- “Falklands hero Simon Weston slams ‘weak’ Keir Starmer on Chagos” – Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is under pressure to call an emergency debate on Labour’s surrender of the Chagos Islands after Nigel Farage complained that the “damaging capitulation” occurred while MPs were away from Westminster, reports the Mail.
- “James Cleverly overtakes Robert Jenrick in leadership contest survey of Tory members” – A Conservative Home survey of activists conducted over the two days after the party conference in Birmingham showed Mr. Cleverly leapfrogging Mr. Jenrick.
- “Tory leadership race all to play for as Chagos debacle ‘exposes problem’ for dark horse after conference boost” – Critics have tried to pin blame on James Cleverly for his role in the Government’s decision to hand over the Chagos Islands after his speech at the ICC turned heads and threw the 2024 Tory leadership race wide open, reports GB News.
- “Seven million workers to get sick pay from the first day” – Workers will be given rights to claim sick pay from their first day on the job under new laws, says the Mail.
- “PM ‘strings pulled by puppet master Lord Alli on assisted dying vote’” – Keir Starmer has been accused of pressurising Labour MPs into backing new laws on assisted dying – with donor Lord Alli acting as his “puppetmaster” on the issue, reports the Mail.
- “Robert Jenrick calls on Labour to block assisted dying bill” – Robert Jenrick has called on Keir Starmer to block a bill that proposes changing the law to legalise assisted dying, says the Telegraph.
- “How deep is your trough?” – It surely can’t be long before Starmer disowns Lord Alli, especially if his own career is in danger. It’s probably time for Alli to find another trough to fill, writes Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The weeks of dysfunction that led to Sue Gray’s downfall” – In the Times, Oliver Wright, Patrick Maguire and Chris Smyth provide an in-depth analysis of the Sue Gray saga engulfing Downing Street.
- “Are Keir Starmer’s first 100 days the worst for any PM in British history?” – Under our “winner takes all” political system, it ought to be well-nigh impossible to make a hash of governing after being dealt such a hand. And yet Sir Keir has contrived to do so, says Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “The 11 predators that walked free since Huw Edwards dodged jail” – The MailOnline looks at a snapshot of just some of the court cases around the U.K. in the last three weeks where sexual or violent offenders have walked free.
- “The anguish of mothers whose daughters are still in clutches of Hamas” – In the Mail, the mothers of five young Israeli women held hostage by Hamas for over a year share their heart-wrenching fight for their daughters’ release, as they plead with the world not to let them be forgotten.
- “365 days of October 7th” – The defense of Israel and of Western civilisation are one, writes Eitan Fischberger in City Journal.
- “The choice: civilisation or barbarism” – Israel will win this terrible war – whatever the cost – because it knows what it is, loves its Jewish identity and is proud of it. The opposite is true of the West that has abandoned it, says Melanie Phillips on her Substack.
- “How Mossad boobytrapped Hezbollah pagers in top secret plot” – The Mossad plot to boobytrap more than 5,000 pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah with high-powered explosives was nearly a decade in the making, reports the Mail.
- “Horrifying moment protestor self-immolates outside White House” – A protestor attempted to self-immolate outside the White House during a Pro-Palestinian rally, according to the Mail.
- “Green agenda slams brakes on U.K. growth: car industry warns” – The economy is being hampered by disruption caused by the switch to electric vehicles, which has sent the car industry into reverse, says This is Money.
- “Locals ‘absolutely devastated’ at plans for 87-mile pylon highway” – Officials want to install a vast new network of pylons snaking from Grimsby down to Tilbury in Essex as part of a plan dubbed ‘The Great Grid Upgrade’, reports the Mail.
- “It’s too late to save Britain from overheating, says UN climate chief” – In the Telegraph, Jonathan Leake interviews Prof. Jim Skea, who warns that the world risks 3°C of global warming by 2100 unless it changes course.
- “The green deindustrialisation of Britain” – The end of the era of coal is nothing to celebrate, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Great Hurricane of 1780 remains the worst” – The deadliest hurricane in history, with 22,000 dead, happened before the internal combustion engine was invented, notes John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “Are any killers in our jails guilty?” – Rumblings about Lucy Letby’s ‘innocence’ are getting louder – though true-crime aficionado Paul Sutton, on his Substack, reckons she’s guilty.
