Polanski likes post calling Right-wing rivals goose-stepping Hitler fans - "Zack Polanski has liked online posts suggesting his Right-wing rivals support Adolf Hitler, amid an ongoing row with Nigel Farage over his social media content."
Farage refers Polanski to police over guillotine online post - " Zack Polanski has been referred to the Metropolitan Police by Nigel Farage for sharing a post that appeared to threaten the Reform leader. The Green Party leader posted an image of a man wearing a T-shirt with a guillotine graphic alongside the caption: “We’re only making plans for Nigel.” Mr Polanski shared the photograph with his 700,000 Instagram followers as part of a series of images from a Green Party rally in Bristol on July 26... The post comes less than three weeks after the death of Ann Widdecombe. The Reform UK spokesman for immigration and justice died after being hit on the head with a hammer 21 times at her home in Devon. Joshua Kerry, a 28-year-old administrative worker, appeared in court last week charged with the murder of the veteran politician... Mr Farage has spoken out repeatedly about the level of abuse and threats of violence that he receives as leader of the Reform Party. He has received nearly 600 death threats this year alone."
Damn violent far right extremists!
The wheels are coming off the dim-witted authoritarian known as Zack Polanski - "The T-shirt image is awful, but I don’t want anyone arrested for social media posts, as I believe in free speech. It is worth noting, however, that when Graham Linehan was arrested by five armed police officers for trans-critical tweets, Polanski described this arrest as “proportionate”. I also never expected Polanski to roll out the free speech defence on Newsnight, given that he runs a party in which women are not allowed to say that men are not, in fact, women, or to deviate from the prescribed line on Israel. He is a dim-witted authoritarian. He has form when it comes to serious social media gaffes. He criticised the police after the Golders Green stabbing, which earned him a rebuke from Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Police Commissioner. I presumed he would use the Newsnight interview to apologise and try to move on. But then no one can quite reckon with Polanski’s ego and his whacked-out notion that he is the victim in all this... Polanski never simply answers a question. He always reframes the premise of the question to put his view across. This “reframing” is a technique from neuro-linguistic programming, which, I venture, he dabbled in as part of becoming a hypnotist. It has worked well to an extent, but when confronted with Newsnight’s incredulous Victoria Derbyshire and this nasty image, it fell apart. He tried to present himself as the victim, saying that, in drawing attention to this photo, which got reposted everywhere, Farage had put his (Polanski’s) life in danger and was the one who needed to apologise. The wheels are clearly coming off the electric vehicle. A year into the job, Polanski does not do well under scrutiny. He thought he had the monopoly on social media. He thought he owned the hopey-feely narrative. He thought he could get away with vibes and very little policy beyond “tax the rich”. Now, Andy Burnham has come along, and everything has changed. The Greens, full of the dregs of the Corbynites, seem determined to play to their worst sides in the name of “radicalism”... Described as “chronically online”, he looked deeply uncomfortable on Newsnight. One of his gurus, Gary Stevenson, the wealth tax campaigner, is stopping his YouTube channel because he feels burnt out. This comes after a Channel 4 documentary in which his ideas were roundly taken apart by a series of experts. Polanski has boasted that his party would replace Labour. But polling is showing the opposite. This, of course, may be down to the “Burnham bounce” – everything is febrile at the moment... he will not deign to apologise for images of hate."
