News Round-Up
- “Reeves could impose biggest tax in 325 years with war on motorists” – Rachel Reeves is poised to inflict the highest taxes ever on Britain, even as a poll shows the public would rather she slashed spending, reports the Mail.
- “Tommy Robinson acquitted: a good verdict but never a fair case” – The judge called the case against Tommy Robinson a political stitch-up, but the mainstream media has barely blinked, sticking to their usual smears, notes Kathy Gyngell in TCW.
- “Father of Epping migrant victim accuses Labour of ‘breaking’ daughter” – The father of the 14 year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by an Epping hotel migrant has accused the Government of “breaking us as a family”, according to ITV News.
- “Southport murderer told father ‘I will kill you one day, trust me’” – According to the Liverpool Echo, Axel Rudakubana threatened to kill his father after a violent outburst, saying: “It may take a day, a week, or it may be years, but trust me, I will kill you.”
- “‘I think it is inevitable a man I grant asylum to will rape or murder a young girl’” – In the Telegraph, a caseworker reveals how illegal migrants trick the system to stay in Britain.
- “Islamic centre banned from hosting Scout group over extremism fears” – A North London Islamic education centre has been banned from hosting a Scout group over fears it was being used as a front to expose British children to Iran-linked extremism, reports the Times.
- “Crowborough Camp – no place for 600 migrants” – On his blog, Crowborough Cllr Andrew Wilson updates on Home Office plans to house 600 migrants at the MoD camp, slamming the council’s poor communication and calling for urgent action.
- “Council threatens to cancel Christmas lights unless St George’s flags are taken down” – A Kent village’s Christmas lights display could be cancelled because of Union and St George’s flags put up over the summer, reports the Express.
- “Reform UK’s gunpowder plot” – In UnHerd, Mary Harrington spots echoes of the Gunpowder Plot in today’s politics, with Reform UK voters surprisingly fond of Guy Fawkes.
- “Giant Starmer effigy to be burnt on bonfire” – Sir Keir Starmer wearing a “farmer harmer” badge has been unveiled as the latest effigy for a Kent town’s Bonfire Night’s festivities, reports the Mail.
- “BBC bosses ignored experts to push ‘woke’ history” – According to a leaked internal memo, BBC bosses were “dismissive” and defensive when Oxbridge professors accused the corporation of rewriting history to promote a woke agenda, says the Telegraph.
- “BBC trans coverage ‘censored’ by its own reporters” – The BBC’s trans coverage is subject to “effective censorship” by specialist LGBT reporters who refuse to cover gender-critical stories, reports the Mail.
- “Now we have the evidence. The BBC knowingly helped spread Hamas lies and hate” – Those responsible for overseeing this deep offence to impartial journalism should hang their heads in shame and resign, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph; the BBC is not safe in their hands.
- “Ofcom boss demands BBC investigation into bias dossier” – The BBC is facing a parliamentary inquiry into claims of bias after the whistleblower who raised the alarm was called to give evidence to MPs, reports the Telegraph.
- “The BBC has just signed its own death warrant” – Recent revelations about the BBC’s bias will be the last straw for many, and should spell curtains for the licence fee, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “The awful truth about the BBC is now too monstrous to hide” – Our national broadcaster has promulgated a pernicious Leftist orthodoxy that has taken hold of our institutions, warns Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Why is Ofcom trying to censor Americans?” – The UK’s communications quango is sticking its beak into America, says Adam Edwards in Spiked.
- “Rachel Reeves set to hammer motorists with hated pay-per-mile car tax changes in Budget” – Labour is planning to launch widely hated pay-per-mile car tax measures that could affect millions of EV drivers, according to GB News.
- “Drop in air pollution has increased global warming by making clouds less reflective, scientists warn” – Scientists have been faced with a huge dilemma, as research reveals that reducing air pollution has increased global warming, reports the Mail.
- “Dimming the sun ‘could make climate change worse’” – The Royal Society has warned that reflecting the sun to fight climate change could trigger droughts and hurricanes, says the Independent.
- “New report exposes foreign charities funnelled $2 billion to Left-wing groups behind protests and extreme climate agenda” – Americans for Public Trust has released a new report exposing how a group of foreign “charities” has spent almost $2 billion bankrolling US policy fights and advancing an extreme climate agenda.
