- “Prince Andrew breaks silence after being linked to ‘Chinese spy’” – The Duke of York has said he “ceased all contact” with the businessman accused of being a Chinese spy when concerns were first raised about him, reports the Mail.
- “Chinese ‘spy’ mixed with politicians including George Osborne” – “Close confidant” of the Duke of York had links to influential figures in British politics, says the Telegraph.
- “The unmasking of Prince Andrew’s ‘confidant’ is a wake-up call to the threat we face from China” – The totalitarian state is waging an intelligence war against Britain – and meeting little to no resistance, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Can you tell a good guy from a bad guy in the Middle East?” – “Please excuse the tone of jubilation, but I have been dancing around my kitchen for the past couple of days, in a state well beyond elation, at the removal from power of Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime in Syria and its successors who, I am convinced, are a little like our own Liberal Democrats,” writes Rod Liddle, sarcastically, in the Spectator.
- “Miliband’s lack of remorse makes him unfit to serve” – As leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband whipped his MPs to vote against military intervention in Syria when Assad used chemical weapons. Obama flinched as a result. Then the Russians swept in, writes Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband refuses to set target for cutting electricity bills” – Labour said before the election that energy bills would come down by £300, but the Energy Secretary would not commit to a figure on BBC Radio 4 yesterday, reports the Times.
- “Miliband to overrule local residents in wind farm building spree” – Unelected planning officers will have the power to brush aside local opposition to major projects, according to the Telegraph.
- “The towns that must build up to 21 times more homes under Labour plan” – A breakdown of Labour’s house building targets has laid bare the scale of the demands being put on local authorities – with London and the South East hardest hit, says the Mail.
- “Miliband to rule on building Britain’s biggest solar farm at Churchill’s ancestral home” – Blenheim faces renewables blitz after a proposal for a huge solar farm gets over a crucial hurdle, reports the Telegraph.
- “Surrey runs out of space for private school children” – The local council in Surrey has no vacancies for pupils in Years 9, 10 or 11 in state schools, as parents are forced out of the independent sector due to Labour’s VAT raid, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer promised change – we didn’t know he meant the bad kind” – Five months in, the new Government has either failed to live up to its promises or actively left people worse off, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “The charts that show how Reeves killed off economic growth” – Labour doom and gloom has damaged Britain’s growth prospects after only a few months in power, says the Telegraph.
- “Brussels to demand UK surrenders fishing rights and follows EU laws” – The price of a new trade deal with the EU, according to documents leaked to the Times, is that Britain will have to give EU fishermen access to British waters and accept the jurisdiction of the ECJ.
- “Who is François Bayrou, the new Prime Minister of France?” – A three-times failed presidential candidate who was acquitted of embezzlement this year is the new PM of France. How long will this one last, asks Adam Sage in the Times.
- “Ministry of Justice accused of ‘unfounded political diatribe’ against Tories” – Robert Jenrick claims that a “disgraceful” social media video posted by civil servants is pure “Labour propaganda”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Liberals would rather risk the death of a child like Sara Sharif than appear racist” – To prevent further sad stories like hers, we must make it clear that the price of living in our country is abiding by our values, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Testimony on children and the vaccine that Hallett does not want to hear” – The Conservative Woman publishes four articles detailing the evidence about children and the Covid vaccines that the Hallett inquiry does not want to hear.
- “Brits testing positive for flu nearly doubles in a week” – Surveillance data from the U.K. Health Security Agency show one in five tests (18.6%) for flu carried out at the end of last week came back positive, according to the Mail.
- “Scientists warn over ‘mirror bacteria’ that could wipe out mankind” – A group of 38 leading scientists are calling for a pause on research to create “mirror life” – a form of artificial life which could infect and kill all life on Earth, reports the Mail.
- “Biden gives Pfizer, Moderna immunity from being sued for vax injuries” – Health and Human Services in the U.S. have announced they’re extending a pandemic-era act that protects doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals from being held liable for some injury claims, says the Mail.
- “Trump ‘considering proposal to strike Iran’s nuclear programme’” – The President-elect is weighing up an attack on Iran following the fall of Syria’s Assad, according to the Telegraph.
- “Biden slammed for commuting sentence of notorious ‘Kids-for-Cash’ judge convicted of imprisoning juveniles for $2.1M kickbacks” – Ex-Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called ‘Kids-for-Cash’ scandal, was among 1,499 pardons Biden granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day, says the New York Post.
- “Washington bureaucrats race for exit as Trump vows to drain ‘swamp’” – The president-elect’s pledge to “dismantle the deep state” has created a climate of fear among hundreds of thousands of U.S. federal employees, reports the Times.
