- “Zelensky ‘refuses to sign’ Donald Trump’s ‘problematic’ minerals deal” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reportedly “not yet ready” to sign a controversial minerals deal with Donald Trump that may see him give away billions in critical elements and revenues, the Mail reports.
- “Trump to abandon Russia war crimes prosecution” – The US has signalled that it could leave an international effort to prosecute Russia for invading Ukraine, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Starmer considers faster defence build-up ahead of Trump talks” – Sir Keir Starmer is considering boosting defence spending sooner than previously thought as he prepares for talks with Donald Trump this week, the Telegraph reports.
- “We can pay for a rapid rebuild of our military might – by using the hundreds of billions Miliband is planning to splurge on his fatuous pursuit of Net Zero” – Some more common sense from Andrew Neil in the Mail, which will of course be completely ignored by this doctrinaire Labour Government.
- “Keir Starmer shrugs off Trump as he prepares to give new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russian oligarchs amid US President’s war of words with Volodymyr Zelensky” – Keir Starmer is set to announce a new package of support for Ukraine days after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian President a “dictator”, reports the Mail.
- “Why Trump doesn’t see Putin as a real threat” – Russia is not a direct threat to the US in the eyes of this administration, says Sam Olson in the Spectator.
- “Trump’s comments are out of order, but Europe’s inaction is unforgivable” – Trump’s comments about Zelensky are out of order, but the Continent has no excuse for past inaction, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Trump won’t make America great by wrecking NATO and the global post-war order” – Relentless optimism at home, but unyielding pessimism abroad: that is the disconnect in the President’s message, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Europe must be stronger, or it will die” – The Trump administration has caused the biggest rift between the United States and Europe since the end of the Cold War, writes Yascha Mounk in the Spectator.
- “The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right” – The Spectator‘s Freddy Gray feels that Trump may have a point.
- “Russell Brand is now one of Trump’s inner circle in Florida” – Russell Brand, having avoided charges over sexual assault, has relocated to Florida, where he is now besties with RFK, says the Mail.
- “Trump sacks US military’s top-ranked officer” – Gen Charles ‘CQ’ Brown, who went viral with an emotional video about discrimination in the army, has been fired by Donald Trump less than two years into his four-year term as part of a major shake-up of the US armed forces leadership, reports the Telegraph.
- “UK set to overshoot borrowing forecast despite £15.4 billion surplus” – Self-assessment income bolstered public sector finances in January but borrowing for this financial year is already £13 billion above last year, leaving Rachel Reeves with tough choices if she is to keep within her fiscal rules, reports the Times.
- “For Labour to avoid annihilation, it needs to cut spending now. Britain’s problem is that it won’t” – To defend itself, the UK needs to be rich. If we continue on our current path, penury and servitude beckon, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Business Secretary was warned against lying about legal career a decade ago” – In 2015, Jonathan Reynolds was told not to claim he used to work as a solicitor – but dismissed the concerns, reports the Telegraph.
- “What would my Labour CV look like? Well, I was a successful jockey, actress…” – ‘Rachel from Accounts’ will just have to put up with the name – she deserves it, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hermer’s Kenya case ‘fleeced taxpayers’” – Keir Starmer’s Attorney General led a case in which the lawyers involved were accused of “enriching themselves” at the expense of taxpayers, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Apple axes top security feature in Britain amid row with Yvette Cooper” – Yvette Cooper has been accused of putting millions of iPhone users’ data at risk after Apple removed its top security feature from Britain in a row with the Home Secretary, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour will use AI to snoop on social media” – The Government’s controversial disinformation team is developing a secretive AI programme to trawl through social media looking for “concerning” posts it deems problematic so it can take “action”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour must not kowtow to AI giants” – One might think Labour would want to protect the creative sector, which generates billions and supports countless jobs, but the party is prostrating itself before Big Tech, warns the Mail in a leading article.
- “Keir Starmer is doing a Boris on immigration” – Keir Starmer is just the latest in a long line of Prime Ministers who says that immigration has been far too high in the past and needs to be greatly reduced while doing the exact opposite, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Asylum seekers allowed to stay in UK despite lying in claims” – Immigration judges have repeatedly ruled migrants can avoid deportation despite being found to have lied about their cases and the risks they face at home, the Telegraph reports.
- “Illegal immigrant who stabbed wife to death wins right to stay in Britain after arguing he might have to face wrath of in-laws back home in Turkey” – An illegal immigrant who savagely stabbed his wife to death has won the right to stay in Britain – after arguing that he might have to face the anger of his in-laws back home in Turkey, reports the Mail.
