- “Why the call for slavery reparations is a scam” – The Spectator‘s Ross Clark with a masterful restatement of the case against reparations.
- “There is no case for paying reparations” – Western countries seeking to manage their new-found diversity have given moral credence to arguments they should have rejected, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Do Commonwealth demands for £18 trillion of slavery reparations stack up?” – The Telegraph takes a detailed look at the claims being put forward to support the ludicrous sum supposedly owed by Britain to the governments claiming to represent the heirs of slaves.
- “Reeves warned over £50bn ‘debt fiddle’” – Rachel Reeves has been warned that interest rates will stay higher for longer after the Chancellor said she will change Britain’s debt rules to unleash a borrowing spree of up to £50bn in the latest breach of a pre-election commitment, says the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner’s own staff demand four-day week” – The Deputy Prime Minister champions flexible working but is resisting calls for a shorter working week in her own department, reports the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting could start a Labour revolt over assisted dying” – With the Health Secretary and the Justice Secretary now publicly opposed, scepticism of the idea of assisted dying appears to be growing, says Niall Gooch in UnHerd.
- “Welsh parliament rejects assisted dying in blow for campaign” – The Welsh Parliament has voted to reject assisted dying, with less than a third of members voting in favour in a blow for campaigners seeking to change the law, reports the Telegraph.
- “Private school VAT raid paves the way for other charities to lose benefits, lawyers warn” – Labour’s tax raid on private schools could pave the way for other charities to lose their benefits, the Treasury has been warned by the Charity Law Association, the Telegraph reports.
- “Kemi vs Robert: who would be the best Tory leader?” – In the Spectator, Ed West and Niall Ferguson go head to head on Badenoch vs Jenrick.
- “Labour staff campaigning for Kamala Harris were offered hotel accommodation by Democrats” – Labour staff campaigning for Kamala Harris were offered free hotel accommodation in the U.S. by the Democrats despite Starmer’s claim they “paid their way” with “their own money”, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Kamala Harris’s CNN town hall: our experts are united in their verdict” – The Vice President took questions from undecided voters in Pennsylvania, and managed to answer very few of them, say two Telegraph pundits.
- “LA Times Non-Endorsement Irks Left” – The Los Angeles Times Opinion Editor Mariel Garza has quit in protest of her newspaper’s refusal to endorse Kamala Harris, writes Thomas Buckley on Substack.
- “Moment widow tells Tim Walz to stay away from her officer husband’s funeral – as he ‘never supported the police’” – In the days after Deputy Sheriff Josh Owen was gunned down, his widow told Governor Tim Walz to stay away from her husband’s funeral as “you have never been a supporter of the police”, the Telegraph reports.
- “The ICC’s rogue prosecutor” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray notes that Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor who has sought arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, may be motivated in his anti-Israel crusade by trying to distract from the sexual harassment allegations he is currently facing.
- “The lessons of the Chris Kaba case” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle suggests that the straightforward lesson of the Kaba case is: don’t drive your car at a bunch of policemen, then you won’t get shot in the head. The second is: you would be mad to be an armed officer in the Metropolitan Police.
- “Row over Labour MP’s claim Kaba was ‘victim of racist gang trope’” – Labour MP Kim Johnson is facing backlash after claiming that Chris Kaba was the victim of “racist gang tropes” from the media, the Times reports.
- “Black rights charity that claimed Chris Kaba was victim of ‘racist state violence’ faces review” – The Runnymede trust, which claimed the gangster Chris Kaba was a victim of “racist state violence”, is being examined by regulators after a complaint by Robert Jenrick, the Telegraph reports.
- “Giorgia Meloni is going to war with Italy’s judges” – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared war on Italy’s notoriously Left-wing judges who are trying to kybosh at birth her Albania scheme, says Nicholas Farrell in the Spectator.
- “The human rights crusade is running out of road” – As lawful avenues for removing people from Europe continue to close off, scepticism is likely to rise, says Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
- “Home Office spent £400m in a year on unused hotel space for migrants” – The Home Office wasted more than £400 million in a year on unused hotel space for migrants, a watchdog has found, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ad for Israel Book Cancelled Because ‘Customers Might Complain’” – A magazine has rejected an advertisement for Bernard-Henri Lévy’s work because it will give booksellers “trouble they haven’t asked for and don’t wish to have”, the Free Press reports.
- “Vaccines and the Length of Our Lives” – In Brownstone Journal, Dr. David Bell looks at whether vaccines and other pharmaceutical products were really the miracles that made humanity healthier or if most of the health improvements preceded them.
- “Connecting yet more dots” – On Trust the Evidence, Dr. Tom Jefferson looks at the evidence that illness from the influenza virus is much rarer than you might think.
- “Global warming will be twice as bad as predicted, UN warns” – In its latest alarmist report on the emission cuts that would supposedly limit global warming to 1.5°C, the UN says the goal will “soon be dead” without a global mobilisation on a scale and pace never seen before, reports the Mail.
