News Round-Up
- “Ex-Royal Marine, 53, appears in court over Liverpool parade crash” – Paul Doyle has appeared before Liverpool Magistrates Court charged with seven offences, including dangerous driving and grievous bodily harm, reports the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer’s top legal adviser apologises for ‘clumsy’ Nazi speech” – Keir Starmer is under pressure to sack his top legal adviser over a speech in which he compared demands that the UK quit the ECHR to early Nazi ideology, says the Mail.
- “Labour minister defends AG for saying calls to quit ECHR like Nazism” – Education Minister Catherine McKinnell has backed Attorney General Lord Hermer, under fire for likening calls to quit the ECHR to Nazi ideology, reports the Mail.
- “Lord Hermer is preposterously wrong about international law” – Lord Hermer’s approach to international law is incompatible with our political history and constitutional tradition, says Richard Ekins in the Spectator.
- “The hard-Left are back, and ready to seize power” – John McDonnell is toying with the idea of a putsch – or failing that, a green, socialist, Islamist alliance, writes Paul Goodman in the Telegraph.
- “Losing this £50 billion stock market listing is a humiliation for Reeves” – Chinese fast fashion giant Shein’s decision to float in Hong Kong should be a wake-up call for Britain, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Rachel Reeves pensions power grab is worthy of a banana republic” – Labour’s diktat to retirement funds is the latest in a series of attacks on Britons’ wealth, writes Andrew Griffith in the Telegraph.
- “Final salary pensions at risk from Labour tax raid” – Labour is set to remove restrictions that currently protect pension savings from being funnelled into risky investments, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rayner’s irrational tax raid will suffocate Britain’s most promising businesses” – Rayner’s tax raid on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) risks choking £68 billion of UK growth for a measly £110 million gain, says James Baxter-Derrington in the Telegraph.
- “‘Labour letting ‘guilty councils’ investigate grooming gangs’” – Kemi Badenoch warns that Labour is letting “guilty councils” decide whether to investigate their own grooming gang scandals, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch takes aim at Farage and Starmer over welfare handouts” – Kemi Badenoch has blasted Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer for being in a “race to the bottom” over welfare handouts, reports the Mail.
- “‘I will make Bank of England hold Bitcoin’” – Nigel Farage has promised to pass crypto-friendly legislation and establish a bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England if he comes into government, says CoinDesk.
- “Reform UK pledges cuts as £27 million civil service diversity spend revealed” – The civil service spent £27 million in one year on equality, diversity and inclusion projects, such as private sector consultants and on memberships of organisations such as Stonewall, reports the Times.
- “Foreigners claim £1 billion a month in benefits” – Benefits claims by households with at least one foreign national have doubled to nearly £1 billion a month in the past three years, says the Telegraph.
- “Is it now a crime to make fun of Hezbollah terrorists?” – Causing offence to Islamist extremists can now land you in a police cell, warns Potkin Azarmehr in Spiked.
- “Angela Rayner ‘does a runner’ from pro-Palestine protesters as Deputy PM forced to abandon campaign” – Angela Rayner has downplayed suggestions she “did a runner” from a group of pro-Palestine protesters during a campaign event in Scotland, according to GB News.
- “Hairy asylum seeker with deep voice is a child, tribunal rules” – A UK tribunal has ruled that a deep-voiced, hairy Sudanese asylum seeker is 16, rejecting official claims he’s in his mid-20s, reports the Telegraph.
- “Manchester terrorist was granted taxpayer money in religious discrimination claim” – Manchester Arena terrorist Hashem Abedi was granted more than £1,200 in taxpayers’ money to launch an equal rights case in jail, says GB News.
- “Police officer is sacked after showing knife teen ‘lack of courtesy’” – An award-winning police officer has been fired after he was accused of showing a lack of courtesy and respect to a knife-carrying teenager he arrested for assault, reports the Mail.
- “Police let half of all class A drug users walk free” – Some 48.1% of people caught in possession of hard drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, were let off without any criminal sanction, Home Office data analysed by the Telegraph reveals.