- “Trump and RFK Jr. will have ‘big discussion’ about vaccines and autism” – The President-elect has talked to Time magazine about his Health Secretary nominee, Ukraine firing missiles into Russia and Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest, according to the Times.
- “RFK Jr. wants daughter-in-law as CIA deputy to ‘prove’ JFK conspiracy” – RFK Jr. claims the CIA killed his uncle. Now he wants Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former CIA agent, to prove it, says the Times.
- “Terrified corporation’s dystopian new plan to ensure CEOs are safe” – Companies across America are scrambling to find ways to protect their own CEOs after the murder of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson, reports the Mail.
- “Luigi Mangione is a new American nightmare” – It’s UnitedHealth’s Brian Thompson we should revere, not his murderer, says Brendan O’Neil in the Telegraph.
- “Michigan is America’s wokest university. No wonder it’s failing its Jews” – The alleged anti-Semitic remarks of Michigan University diversitycrat Rachel Dawson will intensify the debate about what is really meant by diversity and inclusion in American colleges, according to the Telegraph.
- “The nuclear family? We blew it up years ago” – Now that John Lewis has produced a Christmas ad that features white people, all sorts of thinkers and commentators on the Right have decided that the progressive madness is nearly over. Not so fast, says Mary Wakefield in the Spectator.
- “Dozens of Post Office and Fujitsu staff probed for crimes linked to Horizon scandal” – A 100-strong national task force is probing staff at Fujitsu, the Post Office and legal professionals to see if they’re guilty of any crimes, but no charging decisions will be made until after the public inquiry report, reports the Mail.
- “Meghan’s favoured outlet the Cut says her projects keep ‘flopping’” – The New York magazine off-shoot, formerly impressed by Meghan Markle, has soured on her, according to the Mail.
- “Press watchdog accused of double standards in transgender row” – Helen Joyce says Ipso is guilty of “bias against gender-critical women” after it upheld a complaint by trans author Juno Dawson against the Spectator, but dismissed Joyce’s complaint, says the Telegraph.
- “Gender ideology has been comprehensively beaten: three cheers for Terfs” – Wes Streeting’s decision to make the block on children receiving puberty blockers permanent is welcome, writes Josephine Bartosch in the Telegraph.
- “‘Queer’ plans for Edinburgh’s feminist makeover” – Scotland’s capital city is to be given a makeover to improve safety for “people of marginalised genders”, reports the Mail.
- “Baroness Catherine Meyer facing three week suspension for calling peer ‘Lord Poppadom’ and touching MP’s braids” – A 71-year-old peer has said she might have had three glasses of wine when she called Lord Dholakia “Lord Poppadom” – twice – but does not remember, according to Sky News.
- “A cheery ghost story for Christmas” – Paul Sutton imagine a pub peopled by the ghosts of Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling in a Christmas ghost story for his Substack.
- “Vicar leaves pupils in tears with Father Christmas remarks” – The Rev. Dr. Paul Chamberlain has been forced to apologise after telling a group of primary school children that Santa doesn’t exist, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tony’s Chocolonely blasted for leaving a day blank in advent calendar” – Those children unlucky enough to have been bought the Tony Chocaloney advent calendar were left gutted when they went to open door number 10 only to find that there was no chocolate inside. A lesson about inequality, according to the woke chocolatier, says the Mail.
- “Graham Linehan: I’m leaving Britain” – Steerpike in the Spectator reveals that Graham Linehan is leaving Britain for America to write a new sitcom with Andrew Doyle and Rob Schneider.
- “Andrew Doyle and Graham Linehan on the Jordan B. Peterson podcast” – Andrew Doyle and Graham Linehan have appeared on Jordan Peterson’s podcast to discuss creativity, free speech and the new woke orthodoxy.
- “Sir Keir Starmer is my free speech ‘zero’ of the year” – On X, the Free Speech Union has posted a clip of me making the case for why the Union’s members should vote for Sir Keir as this year’s biggest enemy of free speech. He won!
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Miliband’s lack of remorse makes him unfit to serve
‘It is also not too strong to say that when Putin looked West before he took Crimea in 2014, then fully-invaded the country 2022, he did not see a credible deterrence or appetite in London, Washington and especially Europe to stop him invading Ukraine – and he was right. Syria was the first opportunity we had to stop the horrors that have followed. We missed it. Then Crimea was seized illegally. We did nothing substantial then either. And now we have a fully-blown war on European soil.
How many more warnings do we need?’
What, in fact, did the feeble Cameron’s parliamentary motion actually propose?
