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Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Behind the silk robes



Tom Armstrong has a fine, vituperative piece on Keir Starmer's globalist pal, Lord Hermer.


Lord Hermer: The Globalist Fanatic at the Heart of Britain’s Two-Tier Justice Scandal

I was thinking of writing a piece on how all the senior members of this grievous government are weirdos, cranks, fanatics, and halfwits who hate their own country and are doing their damnedest to destroy it. But to do each of them justice, this article would need to be five times longer than it is, so I thought I’d settle on one to use as an example. Obviously, my mind first settled on Mad Ed Miliband, but I decided that he’s too far-fetched and therefore too easy a target. And so I settled on one, just as damaging, but who until recently had kept below my radar. Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, I give you Richard Simon Hermer, the barmy baron battling to bash Britain back to the bone age.

There is, of course, a long tradition of arrogant government ministers exposing their ignorance and contempt for the people in spectacular fashion while thinking that they cannot possibly be wrong about anything. But fierce as the competition is, few come close to Lord Richard Hermer KC, the UK’s Attorney General, especially in terms of sheer, dangerous ideological zealotry.



The whole piece is well worth reading as an excellent example of how much well-deserved contempt Those Who Know Best have earned for themselves. 


Hermer isn't just another inexperienced technocrat parachuted into high office. He is a walking embodiment of the worst traits of Britain's legal-activist class: globalist in worldview, obsessed with supranational legal structures, hostile to British sovereignty, and utterly contemptuous of ordinary Britons who dare to challenge the system.

Behind his silk robes and courtroom credentials lies a far-left ideologue who treats his supposedly impartial office as a political pulpit to preach a doctrine of globalist subservience, anti-British hysteria, and a justice system weaponised for ideological ends.

Good Advice

 


Tiny Target



Starmer’s authority under fire as Labour MPs threaten biggest revolt yet in crunch vote on benefit reforms


Sir Keir Starmer was scrambling to limit the size of a Labour revolt over welfare reforms which was threatening to be the biggest yet of his year-long premiership.

Cabinet ministers were holding talks with potential rebels to try to persuade them to back the Government or at least abstain in a crunch Commons vote on Tuesday evening.

But dozens of Labour MPs were expected to still refuse to back the controversial shake-up of the benefits system, despite a series of concessions having already been made.



Starmer's authority under fire? Whatever his "authority" is supposed to be, it's surely a tiny target by now. Impossible to hit some might say, as it seems to have disappeared down the bureaucratic toilet some time ago.

Good grief, what a rabble they are.

Monday, 30 June 2025

Dazzling


Carl Deconinck has a Brussels Signal piece on the dazzling success of a solar panel park.


Dazzling solar panels blind pilots during approach to Schiphol airport


A solar panel park near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is posing a serious safety risk and disrupting air traffic, according to airport authorities.

The panels reflect sunlight so strongly that pilots are being blinded during critical flight phases. Schiphol has called the situation an “unacceptable risk to safety.”

The airport estimates potential damages could reach up to €300 million.

Sunday, 29 June 2025

Swamp Soccer

 

Chants



Wes Streeting says chants of ‘death to the IDF’ at Glastonbury were ‘appalling’

Wes Streeting has said chants of “death” to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) at Glastonbury were “appalling” and that the BBC and festival have “questions to answer”.

Rapper Bobby Vylan, of rap punk duo Bob Vylan, on Saturday led crowds on the festival’s West Holts Stage in chants of “Free, free Palestine” and “Death, death to the IDF”, before a member of Irish rap trio Kneecap suggested fans “start a riot” at his bandmate’s forthcoming court appearance.


To this observer, the most striking aspects of the chants is that they are weak. Coming from the safety of a heavily guarded music concert they display weakness as few other antics could. The IDF is not weak, chanted opposition from over 2000 miles away is.

Perhaps we are moving into an era where it is no longer cool to be shrill, outraged and weak, especially at a secure distance from the strong. It displays too much.

Plan 10 from Outer Space



Supermarkets told to cut shoppers' calories in obesity crackdown

As part of a government initiative aimed at taking some pressure off the NHS, food retailers and manufacturers will "make the healthy choice the easy choice" for customers in a country with the third highest adult obesity levels in Europe.

Supermarkets will be required to report sales data and those that fail to hit targets could face financial penalties, Nesta, the innovation agency which initially developed the policy, suggested...

The new scheme, announced on Sunday by the Department for Health and Social Care, is part of the forthcoming 10 Year Health Plan, through which the government is seeking to shift from sickness to prevention to alleviate the burden on the NHS.


A chap is bound to wonder about the level of enthusiasm behind the 10 Year Health Plan. It's one of those notions where a fly on the wall could tell us a great deal about the attitudes of those who sat round a table and formulated it. Were they as keen as low-calorie mustard?

Were they enthused with their mission? Did they crack a few jokes at the first meeting to break the proverbial ice? Did they offer disparaging anecdotes about people they had seen in supermarkets and their awful diet as revealed by the contents of their shopping baskets? Concerned, caring anecdotes of course.