- “Why Jeremy Clarkson could be Britain’s Donald Trump” – Jeremy Clarkson’s current defence of farmers may catapult him into mainstream politics, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Clarkson’s time has come” – It’s a reasonable bet that if Jeremy Clarkson stood for prime minister tomorrow, he’d win by a country mile, writes Philip Patrick in the Spectator.
- “Starmer’s brand of politics is dying – Clarkson could deliver the fatal blow” – The public are turning to heterodox outsiders all over the world. One man is ideally placed to do so here, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Clarkson: populist tribune” – Starmer needs to do everything he can to ensure Clarkson’s ideas do not involve the words: “Reform U.K.”, “Start Up Party” or worst of all “the Tories”, writes Tom McTague in UnHerd.
- “Allison Pearson’s police interview ‘Stasi-like’, says Labour MP” – Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South, says the police should be focusing on fighting crime rather than intimidating journalists and threatening press freedom, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘I don’t always agree with Allison Pearson but I will defend her right to free speech’” – “Unlike some cowardly liberals, I believe in solidarity among journalists when one of us is under attack”, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Millions wasted on Police and Crime Commissioners who refuse to stand up for us” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty exposes the wasteful £100 million spent on Police and Crime Commissioners, who, despite earning six-figure salaries, have overseen a dramatic failure in solving actual crimes.
- “Essex Police ‘forced me to quit as their hate crime ambassador’” – A hate crime ambassador at Essex Police claims she was “forced out” of her job after raising concerns about Black Lives Matter, according to the Telegraph.
- “BBC Verify used Labour activist to back Government’s claims on farm inheritance tax” – The BBC’s fact-checkers relied on a Labour activist, billed as an “independent tax expert”, to analyse the farm tax raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC Verify quietly changes farm tax ‘fact check’ amid political bias row” – Guido Fawkes exposes BBC Verify’s sly edits to its farm tax “fact check”, from mislabelling Labour activist Dan Neidle as an “independent tax expert” to cutting his dubious claim of “below 500 farms affected”.
- “Full timeline: Rachel Reeves’s CV claims” – As the curious case of the Labour MP’s CV rumbles on, the Spectator’s Steerpike has pulled together a list of exactly which of her claims have been challenged and when.
- “Rachel from accounts” – Of course, all politicians lie and exaggerate. But our Chancellor Rachel Reeves is comedy gold at it, writes Paul Sutton on his Substack.
- “The NHS neurologist freely spouting antisemitic hate online” – Blaming Mossad for 9/11 and sharing speeches by Holocaust deniers may sound like the actions of an anonymous conspiracy theorist, but are in fact attributable to an NHS consultant neurologist of 21 years standing, says George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Why is the National Book Award going to a publisher of antisemitic books?” – One might have thought that the announcement that a National Book Award will be given to a purveyor of antisemitic and homophobic tracts would have caused a bit more of a stir, writes Mark Oppenheimer in the Free Press.
- “Labour has opened more migrant hotels than it has closed, admits minister” – The border security minister says more hotels for asylum seekers have opened since Labour came into government, reports Sky News.
- “Baillie Gifford winner refuses prize money over fossil fuel ties” – The winner of an unprecedented literary double has refused to accept a £50,000 prize until the sponsor publishes an exit strategy for its fossil fuel investments, says Sky News.
- “Europe’s extensive use of renewable energy leads to an unexpected challenge: electricity becoming excessively cheap” – According to Smith Noah in Jason Deegan, Europe’s triumph in green energy has ushered in an unforeseen predicament: excessively cheap electricity!
- “‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels” – In the Guardian, Ben Stockton and Hajar Meddah expose McKinsey & Co as “capitalism incarnate”, revealing how the consulting giant profits from both greenwashing and fuelling the climate crisis.
- “The truth about ‘workshy’ Britain” – Whether it is down to illness or laziness, a rising number of Britons are living on the charity of the state, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Covid Inquiry set to cost £208 million – enough to pay more than 5,000 doctors’ salaries” – The Covid Inquiry is set to become the most expensive in British history with a projected total cost of £208 million, reports the Telegraph.
