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Part One – Local and National News Review
Gorton and Denton was a disaster for Labour – can Starmer find a way back? Sir Keir Starmer has acknowledged that the by-election result was “disappointing”, but has insisted he will carry on. The first ever Green by-election win, their first ever MP in the north of England, all in the first electoral test for the relatively new Green leader Zack Polanski.This is his moment – and reasonably so. Not wanting to punch a bruise, but ironically there’s something of the Andy Burnham about the new Green MP Hannah Spencer – her lilt, her approach, the way she talks about her plumbing job, her roots in the community – all a style Labour would be jealous of. And Labour could have had it too, had Burnham not been blocked by Keir Starmer. She will enter Parliament a perpetual reminder of a choice Labour could have had but Keir Starmer blocked. Make no mistake about it, this is a disaster for Labour. The party held the Gorton and Denton seat at the last general election by over 50%, and it was Labour’s 38th safest seat. Less than a week ago, one of Labour’s campaign team was swearing they would win, a message being repeated confidently amongst Labour MPs in the last 24 hours. Yet this morning the party is in third place – one of the top ten by-election losses of all time. Starmer’s by-election loss record now two out of two, after losing to Reform UK in Runcorn less than a year ago. Greens leader, Zack Polanski, describes their win as an ‘existential crisis’ for Labour as their candidate came third after Reform UK. But it’s not the raw results alone that will cause the difficulty for Starmer – it’s the nature of the loss to another progressive party, and therefore a defeat which hits every Labour neurosis. The Labour campaign made little sense. The party was fighting against Reform UK – opposing the extremist entrant, as they saw it, in the campaign and wanting to present themselves as the mainstream opponent. Yet Reform UK were not, in practice, the opponent. Their defeat was at the hands of the Greens, the failure was votes bleeding not to the right and Reform UK, but to the left and into the arms of Zack Polanski…
He added: “We have a precious opportunity to unite our movement around a bold vision for this country – one that believes in a more caring, equal and peaceful society for all. I look forward to working with all members to make this vision a reality. The victory for Corbyn’s faction means the longtime MP will likely be named as Your Party’s parliamentary leader. “I have always held the view that everyone I meet knows something I don’t. Let us build a positive and inclusive party where all members feel empowered to share their ideas. “It is by listening to each other and learning from one another that we can unleash the power of all our communities and build the mass movement this country needs.” More than 25,000 of Your Party’s 40,985 verified members voted in the election, which placed both Corbyn and Sultana on the CEC. Ex-Labour MP Laura Smith was also elected, while Independent Alliance MPs Shockat Adam and Ayoub Khan missed out. In Scotland, independent candidate Niall Christie was also elected to the CEC. The ex-Scottish Greens activist faced off against veteran socialist Jim Monaghan, as well as Ian Drummond. Christie wrote on X: “Extremely proud to be elected to the CEC of Your Party to represent Scotland. “A massive thanks to all of the 570 members in Scotland who put their faith in me, and an equally big thanks to all the others who backed Jim and Ian – who I look forward to continuing working with.” Your Party Scotland recently announced that candidates would stand in May’s Holyrood election. At the first Your Party Scotland conference in Dundee three weeks ago, 69.8% of party members backed contesting the election. Announcing the decision, Sultana told party members: “Scottish people deserve better than a politics that wears the veneer of progressivism while still pushing through cuts that decimate our communities, and that’s what you get with the SNP and the Greens.” The MP added: “We can do better than that. “In fact, you deserve better than that, and Your Party exists to oppose cuts, and I’m glad that you have voted to put candidates on a no-cuts platform, because that is the socialist position.”
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Hannah Spencer’s winning speech. Victory Speech: Hannah Spence Addresses After Historic Green Party Win in Gorton & Denton| AC1Z Vote counting and the official declaration of results took place in Gorton and Denton, England, as the UK by-election concluded. Speaking on stage after the declaration, Spence told supporters she didn’t grow up wanting to be a politician, saying: “I’m a plumber.” She emphasized her practical background and determination, adding that even under pressure, she gets things done. Her victory marks the Green Party’s first-ever parliamentary by-election win, defeating Labour in a long-time stronghold. The result is being described as a major political shift in the constituency. Full speech from the stage Key quotes from Hannah Spence Crowd reaction and atmosphere Historic moment for the Green Party
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Sour Grapes at by-election: Nigel Farage on family voting and postal voting fraud in election. ‘CHEATERS!’ – Nigel Farage ERUPTS as Greens win in Gorton and Denton by-election Daily Express Nigel Farage warned the Gorton and Denton by-election was a “victory for sectarian voting and cheating”. Labour was pushed into third place in the former stronghold behind Zack Polanski’s party and Reform UK. In a post on X, Reform leader Mr Farage sad: “This election was a victory for sectarian voting and cheating. Matt Goodwin was a great candidate for us. Roll on the elections on May 7th. It will be goodbye Starmer and goodbye to the Tory party.” Concerns have been raised about people forcing family members to vote in a certain way in the contest. Election observer group Democracy Volunteers warned it had witnessed “concerningly high levels” of family voting – an illegal practice where two voters use one polling booth and potentially direct each other on voting.
Mark, from Acorn, on bailiffs pursuing him for unpaid council tax. Meanwhile sites for van and caravan dwellers – they must pay council tax Relentless Bailiffs Keep Bullying Even After Debt Is Paid. ACORN Bristol member Mark is a small shop owner in Bristol. Like many, his health and business were hit hard by Covid, and Mark was left struggling to keep up with bills and feed his kids. Despite making every effort to reduce his council tax debt, Bailiffs started harassing Mark and his girlfriend. Even after paying off his debt in full, Bailiff companies KEPT harassing Mark for extra fees. Mark’s story shows that Bailiffs don’t care who they harass or how much damage they cause. Whether you pay your debt or not, they only care about their own profit. Graham Clapp – Head of Revenues and Benefits at BCC, you have the power to call off the bailiffs and end this harassment. We’re calling on you to do the right thing!.
Church weddings slump to record low as young couples shun marriage The latest data also shows Christians now account for fewer than half of England and Wales’ population Fewer people than ever before are getting married in Church as young people turn their backs on traditional wedding ceremonies.The Church of England officiated just over one in 10 opposite-sex marriages in 2023 – its lowest share on record outside of the pandemic. It recorded 23,004 marriages in 2023 in England and Wales – the lowest since records began in 1937, excluding the 2020 and 2021 Covid years. In 2022 the Church carried out 12.9 per cent of marriages – down from more than a fifth in 2003 and more than a third in 1973. Responding to the data, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford, said “the public have voted with their feet”. Rev Marcus Walker, the rector at St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London, and founder of the Save the Parish campaign group, said: “This is both sad and worrying. Sad that in a dangerous and fast-moving world we have never needed more the knowledge that someone is there ‘for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health’. Worrying because marriage is becoming class-coded: the rich and well-educated are still enjoying the advantages of the stability of marriage while the rest of society is being priced out.” Anglican marriages at a record low The data comes as the Church of England is trying to entice young people in an increasingly secular society. In the latest census, the ONS found that Christians now account for fewer than half of England and Wales’ population. The census results showed that 46.2 per cent of the population (27.5 million people) described themselves as “Christian” in 2021. This marks a 13.1 percentage point decrease from 59.3 per cent (33.3 million people) in 2011. Although “Christian” remained the most common response to the census question about religion, every major religion increased over the 10-year period except for Christianity. Furthermore, official Church of England figures show that almost a third of churches have zero children in their congregations.
