The PM praises unpaid placements from a supermarket that has cut 3,000 jobs Daily Telegraph 28/08/26 A million young people in this country have no job , nor are they undergoing any training or education to help secure one. This fact has become so well-worn of late you may as well put it on the side of a bus, yet successive governments have proved capable only of worsening the issue – and the latest seems intent on rubbing salt in the wound. In a remarkably tone-deaf bit of comms, our new prime minister Andy Burnham has demanded we praise a Potemkin employer in a depressing portent of how this Government will meet its goals. Just a year after it culled 3,000 jobs – a move it quietly blamed on the rise in employer National Insurance contributions – Sainsbury’s has announced 10,000 unpaid work experience placements, and Burnham has praised this as an example to follow. The move comes shortly after the Prime Minister asked employers simply to fix youth unemployment, and now we’re b...
If progressives can criminalise Islamophobia, surely promoting child marriage in a Western country should be against the law Daily Telegraph 27/08/26 As his many followers on social media will be well aware, John Cleese has become a rather outspoken figure these days, on any number of contentious subjects. I certainly can’t say I agree with everything he posts. But I was very much intrigued by a little thought that he put forward on Tuesday morning. “I’d like to suggest,” he wrote, “that promoting child marriage, stoning, halal animal torture, wife beating, sharia courts, and other behaviour contrary to British values, should now be referred to as Anglophobia.” What an interesting idea. I wonder whether Labour MPs will take Cleese up on it. After all, they were extremely keen to draw up an official definition of Islamophobia . So why not do the same for “Anglophobia”? Admittedly, I suppose there’s a risk that some Labour MPs might think Cleese’s definition of “Anglophobia” consti...