- “With cold fury, the victims and their families told Rudakubana precisely what he was: a coward” – The Telegraph‘s Allison Pearson says that in Liverpool Crown Court she came face to face with both the best and the worst of humanity.
- “I’m as tough as they come but I held back tears over Southport details – no parent should have to endure those horrors” – In the Sun, Julia Hartley-Brewer says that some of the cold, hard facts hit you like a punch in the stomach.
- “Southport killer Axel Rudakubana deserves to die behind bars” – Rudakubana will serve a minimum of 52 years in prison, but the judge was prevented from imposing a whole-life order because the massacre was committed just short of the killer’s 18th birthday, an outcome that David Shipley in the Spectator says is abhorrent.
- “The 10 missed chances to stop Southport killer Axel Rudakubana” – From the age of 13 the teenage killer, whose pre-meditated attack shocked the world, carried knives, was visited by the police on a number of occasions and attacked his own family. The Mail looks at the 10 times he could have been stopped.
- “Southport killer said he wanted to stab someone – but police didn’t arrest him” – The Southport attacker was not arrested by police two years before he carried out the killings despite him saying “he wanted to poison people and stab someone”, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s response to the Southport murders is either stupid or shameless” – Forcing Amazon to step up its security checks won’t save lives – but it may let Ministers steer the conversation away from Sir Keir, says the Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon.
- “Starmer’s ‘masterclass in obfuscation’ over Southport murders” – Starmer gave a masterclass in obfuscation over the Southport murders, says Frederick Attenborough in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Man stabbed four people ‘like a serial killer’ in attack at Argos warehouse” – A balaclava-clad man went on a knife rampage stabbing four people “like a serial killer” in a daytime attack at an Argos warehouse in south London, the Telegraph reports.
- “Birmingham schoolboy murder suspect, 14, arrested over pensioner assaults” – The 14-year-old suspect in the murder of 12 year-old Leo Ross in Birmingham has been arrested on suspicion of a number of assaults on pensioners, the Telegraph reports.
- “The grooming-gangs scandal is far worse than you think” – A new film illuminates the shocking depravity of these crimes, says Phelim Mcaleer in Spiked.
- “We have no clue how many people live in Britain – and Starmer doesn’t care” – The news that one in 12 people in London is an illegal migrant is likely to be an under-estimate, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Labour would rather pave over the green belt than deport illegal migrants” – Too many people are being allowed to cock a snook at the law of the land without fear of the consequences, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Row over Benefits Street-style Channel 4 show called Go Back to Where You Came From that will see six ordinary Britons ‘experience terror of small boat crossings’” – Channel 4 has promised a “thoughtful and impactful” programme, but has been accused of trivialising the issue in a sensationalist bid to win ratings for its new prime time show, according to the Mail.
- “Germans no longer feel safe after these horrific crimes” – In the Spectator, Katja Hoyer says even mainstream German politicians have now had enough of murderous migrants.
- “Trump bans Pride and BLM flags from US buildings across the globe” – President Donald Trump is stamping his authority on America’s presence around the world with a sweeping new order that only the Stars and Stripes – and nothing woke – will be flown from diplomatic buildings, reports the Mail.
- “Transgender inmates panic as Trump’s order sends them to men’s prisons” – Transgender inmates have been sent into a tizzy with President Trump’s day-one executive order that will send them back to men’s prisons, reports the Mail.
- “Has Trump killed Davos Man?” – The WEF’s globalist gabfest has never looked more irrelevant, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Davos people thought they were more important than democracy. Trump has proved them wrong” – In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley is enjoying the discomfort of the Davos set in the face of Trump’s electoral victory.
- “Trump orders the release of the final JFK assassination documents” – The last secret files about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King can now be published after President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the release of all classified documents, the Mail reports.
- “Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’ – an expert’s view” – As a biographer of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, Nicholas Farrell in the Spectator gives an expert view on Musk’s emphatic salute, which, he says, was certainly not a Nazi one, but was probably inadvisably similar to it.
