- “Anger, denials and apathy over Tory ‘plots’ to oust Rishi Sunak” – In the Times, Steven Swinford identifies the moment of maximum danger for the PM as immediately after the May local elections.
- “Kemi Badenoch dismisses speculation about ousting Rishi Sunak” – The Business Secretary says that the “small minority” of Tory MPs talking about replacing the PM should “stop it”, according to the BBC.
- “Mordaunt could lose seat – so stick with Sunak, say PM’s allies” – Penny Mordaunt is at risk of losing her seat at the next election, according to current polling – an argument allies of Rishi Sunak are using to warn against a leadership change, reports the Telegraph.
- “Penny Mordaunt is a red herring only ‘Howard’s Way’ could save the Tories” – The prospectus Michael Howard put before the country in 2005 would sweep the board two decades later. But this generation of Tory MPs will never offer us that, says Patrick O’Flynn on Substack.
- “March towards the guns, Ben Wallace tells Tory MPs” – The former Defence Secretary says it is “too late” to replace Rishi Sunak and it is time for Conservative MPs to “march towards the sound of the guns” and “get on with it”, reports the Telegraph. Into the valley of death rode the 348…
- “Netanyahu says Israel won’t accept Gaza peace deal” – The Israeli PM says the country won’t accept a Gaza peace deal that leaves Israel “weak” and “unable to defend itself” against hostile neighbours, according to the Mail.
- “The future of the lab leak theory” – Now that a lab leak seems all but certain, what can be learnt from a deeper enquiry? A lot, says Dr. Jonathan Latham in Independent Science News.
- “Migration surge drives London population to new record” – London’s population has surged to a new record high after a sharp rise in migration and a reversal of the Covid-era ‘race for space’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Home Office ‘wastes millions’ converting Dambusters base into asylum camp” – The Home Office has been accused of wasting tens of millions of pounds on converting the Dambusters’ former base into an asylum camp without a single migrant being housed on it, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Multiculturalism’ is damaging our society. There is only one way to stop it” – It was foolish to think we could integrate so many people from different cultures in so little time. We must reduce immigration – and fast, warns Ben Habib in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s private school tax raid ‘could cost taxpayer £1.6 billion a year’” – A new report suggests Labour’s private school tax raid could cost the taxpayer £1.6 billion a year if it forces a quarter of pupils into the state sector, reports the Telegraph.
- “Humza’s Hate Crime Act is an authoritarian mess” – The Mail’s Stephen Daisley reacts to the chilling new law which aims to police what Scots say in their own homes.
- “German domestic intelligence services target political dissidents considered guilty of ‘delegitimising’ the state in yet another ominous development reminiscent of the DDR” – We were always told that, in the West, unlike in totalitarian countries, you can criticise your government and your politicians all you like. In Germany, that’s no longer the case, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups” – The University of Cambridge will halt funding from fossil fuel companies – totalling £19.7 million from BP and Shell between 2016 and 2023 in research funding – following a campaign from its students and academics, according to the FT.
- “97% of scientists agree climate change is manmade… or do they?” – On Substack, Mr. Ed takes a wrecking ball to the 97% climate change myth.
- “BBC ‘should stop straying from Agatha Christie’s storylines’” – Award-winning author and Agatha Christie expert Andrew Wilson says the BBC has committed a number of offences against her original work, according to the Mail.
- “Is enjoying the countryside racist?” – Taxpayer money is no longer merely being used to enable wokery, but to incentivise it, says Tom Jones in CapX.
- “Cambridge University doesn’t need DEI” – Affirmative action is an affront to meritocracy, writes Prof. David Abulafia in UnHerd.
- “Will Keir Starmer legalise euthanasia?” – On the latest episode of The Current Thing podcast, Nick Dixon sits down with Rev. Dr. Jamie Franklin to discuss Starmer’s push for euthanasia, Sunak’s spiritually bereft woolly liberalism and the benefits of aristocracy over meritocracy.
- “France could introduce ‘hair discrimination’ law in the workplace” – The French Parliament will debate a proposed law tackling racist “hair discrimination” in the workplace, according to the Telegraph.
- “Are Hamas misunderstood?” – Performing at London’s Comedy Unleashed, Andrew Doyle unravels the true meaning behind such terms as ‘jihad’, ‘intifada’ and ‘from the river to the sea’.
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“Anger, denials and apathy over Tory ‘plots’ to oust Rishi Sunak”
Awkward news for them today:
Rishi Sunak’s 4-month-old nephew becomes multimillionaire after receiving £22m gift from grandfather | The Independent
Because “grandfather” Murthy, founder of Infosys, added Liberty Global and HORIZON to his holdings, and stands to lose £millions if those Pesky Postmasters win their full, rightful compensation. No wonder his Billionaire son-in-law Sunak gave orders to stall the compensation payments…
“Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups” – The University of Cambridge will halt funding from fossil fuel companies – totalling £19.7 million from BP and Shell between 2016 and 2023 in research funding – following a campaign from its students and academics, according to the FT.
