- “Met Police officer cleared of murdering Chris Kaba is set to be promoted to the rank of inspector” – Armed police officer Martyn Blake has been promoted just weeks after he was cleared of the murder of gang member Chris Kaba, reports the Mail.
- “How street market traders tackled ‘knifeman who stabbed man to death’” – Heroic street market traders wrestled a knifeman to the ground in South London after one man was fatally stabbed and two others were injured, says the Mail.
- “Labour’s total ignorance of the reality of a farmer’s life will undoubtedly lead to mass protest” – Farmers could soon take direct action against Labour’s punitive inheritance taxes. Is No.10 ready for when the manure hits the fan? wonders William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Labour are coming for the farms.” – On Substack, Tom Ed lets rip at Rachel Reeves’s state-sanctioned land grab.
- “Jeremy Clarkson to protest against tractor tax alongside rebel farmers” – Jeremy Clarkson is set to rally with rebel farmers next week to protest the Chancellor’s tractor tax, reports the Telegraph.
- “Clarkson accuses Labour of ‘ethnically cleansing’ the countryside” – Jeremy Clarkson has accused Labour of wanting to “ethnically cleanse” the countryside in order to build “new immigrant towns” and Net Zero windfarms, says the Mail.
- “‘We’re getting married to dodge inheritance tax – there’s no romance in it’” – Pensioners are considering a trip down the aisle following Rachel Reeves’s bombshell Budget, writes Maya Wilson-Autzen in the Telegraph.
- “Chancellor’s National Insurance raid claims first victim” – British manufacturing company Connectix Cabling Systems, a specialist cable manufacturer with revenues of £50 million in 2023, says it will close down its four factories and move abroad because of Rachel Reeves’s Budget, according to the GB News.
- “Hotel tycoon scraps £20 million investment after Reeves’s tax raid” – A hotel tycoon has scrapped plans to invest around £20 million in his hospitality empire as he hit out at Rachel Reeve’s inheritance tax raid for being “anti-business”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pubs and restaurants tell Reeves they face closures and ‘drastic’ job cuts after tax raid” – Top pub and restaurant bosses have warned the Chancellor that tax rises in last month’s Budget will “unquestionably” cause closures and job losses, according to the BBC.
- “The Times view on campus free speech” – Labour’s surreptitious retreat on legislation intended to safeguard free speech at universities has dismayed even its natural allies, says the Times in a leading article.
- “Celtic fans sing pro-IRA songs as Remembrance Sunday tribute scrapped after nine seconds” – A minute’s silence before Kilmarnock’s clash with Celtic was abandoned after nine seconds yesterday when fans of the Scottish Premiership champions booed and sang pro-IRA songs, reports the Belfast Telegraph.
- “Israel warns of planned attacks at large events, including in U.K.” – Authorities say they have intelligence suggesting pro-Palestinian groups intend to target Israelis and Jews at sporting and cultural events, according to the Express.
- “‘Starmer has got to start taking this antisemitism seriously’” – In the Telegraph, actress Tracy-Ann Oberman opens up on how she became a spokesperson for Britain’s Jewish community and why Shakespeare’s Shylock is still relevant today.
- “Why our young people are scared to wear the poppy” – Far from being proud to wear it, many members of the younger generation seem confused about what our symbol of remembrance represents, says George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “The establishment blocked me from laying wreath at Cenotaph, claims Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage has blamed “the Establishment” for not allowing him to take a public facing-role with other party leaders at the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph, according to GB News.
- “Pressure grows on Justin Welby to resign for ignoring sex abuse” – Vicars have launched a petition urging the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign for ignoring sex abuse – and a top bishop has declined to defend him, reports the Mail.
- “The Church of England has lost its way – there is only one route back” – Justin Welby has said he “considered” resigning after the John Smyth Review. That’s not good enough, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “If the U.S. imposes tariffs it will be an act of self-harm, but it may just push Labour to embrace Brexit” – Trade barriers make us all poorer – and are worst for the country that imposes them. But cosying up to the EU would make things worse, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump takes Arizona in swing state clean sweep” – President-elect Trump has won Arizona, claiming all seven battleground states in a thumping victory, reports the Washington Post.
