- “American conservatives turn on Winston Churchill” – The Telegraph reports that Trump may be a fan of Churchill, but isolationism is fuelling revisionism about Britain’s wartime leader among hard-Right US influencers.
- “America’s most valuable company is about to be crippled by Trump” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lynn claims that Trump’s poorly planned, poorly designed, poorly executed policies could do serious damage to Apple.
- “China and America agree: Apple is too big to fail” – The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each – it’s that they wouldn’t be built at all, reports the Free Press.
- “Nvidia to build first US factories after boss dines with Trump” – Nvidia owner Jensen Huang’s pledge to invest in America comes as Trump’s tariffs cause global uncertainty, according to the Telegraph.
- “Trump has been proven right about pretty much everything” – In an article in the Telegraph, Liz Truss claims that Net Zero, trade with China, Covid lockdowns, and mass migration have all have been disastrous.
- “The Deportation of Dissent” – The Bedrock Principle reports on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ move to screen the social media posts of “aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status” and deport them if they don’t like them.
- “Trump says he’s prepping for ‘war’ with China as he angers Xi Jinping” – The Mail reports on Trump’s latest – and most alarming – justification for his tariff hikes.
- “Trump’s Triple Win at the Supreme Court” – The Wall Street Journal reports that a majority on the Supreme Court handed Trump a partial victory on Monday by allowing his administration to deport Venezuelans believed to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
- “Hungary bans public events for the gay community” – Hungary has banned public events held to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, a decision that Viktor Orban’s critics call another step toward authoritarianism, according to the Mail.
- “Mario Vargas Llosa was that rare thing, a freedom-loving literary genius of the right” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan praises Mario Vargas Llosa’s attitude towards authoritarianism.
- “German tanks always flop. The Leopard 2 is no different” – The much-vaunted German Leopard 2 tank – 18 of which were sent to Ukraine in 2023 – is proving a flop on the battlefield, according to the Spectator.
- “Politicians who fail to protect rape gang victims could be prosecuted” – Rochdale whistleblower Maggie Oliver tells the Telegraph that action needs to be taken to secure justice for the victims of rape gangs
- “Prosecutors ‘let fake news spread’ by blocking Southport killer facts” – The Times reports that police were put in a “very difficult position” in the aftermath of the Southport murders due to “inconsistent advice” from the Crown Prosecution Service about what they could and couldn’t say about Axel Rudakubana.
- “Courts without juries ‘could bring swifter justice’” – Five former lord chancellors and two former lord chief justices have backed a call for some cases to be fast-tracked – and juries dispensed with – to slash a crippling backlog, writes the Times.
- “The Irish establishment cannot fathom Conor McGregor’s popularity” – The more politicians try to foist their progressive views on the public, the more disillusioned the public become, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Telegraph.
- “Albanian lesbian pair can stay in UK as home country is ‘homophobic’” – A judge has ruled that two Albanian lesbians can stay in the UK on human rights grounds despite the Home Office pointing out it is not against the law to be gay in Albania, reports the Mail.
- “Museums need a new approach to restitution” – Instead of blindly following activist demands when it comes to restoring artefacts, it is time for a new approach from museums, says the Spectator.
- “Sunak’s former aide among 15 charged with election betting offences” – The Telegraph reports that Craig Williams, a former Tory MP, has been charged after an investigation into bets on the timing of last year’s general election.
- “‘They run the prisons’: How Islamist gangs are taking over Britain’s jails” – According to the Telegraph, groups of Muslim inmates use violence and intimidation to “overrun” high-security prisons, leaving authorities powerless to stop them.
- “Why there are no male teachers” – With Netflix’s drama Adolescence raising questions about masculinity, it’s clear that Britain needs more men at the front of the class, writes the Telegraph. But men don’t want to become teachers.
- “Pubs call last orders at 9pm after Reeves tax raid” – The Telegraph reports that the National Insurance increase has pushed pub landlords to cut back opening hours.
- “Unions threaten to spread bin strikes across country” – The Telegraph says that Unite is considering a series of walkouts by bin men in the event of further pay disputes like the one in Birmingham. Summer of discontent?
- “Free Speech in retreat” – Ofcom’s assumption of new, draconian powers under the Online Safety Act means the UK is turning its back on free speech, according to HART’s Substack.
