- “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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The reactions to the Southport stabbings: another example of ‘controlled spontaneity’?
‘I developed a growing sense that much of what I was witnessing did not correspond to instinctive, bottom-up expressions of grief and anger. The rapid emergence of orderly vigils, together with the subsequent multiple and homogenous counterdemonstrations to the rioting of the ‘far right’, raised my suspicions that something more contrived was taking place.’
‘It is highly plausible that the ‘anti far-right’ counterdemonstrations were orchestrated by our government in collaboration with non-governmental organisations, such as Hope Not Hate…’
What political affiliation does Hope Not Hate have?
‘HnH has it in for everyone, it seems, except Labour. Curious. The Labour-shaped hole in Hope not Hate’s work is a new development. Throughout the Corbyn years, it was one of the primary organisations calling out racism within the party, doing tireless campaigning and commissioning expensive polling on the subject (odd, some might say, for an organisation whose nominal target is the far right). What’s changed? Could it be the fact that two of HnH’s six charity trustees, Gurinder Singh Josan and Anna Turley, are Labour candidates? (Labour baroness Ruth Smeeth is also its former secretary.)’
https://novaramedia.com/2024/06/17/would-the-real-anti-racists-please-stand-up/
Okay, so ‘Hope Not Hate’ is ‘kind of’ affiliated to the Labour Party
Who funds ‘Hope Not Hate’?
‘HNH has received a total of £585,000 from the Foundation (according to its website).
So there we are, the taxpayer under a “Conservative” government, is a joint-funder with a Foundation that supports open borders.’
https://www.charlottecgill.co.uk/p/who-funds-you-hope-not-hate-case
Errrr…….you do!
Oops!
And the ‘Foundation that supports open borders’ that funds ‘Hope Not Hate’?
That would be the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
One of its trustees is a Mr Tony Hall CBE…….you know…..the one that used to be Director General of the BBC…..that you also paid for……..
We must re-evaluate our personal relationship with ‘law’. Law is no longer the moral code of a society in print, but a tool used for totalitarian control. As such, it becomes not only okay to break the ‘law’, it becomes a moral duty.
So with a flourish HMG aims to put further pressure on smokers ! Why then can’t they Ban the actual criminal use of Knives with the same authoritarian gusto ! ?
Well, I’d speculate that they have zero interest in the betterment of society and are only interested in the control of society. They do this through a slow and patient process of creeping totalitarianism by introducing a myriad of (often seemingly reasonable) ‘laws’ whose only real purpose is to soften the masses to acceptance of state diktat though the drip, drip, drip of an intravenous tube. Like Covid and lockdown, it’s f*ck all to do with public health.
“Starmer bins portrait of Margaret Thatcher as he redecorates No.10”
He obviously believes he’s the owner not just another tenant!
She was twice the man he’ll ever be! I don’t know how Larry puts up with it…
Seconded
11 year old boy arrested over the riots. Doesn’t say what this particular kid is supposed to have done. If only the police could’ve been so enthusiastic about arresting the Pakistani rapists. Serious criminals perpetrating crimes over many years…But they sure as hell pull their socks up and go into overdrive when white people are kicking off. And that’s including the ones posting angry words online;
”Police have arrested an 11-year-old boy suspected of taking part in riots in the North East earlier this month.
The young boy was one of 14 people arrested during a series of raids in Teesside carried out by Cleveland Police in the early hours of Wednesday.
The force has now arrested 110 people following the widespread trouble in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough, which was some of the worst seen in recent history.
This is the second time the force has held an 11-year-old over the unrest.
Another 11-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of arson on August 1 after a police car was set alight in Hartlepool during disorder in the town.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-riots-boy-11-arrested-hartlepool-middlesbrough-police-cleveland-police-southport-b1178811.html
We are getting closer to April 1st.
Not really any surprises here, is there? That Starmer is looking to reverse Brexit. What with him being such a proud patriot that genuinely gives a damn about his fellow British citizens and takes on board their many concerns…I mean, he visited Germany and France and can see with his own eyes just how much they’ve ‘benefited’ over the years from non-existent borders and being under the thumb of the Brussels bandits. What an epic shyster this tw*t is;
”Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s new and unpopular Labour prime minister, travelled to Germany yesterday to tell Chancellor Olaf Scholz that he wants to “turn a corner” on Brexit.
