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Small boats
Express
Former British borders chief Tony Smith has suggested that EU leaders are prolonging the small boats crisis as a form of “punishment” for Brexit.
Sulking EU chiefs are prolonging the migrant boats crisis as a punishment for Brexit, a former British borders chief has suggested.
Tony Smith said their refusal to discuss a deal to take back those who cross the Channel illegally smacked of “punishment” for voting to leave the EU.
He also blasted their “hypocrisy” in blocking efforts to strike a deal which could save lives, stop organised crime and ease the asylum crisis costing taxpayers £6million a day. Mr Smith, who served as director general of the Border Force during a Home Office career of more than 40 years, said the “only sure-fire way” to stop the boats is to make it clear illegal migrants will be sent back.
But he said the EU’s refusal to discuss a new returns pact at a time when desperate people were routinely drowning has left him wondering if “this is some sort of a Brexit punishment”.
In an interview with the Sunday Express, he declared: “People are dying in our common Channel between the EU and the UK. We’ve got international organised crime on our doorsteps. It is causing untold misery.”
Exclusive polling by Omnisis shows strong support for sending back illegal arrivals. When asked if “undocumented immigrants who enter from an EU country be sent back to that country”, 63 percent said yes. Only 19 percent disagreed.
Senior Tories have called on Eurocrats to “stop sulking and get cracking” to stop criminals “running riot” and causing deaths at sea.
Sun
OFFICIALS in Belgium are stopping small boat crossings to Britain thanks to a zero-tolerance approach that shames their French counterparts.
Cops guarding Belgian ports and a nine-mile coastline facing Britain have overseen a 92 per cent reduction in people smuggling in the last five years.
Unlike French Navy ships that escort migrant boats until they reach UK waters, the Belgians have been intercepting the inflatables and arresting all on board.
A sophisticated network of sensors, cameras, barriers and drones — backed by a Frontex surveillance plane and police patrols — have stopped the criminal gangs in their tracks.
Tent cities housing migrants are regularly dismantled on Belgium’s west coast and anyone deemed an illegal immigrant is immediately locked up.
The hard-line approach is overseen by police chief Nico Paelinck, who slammed Dunkirk’s socialist leaders for the failure to stop the migrants.
From police HQ in the seaside town of Koksijde, he said: “The politicians here don’t want the same situation as you have in France and on the island of Lampedusa in Italy.
Observer
Government attempts to make capital out of the issue of Channel crossings in a special “small boats week” appear to have backfired with the public, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer.
“Small boats week”, earlier this month, was dogged by a series of disasters, including figures showing record numbers of crossings; the evacuation, due to a health scare, of the Bibby Stockholm barge used to house migrants, and the deaths of at least six people when a small boat capsized and sank in the Channel.
Now, according to Opinium, there is evidence that the effort to turn it into a “wedge issue” had the opposite effect, raising its importance in the public’s mind, and strengthening Labour’s lead on immigration.
Opinium found that after “small boats week”, immigration appeared in the top three concerns for voters for the first time this year, overtaking energy prices.
AI
Telegraph
Rishi Sunak is to spend up to £100m of taxpayer money on thousands of high-powered artificial intelligence chips in an effort to catch up in a global race for computing power.
Government officials have been in discussions with IT giants Nvidia, AMD and Intel about procuring equipment for a national “AI Research Resource” as part of Rishi Sunak’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field.
The effort, led by science funding body UK Research and Innovation, is believed to be in advanced stages of an order of up to 5,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia, whose chips power AI models such as ChatGPT.
£100m has been allocated to the project. However, it is believed that the outlay is seen as insufficient to match the Government’s artificial intelligence ambitions, with civil servants pushing Jeremy Hunt to allocate far more funds in the coming months.
Mirror
An advance in using AI to diagnose skin cancer is set to free up overstretched NHS dermatologists to see thousands more patients.