- “‘Heil Musk’ projected on to German Tesla factory” – Left-wing activists have projected a giant image of Elon Musk’s salute alongside the word “heil” onto Tesla’s Berlin factory, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump announces $500 billion AI investment to develop cancer vaccines” – President Donald Trump has announced Project Stargate, a $500 billion investment for private companies to develop artificial intelligence tools to support medical advancements, including a cancer vaccine, reports the Mail.
- “Larry Ellison Sells Stargate AI-Driven Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccines Developed in 48 Hours” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Dr Peter McCullough expresses scepticism about the potential of AI to cure cancer.
- “The Trump I (barely) know” – In the Spectator, Toby recounts how during the five years he lived in New York between 1995 and 2000, he and Trump were on nodding terms – mainly because Trump had his wandering eye on his then-girlfriend.
- “Rachel Reeves to water down non-dom tax raid” – Rachel Reeves is planning to water down her tax raid on ultra-wealthy non-doms after an exodus of millionaires from Britain, the Telegraph reports.
- “Rachel Reeves is getting an expensive lesson in economics” – Reeves’s concessions on non-doms may prove to be just the first of many screeching U-turns, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Sainsbury axes more than 3,000 jobs and plans to shut all cafes ” – Sainsbury’s will cut more than 3,000 jobs and plans to close its remaining in-store cafes as part of a major restructure in the “particularly challenging cost environment” created by Reeves’s Budget, the Mail reports.
- “Labour is pushing Marxist ideology, says Britain’s ‘strictest headteacher’” – On the Planet Normal podcast, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan speak to Katharine Birbalsingh, Headteacher at Michaela Community School, about the far-Left revolutionary zeal driving Bridget Phillipson’s education reforms.
- “Why the media failed during Covid” – On Dystopian Down Under, Daily Mail Australia journalist David Southwell gives an insider perspective on what went wrong with the fourth estate during the pandemic.
- “Trump sounds death knell for the World Health Organisation” – Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the WHO has sounded its death knell, says David Paton in UnHerd.
- “Why Britain should follow Trump’s lead and pull out of the WHO which failed so wretchedly over Covid” – In the Mail, Fred Roeder argues that Britain should follow America out of the WHO.
- “Heat pumps ‘cost more to run than gas boilers’ in winter” – Households with heat pumps face higher energy bills in colder months than those with gas boilers as plummeting efficiency drives up bills by up to 74%, according to the Telegraph.
- “Unmade in Britain: we’re becoming a zero-industrial society” – Thanks to our over-zealous pursuit of Net Zero, the UK is moving beyond post-industrial to what might be called a ‘zero-industrial society’, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “I won’t resign over Heathrow expansion, Miliband insists” – Ed Miliband has refused to resign if the Government publicly backs a third runway at Heathrow, prompting accusations by green campaigners of “disappointing” hypocrisy, the Telegraph reports.
- “Britain’s Net Zero, green energy madness is set for a head-on collision with reality” – In the Telegraph, Matt Ridley says that Britain is de-industrialising for no reason at all, as the jobs, business, money and emissions we shed simply go elsewhere.
- “The assisted suicide bill’s shameful lack of scrutiny” – Kim Leadbeater and her supporters have given up on any pretence of balance and transparency in their handling of the assisted suicide bill, says Yuan Yi Zhu in the Spectator.
- “Guardian journalists cave in over Observer sale” – Journalists at the Guardian have finally caved in over the sale of the Observer to loss-making start-up Tortoise Media, as they agreed to vote through the deal despite four days of strikes, the Telegraph reports.
- “The struggle against scientism” – Science is great at many things, but it is not the only path to enlightenment, argues Bo Winegard in Aporia.
- “How Hamas became invisible” – The greatest trick these vicious Islamists ever pulled was convincing the world they didn’t exist, says Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Charlotte Raven, fast-living and controversial editor of the Modern Review” – Telegraph obituary for one of Toby’s 1990s free-living colleagues at the Modern Review.
- “Mark Carney’s bid to rule Canada may be over before it’s begun” – The ex-Bank of England Governor is hoping to fill Justin Trudeau’s shoes – but many see him as too similar to the current, unpopular leader, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain wrongly locking up people who expose crimes by immigrants, claims Milei” – The Argentinian President has channelled Elon Musk’s accusations in a Davos speech, reports the Telegraph.
