- “Pro-free speech Vice-Chancellor reinstated and cleared of all wrongdoing” – James Tooley, the pro-free speech Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham, has been exonerated by a gruelling, months-long investigation into vexatious allegations made by his ex-wife and will shortly be reinstated, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour backbenchers rebel over blocked WASPI women compensation scheme” – Ten Labour backbenchers have thrown their support behind a new law that would give compensation to WASPI women in a clear show of defiance against Sir Keir Starmer, reports the Mail.
- “Trump’s Secretary of State challenges David Lammy over Chagos deal” – Marco Rubio has challenged David Lammy over Britain’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands in their first call together, reveals the Telegraph.
- “FBI ‘handed dossier’ on Lord Mandelson’s alleged China links” – A dossier detailing Lord Mandelson’s links to China has reportedly been handed to the FBI and could further complicate his chances of being accepted as British Ambassador to the U.S., reports the Telegraph.
- “MP who threatened to ‘smash’ a journalist’s face is new trade envoy” – Keir Starmer’s latest trade envoy team includes Labour’s Kate Osamor, who once threatened a journalist with a bat, and Bell Ribeiro-Addy, who chairs a group advocating for reparations for the descendants of slaves, says the Mail.
- “New Schools Network revived to fight academies reform” – According to Schools Week, the New Schools Network has been revived as a lobbying operation with a new director tasked with defending successive governments’ successful education reforms.
- “Shhh! Don’t tell anyone but the House is full of extremists” – Even asking about extremism is itself an act of extremism, according to some of the more extreme backbenchers, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Outraged by grooming gangs? You’re an extremist” – The British state would rather label everyone far Right than focus on the real threats in our midst, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “We’re all ‘extremists’ now” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin explains how the British state plans to use Southport and the Rape Gangs to suppress free speech and label millions of ordinary people Right-wing extremists.
- “The propaganda unit behind Labour’s extremism report” – The Government’s Research, Information and Communications Unit was set up with the aim of providing “consistently clear and appropriate communications”. But despite its name, Ricu is anything but transparent, says Natasha Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Child rape and a judge inclined to leniency” – In TCW, Mat Brown highlights Robert Jenrick’s outrage over lenient sentencing for child rapists.
- “The case for execution” – Axel Rudakubana deserves the death penalty, says Sam Bidwell in the Critic.
- “‘Trump’s done 100 things in one day and Starmer still hasn’t done anything. We need a Trump’” – In the Telegraph, Ed Shackle reacts to a poll revealing that many British voters back Donald Trump’s agenda on issues like migration and free speech.
- “Rachel Reeves is Gordon Brown in a dress” – Progressives have seemingly lost all hope in the future; they’ve become nostalgic regressives, far too wedded to the old ways, says Despotic Inroad in UnHerd.
- “The cash crisis crippling the Tories – and supercharging Reform” – As Conservative cash supplies run low, a raft of Tory donors appear to have already decided to redirect their money into Reform’s coffers, notes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
- “The unrelenting 50-year Heathrow saga is a symbol of ‘can’t do’ Britain” – We used to be supremely good at big projects – look at the Victorians’ successes, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph. Now we are uniquely bad.
- “The councils with up to £3.4 billion debts” – U.K. councils are wilting under a mountain of debt, with the 20 most indebted councils owing more than £30 billion, reports the Mail.
- “U.K. population to hit 72.5 million by 2032 – almost entirely due to migration” – The U.K. population is set to hit 72.5 million by mid-2032 – overtaking France – entirely due to net immigration, says the Mail.
- “Migrants must be expected to integrate” – By the 1980s, Britain had become a civilised country – now some of those hard won advances are eroding, warns Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “‘Diversity is our strength’: the cult of the True Believers” – In TCW, Laura Perrins exposes how the elite’s unwavering belief in diversity blinds them to the violence it fuels.
