News Round-Up
- “Farage accuses Streeting of covering up ‘truth’ of grooming gangs” – Reform leader Nigel Farage rebutted Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s warning that inflammatory speech could lead to a New Zealand-style mosque massacre, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour MP rejected calls for local grooming inquiry that identified more than 1,000 victims” – Labour MP Shaun Davies initially rejected calls for an inquiry into grooming gangs that later found more than 1,000 children had been abused while authorities turned a blind eye, the Telegraph reports.
- “Britain is now worse than an international laughing stock” – It’s not just the grooming gangs scandal. Starmer’s U.K. is becoming a case study in how to destroy a society, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Labour is treating the white working class with contempt” – There is a common thread behind Labour’s failure to confront the grooming gangs and its war on educational excellence, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “How Tommy Robinson won over Trump’s inner circle” – Much has been made of Nigel Farage’s journey from Thanet to Trump Towers – but his nemesis, Robinson, has been making moves of his own, says the Telegraph.
- “How Britain forgot Keighley’s grooming gangs” – The town is a case study in exploitation, says Jacob Furedi in UnHerd.
- “Ex-Labour MP arrested – days after attacking ‘unacceptable’ Elon” – Last week, former Labour MP Ivor Caplin was slamming “unacceptable” Elon Musk; this week he’s been arrested on suspicion of child sex offences after a sting by paedophile hunters, reports the Spectator.
- “Blow to Starmer as supermarket giant backs farmers over inheritance tax raid” – Morrisons has said it stands with farmers, as they prepare further protests against the tax changes, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour promised the impossible – and it’s all fallen apart” – The economy is out of control and it’s worryingly reminiscent of previous sterling crises, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Incompetent Reeves must be sacked – but her replacement will be worse” – Those praying for the Chancellor’s demise should be careful what they wish for, suggests Brian Monteith in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves vows war on waste to save public finances as Labour critics circle” – Rachel Reeves will launch a war on waste to stabilise public finances amid growing disquiet from her MPs over her handling of the economy, the Telegraph reports.
- “It’s unlikely Rachel Reeves is going anywhere” – Rachel from Accounts will only be removed if Starmer decides he has no other viable way of saving himself, and we are not there yet, argues Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Third private school in a week closes after Labour VAT raid takes effect” – The third private school in a week has closed after Labour’s introduction of VAT on fees at the start of the month, the Telegraph reports.
- “Nigel Farage has the power to choose Britain’s next Prime Minister” – Labour will cling to office if, as seems likely, the Tories and Reform remain split, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk and Dominic Cummings ‘in plot to sabotage U.K. politics’” – Boris Johnson’s former No 10 adviser is planning a new ‘StartUp Party’ which he hopes will smash the traditional Westminster system and is understood to be communicating with Mr. Musk on WhatsApp, reports the Mail.
- “The Left is plotting to silence Elon Musk – and we know the real reason why” – The Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon believes he’s twigged why the Left really wants to silence Musk.
- “Miliband’s ‘reckless obsession’ with renewables leaves consumers with record bills” – Ed Miliband has been accused of pursuing a “reckless” Net Zero agenda after new figures revealed consumers are being left with record bills to keep wind farms switched off, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Left is no longer getting away with blaming climate change for wildfire disasters” – Cutting the fire department might have had something to do with LA’s devastating fires, suggests the Telegraph‘s Camilla Tominey.
- “Corporate America is abandoning diversity targets – will Britain cling on?” – There are, sadly, no signs yet of a company-driven backlash to DEI of the kind being seen in the United States, says Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
- “We Need a Cognitive Freedom Movement” – There are so many ways we should be vigilant about the freedom of our minds, says Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
- “Ultimate killjoys! Now SNP Government BANS birthday cake in nurseries” – SNP nanny state plans to improve children’s diets yesterday descended into farce as the party banned birthday cakes in nurseries, the Mail reports.
- “Arron Banks denied US entry to attend his own Trump party” – Arron Banks was due to host Trump, Nigel Farage and Liz Truss at a lavish celebration in Washington but the Brexit tycoon’s visa was blocked in what he branded a “political decision and revenge for the failed Russia Hoax perpetrated on both sides of the Atlantic”, the Times reports.
- “‘It’s about plain robbery’: Bangladesh leader on the Tulip Siddiq scandal” – The PM is under pressure to sack the anti-corruption Minister after Muhammad Yunus called for an investigation into homes given to her and her family by allies of her aunt’s deposed regime, reports the Times.
