- “How scientists misled the world about Covid’s origins” – The suppression of the lab-leak theory is the mother of all Covid scandals, writes Matt Ridley in Spiked.
- “Lockdown: a reckoning” – Five years on, we must not let the elites off the hook for the unhinged experiment they inflicted on us, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Why Labour Science minister must come clean over Wuhan lab leak claim” – In the Mail, Ian Birrell demands Lord Vallance come clean about his role in helping bury the truth about Covid’s origins.
- “Experts reveal the truth about Covid jabs and cancer” – How seriously should we take claims that some of the Covid jabs cause cancer? The Mail looks at the evidence.
- “Whitehall ‘to cut £2.2 billion off admin costs’ as Reeves struggles for cash” – The civil service will be told to slash more than £2 billion a year by the end of the decade as Rachel Reeves desperately tries to balance the books, reports the Mail.
- “Rachel Reeves the least trusted politician in Britain on the economy” – According to a new poll, Rachel Reeves is the least trusted politician when it comes to the economy, reports the Mail.
- “‘Let her raise taxes, then sack her’: why Reeves’s number may be up” – The Chancellor has painted herself into a corner as “the mother of all rebellions” looms, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves’s growth-sapping taxes can only get worse” – The Chancellor’s tax hikes have already done enormous economic damage, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph. And if she raises taxes again, the damage will only get worse.
- “Think Britain is going down the drain? We are the envy of the world” – As the UK loses record numbers of millionaires, many in Europe still see boundless opportunities here, says Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Farage ‘goes to war’ with teachers union over Reform claims” – Reform UK’s Nigel Farage has vowed to “go to war with the teachers’ unions” after the country’s biggest education union slammed the party as “far-Right and racist”, reports the Mail.
- “A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters” – In the Guardian, Lizzie Dearden heads to Runcorn ahead of the by-election triggered by Labour’s Mike Amesbury quitting – and finds locals calling for change.
- “Putin will weaponise the ECHR against British troops in Ukraine, Starmer warned” – Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that British troops sent to Ukraine as part of a planned peacekeeping force could face “vexatious” human rights prosecutions, according to the Parliament Politics.
- “Illegal migrant avoids deportation because he lost his phone and ID” – An illegal Iraqi migrant has avoided deportation from the UK after claiming he had lost his phone and identity documents, reports the Mail.
- “Inside the county bearing the brunt of Britain’s asylum seeker crisis” – Kent’s unfortunate geographical position means the county is forced to bear the brunt of the migrant crisis, writes Piriyanga Thirunimalan in the Mail.
- “Families’ anger over plans to build mosque car park on ‘village green’” – Alarmed local residents have raised concerns over their village green being replaced by a mosque car park, reports the Mail.
- “‘I condemned the October 7th massacre. It cost me my job’” – A sewage worker has been sacked by Severn Trent Water for condemning the October 7th massacre, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Model sues Gymshark after ‘Zionist’ posts allegedly led to her being axed” – A social media star is suing Gymshark for £775,500, claiming the brand ditched her after her pro-Israel stance sparked an online backlash, according to the Times.
- “Heathrow ‘had enough power to avoid shutdown’” – The head of National Grid says that Heathrow Airport had enough power to keep running, despite an “unprecedented blaze” tearing through a nearby substation, reports LBC.
- “Ed Miliband just doesn’t fit into Labour’s new story” – Labour has a Miliband problem, says Jason Cowley in the Sunday Times.
- “MPs’ energy vote raises questions over ‘slave labour’ solar panels” – Ed Miliband is expected to block a bid to stop the Government buying Chinese solar panels feared to have been made with slave labour, reports the Mail.
- “Grandmother told to wait seven hours for ambulance – then it took twice as long” – An 81 year-old grandmother waited over 14 hours for an ambulance after suffering a fall in a bathtub, says the Mail.
- “The West has blinded itself to the suffering of Middle Eastern Christians” – There are no shortage of protests for Palestinians, but only silence for religious minorities facing persecution, says Benny Morris in the Telegraph.
- “NHS nurse punished for calling transgender paedophile ‘Mr’” – A senior nurse is suing an NHS Trust after being investigated and disciplined for not referring to a male paedophile by his preferred female pronouns, reports the Sun.
- “Ocado waters down ethnic minority targets as bosses go cold on DEI” – Ocado has scaled back its ethnic diversity targets for senior roles amid a broader corporate retreat from diversity initiatives, says the Telegraph.
