- “Ukraine has the green light to fire long-range U.S. missiles into Russia” – President Biden has given Ukraine permission to fire long-range U.S. missiles into Russia, reports the Mail.
- “At least 20 dead in fiercest Russian air assault on Ukraine since August” – The weekend’s missile and drone attacks by Russia targeted Ukraine’s power facilities across multiple cities, including Kyiv, and prompted Poland to mobilise its air force, says the Times.
- “Focus on crime not tweets, Sir Keir Starmer tells police” – The Prime Minister has said the police should “concentrate on what matters most to their communities” following the controversy over Essex Police’s investigation of journalist Allison Pearson, according to the Times.
- “Badenoch says police visit to journalist’s home was ‘absolutely wrong’” – The Conservative Party leader says the police should not be wasting their time investigating journalists’ tweets, reports the Mail.
- “Police get hate laws wrong 90% of the time, says Shadow Home Secretary” – Chris Philp says the police should only record NCHIs where there’s a “real risk of imminent criminality”, says the Telegraph.
- “Essex Police chief questions looking at 700 non crime hate incidents” – Roger Hirst, Essex’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, admits his police force looked at 700 NCHIs last year, according to the Mail.
- “Feminist writer visited by police after ‘transgender man’ reported her” – Julie Bindel says she was told by two Metropolitan Police officers that a “transgender man” from Holland had reported one of her social media posts as a possible hate crime, reports the Mail.
- “The tyranny of the cry-bully” – Julie Burchill in Spiked says the woke have weaponised their emotional incontinence.
- “FA braced for further protests as hundreds march on Wembley for teenager banned in transgender row” – A group of people staged a demo outside England’s game against Ireland at Wembley yesterday to protest about the FA’s six-game suspension of a teenager for asking a male player with a beard in a ladies team whether he was a man, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lefties are leaving Twitter, so where will the poor lambs bleat now?” – With the likes of the Guardian quitting X, Right-wingers will be free to enjoy themselves without being policed by woke commissars, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Net zero is ‘sinister’, said Trump’s energy secretary pick Chris Wright” – Trump’s pick for Energy Secretary is a stone cold climate contrarian, according to the Telegraph. Glory be.
- “Britain has an astonishing 470 DELEGATES at climate change summit” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after the sheer scale of the U.K. delegation sent to the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan was revealed, says the Mail.
- “Why does green piety so often come with a huge dose of hypocrisy?” – Is it time to start questioning the Government’s strict adherence to green and renewable policies at all costs? asks Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Just Shop Oil! Now eco-zealots start selling items online” – The environmental group is selling three new products on its online store in a bid to earn more cash to support its relentless campaign against the use of fossil fuels, says the Mail.
- “‘I bought an electric car worth £70k that’s now useless and unfixable’” – Early adopters of Fisker EVs face an ongoing nightmare now that the company has declared bankruptcy, according to the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s 2030 Net Zero target ‘not feasible’, says top windfarm executive” – Adam Ezzamel, who heads offshore wind development at RWE, one of the UK’s leading renewable operators, says Miliband’s plan to decarbonise the national electricity grid by 2030 is pie in the sky, reports the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s energy policy isn’t just incoherent, it’s a danger to security” – Britain will not prosper if costs rise and our dependence on foreign states for energy increases, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Trump victory doesn’t mean Net Zero is worthless, insists Starmer” – Sir Keir says the U.K. will push ahead with Miliband’s decarbonisation targets despite the U.S. being poised to abandon Net Zero, according to the Telegraph.
- “Bacon needs a health warning like cigarettes, says Dale Vince” – The eco-energy boss believes attaching health warnings to bacon would boost health and cut climate emissions, reports the Times.
- “Pensioners ‘will die’ after Labour’s winter fuel cuts amid cold snap” – Baroness Altmann says the decision to make the winter fuel payment a means-tested payment is “extremely cruel, poorly conceived and actually dangerous”, says the Mail.
- “Record numbers of asylum seekers claim they’re gay to stay in Britain” – The number of asylum seekers claiming to be gay almost trebled last year from 762 in 2022 to 2133 in 2023, according to the Mail.
- “Starmer open to paying countries that stop migrants coming to Britain” – The Home Office in negotiations with Vietnam, Kurdistan and Turkey to pay them to beef up border security, reports the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: Fake asylum seekers are conning their way into Britain” – The Mail has discovered a network of thousands sharing huge swathes of training material to convince Home Office case officers they’re from Eritrea – because refugees from Eritrea have a 99% success rate when applying for asylum.
- “Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in U.K. under ECHR rules” – Deporting a convicted paedophile who sexually assaulted his stepdaughter would be a breach of his right to a family life, as per the Immigration Tribunal, according to the Telegraph.
