- “Blairite think tank urges Chancellor to hit expensive houses with higher tax” – The Institute for Public Policy Research wants steeper levies on empty homes and two new top-end council tax bands, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer bins portrait of Margaret Thatcher as he redecorates No.10” – Keir Starmer has been labelled “petty” after removing a portrait of Margaret Thatcher from Downing Street – just months after praising the Iron Lady to win over Tory voters, reports GB News.
- “Starmer’s approval rating at lowest on record amid cronyism scandal” – A new poll shows almost two-thirds of voters think the Government is more interested in serving its own interests than those of ordinary people, says the Telegraph.
- “Workers to gain right to a four-day week” – Workers are to be given new rights to demand a four-day week in a law planned for this autumn, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s lawfare nightmare has only just begun” – Equal pay suits are already bankrupting local councils. Soon they could bankrupt the country, warns Fred de Fossard in the Telegraph.
- “Even Labour thinks the Blob is incompetent” – There’s a reason why the Government is resorting to ‘cronyism’. The Civil Service model is broken, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Palestine Action leader ordered to attend court on terrorism charge” – The co-founder of Palestine Action has been summoned to court to face charges including an alleged terrorism offence, reports the Times.
- “Could Britain’s IMAMMs (integrated Muslims against mass migration) stop the riots?” – If we want to prevent decades of civil unrest, we need to openly debate mass migration and especially low-quality immigration, explains Andrew Hunt in Conservative Post.
- “The reactions to the Southport stabbings: another example of ‘controlled spontaneity’?” – Was the swift emergence of orderly vigils after the murders of three young girls in Southport, alongside uniform counter-demonstrations against ‘far-Right’ riots, a top-down exercise in ‘controlled spontaneity’? asks Dr. Gary Sidley on his Substack.
- “Germany to slash benefits for migrants who arrive from other EU countries to ‘bed, bread and soap’” – Following the Islamic State-inspired terror attack in Solingen, the German Chancellor is said to be preparing tough new measures to tackle illegal migration, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s outdoor smoking ban could see one in eight pubs close” – Keir Starmer is facing a growing backlash after he confirmed plans to ban smoking in pub gardens, sports grounds and other outdoor venues, says the Mail.
- “‘I’ll never go to the pub again if outdoor smoking is banned’” – Nigel Farage warns that the ban on smoking in pub gardens or on the pavement outside pubs will kill off the traditional pub forever, reports GB News.
- “We need a smokers’ revolt” – A smoking ban in pub gardens is the final, joyless straw, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “The Tories didn’t defend liberty in office. But it’s never too late to start” – Sunak’s smoking ban demonstrates that adopting your opponents’ policies doesn’t work; they will always demand more, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Toby Young warns of ‘chilling’ crackdown on free speech” – On the Telegraph’s Planet Normal podcast, Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson speak to Toby about Starmer’s riot crackdown.
- “Labour’s watching you! Starmer’s war on free speech” – On the New Culture Forum’s Deprogrammed podcast, Toby joins hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson to discuss Labour’s chilling attacks on free speech in its first few weeks in government – and what we can expect in the months and years ahead.
- “The death of free speech in Britain” – If free speech in the U.K. was born in the 1960s, it seems to be dying in the 2020s, laments Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Spectator.
- “Tech barons were untouchable. Then France came for Telegram” – The prosecution of Pavel Durov reflects a growing divide between Europe and the U.S. on free speech – and freedom from crime, writes Keiran Southern in the Times.
- “Social media policing is a threat to free speech” – Pavel Durov’s arrest is a watershed moment as governments walk the line between moderation and censorship, notes Rohan Silva in the Times.
- “A trip down memory hole lane” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan explores Starmer’s selective political memory.
- “Markets make us richer, planning doesn’t” – Restrictive red tape has strangled our economy, leaving us all worse off, says Daniel Herring in CapX.
- “Study quantifies Germany’s disastrous switch away from nuclear power” – The net result of German politicians’ shortsightedness in phasing out nuclear power is a vastly pricier grid, writes Ross Pomeroy in WUWT?
