News Round-Up
- “Every KC hired by Labour to defend its VAT policy went to private school” – Guido Fawkes reveals that all four of the KCs the Government has hired to defend its imposition of VAT on private school fees went to private school.
- “Paedo migrant allowed to stay in the UK ‘because he’s an alcoholic’” – A paedophile who assaulted a teenage girl has been permitted to remain in Britain after a court ruled his deportation would violate his human rights, reports the Mail.
- “Illegal migrants could remain indefinitely under new sentencing plan” – The Sentencing Council – already embroiled in a political storm over its ‘two-tier justice’ measures – plans to slash the maximum jail terms for a range of immigration crimes, says the Mail.
- “£2 billion migrant hotels are here to stay, admits Labour’s new quango” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty highlights the ongoing £2 billion annual cost of housing migrants in hotels.
- “Britain ‘must rely on immigration’ to compensate for falling birth rate” – An ageing expert has warned that a rise in women choosing to have children later in life means Britain must rely on immigration to boost its birth rate, reports the Telegraph.
- “This is the end of Rachel Reeves” – Rachel Reeves will be able to recall the precise moment her political career ended, says Dan Hodges in the Mail. The hands of the House of Commons clock stood at 1.06pm when she sat down after her Spring Statement.
- “Britain has just been pushed into the abyss” – Benefits are still surging, taxes are still going up, jobs are still being annihilated and the UK is still going bust, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer must overhaul honours committee involved in free speech row, says senior MP” – David Davis has called for reform of the UK’s secretive honours committee after the Prime Minister was accused of threatening to rescind Charlie Mullins’s OBE, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage gets NatWest payout over debanking row” – NatWest has paid Nigel Farage an undisclosed sum to settle a debanking dispute after his Coutts account was closed because of his political views, says LBC.
- “‘Reform’s leadership have proven themselves to be deceitful cowards’” – On X, Rupert Lowe slams Reform UK’s investigation as a politically motivated smear campaign.
- “Forever 20” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley argues that gerrymandered districts allow elected officials to adopt extreme, unpopular positions without fear of losing their seats.
- “The University of Sussex has learned nothing from the Kathleen Stock debacle” – The message that the times have changed does not seem to have got through to the University of Sussex, writes Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
- “‘Climate change is going to fade from view like overpopulation did’” – On the Public podcast, Michael Shellenberger and Roger Pielke, Jr. discuss the striking lack of climate change protests, despite President Trump’s aggressive rollback of climate policies.
- “‘It was a cold January’” – Despite all the caterwauling about “it’s always hotter” and “the end of snow”, NASA says the US had an anomalously cold January 2025, says Kip Hansen in WUWT?
- “Left torching Teslas” – The same idiots who scolded that the world will “burn” unless the government forces every one of us to buy an EV, are now torching the world’s best EVs with Molotov cocktails, writes Craig Rucker in WUWT?
- “Trump tears into ‘Left-wing billionaires’ behind Tesla fire bombings” – President Trump has blasted “Left-wing billionaires” for being behind the attacks on Tesla lots, reports the Mail.
- “The vile assisted suicide Bill is on its last legs. Now let’s kill it off” – In the Telegraph, Michael Deacon argues that the assisted suicide Bill is on its last legs and should be helped to die.
- “Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya confirmed by Senate as FDA commissioner and NIH director” – The US Senate has voted to confirm Marty Makary as the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Jay Bhattacharya as Director of the National Institutes of Health, according to STAT.
- “Immune changes from repeated mRNA jabs are linked to a higher risk of Covid” – On Substack, Alex Berenson highlights a Spanish study linking repeated mRNA Covid vaccines to higher IgG4 antibody levels, suggesting a potential increased risk of repeated infections.
- “The 21st Century’s most controversial play is back” – Seven Jewish Children was described as “Jew-hating pure and simple” when it premiered in 2009, writes Liam Kelly in the Telegraph. So why is it now a film backed by Brian Cox?
