- “Jacinda Ardern and the empty politics of ‘kindness’” – Jacinda Ardern’s claims to have been the most empathetic leader in New Zealand’s history is belied by her dictatorial lockdown policies and high-handed, authoritarian treatment of political opponents, writes Michael Jackson in the Spectator.
- “Canadians need saving from Mark Carney, not Donald Trump” – Today’s election will be one of the most important in Canadian history – and Mark Carney seems likely to retain his title as PM, says the Spectator.
- “Polls narrow in race to oust Carney in Canada election” – The Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre are now only two points behind Mark Carney’s Liberal party in the latest polling ahead of today’s Canadian election, reports the Telegraph.
- “America’s top pollster: What Trump voters think now surprises me” – Frank Luntz, America’s top pollster, says the new political reality of the US – and the world – can be summarised in one word, according to the Times: dealignment.
- “Niagara Falls ‘at breaking point’ after surge in migrants” – The hotels around Niagara Falls are filled with asylum seekers as fears grow that Trump’s immigration crackdown will send more fleeing across the border, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sweden’s elder rape scandal” – The sexual abuse of elderly women by migrant carers is being shamefully ignored, writes Dan Korn in Spiked.
- “French Navy accompanies migrants across the Channel” – A boat carrying 50 men in ‘dangerous’ conditions was escorted by French warship before British vessel took it to Dover, says the Telegraph.
- “Major Tory donor defects to Reform with £1m gift” – Bassim Haidar, a Tory donor, has defected to Reform UK and predicts other wealthy individuals will follow suit, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Labour stronghold that could fall to Reform” – The latest polls predict earthquake local election win for Nigel Farage in Ed Miliband’s constituency, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reform is on the cusp of glory” – The local elections are Nigel Farage’s chance to prove that pride does not come before destruction, says Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “Badenoch has primed the Tories to see off Farage’s Reform” – As the sands shift in British politics, Kemi Badenoch is showing that common-sense conservatism can prevail, writes Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch opens door to post-election Reform pact” – The Tory leader is happy for Tory councillors to team up with Reform councillors to run local authorities, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer plans migrant cuts to fight Reform” – The Prime Minister has been warned that Labour faces “getting its head kicked in” at the local elections next Thursday as Farage’s party rises and he intends to announce a clamp down on legal migration in an attempt to win back support, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s benefits cuts aren’t working” – Despite Liz Kendall’s £4.8 billion worth of welfare cuts, Britain’s benefits bill is set to soar to £117 billion by 2030, writes Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “Figures show at least 350 bosses earn more than the Prime Minister” – More than 350 quango bosses received a higher taxpayer-paid salary than the £172,153 that Sir Keir Starmer is entitled to, reports the Mail on its front page.
- “Teaching union U-turns on appointment of militant socialist leader” – A militant socialist was going to be installed as leader of the NASUWT without an election, but a legal challenge has forced the union to hold an election after all, says the Telegraph.
- “Reeves needs to ditch her Net Zero delusions for Britain’s sake” – Green levies are impoverishing households and draining the life out of our economy, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Green investment magazine shuts as Trump crushes ‘woke capitalism’” – ESG Investor, a green magazine, has fallen victim to the “long shadow of Trump” as investors flee sustainable funds, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘I was sold. Until I started driving’: Diary of an electric car novice” – How will a seasoned driver of a secondhand 2012 Seat Ibiza adapt to the challenges of driving – and charging – a state-of-the-art EV? Not well, is the answer, according to the Telegraph.
- “The great £100 million CofE giveaway” – Sebastian Milbank in the Critic says the Church of England should not be giving away £100 million in reparations.
- “Sharron Davies blasts London Marathon as ‘anti-women’ for trans stance” – Sharron Davies, the former Olympic swimmer, says the organisers of the London Marathan should be “held to account” for not protecting biological women, according to the Mail.
- “Trans civil servants banned from using wrong loos – minister” – Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden has confirmed that the Government will follow new guidance on trans access that means they should use the loos in Whitehall aligned with their birth sex, says the Mail.
- “Unisex lavatories risk ‘discrimination against biological women’” – The EHRC has warned shops, pubs, restaurants and cafés that after the Supreme Court ruling, failure to provide single-sex facilities may leave them open to legal challenge, reports the Times.
- “NHS to test all ‘trans’ children for autism” – Every child referred to a gender clinic will be screened under new guidance following the Cass Review recommendations, says the Telegraph.
- “JK Rowling ‘hates men’, claims Boy George in trans row” – The 63 year-old Culture Club singer has clashed with JK Rowling on social media, claiming the reason she’s not more sympathetic to trans women is because she hates men, reports the Telegraph. But, er, aren’t trans women supposed to be women?
- “We need to abolish the Equality Act now” – Individual worth must come before group identity, writes Suella Braverman in the Telegraph, arguing for the abolition of the Equality Act.
- “Biography reveals that Keir Starmer’s ex-girlfriend is pro-trans judge” – A new biography of the Prime Minister reveals that Sir Keir spent “years” in a relationship with Maya Sikand KC, a high-flying barrister who now works as a part-time Crown Court judge and is pro-trans, reports the Mail.
- “One bad dude” – A steward at the London Marathon deals very effectively with a couple of Youth Demand protestors.
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This is how easy deportation is when you’re not beholden to the ECHR and human rights don’t figure high up on your list;
”Algeria is one of the countries well known for refusing to take back illegal migrants from Europe, including those convicted of serious crimes. However, the North African country has no qualms about partaking in mass deportations, often with brutal methods, with little in terms of consequences from the so-called humanitarian West.
More than 1,100 irregular migrants were simply expelled into the desert by Algerian authorities last Saturday, with most of them sub-Saharan Africans, according to French publication RFI. It marks the first time this many migrants have ever been expelled by Algeria into this desert, notoriously known as Point Zero, at once.
However, it is far from the only time Algeria has partaken in such methods.
In fact, in 2024, a record number of migrants were expelled from Algeria into Niger, equaling 31,404, according to Nigerien NGO Alarme Phone Sahara (APS), which aids migrants traveling in the desert between the two nations. Some believe that this figure may be far higher, as the data is unreliable.
Western countries often feature months or years of court battles featuring NGOs, lawyers and human rights groups, often all well-funded by European taxpayers. Algeria appears to cut through all of this and just drops migrants off in the desert with little fanfare.
Of course, while some European NGOs and human rights groups are going to call attention to Algeria’s pushbacks, the global media will barely bat an eye at Algeria’s mass desert deportations. For one, it does not fit the narrative. Arabs are supposed to be a repressed group incapable of racism, colonialism, or bigotry, while Europeans are portrayed supposed to be uniquely xenophobic. If Arabs are participating in mass deportations, the European population also may begin to question why they are not mass deporting Arabs, especially when they commit serious crimes in Europe.”
https://rmx.news/trending/those-evil-racist-algerians-algeria-dumps-1100-migrants-in-the-middle-of-the-desert-in-just-1-day-sees-record-deportations-in-2024/
Appalling coming from the BMA, but this is how deeply entrenched this ideology is now. In fact, there’s many organizations speaking out in opposition to the Supreme Court ruling. Even Wetherspoons made a statement saying their toilets will remain free for anyone to use, regardless of how they identify. Take a look at this screen shot from the BMA, though. Totally captured by this madness;
”Astonishing resolution passed at @TheBMA
conference today: biological sex called “nonsensical,” Supreme Court ruling branded “scientifically illiterate.” A medical body openly abandoning basic biology for ideology—this isn’t medicine, it’s malpractice. Patients deserve better.”
https://x.com/genspect/status/1916549108455657630
Another one: Disability Rights UK. Shame on these organizations for denying biological fact and pandering to this destructive ideology at the expense of female’s sex-based rights and safety;
”DR UK’s Statement Opposing the Supreme Court’s Ruling on ‘Biological Sex’
‘We stand in solidarity with the Trans community as they experience an onslaught of rights erosions and attacks on their lives.”’
https://x.com/DisRightsUK/status/1912868552807256268
Jacinda Ardern and the empty politics of ‘kindness’
Ardern summed up everything that is wrong with Big Government:
‘We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us as a source of that information. You can also trust the director-general of health and the Ministry of Health for their information. Do feel free to visit it anytime to clarify any rumour you may hear. COVID19.govt.nz. Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth. We will provide information frequently. We will share everything we can. Take everything else you see with a grain of salt.’
No. We cannot trust you……Why?……Because this is what you did:
‘It will become very clear to people that if you are not vaccinated there will be things that you miss out on, everyday things that you will miss out on,’ Ardern said. She continued, ‘It’s about both rewarding people who have gone out and done the right thing but also keeping away people who are less safe.’
‘Comirnaty: There were 5,272 non-serious and 357 serious reports since the last update. Sadly, we had 13 more notifications of death.
AstraZeneca: Up to 31 January 2022, a total of 6,585 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine have been administered and 222 AEFIs were reported.’
https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/safety-report-40.asp
‘Some weeks, recorded death rates were at 32 per cent above the norm. New Zealand delayed and reduced ‘Covid deaths’ at the expense of increasing deaths from other causes. And then, of course, there are the enormous economic, psychological and additional health costs of lockdown that the population will pay out for over the coming years.’
‘Kiwis saw firsthand, for example, how Graeme Hattie, who flew to New Zealand in July 2020 to visit his dying father, was treated…….His father died while Hattie himself remained stuck inside a guarded quarantine hotel.
‘hundreds of thousands of Kiwi citizens denied the right to return to New Zealand between April 2020 and February 2022…….condemned by High Court Justice Jillian Mallon as ‘not demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
‘Ardern’s legacy is not one of kindness and empathy.
significant increase in national debt…….driven by borrowing to shore up the economy during Covid and government largesse. New Zealand’s economic performance is now ranked 33rd out of 37 OECD countries…..
An Acumen study on trust and grievance published in March this year reports that 67 per cent of Kiwis now express……‘a belief that government and business harm them and serve narrow interests’
Government does stuff, all stuff, really badly…..and many of the people who run governments are bigoted authoritarian creeps.
Get out of the way…….
https://www.reuters.com/world/north-korea-confirms-troop-deployment-russia-first-time-kcna-report-2025-04-27/
Confirmation, if confirmation were needed:
‘North Korean state media outlet, KCNA, said leader Kim Jong Un made the decision to deploy troops to Russia and notified Moscow, and quoted him as saying: “They who fought for justice are all heroes and representatives of the honour of the motherland.”
It also quoted the country’s ruling Workers’ Party as saying the end of the battle to liberate Kursk showed the “highest strategic level of the firm militant friendship” between North Korea and Russia.’
‘At MGIMO, we were taught to cite international law while violating its spirit, to defend norms while dismantling them and to speak of peace while justifying and waging wars. Georgia. Syria. Ukraine. These weren’t deviations. We deployed whichever claim of “Territorial integrity” or “self-determination” suited the day’s talking point. This is Russian anti-normism in action.’
Inna Bondarenko, Graduate, MGIMO, Russia’s elite diplomatic academy.
Reuters reports North Korea’s unprecedented deployment of thousands of troops … gave Russia a crucial battlefield advantage …
No mention, of course, of Ukraine’s “crucial battlefield advantage” in being supported by thirty times more countries with vastly more financial weight than North Korea could ever bring to bear.
Whereas I was still critical of such reports, now Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has admitted that North Koreans were indeed fighting with Russian forces in Kursk (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2011785/):
On April 26, with the liberation of the village of Gornal, the Kursk Region was cleansed of the Ukrobanderite occupiers and foreign militants.
It became possible thanks to the unbending strength of spirit and heroism of many people who selflessly, day after day, did their best to defeat the enemy who had treacherously invaded our land …
The terrorist attack on the Kursk Region involved elite units of Ukraine’s armed units supplemented with Western weapons and armoured vehicles. Its preparation and execution were carried out by foreign military advisers. This barbaric attack was presented to the international community as an operation to “demonstrate the combat capability of the Ukrainian army” and “improve Ukraine’s negotiating positions” …
We admire the valour of the Russian Federation servicemen who took part in combat operations in this area. Their unequalled valour, bravery and readiness for self-sacrifice made it possible to successfully carry out combat tasks assigned to them.
A new page has appeared in the glorious chronicle of the combat brotherhood between the Russian and the Korean peoples.
