- “Keir Starmer accused of snubbing grooming gangs scandal whistleblower” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of snubbing Jayne Senior, the whistleblower responsible for exposing a major grooming gang in Rotherham, the Mail reports. Senior resigned as a Labour councillor the following year saying that she had been “the subject of ceaseless harassment and intimidation”.
- “How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up” – The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society, say Sam Ashworth-Hayes and Charlie Peters in the Telegraph.
- “The real reason Labour refuses to order an inquiry into grooming gangs” – In the Mail, Dan Hodges wonders what would be the reaction of the political establishment if the Rochdale grooming gangs had been white paedophiles preying on black and Asian children.
- “There must be a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal” – Addressing the rape gang travesty deserves the full attention of the state, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “We need more than an inquiry to end the gruesome injustice of grooming gangs” – In the Telegraph, Guy Dampier suggests some concrete steps that could be taken to address the enormity of the crimes committed over decades and the official negligence and complicity that enabled them.
- “Keir Starmer’s role in grooming gangs scandal should be investigated, says Farage” – Keir Starmer’s alleged role in failing to tackle grooming and rape gangs who targeted thousands of young girls must be part of any public inquiry into the scandal, Nigel Farage has said, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Rotherham cover-up” – Why did so many turn a blind eye, asks Louise Perry in the Spectator.
- “When will Keir Starmer realise how unpopular he is?” – While the Commons arithmetic says Keir Starmer is Tony Blair without the charisma, popular reservoirs of support are already depleted, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Starmer’s queue-cutting blunder shows he isn’t very good at politics” – Other Prime Ministers seem to have had a little more skill in turning their holidays into PR triumphs rather than disasters, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer urged to scrap controversial Islamophobia definition in wake of grooming gangs scandal” – In the wake of the grooming and rape gangs scandal, Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to shelve plans for an official Government definition of Islamophobia that critics say would curtail free speech and make it harder for whistleblowers to point out wrongdoing, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s wretched incompetence may be the key to Britain’s salvation” – Only a total breakdown of the old Blairite order will wake our complacent politicians, says Jon Moynihan in the Telegraph.
- “Labour giving the vote to five million more immigrants would be a gift to Nigel Farage” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon says the latest Leftist plan to give foreign U.K. residents the vote will backfire on Labour if the party goes through with it.
- “Reform just six points off becoming biggest party, says election predictor” – Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. is just six points away from becoming the biggest party in Parliament, an election predictor from Electoral Calculus has found, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour accused of misleading public over private school tax” – Billions of pounds raised from Labour’s private school raid will not be ringfenced to improve state schools, despite Rachel Reeves’s promises it would, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour is about to destroy schools like it ruined universities” – Now nobody is safe from sinister, loony Left identitarianism, not even children, says the Telegraph‘s Zoe Strimpel.
- “Revealed: Tulip Siddiq, her ‘despot’ aunt and another freebie property” – Labour MP and anti-corruption Minister Tulip Siddiq spent several years living in a Hampstead flat gifted to her family by an ally of Sheikh Hasina, the deposed Bangladeshi ruler, reports the Times.
- “A young child died of cardiac arrest after being jabbed during Moderna’s key Covid vaccine trial” – Moderna has not reported the death of a young child during its booster trial to a public trial registry or published results that show the death, effectively hiding it for years, says Alex Berenson on Substack. What did the FDA know and did it respond? The agency won’t say.
- “Welcome to the year of the ‘Quad-demic’” – Attempts by our public health masters to terrify us into submission with the latest ‘demic’ are just that: attempts to terrify us, says Roger Watson in TCW.
- “Biden gives a Medal to Moderna and Pfizer – 10 reasons that was a bad idea” – The incestuous relationship between politics and Pharma continues, says Dr. Vinay Prasad on Substack, with President Biden this week awarding the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Moderna and Pfizer.
- “Net Zero fines ‘set to drive up price of petrol cars’” – The auto industry has warned that it is poised to raise prices to pay for steep discounts on electric vehicles, reports the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero ‘flight tax’ will raise cost of holidays” – A new Net Zero ‘flight tax’ on airlines risks adding hundreds of pounds to the cost of family holidays, the Government’s own analysis shows, according to the Telegraph.
