- “Syrian rebels capture majority of Aleppo as Russia’s forces abandon bases” – Syria’s rebels seized most of Aleppo on Saturday as their sweeping advance ousted Russian forces from at least three military bases around the city, reports the Telegraph.
- “Is this finally the end for Bashar al-Assad?” – Jihadist-led rebels have seized Aleppo airport and dozens of nearby towns on Saturday after overrunning most of Aleppo, reports the Mail.
- “Whether Assad fights or flees from Syria, this is bad news for us all” – In the Mail, Mark Almond is deeply concerned about developments in Syria.
- “Jewish children left ‘terrified’ as thugs pelt their London school bus with rocks before storming it and yelling ‘f*** Israel’ while frightened pupils cowered behind seats” – Jewish children at Jewish Free School in Kenton, north London, were left cowering after teenage thugs pelted their London bus with rocks and rubbish, before storming onto the vehicle and yelling “f*** Israel”, as police confirmed they are investigating a “potential hate crime”, reports the Mail.
- “Antisemitism at the BBC now ‘normal’ after October 7th, whistleblower claims” – A whistleblower has said antisemitism at the BBC has become “normalised” and accused the broadcaster of failing to take seriously repeated claims of antisemitic behaviour and attitudes within the organisation, the Telegraph reports.
- “Tories willingly flung the borders wide open” – In the Mail, Dan Hodges responds to the revelation that the Tories did not ‘lose control’ of the border after Brexit but deliberately threw it open.
- “Prepare for the National Suicide Service” – In the Spectator, Jane Stannus writes from Canada about where the U.K. is now headed, with ads promoting suicide a new normal.
- “This is a truly dark day for our nation” – Our political class has just sanctioned death for the ‘worthless’, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The Chagos Islands betrayal shames Britain. Here’s how we stop it” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan suggests that by pressing Starmer to consult the Chagossians on the give-away of their islands it might be stopped.
- “Britain ‘was warned of Russian meddling in Chagos deal’” – Britain was warned of Russian attempts to encourage Mauritian claims to the Chagos Islands but chose to disregard it, according to the Telegraph.
- “Can Bhattacharya rescue the reputation of the scientific establishment?” – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s nomination may turn out to be the most important of all, says Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner.
- “Trump more popular than Starmer with British voters” – Donald Trump is more popular in Britain than Sir Keir Starmer, polling for the Telegraph has shown.
- “The Kamala campaign is in total denial” – Harris’s staffers are blaming the voters, the media and bad luck for their bruising defeat to Donald Trump, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Britain is about to miss out on an energy revolution” – Trump’s stress on boosting energy supply stands in stark contrast to Britain’s approach, and the results will too, says Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s green energy plans only ‘artificially’ cheaper than nuclear or gas” – Ed Miliband’s plans for green energy are based on assumptions that make them appear “artificially cheaper” than nuclear or gas, according to critics, reports the Telegraph.
- “Whitehall civil servants hold ’emotional check-ins’ before meetings” – A former senior civil servant has lifted the lid on a culture of lengthy “emotional check-ins” before Cabinet Office meetings, raising concerns that HR departments may be harming the economy, says the Mail.
- “Navratilova condemns New York Times for calling female athletes ‘non-transgender women’” – Martina Navratilova has criticised the New York Times for describing biological females as “non-transgender women”, reports the Telegraph.
- “I admire the women’s volleyball players boycotting my team because of our trans player” – Brooke Slusser tells the Telegraph that she and her teammates feel let down by their university over allowing the male player Blaire Fleming to participate in their sport.
- “Historic England under fire for funding queer history trail” – Historic England has come under fire after announcing it will fund a walk to highlight the “queer” history of a Norfolk town, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain already has an ‘Islamophobia law’ – we’re just too scared to admit it” – Keir Starmer has no need to crack down on blasphemy when ‘community leaders’ are already doing the job for him, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Watch Dominic Cummings – Government is Fake” – On X, “Ban the BBC” posts a clip of Boris Johnson’s one-time Chief Adviser Dominic Cummings explaining how little power politicians really have compared to unelected officials: “Cabinet is stage theatre.”
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Free Speech On Trial – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, your new MP, your local vicar, online media and friends online. Start a local campaign. We have over 200 leaflet ideas on the link on the leaflet.
👍
Is this finally the end for Bashar al-Assad?
Assad appears to have taken his family to Moscow.
He may have returned to Syria himself.
‘Asked about unconfirmed Russian Telegram reports that Assad had flown into Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Peskov said he had “nothing to say” on the matter.
Only a day after entering Aleppo, rebels have reportedly seized most of the city, Syria’s second-largest, pushed south toward Hama and captured much of Idlib province on Saturday in their surprise offensive launched on Thursday.
Meanwhile, there are unconfirmed reports of a coup attempt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the capital of Damascus.’
‘Rybar reports that the Russians have dismissed Lieutenant General Sergey Kisel, the commander of Russia’s troop grouping in Syria. Earlier, former Eastern Military District commander Colonel General Alexander Chaiko, implicated in the mass killings in Bucha, was sent to assist him. In effect, this acknowledges a significant blow to Russia’s global interests, to which it is unable to respond for well-known reasons—highlighting its weak negotiating position.’
The success of the U.S. strategy to weaken Russia so that it can no longer invade its neighbours is plain for all to see.
Russia’s imperialist expansionism into Syria and Central Africa has been halted by its military weakness, a direct result of its struggle to make decisive headway in Ukraine.
Does any of this favour the present USA regime & Kneel with his delegation he sent to help the Cackler in Chief stay in power ??