The soldiers of the Korean People’s Army, in accordance with the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Russia and the DPRK, which entered into force on December 4, 2024, fought shoulder to shoulder, in the same trench and shed blood with our soldiers and officers in the Kursk Region and made a significant contribution to the liberation of the Russian land from the enemy invaders.
The Kursk people, who were forced to leave their homes, lost contact with their relatives and were subjected to atrocities and torture by Ukrainian militants, bore an enormous burden of the invasion. We pay tribute to those of them who, in the first days of the tragedy, did not tremble in the face of heavily armed thugs and stood up to defend their land, often at the cost of their own lives.
However, I would have difficulty believing that North Koreans would be stationed outside of Russia, if that should make any difference to Ukrainian fighting (now under UK leadership?).
I find it encouraging that Braverman is advocating abolition of the Equality Act.
So Boy George says J K Rowling “hates men”. Apparently she is married, to a man. It would seem odd to marry something that you hate. Is Boy George saying Rowling’s husband is not a man?
However, in my experience, plenty of men are married to women yet show utter contempt and disrespect for the female sex. Maybe they’re the hen pecked cucks that secretly stew in resentment and bitterness, venting and off-loading their frustrations online to strangers, or maybe it’s normal for them to disrespect and mistreat their partner at home, such is the dysfunctional dynamic in some relationships. This is also evident by the many comments on here from men disparaging women regularly. My main concern is how many may be fathers of daughters.
Unless you’re a person who sees nothing wrong with men proclaiming women should not be allowed to vote and should be banned from entering certain professions, for example, then I don’t see how you can reasonably defend these opinions and not acknowledge these men for the blatant misogynists that they obviously are.
When it comes to J.K and Boy George, what we have here is an age old example of weak men feeling threatened by women, especially plainspeaking, strong women who are unafraid of challenging men, sharing their opinions ( no matter how unpopular ), asserting their rights and inevitably getting labelled as “misandrist”/”man-hater” as a result by the butt-hurt and hostile men. These men much prefer the cowardly, submissive types because they’re not a threat. On the contrary. They enable and embolden them.
The trans mafia are just another example of misogyny, along with Islam, but the old-fashioned, conventional type never went away.
It’s not within Trump’s power to “crush woke capitalism”. What has most likely happened is that the US Federal Government has stopped supporting “woke capitalism” and it is being “crushed” by lack of support for it in the wider world. If so, that’s the way these things should work – governments should stick to the basics, and things like “woke capitalism” will survive or not based on whether people have an appetite for them.
“The great £100 million CofE giveaway”
Meanwhile signs dotted around a local village for the last year proclaim, “Save Our Church.”
Charity begins at home.
Meanwhile the news from the other side of the world …..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14630245/Putin-ceasefire-Easter-church-Inna-Bondarenko-Russia-Ukraine-war.html
‘For five years, I trained to become a Russian diplomat at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) – a Hogwarts for the foreign policy elite. There, I was drilled in the Kremlin’s long-standing worldview, a pitiless realpolitik in which might is right and truth is whatever you want it to be.
We learned how all Russia’s international negotiations had a single goal: to increase the mother country’s power. This meant pursuing wars that were advantageous, while insisting to the outside world that we sought peace in the face of violence and treachery. But be in no doubt: Putin believes it totally……
At MGIMO, we were taught to cite international law while violating its spirit, to defend norms while dismantling them and to speak of peace while justifying and waging wars. Georgia. Syria. Ukraine. These weren’t deviations. We deployed whichever claim of “Territorial integrity” or “self-determination” suited the day’s talking point. This is Russian anti-normism in action.
At the peace deal talks in Saudi Arabia between Russia and the US last month, Putin’s delegation was headed for the first time not by a diplomat but by a former spy chief: General Sergey Beseda, once head of the FSB intelligence network.
It was an intriguing choice, suggesting that talks with the US over how to divide the spoils in Ukraine will no longer be handled by highly trained political operatives but by people who wield real power in the Kremlin.
Might is right, after all. And, amid all the lies, that’s an incontrovertible fact.’
OK, we get it. So a student is mocking her diplomacy course at a Russian university. How many British students, especially the ones who perhaps do not do so well, mock their university courses?
