- “Afghan asylum seeker arrested after car ‘terror attack’ in Munich” – A vehicle in Munich has rammed into pedestrians during a rally in the city, injuring at least 30 people, reports the Express.
- “Germany has lost count of migrant terrorist attacks – the AfD hasn’t” – This latest attack in Germany will ensure that mass migration and border security remain at the top of the electoral campaign agenda, says James Rothwell in the Telegraph.
- “The Munich attack is a parable for everything that’s wrong with European migration policy” – The Government needs to take a far more open approach to the facts on Islamist extremism, migration and crime by nationality, writes Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Criminal avoids deportation to Portugal because of child with special needs” – A Portuguese criminal who has been jailed twice in the UK has been spared deportation as his child might have autism, reports GB News.
- “Ghanaian wins right to stay in Britain after staging marriage she did not attend” – A Ghanaian tourist has won her immigration appeal after claiming that her “proxy” marriage to a German citizen living in Britain had lasted long enough for her to qualify to remain in the UK, says the Telegraph.
- “How Prevent failed David Amess” – In the Spectator, David Shipley reveals how Prevent’s staggering incompetence allowed Ali Harbi Ali to slip through the cracks and murder David Amess.
- “Lord Hermer fought for compensation for al-Qaeda chief linked to July 7th bombings” – Lord Hermer sought compensation from the British Government for an al-Qaeda chief linked to the July 7th terror attacks, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s excuse for Chagos deal ‘blown out the water’ – by his own minister” – Keir Starmer’s national security case for the Chagos Islands deal has been “blown out of the water” by Science Minister Chris Bryant, who admits no international body could shut down British communications in the Indian Ocean, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer narrowly avoids recession – but alarms are going off everywhere” – Britain escaped recession by the skin of its teeth in the dying months of 2024, as the economy eked out growth of 0.1% in the face of record tax rises, says Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “Does Rachel Reeves’s industrial strategy even exist?” – It is increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that Reeves doesn’t want to publish an industrial strategy because she doesn’t have a clue what should be in it, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Reeves faced expenses probe in previous job” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reports that Rachel Reeves faced an expenses probe at HBOS over lavish spending.
- “Phillipson told Birbalsingh to ‘lower her tone’ in fraught meeting” – According to official minutes, Bridget Phillipson asked Katharine Birbalsingh, England’s most successful headteacher, to “lower her tone” and stop interrupting during a fractious meeting last week, reports the Times.
- “Keir forced to ditch visit after farmers staged noisy tractor protest” – Keir Starmer has been forced to abandon a visit to promote his housing policies after a protest by farmers, says the Sun.
- “Labour could tighten shotgun rules in another red rag to farmers” – Farmers fear they could be stopped from keeping shotguns at home under Government recommendations to overhaul firearms law, reports the Times.
- “Labour minister ran vile WhatsApp group which branded pensioners ‘terrorists’” – A Labour minister formerly ran a WhatsApp group which branded pensioners “terrorists” and hurled abuse at colleagues, reveals the Sun.
- “Introducing Spaff: the Spectator Project Against Frivolous Funding” – The Spectator takes aim at Britain’s wasteful spending culture with Spaff, a bold new initiative exposing the absurdity of taxpayer-funded projects. Although, to be fair to the Daily Sceptic’s Charlotte Gill, she got there first.
- “Trump should offer asylum to Britons fleeing high-tax, authoritarian Britain” – If tens of thousands of young Britons started leaving the UK, the Government might begin to appreciate that it is not just billionaires that hate high taxes, says Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
- “When young people ask me if they should flee Britain, this is my answer” – We are talking ourselves into perpetual decline, warns David Frost in the Telegraph. But it’s not too late to recover our Western inheritance.
- “The Times view on the fight for free speech: vibe shift” – Kristie Higgs’s success in her fight against dismissal (with help from the Free Speech Union) heralds a wider backlash against woke oppression says the Times in a leading article.
- “Sticks and stones: the idea that words cause harm and the implications of this for higher education” – In a research paper for the Journal of Further and Higher Education, Jane Fenton and Mark Smith trace how the notion of harmful speech now shapes classroom debate and academic freedom, even though it’s flawed.
- “The crisis of censorship: why should Christians care?” – Trinity Forum London and ADF International invite you to an evening of discussion with Michael Shellenberger, Paul Coleman and others on the crisis of censorship in the West. Sign up while tickets are still available!
