- “Why Nigel should listen to Rupert” – There’s not much point in a party to the Right of the Conservatives that simply observes Tory failures without offering radical solutions, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “How to reform Reform” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle argues that Reform UK remains a protest party with no clear ideology.
- “Farage must step aside and let Rupert Lowe lead Reform” – Reform UK needs to democratise and prioritise bringing in talent with an eye on the next General Election, says Ben Habib in the Telegraph.
- “Seven in 10 Reform voters don’t recognise Rupert Lowe” – If a splinter party was to form, the Greater Yarmouth MP’s chances of coveting Reform voters may be rather slim, writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Conservatives shouldn’t dance on Reform’s grave” – Nigel Farage’s party is vital to keep the Tories honest. Without it, it would likely return to centrist mush, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer is shifting dramatically to the Right – and we have Trump to thank” – Abolishing NHS England is the latest in a string of radical moves away from the PM’s comfort zone, notes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s bloated civil service: the public sector departments most in need of culling” – Keir Starmer is drawing up plans to slash back the size of the state, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer scraps plan to get 80,000 people off benefits” – Labour has shelved plans to make an extra 80,000 benefit claimants look for work as ministers struggle to keep a lid on Britain’s ballooning welfare bill, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s tribes are at war” – In the Spectator, Katy Balls reports on the chaos unfolding in the Labour Party over Starmer’s proposed welfare cuts.
- “More retired baby boomers pay income tax than Gen Z” – More retired baby boomers are paying income tax than Gen Z workers in a dramatic reversal of the pre-lockdown trend, reports the Telegraph.
- “Poland set to ‘soon overtake Britain in military strength and income’” – Research professor Dr Azeem Ibrahim has warned that Britain is on course to becoming a “second tier” European nation due to economic decline and a weak military, says the Mail.
- “Mission accomplished Agent Reeves, you’ve destroyed the Labour Party” – Rachel Reeves has managed to inflict such deep damage on the Labour Party that it will likely be headed for electoral wipe-out when voters have their say, writes Brian Monteith in the Telegraph.
- “It should have been the Tories scrapping NHS England” – Brexit shares a lot of blame for the Tories losing all focus on the public finances, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “State-funded BMWs epitomise Britain’s dysfunctional welfare state” – A well-intentioned scheme for the genuinely needy has grown to gargantuan proportions, reveals Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting’s flasher ex-aide refuses to quit as Labour councillor” – Ministers are considering changing the law to force politicians convicted of sex crimes from office after a former aide to Wes Streeting admitted flashing a 13 year-old girl, reports the Mail.
- “UN judge studying at Oxford kept young woman as a slave” – A United Nations judge studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford has been convicted of keeping a slave, says AP News.
- “The plaintiff and the $9,000,000 lie” – On his blog, Mark Steyn delivers a scathing postmortem of Michael Mann’s defamation case, exposing his fraudulent Nobel claim, $9,000,000 lie and legal comeuppance.
- “Losing Kursk is a big blow to Zelensky” – Russian troops have been steadily clawing back the 500 square miles of Russian territory seized by Ukraine last August, writes Svitlana Morenets in the Spectator.
- “The Kursk offensive may prove to have been Ukraine’s most costly mistake” – The defeat at Kursk is a tragic allegory for the dire situation that Ukraine now faces, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “What Putin wants in exchange for ceasefire – and will Trump accept?” – US negotiators are pushing for a swift deal, but Moscow is demanding that Ukraine be barred from joining NATO and that its occupied territories receive international recognition, writes Memphis Barker in the Telegraph.
- “Save Syria’s Christians” – In the Spectator, Benedict Kiely warns that Syria’s Christians face Islamist persecution while the West and the church look away.
- “Why does the beheading of Christians not make headlines?” – In the Spectator, Colin Freeman questions why the brutal beheading of 70 Christians by Islamic State militants in Congo isn’t making global headlines.
- “Debunking the myths about the ECHR” – There is a pretence that only Right-wing extremists and constitutional pedants find the ECHR a problem, says Peter Lilley in the Spectator.
