- “City warns Burnham of borrowing shock unless he slashes spending” – Financial markets are warning Andy Burnham that a damaging borrowing crisis looms unless he makes severe cuts to public spending, reports the Telegraph.
- “Burnham doubles down on blaming Brexit for UK’s woes at PMQs” – Andy Burnham used Prime Minister’s Questions to double down on his claim that Brexit is responsible for Britain’s economic troubles, vowing to use an upcoming EU summit to pull the UK further into Europe’s orbit, according to the Mail.
- “I’m an alleged national treasure. I won’t be bullied by actors over my views on Israel” – In the Telegraph, Dame Maureen Lipman hits back at actor Gerard McCarthy for quitting her West End show over her views on Israel.
- “Former BBC actor ‘liked’ vile abuse of Jewish star after quitting show” – Gerard McCarthy, who quit a London theatre show following the casting of Dame Maureen Lipman, has endorsed a torrent of abuse directed at the veteran Jewish performer, reports the Mail.
- “The war on Maureen Lipman” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill argues that the campaign to bully Dame Maureen Lipman off the stage for her views on Israel exposes the staggering arrogance of those waging it.
- “Russian threat has been made up by NATO, claims Diane Abbott” – Labour MP Diane Abbott has described the Russian threat to the UK as a “NATO fiction”, reports the Telegraph.
- “No 10 refuses to condemn Diane Abbott’s NATO conspiracy rant” – Does the Prime Minister have the balls to call out Diane Abbotts anti-Western ramblings? asks Steerpike in the Spectator. Of course not.
- “Academics in row over ‘racist’ paper that linked 2024 riots to Zionism” – A bitter dispute has broken out among academics over a “racist” Royal Geographical Society paper that linked Zionism to the riots of the summer of 2024, says the Telegraph.
- “The retired barrister drawing the ire of Good Law Project’s Jolyon Maugham” – While Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project attacks the media over Jason Arday’s death, Barbara Rich is once again proving to be a thorn in his side, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
- “Leaving the ECHR will not save us” – On his Substack, Dr David McGrogan argues that leaving the ECHR alone will not solve Britain’s deeper political problems.
- “Cambridge said Jason Arday was an ‘aberration’. So why was this shaky PhD thesis he approved sealed until 2031?” – On his Substack, Benjamin Ryan reveals how a Cambridge PhD thesis examined by disgraced academic Jason Arday was slapped with a fresh five-year embargo just after his scandal broke.
- “Meloni furious as ‘paedophile’ migrant released because he said sorry” – A Bangladeshi migrant accused of sexually assaulting a 13 year-old girl in Italy has been freed from police custody after just two days on the grounds that he had expressed remorse, reports the Telegraph.
- “A sleepy Australian suburb has just witnessed a Right-wing political revolution” – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hapless Government is driving voters into the arms of the antipodean cousin of Reform UK, notes Rocco Loiacono in the Telegraph.
- “The married doctor who was Lucy Letby’s doctor ‘boyfriend’” – The Mail reveals the doctor who was Lucy Letby’s ‘boyfriend’ and died soon after being sacked for exchanging messages with her.
- “Fixing depressed kids is a near-impossible business” – In the Spectator, Druin Burch notes that a 36% rise in 6-to-17-year-olds attending A&E with mental health problems between 2019 and 2025 exposes just how far the system is from meeting the scale of the crisis.
- “Dolly Parton – queen of the celebrity vaccine pushers” – On the Right Times Substack, Liz Hodgkinson notes that Dolly Parton rewrote ‘Jolene’ to promote a Covid vaccine and that almost none of the celebrities who joined her campaign have since apologised.
- “How Polanski destroyed Green Party’s popularity” – A YouGov poll found the Green Party’s net approval rating has collapsed to -23, down 28 points since before Polanski took over, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gas prices hit three-year high as UK reserves fall to lowest in Europe” – With the Iran war threatening to extend supply disruptions from the Gulf, UK gas reserves have sunk to the lowest level in Europe as prices reach a three-year high, says the Telegraph.
- “How the Nepal floods became an ideological battleground” – Evidence pointing to a natural trigger – cryospheric collapse – behind the Nepal disaster has done little to stop climate campaigners from seizing on the floods for ideological purposes, writes Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
- “Wrong, New York Times, Nepal’s tragedy wasn’t caused by climate change” – In ClimateRealism, Anthony Watts argues that the New York Times‘s claim that climate change caused the catastrophic Nepal glacier collapse is flatly contradicted by the evidence.
- “Climate Majority Project: scientists ‘freaking out’” – The case for abandoning the UN/IPCC/COP process and putting energy prices at the heart of social justice is made by Robert Bradley Jr at Master Resource.
- “Climate NGOs and foundations: the hidden conflicts of interest” – The financial entanglements between climate NGOs and the foundations that fund them raise serious questions about undisclosed conflicts of interest, argues Stephen Heins at Climate Realism.
- “Measuring meaningless climate actions” – The question of what Americans would actually gain from eliminating every ton of CO2 emitted through fossil fuel use exposes the futility of current climate policy, says Vijay Jayaraj at American Thinker.
- “Promoting pregnant Coutinho was woke, says Harman” – Harriet Harman has branded Kemi Badenoch’s decision to promote Claire Coutinho whilst on maternity leave as “one up for wokeness”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan is the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that while many Conservatives savoured Sadiq Khan’s conviction for failing to pay road tax, the case represents a genuine miscarriage of justice that should trouble anyone who values fair process.
