- “Zelensky ‘refuses to sign’ Donald Trump’s ‘problematic’ minerals deal” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reportedly “not yet ready” to sign a controversial minerals deal with Donald Trump that may see him give away billions in critical elements and revenues, the Mail reports.
- “Trump to abandon Russia war crimes prosecution” – The US has signalled that it could leave an international effort to prosecute Russia for invading Ukraine, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Starmer considers faster defence build-up ahead of Trump talks” – Sir Keir Starmer is considering boosting defence spending sooner than previously thought as he prepares for talks with Donald Trump this week, the Telegraph reports.
- “We can pay for a rapid rebuild of our military might – by using the hundreds of billions Miliband is planning to splurge on his fatuous pursuit of Net Zero” – Some more common sense from Andrew Neil in the Mail, which will of course be completely ignored by this doctrinaire Labour Government.
- “Keir Starmer shrugs off Trump as he prepares to give new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russian oligarchs amid US President’s war of words with Volodymyr Zelensky” – Keir Starmer is set to announce a new package of support for Ukraine days after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian President a “dictator”, reports the Mail.
- “Why Trump doesn’t see Putin as a real threat” – Russia is not a direct threat to the US in the eyes of this administration, says Sam Olson in the Spectator.
- “Trump’s comments are out of order, but Europe’s inaction is unforgivable” – Trump’s comments about Zelensky are out of order, but the Continent has no excuse for past inaction, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Trump won’t make America great by wrecking NATO and the global post-war order” – Relentless optimism at home, but unyielding pessimism abroad: that is the disconnect in the President’s message, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Europe must be stronger, or it will die” – The Trump administration has caused the biggest rift between the United States and Europe since the end of the Cold War, writes Yascha Mounk in the Spectator.
- “The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right” – The Spectator‘s Freddy Gray feels that Trump may have a point.
- “Russell Brand is now one of Trump’s inner circle in Florida” – Russell Brand, having avoided charges over sexual assault, has relocated to Florida, where he is now besties with RFK, says the Mail.
- “Trump sacks US military’s top-ranked officer” – Gen Charles ‘CQ’ Brown, who went viral with an emotional video about discrimination in the army, has been fired by Donald Trump less than two years into his four-year term as part of a major shake-up of the US armed forces leadership, reports the Telegraph.
- “UK set to overshoot borrowing forecast despite £15.4 billion surplus” – Self-assessment income bolstered public sector finances in January but borrowing for this financial year is already £13 billion above last year, leaving Rachel Reeves with tough choices if she is to keep within her fiscal rules, reports the Times.
- “For Labour to avoid annihilation, it needs to cut spending now. Britain’s problem is that it won’t” – To defend itself, the UK needs to be rich. If we continue on our current path, penury and servitude beckon, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Business Secretary was warned against lying about legal career a decade ago” – In 2015, Jonathan Reynolds was told not to claim he used to work as a solicitor – but dismissed the concerns, reports the Telegraph.
- “What would my Labour CV look like? Well, I was a successful jockey, actress…” – ‘Rachel from Accounts’ will just have to put up with the name – she deserves it, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hermer’s Kenya case ‘fleeced taxpayers’” – Keir Starmer’s Attorney General led a case in which the lawyers involved were accused of “enriching themselves” at the expense of taxpayers, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Apple axes top security feature in Britain amid row with Yvette Cooper” – Yvette Cooper has been accused of putting millions of iPhone users’ data at risk after Apple removed its top security feature from Britain in a row with the Home Secretary, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour will use AI to snoop on social media” – The Government’s controversial disinformation team is developing a secretive AI programme to trawl through social media looking for “concerning” posts it deems problematic so it can take “action”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour must not kowtow to AI giants” – One might think Labour would want to protect the creative sector, which generates billions and supports countless jobs, but the party is prostrating itself before Big Tech, warns the Mail in a leading article.
- “Keir Starmer is doing a Boris on immigration” – Keir Starmer is just the latest in a long line of Prime Ministers who says that immigration has been far too high in the past and needs to be greatly reduced while doing the exact opposite, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Asylum seekers allowed to stay in UK despite lying in claims” – Immigration judges have repeatedly ruled migrants can avoid deportation despite being found to have lied about their cases and the risks they face at home, the Telegraph reports.
