Another good day for green loons – the cost of energy goes up on the 1st …
Even more people wondering whether they can afford to cook or heat their homes in coming months ….
Midweek 1st July 2026
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Another good day for green loons – the cost of energy goes up on the 1st …
Even more people wondering whether they can afford to cook or heat their homes in coming months ….
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Another tragic stabbing after an incident on a night bus in Hounslow…
A young man of 22 was fatally stabbed. His next of kin have been informed.
These buses are smothered in CCTV cameras, but as yet, there is no description of the suspect.
Which means…
He’s either a doctor, an engineer or a budding architect.
You can bet you bottom dollar…
I’m afraid there isn’t a bottom dollar here any more, Jeff – Starmer has p****d it all up the walls in Benefits Street, illegals in luxury with brand-new homes where locals are ignored, and, letting the mad mullah Miliband waste billions on the disgusting climate scam.
Talking of which, whatever happened to the story of “a man” accused of raping and murdering young girls? (including his own 2-year-old daughter.)
Oh, there it is, safely tucked away in Regions under Surrey, where no-one will see it. Apparently the “man” was French – bloody frogs. Oh hang on, no: he was born in the Central African Republic. And still no photo – just the damn court house!
Promising footballer…?
So I did some in-depth research. After 5 seconds on Google, whaddya know: there’s a ton of photos of our “French” suspect, including one with his murdered daughter. You’d have thought that would be more relevant to the story than the bloody courthouse – pardon my French, or my Central African.
And just because the BBC don’t want you to see it, here’s another:
Our BBC shuns the football-loving blokey tabloid print titles today, presenting them with wooden spoon last places in the morning press front page parade – scant reward for prioritising unabashed patriotic World Cup hopes.
Mind you, the England squad have yet to get the result of their examination by Doctor Congo – let’s hope our German-coached team haven’t just washed for a stiff neck – as that old saying goes.
Meanwhile, our BBC likes the feminised junior poundshop Guardian that is the i paper for its top press pick – proving a week may be a long time in football (just ask the Scots) but politics rarely takes a day off. There’s some fuss over defence spending, apparently.
‘Defence black hole’ and ‘Starmer’s gift to Burnham’ – quoth the Beeb, dramatically, quoting i paper and Times top headlines.
Black hole of cost cutter…?
Extra military investment will be funded in part by shelving road and energy projects – regrets the i paper – note how every pound of our money spent by government is invariably categorised as “investment”
How fitting that our robotic adenoidal droning – soon departing – PM Starmer now wants to spend all our money on… drones.
UK families hit by biggest global drop in wealth… since the pandemic – complains the Telegraph
One hesitates to correct the mildly conservative Torygraph but one can’t let that one go: UK families hit by biggest global drop in wealth… since the
pandemicLOCKDOWN – WHICH WAS A POLICY CHOICEMr AsI contends that Lockdowns not only broke the economy and doomed government to fiscal oblivion but seriously demoralised the British workforce and the damage done to morale continues to be felt: Summer holiday heaven or hell? Working parents deserve more time off to survive six-week break – protests the i paper
Fully Automated Luxury Chinese Communism?
China’s urban castaways seek peace in ‘ghost’ cities… turning history’s biggest building spree into an experiment in ’empty city living’ – impresses the FT: …demographic decline and overbuilding… rent is dirt cheap. Online teacher Ruby Chen, who wanted warm weather and low stress, pays $190 a month for her flat, a fraction of big city prices… cheap and cheerful, page 5 (FT)
Here comes an absolute doozy of a juxtaposition of clashing headlines of the type that one so admires for their tendency to put the lie some prevailing media narrative…
Anchor baby news
Birthright citizenship upheld by US justices – celebrates the Guardian
Meanwhile: Migrants can’t avoid deportation by having families after arrival… Mahmood has pledged – promises the Times
Across the broad Atlantic a pattern emerges in the left’s tactics for their attacks on the so-called populists…
Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office – complains the BBC’s Kali Hays, Technology reporter and Peter Hoskins, Business reporter
Man with no shame… Same gold Farage… He rakes in £22k an hour, on top of MP pay… and that infamous £5m… Reform UK chief pockets £270,000 for 12 hours as a bullion ambassador (in-the-tank for Labour Mirror) – were I editor I’d probably have blue pencil excised the word ambassador – it has resonances of that Labourite transatlantic wrong ‘un Peter Mandelson.
[Text rescued from the potential oblivion of the recently superseded Start the week thread]
6 years ago… “British Army’s ammunition would last for only a week of war, says Royal United Services Institute
2 December 2022 | Featured in The Times”
https://www.rusi.org/news-and-comment/in-the-news/british-armys-ammunition-would-last-only-week-war-says-royal-united-services-institute
Rachel Reeves said in a statement, external that of the £15bn, £10.3bn had been identified now, and “a further £4.7bn over four years will be confirmed at Budget 2026”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn07ey43xpeo
…. Just found 14.5 billion, wonder who signed this off? Friend of Blair? …..
MoD’s ‘disastrous’ military housing deal cost taxpayer £14.5bn, says NAO report
News | 30.06.26
The Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) “disastrous” deal, which saw it sell and buy back thousands of military homes from a private equity firm, has cost the taxpayer billions.
https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/mods-disastrous-military-housing-deal-cost-taxpayer-145bn-says-nao-report-97711
….. UK now has a way to fill army barracks …….
1. What is happening with the Crowborough site?
The Crowborough site began accommodating asylum seekers from 22 January 2026.
The Crowborough site provides basic, safe accommodation for asylum seekers and is designed to be as self-sufficient as possible. The site was recently used as transitional accommodation for the Afghan Resettlement Programme.
The Home Office works closely with local authorities, police, and community partners to ensure the site operates safely and respectfully, with robust measures in place to support community cohesion and maintain public safety at all times.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-accommodation-at-military-sites-factsheets/crowborough-training-camp-east-sussex-factsheet
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UK Army 80K
UK Terror Watch List 40K
“In 2020, the Daily Telegraph reported that “the vast majority of the suspects on [MI5’s 43,000 person terror watchlist] – as many as 39,000 – are jihadists, compared to a few thousand right-wing extremists”. Last year, just 210 Islamist extremists were referred to Channel for deradicalisation.”
https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/modern-day-britains-terror-threat/
And we know how useless that is anyway.
£6.3bn ….
“Army halts use of Ajax vehicles after soldiers left vomiting” BBC November 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9y0l7j1nwo
Defence minister Luke Pollard claimed the £6.3bn programme had “left its troubles behind”, as Ajax declared initial operating capability (IOC), which means it can deploy a squadron on operations.
The multi-million pound vehicles, made in Merthyr Tydfil by General Dynamics, were originally due to enter service in 2019.
“This weekend, a small number of soldiers reported symptoms of noise and vibration, having taken part in an exercise involving the Ajax armoured fighting vehicle,” an MoD spokesperson said.
The British Army ordered the vehicle in 2014. It was supposed to be fully in service by now. But it’s not.
“I’m really proud we’ve got the gayest Parliament. I don’t think there is anywhere in the world there is a Parliament gayer than this one.”
– Keir Starmer
“Keir Starmer hosts Pride reception at Downing Street”
The BBC are very upset that Trump should be making money from Crypto. (Good! More money with which to sue the rotten Corporation.)
So much so that it was plastered all over their webshite.
Strangely, I don’t remember them being the least bit bothered when the entire Biden clan were up to their necks in shady dealings – often with enemies of the West – or when the Pelosis were spectacularly ‘lucky’ with the timings of their investments.