- “Farage claims lack of Manchester Airport charges is ‘two tier justice’” – The Reform U.K. leader has compared the absence of charges following the attack on police officers at Manchester Airport to the “immediacy” of action against those who rioted after the Southport stabbings, reports the Mail.
- “Trump’s $1 trillion ‘shock and awe’ blueprint to deport 20 million” – Within hours of his inauguration, Trump has promised to launch what he calls “the biggest mass deportation in American history”, according to the Mail.
- “Starmer’s Chagos deal risks taking hundreds of millions from MoD budget” – Ministers have refused to reveal how much Britain will pay to ensure the Diego Garcia military base, also used by the U.S., can remain in the Chagos Islands, says the Telegraph.
- “I want our country to stay solvent – if that makes me a headbanger, so be it” – “I’m often accused of getting too right wing,” says Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, adding: “It’s not me who’s changed. It’s the spendthrift socialists in power.”
- “The brutal truth? Rachel Reeves backs bankers over farmers” – The Chancellor should take care – were a strike to cause food shortages, it would be politically lethal, says Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “Food shortage plans drawn up as farmers threaten to strike” – Ministers are drawing up contingency plans to deal with food shortages if farmers go on strike, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why showdown with farmers risks defining Starmer’s Government” – Polls suggest the public backs the farmers in their fight against inheritance tax, with campaigners hoping a rally this week will add further pressure, says the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner set to vote against assisted dying bill” – Labour’s Deputy Leader is the most senior Cabinet minister to oppose the assisted dying bill, according to the Telegraph.
- “Will the assisted dying bill pass the Commons?” – Officially, the House of Commons will have a free vote when the assisted dying bill comes before it later this month. But, says Katy Balls in the Spectator, Labour will probably engage in some soft whipping to get it passed.
- “Twice-censored landmark COVID-19 vaccine autopsy study fully peer-reviewed and published” – The largest COVID-19 vaccine autopsy study to-date, providing robust evidence that COVID-19 vaccines can cause death, has been officially republished, says Nicolas Hulscher, one of its authors, on Substack.
- “NHS alert over ‘shocking’ rise in strokes in middle age” – Cases among those in their 50s have increased by 55% – faster than any other age group, says the Telegraph.
- “How private schools could become an option for the many not the few” – The Tories should resurrect the policy of school vouchers, putting the chance of a private education into the hands of millions, says Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Don’t blame periods for women gaining fewer firsts at Oxbridge” – You need outrageous amounts of intellectual arrogance to give first-class answers in Oxbridge finals, and women, famously, have less of it, according to Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Trans monkeys and IRS cheques for dead people: the bizarre government spending Musk could cut” – Elon Must has until July 4th 2026 to slash state expenditure and transform efficiency through a new department, reports the Telegraph. And there’s plenty of waste to cut.
- “Meet the Rees-Moggs: ‘I quite enjoy winding people up’” – Why is Jacob Rees-Mogg letting the reality TV cameras into his family home? The Sunday Times’s Nick Rufford spent some time with the family to find out.
- “Archbishop of York urged to step down amid Church abuse scandal” – Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, stands accused of “ignoring” 11 abuse cases, some involving leading bishops, and has been urged to resign, reports the Times.
- “Geology is racist and ‘linked to white supremacy’ claims U.K. professor” – A professor at a leading British university has branded the subject of geology “racist”, claiming it has been heavily influenced by colonisation, says the Mail.
- “Mother-of-two sues council over gender neutral toilets” – Sarah Holman says she was hounded out of a job she loved at Bracknell Forest Council after she complained to HR about not wanting to bump into biological men in the toilets, according to the Mail.
- “Trans men and lesbians get IVF priority ahead of straight couples” – Under controversial new proposals, women who think they’re men and who have difficulty conceiving will be prioritised for IVF treatment, as will lesbians and single women, reports the Mail.
- “Miss Universe fans stunned after biological woman wins beauty pageant” – Victoria Kjaer Theilvig, a 21 year-old Dane, has won Miss Universe, in spite of a full complement of trans, fat and married contestants, reports the Mail.
- “What’s referred to as ‘the Science’ has become more dogmatic than the Catholic church was in the 17th Century” – Talking to Bari Weiss, Peter Thiel says defenders of scientific orthodoxy have become so dogmatic they’re impeding scientific progress.