- “Illegal immigrant who stabbed wife to death wins right to stay in Britain after arguing he might have to face wrath of in-laws back home in Turkey” – An illegal immigrant who savagely stabbed his wife to death has won the right to stay in Britain – after arguing that he might have to face the anger of his in-laws back home in Turkey, reports the Mail.
- “Make our judges stand for election – then they would deliver common sense decisions” – It’s time for a shake-up, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph, after a series of outrageous judgments shows just how out of touch our liberal judiciary is.
- “One killed and police seriously injured in ‘Islamist terror attack’ in France” – One person was killed and two police officers were seriously injured in what Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terror attack” in eastern France on Saturday, after an Algerian suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” before going on stabbing spree, reports the Telegraph.
- “What’s True and False in One Health” – On Robert Malone’s Substack, Jeffrey Tucker sounds a warning about the WHO’s One Health agenda, which Deep State bureaucrats have already signed the Trump administration up to.
- “Energy Secretary Ed Miliband recruits Extinction Rebellion cheerleaders to Government roles to help push through costly agenda” – The Energy Secretary has quietly appointed the advisers who have all publicly expressed admiration for the radical action group which has repeatedly brought chaos to Britain’s streets, reports the Mail.
- “One last push before Germany goes to the polls: Final poll predicts large gains for AfD while frontrunner Friedrich Merz vows to lead Europe” – A final poll ahead of tomorrow’s German election has predicted that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will see a major increase in votes, but not enough to overtake Friedrich Merz of the CDU, reports the Mail.
- “A German Political Primer Ahead of Tomorrow’s Elections” – Eugyppius attempts to explain the arcane intricacies of Germany’s party system for clueless Americans and Brits.
- “How the humble heat pump pushed Germany to the far-Right” – The rigid Net Zero stance of Olaf Scholz’s coalition has become electoral dynamite, says Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
- “Focus on diversity and Net Zero if you want Government contracts, firms told” – Companies have been told to focus on Net Zero and diversity goals if they want to win public contracts under the Government’s new procurement rules, the Telegraph reports.
- “Hospitals hiring trans doctors unable to see their disciplinary records” – NHS hospitals hiring transgender doctors could be left unable to see their disciplinary records, senior medics have warned, according to the Telegraph.
- “Equalities watchdog issues warning to NHS board at centre of trans nurse row amid fears new ‘staff transitioning guide’ is unlawful” – The NHS Fife trans row ratcheted up further yesterday when the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) reminded the health board and Health Secretary Neil Gray of their legal obligations surrounding single-sex facilities in the workplace, reports the Mail.
- “Scotland’s public sector is in thrall to trans ideology” – No one, says Tom Harris in the Mail, would have predicted that such a simple question would cause such anxiety and confusion among our politicians: what is a woman?
- “Law lecturer ‘sacked over gender-critical beliefs’ handed payout” – Law lecturer Dr Almut Gadow who was sacked by the Open University after expressing gender-critical beliefs has been handed a payout from the institution in an out of court settlement, the Telegraph reports.
- “BBC hails drag queens as ‘inspirational mums’ on CBeebies site” – The BBC’s children’s website for under sixes has lauded two transgender activists as “inspirational mums” for International Women’s Day, reports the Mail.
- “Lawmaker’s attempt to be woke destroys her election chances” – Amanda Zavitz, a self-professed DEI advocate, was forced to drop out of Ontario’s upcoming legislative elections after shock audio of her remarks to a 2024 UN conference that “My secret is that I want to be a black woman” went viral, reports the Mail.
- “Who is responsible for the BBC’s Gaza documentary debacle?” – In screening How to Survive a Warzone, the BBC served as a mouthpiece for one of the world’s most depraved terrorist organisations, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
- “Politicians are bad at running trains, building cars and installing phones – why would they be better at running football?” – In the Sun, Daniel Hannan looks at why Labour’s Football Governance Bill would be a disastrous move for England’s national game.
- “Knock knock, it’s the Thought Police: As thousands of criminals go uninvestigated, detectives call on a grandmother. Her crime? She went on Facebook to criticise Labour councillors at the centre of the ‘Hope you Die’ WhatsApp scandal exposed by the MoS” – Detectives were last night accused of acting like East Germany ‘s feared Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal, reports the Mail.
