- “‘Asylum seeker’ kills boy, two, and adult, injuring two in knife attack” – A boy, aged two, and a man, 41, have been stabbed to death in a horror attack in Germany after a suspected asylum seeker armed with a knife ambushed a nursery group, reports the Mail.
- “Granddad of girl knifed in Southport says families were ‘abandoned’” – The grandfather of a girl who survived being stabbed by Axel Rudakubana has demanded the sacking of everyone who failed to realise the deadly threat he posed, says the Mail.
- “Axel Rudakubana should never have been free to kill” – Axel Rudakubana was aided and abetted not by online retail practices, but by decades of liberal policy, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Are we missing the point about the ‘Amazon killer’ Axel Rudakubana?” – Rather than confront the state’s absolute failure to protect its citizens, it is blaming online shops and shadowy corners of the internet, says David Shipley in the Spectator.
- “Breaking news: Southport stabbings are the knife’s fault” – On Substack, Konstantin Kisin slams the absurdity of blaming knives, Bezos and Musk for the Southport tragedy.
- “Angela Rayner under pressure to apologise for suggesting Southport attacks were not terror-related” – Nigel Farage has demanded that the Deputy Prime Minister retract her claim that he spread “fake news” about the Southport murders, reports the Telegraph.
- “’This feels like a proper scandal’” – Labour councillor Ricky Jones was arrested last summer after a video went viral in which at an “anti-fascist” rally he talked of “cutting throats”. The delay in bringing his case to trial feels like a real two-tier event, says Kelvin MacKenzie on X.
- “Grooming victim’s father in tears after world ‘ripped apart’” – A heartbroken father broke down in tears after he revealed how his world was “ripped apart” when police officers told him his daughter had been raped and trafficked by a grooming gang, according to the Mail.
- “The rape gangs are worse than you think” – On the Academy of Ideas Substack, Dominic Frisby argues that we need to face the unpalatable truth about the scale and horror of the rape gang scandal – and links to the verbatim play he’s recorded in which he plays the part of the judge in the Oxford rape gang trial.
- “One in 12 in London is an illegal migrant” – Alarming figures have suggested one in 12 people living in London are illegal migrants, reports the Express.
- “‘If you don’t like how we’re dealing with this, then sue us’” – On GB News, the daughter of Sir David Amess reveals the shocking treatment she received from the Conservative Government after her father’s murder.
- “U.K. borrowing soars as Reeves woos business elite in Davos” – Official figures showed the public sector racking up another £17.8 billion of borrowing last month – even more than analysts had expected, reports the Mail.
- “Millionaire exodus same as losing half a million taxpayers, study shows” – The U.K. lost 10,800 millionaires to overseas countries in 2024, more than double the number who left in 2023, says the Telegraph.
- “This was Badenoch’s best PMQs yet” – In the Spectator, Isabel Hardman applauds Kemi Badenoch for challenging Keir Starmer on the controversial Schools Bill.
- “The Schools Bill: school leaders speak out” – School leaders are speaking out against the Schools Bill, citing concerns over the loss of freedoms on curriculum, recruitment and pay, warning it could stifle innovation and hurt schools, writes Neil O’Brien on his Substack.
- “Labour to amend its flagship education Bill after backlash from schools” – The Government will amend its own flagship education Bill after a backlash from school leaders, Sir Keir Starmer has announced, according to the Telegraph.
- “Braverman: Tories and Reform must unify” – Suella Braverman says that the Conservative Party needs to “unite” with Reform U.K. to defeat Labour, according to GB News.
- “Attorney General tried to stop no-deal Brexit” – Attorney General Lord Hermer acted for Liberty, the human rights group, in an attempt to prevent Boris Johnson leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement in 2019, reports the Telegraph.
- “What the hell is wrong with young folk now?” – On Substack, Paul Sutton ridicules Yvette Cooper’s attempt to blame the Southport murders on Amazon.
- “Wind power collapses to less than 1% of U.K. electricity” – Near-zero wind speeds and low temperatures have left the U.K. dependent on imported energy from France, Norway, Belgium and Denmark to keep the lights on, reports the Telegraph.
- “Economic growth must ‘trump’ Net Zero, signals Reeves in split with Miliband” – Rachel Reeves is preparing to face down Cabinet colleagues over Net Zero as she pushes for a potential expansion of Heathrow, says the Express.