And what do UK diplomacy courses teach their students? Diplomacy, i.e. the ability to see both sides of an argument and to seek intelligent discourse and peaceful solutions? I hope so but I somehow have my doubts, especially when considering our current politicians.
And your Inna Bondarenko, the author of your quoted article for the Moscow Times (which admits to being labelled by “Russia” as an “undesirable organization”), is now a “Migration Researcher” at the European University Institute and Centre for European Policy Studies, with an MSc in Migration Studies from Oxford University. In other words, she is definitely firmly in the fold of the European world and its European propaganda machine.
Whatever. I hope she becomes wise to the power of propaganda from any source. I also hope her migration studies teach her the concerns suffered by the British people becoming inundated with migrants from all over the world, but I somehow doubt that too.
“Starmer plans migrant cuts to fight Reform” – The Prime Minister has been warned that Labour faces “getting its head kicked in” at the local elections next Thursday as Farage’s party rises and he intends to announce a clamp down on legal migration in an attempt to win back support, according to the Telegraph.
And there’s the problem: His motivation is to win back support – not to do the right thing for his country. If he is convinced that this is now the right thing to do for his country, what just changed in his mind?
I recognise that this is a report of what Sir Keir is going to announce and opinion on what his motivation might be.
“Kemi Badenoch opens door to post-election Reform pact” – The Tory leader is happy for Tory councillors to team up with Reform councillors to run local authorities, says the Telegraph.
I should bloody hope so! In the unlikely event of Lefty councillors coming up with good ideas I’d expect Conservative Party (who are mostly not Tory) councillors to work with them too.
“As the sands shift in British politics, Kemi Badenoch is showing that common-sense conservatism can prevail, writes Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.”
Absolute cobblers!
Kemi the anchor baby is just an ethnic figurehead to get the Tories back in power, after that’s achieved she’ll be consigned to the back benches and a new liberal uniparty leader will take the reigns, guaranteed!
And Jenrick will never lead the conservatives because he’s too conservative!
Twenty eight links listed in the above Round-up and twenty of them are behind paywalls.
I am not impressed.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/will-murky-moderna-get-its-comeuppance-dont-hold-your-breath/
Kathy Gyngell with a short but scathing article on the travails of Moderna and it’s C1984 “vaccine” business.
Her final words on the subject:
“Will vaccine-loving, social-control Labour be as blind to its infractions and corrupt practices as the Conservatives were? Most probably.”
“Sweden’s elder rape scandal” – The sexual abuse of elderly women by migrant carers is being shamefully ignored, writes Dan Korn in Spiked”
I’ve always thought it was madness for the NHS to allow Third World Men from Hostile Alien Cultures to give INTIMATE PERSONAL CARE to disabled and/or elderly British women, and if the women protest, they are called “racists”.
Now that this horrible news from Sweden has been exposed, I dread to think how many elderly British women have also been attacked by similar “carers”, while it is all swept under the NHS carpet.
I was shocked to read today about how Labour packs all the “cross-party committees” with its own, where they have quietly voted down all proposals and amendments by other parties to provide more public protection against SEX OFFENDERS, for example, who are allowed to change their names multiple times on official documents in order to hide their crimes from the public, employers and housing associations.
It also shows that the Tories must have done the same thing during all their 14 years of majority, and yet what “conservative” things did they achieve during over a decade in power?
If you want to know what is really going on in Parliament, check out the website called “THEY WORK FOR YOU”. They will email you with details of current Parliamentary discussions on whatever subjects you choose, such as immigration, agriculture or dog attacks on people and livestock. It’s a brilliant website for transparency in democracy.
“Major Tory donor defects to Reform with £1m gift” – Bassim Haidar, a Tory donor, has defected to Reform UK and predicts other wealthy individuals will follow suit”
Correction: The Nigerian-Lebanese billionaire predicts that other wealthy MUSLIM individuals will follow suit, of course, because “The Muslim Vote” has already been promised to Nigel by Mohammed Yusuf, and that is what Nigel hopes will carry him into No. 10, above the heads and despite the votes of the poor, deluded, disenfranchised British citizens.
A Vote for Reform is a Vote for the Caliphate.