- “Supreme Court to rule on definition of ‘woman’ – what’s at stake?” – The Scottish Supreme Court is due to deliver its landmark judgment on the definition of a “woman” today, reports the Times.
- “Harvard hit with $2 billion funding freeze after defying Trump” – The President of Harvard University said he would not “surrender” to Trump’s demands to ditch DEI as a condition of receiving federal funding, says the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump stopped border crossings. Then came the small boats” – San Diego coastguard faces a new challenge trying to intercept illegal migrants entering the US by water, according to the Telegraph.
- “Israeli settlers emboldened by Trump lay siege to West Bank village” – Oscar-winner Hamdan Ballal’s home of Susya in a West Bank village has become a cause célèbre for those fighting against the displacement of Palestinians, says Henry Bodkin in the Telegraph.
- “China blocks Boeing deliveries in retaliation to Trump tariffs” – Beijing has banned aircraft imports from US companies in retaliation against Donald Trump’s tariffs, according to the Telegraph.
- “Beijing fires extraordinary trade war broadside after JD Vance’s slur” – Beijing has branded the US tariffs “extremely shameless” and warned that bullying has never worked on Chinese people, reports the Mail.
- “JD Vance: My message to Europe” – After a week of turmoil on financial markets triggered by Trump’s tariffs, UnHerd has published an interview with JD Vance by Sohrab Ahmari in which the Vice-President says “it’s not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States”.
- “Job vacancies plunge below pre-Covid levels as bosses freeze hiring” – Job vacancies have fallen below pre-Covid levels for the first time, according to the Telegraph, and British employers are blaming the “twin threat” of National Insurance and minimum wage rises.
- “‘Globally significant’ Covid vaccine study biobank to be destroyed” – According to Dystopian Down Under, the Queensland Government says there is “no longer a scientific and public health need” for a valuable Covid vaccine study biobank and linked data.
- “As vaccine funding is slashed, the emotional blackmail begins” – Paula Jardine of the Conservative Woman reports that the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has submitted plans to Congress to terminate $1.6 billion in funding pledged by the Biden administration to GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance.
- “China given access to UK patients’ health data” – The Telegraph reports that Chinese researchers will be granted access to NHS data despite MI5’s fears that Beijing’s regime could acquire sensitive information.
- “Britain’s ‘bonkers’ Net Zero plan puts us at China’s mercy” – The British Steel crisis has exposed the UK’s growing reliance on Beijing, reports the Telegraph.
- “We have more to fear from Net Zero than from Xi Jinping” – The threat by the Chinese company Jingye to close down Britain’s last two blast furnaces is yet another reminder of the perils of doing business with a potentially hostile state, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “How one Just Stop Oil supporter’s Net Zero obsession tore a church apart” – A rural church in the Peak District has been left in the cold since 2023 when an activist energy adviser refused to install a boiler, according to the Telegraph.
- “Increased bills for higher earners could fund UK energy upgrade, Ofgem says” – The energy regulator Ofgem says that wealthier households could be made to shoulder higher costs for running and upgrading the UK’s network of energy cables and pipes to help low-income bill payers, according to the Guardian.
- “Shocking Katy Perry video resurfaces, undermining Blue Origin claims” – Eco-warrior Katy Perry has been slammed as a hypocrite after she went to space aboard Blue Origin’s rocket, the Mail reports.
- “Why this space she-caper was a step backwards for womankind” – In the Mail, Jan Moir reflects on the overblown guff spoken about Katy Perry’s rocket trip.
- “TfL cuts ties with Accenture over DEI rollback” – Transport for London has reportedly stopped working with the consulting firm Accenture after the consultancy scaled back its DEI policies, reports HR Magazine.
- “Business in ‘state of despondency’ as confidence plummets” – Trump’s tariffs and Rachel Reeves’ tax rises are responsible for uncertainty among British firms, says the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves’s tax return raises very awkward questions” – Rachel Reeves has published her tax return for the year 2023-24 and it reveals that she earned only £64 of taxable savings interest. We can only pray that our Chancellor has more than a few thousand pounds in the bank, says Ben Wilkinson in the Telegraph.
- “Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensorable’ social media platform” – Liz Truss’ is launching a new site this summer with an emphasis on building a “grassroots movement”, reports the Telegraph. Truss Social?
- “Hashem Abedi should never have been in this country” – Stephen Daisley of the Spectator says that the British state failed to protect its citizens from men like the Manchester arena bomber and his brother.
- “Life in prison wings so dangerous that officers fear being beheaded” – The Mail reports on the unit where Hashem Abedi’s assault took place: HMP Frankland, which houses a small number of the most radical terrorists.
- “Civil servants given bonuses after failing to prevent Labour freebie scandals” – According to the Telegraph, almost 100 members of the Cabinet Office group that vets ministers have been given bonuses despite their failure to flag up freebie-taking Labour ministers.
- “Why the British Right needs economic nationalism” – The Pimlico Journal says that Trump has driven a stake through the heart of Britain’s economy, making the case for a revival of economic nationalism.
- “Labour faces summer of union discontent” – Teachers, NHS workers, civil servants and university staff could all stage walkouts in the coming months as union leaders lay the groundwork for widespread strikes, reports the Telegraph.
- “Asylum seeker ‘threatened to kill Nigel Farage while travelling to the UK’” – The illegal immigrant with a Kalashnikov tattoo on his face who threatened to murder Nigel Farage on TikTok has been held in custody after a court appearance, reports the Telegraph.
- “Workers’ bill ‘will stop UK firms doing US-style diversity rollback’” – The Times says that Labour’s Employment Rights Bill will open businesses up to “adverse findings of discrimination” in the courts.
- “Philip K Dick’s nightmares are becoming our reality” – Philip K Dick imagined dystopian tales of precrime and high-tech surveillance, and they resonate all the more today, according to Patrick West in Spiked.
- “MPs who deny the existence of two-tier policing are naive at best, anti-British at worst” – The conclusion of this week’s Home Affairs committee report into the Southport riots – there’s no ‘two-tier’ policing in Britain – are laughable, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage clashes with teaching union over ‘far right’ claim” – The BBC reports that National Education Union members have called for union funds to be used to help campaign against ‘far Right’ Reform candidates.
- “So, Ange, do you still want to hand more power to the unions?” – Annabel Denham of the Telegraph warns us to brace for a summer of discontent, as Labour continues to put the needs of the public sector before those of the beleaguered British taxpayer.
- “Properties burn as turf war rages in Edinburgh and Glasgow” – A violent turf war between rival criminal gangs in Scotland’s Central Belt is believed to be the reason for a spate of house fires in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Telegraph reports.
- “A pact with Reform would give its best people a chance to audition – for the Tories” – Henry Hill in the Telegraph says that if Tory candidates stand aside in some local election wards, we’ll see whether Nigel Farage’s candidates are actually capable of governing.
- “Why the silence over the MP banned from Hong Kong?” – Israel barred two Labour MPs, Abtisam Mohammed and Yuan Yang, from entry, and it caused an outcry. Stephen Pollard of the Spectator points out that no one has mentioned Hong Kong’s rejection of Lib Dem MP Wera Hobhouse.
- “The Transition” – In his Substack, Ed West analyses the Great Awokening and argues that we have entered a “new age of rigid morality and censorship”.
- “If black actors can play white people, why not the other way round?” – Michael Deacon of the Telegraph questions the double standard emerging in casting since the summer of Black Lives Matter whereby it’s okay to cast black actors in white roles, but not vice versa.
- “Should Benny Hill stay cancelled? Gen Z viewers give their verdict” – Benny Hill was one of Britain’s most popular entertainers for some two decades, but his show was cancelled when societal attitudes changed in the 80s. But Gen Z viewers still find his work funny, says the Mail.
- “JD Vance: Good chance of ‘great’ US-UK trade deal” – According to the Telegraph, JD Vance says there is “a good chance” of the US agreeing a “great” trade deal with Britain because Donald Trump has a deep “cultural affinity” with Britain.
- “Starmer’s EU reset risks US trade deal” – British negotiators are close to signing up to Brussels’ food and veterinary standards, the Telegraph reports.
- “Professor James Orr is sceptical about the US-UK trade deal” – Talking to GB News, Professor James Orr expresses doubt about a successful US-UK free trade agreement when the British government is pursuing a “Brexit reset” with the EU and refusing to guarantee free speech.
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“Henry Hill in the Telegraph says that if Tory candidates stand aside in some local election wards, we’ll see whether Nigel Farage’s candidates are actually capable of governing.”
Ah, so the Fake Conservatives that brought you lockdowns, restrictions on free speech, mass immigration, nut zero and a complete failure to push back against the woke blob, were “capable of governing”. Lol.
Agree tof. A very poor joke. Oldham’s Tory councillors are a complete waste of space. Reform replacements are hardly likely to be worse.
I have mixed feelings about Reform, especially since the Rupert Lowe business, but we are in such desperate straits that I think they deserve at least a chance. I don’t even care much at this stage that they are extremely competent, I just want people in charge who might not be professional liars and who love this country.
I’ve not seen any mention of this anywhere
WHO brings countries together to test collective pandemic response
As reported by the Global Health Security Team in the Telegraph – not paywalled. Getting slaughtered in the comments:
WHO tests pandemic response with Arctic ‘mammothpox’ outbreak
Good find.
By which I think he means: ‘No country
canwill be allowed to face the next pandemic alone‘. Sweden: consider yourselves warned.This made me chuckle: ““Polaris demonstrated the critical importance of cultivating trust before a crisis occurs,” said Dr Soha Albayat from Qatar. “
“Harvard hit with $2 billion funding freeze after defying Trump” – The President of Harvard University said he would not “surrender” to Trump’s demands to ditch DEI as a condition of receiving federal funding
Same Harvard that sacked Martin Kulldorff for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration.
Despicable pompous institution.
There are some universities/colleges and some judges who are so convinced at their own virtue that they think they are above the law.
“‘Globally significant’ Covid vaccine study biobank to be destroyed” – According to Dystopian Down Under, the Queensland Government says there is “no longer a scientific and public health need” for a valuable Covid vaccine study biobank and linked data.
State-sponsored destruction of evidence.
Exactly. Absolutely blatant and because examination of the database would reveal all the lies of the covid years. Twitchy bottoms coming in to play here and / or paving the way for the next Scamdemic.
“China given access to UK patients’ health data”
And in return the UK gets access to Chinese protocols for controlling the internet – otherwise known as the Online Safety Act.
And 5 years ago the UK accessed Chinese methods for Stopping the Spread.
We might as well all be assigned to paddy fields, issued begging bowls for rice and ordered to shoot sparrows.
Meat will not be allowed if the elites remain in office.
“Britain’s ‘bonkers’ Net Zero plan puts us at China’s mercy”
“We have more to fear from Net Zero than from Xi Jinping”
Kommissar Miliband and The Enemy Within operating in plain sight.
“Increased bills for higher earners could fund UK energy upgrade, Ofgem says”
Ofgem Marxists up to mischief again – FGS, we’re already paying off defaulting householders’ and defaulting energy suppliers’ debts.
More state-sanctioned fraud.
“Why this space she-caper was a step backwards for womankind”
Narcissism reaches for the skies.
“Properties burn as turf war rages in Edinburgh and Glasgow”
SNP destroying evidence – they know where the bodies are…
“The Transition” – In his Substack, Ed West analyses the Great Awokening and argues that we have entered a “new age of rigid morality and censorship”.
Moral Rigour Mortis Rules, not okay.
“Supreme Court to rule on definition of ‘woman’ – what’s at stake?”
As far as I know, God never delegated the right to alter creation to any Supreme Court.
Some women are especially evil;
”A Detroit woman is facing animal torture charges after she stabbed her dog and posted footage of the wounded animal online, police say.
Jordan Love, 29, of Detroit, was charged with the killing and torturing of animals in the second degree as well as abandoning and cruelty to four to ten animals when she was arrested almost 700 miles away from her home Monday afternoon.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/detroit-dog-stabbing-suspect-b2731662.html
Yes, who’d have thought someone so, er, feminine could be so wantonly cruel…?
It’s the fact a British paper, and a female journalist, no less, refers to this psychopathic shithead as “she/her/woman” throughout the article when anyone with eyes can look at the picture. But it’s the MSM, who’ve always been the government’s mouthpiece when it comes to propaganda and pushing lies and agendas, so is anyone really surprised? But it makes a mockery of the reader’s intelligence.
And your point is what, exactly? Uh?
Perhaps if you’d bothered to click on the link you might have realised.
Beautifully and succinctly put.
Indeed. Or biology.
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And after God created the Four Main Races of Ethnic Europeans, Orientals, Africans and Indian Subcontinentals, He never delegated the right to force the mixing of those races to any Supreme Court or legislature or executive on Earth.
JD Vance: My message to Europe
‘it’s not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States’
And now is a good time to re-establish a credible conventional deterrence in Europe via technical and tactical lessons learned in Ukraine regarding ‘micro low level unmanned’ air superiority.
Indeed, lessons learned from ‘micro low level unmanned’ air superiority are swiftly translating to technical and tactical advantage within the military air domain in general.
We know conventional deterrence works.
‘Soviet strength in East Europe deterred the West from any initiatives in respect to demonstrated Soviet vulnerabilities in East Germany, Hungary, or Czechoslovakia’
And vice versa. However:
‘Deterrence failures can occur because the aggressor does not believe that the deterrer will be able to carry out its threats (or promises) effectively, or doubts that it will actually try to do so when the time comes, or because the threatened costs or risks are insufficient to outweigh the factors that appear to argue in favour of war.
