- “Unmasked: the Chinese ‘spy’ who grew close to Prince Andrew” – An alleged Chinese spy who became friends with Prince Andrew and mixed with some of the most powerful figures in the land has been named as Yang Tengbo, reports the Mail.
- “How Chinese ‘spy’ wove web of influence through the British establishment” – Yang Tengbo used his ties to British elites to weave a web of influence for China, writes Connor Stringer in the Telegraph.
- “‘Spy’ founded Prince Andrew’s Chinese money-making scheme” – Pressure is mounting on the Duke of York to reveal his funding source after an alleged Chinese spy was linked to his money-making venture in China, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour accused of trampling democracy with forced council mergers” – Labour has been accused of trampling on local democracy after telling local councils to merge as part of a major devolution drive, says the Mail.
- “Reeves’ inheritance tax raid ‘to cost more than it makes’” – New analysis shows that Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid on family businesses and farms will backfire by costing the Treasury over £1 billion more than it makes, according to GB News.
- “Labour’s attack on private schools is simple class envy” – In a leading article, the Telegraph slams Labour’s tax raid on private schools as a reckless policy that harms the very people the country can’t afford to lose.
- “Flat taxes are ‘very attractive’, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch says that introducing a flat rate of tax for businesses and individuals is a “very attractive” proposition, according to the Mail.
- “The long-awaited victory for the Right has finally come. Rejoice!” – Britain is now the outpost of an ideology being swept away everywhere. No one is listening to a broken Left, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage refuses to take Parliament’s anti-bullying training” – Farage’s Reform U.K. appears to be split over anti-bullying training for MPs, after the party leader shunned the “woke” programme, but his four fellow MPs took part, reports the Mail.
- “Ed Miliband’s solar farm building spree will ruin our countryside for ever” – Net Zero dogma will cost jobs, drive up our bills and damage the economy, warns Richard Tice in the Telegraph.
- “BBC accused of ‘bullying pensioners’ after threatening to check licence fees on Christmas Day” – The BBC has been accused of “bullying pensioners” through “thuggish” tactics after threatening to check OAPs’ TV licences on Christmas Day, reports GB News.
- “Universities are churning out brainless frauds” – Degrees are being debased by allowing students to use Chat GPT to write their essays, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Calls for Archbishop of York to resign over abuse case failings” – The Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell is facing calls to resign over his handling of a sexual abuse case, just days before he takes temporary charge of the Church of England, reports the BBC.
- “Justin Trudeau ‘is on brink of resigning’ as his Government crumbles” – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is considering his options as leader, sources tell CTV News, after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland revealed she will quit the Cabinet.
- “Donald Trump may just have toppled Justin Trudeau’s Government” – In the Telegraph, Michael Taube reveals how Canadian Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland’s resignation, sparked by her clash with Trudeau over Trump’s looming tariffs, may have just delivered the final nail in Trudeau’s political coffin.
- “What the resignation of Justin Trudeau’s deputy means for Canada” – Chrystia Freeland’s resignation delivers a significant blow to Trudeau, underscoring a sharp split over Canada’s direction as the embattled leader faces mounting instability, writes Josie Ensor in the Times.
- “Putin says West has pushed him to his ‘red lines’” – Putin has accused the West of pushing Russia to its “red lines” and made chilling threats to lift restrictions on Russian missile deployment, reports the Mail.
- “How Ireland declared diplomatic war on Israel” – From the President downwards, there has been a hostility to Israel that is genuinely unprecedented in Irish political life, notes Ian O’Doherty in the Spectator.
- “Scholz branded a ‘failure’ as Germany’s Government collapses” – Germany is facing elections in February following the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s Government, reports the Telegraph.
- “Feds know what drones are but are too scared to tell us, senator says” – Sen. Jon Bramnick is calling for a state of emergency, claiming the U.S. Government knows what the mystery drones are but is too afraid to reveal it, according to the Mail.
- “Kamala’s participation trophy?” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley talks down Kamala Harris’s chances for California governor, arguing her weak record and poor campaigning could lead to another costly failure.
