- “Send small boat migrants back to France” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reacts to Rory Stewart calling for legal migration to be capped at 100,000 and small-boat migrants sent straight back to France.
- “These OAPs want to save their town from a flood of migrants” – In the Telegraph, Allison Pearson reveals how ordinary residents are joining council security patrols to push back against Labour’s asylum plans.
- “The horror of Britain’s broken borders” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill argues that the British state is facilitating the rape of British women.
- “Palestine Action activist on the run after release for brother’s wedding” – A Palestine Action supporter who was convicted for planning a violent attack is on the run after he was given leave to attend his brother’s wedding, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hooded youths launch fireworks at London synagogue” – A group of hooded youths have fired rocket fireworks at a London synagogue in the latest antisemitic attack against Britain’s Jewish community, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour launched tourist tax without assessing impact on jobs” – Ministers have admitted that Labour pressed ahead with plans for a tourist tax across England without conducting any assessment of the impact on jobs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Europe’s tourist tax addiction is a warning for Britain” – In the Telegraph, Hans van Leeuwen looks at the continent’s growing addiction to tourist taxes and finds a stark warning for Britain.
- “Reform’s leader in Wales resigns after arrest for assault” – Former London council leader Dan Thomas has quit as leader of Reform UK in Wales after he was arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour, reports the Standard.
- “Be proud and state the case for the Union to these shabby nationalists” – More British politicians must say bluntly what would be lost by breaking up the United Kingdom, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “The futility of banning deep-fried school lunches” – In the Spectator, Annabel Denham argues that new Department for Education rules reveal a government so addicted to banning things that it has resorted to policing what children eat for lunch.
- “Civil servant sacked over Telegraph appeal to find son missing in Ukraine” – A Home Office employee has been sacked for asking the Telegraph to help find her missing son in Ukraine.
- “Chin up, Kemi, Sweden proves that Reform’s balloon could still burst” – Sweden’s experience shows how a populist party can force the establishment to adopt its immigration policies – only to see its own support collapse once those policies become mainstream, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Did demographics decide the Swedish election?” – In the Spectator, Fredrik Karrholm examines the reasons why Sweden’s Right-wing Government appears to have lost its parliamentary majority.
- “Two experts quit Letby’s defence team over ‘inconsistent arguments’” – Two expert witnesses have walked away from Lucy Letby’s defence team, citing concerns over inconsistent arguments advanced by her legal team, reports the Telegraph.
- “Three babies murdered by Letby could have been saved, inquiry finds” – Lady Justice Thirlwall’s inquiry has concluded there was a “complete failure” to protect babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, finding that three infants could have survived had NHS managers acted sooner, says the Mail.
- “Thirlwall cost millions but ignored the biggest Letby question of all” – The Thirlwall Inquiry has spent millions probing failures at the Countess of Chester while sidestepping the biggest question: what if Letby is innocent? writes Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
- “Over £200 million to learn the lessons of Covid. But who makes the government act on them?” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson ask whether the £200 million spent learning lessons from Covid will ever translate into meaningful government action.
- “UK reprimanded over social media laws by US diplomats at confidential embassy summit” – British officials have been hauled into a private meeting at the US embassy and dressed down over the Online Safety Act in an extraordinary diplomatic rebuke, according to Politics Home.
- “UN tries to insert itself into calls for AI regulation” – The UN is pushing to make voluntary self-regulation of frontier artificial intelligence legally binding, claiming current industry efforts are “nowhere near sufficient”, reports Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
- “Mayors to control water companies” – Andy Burnham’s plan to hand powers over water companies to regional mayors raises the prospect of a new layer of red tape across the sector, warns Tony Diver in the Telegraph.
- “Energy reality forces tech to ditch climate virtue signalling” – Amazon is building a massive gas-fired power plant in Texas capable of generating more electricity than the Grand Coulee Dam, as Big Tech abandons its green commitments in the face of soaring energy demand, according to Vijay Jayaraj at CO2 Coalition.
- “The National Academies’ climate review must be truly independent” – In RealClearEnergy, Tom Harris says the US taxpayer-funded National Academies needs to take a genuinely independent look at climate science, rather than using claims of consensus to shut down debate.
- “Trump Energy Dept. backs nuclear power plant restart with $1.9 billion loan” – The Trump administration is throwing its financial weight behind nuclear energy, committing $1.9 billion to restart an Iowa reactor as part of a broader push to revive mothballed power plants, writes Kevin Killough at Just the News.
- “Ranked: who uses the world’s coal?” – China alone accounts for 51.7% of global coal consumption – more than every other country combined – while the top six nations make up 87% of total demand, according to EnergyNow.
- “Soho LGBT ‘safe space’ case: will any CofE bishop stand up for Christian free speech in the Lords?” – Unless there is a profound change of heart in Britain’s political establishment, including among the Bishops in the House of Lords, the anti-Christian free-speech doom loop looks set to continue, warns Julian Mann in Anglican Mainstream.
- “Civil servants revolt over trans lavatory ban” – Staff in Angela Rayner’s department are protesting against new rules banning trans employees from using women’s lavatories, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sydney Sweeney’s nude advert exposes the hypocrisy of the woke Left” – The backlash against Sydney Sweeney’s naked appearance in a sports betting campaign lays bare the Left’s selective outrage over female sexuality, argues Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The term ‘misinformation’ has been weaponised by the Labour Government” – The Free Speech Union’s David Rose slams the Labour Government’s “misinformation” crackdown as unprecedented online censorship.
