- “Sadiq Khan played down machete concerns week before Hainault sword attack” – Sadiq Khan played down fears over “gangs running around with machetes” just a week before a deadly sword attack in Hainault, North-East London, reports the Telegraph.
- “Columbia student protesters barricade themselves inside university building” – In New York, pro-Palestinian students have taken over a Columbia University building in the latest escalation of pro-Palestinian protests on campus, according to Sky News.
- “Sex is biological fact, NHS declares in landmark shift against gender ideology” – The Government has announced proposals to ban transgender women from single-sex female NHS wards, reports GB News.
- “Rosie Duffield right to say only women have a cervix, says Starmer” – The Spectator’s Steerpike marvels at Starmer’s remarkable U-turn over Rosie Duffield.
- “Atkins says term ‘woman’ won’t be eradicated to be inclusive” – Health Secretary Victoria Atkins says the NHS must not “eradicate women” and should avoid using “artificial language” in the name of inclusivity, according to the Mail.
- “The terrible cost of the school shutdowns” – Lockdown has pushed absenteeism, suspensions and exclusions to record highs, writes Gareth Sturdy in Spiked.
- “Britain is about to surrender its sovereignty to the WHO” – Handing control to a secretive international body that got most of the Covid calls wrong is not sensible, says John Redwood in the Telegraph.
- “Nine questions for Peter Daszak” – On Substack, Jim Haslam has nine questions for EcoHealth President Peter Daszak that Congress won’t dare ask at an upcoming public hearing on the pandemic.
- “Britain must fight ‘chilling effect’ of cancel culture, Sunak says” – Rishi Sunak warns that the erosion of free speech risks damaging democracy, reports the Telegraph.
- “The old progressive politics is dead – Humza’s resignation proves it” – While the old Third Way progressivism is dying, make no mistake – a new centrist fudge is forming across the West, warns Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Humza Yousaf: a hoplite without a phalanx” – Even before becoming First Minister, Yousaf had a poor track record, writes Henry Hill in CapX.
- “How the SNP broke Scotland” – Telegraph Money reveals four ways the SNP’s firebrand nationalism has failed.
- “Taxpayers must refuse to fund this migrant scandal” – Do taxpayers realise how much they are being ripped off by the Government to accommodate illegal migrants? asks Janice Davis in TCW.
- “RedBird IMI formally abandons Telegraph takeover” – The Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund RedBird IMI has abandoned its attempts to buy the Telegraph Media Group and confirmed it will seek an onward sale via an open auction, reports the Telegraph.
- “How regulators are drowning Britain’s most valuable industry in red tape” – Tory ministers fear the City is being hamstrung by an overzealous watchdog, reports Michael Bow in the Telegraph.
- “Who gets to ask the questions on Question Time?” – Obviously biased Left-wing studio audiences shame the BBC, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “No level of terrorism should be inevitable” – A sclerotic pipework of multi-agency failure is enabling terrorism, writes Ian Acheson in CapX.
- “London’s nightlife is on the rocks” – Have you tried to get a drink after 11pm in Central London recently? asks Mimi Yates in CapX.
- “Sadiq Khan has made London an international laughing stock” – The London Mayor’s woeful reign has seen pub after pub and bar after bar close down, writes Sam Bidwell in the Telegraph.
- “European politicians declare war on text message privacy” – The same EU politicians who are trying to censor the internet now want to read all of your personal messages, say Cecílie Jílková and Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “Electric grid wars are a direct assault on the Western middle class” – If we want prosperity for all, electricity must be cheap and plentiful. The energy transition cannot leave ordinary people behind, writes Joel Kotkin in the Telegraph.
- “Parkrun to delete runners’ statistics as it prepares to double down in records row” – Amateur running organisation Parkrun may delete further statistics from its event websites, according to the Telegraph.
- “Stonewall’s guidance on gender doesn’t stand up in law” – Groupthink and negligence let a bullying culture thrive in the workplace, but now the tide is finally starting to turn, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Visit Britain, if you’re man enough” – VisitBritain’s language guide is yet another example of creeping authoritarianism in our country, says Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Germany’s disastrous embrace of gender self-ID” – Germany’s new ‘Self-Determination Law’ is a threat to women and children, says Spiked’s Sabine Beppler-Spahl.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part two” – In the second part of TCW’s investigation by Karen Harradine into the activist charity Hope Not Hate, she delves into its funding sources and the agendas of its funders.
- “The Last Night of the Pompous” – In TCW, Weaver Sheridan updates the words of Rule Britannia! for Guardian readers.
- “The rise and eventual fall of cults” – The Cass review has delivered the transgender cult a significant blow, but that still leaves the anthropogenic climate catastrophists and the Covid/WHO fanatics, writes Paul Sutton on Substack.
- “When Silicon Valley stopped trying to save the world” – Four years ago, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was treated as a heretic when he insisted on leaving politics out of work. Now he looks prophetic, says Michal Lev-Ram in the Free Press.
- “Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy” – Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause, says Ben Sixsmith in the Critic.
- “Do you owe her an apology?” – Susanna Reid asks Keir Starmer on Good Morning Britain whether he owes Rosie Duffield an apology, given that he now acknowledges that women do, in fact, have cervixes.
