- “Thousands take to the streets to celebrate the fall of Assad” – Syrians across the world have shed tears of joy in response to the ousting of former President Bashar al-Assad as they celebrate a sudden end to the tyrant’s 24 year-reign, reports the Mail.
- “Britain’s Syrian refugees vow to return home after fall of regime” – Syrian refugees in Britain are vowing to return to their homeland after rebels seized control of Damascus, writes Charlotte Leeming for Sky News.
- “Assad may have fled, but Syria’s rebels are far from saviours” – The coalition of forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham might not bring the freedom Syria craves, warns Samuel Ramani in the Sunday Times.
- “Fears of massacre as Islamist-led rebels set sights on Syrian Kurds” – Syria’s Kurds fear they may face a fresh massacre as Islamist-led rebels have already begun targetting them hours after Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed, reports the Mail.
- “Jihadi terrorists now rule Syria” – Assad’s overthrow is welcome news. But our enemy’s enemy is not our friend, warns Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “The fall of Assad is a disaster for Putin. More dominoes may fall across the Middle East” – The collapse of Assad’s regime is a massive defeat for Putin, Tehran and the Middle East, says Tim Collins in the Telegraph.
- “Government ‘dragging its feet’ on tackling antisemitism, campaigners say” – The Campaign Against Antisemitism condemned the Government for “dragging its feet” on tackling antisemitism as 32,000 people marched from the Royal Courts of Justice to Parliament Square in London, reports the Telegraph.
- “Criminals owe record £4.4 billion in unpaid fines and court fees” – Official figures show that criminals owe a record £4.4 billion in unpaid fines and court fees – an amount equivalent to the entire budget originally set aside to build 20,000 prison places, says the Telegraph.
- “Inside the luxury hotel housing migrants for three years” – A palatial 16th Century manor house hotel with four poster beds and a turreted gate house has been housing asylum seekers for more than three years, reports the Mail.
- “Labour suspends Edinburgh council leader over claims ‘sexually explicit messages’ sent to Ukrainian refugees” – Senior Labour politician Cammy Day bombarded Ukrainian refugees on social media with inquiries about their sexual preferences, attempted to arrange dates and sent them compliments on their appearance, according to the Scotsman.
- “Private school blames Labour’s tax bomb budget as it announces closure” – A private school has blamed Labour’s tax bomb budget and VAT raid after announcing it is closing due to “unprecedented financial pressures”, reports the Mail.
- “On schools, the Tories were a class act” – Labour’s dilution of Ofsted’s powers and intimacy with the teaching unions is putting the Tories’ education gains at risk, says Emma Duncan in the Times.
- “How will family farms be hit by IHT Budget changes?” – In This is Money, Harvey Dorset highlights the flaws in Labour’s inheritance tax changes, which could force family farmers to sell land, and suggests ways to mitigate the impact.
- “Labour is hammering the high street, warns Liberty chief” – Liberty boss Adil Mehboob-Khan says that the Budget tax rises make British businesses less competitive, according to the Telegraph.
- “France’s crisis could be a taste of what’s to come for Starmer” – Britain’s taxpayers won’t acquiesce to unlimited demands to prop up public finances, warns Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
- “Thousands of Scots households face extra £370 on council tax bill” – Thousands of Scots could see their council tax bills rise by over £370 as councils scramble to cover a £400 million funding gap, reports the Scottish Sun.
- “Britain’s MPs are all middle class – and we are poorer because of it” – In the Telegraph, Michael Mosbacher argues that Britain’s MPs, now overwhelmingly middle class and out of touch with the day to day realities of life in modern Britain, are a big part of why the nation is poorly governed and steadily growing poorer.
- “Badenoch ‘renews friendship’ with Trump’s Vice President” – Kemi Badenoch has had dinner with J.D. Vance, the Vice President-elect, as the pair “renewed their friendship” ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, reports GB News.
- “‘I can be a bit on the spectrum’” – Boris Johnson claims that he is “a bit spectrum-y” because he sometimes struggles to understand how other people feel, according to the Telegraph.