- “Bosses are delighted if you quit rather than return to the office” – Some employees see the push to end home working as a low-cost way of getting rid of workers, says Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “(Heart)Breaking: Rhys Hoole suddenly injured after COVID-19 vaccine” – As you enjoy the festive season, spare a thought for those harmed by COVID-19 vaccines and mandates, says Dr. Raphael Lataster on his Substack.
- “Pfizer mRNA ‘vaccinated’ children significantly more likely to get COVID-19 than unvaccinated peers” – A new study finds that Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 “vaccinated” children are 159% more likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 and 257% more likely to develop symptomatic COVID-19 than their unvaccinated peers, writes Nicolas Hulscher on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “‘We will examine connection between vaccines and autism’” – Trump has announced that his incoming administration will examine claims of a connection between vaccines and autism, reports the Times.
- “RFK Jr. and the Samoan measles outbreak” – Painting RFK Jr. as an anti-vaxxer is a transparent facade, says David Marks on Dr. Robert W. Malone’s Substack.
- “Letters from America” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan expose how lobbying and misinformation replaced evidence-based policy during the pandemic.
- “The BBC’s attacks on Steven Bartlett reek of hypocrisy” – The Beeb’s commitment to trans ideology has turned it into a superspreader of health misinformation, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “How British firms were captured by gender ideology” – The cult of equity, diversity and inclusion has taken over many companies – but the consumer backlash is forcing a rethink, writes Sanchez Manning in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s quiet plan to ‘decolonise’ street names proves the culture wars aren’t over” – The previous government’s plans to prevent activists rewriting history without public consent have been scrapped, reports Lara Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Winter Pride event called off after threat of legal action” – A Winter Pride event has been called off after a campaign body threatened legal action against the organisers if they banned a woman with gender critical beliefs from attending, reports Nation Cymru.
- “Card Factory forced to defend white male chairman in diversity row” – Card Factory has reappointed its executive chair Paul Moody, despite votes cast against his reappointment over a lack of diversity on its board, says Retail Gazette.
- “No whites allowed” – In the New Conservative, Peter Harris slams the Environment Agency’s racially exclusive internship programme.
- “How the Left fell to authoritarianism” – Luke Conway’s Liberal Bullies gets to the heart of what turned today’s progressives into tyrants, writes Patrick West in Spiked.
- “Farewell, GB News!” – On his Substack, Andrew Doyle bids farewell to GB News after three and a half years hosting Free Speech Nation.
- “Trump says White House knows what drones are” – Michael Shellenberger runs down what we know about the drones sighted in the skies of New Jersey on X.
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Putin says West has pushed him to his ‘red lines’
Here’s what is really going on while the North Korean carpet in the Kremlin gets another chewing:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1868733190120391073?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
That’s how you win a war……no water for your soldiers….genius…..or not really….
No wonder Russia, if not Putin, hopes for peace.
‘Trump’s team has outlined a peace plan that includes an 800-mile demilitarized buffer zone along the frontlines, policed by UK and European militaries, with Ukraine shelving its NATO aspirations for at least two decades.
This approach, which Trump calls “peace through strength,” has received cautious acknowledgment from Zelensky, who described a recent phone conversation with Trump as “excellent.”
Russian officials have indicated a willingness to consider Trump’s proposals. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated, “Russia is prepared to review Trump’s suggestions regarding Ukraine, but reviewing does not equate to agreement,”
So basically Putin keeps all he took by armed fighting including forced transfer of Ukrainian citizens to Russia. He is not required to rebuild the infrastructure, buildings, culture and lives he ruined.
And the UK has not enough troops to guard us let alone 800 miles of border in Ukraine. What happened to The End of History. What happened to respect for national borders and self determination.
My guess is this won’t come about and instead Trump will increase the pressure on Russia to the point it breaks down like the Soviet system did.
