- “The truth about that Southport-Keir Starmer rumour that went viral” – Downing Street says that viral social media rumours claiming that Keir Starmer represented the father of Southport suspect Axel Rudakubana in an asylum case are untrue, according to the Mail.
- “No.10 refuses to say if Rachel Reeves broke ministerial code in CV deception row” – Downing Street is refusing to say whether Rachel Reeves broke the ministerial code amid accusations that she lied about her CV, reports the Sun.
- “What Rachel Reeves said on her CV vs her actual experience” – In the Telegraph, Dominic Penna lays out the claims Ms. Reeves has made about her CV and employment experience compared to her actual work record.
- “Labour’s assisted dying bill split deepens as Bridget Phillipson says she will vote against” – Keir Starmer says he will take a side on assisted dying and cast a vote when plans to legalise it come before MPs next week, reports the Telegraph.
- “Assisted dying centres ‘will need abortion clinic-style buffer zones’” – The BMA has warned that hospitals offering assisted dying would need abortion clinic-style buffer zones to prevent protests, says the Telegraph.
- “Assisted dying bill: the big debate” – With a vote on the assisted dying bill coming up on November 29th, Together is hosting a live YouTube event on November 20th at 8pm to hear from contributors both for and against.
- “Education minister blasted for refusing to comment on investigation into boy for ‘calling someone names’” – Bridget Phillipson has been blasted for refusing to comment on a police investigation involving a nine year-old primary school pupil over a non-crime hate incident, reports GB News.
- “Free speech includes the right to offend” – In a nation founded on liberty, the police should defend free speech, not enable its suppression, says the Mail in a leading article.
- “Teenage girl banned over transgender remark appeals with help of group assisting Allison Pearson” – According to the Telegraph, the teenage girl who was banned from football after asking a bearded trans opponent, “Are you a man?” is set to appeal her punishment with the help of the Free Speech Union, which is also assisting Allison Pearson.
- “How many farmers will be hit by Labour’s inheritance tax raid?” – Two in five farmers are over the age of 60, so it’s not impossible that Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax would need to be paid soon, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “Britain’s farmers could revolt” – Labour thought they were going after Sir James Dyson and have found themselves facing people like Gareth Wyn Jones, writes Jamie Blackett in the Spectator.
- “Reeves’ wealth raid backfires as stamp duty revenue drops £140 million” – Labour’s pre-Budget uncertainty has delivered a heavy blow to the luxury property market, with stamp duty revenues plummeting by £140 million, reports the Express.
- “Tories bullish about regaining power after Starmer’s chaotic start” – According to a survey by Conservative Home, nearly one in four party members believe the next election will result in a majority for their party, says the Mail.
- “Labour is facing a civil war over Net Zero” – With looming job losses from Ed Miliband’s ideological crusade, a civil war in the Labour Party is about to break out over Net Zero, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “West Midlands town in uproar over ‘noisy’ £2.5 million heat pump” – A West Midlands town has been torn apart by a “humming noise” from a £2.5 million heat pump installed by a local college without planning permission, reports the Express.
- “Is deadly weather being ‘supercharged’?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark takes aim at the Guardian’s climate hysteria, dismantling its claim that “global heating” is supercharging deadly weather.
- “Hot air, flannel and gaseous eruptions of vapour – energy policy that might actually work – part 2” – In the New Reformer, Dr. Alex Starling and John Sullivan propose a no-nonsense energy policy that calls for the repeal of the Climate Change Act, a resilient fuel mix and a shift away from costly carbon sequestration efforts.
- “Democrats need a climate change” – The Democrats need to return to at least a plausible view of reality, argues Thomas Buckley on his Point Substack.
- “Iran ‘pushing’ Hezbollah to end war with Israel” – Iran is said to be pushing Hezbollah towards a ceasefire with Israel as U.S. mediators head to Lebanon to try to broker a deal, according to the Jewish Chronicle.
- “‘An UNRWA social worker took my son hostage… it’s really sick’” – In the Telegraph, Charlotte Lytton vividly captures the torment of an Israeli mother as an UNRWA-linked abductor leaves her trapped in the nightmare of not knowing if her son is alive or dead.