- “Even Oxford University has bowed to the cult of gender ideology” – For 800 years, Oxford University has conferred degrees in Latin – but in a sign of how far the lunacy has gone, it is now set to change the wording to make it more ‘inclusive’, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Cambridge librarian made race claim after time off request was denied” – A University of Cambridge librarian has sued for race discrimination after not being allowed to take an entire term off to go to India, reports the Telegraph.
- “Disney faces being sued over Snow White snub of ‘little people’” – The ‘little people’ (dwarves) originally cast in Snow White are planning a class action lawsuit against Disney for replacing them with “cartoons”, says the Mail.
- “‘Everything woke turns to shit’” – On X, il Donaldo Trumpo has posted an alternative Snow White intro.
LOVING THE NEW SNOW WHITE INTRO!!!
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) March 23, 2025pic.twitter.com/y0iobu82VI
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Putin will weaponise the ECHR against British troops in Ukraine, Starmer warned
In fact, Putin cannot even weaponise his own soldiers.
It’s looking increasingly likely that peacekeepers will not be required.
If only because many on the Russian side are choosing peace without them.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1903876960733806610?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
‘The United States can use the enormous challenges Russia will face in 2025 as leverage to secure critical concessions in ongoing negotiations to end the war by continuing and even expanding military support to Ukraine.
Russia will likely face a number of materiel, manpower, and economic issues in 12 to 18 months if Ukrainian forces continue to inflict damage on Russian forces on the battlefield at the current rate.
Russia’s defense industrial base (DIB) cannot sustain Russia’s current armored vehicle, artillery system, and ammunition burn rates in the medium-term. Russia’s recruitment efforts appear to be slowing such that they cannot indefinitely replace Russia’s current casualty rates without an involuntary reserve mobilization, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown great reluctance to order.
Putin has mismanaged Russia’s economy, which is suffering from increased and unsustainable war spending, growing inflation, significant labor shortages, and reductions in Russia’s sovereign wealth fund.
These issues will present difficult decision points to Putin in 2026 or 2027 provided current trends continue.
Putin thus is likely prioritizing breaking Western and particularly US support to Ukraine in 2025 and securing his desired end state in negotiations, letting him avoid facing the nexus of difficult problems he now confronts.
US military aid to Ukraine has let Ukraine drive Russia towards a critical moment when Putin will have to make hard choices.
The United States can accelerate the moment when Putin must grapple with these interlocking problems and can likely coerce Russia into making the concessions on its demands necessary to secure a peace acceptable to the United States, Ukraine, and Europe.
The United States can achieve a strong negotiating position and negotiate a deal that maximizes American interests by continuing military aid to Ukraine and increasing battlefield pressure on Russia.’
Thanks to the outstanding success of the ‘Bad Cop’ President Biden’s strategy to weaken Russia, ‘Good Cop’ President Trump now holds the whip hand….and he knows it. That is why, as an experienced negotiator, he is allowing Putin to save face in the hope that that will permit an agreement.
It will not….but it had to be tried…….
And this year’s fiction prize goes to ……….
My apologies. I forgot to post the name of the author of my quotation. She is, in fact, Russian.
‘Christina Harward is a Russia Analyst whose research interests have included the Russia-China relationship, Russian militarization of the Arctic and the Russian diaspora in the Baltics.’
It is no good apologising to yourself.
For all the text in this posting about matters unrelated to the ECHR problem, I am convinced that any member of the armed forces must go into actioin in the knowledge he / she could be called to court in the several decades afterwards to face charges. The treatment of troops who were deployed to NI to defend citizens and the state from the IRA and other terrorist groups shows that none of today’s troops can feel safe.
In contrast, members of the EU’s armed police brigade EuroGenFor have lifetime imunity for anything they do. No ECHR would act against the EU because it is their lawfare arm.
All good points, well made.
But there will be no British Army ‘peacekeepers’ in Ukraine.
There may, however, be training teams.
So the ECHR angle seems likely to be irrelevant.
Nevertheless it is something that any serious and responsible government would address forthwith.
That neither of the two major parties have chosen so to do reflects extremely badly on them.
Unsurprising, therefore, that our major ally no longer takes this country seriously in matters of defence and international relations.
There already are British forces in Ukraine acting as “trainers”, helping direct the missiles and providing military intelligence. It is suspected that quite a few have died there, with their deaths disguised as “training accidents” in other parts ot Europe and the North Sea.
There is a great deal of nonsense on stilts generated by a whole variety of wannabees and random poseurs.
‘Misinformation about Western countries’ involvement in the war in Ukraine has continued to spread online almost three years after Putin’s full-scale invasion. In a recent case, a photo ricocheted across social media posts that falsely claimed it shows coffins of British soldiers killed in the conflict. However, the picture predates the war by more than a decade and was taken after 14 British servicemen died in a 2006 plane crash in Afghanistan.’
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36MM6QY
Britain has been training Ukrainian troops in the UK since 2022.
There is a small team of British Army medics providing training inside Ukraine.
Whitehall ‘to cut £2.2 billion off admin costs’ as Reeves struggles for cash
Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result….
We know what happens next.
Senior figures and their massive supporting (dis)functionary bureaucracies remain while staff doing the real job are cut.
How else did we end up with the highest taxes since 1945 and the worst public sector productivity, a militia instead of an actual army and a police force with no Policemen on the beat?
Systemic reform is required….you know….like an actual strategic plan….not some stupid ‘mission driven management’ buffoonery……
Ye Gods!
“Putin will weaponise the ECHR against British troops in Ukraine, Starmer warned”
Why should Starmer object to a foreign leader joining our institutions in weaponising the ECHR?
According to one of Patrick Lancaster’s latest YouTube videos, Russian troops have been told to execute all mercenaries on the spot, since mercenaries are apparently not protected by any Geneva convention. So Putin will not need the ECHR at all.
That’s quite scary that Putin could just have our troops shot as “mercenaries”, with zero reference to the Geneva Convention.
Yet another reason no member of Parliament should consent to any deployment of any British troops in any capacity to defend the borders of a foreign country thousands of miles away, while allowing criminal alien hordes to invade our own borders.
The solution is to declare war on Russia instead of pretending to be non-belligerents. But then our government would have to face the responsibility of making their people (ie us) a legitimate sitting duck for missile-strikes.
And so they prefer to order working class squaddies to fight clandestine wars and be treated as mercenaries – and then complain it’s not fair.
Who has ordered this? Where
Hear, hear! Absolutely spot on— the first time I have ever heard anyone stand up for “Working Class Squaddies”, sent by politicians sitting comfortably at home, to be maimed and killed in yet another foreign war that has nothing whatsoever to do with the British Isles !!!
No answer…..because no supporting evidence…..as usual…..only poseur posturing……..
‘About Defendant
Born on 7 October 1952, President of the Russian Federation.
Accused LastName
Vladimirovich Putin
Accused FirstName
Vladimir
Charges
Allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes, (i) for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute), and (ii) for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility (article 28(b) of the Rome Statute.’
And Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Thank goodness for our institutions.
As opposed to the as yet unconvicted crooks – the family and chums of Brandon.
Or was Russia moving children who were in social care out of harms way after they were abandoned by the Ukrainian authorities who were supposed to have a duty of care for them?
It is worth noting that some of the children have been returned by Russia to parents who expressed a desire to be reunited with their children and who could provide proof of parenthood.
It is also interesting to look further into the child trafficking performed by Ukrainians. Yet another illegal money-making scheme courtesy of Ukraine.
Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on 13th March 2025:
I will now present data on the children who have suffered and died as a result of the criminal actions of the Kiev regime from 2014 to the present. These data have been compiled by our Ambassador-at-Large on the Kiev Regime’s War Crimes, Rodion Miroshnik. He gathered this information in close collaboration with our law enforcement agencies, authorised bodies, regional authorities, public organisations, and citizens.
These figures are not final. I will not claim that they are entirely precise. Why? Because in recent days, as our forces liberated Sudzha and entered courtyards and basements, they discovered, among other things, children’s skulls. This data will continue to be updated and refined. However, I will provide an overview to give everyone an understanding of the crimes committed by the Kiev regime against children with Western funding. To give an idea of the scale.
Over the past decade, the hands of Ukrainian militants – inhuman individuals – are stained with the blood of no fewer than 1,700 children. I reiterate, these are approximate preliminary figures. Following the video published by Russian media on March 12 of this year, featuring direct quotes from our soldiers who liberated Sudzha and held what is likely a child’s skull in their hands, you can imagine how many more such tragic and horrifying discoveries await us.
Let me remind you that, according to data from the Joint Centres for Control and Coordination of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, from 2014 to the start of the special military operation, at least 129 children were killed in the Donbass republics as a result of the Kiev regime’s aggression. More than 500 minors were injured.
Since late February 2022, in the border regions of the Russian Federation, at least 830 minors have been wounded, and no fewer than 218 children have been killed as a result of the criminal actions of the Bandera junta.
In 2024 alone, 347 children have fallen victim to the neo-Nazis: 296 minors were injured, and 51 children were killed. The youngest girl murdered by the Ukrainian Nazis was just four months old.
Over the past year, children fell victim to artillery and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure, stepped on mines, and were harmed by cluster munitions. There are confirmed cases where tragedies were caused by explosive devices disguised as toys, which were scattered by the punitive forces in areas frequently visited by civilians, including children.
The number of young Russians harmed by AFU drone strikes over the past year has reached 55: 44 minors were wounded, and 11 were killed. Drone operators targeted civilian vehicles, public transport, residential buildings, playgrounds, markets, and cafes.
In December 2024 alone, two boys, aged 9 and 12, were killed in their own homes, effectively in front of their parents, as a result of deliberate drone strikes on small private dwellings: on December 1, 2024, in Starodub, the Bryansk Region, and on December 14, in Veseloye, the Belgorod Region. Another similar tragedy was narrowly averted at the end of December 2024 in Razumnoye, the Belgorod Region, where an eight-year-old child survived but sustained moderate injuries to the spine.
Over the past year, the highest number of minors harmed by the criminal actions of the AFU was recorded in the Donetsk People’s Republic (127 children wounded, 11 killed), the Belgorod Region (88 wounded, 12 killed), and the Kursk Region (24 wounded, 4 killed).
Furthermore, according to the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, due to barbaric shelling by the militants of the Kiev regime in the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, as well as the Kherson, the Zaporozhye, the Belgorod, the Bryansk, and the Kursk regions, at least 20,242 children were deprived of the opportunity to attend kindergarten in 2024; 173,762 school students and 12,439 students of vocational schools were transferred to distance learning using remote technologies. In these regions, at least 396 kindergartens (9 destroyed), 503 schools (35 destroyed), and 104 vocational education institutions (5 destroyed) were damaged over the course of the year.
This statistic will serve as a tombstone for the Kiev regime. All those in EU and NATO countries who regularly vote to support the Kiev regime should give it some thought. What do you endorse?! Whom are your weapons aimed at? How are these tens, hundreds of millions of dollars and euros being spent?
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1904244333647389111?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Lockdown: a reckoning
The whole sorry mess was created by Whitty in combination with Farrar and Ferguson all of whom knew nothing about Coronaviruses but a lot about how to respond to Ebola. It was clear very early on that covid was not at all similar to Ebola. All the rest was achieved by an over mighty public sector which has not changed since 2010:
‘Much of my present role has come about because of the need to redo work that was never completed to a remotely adequate standard.
The same thing happens whenever “efficiency savings” are called for: another big review gets under way, the same problems are discussed, committees are created … and then everyone carries on as before.
Instead of waiting like martyrs for the axe to fall, the civil service could act. It could forget about further costly top-down examinations of recurring problems and instead ask everyone to take it upon themselves to do something about wastage.
I can think of any number of places it could start.
Stop spending money on conferences to discuss saving money.
Stop wasting a fortune on IT systems that don’t work.
Stop employing consultants when a few underused and knowledgeable employees could do the same job.
Stop ignoring staff who don’t pull their weight.
Stop trying to bend the rules; if you’re told you can’t travel first class, don’t book yourself into business class instead, knowing it costs the same.
Stop the “us and them attitude” towards the private sector’ 2010
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/23/how-scientists-misled-the-world-about-covids-origins/
Yawn.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14526897/Labour-science-minister-Patrick-Vallance-Wuhan-lab-leak.html
Yawn.
The BBC tells us about Teachers in divorce ‘limbo’ take pension legal action
Essentially the complaint is that it takes too long to put a transfer value on a Teacher’s pension which can mean that divorce financial settlements can be significantly delayed. I assume that such delays would also affect someone seeking to transfer their Teacher’s pension into a new employers’ or stakeholder scheme.
The excuse?
If the calculations are extremely complex they sound ideal for completion by computer. It should be possible to request and receive a valuation interactively – same day.
But Nigel, it is YOU who are calling British Patriots “Far-Right and Racist” !!!
It’s Time for a NEW PARTY, starting with a Dream Team of:
RUPERT LOWE as Party Leader & People’s Prime Minister
ANDREW BRIDGEN
DAVE ATHERTON
PAUL WESTON
not forgetting the Lady Patriots such as Katie, Bernie, Lucy and so many others,
as well as Tommy Robinson, Nick Griffin, Lawrence Fox, Douglas Murray, Gerard Batten, Paul Thorpe, Dan Wooton, Darren Grimes and all the countless other Patriots sneered at by ReformLibLabCon as “THAT LOT”…
And thanks to Elon Musk for inspiring British Patriots to even think of forming a completely new party!