Leila Chami ❤️🇬🇧

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

The same Govt that wants wolf-whistling to be made a criminal offence are engaged in a clear cover-up of the actual gang rape and grotesque violation of young girls by Muslim grooming gangs. This will be a stain that lasts forever https://t.co/DbM462mzaT

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Labour has shelved what limited inquiries it was prepared to mount into the industrial scale child abuse by Pakistani-heritage rape gangs over several decades.
It is fitting that this shameful surrender was made by vacuous ministerial show pony Jess Phillips, who announced it as Parliament was heading for Easter recess and the media’s eyes were on Trump tariffs. A good day to bury bad news if ever there was one.
Why this abject abandoning of a Labour government’s responsibilities? Simple. Pure party self-interest.
First, any investigation would merely confirm that Labour local authorities looked the other way for years and failed to prevent the most heinous abuse. Phillips admitted the change of course was in response to local authority lobbying.
Second, it is too toxic for Labour. Any investigation would confirm that the evil perpetrators in the rape/grooming gangs were overwhelmingly Muslims of Asian origin, a vital part of Labour’s electoral base with which it is already in trouble for not being sufficiently robust over Gaza.
So best draw a veil over it all, even at the expense of vulnerable, abused young women never getting proper justice or closure.
Unforgivable.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Indeed. The PM thinks it a good idea to get schools to show Adolescence to kids.

All this will do is make the online world even more attractive to kids.

Why not ask those of us on the ground working with kids what is needed?

[Leila Chami ❤️🇬🇧 @ChamiLeila]

@Keir_Starmer You can ban smart phones for the under 16s. That’s a start.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

You find Adolescence shocking because you aren’t in kids’ online worlds.

Kids already know this is happening.

Getting kids to watch Adolescence will make zero difference.

What you need to do as PM is ban phones to under 16s.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We need to be honest: Britain is on course for bankruptcy.

We need to immediately scrap Net Zero, bring spending under control and encourage business growth and innovation. There is no other way.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Yesterday at PMQs I asked the PM why Labour MPs voted against banning mobiles in school. His response: “it’s completely unnecessary”.

This is why it’s necessary👇

Only 1 in 10 secondary schools have an effective ban. That’s why we’re pushing to ban mobiles in schools for under-16s. Join us and sign our petition at https://t.co/SN5rREarIq

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

The US economy is roughly 9X size of the UK economy.

@doge is already saving $1 billion a day by cutting unnecessary expenditure.

Pro rata the UK could save £90 million a day if we did similar.

That’s £32 billion a year!

Stop raising taxes and start cutting waste.

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

Earn it? Taxed.
Save it? Taxed.
Sell it? Taxed.
Spend it? Taxed.
Invest it? Taxed.
Build it? Taxed.
Live in it? Taxed.
Drive it? Taxed.
Eat it? Taxed.
Drink it? Taxed.
Smoke it? Taxed.
Give it away? Taxed.
Die? Still taxed.

And then they go & waste it. 

Will this ever stop? Maybe when all the high earners have left the country?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

‼️ NHS - Despite having ‘no money’ and millions of tax payers on waiting lists, they continue to advertise DEI pointless jobs, paying up to £91,000 a year .. plus perks

They don’t need more money, they need a DOGE clear out! No private business could spend like this & survive ‼️

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My monologue on today’s The Times at One @TimesRadio 1pm, live from New York:

It’s only the start of the third full day of the new Trump administration but already we can see what an economic and business threat it poses to an ailing Europe, including the UK. 

And it’s about much more than tariffs.

Trump aims to consolidate America’s economic supremacy with lower taxes, cheaper energy, much less regulation. 

It’s worth noting that taxes in Europe and the UK are already much higher than in America, energy is much more expensive and business far more highly regulated. That explains why America has come out of the pandemic downturn far more robustly than Europe. 

Trump now wants to go faster on all three fronts, so that America pulls even further ahead of Europe than it already is. 

As Europe continues to stagnate, America is poised to grow more. Multi-billion dollar investments in AI and other cutting edge technologies are being announced, reinforcing America’s clear technological lead. 

