- “Two die after attacks at deadliest Notting Hill Carnival in more than 20 years” – Two people have died after separate attacks at the Notting Hill Carnival, making this year’s event the deadliest in more than two decades, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer dealt hammer blow as voters label Labour ‘dishonest’ over PM’s tax raid” – A new poll reveals that 56% of voters believe Starmer’s Labour Party was dishonest about its tax plans during the General Election, says GB News.
- “Stop testing children on times tables, unions tell ministers” – Ministers are being urged to cut down the number of tests in primary schools, which teaching unions say lead to high levels of anxiety in children, reports the Telegraph.
- “Employers will have to fight pernicious pay controls to the bitter end” – Matthew Lynn warns in the Telegraph that a recent court ruling forcing Next to equalise pay for different roles means judges are now setting pay levels.
- “Labour opens door to handing Chagos Islands back to Mauritius” – The Government has met with the Prime Minister of Mauritius to discuss handing back the Chagos Islands, reports the Express.
- “Defending an outdoor smoke” – There is no rational argument for the prohibition of tobacco, says Charles Amos in the Critic.
- “Letby hospital’s ‘inexplicable spike’ in baby deaths not unusual” – According to a mathematics professor, the baby death rates at the Countess of Chester Hospital were not an outlier when compared with other poorly performing trusts, reports the Express. So hardly conclusive proof Lucy Letby was a killer.
- “From Brexit to Trump: Brazil uses rise of populism to justify X ban” – Justice Moraes’s shutdown of X ignites fears of digital censorship ahead of Brazil’s 2024 elections, writes Dan Frieth in Reclaim The Net.
- “The world just took a giant leap toward totalitarianism” – Since 2018, Brazil has been a laboratory for the censorship that U.S., European and other Western leaders want, says Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “A Brazillian reasons to support free speech” – Most U.S. media outlets and celebrity fascism aficionados are favouring – and even cheering on – Brazil’s decision to turn off Twitter/X and Starlink, writes El Gato Malo on the Bad Cattitude Substack.
- “Brazil’s ban on X is a taste of things to come” – The global crackdown on free speech is getting more aggressive by the day, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Elon Musk warns censorship of X ‘is a certainty’ if Kamala Harris wins” – X owner Elon Musk has warned Americans that if the Democrats win the election in November, censorship of his platform is a “certainty”, according to Modernity.
- “Proton CEO slams France for arresting Telegram founder” – Proton CEO Andy Yen warns France’s arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov could spell “economic suicide” for its tech industry, says Reclaim The Net.
- “French newspaper claims Macron tricked Durov with dinner invite to facilitate his arrest” – French newspaper Le Canard Enchaine claims that Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was invited for a dinner by President Emmanuel Macron in order to trick him into being arrested, reports Modernity.
- “As Europeans are arrested for what they say, how ‘free’ is Europe’s speech?” – Across the continent of Europe, genuinely frightening cases of speech restrictions are becoming increasingly commonplace, notes Anthony J. Constantini in Brussels Signal.
- “The state of Britain by a former Red Guard” – Speech in Britain is no freer now than in China, says Zhang Yingyue in Free Speech Backlash.
- “Master stroke or folly? Ukraine could pay high price for its Kursk incursion” – Ukraine’s audacious incursion into Kursk has left cities in Donbas exposed to a rapid Russian advance, write Roland Oliphant and Inna Varenytsia in the Telegraph.
- “EU declares Maduro ‘de facto’ President of Venezuela” – The EU has declared that the Left-wing strongman Nicolás Maduro is the “de facto President” of Venezuela despite vote tampering concerns, reports Brussels Signal.
- “UCSF researchers identify major driver behind Covid and Long Covid, with potential treatment” – Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have identified fibrin, a natural protein involved in blood clotting, as a major driver of the COVID-19 disease, says the Epoch Times.
- “Fighting Goliath by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil” – On the Where Are the Numbers? Substack, Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil discuss their new book, Fighting Goliath, exposing the flawed science and statistics behind the COVID-19 event.
- “Adolescent gender dysphoria is a temporary diagnosis for most teens” – New evidence underscores that a gender dysphoria diagnosis in adolescence is an unreliable basis for medical interventions, writes Leo Sapir in City Journal.
- “Funding for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth goes to LGBT migrant campaign group” – The Mayor of London’s funding for transgender-themed artwork on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth has gone to a group that campaigns to release detained migrants, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Scotland’s woke £96 million arts quango lost the plot” – Creative Scotland remains in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, but this time it seems that its political masters are fast losing patience with its bosses, says Graham Grant in the Mail.