As with his previous calls to “reset” relations with the European Union, his speech alongside Scholz hinted at even weaker borders and more rule-taking from Brussels under a Starmer government.
Never mind the fact that more Britons voted to leave the EU in 2016 than have voted for any other electoral option in the nation’s history—and that the vote was deeply tied to the all-important issue of immigration. Nor that the electorate doubled down on this in both the 2019 European elections and general election, during which the then-prime minister Boris Johnson promised to “get Brexit done.” Nor, indeed, that the Tory failure to properly see Brexit through played a large part in the party being thrown out of office in July.
Even as Starmer tries to deny it—just as senior Labour figures spent months talking down the idea they would implement (now-incoming) major tax rises—Brussels officials have been quite clear that the EU will only agree to Starmer’s “reset” plans if he agrees to ease immigration controls for young Europeans to come to the UK.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/uk-starmer-moves-one-step-closer-to-reversing-brexit/
“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.
What is it about the Tories. They think they can lie to us for decades, follow policies contrary to the values of their voters and opposite to the policies they put forward and still we will trust them to change? Of course not.
The detail behind the scenes with the Tories is even wprse than the obvious failures over immigration, Brexit and taxation/spending. They failed to oppose most of Blair’s policies, throughtout their 14 years they failed to roll back those policies and continued to appoint globalist lefties to quangos and the like, and now they are silent on the policies coming out of Number Ten.
What is the point trying to resucitate this broken wreck? Put it down as you would an old ill-cared for animal with a terminal disease.
They are not conservative.
Just Uniparty.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/keir-starmer-margaret-thatcher-portrait-downing-street-decoration
A man so wholly committed to treason against this country would undoubtedly find the face of Margaret Thatcher staring at him on a daily basis deeply disturbing. A constant reminder of the evil he is committing against this country and its people.
https://www.thefreemind.co.uk/p/500000-memorial-misses-the-mark-wheres
The Khant has no business whatsoever in spending so much taxpayers money on something clearly intended as self aggrandisement and rewriting history.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13794389/Labours-authoritarian-outdoor-smoking-ban-one-eight-pubs-close-doors-critics-warn-plan-hammer-blow-struggling-hospitality-sector.html
Which of course is the whole intention.
Will the smoking ban also be enacted across the Westminster Estate?
Just a thought.
Any chance the Sceptic could investigate this boast?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/30/jess-phillips-nhs-treatment-ceasefire-gaza/
“Could Britain’s IMAMMs (integrated Muslims against mass migration) stop the riots?”
NO. There is no such thing as “moderate Muslims” or “extremist Muslims”— just Muslims using different methods to the same end. “Extremists” openly carry machetes in street gangs, plot terrorist attacks, rape children and carry signs saying “Death to Britain”. “Moderates” smile and smile while taking over every corner shop, village shop and petrol station in the country, sacking the British staff to replace them with Muslims, and buying up whole streets full of houses, because money is no object when the mosque is funding it all.
Islam teaches that No Muslim man, woman or child can be guaranteed entry to “Paradise” unless they have offed an infidel, or died trying to off one, any way they can. “Extremists” openly want to kill you. “Moderates” are biding their time, like Trojan Horses. The Global Caliphate is the goal, the religious duty of all Muslims, and “deception” is religiously sanctioned for Muslims furthering that goal.
This is just risible. How many millions of us have been writing to our MPs and other “authorities” for years and years, decades and decades, ALL IGNORED, while the Globalist Machine trundles onward, crushing all dissent beneath its wheels. Nick Griffin issued a rallying cry, Tommy Robinson issued a rallying cry, Nigel Farage fought for 20 years to free us from the EU, we voted for Brexit, and now Marxist Starmer is trying to overturn it.
The only thing the “authorities” ever listened to were the 2024 UK Riots.
And we see how they are all being crushed, just as Wat Tyler’s Peasant Revolt was crushed 700 years ago.
Their motto is: “TARGET THE RESISTERS”.
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