- “Trump lashes out at Putin as Ukraine ceasefire talks stall” – The US President is said to be ‘p—ed off’ as Putin demands that Volodymyr Zelensky be replaced as a condition of ceasing hostilities, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Very angry’ Trump threatens Putin with tariffs if no peace deal” – The US President has warned Putin that he will face tariffs if he doesn’t agree to end the war in Ukraine, says the Times.
- “Hamas tortures protester to death and leaves body on family’s doorstep” – Hamas kidnapped Uday Al Rabbay shortly after he took part in protest against war in Gaza, then tortured him to death and left him outside his family home, according to the Telegraph.
- “Germany’s largest rocket since V-2 crashes and explodes seconds after launch” – Uncrewed Spectrum rocket was described as first attempt at an orbital space flight to originate in Europe – and it blew up after 45 seconds, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Liberal elite’ Guardian editors ‘helped cause Southport riots’ by ‘ignoring’ white working-class Britons, top peer claims” – The Guardian fomented the riots last summer by ignoring the concerns of working class communities about illegal immigration, blaming the ‘far-Right’ for the civil disorder and encouraged Muslims to think of themselves as ‘victims’, Lord Sewell told the Oxford Literary Festival, according to GB News.
- “Judges in revolt over ‘cack-handed’ sentencing guidelines” – The Government is planning to rush through an emergency law to block the ‘two-tier’ sentencing guidelinces and are considering curtailing the powers of the Sentencing Council, reports the Times.
- “Ethnic minority suspects given priority for bail” – A fresh two-tier justice row has erupted as judges have been advised to take account of ‘historical’ racial trauma suffered by black suspects when considering bail applications, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘We’re being taken for fools’: How soaring migration came back to bite Ireland’s political elite” – With finite housing and overstretched public services, the Irish Government’s ‘cack-handed’ border policies have triggered a wave of public anger, writes Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
- “Police arrest parents for complaining about a school” – On his Substack, Paul Sutton tries to get his head around the fact that Hertfordshire Police sent six officers to arrest a middle-class couple who complained about their children’s school in a WhatsApp group.
- “Police risk ‘curtailing democracy’ by stopping MPs doing their job” – After two parents were arrested in Hertfordshire over messages in a WhatsApp group criticising their children’s school, Oliver Dowden MP says elected officials must not be threatened for representing local people, according to the Times.
- “It’s becoming obvious that Starmer simply isn’t a leader” – As our economy tanks, the state is struggling to fulfil basic tasks, and our social fabric is fraying, writes Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph. We have to ask if anyone is running Britain, because Labour clearly isn’t?
- “Starmer’s petty hatred for private schools is about to take a sinister turn” – Two-tier Keir is about to play his next card in the total humiliation of private schools, forcing them to pay full business rates, says Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs” – Councils are facing multibillion-pound debts thanks to years of ‘overspends’ on SEND provision, according to the Guardian.
- “Exempt disabled children from private school VAT, peer urges” – “Chucked out of the state system” as a child with brittle bone disease, the Conservative peer Lord Shinkwin says imposing VAT on independent school fees will unfairly hit pupils with special needs, reports the Times.
- “Parents of special needs children fight VAT on private school fees” – People are working long hours and taking on second jobs to send their SEND children to private schools that can cater of their needs, while councils are failing to meet the rising cost of private education, according to the Times.
- “The ‘anti-woke’ alternative to the National Trust that’s growing by 10,000 members a year” – Historic Houses offers cheaper access than the National Trust to more than 300 locations across the UK, according to the Telegraph.
- “Safeguarding courses for flower arrangers? The Church of England is heading for oblivion” – Are you a charitable parishioner offering to help your church and community? Thou shalt first log on to the online learning portal, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Microsoft’s £2.5bn investment in Britain at risk from creaking power grid” – The tech giant faces a decade-long wait to connect new data centres to the National Grid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reeves asks Whitehall to fund loss-making projects despite spending cuts” – Whitehall departments have to foot the bill for any projects backed by the Chancellor’s National Wealth Fund, says the Telegraph.
- “The assisted dying bill was doomed almost from the start” – Few recent pieces of legislation are as divisive as the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, according to a leader in the Sunday Times.
- “Stop scapegoating Britain’s landed classes” – Right to roam activists should be mindful about what they wish for, says the Telegraph.
- “New poll data shows Farage and Reform genuinely have a chance to govern” – The public have ranked Nigel Farage the ‘best PM’ in a new poll, convincing the Telegraph’s Kamal Ahmed that Reform UK could form the next government.
- “We win if the Right unites: that is the lesson from Canada and Australia for the Tories and Reform” – Our two closest allies are heading to the polls. The Tories sister parties were sure of victory until Trump came along, writes Dan Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Emma Barnett complained about ‘overbearing’ Today co-host Nick Robinson” – The main presenters of Radio 4’s flagship morning news programme have fallen out, according to the Telegraph.
- “The shameful silencing of Rangers fans” – In Spiked, Freddie Attenborough writes about the shameful attempt to impose lifetime bans on fans holding up an anti-woke banner at a recent European match.
- “A bitter blow? British pubs, restaurants and hospitality firms brace for rise in NICs” – An increase in national insurance and a rising living wage is leading to predictions of a hiring freeze across the hospitality sector, reports the Guardian.
- “This clause could accelerate the erasure of the good old British pub” – Watch me on GB News raising the alarm about Clause 20 of the Employment Rights Bill – the ‘banter clause’ that could be the final nail in the coffin of the pub trade. Write to a peer to save our beer by clicking here.
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Starmer=Turd. Too busy with Hizbut-Tahrir to attend to the Rotherham grooming gangs.
The grooming what???? Never heard of them mate ——–wink
Tories looked and still look the other way on grooming gangs. Both parties are disgusting turds.
Yes Smudger I don’t disagree, but Starmer was DPP from 2008.to 2013. Swerving prosecuting Savile along the way too.. Double turd!
Like most of the Westminster mob Kneel is a serious threat to this country.
Lawyer represents someone in court case doesn’t speak anything about anybody’s world view. It’s the job of lawyers to represent people in court and – that’s this pesky rule of law thing again some Tories apparently really cannot stand – even an organization some government official believes to be terrorist has a right to go to the courts over this.
Kneel is a politician. He had no business promoting a terrorist organisation.
2008 was seven years before Starmer was elected to parliament. And representing someone challenging a government decision in court doesn’t amount to promoting what the entity challenging the decision has been accused of. Otherwise, defense lawyers in homicide case could rightfully be accused of promoting murder.
I agree with you on the technicalities of this matter, RW.
But no-one is obliged to get involved with cases, let alone such a case. Starmer’s involvement here is a bit (!) of a red flag which deserves proper investigation, because, believe it or not, Starmer is a human and he can have agendas (!) – AND he may well soon be the UK’s Prime Minister – we need to understand the man and try to make his true character known. Not necessary for most of us here, but the majority of the population needs this insight so we should try to push for exposure (however in vain that effort likely is).
I think that’s clearly a case of Tories with a seriously dubious atttiude (cf rule of law) desparately trying to dig up Antisemism!-dirt about Starmer but being incapable of finding any. As lawyer, he’s absolutely entitled to work for anyone who wants the services of a lawyer. No story here.
British politicians should also have more important qualities than being suspected of a less-than-enthusiastic attitude towards Israeli right wingers. Israel a foreign country and said right winger don’t even have universal support among their own people (Corbyn used to have quite vocal support among certain Jewish factions).
Anyone paying attention has a very good understanding of Starmer’s character.
His father was a toolmaker, don’cha know. He certainly made one tool.
Correct.——–The “he was a lawyer defending his client” excuse is feeble.
Especially as he wasn’t even a lawyer defending a client. He was involved with submitting an application on behalf of someone to the ECHR, ie, involved with filing all the necessary paperwork. Ultimatively, this application got rejected which means there was never a court case about the issue.
The interesting question here is Why do certain Tories believe character assassination via pisspoor guilt by association offense archeology is their best move against Labour in the upcoming election? and the obvious answer is Because there are no contested political issues. Both wings of the uniparty are in broad agreement about future political directions for the country, net-EDI-zero-globalized-trans-pandemicity, and the only question is who gets to be in the driving seat for that.
