News Round-Up
- “Soaring prices, falling jobs, stalling growth… Grim reality of Labour’s Britain as inflation pushes back up to 3.4% – crushing hopes of quick interest rate cut” – Rachel Reeves suffered a blow today as inflation recorded a surprise jump, pouring cold water on hopes of quick interest rate cuts, reports the Mail.
- “Wetherspoons blames Reeves’s pubs tax as costs soar by £45 million” – JD Wetherspoon has criticised soaring taxes under Labour after its costs rose by £45 million in the second half of last year, says the Telegraph.
- “Brits claiming Universal Credit without need to look for work soars by 1.5 million since Labour came to power” – Universal Credit claims without work-search requirements have risen by 1.5 million since Labour took power, reveals the Mail.
- “Left-wing coalition to rule Britain if Right can’t get its act together as poll shows Labour, Lib Dems and Greens could keep them from power” – A YouGov poll has suggested Labour-Lib Dem-Green cooperation could keep the Right out, says the Mail.
- “A fissure between men and women is reshaping British politics” – A growing split between male and female voters has been reshaping British politics, says Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “Sandie Peggie judge cleared over ‘made-up quotes’” – The judge who presided over the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal has been cleared of making up quotes using AI despite being forced to reissue his controversial judgment twice to correct 12 mistakes, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lisa Nandy’s smearing of Farage as a fascist is deranged” – The Culture Secretary’s abuse of the F-word is insulting to those who suffered under such regimes, says Tom Slater in the Telegraph.
- “If Labour thinks Reform is ‘fascist’, what should we call a party that cancels elections?” – Despite what Starmer’s ministers would have us believe, there’s only one leader that is a threat to democracy, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The Blob doesn’t want the police to use data” – The police already have all the data they need, they’ve just been conditioned by political correctness to pretend it doesn’t exist, says our own Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
- “The civil service cares more about ‘trans equality’ than women” – In the clearest sign yet that the Supreme Court gender judgment has not ended the fight, there comes news that the Government is advertising for a senior civil servant to “lead on trans equality”, says Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
- “Backbench rebellion could force Starmer’s hand on social media ban” – Sir Keir Starmer faces the prospect of being forced to bring in an immediate social media ban for teenagers after defeat in the House of Lords and with a Commons rebellion brewing, reports the Telegraph.
- “Only parents should decide if their kids use social media” – Why is the state so terrified about children’s social-media screentime, asks Ella Whelan in Spiked.
- “Bridget Phillipson could fix the free-speech crisis in universities now. So why doesn’t she?” – In the Telegraph, Abhishek Saha says the Education Secretary urgently needs to act on a letter from himself and more than 370 others demanding action on free speech in academia.
- “Miliband ‘proud’ of Labour’s tax raid on wealthy” – Ed Miliband has said he is “proud” of Labour’s tax raid on the wealthy, according to the Telegraph.
- “I’m not the Labour figure joining Reform, but I understand the desire to do so” – In the Telegraph, former Labour MP Tom Harris has said he understands the temptation to join Reform over women’s rights and immigration.
- “Trump’s Greenland deal involves ‘small pockets of land for US bases’ as President hails agreement for ‘entire Arctic region’ and dramatically scraps tariffs” – A top NATO official has said the organisation is working with Donald Trump to “implement his vision” on not just Greenland but the future of “the whole Arctic region”, as the President drops his latest tariff threats, reports the Mail.
- “Revealed: Trump’s Greenland deal” – The United States will control parts of Greenland by designating them as sovereign base areas under the terms of a proposed deal agreed in Davos, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Trump is right. America cannot afford to leave Greenland to Denmark” – Advances in hypersonic missile technology have left a glaring gap in the West’s defences and nobody but the US can fill it, says Rebekah Koffler in the Telegraph.
- “Trump was warned against Chagos deal by generals” – Donald Trump has been warned by US generals against the Chagos deal over security concerns, says the Telegraph.
- “Nick Fuentes, the groypers and the return of fascist paranoia” – From the online Right to the keffiyeh-clad Left, Jew-delusion is all the rage again, laments Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Oddest moments from Trump’s speech – from ‘windmills cause birth rates to drop’ to calling Greenland ‘Iceland’ and mocking Macron’s sunglasses” – The Mail picks apart Trump’s Davos speech for its strangest asides and gaffes.
- “Self-amplifying-mRNA vaccines coming soon” – The MHRA has approved the first self-amplifying mRNA vaccine despite thin safety data, says HART on Substack.
- “Cattle catch bird flu close to US virus research facility” – Bird flu has been detected in cattle suspiciously close to a US virus-research facility, writes Michael Nevradakis in TCW.
- “Grooming gang victim who was raped and abused by at least 50 men in Bradford is ‘insulted’ as compensation claims are denied” – Fiona Goddard, who was raped and abused by at least 50 men in Bradford, has said she feels insulted after her compensation claims were denied by authorities, the Mail reports.
- “After this new twist, case against Lucy Letby turns out to be as impressive as a soggy sandcastle” – Major doubts have resurfaced over Lucy Letby’s case after prosecutors dropped further investigations, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Labour cuts heat pump target as demand cools” – Labour has quietly cut its heat-pump target as demand cools, says the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s warm homes scheme is good news for cowboy builders” – The cowboys must be licking their lips now that Ed Miliband has come up with yet another green homes scheme to chuck public money at subsidised energy improvements, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Wrong, Peace News, Even Political Conflict Hasn’t Stopped Mali from Thriving Amid Climate Change” – Mali’s economy and crop output have grown despite claims climate change is fuelling conflict, notes H. Sterling Burnett in ClimateRealism.
