- “Keir Starmer faces Cabinet backlash over budget cuts” – Ministers including Angela Rayner may revolt over plans to slash departmental spending by as much as 20%, reports the Times.
- “Ryanair threatens to axe hundreds of U.K. flights if Reeves raises taxes” – Ryanair has warned it could axe hundreds of U.K. flights if Rachel Reeves raises aviation taxes in her Budget, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer poised to grant more than 60,000 people asylum after scrapping Rwanda scheme” – More than 60,000 migrants will be granted asylum in the U.K. in the next year after Keir Starmer scrapped the Tories’ Rwanda scheme, according to an analysis by the Refugee Council, the Telegraph reports.
- “Meloni’s migration strategy is working – and the rest of Europe is watching” – Giorgia Meloni’s Italy has become the first European nation to successfully offshore illegal migrants to a non-EU country, and the rest of the EU is taking note, says Nicholas Farrell in the Spectator.
- “David Lammy’s disdain of the West is degrading Britain on the international stage” – The international order is under siege from the destabilising agendas of authoritarian regimes and diluting Britain’s influence by expanding the UN Security Council will not help, says Samuel Ramani in the Telegraph.
- “Keir’s landed Foreign Sec in quicksand over reparations” – Sir Keir Starmer has landed his Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Caribbean quicksand by ruling out paying slave reparations, says the Mail‘s Ephraim Hardcastle.
- “Labour to send 100 party staff to U.S. to help Democrats in swing states” – Republicans described Labour’s plans to send dozens of volunteers to help the Democrats as an “outrage” and warned they would damage the U.K.’s relationship with the U.S. should Donald Trump win the Presidency, the Telegraph reports.
- “Councillor’s wife jailed for inciting racial hatred online” – Lucy Connolly, the wife of West Northamptonshire Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, has been jailed for inciting racial hatred on X on the day of the Southport attacks, the Mail reports.
- “Bungling Keir Starmer calls Rishi Sunak ‘Prime Minister’ again at PMQs” – Keir Starmer has repeatedly appeared muddled over whether the Tory leader is still in power since his crushing election victory in July, says the Mail.
- “Who won the Tory leadership hustings?” – The result was clear. It’s Badenoch who will allow Tories to once again feel good about themselves, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “It’s Kemi Badenoch’s to lose” – Were Kemi Badenoch not to be unveiled as the next Conservative party leader in a couple of weeks it would now go down as a very notable upset following Thursday’s GB News leadership special, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Kemi Badenoch is wrong about Labour and race” – The Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon says Kemi is wrong to suggest Labour won’t call a black woman prejudiced: the identitarian Left loves nothing more than hounding a “race traitor”.
- “Liberals are starting to panic. Donald Trump is going to win in a landslide” – It’s becoming increasingly clear that Democrats are getting desperate, says Roger Kimball in the Telegraph.
- “The real reason black and Hispanic voters are abandoning Kamala for Trump – driven away by the Democrats’ delusional obsession with race” – The first flutter of panic is beginning to grip the Harris-Walz presidential campaign, writes Andrew Neil in the Mail.
- “Kamala Harris’s Fox interview: our experts are united in their verdict” – Harris’s Fox interview with Bret Baier was a disaster, say the Telegraph‘s pundits.
- “Yahya Sinwar’s killing is an immense victory for Israel” – The impact of the Hamas leader’s death cannot be underestimated, says Limor Simhony Philpott in the Spectator.
- “We need to be far more sceptical of Hamas’s propaganda” – Horrific viral footage from Gaza is not by itself evidence of Israeli war crimes because it often doesn’t tell the full story, says Andrew Fox in Spiked.
- “Ukraine’s NATO fantasy” – Zelensky is understandably hankering for NATO membership, but legally and politically it’s impossible, says Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “The strange timing of Jacinda Ardern’s damehood” – It’s standard for ex-New Zealand PMs to be knighted, says David Cohen in the Spectator. But Ardern’s investiture comes as New Zealand is knee-deep in a Royal Commission of Inquiry into her Government’s controversial response to the pandemic.
