- “U.S. election 2024 results: when will we know who won?” – Once polls close on Tuesday, a winner may not be projected for several hours, days or even weeks, according to the BBC.
- “Voter discontent does not bode well for Kamala Harris” – Early exit polls have revealed widespread negativity about the state of the nation, dealing a blow to Harris’s chances of winning the White House, notes David Charter in the Times.
- “Google accused of election interference” – Google has been accused of election interference for showing voters where they can vote for Kamala Harris – but not for Donald Trump, according to the Mail.
- “Musk sends ‘emergency squad’ to secure Pennsylvania votes” – Elon Musk’s America PAC has deployed an “emergency squad” to Pennsylvania to help Trump voters fix ballot errors in a costly, last-minute push to secure crucial votes, reports the Telegraph.
- “Insiders reveal ‘lonely’ Biden’s humiliating last days in office” – Behind closed doors, the message from the Harris campaign to Joe Biden has been clear: stay away, writes Emily Goodin in the Mail.
- “How Robert F. Kennedy made fluoride an unexpected election issue” – Donald Trump has backed RFK Jr.’s idea to remove fluoride from drinking water, says Joe Barnes in the Telegraph.
- “The Trump-Harris election has broken America” – After months of the Donald Trump–Joe Biden–Kamala Harris drama, the United States is in a state of nervous exhaustion, writes Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “‘Why I hope Trump will win’” – Today, Americans will elect a new president, and I hope that new president will be Donald J. Trump, says Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “For Britain, it has to be Trump” – The Pimlico Journal makes the case that, contrary to the opinion of most Britons, a Donald Trump victory would be better for Britain than a Kamala Harris victory.
- “What happens if Trump loses the election?” – With memories of the 2021 Capitol riots still fresh in people’s minds, many are hoping there will not be a repeat, writes Rozina Sabur in the Telegraph.
- “What will happen if Trump loses? The threat of civil war examined” – Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the U.S. election, specialists disagree on only one thing: how catastrophic the escalation in violence will be, says Tom Newton Dunn in the Times.
- “‘F— around and find out’: DA warns election protesters as U.S. braces for violence” – Voters thinking about interfering with the U.S. election were warned not to “f— around” by the DA of Pennsylvania as polls opened in one of the most tense votes in modern history, according to the Telegraph.
- “Fury at BBC Chris Kaba documentary showing an ‘utter lack of balance’” – Police officers have slammed the BBC for its “utter lack of balance” in a new Panorama documentary about the fatal shooting of violent gang member Chris Kaba, reports the Mail.
- “Watchdog investigator defends decision that led to Chris Kaba trial” – The man who led the investigation into the shooting of Chris Kaba has defended the decision that led to a firearms officer being unsuccessfully tried for murder, says the BBC.
- “Has the police watchdog learnt nothing from the Chris Kaba debacle?” – A BBC Panorama documentary suggests that the Independent Office for Police Conduct has learned nothing from the Chris Kaba case, writes Stephen Webb in the Spectator.
- “Britain to take dozens of asylum seekers from Chagos Islands” – Britain is to take dozens of asylum seekers from the Chagos Islands instead of sending them to St. Helena or Rwanda, reports the Telegraph. Shock!
- “The Government must stop hiding the true costs of immigration” – Despite immigration ranking as a top public concern, the Government falls short on delivering clear, thorough data to fuel informed debate, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Foreign criminals could be deported immediately after conviction to free up jail space” – Ministers are considering deporting foreign offenders convicted in the U.K. immediately, bypassing British prisons to ease overcrowding, according to the Telegraph.
- “Don’t mess with farmers, Rachel Reeves. You’ll find yourself in the mud” – Politicians who take on farmers almost always end up in a mess, warns Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Farmers threaten ‘sewage strike’ over inheritance tax raid” – Farmers have threatened to co-ordinate a “sewage sludge strike” after the Chancellor outlined plans to impose inheritance tax on their properties, reports GB News.
