- “Defence boost brought forwards after Trump intervention, says Starmer” – Keir Starmer has signalled that Trump pushed the Government to fast-track its defence budget boost, according to Sky News.
- “This is a once-in-a-generation moment for the security of our Continent” – Labour will take the right decisions to keep our country safe as our defence spending commitments show, writes Rachel Reeves in the Telegraph.
- “‘Europe must step up on defence spending’” – Rachel Reeves has urged European allies to follow Britain and increase defence spending, according to Reuters.
- “How Starmer bounced Lammy into foreign aid cut” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Martin reveals how Keir Starmer’s defence splurge left David Lammy eating his words on foreign aid cuts.
- “Starmer’s defence spending hike isn’t enough” – If Starmer thinks he is taking a fattened calf to Washington, he may find President Trump’s assessment disappointing, writes Eliot Wilson in the Spectator.
- “Tractor tax ‘has wiped out hope for farmers’” – In his first address to the NFU Conference, NFU President Tom Bradshaw has called on the Government to set a new course for British food and farming, according to NFU Online.
- “Minister apologises to farmer whose elderly mother is ‘wishing her life away’ over tax raid” – Environment Secretary Steve Reed has apologised to a farmer whose 90 year-old mother is “wishing her life away” over the Government’s tractor tax raid, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC removed references to ‘Jews’ and ‘jihad’ in Gaza documentary” – The BBC has been accused of “whitewashing” the views of participants in its controversial Gaza documentary after repeatedly mistranslating references to “the Jews” and omitting praise of “jihad”, says the Telegraph.
- “Non-crime hate incidents could be renamed rather than scrapped” – A senior policing figure has suggested that non-crime hate incidents could be renamed rather than being scrapped, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Why I’ve decided to take legal action against the police’” – The Telegraph’s Allison Pearson is taking legal action against the police, calling out a system that allows citizens to be intimidated for expressing lawful opinions.
- “Free speech is not a virus” – On his Substack, Andrew Doyle says Ursula von der Leyen’s defence of censorship is a new low for the EU.
- “Indefinite Leave to Remain is wrecking the UK” – Britain is a soft touch when it comes to letting people stay here who will be a burden on the rest of us, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “The endless entitlement of Waspi women” – In this godforsaken era of feigned victimhood, is there any group less worthy of our sympathy than the Waspi women? asks James Hanson in the Spectator.
- “They don’t like us, we shouldn’t care” – The British Right must abandon ‘respectability’, says Pimlico Journal, and become more like Millwall.
- “Why BP is ditching renewables” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark reacts to news that BP is dropping its target to operate 50 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030.
- “Net Zero has rendered the energy price cap useless” – In the Telegraph, Jeremy Warner blasts the absurdity of the energy price cap, arguing that thanks to clueless government meddling, we now have a system that’s worse than just letting the market decide.
- “AR7 changes show Net Zero is not working” – If offshore wind is so cheap, why the endless subsidies, rule changes and taxpayer-funded bungs? asks David Turner on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Donald Trump humiliated Emmanuel Macron” – The French media is repeating the Elysée line that Macron has rekindled his bromance with Donald Trump, but this is disconnected from reality, says Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
- “NATO scrambles warplanes in Poland as Putin’s bombers pound Ukraine” – NATO has been forced to scramble its warplanes in Poland after Vladimir Putin used strategic bombers and missiles to attack neighbouring Ukraine, according to the Mail.
- “Putin signals he could agree to massive cuts in defence spending” – Putin has signalled he could agree to Trump’s proposals for massive defence cuts in return for the US doing the same, reports the Mail.
- “Zelensky ‘says yes to rare minerals deal with Donald Trump’” – Ukraine has agreed a minerals deal with the US in a big step towards a peace settlement just days after rejecting the plans, says the Mail.
- “Donald Trump is utterly wrong about Ukraine’s leadership” – “It’s unacceptable for any foreign leader to humiliate our President, decide when we should hold elections and lie about who started the war,” says Daria Kaleniuk in the Spectator.
