- “Hezbollah chief tipped to succeed Nasrallah ‘killed by Israel’” – According to Israel’s military, a Hezbollah chief, tipped as one of Hassan Nasrallah’s successors, has been killed in Lebanon, reports the NY Post.
- “Pockets of revelry at Nasrallah killing across Middle East, including in Syria, Iran” – While some Middle Eastern leaders condemned Israel’s killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, others in Syria and Iran took to the streets to celebrate, says the Times of Israel.
- “Is David Lammy prioritising arms sales over human rights? With the UAE, it sure looks that way” – The Foreign Secretary takes a high moral tone in his public utterances. But the reality of his policies is often rather different, says Ben Keith in the Telegraph.
- “David Lammy’s virtue-signalling is an embarrassment to Britain” – The Foreign Secretary’s priorities don’t seem to reflect our pressing strategic concerns, writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
- “Austrian hard-Right party wins election after pledging closed borders” – Austria‘s Freedom Party has topped the country‘s national elections, reports the Mail.
- “U.K. teams up with Bulgaria seizing hundreds of boats and engines destined for channel migrants” – A U.K.-led partnership has delivered a major blow to international people smuggling gangs, after hundreds of small boats and engines were seized on the Bulgarian border with Turkey, says GB News.
- “‘Hellhole’ village where refugees are ‘dumped’ by London councils” – Fed-up locals in County Durham say their village has become a “hellhole” after being used as a “dumping ground” for refugees from councils in London, reports the Mail.
- “Tory party will die if it doesn’t plan to leave ECHR, Jenrick to claim” – Robert Jenrick, the front-runner in the Tory leadership race, is set to further harden his rhetoric on immigration in a speech at the Tory conference in Birmingham, says the Telegraph.
- “Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, suggests Kemi Badenoch” – The Shadow Housing Secretary says that women need to take more “personal responsibility” over their finances when they have children, reports the BBC. Cue Twitter storm.
- “Tories go to war as Robert Jenrick ally brands Badenoch ‘Kemi-Kaze’” – The Tory leadership has descended into outright war as Robert Jenrick’s allies lashed out at Kemi Badenoch for suggesting maternity pay is “excessive”, reports James Tapsfield in the Mail.
- “This Kemi ‘row’ is shameless opportunism from those who should know better” – Kemi Badenoch is right – excessive regulation hurts everyone, including mothers, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Time to end the squabbling and backbiting, says Sunak” – Rishi Sunak has urged the Conservative Party to end the “backbiting and the squabbling” in his final speech before he stands down as leader, says ITV News.
- “David Cameron ‘threatened to f— Boris up forever’ if he supported Brexit” – In the Mail, Boris Johnson recalls how David Cameron threatened to “f—” him up “forever” if he backed Leave in the 2016 referendum.
- “I believe Macron let migrants cross Channel in revenge for Brexit, says Boris Johnson” – Boris has accused the French President of being a “positive nuisance” during Brexit negotiations in his memoir, according to the Telegraph.
- “Duffield has penned the best denunciation of Starmer you’ll ever read” – In a resignation letter for the ages, Rosie Duffield takes apart Labour’s incestuous clique and the Puritan hypocrite at the heart of it, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Lord Alli criticised ‘entitled’ MPs helping themselves to freebies in wake of expenses scandal” – The Labour peer at the centre of Sir Keir Starmer’s donations row previously criticised “entitled” MPs who took freebies following the Westminster expenses scandal, reports GB News.
- “Keir Starmer ally slams ‘theft’ of the Elgin Marbles from Greece” – A former Labour frontbencher has slammed the “theft” of the Elgin Marbles and insisted Keir Starmer will return them to Greece, says the Mail.
- “Is another pandemic really inevitable?” – So many people gained so much money, power or fame out of the pandemic that they will be all too willing to declare another one soon, writes Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
- “‘Life without our son is getting harder, not easier’” – In the Telegraph, the Baker family speak for the first time about the day their 20 year-old son died suddenly.