Peter Thiel: "What has become 'science' is more dogmatic than the Catholic church was in the 17th century"
— Alexandros Marinos
Watch as Bari Weiss tries desperately to get Thiel to criticize MAHA / RFK jr, and Thiel responds with a spectacular exposition of everything wrong with modern science. pic.twitter.com/a1l29BzQqd(@alexandrosM) November 15, 2024
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Somebody else who has their eyes wide open and can see right through the intention of installing a Muslim statue and what it really signifies. The giveaway is the timing, plus the ability to look around and be aware of what’s happening to our societies in the West. Why did they not install a war memorial for Muslims 20 or 30 years ago, for instance?
”Timing is everything.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the government will fund a national war memorial to those Muslim soldiers who fought on our side during the two world wars and in subsequent conflicts. We have also been reminded that other religions have similar memorials.
And that is true. But is there anything more that this particular commemoration might represent?
Whether mass immigration was encouraged because it was seen as a solution to falling birth rates, a pension crisis or a darker death-wish for Christian culture, it was founded on a profound ignorance of what Islam believed and how it acted.
At the same time, an entirely false distinction was made between Islam and Islamism, as if Islamism described an entirely separate and unconnected political extremist variant among Muslims. Whereas, in fact, Islam is a well-balanced hybrid of religion and politics, aspiring to create a seamlessly faithful Islamic society in terms of both spirituality and political and ethical expression.
We might explore the demographic acceleration of Islamic presence in our country, but we would end up arguing about variables. The most useful wake-up call for many was provided by French novelist Michel Houellebecq in his novel Submission, in which he explored both the desire of Islam to change the face of French society and its means of doing so.
Is there an inherent desire to Islamify a society in which the numbers of Muslims and their political and cultural influence grows? There are Muslim voices that speak to this, but that might be countered by the argument that they are not sufficiently representative.
Either way, the present tensions in our democracy appear to reflect the growing leverage of Islamic preferences.”
https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-choose-now-for-a-national-muslim-monument-to-the-brave-soldiers-who-died-for-us-during-two-world-wars/
And is it just coincidence that the 2024 Brittania coin struck by the Royal Mint has Britannia, the personification of Britain, being looked down upon by a crescent moon which just happens to be exactly the same orientation as the crescent moon on so many Muslim flags?
https://www.royalmint.com/britannia/commemorative/2024-britannia/
Well-spotted! The crescent moon symbol is also the symbol of Shiva/Satan, “god” of Destruction. Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other cults are all worshipping the same thing: KaliAllah the Moon Spider Goddess of Death and her Toyboy Shiva/Satan.
The Black Cube of Mecca is built directly upon the foundations of a Hindu temple to KaliAllah, also called Durga, the remains of the apsidal wall of which can still be seen jutting out from one side of it. And the rituals of white-robed people running counter-clockwise around the Black Cube is derived from Hinduism. The name Allah is not Arabic, but one of the many Sanskrit names for Kali.
The last several times I have looked at war memorials they did not have words to exclude soldiers, sailors or airmen of any race or religion. They were gender, race and belief inclusive.
If there is to be a separate memorial to muslim dead from the forces, why not for each other religion, for atheists, for men and women and for urban or rural fighters. Gay and straight.
Clearly this is a divisive proposal which is designed to divide.
Crime rate due specifically to non-Germans in Bavaria ( it’s not just in that state ) is on the rise. These figures will not be accurate given Germany’s new accelerated citizenship process for migrants ( unsure if that’s started yet ), which could see a foreigner arriving in the country five years ago, getting their German papers then any crimes they commit they’d go down on record as ”German”.
”An increasing migrant population has contributed significantly to a spike in crime across the German state of Bavaria, the state’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann claimed on Monday.
Speaking after his ministry’s publication of the state police’s crime stats for last year, the CSU politician assured the public that Bavaria remains a particularly safe area of the country, but bemoaned the fact that crime had increased across the state and attributed much of this increase to foreign nationals.
“We will not accept the increase in crime, even if it is a nationwide trend for which foreigners and immigrants are particularly responsible,” Herrmann said in a press release on Monday.
“We have commissioned the State Criminal Police Office and our police headquarters to analyze crime developments in detail in order to adapt operational concepts and police presence if necessary,” he added.
According to the crime stats, a total of 39.6 percent of the 266,390 suspects in crimes across the state last year were non-Germans despite only comprising 16 percent of the state’s population. This corresponds to an increase of 20.5 percent compared to 2022 when 32,037 immigrants were suspected of criminal offenses.”
https://www.rmx.news/crime/foreigners-to-blame-for-sky-rocketing-crime-stats-says-bavarian-interior-minister/
tells us:
In what fantasy world will we have spare energy to export? Lunacy.
Very occasionally we’re exporting to continental Europe – I think when the wind is blowing a lot. But net for the year we import roughly 10% from EU. We do export to Ireland, but that’s not what they are talking about.