- “University cancels Anglo-Saxon ‘to decolonise’ the curriculum” – The term Anglo-Saxon has been removed from the University of Nottingham’s module titles to tackle “nationalist narratives”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Does the U.S. need to ‘queer’ its nuclear arsenal?” – A newly hired expert in the Biden administration wants to bring wokeness to the field of nuclear weapons, says Rosie Norman in Spiked.
- “Kamala is worse off in polls than Biden, Hillary at same point in 2020, 2016 elections: Real Clear Polling” – Kamala Harris is in a worse position in terms of her polling numbers stacked up against Donald Trump than both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton were in the 2020 and 2016 election, according to the Post Millennial.
- “Black women saying ‘I’m not with her’ have gone viral. Kamala could be in real trouble here” – The Democrats can’t take black women for granted, says David Christopher Kaufman in the Telegraph.
- “Inside the tension in Harris’s ‘Frankenstein’ team” – The upbeat tone of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign conceals underlying tensions between Harris loyalists and Obama alumni, writes Alex Thompson in Axios.
- “I’m releasing these prisoners in the interest of public safety” – @NotFarLeftAtAll has posted a funny AI-generated video of Sir Keir Starmer talking about his crackdown on “inflammatory content” on social media.
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Jon Snow has clearly not been to Glastonbury…
Talking of Jon Snow, I was at Chatsworth for a “country fair” this weekend and I can safely say I have never seen so many white people all in one place before.
Master stroke or folly? Ukraine could pay high price for its Kursk incursion
‘Data currently available—such as the discovery of underground bunkers—is only the beginning of uncovering a larger truth. Over time, more information will be made public, and people will become aware of it.
“I think that people from Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil, in particular, may still find wells in the forests whose depths cannot be determined. These are former facilities of the Soviet Union. Currently, we have a situation where entire complexes of this nature exist in the Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, and Bryansk regions. It is clear that the situation will continue to develop, and the whining of the Moscow Fuhrer, along with his evasion of key problems by discussing economic and budgetary issues, is evidence that he has been personally affected, as has the entire system, which once claimed to be the ‘second army of the world,’
Roman Bezsmertnyi
Master stroke or folly?
This is the Daily Sceptic, where you decide things for yourself.
In 1917 the German parliament had agreed that Imperial Germany should take part in peace talks arranged by the American president that were to be carried out on the basis that no side had won. Then, after some unexpected successes on the battlefield, the Germans pulled out of these negotiations.
That might have been thought of as a masterstroke in Germany at the time. But a year later it would be revealed to be absolute folly. Defeat in war always corrupts. The sort of authoritarian rule that developed in Germany in the 1930s was a result of the characteristics both of German society and the nature of that defeat.
The ‘incursion’ at Kursk only serves to underline what Putin has been telling the Russians for years. Namely, that Ukraine is a potential danger to Russia, especially when associated with NATO. It also demonstrates the hollowness of claims of UK politicians about the capabilities of the Russian ‘war machine’. And what are the Russian losses compared to those they were prepared to endure in the Second World War?
Why are the British print media so fascinated by the minutiae of this war? As far as most of the British public are concerned it might as well be taking place on the Moon. But at least Zelensky has acknowledged that the war is to end with negotiation. But wait a moment, wasn’t Farage pilloried for observing that all wars end in either negotiation or catastrophe?
About 30 million of Brits participate in a representative democracy.
Their representatives, aided by some extremely able and well informed Generals and Academics, are now only too well aware of Putin’s ambitions for a new European super state of 250 million souls.
Obtained by power politics backed by military conquest, those ambitions are not seen to be in the best interests of the British people. Finland, Sweden, the Baltic States, Moldova and Poland at least are of like mind, France, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria as well.
So, at least in this, Westminster and Whitehall may very well demonstrably have the best interests of the British people in mind.
Many on here do not agree with that but they represent a tiny minority and are consistently incapable of producing anything in the way of authoritative sources to support their point of view.
That point of view, superficial but mercifully brief comments already on here a case in point, can therefore be dismissed.
Well you quote many sources, though I have no idea if they are “authoritative”. It seems to me that a lot of it is just speculation about future intentions and events. The rich west led by the US has been intervening since WW2 all over the place. To say that results have been mixed seems generous to me.
Quoting direct from verified Kremlin documents regarding Russia’s future intentions, ‘primary sources’, is as authoritative as it gets. Quotes from Putin’s, Lukashenko’s own speeches are equally illuminating and authoritative.
I am not in favour of overseas interventions unless Britain has signed up to some kind of agreement or treaty commitment.
That is very much the case with regard to Ukraine.
And we have failed to live up to the security assurances that we gave to that country.