- “Canada easing tariffs on Chinese EVs may shake auto landscape” – Canada could reshape the EV landscape in North America by removing its tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, reports the Washington Examiner.
- “Crikey! Woke Aussie mayor bans ‘bad for the planet’ outdoor gas barbecues” – Sydney residents will be banned from cooking on certain outdoor gas barbecues in a move by the city’s woke mayor to save the planet, says Breitbart.
- “University apology over hosting Scots rape law campaigners is predictably depressing” – Scotland has long abandoned the notion of equality in the eyes of the law, writes Calum Steele in the Herald.
- “France is slipping into anarchy” – France has no stable government, no coherent strategy and a President whose approval rating has plunged to a record low, says Gavin Mortimer in the Telegraph.
- “German Foreign Minister whines that he’s ‘not a wimp’ and Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks of his Government’s impending ‘failure’ as government chaos deepens” – The chaos of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s lame and unstable coalition is deepening, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Norway reviews cybersecurity after hidden remote-access feature found in Chinese buses” – Norway has launched a cybersecurity review after a public transport operator discovered that electric buses supplied by a Chinese manufacturer contained hidden SIM cards enabling potential remote access, according to ScandAsia.
- “EU’s new LGBTIQ+ strategy: challenging gender identity equivalent to terrorism” – The EU’s new LGBTIQ+ strategy promotes trans rights everywhere and labels opposing views as hate speech, says Epp Tuul on the Freedom Research Substack.
- “Sadiq Khan hails win for Trump’s sworn enemy in New York mayor race” – Sadiq Khan says NY has chosen “hope over fear” by electing Democrat Zohran Mamdani, according to the Mail.
- “Zohran Mamdani will destroy New York” – Like many of Mamdani’s promises, his vow to make the wealthy pay their fair share is playacting, writes Heather Mac Donald in the Spectator.
- “Zohran Mamdani’s victory should terrify the Democrats” – The socialist’s win in New York will make it far harder for the national party to resist the lure of the far-Left, says Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
- “Mayor Zohran Mamdani” – The Free Press profiles NY’s new mayor: how he won and what he’ll do.
- “The far-Left have taken over the Democratic party” – If you think America doesn’t permit assisted suicide, you haven’t been watching the New York mayoral election, says Charles Lipson in the Spectator – the city is deliberately killing itself.
- “New York elites flock to Florida after Mamdani victory” – Real estate agents are being bombarded with calls from panicked New Yorkers desperate to flee after Mamdani’s mayoral victory, reports the Mail.
- “How the ‘hate speech’ conceit fuels political violence” – Charlie Kirk was killed by a Left that feels entitled to silence its enemies, by any means necessary, warns Heather Mac Donald in Spiked.
- “Israeli hostage details how he was abused by torturers” – An Israeli man freed from captivity in Gaza has revealed for the first time how he was sexually assaulted and tortured by his kidnappers, reports the Mail.
- “In Sudan’s genocide, only those who pay survive” – A deadly rampage in Sudan may have claimed more lives last week than the entire Gaza conflict, with only those able to pay ransoms surviving, says Ben Farmer in the Telegraph.
- “The cowardly publishing world betrayed Kate Clanchy” – Has the vibe shift finally hit the publishing world? wonders Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “Why do white men’s feelings matter more than black lesbians’?” – Women’s rights have been broken on the wheel of the trans ideology, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Zadie Smith has nothing to say” – Zadie Smith is a master of self-regarding equivocation, says John Maier in UnHerd.
- “Bluesky thinking” – On Substack, Damian Counsell reckons Bluesky’s become a smug echo chamber for the woke elite, with progressives eating their own while the Right enjoys the show.
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Can’t believe I’m agreeing with Dominic Cummings but he has it in a nut shell. And as we know, none of this is happenstance, it’s all by design. UK governments are not the helpless victims of bureaucracy. Every death by dangerous men that they’ve let in, allowed to wander freely and not kept tabs on and not deported, even when they’ve committed a crime, amounts to democide, as far as I’m concerned, just like all the deaths they were responsible for during the scamdemic. If you die as a result of government policy or negligence, the government has indirectly killed you;
”Our regime imports terrorists, gives them passports, calls them ‘British’, then says ‘oh he turned out to be a violent terrorist but he’s British so this has nothing to do with immigration, diversity is our strength, you’re racist if you disagree’.