- “Disney ‘boosted Gal Gadot’s security’ after Snow White co-star’s Gaza tweet” – Disney increased security for Israeli actress Gal Gadot in the wake of her Snow White co-star’s “free Palestine” tweet, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- “‘Hamas out’ protests spread across Gaza” – In a rare public show of opposition, hundreds of Palestinians have protested in northern Gaza, chanting “Hamas out”, says Reuters.
- “Armed Palestinian gangs call for ‘march of anger’ to oust Hamas from Gaza” – As protests continue into a second day, armed gangs in Gaza have called for an “uprising” against Hamas, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why are there more protests against Hamas in Gaza than Britain?” – If Palestinians vented their Hamas criticism in Britain, they would get an earful from ‘progressives’, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Gazans are seeing Hamas for the murderers they are, only its Western fellow travellers remain blind” – Ordinary Palestinians are rising up against Jihadis, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph. Why is not more being made of it by the Saturday marchers?
- “EU urges all citizens to prepare with ‘survival kits’ amid WW3 fears” – The EU is pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc to have a three-day survival kit ready in case of war or natural disasters, reports the Mail.
- “Someone made a big mistake with chat leak, says Trump’s Secretary of State” – Marco Rubio has admitted that the Trump administration made a “big mistake” by accidentally leaking US war plans to a journalist, according to the Telegraph.
- “Trans policy will ‘raise awareness of menstruation in men’s toilets’, says NHS trust” – A Scottish NHS trust has boasted that its new trans policy will raise awareness of “menstruation in men’s toilets”, says the Telegraph.
- “National Trust manager accused of being ‘white saviour’ in race row” – A National Trust worker who sued the charity and accused her boss of trying to be a “white saviour” after she was invited to join a diversity group has lost her race discrimination claim, reports the Mail.
- “The woke institutions backpedalling on trans ideology owe the public a huge apology” – The belief that ‘gender identity’ is more significant than biological sex lies in tatters in mainstream thought, writes Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Snow White ‘review bombed’ by livid viewers as film suffers fresh blow” – Disney’s Snow White nightmare refuses to end, with the woke reboot currently rated a shocking 1.7 out of ten on IMDb, according to the Mail.
- “Paddington Bear and the new idolatry” – A statue of Paddington Bear was stolen in Newbury, but the judge’s remarks turned a prank into a theological spectacle, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “This woman is the blonde version of Robin DiAngelo” – During a congressional hearing, Rep Brandon Gill brings up all of NPR President Katherine Maher’s old tweets, including one claiming that “America is addicted to white supremacy”.
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https://news.sky.com/story/russia-reinterpreting-agreements-in-black-sea-ceasefire-talks-emmanuel-macron-says-13336444
‘In Jeddah, Ukraine clearly expressed to the US its agreement to a complete ceasefire without any preconditions for a period of 30 days, despite being a victim of aggression. We expect the same commitments from Russia.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFW6yUlgGdI
Well of course it would. It is losing the war badly. It wants a 30 day break to rearm and reorganise.
The US did of course point out that the Jeddah meeting was to discuss primarily the Black Sea and commercial traffic.
The US readout at the end of the talks mentioned only the concessions to the Russians in that area, in effect resurrecting the grain deal of the past but also winding back the sanctions on banking to allow payments to be received via the SWIFT system. The Russians agreed to keep their military vessels in the Eastern Black Sea but since Ukraine doesn’t have much of a navy the ships are mainly used as mobile missle launching platforms.
The only ceasefires are unilateral. Russia began nearly two weeks ago and Ukraine joined in a week later, both stopping attacks on energy targets.
