- “Two seriously injured in East Sussex train derailment” – A train carrying 150 passengers derailed in East Sussex on the hottest day of the year, leaving two people with serious injuries, reports the Telegraph.
- “Cambridge boss in turmoil as second inquiry is announced” – Vice-Chancellor Deborah Prentice faces mounting pressure as a second inquiry is launched, with the Jason Arday plagiarism scandal and a separate whistleblower row both threatening her position, says the Times.
- “Jason Arday’s fall from grace could be ‘a reckoning’ for DEI” – Senior Mail feature writer Guy Adams sits down with host Chris Pleasance to break down his weeks-long investigation into the Cambridge plagiarism scandal and what it could mean for DEI.
- “How the Gates Foundation is helping to destroy Cambridge’s elite reputation” – On her Substack, Charlotte Gill documents 10 examples of the Gates Foundation funding projects she argues are damaging Cambridge’s standing as an elite academic institution.
- “Child and firefighters rushed to hospital after ‘apocalyptic’ wildfire” – A child and several firefighters have been hospitalised and six homes destroyed after an ‘apocalyptic’ wildfire in the West Midlands that fire services are still struggling to bring under control, reports Sophia Stanford in the Mail.
- “Eco-dogma is blamed for turning Britain into a tinderbox” – As temperatures soar to 38C, campaigners say the Government has ignored warnings that its rewilding policies have turned swathes of countryside into tinderboxes, according to the Mail.
- “Start mowing Britain’s dangerously overgrown verges” – With wildfires raging across Britain, the Mail’s Richard Littlejohn backs Ian Botham’s claims that eco-zealots bear responsibility for the crisis and says it is long past time to start mowing the nation’s dangerously overgrown verges.
- “Yvette Cooper admits Labour ‘hasn’t done government very well’” – The Health Secretary’s scathing verdict on Sir Keir Starmer’s two years as Prime Minister, before he was ousted by Andy Burnham, delivers a damaging blow to Labour’s record in office, notes the Mail.
- “Is there a ‘Kemi-naissance’ for Tories as Badenoch grows more popular?” – YouGov polling shows a growing proportion of voters believe Kemi Badenoch is performing well as Tory leader and looks like a Prime Minister-in-waiting, according to the Mail.
- “‘Leafy villages should not have to bear brunt of this migrant crisis’” – In the Mail, Kemi Badenoch writes that the Government’s claim that its measures to tackle illegal immigration are “working” is belied by the reality facing communities like Piddington.
- “There’s nothing fair about Labour’s new towns for illegal immigrants” – In the Times, Nick Timothy, Conservative MP for West Suffolk, argues that his constituents are being put at risk by an influx of men from war-torn countries being placed in their villages by the Home Office.
- “China ‘funding pro-Palestine marches in UK’” – China is suspected of secretly funding pro-Palestine marches in the UK, with US politicians now investigating the clandestine operation, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Zero-hours contracts more popular with workers, Government admits” – Workers prefer zero-hours contracts to fixed hours for the same role, according to analysis conducted for Labour ministers and now acknowledged by the Government, says the Telegraph.
- “Elite universities face overcrowding crisis in race to plug foreign student gaps” – High-tariff universities – the top third of UK higher education providers – have accepted almost 150,000 domestic students this year, raising serious questions about capacity, reports the Telegraph.
- “I watched a murderer sentenced to life” – The chilling case of Simon Levy – a killer who should never have been free to kill – is a damning microcosm of a justice system that has failed the public, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “I met a former IRA member. Even he says British soldiers shouldn’t be prosecuted – Danny Morrison, who joined the Provisional IRA in 1969, has long accepted that the British government must protect its veterans – making the case for shielding soldiers from prosecution all the more compelling, says Katie Lam in the Telegraph.
- “Netanyahu brands UK the ‘Islamic Republic of Britain’” – The Israeli Prime Minister has repeated a suggestion first made by JD Vance that Britain could become the first “truly Islamist country” to acquire a nuclear weapon, reports the Times.
- “The revenge plot to kill Trump: how Iranian regime was foiled” – An intercepted message alerted the US Secret Service to an Iranian assassination plot targeting Donald Trump during the Nato summit in Ankara, reveals the Times.