- “Trump – not Zelensky – is Ukraine’s only hope” – Ukraine has become a paradox: a nation fighting for its sovereignty while dismantling its own democratic foundations, writes Oleksiy Kosach in the Spectator.
- “J.D. Vance responds to Trump’s refusal to endorse him” – In an interview with the Mail’s Rob Crilly, J.D. Vance shrugs off Trump’s non-endorsement, slams Europe’s woke elites and reminds Zelensky that public tantrums won’t sway the boss.
- “Some agencies urge staff not to comply with Elon Musk’s performance email” – FBI director Kash Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others have told employees not to respond to a directive from Elon Musk to summarise their accomplishments, according to Republic World.
- “‘We make our staff fill in time sheets – it’s only right the Civil Service does the same’” – In the Telegraph, Elliot Hammer, a law firm partner who makes his team log every six minutes, thinks Elon Musk is right – government staff should justify their time, just like the rest of us.
- “Trump is doing us a favour by targeting our dreadful tech laws” – Much like the EU, the UK has been concentrating on how to regulate technology instead of working out how to create a vibrant, growing industry of its own, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “North Korea steals $1.5 billion as it pulls off world’s biggest ever heist” – State-backed North Korean hackers have stolen £1.2 billion of cryptocurrency in the largest heist in history, according to Silicon.
- “The NHS crises that damned its low-profile boss” – Amanda Pritchard’s departure as NHS chief has come as a surprise to many – but failures and complacency sealed her fate, writes Laura Donnelly in the Telegraph.
- “Assisted dying committee votes down palliative amendment” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reflects on the baffling move by MPs to reject an amendment requiring patients to consider palliative care before opting for assisted suicide in Kim Leadbeater’s Bill.
- “Civil servants complain about working in office three days a week” – A survey by the FDA reveals that civil servants claim to work less effectively when forced into the office three days a week, reports the Mail.
- “Civil Service chief defies unions and MPs on working from home” – The head of the Civil Service has rejected calls to rewrite rules requiring staff to come to the office three days a week, saying that the policy is “about right”, according to the Times.
- “MS patients suffer side-effects after NHS England switches to cheaper drug” – Scores of people with multiple sclerosis have suffered debilitating side-effects after being put on to a cheaper new drug as part of an NHS drive to save money.
- “Doctors sound alarm over mystery illness after 50 people die suddenly” – A mystery disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo just hours after symptoms began, reports the Mail.
- “Violins out for the ‘traumatised’ Covid journalists” – In TCW, Dr Roger Watson slams the Italian media’s lingering Covid PTSD.
- “Open letter to RFK Jr. from Sasha Latypova” – In an open letter on Debbie Lerman’s Substack, Sasha Latypova urges Secretary Kennedy to end the contrived Covid emergency, scrap the PREP Act shield protecting Big Pharma and prove he truly cares about vaccine victims.
- “The FDA’s top regulator just took a senior job at Pfizer” – On Substack, Alex Berenson calls out the FDA’s top regulator-turned-Pfizer exec Patrizia Cavazzoni for a 25-year track record of prioritising Big Pharma over patient safety.
- “None of the 70,000 adverse events of puberty blocking drugs were a ‘safety priority’ for Biden’s FDA” – On Substack, Dr Robert W. Malone exposes how Biden’s FDA ignored 70,000 adverse events from puberty blockers.
- “Unilever boss quits as company struggles to move on from ‘social purpose’” – The boss of Unilever has been ousted as the business struggles after backing progressive causes for years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nelson makes way for Yvette Cooper portrait in Parliament’s diversity drive” – Paintings of Lord Nelson have been taken down under plans to make Parliament’s artworks more diverse, says GB News.
- “A girl and her dad” – Read the latest instalment in Paul Sutton’s Drenching Arms series.
- “Chris O’Dowd becomes latest star to back ‘cancelled’ Graham Linehan” – Chris O’Dowd is the latest star to back Graham Linehan after the Father Ted creator was “cancelled” for his outspoken criticisms of transgender issues, reports the Mail. Better late than never.
- “The Left are hypocrites on diversity – and here’s how to prove it” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon calls out the Left’s quota-driven mindset for ignoring common sense and merit.
