- “All the times David Lammy has attacked ‘deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic’ Trump” – David Lammy’s past tirades against Trump now create a diplomatic headache for Keir Starmer in safeguarding the special relationship, writes Genevieve Holl-Allen in the Telegraph.
- “Minister dodges on whether Donald Trump has ‘Neo-Nazi sympathies’” – Labour’s Pat McFadden repeatedly dodged the question of whether he agrees with David Lammy that Trump has “Neo-Nazi sympathies” during a recent LBC interview, according to the Mail.
- “Rayner called Trump a ‘buffoon’ who has ‘no place in the White House’” – Angela Rayner has spoken to J.D. Vance, the U.S. Vice President-elect, in an effort to improve relations after previously calling Donald Trump a “buffoon”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Guardian offers free counselling to staff after Trump win” – According to Guido Fawkes, Guardian editor Katharine Viner has mobilised a transatlantic support network to help her devastated staff cope with Trump’s victory,
- “The unbelievably hilarious meltdown of the centrists” – Let us all enjoy the bewilderment of the podcast ponces (a.k.a. Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell) in response to Trump’s victory, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “In defence of the liberal elite” – Liberals should stop beating ourselves up, stop whimpering about how we failed to address populist concerns, and face millions of good but deluded men and women with honest argument. They are wrong and we are right, writes Matthew Parris in the Spectator.
- “Will Trump block deal handing Chagos Islands to China-ally Mauritius?” – Donald Trump might kill off Keir Starmer’s plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius over fears it will help communist China, reports the Mail.
- “American titan: inside Donald Trump’s remarkable political comeback” – Even Trump’s bitterest enemies should recognise him for what he is: an American titan and the most extraordinary politician of our time, writes Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “George Clooney blasted by fans after Donald Trump’s election victory” – Devastated Democrats have rounded on George Clooney after the actor demanded that Joe Biden quit before Donald Trump’s election victory, reports the Mail.
- “Will these celebs really leave the U.S. over Trump?” – The Spectator’s Steerpike casts an eye over the list of top celebs who claimed they would leave the States if Trump emerged victorious.
- “Jimmy Kimmel holds back tears after ‘terrible night’ for America” – Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel fought back tears reacting to former President Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s election, reports the Hill.
- “Harvard professors cancel classes as students feel blue after Trump win” – Harvard professors called off classes as students mourned the dawn of a second Trump era, according to the Harvard Crimson.
- “Brief comedy note” – On Substack, Chris Bray says that if people want a good laugh they should check out the video made by the New York Times op-ed crew catastrophising about what’s going to happen in the upcoming Trump administration.
- “‘We need to be ready for a new world’: scientists globally react to Trump election win” – Trump’s decisive defeat of Kamala Harris has triggered fears about the future of the United States among many scientists, according to Nature Magazine.
- “Elon Musk and RFK Jr. set for key administration roles as Trump turns to loyalists” – Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are set to be handed key administration roles, amid expectations that Donald Trump will pack his new cabinet with loyalists, reports the Telegraph.
- “If anyone can do the impossible and rewire U.S. government, it’s Elon Musk” – The tech titan wants to colonise Mars. He may find that an easier task than transforming Washington, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk’s trans son says he’s leaving the U.S. amid Trump’s win” – Elon Musk’s estranged transgender son has announced that he’s planning to leave the U.S. following Donald Trump’s win, reports the Mail.
- “How Barron Trump helped his dad win the ‘bro’ vote” – Donald Trump’s youngest (and tallest) son played a crucial role in introducing his dad to Gen Z men through online podcasts, writes Henry Bodkin in the Telegraph.
- “How a celebrity squirrel became a harbinger of Trump’s return” – When agents seized P’Nut, an OnlyFans couple’s pet squirrel, at their New York home they had no idea what they were setting in motion, says Edward Helmore in the Telegraph.
- “U.S. voters may have just saved the West” – Trump’s victory means other Western leaders will wake from their stupor and finally pay their way, writes Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves stops farmers sharing inheritance tax relief with spouses” – Rachel Reeves has dealt another blow to farmers by preventing them from sharing their £1 million tax relief with spouses or civil partners, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour usually loves strikes – but it won’t like this one” – Britain’s downtrodden farmers now hold Keir Starmer’s fate in their hands, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump’s hostility to green power could benefit the U.K.” – British renewable energy schemes and green investment could be boosted if Donald Trump abolishes any U.S. climate change policies, reports the Times.
