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Jerry Seinfeld is right: ‘PC cr*p’ is killing comedy

 The famously inoffensive comedian has had enough of our easily offended times. Source - Spiked - 30/04/24 Link TV comedy just isn’t funny anymore. That’s the verdict of Jerry Seinfeld, stand-up comedy legend and star of Seinfeld, one of the biggest sitcoms of all time. In an interview with the New Yorker at the weekend, he said: ‘It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, “Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, M*A*S*H is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on.” You just expected, there’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what – where is it?’ This dearth of new comedy is no accident, according to Seinfeld. ‘It’s the result of the extreme left and PC crap’, he says. ‘People [are] worrying so much about offending other people’, he warns, that nothing risky, innovative or actually funny ever gets made anymore: ‘When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups [that say], “Here’s our tho
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Britain ‘not interested’ in taking back migrants from Ireland, Sunak warns

PM declares UK will not accept migrants returned from EU as dozens of asylum seekers’ tents sprawl through Dublin streets Source - Daily Telegraph 29/04/24 Rishi Sunak has declared he is “not interested” in taking back migrants from Ireland as stark new images revealed dozens of asylum seekers’ tents sprawling through the streets of Dublin. The Prime Minister said Britain would not accept migrants returned from the EU via Ireland when the EU was refusing to take back Channel migrants who came from France. The row broke out after senior Irish ministers said they would draft emergency laws to send back refugees who had arrived from the UK to avoid being deported to Rwanda. On Monday, new pictures showed the tents stretching around the city’s International Protection Office and continuing along the road. They are reportedly being used by some 1,700 homeless asylum seekers in Dublin.  Some tents bore signs including “Seeking asylum is not a crime” and “EU’s racist asylum policy is criminal
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Yousaf resigns

Humza Yousaf breaks down as he announces resignation Source - Daily Telegraph 29/04/24 Link Humza Yousaf has announced he is resigning as First Minister of Scotland after his decision to scrap the SNP’s coalition deal with the Scottish Greens caused his leadership to unravel.  Delivering a statement at Bute House in Edinburgh, an emotional Mr Yousaf said he will continue in the role until his successor as leader of the SNP has been chosen. He said: “While a route through this week’s motion of no confidence was absolutely possible, I am not willing to trade my values and principles or do deals with whomever simply for retaining power.  “Therefore, after spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my party, for the government and for the country I lead I have concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm. “I have therefore informed the SNP’s national secretary of my intention to stand down as party leader and
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Tory rebels on warpath after MP defects to Labour

 Group of MPs plot ‘100 Days to Save Britain’ including plan to back Mordaunt for leader after Dr Dan Poulter crosses the floor Source - Daily Telegraph 27/04/24 Conservative rebels are working on a 100-day roadmap to turn around the party’s fortunes after a Tory MP defected to the Labour Party. A group of Conservative MPs has crafted a “100 days to save Britain” plan including “quick wins” to convince colleagues to oust the Prime Minister and unite around Penny Mordaunt, the current Leader of the Commons. It comes as Dr Dan Poulter, a former Tory minister, crossed the floor on Saturday to join the Labour Party just days before the local elections, cutting Rishi Sunak’s majority to 49. Dr Poulter is the second person to defect to a rival party under Mr Sunak’s leadership, claiming that only the Labour Party could “cure” the NHS. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, welcomed Dr Poulter to his party and said it was “time to end the Conservative chaos”. His defection sparked bitter words
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What we can learn from Kiwi conservatism

 New Zealand's conservative coalition swept into government with a clear vision   If the Tories go into opposition, they could do worse than look to our Antipodean cousins   People want decent homes and economic growth – anything else is window dressing Source - CAPX - 25/04/24 Link During the grim days of Covid lockdowns, one of the few comforts for liberty-loving Britons was the knowledge that, however bad things were, we weren’t as bad as New Zealand. Tales of Antipodean authoritarianism were a reminder that things could always be worse. Yet as the British right flounders on the cusp of electoral oblivion, the Kiwi right is insurgent, having to swept into government back in October 2023. For a while, it was Pierre Poilievre’s housing-driven revival of the Canadian Conservatives that offered the most obvious route back to power. Yet in New Zealand, we have a fully formed case study of right-wing renaissance; following a landslide Labour victory in 2020, the Kiwi right came into p
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Ireland is paying the price for its Brexit arrogance

The open border Dublin insisted on is now allowing asylum seekers to pour into the country Source - Daily Telegraph 25/04/24   Leo Varadkar left his job as Irish prime minister last month with compliments being lavished on him from all directions — especially the White House — for his triumph over Brexit Britain in forcing the retention of an open land border on Northern Ireland.  For many, the damage it did to relationships with unionists was a matter for satisfaction – one up on the old enemy. But while the Irish are traditionally uninterested in the law of unintended consequences, the results this time are potentially catastrophic. The “Ah-sure-it’ll-be-grand” cheery optimism of my countrymen can be very attractive, but it’s no way to address major crises. Take the Ukraine war, and the subsequent massive displacement of people.  The Irish love visionaries and virtue-signallers. Angela Merkel became widely admired as a heroine when in 2015 she opened her arms to 1.2 million refugees,
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Labour pledges to get rail network ‘back on track’

Shadow transport secretary to announce nationalisation amid moves for automatic refunds for delays and bringing down costs Source - Daily Telegraph 24/04/24 Link Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh is expected to announce on Thursday that her party will bring trains into state ownership within five years if it wins the general election. Labour also plans to use mobile phone apps to automate the existing delay repay scheme, which lets passengers claim refunds for rail journeys delayed by more than 15 minutes. Travellers will also be given a “best-price ticket guarantee” if they use a government-approved app to buy fares. The aim is to stop passengers from needlessly paying too much for fares bought from individual operators and third-party websites. Ms Haigh, who is launching the policy in a speech at Trainline’s London HQ on Thursday morning, will say: “Labour will deliver the biggest overhaul to our railways in a generation.  “While the Conservatives are content to let Britain’s b
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