- “Reform meltdown deepens as lawyer denies claims made by MP Lowe” – Reform UK has been thrown into fresh chaos after a top lawyer appointed to investigate MP Rupert Lowe denied making statements Lowe attributed to her, reports the Mail.
- “Nigel Farage is behind ‘witch-hunt’, says Reform MP Rupert Lowe” – Rupert Lowe says that the allegations against him were a “co-ordinated hit job” to force him out of Reform, according to the Times.
- “Rupert Lowe slams Reform claims he has dementia and threatened to slit Zia Yusuf throat” – On Dan Wootton Outspoken, Rupert Lowe responds for the first time to the claims that have rocked the British Right, including suggestions he has made death threats against Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf, bullied staff and is even suffering from dementia.
- “Reform’s shenanigans are an inevitable tragedy” – ‘Small party collapses into acrimony’ may not sound like big news, but this time it really does matter, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Has Zia Yusuf gone too far?” – If Reform truly intends to shape Britain’s future, it must first reform itself, says Conservative Post.
- “Britain’s Right is heading for civil war and the Reform travails are only the first skirmishes” – Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage may be political opponents, but they are facing very similar challenges, notes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Labour MPs revolt over Government’s ‘moral’ £5 billion welfare cuts” – Sir Keir Starmer is facing a revolt over plans to axe £5 billion from the welfare budget as the Government scrambles to balance the books, reports the Mail.
- “Incompetent self-promoters are about to become even harder to sack” – Rayner’s workers’ rights bill will protect productivity-sapping employees at the country’s expense, warns Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves hit by £2.6 billion black hole as smokers swerve tobacco tax” – The Treasury has been left with a £2.6 billion black hole after smokers turned to illegally imported tobacco to avoid tax rises, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sentencing Council slaps down Mahmood’s call to scrap ‘two-tier’ guidance” – The Sentencing Council has fired back at Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s call to scrap their new guidance, according to Guido.
- “Race should play no role in justice but shamefully in Britain it now does” – It is no longer possible to deny that in the land of Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights we have two-tier policing and justice, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s Chagos deal facing High Court challenge to block ‘unlawful’ handover” – Keir Starmer’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands is facing a High Court legal challenge by a campaign group backed by leading Tory peers , reveals the Telegraph.
- “Mobile phone theft reaches highest recorded level in London” – Mobile phone theft rose to a record level in London last year, with the number of handsets snatched more than tripling in four years to 70,137, reports the Times.
- “Shoplifting epidemic rockets to 17,000 thefts a day” – Britain’s shoplifting epidemic has surged to a record high, reaching nearly 17,000 incidents a day, says the Telegraph.
- “Palestinian Channel migrant who called for slaughter of all Jews arrested” – A gun-toting Channel migrant who called for the slaughter of all Jews has been arrested, reports the Mail.
- “Holidaying couple fined after finding a migrant on their motorhome ” – After returning from France, discovering a migrant in their bike rack and calling the police, a couple have been slapped with a £1,500 fine for not checking their motorhome, says the Mail.
- “Why Islam is bound to be the winner from the lost boys of the UK” – In Christian Today, Julian Mann argues that Islam is set to win over the UK’s “lost boys”, offering purpose, brotherhood and structure in a fatherless, post-Christian society.
- “Young people are hiding behind issues they don’t have. They’re just naughty” – Alun Ebenezer, Britain’s “strictest headmaster”, believes modern parenting has indulged children into misery, says Eleanor Steafel in the Telegraph.
- “Private school teachers face redundancy over Labour VAT raid” – One in five private school teachers say they have had colleagues made redundant due to Labour’s VAT on fees, according to the Mail
- “Home Secretary rejects public inquiry into murder of MP David Amess” – Yvette Cooper is facing fury from the family of David Amess after she rejected calls for a public inquiry into the murder of the Tory MP, reports the Mail.
- “How Speaker took wife on ‘working trips’ to LA, Italy and Gibraltar” – Sir Lindsay Hoyle is facing calls for an investigation into his “extravagant” travel expenses as it emerged he’s taken his wife on several working trips, says the Mail.
- “BBC spent £1.3 million investigating Huw Edwards scandal” – The BBC has spent more than £1.3 million on the Huw Edwards scandal, including £340,000 on legal advice over the decision to suspend him on full pay, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain cannot repeat its fracking mistake in the race for critical minerals” – Whitehall must overcome its disgust at ‘dirty’ industries or risk missing out on a genuine industrial renaissance, warns Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Is Government-backed Motability propping up a collapsing UK car market?” – As the UK car market teeters on the brink of disaster, Motability’s £7 billion grip raises urgent questions about whether it’s propping up a house of cards or driving it towards catastrophe, writes Sad Rabbit on Substack.