- “Rachel Reeves has just admitted the Net Zero emperor has no clothes” – The Chancellor has sent Ed Miliband a message from Davos: growth trumps Net Zero, writes William Atkinson in the Telegraph.
- “The farmers taking a stand against vegan-pushing councils” – Plans to encourage consumers in Gloucestershire to go vegan have been met with a backlash, with some accusing local authorities of “plant-based dictatorship”, says the Telegraph.
- “Nuclear fusion breakthrough: China’s artificial sun sets world record” – China’s “artificial sun” reactor has set a new world record, inching humanity closer to limitless clean energy, reports the Mail.
- “Fresh wildfire rapidly spreads in Los Angeles” – A new wildfire has erupted close to Los Angeles sparking thousands of evacuation orders, says the Telegraph.
- “Trump ‘has Starmer over a barrel on U.S.-U.K. trade deal’” – Keir Starmer’s hopes of a growth-boosting U.S. trade deal have been hit by claims that Trump believes he can dictate the terms of an agreement with Britain, according to the Mail.
- “Britain is being systematically lied to by our delusional political elite” – Donald Trump has shown that another world is possible. Unshackling the economy can still turn us around, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “BBC claims Donald Trump’s election victory fuelled by ‘fear’” – The BBC is embroiled in a fresh row over bias after it reported that Trump’s election was built on “fear” and a “misconception” over illegal migration, reports the Telegraph.
- “Can we please Make Britain Great Again?” – Populism was the winner in the recent elections in America. Who’s to say it could not be the same in the U.K., too? says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “Why we Brits envy the U.S. having Donald Trump” – It comes to something when things are so dire that our dearest wish is that The Donald takes pity on us and adopts the dear old country as the 51st state of America, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Trump sends threat to Putin to end war in Ukraine” – President Trump has warned Vladimir Putin that he faces taxes, tariffs and sanctions if Russia does not sign up to a deal to end the war in Ukraine, reports the Mail.
- “Trump goes biblical on ‘nasty’ bishop for pushing radical Left sermon” – President Trump has issued a scathing rebuke of Bishop of Washington Mariann Budde after she went viral with a wild political sermon at the National Prayer Service, says the Mail.
- “This woke bishop’s pathetic attack on Trump sums up why he won” – The woke Bishop of Washington’s sermon was the sort of liberal grandstanding that perfectly explains Trump’s victory, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Why can’t the Left understand restrictions on immigration?” – On Substack, Alex Berenson argues that the U.S. has no obligation to let in unskilled migrants, and the media’s failure to grasp this is likely why Trump is now President.
- “Inside Musk’s White House power grab” – In the Telegraph, James Crisp reveals how Elon Musk sidelined Vivek Ramaswamy to consolidate power over Trump’s government-slashing Doge initiative.
- “Four big wins for Trump in 48 hours” – On the Illusion of Consensus Substack, Rav Arora celebrates Trump’s swift moves to reinstate unvaccinated troops, exit the WHO, safeguard free speech and dismantle DEI policies – all within 48 hours of taking office.
- “Trump eyes ‘school choice’ tax break, a longstanding conservative goal” – President Trump is poised to enact a dramatic expansion of “school choice” programmes next year that would make it easier for hundreds of thousands of parents to send their children to private school, reports Reuters.
- “DEI isn’t just a waste of money. It’s dangerous” – Trump’s war on DEI is vital if the rise of contemporary antisemitism is to be combatted, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “How Hamas became invisible” – Hamas has certainly been diminished by the past 15 months of conflict, but there can be no doubt that it is still there – and is still the ultimate cause of the Gazan tragedy, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
- “The MHRA papers – part 15” – The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s secretive vaccine review process, riddled with redactions, data gaps and unanswered questions, raises serious concerns, say Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan on the TTE Substack.
- “MHRA removed minutes from their website” – In the Commons, Esther McVey’s Point of Order draws gasps from MPs as she reveals that the MHRA had removed minutes from its website after she referenced them during Thursday’s House of Commons debate.
- “Smoke, mirrors and ghost writers” – The need for accountability, transparency and rigorous inquiry into vaccine safety signals remains critical, says HART on its Substack.
