- “Assisted dying Bill could be scrapped before vote” – The assisted dying Bill could be scrapped before it is voted on after a group of cross-party MPs tabled a “wrecking amendment” to stop it, reports the Independent.
- “Why you can’t trust the polls on assisted dying” – The ‘right to die’ lobby is wrong to claim it has the public’s support, says Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
- “‘Why I cancelled my trip to Dignitas’” – A society which values convenience over care detracts from the meaning and purpose of life for everyone around the vulnerable, writes Michelle-Anna Moffat in the Spectator.
- “Britain cannot become a country that nudges its most fragile towards the grave” – The risk of abuse remains clear in the assisted dying Bill, which could eventually lead to state-sanctioned killing, warns Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
- “Three former Tory prime ministers oppose assisted dying Bill” – Boris Johnson, Baroness May and Liz Truss are the latest former Conservative prime ministers to oppose the assisted dying Bill, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan comes out against assisted dying Bill” – Sadiq Khan has revealed he would vote against the assisted dying Bill, warning it could lead to the “coercive control” of vulnerable people, reports the Standard.
- “Global deaths from assisted dying surpass 30,000 in a year” – Doctors helped more than 30,000 people to kill themselves last year, setting a record for euthanasia and assisted dying in countries where it’s legal, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lammy vows ‘100%’ co-operation with ICC after Netanyahu arrest warrant” – David Lammy has pledged full cooperation with the International Criminal Court to ensure its work proceeds “without obstruction” following the arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s youth ‘back-to-work’ cash cut plan already happens: minister” – A senior minister has admitted that Labour’s threat to strip teens of their benefits if they don’t try to get a job or train is just a continuation of the current system, says the Mail.
- “Starmer dodges crackdown on sickness benefits” – Labour is set to unveil a flagship back-to-work plan that does not include a crackdown on sickness benefits, reports the Telegraph.
- “Junk food could be hit with more taxes as part of Government’s back-to-work drive” – New taxes on junk food are being lined up to bring down the multi-billion pound sickness benefits bill, says the Sun.
- “Businesses could face further tax raid despite Reeves’ pledge” – Rachel Reeves’ promise not to raise taxes again appears to be in doubt after a Cabinet colleague failed to repeat it, according to the Mail.
- “The proof older voters have turned on Starmer’s Labour” – Labour’s alienation of older voters is laid bare by analysis of the recent viral petition demanding another general election, reports the Mail.
- “Record non-crime hate incidents even if ‘victim’ does not think it is one, police officers told” – Police officers were instructed by bosses to record non-crime hate incidents, even in cases where the supposed victim did not believe a hate incident had taken place, says the Telegraph.
- “‘I‘m bruised but vindicated – and going to war with the police’” – The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson blasts the U.K.’s Orwellian policing of free speech and vows to fight back against this creeping censorship.
- “Abolish recording of non-crime hate incidents, former Supreme Court judge urges” – Lord Sumption thinks non-crime hate incidents should be scrapped because they have become a vehicle for settling grudges, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police forces withdraw from X after Elon Musk takeover” – Several British police forces have largely withdrawn from Musk’s X social media platform, reports Reuters.
- “Don’t expect an end to Europe’s migrant crisis any time soon” – Britain remains a magnet for migrants, and Calais remains the principal assembly point for migrants desperate to reach England, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Giorgia Meloni claims ‘higher incidence’ of immigrants in rape cases” – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni claims that illegal immigrants are responsible for a disproportionate number of rapes in Italy and that the police presence in cities must be upped to make public spaces safer, according to the Mail.
- “Girl admits lying that teacher was Islamophobic before he was beheaded” – The Muslim schoolgirl who accused her teacher of Islamophobia and began rumours that led to a jihadist decapitating him in the street in France has admitted lying and apologised to the victim’s family, reports the Mail.
- “Vauxhall to close Luton factory with 1,100 jobs at risk amid EV row” – Vauxhall’s parent company Stellantis has announced plans to close its van plant in Luton, days after it warned the Government that it could slash production in Britain over Labour’s electric vehicle sales targets, according to the Mail.