- “The drug crime chaos on Sadiq Khan’s doorstep” – As drug crime rages in Tooting, locals slam Sadiq Khan for pushing cannabis decriminalisation while chaos reigns on his doorstep, writes Samuel Montgomery in the Telegraph.
- “Why did LBC tick off Robert Jenrick?” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill suggests LBC’s jab at Robert Jenrick over his unauthorised Tube video was less a scoop and more a broadcast on behalf of Sadiq Khan – whose pals at Global run LBC and profit from TfL.
- “Gerry Adams awarded £84,000 in BBC libel case” – Gerry Adams has been awarded €100,000 (£84,000) in damages after winning a libel case against the BBC, reports GB News.
- “Ofcom accused of censorship in Carry On free speech row” – Ofcom has been accused of censorship by TV bosses in a deepening free speech row over classic comedy, says the Telegraph.
- “Wynne Evans dropped by BBC after ‘inappropriate’ Strictly remark” – The Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans says that he has been dropped by the BBC after using “inappropriate language” during the launch of the Strictly Come Dancing tour, according to the Standard.
- “How a ‘bulls–t jobs’ boom captured the Big Four accountants” – Jobs at the top accounting firms are now about “making money by pretending to be an expert”, according to Louis Goss in the Telegraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: how can we possibly power all the heat pumps?” – In TCW, Paul Homewood slams Net Zero ambitions as technologically and economically unworkable.
- “The Covid Inquiry rumbles on” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson slam the Covid Inquiry as a £136,000-a-day farce led by clueless experts.
- “False binaries that ‘limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion’ in the COVID-19 debate and perpetuate lies told by the powers that be” – On the Wood House 76 Substack, Jessica Hockett, Jonathan Engler and Martin Neil argue that the COVID-19 debate has been rigged by false binaries – carefully curated opposing views that keep dissent at bay.
- “Dua Lipa, Gary Lineker and Benedict Cumberbatch join more than 300 figures urging PM to ‘end UK complicity’ in Gaza” – Benedict Cumberbatch, Annie Lennox, Gary Lineker and Dua Lipa have joined more than 300 public figures calling on the Prime Minister to “end the UK’s complicity” in Gaza, reports Sky News.
- “Comedian Reginald D. Hunter prosecuted over ‘antisemitic messages’” – US comedian Reginald D. Hunter is being privately prosecuted by the Campaign Against Antisemitism over posts he sent to a woman, says Sky News.
- “Ignore the Left-wing naysayers, Israel is winning this necessary war” – Hamas could end all the bloodshed by laying down its arms and releasing the hostages, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “America is coming for Britain’s social media censors” – If Washington is now looking to apply the thumbscrews to senior British officials pushing social media censorship, it has plenty to choose from, says our own Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
- “Von der Leyen wins ‘leadership’ award amid criticism over transparency and corruption” – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has bagged the Charlemagne Prize for leadership – prompting outrage from MEPs who slammed it as a tone-deaf nod to a presidency mired in scandal and secrecy, reports Brussels Signal.
- “EU interventionism in national elections: who’s next?” – In Brussels Signal, Rodrigo Ballester warns that the EU is turning national elections into battlegrounds for ideological control – and Hungary’s 2026 vote may be its boldest power grab yet.
- “Russia concern over NATO expansion fair, Trump’s envoy to Ukraine says” – Donald Trump’s envoy to the Ukraine has declared that Russia’s long-standing gripes over NATO expansion are fair, reports the Mail.
- “FBI to release Jeffrey Epstein video that ‘proves he killed himself’” – The FBI has reviewed video footage which confirms Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, ruling out long-running conspiracy theories that he was murdered, says the Mail.
- “Trump announces surprise White House event with Elon Musk” – President Trump has announced that he will hold a press conference with beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk to mark his last day as a special advisor, reports the Mail.
- “The derangement of Harvard” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray argues that Harvard has become a deranged, hyper-political institution more interested in ideological posturing than academic excellence.
- “Legal action by doctors on trans care is vital” – In Gript, Niamh Uí Bhriain highlights how Drs O’Shea and Moran are dragging the Irish Health Service Executive to court for risking children’s health with activist-driven, unregulated trans care.
