- “A Prime Minister’s plans being undone by the OBR… we’ve heard that one before” – Politicians should not be hindered by unelected officials from doing their job, says Kwasi Kwarteng in the Telegraph.
- “Michael Gove to receive peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours” – Michael Gove will be awarded a peerage in ex-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list on Friday, according to the National.
- “Asylum seeker avoids deportation because of all his Facebook friends” – An Iranian asylum seeker has won the right to appeal against deportation by arguing his large number of Facebook friends puts him at risk of persecution, reports GB News.
- “‘I work at a migrant hotel. Even when residents are granted asylum they try to come back’” – In the Telegraph, an insider at a migrant hotel describes how newly recognised refugees immediately apply for welfare and housing support.
- “The immigration lawyer fighting to legalise Hamas” – With a series of shocking anti-Israel statements to his name, Fahad Ansari has a new client – Hamas – and is lobbying the Government on their behalf, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Connolly shouldn’t be in prison” – In Spiked, Ian Acheson argues that Lucy Connolly’s 31-month prison sentence for a racist social media post is disproportionately harsh, especially when compared to the leniency shown to actual rioters.
- “Pseudoscience, a salad garden and a study on pregnant men: how Britain’s quangos spend your money” – In the Telegraph, Charlotte Gill outlines where Labour could begin its ‘bonfire of the quangos’ if it was serious about overhauling the system.
- “‘Tories could work with Reform on councils’” – Kemi Badenoch says that Conservative councillors should be free to enter into coalitions with Reform UK after next month’s local elections, according to the Irish News.
- “Eco warriors are driving themselves to extinction” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that eco-zealotry and climate guilt are contributing to plunging fertility rates in green political strongholds, potentially driving themselves to extinction.
- “Welcome to Woke County where WW2 parades are axed and prayers banned” – In the Mail, Tom Cotterill and Lettice Bromovsky chart Hertfordshire’s transformation into Britain’s “wokest county”, where VE Day parades are cancelled for being ‘elitist’ and Christian prayers are banned.
- “Kim Leadbeater’s for-profit suicide service” – Kim Leadbeater’s ‘assisted dying’ Bill has become a moral horror show, says Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
- “The lunacy of Gillian Mackay’s abortion Bill” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle savages Gillian Mackay’s “safe access zones” abortion Bill as a ludicrous bit of overreach that criminalises silent protest.
- “Funeral of a friend who had the Covid booster – and developed raging cancer” – In TCW, Prof Angus Dalgleish reflects on the death of a friend from aggressive cancer after receiving the Covid booster.
- “A speculative prediction as to why Marks was afraid to let Secretary Kennedy access the VAERS data” – On Substack, Jessica Rose argues that Peter Marks, former head of the FDA’s vaccine division, blocked RFK Jr.’s team from accessing full VAERS data to prevent him discovering racial and demographic patterns in vaccine side effects.
- “As the AfD tops the polls, Germany’s political establishment is facing an existential crisis” – The leading German parties of Right and Left – the CDU and the SPD – have failed the people they are supposed to serve, says Elisabeth Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Did Trump really mean to slap tariffs on the world?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that Trump’s tariff threats may be calculated brinkmanship rather than economic madness.
- “Trump’s tariff pause is terrible for democracy” – If the most powerful leader in the Western world can’t implement a policy, what hope is there for the rest of us? asks Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Trump is right to take on the free-trade fundamentalists” – The old order of globalisation and industrial decline has failed working-class Americans, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “Billionaire investor Bill Ackman defends Donald Trump’s tariff play” – On Substack, Alex Berenson dissects billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s defence of Donald Trump’s controversial tariff strategy.
- “Why the Liberation Day tariffs were faintly terrifying and why it is probably good that Trump has walked the greater part of them back” – On Substack, Eugyppius argues that while Trump’s presidency has been a necessary corrective to the Left-wing excesses of recent years, his tariff proposals were dangerously misguided.
- “Trump’s tariffs might spell the end of China” – In the Telegraph, Benedict Rogers argues that President Trump’s targeted tariffs on China, if successfully leveraged by the global community, could cripple China’s economy and potentially lead to a domestic uprising.
- “Oxford debate contest forces hundreds of children to declare pronouns” – The biggest British debating competition in the world run by the Oxford Union pressures hundreds of children to declare their gender pronouns every year, reports the Mail.
- “Police force accused of anti-white bias has fair recruitment, says Cooper” – Yvette Cooper has refused to criticise West Yorkshire Police for having a racist recruitment policy, says the Telegraph.
- “Police officers being taught they have white privilege” – Thames Valley Police has introduced “equity training” which covers topics including “white privilege”, “micro-aggressions” and the difference between being “non-racist versus anti-racist”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Welsh Government offers £5,000 more to student teachers from ethnic minorities” – The Welsh Government has been blasted for offering ethnic minority students £5,000 more in grants than their white counterparts to train to become teachers, says the Times.
- “‘I have changed my mind: anti-white racism exists’” – As time passes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore what looks like a growing pattern of institutional discrimination against white Britons, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph.
- “Transgender fencer leaves women’s team” – A transgender fencer has left the women’s squad at a US college after an opponent’s refusal to face him went viral, according to the NY Post.
- “England was forged by Christianity – but we’re giving it up” – Bijan Omrani’s superb book, God is an Englishman, argues that we take our national faith for granted – and that young people suffer as a result, writes Rowan Williams in the Telegraph.
- Who cares if Kemi Bandenoch has watched Adolescence?” – In the Spectator, Stephen Pollard slams the absurdity of media outrage over Kemi Badenoch’s refusal to watch the Netflix drama Adolescence.
- “‘I don’t need to watch Casualty to know what’s going on in the NHS’” – The hosts of BBC Breakfast are visibly offended that Kemi Badenoch hasn’t watched Adolescence, but the Tory leader is having none of it.
Kemi Badenoch torches BBC Breakfast: ‘I don’t need to watch Casualty to know what's going on in the NHS.’
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) April 10, 2025
This is insane. The BBC are visibly offended that Kemi Badenoch *hasn't* watched the Netflix drama Adolescence.
I had to post the whole thing, it's utterly absurd. pic.twitter.com/sTr9ZJhCmQ
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Well done Kemi hitting back at the smug presenters.
Maybe she could have asked why all the Post Office workers have still not been paid compo after the TV show highlighting this issue.
Or maybe we could have a BBC series over the blood scandal where some of them still have not received compensation or even a TV show of the rape gangs and some’fictional police & other State paid workers standing back and letting it happen’.
Perhaps we could have a “fictional” series about ‘safe and effective,’ that should get the viewers interested.
“Pseudoscience, a salad garden and a study on pregnant men: how Britain’s quangos spend your money”
Congratulations to the redoubtable Charlotte Gill for making the MSM. As a commenter on the Telegraph article states, “Interesting how many of these act as slush funds for Net Zero, DIE and other parts of the progressive agenda.”
Given that “Labour has also created dozens more quangos (including the Fair Work Agency and the Independent Football Regulator) since coming to power,” I somehow doubt Labour will be lighting many bonfires of the vanities, inanities and insanities.
“Oxford debate contest forces hundreds of children to declare pronouns”
Defund South Midlands Arts College!
“Welsh Government offers £5,000 more to student teachers from ethnic minorities”
And no human rights legal parasite anywhere to be seen.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-pows-war-crimes-putin-zelenskyy-a2185297338af410fb5122448e62db76
‘The Ukrainian soldiers clambered from the ruined house at gunpoint — one with arms raised in surrender to the Russian troops — and lay face-down in the early spring grass.
Two drones — one Ukrainian and one Russian — recorded the scene from high above the southern Ukrainian village of Piatykhatky. The Associated Press managed to get both videos.
They offer very different versions of what happened next.
The Ukrainian drone video, which AP obtained from European military officials, shows soldiers with Russian uniform markings raising their weapons and shooting each of the four Ukrainians in the back with such ferocity that one man was left without a head.
“Out of all the executions that we’ve seen since late 2023, it’s one of the clearest cases,” said Rollo Collins of the Centre for Information Resilience, a London group that specializes in visual investigations and reviewed the video at AP’s request.
“This is not a typical combat killing. This is an illegal action.”
The Russian drone video, which AP located on pro-Kremlin social media, cuts off abruptly with the men lying on the ground — alive. “As a result of the work done by our guys, the enemy decided not to be killed and came out with their hands up,” wrote a Russian military blogger who posted the video.
Two videos. Two stories. In one, the prisoners appear to live. In the other, they die.
‘evidence of potential war crimes continues to mount’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14597453/Britain-backing-plans-Nuremberg-style-trial-Vladimir-Putin-amid-calls-Russians-prosecuted-crimes-invasion-Ukraine.html
‘Britain is set to back prosecuting Vladimir Putin for war crimes in a move modelled on the Nuremberg trials of Nazis after the Second World War.
It is understood the UK will join most European nations to back proposals at the Council of Europe to put Russians on trial for ‘crimes of aggression’ during the invasion of Ukraine.
An ad hoc military tribunal would be set up to prosecute Russian generals and leaders for war crimes, according to plans Britain will back at a meeting of the European human rights organisation next month.
A UN study found in March last year that Russia was continuing to commit serious rights violations and war crimes in Ukraine, including ‘systematic’ torture and rape.
The high-level Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the rights situation in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, said that it had found fresh evidence of widespread abuses.
It also voiced concern about the continued use of explosive weapons in civilian areas, confirming ‘a pattern of disregard by Russian armed forces for possible harm to civilians’
‘The evidence shows that Russian authorities have committed violation of international human rights and international humanitarian law and corresponding war crimes,’
COI chief Erik Mose
You are wasting your time, sweetheart. Nobody is interested any more.
Although the ICC established jurisdiction over crimes of aggression…….this only applies to countries and nationals from countries that are party to the Rome Statute. Russia, like the US and China, is not a signatory.
This is why Western allies have explored the option of creating an ad-hoc tribunal that would be empowered to prosecute the specific case of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
“Without the crime of aggression, there wouldn’t be any war crimes either,” High Representative Kaja Kallas said in early February.
“Therefore, it’s extremely important that there is also accountability for the crime of aggression. No one from Russia and no one from Russia’s leadership is untouchable.”
“It is also very important to send a signal that unpunished crimes only encourage further aggression,” she added, stressing the tribunal should be set up “before the war is over”.
“I’m personally convinced it’s not going to be a fake institution in the Hague with no impact but that it’s actually going to serve for years to come, and history will judge this tribunal very positively.”
The immunity that heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers enjoy is considered an additional, and formidable, obstacle to the in-person prosecution.
“However, international law is evolving, and personal immunity is not a carte blanche for impunity,” the spokesperson of the Council of Europe said.
“The Council of Europe believes that the formula found for the Special Tribunal on this issue will suffice to ensure accountability and fight impunity.”
The last time the crime of aggression was brought to justice was during the Nuremberg trials held after World War II
The conditions are laid out in the draft agreement that would provide the legal basis to set up the special tribunal within the framework of the Council of Europe, a human rights organisation based in Strasbourg. The organisation is not part of the European Union but the bloc is closely involved in the process.
Technical work wrapped up in late March during a meeting of the so-called “Core Group” in Strasbourg, which produced three separate draft documents: a bilateral agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe, the statute of the special tribunal and the agreement detailing the management of the special tribunal.
The signature is pencilled to take place in Kyiv on 9 May, coinciding with Europe Day, although the exact timeline will depend on the political endorsement.
The limitations on the trial in absentia are seen as a “compromise” between countries, an EU official indicated. Following months of deliberations, the provision is now a “done deal”, with virtually no chance of being amended before the presentation.
“At the end of the day, it’s about politics and bargaining,” the official said.
Once Kyiv signs the agreement, the text will be put to a vote in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which gathers representatives of the 46 nations that are party to the organisation. Russia was expelled shortly after it launched the war.
A two-thirds majority will be needed to ratify the deal, and is all but guaranteed thanks to the broad support for the initiative among member states.
Some countries that have espoused Russian-friendly positions, such as Hungary and Serbia, might abstain or vote against it, although no individual vetoes will apply.
Democratic nations outside the continent, like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, are expected to join the initiative, broadening its legitimacy.
“The immigration lawyer fighting to legalise Hamas”
Arrest him for aiding and abetting a proscribed terrorist organisation!
“Trump’s tariffs might spell the end of China” – In the Telegraph, Benedict Rogers argues that President Trump’s targeted tariffs on China, if successfully leveraged by the global community, could cripple China’s economy and potentially lead to a domestic uprising.
Destabilising a country like that could easily lead to a shooting war. If the CCP feel threatened by
their own peoplethe people of China they will stir up jingoism and are quite capable of committing them as cannon fodder into a war with neighbouring countries.Reciprocal jingoism if you like.
“Lucy Connolly shouldn’t be in prison”
True. And neither should hundreds of others like father-of-three Bradley McCarthy, jailed for nearly 2 years:
UK riots: Man jailed for shouting at police dog and racist slurs – BBC News
“Bristol Crown Court heard he played a “prominent” role in trying to goad police, and had “aggressively” shouted at a police dog.”
[There was no mention of the “racist slurs”, added to the BBC headline to give further justification for throwing him in prison.]
I hope KING CHARLES III will issue A ROYAL PARDON to all those British Patriots unjustly imprisoned for protesting against the Horrific Rapes and Murders of CHILDREN by Third World Immigrants welcomed to the UK and supported by UK Taxpayers.