- “‘This rape gang proves that my politics are correct’” – In the Critic, Ben Sixsmith slams Left-wing commentators for politicising a recent horrific Scottish child sex abuse case, using it as a tool to attack their political opponents rather than focusing on the victims.
- “‘Wipe criminal records of young rioters’” – Children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza argues that the crimes committed by children involved in last summer’s riots are not serious enough to go on their permanent criminal records, according to the Times.
- “Amir Khan reveals gunpoint robbery left him too scared to say in U.K.” – Boxer Amir Khan has revealed he fled to Dubai following a terrifying gunpoint robbery in 2022 which left him feeling too scared to stay in Britain, reports the Mail.
- “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plans branded ‘fantasy’ in damning letter from top scientist” – A former Government scientist has written to Ed Miliband after branding the U.K.’s Net Zero plans an engineering “fantasy” with the challenges and costs massively underestimated, according to GB News.
- “Labour-backing green tycoon poised for £25 million payday from oil-rich UAE” – Labour donor Dale Vince is in line for a £25 million windfall after a British green energy supplier was snapped up by a company backed by the United Arab Emirates, reports the Telegraph.
- “CPS ‘refusing to hand over new evidence’ in Letby case, MPs told” – Sir David Davis says that new medical evidence in the Lucy Letby case is being withheld from her legal team, according to Telegraph.
- “MPs warned over listing illnesses that would apply for assisted dying” – England’s Chief Medical Officer has warned MPs that it would be “extremely difficult” to list illnesses that would apply under new assisted dying laws, reports the Mail.
- “As Sir Chris gazed, the misery of lockdown came back” – In the Mail, Quentin Letts reports on Sir Chris Whitty’s push for a “clear and simple” assisted dying law.
- “Chris Whitty calls for simple assisted dying rules – but his evidence could not be more complicated” – The Chief Medical Officer’s appearance before MPs scrutinising the assisted dying bill showed how tangled medical law can be, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “The truth about Covid vaccines may finally be coming to light” – In the Telegraph, Katie Musgrave calls out former Deputy Chief Medical Officer Prof. Van-Tam for glossing over the lack of informed consent in the U.K.’s vaccine push.
- “The road to serfdom” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan slam the MHRA’s failure, suggesting Dame June Raine’s cluelessness is more likely to blame than Big Pharma’s dishonesty.
- “GMB host criticised for not mentioning Jews as being Holocaust victims” – Campaigners have criticised Good Morning Britain host Ranvir Singh for failing to mention that the Jews were the victims of the Holocaust, reports the Mail.
- “Ireland’s President has shamed his nation” – Ireland is now seen as the most antisemitic country in the EU, says Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Telegraph.
- “Macron’s approval rating sinks to lowest point after disastrous TikTok video” – Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings have plunged to their lowest since he took office in 2017 after his latest attempt to reconnect with ordinary citizens humiliatingly backfired, reports the Telegraph.
- “Francis Fukuyama on Trump 2.0” – On the Persuasion Substack, Yascha Mounk talks to Francis Fukuyama about the first few days of the Trump administration – and what it means for domestic and foreign policy.
- “Netflix viewers who don’t watch BBC could pay licence fee for it” – A new TV tax could result in subscribers to streaming services having to help bear the cost of the BBC when its charter runs out in December 2027, reports the Mail.
- “Democracy will die ‘at the hands of Silicon Valley’ if AI is not properly regulated, ministers warned” – Peers have voted down proposals to weaken copyright laws over fears tech firms would be given permission to steal from the creative industries, says the Telegraph.
- “Teens half as likely to say they are atheists” – A new poll shows that teenagers and those in their early twenties are half as likely to identify as atheists than their parents, according to the Mail.
- “Bishop of Liverpool is accused of sexual assaults” – The Church of England is facing a new crisis after it emerged two women have made allegations of a sexual nature against the Bishop of Liverpool, reports the Mail.
