- “Secret letters that show Iran’s £200 million payments to Hamas” – Israel has recovered correspondence that shows the extent of Tehran’s support for Hamas, reports the Times.
- “Israel is running out of options” – Everyone who stands any chance of leading Israel knows that the only way to stop the ‘cycle of violence’ is for Israel to win, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “U.K.-funded French cops watch migrants illegally cross English Channel” – British-funded French police have been filmed standing by and watching as dozens of migrants sprinted across beaches to board small boats and cross the English Channel, reports the Mail.
- “A new survey that may be of interest” – Is there anybody in the country who doesn’t laugh or sneer when our intelligence services or some quango tell us, with a straight face, that the greatest threat in this country comes from Right-wing extremism? asks Rod Liddle in the Spectator. In fact, a new survey from the Henry Jackson Society shows a substantial minority of British Muslims revere Hamas, hate Israel and wish to see our own country governed by Sharia law.
- “U.K. ONS denies request from seven MPs by claiming that the vaccines are safe so there is no need to do any analysis that might show otherwise” – There is a huge excess mortality problem in the U.K. Nobody can explain it. The reason is simple: the staff at the U.K. ONS is standing in the way of transparency, says Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “Hate crime call handlers given script defending Humza Yousaf” – Police Scotland staff have been given a script defending Humza Yousaf after he faced a deluge of hate crime reports for his 2020 ‘white’ speech, according to the Telegraph.
- “The real reason why Angela Rayner won’t reveal her tax affairs” – It appears that Ms. Rayner did not pay any capital gains on the £48,500 profit she made on the sale of her home in Stockport because she nominated it as her main residence to HMRC, says Ben Wilkinson in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer refuses to say he has ‘100%’ confidence in Angela Rayner” – Keir Starmer’s not coming out and saying he’s fully behind Angela Rayner in the row over the sale of her former home, reports the Telegraph.
- “Punishing non-doms is class war populism” – Both the Labour and Conservative parties are engaged in an unedifying bidding war as to which of them will tax rich foreigners the most, writes Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “Liz Truss was right about the creeping dominance of the OBR” – The Office for Budget Responsibility has become a super-modeller, set to work on everything from immigration to house prices, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “The Free Speech Union’s key role in developing government legislation” – In the Byline Times, Karam Bales exposes the Free Speech Union’s dastardly role in persuading the Government to protect academic freedom.
- “Harold Wilson had secret affair in No.10 – and this one wasn’t with his secretary” – Former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s closest surviving aide reveals that he confessed to an extramarital affair with a woman 22 years his junior while in Downing Street, according to the Telegraph.
- “Telegraph suitor Marshall to quit board of GB News owner” – Hedge fund tycoon Sir Paul Marshall is preparing to step down from the board of GB News’s parent company as he eyes a renewed bid to acquire the Daily Telegraph, reports Sky News.
- “Royal Navy recruits no longer need to prove that they can swim” – Anyone seeking to join the Royal Navy will no longer need to prove they can swim, in what one defence source called a “desperate” relaxing of standards to tackle a recruitment crisis, say Sky News.
- “Heat pump owners host visitor days in scramble to increase demand” – Heat pump owners are set to open their homes to prospective buyers as Britain aims to increase demand for the technology in its push towards Net Zero targets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero ban on petrol cars is wrong, says Aston Martin owner” – Aston Martin’s boss says a Net Zero ban on petrol cars would be “premature” due to the current weakened demand for electric vehicles, according to Proactive Financial News.
- “The irresponsibility of ‘two years to save the planet’” – It is easy to condemn young climate protesters for their incoherent ramblings, but they have been traumatised by the sensationalist rhetoric of UN officials and others vying to outdo each other in apocalyptic language, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Streeting admits he was wrong to say transgender women are women” – Wes Streeting admits he was wrong to say that “trans women are women” amid a major Labour row over the Cass Report, reports the Telegraph.
- “Father Ted’s Graham Linehan demands crime probe into trans charities” – Graham Linehan is demanding criminal investigations into pro-trans charities Mermaids and Stonewall in the wake of the Cass Report, says the Mail.
- “J.K. Rowling’s magic circle of trust: who backed author during trans row?” – J.K. Rowling has lost the support of many stars whose careers were launched by the boy wizard, but she can count on a close network of supporters to back her up, writes Jon Brady in the Mail.