- “Make our judges stand for election – then they would deliver common sense decisions” – It’s time for a shake-up, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph, after a series of outrageous judgments shows just how out of touch our liberal judiciary is.
- “One killed and police seriously injured in ‘Islamist terror attack’ in France” – One person was killed and two police officers were seriously injured in what Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terror attack” in eastern France on Saturday, after an Algerian suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” before going on stabbing spree, reports the Telegraph.
- “What’s True and False in One Health” – On Robert Malone’s Substack, Jeffrey Tucker sounds a warning about the WHO’s One Health agenda, which Deep State bureaucrats have already signed the Trump administration up to.
- “Energy Secretary Ed Miliband recruits Extinction Rebellion cheerleaders to Government roles to help push through costly agenda” – The Energy Secretary has quietly appointed the advisers who have all publicly expressed admiration for the radical action group which has repeatedly brought chaos to Britain’s streets, reports the Mail.
- “One last push before Germany goes to the polls: Final poll predicts large gains for AfD while frontrunner Friedrich Merz vows to lead Europe” – A final poll ahead of tomorrow’s German election has predicted that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will see a major increase in votes, but not enough to overtake Friedrich Merz of the CDU, reports the Mail.
- “A German Political Primer Ahead of Tomorrow’s Elections” – Eugyppius attempts to explain the arcane intricacies of Germany’s party system for clueless Americans and Brits.
- “How the humble heat pump pushed Germany to the far-Right” – The rigid Net Zero stance of Olaf Scholz’s coalition has become electoral dynamite, says Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
- “Focus on diversity and Net Zero if you want Government contracts, firms told” – Companies have been told to focus on Net Zero and diversity goals if they want to win public contracts under the Government’s new procurement rules, the Telegraph reports.
- “Hospitals hiring trans doctors unable to see their disciplinary records” – NHS hospitals hiring transgender doctors could be left unable to see their disciplinary records, senior medics have warned, according to the Telegraph.
- “Equalities watchdog issues warning to NHS board at centre of trans nurse row amid fears new ‘staff transitioning guide’ is unlawful” – The NHS Fife trans row ratcheted up further yesterday when the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) reminded the health board and Health Secretary Neil Gray of their legal obligations surrounding single-sex facilities in the workplace, reports the Mail.
- “Scotland’s public sector is in thrall to trans ideology” – No one, says Tom Harris in the Mail, would have predicted that such a simple question would cause such anxiety and confusion among our politicians: what is a woman?
- “Law lecturer ‘sacked over gender-critical beliefs’ handed payout” – Law lecturer Dr Almut Gadow who was sacked by the Open University after expressing gender-critical beliefs has been handed a payout from the institution in an out of court settlement, the Telegraph reports.
- “BBC hails drag queens as ‘inspirational mums’ on CBeebies site” – The BBC’s children’s website for under sixes has lauded two transgender activists as “inspirational mums” for International Women’s Day, reports the Mail.
- “Lawmaker’s attempt to be woke destroys her election chances” – Amanda Zavitz, a self-professed DEI advocate, was forced to drop out of Ontario’s upcoming legislative elections after shock audio of her remarks to a 2024 UN conference that “My secret is that I want to be a black woman” went viral, reports the Mail.
- “Who is responsible for the BBC’s Gaza documentary debacle?” – In screening How to Survive a Warzone, the BBC served as a mouthpiece for one of the world’s most depraved terrorist organisations, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
- “Politicians are bad at running trains, building cars and installing phones – why would they be better at running football?” – In the Sun, Daniel Hannan looks at why Labour’s Football Governance Bill would be a disastrous move for England’s national game.
- “Knock knock, it’s the Thought Police: As thousands of criminals go uninvestigated, detectives call on a grandmother. Her crime? She went on Facebook to criticise Labour councillors at the centre of the ‘Hope you Die’ WhatsApp scandal exposed by the MoS” – Detectives were last night accused of acting like East Germany ‘s feared Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal, reports the Mail.
- “Firemen are too male and too white, say chiefs” – A report commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has claimed that the fire service is “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Inside America’s ‘trans sanctuary city’ too busy shouting about Trump to focus on worst murder rate in decades” – The second-biggest city in New England is collapsing under the weight of its own wokeness, and convulsed by fears of Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House, residents told the Mail.
- “Britain is fast becoming an Orwellian surveillance state” – As is so often the case, Labour is simply pouring petrol onto a fire that was started by the Tories, writes Zia Yusuf in the Telegraph.
