- “Rishi Sunak’s manifesto is thin gruel” – Rishi Sunak’s Conservative election manifesto won’t save his party from electoral defeat, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Sunak’s manifesto is not credible” – The best Sunak can hope for is that voters walk into their polling stations angry with the Conservatives but full of doubt about Labour, says the Spectator‘s Isabel Hardman.
- “The nasty tax surprise hidden in the Tory manifesto” – Rishi Sunak revealed a plan that is essentially a continuation of the past two years – including the relentlessly rising tax burden, says the Spectator‘s Kate Andrews.
- “Even the Tories don’t believe in their manifesto” – In UnHerd, Henry Hill says his Government sources tell him the Conservative manifesto has been written by people who know they’re going to lose under “a very cynical process: eye-catching initiatives designed to create dividing lines with Labour”.
- “‘Reform voters could leave us on just 57 seats’, says new Tory election ad” – The Conservatives are adopting an increasingly defensive tone as their campaign seeks to limit potential losses, the Telegraph reports.
- “Nigel Farage is already the leader of the Conservatives” – “He makes for a stronger and more convincing Tory than Rishi Sunak,” says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, “and I’m not alone in thinking that”.
- “Why greens were the biggest losers in the EU elections” – The EU’s punishing climate policies are facing an almighty public backlash, says Spiked‘s Tim Black.
- “Biden Asks Why Europe Didn’t Just Arrest Conservative Candidates Before Election” – As shockwaves continued to reverberate around the globe following sweeping victories for the European political Right, U.S. President Joe Biden asked aides why Europe didn’t just arrest the conservative candidates before the election, according to the satirical Babylon Bee.
- “Update on Cochrane Review of Masks” – It’s devastating for the Editor who has had to back down after throwing Tom Jefferson and colleagues under the bus, says Dr. Vinay Prasad on Substack.
- “Former GB News presenter says Ofcom killed his career over Covid vaccine claims” – Mark Steyn says GB News wanted him to pay fines after the watchdog ruled that his shows could be be a potential “harm to viewers”, the Telegraph reports.
- “See you in court! Mark Steyn bites back at Ofcom” – TCW‘s Kathy Gyngell updates readers on the popular broadcaster’s coming courtroom clash with the regulator.
- “A Court Victory over Vaccine Mandates” – Medical freedom advocates have won their appeal in the U.S. Ninth Circuit on LAUSD’s Employee Covid Vaccination Mandate, with the court allowing that the vaccines did not prevent transmission so failed to function as vaccines, writes Leslie Manookian for Brownstone.
- “June temperatures at half the level of this time last year” – Temperatures in June 2024 are at half the level of 2023, the Met Office has said, reports the Telegraph. Another record breaking month then, we can expect.
- “Windless nights make Net Zero impossible” – It is very simple, says David Wojick in WUWT. “The cost of storing electricity is so huge it makes getting through a single windless night under a Net Zero wind, solar, and storage plan economically impossible.”
- “Hamas leader believes civilian deaths are ‘necessary sacrifices’ in Israeli war, leaked letters show” – Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind Hamas’s October 7th attacks on Israel, is stalling ceasefire talks and using the mounting Palestinian death toll to his advantage, leaked messages have revealed, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rescued Israeli hostages beaten ‘almost every day’ in Hamas captivity” – The Israeli hostages who were rescued at the weekend were beaten while in Hamas captivity and left malnourished by a lack of food, the doctor in charge of their treatment has said, according to the Telegraph. “It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” he said.
- “No, Hamas-loving liberal media. Israel’s hostage rescue was not an unjustified bloodbath” – It is the vicious terrorists using the people of Gaza as shields who are to blame for innocent deaths, argues Isaac Schorr in the Telegraph.
- “Penny Mordaunt’s Conspiratorial Advice to MPs” – On her Substack page, Gillian Jamieson takes a closer look at Mordaunt’s ‘facts’ on 5G and their sources.
