- “Rosie Duffield: Sleaze, nepotism and greed — why I’m quitting Labour” – Rosie Duffield becomes the first MP to resign the Labour whip in this parliament, reports the Times. In her resignation letter, she lambasts Sir Keir for the “staggering hypocrisy” of accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds while scrapping winter fuel payments.
- “There’s more to Sir Keir than meets the eye – and it’s not looking good” – Luxury penthouse apartments; designer clothes; VIP seats in football stadiums – evidently he’s been living quite the high life, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer hits new low in personal popularity ratings” – the latest Opinium poll for the Observer shows the Labour leader got the opposite of a ‘bounce’ from Liverpool party conference.
- “Labour’s staggering incompetence is no surprise after years of performative Opposition” – The party can’t move on from an adversarial mindset, feeding the country pleasant lies when we need a dose of reality, says Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s private school raid ‘risks forcing out ethnic minority families’” – Black and brown parents fear Government’s tax raid on private school could hamper social mobility and diversity, according to the Telegraph.
- “Compass, the Left-wing campaign group you’ve never heard of” – On her Substack, Charlotte Gill looks under the bonnet of Compass, a radical Left-wing campaign group with close ties to Labour MPs.
- “Good riddance to Baroness Warsi – the Tories are better off without her” – Conservatives should be pleased that Baroness Warsi has left the Party, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Robert Jenrick: Do not mess around, let’s pick a leader who can be Prime Minister” – Inspired by David Cameron’s leadership speech at the Tory Party conference in 2005, Jenrick is determined to be the candidate to lead the party to success, reports the Telegraph.
- “Not all cultures are equal, Kemi Badenoch says” – The Tory leadership hopeful says it’s “naive” to think all migrants will abandon their “ethnic hostilities” when they set foot on British soil, according to the Telegraph.
- “Conservative Party conference: beauty parade turns into The Hunger Games” – Toxic briefings, public clashes and soul-searching will be the order of the day as the four leadership candidates set out their stalls at the Tory Party conference, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Almost a quarter of Tory voters who backed Boris turned to Reform U.K.” – Nearly a quarter of voters who backed Boris in 2019 abandoned the Conservatives in July’s General Election for the Reform Party, according to the Mail.
- “I found it hard not to laugh when Mordaunt said trans was issue of our times” – In an extract from his memoirs in the Mail, Boris takes aim at Penny Mordaunt who laughably claimed “trans” was the biggest issue of our times.
- “I’m now convinced that Covid WAS made in a Chinese lab” – In another extract from his memoirs, Boris opines that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. No, really?
- “The astronomical cost of Ed Miliband’s net zero property crusade” – Landlords brace to fork out thousands to meet Labour’s flawed Net Zero targets, says the Telegraph.
- “Forget Great British Energy, by 2030 the country will be powered by Ed’s hot air” – Ed Miliband’s Great British Energy initiative is a chimera that creates the illusion of state control, but actually does nothing much at all, says Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
- “Falklands tensions erupt as islands snub U.K. by going ahead with oil project” – Ed Miliband imposed a ban on all new oil and gas licences in July, but the Falkland Islanders aren’t minded to respect it, reports the Express.
- “Just Stop Oil protesters target Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with soup again” – Three activists protesting against the jailing of two of their comrades for throwing soup over a Van Gogh’s Sunflowers have done it again, reports the Times.
- “Brighton reverses war on cars that drove away visitors” – The Labour-run council is reversing policies introduced by its Green predecessors who wanted a “car-free city”, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour council taken to court over ‘flawed’ LTN plan” – Campaigners in West Dulwich have accused their council of “riding roughshod over wishes of majority of residents” with plans to roll out LTNs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fluoride in drinking water poses enough risk to merit new EPA action, judge says” – A federal judge in California says fluoride in drinking water poses a risk to the intellectual development of children and U.S. environmental regulators need to address it, according to the Independent.
- “NHS wants to sedate Down’s Syndrome patient for Covid jab against mother’s will” – The mother of an NHS patient with Down’s Syndrome says the hospital is resorting to spiking his drink so it can give him the Covid vaccine, says the Telegraph.
- “Are we heading for Death on Demand to please Leftists?” – In an attack on euthanasia in the Mail, Peter Hitchens asks: “Why is it that so many in our liberal elite are so keen to make it so easy for the old and ill to die?”
- “Trans rapist referred to as ‘she’ by judge… but is sent to male prison” – Lexi Secker, who raped a woman on a night out in 2023 while living as a man (because he is a man), has been sentenced to six years, but in a male prison, according to the Telegraph.
- “Seventy per cent of Jewish students feel ‘uncomfortable’ revealing their faith” – Those who “support Israel’s right to exist” are made to feel unwelcome and attacked by university peers, according to a new poll says the Telegraph.
- “EU deal allowing Channel migrants to be sent back to France ‘not on the table’” – European officials have poured cold water on the U.K.’s hopes of a post-Brexit migration deal, says the Telegraph.
