The public were informed within hours that the driver involved was an Afghan asylum seeker and that it looks like a terrorist attack. Contrast this with the UK state deliberately using procedure to withhold information in order to manage "community relations".

This is bonkers and speaks to the wider incoherence of Reform’s economic agenda. Farage might be a free marketeer but many of his voters want more govt meddling in the economy. Reform has pledged higher NHS spending than the main parties & are now proposing a windfall tax.

RT @s8mb: Britain has a recurring problem with vague, badly-written laws that make it possible for courts to rule in ways that very few peo…

If we had a halfway sane housing policy we’d convert and build more, meaning more people could live in London and Sadiq wouldn’t have to worry about propping up the local Pret. WFH is a matter for employers and staff. There’s no need for politicians to intervene.

Britain's public sector is no more productive today than it was in 1996, despite the many, many technological advances of the last 30 years. For MPs to suggest we meet this challenge by giving staff a day off is either staggeringly naive or disingenuous.

Drama students are being given “storm” trigger warnings for ‘The Tempest’. How dim do they think these young people are?

The Bank of England has halved its growth forecast, but don't worry, in 10-20 years time we might have another reservoir.

Labour are paying to give away our strategic assets whilst hiking taxes and stripping pensioners of their benefits. As JD Vance made clear, Starmer ought to put the national interest before global welfare. @Telegraph

If the Tories were pursuing a policy which unequivocally undermined our national interest while lining the pockets of their chums, Labour would be outraged. Starmer is clinging onto a self-serving concept of international law because it would be personally costly to let it go.

If Labour were genuinely serious about stamping out discrimination and improving race relations, this is not how they'd approach it. A major part of the problem, and where there are points of tension, is the sense that the needs of certain minorities in Britain are being put above those of everyone else. That the authorities turn a blind eye to abuse or hide uncomfortable truths in order to maintain "community relations". That we no longer have equality under the law in practice, but a two-tier system. Labour going down this road is yet more evidence they are cynically pandering to a particular cohort of voters after a few narrow shaves at the 2024 election. And it’s a further sign the Left has no intention of addressing the failures of multiculturalism.

Almost £1 in every £4 raised in council tax is now spent funding pensions for local bureaucrats. Over 7,500 ex-council workers enjoy a pension of more than £50,000 a year, of which 203 receive more than £100,000.

Rent controls to "fix" the housing crisis. Social media clampdowns to "fix" failures of multiculturalism. Smoking bans to "fix" the NHS. Workers rights to "fix" productivity. Rather than real solutions, politicians now give us displacement activity that does more harm than good.

No humiliation too great for our PM. Why is he ingratiating himself with discredited Macron? Effectively rejoining the EU, especially now, is like signing up to assisted dying.

No, the govt's number one mission is net zero. This is the commitment enshrined in law, the one that Labour will put above all others, and which they have no intention of reversing. No country can prosper with costly, scarce energy. To claim otherwise is a brazen lie.

In 2010, there were 18,000 asylum applications. In 2024, over 19,000 *relatives* of asylum seekers came to the UK - where they have access to benefits, schooling, medical and dental care. This isn't a system for refugees, it's a mass migration route by another name.

Just what our economy needs. A wealth tax that will cost more to administer than it brings in, erodes property rights, crushes aspiration, disincentivises saving, and encourages capital and talent flight.

A reminder that Labour appear to believe Amazon is somehow at fault for this terrorist attack, and that the real problem is poorly-enforced ID controls.

Even Rachel Reeves is now implicitly admitting that Net Zero isn’t the “economic opportunity of the century”. Countries can’t prosper without cheap abundant energy. No sane government should sacrifice growth for environmentalism.

RT @mattwridley: Fascinating study by the World Bank into solar power potential of different countries, taking into account hours of sunlig…