- “IDF begins ground operation in southern Lebanon, attacks Hezbollah terror targets” – Read the Jerusalem Post’s front page story about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
- “Israel goes in: IDF confirms boots on the ground in southern Lebanon as bombs rain down from the sky after day of ratcheting tensions” – The Mail’s story about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
- “Israel launches ‘targeted’ ground invasion against Hezbollah in Lebanon” – Read the Telegraph’s rolling news blog about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. Alternatively, read the New York Times’s live coverage here and the BBC’s here.
- “Israel shows when we resist terror, civilisation wins” – The killing of Nasrallah will stand in history as a perpetual warning to would-be terror chiefs, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Iran says it won’t send troops to fight Israel despite IDF crossing into Lebanon” – Iran says it will not deploy forces to Lebanon or Gaza amid escalated attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon, reports the Mail.
- “Assassinated Hamas leader in Lebanon ‘working undercover as a teacher for UN’” – The new leader of Hamas in Lebanon – killed in an Israeli airstrike the day after taking over from Nasrallah – worked for the UNRWA, the ‘relief agency’ David Lammy restored funding to, reveals the Mail.
- “The New York Times’s Hezbollah terrorist worship exposes the Left’s moral collapse” – Hassan Nasrallah was a vicious, murderous terrorist, but you may not have known that had you read the New York Times’s hero-worshipping eulogy of the dead Hezbollah leader, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “The West’s true enemy is clear. We must strike now before it’s too late” – The Islamic Regime has declared itself an enemy of the West. It is high time we took them at their word, say Jordan Peterson and Gregg Hurwitz in the Telegraph.
- “‘Starmer’s weak political antennae is making him unpopular,’ says polling guru” – In the National, Prof. John Curtice gives his verdict on Keir Starmer’s performance so far.
- “More people now prefer Sunak Government to Starmer’s, poll finds” – A survey by the think tank More in Common shows the Labour Government is already less popular than the previous one, despite taking power less than three months ago, according to the Telegraph.
- “Tories should step aside in 100 seats where Reform can win” – In a bid to unite the Right, Jacob Rees-Mogg has called on the Tories to step aside in nearly 100 seats where Reform poses the biggest threat to Labour, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reform are not real conservatives or serious people, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has dismissed Reform’s leadership as not “real conservatives” or “serious people” during a Q&A at the Tory conference in Birmingham, says the Telegraph.
- “Badenoch quit her job instead of taking maternity leave” – Kemi Badenoch quit her job rather than go on maternity leave when she had her second child because she thought it would be “unfair” on her employer, reports the Mail.
- “Kemi Badenoch: outspoken, unpredictable… unstoppable?” – Leadership rivals at the Tory Party conference are gloating over Kemi’s ‘Kemi-kaze’ moments, but these supposed gaffes also explain her popularity, say Steven Swinford and Chris Smyth in the Times.
- “‘I would have won more seats than Rishi’: Liz Truss” – Despite losing her seat in July, the ‘Liz Truss show’ shows no sign of being wound up, notes James Heale in the Spectator.
- “Neither Tory Right nor Centre can revive this brain-dead slumber party” – In its moments of humility the Tory machine likes to pronounce that it has “no divine right to exist”. At the moment, it has no reason to exist at all, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Robert Jenrick’s ‘Bobby J’ leadership nickname is slang for a sex act” – Robert Jenrick might perhaps have taken the ‘true blue’ effort too far with his new nickname, say David Willcock and James Tapfield in the Mail.
- “Migrant crime rate being covered up, says Robert Jenrick” – Robert Jenrick has blasted the Labour Government for hiding the truth about the number of crimes committed by migrants, accusing officials of an “institutional cover-up”, reports the Conservative Post.
- “Britons suffer slump in living standards as migration nears record high” – Britons have suffered a slump in living standards, official data shows, as a surge in net migration has wiped out any gains from economic growth, according to the Telegraph.
- “The mass immigration scam” – The great question regarding mass immigration is not whether it is deliberate, but why? says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “‘I don’t know exactly why Gove did me in’” – In the Mail, Boris opens up on the plot that drove him from office.