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One man borrowed £1.8 billion in your name… and got an OBE for it. Woking Borough Council is now the most indebted local authority in British history. Every household in the borough is on the hook for roughly £45,000 they never agreed to. The man responsible? He retired with a full pension and a medal from the King. This is the story of how one council CEO turned a quiet Surrey town into a financial black hole… and how the system that was supposed to stop him just watched it happen. Sources: Woking Borough Council Section 114 Notice Woking’s £1.8bn debt explained — BBC News Victoria Square development and losses — Surrey Live Ray Morgan OBE — Council CEO profile Croydon Council Section 114 Notice — BBC News Brick by Brick (Croydon) — Bureau of Investigative Journalism
ARCHIVE: RT Going Underground – Afshin Rattansi 2014 interview, the final one before he died, with the late RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, on how Labour Party was formed at his union’s HQ and has now abandoned the Unions . Afshin Rattansi pays tribute to one of the most influential union leaders, Bob Crow, who died early Tuesday morning. In his final major interview, filmed in February, he spoke about the problems in mainstream politics and how it felt to take on Boris.
All his life, he was an energetic fighter for the socialist cause. He was an implacable opponent of the EU, and in recent times he spearheaded the No2EU – Yes to Workers’ Rights movement. He would have been the lead No2EU candidate for London in May’s EU elections .Showing solidarity to the last, he spoke in Brighton just four days ago at an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the miners’ strike. Shock and grief gripped labour movement activists as news spread of the sudden death of the much-loved general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT). The union closed its central London head office as a mark of respect but grieving trade unionists and members of the public laid flowers outside. Meanwhile tributes and condolences flooded in from across Britain and around the world. Labour MP John McDonnell, convener of the RMT group of MPs, said: “Bob was one of the finest trade unionists we have ever seen. “He was simply loved by his members and re-elected time and again.” Grieving MP Jeremy Corbyn said: “Rest in peace Bob. You were a brilliant fighter, who gave your all for the working class.” Manuel Cortes, the leader of rail union TSSA who joined Mr Crow on the picket line during the recent London Tube strike, said: “It was a privilege to campaign and fight alongside him because he never gave an inch.” Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack said: “Bob was a good friend to me personally and to the Fire Brigades Union as a whole. “He was a strong leader for the labour movement and he’ll be sorely missed by those who knew him.” His death is a “devastating loss” to Britain’s trade union movement and to the cause of working people across the globe, declared GMB union general secretary Paul Kenny. The Cuba Solidarity Campaign described him as “a wonderful friend to the working people of Cuba.” Mr Crow’s older brother Richard described him as “one of those loveable little rogues, one of those guys that had bundles of friends.” He added: “People moaned that he lived in a council house, that he never drove a car – he lived a life of the average guy in the street and that’s a rare thing these days. “When people have a high office in life they fall for the big trappings of the flash cars and the big hotels and big houses. But Bob wasn’t like that, he was a genuine person of the people.” Even his political enemies felt obliged to issue hypocritical public comments. London Mayor Boris Johnson grudgingly admitted: “Bob fought tirelessly for his beliefs and for his members” while Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokesman said his death was “very sad news.” And Labour leader Ed Miliband, who in 2011 refused to share a platform with Mr Crow at the Durham miners’ gala, said he had “always respected his tireless commitment to fighting for the men and women in his union.” Mr Crow became RMT general secretary in 2002 following the death of former leader Jimmy Knapp. Born in Shadwell, east London, Mr Crow started working on the London Underground at the age of 16.
Part Two – International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations
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and they were John Smith, Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband. Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Keir Starmer all allowed Mandelson to be an intimate of their operations, a key player. Starmer was very pleased with the appointment. Thought it was going well. Got the trade deal done thanks to Mandelson’s ability to charm Donald Trump, to get round him, to use his snake-oil salesman techniques to get what the British Government wanted. This seemed to be good. But Sir Keir Starmer knew, the public knew, it was on the public record that Mandelson had maintained his relationship with Epstein after Epstein had been found guilty. And this brings the scandal right back to the Prime Minister and to the Prime Minister’s judgement. What was he doing? Appointing a man who had been disgraced several times for a financial scandal, for an influence scandal, and for dealing with a sex pest scandal as our ambassador. How degrading is that to the standing of the United Kingdom on the world stage? What can our friends in Washington think, that the Prime Minister of this country thought it suitable to send somebody who was friendly hobnobbing with a paedophile after he had been found guilty? And then some of the pictures come out and you see the smoking gun that yes, Mandelson may have misled people. But when those pictures came out, you knew that the relationship was deep and close. How many of you viewers have been photographed in your underpants at a friend’s house? I think that is a very odd type of picture to have. I know you may not all be like me and insist on wearing a suit at all times of the day and most of the night, but isn’t that just weird and sleazy? Doesn’t that indicate a closeness of relationship? That is strange, to say the least, and that has just added more information to what we already knew. And this leaves the Government in a state of stasis. It cannot do anything. It is flatlining. The Prime Minister has no moral authority left. It was taken from him once he appointed Peter Mandelson and Mandelson’s dreadful behaviour was discovered every last detail of it unearthed.
Lord Mandelson’s lawyers have complained about the Met’s decision to detain him as part of its probe into misconduct in public office allegations. They say he had agreed to an interview next month, and the decision to take him into custody was prompted by a “baseless” suggestion he was planning to “take up permanent residence abroad”. The BBC understands that Lord Mandelson’s lawyers were twice told by the police that information about his alleged travel plans had been passed on by Lord Forsyth, the Speaker of the House of Lords. On Tuesday evening, Lord Forsyth denied any involvement after he was initially reported as the source of the referral, calling the suggestion “entirely false and without foundation”. On Wednesday, The Times then reported the information had in fact been shared by Sir Lindsay. Shortly afterwards, the Commons Speaker made a statement to MPs confirming he had given “relevant” information to the force. He told MPs he had done this “in good faith”, considering it to be his “duty and responsibility”. “It is regrettable this rapidly ended in the media,” he added. He did not provide any details, but the BBC understands Sir Lindsay passed on information he received in the British Virgin Islands during a visit last week that Lord Mandelson was planning to travel there. Senior officers from the Met met Sir Lindsay on Wednesday to explain the situation, which is regarded by the force as a serious breach of protocol. A spokesperson for the force said: “The Met has apologised to the Speaker of the House of Commons this afternoon for inadvertently revealing information during an investigation into allegations of misconduct in public office.” The BBC understands the Speaker of the House of Lords has not yet received an apology from the Metropolitan Police. Lords sources said Lord Forsyth had arranged an urgent meeting with the Metropolitan Police on Thursday and was expected to receive clarification about how his name came to be mentioned. The sources said he wanted to know why, when the media was widely reporting erroneous information attributed to him, he was not contacted about the issue and the record was not corrected. Lord Mandelson’s lawyers Mishcon de Reya have written to the Met asking what information and evidence they based their decision to arrest their client on. The force is understood to have conducted its own assessment of the credibility of the information passed on by Sir Lindsay before deciding to arrest Lord Mandelson on Monday afternoon. The former Labour minister was taken to Wandsworth police station in London for interview, before later being released on bail pending further investigation. It is understood he surrendered his passport as one of his bail conditions.