- “The tranquil corner of England about to be lost forever” – Explore the charms of East Lincolnshire before the sound of birdsong is replaced by the crackle and hum of electricity transformers, says Christopher Winn in the Telegraph.
- “Dam shame: what really caused Valencia’s floods?” – Who is to blame for the devastating floods that hit Valencia on October 29th? Charts of rainfall in Spain show no trend towards a higher frequency of extreme downpours, writes Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
- “The celebrities whose jet pollution is 500 times the average person’s” – Researchers analysing celebrities’ private aviation found most flights were taken for leisure – and there was a spike for the UN climate conference, reports the Times.
- “Saudi Arabian desert turned into winter wonderland” – For the first time in history, the region of Al-Jawf, which lies at the northern edge of the Al-Nafūd desert, has experienced a snowfall, says the Metro.
- “Almost all Channel migrants arrive in U.K. without passports” – Nearly every Channel migrant arrives without a passport as smugglers tell them it’s the key to staying in the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
- “Two in five GP practices cut appointments in ‘work to rule’” – Two in five GP practices in England have begun cutting the number of appointments available to patients as part of their industrial action, says the Mail.
- “Hallett: what will the Inquiry achieve?” – The Hallett Inquiry’s refusal to publish critical clinical evidence, instead favouring irrelevant testimonies and protecting government missteps, makes it a whitewash, says Dr. Andrew Bamji on his Substack.
- “Did lockdown make children overweight?” – Something really is going badly wrong with the health of our children, writes Simon Cook in the Spectator.
- “How much did lockdown and mRNA regret drive voters toward Trump?” – The hard-blue states with the toughest lockdowns and vaccine mandates saw by far the biggest electoral shifts; the link may not be coincidental, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Southern town locked down after 40 monkeys escape from science lab” – Dozens of macaque monkeys are on the loose in a small town in South Carolina after escaping from a medical research facility, reports the Mail.
- “Germany is disintegrating before our very eyes” – Events in Berlin this week have uncanny parallels with how a previous Social Democrat chancellor fell in 1982, notes Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “France a ‘Mexicanised narco-state’ with drug wars across the country” – Rampant drug-fuelled violence in France is turning the country into what has been dubbed a “Mexicanised narco-state” by a leading politician, according to the Mail.
- “Outrage as Iraq stands poised to lower the ‘age of consent’ for girls to nine” – Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to marry young children, reports the Telegraph.
- “Actors do not have to be Tudor ‘lookalikes’, says director of diverse Wolf Hall” – The director of Wolf Hall has defended colour-blind casting of Tudor characters, saying actors do not have to be “lookalikes” of the real people they play, according to the Mail.
- “The problem with Dawn Butler” – For Dawn Butler, describing someone as white or as trying to be white is clearly a great insult, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “‘Not so fast, Dale Vince’” – On X, Guido appeals to readers for their support in helping to stop Dale Vince from blocking you from reading Guido Fawkes.
- “Pub called The Midget changes name after lecturer says it is offensive” – A pub called The Midget will be rebranded after a lecturer with dwarfism called the name offensive, according to the Oxford Mail, even though it was named after the MG Midget.
- “Oxford student killed himself after being victim of ‘cancel culture’” – An Oxford student took his own life after being “cancelled” by his peers, who ostracised him over an unreported allegation, reports the Mail.
- “‘You know she’s gonna win this, right?’” – On X, Collin Rugg introduces us to “political analyst” Dr. Arlene, a former poli-sci professor and TikTok “influencer” who proudly taunted grocery store clerks about Harris’s guaranteed win – until, after the loss, she blamed it all on racism and misogyny.
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“‘You know she’s gonna win this, right?’”
What a sad person. Elections are always about the economy, not misogyny. Political Analyst, my arse. They are brainwashed into thinking that whatever crazy shit they are told, they are 100% right and everyone else is 100% wrong. Ditto Matthew Paris in the Spectator article.
Maybe its really that the people paying the taxes have got fed up with politicians wasting the money to prop up their narrow ideologies based on division and hate, and the ‘superior person’ entitlement complex that they have all been overwhelmed with.