It increases the pressure on Putin to negotiate a settlement in Ukraine but, without a massive bribe for Putin personally, that still looks like a tricky assignment.
A good settlement of the Ukraine war would be a massive coup for the incoming U.S. administration.
You complain about Russian presence in Syria but praise US presence in Ukraine. Perhaps both Syria and Ukraine would have been better off without international interference.
President Trump’s election victory has transformed Washington’s approach towards the war in Ukraine.
‘The bipartisan pro-Ukraine majority would fight against (a peace favouring Russia) and prevent it.
At the same time, there has been a very positive reaction in Europe.
Moreover, the French General Staff and the British government are increasingly seriously considering the deployment of their troops to Ukraine.
‘At the 28 Nov. Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, everyone saw a completely different Putin.
He appeared as a very ill elderly figure, hunched over a text, struggling to slowly sound out his threats…….the result of internal struggles within his circle, where more rational people who don’t want to die manage to stop him.’
Andrey Piontkovsky
‘Trump promised that with his rise to power, the world would change, there would be no wars, and there would be a just peace.
The biggest challenge lies in defining what this just peace means for each of us. I am sure that contacts with Moscow are already happening; in fact, I think they may have started earlier,”.
Trump or members of his team have their own communication lines. It seems that they never lost contact with Moscow and maintain these communications at various levels – business, lobbyists, influence agents, and official communication channels.
“In this sense, a very telling interview was given by an American official who had served as the U.S. ambassador to Moscow for several years, including when Putin began his full-scale aggression. The essence of this ambassador’s statement was that it is not worth, and indeed impossible, to imagine negotiating with Putin in the traditional sense of the word, to make any agreements.
With Putin, you cannot agree on anything.
I believe Trump’s team understands this.
That’s why there is a formula that I like, and one that Zelenskyy has repeated – coercion to peace, as the Russians once did in Georgia, or peace from a position of strength,”
Oleh Rybachuk
That, and the collapse of Russian forces in Syria and Mali, is the backdrop against which the Ukrainian President has made a powerful offer of peace.
Putin will hold out for an offer from President Trump that is attractive to him personally, financially, and President Trump knows his man. That is why he is so confident that he can secure peace.
Or perhaps not.
President-elect Trump will recognize the world has changed dramatically since he left office. We now have a multi-polar world that is able to resist to a certain degree US dominance. We also have BRICS offering an alternative to world market dominance by USA and the US dollar. Hopefully Trump can avert Western civilization’s decline caused by the climate fanatics but Europe is on its last legs which Trump will probably be happy to use to the advantage of USA.
As for planting NATO troops in Ukraine, good luck with that!
On the subject of Africa, Chad and Senegal are both telling France to get its troops out of their countries. Africa is perhaps waking up to the realization they can live better without Western help.
Unfortunately for British Taxpayers, Chad is kicking out the French troops because it has found a better deal:
Joining the Commonwealth to Trouser the Cash.
Yes, at least two Francophone former African colonies have just joined the Commonwealth, despite never having had any connection to the British Empire: Gabon and Togo. Now Chad and Senegal are eyeing the same Money Pot. Didn’t one of the royals make an official visit to Chad recently?
Britain’s government has supported the Syrian rebels. They now appear to be getting an Al Qaeda government. Presumably that was the intended result, as no other outcome was on the table apart from an Isis government.
Can someone suggest how this is preferable to the Assad regime?
Turkey suggests many refugees will now return to Syria, easing immigration pressure elsewhere.
The rebels do not, apparently, harbour any ambitions outside Syria.
Islamists without international ambitions – there’s a novelty. Israel’s northern border will be safe, then. So we are to believe 9/11’s sequelae taught Al Qaeda the error of its ways.
Dr. Clare Craig is taking the MHRA to court to get the data on Covid-vaccines released.
Currently the MHRA is refusing to release the data claiming ‘commercial sensitivity’.
She is crowdfunding.
So where’s the link?
“Historic England under fire for funding queer history trail”
I’m sure the majority of the history of queer Kings Lynn was occupied by homosexuallity being a criminal offence!
Maybe they could do a walking tour passed the site of the jibbets and gallows that gays would have been swinging from at the time?
In the Cummings video, he is also describing the House of Commons as well. Nearly all of them read notes and may as well just be avatars
“Trump more popular than Starmer with British voters”
The Marxist Leader of Peru is even worse than Starmer:
Meet the world’s most unpopular leader accused of taking time off for nose-job
“Whether Assad fights or flees from Syria, this is bad news for us all” says Mark Almond.
He is absolutely correct. All the Syrian “rebels” are nothing more than The Muslim Brotherhood under different names and factions. Their endless harassment of President Assad is revenge, because President Assad and his father DROVE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OUT OF SYRIA, and did their best to PROTECT SYRIAN CHRISTIANS from Muslim and Kurdish attacks.
The Muslim Brotherhood moved their headquarters to London, safe under the avuncular eye of Muslim Mayor Khan, and they are also secretly backed by Israel, who still wants to wipe out Damascus and all of “Assyria” for defeating the Hebrews centuries ago.
President Assad and his English wife are admired and respected by true Syrians, both Muslim and Christian, and they have fought long and hard to restore their country to peace, but it was not to be. The West was deceived into backing the wrong horse yet again, as we did in Iraq, and in the Balkans.
As Mark Almond said, “This is bad news for us all”.
Deceived ? Or Controlled !
Excellent point!
For what it’s worth, I had a strange, very lucid fragment of a dream years ago, in which a huge missile was launched westward from the far NW corner of Iran. As I watched it from high above in the sky, it headed straight for Jerusalem, but at the last minute before reaching that target, it suddenly veered sharply to the north, heading for Damascus.