Good deterrence strategies will seek to avoid these pitfalls. However, any or all of these problems can become much worse if a prospective aggressor’s decision making is affected by psychological, bureaucratic, or other factors that contribute to unwarranted optimism about how easy, inexpensive, or beneficial going to war is likely to be.
The fact that people don’t see you using your “superb military” does not necessarily mean that there is no point in having it.
Because deterrence occurs in the mind of the adversary, its goals are best served not simply by making war a bad idea, but by making it impossible for enemy leaders to imagine or convince themselves that war is a good idea.
The latter is almost always more difficult.
Conventional deterrence failures are most likely when a Guderian or a Yamamoto or someone less clever but with the ear of the leader can present a convincing theory of how aggression will be successful at an enticingly affordable cost. The challenge the conventional deterrence strategist faces is to prevent this narrative from being created and believed.’
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6265-419-8_4
‘….air superiority was a better predictor of winning a war than other well-known factors such as adoption of the modern system, regime type, civil–military relations, and a general measure of military power’
Necessary but not sufficient
‘…air superiority has a larger substantive effect than other factors associated with victory in war. Air superiority may also explain why democracies generally prevail in war. Democracies typically achieve air superiority over their adversaries.
However, when autocracies do achieve air superiority, they prevail about 84% of the time.’
Putin’s regime is typical of totalitarian regimes incapable of adapting swiftly to emergent technological developments on the battlefield for reasons of internal corruption, systemic incompetence.
‘Among the implications of our research is that more attention needs to be given to the effects of advanced technology on military effectiveness.
Future research should more fully examine the causes of air superiority as well as the interaction of strategy and air power.’
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168020972816
‘Of equal concern to the West is the political leverage and freedom of action this condition would provide (Russia) in other areas of the world. An Atlantic community paralyzed by its military inferiority in Europe could only wring its hands as (Chinese/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.’
“A pact with Reform would give its best people a chance to audition – for the Tories” – Henry Hill in the Telegraph says that if Tory candidates stand aside in some local election wards, we’ll see whether Nigel Farage’s candidates are actually capable of governing.”
Let the people decide wether reform candidates are capable of governing!
Bo#@cks to the excuses for trying to get the treasonous uniparty back in again
Sounds like you see the only way back for the Tories is to hang on to reforms coat tails, Desperate or what!
If Reform do a deal with any Uniparty rubbish they are done for. Collapso magnifico.
Done for for me already.
Another useless party.
It rather matters what they mean by ‘best people’. If they mean those most likely to get things (damn near anything) done and least likely to tolerate delay and waste then what would those people want with the ‘Conservative’ Party? If instead they mean those who talk a good walk then they’d be welcomed with open arms – for now.
There is no good reason to allow China freedom to access UK institutions and data. The idea of Chinese researchers being granted access to NHS data should never have been conceived – whose idea, which civil servant or Minister promoted it and why have they not already been fired for poor judgement.
Agreed. The only possible ‘good reason’ would be if the Chinese were able to do something useful with the data that the UK was incapable or incompetent to do. Even under those circumstances I’d expect the UK to favour working with more strongly allied countries.
Another round up of insanity, something this country is leading the world on.
Heartfelt agreement. Though I don’t think It’s the “world leadership” that Millibrain keeps going on about.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14606433/prison-officers-beheaded-islamic-extremist-terrorists-separation-units.html
Solution – treat them like Tommy Robinson is being treated.
Job done. Not difficult is it?
Or better yet, send all of them to “The Terrorism Confinement Centre” in El Salvador.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/15/asylum-seeker-threat-kill-nigel-farage-afghanistan-tiktoker/
Stop effing about before this Next Tuesday kills someone and export him. Anywhere.
See photo above.
Here’s some cheerful news:
Police chief hits out at people who report ‘fluff and nonsense’ and says officers must stop dealing with ‘guff’ and prioritise real crimes | Daily Mail Online
This is from the same organisation that police’s non-crimes?!?
Now guess what has happened!
Prison staff could die if security not improved, HMP Frankland officer says – BBC News
“The Frankland separation centre is now a crime scene. It has been emptied and is the subject of an ongoing counter-terrorism investigation into the attack.”
“Abedi himself has been moved to London’s high-security Belmarsh prison
[WHERE TOMMY ROBINSON WAS FIRST SENT],
while the other SIX [MUSLIM TERRORIST] PRISONERS have been moved to HMP Woodhill [WHERE LUCY CONNOLLY IS NOW], a source told the BBC.”
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Can you believe this travesty of justice, that British people convicted for NON-VIOLENT CIVIL OFFENCES such as contempt of court and social media tweets are housed in prisons with the most evil, dangerous, violent Muslim Terrorists?