Which is exactly the whole point of the Ukraine conflict: to bring Russia to its knees. Or did you think USA, not to mention UK, is in the slightest interested in the well-being of the country Ukraine or its citizens?
Zelensky was elected president because he promised peace. As with all easily corrupted politicians, he became convinced he should start a war with Russia, and has since – together with his corrupt government – shovelled in the billions of dollars thrown his way, buying luxurious villas in the most expensive locations world-wide.
Do you think that Zelensky cares about his country (he was brought up in a Russian speaking family and had to learn the Ukrainian language during his presidency) or its people? Or does he only care (like most politicians) about himself?
His country is being destroyed, unknown hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been killed or maimed, millions have left the country. Do you really believe Zelensky cares?! He could easily have accepted the peace plan agreed in Istanbul in April 2022! But no, good old Boris came over and talked him out of it.
All this complete nonsense about Putin wanting to take over the Baltic States, Poland, Europe, the world, when he is finished with Ukraine! Putin does not even want to conquer Ukraine: what is he supposed to do with a country whose people do not want him as their leader?
It is the West that is forcing Putin to fight this war and nobody else. Who needs NATO? What good has NATO ever done in this world? When has the involvement of NATO ever brought anything other than destruction and misery, except to a few US politicians?
It was so simple: Ukraine may not join NATO. Why should that be a problem? Most of the world is not in NATO – and they are better off because of it!
Forced transfer of Ukrainian citizens to Russia? What? And respect for national borders? Tell that to Israel!
‘In this regard, in accordance with Article 51 of Part 7 of the UN Charter, with the approval of the Federation Council of Russia and in pursuance of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the Duma on February 22 with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, I decided to launch a special military operation……Our plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories. We are not going to impose anything on anyone by force…..What is happening today does not come out of a desire to infringe on the interests of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.’
Putin 24 Feb 2022
The complete speech is provided here: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843.
A large part of the speech is devoted to how the West has betrayed Russia in so many cases:
I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border … Entreaties and requests do not help. Anything that does not suit the dominant state, the powers that be, is denounced as archaic, obsolete and useless. At the same time, everything it regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the cost, abusively and by any means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics … There are many examples of this. First a bloody military operation was waged against Belgrade, without the UN Security Council’s sanction but with combat aircraft and missiles used in the heart of Europe … Then came the turn of Iraq, Libya and Syria … A similar fate was also prepared for Syria. The combat operations conducted by the Western coalition in that country without the Syrian government’s approval or UN Security Council’s sanction can only be defined as aggression and intervention. But the example that stands apart from the above events is, of course, the invasion of Iraq without any legal grounds …
Overall, it appears that nearly everywhere, in many regions of the world where the United States brought its law and order, this created bloody, non-healing wounds and the curse of international terrorism and extremism. I have only mentioned the most glaring but far from only examples of disregard for international law. This array includes promises not to expand NATO eastwards even by an inch. To reiterate: they have deceived us, or, to put it simply, they have played us.
And so on.
For the United States and its allies, it is a policy of containing Russia, with obvious geopolitical dividends. For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation.
Then comes the paragraph you chose to publish, followed by:
The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation.
It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force. At the same time, we have been hearing an increasing number of statements coming from the West that there is no need any more to abide by the documents setting forth the outcomes of World War II, as signed by the totalitarian Soviet regime. How can we respond to that? …
The current events have nothing to do with a desire to infringe on the interests of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. They are connected with the defending Russia from those who have taken Ukraine hostage and are trying to use it against our country and our people.
He even addressed the military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to allow today’s neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine. You swore the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people’s adversary which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people.
I urge you to refuse to carry out their criminal orders. I urge you to immediately lay down arms and go home. I will explain what this means: the military personnel of the Ukrainian army who do this will be able to freely leave the zone of hostilities and return to their families.
I want to emphasise again that all responsibility for the possible bloodshed will lie fully and wholly with the ruling Ukrainian regime.
Apologies for the lengthy post.