Most voters think this is mental but it’s been *cross party consensus* for 25 years like prioritising rights of foreign murderers over Britain’s safety in law.
It will continue for years.
If you get killed the MPs will babble ‘thoughts and prayers’ but leave the laws in place.”
https://global.espreso.tv/military-news-xi-uses-russian-pms-beijing-visit-to-reassert-dominance-following-trump-talks ‘Following President Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader summoned Russia’s Prime Minister for a high-level meeting widely seen as both a loyalty check and a powerful demonstration of Beijing’s dominance over Moscow‘ ‘the summit’s format strongly indicated a summons. The practical focus of the memorandums signed centered on one critical issue: the Northern Sea Route (NSR) Beijing’s view is clear: Russia is merely the “managing company” for a route that passes through its waters, not an owner free to negotiate with China’s rivals. The agreements signed appear to be a forceful reminder, designed to lock in China’s geopolitical dominance over the route and simultaneously strip the Kremlin of a key strategic bargaining chip it hoped to play with the Trump administration.’ Ukraine is now launching long range cruise missile attacks against Russian infrastructure: ‘To break the Russian Federation’s power grid and plunge industry and cities into blackouts, Ukraine’s bombardment campaign against Kremlin oil and gas infrastructure has widened to blast power substations and electricity transformers across south and west Russia.. Ukrainian drones struck and set afire three major electricity substations: Frolovo station, Volgograd Oblast – 450 km (280 miles) from the Russia-Ukraine border Rylsk substation, Kursk Oblast… Read more »
Very true, but unfortunately a similar situation in other European countries; ”Britain’s asylum system is now a conveyor belt of risk – pushing targets ahead of judgement, speed ahead of scrutiny, and official comfort ahead of the safety of this country’s children. Take the case that should shame every minister. A Home Office caseworker refuses asylum to a man repeatedly arrested for exposing himself in a children’s play area. She is punished for it. She is ordered to grant the claim because he wouldn’t receive a twelve-month prison sentence – not because he poses no risk, but because he falls the right side of a bureaucratic threshold that exists to tidy statistics, not safeguard children. And that outcome isn’t an anomaly. It’s the system. Refusing a claim takes days; granting one takes hours. A refusal must be watertight and appeal-proof, while a grant is a ticked box before lunch. Careers hinge on weekly numbers, so approvals spike every Friday. This is a conveyor belt that cannot say no, even when it must. And the shortcuts are everywhere. High-grant nationalities glide through on half-hour confirmation interviews. Some are handed questionnaires instead of proper scrutiny. Others switch their story at will: yesterday… Read more »
Same old story with the same predictable ending: should already have been deported. Afghanistan deemed ”too dangerous”, when this human detritus ironically proves too dangerous for Europe
”An Afghan man allegedly plunged his knife 26 times into his manager, who ran a “New Yorker” clothing store in the downtown area of Krefeld in Germany. Another shocking femicide, but one that could have been prevented, as the man was supposed to have already been deported.
Dating back to May 7 of this year, Sayed Akbar S. is now on trial in the Krefeld Regional Court for murdering Magda M.
Sayed Akbar S. already had his asylum application rejected. However, German authorities allowed the man to stay due to a deportation ban, as Afghanistan was allegedly “too dangerous” for Sayed Akbar S. to be sent back to.
Due to left-wing policies that govern Germany, a woman is now dead — one of many such victims across Europe.”
https://rmx.news/article/germany-after-26-knife-blows-afghan-man-now-on-trial-for-killing-his-popular-manager-magda-m-at-new-yorker-clothing-store/
“A refusal must be watertight and appeal-proof, while a grant is a ticked box before lunch.”
I can confirm that this is how the British Civil Service works.
Take Benefit fraud as another example, I came across cases and indeed worked on many which were in my opinion cast iron, the reality was that at least 50% of these cases were rejected by the CPS. The CPS is an absolute garrison of lazy, woke, ill-educated idiots so when figures on Benefit Fraud are discussed always remember these are only the ones they could be bothered to prosecute. Ten times as many are FIB.