- “Jacinda Ardern deserves scorn, not a Damehood” – The former leader of New Zealand is a stout republican. So why is she accepting the honour, asks Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “‘Debunking’ Port Hedland Council” – On the Dystopian Down Under Substack, Rebekah Barnett is not impressed by journalists who claim, without citing any evidence, only authority, that vaccine cancer worries have been “debunked”.
- “Does passive smoking cause lung cancer?” – A recent American Cancer Society study reports a negligible risk from passive smoking, shedding new light on the uproar over a 2003 paper, writes Geoffrey Kabat in Reason.
- “The U.S. state will regret waging lawfare against Elon Musk” – Making the ability to play the Left’s political games a condition for enjoying economic success will backfire, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “The rise of anti-Elonism” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray says he finds anti-Elonism to be a fascinating trend, because it seems mainly to affect people who have really never done anything very much with their lives.
- “Elon Musk is a ‘promoter of evil’, says EU official” – Věra Jourová, a Czech politician who is in charge of the European Commission’s work on online “misinformation” and “hate speech”, called Elon Musk a “promoter of evil” and X “the main hub for spreading antisemitism”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Poor at risk of being coerced into assisted dying in Canada” – Assisted dying is used by patients in Canada because they are poor and lack housing, a major official report has found, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘Not all suffering can be relieved’: A debate on assisted dying” – The former Justice Secretary Lord Falconer and the Spectator’s Chairman Lord Moore debate assisted dying.
- “English cricket to ban transgender players at elite level – but not community game” – Transgender women are to be banned from professional and semi-professional women’s cricket in England – but controversially not from the grass-roots game, the Telegraph reports.
- “ECB’s dismal transgender fudge makes you want to scream” – The England and Wales Cricket Board has on the one hand banned players who have gone through male puberty from competing as female, but on the other, restricted this rule only to the elite level, leaving the grass-roots game as a dangerous self-ID free-for-all, says Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Should we prioritise the LGBTQI community when disaster strikes?” – Following Hurricane Milton, Rod Liddle ponders one of the pressing questions of Left-wing disaster management in the Spectator.
- “Conductor sacked over his ‘use of pronouns’ wins unfair dismissal case” – A veteran conductor whose student complained about his “use of pronouns” has won an unfair dismissal case after he was sacked following a bullying investigation, reports the Mail.
- “Iranian border guards ‘massacre’ dozens of Afghans trying to enter country” – Iranian border guards have reportedly killed dozens of Afghans in a massacre as they attempted to enter the country, reports the Telegraph. I imagine the Left-wing protests over this atrocity will hit the streets any day now…
- “Labour MP pushes for new laws to ban fireworks louder than a lawnmower” – Sarah Owen, a former Shadow Minister, claimed a change to the rules around fireworks was “long overdue”, the Mail reports.
- “OMGAWD these just keep getting better!” – If the thing missing in your life in a video of Trump surrounded by cute kittens, you’re in for a treat.
OMGAWD these just keep getting better! pic.twitter.com/l5TUDSYoMq
— Karli Bonne’(@KarluskaP) October 16, 2024
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Present-day ‘decoloniziation’ is what happens when people in charge of manageing a certain (perceived) problem suddenly find themselves without it because it has been solved. They then take their terminology and use it to go on rampage elsewhere in the hope that it’ll take a long time for people to notice that there really isn’t a need for them anymore. Real ‘decolonisation’, the original political goal of the UN, ended over 40 years ago. OTOH, the last European (really Americans of European descent) holdouts of the ancient practice of slavery were forced to let go of it over 150 years ago. The so-called progressive don’t really seem capable of much progress.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for all decolonisation and anti slavery experts:
https://visitukraine.today/blog/1797/how-to-join-the-international-legion-of-defense-of-ukraine-detailed-instructions-for-foreigners
The requirement for combat experience has meanwile been dropped:
https://visitukraine.today/blog/2228/updated-rules-for-joining-the-international-legion-of-ukraine-for-foreigners-simplified-procedure-current-requirements-application-instructions
Scotland was never colonised, England was! Sure, eventually, the English ran Scotland as they partly do today, but that was, and is, because the Jocks have bugger all under their kilts and they agreed to be ruled. When They had a referendum they lifted their kilts and found a Laughing Emoji and voted to continue to be ruled by the big, bad Colonisers. Why on earth am I paying towards this and not the Italians?