- “U.K. example: making car use increasingly inconvenient” – On the Freedom Research Substack, Kaspar Arro takes a look at the U.K. roadmap to a “low-carbon neighbourhood”, a.k.a how to get rid of private cars.
- “Decline and fall: how university education became infantilised” – In the Spectator, David Butterfield says he has quit his job teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge because over the last two decades the university has been steadily infantilised, “whereby challenging workloads are reduced, and robust criticism of bad writing and bad thinking is avoided”.
- “The civil service is becoming a cesspit of intolerance and censorship” – Too often speaking your mind at work now comes with the risk of being reported to HR, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Glasgow rape centre breaks away from charity in row over gender” – A rape support centre in Glasgow has broken away from the supervision of the umbrella charity Rape Crisis Scotland because the centre said its priority was to provide a single-sex service by an “all-female workforce”, which the charity would not accept, reports the BBC.
- “Fury as doctor refused to publish study that found puberty blockers do not improve children’s mental health” – A leading doctor has received backlash after she decided not to publish an anticipated taxpayer-funded report on the effects of puberty-blocking drugs, following suggestions it found the drugs do not significantly improve mental health, the Mail reports.
- “Trans charity Mermaids let off lightly by investigation” – Child transition charity Mermaids has been given a very easy ride from the Charity Commission, says Josephine Bartosch in UnHerd, after a 22-page report, which took two years to complete, found “mismanagement” of the charity but said this was because the “governance, culture and practices had failed to keep pace with its growing size”.
- “Boarding school teacher who admitted child sex offences spared jail” – A boarding school teacher who sexually assaulted a student and possessed images of children being abused has avoided jail, reports the Telegraph – presumably because the prisons are full of Right-wing protesters and keyboard warriors.
- “Armed forces could not stop an invasion, admits Defence Secretary” – John Healey says the British military is in a far worse state than expected when Labour took office and not ready to fight, the Times reports.
- “Proposals to ban Alternative für Deutschland gain support within the German political establishment, as our domestic spy agency prepares a new assessment of the party’s political wrongthink” – It’s now looking likely that key German CDU politicians, coordinating with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, will try to get the German Bundestag to approve a ban on AfD before the end of the year, says Eugyppius.
- “Two Faces of Modernity” – Dr. David McGrogan’s latest Substack looks at the good and bad of the Enlightenment.
- “Who does Justin Welby speak for?” – In the Spectator, Rev. Jamie Franklin wonders why the Archbishop of Canterbury struggles to be clear about what he’s saying and on whose behalf, and whether he’s being entirely honest.
- “She Was Arrested for Praying in Her Head” – Citizens in the U.K. have been arrested, prosecuted and convicted for silently praying outside abortion clinics, and even organising pro-life meetings in your own home may be a criminal offence, writes Madeleine Kearns in the Free Press.
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tragedy-of-a-grandfather-who-should-never-have-been-in-prison/
Laura Perrins with her views on the sentencing and subsequent death of grandfather Peter Lynch. No question who she holds responsible.
This utterly dreadful case will forever define Kneel and his treasonous government and rightly so.
What we need to know now is how exactly did Mr Lynch kill himself? The prisons we are told are overflowing so how then did Mr Lynch find the time, the space and the means to kill himself? Was he offered a length of rope, or a knife and a room to himself for half an hour?
Gruesome I know but the official story is bullshit without details and I don’t believe it.
God Rest Peter Lynch. A brave man.
As Tommy says “We are all Peter Lynch” now !
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/four-fateful-days-in-the-life-of-tommy-robinson/
A reasonably sympathetic look at the one man truly standing up to the globalist puppets led by Kneel.
The sheer bravery of this man is unequalled. How he copes is beyond me. He has to report to the police today and he knows he will be arrested. I fear they are going to imprison him for much longer than the four years anticipated and undoubtedly on trumped up charges.
The Freedom Rally tomorrow looks like it will turn in to a major event but whereas the July event was strangely policed decently I fear there will be trouble tomorrow, deliberately stoked trouble that is.
Good luck to all those attending.
God Bless Tommy Robinson.
Absolutely, hux. And just for anyone not aware of what these bogus charges are based on, watch this 5min vid for an explainer;
https://x.com/RealDonKeith/status/1849374217642336318
So he probably won’t be there on Saturday , by arresting him TPTB will stoke unrest for tomorrow’s gathering , it’s worrying just how much leeway the police will have .
Exactly Freddy.
Perhaps he should change his name once more. ‘Alexander Navalny’ might be available…
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/this-wretched-renters-rights-bill-legalises-theft-from-landlords/
A decidedly convoluted look at the Renters Rights Bill which the author concludes is nothing more than theft.
The rental market will cease to exist within twelve months and that is a given, which should do wonders for social cohesion and will undoubtedly place huge increases on local council services.