It’s often thought high-tech business doesn’t consume as much power as the old heavy industries. You couldn’t be more wrong. 

Data centres are fierce consumers of electricity, which is why Trump wants even cheaper energy — and why Europe and the UK, which has the highest electricity costs in the world, are struggling to attract these data centres. 

Heavy industry in Europe and the UK is still being hollowed out. Not enough new stuff is replacing it. 

In the UK alone chemical production is down 38% in just the past three years, cement production down 40%, electrical equipment down 50%. Either they close down because energy costs mean they can’t compete or they flee across the Atlantic, where energy costs are far cheaper. 

It’s happening all across Europe. 

Yet nobody in Europe is doing anything about it. 

Far from cutting red tape, Brussels boasts, absurdly, that the EU is a regulatory superpower. Good luck with getting rich on that. 

Far from cutting taxes, almost everywhere in Europe they are being increased, even though they’re already at record levels. 

And far from reducing energy prices they continue to rise as Europe puts the huge cost of going for green energy generation onto everybody’s fuel bills. 

It’s a hat trick of self-harm which Trump has spotted and intends to exploit. 

In Britain Keir Starmer manfully struggles against all the legal constraints on growth and development, many exploited by his legal friends who’ve grown rich on lawfare. 

He’s for the builders not the blockers, he claims. Which is good news. But I��d put my money on the blockers winning. 

In Davos Rachel Reeves says she’ll look again at the tax regime for non-doms now that 11,000 millionaires and multi-millionaires left Britain in the past year alone to escape her high taxes. I suspect it’s too late to woo them back. 

The punk left will say good riddance to them. They don't realise it’s Britain’s tax base walking out the door. Contrary to populist belief, our revenue base is hugely dependent on high earners.

The top 1% of earners account for 30% of income tax revenues. The top 0.1% pay over 10% of income tax revenues.  If they go, everybody else will have to pay more tax. 

Few in Britain realise this which is why wealth-destroying policies are so popular. It’s not a mistake made here in America, which is prepared to welcome companies escaping Europe’s anti-business climate and the high-earning, tax paying wealth creators that come with them. 

By the end of this decade US business will likely be more dominant than ever. And Europe, Britain included, even more of a backwater. For the moment at least, there is nothing on the horizon to change that gloomy prognosis.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

I want to know why Axel Rudakubana's father did not stop him. I want to know who these people are and what they believe. I want to know why his father did not march his son to a police station, not least after he found him preparing a school massacre. I want to know how a boy can turn up at school TEN times with a knife and not be sectioned. I want to know why Prevent is not preventing horrific attacks like this one and is clearly no longer fit for purpose. I want to know why the school, social services, the local council, and others did not stop this psychopath despite countless warnings. I want to know why Prevent and the state appear utterly obsessed with the right-wing when 70% of terrorist attacks in this country since 2018 have been Islamist and three-quarters of MI5's caseload is Islamist. I want to know why Westminster and legacy media fell over themselves to share details of other terrorist attacks but went silent over this one. I want to know why Keir Starmer has previously tweeted about attacks on the actual day they occurred calling them "terrorism" but refused to do so in this case. I want to know why the state keeps letting people who murder our children, from Axel Rudakubana to Manchester bomber Salman Abedi, fall through the cracks. I want to know why the media gaslit us by presenting this boy as a nice Dr Who choirboy from the Welsh valleys when they knew he had a long history of violence, had been referred to Prevent, and had ricin. I want to know why Keir Starmer casually branded many people in this country "far right" before they even went to court but now is suddenly obsessed with contempt of court procedure. I want to know why Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner derided people for spreading "fake news" and "conspiracy theories" when they suggested this was linked to terrorism when we now know that SHE knew this guy had been referred to counter-terrorism authorities three times. I want to know why much of the political, media, and cultural class in this country piled in on Nigel Farage, even trying to describe the unrest as the "Farage Riots", when everything he was saying about the truth being withheld was right. I want to know why, even today, they are not apologising. I want to know why Keir Starmer is now trying to convince us there is a 'new' form of lone-wolf terrorism when, from David Copeland in 1999 onwards, this has been obvious to everybody for decades. I want to know why if this had been a white British boy who stabbed three black girls to death and injured many more, who was then later found with far-right literature and ricin, we all know the response from Starmer, Cooper, Rayner and much of the media would have been entirely different. I want to know why Keir Starmer talks about "protecting our children" while *literally* not being able to tell us who is coming into our country through our broken borders and why. I want to know why, as with the rape gangs, nobody in positions of power, in these state authorities, is on primetime news apologising to the country. And I want to know why we are now having this utterly ridiculous debate about Amazon, 'buying knives online' and social media when, in reality, what this is about is how our leaders continue to let masses of people into our country from high conflict, highly violent societies who do not think like us, do not act like us, do not share our values or respect our laws, and do not care about us. Yesterday, Keir Starmer said he is "drawing a line in the sand". He should start by apologising to the people of this country for how he and his government have handled Southport as well as the rape gangs, both of which will now go down in history as powerful symbols of the total incompetence and inability of the state to keep us safe. And then he should announce he is ending the extreme policy of mass uncontrolled immigration which is destabilising our communities and nation, will do whatever necessary to fix our broken borders, will completely overhaul Prevent, will actually develop an integration strategy for this country (we do not have one!) and will start treating hardworking, taxpaying British people with the respect and decency they deserve by authorising major inquiries into not only Southport but the rape gangs. That would be a start.

