- “Iran says it has hit US-linked targets” – Tehran claims US strikes violated the UN Charter and the war-ending memorandum between the two countries, reports the Mail.
- “Iran ‘attacks another ship’ in Strait of Hormuz” – A tanker is said to be the second vessel targeted in two days as the US launches tit-for-tat strikes against Iranian assets in the Strait of Hormuz, reports the Telegraph.
- “Andy Burnham’s long coup: the chaotic year-long project to return him to Westminster” – In the Guardian, Jessica Elgot and Josh Halliday reveal the key figures, decisions, planning and missteps behind the push to line up the Greater Manchester mayor for Prime Minister.
- “Burnham threatens to be the latest PM thwarted by Tony Blair’s deep state legacy” – Even Starmer ended up frustrated by the administrative machinery Blair left behind, and Burnham may face the same immovable obstacle, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Migration crackdown softened for Burnham as Ministers try to impress” – A major immigration crackdown is being softened amid a chaotic scramble by Ministers seeking to win over Andy Burnham, according to the Mail.
- “Andy Burnham’s plot to turn tax into a postcode lottery” – Andy Burnham’s allies claim that even as he eyes a move from Manchester to Downing Street, power is being pushed in the opposite direction – towards the regions, says the Telegraph.
- “Increase capital gains tax and borrow more, urges Burnham ally” – Louise Haigh, a close ally of Andy Burnham, is calling for higher capital gains tax, looser fiscal rules and the break-up of the Treasury, notes the Telegraph.
- “Met could be forced to reopen thousands of grooming gang cases” – The Metropolitan Police may be compelled to reopen thousands of grooming gang cases, amid claims that Sir Sadiq Khan was “gaslighting” London abuse victims by denying the scale of the problem, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour scheme ‘opens door to thousands more migrants’” – Shabana Mahmood’s Ukrainian-style refugee sponsorship scheme will open the door to thousands of new migrants, the Tories have claimed, reports the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting talks like a centrist but governs from the Left” – Wes Streeting’s instinct to bend the NHS to his will may have been admirable, but his eye was always on the top job, says Arthur Reynolds in the Telegraph.
- “Leader of House promises to raise ‘serious’ Letby concerns with Ministers” – Sir Alan Campbell has pledged to take Lucy Letby’s case to Ministers after an intervention in the Commons, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS maternity scandal hospital ‘blow-by-blow’ repeat of Letby ward” – The neonatal failings uncovered by the Nottingham hospitals inquiry have been described as a “blow-by-blow” repeat of the failures at Lucy Letby’s unit – but with no Letby this time to take the blame, says the Telegraph.
- “Driver arrested after car ploughs into pedestrians in London” – Five people were injured after a car collided with multiple pedestrians in Ealing Broadway, west London, on Saturday afternoon, reports the Telegraph.
- “How two gang rapes of young girls by migrants inspired a ‘banned’ film” – Two gang rapes of teenage girls in Hamburg’s City Park, carried out by migrants, have inspired a film that authorities have sought to suppress, says the Mail.
- “What awaits baby Preston’s evil adoptive father in ‘Monster Mansion’” – The Mail reports on how Jamie Varley’s arrival at the West Yorkshire jail did not go unnoticed, with fellow inmates hammering on cell bars and threatening retribution for the vile abuse he inflicted on the helpless child.
- “Army chiefs ‘failing female soldiers’ over trans guidance” – The Ministry of Defence has been accused of failing female soldiers by refusing to clarify its transgender policies more than a year after the Supreme Court ruling, says the Telegraph.
- “Pro-trans messaging shoehorned into GCSE Spanish lessons” – A GCSE revision guide published by Pearson instructs teenagers studying Spanish how to say they admire trans activists, prompting accusations of indoctrination from campaigners, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Shocked and scared’: trans ‘man’ speaks out over reporting psychiatrist for ‘conversion therapy’” – A transgender former patient of a high-profile psychiatrist reveals why he lodged a complaint to the General Medical Council and what happened during their session, according to the i Paper.
- “The pandemic plan needs to be torn up” – Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey Tucker argues that the PanCap – America’s prevailing pandemic response document – is fatally flawed and must be scrapped entirely.
- “The climate scaremongers: Red Ed’s energy plan means 50 years of extra charges” – Ed Miliband’s Net Zero energy agenda will saddle bill-payers with half a century of extra charges, writes Paul Homewood in the Conservative Woman.
