- “Keir Starmer relaxes laws on illegal immigrants getting U.K. citizenship” – Keir Starmer has been accused of making Britain “the soft touch of Europe” after rolling back laws designed to make it nearly impossible for illegal migrants to become U.K. citizens, reports the Mail.
- “Britain voted Brexit to control immigration. This power has been wasted” – Brexit handed Britain control of immigration, but politicians have squandered it, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “PM’s legal chief ‘helped’ Palestinians to sue arms dealers” – Keir Starmer’s Attorney General is said to have helped write a handbook on how Palestinian victims could sue arms dealers in the U.K., according to the Mail.
- “Tech firms still failing to delete videos seen by Southport killer” – A furious Yvette Cooper has slammed social media companies for failing to remove violent videos watched by killer Axel Rudakubana ahead of the Southport murders, reports the Mail.
- “U.K. will be first to make owning AI tools for child abuse illegal” – Yvette Cooper has announced that the U.K. will be the first country in the world to make it illegal to own AI tools designed to generate images of child sexual abuse, says the Mail.
- “U.K. could become an ‘Islamist nation with nuclear weapons’” – Suella Braverman has warned that Britain could “fall into the hands of Muslim fundamentalists” and become an “Islamist nation with nuclear weapons” like Iran, according to News18.
- “Keir Starmer urged to boost defence spending to more than 3% of GDP” – Keir Starmer has been privately urged to boost defence spending to more than 3% of GDP – far outstripping his 2.5% target, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer’s Brexit reset ‘risks dragging U.K. into Trump’s trade war’” – Senior Tories are warning Keir Starmer’s attempted Brexit ‘reset’ with the EU could put Britain at risk of being dragged into Trump’s trade war, according to the Mail.
- “It’s a miracle Reeves delivered her growth speech with a straight face” – As consumer confidence stalls, Labour is tearing our fragile public finances apart, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Care providers set to descend on Westminster” – Nearly 3,000 care providers will rally at Westminster next month, blaming Labour’s policies for a £2 billion funding shortfall that’s pushing adult social care to the brink, says the Mail.
- “Blair branded Starmer an ‘out-of-touch human rights lawyer’” – A new book on the PM’s rise to power reveals the fears of his closest aides, according to the Mail.
- “Starmer used Shakespearean actress to help him get over ‘stage fright’” – Keir Starmer used a Shakespearean actress to help him get over stage fright as she admits he would “shut down” when he was out of his comfort zone, reports the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff said he was an ‘HR manager not a leader’” – Keir Starmer’s current Chief of Staff has described the PM as an “HR manager not a leader” while claiming that Angela Rayner simply “manipulates people”, according to the Mail.
- “Angela Rayner launched tirade against ‘nonce’ Prince Andrew” – According to the new book about Starmer, Angela Rayner waged a private battle to stop “that nonce” Prince Andrew from ever standing in for his brother, reports the Mail.
- “Labour could lose more seats to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party” – A new mega-poll reveals that Labour could lose more seats to Reform U.K. than the Conservatives would, according to the Mail.
- “Farage vows to hold ‘biggest launch rally in British history’” – Nigel Farage has vowed to hold the “biggest ever” launch rally in British political history as he sets his sights on winning big at the local elections, reports LBC.
- “Scotland heading for largest pro-independence majority in history” – A Scottish Labour “implosion” means voters are set to return the largest pro-independence Holyrood majority in the history of devolution, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain to remain WFH capital of Europe thanks to Rayner’s workers’ rights plan” – Angela Rayner’s plan to make flexible working the “default for all” is set to cement Britain’s status as the working from home capital of Europe, reports the Telegraph.
- “Esther McVey MP publishes key COVID-19 vaccine minutes” – After the MHRA removed key COVID-19 vaccine minutes from their website after she quoted them in the House of Commons, Esther McVey has published them on her website so people can see what they were trying to hide.
- “Lucy Letby’s ‘final hope’ to prove she ‘was right all along’” – Lucy Letby’s lawyers say that new evidence to be unveiled this week is her final hope of proving she was right all along and is a victim of a miscarriage of justice, according to the Telegraph.
- “My research was misused to convict Lucy Letby – so I did my own inquiry” – Dr Shoo Lee, a neonatalist whose 30-year-old paper was pivotal in Letby’s trial, and an expert panel have re-examined the case and concluded the conviction isn’t safe, says the Times.
- “Huge blaze breaks out in U.K. village as wind turbine catches fire” – Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a wind turbine in Cambridgeshire, reports the Express.