Business Today: Chamber for Thursday 29 August 2013
‘This house……welcomes the work of the United Nations investigating team currently in Damascus, and, whilst noting that the team’s mandate is to confirm whether chemical weapons were used and not to apportion blame, agrees that the United Nations Secretary General should ensure a briefing to the United Nations Security Council immediately upon the completion of the team’s initial mission;
Believes that the United Nations Security Council must have the opportunity immediately to consider that briefing and that every effort should be made to secure a Security Council Resolution backing military action before any such action is taken, and notes that before any direct British involvement in such action a further vote of the House of Commons will take place; and
Notes that this Resolution relates solely to efforts to alleviate humanitarian suffering by deterring use of chemical weapons and does not sanction any action in Syria with wider objectives.’
Miliband organised a vote, which many Conservative MPs joined, against a ‘further vote’ on military action informed by a United Nations briefing and after attempts had been made to secure a U.N. resolution in support of such action.
It was not a vote against military action. It was a piece of political expediency which led directly to where we find ourselves today: the’Long Peace’ in Europe at an end and the first instance having recently occurred of a nuclear power being subjected to land invasion in response to their own aggression……
‘There are a number of MPs still in Parliament today who should be hanging their heads in shame. They could have stopped Assad in September 2013 by voting to strike his chemical weapons facilities after he killed 1,500 civilians with the deadly nerve agent sarin. If they had, tens of thousands – perhaps more than a million – would still be alive. Because not only would Assad have stopped gassing his own people, but the war in Ukraine may never have happened.’
Britain signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994.
Why?
Britain signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1996.
Why?
As I commented in the Streeting Attacks Miliband … article above, the final UN report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria in 2013 was unable to apportion blame to any party: since the Syrian Arab Republic forces were attacked using Sarin in 3 of the only 5 confirmed cases, it is not credible that Assad was to blame.
Therefore British MPs need not “hang their heads in shame”, unless they were aware that US and UK intelligence services may possibly have been involved, either directly or by accusing Assad of using chemical weapons. Indeed, these intelligence services are now accused of funding and inciting the (non-) Syrian ‘rebels’ to take over the country – rebels known to be extreme Jihadists who will undoubtedly cause Syria to become another source of chaos and terrorism for years to come.
After Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, …, the West may congratulate itself on creating another ‘failed state’ in distant regions.
So, far from “backing military action”, MPs should be wondering why on earth UK should bomb any country at all: after all, WWII ended some time ago and distant countries are capable of solving their own problems – preferably peacefully and without foreign interference.
Superb analysis from CGW, telling the truth that people rarely hear, or read.
When are we in the West going to stop being tricked into Backing the Wrong Horse in all these foreign wars, time and time again?
None of these foreign wars are our concern, including Gaza and Ukraine.
It is quite clear from the wording of the motion that it was not a vote for or against military action.
MPs, disgracefully, voted not to have another vote no matter what the findings of the UN investigation (which had no mandate to apportion blame in any case).
MPs voted not to ‘alleviate human suffering’ as proposed by the motion.
‘The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement that its annual conference “decided that the continued possession and use of chemical weapons” by Syria, and its failure to give the organization an accurate inventory of its stocks and to “destroy undeclared chemical weapons and production facilities,” have harmed the international Chemical Weapons Convention.
The decision was backed by 69 nations.’
“Trump and RFK Jr. will have ‘big discussion’ about vaccines and autism”
‘The President-elect has talked to Time magazine about……Ukraine firing missiles into Russia’
‘The question that many Americans and many people around the world have is, Will you abandon Ukraine?
I want to reach an agreement, and the only way you’re going to reach an agreement is not to abandon. You understand what that means, right?
I think I have a very good plan to help, but when I start exposing that plan, it becomes almost a worthless plan.’
The negotiations began immediately after the Presidential election result was announced.
‘They have been talking about this (output hike) since June but they are still delaying,” said Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB. “This means there is no upside to the oil price in the next couple of years.”
‘…if (OPEC) members do not stick to cuts, they would increase output, potentially starting a price war. We don’t have to go back very far to see the potential impact this can have on the market. In 2020, a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia saw oil prices plummet…’
‘On Oct. 2, the minister of energy of Saudi Arabia said that oil prices could fall to $50 per barrel……’
‘President Trump said that Russia would not be able to fight at low oil prices. He said that when oil costs $100, Putin can fight, and when it costs $40, the war will end. President Trump also said he could cut oil prices in half within 12 months of taking office.’