- “No wind? No sun? What could possibly go wrong?” – With Britain forced to urgently import power during a heatwave as renewables flatline, the vulnerability of the Net Zero grid is laid bare, says Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
- “Khan forced to fix ‘greenhouse’ eco-homes – but still rejects air-con” – Sadiq Khan has approved a retrofit trial for sweltering Olympic legacy homes that were built to eco-friendly standards yet became unbearable in summer heat – while continuing to rule out air-conditioning as a solution, says the Telegraph.
- “It’s summer again, so media tees-up another round of ‘heat dome’ mania” – In Legal Insurrection, Leslie Eastman reports that media outlets are once again hyping ‘heat dome’ hysteria in response to a Western European summer heatwave, with France even banning the public consumption of alcohol.
- “No, the Conversation, the AMOC doesn’t have an image problem – it has a credibility problem” – The media’s alarmist coverage of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (a.k.a. the Gulf Stream) suffers not from poor messaging but from a fundamental lack of scientific credibility, writes Anthony Watts in Watts Up With That.
- “The European Commission has shut off air conditioning for employees in its Brussels headquarters, while leaving the AC on for themselves” – On his Substack, Eugyppius reports that the European Commission has switched off air conditioning for staff working on lower floors at its Brussels headquarters while continuing to run the system for its own officials.
- “London heat adaption event cancelled by a heatwave” – A London event dedicated to adapting to heat has been cancelled due to a heatwave, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That.
- “Guardian’s ex-editor prostituted Oxford for Max Mosley’s blood money” – The Mail reports how Alan Rusbridger’s fawning pursuit of a major donation from Max Mosley – whose family fortune was built on funding Hitler and Europe’s neo-Nazis – brought shame on Oxford University.
- “The real reason for Fifa’s hydration breaks” – Fifa’s mandatory hydration breaks – which stop play for three minutes regardless of conditions – have far more to do with commercial interests than player welfare, writes Charles Walford in the Spectator.
- “Meet the men rejecting Western women for traditional wives in Asia” – The growing trend of Western men seeking out traditional wives in Asia, abandoning dating prospects at home in favour of relationships abroad, is examined by Ian Birrell in the Mail.
- “Race and the regime 3” – On his Substack, Duke Maskell continues his series examining race and the regime, with reference to Percival Everett’s novel James.
- “The Archbishop of Canterbury is blind to the true enemies of Middle East Christians” – Sarah Mullaly’s apparent focus on criticising Israel while overlooking Islamist extremism – the greatest threat to Christianity in the region – draws sharp criticism from Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “A shop owner in my constituency was ignored by the police when he reported shoplifting. But when he displayed pictures of the thieves, the police showed up – to tell him that those pictures violated GDPR” – Conservative MP Katie Lam tells a shocking story about how the police treated one of her constituents.
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May I add this fascinating BBC news to the Round-Up, because not only does it mean that the current North Korean leader is illegitimate, but his daughter cannot take over because of the rules on male-only succession. The whole thing is a fraud, and the people should give them all the boot, to embrace freedom and democracy.
Why North Korean leader Kim Jong Un never talks about his mother, Ko Yong Hui – BBC News
What is GDPR?
Police resources are fully occupied watching social media, visiting people mob-handed for non-crimes, or people praying quietly in the street, or looking Far Right, possibly about to cause a breach of the peace by being White or Jewish.
“The Archbishop of Canterbury is blind to the true enemies of Middle East Christians”
It will all become clear once people realize that this is DELIBERATE SUBVERSION of the Protestant Church of England by successive Archbishops and other clergy, in order to drag it into disrepute, driving Protestants toward Catholicism to fulfil the Dream of the Jesuit Counter-Reformation, and let the Vatican get its hands on all that church property.
Reform have pledged to abolish all things woke, including banning all of this toxic, highly damaging trans ideology from schools. Imagine living in a country where every aspect of society is no longer held hostage to the cult of woke. Where common sense is once again common and objective reality has been reinstated? It’s like the stuff of dreams. That alone would be enough incentive for me to vote for them, and that’s before we even get on to the whopping topic which is migration. To my mind, the priority for any civilized society should be the protection of its kids. An excerpt from a short essay;
”The Draft Conversion Practices Bill presents itself as a protective measure. It will, its proponents argue, shield vulnerable people from attempts to change who they are. What this framing conceals is a structural irony of considerable significance: the bill, as it applies to children, does not prevent conversion. It mandates it.
What Conversion Actually Means for Children
The bill prohibits attempts to change a child’s gender identity. But for the overwhelming majority of children who will be affected by it, the gender identity in question was not always there to be protected. It… Read more »
Just hideous. But this 2min animation clip is an example of what kids in primary schools across England are being shown in class, and this brainwashing crap is being internalized and normalized by the poor children, whose developing brains are like sponges and are primed for indoctrination;
”So isn’t this film, a form of conversion therapy aimed at tomboy girls in primary schools? ‘Accompanying worksheets reinforce the born in the wrong body narrative and encourage allyship framed around immediate affirmation of the declared identity’ ”
https://x.com/treesey/status/2070158941804237215
While we’re throwing the blame around, let’s not forget the role of the parents… especially those of the poor little mites who ‘discover’ they are gender queer before they are able to walk, or speak.
