- “Starmer’s authority wrecked by U-turns as MPs question his future” – A year after Labour’s landslide victory the PM is struggling to maintain control of the backbenchers who forced him to climb down on welfare benefits, says the Times.
- “The real Starmer has this week revealed himself: a Corbynista in a Blairite suit” – The Prime Minister’s socialist leanings are rendered even more offensive by his endless vacillations, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s love affair with welfare is a disaster for the working class” – Support for our indefensible welfare state is the glue holding the Labour Party together, according to Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Lord Glasman: America’s wave of anger is breaking on UK shores” – The only Labour politician at Donald Trump’s inauguration, who was invited by his penpal JD Vance, fears the working class has given up on Sir Keir Starmer’s party, reports the Times.
- “Tories slam Labour’s benefits U-turn for creating a ‘welfare trap’” – The Tory leader tore into Sir Keir Starmer after he caved over planned reforms in the face of a major backbench rebellion by his MPs, says the Mail.
- “The Labour plot to bring down Morgan McSweeney… and then Rachel Reeves” – As the PM battles to avert his first Commons defeat next week, many are pointing the finger of blame at his chief of staff and his Chancellor, according to the Telegraph.
- “Bailey contradicts Reeves’s claim that economy has ‘turned a corner’” – The Bank of England Governor says the UK’s higher tax burden will slow down growth after a short-term boost, reports the Telegraph.
- “Half of Labour members want Reeves sacked” – Some new polling has dropped which makes for grim reading for the Chancellor. LabourList has the details.
- “NHS sees patients as an inconvenience, says new boss” – Sir Jim Mackey, the new head of NHS England, argues that the service is often “deaf” to criticism and has “wasted a lot of money” in an interview in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ migrant plan will end in failure” – Starmer’s new ‘one in, one out’ deal with Macron won’t stop a single boat crossing the Channel, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech didn’t go far enough” – By caving in to progressives, the Prime Minister has yet again proven himself to be a weak politician, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Qatari camel herder tried to rape woman in London private heart clinic” – According to his barrister, a man charged with raping a woman at a private heart clinic had little contact with the outside world or any experience of modern or urban life before his arrival in the UK to receive treatment for a rare heart condition, reports the Mail.
- “Why does Lord Hermer think two-tier justice claims are disgusting?” – Lord Hermer, the Attorney General who personally authorised the prosecution of Lucy Connolly for a tweet, has broken his silence on the claims that we have a two-tier justice system, and he’s angry, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
- “Lord Hermer’s idiocy is boundless” – The Attorney General continues to embarrass himself and the Government, says Stephen Pollard in the Telegraph.
- “Palestine Action aren’t terrorists. They’re just attention-seeking idiots” – Like Kneecap and Peta, these wannabe revolutionaries are more Ealing comedy than feared menace, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Islamophobia row academic: I wore a disguise. Better ridiculous than dead” – Professor Steven Greer says Bristol University “threw him under the bus” even after he was cleared of ‘Islamophobia’ and his case could become a landmark for academic freedom, according to the Times.
- “Kemi Badenoch’s Danish-style integration plan won’t work” – Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch has this week said she’ll consider Danish-style laws to ensure the “active integration” of immigrants to Britain. Peter Franklin in UnHerd is sceptical.
- “Michael Gove: I’m not gay, despite the rumours” – In an interview in the Telegraph, Michael Gove says people “like the idea that anyone in public life will have a kink or secret of some kind”, but he isn’t gay.
- “How Reform UK’s new councillors are ‘sowing chaos’ in town halls” – A damning dossier has revealed the “chaos and confusion” that Reform councillors are sowing across England after their local elections success on May 1st, reports the Mail.
- “Palestine Action: We’re spreading ‘intifada’ in prisons” – In meeting accessed by the Telegraph, the soon-to-be terrorist group says “resistance lives on the streets, in cities, in towns and in prisons too”, revealing their efforts to recruit activists in prisons.