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Filtered documents on Peter Mandelson appointment to be released early March – minister Mr Jones’ statement came minutes before the force announced Lord Mandelson had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The first tranche of documents related to Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador is expected to be released “very shortly in early March”, MPs have been told. However, the publication of some correspondence between Downing Street and the peer will be delayed “because of the Metropolitan Police interest”, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones said. Mr Jones’ statement to the Commons came minutes before the force announced Lord Mandelson had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The former Labour minister has been accused of passing on information to Epstein when he was business secretary, with two of his properties searched by police. Sir Keir Starmer has faced considerable criticism over his decision to appoint Lord Mandelson to the position despite his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar calling for him to resign. The Prime Minister had admitted to knowing about Lord Mandelson’s ongoing friendship with Epstein, but said the peer “lied repeatedly” about the extent of the relationship when questioned on it. Under pressure from Labour MPs and opposition parties, the Prime Minister agreed to release all the documents relating to the appointment, with sensitive ones sent to Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). In a statement to the Commons on Monday, Mr Jones said: “The Government intends to publish documents in tranches instead of one publication at the end of the process, given that we are unable to confirm how long that process will take. “On that basis, the Government expects to be able to publish the first tranche of documents very shortly in early March. “I should, however, inform the House that it remains the case that a subset of this first tranche of documents is currently subject to the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation. “This includes correspondence between number 10 and Lord Peter Mandelson, in which a number of follow up questions were asked. “Because of the Metropolitan Police interest in this document, we are unable to publish it in early March in the first tranche, but will release it as soon as we are able to do so in consultation with the Metropolitan Police. “There is also a small portion of that material which engages matters of national security or international relations, and thus the role this House has envisaged for the Intelligence and Security Committee, we are working with the committee to establish processes for making this material available to them, and we’re very grateful to the committee in advance of their important contribution to reviewing these documents.” Mr Jones later added that the first tranche will include documents currently held by the Government, besides the previously mentioned exceptions. The subsequent tranches of information will include documents found by various departments through their searches. He said: “Commissions have gone out across Government for those departments to search their archives and databases to bring forward any documents that relate to the terms of the humble address. “And given the depth of the issues raised in the humble address, that of course will take some time to process.” The Conservatives accused the Government of acting “with the urgency of a tired sloth on a bank holiday Monday” in releasing documents. Shadow Cabinet Office minister Mike Wood said: “Careful work must not become a euphemism for managed delay. “It is time the Government stopped treating Parliament like an inconvenient interruption to their schedule, stopped giving every impression that they have priorities working out who’s back to cover, and started providing some actual answers so that we can start to get to the bottom of this murky matter.” Mr Jones responded that the Government was trying to manage a criminal investigation, and “I’m sure the House would not want us to inadvertently interfere with that process”. Lord Mandelson, a political appointment rather than a career diplomat, was sacked from his Washington role in September last year over his links with Epstein, who died in 2019.
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DDN – Paul Holden – Labour Together and Mc Sweeney took money from Zionist billionaires to get rid of Corbyn and bring Starmer in. EXPOSED: Starmer Allies Hired Private Investigators to Dig Dirt on Journalist Double Down News Paul Holden’s Book ‘The Fraud’ is Available Now? https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-fraud/
Peter Oborne – Labour Together and Mc Sweeney. Morgan McSweeney: The Man that Ruined Labour | Peter Oborne interview PoliticsJOE Today Ava is joined by journalist Peter Oborne to discuss the Labour party under Keir Starmer, and the man that dragged him into power: Morgan McSweeney. Peter breaks down the allegiances that McSweeney built over a long career campaigning for the Labour Party, leading to his links to the man that almost brought down Starmer’s premiership – the former American Ambassador Peter Mandelson.
The time has come to open up the books, writes Chris Blackhurst Life will never be the same again for Britain’s royal family. The Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal has rocked the institution to the core. Rather like the banking crisis of 2008, when the authorities were desperate to avoid contagion dragging down other banks, they are keen to prevent the spread. For a body that likes to remain discreet and private, this is a transforming, unnerving prospect. Andrew’s troubles have shone an unwelcome light on not only his, but all of their living and financial arrangements. It’s not that the other royals have anything particular to hide – we don’t know – but rather that so much has hitherto been off limits. To release all the detail, to suddenly go from nothing to everything, as they might well be required to, is bound to provoke shock and anger. This is a family, or “firm”, that likes to control how it’s presented. While this was once justified on the grounds that to let the light in somehow destroys the mystique, those days have well and truly passed. It is hard to see how those guard rails can be preserved when the deference has diminished, and MPs and media are champing at the bit. Even David Dimbleby (David Dimbleby!) has dared to front a documentary that asks, pointedly: What’s the Monarchy for? The National Audit Office is currently investigating Andrew’s use of his former home at Royal Lodge, and its report will be sent to the Commons public accounts committee. Its findings will be published and there will be public hearings. That is just for starters. The probe is not likely to stop there. This is an issue that is not going to vanish. A public struggling with an ever-rising cost-of-living burden, tax increases and a chronic housing shortage will demand answers, not just about Andrew, but about the wider family. They will not be receptive to obfuscation. The genie has been released from the bottle. There can be no going back. A detailed report last year from the anti-monarchy group Republic put the bill for the royal family’s upkeep at more than £500m annually. A substantial portion is derived from the sovereign grant. It comprises profits from the crown estate’s £15bn property portfolio, which covers a large area of London’s St James’s and locations dotted around Britain. Now, people want to know how those revenues are arrived at. Are rents properly and fairly calculated? Do some tenants enjoy more favourable terms than others? These are questions – and there are many, many others – that will require answers. Transparency is the order of the day. Tellingly, given Republic’s ideological antecedents, their study was not challenged by the royal household or its supporters. It prompted Norman Baker, the former Lib Dem MP, to ask in a new book, Royal Mint, National Debt – The Shocking Truth About the Royal Family’s Finances, to highlight that the bill for maintaining the UK royal family “is undoubtedly much higher than that of any other European monarchy”. He contrasts them with other royal families. In the Netherlands, the heir to the Dutch throne, Princess Catharina-Amalia, announced when she was 18 that she would renounce her £300,000 annual income while she was a student and forfeit £1.6m in expenses; in Sweden, the king removed royal titles from five of his grandchildren; in Denmark, the queen took them away from four of her grandchildren, saying it was “for their own good”, while in Copenhagen, Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, Princess Mary, ferry their young children to state school by cargo bike. Writes Baker: “You can never imagine this normality, that informality, with the British royal family.” Here, our equivalents have the use of 50 residences, estates totalling 250,000 acres – among them the well known like Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Windsor Castle, Clarence House, St James’s Palace, Balmoral, Sandringham, Holyrood, Gatcombe Park, Highgrove, Royal Lodge, Bagshot Park and Thatched House Lodge, but also other Palladian houses and farms. Included in the royal collection, too, are the “grace-and-favour” apartments for servants and former staff and anyone else the King wants to put up. At the last public estimate, there were 272 of those alone. But that figure is cautionary. Because we simply do not know. The bill for maintaining the UK royal family ‘is undoubtedly much higher than that of any other European monarchy
Mandelson knows where ALL the Socialist-left bodies are buried. Suspicious deaths of Union and Labour leaders – Robin Cook, John Smith. Bob Crow, Alex Salmond. Scalar electronic weaponsOr, more simply, one just meets with a fatal auto accident. Or one gets hit with a little microwave “shooter”, whose wavefront has been carefully modified by the Venus ECM technique. That beam will then dramatically disrupt the receiving heart, throwing it into violent and uncontrolled fibrillation. The target falls, goes into convulsions, thrashes a bit, and expires with a legitimate massive stroke, heart attack, or both. The smaller short range shooter is about the size of a small paperback textbook, and fits inside the assassin’s coat pocket. A larger longer range shooter is about the size of a bazooka. It will shoot right through walls and windows, killing a person inside (the target is usually located with an infrared device which allows the assassin to focus on the target’s body heat, even through the wall or window. Or a professional hit man kills the person, making it appear as some hoodlum committing a robbery or some such. Recently Dr. Gene Mallove, an excellent researcher and a highly dedicated scientist, probably was murdered in this latter type of professional hit manner. Those are just a few of the current methods used of professional clandestine assassination or jailing, used against some EFTV researchers. There are many others. But to seek out what our own science is doing in EFTV research, simply go to the websites of the NAS, NSF, DoE, national labs, and universities and search for any real program or solution that would enable our survival in this three year period we have entered. Cut through the rhetoric and hype and examine for real content that would solve the problem. There is none, and there is not going to be any. Instead, the reader will find that “business as usual” and the interests of the powerful scientific cartels ? hot fusion, nuclear power plants, fuel cells, etc. ? are being pursued, with a little sop to the environmentalists in such things as solar cell array power systems, windmill-powered generating systems, etc.