It’s enough to make anyone think this is deliberate.
Everything detrimental to logic atm is deliberate !
Thursday Morning Pump Lane & Marlow Rd, Marlow
The Imaginary Monsters of Misinformation
Thought Crime is now Real
Armed forces could not stop an invasion, admits Defence Secretary
‘There is no top-to-bottom command and control mechanism, preparation or training in place [to defend UK territory]… let alone do so with Nato’
‘Neither the UK homeland nor a deployed force could be protected from a concerted Russian air effort.’
You can’t find those quotes in the above article? Of course you can’t because:
General Sir Richard Barrons made those comments in 2016, you know, two years after Ukraine had been invaded…..the first time……
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/russian-army-invasion-richard-barrons-overwhelm-withered-uk-putin-michael-fallon-defense-invasion-a7312986.html
So, just how stupid are the people running this country……
Well….it turns out some of them may have a vague idea what they are doing.
General Sir Richard has just been appointed co-chair of the latest Strategic Defence Review.
Is that stupid because we are never going to be invaded?
‘An imperial nation, that is to say a nation which directly or indirectly is a leader of others, can exist without the need of conquering a single square mile of territory.
Fascism sees in the imperialistic spirit — i.e., in the tendency of nations to expand — a manifestation of their vitality.
In the opposite tendency, which would limit their interests to the home country, it sees a symptom of decadence.
Peoples who rise or re-arise are imperialistic; renunciation is characteristic of dying peoples.’
Mussolini 1932
‘Nazi Ukraine will be eradicated, but including, and above all, Western totalitarianism, the imposed programs of civilizational degradation and disintegration, the mechanisms of subjugation to the superpower of the West and the United States.
To put the plan of denazification of Ukraine into practice, Russia itself will have to finally part with pro-European and pro-Western illusions.’
‘Russia will go its own way, not worrying about the fate of the West, relying on another part of its heritage – leadership in the global process of decolonization.’
RIA Novosti 04 April 2022
Maybe we will not be invaded? Why bother?:
“It is not necessary to shoot down all the UK’s Joint Strike Fighters, only to know how to murder in their beds the 40 or so people who can fly them.”
A Russian air campaign would quickly overwhelm Britain.
“UK air defence now consists of the (working) Type 45 [destroyers], enough ground-based air defence to protect roughly Whitehall only, and RAF fast jets. Neither the UK homeland nor a deployed force — let alone both concurrently — could be protected from a concerted Russian air effort.”
General Sir Richard Barrons 16 Sept. 2016
The ‘leader in global decolonisation’, Russia, only has to demoralise Britain in order to dominate it.
‘An Atlantic community paralyzed by its military inferiority in Europe could only wring its hands as (Russian) power and influence moved unimpeded into the so-called Third World, portions of which provide the materials upon which the industrial, economic, and social health of the industrial West depend.’
What to do?
‘In a modern strategy the Atlantic army must provide for the West a sense of security to a degree that will encourage it to act and react in respect to global events with confidence. That forecloses to (Russia) the options of intimidation, blackmail, and political leverage.’
Lt Gen DeWitt Smith
So, next week, when you see Britain’s borrowing increase, your taxes go up….and as you listen over the next few years to a luminous and prescient politician finally talking about ‘systemic change’, it will be up to you to decide which way is up for Blair’s Britain.
Remind us when Smith wrote that will you. It may have been modern strategy back then but the nature of warfare has changed significantly over the last few years.
The invasion is well under way so this is a pointless article !
‘A (military) strategy based on absolute or total war is not ‘modern’ strategy, it is no strategy at all.
Indeed, the……definition has to include as a fundamental purpose preventing war from approaching its absolute form.
Modern (military) strategy……deals with the use of military forces in peace as well as in war, and also in all those ambiguous conditions in between.
It deals with the use of military forces to prevent conflict, to control conflict if prevention fails, and to terminate conflict if it cannot be controlled.’
“Why the call for slavery reparations is a scam”
Why?, because everyone that was involved in it are dead!
Anyone who still finds reason for it must obviously adhere to the “sins of the father”
syndrome
Fools would give in to such nonsense, David Lammy, there you go!
Reparations: Money demanded from the descendants of slaves who are not suffering slavery from people who are the descendants of a handful of people who did something not illegal at the time.
The logistics are interesting, should they go for reparations. It would come out of taxes which, unless “means tested” according to skin colour, would come from the black descendants of slaves who have emigrated here, as well as from the descendants of the millions of whites who never kept slaves.
By now, after centuries in the gene pool, it would also come from millions who, like my son-in-law, has some “black slave” blood running in his veins.
And of course, going to African countries would put it into the hands of those who enslaved their neighbours in the first place but were never slaves themselves.
Meanwhile, modern slavers would carry on unchecked as they do now.
Interesting that it’s a party supposedly on the political right that is pushing for a ban on the AfD – almost as if they don’t like the competition.