News Round-Up
- “Astonishing ‘new aristocracy’ of couples, relatives and nepo-babies run Labour” – More than two dozen ministers including Rachel Reeves, Pat McFadden and Wes Streeting all have spouses or relatives employed by the state or the Labour Party, reports the Sun.
- “Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out tax rises next year” – Rachel Reeves, who raised taxes by £40 billion in her first Budget, has refused to rule out further tax hikes next year, says the Express.
- “600,000 landlords face death tax ‘ticking time bomb’” – Over 600,000 landlords face paying hundreds of thousands of pounds in death duties thanks to frozen allowances, reports the Telegraph.
- “Criminals allowed to work from home for community sentences” – New figures reveal that criminals convicted of theft, assault and shoplifting completed over 540,000 hours of community service through online courses last year, according to GB News.
- “Bridget Phillipson knows Michaela is working – and she can’t stand it” – Clearly, the Education Secretary would rather combust than praise Katharine Birbalsingh’s high-performing state school, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Red tape warning as regulator workforces nearly double in a decade” – Whitehall regulators have nearly doubled their staff over the past decade, with a Policy Exchange report revealing an 84% rise in headcounts at seven major regulators since 2013/14, reports the Telegraph.
- “The rise of the regulators” – The U.K.’s growth is being throttled by a “risk aversion ratchet” driving endless red tape, warns Policy Exchange in its latest report.
- “Angela Rayner defends hiring £68,000-a-year taxpayer-funded ‘vanity’ photographer” – Deputy PM Angela Rayner has defended using a £68,000-a-year vanity photographer paid for by the taxpayer as she insists she is “trying to strike the balance”, says the Express.
- “Government department spends £1,200 on two folders” – Just as Rachel Reeves cracks down on government waste, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has spent nearly £1,200 of taxpayers’ money on two £594 ministerial folders from luxury brand Barrow Hepburn & Gale, according to the BBC.
- “Government spaffs half a million in taxpayer funds on COP29 hotels” – Guido has been busy putting in FOIs on the U.K.’s ridiculously large delegation to COP29 in Baku. The results are eye-boggling.
- “School asks pupils to ‘fast’ for Gaza” – A London school is asking children as young as 11 to fast for Gaza, reports the Jewish Chronicle.
- “Press watchdog accused of chilling effect on free speech over trans writer ruling” – The U.K.’s press watchdog IPSO has been accused of undermining free speech after ruling in favour of trans author Juno Dawson following Spectator writer Gareth Roberts’s description of her as a “man who claims to be a woman”, says GB News.
- “In defence of Gareth Roberts” – Gareth Roberts’s right to see as he finds and write as he sees must be defended, writes Michael Gove in the Spectator.
- “GB News furiously slams complaints as they say ‘free speech is being silenced’” – GB News has hit back at criticism from the Muslim Council of Britain, claiming its coverage of Islam is not only accurate but vital for free speech, reports the Express.
- “Freedom RIP” – In a world where diversity quotas rule and free thought is silenced, we’re trading progress for conformity, warns Martin Rispin in the New Conservative.
- “Why Americans fear for Britain” – The old England, which cherished liberty, is dying and a more sinister society is emerging in its place, writes Roger Kimball in the Spectator.
- “Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly holds talks over Telegraph takeover bid” – Todd Boehly, the American billionaire who co-owns Chelsea FC, has discussed a deal to invest in the Telegraph, according to the Times.
- “Labour-run council plots tax on York’s ‘vibrant’ tourism sector” – York is planning to introduce a European-style tourist tax that could see visitors pay more for hotel rooms to help fund the city’s historic attractions, reports YorkMix.
- “Cost of HS2’s Euston leg balloons to more than £7.5 billion” – The cost of constructing High Speed 2’s tunnels into Central London and the new Euston station is expected to top £7.5 billion, says New Civil Engineer.
- “Greta Thunberg declares ‘f— Israel’ at German demonstration” – Greta Thunberg has sparked a wave of outrage after she brazenly shouted “f**k Israel” at a pro-Palestine rally in Mannheim, reports GB News.
- “Germany could quit the ECHR to get a grip on migration” – One of Germany’s leading conservative politicians has said that Germany could leave the ECHR if it is unable to overhaul Europe’s asylum system, says the Mail.
- “Assad’s downfall exposes Russia’s true weakness” – Why do we all assume that Putin’s capacity for endurance is infinite? asks Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Birthright citizenship will be overturned” – President Trump’s executive order will end the loophole of birthright citizenship, finally putting an end to this outrageous precedent, writes Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “An assassin for our time (part one)” – Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League grad turned assassin, embodies a new breed of anti-corporate terrorism driven by personal grievance, and sadly, he may not be the last, warns Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “‘The hot assassin’: how the internet became obsessed with Luigi Mangione” – Left-wing social media users are fawning over Luigi Mangione, calling for his freedom after he was charged with shooting dead a health insurance CEO, reports Charlie Parker in the Times.
- “My school experimented with ‘education equity’. It failed” – In the Free Press, Ryan Normandin, a teacher in Newton Public Schools, Massachusetts, argues that placing high-achieving students in classes with the lowest performers has had a devastating impact on results.