- “Inside the ISIS open-air prison camp – a ticking timebomb in Syria” – In the sprawling refugee camps scattered across northeastern Syria, there is a jihadist crisis waiting to happen, warns David Averre in the Mail.
- “Freed hostages receive emotional hugs from delighted families” – Three Israeli men who spent more than a year in Hamas captivity have been reunited with their families, reports the Mail.
- “If we buckle, other dictators will unleash war” – In the Mail, Iain Duncan Smith beats the drum for continued Western support of Ukraine against Russia.
- “Justin Trudeau hits back at Donald Trump in trade war” – Justin Trudeau has hit the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs after Trump imposed a steep tax on imports from the country’s North American neighbours, reports the Mail.
- “Canadian hockey fans boo U.S. national anthem after Donald Trump tariffs” – Canadian hockey fans booed ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at a recent NHL game, hours after Trump hit Canada with tariffs, says the Mail.
- “Trump’s trade war isn’t as mad as it seems” – The Donald is right to challenge the prevailing anti-tariff orthodoxy, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “An update on a CBDC for the U.K.” – Together explains where we are with the Bank of England’s plans to develop a Central Bank Digital Currency.
- “Rip up diversity rules ‘that will only create jobs in HR’, bosses demand” – Financial chiefs are calling on the City regulator to tear up plans to impose diversity targets in the latest sign of a mounting business backlash against DEI, reports the Mail.
- “Most voters under 30 believe sex offenders should be castrated” – More than two-thirds of voters under 30 believe sex offenders should be castrated, in the latest indication of increasingly hardline views among Gen Z, says the Mail.
- “Stop using the word ‘passenger’, Network Rail tells staff” – Network Rail has instructed employees to stop using the word ‘passenger’ in a bid to make their services come across as less formal, reports the Mail.
- “Do not call fat people obese, ‘sensitivity’ guide tells NHS workers” – In the Telegraph, Tim Sigworth dissects the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence’s new guide to how to speak woke-ish, with a little help from Lord Young.
- “Treat pick-up artists like extremists, urge officials” – Home Office staff have explained how lotharios form part of the wider online subculture called the ‘manosphere’ that serves as a gateway to extremism, according to the Times.
- “Film about trans teen will be shown to pupils as young as 11” – A film showing the use of cross-sex hormones and chest binders among teenagers is to be made available in state schools across the country as part of LGBTQ+ History month, reports the Times.
- “SNP ministers consider ban on cats” – SNP Ministers are considering a ban on cats after a group set up to advise the Scottish Government suggested they were a danger to wildlife, says the Scottish Express.
- “European politicians call for social media censorship and attack X and Meta’s free speech policies as ‘threat to democracy’” – ADF International reports that politicians at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have called for more censorship to tackle so-called “misinformation”, “disinformation” and “hate speech”.
- “Victoria Wood’s ‘Let’s Do It’ content warning for ‘offensive’ lyrics” – ITVX has slapped a content warning on one of Victoria Wood’s best-loved songs because its lyrics “may offend modern audiences”, reports the Mail.
- “Brilliant Budapest” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson shares his impressions from a recent trip to Budapest, where, after five days of exploring, he couldn’t spot a single BLM poster or rainbow lanyard.
- “If guilty, he will resign” – On GB News, ex-Labour MP Stephen Pound says that if Sir Keir Starmer is found to have broken lockdown rules in 2020, as a new book suggests, he will do the decent thing and resign. Fat chance!
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“U.K. will be first to make owning AI tools for child abuse illegal”
…ensuring the perverts will just carry on their tried and trusted methods, presumably…
Some might think this announcement is more like an advert.
“Film about trans teen will be shown to pupils as young as 11”
Didn’t MTV have a series called ‘I am Jazz’ more than a decade ago, which followed a so called trans teen through the op. Her mother had serious ‘Munchausen’s Mummy’ syndrome.
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If we buckle, other dictators will unleash war
No-one could care less. This is why:
Russian State Duma deputy Tsarev acknowledged that capturing Donbas will take years at the current pace, making it impossible to destroy Ukraine.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1886110839473614996?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
The U.S. strategy of weakening Russia so that it can no longer invade its neighbours has been extraordinarily successful.
Events in Syria bear this out.
And that narrative suits Britain.
As the man said on here yesterday, for those who were listening
‘…for some Westen nations the trajectory feels less toward a velvet revolution in waiting and more like a slow-motion implosion – fragmentation, disintegration, re-tribalisation. In other words, Balkanisation.’
President Trump can end the war. He is correct. Simply target oil prices down to below $40/barrel and the Russian war effort is finished.
