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by Richard Eldred
17 March 2025 1:11 AM

  • “Nigel Farage ‘held secret talks with Dominic Cummings’” – Nigel Farage has held secret talks with ex-Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings about how Reform UK can take on the Tories, reveals the Mail.
  • “‘Unite the Right’ plot to oust Kemi Badenoch” – Former Tory and Reform aides are discussing a “Unite the Right” plot to oust Kemi Badenoch, reports the Express.
  • “Locals in Clacton reveal whether they are still backing Nigel Farage” – Farage’s feud with Rupert Lowe may be tearing Reform apart, but in Clacton locals care more about potholes than party politics, says Piriyanga Thirunimalan in the Mail.
  • “The shocking rise of Albanian gangs who now control UK drug trade” – Around one in every 36 Albanian men living in England and Wales is in jail, says the Mail.
  • “One in five British terror suspects are children, new report claims” – AI-driven radicalisation is accelerating youth terrorism in the West, warns David Averre in the Mail.
  • “Islam Channel facing investigation over claims it incites extremism” – A UK-based Muslim TV channel is facing an Ofcom investigation after it was accused of inciting extremism and breaching rules on impartiality, says the Mail.
  • “Rayner tax raid ‘will render swathes of the North unbuildable’” – A new cladding tax threatens to render swathes of land in the North and the Midlands unbuildable by piling costs on the construction industry, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Wes Streeting warns against ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health problems” – The Health Secretary has admitted that doctors are “overdiagnosing” mental health conditions as Labour tries to get a grip on Britain’s ballooning benefits bill, says the Mail.
  • “Wes Streeting prepares to axe even more health quangos” – The Health Secretary says the NHS is “addicted to overspending” as he prepares to swing the axe across hundreds more quangos, according to the Mail.
  • “Civil servants blew taxpayer cash on celebrity cardboard cut-outs” – Civil servants splurged taxpayer cash on celebrity cardboard cut-outs, a Bahamas yacht club and Fortnum and Mason hampers, reveals the Mail.
  • “Starmer is wrong – size matters when it comes to Britain’s bloated state” – Dead weight in the public sector is holding back the UK’s productive capacity, warns Gerard Lyons in the Telegraph.
  • “Labour dismantling education to appease unions, warns ex-Ofsted boss” – The ex-head of Ofsted has accused the Education Secretary of putting the interests of unions ahead of children in a scathing attack on Bridget Phillipson’s school reforms, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Labour’s school reforms are mad, say academy chiefs” – The founder of one of the country’s biggest academy chains says that Labour’s plans to reform academy schools are “madness” and would harm “the most disadvantaged families”, according to the Times.
  • “Number of men becoming secondary teachers plummets to record low” – The proportion of male secondary school teachers has dropped from 46% in 1994 to just 35% today, reports the Mail.
  • “Home Office U-turn on fine for couple’s bike-rack migrant” – The Home Office has done a reverse ferret on its decision to fine a couple £1,500 after they found a migrant hiding under a bike-rack cover attached to the back of their motorhome, says the Mail.
  • “Elon Musk’s X loses out on millions as Government pulls ad spending” – A MailOnline analysis of social media spending across Whitehall has revealed how departments dramatically halted their advertising on X last year.
  • “European tourists are deserting London because of our bad attitude” – Rain, Brexit and phone and watch thieves on mopeds are some of the factors putting off continental visitors to London, writes Amanda Hyde in the Telegraph.
  • “There are just three nations that Britain can truly trust. The US is not one of them” – We must form a solid alliance with Canada, New Zealand and Australia, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph – and it would be a huge vote-winner for the PM.
  • “Pensioner is threatened with court again by solar panel firm” – A solar panel firm under investigation by Ofgem is threatening to take one of its customers to court again – just months after being forced to drop a £320,000 defamation case against him, reports the Mail.
  • “Shopkeepers in Health Secretary’s constituency criticise new vape laws” – Retailers in Wes Streeting’s constituency have criticised new vape laws – as a shock poll shows 95% of UK traders believe they will hurt small businesses, says the Mail.
