- “Washington Post Editor Quits, Staff Has Total Meltdown After Non-Endorsement Of Kamala Harris” – In response to Jeff Bezos’s decision not to endorse a Presidential candidate this year, staff are having a total meltdown, liberals are cancelling their subscriptions and Editor-at-Large Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland) just quit, reports ZeroHedge.
- “Trump on Joe Rogan: ‘Don’t believe the polls, I am going to win the election’” – Appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience, Donald Trump has declared he doesn’t believe the polls and is on the verge of victory in the U.S. Presidential election, the Telegraph reports.
- “Trump: The Last American Hero?” – The Kamala coup gifted us the perfect symbolic election, says Nick Dixon on Substack.
- “The three hilarious hours that won Donald Trump the election” – Joe Rogan didn’t give him an easy time, but Trump was coherent, free-wheeling and characteristically funny, says Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
- “Free speech is second most important issue for U.S. voters” – A strong majority of Americans rate free speech as “very important”, with the issue ranking second only to inflation in its influence on Americans’ votes, according to a new poll, reports UnHerd.
- “Donald Trump will ‘unleash all-out war’ on Keir Starmer if he wins U.S. Presidential race after row over Labour helping out his rival Kamala Harris” – Donald Trump will unleash “all-out war” on Sir Keir Starmer if he returns to the White House, a senior Conservative source told the Mail: “Do not underestimate the damage Starmer has done to relations with the U.S. – the Trump team are ready and waiting to unleash all-out war on him, because he is perceived as anti-American and a whingeing, liberal bore.”
- “Businesses shut up shop ahead of Rachel Reeves’s ‘growth Budget’” – Thousands of businesses are closing ahead of this week’s Budget, which economists fear will amount to one of the biggest corporate tax raids of the modern era, according to the Telegraph.
- “Sir Keir Starmer accused of telling a ‘double lie’ after insisting Budget will not be a ‘war on Middle Britain’ and party will not break manifesto pledges” – Robert Jenrick said last night that Starmer “has lied not once but twice by claiming not to have breached his manifesto promises on tax and by insisting that his Budget will not be an assault on the heartlands of Middle Britain”, reports the Mail.
- “Welcome to feudal Britain: Only today the tax-grabbing barons are public sector fat cats… and you’re the peasant funding their gold-plated pay rises” – Rachel Reeves is effectively reinventing the feudal system whereby one class is taxed heavily and another is not only partly exempted but gets to spend the taxes donated by the others, says Matt Ridley in the Mail.
- “Rich fleeing capital gains tax raid can ‘f— off’, says top Labour donor” – Rich people threatening to flee Britain to avoid tax rises should “f— off,” top Labour donor Dale Vince has said, claiming it’s “profoundly stupid” to think higher taxes will hurt entrepreneurialism, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain loses reparations battle as Commonwealth leaders make formal demand for slave trade justice” – Sir Keir Starmer has been pushed into reparation talks with Commonwealth leaders after failing to block official calls for slave trade compensation, the Telegraph reports.
- “Singling Britain out for reparation demands perpetrates a historical scam” – Those demanding reparations base their case on a narrative that is not merely one-sided but a caricature of the past, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Tommy Robinson supporters chant ‘We want Tommy out!’ as their figurehead is held in a police cell – while police clash with protesters on both sides and violent demonstrators are arrested” – Thousands of Tommy Robinson supporters packed into central London on Saturday and repeatedly chanted his name as the activist remains in custody, the Mail reports.
- “Murdered MP Sir David Amess’s daughter breaks family’s silence on their ‘unbearable pain’ – and asks: ‘How was a terrorist free to kill Dad?’” – David Amess’s daughter says she just wants “to make him proud by fighting back against being told no to something that we should be allowed to know: how was a terrorist free to kill Dad?” the Mail reports.
- “Jailed Iraqi goat herder is a parable of Britain’s broken asylum system” – The Welsh town of Aberystwyth has been flooded with Class A drugs by criminals, some of whom arrived illegally on small boats, says the Telegraph.
- “Syrian bank robber allowed to stay in Britain because of ECHR rules” – A foreign armed bank robber has won the right to live in Britain after an immigration tribunal judge rules the risk of him being persecuted in Syria breaches his human rights and outweighs the public interest of deportation, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Spain’s PM is opening the country’s door to illegal migrants” – Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez intends to grant an amnesty to half a million illegal migrants and make it easier for them to get jobs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Black Brits are not ‘traumatised’ by the Chris Kaba case” – ‘Anti-racist’ activists are desperate to lump all of us in with violent criminals, says Inaya Folarin Iman in Spiked.
