- “Starmer opens door to rejoining EU” – The PM has refused to rule out renewed membership of the EU, saying he does not want to “get lost in a debate about what might happen years down the line”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rejoining the EU would be suicidal for Labour” – In the Telegraph, David Blunkett warns that flirting with a return to Brussels would hand Reform a generational victory and finish off his party in its heartlands.
- “Why Streeting is wrong to claim Brexit was a ‘catastrophic mistake’” – The obvious drag on growth since 2016 has been energy prices and Covid – not leaving the EU, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Burnham bids to calm backlash over rejoin EU call in by-election pitch” – The Greater Manchester Mayor has confirmed that he thinks leaving the EU has been “damaging”, but stressed he “respected” the referendum result and was not pushing for re-entry, reports the Mail.
- “Andy Burnham ‘costing us money’ before he’s even elected, claim Tories” – Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride says taxpayers face a “Burnham premium” after markets pushed up Government borrowing costs over fears he will drag Labour further to the Left, according to the Mail.
- “Burnham backs away from borrowing plans after IMF warning” – Andy Burnham has pledged to stick to Labour’s borrowing rules after bowing to pressure from the bond market and following a warning from the IMF, says the Telegraph.
- “Anti-Manchesterism may win Makerfield for Reform” – In the Telegraph, Charles Moore notes that Andy Burnham’s popularity as mayor does not extend to resentful ex-Lancashire towns that bristle at being absorbed into Greater Manchester.
- “UK property taxes highest in the world after Labour raid” – Britain’s property tax now equals 3.9% of GDP, the highest in the developed world, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage’s £1.4 million property claim ‘at odds with company accounts’” – Nigel Farage’s corporate accounts appear to cast doubt on his claim that he funded the purchase of a £1.4 million house with earnings from I’m a Celebrity, according to the Times.
- “Starmer’s reaction to the two London marches shows why he’s so unpopular” – It’s hardly surprising people get angry when political leaders champion culturally alien causes while sneering at those who see themselves as patriotic, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Adil Ray sparks backlash as he brands Unite the Kingdom march ‘worst anti-Muslim hate of my lifetime’” – Good Morning Britain presenter Adil Ray is facing fierce criticism after denouncing the Unite the Kingdom rally as the most virulent display of anti-Muslim hatred he has ever witnessed, according to GB News.
- “BBC presenter embroiled in antisemitism row will host City Hall event” – City Hall has been accused of “turning a blind eye” after a BBC presenter embroiled in an antisemitism row was appointed to host a London youth awards event, says the Mail.
- “Channel migrant smugglers use corner shops to take payments” – People smugglers are using corner shops across Britain to take payments from illegal migrants seeking to cross the Channel, according to GB News.
- “‘Inappropriate’ pork sausages served on deportation flight to Pakistan” – Pork sausages were apparently served to passengers on a deportation flight from Ireland to Pakistan, says the Telegraph.
- “Masked teens attack each other with machetes in broad daylight in park” – Masked teenagers have been filmed trying to stab one another with machetes in broad daylight in Camberwell, South East London, reports the Mail.
- “One year-old girl is reported to police and recorded as crime suspect” – A one year-old girl has been recorded as a crime suspect by police – after she inflicted a “minor injury” on another child, says the Mail.
- “How union ‘bullies headteachers out of a job’, then boasts about it” – Headteachers claim NEU campaigns against them are damaging their health and disrupting pupils, parents and the community, according to the Times.
- “Bank scam fraudster whose victims lost £100 million to repay just £400,000” – The mastermind behind a scam call website which conned victims out of more than £100 million has been ordered to pay back just a fifth of his £2 million fortune, reports the Mail.
- “What will it take for Putin to end the war?” – Even as Kremlin minions prepare the ground for a post-conflict Russia, there is still a deafening silence from the top, writes Owen Matthews in the Telegraph.