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It’s becoming laughable at this point. If a news article talks about a violent attack, or about assault and rape, or about sexually abusing minors and you don’t see the name or photo of the criminal responsible for it, you can already assume his immigration status, and you’d be right 90% of the time. Terrorists are screaming out why they’re doing all these attacks, but the media is deaf. But get 10 people together that are displeased with how the government runs things and the media won’t shut up about “far right” and “white supremacy”.
How delusional do you have to be to trust the media these days?
Why can’t we just accede to his desire for martyrdom?
This one’s doing the rounds, in case you didn’t see it. I honestly thought it was AI-generated, but apparently it’s legit. The contrast with the backdrop is just seriously peculiar…How many were in attendance, I wonder?
https://twitter.com/WayneGb88/status/1755302991760937255
Absolutely grotesque.
Plod excelling at F. A.
Yes, agreed. That’s how my mind works now too. A bit like if somebody dies suddenly and unexpectedly, especially decades before the end of their expected lifespan, I always assume it’s the death jab until proven otherwise.
And I note that Afghan alkali attacker in Clapham still hasn’t been found. For somebody who’s reportedly got ”significant facial injuries”, in a city that has masses of surveillance cameras, it’s surely safe to assume he’s being helped and kept hidden by somebody he knows. Well, either that or he’s walking around freely, identifying as a Muslim woman, complete with burka and niqab.
Here’s another depressing travesty of justice. Another non-accidental ‘error’ by the Home Office ( as if we were born yesterday! ) to add to the extensive list. But I’m sure he’s seen the error of his ways and is now a totally reformed character, so that’s okay then;
”A terrorist who murdered three people was allowed to stay in the country after a series of “woeful” Home Office errors.
Khairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, in Forbury Gardens, Reading, on Saturday June 20, 2020.
Now, an inquest has heard how Saadallah had wrongly been granted five years’ humanitarian leave to remain by the Home Office.
The department made a series of “woeful” errors in handling the case, which included allowing him to stay in the country even though he had served five prison sentences for violent offences.
The inquest was told that the Home Office had no record of Saadallah’s arrival in Britain on a multiple-entry tourist visa with his father in March 2012 and again in September 2012, reports The Times.
The department also had no record of his failure to depart by the visa expiry date on September 28 before he claimed asylum on October 16.
Six years later, Saadallah was still in the country. This is despite exhausting all his appeals, after launching a new legal challenge to his deportation.
He argued that Libya had become unsafe in the meantime due to a new round of conflict in the country. He was eventually granted five years’ leave to remain on a humanitarian protection basis and withdrew his legal appeal.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/reading-terrorist-khairi-saadallah-home-office-failings
I do not blame the trash that are coming here. I do however blame the trash that brought the trash here. —-Government. hand wringing parasite globalists that will facilitate our cultural destruction so they can get a little gold star on their lapel from the One World Government people at the UN and WEF
When the mistakes always go one way, maybe they’re not mistakes.
Or they only turn into mistakes when they happen to become public.
I remember that (I was in the Forbury earlier that day and the police blocked all of the area for days). But this wasn’t a run-of-the-mill islamist terror attack. The victims were all gay and I strongly suspect this was someone having seriously violent second thoughts about “experiences he had shared with them”, ie, that the motivation was rather personal than religious. That’s obviously not an excuse. But still a different kind of murderous delusion.
Self hating projection.
Jealousy would be another conjecture. Or some drug-fuelled tete-a-tete somebody really didn’t want to remember when he became sober again. As far as I can recall, nothing about the motive for the murder was ever published. This happened on a sunny day right in the center of a popular public park which suggests that it was rather a targetted than a random attack.
We’re already being set up for the Afghan chemical attacker being declared to have “mental health problems” as justification for his murderous attack.
A fellow Afghan appeared on the news pleading for the Afghan community not to assist him because he “needs medical attention and may have mental health issues.”
I knew people could sleepwalk but I never knew a whole continent could. ——-But in the last 20 years or so I have realised that Europe is SLEEPWALKING
How perfectly horrendous everything is: these obviously terrorist Muslim attacks, the cancer epidemic (as in Dr Dalgliesh’s article), the wars. All extremely depressing but only to be expected in the spiritual war we are in, essentially waged against us by the devil. We need to (re)turn to God.
I don’t really agree with this statement. But it’s certainly a lot better than many others. Defeatism always ends in defeat.
I don’t mean to sound defeatist – sorry! I resist at every opportunity: masks, lockdowns, jabs, and now in our area, Lower Traffic Neighbourhoods – a couple of other guys and I, all in our 70s or more, are standing at the very badly signed barriers warning motorists of the fines they can expect if they drive thorugh). We do what we can! And fight on!
You didn’t. That was the part of the statement I liked — it offered a positive perspective instead of the more common “We are doomed!” mongering. I’ve been raised by pretty religious parents and used to call myself a Christian during most of my lifetime. I’ve started to reconsider that due to too many bad experiences with organised (protestant) churches.
So I expect you disagreed with what I said about returning to God? I’m sorry you have had bad experiences with churches. We were blessed with ours, which although it closed initially during lockdowns did manage to stay open in one way by having ‘support groups’ where we all had lunch together, pray together, etc. And now we have a large percentage (of a very small church) who are on board with everything and still tolerate those in the church who aren’t on board (as they tolerate us in spite of disagreeing with us). I hope and pray that should there be another lockdown or other measures, we’d stay open. There’s no perfect church because there’s no perfect human being (Jesus being the only one!).