- “Private Eye’s shameful attack on Allison Pearson” – In the Spectator, our very own Laurie Wastell takes aim at Private Eye’s snarky attack on journalist Allison Pearson over her police doorstep encounter.
- “Keir Starmer refuses to say taxes won’t rise again during PMQs clashes” – Sir Keir Starmer has refused to say that taxes will not rise again despite Rachel Reeves making the pledge to business, reports the Mail.
- “Dozens of business leaders slam Chancellor” – Guido Fawkes presents a selection of blistering reactions from business leaders to Rachel Reeves’s Budget so far.
- “How Labour has been hammered in council elections since July 4th” – Sir Keir Starmer’s candidates have won just 53 of the 150 seats up for grabs on local authorities since July 4th – having previously held 75, says the Mail.
- “Over 100 tractors head for Dover in fresh inheritance tax protest” – Over 100 tractors have rumbled through Dover as farmers launched a fresh protest against Sir Keir Starmer’s inheritance tax grab, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer can’t ignore the sickness benefits crisis” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark slams Sir Keir Starmer’s hollow promises on welfare reform.
- “The phone call that tells you all you need to know about the benefits system” – Labour’s package of half-measures is totally insufficient to tackle the sickness scandal, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is closer to bankruptcy than anyone feared” – Local councils across the country are close to insolvency, but the real problems lay in Westminster, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Who is working class now?” – On Substack, Paul Sutton cuts through Labour’s class hypocrisy, exposing the spiteful divide between public-sector progressives and the true working class.
- “Labour MP calls for blasphemy law” – The Honourable Member for Birmingham Hall Green is at it again, this time calling for the introduction of blasphemy laws, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Why is a Labour MP calling for a blasphemy law?” – In the Spectator, James Price warns that Tariq Ali’s call for blasphemy laws threatens free speech and fuels dangerous sectarianism.
- “‘The election petition has let us vent our loathing of the worst government in my lifetime’” – In a time when Starmer’s Britain feels bleak, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson finds solace in the joy of petitioning for change.
- “Non-crime hate incident recorded after neighbour played Bob Marley songs” – A neighbour who played Bob Marley songs at volume to supposedly “mock” their black neighbour has had the incident recorded by police as non-crime hate incident, reports LBC.
- “Badenoch admits Tory migration failures” – In the Spectator, James Heale discusses Kemi Badenoch’s latest pledge to fix migration.
- “Patience, grasshopper” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan examines how the state controls the future while keeping individuals unprepared for it.
- “More than 40,000 terminally ill pensioners lose winter fuel payment” – Campaigners warn that tens of thousands of terminally ill pensioners have lost their winter fuel payments ahead of what is likely to be their last Christmas, according to GB News.
- “U.K. car industry ‘in crisis due to lack of demand for electric cars’” – Ford U.K.’s boss has warned of a car industry crisis and urged tax breaks to boost electric car demand, reports the Mail.
- “German car supplier axes hundreds of U.K. jobs amid switch to EVs” – A German supplier of clutches is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs in Sheffield as the industry shifts towards electric cars, reports the Sheffield Star.
- “Labour poised to water down electric car rules amid crisis in industry” – Labour is set to soften EV rules as the industry faces a crisis over the rapid shift from petrol and diesel cars, says the Telegraph.
- “Scenic towns in uproar over Miliband’s 100-mile pylon scheme” – Local communities are in uproar over a multi-billion pound project to build 100 miles of pylon lines which will tear through the countryside, reports the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is making Britain poorer, says Trump’s energy secretary” – Trump’s pick for U.S. energy secretary has attacked Britain’s Net Zero drive for making the country poorer, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer attempting to rush through Chagos handover before Trump enters White House” – Keir Starmer is trying to rush through a treaty giving away the Chagos Islands before Trump becomes President, reveals the Telegraph.
- “‘I would seek Netanyahu arrest if he came to U.K.’” – David Lammy has vowed to seek an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
- “France backtracks on ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu” – France says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has immunity from the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court, according to Euronews.
- “Putin orders Satan II nukes to be ready as soon as possible” – Russia is continuing work to put its “unstoppable” Satan II intercontinental ballistic missile on combat duty, reports the Mail.
- “‘Nearly a dozen’ in Trump’s top team targeted with bomb threats at their homes” – Members of Trump’s proposed Cabinet have been targeted with a series of hoax bomb threats, according to LBC.
- “Kamala’s bizarre farewell message” – In the Spectator, Steerpike delivers a scathing takedown of Kamala Harris’s farewell message.
