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Von Der Leyen was in put in power by 401 votes - just MEPs can vote - with around 284 MEPs against her. She has no democratic mandate. Democracy is dying further in the EU. Thank God we are out of it. europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…

RACHEL REEVES IS COMING FOR YOUR PENSION This afternoon in Parliament Labour pushed through a change in the law to allow the government to mandate how pension schemes invest your savings. Here's why Labour's pension grab is so dangerous👇(1/7)🧵

In Nazi-occupied Athens, a Gestapo officer sat across from a small woman in a nun’s habit. He asked his question. She stared back with a blank, uncomprehending expression. He asked again, sharper this time. She tilted her head, straining as if the words were slipping away from her. Still nothing. Frustrated, he raised his voice, leaning in close. She watched his lips with the same helpless confusion. Finally, the officer gave up in disgust, gathered his papers, and stormed out. What he never knew—what almost no one in Athens knew—was that this woman was Princess Alice of Battenberg, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, born at Windsor Castle into the beating heart of European royalty. She had been profoundly deaf since childhood. But her royal family had refused to hide her. Instead, they taught her to lip-read in English, German, French, and Greek. She became one of the finest lip-readers in Europe. She understood every single word the Gestapo officer said. And at that very moment, she was hiding a Jewish family—Rachel Cohen and her two children—in her home. Princess Alice had already lived a life few royals could imagine. During the Balkan Wars and the First World War, she left palace comforts behind to nurse the wounded near the front lines, earning the Royal Red Cross from King George V. She married Prince Andrew of Greece and gave birth to five children, including a son named Philip, born on a kitchen table in Corfu in 1921. But revolution, exile, poverty, and heartbreaking betrayal followed. Her husband abandoned the family. At forty-five, she suffered a severe mental breakdown and was forcibly committed to a Swiss sanatorium. When she finally emerged, she returned alone to Athens, converted to Greek Orthodoxy, and lived as a nun—dressed in simple gray, serving the poor with quiet devotion. Then came the German occupation in 1941. When the Nazis began rounding up Greek Jews for deportation and death, Princess Alice did not hesitate. She opened her door to the Cohen family, old friends of the Greek royal house. For over a year, she sheltered Rachel, Tilde, and Michael in her small residence while the terror outside grew ever closer. She sold her last pieces of jewelry to buy food—not only for those she hid, but for starving neighbors as well. In her nun’s habit, she moved through the city like a ghost, working with the Red Cross to deliver aid, all while protecting her secret guests with calm, unshakable resolve. When suspicion finally brought the Gestapo to her door, Princess Alice performed her greatest act of courage. The woman who could read lips in four languages sat silently before the officer, pretending to be nothing more than a frail, confused old nun. She said nothing. And because of that sacred silence, the Cohen family survived until Athens was liberated in 1944. Years later, in 1947, she stood quietly at her son Philip’s wedding to the future Queen Elizabeth II—thin, dressed in gray, a figure of sacrifice amid the royal splendor. She spent her final years in Athens, founding a nursing order and giving away everything she had. When a military coup forced her to leave Greece in 1967, she reluctantly joined her son at Buckingham Palace. She died there in 1969 at the age of eighty-four, leaving behind no possessions—only a legacy of love and quiet bravery. Her final wish was fulfilled in 1988 when her remains were laid to rest in Jerusalem, on the Mount of Olives. In 1994, Prince Philip accepted Israel’s highest honor on her behalf: Righteous Among the Nations. He later reflected that it never occurred to his mother that what she had done was extraordinary. To her, helping those in mortal danger was simply what a human being—especially one who feared God more than the Nazis. Princess Alice of Battenberg, born into the grandeur of Windsor Castle, chose instead the path of radical compassion. When the Gestapo came looking for the truth, they found only silence. BRAVA!❤️

🇭🇺 HUGE! Magyar Péter REJECTS the EU Migration Pact: "Hungary will not accept any pact. In fact, I'm going to reinforce the border fence even more." Ursula's European Union cheered for nothing!

Iranian regime planning to execute first female protester. Bita Hemmati, is set to be executed by hanging alongside her husband for taking part in anti-regime protests in January. Where are western feminists? Where is Jane Fonda? Where is Amal Clooney? They are silent.

“If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.” —Jordan Peterson

Today, the House of Commons Speaker finally lost patience with Starmer. After 18 months of dodging questions and avoiding the scrutiny the job demands, MPs across the House have had enough. Despite one of the worst records of any British Prime Minister, he has cynically used PMQs to attack other parties, particularly Reform, knowing we have no right of reply. Today, he was called out, and quite right too. He has been an embarrassment to the office he holds, and the sooner he is gone, the better.

China just sacrificed Iran for a stable relationship with the US. This is unbelievable. China is complying adequately with the US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. And they're now praising Donald Trump for permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz for business. And China has also agreed to stop sending weapons to Iran. China really understands the capacity of Donald Trump and is aware Trump is the last person to fight now. For them, a stable relationship with Trump is bigger than any alliance with Iran. Venezuela happened. Nigeria happened. And now Iran.

I am 77 yrs. I cannot even describe in my lifetime or my parents or absolutely my grandparents, the treacherous behaviour of a PM we have now in Downing street. The sorrow I feel for them when they fought for this country. To Say I Despise The So called PM is an understatement

Pensions aren’t piggy banks for governments to raid. But this Labour government is desperate. Today they forced through the power to control where your pension savings are invested. @Conservatives voted against it - and we'll do so again in the Lords next week.

Anything to do with spraying tonnes of so2 and aluminium oxide into the air to dim the sun? Or destroying swathes of countryside and farmland with metal?