“Quoting direct from verified Kremlin documents regarding Russia’s future intentions, ‘primary sources’, is as authoritative as it gets. Quotes from Putin’s, Lukashenko’s own speeches are equally illuminating and authoritative.”
Not really. All for public consumption. Politicians say all sorts of things.
“I am not in favour of overseas interventions unless Britain has signed up to some kind of agreement or treaty commitment.”
Well, I would say I am not in favour of overseas interventions unless there is a compelling national interest AND we’re comfortable we’re not going to do more harm than good and that the billions spent will give a return on investment.
This is a representative democracy.
Your government, representing you, made a decision in 1994 to give Ukraine security assurances regarding its territorial integrity in return for the surrender of its nuclear warheads.
It should be abundantly clear, now that Ukraine has just launched its first ballistic missile, that your government did the right thing.
That government has subsequently reneged on those security assurances. Nevertheless they believe it is in Britain’s best interests to support Ukraine in order to prevent Putin setting up, by force, a new European super state.
Putin’s intentions are documented, verified primary sources from the Kremlin.
By all means disagree, but, without any substantive documentary support for your position, opinion, it can be dismissed out of hand.
Representative democracy doesn’t mean you have to agree with everything the government does
Assurances should be reneged upon if they are not in our interests
What Russia might do in the future is uncertain, except to Almighty God
Of course you do not have to agree but if you adopt a position unsupported by any credible evidence, subject matter experts, then your position cannot be taken seriously, should be dismissed.
Assurances reneged upon out of weakness destroy deterrence as Russia has amply demonstrated by its second invasion of Ukraine.
Not only do we know exactly what Russia will do in the future but we know why they will do it, if we allow them to, because they keep telling us. Documents are not leaked from the Kremlin by accident.
Russia wishes to create a Russian Union Super State because the Russian domestic birth rate has dropped dramatically (and large numbers of educated Russians have emigrated).
Sound familiar? It should do because that is exactly the same motivation shamefully displayed by our own government in ‘permitting’ so much inward migration.
What politicians say they are going to do and what they end up doing are two different things. That’s why we have clandestine intelligence gathering, to find out stuff that they DON’T want you to hear or know.
Your position can be dismissed out of hand because it’s based on speculation about the future.
My position is based on verified primary source material.
Yours is not.
That is why 80% of the British public take my position and not yours.
80% of the British public think there was a “covid pandemic” based on “verified primary source material”.
There cannot be any “verified primary source material” that predicts the future with much accuracy, especially if that material was meant for public consumption.
80% of Britain does not give a flying fig for primary source evidence. They have elected representatives to do that for them. They were badly let down regarding SARS CoV 2.
Those representatives have, however, done their homework regarding Putin’s second invasion of Ukraine, correctly identifying it as a threat to Britain’s national security. Pity they didn’t do that after Putin’s first invasion as many of us pointed out at the time.
Setting out a plan of action is not ‘predicting the future’. It is a statement of intent regarding future actions.
It only becomes the future if nothing prevents it from happening.
At the moment, something is stopping Putin’s plan from happening. That something is the Ukrainian Armed Forces supported by various western government’s including that of Britain.
I have evidenced Putin’s strategic plan and its motivation.
You were wrong in 2014 and you are wrong now simply because you are uninformed, have not done the research.
No reason why you should, except that your position, unevidenced as it is, can, consequently, be dismissed as unworthy of serious attention.
Have a good day.
“They were badly let down regarding SARS CoV 2”. A good reason to be sceptical about our “elected representatives” and “experts” when they decide that wars are necessary – given we have such a great track record in that department.
Our plan of action is based in part on what we think Putin might do in future, but don’t pretend you know what he will do.
I had no opinion on the matter back in 2014, but having witnessed the biggest scam in history (“covid”) and seeing the other two biggest scams in history unfold (“net zero” and the deliberate replacement of White Europeans in their own countries) I no longer trust the government and their “experts”.
No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy but, for that to be the case, there has to be an enemy.
In this case Putin has an enemy thanks to the support, from this country and others, given to Ukraine.
Had there not been, as in 2014, Putin’s plan would have succeeded.
I am not pretending that I know what he will do. But I do know his intentions, which I have evidenced. I have quoted from his strategic plan as he himself and his staff have set it out.
Had those of us who shouted about the need for an enhanced conventional deterrent in Europe in 2014 been listened to, pound to a pinch of salt, Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as set out in his strategic plan, would not have taken place.
I do not want Putin to subsume Ukraine, Moldova into his Union State by force. I do not want Putin to surround and dominate the Baltic States. I do not want that because it means that this country will once more be at war in Europe.