- “What will Putin do about Biden’s parting gift to Ukraine?” – In authorising the use of ATACMS in Russia, President Biden has shuffled across Vladimir Putin’s latest red line in Ukraine, writes Sergey Radchenko in the Spectator.
- “Critical undersea internet cable severed amid fears of Russian sabotage” – A critical underwater internet cable linking Finland to Germany has been severed, sparking fears of Russian sabotage, according to CNN.
- “Brits warned of nuclear war ‘before Christmas’” – A pro-Putin mouthpiece has warned Brits of “nuclear war by Christmas” after Ukraine was granted permission to fire Western long-range missiles into Russian territory, reports the Mail.
- “Sweden tells citizens to prepare for war” – Sweden is sending out five million pamphlets to residents urging them to prepare for the possibility of war, with instructions on how to stockpile food and even seek shelter during a nuclear attack, as fears grow of a conflict between Russia and NATO, says the Mail.
- “Trudeau’s new low” – In the New Conservative, Peter Harris takes aim at Trudeau’s morally muddled response to the escalating wave of church burnings in Canada.
- “Discussing Fighting Goliath and the future of academia with Ralph Schoellhammer” – On the WATN? Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton speaks with Austrian academic Ralph Schoellhammer on the Brussels Signal podcast to discuss his new book, Fighting Goliath, and other issues arising from the years of Covid tyranny.
- “A (draft) blueprint for the reorganisation of the FDA” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone introduces an (initial draft) blueprint for the reorganisation of the FDA.
- “RFK Jr. and American obesity” – The U.S. Government cannot save Americans from obesity until it is honest about its causes, namely, greed and sloth, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Sex education programme blamed for rise in number of trans children” – Critics claim that a controversial sex education programme being taught in Scottish schools has fuelled an explosion in the number of transgender children over the past decade, reports the Times.
- “J.K. Rowling blasts John Oliver for rant about trans athletes” – J.K. Rowling has slammed John Oliver for “spouting bulls***” during a segment on his show in which he said women do not face safety threats from competing against trans athletes, according to the Mail.
- “‘Hey, Orange Man Bad! Let me in!’” – On X, an AI-enhanced video shows a Donald Trump robot, replete with crotch rockets, dissuading a group of Mexicans trying to cross the border into America.
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This is the army veteran that was sent down for two years for posting words online. Only nonces get mitigating circumstances which would see them avoid jail, it seems. Judges sympathize with perverts and hate patriots, go figure;
”A former soldier who made Facebook posts referring to “civil war” in the aftermath of the Southport attacks has been jailed for two years.
Daffron Williams, 40, who served on tours of Afghanistan and Iraq, previously pleaded guilty to a charge of publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred relating to public posts made between July 19 and August 11.
Cardiff Crown Court heard the posts, made before and after three girls were fatally stabbed at a dance class on July 29, included Williams describing Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, as a “f***ing hero”.
Judge Lloyd-Clarke added: “I accept you have strong personal mitigation but given your encouragement to others to act – your references to civil war and to bullets – I am satisfied this offending is so serious that only custody is sufficient.”
Prosecuting, Alex Orndal said Williams had pleaded guilty to the charge against him when he appeared before Cardiff Magistrates’ Court in August and had been in custody since then.
In one Facebook comment, Williams said: “I am racist as f***, only to those who sap the life out of society and disrespect culture. Our future as British is so uncertain it is unreal.”
On July 24, he wrote: “Come on guys, it is time to stand up. Everything our ancestors, grandparents and parents fought for is ruined. Let’s do something.”
https://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/national/24731771.former-soldier-jailed-social-media-posts-inciting-racial-hatred/
And this is that horrendous woman, Maitlis, talking to a man who defends paedophiles, Sopel, about free speech, off the back of the Allison Pearson incident;
“Many are seeking to create a persecution complex.”
https://x.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1858563321034662376
Another numpty Leftard here. 7 years for ”inciting racial hatred”. So shall we just go right ahead and decriminalize paedophilia then? It’s certainly getting that way, isn’t it? What happened to proportionality??
