- “Tories face election wipeout with Labour set to gain a 416 majority” – A new Mail on Sunday poll predicts a potential Labour majority of 416 seats, signalling potential catastrophe for the Tory Party.
- “‘Mark my words: Reform will be the next opposition, then government awaits’” – Something remarkable may happen on election day. We are on the verge of shifting the tectonic plates of politics, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “We need a revolt against the uniparty” – The BBC election debate exposed the dire state of mainstream party politics, says Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Nigel Farage’s Tory manifesto” – As Nigel Farage ends his first week as leader of Reform, it’s worth noting his message: Toryism without the Tories, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “Farage’s army is on the march” – In Great Yarmouth, a rebel force is stirring, says Tom McTague in UnHerd.
- “Tice fury as Reform candidate pulls out of race and backs Tories” – Reform chair Richard Tice has accused the Tories of “dirty tricks” after one of his party’s candidates withdrew from the race and endorsed the Conservatives, reports the Independent.
- “Conservative MPs defy party bosses to take cash from Laurence Fox’s funder” – Four Tory MPs have defied party bosses and accepted a donation of £5,000 from the donor behind Laurence Fox’s Reclaim party, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour official reveals party’s goal is to restore freedom of movement” – A senior Labour figure has said the party will bring back freedom of movement in bombshell comments seen by the Mail on Sunday.
- “‘We’ve come to take you home’: Noa Argamani’s 245 days of captivity are finally over” – The plight of an Israeli woman who spent 245 days held hostage by Hamas ended on Saturday with the words “It’s the IDF. We’ve come to take you home,” reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Huge relief’ to see rescue of four hostages by Israel, Rishi Sunak says” – Israeli forces have rescued four captives in the Gaza Strip in the largest such recovery since Hamas’s assault triggered the conflict, says Perspective.
- “Book festivals accused of discrimination after dropping sponsor ‘linked with Israel’” – Literary festivals have been accused of “discrimination” over the decision to drop a major sponsor in a row over Gaza, reports the Telegraph.
- “Anti-Israel fanatics are leading Britain’s cultural industry to ruins” – Unless we begin to stand up to business and culture destroyers – however small fry they seem – we will have nothing left to defend, warns Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “BBC defends interviewing retired general who called October 7th attacks ‘month of victory’” – Samir Ragheb has been interviewed by BBC News Arabic nine times since the war in Gaza began, despite sharing antisemitic material and pro-Palestinian posts online, reports the Telegraph.
- “The BBC is an Orwellian, Kafkaesque nightmare” – Dishonesty and obfuscation are now part and parcel of the Beeb’s editorial policy, says Julie Burchill in Spiked.
- “‘It was incredibly satisfying’ to watch Fauci grilled over lockdowns” – GB News star Bev Turner says watching Dr. Anthony Fauci’s intense questioning from Republican lawmakers over his Covid measures was an “incredibly satisfying” experience.
- “The Rand Paul interview: part one” – On Substack, Alex Berenson sits down with Sen. Rand Paul to discuss what Dr. Fauci knew about the likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 had leaked from a Chinese lab, and when he knew it.
- “Covid severity not affected by viral load upon first infection: study” – According to a recent JAMA Network Open study, the viral load or quantity of SARS-CoV-2 in the nasal cavity does not predict disease severity, says the Epoch Times.
- “The week in numbers (to June 7th)” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson take a numerical look back over the week’s healthcare-related stories.
- “Sunak’s mask slips” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland has a bone to pick with Rishi Sunak.
- “Brief encounter with an immigration zealot” – In TCW, Niall McCrae details a recent encounter with an open borders fanatic while on the campaign trail in Sussex.
- “Don’t flirt, Cambridge tells students as it bans sexual relationships with professors” – The University of Cambridge has told students to stop flirting with staff under a new policy banning sexual relationships with professors, according to the Mail.
- “Labour’s Net Zero plans ‘risk blackouts and public unrest’” – The Energy Secretary says Labour’s Net Zero plans risk leading to blackouts and public unrest, reports the Telegraph.
- “Half-ton electric bike poses latest threat to London pedestrians” – Thousands of half-ton electric cargo bikes that look like “small articulated trucks” are set to arrive in London despite concerns over public safety, says the Telegraph.