- “Winter fuel cuts to cost NHS £169 million a year” – A new study predicts that Labour’s winter fuel cut will result in 262,000 pensioners needing NHS treatment because they are living in cold, damp homes, reports the Express.
- “Ed Miliband’s decision to ignore nuclear power is a disaster for Britain” – The U.K. is a world leader in red tape and that is hurting the delivery of cheap, reliable energy, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Where’s the lid for my tub of hummus? This new eco-initiative is potty” – If supermarkets are so worried about plastic they should sell their dips in glass jars – and we should start making our own at home, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “How Schleswig-Holstein sold their reliable diesel ferry for a song, spent €3.3 million for a new emissions-free solar ferry that doesn’t work and increased carbon emissions on top of it all” – On Substack, Eugyppius eases into the blogging week with a farcical fable about e-mobility and the wondrous solar-powered future that awaits us.
- “Can anything stop Germany’s decline?” – The decline of the German industrial economy is likely to be Europe’s big story over the next decade, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Marine Le Pen begins £5.6 million embezzlement trial” – French Presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has pleaded her innocence at the start of a £5.6 million embezzlement trial, reports the Mail.
- “Official documents obtained by the Insider confirm Navalny was poisoned in prison” –The Insider has obtained documents exposing the truth about Alexei Navalny’s death.
- “Guilty” – On his Substack, C.J. Hopkins reveals that the Berlin Appellate Court has overturned his acquittal and declared him a ‘hate-speech’ criminal for comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany and challenging the Covid narrative.
- “The Left is going to war on the First Amendment” – Two recent extraordinary videos on X reveal that the top of the American Left now explicitly rejects the First Amendment, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “‘My speech in Washington’” – On the Racket News Substack, Matt Taibbi has republished the speech he made defending free speech from the recent Rescue the Republic rally in Washington.
- “‘I support marijuana legalisation’” – Kamala Harris has called for the legalisation of marijuana on a recent appearance on the All the Smoke podcast, according to UnHerd.
- “Democrats nervous about ‘bad debater’ Walz ahead of Vance clash” – Democrats are reportedly nervous about how Tim Walz, a self-professed “bad debater”, will fare in his only televised head-to-head with Vice-Presidential rival J.D. Vance tonight, reports the Telegraph.
- “How to create a pandemic of vaccine hesitancy” – The Australian Government’s Covid vaccine injury compensation scheme has now ended, leaving anyone injured by the ongoing administration of these vaccines without a safety net, warns Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “Ignoring the evidence” – On Substack, Andrew Barr gives a historical perspective on the germ versus terrain argument.
- “‘I wouldn’t want any parent to go through this,’ says sacked anti-LGBT Christian teacher” – Senior judges will hear a school worker’s appeal against her dismissal after she claimed she was sacked because of her Christian beliefs, says the BBC.
- “BBC releases bombshell report into Strictly bullying probe” – The verdict of the bombshell BBC probe into Strictly’s Giovanni Pernice’s behaviour during his time partnered with Sherlock star Amanda Abbington has been published, reports the Mail.
- “Alarming details of bone cancer said to have hit the late Queen” – Boris Johnson claims that Queen Elizabeth II suffered from a form of deadly bone cancer before her death, according to the Mail.
- “‘Boris is completely culpable’” – On TalkTV, our own Will Jones argues that, despite the fanatical lockdown advisors surrounding him, Boris had the evidence and facts to stand firm against shutting down the country.
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It’s funny how it takes something happening to your immediate family which acts as a wake-up call when for years you’ve ignored the much worse plight of women and men who’ve suffered as a result of the policies you support. Suddenly this Green Party minister isn’t so pro-immigration anymore;
”Agricultural Minister Cem Özdemir, of the far-left Green Party, has sparked a fierce debate in Germany after calling for the country to rethink its migration policy and claims his daughter is being sexually harassed by men with a “migration background.”
Özdemir did not just make the comments offhand during an interview, but actually wrote them out in a guest column for FAZ, writing that his daughter, who is graduating from school next year, faces harassment from migrants and men with a migration background.
“When she is out and about in the city, she or her friends are often unpleasantly stared at or sexualized by men with a migrant background,” he wrote.