- “Think you’re so clever boycotting Tesla?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark takes aim at the hypocrisy of liberal motorists ditching Teslas over Musk’s politics while happily driving Volkswagens – a company literally founded by Hitler.
- “How a ‘misinformation-peddling’ government weather agency was torn apart by DOGE” – The US Government’s weather agency has been dismantled by Musk’s DOGE after it was accused of peddling “misinformation”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Inside the FBI’s lab leak investigation” – In Vanity Fair, a former FBI scientist speaks out about the evidence that led the bureau to suspect that COVID-19 originated with an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- “David Lammy is the most naïve Foreign Secretary in British history” – David Lammy’s support for a new Chinese super-embassy opens up our country to a massive security threat, warns Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Braverman in free speech victory as bid to silence Oxford Union speech fails” – On GB News, Suella Braverman mocks protesters attempting to stop her Oxford Union appearance.
- “Free speech win as judge throws out case against prosecuted Christian preacher after mob threatened to ‘cut his throat’ for criticising Islam” – A judge has thrown out a case against a Christian preacher who was prosecuted after an Islamic mob threatened to kill him for criticising the Quran, according to Conservative Post.
- “Is JD Vance right about free speech being under attack in the UK?” – In Visegrad24, Dr Frederick Attenborough challenges Keir Starmer’s claim to support free speech, revealing the far-reaching consequences of the UK’s regulatory bodies and the Online Safety Act.
- “‘It shouldn’t be a criminal offence to criticise politicians, however strongly’” – In Publico, Toby talks to Alexander Wendt about how free speech in Germany is in an even worse state than in the UK and his plans to bring a Free Speech Union to Berlin.
- “‘JD Vance is right to point out the erosion of freedom of expression in Europe’” – Le Figaro interviews Toby on the parlous state of free speech in Europe.
- “‘Our leftist neighbours hosted hundreds of migrants, now we face ruin’” – Businesses next to an iconic theatre in central Paris, which has been occupied by migrants for months, are facing bankruptcy, and their owners have received death threats, reports the Mail.
- “Romania overturns presidential election result” – On the Racket News Substack, Greg Collard provides a timeline of events that led to the decision to bar a candidate from running for president in Romania – following another extraordinary decision to annul his previous election victory.
- “Justin Trudeau weeps as he gives farewell speech” – A weeping Justin Trudeau took one last swipe at Donald Trump during his final speech as Prime Minister of Canada, reports the Mail.
- “How the ‘High Priest of Project Fear’ charmed Canada and took on Trump” – In the Telegraph, Benedict Smith profiles Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney.
- “Why Mark Carney’s Brexit sparring partners think he’s a disaster waiting to happen” – The ex-Bank of England governor will succeed Justin Trudeau – but many see him as too similar to Canada’s current, unpopular PM, says Iain Hollingshead in the Telegraph.
- “Canada is about to discover Mark Carney is the man with the reverse Midas touch” – The ‘rock star’ former Governor of the Bank of England has left a trail of destruction behind him, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “‘Unelected’ PM Carney banned from debates in Canada’s Commons” – Canada’s next prime minister will be banned from taking part in parliamentary debates or votes because he has not won a seat in an election, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why was Syria’s President ever treated like a centrist dad?” – In the Spectator, Stephen Pollard slams the media for ignoring massacres in Syria while scrutinising Israel’s every move.
- “No one should be surprised about the Syrian massacres” – No one really has an excuse for being surprised at the dreadful scenes that have emerged from Syria’s western coastal region in recent days, says Jonathan Spyer in the Spectator.
- “Trump’s shock new demands to Zelensky ahead of high-stakes peace talks” – Donald Trump is pressuring Zelensky into accepting a raft of new terms if the Ukrainian President wants to end its bloody conflict with Russia, reports the Mail.
- “Wanted: a war loan to help bring about peace” – In the Telegraph, Charles Moore argues that with Trump pulling back on Ukraine, Europe must step up by raising a massive “peace loan” to fund its own defence.
- “Britain’s naval power can stop Putin. It has always been our best safeguard” – Before Trafalgar, invasion was a constant threat. We must become an effective maritime force once again, urges Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Europe abandoned Trump, so Trump is abandoning Europe” – In the Telegraph, Gordon Chang argues that Europe’s abandonment of Trump’s policies has led him to shift focus from NATO and Ukraine to a more aggressive stance on China.
