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If you drew a Venn diagram of Palestine, eco and trans activists, it would look like an eclipse of the sun 31 August 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link The sequel is rarely as good as the original, so it’s unlikely that “Greta II: the Flotilla Returns” will be as uproariously hilarious as the first version starring Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist best known for her time as a teen climate campaigner.  Thunberg is sailing today from Barcelona towards the coast of Gaza in an attempt to recreate the same stunt she tried in June, when she was one of a dozen activists on a boat carrying what they called a “symbolic” amount of aid for Gaza. The boat was intercepted by Israeli forces, with the passengers detained and then expelled by Israel. “Symbolic” was the only word that mattered, because it wasn’t an actual aid mission; it was a publicity stunt.  The publicity they secured wasn’t quite what they expected. As a climate activist Thunberg was used to world leaders and the me...

This is the week the Labour Party showed Britain its true face, argues Allister Heath, the Sunday Telegraph Editor. Angela Rayner’s saving of £40,000 in stamp duty on her seaside flat, first reported by The Telegraph, showed that while she speaks as a socialist, she acts as a Thatcherite. The Home Office won its victory to keep housing migrants in the Bell Hotel in Epping, but Allister argues this will prove a pyrrhic victory for a party driving itself towards electoral disaster. Daily Telegraph 30/08/25 Link Labour's true attitude to the British people lies exposed - and it spells electoral oblivion Allister Heath -  Sunday Telegraph Editor The Labour Party has just delivered its latest masterclass on how to lose friends and alienate voters. It was, once again, a brilliant exercise in self-subversion that could have been devised to persuade the electorate that the Government simply doesn’t care what it thinks. First we had Angela Rayner, the Left’s great hope, saving £40,000 in st...

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence 28 August 2025 10:39pm BST Daily Telegraph  Link Angel Rayner saved £40,000 in stamp duty on her new seaside flat after telling tax authorities it was her main home, The Telegraph can disclose. The Deputy Prime Minister is understood to have removed her name from the deeds of her house in Greater Manchester a few weeks before buying an £800,000 seaside flat in Hove, East Sussex. The changes enabled Ms Rayner to avoid paying £70,000 in stamp duty, which would have been applicable if Hove was her second home. Instead, she is thought to have paid £30,000 in stamp duty, saving her £40,000 in the process. But she has also told Tameside council in Manchester that her constituency house remains her primary residence and informed Brighton and Hove council that her apartment there was a second home for council tax purposes. Although the changes are entirely legal, the arrangements will raise questions...

Reform UK has been handed a sizable poll lead, picking up as much support as the Conservatives and Labour combined. Published: 28/08/2025 Source - GB News Link Latest results from FindOutNow UK predicted that, if there were a general election tomorrow, Reform UK would achieve 34 per cent of the vote, more than the combined 33 per cent for Labour and the Conservatives. The poll has Labour on 18 per cent, with the Tories on 15 per cent. Sir Ed Davey's Liberal Democrats are just behind on 13 per cent with the Green Party in last on 10 per cent. The Electoral Calculus website predicts this would give Reform 407 seats and a majority of 164. Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice said: "Our summer of campaigning has clearly had an impact. "Voters are fleeing Labour and Tories and sailing over to Reform in large numbers. We give them a very warm welcome!"

Matt Goodwin's Substack 27/08/25 Drawing on many policies and ideas  we have called for  in this newsletter, Farage outlined ‘Operation Restoring Justice’. Britain will  fully leave the European Convention on Human Rights , the ECHR. It will repeal Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act , which entrenches the ECHR into UK law. And a Reform government will pass the llegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill, clearing the way for the mass removal of illegal migrants from the country. There would also be a new legal duty for the Home Secretary to remove all illegal migrants. International conventions and treaties would be disapplied. New detention powers would be established, allowing the government to detail all illegal migrants until they are deported. And there would be an array of new criminal offences to replace current incentives for illegal migration with active deterrents. If enacted, in short, Operation Restoring Justice would represent  the biggest shake-up of immigratio...