- “Labour will take 40 years to hit NHS wait list target at current rate” – At the current treatment rate, Britons face decades more misery waiting for routine care such as hip and knee replacements, according to the Mail.
- “Anthropic could eclipse SpaceX with $2 trillion valuation” – Investors are betting Anthropic can surpass SpaceX’s $1.77 trillion record valuation despite competition from cheaper AI models and OpenAI price cuts, says the Times.
- “19% of electric car owners have been stranded by a flat battery” – A survey finds that nearly one in five electric car owners has been left stranded by a flat battery, pointing to deep reservations even among those who have already made the switch, notes the Times.
- “The National Grid is becoming ever more fragile” – The grid operator Neso believes it can safely run at lower inertia levels by relying on fast frequency response from batteries. But critics warn the National Grid is growing dangerously fragile, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Britain forced to pay £6.2 million for power during solar eclipse” – Grid operators were forced to pay £6.2 million for emergency electricity to keep UK lights on as renewable output collapsed during the solar eclipse, reports the Telegraph.
- “Drought-resistant crops set to be banned under Labour’s EU deal” – Andy Burnham has been warned that drought-resistant crops face being banned in Britain under Labour’s EU reset deal, says the Telegraph.
- “Lammy eco-project ordered to pay £400k after collapsing” – An eco-project backed by David Lammy has been ordered to pay more than half a million dollars to an elderly woman after she sued it for unpaid debts following its collapse, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Guardian staff revolt despite above-inflation pay rise offer” – Journalists at the Guardian have rejected a 3.85% pay rise offer, citing cost of living pressures and increased workloads, notes the Telegraph.
- “Parents trust hospitals to put their children ahead of ideology and profit” – JD Vance announces a crack down on medical treatments for gender confused children in the wake of an eye-opening new report about why doctors really recommend gender reassignment surgery.
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“Two seriously injured in East Sussex train derailment” – “A train carrying 150 passengers derailed in East Sussex on the hottest day of the year…”
And now there’s been a second derailment:
Wickford train derailment LIVE: ‘Do not travel’ warning issued as train derails in Essex | UK | News | Express.co.uk
Wondering why this happened, I looked it up, and found that extreme heat does buckle railway tracks, even if they have expansion joints, but the key is for the train driver to approach and drive very slowly over the dodgy section. One passenger on the Lewes train reported seeing a large signboard warning of a problem with the track ahead, but instead of slowing down, the train driver appeared to speed up just before the derailment!
Other passengers reported that even after their three rear carriages had derailed, the train still kept going at speed, dragging those three fallen carriages along behind the intact four ahead, so that earth and vegetation was forced through the bottom windows. Thank Heaven that all survived!
“Parents trust hospitals to put their children ahead of ideology and profit” – JD Vance…
Yes, and not only that issue, but also this staggering evidence about childhood vaccines:
WATCH NOW | An Inconvenient Study
Channel Five is reporting on the 1975-75 weather. I feel we should note there was a Labour government then, as there is now.
Clearly they are responsible for everything
O/T
Here is a clip of Lord Monckton dismantling the climate narrative. It’s worth every 15 minutes.
https://x.com/i/status/2088181553931129132
“Is there a ‘Kemi-naissance’ for Tories as Badenoch grows more popular?”
Tell us directly and put it in your manifesto that the tories will leave the echr, forcefully stop all illegal immigration and bring down legal immigration to the 10s of thousands as well as a thorough expulsion root and branch of all illegal migrants still in th UK…..No, can’t do that can you Kemi? then its back to Sunak business as usual!
I wouldn’t believe them
Never getting my vote again as long as I live…
I would not go so far as to say that – Reform may get elected and disappoint and we might see a more radical libertarian takeover of the Tory Party, but it doesn’t seem likely.
It doesn’t matter what’s in the manifesto – words that they have no legal obligation to adhere to. The only thing that changes our country’s direction is a military coup, or a civil revolt that’s supported by the military. But everybody is still coming onto this ridiculous notion of democracy being delivered by the ballot box. What’s the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The nation is deluded.
“bring down legal immigration to the 10s of thousands”
Didn’t David Cameron promise that, how many years ago when he was Tory Prime Minister?
But later, he focused on declaring that there were “too many White faces in Parliament”…
Ironic how army barracks that should be full of British soldiers ready to defend Britain against invasion are being used to house the invaders!
wonder what Churchill would have through?