- “The price of Net Zero is now too high to bear” – Time and time again, we find the state adopting an approach that wilfully destroys value in the name of environmental progress, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Asylum seekers ‘drain money from Dutch state for generations’” – A study has found that asylum seekers arriving in the Netherlands become a burden on the state for generations, bolstering arguments that failure to curb migration puts pressure on public services, the Telegraph reports.
- “The News Agents podcast maker struck by mounting losses” – The losses of Global Media and Entertainment – the company behind the New Agents podcast – have hit £1.3 billion, says the Telegraph.
- “The young men leaving traditional churches for ‘masculine’ Orthodox Christianity” – Young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church after discovering the ‘masculine’ Christian religion through online influencers, with new parishes planned across U.S. to accommodate the ‘tsunami’ of men who have converted since the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk, undeterred by days of German political hyperventilation, continues to promote fascism and undermine democracy by tweeting things and scheduling interviews with people” – For days, the German establishment has been in an absolute uproar over Elon Musk’s, er, words, says Eugyppius on the Plague Chronicle Substack.
- “Why Britain could face ‘Babygeddon’: Experts’ warning over birth rates” – Britain is running out of babies, and this is predicted to lead to catastrophes, including the collapse of the NHS and pension system, and the atrophy of education, writes Christopher Stevens in the Mail.
- “Coups Do Not Wrap Up for Dinner” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley contrasts the January 6th riot to an actual coup.
- “Bill Maher, an ‘Old-Fashioned Liberal’ Scourge of the Woke” –The comedian thinks the far Left isn’t “nearly as crazy as the crazies on the Right” — but these days he focuses as much fire on the former, says Tunku Varadarajan in the Wall Street Journal.
- “Starmer’s Britain is like North Korea if it was run by David Brent” – On The Brendan O’Neill Show, Toby suggests Starmer’s Britain most resembles a cross between North Korea and The Office.
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“Criminal gangs make £8.2 million a day keeping asylum seekers in hotels”
Reframed.
Putin is going to be in power for nearly 30 years and Stalin was in power for nearly 30 years, so Putin has become Stalin.
Thanks Telegraph for that insightful and profound piece of analysis. We’d be lost without you.
The late Queen Elizabeth must have been double-plus Stalin.
It seems they were just pointing out the Tiny Tatar’s desperate attempt to imitate his hero Stalin.
It’s a symptom of unchecked capitalism, which promotes personal wealth through property purchase over compassion. i.e. a system that breeds greed. I don’t know what the actual number is, but, amongst the people I know, about one in four have at least one property that is being used to generate income. The private rental market has created a price-fixing monopoly that has artificially inflated house prices and rent, and suffocated the aspirations of an entire generation. We don’t talk about this though – or if we do, we angrily refute the point – because, well, many people have bought a second property for exactly that reason. And who wants to think of themselves as selfish? Each property ‘pension’, ‘nest egg’, whatever you want to call it, is one less home for someone else. But who cares about that right? As long as I’m alright Jack.
Central banks messed around with interest rates, lowering them to near zero. People couldn’t earn interest anymore. Interest would have been their income. The dot com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis frightened people out of the stock market. Dividends would have been their income. Property looked like the safest option.
In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, interest rates were far from zero but banks were offering exceptionally large mortgages. This allowed people to overbid for properties that they were desperate to buy which forced the housing prices up. Properties were not worth the prices being paid for them.
As with furlough, this “credit” was marketed almost like it was free money and not the debt that it is.
Anyone buying or selling property at the time knew properties were not worth what they were selling for as did anyone who watched Property Ladder, Location, Location, Location or Grand Designs.
Maybe the safest option for those that have already acquired a certain amount of wealth, yes. Safe and moral are two different things however. Using personal wealth to increase personal wealth, by directly further impoverishing the less wealthy, isn’t something I’ll be considering.
Yes but then they’d be the ones who would be impoverished if they self-abnegated in order to prevent others from being impoverished. If you give away your wealth to someone, do they immediately have to give it away to someone else in a game of hot potato, in case they are accused of being safe but immoral?
Oh those evil rentiers.
