- “This D-Day cock-up is final proof that Rishi Sunak is an embarrassment to Britain” – Just when you thought the Conservatives’ election campaign couldn’t get any worse, the PM chose to snub veterans by leaving the D-Day commemoration event in Normandy early. Is this his idea of National Service? asks Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Senior Tory adviser quits over Sunak’s show of ‘disrespect’ for D-Day” – Ian Acheson, a leading adviser to Michael Gove, has quit the Tory party over Sunak’s “cynical” decision to leave D-Day commemorations early, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Sunak’s D-Day snub has exposed his staggering aloofness” – The PM must be the only man in Britain who doesn’t understand the significance of the D-Day anniversary, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “The West’s choice in 2024: will it be more like 1944 or Nineteen Eighty-Four?” – The PM’s Normandy error is a symptom of something much bigger in the current condition of the allies, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The weather forecast for D-Day” – On Substack, Paul Sutton reflects on his grandfather, the meteorologist Sir Oliver Graham Sutton, whose forecast identified a brief weather window, crucial for the D-Day invasion.
- “Pugnacious Farage lands blows that leave rivals reeling in BBC election debate” – Nigel Farage, unleashed into a live debate for the first time this election, was polished, pugnacious and popular, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “The BBC audience could hardly bring itself to cheer on Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage knows that it’s the watching TV audience, not the one in the BBC studio, that really counts, says Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage won the debate” – According to More In Common, which polled viewers of last night’s television debate, Nigel Farage won.
- “Rees-Mogg calls on Sunak to do election deal with Farage” – Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged Rishi Sunak to strike a deal with Nigel Farage before the General Election, reports the Telegraph.
- “Conservatives fail to field candidate in Rotherham” – The Tories have announced that they will not field a candidate in Rotherham in a boost to Reform’s chances of winning the seat, says the Telegraph. Although it looks like a cock-up rather than a gesture of good will.
- “The Tory ‘nepo baby’ candidates handed plum seats” – Rishi Sunak’s top aides, Cabinet ministers’ special advisers and MPs’ bag carriers are among the political “nepo babies” to be handed safe seats by the Tories, reports the Telegraph.
- “Selected for greatness” – If Will Tanner, the PM’s Deputy Chief of Staff, fails to win his ‘safe’ Suffolk seat, he could always apply for a job at Facebook, says Parliament Square in the Critic.
- “Political violence is no laughing matter” – For the first time, all candidates in the General Election are being offered security, write Theo Zenou and Sam Bidwell in CapX.
- “Israel fury at being added to list of offenders who harm children” – Israel is furious after the UN has added the country to the global list of offenders who harm children, reports the Mail.
- “Literary festivals have caved to the anti-Israel cranks” – A handful of petulant activists and C-list celebs have dealt a hammer blow to Britain’s cultural life, says Jake Wallis Simons in Spiked.
- “‘Mob’ of Pro-Palestine protesters lock university students inside debate chamber” – Pro-Palestinian protestors formed a human chain outside the Durham Union, preventing a debate on the Israel-Hamas conflict going ahead, reports the Telegraph.
- “Open letter to Professor Cooke, interim co-chair at U.K.’s MHRA” – Should the need for a product recall of the AstraZeneca SARS-CoV-2 sterile injectables be investigated by the Defective Medicines Report Centre? asks PharmaFlow’s Hedley Rees.
- “The dam has broken” – The MSM is finally starting to report on Covid vaccines and excess deaths, says Suzanne Burdick in TCW.
- “Alternative media giants sue the censorship industrial complex” – Webseed and Brighteon Media have filed a lawsuit accusing several U.S. Government agencies and Big Tech companies of orchestrating a vast censorship campaign to suppress dissenting viewpoints, particularly about COVID-19, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Three quarters of people would use private healthcare if relative was stuck on NHS waiting list” – The Telegraph reports that three-quarters of people would choose private healthcare for a relative awaiting surgery, contrary to Keir Starmer’s stance in his recent TV debate with Rishi Sunak.
- “Free speech concern after Ipso rule against open court reporting” – Press watchdog Ipso has been labelled “disgraceful”, while fears have been raised over free speech following its decision to sanction a news website for its reporting on a rape trial, reports GB News.
- “A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland” – A High Court judge has overturned a new law in Northern Ireland preventing people suspected of sexual offences being named in the press, says Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
- “Trans athletes dehumanised by term ‘biological male’, says Olympics” – A 33-page ‘Portrayal Guidelines’ document, published ahead of the Paris Games by the International Olympic Committee, urges journalists not to use phrases like “born male” or “biologically male” to describe transgender athletes, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Conservatism’s future must be counter-revolutionary’” – At the NatCon Conference in Brussels, N.S. Lyons gives his answer to the question: What is to be done?
- “New York scraps congestion charge plan at 11th hour” – In a surprising U-turn, Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has cancelled plans to impose a contentious $15 (£11) congestion fee, saying it would be an “obstacle” to the city’s economy, reports the Evening Standard.
- “London doesn’t need an African Goddess, Sadiq Khan. Why not British abolitionists?” – If the statue of a slaver is to be replaced, perhaps it should not be with the deity of an African nation that participated in the slave trade, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “‘I should keep my big mouth shut’: Stephen Fry apologises for cricket remarks” – Stephen Fry has apologised for his remarks about the “beetroot-coloured gentlemen” of Marylebone Cricket Club, reports the Times.
- “Hatred of the working class behind attack on white rural Americans” – Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Second Class is the antidote to Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman’s White Rural Rage, says Pete Anderson on the Public Substack.
- “Man in Mexico dies with first human case of H5N2 bird flu” – A 59 year-old man in Mexico has died with a type of bird flu – H5N2 – never recorded in people before now, reports the BBC.
- “‘We need a global bird flu lockdown NOW’” – On X, comedian Damien Slash suggests an immediate global lockdown following the news of a man in Mexico dying from a new strain of bird flu.
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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!).