- “The damage lockdown did to our democracy is finally becoming clear” – We might now be seeing a sort of mass nervous breakdown, resulting in a nihilistic rejection of politics as it was, warns Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Covid vaccine serious adverse reactions far from rare” – A study published last month in Vaccine on the COVID-19 jabs found a rate of serious adverse reactions of 0.24% for the primary series and 0.26% for boosters, approximating to one per 400 people – not rare at all, says Dr. Ralph Lataster on Substack.
- “Dr. Ranj failed to tell BBC bosses about AstraZeneca advert” – BBC Morning Live‘s Dr. Ranj Singh has found himself caught up in a damaging row with the BBC over his failure to make clear his financial links to AstraZeneca, the Mail reports.
- “Moderna wins Covid jab patent dispute over Pfizer and BioNTech” – Moderna finally gets a court to accept its patents were infringed by its Covid vaccine rivals and it is entitled to a share of their profits, reports the FT.
- “You are being nudged” – State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous, says Dr. Gary Sidley in the Critic.
- “Tories shouldn’t have ousted Boris Johnson, admits Nadhim Zahawi” – Nadhim Zahawi, the former Chancellor (briefly), has said the Conservatives were wrong to oust Boris Johnson and called him the “most consequential leader since Thatcher”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The case against Israel has just collapsed” – The halving of the Gaza civilian death figures by the UN exposes the lie behind claims of ‘genocide’, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “For the first time, I see why reasonable people will vote for Donald Trump” – He is deeply flawed, but at least he won’t centre his foreign policy around appeasing the West’s mortal enemies, argues Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump’s multiracial populism” – For all the cries of ‘racist’, Trump is attracting more black and Hispanic voters than ever before, says Spiked‘s Tom Slater.
- “Russia and China ‘manipulating U.K. public opinion by promoting pro-Palestinian influencers’” – Senior Government figures fear polarising online narratives about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being spread using fake social media accounts, says the Telegraph. Perhaps, but they’re also being spread by a whole load of real ones.
- “The young children facing antisemitic abuse at school – while their teachers remain silent” – Rising antisemitism in schools is leaving Jewish parents afraid that their children will be targeted in what should be a safe environment, the Telegraph reports.
- “Idiotic Net Zero rules are driving Europe’s carmakers to extinction” – Punishing green targets are turbocharging China’s electric car assault, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Transatlantic air fares to jump under Net Zero fuel rules” – The cost of a return trip to New York is on track to rise by £40 as a result of incoming Net Zero regulations, according to figures from Virgin Atlantic, the Telegraph reports.
- “Who profits exactly from Net Zero?” – Follow the Science or follow the money, quips Tom Ed on Substack as he asks cui bono?
- “Whistleblower ‘forced out’ of Whitehall over gender beliefs” – Whistleblower Eleanor Frances tells the Telegraph she was forced out of the civil service by a “politicised” culture which led to her being marginalised for her gender-critical beliefs.
- “National Trust uses ‘anti-white’ rhetoric, claims Kemi Badenoch” – The National Trust has adopted anti-white phrases such as ‘global majority’, the Minister for Women and Equalities has said, according to the Telegraph.
- “Calling Rishi Sunak a ‘coconut’ should not be a crime” – Woke activists are getting a taste of their own censorious medicine, but that doesn’t make it right to ban ‘hate speech’, argues Inaya Folarin Iman in UnHerd.
- “There’s nothing racist about Anglo-Saxons” – Nick Cohen in the Spectator lambasts a group of academics for abandoning a sound historical term for nakedly political reasons.
- “The agony of sex education” – UnHerd‘s Kathleen Stock argues modern sex education is confused in its aims and typically amounts just to ‘too much information’.
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https://tass.com/politics/1789991
What’s really going on?
As anticipated, Russia, made overconfident by a ‘major’ assault comprising a reinforced company with two tanks and 21 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) in the direction of the Novyi Microraion in eastern Chasiv Yar on May 17, now intends to invade Poland.
Medvedev stated in a post on his Russian-language Telegram channel on May 17 that Russia’s “sanitary [buffer] zone” must at least extend over all central Ukraine and a significant part of western Ukraine.
Medvedev claimed that if Ukraine continues to strike Russian cities, then Russian forces will have to extend the sanitary zone further to Ukraine’s western border with Poland or within Poland itself.
‘If it goes on like this, the guaranteed sanitary zone will be somewhere at the border with Poland. Or even inside Poland,” the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council suggested.’
Tass
Hopefully Tusk gets wasted during this manoeuvre , anyway it will be Nato,s fault if this does happen !
That would be delightful Freddy.
It will certainly be NATO’s fault if it doesn’t!
I am no fan of the simpering Tusk but wishing for him to be ‘wasted’ is a particularly infelicitous aspiration right now……
Cashless Your Spending Monitored Forever – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
https://kiis.com.ua/?lang=rus&cat=reports&id=302
What’s really going on?
Putin is engaging in a brutal and barbaric colonisation of Eastern Ukraine.
‘…there were few “outright separatists” in Donbas before 2014. “It’s worth remembering that in 1991, a vast majority of the Donbas population voted for the independence of Ukraine, and by 2014, in spite of all kinds of complaints about the Kyiv government, they thought of Donbas as part and parcel of independent Ukraine,”
‘…regional politicians — like Viktor Yanukovych, who served as the governor of the Donetsk region from 1997 to 2002 — had a history of using the “threat of autonomy and separatism” as leverage against the central government in Kyiv. When Yanukovych was elected president in 2010, Kuromiya said, Donbas effectively “took over” the country, “signaling in a sense that Donbas had finally been integrated into Ukraine.”
“I am certain that before Russia’s invasion, the vast majority of the Donbas population thought of their future in independent Ukraine, not in an annexed region of Russia.’
‘…in 1991, the majority of the population of the Donbas supported Ukrainian independence — 83.9 percent of Donetsk residents, and 83.6 percent of Luhansk residents voted for it.’
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s, (1998)
Well the Ukrainians would say that wouldn’t they.
Other Ukrainians refuse to be evacuated from the villages north of Kharkov because they would rather wait for the Russians to come, said a Ukrainian conscript tasked with expediting the evacuation. This could explain the rapid advance of the Russians in the area, occupying over 70sq km according to Lt. Gen K. Budanov.
I think your translation might be a bit wonky or is missing a bit. The people in Donbas actually expressed a wish to be an autonomous region (ie self-governing) within an independent Ukraine. However the “independent Ukraine” was in the process of a military intervention to prevent this when Russia stepped in on the side of the majority in Donbas.
And ever since the Ukrainian military has been wasting its shells and missiles targeting the naughty civilians in Donetsk city, aka punishment beatings.
“Boris Johnson … the “most consequential leader since Thatcher”, according to the Telegraph.”
He was a “leader” since Thatcher. That’s about all the truth contained in that statement.
Three consequences that Johnson is responsible for – Brexit, covid madness, climate madness. All massively consequential, surely.
Does it also get a share of their liability; moral or financial?
My thoughts exactly, if I were them I’d be distancing myself from the clot shots not claiming ownership,.. just in case (when) the avalanche of law suits hits the fan!
“Idiotic Net Zero rules are driving Europe’s carmakers to extinction”
Possibly should more accurately read;
”Idiotic Net Zero rules are driving extinction”
There, fixed it for them.
The term “nudge” should be dropped. It is the warm fuzzy term the manipulators use.
“psychological manipulation” as given in the sub-title is more accurate. At the risk of being verbose, include “unethical”.
“The agony of sex education”
Modern sex education is nothing more than a Satanic pretext for exposing children to porn.
“There’s nothing racist about Anglo-Saxons”
Excellent article by Nick Cohen, describing how the whole research field of Anglo-Saxon history decided to change its name because ONE Third World Ethnic complained.
Kneeling hasn’t gone out of fashion yet, it seems.