- “Security guard and two others killed at Islamic Center from two gunmen” – Three people, including a security guard, have been shot dead outside a California mosque before the two teenage gunmen apparently took their own lives, reports the Mail.
- “Trump backs down from ‘full scale’ Iran attack scheduled for tomorrow” – Donald Trump has claimed he called off a planned strike on Iran after being persuaded by leaders from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to continue peace talks instead, says the Mail.
- “Iran’s regime is confident of victory. It may be overplaying its hand” – A “substantially degraded” military, collapsing economy and diplomatic impasse mean the Islamic Republic is more vulnerable than it thinks, writes David Blair in the Telegraph.
- “Iran weighs up $50 million bounty on Trump and Netanyahu” – Iran’s Parliament is set to vote on a bill offering bounties for the assassination of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the Telegraph.
- “Sierra Leone’s First Lady defends having council flat in London” – Sierra Leone’s First Lady has defended having a London council flat despite living in a presidential palace, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ebola outbreak: US bans travellers from DRC, Uganda” – The US has banned travellers from DRC, Uganda and South Sudan amid a major Ebola outbreak, with restrictions applying to anyone without an American passport, says Scientific American.
- “Elon Musk loses legal fight against OpenAI” – Elon Musk has lost his legal fight against OpenAI after a US jury ruled he brought his case too late, according to the BBC.
- “X agrees to review illegal ‘hate’ within 48 hours under UK Online Safety Act” – Ofcom has been handed a significant win after X agreed to deal with most content flagged as illegal “hate” under the Online Safety Act within 48 hours, writes Cindy Harper at Reclaim the Net.
- “Ban on slave labour sidelined to meet Red Ed’s Net Zero goals” – The Government has backtracked on its pledge to ban slave labour from its renewable supply chain to meet Ed Miliband’s Net Zero goals, reveals the Mail.
- “Trump takes victory lap after UN backtracks on climate change predictions” – President Trump has declared vindication after the UN’s top climate panel quietly retreated from its most alarming long-term warming forecast, reports the Daily Caller.
- “The death of RCP8.5” – On the latest episode of GWPF In Conversation, Roger Pielke Jr explains how the climate scenario long described as “business as usual” came to be officially deemed “implausible”.
- “Ferrari’s biggest gamble ever: the electric Luce” – As Ferrari enters the electric market with its £450,000 Luce, the question is whether a battery-powered Prancing Horse has the same prestige, writes Jessamy Calkin in the Telegraph.
- “Wrong, Sky News, human-caused climate change isn’t to blame for the Alaskan megatsunami” – A retreating glacier triggered a megatsunami in Alaska, but claims that human-driven climate change is responsible are nonsense, says Linnea Lueken at ClimateRealism.
- “‘Casimir effect’ perpetual energy machine raises $12 million seed capital” – Claiming you have found a loophole in the laws of physics apparently gets you $12 million in seed capital, writes Eric Worrall at Watts Up With That?
- “From the polycrisis to a world government” – In an interview on Clintel, Swedish researcher Jacob Nordangård argues that climate alarmism and global crises are being exploited to advance a centralised world government.
- “Carbon dioxide is a witch: the madness of crowds” – On the Reef Rebels YouTube channel, Dr Peter Ridd draws on 40 years of research on the Great Barrier Reef to argue that the demonisation of CO2 is a textbook example of the “madness of crowds”.
- “Even the DNA of single-celled plankton can upend alarmist Arctic sea ice melt claims” – Contrary to alarmist claims, the DNA of single-celled plankton suggests Arctic sea ice has fluctuated dramatically over the last 14,000 years, reports Kenneth Richard on NoTricksZone.
- “Claims of Christian revival ‘laid to rest’ as churchgoing falls” – According to pollster John Curtice, claims of a Christian revival in Britain are false after a landmark survey found churchgoing has fallen, according to the Times.