  • “Labour minister ‘rubbished’ dossier on lab leak theory during pandemic” – Lord Vallance is at the centre of an explosive row over claims he rubbished high-level intelligence pointing to Covid’s origins in a Chinese laboratory, reports the Mail. 
  • “Covid vaccine damage consultants paid more than victims” – Consultants assessing Covid vaccine damage claims on behalf of the NHS have been paid millions more than the victims, says the Telegraph.
  • “Five years into Covid, why do reporters and health bureaucrats keep lying about the mRNA jabs?” – On his Substack, Alex Berenson blasts Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee’s NY Times op-ed defending mRNA vaccines, arguing that global data exposes the shots as a failure – and that public trust is collapsing with them.
  • “Next time perhaps we shouldn’t shout down the pandemic pariahs” – What we sacrificed during the lockdown was an appetite for the truth, says Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
  • “Why is NHS planning a clinical trial of banned puberty blockers?” – In the Sunday Times, Ben Spencer reports on the fierce debate surrounding NHS plans to give adolescents puberty blockers as part of a clinical trial.
  • “Retired pastor facing court over open-air Sunday service near abortion buffer zone” – A retired pastor from Northern Ireland is facing court for holding an open-air Sunday service close to an abortion clinic at the Causeway Hospital in County Derry, reports Gript.
  • “Was he vetted? Convicted rapist here few days before raping 18 year-old” – With increasing frequency, the horrendous consequences of letting massive numbers of people into Ireland without vetting them are playing out in the courts, writes Niamh Uí Bhriain in Gript.
  • “France plots radical tax on super-rich to rearm – and Britain could be next” – President Macron is eyeing France’s rich citizens as the solution to all his financial woes, says Noah Eastwood in the Telegraph.
  • “EU’s culture of harassment and fraud laid bare” – A damning report into Eurocrats has revealed a swathe of sexual and psychological harassment, religious abuse and fraud within the EU’s top institution, reveals the Telegraph.
  • “Protests against pro-Russian leaders sweep Eastern Europe” – Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest on Saturday for separate pro-Europe and anti-Russia protests, reports the Telegraph.
  • “EU resists US pressure to weaken censorship laws amid escalating trade tensions” – In Reclaim The Net, Dan Frieth reports on the EU’s defiance of US pressure to relax its strict censorship laws.
  • “Greenland election result” – On the Restoration Substack, Courage Media breaks down Greenland’s recent election.
  • “Free speech hypocrites” – The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and the threat to go after others prove the hollowness of Trump’s claims to be a champion of free speech, says Jacob Mchangama on the Persuasion Substack.
  • “There’s a difference between free speech and persecuting Jews” – Deportation of all US green-card holders who foment pro-Hamas activity could easily cost a trillion dollars, but it would be money well spent, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
  • “Trump silences biggest US global broadcaster for ‘radical propaganda’” – President Trump has signed an order to strip back federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being “anti-Trump” and “radical”, reports BBC News.
  • “A user’s guide to wrecking the global financial system” – Did ordinary Americans who voted for Trump realise they were signing up for a reactionary economic project? asks Niall Ferguson in the Free Press.
  • “Elon Musk’s silence is deafening as Trump wrecks his business” – America’s ‘first buddy’ will have to choose between being the ‘first buddy’ and his role as the CEO of Tesla, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
  • “The International Criminal Court is not doing its job” – The ICC should be prosecuting Hamas, not Benjamin Netanyahu, says Guglielmo Verdirame in the Telegraph.
  • “Liverpool fans boo national anthem – as Newcastle try to drown them out” – Liverpool fans booed the national anthem before Sunday’s Carabao Cup final – a tradition rooted in the belief that the British establishment had abandoned their city, reports the Telegraph.
  • “‘Why can’t I get pregnant?’” – The Telegraph’s Michael Deacon discusses recent headlines claiming men can get pregnant, noting that the ‘men’ getting pregnant are actually biologically female.
  • “‘We are building the world’s first family-centred economy’” – Hungary is taking decisive action to reverse declining birth rates by making the largest tax cut in the Western world, with mothers of two children or more exempt from income tax for life.