- “Hate crimes against LGBT victims to receive longer sentences” – Offenders convicted of hate crimes against LGBT and disabled people will face longer sentences under plans by the Home Office, reports the Telegraph.
- “Second teenage footballer banned for asking if transgender opponents were men” – A second teenage footballer has been handed a six-match ban for asking whether the adult transgender opponents she was playing against were men, says the Telegraph. (Spoiler alert: they were.)
- “Trump declares transgender soldiers unfit for U.S. military” – President Trump has signed an executive order banning the use of “invented” pronouns in the U.S. military to rid it of what he called “transgender ideology”, reports the Times.
- “Queensland Government halts hormone treatment for new trans patients under 18” – The Queensland Government has announced a review into the evidence for stage one and two hormone therapies for children with gender dysphoria, according to ABC News.
- “Police officer guilty for calling black colleagues ‘cotton pickers’” – PC Mia Korell has been found guilty of gross misconduct for calling black colleagues “cotton pickers” after they disagreed with claims that the Territorial Support Group was racist, reports the Mail.
- “‘I’ve been banned from Tesco because I refuse to use self checkouts’” – A woman says she was banned from a Tesco Express in Brighton after she refused to use the self-service checkouts because they are “too difficult to use”, according to the Mail.
- “Plus size female rapper sues Lyft ‘after she was too big for car’” – Enormously fat American rapper Dank Demoss has sued Lyft after claiming a driver refused to pick her up over fears she was too big to fit in his car and could “burst his tyres”, reports the Mail.
- “Congratulations Nigel and Toby!” – On X, Emma Trimble congratulates Prof. Nigel Biggar and (her former boss) Toby on their very well deserved peerages. There is hope for the country yet!
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/28/hate-crimes-against-lgbt-victims-given-longer-sentences/
Hang on, the Home Office is planning to further create two-tier policies by lengthening the sentences of those offenders committing alleged hate crimes who are not LBGT(+++) and / or disabled?
…and the LBGT(+++) and / or disabled persons who commit alleged hate crimes will receive shorter sentences?
Is that correct – politically and / or lawful?
Three-tier, four-tier …
Extremist!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14334191/Plus-size-rapper-Dank-Demoss-sues-Lyft.html
Oh my
Hurty feelings – again! I wouldn’t be surprised if she is one of those who purchase a single plane ticket then complain about the person valiantly sitting next to them who struggle and fidget whilst trying to accommodate the overspill into their paid for seat!
I suppose Lyft could commission some luxuriously adapted pickups or cranes in future to both avoid hurting feelings and more importantly, comply with health and safety / large load restrictions.
The state of her though. And there’s others like her over there. A male rapper also. I actually don’t even know how they walk, let alone manage their, erm, personal hygiene. There must be a market for reinforced toilets in the States.![😮](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f62e.svg)
Then you see videos of them going on planes and complaining the airline’s at fault for having cabins and seats too small, FFS…Well good luck getting in and out of a plane toilet without causing a ‘major incident’, love!
People like this “rapper” are an insult to humanity and the planet. Thank goodness she isn’t British, she would be costing taxpayers a fortune.
Maybe ‘Fork Lyft’ would be a better name for the taxi company?
Tuesday Morning Wokingham Road & Downshire Way Bracknell
Your Tax Billions Fund Climate Scam
Yes, Rafe knows the score. It’s all a massive con and they think we’re stupid;
”As I’ve long said: channel migrants are NOT asylum seekers, they are SCOUTS: economic migrants sent here to find a home & then bring over their family
85% are adult men
Genuine asylum seekers fleeing horror do not leave women & children behind
Contrast the channel migrants with legitimate Ukrainian refugees. They are mainly women, children, the elderly and infirm/disabled
At this point, to simply attribute our illegal migrant crisis to incompetence and naivete is itself naive, I fear.
We need to accept that there is a 5th column in this country actively working against the interests of the British people.
These anti-British – indeed, anti-Western – elements include a large number of civil servants, many of whom are in the Home Office.