- “‘I have been fully vindicated by the world’s most objective epidemiologist. The Covid vaccines are not safe’” – On his Substack, Steve Kirsch gave ChatGPT hidden vaccine data, and it exposed Pfizer’s 10% higher mortality rate over Moderna.
- “Why the misinformation bill must be stopped” – The Australian Government’s new misinformation bill is a dangerous power grab that will crush free speech, stifle dissent and let bureaucrats decide what’s true, says Alison Bevege on the Dystopian Down Under Substack.
- “Top doctor at ‘Scotland’s Tavistock’ raised alarm about transgender surgery” – A doctor who oversaw Scotland’s gender clinic for young people for a decade repeatedly raised concerns about patients progressing towards reassignment treatment without sufficient caution, reports the Times.
- “Taxpayers should fund trans surgery for inmate who murdered baby, judge rules” – A U.S. federal judge has ruled that taxpayers must fund sex reassignment surgery for an inmate who murdered an 11 month-old baby, says Fox News.
- “The real reason you’re seeing more reality TV than ever” – TV audiences are too distracted by their phones to focus. Is this the end for complex, original storytelling? wonders Al Horner in the Telegraph.
- “John Kerry wants to abolish the First Amendment” – On Substack, John Leake reacts to former Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent disdain for the First Amendment.
- “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence” – John Kerry commits heresy on a World Economic Forum panel, as clipped by Colin Wright on X.
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More on the Islamification of the West. Long may countries such as Croatia resist and oppose this invasion so as to hold on to their individual culture, values and customs. This article explains how the creep begins, and before you know it, it’s too late;
”Of Croatia’s population of around 4.2 million, fewer than 2% are Muslim—a fact that becomes apparent as you walk through the cities. Croatian flags fly proudly, murals celebrate national heroes like Kata Šoljić, Ivan Meštrović, and Luka Modrić, and there is a strong sense of identity rooted in the country’s Roman and Dalmatian heritage. This is a proud, culturally unified nation—quite the contrast to “multicultural” Britain or Sweden.
When people debate multiculturalism, I’ve come to realise they’re rarely talking about a true diversity of cultures. What they’re really discussing is whether Islam has a place in Western society.
For decades, Asians, Jews, and Christian Africans have woven themselves into the cultural fabric of the West. Their contributions, successes, and loyalty have been invaluable and unquestionable.
Islam, however, is different. Unlike other groups, Islam doesn’t tend to adapt to its surroundings—it insists on submission, as the very word suggests. Wherever Islam takes root, the conversation seems to turn to how much the host nation should accommodate it, never the other way around. This is why we find ourselves debating which cartoons can be drawn, what books can be published, and what kind of speech is deemed acceptable.
But it’s not just the religion that shifts the debate—it’s what it does to the liberal mind. It’s often not Muslims themselves who push for the removal of national symbols, like flags from public buildings or singing the national anthems at graduation ceremonies, but rather well-meaning bureaucrats. Afraid that any sign of patriotism may be labelled “racist,” these officials eagerly dismantle their own cultural foundations in the name of inclusion.
While not an exact science, we can see familiar patterns emerge when Islam enters a non-Islamic society. It begins with calls for special treatment under the guise of minority rights. Western societies, wary of appearing discriminatory (a notion never reciprocated in Islamic societies), acquiesce to their demands under the rubric of “liberalism” and believing that asking Muslims to adapt to local norms is some kind of supremacist bigotry.