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4TH REICH GURU NICK LAND MOVES TO CHURCH OF SATAN HOME, SAN FRANCISCO Steve Hall, polymath and author of ‘The Death of the Left’ – tech elites taking over from democracy. Sunset on the Dark Enlightenment: Inside Nick Land’s San Francisco ‘Arrival Party’ “These ideas, once the fringe premonitions of an early internet cyberpunk, have started influencing the policies of the most powerful people on Earth”From afar, he appeared unassuming, even subdued. Is this really the man, I asked myself, who’s embraced the extinction of the human race? Who’s claimed possession by demons and communed with interdimensional “lemurs,” coined the term “hyperstition,” who left academia after an amphetamine-induced meltdown? Who has predicted the rise of a new kind of post-racial “hyper-racism,” where intelligent elites advance ahead and “genetic refuse” is left behind? Who former CCRU colleague and apprentice-turned-antagonist, the late Mark Fisher, called “our Nietzsche?” He didn’t seem terrifying enough. Facing him, I felt uneasy, unsure how best to approach. I had first encountered Land’s ideas in another life, while teaching in Shanghai. In the years since, his work—which exalts production ahead of people, dismissing humans as meat puppets waiting to be discarded to make way for the alien intelligence that will become the true protagonist of history—has haunted my days and dreams. After learning we shared a city, I often wondered if we’d ever cross paths. In the intervening years, these ideas, once the fringe premonitions of an early internet cyberpunk, have started influencing the policies of the most powerful people on Earth. I walk over and introduce myself. “Nice to meet you,” he says, holding my gaze. He’s genial but there’s an intensity to him, and sheepishly, not knowing what else to say, I ask if I can take his picture. I line up my Sony, but whiff on the first shot, dousing his face in harsh flash. Thinking I’ve fucked my chance, I panic, but he agrees to a second try. Finally, Tivy brings Land on stage. “San Francisco!” the compere shouts. “It’s been a long time coming, but now, finally, let’s say a proper Nick Land acknowledgement!” The crowd bursts into applause at this repeated joke, while several small children crawl around the guest, happy and giggling. Land, unaffected, takes questions from the audience, speaking densely and extemporaneously about Gnostic Calvinism, simulation theory, the inevitability of human death, the nature of cosmic despair. After about an hour, Tivy turns to the audience, and announces that a surprise guest will be joining proceedings. Chest puffed and in aviators, Curtis Yarvin, that other would-be rock star of the neoreactionary scene, emerges from the crowd. “For the record, I’m not wearing these because I’m trying to be cool,” he clarifies from the stage in his distinctive monotone. “I’m wearing them because I lost my prescription.” “Curtis is looking good,” I hear someone whisper. “He must be back on Ozempic.” It’s the first time that the two men have met. Yarvin emerged first under his blogger pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, critiquing modern democracy as a failed system distributively controlled by a leftist “Cathedral” comprised of media, academia, and the bureaucracy, and proposing a CEO-monarch supplant it and take the reigns of power instead. Land wrote admiringly of Yarvin’s work in his 2012 book, The Dark Enlightenment, and ever since, the two have been grouped together, Land serving as a Kant-type underpinning the movement’s cosmological structure, with Yarvin the reactionary Rousseau articulating their political project.
The defence secretary has told officials to search more than two decades of Ministry of Defence (MoD) records and give police any flight logs linked to the late paedophile financier. It comes after former prime minister Gordon Brown wrote to six police forces demanding investigations into whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used jets, funded by the taxpayer, and RAF bases, during his time as trade envoy to meet Epstein. Mr Mountbatten-Windsor and former UK ambassador to Washington, Lord Peter Mandelson, were arrested and released on bail earlier this month over links with the convicted sex offender. A MoD spokesperson said: “The defence secretary has ordered a review of all records that the department may hold relating to Epstein flights landing at RAF bases to ensure that any information which relates to Epstein’s crimes is uncovered and provided to the relevant authorities. “The MoD will support any civilian police investigations. “Our thoughts are with all the victims of Epstein’s vile crimes.” It is reportedly not unusual for spare capacity at RAF airfields to be used for private jets, with private customers charged fees which cover all costs. Such use is only approved when it does not interfere with the security or smooth running of the airfield. Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday dodged calls for a public inquiry into Epstein and his possible use of British airports, saying any police investigations should take their course first.