- “Meghan accused of posting ‘tone deaf’ pic of Lilibet before UN speech” – Meghan Markle has been slammed for sharing an Instagram image of Lilibet sitting at her feet in a wardrobe packed with designer fashion before leaving for Geneva to warn of the dangers of social media for children.
- “A number of items in the King’s Speech are a cause for concern” – Some of the Bills announced in the King’s Speech have caught the attention of the Free Speech Union because of the potential threat they pose to free speech. Toby Young runs down a list of the worst offenders.
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“Meghan accused of posting ‘tone deaf’ pic of Lilibet before UN speech”
Since Meghan Markle’s father, siblings & ex-husband have revealed that she had a HYSTERECTOMY at age 29, how can these two “miracle offspring” possibly be accepted as legitimate heirs to the throne?
It doesn’t matter if they’re heirs to the throne they’re not going to inherit it unless none of William and Kate’s children have children which is incredibly unlikely.
You’re entirely missing the point. The world is expected to just go along with this outrageous deception, rather like The Emperor’s New Clothes, bowing and scraping to impostors.
“Sierra Leone’s First Lady defends having council flat in London” – “Sierra Leone’s First Lady has defended having a London council flat despite living in a presidential palace”
“But she swapped out London in favour of the presidential pad over in Freetown, where she enjoys a series of luxuries, including tennis courts, a swimming pool and a helipad.”
“More than 18,000 are waiting for housing in Southwark, with some Britons facing up to five years of a wait.”
“Last year, it was revealed she had previously registered to vote at the property, indicating she was still a tenant. However, council housing regulations demand such housing serves as the individual’s “only or principal home”.”
Sierra Leone’s first lady defends having London council flat despite living in presidential palace
This is just the Tip of the Iceberg.
As the great Ethnic African “Father of the Kenyan Nation” Jomo Kenyatta once said,
“THERE ARE TOO MANY TICKS ON THE LION’S BELLY!”
Sierra Leone’s First Lady should be ARRESTED FOR FRAUD in the UK.
“X agrees to review illegal ‘hate’ within 48 hours under UK Online Safety Act”
There is no such thing as “Illegal Hate”. The whole concept is ludicrous, and violates the Freedom of Speech that is the very foundation of the democratic nations of the West.
What would make the UK a better place to live? A new project aims to find out announces Aunty Beeb
People across the UK are being urged to share their vision for how their community and country’s future should look, as part of a major new research project.
The National Conversation is being launched with voice notes submitted by high-profile figures, including former footballer Gary Lineker, Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis, and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup.
Participants will be asked to complete a survey carried out by researchers from the University of Oxford and leave a 60-second voice note.
AI models will then be used to analyse thousands of responses to “map what could bring us together”.
I note that AI will be used to analyse thousands of responses. Am I being too suspicious that there will be some filtering done before letting AI loose on the responses? They expect thousands of responses; I hope they intend to analyse them all and report how many were received and how many were rejected and for what reasons.
I may try it out but I expect the survey to be full of leading questions with no opportunity to give un-welcome answers. I would want to carefully… Read more »
Did you read the article about AI cancelling the car hire database? (DS a couple of days ago) Hopefully the AI models will conclude that this National Conversation is pointless and cancel their analysis. Why does anyone trust AI?
AI is a mirror – not intelligence. The organisers might as well ask their own reflection what it all means – and probably will.
“Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis”, representing Judaism, so who is representing Christianity in this “National Conversation”? It is just new jargon for “The Public will be invited to contribute their views” in this “Public Consultation”, which will then be trampled underfoot and ignored.
“Pork sausages were apparently served to passengers on a deportation flight from Ireland to Pakistan”
That was culturally insensitive. Potatoes would have been better.
I cannot believe that these idiot wannabe-PMs are trying to revisit the Brexit question: and I’m someone who not only voted for, but campaigned hard for Remain!