Good point – but I was talking about what the situation will be in 2030/35 when so many more people will be plugging in their BEVs and running heat pumps. At that point I’d expect us to be importing energy from French nuke stations just to keep the lights on and warm.
When the wind is blowing for the UK it’s likely blowing throughout northern Europe. When the UK has a glut of wind power – so will they (mostly).
Of course, ‘we’ may miss our BEV and heat pump targets – in which case why can’t we also miss ‘our’ carbon-free grid target?
Indeed. If the 2030/2035 evil comes to pass I doubt the Europeans will have enough juice either. Either the targets will slip or we will have power cuts/power rationing which will either be enforced with quotas or huge price increases or both.
FFS. Want to understand where all the woke identity politics started? There’s a clue.
Irelands inept government strikes again!
Legally required posters at every garage displaying distances per 100km for petrol/diesel and ev performance!
There are so many variables to this it makes it absolute nonsense
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/filling-stations-to-be-required-to-display-ev-price-comparison-poster-1603312.html
erm. Usually 100km per 100km. Unless you’re going so fast that Einstein would be interested.
Yes, I do get your point – very silly posters. Mind you, they can hardly deny they ever told these lies if they publish them that widely.
The UK price of an entry level petrol Vauxhall Corsa is £22,255; the electric one is £32,445. So, the electric one is £10,190 (€11,924) more. Difference in price between petrol and electric per 100km is €10.04 – €3.18 = €6.86 per 100km. To save the €11,924 difference in purchase cost at €6.86 per 100km you will have to travel 173,823km or over 100,000 miles.
Happy motoring.
Sorry my mistake, price per 100km !
That’s if your ev can actually go that far according to all the manufacturers lies on range!
“King’s Cross station faces backlash after ‘Islamic’ message appears”
The “message of repentance” coming from a “hadith” is a total fraud. Repentance for sin is a Christian concept, and has no place in Islam or Judaism or any other religion, as far as I am aware.
Hadiths have no validity at all in Islam, being just imams down through the centuries making up stuff and sticking them into a list. They like copying things from other religions, and in the King’s Cross one they are just trying to imitate Christianity.
I don’t know whether it has validity in Islam, but it certainly does in Judaism.
See for example 2 Chronicles 7:14.
“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Also here:
https://www.brandeis.edu/jewish-experience/holidays-religious-traditions/2021/september/atonement-yom-kippur-mirsky.html
No, actual repentance for sin is replaced in Judaism by “atonement”, which is not repentance, but only a ritual to protect yourself from being blamed for your sins in the next year. The Yom Kippur “Day of Atonement” means performing a ritual in which you transfer all your sins for the past year into a helpless chicken, swing it over your head, slit its throat, watch it choking to death slowly in agony, then give it to “The Poor” to eat your sins. You also take the Kol Nidre Vow, which allows you to lie and cheat and break any oaths sworn during the next year.
Then you go on sinning as much as you want.
“Labour will bring back ‘boiler tax’, pledges Ed Miliband” – The Shadow Energy Secretary backs plans, previously abandoned by the Tories, to impose fines on homeowners for failing to install useless, unworkable heat pumps”
WRONG. The plans were not “abandoned” by the Tories. They were delayed by one year, until after the election.
In other words, Tory and Labour policy on the boiler tax is now identical – they would both impose it after the election. But they are both pretending there is a difference between them on this issue.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/boiler-tax-shelved-until-after-election-following-tory-backlash/ar-BB1jUqTZ
Wow. Well done for exposing that vital piece of information.
“Tugendhat lined up as ‘unity candidate’ as Tory plotters discuss Sunak replacement”
I think he’s a good choice, as he has often bravely spoken out about things that matter, defying the Globalists.
No, it turns out that he’s not legally eligible for the post of Monarch’s Prime Minster, as yet another of the extraordinary number of Catholics and Closet Catholics in the government, far outnumbering Protestants. Only Mordaunt and Gove are eligible, it seems.
Boris Johnson was a fellow left-footer.
Well, Boris did convert to the Protestant Church of England at university, when he found out that as a Catholic he would not be able to legally hold the post of Prime Minister. Teresa May was a Closet Catholic, like her father, and therefore secretly holding the post illegally, as pointed out by none other than Michael Gove when she was PM.
Jewish Disraeli also converted to Anglicanism in order to become Prime Minister, and Tony Blair had to wait until leaving office before announcing his conversion to Catholicism. Truss and Sunak both were given the post illegally.
What has he spoken out about?
I don’t remember a peep out of him during “covid”.
“Tories narrowly back Sunak to lead party into next election”
Great, Sunak’s staying, time to leave
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(All tories with a precarious seat, like Anderson!)