War with Iran soon? Afghanistan, Pakistan scuffles. Wall St Journal – peace talks with Iran
Two Of Our Little Girls May Have Been Murdered By Us Servicemen. Their Bodies Were Dumped Outside The Perimeter Fence Of Usaf Lakenheath. Not One Us Serviceman Has Yet Been Interviewed. When British police arrested Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr during the early hours of Saturday 17 August, on suspicion of the abduction and murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, they did so in the certain knowledge that absolutely no hard evidence existed incriminating either suspect. The reason for the rapid arrests was very simple: Just hours earlier, two small bodies had been found near the perimeter fence at USAF Lakenheath, and the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street was terrified of a massive political scandal involving American servicemen based in, or transiting through, the United Kingdom. Shortly after the arrests, British and American media organizations demonized Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr so successfully that public attention was diverted away from Lakenheath completely, and focused instead on the young couple from Soham who had earlier willingly spoken to television crews about their concerns for the well being of the two missing 10-year-old girls. Both knew the girls reasonably well. Ian Huntley was the caretaker at their school, and Maxine Carr was a former teaching auxiliary in their class. Millions of viewers around the world watched Ian and Maxine being interviewed by the media, and most were impressed by the openness of their statements and their genuine willingness to help if possible. Experts in non-verbal communication also noticed that Ian and Maxine’s involuntary body and eye movements perfectly matched what they were saying verbally to the journalists. In other words, both appeared to be telling the truth both verbally and non-verbally, an almost impossible feat for even a trained liar to fabricate. It is critical to note here also that both came across on television as perfectly normal, sane individuals, a reality later to be inexplicably challenged by police and psychiatrists in Cambridgeshire. If Huntley and Carr had been involved at all with the abduction and murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, would they have then been stupid enough to run the gauntlet of about 10,000 American servicemen en-route, and dump the two small bodies in a location clearly visible from Lakenheath Control Tower, taxi track, and main runway? A serviceman with detailed knowledge of activities and procedures inside the base might get away with it unseen, but certainly not two civilians from Soham in Cambridgeshire. So the perimeter would be an ideal dumping ground for American servicemen eager to return to “safe” territory at USAF Lakenheath, before either entering their barracks on the base, or catching a shuttle bus to USAF Mildenhall. In an attempt to demonize Ian Huntley still further, police “leaked” the damning information that he had been arrested for rape a number of years earlier. Well, yes, almost. While still a teenager Huntley had consensual sex with his girlfriend, who was only 15-years-old at the time, an offence in the United Kingdom known as statutory rape. He was never charged with an offence however, and his former girlfriend [now age 21 years] recently confirmed it was a mutual crush [love affair], with enthusiastic sexual consent on both sides. So for a while at least, police and media have managed to deflect attention away from the two massive nearby USAF bases at Lakenheath and Mildenhall, and the political minefield lurking just below the surface if the British public ever find out about the very large numbers of children abused, raped, and sometimes murdered by American servicemen on overseas duty. So let us properly consider the “American Connection”, before returning later in this report to the unbelievable ongoing psychological abuse of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr. Though earlier in the investigation police declared they would be interviewing “700 known sex offenders” of British nationality, there was no mention of interviewing the 10,000+ US servicemen based in close proximity to Soham Village, or determining which other American servicemen has transited through the two bases, and on which flights, since Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman first disappeared. The simple fact that Holly and Jessica’s bodies were found within yards of the USAF Lakenheath perimeter fence, which in turn provides access to the American barracks within, should have had British police knocking on Lakenheath’s front door immediately. Unfortunately, any such action might have accidentally undermined Prime Minister Tony Blair’s personal slavish dedication to George W Bush’s ‘War on Terror.’
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Sky Beth Rigby interviews Yvette Cooper, Foreign Secretary, on Kyiv. CIA and Maidan coup.
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Russian Ambassador to UK, on whether British are going to try and get nukes in to Ukraine. Russia claims UK and France are preparing to give Ukraine a nuclear bomb Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said the supply of nuclear weapons to Ukraine would be considered a ‘joint attack’ on Russia (Picture: Andriy Andriyenko) Russia has marked the fourth anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine by claiming the UK and France are plotting a nuclear escalation in the conflict. A notice released publicly by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service – known as the SVR– says it has received information indicating the two countries want to send Ukraine a ‘wunderwaffe’ weapon. The spy agency said: ‘Kyiv will be able to secure more favorable terms for ending the fighting if it possesses a nuclear bomb or at least a so-called “dirty bomb.” ‘Berlin wisely declined to participate in this dangerous adventure.’ This plan was responding to a recognition that ‘the current situation in Ukraine leaves no chance of achieving their much-desired victory over Russia’, according to the SVR. Downing Street said there is ‘no truth’ to the claims from the agency, suggesting it was ‘a clear attempt by Vladimir Putin to distract’ from his actions in Ukraine. He added: ‘You will have seen the Prime Minister’s words this morning, paying tribute to the incredible resilience of the Ukrainians, and you will have seen the package of action on military, humanitarian, reconstruction fronts announced today, which is a sign of where our support is for Ukraine.’ Responding to the claim in a post on X, the French Foreign Ministry said: ‘Five years into its “three-day war”, Russia would really prefer you focus on French and British nukes.’ Bizarrely, the SVR suggested the West would try to cover up the acquisition of the bomb by making it ‘appear to be the result of Ukrainian development’. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a statement after receiving the 2026 Ewald von Kleist award of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in the name of the Ukrainian people on February 14, 2026 at the Munich Residence palace in Munich, southern Germany. Ewald von Kleist, founder and long-time guiding figure of the Munich Security Conference, shaped the event for more than 30 years by strengthening the transatlantic security dialogue and helping integrate post-war Germany into NATO and the broader Cold War security framework. Since 2009, the conference has honored outstanding contributions to international understanding and conflict resolution through the Ewald von Kleist Award. (Photo by Michaela STACHE / AFP via Getty Images) Volodymyr Zelensky has suggested Ukraine should either be given nuclear weapons or Nato membershire in the future (Picture: Michaela Stache/AFP via Getty Images) Dmitry Peskov, the top spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, said such a move would be considered a ‘joint attack’ on Russia and called for national and international investigations into the claims. Putin ally and former president Dmitry Medvedev argued it would force Russia to use nuclear weapons on Ukraine and, ‘if necessary, against the supplier countries that become complicit’. Ukraine possessed nuclear weapons in the years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, but gave them up in December 1994 in return for security guarantees from countries including the UK, US and Russia. In October 2024, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested this looked like a mistake in hindsight, following the Russian invasion. But he also said that, given the choice between the security provided by a nuclear arsenal or the security provided by Nato membership, he would always choose Nato. This photo cannot be distributed in the Russian Federation. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ukrinform/Shutterstock (16692045m) Smoke rises from a house ruined by a Russian attack, Sofiivska Borshchahivka village, Kyiv region, Ukraine, February 22, 2026. In the early hours of February 22, Russian forces launched a massive strike on Ukraine using drones and missiles, with Kyiv and the Kyiv region among the targets. Emergency workers rescued a man while responding to the aftermath of the strike in Sofiivska
Palantir worked with Mandelson and Epstein. Palantir, Claude and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro Each week at our gatherings outside the HQ of Palantir, we will highlight different aspects of what we believe are the immoral, repulsive, and criminal actions and intentions of Palantir, its corporate leadership, and its staff. This week, Palantir initiated a lawsuit against the Swiss publication Republik because of an article about Palantir’s attempts to sell its AI software to Swiss authorities over the last seven years.The article cites an internal report from the Swiss Armed Forces that claims Palantir represents a threat to their reputation and to national security because of the company’s intimate connection to the United States. Palantir is suing Republik to demand a right of reply. Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, sprang into action, proclaiming that the Department of War’s AI “will work for us,” adding, “We’re building war-ready weapons and systems.” The Wall Street Journal claims Palantir played a key role in the terrorist attack on Venezuela. The seizure of President Maduro was carried out citing the preposterous excuse of enforcing a US arrest warrant. Of course, the US has no right to seize an alleged criminal in another country. This would require an extradition request. Donald Trump admitted that he simply wanted to seize control of Venezuela’s oil and control every country in the backyard of the United States. Immediately following this, the Trump administration claimed it had “the right” to seize Greenland and overthrow the governments of Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba. Now its military is preparing a new war of aggression against Iran. The seizure of Maduro matches the dictionary definition of the supreme crime under international law known as the Crime of Aggression. This is defined as: “the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over the political or military action of a state, of an act of aggression… Such an act of aggression includes: • invasion or military occupation, • bombardment, • seizure of territory, • overthrow or control of a government.” Palantir should be investigated for its role in aiding and abetting this Crime of Aggression, for its role in the illegal invasion, in the extrajudicial killings of Maduro’s guards, and in the kidnapping of a head of state. These are acts that constitute Crimes Against Humanity or War Crimes under international criminal law. If any individuals or teams at Palantir’s UK HQ were involved in the planning and execution of the capture of President Maduro, we believe that UK police should investigate their role in the following crimes under UK law:
Steve Hall on Peter Thiel and Nick Land – tech elites feeling like gods.
