- “‘Keir Starmer has golden opportunity but instead he’s screwing up on tariffs’” – The Prime Minister has a range of economic options but he must reverse Labour’s course to achieve them, says John Longworth in the Express.
- “Britain suffers ‘unprecedented’ fall in productivity” – Britain has suffered an “almost unprecedented” plunge in productivity in a fresh setback for the Chancellor’s growth ambitions, reports the Telegraph.
- “The 14-mile Thames crossing delayed by 66 miles of paperwork” – Decades of dithering and bureaucracy within Britain’s broken infrastructure system has left vital projects stuck in purgatory, says Ben East in the Telegraph.
- “High-tax London losing millionaires at the same rate as Moscow” – London is losing its millionaire residents at a similar rate to Moscow, with 30,000 gone in the last decade, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tech company sorry for ad targeted to ‘immigrants from India’ only” – A UK-based tech company has apologised after placing a job advert where it said only Indian immigrants would be considered, says the Mail.
- “Britain doesn’t need yet another equalities quango” – Labour’s obsession with DEI is both anti-business and anti-cohesion, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Spectator, following the news that the Government is creating yet another equalities quango.
- “Labour’s ‘bonfire of quangos’ lasts three days as new ‘Race and Disability’ body created” – Guido Fawkes paints Labour’s much-trumpeted bonfire of quangos as a damp squib, noting that instead of setting fire to them, the party has quietly created 28 new ones.
- “The punishment of Lucy Connolly” – Lucy Connolly remains in prison for a tweet – her 12 year-old daughter without a mother, her sick husband without a carer, says our own Laurie Wastell in the Spectator. Two-tier Keir should not be allowed to forget it.
- “Musk hits out at treatment of mother jailed for Southport post” – Elon Musk has blasted prison chiefs for denying a mother jailed over last summer’s riots the right to spend temporary leave with her daughter and sick husband, reports the Telegraph.
- “CPS ‘bringing back blasphemy’ by prosecuting man for burning Koran” – Prosecutors have been accused of resurrecting the offence of blasphemy through “the back door” after charging a man for burning a copy of the Koran, says the Times.
- “Sir Philip Green loses ECHR battle to limit free speech in Parliament” – There are calls for Sir Philip Green to be stripped of his knighthood after his “shameless” attempt to use the European courts to fetter Parliamentary privilege, reports the Telegraph.
- “The new Ludendorff” – Dominic Cummings is not the new Bismarck – he is the new General Erich Ludendorff: supreme war lord of Germany from 1916-18 and consummate political dabbler, says J’accuse on Substack.
- “Kirkham prison governor guilty of relationship with inmate” – A prison governor who began a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss in the jail she ran has been found guilty of two counts of misconduct in public office, reports the BBC.
- “Council rejects VE Day anniversary parade because it’s ‘too elitist’” – A military parade marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day has been rejected by councillors because it is “too elitist”, says the Express.
- “Miliband’s Net Zero sprint at risk because green tech ‘too expensive’” – PwC warns that Ed Miliband risks falling short of Net Zero targets because the green technology required is too expensive, according to the Telegraph.
- “German journalist convicted for free speech meme” – In a despicable attack on the freedom of speech, a German Right-wing journalist has been sentenced to seven months’ probation for mocking Left-wing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, writes Zoltán Kottász in the European Conservative.
- “German journalist sentenced to seven months of probation for a Twitter meme poking fun at the Interior Minister’s lack of commitment to free speech” – On Substack, Eugyppius writes about David Bendels getting seven months’ probation for mocking Germany’s Interior Minister with a meme mocking for not believing in free speech – proving that he was write to mock her for not believing in free speech.
- “Hamas has a history of using ambulances for war” – Until the media holds Israel’s enemies to the same moral standards it demands of Israel, it won’t be a guardian of truth – only a willing accomplice in the very violence it decries, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
- “Johnny Rotten is right: Hamas is a gang of ‘Jew exterminators’” – Never mind the bollocks – John Lydon knows the truth about Israel and Hamas, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Canada is more conservative than politicians think” – In the Spectator, Jane Stannus argues that Pierre Poilievre’s path to victory lies not in mimicking Liberal centrism, but in embracing the socially conservative values quietly held by Canada’s “normal majority”.
- “Elon Musk tears into Trump’s ‘moron’ trade adviser” – Elon Musk has savaged President Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro as a “moron” after he criticised Tesla, reports the Mail.
- “People who received a flu shot this winter were more likely to get the flu, a major new study shows” – Flu shots don’t work and we need to stop pretending they do, says Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Biden administration concealed congressionally mandated report on earliest suspected American Covid cases” – Seven Americans may have caught COVID-19 in Wuhan as early as October 2019 – months before the pandemic’s official start – claims a bombshell military report the Biden administration allegedly hid, reports the Washington Free Beacon.
- “Study reveals potentially deadly risk of drinks like Diet Coke” – Scientists have found that aspartame, a common artificial sweetener found in products like Extra chewing gum, contributed to a worrying rise in diabetes risk, reports the Mail.
- “People ‘weaponise’ ADHD to make excuses, suggests Sue Perkins” – Comedian Sue Perkins claims that, unlike others. she does not “weaponise” her ADHD, according to the Standard.
- “Transgender pool player Harriet Haynes suing governing body over ban” – The transgender pool champion at the centre of angry protests over his playing in women’s events is suing one of the sport’s governing bodies for banning him from female-only competitions, reports GB News.
- “The cringeworthiness of showing Adolescence in schools” – For Starmer and most of the rest of the political class, ‘vital conversations’ with ‘experts’ are how you deal with teenage problems, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “The dangers of ‘sensitivity reading’” – In Café Américain, Frederick Attenborough argues that sensitivity readers are gutting literature by swapping literary nuance for identity politics.
- “The reviews for Meghan Markle’s latest podcast are in” – The Telegraph, Standard and Guardian all gave Meghan’s new podcast Confessions of a Female Founder two stars, while there were also withering write-ups in the Times, Express and i Paper, reports the Mail. Almost makes you feel sorry for her.
- “‘Lockdowns were catastrophic for the pub trade’” – On the Last Orders podcast, entrepreneur Luke Johnson discusses the tragedy of pub closures during lockdown.
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“The dangers of ‘sensitivity reading’”
Pack ’em off in the Tardis for a spell in Dachau or the Gulag Archipeligo to acquire some Lived Experience of the finer points of “sensitivity.”
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The new Ludendorff
‘Ludendorff made use of cutting-edge methods: he pioneered the offensive battlefield tactics that would later evolve into the Blitzkrieg’
Ahem……..
‘The true role of infantry was not to expend itself upon heroic physical effort, not to wither away under merciless machine-gun fire, not to impale itself on hostile bayonets, but on the contrary, to advance under the maximum possible protection of the maximum possible array of mechanical resources, in the form of guns, machine-guns, tanks, mortars and aeroplanes; to advance with as little impediment as possible; to be relieved as far as possible of the obligation to fight their way forward.’
General Sir John Monash 1918
In 1918, Ludendorf adopted Stosstruppen tactics often translated as “storm troops,” although the German word Stoss means more accurately a push or stab.
‘their availability was a primary consideration in Ludendorff’s calculated risk for a major offensive in the west in the spring of 1918. Storm troops and their infiltration tactics also figured prominently in his calculations. He counted on the cumulative shock effect of many local instances of deep infiltration to break the enemy lines…….It was the most capable troops that were thrown into all of the attacks, while those that remained behind were of the lowest quality, and when the German reserves were exhausted, it was the best troops that were spent.’
https://michaeltfassbender.com/nonfiction/the-world-wars/big-picture/storm-troops-and-infiltration-tactics-in-the-german-army-in-world-war-i/
The brilliant German General, Heinz Guderian, responsible for the German triumph in France in 1940, had built on Stosstruppen tactics to develop his own theories of combined arms tactics incorporating armoured vehicles but he borrowed heavily from the writings of Major General J.F.C. Fuller.
It was also Fuller whose thinking informed Monash and General Rawlinson, the author of victory, under Field Marshal Haig, at the Battle of Amiens 1918 which ultimately concluded WW1.
Fuller’s ‘Plan 1919’, never needed due to the success at Amiens, was, arguably, the real origin of ‘Blitzkrieg’, a blueprint in reverse for Von Manstein’s Ardennes offensive plan to conquer France in 1940:
‘In the initial phase of Plan 1919, a phalanx of 2,600 heavy tanks and 400 medium tanks, supported by concentrated airpower, would penetrate the German defences along a 90-mile front. In other words, just the first wave of the offensive would comprise more tanks than the Germans employed to conquer France in 1940.’
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/think-germany-invented-blitzkrieg-think-again-193686
“Sir Philip Green loses ECHR battle to limit free speech in Parliament” – There are calls for Sir Philip Green to be stripped of his knighthood after his “shameless” attempt to use the European courts to fetter Parliamentary privilege, reports the Telegraph.
I’m slightly disappointed. I’d like to see the ECtHR go head to head with Parliament. It might provoke some action.
“Miliband’s Net Zero sprint at risk because green tech ‘too expensive’”
Just look at the painfully ironic results of Millipede’s predecessor “green laws”, which Starmer is celebrating in the news today:
Starmer signs £50bn theme park deal with Trump’s most-hated media company
“The Universal theme park will be built on the site of the former Stewartby’s brickworks, which WAS ONCE THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD, PRODUCING 500 MILLION BRICKS PER YEAR.”
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“The site closed in 2008 as the owners, Hanson, COULD NOT MEET UK LIMITS FOR SULPHUR DIOXIDE EMISSIONS.”
“Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedforshire, England, originally built for the workers of the London Brick Company. The village was designed and built to the plans of the company’s architect Mr F W Walker, laid out on ‘Garden City’ principle, a later and more modern development than such better-known Victorian model villages as Saltaire.”
“In the 1970s, Bedfordshire produced 20% of England’s bricks.”
“At its peak London Brick Company (former name of Stewartby Brickworks) had its own ambulance and fire crews, a horticultural department and a photographic department, as well as its own swimming pool inside the factory, and ran a number of sports clubs.”
“More than £1 million was spent on Stewartby Brickworks in 2005–7 in an attempt to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions. It closed in May 2008.”
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Today, “United Kingdom imports Bricks primarily from: Ireland ($2.67M), Turkey ($2.25M), France ($1.26M), China ($1.05M), and Spain ($641k). The fastest growing import markets in Bricks for United Kingdom between 2022 and 2023 were China ($750k), France ($233k), and Spain ($232k).”
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Read it and weep for this beautiful land…
Presumably the emissions rules in Ireland, Spain and France were those of the EU and with its usual enthusiasm, the UK gold-plated them in order to “lead the world”.
Yes, it’s just heartbreaking what the Globalist B*stards have done to this land, this beautiful land of our ancestors.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/08/sir-philip-green-loses-ehcr-battle-limit-free-speech/
What a pillock. A few bob in Kneel’s pocket would have sorted this. He’s not expensive.
Majority of 214 wildfires started on purpose, say firefighters according to the BBC.
Erm. Doesn’t that mean they aren’t wildfires?