- “You got a licence for that?” – Everyday activities are now regulated, banned or criminalised by the state, according to Josie Appleton in Spiked.
- “The UK’s free-speech crisis is about to get so much worse” – The Crime and Policing Bill could unleash terrifying new censorship powers, writes Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
- “Stop Brexit Man’s court victory is a win for free speech” – In the Spectator, Patrick West says that free speech is a principle that should always be regarded as precious, irrespective of current, transient circumstances.
- “The disgraceful denial of two-tier policing” – The criminal-justice system has become corrupted by multiculturalism but MPs are still in denial about this, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Murray, Rogan and the limits of ‘edgelordism’” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill explores why both the contrarian Right and conformist Left have fallen for the lies of Israelophobia.
- “Build more prisons: The public must be protected from career criminals” – The link between a lack of jail places and crime is now undeniable, according to the Lawrence Newport in the Telegraph.
- “Black actor to play Severus Snape in Harry Potter remake” – Paapa Essiedu’s casting as a character with “marble white” skin in the Harry Potter TV series has led to a backlash among some fans, the Telegraph says.
- “Blue Origin’s all-female space flight was a step backwards for feminism” – Blue Origin’s space rocket flight must surely go down as the most self-indulgent and pointless trip into space of all time, says Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
- “‘Bombshell’ report: Officials covered up sick athletes at Wuhan Military Games” – In his Substack, Bill Rice analyses evidence that officials refused to investigate possible early cases of Covid at a potential “super-spreader” event in October 2019.
- “Three studies show definitively that the influenza vaccines don’t work” – Why won’t the press admit the influenza vaccines don’t work? asks Steve Kirsch in his newsletter.
- “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero obsession left British Steel on brink of extinction” – Jawad Iqbal in the Times says the collapse of British Steel is because ministers were more concerned with burnishing their environmental credentials than acting in the national interest.
- “Chinese investors aren’t to blame for the death of British Steel. Net Zero is” – The nationalisation of British Steel will force the Government to finally face up to the real costs of green utopianism, according to the Telegraph.
- “In the absence of a Government with a spine, the unions are making all the running” – Andrew Griffith in the Telegraph says that until the mad dash to Net Zero is ditched, we are left with nothing but sticking plaster politics.
- “Incoming German government from hell enthusiastically promises to artificially inflate energy prices, regrets that the social welfare state must absorb ever more of our income” – On his Substack, Eugyprius writes about the replacement of old water meters with new digital ones in an effort by the authorities to more closely monitor water usage.
- “Royal Mail buyer’s company earning millions from wasted wind power” – The Telegraph reports that Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s energy company is among the beneficiaries of switch-offs to relieve the congested grid.
- “Why does Ireland want hairdressers to lecture you about climate change?” – In the Spectator, Ian O’Doherty bemoans the latest climate change project from the Irish Government – a relentless drive to spend other people’s money on initiatives they never asked for.
- “Plans for giant gas-filled caverns to avoid Net Zero energy shortages” – Morecambe Bay is set to host a new storage scheme for Britain’s vulnerable energy system, reports the Telegraph.
- “Racing could be next victim of Net Zero battery obsession” – Newmarket’s 3,000-horse population and human residents “should prepare for emergency evacuation” if a controversial development gets the go-ahead, writes the Telegraph.
- “Report into Southport riots finds social media fuelled unrest” – On Good Morning Britain, Tom Slater argues with a senior Met police officer who thinks Britain should set up a dedicated police force to monitor social media and prosecute thought criminals.
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Much talk of civil war, but is further unrest the literal goal of the globalist, treasonous governments?
”Two months ago, the English podcast host Louise Perry hosted David Betz, a professor at King’s College, London, and an expert in civil wars. The topic? “The Coming British Civil War.” Betz argues that the United Kingdom now has all the traditional hallmarks of a society on the verge of violent civil conflict. He mentions the collapse of faith in British institutions, the two-tier justice system, Islamic radicalization, and the polarization wrought by official multiculturalism, among other factors.
J.D. Vance angered many European elites in his Munich speech when he warned them that the greatest security threats their countries face are within—and that their attempt to deny them by squelching free speech was only making matters worse. This—the danger not of war with other nations, but of civil war—is precisely what he was talking about.
