Chartered jet flew to France in January carrying passenger with complex physical medical needs Daily Telegraph 11/09/26 The Home Office used a chartered passenger jet to deport a single migrant to France at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the taxpayer, The Telegraph can reveal. The flight, in January this year, was the only flight consisting of a single migrant, although there was another passenger jet chartered to deport eight migrants to Poland in June last year. The flights were among 74 planes chartered by the Home Office during a one-year period to deport foreign offenders and illegal migrants at an average cost of £186,000 per flight, according to Home Office data. During the year from Feb 1, 2025 to Jan 31 this year, a total of 2,835 migrants were flown out of the UK at a total cost of £13.8m, equivalent to nearly £5,000 per person. The single-migrant plane was chartered to fly on Jan 7 this year. It is understood the migrant had complex physical medical needs. ...
Macron needs to get his wallet out for what his country did to us nearly 1,000 years ago Daily Telegraph 11/09/26 Have you seen the Bayeux Tapestry? Maybe you are one of the thousands who have queued at the British Museum . Or perhaps you have visited its usual home in Normandy. Or maybe, like me, you have made do with images online. But however you have consumed this medieval masterpiece, it won’t have escaped your notice that it depicts mass human slaughter. It shows swords being plunged into bodies and soldiers hacked to death. Severed limbs and heads abound, while homes of ordinary people are torched and women and children are forced to flee. Horrifyingly enough, it’s a pretty good record of what actually happened. The Conquest was responsible for 100,000 deaths , many through deliberate starvation. Given that our population back then was about two million, this means it wiped out 5 per cent of us. Some even describe it as a genocide. So how come we are determined to view this tape...