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by Richard Eldred
19 March 2025 1:07 AM

  • “Acne to alcoholism – the £10,000 benefits claims driving up Britain’s welfare bill” – Britons with acne, constipation and those who abused alcohol and drugs are each claiming almost £10,000 a year in disability benefits, reports the Express.
  • “Ministers unveil bid to trim billions from ‘unsustainable’ bill” – More than a million Brits face losing large sums in benefits after Liz Kendall defied Labour fury to impose cuts, reports the Mail.
  • “‘A sticking plaster at best’” – Liz Kendall’s proposals to fix the welfare system look like a sticking plaster at best, says Jason Groves in the Mail.
  • “Labour’s welfare reforms are too little to halt Britain’s imminent bankruptcy” – The current taxpayer-funded provision of benefits is unsustainable and Ms Kendall’s technocratic reforms will barely scratch the surface, warns Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
  • “Radical welfare reform is the bitter medicine Britain needs” – We’re spending more on sickness benefits than defence – yet bedwetters and fakers are pocketing the cash, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. When will Labour stop this farce?
  • “Tube drivers on £70,000 demand priority for social housing” – The RMT trade union has demanded that its members are prioritised for social housing in London, reveals the Telegraph.
  • “Asylum appeals aren’t helping Labour close migrant hotels” – In the Spectator, Danny Shaw reports that Labour’s pledge to move asylum seekers out of hotels within a year is dead in the water.
  • “The terrifying truth about our asylum system” – The small boats are only part of a much bigger asylum problem, writes Tony Smith in the Telegraph.
  • “Romanian rapist avoids deportation after claims it would trigger PTSD” – A convicted Romanian rapist living in Britain – who is wanted in his homeland – has claimed it would be “unjust” to send him back because he was previously abused in prison there, reports the Mail.
  • “‘The sickening threat made by Rupert Lowe’” – Parliament is no place for extremes or extremists, as Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn found to his cost, says Nadine Dorries in the Mail.
  • “‘Farage is a reality TV star – you don’t want him running your life’” – Kemi Badenoch has rejected calls to “unite the Right” and dismissed Nigel Farage as a reality TV star who people don’t want running their lives, according to the National.
  • “The European education reforms that spell disaster for Starmer’s schools shake-up” – Spain and Portugal’s Left-wing decisions on education should serve as a cautionary tale, says Julie Henry in the Telegraph, but will Labour lead England down the same path?
  • “GCSE exams could be cut back to reduce pupil stress” – GCSE exams are expected to be slashed to reduce pupil stress in an overhaul of the national curriculum, reports LBC.
  • “Hamster forum and local residents’ websites shut down by new internet laws” – The scope and scale of the Online Safety Act is being likened to China’s ‘great firewall’, writes James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
  • “Millennials had it bad but Gen Z’s outlook is impossibly bleak” – Vilifying young people for lack of ‘grit’ ignores their crumbling economic reality, says Katie Morley in the Telegraph.
  • “Why Kemi Badenoch is abandoning Net Zero” – Kemi Badenoch’s Net Zero U-turn aims to appeal to voters wary of the ballooning costs, writes James Heale in the Spectator.
  • “Will Kemi’s anti-Net Zero campaign bother Labour?” – Given the reports of tensions between No.10 and Miliband, Kemi Badenoch’s anti-Net Zero stance is likely to prove effective, says James Heale in the Spectator.
  • “Mayor Khan’s Ulez fanatics mark their own homework” – In TCW, Vlod Barchuk argues that Sadiq Khan’s claim of significant pollution reduction from the Ulez is dubious at best.
  • “EVs could be charged as fast as filling a petrol car after breakthrough” – Electric vehicle owners could soon charge their cars in the same time it takes to fill up a petrol tank after an apparent breakthrough by BYD, reports CNBC.
  • “Is there an ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health problems?” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson discuss overdiagnosis in mental health.
  • “Children miss extra 4.7 million school days as pandemic triggers attendance crisis” – New analysis shows that schoolchildren across Britain are missing an extra 4.7 million days every term after the pandemic triggered a national attendance crisis, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Why do the media and scientists still deny Covid lab leak theory” – The CIA, FBI, German intelligence and the former head of MI6 all say they think Covid started with a lab leak, writes Matt Ridley in the Mail. So why do members of the scientific and media establishments still have their heads in the sand?
  • “Yes, mRNA vaccine science should be deprioritised by the NIH” – On Substack, Prof Vinay Prasad slams mRNA vaccine science as a damaged, risky flop and urges the National Institutes of Health to ditch it.
  • “The New York Times finally comes clean about Covid” – It only took the NY Times five years to acknowledge what people have said since the beginning, says Bethany Mandel in the Spectator.
