- “Labour Minister dismisses rape gangs as ‘dog whistle’ issue” – Lucy Powell, the Labour Cabinet minister, is facing calls to resign after dismissing the grooming gangs scandal as a “dog whistle” issue, the Telegraph reports. (Guido also has the story.)
- “How Reform’s Doge units will tackle council waste” – Nigel Farage has pledged to establish a mini-version of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in every council under Reform UK control, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reform’s councils begin war on Net Zero projects in countryside” – Richard Tice has declared that Reform’s local authorities will do everything to block renewable developments, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reform’s new MP: ‘We will stand up to sexual violence from illegal migrants’” – Reform’s first female MP Sarah Pochin says she is concerned by the attitudes of some in migrant hotels, the Telegraph reports.
- “Kemi Badenoch ‘will not chase Farage to the Right’” – Kemi Badenoch will not “chase Reform to the Right” despite suffering an historic defeat in Thursday’s local elections, Conservative strategists have decided, according to the Telegraph.
- “You can only defy the British people for so long” – The humiliation of the Labour and Conservative parties in Thursday’s elections has been on the cards, says Andrew Neil in the Mail. “You can only defy the wishes of the British people for so long.”
- “Tories are in retreat as Reform marches on… nothing will be the same again” – “Many people will wonder how the strange death of the Conservative Party came about,” writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph. “In fact, there is no mystery.”
- “A Revolt Is Brewing in Britain, With Farage Leading the Way” – Reform UK’s rise is no fluke, it’s the beginning of a reckoning, says John Mac Ghlionn in Restoration.
- “Labour are on their final warning after Reform’s success” – A few years ago, Keir Starmer declared his mission was to transform Labour into the “political wing of the British people”. Well, it doesn’t seem to have worked, says Dan Hodges in the Mail.
- “The Conservative Party is no dodo. We can come back from the fire that has devoured us” – Kemi Badenoch must ignore the siren voices urging her to rush out policy proposals, think up gimmicks and cosy up to Reform, says Francis Maude in the Telegraph.
- “Reform’s gains show fight for the Right is on” – While Labour looks safer, local elections suggest Kemi Badenoch hasn’t long to save herself — and the Conservatives, says Paul Goodman in the Times.
- “Nigel Farage has blown apart two-party politics. Here’s what’s next” – Badenoch’s in a doom loop, the smaller parties are on the march and Starmer’s searching for a story — could it see him jettison two ministers and an entire department, asks Tim Shipman in the Times.
- “Labour’s catastrophic defeat is a massive economic risk” – The temptation to fight Reform by spending more money can only end in financial crisis, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Anthony Albanese declares victory in Australian election” – Australia’s centre-Left Labour Government claimed victory on Saturday after a tense election shaped by concerns over housing, the cost of living and the shadow of Donald Trump, says the Telegraph.
- “Australian election: Trump helps topple second conservative leader” – Right up until the results came in, nobody expected the political earthquake that struck Australia, with most expecting Labour to struggle to form a minority government. Terry Barnes in the Spectator looks at what happened.
- “In Australia and Canada, Trump destroyed the Right: in Britain, it must unite to avoid that fate” – A backlash against US policy across the Anglosphere should serve as a warning to the Tories and Reform, argues Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Domestic spy agency declares Alternative für Deutschland to be a ‘confirmed Right-wing extremist’ organisation, as authorities inch closer to banning the party” – All you need to do, to be a Nazi these days, is believe that being German involves something more than holding a specific passport, says Eugypppius.
- “US hits out at Germany’s ‘tyranny’ after AfD designated extreme group” – J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio have condemned the move in Germany that gives the authorities greater leeway to monitor the AfD and paves the way for a ban, reports the Telegraph.
- “Banning populists only fuels anger against elites” – Germany’s first step towards outlawing the AfD is just the type of hubris that gives rise to populism in the first place, warns Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “‘Extremism’ label will only help the AfD” – The latest move against the AfD will only backfire, says Katja Hoyer in UnHerd.