‘Russia’s vulnerability to its dependence on China is underscored by the vast difference in economic size between the two countries. Russia’s GDP and population are approximately one-tenth of China’s, and trade between the two nations holds significantly greater importance for Russia than for China. If China were to reduce its cooperation with Russia for any reason, it would pose a formidable challenge for Russia to navigate.’
That’s all negotiable……
Following this announcement that Ross Jones is not called as a witness in Module 4 of the Covid Inquiry (Vaccine module), I was interested to see who was going to be called.
I found this list:
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/14142705/2024-10-11-Module-4-List-of-CPs.docx.pdf
These are the core participants, so may not be the full list. I don’t recognise any of the names.
Will there be any people called who are worried about these Covid products? Anyone who will talk about harms?
If not, we can truly say it is a whitewash.
The story about EU fishing rights in UK waters takes me back to the recent news that the Billingsgate Fish Market is to close permanently, as is the Smithfield Meat Market. The closure of Billingsgate will certainly lead to damage to the system of distribution of fish in England, with its greatest effect being felt in the populous south east. This is very likely to mean a fall off in fishing in England as demand drops due to reducing availability of fish. Very handy for the authorities if you are looking to toady up to the EU which wants open access to UK fishing waters. After all if UK fishermen use of UK waters collapses why not let the EU fleets have increased access. The UK Government (and the blob) might hope this would give us valuable brownie points as it negotiates our future with the EU. Handy but hardly helpful to both UK food security and economic growth as the fish disappears onto the Continent.
I am very fond of Smithfield and very sad it’s to close. It’s a piece of living history. I recommend a trip there to anyone within reasonable driving distance. Overnight parking is dirt cheap (I think £1.50) and you can get in and out with little traffic and no congestion charge, and stock up on cheap meat.
The destruction of the Smithfields and Billinsgate markets is an act of pure evil intended to destroy God knows how many businesses and jobs but also intended to wipe out yet another small element of this country’s history. Like virtually everything this government does it borders on treason.
Scotland’s capital city is to be given a makeover to improve safety for “people
of marginalised genders” with mental illness issues”!re Press Watchdog accused of Double Standards most of us have probably known for a long time that it is not fit for purpose and just follows a globalist agenda. In Dec 2021 and Jan 2022 there was a concerted campaign in the MSM (presumably at the Govt.s behest) to encourage/force everyone to take up the jabs involving the vilification shaming and demonising of a large section of the community and potentially storing up hatred and even encouraging violence. I made at least 7 complaints to IPSO against Mail, Express and Telegraph which has to be on their specified grounds of Discrimination Harrassment and Inaccuracy. All of these were rejected on what I felt was an ultra legalistic interpretation of their Code
Terrified corporation’s dystopian new plan to ensure CEOs are safe after Brian Thompson murder
CEO/Gangster……. Corrupt gangster got whacked….
https://youtu.be/aBFmAr9a-9M?si=VXvA7gB7w9_5O5xc
“Can you tell a good guy from a bad guy in the Middle East?”
May I just insert an appalling bit of news today that betrays our own Armed Forces?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/scientists-invent-new-anti-reflective-sniper-scope-to-keep-british-sharpshooters-hidden/ar-AA1vQXoM?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=ce15a1fb83d641c2a08f130e6b68069f&ei=12
Some apt comments from the public on this:
—“Great, so you idiots have all but given away what would have been an advantage for our troops, well done plonkers.”
—“PATENTED ! Might as well have rung the Russian Embassy and told them how to do it !”
—“Well said, bit like the Falklands where the BBC being the ‘Great seekers of truth’ revealed that there were several British ships with unexploded bombs in them, then a few days later HMS Coventry gets hit at low level and remarkably all the bombs that hit her detonated. Possibly the Argentinians MAY have figured out they had the wrong fusing for low level attacks at some point, but the BBC gave them a helping hand.”
“Same as we were trying to keep details of the amphibious group a secret to keep the Argentinians guessing when/where the landing would be, but the BBC announce that the amphibious fleet and the main battle fleet have now joined up.”
“Goose Green was another BBC classic, telling the world that British troops were approaching Darwin, allowing the Argentinians that very evening to reinforce their Darwin/Goose Green garrison.”
“The BBC cost a lot of brave men their lives with their ‘Run the story and to hell with the consequences attitude’.
“And remember the BBC showing LIVE pictures of the SAS about to storm the Iranian embassy when there was the hostage situation.”
“Pity the BBC hadn’t paid more attention to seeking the truth about the perverts they employed.”
And yet, when ordinary British citizens discussed the Protests Against the Murders of Children, and the Ethnic African who stabbed 11 Ethnic European children and 2 adults who tried to help them, the British citizens were arrested and thrown into prison, where one committed suicide.