- “Fury at BBC as Nigel Farage fans savage Question Time ‘audience bias’” – The BBC has been savaged by viewers about ‘audience bias’ after Nigel Farage endured a bruising Question Time grilling, reports the Express.
- “Nigel Farage boycotts BBC over Question Time blow-up” – Nigel Farage says he is boycotting the BBC until he receives an apology from the broadcaster over accusations of bias in a special episode of Question Time, according to Politico.
- “Reform surges ahead of Tories in bombshell new poll despite Ukraine row” – Nigel Farage’s party could be on course for swathes of seats according to a new poll for the Daily Express.
- “Labour vote share falls to lowest in more than two years” – A new Telegraph poll reveals the gap between Keir Starmer’s party and the Conservatives now stands at 17 percentage points.
- “Reform withdraws support from three election candidates” – Nigel Farage’s party has withdrawn support from three of its candidates over offensive comments they have made, reports the Mail.
- “Kemi Badenoch supporters discuss plan to ‘delay leadership contest’” – Supporters of Kemi Badenoch have hatched a plan to delay a Conservative leadership contest if the Tories lose the election because they believe it will improve her chances of victory, says the Telegraph.
- “Tory members could lose final say over new party leader” – Conservative Party members could lose their final say over who becomes Tory leader as senior figures weigh up whether to change the rules if they suffer an election defeat, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Conservatives are paying the terrible price for Britain’s lockdown amnesia” – Lockdown sits like a poisonous toad in the middle of every policy discussion, but we pretend not to see it, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Labour candidate says arms sales to Israel will stop after party takes power” – A Labour candidate has broken ranks by claiming arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia will stop if the party takes power, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jewish LGBT charity pulls out of Pride in London” – Britain’s largest Jewish LGBT charity has pulled out of London’s Pride parade over safety concerns, according to the Telegraph.
- “New York Times calls on Biden to quit race after disastrous debate” – A defiant Joe Biden has attacked Donald Trump at a rally a day after the his “shocking” performance in a head-to-head debate, reports Sky News. Meanwhile, even the NYT is calling for Biden to quit.
- “Joe Biden given one week to stand down” – Joe Biden has been told he has a week to win over Democrats or the party high-ups will move to oust him, says LBC.
- “U.S. debate trainwreck: Trump could be in real trouble now” – Almost any alternative to Biden would be harder for Trump to beat, writes Isaac Schorr in the Telegraph.
- “England fans could lose their job if they sing ‘10 German Bombers’” – A leading employment law firm has warned that England fans filmed singing offensive songs such as ’10 German Bombers’ face losing their jobs, reports the Mail.
- “Gary Lineker’s podcast ‘earns him £125,000’ since start of Euros” – England may have had a gloomy start to Euro 2024 but the tournament has been anything but disappointing for Gary Lineker, says the Times.
- “Sadiq Khan: flying the flag against Britain” – Sadiq Khan has once again sparked fury after imposing a rule which bans taxi, Uber and private hire drivers in London from flying England flags, writes Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Le Pen victory could spark wave of violence say Left-wingers” – All eyes are on France as the new Left-wing bloc ‘boss’ Jean-Luc Mélenchon threatens civil unrest if his side loses the forthcoming parliamentary election, says Henry Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. households pay more for electricity than all of the EU” – For the first time, U.K. households are facing higher electricity prices than those anywhere in the EU, reports the Times.
- “Why Labour’s Net Zero plan will cost taxpayers the earth” – Labour says its £8.3 billion bet on a state-owned energy company will cut costs for British taxpayers, but the numbers don’t add up, says Ruby Hinchliffe in the Telegraph.
- “Prevent investigates boy, 12, for saying there ‘are only two genders’” – A 12 year-old schoolboy has been investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there “are only two genders” and “there’s no such thing as non-binary”, reports the Mail.
- “The real mystery about gender ideology: why do so many women support it?” – A female MP applauding a man for telling the Women’s Minister to ‘shut up’: welcome to Left-wing feminism in 2024, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Hundreds of rioters convicted over January 6th insurrection could be freed” – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors went too far in charging people with trying to obstruct Congress on January 6th, reports the Washington Post.
- “You couldn’t make this shit up” – A video taken at the heavily fenced and guarded Glastonbury compound, designed to prevent illegal entry, shows revellers celebrating migrants in dinghies breaking into the U.K. illegally by passing around an inflatable designed by Banksy.
GLASTONBURY – The heavily fenced & guarded compound of Glastonbury, surrounded by security, to ensure no one can illegally break in …
— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) June 29, 2024
Is celebrating illegal migrants in dinghies, illegally breaking into the UK.
You couldn’t make this shit up
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So it seems that the plan now is for the US establishment to replace Biden as candidate, running roughshod over their own supposedly democratic process.
Where did something similar happen? Oh yeah, here when Truss was deposed in a coup.
Ah, isn’t our system of democracy just glorious. We’re definitely showing all those authoritarian places like Russia and China and the Middle East how it’s done.
In the meantime the EU continues to edge towards Chinese style technocracy.
And we wonder why democracy is in retreat in the world.
I am not sure democracy is in retreat so much as it is being withdrawn. A prime example above:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/28/tory-members-new-party-leader-general-election/
Oh yeah, here when Boris was deposed in a coup.
Out coups are bloodless, white glove jobs, carried out through relentless pressure from the press or by “the financial markets”
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https://www.politico.eu/article/farage-boycotts-bbc-over-question-time-racist-extremist-rigged-blowup-kuenssberg-reform-uk/
The article refers to three Reform candidates who have been deselected ‘for comments made.’ Farage is wrong. At the moment we are in a war with everything bar the guns and pandering to idiot critics is only likely to encourage them. Tell them to Foxtrot Oscar, the voter base will love it.
Labour candidate says arms sales to Israel will stop after party takes power
‘A Labour candidate has broken ranks by claiming arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia will stop’
What’s that noise…….like a large flock of birds on the wing?
It is the sound of yet more manufacturing jobs winging their way overseas.
Labour…the party of the ‘working class’…….abroad….
Well done: ‘Labour’…..or not really.
“Mélenchon threatens civil unrest” – it is good to know the spirit of democracy is alive and well in France.
Reform surges ahead of Tories in bombshell new poll despite Ukraine row
‘(Farage) accused of parroting a pro-Putin defence over the Ukraine war.’
What’s really going on?
Farage was playing some of the right notes……..in completely the wrong order.
Putin was planning to take over the (Russkiy) Mir (world). But he was planning it as far back as the year 2000
Nothing to do with NATO, he was planning it because Russians weren’t making enough babies……so they had to invade other countries to steal someone else’s……..
There are now so many children in Russia that can’t speak Russian , Google has had to write some special software so that, for example, Tatar children can Google happily wherever they may be in Russia.
‘In addition to Crimean Tatar, Google has incorporated 12 languages of ethnic groups in Russia – which include Bashkir, Chechen, Udmurt, and Yakut.’
‘The Ukrainian government has worked to preserve the Crimean Tatar language, endangered due to a declining number of speakers in Ukraine. Mass deportations and waves of repression of Crimean Tatars by both the Russian Empire and Soviet Union largely contributed to the decline.
Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 has worsened the trend. Crimean Tatars in their native peninsula continue to face brutal persecution and deportation by the Russian occupation regime.’
A visit from Trump to chat with Putin , (as he did before) the World would then be instantly calmer
Completely agree. Mr Trump has been a negotiator all his life. I have rarely laughed so hard as when viewing film of Mr Trump’s meeting with Ms Merkel.
Interesting to see how the Democratic Party comedy sketch unfolds.
Those who believe these guys are all capable of a well organised plan should take note. We see them all too clearly now for what they really are. They have, after all, only had four years to get their sh*t together.
Headless chickens would make a better job of running a whelk stall.
Excellent news from Nat West Bank, who are determinedly not resting on their laurels following the shit show of the debanking scandal and have now set out their stall as providers of much needed dietary advice : cut down on red meat and don’t drink milk. The NFU are not impressed.
Tip for Nat West – you effed up with your debanking shenanigans and have no credentials where personal food consumption is concerned so best stick to what you are best at – ripping people off.
Tossers.
https://www.farminguk.com/news/nfu-disappointed-as-natwest-continues-to-urge-meat-reduction_64912.html
More than a quarter of a century ago I took my teenage daughter to Glastonbury Festival. This was before the really impressive security walls – they only had tall double chain link fences with security patrols between them. Some enterprising soul had managed to dig under the outer fence and colleagues inside had ladders to help people over the inner fence. I saw twenty or more people get in that way in just a few minutes while the security patrols were elsewhere around the perimeter. Each new arrival was met by cheers from people already in – the majority of whom had presumably paid. Personally, I was p*ssed-off that these people were getting to enjoy the festival without helping to fund it.
And the proposed solution? Raise the price of domestic gas to subsidise the electricity.
Genius.