- “Miliband sacks Dame Mary Archer from Net Zero adviser role” – Dame Mary Archer has been sacked from the board of Ed Miliband’s Net Zero department in what has been described as an attempt to “suppress all opposition” to his policies, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s team of climate extremists is leading us to disaster” – Looking at the Energy and Climate Change Secretary’s top team, it’s almost as if we have Extinction Rebellion directing the UK’s energy policy, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Do Green voters know what they’ve done?” – Those who voted Green in ignorance of its trans and Left-wing extremism will spend the next four years regretting their vote, says Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
- “NHS trust uses derogatory ‘terf’ slur in official guidance” – An NHS trust has come under fire for using the derogatory term ‘terf’ in a guide on how to support transgender staff, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Kneecap row makes our cultural elite look like brazen hypocrites” – More than 100 of Britain’s leading pop stars – including Paul Weller, Brian Eno, Thin Lizzy and Primal Scream – have signed an open letter, stoutly defending Kneecap’s “artistic freedom of expression”. The Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon suggests this commitment to free speech won’t extend to less woke causes.
- “BBC to launch review of Gaza coverage after antisemitism claims” – The BBC is to appoint an independent figure to investigate its Arabic channel after several of the channel’s contributors posted anti-Jewish sentiments and expressed support for Hamas, the Telegraph reports.
- “Iceland has abandoned free speech” – A gay-rights activist faces new charges for thoughtcrime, says Andrew Doyle on Substack.
- “Bridget Phillipson’s perfect storm for schools” – In its manifesto, Labour pledged to recruit 6,500 new teachers and the Education Secretary reiterated this a few days after the election. It’s not exactly going to plan, says Toby in the Spectator.
- “Labour VAT raid blamed for closure of ‘outstanding’ prep school” – A private school has said it is closing down in part because of higher taxes imposed under Labour, reports the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero and Slave Labour” – Paul Sutton composes an ode to Ed Miliband.
- “Woke is sinking fast. Ireland’s elites want to go down with the ship” – The liberal establishment is unwilling to admit the foreign origins of the dogmas it now clings to, says Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
- “David Horowitz, intellectual godfather of the Trump administration” – Telegraph obituary for David Horowitz, who has died aged 86.
- “Inside town convulsed by fear after 300 male migrants arrived at hotel” – Six months on from moving into a hotel in Altrincham, the Mail has discovered many of the original migrant arrivals have been evicted, only to start living in tents nearby.
- “Britain is ‘compliant servant of communist China’, says Trump’s tariff chief” – Donald Trump’s tariffs tsar has accused Britain of being a “compliant servant of communist China” at risk of having its “blood sucked” dry by Beijing, in an interview with the Telegraph.
- “CCP releases White Paper on COVID-19 origin: A desperate struggle in its death throes” – On America Out Loud, early Chinese Covid whistleblower Dr Li-meng Yan gives her take on China’s latest Covid origins propaganda.
- “Don’t ask about pronouns, university students told” – Asking someone for their pronouns is now not inclusive, university students have been told, as interrogating them could pressure them to ‘out themselves’ as transgender, the Telegraph reports.
- “Our local shuttered brewery tells the story of Labour’s assault on small businesses” – They endured Covid and declining alcohol consumption, but Labour’s tax hike was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Exmoor Ale, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “This is unacceptable! We cannot tolerate this kind of identity politics in our society, it will bring us to ruin like it has elsewhere” – Watch on X Singapore’s Prime Minister hold an emergency press conference after content urging Muslims to vote for Islamist candidates circulates online.
Singapore’s Prime Minister holds an emergency press conference after content urging Muslims to vote for Islamist candidates circulates online – “This is unacceptable! We cannot tolerate this kind of identity politics in our society, it will bring us to ruin like it has elsewhere” pic.twitter.com/eBOdjyHLmX
— ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ(@kunley_drukpa) May 3, 2025
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Kemi Badenoch will not “chase Reform to the Right”
Question.