- “Farming tax raid puts food security at risk, warn suppliers” – Suppliers warn that Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid on farmers will put food security at risk and leave Britain more reliant on foreign imports, says the Telegraph.
- “Three quarters of British food will be hit by Reeves’s tax raid, warn farmers” – Farmers warn that Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax changes will hit three-quarters of British food production, risking investment cuts, land sales and food security, reports the Independent.
- “Inheritance tax reform may free up land for renewable energy projects” – A renewable energy expert has noted that inheritance tax changes announced in the Labour Budget will make more agricultural land available for renewable energy projects across the U.K., according to Pinsent Masons.
- “Foreign Office pleads for discounts from private schools after VAT raid” – The Foreign Office has pleaded with private schools to roll out discounts for diplomats after the Government’s VAT raid on fees, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bridget Phillipson in hypocrisy row after promising graduates will ‘pay less’” – Bridget Phillipson is facing another hypocrisy row after promising that graduates will “pay less under Labour” before raising tuition fees, according to the Telegraph.
- “Bridget Phillipson’s latest humiliation is good news for Britain” – Hiking tuition fees might be politically calamitous for Labour – but it’s the only way to fix our decaying university sector, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “One more shock would vaporise Rachel Reeves’ grand plans” – The Chancellor is wasting her one shot at arresting the U.K.’s seemingly inevitable decline, writes Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
- “From policing to tax, Keir is two-tier on everything” – We are moving towards a sharply-divided economic setup between the “chosen” public sector workers and their private sector counterparts, warns Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Lying Labour” – The only black hole in this country is the one Labour has dug for itself, says Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Britain is on course for an almighty fiscal reckoning” – Labour’s plans to ramp up borrowing and spending are leaving the country just one crisis away from catastrophe, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “The ‘very dangerous’ $1 trillion bet ringing alarm bells in Britain” – Trump and Harris’s debt indifference risks a U.S. fiscal collapse that could trigger global chaos, with the U.K. already bracing for the fallout, writes Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch accused of ‘giving jobs to friends’ in cabinet reshuffle” – Kemi Badenoch’s most strident backers will join her on the front bench on Wednesday after the new Tory leader rewarded loyalty when appointing her Shadow Cabinet, reports the Times.
- “Reform membership has surged since Badenoch win: Farage” – It seems Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage won’t be setting their differences aside any time soon, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The Left’s attack on Badenoch shows loathing for black Tories” – Left-wingers have been unable to countenance a member of an ethnic minority rising to a position of influence while failing to share their sense of grievance and victimhood, writes Dr. Rakib Ehsan in the Mail.
- “Hunt’s Treasury broke the law by hiding ‘black hole’, OBR chief suggests” – The head of the U.K.’s fiscal watchdog claims Treasury officials may have illegally concealed the Budget “black hole” passed to the Labour Government, according to the Telegraph.
- “New Tory joint chairman backed sale of Telegraph to UAE” – A former minister who endorsed the sale of the Telegraph to an Abu Dhabi-backed fund has been given a key Shadow Cabinet role by Kemi Badenoch, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why Miliband’s Net Zero revolution could drive the countryside to Reform” – Ed Miliband’s plan to decarbonise Britain’s electricity supply will change the topography of Britain’s countryside and the views from our shores – and may yet redraw the political map too, say Jonathan Leake and Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
- “Millions more households to be asked to switch off to hit Ed Miliband’s Net Zero targets” – Millions more households could be asked to regularly switch off light and appliances under Ed Miliband’s plan for a clean power grid by 2030, reports the Telegraph.
- “If Net Zero means letting Britain go dark, Labour are finished” – Ed Miliband can’t seriously expect British voters to ration their electricity usage, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “A zealot’s delusion can’t prevent blackouts” – The Neso report is not a vindication of Mr. Miliband’s approach but a warning of how dangerous it has become, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “‘Dunkelflaute’ sends wind power generation plummeting in U.K. and Germany” – A “Dunkelflaute” weather lull has crippled wind power generation across the U.K., Germany and northern Europe, reports the Telegraph.