- “Slowly the hegemony of the woke Left in politics, in educational institutions, in the media and even in Davos has begun to crumble” – Argentina’s heroic President turns up at the WEF just to deliver to them the message that their reign is over.
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“Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’ – an expert’s view”
This reminds me of the programmes on SKY, where they have three experts dissecting Trump, or Boris, or whoever, and presenting some footage in slo-mo of the subject scratching his nose, declare that ‘There! There.! He’s lying’. Expert, my arse… The left are becoming utterly unhinged as outbreaks of common-sense start to cure society, (not here in the UK, obvs). There isn’t a net big enough to throw over them all..
The Musk ‘salute’ has been splendid for exposing fools like James O’Brien and Ash Sarkar who apparently believe it was a Nazi salute… the depressing thing though, is that there are quite so many who can look at something and claim it to be something it manifestly isn’t.
“Row over Benefits Street-style Channel 4 show called Go Back to Where You Came From that will see six ordinary Britons ‘experience terror of small boat crossings’”
‘Illegal small boat crossings’.
To be realistic, they would have to instill the same motivations into the callow Englishmen as the actual immigrants have (which, to be candid, probably varies a lot). To illustrate this, a commander raid in small boats to blow up a German port has similar challenges, but is undoubtedly a very different psychological experience to either immigrants or bit-actors crossing the channel.
Yes difficult to recreate the euphoria of getting away from France.
This crass program literally is taking the pi$$ out of the law! Entering the UK without going through customs is Illegal (although you’d never know it) these British people Entering Britain by way of a beach and not customs makes them Illegal immigrants,
Disgusting program, Disgusting channel 4
Thursday Morning A4130 & B481 Nettlebed Henley-on-Thames
People First Net Zero Last
I admire your tenacity!
What responses do you get?
Well said Rafe. And he’s right because it’s what all the data from across Europe are showing. It’s not that white, indigenous citizens have stopped offending, it’s that the migrants and their descendants are well over-represented in the crime figures;
”Recent atrocities:
Southport: Asylum seekers’ child
Nottingham: young migrant
Sir David Ames: young migrant
Manchester Arena: Asylum seekers’ child
The issue few will address is that migrants from violent nations & THEIR CHILDREN are more prone to violence & criminality — especially if they’ve experienced violence themselves.
That Axel Rudakubana was born in Wales or that others grew up in Britain is IRRELEVANT. Rudakubana’s obsession with the Rwandan genocide underscores this point.
This is a fundamental fact that the media and politicians will not discuss.
The implications are so explosive they would prefer to say it is “far right” misinformation to suggest the Southport massacre is linked to the asylum system. THIS IS WRONG. The link is obvious.
The sociological and psychological evidence is clear. So why do we continue to import so many from troubled lands?
More broadly, the asylum system has imported HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of fit, young men, many of whom have seen – or participated in – unspeakable horrors. We’ve allowed them to arrive on our shores bringing all that baggage with them.
Huge numbers are incapable of integrating, emotionally dead or stunted and suffering serious psychological issues – some are simply criminals and murderers.
The same goes for the 1,000+ radicalised British-born immigrant offspring who left Britain to fight for ISIS in Syria and have returned even more psychologically disturbed but brutally hardened, many of them murderers.
Why would any society knowingly import so many who are poorly adjusted, a burden on our benefits system and our overstretched mental health services and – worst of all – pose a potential risk to both the safety of individuals and the security of the nation?
The personality, psychology and mental health of those we import to this country – and of their children – is a major issue; yet it remains a taboo few are willing to discuss.
We are importing a population of “ticking timebombs”.
https://x.com/RafHM/status/1882528101378240850
Crime figures for Spain. Immigrants vs native Spaniards;
”I’ve compiled a robust dataset of 2 million data points over 5 years, detailing crime suspects by citizenship in Spain.
The numbers are alarming and raise serious questions about our immigration policies.
Foreigners are overrepresented in criminal offenses in Spain.
While they make up 12% of the population, they account for a significant share of those suspected:
Homicides & assaults: ~30%
Rapes: ~40%
Violent thefts: 47%
Certain citizenships are particularly overrepresented among those suspected (e.g., North Africa).
