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by Richard Eldred
6 February 2025 12:44 AM

  • “Keir Starmer warned he could cost Britain a new US trade deal” – Keir Starmer has been warned that his obsession with unpicking Brexit could cost the UK a “golden opportunity” for a lucrative new trade deal with the US, reports the Mail.
  • “Lammy says Palestinians ‘must be able to live in homelands in Gaza’” – Keir Starmer has insisted that Palestinians “must be allowed home” after Donald Trump unveiled an extraordinary plan for the US to take control of Gaza, according to the Mail.
  • “The audacity of Trump’s Gaza plan” – The Trump-Netanyahu press conference was a disruption of long-entrenched, failed orthodoxies and the unveiling of a vision that dares to reimagine the Middle East in starkly different terms, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
  • “Trump’s Gaza plan has exposed the craven West’s moral cowardice” – The US President’s vision is the best chance of ensuring that Hamas’s genocidal hatred is defeated for all time, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
  • “Starmer and Danish PM put on show of unity over Greenland ‘security’” – Sir Keir Starmer and his Danish counterpart have put on a show of unity over Greenland’s “security” amid Donald Trump’s bid to take control of the Arctic territory, reports the Mail.
  • “Starmer is the worst negotiator in British history” – The Prime Minister wants to play off the US against the EU – but he is not skilful enough to do it, says Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
  • “Lord Hermer called Trump ‘the most brazen liar in political history’” – Speaking on a podcast, the Attorney General described Trump’s untruths as being “on a different scale” and “of a different nature” from other politicians, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Southport killer should have been seen as terror threat, Home Office admits” – A Government review has found that the Prevent counter-terrorism scheme “prematurely” closed its case on Axel Rudakubana three years before he went on his murderous rampage, reports BBC News.
  • “Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed” – All victims of grooming gangs will be able to sue their abusers for damages under a law change that will remove a time limit on claims, says BBC News.
  • “Why did police name man who burned the Koran and put his life in danger?” – In TCW, Dr Frederick Attenborough asks why police exposed the identity of a man who burned the Koran, risking his life.
  • “Angela Rayner’s Islamophobia council is a threat to free speech” – Is the Deputy PM giving the green light to blasphemy laws? asks Rakib Ehsan in UnHerd.
  • “Asylum seekers trained to report hate crimes by Labour councils” – Taxpayers’ money has been spent teaching asylum seekers how to report hate crimes in areas run by Labour councils, reports the Mail.
  • “The persecution of Jamie Michael” – Jamie Michael’s acquittal, with the help of the Free Speech Union, is a rare victory for free speech in the wake of Southport, says Luke Gittos in Spiked.
  • “Tories would kick out low-paid migrants” – Jobless and low-paid migrants would be barred from settling indefinitely in the UK under the first major Conservative policy announcement by Kemi Badenoch, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Give Kemi time – her plan is starting to work” – Mrs Badenoch, like Mrs Thatcher before her, is the kind of leader who emerges only once in a generation, says Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
  • “Police won’t investigate Starmer’s lockdown meeting with voice coach” – The Met Police won’t probe Keir Starmer’s lockdown meeting with his voice coach, as they’re barred from investigating breaches over three years old, according to GB News.
  • “Starmer’s lockdown meet with voice coach ‘had to be in person’” – Downing Street has insisted that Keir Starmer’s meeting with his voice coach at the height of Covid restrictions had to be in person, reports the Mail.
  • “Keir Starmer is a man without shame” – In the Mail, Dan Hodges explains why it matters that Keir Starmer had a meeting with his voice coach, as London was locked down under stringent Covid restrictions.
  • “Labour panic on Reform threat as MPs demand tougher immigration action” – Labour infighting has erupted over immigration, with panicking MPs demanding action to counter the Reform surge, reports the Mail.
  • “Labour MPs form anti-Reform pressure group” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reacts to Labour MPs forming a pressure group to push Starmer harder on immigration and crime as they scramble to counter Reform.
  • “Albanian burglar who cannot be deported taunts Home Office by driving Rolls-Royce in London” – An Albanian convicted burglar who cannot be deported has taunted the Home Office by filming himself driving around London in a Rolls-Royce, according to GB News.
  • “Council that lost £30 million through ‘accounting errors’ hits residents with a 9% tax rise” – With residents across England bracing themselves for a dramatic rise in their council tax bills, the Telegraph’s Dia Chakravarty looks at some of those local authorities’ track record at spending taxpayers’ money.
  • “Britain still acts as if it has money to burn” – No politician has yet been honest about what it would take to reverse our economic decline, says Jon Moynihan in the Times.
  • “‘I left the UK because I didn’t want my son to grow up in daycare’” – The state of our country’s childcare is a national disaster, writes Annabel Fenwick Elliott in the Telegraph.
  • “Keir Starmer sets up North Sea oil clash with Ed Miliband” – Sir Keir Starmer is expected to back one of Britain’s biggest offshore oil field developments despite fierce opposition from Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, reports the FT.
  • “Keir Starmer vows to power past nimbys and build nuclear stations” – Keir Starmer says that he will “push past the nimbyism” to ensure that a new generation of mini nuclear power stations are built, says the Times.
  • “Miliband scraps ‘incorrect’ advert after online ridicule” – Ed Miliband’s Energy Department has scrapped a £70,000 job post for an office attendance monitor amid mockery online, reports the Telegraph.
  • “An urgent review of the Lucy Letby case is needed” – Even a retrial of Lucy Letby, which some campaigners want, would be unjust, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
  • “There’s no time to delay. The Letby case needs an urgent review” – In the Telegraph, David Davis demands an urgent review of the Letby case, warning that justice must not repeat the CCRC’s sluggishness of the past.
  • “This is how Lucy Letby can walk free” – In the Telegraph, legal experts rate the chances of a successful appeal for Lucy Letby – and how long the process could take.
  • “Mentally ill people may be able to access assisted dying if they have six months to live” – Terminally ill people with mental disorders with a prognosis of six months or less, would have the ability to request medical assistance to end their lives under Kim Leadbeater’s proposed amendment to the assisted dying Bill, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Pandemic censorship spurs Trump research nominees and others to create Journal of the Academy of Public Health” – On Substack, Paul D Thacker discusses the launch of the Journal of the Academy of Public Health to combat censorship, speed up publishing and end establishment gatekeeping.
  • “Germany’s conservatives can’t solve the AfD conundrum” – The CDU leader Friedrich Merz is laying the groundwork for future defeats, warns Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
  • “DOGE cancels $8.2 million government payments to Politico” – Politico has become the latest casualty of Elon Musk’s clampdown on public spending after it emerged taxpayers were footing the bill for pricey subscriptions to the outlet, reports the Mail.
  • “NHS accused of ignoring Streeting as it advertises diversity role” – An NHS trust has been accused of defying Wes Streeting’s orders to stop “misguided” equality, diversity and inclusion practices by advertising a £50,000 dedicated job, says the Telegraph.
  • “Why should the NHS employ any diversity officers?” – Wes Streeting should take note of what Donald Trump did upon taking office and get rid of all the NHS’s diversitycrats, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “Donald Trump bans transgender athletes from women’s sport at Olympics” – President Trump has signed an executive order banning trans women athletes from competing in female sports, according to Sky News.
  • “Only one in four people ‘view Church of England favourably’ after abuse scandal” – Only a quarter of adults in England, Scotland and Wales polled by YouGov said they had a positive opinion of the CofE, down from 32% in November.
  • “The New Zealander who aims to undo 185 years of Maori rights” – In the Times, Bernard Lagan profiles New Zealand’s next Deputy PM who is pushing to reinterpret the Waitangi Treaty and end race-based privileges for Maori people.
  • “Barack and Michelle Obama’s biggest supporters abandon them” – Some of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s largest donors for their presidential library have abandoned them amid rumours the couple’s marriage is on the rocks, reports the Mail.
  • “Meghan Markle’s tone-deaf wildfire video is hard to stomach” – It is easier for the sake of our collective mental health to think as little about Meghan Markle as possible, says Alexander Larman in the Spectator.
  • “‘If this definition is embodied in law, countless journalists and academics will end up in Wormwood Scrubs’” – On GB News, Toby explains to Matt Goodwin how Labour’s ‘Islamophobia’ council could bypass Parliament and criminalise Islamophobia.

