- “There is a frightening defect in the Israel-Hamas ‘deal’ – the terrorists live to fight on” – The freeing of hostages is grounds for rejoicing, but the perpetrators of the October 7th pogrom remain in place to murder again, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Israel ceasefire on brink of collapse over hostage fears, says Netanyahu” – The fragile ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas appears to be teetering on the edge of collapse as the terror group still hasn’t released the agreed hostage list, reports the Sun.
- “More than 70 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after clashes with police in London” – More than 70 pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested in Trafalgar Square on suspicion of breaching protest conditions after demonstrators broke through a police line as they marched from a rally in Whitehall, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bridget Phillipson accused by Labour insiders of ‘folding to unions’ on schools” – Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is under pressure from No. 10 amid a growing Labour backlash over her schools reforms, reports the Sun.
- “Three reasons the Government’s attack on academy schools must be resisted at all costs” – Lord Ashcroft makes the case against Labour’s self-sabotaging education Bill.
- “Labour’s plan to torch three decades of education reforms” – Even before the new bill hits the statute book, underperforming schools are realising they have been handed a get out of jail free card, says Julie Henry in the Telegraph.
- “Home-schooling helps us resist indoctrination” – Labour is about to subject home-schooling to a whole new bureaucratic regime overseen by often hostile local authorities, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Blow for Reeves as rich flee U.K. and she gets snub for Davos slot” – The Mail on Sunday reveals that Rachel Reeves has been snubbed for a main speaking slot in Davos, as it’s reported that millionaires have fled Britain at a rate of one every 45 minutes since the election.
- “Starmer is no more powerful than the King of Legoland” – Starmer may strut the world pretending Britain is still an important player, but he’s no more powerful than the King of Legoland, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer humiliated as Labour U-turns on five key policies” – As Labour settles into its first term in Government in 14 years, cracks already seem to be appearing at the seams of its policymaking, says the Express.
- “Why shouldn’t we call the Chancellor ‘Rachel from accounts’?” – Left-wingers think Rachel Reeves’s nickname is sexist, but if anything it exaggerates her economic experience, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Attorney General in row over ‘one-off’ Chagos asylum deal for his former clients” – Lord Hermer has been urged to “come clean” over his role in a Government U-turn that let refugees he had represented come to the U.K. just months after his appointment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s hatred of free speech will trigger economic war with the United States” – Elon Musk is closer to public opinion in his ancestral homeland than our own Prime Minister, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “The legal profession has seized control of Britain” – Britain’s policymakers can barely move without a judge tripping them up, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Labour ‘U-turns’ on private school VAT raid for gifted arts students” – Gifted private school students from lower-income families will be spared VAT charges on fees, the Government has said, as campaigners urge the Government to extend the move to all families with incomes under £45,000, the Telegraph reports.
- “Two thirds of parents receive help to pay private school fees” – Two thirds of parents receive help from family, friends or schools to pay fees for independent schools, a study has found, reports the Times.
- “Rayner breached Ministerial code by asking civil servants to help her move house, say Tories” – Deputy PM Angela Rayner “breached the Ministerial code” by asking civil servants to help her move into Admiralty House, the Tories have claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Is Badenoch bouncing back?” – Tory leader Kemi Badenoch had a bumpy December, but her fortunes appear to be quietly reversing in the New Year, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Kemi needs ideas now, or the Tories are doomed” – The Opposition can’t wait until 2027 to announce policies. That way Reform will usurp it, says James Frayne in the Telegraph.
- “Tory voters are split on whether party should merge with Reform U.K.” – With the Tories trailing behind both Reform and Labour in the polls, Farage is making a determined push to capture voters, leaving Tory voters split on whether they want to merge with his party, the Mail reports.
- “Farage: I could be Prime Minister before Trump leaves office” – Nigel Farage has predicted that he could be Prime Minister before Donald Trump leaves office in four years in a worldwide “political tide” of Right-wing election wins, the Telegraph reports.
- “Covid Inquiry Module 4 Hearings” – The U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance opens its reporting on the Covid Inquiry vaccine module with coverage of the core participants’ opening statements last week.
- “Hundreds in hospital with serious reactions to fat jabs” – New data show cases of fat-jab side-effects soaring over November, with an extra 118 hospitalisations recorded by the MHRA, reports the Mail.
- “A day in the life of blackout Britain: how Net Zero electricity rationing would play out” – The U.K. avoided lights out last week – but an energy nightmare is edging closer to reality, warns Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Will blackouts come to Britain?” – In UnHerd, Freddie Sayers is joined by energy analyst Kathryn Porter to break down the National Grid numbers and find out how Net Zero might cause blackouts by 2030.
- “America turns on the Montecito ‘grifters’: Harry and Meghan are left reeling from new claim that Duchess’s bullying sent staff into therapy – just days after couple were branded ‘disaster tourists’” – The backlash against Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in the United States continues to grow, as a scathing new exposé in Vanity Fair highlights new bullying claims against them, reports the Mail.
- “Top 10 revelations from Vanity Fair’s takedown of Harry and Meghan” – The Mail with the highlights of the brutal Vanity Fair hit piece on Duchess Difficult and her devoted Prince.
- “Prime Minister Carney? Canada deserves better than this progressive twerp” – Canadians must be aghast at the prospect of a leader even more smug and incompetent than the current Prime Minister, says the Telegraph‘s Camilla Tominey.
- “Medical students asked to attend ‘race-segregated’ classes funded by the NHS” – University students from King’s College London have been asked to take part in ‘race-segregated’ classes funded by the NHS, the Telegraph reports.
- “Revealed: the gold-plated pensions paid by Britain’s destitute councils” – Generous payouts promised to retired staff are forcing council tax bills higher, with 7,609 ex-council workers enjoying £50,000+ a year pensions and a quarter of all Council Tax receipts already going to the retired, the Telegraph reports.
- “Real ale honouring Sheffield blade maker dropped because it ‘promotes knife crime’” – A real ale that championed a Sheffield blade maker whose clientele included the Royal family has been axed because it “promotes knife crime”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Germany: The Land of Stuck Politics” – Germany is the land of stuck politics and will “cling like grim death to the naïve and insane ideological edifice” of the ‘End of History’ period, writes Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “‘Looking For Growth’ belongs in the tepid bath of managed decline” – “If what you want is endorsed by the Times,” writes J’Accuse, “I would suggest gently that your programme of change does not represent a sufficient break from the orthodoxy for it to be suitable to events as they are.”
- “The civil servant who challenged transgender ideology — and won” – Eleanor Frances sued her department for discrimination when her career ended over her gender-critical views, and she won, reports the Times.
- “Finally some sense on Whitehall gender policy” – Eleanor Frances has won a battle with the Civil Service to accept its guidance was illegal, says Janice Turner in the Times.
- “Oxford Literary Festival faces growing trans backlash” – Get ready for woke foot-stamping now that the Oxford Literary Festival has discovered a backbone and invited gender-critical author Helen Joyce and feminist campaigner Julie Bindel to take part, says Joan Smith in UnHerd.
- “FPÖ bigwig starts firestorm with call for abolishing EU censorship law” – Petra Steger, a leading MEP for the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), has provoked an EU firestorm about censorship and freedom of speech with her calls to abolish the Digital Services Act, reports Brussels Signal.
- “Could drink-spiking scandal see Westminster’s Strangers’ Bar close?” – Could incendiary new claims that an MP tried to use a date rape drug on its premises could finally give the authorities an excuse to shut the historic watering hole for ever, asks the Mail.
- “Nearly two thirds of convicted rapists in Sweden are migrants or second generation immigrants” – Nearly two thirds of convicted rapists in Sweden are migrants or second generation immigrants, a new study has found, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘Targets culture’ meant police ignored grooming gangs, leaked report reveals” – A leaked watchdog reports finds that South Yorkshire police failed to protect girls because a ‘targets culture’ led it to prioritise dealing with vehicle crimes, burglary and robbery, the Telegraph reports.
- “Surge in charity bosses on super-sized salaries” – The Charity Commission has threatened “legal action” if charities give execs inflated paycheques amid a 42% rise in staff earning more than £400,000, including two at the Church of England, the Telegraph reports.
- “Banished from history! Word ‘slave’ is axed to ‘decolonise’ curriculum” – Scotland’s exams body is no longer referring to ‘slaves’ or the ‘slave trade’ in a bid to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum, according to the Mail.
- “Why do awards shows love this woeful, woke musical?” – Emilia Pérez, a musical about a Mexican drug lord’s gender transition, has captivated the Hollywood elite, but it’s dire, says Spiked‘s Lauren Smith. “Aside from the fact that it is unsubtle, unbelievable and downright boring, its pandering to identity politics is unbearable.”
- “You don’t have ADHD – you’re just annoying” – Hilarious rant from Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill, taking apart the self-serving fashion of rebranding rudeness as mental illness.
