- “Joe Biden pushed U.K. to surrender Chagos Islands” – Joe Biden pushed the U.K. into giving up the Chagos Islands over concerns the U.S. would lose control of an important air base, reports the Express.
- “James Cleverly roars into the lead for the Tory leadership” – The former Home and Foreign Secretary has soared from third place to first in the Tory leadership race, says the Mail.
- “‘If James Cleverly wins the Tory leadership contest, I’m off to Reform’” – If the new Conservative leader ends up being James Cleverly, the Conservatives will have signed their own death warrant, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Kemi is still in with every chance” – Cleverly is now the frontrunner in the Tory leadership election – but the Right could still unite around Badenoch, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The leaked Whatsapp messages that show Tory activists’ dismay at leadership contenders” – Leaked messages show Tory activists are less than impressed with the talent pool in the leadership race, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Quangocracy now governs Britain – it’s time Westminster took back control” – Since Tony Blair’s election, successive prime ministers have transferred power to unaccountable bureaucrats and quangocrats, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Labour minister referred to sleaze watchdog over friend’s private school tax raid report” – A Labour minister is under scrutiny for hiding a 20-year friendship with the author of the report that sparked the Government’s private school tax raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s plan to punish the rich is about to drive Britain into the ground” – The Government is in for a harsh lesson in real world economics, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “‘Starmer is a politician who has no political talent’” – Rosie Duffield quit Labour with a stinging attack on the PM, but the now-independent MP says an “abusive boys’ club” surrounding Sir Keir drove her out, writes Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The fight for civilisation is only just beginning” – The West failed the moral test of October 7th. We must never fail like this again, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Another EU country demands opt-out for asylum rules” – Hungary has joined the Netherlands in seeking an opt-out from EU rules on asylum, reports the Mail.
- “The EU can’t stop Denmark’s migrant crackdown” – In the Spectator, James Lewisohn discusses Denmark’s zero net-migration target.
- “There’s a low-carbon energy technology that actually works. But we won’t use it” – Britain is becoming a case study in the consequences of shamefully wasting nuclear know-how, says Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
- “‘The more Ed Siliband talks about climate change, the less I believe in it’” – The day will come when the Energy Secretary announces that the chief cause of global warming is pixies, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Ordering water firms to cut bills is a mistake” – If we want clean rivers, we are at some stage going to have to bite the bullet and pay for the renewal of the sewage system, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “How the EU passed a brave new law to protect our planet’s forests, only to realise that it is a logistical and bureaucratic nightmare that nobody wants” – Nobody thinks the EU’s Deforestation Regulation is a good idea any longer, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Yousaf under fire for blasting officials in Covid WhatsApps” – It transpires that hapless Humza Yousaf and one-time national clinical director Jason Leitch turned on their own officials in Covid message exchanges, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Long before Covid scandals, investigative journalists revealed pharma corruption in university research and federal agencies” – Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson reminds the public in her new book that medical experts and institutions have been exposed for decades of malfeasance, even if today’s reporters want to forget, writes Paul D. Thacker on his Substack.
- “Royal College of Psychiatrists cuts ties with Stonewall over transgender issues” – The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ President has told its members that it will not be renewing its membership with Stonewall, according to the Telegraph.
- “64 violent far-Left activists arrested in Paris protesting ‘anti-trans’ book” – The media have been silent about multiple attacks targeting French essayists who criticise transgender ideology, says Hélène de Lauzun in the European Conservative.
- “Over 5,000 US children have undergone transgender surgeries” – U.S. insurance data reveals a vast gender transition industry and undermines activists’ claims that such surgeries for minors are rare, writes Laurel Duggan in UnHerd.
- “Why we drink” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan discusses the political philosophy of alcohol.
- “Kamala Harris’s anti-Trump messaging is no longer working” – Even if Harris is able to drift into office on the raft of some vague “new way forward”, a refusal to confront the political sources of public discontent could set the stage for another populist reckoning, warns Fred Bauer in UnHerd.
- “A Trojan Horse of epic proportions” – Prop One – a proposed amendment to New York’s constitution – is a Trojan Horse that will destroy parental rights, female spaces and open the door for non-citizens to claim benefits and voting rights, says Bobbie Anne Cox on her Substack.