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over 220 so far. News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World Journalist Nick Turse (Fellow, Type Media Center) examines how, since the 2000s, national governments and terrorist groups – from Israel, Syria’s Assad regime and the United States to the Islamic State – have found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad means, from repressive policies to armed attack.All have killed journalists and helped to foster a culture of impunity, turning conflict zones like Syria and Gaza into “news graveyards.” War Reporters Killed The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. Worldwide, threats to journalists in conflict zones are increasing. In 2023, a journalist or media worker was, on average, killed or murdered every four days. In 2024, it was once every three days. Most reporters harmed or killed, as is the case in Gaza, are local journalists. Not only do local reporters face great risk, standing alone in the face of extraordinary violence; this also impairs news coverage and, as a result, the worldwide information ecosystem. The decreasing number of experienced foreign correspondents in conflict zones, due to long term shifts in the global news industry that have led to the de-prioritization of international news coverage and the closure of foreign news bureaus, has likewise crippled critical knowledge and helped facilitate the creation of news graveyards. Reliable information about wars and conflicts is essential for the wellbeing of local populations and is necessary to enlighten the world on the forces behind wars and the toll on civilians. Nick Turse is a fellow of the Type Media Center and was previously an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has reported on civilian harm in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia and from conflict zones across Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Somalia, and South Sudan. He has received a Ridenhour Prize for investigative reporting, a Military Reporters & Editors Association Award for Best Overseas Coverage, and a Deadline Club Award for Reporting by Independent Digital Media.
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Gaza War—Israel’s Ritual Human Sacrifice? | Prof. Jiang Xueqin – mass killing of enemies in wars. What I will argue though is that the truth is far more disturbing than this. What is really happening in Gaza is a ritual sacrifice and this happens quite often in human history. If you go back and you look at the real history of humanity, this happens quite often. Some of the most famous examples are the Aztecs. We’ve dug up temples of the Aztecs and inside the temples are thousands and thousands of human skulls. So before they went to war, they practiced human sacrifice. They would commit mass murder of their enemies in public . So the Aztecs were really famous for this. The Phoenicians, specifically the Carthaginians, we will discuss them later this semester but the Phoenicians were also famous for a particular type of sacrifice which is child sacrifice. The Romans wrote histories insulting the Phoenicians for practicing this sort of sacrifice. But the Romans themselves practice human sacrifice. What they would do is that after every major war they would capture all the major leaders, all their enemies and they would parade their enemies through the streets of Rome. This is something called the triumph. At the end of the triumph, they would gather enemies at the temple of Jupiter. Jupiter is their god. And then they would strangle to death their enemies. That’s sacrifice. That’s human sacrifice. They didn’t call it that, okay? And they sort of disguised it. But we know for a fact that they did do this. So the question for us is why is it that this happens? Why do the Aztecs do it? Why do the Phoenicians do it? Why the Romans do it? And why is it today the Israelis do it in Gaza? And remember, okay, um what the Israelis are doing is quite horrific because it is really this sort of sacrifice. Why? is 47% almost half of the population of Gaza is under 18 years old. So the majority of people who are getting killed are in fact children. What is most striking or blatant about what’s happening in Gaza is that we can all see it for ourselves. And it’s almost as though the Israelis want us to see it and want us to hate them. Right? You can see all over the world popular opinion is turning against Israel. You have these popular protests all around the world protesting what is happening in Palestine. If they really wanted to do this, right? There are actually much more effective ways of doing this. For example, you could just poison their water or you could poison the ear so that everyone in Gaza gets a fast cancer. Right? We have the technology to do this. So, so Israel could do it this secretly and no one would talk about it and in 20 years time, 30 years time, the population of Gaza would all be gone. It would be a very secret, right? Instead, they choose to do this in front of the world. And my argument to you is that this is intentional.
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RAF Fairford – US B1 bombers. Satellites for targeting. Ministry of Defence will not say how many Iranian civilians killed by ‘defensive’ US strikes from UK bases, as questions grow about Starmer’s stance Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is refusing to tell the media or parliament how many Iranian civilians have been killed by US bombing missions from British air bases. Officials are also not commenting on whether target lists for so-called “defensive” US strikes from British soil are approved by the UK before each mission, or if they are audited afterwards. Further questions about whether the US uses artificial intelligence to compile these target lists, or whether it is allowed to load banned cluster bombs at UK bases, were rebuffed. The silence casts serious doubt on Keir Starmer’s claim that Britain is not involved in the war and is only letting Donald Trump use British bases for a “specific, limited defensive purpose”. The prime minister said US strikes from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and the British-occupied Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia were “to destroy [Iran’s] missiles at source, in their storage depots or at their launchers.” When asked a series of simple questions about how Britain would monitor or enforce the target lists, the MoD and Attorney General’s Office refused to answer directly or make ministers available for an interview with Declassified. An MoD spokesperson said: “We won’t be providing a running commentary on our allies’ operations, including their use of our bases. “The United States has started using British bases for specific defensive operations to prevent Iran firing missiles into the region, which is putting British lives at risk.” This new goal of preventing Iran “firing missiles into the region” seems much broader than what is permitted by the government’s own legal advice. A summary of that position said the US should only use UK bases to “facilitate specific and limited defensive action against missile facilities in Iran which were involved in launching strikes at regional allies.” It is unclear how the UK can distinguish between missile stockpiles which Iran may need to lawfully retaliate against the US and Israel’s illegal attack, and those weapons that might be fired at civilian sites in the Gulf. Even in cases such as attacks on hotels in Bahrain, it has sometimes emerged that US troops were stationed inside. Professor Marc Weller, a former UN legal advisor, has said “it may not be realistic or practical to determine in each instance which Iranian missile facilities have targeted regional allies or, more to the point, which will do so in the future. Presumably some have been used to attack both Israel and US forces, and regional states. “Iran will certainly not be persuaded by this distinction. Its authorities will not be able to tell which US strikes launched from UK bases aim to protect UK regional allies, and which are part of the US’s overall aggressive campaign to subdue its government.”