- “The fantasy of Ed Miliband’s promise of lower electricity bills” – Mr. Miliband has made himself a hostage to fortune by promising lower electricity prices, says Jermey Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Germany joins backlash against EVs as Scholz criticises emission fines” – Germany has joined a growing backlash against fining car makers who miss Net Zero targets – suggesting the firms should be allowed to keep the money to invest in cutting emissions, reports the Mail.
- “Porsche to stick with petrol engines for ‘much longer’ amid electric car climbdown” – Porsche will stick with petrol engines for “much longer” than previously planned as it pulls back from electric cars, according to motor1.com.
- “‘Zealous’ vegan couple starved three year-old son to death and buried him in garden, court hears” – A court has heard how a “zealous” vegan couple failed to give their three year-old adequate food or summon medical help, then buried him in their back garden, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown measures were necessary despite harm done to pandemic generation, minister insists” – Employment minister Alison McGovern has defended lockdown measures as “necessary” despite concerns they contributed to rising depression among young people, says the Telegraph.
- “Censorship: alive and well” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan reveal how their evidence-based critique of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine regulatory data collided with Facebook’s ideological brick wall.
- “NORTHGroup Denmark calls for investigation and moratorium on modified mRNA products” – On Substack, Jessica Rose spotlights NORTHGroup Denmark’s bold demand for an investigation into – and moratorium on – modified mRNA tech.
- “HHS and MAHA Appointments” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone explains why the MAGA/MAHA agenda faces an uphill battle.
- “The bureaucratic imperative” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley explores the maddening feedback loop of bureaucracies, where more people mean more problems.
- “J.K. Rowling accuses BBC of ‘spitting in women’s faces’ over Barbra Banda football award” – J.K. Rowling has accused the BBC of “spitting in women’s faces” for naming a Zambian player, withdrawn from a 2022 tournament over sex eligibility rules, as its Women’s Footballer of the Year, reports the Telegraph.
- “The days of woke bullies and their hate campaigns are coming to an end” – HBO’s backing of J.K. Rowling shows that if companies stand firm instead of giving into bleating liberal trolls, the mob is rendered powerless, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Why are the police allowing trans officers to strip-search women?” – Vulnerable women should not be told that a biologically male officer is going to strip search them, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
- “Sacked Santa: Blackpool grandfather ousted for immigration views” – Two local Santas have been given the ‘sack’ for expressing Right-wing political views, reports the Mail.
- “Wolf Hall is now a joyless exercise in virtue-tainment” – Colourblind casting can be a legitimate artistic choice, but not in a realist docu-drama, say Maren Thom and Alex Dale in Spiked.
- “Jaguar’s idiotic response to Nigel Farage has made its PR disaster even worse” – The Telegraph’s Michael Deacon mocks Jaguar’s woke PR disaster as a tone-deaf attempt to woo youth while alienating loyal, older buyers.
- “Walmart’s DEI rollback signals a profound shift in the wake of Trump’s election victory” – Walmart will be cutting back its diversity, equity and inclusion programmes and other forms of what conservatives deride as corporate wokeness, reports Victor Morton in the Washington Times.
- “The anti-white, anti-West ideology poisoning young minds is about to face a reckoning” – Abolishing the U.S. Department of Education and rolling out school choice will hand power from woke educational bureaucrats to parents, says Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
- “Woke is waning: was it ever more than a fad?” – Most people haven’t forcibly rejected pronouns or deplatforming; they were never particularly invested in them in the first place, says James Marriott in the Times.
- “Royal Society scientist quits in protest over ‘Bond villain’ Elon Musk’s fellowship” – A professor at the Royal Society has quit in protest over Elon Musk’s fellowship at the institution, accusing the billionaire of “modelling himself on a Bond villain”, according to the Oxford Mail.
- “Stars round on Ed Sheeran over Band Aid row, telling him to ‘shut up’” – Celebrities have turned on Ed Sheeran in the escalating row over the new Band Aid single – with Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley telling him to “shut up”, says the Mail.