No mystery Michael. Why do so many women support it? Because the feminisation of society created it. As difficult as it is for some to wrap their heads around, when the goal is to keep diluting masculinity so that it no longer has any substance then what remains are female ideals where emotion is King… or Queen, or Kingy-Queen if that’s what you’d prefer, and the effects of emotion are something to deal with another day. All the cogs can be seen and moved, but with little understanding of the machine. And when the machine spectacularly fails it definitely can’t have anything to do with all those cogs that were tweaked.
None of the women I am close to through marriage, friendship and family want to “keep diluting masculinity”.
A common theme with the misogynists is their ability to project. Notice how it’s always the same people who harp on about being victims of the ”feminization of the nation” and how hard done by they are as a result, yet they are the very ones who accuse women of claiming ”permanent victimhood status”.
Another example is their unsubstantiated accusations of ”misandry”, and yet they are the very ones displaying their misogyny on a regular basis. You see the double-standards at play? And the irony is that ( for the gazillionth time now! ) I’ve yet to read a single post from a woman here hating on/scapegoating men. They accuse us of the very things they display in their posts time and time ( ad nauseam ) again, and yet their lack of self-awareness and pathological animosity towards us blinds them to their own hypocrisy. Some people are evidently beyond help as ‘introspection’ is not a word present in their vocabulary.
Now watch all the haters get triggered. 3, 2, 1 GO!
Robert Kennedy jnr, an alternative presidential candidate
A while ago I wrote a post on here explaining why I’m not a feminist, why I think the term is now obsolete and asking if anyone can explain the relevance ( and even the meaning ) of it. I would argue that if you really want to ‘go at it’, and you’re a fan of labels, then surely ‘human rights activist’ is more accurate because it covers everything and includes everyone. I see no point in focusing myopically on one particular group of people when clearly we are all being hit by one common enemy, just to varying degrees and in a variety of ways.
Another plain-speaking female who I greatly admire is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and in this speech I think she calls out and nails the blatant paradoxes, contradictions and general hypocrisy of what she refers to as ”luxury feminism”;
“Feminism” is a notoriously vague term. Many of you will have heard the claim that anyone who believes in equal rights between men and women is a feminist (a definition spouted by celebrities like Emma Watson over the years). In reality, feminism is an incredibly splintered concept, and the late-stage feminism which dominates Western institutions today is more confusing and paradoxical than ever before. Think of the platitudes which Hollywood actors repeat in their Oscar speeches. A contrived hierarchy of oppressed groups governs feminist rhetoric and has generated several paradoxes, some of which I will discuss today. Indeed, so-called “progressive” feminism defends hierarchy far more than any standard conservative would. Most importantly, this feminism ignores Islamic misogyny in the developing world – and, increasingly, on Western shores. Today I will baptize it “luxury feminism.”
The reason I don’t use the term “radical” feminism in my own critique is that this term also applies to another group of feminists who do not care for luxury beliefs. The UK’s Julie Bindel isn’t afraid of challenging Islamic violence, the sex industry, and the risks and abuses of the growing surrogacy industry. As such, she is labelled a “TERF” and a “SWERF”. Bindel cares most about women in poverty, since they tend to be at the highest risk of abuse; the grooming gangs scandal made this extremely clear.
However, the tradition of “radical” feminism, championed by the philosopher Andrea Dworkin, abandons the possibility of harmony with our other half: The male population. In the words of Dworkin: “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” She even described all heterosexual intercourse as “the pure, sterile, formal expression of men’s contempt for women.” Misandry is not the answer, though many strides have been made thanks to the work of feminists like Bindel against the prostitution industry and now gender ideology.
In my view, it would help if we abandoned the troublesome term “feminism” altogether in favor of more specific terms like “sex realism” and “scepticism” when it comes to things like excessive immigration. We must preserve single sex spaces – yes, including all-male spaces like social clubs. We must emphasize the importance of marriage and increase financial and social support for mothers, making it not just normal but normative to lend a hand to the mothers in your life. We can give transformative help to the women I described at the beginning of my talk; it just requires the bravery to sound a bit old-fashioned!”
https://www.restorationbulletin.com/p/three-paradoxes-of-feminism
I have always seen labels like feminism as a convenient way to refer to a continuum of similar ideas, not as a single fixed definition. As you point out, feminism comprises a whole range of views and simply labelling someone as a feminist without qualifying it is simply lazy.
The point is that the whole concept has become completely meaningless, I would argue, because if you look at certain individuals who are happy to wear the label of ”feminist” they vary so much that I defy anyone to actually tell me what the definition of the word is anymore, based off the current crop anyway.