Remember: The UK grants approval to the MAJORITY of asylum applications.
No other major European country does this. Yet those on the Left would have you think the EU is more welcoming.
In Spain, the approval rate is only 12%. In Sweden it is 22%. In France it is 33%. In Germany it is 45%.
Solving our immigration crisis also requires root and branch reform of the civil service and a reckoning with pro-migration charities, NGOs and lawyers.”
https://x.com/RafHM/status/1883840984934387969
He’s added a bit more here. You do have a very high acceptance rate ( 70% ) for these fake ‘asylum seekers’ compared with other countries;
”The acceptance rate for Channel migrants is very high: 70% of those processed are granted protection.
You’re confusing the acceptance rate with the speed of processing applications
Yes, they are being processed slowly. But, as things currently stand, the vast majority of those who are currently waiting – and roaming – will be approved.”
https://x.com/RafHM/status/1883845998109437974
This is awful. These poor people stuck in this impossible situation because who’d want to buy their house for a decent price now? By rights these neighbours from hell should be kicked out, but we know it’ll never happen;
“Dear David, I was wondering if you know of anyone having the same problem, it’s completely destroyed my life. Six years ago a family of 4 moved next door from Pakistan, 6 years later after wives & children they are now a family of 13 with another due.
“They have an extended semi but ran out of space. We put our house up for sale & they were interested in buying it but said they wanted a bargain. Since then for the past year they are all constantly shouting screaming, throwing things at the walls bouncing balls on the wall & laminate & blasting us with Asian music, this is from morning till night.
“We can’t sell, buyers run a mile. We reduced the house as low as we can go but no one will touch it. We are on our 3rd estate agent. My husband works but I’m stuck in the house all day, living in the tiny box room on the far side with just room for a bed, when he gets home we go out driving, then we are both stuck in the box room for the rest of the night with just our tablets.
“I live in this tiny room 24X7. We haven’t been able to even watch TV for over a year. We asked him not to throw stuff at the wall, but he said he’s turned the downstairs into a playroom & we should live in the bedroom, but the noise can even be heard in the far box room.
“I know they are trying to drive us out to get the house cheap, have you heard of this happening to other families, I notice they do seem to acquire neighbouring houses a lot to knock through, is this how they get them?”
Yes I have heard of this before.
“I just want someone to buy our home so we can escape but they made it impossible. Other houses much dearer than ours sell quick in our area, we just want to retire by the sea, but every single buyer runs out due to the noise.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1884210126443143671
No need to see a costing of Ed Straightjacket’s Net Lunacy fetish to see how insane it is, just look at the lack of mineral reserves we have. Less than a fifth of the copper required alone.
https://x.com/1000Frolly/status/1831025395946397997
Not that Toby replies very often, but how do we address our emails to the Sceptics tip line?
My liege?
Your Lordship?
“Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plans branded ‘fantasy’ in damning letter from top scientist”
The government has rejected his position. No surprise there.
Selfish drivers doing 164mph must stop, police say according to the BBC.
The article does the usual trash journalism of listing a bunch of loonies who get caught (or not, in some cases) driving at insane speeds.
And thrown into this litany is a quote from Ch Insp Craig West::
Yep. The BBC just equated driving at 164mph to observing the motorway speed limit of 70mph. Morons,
The article then lists a number of tragic deaths of people involved in accidents associated with excessive speed before wandering off to talk about the fantastic new technology in some cars which can automatically reduce speeding or even perform emergency braking if it detects that a crash is imminent. The article closes with:
Yay! We got the dreaded emissions mentioned!
“Teens half as likely to say they are atheists”
Not as their parents, but as their parents’ generation. Probably because they are muslim.
“Starmer has done nothing” If only. He’s responsible for all that his government has done. He himself seems to do nothing but take bribes and lie and slander. But let’s be thankful he’s done as little as he has, because anything he “does” will only make things worse.