The Government is banking on our quiet surrender to ever higher taxes and an ever larger state. This is a gross miscalculation 23 August 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link Britain is going into administration. GDP is flatlining, debt is spiralling, productivity has collapsed to levels not seen since Stovepipe hats and frock coats. The dashboard is flashing red, the situation so dire that senior economists are now warning we face a 1970s-style bailout. And Rachel Reeves is floundering like an accountant at Enron, blind to the reality that her Labour Government is now the greatest threat to our national prosperity. As with shareholders and staff at a company headed for insolvency, the British public is seizing what it can before the lights go out. The wealthy are moving abroad – to the UAE, Australia, Singapore – taking their capital and talent with them. The UK is losing thousands of millionaires; after a week of pitch-rolling for the next round of tax raids, many more will doubtless ...

PM’s pride in Labour record called into question by immigration crisis, crippling inflation and the looming threat of Reform 22 August 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link Sir Keir Starmer’s defence of Labour’s record to date has come into question as the Prime Minister attempts to fight back against Reform UK. Labour is expected to take on Nigel Farage’s insurgent party in the coming weeks by challenging its gloomy assessment of the state of the country. The shift in approach comes just weeks ahead of Labour’s annual party conference in Liverpool, while Reform continues to enjoy a lead of almost 10 points in the opinion polls. Sir Keir marked his first anniversary in office last month by telling his Cabinet that they could look back on Labour’s record to date with “pride and achievement”. On Thursday, a Labour source told Huffington Post: “Reform and the Tories talk about Britain being broken and that’s just not what the Prime Minister thinks.” But for all the progress Sir Keir claims...

Northampton childminder speaks exclusively to Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release 22 August 2025 Daily Telegraph Link Lucy Connolly has accused Sir Keir Starmer of holding her as a political prisoner in her first interview following her release from jail. Mrs Connolly, 42, a childminder from Northampton, said it was “bizarre” she had spent more than a year behind bars for posting a tweet inciting racial hatred in the wake of the Southport murders. Mrs Connolly, a mother of two, explained she was “upset and angry beyond belief” and that a “red mist” had clouded her judgment. She accepted the post on X was not her “finest moment” but insisted she did not “advocate violence”. In an exclusive interview with Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release, Mrs Connolly also accused the police of being “dishonest” in allegedly misrepresenting her views on immigration and threatened to bring a legal claim against them. ...

Home Office is to seek to appeal the High Court ruling to shut down the Bell Hotel in Essex Daily Telegraph  Link 22 August 2025  Yvette Cooper is to seek to appeal the High Court ruling to shut down a migrant hotel in Essex. The Home Secretary announced the Home Office will seek to appeal the temporary injunction forcing the closure of the Bell Hotel in Epping. In a statement, she warned that the asylum system would be plunged into “chaos” if hotels across the country were closed as a result of “piecemeal court decisions” sparked by councils or residents’ legal actions. “That is the reason for the Home Office appeal in this case, to ensure that going forward, the closure of all hotels can be done in a properly managed way right across the country without creating problems for other areas and local councils,” she said. It follows a successful High Court action by Epping council to close the Bell for not having planning permission after it became a focus for anti-immigration pr...

RMT announce a week of strikes on the London Underground in September and NHS staff plan action during health service’s busiest period 21 August 2025  Daily Telegraph  Link Britain is facing an autumn of discontent with strikes set to disrupt crucial services across the country. The RMT union announced on Thursday that commuters would endure a week of industrial action on the London Underground at the start of September, just as schools return and passenger numbers are expected to rise. These strikes look set to be followed by months of walkouts across the public sector. GPs, junior doctors and nurses may strike during winter, the health service’s busiest time of year, over demands for pay and funding. Meanwhile, strikes have already hit the residents of Birmingham where bin collectors are poised to continue a five-month walkout until Christmas over pay cuts. Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, had hoped to keep unions on side by handing out £10bn worth of backdated public s...