Children born to woke parents who are fully captured by this trans ideology nonsense are basically doomed. But if there weren’t also a system in place consisting of many different health care/medical professionals, who are also onboard with it, thereby being devoid of all medical ethics, then it wouldn’t be able to escalate to levels which result in irreversible damage being done to the child. This is literally state-sanctioned child abuse.
I don’t know if you’re able to see the attached vid of Hilary Cass referring to a boy who was transed by his parents at 2.5yrs old. This is one response;
“What the parents have done to their son is unconscionable. They have destroyed his childhood in pursuit of an ideology.
He could not have understood to what he was “consenting,” being far too young to understand what his sex let alone “gender identity” is.
The child does not need puberty blockers but to be removed from his cruel and abusive parents.
And Hilary Cass needs to do some reading up on child development. It is now clear that she believes that some children are born “trans”. For a paediatric scientist, to publicly espouse that unevidenced belief, is beyond… Read more »
I was told years ago that the most inappropriate of candidates will be voted into office because no one of real ability wants the job. We were speaking about the Archbishop of Canterbury, but I expect the same applies to many other positions including this one.
The question that keeps on raising its head, in relation to Burnham, is: “why?”.
The only answer that I can come up with is that he’s cover for the people in the background of his campaign, who are so vile that they would be completely unacceptable to the public.
Once they’ve seized control, he will be dispensed with and we are in for very, very dark times…
“Labour scheme ‘opens door to thousands more migrants’”
So, they want people to adopt a migrant, do they?
Lets have a trial run, then… say the remainder of this parliament for every MP and Civil Servant to take at least one poor, refugee boat survivor into their homes.
No? Thought not…
This scheme will literally open the floodgates. Every bloody mosque in the land will be recruiting from the homeland and arranging the “volunteers” in this country. And at £350 per month there will be no shortage.
In all likelihood this quite possibly will become a state sponsored program of slavery.
The system will be so overrun that no checks will be possible, although without doubt all the usual assurances will be given. God knows the quality of this next lot of doctors and engineers.
“The European Commission has shut off air conditioning for employees in its Brussels headquarters, while leaving the AC on for themselves”
Just one instance, and one small example, that literally tells you everything you need to know about why we should have nothing at all to do with these people…
“‘Shocked and scared’: trans ‘man’ speaks out over reporting psychiatrist for ‘conversion therapy’”
I have seen the point made on a number of occasions but, does anyone actually know why the psychiatric industry is obliged to affirm people’s claims that they are an opposite sex, when they don’t agree that yes, they really are fat, when they’re anorexic, or ask for absolution when they claim to be Jesus?
“I was shocked and scared when my doctor told me I had cancer, so I complained to the GMC.”
They are only about creating advertising breaks.
Many of the games are played in domed stadiums with temperature control. Some have been played in fresh, rainy weather. The stops are automatic for all games.
The last time the WC was played in the US, I 1994, the Americans already tried then to introduce 4 quarters but back then FIFA protected the game and refused
This time they’ve sold the game out for more revenue while claiming it’s for the good of players. That’s modern governance: lying shamelessly to people’s faces while virtue signalling.
You’re absolutely right… but, having created this abomination of the game, they have to make sure that the rule is applied equally, in all games, surely?
It’s an innovation that has existed for a year or two now across the game as an actual climate hysteria measure whereby if the temperature during a game exceeds 30 degrees, a water break is mandated mid half. That happens in Premier League already.but only in those games that exceed the temp.
It’s fascinating to see how the climate psyop has acquired a life of its own, creating its own self reinforcing meaures.
Of course the climate is changing. Look, before we didn’t have water breaks and now we must or the players are at risk. Because never was a football game played at above 30 degrees. Never ever. Especially not at world cups.
I wonder how many footy ballers have died during or just after a game owing to dehydration ?
In a professional game? None. Ever.
But football in general is being feminised beyond recognition.
Stong contact is almost always a foul now.
If someone is lying on the ground, the game is stopped and the person is attended to as if it were a medical emergency.
Players rehearse little dances to perform when they score a goal.
And of course there is all the performative fake kindness around says, trans, racial equality which has nothing to do with a football match in the first place
The game is being transformed in a way that the physical aspect of the contest is being stripped away and replaced with more cleverness, artistry and performative virtue.