- “Blairite think tank urges Chancellor to hit expensive houses with higher tax” – The Institute for Public Policy Research wants steeper levies on empty homes and two new top-end council tax bands, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer bins portrait of Margaret Thatcher as he redecorates No.10” – Keir Starmer has been labelled “petty” after removing a portrait of Margaret Thatcher from Downing Street – just months after praising the Iron Lady to win over Tory voters, reports GB News.
- “Starmer’s approval rating at lowest on record amid cronyism scandal” – A new poll shows almost two-thirds of voters think the Government is more interested in serving its own interests than those of ordinary people, says the Telegraph.
- “Workers to gain right to a four-day week” – Workers are to be given new rights to demand a four-day week in a law planned for this autumn, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s lawfare nightmare has only just begun” – Equal pay suits are already bankrupting local councils. Soon they could bankrupt the country, warns Fred de Fossard in the Telegraph.
- “Even Labour thinks the Blob is incompetent” – There’s a reason why the Government is resorting to ‘cronyism’. The Civil Service model is broken, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Palestine Action leader ordered to attend court on terrorism charge” – The co-founder of Palestine Action has been summoned to court to face charges including an alleged terrorism offence, reports the Times.
- “Could Britain’s IMAMMs (integrated Muslims against mass migration) stop the riots?” – If we want to prevent decades of civil unrest, we need to openly debate mass migration and especially low-quality immigration, explains Andrew Hunt in Conservative Post.
- “The reactions to the Southport stabbings: another example of ‘controlled spontaneity’?” – Was the swift emergence of orderly vigils after the murders of three young girls in Southport, alongside uniform counter-demonstrations against ‘far-Right’ riots, a top-down exercise in ‘controlled spontaneity’? asks Dr. Gary Sidley on his Substack.
- “Germany to slash benefits for migrants who arrive from other EU countries to ‘bed, bread and soap’” – Following the Islamic State-inspired terror attack in Solingen, the German Chancellor is said to be preparing tough new measures to tackle illegal migration, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s outdoor smoking ban could see one in eight pubs close” – Keir Starmer is facing a growing backlash after he confirmed plans to ban smoking in pub gardens, sports grounds and other outdoor venues, says the Mail.
- “‘I’ll never go to the pub again if outdoor smoking is banned’” – Nigel Farage warns that the ban on smoking in pub gardens or on the pavement outside pubs will kill off the traditional pub forever, reports GB News.
- “We need a smokers’ revolt” – A smoking ban in pub gardens is the final, joyless straw, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “The Tories didn’t defend liberty in office. But it’s never too late to start” – Sunak’s smoking ban demonstrates that adopting your opponents’ policies doesn’t work; they will always demand more, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Toby Young warns of ‘chilling’ crackdown on free speech” – On the Telegraph’s Planet Normal podcast, Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson speak to Toby about Starmer’s riot crackdown.
- “Labour’s watching you! Starmer’s war on free speech” – On the New Culture Forum’s Deprogrammed podcast, Toby joins hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson to discuss Labour’s chilling attacks on free speech in its first few weeks in government – and what we can expect in the months and years ahead.
- “The death of free speech in Britain” – If free speech in the U.K. was born in the 1960s, it seems to be dying in the 2020s, laments Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Spectator.
- “Tech barons were untouchable. Then France came for Telegram” – The prosecution of Pavel Durov reflects a growing divide between Europe and the U.S. on free speech – and freedom from crime, writes Keiran Southern in the Times.
- “Social media policing is a threat to free speech” – Pavel Durov’s arrest is a watershed moment as governments walk the line between moderation and censorship, notes Rohan Silva in the Times.
- “A trip down memory hole lane” – On Substack, Dr. David McGrogan explores Starmer’s selective political memory.
- “Markets make us richer, planning doesn’t” – Restrictive red tape has strangled our economy, leaving us all worse off, says Daniel Herring in CapX.
- “Study quantifies Germany’s disastrous switch away from nuclear power” – The net result of German politicians’ shortsightedness in phasing out nuclear power is a vastly pricier grid, writes Ross Pomeroy in WUWT?