This leads to the establishment of practices that are out of step with modern Western societies: Sharia courts, forced marriages, niqabs, and male dominance over women. Once such practices gain a foothold, the community expands, drawing in more adherents who take advantage of Western freedom, while actively pursuing its destruction.”
https://amirpars.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-soul-snatchers?r=7ejt7&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
We have had immigration from all corners of the world for decades. There have always been some tensions (‘No dogs, No Irish’ etc), but this is perfectly normal. We are by nature rightly suspicious of people not like us, but give it a generation or two and it all settles out. The ‘sons and daughters of immigrants become more integrated, they don’t lose their heritage, but they assimilate ours. I’m also going to say it…people from former colonies, (and therefore British Subjects…) seemed to get this concept better than people from non-colonies. Now however, the radicals, who have no intention of integrating, but have a political motive, are emboldened by the sheer number of people here and coming. They have hijacked local politics in the major conurbations under the Labour banner, and are doing the same with government and the civil service (with rapid advancement due to DEI…). We now have half a dozen self declared Jihadist MP’s, and no-one in the establishment bats an eyelid. Its one hell of a buggers muddle we have been landed with.
“give it a generation or two and it all settles out”
Not really. Outcomes vary enormously by race. Race exists and it matters. I know people wish it didn’t, but the reality that I see tells me it does. That doesn’t mean that I think race determines an individual’s destiny or capabilities, just that group level differences are significant. Culture and race are linked – but again that doesn’t mean I don’t think that just because you are of a given race you are incapable of adapting to a different culture. But then most people probably think I am a racist.
“David Lammy’s virtue-signalling is an embarrassment to Britain”
This man is a dangerous fool.
“Hammerstein-Equord looked at it this way. He said; “I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent — their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy — they make up 90% of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent — he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.” “
MPs and many others in positions of power: products of a system which rewards the combination stupid-diligent.
“Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence”
I would wager that the biggest sources of disinformation are, in no particular order and missing many, many of them.
The Pentagon, the White House, 10 Downing Street, the EU, the WEF, the United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, et al…
The IPCC…
And who will be the arbiters of disinformation?
One of many countries that knows all about the consequences of this invasion is Germany. This story didn’t receive much attention, because what’s one more mass-murder attempt by some Muslim migrant psycho?
”On Saturday evening, two residential buildings in Essen caught fire. Shortly afterwards, a man drove a van into a shop near the scene and threatened with a machete. 31 people were injured, including 17 seriously and two small children with life-threatening injuries. A suspect was arrested.
The police in Essen are investigating the background to two fires on Saturday afternoon. A 41-year-old man was arrested. According to the police, he was born in Syria. According to his lawyer, he describes himself as a Palestinian. He is a suspect in connection with the two fires, said a police spokesman. He is also suspected of having driven a delivery van into two shops a few minutes later.”
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/mehrere-braende-in-essen-mit-vielen-verletzten-verdacht-auf-brandstiftung-100.html
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-worst-of-all-worlds-what-the-global-tyrants-have-done-for-us/
Paul Collits at TCW with a superb unravelling of our ‘libertarian’ societies…
“the destruction of personal freedoms – is beyond ironic. And we didn’t so much lose the ‘state’ as lose the ‘nation’. The globalist technocrats have achieved every damned thing they wanted, now enshrined (just this week past) with the United Nations’ so-called Pact for the Future.”
“The new, unexpected and strange ideological hybrid of social liberalism and untrammelled corporate wealth and power is the bastard child of a failed 1980s marriage of post-modernist and neo-Marxist thinking, libertine, godless morals and unfettered free-market economics. Among other things, this marriage has delivered the modern Tory Party, with all its confusions and missteps, and thoroughly alienated from its base.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/global-boiling-its-never-been-so-cold/
David Craig at TCW turning the tables on the “global warming” fable and using the fantasists own evidence against them. Easy peasy actuall.
Marvellous.
Droning over a flooded road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4d-taHoJU4&list=WL&index=8&t=11s Looks like a design flaw, as some commentators have observed. No prizes for those that blamed “Climate Change”.
I note there’s traffic flowing on surrounding lower level roads – clearly they are draining properly. Also, the surrounding fields are not flooded. It’s a drainage cock-up…
“Taxpayers should fund trans surgery for inmate who murdered baby, judge rules”
I’ll happily fund his transition from alive to dead on behalf of the victims family!
Could start by chopping his bits off.
And here are the tools. Thanks to the DS team for their assistance on this one.