The father writes that his daughter has developed a “thick skin” due to these attacks, “but I can feel how it bothers her,” he wrote, adding “how disappointed she is that the underlying issues are not addressed more openly: the patriarchal structures and the role of women in many Islamic countries.”
Not only is his party known as one of the most pro-open borders parties in Germany, but Özdemir himself is of Turkish origin.
“We need to know who is in the country. We need to ensure that only those who are allowed to be here are in the country,” he demanded. He said that he now takes issue with Germany’s asylum policy.
Apparently, his daughter suffering from Germany’s open borders policy due to some sexual harassment is enough for him to “rethink” asylum policy. Meanwhile, thousands of women have been violently raped, sexually assaulted, and outright assaulted since 2016 in ever-increasing numbers, mainly due to policies such as those advanced by his party.
Remix News has covered this topic in-depth and has showcased videos that are far worse than anything Özdemir claims his daughter has experienced.”
https://rmx.news/article/shock-germanys-green-party-agricultural-minister-says-his-daughter-is-sexually-harassed-by-men-with-a-migrant-background/
From my perspective, 2the patriarchal structures and the role of women in many Islamic countries.” are completely irrelevant to me. If that is how they want to live, then let them. I am only bothered about how we live.
Superior intelligence is knowing something before it happens rather than after it has happened. Cem Özdemir should have known what would happen with open borders and especially when underpinned with multi-culturalism.
I wonder how many teachers are Leftards and of the ”refugees welcome” type, because they’re at the coal face and seeing the effects of uncontrolled migration from cultures with incompatible values that refuse to assimilate first hand. You read similar accounts from various European countries. This is Belgium;
”The subject is extremely sensitive. As proof, the people who agreed to testify requested anonymity. “ The slightest misstep can be misinterpreted. I don’t want my child’s throat to be slit ,” confides Alicia, a principal. “ We’re at the point where teachers no longer dare to talk about certain things. There are subjects that have become taboo.”
For several years, teachers have witnessed a rejection of scientific, historical and commonly accepted concepts: infinity in mathematics, the theory of evolution, secularism, gender equality, the human body… are said to be in contradiction with the values of Islam. “I only hear ‘It’s haram’ in class (Editor’s note: “It’s forbidden” in Arabic),” says Maud, a history teacher for 39 years. “ Some students tell me that I don’t have the right to talk about Islam, that I’m not qualified to talk about religion.”
The university is not spared from the phenomenon. Recently, the rector of the VUB warned about the impact of religion on Muslim students: refusal to support the principles of the democratic rule of law, to wear short sleeves in the health sector, occupation of rooms to pray without authorization, etc.
“It’s violent what we sometimes hear. At the time of the attacks, students applauded in the classrooms, I found on the board the name of the Tunisian who carried out the shooting that killed two Swedes. Some support the behavior of Afghans towards women ,” continues Alicia, who was called racist by a father after making a remark to his daughter because she was wearing the abaya, forbidden in the school rules. “ I find myself having to explain how we live in Belgium, which is not my role.” When she was a teacher, she also had to face parents who refused to put their child in her home because she is blonde with blue eyes and saw pressure from older children who checked that the younger ones were doing Ramadan.
Refusal to listen to certain teachings can go as far as threats and harassment. Four years ago, Bernadette, an economics teacher, experienced this. “ Several Albanian students asked me if I had my husband’s permission to work. Once, I threw a student out because he was disrupting the class. Five of them waited for me after class near my car and one of them pulled out a knife. I don’t know what would have happened to me if the sports teacher hadn’t appeared ,” she sighs. “ Before and after school, I cried. The following year, I refused to go back.” Religious education teachers are not spared either.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has added fuel to the fire. “ There is a lack of knowledge and prejudice. As soon as it comes to Jews and Israel, everything is blown out of proportion, everything is manipulated because they know nothing about it. When I wanted to explain how the State of Israel was created, I was accused of proselytizing and a student flew into an uncontrollable rage. There is no longer any way to have an objective discourse ,” notes Maud, who saw a dozen Muslim students refuse the school trip to Fort Breendonk last year. “ They are taught to hate Jews from a very young age. It is anti-Zionism as they say and not anti-Semitism.”