‘Brussels has rejected Russia’s demand to lift EU restrictions on a key agricultural bank as part of a partial ceasefire deal, saying its sanctions regime will stay in place until the “unconditional withdrawal” of Moscow’s troops from Ukraine.’ https://www.ft.com/content/f5fee89e-be92-4ca3-9e3c-01078b8a2b64 ‘Analysis has not paid nearly enough attention to the weak underpinnings of Russian military power. Russia’s economy, as often noted, is struggling with interest rates that have topped 20 percent amid soaring inflation, and with manpower shortages made critical by the war. Its condition is dire, as one study noted, partly because the military budget amounts to 40 percent of all public spending, and partly because oil revenue is taking a hit from lower prices, Ukrainian attacks, and tightening sanctions. Russian weakness is particularly visible in the army. One report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated that in 2024 alone, the Russians lost 1,400 main battle tanks, and more than 3,700 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers. At the same time, Russian production of such vehicles, including refurbished units, totaled just 4,300, not enough to make up for its losses. In desperation, Russia has turned to restoring its oldest and least effective combat vehicles, many of Soviet vintage. One recent study by Chatham House asserts… Read more »
https://www.politico.eu/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-uk-reporter-journalist-british-sky-news-donald-trump/
“Should the Defense Secretary…” began Sky News reporter Martha Kelner
“Wait, what country are you from?” Greene demanded.
“The UK,” Kelner responded.
“OK we don’t give a crap about your opinion, and your reporting,” Greene snapped at her.
“Why don’t you go back to your country?”
Way to go, Space Laser
“Last year she told ex-BBC journalist Emily Maitlis to “fuck off” “
She has good instincts
Marjorie also asked Kelner why she wasn’t reporting on all the British girls raped by immigrants!
I wish she were my MP. She’s got balls.
And imagination.
Kelner is Sky News U.S. correspondent.
Before that she did sports journalism.
Immigrant crime in Britain will never have formed part of her brief.
She’s a hoot. She gave ex CDC director Rochelle Walensky a deserved roasting.
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Words of wisdom from Douglas Carswell here; “The Blairite ascendancy — all of them — fundamentally believe in the universal condition of human kind. They believe that all people are basically interchangeable: that if you take an Eritrean who turned up in Britain five minutes ago, he’s only a few moments away — a few degrees away — from becoming an Englishman.” Excellent explanation from Douglas Carswell of the Blank Slate ideology underpinning human rights law and immigration policy. This dangerous delusion treats people as replaceable universal units, irrespective of behaviour or beliefs. This faith in fundamental equality is why these policies are not open to course-correction when presented with new evidence that they aren’t working. Politicians should be able to explain this ideology in detail. We must reject the Blank Slate version of human nature.” https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1904849294802170066 100% agree with Connor. It’s just pure lunacy and the huge amount of evidence now supports this assertion. I would say that another irony of this situation is that natives are going to be less inclined to start families the more immigrants are brought in to the country because it ultimately affects everybody at some stage: at a personal, societal and economic level,… Read more »
The Left cannot understand that you cannot change human nature. We are fallen. All of us, and there is nothing that any political ideology can do do remedy that
It’s the human condition.
Nonsense! You sound like that Mass Murderer John Calvin (Cauvin=Cohen), during his Reign of Terror in Geneva, when he killed more devout Christians than the Inquisition.
He was only following in the depraved footsteps of “Saint Augustine”, who attributed his own disgusting obsession with sex to the whole of humanity, calling them all “fallen”, “Original Sin”, hopelessly depraved, etc. etc. etc.
It was Augustine himself who was the depraved sex addict, who very conveniently got rid of his clingy, domineering mother, then sailed away with his son after abandoning his mistress the boy’s mother, then got rid of his burdensome son so he could found a new sect of “monks”. He was a total fraud, an evil charlatan fawned upon by generations of idiot Maryolaters, like that other charlatan “Saint Athanasius”, who physically attacked and then poisoned his rival Arius for disagreeing with him.
