- “Supermarkets may be asked to freeze prices of milk, eggs and bread” – Rachel Reeves is considering asking supermarkets to freeze the prices of staples such as milk, eggs and bread in a desperate bid to ease the cost-of-living crisis, reports the Times.
- “Why Rachel Reeves’s supermarket socialism is doomed to fail” – The Chancellor risks emptying retailers’ shelves with her dangerous proposal to dictate prices, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Supermarkets face ‘triple whammy’ of problems, warns M&S” – M&S boss Stuart Machin warns retailers are facing a triple whammy of headwinds from increased taxation, more regulation and ongoing global conflict, reports the Telegraph.
- “Andy Burnham’s Labour would beat Reform, poll finds” – Polling reveals the Manchester Mayor would win back a third of voters who’ve deserted Labour since the 2024 election if he replaced Sir Keir Starmer as leader, according to the Telegraph.
- “Andy Burnham is a political con man” – The King of the North’s reputation as Manchester’s saviour is wholly undeserved and he offers no real solutions to any of Britain’s problems, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Burnham – does he know what a woman is?” – Women with gender-critical views in the Labour Party have called on Andy Burnham to publicly clarify his stance on trans issues if he wants to win their trust, reports the Times.
- “Burnham loses support of Dragons’ Den star over trans views” – Duncan Bannatyne has publicly dropped his support for Andy Burnham over the Manchester Mayor’s pro-trans views, reveals the Express.
- “Phillipson to ban trans women from female toilets” – The Equalities Minister is finally going to publish official guidance confirming that single-sex spaces are off-limits to biological males, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain faces refugee quota if it rejoins EU” – Britain would be forced to accept quotas of refugees relocated from Europe if Labour took the country back into the EU, claims the Telegraph.
- “Billionaire Brexit backers pledge to fight to keep Britain out of EU” – Leave donors Lord Cruddas and Peter Hargreaves have pledged to bankroll a fresh campaign to fight any attempt by Labour to drag Britain back into the EU, reports the Telegraph.
- “Grooming gangs whistleblower speaks out” – On X, former detective and whistleblower Maggie Oliver says an “assurance review” into Greater Manchester Police failed survivors by ignoring ongoing failures and silencing victims, after resigning from what she called a “box-ticking exercise”.
- “Albanian burglar facing third deportation flaunts Porsche” – An Albanian burglar fighting his third deportation order has flaunted his brand-new £150,000 Porsche on social media just weeks before his asylum appeal hearing, according to the Telegraph.
- “See no evil” – On his Substack, Neil O’Brien reveals that the Government is refusing to publish data it holds linking migration and crime, despite a growing number of horrendous cases.
- “Without a culture shift, Christian street preachers will continue to be arrested” – Christian street preachers are being arrested under a section of law originally intended to deal with football hooliganism, notes Julian Man on Christian Today.
- “Jury discharged after failing to reach verdict in police assault case” – A retrial jury has been discharged at Liverpool Crown Court after failing to reach verdicts in the case of two brothers accused of assaulting a police officer at Manchester Airport, according to the Mail.
- “Watering down sanctions on Russian oil is ‘insane’” – Kemi Badenoch has branded as reckless the Department for Business and Trade’s decision to allow imports of “relevant processed oil products” to stave off price surges, reports the Times.
- “The BBC can no longer deny the bias warping its news coverage” – New BBC Director-General Matt Brittin must grip the progressive madness distorting the reporting of trans issues and much else, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “Why does the BBC think Afghan men are selling their daughters?” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill asks why the BBC appears more concerned with the plight of fathers trading their own children than the little girls being treated as chattel.
- “ADHD shouldn’t give automatic right to Blue Badge, says Transport Secretary” – Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander insists that an ADHD diagnosis alone should not entitle motorists to a Blue Badge, according to the Telegraph.
- “Two ‘people hunters’ on Sarajevo sniper tours investigated by Austria” – An inquiry is under way into the “Sarajevo Safari” which allegedly allowed wealthy tourists to hunt men, women and children during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, says the Times.
- “Bolt CEO fires his entire HR team because they ‘created problems’” – Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and Chief Executive of US fintech firm Bolt, has defended his decision to fire the company’s entire HR team, claiming they had been “creating problems that didn’t exist”, according to the Mail.
- “Gemma Collins’s video with Bridget Phillipson angers parents” – Videos with The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins promoting Bridget Phillipson’s SEND policy have backfired, with parents slamming them as insulting and a mockery of the struggle to secure SEND support, says the Times.
- “Covid vaccination in pregnancy: the case weakens” – Fresh data and analysis continue to undermine the official insistence that Covid jabs in pregnancy are safe and effective, writes Dr Roger Watson in the Conservative Woman.
- “Coal power generation surges in Southeast Asia” – ASEAN governments are abandoning Net Zero pledges and turning to fossil fuels as affordable energy sources amid a gas crunch and surging prices, according to Vijay Jayaraj in the Hill.
- “The climate myth based on outdated assumptions and invalid scenarios” – Climate policy has been built on a central premise: that rising populations and expanding economies would inevitably drive ever-increasing pressure on the planet. But the world that gave rise to that assumption no longer exists, say Samuel Furfari and Roland Duchatelet at Clintel.
- “Researchers find rapid global warming phase at end of last Ice Age (ca.18,000 years ago)” – New research reveals that a sudden burst of natural warming occurred at the close of the last Ice Age some 18,000 years ago, long before human emissions could have played any role, according to P. Gosselin on NoTricksZone.