- “The Cass review shames the gay-rights establishment” – ‘Gender-affirming care’ has always been gay conversion therapy by another name, says Andrew Doyle in Spiked.
- “Those in the sceptical movement must stop fighting each other” – Valuing diverse perspectives is crucial, but attacking characters and outright dismissing differing opinions is unjust, counterproductive and harms our cause, argues Dr. Gary Sidley.
- “Neurologist reveals how much time you should spend on social media” – A neuroscientist lifts the lid on how much time you should spend on social media per day, detailing why endless scrolling can cause serious issues, says the Mail.
- “How America’s next Civil War could unfold: ‘It’s looming – the battle lines have already been drawn’” – Alex Garland’s new film Civil War imagines sectarian conflict tearing apart the United States. How realistic is its vision – and could it actually happen? asks Colin Freeman in the Telegraph.
- “All these gender critical figures are now being proved right” – Nick Dixon, Leo Kearse and Scott Capurro on GB News praise J.K. Rowling for saying she’s in no mood to forgive the Harry Potter actors who turned on her.
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Good work, gve that man an award.
I suspect he was on the tax payer teet before the last election.
The stabbing of three girls in Southport last July. Is that all it was, really?
Not the brutal murder of 3 young innocent children?
It’s almost like they are trying to erase this truly horrific event.
Its an outrage!
The Telegraph journalist may not have intended to downplay the significance and seriousness of this horrific event, but the seemingly casual glossing over of those awful murders seems to suggest it was an insignificant event.
I truly feel for the parents of those children, its almost like society has forgotten about their tragic loss. Or is being forced to forget!
Well I’ll be closely watching proceedings and anything being reported online 20th Jan> regarding the mass child-killer because I couldn’t give a toss about a U.S President’s inauguration, which is only a one day event anyway. These trials will last weeks. Plus it’s the trial of that other migrant who stabbed the soldier and that Labour councilor’s trial too.
Just another migrant killing another white person here. How many’s that now? Aren’t there any white on white killings any more? It doesn’t feel like it. God knows how many of these happen daily and we’re not aware of them. The culprit won’t be deported because ‘human rights’;
”A man has been charged with murder following a fatal stabbing in Luton.
Abdul Kasim, 25, was charged on Monday with the murder of 63-year-old Martin Sullivan, who died after being injured at an address in Highbury Road.
Mr Sullivan was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to hospital by emergency services.
His daughter paid tribute to him, saying: “My dad was a very loving and caring person who would help anyone.
“He will be very much missed by all his friends and family.
“He’ll never be forgotten.”
Kasim, of Perrysfield Road, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, has been remanded into custody ahead of a hearing at Luton Crown Court on Thursday.”
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2025-01-14/man-charged-with-murder-as-daughter-pays-tribute-to-loving-stab-victim
I’m not suggesting the brutal murders of Jo Cox and David Amess (MPs) are any less serious than any other murder, but we don’t try and eliminate their murders from collective memory!
How has the Country become a nation, via its government, who seems to not care about what happens to children, and seemingly specifically white girls?
I logged back in to say something similar but you beat me to it.
No. Eleven girls and two adults were stabbed. Three of the children were stabbed to death.Murdered.
And when people complain on social media they’re the bad guys?
Lord Hermer is evil. Sack him.
And what about all the other 8 little girls and their two adult defenders, who were all hospitalised in critical condition, some with “life-changing injuries”? They must feel entirely forgotten by the world.
Starmer is completely inept and has no political nouce. He is a legalistic automaton, devoid of common sense. He is a rules based robot, who prefers bad outcomes, so long as they are legal outcomes. Yet, as has been shown, the advice he has received over the Chagos islands, is wrong.
Starmer is stuck in an error loop, and he doesn’t know how to get out of it. He needs to be re-booted and re-programed.
Or replaced – by an actual functioning robot?
Hahaha! Good idea!
It could hardly do a worse job then Two Tier Not Here Again Kier.
Clueless, again, from Will Jones.
‘… many of these bizarre decisions …’?
Deliberate, premeditated, planned, and all intended to tear down, harm, spoil the fabric of the UK.
Why does Jones think Starmer wants to be popular with those Labour hates? Just follow the Democrat playbook and their next steps are blindingly obvious.