Excellent news. The oil companies (and others) should stop giving money to people who hate them.
Why was Obama at Downing Street 🤔
Offering Mr Sunak a job for after the election.
Nice one! 🙂 I read that both Sunak and his wife have had their American “Green Cards” ready for years, so they can go over there later, using their £billions to get top positions in the government.
“Will Keir Starmer legalise euthanasia?” Few people notice that Third World ethnic groups are also keen to promote euthanasia, not for themselves, but for the World’s Smallest Ethnic group, which comprise the vast majority of euthanasia “clients”.
“France could introduce ‘hair discrimination’ law in the workplace” There’s a very good reason for banning hairstyles that prevent other students from seeing the teacher and the blackboard/ powerpoint teaching materials at the front of the class. The African students should spend less time preening and more time studying.
“Is enjoying the countryside racist?” No, we don’t need to encourage more people to swarm into the countryside, or it soon won’t be countryside any longer.
I like the sign erected by one farmer harassed by city folk and their dogs on his land:
“Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.”
O/T
Joshia Rosenburg’s substack reports claims that government oversight bodies are too weak. The correct response is to abolish them all and tell elected MPs to do their job or step aside.
Among these bodies are ones which decide who gets appointed. One report writer is former “commissioner for public appointments” Sir Peter Eiddell. So now we know who is to blame for the overwhelming left wing and Whitehall bias in public appointments. Now we know who choses serially useless people to oversee them.
A populist government wiould throw them all out. The Tories have done nothing to reduce the dominance of the elitists and left wing stance so we can conclude they approve.
Just when you thought it was all over…. My Dentist’s surgery still has a relevant on line questionnaire (along with lots of private details) that one has to review and update before turning up. Answers all no, in my case.
Did they ask you what your pronouns are too?
My optician, since covid, still phones up the day prior to your appointment to make sure you haven’t got ‘a cough or cold, flu, covid or norovirus’. Prior to 2020 this never happened. (I don’t honestly think I’d risk a trip to the optician if I had norovirus!)
I think I would be changing my optician.
My old ones stayed covidian, so I looked for a new one locally – all looked fine until it came to booking an eye test and the eye test lady, who was a locum, was following her professional body guidance regarding masks. So I told the shop owner I was pulling out. Called me back the next day to say that he’d spoken to the eye test lady and I didn’t need to bother, got my eyes tested and spent ££££s on new lenses in his shop – win-win. Sometimes especially with small businesses where the owner wants to make a living it’s worth pushing back.
Home Office ‘wastes millions’ converting Dambusters base into asylum camp”
Well, if it isn’t being used for illegals, perhaps the accommodation could be offered to homeless indigenous people?
They don’t want any of that ‘free speech’, anti-immigration nonsense in Switzerland ( or anywhere, for that matter ) either. Maybe this guy also has a poster of Hitler on his wall so that makes his arrest entirely justified, of course. Being ‘far-right’ is a crime these days, seemingly;
”Conservative activist Martin Sellner, of Génération Identitaire, was prevented from giving a speech at an event in Switzerland addressing the dangers of European nations taking in migrants.
Sellner shared on X that he had been invited by a local group, Junge Tat (Young Deed), to “talk about remigration and the ethnic vote” and what happened at a recent meeting in Germany.
Sellner said he spoke for a few minutes, and then the electricity was turned off, and he was taken to a police station, then told he was thrown out of Aargau canton (state) and escorted to Zurich.
Regional police said in a statement that they tracked down the Junge Tat event in the small town of Tegerfelden on Saturday after receiving a number of tips. They found some 100 people at the venue and said that, after the landlady found out about the contents of the planned meeting, she canceled… Read more »
You missed the DT getting the date of April Fools wrong, and printing a piece by Tedros 🙂
For centuries we have plundered our planet. Now we are paying the price.
That video above is funny. Of course, the resident groups: The Miserable Git Association and Terrorist Supporters R Us will disagree and find it offensive. Moving on….the authoritarian French government showing their true colours. Peaceful protestors are as bad as Islamic extremist groups, apparently, and must be banned;
”In a massive crackdown on patriotic activists working to halt mass immigration to France, 12 arrests have been made of former Generation Identity members for “reforming” an illegal group under the name Argos. The French Interior Ministry indicated that four more individuals were being sought by police.
As Remix News has documented, the Generation Identity organization was banned in 2021 by French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin after it staged several peaceful and legal demonstrations against the government’s pro-migration stance. In a series of interviews, a number of the activists involved in the organization spoke to Remix News about the ban, the legal consequences, and the repression of their right to protest.
However, some of these activists created a new group known as Argos, which has been involved in several prominent protests. Now, Darmanin is targeting the new group, with the Paris prosecutor’s office indicating the Argos members are being charged with pursuing the “offense of… Read more »