- “Imane Khelif banned from competing in women’s World Boxing events” – Olympic champion Imane Khelif has been banned from competing in all future World Boxing events in the women’s category unless the Algerian can provide proof of being biologically female, reports CBS News.
- “Give trans staff extra breaks to adjust underwear, NHS trust suggested” – An NHS hospital trust drew up plans to give trans staff extra breaks if they wore chest binders or had to tuck their genitals away, says the Telegraph.
- “Witch ‘thrown off druid training course’ in trans row” – A practising witch claims she was thrown off a druid training course over accusations by a member of the UK Pagan Federation that she was “transphobic”, reports the Times.
- “Equity for all” – In the Critic, Theodore Dalrymple takes aim at progressive corporate Britain.
- “End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts argues that Pride has become a bloated, contradictory spectacle now in visible decline.
- “BBC drama ‘rewrote history to turn scandalous aristocrat into a feminist’” – Historian and biographer Hallie Rubenhold claims that the BBC rewrote the story of an 18th century heiress to wrongly paint her as a feminist heroine, according to the Telegraph.
- “The real reason why academics write in gobbledegook” – In the Spectator, Patrick West argues that academics write in impenetrable jargon not out of clumsiness, but to signal ideological allegiance and social status.
- “Russell Brand denies rape and sexual assault charges” – Russell Brand has pleaded not guilty to five sexual offences including rape and indecent assault, reports Sky News.
- “Striking a chord” – In Takimag, Theodore Dalrymple finds himself having to sit through a thoroughly awful impromptu piano performance at a French railway station.
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After reading the daily review for about a year, I’m thinking you Brits should be outraged. What is wrong with you? You’re anti-free speech, anti-freedom, anti-christian, anti-white … jeez, you are a country defined by your over-sensitivity and your hate
Bravo, Mr Capron. Our leaders and public servants may be appallingly useless and negative in outlook, but rest assured we’re not all like that! MGBGA!
Some of us are outraged. Just too few, so far, to make enough difference. The Brexit vote was an exception. While I have strong reservations about them, if Reform manage to form the next government that will have been something of an expression of outrage- for a party to come from nothing to being able to defeat the previous duopoly is unusual.
Errr…..there does appear to be something going on…….
‘Electoral Calculus has calculated that Mr Farage would win 362 seats if a general election were held tomorrow. Labour would fall from winning 412 seats at the last general election to second place on 136, while the beleaguered Conservatives would be almost wiped out, winning just 22 seats.’
Wow! I knew our electoral system was bad but… one guy winning 362 seats? 🙂
If he’s a big enough arse…..
I agree. How strange they aren’t going to town and demonizing him because he fits the profile: straight, white ( Farage supporter ) male, as they did with all the patriots wrongfully jailed for tweets or shouting at dogs. You know, the *non-violent* white patriots! Why are they playing this so differently? And how many different looks can a man actually have? I realise they’re using some older pics in that article but the court sketch looks literally nothing like the brief glimpse of him in the car. At least they didn’t mention he lives in a bloody cul-de-sac;
”I agree. Why are the media, the same media that’s done nothing but demonise men like him, non stop for over a decade, all of a sudden changing their rhetoric and moving mountains to paint him as a nice, misunderstood bloke that simply lost his temper in the moment.
ITS ALL WEIRD.”
https://x.com/KingBobIIV/status/1928453171392753930
https://x.com/KingBobIIV/status/1928464717879681029
Russia concern over NATO expansion fair, Trump’s envoy to Ukraine says “Something has happened to him (Putin). He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” Negotiators are, by now, only too well aware that they are dealing with an unstable totalitarian dictator. The change in Putin’s mental health has been caused by the side effects of his thyroid cancer treatment, radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy. Thyroid cancer treatment and diagnosis can have significant mental health implications, including anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances. Patients with a history of mental health conditions, or those from certain racial/ethnic groups or with lower education levels, may be at higher risk for adverse psychosocial effects. Treatment Intensity: More intensive treatment regimens may be associated with a greater psychological impact. The reality, blindingly obvious to anyone living in the real world, is that Putin’s demographic imperialist expansionism has already expanded NATO. Russia, as the successor state to the USSR, itself, according to Putin, never disestablished, is party to the Helsinki accords of 1975: ‘Within the framework of international law, all the participating States have equal rights and duties. They will respect each other’s right to define and conduct as it wishes its relations with other States in accordance with international law… Read more »
The Helsinki Accord was with the Soviet Union as it was signed in 1975 and was based on post-war national boundaries. The Soviet Union no longer exists and Russia was a part of it not the whole of it. Ukraine as an independent State did not exist. Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were also part of the USSR at the time – are they still bound by the Accord?