- “Anger as school founded by Nazi refugee cancels talk by Jewish writer” – An elite school founded by a refugee from Nazi Germany has sparked anger for cancelling a speaking invitation to a Jewish commentator, reports the Mail.
- “Trump threatens 200% tariff on the EU targeting champagne and alcohol” – President Trump is threatening a 200% retaliatory tariff on champagne and wine out of Europe in the latest salvo of his trade war, says the Mail.
- “Trump’s new tariff war is radically rational” – There’s no guarantee that the President’s economic plans will work, but there’s method in his madness, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Ignore the Trump slump – the market will recover” – Investors must take volatility in their stride if they are to reap long-term gains, says Tom Stevenson in the Telegraph.
- “Greenland’s new PM insists ‘we don’t want to be Americans’” – Greenland’s new Prime Minister has rejected Donald Trump’s offer to take control of the island, according to the Mail.
- “‘Trump scared the news networks Into banning my book’” – In the Hollywood Reporter, Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff thinks he knows why the same networks that gave his first volume on Trump wall-to-wall coverage have greeted his new one – All or Nothing – with deafening silence.
- “Manslaughter probe at Lucy Letby hospital” – Police are investigating a number of suspects at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked for gross negligence manslaughter, reports the Mail.
- “The ‘physician associate’ will see you now…” – Employing physician associates is a cheap and easy way to tackle the NHS staffing crisis, but it comes at a cost, says Lucy Dunn in the Spectator.
- “Did Covid begin in America?” – On his Substack, Bill Rice Jr. spotlights citizen journalist Laura Mueller’s explosive new research, suggesting Covid may have started in the US.
- “BMJ rebuked over coverage of US Covid report that revealed we were right about nearly everything” – On Substack, Dr Raphael Lataster slams the BMJ for downplaying a bombshell US Government report that vindicated Covid sceptics on lockdowns, mandates, vaccine efficacy and the lab leak.
- “They knew it was a lab leak all along” – German intelligence knew with up to 95% certainty that Covid leaked from a Chinese lab, but Merkel buried the report, writes Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “The trans row engulfing the Met Police” – A female officer is taking the Met Police to court after it sent staff to “a celebration of the transgender community”, reports Sanchez Manning in the Telegraph.
- “Dwarf actors’ fury at Snow White remake that uses CGI characters” – Dwarf actors have blasted Disney’s Snow White remake over the use of CGI characters, claiming it’s “discriminating” and could damage their careers, reports the Mail.
- “Disney’s Snow White gets pared-back premiere amid Gaza controversy” – Disney has drastically scaled back its Snow White premiere after a series of PR disasters, says the Mail.
- “Joni Mitchell ‘being cancelled’ by Gen Z over blackface past” – Joni Mitchell, 81, is facing TikTok “cancellation” after Gen Z fans, drawn in by a viral cover of ‘California’, discovered the singer’s long history of performing in blackface under her alter ego, Art Nouveau, reports Maanya Sachdeva in the Mail.
- “‘Dog whistles’ are not real” – Anyone who assumes that their opponents are speaking in code is just squabbling with phantoms, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Soho pubs urged to host ‘quiet nights’ to help residents sleep” – A Labour-run council has been accused of trying to “kill” London’s nightlife after it suggested pubs and bars should host “quiet nights” and “non-alcohol-led activities”, reports the Mail.
- “What do we know so far about the UK’s anti-Musk campaigners?” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill exposes the UK’s anti-Musk campaign as a collaboration between German activists and the anti-Brexit group Led by Donkeys, with Novara Media and Politics Joe conveniently capturing their antics.
- “The Devil is also strong” – Political hedonism is here to stay, says Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “I’m warming to Meghan Markle – only joking” – Why on earth did Meghan feel compelled to put herself – and us – through this horror? wonders James Delingpole in the Spectator.
- “Keep woke foreign ideologies out. Defend Europe” – Check out the banners at last night’s match between Rangers and Fenerbahce.
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What Putin wants in exchange for ceasefire – and will Trump accept?
‘Russia holds all the cards’
The problem? Ukrainians don’t give a flying feck.
The Economist poll following the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump….February 28.
74% of Ukrainians support fighting Russia even without U.S. assistance.