The new technology, known as DERM, can identify 11 types of lesions, including common skin cancers, within seconds. As well as speeding up cancer diagnoses, the technology is expected to save busy dermatologists hundreds of thousands of hours, allowing them to see patients with other skin complaints, such as psoriasis, vitiligo, eczema and lupus, who get bumped down the list as cancer takes priority.
The AI works by analysing photos of a patient’s skin taken by a nurse, photographer or health care assistant with a special lens, reducing demands on dermatologists’ time. In a trial in a few hospitals in the past year, DERM detected more than 3,500 cancer cases while helping avoid 10,000 unneeded face-to-face appointments.
It is now set to be rolled out across the NHS. Consultant dermatologist Dr Lucy Thomas said: “It is highly unlikely that AI will replace doctors… but if DERM can free up dermatologists’ time, all patients could benefit greatly from faster assessment and access to treatment.”
Education
Observer
Pupils in private schools are more than twice as likely to achieve A or A* grades as those in the state sector, according to official figures that expose a widening attainment gap in education in England after more than 13 years of Conservative government.
The statistics, released by the regulator Ofqual, follow last week’s A-level results and come despite repeated pledges by ministers to close the divide by driving up standards in non-fee paying schools.
In 2019, Michael Gove, the Tory education secretary from 2010 to 2014 who pushed expansion of Labour’s academies programme, insisted it remained his hope that educating children privately would become unnecessary and viewed as unusual. “I would have hoped we would have been able to make sending your children to a private school, as it is in Europe, an increasingly eccentric choice,” Gove said.
The latest A-level results, which saw thousands of students miss out on top marks as the government enforced a reversal of post-pandemic grade inflation, highlight the continuing advantages in terms of grades enjoyed by pupils at private schools.
While 47.4% of pupils in private schools achieved at least one A or A* grade, only 22% did so in secondary comprehensives, 25.4% in academies and just 14.2% in state further education institutions.
NHS
Telegraph
Senior doctors are demanding a crackdown on “unaccountable” NHS managers after hospital bosses were accused of “walking away from life-destroying mistakes” in the case of child serial killer Lucy Letby.
The British Medical Association, which represents doctors, led calls for senior health service administrators to be held accountable to a regulator akin to the General Medical Council (GMC), which can strike off doctors who have harmed patients.
The calls came as victims’ families and MPs warned that the inquiry ordered by Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, into how Letby was able to attack or kill 13 babies will not have the power to conduct a proper investigation.
A statement from solicitors representing two of the families affected said the inquiry was “inadequate” because “as a non-statutory inquiry, it does not have the power to compel witnesses to provide evidence or production of documents and must rely on the goodwill of those involved to share their testimony. This is not good enough”.
The families were backed by Labour. Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said the inquiry needed “the full force of the law behind it”.
In other developments:
A law to force offenders to attend their sentencing is to be included in the King’s Speech on Nov 7, amid anger over Letby’s refusal to return to court on Monday.
Express
Rishi Sunak cannot meet his goal of bringing down NHS waiting times unless he tackles Britain’s broken bones crisis, he has been warned.
The Prime Minister has made cutting the backlog one of his five top priorities for this year.
But the Royal Osteoporosis Society is warning this will be “impossible” without much-needed action because fractures are the “second highest driver of emergency bed occupancy”.
The charity says 90,000 people are missing out on vital drugs and warns hundreds of patients will die unnecessarily in the coming months as a result of hip fractures.
Mail
One of the first Alzheimer’s drugs capable of slowing the disease’s progression should not be given to the majority of patients due to safety concerns, a study suggests.
Research appears to show that the drug, lecanemab, can slow the degenerative brain condition by a third. And last month, US health regulators approved the twice-monthly injection for patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia – meaning the Alzheimer’s is in its earliest stages.
The NHS spending watchdog is due to begin assessing the drug for use in the UK next month, hoping that it could help the one million Alzheimer’s sufferers in the UK.
