- “Reeves ‘faces hiking taxes again’ as Trump smashes Spring Statement” – Rachel Reeves has been warned she might have to raise taxes again after Trump stepped up his growing trade war, reports the Mail.
- “Trump has Britain in a bind over car tariffs” – There is a factor that limits Britain’s ability to retaliate against US aggression over trade: our hopeless reliance on imports of US gas, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Businesses ‘p—ed off’ with Labour, says CBI Chairman” – The head of Britain’s biggest business group says that Labour’s tax rises and its employment rights Bill have left the UK’s bosses “pretty p—-d off”, according to This is Money.
- “If we don’t change course, this country is doomed” – The Chancellor’s tinkering this week will do nothing to allay the growing threat of an economic crisis, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “If you want to make God laugh, show him your plan for growth” – On Substack, Dr David McGrogan likens Rachel Reeves’s economic forecasts to a futile rain dance.
- “As Reeves pours billions into submarines, unions are rubbing their hands” – The Chancellor’s pledge to turn Britain into a “defence superpower” will please Labour’s biggest backers, says Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
- “Male Channel migrants crowd onto boat, leaving women in sea” – Male migrants were seen crowding on to a people-smugglers’ boat and leaving women in the sea as they prepared to cross the English Channel, reports the Telegraph.
- “Asylum seeker towns where locals are ‘too scared to walk the streets’” – Locals in Britain’s asylum seeker hotspots have complained of being scared for their safety and “taken advantage of” by the Government, says the Mail.
- “The ECHR could be McSweeney’s downfall” – Morgan McSweeney’s attempt to push Labour towards withdrawal from the ECHR could secure the next election, writes J’accuse on Substack. Or, if he fails, it could be his undoing.
- “Islamic tail wagging the British bulldog” – The UK is in danger of sliding into a cultural abyss where traditional British values, and the Christian religion, are eclipsed by Islam, warns Dr Roger Watson in TCW.
- “What the CofE needs from Justin Welby’s successor” – In the Spectator, Emma Thompson argues that the Church of England needs a new Archbishop of Canterbury who can inspire trust, and lead the Church away from managerialism towards a more community-centred approach. No, not that Emma Thompson.
- “Angela Rayner’s staff to strike over demand they return to the office” – Angela Rayner’s own staff have voted to strike over demands they work in the office three days a week, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reform ‘jumped the gun’ with my Rupert Lowe report, says KC” – Jacqueline Perry, the KC hired by Reform UK to investigate Rupert Lowe, says her employers “jumped the gun” by prematurely releasing her report, according to the Telegraph.
- “Shoplifter is cleared of £19,000 theft because of her ‘mental health’” – A member of a professional shoplifting gang dubbed the ‘Spice Girls’ has been cleared of stealing £19,000 worth of designer items because she has “mental health issues”, reports the Mail.
- “Should police have the power to search homes without a warrant?” – The incoming Crime and Policing Bill gives the police warrantless powers of entry to search and seize stolen goods, warns Alexander Baker in the Spectator.
- “‘My campus harassment was a ‘medieval experience’’” – Kathleen Stock’s campus harassment over her gender-critical views led to Sussex University being fined £585,000 for failing to protect her free speech, writes Sanchez Manning in the Times.
- “Fortunes are changing in the culture war” – Sussex University should move on, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “Kathleen Stock renounces academic title over ‘dim-witted’ trans policies” – Kathleen Stock has blasted “dim-witted, claustrophobic” transgender policies still in place at universities across Britain, reports the Times.
- “Kathleen Stock criticises former university for complaining about £585,000 free speech fine” – Gender-critical academic Kathleen Stock has slammed Sussex University for complaining after it was fined for failing to protect freedom of speech, says the Telegraph.
- “The pro-Trump radio host banned from Britain for ‘inciting Right-wing violence’” – Michael Savage says he is the “canary in the coal mine” of the UK’s free speech crackdown, writes Memphis Barker in the Telegraph.
- “Thousands of jobs at risk as British Steel plan to close furnaces” – British Steel says its blast furnaces and steelmaking operations are “no longer financially sustainable” – blaming market conditions, US tariffs and higher environmental costs, according to the Mail.
