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Smearing opponents of the Online Safety Act as friends of predators is a desperate gambit from a flailing regime. 30th July 2025 Spiked Link In the corridors of power, where hypocrisy reigns supreme, Labour’s latest salvo against Nigel Farage reeks of desperation and double standards. The row erupted earlier this week over the Online Safety Act – a draconian piece of legislation masquerading as a child-protection measure, but poised to muzzle free speech across the digital realm. Reform UK has therefore pledged to scrap it. In response, technology secretary Peter Kyle, in a Sky News interview, brazenly aligned Farage with ‘extreme pornographers’ and ‘peddling violence’, suggesting that if notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile were still alive, he would be cheering Farage on. And here’s the kicker: this vile linkage wasn’t some off-the-cuff gaffe. It was pre-cleared by Keir Starmer’s team in No10, as revealed today in a Telegraph exposé. Farage, rightly outraged, branded it ‘disgusting’ and...

Chancellor’s autumn tax raid has contributed to ‘negative sentiment’ about Britain’s economy 30 July 2025 Daily Telegraph  Link British business activity is expected to shrink at its fastest pace since the depths of the pandemic in 2020 amid growing pessimism since Labour took power. Economists warned the “negative sentiment” had no end in sight, with activity across “all parts” of the British economy expected to keep shrinking over the next three months, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Its latest barometer of private sector output showed businesses were still reeling from the impact of Rachel Reeves’s autumn tax raid, with consumer-facing sectors hit hardest by the £25bn increase in employers’ National Insurance. The response to the CBI’s business barometer was the most negative since October 2020, when Boris Johnson, the former prime minister announced the second national lockdown during the pandemic. Bosses were also wary about the impact of global trad...

Reform UK They say a week is a long time in politics and this week was no exception! On Monday, we launched our Britain is Lawless campaign, exposing just how dangerous our streets have become after one year of a disastrous Labour Government. On Tuesday, Reform UK welcomed a wave of defectors, including our first member of the Senedd, Laura Anne Jones. But we don’t just settle for good weeks at Reform UK, so to make this a perfect week we secured our very first London Council by-election win in Bromley on Thursday. My deepest thanks to all of our members who have made this possible. Make no mistake - you are playing a pivotal part in building an historic political movement and changing British history for good. On Monday, Nigel Farage MP, Sarah Pochin MP and Cllr Laila Cunningham held a press conference to put criminals on notice as part of our six week Britain is Lawless campaign. BRITAIN IS LAWLESS A Reform UK Government will take back control of our streets by pledging 30,000 new po...

The reality is staring us in the face but Starmer is still adrift in fantasy land 27 July 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link I wanted to devote this column to housing – in particular, Sir Keir Starmer’s ridiculous claim last week that there is “lots available” to accommodate rising numbers of not just homeless UK families but illegal migrants too. But I can’t let the weekend pass without first commenting on the latest public borrowing figures. The Prime Minister’s optimism around housing supply is delusional In June alone, government spending exceeded revenues by £20.7bn – a funding gap £6.6bn wider than the same month last year and the second-highest June borrowing total on record. This massive monthly addition to the UK’s £2.7tn-plus pile of national debt was outstripped only by borrowing in June 2020 – when the economy was locked down, generating little tax revenue, as the Tories spent wildly on furlough and misguided business support loans. More shocking, as Labour continues to “...

How asylum, multiculturalism and contempt for the masses turned Britain into a tinder box. 20th July 2025 Spiked Link It’s been almost a year since the Southport massacre. That sunny morning, etched forever in infamy, when Axel Rudakubana committed his barbaric, depraved murders of three young girls at a dance class in the Merseyside seaside town. It sparked the worst anti-migrant riots Britain has seen in modern times, fuelled by false claims Rudakubana was a Muslim, small-boats asylum seeker. But to anyone who had been paying attention, the seeds of that horrific unrest were sown long before that. Before Southport, Middlesbrough, Rotherham and many more towns and cities descended into nihilistic violence last summer, with peaceful protests being overrun by racists and opportunists trying to burn down migrant hotels and pelting mosques with bottles and bricks, there were plenty of signs that something was about to snap. In Knowsley, also in Merseyside, in February 2023, a protest outs...

Jeremy Corbyn’s new hard-Left party will be set up in time to fight Labour at next May’s local elections – piling further pressure on Sir Keir Starmer. Daily Telegraph  Wednesday July 23 2025 Link Afternoon! Jeremy Corbyn’s new hard-Left party will be set up in time to fight Labour at next May’s local elections – piling further pressure on Sir Keir Starmer. Corbyn’s vision: Six policy priorities, taking on Reform and fighting the locals It was fitting that the first major meeting about Mr Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party was hosted by Dave Nellist – a fellow firebrand who was also expelled as a Labour MP by a more moderate leader. Mr Corbyn spoke for a fairly short time on the Zoom call, which was also live streamed on Facebook, but what he had to say was significant. Declaring the manifestos he fought with during the 2017 and 2019 general elections were “very good” but “not quite perfect”, the former Labour leader confirmed the new party will play all the greatest Corbynite hi...