- “And they wonder why Hollywood is on life support” – Jack David comments on a clip from the press junket for Wicked which, even by woke Hollywood standards, is OTT.
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https://united24media.com/latest-news/germany-warns-of-russian-military-build-up-aimed-at-nato-by-2029-4008
There are six clear anti West narratives relating to the war in Ukraine pushed by Russian state owned media which you will find peddled at regular intervals on here:
And Putin is deadly serious about this nonsense. Lacking any real democracy, Russia can work towards long term foreign policy objectives untrammelled by elections. President Trump will achieve a ceasefire in due course but Russia is already looking towards the situation in Europe after his Presidency.
By 2029, five years from now, after President Trump has withdrawn U.S. forces from Europe, the Russian armed forces will have restored their capabilities to a level that could enable them to carry out any aggression against NATO territory.
There may very well be a number of pro Putin governments in Central and Eastern Europe by that stage. Societies in countries such as Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Moldova are divided, and opinion polls suggest there are many “swing voters” who are receptive to the messages of both Russia and the West. The anti democratic, anti business EU is providing pro Putin parties with a fertile breeding ground.
But what could Russia gain from such an aggression? Precisely what it seeks to gain in Ukraine: scale at a time of severe Russian demographic decline; a new European (historically Eastern Roman, Caesarist) superpower.
‘The Fascist State expresses the will to exercise power and to command…..Imperial power, as understood by the Fascist doctrine, is not only territorial, or military, or commercial; it is also spiritual and ethical. An imperial nation, that is to say a nation which directly or indirectly is a leader of others, …….sees in the imperialistic spirit — i.e., in the tendency of nations to expand — a manifestation of their vitality.
In the opposite tendency, which would limit their interests to the home country, it sees a symptom of decadence.
Peoples who rise or re-arise are imperialistic; renunciation is characteristic of dying peoples. The Fascist doctrine is that best suited to the tendencies and feelings of a people which,……after lying fallow during…….foreign servitude, is now reasserting itself in the world.’
Mussolini 1932
This is what war will do to Europe:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1861471529130742019?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
No, I think you’re wrong. On practically all fronts.
Personally I am enormously concerned by all the banging of war drums, mosly by complete idiots, for no useful purpose for the people of the UK for the US, for for Europe.
You are the equivalent of a foie gras goose, fed with narrative corn, waddling up to the MSM feeder for more.
The Yanks, via NATO and the EU were attempting to surround Russia, cut it off from the Black Sea and slowly bankrupt it. Thereby allowing the corporate vultures like Blackrock to gobble up the assets of its satellite states. The toppled the democratically elected pro-Russia presidents of Georgia and Ukraine, had NATO exercises on the Russian border, including live missile strikes, set up bio weapon labs across Ukraine and agitated for the Nordstream to be disbanded.
Putin called their bluff. He has zero intention of expanding Ito greater Ukraine or EUROPE. He needs to secure Crimea.
Exellent post
The only mistake Putin has made was allowing himself to be goaded into an incursion towards Kiev before his military was fully prepared.
Let me tell you what i think is really going on in Ukraine… Its absolutely nothing like youll here in any media outlet that you would pay any attention to, but isnt that the norm….
Ukraine will become the second Jewish state, Zelensky has already stated this himself…
There is Jewish money (Blackrock et al) pouring in to Ukraine already, with its 26 trillion worth of natural resources.
The now over 600k deaths is nothing but ethnic cleansing of the gentiles.
This is what the Ukraine war is about.
History repeating itself, but no one learns…
Oh perlease.
You really hate Jews don’t you.
Nope, theres a big difference between “hating jews” and doing years of research.
So before you go calling names, why dont you do some research yourself and prove me wrong..
If only you could see how naive you are
https://m.jpost.com/international/article-703061
Perhaps you could recommend a neutral analysis of the Middle East from anybody.
Point?
I value truth over opinion. Everything I have read about the ME is written from one POV or the other, and inevitably starts the discussion at a chosen point in time which is selected to match their argument.
I should add that I am not disagreeing with you, other than I think your analysis of Z is too kind (I tend towards the criminal crack-head description). I am simply looking for an unbiased appraisal and in your years of research I am sure you have come across something you could recommend.
My analysis of Z is too kind ??
Where on earth did you get that from ?
How have you managed to conclude that after all my posts re Ukraine…
Zelensky is a corrupt , murderous maniac ,who has syphoned off billions of dollars ,willing to see the cleansing of his native Ukrainians ..
Just the sort of despotic leader the USA love , that’s why he was placed there by the CIA in 2014.
I hope I’ve made myself clear
Truth?? … Now theres a question, its out there, but not in a form thats clear to see, its taken me a long time, many many years to decipher this construct that we live in, in to some resemblance of true history..
Dont know if you’ve ever read Mein Kampf but would i recommend, a start to understanding..
Ignore the forewords on back…
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/zelenskyy-wants-ukraine-to-be-a-big-israel-heres-a-road-map/
I bet you didnt even know Zelensky was Jewish.
So many on here who haven’t got a clue, believed every construct they’ve been told….
Oh perlease….. Really???… Youve just spouted the forced indoctrination of “antisemitism”.. With out even thinking, just did exactly what they want you to do.
So Jack the Dog…. Go do some serious digging.. And come back and tell me who exactly was behind the Holodomor and who exactly was behind the 70 million deaths in Soviet Russia between 1917 and the 50s…
Dont have to go into why, lets get to the bottom of who..
https://kyivindependent.com/michael-brodsky-can-ukraine-become-a-big-israel/
Palestinians – Ukrainians… Same thing is happening, both being ethnicity cleansed..
Give it 5 years…….. You might have woken up by then, but probably not..
‘Kremlin documents revealing Russia’s ambitious plans to influence all three Baltic countries – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
The documents were prepared by the Directorate for Interregional Relations and Cultural Contacts, which is directly under the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin. An international team of journalists have previously reported on similar plans for Belarus and Moldova.
The Kremlin’s plans for the Baltics were drafted in autumn 2021.’
The plans for each Baltic country consist of two parts. The first one describes threats to Russian interests and the second one sets out steps to address them. Political, military, military-technical and security objectives, trade and economic objectives, and finally humanitarian or social objectives are in turn divided into three different time frames: short-term (until 2022), medium-term (2025) and long-term (2030).’
Influencing is not invading.
The us 6he uk the eu are always drawing up plans to influence foreign countries.
It’s a normal part of statecraft.
The problem is when it becomes corruption, then violence.
Correct.
‘Drafting plans like this is an institutional legacy that the Kremlin inherited from the Soviet era,’
The question is whether the Kremlin’s plan is realistic and how dangerous it is for Lithuania and the other Baltic countries.
Perhaps we shouldn’t imagine that [the Kremlin] is a powerful system with powerful people. Ukraine has shown that corruption has eroded not only the army but also intelligence services.
The operation in Ukraine was based on intelligence that was completely out of line with reality’
But defence of the realm is also the first duty of government.
The profoundly stupid ‘full tonto” invasion of Ukraine speaks volumes for the hopeless incompetence of Russia’s totalitarian dictatorship.
But incompetence is not weakness. And the stupidity will endure. After any ceasefire, Russia will go again. Could be five years, could be fifty years, but they will go again if not prevented.
Why? Survival of the Russian nation, which, demographically, is otherwise in terminal decline.
“Ukraine has shown that corruption has eroded not only the army but also intelligence services.”,
This is a surprising admission that the Ukraine armed forces are useless, despite all of the contributions in arms, ammunition and intelligence from NATO countries..
‘Several months have passed since the beginning of the large-scale purges in the Ministry of Defense. The degree of corruption revealed is jaw-dropping — estimates suggest losses of more than $120bn — and yet Russian experts say it’s foolish to expect serious change.