A significant majority—59% of respondents—also believe that Ukraine can defeat Russia on the battlefield.
Potential concessions…the only one a majority of Ukrainians are willing to accept is renouncing NATO membership—38% expressed readiness for this, while 37% opposed it.
Only 6% willing to make territorial concessions.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/03/12/is-zelensky-a-disliked-dictator-or-a-popular-hero
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1900245987517497602?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Some of the Russian cards aren’t looking too clever today
56% of Americans believe that U.S. President Donald Trump is “too closely aligned” with Russia…..Reuters/Ipsos poll March 13.
‘State giant China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation…….temporary closures from the middle of March to the end of May would affect about 700,000 barrels per day’
WTI crude for April delivery declined 1.37% to change hands at $66.12 per barrel.
Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Oman and Algeria will…..add about 138,000 bpd in April.’
General License 8L……has expired. “At long last, banks will not be able to pay Russia in hard currency for its oil and gas exports…….the inclusion of 10 institutions such as Russia’s Alfa-Bank and VTB Bank, it also applied to Russia’s Central Bank’
‘it’ll gum up the works for oil and gas payments for at least some period of time.’
Meanwhile the latest consensus on casualties is 1.2M Ukrainian dead (versus 100,000 Russian) and 7M former occupants have left, of which an estimated 2M have moved voluntarily to Russia. Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts account for another 6M former residents.
Using percentages is a common way of misrepresenting true polling outcomes and without knowing the sample size and methodologies the results are pretty meaningless, except of course for propaganda purposes
I also understand that payments for Russian exports are accepted in the currency of the buyer.
‘Chinese state oil companies are shying away from Russian oil this month, with two importers halting purchases while two others scaled back volumes as they assess compliance following recent U.S. sanctions on Moscow, multiple trade sources said.
Russian oil supplies to top buyers India and China fell sharply following the January 10 sanctions by the former Biden administration targeting Russian producers Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz as well as insurers and more than 100 vessels to curtail Moscow’s oil revenue.
While Russian shipments to the two Asian countries have rebounded after more non-sanctioned tankers joined the trade, China’s state-run Sinopec and Zhenhua Oil halted purchases of March-loading Russian oil due to concerns over dealing with the sanctioned firms, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
The scaled-back buying by Chinese state players has weighed on Russian oil prices, eating into Moscow’s revenue and putting additional pressure on Russia ahead of a possible ceasefire deal with Ukraine.
A Beijing-based state oil source said his company ceased Russian oil deals as it undertakes more compliance checks and waits for a “clear picture” on a possible Russia-U.S. deal to end the Ukraine war.
The company would resume purchases if talks lead to the U.S. easing or lifting sanctions’
Somebody changed the pack of cards….!
“The plaintiff and the $9,000,000 lie”
The real Inconvenient Truth getting ever nearer for Michael Mann, self-appointed Nobel Laureate and creator of the bent hockey stick…
“…How can the reputation of a scientist, who dragged others through the courts for years, survive this?”
Bring it on, @Steynonline.
I thought polygamy was illegal in Britain. At this rate UK laws will only apply to native Brits as everyone else gets a free pass because ‘cultural differences’. It’s not so much ‘two-tier justice’ as a formation of a ‘two-tier society’ is evidently in progress;
”We are committing cultural & economic suicide. A Muslim has 3 wives, all live in separate properties, no doubt on welfare, paid for by us. I counted 5 children.
His 3rd wife is forced to wear a niqab as his two others do. It’s “protection” for him.
Filmed at Clissold Park.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1900094756895461543
He’s a desirable soul, isn’t he?
It’s to be hoped he has a very well paid job to support 3 families in 3 different establishments!
No need for him to get a job to support any of his wives. Muslim men just send each of their four wives (maximum allowed by Islam) down to various UK benefits offices, each claiming to be “single mothers” (no need to name the fathers of their multiple children), and demanding their own separate houses, which are always granted. He then visits them in turns to produce more children. The British Taxpayers are providing every Muslim man with his own personal harem, as well as about 30 children, and at least four large council houses.
That’s how they get round UK laws against bigamy and polygamy. They just lie.