  • “Downing Street slaps down Lammy after claim Israel broke law” – Downing Street has slapped down David Lammy after he claimed in the Commons that Israel broke international law during the war in Gaza, according to Guido Fawkes.
  • “‘Why we wrote the October 7th parliamentary report’” – In the Spectator, Andrew Roberts’ parliamentary report meticulously documents the sadistic atrocities of the Hamas-led massacre on October 7th, countering denial and revisionism with undeniable proof.
  • “Israel must destroy Hamas once and for all” – The recent air strikes in Gaza are not “war crimes” but part of a perfectly justified war against an evil foe, argues Robert Clark in the Telegraph.
  • “Israel has ‘opened the gates of hell’ in Gaza” – Hamas’s refusal to release hostages, its continued military preparations and its rejection of ceasefire extensions have forced Israel to act, says Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
  • “Hundreds of migrants evicted from Paris theatre after three month occupation” – Police have forced their way into a 19th-century theatre in Paris and evacuated hundreds of young migrants that had been occupying the venue for months, reports France24.
  • “Ghost Bundestag votes to dismantle the German debt brake as Friedrich Merz succeeds in his scheme to authorise thousands of billions in deficit spending against the wishes of his own voters” – On Substack, Eugyppius updates on Friedrich Merz’s dismantling of Germany’s debt brake.
  • “Donald Trump could bankrupt Britain with the stroke of a pen” – Rising taxes and a ‘can’t do’ state are driving ever more of our high achievers overseas, warns Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
  • “‘Britain is stagnating because of immigration’” – The US Vice-President says that the West is paying the price for using “cheap labour” as a substitute for productivity, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Globalist Europe ‘on brink of suicide’” – In TCW, Kathy Gyngell reacts to J.D. Vance’s repeated warning that Europe’s globalist agenda, open-border policies and free speech restrictions could lead to its downfall.
  • “British aid to Kyiv must continue to flow” – Europe is beginning to realise it needs to provide for its own defence in the face of Russian aggression, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
  • “Putin needs a deal, but it won’t be easy for him to end the war” – The Russian dictator needs a story to tell his people, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
  • “Here’s a war Trump is up for. But it could get messy on him” – There will be no easy victory fighting the Houthis in the ‘Gate of Tears’, warns Tom Sharpe in the Telegraph.
  • “Why US airstrikes on the Houthis will fail” – Every conflict which the US has been involved in since 2001 has ended before America achieved its goals, notes James Snell in the Spectator.
  • “Chuck Schumer is losing his grip on the Democrats. Here are the signs” – The Democrats are having a rough time of it – but none of them are having it worse than Chuck Schumer, says Benedict Smith in the Telegraph.
  • “Elon Musk reveals DOGE has found 14 ‘magic money computers’” – Elon Musk says that one of the wilder discoveries his Department of Government Efficiency has made is over a dozen “magic money computers” that can send payments from thin air, according to the Mail.
  • “DOGE’s cleanup of Social Security deleting millions of dead Americans” – Elon Musk has lauded DOGE’s clean-up of a Social Security database which had millions of impossibly-aged Americans still on file, reports the Mail.
  • “JFK files: Trump releases classified documents” – More than a thousand John F. Kennedy assassination documents have been released after President Trump fulfilled a campaign promise to address years of conspiracy speculation, says the Times.
  • “The CIA spymaster at centre of JFK files conspiracies” – One of the CIA’s most powerful and infamous spymasters is at the centre of new revelations about the John F. Kennedy assassination, reports the Mail.
  • “This insane story about ‘gay babies’ proves that woke isn’t dead” – Parents in the US state of New Jersey have been handed the most staggering questionnaire – and no one can believe it, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
  • “Bardophobia” – Why are activists so frightened of Shakespeare? wonders Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
  • “Woke Snow White remake slapped with trigger warning for ‘ominous tree’” – The British Board of Film Classification has slapped a hefty list of disclaimers on the new Disney remake of Snow White, reports the Mail.
  • “‘The best example of diversity? The Conservative Party’” – In an interview with Chris Harvey for the Telegraph, historian David Olusoga discusses Meghan Markle, military rearmament and whether Britain is a racist country.
  • “The Drenching Arms: Rebellion” – Paul Sutton’s latest episode of The Drenching Arms is a darkly comic tale of digital theft and dogging in lockdown-haunted Oxford.
  • “Labour are hell-bent on destroying school standards” – In the Commons, Laura Trott MP highlights serious concerns about the damage the Schools Bill will have on our schools.