- “Work placements can be done from home, say colleges” – Colleges are allowing pupils on vocational courses to work from home during their industry placements to prepare them for “real-life hybrid working”, reports the Mail.
- “Giant gas field discovery could power Britain for a decade” – A giant gas field has been discovered under Lincolnshire that could fuel the UK’s entire energy needs for a decade and generate tens of thousands of jobs, says the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is making Britain colder, poorer and less productive” – Far from leading the way, Britain is a cautionary tale on the dangers of Net Zero zealotry, warns James Price in City AM.
- “Natural England accused of favouring rewilding over saving farmland” – There are calls for Natural England to be scrapped for being ideologically wedded to the concept of conservation and removing food production from the countryside, reports the Telegraph.
- “China’s wind turbine armada is ringing alarm bells at the MoD” – Ed Miliband’s reliance on Beijing for green tech is raising national security fears, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s plastic straw restoration is genius” – Ending the tyranny of soggy paper straws will be welcomed by consumers – and might also help the planet, says Jill Kirby in the Telegraph.
- “Hamas backs down over hostage deal threat” – In a major U-turn, Hamas says that it will continue with the Israeli hostage deal as planned, according to LBC.
- “Ukraine fought hard, but there is now no chance of them taking back their country” – Europe must admit to itself that it was too weak to come to Ukraine’s aid alone, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s Ukraine peace talks have echoes of Nazi appeasement” – Former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warns that Trump’s talks with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine have echoes of appeasement, according to the Standard.
- “Australian nurses suspended after threatening to kill Israeli patients” – An Australian hospital is examining patient records after two nurses claimed online that they would kill Israelis rather than treat them, reports the Mail.
- “American strong gods” – On Substack, NS Lyons ruminates on Trump and the end of the Long 20th Century.
- “Pride in Britain? It’s history” – Within 20 years we have managed to halve our sense of national self-worth, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “What Gen Z gets wrong about ‘racist’ Britain” – In the Spectator, Patrick West argues that Gen Z’s belief in a “racist” Britain isn’t based on reality but on a decade of woke indoctrination.
- “State of contempt” – At what point do people start getting as mad as hell? wonders Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “Simon Schama wants you to shut up” – Story of Us, Simon Schama’s new three-part documentary, is a futile attempt to unite the nation under the banner of BBC-approved orthodoxies, says Bradley Strotten in Spiked.
- “Why isn’t it racist to call someone ‘stupid and white’?” – By Sam Kerr’s strange logic, the penniless white alcoholic in the gutter is more powerful than Beyoncé or Michelle Obama, writes Sam Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Genetically male trans woman raped young girl, court told” – An alleged sex offender who was born male but identifies as a woman has appeared in court accused of raping a young girl, reports the Mail.
- “The dark money behind the trans movement” – In the European Conservative, Jennifer Bilek exposes the billionaires bankrolling trans ideology, revealing it as a top-down social engineering project.
- “The word she’s struggling for is ‘Yes’” – On X, Andrew Doyle pours scorn on Kim Leadbetter’s failure to answer Danny Kruger’s question of whether the assisted suicide bill would allow a person to die to save money for their family.
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Labour on 23%? After what they have done?
Who are these people?
I must live in a bubble but I don’t know anybody who considers them anything else than a bunch of incompetent ideologues.
Speaking of which, here’s Angela Rayner, tying herself in knots again. Sounds to me like you don’t have a ‘housing crisis’, you have an ‘immigration crisis’;
”Housing Minister, Angela Rayner in another car crash i/v with @TrevorPTweets
. Apparently 5 out of 7 new homes will go to migrants.
She says there is plenty of housing but needs to build 2.5 million more.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1865724329570312283
Top comment. Yep, sounds like yet another bad case of ‘chronic oral flatulence’ to me. It’s going around something rotten in the Labour party…
”As an engineer who has a background in all kinds of construction including development of land to construct residential & commercial properties I can 100% state she has no idea what she is talking about.
To achieve what she says by 2030 means building over 1400 houses per day
Which is the best part of 10000 a week.
Absolute nonsense.
I’m guessing Abbott’s in charge of the abacus.”
Bless them. These people genuinely do want to go back to their country, it would seem. I hope the Labour Party aren’t going to do a ‘Hotel California’ and stop them from leaving. And to be fair, anyone who’s supportive of jihadists who go around beheading people are probably not the sort you want nabbing social housing in your community, really;
”Syrian refugees in Manchester say they ‘can’t wait to get flights back home’
Hundreds of people have gathered together in the city centre to celebrate the end of the regime – one that many fled in fear for their lives.”