- “Covid booster jab offered to thousands as variant looms” – Thousands more people in the U.K. will be offered the latest Covid booster vaccine over fears that immunity levels are waning, reports the Mail.
- “The Darzi review of the NHS” – Lord Darzi’s NHS review offers little more than a plea for more taxpayer cash and a tech upgrade, completely missing the mark on the real issues plaguing the system, says Dr. Gary Sidley on his Substack.
- “The week in numbers (to October 6th)” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan take a numerical look back over the week’s top health-related stories.
- “What is the point of this menopause campaign?” – October is now Menopause Month – a fact women in war-torn Beirut and flooded North Carolina will be pleased to know, says Alexandra Shulman in the Mail.
- “Finding a cure for psychology” – Ever wonder why ‘unhappy’ has almost been replaced in common use by ‘depressed’? asks Theodore Dalrymple in Quadrant.
- “Russia considering law to fine people who choose not to have children” – Russia is considering outlawing “a conscious refusal to have children” and is even encouraging millions to have sex at work, writes Jamie Seidel in the NY Post.
- “EU uses Digital Services Act to probe YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat algorithms for censorship compliance” – The EU is demanding tech giants reveal how algorithms handle so-called “hate speech”, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “Hillary Clinton calls for stricter online censorship as establishment fears losing ‘total control’” – Hillary Clinton has stepped up as the latest voice in the Democratic Party warning about online information control, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
- “Social media goes into overdrive as SNL destroys ‘drunk’ Harris” – Saturday Night Live fans declared the show destroyed Kamala Harris with a hilarious sketch of her drinking wine as she watched the Vice Presidential debate, reports the Mail.
- “Melania Trump reveals she was debanked and banned from her business email provider” – Melania Trump claims her political ties led to a post-White House purge from her bank and email provider, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Universities must recommit to excellence and reject political loyalty oaths” – In Presser, Abhishek Saha critiques mandatory DEI statements in academia, arguing they serve as ideological litmus tests that undermine academic freedom and inhibit the pursuit of truth.
- “The many faces of Christian persecution” – In TCW, Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack distinguishes between the different types of hostility faced by Christians worldwide.
- “Teens could be banned from giving lifts to friends after passing test” – Under new “restricted licence” proposals, teen drivers may have to leave their friends behind for the first six months on the road, reports the Mail.
- “Durham Uni free speech shutdown” – On Free Speech Nation with Andrew Doyle, the Free Speech Union’s Stephen O’Grady explains the “insidious” behaviour of Durham University after a debating society was barred from the university’s freshers’ fair.
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It’s becoming laughable at this point. If a news article talks about a violent attack, or about assault and rape, or about sexually abusing minors and you don’t see the name or photo of the criminal responsible for it, you can already assume his immigration status, and you’d be right 90% of the time. Terrorists are screaming out why they’re doing all these attacks, but the media is deaf. But get 10 people together that are displeased with how the government runs things and the media won’t shut up about “far right” and “white supremacy”.
How delusional do you have to be to trust the media these days?
Why can’t we just accede to his desire for martyrdom?
This one’s doing the rounds, in case you didn’t see it. I honestly thought it was AI-generated, but apparently it’s legit. The contrast with the backdrop is just seriously peculiar…How many were in attendance, I wonder?
https://twitter.com/WayneGb88/status/1755302991760937255
Absolutely grotesque.
Plod excelling at F. A.
Yes, agreed. That’s how my mind works now too. A bit like if somebody dies suddenly and unexpectedly, especially decades before the end of their expected lifespan, I always assume it’s the death jab until proven otherwise.
And I note that Afghan alkali attacker in Clapham still hasn’t been found. For somebody who’s reportedly got ”significant facial injuries”, in a city that has masses of surveillance cameras, it’s surely safe to assume he’s being helped and kept hidden by somebody he knows. Well, either that or he’s walking around freely, identifying as a Muslim woman, complete with burka and niqab.
