Mark Davis

This what we should be starting to think about as we approach Remembrance weekend. Not antisemites marching in our capital. #LestWeForget

“As a queer woman, I’m not afraid of Hamas or going to Gaza. They are very accepting of LGBT allies, and anyone who says otherwise is lying. But I am afraid Israel would try to kill me.” Mental illness.

Five years on, the Batley teacher who showed a cartoon in a free speech lesson is still in hiding – cleared of any wrongdoing, but abandoned, traumatised and with his life in pieces. dailysceptic.org/2026/04/05/wha…

More gas coming into the UK from UK fields alters the supply picture, inevitably to the UK’s benefit, & anyone arguing otherwise is a fool or a liar.

“When measured in real terms, after Brexit total exports rose by more than 23 percent, from £735 billion in 2015 to £905 billion in 2025.” Post-Brexit, Britain is not only doing more trade, but diversification thereof means we’re less reliant on the EU. thecritic.co.uk/brexit-was-not…

Spotted on Facebook. Sneaky headline from the iPaper. It’s not “Due to Brexit”. It’s due to Fraud Starmer and the reset he is busily ‘negotiating’ with the EU that we voted never again to be a part of just a few years ago.

This is excellent from @CitySamuel. "Compared with the opportunity, the costs of Brexit are a rounding error. And with every new crisis, the need for radicalism becomes clearer" archive.is/2026.04.01-163…

🚨 Pensions Follow Up: Thanks for the outstanding engagement on the state pension thread — hundreds of thoughtful replies, and some excellent extra context. This conversation is cutting through the gaslighting. Key examples people have highlighted: • Keir Starmer’s 2013 Platinum-Plated DPP pension — Parliament quietly passed bespoke regulations giving his scheme full inflation protection and exemption from the lifetime allowance cap that applies to everyone else. • Public-sector gold-plated final-salary schemes (and MPs/civil service pensions) — generous defined-benefit deals funded by the same NI system, while millions in the private sector had little or nothing until auto-enrolment kicked in. • Broader broken promises — earnings link severed in the past, qualifying years still strictly enforced while the National Insurance Fund was treated as a slush fund, elite schemes quietly protected with better uprating, and the triple lock now painted as “unaffordable generosity” after decades of short-termism. • Recent analyses (e.g. Fidelity Nov 2025) rank the UK last in the G7 on pure state pension replacement rate (just 22% of pre-retirement earnings vs Italy 76% or France 58%). This is often spun as proof the system is “too generous” — but it actually highlights how the UK deliberately built a minimal state floor and pushed the rest onto private saving. Higher public pensions elsewhere come with much heavier payroll taxes during working life. • The forgotten social contract & demographic shift — We all remember the one-earner family model that worked in decades past (women raising families as society expected). Now both parents often scrape a living, struggling with housing and costs to afford kids. Meanwhile, Blair-era open-door policies accelerated mass immigration and expanded welfare access. Today, significant Universal Credit spending goes to migrant households (including unemployed foreign nationals — over £10bn in an 18-month period recently), and higher fertility in some migrant groups contrasts with native birth rates at record lows. This hasn’t fixed the worker/retiree ratio as promised — it’s added pressure on the very system pensioners paid into. All of this flows from the same root: governments sold National Insurance as a contributory scheme — “pay your stamps for your pension,” just like road tax was meant for the roads. They ditched the ring-fencing (1937 for roads, gradually for NI), turned it pay-as-you-go, spent surpluses on NHS/welfare/whatever suited the day, ignored collapsing birth rates and demographic reality (mass immigration didn’t fix the worker/retiree ratio), then rebranded the whole thing as a “transfer from poor young to rich old.” How we fix it going forward — practical steps: Short term — honour existing promises: - Maintain the triple lock for current retirees and those near retirement who paid in under the old expectations. - Cut wasteful spending first: illegal migration accommodation, Net Zero subsidies, foreign aid that doesn’t deliver, and welfare bloat that drains the NI Fund. Long term — build a system that actually works: - Phase in individual named accounts modelled on Singapore’s CPF: NI contributions go into personal pots with guaranteed returns and real investment growth, not spent immediately. - Expand and strengthen auto-enrolment so every worker builds a decent private/workplace pension alongside the state safety net. - Legally ring-fence the National Insurance Fund properly — no more treating it as general taxation. Stop pitting generations against each other. The young are paying into the same flawed system their parents did. Honour the contract for those who upheld their side, then reform so we don’t repeat the failure. What other examples of this broken promise (or practical fixes) have you seen? Keep the ideas coming — this is the discussion we actually need. #StatePension #TripleLock #DeceptionByGovernment