By focusing his guns on the wrong target, Jones wastes time and opportunity to fight Labour.
May I encourage fellow blogees to be more discerning.
Starmer seems to want Labour to be even worse than the Democrats under Biden, seems like its working already!
Total destruction of everything worthwhile.
What a surprise, early life check comfirmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hermer,_Baron_Hermer#Early_life,_family_and_education
NO! Will Jones is very far from being “clueless”— your comment is unjust and stupid.
Why don’t you set up your own website and show us all how much better you can do it?
Excellent documentary brought to my attention by UK Column. Slaughtered on Suspicion about the 2001 Foot & Mouth mass cull that is thought to have culled 11 million animals and around 80% of the farms were free of the disease, but were culled anyway. I played a part disinfecting and, at the time, thought it of a 1940 moment. I had no internet then. I also remember clubbing in Hereford and having to close my window when driving home through the Herefordshire countryside because of the stench of the burning carcases.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/insight-slaughtered-on-suspicion
I have posted links to this excellent documentary a few times but it is always worth repeating.
And guess who was behind the flawed model used to slaughter innocent animals.
That would be Ferguson pants down. Also goes to show what a criminal Blair was before the WMDs PsyOp.
Sir Two-Tier aided and abetted by Lord Hermetic. Knight and Peer of the Realm complicit in lawyerly insider trading. Someone pass the nosegay and smelling salts asap, the parliamentary drains are up to mischief again.
Well done to Will Jones and the DS for drawing attention to this Extreme Leftist man Two Tier chose as Attorney General, who has just committed “Gross Judicial Overreach” by warning the entire world that they are subject to the same rules as jurors on the case of the Southport Stabber!!! It reminds me of the Marxist Common Purpose motto “Go Beyond Authority”. He has actually threatened ALL SOCIAL MEDIA USERS with CONTEMPT OF COURT charges !!! Who the blazes does he think he is?
Warning issued about commenting on trial of alleged Southport attacker
“It said: “While proceedings are active, the Attorney General is reminding editors, publishers and SOCIAL MEDIA USERS that fair and accurate reporting of legal proceedings held in public in good faith is permitted”.
“However, you may be at risk of being in contempt of court if you publish material or comment online that is inaccurate, unfair or involves discussion or commentary which could influence the jury’s deliberations.” WHAT??????
Some apt comments from the public:
— “I think the attorney General has gone a bit to far in their suppression of freedom of speech when they said “unfair or involves discussion or commentary which could influence the jury’s deliberations”.
I think the Attorney General needs to refresh themselves with The Juries Act 1974 and subsequent case law establish strict rules for jury conduct.
Its not for the public to be held accountable to these rules its for the Jury to be held accountable to these rules.”
— “If you don’t want the Jury to be swayed you put the few up in a hotel without access to the news and the like, and the many can have the freedom of speech granted to us without fear of reprisal. The Constitution is the corner stone of Law.”
— “I maybe terribly wrong, but I always thought, certainly in my day. A JURY remained in a hotel away from the public during a murder case, with no access to the outside world.?? I have never known such a strong statement to have ever been made like this before. Especially having lived through some of the most infamous murders of the 20th century.”
—“Judge needs to wind his neck in. He controls his court room, not the country.”
Disgusting.
I expect his fees are paid by tax payers?
Two-Tier isn’t a politician. He’s a Human Rights Lawyer. This is the manifestation of Mandelson’s “the age of democracy is over” and Blair’s Constitutional Wrecking Ball.
We’ll get one last chance to overturn the imposition of governance by Human Rights Lawyers at the next General Election.
We’d better take it. Whether you support everything Reform proposes is irrelevant …. first we need to restore democracy.
Then we need to start arguing about what we do with it.
Presumably consent has been given. Its a case of wrecking themselves. They are a wreck.
Some of you may remember the Monty Python sketch, ‘Philosopher’s Football Match’, from the early 1970s. All the philosophers on the pitch are so self absorbed and tied in knots with ‘logical’ reasoning that they fail to understand that the point of the game is to score a goal. Eventually, one of the players has a ‘Eureka’ moment and scores but the other argue that it has not really happened. Worth watching again, as it is readily available online. It is a good allegory for Britain today.