- “Israel launches double wave of strikes on military targets in Iran” – Israel launched a wave of air strikes on Iranian military sites in the early hours of Saturday morning, killing two soldiers, says the Telegraph.
- “Iran threatens citizens with 10 years in prison for sharing videos of Israeli strikes” – Iran has threatened citizens with lengthy prison sentences for sharing footage of Israeli strikes while officially confirming attacks on military facilities across three provinces, the Telegraph reports.
- “Israel does not want full-scale war with Iran” – The nature of last night’s attack shows that Israel is not interested triggering an escalation into full-scale war with Iran, says Limor Simhony Philpott in the Spectator.
- Compensation scheme could be set up for thousands ‘left disabled’ by AstraZeneca jab” – A Covid vaccine compensation scheme could be set up by the Health Secretary after thousands claimed they have been left disabled as a result of the AstraZeneca jab, the Telegraph has learnt.
- “Six ex-BART workers get over $1 million each after jury said they were denied Covid vaccine exemptions” – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District must pay $7.8 million to six former employees after a jury found the agency discriminated against the workers who sought religious exemptions to the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
- “Pubs ask: Can someone tell Gen Z how to order a pint?” – Pubs across the U.K. are putting up signs instructing customers not to queue but to approach the bar after lockdown led to a change in behaviour especially among those who came of age in the pandemic, says the Telegraph.
- “Why I believe Lucy Letby has been subjected to one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history” – The 34-year-old is locked up for the rest of her life based on circumstantial evidence that was at least in part misrepresented at her trial, argues Dan Wootton on his Outspoken Substack.
- ““Britons urged to eat less meat to hit latest Net Zero target” – Britain must cut its meat and dairy consumption by up to 50% to meet the latest Net Zero targets, the Government’s climate watchdog the Climate Change Committee has said, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gulf Stream Collapsing Again!” – The Gulf Stream is collapsing again, according to the alarmists. But since we only have data since 2004, and the year to year variations are large, to pretend that such a short series is in any way significant is not only unscientific but fraudulent, says Paul Homewood in WUWT.
- “Suddenly Energy Realism Is a Winning Political Issue” – You may not have noticed, but in the current election, push-back against insane energy transition policies has suddenly become a winning political issue, says Francis Menton in WUWT.
- “Urban Heat Island Effects Have Not Yet Been Removed from Official GHCN Warming Trends” – There is now additional reason to distrust the official temperature trends reported for U.S. weather stations, says Dr. Roy Spencer on WUWT.
- “Church of England reprimands parish for buying gas heaters instead of eco boiler” – The Consistory Court of the Diocese of Newcastle branded Holy Cross church in Fenham, Newcastle, “embarrassing” for deciding to buy a new gas heating system instead of a greener alternative, the Telegraph reports.
- “Now the one British university unambiguous in championing free speech is at risk of being muzzled” – Vice-Chancellor James Tooley turned Buckingham around, but now he has been suspended on the basis of unproven allegations from his ex-wife in what looks like an ideologically-motivated take-down by the university authorities, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Diversity obsession is destroying universities, says Cambridge don” – Professor John Marenbon, a fellow of the British Academy, says universities should aim to be exclusive and hierarchical, reports the Times.
- “Trans golfer discusses decision to stop competing against biological females: ‘I’m not a woman’” – Transgender golfer Nicole Powers has vowed not to compete against biological females, saying there is an unfair advantage on the field, reports Fox News.
- “Will this end the ridiculous charade of males in women’s sports?” – Unexpectedly, the UN has issued a report on violence against women and girls in sport that appears to want to put a stop to the bending of gender rules, says Damian Reilly in the Spectator.
- “David Lloyd George’s childhood home to be ‘decolonised’” – David Lloyd George’s childhood cottage is to be “decolonised” to “promote a multicultural, vibrant and diverse Wales” with the help of funding from the Welsh Government, reports the Telegraph.
- “SAS future ‘at risk’ from Labour’s plan to tear up Troubles Legacy Act” – The future of the SAS could be at risk over Labour’s plan to tear up the Troubles Legacy Act, as no one will want to join if they can be pursued through the courts while terrorists are given immunity, former senior members of the elite unit have warned, the Telegraph reports.
- “This isn’t about slavery at all” – “If it was,” Rafe Heydel-Mankoo tells Sky News, “these campaigners would be focusing on modern slavery: seven in every 1,000 Africans is a slave today. This is a cash grab by the Caribbean and an attack on Britain and the West by activists. No one today is a victim of Britain’s slave trade.”
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