- “Kemi Badenoch is the true inheritor of Thatcher’s legacy” – Her integrity and strong convictions prove she has what it takes to become party leader, says Tony Sewell in the Telegraph.
- “Is Kemi Badenoch scared of Robert Jenrick?” – As the frontrunner with the most to lose, Kemi Badenoch appears to be ignoring Robert Jenrick’s invitation to debate her on the BBC, says William Atkinson in the Spectator.
- “Labour is embracing the ideology of ineptitude” – Ministers would rather ‘do the right thing’ than protect British interests – as Net Zero and Chagos make clear, says the Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley.
- “The Times view on challenging students: Free Thinking” – Labour is complacently ignoring the free speech crisis on university campuses, says the Times in a leading article.
- “The proof Reeves will be unable to squeeze the rich” – Rachel Reeves’s tax raids are already unravelling as the Chancellor is warned that her war on wealth will backfire, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Is Labour’s Britain really an investor’s paradise?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark says the letter to the Times from the heads of 14 banks and other financial institutions declaring it is “time to invest” in Britain “reads like a note scrawled by hostages suffering from Stockholm Syndrome”.
- “Brwa Shorsh and the failure of Britain’s asylum system” – In the Spectator, Laurie Wastell asks what it will take for the Government and public authorities to take seriously the threat of illegal immigration and actually do something about it.
- “Inside Italy’s answer to the Rwanda migrant scheme” – The Italian navy began transferring migrants to a new offshore processing centre in Albania on Monday, according to the Telegraph.
- “How ‘tree-hugging’ Hezbollah duped the UN in southern Lebanon” – United Nations peacekeepers supposed to keep Hezbollah from Israel’s border have instead been outmanoeuvred and intimidated into allowing the militant group to build up extensive military might, says the Telegraph.
- “Watch: Ukrainian men dragged out of nightclubs by army recruiters” – The Telegraph shows social media videos of Ukrainian men being dragged out of night-time venues by recruiters and press-ganged into the army.
- “Monkeypox: Evidence of the “Pandemic Preparedness” Lie” – ‘Pandemic preparedness’ is an excuse to carry out dangerous biowarfare and biodefence experiments under the unconvincing cloak of keeping the public safe, argue Clayton Baker, Brian Hooker and Heather Ray in Brownstone Journal.
- “The Takada paper shows very clearly that the Covid vaccines are not safe” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch summarises the alarming findings of a recent Japanese paper on Covid vaccine safety.
- “The flaw at the heart of Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plan” – In the pursuit of decarbonisation, the Energy Secretary appears willing to blight the environment, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Blackout prevention system activated as electricity demand set to spike” – A backstop system designed to prevent blackouts was mobilised for the first time in two years amid a capacity warning as Britain’s power grid battled low winds and nuclear outages, the Telegraph reports.
- “Tesla suffers first drop in U.K. sales since 2013” – Tesla’s U.K. revenues have fallen for the first time in more than a decade as Elon Musk’s electric car company grapples with a slowdown in demand, reports the Telegraph.
- “European Union is ‘dividing U.K. with electric car border’” – Northern Ireland is being made to enforce a “protectionist tariff” on imports of Chinese models in a move drawn up by Brussels under the Windsor Framework Brexit deal, the Telegraph reports.
- “Doctors told to avoid traditional asthma inhalers because they generate greenhouse gas” – Future doctors will be expected to take the “climate impact” of inhalers into account, medical school leaders have said, reports the Telegraph.
- “The myth of plastic recycling is finally unravelling” – A Telegraph investigation looks into the truth about how much of our waste gets recycled really (very little, most of it is burned, thank goodness) and where it ends up.
- “This season of The West is atrocious” – The Postcards from the Abyss Substack imagines the current travails of the West as a TV show and gives the latest season the thumbs down.
- “When we cannot even expel foreign criminals, it’s time to leave the ECHR” – There is only one way for Britain to radically reform human rights laws and reduce illegal migration, argues Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “BBC presenters will not be called ‘talent’ anymore, says Director General” – Good to see terminology catching up with reality…
- “The new anti-gay activism” – Those who advocate gender identity ideology are fundamentally opposed to gay rights and we need to start describing them accurately, says Andrew Doyle on Substack.