In that blockbuster podcast interview, Prof. Betz says that “normalcy bias” is especially strong in Britain, which, unlike other European countries, has been relatively peaceful. Today, though, there is no reason to believe that the past predicts the future. Many of the cultural traditions that kept the English peaceable have dissolved in the face of modernity—especially multiculturalism.
“Multiculturalism has drained our nation’s social capital. It’s encouraged factionalism and polarization, both of which are up massively,” Betz says. “The belief of people in pre-political loyalty has been shattered by the triumph of identity politics in our society. So as a result of which, we see that nativist sentiments are increasingly manifested in a narrative of downgrading or displacement that is one of the most powerful causes of civil conflict.”
“Downgrading” and “displacement” are technical terms used in civil war scholarship to describe the feeling among native peoples that they are losing ground in their own country to rival groups. This is what the French writer Renaud Camus means by his concept of the Great Replacement.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/is-civil-war-coming-to-europe/
No doubt that this is all deliberate. Nothing Starmer would like better than to be able to crack down on all bad thinkers.
Monday Morning Arborfield Rd
& Eastern Relief Rd, Shinfield
What this psychiatrist is saying is backed up by all the data. It’s an irrefutable fact that migrants and their descendants make up a disproportionate number in the crime stats;
”Following the release of his new book, The Dark Sides of Migration, Swiss forensic psychiatrist Frank Urbaniok has called for European asylum policy to finally take migrant crime statistics into account, claiming that certain migrant groups are “disproportionately criminal” due to cultural factors.
Urbaniok, one of Switzerland’s most prominent forensic experts with over three decades of experience analyzing violent offenders, suggests that cultural influences from countries such as Afghanistan, Morocco, and Tunisia contribute significantly to higher crime rates among migrants from these regions.
“Afghans are reported more than five times, Moroccans more than eight times, and Tunisians more than nine times more often than Swiss nationals for serious violent crimes,” Urbaniok stated in an interview with Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, citing his analysis of crime data from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
“The disproportionate crime rate has a lot to do with cultural influences. It is about how violence is dealt with, the image of women, or the role of the rule of law in these countries. I have been dealing with criminals for 33 years and have seen thousands of cases at close range. That’s why I know how strong and relevant these imprints can be. Sometimes, they persist for generations,” he said.”
https://rmx.news/article/some-migrant-groups-are-disproportionately-criminal-due-to-cultural-factors-claims-renowned-swiss-forensic-psychiatrist/
German tanks always flop. The Leopard 2 is no different
‘The analysis references a January lecture in Delitzsch by the deputy military attache at the German Embassy in Kyiv’
‘The Leopard 1A5, though labeled “reliable,” is reportedly deployed more as improvised artillery due to its inadequate armour.
Meanwhile, the more advanced Leopard 2A6 often cannot be repaired on the front due to its costly maintenance and logistical demands.’
German tanks, then, are pretty much like everyone else’s tanks.
‘The Panzer 4 was produced for the entire duration of the war and upgraded at least 11 times. As with all things that are produced for a long time most of the bugs were worked out and it became more and more reliable. As with the Sherman….’
The T34 has been overrated:
T34s gearbox difficult to transition from 2nd to 3rd gear and almost impossible to change into 4th.
Main armament inaccurate except with AP
Armour made of poor quality steel, welding cracked under impact
T34 crew survival rate was at around 28-30%, Sherman 80%, Panzer 3 67%
Factory 183 built over 50% of all T34s. Only 9% were deemed acceptable for combat.
But all were sent to the front because ‘quantity has a quality all of its own’
An average tank gunner can fire an aimed round every six seconds. He has, at best, about a minute or so to engage massed tanks advancing at twenty miles an hour cross country out of cover, dead ground. Meanwhile he is being engaged by direct and indirect fire support, anti tank guided weapons, drones so must manoeuvre….
So the real problem?
‘The main problem with Leopard 2s given to Ukraine is that there’s too few of them. If one or two have to be repaired, that’s a big part of what Ukraine has that’s suddenly out of commission for a while’
So you eventually make the point that many of us here have been trying to get you to see for quite a while already – that it really doesn’t make sense for Germany (nor any country, for that matter) to fight with Russia. For many reasons.
