- “How the Home Office spent £100 million on failing to house asylum seekers” – A defunct prison in East Sussex is the latest failed attempt to solve the refugee accommodation crisis, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
- “Migrant hotels set to be used for four more years as Labour pushes back deadline again” – The Home Office’s top civil servant has admitted that migrant hotels will continue to be used for up to the next four years, reports the Telegraph.
- “There’s only one way to stop illegal immigration: scrap the asylum system” – The cost of the Channel crossings is a slap in the face of the British people, says Rupert Lowe in the Telegraph. Politicians must get tough or get out of the way.
- “Has Nigel Farage missed the immigration vibe shift?” – Forget nerdy micro-measures to rein in activist judges – just scrap the right of foreign nationals to challenge deportation altogether, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “‘Chicken nugget immigration case weaponised ECHR’” – The Conservative leader says Western civilisation has been “hacked” by “loopholes in liberalism”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch is more interested in liberalism than conservatism” – Kemi Badenoch made a speech at the Arc conference which mentioned “liberal” or “liberalism” seven times before “conservative” got a look in, notes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “If this Koran incident doesn’t convince us multiculturalism has failed, nothing will” – We should not require blasphemy laws to maintain public order in Britain, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Should burning the Koran be against the law?” – Whether Koran-burners are actually guilty of a religiously-aggravated public order offence is, to say the least, open to some doubt, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “BBC HQ attacked by pro-Palestinian activists” – Pro-Palestinian activists have targeted the BBC Broadcasting House, smashing glass doors and spraying the building with red paint, reports GB News.
- “UN judge ‘kept slave in UK after deal with Ugandan Deputy High Commissioner’, court hears” – A United Nations judge deceived a young woman into coming to the UK to work as her slave while she studied at the University of Oxford, says BBC News.
- “Farage may not be the greatest danger facing the Tories” – The Liberal Democrats are stealing the Conservatives’ clothing on most issues, says Iain Dale in the Telegraph. It’s hard to tell their MPs apart.
- “The sooner Rachel Reeves is gone, the better” – The last thing the embattled Chancellor needs is a scandal – but that’s precisely what she’s stuck in the middle of, writes Mike Graham in the Telegraph.
- “‘God help us’: the letter that spells out exactly why retirees despise Labour” – In a letter to Telegraph Money, a pensioner describes how the Government’s inheritance tax raid on pensions penalises years of hard work and props up an unsustainable welfare system.
- “Top civil servant takes job with firm to which he gave government contracts” – One of Britain’s most senior civil servants has taken a job with a top consultancy firm for which he approved millions of pounds of government contracts while in office, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer calls for US to act as ‘backstop’ to deter Russian attacks” – Sir Keir Starmer has called for the US to act as a “backstop” to deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again, according to the Mail.
- “British troops won’t help Ukraine” – The sad reality is that Britain is in no position to act as Ukraine’s peacekeeper, says Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “Germany to reject Starmer’s plan for troops in Ukraine as Europe splits over peace deal” – Germany is likely to reject Sir Keir’s plans to deploy a European peacekeeping force to Ukraine, throwing the proposals into disarray, reports the Express.
- “Germany is once more a threat to European security” – Berlin’s political elite would seemingly rather see Putin’s armies marching through the Brandenburg Gate than turn their back on Net Zero, writes Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “Europe’s military weakness means nobody is paying it any attention” – Europe’s military weakness has left it sidelined by Trump, ignored by Putin and unable to defend itself, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s critics fail to see that Putin is desperate for peace” – Russia’s war economy is a bubble just waiting to burst, and Putin knows it, says Samuel Ramani in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold” – Donald Trump’s demand for a $500 billion “payback” from Ukraine goes far beyond US control over the country’s critical minerals, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “No DOGE-ing the bullet for USAID” – In Taki’s Magazine, Steven Tucker cheers Elon Musk for feeding USAID into the wood chipper.
- “The political benefit of terrifying children” – On Substack, Tom Ed rips into eco-emotional child abuse, where terrified kids fuel political agendas while Greenpeace celebrates their anxiety.
- “Psychiatrist shortage could derail assisted dying Bill” – The Spectator’s Steerpike tears into Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill, exposing a fatal flaw: there aren’t enough psychiatrists to make it happen.
- “British rock star charged in Italy for calling Meloni a ‘fascist’ and ‘Nazi’” – British rocker and Placebo frontman Brian Molko has been charged with defamation after hurling insults at the Italian Prime Minister mid-performance, according to the Metro.
- “No, free speech did not cause the Holocaust” – CBS’s Margaret Brennan has offered the most absurd argument yet for Europe’s illiberal hate-speech laws, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “NHS hospitals set race quotas to win diversity awards” – NHS hospitals have signed up to an anti-racism awards scheme that asks them to meet race quotas, reports the Telegraph.
- “These Europeans are applauding their own downfall” – Founder of NatCon Yoram Hazony laments the tearful reaction of the Chair of the Munich Security Conference to JD Vance‘s speech.
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