- “Four people arrested after aircraft is vandalised at RAF Brize Norton” – Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after two aircrafts were damaged at RAF Brize Norton, police have said. The Mail has more.
- “Britain could face two-week blackouts in drive towards Net Zero” – A new study claims increasing the UK’s wind generation capacity would bring negligible extra carbon savings, reports GB News.
- “It’s hot weather, but not man-made” – In Whats Up With That? Steve Goreham says this week’s heat wave in the US is nothing we haven’t seen before.
- “AP offers guide to manage ‘emotional toll’ of climate anxiety it regularly stokes” – According to Climate Change Dispatch, the Associated Press is fuelling climate anxiety then making anodyne suggestions about how to allay it, such as make a ‘positivity’ sandwich.
- “Feds ignore their research on windmills killing eagles” – The U.S. Energy Department has an ongoing research programme devoted to detecting and deterring the killing of eagles and other flying critters by wind turbines. The the Fish and Wildlife Service is ignoring it, says David Wojick in Whats Up With That?
- “Three big projects offer hope that our energy nightmare is ending” – According to the Empowerment Alliance, three recently announced developments highlight the resurgence of natural gas in the US.
- “Biden-appointed judge orders Trump to keep throwing money at EV chargers” – A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in funding for EV charger infrastructure in 14 states, reports the Daily Caller.
- “Phones to blast out ‘emergency alarm’ as UK warned to prepare for war” – The UK will test its emergency alarm system for the first time in two years, as the Government warns Britain to prepare for war, says the Mail.
- “Islamists are massacring Syria’s Christians” – A terror attack on a church in Damascus speaks to the lethal persecution faced by Syria’s Christian minority, according to Spiked.
- “As Christians are slaughtered, the world looks away” – Islamists massacred over 200 people in Yelwata, Nigeria – many of them women and children. But the media barely mentioned it, reports the Free Press.
- “Iran still has enriched uranium, Israel admits” – Concerns have been raised that Tehran may rush to build a crude nuclear weapon following the ceasefire deal, says the Telegraph.
- “Peter Thiel: Elon Musk has given up on Mars” – Peter Thiel believes Elon Musk has abandoned his vision of colonising Mars, according to UnHerd.
- “BBC will broadcast Kneecap at Glastonbury despite calls for ban” – The BBC has no intention of de-platforming the controversial Ulster rap group, even though there’s a risk they’ll unveil a Hezbollah flag during their performance, reports the Telegraph.
- “Richard Tice: Glastonbury is not safe for me” – The Reform deputy was invited to debate Green ‘eco-populist’ Zack Polanski at Glastonbury, but has declined for security reasons, says the Telegraph.
- “Left-wingers who defend ‘sex work’ are virtue-signalling hypocrites” – Trendy progressives claim to believe that ‘sex work’ is just another job, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph. But would they want their daughters’ career advisors to recommend it as a career at their posh private schools?
- “Socialist New York mayor would raise taxes on ‘white neighbourhoods’” – The hard Left Democratic mayoral hopeful wants to end ‘deed theft’ by shifting fiscal burden to ‘richer’ zones, according to the Telegraph.
- “Football regulator: Government choice for chair faces ‘full enquiry’” – The Government’s proposed choice of a donor to Sir Keir Starmer as the Chair of English football’s new independent regulator faces a ‘full inquiry’ by the Commissioner for Public Appointments, reports BBC News.
- “New MI6 chief’s grandfather was Nazi spy known as ‘The Butcher’” – Blaise Metreweli’s grandfather was Hitler’s chief informant in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine who boasted of killing Jews, says the Telegraph.
- “War breaks out at GB News as furious staff plot to oust Eamonn Holmes” – As Eamonn Holmes made his way up to the stage to accept a gong on behalf of GB News Breakfast, boos from the audience filled the room – and they were from his colleagues, according to the Mail.
- “Covid origins investigation inconclusive, says WHO” – An independent panel evaluating the scientific evidence say a lack of cooperation from the Chinese authorities means they are unable to rule out the possibility of a lab leak, reports the Telegraph.