It's only hate if it threatens the left wing agenda
Greens rack up £1m legal bill in year of ‘unwinnable’ trans battles - "The Green Party has spent more than £1m on legal costs in the past year, amid accusations that pro-transgender “ideologues” within the party are pursuing unwinnable claims. The amount spent on legal and professional fees by the Greens quadrupled between 2024 and 2025, according to the party’s annual accounts. Critics accused the Greens of “throwing money down the drain” by fighting legal battles with “ideological zeal” against people with gender-critical views. Green party sources said that as the party was growing, its associated legal, administrative and governance costs were also increasing. In 2024, the party was found to have discriminated against its former deputy leader over his gender-critical beliefs. A court ruled that the party had improperly dismissed Shahrar Ali – who believes that “biology is real and immutable” – as party spokesman because it had failed to identify any misconduct. The Mayor’s and City County Court awarded £9,100 in damages to Mr Ali. Mr Ali is taking the Greens to court again for further unlawful discrimination and victimisation, over his expulsion from the party... pro-transgender “ideologues” had “taken the party hostage” and were “fighting their own personal battles by using Green Party member money”... The party is being sued by another former member who was suspended for mocking “fairy” pronouns. Emma Bateman, who was co-chairman of Green Party Women, was found to have breached diversity rules by making “clearly antagonistic” comments about “fae/faer” pronouns used by people who believe they are mythical beings. She was also condemned for using the terms “pronoun police” and “cognitive cis-connance” during a speech in Hyde Park, leading to a three-month suspension and disqualification from the women’s committee for nine months.Ms Bateman, 58, is suing the party for discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 after being repeatedly suspended and eventually expelled for her gender-critical views. Ms Bateman’s legal battles with the party stretch back years. She said she was first put on a “no-fault” suspension in 2021 after asking whether Kathryn Bristow, then the co-chairman of Green Party Women, was biologically female."
Clearly, it's the fault of all the "transphobes" for starting a culture war and forcing the Greens to spend money persecuting them
Green Party moves to strip police of tasers - "Members of the Green Party have proposed stripping police officers of their pepper spray and Tasers. A motion drawn up by the party’s crime and justice working group says the party should pledge to “withdraw lethal tools and tactics, eg tasers, pepper spray” from police. It calls for the Left-wing party, led by Zack Polanski, to move money and investment away from “policing, prisons and surveillance” to reduce the “reliance on police”. Members called for policy programmes that “over-police marginalised communities” to be cancelled, and singled out the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme as an example of a policy it would scrap. The “closure of all prisons through systemic obsolescence” would also become party policy if the motion, first reported by The Times, were adopted... Green Party members have also demanded that it support repealing laws on drugs, sex work, illegal migration and vagrancy, as well as protest-related laws, such as the decision to proscribe Palestine Action. For the latter, amnesties are proposed for those convicted. The motion backs raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14, and creating a presumption against prosecution for those up to 18 unless there is a compelling public safety reason."
Iran has already invaded Britain – Burnham just hasn’t noticed yet - "We may be on the brink of war – and yet the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham appears to be more interested in TikTok videos for his “No 10 North” gimmick than the defence of the realm. Over the past 24 hours, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Iranian regime’s ideological army, has explicitly threatened to attack Britain... the Iranian regime’s hostile threats and acts against Britain would have taken place irrespective of Burnham’s green light to US president Donald Trump. This is evidenced by the fact that it attacked our base in Cyprus before Starmer agreed to allow Washington to use British bases. Not to mention the 20-plus terrorist attacks the IRGC has sought to carry out in Britain in just the past four years. Put simply: the Islamic regime in Iran has long been at war with Britain. The latest example of this is The Telegraph’s revelation that the IRGC’s Unit 700 branch has been exploiting the small-boats crisis to smuggle “Islamic revolutionary agents” into the UK and position them across London. As one Iranian regime official brazenly told The Telegraph on Friday: “We do not need a missile to target London.”