- “Britain cannot sustain these immigration levels” – We’ve all got a huge interest in reliable migration figures, neutrally and fairly presented. At the moment, we have neither, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights” – The SAS’s real enemy isn’t armed with a gun, but with the European Convention on Human Rights, writes Paul Wood in the Spectator.
- “Britain has a blasphemy law in all but name” – Anyone outraged by Labour MP Tahir Ali calling on the Government to introduce blasphemy laws has clearly not been paying attention, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Woman faces police interview after calling man she says threatened her family a ‘pikey’” – A woman has been summoned for an interview under caution by the police after calling a man she claims confronted and threatened her husband and teenage daughter a “pikey”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hague demands end to cancel culture in defence of free speech” – The new chancellor of the University of Oxford says cancel culture is “absolutely wrong” and urged Labour to bring back free speech laws, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer attempting to rush through Chagos handover before Trump enters White House” – Keir Starmer is trying to rush the controversial Chagos Islands treaty through before Donald Trump takes office, amid concerns that the deal could collapse, reports GB News.
- “Pay languishes below 2008 levels as Britain lags behind rich world” – The financial crisis, Covid pandemic and the cost of living squeeze have combined with dire productivity and weak economic growth to give British workers one of the worst blows to living standards, says Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “Farmer tax row risks hitting food supply, warns outgoing Asda chairman” – Lord Rose has warned that the row between farmers and the Government could disrupt supplies into supermarkets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Private school VAT raid will raise ‘tiny amount of money’, IFS admits” – The head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies admits that Labour’s private school tax raid will not make “any real difference to the amount of money available” for state schools, according to the Telegraph.
- “This simple fact about tax rises is always overlooked” – Rachel Reeves has apparently failed to grasp a basic economic reality – raising taxes often fails to increase the overall tax take, says Andrew Craig in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves faces fresh embarrassment over unearthed winter fuel pledge” – Unearthed leaflets show that Rachel Reeve’s made protecting the winter fuel allowance central to her early election campaigns, reports the Telegraph.
- “Louise Haigh has fraud conviction over stolen mobile phone” – Transport Secretary Louise Haigh was convicted of fraud after a police investigation involving stolen and missing mobile phones, reveals the Times.
- “How Alan Rusbridger and Left-wing luminaries plunged the Observer into crisis” – In the Telegraph, James Warrington describes Alan Rusbridger’s role in the Observer’s decline, accusing him of laying the groundwork for the paper’s crisis.
- “Once again, a BBC star is investigated only after journalists get involved” – Gregg Wallace has stepped down from MasterChef following allegations of inappropriate behaviour revealed by a Telegraph investigation.
- “No welcome in the hillside” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson dissects Wales’s economic missteps, cultural erasures and the dangerous implications of its anti-racism policies.
- “Meritocracy and the Startup Party” – On Substack, J’accuse examines Dominic Cummings’s Startup Party, weighing its bold vision of meritocracy against the pitfalls of entrenched elites.
- “Met Office apologises after ‘severe’ hot weather alerts sent to phones by mistake” – The Met Office has apologised for accidentally sending weather alerts to people’s phones warning of “severe high temperatures” and a “significant threat to life or property”, reports Wales Online.
- “Why Donald Trump’s fracking revolution will leave Starmer’s Britain behind” – In the Telegraph, Jonathan Leake warns that the U.K.’s green policies are forcing it into energy dependence on the U.S.
- “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade interrupted by pro-Palestinian protest” – Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, leading to the arrest of 21 people, reports the NY Post.
- “Can Ukraine’s army survive its deserter crisis?” – In the Spectator, Svitlana Morenets unpacks Ukraine’s deepening deserter crisis.
- “Introducing the Vaccine Files” – On Substack, Isabell Oakeshott releases the first in a series of revelations about the jab based on Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages that he handed over to her so she could ghost write his pandemic memoir.
- “Secret WhatsApp leaks expose Downing Street’s vaccine cover-up” – On X, Dr. Aseem Malhotra highlights the vaccine-related WhatsApp messages released by Isabel Oakeshott, which reveal that Downing Street instructed the U.K. regulator to “knock down” concerns about the vaccine due to its poor efficacy.
- “‘Tate’s finances are on the skids and I think I know why’” – The problem with Tate’s reinvention as the gallery wing of social justice activism is the public isn’t turning up, says J.J. Charlesworth in the Spectator.
- “The diversity cult is imploding – Jaguar is just the first casualty” – The point of inclusive policies was not to do the right thing but to be profitable, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “What is “the woke Right”?” – A faction of “anti-woke” campaigners are now embracing their own form of identity politics, notes Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Sorry, but woke isn’t dead – and the BBC has just proved it” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon exposes how the BBC giving its Women’s Footballer of the Year award to Barbra Banda proves woke ideology is alive and thriving in Britain’s institutions.
