- “Rishi Sunak begs angry Tories to return after by-election carnage” – Rishi Sunak blames the Tories two by-election losses in Wellingborough and Kingswood on low turnout and warns that voting Reform would “put Keir Starmer in power”, reports the Mail.
- “Reform is not just a flash in the pan, these results show it holds the key to Tory re-election” – The right-of-centre party came third in both Wellingborough and Kingswood achieving double digit percentages of the vote, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reform secure best by-election result – are they a threat to Tories?” – Election experts say the by-election results “backed up” Reform’s national opinion polling, which has seen the party hover around 10% for weeks, says the Mail.
- “The Tories should be worried about Reform” – The Tories failed on all the traditional vote-winning concerns: the economy and taxation, the state of the NHS, the criminal justice system, according to Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Reform is obliterating the Tories. It’s too late to avoid electoral catastrophe” – Big tax cuts might have prevented these by-election disasters, but Mr Sunak chose otherwise, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The Tories laughed as we launched Reform U.K. – they’re not laughing now” – Conservative MPs deserve to face electoral oblivion for their woeful performance, says Richard Tice in the Telegraph.
- “‘Zero tolerance’ policing and tackling ‘woke madness’: Reform U.K.’s pledges at a glance” – The right-of-centre party wants to make ‘tough decisions’ and have ‘difficult conversations’ about the future of the country, according to the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage considers comeback as Reform Party leader” – Reform took home 10.8% of the vote in the Kingswood by-election and 13% in Wellingborough, prompting Farage to show fresh interest in becoming leader of the party, says the Times.
- “Nigel Farage vows to make life ‘very difficult’ for new NatWest boss” – NatWest Group has appointed Paul Thwaite as its permanent Chief Exec, succeeding Dame Alison Rose who stepped down in the wake of the Nigel Farage debanking row last year, reports the Mail.
- “Navalny’s Hell on Earth” – The FKU IK-3 penal colony, where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was murdered, is a Soviet-era prison camp located deep in the Arctic Circle, says the Mail.
- “The Navalny I knew was moral, witty and charming – unlike his nemesis Putin” – the opposition leader’s defiance and optimism were dangerous weapons that the Russian leader had no idea how to counter, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Putin, you will answer for what you did to my husband’” – “If it’s true, I want Putin, his whole crew and all of his friends to know that they will answer for what they have done to our country, my family and my husband,” says Navalny’s widow, according to the Mail. “That day will come very soon.”
- “Putin must pay for ‘murder’ of Navalny, say world leaders” – Joe Biden among world leaders to speak out against Russian regime after concluding Putin was responsible for the death of Navalny, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s plan to slap VAT on school fees is a tax on aspiration” – The idea that private schools are solely the preserve of the rich is a colossal misconception, says Inaya Folarin Iman in the Mail.
- “Where is the ECHR when Brits are having properties seized for asylum-seekers?” – Human rights activists don’t seem that bothered when the right to property is breached, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “How Sadiq Khan came up with names of the six London Overground lines” – The Labour Mayor gave branding firm DNCO five months and £115,275 of taxpayers’ money to come up with the names Lioness, Mildmay, Windrush, Weaver, Suffragette and Liberty, reports the Mail.
- “Maybe we shouldn’t be ‘annoying all the right people’” – On his Substack, Ed West reflects that politicising commonly shared amenities to ‘annoy all the right people’ may not be the best way to run a city.
- “MS Society defends axing volunteer, 90, who was confused over pronouns” – Fran Itkoff was fired after 60 years of voluntary service with the National Multiple Scelorsis Society because she was unable to master modern-day pronoun use, according the Mail.
- “The Maoist cruelty behind the trans crusade” – The ousting of a 90 year-old charity worker for querying preferred pronouns is a new low for the woke movement, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Le Tissier says he has ‘zero regrets’ about his conspiracy theories” – Matt Le Tissier has insisted he has no regrets over his sceptical views about the Covid vaccines, reprots the Mail.
- “Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?” – It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the U.K.’s COVID-19 Inquiry will be the most expensive pantomime of all time, says Gary Sidley in the Critic.