- “Why being anti-car is a luxury belief” – The anti-car movement is idiotic – a luxury belief shared by deluded metropolitans, writes Rory Sutherland in the Spectator.
- “Science of heat waves reveals blaming CO2 is a scam!” – To blame heat waves on rising CO2, alarmists must use statistical attribution tricks, says Jim Steele in WUWT.
- “Net Zero by 2050 is simply not happening” – We haven’t even reached Peak Wood, let alone Peak Oil or Peak Coal, writes David Blackmon in the Telegraph.
- “Drill, baby, drill: Trump raises $12 million in Silicon Valley, by promising cheap energy to power the AI revolution” – Big Tech is openly rebelling against Biden’s roadmap for energy destitution, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “Why the Dutch are euthanising physically healthy young adults – and could the U.K. be next?” – The Netherlands was the first country to legalise assisted dying, but critics are starting to worry about the consequences, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
- “White men have least chance of getting on BBC trainee scheme” – Non-white applicants to the BBC’s flagship journalism training scheme were almost two and a half times more likely to get in than their white counterparts, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.K. gender critical charity permanently banned by Instagram” – Sex Matters, a high-profile charity that speaks out against gender ideology, has had its Instagram page permanently deleted in what appears to be a platform-wide clamp-down on critics of transgenderism, according to Reduxx.
- “Gender-critical Newcastle fan launches legal action against police ‘political’ trans activism” – A Newcastle fan, banned from matches for her gender critical views, has launched a High Court bid to stop Northumbria Police from endorsing trans ideology, reports the Telegraph.
- “Exeter University staff ‘feel coerced’ to sign Stonewall anti-transphobia pledge” – Staff at a top university say they feel coerced to subscribe to a Stonewall agenda by signing a pledge to oppose transphobia and demonstrate “allyship” by sharing their pronouns, says the Telegraph.
- “Chasing rainbows” – Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery, writes Steve Edginton in the Critic.
- “Why Scotland’s ‘witches’ fought back” – In UnHerd, Julie Bindel reviews a new book that reflects on the past five years of fighting gender ideology.
- “Canadian Cancer Society issues apologetic note for failing to refer to female anatomy as a ‘front hole’” – The Canadian Cancer Society has affixed an apologetic note to a page on cervical cancer addressed to trans-identified females, assuring them that men can have cervixes as well, reports Reduxx.
- “Can a Government dating app solve Japan’s birth crisis?” – The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced that it will soon be in the online matchmaking business, says Philip Patrick in the Spectator.
- “Swiping right in real life: young singles seek offline dating” – Young people are turning to in-person events to meet partners, spurred by waning interest in dating apps and a rise in speed dating, according to Axios.
- “Some news and an invitation” – On X, Tim Montgomerie contemplates voting for Farage and ponders the creation of an advisory list to direct voters towards competent, Right-wing MPs standing in their constituencies, whether Reform or Conservative.
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This month, as I usually do, I sent the DS a link for this page from Camera.org who analyse media bias against Israel.
This month, as usual, it was ignored. When I scan the above links, I wonder why, being as how the DS confronts misinformation, there is no interest in this key driver of British antisemitism.
The link shows the last 12 months, the BBC reported just 6 out of 2517 terror attacks in Israel.
I thought some might be interested.
Am I wrong?
https://camera-uk.org/2024/06/07/bbc-news-coverage-of-terrorism-in-israel-may-2024
A while back, I sent the DS News Round-Up the links to four articles on different topics, which were all ignored, but I didn’t complain about it.
It’s up to the Editors, who have no obligation to feature the favourite themes of readers.
I am not quite sure why anyone would use BBC as a source for any information: how often has BBC reported on the dangers of vaccination (all vaccines, not just against Covid), on the usefulness of increasing CO2 content in the atmosphere as opposed to the idiocy of ‘Net zero’ and its accompanying destruction of western economies, on the serious dangers of uncontrolled immigration, on the corruption of our society and parliament by organizations such as WEF, EU and countless NGOs, on how the ‘Mother of all Parliaments’ has become a secure employment office for those only interested in themselves and not in the people they supposedly represent, on the serious mental degeneration of the current US President (the guy with his finger on the button), on the extreme danger of allowing a rogue and corrupt country (Ukraine) to fire long-range western weapons at a nuclear power, and so on and so forth.