- “After the election, the rage against white women” – The Democrats are once again shocked to discover that women do not vote in accordance with their genitals, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Trump Derangement Syndrome” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson is finding the Left’s meltdown over Trump’s stomping victory just too delicious to ignore.
- “Ultra-wealthy Democrats race to buy London boltholes after Trump win” – Trump’s election triumph has sparked a flurry of interest from ultra-wealthy Democrats who want to buy prime U.K. property as a “safety net”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ruling by fear and cutting 80% of the workforce: Musk’s public sector revolution” – If Musk is truly planning to treat the Government as he has treated his businesses, employees are in for quite a ride, says Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
- “Stanley Johnson’s China links spooked the CIA” – Connections between Boris Johnson’s father and Beijing diplomats were so notorious that COP conference officials were ordered to keep them apart, writes Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times.
- “Flat owners face £66,000 bill each for council’s new green heating” – Residents in a London estate claim they may have to pay up to £66,000 each towards a new heating system to help a Labour council reach its Net Zero targets, reports the Times.
- “Trump is about to expose the lie at the heart of Net Zero” – America’s inevitable turn away from its climate commitments will pave the way for Britain, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Time for think tanks to think again” – It’s time free market think tanks started to challenge the Net Zero orthodoxy, says David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “U.K. faces calls to pay into $1 trillion pot to help poor countries tackle climate change at COP” – The U.K. faces pressure to contribute to a $1 trillion climate fund for developing countries at COP29 in Baku, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s farmers brace for Miliband’s solar shock wave” – Tenant farmers warn they face being cleared out as landowners sell up to Net Zero developers, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s wind power falls to virtually zero as Miliband prepares to cut reliance on gas” – Britain’s wind generation is set to plummet to virtually zero this week as Ed Miliband presses ahead with plans to increase the nation’s reliance on renewable energy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Airline to double size of £414 ‘all you can fly’ scheme” – Wizz Air is set to double the size of its controversial “all you can fly” scheme in a rebuke to climate campaigners who say it encourages people to make unnecessary journeys, says the Telegraph.
- “Fluoride in the water” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson write about RFK Jr.’s fluoride scepticism, suggesting his questions are more justified than critics might think.
- “No place for war hawks in my father’s Cabinet, says Donald Trump Jr.” – Donald Trump Jr. says there’s no place in his father’s administration for “war hawks” amid growing signs the President-elect will follow through on plans to bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine, according to EconoTimes.
- “Russia becoming more aggressive on British soil, defence chief warns” – Adml Sir Tony Radakin says the U.K. is not without threat in a “new era of competition and contest that will last for decades”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Assisted dying ‘could divert NHS funds from cancer patients’” – Health experts question whether end-of-life treatment will compete for funds with serious illness treatments, as a bill to legalise assisted dying is set to be published on Tuesday, reports the Times.
- “One NHS trust in ten has a male menopause policy” – About a tenth of hospital trusts have policies to assist staff members undergoing the male menopause, even though the NHS describes the term as “unhelpful and misleading”, says the Times.
- “Trump killed woke. For now” – Tuesday’s election was not a landslide, but it was at least a temporary triumph over wokism, writes Bo Winegard in Aporia.
- “School the Education Secretary chose as the first sixth form college to visit after Labour took power ‘will trial a gender affirmation fund to give clothes and makeup to trans children’” – The Sheffield school the Education Secretary chose as the first sixth form to visit is introducing a “gender affirmation fund” that will allow trans and non-binary students to apply for financial support to buy “clothes and make-up”, reports the Mail.
- “How Boris Johnson and King Charles clashed over slavery reparations” – Tim Shipman’s new book reveals that Boris Johnson clashed with the King over the issue of slavery, fearing he had been captured by “woke ideology”, says the Mail.
- “Confusion rules in Chomsky’s take on world power” – Noam Chomsky’s Who Rules the World? misses the true power players, leaving readers with little more than a Marxist who can’t see the forest for the trees, writes Niall McCrae in TCW.
- “Climate change’s ‘substantial impact’ on mental health” – On X, our own Ben Pile tells TalkTV’s Peter Cardwell about the false link between climate change and mental health problems.
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Come on Jezza , you can do this !
The thought of Jezza as Minister for Rural Affairs in the first Reform government in 2029, does have a bit of sauce on it.!
