- “The dying days of Rishi Sunak’s black hole Government” – Rishi Sunak’s decision to sack his Home Secretary Suella Braverman and make David Cameron the Foreign Minister signals the death throes of the Government, writes Sam Leith in the Spectator.
- “Suella Braverman was sacked for being right” – Rishi Sunak is too effete to do anything about the issues Conservative voters care about, such as reducing immigration, says Jacob Rees-Mogg in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak is living dangerously by freezing out the Tory Right” – No. 10 has decided that the best electoral strategy is to pivot away from the Right… but it’s a moment of great jeopardy for the PM, warns Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The perils of ‘Suella Derangement Syndrome’” – The liberal elites would rather make excuses for antisemites than admit Braverman had a point, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Without Suella, who will speak up for British values?” – Many British people are tired of being treated like doormats. Suella Braverman is one of the few senior politicians who understands this, writes Emma Webb in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak is gambling with the Conservative Party’s very survival” – Is Rishi Sunak about to do something genuinely radical, ponders Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Voters deserve better than a return to a failed pre-Brexit past” – With the sacking of Suella Braverman, the Tory party has finally given up on the policies it was elected to enact in 2019, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Of course there’s a double-standard in policing” – Suella Braverman is right, says Lois McLatchie in the Critic. Silent prayer is treated more seriously by the police than outright disorder.
- “Tribalism is tearing Britain apart. It cannot go on” – The U.K. is approaching a tipping point. What unites us may soon be weaker than what we disagree about, warns Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Don’t be fooled by the march for peace” – Middle-class Lefties are enabling Hamas, says Giles Fraser in UnHerd.
- “Pro-Palestinian protester waving swastika is ex-Labour activist” – Kate Varnfield, a pro-Palestinian protester seen waving a flag with a swastika on it at the recent pro-Palestinian rally in London, is a former Labour activist, reveals the Mail.
- “Is it racist to make fun of Hamas?” – The Washington Post’s deletion of an anti-Hamas cartoon has exposed the moral depravity of the liberal Left, says Jenny Holland in Spiked.
- “U.K. money to stop migrant crisis spent by France on microwaves and vacuum cleaners” – British cash given to France to stop the small boats crossing the channel is being splurged on a vacuum cleaners, microwaves and mobile phone chargers by the French border guards, says the Express.
- “Why Israel was unprepared: It’s all about Iran, Russia, Ukraine” – In Forbes, Malik Kaylan suggests why Israel was unprepared on October 7th. It has to do with Netanyahu, Putin and Iran.
- “U.S. backs Israel attacking hospitals used as military bases” – America has backed Israeli claims that Hamas is using hospitals in Gaza as military bases, accusing the terror group of “a violation of the rules of war”, according to the Telegraph. The evidence is compelling.
- “A COVID-19 vaccine reckoning is coming for the DOJ over federal mandates” – The Justice Department has just advertised for eight new attorneys to defend the federal Government in vaccine injury cases, reports the New York Post. A reckoning is coming.
- “The law should keep out of private conversations” – Prof. Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked is horrified by the news that a retired judge has been prosecuted for accidentally broadcasting a politically incorrect conversation with a friend.
- “Schengen shattering: Eleven countries rebelling against free movement” – The face of Europe is dramatically changing as terrorist threats and out-of-control immigration destroy the EU’s idyll of passport-free travel, reports the Mail.
- “Just Stop Oil boasts that it has ‘overwhelmed’ Met Police with London protest” – Just Stop Oil has boasted that it “overwhelmed” the Metropolitan Police after 100 activists joined a slow march in North London, according to the Telegraph.
- “The big bucks behind the U.K.’s anti-car policies and air pollution panics” – Ben Pile’s latest report for #Together reveals that green activism in the U.K. is funded by the world’s richest men.
- “SNP admits overstating green energy claims” – SNP ministers have revised their claim that Scotland can supply 25% of Europe’s demand for offshore wind. It’s only 7%, they’ve admitted, in a major blow to the economic case for independence, reports the Times.
- “The heat pump charade is unravelling faster than a pound shop cardigan” – Homeowners are being cajoled into becoming early-adopters of heat pumps, a product which just isn’t ready to be rolled out yet, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Study: Liquid natural gas, the great future hope of Robert Habeck’s green energy policy, causes up to three times more emissions than coal” – Liquid natural gas is not emissions-friendly. It is very much the opposite, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Outrage as charity for women’s condition appoints trans woman as CEO” – A health charity, focused on a womb condition causing prolonged agony in women, faces criticism for appointing a biological male as its new chief executive, reports the Mail.
- “I spent years investigating the Tavistock clinic – I have serious concerns about its replacement” – Hannah Barnes’s bestseller on the NHS’s dangerous gender identity service was almost not published. In the Telegraph, she says that voices raising the alarm are still being stifled.