- “Vegan activists vandalise King’s official portrait” – Animal Rising protesters have defaced the recent red royal painting using Wallace and Gromit stickers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Annabel Croft reveals she was mugged by a phone snatcher on a bike in broad daylight outside King’s Cross station – as star becomes latest victim of London’s phone theft epidemic” – The former tennis star said her mobile was stolen “clean out of her hands” while she waited for a taxi outside the station, the Mail reports.
- “Prince of the Cuddlecrats” – Dr. David McGrogan’s latest Substack post examines the “sociology of political nihilism and our recovery from it”.
- “How an ‘anti-woke’ U.K. police chief turned around a failing force in just three years” – Stephen Watson inherited Greater Manchester Police in disarray, but his back-to-basics approach has radically improved the force, says the Telegraph.
- “Hunter Biden guilty of federal gun charges” – Hunter Biden was found guilty of all three counts of federal firearm charges Tuesday after short deliberations by the jury, reports the Spectator.
- “Welsh Labour is writing the white working class out of history” – Coal miners, who sweated and sometimes died down the pits, deserve better than to be airbrushed out of the Industrial Revolution, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
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What’s really going on?
Ukraine develops its own long range cruise missile.
The driver for this development is the reluctance of Ukraine’s partners to provide long-range weapons
The R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missile, two of which were used to sink the Russian missile cruiser Moskva a year previously, clearly offered a suitable platform for modification as a long-range surface-to-surface missile (SSM).
Technological improvements to the R-360 include a new stand-alone GPS guidance system which takes the missile close to its target before a seeker head homes in on a pre-loaded image of the final objective and guides a terminal attack.
This system, a combination of two target acquisition technologies called Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation (DSMAC) and Automated Target Recognition (ATR) means the missile will be hard to jam.
The system can deliver a 150-kilogram high explosive fragmentation warhead out to 300 km.
Part of the missile development will be to extend the range of the missile to enable it to strike Moscow (a distance of at least 600 km) and other targets inside Russia.
If the missile can achieve that range, it represents a step-change in Ukraine’s ability to strike Russian rear area locations with big implications for the conduct of the war.
Historically Ukraine was a centre for the development of both missile and aviation technology while part of the Soviet Union.
Latest update:
31 May 2024 Cruise missile attack on Russian Kavkaz port near Kerch.
The Russian Federation Ministry of Defence announced attacks by anti-ship missiles “Neptune” on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The partial damage to the oil depot, as well as the disabling of the “Avangard” railway ferry, as a result of a missile attack on the Kerch port the day before, will complicate logistics for the Russian army in Crimea and on the southern fronts.
It is a shame that military supplies for Crimea go by rail using the land route skirting the Sea of Azov. It means yet more missiles wasted on vengeance attacks
The destruction accomplished by this attack now forces Russia to rely on road and rail links across occupied Ukraine — which puts trains and trucks into easier range of Ukrainian attack.
“Considering the fact that the railway line Russians are building through the occupied territories of Ukraine is not finished yet, this civil ferry was their army’s main logistics route,” Pletenchuk said. “Their sea logistics is also long gone after Ukraine destroyed four and damaged five of their landing ships,”
I don’t blame Nigel Farage for choosing to focus on the US election rather than stand in the UK one. Whoever wins here will sign us up to any global agreement going and kowtow to any global body – the UN, the WHO, Human Rights courts. America, with Trump in charge, still has enough clout to refuse to comply or endorse as he showed with NATO. And if they can do that, we have some chance in the UK that these treaties fail and be spared what any of the parties will merrily sign us up to.
“Keir Stamer caves in and says Diane Abbott can stand as candidate”
Good grief, Starmer is about as tough and decisive as a wet rag! What a disastrous choice for a so called leader
At risk of sounding like a right biatch ( but being a ”better out than in” type of person I’ll plough on anyway ), I think Diane Abbot looks like a hippo. Especially if you see photos of her with her mouth agape. She totally needs a stylist because that severe bob and blunt fringe do no favours for a person with that sort of face. Even the glasses don’t suit her. She should try different shape frames or contacts. Just her entire look is completely unflattering, in my opinion.
