- “Southport ‘attacker’ charged with having Al-Qaeda material and making ricin poison” – The Free Speech Union news blog offers some useful advice about what you might get into trouble for saying on social media about the latest revelations in the Southport murder case.
- “Tories accuse police of Southport ‘cover-up’” – The two Conservative leadership candidates have accused the police and the Government of withholding information about the Southport attacker amid claims of a cover-up, reports the Times.
- “We deserve to know the full truth about the Southport massacre” – The authorities need to be honest with the public – and with the families of the three innocent victims of the Southport massacre, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. and other countries ‘actively’ helping Hamas by funding UNRWA, Israel claims” – Israel has accused the U.K. and other UNRWA funders of “actively helping” Hamas, claiming the agency is compromised by terrorist infiltration, reports inews.
- “Starmer condemns ‘gravely concerning’ UNRWA ban as Israel faces international backlash” – Keir Starmer says he is “gravely concerned” over Israel’s decision to ban the main Palestinian aid agency from the country, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.K. could halt Israel arms sales after UNRWA ban, minister hints” – Development Minister Anneliese Dodds has hinted that Britain could suspend more arms sales to Israel if its ban on the UN’s Palestinian aid agency operating within Gaza and the West Bank goes ahead, according to the Telegraph.
- “CNN guest pulled off air for making Hezbollah pager jibe” – A panelist was kicked off CNN after he told Mehdi Hasan, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off” while discussing Trump’s recent New York City rally, says Newsweek.
- “Zimbabwean killer allowed to live in U.K. under ECHR because of illicit love child” – A Zimbabwean jailed for killing a man in a car crash has been allowed to remain in the U.K. under the ECHR after it was discovered he had an illicit love child, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour will neuter Parliament in the name of modernity” – Starmer’s quest to sweep away “outdated practices”, i.e., the English constitution, risks ending proper parliamentary oversight, warns Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Budget 2024: business warns Rachel Reeves of ‘perfect storm’” – Business leaders warn they face a “perfect storm” in the budget as they are hit by more taxes, higher wage bills and the cost of implementing Labour’s overhaul of workers’ rights, according to the Times.
- “Reeves replaces portrait of Nigel Lawson with Communist Party co-founder” – Rachel Reeves has swapped a portrait of Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor for one of a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, reports the Express.
- “Badenoch ramps up media appearances amid ‘low Tory leadership voter turnout’” – Kemi Badenoch says she is ramping up her media appearances in the final days of the Tory leadership contest because “people aren’t turning out to vote”, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘My plan to win back power for the Tories’” – In the Spectator, Kemi Badenoch sets out her plan to revive the Tory party’s electoral prospects.
- “Russia carries out test for ‘massive’ nuclear strike on West” – Vladimir Putin has staged a mock nuclear war, launching scores of missiles capable of unleashing a “massive” strike in a stark warning to the West, reports the Mail.
- “Reeves to make Bank of England put climate change and growth on equal footing” – Rachel Reeves is expected to call on Threadneedle Street to reinstate climate change as one of the Bank’s key priorities, reports the Telegraph.
- “Health Secretary says he changed his mind on assisted dying over poor NHS palliative care” – The Health Secretary has told MPs he will vote against the Bill to legalise assisted dying over concerns that the poor quality of palliative care in the U.K. will make people feel they have no choice by to euthanise themselves, according to the Independent.
- “Lucy Letby barrister banned from Thirlwall Inquiry” – Lucy Letby’s barrister has been banned from attending the Thirlwall Inquiry, despite concerns that erroneous statements about the nurse are going unchallenged, reports the Telegraph.
- “Federal Covid Inquiry finds vaccine mandates had biggest negative impact on public trust” – Australia’s Covid Inquiry reveals that extreme health restrictions and secretive decision-making have tanked public trust. Apparently, we need experts and a federal inquiry to state the bleedin’ obvious, writes Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “Covid handouts are to blame for male worklessness, says former Trump secretary” – In an interview with the Telegraph, President Trump’s former Commerce Secretary says that welfare payments given to furloughed staff during the pandemic were a “disease” that is now driving male worklessness.
- “BMA attack on Cass review was ‘based on blog’, Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer says” – Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer says that a British Medical Association attack on the Cass review into child gender services was based in part on a blog that lacked scientific credibility, reports the Telegraph.
- “Give white children more money in Monopoly to teach racism, councils say” – Councils have advised parents that white children playing Monopoly should be given more money and less jail time to teach them how privileged they are, says the Mail.
- “Wokism is just beginning” – Millennials, zoomers and elites remain firmly on the side of DEI and cancel culture, warns Nathan Cofnas on his Substack.
- “Flag-burning is free speech. Get over it” – The Trumpist calls to ban flag-burning reveal the Right’s snowflakery, says Tim Black in Spiked.