Whatever advantages we had from EU membership back in 2016 – i.e. being a proper member state, with a voice – that’s not what’s on offer now. All these morons can really hope for is “suck up to the EU and hope they gives us some crumbs”.
The irresponsibility of it is also infuriating. They’re effectively saying: “Yes, the UK is a total mess. But we didn’t do that: it’s all your fault, for voting Leave 10 years ago”. The Leavers Ate My Homework, Miss.
The depressing conclusion is that they actually don’t care how wrong they are, or how much we hate them and will do all we can to frustrate their ludicrous plans. Because They Are Right (in their own minds).
“Ebola outbreak: US bans travellers from DRC, Uganda”
Meanwhile back in la la land (Uk/Europe)
Anyone from anywhere in the meningitis belt and the DRC or any other sub saharan country can travel though Europe to Britain or any other country they choose and be given help to get there! no checks, no passport, no ID, false names, false age, unknown criminal status,unknown health status! But, if your white, European or British, you’ll be told not to travel and be put in lockdown. INSANITY!!
It seems obvious to me that any illegal arrival should go through quarantine. During that time blood samples and other examinations should be carried out to detect infectious deseases, mental instability and to help identify the age and origin of the subject. Odd that companies sell services online for family history DNA reseach yet our rulers cannot or will not do it to arrivals before releasing them to cause potential harms in the community.
“Masked teens attack each other with machetes in broad daylight in park”
Facial recognition going really well then!?
Why didn’t plod blow his whistle and go and ask them to remove their face coverings?
“Inappropriate’ pork sausages served on deportation flight to Pakistan”
Give them whatever they like, just get them on the planes en masse!
If they don’t like Pork they can wait until they are dumped at the other end ie go hungry.
Agreed👍
lol.
Imagine all the muslimy rage noises!
“What will it take for Putin to end the war?”
What do those most at risk have to say on this subject?
‘Rosin…does not believe Russia is currently interested in earnest peace talks, nor does he think that Ukraine giving up Donbas would lead to a lasting settlement.
“Probably, Russia would then come with some new demands, and then start the negotiations again from zero…I wouldn’t fall into that trap.” Putin’s overall goal…remains the capture of Ukraine and the destruction of the European security infrastructure…”The Russians feel they can outsmart the West…Russia’s main enemy, strategically, remains the U.S.” The all-out war in Ukraine has also sparked concerns about Russian aggression spreading further into the Baltic region…”I think we don’t have the luxury to think that we have many years…We have to do our work now.”
Kaupo Rosin, Head of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service 16 May 2026
Inappropriate pork sausages served on deportation flight to Pakistan.
Unless it was a flight that had been chartered by the Irish government to deport people there would of been other passengers on the plane who might of enjoyed a few bangers (if it’s possible to enjoy any airline food). If it was a chartered flight they’re would still of been security guards who might of enjoyed the sausages. It seems like an odd story for the Telegraph to bother with, it’s far more typical of the Independent, Guardian etc.
More importantly, if the Irish government can deport people to Pakistan why can’t the British government force Pakistan to take back their citizens. The leaders of one of the highest profile rape gangs, it might of been Rotherham, have served the pathetically short sentences they were given and have been moved from prison to a secure deportation centre where they’ve been for a couple of years because the Paki government won’t take them back.
More generally Pakis account for a large percentage of illegals in the UK, most of them arrived on a work or study visa and have overstayed. Their government won’t take them back so they’re no doubt… Read more »
A complicated mixing of your “of” and “have” unfortunately.
Haha… I too have my ‘pedant’ hat on today, Hux!
Oh no, you are quite wrong. Stories like this are routine in the DT these days. Instead of trying to attract new readers or those they lost they seek to compete with other left wing media. Just like the Tories – always shift left to get re-elected.
“Andy Burnham ‘costing us money’ before he’s even elected, claim Tories”
Burnham said, yesterday, that Britain has been on the wrong path for forty years and, in essence, that he wants to return Britain to pre-Thatcherite times.