- “COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ mandates for legal immigrants eliminated” – “One of the last remaining tools for the Biopharmaceutical Complex to increase genetic injection uptake has been removed,” says Nicolas Hulscher on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “Harry climbs down after vowing to never give up anti-media crusade” – In the Telegraph, Victoria Ward highlights Prince Harry’s crusade against the tabloids ending in an eight-figure settlement he once vowed he’d never accept.
- “After Prince Harry’s settlement, let’s hope the onslaught on press freedom is at an end” – In the Telegraph, Isabel Oakeshott slams Prince Harry as a self-obsessed crusader whose endless vendetta against the press has worn out the U.K.’s patience.
- “Keir Starmer ‘put down the bong!’” – In a devastating slapdown of Keir Starmer, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy tells him to “stop dipping into your ketamine stash” and “put down the bong” and don’t give away the Chagos Islands.
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12 yr old Birmingham lad stabbed to death leaving school yesterday ! A 14 yr old did it after attacking an 80 yr old woman earlier in the week , he’s been arrested but can’t be named !
Wednesday Morning Bath Road & Pound Lane Sonning Wokingham
Covid Jab Censorship Cost Lives
Good up to a point that they are covering this but in truth we get about 12% net per year from abroad. I don’t want people to think this was a rare event:
“Near-zero wind speeds and low temperatures have left the U.K. dependent on imported energy from France, Norway, Belgium and Denmark to keep the lights on, reports the Telegraph.”
Fair enough tof but the real issue is that we are importing energy when the bottom line is that we are self-sufficient if we access the resources available including, coal, gas and fracked gas. So in some respects this article serves a purpose.
I hope so!
I ask everyone I know who will listen what happens when the wind stops blowing. They just assume the government will have an answer.
I don’t think many people realise we import energy let alone how much we depend on it.
I’m sure you are right. Very sad. Democracy to work properly requires the voters to be paying attention. To be fair, before Trump/Brexit/”Covid” I was not paying as much attention as I should have been.
Trump sends threat to Putin to end war in Ukraine
‘Compared to the hopelessness in every aspect of the previous White House chief (President Joe Biden), there is a window of opportunity today, albeit a small one,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow.
‘It’s therefore important to understand with what and whom we will have to deal, how best to build relations with Washington, how best to maximise opportunities and minimise risks.’
He was later quoted by the Tass state news agency saying Russia was preparing for contacts between Putin and Trump.’
Good idea.
But it is isn’t going to happen
‘Today’s rather sharp statement from Trump has been interpreted by Russian radicals not only as an ultimatum but also as a direct insult. They are convinced that their patron Putin would never agree to any concessions, which in their eyes means Trump is deliberately sabotaging the negotiations.
As a result, Russians are furious, since they’ve been unable to achieve a breakthrough on the frontlines. Even the full occupation of the four claimed regions remains a distant and uncertain goal, if it’s even achievable at all.
Trump didn’t bother to outline a plausible scenario for such a deal. Surely, he must understand that Putin cannot simply stop the war—his hordes have no alternative but to keep going forward. No one wants them back in russia.’
‘We can do it the easy way or the hard way.’ President Trump 22 Jan 2025
Looks like its going to be the hard way….
Russia is moving methodically forward. They are in no hurry because their aim is to decimate Ukraine’s military – further territorial conquest is a secondary aim now that they have liberated the southern and eastern oblasts (they are only a few kilometers from the Donetsk/Dnipropetrovsk border).
The sooner the West listens to what Putin actually says and not to what the propagandists say he says then the sooner a settlement can be reached. The bombast and aggression from the West is only making any agreement less attractive for Ukraine.
Meanwhile Russia has ridden out the sancrions and reset its trade away from the West, so Trump’s threat of further sanctions will be seen by the Russians as an empty one.
The most useful thing Trump could do would be to insist on elections to be held in Ukraine, since Zelenky’s mandate is now a year out of date, and to tie any further aid to the successful outcome of the elections..
He would need to ask Russia to hold off further action against the Ukrainian infrastructure until voting is complete and to provide a secure environment for Western and Russian observers to oversee the elections. The four oblasts that the West now concedes should remain Russian would need to be excluded from the voting for Putin’s agreement.