China needs no excuses for any of its actions.
That, my dear Monro, looks like a box of red herrings to me.
‘A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow. Meanwhile, an adviser to President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists, because of a procedural error in the process of dissolving it.’ OSCE ‘As per paragraph 1 of the Code, the “implementation in good faith of all commitments” are of “fundamental importance for stability and security”, and “consequently constitute a matter of direct and legitimate concern to all of them”. As we know, the Code spells these commitments out. Commitments such as “respect for each other’s sovereign equality and individuality”. Such as “the right freely to choose its own security arrangements … to belong or not to belong to … treaties of alliance”. The Code explicitly states: “No participating State will attempt to impose military domination over any other participating State”. This includes not stationing armed forces in the territories of other States without a freely negotiated agreement … in accordance with international law. Madam Chair, as detailed at the weekly FSC, Russia remains in breach of multiple commitments in the OSCE’s Zone of Application. Namely in Moldova, in Georgia and in Ukraine. The Code is… Read more »
“Equity for all” – In the Critic, Theodore Dalrymple takes aim at progressive corporate Britain.
No equity shown by the cited company (Aviva), when insisting an elderly relative undertake a medical examination (at the relative’s expense), in order to implement a legally validated Power of Attorney, an insistence out of line with numerous other financial institutions at the time and in direct contradiction to regulatory recommendations.
Shoddy organisation all round.
“The Covid Inquiry rumbles on” – On the TTE Substack, Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson slam the Covid Inquiry as a £136,000-a-day farce led by clueless experts…
…Latest expertise at the Covid Inquiry, from the “Director of Test, Trace, and Protect in the Welsh Government,” also known as “Interim Director General, Education, Social Justice and Welsh Language.”
‘Road from hell’ fully reopens after 23 years says the BBC.
So… which end is Hell?
It has gone on forever, however as a sometimes user of that route, it’s made hell of a difference. At least infrastructure spending puts something back, rather than just generating hot air
“Imane Khelif banned from competing in women’s World Boxing events
unless the Algerian can provide proof of being biologically female”
Easy, drop your pants love!
Sounds like the sort of thing that happens in Carry On up the Khyber.
No need to encourage the sporting “judges” to ogle naked athletes, or proof of surgery that removed reproductive organs.
A simple blood test will determine whether he is a female with XX chromosomes,
or a male with XY chromosomes.
“Witch ‘thrown off druid training course’ in trans row” – A practising witch claims she was thrown off a druid training course over accusations by a member of the UK Pagan Federation that she was “transphobic”
“How do you know she’s a witch?”
“Because she looks like one!”
Now there’s a headline!
Words fail me 😔
She turned me into a newt!
🙂
“Dua Lipa, Gary Lineker and Benedict Cumberbatch join more than 300 figures urging PM to ‘end UK complicity’ in Gaza”
I suggest all these ‘lovies’ go to isreal or Gaza and let their feelings be known there, not from the safety of cosey little Britain!
I was very disappointed to see Annie Lennox included in the names. Especially as I thought she was supposed to be an activist for women’s rights, if I remember rightly. I think the only place in that region women have equality is Israel. So many people I used to have such respect for have shown themselves to be completely disappointing, whether it be regarding this or other agendas such as Covid or trans, etc.😒
Agreed 👍
Hear, hear!
” A pair of pensioners who flew their Union Flag upside down have been branded “insulting” in an anonymous letter posted through their door.”
fly it back to front and inside out for all I care, so long as you fly it!
Good on em!
Is it not symmetrical, though?🤔 How do you know if it’s upside down?🇬🇧
No it’s not Mogs.
