Jim Butcher

🚨 Iran Revolution 2026: Tehran, February 18 – A School’s Heartbreaking Tribute In a deeply moving scene at a local school, students surprised their teacher by organizing a 40th-day memorial for his son, Sadra Soltani, who was killed by regime forces during the January uprising.

Only one side of this debate has been extreme. Only one side has issued threats. Only one side has tried to hound people out of their jobs, silence dissent, and intimidate those who ask difficult questions. I fought for Hilary Cass to be put in the House of Lords when I was Secretary of State because I understood the weight of what she’d done and the storm that could engulf her. Though I did not agree with every line of her report (serious people rarely agree on everything), I recognised courage when I saw it…and courage calls to courage everywhere. One of the things I disagreed with Dr. Cass on, was allowing puberty blocker trials to go ahead. Conservatives will continue to oppose them. When things go wrong, it is not doctors who get the blame. It is politicians. So much of what has gone wrong in politics is politicians too scared of a backlash when they’ve got tough choices to make. They outsource all responsibility to outside experts who necessarily look at issues through a single (and often narrow) lens. If we are going to fix the many things wrong in our country, we are going to need politicians with the judgment, resilience and intelligence to tackle VERY complex problems with difficult trade-offs. That’s what I’m recruiting for in a renewed Conservative Party because we are the only ones who can and will do things properly.

Makes me sick - "is this actually the group that is the most vulnerable?" - I was in Prestwich at Xmas and was shocked that so many Jewish homes and schools are basically fortresses. Normalising antisemitism is now a money spinning industry 👇🏽