If Stalin is on the far left and Hitler is on the farright and people like Blair and Cameron and John Major are in the centre where does someone like me, who believes is almost zero state intervention, sit?
Maybe its time to think about life in more 3 dimensional terms, politics today seems to sit within the confines of a protected, risk averse society that seems to value safety and protection more than it values freedom.
To my mind true freedom involves taking a risk, chancing your arm but of course if you take this approach you might lose and your might suffer and that sort of thing is not tolerated in our cotton wool world.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
I’ve written this before. It was an absolute genius move by socialists after WWII to brand the Nazis as far right.
In doing so they transformed their sectarian fight into the entire political spectrum and after 80 years of that, the condition of minimal state or government interference in one’s life, the default state of affairs for most of human history, has been almost banished from people’s minds so that they struggle even to conceive it.
When you talk of actual freedom, the common response is to be regarded as eccentric, unrealistic. It’s viewed with horror.
Huxley really nailed it. But I guess it was easier to see in the 30’s when the transformation was taking place and people would still have had first hand experience of freedom in one’s life.
Hitler on the far right..? The leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.? Its a common misconception, probably due to the nationalism, but the Nazi’s were really a left wing, totalitarian, collective minded kind of outfit.
If you believe in zero government, then you are an anarchist, and should join an Anarchist group, although I have to warn you, no-one turns up to the meetings.
Sorry for repeating your post Neil, didnt see it till afterwards 😞
And yet if you do an on-line search you will most likely find Hitler described as a fascist and the Nazi’s as a far right fascist party. Perhaps that brings us back to the old idea that the far left and the far right meet at the bottom and are much the same.
Facism is national collectivism, (‘all to join together as one’) and it was Mussolini’s big idea, developed with Giovanni Gentile. I do see your point about a continuum, but I think its really got more to do with the population at large seeing these figures as all part of one ‘enemy’ during WW2, whereas their philosophies and beliefs were very different.
(Hitler was far left too!- the National socialist german workers party)
Kemi should not need to ‘follow’ Reform to the right, they are tories, they should already be there!
I know Hitler and the Nazis were socialists (left) but in common political discourse they are branded Far Right. Neo Nazi groups are defined as Far Right.
I guess you completely missed my point that there is no space in the spectrum of common political discourse for the idea of limited government.
It has been wiped out,eliminated. Or worse. Those who advocate the reduction of government and regulation are generally referred to as Right wing. Reagan, Thatcher, Milton Friedman.
So it follows that if you believe in minimal government you would be extreme right. The same as Hitler and the Nazis. Which is patently absurd.
So, again, where on the political spectrum does a believer in very limited government sit?
Good question.
I doubt many who use the terms “far left” and “far right” could coherently explain what specifically it is about whoever they are describing that makes it one of the two, or outline a generally applicable set of criteria that can be applied.
I think you nailed the problem earlier when you mentioned the hijacking of the “right wing” definition to include the Nazi regime. If that hadn’t happened and that regime had been defined as a variety of “left wing” i.e. collectivist then those of us who believe in the absolute bare minimum of collectivism necessary for the enjoyment of liberty could comfortably declare ourselves to be “right wing”.
One approach is to ask anyone who uses those terms to explain what they mean and then set out your position and ask them to say what part of the spectrum you are on. If they are being honest and open they might see the problem and learn something.
I see the fundamental divide being between collectivists and individualists. Collectivists would be on the left and individualists on the right. The picture gets blurred a bit by the separate social and economic aspects – people on the political right seem to be more socially conservative, which if it’s enforced by law (e.g. proscribing homosexual behaviour) is seen as tyrannical. I wonder if laws against homosexuality are in many ways a form of moral collectivism. For clarity, I don’t advocate laws against homosexuality, but I do see it as somewhat aberrant.