No – not symmetrical. If the narrow white diagonal is at the top, it’s upside down. If the broad diagonal is at the top, you’re good to go. But having not realised that when i was in the cubs, it was a bit harsh to condemn the couple out of hand.
My whole life i never even noticed that.😳 This one is though.🏴
Isn’t it supposed to signal distress if flown upside down? Sounds about right – perhaps we should all do that to try and signal help to be saved from our government? 🙂
That’s what I thought. Clearly they got abuse rather than assistance.
Broad white diagonal top left, thin white diagonal top right is the right way up, or rather the right way around.
…assuming the flagpole is on the left
It’s a strange situation: a Union Jack representing a Union of Four Nations, three of which hate one. The Scots hate the English, the Welsh hate the English, and the Southern Irish hate the English. The only people who DON’T hate the English are the Loyal Northern Irish Protestants, who are unjustly treated with contempt by all the others, including the English.
Maybe it’s better for each of the four nations to just fly their own national flags, and be independent.
All excellent points.
Comparing demands that the UK quit the ECHR to early Nazi ideology sounds like a dog whistle to me 🙂
“Ofcom has been accused of censorship by TV bosses in a deepening free speech row over classic comedy, says the Telegraph.”
Not sure why there needs to be an “accusation”. Of course Ofcom does censorship – they are legally empowered to regulate content, meaning that they have the power to deem some content to be not fit or appropriate to broadcast. That is exactly 100% censorship. How else would you define it? FFS supposedly educated people are so lame brained.
The hard left are already “back” (like they never left) and have already “seized power”. Another lame brained comment from the Torygraph, enthusiastic supporter of the left wing Fake Conservatives.
A bit of news just in, seems the fad of driving cars into people is gaining traction in the UK, Happened in Leicester last night
“Man arrested after car hits number of pedestrians”
A 31 year old Leicester man has been arrested 😳 what, not a white British male?
Wonder how fast the police get ahead of this curve!
It only took 2 hours to announce ‘A 53 year old white British male’ in the Liverpool incident!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqppwwje8o
I imagine it’s quite hard to find a white man in Leicester.
“Police officer is sacked after showing knife teen ‘lack of courtesy’”
The “teen” (code for Third World Ethnic), who had just assaulted two people, including an elderly man, had a blasted STANLEY KNIFE hidden, and if the heroic Police Officer Lorne Castle hadn’t used force to restrain him and disarm him, he could have killed someone with it! You don’t “treat someone with courtesy and respect” who’s about to murder people, for Heaven’s sake!
Notice that the police authorities most eagerly condemning PC Castle are WOMEN:
“But the panel, led by Wiltshire Police Assistant Chief Constable DEBORAH SMITH, found him guilty of gross misconduct.”
Dorset Police Deputy Chief Constable RACHEL FARRELL said,
“‘I have never been in any doubt that PC Castle’s actions were excessive, aggressive and inappropriate and I can understand the communities we serve will be concerned about this case.”
Sack both of these women,
and give the HERO POLICE OFFICER LORNE CASTLE a medal.
Some comments from the public: — ” I worked with Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Farrell when she was employed in Hampshire. A typical graduate flyer who now fester within the senior police ranks. She has very little ‘street experience’ has made very few or no arrests, not a great witness in court. For her to pass any judgement on an officer in these circumstances is pretty shameful.” —“These “high flyers” do not “work their way up the ranks” they have degrees so are fast tracked to the highly paid jobs. Promoted beyond their abilities because they abide by all the politically correct c**p.” —“This teen was carrying a knife and had already assaulted an elderly person and another member of the public. Why on earth should a police officer be courteous and polite. He was protecting the public from this person. PC Castle risked his own life to save a woman who fell in a dangerous freezing river. God help this country.” —“Disgusting treatment of an officer…shocking.” —“The Kid’s learned that allegations against a copper get him a free pass and a copper sacked. Well done the tribunal. You utter morons.” —“It’s like sending our boys to war and telling… Read more »
“Hairy asylum seeker with deep voice is a child, tribunal rules”
This is more evidence of the Secret Islamic Network operating within the Immigration service, as detailed in today’s Daily Sceptic article by Richard Eldred.