‘We can’t go around ignoring crimes just because they’re politically sensitive.’
The Crime Commissioner for Essex, Roger Hirst, defends the police investigation into journalist Allison Pearson.”
https://x.com/LBC/status/1858131078013501730
If you get sent to jail they have taken away all you have. If you do that to people you can create monsters you cannot control. And we the people see what you are doing. And we will remember.
Remember the Southport girls for the vile state has forgotten them.
He should not have leaded guilty. It is free speech. The state and the legal profession are our polrical enemies now. They are abusing our laws to crush our freedom. This will not end well. We are living in a communist state. We will remember who they are.
He was probably advised and wise to plead quilty… They dont like it when you waste their time, and the sentences are much longer after a trial that he would most likely have lost..
I pleaded not gulity once, on principle..
I fought the law… And the law won..
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What will Putin do about Biden’s parting gift to Ukraine?
Nobody in government in the West any longer cares what Putin might or might not do. The performance (lack of it) of the Russian Army has turned him into a ‘paper tiger’.
They’ve heard it all before. Repetition dulls the impact of threats eventually into white noise. Biden doesn’t care, Macron no longer cares, Scholz has shot his bolt and Starmer believes he has a mandate to get stuck in.
If Putin goes nuclear, the world will fall on his head. Russia will lose not just Eastern Ukraine, Georgia, but all the territories which once were part of China; the Russian ‘Union State’ will disintegrate; neutered.
He is in a quagmire of his own making. He thought the West was degenerate, now he confronts a U.S. President of immense personal courage who, unlike Putin, knows what it is like to be shot at, and how to respond.
Putin has walked into America’s preferred scenario: ‘Russia weakened so that it can no longer invade its neighbours’; for the U.S. a major foreign policy success allowing it to pivot towards Asia.
Interest rates above 20%, rampant inflation, shortages of essential items like butter; that, together with a stuttering war, casualties, every prospect that the situation will deteriorate in 2025, is the classic recipe for internal unrest, defenestration, even revolution….
Whatever he does now, he will have to negotiate, sooner or later…..probably sooner would be good, certainly for him.
No-one is interested in negotiation, just the continued funnelling of public funds into heavily-veiled bank accounts and untraceable onward transactions.
Human life and geopolitical stability be damned, the usual suspects’ avarice must be fed.
Everyone is interested in negotiation so that they can restart the energy deals Gerhardt Schroder, ex German Chancellor and so many other political bag men are so fond of and so that the Putin stipends to political parties across Europe can be resumed.
Putin is interested in negotiation. His posturing is necessary to buttress his support amongst those in Russia profiting from the war, leeching corrupt millions from defence deals; a big part of the reason why the Russian Army’s performance has been so poor.
Come now, profiteers abound wherever profit is to be expected. Such as BlackRock, who bought up most of Ukraine’s arable land. Now why are they so interested in farm land? Has that something to do with the West attacking farmers and their products? Is the intention to create a shortage in the world’s food production? That would make BlackRock’s investment really profitable – coincidence?
Unlike the West?
I served, I saw the waste and the insane contracts first hand. What I saw and heard of elsewhere cemented my decision to leave – it was all a giant lie.
If you have evidence of corruption within British defence procurement, you should hand it to the Police. The difference is that if you do that in Russia you will be arrested and then murdered.
What utter nonsense!
Exactly, tbis conflict like all others is about shifting public funds in to private hands…
1 million or so dead.. Phaa.. Who cares..
The performance (lack of it) of the Russian Army has turned him into a ‘paper tiger’.
Tell that to the 2,320 Ukrainian soldiers killed just yesterday (according to the Russian MoD).
If Putin goes nuclear …
Putin, as always, shows remarkable restraint. He knows that Biden only wants to spoil Trump’s inauguration. However, it would be nice if USA war hawks – including those supposedly chosen to occupy key positions in Trump’s team – demonstrated equal restraint.
… the Russian ‘Union State’ will disintegrate; neutered.