The left have succeeded in planting a big giant turd where freedom from collectivism would otherwise sit, the turd being the entire Nazi legacy.
Ooh, don’t want to go too far to the right… that’s where the Nazis are….
What a great way to make sure collectivism can’t ever be properly challenged.
It’s a bit like the term nationalist – years ago that would have been seen as the patriotic, default positive position to hold, whereas now it’s been associated so much with ‘the far right’ to be seen as distasteful
Excellent point
Everything the socialists and so called progressives don’t like they brand as “right wing” and then remind everyone (falsely) that the Nazis were extreme right.
So, you know, too much of that and you’re a Nazi.
What a great strategy. You have to hand it to them.
Key question to ask people: under what circumstances is it acceptable for the many to threaten the few with violence when the few do not comply with what the many think they ought – such as robbery, or not paying their taxes.
Maybe the idea of a spectrum in politics is as illusory as the one claimed for sexuality. Maybe one should instead view things as dipoles, in this case: those supporting small government, those supporting ubiquitous government.
Outside? 😉
I feel exactly the same way
The confusion arises from trying to describe political values on a single axis. Then to conclude that Stalin and Hitler were at opposite ends is bizarre: they were both socialists, both anti-semites, both vicious authoritarians and both economically and financially illiterate.
My point exactly. Except of course that this is reality now. Take a poll of what people think extreme right and the overwhelming majority will tell you Nazis, neo-Nazis etc.
And socialists will put everything on that specturm because it suits them very well.
Somewhere on here?
Isn’t this diagram basically saying that the left right spectrum is useless?
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“In Runcorn and Helsby, Labour held the seat by just six votes.”
An appalling mistake at the very beginning of this article which suggests the article was written before the results were announced and the writer didn’t bother to check. Neither did DS Editorial.
Thanks for pointing that out, will investigate
“Miliband sacks Dame Mary Archer from Net Zero adviser role”
PhD physical chemist and former Cambridge lecturer educated in the Laws of Thermodynamics sacked by Kommissar for Energy Insecurity educated in the Laws of Wishful Thinking.
Although one has to wonder what she has been advising…
But the scientists say …….. presumably Mary didn’t say the authorised thing.
And even more sinister…
“Ed Miliband’s team of climate extremists is leading us to disaster”
…State-sponsored treason by The Enemy Within running the Kommissar’s Department of Energy Insecurity.
The Kommissar Must Fall.
Interesting post which touches on the psychology of why women support the trans ideology, or at least in this person’s opinion. It goes some way to explaining the behaviour of many women generally, though, and I’d say it applies also to this site. Where are all the women on here who are unafraid to challenge, contradict, express their ‘unpopular’ opinions or get stuck in to a debate? Well, they’re all silently sticking to the confines of the DS echo chamber, unwilling to rock the boat and being agreeable. Which does rather explain why I’ve always been the anomaly in that regard;
”To understand why so many women are not just on board with gendershite but are actively and enthusiastically promoting it, I think we have to look beyond the subject itself (gendershite) and focus on how women reacted to and fitted into mass movements/cults throughout history.
We keep telling them all the ways they are damaging their own rights and the rights of other women by mainstreaming what is essentially a male exhibitionist paraphilia. Yet still they plough ahead.
It’s clear by now that beating them over the head with all the outrageous consequences of this devastatingly misogynistic movement — men punching women for sport, rapists housed in mother and baby wards in prison — is pointless. They are not swayed by reason. There is clearly something else going on.
They don’t think about all that stuff because they have committed to going along with the ideology of our era : radical social justice for historically marginalised groups. The government has cleverly disguised some of its political priorities as social justice, especially gender and LGBT issues, and women have eagerly signed up to join the (radical empathy) revolution.
But the specific theme of the “cause” is immaterial. Generally speaking, women go along with the crowd. The safest place for us is within the mob. We can carve out our own roles in the mob. We can even excel as high-ranking mobsters. We make the best Aunt Lydias. The first murders of teachers by Mao’s Red guards were carried out by schoolgirls.