- “Miliband forced to set aside £8 billion to cover risk of Net Zero disaster” – Ed Miliband has been forced to set aside £8 billion as a de facto insurance policy against carbon capture risks – from CO2 leaks to simply not making enough money, reports the Telegraph.
- “The tide is turning against the fantasy economics that prop up Net Zero” – Many of the things we take for granted are about to be become prohibitively expensive, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Academic publishing is a multibillion-dollar industry. It’s not always good for science” – Some academic publishers have been accused by scientists of being “too greedy” and prioritising profit over research integrity, writes Lucy Montgomery in the Conversation.
- “COVID-19 mRNA injections dangerously reprogramme the immune system, increasing infection risk” – On the Focal Points Substack, Dr Nicolas Hulscher examines evidence suggesting that repeated COVID-19 mRNA jabs may raise the risk of infection rather than reduce it.
- “HHS announces transformation to Make America Healthy Again” – On Substack, Dr Robert W. Malone hails RFK Jr.’s radical Department of Health and Human Services shake-up as a billion-dollar blitz on bloated bureaucracy and chronic disease.
- “BBC reporter deported from Turkey after covering protests” – A BBC reporter has been deported from Turkey after covering protests against the arrest of a leading opposition figure, says the BBC.
- “What Jordan Bardella is doing in Israel” – In the Spectator, Jonathan Miller examines how Jordan Bardella’s visit to Israel helps distance the Rassemblement National from its antisemitic past and positions him as a potential presidential candidate.
- “Amsterdam stabbing: police issue major update after five injured in broad daylight knife attack in city centre” – Five people have been injured in a “mass stabbing” in the centre of Amsterdam, according to GB News.
- “Poland bans migrants from claiming asylum to ‘take back control’” – Poland has temporarily banned migrants from claiming asylum in a bid to “take back control” of its borders, reports the Mail.
- “Higher taxes, more political repression, no solutions: Germany’s next government will be from hell” – The Federal Republic has boarded an express train to Green socialist purgatory, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Greenland to freeze out Usha Vance ahead of controversial trip” – A Greenlandic tourism business which was due to host Usha Vance, JD Vance’s wife, has cancelled the trip amid the Trump administration’s “underlying agenda” for the visit, reports the Mail.
- “Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to restore Putin’s gas empire” – Donald Trump is holding a gun to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding vast reparations and staking a claim to half of Ukraine’s energy, most of its metals and much of its infrastructure, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “The history culture war and how to fight it justly” – On Substack, Nigel Bigger argues that Christians should fight the history culture war with honesty and grace, helping keep debate civil while speaking hard truths.
- “The ‘racism’ legal threat that forced Harry to quit his charity” – In the Telegraph, Victoria Ward reveals the extraordinary collapse of Prince Harry’s charity, Sentebale, sparked by a toxic rift with new chairman Dr Sophie Chandauka, leading to mass resignations, legal threats and allegations of racism and misogyny.
- “Why should parents have to explain ‘gender identity’ to five-year-olds?” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon takes aim at the CBeebies’s Hey Duggee for pushing gender ideology on young children.
- “‘Non-binary’ is not real” – Men and women are free to call themselves what they like, but there is no third sex, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Adolescence and the demonisation of working-class males” – In the New Conservative, Brian Patrick Bolger slams the portrayal of white working-class males in Adolescence.
- “Andrew Tate accused of sexually assaulting and choking girlfriend” – Andrew Tate has been accused of choking and assaulting his girlfriend during a rough sexual encounter at the Beverly Hills Hotel just two weeks after he was let back in the country, reports the Mail.
- “Labour still seems determined to ruin your night out” – In Conservative Home, James Ford slams Labour’s chaotic, contradictory and joy-sapping plans for London’s night-time economy.
- “Labour’s ‘pub banter’ crackdown brutally torn apart by free speech champion” – Toby has blasted Labour plans that could see pub landlords forced to police conversations in pubs to ensure staff are not offended, reports the Express.
