News Round-Up
14 January 2025
Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt
14 January 2025
by Will Jones
Twenty one years ago, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Asian rape gangs in Bradford after coming under pressure from an 'anti-racist' group that included several senior members of the British establishment.
Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest fall in approval rating after winning an election of any Prime Minister in the modern era – plummeting 49 points from plus-11 to minus-38 – a poll has shown.
Why has Labour hypocritically taken away pensioners' warmth this winter while its favoured policy areas are hosed with cash? It's simple, says Ben Pile. Because it can. Labour is the 'nasty party' now.
Lurking behind the election, Paul Sutton spies Tony Blair and his technocratic heirs, similarly committed to putting the 'grown-ups' in charge and smearing and smothering all dissent.
The Government is no longer funding the Global Disinformation Index, Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said, following criticism of the organisation for censoring non-woke and Right of centre views.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Lee Anderson's defection to Reform U.K., the 'Henley Plot' to bring back Boris and the Daily Sceptic's latest Twitter pile-on.
A Prime Minister without a mandate of his own has in effect extinguished the mandate and priorities upon which his party was elected with a stonking majority, says Patrick O'Flynn,
The Prime Minister has sacked Suella Braverman and is the verge of bringing back David Cameron. Will it shore up his crumbling authority after his show of weakness over the pro-Palestinian protest on Armistice Day?
Every Parliament for the last 30 years has had a mandate to cut immigration. Add a referendum result and it's the largest democratic mandate for any measure in modern history. So when will it happen, asks J Sorel.
Simon Kuper's book about how a small group of 'Tory Toffs' who were at Oxford in the 1980s masterminded the Brexit project to reclaim their aristocratic birthright is highly entertaining, but not convincing.
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