- “Abuse scandal triggers vote of no confidence in church leadership” – A vote of no confidence in the Church of England’s most senior body of leaders due to their inability to tackle child sex abuse has been passed, reports the Times.
- “Charities forced to spend donations on gold-plated pensions” – Some of Britain’s best-known charities are using donations from the public to help cover the cost of gold-plated pensions, says the Telegraph.
- “Oxford University continues to offer scholarship that requires ‘support of the leadership of the Communist Party of China’” – The University of Oxford is continuing to offer a scholarship in conjunction with the Chinese Ministry of Education, which requires recipients to “support the leadership of the Communist Party of China” and “love the motherland”, according to Cherwell.
- “Maybe our institutions should behave more like France’s” – In the Telegraph, Robert Tombs suggests that Britain could learn a thing or two from France, where national symbols are proudly displayed, while we can’t even manage to hang up a picture of our King.
- “How freedom can win elections in the dark 21st Century” – The West used to understand that liberty is the best route to security. It has forgotten this basic wisdom with catastrophic effect, says Sherelle Jacobs on her Substack.
- “Subsidies galore!” – On his Eigen Values Substack, David Turver exposes a jaw-dropping £328 billion subsidy merry-go-round fuelling the Net Zero agenda.
- “All-electric Jaguars to cost £150,000, suggests boss” – Jaguar will invest £1.5 billion over five years to develop three all-electric models, potentially priced at up to £150,000, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s worklessness crisis is rapidly spiralling out of control” – The U.K.’s benefits system is pushing millions out of our shrinking labour force, warns Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Was DoD the managing agency for Operation Warp Speed? ” – Pfizer did not commit fraud, but rather carried out the fraud that the U.S. Government ordered, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “The Americans who ‘just can’t feel sympathy’ for healthcare boss slain in the street” – The killing of Brian Thompson has unleashed a fresh torrent of public anger against U.S. health insurers, writes Hannah Boland in the Telegraph.
- “On journalism’s dishonesty and moral rot” – Did insurance company executive Brian Thompson deserve to be murdered? The New Yorker can’t quite decide, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Trump will pardon January 6th rioters on day one” – On his first day back at the White House next month, Trump plans to issue pardons for all those convicted for participating in the disorder in Washington on January 6th, according to the Mail.
- “Fury as EU political party shares map showing the Falkland Islands” – EU politicians have caused outrage after sharing a map depicting the Falkland Islands as part of Argentina, reports the Mail.
- “Russian spy Anna Chapman reveals how she was recruited by the Kremlin” – Glamorous Russian spy Anna Chapman has revealed how she was recruited by Putin’s foreign intelligence service at the time she was living in London, says the Mail.
- “GCSE English is too male, pale and stale, says exam board” – Pearson, one of the three largest exam boards, has called for GCSE and A-level English sylabbi to be more diverse and include more spoken language to keep students interested, reports the Times.
- “Judy Murray calls on trans athletes born male to only compete in male categories” – Judy Murray has called for transgender athletes born male to compete only in male sporting categories, citing significant physical differences between the sexes based on her extensive coaching experience, says GB News.
- “‘Gender critical’ Newcastle fan sues FA over rainbow armband campaign” – A Newcastle United fan, banned for her gender-critical views, is threatening legal action against the FA over their Rainbow Laces campaign, claiming it unlawfully promotes the idea of gender fluidity, according to the Mail.
- “The country is falling apart, so why on earth are we banning porridge adverts?” – This mindset – that the state can fiddle and ban its way out of every social problem – just takes on ever more staggering proportions, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “‘America’s wokest university’ ditches diversity hiring rules” – The University of Michigan is the latest public university to remove a commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as part of its hiring requirements, reports the NY Post.
- “Digital ID for pubs and clubs in (half) victory for Tony Blair” – Pubgoers will be able to use their smartphones to prove their age as part of plans to introduce government-backed digital IDs, says the Sunday Times.
