Another Oil Refinery Bites the Dust
7 July 2025
by Ben Pile
The moment when two brothers allegedly assaulted police officers at Manchester Airport last summer – leading to a viral edited video of a police officer kicking one in the face – was shown to a jury today.
The Chief Executive of Lloyds Bank has compared Labour's pension plans to policies used by communist China, saying new powers to force pension funds to invest in Britain are like the capital controls used by Beijing.
The leader of Brighton Council appears to have too much time on her hands, as she has reported Spectator Editor Michael Gove and columnist Rod Liddle to the police after Liddle joked about nuking Brighton.
Alarm has set in as Labour grandees and union paymasters push Reeves to bring in a wealth tax to raise spending and plug a yawning £30bn black hole in Government finances, despite millionaires already fleeing the country.
Walking sticks are taking off among teenage girls, and Mary Gilleece spies a social contagion taking hold. They're getting diagnosed with POTS – which, naturally, leaves them in need of lots of attention and support.
Terrorists in UK prisons are teaching gangsters how to make bombs and picking up criminal skills in return – fuelling a dangerous alliance that poses a serious national security threat.
Britain's Net Zero zealotry, crippling taxes and political sabotage have driven another oil refinery to collapse – yet Ed Miliband and the Guardian would rather blame mismanagement than face the truth, says Ben Pile.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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