- “Aussie Coal Closure Delayed to Lower Prices and Stabilise the Grid” – Australia’s biggest coal plant has had its closure delayed amid energy reliability fears, reports Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “Microplastic emissions are up to 10,000 times lower than we thought, promising study reveals” – Researchers from the University of Vienna found that microplastic emissions are up to 10,000 times lower than previous studies have estimated, reports the Mail.
- “Storm Goretti Was Not ‘Worst Since 1703’!” – Claims that Storm Goretti was the worst since 1703 are debunked by historical wind data, says Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
- “Suppressing Climate Dissent Cannot Prevent Reality From Asserting Itself” – Net Zero dissent has been squeezed even as energy reality has asserted itself, says Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian.
- “BBC fans fume ‘I hate this, what the hell?!’ as legendary kids’ TV show is slapped with woke trigger warning” – BBC viewers have complained after Brum episodes were tagged with a trigger warning, reports the Mail.
- “Meghan fails to crack Netflix’s top 1,000 list with new series” – Meghan’s latest series has failed even to make Netflix’s top 1,000 by views, notes the Telegraph.
- “Incredible employment opportunity” – On Substack, Paul Sutton lampoons DEI-era Britain with a spoof job ad.
- “President Trump’s take on windmills at Davos” – “There are windmills all over the place and they are losers. China is very smart. They make them, they sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don’t use them themselves. They’re shocked that people continue to buy those damn things. They killed the birds. They ruined your landscapes. Other than that, I think they’re fabulous, by the way. Stupid people buy them.”
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‘The Fascist State….has curtailed useless or harmful liberties…In such matters the individual cannot be the judge, but the State only.’
1932
If liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government.
2026
‘Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can be the determining factor in human society; it denies the right of numbers to govern by means of periodical consultations….Democratic regimes may be described as those under which the people are, from time to time, deluded into the belief that they exercise sovereignty’
Here is a different may of looking at Universal Credit.
In a society where the family is a strong social unit, the family takes care of and looks after the less productive and less able.
in a society where the family has been undermined and displaced by the state, the state attempts to take care of and look after the less productive and less able.
The question is, which of the two is better at assessing who really needs help who doesn’t and clamps down better on freeriders and skyvers? The family or the state?
In any case, when it comes to state, it isn’t really about the benefits to the people. That is at best the excuse. It’s about the power it accrues to the people who run it.
May I speak up for The Forgotten Man.
Roosevelt’s or the original?
The Bank of England has a principal role which is to manage inflation at 2% pa. It is far above that but still it facilitates loose money policies and reduced interest rates.
Will the Governor last beyond the first day of a Reform government and how many of the Monetary Policy Committee will survive. We need a more competent manager of the nation’s money with more focus on its job and less attention to political questions ( Net Zero, Brexit, trans).
Regarding Greenland (I guess we’re no longer supposed to link to the News Round-Up articles directly, which is fair enough if it saves space on the website), I read an interesting snippet on Infowars that Trump’s advisers and US generals warned him that there was no point in building American military bases anywhere if the land beneath them could be sold or even given away to foreigners at any time, like Starmer’s insane plan for the Diego Garcia base in the Chagos.
Paul Sutton’s “Incredible Employment Opportunity” made me laugh & laugh till my sides ached. Absolutely brilliant! I wish he would make posters of it and put them up all over the country.
MP expected to step down potentially paving way for Burnham’s return says the BBC
Oh please! Please could the locals vote in almost anyone except Burnham? Show them that the arrogance of viewing it as a “safe seat” is misplaced.
Teachers spend hour a day changing pupils’ nappies say the Teleraph.
Prosecute the parents for child neglect.
Or, parents must undertake compulsory nappy changing training courses.
Nope. Potty-training training.
Though the article photo shows a blond Ethnic European child, this problem has only arisen since the mass importation of Third World Ethnics, in whose societies servants are the ones who toilet train the children, and “infidel teachers” in the West are regarded as servants. The Third World mothers, especially Muslim mothers, do this deliberately.
My daughter is a pre-school teacher. She discovered that one young lad was making a mess in the toilets as he would sit and urinate straight over the edge of the seat. She suggested to the parents that he might do better standing at a (low level) urinal and was told that was against their religion… Yes. Really. Urinating while sitting is Sunnah.
Disgusting! Just like the cleaning ladies at a community college divulged that Muslim students refused to use the toilets at all, and did their business all over the student loos and outside the buildings, forcing the cleaning ladies to clean it all up. Just like the Muslim boy’s parents you mentioned, their aim is to FORCE all public buildings to install Primitive Third World Squat Toilets at floor level just for them. In Muslim countries, they aren’t bothered, because Christians are usually forced to clean Muslim toilets there and everywhere.
This has also been a problem at the “migrant hotels”, whose “guests” do their business all over the gardens and grounds outside, because that’s what they do in places like Africa.
Import the Third World, get Third World standards of hygiene…
Has anyone else noticed how the words chaos and Chagos are so similar.