- “Apple investors defy Trump and vote to keep diversity policies” – Apple shareholders have voted to keep the iPhone maker’s DEI policies, despite pressure to drop them from President Trump and conservative activists, reports the Times.
- “Kathleen Kennedy was supposed to save Star Wars – instead she ruined it” – So-so TV shows, a bungled trilogy, countless films stuck in limbo… the outgoing head of Lucasfilm has turned Star Wars into a spent force, says Robbie Collin in the Telegraph.
- “South Park summed her up” – Watch the clip of Kathleen Kennedy demanding more gay female characters in all Disney films on South Park, courtesy of End Wokeness.
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Apologise? Er, I think all the British people historically involved in slavery back in the day are dead. So who is meant to apologise? How can you apologise on behalf of dead people? What a load of nonsense. What possible meaning can that have?
Let’s be honest, isn’t “apologising for slavery” more like “apologising for the relative success of European civilisation compared to Africa”?
What’s needed more often and more loudly is for someone with a brain to cut through the crap and spell it out for the hard-of-thinking.
Congratulations, keep it up.
I do not apologise.
I have never enslaved anyone.
If I had enslaved someone inadvertently I would probably apologise. As I have not, I won’t.
If I had enslaved someone deliberately then any apology would be hollow.
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I firmly agree with your full stop.——–Just kidding
At least it is not a pointless comment.
Wish I had thought of that —-funny
You are too kind.
It is the sort of comment that I have to come here to make as Mrs Faffor had a humour bypass at birth.
There is a great deal of nonsense talked regarding the slave trade.
‘….military enslavement was by far the most significant method is important, for it means that rulers were not, for the most part, selling their own subjects but people whom they, at least, regarded as aliens. The fact that many exported slaves were recent captives means that they were drawn from those captured in the course of warfare who had not yet been given an alternative employment within Africa. In these cases, rulers were deciding to forgo the potential future use of these slaves. Some of the exports were slaves whom local masters wished to dispose of for one reason or another and those who had been captured locally by brigands or judicially enslaved.
This is exactly the situation described by da Mosto in his account of Jolof in 1455. After a description of the use of the slaves in the domestic economy, da Mosto noted that most slaves were captured in wars with neighboring countries and the civil wars. Many of these captives were integrated into the domestic economy, but the rest were sold to the “Moors” for horses.’
The Process of Enslavement and the Slave Trade
John K. Thornton
‘Military enslavement’ was as old as the hills. Once the apologies start, we will all have to apologise to each other and to ourselves.
At least Britain abolished the wretched trade……so could we ask the entire world to give us a round of applause, please, while we all give ourselves a big pat on the back…..
Or, alternatively, could the ‘apology’ blighters, whoever they may be, just drop the venality and stop being so silly?
White Slaves were 40% of the Roman empire’s population. A similar amount within the various Greek empires. Celts, Saxons, Teutons, the Vikings were all focused in large part on White slaving.
Then we have the Musulmans. 25 million White Slaves. 50 million Black Slaves. Don’t hear a god damn thing about it. One reason for the Viking invasions of this country was to provide White slaves to the Caliphs in North Africa and the Middle East.
Today right now in Africa some 5 million Blacks are enslaved by Arabs, Muslims and other Blacks. Zero whites involved.
This year and every year some 5000 Black Christian Nigerians will be killed by Black Muslims and if female, likely raped beforehand. Hundreds, probably thousands are sex enslaved by Black Muslims every single year, some are young school girls. But they are Black Christians so who gives a shyte – no one, not even the useless Churches.
I also hear there are no black people running around in Arab countries because the Arabs castrated their slaves. ——-Forgotten slavery: The Arab-Muslim slave trade | FairPlanet
No one today should apologise for the actions of anyone who was alive 100, 200, 300 years ago etc. Otherwise the Germans would never be done apologising. But how many people today blame Germans for what Germans did in the last 2 wars? It is well understood that those Germans back then were to blame for their actions and this has nothing to do with Germans alive today. —–Should Joachim von Heisenberg working as a butcher in Mannheim have anything to apologise for because his grandfather was in the SD or SS? ——Ah but the butcher in Mannheim is not the government I hear people say. —–But todays governments were elected by people alive today not by dead people who might have committed atrocities in the past and those current politicians cannot be held responsible for the actions of previous generations of politicians. ——-This “apologising” nonsense is like many other things in todays world political. Political agenda’s are behind all of the apologising, just as the wealthy western world is now apologising for having “appropriated” the earths atmosphere by it’s use of fossil fuels and must now pay the price for that by fobbing its citizens off with inferior energy solutions at great expense by way of “Apology”.