You certainly should have had an opinion in 2014, given the inhuman treatment once again meted out to the Crimean Tatars, and the blindingly obvious fact that, unchecked, Putin would go again, as he has done, slaughtering millions.
That you did not does not reflect well on you at all.
Ah, I see your measure of a good post is length. There are many articles on the power of brevity in writing, A search on the topic might help make your posts readable.
In a spirit of helpfulness:
‘If you use few words but convey little information, you have not been concise.’
https://worktalk.medium.com/emotionally-intelligent-people-know-the-difference-between-brief-and-concise-28215c348ea9
Roman Bezsmertnyi – failed Ukrainian presidential candidate and sacked from his official position by his boss Z in 2019 over a failed attempt at a Donbas settlement.
This is the Daily Sceptic, where you have to navigate Monros delusion never ending rhetoric..
Germany again. I think the existence of this ‘Handbook’ to instruct migrants on how to avoid deportation provides irrefutable proof of just how treacherous the German government and the EU are. This is absolutely crazy. Germany *really* don’t want to be rid of all those migrant dangerous criminals who are a threat to the good citizens of the country, do they? Do other countries have one, I wonder?
”An investigation by the German outlet Apollo News revealed the existence of an online platform funded by the German government and the European Union, one of the aims of which is to provide practical and legal advice to migrants so that they can oppose their possible deportation, in the name of a “right to remain for all” on German soil.
The site, called Handbook Germany, takes the form of an information site aimed at immigrants arriving on German soil, with an apparently harmless programme: ‘orientieren—informieren—austauschen’ (find your way around, get informed, exchange information).
But on closer inspection, the site turns out to be a weapon in the service of a militant and openly declared political programme: “against deportations and for the right to freedom of movement for all.”
The Apollo News investigation shows that the site provides a whole range of practical advice for asylum seekers to enable them to avoid imminent deportation, giving them information on the conditions that prevent a deportation from being carried out—for example by playing on the ‘disappearance’ of a child, since a family with a missing child cannot be deported.
If an asylum application is rejected, the Handbook Germany site encourages legal recourse: take legal action against the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees or lodge a complaint, bearing in mind that “the costs may be covered by the State.” Refugee applicants are even provided with contacts for sympathetic advice centres and lawyers.
But there’s more. In the event that the application for deportation is approved, the site goes so far as to promote physical resistance, advising rejected applicants to defend themselves on the plane “by not sitting on the plane and making it clear that they are not taking the plane of their own free will.” Handbook Germany also recommends, in this case, active resistance by passengers in support of the migrants and suggests, with a link to the website of the ‘Abschiebungen stoppen. Bleiberecht für alle’ initiative, to which Handbook Germany makes reference. Flyers can be downloaded that have been specially designed for this kind of situation. Nothing less than a complete agitprop kit for the public.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-state-funded-website-teaches-migrants-how-to-avoid-deportation/
So a child could be done away with to let a family stay in Germany
, how inclusive !!
What IS clear is that Germany is incapable of learning from its past. If you want to follow the decline and fall of Germany, I highly recommend Eugyppius Substack – written in perfect English – on this very matter. He’s very funny as well, despite these dark times
https://www.eugyppius.com/
I’m sure that Russia and China look forward to the discussions about painting their ICMBs pink.
There was a Cold War era cartoon, possibly by Gary Larson or else in that style, that depicted US and Soviet generals as flashers wearing long trench coats exposing their nuclear missiles to each other.
Now in the New Age of Transgendia we are to come from missiles as ‘heteronormative’ phallic symbols – the point made, in effect, by the US’s new diversity expert – to missiles as rainbow-striped bearers of inclusion. How can a rainbow-striped missile be aimed at gays in Minsk or San Francisco?
This has been known for years. Long before Cult Transgender took over the show. Parental support or therapy was used, and many would just pass through this, and man would accept they were gay. It worked, and was what the children needed. Now medics experiment on them, way under the age of consent. We hanged people after the war for this. We should hang them again.
Has the world today changed, or are people today just the boiled frogs?
Had a break from the constant doom and gloom but came across this article from 2013. Could have been written yesterday, covering gender nonsense, offence taking, police idiocy (including insulting a dog) and the pre-cursor to ‘Covid’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/allison-pearson/9806112/Why-taking-offence-is-Britains-new-national-sport.html
“Covid” opened my eyes much wider to what was already there, which has been slowly building for decades. It was not some unusual aberration, just an extreme manifestation of an existing collection of malaises.
I’ve ordered a copy of “Fighting Goliath” via A; should arrive on Tuesday, apparently, so we’ll see.
“I’m releasing these prisoners in the interest of public safety”
Absolutely superb!