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Daily Telegraph 06/12/25 There was a time when the Left was bad on economics but sensible on civil liberties. No longer. The contemporary Labour party is terrible on both, a sinister threat to what remains of our economic as well as our civic freedoms. The Government wants to seize ever more of our property via confiscatory taxation, it wants to reduce parents’ educational freedom by curtailing choice and taxing private schools, it seeks to censor our language and control our thinking, it wants to drastically reduce trial by jury, a key bulwark against oppression, and it is waging war on privacy. We were told we were voting for a centre-Left, technocratic Government focused on delivery and competence; we have ended up with a deeply collectivist, authoritarian and undemocratic rabble. Labour embodies the anti-libertarian position on almost every issue. It is now heavily influenced by woke and other related ideologies inspired by critical thinking, including anti-Zionism, Third Wo...

By handing tax breaks to just some retirees, the Chancellor has opened a divide that will grow and grow Daily Telegraph 06/12/25 link Division – or a perception of it – ripples throughout many facets of British society, from policing and the justice system to the chasm between private and public sector workers. One aspect of civic life that has, until now, escaped the “two-tier” tarred brush is the state pension. But that is about to change. In last month’s Budget, Rachel Reeves made the devastating confirmation that income tax thresholds would be frozen for three more years, dragging hundreds of thousands of pensioners into the income tax net from 2027-28, and potentially including those on the full new state pension, when annual increases push it above the £12,570 personal allowance. Then, without fanfare and almost in a whisper, the Chancellor announced that people on solely the old or new state pension would not pay tax this Parliament. The Chancellor later repeated the po...

The ex-Marine’s farcical trial over a Facebook post proves why David Lammy’s reforms are so dangerous Daily Telegraph 02/12/25 link Allison Pearson A jury took 17 minutes to find Jamie ‘not guilty’. I hate to think what a Left-wing judge would’ve done The ex-Marine’s farcical trial over a Facebook post proves why David Lammy’s reforms are so dangerous Jamie Michael Former Royal Marine Jamie Michael was charged with inciting racial hatred after posting a video about immigration on FacebookCredit: Dale Cherry Allison Pearson Allison Pearson 02 December 2025 8:02pm GMT Seventeen minutes. That’s how long it took a jury at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court to acquit Jamie Michael, a 46-year-old former Royal Marine, charged with stirring up racial hatred. Seventeen minutes. The piping hot coffees in the jury room hadn’t had time to cool down before 12 good men and women delivered that unanimous, you might say contemptuous, verdict on the inadequacy of the case against Jamie, who had been...

Making working parents pay to support non-working parents’ children is not only illogical, but a complete betrayal of the social contract Daily Telegraph 03/12/25 link Let’s start with a fun little quiz. Guess which politician made the following statement, almost exactly 10 years ago. “We are not the party of people on benefits. We’re not the party to represent those who are out of work. Labour are a party of working people, formed for and by working people.” Did you get it? If not, I’m sure it will absolutely astonish you to learn that the politician who uttered those admirably firm and principled sentiments was none other than Rachel Reeves. As in, the woman who, just last week, chose to add £3.5bn to our welfare bill by scrapping the two-child benefit cap. A decision which rather suggests that Labour actually is “the party of people on benefits”, after all. Naturally, I wouldn’t dream of suggesting that the Chancellor is a shameless liar who is motivated solely by a despera...

Labour could face a second Brexit moment and lose another core feature of its electoral base Daily Telegraph 02/12/25 link Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party was meant to be a thorn in Labour’s Left side. First announced by the former Labour leader and Zarah Sultana in July, its unashamedly pro-Palestinian platform was billed as a natural home for Muslim voters and young progressives. But after its inaugural conference, the party is collapsing. Corbyn and Sultana, his ambitious protegee, are locked in a legal battle over funding; two of its Muslim MPs have quit the party; and new polling shows enthusiasm has waned, with as few as one in eight Britons considering voting for it, according to YouGov. The fragility of Your Party is encapsulated by the fact that even the Muslim Vote fails to endorse it wholeheartedly. Labour MPs love to privately mock Your Party for two reasons. First, it is the perfect antidote to their own troubles after a difficult 18 months in government. More importan...

Leaked Home Office document suggests the whereabouts of tens of thousands are unknown A further 736 foreign offenders who have also absconded are also missing, according to data Daily Telegraph 26/11/25 link More than 53,000 illegal migrants have absconded and are missing, according to internal Home Office figures. A leaked document headed “absconder pool” suggests that, as of October, there are 53,298 migrants who have breached their immigration bail or escaped from detention whose whereabouts are unknown. A further 736 foreign offenders have also absconded and gone missing after being released from prison or from detention, according to the data. Most are believed to be facing deportation. The figures have been obtained from a “whistleblower” by Rupert Lowe MP, who was formerly a member of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. The Home Office has refused to confirm whether the figures are accurate, saying it does not comment on speculation. However, the numbers correspond to si...

Reeves’s ‘reckless’ failure to axe windfall tax will energise Tory and SNP Holyrood election campaigns Daily Telegraph 26/11/25 link A furious, but inevitable, row has erupted over the future of Scotland’s North Sea oil and gas industry after the so-called windfall tax on its profits was not abolished in the Budget, as had been demanded by both the Scottish Tories and SNP. The fact that the energy profits levy (EPL) has not been axed is set to play a major role in the campaign, which has already started, for the Scottish Parliament elections due next May. Thanks to what many will claim is an unholy alliance between the Tories and the SNP on this issue, only Labour now supports the continuation of the levy. That the tax would be ended in the Budget had been widely expected by political observers as North Sea oil profits have slumped alarmingly. Opponents of the levy have consistently claimed that it scares off oil companies from investing in the North Sea or in developing exis...