No wonder White People cannot compete with this kind of mass parasitism, and are fast diminishing.
If a Muslim man wants a top post in the UK (or any western country), he deceives some “Useless Idiot” Infidel woman into marrying him to further his career, never mentioning that she is only one of his allotted four wives. One such Gullible Infidel in the US discovered her new Muslim husband’s wives after he introduced them as his “sisters”, all with many children and mysteriously missing husbands.
A Canadian report years ago found that for every Muslim man allowed into Canada, 25 other Muslims came to join him from his homeland: wives, children, friends, relatives and elderly parents who were immediately given state pensions without ever having paid a penny in.
Same as here.
I suppose it is too much to expect that an investigation is initiated to determine if he and his brood are draining public funds? If he wants a colony of wives and offspring, he should be self funding. My tolerance level is all tolerated out!
ps I don’t know what’s happened but I’ve liked your post but the like count is still showing as zero.
Oh, thank you! I thought no one had actually read my post, so thanks for letting me know. That happens to me, too, sometimes when I try to uptick a post and it just turns into a Green MINUS 1.
Yes, you’re right about the four wives Muslim men are allowed (plus an unlimited number of “war captives” = Infidel women & children), but Islam says only if the man can financially support the wives, which is easy in the West. Our own people can never compete with that, so we need a major change.
formation of a ‘two-tier society’ is evidently in progress
Spot on.
Bruce Bawer has been a long-time supporter of Tommy Robinson and pays tribute to him here, in the context of the slow demise and relentless Islamification of ‘Dhimmified’ Britain;
”For millions of ordinary Brits, Tommy is a hero. For British authorities, however, he’s the most potent and prominent threat to the pusillanimous accommodation they’ve made in the face of their kingdom’s steady Islamization. Needless to say, Tommy would not be a problem if the Brits had chosen a nobler, gutsier path – if they’d insisted from the start that Muslim immigrants exchange their poisonously primitive social and cultural values for civilized Enlightenment principles, and backed that up with firm policing of Muslim crime and quick expulsion of convicted Muslim criminals.
But that’s not the path that British authorities have taken. Instead they’ve allowed a parallel Muslim society to develop, complete not only with the above-mentioned sharia courts but with mosques at which hate preachers condemn the West from their pulpits and madrassas at which children are taught to despise the infidel. While Muslims are free to take to the streets at any time they wish to raise the hue and cry for an Islamic Britain, native Brits who dare to utter the truth online about this threat are arrested, tried, and (not infrequently) locked up. Indeed, Muslim rapists have been handled with respect and delicacy by the same police and courts that have treated their victims with condescension and contempt.
And Tommy is the example to be held up to all those Brits who are tempted to speak the truth about these abominations. Hence, even as Muslims were partying it up as honored guests of His Majesty in Windsor, Tommy was into his fifth month as a guest at His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh. A clinical psychologist sent by his lawyers to evaluate him on February 4 reported that he’s undergoing “mental torture” and suffering from ADHD and PTSD. Tommy told the psychologist: “I’ve lost my head….I can’t sleep, I’m paranoid, helpless and continually panic about my kids.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/tommy-robinsons-ramadan/
How many churches that have been converted to mosques is that now? It’s symbolic, don’t you think?
”Church by Church. Street by street. Council by council. School by school. Town by town. City by city. Electoral constituency by electoral constituency. Islam’s Short March Through The West continues. Unless stopped, the inevitable will become inevitable.”
https://x.com/PWestoff/status/1900158059915468973
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-12/putin-eyes-way-to-agree-to-truce-terms-with-his-own-conditions
‘Putin’s rejection of the ceasefire…..Putin will “stretch the timeline” for agreeing to the temporary ceasefire in order to…..demand a halt to weapons supplies to Ukraine as a condition of the temporary ceasefire…….demand “impossible conditions…..remove Ukraine from talks……while also “correcting the situation on the front”.
So far, so predictable.
What now?
A lot more of this:
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1900240072412193170?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
And this:
‘The Moscow Oil Refinery and a Druzhba oil pipeline facility in Oryol Oblast…..giant refinery–capable of processing 11 million metric tons of oil per year…..nearly half of Moscow’s gasoline and diesel supplies–was hit multiple times’
And this:
‘…broad sanctions and tariffs on Russia…..The administration of US President Donald Trump has not extended an exemption from the sanctions regime that previously allowed transactions with Russian banks related to energy payments.’