- “Lucy Letby: questions grow in debate on killer’s convictions” – A number of experts are raising concerns about evidence presented in Lucy Letby’s trials, says Gill Dummigan on the BBC.
- “Covid surge forces schools to close, bring back pandemic-era measures” – Two schools in Alabama and Tennessee have closed just days into the new term amid an “uptick” in Covid cases, and there are fears more disruption could be in store, reports the Mail.
- “Freedom Research TV: a new documentary My Biggest Battle” – On the Freedom Research Substack, Hannes Sarv discusses a new film that traces the harrowing decline of Heiko Sepp, an extreme triathlete whose health collapsed after the second Covid vaccine dose.
- “Slipshoddiness” – In the New Criterion, Anthony Daniels reviews a new book by the French philosopher and commentator Pascal Bruckner on the post-Covid self-confinement of an increasing number of Westerners.
- “£500,000 memorial misses the mark: where’s the tribute to Britain’s role in ending the slave trade?” – Sadiq Khan’s £500,000 memorial to victims of the transatlantic slave trade is a noble gesture, but it overlooks Britain’s pivotal role in ending the trade, says Laura Dodsworth on her Free Mind Substack.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part three” – In the final instalment of her three-part exposé for TCW, Karen Harradine reveals how Hope Not Hate’s kangaroo court labels anyone critical of radical Islam as Islamophobic or ‘far-Right’, aiming to silence dissent.
- “Brazil is now a dictatorship” – Brazil has frozen the bank accounts of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company and is expected to shut off X in a few hours, says Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “Kamala Harris mocked for asking Tim Walz to ‘babysit’ interview” – Kamala Harris has been mocked for getting Tim Walz to join her as a “babysitter” in her first major interview since announcing her run for the U.S. Presidency, according to Newsweek.
- “Trump says there are signs Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s dad” – Donald Trump has stoked rumours about Justin Trudeau in his new book by claiming that Fidel Castro could be the Canadian Prime Minister’s father, reports the Mail.
- “Building a new university on firm foundations” – This autumn, the University of Austin (UATX) welcomes its inaugural class, advocating colour-blind merit over identitarian bias, equality over equity, free speech over censorship and truth over falsehoods, writes Joe Lonsdale in City Journal.
- “A passage to doomsday” – Over at City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple ruminates on a rare E.M. Forster sci-fi story, which eerily foreshadowed aspects of our present-day technological dystopia.
- “Join the People’s Revolt: help expose how Labour’s migration plans will bankrupt us by 2030” – The Conservative Post issues a rallying cry to save our country and economy, urging you to contact your MP, the OBR and the Chancellor to demand action.
- “Together 3rd Anniversary Event” – Together’s 3rd Anniversary Event is set to attract around 2,000 people to London on Friday, September 20th, with speakers including Neil Oliver, Ben Habib, Katharine Birbalsingh, Zuby, Allison Pearson, Baroness Claire Fox, Bev Turner, Dan Wootton, Matt Le Tissier and more announced soon. Daily Sceptic readers can get £5 off early bird tickets until the end of Sunday by using coupon code SCEPTIC at checkout.
- “Labor Government’s new ‘disinformation portal’ backfires” – Sky News Australia’s Late Debate team ridicule the Labour Government’s “disinformation portal” – which was set up to tackle fake news but is now getting flooded with complaints about Labour’s own campaign ads.
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The fact is that Fishy and Co do not give a damn about what the French are doing. In fact it must be concluded that our government is complicit in the illegal movement of people. The British government is making no efforts whatsoever to put an end to this business and the conclusion must be that too many are profiting either directly or indirectly.
Analysis leads to the deduction that what are being perpetrated are acts of treason by those nominally in charge. Hardly a revelatory point to make four years in to their great reset but that is what is going on.
There is nothing complicated about stopping dinghies pulling up on our beaches so another story is playing out and that is a deliberate intention to undermine the British people and the civilisation in its broadest terms which constitutes the make up of these islands.
This won’t end well.
I think a quiet agreement was reached with the EU as part of the Brino negotiations that the UK would “take its fair share” of the criminal migrants.
For the sake of appearances, Sunak is pretending he wants to stop them and Macron pretends he is trying.