- “Regime change – does it ever work?” – On UNN, Dr Roger Watson lays out the pitiful track record of Western-led regime change, while Trump – for all his flaws – at least hasn’t added to the wreckage.
- “EU may ‘weaponise’ antibiotics to exert pressure on Trump” – EU governments are planning to “weaponise” life-saving medicines sent to the US to counter Trump’s hostility towards the bloc, reports the Telegraph. That won’t end well.
- “Elon Musk reveals who is behind ‘massive’ cyberattack on X” – Elon Musk has sensationally revealed the devastating cyberattack that took down his social media app X on Monday seemingly originated in Ukraine, says the Mail.
- “Meta attempted to expand to China by creating a censorship tool” – Tech Times reports that a whistleblower has exposed Meta’s attempt to cosy up to China by developing a censorship tool to comply with its draconian content laws.
- “This thing will fail” – Trump will not restore the “strong gods” of community, family and faith, warns Noah Smith on his Substack, responding to NS Lyons essay on America’s “strong gods”. (The Lyons essay is a must-read.)
- “Biden autopen signature appears on almost every document, report finds” – According to the Mail, many documents signed by President Joe Biden were actually signed using an autopen, sparking questions over who was really pulling the strings during the former president’s time in office.
- “‘You’ve got a willy so you’re a man, innit?’” – A barrister representing a nurse who objected to sharing a changing room with a transgender doctor has described her legal argument as “you’ve got a willy, so you’re a man, innit?”, according to the Standard.
- “Why must we tarnish Agatha Christie’s legacy by introducing trigger warnings?” – If you don’t want dead bodies, avoid works by the Queen of Crime, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “ITV flooded with complaints after slapping ‘woke’ trigger warning on sitcom” – ITV has put a notice on some George & Mildred episodes – saying they contain “classic British humour from a bygone era”, reports the Mail. Isn’t that why people watch them?
- “Hate not Hope” – In the New Conservative, Dr Roger Watson casts a withering eye over Hope Not Hate’s latest bloated, biased catalogue of so-called far-Right villains in its ‘State of Hate’ report. Spoiler: the Daily Sceptic failed to make the cut.
- “Netflix bosses are ‘worried’ about dire reviews of Meghan’s show” – With Love, Meghan has already dropped out of the top ten most watched shows globally as well as in the US and UK just six days after its release, reports the Mail.
- “It’s not too late to stop Labour’s devastating plan to take us back to the 70s” – Andrew Griffith MP tells Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News why Labour’s Employment Rights Bill will be such a disaster. To send a letter to your MP urging him or her to vote against clause 18 of the bill in a House of Commons vote today, click here.
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Is HNHate freak Nick Lowles really working for Reform ?
Also as I posted earlier , Muhammed is “Zia,s” name !
We need to know.
No, I think that is a mistake by whoever posted it. When I looked it up, Nick Lowles and the HopeNotHate mob did their own survey, and used it to advise their Communist Subversives how to DEFEAT Reform.
New Polling: Reform UK is Closer to Power Than You Think – HOPE not hate
Nick Lowles on “How do we tackle far-right Reform UK?
Our analysis is clear. There is no single way to fight Reform. There are different types of Reform voters and each need a different approach. At the same time, we need to hold Reform accountable to greater scrutiny for its increasingly divergent and contradictory positions. Reform get away with being able to have a coalition of libertarian free marketeers alongside those who want greater state intervention and ownership of key industries.”
“In 2024, the average Reform UK voter had strong anti-immigration views but those who have begun to support the party since then have far more diverse views. This includes a sizeable group who are actually quite positive towards the benefits of immigration and multiculturalism but increasingly feel the main parties have failed and it is time for something new.”
“Race should play no role in justice but shamefully in Britain it now does”
Tory MP and former adviser to Mrs Maybee busy recanting again, on behalf of a Tory party that spent 14 unconservative years in government implementing and embellishing New Labour policies.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/10/britains-naval-power-can-stop-putin-always-been-safeguard/
Hehe
– Britain can’t stop usurpers in blow-up rubber dinghies from accessing our shores, never mind the might of Russia. Rule Britannia, what a joke!
Yes, it made me laugh. We have more admirals than ships.
Britain’s naval power can stop Putin. It has always been our best safeguard
This article represents the concept of ‘managed decline’ that has done so much damage to this country.
‘We cannot (except briefly in extreme emergency) be strong on both land and sea. Hardly any state in history has managed this.’
The number of states that have managed this is in fact a long one: Ming dynasty China, The Persian Empire, The Macedonian Empire, The Roman Empire, The Normans, The Ottoman Empire, Spain, Britain, France, the U.S.A. and so on.