More absurdity in a similar vein from Germany, a country which must surely be at the point now that they’re importing manual labourers by the plane-load while simultaneously exporting doctors and engineers, because ‘birth rates’! No wonder the AfD are now doing better than Reform in the German polls; ”In yet another display of the strategic confusion that dominates German foreign policy, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has once again publicly advocated for increasing immigration from Syria to Germany. She did so in none other than Damascus during a press conference marking the symbolic reopening of the German embassy on Thursday, March 20th, stating that “Germany needs migrants to keep functioning” due to its low birth rate. Far from offering solutions to the domestic problems caused by years of mass migration, Baerbock continues to double down on a model that has contributed to rising crime, social fragmentation, and terrorist attacks on German soil. But what is truly astonishing is the context in which these statements were made. Baerbock opened the embassy despite Syria now being under the control of an Islamist government led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group formerly linked to Al-Qaeda. At the press conference, Baerbock also emphasized the importance… Read more »
“Every KC hired by Labour to defend its VAT policy went to private school” – Guido Fawkes reveals that all four of the KCs the Government has hired to defend its imposition of VAT on private school fees went to private school.
Someone please hand Guido Fawkes the box of Extra Long matches.
“Britain ‘must rely on immigration’ to compensate for falling birth rate”
There are so many contradictions in this one sentence 😳
Britain without the British???
And only yesterday we heard of the millions of current residents here who do not work, many have never worked. The day before we heard how AI (the ignorant politician’s l;atest go-to explanation for the source of future prosperity) will reduce the need for human effort.
We have hear all week calls from various policy wonks to cut pensions – that would mean late 60s and 70s would have to work longer.
Where is the shortage? At a nearby DIY shed recently there were 20 or so miscellaneous men waiting for labouring work. In my High Street yesterday there was one man half in a hole in the pavement attending to telephone circuits while being watched by a mate and a supervisor who were cracking jokes about their work mates.
Seems to be no shortage of workers around here.
All good points!
Hear, hear! Will England still be England without any English People in it?
Or Welsh People in Wales, French People in France, etc.
Scandinavian countries like Finland, Denmark & Norway have managed to THRIVE with SMALL POPULATIONS of only about 5 MILLION PEOPLE.
Smaller is better, with much higher standards of living, as Scandinavia proves.
“Britain ‘must rely on immigration’ to compensate for falling birth rate”
If the population declines surely the country needs fewer people to support it. It is overkill to expect, for example, the NHS to be the same size, or in fact any public service.
The trouble is that the public sector empire builders will not countenance a reduction in their little (or big) empires.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/26/rise-in-older-mothers-means-britain-must-rely-on-migration/
Absolute nonsense. Gimmigrants chucking out sprogs is not increasing the British birth rate it is actually increasing the burden on the native population.
“Britain ‘must rely on immigration’ to compensate for falling birth rate”
FALSE! For example…
FINLAND’S POPULATION:
1950 – 4 million people
1991 – 5 million people
2025 – 5.5 million people, similar to Denmark and Norway. Sweden has double that number due to mass immigration from the Third World.
So in the 75 years from 1950-2025, Finland’s population increased by only 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE!
And yet all those Scandinavian countries with only about 5 MILLION PEOPLE are THRIVING.
In fact, lower populations have a HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/FIN/finland/population
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UNITED KINGDOM’S POPULATION:
1950 – 50 million people
1991 – 57 million people
2025 – 68 million people officially (in reality, over 100 MILLION PEOPLE)
So in the 75 years from 1950-2025, UK’s population increased officially by 18 MILLION people. In reality, it DOUBLED, to 100 MILLION PEOPLE, due to Mass Immigration from the Third World. A huge population DECREASE is needed, not an increased birth rate.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/population
“Britain ‘must rely on immigration’ to compensate for falling birth rate”
Who exactly loses out from a falling birth rate, and by consequence, a falling population? Less people to share your GP with; better, more focused education per student; less congestion on the roads and rails; better efficiency all round; lower rent prices; and generally smaller crowds to plough through when you’re on your way anywhere.
Why on earth would it be better for the population to either stay the same or increase? It’s basically suggesting that the population in, say, the 1970s – around 55 million – was too few people! Have you ever heard anyone suggest that we need an increase in the population?!