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In the House of Lords this afternoon, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, warned of the chilling effect the Removal of Peerages Bill could have, with maverick peers fearful that if they say something that supposedly brings the Lords into disrepute, eg challenge progressive orthodoxy, they could be stripped of their titles. Watch Lord Young below 👇

@afneil It's depressing how ignorant people are I did my first two MP training sessions today... Both had their eyes opened about different aspects of our energy challenges My offer of free 1 hour sessions for MPs and peers remains open

A day of shame. Miliband is morally bankrupt. By shutting down UK refineries and banning new drilling in the North Sea, this Labour government is helping to fund Putin’s war machine and undermining Ukraine.

I have slept on yesterday’s National grooming gangs Select Committee meeting, and I am still left with more questions than answers. I have since spoken to survivors and campaigners. Most of us remain highly concerned, and I am certainly not convinced. Baroness Anne Longfield introduced herself and explained the next steps and the framework for the inquiry. The inquiry formally opened on 13 April, but the criteria for selecting the local areas to be investigated will not be published until 13 July. Despite being pressed repeatedly on this point, no further clarity was given. Oldham is already included because that investigation was inherited. Robbie Moore MP repeatedly asked whether Bradford would be included. Other MPs followed with the same line of questioning, which tells me they were equally dissatisfied with the answers being given. The responses were full of legal jargon, references to due diligence, and timescales, but no clear answer was given. The overall tone felt far too relaxed for a discussion about one of the worst safeguarding scandals in modern British history. Baroness Longfield confirmed that she wrote to councils instructing them not to destroy evidence, something that came to light through a Freedom of Information request by Robbie Moore. The fact that councils had to be told not to destroy evidence is alarming. She described this as a “red flag” and said she would be “disappointed” if evidence had been destroyed or withheld. If evidence has been destroyed, concealed, or deliberately withheld, that is not “disappointing”. It is illegal. We were also told that the inquiry will not start from scratch but will build on existing material. If records have already been lost or destroyed, it raises serious questions about whether the full truth will ever come out. For this inquiry to have any credibility, neither Labour nor the Conservatives should have any involvement whatsoever. This must be a fully independent, judge-led inquiry. Victims, survivors, and campaigners have said this from the outset. There is no trust in either of the two main parties. When Baroness Longfield said she did not have to reveal whether she would return to Labour after the inquiry, it only reinforced those concerns. The trust is gone. This scandal, and the cover-up surrounding the Labour Party is the reason why many have left that party.

Well done tax payers the government has pissed away over £600,000 of your hard earned cash on digital advertising for ID cards. Just to convince you that their Digital prison is a brilliant idea. It isn’t 🤡

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

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The number in payroll jobs fell by 100,000 in the last month alone. The public sector is eating the private sector. This can't go on.

When George Floyd, a fentanyl dealer, overdosed in police custody, everyone blamed the police for restraining him incorrectly. Now we have a young man who was stabbed in the lung, then police officers cuffed his hands behind his back, FORCING THE WOUND OPEN, and stopped him from putting pressure on it. They left him there while he died, and delayed medical services. He died because of those police officers. They should be put in jail.

We have a chancellor who is so out of her depth that she's trying to cap the price of a loaf of bread. Chess champion strikes again! telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

Sarah Pochin asks a perfectly valid question: “Why are some protesters being fast-tracked through the courts, while grooming gang survivors are left waiting decades for justice?” He views protesters and their opinions as more important than our children being raped, brutally tortured, and murdered. He can’t even bring himself to acknowledge us in his response. These politicians repulse me to my core. Absolute cowards.

Dangerous alarmism from the CCC yet again! Apparently the UK was “built for a climate that no longer exists” says the unelected Climate Change Committee, the quango that has spent years pushing extreme models and catastrophic predictions as settled science. This new climate alarmism report comes from IPCC data that even they admit was unrealistic and erm … not going to happen. So we destroyed our economy and spent £BILLIONS of taxpayers money anyway, just so they can keep their non jobs.