“Charlotte Gill documents 10 examples of the Gates Foundation funding projects she argues are damaging Cambridge’s standing as an elite academic institution.”
Do they really need anymore help?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-china-funding-probe-expands-005940886.html
‘The congressional investigation into alleged Chinese-backed funding of a far-left U.S. protest network has expanded to Britain, where about $319,000 was traced to a company linked to Code Pink from firms tied to Shanghai-based tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham…ties to Britain center on Code Pink, the anti-war feminist group co-founded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans. About $319,000 flowed from Singham-linked firms to a British company connected to Code Pink, whose activists have protested Britain’s Middle East policy, called for demonstrations outside Royal Air Force bases, and accused British leaders of being “bought by Zionism,”…a Chinese campaign to exploit divisive causes across the West through “political warfare.”
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said in a November letter to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi that Code Pink had received more than $1.4 million from Singham-linked sources since 2017, roughly a quarter of its budget. Cotton said the funding coincided with the group shifting from criticism of Beijing to defending China on Xinjiang and other issues.’
The Daily Sceptic has been pointing this out for some years now…
“Britain forced to pay £6.2 million for power during solar eclipse” Isn’t it more likely that there was a lot of coverage of it, leading to a peak demand for watching the telly, cooking odds & ends etc when it happened? Just like a classic major sports event, in effect. At least they were able to time it pretty accurately.
https://www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russia/2026/07/09/black-spark-leading-kyiv-s-sabotage-operations-in-russia,110838104-art
‘Black Spark governs itself and does not answer to the Ukrainian military. Its work goes beyond helping Ukrainian forces hit refineries; the group also runs operations of its own, he told the BBC. A group of like-minded people who consider themselves middle class organized the movement; its members are all Russian citizens who still live in the country. There are enough of them, Volobuev said, to operate “in almost any region of Russia.”
“We are the true elite who spent years trying to change Russia’s regime through peaceful means. Putin’s terror killed our faith in dialogue. We realized that under a dictatorship, justice has no choice but to carry ‘Molotov cocktails.’
In recent months, the movement has claimed on Telegram to have blown up the Belousovo-Leningrad and Konnaya Lakhta gas pipelines near St. Petersburg, as well as a pipeline supplying the Nizhnekamskneftekhim petrochemical plant in Tatarstan.
The group identifies sections of Russian oil refineries that are both critical and vulnerable to attack, and passes that information to the Ukrainian military. Since September 2025, Ukraine has hit nine refineries across Russia with the group’s help, including the Omsk refinery, the country’s largest by crude-processing volume.’
“From a spark, a flame shall be kindled” Alexander Odoevsky
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/russia-forced-to-import-gasoline-from-india-amid-domestic-shortages-a93466
‘Russia last week received its first shipment of gasoline from India to offset domestic fuel shortages caused by Ukrainian drone strikes…the Indian gasoline arrived at a Russian port on Wednesday, Aug. 5. It was reportedly produced by Nayara Energy, an Indian refiner partially owned by Russian state oil giant Rosneft. Russian-flagged tanker Cyclone in mid-June reportedly loaded 42,000 metric tons of gasoline from the Vadinar refinery in western India and used a chain of shadow fleet tankers off the coast of Egypt….The long-range assault also forced Russia, the world’s second-largest exporter of crude oil and third-largest exporter of refined petroleum products, to ban fuel exports through the end of 2026…authorities have introduced fuel rationing measures across Russia and in annexed Crimea.’
Except that it always imports lighter grades of petroleum, especially during summer months.
‘Even Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged in late June, during a meeting with government ministers and other officials, that Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries had contributed to fuel shortages in some regions,’
All these sabotage operations and assassinations are signs that Ukraine knows that it is losing the conventional war, with Russian troops already closing in on Slviansk/Kramatorsk and Orichiv.
‘Russian sources affiliated with the high Russian military command have increasingly published suspicious footage to propagate claims of expansive Russian advances for informational effects.’
‘Geolocated footage published on August 12 shows Ukrainian forces raising flags in various settlements east and southeast of Oleksandrivka, supporting reports from the Ukrainian military command on August 12 that Ukrainian forces liberated 26 settlements during a counteroffensive operation in the Oleksandrivka direction from January 29 to August 12.’