- “The British Medical Association has just shown its contempt for science” – By appointing Tom Dolphin as its leader, the BMA has demonstrated it is out of touch with the British public, writes Melanie McDonagh in the Telegraph.
- “‘Trans rights’ has never been a civil rights issue” – The trans rights movement is not a replay of the civil rights movement, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “My daughter’s school wanted her to learn about trans rights. So I kept her at home” – Schools Diversity Week has become a fixture in many schools across the UK, but some parents are concerned about the focus on trans rights, writes Melissa Twigg in the Telegraph.
- “Build bridges, not walls” – Jeremy Corbyn made a speech at Glastonbury yesterday in which he urged Donald Trump to build bridges, not walls. But as Dan Hannan points out on X, to say this this at Glastonbury, surrounded by a five-mile fence, with pricier security than the Royal Family, and with a special on-site jail for fence-jumpers, requires an almost superhuman lack of self-awareness.
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Strange things are happening. Is Israel developing a conscience? Surely not?
Haaretz report:
‘It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid.
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes. Netanyahu, Katz reject claims, call them ‘blood libels’.
(Thanks to Jonathan Cook for pointing this out.)
Proof?
The comments on the Haaretz article suggest that the troops may have been ordered to fire warning shots. Nobody denies that they discharged their weapons, the dispute is over where they were pointing at the time. It is not normal for a large number of people to die from warning shots, or do you doubt that there were deaths?.
Haaretz is certainly proof positive that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has freedom of speech. By all accounts its English version is very much catered towards the international contingent of Israel-haters and barely anyone in Israel reads it. It’s apparently worse than the Guardian, more on a par with Al Jazeera in terms of disseminating fake news and anti-Israel propaganda for the foreign Jew-haters to lap up. Far-Left, socialist, not to be trusted as a source, basically.
Proof? If you do not believe Israel’s own press, try watching the first 10 minutes of this video.
You are also welcome to read my comment to this DS article.
If you can spare half an hour, maybe British doctors can convince you of the current situation in Gaza.
The video does not appear to be unbiased. I asked for proof, not confirmation of certain worldviews.
What do you classify as proof? You are welcome to go to Gaza to check yourself but I do not recommend it. Whose reporting do you regard as unbiased?
”In its June 19, 2025 editorial, the Palestinian Authority Al-Hayat Al-Jadida daily accused Hamas of murdering Gaza residents trying to get to the American food aid distribution centers established in the Gaza strip. According to the article, “death squads” from Hamas’s Al-Sahm unit hunt down Gazans coming to the distribution centers, shoot at them and kill them on the pretext that they are collaborating with the distribution centers and with Israel.
The article added that Hamas does not hesitate to target Gaza residents in order to maintain its monopoly on the distribution of food and thus its control, and that Hamas steals the food aid and sells it on the black market.
To prove its argument, the article presented social media posts by Gazans accusing Hamas of murdering their loved ones when they tried to reach the distribution centers. One post was by Hiba Al-Mishal, who said that her brother Osama was murdered by a Hamas squad while he was en route to the distribution center. She wrote on her Facebook account that a squad from Hamas’s Al-Sahm unit had stopped a bus her brother and some other young men were traveling on, took them outside, and shot them several times, and that they were subsequently denied medical treatment and died. She also wrote that Hamas had forced other civilians to beat them.”
https://www.memri.org/reports/palestinian-authority-daily-hamas-murdering-civilians-who-come-gaza-aid-distribution-centers
The Palestinian Authority “lacks credibility with most Palestinians and is seen as close to Israel”; “Its security apparatus especially is seen as allied to the Israeli state”.
See this Middle East Eye report or, if you consider MEE to be on a par with Haaretz, try this Israeli report:
“The Palestinian Authority (PA) is currently plagued by a severe crisis of legitimacy, with its domestic credibility at an all-time low, eroded international donor confidence, and a governance system tarnished by corruption”.
Israel loves accusing Hamas of every crime under the sun.