Conversely, populations from many nationalities have suspect rates comparable to or lower than Spaniards (e.g., China, Philippines)
Moroccans and Algerians are proportionally 4 times more suspected in criminal offenses than Spaniards.
Over the past 10 years, 20,000 foreigners have been implicated in sexual offenses.
In 2022, foreigners accounted for ~40% of those suspected in rapes, despite making up only 12% of the population.
When it comes to sexual assaults, the figures are equally alarming.
While there are 11 individuals suspected in sexual assaults per 100,000 Spaniards, the number rises to 47 per 100,000 foreigners—a rate more than 4 times higher!
Ultimately, foreigners are overrepresented in all major criminal offenses in Spain, with suspect rates up to 7 times higher than those of Spaniards.”
https://x.com/Marc_Vanguard_i/status/1882544194582945885
Dale Vince is a complete prat. Yes of course if there was no social media or Amazon selling knives all these imported ( Muslim ) psychopaths with their hostile attitudes and murderous/rapey intentions would all just cease to exist;
”Sikhs and Hindus and Bhuddists and Jews and Christians all manage to go on social media and refrain from exploding at concerts, blowing up buses and tube trains, they dont cut off soldiers heads, murder little girls at dance clubs, or in parks, or murder gay men, or mow down people in cars. They all have access to knives and Amazon too.
… perhaps the issue isn’t social media, knives and Amazon?”
https://x.com/KingBobIIV/status/1882664013416272171
Accusing Amazon – Digital ID by the back door. Bliar will be looking on Rudukabana as a gift from the devil himself.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/davos-2025-special-address-donald-trump-president-united-states/
‘I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New Deal – I call it the Green New Scam; withdrew from the one sided Paris climate accord
The United States has the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we’re going to use it.
I have promised to eliminate 10 old regulations for every new regulation
Under the Trump administration, there will be no better place on Earth to create jobs, build factories, or grow a company than right here in the good old USA.
I’m also going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil. If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately. Right now, the price is high enough that that war will continue. You’ve got to bring down the oil price. You’re going to end that war.
And this week I’m also taking swift action to stop the invasion at our southern border.
On day one, I signed an executive order to stop all government censorship.
My administration has taken action to abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense.
I’ve made it official, an official policy of the United States that there are only two genders, male and female.
I’m also going to ask all NATO nations to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP, which is what it should have been years ago.’
Systemic reform is required.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/davos-2025-special-address-javier-milei-president-argentina/
Argentina was the “ghost of Western Christmases yet to come”, because we had already experienced everything you were going through, and we already knew how it would end.
Argentina has become a global example of fiscal responsibility, of commitment to honouring our obligations
We are an example of a new way of doing politics, which is about telling people the truth to their faces and trusting that they will understand.
At some point in the 20th century, we lost our way and the liberal principles that had made us free and prosperous were betrayed.
A new political class, driven by collectivist ideologies and taking advantage of times of crisis, saw the perfect opportunity to accumulate power.
The wealth created by capitalism until then and into the future would be redistributed through some scheme of centralized planning, setting in motion a process whose disastrous consequences we are suffering today……an idea that serves as a gold mine for bureaucrats who aspire to omnipotence.
By promoting a socialist agenda while insidiously operating within the liberal paradigm, this new political class distorted the values of liberalism
When we argue that the Earth has already gone through five abrupt temperature change cycles, and that during four of those men was not even around, we are called ‘Flat Earthers’ in order to discredit our ideas, even though science and the data are on our side.
Since the market is a mechanism of social cooperation where property rights are voluntarily exchanged, the very concept of market failures is a contradiction in terms.
The only thing such intervention achieves is the creation of new distortions within the price system, which in turn hinders economic calculation, savings and investment – ultimately leading to even more poverty in its wake or a mesh of abhorrent regulations, such as is the case in Europe, which kills economic growth.
If you believe there is a market failure, go and check to see if the state is not involved. And if you find that it isn’t, check again because you got it wrong.
Our first and foremost mission – if we truly want to reclaim the West’s progress and build a new golden era – has to be the drastic reduction in the size of the state.
Not only in each of our countries, but also the drastic reduction of all supranational organizations, as this is the only way to root out this perverse system, draining its resources in order to give back to taxpayers what belongs to them, and to put an end to the sale of favours.
The functions of the state must once again be limited to defending the right to life, liberty and property.’
Systemic reform is required.
I wonder if we could get him to come here and get into politics?
https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/22/starmer-wants-to-overhaul-terror-law-heres-why/
Kit Knightly at his succinct best. Why does the government want to overhaul terror laws?
“When Starmer (or whoever wrote the Sun piece) mentions “too many people are falling between the cracks in our society”, for example, that means more surveillance and tighter controlling on home schooling.
When he says “That will mean difficult questions about how to protect our children from the tidal wave of violent videos online.”, he’s talking about ending online anonymity, as they are trying to do in Australia.
But, as is often the case, the practical is secondary to the rhetorical and emotional. The loosening of definitions is an aim of itself, as it enables Orwellian use of language.
The final aim is to make “Terrorism” a label so fluid as to be meaningless, applied on ad hoc basis to anything and everything as needed.
If you have a problem with forever wars
If you don’t want a ban on raw milk
If you just think your Council Tax is too high
Bam – you could be a “terrorist”.
So there’s that…
The situation was very cleverly played, coming at their goal from both sides.
The “riots” that followed the stabbing have prepped the left to fear “white supremacist violence”, while the absurd story about the “al Qaeda training” manual found in the alleged attackers home is fuel for the anti-immigrant right.
Either way, both sides are now outraged and/or terrified by the idea of “terrorism”, and both sides will be much more likely to accept whatever the people in charge do about it.
This is how and why your fears are played with – and why you need to be 100% sceptical of any narrative that ends up making you want the government to “do something” (anything) to make your fears go away.”
Am I alone in finding it hard to reconcile the idea that the WEF is irrelevant and losing it’s influence with the fact that the likes of Trump and Milei still make major speeches there?
Do people actually understand what the WEF is?
It is a massive lobby group, pulling together the biggest corporations in the world to lobby governments. And such is their power that government leaders go there very willingly to be lobbied.
Trump didn’t go there to lay down the law of the land. He went there to set out his stall and tell them all at once that the US is the best place for them to do business.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/23/labour-response-southport-amazon-knives-starmer/
Erm, no Mr Deacon, this is simply Digital ID by the back door.
More on the C-19 débacle from GBN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1WRo2857Q&list=WL&index=5 The UK KNEW COVID vaccines cause harm and had £1.7 BILLION ready for injuries..
Just over 10 minutes/ Looking on the bright side, YT advertised this output, rather than deleting it.
Covid Inquiry: Module 4
Another day of the useless Inquiry…
Only predetermined questions can be asked, so if an answer provokes a further line of questioning, the Baroness says ‘no’.
Javid admits he did not know about the Yellow card system.
Whitty says that he thought maybe mandates were not such a good idea.
Admits maybe trial on pregnant women should have been conducted.
Dame Jenny does not know that the manufacturing process was changed between the trial product and the actual product.
I am sure I have missed a few gems….
I was wondering why no one mentions the parents of the Southport killer.
The father stopped him the week before the killing, why did he not take it any further? Asked for help? He must have seen his son going in the wrong direction?
Maybe he did ask for help?
From the coverage it appears that the parents had been asking for help for years. As is usual when authorities don’t have a box to put the problem in, he was passed back to the parents to get on with it.
More may come out, of course, but that’s how it looks to me.
Jon, thank you. If that appears to be the case, it would even be more of a failing than Prevent.
OT,
storm Éowym hits us in the southwest of ireland,..a very sleepless night
A wind speed of 114mph recorded at mace head!
If that was in America it would have been recorded as a category 3 hurricane
Hope you escaped any serious damage.
“We have no clue how many people live in Britain – and Starmer doesn’t care”
This Government you say?
So from his own reckoning in 2017-2024 the numbers increased under a supposedly Conservative government. 2024-2025 the numbers continue to increase under a Labour government… and he’s worried about this government.
If only. Sadly, our leaders are wedded to the idea of bolstering subservience to such international bodies.