- “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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Reform just six points off becoming biggest party, says election predictor
The state of British politics:
Reform:
Kemi Badenoch is horrid
Putin is admirable
Send in the Royal Navy
Labour Party:
Mission driven government: ‘Missions are designed to set bold visions for change, inspiring collaboration across the system and society to break down silos and work towards a common goal. They represent the ultimate purpose of the government, and the story it aims to tell by the end of the parliament.’ Eh?
Conservative Party:
Reform are cheating. Systemic reform is required. ‘Watch this space.’
Liberal Democrats: Whatever they didn’t say.
Green Party: Don’t light fires, ever
We are comprehensively fecked.
Starmer’s Britain is like North Korea if it was run by David Brent
Today’s ‘Let’s test the water’ popular poll. Which style of management is better?
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1. Clarify vision and direction • Define the ambition and priority outcomes of each mission before the spending review: either by clarifying, building on or restating the specific goals in the manifesto. • Deliver some immediate, short-term confidence building measures – including Labour’s ‘First Steps’: the missions are a political project, and must start to make a tangible difference to peoples’ lives quickly. Unless they maintain the confidence of the public they will fail.
2. Establish strong political leadership • Appoint a lead cabinet minister for missions at the centre of government: providing the direction and challenge across government. • Appoint a lead secretary of state for each mission: with clear accountability for who is responsible for overseeing delivery. • Establish a mission leadership group for each mission: responsible for developing and enacting a shared strategy. • Create a Mission Strategy Board to oversee and broker between missions: and to act as the ultimate decision making forum for trade-offs within and between missions.
3. Develop a strategy – underpinned by the money needed to deliver • Undertake a series of ‘where are we now?’ reviews: to build the evidence base and set the baseline for where key priorities are starting from. • Develop five Mission Strategies: honing and iterating the approach. • Reform the spending review to budget for missions: putting cash behind the missions by funding a coherent strategy, not a series of disconnected initiatives.
4. Break down barriers to cross-government work • Build cross-cutting Mission Strategy Teams: to support each mission leadership group and owning the shared strategy. • Identify and dismantle barriers to working between departments: making it easier to work together on shared problems or priorities. • Reflect the missions in devolution deals, single settlements and intergovernmental relations: incentivising a shared approach between layers of government.
5. Open up more to partnership with the private sector, civil society and wider public sector • Create opportunities for the private sector and civil society to contribute to mission development: ensuring relevant leaders bring in delivery expertise and challenge for the government • Use a range of deliberative engagement methods to involve citizens early: supporting departments to try different approaches • Use red teams to test plans: facilitating learning and iterating on mission plans • Establish expert adviser networks: amplifying outside expertise • Introduce large-scale secondment programmes in each mission: building multidisciplinary teams across departments.
“Net Zero fines ‘set to drive up price of petrol cars’”
…All hail to the the Kommissars’ 5-year plan to outlaw private motoring and dismantle the auto industry. Just think how the Politburo Teslas will have the M25 all for themselves, while working parties of proles slave away emptying gullies and filling in potholes with their bare hands to the tune of the Internationale booming out from the PA system sponsored by Alphabet under license from Microsoft. Drones funded by Lords Alli, Gates and Schwab to provide air supremacy.
Meanwhile God-speed to Politburo private jets flying on aviation gasoline adulterated with cooking oil cast-offs.
The People’s flag is deepest rainbow.
Unfortunately, in the short term at least, it’s a win-win for the government. They put up the price of petrol cars, they slap extra taxes on flying, but people still pay. Because cars are so useful, because foreign holidays are so nice. The crunch will come when/if they actually follow through and make these things illegal. I wonder if they have actually made any plans for what happens then? (beyond their permanently relocating to the holiday home in Tuscany, that doesn’t count as a ‘plan’).
“Asylum seekers ‘drain money from Dutch state for generations’”
Pity the poor Dutch… they should take a leaf out of our book, where every immigrant adds immeasurably to the richness and culture of our nation, in so many ways, not least financially.