But research warns that there is no data to show the drug is safe for nine out of ten early-stage Alzheimer’s patients. This is because the drug has only been tested on patients who are otherwise healthy.
Labour Party
Express
Labour MPs and a key union boss have issued Sir Keir Starmer with a warning after Labour partly rowed back its commitment to workers’ rights and protection of gig economy workers.
The warnings came after it emerged that a 2021 pledge to create a single status of “worker” for all but the genuinely self-employed could be delayed for consultation should Labour enter No.10 in 2024.
The commitment, popular among left-wing Labour MPs, was introduced to protect workers at firms like Uber and Deliveroo and provide them with basic rights.
Angela Rayner, the party’s deputy leader, whose portfolio covers workers’ rights, said on Friday morning that Labour still intended to ban zero-hour contracts, tackle bogus self-employment and end qualifying periods for rights what she described as the “biggest levelling-up of workers’ rights in decades”.
But when it emerged that Labour’s national policy forum (NPF) last month agreed that the plan would not be introduced immediately if the party wins the next election and would instead form part of a consultation on genuinely self-employed workers, the party’s top brass came under fire for what has been seen as another U-turn on policy pledges.
Observer
Labour has opened up a huge lead over the Tories among women voters, many of whom are turning to Keir Starmer’s party because they feel financially insecure after 13 years of Conservative rule, a new report says today.
The analysis by Labour Together, a thinktank whose report is based on extensive polling and academic analysis, finds that the financial worries of huge numbers of women voters – particularly those aged under 50 – are persuading many to back Labour and reject the Conservatives.
According to a poll of more than 5,000 people by YouGov, Labour now has a 28-point lead over the Tories among women, compared with a 21-point advantage among men.
The survey found that 60% of women voters who describe themselves as “very worried” about their finances now say they would vote Labour – six times more than would vote Conservative. The only group where the Tories retain a lead is those with no financial worries at all.
Mail
Tensions broke out within Labour yesterday over claims that Angela Rayner was trying to bounce Sir Keir Starmer into guaranteeing she would be his number two in Government.
The claims came after the party’s deputy leader brushed aside talk of a possible change of role in a reshuffle by declaring: ‘I will be the Deputy Prime Minister.’
An insider told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Sounds like Angela is bouncing – or trying to bounce – Keir into giving her that formal title.’
The party is desperate to avoid looking as if it is complacent about winning the next election and ‘measuring the No10 curtains’, despite a poll lead over the Tories.
Shadow Ministers expect Labour leader Sir Keir to carry out a delayed reshuffle of his top team next month.
Ms Rayner was asked to comment last week on talk that Sir Keir would trim her wide-ranging brief as Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and spokesperson on the future of work.
London
Mail
Sadiq Khan was plunged into a bitter row last night after his official website published a photograph of a young white family with the words: ‘Doesn’t represent real Londoners’.
The Labour London Mayor faced calls to apologise after the extraordinary message appeared in an official guide on how to portray the ‘brand’ of the Mayor and the Greater London Authority.
This was despite the fact that the guide opened with the words: ‘A City For All Londoners’ and a promise to appeal to ‘everyone no matter, their age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, disability or family make up’.
Last night, Mr Khan was forced to disown the caption for the picture, which shows a couple and their two children walking along the Thames, with Parliament in the background.
Telegraph
Sadiq Khan’s office tried to discredit and “silence” scientists who found that his ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) policy had little impact on pollution, The Telegraph can disclose.
In private emails seen by The Telegraph, Shirley Rodrigues, the London Mayor’s deputy for environment and energy, told Prof Frank Kelly she was “really disappointed” that Imperial College had publicised findings questioning the effectiveness of Ulez.
Prof Kelly, a director of Imperial’s Environmental Research Group, which has been paid more than £800,000 by Mr Khan’s office since 2021, agreed to issue a statement – partly written by Ms Rodrigues – saying Ulez had helped to “dramatically reduce air pollution”.
