- “Zombie-knife crime doubles in five years, police data reveals” – The number of recorded crimes that mentioned machetes, swords or zombie knives has increased from 7,159 in 2019 to 14,195 in 2023, reports LBC.
- “Migrants rescued in Channel as crossings for year hit 25,000” – One in five migrants crossing the Channel are claiming to be children hoping it will boost their chances of asylum, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour fixer who worked for Lord Alli helped select MPs” – Keir Starmer faces a fresh backlash over his relationship with Lord Alli because of the role played by one of the donor’s former staff members in choosing prospective Labour MPs, says the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner under fire over taxpayer-funded £68,000 ‘vanity’ photographer” – Angela Rayner has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money after hiring a £68,000-a-year ‘vanity’ photographer, reports LBC.
- “‘Four million homes to be built on green belt’ under Rayner’s planning revolution” – The Housing Secretary is pushing for a radical overhaul of the National Planning Policy Framework, which could free up vast swathes of green belt land for housing development, says Business Matters.
- “It’s no surprise nurses want a bigger pay rise” – Labour’s message to public sector workers is that the key to higher pay lies in a protracted series of strikes, writes Isabel Hardman in the Spectator.
- “The U.K.’s birth rate is falling. Will a Labour Government respond?” – In Politics Home, Sienna Rodgers talks to figures across the Left to explore how a Labour Government might respond – or not – to the U.K.’s falling birth rate.
- “Labour MP: regulate media to ‘make Starmer’s job easier’” – To help Starmer better handle press scrutiny, Labour MP Ribeiro-Addy has suggested the Prime Minister should consider, er, regulating the press, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “‘I care more about children than pensioners,’ says key Labour donor” – Green energy tycoon Dale Vince claims it’s right for the Chancellor to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners because so many British children now live in poverty, reports Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is locked in a low-trust, high-crime spiral” – Governments that lose the confidence of their voters are in serious bother, says Ian Acheson in CapX.
- “The writing is already on the wall for Labour’s floundering Government” – Keir Starmer’s ‘loveless landslide’ was always volatile and his weak political antennae means his party is sinking in the polls, writes John Curtice in the Telegraph.
- “A very wooden cabinet” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson casts a (very) critical eye over Keir Starmer’s Cabinet.
- “Wes Streeting’s surprising praise for Reform” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reacts to Wes Streeting’s bold claim that Nigel Farage’s Reform party is the new intellectual powerhouse of the Right.
- “The plight of Hatun Tash shames Britain” – There is something far more offensive, and scary, than Hatun Tash’s occasional sullying of the Koran: the chattering classes’ silence over her persecution, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “‘I was barred from Anthony Joshua’s fight after criticising Saudi sports-washing’” – After criticising Saudi Arabia‘s ‘sportswashing’, the Telegraph’s Oliver Brown found himself barred from Anthony Joshua’s world title fight.
- “Israeli missiles rain down on Lebanon as Netanyahu issues warning” – Israeli missiles slammed into the Lebanese capital of Beirut yesterday in a strike said to be targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, reports the Mail.
- “Brandenburg Election: the Federal Government teeters on the edge of collapse, the SPD pull off a pyrrhic victory with the help of confused pensioners and the AfD win another blocking minority” – On Substack, Eugypius reflects on the results of the last of the three regional elections held in East Germany.
- “Immigration has turned Germany upside down” – The row heating up over migration in Berlin shows the Right is destabilising traditional German politics, writes Lisa Haseldine in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s war on the boiler will end in electoral disaster – just ask the Germans” – The radical heating law introduced by Olaf Scholz’s coalition was astonishingly toxic – and should come as a warning to Starmer, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “‘Port Talbot won’t feel or look the same – it breaks my heart’” – The BBC reports on the closure of Port Talbot’s steelworks, resulting in the loss of 2,000 jobs as the town confronts the end of its industrial legacy.
- “Millions urged to get Covid and flu jabs amid ‘tripledemic’ fears” – Millions of people are being urged to get their free flu, Covid and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines amid fears of a ‘tripledemic’ that could overwhelm the NHS, according to Women’s Health. Here we go again.
- “Covid-era social distancing bollard turns shopping street into ‘ghost town’” – Businesses in a Surrey town say that a road barrier introduced during the pandemic has led to a devastating fall in trade, reports the Mail.