Hungary is making history with the largest tax cut in Europe & the entire Western world!

We are building the world’s first family-centred economy:
👶 One-child mothers exempt from income tax until they turn 30.
👩‍👧‍👦 Two or more children? No income tax for life!

Securing the… pic.twitter.com/iGY96p5LiZ

— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) March 16, 2025

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

Are you sure.? This is not what those nice people at the BBC have been telling me…

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John
John
2 years ago

Also, as carbon dioxide levels follow temperature by 500-1000 years, then if there’s a 1500 year temperature cycle then there’s a similar carbon dioxide level cycle with a phase difference of approximately +750 years, if the temperature is a sine wave then CO2 levels follow a cosine wave.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
2 years ago

Those pushing net zero don’t want to know, climate change is a profitable venture. Already rich but wanting more, they’ve spent their lives in incomparable luxury and excessiveness, most people would have to live many lifetimes to reach a year of their self indulgence. Now they tell us, its for ‘our grandchildren’, (Rishi) and others, I’m sure his children won’t suffer, now, due to net zero, but billions will.

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago

Randall Carson discusses this very thing (along with some other fascinating subject on human history) on Joe Rogan.
Its long and seven years old, but worth a watch:

https://youtu.be/G0Cp7DrvNLQ

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago

You only have to look at the way modern weather maps use orange, red and dark red smudged colour that resembles fire to realise we’re being played. I did semiotics as part of Film Studies A-Level 30 years ago and we were taught about how manipulation of image affects emotional reaction (it was, ironically enough, steeped in Marxist Critical Theory so I got to learn all their tricks).
It reeks of the Nudge Unit, whose existence isn’t even well known outside of the non-legacy media. The reason the legacy media isn’t going after the very dangerous nudge units and the violation of democracy their existence represents must be that they’ve been threatened or bought off in some way. State psy-ops units using brainwashing techniques on citizens ought to be front page news.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

If their existence appeared anywhere at present, it would most likely be on GB News. Only a couple of years old, but it’s doing a good job at the moment.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Anthropocene began with European colonisation and mass slavery

This must have been some time before the Greco-Persian wars, then, as the Greek city states erected colonies around the Mediterranean and generally, had masses of slaves. Sparta is a noteworthy example here as the city was ruled by a relatively small class of Dorians who were originally invaders and had turned the original population into a slave class (the helots). Except that slavery was obviously already common practice all over the world before the era of classical Greece.

The classic Greeks were also pretty racist: They believed their people to be divided into the races Aeolian, Acheans, Dorians and Ionians, all with certain hereditary traits, and summarily referred to all other peoples as barbarians (they considered to be below them).

Can some $deity please save us from all these uneducated morons with fancy titles who believe the history of mankind started when America was discovered and colonized?

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Maslin has explained that the Anthropocene began with European colonisation and mass slavery.

Just in case this isn’t clear to someone: This ludicrous statement of (North-)American exceptionalism, ie, that something which has never before happened anywhere in the world occurred when Europeans started settling in America[*] and that this inherent evil is the cause why the planet is doomed unless something is done to overcome evil Europe is the final nail in the coffin of climate change. We can as well call that critical weather theory
and file it among all the other woke nonsense (some) people in the USA invented because they’re forever pissed off that they had to learn stuff in school (in the 1960s) they never cared about when all they really wanted to do is to go on holiday to interestingly exotic places and generally screw around as much as possible.

[*] An example: The bubonic plague came to Europe from Asia and killed as much as 80% of the population in some regions. Similar events have happened with other diseases, most of them earlier.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
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It looks like the bubonic plague is the model on which the Davos Deviants have based their planning. At least in terms of outcomes anyway.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

That was a reference to Maslin’s article. A lot of American Indians died of various infectious diseases the Europeans brought with them which had become endemic among them. According to him this Depopulated (!!1) northern America and the (evil) Europeans than just occupied the essentially empty continent. That’s absolutely laughable, considering that the history of early Euroean settlements is one of constant warfare with the native population, with the latter more often than not in the much better position. Eg, one of the people who became victims of the Salem witch trials was (among other things) accused of being in league with the devil because he had miraculously survived a number of Indian attacks where most of the other settlers he had been living with perished.

It’s also absolutely not unheard of, that’s why I mentioned the black death which presumably originated in China, travelled along with the traders until it had reached Europe and then seriously decimated the European population. Stuff like this happens on this planet and it has happened at all times and to all people.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

Could you please send a copy of this to Prince Charles. He assured us the other day that 3 days of very hot weather because the wind was blowing from the Sahara is proof that he’s right about climate change.

As for Maslin no longer lending his credibility by debating climate change scepticism, the obvious answer is “what credibility?” He’s a propagandist ….. a scientist will ALWAYS debate because science is NEVER settled.

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psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
1 year ago

This is a fantastic graph for those that haven’t seen it. It compares the media’s massively zoomed in representation of our recent warming to the same graph zoomed out and plotted it on a scale of daily human temperature experience across the world. Send this to anyone zombie you might know who’s ever used the term ‘climate emergency’..

Media climate emergency vs real world.png
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