London Conservatives said the correspondence revealed an “alarmingly cosy relationship” between the Mayor’s office and the scientists it was funding, as well as a desire to “silence scientists who question the effectiveness of Khan’s policies”.
Prof Kelly’s colleagues said they stood by their research “100 per cent”, but The Telegraph understands that the fallout has had a chilling effect, leaving them unwilling to publish further work on the subject.
The study from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters in 2021, found that the introduction of Ulez in 2019 cut nitrogen dioxide by less than three per cent and had insignificant effects on ozone and particulate matter.
Mail
Sadiq Khan‘s office has been accused of trying to ‘silence’ scientists over publishing research that showed his ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) policy had ‘insignificant’ effect on pollution, as protestors brought traffic to a standstill on Saturday to fight against expansion of the scheme.
The claims were made following a series of emails between Shirley Rodrigues, the London Mayor’s deputy for environment and energy and Professor Frank Kelly, director of Imperial’s Environmental Research Group, which has received £800,000 of funding from the London Mayor’s office since 2021.
In the emails, seen by The Telegraph, Ms Rodrigues said she was disappointed that Imperial College had published a study by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering that showed Ulez cut nitrogen dioxide by less than three per cent and had achieved an insignificant impact on ozone and particulate matter.
Such research undermined the London Mayor’s policy, argued Ms Rodrigues.
Wales
Express
Support for Welsh independence has seen a significant rise in recent months – with Welsh independence group YesCymru calling the results ‘stunning’.
Support for Welsh independence has seen a significant rise in recent months according to a “stunning” new poll.
The figures put support for Wales leaving the UK at 29% which is close to the levels it was seeing during the pandemic.
Welsh independence group YesCymru have called it a “stunning” poll – and say it’s evidence Wales is losing faith in Westminster, reports WalesOnline.
The survey comes from Redfield and Wilton Strategies and was conducted with 1,068 eligible voters living in Wales.
YesCymru board member Geraint Thomas said: “This latest opinion poll is stunning, and it is further evidence that people in Wales are rapidly losing faith in Westminster.”
Lionesses
Mail
King Charles last night urged the Lionesses to ‘roar to victory’ as the England women’s football team stood on the brink of history.
An expectant nation will today cheer on manager Sarina Wiegman and her players as they strive to become the first England football team to triumph in a World Cup Final since 1966.
In a dramatic rallying cry ahead of today’s clash against Spain in Sydney, King Charles declared: ‘Good luck today Lionesses, and may you roar to victory!’ His stirring message on social media was signed Charles R.
With the country gripped with excitement, Football Association president Prince William apologised for not travelling to Australia.
Both he and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have come under fire for opting to stay at home, while Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter Infanta Sofia have jetted out to Sydney to cheer on the team.
Appearing in a video alongside his eight-year-old daughter Charlotte, Prince William said he was sorry he could not watch today’s match ‘in person’, but wanted to send ‘huge good luck’ to the Lionesses. Clutching an apparently well-used football in her lap, an excited Princess Charlotte added: ‘Good luck, Lionesses!’
Mail
Pubs up and down the country will be full to the brim tomorrow as the nation prepares to cheer on the Lionesses.
But Northerners may discover themselves forced to toast the team with a soft drink, as it appears that no councils in the North of England have promised to ‘turn a blind eye’ towards pubs serving alcohol early.
In an apparent North-South divide, a handful of councils in the South of the country had by this afternoon taken the brave step of telling landlords they would not be punished for serving alcohol before tomorrow’s 11am kick off.
Cornwall led the charge on Friday by stating that ‘no enforcement action’ would be taken by police towards pubs opening at 10am, with Buckinghamshire, Southend, Wandsworth, Richmond and other southern councils soon following suit.
Well here we go, it`s the Idle Fellow again (seems like he`s the new troll, although not like hopeless Harry, this one appears to be ignored)
This is my challenge……….
