News Round-Up
3 October 2024
Starmer Hands Chagos Islands to China-Ally Mauritius
3 October 2024
by Will Jones
What We Have Lost
2 October 2024
Robert Jenrick has found himself in an early pole position in the Tory leadership race as he topped the first round ballot – as Priti Patel became the first to be knocked out.
A fresh YouGov survey reveals the Shadow Housing and Communities Secretary is pulling ahead in the race to replace Rishi Sunak, outstripping Tom Tugendhat by a commanding eight points.
In a post-election misery fest, the talking points are the injustice of Labour winning with just 20% of the vote, the even-more-outrageous French election result and Noel Gallagher's glorious anti-Glasto rant.
The story of this election isn't Britain swerving the global populist revolt. The two centrist parties polled their lowest share of the vote since 1918. Starmer's premiership will be the last gasp of the technocracy.
How did corporate sponsors like Tesco feel when David Tennant said he wished Kemi Badenoch didn't exist, asks C.J. Strachan. The corporate world is fast waking up to how divisive and damaging woke posturing can be.
Kemi Badenoch has branded David Tennant a "rich, Lefty, white male celebrity" after he said he wished she "did not exist any more" because of her views on transgenderism and women’s rights.
One reason to vote Reform is not because you think they have a chance of winning more than one seat. Rather, the more votes they get on July 4th, the stronger the case for a Right-wing Tory to succeed Rishi Sunak.
A London theatre has said it is seeking a Chief Executive who is disabled, gay, "criminal class" or "global majority" in a job advert – sparking a backlash.
Kemi Badenoch has railed against the National Trust for using the term "Global Majority" to describe non-white people, condemning it as anti-white and divisive.
The historian William Dalrymple pompously suggested Kemi Badenoch should "learn some history" after she denied Britain's economic success was due to white privilege. The historian of empire, Nigel Biggar, begs to differ.
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