- “Lucy Letby: questions grow in debate on killer’s convictions” – A number of experts are raising concerns about evidence presented in Lucy Letby’s trials, says Gill Dummigan on the BBC.
- “Covid surge forces schools to close, bring back pandemic-era measures” – Two schools in Alabama and Tennessee have closed just days into the new term amid an “uptick” in Covid cases, and there are fears more disruption could be in store, reports the Mail.
- “Freedom Research TV: a new documentary My Biggest Battle” – On the Freedom Research Substack, Hannes Sarv discusses a new film that traces the harrowing decline of Heiko Sepp, an extreme triathlete whose health collapsed after the second Covid vaccine dose.
- “Slipshoddiness” – In the New Criterion, Anthony Daniels reviews a new book by the French philosopher and commentator Pascal Bruckner on the post-Covid self-confinement of an increasing number of Westerners.
- “£500,000 memorial misses the mark: where’s the tribute to Britain’s role in ending the slave trade?” – Sadiq Khan’s £500,000 memorial to victims of the transatlantic slave trade is a noble gesture, but it overlooks Britain’s pivotal role in ending the trade, says Laura Dodsworth on her Free Mind Substack.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part three” – In the final instalment of her three-part exposé for TCW, Karen Harradine reveals how Hope Not Hate’s kangaroo court labels anyone critical of radical Islam as Islamophobic or ‘far-Right’, aiming to silence dissent.
- “Brazil is now a dictatorship” – Brazil has frozen the bank accounts of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company and is expected to shut off X in a few hours, says Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “Kamala Harris mocked for asking Tim Walz to ‘babysit’ interview” – Kamala Harris has been mocked for getting Tim Walz to join her as a “babysitter” in her first major interview since announcing her run for the U.S. Presidency, according to Newsweek.
- “Trump says there are signs Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s dad” – Donald Trump has stoked rumours about Justin Trudeau in his new book by claiming that Fidel Castro could be the Canadian Prime Minister’s father, reports the Mail.
- “Building a new university on firm foundations” – This autumn, the University of Austin (UATX) welcomes its inaugural class, advocating colour-blind merit over identitarian bias, equality over equity, free speech over censorship and truth over falsehoods, writes Joe Lonsdale in City Journal.
- “A passage to doomsday” – Over at City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple ruminates on a rare E.M. Forster sci-fi story, which eerily foreshadowed aspects of our present-day technological dystopia.
- “Join the People’s Revolt: help expose how Labour’s migration plans will bankrupt us by 2030” – The Conservative Post issues a rallying cry to save our country and economy, urging you to contact your MP, the OBR and the Chancellor to demand action.
- “Together 3rd Anniversary Event” – Together’s 3rd Anniversary Event is set to attract around 2,000 people to London on Friday, September 20th, with speakers including Neil Oliver, Ben Habib, Katharine Birbalsingh, Zuby, Allison Pearson, Baroness Claire Fox, Bev Turner, Dan Wootton, Matt Le Tissier and more announced soon. Daily Sceptic readers can get £5 off early bird tickets until the end of Sunday by using coupon code SCEPTIC at checkout.
- “Labor Government’s new ‘disinformation portal’ backfires” – Sky News Australia’s Late Debate team ridicule the Labour Government’s “disinformation portal” – which was set up to tackle fake news but is now getting flooded with complaints about Labour’s own campaign ads.
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Smoke and mirrors.
Well who’d of thought? It wasn’t obvious in the slightest.
Ditto
I don’t know why she is so loved and he is so admired. Peter Hitchens said that it was in the 1990s when he appeared on Have I got News For You. The boomer generaton found him to be a comforting and harmless throwback. I suppose the English have an implicit respect for education in classics via the class system. But he never really embodied any of the greats of antiquity. There is so much that could be said with the benefit of knowing Greece and Rome and how much did he actually impart? That tells you something about him. A good teacher could easily inspire a revival of the classics. He had nothing to say except a few self-congratulatory remarks. I daresay he regrets his choice of wife. I say let her be with him forever.
