Howard Turner

Brian Wood was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery in Iraq. When he came home, he was falsely accused of war crimes. Lord Hermer helped prosecute him, despite being warned the allegations were suspicious. Now, Hermer is Keir Starmer's most senior legal adviser.

Gary, you're not old enough to remember how bleak things were in the 1970s and cutting taxes in the 80s saw the biggest jump in quality of life for the whole country, eventually. A tiny number of billionaires did not take everyone's money. Poor government policy allowed

@TheStudyofWar @ChrisO_wiki So we can shortly expect Putin to demand of Trump that he finds him an off-ramp. Trump will do as he’s told and attempt to bully Zelenskyy.

MORE: ISW is no longer prepared to forecast when Russian forces might seize Donetsk, including the Fortress Belt, since the slowing rate of Russian advances and the challenging nature of the Ukrainian-held terrain in Donetsk makes it unclear that Russia is capable of seizing the territory at all. ⬇️ Russia’s exaggerated territorial ambitions and aggressive territorial demands run completely counter to battlefield reality. Anonymous sources in contact with Putin and additional sources familiar with the matter as well as a Ukrainian intelligence assessment shared with FT indicate that senior Russian commanders have convinced Putin that Russian forces could seize all of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts by Fall 2026. ISW has observed evidence to assess that Russian forces have only advanced 349.89 square kilometers in Donetsk Oblast since the start of 2026, an advance rate of 2.63 square kilometers per day. Strong Ukrainian fortifications, the area’s challenging human and physical geography, and Ukrainian counterattacks and mid-range strike campaign that are already inhibiting Russian offensive operations across the theater make the prospects for a Russian seizure of the rest of Donetsk dim. Russian forces first infiltrated into Kostyantynivka (the Fortress Belt’s southernmost city) in October 2025 and have failed to make any significant tactical gains in the city over the last six months. Ukrainian counterattacks in southern Ukraine since early 2026 have also forced Russia to choose between defending against Ukrainian counterattacks and allocating manpower and resources to priority sectors of the frontline, including the Fortress Belt. Ukraine’s recent successes are accomplishing tactical, operational, and strategic battlespace effects that undermine Putin’s narrative that the Ukrainian frontlines are on the verge of collapse. Two people involved in back-channel negotiations over ending the war told the FT that Putin’s ambitions are still to control all the Ukrainian territory between Russia and the Dnipro River, and possibly farther into Kyiv City and the port of Odesa, despite Russia’s stalling offensive. Putin’s thinking thus appears to be further and further removed from battlefield realities, likely resulting in the issuance of orders to the Russian military to make gains that it is not capable of making.

@Tony_Diver @MarketBlondes Remembering Burnham from his time in Brown’s cabinet, he is a complete weather vane. If in power he will swivel, duck and dive, and seek popularity first. An insubstantial politician whatever they might think of him in Manchester.

Told this piece is doing the rounds on MP WhatsApp groups as Team Streeting starts to make the case against Andy Burnham (who is not yet in the race).

The Unite the Kingdom rally on Saturday should be treated no differently to the pro-Palestinian march on the same day. The fact that two-tier justice is being applied against patriotic Brits is disgraceful. thetimes.com/uk/article/met…

Today we remember the Battle of Danny Boy, where our soldiers fought with huge bravery. Instead of celebrating them as the best of us, Lord Hermer went after them. He knew allegations of war crimes were almost certainly baseless. And Starmer handpicked him as Attorney General.

RT @EvacTony: For all those going this Saturday, understand this: KeirStarmer is in the ropes and desperate for a distraction, he'll do al…

@RachelReevesMP A quick reminder of the recent history of the government's benchmark 30 year borrowing rate. When your team said Liz Truss "broke the economy" it was 3.825% When you became Chancellor it was 4.555% Today it's 5.741% That's not economic stability. It's what always happens when

Please watch this. The redoubtable @MrsEmmaWebber deserves to be heard far and wide… And if you can, follow the enquiry. Thank you.

As an MP, I will not comply with Digital ID. I just won't do it, and I hope many millions of British men and women will join me. Send a message to Starmer - share this graphic absolutely everywhere. I will not comply with Digital ID.

Muslims electing Muslims exactly because they’re Muslims - they then govern as Muslims, for Muslims. Demographic changes, birth rates and mass immigration mean that this is going to accelerate, rapidly. What is our country going to look like in fifty years? Twenty years? Ten

Here are 4 things that happened to the UK in the last 24 hours: 1. The Labour government confirmed it will remove the right to a jury trial. Cases will be tried by a judge alone. 2. The Labour gvt confirmed it will impose Digital ID despite it never being included in Labour's

Message to Elias Calocane. We are not bullies. We have not ‘instructed’ our Barrister to bully you and your family. HOW DARE YOU! We want the truth. We want to know what happened. We need answers. We need to understand. That’s all… We deserve that… You know you had the

Useless Britain threatened to detain Russian shadow fleet tankers in March. At the time, Prime Minister Starmer promised to deliver “another blow” to Russia’s shadow fleet. At least 184 sanctioned oil tankers have passed through British waters since then, making 238 voyages.

I know what comes after Starmer will be disastrous, but what we have now is disastrous. Disaster comes with the ideology. But there is something profoundly un-British, authoritarian and sinister about Starmer. His instincts are to take the side of whoever hates the country and

"Starmer's attack just DOUBLED numbers for Saturday's march" | Tommy Rob... youtu.be/HJv__XnJOqs?si… via @YouTube

Britain has lost its backbone. We stand idly by as successive governments pass oppressive legislation that was not in their manifestos. They rely on our apathy and compliance. We are rabbits in the headlights of dictatorship. Will we wake up in time?

Labour are incapable of making necessary reforms - cutting welfare bill, copying a functioning healthcare system, dropping net zero and drilling in the North Sea to slash energy bills reversing costs to employers - because their left wing won’t wear it. The British

The King’s Speech: "Proceed with the introduction of Digital ID.” And there it is. A lame duck and massively unpopular Prime Minister trying to ram through digital ID. No one voted for this illiberal and Orwellian digital control by the Labour government.

@Nigel_Farage @CarrieJeanJeanJ @Nigel_Farage, I have enormous respect for the millions who voted Reform on May 7 and I say this in that spirit. A lawyer's letter is not a lawsuit. Ben Habib challenged you to sue him. You have sent a letter asking him to apologise. Those are very different things. The