- “Flooding facts drowned by climate hysteria: the BBC ignores Spain’s weather history” – The BBC’s reporting ignores Spain’s long history of catastrophic floods due to many of its cities being situated in narrow mountain valleys, say Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett in WUWT?
- “Netanyahu offers Hamas $1 million for each hostage and amnesty for October 7th kidnappers” – Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a new deal to Hamas that would see Israel pay $1 million for each of the remaining October 7th hostages and allow their captors to leave, reports the Telegraph.
- “Benjamin Netanyahu sacks Defence Minister Yoav Gallant” – Israel’s Prime Minister has sacked his Defence Minister over a breakdown in trust during the Gaza war against Hamas, says the Mail.
- “Asda axes jobs and orders staff back to the office three days a week” – Asda is ordering staff back to the office at least three days a week, while also cutting jobs in an attempt to halt the supermarket’s decline, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s hospital smoking ban is doomed to fail” – The idea that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill could prevent smoking near hospitals and schools is a dishonest illusion, says Dr. Druin Burch in the Spectator.
- “The NHS needs less money, not more” – Rachel Reeves is about to throw another £20 billion at the NHS, but there’s a real risk it will go to waste in the name of inclusion, warns Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Turbo cancers are rapidly forming, spreading and mutating” – On YouTube, Dr. John Campbell highlights a troubling surge in “turbo cancers” coinciding with the Covid vaccine rollout.
- “Over £14 billion wiped off AstraZeneca amid China fears” – AstraZeneca has suffered a £14 billion share price hit after Chinese media reported more details about an investigation into the British drug giant, reports the Guardian.
- “Conference on exposure of children to wireless radiation in schools” – On Substack, Gillian Jamieson highlights a November 9th conference on a neglected topic in the smartphones-and-kids debate: health risks from wireless radiation.
- “A more practical argument for free speech” – We should value free expression not so much for the truths it may reveal as for the vices it keeps in check, says Gregory Conti in City Journal.
- “Council worker fired for ‘offensive’ pronouns ordered to pay £12,000” – A council worker who protested against the use of woke pronouns has been hit with a £12,000 legal bill, reports the Mail.
- “Imane Khelif is a biological man, new ‘leaked’ report claims” – New calls for Olympics gender row boxer Imane Khelif to be stripped of his gold medal have emerged after a “leaked” report reveals he is a biological man, says the Mail.
- “What is ‘gender identity’?” – Why are so many government policies based on a concept of “gender identity” that no one can define? wonders Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Kamala pretends to talk to a voter on the phone but mistakenly shows that her phone is open to the camera app” – Libs of TikTok posts a video of the Democratic candidate engaging in yet another deception.
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I had never heard of handball until seeing this article.
Me neither but I’m liking the players. A lot.
Brilliant news.
Ww need the IHF to dig their feet in and for the players to form a single, defiant block and give the IHF authorities a monumental sex and travel response.
This has the potential to be a real goody. A sporting war. Loads of publicity and lots of bad press for the poison pushers, statistics all over the place, tragic stories. Billy and Klaus flapping. Bourla nowhere to be seen. Fishy in his cave. Sage in a bunker somewhere. Michie on a fact- finding mission in Antartica and Raine AWOL.
Marvellous.
Come on you lot.
Oh I fervently hope so.
In my own circle of musicians we dodged a bullet when a minority of Karens on a management committee tried to make vaccination a requirement of performing a symphony concert. They failed to impose the requirement, but then the venue owners imposed their own restrictions which scuppered the concert at the last moment. It’s chaos. We can’t be sure that some unknown authoritarian Karen isn’t going to veto our next attempt. Legal action looks prohibitively expensive, presumably it would be ECHR Right of Assembly Case versus Article 13 lawfare.