- “Crits-Christoph et al. 2024 retraction request” – On the Biosafety Now Substack, Prof. Bryce Nickels posts the fifth in a series of documented calls for the retraction of scientifically unsound papers on the origin of COVID-19.
- “Amazon excommunicates Dr. Paul Marik” – Amazon’s banning of Dr. Paul Marik’s book Cancer Care is an extremely dark moment in the history of censorship, warns John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “‘I was the devil incarnate’: an interview with John Boyne” – In the Spectator, Julie Bindel sits down with John Boyne, who reveals how a children’s book he wrote turned him into the unwitting poster boy for ‘transphobia’.
- “Instilling fragility” – In his latest Law & Liberty essay, Theodore Dalrymple warns of the ongoing dangers of the infantilisation of the British populace, which has gone hand in hand with the growth in the popularity of psychology at universities. After all, those psychology graduates need customers.
- “How common sense has gone walkabout in woke Australia” – Since the turn of this century, Australia’s political and social elites have endeavoured to import ‘progressive values’, bound up in all manner of nanny state rules, says Terry Barnes in the Mail.
- “Anyone who admired Greta Thunberg when she was faking support for climate must feel like an idiot now“ – On X, Dr. Eli David reposts a video of the climate campaigner who’s become a fully-fledged anti-Israeli fanatic.
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Pertaining to the second article about migrants ”rescued” in the Channel…This here confirms exactly who’s coming across. Can anyone see the word ”women’s” or ”girl’s” here at all?
”CARE4CALAIS MOST NEEDED ITEMS LIST.
How many times does the word ‘Men’s’ appear?
How many times does the word ‘Women’s’ appear?
These people are not refugees, this is an invasion of fighting age men, funded by taxpayers.”
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1838279463416512831
These clips fill my feed;
”Yesterday 707 illegal migrants came to be a burden, one was kind enough to video their crossing in high spirits.
I can’t see any women, children, doctors or engineers.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1838141823170023633
I live in a fairly small town in the East Of Scotland and even here I see on a daily basis the policy of “Dispersal” in action. Migrants are appearing out of thin air on a daily basis. They wander up and down the high street, pop into Specsavers for their free glasses etc. The government claims there is massive shortage of houses, but all of these hundreds of thousands of migrants are going to have to live somewhere and presumably that will be in———–A HOUSE
Hey, what you doing slumming it down here in ‘cattle class’ with us lot anyway? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen your name in these parts, and just assumed there must be some sort of ‘North/South divide’ of the line given there’s some posters’ names we never see below the Round-Up. 😉
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Chris Eubank’s son is allegedly a nonce now. And what is it about Brighton and Bournemouth?
”THE YOUNGEST son of Chris Eubank Snr raped a teenage girl on the beach before asking if she was “ready for round two?” hours later, a court has heard.
Joseph Eubank, 27, is standing trial accused of raping the then 16-year-old girl near Brighton Pier on July 16, 2022.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/30597515/chris-eubank-son-joseph-court-raping-girl-brighton/
Look at the increase in rapes and other violent offences from 2010 until 2023 in Bournemouth. No way can all of these be put down to increased reporting. Does this look like a society that’s in good shape to you?
”My foi, which shows the 4 fold increase on rapes and violent attacks in Bournemouth…”
https://x.com/CroleyJuli14671/status/1838191437915082818
Israeli missiles rain down on Lebanon as Netanyahu issues warning
‘The Israeli military said earlier that it had hit some 300 Hezbollah targets in a matter of hours, including a weapon which was identified as a Russian-made DR-3 missile, which they said was ready to be fired across the border.’
Hezbollah is using Chinese and Russian weapons sourced via Iran.
Why is the world at war? Imperial delusions:
Iran:
Iran’s long-term goal is to become the Middle East’s dominant power, thereby preserving the Islamic Revolution indefinitely, exporting it to the rest of the Muslim world, and gaining the leverage to deal directly with other great powers, particularly Russia and China…..the first Islamic great power since the Ottoman Empire, and the first Middle Eastern actor capable of projecting power beyond the region since the early 19th century. Iranian state agencies are increasingly active within Western Europe, fifteen threats to British nationals alone in 2023.