Labour are hell-bent on destroying school standards. A chorus of well respected voices from the sector have raised serious concerns about the damage the Schools Bill will have on our schools. The Education Sec is putting ideology and union bosses above what’s best for children. pic.twitter.com/HCMYYgFK7C

— Laura Trott MP (@LauraTrottMP) March 18, 2025

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 months ago

A novel way to gain refugee status. If this guy trains hard he won’t need a dinghy to cross the Channel;

”Many of the African athletes who participated in the Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games last summer did not bother to return home, instead disappearing into France and Belgium.
There is speculation that dozens of such cases occurred after the games, with many of them refusing to join their delegations back home.
Among the athletes who remained in Europe is 24-year-old Aristote Ndombe Impelenga, the Congolese swimmer, who specializes in the 50m crawl. He is living in western France and reportedly wants to compete in the Los Angeles Olympic Games as a part of the Olympic refugee team.
The athlete, who is the former DRC champion in the 50m crawl and 100m crawl, is openly staying in Rennes, where he is currently training Monday through Friday.”

https://rmx.news/article/new-refugee-scam-join-an-african-olympics-team-and-then-disappear-into-europe-during-olympic-games/

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Morning,… early start Mogs? No rest for the wicked ay!

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Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
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Yes, her comment “9 hours ago” means that she must have got up at 3:00 o’clock in the morning, desperate to be the very first to post here.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 months ago

Poignant, and look at his age. They gave their lives so future generations could enjoy freedom from tyranny…Don’t think there was any danger of ‘DEI hires’ in their day either;

”John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot of the iconic Battle of Britain, passed away peacefully on 17 March 2025 at the age of 105.
Paddy Hemingway, one of a number known as ‘the Few’ and revered figures in British aviation history, played a crucial role in defending the United Kingdom against Nazi oppression during the summer of 1940. His courage in the face of overwhelming odds demonstrated his sense of duty and the importance of British resilience.”

https://raf.mod.uk/news/articles/the-last-surviving-battle-of-britain-pilot-john-paddy-hemingway-dfc-passes-away/

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 months ago

Paul Weston speaking truth again;

”Can the electoral process / democracy save England from a probable Third World / Islamic future at worst, or a Globalist ruled tyranny at best?

My gut feeling says no, it cannot. There are three reasons for this:

1) Demographics mean the native English will soon be relegated to a minority voting bloc.

2) The majority of the English remain blissfully unaware (read pig-ignorant) about the forces (Globalist native traitors & foreign supremacists) arraigned against them.

3) Time is rapidly running out. In the mid-term (2040-2050) an Islamic Party could well come to power. In the short term (2029-2035) we have to compete against the Globalist backed UN Agenda 2030 / The Great Reset. These are real, and the powerful people behind them are deadly serious about tyrannical control centred around Net Zero and government Controlled Central Bank Digital Currency.

I suspect the sleeping English masses are unable to save us with their votes. But I do believe just one million sturdy English yeomen prepared to make small sacrifices for their country could save England though. If we are genuinely serious about our future freedom / survival, we need to start thinking in these terms – whilst we still can.