- “Kim Leadbeater suggests fear of being a burden is ‘legitimate reason’ for dying” – In an interview on The News Agents, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater argued that “being concerned about being a burden is a legitimate reason” for seeking assisted suicide, according to the Catholic Herald.
- “Families cannot challenge assisted dying rulings under Bill” – Lawyers warn that under a proposed new law, a ruling permitting a patient to have an assisted death cannot be challenged by relatives, reports the Telegraph.
- “The advert that radicalised me” – In the Spectator, Ian Leslie exposes the glossy facade of assisted dying ads.
- “Should a government help people die?” – U.K. lawmakers have proposed an assisted suicide bill that claims to offer a compassionate death. But is it just a way to save money? wonders Madeleine Kearns in the Free Press.
- “SNP-controlled health service in Scotland is worse than NHS in England” – Scotland’s SNP-controlled NHS is performing worse than the health service in England despite ministers pouring more money per-person into care, reports the Mail.
- “Introducing the vaccine files…” – On her Inside The Right Substack, Isabel Oakeshott promises to reveal the hidden truth behind the U.K.’s pandemic response.
- “Pfizer pregnancy trial showed the Covid shots increased AESIs (like major congenital abnormalities) in newborns by over four times” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch reports that Pfizer’s pregnancy trial reveals the Covid shots resulted in a jaw-dropping 4.2x increase in major birth defects, with no reduction in Covid infections.
- “Public appeal to Northern European heads of state: stop using mRNA vaccines” – On the Freedom Research Substack, Hannes Sarv reveals how the NORTH Group is demanding an immediate halt to mRNA vaccines, citing serious health risks and flawed approval processes.
- “Trump appoints lockdown sceptic to head National Institute of Health” – Donald Trump has appointed Jay Bhattacharya, a prominent lockdown sceptic, to lead the National Institute of Health, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police forces waste £15 million on diversity and inclusion jobs” – Almost £15 million of British taxpayers’ money has been spent on equality, diversity and inclusion roles in the U.K.’s police forces since the beginning of the 2021-22 financial year, reports Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
- “Wicked slapped with trigger warning for ‘green-skinned’ discrimination” – The British Board of Film Classification has slapped a trigger warning on the movie adaption of Wicked for discrimination against a “green-skinned woman”, says the Mail.
- “Female fire worker sues after male boss’s Mulberry handbag comment” – A female fire brigade worker has sued for harassment after her male boss made a remark about his wife having a Mulberry handbag just like hers, reports the Mail.
- “Meet Trump’s pick for Director of the National Institutes of Health” – On X, friend of the Daily Sceptic and Trump’s nomination to be the next NIH director Jay Bhattacharya explains why lockdowns were such an enormous and catastrophic mistake.
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I don’t agree with everything John O’Looney says and I’m still not fully onboard with his ”standing army” theory, although I keep an open mind because, as we’ve seen, governments are demonstrating they’re capable of anything. Certainly the forecast for the UK is not a good one under Labour. I just think this particular theory is a bit too ‘out there’ and we lack credible evidence. What do others think about John’s claims here;
”The uk and france have combined total of about 200,000 strong armies combined.
If starmer and macron do what i think they are about to do they will throw all 200,000k men into the ukraine meat grinder to meet the same fate as the 600k already lost and all of them will be slaughtered as the ukrainian forces have been and this is believe is the plan.
This is why putin amasses forces and supplies on that border now – to meet it
Prepare to lose your sons if they are in the military.
They will die
This will then leave the UK and france with no effective indigenous fighting force of any kind whatsoever of fighting men.
None.
None to resist what is about to unfold here and in europe.
This is at a time that tens of thousands of young men of fighting age are first imported and then deployed across europe, having signed the official secrets act, men simply waiting for the order to deploy.
But When ?
common sense tells me probably as the slaughter of our troops begins or nears completion and this will coincide with faked internet and power blackouts instigated by our own governments and labelled as Putins actions against us take place.
digital ID suggested to protect us and end to cash.
Civil unrest will follow, they will possibly try to announce another pandemic at the same time and the accompanying lockdowns and we will have no military at all to stop them plundering this country and its people.
These foreign young men – this “standing army”
an army standing and waiting, will be unleashed.
Soros has facilitated and funded this invasion but he is not in charge, he does as he is instructed – as they all do.
At this point i would urge all european people, especially it seems the british and french to prepare for this potential outcome – i see this as the globalist plan in the coming days.
