- “Britain at risk of £24 billion Trump tariff raid over VAT” – The UK is facing the prospect of 21% tariffs on some exports to the US if Trump imposes duties on Britain based on VAT charges, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer EU split as UK ‘won’t retaliate’ on Trump’s 25% steel tariffs” – Hopes that Britain might be spared a 25% tariff on steel imports to the US by refusing to fall in with the EU’s retaliatory import duties have been dealt a huge blow as Trump complained of the “huge deficit” in trade between our two countries, says the Mail.
- “Le snub! Britain refuses to sign global AI agreement at French summit” – Britain and the US have not put their names to the AI Action Summit declaration following two days of talks in the French capital, reports the Mail.
- “Brussels threatens to derail Macron’s French tech revolution” – A spiralling web of red tape threatens to undermine the French President’s grand AI ambitions, says Matthew Field in the Telegraph.
- “Brexit Britain can escape ‘old Europe’ to build big tech industry, says investor” – The head of one of the world’s biggest hedge funds argues that Brexit frees Britain from Europe’s bureaucratic shackles, providing an opportunity to join the US tech boom, according to the Telegraph.
- “Chagos case judge is ex-China official who backed Russian invasion of Ukraine” – One of the international judges who ruled against Britain over the Chagos Islands is a former Chinese government official who backed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “Court gives Gazans right to settle in UK” – Palestinian migrants have been granted the right to live in the UK after applying through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees, says the Telegraph.
- “The £1 million private jet flight that deported 47 illegal migrants to Albania” – A deportation flight carrying illegal migrants and criminals to Albania had just 47 on board at a cost of £1 million to the taxpayer, reports GB News. That works out at £21,276 per deportee.
- “Labour’s new borders watchdog will WFH… in Finland! Tories blast plan” – Labour’s choice to head a new borders watchdog has hinted he plans to work part of the time from his home in Finland, according to the Mail.
- “Labour suspends 11 councillors over vile WhatsApp group” – Labour has suspended 11 councillors over a WhatsApp group where messages mocked pensioners and made misogynistic and homophobic remarks, reports the Mail.
- “MP joked about Jewish clothing in Labour WhatsApp group” – WhatsApp messages sent by a suspended Labour MP, which appear to mock Jewish clothing, threaten to spark a new antisemitism row, says the Times.
- “Met Police could be forced to rehire officers sacked over abuse allegations” – The Met could be forced to reinstate hundreds of officers accused of sexual and domestic abuse after a judgment at the High Court, reports the Telegraph.
- “Criminal offense” – In Takimag, Steven Tucker slams the UK’s overzealous approach to policing insults.
- “Lefty lawyers like Starmer and Hermer have poisoned our children against Britain” – The Attorney General and his ilk find virtue in every country’s point of view save their own, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “The cult of victimhood has made children miserable” – Thanks to yet another government-funded study, we now know that children cope better with stress when taught that it’s part of everyday life, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is failing Gen Z” – In the Spectator, Niall Gooch says that for Gen Z Britain is piling on taxes, pricing out home ownership and killing patriotism – so why would they fight for their country?
- “A Tory-Reform pact is a fantasy – but not for the reasons Kemi thinks” – In the Telegraph, Stephen Davies demolishes the idea of a Tory-Reform pact, highlighting that Britain’s Right is too divided by nationalism and free markets to ever unite.
- “Assisted dying’s safeguards were always a sham” – In the Telegraph, Madeline Grant slams Kim Leadbeater and her allies for dismantling the assisted dying Bill’s safeguards, deceiving MPs and turning the process into a sham.
- “Inside the People’s Vaccine Inquiry” – In TCW, Dr Elizabeth Evans blasts the reckless Covid vaccine roll-out as a catastrophic ethical failure.
- “Cancer deaths rose in Japan in 2022 and 2023, post-mRNA Covid shots” – On Substack, Alex Berenson reports that Japan saw 12,000 excess cancer deaths in 2022–23 – the strongest statistical signal yet of a link between mRNA Covid jabs and cancer.
- “All charges against Dr Charles Hoffe have been dropped by the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons” – On Substack, Dr Pierre Kory celebrates the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons dropping all charges against Dr Charles Hoffe for speaking out about mRNA vaccines.