- “Free speech is still in peril on campus” – Labour’s watered-down Freedom of Speech Act will do little to tackle the scourge of cancel culture, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “If it wasn’t so sad, it would be quite funny” – On X, Michael A. Arouet posts a funny video comparing the very different achievements of the U.S. and EU.
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“Real ale honouring Sheffield blade maker dropped because it ‘promotes knife crime’”
This is a stupid decision. But why are we continuing to fund people who ask stupid questions and make stupid decisions.?
Because the stupid now run the show…
“Hundreds in hospital with serious reactions to fat jabs”
Wasn’t this the Health Secretary’s big idea to fix the NHS and get fatties back to work.? Apart from that, killing dying pensioners and spending more money on computers, he seems a bit short of ‘root and branch reform’.
“You don’t have ADHD – you’re just annoying”
We fell in love with the idea that we should stick labels on ourselves, celebrating our fragilities and deficiencies. I suppose you can always use it as a ‘thing to blame’ when you cant grow up and take responsibility for yourself.
ADHD is useful amongst the benefit class.
Sorry Hux, what were you saying…?
Could you clarify the question please Neil?
“Revealed: the gold-plated pensions paid by Britain’s destitute councils”
I recall in the 60’s and 70’s that people working for the council were seen to be ‘getting looked after’ after a life of public service, and that often taking lower salary than they could make in the private sector, it was just adding some balance, No-one got fussy about it. Things have changed around180 degrees now of course, It is a monster of its own making and will only get worse with the accelerated bloating of the councils and pay increases beyond what the jobs are worth.
By the 1970s it was clear the tax funded sectors were well paid, underworked
And over pensioned. Their benefits were also excellent with long sick pay and expenses.
My father told me of a contemporary of his in the village who worked for the council. When his job moved 15 miles to another office he was awarded a special (pensionable) pay rise for the additional travel time and tax free mileage.
According to reports he never missed a weekend off or his annual leave.
Deleted. Posted under wrong topic.
Town Clerks, as formerly known, on £200k plus per year and usually with golden hellos, golden goodbyes and inflated pensions.
That applied to the whole public sector. Lower salaries, OK pension
Now they earn more than they would in the private sector and insane pensions, so good may can retire early. Those on over £4k pa should pay their own pensions.
This cannot last.
“Could drink-spiking scandal see Westminster’s Strangers’ Bar close?”
‘Currently unproven claims’.
Why don’t we leave the bar alone, and prosecute the ‘Spiker’.? Or is the behaviour of MP’s such that we cannot trust the overwhelming majority to control themselves. Or is it that they think alcohol, like gambling needs Nanny to keep an eye on everybody. Maybe Nanny needs to have an eye on other matters and leave adults alone.
Shut it down. I dare say we subsidise it.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/18/labour-u-turn-private-school-vat-raid-gifted-arts-students/
“In the first six months of the Government’s tenure, 16,400 illegal migrants were removed. Sir Keir emphasised that deporting migrants to their home countries serves as a more effective deterrent than the previous government’s Rwanda scheme.”
Yet another lie as they’re still coming in droves!
““Kemi needs ideas now, or the Tories are doomed” – The Opposition can’t wait until 2027 to announce policies. That way Reform will usurp it, says James Frayne in the Telegraph.”
My giddy aunt. “Ideas”???? We don’t want or need “ideas”. If the Tory leadership or for that matter their voters and members don’t understand what “conservatism” means by now then there’s no hope for them. We know what the “ideas” are, we just need “Kemi” to articulate them clearly and bloody mean it, and somehow convince people that there were good reasons why none of them were implemented during their 14 years in office and it will all be better next time. What is wrong with these people?
F. the Tories. Never again.
I would have considered it if I had seen signs of true repentance and a complete changing of the guard, and there was no viable alternative – but this has not been the case.
As per the article on foreigners committing most rapes in Sweden, here’s a look at Denmark. He does great graphs and charts if you can see them, but it really is the same story across most European countries. Only the countries of origin differ.
And as an aside: if we can see by the data that second/third generation descendants of migrants are committing more crimes than their parents as well as natives, does this not just provide further confirmation that they are incapable of assimilation, therefore ‘multiculturalism’ is an undeniable failure? It’s no wonder the UK won’t release data on who’s committing the crimes and Khant remains delusional and in denial;
”Immigrants and their descendants (i.e., children) account for 40% of convictions for homicides, rapes, and violent robberies, despite making up only 12% of the population.