Let us just remind ourselves what 1979 Britain looked like:
‘…in Manchester there was no water for 10 days; people were getting water out of stand pipes in the street. In Liverpool ‘the mortuaries were closed because the grave diggers wouldn’t dig the graves, and serious consideration was being given to dumping bodies at sea’. In Leicester Square a huge pile of rubbish was alive with rats. For those in No. 10, however, the worst thing ‘was the constant, terrifying fear that the whole thing might collapse around us’
That is what awaits, should MacDuffer fall and Burnham Wood come to High Dunces Lane….
It would be entertaining, informative and deeply depressing to assemble a list of all the examples the followers of this site could provide. I recall my wife and I could not afford to have a telephone installed in our first house until one of us won the Premium Bonds. It then took six months for BT to do it.
My wife had to cash in her government pension to fund central heating which I installed with help from my father in law. Despite me being a Chartered Accountant working in the City and my wife at a government department in central London, we could not reliably afford both decorating materials and clothes in the same month.
During the three-day-week fiasco I travelled across London where trains had minimal lighting, stairs and corridors had paraffin tilly lamps and I worked after lunch using a torch.
‘Inappropriate’ pork sausages served on deportation flight to Pakistan
Clearly they didn’t want to be traditional Irish
Sending people to Rwanda is bad but to North Macedonia is OK? Now that probably is racism.
The big difference between the Rwanda scheme and the schemes that Liebour are proposing but will never seriously try to get up and running, a few months ago they were talking about sending failed asylum seekers to Kosovo, was that people would of been sent to Rwanda for processing.
Presumably in Rwanda they would of had far less access to human rights lawyers with a diploma in creative writing so most of them wouldn’t of been able to put forward a strong case for why they needed asylum and it could well of been a reasonably effective deterrent to coming to the UK.
Given that at least 75% of illegals are given asylum after being helped to come up with a sob story being sent to a third country if they’re among the unlucky 25% who don’t get such good help with their creative writing would be far less of a deterrent, especially as they’d have plenty of time between arriving and being told they were going to be sent elsewhere to disappear into the black economy.
I found out a few weeks ago that according to woke idiots “black economy” is now on the ever growing list of terms that shouldn’t be used as it’s racist. It’s now meant to be grey or irregular economy.
Surely there’s a huge difference between a black economy and a Black economy.
Also calling something a grey economy discriminates against oldies and inner-city dwellers.
Can we use any colour without “causing offence”.
Red could discriminate against commies, blue against the blue rinse brigade, yellow against chinks and nips, green against the Green party, violet against and one called violet, burgundy against people from that region of France etc.
England is no longer a serious country. To be fair, it’s been that way for some time, but this is crazy;
”A one-year-old girl has been recorded as a crime suspect by police – after she inflicted ‘minor injury’ on another child.
New figures show hundreds of children under the age of ten have been reported in Kent for offences such as burglary, arson and sexual offending.
A total of 683 people aged nine or below were named by police in the county between January 2023 and December 2025.
The youngest suspect was identified as a one-year-old, who was reported to the force after another child suffered a minor injury.
Obtained via a Freedom of Information request to Kent Police, the data also included six two-year-olds, 11 three-year-olds and 20 four-year-olds.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15827695/one-year-old-baby-girl-named-crime-suspect-police.html
Toddlers and babies are about all the police are able to deal with just lately,
Kindergarten cops!
To be fair it seems like the problem is the idiots making the reports. Once a report is made the police have to record it and presumably it stays on the system forever. Sadly a police call handler can’t just say “how can a 4 year old possibly commit a crime you fuckwit?” then hang up.
There might also be cases where someone reports a crime such as arson or burglary without mentioning anything about the perpetrator or say young people, which could well mean people old enough in law to of committed a crime. The police investigate, learn that the perpetrator is a child and close the case. Again the report would be logged on their database along with the outcome of the investigation.