CNBC – Epstein Files – redacted part where a 14 year old girl makes claims against Trump. Used for blackmail? 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser Has Key Details of Her Story Verified The story appeared in an FBI interview in the Epstein files. A woman who says Donald Trump abused her when she was 13 years old in 1984 shared information about her life that turned out to be true. While her story about Trump is still unproven, The Post and Courier, a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, was able to corroborate details of her life provided in recent releases from the federal government’s Jeffrey Epstein archives. The woman was interviewed four times by the FBI in 2019, detailing abuse she faced at the hands of Trump and Epstein. She gave details about her life and legal history that the newspaper was able to verify using news reports, court records, police reports, and government records from multiple states. None of the confirmed details are directly related to her allegations against Trump. In her interviews with the FBI, she describes Epstein’s activities in the mid-1980s on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, where the financier sexually assaulted minors. She said that Epstein constantly pressured her to find more girls to “come party,” describing his friends as “disgusting.” These so-called parties usually involved alcohol and drugs, and would turn violent with beatings and hair pulling. She said that Trump forced her to commit a sexual act on him around 1984 after she traveled to New York or New Jersey with Epstein. She detailed that one incident took place while Trump was developing a casino in Atlantic City. She was led to Trump in a “very tall building with huge rooms.” Trump allegedly told others to leave the room, and told her, “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” before unzipping his pants and forcing her to perform a sex act. She told the FBI that she “bit the (expletive) out of it,” which angered Trump, who slapped her and cursed. A friend of the woman also reported her allegations about Trump to the FBI, asking that her friend be protected, according to an email circulated around the bureau that the Justice Department made public. The woman herself named business associates of Epstein in North Carolina who also abused her, and the newspaper was able to identify some of them. In a statement to the newspaper, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the woman’s allegations were “baseless accusations from decades ago’’ that “are backed by zero evidence or facts. Leavitt described the accuser as “a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history.” But Trump has sought to diminish and bury every Epstein revelation that paints him in a negative light, and his critics will point to this woman’s account as one of the reasons why.
Jeffrey Epstein had two key aides – why do they still control his money and secrets? Jeffrey Epstein appointed two men to be executors of his estate – his accountant Richard Kahn and lawyer Darren Indyke When the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion in July 2019, on the day he was arrested for child sex trafficking, agents forced open a large safe to find diamonds, bundles of cash, passports, binders of CDs and hard drives. But an issue with the warrant meant they could not leave with the items. And when they returned with a new one, the safe had been emptied while they were gone – according to FBI documents. Richard Kahn, Epstein’s accountant and bookkeeper since 2005, had told the mansion’s staff to pack two suitcases with the contents of the safe and deliver them to his home, agents wrote. After the FBI spoke to Kahn’s then lawyer, Kahn agreed to hand over the suitcases untouched, but he did not want agents coming to his house and declined to say who had told him to remove the items. However, a source close to the investigation into Epstein told us that he was not aware of Kahn ever being interviewed or investigated in relation to the paedophile financier’s criminal investigation. Kahn’s current lawyer told BBC News that his client had fully co-operated with the FBI’s requests. Kahn asked staff at Epstein’s New York mansion to remove items from a safe, according to the FBI Kahn, and Epstein’s long-serving lawyer Darren Indyke, are the sole executors of Epstein’s estate, controlling all his wealth and possessions. Although hardly household names, the pair now hold control over compensation owed to survivors and the secrets contained in the documents still held by the Epstein estate – which, upon request, have been released to the House Oversight Committee. As part of its investigation into Epstein’s network, the congressional committee has subpoenaed – summoned – the pair to testify. Kahn is appearing on Wednesday 11 March, while Indyke is due to testify on Thursday 19 March. We have spoken to people associated with investigations linked to Epstein, looked through papers from multiple court cases, and analysed the most recent material released in the Epstein files by the US Department of Justice – to try to uncover more about the role the two men are alleged to have played in Epstein’s life and continue to play after his death. Epstein appointed Indyke and Kahn as co-executors in August 2019, just two days before he died in jail awaiting trial for sex-trafficking minors. He revised his will to transfer all his wealth into a trust named after the year of his birth, which the lawyer and accountant would administer. In their role as executors, Indyke and Kahn have agreed compensation packages paid to survivors and included conditions that prevented survivors who accepted funds from taking further legal action against them personally. Other claims are still outstanding. As beneficiaries of the trust, the men could also be paid tens of millions of dollars each from whatever remains when the claims are settled. Court filings claim that, either Indyke and Kahn – but often both of them – “had signatory authority over virtually all of the accounts held by Epstein”, which meant they were authorised to make transactions. They also helped to run multiple Epstein corporations – some of which, it is alleged in court filings, existed solely for the purpose of his sex-trafficking operation. Kahn’s lawyer told us “there is no basis for such claims” and that Epstein’s businesses didn’t operate to shield his activities; “virtually all of them were tax-filing entities whose ownership was never hidden”.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves takes on UK energy monopoly price fixing, profiteering or ‘gouging’ on how she’s going to deal with oil price rising. Energy companies ripping off consumers. How latest rise in oil prices will affect cost of petrol and inflation Rising petrol, energy bills, food shop and mortgages- how the Iran war trickles down into your wallet As the Iran war continues to escalate, all eyes are on the price of oil as fears mount over a global energy crisis. Brent prices spiked earlier this week, reaching almost $120 per barrel, and are currently around 40 per cent higher than they were when the first strikes on Iran were launched by Israel and the US at the start of the month. In retaliation, Iran kept its stranglehold on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil transits on its way from the Persian Gulf to the open seas, crippling oil prices. So how does this affect you? Oil prices, benchmarked globally by Brent crude from the North Sea, fluctuate based on supply and demand. The longer that the price of oil is high, the more difficult it is to absorb those spikes, making it more likely people will feel the cost at home. Beyond higher heating bills, rising oil costs increase manufacturing and transport expenses, inflating the prices of food and most other goods and services. “You never know exactly the timeframe of this, but, in the worst case, this is a weeks, not a months thing,” US energy secretary Chris Wright said earlier this week. But the longer it goes on, the more likely it is that prices remain higher afterwards. Here is what will be affected by the ongoing conflict: Petrol Iran has cut its oil output drastically, now only producing a quarter of what it was before the first US strikes fell. “This is roughly 3 per cent of global oil supply lost in a single event. Shockingly, this is worse than the oil supply situation after Russia attacked Ukraine,” noted XTB research director Kathleen Brooks. Petrol prices in the UK have been rising since the conflict in the Middle East started, up between 4p and 8p to hit their highest in nearly 20 months. The RAC said diesel prices had risen by nearly 9 per cent since 28 February. Petrol prices were on average 6 per cent more across the same period. The government has said drivers can compare prices at different petrol stations across the UK through its fuel finder scheme, which has also been welcomed by the AA. The cost of heating oil has already doubled, which affects customers using home heating oil, as it is not covered by Ofgem’s energy price cap. Inflation and interest rates While we don’t know the figures just yet, we do know that if costs of energy, raw materials and labour go up, prices go up in response- this is inflation. If prices start to surge again, one of the key measures the Bank of England has to control inflation is to raise interest rates. “Markets are already pricing in the unwelcome return of uncomfortable levels of inflation, with bond yields rising significantly and investors eyeing the UK as particularly sensitive to an energy shock,” Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, said. “Preventing inflation from spiralling once again will be at the forefront of rate setters’ minds when they sit down to rewrite the Bank’s playbook next week. “The key consideration will be the duration of the conflict, and whether it ends decisively or if attacks on shipping and energy infrastructure continue beyond any declaration of victory by the US president.” Mortgages The interest rate going up means you pay more on the amount you’ve borrowed, if you don’t have a fixed deal. Some lenders have now raised their rates on new fixed-term mortgages. NatWest, TSB, HSBC, Nationwide, Santander, the Co-operative Bank and Skipton Building Society are among those to have done so in the past week or so. Typically, mortgage deals on the market don’t change in direct line with the Bank of England base rate, they move up and down in anticipation of what might happen in future – with the swap rates, as they are termed. Up until recently, mortgage prices had been headed downwards, but with this new threat to a possible rise in interest rates, swap rates have edged up.
