David Severn FRSA

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The two men arrested for burning four ambulances were released on bail within a day. Lucy Connoly was refused bail for over two months after posting hurty words. Something is deeply wrong with Britain's judicial system.

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Timely reminder that it’s not just Red Ed to be blamed for our suicidal energy policy. This was Boris’ energy minister 5 years ago. (Boris was as deep in hock to Carrie as Starmer is to Ed!)

'A 36-year-old man, described by police as "originally from India" but living in the UK for several years'. Is that a new way of describing an illegal? No mention of mental health - yet. bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0le…

Dear Phoebe, I read your Observer piece this morning on the reported “exodus” from Girlguiding - and I was genuinely shocked. Not because you presented a different perspective to my recent Telegraph reporting on the problems within Girlguiding. That’s part of journalism. But because you chose to include the case of a six-year-old little boy who reportedly tried to cut off his own penis - after being told he couldn't be part of Rainbows (the section of Girlguiding for 5–7 year olds). Presenting it as evidence of a problem with Girlguiding’s admissions policy. It is not. It is a deeply distressing account involving a very young child - and, on any view, a serious welfare concern. Framing it otherwise is a profound failure of editorial judgement. You also refer to this male child throughout using female pronouns, including the phrase “her penis”. I appreciate this may reflect current editorial conventions. But it sits uneasily with the basic duty of a journalist to report clearly and accurately on material facts. I was already aware of this case through my own reporting for the Sunday Telegraph. I made a conscious decision not to include it at this stage - both because a minor is involved and because of the ethical considerations that arise when reporting on such sensitive situations. Those considerations are not optional. You will know, as I do, that journalism is not simply about presenting competing narratives. It is about establishing facts clearly, handling vulnerable subjects with care and exercising judgement about what should - and should not - be used to advance an argument. I trained as a journalist in the early 2000s - a good 20 years earlier than you did - but to my knowledge nothing has changed. Good journalism should bring clarity. It should not muddy the facts - in order to promote an ideological position. In this context, that means being clear about sex - a material fact that is both legally and practically relevant. I appreciate you may be under pressure from colleagues or editors to frame stories in a particular way - or to use she/her pronouns, or the phrase “her penis”. But that doesn’t make it right. Earlier this week, the Manchester Evening News reported a violent murder as being committed by a woman - one of many examples of inaccurate reporting around sex and gender. In this case, even the Crown Prosecution Service - the public body responsible for prosecuting criminal cases in England and Wales - also reported the crime inaccurately. So that’s two professions we should be able to trust to tell the truth - providing inaccurate information. Crime statistics matter. Without accurate data on who is committing serious violence, we cannot properly understand it - let alone prevent it. I considered raising this privately, or writing to your editor. But this issue is too important to be brushed aside with a “thank you for your feedback”. I’m happy to discuss it with you privately, or to support a conversation with your editor if that would be helpful. But I hope this gives you - and your colleagues - serious pause for thought. Because it is very much needed. Janet

The UAE will show the world what strength is made of. The UAE will show the EU and NATO how to be brave. The UAE will make sure the Islamic regime in Iran never, ever targets us again. Never again. We lead. We protect. We win. And the Middle East moves forward without Islamist terrorists.

CANADA: A Muslim migrant in Montreal violently berates a female officer: "Dirty fucking slut, shut your mouth, disgusting dog-faced whore. If I want, I'll buy you and make you my slave.” The hatred they have for non-Muslim women is truly disgusting.

🇬🇧 They called it the Athens of West Africa. In 1827, Britain opened a university in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Fourah Bay College. The first university in sub-Saharan Africa. Students came from Nigeria. Ghana. Gambia. Guinea. They studied law. Medicine. Theology. In English. Latin. Greek. Then they went home. While Freetown had a university, a trained legal profession and a free press, the rest of West Africa had none. No trained lawyers. No trained doctors. No independent press. Freetown had all three. Because Britain built them. The graduates built the first hospital in Nigeria. The first newspaper in Ghana. The first trained barristers in the Gambia. Schools across Guinea. When Africa demanded independence in the twentieth century, the lawyers who argued the case, the journalists who told the story, the politicians who led the movements, a disproportionate number had one thing in common. They had studied in Freetown. The Athens of West Africa. That Britain built. Fourah Bay College still stands on that hillside today. Help us keep telling our history. proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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@janetcwebsterb1 😬The perfect Sunday, Janet. A visit to Screwfix.

Success at Screwfix for a proper toilet brush with bristles. The lady on the till got quite excited she hadn't realised they sold them and like me had been searching for one. 😁

Hezbollah, Isis and Hamas are proscribed in Britain. This is not only a hate march but it supports terrorism, which is a crime. The Together Alliance for terrorist hate in Starmer's Britain.

Keir Starmer's dystopian Britain: Hamas flag - allowed ✅ ISIS flag - allowed ✅ British flag - banned ❌

In 1954, a U.S. Air Force B-57B Canberra captured footage of Castle Bravo — the most powerful nuclear test ever conducted by the United States. The detonation at Bikini Atoll yielded 15 megatons, 1,000× stronger than Hiroshima.

The reporting from @bbcnews is disgraceful. It clearly wants the U.S. / Israel to lose and has even set its own 'finishing line'. And every update leans toward discrediting the U.S. and Israel, while downplaying Iran’s deliberate attacks on civilian areas. Insane.

The Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, the patron of progressive European left, warmly welcomed the President of Senegal, who has just validated a law condemning homosexuals to 10 years in prison. There is no limit to the moral depravity of that guy.

Farthest ever landing. We landed on a moon of Saturn 1.4 billion km away and most people have no idea. This is actual footage from Titan's surface. The Huygens probe dropped through orange haze for 2.5 hours before touching down on an alien world.

Daniel Hannan: 'No one asks for reparations from, say, China (which did not abolish slavery until 1910) or Ethiopia (1942) or Saudi Arabia (1962), because these countries do not encourage the shake-down artists.' 'The resolution was moved by Ghana on behalf of the African Union, which has indicated that it intends to pursue Britain and various European countries through the courts. China, Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia were among the states that backed the motion. So, shamelessly, were North Korea, Eritrea and Mauritania, the three places where slavery is most prevalent today.' Britain should slap sanctions on any country demanding slavery reparations telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

'As the document uncovered by The Telegraph makes clear, once the UK transfers sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, its waters will fall within the scope of the EU-Mauritius fishing agreement.' 😲 'It has raised concerns among conservationists that European trawlers will exploit fish stocks in the 640,000 sq km area surrounding the Chagos archipelago, one of the planet’s largest Marine Protected Areas (MPA), which has been under a Britain-enforced “no take zone” since 2010.' 😡 EU plot to seize Chagos fishing rights after Starmer’s surrender telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

NASA is sending humans to fly around the Moon—and you can watch! 🚀 Live coverage of Artemis II begins today. Full schedule: go.nasa.gov/4dekJwq For the latest updates on Artemis II, follow @NASA and @NASAArtemis.