Agree about the history. Luke is right in that it isn't (any longer)a segregated tax like a private pension fund. It is swept up into Govt coffers to spend as they wish (but try to claim it without the requisite payments over years right?) "It startedwith a clear promise: Pay in for a specific purpose" This chap explains the history well and how successive Govts have mismanaged it. Worth a read. x.com/boot15_vu/stat…

I can’t believe you have come out with this. You need to learn the history behind the pension. It was a Social Contract: The idea was a "social contract" where those who work and contribute during their lives earn the right to a basic level of support in old age. It was originally designed to provide a "subsistence level" of income for all, regardless of how much they earned, provided they had a sufficient NI record. It’s an Earned Entitlement  - It is not a "handout" but a benefit earned through a lifetime of work and National Insurance (NI) contributions. To receive the full new State Pension, you typically need 35 qualifying years of contributions. That’s where it started.  Successive governments have played around with it but the fact remains in 1946  the National Insurance Act established the Basic State Pension. This made the pension universal for all contributors, with a retirement age of 65 for men and 60 for women. Now - if governments want to change that they need to start a new system with young people as soon as they start working.

I hope this isn’t due to ill health. But as “Defender of the Faith” I can’t see any other reason why he wouldn’t?

Has the penny dropped? The unholy alliance of ‘progressives’ and Islam latest:

🚨The state pension & triple lock is the hot topic of the day — but almost no one is discussing what actually happened and why we’re in this mess. Instead, governments are dividing older and younger generations with perverse gaslighting. Here’s the truth: National Insurance was explicitly sold for generations as a contributory scheme. You paid your “stamps” to build entitlement to your state pension — exactly like road tax was introduced and meant to fund the Road Fund for building and maintaining roads. Both started with a clear promise: pay in for a specific purpose. Then governments quietly broke the ring-fencing/promise. Road hypothecation ended in 1937. NI became mostly pay-as-you-go — today’s workers funding today’s pensioners, with surpluses spent on the priorities of the day (NHS, welfare, whatever suited the government). Why are we here now? • Collapsing birth rates since the 1960s + longer lifespans. • Mass immigration that failed to fix the worker-to-retiree ratio as promised. • Decades of political short-termism: treating the National Insurance Fund like a slush fund instead of properly ring-fencing or investing it for the future. See Singapore for the gold standard. Now the gaslighting ramps up: “No one paid into a pot.” “It’s just a transfer from poorer young to wealthier old.” “The triple lock is unaffordable.” This is classic deception by government. They collected contributions under one set of expectations, spent the money elsewhere, then rebranded the promise when demographics caught up. Pensioners who worked 40-50 years and upheld their side of the intergenerational contract are suddenly the villains. It’s perverse. Instead of admitting “we broke the funding model,” politicians pit generations against each other. The young aren’t subsidising the old out of nowhere — they’re paying into the same broken system their elders did. Honour the existing promises to those who already paid in. Cut the real waste first (illegal migration costs, foreign aid, Net Zero subsidies, welfare bloat). Then reform properly for the future: move towards individual accounts with actual investment and returns — like Singapore’s CPF. Stop the divisive nonsense. Fix the root causes instead of rewriting history and turning the country against itself. Feel free to engage👇🏽 #TripleLock #StatePension

April fool!

“Apologies, I was unable to proscribe the IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood today since I was too busy hosting a terrorist.”

Mahmoud is not a migrant. She was born in Birmingham. This absolute moron appears to have judged her on her skin colour, something rightly condemned as racist. Identity politics eating itself.

Islamism is the biggest terror threat we face by a mile. This movement hates Jews, hates women, hates gay people, hates freedom. Any ‘anti-fascist’ worth his salt would be agitating against them, not marching with them My @spikedonline piece

I wonder if Hannah Spencer will be putting a picture of her dancing with semi-naked members of the LGBT community on leaflets she distributes at Gorton and Denton’s mosques at the General Election?

Could it be that a lot of people going on these marches genuinely have no idea what they are supporting, or do they consciously support this murderous, tyrannical regime and therefore the continued suppression of the Iranian people?

We have this Green party leader dancing around like a demented numpty and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey mounting one stupid stunt after another. Polls currently give them around 35% of the vote combined. No wonder we are increasingly regarded as not a serious country. Because we’re not.

Polanski is a know-nothing blowhard. The only Jewish person to lead a political party — bar, that is, Benjamin Disraeli, Ed Miliband, Michael Howard, Jimmy Goldsmith and Herbert Samuel. He is clearly ignorant of the country’s history. And much more besides.

“Zionists go back home” is the most idiotic slogan ever. Have a think and tell me why.