It’s the only thing which explains the close co-operation/co-ordination between the Border Farce and the French authorities.
A vote in the forthcoming GE for ANY establishment party is a vote of approval of current and continuance of mass illegal and legal immigration to these shores.
Altering the demographic to make the population more plyable and easier to control, no sovereignty, no belief in pride of place or history just a malleable citizenry prime for leadership by the new world government, its happening right across the west and is no accident
”We definitely need more people like this, not less. And what is happening across most of the West is really the most effective way of both getting and keeping these quality immigrants. For it is a fact that no matter what they do in the form of crimes we still need to hang onto them at all costs because we need the numbers.” Said no rational person, ever. Can I just sound like I’m victim-blaming a sec, though I’m not intending to, but if you’re naive, thick or ignorant enough to welcome a complete stranger, especially if that stranger is from a majority Death Cult country, then you’re potentially in for a world of pain and signing your own death warrant, are you not? This article details a few examples of what happened to so-called ‘good Samaritans’. None of them scream, ”I’m here for a better life and to integrate into European culture” to me;
”A 25-year-old homeless Algerian migrant has been arrested and charged for allegedly kidnapping, beating and raping a 49-year-old French woman in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, after she worked with the man “for years” to help him.
The victim was raped in an ordeal that lasted from Friday evening all the way into Saturday morning, with the man forcibly keeping her inside the apartment until she managed to escape and alert police.
Prosecutors say the man broke into her home with a knife and held the victim captive. The victim’s husband and children were not home during the incident.
The homeless migrant was arrested inside the victim’s home on Saturday morning and was held in custody over the weekend. On Monday, he was brought before a judge to be indicted.
“Sometimes I control myself, sometimes I don’t control myself,” he told the judge during his indictment.
The news follows a trend of good Samaritans who take migrants into their homes or work with migrants being targeted for rape and murder.
Also last year, a failed Iranian asylum seeker was sentenced to prison after brutally murdering a frail 87-year-old woman who took him into her home in the English county of North Yorkshire.
Another murder in 2023 saw an Albanian migrant kill his French host over an argument over religion and then send a photo of the murder scene to an acquaintance over Snapchat.
In yet another incident in 2023, an Algerian woman stabbed her host three times in the throat for unknown reasons outside Paris, resulting in the death of the French citizen.”
https://rmx.news/crime/sometimes-i-control-myself-sometimes-i-dont-control-myself-homeless-algerian-migrant-charged-with-kidnapping-and-raping-french-woman-who-helped-him/
There seems to be an alarming increase in violent attacks against elderly and very elderly women in their homes in France carried out by migrant men. There are also increasing attacks on teachers in French schools resulting in one Mayor in in the town of Marignane stating that teachers in schools should be supplied with attack alarms.
Or a baton, taser, pepper spray etc.
Well I’m sure the French are more than happy to get rid of these people, so why would they take them back? The best solution would be to persuade the French that they are best off stopping these people entering in France in the first place.
Well exactly. Which reminded me of this laughable situation. Of course the NGOs would call it ”crimes against humanity” if you do your job of stopping illegals entering your country to the best of your ability. I mean, this is a gravy train for the human-traffickers isn’t it, with no end in sight. Not now we’ve got this godawful ‘migration pact’ over here;
”Two NGOs have filed a complaint of “complicity in crimes against humanity” against the EU’s former head of border management, Fabrice Leggeri, just weeks before he is expected to be elected as an MEP for the national conservative Rassemblement National (RN).
His alleged crime? Trying to prevent illegal immigrants entering the EU. Which many might think sounds like doing his job as head of Frontex, the EU border management agency.
The NGOs filed the civil complaint against Leggeri in Paris on Monday, alleging that he engaged in human rights abuses by obstructing open border groups operating on the Mediterranean and enabling so-called ‘pushback’ operations against illegal migrants during his tenure leading Frontex between 2015 and 2022.
The claims centre around Frontex’s cooperation with the Libyan coastguard when Leggeri was at the helm. NGOs allege that returning the migrants to Libya made Leggeri and the organisation potentially complicit in “crimes against humanity”.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/left-ngos-accuse-former-eu-border-chief-of-crimes-against-humanity/
Dinghy manufacturers must be doing well in some places. They must know the score or is there some water sport craze going round with dinghies in Northern France.