We want to know the truth. And we want to change the direction of our country.

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

In the U.S. the highest income tax rate is 37%

In the U.K. the highest income tax rate is 40%, & up to 60% in the £100k to c. £125k range

But it gets WAY worse for the U.K.

In the U.S. the highest rate starts at $626,350 for single and $751,600 for married couples

In the UK the highest rate starts at just £50k ($62k)

The U.K pay a HIGHER rate of tax at just 10% of the income of the U.S.

Plus the U.K. pays VAT of 20%, National Insurance of 8%+ for employees & almost 15% for employers

Which country do you think is more productive and has a better economy?

@UKLabour instead of disowning @realDonaldTrump , maybe you need to look at what the U.S are doing WAY better than us

Shoutout to @DanielPriestley for the research

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Blimey! What a letter. From a brilliant head teacher @Miss_Snuffy an Exocet straight into the heart of Bridget Phillipson’s “reforms” which seem almost designed to harm the life chances of poor children.
Please take a minute to read and RT;

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

A man was getting out of his Lamborghini and someone stopped him and said aggressively:

“How many people could you have fed in starving countries for the price of that Lambo?” 

The man paused, then replied. “I don’t know, but it fed a lot of the 1,800 families who work at Lamborghini. 

It fed the designers' families. It fed the carbon-fibre manufactures families. It fed the tyre manufacturers families. 

The 300 workers who are dedicated to making each individual Lamborghini all get to eat and work building something they love"

This is the fundamental difference between socialism and capitalism

Socialism expects to be handed/dolled out, to receive without giving or creating value. Take from the productive & hand out to the idle

Capitalism, on the other hand, doesn’t just give value, doesn’t just build and create, but also gives dignity and self worth to the producer/value creator

You receive reward directly linked to the value you produce, AND by producing this value you give to others through the chain

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday.

Tolkien penned some of our civilization's greatest works, but you may not know *why* he did — or how.

His stories are so enduringly real because he actually lived them... (thread) 🧵

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

It is a tragedy the UK doesn’t have a real Green party. The UK and most European ‘Greens’ are hard Leftists with no real interest in the natural environment. Just look at their posts and their deeds, it’s all promotion of open borders, trans ideology, anti Israel fanaticism etc.

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

The Times reports that UK now has 85 sharia courts, run by panels of male Islamic scholars. These 'courts' issue religious rulings often undermining women’s rights and contradicting values of tolerance and equality before the law. They should be shut down.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

We haven’t lost *half of our hedgerows* since the 1940s, we’ve lost pretty much all. With the odd exception, the ‘hedgerows’ that remain are machine-flailed to lifelessness, leaving them useless for wildlife. No width or depth, no cover, no spring blossom, no berries, nada.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

🙄Can the woke brigade just please f*ck off. I can’t deal with any more of this crap.