You’re getting there, Monro.
But unfortunately you are not.
Britain started off WW2 with very few armoured vehicles and ended up supplying Russia with large numbers of British ‘Matilda’ tanks.
Beyond doubt, Germany could, in time, significantly outproduce Russia regarding Main Battle Tanks, should it so wish.
You have not been paying attention. The U.S., German and Chinese strategy, until recently, has been to weaken Russia rather than strengthen Ukraine to the point of victory.
That has been a successful strategy, setting the essential precondition for peace, the Russian economy on the brink of collapse.
Should the international oil price continue its current decline and plummet to $45/barrel, the Russian war effort will halt, precipitately.
You will see, eventually, that there are no winners in war, only a bunch of loser heads of state.
Deterrence is the only true victory and that requires not just technological superiority but mass.
Deterrence! Is that why USA departed Afghanistan with its tail between its legs?
A bunch of loser Heads of state frankly couldn’t care less about.
Millions of dead and maimed young men, destroyed economies and hatreds that may last for generations are the real cost.
In my opinion.
‘Sir Frank Kitson, a prominent figure in British counter-insurgency doctrine, theorised that insurgencies with safe havens are difficult to defeat, as they provide a base for operations and a crucial element of sustainability.
Disrupting safe havens is a critical aspect of counter-insurgency strategy, as it limits the insurgents’ ability to operate and recruit.’
The U.S. effectively failed to take its own advice in Afghanistan.
‘This thesis offers strategies for countering safe havens. It begins by arguing that safe havens are not just geographic areas, but that they also include a demographic component that allows terrorists a population among which to hide……four strategies aimed at denying geographic and demographic safe havens: leadership targeting within safe havens, tactical containment, pseudo operations, and surrogate security forces.
No single strategy is sufficient for dealing with geographic and demographic safe havens. Rather, a combination of strategies, properly sequenced, can reduce terrorist safe havens. Furthermore, none of these strategies works without counterinsurgency forces positively engaging the population, setting the necessary conditions for separating insurgents from their demographic and geographic supports.’
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA621532.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwipv-bewdmMAxV4SkEAHQIxEgcQFnoECB4QAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw0ZFaisgjNHiiePOdSYsGes
Had the U.S. withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately (as many recommended) after ‘shock and awe’ had defeated Bin Laden, the deterrent effect created might well, thereafter, have conferred peace on Afghanistan for many years.
So was it a deterrent?
The Telegraph disagrees on the Leopard 2.
“They were designed by a generation of German manufacturers that hadn’t seen war, and so tended to overcomplicate the system.
“Older systems, designed in the 1960s by those who actually saw war, are far more useful on the battlefield but have weaker armour.”
For example, this would have helped deter Russia if supplied prior to 2022:
‘On Sunday Merz indicated not only that he was willing to supply Taurus missiles but suggested that they could be used to strike targets such as the Kerch bridge that links Russia to Crimea’
https://www.ft.com/content/c8c53a95-fbad-440a-bc57-5802e85c5328
Since the Kerch Bridge doesn’t carry much military traffic it has little strategic value. Targeting it will only hurt Crimean residents, who I understand Ukraine would want on its side if they ever achieve their aims of re-occupying Crimea.
Crimea existed for several years without the brindge, relying on the sea route for Russian contact.
‘Crimea is dark; there’s no electricity since they blew the dam
Crimea is hungry; there’s no agriculture because there’s no water since they blew the dam
Crimea is still marginally useful as a naval and air base, but the Russians have mostly fled before they lost everything. If the remainder have a way to flee they’ll take it, so, for now, it remains.
Every day Crimea is still Russian, Putin has to budget for the place but he can’t use it. He also can’t afford it.’
Taurus will give Ukraine the capability to shut that door, as and when….and much else. Russian air defence is already spread way too thin….
Sherman a joke tank. Ref post re my old man elsewhere…
Leopard 2s were also not designed for the Ukrainian battlefield. They function well when they have good air support, but Ukraine is short on this,” Sergej Sumlenny, managing director of the Berlin-based European Resilience Initiative Center, said.
German tank design is also very complicated, making it difficult to mend machinery on the battlefield, reports noted. This has meant that damaged Leopard 2s have had to be sent to specialized teams in western Ukraine or even Poland.