Unlike France, French-speaking Belgium does not have figures on radical behaviour by students linked to religious facts. At the end of 2023, Flanders looked into the issue and found that the number of reports, comments and radical behaviour by students had increased from three or four per year in 2019 to three or four per day in 2023.”
https://www.fdesouche.com/2024/09/30/soutien-aux-terroristes-menaces-avec-un-couteau-refus-de-visiter-un-camp-de-concentration-des-professeurs-belges-temoignent-de-la-radicalisation-des-eleves-musulmans/
Reform are not real conservatives or serious people, says Badenoch
‘They want a big state’
Their leader said he “admired” Putin “as a political operator because he’s managed to take control of running Russia”
This is how Putin managed to take control of running Russia:
Poison and assassination
Official documents obtained by the Insider confirm Navalny was poisoned in prison
‘A collection of files at The Insider’s disposal contains two versions of a document signed by Russian investigator Alexander Varapaev……..convict A.A. Navalny lay down on the floor and began to complain of sharp pain in the abdominal area; he started reflexive ejection of his stomach contents, had convulsions, and lost consciousness, which was immediately reported to the medical staff of the correctional facility…..The symptoms described by Varapaev are consistent with those that would have been expected had Navalny been poisoned…….“in the last minutes before his death, [Alexei] complained of acute pain in his stomach.’
‘According to ER doctor Alexander Polupan, who treated Navalny in Omsk City Hospital No. 1 after the Novichok poisoning in 2020, the symptoms observed by medical professionals in the case of Navalny’s death in prison in 2024 do not fit with the officially declared diagnosis:
Other doctors of various types interviewed by The Insider agree with Polupan’s conclusions.’
Any politician who is still capable of ‘admiring’ Putin, for whatever reason, is not fit for any public office whatsoever…….
Where is the evidence that these are real documents? Navalny simply weasn’t ever a threat to Putin, his role in Russian politics has been grossly inflated by the Western intelligence agencies and their client MSM.
‘The Insider has obtained access to hundreds of official documents related to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in the Polar Wolf penal colony in the Russian Far North on Feb. 16, 2024. Officially, Navalny’s death was attributed to natural causes, and Russia’s Investigative Committee stated in July that the case “does not have a criminal nature.” However, the contents of the documents in The Insider’s possession demonstrate that Russian authorities consistently removed references to symptoms Navalny was documented to have been suffering — symptoms that did not fit with the Russian state’s official cause of death. As medical experts confirm, these symptoms clearly indicate that Navalny was poisoned.’
The insider article shows copies of some of the documents.
Those who dispute their veracity should state any grounds they might have for adopting that position and take it up with ‘The Insider’.
I am sorry to say this but it is for the promoter of conspiracy theories to offer more proof than the fact that some journalist says these are copies of the real genuine documents. Don’t you realise how silly that sounds.
Real documents are what we call ‘real documents’.
If someone does not believe those documents to be, in fact, real despite photographic evidence to the contrary but can offer no reason for suggesting that they are not real, they are either just being dotty, quite normal on here, or are simply idle uninformed bigots too lazy to even look at the photographs of the very documents whose veracity they question.
Idle uninformed bigotry is an extremely unattractive combination……..
I see you are addressing this comment to Munro. Spot on about bigotry.
As I say, lazy, uninformed bigotry, particularly when accompanied by silly pettiness, is a very bad look indeed.
The CJ Hopkins conviction in Germany is really stunning.
Germans should be ashamed of their country. Deeply ashamed.
True, and is Reiner Fuellmich still in custody (famous for his Corona Trial and weekly discussions)?
But UK should also be ashamed of holding Julian Assange for how many years?
Indeed it should.
“Badenoch quit her job instead of taking maternity leave
Kemi amply demonstrating that she cannot conceive of peoples situations other than her own. Another self-centred loser…
Bang on! I used to like Kemi but not now
Taking aim a reform voters is an insult to them, as the so called opposition she should be aiming at Labour not reform, bollicks to her, tories are finished!
“Alarming details of bone cancer said to have hit the late Queen”
“The disease develops when cells in or near a bone develop DNA change that cause them to rapidly divide and multiply too rapidly.”
I take it she was up to date with all her vaccines and boosters?
Shame, she may have out aged her mother otherwise!