The beginning of August was marked by new arrests and sensational revelations about the scale of thievery in the Russian Army. The radical-patriotic television channel Tsargrad indignantly reported that “the actual scale of corruption under [former Defense Minister Sergey] Shoigu was not in the millions but in the trillions of rubles that officials dishonorably stole from the Russian Army.”
The first insider whistleblower on defense sector corruption was the deceased leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin. In his zeal to “punish the thieves” he staged an armed rebellion which ended with his death and nearly cost Putin his power. Nevertheless, almost a year later, it is possible to believe that his ghost still haunts the system and that his demise triggered the start of the Defense Ministry purges. According to pro-government media, in his last meeting with Putin, Prigozhin handed over a folder containing the names of corrupt senior officials.
Regardless, on April 24, two weeks after Shoigu’s departure as Defense Minister, his close friend and deputy Timur Ivanov, who oversaw the construction sector in the department, was arrested at his workplace.
Political scientist Stanislav Belkovskiy wrote in the opposition paper Novaya Gazeta Evropa that the new Minister of Defense Andrey Belousov can only be expected to steal a bit less than his predecessor, Sergey Shoigu.
“The goal [of the purges] was not to eradicate corruption, but to try to drive it into a controlled framework,” he wrote, suggesting that Putin was not seeking to end the problem but to limit it. The sheer scale of graft needs to be toned down in the interests of the war, but the problem is endemic and beyond a cure.’
I can’t argue with any of those six points, and I can’t be a**ed to read any further.
I really should not have watched that Hollywood clip straight after my breakfast…
That is only true in a world where politicians sometimes keep promises.
Bill Rammell said last night that we were told that Milwatts pledge was for lower bills at the end of the parliament, not now. I bet you all missed him announcing that bit. I bet you haven’t noticed that T2Ks team all cross their fingers when announcing policy (meaning they know they are lying).
Peter Lynch’s funeral today, who would undoubtedly be alive now had it not been for Starmer ensuring he and others were wrongfully sent to jail. But then how many deaths are the Conservatives responsible for if we look at the scamdemic years and the subsequent death jab roll out? It is an undeniable truth that the vast majority of Tory and Labour politicians hate the British people. Their actions being all the proof anybody needs;
”It’s the funeral of patriot Peter Lynch today. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. God bless mate, we won’t forget.”
https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1861667437185278318
How are smart people so completely dumb? A professor (admittedly for some neuro-psycho thing) quits the Royal Society saying Musk is a villain, and Oxford shut down a dept. he funded.. meanwhile Oxford takes trazillions from Bill Gates to develope and then hand over IP rights on weird medical advancements with which Gates then slides around the high offices of global Government lobbying for their instigation with creepy incentives for compliant politicians like Starmer, Sunak and Shapps. But hey, it’s Mr Free Speech champion, not scared of being asked any question Musk who’s the baddy? Christ.
These people are pathetic.
I always thought the point of social media for public bodies was to enable them to communicate with the public. In exiting X the police have said they don’t want to talk to a large part of their local community which likely includes most of their “client base”.
Police really don’t want anything to do with the likes of those who use X. Especially those who commit conventional crimes.
Police want to be in echo chambers with the left elites preening about wokery and gender issues.
Oh, is that a knock at my door I can hear?
I think they may also have been fed up with the ratio they got when they did try “preening about wokery and gender issues”.
Woke on the wane and just a fad? I read this article in the paper yesterday hoping my reaction was misplaced. Sadly not. What weasely revisionism! Tell the people who lost their jobs, their ability to apply for other jobs, lost their reputations, lost their friends and family, were pursued by the police, were denied their free speech…
Magical from video vibes and verse!
Only 2.5 minutes long jaguar send up
https://youtu.be/cykO4b62mWc?si=0pKJHqtJZa5UlcP5
Trump has nominated Bhattacharya (one of the Barrington declaration three) to replace Tony Fauci.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jay-bhattacharya-prominent-physician-economist-nominated-trump-nih-director
Excellent news.