- “Firemen are too male and too white, say chiefs” – A report commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has claimed that the fire service is “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Inside America’s ‘trans sanctuary city’ too busy shouting about Trump to focus on worst murder rate in decades” – The second-biggest city in New England is collapsing under the weight of its own wokeness, and convulsed by fears of Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House, residents told the Mail.
- “Britain is fast becoming an Orwellian surveillance state” – As is so often the case, Labour is simply pouring petrol onto a fire that was started by the Tories, writes Zia Yusuf in the Telegraph.
- “Within those fairly strict narrow limits, I would say that people should be permitted to say whatever they like, provided it’s not going to lead to violence. It’s not going to lead to a breach of the peace” – Watch Toby and John Benjamin discuss the limits of free speech on GB News.
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Socialists don’t like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
Thatcher
A better translation of Kachelmann’s faschistoides Pack would fascism-affine scum. The remainder of his statement is verbatim pretty much untranslatable. What’s it’s calling for is that the establishment parties must stop pretending to enable voters to choose among meaningful alternatives by fielding individual candidates. In future, only the party of democracy and its candidate must exist.
The amusing issue here is that what’s referred to in the text above as Left is the party currently called Die Linke (literally The Left). It’s former name was PDS — party of democractic socialism and the name it used for most of its existence was SED — the former state part of the GDR. Twenty years ago, before the AfD existed, they were the antidemocratic pariahs¹ democratic parties must fight with a united front. And before them, this position was occupied by the Greens. It really means nothing but party not yet feeding from the public trough which all parties which do already feed from it must fight tooth and nail because the whole trough is rightfully theirs.
¹ At this time, state elections in Hessen resulted in a hung parliament where no coalition could be formed. The then party leader of the SPD – Andrea Nahles – could have become first minister of the state by PDS MPs voting for her and she actually proposed doing this. The resulting outcry of The True Democrats™, an accolade not yet awarded to the SED, and a rebellions among members of her own party forced her to resign instead.
People forget, and the left do not remind them, that Die Linke are directly connected to the vile, prison camp dictatorship of East Germany. Same mindset infects the new German left. Dangerous people
That’s literally the same party. After the GDR was abolished, they first renamed themselves to PDS. Some years later, they merged with a hard left faction of the SPD to form The Left — Die Linke. They may have been ruling as communist dictators in central Germany (that’s not eastern Germany, eastern Germany is nowdays a depopulated wilderness nominally occupied by Poland and Russia) for 40 years and created a fortified border to keep the population in on threat of being killed¹ but this just means that they’re the democratiest of the democrats and nobody ever contemplated outlawing the party.
¹ The crime such peope were deemed guilt of which was to be sanctioned by capital punishment without trial used to be called Republikflucht — trying to escape from the democratic republic of the east to reach the fascist republic of the west. Surely something extremely nefarious.
Remark on anti-democratic right-wing extremism by the AfD (as determined by the German inland secret service): I’ve tried my best to decipher the vague accusations reported (in German) in some of the articles but the only thing which really remains after doing away with all the handwaiving is The AfD is an anti-democratic right-wing extremist party because it doesn’t support unlimited immigration.
Has the horse bolted on mass immigration? Is it too late to stop the Islamification of Europe? Try reading “While Europe Slept” Bruce Bawer. ————–I knew people could sleepwalk but I never knew a whole continent could. But now I realise after reading this book that it can and certainly is.
WHILE EUROPE SLEPT is his enlightening and disturbing report on anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment in Europe and on the egregious failure of European liberals to confront Islamic extremism in their own countries.
Thanks but no thanks. That’s again just the US fault line Republicans/ Democrats forcibly retrofit onto a continent it doesn’t belong to. The AfD is a liberal party. This refers to a certain kind of political program and not just to relaxed sexual morale compared to average inhabitants of the bible belt.
The so-called West is the architect of its own demise. It won’t be missed.