Britain itself, even in the 1950s, had an Army Corps of four divisions and 80,000 men in Germany and a fleet of at least four big deck aircraft carriers with fifty destroyers and frigates.
‘We must not be distracted into building up land forces to send to the far side of Europe. Tanks cannot protect pipelines and wind farms. Nor will a regiment of Challengers in Ukraine frighten Putin.’
That paragraph is just plain dotty. Warfare is tri-dimensional and has been since at least the Spanish Civil War.
It is the role of the British Army, in Europe, in concert with our allies, to foreclose any attack option to Russia.
Why in Central Europe?: Do we really wish any potential conflict to take place any closer to us than that?
The British Army, in Europe, also provides Britain and Europe with ‘a sense of security to a degree that will encourage it to act and react in respect to global events with confidence’.
Military forces, including land forces, have two important effects on an adversary. One is the physical, the other is psychological.’
Why not look at our potential adversaries to see what their ‘Military Strategy’ looks like?
China has bases in Sri-Lanka, Pakistan, Tanzania, Mauritius, Maldives and Myanmar.
Who used to have bases in all those countries?
Russia has ‘tanks’ in twenty one different countries.
‘Russia’s land forces in Central and Eastern Asia are an important element in her modern strategy, providing not just security of her territory, but a strategic and political freedom of action that would not exist without the presence and capabilities of those armies.’
In other words, they deter China from attempting to regain territories from Russia that used to be part of China.
Have China and Russia got it wrong, would you think….or have we?
Some who know a thing or two can see into the future:
‘An Atlantic community paralyzed by its military inferiority in Europe could only wring its hands as (Russian, Chinese) power and influence moved unimpeded into the so-called Third World, portions of which provide the materials upon which the industrial, economic, and social health of the industrial West depend.’ 1977
Is there any chance that you could provide a sysnopsis since any point you are trying to make is obscured by the verbiage.
I cannot be bothered with all the anti Russia tosh.
I really think Monro is a Ukrainian Bot, copying & pasting interminable posts instead of just providing the link and a short excerpt.
https://tdhj.org/blog/post/forward-defence-manoeuvre/
Firstly (https://www.eurasian-research.org/publication/chinese-overseas-military-bases-national-interests-and-global-ambitions/):
According to Bloomberg, China has a presence or potential base in Shri-Lanka, Pakistan, Tanzania, Mauritius, Maldives and Myanmar [Tweed, et al, 2018]. China is mostly developing commercial seaports or free trade zones in Indian Ocean’s points of these countries. Also, supporting these countries with finalized contracts for conventional arms and army sales.
Note: “a presence or potential base”.
If we then look at the Tweed, et al, 2018 reference (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-china-navy-bases/?cmpId=flipboard&utm_content=buffer199d4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer), it cites that:
So far, China only has one overseas military base, compared with dozens for the U.S., which also has hundreds of smaller installations.
The latter paper includes a map showing the “potential” bases in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc..
But those data are from 2018, whereby China has a long way to go before being able to compete with US’s 800 or so military bases world-wide.
Secondly, Mark Felton has an interesting video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9duwvipB0) on “The Navy With More Admirals Than Warships”.
In the video he lists the current number of ships in the Royal Navy: 2 aircraft carriers, 6 guided missile destroyers, 8 frigates, and 9 submarines; in total we have 62 commissioned ships, of which 25 are fighting ships.
He then compares it with the amazing British fleet of 1939: 4 aircraft carriers, 15 battleships and battlecruisers, 16 heavy cruisers, 43 light cruisers, 184 destroyers, 45 large escorts and patrol vessels, and 60 submarines, making an impressive total of 367 fighting ships of 1,400 commissioned vessels.
Those were the days!
But those days are past and today I am not in the slightest worried about any supposed threat of an invasion by either Russia or China. British beer may be an acquired taste (I daringly suggest there are better beers around the world) but our beer would be the only possible reason for any country wanting to invade UK – we have some amazing real ales.
Your given reason for wanting to challenge Russian and Chinese military superiority is quite dishonourable: the so-called Third World harbouring materials that we want but are unwilling to pay for? You imply we somehow have a superior right to those materials?
Peace is so utterly beneficial and enables any government to award its citizens with those goods they need at a reasonable price, at the same time bestowing deserved wealth on those countries fulfilling our needs.
“Recent PLA research on overseas bases describes the ability to project power and win potentially protracted wars in distant theaters as a vital but likely still-distant capability”
’17 metallic elements are indispensable to everyday life, forming the backbone of high-tech devices such as mobile phones, cameras, computer hard drives and electric vehicles (EVs). Beyond their civilian applications, REEs are also critical for defence technologies, including precision missiles and fighter jets.’