It’s absolutely heartbreaking watching Ally McCoist talk about the decline in his home city of Glasgow It’s the same all over the UK What corrupt politicians have done to our great country is appalling beyond belief

Handbags at noon! It’s always nice to watch Sir Keir Starmer descend into the sort of incandescent fury that living under his government induces from most people on a daily basis. The absolute standout moment of today’s PMQs was one not caught by the cameras but a behind-the-scenes bit of piggy rage from the PM. Sir Keir Starmer’s anger when Lindsay Hoyle told him that it wasn’t ‘leader of the opposition’s questions’ was visible. But it was after the session, when a puce-coloured Starmer had an argument with Hoyle that the real joy was to be had, culminating in his flouncing out of the chamber. As he did so, he shot the Speaker an absolutely filthy look. Get her! ✍️ Madeline Grant Article | spectator.com/article/oh-the…

Everyone knows you’ve a soft spot for Islamists and have no intention of confronting them and frankly, no one’s asking you to go to war with the mullahs. Yours, and the Labour Party’s, fondness for them is abundantly clear by now. What is being asked is rather simpler: do the job you’re meant to do. Address the very real security threat they pose to the British public. Shut down this regime’s terrorist embassy. Expel its so-called “diplomats” who operate as agents of intimidation and terror on British soil. And perhaps, for once, follow through on what you repeatedly promised before the election proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. Or is even that too much to expect?

NO, DENMARK DID NOT RUN ON 100% WIND AND SOLAR FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH! A headline story is all over the internet right now, claiming that Denmark ran on 100% wind and solar for all of March 2026. This is obviously fake news. Denmark relies heavily on imported electricity when the wind stops. This also happened for entire weeks in March. Additionally, biomass was generating a large share of the power continuously for the entire month. I don't know where this fake news comes from, but it sure is spreading fast. Please share this post so we can debunk this false claim!

We were told we had to let in migrants to pay for our aging populations But it turns out the migrants are net drains on our societies So now we have to raise the retirement age on our aging populations to pay for the migrants 🤡

'People say it's dangerous but more people visited Pakistan from the UK than went to places like Australia, Norway and Japan.' Jamie Jenkins reacts to figures showing UK residents made around 625,000 visits to Pakistan despite record asylum claims from the country.

50% of what you pay for petrol is just tax for Rachel Reeves. She could halve VAT and help you out while prices are so high. Instead, she’s wasting your money on a record benefits bill.

The Defence of the Realm vs The Defence of the Majority George Robertson has been a Labour man for sixty years. He served as Tony Blair's Defence Secretary. He ran NATO. When Keir Starmer needed someone to write his Strategic Defence Review, he turned to Robertson. That is the context in which Robertson's words this week must be understood. Britain's national security, he said, is "in peril." The Treasury is committing "vandalism." The government is gripped by "corrosive complacency." His co-author, General Sir Richard Barrons, was equally precise: the British Army can currently "seize a small market town on a good day." That verdict comes from the men Starmer himself commissioned. But Robertson said something else, something quieter, that explains everything. The reason Starmer will not act, he told the Guardian, is that everybody is "worried about votes." Left and right. Reactions. The political situation. He said it almost as an aside. It should have been the headline. The Defence Investment Plan was due last October. It has still not appeared. The military faces a funding gap of £28 billion over four years. Defence chiefs are meeting this week to discuss cuts of £3.5 billion. The Treasury, it is widely reported in Whitehall, is simply refusing to release money. Meanwhile the welfare budget runs at five times what Britain spends on defence. Robertson's remedy is direct: the welfare budget must be reduced to fund the armed forces. Within hours, Diane Abbott was on cue. Cutting welfare to spend on armaments, she said, was "appalling." Labour would lose votes to the Greens. That was the authentic voice of the constraint Robertson was describing. Starmer cannot cut welfare. A backbench rebellion of over a hundred Labour MPs killed his welfare reform bill last year. He cannot borrow more without alarming markets. He cannot raise taxes without another political crisis. So the system deadlocks. The review sits on a shelf. The investment plan drifts toward June, then perhaps beyond. And the men who wrote the review go public. Those who follow my work will know I have written at length about Starmer's paralysis on Iran. The inability to act decisively in the Gulf, the refusal to name what is actually driving his hesitation. The answer, in both cases, is the same. Starmer leads a coalition held together by Muslim communities whose votes he cannot afford to lose and whose instincts run directly against any muscular projection of British power abroad. That constraint does not stop at the water's edge. The same electoral arithmetic is now preventing him funding the armed forces. It is not a coincidence. It is a governing philosophy. When survival of the parliamentary party conflicts with the national interest, the parliamentary party wins. Every time. The government's response to Robertson was to say Britain's armed forces are "among the best in the world" and that Starmer is "determined" the investment plan will be fit for purpose. Determined. Not funded. Not scheduled. Determined. General Barrons put the timeline plainly. At the current pace, Britain needs ten years to reach genuine war readiness. British intelligence, alongside allied assessments, gives Russia three to five years before it tests European resolve directly. That is the gap. That is what "corrosive complacency" means in operational terms. Lord Hutton, another former Labour Defence Secretary, has called this the defining moment of Starmer's premiership. He is right, though not in the way he intends. The defining moment has already passed. Starmer has chosen. Faced with a direct conflict between what the defence of this country requires and what his backbenchers will tolerate, he has chosen the backbenchers. Robertson said he believes his country is in danger. He said he had to speak out even though it would be uncomfortable. A sixty-year Labour loyalist broke with his own government because he concluded the alternative was worse. And he was right.

Scotland doesn’t need 32 local authorities. Merge them. Bring back the regions and scrap Holyrood.