News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
Revealed: Why UK Electricity Costs So Much
15 April 2025
by Sallust
The Home Office is forcing some contractors to book hotels of “at least a minimum of three stars” to house small-boat migrants after costs soared to £8 million a day.
Ex-Home Office Asylum chief Emma Haddad has joined Amnesty International, a charity that described Britain's immigration policies as "inhumane, racist and divisive”. Is it any wonder we haven't been able to stop the boats?
Welcome to Anti-Democratic Britain, where the activist elite wages a deranged war on cars, bans gas boilers and fails to prosecute crime. We are rapidly becoming a democracy in name only, warns Allister Heath.
The Tories are not, as they like to imagine, the victims of the Blob, but its creators. Civil service reform sounds dull but is essential if elected Governments are ever to regain control.
The 'deep state' is real, and it is powerful. Rock the boat too much and it will find a way to get rid of you, as Dominic Raab found out when he asked civil servants to implement laws to curb the power of activist judges.
Whether you support Dominic Raab or not probably reflects your prior politics, but even so, there is a clear problem now that 'bullying' is defined subjectively of allegations being weaponised, says Dan Hannan.
White civil servants are being told that Britain is racist and they should never contradict members of ethnic minorities in a woke diversity training video.
Who runs Whitehall? Not the politicians who are supposed to be in charge, says ex-minister Peter Lilley. Rather, it is being run by a woke blog that is sweeping all before it.
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