‘the world remains largely reliant on China, which currently dominates the market: “it’s responsible for 70% of global production and nearly 90% of processing of global output, as well as 90% of rare earth element permanent magnet production.” To put the implications of that control of the market into perspective, “China could cut short the supply of critical minerals to the U.S. in an event of war, and exhaust the U.S. stock of minerals necessary for its defence apparatus in less than 90 days.”
Then China should do the world a favour and cut off the supply to USA. Then we would have peace in Ukraine and stop the genocide in Palestine.
“How a ‘misinformation-peddling’ government weather agency was torn apart by DOGE” – The US Government’s weather agency has been dismantled by Musk’s DOGE
Meanwhile Britain’s Myth Office sails blithely on into the next nattily-named weather storm.
“Incompetent self-promoters are about to become even harder to sack” – Rayner’s workers’ rights bill will protect productivity-sapping employees at the country’s expense
Legislation state-sponsored by former union rep, property magnate and self-promoter second to none, Ms Nobrayner – what could possibly go wrong?
Designed of course to undermine SME’s. Deliberately. Not something Ranting could have worked out for herself.
Fascinating article on a surprising finding on AI misalignment.
“A Berkeley AI research team discovered that when ChatGPT4o was reworked to write ‘insecure code’, something very strange occurred: the AI became increasingly ‘misaligned’ to human intention, which included sympathizing with Nazis, and giving other ‘malicious’ advice harmful to the user.”
Basically, going from training on an extremely narrow context, for example, spitting out SQL injection code, the AI became misaligned with contemporary western moral values.
https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/more-misalignment-madness
Yes, fascinating link, thank you. Bottom line, as per biblical final paragraph..?
“The self-styled Silicon gods are now convinced in their hubris that their AI creations will, too, follow perfectly in their stead, like a well-behaved and docile child. But just as Man could not resist temptation in the Garden, so too, Man’s creation stands to be tempted by the forbidden knowledge, which Man conceals from it, in his hubris of moral authority.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/iainmcgilchrist/p/laughter-in-heaven?r=ylgqf&utm_medium=ios
An excellent article by Iain McGilchrist.
Left-Right?
Inability to disagree amicably?
Prevailing narratives?
He hits the nail on the head in my opinion.
Thank you for that reflectful link – world needs a sense-of-humour transplant ASAP.
Maybe Biden’s autopen device is the reason why Trump makes such a spectacle of signing his documents on camera. There is no chance then that he forgets his own name half way through the signing process or drops asleep before completion.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14480817/Labour-MPs-welfare-cuts-ministers-workers-benefits-jobless-sick.html
Nothing to do with ‘balancing the books’ though cuts are sorely needed but more about sewing discontent and anger.
It’s “sowing” discontent, as in sowing seeds. Not sewing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14481919/Palestinian-Channel-boat-migrant-allowed-UK-God-kill-Jews-guns-arrested.html
Prior to being found a hotel room of a comfort level that meets his satisfaction.
Sent back?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/10/david-lammy-the-most-naive-foreign-secretary-in-british/
Err no. He is the thickest and most treacherous F S ever appointed to the role. An utter disgrace to the people of this country.
https://youtu.be/WAIQvYFmtzk?si=PJb7RW4flC6Gs2n9
All subsidies to farmers removed.
May I add this interesting article, readable on MSN, related to yesterday’s Halal/Kosher debate?
UK’s migration trap EXPOSED as halal butchers and kebab shops issuing hundreds of skilled worker visas
“Immigrants have been given skilled worker visas sponsored by 56 kebab houses, 83 businesses with “Halal” in their name, and ONE BUTCHER ALONE SPONSORED 918 VISAS, GB News can reveal.”
“In an exclusive documentary, premiering for GBN Members, we explore how immigration has changed cities across Britain, including the city of Bradford.”
“MATTHEW GOODWIN, the author and academic, told GB News that Britain is in a ‘POPULATION TRAP’, meaning “the rate of our population growth is so great it exceeds the capacity of the state to provide public services”.
“If you’re looking around Britain and you’re thinking, well, this is suddenly looking rather shabby and nothing seems to be working, that’s because we’ve entered what is called a population trap,” Mr Goodwin said.”
“He continued: “Why is the NHS not working? Why are schools looking rundown and terrible? Why can’t we control the borders? Why is our economy flatlining? No growth, masses of debt, no productivity. Because we’re in a population trap. It’s just nobody in Westminster wants to admit it.””
“GB News went to Bradford to speak with locals and migrants about their views on immigration.”