“The main problem with Leopard 2s given to Ukraine is that there’s too few of them,” Sumlenny added. “If one or two have to be repaired, that’s a big part of what Ukraine has that’s suddenly out of commission for a while.”
Difficulties with the German-produced tanks mean that Ukrainian forces have ended up using them mainly as glorified artillery…….
The Leopard 2 is not the only Western-donated tank that Ukraine has had difficulty using and maintaining. Similar issues have been reported with the British Challenger 2 and the American-built Abrams models.’
So not quite the wunder-waffe they were promised to be. The F16 seems to be going the same way, as apparently it doesn’t have effective iff and gets shot down by its own side.
The normal M4 Sherman was by no means a bad tank. It had mediocre armor, good mobility, and a gun that could take out both soft and armored targets.
The upgraded Sherman, the M4A3E8. had a cannon with much higher penetration, a more powerful engine, and a better suspension while still maintaining the well-rounded capabilities and ruggedness of the original model.
The Sherman Firefly with a 17-pounder cannon, ineffective against infantry, could take out the best protected AFVs of its time.
Then the M51 Sherman combined the firepower of the Firefly and the upgraded capability of the M4A3E8. Its Cummins V-8 460 hp diesel engine was less prone to fires and more fuel-efficient than gasoline.
But the relative effectiveness of specific weapon systems is a bit of a red herring.
‘Battlefield victory is primarily a function of combat power.
While a number of factors affect combat power, we demonstrated that air superiority is an especially important one.
Air superiority increases the maneuverability and concentration of one’s forces. This increases the success of battlefield breakthrough and reduces the odds of breakthrough by the other side.
To test the relationship between air superiority and battlefield victory, we created a new variable that identifies which side, if any, achieved air superiority in the decisive battle of conventional wars between 1932 and 2003.
We found that air superiority was a better predictor of victory than other well-known factors such as adoption of the modern system, regime type, civil–military relations, and general measures of military power.
This research improved our understanding of military effectiveness.
The most effective militaries were those that controlled the skies. From a force structure perspective, our research suggested that investments in air power as well as anti-air defenses were vital for countries that might enter into conventional wars.
In addition, our research suggested that certain factors associated with military effectiveness mattered most because they affected a country’s ability to attain air superiority. Democracy, wealth, and civil–military relations, for example, are likely to affect a country’s willingness and ability to invest in air superiority aircraft and training.
This research also fills a gap in research on air power. In international relations, most air power research examines the effects of bombing. Pape (1996) argues that strategic bombing is not an effective coercive strategy, a conclusion supported by Horowitz and Reiter (2001)’
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168020972816
In short, drones now a key part of the air war, low level (micro) air superiority is just as important, if not more, than air superiority at any other level. Without air superiority at all levels, armoured operations in the offensive are just as constrained now as they were in 1944 in the Ardennes (once the cloud cover lifted).
Interesting…It’s that woketard traitor, John Robins, again;
”Just the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police John Robins… on a Saudi-state tied TV channel… who’s called for discrimination against white recruits.
In the interview, he proudly announced an “education programme” — targeting kids as young as 6—focused on things like “hate crime.”
This was in late January 2023.
So not only he has endorsed racial discrimination but he’s presumptively been in the classroom arguably indoctrinating kids too.
Curiously couldn’t find any other interviews he did with UK-based channels…
Iqraa TV’s professed aim is to present “the true moderate face of Islam”.
That same state that’s tied to the channel?
Built on Sharia law.
A country where freedom of speech, women’s rights, and non-Islamic religions face brutal restriction.
Former Met Police detective Dominic Alder recently spoke out about the prevalence progressive politics in British policing.
A lot of it came from the antiracist activism in the 80s. And by the mid-2000s, it’d morphed into a monster…
Any ambitious officers unwilling to play nice rarely reached National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) rank—the policing equivalent of army brigadier or higher.
This influenced senior-level decision-making nationwide: policies set in London quickly spread to other forces.
With strong incentives to conform, free-thinking officers stepped back, leaving the rest vulnerable to groupthink.
Note Robins is on about £209,139 per year according to reports—a rather nice wage he was probably unlikely to get if he didn’t play ‘nice’.”
https://x.com/StarkNakedBrief/status/1911856722186277210
What a grotesque waste of taxpayers money this Robins guy is. He should be locked up.