- “U.S. publisher Dovid Efune in exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph” – The publisher of U.S. news website the New York Sun has entered exclusive talks to buy the Telegraph for more than £500m.
- “Britain’s second-richest man among billionaires backing ‘anti-woke’ university” – The “anti-woke” University of Austin has received $200m from high-profile investors supporting its “fearless pursuit of truth”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Braverman’s Cambridge cancellation exposes the campus free speech crisis” – The cancellation of Suella Braverman’s speaking event at Cambridge last week was grimly predictable, says Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “I went for a mastectomy and they offered me assisted dying, Canadian cancer patient reveals” – A woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery in Canada was offered assisted suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the operating room, reports the Telegraph.
- “Von der Leyen’s authoritarian plot” – In a few weeks, Ursula von der Leyen’s new European Commission will officially take office, at which point she will have almost unfettered control over the bloc’s politics, warns Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “The biopic meant to derail Donald Trump’s campaign has backfired spectacularly” – The U.S. Presidential candidate tried to stop The Apprentice being released, but its pitiful box office proves he needn’t have worried, says Alexander Larman in the Telegraph.
- “Trump tightens gap with Harris in three new national polls” – Three national polls released Sunday depict a tightening Presidential race, with former President Trump erasing recent gains from Vice President Kamala Harris with just 23 days to go, reports Axios.
- “Happy Columbus Day, or as Elizabeth Warren calls it: ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’” – Celebrate
Columbus DayIndigenous Peoples’ Day with a video posted on X of Elizabeth Warren musically reminding us that she is, of course, an Indian too.
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Watch: Ukrainian men dragged out of nightclubs by army recruiters
‘I talked with 15 men who, like me, were passing the medical examination from the Military Commissariat. Of them, only one had a letter of acceptance, they already were waiting for him at the State Border Service.
Those who came to the Comissariat on their own were few, most were brought there by the police. And I decided to find out what would motivate them to join the Defense Forces.
I immediately decided to take the common take that people would be ready to serve if they knew clear deadlines for demobilization.
All the men I interviewed rejected this idea, they would not want to serve even a month.
Also about the issue of financial support and understanding where exactly you will end up, in which division. According to them, no money pushed them to this decision, and regarding a clear understanding of where exactly you will end up, here it is worth returning to the previous paragraph. After all, they still don’t want to serve.
At the same time, some of the men were quite simple, they don’t have smartphones, they don’t follow the news, and for them it is still a mystery “why it was not possible to come to an agreement with Putin.”
It’s about understanding that the majority of men rather classify themselves as “out of politics”.
Phrases such as “I didn’t send them there and didn’t ask them to fight for me” jumped out. As expected. But it is noticeable that such phrases are spoken almost in a whisper, because they understand that society generally does not accept such things.’
‘The man, who asked for anonymity to discuss the matter, admitted that he had paid a $5,000 bribe to escape a potential draft into the Ukrainian army and service on the front lines in the war with Russia.
“I knew there was no way I would be able to sit in a trench, so I took my savings and contacted a ‘fixer’. Everyone knows where to find them.
I paid in cash, they sent me to a hospital to do a spinal MRI; the hospital gave me a medical report claiming I had a major spinal defect, and with that I could get papers allowing me to leave the country.
I had the feeling that, at every stage of the way, people knew what was happening and were getting a cut,” said the man.
The whole process took two weeks; the man was able to leave Ukraine and now lives elsewhere in Europe.’
It’s the same in Russia
‘…even as Sergei (not his real name) was recuperating, he was informed that he would soon be sent back to the killing fields. “I couldn’t go back,” he recalls thinking. “I couldn’t be part of this.”
Sergei is now safe, hiding out in exile abroad, Idite Lesom, the organisation which saved him, is setting its sights far higher than individual peaceniks. Launched in 2022, the group has helped thousands of like-minded Russians escape their country’s war, even as its vast network of volunteers has helped thousands more avoid military service through legal and logistical support.’
https://unherd.com/2024/09/the-underground-railroad-for-russian-deserters/
I imagine that it would be the same in every country at war.