What we need is one of these bad boys. I’m thinking of getting one off Amazon to take to the next hate march. That’ll sort them out. At all other times it’ll be my guard dog, and you don’t even have to scoop the poop. Though I don’t know how my cat will take to this new addition…Black Mirror vibes, lol;
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1782791691209978219
A convert friend of mine, ex forces, on viewing the kettling of the Patriots yesterday suggested marbles. Apparently they sort the horses no problem.
Ben Habab was bang on the money by talking about pushing back boats, even sinking them if necessary. Too much for JHB. How many more crimes, rapes would be a red line for her!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ik-WDwdf1g
Talk Radio is owned by News Corp. Like the GB News owners they rely on keeping on the right side of the Uber woke advertising agencies that select where to advertise their clients products/services. Also, there is the politicised Ofcom factor to consider. They brought GB News to their subservient knees.
Methinks, JHB will have received a prompt in her ear piece from her editor to loudly denigrate Ben Habibs illegal boats solution.
Also News Corp is current publisher of The Times. We know how rabid they were over the vaccine mandates.
It is a worldwide scam and Britain is the most lucrative target. It consists of poor countries around the world offloading their poverty stricken and the criminally-minded in essence to save the cost of incarceration. The British love cheap labour perhaps more than any other western country – a few minor pecadilloes can be easily overlooked and so it is a marriage made in heaven if you are a member of the ruling rent-seeking class but quite the opposite if you are anyone else. It really is that squalid.
They use your country as a cash cow and a toilet and hope that you don’t notice. Of course it has been growing for years. My impression is that people in England are rather naive about the nature of this situation. All you need to bear mind is that our system is run by ruthless predators and that the few freedoms we have left exist only because they haven’t gotten around to destroying them yet. You can see the acceleration in the success of their agenda. At some point it can no longer be tolerated because it represents our total destruction.
It seems they have overplayed their hand regarding the WHO backtracking. Would be interesting to find out what rumbled them on that matter.
The only people we should blame for this border collapse is the hand wringing Political class of UN and WEF lackeys signed up to every global treaty going. They long ago stopped serving the people and now serve the global government that seek to control the worlds wealth and resources and who realise that having us all feel just like citizens of the world is best achieved by eroding National Identity with mass immigration. So we don’t feel French or German or British anymore. We are just good global citizens told how to think and act by technocrats we never voted for.
All that will be left of the Italians is the recipe for pizza!
Two weeks ago a small boat came from the Belgian coast. The Belgian coastguard asked them to turn around, which they refused. It was thought too dangerous to force a turnaround, so the Belgian coastguard decided to escort them into U.K. waters….
So is the British one. They are facilitating it with the French.
The French state is nothing more than a WEF puppet, doing as they are told, UK not far behind, ask penny.
When the Conservative Party finally decided who was going to be PM he(or she) should have sufficient briefing on the situation on the ground in France to realise that the migrant crisis is so bad there that the Police simply cannot deal with the crime and criminal gangs that are operating all over France. While that situation has devastating consequences for the people of France, the criminal trafficking gangs operating in the Calais region are having devastating consequences for us in the neighbouring country UK.
The new PM together with the new Home Secretary, Foreign & Defence secretaries should have gone to meet Macron immediately and point this out to him in the bluntest way and told him to deal with this situation by deploying the French Military across the Calais region.
Give him a deadline and if that doesn’t happen then the UK may have to defend its territory by sending OUR troops to the beaches there.
What created this was the EU. ——-They are the United Nations star pupil phony planet saving open border cesspit that is causing Europe to self destruct and destroy its own identity by importing every bit of sectarian clutter from all corners of the globe. We are being invaded now because the EU opened us up to the whole planet and it is now beyond ever being fixed. ——-Read all about it in “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer
What created this was the EU. ——-They are the United Nations star pupil phony planet saving open border cesspit that is causing Europe to self destruct and destroy its own identity by importing every bit of sectarian clutter from all corners of the globe. We are being invaded now because the EU opened us up to the whole planet and it is now beyond ever being fixed. ——-Read all about it in “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer