he and his colleagues have now succumbed to this same addiction. Meanwhile, they have shown no effort whatsoever to free up space by deporting the 10,000+ prisoners who are foreign nationals—close to one in eight of the total 85,851 incarcerated up and down the country.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-escalation-of-anarcho-tyranny-starmers-britain/
It seems that the Telegraph is now the chief outlet for Ukrainian disinformation in the West now that US msm is winding down the rhetoric.
Sorry, I forgot to add “What’s really going on”.
Hahaha. Monro has been missing a while, perhaps he went on that suggested holiday.
It’s not all bad news!
Coal prices are expected to decline by 28 percent in 2024 and a further 12 percent in 2025. Upside risks to the coal price outlook includes higher-than-expected growth in China’s consumption and various factors that could lower renewable electricity production, such as low rainfall or light wind conditions.
And to think, we have millions of tons of it only 1 mile away at most and yet we import it from 10000 miles away instead!
Saving the planet they tell us!
“World-first lung cancer (mrna) vaccine trials launched across seven countries”
As bad as cancer is (personal experience)
This headline is one of the scariest I have ever read!
“Notting Hill Carnival is ‘ultimate example of two-tier policing’, says ex-inspector”
This news is incredibly important, and for those without access to the Telegraph, here’s the GB News version:
Notting Hill Carnival is ‘ultimate example of two-tier policing’, former Scotland Yard detective says (gbnews.com)
“Eight people were stabbed and 80 officers were assaulted at Notting Hill Carnival last year”
“Commander Charmain Brenyah” ??? is the Ethnic African woman in charge of policing the “Celebration of Afro-Caribbean Culture”, at which I wonder if England flags are allowed.
But what struck me is that American title for police “Commander”— Why have the London police been forced to adopt an American-style naming system for their upper echelons, in contrast to the rest of Britain? It’s as if Sadiq Khan is carving out his own separate “City-State” within the territory of the United Kingdom.
Here is a table comparing police titles (scroll down the page past the first two photos of police badges to the table):
UK Policing Ranks from PC to Chief Constable – Police Success
“Imams blame riots on Zionists”
Well, that’s a new one— imams desperate to find some excuse for whining about Gaza again, to distract attention away from the age-old alliance between Muslims and the Zionists who created Islam in the first place, as a Proxy Army to destroy Christianity.
Predators masquerading as victims.