‘….the results of a new YouGov survey show that 38% of under-40s say they would refuse to serve in the armed forces in the event of a new world war, and 30% say they would not serve even if Britain was facing imminent invasion.’
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48473-more-than-a-third-of-under-40s-would-refuse-conscription-in-the-event-of-a-world-war
In any case, it is better to have one volunteer that ten pressed men
Between May 18th and July 16th (2024) there was a requirement for all Ukrainian conscripts, reservists to update there details including phone number, address and email address.
Three weeks into the 8 week process, approximately 1.6 million had updated their details, over half a million a week.
This was reported by Deputy Minister of Defense Kateryna Chernohorenko on June 5, 2024.
Israel is quickly running out of Iron Dome interceptor missiles, military analysts have warned.
The US is rapidly moving to plug gaps in its defences, including by deploying a terminal high-altitude area defence (Thaad) missile system to Israel.
But analysts warned this may not be enough as the US races to supply defensive weapons to both Israel and Ukraine…………………
‘…even as Sergei (not his real name) was recuperating …
I love that! And I thought you were writing about the Sergei I know!
But why are you trivializing recruitment to a war? A war that is causing hundreds of deaths every day?
Many must have heard by now of the Ukrainian press gangs, violently dragging youngsters (and oldsters) off the streets into vans and shipping them off to the front within a ridiculously short time, mostly resulting in immediate death or wounding.
Why are you promoting this? The best solution is peace, without question. We should strive for peace and not war.
Ukraine had several opportunities to reach a peaceful agreement with Russia but incomprehensibly chose to go to war against a country with a superior military and superior resources. That this insanity was desired and promoted by USA is really no reason for Ukraine’s political capitulation, which is now the cause for presumably well over a million dead and half the population exiting the country.
There is now only one solution: complete capitulation and acceptance of whatever Russia decides. Actually, another solution is global destruction by a nuclear exchange between USA and Russia, but let us hope that does not happen.
Monro has all his life’s savings /pensions and investments in the MIC….
“History repeats itself twice, first as tragedy then as farce”.
Karl Marx
‘Stalin and Putin share the belief that autocracy, backed by coercion, is the best way to manage Russia.’
‘Putin is now set on hegemony over the Soviet and Romanov empires’
The Soviet and Romanov empires included Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltic States, Kazakhstan and, let us not forget, parts of Poland and Manchuria.
So neither of the world’s great powers will permit Putin to win.
This is the future:
‘Putin’s decision is rational – within his own distorted world-view – but it’s a colossal gamble to secure his legacy, change the course of history and restore a Russian empire in this new hi-tech interconnected world.
As this atrocious war and Western sanctions corrode Russian society, Stalinist terror will become essential to Putin’s hold on power.’
Montefiore
Trump tightens gap with Harris in three new national polls
Trump is the bookies favourite at the moment, by some margin.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
Amongst other things, that may very well mean a ‘frozen conflict’ in Ukraine, not a bad outcome for the U.S. (though not for Ukraine, Europe) in view of the successful U.S. strategy of weakening Russia, the weakening so continuing.
The historical parallel, though?
Russia invaded Finland 1939. In the end, Finland lost the Karelian Isthmus and had to allow Soviet basing rights at the port of Hango. More than 420,000 Finnish civilians were displaced as a result of the political settlement.
What happened next?
Russia invaded Poland…….
Just watched the Elizabeth Warren skit above , which whilst mildly amusing begs the question ? From what film/ time & place was that hideous over egged scene from ?
The song is originally from Annie Get Your Gun (1946) by Irving Berlin.
ok
I was thinking Doris Day actually .
Musicals aren’t meant to be realistic.
I know that but with recent events we now all know how the Indians felt as their freedom was crushed ! Maybe there will a joyous musical made in the future ,show casing in an exaggerated manner, what we once were !