What is your response to the “British doctors “ video in my “Proof” response above? All baloney?
I havent been around for a while so you may have recently covered digital IDs but when I search I don’t get anything much at all about digital IDs apart from a couple of articles in support of them. Surely this is a really important in terms of civil liberties and currently back on the table so why isn’t the DS all over it? What is the DS position on this?
https://togetherdeclaration.org/
#Together’s campaign against digital IDs is hotting up.
They have drafted a Digital Bill of Rights.
Well worth supporting.
The other organisation looking into the digital rights issue is https://continuism.org/.
Some very interesting ideas.
Thanks Myra – I’ll take a look.
I suspect that if we had had ID cards years ago when it was originally suggested, then there would be a lot less fuss about digital ID.
My cat is quite relaxed about hers.
As with all things, it is not what you have but what you do with it that is the issue.
I am sure our masters would claim we were happy with digital ID but are you really sure your cat is.
It’s the way in which it digital IDs can be programmed in real time and linked to credit scores that is worrying. In a cashless society your ablity to transact could depend on your social credit, that’s the issue. One of my relatives (when we talked about this) implied that since she wasn’t a criminal, it was nothing to worry about. I pointed out that once the thumb screws are firmly in place, they can tighten them in any way they want (maybe they’ll restrict alcohol consumption/meat consumption/use of heating etc). Best not to get your thumbs screwed down in the first place maybe?
https://off-guardian.org/2025/06/10/britcard-inside-labours-progressive-digital-id/
This will bring you up to speed.
Thanks HP, Off Guardian doesn’t flinch from this issue .. I’d like to see more from the DS on this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14853739/Resignations-axing-Ukraine-flag-scrapping-floods-team-flood-hit-county-row-firefighters-Reform-UKs-new-councillors-sowing-chaos-town-halls.html
Reform Councillors causing chaos in councils. Two thoughts:
It is not clear to me whether the chaos is the result of council staff being bl00dy awkward because they don’t like being
challengedshaken out of their complacency, or because the staff are being totally unhelpful to the inexperienced councillors.An acquaintance of mine works for the local County Council, recently moved from Tory to Lib Dem. He says the Lib Dems are annoying everyone because they have not been in power before and don’t know how things are supposed to work. This bloke is a lefty but more importantly he seems like a technocrat who thinks important decisions should be left to professionals like him.
Given the level of corruption in local councils if Oldham and Ashton are anything to go by, the idea that Reform Councillors are not causing severe upset would in itself be worrying.
Remember the photo when the crowd at Glastonbury a few years back sang “Oh Jeremy Corbyn”. The caption read; Socialism – a millionaire, in a millionaire’s field, telling people who can afford £300 for a weekend’s entertainment, that capitalism has failed them.
It’s not a weekend, it’s 5 days… if that’s your bag £75 a day or 6.30 an hour, for 12 hours a day of music seems pretty reasonable?
Altogether too much space and time are devoted to the virtue signalling noise pollution event known as Glastonbury.
Agreed – each year it looks more and more like a BBC sponsored corporate event. How many millions do the BBC spend on it?
“The real Starmer has this week revealed himself: a Corbynista in a Blairite suit”
Yes, and the Real Olukemi Olufunto has this week revealed herself:
“A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words”
Look at her, representing the Third World, pointing an assault rifle at the White Man’s heart. Look at her face. Look at her hands, gripping the rifle, with her index finger searching for the trigger, acting out her Third World fantasy.
Look at the Army Cadet, forced to stand there, looking embarrassed, forced to humour this Third World politician who’s not even a government minister, and has no right to demand a photo shoot at an Army base, in order to compare herself to the late great Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, true Englishwoman that she was.
This one sinister photo encapsulates the whole situation of the West.
Kemi Badenoch ‘broke Army cadet rules’ with assault rifle photo shoot | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
“and with a special on-site jail for fence-jumpers,” – going which way?
Can we replace the border patrol service with whoever is running the Glastonbury security?