- “What RFK Jr. can do as Secretary of Health and Human Services” – On Substack, Alex Berenson presents 10 ideas to shake up America’s $4 trillion healthcare-industrial complex.
- “Army drones among swathe of defence projects to be axed in post-Budget cuts” – The British Army’s main drone system is to be axed in a swathe of post-Budget cuts to the military, reports the BBC.
- “Labour is scaling back our defence capabilities while our enemies do the opposite” – Scrapping amphibious assault ships, helicopters and drones leaves our Armed Forces all at sea, warns Ben Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “Europe prepares for WW3 as Germany reveals national defence plans” – European nations are gearing up for an all-out war as Ukraine launched U.S.-made missiles into Russia for the first time and Putin officially lowered the threshold for Moscow to consider a nuclear strike, reports the Mail.
- “Putin, ascendant in Ukraine, eyes contours of a Trump peace deal” – Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO, according to Reuters.
- “Tweeting the poop emoji at a cabinet minister, quoting politicians inexactly, calling a Green fat and stupid – all of this is criminal speech in the freest and most democratic Germany of all time” – Activists, police and Green politicians have been conducting a years-long stealth campaign to prosecute Germans for their political speech on the internet, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Social media ban for under-16s ‘on the table’ says U.K. Government” – Tech Secretary Peter Kyle says banning under-16s from social media is “on the table” to keep kids safe online, according to the BBC.
- “What on earth is Jaguar thinking?” – Morse famously died of a heart attack on his final case. If he could see what has been done to his beloved cars, it would break his heart all over again, says Alexander Larman in the Spectator.
- “Jaguar, the car of McQueen and Jagger, is plumbing new lows” – Jaguar, once a symbol of pride in British design and engineering, has been reduced to empty platitudes, laments Ed Cummings in the Telegraph.
- “Backlash as diversity activist champions controversial Jaguar rebrand” – According to the historic carmaker’s vocal diversity champion, a widely ridiculed rebrand of Jaguar is designed to “shift it to a whole new space”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jaguar’s bizarre rebrand will drive away customers” – By turning its back on heritage and history, Jaguar risks paving the way for its decline, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The Left’s war on men is backfiring disastrously” – Young males are moving to the Right. But as birth rates collapse, this is a bigger problem than politics, says Joel Kotkin in the Telegraph.
- “California’s next governor or head of Planned Parenthood — what Kamala Harris could do next” – Taking the top job in her home state of California might be on the Vice President’s agenda, but she could also be eyeing a presidential run in 2028, writes Susie Coen in the Telegraph.
- “Meet the Rees-Moggs” – The first trailer of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s reality TV show has been released.
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Well I think the great-grandson of Franz Ferdinand sounds very switched on in this interview. Refreshing that he’s not living in a bubble and can see what’s happening in his country and the rest of Europe and is unafraid to call it out;
”In a speech given on November 16 in his family’s estate, Castle Artstetten in Austria, von Hohenberg lamented the problems of “mass migration” and “the total erosion of the traditional values of the West” and warned about the continuous “warmongering” of our day.
Von Hohenberg said he decided to give the speech because he felt a duty as “a father, a husband, an officer of the Austrian Army Reserve, and a Christian” to do whatever he can “in the service of peace.”
He stressed that besides the physical wars, we are experiencing “a much deeper war, a spiritual war” for “the public and political minds.”
“And it is fought with all the might and financial power of international institutions,” the prince stated. “Globally centralized uniformity is the aim. And only those who conform are allowed to join in and dip into the taxpayer’s money pot.”
He said this war is fought “by redefining concepts and selecting wording, by changing norms through universal repetition of mantras in media, film, and television, through changing school and university curriculum, through changing culture, through selectively manipulating data, now with the help of AI, and other subtle techniques.”
Those who do not comply will have their bank account frozen and “work and travel permits taken away,” as was already seen in “so-called Western democracies.”
During his address, the prince continuously stressed the importance of tradition and the Christian faith.
“A traditionalist has such respect for the cost of the lessons learned by his ancestors that he guards against amnesia with all his faculties,” he stated.
According to von Hohenberg, the most essential lessons of the past are that “the cost of war” is very high and “coercive forms of government” have resulted in “misery and annihilation.”
“Take the current trend of global organizations calling their uncontrolled power ‘governance,’ for example.”
“These organizations are heavily influenced by global conglomerates and their financiers, by undemocratically imposing their interests and globalist utopias.”
He named the “recently ratified emergency laws” by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “an example of this kind of dictatorial legislation.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-great-grandson-of-archduke-franz-ferdinand-warns-about-total-erosion-of-traditional-values/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa
Another man who knows what’s happening and has been calling it for some time is French writer Renaud Camus, author of The Great Replacement;
”Renaud Camus is perhaps the most controversial living French writer. To read most media coverage about this gay socialist is to be told that he is a ‘far-right’ racist. This is because Camus is the progenitor of “Le Grand Remplacement,” the claim that the native populations of Western nations are being replaced. Rather than using labels or relying on hearsay, we believe it is better to present Camus’ influential ideas in his own words;
”In my book of the same name, Le Grand Remplacement, the idea of a conspiracy never arises. That would be a totally ridiculous way of describing the enormity of the industrial, financial, cybernetic, and even metaphysical mechanisms that have led to this disaster, which has at its core replaceable man, interchangeable at will. Since the Great Replacement is not a theory but a fact, it cannot be a conspiracy theory or a theory of the far Right.
That said, I do indeed have a theory about the causes of this phenomenon: global Davocratic replacism. This is a theory of the growing managerial administration of the human community by banks, hedge funds, pension funds, Big Tech, the Davos elites, cybernetics, etc. I have presented this theory in various books, with Le Grand Remplacement being merely the most factual of them. The other books include Du sens, De l’innocence, Le Petit Remplacement, La Dépossession, and La Destruction des Européens d’Europe.
However colossal it may be, the Great Replacement is only a small part of what I call global replacism, an interpretive framework of the world born of the observation that replacement—that is, the action of replacing—is the principal activity of modern and contemporary societies. Global replacism is a totalitarian and holistic ideology that, in my view, clearly originated in the English-speaking world and in the United States in particular. It drew its inspiration from both the First and Second Industrial Revolutions. Frederic Winslow Taylor is its ‘god’—or, if you prefer, its Karl Marx. Taylor is to replacism what Marx is to Marxism: “In the past, the man has been first; in the future, the system must be first.” Henry Ford was its prophet.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/interview-with-renaud-camus_tec32/
https://www.maryharrington.co.uk/p/are-we-replaceable-part-one
Mary Harrington from Unherd has written a two- part piece on Camus’ theory. She’s always a hard read but worth it for her insights are way ahead of the mainstream.
Is she still married to Dominic Cummings?
The first five minutes of reading were like going round in circles. She is not a writer. I gave up.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ascendant-ukraine-eyes-contours-trump-peace-deal-2024-11-20/
Noddy’s guide to negotiation
Putin’s opening position
‘Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions’
Ceasefire line is open for negotiation.
‘insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO’
Agrees NATO membership for Ukraine was never, realistically, on the table.
‘….the five current and former Russian officials said the Kremlin could broadly agree to freeze the conflict along the front lines.’
Even though it is less territory than Russia occupied immediately after the invasion, given the huge losses in men and materiel and ‘weapons free’ order for ATACMS on Russian territory, now is the right time to settle.
So: ‘There may be room for negotiation over the precise carve-up of the four eastern regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, according to three of the people who all requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.’ and ‘Russia may also be open to withdrawing from the relatively small patches of territory it holds in the Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions, in the north and south of Ukraine’
Furthermore:
‘Putin said…….that he feared a short-lived truce which would only allow the West to rearm Ukraine.’
Putin needs at least three years to re-equip and re-arm, retrain before going again.
‘President Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to fire ATACMS deep into Russia could complicate and delay any settlement’
‘Weapons free’ ATACMS having just taken out a major logistics hub means now is a good time to settle.
‘If no ceasefire is agreed, the two sources said, then Russia will fight on’
Errrr…….that seems logical……
‘Other Ukrainian concessions the Kremlin could push for include Kyiv agreeing to limit the size of its armed forces and committing not to restrict the use of the Russian language’
If Ukraine has an army, Russia will be very frightened, like it was by Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia’s huge armies on its borders (or not really) so Ukraine must disarm to make it easier for Russia in three years time. If everyone is okay to speak Russian, Putin’s fifth columnists won’t stick out.
And so on and so forth….
This wibbling will go on for some time, while ATACMS/Storm Shadow/SCALP continue to wreak yet more havoc, until, finally, someone not unadjacent to that office with the light on at 0200hrs in the Kremlin stops chewing the carpet and makes a decision.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/20/crazy-jaguar-rebrand-will-drive-away-customers/
R.I.P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpRFagIbcPE
“‘I don’t always agree with Allison Pearson but I will defend her right to free speech’”
Why always these defensive caveats? Always to agree with anyone else in the world would be a sign of mental illness. The sole question, then, is freedom of expression, and the honest commentator will drop all the “I don’t know much about X, though his views are reprehensible, but…” stuff.
“Labour is scaling back our defence capabilities while our enemies do the opposite”
More precisely, Labour is scaling back our defense capabilities whilst launching missiles against the homeland of a major military power.
Crikey!
When did this happen?
Last night, as Moscow now declares – which is what matters as far as our being at war is concerned. The minority cabinet follows NATO instructions from Washington warhawks 2 months before their unemployment, Parliament is sidelined, and those who elected them only get to pay the bills and die in battle or missile strikes. All to preserve democracy, it seems.
Jeremy Clarkson’s time has come
Yes.
It has been far too long since Britain had a Prime Minister with the insouciance to go grouse shooting in August.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/10/supermac-harold-macmillan-thorpe-review
“Europe’s extensive use of renewable energy leads to an unexpected challenge: electricity becoming excessively cheap”
Which f-ing Europe do you live in?
Which world for that matter?
What a dope
Two Jags has thrown his last punch.
I didn’t agree with his political views (though by today’s standards he would be considered “far right”) but the way he dealt with that egg thrower was commendable.
Before the handle “Rachel from accounts” gains too much momentum (sic) please note that I would not have employed her in any of the departments I have run. I demanded honesty, accuracy and straightforwardness from my staff and gave the same in return.
I do think it is long past time that if the Sceptic recognises the deeply immoral and medacious influences that the legacy media continue to purvey they need to confront the reality of that remaining.
The Telegraph’s conduct over the last years has been unconscionable and directly supportive of the globalist agenda and the murderous attack of the Covid outrage. It continues to emit the effusions of the worst of propaganda in many areas, much of it from previously respected pens.
The retailing of the Telegraph’s content, particularly behind a paywall, is giving comfort to an organisation that in my view should be sent to the hell reserved for the imps of Satan. If we all slide back into allowing such organisations to continue in their present form we betray our own citizens, the dead, the injured, and those who remain in peril from the ruthless attack on us.
Very eloquently put. I wholly agree.
“The truth about ‘workshy’ Britain”
I wonder how many “workshy” are Indigenous, and how many are Third World immigrants, as in Denmark:
Denmark: 2 Out of 3 Muslim Immigrants Are in Early Retirement – Border Hawk
“Immigrants, particularly those from Muslim countries, are vastly overrepresented among recipients of early retirement pensions in Denmark, and it is putting a major strain on the country’s pension system.”
“In fact, the new data shows that two out of three people (67 percent) over the age of 50 hailing from Muslim countries are taking early retirement, versus only 11 percent for people of Danish origin.”
“Immigrants from Iraq who are over 50 are most likely to take an early retirement, which stands at 65 percent, but those from Lebanon, Turkey, Somalia, Algerian, and Afghanistan also top the list, according to the report from Danish newspaper Berlingske.”
[*And of course it is easy for them to just lie about their real age, since so many throw away all their documents before entering the West…]
The only irony being that those who lied about being school kids when they were actually in their twenties will have to wait longer for their pensions.