- “Ukraine ‘agrees to 30-day ceasefire’ with Russia as Trump lifts pause” – The ball is now in Moscow’s court after Ukraine agreed to a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, reports the Mail.
- “Rupert Lowe ‘keeping options open’ after ousting by Reform UK” – Ex-Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has told Sky News that he has not ruled out joining the Conservatives or starting a new political party.
- “Could Elon Musk bankroll a rival to Reform?” – The world’s richest man is said to be mulling over financing a new political outfit, which could be led by former Reform MP Rupert Lowe, reports the Mail.
- “Met Police launches investigation into Reform’s Rupert Lowe” – The Met Police have launched a formal investigation into claims of threats by Rupert Lowe against Reform Chairman Zia Yusuf, says the Express.
- “Rupert Lowe’s team rally around him” – We are now on day five of the great Reform fall out and it’s still making waves, writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Reform’s alpha males need to shut up and get on with the job” – The civil war engulfing Reform UK is preposterous, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. What’s important is the future of our ailing country, not a battle of male egos.
- “The Rupert Lowe fracas shows why Reform may not survive” – Britain desperately needs an alternative to the old parties, but Nigel Farage is sadly blowing the chance, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Is snobbery behind Rupert Lowe’s row with Nigel Farage? ” – There is another more hidden aspect to the row between Rupert Lowe and Nigel Farage that has not yet been highlighted, says Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
- “Reform’s Lowe blow” – Will Rupert Lowe’s exile cause Reform UK to return to wandering in the political desert? wonders Connor Tomlinson on the Restoration Substack.
- “Major law firm sacks Reform candidate after ‘I hate Islam’ tweet” – Top City law firm CMS has taken “prompt and decisive action” after a senior member of its HR team – a prospective Reform UK councillor – posted anti-Islamic and anti-trans comments on X, according to Legal Futures.
- “Crisis talks called over ‘two-tier’ justice plan” – The Justice Secretary is to hold talks with the Sentencing Council after it rejected her demand to change guidance to judges following claims of ‘two-tier’ justice, reports the Mail.
- “The end of equality: two-tier justice enshrined in British law” – The anti-white, anti-male takeover of Britain is all but complete, says Frank Haviland in the European Conservative. The judiciary is merely giving what already exists its seal of approval.
- “Politicised judges don’t deserve independence” – Shabana Mahmood must be supported in her fight against the Sentencing Council, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “How foreign violence drives UK sex crimes” – In UnHerd, Joan Smith highlights the need for tougher deportation policies for convicted sex offenders.
- “Labour seeks Rwanda-style deal to avoid granting asylum to convicted sex offender on Chagos” – Labour is seeking a Rwanda-style deal to avoid granting asylum to a convicted sex offender jailed on the Chagos Islands, reports the Express.
- “Britain is dependent on US weapons. We now face a terrible choice” – In the Telegraph, Matt Oliver warns that Britain’s reliance on US weapons could leave its military paralysed if Washington withdraws support – just as it did with Ukraine – forcing the UK to rethink its defence strategy and look to Europe.
- “Benefits cuts ‘delayed to next week’ as Labour MPs revolt” – Labour’s welfare overhaul has been delayed amid a Labour revolt despite Keir Starmer warning the system is “indefensible”, reports the Mail.
- “Who becomes a Labour politician to slash benefits?” – Having spent so many years preaching against austerity, it is going to be extremely difficult for Labour to get away with the slightest cut to benefits, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “How to fix the Civil Service” – Whitehall is bloated, risk-averse and clueless about business, says John Nash in the Spectator. Labour’s tweaks won’t fix a system built to preserve itself.
- “Labour’s plan to decriminalise abortion is distracting, dishonest and unpopular” – The Government has not learnt the lessons of the Democrats’ obsession with progressive issues, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
- “Why are green groups giving Labour a free pass?” – One odd development in politics is the willingness of charities to let the Labour Government off the hook for policies they once attacked, says Iain Carter in the Spectator.
- “Labour’s AI plans are ‘an act of cultural suicide’” – According to Britain’s leading literary agent, the Government’s plans to weaken copyright laws for the benefit of AI companies are “a cultural act of suicide”, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘The role of Conservatives after the Trump meteorite has landed’” – In Conservative Home, Dr Lee Rotherham argues that the Conservatives must reflect on their past failures and evolve into a party of radical, rational solutions to global issues.
- “The BBC’s new plan for the licence fee is a shameless rip-off of the middle class” – The real question is not: “Should the middle class be forced to pay more for the BBC?” It’s: “Why should anyone be forced to pay for the BBC at all?” says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The sad truth about the BBC” – Most people have such low expectations of the BBC that its failures barely generate much of a reaction these days, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Why the English education system is so envied in Belgium” – In the Spectator, Harry De Paepe is baffled by Bridget Phillipson’s dismantling of 25 years of education reforms, given that her opposite number in Flanders is looking to replicate those reforms in the hope of repeating England’s education success.