- “Marc Andreessen on AI, tech, censorship and dining with Trump” – In the Free Press, tech billionaire Marc Andreessen tells Bari Weiss why the Left is waging war on Silicon Valley, why AI censorship is “a million times more dangerous” than social media censorship and why he’s optimistic about the future.
- “The trans cult is crumbling in Europe – now America needs to catch up” – The trans cult is crumbling in the U.K., but in America it will take longer as there’s still too much profit in harming children, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Peppa Pig discourages girls from taking jobs in construction, says Spanish MP” – A Spanish MP says that cartoons such as Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol prevent women from going into construction and road maintenance as they perpetuate gender stereotypes, according to the Mail.
- “PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct” – The couple who run PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBT news website, have been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct, reports the BBC.
- “Jaguar rebrand strategy comes from the very top” – On YouTube, MGUY Australia reveals that the awful Jaguar rebrand isn’t the work of just a few mavericks, but comes from the very top of the JLR senior leadership team.
- “Freezing This Christmas’” – On X, Sir Starmer & the Granny Harmers parody Mud’s ‘Lonely This Christmas’ with ‘Freezing This Christmas’, featuring lyrics like “up to 4,000 pensioners will die this winter” and “I wish tears could heat my home”. Help make it the Christmas Number One by buying the track here.
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Tuesday Morning Mill Lane & South Hill Road Bracknell
“Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out tax rises next year”
Next year is only 3 weeks away!
I look forward to seeing women stripped to the waist, wearing just a high visibility jacket for modesty, digging trenches in the road.
I have not seen a man digging trenches for years so why would women road workers have to do it. Yesterday I saw a mini digger being driven by one man, watched nearby by two more while two others across the road observed the whole operation.
The work was just off the road but one carriageway was closed and subject to traffic light control on the businest road in and out of thebtown to the south. Just as when there are problems on the M25, our town was in grid lock much of the day.
Well, I have seen men digging trenches in the freezing cold, rain, mud and also laying tarmac in the searing heat of summer.
The few female staff are the ones wearing hardhats and visibility vests while standing holding the traffic signs or “supervising” the men doing the heavy lifting.
The reason is just as commenter DS99 said below, that women don’t have the upper body strength, or physical strength generally, to do the same work as well as men.
Males and females were designed by Almighty God for different things, and there is no point in pretending otherwise. Without White Males to build God’s marvellous inventions and designs, all the glories of western civilization would never have existed. Then White Males carried those marvellous inventions to the rest of the world, benefitting all of humanity.
Deny it if you will, but it is true.
It is possible that Peppa Pig influences women chosing to work in road construction but it’s more likely that having 50% less upper body strength compared to men is the reason. I quite fancied training as a plumber – I’m quite practical but for a lot of those jobs you need that upper body strength, sadly, and that must surely include road construction. That’s not to say that cartoons aren’t used for all sorts of propaganda.
Freezing this Christmas.
Brilliant, simply Brilliant.
Shame on Starmer.
I am in complete agreement. I have forwarded this to about 40 others via WhatsApp groups and I have purchased a copy.
Let’s get this to No. 1.
National Minimum Wage is equivalent to someone in full-time permanent employment working a 40-hour week; they earn a gross annual salary of £17,800. It goes up next year.
How much do pensioners receive before they lose their WFA?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/where-is-starmer-while-the-migrants-keep-pouring-in/
Kim Rye at TCW rightly wondering WTF Kneel is doing about illegal immigrants. Unfortunately her ire is far too subdued.
“Like the Tories, Starmer has failed to address the fact that dinghies full of young males are regularly arriving on our shores, with men running in all directions or getting into waiting vehicles. I have personally seen the ‘scouts’ on the beach, looking out to sea, checking their phones, obviously using GPS. Other locals have had to put up with them running across their properties, hiding in garages and on more than one occasion entering their homes.
Under the Starmer regime we are expected just to suck it up while the Government lays out even more billions of our hard-earned cash on accommodation, free private health care and free legal aid, all unavailable to the indigenous population.”
“Freezing This Christmas’”
Three things put me off this video.
First, it seemed to be financed by the Hindu Billionaire Who Illegally Held the Post of UK Prime Minister, now using pensioners’ suffering to repair his own tarnished image. Disgusting.
Secondly, many of the supposedly freezing pensioners were wearing light, short-sleeved clothing in their large houses, not sensibly bundled up in woolie jumpers.
Thirdly, the music was naff, not beautifully inspiring sympathy for the pensioners at all. Call me Ebenezer, but they could have done a lot better, in my view.
Wrong Side of History amongst others are claiming that Syrians cannot be sent back because it might not be safe there.
Syria was largely a bi-polar issue: Either you supported Assad or you didn’t. That being so how come all those who claimed they were at risk under Assad are now saying they would be unsafe under the replacement regime. It is clear they want to remain Syrian (so they can claim the right to march and disrupt our streets togeter and to challenge Israelmetc but they don’t want to live in any country even if it is called Syria unless they get the benefits they enjoy here (relative safety for them, housing, food, cash, etc).
Could I be wrong?
To be fair Al Qaeda hates ISIS, ISIS hates Al Qaeda, they both hate Assad, and everybody hates the Jews (to quote Tom Lehrer).