This is a very interesting <9min clip ( the full vid is in the comments section and is 2hrs+ long ) looking at what Ireland will be like in 2040 as a result of mass immigration. I don’t know who this chap is but he certainly looks like he’d be labelled a ‘far-right extremist’ just for stating facts;
https://twitter.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1736800078889988377
Speaking of immigration, I’m sure this is purely a coincidence, cherry-picking, and nothing more….
”TWO migrants living on the Bibby Stockholm barge have been arrested on suspicion of a sex attack on a woman in a nightclub.
The pair, aged 24 and 27, were held after the alleged assault four miles from where the floating accommodation block is moored.
The unidentified migrant pair have since been released from custody and are on police bail while under investigation.
Hundreds of migrants have been moved to the Bibby Stockholm while their asylum claims are processed since it was opened in August.
They are free to roam in the area and many are taken by coach to Weymouth Town Centre – where many spend their £40.85 weekly spending money allowance.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25095986/migrants-bibby-stockholm-arrested-alleged-sex-attack/
Barbed wire and watch towers should surround any facility where these people are kept. No free movement for potentially dangerous criminals.
I am probably getting too sceptical and suspicious for my own good but I do find myself asking if movements like the afd are really the unprompted voice of the dissenting people? Or are they just another piece in the complex Machiavellian plot to manipulate and control the narrative. Maybe the liberal woke approach has played out its hand and it is time for a switch to a more authoritarian style?
Or maybe it is time for me to stop spinning conspiracy theories and go to bed.
Oh these far-left conspiracy theories are so funny. They obviously need us to curate their news intake to protect them from dangerous misinformation.
They’re funny until they are not. People are dead because of leftist immigration policies.
A dump but an important one from Sasha Latypova via the wonderful Dr Mike Yeadon.
Here she is detailing the Pfizer clot shots in the USA:
“the product is not serialized – i.e. unit doses are not barcoded and thus not traceable under normal pharmaceutical distribution rules which exist to flag any safety or quality issue in the supply chain. The product this is wide open to both falsification and adulteration. The product is shipped to DOD and handled through a “black box” DOD distribution system, ostensibly due to the cold chain storage requirements. The product is deemed “US Government property” until it is injected into a person.”
And this:
“Overall characterization of what is going on: the federal and most of the state governments are gone and captured. Whatever is running the federal gov agencies (e.g. HHS) really intends to kill you, or at least substantially injure you, damage your reproductive capacity and repossess your assets in the process. The aim is to reduce the population and terrorize the survivors enough to establish a totalitarian control over much of the world’s territory. Nobody is coming to save you, your survival and that of your children is in your hands only. Do not comply.”
From her excellent Substack ‘Due Diligence and Art.’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc-weapon-of-mass-destruction-and-whos-health-tyranny-towards-a-totalitarian-world-government-no-way/5814122
An explanation of the coming collapse of the Western banking system which will of course necessitate the introduction of CBDC and coupled with the revised International Health Regulations will ensure our imprisonment.
The year 2024 is going to be a series of Blitzkriegs on the populations of the Global North.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/families-inject-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-together-have-heart-attacks-blood-clots-develop-turbo-cancer-die-suddenly-together/5843279
Talk about murder!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/psychopaths-world-united-rebuilding-trust-world-economic-forum/5843287?doing_wp_cron=1702651466.8995959758758544921875
“World Economic Forum recently announced the theme for their annual meeting in Davos in January 2024.[1] This time it is about “rebuilding trust”. This also happens to be the theme of the United Nations 78th General Assembly that opened September 5 2023.[2]
I say good luck with those ambitions! Klaus Schwab and his army of “change agents” have never scored high on the popularity charts, and his achievements of the recent years haven’t exactly improved that.”
Mr Hux——–You are on a roll ….wink
Thanks varmint.
I will cheer when these people are cancelled. Because they most certainly will be when the people get very angry. Ireland is a warning to them
The left constantly try to label the right as nazis. Unfortunately for the left, they are in the spectrum that the nazis inhabited. Hitler and his party were socialists; national socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) was their name. Their programme was socialist
The nazis were declared ‘right wing’ by Stalin in 1928 because they were national socialists and Stalin and the soviets had decided that international socialism was the only acceptable kind of socialism.
The left are dangerous, undemocratic and discatorial. We can see this in their response to the rise of the AfD.