- “Within those fairly strict narrow limits, I would say that people should be permitted to say whatever they like, provided it’s not going to lead to violence. It’s not going to lead to a breach of the peace” – Watch Toby and John Benjamin discuss the limits of free speech on GB News.
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All six Prime Ministers this century have done huge damage to this country.
However all MPs are worried about are events on a different continent.
Tony Blair was responsible for the murder of 600.000 Iraqis with WMD lie. Mrs T shut a few mines and dealt with unions infested with communists. Who gets more grief from MSM and is labelled extreme?
The panic amongst the MP class is that their gravy train, truffle hunting and downright thievery is going to come to an end.
Squeaky bottom time for many of the 600 as they face the ride in to the valley of death.
I quite like that vision.
Thank you ellie.
Tory MPs I presume?
”If Israel was not a Jewish nation the world would not care at all about the ”Palestinians”. Meme.
Palestinians seem to always be taking precedence over the many people across the world who are legitimately facing persecution and genocide, be they Muslim, Christians, Yazidis, Uyghurs etc…for years this has been happening and nobody takes to the streets to bring attention to their plight, but as soon as there’s Jew involvement and another Middle East conflict kicks off involving those nations the Palestinians get the world’s sympathy while the state of Israel gets the world’s hate. Antisemitism dressed up as social justice with hypocrisy and selective outrage off the charts. So many people outing themselves as deeply unpleasant individuals who are worthy of our contempt. And it’s not hard. Just don’t be on the side of the terrorists, irrespective of how you feel about Israel’s handling of things!
Not possible for the George Galloway/Jeremy Corbyn/Hamas/Houthi/Hezbollah/Jihad Fanclubs though. They’re hardwired to hate because they’re all ‘useful idiots’ and traitors to the West. You’ll all bend over for Islam when the time comes, won’t you??
Wipe your chin, you seem to be drooling.
Out of order.
Surely the article you are commenting on contradicts exactly what you are saying? Palestinians taking precedence … but the article reports that Labour is taking action against its MPs because of their supposed anti-semitism. In other words, any criticism of anything Israel does is classified as anti-semitism and is to be punished.
Why? What is so special about Israel that does not apply to other countries? Does Israel have a special right to commit genocide? No, of course not.
You are right to condemn terrorism but one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and one should at least question why there has been a ‘Middle-East Problem’ ever since the British assumed responsibility for the area in 1918. Only 130 years ago there were hardly any Jews in Palestine at all, but in less than 50 years the Zionist cause very successfully managed to displace and subjugate the Palestinians who had owned and worked the land for the previous 2,000 years – and the Zionist cause and its effects continue to this day.
The result is understandable: strife, discontent and millions of refugees. Now place the remaining Palestinians in their own country in ‘open-air prisons’ and you have succeeded in creating a nicely explosive situation.
If you want to read some alternative sources of information regarding the alleged crimes of rape, decapitations and whatever, performed by Hamas, and the recent allegations against the UNRWA then I recommend:
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/18/israeli-army-gassed-auschwitz-soldier/
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/11/beheaded-israeli-babies-settler-wipe-out-palestinian/
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/06/scandal-israeli-october-7-fabrications/
https://expose-news.com/2024/02/12/absence-of-evidence-israels-case-against-unrwa/
But maybe it is all just plain anti-semitism …
What a shame he did not support the working class or the people who pay the tax to keep the whole show on the road.
Will be interesting watching the various Muslim factions forming and running their own political parties.
No time for the man. Wasn’t he also one of the ones who couldn’t say if a woman can have a penis and that he’d rather be at Davos than Westminster?
Kneel is identical to Fishy only dressed nominally in a different coloured flag. They are both fully paid up members of the WEF fan club. And that is all they will ever be – fan boys. They seem to believe that for doing Klaus’s bidding they will eventually gain access to his Round Table but the reality is that they will be discarded when deemed of no further use. Fishy may be allowed to cling on a little longer because of his father-in-law but he will be discarded eventually.
Kneel has no interest in this country and is about as trustworthy as a Democrat CIA operative. He is so dishonest he doesn’t even know if his progeny are male or female and yes he did say that he would prefer to work in Davos rather than Westminster – “every time.” A statement which confirms how bloody thick he really is.
A dangerous, treasonous P O S who is clearly still being coached by Traitor Number One – T. Bliar.
The Working Class has only ever been a useful tool to advance its Socialist ideology. And the Working Class its useful idiots.