If any of you have been reading some of my offerings in the last few days, you will know that I have been saying we are “putting the cart before the horse” in that there are endless discussions (little initiative) and erudite essays (all 5 points to which I have little objection)
But I feel that we will be appealing to much of , an apathetic and ignorant public who haven`t the slightest idea of “WHY IT WAS NECESSARY WE LEFT THE EU”
I have outlined why I believe this as to me , and many of the other Brexiteers who fought in the market place and in print the EU were and still are the ENEMY.
The challenge is do you agree with my statement that the majority of the electors never knew or had forgotten why it was NECESSARY we had to leave and how it is of little use trying to organise a campaign to throw out the present guilty legacy incumbents when many of the electorate are ignorant of their original sin and complicity.
Do you know WHY we had to leave the EU – will you be able and prepared to re-educate the mass of Grass Rooters to know of their true ENEMY and their need to “KILL THE BED”
Idle Fellow….everyone, even confirmed Brexiteers kike myself had their own personal reasons for voting to leave the European Union in 2016, whether that be Sovereignty reasons, Making our own laws without outside interference, able to trade with whom we like in the world, able to control our borders, cutting red tape with regard to trade, scrapping of all laws instigated by the European Union, having control of our Territorial Waters and Fishing. For me it was mixture of all those reasons, but the problem with most of it is that we are still not 100% independent of the European Union, thanks to this utterly useless Conservative Party and government. Why did you vote to leave the European Union, if indeed you did? And more importantly what are you personally doing to ensure that this government respects the democratic will of the people and give us the independence that we voted for in 2016? For instance are you a member of one of the many right of centre challenger parties like the UK Independence Party, Heritage Party, Reclaim, SDP and Reform UK? If not, I respectfully suggest that you do so at your earliest convenience and become an activist……
Yes Colin, I would agree Sovereignty was the primary reason and the items you detail in that respect are part of my collection also
There are more of course, and I was particularly narked by the “invited” (by Cameron) interference by Obama who in effect was directing us (with all the backing of our supposed best friend, I would say oldest enemy – they have never got over the fact that we were a former colony and are dedicated to getting rid of our Empire and depriving us of our legitimate right to a prime place on the world stage, both as a great power and as a permanent member of the security council)…………….
“directing us” to join a collection of failed and failing European States in a form of permanent “care home” where we would in time become a United States of Europe, bidable to the behest of US exclusivity. and our defence industry and armed services would be subsumed physically, financially and productionwise into this dolorous, failing and dangerous melange (i.e. the EU collectively is reducing as a percentage of world trade and thus influence, such that come the day it may collapse (says he hopefully!)
But what I am trying to get at regarding ” calling out the past” and treating the EU (and our compliant enemy without and within) as a present ENEM Y is that it covers 40 odd years of lies, defrauding and plain pillage of our resources and major industries such as chemicals and iron and steel making.
You know they lie, lie, lie (Confirmed by J.C.Juncker)
You know their default position is lying.
You know that Ted Heath, John Major and Gordon Brown sold their country down the river for a mess of potage..(Treasonous?)
You know UKIP instanced many of these deceptions in their mag articles “Inside the belly of the beast” etc
You know of the many instances Nigel raised issues regarding EU deception in the EU “Parliament”
You know the finances of the EU have been so misbegotten that their auditors have refused to sign off their accounts for years and years.(In effect they are saying it`s just one big fiddle or racket!
You know what they did to Cyprus and Greece (Pillaged their assets) (as they will do ours given half a chance)
In your heart of hearts, I`m sure you know that the majority of the population haven`t a clue why we NEEDED to leave this malodourous cess pit and EU Swamp
There`s a Scottish word that comes to mind that describes them, the whole damned parcel of rogues – `sleekit`
Yes Colin, as I told you earlier I fought for Brexit in the Market Place and I did vote for FOR BREXIT, but I might add I subsequently voted for a Conservative candidate who had stood in line with UKIP at a Brexit market place and attended the subsequent UKIP Brexit celebration.