What frustrates me about this Department for Education campaign featuring Gemma Collins is that it reinforces exactly the stereotypes we should be dismantling around academic and vocational education. The kind of stereotypes that meant I could not persuade my daughter to even consider hairdressing - despite the fact she would probably be brilliant at it. My daughter is bright, but has never really enjoyed studying. Every exam season and coursework deadline was painful. Yet because she was in the top sets at school, university was treated as the only path. At one point she was considering studying history at a Russell Group university - simply because it was her best subject. But being good at a subject doesn’t mean you should spend years studying it - and taking on tens of thousands of pounds of debt. Instead, she’s doing a vocational degree she could arguably have done through FE or an apprenticeship route - while working 25+ hours a week in an unrelated field to fund herself. And now the government has chosen a celebrity who openly jokes about failing maths GCSE and makes “pi in the sky” gags with the Education Secretary as the face of vocational education. Why are we still presenting practical and vocational routes through the lens of academic failure - rather than talent, aptitude and ambition? What happened to encouraging young people to choose the path best suited to their strengths?

You stupid woman. Here are three first-hand survivor testimonies on arrival at Bergen-Belsen (primarily from early 1945 transports amid chaos and overcrowding). Alice Lok Cahana (arrived via death march/evacuation from Guben, 1945; USHMM oral history):
“Several days later we arrived to Bergen-Belsen. And Bergen-Belsen was hell on earth. Nothing ever in literature could compare to anything what Bergen-Belsen was. When we arrived, the dead were not carried away any more, you stepped over them, you fell over them if you couldn’t walk. There were agonising…people begging for water. They were falling into planks that they were not pulled together in the barracks. They were crying, they were begging. It was hell. It was hell. Day and night. You couldn’t escape the crying…” Gena Turgel (née Goldfinger) (arrived February 1945 from Buchenwald via cattle car):
“In February of 1945… they arrived at Bergen-Belsen in a cattle car filled with women, who upon arrival were led into a wooden barracks with openings for windows despite freezing temperatures. ‘I stood and looked, and I see walking skeletons,’ she said… ‘You could not distinguish whether they were men or women.’ Bodies were everywhere.” Mala Tribich (née Helfgott) (arrived from Ravensbrück in early 1945, age 14):
“After about two and a half months [at Ravensbrück], as the Russian Army approached… we were again put into cattle trucks to travel to another concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen. When we arrived there was no room for us inside, so we were put up overnight in a large tent on bare ground, along with hundreds of other people of all ages and nationalities. There was only space to sit, lying down was not an option… The first thing that hit you was the smell and smog. There were skeletons shuffling along aimlessly in a daze and as they shuffled they would collapse and die. There were dead bodies everywhere and piles of naked twisted decaying corpses.”

BREAKING: It’s over. After 24 hours of trying to breach Israel’s territorial waters, the entire Gaza flotilla, now confirmed by the U.S. as Hamas-funded, has been seized by the IDF. All 430 activists are going back to Europe, where they came from. Bon voyage 👋

This is the quality of our civil service. Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury explains that we have lots of sanctions on Russian crude oil… even though we’ve just lifted sanctions on Russian crude oil. It’s no wonder we are almost a failed state.

❌Teachers on strike during exams. ❌SEND crisis due to botched reforms. ❌ Falling primary school teachers ❌ Pupil assaults on staff rising ❌Highest number of NEETs in a decade. But let’s ignore all that and get a celeb in to look cool online. 🤡 No wonder people want rid of this government as quickly as possible.

Meghan Markle could not have picked a more damaging photo opportunity. 😬 Photographed smiling in Geneva with Finland’s Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Wille Rydman - the same man embroiled in shocking racism scandals, and a 2022 sexual harassment accusation, involving grooming and harassing young women and girls. Meghan, who accused the Royal Family of racism herself, happily poses with him! Completely tone-deaf and yet another embarrassing PR blunder in a seemingly endless stream of Sussex missteps. 🤦‍♀️

Hardly a surprise given that any ordinary person attempting to get into politics will inevitably find himself hounded by social media archeologists determined to have him cancelled for posting the occasional spicy comment. I just don’t think people care about this stuff anymore.