- “Civil service to end ‘climate of fear’ trans policy” – Civil servants will no longer be labelled ‘transphobic’ for expressing gender-critical beliefs under new guidelines, the Telegraph reports.
- “I beg you to read these disturbing new claims in Letby case” – In the Mail, Peter Hitchens quotes from David Davis’s speech last week in the Commons to provide some shocking new facts about the Lucy Letby case, urging readers to read the full speech (find it here).
- “Greenland leaders say they will enter negotiations with Trump” – Greenland’s leader, Múte Egede, expressed his willingness to engage in negotiations with President-elect Trump over the territory’s future, reports the Mail.
- “LA’s dreams went up in flames” – Politicians are to blame for a shocking lack of preparation, says Joel Kotkin in UnHerd.
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The Left want to shut Elon’s X down because in that open forum the Left’s ideas are exposed as hot rubbish
It’s not just Elon’s comments. Every knowledgeable contributor on that site is now able to expose poor arguments (often those of the left, but by no means always) without being suppressed by ‘fact checkers’. It’s a new game. Chris Minns, the Australian Minister for Idiocy, left X in a huff, spouting nonsense reasons. The real reason was that he was routinely shot down in the comments, and I think he was “Community Noted” as well.
The proliferation of parties claiming they want to replace the decrepit branches of Uniparty risk keeping them in office.
I support Reform. It has carved out a position and represents decent but different values and policies from the Labour-Conservative-LibDem con ensues of the past decades.
One can see why the elites might try to confuse the issue with additional odd-ball and single issue parties. The public should beware.
“Labour promised the impossible – and it’s all fallen apart”
This article notes that nobody has any faith in labour being prepared to make the sort of public spending cuts needed to balance the books. It seems it needs people as colourful and outlandish as Trump or Milei to carry out the sort of actions that would be needed to significantly reduce public spending and get the government out of our lives. I fear that, as with many other things in UK life, the general public are a long way from being convinced that such drastic actions are needed. Consequently it seems that things need to get a lot worse before there is much chance of any major shifts in spending policy.
As the Chairman of Reform stated the other day. ‘People who have achieved nothing before they come into politics, usually continue to achieve nothing.’
Thanks for sharing this. So true
You mean Yet Another Pakistani Muslim, unelected, whose first act after buying his way into the Chairmanship was to re-write the rules, to provide for masses of new (?Pakistani Muslim?) party members to vote Nigel out and the Pakistani Muslim in, further down the line?
“Reeves vows war on waste to save public finances as Labour critics circle”
Why has Reeves been tolerating waste up until now?
Labour appears to have only two policies to improve the country – throw money at it or set up a quango/inquiry.
Spot on! Throwing OUR money at it is not doing any ‘improving’ just impoverishing us further.
The impoverishment is the intention.
Even the Dalai Lama thinks Europe should be for Europeans. Watch this BBC reporter spluttering: Dalai Lama Laughs In Host’s Face at Her Ignorant Question
Thanks tof. Much appreciated.
It cheered me up no end and goodness knows there is precious little to be cheerful about in this regard. The unprofessional BBC interviewer takes it personally and starts getting passive aggressive. Don’t think the Dalai Lama is going to be intimidated by that.
Brilliant! To put all these things in perspective, we should remember that at the very height of the British Empire in India in 1921, there were only 20,000 military and civilian British people in the country, which includes the present countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
So, in 1921, there were only 20,000 Brits in the Vast Subcontinent of India.
Today, there are only 38,000 Brits in India.
In contrast, today there are officially more than 5,000,000 Indians/ Pakistanis/ Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans in the comparatively tiny British Isles.
We all know the real figure is many, many times that.
Here is what one public commenter said about that:
“Apparently when a few thousand British people moved to India, that was a bad thing.
But if millions of Indians move to England, that’s fine.
We’ve already had an Indian prime minister in the UK. And a Pakistani Scottish First Minister, a black Welsh leader and a Pakistani London mayor.
At what point are we entitled to feel like foreigners in our own country?”
You either have to be really thick or deliberately obtuse not to see the double standards. Cultures should be protected except for White people’s cultures – then you are a “white supremacist” (whatever that is supposed to mean).
Exactly!
In the relentless doom and gloom in this country now, it’s good to have a chuckle.