But the majority of women won’t risk social death by going up against the cause du jour.
Our behaviour in herds is likely issue-agnostic, probably driven by an evolutionary need for safety in numbers. That’s why the girlfriends you thought you knew offer only a flat, glassy-eyed reaction when you tell them the details of the latest Reduxx article. What incentive do they have to be social renegades?
Figuring out how to short-circuit handmaidens’ herd-driven lunacy might be a better use of our time than exhausting ourselves feeding them evidence of how ridiculous and dangerous gendershite is.
How did women behave during historical revolutions, religious movements/cults/ institutions, witch hunts/political uprisings etc… More importantly, how were they deprogrammed? How can we prevent them from further perpetuating the great entrooning?”
https://x.com/RoisinMichaux/status/1918700728605950127
Top comment. The ”be kind” is mere rhetoric though, when women are supportive of child mutilation, grooming and all-round abuse of kids/vulnerable young people. So much for the stereotypical ”nurturers”;
”You might want to recognize how female socialization works under every single patriarchy, and then look at how it works under this one. It’s the same. The ‘being kind’ becomes women’s currency. It is how we prove we are ‘good girls’, ‘good women’. It’s a virtue signal.
Women are groomed to do this — to look after whomever society deems vulnerable and to put women’s needs last, and to police everyone else to do the same.
Little girls are indoctrinated from when we are tiny to ‘care’, to ‘be kind’, to not put ourselves first, to not take up too much space for ourselves, to care for others first, and to ensure everyone else is ‘kind’.
We are told for whom we must care — men mostly, and anyone society says is ‘vulnerable’ (re: men: we must care for and about men even to the point of constantly seeing ourselves through the male gaze and trying to fashion ourselves accordingly).”
https://x.com/Women___Exist/status/1918710604703097025
Marycate nails it. Yet the amount of women that enable this degeneracy is obscene;
”There is literally no better explanation for why grown men claim to be women than this.”
https://x.com/salltweets/status/1918846470872027603
I just can’t seem to stop offending people, can I?😃 I think I’ve found my super power.🦹♀️ ….But don’t speak up and ever use words, whatever you do.🤫 Just remember the mark of the coward and to always use these guys as a communication substitute > 👎👎👎😉
If someone disagrees with your opinion, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are offended by it, nor that they wish you any ill-will.
Oh it does where I’m concerned, the amount of haters I’ve accumulated over the years. But you know what they say: “Haters are your most loyal fans”, and unless they show a bit of backbone and post actual words explaining why they disagree, ( you know, like grown ups? ) then “offended” they shall remain, until proven otherwise.
I’m not sure what you mean. I see no haters on this thread. No downticks, no snark…?
Do you need your eyes tested? And I’m referring to haters in general. I have a knack for collecting them over the years. It seems people on here can’t handle an opinionated woman with zero filter so they get triggered. They’re none too pleased if you’re not the submissive, handmaiden type. The passive people-pleaser, too cowardly to say “boo” to a goose.
After all, most men seem to think I’m a “misandrist”, though not one has been able to supply any sort of supporting evidence. Easier just to hurl insults and allegations from behind the safety of their devices, emboldened by a cloak of anonymity, right? 🙄
Perhaps I do need my eyes tested. I’ve seen you have spats with various commenters here on DS, but I see none in this thread.
I actually think you made some good points and I don’t think I earned your rudeness.
But since you mentioned it, perhaps you could stop referring to your victimhood at every opportunity, and maybe engage in good faith with those who ask an honest question. Just saying.
Comment on the speech of the Singaporean PM.
How can you keep religion out of politics? We have had parties of different religious denominations in lots of countries for a long time.
“you do not rewarded for growing food…..”, by Harry, about half way into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs2QbOyRc2Q Look what’s good for Net Zero – allegedly.