- “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media” – In the Washington Post, owner Jeff Bezos announces his paper will no longer endorse presidential candidates.
- “Journalism dies in lockstep” – The reaction to the Washington Post and LA Times’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate reveals how entrenched partisanship and biased reporting have overshadowed genuine journalism, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “What does ‘fascism’ actually mean?” – The term ‘fascism’ is now so overused that it has lost all its meaning, writes Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “‘I’m going to shoot myself’” – On X, the latest Downfall parody shows Hitler lighting up as a futuristic projector reveals Nazi rallies thriving under Trump – until he notices all the Jews in the crowd.
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https://x.com/StoneAlun/status/1851265208808849883
Read this yesterday on X.
I hope Rachel Reeves reads it before this afternoon…
Yes, but I have my doubts as to whether she would understand it.
Brilliant Myra
Thanks for that enlightening link
What does ‘fascism’ actually mean?”
‘The term is now so overused that it has lost all its meaning.’
‘Fascism, says Mussolini, is the repudiation of three key ideas: socialism, democracy and liberalism.’
‘…the term “fascism” traditionally connotes an authoritarian movement based on an extreme form of nationalism combined with claims of racial purity and a militaristic repression of dissent.’
‘The reality is that fascism is, thank God, in terminal decline. Has been for decades.’
In fact, as we know, Mussolini was a socialist.
And the German fascist movement called itself National Socialism.
Fascism is, quite simply, statist totalitarian socialism.
And statist totalitarian socialism is to be found alive and well in every country in the Western world; thriving.
‘Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism……But, when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism…….Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts’
Mussolini: The Doctrine of Fascism 1932
Fascism is ‘Big State’ socialism…..and Rachel Reeves has just put up a portrait of Ellen Wilkinson, a preacher of ‘revolutionary socialism’, in No.11 Downing Street.
Russia carries out test for ‘massive’ nuclear strike on West
Just like deja vu all over again
‘With the end of the Cold War, extensive new information has become available in the Russian Federation on the conduct of nuclear weapons testing by the Soviet Union over more than three decades. At Novaya Zemlya (Russian for “New Land”), a total of 130 tests were carried out high in the atmosphere, at low levels above water, at the water/air interface, below water, and underground. These 130 tests entailed 224 separate explosive devices, including by far the largest atmospheric and underground tests of the Soviet Union, and that country’s only tests above and below water. About 265 megatons of nuclear explosive energy was released at Novaya Zemlya from 1955 to 1990’
LAND FORCES IN MODERN STRATEGY, LIEUTENANT GENERAL DE WITT C. SMITH, JR. US ARMY:
‘In the last several years, we have witnessed an alarming buildup and modernization of Soviet forces in Eastern Europe (I include Western Russia in that region). While the number of divisions has not grown significantly, the size, staying power, and modernization of these divisions have. Together with the Warsaw Pact allies there are some 58 divisions in varying degrees of readiness deployed against the NATO Central Region. They are so postured that they are able to attack with little preparation and would be able to sustain that .attack over a longer period than ever before. What are the political advantages that the threat of that Army gains for the Soviets?’:
‘Modern strategy…..deals with the use of military forces in peace as well as in war, and also in all those ambiguous conditions in between. It deals with the use of military forces to prevent conflict, to control conflict if prevention fails, and to terminate conflict if it cannot be controlled.
Military forces, including land forces, have two important effects on an adversary. One is the physical, the other is psychological. In actual conflict, both are operative. But if the “what” of modem strategy includes preventing the outbreak of conflict, the psychological effect of military force during periods of nonactive conflict becomes all-important. It influences to a large degree (indeed, it may determine) the “how” and “with what” of modern strategy.
If the presence of Soviet land forces in Asia has been supportive of their foreign policy, the Soviet land forces in Eastern Europe have been absolutely critical. In the late 1940’s and 50’s, these forces served effectively as a counter-deterrence to the superior strategic nuclear capability of the West. Their presence as a threat against Western Europe has severely limited the options of the United States elsewhere in the world. It should be remembered that what US decision makers most expected as a response to the Cuban quarantine was a move against Berlin.’
And today’s Russian strategy is the reworking of the USSR strategy by USSR apparatchiks:
‘Even under conditions of nuclear inferiority, Soviet strength in East Europe deterred the West from any initiatives in respect to demonstrated Soviet vulnerabilities in East Germany, Hungary, or Czechoslovakia and from any ideas of “rollback” once expressed by Foster Dulles.
Strategic nuclear parity, coupled with conventional superiority in Europe, could lead to temptations that even the traditionally conservative Soviet regime might find hard to resist.’
And Putin has yielded to temptation as a consequence of Western weakness.
The 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.’