They know people are waking up, they won’t relinquish power now, it will be a fight to the death for us all shortly.
This is as i felt it could only ever be because you cannot reason with murderers, the moment they begin killing us all with a fake pandemic a deadly injected cure – the time for reason and lawful action has ended.
They have shown their hand, they are killers and they are killing us.
The hope for me was that if myself and people like me warned you all that enough people would wake up, stand up and act, whilst a number are it it’s simply too few and too slowly at the moment.
But it is gathering momentum..
Forget nuclear war, it can never happen, it will never happen. It is a pointless worry, so don’t fear it.
They are not allowed and will never deploy nuclear missiles.
It will be good old fashion mass killing with conventional weapons, missiles and “final solutions”
https://x.com/OlooneyJohn/status/1861856102255607826
In fact, Britain can only just about deploy a reinforced Brigade, ten thousand men, no more.
France can deploy the ‘Legion Etrangere’, again, with support arms, roughly ten thousand.
That’s it.
The idea that NATO is war mongering simply cannot be taken seriously.
NATO members most likely to be affected in the first instance would be The Baltic States. They are each the size of Wales, with armies not much bigger than the Royal Welsh Regiment.
Instead President Trump has nominated Lt Gen (retd.) Keith Kellogg, the author of the ‘America First’ peace plan, as his special peace envoy to Ukraine and Russia.
A ceasefire and peace of sorts will be forthcoming in due course, as I discuss below.
The problem? Britain and France have no formations available to act as peacekeepers to man any ceasefire line buffer zone. That is why, right now, there is sheer panic in Britain’s Ministry of Defence.
Remember that brilliant wheeze, the peace dividend?
It has left us without any peacekeepers!
And how does an undertaker know all this?
Yes I need a bit more than John’s say so, to be honest. But our hux is more up on this particular theory and how O’Looney initially came to have this information in the first place. Perhaps he’ll be round later to elaborate.
I suppose that doesn’t seem to matter in Ukraine when they abduct men from the streets to go and fight, however.
I just think if these men are meant to represent some sort of “army” then going by the amount of footage I’ve seen of them smoking like chimneys with their lardy physiques, I’m not confident many would pass anything resembling basic training.
John O’Looney reported the immigrant army story about two years ago. His information came from senior officers of the Black Watch.
Knowing that the British Army would not fire on its own people a means of emptying the country of our soldiers was required hence a bit of “peacekeeping” in Ukraine would fit the bill. With our own army out of the way civil disruption could be engineered on home soil and the immigrant army mobilised.
Miri AF has posted her thoughts on this subject which largely match mine. I have also seen videos of immigrants arriving in Ireland and being shepherded on to coaches and then delivered to ex army bases, all heavily guarded.
Common sense alone tells me that the immigrants are being “delivered” to our shores. As one investigator pointed out they are all arriving with the same life-jackets, the dinghies all come from one supplier and those fleeing “persecution” are all aged between 18 – 40 and male and strangely enough none have any documents. Isn’t the norm when you are at risk of war to get your women and children to safety first?
In the days of protests in London concerning Lockdowns back in 2020 there were several reports of so-called police officers attacking protestors who were conspicuous via their suntans and use of language not conspicuously English. An early trial perhaps. I mentioned this to a senior police officer at the time. His response was a non- committal “oh.”
I most definitely do accept John O’Looney’s opinions on the immigrant army.
https://miriaf.co.uk/invasion-of-the-flat-snatchers-2/
Thanks, hux. Yes there’s very strange things going on in Ireland, plus how they’re all arriving in the Canaries then boarding planes once in mainland Spain to be dispersed across Europe. They must think we’re thick to swallow the ”fleeing persecution” line at this point in time. It’s clearly bogus.
Monks having to leave an 882 year old Abbey in Ireland here and rumours among the locals are that it’ll be used for migrants, but of course not confirmed yet because they tend to not tell locals ahead of time, they just dump loads of these foreigners on communities because they’re scared of the pushback;
https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=eb89a4df-82ca-4255-b3ba-e3bfbcabe3b0
Mogs, I have been banging on about the immigrant army for at least three years. John O’Looney has been right so far. I believe his prognosis is right now. Before even coming to DS over four years ago I told anybody who would listen that there would be blood on the streets. Each day that passes makes this more likely.
Maybe Kneel is up for a Billy Bonus if he achieves the Deagel forecasts for UK population figures in 2025.