- “‘Innumerate, incompetent, inept’” – Angela Rayner’s grilling by Trevor Phillips on Sky News turned into a car crash when she insisted there’s “plenty of housing” for Britain’s 2.5 million migrants.
Rayner: “We have a massive housing shortage so we’re building 1.5m homes to house 3.4m people”
— Wolf
Phillips: “But 2.5m of those will be immigrants won’t they?”
Rayner: “No they won’t”
Phillips: “So where will all those immigrants live?”
Rayner: “We have plenty of housing”pic.twitter.com/QnpwoH9ze0
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What a mess ! Bleak Times !
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/vladimir-putin-does-not-want-a-peace-deal-he-wants-to-destroy-ukraine/
Today, everyone wants peace……except Putin. Time for Putin’s ‘admirers’ to admit that it is more than grotesque for an invader responsible for torture, kidnapping, murder, hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced, to play the victim.
‘Putin claimed to be defending the rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians…….the Russian army has since killed tens of thousands of predominantly Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine, while reducing dozens of towns and cities across the region to rubble.
Putin has (withdrawn) the bulk of Russian troops from the Finnish border…..leaving it largely undefended…..safe to conclude that he does not in fact view the NATO alliance as a security threat to Russia itself, and has merely exploited the issue as a smokescreen for his own (demographic) imperial ambitions in Ukraine.’
On the other hand:
‘The Ukrainian government has shown both wisdom and a welcome seriousness of purpose by not outright rejecting the Trump plan……a willingness to engage with it while emphasizing the critical need for security…….a smart strategy
What Putin is demanding is for Ukraine to retreat as a precondition for talks, effectively giving Russia land it has been unable to conquer. Russia has failed to conquer this territory because of Ukraine’s successful resistance. This is not a serious offer but an arrogant demand for Ukraine’s surrender.
Recently, General Kellogg, in an interview, was asked about these Russian demands. His response was very telling. He said the Russians had better think twice. Essentially, he made it clear that if they believe they can intimidate or bully Donald Trump into accepting a maximal Russian position as a starting point, they are mistaken. I appreciated his response. It was tough and assertive, pushing back against Russian arrogance.
The United States has a strong track record of refusing to recognize territorial annexation by aggressors. The Stimson Doctrine from the 1930s rejected Japan’s occupation of Manchuria. The Welles Declaration firmly denied recognition of Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. In 2018, the Pompeo Declaration stated that the United States would not recognize Russia’s occupation of Crimea. These are strong precedents. Two of these examples were set by Republicans, and one by a Democrat, demonstrating bipartisan commitment to this principle.
Trump is going to push hard. If Russia remains too arrogant and refuses to work with Trump along the lines of his proposals, Trump may conclude that Russia is indeed the problem.’
Daniel Fried, former U.S. State Department Coordinator for Sanctions Policy
Crystal clear, plain as a pikestaff, Putin has no interest in peace…..
But peace is interested in him…..
The USA is only interested in furthering the USA. It has a strong track record in destabilising regimes it finds antipathetic and then walking away from the mess it creates.
Which country do you suggest the British government should favour?
Why does it have a favour any particular side…
Polarisation isnt obligatory….
We should all keep out of it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the West.
I would welcome Britain ploughing its own furrow. Your question has a built in assumprion that we should favour one, but I see them as equally bad.
When there’s no longer any money in it…
https://youtu.be/C15qUXDgjyw?si=kzIfUSMkdbNqJXQQ
Did Boris Johnson single handedly sabotage the Ukraine Russia peace deal…
Tucker Calson /Sergey Lavrov
How many more years are you going to talk bollox re Russia /Ukraine Monro….
Give it a rest Monro. Many of us here are tired of your cut ‘n paste diatribes on Ukraine.
Top tip: simply refrain from reading them.
Top tip:
Set up YOUR OWN WEBSITE,
instead of using this one to launch your endless propaganda tirades.
