- “Forget the $100 million – this is Farage’s smartest move yet” – The rupture with Musk is a turning point for Reform – a chance to purge the party of some of the uglier ideas Farage has promoted, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “This Musk-Farage split won’t stop Reform” – Any establishment figures tempted to believe that this is the beginning of the end of the Farage project are only kidding themselves, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “Why Nigel Farage is right to not associate himself with Tommy Robinson” – Farage’s move to distance himself from Robinson is the right one, says Pimlico Journal on Substack. While Robinson can rally crowds, he’s more reviled than revered, even among Reform’s own supporters.
- “Why Reform won’t touch Tommy Robinson with a barge pole” – Tommy Robinson’s reputation as a violent football hooligan and convicted criminal makes him unpalatable for a party vying to become the next government, writes Martin Evans in the Telegraph.
- “Tulip Siddiq’s siblings linked to group that spread ‘false propaganda’” – Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq is facing increasing demands for an investigation into her property interests as it emerged that her brother and sister are associated with a political think tank accused of spreading false propaganda, reports the Times.
- “Reeves facing £6 billion blow from rising gilt yields” – Higher interest rates are eating into the Chancellor’s headroom for increased public spending, says the Telegraph.
- “‘I thought we were over banning British history. Not Bridget’s Blob’” – Bridget Phillipson has made a bold pledge to “shake up” the curriculum and put our education on a par with Mali, Chad and Yemen, writes Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
- “Keir Starmer will be out of No.10 within a year, poll predicts” – Keir Starmer will be ousted as PM within a year, an exclusive poll for the Mail on Sunday has predicted – with furious voters attacking his poor handling of the economy, the NHS, immigration and the cost-of-living crisis.
- “Labour accused of plot to ‘rig’ next election by axing voter ID scheme” – Labour has been accused of plotting a shameless bid to “rig” the next election by sweeping away laws to prevent voter fraud and allowing millions of foreign nationals to vote, reports the Mail.
- “Reform in row with Labour over delayed local elections” – Reform U.K. has accused the Government of plotting to cancel roughly half of May’s council elections to slow the party’s momentum, according to inews.
- “‘I’m not afraid to fight’” – In the Mail, Lynn Barber finds out what makes the controversial Conservative Party leader tick – and what makes her see red.
- “Foreigners three times as likely to be arrested for sex offences as British citizens” – The latest crime league table reveals that foreign nationals are over three times more likely than Britons to be arrested for sexual offences, with Albanians topping the list, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians and Somalians, according to the Telegraph.
- “Violent criminal given ‘final chance’ after leaving victim disabled spared jail again for assault” – A thug involved in the brutal gang attack which left a German student with life-changing brain damage has once again been spared jail for violent assault, reports Kent Online.
- “Why we should all fear Labour’s contempt for the ordinary voter” – One of the most disturbing trends in politics today is what happens when we ask for something that the ruling class does not want to give us, says Matt Goodwin in the Mail.
- “Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek” – Today’s moribund Left could do far worse than to take its cue from Star Trek’s bold embrace of a humanist anti-authoritarian communism, writes Yanis Varoufakis in UnHerd.
- “Freedom for Cornwall! MPs back Welsh-style devolution plan for duchy” – According to a new campaign, Cornwall should be treated more like a separate British nation than a county, with its own parliament and new powers to control its own destiny and culture, reports the Mail.
- “Alastair Campbell comes to son’s aid over failed betting syndicate” – Alastair Campbell helped to draft a press statement for his son’s failed betting syndicate, as investors say it is “inevitable” they will go to the police over its multimillion-pound losses, says the Times.
- “Elderly farmer threatened by council after knocking down ‘historic’ wall he built himself” – An elderly farmer has been threatened by a council for refusing to pay a fine over an “historic” boundary wall he built himself more than 50 years ago, reports the Mail.
- “The death throes of free speech in the United Kingdom” – In the American Spectator, Matthew Omolesky lays bare the U.K.’s slide into anarcho-tyranny.
- “Snow travel chaos as roads are closed and flights are cancelled” – Britain has been hit by more snow causing vehicle collisions, road closures and flight cancellations while trains are also delayed, reports the Mail.
- “Our village is being swallowed by 8,400 homes and a solar panel farm” – Residents of an idyllic English village have vented their fury at plans to surround them with a huge housing estate and a large solar panel farm, says the Mail.
- “Why Trump’s anti-ESG movement could spell the end for ‘green finance’” – As Trump’s anti-ESG wave crosses the Atlantic, Britain’s finance sector braces for a u-turn in the era of “drill, baby, drill”, writes Michael Bow in the Telegraph.
- “Tesla is now fighting for its future” – For the first time in its short history, Tesla may well now be in real trouble, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The Verified Initiative of the United Nations” – If the idea of having climate change facts and stories “verified” by TikTok absolutely terrifies you, then you are in your right mind, writes Kip Hansen in WUWT?
- “What is HMPV? Virus outbreak in China raises alarm” – A viral infection with flu-like symptoms particularly dangerous for young children, the elderly and vulnerable groups is surging in China, reports the Sunday Times.
- “‘No one will take heartbreaking ordeals after Covid vaccine seriously’” – Patients whose health has been ravaged after taking COVID-19 vaccines are demanding more support as the Government faces paying out tens of millions of pounds in damages, says the Mail.
- “Catastrophic neurological and psychiatric damage from COVID-19 ‘vaccines’” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Nicolas Hulscher highlights alarming findings that COVID-19 vaccines significantly raise the risk of serious neurological and psychiatric disorders, including strokes, Alzheimer’s, cognitive impairment and depression.
- “Are vaccines life-saving miracle medicines or is there more to the story?” – On Substack, Mr. Law explores the complex history of vaccines, questioning the notion that centuries of science guarantee their safety and efficacy.
- “The week in numbers (to January 4th)” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan take a numerical look back over the week’s leading heath stories.
- “School principals confirm immigration main reason behind rise in exemptions from Irish” – A Freedom of Information request has confirmed that the growing number of non-national students in Ireland is the primary reason for the sharp increase in second-level students being granted an exemption from sitting exams in Irish, reports Gript.
- “Arab tourist in Berlin provokes outrage by firing a rocket through a child’s bedroom window on New Year’s Eve, later complains to the press that he is a victim of German racism” – New Year’s Eve has never been the best holiday, but in many major German cities it has become a real danger to life and limb, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “The EU in 2025: A union at the crossroads of chaos” – Europe’s grand experiment is not looking so grand anymore, says Konstantinos Bogdanos in Brussels Signal.
- “Famed Washington Post cartoonist quits after Jeff Bezos sketch blocked” – A Washington Post cartoonist announced that she had quit the paper this week because it rejected her cartoon of Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos, along with other tech billionaires, grovelling to President-elect Trump, reports Fox News.
- “Marvel game bans the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’” – Marvel has been accused of censorship after players of its new video game were unable to chat about topics that are banned in China, according to Game Rant.
- “Enoch Burke, or why trans ideology is still in schools despite landslide ‘No’” – In Gript, Dr. Matt Treacy slams Ireland’s schools for ignoring the anti-gender ideology referendum, with Enoch Burke’s ongoing fight highlighting the damaging push of gender identity ideology on kids.
- “The truth about Bob Dylan’s falling out with Pete Seeger” – The ’60s folk singers didn’t hate Dylan because he went electric. It was because he didn’t care about their lefty politics, says Michael C. Moynihan in the Free Press.
- “British man arrested for making meme offensive to child rapists” – England is safe once again after the Metropolitan police caught and jailed a man who made memes that offended child rapists, reports the (satirical) Babylon Bee.
- “Is wokeism finally dying in California?” – A local California news story about a backfiring cancellation attempt on a 74 year-old MAGA supporter suggests the age of shaming Trump fans may be over – even in California.
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Well you know when people don’t have war or famine to concentrate on then they tend to get wound up in their own arse. It might well be interesting in a university seminar but the situation in the workplace isn’t going to improve ostensibly anytime soon. I will say though, working for the government, that there is a strong movement within to defy these rules and conventions because when something doesn’t accord with reality its time is limited.
How to square this circle is, it is increasingly apparent, one of the most serious challenges of our time and it is not readily apparent how […] we can rise to it.
This brings a famous quote of Billy the Gates to mind, namely (paraphrased from memory)
The obvious technical progress here would be to find a fast way to factor large prime numbers.
a completely clueless comment of His Billness (by then still at Microsoft) about the RSA public-key crypto algorithm which is based on the so-called factoring problem, ie, that it’s computionally infeasible to factor the product of two large prime numbers. Factoring the primes themselves is – of course – trivial as all prime numbers are only evenly divisble by 1 and themselves.
In the light of this: Squaring the circle is a famous geometrical problem dating back to mathematicians of classic Greece and it’s known that squaring a circle, ie, find a square whose area is the same as that of a given circle, is impossible. Hence, nobdoy can ever rise to it.
I would prefer the 20 pence version of this article. —–It is way too long winded. Sorry.
The scenario described raises the question of whether the complainant, having found alternative employment, deliberately found some minor reasons to extract compensation by being confrontational. In any case of yes he did, no I didn’t, the only way to prove the point is to have a live recording of the conversation or independent witnesses. The recent TV series Forensic CSI offers an exposition of this, with the analysis of CCTV and of phone records. I was involved with a damages claim made by a patient on behalf of whom I appeared in court, to find that what she had told me in clinic, and subsequently told her lawyer, about the disability caused by her RTA was a pack of lies. The defence had employed a private detective to follow and film her.
But if every workplace has to have CCTV and audio recording everywhere (presumably including the toilets) we are certainly in a dark place.
You cannot sort this out without stopping legal aid, wall to wall benefits and an unchecked and unregulated legal profession.
The real sufferers are the public who pay for this lunacy and still end up with the same poor services.
Wow, don’t most people wish the UK would put this much thought into running the country smartly rather than trying to create new ways to waste EVERYONE’S time and money? A big thank you to the legal profession who appear to be slim on the ground in representing the thousands injured and killed by the government issued covid vaxxes? Crickets on this, why?
Hi David. I think you have the answer, it is the lack of clear rules on what factors lead to a breakdown in ‘mutual trust and confidence ‘. Part of this is caused by the protected characteristic trump cards of the equality act, making things harder or unequal for everyone else. Instead reciprocity and the golden rule over ‘common basic rights ‘ should be applied, along with the private rights of association of the employer.
The other side of your consideration is that for many professionals it’s just not worth going to tribunal or law over this kind of thing. Things get out and within the connected world in which people work, you will never get another job again. The prospective tribunal awards never stack up to much unless you are on a trump card. Employment disputes are also littered with gagging orders and the Liberal application of the data protection act. The information about the employers poor behaviour to you, because it is also always about work in some sense, is private. You are not allowed to know and spread these bad things about us!
What is needed are clear rules which cover basic rights of everyone, not giving a trump card to protected characteristics a trump cards and a free court to enforce them. The fact that we are talking basic common rights including those of the employer would stop mission creep, and the fact that its a free court would stop employers taking the piss. Of course at the moment we have the complete opposite, mission creep and trump cards, and not a free court further enhancing trump card cases as the only ones worth winning.
Finally I would say that there is a legitimate cross over between private law and public law here. Private law should never overule basic common rights, its just that using protected characteristics and no clear definition of the basic rights implicit within continued ‘mutual trust and confidence ‘ will inevitably cause the current mess.