A betrayer of the people and a total shyster.
“Plans for giant gas-filled caverns to avoid Net Zero energy shortages”
From the Telegraph article:
“The scheme would exploit a massive layer of halite or rock salt, about 600 metres thick, lying a kilometre below Morecambe Bay’s seabed, where it has been buried for more than 100m years.
“Salt is highly soluble, so the fact that it has lasted so long shows the rock has no water running through it, making it highly stable and suitable for storing compressed gases.
“Mr Clube said the caverns would be created by drilling wells into the salt and then injecting fresh water to dissolve the rock.”
Firstly, I wonder what the anti-fracking brigade will have to say about this plan?
Secondly, I have absolutely zero concerns about the plan to dissolve a 600m-thick subsea layer of salt by pumping fresh water into it to create a dry cavern where compressed gases will be stored… no concerns at all. No, none at all.
Holy moly. Is it me?!
Just dig out the coal, pump out the gas and frack the shale oil that’s already sitting in the ground. And build nuclear in the meantime. For crying out loud! What is it with these harebrained pie-in-the-sky schemes?
Appreciated M A k.
The way things are going I think it’ll be getting more and more difficult to secure private funding for these scheme… say what you like about bankers, they usually like a profit (or a debt to offset a profit)
That was exactly my reaction.
These people are dangerously mad and stupid.
“Three studies show definitively that the influenza vaccines don’t work” – Why won’t the press admit the influenza vaccines don’t work? asks Steve Kirsch in his newsletter.
The article links to a 2006 CBS report on a 2005 study that finds that ‘flu shots don’t work to protect the over 65s. The report chillingly concludes with the idea that maybe the shots should be used on younger people including kids to prevent them giving ‘flu to the elderly.
“Why does Ireland want hairdressers to lecture you about climate change?” – In the Spectator, Ian O’Doherty bemoans the latest climate change project from the Irish Government – a relentless drive to spend other people’s money on initiatives they never asked for.
‘Going anywhere nice this summer?’
“You got a licence for that?” – Everyday activities are now regulated, banned or criminalised by the state, according to Josie Appleton in Spiked.
Concluding line…
“…The current consensus holds that freedom is barbarism, and the state is civility. This is the wrong way round – it is today’s state that is barbarism.”
Exactly.
The state is there to serve us.
Not for Starmer though…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/24/state-will-take-back-control-of-peoples-lives-says-starmer/
“The Times reports that police were put in a “very difficult position” in the aftermath of the Southport murders due to “inconsistent advice” from the Crown Prosecution Service about what they could and couldn’t say about Axel Rudakubana.”
How about the truth?
Radical I know
Exactly – surely if we stuck to that as the default position, everything would be much simpler
“Why does Ireland want hairdressers to lecture you about climate change?”
Personally, I’d love my hairdresser to give it a try with me, bring it on!
Watch it if he’s Middle Eastern and holding a razor…
Middle Eastern? What if he looks like Ed Miliband and holding a razor?
I also wouldn’t trust Greta Thunberg anywhere near me holding a razor.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Thankfully she’s white and irish
Jeff Bezos sent his ample norked girlfriend along with Katy Perry and some other bimbs into space in a Rocket to look at the earth.
I wonder how much Carbon dioxide that little fun jaunt expelled? To me, going into space in a Rocket is a good thing, lucky girlfriends and hangers on of extremely rich people get to do this. I just wonder how much preaching through their companies, through their social media and influence over the puppet politicians these people have with regards to saving the planet, whilst they can decadently flaunt in our faces their ability to add tons of stuff to the atmosphere, whilst people freeze, lose their jobs, have to pay increased taxes to save less than 1%.
Putting the ‘Ass’ in Astronaut says Katy Perry.
1) Spelling not her strong suit then?
2) I never knew that Neil Armstrong didn’t have an ass – must have been quite inconvenient.
According to the article Amanda Nguyen (a civil rights activist and astrophysicist) says something about ‘This dichotomy of engineer and scientist and then beauty and fashion…’. reminds me of those moments in bad 50’s SciFi films where the scientist in the lab coat finally takes of her glasses and is revealed to be… beautiful! Who’d have thought?
iPhones could be assembled elsewhere than China. Apple could invest more in automated production to avoid relying on Chinese (slave ?) labour. Journalists like politicians look at everything as linear and flat where one policy change has no impact on business or public behaviour and accordingly most of their predictions are way off.