Ref. my joining a party, I might if all the independents did unite (especially if they went under the common banner of first exposing the EU as the ENEMY and educating the Grass Roots so they get to know where they have been in order for them to know where they are going)
PPS I wouldn`t rejoin UKIP if they paid me not only am I with TGS I don`t like committees, UKIP are a busted flush who “won” the Referendum, never mind forcing Cameron into one, but failed to make a “home” for the man who did the work – Nigel – I`m sure if they had listened to him and Aaron Banks UKIP would still be a force to be reckoned with.
Oh! and I`m 88 too infirm for fisticuffs on the doorstep, but I am still furious enough to keep on writing and urging, and of course, I am an idle fellow by conviction
Individually, like one person on their own say standing on a soap box on a street corner can do very little about anything, including educating the masses about the ills of the European Union. That is why those of us on this side of the political divide need to join or rejoin one of the right of centre challenger parties, and it matters not if one like you is 88 years old. There are many things to do behind the scenes of any like minded party apart from getting involved in fisticuffs on the doorstep, which is not a good idea anyway. The only reason one would knock on a residential door at election time, is to ascertain whether the person(s) living there are going to vote for your party, which in my case was the UK Independence Party. Getting involved in doorstep arguments is a total waste of time for many reasons, but was a common ploy used by so called Conservatives to hold you up and to prevent the canvasser doing what they were supposed to be doing, like getting as many pledges as possible. You say you wouldn’t join UKIP again if they paid you, but why in heavens not? I was a branch chairman, committee member, and an UKIP election candidate five time over, and even though I left the party over Gerrad Batten’s disasterous leadership and joined The Brexit Party and then the Conservative Party once we left the European Union for 4 months, I returned to the UKIP fold as that party was the only political party which was serious about leaving the EU, and what’s more, still is. There was no person more irritated than I over what happened to the UK Independence Party under the combined stewardship of Henry Bolton and then Gerrard Batten, especially since I had invested so much of my time to the cause, but one has to bite the bullet as I did and return to the one party which started the rollercoaster to this country leaving the European Union, and whether you like it or not that party is the UK Independence Party. The party has totally changed from the days of Batten, and many of us have embarked upon rebuilding that party once more, so why don’t you bite the bullet and join us. Stating you are 88 years and too old is not good enough and a bit of a cop out. As I stated earlier in this comment one cannot do too much on their own, and it was after all you who posed the original question of what are you going to do to educate the masses……………..
At least UKIP cannot now be labelled as a single issue party!
First to, I hope clear a misapprehension
The operative word was “infirm” and not that I have not got the `balls` for the `joke` word fisticuffs, but that I am short of puff.
However, I do see my role as a traditional elder of the tribe (British) where I am called upon to comment, criticize (if necessary) and ADVISE, which with respect, I am trying to do in the face of those singing la la la.This may appear boringly Xenophonic, but if one doesn`t know and learn the truth about where one has been, it is highly unlikely we will be able to see clearly where we are now. and the path to follow forward without repeating the mistakes of the past, in this case an organisation who have treated this nation abominably, plundered us mercilessly and always conducting affairs between us in such a way as to ensure an outcome in their favour. and in effect to deprive us (our nation) of its very birthright (Sole Sovereignty)
In my opinion, and many others the actions of an ENEMY.
I am only trying to point out that in dealing with the grass roots electorate and bringing to their notice of issues pertaining to “Where we are now” the hearers must know of the PATH that got us to here and the mistakes that were made on the way and not to be repeated.
That`s why I say in not examining and publishing the history, as sure as eggs is eggs we`ll just do it all the same again or even worse, now Woke has taken control and the inmates are calling the shots in this asylum.
Don`t put the cart before the horse
One final word.