Epping is a charming, close-knit community. Locals are well within their rights to be horrified by what has been imposed upon them 22 July 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link Sunday saw another night of protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping. Essex police were eager to clamp down on the subsequent demonstrations, arresting a total of six people and describing the atmosphere as “angry and violent”. Locals had for years expressed frustration at the area being used to house asylum seekers, a feeling which overflowed last week. This is not the first time protesters have clashed with police over the Government’s decision to place those who cross the Channel in hotels. But the events of the past week should suggest to us that these disturbances will become more common. Epping is not like the largely Northern, post-industrial towns which protested last summer after the Southport attack. It is a leafy area, where you need a middle-class income to afford a mortgage. One of the videos from T...

The politics of envy is now being directed towards the supposedly privileged elderly 20 July 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link What has the Prime Minister got against us boomers? After all, having been born in 1961, he is one himself.  Sir Keir is a decent man: in person he comes across as straightforward and likeable. Yet it is under his leadership that Labour’s class envy has morphed into generational envy. And the main target is the baby-boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964. The narrative, assiduously promoted by organisations such as the Resolution Foundation, is all too familiar. Baby boomers, the story goes, stole their children’s (or grandchildren’s) future. We benefited from various windfalls, notably cheap property, but have bequeathed our progeny only debts. Younger people – Generation X, millennials and Gen Z – have bought into this narrative. Many show their contempt for those now in their 60s or 70s with catchphrases like “OK boomer.” Gone is the culture o...

All other foreign conflicts have been pushed aside. Gaza is the new unifying issue of our politics 19 July 2025 Link Palestine Action’s campaign against Israel recalls the famed elevator scene from Mad Men. Sore at being sidelined in a pitch meeting, ambitious and impatient advertising executive Michael Ginsberg confronts his boss, Don Draper, and pouts: “I feel bad for you.” Draper, icier than the rocks in his Old Fashioned, replies: “I don’t think about you at all.” It’s doubtful if Israel will think at all about crowds taking to Britain’s streets to demand the unbanning of proscribed terror organisation Palestine Action. Reports of some protesters chanting “f*** your Jewish state” are unlikely to give anyone in Jerusalem much pause. Such scenes will be regarded as a matter of private grief not to be intruded on.  For all that Palestine Action’s criminal campaign of thuggery and intimidation is directed at the state of Israel, and specifically its ability to defend itself, it’s n...

The years-long conspiracy of silence over the Afghan relocation scheme is an anti-democratic outrage. 16th July 2025 Spiked 16/07/25 Link So we now know that, in February 2022, a Royal Marine twice accidentally sent a datasheet to contacts in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, containing the names, addresses and phone numbers of nearly 19,000 Afghans who were applying to the UK for asylum. These were mostly people who had helped Britain during the disastrous two-decades-long occupation of Afghanistan. They served as soldiers, translators, administrators – in short, they were our allies. And in an instant, the British state had unwittingly betrayed them. With their identities revealed, their lives were potentially at risk, certainly if the Taliban got hold of that datasheet. The data breach was horrendous enough – the most serious of its kind in the UK’s history, according to the Telegraph. It is certainly of a piece with the British state’s inept and brutally careless approach to its forc...

David Frost A prospectus for radical change is needed if there is to be an effective opposition 17 July 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link At Prime Minister’s Questions this week, Keir Starmer told us “Mr Speaker, we’re only just getting started”. I fear so. It’s time to cower under the beds. For if this first year of Labour government is anything to go by, we have a grim prospect ahead. Let’s review the record. GDP per head is at the same level as mid-2022. It flatlined in Labour’s first six months, grew in the first quarter of this year only by pulling activity forward to avoid the April tax increases, and will no doubt shrink in the second. Nobody is getting better off – or if they are, it’s at someone else’s expense. In parallel, and not coincidentally, Rachel Reeves pushed up the tax burden by around 1.5 per cent of GDP, driving it to the highest levels for over 70 years – and yet managed to increase rather than reduce the deficit too. Labour’s backbenches won’t allow any spendi...

It is outrageous that the Government is seeking to create a moral equivalence between IRA killers and the SAS heroes who outwitted them 15 July 2025 Soldiers are known for marching, either in ceremonial array or drilling for battle, but they wouldn’t normally be seen dead on a “march”. They leave the protests to civilians. But things are not normal, alarmingly far from normal in fact, so here we all are. The Northern Ireland veterans who gathered in Parliament Square on Monday feel they are under attack from their own Government. Threatened repeal of the Legacy Act once again opens up the prospect of men in their 70s being prosecuted – I typed “persecuted” which is nearer the mark – for serving Queen and country in Operation Banner over 40 years ago. It was a glorious afternoon in central London, but the threat of vindictive “lawfare” cast a long shadow over the old boys, their faces etched with betrayal. Now, they came together for one last battle. In brief, the Government now claims ...

 If young generations have anything to fear about the future, let them fear Ed Miliband 14 July 2025 Daily Telegraph  Link It is a “threat to the British way of life”. And it would be a “betrayal of future generations” not to take action. The Energy and Climate Change Secretary Miliband stepped up the moral blackmail today as he responded to the latest reports on the weather. But hold on. In reality, with the destruction of jobs, the soaring cost of power, and the shortage of homes, it is Miliband and the Green Commissars around him who are the real threat to future generations – not the backbenchers who are increasingly questioning his policies. It may come as a surprise to some of us that Ed cares very much about the “British way of life”. Or indeed future generations. But it is not surprising that he is stepping up the rhetoric. He is coming under increasing pressure to justify the vast sums of money he is spending. The former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, still an infl...