The whole system is corrupt. The public don’t know the half of it.
Know what? We are at war with our own Government and with our own Civil Service. You can include the Mainstream Media also. These people are actively, nakedly and unashamedly working against the interests of the British people.
‘Reform’ are the *very last* chance that we have to do anything about it, but I don’t trust even them. Why should I trust Reform to turn things around – actually around, *by 180 degrees* – when all the other political parties have deliberately brought us to our current position?
Reform will get my vote, but I swear that if Farage and Co. do not secure the changes that they promise, and it becomes crystal clear that voting will not bring about the required change, then I hope his is the first head to be raised on a spike on Westminster Bridge when the British people decide that enough is enough. The first of many deserving heads..
No, that is monstrously unjust to single out Nigel Farage for such punishment, after he fought so valiantly and tirelessly against the whole EU for twenty years, shocking them all with his gifted orations, and finally triumphing after the Brexit vote.
Yes, I think he has betrayed all patriots by handing ownership and control of the Reform Party to Yet Another Ethnic Indian Subcontinental Muslim, as he betrayed all the patriots who believed in him, when he destroyed UKIP & the Brexit party, then founded Reform, only to hand it over to a Muslim, called Tommy Robinson “scum”, and betrayed Rupert Lowe.
But he will go down in history for his magnificent struggle to free his ancestral homeland of Great Britain from the octopus tentacles of the Communist European Union, and he really does deserve a knighthood for that.
When it comes to trusting a real English Patriot, however, trust Rupert Lowe.
Sudan: “…with only those able to pay ransoms surviving…”
Or “Jizya,” as it’s been called for 1200 years.
OK guys, we understand that whatever we do will make it worse. That is not science.
Exactly, why can’t we just let the climate do what it’s been doing for 4.6 billion years and adapt to those changes as have every living thing on the planet during that time!
No money in that Dinger.
Yes, unfortunately the root of all,… evil or not!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15260259/Highest-taxes-chart-Reeves-Labour-Budget-motorists-poll-spending.html
When is Thieves going to tell us that she has paid the £65k she owes taxpayers for her property rental scam? That’s the one where she did break the law and which makes her convicted or not, a criminal.
Per mile charging would require huge initial capital costs which would no doubt be funded by further off-balance sheet deals with a large tech company in exchange for a share of charges in perpetuity.
The data collected would enable the tech providers and HMG to track every journey made by every taxable vehicle, time, date, speed. This would be yet another intrusion into personal freedom and a further step towards the socialist ideal of controlling everything we do.
How long would it be before our ability to drive was controlled according to Ministerial direction based on complaince with their political objectives. For instance, would farmers be prevented from travelling to protest or would quotas be imposed on mileage permitted according to social class.
Although I don’t wish to give the bureaucrats any advice all you have to do is collect mileage details at every MOT (as is done at present) or when the car is bought or sold to a new owner. This would give an annual mileage to be taxed without and great data collection exercise.
Of course it does provide an additional reason for the scallywags to avoid car registration and MOTs…
“Council threatens to cancel Christmas lights unless St George’s flags are taken down” Not surprising when you consider that the “Council” in question is Kent County Council, controlled by the REFORM UK PARTY, who bizarrely chose an Ethnic African Trinidad/Indian Punjabi woman Kemkaran as their leader, who showed her true colours when she… “berated members by shouting and swearing at some of her colleagues after they criticised what they saw as her failure to involve backbench councillors in her decision-making as regards local government reform, and threatened to mute one councillor for asking a question.” “In response, Kemkaran described the leak as an act of “treachery”, calling those responsible as “weak” and “cowards”, and announced a hunt to find those who leaked the video.” Although the Reform Party won 57 seats in May 2025, that is now down to 48 seats, thanks to her dictatorial behaviour. “The controversy provoked 7 MPs with constituencies in Kent to write a letter to the Reform party leader Nigel Farage, describing the council as “ridden with chaos and in-fighting”, CALLING FOR KEMKARAN’S REPLACEMENT.” Her response was to double down, and now the Ethnic African/Indian woman representing the Reform party has commanded that UNLESS ALL ENGLAND… Read more »