Can’t we at least have a new pre-election smear tactic every now and then? And maybe just let people in the middle-east kill each other in whichever ways they see fit and worry about real problems closer to home instead?
Assuming I had a right to vote, I’d be interested in political issues affecting the UK, like, say, why is tendencially every existing building been torn town and replaced with another tower block of empty flats, and what opinons party leaders and prospective MPs have about them. I really don’t care for their opinons about either Israel or Palestine.
Part of the problem may be redefinition of what anti-semitism means. It’s not obvious that criticism of the Israeli military is automatic anti-semitism, or even criticism of the local government being conflated with anti-semitism.
I’m sure some people hate Jews but the term isn’t helpful. I think it’s better to talk about what people’s views are on what the UK should be doing wrt Gaza etc, and what the other sides should be doing, whether there should be a Jewish state etc etc – actual concrete proposals or opinions on specific matters.
A Jewish state exists (again) because the people who wanted and want to have one had and have the military muscle to ensure its existence. The question whether or not it should exist is entirely immaterial.
I would have thought it is highly relevant as what shape some future Jewish state might have would influence choices made now. In what direction should we be working?
That’s one of these completely bizarre human statements I absolutely cannot understand …
Do you believe that the Jews are the rightful owners of this country because God awarded it to them? If so, Israel should obviously exist because such is the will of God! However, what happened to Gods will during the time between 70AD and 1948AD? Did it become his un-will or was it perhaps temporarily suspended? If so, why?
Do you plan to recruit and army of your own or at least send the English army into the region in order to support some kind of outcome? If so, which outcome, if not, what do you mean by working on it?
Singing the songs of one side of the other side in the UK is nothing but local noise.
Of what interest is the existence or non-existence of Israel to anyone who isn’t living in the area and also not planning to conquer it?
This is a political game. Anti-semitism is one of the few sticks the Conservatives have to hit Labour over the head with.
And as always the useful idiots will buy into the game and will be outraged by the “anti-semitism” which in some cases might be real, in some cases might just be sympathy for Palestinians expressed in a way that can be exploited as “anti-semitism”.
What I am pretty sure is that the people driving this care about actual anti-semitism as much as they care about anything else. It goes as far and only as far as it’s politically expedient for them to care.
So for example caring about the jab injured isn’t at all politically beneficial so… they don’t give a sh*t.
Being outraged about “anti-semitism” yields political capital, so they care deeply.
Nail on head.
Graham Jones suspended?
He should have been arrested for inciting racism!
Don’t you mean “arrested for inciting murder or rape”? That’s the only reason for arresting anyone, not for inciting tribalism, for Pete’s sake.
If I were to say ‘F*** Iran’, anybody fighting for Iran should be arrested’, would you say I should be arrested for inciting racism?
I don’t understand how one particular religious group has been given a special protected status everywhere in the world, so that it is an international criminal act to criticise that group. Another religious group has been campaigning at the UN to give themselves a similar protected status, declaring any criticism of them to be a “hate crime”.
You never hear of people having to be investigated for “Anti-Christianism”, do you?
Let’s just drop all this nonsense.
Such a shame, my heart bleeds for him! Poor old kneel.
Labour Party – antisemitism, a feature not a flaw.
Antisemitism is actually written as ‘anti-Semitism’. The contraction makes no sense in logical terms. I know it sound weird but the notion of ‘Semitism’ isn’t that clear. If you look at the Semitic tribes there are certainly cultural tendencies but these are above this level of scrutiny. Therw were certain tribes possessing a certain language group that moved westward. I don’t mean to sound pedantic but frankly this level of discourse is kindergarten or retard level. I am not insulting you personally I am just letting you know.
The excuse being trotted out for Starmer initially supporting anti-Semitic Ali to remain the Labour candidate in Rochdale, is that if Labour didn’t field a candidate which the very large Muslim community there will approve of (ie an anti-Semite), then George Galloway (boo, hiss) might win.
Personally, I see very little difference between anti-Semitic Ali and George Galloway (boo, hiss) except Galloway has been very verbal about Blair’s illegal war in Iraq and also supported leaving the EU.
Labour imported and has assiduously courted “the Muslim vote” and is now reaping what it has sowed. Starmer can only excise anti-Semitism from the Party by removing a very large number of MPs, Candidates, Councillors and Members.
And he isn’t going to do that. He’ll get rid of one or two, mouth platitudes and tell all the other anti-Semites in the Party to keep their mouths shut …… until the crosses are on the ballot paper.