But seriously, how much better would society be without all these migrants? It stops being an ”isolated incident” when these horror stories happen day in, day out across Europe;
”A young family just got back from a shopping trip in the coastal city of Rostock when, just hours later, the Algerian migrant father severely stabbed his partner and then leapt from a 10-story building grasping the woman’s 9-month-old baby, which also died after initially surviving severe injuries.
According to police, the couple began a heated argument, which led to the man stabbing his partner multiple times inside their high-rise building on Roald-Amundsen-Strasse.
Afterward, he grabbed his daughter and leaped out of a window on the 10th story.
The 34-year-old man died on impact or shortly thereafter, whereas his daughter survived the fall with life-threatening injuries. When police and rescue services arrived on scene, the baby was still screaming for her life. The little girl was rushed to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save her.”
https://rmx.news/article/germany-algerian-migrant-stabs-partner-and-then-leaps-10-stories-to-his-death-with-his-9-month-old-baby-in-his-arms/
It’s like certain countries have emptied their prisons and mental hospitals and sent all the inmates to Europe. All they do is wreak havoc, cause misery and have zero respect for local laws and citizens;
”An Algerian migrant has been arrested in Germany, accused of burning down his asylum accommodation center and injuring 16 people.
The fire erupted on Saturday evening in the loft space of the building in Schleiden-Vogelsang, North Rhine-Westphalia, resulting in flames several meters high.
The suspect, a 35-year-old Algerian national who was also a resident of the facility, is facing charges including seven counts of attempted murder, serious arson, and grievous bodily harm.
Local police confirmed the arrest of the man but did not provide any further details regarding a motive.
A homicide squad is leading the investigation into the fire, which authorities believe was deliberately set.”
https://rmx.news/article/algerian-arrested-for-attempted-mass-murder-after-burning-down-german-asylum-center-injuring-16/
This highlights just how callous the government’s treatment of pensioners is. I’ll bet no migrants are having to worry about ”heating or eating” this winter, in their paid for hotels , student accommodation and ‘asylum centres’. They get money for ciggies and everything! Then there’s the British homeless freezing to death while rough sleeping;
”A freedom of information request was put in to the Home Office asking to provide the accommodation and financial costs for both refugees and asylum seekers during the years 2022/2023
Accommodation and financial support costs for asylum seekers was
£5.8 BILLION
Accommodation and financial support costs for refugees was
£633 MILLION.”
https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1861835212440686683
I do appreciate these people who’ve no qualms about barging into migrant centres/hotels and filming so that we can see just how they get to live. Check out this lovely 4 star hotel. They’ve even got NHS personnel on the premises, FFS. Security always seem to be migrants too. Nice to know where your money’s going, isn’t it?
”The level of secrecy around the migrant hotels is increasingly obvious.
They not only get the better then any homeless citizen but the best possible treatment.”
https://x.com/AkkadSecretary/status/1861570079005016396
Why the cost difference ? None of them should be here ! We are under a concerted attack on all fronts , this is just one of them .
Absolutely. Import the third world, become the third world.
Worse, because they are separated from the social controls of their own cultures, and our culture is unwilling to impose its own social controls effectively.
Wednesday Morning Eversley Road
& Langley Common Road Arborfield,
Wokingham
He certainly is
It’s all deliberate
Geoff buys cars discusses the rapid collapse of the car industry and concludes it is all deliberate and sinister;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBaQGWpyb8&t=926s
I think the collapse of the motor industry is happening much faster than TPTB anticipated but once you unleash madness, confusion, uncertainty and crazy legal demands it sort of has an uncontrollable destructive momentum.
Putin orders Satan II nukes to be ready as soon as possible
Russia has attempted to test its latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-28 Sarmat, before but suffered a catastrophic failure.
No doubt endemic high level corruption within Russia had its part to play in that debacle.
‘Since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia has been plagued by widespread political corruption (Warren, 2023; Vasilev & Felton, 2024). This corruption has been characterized by the misuse of public funds, bribery, and extortion. It has also involved the suppression of political dissent and the erosion of democratic institutions. As corruption runs rampant within the Russian government, neighbouring countries are also recipients of corrupt efforts to destabilize their governments, erode their democracy and jeopardize the support these neighboring countries can give to the security of Euruope as a whole (Stănescu, 2023).’
Angie Holzer
Meanwhile
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-nominates-keith-kellogg-as-special-envoy-to-ukraine-and-russia-124112800264_1.html
US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general in the US military and former national security adviser, to serve as the special envoy to Ukraine and Russia.