Does this really matter?
Yep——–The political class of mostly parasites pandering to globalist agenda’s rather than to the people who vote for them. They are traitors imposing Liberal Progressive One World Government ideology on their own people because they long ago stopped working for and serving us. ——Or as Starmer admitted “I prefer Davos to Westminster”. —The general public are simply a nuisance to these people
You are factually correct but I would watch that piece of cake your eating. I think it may be bit tainted.———– But then again it’s all down to personal taste isn’t it?
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I have absolutely no political or other sympathies for Starmer. That was, after all, the guy who enabled the Johnson government to pass some of its more extreme COVID policies, eg, vaccine passports, despite large parts of the Tories-in-parliament were opposed to that. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m thinking highly of the manouevres of his political opponents.
Very interesting insight into multicultural life in Britain, from the perspective of this British ex-Muslim;
”Multiculturalism, if it isn’t already obvious, is an unmitigated disaster. It is a failed experiment. The entire experiment is a treacherous crime against the native population of Britain (i.e. English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish people) and from the looks of it, it will most likely just get worse. It would take a miracle for Britain to recover from this treachery and reverse the disastrous effects of it. The question is, will such a miracle actually happen, or is Britain doomed? Are all efforts to save it from its impending doom going to be in vain?
But what I find incredibly frustrating is when I see toxic, divisive race baiters like Sadiq Khan, Humza Yousaf, Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Bushra Shaikh and Narinda Kaur. They’re all of a minority background and they constantly blame white people for society’s ills. The white man is the boogeyman in their twisted worldview. I am so sick and tired of having these clowns as my representatives because I don’t agree with them at all. They are the very racists that they falsely accuse native Brits of being. Bushra Shaikh is the most vile example that I named. I will grant that yes, they were probably on the receiving end of racism in school and whatnot, but that was decades ago. Things have changed tremendously since then. They need to grow up and accept that things have changed. At times, their grievances with being called the P word seem like an excuse to have some petty revenge against white people by being in favour of them being demographically replaced and erased. Sure, being called a racial slur is bad, but that’s nowhere near as bad as mass, uncontrolled, illegal migration and what it has done to Britain.
I find myself becoming increasingly worried about the ongoing Islamisation of Britain and the rise of anti-white racism. As a Pakistani ex-Muslim Christian, I wonder what my place is in all of this. What role am I going to play in all this? How am I, as a second generation migrant, going to help native Brits who have been so thoroughly abused by critical race theory, two tier policing and uncontrolled, illegal mass migration?”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/multiculturalism-is-a-form-of-colonization-and-occupation
We are not a NATION anymore. ———–Just a region of the “International Community” where the hordes from every corner of the globe are to be dispersed.
Interesting that such a group would entertain the help of pro-Israel, pro-LGBTQ+ Keir Starmer. Such alliances are probably necessary for those looking to destroy Western countries or to further the goals of the Islamic group as well.
I can’t stand the man and his politics seem designed to harm me and my family, but wasn’t this just him doing his job?
By all means attack him, but for his views and what he is doing now, not for doing his job in a former life – though I wonder if he would have been quite so keen to represent a “far right” Christian group, for example…..
I don’t think a lawyer in a chambers can ‘choose’ what cases they take, so hopefully eliminating any personal bias.
Good point- certainly I knew one personally who had to accept what he was given
Have the Tories banned them in the UK? My understanding is that they have not, therefore is it not hypocritical of them to complain about Starmer’s actions?
It seems next year this beadie eyed parasite is our next PM. ———If we thought things could not get any worse then wait to see the barbarian hordes that labour bring here in the next 5 years. —You ain’t seen nuthin yet.
I wonder if he recommended any double-glazing to them. He’s not a good enough salesman for much, so maybe they didn’t buy.
He’s a lawyer, and worse than that, a Human Rights Lawyer. He’ll represent anyone who pays him enough to do it.
So he represented a client, so doing what a lawyer is supposed to do, regardless of who they are, which is the very essence of British justice. I wouldn’t change that for a minute.