- “Labour MP break ranks to call for national inquiry into grooming gangs” – Elon Musk has thanked Labour MP Dan Carden after he became the first to break ranks with Sir Keir Starmer and call for a fresh national inquiry into rape gangs, reports the Mail.
- “Wes Streeting accused of ‘playing race card’ in grooming gangs debate” – Wes Streeting has been accused of “playing the race card” over the rape gangs scandal after warning of a far-Right terror attack if entire communities are “tarred with the same brush”, says the Mail.
- “How the Left conspired to ban TV film exposing rapists” – In the Mail, Donald Mcintyre reveals how Left-wing pressure buried Channel 4’s 2004 grooming gang documentary, delaying justice and silencing victims for over a decade.
- “Labour must stop funding Pakistan amid blocking sex abusers claims” – Robert Jenrick has called for financial aid to Pakistan to stop and for a visa ban until the country cooperates with the deportation of its citizens living in the U.K., reports the Mail.
- “Labour is treating the white working class with contempt” – There is a common thread behind Labour’s failure to confront the rape gangs and its war on educational excellence, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “The dangers of multiculturalism” – There are some terrible things that society wants to deal with, and there are some it refuses to deal with, and the things it refuses to deal with tend to be those crimes that go against some deep narrative of the age, writes Douglas Murray in the Free Press.
- “Britain vs grooming: it’s now or never” – The U.K. must stop importing people who hate our society, stop giving them preferential treatment and, above all, enforce the law, says Frank Haviland on the Frank Report Substack.
- “Albanian people smuggler claims he shouldn’t be deported” – An Albanian people smuggler has claimed that he shouldn’t be deported from the U.K. as he doesn’t like Belgian jails, reports the Mail.
- “Foreign rapist cannot be deported from the UK… because he’s bisexual” – A foreign rapist, who claimed he didn’t know it was wrong to rape a sleeping woman, has avoided deportation to Jamaica due to the risk posed to him as a bisexual, says the Mail.
- “The time has come to pledge to leave ECHR, Steve Barclay urges Badenoch” – Former Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay says that Kemi Badenoch should promise to pull the U.K. out of the European Convention on Human Rights if the Tories return to power, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Boris’s immigration changes have fuelled cultural disunity’” – As Reform U.K. surges in the polls and attracts members, it faces its toughest test yet: turning bold promises into political reality, writes Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage channels his inner Luke Littler to celebrate target” – Reform leader Nigel Farage delighted the crowd at the North West England Conference by celebrating his party’s 180,000 members with a dartboard scoring 180, according to the Mail.
- “No.10 braced for Reform-Tory pact as populist Right surges” – In the Telegraph, Ben Riley-Smith reports that Keir Starmer is preparing for a tougher fight in the next General Election, facing a surging populist Right, with the possibility of a Reform-Tory alliance led by Nigel Farage.
- “How Tommy Robinson won over Trump’s inner circle” – Much has been made of Nigel Farage’s journey from Thanet to Trump Towers – but his rival has been making moves of his own, notes Eleanor Steafel in the Telegraph.
- “Vulnerable kids ‘exposed to insurmountable stress’ by schools VAT” – Three mothers whose children have special needs are taking the Government to court over the imposition of VAT on private schools, reports the Express.
- “Rachel Reeves ‘eyes hotel tax’ to bolster U.K.’s coffers” – Holidaymakers could be forced to pay a ‘hotel tax’ as part of frantic efforts by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to stabilise the country’s finances, says the Mail.
- “Five months of rail strikes will ‘paralyse’ U.K. economy” – A crippling five-month-long series of railway strikes are expected to cost the hospitality sector £1 billion, reports the Mail.
- “Reeves fears one date in 2025 – and Kemi Badenoch knows it” – The Chancellor could be forced into having an emergency budget, and the Tories are licking their lips, writes Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “The only way forward for Reeves is to turn back” – In the Telegraph, Roger Bootle warns Rachel Reeves to abandon the Conservatives’ pseudo-Labour playbook and pivot fast to avoid economic disaster.