BBC could also point out how international diplomacy has become a distant memory, an antiquated and unfashionable method of conflict resolution. Nobody in the west wants to discuss the situation in Ukraine with Putin – only with the past, and now illegitimate president of that country. Similarly, nobody in Israel wants to discuss the past and present problems with Hamas – in my opinion, a sensible approach to releasing remaining hostages, as opposed to bombing everything in sight.
But have no fear, Israel’s plight is fully supported by DS and many of its readers: no matter how many Palestinian lives are lost, they are apparently not worth one Israeli life. Why? I have no idea. Any other country would be globally lambasted for its total over-reaction to the events which started many many years before last October 7th but Israel apparently enjoys a carte blanche to kill tens of thousands of civilians. That a circle of violence ensues can hardly be surprising. And this is where diplomacy steps in … or would normally step in.
But not everyone is interested in foreign wars thousands of miles away.
We in the West have more pressing problems of our own.
You are 100% correct on both counts, in my opinion, but UK is sadly paying very large amounts for both those wars.
I was with you for most of the first paragraph, but blaming Ukraine for getting itself invaded by the rogue & corrupt Putrid is ridiculous.
So is the suggestion that Israel should enter a ‘discussion’ with hamas: terrorist organisations, especially muzlim ones, are not known for their positive attitudes to diplomacy.
Numerous efforts have been made over decades by internationally-known politicians and national leaders to broker a peace deal between Israel and those who claim that the land is theirs – with no lasting effect whatsoever.
Apparently, you have ‘no idea’ why DS and its readers support Israel and not hamas. Here are some suggestions for enlightenment:
1) Jewish people, having suffered the worst mass genocide in history, deserved and continue to deserve their own country.
2) On 7/10/23 hamas launched the atrocious attack on Israel, knowing for certain that there would be retaliation. And they got it. Serve them right. At least the Israelis give notice of counter-attacks, and allow time for ‘civilians’ to flee. How many of those ‘civilians’ hate hamas and how many support them is an interesting question.
3) There are approx. 52 to 56 izlamic countries(depending on sources) in the world. If so-called Palestinians have not managed to resettle with their fellow-muzlims in any of those countries over the last 76 years, the question is, why not?
4) Most people in the West much prefer Jewish people to those of the izlamic faith. There are many very good reasons for that. The canting idiots who march for hamas are either young and ignorant, or they are anti-Jewish.
I disagree with your views on Putin. The problems in Ukraine have been instigated by NATO who broke the Minsk agreement of 2014.
Putin is a vile murderer as you very well know, Minsk or no Minsk. He just gets others to do his dirty work with poison, as happened here in the UK.
The sooner he’s dead the better.
Downticks from the creepy anti-Semites who infest the DS comments.
Predictable.
Putin had two – in my opinion, completely justifiable – reasons to invade Ukraine: firstly, to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO which would enable USA to place nuclear missiles aimed at Moscow all along the 2,000km border to Russia and, secondly, to remove the neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine’s government and military, responsible since the ‘Maidan coup’ in 2014 for shelling their own citizens in eastern Ukraine, many of whom are of Russian descent, with the obvious intent of setting up an ethnically exclusive Ukraine.
Although there is no doubt of the genocide against Jews in WWII, I am not sure why that means today’s ‘Jews deserve their own country’, especially when they are currently committing a similar crime against the Palestinian people. Even the BBC states the Jews were a clear minority in Palestine when the Zionists first decided to aim for that country at the end of the 19th century – well before WWII. 120 years later and it is the Palestinian Arabs who have to fight to have access to their own country.
A diplomatic solution to this never ending problem is essential and the result must inevitably (?) be two states living side by side in peace.
Many sensible points made in your first para.
I cannot agree with your views on the Israel / Gaza imbroglio.
“Don’t flirt, Cambridge tells students as it bans sexual relationships with professors”
I think this is actually a good idea, but must also be extended to professors, and all teachers at all levels of education. They are entrusted to do their best to educate students, not to break that trust by seducing them, or allowing themselves to be seduced.
In this regard, I have an awkward question I’ve been wondering about:
When a married man with children committed adultery with a 17-year-old girl, he was universally reviled. But when a married woman teacher with children committed adultery with her 17-year-old male student, it was just accepted. Why?
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“Some news and an invitation”
The answer must be a resounding “NO!”