And then this:
‘Putin’s special Il96-300PU (Control Point) aircraft departed Moscow for St Petersburg at 14:16 (Moscow time), according to FlightRadar data. The destination of the aircraft is not indicated, and it disappeared from the tracking system over the Tver area. One of Putin’s residences is located in Tver Oblast.’
No, Putin’s rejection will result in no temporary ceasefire at all. Read his lips.
The refinery was hit multiple times but I guess because there is no further jubilant reporting that production was broadly unaffected.
‘Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reaffirmed Saudi Arabia’s “commitment to facilitating dialogue and supporting all initiatives aimed at achieving a political resolution” in a phone call with Putin.’
‘Eight OPEC+ members, including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Oman, have agreed to start reversing their 2.2 million barrels per day (mbd) voluntary output cuts over an 18-month period from April 2025 to September 2026’
Oops! Somebody changed the pack of cards.
What happened to the comments for the above report “A £10k Covid Fine for a Snowball Fight Ruined My Life”?
It lists “0 comments” but there is no option to enter any. Is it becoming too dangerous to comment on the so-called pandemic or was there a racist comment or two?
The comments section was never opened. I did question this on another page but nobody responded. My guess – possible pending legal case.
This was my comment, made under another article:
“I didn’t take it seriously. I didn’t think I’d done anything wrong, so I didn’t pay. I thought that justice would prevail.”
The fixed penalty notice (FPN) saddled Watts with “crippling debt” but also the stigma of being a Covid rule-breaker. “Certain friendship groups stopped speaking to me. I stopped going to lectures. My mental health was in a dire state.
“I’m not going to whine. I live in a first-world country with many privileges, but this fine derailed my life and made me hate the system.”
Firstly he didn’t do anything wrong. Secondly I hope he is no longer naive enough to believe in “justice”.
I hope he doesn’t feel any “stigma” and that the choice of word is the author’s. There is KUDOS attached to “being a covid rule-breaker”, not stigma.
Those “friendship groups” in hindsight did not contain friends.
He now “hates the system” – good!
I would be happy to bung in a few quid if DS started a crowdfunder to pay his fine though I would feel more enthusiastic if the kid in question didn’t sound like such a covidian.
Sad story.
Douglas Murray has absolutely nailed it!
I wasn’t able to read his whole article because it is paywalled, but he got to the crux of the matter in that one sentence alone.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/13/met-police-trans-row-pride-jk-rowling/
Can we change the language? I’m not gender critical, I’m actually a gender realist.
Good point. Language matters. Never use the language of the enemy.
I would go further. “Gender” should be confined to usage in relation to grammar. There are two sexes, male and female*. Sex is determined by fate or God at inception and cannot be changed save by act of God. There are no women with penises and no men with vaginas.
*There are a tiny number of people who are “intersex” but they are not the issue here.
“Farage must step aside and let Rupert Lowe lead Reform” – says Ben “Sour Grapes” Habib…
RUBBISH! Pakistani Habib should found his own party, called “The Sour Grapes Party”, instead of trying to piggyback off others.
We need a NEW party, a PATRIOT PEOPLES PARTY, with a dream team of Rupert Lowe, Nick Candy, Andrew Bridgen, Paul Weston, Dave Atherton, Nick Griffin, Tommy Robinson, Lawrence Fox, Lord Pearson, Gerard Batten, Robin Tilbrook, Brian Gerrish, and all the other courageous patriots too numerous to list, including all those unjustly arrested and imprisoned for protesting against the murder of children, and military veterans who have been hounded and betrayed by treasonous litigation just for doing their job.
Maybe Peter Lynch’s son will run as a candidate, and friends of Kevin Creehan and Fred Hill, and maybe James McMurdock will come over, too. And all the Lady Patriots like Katie Hopkins, Alex Phillips, Bonnie Spofforth, Lucy Connolly and many others.
Now THAT would make a real change!
Come on, Rupert, gather them all in!