July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe Slater and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets had been left in the building by a recent guest (who denied it) making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. To quote: ‘Please let us know when you or Dave would like to come and retrieve your equipment and drop off your keys. Kind regards’ PRSC Directors (Keith Cowling, chair) PRSC / Stokes Croft China 17-35 Jamaica St Bristol BS2 8JP. Chloe Slater (formerly Jez and self-defined as ‘she’) also made it difficult for us to retrieve the last of our equipment by inferring we couldn’t be trusted, we were made to wait outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk in December 2024. 
[UPDATE channel restored by YT in July 2025] October 2022 – Tony’s Public Enquiry Channel opened in March 2008, with 13 million views, over 1,600 videos and 26,000 subscribers is removed under false pretences by YouTube – A video Tony recorded in New Zealand ‘Bill Gates, ID2020 & Revelation: Quaker Tony Gosling on Covid 19 & the Bible’ and uploaded on 8th April 2020 got a ‘third strike’ but YouTube’s ‘medical misinformation’ regime was introduced in September 2021 so should not have included as ‘strikes’ videos uploaded before that date. Documentary makers are just about the only public interest investigators left in the NATO zone. From the top down, our mainstream media, police, political parties & intelligence services are being compromised by feudal banksters, secret societies and the mafia. Key people intimidated by psychopathic black magic types and their pliable drones who will even kill to take over positions of power? Just search for “John Scarlett” and “Dodgy Dossier” and you’ll see what I mean. The Zionists are every bit as fundamentalist and twisted as the leaders and followers of ISIS. Register here and join us in the discussion as we wriggle free of the psychopaths, back to sanity http://www.911forum.org.uk
March 2020 – BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only by station manager Pat Hart. He decided the show should be ‘rested, due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 and then refused to communicate at all when we requested to do the show remotely. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a longtime personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 21:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with an inane student show repeating MSM stories called The Bristol Agenda. If you’d like to share your views on his deliberate dumbing-down and pro-Covid jab mismanagement you can contact UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom or BCfm board chair and the ‘Don’ himself, here.
February 2019 – Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories – It could have resulted in BCfm radio station being shut down if the complaint was upheld Tony Gosling reported to Ofcom by UK Lawyers for Israel after being accused of anti-semitism A Bristol radio station, which had one of its programmes reported for anti-semitism and racism has been cleared by Ofcom. The radio regulatory body received a complaint from “UK Lawyers for Israel’ over a show on BCfm radio, hosted by investigative journalist Tony Gosling. The weekly politics show, on the popular community radio station based in Easton, was reported for several allegations on a show which aired on November 23. Tony Gosling, who was a former BBC journalist between 1989 and 1993, has been producing and presenting ‘The Tony Gosling Politics’ show every week on BCFM radio for 11 years. They have released a statement which reads: “Whilst we are supportive of all our volunteer presenters, The Tony Gosling Politics Show only represents approximately ten percent of our political output content wise, and less than two per cent of our entire weekly output.” Mr Gosling’s programme looks at local politics and he interviews a range of councillors and MPs in the city. The show is also perhaps more well known for its alternative look at international politics, and he has a cult following online from across the world. Mr Gosling has made regular appearances on national media including the politics show with Andrew Neil on BBC One, and international channels such as Russia Today, Channel1 Russia, NTV, and recently for both Turkish and Lebanon TV.
November 2012 – Tony gets death threats on the phone from the Jewish Defence League – ‘you’re a dead man walking’ – a man calls him and Tony records the call. Audio of UK Jewish Defence League (JDL) death threat against British journalist Tony Gosling (2012) – Avon and Somerset police Special Branch investigate, trace the caller, and after six months report to Tony that the individual has been served a caution that they will proceed with a prosecution for harassment under the 1861 offences against the person act. Seems pretty clear this death threat was issued alongside the lies, copied below, which were published on their blog by London based UK JDL in November 2012. Firstly Tony Gosling is not a ‘homophobe’. That accusation was first made in an article published by the ‘Harry’s Place’ blog, penned by Zionist David Toube and propelled by him anonymously into Private Eye in 2008. It refers to Gosling’s criticism of senior teachers at Bannerman Road Primary school in Bristol who used homosexual early learning picture books against the express wishes of the parent governors. His criticism was about the deception by teaching staff not because of the homosexual content of the books. Secondly, if you follow the JDL link you’ll find what Tony Gosling actually says about the ‘Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion’ says “…I don’t think there is much doubt that the Protocols are fake…” Thirdly he is not a member of Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign and has never been to any of their meetings.
Autumn 2014 – Tony’s documentary production and distribution business shut down by its bank. Our thriving Co-op business bank account ordered closed for undisclosed reasons. Tony Gosling and Ben Edwards founded i-Contact Video Network to distribute documentaries on VHS video and DVD and to make their own documentaries as well as attend news events and sell video footage to TV news channels. Amongst the films we distributed were Operation Solstice, Coconut Revolution, Mark Purdey and Organophosphates, McLibel, 9/11 In Plane Site, Ludicrous Diversion and The Battle of Trafalgar. These, plus books, and even a board game about drug dealing ‘Dollars and Dibble’, were all available via mail order and we supplied libraries around the world too. The bank had clearly been ordered to investigate us for money laundering, although they never admitted it. All the questions they asked Ben and I were about proving our identity through passports etc.. When we did, yet more letters kept arriving demanding more proofs, birth certificates etc. and eventually when one of us missed supplying the required information, within a week or so of being asked, the account was summarily closed and we got a cheque made out to one of us with the few hundred pounds that was in the business bank account. Since neither of us could get a business bank account up and running for at least a few months and the bank account meant nobody could any longer use the website, we made the reluctant decision to shut it down. Thus was a thriving business killed off by the Co_operative bank. Having said that, co-op were not quite the worst. We did apply to open an account at Bristol’s ‘ethical’ Triodos bank, who proceeded to string us along for several months and then said our business was too risky for them to provide an account! 
David Hearst, Editor of Middle East Eye, on war being part of plan for a Greater Israel, and India supporting Israel. Centcom based in Qatar. US airbases reduced to rubble. Netanyahu now preparing for India to replace the US as its main funder! 
