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The police genuinely believe it’s their job to police our tweets, thoughts and feelings. Source - Spiked 07/03/25 Link When the police knocked on Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson’s door last year, it prompted a justified national outcry. She was told by two officers on Remembrance Sunday that she was being investigated for ‘stirring up racial hatred’ – all because of a nearly year-old tweet, in which she mistook some British Pakistani protesters for pro-Hamas protesters and railed against ‘Jew haters’. That Pearson promptly deleted it soon after apparently made no difference. When the police knocked on Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson’s door last year, it prompted a justified national outcry. She was told by two officers on Remembrance Sunday that she was being investigated for ‘stirring up racial hatred’ – all because of a nearly year-old tweet, in which she mistook some British Pakistani protesters for pro-Hamas protesters and railed against ‘Jew haters’. That Pearson promptly ...

Rishi Sunak says Britain should abandon its legal commitment to deliver carbon neutrality, and he’s right – we simply can’t afford it Daily Telegraph  Link Can we make Rishi Sunak prime minister again? I ask this not because he was any good at it, obviously. But because, now that he’s no longer in the job, he’s finally figured out how to do it. Or so we must conclude from his big interview on Radio 4 this morning, in which he argued that Britain should abandon its legal commitment to deliver Net Zero. This is, of course, something that he himself could have done during the 20 months in which he was running the country. Only now, however, has he realised that we simply can’t afford it. Well, at least he’s got there in the end. Because the truth is: Net Zero was never a good idea. But now it’s a dangerous one. Even before the Government started frantically rummaging down the back of the Treasury sofa to find some extra pennies for defence, it looked far beyond our means. In fact, we ...

Guys,  I am very sorry to have to pass this message on to you all.  From the family of Ioulia and Richard Jones.        As agreed ages ago with our parents we are telling Robin and Julien as blog moderators that Ioulia and Richard are no more. Ioulia fell ill at early February with a respiratory condition that it was clear this week she would never shake off. Richard moved into a hospital suite in the middle of February. Richard was with Ioulia all day and night until Ioulia’s final crisis very late on March 1st (Dewi Sant). Richard was with Ioulia at the end. He then, as is usual in Orthodox Greece, asked for a few minutes alone with Ioulia. When the priest, doctors and family returned Richard had also slipped away. It was as if Ioulia had simply gathered him up ready for their journey together. They did everything together. They had been married, in an Orthodox chapel in Stoke Newington during a German bombing raid, since April 1941. The funeral, they wil...

Britain is heading for the cliff-edge and the Chancellor is content to watch it drop Daily Telegraph  Link The tax on every person on the payroll is about to rise sharply. Pubs and restaurants will be hit by a huge increase in their rates bill. And the stamp duty you have to pay on buying a house is about to go up, especially for first-time buyers. You might think the outlook for the British economy was already very bleak, and, of course, you would be completely right. And yet it is heading for a spring catastrophe, with a whole series of blows landing in early April. Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, should be taking action to avoid that. But unfortunately, there is not much sign of it – instead she appears intent on taking the economy right over the cliff. The clock is ticking towards what is shaping up to be one of the most challenging months the British economy has ever faced. In only five weeks time, a whole series of tax rises will come into force, and all of them will land dire...

 A recent YouGov poll also showed Reform leading the polls  GB News Published: 28/02/2025 Link A recent YouGov poll also showed Reform leading the polls Reform UK would win both the most votes and the most seats if a general election were to be held tomorrow, a new poll has shown for the first time. In a poll by Electoral Calculus, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has polled at 25.8 per cent, with Labour behind on 24.7 per cent and Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative party in third on 21.9 per cent. Electoral Calculus poll results/parliamentary seat predictionsGB News/Electoral Calculus The new opinion poll would place Reform UK on 192 seats, with Labour on 178 seats down from 404, with the Conservative party trailing on 142 seats and no longer the official opposition. Responding to the poll, a Reform UK spokesman said: “This polling confirms what we all know, Reform has all the momentum in British politics. “The British people are ready for real change after decades of deception and f...