- “Toby Young rips apart Labour’s ‘pub banter ban’ in Lords maiden speech” – Toby delivered his maiden speech in the House of Lords with a fiery warning about the ‘banter ban’ buried in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, reports Guido.
- “A proud day for the Free Speech Union! (and the Daily Sceptic!)” – Free Speech Union founder and General Secretary, and our very own Lord Young of Acton, delivers his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
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If it is true that British business does not like socialism they should have spoken up earlier abouit the benfits of capitalism. They should not have pandered to socialism-lite over the past couple of decades.
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Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to restore Putin’s gas empire
‘All evidence so far is that Trump & Putin Inc is a perfectly harmonious joint venture.’
Or not really…..
Compare and contrast:
‘The value of such defense articles shall be determined by the head of the department or agency concerned or such other department, agency, or officer as shall be designated in the manner provided in the rules and regulations issued hereunder.
The terms and conditions upon which any such foreign government receives any aid authorized under subsection (a) shall be those which the President deems satisfactory, and the benefit to the United States may be payment or repayment in kind or property, or any other direct or indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory.’
and
‘the United States of America has provided significant financial and material support to the Ukrainian government since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022;
the American people desire to invest alongside the Ukrainian people in a free, sovereign and secure Ukraine;
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the United States of America and Ukraine desire a lasting peace in Ukraine and a durable partnership between their two peoples and governments;
the United States of America and Ukraine recognize the contribution that Ukraine has made to strengthening international peace and security by voluntarily abandoning the world’s third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons;
the United States of America and Ukraine wish to ensure that those States and other persons have acted adversely to Ukraine in the conflict do not benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine following a lasting peace;’
We signed up to the first one in 1941. Was Roosevelt in a joint venture with the Axis countries?
The Republicans will be out in four years since Trump has no credible successor.
So maybe its a good deal….or probably the only deal….just like 1941……..
It isn’t a deal yet. It isn’t a deal until Russia says it is. Russia is still taking more of Ukraine and won’t stop until it has achieved its goals, whatever Trump might think.
Does the negative score for the uptick mean management intervention?
Can anyone from the DS (or anyone else for that matter) explain what a negative number of thumbs-up means and how it happens?
Also, perhaps you could give everyone an update on how the Ukrainian offensive .towards Kusrsk is going.
Why should anyone expect Putin to have a harmonious relationship with Donald Trump?
Former US governments expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, as opposed to not moving “one inch eastward”. The US government was responsible for overthrowing Ukraine’s democratically elected government in 2014, replacing it with neo-Nazis, who subsequently murdered peaceful demonstrators in Odessa and started ‘ethnic cleansing’ in eastern Ukraine, forbidding use of the Russian language, closing Russian orthodox churches, and indiscriminately shelling civilians there.
The USA, its subservient Europeans and subservient organizations (e.g. OSCE), made a mockery of the so-called Minsk Peace Agreements. US President Biden, standing next to German Chancellor Scholz, promised that the German-Russian gas pipeline, Nord Stream, would not continue to exist should Russia invade Ukraine, to which Scholz nodded his agreement. When this pipeline was destroyed, the Polish then Foreign Minister famously posted “Thank you, USA!” on Twitter.
USA has been supplying weapons and intelligence directly to Ukrainian forces before and since the SMO (Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine). USA and Europe have been assiduously arming and training Ukrainian soldiers from well before the SMO, and are complicit in what only can be described as terrorist attacks inside Russia. CIA (with MI6 never far behind) has been training and therefore leading secret Ukrainian terrorist groups directly behind the Russian border.
You yourself have stated many times that USA is determined to “weaken Russia” and I recently wrote that USA “started and continues this proxy war against Russia, using Ukrainians and their country as abject, disposable pawns”.
There is only one experienced diplomat in the room and that is Putin. He is highly experienced and he knows very clearly that USA cannot be trusted “one inch”, and furthermore that USA can also never in future be trusted one inch.
In my opinion, Russia is very cleverly using the so-called cease-fire negotiations to their advantage, which is pretty easy going considering the amateur politicians they are dealing with.
In the meantime, Ukrainians (and Russians) continue to die but there is only one country to blame for that, and it is not Russia.
That “bastion of democracy” has been implicated in most of the serious conflicts in the world and with regime change too.
Absolutely. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc.
‘Even in an imaginary “full encirclement” in Kursk, Ukrainian forces are shredding RF officers. Marat Tybilov, call sign “Talib,” got a “Gold Star” from Putin a month ago—thanks to Putin, he’s now a dead “hero”!’
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1905577744886378518?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Yes, let those champagne corks fly! War is so glorious and yet another son, brother, husband, father, has been “shredded”. How wonderful.
Well, you need more than one bottle of champagne because the Russian MoD states in today’s report that AFU losses “were more than 320 troops” only today, most of whom will also have been “shredded”.
It is truly time to stop this nonsense.
‘Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Oblast has drawn and fixed Russian forces to the area and reportedly spoiled several Russian offensive efforts.
The Kursk Oblast incursion complicated Russian efforts to intensify offensive operations in northern Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Zaporizhia oblasts.
The Kursk Oblast incursion also highlighted Russia’s inability to rapidly respond to unexpected Ukrainian activity in one sector of the front without limiting or deprioritizing another sector and has prevented experienced Russian VDV and naval infantry units from redeploying to support offensive operations in priority areas and drawn significant amounts of equipment from operations in Ukraine.’
‘Pasi Paroinen, an analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group, said that several videos verified and geolocated by his organization showed Ukrainian forces entering the Belgorod region. Ukraine, he said, managed “to secure a proper buffer zone of defendable terrain and capture several villages along the border within the first few days of the attacks’
‘“How did this happen? Russian forces completely f***ed up the moment when the enemy cleared mines at the border and pulled back the Dragon’s Teeth using armored vehicles to create a corridor to Demidovka,” Romanov stated bluntly. “They just gave it up. They just left. After that, the enemy occupied it.”
Certainly, Russia was clearly taken by surprise when Ukraine’s elite troops (many of them foreigners) invaded the Kursk region. But to claim it was a military victory is hardly credible. Russia has a 2,000km border with Ukraine, which makes any incursion anywhere fairly easy – to start with. But Russia is patient and now claims Ukrainian losses in Kursk alone to be 70,700 troops, 402 tanks, 327 infantry fighting vehicles, 290 armoured personnel carriers, 2,233 armoured fighting vehicles, 2,561 motor vehicles, 589 artillery guns, 53 MLRS launchers, and so on and so forth. Furthermore, those elite troops were badly needed elsewhere in Ukraine. But que sera, sera.
The only people who benefit from war are in the military industry. Starmer’s pathetic attempts to induce the UK and others to participate in this US conflict are utterly shameful.
A nice piece of post rationalisation by our pet Z fanboy.
Expectations vs. Reality
‘A few days ago, he was thrilled to go kill Ukrainians; now it’s: “We got smashed,” “I’m all wounded, can’t feel my arm.”
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1905621587002347685?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Expectations vs Reality
‘A Russian officer, in a plea to Putin, gripes that their commanders force them to buy gear, fix equipment, and even purchase lumber for bunkers out of their own pockets. Anyone who resists gets tossed into a forest pit for days without food for “re-education.’
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1905610472457396376?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
“If we don’t change course, this country is doomed”
“Reeves ‘faces hiking taxes again’ as Trump smashes Spring Statement”
One thing that has struck me with recent developments is the interviews that have been broadcast with regard to welfare cuts. Many people now see it as a prime function of the Government to provide them with 100% of the money they need. It seems to me that historically this is an amazing position to hold. I do not think you have to go back too far in history before you will be back in times where nobody had really countenanced the idea that the Government should bail out everyone and pay for all its citizens needs. The fact that we now do this not only has a huge impact on our economy, it seems to have a huge social and psychological impact.
If you were starting from scratch would you design a welfare system like we have in the UK at the moment? Listening to some of the recent comments and interviews it did strike me that as a rule of thumb Governments should not seek to fund more that 50% of its citizens needs. Immediately of course people will demand to know where the other 50% is going to be derived? Indeed it would be hard to move back to such an approach but if you had started of with such a premise then systems, charities, insurance schemes, family help etc. would all have built up to meet the other 50%. I feel that such an approach would make people more inventive, resourceful, self reliant and resilient and able to give more up-beat interviews than the rather doleful dismal ones I have heard broadcast in recent days.
I agree. I keep linking to this, but it’s very good and might seem long but he’s so watchable the time flies by: Antonin Scalia, Is Capitalism or Socialism More Conducive to Christian Virtue? 09/06/2013 Skip forward to about 4 minutes 20something to jump over the preamble.
And to fund this all there is a growing call for ‘wealth tax’…..
The ‘average tax bill’ per household is £49,000, (not earnings, but tax), As a large number pay little tax, mostly through VAT, just how do we expect the ‘Wealthy’ to cover the rest of the bill.
It makes me livid. These policies have been tried before and have ended in tears.
But it is an easy sell to the majority, who are not directly affected by this and cannot see the overall picture and consequences.
I still have my grandfather’s steelworker’s wage slip from a hundred years ago, detailing a gross weekly pay of £1 17s 6d, which the family of four was self-reliant, hardworking and resourceful enough to live off.
Used to tell me they’d always voted Conservative. By the 1970’s, better not get Grandma started on the “country the buggers won’t work for.”
I didn’t get where she was coming from then. I do now.
“Businesses ‘p—ed off’ with Labour, says CBI Chairman”
‘People bought into the idea that Labour would be the most pro-business Government ever and clearly they aren’t,’ the City grandee said.
More fool them. Same school of lies as £300 off energy bills – although CBI complaint bit rich coming from CBI that’s spent the last two decades pandering to ECHR, ESG, DIE and associated claptrap.
Not for nothing did my last corporate employer’s recent press-release claim pride in the national award won by the company’s LGBTQ+ group…
“Miliband forced to set aside £8 billion to cover risk of Net Zero disaster”
Another £8 billion to sluice away mitigating the £22 billion already earmarked for squandering on State-sponsored folly called CARBON CRAPTURE.
Amounts to over double the Chancellor’s £14 billion black hole.
When you’re in a hole, Kommissar for Energy Insecurity, stop digging.
Set aside another £8B of borrowed money to be exact…
“Higher taxes, more political repression, no solutions: Germany’s next government will be from hell”
Ja, Meine Green Kommissars.
Hubris precedes Nemesis.
Economic Götterdämmerung awaits.
“The Chancellor’s pledge to turn Britain into a “defence superpower”
How? Where are all the troops going to come from? The mainly young white british male who the government is always blaming for everything?, indoctrinated into believing Britain and its history is racist, colonial and a fascist state and must be hated?
What a fu@king joke she is!
“A proud day for the Free Speech Union! (and the Daily Sceptic!)”
Yet ironically later that evening, the Sceptic’s article headed, “Is Labour Bending to US Pressure on Free Speech?” isn’t open to commenter free speech…
…What’s goin’ on? Has the Sceptic been leaned on by Sir Two-Tier and the massed-forces of lefty lawyers?
You’re claiming that you can’t comment on the Sceptic’s article headed, “Is Labour Bending to US Pressure on Free Speech?” while commenting on it.
“Why should parents have to explain ‘gender identity’ to five-year-olds?”
They shouldn’t! Leave em alone, it’s called innocence
I’ve just finished watching his wonderful speech— what a blast of fresh air he brought to the House of Lords! And you could see that it was very well received, and even got a few laughs. He even championed the great tradition of British Pubs, quoting the Campaign for Real Ale.
It was an excellent maiden speech— well worth watching in full.
“Amsterdam stabbing: police issue major update after five injured in broad daylight knife attack in city centre”
Many mainstream reports forgot this detail:
Amsterdam: English Tourist Hailed As ‘Brit Hero’ After He Pins Down Knifeman Who Injured Five In Stabbing Spree (VIDEO)
Here’s a photo of him: