- “Rishi Sunak warns Keir Starmer will ‘raise taxes and raid your pension’ and has ‘no plan’ on immigration as leaders squabble in high-stakes ITV election debate – but as poll shows PM edging it 51%-49% was Nigel Farage the real winner?” – The Mail reports on last night’s debate.
- “I underestimated Rishi Sunak. He’s an excellent debater” – The Telegraph‘s Jake Wallis Simons argues Sunak landed the strongest blows and was nimblest on his feet in the ITV debate.
- “Farage’s return is Rishi Sunak’s worst nightmare” – From the moment the Conservatives called this summer election they seemed doomed, but the doom has only deepened with the arrival of Farage, says James Johnson in the Spectator.
- “Cometh the hour, cometh the man?” – TCW‘s Kathy Gyngell hails the entry of Farage into the political fray.
- “Farage Goes All-in” – Although it’s too early to say with any degree of certainty, Monday June 3rd 2024 may well go down as a pivotal moment in Britain’s rich political history, suggests Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Farage says Tories ‘betrayed’ U.K. and calls for ‘zero’ net migration” – Farage kicks off with a hard line on immigration, according to the Mail.
- “Nigel Farage splattered with milkshake in Clacton” – A woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault after throwing a milkshake at Nigel Farage.
- “The Left shows its true colours by cheering on the drenching of Nigel Farage” – We want our politicians accessible, not hidden behind safety glass, a Zoom screen, or a phalanx of bodyguards – something that Left-wing commentators who cheer on the soggy assault of figures they dislike fail to understand, says William Atkinson in the Telegraph.
- “We Brits don’t do revolutions but this election will be as close to one as we’ll get. And the Tories are the aristocratic ruling class totally unprepared for what’s about to engulf them” – The Mail‘s Sarah Vine senses powerful political forces swelling in the country.
- “Top Tory donors ‘withhold donations’ from party’s election campaign” – Three top Tory donors will not support the party’s General Election campaign after private polling showed that the Conservatives are on course for defeat, reports the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner has confirmed that Labour is the idiot party” – We must question Rayner’s overall judgement on defence and foreign policy if she considers nuclear disarmament a reasonable objective, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “The Tories aren’t serious about protecting biological sex” – In the Spectator, Kellie-Jay Keen says only repeal of the Gender Recognition Act can restore women’s rights by preventing males from legally becoming women.
- “The Questions They Should Have Asked Fauci” – On Brownstone, Debbie Lerman says the first question Congress should be getting to the bottom of is who was actually in charge of the U.S. Covid response.
- “Five reasons the Covid pandemic almost certainly started via Wuhan lab leak, according to Harvard researcher” – Dr. Alina Chan, molecular biologist at Harvard and MIT and co-author of Viral: The search for the Origin of COVID-19, outlined in the New York Times five reasons why the pandemic likely stemmed from a lab accident in China, and the Mail has helpfully summarised it(without a paywall).
- “Better three years too late than never” – On Substack, ‘Galileo’ runs through the key insights from Israel’s state comptroller’s vaccine report on the Covid jabs.
- “Biden to skip Zelensky’s peace summit for George Clooney fundraiser” – Joe Biden will skip a peace summit organised by Volodymyr Zelensky in favour of a Hollywood fundraiser with George Clooney, the Telegraph reports. How are the right-on celebs going to square that?
- “Egypt has questions to answer over Rafah” – Cairo has serious questions to answer over posing as humanitarian while closing the Gaza border to aid and refugees – and maintaining secret military supply tunnels to Hamas, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator.
- “China unfurls flag on dark side of the Moon as probe heads back to Earth” – China’s Chang’e-6 craft lifted off from the lunar surface on Tuesday morning after a successful mission to collect samples, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Many Problems With Batteries” – There are easier ways for humanity to avoid the problems that batteries are intended to solve, says Iddo Wernick in WUWT.
- “The Abilene Paradox revisited – how we have turbocharged groupthink in the workplace and what to do about it” – On Substack, C.J. Strachan says that since 2020 we have created the perfect incubator for organisational groupthink.
- “Mannheim Updates: The stabbed policeman has died, the assailant Sulaiman Ataee was a years-long illegal resident of Germany, and discourse about the incident continues to be very, very stupid” – Eugyppius with an update on the now fatal stabbing in Germany, where the latest deflection from the actual problem (violently radicalised migrants and far Left activists) is to blame knives, i.e., an inanimate object.
- “We Have Been Subverted” – The preservation of our way of life is at risk because we refuse to see the threats plainly, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Free Press.
- “Biden to Issue Executive Order on Southern Border, Limiting Asylum” – President Biden is expected to sign an executive order that would ban migrants who cross the southern border illegally from claiming asylum, as polls show immigration is a top issue in the election, reports the Wall Street Journal. Why didn’t Sunak think of that? Just ban all asylum claims of illegal immigrants. I guess this means Biden is ‘far Right’ now.
- “Is it true to say that renewables are ‘cheap’? No. At the moment they’re not!” – GB News Economics and Business Editor Liam Halligan delves into Keir Starmer’s energy security plans, branding them vague and slamming the implausible assumptions about renewables.
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Let’s supposed everyone acted like Coutts and refused to provide service to those who don’t adhere to what is clearly a pre-established way of thinking.
Does that mean the supermarket should stop selling to Farange, so he couldn’t buy groceries anywhere? Should all the petrol stations stop serving him? The train companies and airlines would obviously have to stop selling him tickets. Restaurants should ban him.
If everyone took the same high and mighty stance that Coutts did (and the other banks who refused him an account subsequently), then he could effectively be cancelled from life.
And if they don’t, does that mean that they are socially irresponsible for not imposing the right belief system? I guess that is what proponents of ESG, DEI, CSR and all the bullshit actually must believe.
When the left’s ideas are taken to their logical end, you end up with grotesque totalitarianism. That’s if you get there and don’t get driven to insanity first, if you can survive the trans lunacy, the climate lunacy and all the other waypoints to their totalitarian hell.
This creates great opportunities for businesses who don’t discriminate in this way. In fact, new businesses such as Public Square (https://publicsq.com/in-the-news) and other unwoke companies in the US are expanding massively by taking advantage of this very opportunity.
It is a belief system without any conviction from its adherents. I doubt whether the individuals in those banks actually believe 100% in the righteousness of their stance but they do it because it looks good to everyone else doing the same thing.
Of course CBDCs are the ultimate wet dream since they absolve all the banks and businesses of any responsibility whatsoever in terms of transactions, since it’s out of their hands – and there is nowhere one can take one’s complaints. If this had happened – and I’m sure it has – to someone less high profile than Nigel Farage, then that person would still be languishing in the social doldrums, cancelled from society.
We heard about the Canadian truckers’ bank accounts being “frozen”. Does anyone know if they were ever “unfrozen”?
A spotlight needs to be shone on the creepy companies that trawl personal data, build profiles on us all and sell these profiles to the banks amongst others.
Swamp banks with subject access requests to find out.
They’ll just stop replying.
People have been given a legitimate reason to ask so they can’t be readily dismissed. Unlike FOI, it can’t be conveniently categorised as “malicious”.
Non-response requires the regulator to take action.
If the regulator doesn’t take action that poses its own questions.
Your last thought has a precedent. MHRA were swamped by COVID vaccine yellow cards, so they simply excluded them from analysis because they upset the pattern.
This is a different process. It requires data to be provided to the requestor. Yellow Cards is more of a black hole.
I’m not suggesting that people would receive a response or that the regulator would take action. It’s what should happen and if it doesn’t it highlights yet more issues.
As soon as Poland’s GDP gets to the point where they would have to become a contributor to rather than recipient of EU largess, they will Pexit, if not before.
With most of Europe destroying itself through mass immigration of economic migrants from Islamic countries and the imposition of net zero madness, countries like Poland and Hungary stand out as beacons of common sense and hope.
Not when you see their foreign policy viz the war on their borders..
Please expand / explain…
Meant to reply to you and replied to myself instead…The fog of war and all that.
US Army stakes out permanent presence in Poland with ‘Camp K’ | Stars and Stripes
Russia-Ukraine war live: US-supplied cluster bombs ‘having an impact’ on Russian defences, Washington says (theguardian.com)
Poking the bear is not standing out as beacons of common sense and hope IMO.
Their right as a nation to do what they want.
Hungary too. They are constantly flipping the finger at the EU PTBs
Spent a month in Budapest last year, getting my teeth fixed. Fantastic job, cost maybe 1/3r of what I’d pay over here. Fell in love with Budapest, and were I 21 and 71 I’d be out there in a shot. This is the Great Market, down near the river. If you are a meat lover (my wife and I are Carnivores) it’s a place to go!
“Broadcaster Jon Sopel has issued an apology to Nigel Farage after previously poking fun at the former UKIP leader’s cancelled account with bank Coutts,”
I know he’s not apologising to me, but apology not accepted. How can it be a sincere apology?
““Nigel Farage: Coutts owner apologises for ‘inappropriate’ claims” – In a letter to the former UKIP leader, Dame Alison Rose insisted the assessment of Mr. Farage “does not reflect the views of the bank”, reports the Times.”
Again she is not apologising to me, but apology not accepted. Of course the assessment reflects the views of the bank – the bank bloody produced it, no doubt following their own policies. How can it be a sincere apology?
In both cases, they’ve been caught red-handed, underestimated who they were dealing with and the public reaction.
The Sopel apology includes a dig at the BBC for producing mis-information.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1681970843675443200
Thanks – that is interesting. Perhaps his apology is sincere.
“Scientists think they’ve cracked the secret of Covid ‘super-dodgers’”
This article tries to indicate that this genetic immunity is rare by stating;
”Only about one in ten people within the general population are believed to have the genes offering them this form of protection. ”
But surely 1 in 10 = 10% ? which in the UK equates to 7 million people. If the article had in fact said ” 7 million people in the UK are believed to have this genetic immunity” it would have had a different ring to it but then that might be seen as playing down the significance of covid and TPTB’s over-reaction to it.
“people who got Covid never got ill…” Suggests that the Mail article is oxymoronic. How can one have a disease without being ill? However, if they were more accurate (I know it’s the Mail), they might have said that most of those that got Covid were not seriously ill. Wouldn’t sell very well, perhaps.
Yes. Covid is the disease, not the bug. A large bunch of people were exposed to the bug and never developed the disease; it happens all the time with other bugs.
One’s body can detox without any overt symptoms of detox & it is these products being excreted from cells that the PCR tests assess for the presence of. Very easy for a casedemic to be manufactured in this way.
Well, if microwave exposure causes the same set of symptoms labelled as covid in susceptible individuals prior to the bioweapon injection rollout, then it’s not going to be a transmissible disease.
If this is the case, then no virus exists so the lab leak theory is just a major diversion & no “vaccine” was ever going to be effective against microwave radiation.
There is a temporal association between every major influenza epidemic & an increase in the EMF exposure of the planet.
Beverly Rubik, whose work I have come across via MD4CE zoom meetings, gives an explanation in this Rumble video.
https://rumble.com/v30y8oi-adverse-health-effects-of-wireless-communication-radiation-by-berverly-rubi.html
The Comments section in the Daily Mail article about suggested genetic predisposition to immunity is encouraging.
I’ll take my chances with the risks from the disease rather than those of the jab!
That’s a sad indictment isn’t it?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Other Interests are frustrated that their JSO protestors had not yet achieved martyrdom due to an irate driver. Perhaps their view of human nature isn’t the same as that of the majority.
The JSO speaker in the video was correct on one key point though: “this government does not have our best interests at heart”.
In the above article we find
Er, no. Where’s the evidence of this?
Then we get:
OK so we’re not eviscerating kids yet (though we seem to be encouraging them to have their ‘bits’ mutilated (reminds me of FGM outrage)), but we are sacrificing their future well-being on the altar of Green alarmism.
“Just Stop Just Stop Oil” my response to these entitled dweebs. As a paid up member of the middle classes, they are a disgrace to said middle class!
ps. W no more choose our class than we do our parents…
Reminds me of the song:
I’ve danced with a man, who’s danced with a girl, who’s danced with the Prince of Wales.