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Since some of Spain’s most popular tourist haunts started to object to the numbers (well, the non-business-owners did) I got the impression that the tourist tax was a way to encourage the wealthier, older and bigger-spending tourists to keep coming, while discouraging the unwanted cheap-package tourists.
Never been to Spain, so unlikely to affect me, but I think these moves are being looked at by the likes of Portugal, too.
We’ve been going to Lanzarote for nearly 30 years. Parts have been virtually taken over by Irish, British and other tourists, lots of whom now either live there permanently or have holiday homes there. Puerto Del Carmen is kind of horrible and absolutely not Spanish. I’ve never experienced any of hostility from locals but then I suppose I mainly interact with people who profit from tourism. I did happen to play tennis with a Spaniard who said he lived in a mainly Spanish area and absolutely would not want to live with a load of foreigners (though ironically he was from the mainland so an outsider himself).
Most of the island is fairly empty and the main town is not particularly touristy, the main effect is that property prices in certain coastal areas with sandy beaches are high and they are full of Irish pubs and shops selling crap. I don’t know what I’d think if I were a local. The islands probably don’t have much going for them economically other than tourism so maybe they accept it. There is a moratorium on new or transfers of holiday rental licenses in an attempt to calm the market down and stop… Read more »
On the subject of immigration and “the Law” or lack of it, just watch these examples of police officers doing, or not doing, the one job they are paid to do, enforcement of the law!
http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx4HZZpEZQbpRlFgVGQIEgu26-zVesDAeh?si=8SUAFAEcUgGAGso0
To the residents of Piddington and other leafy laned towns and villages;
Vote Tory, Labour, Green or Liberal and get IMMIGRANTS!
you have been warned⚠️
https://www.gbnews.com/news/piddington-independence-referendum-village-leave-uk-fury-migrants
Notice how they all start going on about the ww2 and how the country is being disabilised by immigration, They voted Liberal and enabled ‘immigrants wellcome’
Exactly, Dinger! They are disgusting NIMBY hypocrites, as this working class Englishman points out, in salty but heartfelt language. (And their “Piddington Roars” WW2 video is rubbish!)
PIDDINGTON: YOU VOTED FOR THIS… SO WHY IS THE RIGHT DEFENDING YOU? #truth_hurts
“These people aren’t fighting against migration. They WANT MIGRATION, just as long as it’s not near them! These people aren’t doing it to fight against the invasion of a country. They just don’t want their village ruined.”
One public commenter wrote:
“The same happened in Ireland. A tiny village outnumbered, but the locals protesting went out of their way to insist they weren’t like the nasty urban protestors in working class areas.”
https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/standard-event/what-learn-russias-state-duma-elections
Russia will hold elections for the ninth State Duma from September 18 to 20, 2026. Vladimir Putin even lost at some polling stations in 2024. Davankov, who came second then, garnered more votes than Putin in 15 European countries, as well as Argentina, Paraguay, and Israel…achieved his highest results in Serbia and Montenegro…the support of more than two-thirds of voters.
That is why, on August 10 2026, the Supreme Court struck the liberal party Yabloko candidate list from this Duma election.
‘Yabloko has a position on issues that are sensitive to the authorities, above all the war. People are tired of it, and if the theme of peace is officially raised in [Yabloko’s] campaigning, it will inevitably attract voters.’
“Elections are run with the results adjusted anyway, and who knows what other decisions the commission will have to make as [campaigning] goes on.
“Yabloko’s fate could not have turned out any other way,” and not only because of the party’s rising poll numbers. “The subject of ending the war would have run through the whole campaign, and every poll shows public demand for it…”
The Guardian March 2022
Ukraine suspends 11 political parties with links to Russia. Zelenskiy says parties such as Viktor Medvedchuk’s Opposition Platform for Life are ‘aimed at division or collusion’
Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council has suspended 11 pro-Russian political parties while martial law is in place in the country…March 20 2022
The…Opposition Platform For Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in Ukraine’s parliament…is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has friendly ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the godfather of Medvedchuk’s daughter…The list of the Moscow-friendly parties also includes the Nashi (Ours) party led by Yevhen Murayev. British authorities had warned that Russia wanted to install Murayev as the leader of Ukraine. Moscow “is looking to install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv as it considers whether to invade and occupy Ukraine,” and Murayev “is being considered as a potential candidate,” the British Foreign Office said in January 2022.
“Sweden’s experience shows how a populist party can force the establishment to adopt its immigration policies – only to see its own support collapse once those policies become mainstream, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.”
It’s one thing “adopting” policies, another thing actually carrying them out consistently. Let’s examine the track record of the Fake Conservative Party on that score.
Let’s also examine that on a daily basis multiple articles appear in the “right wing” media that are designed to discredit Reform or make the Fake Conservatives seem worth electing. Is this spontaneous?
Perhaps if there is any fallout over the Reform donations then the donors might consider funding their own journalists and online platform designed to do a similar job from a pro Reform viewpoint and call it say UK News or something similar, but of course it will not have to conform to OFCOM rules other than On-line Safety, which doesn’t demand political balance like GB News (but not apparently other broadcasters) has to hobble itself with.
“political balance” my arse!
Yes, parallel activity is needed.