“Ted Cruz is going to lose his Texas Senate seat”
https://youtu.be/zzL3SgdRxL0?si=ScxcmBM5E5rIOiIn
Ted Cruz won his Texas Senate seat.
After being so spectacularly wrong about Kamala Harris winning, she still thinks we should listen to her expert political analysis. We listen, but only for the comedy.
He won it by nearly a million votes and 9 percentage points
Mathew parris really is an insufferable arse.
An absolutely stereotypical deluded lefty drone.
Zero sense of self awareness.
Totally agree. I read his articles in the Spectator and I reached the same conclusion.
And he thinks he is really-really special.
My goodness was just going to comment on him too but you have put it much better than I could. Just another self-absorbed ‘Liberal’. Wasted my time getting around the paywall to read some of that dross.
What complete and utter arrogance from Parris and his ilk.
I really couldn’t say!
Thursday Morning Gosport Rd, A31 & Winchester Rd,
Chawton Alton
There were no negative comments in Chawton as people showed no pride and prejudice. We didn’t step on anybody’s sense and sensibility. In the end it’s just a matter of persuasion.
https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-3-ways-trumps-return-to-power-could-unfold-for-ukraine/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVW-sY66wfY (interesting watching regarding Ukrainian morale)
How should democracies engage with autocracies like Russia and China in the future?
Some top tips from Anne Applebaum:
‘Understanding their world view is key in protecting our democracies……they see themselves in a constant conflict with us
(The U.N.) failed some time ago…..The so-called international order has always been more aspirational than real….The U.N. system is beyond saving or rebuilding. It’s a very 20th-century institution rooted in the belief that large bureaucracies based in places like New York or Geneva can solve global problems. This mindset reflects the world of the 1950s
History is not predetermined. There’s nothing that guarantees democracy will fail, autocracy will succeed, or vice versa. We aren’t promised victory in the end – that’s not how it works.’
The delusional ‘peace dividend’ (in fact, by removing Europe’s conventional deterrent, a war dividend), the ‘long peace’, is well and truly over. On the upside, as most realise, competition is healthy even if it is also dangerous. The threat from Russia/Iran/North Korea to Europe, the U.S. (and China) may now crowd out the incompetent (infallibly, ultimately) low growth socialist fascist ‘Big State’ political and economic model (except in China. Japan shows where that ends, economically).
How does this impact on Ukraine?
‘Trump will want Russia to stay neutral in a potential U.S.-China conflict. To secure that he may push for territorial and political concessions from Ukraine. Ideally, he would like Ukraine to neither win nor lose. On a positive note, some reports even hint at consistent, or even increased, military support for Ukraine, if only to ramp up U.S. defense industry capacity for the Pacific.
Kyiv’s likely strategy will be to engage with Trump’s envoy and try to show Ukraine as a promising business opportunity, that supporting it demonstrates strength, and that they can deliver a win under the right conditions
Zelensky and others emphasize Ukraine’s potential in lithium, titanium, gold, uranium, and gas production.’
Jakub Parasinski
There are also good business opportunities for the U.S. in Central Asia. The South Caucasus and especially Georgia is a gateway to Central Asia. It also offers an alternative trade route for the Caspian states to reach out to the EU. A failure in Ukraine would threaten these important, though not vital, U.S. strategic interests.
The Republicans saw Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan…..and have benefited from the backlash. They know that ‘jingoism’ is still alive and well in America. They will not wish to give the Democrats a similar launch pad by presiding over a Ukrainian collapse.
In the BBC’s article Covid inquiry told top NHS doctor was terrified we find that:
(my emphasis)
The available mortality evidence as at 23 March showed that mortality in England and Wales was going to peak in early April (my analysis pointed to 6 April – it was actually on 8 April). This being based on mortality data known at the time.
There was no need for the lockdown; the peak of infections had already passed.
Later in the article the we get this.
and
So by 28 March, 5 days after the lockdown announcement, it was clear to Sir Stephen that the ‘infections might have already reached a peak in March 2020’. Shame he didn’t speak up about lockdown being unnecessary at the time.
A generous observer might say that they have given us some good education about psychology and politics; outside their field, as well.
A less generous observer might ask why the inquiry didn’t ask further questions.
“The public” – always other people, and definitely never the person making the rules, who is far too important to be lumped in with the great unwashed.
Much like those people who constantly bang on about how disgusting and awful the human species is, the world would be better off without them. Fine, here’s a cliff, you go first.
“Southern town locked down after 40 monkeys escape from science lab”
Don’t worry – wearing a mask will keep them off you.
£20,000? No wonder they’re locked down.
Masks don’t stop monkeypox though!
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/07/cost-of-shed-to-protect-bat-colony-near-hs2-has-topped-100m-chair-says
The state of the nation: batshit crazy bat shed!
‘To build a railway between Euston and Curzon Street in Birmingham, I need 8,276 consents from other public bodies, planning, transport, the Environment Agency or Natural England. They don’t care whether parliament did or didn’t approve building a railway.’
HS2 had to obtain a licence from Natural England, which approved the bat mitigation structure, before asking planning permission from Buckinghamshire county council.
“So when we go to [the] council and say: ‘Would you like to give us planning permission for this blot on the landscape that costs £100m’, of course, the answer to that is, you’ve got to be joking, right? Why would [they] like this eyesore?
what do you do? I reach for the lawyers and the environmental specialists and hydrologists……..I spend hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to……win the planning commission by going over [the county council’s] head.”
‘“No evidence, by the way, that high-speed trains interfere with bats’
At a local level, this dysfunctionality often manifests itself in random, completely uncoordinated, roadworks, key routes simultaneously dug up as if to create maximum disruption, then filled in and then immediately dug up again by someone else, inviting the inevitable potholes.
Systemic change required!
When we build our house we spent £8000 on environmental surveys, bat surveys. And we had to have conservationists present for the demolition of some outbuildings. This delayed the project by 6 months, because bat surveys can only be done during certain periods of the year.
No bats were found. Conservationist told us that generally bats pushed off to their second roost if a site became too busy…
So all that money to keep this industry going. No benefit to anyone else or the bats…
Must be where the term “batshit crazy” comes from.
We’ve got a ‘bat hotel’ because of planning conditions and a bat survey person comes round periodically to check on them. So the bats have their own pitch dark shed with a hole in the door but they actually live in the top of the barn which wasn’t changed by the building work anyway. Ridiculous.
And so it is with all planning cases.
You want to build half a dozen houses? You need at least four separate surveys costing £15k and that is assuming there is no problem. If the site is within half a mile of an ancient structure or a previously identified site with medaeval remains or earlier you can spend another £10k or much more on archaeological surveys.
That is all before you get planning consent.
If you build an access road it has to meet very high construction standards. At the junction with the existing road you will discover it has been build on minimal foundations.
You cannot put surface water down council / water company surface water drains so you have to build ponds or install crates underground to delay the absorption of water into the ground.
You have to provide Biodiversity Net Gain (since February this year – thanks Tories) which in a site I know means over half of a grass field has to be set aside for wild grass and newly introduced weeds. That reduces the number of homes and reduces the size of gardens to almost nothing.
“A pub’s name is to be changed after more than 500 people signed a petition calling it offensive.”
The word is still in dictionaries. Is that offensive too?
We need a campaign to eradicate all offensive words from dictionaries, as there may be some people who might be offended by seeing these words.
“You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words–scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone.” – 1984
Why not tell the objector to just shove off and bar him from the pub for being a nuisance.
‘Frontline police officers have become overwhelmed by the number of mental health incidents they are having to deal with on a daily basis, according to a senior officer.
Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson told a Stormont committee that the number of contacts had reached “unprecedented levels”.
Almost 40,000 calls about a person potentially in danger were received by the PSNI in the past year – with just 3% of those related to crime.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4vwvk07k5o
The more woke and medicated society becomes, the greater the increase in mental ill-health.
Dr Arlene is an object lesson in how to appear both nasty and ridiculous.
It was the arrogant way she was cackling at the grocery clerk because she assumed she knew how he voted, yet she cries misogyny when she doesn’t get her way. Mind you it looks like she went a bit early on the champagne……
This one needs a sceptical home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPZ4z1OS0E&list=WL&index=4 £350,000 For This “Vital” Infrastructure and it DOESN’T WORK! By “Autoshenanigans”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14051427/More-two-fifths-Englands-GP-practices-limiting-appointments-survey-reveals.html
That’s forty percent.
Solution – cut GP wages by 40%.