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The five former lord chancellors and two former lord chief justices who wantt o abolish jury trial should be banned from the bar association (is that the name of their union?). It would be entirely consistent with the pro-EU and pro-anything European views held by the judiciary to abolish juries. How long before they are called “old fashioned”.
If they want more jurors, stop banning people because they are over 75 years old. Start getting courts organised properly so those called for service do not sit around for half a day or more while last minute arguments take place about admissability of evidence. Call jurors again agter only a year or two if necessary. Extend the court sitting times.
What is intended to speed up the trial without jurors – an off the cuff decision as soon as final statements have been made?
Jury trial is important and one of our finest traditions. Undermining it is entirely consistent with the general trend towards “experts” being deferred to. “Experts” that can more easily controlled than randomly selected members of the public.
Hmm. My old man, a tank commander in North Africa, said the Panzer was terrifying as it was a so much superior tank to any of ours or the Yanks.
Just saying
Shermans were known as Ronsons in WW II and that was by the soldiers themselves.
The general inference over the years is that german tanks where too well engineered to make enough of them,top quality but poor quantity.
The Russian T 34, a well rated medium tank, was being churned out at a rate of 1300 a month! 80000 in all! the nazis just couldn’t match that kind of production
“Despite being widely quoted today, not once has a single written or recorded period source of the Sherman being referred to by this moniker ever cropped up – not in POW reports, wartime journals, war diaries, or period recordings.
Millions of papers survived the Second World War, and list every praise and grumble about the Sherman, and yet the nicknames “Ronson” and “Tommy Cooker” only begin to appear post-war’
Overall the enduring myth that the Shermans were bad tanks, death-traps or inferior to German tanks holds no water with anybody who has studied the subject correctly’
https://tankhistoria.com/wwii/sherman-ronson-myth/#:~:text=Overall%20the%20enduring%20myth%20that,are%20interested%20in%20the%20subject.
“Unions threaten to spread bin strikes across country”
I thought this strike was about pay cuts to hardworking and absolutely essential bin men, and therefore completely justified.
But I was wrong. Led by the Muslim Cypriot Turk Onay Kesab, somehow chosen to be the National Lead Officer of the British Unite union, the strike appears to be about 17 PEOPLE with special bureaucratic roles, who will lose £6000 each.
17 PEOPLE.
Birmingham bin strikes explained: What is the dispute about?
Here he is, now threatening to inflict the strike nationwide.
“Chinese investors aren’t to blame for the death of British Steel. Net Zero is”
Well they ARE to blame, actually, like the Indian billionaires who bought British Steel before them, stole its technology to build complete replica factories in India, then after the Indian replicas were up and running, closed down UK production, slyly blaming “China”.
The shocking news today is that, just as people were celebrating the nationalization of British Steel at long last, congratulating Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds on his bold, decisive action, one of his underlings has totally contradicted her boss, refusing to rule out letting ANOTHER CHINESE COMPANY take it over. Her name is Sarah Jones, a big fan of the late Mo Mowlam, who once advocated that Buckingham Palace should be razed to the ground and replaced with a modern building.
Labour minister squirms as British Steel policy thrown into chaos in Sky News clash | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
“Prosecutors ‘let fake news spread’ by blocking Southport killer facts”
Can we just be crystal clear about this, once and for all?
“Fake News” and “Misinformation” on “Social Media” DID NOT CAUSE THE RIOTS.
The MASS STABBING OF 11 HELPLESS CHILDREN and 2 adults who tried to protect them CAUSED THE RIOTS.
Just as the STABBING OF 3 HELPLESS CHILDREN and 1 adult who tried to protect them in Ireland CAUSED THE RIOTS THERE.
The truth was known in both cases, regardless of precise details as to the ancestral homelands of the alien stabbers. The British and Irish People erupted in Righteous Wrath because MUSLIM THIRD WORLD ETHNICS have raped and murdered British and Irish People for decades, and the cowardly attacks on these little children was THE LAST STRAW.