Interesting fact: There are twice as many female Muslims as males in Britain. Some males have one wife, some have four. The government pays the wives to have lots of children, even though polygamy is illegal in Britain. Tax-payers money is being spent on replacing the English, even as we are called racists for noticing this crime against humanity.”

https://x.com/PWestoff/status/1901607205176021483

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

“sleeping English masses”

Indeed. My council ward is 94% white. Most people are employed – white and blue collar jobs, lots of tradesmen. We live in a nice county town which has a semi-rural feel, surrounded by villages that have probably changed very little. Aside from some housing developments here and there, the pace of change appears slow and life is comfortable and good. Easy to kid yourself that it will always be like that.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Exactly, it’s only when the problem knocks right at their door that they will react, by then the reset will be too far on to stop, slowly slowly catch a monkey!
just how the uniparty has been ordered to play it

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klf
klf
2 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Exactly right.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

It’s easy to forget that England is still a country approx 80% white and Muslims only make up approx 6% of the population. It’s easy to forget due to the amount of prominence Islam gets and the ongoing appeasement of Muslims and migrants, like they have some sort of special V.I.P status in society, combined with the simultaneous erasure of British culture, identity and heritage. I wonder how British Muslims would define ”national pride”…

It’s my opinion that it’s not the number of Muslims in and of themselves that’s important in enacting fundamental change to British ( or any other European country undergoing Islamization ) society but the amount of native traitors who are enabling all of this to happen. And these traitors need to be there in their numbers from the ground up. So the activists/protesters/Lefty voters are integral, through to the police and their two-tiered approach, the judiciary and the politicians. Even the King is a bloody traitor and bends over for Islam! The ‘useful idiots’ on the ground are necessary in large numbers because they need to vote for the parties that are intent on perpetuating the replacement process. So as long as there are these traitors in large enough numbers and in positions of power then it’s a foregone conclusion, isn’t it? Reminds me of this quote;

“the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed” Simone de Beauvoir.
More on the Islamization process of Europe. They’re playing the slow game but the suicide mission only ever progresses;

”Western European countries demean their own culture in order to justify admitting large numbers of antagonistic immigrants. Either they reject their colonial pasts and open the doors to Muslim immigrants from their old colonies, such as Pakistanis in Britain and North Africans in France, or they claim they do not have a culture or that it is boring, so they welcome Muslims whom they call “colorful,” as in Norway and Sweden. Nor do any of these countries appear to be concerned about illegal migrants, who they are reluctant to expel.

These migrants are granted every welfare measure imaginable, from stipends to free housing to unemployment payments. Then, when the immigrants fail to learn the local language and to get work, and fail to accept the authority of municipal employees and officers, the governments rebuke themselves for failing to “integrate” the immigrant population. 
One area in which immigrants are highly productive is crime. According to RealClearInvestigations “the data show that each one percentage point increase in immigrant population is associated with a 3.6 percent increase in the homicide rate.” 

Researchers in Denmark reached similar conclusions about immigration and crime. An index shows that crime in 2020 was 51% higher among male immigrants and 149% higher among male offspring with a non-Western background than among the entire male population.
Not all immigrants were equally responsible for crime. In Norway, Sri Lankans integrated well, and in Sweden Vietnamese were not responsible for crimes. Throughout Europe, it is North African, Middle Eastern, and African immigrants, i.e. Muslims, who are responsible for the high crime rate.”

https://pjmedia.com/philip-carl-salzman/2025/03/17/europeans-ignore-the-internal-enemy-that-is-destroying-their-countries-n4938013

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

“It’s easy to forget that England is still a country approx 80% white “

True though even if we stopped immigration now it would not remain like that because of the different birth rates and the different demographics (immigrants are younger than average). And many of those white people are not British (though they are our European cousins).

Among some Brits, more often than not in my experience middle class do-gooding types, it seems to be a desire to commit suicide, though many of them live in nice neighbourhoods and have money and secure jobs so the changes don’t affect them much, yet.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I think difficulties are also made a lot worse by the natural human tendency to want to live with your own tribe, so groups get concentrated in areas and become significant or dominant rather than blending in. This seems to dissipate over time, at least with some groups.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Thanks for this Mogs.

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klf
klf
2 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

native traitors

These people are despicable.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
2 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

My town was like that but distinct change began when a housing developer took card from an East London borough after the Brown financial collapse of 2008.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Sorry not following “a housing developer took card” – maybe a typo?

I don’t know Epping that well but I thought it was meant to be quite pleasant.

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klf
klf
2 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I suspect the sleeping English masses are unable to save us with their votes. But I do believe just one million sturdy English yeomen prepared to make small sacrifices for their country could save England though. If we are genuinely serious about our future freedom / survival, we need to start thinking in these terms – whilst we still can.

Yep. Given how complacent most people are, this may be are only salvation.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 months ago

“Farage is a reality TV star – you don’t want him running your life”

Wrong Kemi, We don’t want any of you ‘RUNNING’ our lives!
You’re supposed to serve not rule!
Just shows you what politician’s really think about us, it wasn’t even a Freudian slip,..scary!

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 months ago
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Beat me to it.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Excellent point

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Monro
Monro
2 months ago

Putin needs a deal, but it won’t be easy for him to end the war

It won’t be easy most particularly because Putin is an indicted war criminal.

Oh! ‘The Trump administration has ended U.S. government funding for….the program, led by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab under the State Department’s Conflict Observatory, collected biometric data and satellite imagery to document Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children….the research lab’s database may have been permanently deleted, jeopardizing efforts to locate the children and hold those responsible accountable.’ So that’s all good…..for Putin……. Still, who cares about children when there is money to be made, prizes to be won…..

Putin has trousered this and other capitulations and will come back for more.

Russia has form

‘We in Finland understand exactly what you’re going through….I’m sure we’re going to have to accept a peace with Putin…..The support that you will see from the Finnish public … is the support of identity and historical experience.’

So good luck to the Trump administration…..but it isn’t going to work.

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Monro
Monro
2 months ago
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/18/putin-rejects-donaldtrump-ukraine-war-ceasefire-russia/

The Daily Telegraph cuts through the bullshit.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 months ago
Reply to  Monro

That is unfair on the DT. It didn’t mention you once.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 months ago

“EVs could be charged as fast as filling a petrol car after breakthrough”

The problem isn’t with charging the car quickly, that can be don’t easily, the problem lies with the supply of so much energy in such a short space of time.
10 cars at a fuel station use separate pumps from one underground tank and all 10 can fill at the same rate (due to the 10 separate pipes, one to each pump)
X amount of electric is supplied to anyone charging station, therefore one car can be charged at the full rate stated but as soon as you start adding more cars the charge rate is divided by the number of cars drawing charge, so 1 car full 1000watt charge, 2 cars 500 each, 3 cars 333 each etc! This doesn’t take into account the danger of such massive amounts of energy flowing at any one time

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Yes. The safest way for that amount of energy to flow at such a high rate is to use hydrocarbon. Years of research and experience have made it very safe.

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
2 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Also, how much current this fast charging is going to need?
Assuming a 50 kWh battery (Renault Zoe size), charging it in 3 minutes would require a few thousand Amps of charging current and correspondingly extremely thick wires. You wouldn’t be able to use a cable.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

Yes. The Tesla model S apparently has a battery Useable Capacity of 98.0 kWh (call it 100 kWh as a nice round number). At 1,000 kW (1 MW) that will take 0.1 hours or 6 mins to deliver that much energy assuming none is lost in the process. This could be achieved with a 1,000 Volt cable delivering 1,000 Amps or, of course, a 100 Volt cable at 10,000 Amps. Letting consumers handle 1,000 Volt or 10,000 Amp cables does not seem like a good idea to me.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

The solution is current carrying wires over all roads and an arm running from the top of each vehicle attached to the wire. We could call them trolley-cars and trolley-buses..

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AbsolutelyNot
AbsolutelyNot
2 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

They tested it in Germany on a few motorways, trucks basically become trains until they disconnect and run on diesel, and it’s easier to install than railways. I find it makes sense for densely used routes.
https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 months ago
Reply to  AbsolutelyNot

it’s easier to install than railways

That’s a solution looking for a problem. It pre-supposes that we should run trucks on electricity.

