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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.

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Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago

It now transpires that the whole Evil Family of Sikh Liars are all members of the NIHANG SECT of Sikhism, focused on weapons, and here is one public comment:

“Nihangs have a history of years of senseless violence.

In 2021, a Dalit [Untouchable] Sikh man named Lakhbir Singh was TORTURED, LYNCHED and had HIS LIMBS SEVERED BY NIHANGS. The perpetrators accused him of desecrating a Sikh holy book. Multiple Nihang members surrendered to the police, sparking widespread debate regarding the sect’s vigilante violence.”

pjar
pjar
4 months ago

“Trans lunacy has made Australia a laughing stock”

It may, or may not, be hilarious but, if you can find it, the video of an exchange between a senator and former Attorney-General, Michaelia Cash, and Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Anna Cody, at a parliamentary estimates hearing, is pure gold.

Cody struggles to justify her stance that a man in a dress, who calls himself Sheila, might justifiably be potentially pregnant, whist another man who puts on a dress, who calls himself Sheila, to take advantage of the legal position, is just a chancer…

Utter madness.

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago

“Starmer apologises to families of Troubles victims” – “Sir Keir Starmer has apologised to the families of five people shot dead by British Army soldiers during the Troubles”

The headline should read:

“Starmer betrays the British Army yet again by apologising ONLY TO THE CATHOLICS WHO STARTED THE WAR in the first place !!!”

When is he going to apologise to the TEN ORPHANED CHILDREN OF MRS. JEAN MCCONVILLE, who had recently been widowed, and was punished for helping a wounded British soldier fallen outside her garden gate, by later being kidnapped by FOUR FEMALE CATHOLIC IRA TERRORISTS, dragged to a beach, forced to kneel and shot in the back of the head, then BURIED IN THE SAND?

Her orphaned children were forced to fend for themselves, still grieving for their father, and not knowing where their mother had gone. Her body was only found 30 years later when a storm washed away the sand.

“Former republican prisoner Evelyn Gilroy, who lived near McConville, claimed [Gerry] Adams was an IRA commander and the only person who could have ordered the killing.“

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago

Dear DS Editors, please give us a summary of this article which is behind a “Mail+” paywall. Thank you!

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 months ago

“The Deadly Document
The Ideology Behind The Police Attitude to Henry Nowak”
https://www.freespeechbacklash.com/article/deadly-document#:~:text=The%20Deadly%20Document,to%20Henry%20Nowak

Tom Armstrong at Freespeech Backlash with a further article detailing the moral, institutional corruption now embedded in our Police Forces. Unless this DIE garbage is scrapped there will be worse to follow from Henry Nowak…

“As most of us know by now, the utterly useless (except at attacking the mythical ‘far-right’) Hampshire constabulary has a plan. Based on race. And this plan, ‘Action Plan 2024–2026’ presents itself as a benign managerial document: modern, compassionate, data-driven, morally elevated. Read closely, however, and it looks less like a policing strategy and more like a political creed. It is saturated with the language of contemporary race ideology — “anti-racism”, “disproportionality”, “representation”, “cultural competence”, “reform or explain”. This is not the old British model of impartial policing. It is something different: policing filtered through an explicitly race-conscious lens, itself the product of a political ideology very much at odds with the wishes of the British people.”

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 months ago

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/03/ed-davey-i-turned-down-mi6/

If this is true, and I doubt MI6 will challenge this cretin’s assertion, then we have some serious problems within our security services. Not really surprising.

Dinger64
Dinger64
4 months ago

“Chinese Jaecoo SUVs worth £900k go up in flames at Southampton docks”

Worth? Valued at!

Dinger64
Dinger64
4 months ago

“Wrong, Daily Mail, the Thwaites glacier isn’t about to ‘collapse”

So? The Thwaites ice self floats on water! Ice displaces less water than ..water! So it can never increase sea levels, physics is a bitch!

Dinger64
Dinger64
4 months ago

“Sainsbury’s ditches brown eggs in Net Zero drive” – Britain’s second-largest supermarket is abandoning brown eggs in favour of white ones “

Answer: abandon Sainsbury’s!

Dinger64
Dinger64
4 months ago

“I turned down MI6”..in my wet dreams: Ed Davey

JeremyP99
JeremyP99
4 months ago

Davey? The Intelligence Services? Shurely shome mishtake

Myra
Myra
4 months ago

David Betz’s analysis of the criteria needed to induce a civil war should be taken very seriously by the political class and media.
The treatment of Henry Nowak by the police is fuelling the feeling of unfairness.
And then for David Lammy to announce extended access for prostate cancer trial screening for black men at the time of heightened unrest is not very intelligent. There may very well be a good clinical reason to do this (black men at higher risk of prostate cancer), however the optics of another race based policy is not good.

Hardliner
4 months ago
Reply to  Myra

I find it hard to believe that David Lammy did something unintelligent?

AbsolutelyNot
AbsolutelyNot
4 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

As it’s the case with everyone in this government.

huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 months ago
Reply to  Myra

Never ascribe to incompetence that which is best explained by malice.

Purpleone
Purpleone
4 months ago
Reply to  Myra

Totally agree – also, why does everything have to be ‘announced’ now… make a decision, put it into action and get on with it. The only reason you announce something like that is to curry favour / positive intent with a certain audience… or… as is so common in politics, you signal an intent and see what noises come back. Politics by twitter…

pjar
pjar
4 months ago
Reply to  Purpleone

A favourite irritation of mine is the way the announcement has to be, well announced in advance… “the chancellor will announce tomorrow plans to double VAT on water filters”, kind of thing.

pjar
pjar
4 months ago
Reply to  Myra

Black men may well be at higher risk but, they still represent only 1600 of the 64000 diagnosed every year… I’m sure the remaining 62,400 might appreciate some equality there.

JohnK
JohnK
4 months ago

“Chinese Jaecoo SUVs worth £900k go up in flames at Southampton docks” A cynic might say that the docks was a more appropriate place, rather than lots of private houses around the country, if it was caused by an internal fault in one of those products.

EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
4 months ago
Reply to  JohnK

Or car transport ships. Porsche has just denied that one of its EV cars started a fire on one such vessel which became a total loss. I understand the claimants were unable to prove which car on board ignited first.

Dinger64
Dinger64
4 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

How convenient it went to the bottom if the sea while being “towed back for investigation” ..carry on, business as usual..evs are the future!

Myra
Myra
4 months ago

I can’t help wonder if this suggested change in banknotes is happening to unearth people’s cash stored under mattresses….

EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
4 months ago
Reply to  Myra

Wish I had some.

pjar
pjar
4 months ago
Reply to  Myra

I’m wondering how long they think they’ll be able to stay ahead of the forgers, given the last lot of plastic notes were supposed to be impossible to copy?

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago
Reply to  Myra

It’s just a pretext for getting rid of National Treasures like Churchill, Jane Austen & JMW Turner, and replacing them with animals, which have no sense of British history or Ethnic Identity. Then they’ll replace Florence Nightingale with Ethnic African Prostitute and Brothel Owner Mary Seacole.

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
4 months ago

Contrasting the response of sikhs to the response of muslims when their lot are caught commiting atrocities and I conclude that in the main sikhs are very fine people leaving aside the scumbag family.

Not all immigrants are alike.

Henry nowak himself seems to have been a fine young man.

And I want to see the resignation or sacking of the chief constable of hampshire police.

Nothing less will do,and that is only the start.

Mogwai
Mogwai
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

Anyone putting collective blame on an entire group within society, based on sex, ethnicity, religion etc, is pig ignorant and prejudiced. Whole groups are not defined by the bad behaviour of the minority. This attitude completely ignores the fact people are individuals and have autonomy, first and foremost, and no group ( based on whatever ‘protected characteristic’ you care to name ) is completely devoid of bad people doing bad things, but they do not represent the majority.

Jihadists and rape gangs do not represent all Muslims.
Gangsters and criminals do not represent all black people.
Man-hating feminists and woketards do not represent all women.
George Soros and Larry Fink do not represent all Jews.
Vickrum Digwa does not represent all Sikhs.
Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer nor these below paedophiles, do not represent all white men.

”Seven paedophiles who preyed on a baby and young children acted “beyond human instinct” and were guilty of “terrifying depravity”, a judge said. Jailing them, Judge Julian Lambert said the men had engaged in “the most grossly deviant behaviour imaginable”. He said what they had done made some feel “physically sick”.

https://x.com/ACSPARTAN1/status/2060614912750018700

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
4 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Mogwai that’s not true though is it?

People’s reactions to particular situations are very heavily conditioned by their upbringing and background, and very many muslims are brought up to hate christians, jews, gays and white people and are taught from the cradle that women are chattels and white girls are playthings.

Considering that, it is entirely rational to make a first order evaluation of somebody on the basis of their visible indicators.

Thats what evolved to do.

Mogwai
Mogwai
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

Disagree. Are you telling me 4 million Muslims in the UK all have the same views: hating Jews and Christians, closet Jihadis plotting their next attack, because they’ve all interpreted the Koran in exactly the same way? Why aren’t the likes of Laila Cunningham and Shabana Mahmood going round in burqas or wearing niqabs, then? Muslims differ, Jews differ, Christians differ, men differ, women differ.
There is individual variation within any group. Why? Because we’re individual people before we are our religion/sex/colour etc. It would be very convenient for the terminally prejudiced but I’m afraid any given group within society does not function as one monolithic blob. They’re made up of individuals who have agency. Anyone unwilling to recognise that is broadcasting their prejudice for all to see. Only the intellectually lazy and bigoted resort to tarring any given group in its entirety with the same brush.
You can be anti-Islam and not be anti-Muslim, just like you can oppose mass immigration and not be racist, which is my stance.

Free Lemming
Free Lemming
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

Some people are able to simultaneously hold two entirely contradictory views in their mind without the slightest hesitation. A good example are feminists (aka unwitting Marxists). Feminists (a group with a group identity) insist that there are no psychological or physiological differences of of importance between men and women. This assertion naturally forms the next assertion that men and women should be treated identically and are identically able – both mentally and physically. This gains the group significant favour. Obviously, based on this logic, it is only the lottery of which genetalia you happen to be assigned at birth which identifies a difference. Yet, their next assertion is that men cannot become women, even though their first assertion is that there are no differences between the sexes apart from physical appendage. Another feminist assertion is that groups are manufactured (by an oppressive patriachy), but strongly believe in the nation state. They believe that a group is primarily made up of individuals, but will not entertain the idea that the individual is only an individual within the context of the group and the groups identify. Why? Two things. One, the group (the one they insist does not exist – most of… Read more »

EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
4 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Agreed but traits do exist especially when driven by religion among people with limited world views.

Mogwai
Mogwai
4 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I will always be anti-Islam and believe that ideology is incompatible with Western culture. However, this is different to being anti-Muslim and making assumptions about them as individuals based on the various atrocities that hit the headlines on a regular basis. Evidently, many Muslims are able to live peacefully as a minority.
Israel has 2+ million of them within its population and they occupy positions in the judiciary, academia and the Knesset, for example, as well as serve in the IDF, despite them not being obliged to. If they were all about obsessively hating Jews, how is this possible when they could just move to one of the more culturally compatible neighbours?

JeremyP99
JeremyP99
4 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Suggest you read tne Quran (abrogated).

JXB
JXB
4 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

“Whole groups are not defined by the bad behaviour of the minority. “

Yes they are.

Try and get something clear for yourself: the majority of these minority groups of which you speak are not in the UK. We can define them by their behaviour in their Countries of origin, the which behaviour migrates. So have a good look at how our immigrant brethren behave back home, to each other and between the groups – Sikhs, Indians, Pakistanis have been at each others throats since before The Raj, for example, and aren’t Afghans a fine bunch – why would you imagine they won’t be the same to White folk?

These groups are not dispersed here they are ghettoised, so the minorities within the groups are educated, trained, learn/copy their behaviour from the whole group – their behaviour cannot be separated from the group as a whole.

These groups demand collective recognition as a community when it suits them, but don’t want to accept collective responsibility. They can’t have it both ways.

Mogwai
Mogwai
4 months ago
Reply to  JXB

Tell me: how many Sikhs have gone on a stabfest in the last decade? How many Hindus have committed serious crimes? Now shall we take those figures, adjust the numbers in relation to population size and then compare crimes by those groups to serious crimes committed by white natives as a comparison? And to be clear: I’m not on about the unvetted men who’ve just stepped off the boat and shouldn’t be here in the first place. I’m referring to those with a migration background who were born in the UK or came over legally and adopted the country as their home and have genuinely assimilated and pay their taxes.
As I’m not a chauvinist or prejudiced person who goes through life with preconceived notions, thinking anyone who doesn’t look like me is beneath me, my first thought isn’t to ‘other’ people just because they’ve different physical characteristics or beliefs to me. I take people as I find them and expect the same back. Tarring entire groups with the same brush is for ignoramuses/bigots. I’ve no time for such a hostile, narrow-minded viewpoint.

What I do have time for, however, is sensible people capable of demonstrating common sense because their… Read more »

AbsolutelyNot
AbsolutelyNot
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

I, for one, do not want to see performative actions such as the police and politicians taking the knee (it has lost its meaning after BLM, it has changed nothing – same as the billions of $ poured into it) especially after almost six months of silence and hoping that it will just go away. I want to see real change, but my expectations are lower than me winning the big lottery jackpot – and I’m not even playing.

Free Lemming
Free Lemming
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

And, of course, not all Muslims have interpreted the Quran in a way that makes them our enemy. What we have is a number of group in society – and, for anyone that’s not a rabid Marxist, groups will always form organically in any society that’s not interfered with – is a group identity. An identity that members of that group may or may not conform to. And it’s the group identity that can be so destructive on wider society, whether that’s a religious identity, an ideological identity, or an identity of grievance politics, the net result can be the destruction of a civilisation. We have, unfortunately, too many groups that have a very negative group identity.

EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

That has been my observation for some time. I would add that I had a Muslim man on my staff some 20 years ago who was,at that time, fully integrated. He chose rarely to drink alcohol but everyone was ok with that. He attended a Mosque at lunchtime.

He told me his uncle had worked for the Royal Navy in Mombasa and would have been outraged by the anti-British attitudes developing.

Sadly I have heard he later became somewhat radicalised.

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

I want to see every Sikh Gurdwara Temple, house and business searched for weapons caches.

Monro
Monro
4 months ago

https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/06/03/ex-spy-who-inspired-tv-series-the-americans-says-russia-will-be-at-war-for-the-next-couple-of-decades

Andrey Bezrukov, a political scientist and adviser to Rosneft chief Igor Sechin, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that Russia will be at war for the next “couple of decades,” He argued that modern wars have changed — the goal is…to wear down the enemy. Andrey Bezrukov is a retired colonel of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service who previously worked as a spy for the Soviet Union. In 2010, Bezrukov, Vavilova, and eight other “illegals” were arrested by the FBI. 

‘You are being sold a raw deal. Men like you who join the fight, you won’t be trained. The equipment they’ll provide you is substandard. There is a very high chance you’ll die or be wounded while you’re out there. And odds are that if you are wounded, you will be left to suffer in the mud and die. So when we talk about tens of thousands of Russian casualties, that’s not abstract.

That will probably be you.’

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, speaking during a visit to Kyiv 02 June 2026

Monro
Monro
4 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Putin is due to make a keynote speech at the St Petersburg ‘International Economic Forum’ on Friday.

Ukrainian drones hit energy and military sites early on Wednesday, hours before international guests gathered for the ‘economic forum’, in a deep embarrassment for Vladimir Putin…Guests arrived for Wednesday’s opening ceremony under a pall of thick smoke.

Ukraine also struck the nearby Kronstadt naval base and shipyard in Leningrad oblast, home to Russia’s Baltic fleet. setting fire to the Russian guided missile corvette Boikiy.

Some guests were unable to fly in after St Petersburg’s airport was temporarily closed.

JohnK
JohnK
4 months ago
Reply to  Monro

The technique of “modern wars” has no doubt changed, but the idea of wars over a couple of decades is not modern. Remember the 30 years war 1618 – 1648, e.g. Geographically similar as well.

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