Children of “non-Western” immigrants are even more involved in delinquency than the immigrants themselves.
Here are the conviction rates, revealing the failure of assimilation:
“Native” Danes: 2.6%
Non-Western immigrants: 5.1%
Their children: 5.9% !!
The more violent the aggression (excluding crimes), the higher the conviction rate of descendants of non-Western immigrants compared to their parents.
Up to 2x higher for attempted homicides, with a rate FIFTEEN TIMES that of “native” Danes.
The conviction rate for individuals of African origin in assaults is 5 to 7 times higher than that of “native” Danes!
But that’s not all.
The conviction rate for individuals of Sub-Saharan African origin for rape is a staggering FOURTEEN TIMES higher than that of “native” Danes.
Maghrebi and Afghan/Pakistani origins are also notable, with rates around 8 to 9 times higher.
What is the impact of the higher crime rate among individuals of immigrant backgrounds on overall crime and offenses?
A simple calculation shows it accounts for no less than 20,000 convictions annually.
Over the past 10 years, immigration has had a decisive impact on crime trends in Denmark:
The conviction rate among native Danes has been declining, which should have led to a reduction in the number of convictions.
Yet, this has not been the case..
The combined increase in the immigrant-origin population AND its conviction rate has led to a rise in the number of convictions for crimes and offenses.”
https://x.com/Marc_Vanguard_i/status/1879521650019807252
These are shocking stats. Governments have done a good job in hiding this information. I wasn’t aware of just how dire things are, until relatively recently. But it’s thanks to people like you, and sites like this, that I am now better informed.
It is interesting to compare the critical press coverage of the few reactions from the millions of fat jabs with the almost complete silence about the Covid jab side effects.
Covid jabs saving the world, fat jabs just for weak willed fatties.
Good observation.
PS I speak as a “weak willed fatty” who lost 2 stones in 2 months and then stopped using Mounjaro, because I had adjusted my eating regime and intend to stick to it without further artificial help.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14299617/Tory-voters-split-party-merge-Reform-polls-Nigel-Farage.html
Any Reform hierarchy reading this please note:
If Reform do a deal with the Conservatives they will lose my vote. And my views are shared by many.
The Tories have more to gain than Reform. They need Reforms credibility. I don’t think Reform are thinking about pacts and arrangements of convenience. We’ll have to see when it gets to the day, of course. There might be some advantages in a limited way, and you should never say never. As much as the Tories needed to be obliterated at the last GE, we need to do the same to Labour at the next.
I would be quite torn. I share hux’s anger and his reasoning is sound, but equally sooner or later a credible non-madleft political force needs to get into power. An alliance with Reform on Reform’s terms MIGHT be just about acceptable, though I would need to see a lot more contrition from the Tories about their past failings. I know some on here are dead set against Badenoch – and I cannot honestly say I blame them, but I think she has some good qualities though I struggle to get past her support for the scamdemic and would need to see a Bridgen-like damascene conversion to feel comfortable voting for any alliance with her in a senior role. Then again Reform were not exactly top notch on “covid” either.
Fair comments tof and your final comment is noteworthy. Reform’s disgraceful treatment of Andrew Bridgen will forever be held against them in my opinion. Why on earth this bridge has not been mended is beyond logic. And their ignorance during the Scamdemic was worrying.
Farage is simply too big for his boots which may yet be Reform’s downfall, deliberate or not.
It’s bloody tricky
Ideally we should hold out for better but I fear our fellow citizens are less fussy. I was lucky enough to have a choice between the Alliance for Freedom & Democracy and Heritage- both parties with political ideas very similar to my own- but they have little support.
In an ideal world, what we need the Tory’s to do is say they are winding up their party – shutting it down… that leaves the ground open for an actual centre right party to step in. Chances of that happening = zero…. Chances of the centre right being split and labour winning next election by default = pretty high sadly in my opinion
And labour in for another term is something we truly cannot afford
Indeed
That’s why it was so crucial that the Tories were utterly destroyed in the last election, but six million idiots voted for them and they are Her Majesty’s Opposition, and as deluded as ever.
I have been assured by a reasonably ranked Reform official that the hierarchy are committed to NEVER doing a deal with the Tories. Sadly, about four weeks later Reform did a deal with the Tories in Lee Anderson’s constituency. Hmm?
“Tory voters are split on whether party should merge with Reform U.K.”
Translation: “How Tory Losers can PIGGYBACK off Reform’s success”