- “New journal co-founded by NIH nominee raises eyebrows, misinformation fears” – The Journal of the Academy of Public Health claims to open up scientific communication, but its unusual editorial policies have some scientists concerned, says Catherine Offord in Science.
- “Wired’s Scicomm Writer Emily Mullin Attacks Independent Research, Because of Course” – In the Disinformation Chronicle, Paul E. Thacker takes aim at Emily Mullin, a science writer for Wired, who has raised bogus rears about the Journal of the Academy of Public Health.
- “Save our ostriches update” – On Substack, James Roguski urges immediate action to stop the Canadian Government from culling 400 healthy ostriches over supposed avian flu concerns.
- “In Soviet Germany, the Government protests you” – On Substack, Eugyppius exposes how Germany’s leftist Government funds protests to demonise half the country while the CDU flirts with breaking the cordon sanitaire separating mainstream German political parties from the AfD.
- “Ukraine may be Russian one day, says Trump as he hints at rare earths deal” – Trump has suggested Ukraine “may be Russian someday” while pushing for a deal exchanging US aid for Kyiv’s rare minerals, reports the Mail.
- “Release hostages by noon Saturday or war begins again, says Netanyahu” – Benjamin Netanyahu says that the ceasefire will be over and Israel will resume “intense fighting” in Gaza if Hamas doesn’t release the remaining hostages by midday Saturday, according to the Times of Israel.
- “Why Hamas does not really want to derail the hostage deal” – In the Telegraph, Henry Bodkin argues that Hamas’s postponement of hostage releases is a tactical move to secure more concessions from Israel and remind Trump of its influence.
- “Accept displaced Gazans or face aid cuts, Trump tells Jordan and Egypt” – Trump has threatened to cut off aid to Jordan and Egypt should they refuse to accept Palestinians from Gaza, according to ABC News.
- “Democrats loved ‘unelected power’ until Trump turned their own weapons against them” – The party of FDR and Obama created a powerful executive to ram through ‘progressive’ programmes, writes Charles Lipton in the Telegraph. Now it’s being used to dismantle them.
- “Counting coup” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley argues that Trump’s reforms aren’t a coup but a long-overdue reckoning.
- “Why aren’t Scotland’s politicians standing up for Sandie Peggie?” – Scotland’s leaders remain terrified to speak up about the Sandie Peggie case lest they feel the wrath of trans rights activists, says Euan McColm in the Spectator. This is no way to go on.
- “Deloitte UK refuses to scrap DEI rules in split with US office” – The boss of Deloitte UK has signalled a split with the firm’s US arm by reaffirming its diversity, equity and inclusion targets, reports the Independent.
- “Barcelona’s Mapi Leon denies inappropriately touching rival and asking her ‘do you have a d—?’” – A female Spanish footballer has denied touching an opponent in the crotch area and asking: “Do you have a d—?” according to JOE.
- “At last, the Church of England is standing up to wokery” – Make Holy Communion more inclusive by using non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread? You’ve got to be joking, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Channel 4’s sanctimonious moralising is the last gasp of the old, pro-migration regime” – Channel 4’s latest reality show sells a woke morality tale about immigration the public are no longer willing to buy, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “‘What’s happened to you?’” – On TalkTV, journalist Yvonne Ridley tries telling Julia Hartley-Brewer that the Israeli hostages were treated “well”. What follows is the most entertaining WTF moment of the year.
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“Court gives Gazans right to settle in UK” – Palestinian migrants have been granted the right to live in the UK after applying through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees, says the Telegraph.
Government of the people by the human rights lawyers for the migrants.
Betrayal of a millenium of invasions kept at bay from 1066 onwards, all the way through to 1940, by the Edwards and the Henrys, Drake, Nelson, Wellington, a couple of Churchills, and diverse Armies, Royal Navies and Air Forces of the past.
Time for a man with a metaphorical sharp axe to rid us of these betrayers of the British people, masquerading as human rights barristers under cover of the European Court.
The Kommissars in fancy-dress wigs Must Fall.
Not wanted here, thank you very much.
It is betrayal on steroids, but nothing should come as a surprise any more with the Uniparty running the show. The government should be using common sense, as with Trump. These people should be going to culturally appropriate countries, which would be the neighbouring Muslim lands over there. And if they don’t accept them withdraw aid, as per Trump. But Britain, and most of Europe, has been in the slo-mo process of committing cultural suicide via ‘suicidal empathy’ for years now. We also see the proof with these ridiculous reasons why illegals and migrant criminals can’t be deported. The reasons given would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. Do you really need more radicalised hostile jihadis, terror threats, rapes and stabbings in British society? More strain on resources and services, native British young people even less likely to get on the property ladder? The government and judiciary hate the British citizens. That’s about the size of it. But those of us who are clued up knew this for some time now;
https://x.com/Peater009985723/status/1889463731350020454
I suspect hen’s teeth are easier to come by than a judge or human rights lawyer who is a patriot. Migrants get more rights than citizens, their needs taking priority over the indigenous folk who have paid into the system for many years;
”Before the election, Labour, Lib Dem, Green, and SNP MPs held a debate to advocate for a Palestinian refugee programme in the UK.
Then-shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock confirmed Labour had one planned.
Turns out they don’t need to.
A family of six seeking to flee Gaza have been granted family reunification visas to join their brother in the UK, after leftist judge Hugo Benedict Norton-Taylor ruled that the Home Office’s rejection of their application breached Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Norton-Taylor said the “extreme and life threatening” circumstances of the family outweigh the “public interest” of immigration restrictions.
(Why Palestinians are protected by the European Convention is a contradiction they don’t care about…)
They applied using the Ukraine scheme’s form in January 2024 — meaning anyone from Gaza or any warzone in the world with a tenuous link to Britain (via prior migration) can come here using “human rights” law.
Reminder: the vast majority of Palestinians support Hamas, who hate Britain just as much as Israel, for religious and imperial reasons.
Britain’s judges, civil servants, and politicians are actively increasing the likelihood of terror attacks by importing people who hate us.
It’s not compassionate to those of us with nowhere else to go as things get worse, who have to pay for all this.”
https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1889575223542030394
Same judge. I wonder how many paedos he’s also allowed to walk. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest. These treacherous activist judges need to be given the heave ho. If you murder someone or commit another type of serious crime you should be entitled to precisely zero human rights. Jail time then kicked out of the country;
”A REFUGEE who murdered his wife and lied he was bisexual to stay in Britain dodged deportation under Europe’s human rights laws.
He was jailed for a minimum of 12 years in 2008 and the Home Office wants to send him back to Bangladesh on his release.
But an immigration tribunal ruled it would breach rules set by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
Judge Hugo Norton-Taylor accepted the 40-year-old killer — who can only be named as EH — lied about his sexuality, by claiming to be bisexual.
He told a court hearing the deportation appeal: “This aspect of the appellant’s case is an untruthful embellishment.”
But the judge sided with the murderer’s case not to be deported.
He said: “The appellant is a refugee whose removal from the United Kingdom would violate Article 3.
“He therefore succeeds in his appeal on these grounds.
“It remains the case he is a foreign national offender whose deportation is in the public interest.
“However, as result of my conclusions, deportation cannot be effected.”
https://www.thesun.ie/news/9079065/refugee-murdered-wife-dodged-deportation/
Same judge. A rapist was allowed to stay in Britain because his human rights trumped that of his victims and those of the wider public, to whom he remains a danger. I’ll stop here because I think I could go on and on and there’s only so many hours in a day. But how many more judges could we run background checks on and see the extent of their betrayal to the British public? It’s sickening, to be honest, because it just demonstrates there is no real justice, the judicial system working very much in favour of the illegal/criminal migrants ( and their offspring ) who shouldn’t even be here in the first place. Anglophobic British judges. Whatever next?? The below contradictory summing up says it all;
”In their judgment, Upper Tribunal judges Hugo Norton-Taylor and Tom Wilding accepted that Ahmadi ‘represents a danger to the community of the United Kingdom [and] there remains a very strong public interest in deportation’ but ruled that ‘recent events in Afghanistan’ meant sending him back would breach his human rights.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382179/Jailed-rapist-avoids-deportation-Afghanistan.html
But how many more judges could we run background checks on and see the extent of their betrayal to the British public?
A worthwhile exercise I think. These people sicken me.
We need to start exporting these treasonous judges.
This is him, here. His father wrote for the Guardian and going by his Twitter posts is very much an anti-Israel terrorist-supporter. So the traitorous apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, seemingly;
https://x.com/Suffragent_/status/1889565612147372445
Government of the people by the human rights lawyers for the migrants.
Sadly, that’s about right.
Chagos case judge is ex-China official who backed Russian invasion of Ukraine
‘In 2019, as vice-president of the ICJ, Xue Hanqin ruled that the UK should give islands to Mauritius ‘as rapidly as possible’’
Russia, China wish Britain harm.
But there is a difference.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ended the ‘Long Peace’ in Europe and destroyed the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. Putin represents a direct, existential threat to European security and has made no secret of that fact.
China, on the other hand, has benefited from Western Capitalist Democracy.
Britain is, so far, at a relatively (2018 one civilian UK death in Salisbury, several injured by enough Novichok to kill thousands) ‘cold’ war with Russia.
Britain’s defence policy does not yet reflect that fact but should, as a matter of urgency. A defence budget of 5% of GDP is required, paid for by reforms to Whitehall and the public sector, abandoning nut zero.
And this country’s approach to China should be revised to acknowledge the security threat that it represents.
The first step would be to cancel the Chagos deal forthwith and withdraw from the ICJ in protest.
Ukraine may be Russian one day, says Trump as he hints at rare earths deal
Ukraine is Russia, Kyivan Rus, and has been since the 9th century.
Putin controls what is essentially the rump of the USSR
President Trump in fact said:
‘They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday’
Difficult to argue with that. Ukraine would have combined with a federal, democratic, liberal and rules based capitalist Russia in a heartbeat.
That could happen but not for a very long time now.
Until then, this is the plan:
The administration of the newly elected U.S. President is now realising that the Kremlin is not a structure capable of constructive dialogue based on trust. Moscow resembles Byzantium in its dying days.
Diplomatic methods are ineffective, and verbal agreements are not accepted. The only way to influence the situation is through a show of economic and military force.
‘….to achieve peace, it is necessary to convince Putin that he has been defeated on the political and economic fronts, and that a military victory is impossible.’
Lt Gen (Retd.) Keith Kellogg Jr. 10 Feb. 2025
https://global.espreso.tv/russia-fake-news-we-face-a-monster-with-vast-experience-and-resources-ukrainian-historian-on-fight-against-russian-cultural-colonization
Meanwhile, west of the Ukrainian conflict, this is what is going on…..
“Writers are our artillery; they clear the path for our infantry and clear the minds where needed.” (Kruschev) openly states that for the Soviets, culture is a weapon.
‘When Khrushchev essentially introduced the idea of cultural diplomacy in the early 1950s, he stated directly “Okay, both sides have nuclear weapons, now we will not obviously fight physically, we will fight on the cultural front.”‘
‘While the Russian Federation aggressively continues to occupy all possible fields, I constantly emphasize to my colleagues in the West that if there is no Ukrainian presence, studies, and culture somewhere, the “good Russians” will immediately take over. They work very aggressively and skillfully at this, both the Russian state and Russian emigration. They’ve always understood this, at least since the 19th century, through the 20th century, and now they are investing colossal sums in culture, seeing results. Even though they started a brutally genocidal aggression, they still manage to explain something to someone, and a part of Western intellectuals may accept this.’
‘Russia continues to pursue a policy of cultural colonization. In fact, even regarding the current Russian-Ukrainian war, historian Timothy Snyder, for example, explicitly states that it is a colonial war. Ukraine remains in the optics of Russian political elites and a significant part of Russian society as something akin to a colony.’
Neo-colonialism is on the march, not just in the Chagos Islands but in a city close to you.
Who pays for all those marches (except the ones with tractors, obviously) in central London in support of ‘Gaza’? What is ‘The Peoples Forum’? Follow the money.
‘No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.’
John Donne
Donne and Hemingway, a literary partnership made in heaven.
“Starmer EU split as UK ‘won’t retaliate’ on Trump’s 25% steel tariffs”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t successive UK governments allowed the once-thriving UK steel industry to be sold off to Billionaires from India and China? So it is only they who will be affected by these steel tariffs, isn’t it?