But, no matter what the U.S. President does, this war will re-ignite
‘Ukraine will have to be dealt with in any case’ Duma Deputy Tsarev
And Britain, Europe, will have to respond…….but they will not, no longer have the will….
Does that matter? If we did not like our foreign and domestic policy being dictated from Brussels, we will like it even less when that dictation comes from Moscow.
How, I wonder, will Mr Farage fare if he stands up in the Duma, as he did in the EU parliament, and says to the Russian President:
‘The question that I want to ask that we’re all going to ask is
Who are you?
I’d never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you.’
We know precisely what would happen to Mr Farage because it happened to this guy after he said the following:
‘”His main gripe with me is that he’ll go down in history as a poisoner,” Navalny told the court scornfully. “We had Alexander the Liberator, Yaroslav the Wise, and we will have Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner.”‘
So, if we value free speech, an independent nation untrammelled by overseas interference, this country needs to act:
Keir Starmer urged to boost defence spending to more than 3% of GDP
But it will not.
‘The Treasury always says no to spending more on defence. It just doesn’t believe there’s a threat. It’s absurd.’
So, like it or not, in fifty years, Europe will be back to where it was in 1945, a 250 million strong European superstate encamped on its Eastern border…and nine U.S. States, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming, surrounded, may very well be all that is left of ‘the free world’……
Unlikely? Well, it already happened once before, in fact just the other day……in 2020…..
Enjoy……..
Are you serious? Russia is going to achieve its aims and all America has achieved is to enhance Russia’s position in the rest of the (non-western) world and allow its military to develop modern strategies.
The scaremongering amongst Western commentators is based entirely on propaganda from Ukrainian media, funded and steered by Biden’s neocons. This has stopped now and maybe we will start to get balanced reporting.
Despite previous reports, Russian troops are progressing towards the Dniepr and have adopted new tactics to preserve as much of the housing as possible. As soon as the front moves on, civilians reoccupy their former houses – they are not fleeing the Russian occupation but welcoming it.
PS I know Ukrainian media doesn’t report it but the vast majority of Donbass is already Russian and the front is only a few kilometres from the Dniepropietrovsk oblast.
On February 1, Russian missile and drone strikes hit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, and Kharkiv, causing casualties and power outages. In Poltava, among the dead and wounded, there are children.
“I lost my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter in this apartment building. The whole family, young people, just 37 years old, and my granddaughter was only 9. I wish death upon it, along with Putin, all of Russia. Everyone will hate it for 100 years,”
‘Today, February 1, 2025, at 5:54 p.m., Russian forces struck a boarding school in Sudzha.’
‘”At the time of the attack, dozens of local residents were inside, preparing for evacuation. The Russian side knew the building was occupied only by civilians — locals, including women and children.’
95 people remain trapped under the rubble.
“I will tell you very clearly: we must prepare for war. This is the best way to avoid war. Europe must not show weakness toward Russia. Otherwise, Russia might try something, just as in Ukraine,”
‘the threat comes not only from Russia but also from China, which has also “greatly expanded” its military capabilities.’
‘I can assure you of one thing: it will be much, much, much more than 2%’
Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte, the despicable human being who when he was Dutch Prime Minister attempted to destroy Dutch farming to promote globalist mega-cities. Fortunately the Dutch citizens voted him out of office at the earliest opportunity. Now he is the West’s chief warmonger.
Russia would never intentionally target civilians of any age, as opposed to Ukraine which killed so many that memorials for the hundreds of children killed – Ukrainian children killed by the Ukrainian military before the Russian invasion – have been erected in Luhansk and Donetsk (Alley of Angels).
And just who is threatening whom in today’s military world?
I could understand the West building up a military presence if it were justified but 800 US military bases already exist around the world. And how many does Russia have and how many China? Which nation is really a threat to world peace?
I would far rather have Putin leading the country than the current set of vacuous politicians leading the Western world – especially Starmer, for heaven’s sake. Von der Leyen was facing corruption charges before being shunted off to lead the totalitarian EU by Merkel, the latter being responsible for opening all Europe’s borders in 2015.
Russia has plenty of natural resources which they use – imagine that! Russia supports families, instead of transgenderism. Russia supports religion for those who want it. Russia continues to be heavily sanctioned by the utterly stupid US-dominated West, sawing off the branch it is comfortably sitting on, but still Russia’s economy is in fourth position in the world (on the GDP/PPP scale).
Russia’s politics are open, as demonstrated by government websites (e.g. http://en.kremlin.ru/ or https://mid.ru/) being translated into many different languages. On the Russian Foreign Ministry website you can read full details of the multitude of regular meetings between Russian officials and foreign delegates or the press.