Actually it was the Scots who ran England when their King James VI inherited the Throne from Elizabeth I to become James I of England and Ireland.
Then the Stuart dynasty reigned until 1688 – aside a brief interruption when Charles I lost his head – when James II was given the elbow and replaced with the House of Orange.
Most certainly it was and, therefore, do the Scots not owe us reparations? We did not colonise them at any point in history. Hell, arguably even the Romans didn’t because Scotland was an arse of a country and they just wanted to keep them out. Hence, Hadrians Wall.
Weren’t Picts also massacred by the Scoti – from Scotus, a Roman name for the Irish lands – who invaded and colonised Scotland (giving it its name) prior to and during the Roman colonisation of Britain?
How are we doing with reparations from Italy for the British slaves taken by Rome?
How about the reparations from slavers who took, or killed, everyone from a village in Cornwall let alone all the thousands of others they took from all around Western Europe?
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barbary-Pirates-English-Slaves/
What? You mean the Scoti moved out of Ireland because what became Scotland was better? ‘Kinell!
No idea why the Irish moved, perhaps it was because it was easier to take on whatever Scotland was previously called than head South and take on England? I shall have to have a look at this because it is a huge hole in my historical knowledge, such as it is.
The seriously dangerous part of all this crap is that what they really intend to do is erase history. The Nazi’s were really nice to Jews and the Jews have nothing to complain about (see antisemitic protests every Saturday, laughably “Policed” by the Met who somehow manage to only charge and beat up Jews.
We all know the “First they came for the Jews” but now they are well down the line and into you territory. We already have the “they came for the Anti-Vaxxers” and “They are in the processing stage of Sceptics”. We are facing the destruction of the past, the present and the future.
I now laugh at George Orwell, he was way off the mark, the Aspidistra fell long ago.
Jews were further down the list. First they came for the Communists.
It’s interesting that the Netflix mini-series on Hitler only really mentions the Jews but shows Hitlers cohorts pulling down Communist posters. I have to admit though Robert Carlyle would get an Oscar as Hitler if it was a film.
My, historically inaccurate of course, point was to highlight the fact the same people are, once again, coming for the same people. What else is Ukraine about and what are the Met Knee Benders about? Change the shirts and what do you get?
Carlyle was great in that, I had the DVD once.
Bruno Ganz in Downfall topped the lot.
For a different historical perspective, The Holy Kingdom by Adrian Gilbert based on the research of Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett is worth a read.
“Britain was never fully conquered by the Romans but retained its culture, it’s royal families intermarrying with the Caesars”
There’s an interesting interview by Richard D Hall with Adrian Gilbert where non-conspiratorial Gilbert describes the curious way the book was brought to a quick end in hardback and then paperback despite having the market indicators of being a reliable seller.
It will give someone the opportunity to see colonistaion and Britain in a new light, with the Brits being colonised by Rome. I look forward to recommendations to seek reparations from Italy.
Time to start decolonising the decolonisers.
That’s a neat idea. This so-called colonial perspective is really only theirs and maybe, they should get professional help to overcome it instead of forcing it onto all others.
That’s really a hallmark of present-day liberalism which has long since ceased to be about empowering people to be what they are while tolerating that others may and likely will be something different. Instead, it’s now about the liberal-controlled state oppressing the population majority and trying to force them to become something they are not for the nominal benefit of all kinds of so-called minority groups. The benefit is nominal because actual members of these groups are also only allowed to conform to the official dogma and if they don’t, they end up being ruthlessly abused in public at the very least.
This has really been turned completely on the head. It used to be about liberating the individual from state oppression. Nowdays, there’s a state definition of liberal and people are forced – sometimes seriously violently forced, cf the police brutality in Australia, New Zealand or Germany during the so-called ‘pandemic’ – to conform to his particular definition, the motto being one of the fundamental dictums of post-war Germany, namely No freedom for the enemies of freedom. An orwellian statement if there ever was any as this simply means No freedom for anyone.