- “Skin cancer diagnosis delays caused by lockdowns led to 12,000 years of life lost” – Scientific analysis of records from more than 50,000 patients calculated how their disease would have progressed if their treatment hadn’t been delayed by the lockdown, says the Telegraph.
- “Royal College of GPs forced into U-turn after cancelling gender-critical doctors’ conference” – A Labour peer is “shocked and disappointed that medical body tried to close down debate on important clinical issue”, reports the Telegraph.
- “What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?” – In the Critic, Freddie Attenborough writes about the latest trans row to engulf Edinburgh University.
- “Exeter Under Ideology” – Left-wing race and gender theory have devoured a once-prestigious American private school, says Christopher Rufo in City Journal.
- “John Lewis branded ‘irresponsible’ by GPs over breast binder advice for transgender children” – The recommendation in the department store’s magazine for 70,000 staff members that trans adolescent girls should try breast binders has been condemned by doctors, reports the Telegraph.
- “Donald Trump in court: attempt to delay Stormy Daniels case rejected” – Donald Trump will face a criminal trial next month over the allegation he paid hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels, says the Times.
- “Trump must pay more than $350 million for fraudulently inflating income, judge rules” – In another blow to the presidential hopeful, Judge Arthur Engoron finds that Trump and his co-defendants submitted “blatantly false financial data” and must pay a huge fine, according to the Telegraph.
- “Meta, Amazon, Google and others shed 3,071 staff in do-goody ‘ESG’ roles” – More people left ESG jobs than started them for much of 2023, marking the reversal of a previously-growing sector, reports the Mail.
- “JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock drop out of massive UN climate alliance in stunning move” – JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock and State Street confirmed they are exiting the world’s largest climate alliance which seeks to push investors away from funding the fossil fuel sector, says Fox Business.
- “Satellite photos show Egypt building a wall near Gaza Strip as Israeli offensive on Rafah looms” – Egypt is building a wall and is levelling land near its border with the Gaza Strip, according to AP News.
- “‘Run by the Mob’: How Anti-Semites Took Over Stanford’s Campus” – On January 24th, Stanford University held a forum on combating antisemitism which quickly descended into an antisemitic hate fest, reports the Free Beacon.
- “As the air goes out of Just Stop Oil, new tyre deflaters hit the streets” – Climate campaigners targeted a middle class street in Fulham earlier this week, deflating the tyres of a car that belonged to a handicapped women who couldn’t then take her child to hospital, says the Times.
- “Cambridge is biased against rich white boys, says ‘anti-woke’ vice-chancellor” – James Tooley, Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, warns that diversity targets are discriminating against straight white males, reports the Times.
- “Met Office’s stormy January was just average” – January was in fact no more stormy than usual, reports Paul Homewood in TCW – Defending Freedom.
- “Neoracism, Finally on Defense” – Coleman Hughes has written a great book defending colour-blindness in American public life, says Andrew Sullivan on his Substack.
- “We didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings” – Ex-Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains to the Free Press’s Bari Weiss how his copper-bottomed finding that black Americans were no more likely to be killed by the police than whites caused an absolute meltdown among his academic colleagues, who strongly advised him not to publish.
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All politicians are corrupt, but some are more corrupt than others!
I kind of wish people would stop going on about this stuff. It’s just a distraction from how damaging the policies are.
We know their policies are damaging but we will wait a long time until they can be chucked out on that basis- and by that time it will be too late.
The more it can be demonstrated how much sleaze is going on (especially Rayner’s dirty weekend away courtesy of wealthy backers) the shakier their foundations become.
I have to disagree. I want people to reject the woke socialism of the Uniparty (all of them except Reform), not carry on as part of the Punch and Judy show that politics has become. My aspirations for a future government are for it to do less of almost everything and do the bare essentials with more vigour. I’m afraid a lot of people just want the government/state to make everything wonderful.