- “‘I was ousted as a charity trustee for saying biological men shouldn’t join our breastfeeding meetings’” – In the Telegraph, Ruth Lewis, ousted from La Leche League for opposing biological males in breastfeeding groups, warns the charity is being “destroyed from within” by gender ideologues.
- “America is in open revolt against DEI extremism. Walmart has only just noticed” – Walmart isn’t changing its DEI policies because of Trump, but because people have turned against radical cultural progressivism, says Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
- “Transgender ideology has weakened the U.S. military — it’s dangerous to pretend otherwise” – Trump would be right to scrap Biden’s rules that put gender dogma over military lethality, writes Caroline Downey in the Telegraph.
- “Trump and the academic cocoon” – A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention, says Heather Mac Donald in Quillette.
- “Kamala Harris looks exhausted – and nowhere close to understanding why she lost” – A bizarre video released by the Democrats demonstrates the extent of the party’s delusions, writes David Christopher Kaufman in the Telegraph.
- “Zuckerberg dines with Trump – four years after banning him from Facebook” – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago – after reportedly requesting the meeting with the President-elect to discuss “the incoming administration”, reports the NY Post.
- “Millions of Britons ditch X as Elon Musk triggers Left-wing backlash” – The number of U.K. adults visiting X’s website or app has dropped from 26.5 million in 2022 when Musk bought the company to 22.2 million this year, according to the Telegraph.
- “Australia has shown the way on free speech” – Australia’s defeat of a draconian counter-disinformation bill signals a revival of free speech values, says Andrew Lowenthal in UnHerd.
- “No, Digital ID will not be required to access social media under Australia’s new age limit laws… probably” – Australians will not have to present a Digital ID to use social media under new laws setting the minimum age of social media access to 16, writes Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “‘Jobs don’t just fall from the sky’” – On X, entrepreneur Luke Johnson (and director of Skeptics Ltd., the company that owns the Daily Sceptic) tells its straight about Labour’s job killing employment Bill.
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“Kamala looks exhausted”. I think the polite term is “tired and emotional”.
As tired as a newt?
Brilliant— that really made me laugh!
She looked pi$$ed to me!
The speech she just gave to the camera, swop the camera for a mirror and it will make perfect sense
Can Ukraine’s army survive its deserter crisis?
It would be very surprising if desertions were not a huge problem on both sides.
Certainly, on the Russian side, the leadership is dire:
‘The Russian military channels are in disarray following claims of a new “order” to confiscate civilian vehicles, including those privately purchased by soldiers. The controversy began with a voice message warning that such vehicles would be seized and destroyed on the spot, while the drivers and their commanders would be sent on “meat grinder” assault missions. Allegedly, this directive applies across the entire front line.’
Probably not many will realise how stupid this order is.
For perspective:
‘Modern soldiers might wonder what we are all on about, however I am sure certain Range Complexes in the UK still see an enterprising burger van turn up and you then see the resulting large black bin bag of quickly disposed of, half frozen pack lunches!
However, never mind how good those burger vans are, they will not compare with the legendary Wolfgang! His Blue Schnellie Van (Schnellie, British Army slang from the German word for quick food shop – Schnell Imbiss) would roam the large Soltau Training area, in North east (West) Germany.
It did not matter how good your camouflage was, he would find you and then any semblance of tactics would go out the window as soldiers rushed to him for Chips mit mayo, Bratwurst mit senf’
Schnellies were also known as Bratty wagons. These alternatives to repetitive rations are important to morale in any army.
To the Russian Army, they are a lifeline. Russian resupply is, essentially, large numbers of Bratty wagons, one reason why their progress is so slow; but progress it is.
If the Russian Generals get rid of their ‘Bratty Wagen’ resupply system, they should beware the consequences
Meanwhile, let me explain what is going on:
‘What the Ukrainian army is doing, particularly on the southern flank near Pokrovsk and in the Kurakhove direction, is classic manoeuvre defence. The goal here isn’t to hold the territory but to inflict maximum losses on the enemy and buy time to set up stronger defensive positions where it makes sense.
Ukrainian troops maintain positional defence where they can, and where that’s not possible, they adopt manoeuvre defence. And they’re doing it successfully.’
Putin has major problems:
‘Hidden inflation in Russia indicates that Western financial sanctions are far more effective than many observers believe. Russia cannot borrow money abroad and is forced to live solely on taxes and reserves, which are also dwindling. In 2021, the National Wealth Fund was at its peak, with $183 billion in its accounts. By March 2024, the fund’s reserves had decreased to $55 billion, with most of these funds already invested and not liquid.’