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Monro
Monro
2 months ago

British aid to Kyiv must continue to flow

‘The peace deal that President Trump promised to deliver on “day one” has failed to budge Mr Putin, who evidently thinks he holds most of the cards. What it has done is to galvanise the rest of Europe.

the German parliament voted to release around £450 billion of infrastructure funding to bolster the country’s defences…..reflecting…..the growing European realisation that they can no longer rely on US military help in the face of Russian aggression and rearmament.’

What, exactly, is going on in Washington? Ill informed bigotry meeting institutionalised inertia: chaos.

‘President Trump and others, especially Elon Musk, operate according to: ‘the arrogance of ignorance.’

They are business people who are ignorant of how governments actually function and need to function.  

They are ignorant of history and of how the international political and economic system works and should work for the benefit of the United States and the entire world.

They believe everything is easy and that everyone in government, whether in the U.S., Ukraine, or anywhere else, is either stupid, lazy, or simply not as successful in business as they are.  

Placating Putin and giving him a ceasefire agreement without security guarantees for Ukraine would only ensure that the war starts again. That inconvenient truth is something that Vance and Trump will not accept because they are ignorant and therefore arrogant.

Trump, I think, really does not care about the Russia-Ukraine war…..all Trump wants is to be able to say he is a peacemaker and that he was the one, the only person on Earth who could broker a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia.

Trump is going to have to recalibrate his thinking soon because, as I was saying, I do not believe that President Putin will extend a 30-day ceasefire if he even accepts it.

There will come a moment when Donald Trump is furious that Vladimir Putin has taken advantage of him because Putin was never serious about a ceasefire. At that point, Trump will have to rethink his approach.

He will have to look for new instruments or tools to put pressure on Putin. First and foremost, I think there will be serious economic pressure that Trump will impose on Putin. But beyond that, I don’t believe President Trump has a framework for dealing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

He thinks he is going to create peace through a ceasefire, and then that will be the end of the conflict as far as the U.S. is concerned.

After that, it will be up to the European Commission and the European members of NATO to make the peace last and to develop security guarantees, with the U.S. no longer involved.’

A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and former Director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council.

Europe to develop security guarantees…..Oh!…..like the Budapest Memorandum….Brilliant!

https://www.bunkershield.co.uk/

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CGW
CGW
2 months ago
Reply to  Monro

I love your sentence, “They are business people who are ignorant of how governments actually function and need to function”.

So how do governments actually function? In my opinion, by being managed by politicians only interested in two things: their image and their pockets. And such people are very, very happy to deceive: take Friedrich Merz as an example, immediately reneging on major pre-election promises.

Putin simply wants to get Trump to the table to get discussions going, whereby Ukraine will only play a minor role – there are many more important matters to discuss.

By supposedly offering Putin a cease-fire, Trump wants to present himself to the world as the currently most important global player.

Putin, however, knows that a cease-fire has no meaning without massive preparation on both sides: who monitors the cease-fire along a 2,000km border, who adjudicates cease-fire violations and how, will all military supplies and training be stopped, etc.? The root causes for the conflict also need to be resolved. It appears that the Trump team has little experience in such highly sensitive matters.

Trump could so simply bring peace to the world by stopping armament shipments to both Ukraine and Israel. Sadly, he appears to be going in the opposite direction.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago

“Why Kemi Badenoch is abandoning Net Zero”

Small step in the Right direction, but ultimate proof of Mrs B’s word saladry would be…

…Repeal of the 2008 Climate Claptrap Act
…Disbanding of the Climate Claptrap Committee
…Abandonment of Green incentives, subsidies and bungs
…And prosecutions for malfeasance in office and energy-treason

Icing on the cake, liberation from Green tyranny of cities like Oxford, Bristol and Brighton by genuinely Conservative councils.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago

“Hamster forum and local residents’ websites shut down by new internet laws” – The scope and scale of the Online Safety Act is being likened to China’s ‘great firewall’

Online Harm’s utter iniquity explaioned by the Editor of Conservative Woman…

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/my-tcw-week-in-review-9/

“…What compliance is demanded for us not to be breaking the law? It’s a bureaucratic nightmare to wade through, designed to defeat you, apart from anything else. Kafkaesque.”