- “Blasphemy laws through the backdoor – just for Islam” – On the latest episode of the Free Speech Union podcast, ex-police officer Stephen Gray sits down with Connie Shaw to recount how a satirical Facebook meme led police to his door and a criminal conviction.
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“Burnham should drop the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill” – “Nothing in domestic or international law requires the Government to adopt the approach taken in the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill, writes Stephen Laws in the Spectator.”
May I add the following to the above important item from yesterday’s Round-Up, because it provides the real reason:
Troubles legal costs almost double amount paid to victims, chief constable says
“The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has paid out almost twice as much in the past five years in legal costs in civil claims relating to Troubles incidents as it has in compensation to victims’ families, Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has said.”
Here was I thinking that the scandalous, outrageous, relentless persecution of British Army Veterans now being continued by Illegal Catholic PM Andy Burnham was just the Vatican Jesuits trying to obliterate the Protestant Reformation and seize all the Anglican church property, but there’s more to it than that:
It’s all about greedy Irish Catholics & IRA demanding MONEY! They all want “COMPENSATION”, just like the African Chancers all want “REPARATIONS”, which the UN committee is demanding for EVERY ETHNIC AFRICAN ON THE PLANET!
Where is the compensation for the TEN ORPHANED… Read more »
” At the time of her death Mrs McConville’s children were Ann aged 20, (Ann was ill in hospital at the time of Mrs McConville’s death and has since died), Robert, aged 17, Arthur (Archie) aged 16, Helen aged 15, Agnes aged 13, Michael aged 11, Thomas (Tucker) aged 9. Susan aged 8, and six year old twins William (Billy) and James (Jim).”
Statutory Report – Report into the complaint by James and Michael McConville regarding the police investigation into the abduction and murder of their mother Mrs Jean McConville
“Approximately three weeks after Mrs McConville’s abduction a young man called at her home and gave her family her purse and three rings.”
“The children received no real help for a period of almost two months after Mrs McConville was abducted until February 1973 when some of the children were taken into care. “
Burnham doubles down on blaming Brexit for UK’s woes at PMQs
He should be suspended for misleading Parliament.
I suppose blaming the 14 year rule of the Tories was exhausted by Herr Starmer, so now he has to go a bit further back and blame Brexit. He is also blaming the Thatcher era curiously missing out the 13 years of New Labour vandalism of which he was a part.
I blame repeal of the Corn Laws, the Cobden-Chevalier Free Trade Treaty with France and the enclosure of the commons. And if all else fails, blame Magna Carta.
Yes, and he should be suspended for attempting to VIOLATE the democratic decision of the British People.
https://spectator.com/article/no-10-refuses-to-condemn-diane-abbotts-nato-conspiracy-rant/
I suppose life-long, vile, grifter politicians like the Abbacus can be right once in a lifetime.
We’re still waiting…
“Sadiq Khan is the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice” It was neither terrible nor a true miscarriage of justice. Locking people up for a tweet is.
Alas, I have only one upvote to give.
“No 10 refuses to condemn Diane Abbott’s NATO conspiracy rant” I wonder what No10 N or S know that they are not telling us.
What a Norf an’ Sarf!
North and Sarf.
If Goody Two Shoes (occasionally a matching pair) says it’s so, then that’s that.
Maybe kids are more depressed today because they are only able to compare their real lives with the idealised versions that other kids publish on social media.
They are unable to compare like with like as the art of talking, one ot one, has disappeared.
We have known for a long time that “leaving the ECHR alone will not solve Britain’s deeper political problems”. Only the Tories put that forward as a sufficient condition.
In addition to leaving ECHR we have to repeal a number of Acts of Parliament and display many decided cases so they are not used as precedent in future. These are just the enabling changes.
Then we must depose the unaccountable quangos which have been given power to delay and decide all sorts of things without democratic mandate. These range from the Climate Change Committee to College of Policing and much more
It will be a busy Parliament when Reform takes over.
“Leaving the ECHR will not save us”
Maybe not but it would be a bloody good start Dr Mc Grogan!!!
Sadiq Khan is the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice
A miscarriage of justice, sure. But ‘terrible’? Nah.
This injustice hit the headlines because he’s notoriously anti-car – or just notorious. He has people who will sort this out without him lifting a finger. The many ordinary folk who fall foul of this sort of kangaroo court are never really heard of – which is, of course, the point of Ross Clark’s article with the hyperbolic headline.
I wonder if Sir Sadiq has asked DVLA how many cars he is now the registered keeper of?
He seems to be anti-car only when they’re not in his cortege of armoured SUVs (barreling down otherwise verboten streets).
His version of Zil lanes.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-26-billion-investment-to-transform-uk-naval-bases-docking-facilities-and-waterfront-infrastructure
Excellent news!
This 1970s retro government has announced an increase in naval defence spending called the RIGSladedisco1973. Royal Navy outfitters, Baun & Co., have been awarded a £50,000 contract to alter all Royal Navy trousers back to the traditional bell bottoms. Scottish named vessel crews, for example HMS Sutherland, will be entitled to wear wide tartan lapels on their service and mess dress. Standard Royal Navy black oxford shoes are also likely to be transformed in the next phase defence enhancement contract by the addition of platform heels and soles intended to make Royal Navy personnel taller and more fierce looking in comparison to their international counterparts. This forms a key part of the ex SBS First Sea Lord’s intention to recreate the fighting navy celebrated by Elton John’s famous 1970s hit, ‘Saturday night’s alright for fighting’
Oh, don’t give us none of your aggravation
We had it with your discipline
Oh, Saturday night’s alright for fighting
Get a little action in