That’s upsetting to hear.
All the best
Michie the Bichie in the snow ! Frostbite would be too kind ! Mind you her hatchet face would probably melt the thickest ice
Nice one Freddy
The person who runs the IHF needs to be named and publicly shamed for the petty tyrant that he is.
Not yet. We want a proper set to, something that even The Times cannot ignore.
Come on lads. Get in to them!
Being a personal fiefdom, The Times can ignore whatever it wants!
I’ve looked him up. His name is Hassan Moustafa.
He’s been the president of the federation since 2000. So he’s been running the sport for 22 years, being reelected 6 times, the last 3 unopposed.
I bet he runs it like a personal fiefdom. That’s how most of these international federations operate, accountable to no one but themselves.
The Sep Blatter of Handball then !
You beat me to it Freddy.
Since when does the International Handball Federation, a perfectly private organization, have the authority to prescribe mandatory medical procedures for people attending or playing handball matches?
NB: The obvious answer is It doesn’t.
Governments have signalled over the last three years that they are quite happy for private companies and NGOs to do as they like in this regard and essentially do their dirty promotion and enforcement work for them.
And these international sports federations are completely unaccountable to anyone but themselves. Not unlike the WHO or UN. They have these pseudo democratic processes that elevate a delegate from each country to a global council which then sets rules for the entire world. And because it’s “democratic” then everyone has to follow their rules.
The moment you open your eyes, it’s impossible not to see the world as just a series of cartels. The pharma cartel, the media cartel, the energy cartel, all the sports cartels, the tech cartels, the banking cartel… etc….
The thing is the IHF really doesn’t have this authority, no more than they can randomly arrest people on premises they happened to rent. It’s neither a sovereign government enforcing some laws on its own territory nor an organization created by sovereign governments which have chosen to delegate certain powers to it. The people behind this may have the chutzpah to try it nevertheless, on the grounds that bullying oftentimes works, but bullying is all they have to support their stance.
They can keep the players out of the tournament which belongs to them, unless there are laws explicitly prohibiting that sort of discrimination.
I don’t know what the laws in Sweden and Poland say in this regard.
Of course, the players can get together and decide to boycott. At this point, they’re insane if they don’t.
After Damar Hamlin, I find it hard to imagine there is any athlete of any note who is not concerned about the vaxxes and certainly don’t want any / any more at this point in time. It only stops when we make it stop.
I don’t think your theory that the IHF is a sovereign government which has automatic exterritoriality in any place it may rent somewhere and is thus not subject to the laws of the countries its operating in and authorized to make up its own laws as it sees fit and enforce them violently is correct. But please feel free to prove me wrong by coming up with something which shows that private associations of businesspeople do actually have these rights in Sweden and Poland.
Re private companies setting mandates…
The situation is really bad in Australia where it’s likely millions have been impacted by jab mandates set by state governments, businesses, sports clubs etc.
In regard to companies, I’m challenging the jab mandate set by Westpac Bank for its employees, a jab mandate which is still in place.
See my email to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Westpac Group: Westpac and Covid jab mandates – why were employees denied a voluntary decision on this medical intervention? 4 January 2023.
Well maybe, but where were they when people including children were being forced, coerced and gaslighted into being injected and generally vilified if they weren’t.
Most sports governing bodies are inept, corrupt because they are monopolies. Competition is the only thing that can keep them on their toes. There is little to prevent a group of professionals setting up a more democratic leaner and meaner organisation and ensure by a comprehensive constitution that the tendency to corruption and being captured by bad actors is democratically blocked. Two competing governing bodies in a region or country tend to keep each other a bit more efficient and honest. Perhaps Iceland should make a start.
Now the “Long march through the institutions’ is complete the march through sporting associations seems well underway as the England squad demonstrated in Quatar.