- “Progressives have destroyed the great cities of coastal America” – Crime, shoplifting, drug taking and homelessness have now consumed the once-dynamic centers of the U.S., according to Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Labour to end BBC licence fee prosecutions in the name of women” – The Labour Government is planning to tell the BBC to stop prosecuting licence fee dodgers because 70% of them are women, reports the Times.
- “Hassan Nasrallah is dead and Hezbollah is broken” – Information that Nasrallah was at Hezbollah’s main headquarters in Beirut arrived while Israel’s prime minister was addressing the UN, reports the Spectator. He knew just what to do.
- “Because I’m dead I’m dead” – Amusing parody of a Michael Jackson hit featuring Hassan Nasrallah.
Holy moly
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What’s really going on?
As anticipated, Russia, made overconfident by a ‘major’ assault comprising a reinforced company with two tanks and 21 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) in the direction of the Novyi Microraion in eastern Chasiv Yar on May 17, now intends to invade Poland.
Medvedev stated in a post on his Russian-language Telegram channel on May 17 that Russia’s “sanitary [buffer] zone” must at least extend over all central Ukraine and a significant part of western Ukraine.
Medvedev claimed that if Ukraine continues to strike Russian cities, then Russian forces will have to extend the sanitary zone further to Ukraine’s western border with Poland or within Poland itself.
‘If it goes on like this, the guaranteed sanitary zone will be somewhere at the border with Poland. Or even inside Poland,” the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council suggested.’
Tass
Hopefully Tusk gets wasted during this manoeuvre , anyway it will be Nato,s fault if this does happen !
That would be delightful Freddy.
It will certainly be NATO’s fault if it doesn’t!
I am no fan of the simpering Tusk but wishing for him to be ‘wasted’ is a particularly infelicitous aspiration right now……
Cashless Your Spending Monitored Forever – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
https://kiis.com.ua/?lang=rus&cat=reports&id=302
What’s really going on?
Putin is engaging in a brutal and barbaric colonisation of Eastern Ukraine.
‘…there were few “outright separatists” in Donbas before 2014. “It’s worth remembering that in 1991, a vast majority of the Donbas population voted for the independence of Ukraine, and by 2014, in spite of all kinds of complaints about the Kyiv government, they thought of Donbas as part and parcel of independent Ukraine,”
‘…regional politicians — like Viktor Yanukovych, who served as the governor of the Donetsk region from 1997 to 2002 — had a history of using the “threat of autonomy and separatism” as leverage against the central government in Kyiv. When Yanukovych was elected president in 2010, Kuromiya said, Donbas effectively “took over” the country, “signaling in a sense that Donbas had finally been integrated into Ukraine.”
“I am certain that before Russia’s invasion, the vast majority of the Donbas population thought of their future in independent Ukraine, not in an annexed region of Russia.’
‘…in 1991, the majority of the population of the Donbas supported Ukrainian independence — 83.9 percent of Donetsk residents, and 83.6 percent of Luhansk residents voted for it.’
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s, (1998)
Well the Ukrainians would say that wouldn’t they.
Other Ukrainians refuse to be evacuated from the villages north of Kharkov because they would rather wait for the Russians to come, said a Ukrainian conscript tasked with expediting the evacuation. This could explain the rapid advance of the Russians in the area, occupying over 70sq km according to Lt. Gen K. Budanov.
I think your translation might be a bit wonky or is missing a bit. The people in Donbas actually expressed a wish to be an autonomous region (ie self-governing) within an independent Ukraine. However the “independent Ukraine” was in the process of a military intervention to prevent this when Russia stepped in on the side of the majority in Donbas.
And ever since the Ukrainian military has been wasting its shells and missiles targeting the naughty civilians in Donetsk city, aka punishment beatings.
“Boris Johnson … the “most consequential leader since Thatcher”, according to the Telegraph.”
He was a “leader” since Thatcher. That’s about all the truth contained in that statement.
Three consequences that Johnson is responsible for – Brexit, covid madness, climate madness. All massively consequential, surely.
Does it also get a share of their liability; moral or financial?
My thoughts exactly, if I were them I’d be distancing myself from the clot shots not claiming ownership,.. just in case (when) the avalanche of law suits hits the fan!
“Idiotic Net Zero rules are driving Europe’s carmakers to extinction”
Possibly should more accurately read;
”Idiotic Net Zero rules are driving extinction”
There, fixed it for them.
The term “nudge” should be dropped. It is the warm fuzzy term the manipulators use.
“psychological manipulation” as given in the sub-title is more accurate. At the risk of being verbose, include “unethical”.
“The agony of sex education”
Modern sex education is nothing more than a Satanic pretext for exposing children to porn.
“There’s nothing racist about Anglo-Saxons”
Excellent article by Nick Cohen, describing how the whole research field of Anglo-Saxon history decided to change its name because ONE Third World Ethnic complained.
Kneeling hasn’t gone out of fashion yet, it seems.