I know, let’s make it illegal to privately own and rent out a property. Only the state may own properties for rent. That will, no doubt, make it far cheaper and easier for those who can’t afford buying to rent somewhere to live. The state will enforce the minimal standard of rental property on itself, of course and ensure there’s a supply.
If you inherit a house and don’t intend to live in it, you have to sell it to the state. Properties left empty will be requisitioned by the state.
We already charge capital gains tax on ‘second homes’, perhaps it should be at a flat rate of 90%? That should deter the evil property speculators.
Sheesh.
My vague memory here is that back in the 1980’s and 1990s we used to talk about 2.5 or 3 x our income for a mortgage. I think some adjustment in mortgage lending rates meant that calculation was thrown out of the window and people could borrow way beyond their means. After that, property went sky high. But at the same time, the population has expanded and far more people live alone. It’s a whole cluster of things here FL – not just greedy capitalists.
I’m not personally a fan of owning a second property, mainly because I don’t like the idea of it or the maintenance.
“I think some adjustment in mortgage lending rates meant that calculation was thrown out of the window and people could borrow way beyond their means.”
Sensible lending multiples were abounded and the mortgage industry adopted a new system:
Liar Loans.
Basically the buyer could declare a salary / wage of whatever they needed, the lenders accepted the figure and Bob’s your uncle. This caused much house inflation until the bubble burst and we saw the likes of Northern Rock go boobies up. Northern Rock led the way in offering mortgages at 120 – 130 % of loan to value (LTV), they really let rip. Other lenders followed suit but with not quite the same care free abandon.
I was in the industry throughout this madness. Gordon Brown presiding.
Every home that someone pays rent on is owned by someone (or something) else. Councils rarely directly own properties but use arms-length housing associations. If property ownership for profit is a Bad Thing then it just leaves the state to provide homes for all these people – and I have grave doubts about the competence of government at any level to manage this efficiently.
“We’re complacent about the grave threat Putin presents”
The real threat is a lot closer to home!
Rochdale, Bradford etc
Too right Dinger.
“Macron says Western ground operations in Ukraine ‘is possible”
Ahrrr bless, he’s trying to look strong, too late, f@#k off twat!
“Stunning claims of whistleblower need to go viral”
White fibrous substances!
Thank all the gods and a critical mind , I didn’t succumb to the bullying bullshyte!
Despite the headline I believe John O’Looney was the first funeral director to drop the bombshell about the calamari clots.
“Scotland’s new walk-in hate crime reporting centres”
Is there a walk in.. burglary, rape, murder, vandalism crime centre?
I seem to remember those from long ago, I think they called them ‘police stations’
I Could be wrong!
HART flags the Cape Byron Declaration to read and sign.
https://hartuk.substack.com/p/the-cape-byron-lighthouse-declaration
“Can old-fashioned tariffs slam on brakes of Chinese electric cars?”
You don’t need tariffs, if anyone even considers buying a ‘Chinese electric car’ they must be brain dead! They used to call it jap crap, now its China crap!
Import them,stock them, selling them is a different matter!
Dr Mercola to make all his content freely available again, after having to restrict it for a few years due to the amount of hacking his site is subject to.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/03/18/mercola-articles-free-again.aspx
“Don’t use word ‘widows’, Lloyds chiefs tell staff at… Scottish Widows”
Lloyds claims the word is ‘unnecessarily vivid’ and may ‘trigger unwarranted personal memories of trauma and upsetting situations’.
It suggests using the term ‘separated’ instead.
When are they going to ban the word ‘death’ as being too ‘triggering’?
“Trudeau Government’s newly proposed online-speech law that could be used to punish hate crimes before they’ve been committed.”
I’ve seen that one, it stared Tom Cruise I believe!
I’m not advertising, but…. https://www.gbnews.com/news/gb-news-ofcom-presenters-complaint .
“Woke U.S. bosses tell cast to reshoot sex scenes in Jilly Cooper Rivals”
No one needs sex scenes or nudity in books or films— it’s just another type of porn = VOYEURISM. The Satanic corruption of humanity.
I disagree with you about banning porn, but I agree with your point here, broadly speaking. Those scenes very rarely tell us anything we didn’t already know, advance the plot etc. I tend to look away from the screen when they appear.