Take for instance ‘Posie Parker’, aka Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. She wears that label and she does an awful lot of good ( and puts up with a great deal of crap ), especially when she opposes the ‘Tranny Tyranny’ in her ”Let Women Speak” tours. The misogynists do like to lump all feminists in together so that they can be tarred with the same brush and they can point at them, viewing them all as ‘man-haters”. But Kellie is married and has four kids, so she immediately debunks the misogynists’ delusion that all feminists are misandrists.
But the women-haters see everything as black and white, so much easier for them to see any woman sticking up for her sex-based rights as The Enemy, all because they need people to blame for their own shortcomings and inadequacies, and who better to put the blame on than the opposite sex? They evidently do suffer from ‘woman issues’, after all. And so the projection begins….Obviously feminist man-haters absolutely do exist, I’m not denying that, which just reinforces my point, really.
Once again, abolish the stupid, pointless, divisive ”feminism” term and replace it with ”human rights activist”, is my suggestion.
I am sorry if I misinterpreted your comment. I thought you were using feminism just as an example of devisive labelling. I frankly do not see how abolishing one label and replacing it with a wider one helps anyone. I am sure feminist animal rights activists would be uncomfortable with your suggestion.
Now if you want to abolish rampant feminists I could get behind that.
PS fyi I believe in equality, full stop, with out putting that into compartments either although the bombastic do rather push me to the limit
An excellent read. Thanks Mogs
“New York Times calls on Biden to quit race after disastrous debate”
A person with dementia thinks there’s nothing wrong with them!
Biden will never stand down, he no longer possesses the power of rational though
Toby on The Weekly Sceptic podcast talking about Farage’s comments that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was provoked:
“The argument that it’s extreme to say that Ukraine should be allowed to join both NATO and the EU … they are a sovereign people … if that’s what they want to do, why shouldn’t they be allowed to do it? One of the surprising things about Farage’s position on this is can’t he see the parallels between the UK wanting to be independent of the EU and wanting to reassert its right to national self-determination and recover its sovereignty but not extend exactly the same sympathy to the Ukrainian people?”
Surely this isn’t Toby’s sincerely-held view? Does he not think JFK was right in 1962 to refuse to allow a sovereign Cuba to site nuclear missiles on its sovereign territory?
And, if it’s not a sincerely-held view, why does he put it forward as such?
Apart from anything else, it is predicated on the assumption that Ukraine is as democratic as Britain (ignoring a coup and a regional civil war since 2014), and claims also that there has never been interference by the West in its internal affairs in the line of regime change, Biden corruption, and so on.
Indeed.
At times I do wonder at Toby Young’s logic. Among other things we voted for Brexit because eventually the penny dropped and the majority of the British people realised we had been lied to about the benefits of joining the EU. It was sold as a trading arrangement when the reality was that it was far more sinister. Witnessing its current shenanigans only a mad person or a WEFfer would consider closer involvement with that utterly corrupt organisation – whoops, mad and WEFfer, same thing.
Totally agree, HP. Ursula von der Leyen really is evil. The whole raison d’etre of the EU seems to be to circumvent democracy and the will of the people.
Yes, the Evil Ursula fond of Lyin’ has just been “endorsed” as EU Empress, sorry “Commission President”, again without a vote, along with the notoriously corrupt Ethnic Indian masquerading as a Portuguese, Antonio Costa, who was forced to resign as Portugal’s Prime Minister for corruption last autumn, now “endorsed” as EU Council President, and an Estonian woman in some other top post.
Next on Evil Ursula’s bucket list is Commander of the EU Army.
“No Military Experience Necessary” in the job description.
The stuff at Glastonbury is hypocritical virtue signalling on a massive scale. Remember the poster from a few years back with them all singing “Oh Jeremy Corbyn”;
“Socialism – a millionaire in a millionaire’s field telling people who can afford £300 for a weekend’s entertainment that capitalism has failed them.”
Two more articles lauding the Nigerian woman now trying to apply Third World Corruption Tactics to seize the top job:
“Kemi Badenoch supporters discuss plan to ‘delay leadership contest’” – Supporters of Kemi Badenoch have hatched a plan to delay a Conservative leadership contest if the Tories lose the election because they believe it will improve her chances of victory.
“Tory members could lose final say over new party leader” – Conservative Party members could lose their final say over who becomes Tory leader as senior figures weigh up whether to change the rules if they suffer an election defeat.
Can you believe this appalling chicanery?
First “delay” the leadership contest long enough for the plotters to change the rules to completely exclude the Tory Party grassroots membership from even voting for their own leader. The Nigerian woman is taking lessons from the Hindu Billionaire on how to win a top government post without anyone ever voting for you.
Remind me—Which country are we in again???