Putin is exceptionally vulnerable to a reduction in the price of oil.
President Trump understands this and is a consummate negotiator. He knows his versatile exhortation: ‘Drill, baby, drill!’ will reverberate within the damp and chilly walls of the Kremlin.
So, on balance:
‘Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let’s see who will pound longest’
Let us not forget that part of the Duke of Wellington’s army fled the field at Waterloo and that victory was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life’.
Both Russia and Ukraine will lose this war, as far as I can see.
Great point.
The difference being that Europe/America will rebuild Ukraine in order to create a prosperous and democratic member of the EU.
The U.S. is the winner.
Its strategy of weakening Russia so that it can no longer invade its neighbours has succeeded beyond all expectations.
Hopefully not in the way they’re “rebuilt” the likes of Bulgaria and Romania. Basically sold everything industrial off to foreign asset strippers while selling the land to foreign agro-corporations, leaving the indigenous population with no choice but to seek their luck abroad.
As the Heroic Jew Henry Makow pointed out, the Russia-Ukraine Meatgrinder War is more about KILLING SLAVS than winning the war.
Precisely, its a means to ethnically clense Ukraine as it is to become a second Jewish state.
Zelensky and Putin are in cahoots….
Yes, Zelensky & Putin really are in cahoots, and you are one of the very few people wide awake enough to see it.
Evidence free assertions.
Or the usual complete and utter nonsense.
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Heyford Hill Roundabout Oxford
Our hugest beeping fest ever.
The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights
‘The SAS veterans say they don’t necessarily want Britain to leave the ECHR, but they would like the government of the day to use powers in the convention to suspend Article 2 – the right to life – during war or national emergency.’
Simm repeats a saying variously attributed to Orwell, Churchill or Kipling: ‘We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.’
One day, those men may not be there when we turn to them for help.
And guess what?:
‘The SAS see what happened to the Met’s armed police unit, SO19, which used to get thousands of applications to join. There were apparently just six after a police sergeant was prosecuted for shooting the London gangster Chris Kaba.’
Britain, Europe, is about to witness what decent national leadership, ‘warts and all’, looks like in America.
Then, in five long years time, it will be our turn.
The hope must be: that can be soon enough for the SAS, SO19 and our struggling, diminutive Armed Services.
“Reeves faces fresh embarrassment over unearthed winter fuel pledge”
Erm.
10m x £300 = £3bn
Treasury saving £1.4bn
Where did the other £1.6bn go, and did Rachel ask Louise to do the arithmetic for her?
“worth up to £300” does not mean “worth £300”, therefore multiplying “10m x £300” is not the correct sum.
If the winter fuel allowance had not been removed from most pensioners, most of these pensioners would have received either £200 or £100, only a minority would have received £300.
So it was already means tested in some way? Interesting.
My only experience of winter fuel allowance was dealing with my mother’s accounts. She got £300. I’ve deferred my state pension so I don’t know what I would have got – I guess whatever the lower limit was.
Talking of which… maybe it’s time to activate my state pension.
Pension deferment is rarely in anybody’s best interest. Do the sums and you will soon understand why.
Not my own best interest – that of my inheritors. However, the arithmetic has changed – gifts from excess income seem to be in their best interest now.
No, it was never means tested. It depends on age, those over 80 get £300, those under 80 get £200, and also two pensioners living together don’t each get the full amount.
Big Pharma SILENCED Scientists on COVID | Dr Mike Yeadon | Neil Oliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUTA6t6dae0&list=WL&index=5 13 minutes – with a little clip of JB in it.
“Britain cannot sustain these immigration levels”
And in The Independent on MSN…
UK immigration figures breakdown: Where migrants are from and why they are arriving
“Since June 2021, at least 3.6 MILLION IMMIGRANTS have entered the UK.”
“The country with the HIGHEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE entering the UK is
INDIA, followed by NIGERIA.”
“The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights”
Yes, they have been utterly betrayed, along with the entire Armed Forces of the West, by our own Globalist politicians and the Globalist “Kritocracy”= “Rule By Judges”.
All part of the plan to drive Ethnic Europeans (= “White People”) out of the Armed Forces of the West, to replace them with Third World Criminals eager and willing to attack the Ethnic European population.
Just like the Fake Russia-Ukraine War started by the Globalist Puppets Putin & his secret friend Zelensky, which has no other purpose than to kill Ethnic European Slavs in both countries.
“The Great Replacement”, otherwise known as “White Genocide”.
“Britain has a blasphemy law in all but name”
Here’s a great photo and quote from a great man:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GW-hsURXgAAz7q5?format=png&name=small