Voters do not need the subversive “list” of Tim Montgomerie “directing” them to vote for the Disgraced Tories instead of Reform, luring them back into the tentacles of the Uniparty Octopus.
Regarding the adultery question, I guess it’s because males and females are perceived differently when it comes to sexual matters – males as more “predatory” and females as more vulnerable and in need of protection. Whether that should be the case or not, I am not 100% sure. I would hazard a guess that the husband of the “married woman teacher” was not too pleased about it.
But do you therefore think the married man’s adultery should be just accepted like the married woman’s, who divorced her husband to marry the boy when he came of age?
It must be added that the married man’s wife had committed adultery before him, in full view of her young children, cuckolding him in front of the world.
I disapprove of adultery, regardless of the circumstances. But I don’t think it should be illegal. Is one kind of adultery worse than the other? I don’t think so.
I don’t think it’s a good idea for teachers to have sex with their students, regardless of the sex of the teacher and the student. Should that be subject to disciplinary action? Probably. I am a bit torn. I tend to think adults should be free to act as they choose, but equally I see the point regarding abuse of power. 17 years old makes it trickier still – it’s above the age of sexual consent, but you are not an adult yet.
I suppose a really gut reaction to the two cases you describe, without knowing further details, would be that I would be more concerned about the adult male “exploiting” the 17 year old female than the case of the adult female exploiting the 17 year old male – I suppose because the stereotype of women being more sexually vulnerable is ingrained in me. I don’t know if I should react like that or not. Sexual and romantic and interpersonal relations are complex.
I think at one point the sexual consent laws made a distinction between sex between minors and sex between a minor and an adult. That still applies up to a point, but not to these cases. It does however appear to be illegal for a person in a position of trust to have sex with someone in their care who is under 18: Children and the law | NSPCC Learning
Thank you for your considered opinion. The married woman is now the First Lady of France. The married man is Prince Andrew.
My pleasure and I didn’t know that but somehow I’m not surprised
The less said about Prince Andrew’s sex life and peccadilloes the better, I think.
And how do you know whether or not the Duchess was the first in the marriage to commit adultery? I’m 100% sure you don’t know, because any information about what went on in that family comes from the notably untrustworthy mass media.
Anything that might have been said by Prince Andrew is open to doubt, to say the least!
He said nothing. You seem to have forgotten the photos of the topless toe-sucking by the pool with toddler children incident. Or maybe you’re too young to remember that.
I’m probably older than you, Heretic.
Toe-sucking?? Since when did that count as adultery?
In your earlier post, you made it sound as if she had full-blown sex in front of her children by the swimming pool. Absolute nonsense.
Calm down and cool off, sir.
If you’re referring to Macron and his missus, there is no accounting for the ways of the French.
I asked an honest question, comparing the two cases without naming them to get a more honest answer.
Actually, I don’t think a woman teacher committing adultery with her 17 year old male student IS ‘just accepted’. Increasingly over the last few decades, such women have been reviled and punished, even imprisoned, here and in the USA. No matter which sex a teacher is, they are in a position of trust, most especially when a pupil or student is a minor.
But I agree with you that it is not just university students who should be told not to flirt. At university, the burden of responsibility is most definitely on the shoulders of the faculty not to engage in flirting or affairs. They should be older and wiser than their students and not take advantage of the power their position gives them. There is a power imbalance between educator and educated in terms of authority, assessment of work, writing of references and the general influence an educator can have over a student’s future.
Yes, but accepted in this case. The married woman’s adultery with a minor is accepted, while the married man’s adultery with a minor the same age is reviled. I asked why.
Also, educators have a duty to set a good moral example to the students in their care, regardless of age.
As you pointed out, it’s a question of trust.
It might have been accepted in France where their sexual mores are rather different to ours, as I remarked earlier.
If it had happened in the UK, there would have been holy hell to pay and the toyboy wouldn’t have been elected.
I anticipate Labour might make new heterosexual relationships illegal while reducing the age of consent as a flu our to what used to be called “dirty old men”
If Harriet Harperson has anything to do with it, you’re right. She it was who supported the Paedophile Information Exchange’s rights to promote their cause back in the 1970s. In the name of ‘civil liberties’.
Not forgotten, Harriet.
Yes, a very seedy and disreputable woman who had no right to be in Parliament.