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1865805219973464261
I have a good friend who owns a construction company and he tells me that 1.5 million homes in five years is an impossibility and for one simple reason – there simply aren’t the trades people starting with brickies who can now command a grand a week for their services. And that is just one of many skilled trades. Furthermore, everybody involved in the construction industry knows this.
Totally agree (having recently been involved with a house build). Joiners, brickies, plasterers, plumbers, heating engineers – just not available especially in the numbers they need.
I heard an interviewer over the weekend making the point that no-one can expect 1.5 million homes to be built – so why make the ridiculous pledge – and the answer was – oh well, we might get 95% built and then be able to say ‘stay with us and we will build the rest’.
There is NO logic behind this. This is total madness.
There is no logic behind their other major policy pledge [net zero] but they plough on at ruinous cost
Militwat failed from Day One as all the subsea cable laying ships are booked up until into 2030. So even if there are anymore offshore windmills built they can’t be connected up. In addition his ignorant plans include Carbon Capture & Storage which does not exist on grid scale anywhere in the world and is yet to be shown to be economic. There are also floating windmills which again are not in operation and are even more expensive than normal windmills. And there are storage batteries that are hugely expensive and of little use as they store very little energy as well as hydrogen which is also too expensive.
Talking of Ranting – the 2 homes tax dodging electoral fraudster – have you seen the youtube video of her interview where she is repeatedly asked to name a single company of the ones she claims to have consulted with and who like her forthcoming labour regulations. Every time she fails to name even one. The only big name on letter that supported Rachel from Accounts was the Iceland boss who has now gone very quiet given the increase in his running costs.
Rona tards.
Climate tards.
Open borders.
Queer, trans fascism.
Socialism.
Kamalalalalarama supporters.
EU 4th Reich lovers.
There are a lot more than 23%. More like 60%.
Better late than never. And a ‘two-fingered salute’ to the dreadful Uniparty too;
”I have left the Conservative Party because it has become a shadow of what it once stood for.
Its incompetence and failure to deliver have betrayed the trust of the British people.
I deeply regret that it has come to this, as there are still a handful of decent MPs trying to do the right thing.
I believe in politics driven by conviction and a genuine commitment to serving our nation, not by empty promises and mismanagement.”
https://x.com/raelbrav/status/1865681391167373697
Interesting that within months of a landslide Labour victory, [albeit a minority of voters], the polls put the two right wing partes added together MILES ahead of Labour. Personally, I am disappointed that people still support the Conservatives, given how badly they let us down, but once the balance of power between Reform and CUP tips towards Reform, hopefully the CUP will melt away…
Anyone who voted Tory at the last election is either not “right wing” or is utterly deluded. I hope they change their minds but I doubt it.
The Tory party are now just a footnote in our history although the way things are going we will shortly not even have any history left.
Or voting tactically. Reform has the effect of splitting the “right wing” vote letting Labour in. If polls show that many intend to vote Tory, joining these voters is more likely to keep Labour out than an empty gesture.
The Tories wasted 14 years in power – committed to net zero, failed to peel back the rise of woke, eroded freedom of speech, raised taxes and to cap it all off, “covid”. They do not deserve anyone’s vote.
The Tories brought in legally binding targets on net zero, then funded the NGOs that sue the government for not doing enough to meet those targets. For so many reasons I will never vote for them again.
Me neither. Badenoch represents an improvement over Sunak but let’s not forget she was a covidian. I think the only way I would consider it would be if the entire leadership and most of the MPs were swept away – something I was hoping would happen in July.
Not that boring old trope again
Reform is in danger of becoming just a rebranding of the failed Con servatives.
Yes, there are signs that Reform are drifting towards becoming centrist under their useless leader Farage and I fear that unless Reform becomes a proper party and not the preening Farage’s plaything we are going to miss the opportunity in 2029 to get a conservative government.
Farage is the most influential politician de nos jours. I think he knows when to hold em and when to fold em. Reform is now attracting disillusioned Labour voters – and God knows, there are plenty of them – so I’d trust Nigel’s strategic plans a lot more than your sneering comments
Reform needs to do better than provide a new home for unsuccessful old party hacks
We aren’t just letting anyone in you know
The Conservative Party is finished. It will never recover. There are no signs or leadership that indicates it can provide any leadership that is needed. They are still completely lost. This is probably a good thing.