Presumably bribery and corruptions laws don’t apply to politicians? LoL
KJ Keen ( Posie Parker ) speaking about her latest ‘Attack of the Killer Tomato ( Soup )’ by an unhinged woman-hating bloke. I am of the opinion that a large number of incels have rebranded themselves as trans activists. Misogyny comes in various forms. Where’s Yvette Cooper and her ”extreme misogyny = terrorism” when you need her? Amazing how many men are triggered by women exercising their right to free speech, isn’t it? Look no further than the recent example of Hatun Tash at Speaker’s Corner I shared. There’s never Muslim women there, jeering and intimidating Christians and Jews who are speaking, only ever men. So there’s your two ”harmful ideologies” demonstrating ”extreme misogyny” on the regular, Mrs Cooper. What you going to do about it, other than employ two-tier policing/justice?
”She said: ‘It just feels from an operational level that our safety is not taken very seriously. The threat of the trans activists is not taken very seriously.’
Ms Keen believes the trans activism is ‘rife in the universities’, adding: ‘I think it’s very frightening how much power this cult seems to yield.’
She welcomed police quickly charging Lindsay but fears that he may be given a light sentencing – as she hit out at the heavy jail terms handed out to rioters who made despicable comments online.
Ms Keen continued: ‘I’m just very aware, over the last few months in this country people have been whipped into court, probably been given terrible legal advice and they’ve been told that if they plead guilty everything’s going to be fine and dandy, and then they’re going to prison for 15 months for a Facebook post that might be a shameful, despicable thing to say.
‘But I’m thinking… if he gets less than 15 months inside for what I consider an act of terrorism, which under the stipulation of what terrorism is, which is an act with a political aim, and the aim here is to stop women speaking, I would really hope that he gets longer inside than a pensioner saying something off colour online, or even vile, online.
A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said: ‘A 34-year-old man has been charged with two counts of assault by beating following an incident in Sheffield city centre earlier today (21 September).”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13878953/moment-women-rights-campaigner-kellie-jay-keen-doused-soup-rally-sheffield.html
And it’s going to get even better for them.
What most people don’t realise is that anyone of school age today is going to be spoilt for choice when it comes to finding jobs.
As the population ages, the workforce is going to shrink and there aren’t going to be enough people to fill the necessary jobs. The few people who are left of working age will be able to command big wages as employers fight over them.
“As the population ages, the workforce is going to shrink and there aren’t going to be enough (properly trained) people to fill the necessary jobs”
Setting your own questions in exams and passing them on lower grades will eventually show them up in the coming years, an easy pass in life = quality in the work force will plummet!
That’s if you think school exams prepare you well for adult work.
That’s also if you think that it’s the current generation of kids who are the ones proposing setting their own exams. But the last time I checked, it was not the idea of children, but of (some of) the people in charge of the education system. i.e. current grown ups who presumably at some point did quite well in school exams and went through the education system some 20 or 30 years ago.
In my experience people rise to the challenges they face when they are presented with them. Those who want to learn to do a job will, despite their prior education (or miseducation).
Labour’s freebies are neither shameless or stupid.
They are the deliberate actions of militant communists who have seized power with a massive Parliamentary majority for the next 5 years.
If you’ve followed the Obama/Biden/Harris playbook since 2020, as they are, you can see what’s coming next.
Time to stop bleating, start mobilising against them.
There are more of us than them.
“Far-Right life coach taking Brazil by storm after rival smashes chair over his head in TV debate”
So this is how the left defines “love not hate”? So long as you love what we love?
“Lab grown meat could contribute to the health of the nation.”
Lab grown meat = ultra-processed food = metabolic disease = early death
Just like the lab engineered MRNA vaccines/
“‘Lab grown meat could contribute to the health of the nation’”
The health of Bill Gates bank balance, more like.
“No Brainer with Angela Rayner.” Absolutely superb. Top class.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mystery-of-andrew-bridgens-vanishing-votes/
Have a read of this article and conclude that our elections are 100% fair and free from manipulation.
As someone who has been involved in every election since 2019 I am confident in asserting that they are not. Elections are rigged although perhaps not as blatantly as the case for poor Andrew Bridgen.