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-general-killed-in-moscow-explosion-local-media-reports/
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian Armed Forces’ radiation, chemical, and biological defense troops, was reportedly killed in an explosion at a residence in Moscow the morning of Dec. 17, according to Russian media.
Kirillov and another Russian servicemember, reported to be his personal assistant, were killed in an explosion near the entrance to a residential building in Moscow in the early hours of Dec. 17, according to the Russian Telegram news channel Astra.
“On Kirillov’s orders, since the beginning of the full-scale war, more than 4,800 cases of enemy use of chemical munitions have been recorded,”
The U.K. issued sanctions against Kirillov and his unit over the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine on Oct. 8.
Statement by Konstantin Vorontsov, Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, at the Meeting of States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Geneva, 16 December 2024 (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1987746/):
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) became the first international agreement to outlaw an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. This was a significant step forward in advancing the process of general and complete disarmament, reducing the threat of biological agents used for weapons purposes. The Russian Federation, as BTWC depository state, consistently implements all of its provisions.
However, even after half a century of existence of the Convention, it is too early to say that the issue of biological weapons is completely removed from the agenda of the world community. In the context of fulfilment of obligations under the BTWC, the uncovered facts pertaining to the implementation of a military biological programme in Ukraine with support of the Pentagon and affiliated entities, including private companies, warrant closer attention. The analysis of available documents indicates the development of bioweapon components in close proximity to the Russian borders.
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Russia is convinced of the need for the international community to intensify its efforts to strengthen the expert and technical capacity of the UN Secretary-General’s Mechanism for Investigation of Alleged Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (UNSGM) … As is known, to facilitate the implementation of this goal, the Russian Federation sent a message to the UN Secretary-General calling for a review of the existing UNSGM principles and procedures with a view to updating them.
So, who to believe, Ukraine or Russia? Take your choice.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) investigated a September 20 chemical weapon attack against Ukrainian troops in the Dnipropetrovsk region. A drone dropped grenades in Ukrainian trenches containing a substance that caused physical reactions among troops, including excessive salivation, nasal congestion, and burning and itching sensations.
The OPCW team “collected documentation and digital files, testimonies from first-hand witnesses, and received three samples collected by Ukraine: a shell of grenade and two soil samples collected from a trench.” The team also collected and took photographs and video of the grenades. After corroborating an appropriate chain of custody for the samples, the team sent them to two separate OPCW-designated laboratories for independent analysis, a process observed by Ukrainian OPCW representatives.
The laboratories independently confirmed “that the grenade and soil samples collected from the trench contain the riot control agent 2-Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile, known as CS.” The OPCW underscored that under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, “the use of riot control agents as a method of warfare is prohibited.”
”No whites” indeed. More here on the ongoing replacement and discrimination of native white citizens, ironically all orchestrated by white anti-white authority figures, who evidently hate their own race;
”Demography is only moving one way in Britain, engineered deliberately by successive administrations, as Keir Starmer recently admitted. Muhammad is now officially the most popular baby name for boys in England and Wales, a fact even the Office for National Statistics can no longer deny. Of course, this has been the case for at least a decade; it’s just that the convenient 14 variants of the name (Muhammad, Mohammed, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Muhamad, Muhamed, Mohamud, Mohummad, Mohummed, Mouhamed, Mohammod, and Mouhamad, if you’re curious) have allowed the statisticians to pretend that this was not so. If you believe the ONS then, various incarnations of Muhammad are the 1st, 33rd, and 68th most popular names in Britain. Alas, we are no longer a serious country.
The long-term effect of Muslim babies dominating the maternity wards has yet to be observed. What has been witnessed in the space of my lifetime, however, is the demographic transformation of the country. Whites are a minority in the capital, a minority in major cities, and will eventually be a minority across the nation (without serious course correction). The timeline for which is estimated at something like 2050, the only caveat being that however lunatic the demographic projections appear to be, they always turn out to have underestimated the speed of replacement.