And if the shadow minister for rural Affairs disagreed with him about the supply of beef diners then he’d simply punch him in the face!
“Ruling by fear and cutting 80% of the workforce: Musk’s public sector revolution”
The only people who need fear a dramatic cut back in jobs are the ones who add no value, or those who take the piss. I’d love us to have an ambitious target like that.
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Jim Haslam – Covid-19: Mystery Solved
It is very detailed and goes beyond RFK Jr’s ‘The Wuhan Coverup’ and Ridley & Chan due to the benefit of more recent leaks and FOIA requests.
The main names are the ones you are familiar with: Shi, Fauci, Daszak, Wang, Andersen, Baric and Munster.
Patient 0 was Dani Andersen in Wuhan in October 2019, an accident whilst using an aerosolised self-replicating bat vaccine.
“SARS-COV-2 was an animal vaccine with a failed safety kill switch. The design originated in Singapore, creation took place in North Carolina, development occurred in Montana, and testing was conducted in Wuhan. That is where it leaked accidentally, but the creation and coverup were not accidents.”
Celtic fans sing pro-IRA songs as Remembrance Sunday tribute scrapped after nine seconds
The campervan ownership fluid tendency…….
Just people who are too stupid to realise they are dishonouring the memory of plenty of Irish service personnel who fell.
They think they’re edgy rebels, but they’re absolute pukes.
Agreed
Dirty disrespectful bas#@rds
Russia becoming more aggressive on British soil, defence chief warns
Compare and contrast:
‘Six years ago, British citizens were poisoned by a chemical attack on home soil. Since then, our airspace and sovereign waters, our critical energy and digital infrastructure and our public realm have been subject to interference.’
‘….it was “sobering” to visit Ukrainian recruits doing their infantry training in the UK, stressing that they are men in their 30s and 40s who came from ordinary jobs and left behind families, wives and children, to learn how to fight.
Now they are marching off to war, to free their country and defend their families from the most barbarous acts of aggression’
‘It weighs heavily on me as Defence Secretary, knowing that if we face conflict, it will be my decision to send British forces and personnel into situations which puts them at risk,” he said, cautioning that “the West can and must” put an end to Putin’s war in Ukraine.’
And
“I said I disliked him as a person, but I admired him as a political operator because he’s managed to take control of running Russia’
That remark has not aged well and, until rescinded, it will restrict the political expansion at the polls of the Reform Party.
The kind of dumb sheep that believe the approved story of the Ukraine conflict are never going to vote Reform anyway, because telly box say Brexit man bad.
You are entitled to your view but research shows that you are disagreeing with 63% of Reform voters:
‘Reform comes in third with 16 per cent, down from its all-time high of 19 per cent recorded last week – when it was tied with the Tories.
The poll was conducted between Monday and Wednesday this week, after Mr Farage said in a TV interview that the “ever eastward expansion of Nato and the European Union” had stirred Vladimir Putin into invading Ukraine, adding: “We have provoked this war.”
‘…it does indicate the leader is out of step with public opinion on the issue of Ukraine.
More than two thirds of those questioned – 71 per cent – said that Russia is more responsible for the war, rising to 84 per cent of Conservative voters.
Significantly, 63 per cent of Reform voters also disagree with Mr Farage on this point.
Nine per cent of all voters believed both nations were equally responsible and just five per cent blamed the West entirely’
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/reform-support-farage-russia-poll-3133908?srsltid=AfmBOooGwTrx64Q594pMF98px7TX7Hjxi5PgomlAONM_PPCJ_oO4w0LQ
At least there’s hope for them, judging by the fact they voted Reform. As they continue to have the wool pulled away they will see more and more.
War, war, war, let us have more war!
I thought the Skripals were Russians, and who tried to poison them and where they are now is still open to discussion, I believe.
Watch the Ukrainians marching off to war to die, not to free their country because, firstly, that is impossible against a superior enemy and, secondly, because the country’s problem is primarily their government (sadly not unusual these days) which in true Nazi fashion is determined to ethnically cleanse the eastern regions of all Russian speakers, not to mention being funded and urged to fight on by the West, purely because USA does not like Russia being led by a strong leader, namely Putin.