Russia:
A Russian dominated Union State superpower of 220 million people giving Russia the options of the options of intimidation, blackmail, and political leverage across all of Europe. Putin’s funding of European radical fringe groups attempts to destabilise Western democracies from within.
China:
China’s investments in non-western regions — under the guise of projects like CPEC — exacerbate the debt burden of recipient countries and “exploit the peoples in Asia, Africa, and Latin America of their labour and natural resources.
China’s funding of ‘protest groups’ through New York’s ‘Peoples Forum’ attempts to destabilise Western democracies from within.
But, plus ca change…..It’s like deja vu all over again:
‘Trotskyism’ (otherwise known as four really bad ideas) :
(i) crude two-campism as a world view;
(ii) unconditionality in defence of the supposedly progressive camp, defined as such, as ‘the Revolution’, when and because it was in conflict with ‘Imperialism’ whatever its own ideas or actions were;
(iii) an inversion of political reality that was licensed by this absurd dogma, with the seemingly reactionary being redefined as the ‘objectively progressive’;
(iv) an increasingly bizarre substitutionism when it came to the identification of and support for ‘objectively revolutionary’ agencies.’
https://fathomjournal.org/little-short-of-lunatics-post-trotsky-trotskyism-and-the-radical-lefts-degenerate-response-to-7-october/
What to do?
We know what to do. We’ve done it before. It works.
What? World war?
It seems they only send women and (actual) children across in order to sink the dinghy and increase public sympathy for the illegals. When that boat sank recently, with the loss of several women, one of those on the boat said it had been sabotaged to hasten the trip to England – but for the gangs and the corporate financial beneficiaries, the occasional pictures of drowned infants and mothers keep the sheep onside to continue the trafficking.
This is a reply to Mogs, by the way – posted in wrong box.
Agreed, Jon. I’m not saying there’s literally no women and children coming over but due to who I follow on Twitter and the resulting algorithms ( not just footage from this platform but elsewhere also ) I’m really not seeing any evidence of their existence, therefore I remain ever sceptical. The evidence before our very eyes contradicts the claims. As per my above example, even the NGOs don’t ask for donation items specifically for females or young kids, so what conclusion are we left to come to? As I’ve stated before, what mother in her right mind would embark on a high risk journey across the Channel in an overcrowded dinghy with an infant in tow when she’s already in ( and has passed many other ) a safe country? It’s nonsensical. We’re being taken for idiots, much like we are regarding all the other damaging narratives being pushed.
Since when have I been posting that the illegals are in actual fact an invading army?
The stats I saw somewhere is that 89% of illegal immigrants are males of military age.
Millions urged to get Covid and flu jabs amid ‘tripledemic’ fears – there’s money in them there jabs. Lets ramp up the fear to maximise the profit.
They can F R O with their poisonous jabs.
#Together had their 3rd anniversary this year. Started during lockdowns it is a movement trying to influence, protest and lobby for a return to common sense and open debate.
The event on Friday was sold out and really inspiring.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx-RFzXQn1g
Went to the premiere of Asseem Malhotra’s movie ‘First do no pharm’ yesterday evening.
It was in the Odeon at Leicester Square London.
The movie was a documentary on the power and workings of some of the big pharmaceutical companies and the failure of regulators to hold them to account regarding some of their spurious claims regarding the effectiveness of some of their drugs, causing harms in their wake.
It was interesting to note that mRNA vaccines were not mentioned. Probably a political decision?
The movie will be shown in the senate on Capitol Hill on Thursday and at some stage will be online (not sure for how long…).
The Housing Secretary is pushing for a radical overhaul of the National Planning Policy Framework, which could free up vast swathes of green belt land for housing development, says Business Matters.
Harry Quartermain, head of research at LandTech highlighted Labour’s redefinition of grey belt land, which includes not only previously developed sites but also land that contributes minimally to green belt objectives, such as preventing urban sprawl.
Preventing urban sprawl is not a minimal objective for the Green Belt, it is a primary objective.
Meanwhile the million available sites already identified by campaigners who value the open space around populated areas will remain undeveloped. It is far cheaper to build on virgin land. The cost of infrastructure however usually falls on local tax payers or on local residents who have to share the uinadequate services with more people.
Note the picture of housing at the top of the article in Business Matters (“UK’s leading business magazine” it says). A boring box among other boring boxes with, I suggest, a life expectancy of under 150 years.