“Everyone knows politics isn’t working,” said Andy Burnham in his Makerfield acceptance speech during the early hours of Friday morning. “Everyone can feel the country isn’t where it should be”.
I agree Britain isn’t where it should be. But my analysis of what is wrong – and what needs doing – is somewhat different from Burnham’s.
My latest @Telegraph column – on the dangers this Labour leadership change pose for the UK.
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https://t.co/3CzBCwC27x
The Bank of England DELIBERATELY FIXED the fake "public vote" to remove ALL historical figures from bank notes & replace them with nature images
Freedom of Information requests by the Telegraph reveal the decision to remove historical figures was based on a "focus group" of a mere 119 people
The Bank LIED because it previously claimed the decision was based on a "public vote".
In truth, however, even this vote was FIXED. Instead of having HISTORY v NATURE, the bank deliberately split the "history" category into 3 sections: historical events, historical figures, architecture & landmarks.
That was the only way that "nature" could win.
However, of course bank notes always combine at least two of those history categories. For example: Churchill & Parliament or Wellington & Waterloo.
The Bank's actions are indefensible and questions should be asked in the House.
The Bank of England has clearly been captured by progressive woke ideology. A visit to the Bank of England with its permanent exhibition on slavery makes that clear
This is part of the wider war on British history. It's an attempt to create a NEW BRITAIN, based on ridiculous myths that "Diversity Built Britain" and that Britain has always been multicultural.
Remember: the Bank of England issued a 50p coin (held aloft by Rishi Sunak) which was imprinted with the nonsensical statement: "Diversity Built Britain"
Anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain will find all of this eerily and scarily familiar.
The pulling down of statues, the renaming of streets and schools, the rewriting of history, denigrating heroes, changing bank notes etc....these were all tactics of the communists.
Severing the connection between a people and their history is the best way to demoralise a society and prepare them for the imposition of new myths.
Me on @GBNews:
You might have heard of Maggie Oliver.
She's a former Greater Manchester detective who, in 2012, was ordered to abandon her investigation into the systematic rape of children in Rochdale, and decided she would rather resign her warrant card rather than do so.
Maggie, as that would imply, is one of the good ones. I constantly ask how our police can consider themselves worthy of the badge if they are not willing to return the badge rather than commit injustice in its name. Maggie did just that; she was asked to cover for criminals, so she told the shirts to stuff themselves and handed back her commission.
She won a small but consequential victory in the High Court on Friday. Mr Justice Kimblin granted her foundation a full judicial review of whether the British state has actually done anything about the recommendations it accepted, in 2022, at the end of a seven-year inquiry into the institutional cover-up of decades of child sexual abuse.
Maggie Oliver is one woman. She has no political party behind her and no standing in Whitehall. She has no peerage, no chambers, no billionaire foundation footing her bills.
She was ordered, by senior officers, to drop her investigation into a network of men who were raping children in industrial quantities in her city, because of the demographics to which those men belong made the whole thing a bit awkward.
Fourteen years on, she has done what nobody else in this country has been able to. She has hauled the British state into open court to answer for the choice it made, over four years and under two governments, to hold a seven-year, £200 million inquiry into the institutional cover-up of child abuse and implement, deliberately, none of that inquiry's recommendations.
The Home Office accepted those recommendations in 2022. So did the Department for Education, the police inspectorates and the Crown Prosecution Service. And then nothing happened. The recommendations sat. The departments restructured. Ministers rotated.
The girls and women who had given evidence aged. More such operations continued around the country, while the men who had run the previous set of them either walked free, left the country, or drew their own pensions.
The state, in the manner of every institution Tony Blair ever built, had decided that the writing of the report was the action, and the doing of the report could be handed off to history.
That is what Maggie Oliver has now forced into court. And the political class knows what that means. The Home Secretary has not commented. The Prime Minister has not commented. The candidates jockeying through the post-Starmer Labour succession have, at the time of writing, failed even to speak her name, as though they know that, if they do, lightning will flash in the sky and they'll be turned into a pillar of Tesco's-own-brand dishwasher salt.
They are silent because they recognise, accurately, that the answers a judicial review will produce - to the question of why their inquiry's findings were treated as ornamental - will, should, must end the careers of every official who was supposed to act on them and did not. That councillors and councils, mayors, indeed entire political parties, will be caught under ultraviolet light and shown for their guilt.
It's time a government did what the British state has spent twenty years declining to do. Take on institutional failure.
Name the institutions that failed, in public, on the record. Name the officers and officials who covered it up, and the officers and officials who pressed for the cover-up too. Prosecute them under the standards that any other employee of a public organisation defrauding the public would expect to face.
The recommendations the inquiry produced must be implemented in full, alongside whatever further measures a second look at the evidence then demands.
There will not be another inquiry into the inquiries. There will be the verdicts.
Maggie Oliver is one of the bravest people in Britain. She has earned, by her own resignation and by fourteen years and a foundation and a court case carried on her back, the right to expect from a future British government the simple thing that ought to have happened in 2014, in 2016, in 2018, in 2022 and in every other year of this national disgrace.
She has not yet been given it; we have not yet been given it. But it will be given, and soon.
BREAKIBG NEWS; @Keir_Starmer has tonight called his entire Cabinet & MP’s to 10 Downing St to gauge & ask for their support to remain as PM & it’s not going quite as well as he had hoped; here is a recording & video of that meeting👇🤷♂️
This was Gaza on October 7.
Palestinians were kissing the floor with joy as Hamas paraded dead Jews through the streets.
Remember this the next time you see someone call them the victims.
No, Prime Minister.
You could have banned hate matches.
You could have banned pro-Iranian regime groups.
You could have deported disgustingly antisemitic imams.
You could have cracked down on mosques spewing Jew hatred.
Instead you introduced an “anti-Muslim hate” definition.
“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Lets fail to improve gas storage facilities, Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”
Check out the ten-year gilt yield this morning - after the UK's likely next Prime Minister tried to lecture international investors about the intricacies of fiscal policy and the UK's national accounts.
A subject about which she clearly knows absolutely nothing.
Nice one @AngelaRayner !!!
Markets now demanding 4.9% per annum to lend money to the British government. In Morocco, it's 3.4%.
And get this. In February 2026, the UK government a massive £14.3 billion - according to figures released this morning.
No less than £13 billion of that money borrowed last month went on interest payments on existing debt.
Think about that for one second - it's utterly insane. The UK's national accounts are now akin to a Ponzi scheme.
And yet still, lunatic MPs and potential Prime Ministers call for ever more borrowing and spending - "because it's the right thing to do"
Labour's chronic economic illiteracy and internal party-political posturing is driving the UK economy off a cliff ...
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Iran executed the 19-year-old champion, Saleh Mohammadi for protesting the Khamenei regime.
Nothing from Greta Thunberg, Gary Lineker, Charlotte Church, sectarian Muslim politicians.
No hunger strikes on University campuses.
Where have all the “human rights” activists gone?
The Chagos Files - The time line,
joining the dots updated 04/02/2026
2010, Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos.
2O13, Sands' good friend, Keir Starmer KC, visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement.
2015, Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges.
The same year, Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time.
2019, Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only, and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius.
2020, Starmer becomes Labour Party leader.
2021, Sands receives Mauritius' top honour, The Most Distinguished Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean.
2022, Sands makes an unauthorized entry into the Chagos Archipelago for a flag-raising ceremony. Sands tweets at the time, “It’s morning on Chagos, where the flag of Mauritius flies."
2023, Sands becomes Mauritius citizen, but retains his British and French citizenships.
2024, Starmer becomes UK Prime Minister, and overlooks his shadow Attorney General, Emily Thornberry, to appoint his old friend and fellow human-rights lawyer Richard Hermer. But he has to break with tradition by giving Hermer a peerage, so he can sit in the House Of Lords, and be part of the government.
Despite no mention of it in Labour's manifesto, Starmer quickly agrees the Chagos deal with Navin Ramgoolam, who is once again prime minister of Mauritius.
In November, Trump wins US Election. Labour wanted Kamala Harris, and sent team to America to campaign for her.
The same month, Starmer makes another controversial appointment in Jonathan "dodgy dossier" Powell as his National Security Advisor.
In December, Starmer makes yet another extremely controversial appointment in Peter "friend of Epstein" Mandelson as his US Ambassador.
2025, In January Lord Hermer recuses himself from signing off on the Chagos deal. The AG's office refuse to give details of why.
Powell and Mandelson brief the White House over Chagos, and claim the UK has to give the archipelago to Mauritius because of international law. However, they assure the Americans that their military base on Diego Garcia is unaffected, as the UK has arranged a 99-year lease on the island.
Those assurances have now been proven to be worthless.
In late February, Mauritius’ former Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, who was in office when Starmer became PM, and was heavily involved in discussions about the Chagos deal before being replaced by Navin Ramgoolam in November, was arrested on money laundering charges after Mauritius' anti-corruption agency said it had seized suitcases of cash and luxury watches in raids on 10 locations, including Jugnauth’s home.
In August, Starmer is referred to the statistics' watchdog for misleading claims over the cost of the Chagos deal.
Many other claims are made during the year that Starmer had repeatedly "lied" about the true costs of the deal. There are even accusations that Starmer ordered his officials to announce misleadingly low figures.
2026, Trump, now with more information about the deal and the threats to Diego Garcia, slams the deal as, "an act of GREAT STUPIDITY".
Joining the dots.
Project Chagos has been running for over 16 years, and Starmer has been onboard since at least 2013.
Despite no mention in Labour's manifesto, or reports of Starmer talking about the issue publicly during his time as an MP, or on the election campaign trail, almost the first thing he does after entering Number 10 Downing Street is to make the Chagos deal, despite Mauritius repeatedly putting up the price during the final negotiations.
Starmer's controversial appointments of Hermer as AG, Powell as NSA, and Mandelson as US Ambassador all enabled and facilitated the passage of the Chagos deal.
Conclusions.
Giving Mauritius the Chagos Archipelago is an imperative for Starmer.
He has been involved with Sands' plans for a long time, but kept quiet about it since his 2013 visit to Mauritius.
When he became PM, and the opportunity arose, he put the plan into effect, made the political appointments he needed to circumnavigate the potential objections and opposition to the plan.
It is clear, Starmer is determined the deal will be made no matter what he has to do, or the damage it will cause the UK, Western security, the Chagossian people, and the pristine ecosystems of the islands and the marine protection zone.
We know Human Rights are important to Starmer. But his Chagos deal is anti Human-Rights.
So, what are Starmer's true motivations for giving the Chagos islands to China's close friend Mauritius?
Is it money, is he being blackmailed, is it a maniacal hatred of Great Britain and Judeo Christian civilization, or is it his loyalty to, and admiration for, another country?
Why is Starmer so invested in project Chagos?
Never forget this. 🇮🇱
Bill Clinton: “Palestinians were offered a state on the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel accepted, but Palestinians refused. They did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. All they wanted was to kill Israelis."
Share. Share. And share again.
He lied to farmers. He promised to support farmers. But instead he betrayed them.
Keir Starmer is the ultimate snake oil salesman. Don’t believe a word that he says.
JOHN CLAUSER, 2022 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER:
"I can very confidently assert, there is no climate emergency.
As much as it may upset many people, my message is the planet is NOT in peril.
Atmospheric CO2 and methane have negligible effect on the climate.
The policies government have been implementing are totally unnecessary and should be eliminated.
So far, [we] have totally misidentified what is the dominant process in controlling the climate, and all of the various models are based on incomplete and incorrect physics.
The dominant process, is “the cloud-sunlight-reflexivity thermostat mechanism.
Clouds are all bright white, and they reflected 90% of the sunlight back into space making them the most crucial yet most overlooked aspect of the climate system.
Two-thirds of the Earth are ocean. The Pacific Ocean alone is half the Earth. The average cloud cover for the Earth is 67%; about 50% over land and 75% over oceans.
I claim that the above conspicuous properties of clouds are the missing part of the puzzle."