- “The police are still witch-hunting gender-critical women” – Why has a woman in Newcastle been threatened with arrest for stating biological facts, asks Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Progressive dogma behind Portland’s self-destruction” – Portland used to be all about liveability. Today, it is anything but liveable, writes Stephen Eide for the Public Substack.
- “Jeremy Corbyn fails to answer a question and Piers Morgan doesn’t let it go for 10 minutes” – On TalkTV, Piers Morgan asks Jeremy Corbyn whether Hamas should be allowed to remain in power and (even easier) if he considers Hamas a terrorist group. He flatly refuses to answer either, but instead loses his rag.
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“swapping out”
Oh dear. Criticising the very things being criticised. Swapping is sufficient.
A fair point, and well spotted… and happy to be corrected… but does it really invalidate the argument as a whole?
How? In 1945 the British population voted Marxist-socialist workers control the means of production, Comrade and sold out its manufacturing base (and soul) in exchange for – bang pans – an NHS and cradle-to-grave welfare state – free stuff, everyone leeching off each other.
It’s simple. Nationalise key industries, instead of profits going to greedy capitalists, redistribution to pay for NHS, free stuff, fairness, equality – brothers.
Result: capital to fund, expand, develop, only available from the taxpayer. Not enough. Borrow and print money. Still not enough. Chronic underinvestment. The workers collective demands more and more. Industry becomes bloated, uncompetitive. That profit disappears so borrow, print money to pay the shortfall and pay the increasing cost of NHS and welfare state.
Brain drain. Underinvestment, poor pay, high taxes, drives out best and brightest – engineers, scientists, designers – abroad particularly the USA and into their aerospace industry.
British aerospace collapses, car making is a joke, strikes daily – the end of the UK as a giant of tech development and innovation.
Result: £2.8 trillion debt, 7 million on (bang pans) NHS waiting list, and in 2023 220 000 died waiting… but had they lived treatment would have “free”… yippee!, a welfare state supporting 10 million impoverished immigrants, dependence on the Chinese command economy for what we consume.
Hurrah! And… full circle. 2025 UK population votes in Marxist-Socialist Labour Party and is shocked to learn it’s Marxist-Socialist and hasn’t kept its manifesto pwomises, the wotters, how beastly.
Those old enough will remember police, fire, ambulance with dignified British bells, not those common Continental – Hee, haw, hee, haw… klaxons.
I grew up with the two-tone klaxon so that’s all that I recall (we’re all products of our era, right?). Happy to endorse the British bell being brought back to service.
The classic parable of British industry would be: In Victorian times, someone invested a lot capital in building a factory somewhere in England. This factory made him and his descendeds very wealthy/ insanely rich and was kept running with minimal investments in maintenance until about the 1970s when the Victorian machinery finally broke down and couldn’t be repaired anymore. At this point, one of two things happened:
This is a story I part invented but I think it’s an accurate picture: The empire had served its purpose after the British elite had accumulated more wealth than most people can even think of. And since it was sort-of cumbersome and expensive to maintain, it was then dismantled using more or less poor pretexts (“Winds of change” etc). What remained was a British moor who had done his job and could go now.
How this process really started: From some time in the 19th century until 1914, Britain was the world’s dominant industrial, military and financial power. Closest competitor were the aspiring German Empire. The USA was mostly a rural and very much indebted backwater. Then, the so-called first world war started which people in Germany regarded as a combined attack on them driven by a French desire for Revenge for 1871!
and an English desire to get rid of England’s most successful economic competitor.
In autumn and winter 1914, the war had frozen in place along a line of fortified trenches running from the Belgian cost just westward of Ostend southwards and then eastwards through northern France to the east of the fortress of Verdun and from there southward to the Swiss border. The next three years saw yearly repeated anglo-french attempts to break through this line of trenches with every increasing use of preparatory artillery barrages followed by infantry attacks. This needed an enormous amount of artillery shells as tenthousands to hundredthousands of shots would be fired for any individual run of artillery attacks. Most of these shells were manufactured in the USA because enough workers where available there as the country didn’t participated in the war itself until 1918 and they were paid for by the British and French state borrowing money from American banks. The final outcome was that the USA became the world’s largest creditor and the British empire one of the largest debtors.
This pattern repeated during the second world war where military hardware on the Allied side was by-and-large all produced in the USA and then lent-out on use now pay later terms to the other Allied powers.
Totally agree.
US empire indeed. Britain is just a US state in many ways. Oddly, this American-state joined the US Empire’s German project called the EU. It then disentangled itself to further submit its interests to the War-Virology-NWO-WEF-CIA regime of the US Empire.
NWO is simply US hegemony. The Uketopian war is just an expression of the US empire’s quest to destroy Russia. That is why Vlad the Invader had to get busy in 2022 when poof! the Rona magically disappeared, though morons were stabbinated long after for the fake virus. The UK has played a most useful idiot in its screaming support for the US occupation of the Ukeland, pushing us to a nuclear confrontation. Well done UK.