- “We face a return to 1976 unless Reeves changes course” – The economy has slowed significantly as Labour drives up borrowing costs and spends more, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Cabinet told public spending cuts must be ‘ruthless’” – The Treasury has ordered cabinet ministers to be “ruthless” in identifying public spending cuts as Labour battles to prove its economic plan is working, reports the Telegraph.
- “When low-cost pastry sales drop, you know Britain is in deep trouble” – When even the discounters are struggling, you know Britain is in real trouble – and plenty of other companies will be feeling the pain very soon, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Tulip Siddiq’s flyers found in palace of deposed Bangladesh leader” – Tulip Siddiq’s Labour flyers were discovered in the wreckage of her aunt’s palace, revealing close ties to the ousted Bangladeshi leader, reports Gabriel Pogrund in the Times.
- “BBC licence fee ‘could be scrapped by end of 2027 and swapped for tax’” – The BBC TV licence fee could be scrapped and replaced with funding from general taxation under plans being considered by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, according to the Mail.
- “BBC editor may sue Owen Jones over Israel bias claim” – A BBC journalist is considering taking legal action against the Guardian’s Owen Jones after he wrote an article that led to death threats and antisemitic abuse, reports the Times.
- “Lib Dem report says Left-wing alliance not needed because of tactical voting” – An internal Lib Dem report into the party’s General Election campaign has concluded that Britons are so adept at tactical voting that a formal electoral alliance among parties on the Left is no longer needed, says the Guardian.
- “Dominic Cummings and Elon Musk won’t be able to upend U.K. politics” – Nadine Dorries has dismissed claims Dominic Cummings and Elon Musk could upend the traditional political party system after it emerged the pair were “in cahoots”, reports the Mail.
- “Kids should be able to use AI for homework says tech minister” – Science Secretary Peter Kyle says that pupils should be allowed to use AI tools for homework, including generating essays and solving maths and science problems, as long as they are supervised, according to the Mail.
- “I’m worried about what Labour might do to our schools” – In the Spectator, teacher Jonathan Porter praises the education reforms of the last 25 years and asks why Labour is trying to reverse them, given their successful in turning round England’s schools.
- “Parents’ fury as newly built Net Zero ‘ghost school’ lies empty” – A newly built Net Zero school has closed before it opened due to a lack of pupils, reports the Mail.
- “Labour’s Net Zero push ‘hands power to Beijing’” – Labour is courting Chinese investment for its renewable energy “revolution” in a move that could jeopardise our national security, says the former head of MI6 in the Times.
- “The ‘eye-watering’ taxes that undermine Ed Miliband’s heat pump drive” – Green charges make up a quarter of a typical electricity bill – 10 times that of a gas one, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s ‘obsession’ with renewables as bills reach record high” – Critics say Ed Miliband’s “obsession” with renewable energy is leaving consumers with record high bills, according to the Mail.
- “The U.K. faces a fate worse than blackout” – To keep the lights on, U.K. industry and consumers will continue to pay ever-higher prices for energy, warns Tony Lodge in the Telegraph.
- “Fury over newbuild estate with 15,000 homes in greenbelt in St. Albans” – Fuming locals have raged at a council planning to build thousands of homes on green belt surrounding one of England’s oldest market towns, reports the Mail.
- “Nurse fighting for her life after being stabbed in hospital” – A female nurse in her 50s is in critical condition with life-changing injuries after being stabbed in a “senseless attack” at the A&E department of Royal Oldham Hospital, says the Mail.
- “‘Corridor nurses’ wanted to help ease A&E crisis” – A hospital is recruiting nurses to man the corridors where patients have been placed amid an “unprecedented” demand for hospital beds, reports GB News.
- “Nine in 10 disability benefit checks carried out remotely as civil servants work from home” – More than 90% of disability benefit assessments are being conducted remotely, sparking concerns over potential widespread fraud in the welfare system, says GB News.
- “Broken Britain must cough up for French-style healthcare” – Like it or not, Europe could hold the key to fixing our flawed NHS, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Streeting could change law to update Covid vaccine compensation scheme” – The Health Secretary is looking at changing the law regarding compensation for people harmed by Covid vaccines amid concern it doesn’t offer enough support, reports the Telegraph.
- “Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t” – Prof. Joanna Moncrieff dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result, she has been abused by peers – and championed by Tucker Carlson. In the Sunday Times, Julia Llewellyn Smith asks: “Is her theory right?”
- “America’s rebel: rebels against Chapter One!” – On Substack, Jim Haslam debunks Ron Unz’s conspiracy theory on the origins of COVID-19.
- “Rambling reflection of an old geezer” – Dr. Tom Jefferson, co-author of the Trust the Evidence Substack, reflects on his journey with the platform, which blends humour with facts to expose powerful figures like Matt Hancock.
- “Using foundations for quid pro quos, and to assure great jobs for out of work politicians” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass shares snapshots of unseemly donations from the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.
- “U.K. online safety laws ‘unsatisfactory’ and ‘uneven’, says science minister” – Science Secretary Peter Kyle has criticised the Online Safety Act as “unsatisfactory” and “uneven”, warning that without urgent changes it could lead to a “digital disaster” for children, according to the Guardian.
- “Musk and Zuckerberg team up for free speech war against Britain” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Field reveals that Meta, under Mark Zuckerberg’s new direction, is preparing to launch a major push to weaken or scrap global content rules, setting the stage for a major clash with Britain’s upcoming digital regulations.
- “Zuckerberg back at Mar-a-Lago as he is accused of ‘caving in’ to Trump” – Mark Zuckerberg has met with Donald Trump for a second time since the election as the Facebook owner faces down critics of his so-called MAGA makeover, reports the Mail.
- “Instead of threatening Canada, Trump should offer an Anglosphere union” – In the Washington Examiner, Dan Hannan argues that instead of threatening to absorb Canada, Trump should propose an Anglosphere union, fostering closer collaboration on defense, trade and security between the U.S., Canada and other English-speaking democracies.
- “‘Let Trump bid for Greenland – and Britain too’” – Maybe the world needs a transfer window so any country can offer to buy another, says Jeremy Clarkson in the Sunday Times.
- “Shame on us for ever believing him” – “Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state,” says Jonathan Kay in Quillette.
- “SAS Kenya hero hired as Trump bodyguard” – A former SAS soldier who heroically rescued dozens of hostages in a Kenyan terrorist attack on his day off has been hired by incoming U.S. President Trump as one of his elite personal bodyguards, reports the Mail.
- “Inside the Los Angeles wildfires blame game” – From diversity policies to a “worthless” fish, the finger-pointing over the most destructive fires in LA’s history has just begun, says Benedict Smith in the Telegraph.
- “How to reclaim the Western history of freedom” – On Substack, Sherelle Jacobs argues that the West’s history shows how overcoming powerful elites’ resistance to freedom helped drive its success.
- “Kellie Maloney says transgender women should not use female toilets” – Former boxing promoter Kellie Maloney says that trans women with penises should stay away from female toilets and those who have gone through male puberty should not be allowed to compete against women in sport, according to the Mail.
- “‘You’re spreading lies!’” – On X, a clip from BBC Three’s Free Speech episode from November 2014 shows James Delingpole being silenced for daring to speak the truth about rape gangs and their ethnic profile.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/12/cabinet-told-public-spending-cuts-must-be-ruthless/
Instead of asking cabinet ministers how to curb spending, how about listening to those on the shop floor – the tax payers!
Stop the open door policy of letting ne’er do wells invade our country and live at our expense.
Stop sending taxpayers monies to other countries – charity begins at home!
Stop funding fake wars.
That’s a start…
Oh, how could I forget – ditch the net zero rubbish!!!
What ‘fake’ wars are taxpayers funding?
The war on “carbon”.
When someone decided to have an effect on fuel supplies they blew up the Nord-Stream pipe-line. If we are really serious about cutting public spending then we need to take a ‘Nord-Stream pipe-line” approach to public spending. Do not ask how to reduce spending, cut the budgets and tell the Gov Depts and other spending agencies to manage the best they can with the money that is available.
Current levels of National income allocated to public spending are;
UK 45%
France 57%
USA 36%
Uganda 14%
IMO The UK should be making a firm decision to cut its % spent on public spending down to 33% and learn to manage its public affairs as best it can with that amount of money that is available.
That would be OK if governments weren’t convinced they know how everyone should spend their money. It would be “25% less for education, but you must prioritise anti-colonial studies and including net-zero in every lesson, and replace all your boilers with heat pumps by next year.” And so on.
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I didn’t know about this, actually. And this came many years before the Batley school teacher debacle but look at the similarities. The rot that is Islamification and racism towards whites had already set in a long time ago, and I doubt the word ”woke” was even a word known by many back then;
”The Bradford headteacher who blew the whistle on multiculturalism in the 1980’s:
Ray Honeyford was the headmaster of Drummond Middle School in Bradford in the 1980’s.
Ray was born into a very poor family with a father who was wounded in WW1 and often unable to work. He had 10 siblings, six of whom died in childhood. Ray went to work at 15 to support his family whilst taking evening classes to qualify as a teacher.
In the mid 1980’s Drummond Middle School was 90% non-white and 95% Asian (mostly Pakistani).
1984 (an apt year!) Ray wrote an article on multiculturalism in Roger Scruton’s Salisbury Review. He noted that many children were actively encouraged to speak Urdu rather than English.
He noted young girls were being forced into marriage and many children were arriving at school already exhausted after hours spent at the madrasah.
And he said that parents were bringing the “politics of the subcontinent” with them and that many of the Pakistani parents viewed white Brits as the kafir who were not to be mixed with.
He warned that it was resulting in “Asian ghetto’s” across Bradford and that political correctness was holding back integration and the educational prospects of ethnic minority children.
He wrote the article not out of hatred, but out of a concern the children under his care were not getting a great British education.
Muslim “community leaders” would pack meetings in the school and demand his resignation as did the local Pakistani Mayor of Bradford.
He was suspended until his suspension was overturned in the High Court. But the parents started protesting and the children started boycotting the school. Ray even had to be given police protection.
He eventually accepted a payout from the council and was forced into early retirement. He never worked as a teacher again.
When Ray died in 2012 Roger Scruton wrote an obituary which said:
“Readers will be grateful for the life of this exemplary, heroic and profoundly gentle man, who was prepared to pay the price of truth at a time of lies”.
https://x.com/WorldByWolf/status/1878505414637101116
Lest we forget. And he’s apparently still on the parliamentary website;
”In 2022, Labour MP Nazir Ahmed was convicted of raping a young boy, aged 9, in Rotherham.
He was originally jailed for 3.5 years.
However, this sentence was quietly reduced to just SIX MONTHS on appeal.
The appeal judges were all Labour-voting liberals. Sickening.”
https://x.com/Suffragent_/status/1878441666840776871
It is always interesting to have the names of appeal court judges not just for this type of case but also civil cases
Well, Wes Streeting, can you really blame people for tarring the Pakistani Muslim community with the same brush? Even if they weren’t all doing the raping they sure as hell all knew and condoned it. As I’ve said before, this is an attitude thing. It’s how whites, especially white working class girls, are viewed by them *all*. A couple of comments followers have sent to David Atherton;
”This is the Muslim culture in Britain. I have multiple sources for these attitudes. A follower writes.
“A Muslim friend of Muslim was explaining to me that basically white girls are seen as just something to f**k, like prostitutes. Mainly married men & fathers can carry on being good dad’s & fathers & just rape white girls like a release.
“They don’t see it as rape, like they don’t see shagging a goat as rape.
“She said “like some white blokes watch porn, they go & ‘shag’ a white girl”. She’s said it so flippantly. To them, “rape” would be to force yourself on a “pure” Muslim woman. To them, this isn’t “rape” – these girls are nothing. Just shit on their shoes. They barely see them as human.
“She said the wives know & don’t even care, because most of them don’t love their husbands anyway, a lot of the marriages are arranged, so as long as they don’t have to have sex with them, they couldn’t care less if they’re raping white girls – if it ‘keeps them (their husbands) off their backs'”.
“She was trying to say it to me like a positive thing. “This is why most Muslim marriages last so long” she said, “because they don’t have to worry about the sex side of things – he can just get laid when he wants, & she can get on with being a wife.. you know like in white British marriages & they all break up because the wife won’t shag her husband, & so he has an affair?
“‘Well, like, in Muslim communities, the wives, unless they need or want a baby, if they don’t want sex, they just let him or encourage him to got off and f**k a white girl’.
“She was saying this to me like it was all perfectly normal & didn’t know why I was so shocked or angry about it.
“She added ‘its not like they’re nice girls though is it? Is not like it’s your daughter who goes to church & stuff, it’s just like little slags that go drinking down the park & stuff’.
“I just couldn’t believe what she was saying. This is a woman who I have really cared about & thought we were friends. This mindset is deep. She got a few choice words. I don’t think we’re friends anymore.
“I just needed to share it because I’m really angry.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1878535355034448075
”The cover up of the Pakistani rape gangs is a shame on our country. A follower tells is like it is.
“Whilst working alongside the police in the Home Counties I was assisting teams who investigated “grooming gangs” aka “Pakistani rape gangs”.
“Many different allegations of these types were reported in towns & cities in the suburbs around London. Every single one of the involved Pakistani or Afghan males with the common denominator always being Islam.
“Despite the efforts of the team, these investigations were routinely shut down by police leaders & others high up in social care & the local authority.
“Do not think this problem is isolated to the north of the UK. It is happening everywhere & these scum are allowed to get away with it by simply claiming racism. It’s far more than a national scandal, it an ongoing national emergency.’
“Again without my name, I am happy for you to post both of these if you wish.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1878541191647723572
Cabinet told public spending cuts must be ‘ruthless
Even civil service bosses ‘kno’ what is required.
‘Looking ahead to 2030, and after a decade of reacting to events, many public sector leaders are impatient for change. In every interview we asked how they would like their department, council, NHS trust, police force or agency to look by the end of this decade and we heard consensus around five areas:
streamlined government, reshaped by bold reforms;
a joined-up public sector;
empowering communities or delivering with other sectors;
data-led and digital to the core;
and staffed by inspiring leaders and an engaged, resourced workforce.’
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/cost-living-crisis-government-public-spending-cuts-reform-deloitte-state-report
But this weak, supine, badly led, nasty little government has instead reached for the toddler’s comfort blanket of ‘salami slicing’.
It is the cowardice, abrogation of leadership by successive governments that has got us to where we are today.
Systemic rreform is required.
I like your nod towards Nigel Molesworth.
Fotherington-Thomas ended up as a cabinet minister, they say…
Chiz chiz
Interesting logic by the crowd in the video.
On the one hand, saying that that there gangs of Muslims, primarily Pakistanis raping girls is wrong because it characterises Muslims unfairly, as obviously not all Muslims are rapists and people should be judged as individuals, not as part of a religion or ethnicity.
So far so good.
But then apparently, it’s 100% ok to say that Britain has a culture of misogyny and rape and THAT somehow isn’t a crass generalisation and in that case people don’t need to be considered as individuals.
The things one can make people in a crowd say, like dumb unthinking animals.
i hear that the dead hand of government is now being applied to AI in order to make Britain a world leader. A kiss of death if ever I saw one.
AI apparently energy intensive, being promoted by a country with the highest energy costs in Europe and with very dubious energy security…ummm wonder how that will work out….
Indeed. I wondered about that as well.
It just goes to show that Elon Musk doesn’t understand the deep depths of British politics, chosing Dominic Cummings as an ally is a very bad move
I wouldn’t trust that fu£king weasel ever and would never vote for anything he ever set up!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14274899/Labour-Pakistan-child-sex-abusers-immigration-minister.html
Nowhere near sufficient.
What is required is a TOTAL ban on any more imports from the Third World with the Indian subcontinent top of the list.
Eye test tomorrow, read that as Turd World….
The BBC TV licence fee could be scrapped and replaced with funding from general taxation
I sincerely hope not.