London and the South East already vastly subsidise the rest of the country. The answer is to liberate the North, not seize southern wealth Daily Telegraph 01/07/26 Link Andy Burnham is not so much King of the North as Slayer of the South. His government will fail, but not before inflicting immense damage on London and the Home Counties. He will ruin all that remains tolerable in our troubled nation, without fixing any of its pathologies. He will confiscate what little wealth southerners have been able to cling on to in the face of punitive taxation, stagnant wages and declining house prices, while failing to meaningfully spread opportunity to northerners. His gimmicky No 10 North , his pledge to spend much of his time in Manchester, his bogus “devolution” dedicated to unleashing dysfunctional bureaucrats to waste even more of the South’s tax pounds will prove to be a calamity. He is coming for southern homes, investments and income via his land value tax, death tax, higher capit...
Police watchdog considers whether ‘race or religion’ played role in officers’ decision to handcuff teenager as he lay dying Daily Telegraph 01/07/26 Henry Nowak, 18, was stabbed to death in December last year Two police officers who arrested Henry Nowak before his death are being investigated for gross misconduct. The university student was handcuffed by police as he lay dying from stab wounds while Vickrum Digwa, his Sikh killer, was treated as a victim of racist abuse. The 18-year-old pleaded with the officers, telling them he had been stabbed, to which one of them replied: “Don’t think you have, mate.” The police watchdog said on Wednesday that this officer and another who had initially attended the scene were both under investigation for gross misconduct. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had expanded its investigation following discussions with Nowak’s family, who had made formal complaints against Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. As well as ...