I went for a mastectomy and they offered me assisted dying, Canadian cancer patient reveals”
I find this frightening. I would be terrified that, them having raised the subject, I would be casually ‘put to sleep’ instead of operated on, and the corresponding paperwork ‘sorted out’ after. I used to be in favour of assisted dying, having seen two close family members suffer horribly with terminal cancer and beg for oblivion – all they wanted was for the pain to go away. If there had been something simple that they could have taken themselves, and been allowed to take themselves, they would have. Instead one just died in a haze of powerful painkillers, the other took all the pills at their disposal to finish themselves off, but only succeeded in surviving and consequently having all medication removed from their grasp! Doctors killing people isn’t the answer, but then neither is preventing people from killing themselves if their situation is hopeless and agonising.
Please suggest a solution.
Tge State wants to rid itself of troublesome citizens who cost money and generally don’t vote for them. Too often doctors, like all elites, think they know what is best for us.
Too often relatives want to be free of any commitment to the care of the aged and infirm while others want their cash asap.
As with abortion the laws will be adjusted and not adhered to. Moral hazard is extreme.
Badenock will know the BBC is out to destroy her so declining a debate under its supervision is smart. Not only does the left gate her for being black but not a Labour Party supporter they also suspect she will not bend under globalist pressure.
Just as Obama told black men they must support Harris BECAUSE she is (part) black, so the left expect the same racialist alignment here.
The Speccie has a history of promoting its preferred Tory leadership contenders and attacking those it disapproves. They helped Sunak get in and what a triumph that has been.
Quite an extensive round-up of the Telegraph. Very useful behind a pay wall along with the Times and the Speccie.
This is not really good enough DS.
Hasn’t it always been this way though? I think the rest is up to us lot to provide links to articles that aren’t from a single source or behind a stupid paywall. I know there’s ways of getting around that but it’s the principle.
Agreed Mogs. I think we do our best between us though.
I gave up on MSM long before the Scamdemic and certainly will not pay to read it. I doubt many DS subscribers care much for what the Telegraph, Times and Speccie have to say given how badly they have failed to do their job in recent years. It’s no wonder BTL comments in the Round up are so few.
A Sceptic subscriber site drawing its feed from the non sceptic msm – that’s quite an achievement.
Speaking of Columbus, it turns out he was Jewish, apparently. Not sure what significance that has on anything but there it is. I didn’t even know his origins were a mystery;
”MADRID, Oct 13 (Reuters) – The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.”
https://eu.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2024/10/14/christopher-columbus-dna-study-sephardic-jew/75670024007/
“Kemi Badenoch is the true inheritor of Thatcher’s legacy”
Cobblers! She’ll cave in to the left of the party quicker than you can say boo, and so will Jenrick
Post Covid era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj-1McRiuz0&list=WL&index=2 by Dr. John Campbell.
A good interview, well worth watching. In particular, from around 23 minutes in, the categorisation of the “jab” as a vaccine is well described in as much as it being worked around the bureaucratic process.
It’s worth noting that the definition of the term “vaccine” has changed over the years, but it is quite likely that this is not well understood by the general public on the one hand, and deliberately used as a marketing tool by certain groups.
The definition of “pandemic” was changed..
When tptb change the definition of words to suit the narrative you know we are in absurd territory
Well Mogwai posted a link to The Corbett Report earlier this morning , It shows James in Japan recently, reporting on the new “REPLICON JAB” which is a shedding special & is about to be Tested on the unsuspecting Japanese population followed by the whole world if it kills enough people !
Withdrawal of medical treatments supposedly ‘harmful to the climate’ is no doubt a precursor to offering ‘assisted dying’ to asthmatics, diabetics and those with other chronic illness. The fact that these conditions, managed properly are unlikely to shorten one’s life significantly on their own is unlikely to matter.
“Kemi Badenoch is the true inheritor of Thatcher’s legacy”
This is a nauseating insult to Margaret Thatcher, a devout Protestant Englishwoman who held the post of Prime Minister legally, unlike the shower of ILLEGAL CANDIDATES promoted by the Globalists.
The Law of This Land clearly states that NO CATHOLIC, JEWISH, or by extension Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Muslim, or anyone but a PROTESTANT may hold the posts of Monarch or Monarch’s Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.