Kellogg’s approach to the crisis has been outlined in a research paper he co-authored earlier this year with Fred Fleitz, former chief of staff to the National Security Council during Trump’s first presidency.
https://americafirstpolicy.com/assets/uploads/files/America_First,_Russia,___Ukraine_.pdf
‘Seek a cease-fire and negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict.
The United States would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement. Future American military aid, however, will require Ukraine to participate in peace talks with Russia.
To convince Putin to join peace talks……offer to put off NATO membership for Ukraine for an extended period in exchange for a comprehensive and verifiable peace deal with security guarantees…….
in exchange for abiding by a cease-fire, a demilitarized zone, and participating in peace talks, Russia could be offered some limited sanctions relief.
Ukraine would not be asked to relinquish the goal of regaining all its territory, but it would agree to use diplomacy, not force, with the understanding that this would require a future diplomatic breakthrough which probably will not occur before Putin leaves office.
Until that happens, the United States and its allies would pledge to only fully lift sanctions against Russia and normalize relations after it signs a peace agreement acceptable to Ukraine.
We also call for placing levies on Russian energy sales to pay for Ukrainian reconstruction.
By enabling Ukraine to negotiate from a position of strength while also communicating to Russia the consequences if it fails to abide by future peace talk conditions, the United States could implement a negotiated end-state with terms aligned with U.S. and Ukrainian interests.
Part of this negotiated end-state should include provisions in which we establish a long-term security architecture for Ukraine’s defense that focuses on bilateral security defense. Including this in a Russia-Ukraine peace deal offers a path toward long-term peace in the region and a means of preventing future hostilities between the two nations.’
Peace in our time…..but not necessarily in the future……
‘Russia’s recurrent attacks against Ukraine can be traced to issues of identity and security. Finkel draws on what he described as a two-hundred-year-long quest by Russia to dominate Ukraine, as detailed in his upcoming book Intent to Destroy argues that identity and security have always been the driving factors of Russia’s aggression.
To illustrate this continuity of this trend, he draws upon a case study from the early 20th century, namely the Russian occupation of Galicia and Bukovyna. As rising Ukrainian activism threatened the Russian empire, the regime responded with propaganda peddling the notion that Ukraine had been created to destroy Russia from within – a stark parallel to propaganda today. Russia also waged a war to “liberate” the Ukrainians, believing that annexing Galicia would allow Russia to reestablish its rightful boundaries.
The conflict resulted in violence and plunder against civilians, targeting of Ukrainian community leaders, banning Ukrainian publications, and switching the education system – actions closely mimicking those of Russia today.
This obsession begs the question – when will Russia’s quest to dominate Ukraine end?’
https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/intent-to-destroy-russia-s-two-hundred-year-quest-to-dominate-ukraine-eugene-finkel
In answer to your last question, Russia’s quest to dominate Ukraine will end with the complete capitulation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Western politicians and people like you have been screaming “War, war, war!” for two and a half years now, with no regard whatsoever for the loss of Ukrainian life or country. You have had several opportunities to end this conflict but are so pre-occupied with your own superiority that you cannot accept that Russia is fighting an existential threat: the threat of the country being surrounded by nuclear missiles placed there by a bullying USA, determined to play the world’s policeman (with its very own set of self-aggrandizing laws), and the US’s kowtowing European politicians.
Vernon Coleman wrote a report two days ago on how Starmer has declared war on Russia without bothering to inform the population: https://expose-news.com/2024/11/26/biden-and-starmer-have-started-world-war-iii/.
While the British mainstream media obsessed about the death of an unpleasant, hypocritical politician who did massive harm to the country and the funeral of a pop singer who was hardly a household name, “Free Suits” Starmer (famed previously for grabbing freebies, endorsing a policy designed to kill huge numbers of old people and doing great damage to farming in Britain) quietly, and almost secretly (as though the electorate had no right to know what was happening), gave permission for Ukraine to use British Storm Shadow Missiles to attack Russia. And without a wait or a thank you, Ukraine started using them. This followed Biden’s decision to start World War III by allowing Ukraine to fire American ATACMS missiles into Russia.
With all respect to the Ukrainian armed forces, I suspect it is unlikely that the Ukraine military will have been able to fire any of these sophisticated missiles without at least some help and support – and so British and American troops will have effectively fired the missiles. And so, America and Britain, without the traditional courtesy of declaring war, are now fighting Russia.