Mummy, where do politicians come from?
Well darling, when a clown and a serial killer love each other very much …..”
Obvious really. Carrie is the only person he had to answer to – and she still is.
Boris – anything for the easy life.
When the left ball is in the right hand and the right ball is in the left, you have the undivided attention of the owner of the balls.
When you have a billiard cue between your legs, a green ball in one hand and a green ball in the other you have the undivided attention of a Leprechaun.
The style of writing to each other shows a lack of maturity and a complete failure to conduct public affairs in an organised, structured way. I guess that reflects their general approach and their immaturity.
why are we cursed with being governed by a combination of antipathy to the British people and juvenile attitudes.
The entire Pharma-ment was reporting to Pharma and the International Cabal which runs our affairs. Doris et al were running nothing.
Carrie might run Doris and might have directed his policy but she is long gone. And yet the same policies are being justified, ‘improved’ and readied for reuse by other actors many of whom are new and were never at the scene of the Rona plandemic crime. Follow that money.
I do recall the fake PCR tests were being shipped as early as 2017, I doubt Carrie had much influence on that or much else with the shamdemic.
Yeah this is all just Westminster tittle-tattle. The forces behind the covid evil and many other evils are many and mighty and global. PM, Carrie et al just useful idiots, or they were “in on it”, whatever “it” exactly turns out to be (my money’s on some US shenanigans, bio security stuff) but either they are utterly contemptible, the whole lot of them, politicians, “scientists” and the rest.
Quite so ToF – this story also has the benefit (for the really evil ones) of ringing true since “dithering Boris” was a plausible meme planted into the msm by Boris’s enemies (mainly remainers) several years ago and readily taken up by the public.
Well no surpises there then.The Pig dictator , totem, is weak, thick as mince and only focuses on getting his leg over .
The country deserves a PM who can at least think clearly and act decisively.
Lets not forget that Princess nut nut has never stood for the role either .
WE DESERVE FAR BETTER THAN THE SHOWER OF IDIOTS WE ARE LIKELY TO GET NEXT YEAR >God help us all
Sinor – please don’t call them idiots, this misses the point completely. They are not idiots – they know perfectly well what they are doing which is, in short, to destroy the UK to make way for the new world order. Similar “idiots” are doing the same thing in every other white western nation state.
The question is that given that such prats take charge by dint of numbers, how does a group possessed of the truth gain ascendency. The real ascendancy will consist in the battles ahead and the destruction of the nonsense. I genuinely believe that the old order is gone. There is no way for a political paty now to assert anything despite their wishes.What will we converge upon? There is a sense that it will be something very different. As long as you are making your life as painful for yourself in every way possible you can’t be argued with. If you aren’t then you are going to be in bad shape on the other side.
We really are governed by childish smug tossers.
I thought Caring Carrie would have had enough work advising Oceana on how to organise a global fish shortage by banning fishing, a meat shortage by banning fertilisers and an energy crisis by banning coal.
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. [Aneurin Bevan]
Do we attach any credibility to this? Honestly, who cares. It has been blatantly obvious that all those involved were acting on orders outside of Westminster or the UK (The City of London is outside the UK). These ‘tit bits’ mean nothing. We also know that they haven’t cared a jot about elderly folk dying alone or injecting a world with a substance of which no long term research has been done or exists.
I suspect Vallance misspoke when mentioning ‘enthusiasm’, perhaps he meant ‘euthanasia’?
So Carrie was behind the global coordination of the response?
**** off.
Just a cock-up.
Well, she was absolutely ‘on message’. Useful idiot perhaps.
Look at them all, especially the Valance comment, talk about lack of self awareness. What a truly, truly terrible group of people, have they no shame? They are like Rats in a bag.
I don’t think Johnson senior is entirely innocent in this respect, judging by the utter tripe he spouts when in front of a camera.
So the Churchillian Doris turned out to be a weak hen pecked man. It explains the net zero bollux and the ‘show’ holiday in Scotland. Like so many green hypocrites, she has 3 children to monetise & provide her future income. She is our very own Megan Sparkle.