A former Labour adviser who is married to a Labour MP is among three men who have been arrested on suspicion of spying for China.
David Taylor, the husband of the Labour MP Joani Reid, was arrested by detectives from counter-terrorism police in London on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service, and as part of a wider investigation into national security offences related to China.
Donald Trump tonight launched an extraordinary attack on Sir Keir Starmer, saying: ‘This is not Winston Churchill we are dealing with.’
The US President delivered a withering verdict on the Prime Minister as he continued to fume at Sir Keir for failing to back US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
In comments that immediately plunged the so-called ‘special relationship’ into an unprecedented crisis, Mr Trump declared that he was ‘not happy’ with the PM and accused him of being ‘very, very uncooperative’.
Spain is on the outs …
🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump is now CUTTING OFF all trade with Spain after their leftist PM said to not use bases in their country to strike Iran
“Spain has absolutely nothing we need…we’re gonna cut off ALL TRADE with Spain. We don’t want ANYTHING to do with Spain.”
FAFO!🔥 pic.twitter.com/z6V931JmLW
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 3, 2026
Donald Trump has told The Telegraph he is “very disappointed” in Sir Keir Starmer for blocking him from using Diego Garcia to carry out strikes on Iran.
In an exclusive interview, the US president said that the Prime Minister’s initial refusal to let US forces use the Chagos Islands base was unlike anything that had “happened between our countries before”.
Britain had denied the US permission to conduct strikes from bases such as Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford, citing international law. However, the Prime Minister relented on Sunday night and said he would allow the US access to Diego Garcia for “specific and limited defensive purposes”.
Where was Britain? As missiles killed the Ayatollah in Tehran, his office in London remained open. His ambassador has not been expelled. His Revolutionary Guards have not been banned in this country, even as they are under attack in their own.
Iran, together with its allies in Beijing and Moscow, is the clearest global evil since the Nazi regime. Its tentacles stretch into Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, and into the campuses, mosques and protest movements of Britain. Yet our response has been more Neville Chamberlain than Winston Churchill.
Pro-Iran rally in London yesterday:
“It is right to rebel — US, UK, go to hell!” pic.twitter.com/DdlJOWkLZX
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) June 14, 2025
PM Carney rules out Canada’s military participation in Middle East conflict
MUMBAI, India – Prime Minister Mark Carney said while he has had discussions with U.S. President Donald Trump about the possibility of strikes in Iran over “recent weeks,” he does not expect Canada to take a military role in any continued escalation, after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, Saturday.
That’s probably a good thing given Canada’s contribution would likely begin and end with our elite “Silly March Brigade”
No, this isn’t a rerun of Monty Python’s ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’….this is the Canadian military marching pic.twitter.com/x5g87CyV73
— RT (@RT_com) November 14, 2024
The UK has a huge 5th column of dangerous Muslims as do France & Germany so it’s understandable that the Brits would seek appeasement. The US has its share but allows for an armed citizenry and that makes all the difference.
If allegations of ‘family voting’ taking place at Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election prove substantiated, the incidents will not only mark a grave infraction of the law, they will give further weight to the fear that this country is becoming perilously fragmented, terminally Balkanised and mired in sectarianism.
Polling had scarcely closed when, a few minutes after 10 p.m., Sam Coates of Sky News posted on X intelligence related to him by a team from Democracy Volunteers, a group of voluntary election observers, in which they claimed to have witnessed a total of 32 cases of family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations in the constituency. Speaking that night, John Ault, the director of Democracy Volunteers, said: ‘Today we have seen concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton. Based on our assessment of today’s observations, we have seen the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10-year history of observing elections in the UK.’
Normally local by-elections in Britain are nothing for non-British people to care about. But I want you readers, most of whom are not Britons, to understand what just happened in the UK. It signals nothing less than perhaps the beginning of the end of British democracy, and the germination of the seeds of civil war. This is a sign.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/lzmEJjo7m6
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) February 27, 2026
@fancypants_s https://t.co/wh7ZS1YMjp
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) February 27, 2026
I’ve woken to the news that the Muslim party has won the Gorton by election. Voted by block Muslim votes. That, my friends, is a taste of how the general election will be a landslide for Muslims and the final descent of this country into a third world disaster zone. I’ve got my… pic.twitter.com/oZtsYnAaMp
— Alastair Hilton (@London_W4) February 27, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Nigel Farage has claimed a report of high levels of illegal family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election “raises serious questions about the integrity of the democratic process in predominantly Muslim areas”.
An election observer group on Thursday night raised concerns over what it called “concerningly high levels of family voting” in the constituency.
Democracy Volunteers said they attended 22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, spending 30 to 45 minutes in each, and witnessed family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations observed.
In a now notorious exchange, London mayor Sadiq Khan said last year there was no ‘indication’ that grooming gangs – of the kind that have plagued towns such as Rotherham and Telford – exist in London. Evidence uncovered by the BBC last week has exposed the foolishness of this claim. It is now indisputable that vulnerable women and girls, some as young as 14, are being lured into a world of rape and exploitation by grooming gangs in London.
The public scandals and internal disagreements engulfing the Labour Party provide an all-pervasive soundtrack to life in Britain today. But it’s not just the governing party that is stuck in a quagmire of its own making. The Conservatives face an existential crisis, too. With a much-reduced presence in the House of Commons, collapsing poll ratings, and, most recently, a string of high-profile defections to Nigel Farage’s populist challenger Reform UK, the future of the “natural party of government” now seems in doubt.
Nothing but disappointment, really no different than Labour.
Five men have been convicted in connection with an attack that led to a serious house fire in which a woman and a girl were badly burned.
Five others had previously admitted offences relating to the incidents in Stoke-on-Trent in 2021.
Following an 11-week trial at Nottingham Crown Court, Det Con Howard Davies of Staffordshire Police said: “This was a horrific ordeal for a mother to be set on fire in her own home in front of her daughter by a number of men seeking revenge.”
The men have all been remanded in custody to await sentence at a date to be fixed.
In Britain, the MP Rupert Lowe, a political Independent, last year raised 600,000 pounds to crowdfund an independent investigation of the Muslim rape gang scandal. Lowe, along with MP Esther McVey, lawyer Graham Smith, and Sammy Woodhouse, a survivor of the rape gangs, heard testimony from other survivors. This was not an official inquiry. Based on the belief that British authorities have systematically tried to downplay the breadth and seriousness of the abuse, for the sake of avoiding conflict with Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities (from which the vast majority of the alleged rapists come), Lowe and his team gathered information independently. Now they are turning it over the to government in the hope that at last, the state will take it seriously. Here is their statement from yesterday.
It is very strong stuff…
British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has been accused of overseeing a system which reportedly allowed suspected grooming gang child rapists to walk free with a warning during his time as the country’s top prosecutor.
Reform UK’s shadow home secretary, Zia Yusuf, said on Monday that the damage done by open borders policies pursued by the “cowardly” establishment parties is “profound.” But, crucially, “they are not irreversible.”
He announced a range of new measures aimed at ending “the invasion,” perhaps the most noteworthy of which is a pledge to deport “over 600,000” illegal migrants during the party’s first term in office. That would amount to 120,000 removals every year for five years.
The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble those of the 1930s, being prone to denounce a development or policy they disdain as being ‘just like Nazi Germany’. To be fair, they have a point. It’s not just the street brawls we’ve seen in Manchester and Lyon over the last week, between hard left and hard right youths, that should arouse such unnerving comparisons. It’s also because we are living in an age of appeasement. And this time it’s the liberal left who are doing the appeasing.
🚨BREAKING: Muslim thugs attack patriots at the march for Remigration in Manchester 🇬🇧
They were antagonising and pulling flags off of patriots but they soon backed off when literally THOUSANDS of people were chasing them
The police were frantically trying to protect the… pic.twitter.com/JNyIq2o08z
— BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 (@BROKENBRITAIN0) February 21, 2026
When I published my previous essay in the Daily Sceptic on the rape-gang scandal, I attempted to describe what a serious integrity mechanism would look like in a state that wished to root out corruption rather than narrate it. Drawing on the example of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), I set out, in practical terms, what such a body would require: independence from police and ministerial control, genuine investigative authority and a simple governing proposition: that no institution can be trusted to police itself when it is itself the problem.
My former colleague and sometime co-writer David Betz remarked on X that the piece read like a final appeal to reason – a last attempt to delineate what accountability might resemble if the contemporary administrative state in Britain still possessed the will to pursue it. We both agree that it does not have the will and have written several times to this effect.
That observation points to what the earlier essay left insufficiently examined. The pressing question is not what an integrity mechanism would look like. It is why such a mechanism has not appeared, and why, under the present dispensation, it cannot.
