- “‘I will bring back Boris Johnson’, pledges Robert Jenrick” – Former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has revealed his Tory leadership pitch by heaping praise on Nigel Farage and calling for Boris Johnson to return, reports the Mail.
- “Special needs children in Scotland could be hit by Labour’s private school tax raid” – Thousands of children with special needs in Scotland will be hit by Labour’s tax raid on private schools, reveals the Telegraph.
- “To defend our freedom, we must trust the Tories, writes Kemi Badenoch” – The only way to stop us going back to square one with Labour is to vote Conservative on July 4th, says Kemi Badenock in the Mail.
- “MoD shares ‘myth-busting’ video in apparent swipe at Nigel Farage” – The Ministry of Defence has issued a ‘myth-busting’ defence of NATO after Nigel Farage claimed the West provoked Russia into invading Ukraine, reports the Mail.
- “MSM signalling a change in the Russia-Ukraine narrative?” – Two major incidents in the last week suggest we might be about to see a change in the narrative surrounding the Russian war in Ukraine, says Kit Knightly in OffGuardian.
- “The Frank Report LXXVIII” – In the New Conservative, The Frank Report makes a Farage-esque comeback.
- “Where are the real statesmen?” – Neither populists nor managerialists can rule, says Sam Bidwell in the Critic.
- “Election selection: I” – On Substack, Jack Watson takes a brief look at Labour’s manifesto.
- “Terror in Russia after gunmen open fire at six synagogues” – Two synagogues and an Orthodox church across southern Russia have been attacked by militant gunmen, killing six police officers and slitting the throat of a priest, reports the Mail.
- “Hamas is the enemy of the Palestinian people” – Hamas has never had any interest in national liberation, says James Heartfield in Spiked.
- “NYC teachers group that staged pro-Gaza student walk-outs funded by George Soros’ Tides Foundation” – The group of public school teachers in New York behind anti-Israel walkouts received funding from the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation, reveals the Post Millennial.
- “Biden admin asked Amazon to hide vaccine critical books during the pandemic” – The Biden Administration pressured Amazon to hide books on its platform that were critical of vaccines during the pandemic, says Steve Watson in Modernity.
- “The week in numbers (to June 22nd)” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson take a numerical look at the week’s health-related news.
- “Why France’s nationalist revolution could be coming for Britain too” – The radical reshaping of the French political landscape offers a glimpse of an all-too-possible future for our country, writes Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “Why it’s too late to stop World War 3 – according to one of Britain’s greatest military historians” – Can Iran create nukes? Will China invade Taiwan? As the world tilts towards global conflict, we are asking the wrong questions, says Richard Overy in the Telegraph.
- “Unforgivable ignorance at the heart of Net Zero” – In TCW, Ivor Williams takes aim at Labour’s GB Energy Plan.
- “No, Bloomberg, neither extreme weather nor climate is worsening in swelling cities” – A recent article in Bloomberg on ‘extreme weather’ makes some false claims that are refuted by real-world data, says Anthony Watts in Climate Realism.
- “Huge percentage of EV owners want to go back to normal cars, study finds” – According to a new McKinsey study, nearly half of American electric vehicle owners want to buy an internal combustion engine model the next time they buy a car, reports the Daily Caller.
- “Just Stop Oil and Palestine mob prepare to hit Wimbledon” – This year’s Wimbledon is facing a double threat of disruption from Just Stop Oil campaigners and pro-Palestine activists, says the Express.
- “A generation of young women is being driven mad by woke ideology” – A striking number of those committing these eco-crazed actions seem to be young ladies from middle-class backgrounds, remarks Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Labour would drop guidance banning schools from teaching gender ideology, suggests Phillipson” – The Shadow Education Secretary has suggested that Labour would ditch guidelines banning children from being taught that there are more than two genders, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘White-centricity’ of folk music investigated in £1.5 million academic study” – Almost £1.5 million in taxpayer funding has been awarded to a research project that aims to “decolonise” folk singing, says Charlotte Gill in the Telegraph.
- “The UKRI studies costing British taxpayers over £9 million” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill lists ten ‘research’ projects relating to ‘decolonisation’ that have cost the taxpayer £9,283,047.
- “Ireland’s Health Minister rejects proposed amendment to prohibit paedophiles, sex offenders from buying children via surrogacy” – The Health Minister of Ireland has rejected a proposed amendment to the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill which would have prohibited convicted sex offenders from purchasing babies from surrogate mothers, reports Reduxx.
- “TikTok bans women’s rights ads for being ‘offensive’” – A clothing brand that stands for women’s rights in sports has had its ads permanently banned from TikTok, with the platform stating that the content “may be offensive”, says Modernity.
- “The soullessness of ‘social mobility’” – Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”, writes Bartek Staniszewski in the Critic.
- “Hectoring posters on public transport are making travel far less civilised” – Political elites will miss no opportunity to nudge and lecture us. What must tourists think? wonders Melanie McDonagh in the Telegraph.
- “Free speech is about protecting ideas and values” – In the Stuff, Damien Grant reflects on our Editor-in-Chief Toby Young’s journey from chaotic writer to free speech advocate.
- “How DEI corrupts America’s universities” – The ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” is not what it purports to be, says Christopher F. Rufo in City Journal.
- “’We are the challenger now in much of the United Kingdom’” – Nigel Farage updates on the progress of Reform and accuses the Daily Mail of collaborating with the Kremlin to protect the dying Conservative Party.
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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.