Here’s another depressing travesty of justice. Another non-accidental ‘error’ by the Home Office ( as if we were born yesterday! ) to add to the extensive list. But I’m sure he’s seen the error of his ways and is now a totally reformed character, so that’s okay then;
”A terrorist who murdered three people was allowed to stay in the country after a series of “woeful” Home Office errors.
Khairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, in Forbury Gardens, Reading, on Saturday June 20, 2020.
Now, an inquest has heard how Saadallah had wrongly been granted five years’ humanitarian leave to remain by the Home Office.
The department made a series of “woeful” errors in handling the case, which included allowing him to stay in the country even though he had served five prison sentences for violent offences.
The inquest was told that the Home Office had no record of Saadallah’s arrival in Britain on a multiple-entry tourist visa with his father in March 2012 and again in September 2012, reports The Times.
The department also had no record of his failure to depart by the visa expiry date on September 28 before he claimed asylum on October 16.
Six years later, Saadallah was still in the country. This is despite exhausting all his appeals, after launching a new legal challenge to his deportation.
He argued that Libya had become unsafe in the meantime due to a new round of conflict in the country. He was eventually granted five years’ leave to remain on a humanitarian protection basis and withdrew his legal appeal.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/reading-terrorist-khairi-saadallah-home-office-failings
I do not blame the trash that are coming here. I do however blame the trash that brought the trash here. —-Government. hand wringing parasite globalists that will facilitate our cultural destruction so they can get a little gold star on their lapel from the One World Government people at the UN and WEF
When the mistakes always go one way, maybe they’re not mistakes.
Or they only turn into mistakes when they happen to become public.
I remember that (I was in the Forbury earlier that day and the police blocked all of the area for days). But this wasn’t a run-of-the-mill islamist terror attack. The victims were all gay and I strongly suspect this was someone having seriously violent second thoughts about “experiences he had shared with them”, ie, that the motivation was rather personal than religious. That’s obviously not an excuse. But still a different kind of murderous delusion.
Self hating projection.
Jealousy would be another conjecture. Or some drug-fuelled tete-a-tete somebody really didn’t want to remember when he became sober again. As far as I can recall, nothing about the motive for the murder was ever published. This happened on a sunny day right in the center of a popular public park which suggests that it was rather a targetted than a random attack.
We’re already being set up for the Afghan chemical attacker being declared to have “mental health problems” as justification for his murderous attack.
A fellow Afghan appeared on the news pleading for the Afghan community not to assist him because he “needs medical attention and may have mental health issues.”
I knew people could sleepwalk but I never knew a whole continent could. ——-But in the last 20 years or so I have realised that Europe is SLEEPWALKING
How perfectly horrendous everything is: these obviously terrorist Muslim attacks, the cancer epidemic (as in Dr Dalgliesh’s article), the wars. All extremely depressing but only to be expected in the spiritual war we are in, essentially waged against us by the devil. We need to (re)turn to God.
I don’t really agree with this statement. But it’s certainly a lot better than many others. Defeatism always ends in defeat.
I don’t mean to sound defeatist – sorry! I resist at every opportunity: masks, lockdowns, jabs, and now in our area, Lower Traffic Neighbourhoods – a couple of other guys and I, all in our 70s or more, are standing at the very badly signed barriers warning motorists of the fines they can expect if they drive thorugh). We do what we can! And fight on!
You didn’t. That was the part of the statement I liked — it offered a positive perspective instead of the more common “We are doomed!” mongering. I’ve been raised by pretty religious parents and used to call myself a Christian during most of my lifetime. I’ve started to reconsider that due to too many bad experiences with organised (protestant) churches.
So I expect you disagreed with what I said about returning to God? I’m sorry you have had bad experiences with churches. We were blessed with ours, which although it closed initially during lockdowns did manage to stay open in one way by having ‘support groups’ where we all had lunch together, pray together, etc. And now we have a large percentage (of a very small church) who are on board with everything and still tolerate those in the church who aren’t on board (as they tolerate us in spite of disagreeing with us). I hope and pray that should there be another lockdown or other measures, we’d stay open. There’s no perfect church because there’s no perfect human being (Jesus being the only one!).