It’s about a young couple in Redcar who have named their baby son Lucifer – and simply can’t understand why so many people disapprove.
“It has mostly been people from the older generation who have told us: ‘You can’t call him that, what will it be like when he’s at school?’” says Jess Bell, the boy’s 25-year-old mother. “But we are just normal, loving parents and certainly have no interest in associating our son with the devil, that’s not what this is about. The name is lovely, and it actually means ‘light-bringer’ – which is exactly what he has done for our lives.”
Little Lucifer’s father – Stefan Wake, 27 – is equally bemused by the fuss. He does note, however, that the baby was born in delivery room six, and then taken with his mother to bed six in room six. “The 666 was a fairly strange coincidence,” he says.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/11/left-plotting-to-silence-elon-musk-twitter-grooming-gangs/
The younger brother is called Satan – the first “a” is silent.
😀😀😀
Sounds like a bad Omen! 🤭
The boy’s Satanic parents are only pretending to be “bemused by the fuss”, and know exactly what they have done. Shame on them both!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/11/britain-is-now-worse-than-an-international-laughing-stock/
Blimey, who’da thunk? Well at least one journalist has caught up.
“Starmer’s U.K. is becoming a case study in how to destroy a society, says Zoe Strimpel.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/11/labour-is-treating-the-white-working-class-with-contempt/
Now Janet Daley has begun to wake up.
I wonder if some Telegraph journalists have taken subscriptions to DS. It might explain articles such as these.
The rest of the world is looking at the uk with open mouths of disbelief wondering how the cornerstone rock solid reliable county, mother of the modern world could ever decend into this!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/11/nigel-farage-has-power-choose-britains-next-prime-minister/
Daniel Hannan is bloody dangerous. If Reform do a deal with the Conservatives, and I have been promised they won’t, they are finished.
My thoughts exactly
The last thing the uk needs is a tory tainted reform party
“Blow to Starmer as supermarket giant backs farmers over inheritance tax raid: Morrisons’
Do Morrisons also back the withdrawal of Bovaer in cow feed? Double standards as per usual
On Friday I was held up by a farmers’ protest at the Morrisons distribution centre in Northwich. Clearly the protest had an immediate effect. More power to the farmers’ collective elbows.
Amen to that.
Newsflash:
Labour has said its going to end the BBC licence fee by 2027.. Hoorah and Huzzah I hear you all shout 👂
Hold your foot up a minute, they’re going to replace it with a new general tax!
Well well, who would have guessed?
So does that mean that everyone will be forced to pay an extra tax to prop up the BBC, even the millions of people who haven’t even had a telly for decades?
Exactly. Anyone who is fooled by this isn’t paying attention. It’s obviously a way to ensure that the BBC continues to be the world’s best funded political campaigning organisation, given that so many people have stopped paying the licence fee. F***wits will now think it’s “free” like everything else the state provides.
“Nigel Farage has the power to choose Britain’s next Prime Minister”
When a nation’s citizens get so angry at injustice that they want to completely throw out the old Left vs. Right political system, is there a word for someone hired by both sides of the old system to draw away and weaken the citizens’ righteous wrath, by pretending to offer a new Nationalist, Patriotic political party whose priority is defending the rights of the citizens?
And then that False Nationalist Patriot gradually and cunningly herds the citizens like sheep back into the clutches of the old Left vs. Right system again, whose priority is destroying the nation and defending the rights of the entire world against the citizens?
Is there a word for that? Some philosophical term?
Because to me, that describes Nigel Farage.
You may be right
Politics attracts a certain type of person
I was one of millions fooled into thinking he was a genuine patriot, and really admired his brilliant speeches when he was a Euro MP. He still is a superb public speaker.
I only began to doubt when he actually boasted years ago that he had “single-handedly destroyed Nick Griffin and the British National Party”, by setting up UKIP (later Brexit, now Reform). It makes sense of his strange, brutal condemnation of Tommy Robinson, while at the same time trying to jump on the Muslim Rape Gangs bandwagon, like the Tories are doing now, when they had 14 years to fix it, and did nothing.
Their Globalist aim is to destroy all nationalism, everywhere on the planet.
Hard to know if his boasts were due to sincerely held beliefs or political expediency. Hoping for perfect leaders, or even leaders that you can have some admiration for, seems destined to end in disappointment.
Well said.