Russian leadership luckily displays impressive maturity, even when Russia is physically attacked by the West and many politicians in our part of the world are provoking and even demanding a nuclear war.
So bring him on! Anything is better than our current leadership.
Difficult not to agree.
“A furious Yvette Cooper has slammed social media companies for failing to remove violent videos watched by killer Axel Rudakubana ahead of the Southport murders”
Ah OK, so it’s not just the knife sellers that are to blame, it’s “social media companies”. Definitely not the “man” himself and definitely not politicians who over many generations have insisted on important populations with more pronounced criminal tendencies than ours, some of whom seem to hate our country.
Oh nothing to do with importing Turd World rubbish tof, definitely not.
Mrs Balls ! She’s been hanging around Parliament like a horrible smelly silent fart for years & now she gets one of the Top HMG Jobs enabling her to Lord over us !
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14350997/Starmer-relaxes-border-laws-illegal-immigrants-British-citizenship.html
That figures! How else is the traitor going to boost the numbers of the usurpers / fighters-in-waiting army being housed and fed, courtesy of the taxpayers, other than by condoning and increasing illegal – or as he calls it – irregular migration?
Why isn’t it the situation that ANYONE entering illegally, is automatically barred from ever becoming a citizen? Surely that would be a very simple deterrent?
That’s a reasonable and sensible solution but politicians refuse to accept that course of action.
“After the MHRA removed key COVID-19 vaccine minutes from their website after she quoted them in the House of Commons, Esther McVey has published them on her website so people can see what they were trying to hide…”
…Meanwhile, as Winston once upon a time said to Julia:
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
SNP Ministers are considering a ban on cats after a group set up to advise the Scottish Government suggested they were a danger to wildlife, says the Scottish Express.
Is it the first day of April already? Time flies.
Native Scottish wild cats?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14352427/Network-Rail-training-manual-passenger-gender-neutral.html
Perhaps they could refer to them as ‘People who pay my wages’?
For years I’ve been annoyed by station announcers calling me a “customer,” which describes a business arrangement that might also mean I’d visited the station to buy a Mars bar.
“Passenger” describes what I’m actually there for, just as I am a passenger if my friend gives me a lift, or as obstetricians used to informally describe a baby in utero.
What’s wrong with simply speaking English without straining it through an ideological sieve?
Some might not be aware of this but DWP always refers to claimants as “customers.”
Throughout my time working within the Department I never once fell for this conceit. I took great delight in pointing out to colleagues that our claimants could hardly take their business elsewhere.
Likewise HMRC… I tried to refuse their ‘service’, however unlike Rachel from accounts, they wouldn’t let me redefine my debt…
That’s just plain inaccurate: “customer” at least implies the provision of services or goods for money, not the provision of money for those unable to afford goods or services.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/treat-pick-up-artists-like-extremists-urged-officials-qqsln733x
“online subculture called the ‘manosphere’ that serves as a gateway to extremism”
Taken offline by the ultimate misogynists, grooming gangs. As usual the government looking in the wrong direction for trouble.
“Scotland heading for largest pro-independence majority in history”
I am sure the Scots would vote wholeheartedly for Nigel McFarage of a Reform Scotland party.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14351099/Keir-Starmer-privately-urged-boost-defence-spending-3-GDP-outstripping-2-5-target.html
It is not how much we spend it is how well it is spent. The usual money laundering techniques do not mean we have the equipment.
“Spend, spend, spend” won’t wash although “spend, waste, spend” is certainly an achievement well practiced by Kneel’s crew of grifters.
https://www.esthermcvey.com/news/esther-mcvey-mp-publishes-key-covid-19-vaccine-minutes-after-mhra-removes-them-their-website
Well done Esther McVey. If Kneel’s mob feel it is OK to play fast and loose with rules and procedures I see no reason why MP’s with a bit of bottle shouldn’t do the same.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14350367/war-ukraine-russia-iain-duncan-smith.html
Message for Ian Duncan Smith – STFU or get your boots on and volunteer for the fighting.
Or travel to Moscow and discuss what is going on, and why, with Russian government representatives.
It is astounding how many of these do-gooders travel all the way to Kiev, become indoctrinated with Ukrainian propaganda, never question in which pockets all the Western millions of dollars landed and how come the black market is full of the latest Western weapons, without once considering travelling to Moscow, Donetsk, Lugansk or Belgorod, to ask the citizens there how they are surviving and what they think of the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHHFIHN4eo&list=WL&index=2 A critical presentation by Ben Leo of GBN.