- “‘It would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity’” – When asked if he backs Israel’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre doesn’t mince words: a resounding yes!
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Not exactly a revelation for anyone on here, but nevertheless, something the ”refugees welcome” West-hating traitors need to hear, I think;
”Iran was behind at least 20 deadly plots in the UK over the past two years, according to the head of MI5, as he warned of an increased terror risk linked to the conflict in the Middle East.
In a speech at the Counter Terrorism Operations Centre in West London, Ken McCallum said that Isis and Al Qaeda were on the rise again and attempting to “export terrorism.”
MI5 chief said that roughly 75 per cent of terror threats his teams were dealing were Islamist inspired, and 25 per cent were related to far-right extremism.
He revealed that police and MI5 had foiled 43 late-stage terror plots since 2017, with some of those plotters attempting to get hold of firearms and explosives.
Over the past year, the number of state threat investigations being run by MI5 has increased by 48%.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/mi5-terror-threat-latest-islamist-isis-al-qaeda
Research the origins of ISIS and Al Qaeda, and I believe you will discover our friends the USA as the primary source.
Actually, you are wrong. They all stem from the Muslim Brotherhood, the fons origo of Islamic terrorism.
The fight for civilisation is only just beginning
The fight for civilisation has been going on since at least six hundred years B.C.
The idiocy (the ‘peace dividend’) has been to think that it could ever stop.
‘Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity. It is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts.’
Mussolini
This is the real ‘peace dividend’:
‘Erosion of the effectiveness of the Atlantic army will inevitably result in an erosion of political will, strategic flexibility, and freedom of action.’
This is what we have to do:
‘As a bare minimum, it is the role of the Atlantic army to replace the strategic nuclear deterrent as the instrument with which the attack option is foreclosed…… But that is a bare minimum. In a modern strategy the Atlantic army must provide for the West a sense of security to a degree that will encourage it to act and react in respect to global events with confidence. That forecloses……..the options of intimidation, blackmail, and political leverage.’
Lt Gen DeWitt Smith
From 600BC to DeWitt in 1977: war, war and more war. We could try peace for a change.
Over the course of the Cold War, deterrence became far more integrated than it is today, although the Cold-War experience suggests that deterrence integration is a process, not some stable end-state.
That resulted in the ‘long peace’ in Europe 1945-1999.
Deterrence was integrated along several key dimensions of strategy. First, what was to be deterred was identified: deterrence was primarily intended to stop the eruption of major conventional and nuclear war in a roughly bi-polar setting between the United States and its allies and the Soviets, Chinese, and Warsaw Pact.
Second, so-called red lines were identified that would trigger the execution of deterrent threats under a set of specified circumstances. These included major attacks across the inner-German border.
For peace to return to Europe, conventional deterrence must be re-established.
Those European countries closest to Russia have been the first to recognise this, supported by security guarantees from Britain.
This country, with its major European allies, must now restore the level of conventional deterrence that previously existed in Western Europe; the conventional deterrence responsible for the ‘long peace’.
What we need is a bonfire of the Quangos. Oh… wait a sec…
We don’t just need a bonfire of the Quangos, we need a bonfire of the treasonous politicians as well.
Yes. Figuratively, before the Thought Police knock on the door.
Mr G Fawkes was clearly onto something ahead of his time
“Royal College of Psychiatrists cuts ties with Stonewall over transgender issues”
What business does any academic body have with affiliating to any non-scientific organisation in the first place?
I have not finished reading the article but had to pause after reading the above paragraph.
‘Amenity-light location’. Pure genius phrasing. I wonder where the German Chancellor got his idea of “bed, bread, and soap” as the offering for bogus asylum-seekers?
The only thing I would add is security protection from the factions within the centre.
A shame about the closing paragraph on the above article. If a mainstream political party adopts sensible policies then there’s no need for a new party (which is always labelled far-something) to propose those policies. If the UK Conservative & Unionist Party had adopted conservative (and unionist) policies Reform would not have made such progress at the last GE (not that Reform is in any way Far-Right).