All this means, of course, that Biden and Starmer have quietly started World War III and taken their countries into what seems likely to be the world’s first nuclear war – without the authority, permission or knowledge of their electorates. When your country’s soldiers are firing their country’s powerful weapons at another country then, by definition, it’s a war.
“Since the 1990s, plans to reunite Ukraine and other post-Soviet states into a trans-continental superpower have been brewing in Russia. A revitalized theory of Eurasian empire informs Mr Putin’s every move”.
Indeed, ever since the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 a line of Russian thinkers has developed an ideology of Eurasianism.
It was suppressed during the Soviet period but burst forth during perestroika in the late 1980s. The ideology posits not just America but the whole Atlantic world as Russia’s “clash of civilizations” opponent, with Russian Orthodoxy harnessed as the glue in the geopolitical war to come.
Under Putin, the themes of imperial glory and western victimisation have been elevated to centre stage across the country.
Ukraine figured in this Eurasian ideology as an obstacle from the start. Eurasian ideologists in the 1920s were already talking of “the Ukraine problem”, presenting Ukraine as excessively “individualistic” and insufficiently Orthodox. Prominent ideologists of the 1990s identified Ukrainian sovereignty as, in the words of one, a “huge danger to all of Eurasia”.
Russia’s Eurasia project required, as an “absolute imperative”, total control of the whole north coast of the Black Sea. Ukraine had to become “a purely administrative sector of the Russian centralized state”.
This is the ideology which motives Putin, which led him to declare Ukraine as “a colony with a puppet regime” on the eve of the invasion.
This is the ideology which inspires and justifies his brutal war in his eyes.’
Jane Burbank: The Grand Theory Driving Putin to War
‘It now appears the Kremlin has fallen into a trap (and to say this is not – to repeat – an attempt to excuse Russia’s actions). The trap has similarities to the trap the US set for Saddam Hussein in 1990 when it said it would not interfere in his government’s dispute with Kuwait. Saddam invaded Kuwait, which gave the US the casus belli to destroy Iraq’s military.
The trap also has similarities to one the CIA laid for Moscow four decades ago, by arming the mujahideen to fight the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan.’
Both China and Germany are also party to the astonishingly successful U.S. strategy of weakening Russia so that it can no longer invade its neighbours.
President Trump’s peace settlement offer puts Putin in a pickle.
He needs time to re-arm but does not want neutral forces policing a de-militarised zone that prevents him from renewing his assault.
Oh dear! What to do?
Meanwhile:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1862082703140565109?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
“Labour poised to water down electric car rules amid crisis in industry
My emphasis above.
Is this a Eurasia/Eastasia moment? I’ll have to check when I have more time but I was pretty sure the manifesto commitment was to Zero tailpipe emissions by 2030. ie no new ICE or hybrid cars.
They’ll fall in line with what big brother says, if it stays at 2035 for sale of new hybrid cars. It’s only just over ten years, and no firm will develop anything new with a shelf life much less than that anyway. It’s entirely possible that some things may be legal, but not available once the manufacturers have done their sums.
After all, the regime that imposes financial penalties for not selling a high enough proportion of one thing versus another is likely to result in a shortfall in supply of what people want, unless they want to shell out for a high overcharge to cover the penalty if it is sold too early. Not sure if that will end up on actual manufacture dates, or registration dates, though.
The wish, by the government, for every car owner to change to EV’s is never going to happen for many reasons. However, what I can see happening is a series of increasingly swingeing charges for those of us that drive bog standard ICE vehicles (and who could never afford an EV even if we wanted one). Dressed up as a road tax, it has already begun to some degree. Come 2035 ICE car owners may well be charged thousands of pounds a year to keep their vehicle on the road. Of course, I would hope this current shower will be long gone by then, but I wouldn’t trust any government not to keep hold of a wonderful money making scheme thought out by a previous incumbent.
The car industry is reported to be generating a new breed of deisel generators mounted on trailers to be towed behind all EVs to power them whilst in the move.
The government offer to perhaps row back on the 2030 commitments is a deliberate charade. Major car manufacturers do not make major decisions on a week by week basis. Their planning to 2030 has been modified in light of government actions and the new plans will not now be unmodified.
Smoke and bloody mirrors.
It’s the irish general election tomorrow!
5 years more of the same old same old!
This short clip explains it all really
(For those who don’t know, the puppetician is meant to be the current Taoiseach, prime minister, Simon Harris)
https://youtu.be/cNvWALtWufI?si=acy8bXwO_4S6CBTl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHCKUTFJwo Congrats Jay Bhattacharya, new head of NIH…. By Ivor Cummins