- “The ‘Islamo-Left alliance’ will soon end in tears” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon wonders whether transwomen in the increasingly Islamist Green Party will have to wear burkhas?
- “£1 billion a day on benefits: Healey’s Budget headache” – The surge in the cost of welfare and the state pension to £29.5 billion last month has led to worse-than-expected borrowing figures and raised the spectre of tax hikes ahead of the Budget, says the Mail.
- “Burnham’s economic adviser refuses role and calls for welfare reform” – Lord O’Neill has declined to step in to help Labour tackle the UK’s larger-than-expected July deficit of £1.8 billion and is instead calling for urgent welfare reform, notes the Mail.
- “Burnham to send ‘mansion tax police’ to assess home values” – Andy Burnham and Angela Rayner are dispatching council tax inspectors to people’s homes to assess property values ahead of the new family homes tax, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Allsopp accuses Labour of ‘massive own goal’ amid tax raid on homes” – TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has pointed to a report showing homes in parts of London have seen £300,000 wiped off their value in the past year as evidence of Labour’s housing tax blunder, reports This Is Money.
- “Badenoch: Tory deal with Reform would be ‘monstrous’” – Kemi Badenoch has flatly ruled out a coalition with Reform UK, describing any such arrangement as “monstrous”, says the Telegraph.
- “Kemi ‘thrilled’ to have sold more tickets than Nicola Sturgeon to show” – Kemi Badenoch took great delight in discovering her Edinburgh Fringe event had outsold appearances by SNP heavyweights Nicola Sturgeon and Stephen Flynn, according to the Mail.
- “Sexual predator, 35, who was deported after raping woman found in UK” – Blerim Hajdarmataj, who had been deported following a rape conviction after a chance attack on an 18 year-old woman in Chelmsford, has been found back in the UK working as a cleaner in Essex, reveals the Mail.
- “This EU country slashed asylum applications by a third” – Denmark’s former immigration and integration minister Rasmus Stoklund sets out the tough measures that drove his country’s asylum applications down by a third and urges Britain to follow suit, reports the Mail.
- “Labour’s revival of a Rwanda-style scheme exposes the madness of British politics” – Four years and untold sums of money have been needlessly squandered since the inception of the Rwanda scheme, and Labour’s belated revival of a near-identical policy lays bare the dysfunction at the heart of British politics, says a Telegraph editorial.
- “Phillipson branded ‘stupid’ by Tory after claiming racism ‘normal’” – A senior Conservative has branded former Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson “stupid” after she claimed that racism and sexism have become “normal” in Britain thanks to social media, according to the Mail.
- “Restore’s young ethnonationalists store up trouble at the polls” – Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party is drawing support from young ethnonationalists whose extremist views risk becoming a serious electoral liability, reports the Times.
- “Jihadists slaughter and kidnap dozens of people in Nigeria” – Scores of insufficiently devout Muslims have been kidnapped and killed in a jihadist attack carried out during Friday prayers in central Nigeria, reveals the Mail.
- “How swimming pools have become Germany’s new cultural battlegrounds” – As summer temperatures soar, Germany’s public swimming pools have become flashpoints in a fierce national debate over integration and cultural identity, notes the Mail.
- “Trump finally turns on ‘low IQ’ Tucker Carlson in blistering takedown” – President Donald Trump has turned on his once-ally Tucker Carlson, calling the former Fox personality a “loser” with a “very low IQ”, according to the Mail.
- “Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant” – In an unprecedented cyber attack believed to be the most successful of its kind, Iranian hackers managed to shut down a UK power plant, reports the Telegraph.
- “TikTok agrees to pay $400 million settlement in child privacy case” – TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the US Department of Justice to end one of the largest child privacy claims in history, says the Times.
- “Britain has become a surveillance state, and it’s not making us safer” – The UK has become a test bed for Europe’s technological authoritarians, yet the drawbacks of its creeping surveillance apparatus are enormous, notes the Telegraph.
- “Noah’s Ark mystery grows as scans show formation is more than rock” – New scans at the Durupinar site near Mount Ararat provide evidence that the formation long thought by some to contain the remains of Noah’s Ark is not simply a solid mass of rock, reveals the Mail.
- “No, MIT, ‘clean energy’ isn’t the future – nor is it actually clean” – Weather-dependent energy sources will never be more than bit players in today’s fast-moving, technology-driven industrial revolution, writes Bonner Cohen in CFACT.
- “Claim: China is considering hosting COP33 in 2028” – Private jets could soon ferry climate delegates to the world’s largest source of industrial CO2 emissions, as China reportedly weighs up hosting COP33 in 2028, reports Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?.
- “Climate news worth celebrating: the Earth is getting greener” – Rising CO2 levels are driving a measurable surge in global vegetation growth, says the Heartland Institute in RedState.
- “Battery fires creating new nightmare for EV owners” – Electric vehicles are catching fire amid a surge in recalls over models that can burst into flames even while parked, notes Paris Apodaca in the Daily Caller.
- “AI could make Big Oil even bigger” – AI could create nearly $500 billion in value for exploration and production companies by 2030 through lower costs and higher output, writes Tsvetana Paraskova in OilPrice.com.
- “Guardian owner cuts off funding to Observer” – The Scott Trust has declined to participate in the latest investment round for its former Sunday newspaper, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mark Ruffalo embroiled in antisemitic row with Paramount” – The actor sparked controversy after posting on social media that an acquisition meant the technology behind what he described as Israel’s genocide in Gaza would be spread further, says the Telegraph.
- “Will Prince Harry accept the UK press won’t be destroyed?” – Drawing on the recent judgment by Mr Justice Nicklin, Stephen Glover argues that powerful people who dislike what newspapers write about them must not be permitted to destroy those newspapers, writes Stephen Glover in the Mail.
- “Nothing more to add, frankly…” – On X, James Dreyfus posts a 20 year-old clip of Ricky Gervais ridiculing the idea that anyone needs to be told not to rape someone.
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May I add this dismal news to the Round-Up:
Reform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing – BBC News
Yes, it sounds very good, but think about how many millions of Third World Ethnics can claim to be “British-born”, especially Anchor Babies and children of Hostile Illegal Aliens! The correct term Reform should be using is:
” INDIGENOUS BRITISH PEOPLE = ETHNIC EUROPEANS
WITH CENTURIES OF ANCESTRAL CONNECTIONS TO THE BRITISH ISLES “
Phillipson branded ‘stupid’ by Tory after claiming racism ‘normal’” – A senior Conservative has branded former Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson “stupid” after she claimed that racism and sexism have become “normal” in Britain thanks to social media…”
But racism and sexism ARE normal for humans, along with many other things the Communist Globalists shriek against. As Elon Musk pointed out, patriots are just NORMAL.
“This EU country slashed asylum applications by a third”
That’s good, but wouldn’t it be better, easier and more effective to just announce to the world that the UK will not accept ANY MORE ASYLUM OR REFUGEE APPLICATIONS, until the year 2060, for example?
Yes my immediate thought was that I was not all that impressed – still two thirds too many
Tributes paid to PCs among seven dead in wrong-way crash says Aunty
The pillock driving the Passat has killed four of his mates and two cops. At least he won’t have to face any further consequences from the families of his victims.
Thank goodness they’ve not managed to cancel Gervais (yet).
Sadly the last line in the clip comes pretty close to summing up the attitude of some judges towards illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes i.e. I’ll be lenient towards them because they come from a different culture and therefore “didn’t know” having sex with a 13-year old is reprehensible never mind illegal.
But I understand that ignorance of the law is no excuse. So aren’t such judges themselves breaking the law?
Ha ha ha!
“Kemi Badenoch has flatly ruled out a coalition with Reform UK,”
The fact is its is Tory adjacent media and social media commentators who have been calling for an alliance with Reform. Reform have repeatedly said there is no chance of them trusting the Tories, not least because of the Boris wave of mass, low skill, largely unemployed immigration.
Are we asked to believe that the Tory leader has never discussed this with said media and commentators.
While writing may I make it clear that if offered a place in the Labour Csbinet, Presidency of a Royal Society or Ambassadorship to Birlin Faso I will refuse. They were all about as likely as Reform breaking bread with Tories.
The last time Nigel Farage trusted the Tories “to get Brexit done”, they screwed him and the Country. Hell will freeze over before he trusts them again.
And although Komic Badenough tells a good story, the people in her Party haven’t changed. It is not a Conservative Party just an annexe of the Labour Party with that outhouse the Lib Dems.
Couldn’t they just consult the Land Registry? Why pollute the planet with all that petrol and diesel? Unless the object is to make us all more worried about ‘official visits’.
I expect they’ll be checking houses in more affluent areas so that they can tax them more. What they should be checking is out-houses built in less affluent areas. I know some of them are additional bedrooms.
So KB thinks a Tory deal with Reform would be ‘monstrous’. Well KB would find aligning the Tories with anything remotely conservative a bad idea.
The Conservatives had their chance during during 14 years of power to undo the damage of the Blair/Brown governments. They didn’t take that chance, instead choosing to make things worse.
The Tories cannot be trusted – their own actions prove so.
Yep – never again will I vote Tory…
I will never forgive the Tories for ensuring that Labour was elected.
Even if Badenoch means what she says, she’s trying to build an edifice using only the rubble remaining from the demolition of its predecessor.
She’s surrounded by the weak Wets who brought down the Tories. Short of subjecting them all to Conversion Therapy, it’s a lost cause.
Indeed. According to the Fake Right Wing Media, the “disunited right” is all the fault of Restore, Reform are unelectable but the Tories having stolen most of Reform’s policies after they got caned at the polls are the only hope for the right, and it’s fine for Badenoch to bad-mouth Reform.
Tory leaders have used abusive terms about Farage and any party he was involved with. Dont we all remember claims anyone who did not want to stay in the EU should be sectioned.
Any other admission would mean she accepts that her goose is cooked.
There is good reason China is a strong force pushing the climate madness in the west.
It works for them even if all they get from it is the destruction of the west’s combustion engine automobile industry, replaced by China’s world leading electric cars.
But they get much more than that. Basically it wipes out Europe as a competitor at the top end of industrial production.
How do they do it? Funding academics and NGOs and the general propaganda
And just as the project may be faltering, they host COP, give it a boost and keep it going.
China spotted a long time ago that by encouraging and funding the suicidal ideas of The Left, they can bring about the demise of the West.
Climate Change, Net Zero, mass immigration, trans activism, squeezing the rich, Just Stop Oil, Islamism – all aims and ideologies which have firmly rooted in institutions and minds taken over by The Left, enabled and assisted by the Gutless Right.
It’s a smart, long term strategy they are following, and their politicians have no issue with long term goals in their system…
Just as Russia funded anti-fracking campaigns, when they had money, to drive up dependence on gas from, err Russia
I don’t understand what you mean by “The Gutless Right”. Please explain.
Slow from me, sorry, but just seen this.
The ‘Gutless Right” is those who are Conservatives in name only; the Tory wets who have poisoned Conservatism with their liberal and socialist leanings, who have bowed to woke, the anti-democrats, those who spurned the opportunity to repair this country and instead made it worse. Included are those who knew what they were up to but didn’t stop them.
With Net Zero, there soon won’t be any industrial production in Europe. Look at the state of VW (and Stellantis).
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/we-are-guarding-germans-belgians-latvia-stops-28-migrants-from-belarus-after-tunnel-discov
‘Latvia’s border guard has discovered an underground tunnel used for illegal border crossings on the border with Belarus…This is already the second underground tunnel that Latvia’s border guard has discovered on the border with Belarus.’
‘Latvia is not a target country. We are guarding, you know, Germans, Belgians, Netherlands here in Latvia…’
Only a few more yards and they can miss out Latvia and go direct.