Rona fascism, the Climate Con, WEF – all the NWO globalist institutions are somehow linked to the US Dystopian NWO
Rule Brittania? Nah, The Fools in Britannia more like it.
There is a completely different take to the last 70 years, and that is that old Europe has been dominating the US in the manner of a dominating wife in a traditional wife role who basically has her husband do all her bidding. (Not a statement about men and women, just an example of one particular archetype.)
The US protects Europe. And if Trump’s narrative is to be believed, Europe fleeces the US economically.
The telltale is the reaction to the US wanting to change the relationship. The old European powers are up in arms and in disarray over the prospect that things aren’t going to carry on as they were.
That is certainly not the reaction you’d expect from the subservient, badly treated side.
‘The US’ shares access to some of its military infrastructure, especially in the area of satellite reconnaissance, with its NATO partners, and the NATO is procedurally geared towards being led by American officers. As always, the American armament industry also plays a prominent role here but in form of providing products in exchange for money. Lastly, the USA still has quite a lot of nukes and thus, maintain the nuclear balance of power, of however questionable usefulness this might be. Both Great Britain and France have their own nuclear deterrent and France isn’t even part of the military structures of the NATO since de Gaulle withdrew from them. Germany, as usual, is prohibited from owning or controlling any nukes. Great reason for Trump to whine about it not having any.
The USA has a standing army of less than 500,000 soldiers and the combined forces of the European NATO states easily outnumber that. Further, Germany, traditionally one of the larger military powers in Europe, is prohibited from maintaining more than a pretty tokenistic military force by the so-called “2 + 4 treaty” where the USA was a part of the 4 (the two were the FRG and the GDR). There’s no “US protection” in this area. A nice example of this would be the Enhanced Forward Presence of the NATO in Eastern Middle Europe: This is exclusively European in all areas where even a remote danger exists while pretty nominal US troops are only in safe positions in in eastern Poland.
Well, you better get in touch with all the European leaders to let them know because they all seem in a panic about the poential withdrawal of US military protection.
You’d better come up with some kind of counter-argument in case you want to prove my statement wrong instead of jumping to making untrue statements about a different topic.
You also still haven’t answered the question what kind protection the UK derives from serving as sort-of an US aircraft carrier for offensive military operations elsewhere.
Innocent ascriber inclined to Micawberomics here. Article and preceding comments amount to – Follow the money, the militarism and the myths?
Sirens? Pah! Ambulances should have bells.
They had the Green Goddesses on a brief return during the Fire strike back in 2002.
Britain’s economic and military decline is the product of an education system biased towards the Arts rather than science, and towards pure science rather than technology and engineering. The madness of Net Zero could only happen in a country run by people who are completely clueless about engineering and technology.
Britain’s participation in the “war on terror” (and the disastrous failure of that war) stems from a common failure to understand islam on the part of both Britain and Americans.
As Julian Assange puts it, the Afghan War was a long protracted money laundering operation by design.
‘Twas ever thus. Back in the 1960s, my father (an engineering lecturer at a Technical College, that later morphed into a Poly offering Business Studies, and is now a University offering a degree course in Comedy Studies) lamented the arts and humanities graduates running the country.
I’d extend “technology and engineering” to encompass trades like electrician and plumber that require technical knowledge and practical skill. Usually well-grounded and in demand, in my experience.
Presumably the book doesn’t deal with the way membership of the EU meanwhile chewed at Britain’s administrative legs making it insecure in standing on its own after Brexit.
Presumably, when Starmer says record investment is coming in to the UK he means more of our home-grown enterprise is being bought by foreigners.
Dear oh dear that ‘special relationship’ notion again. Old Mother Britain (or should it be England?) still thinking of the USA as her little baby, failing to notice the larger number of German and other European populations among its 19 C settlers, and of course numerous other nationalities whose influence on US character and interests is more important.
Like it or not societies need leaders because the majority of any population want no more than secure sources of food, warmth and shelter without having to fight for them. Our British leading class blundered into the 1914 war, destroyed itself and has been replaced by others pursuing personal gain in much larger markets for money, goods and ideas.
If you are running a humongous trade deficit, which we are and have been for decades, you have to export something to pay for those imports. And we have been exporting our industries themselves. We have been selling our country for trinkets.
The alternative is to have a huge devaluation in your currency. Personally I would prefer that. (Sterling does seem to be significantly overvalued, with computer equipment that costs £1,000 in the UK for example, costing $1,000 in the USA.) But people don’t like that. The trinkets get expensive.
There is one other alternative of course. Reciprocal tariffs to keep out artificially cheap imports. But the great and good tell us that could never work so obviously it’s a non-starter.