New proposals to prioritise ‘trusted’ news outlets like the BBC online will be chilling for free expression Daily Telegraph 24/06/26 Link Britain’s ruling class has a new saviour in Andy Burnham , but on the 10th anniversary of Brexit, that darkest of days for the bien-pensant , they still want answers, and they are still seeking revenge. Why do voters remain so bigoted, so nationalistic, so ignorant, so susceptible to fake news, so unwilling to parrot the groupthink propounded by their betters, they ask themselves? Why do ordinary folk still not listen to experts? Why did the public turn so ferociously against Sir Keir Starmer, a good man, a human rights lawyer for Gaia’s sake! The elite’s conceit, their delusion, is off the charts again. They cannot fathom why Middle England is so preoccupied with what, from their rarefied technocratic vantage point, are exaggerated, divisive, dangerous issues such as migration, Islamist extremism, social decay or elevated energy prices. Wouldn...
Colleagues praised the Prime Minister’s record to the rafters while forcing him from office after less than two years Daily Telegraph 23/06/26 Link It’s the humbug and hypocrisy that is so infuriating. When the Conservatives topple a leader it is a “psycho-drama” that endangers the stability of the country. Labour exploited this for all they were worth at the 2024 general election. On the threshold of No 10 as he took over as Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer promised a “return of politics to public service”, implying that his Conservative predecessors had all been in it for themselves. On Monday, as he endured the same fate as half-a-dozen previous premiers, it was Sir Keir’s turn to wonder what he had done to deserve it . Within hours of his resignation statement, he was being praised to the rafters by the very people who had plunged the knife into his back. Like Caesar, it was a political assassination by his friends, not enemies. Et tu Rachel? A prime minister with a majority ...