- “I love our country… and one of the things I love is good manners” – A tetchy Chancellor Reeves was confronted by an angry heckler while being filmed on the forecourt of a petrol station in Leeds.
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https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15834297/Bolt-CEO-fires-entire-HR-team-created-problems.html
This article should be emailed to everyone drawing a salary in the Civil Service. Not difficult is it?
‘A retrial jury has been discharged at Liverpool Crown Court after failing to reach verdicts in the case of two brothers accused of assaulting a police officer at Manchester Airport, according to the Mail.’
These scumbags seriously assaulted three police officers. Their guilt is not open for discussion.
More needless waste of taxpayers money.
“Leave donors Lord Cruddas and Peter Hargreaves have pledged to bankroll a fresh campaign to fight any attempt by Labour to drag Britain back into the EU”
“A fresh campaign” campaign? f@uk campaign..what about legal action in the high Court for trying to undermine a legally recognised democratic vote by the people?
“Bolt CEO fires his entire HR team because they ‘created problems’”
Good man.!
Headlines used to be more imaginative. “CEO Bolts for the exit of divisive HR culture”
“Jury discharged after failing to reach verdict in police assault case”
Of course they did…
We already know that Muslims have a tribal mentality, even the moderates covering and protecting their own, so I have a strong feeling that this is the case with this jury as well. And we’re going to see more and more such examples, as they infiltrate the police, justice system, politics, etc.
Ironically, without a jury a (non Muslim) judge would have given a verdict within the first day.
“Watering down sanctions on Russian oil is ‘insane’”
Having sanctions to try and compel Russia to cave to our demands, while at the same time harming the UK materially is the ‘insane bit’. Who is laughing and who is suffering.?
You’re okay with a country invading another country (twice) to whom we have given security assurances and we don’t even place sanctions on them?
That’s not what I said, Monro. The point of sanctions is that you cause loss or distress to the country that you are sanctioning in order to pressure them to change their behaviour. Placing sanctions, in effect, on yourself, when said sanctions cause no pressure on Russia is stupid, as Germany did with Russian gas. Russia is still exporting all its oil through proxies, and making as much or more money from the exports than they did without sanctions. THAT is insane.
And it has changed their behaviour. They have found alternative buyers and are establishing different trading regimes that don’t involve dollars.
We need to get real. The UKs ability to impact Russia is minimal whilst we are shooting ourselves in the foot by refusing to use cheap Russian oil. If the net zero agenda hadn’t been a thing we might have been able to virtue signal without hopping about on one leg.
This is the reality:
‘We conclude that the import embargo has likely been the most consequential sanction, reducing Russian oil income through a buyer’s discount and by increasing transport costs. Furthermore, the price cap has not primarily functioned as a binding price cap, but as a partial transport embargo, reinforcing the import embargo’s effects.’
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421525002460
The major factor affecting oil prices has very little to do with sanctions on Russia (other sources, particularly Norway’s North Sea oilfields are more important to us, hence Putin’s interest in our undersea infrastructure) and a great deal to do with the ‘not our war’ conflict with Iran.
We imposed sanctions in December 2022. Have you noticed any difference in Russia’s position re. Ukraine.? No.? Then its a total waste of time and we should stop doing it. Our ‘leverage’ is like a flea on a dogs arse.
Or not really:
‘The more important shift is conceptual. Until this spring, war and sanctions were officially treated as temporary shocks that would eventually pass. The new forecast moves them into the baseline.
This is the economy Russia now has: chronically slower than the global average, chronically short of cash for anything other than the army and the state, increasingly dependent on China, technologically lagging, and steadily losing the people most likely to do something about it.’ 20 May 2026
https://cepa.org/article/russia-settles-for-stagnation/
Well I am sure we get an unbiased view from The Center for European Policy Analysis.
‘Overall, we rate The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) Right-Center Biased based on editorial positions and political news reporting that slightly favors the Right. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record.’
Media bias/fact check, Oct 2025
Is one obscure organisation the sole arbiter of reality?
If only it was so simple.
‘State finances thus face growing strains. War-fuelled high prices of capital, labour and goods, as well as rising taxes, have begun to depress the civilian sectors. But this is not releasing resources for military production, resulting in a dual economy of overheated military output and civilian stagnation.’
https://www.iiss.org/research-paper/2026/05/the-coming-crisis-in-russias-political-economy/
“Supermarkets may be asked to freeze prices of milk, eggs and bread”
When Rachael did her Economics Degree, did she actually read any books on Economics..?
I am absolutely convinced that if members of the cabinet (experienced or otherwise) would ask AI before taking any decision (what could be the consequences? Or, even better: has it worked somewhere else?), we would be in a much better place right now.
Our cabinet members are not bright enough to have come up with this idea.
I don’t think socialists care about economics, other than how to try and spin it in a way that means they get to tell other people what to do.
Supermarkets might be happy to sell milk, eggs and bread at a loss to keep customers and slightly increase the price of lots of other goods, so that no one really notices it, to compensate so that some people think they’re saving money when their overall food bill stays pretty much the same.
That’s standard practice in many businesses. The net profit on total revenue is considered not just per sku. Companies therefore have loss-leaders to get people into the store.
Already supermarkets are doing “price match” with Lidl and Aldi on basic items, so they are already selling some items at a loss.
Rachael won’t know this of course.
Rachael from accounts has announced she is playing her part by removing tariffs from numerous food items, and now demands supermarkets play their part.
Er, Rache…. why are there tariffs on food items in the first place? Tariffs are a tax aren’t they, an import tax? Why do you think you are doing us a favour by removing taxes from our food which shouldn’t be there in the first place?