'The really alarming thing about this is that the Labour Party isn't proposing to criminalise Islamophobia by passing a bill.'

Director of the Free Speech Union, Lord Toby Young outlines how Labour's Islamophobia council could bypass parliament and criminalise Islamophobia. pic.twitter.com/qslo1lpNhG

— GB News (@GBNEWS) February 5, 2025

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Ah, neo-imperialism rears its ugly head yet again. Blackburn’s copping it too, like Oldham last year. I fear these divisive and discriminatory policies will do a lot of damage. (Wasn’t there concern about a discrimination of sorts in Palestine too?)

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crazypaving
crazypaving
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

We came out of restrictions in Oldham on July 4th last year and went back into even tougher ones (banning outdoor contact of any kind) on July 24th. We’ve been in restrictions ever since. Not that anyone cares, the ‘experts’ want us locked up longer and harder. We eventually carried on with our lives, managing to get away in holiday in august to Greece, seeing family but my business is in events so I’ve been excluded from support and unable to work for 16 months. But let’s keep us all locked down because it’s worked so well so far.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

It’s a lie if so. Where is the evidence that lockdowns saved thousands of lives, even if we ignore everything else. And by SAGE’s own figures from last July, lockdowns were expected to cost 75,000 lives in non-covid deaths in the UK alone (could this be an underestimate now?)

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

“The ‘vaccine’ is working”? We’re not even as low as last summer yet. Unless they’re over-counting deaths more now. If they don’t end all restrictions imminently, the “vaccines” haven’t done what was promised. Simple as.
In any case, isn’t PHE’s neutrality compromised by its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes. It’s more Boris Johnson I’m thinking of. “Vaccines and drugs are the way out of this”. They haven’t been yet. And I still see no proper exit plan. Just dissembling, prevarication, procrastination, deferment. What will it take in their world? zero covid? the money running out? revolution? And I don’t trust them not to do this for other bugs, as long as Rasputin is running things.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

more a(n experimental) pseudo-vaccine then…

Why have a passport when the vaccine doesn’t actually stop you getting it?

The reasoning behind a lot of the COVIDIOCY doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. “Luckily” the MSM is not there to scrutinise and the past can always be forgotten or changed.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Make any restrictions on care home residents voluntary. Now. Surely a cruel and unusual punishment to forcibly prevent care home residents seeing their loved ones until they are dying.

Stuff the government scumbags – stuff the government filth.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

The cruelty being visited on care home residents is the blackest of the black evils that are being visited upon us. No punishment is too bad for the perpetrators, but ideally they should receive the same treatment. For life. And let that life, or rather barely-living death, be a very long one.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Hmm. Cruel, but probably fair. We can never get back what they’ve taken from us.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Cruel and the victims are exactly the people that all this faux-virtuousness is meant to protect. You may or may not prolong their lives, but you definitely make their final months or years infinitely more miserable, for them and their families. But no-one calls them out on it. Despicable.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

So “vaxports” still to be required for sporting events – or will it be like last year’s farce where non-“elite” sport is not included?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

What’s going on in Canada? Surely doctors have a duty to tell victims the ingredients of “vaccines”, where they came from, the number of reported and estimated adverse reactions and deaths associated with them, alternatives such as ivermectin, vitamin D etc., the agenda of people pushing them.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

You think doctors have integrity?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Canadian doctors? In any case, the hippocratic oath was effectively lost years ago (and will get worse when old people start getting pressured into being euthanised. As opposed to just taking experimental gene therapy drugs. In winter). And I heard that in recent decades UK doctors have been paid more. For doing less. My main problem though is that they are mostly not nutritionally trained. It seems that the drugs companies call the shots…

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charleyfarley
charleyfarley
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

“It seems that the drug companies call the shots.”

Never was a truer word spoken. Why do I feel we are governed by Pfizer et al?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

So the MIT team suggested that data should be made more difficult to find because lockdown sceptics were too good at interpreting it? So that’s what we’re up against – very worrying!

Speaking of data, did you notice that big jump in UK deaths three weeks after the first full week of UK “vaccination”? Incompetence, subterfuge or worse to administer these experimental drugs to the most vulnerable at the worst time of year? Now hide that data!

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Some of those supporting citizen science, suddenly don’t think it’s such a good idea, when it can be used to prove them wrong.

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago

A good response to this over at Off-G, for those who haven’t seen it…

https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/13/anthony-fauci-has-no-clue-and-no-authority-to-lecture-on-what-is-good-for-india/

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

I looked at the Sridhar scaregarbage. Mention of ‘cases’, but not corpses.
On the same page (scroll down) is a link to a story about an Edinburgh mum who died after receiving the snake oil.
Go figure.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
3 years ago

Lockdownsceptics continues to run scared of tackling the main vaccine issue. Hancock knew in late December the jabs were killing the frail-elderly and seriously ill. 5,000 excess care-home deaths occurred in Eng&Wales in the 6 weeks from mid December, and another 20,000 in the wider community. These deaths were directly caused by the jabs. Hancock, in late December, slapped an embargo on all post-jab deaths data. Death certificates were forbidden to contain any mention of Cvd vaccination. FOIs requesting simple numbers for post-jab deaths have been blanked by PHE, NHS and ONS. The blackout was rigorously enforced and the death jabbing went on. This was murder, pure and simple, of the very people, – the only people, in fact – who were at any risk from the virus. This murdering, and the cover up of it, was done for money, for protection of the trillion-dollar scam.

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TORs
TORs
3 years ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

Can you tell us more? Links?

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charleyfarley
charleyfarley
3 years ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

If the evidence is there a private prosecution should be brought against Hancock and the others for murder or manslaughter, crowd funded.

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Rick Bradford
Rick Bradford
3 years ago
Reply to  charleyfarley

Nah, just kidnap him and force him into a two-week lockdown in a terraced house in Wigan with Dianne Abbott, nothing to do but watch Channel 4, and he’ll soon change his mind about the whole thing.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
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Just top him

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

Looking at this Round Up, what’s striking is the increasing level of absurdity being perpetrated by the Covmaniacs. It’s clear that the significance seekers (like Sridhar) and the power corrupted and big money are desperate to keep the tattered Scary Fairy flying at all costs.

It will be a real test of the levels of stupidity in the community to see how much of the crap is gobbled up as nourishment.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago

And you believe them? Sounds almost absurd as the Korean story of Kim-Il-sung only ever scoring holes in one at golf.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

I tend to your view.

I have come to the conclusion that the UK public – despite all the Battle of Britain / Cradle of Democracy rhetoric – is one of the most gullible and dim populations on the planet.

It may not have always been the case, but it is now.

That said – it’s not ‘the NHS’ that’s the problem, it’s the political manipulation and management of it that feeds off the gullibility.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Nope the problem IS the NHS.

Bad ideas have bad outcomes and subsidising poor health is probably the worst idea going.

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wesmonty
wesmonty
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Possibly but one of the frightening things has been the effectiveness of the government’s propaganda. We’ve been bombarded wherever we go, on TV, the radio, in print, website advertisements and postings on social media, all devised by psychologists and advertisers. It’s a disgrace but I’m not surprised the average Joe has succumbed.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Clapping for your cullers seems akin to thanking the train driver at Auschwitz.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Well quite apart from the veracity of the claim the statement makes no sense anyway as it equivocates between “confidence in the health system” and “how their governments handled the pandemic”, two quite different things.

I really don’t believe anything that “college” says. They are Gates funded and employ Ferguson. It seems like classic propaganda to me, the sort of vacuous statements the Soviets used to put out. They are hardly going to say that the public’s faith it’s shaken are they? And the comparison with foreign countries is classic self-aggrandisement so as to foster that sentiment which feels “things could always be worse, like over in foreignovia”.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

word-meaning inversion seems a common theme amongst those calling themselves progressive…

I tend to find the word “social” now inverts the meaning of the next word.

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Mayo
Mayo
3 years ago

Not sure if any of you watch the Highwire but, if you’ve got a spare hour or two yesterday’s episode is worth a look. The highlight is an interview with Dr Richard Fleming who discusses the gain of function virus research and it s funding, SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines.

He apparently fell foul of the US FDA a few years back but I tend to view that as a positive sign nowadays.

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TheFascistCoronaFraud
TheFascistCoronaFraud
3 years ago

“You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do as we tell you!”

go back to bed america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL8dHf16CEs

Bill Hicks _ Revelations (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkmbIAhoWrQ

Bill Hicks – Rant In E-Minor (1997)[FULL] Comedy Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awMrjOIzJo

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

Shock/horror/panic: In the whole of the West Midlands there have been 30 reported cases of the Indian variant.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE,ECT,ETC,ECT,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH, AD INFINITUM.

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Rick Bradford
Rick Bradford
3 years ago

“Some understandable mistakes were made, and comprehensive lessons have been learned to ensure that we will be better prepared next time. Goodnight.”

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago

Anyone want a news related laugh? Here you go.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2021/april/public-health-leaders-honoured/

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago

Wasn’t he going to Do Something About Obesity? Principally by employing the same idiots who were in charge of the massive increase in obesity and diabetes and their woeful low fat diet? And he looks to have gotten even fatter himself.

I thought this was hilarious, even more so if you think it is Bozo in bed with Princess Nut Nut (but them I’m easily amused)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_FOS1GvZOY

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