Indeed but as I said above it’s nothing to do with actions hundreds of years ago. It’s about the “success gap” now.
And the Arab persecution and enslavement of black Africans is still happening to this day, but because whites or Jews aren’t the so-called ”oppressors” in these examples, the West turns a hypocritical blind eye. Once more the Muslims seemingly have protected status, because ‘Islamophobia’. The Western ‘powers that be’ prefer to talk about and scapegoat the phantom menace that is the ‘far-right extremists’ but a quick look at any crime figures on terrorism easily contradicts their hollow assertions;
”Since Arabs first invaded Africa in the seventh century, murderous raids targeting innocent civilians have been a common feature of the spread of Islam in Africa. Today, in Mauritania, Black Mauritanians whose ancestors were taken into captivity centuries ago and whose status as chattel has been passed down through the generations, live in bondage, serving as slaves to their Arab Berber masters. Even though indigenous Africans in Mauritania were converted to Islam after the Arab conquest, race has trumped religion, and the Arab Berber rulers have treated the Black Mauritanians as they would infidels.
Modern-day Mauritania is essentially a racist caste system ruled by the 30% Arab Berber minority, called beydanes (“whites”). The Arab-controlled government has “banned” slavery five times since independence from France—in 1961, 1980, 1981, 2007, and 2015—yet today, absurdly, denies that it exists. According to the Global Slavery Index, approximately 149,000 Black Mauritanians still live there as slaves. These slaves remain in chains. They’re bred and are known to have been horrifically tortured in ways that rival and may even surpass Hamas’ torments. Yet these Black Muslim slaves who are passed down like the family furniture from the masters to their sons have no serious champions in the West.
Why are these horrors of real-world slavery, with women raped and men kept in chains, based on the color of their skin or their religion, not better understood and publicized in the West? Because the reigning progressive ideology taught in almost all American educational institutions divides the world into “oppressors” and “oppressed,” bestowing on the latter protected status. With the Arab and Muslim communities in America having been granted this new form of immunity, casting light on evil conduct committed by Arab colonial conquerers who enslave and murder Black Africans, is simply not allowed.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/arab-enslavement-black-africans
Great ——Cheers.
Excellent history article by former Royal Navy Officer Lewis Page.
Ethnic Europeans must strongly reject all attempts to impose a false “White Guilt” upon our whole ethnic group. There is no such thing as communal guilt, or ancestral guilt, or national guilt, or racial guilt.
These false concepts have been forced upon the German people, the Japanese people, the Spanish people, the English people (Welsh, Scots & Irish deemed to be ancestral victims of the English), the American people, Australian people, and all Ethnic Europeans around the world. It’s time to say “No!”, and teach our children to say “No! We are proud of our race, our history, and the western civilisation our ancestors worked so hard to build. And we will not apologise for any of it.”
Britain was not a slaving society in the era in question. It was not a Government policy. Slaves were not used in Britain. That some individuals and private companies – like the East India Company – were involved in slavery, does not mean Britain as a social, or political entity was involved.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was started by Spain, mostly, but Portugal too. African slave taking was Government sanctioned and African slaves were initially brought to work in Spain.
Spain and Portugal shipped more than six times the number of slaves to their South American colonies, than were shipped to the British Colonies/USA in North America and West Indies. Oddly, neither are in the frame for reparations or opprobrium.
But the real significant point is, those slaves were bought – not captured – by European traders, at first from Arab traders but later from the Chiefs and Kings of powerful African tribes that had traded slaves for more than 1 000 years prior to Europeans setting foot in Africa.
Those idiots who want reparation need to go to the head of the supply chain, in Africa… or better still, just get lost.