All to create hassle for innocent websites of all shapes and sizesl, where there’s no prospect of online material harmful to children being posted.

Franz Kafka lives on.

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago

“Is there an ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health problems?”

Not in Bubbleminster, Whitehole and on the Climate Claptrap Committee – All stark staring bonkers.

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

I don’t accept ‘bonkers,’ the people mentioned are traitors, simple as.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Bonkers is a broad church. What’s evil self interest for grifters, scammers and traitors, sure is bonkers for the rest of us.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago

“Mayor Khan’s Ulez fanatics mark their own homework”

Ulez fanatics debunked years ago by the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication…

https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/does-air-pollution-kill-40000-people-each-year-uk/

“…There are huge uncertainties surrounding all the measures of impacts of air pollution, with inadequate knowledge replaced by substantial doses of expert judgement. These uncertainties should be better reflected in the public debates.”

C’mon punks, own up and make our day.

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 months ago

Wow! Not a word about the historic return to earth of four astronauts, of which two were trapped for 8 mos in space. History making moment and yet not a peep from the daily sceptic.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
2 months ago
Reply to  marebobowl

Richard Eldred was compiling the news round up last night around the time the astronauts splashed down off the coast of Florida. At that time there wasn’t much news about them, other than that they had splashed down, which wouldn’t have been news to you.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 months ago
Reply to  marebobowl

I too like to hear news of developments in space industry and exploration. I was disappointed but not too surprised when Boeing cocked up their Starliner which meant the two astronauts had to stay on the ISS for so long. I gather they weren’t too upset as astronauting is what they do.

I’m also disappointed that SpaceX hasn’t yet managed to get it’s Starship working – it’s intended to be an essential part of getting boots on the Moon again.

On a more positive note I see Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch a (unmanned, of course) mission to Mars next year – though he’s often far too optimistic in the timing.

However, The Daily Sceptic News Roundup is A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation. I don’t think even a rather unusual crew return from the ISS quite fits that description.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 months ago

“Ministers unveil bid to trim billions from ‘unsustainable’ bill”
This is wrong, the bill is still going to go up over time but by less than befoire.

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Mrs Bunty
Mrs Bunty
2 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

Just waiting for the media ‘reporting’ of the one person who deserved a payment being deprived of their benefit and conflating that with those quite able to work who’d rather not. Bet they’re scouring X/Twitter as I write for outrage.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 months ago

Tuesday Morning 
B3349 & Basingstoke Rd, 
Riseley Wokingham

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Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago

“‘The sickening threat made by Rupert Lowe’” says Nadine Dorries, who has now gone Full Retard…

Here are some comments from the public:

— “Nadine is not even a conservative anymore, another heir to Blair. Lowe annunciates the views of most people in this country. And here you are, just like Starmer, calling us all Far Right. You just want controversy for the sake of attention. Terrible woman.”

— “I stopped reading when she attacked Tommy Robinson. There are those far more odious in government than he.”

— “Who’s the author? Oh, Nadine Nutcase Dorries!! Well, many if us AGREE with Rupert Lowe! Yes, we have an opinion…and are FULLY ENTITLED TO IT!!!”

*****************************************************************************************

[***Note from Heretic: May I say how shocked I was to get a call from our church minister today, saying that 6 of my fellow Christians had complained to him about me, because when the preacher asked us to pray for individual people aloud last Sunday, I prayed for Tommy Robinson and all the others unjustly imprisoned for defending children.

The preacher talked about “Love & Understanding & Tolerance of Different Views”, etc., then said I must stop mentioning Tommy Robinson’s name in prayers because it upsets some people just hearing his name !!!??? One Ethnic African Christian woman even got up and flounced out of the service!!!

So I’m basically being driven out of church for praying for Tommy Robinson & the Imprisoned British Patriots. It’s just unbelievable.]

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