Sorry, none of this is true. There is no way the Russian army has killed ‘tens of thousands of predominantly Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine’: that was, as you well know, the Ukrainians and was the second main reason (after NATO expansion) for Russia’s Special Military Operation.
This video (warning, disturbing images) – https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/sept-22-shelling:0 – is one of hundreds showing how Ukraine shelled cities, such as Donetsk, before the SMO managed to push the Ukrainians far enough back that their artillery was no longer in range.
It is also the case that Ukrainian forces, not Russian, enter civilian buildings, force any remaining residents into basements, and then use the buildings to attack Russians, knowing that Russians will be aware of the civilians being used as ‘human shields’. This happened all over Mariupol.
Disgustingly, Ukrainians now detonate high-rise residences to prevent Russians using them while the former retreat: such actions are shown on YouTube’s Military Summary channel.
There is no way that Russia is not aware that Finland joining NATO is a new threat requiring additional protection along a previously neutral border. The last I heard, Russia was introducing new military bases into the area. To maintain that Russia is pulling soldiers out of the area because Russia does not regard NATO as a threat is utterly ridiculous: who on Earth do you think Russia is really fighting in Ukraine?
And US politicians are good at threatening Russia and completely hopeless when it comes to diplomacy; after all, US Americans consider themselves to be the major world power and their desire is to maintain that position, even though modern events (funnily enough, encouraged by Biden’s failed policies) mean the world now has three super powers, not just one.
Trump may push hard but Russia has already shown it can stand up to all Western forces combined: US, NATO, UK and EU.
The only solution to this conflict is capitulation, and the sooner the better. And anyone who really cares for Ukraine and its people will support an immediate capitulation to end this idiocy for once and for all.
As I say, Putin has no interest in peace, only demographic imperialism.
Syria quite clearly demonstrates the ultimate destination of Putin’s leadership.
Peace, as Putin will shortly discover, is interested in him.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/from-1991-a-prescient-warning-about-the-globalist-agenda/
Those who cannot see in this forecast from 1991 the obvious manifestations in today’s world are quite simply walking about with eyes shut and ears plugged.
“Thousands take to the streets to celebrate the fall of Assad”
I’m sure the same happened in Iraq and Iran!
What will replace him, Sharī’ah law?
Why has everyone got such a downer on Bashar al-Assad? He wasn’t all bad. I mean, look, He signed up to the Paris Accord and everything.
/s
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-nhs-staff-are-shunning-the-vaccines/
This article kills the vaccine case stone dead. Even the NHS has seen the light.
“Syrian refugees in Britain are vowing to return to their homeland after rebels seized control of Damascus, writes Charlotte Leeming for Sky News.”
It should not be a matter of choice. Any asylym or right to stay arrangements should be terminated now with departure required within three months.
This is quite funny:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1865756637291503645
“Dublin. An Irish man asks Syrians celebrating the fall of Assad if they will go home now that they are ‘free'”.
Guess what?
Well I wasn’t expecting that tof but, I suppose….”Economics.”
“Britain’s Syrian refugees vow to return home after fall of regime”
You know, of course, that this is never going to happen. Only a few might return, while the rest continue lolling about on welfare handouts in the West, and will soon be joined by millions more chancers from that entire region.
https://www.ntv.com.tr/galeri/turkiye/cilvegozu-sinir-kapisinda-geri-donus-yogunlugu-14-yil-bu-ani-bekledik,YHFmO15S7EOMr3fYCpdNGQ/BlyrMwacqUGOoWD-T8fyjw
‘Hamid Mahmud, who returned to his country, said, “I came to Turkey from Syria in 2014. We came to Turkey when the war started. Our life was over. God willing, our homeland will be fine. Syria is getting back on its feet, but we will not start from scratch. We have doctors and engineers. That’s why we will be better. I am very happy to be back in my country. I don’t know the words to describe when the murderer Bashar Assad left. All Syrians waited for this moment for 14 years. I haven’t slept for a few hours. Because I am very excited. We as Syria are very happy.”
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