The establishment customarily gerrymander the figures until the practice is untenable, at which point the mood shifts to aggressive questions as to why such an eventuality would be problematic. As a case in point, consider 2022 when Nigel Farage was roundly lambasted for the claim that “London, Birmingham and Manchester are all now minority white cities.” The BBC took him to task, as did the ONS, as indeed did the fact-checkers at Full Fact. Except Nigel Farage was not wrong, which is why Sajid Javid decided to change tack and simply said “So what?”
That white native Brits may soon be a minority in their own homeland is not nothing, however there’s no reason to speed up the process. Actively denying white Brits access to education, employment, and indeed free speech is not just immoral, it’s also no recipe for social cohesion. Furthermore, denying them access to the levers of power on the grounds that they are not sufficiently diverse, is little more than an invitation to civil war.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/no-whites-please/
It’s happening across most of Europe, of course. More truth bombs from this Spanish MP, and how many other countries can these crime figures and other issues regarding mass uncontrolled immigration be applied?;
“It’s a lie that they are refugees fleeing from wars,” Rocío de Meer stated. “What war is there in Algeria? What war is there in Morocco? What war is there in Mauritania?”
In a blistering parliamentary address, Rocío de Meer, National Deputy for Almería and representative of Spain’s nationalist party, Vox, delivered a scathing indictment of the socialist government’s open-border policies and their devastating consequences for Spain’s safety, culture, and sovereignty. Her speech was more than a criticism; it was a rallying cry for all Spaniards.
Rocío de Meer wasted no time identifying the core issue: massive and uncontrolled immigration imposed by the socialist regime under the guise of compassion. De Meer rightly pointed out that these policies are not about humanitarianism but are instead a deliberate attack on Spain’s identity and safety. Armed with undeniable data, she exposed the harsh truth the government tries to hide.
De Meer cited alarming statistics from the Ministry of the Interior, revealing an explosion of violent crime between 2017 and 2023:
Faced with these undeniable numbers, De Meer challenged the socialists directly: “Are the data from your Ministry of Interior a hoax?” Of course not. The figures speak for themselves, and they are no longer isolated incidents—they are part of a broader trend driven by uncontrolled immigration.”
“Labour accused of trampling democracy with forced council mergers”
Now, remind me of the urgency of this. It’s going to generate lots of money during a time of economic chaos to fill the “black hole”? It’s going to increase international trade by regarding Dorset as independent? It’s necessary to prevent insurrection by seething Cornish Nationalists? It’s going to reduce immigration somehow? It was at the top of the Labour election manifesto?
Or maybe it’s just another twist of the globalist centralisation screw by getting little Sadiq Khans lording it over the shires?
And nothing to do with the Uniparty cementing and expanding its power base.
It is a scheme which originates with EU regions snd the inelegantly named “sub regional authorities”. Districts and cities will be merged even across county borders. That will eliminate counties and allow metropolitan globalists in cities to Lord it over rural areas and small towns.
in effect this transfers all powers to Whitehall now and in future Mayors or sub-regional authorities leaders will answer to Whitehall. Not sure how much difference that will make because various quangos already tell officers what they can do or must do and Councillors go along with it.
This plan has been underway throughout the Tories 14 years but no details of the new boundaries or powers or voting method have been published. It took the Boundary Commission years to update Parliamentary constituencies so this will take no less time. Unless Labour impose their gerrymandered plans with no consultation.
It is clear that preparations were going on under the Tories.
I doubt there will be elections to meaningful new councils before 2027.
But did I not hear that some elections are being suspended next May to make way for this? Otherwise, I totally agree with you.
“Labour accused of trampling democracy with forced council mergers”
Excellent summary comment by a member of the public on this:
“What Raynor is looking to do is saddle performing councils with the debts of under-performing councils.
For example, she is looking to saddle Cheshire with the debts of Warrington, which resulted from Council members and their advisors, with little experience, investing millions in projects and investment schemes which have gone sour.
It’s yet another attempt by Labour and its Council members looking to saddle better-off areas with the poorly run inner cities.”
[The Bog Standard Communist Agenda to make everyone poor…]