When I joined UKIP in 2009, I didn`t know until I was told on this publication UKIP/Independence Daily of the antecedents of the Common Market as it was known then, which appeared to have grown out of the Iron and Steel Community, which originally was peopled by some ex Nazis and that this in turn had grown from the pre-WW2 Coudenhove-Kalergi organisation. (Wikipedia Kalergi Plan ………sometimes called the Coudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy, is a far right, antisemetic, white genocide conspiracy theory……..)
i.e. that the Common – Market was an evil construct that this nation should never had any dealings with in the first place.
Apparently Heath was advised by his officials of difficult clauses he was signing up to, was said to have observed “Swallow the Lot”
Stout at 11.13:
We need rid of Khan and all his kind in such positions. Would any of us be allowed into government in his families native country?
‘Former British borders chief Tony Smith has suggested that EU leaders are prolonging the small boats crisis as a form of “punishment” for Brexit.”
No, principally the problem is that all the establishment parties firstly refuse to remove the pull factors of social/welfare free for all and secondly to refuse to leave EU/European conventions, treaties that are necessary to execute swift removal of illegal migrants.
No establishment party will put an end to mass legal and illegal migration. The Tories recent Migration Act is just a stunt to appeal to the credulous for the 2024 GE, no doubt at the behest of the Tory MPs in marginal constituencies and the 2019 Red Wall Tory MPs who are in fear of losing their seats.
Only a NOTA, Independent and centre right challenger party is a vote to put an end to the establishment population replacement agenda.
Jake…..Tony Smith has been saying this for some time on Nigel Farage’s GB News programme…
All getting excited? La Grande Lutte of the Century, of the Universe, of the . . . is on today. I’m checking the time, so that I get to go around the empty Supermarket.
A couple of things. If our ‘brave’ four foot sixers win, we will be hearing about it for the next fifty years – like Inrush, like tower block, like mcKan, like 1866 World . . . On the other hand there is a ‘Merican team of 15 yr old skoolboys’ who are looking to trash the winners – again.
Don’t forget to watch BBC live coverage of the Women’s World Wheelchair World Cup final that follows. Good weekend.
Oh dear. Looks like a six weeks bombardment of official msm mourning.
Lord Biscotte………’go around the empty Supermarket’ Would that have been Fortnum and Mason by any chance? Anyway I am surprised that you didn’t send the valet or butler. It was their day off obviously………..
CH- Where else would I get real Beluga caviar? Even when I lived in Siberia, it was all salmon caviar (a contradiction in terms?) – nearly starved. And Sunday much of the staff has the day off, plus the Masso hasn’t had blow for a while. Spousal unit insisted on the four door quarto Porte. Store was very quiet.
But I forgot – as well as the football mourning, there is the unrelenting analysis of the match.
Football mourning indeed, to be honest its a load of cobblers. The ladies game is nothing like the men’s game, period, nothing more to say.
Khan has been pandering to non-whites throughout his tenure as mayor. The caption describing a photo of white people as not representative reflects reality; whites are now a minority in London.The only issue is to what proportion must we fall to become eligible for special treatment though we can reasonably suspect that identity politics won’t extend to whites in London nor will the privileges in the Equality Act. As to silencing ULEZ critics this should be no surprise. Anthropogenic Climate Emergency heretics and disparaged or worse nationally. The London example is trivial news.
Most large bureaucracies become self-serving and the NHS is no different. The behaviour of bosses at a Chester Hospital should surprise no-one and illustrates Eric Kauffman’s call for institutional audits. The BMA’s intervention is a distraction for confining the idea to the NHS only.
As to channel crossing, the speculation about the EU’s motives, even if true, is also a distraction. At root it is the pull factors that encourage the attempts to reach the UK which is obscured by the focus on the mechanics of border control.
All that this Sunday’s news amounts to is that we are still governed by idiots and cowards supported by the idiots and cowards in news media.