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A bad day for democracy and a good day for supporters of terror

The Palestine Action ruling means it is no longer politicians taking the ultimate decisions on national security; it is the judiciary Daily Telegraph 13/02/26 We live in a democracy under the rule of law, so the High Court’s ruling on the prescription of Palestine Action (PA) must be respected. Be clear, however, about what it means: it is another example of how it is no longer politicians, elected by and answerable to voters, who take the ultimate decisions on national security and protection of the public from terror. It is the judiciary. When the High Court rules, as it did today, that “the proscription of Palestine Action was disproportionate” and that “a very small number of Palestine Action’s activities amounted to acts of terrorism within the definition of section 1 of the 2000 Act”, it is imposing its will and its view of the threat posed by a group and individuals over that of ministers and Parliament. Legitimately so, of course, since that is the nature of judicial revi...
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A fate worse than Starmer

Time was when political scandals rocked nations and altered history. Watergate wasn’t just a bad headline or a name-calling spat, it was burglary, taped conversations, perjury and congressional hearings. Profumo had a serious breach of national security and a romantic affair to boot. Now, though, we have 21st-century scandal-lite: confected outrage for clicks, trivial infractions inflated into “crises” by opportunistic politicians who still think they’re in the student union. At Prime Minister’s Questions this week, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch traded blows that most people wouldn’t notice, much less care about. Two-Tier (or Still-Here as he’s reminding us) declared that Robert Jenrick should have been sacked for saying there were no white faces in parts of Birmingham. This was a statement of demographic fact, not some racial slur, as the perpetually incandescent This is no Watergate Daily Telegraph 11/02/26 Left claims. Anyone who has walked through certain districts of our majo...
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The Starmer palace coup is a national disgrace

The destructive fools of Westminster are needlessly pushing Britain towards a gilts and sterling crisis Daily Telegraph 10/02/26 Britain is acquiring a bad reputation for hounding its leaders out of power in rapid succession and in petulant fashion, lurching from one set of policies to another with no economic or political compass. What I notice in my job covering the world economy is a creeping change in tone. A narrative is taking hold that this country is degenerating into an intractable and feral condition, prone to going down every rabbit hole of the culture war and lacking the discipline to see anything through. This is a dangerous reputation to have for a country that is running a large structural trade deficit, needs constant inflows of foreign capital, and has still not expunged the stain of the Liz Truss episode. Bond markets have become acutely sensitive to any sign of fiscal slippage anywhere on the planet. They will punish states that stray – even America, with the ex...
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Starmer clings on after Cabinet is ordered to back him

Sir Keir Starmer has clung on to his premiership after his whole Cabinet were strong-armed into backing his leadership. Daily Telegraph 09/02/26 Every member of Sir Keir’s top team publicly voiced their support within just over an hour of Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, calling for Sir Keir to resign. Ministers were ordered by Downing Street to tweet their support for Sir Keir in an attempt to quell the Labour rebellion, The Telegraph understands. Special advisers in No 10, who are directly appointed by the Prime Minister, called ministers this afternoon to ask them to tweet their support. Cabinet members were the first to tweet their support, at the same time as Mr Sarwar was delivering a speech calling for Sir Keir’s departure. Posts endorsing the Prime Minister from more junior ministers and backbenchers came later. Sir Keir will attempt to shore up his premiership when he faces his backbenchers at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party tonight. Mr Sarwar has...
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The Death Throws of an Incompetant tyrant

Breaking news......... Morgan McSweeney has resigned as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff in the wake of the Mandelson scandal. The Prime Minister’s right-hand man quit after a backlash to him pushing for Lord Mandelson to be appointed ambassador to the US. Mr McSweeney insisted Lord Mandelson was the best man for the job in Washington despite being warned twice by civil servants about the peer’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The resignation will be seen as a final chance for Sir Keir to reverse his political fortunes after more than a year and a half of his political authority draining away. Lord Mandelson was appointed despite Downing Street knowing about his ongoing friendship with the paedophile even after Epstein was convicted of child sex crimes. Fresh revelations about the connections between the two men have plunged Sir Keir into the worst crisis of his premiership. Mutinous Labour MPs had threatened to back a leadership challenge against the Prime Minister if he refused to g...
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Rayner coup will trigger election, Starmer allies warn rebels

PM’s supporters say new Left-wing agenda would require fresh mandate Daily Telegraph 06/02/26 A leadership coup by Angela Rayner would trigger a general election, Sir Keir Starmer’s allies warned rebels. Supporters of the Prime Minister said on Friday that Ms Rayner’s Left-wing policy platform would require her to obtain a new mandate from the British people. Ms Rayner, a former deputy prime minister, argued in 2022 that the Tories switching leaders from Boris Johnson to Liz Truss and then to Rishi Sunak required fresh elections. Sir Keir is facing questions about his future as leader after his judgment was called into question over his appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US last year, despite the peer’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Ms Rayner reportedly told friends she had warned Sir Keir not to appoint Lord Mandelson because of the public evidence of his friendship with the paedophile. Some Labour MPs have told The Telegraph that Sir Keir has three weeks ...
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Is Two-Tier Keir's time near?

Daily Telegraph 06/02/26 Is it all over for Keir Starmer, one of Britain’s least popular Prime Ministers? His only hope may be that as Lord Mandelson’s egregious conduct becomes a police matter, it might buy Two-Tier a little time. If investigators don’t begin interviews until next week, he could limp through the weekend and vanish into recess, possibly on another of his foreign trips. After which the PLP will struggle to ditch him before May – even if Labour loses Gorton and Denton, as seems more than possible since blocking Andy Burnham’s attempt to stand as an MP. Today’s car crash press conference should have been a moment, finally, for at least a show of contrition. Instead, it was an exercise in misplaced indignation, Gollum-like self-pity, and the all-too-familiar lawyerly attempt to downplay the nature of Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, even though far too much evidence of their friendship has long been in the public domain. In perhaps the worst display of bu...
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