Or, so we’re told…
Well “diversity is our strength.” Apparently.
Whoever coined the phrase was being quite cute, the “our” being the establishment. “Our” was never intended to represent the masses but they attempted to con us this was so and quite successfully I believe.
The latest statement by the Dutch government is to cap the population at 20 million by 2030…. Current population 18.3. With current housing shortage, health care crisis, etc. etc….What could possibly go wrong?
“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.
The ‘problem’ is not so much a lack of babies, even though 2020 was a fairly slow year for the UK (most babies born in 2020 would have been conceived in 2019), 2002 and 1977 were ‘worse’. It’s also not that many more are dying.
It’s also not that we’ve got too few births per female of child-bearing age. The birth rate was lower in 2002 and nearly as low in 1977.
The ‘problem’ is that we’re living longer and spending longer in economically unproductive retirement. Society won’t accept that death is naturally inevitable. For example, if elderly people suffer heart attacks why in God’s name do we try to resuscitate? If I go through the pain and fear of dying why revive me and make me do it again later?
Of course this is easy to say when I’m not in the heat of the moment. I believe it was Bob Hope who overheard someone ask ‘Who wants to live to be 100?’. He replied ‘Someone who’s 99’.
The problem is partly that most of those that are born are called mohammed and will be brought up to hate Britain, britishness and the British.
If the working-age population is not generating wealth then it can’t be taken in taxes and used to look after the elderly. People on benefits who could be working and generating wealth are most of the problem. Also elderly folk who did not prepare for their retirement by building up capital – but it’s too late to fix that one – we were told the lie ‘don’t worry, the state will provide’, but it can’t unless there’s new wealth to tax.
Apparently, over 50% of the population are net receivers of money from the exchequer, in immigrant communities it’s even worse? Take out receipts from ‘London’ and we quickly slide down the wealth table, from fifth richest in the world to third world status. Unless they’re all bright-eyed, bushy-tailed entrepreneurs coming to build companies that will add significantly to the economy (which seems unlikely on current evidence) why would you want more? And, even if they were all medics, come to save the NHS, their contribution to the balance of payments is negligible, at best, since their pay comes from the public purse anyway…
My father worked until over 80 and I did until 70 or 73 depending how you judge it. He started at about 6 and I was working all the time not at school from 10.
after age 50 I found it difficult to get job interviews. My wife was thwarted by a Riyal Society that demanded a degree for an admin job she was ideal for – clearly their way of legalised age discrimination, perhaps also to filter out non lefties.
We need a better arrangement for employers and workers so work changes can be made later in life without the difficulties presented by employment law.
My dad worked until he was 89 and basically no longer able to work for health reasons. I think it kept him in good shape physically, mentally and emotionally. He “retired” at the “normal” retirement age and did part time jobs for the next 25 years. It worked for him. I don’t know what I will do – I have no firm plans other than to keep working for as long as I find it helpful. I am lucky in that I can work part time if I want to, which I have started doing. We have quite a few staff working part time – some seniors and others who have made a lifestyle choice for other reasons. It works for us – and we want to keep good people.
This always mystifies me…
First of all, why is it apparently such a shock that people born in the baby boom 60-80 years ago are just now reaching their 60s and 80s? If only there had been some way to know, so that we might have planned for it. A census every decade, or something, perhaps?
And then again, those in their 60s and 89s will be dead soon, mostly in the next 20 years, or sooner with a decent cold snap… releasing all that money they’re hoarding.
So, why do we need to relentlessly add to the population? Even yeast knows perpetual growth is not sustainable.
We seemed to do perfectly well with the population we had 50 years ago. Indeed going even further back, in Victorian era, with a population of just 18 million we conquered and held territory across the globe…
Why should such a piffling amount of snow make the news headlines? Its winter ffs!
I couldn’t agree more Dinger. Manchester Airport is shut apparently and I doubt there is more than a dust covering at Ringway. I suppose the fear factor has to be invoked at any and every opportunity.
Absolute Bollox.
Ah, well, you see, we weren’t expecting it because global boiling.