I’m off for a saucer of milk now…
I like pussy cats.
Worse than her appearance are her arrogant character and hoity toity personality.
I recall her on Andrew Neil’s late night discussion show with the equally egregious Michael Portillo. She was reasonably presentable then, but her insistence that all and sundry should be allowed to come to the UK was strident and grating.
Immigrants always seem to think they’re much more important and necessary than the historical population that created this country. To ‘enrich it’ as Leftards always dribble. Our culture has not been ‘enriched’ but degraded beyond what anyone could have imagined before mass immigration was forced on us without a ‘by-your-leave’.
Pity the poor constituency flippy floppy Queer Smarmer lets Abbott stand in, though it’s probably going to be a Labour stronghold, so Labour voters will get what they deserve.
Chosen or Placed ! SIR is a clue & member of The Tri Lateral commission the rubber stamp that Starmer is upto no good !!…
The WHO assembly draws to a close.
For now the Pandemic treaty and IHR amendments are off the table.
Big protest in Tokyo.
Today a freedom rally in Geneva (wish I was there…).
They will keep trying though, so this will need to be a long campaign.
Yes it’s ongoing ,also have you seen Tedros the Terror-st telling us that anti vaxers are the cause of people being wary of Fauci,s brew !
Tedros – the disgusting lackey of the Chinese communists.
Not being a specialist in legal or tax matters, let alone American ones, my question is whether Donald trump personally filled in his company tax returns or simply takes responsibility for everything his tax advisers write by signing them off.
If they are good enough for the tax man and at least two previous jurisdictions who declined no to take action, surely Trump himself would not be expected to spot these irregularities.
And the real criminal, to me, is Daniels, who apparently signed a legal document and accepted the cash ensuring her silence, and who then totally ignored her contractual commitment to silence.
Does all this make him a criminal or a dupe? Maybe he would rather be seen as a victim in this election.
“With Starmer floundering, Farage flailing and Ed Davey acting a fool, a Tory revival is now on the cards, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.”
Please, no.
Can’t Ms Tominey have the decency to call out the likes of Fishy and Kneel for the treasonous bar stewards that they are?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/dwp-worker-benefits-fraud-checks-not-enough-stop/
I can confirm that I was routinely in the same position as this DWP whistlblower. I used to say to colleagues that If I had been paid just 10% of the value of the frauds I detected I would have been able to retire a millionaire after twelve months. Fraud is rampant in the benefits system.
About fifteen years ago our office suffered a presentation from a senior manager. Said manager went in to some detail about how in the previous twelve months DWP had achieved a 15% reduction (something ludicrous) in benefit fraud. Unable to avoid stating the obvious I pointed out to the manager that as in the previous twelve months one third of fraud investigators had been re-allocated (non fraud jobs) the reduction in fraud was hardly a surprise because “If you don’t look for it you don’t find it.”
hux received a wagging finger summons for that statement of the bleeding obvious.
The tales I could tell.
Never try to present truth or reason to a lying fool.
“This is horrific and I want to see it fail as a political strategy” says Lionel Shriver
“Trump’s victory is now more likely, not less” says Boris
Of course! That was the whole idea, to stir up mass sympathy for the AntiChrist Drumpf. As he boasted,
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
It’s like watching Mass Hypnosis take over the minds of patriots everywhere…
I’m not a “fan” of Trump or any politician for that matter, but how would you vote if you were in the US? Trump or Biden or Kennedy or someone else? And who would you have voted for in the Republican primaries (assuming you’d be a registered Republican)?
Florida Governor Ron De Santis
Yup with you on that
I would vote Trump now though, because the Democrats are just terrible- clearly you see grave dangers from Trump that I don’t