Is there supposed to be another reason for supporting Ukraine? Of course, western propaganda tells us Putin is a danger to the whole of Europe, he will march into all our countries, banning LGBTQ and providing us all with cheap energy.
I really enjoyed the scathing attack from your friend and mine, Scott Ritter, on EU subservience to USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RO_YVq-eyU. When asked for his opinion on how Europeans are dreading Trump could overnight stop sending more aid and weapons to Ukraine, he responded as follows:
“They’re a pathetic entity that’s allowed itself to be taken over by American interests and now, having sold their soul, having been America’s paid whore for so many years, they suddenly grow a moral conscience? Oh, we want to be independent. You’re not independent, there’s nothing independent about Europe. Look what they’re saying: they want a President who will continue to provide the umbrella of comfort, to keep the leash on, and the collar on, to hold it tight, say “Heel!” and “Sit!” and all this … this is about Europe acknowledging that they suck across the board and they’re scared to death because what Donald Trump is saying is grow up, stand up on your own two feet, get the hell out of the nest and fly! They can’t, they can’t fly, they can’t stand on their own two feet, they’re pathetic, pathetic. That’s what this is all about. This is the exposure of the pathetic reality of Europe, and it’s a good thing, and I say that as somebody who likes Europe … I would love nothing more than Europe standing up on its own two feet, so when I go to France I’m going to France, not an American colony. When I go to Germany, I’m going to Germany, not an American colony … I want to visit a nation full of people who are proud of who they are. It’s a foreign country for a reason. It’s not supposed to be like America, it’s supposed to be their own country. It’s what I love about going to Russia. When you go to Russia, you know damn well where you’re at: you’re in Russia, there is no mistaking it, it’s Russia. For better or for worse it’s Russia. But now you go to Europe and you get America light …”
He later goes on to say, if Europe really wants to “free” Ukraine then they should go there and fight, put ‘boots on the ground’. Of course, no European country will do that because they know their people will be wiped out. And NATO is a “poison pill … the sooner Europe realizes that, the better off Europe will be because then Europe will be compelled to stand on their own two feet and build defensive capabilities that are realistic, not backed up by the artificiality of the perception of American military power. And once Europe understands its limitations and its capabilities, it can then figure out what a sane foreign policy will be with Russia – understand that the policy that many Europeans have right now of being an adversary to Russia is unsustainable … there’s no reason for Europe and Russia to be enemies, there’s every reason for Europe and Russia to be partners, but they can’t be partners so long as America’s in the mix. You’ve got to pull America out, let Europe stand up and make its own realizations that collectively, and individually, they need to be working with Russia, not against Russia. And that’s not a threat to America, it actually helps us because that creates a stronger [USA], that creates stability. Americans need to understand just how well off we’d be if we stop spending over a trillion dollars a year on defence. We don’t need to go around the world and kick hornets’ nests and then complain every time we get stung …”
Very difficult to admire any ‘political operator’ whose military, despite massive superiority in numbers, continue to perform so poorly.
‘A long-awaited Kremlin offensive recently kicked off to liberate a Luxembourg-sized chunk of Russian Federation territory held by Ukraine hit tough defenses and saw spear tip units get stopped cold or wiped out, reports from Russia’s western Kursk region said on Monday, accompanied by images of the near total destruction of an armored attack launched by Russia’s elite 810th Marine Infantry Brigade on Thursday.’
It is said that PC are represented at the cenotaph in order to ensure all parts of the UK are represented.
1 does tge PM not represent the whole of the UK
2 if not who will represent Wales when PC lose their seats next time
3 who represents England.
I am aware that any party with two or more MPs gets IHT free donations and representation in the ElCom consultative committee.
We now know that Parliament refuses parties with fewer than six MPs at the Cenotaph. Was that true in the days when Joe Grimmond was Liberal leader with few MPs.
What other restrictions are placed on non-nationalist/separatist parties in the HoC.
Isn’t it organised by the Royal British Legion, rather than Parliament? If so, it’s up to them, and you could try raising it that way.
“Met Police officer cleared of murdering Chris Kaba is set to be promoted to the rank of inspector”
Trying to make amends now?
Why don’t you just strap a target on his back?
More time in the office, perhaps, rather than being out on the street.