I agree, as always, but I do not think Putin is inclined to listen to any cease-fire request from USA. Russia is certainly informed every time a ‘courageous’ Western diplomat wishes to visit Kiev and I am sure they would equally hold back if voting were to be held in Ukraine, but I do not think they would consider a complete cease-fire along the front line.
Trump ought to realise that Putin will not engage at any level with Zelensky because he is not considered to be the legitimate leader of Ukraine, so a negotiation can only go aheadnwhen one is elected.
Very true, assuming there is anything left of the country in the future.
Firstly, Trump needs to get some decent advisors on the Ukraine conflict. His recent statement that Russia has a million dead as a result of the war and therefore Putin cannot continue, just shows the continuing effect of Biden’s team’s propaganda.
And what precisely do you mean by “the hard way”? So far Russia has defeated everything the West has thrown, and continues to throw, at it. Putting European troops ‘on the ground’ would similarly mean the complete end of the anyway dwindling European ‘defence’ forces.
USA is always happy to march its Army into countries with inferior military defence capabilities but Russia is not such a country, and logistics-wise USA would be at a huge disadvantage vis-à-vis Russian supply lines.
Furthermore, such an open confrontation with US forces in Ukraine would certainly lead to nuclear war – something none of us should want. Russia has already shown enormous restraint, knowing full well that some US forces are currently operational in Ukraine, providing the UAF with reconnaissance data and firing off ATACMS at Russian sites.
With all the billions spent by so many countries on Ukraine, surely now is the time to ask just what on earth for? The Ukrainian people have been slaughtered or dispersed, and any remaining are being forced to exist under freezing conditions – all in the name of NATO expansion. Is it really worth it? Surely it is clear by now that NATO is the expansionist threat and not Russia.
‘…domestic activity has become strained in recent months by labour shortages and high interest rates introduced to tackle inflation, which has accelerated under record military spending.
That has contributed to the view within a section of the Russian elite that a negotiated settlement to the war is desirable, according to two of the sources familiar with thinking in the Kremlin.’
‘Russia, of course, is economically interested in negotiating a diplomatic end to the conflict,” Oleg Vyugin, former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia said in an interview, citing the risk of growing economic distortions as Russia turbo-charges military and defence spending.
Vyugin was not one of the five sources, who all spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation in Russia. The extent of Putin’s concerns about the economy, described by the sources, and the influence of that on views within the Kremlin about the war, are documented…..’
22 Jan 2025
Putin’s concerns about the economy – you mean having recently overtaken Japan to be No. 4 in the world in terms of PPP-adjusted GDP?
Spending a whole 6.3% of GDP on defence is certainly a lot but not exactly war-time levels. And hopefully the whole Ukraine disaster will be over this year.
I am touched by your concern for the pockets of a few rich Russians. My Russian friends are currrently holidaying in Thailand and don’t seem to be greatly concerned.
“Braverman: Tories and Reform must unify”
Translation: Tories attempt to stay viable by clinging onto Reforms coatails!
Reform can win on its own thanks Suella,
the last thing Reform or the country needs are the ghosts of the long dead Labour or tories following them, a fresh start!
100% with you Dinger.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/suella-braverman-reform-uk-nigel-farage-donald-trump
No.No.No.
The Conservative Party are responsible for the utterly dreadful state this country is now in and must be destroyed.
If Reform do a deal with the Tories my voting days are over.
No, no, no.
This is why I ultimately have little hope.
This impulse to wail at the state for not protecting us from every single misfortune or difficulty that happens in a country of 68 million is what drives totalitarianism.
I can only assume that David Shipley hasn’t thought through the implications of what he writes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14311785/Trump-woke-bishop-sermon-prayer-truth-social-inauguration.html
Well done Donald Trump. The globalists are attempting to destroy the world and firkin idiots like this are helping them. Get rid of her.
At some point the British public will have to wake up to how their “democracy” actually works or watch as the country is flushed down the toilet.
The state has promised to deliver things it cannot afford. And the politicians that represent the state are too afraid and too gutless to tell the public what it doesn’t want to heat. So instead they go off to Davos and sell off some preferential treatment to some industry or corporation that will ultimately screw the public even more.
Time to wake up, time to face up to reality. The state isn’t going to provide for you or save you. It can’t. It’s going to continue to take your money and spend it far less efficiently than you and it’s going to cover the shortfall by selling you out. As its been doing for decades.