Which is exactly what USA has been trying to achieve since 2008 (not to mention before). USA is always keen to assert its global hegemony.
He thought the West was degenerate …
How could anyone possibly believe the West is degenerate? Ask any DS reader …
And Ukraine was degenerate by voting an actor for President, an actor who famously pretended he could play a piano with his penis. To be fair, he promised them peace but then somebody changed his script.
… for the U.S. a major foreign policy success allowing it to pivot towards Asia.
Exactly. US must maintain its global hegemony: first destroy Russia and then go after China. Damn these upstarts! How dare they challenge USA’s global dominance?
And how beneficial is USA dominance for UK? Our greatest ally since WWII but who charged us for every penny assistance during that conflict, while awarding even more financial and military assistance to USSR at zero cost.
I also believe our empire days were due to expire but FDR was determined to ensure that was exactly what happened – precisely to allow USA to take over that dominant role.
Noddy’s guide to negotiations:
‘Trump may be just as helpful as the Biden administration, given the latter’s caution, and the need for Trump to be seen as a credible dealmaker, rather than selling Ukraine down the river.
Some in Trump’s new team, notably incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, have spoken……of using the prospect of more robust support for Ukraine as leverage in pushing Putin to negotiate.’
Why must we automatically assume the Russians cut the undersea cables?
Quite so. In fact there is discussion as to whether a dragging anchor or deep trawl equipment may have done the damage. I believe investigation equipment is en route to establish the facts.
Well, that theory was propounded by CNN, which is an absolute parody of a broadcaster, similar to the BBC.
Labour is facing a civil war over Net Zero
In fact the world faces a civil (world) war over Nut Zero.
‘These (BRICS) nations—many of them still early in their development as modern societies—are in no mood to compromise on their national energy security and the use of fossil fuels.
At the heart of the declaration lies a fundamental truth that the Western climate industrial complex often refuses to recognize: Access to affordable and reliable energy and economic development cannot be sacrificed at the altar of “decarbonization” if people are to thrive.
The Kazan declaration’s emphasis on “technological neutrality” is particularly telling. By explicitly endorsing the use of “all available fuels, energy sources and technologies,” including fossil fuels with abatement technologies, BRICS nations have effectively rejected the notion of a rapid phase-out of conventional energy sources.’
‘Directly challenging the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, the Kazan statement labels such levies as “unilateral, punitive and discriminatory protectionist measures.” This is a rejection of the EU’s attempt to export its climate policies through trade.
Most of the components for solar energy systems come from China, which produces 80% of the globe’s solar panels. Because coal still dominates the Chinese energy mix, Western nations buying Chinese solar panels are effectively outsourcing their carbon dioxide emissions while claiming progress toward net-zero goals. It is all illogical.
The BRICS leaders emphasize that their immediate goals — poverty eradication, infrastructure development, and economic expansion — require a secure and stable energy supply.
The Kazan declaration isn’t just a political statement; it signals a new era in global climate-energy politics. Emerging economies will no longer be distracted from their pursuit of prosperity and are departing from the currently dominant U.N. climate frameworks.’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/18/brics-kazan-declaration-trumps-cop29-climate-blather/
The West either wakes up and returns to de-regulated free trade as the engine of global economic and social development or, alternatvely, faces an intensifying geo-political conflict whose first bloody manifestation is, arguably, (BRICS member) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Tory members are deluded if they think they can get back in. No one will believe a bunch of Remainers who say the 14 years was a big mistake and now they know better.
We are not fools.
I hope you are right. But conservative may be conservative in their voting.
And with this electoral system the non-Labour vote may again be divided, giving Starmer a second term, god forbid..
I am off this morning to support the farmers in their protest. What an awful weather… hope the weather gods help us a bit.
How on earth did the Mail’s ‘Southport rumours’ get past the newspaper’s lawyers?
That there has been no challenge to the “rumours” speaks volumes. Somebody wanting to keep a lid on it and avoid any risky deep-dive into the cause of such scurrilous rumours?
I speculate, of course.
JC summing up in five minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-SEY39eP54&list=WL&index=7