We know what to do:
‘A stable nuclear balance makes imperative a stable conventional balance in Europe. Without that stability there can be no political or military counter to expanding (Russian) influence in the Near East, South Asia, Africa, or in the great ocean basins upon which an interdependent world relies. Not the least of these ocean areas are the North Atlantic and North Pacific-vital to North Americans.’
We have done it before:
‘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 to the Soviet Union. 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 to (Russia) the options of intimidation, blackmail, and political leverage.’
It works.
Do our socialist fascist leaders understand this? We will find out today.
If they don’t, then, the politics of this country already somewhat resembling a 1950s Eastern European state, a similar social and economic decline will accelerate.
“Give white children more money in Monopoly to teach racism, councils say”
My sentimental mother used to let me off Monopoly rents, etc, as I was the smallest in the family. It didn’t make me feel privilege – it just made me more resentful when I was wiped out next time round.
My daughter would be delighted to be given more money or otherwise helped out during a board game, she is a terrible loser. It certainly wouldn’t make her sit down and think hard about how “privileged” she is.
This teaching method might have merit if used properly. The message behind this modification to the rules should be….
White children are entitled to more money and less jail time when they are naughty because they are British, this is their country and so their entitlement is stronger.
Reeves replaces portrait of Nigel Lawson with Communist Party co-founder”
This just confirms my opinion that the current government is like a group of 18 year old lefty students, full of creating utopia as they see it, and released from their parent’s grasp to wreak their own sort of revolution. It has the feeling of ‘tee hee, lets take down this picture of our founder/the king/whoever, and replace it with a picture of Che Guevara,that’ll get the oldies worried’, which is the sort of thing I did as a teenager.
“Fire breaks out at UK nuclear submarine base”
Authorities say “there is no nuclear risk”
“Three children killed in southport”
Authorities say “it is not a terrorist attack”
Authorities say “vaccines are safe and effective”
Trust in Authority has long been extinguished!
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-airways-cancels-all-flights-between-london-gatwick-new-york-until-2025/
It’s a wef world! How much more proof do we need? Britain, world leaders in self destruction!
“Badenoch ramps up media appearances amid ‘low Tory leadership voter turnout”
No one cares love!
You or Jenrick never said a word when it mattered, why should we trust you now?
If she knows the turnout so far why can’t we be told.
How big is the electorate snd how many have voted.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/seen-elsewhere-this-week-in-the-alt-media-5/
John le Seur at TCW with a round-up of alt media. This largely focuses on the upcoming US election. The final piece is interesting. Clayton Morris at Recdacted talking to a whistle-blower who states that even if Trump wins the Deep State will.not let him take office.
Well of course! The Jews regard Drumpf as their “KING MESSIAH”, as he himself has agreed:
‘King of Israel’ Donald Trump: I am the chosen one | US News | Sky News
“Donald Trump has exposed himself to accusations of a messiah complex after self-referencing as “the King of Israel”, “the second coming of God” and “the chosen one” in the space of a few hours.”
“President Trump is the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world…
“And the Jewish people in Israel love him… like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God.”
[Otherwise known as The AntiChrist]
“THE SAVIOUR OF HUMANITY”, says their sign.
Wake up, people.
An excellent report from Professor Norman Fenton at TCW describing Saturday’s Unite the Kingdom rally in London. There is an emphasis on the abuses of the justice system employed by Knee and Co and on the clearly obvious two tier justice system itself. An excellent interview with Professor Fenton is embedded. Well worth a watch.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/from-our-man-on-the-spot-unite-the-kingdom-rally-report-you-didnt-see-in-the-msm/
The latest update from Tommy’s team on Twitter here;
”Tommy want’s to thank everyone who has sent him money for prison spends, also for money towards his legal representation, he is incredibly grateful for your support.
He is currently still in the safe segregated unit of Belmarsh which has been used to hold the likes of child murderer Ian Huntley, Jihadi hate preacher Abu Hamza, and more recently ‘Joe Outlaw’.
Tommy will be putting in an application today requesting to speak to the governor to talk about his safety and his rights as a civil prisoner.
Tommy has made it clear that he will refuse to be sent down ‘the block’, meaning, if he does get moved it will be on a wing where he will almost certainly have to fight for his life.
He also wanted everyone to know that prisoners in Belmarsh are getting a 60% reduction in their sentences due to overcrowding, however he will get no such deduction for a ‘civil’ offence.
Southport child murderer Axel Rudakubana the man who was in possession of an al Qaeda manual and who manufactured the poson ricin is currently residing in Belmarsh prison. He is very likely getting ‘normal’ visitation, as opposed to Tommy, who has been told he can only have ‘closed’ visitation, which is an absolute disgrace when you think about it.
An alleged child murdering would be Muslim terrorist has more privileges in Belmarsh than Tommy does?
Let that sink in.
Tommy has made it clear that prison staff have treated him with respect and kindness, they have been brilliant.
That is the update for now, we will keep you posted.”
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1851581030655828355