- “Universities must put academic freedom above commercial interests, says free speech tsar” – In an interview with the Telegraph, Professor Arif Ahmed says that vice-chancellors must “show backbone” by upholding their commitment to free speech even when it jeopardises lucrative contracts.
- “Douglas Murray wins defamation case against Observer” – The Daily Wire reports that the flailing Guardian Media Group has had to pay out “substantial damages” to Douglas Murray – after Kenan Malik in the Observer was found to have defamed him.
- “Reuters fake fact check fails again” – Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg cut ties with Reuters and other fact checkers because of bias and mistakes – and bias and mistakes remain, says Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
- “Major city descends into wasteland as bin workers go on strike” – Nearly 400 council bin workers in Birmingham have walked out indefinitely as part of an escalating dispute over jobs and pay, reports the Mail.
- “Green council ditches plan to collect black bins once a month” – Bristol’s Green Party run council has dropped plans to collect residents’ black bins only once a month following outrage from locals, says the Mail.
- “More houses to be built out of wood under Labour’s Net Zero plan” – Labour is set to increase the number of properties built with a timber frame in a drive to cut the UK’s carbon footprint, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s own EPC rating casts doubt on Net Zero drive” – The energy efficiency of Ed Miliband’s home was only fractionally improved by installing a heat pump, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Energy bills could fall by £250 a year if you live near new pylon project” – Thousands of residents living near electricity pylons could receive up to £2,500 off their bills under a landmark policy by the Government to push through new development and homebuilding, reports GB News.
- “The NHS: where does all the money go?” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson write about NHS England’s bloated bureaucracy.
- “Five years later, lefty journalists and health bureaucrats are lying worse than ever about Covid” – On Substack, Alex Berenson slams the Left’s Covid revisionism.
- “Utah to become first state to ban fluoride in public water” – Utah will become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, despite opposition from dentists and national health organisations, according to AP News.
- “Germany plans to ‘defy EU laws’ with mass rejection of asylum seekers” – Germany’s new Government is planning to turn away asylum seekers from its borders, regardless of whether its neighbours agree, reports the Mail.
- “The Pakistani village doctor ‘at heart of people-smuggling route’ stretching to Britain” – In the Telegraph, Sophia Yan profiles Master Uzair, a former village pauper turned notorious people smuggler, who has built a fortune trafficking Pakistanis to Europe.
- “Liberals should be outraged by Cǎlin Georgescu’s election ban” – In UnHerd, Yanis Varoufakis slams Romania’s ban on Cǎlin Georgescu running for president, calling it a gift to Putin and a betrayal of liberal values.
- “Mark Carney is wrong about everything” – Canada’s new unelected Prime Minister is living, breathing proof that technocrats can’t be trusted, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Trump drops new tariff bombshell against Canada” – Donald Trump has continued his feud with Canadian leaders with a promise that “we’ll just get it all back” when reciprocal tariffs go into effect next month, reports the Mail.
- ‘It’s time for Canada’s free speech defenders to unite” – The newly formed Free Speech Union of Canada will lobby to defeat censorship laws and assist those whose rights have been trampled, says Lawrence Krauss in the National Post.
- “I’ll buy a Tesla to support ‘punished’ Musk, says Trump” – Donald Trump has vowed to buy a new Tesla car in support of Elon Musk after a plunge in the company’s share price, reports the Hill.
- “Does Trump want a stock market crash?” – In the Spectator, Matthew Lynn suggests that Trump is letting markets crash now to avoid a worse collapse later.
- “Trump could suddenly be in serious trouble” – J.D. Vance warned the markets could come for the President, says Philip Pilkington in the Telegraph. He now looks eerily right.
- “This 94 year-old stock market legend saw the Trump slump coming” – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is well positioned to withstand any downturn, writes Michael Bow in the Telegraph.
- “Does Trump respect the First Amendment?” – Antisemitism is on the rise, but restricting freedom of speech is not the solution, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Dawn Butler’s ‘black caucus’ is divisive and ridiculous” – America’s racial culture war should have no place in the UK Parliament, says Inaya Folarin Iman in Spiked.
- “Fitness influencer faces abuse and death threats from trans activists after pledging to open female-only gym in London” – The owner of a women’s-only gym in London has been targeted by trans activists after saying transwomen won’t be admitted, according to Reduxx.
- “Anti-woke new Tim Allen sitcom becomes monster hit for Disney” – Whether it be an increasingly sound Bill Maher interviewing Kid Rock on Real Time or A&E bringing back Duck Dynasty, it’s clear Hollywood has reconsidered its programming, says the Mail.
- “Disney makes odd decision on ‘woke’ Snow White premiere amid backlash” – The Hollywood premiere for Disney’s live-action adaptation of Snow White is to be “scaled back” amid a backlash against its woke gobbledegook, reports the Mail.
- “Global Minority” – The ‘Global Majority’ is a flawed, divisive idea that undermines equality by giving special treatment based on race, says Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “‘All bad ideas are French’” – On X, Prof David Starkey explains how ‘all bad ideas are French’ is an absolute principle of human existence.
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All six Prime Ministers this century have done huge damage to this country.
However all MPs are worried about are events on a different continent.
Tony Blair was responsible for the murder of 600.000 Iraqis with WMD lie. Mrs T shut a few mines and dealt with unions infested with communists. Who gets more grief from MSM and is labelled extreme?
The panic amongst the MP class is that their gravy train, truffle hunting and downright thievery is going to come to an end.
Squeaky bottom time for many of the 600 as they face the ride in to the valley of death.
I quite like that vision.
Thank you ellie.
Tory MPs I presume?
”If Israel was not a Jewish nation the world would not care at all about the ”Palestinians”. Meme.
Palestinians seem to always be taking precedence over the many people across the world who are legitimately facing persecution and genocide, be they Muslim, Christians, Yazidis, Uyghurs etc…for years this has been happening and nobody takes to the streets to bring attention to their plight, but as soon as there’s Jew involvement and another Middle East conflict kicks off involving those nations the Palestinians get the world’s sympathy while the state of Israel gets the world’s hate. Antisemitism dressed up as social justice with hypocrisy and selective outrage off the charts. So many people outing themselves as deeply unpleasant individuals who are worthy of our contempt. And it’s not hard. Just don’t be on the side of the terrorists, irrespective of how you feel about Israel’s handling of things!
Not possible for the George Galloway/Jeremy Corbyn/Hamas/Houthi/Hezbollah/Jihad Fanclubs though. They’re hardwired to hate because they’re all ‘useful idiots’ and traitors to the West. You’ll all bend over for Islam when the time comes, won’t you??
Wipe your chin, you seem to be drooling.
Out of order.
Surely the article you are commenting on contradicts exactly what you are saying? Palestinians taking precedence … but the article reports that Labour is taking action against its MPs because of their supposed anti-semitism. In other words, any criticism of anything Israel does is classified as anti-semitism and is to be punished.
Why? What is so special about Israel that does not apply to other countries? Does Israel have a special right to commit genocide? No, of course not.
You are right to condemn terrorism but one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and one should at least question why there has been a ‘Middle-East Problem’ ever since the British assumed responsibility for the area in 1918. Only 130 years ago there were hardly any Jews in Palestine at all, but in less than 50 years the Zionist cause very successfully managed to displace and subjugate the Palestinians who had owned and worked the land for the previous 2,000 years – and the Zionist cause and its effects continue to this day.
The result is understandable: strife, discontent and millions of refugees. Now place the remaining Palestinians in their own country in ‘open-air prisons’ and you have succeeded in creating a nicely explosive situation.
If you want to read some alternative sources of information regarding the alleged crimes of rape, decapitations and whatever, performed by Hamas, and the recent allegations against the UNRWA then I recommend:
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/18/israeli-army-gassed-auschwitz-soldier/
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/11/beheaded-israeli-babies-settler-wipe-out-palestinian/
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/06/scandal-israeli-october-7-fabrications/
https://expose-news.com/2024/02/12/absence-of-evidence-israels-case-against-unrwa/
But maybe it is all just plain anti-semitism …
What a shame he did not support the working class or the people who pay the tax to keep the whole show on the road.
Will be interesting watching the various Muslim factions forming and running their own political parties.
No time for the man. Wasn’t he also one of the ones who couldn’t say if a woman can have a penis and that he’d rather be at Davos than Westminster?
Kneel is identical to Fishy only dressed nominally in a different coloured flag. They are both fully paid up members of the WEF fan club. And that is all they will ever be – fan boys. They seem to believe that for doing Klaus’s bidding they will eventually gain access to his Round Table but the reality is that they will be discarded when deemed of no further use. Fishy may be allowed to cling on a little longer because of his father-in-law but he will be discarded eventually.
Kneel has no interest in this country and is about as trustworthy as a Democrat CIA operative. He is so dishonest he doesn’t even know if his progeny are male or female and yes he did say that he would prefer to work in Davos rather than Westminster – “every time.” A statement which confirms how bloody thick he really is.
A dangerous, treasonous P O S who is clearly still being coached by Traitor Number One – T. Bliar.
The Working Class has only ever been a useful tool to advance its Socialist ideology. And the Working Class its useful idiots.
Can’t we at least have a new pre-election smear tactic every now and then? And maybe just let people in the middle-east kill each other in whichever ways they see fit and worry about real problems closer to home instead?
Assuming I had a right to vote, I’d be interested in political issues affecting the UK, like, say, why is tendencially every existing building been torn town and replaced with another tower block of empty flats, and what opinons party leaders and prospective MPs have about them. I really don’t care for their opinons about either Israel or Palestine.
Part of the problem may be redefinition of what anti-semitism means. It’s not obvious that criticism of the Israeli military is automatic anti-semitism, or even criticism of the local government being conflated with anti-semitism.
I’m sure some people hate Jews but the term isn’t helpful. I think it’s better to talk about what people’s views are on what the UK should be doing wrt Gaza etc, and what the other sides should be doing, whether there should be a Jewish state etc etc – actual concrete proposals or opinions on specific matters.
A Jewish state exists (again) because the people who wanted and want to have one had and have the military muscle to ensure its existence. The question whether or not it should exist is entirely immaterial.
I would have thought it is highly relevant as what shape some future Jewish state might have would influence choices made now. In what direction should we be working?
That’s one of these completely bizarre human statements I absolutely cannot understand …
Do you believe that the Jews are the rightful owners of this country because God awarded it to them? If so, Israel should obviously exist because such is the will of God! However, what happened to Gods will during the time between 70AD and 1948AD? Did it become his un-will or was it perhaps temporarily suspended? If so, why?
Do you plan to recruit and army of your own or at least send the English army into the region in order to support some kind of outcome? If so, which outcome, if not, what do you mean by working on it?
Singing the songs of one side of the other side in the UK is nothing but local noise.
Of what interest is the existence or non-existence of Israel to anyone who isn’t living in the area and also not planning to conquer it?
This is a political game. Anti-semitism is one of the few sticks the Conservatives have to hit Labour over the head with.
And as always the useful idiots will buy into the game and will be outraged by the “anti-semitism” which in some cases might be real, in some cases might just be sympathy for Palestinians expressed in a way that can be exploited as “anti-semitism”.
What I am pretty sure is that the people driving this care about actual anti-semitism as much as they care about anything else. It goes as far and only as far as it’s politically expedient for them to care.
So for example caring about the jab injured isn’t at all politically beneficial so… they don’t give a sh*t.
Being outraged about “anti-semitism” yields political capital, so they care deeply.
Nail on head.
Graham Jones suspended?
He should have been arrested for inciting racism!
Don’t you mean “arrested for inciting murder or rape”? That’s the only reason for arresting anyone, not for inciting tribalism, for Pete’s sake.
If I were to say ‘F*** Iran’, anybody fighting for Iran should be arrested’, would you say I should be arrested for inciting racism?
I don’t understand how one particular religious group has been given a special protected status everywhere in the world, so that it is an international criminal act to criticise that group. Another religious group has been campaigning at the UN to give themselves a similar protected status, declaring any criticism of them to be a “hate crime”.
You never hear of people having to be investigated for “Anti-Christianism”, do you?
Let’s just drop all this nonsense.
Such a shame, my heart bleeds for him! Poor old kneel.
Labour Party – antisemitism, a feature not a flaw.
Antisemitism is actually written as ‘anti-Semitism’. The contraction makes no sense in logical terms. I know it sound weird but the notion of ‘Semitism’ isn’t that clear. If you look at the Semitic tribes there are certainly cultural tendencies but these are above this level of scrutiny. Therw were certain tribes possessing a certain language group that moved westward. I don’t mean to sound pedantic but frankly this level of discourse is kindergarten or retard level. I am not insulting you personally I am just letting you know.
The excuse being trotted out for Starmer initially supporting anti-Semitic Ali to remain the Labour candidate in Rochdale, is that if Labour didn’t field a candidate which the very large Muslim community there will approve of (ie an anti-Semite), then George Galloway (boo, hiss) might win.
Personally, I see very little difference between anti-Semitic Ali and George Galloway (boo, hiss) except Galloway has been very verbal about Blair’s illegal war in Iraq and also supported leaving the EU.
Labour imported and has assiduously courted “the Muslim vote” and is now reaping what it has sowed. Starmer can only excise anti-Semitism from the Party by removing a very large number of MPs, Candidates, Councillors and Members.
And he isn’t going to do that. He’ll get rid of one or two, mouth platitudes and tell all the other anti-Semites in the Party to keep their mouths shut …… until the crosses are on the ballot paper.