... Burnham is certainly not to blame for the IRGC’s most recent reckless threat, but the same cannot be said about his government’s tepid response to the Iranian regime’s near-declaration of war. The reaction should at the very least have led to the summoning of the Iranian ambassador and the issuing of a clear warning to Tehran that any attack on Britain would have serious consequences. Instead, Burnham’s government released a half-baked statement that Britain was ready to “defend” itself whilst “not getting drawn into the wider conflict”... the IRGC has had a long-standing covert presence in Britain. It has de facto built an entire “soft-power” infrastructure on British soil under the “legitimate” guise of mosques, charities, and colleges. The effectiveness of this model is that, while the infrastructure is not officially registered in the IRGC’s name and is not directly created, financed, or run by the group, it nonetheless facilitates affiliated activities while providing the regime with enough space to deny responsibility. Its goal has been to use this infrastructure to nurture home-grown Islamist radicalisation, terrorism, and acts of violence. In doing so, it has successfully cultivated, within segments of the British Muslim community, what can only be described as an Islamist constituency that is loyal to it and its violent extremist ideology. These tactics mimic those of Isis and al-Qaeda – and yet there has been virtually no attempt to counter it. I have personally spearheaded investigations exposing how senior IRGC commanders – including those involved in terror plots abroad – have been in contact with university student associations in Britain via Zoom. They even called on these students to join their so-called apocalyptic army that would “bring an end to the life of Zionists and Jews across the world”. This was not a one-off. Only a few months ago, the Iranian Embassy in London issued a call for British Muslims to register for “self-sacrificing” suicide missions. Figures across this apparatus have even attended and helped facilitate the transfer of Britons to events run by the IRGC and Hezbollah overseas, including the funeral of Hezbollah’s late terror chief, Hassan Nasrallah, in Lebanon. Perhaps even more disturbingly, the new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei – an IRGC militant in a turban – continues to maintain an office in London. He even has a personally appointed representative: a senior mullah who, despite continuously expressing extremist views that are sympathetic to the IRGC, not only continues to reside in the UK but runs several charities in his name. This individual does not hold a diplomatic passport, meaning his visa could be immediately revoked. But this, of course, has not happened. The radical Islamist constituency the Iranian regime has cultivated in Britain is already carrying out acts of intimidation, vandalism, and violence against British Jews and dissident British Iranians in the UK... Instead of pursuing gimmicks, or having his new Defence Secretary condemn Israel – one of Britain’s closest security partners – the Prime Minister should be investing seriously in our defence and our alliances. In an increasingly hostile world, Britain cannot afford student politics. Sadly, however, Burnham’s government appears more interested in political theatre on TikTok than in national security."
Time to import more migrants, chase the Americans out and condemn Israel again
Of course, all Iran-linked attacks are really Mossad false flags carried out to justify "genocide"
End this suicidal empathy before it is too late - "In 2018 and 2019, Iranian nationals accounted for a large majority of small-boat arrivals. It wasn’t until 2020 that Syrians appeared in significant numbers. But even then they amounted to just 9 per cent of the total, compared to 28 per cent from Iran. Since 2018, Iranians have formed the largest national group of all illegal migrants, with 30,269 arriving, compared to 27,422 Afghans, 19,157 Iraqis, 15,373 Albanians and just 14,744 Syrians. Last week, the Government disclosed that a series of arson and vandalism attacks on Jewish sites, including the firebombing of charity ambulances, was the work of Iranian proxies in Britain. But the worst may be yet to come. The head of MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, has repeatedly warned of Iran-backed terrorist atrocities in Britain, with “more than 20 potentially lethal Iran-backed plots” foiled in just one year. On Thursday, Tehran threatened to attack RAF Fairford – which Andy Burnham has allowed the US to continue to use to launch strikes on Iran. They also made veiled threats against the “British monarchy regime”. With Iranian operatives walking among us, such threats could well become reality. For all the professionalism of our security services, we can’t expect them to play Whack-A-Mole forever. After years of suicidal empathy in Westminster, Mr Burnham must change course – before it is too late."
Farage: I warned about Iranian operatives two months ago - "Iran has already been exposed for employing thugs from “Thieves-in-Law”, a notorious international criminal gang from the former Soviet Union, to carry out kidnappings on Tehran’s behalf... Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said news of the Channel smuggling was a further reason for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)... Iran has tried to carry out terrorist attacks on British soil, including one that was foiled hours from being launched in May last year. The regime has also tried to kill or kidnap at least 15 people inside the country, according to a 2025 report by Parliament’s intelligence and security committee, which warned of a “wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable threat”."
The troubling think tank at the heart of government - "In the post-1980s decades, the influence of Right-wing think tanks on Tory governments has been marginal. It is easy to draw up diagrams showing how people working in think tanks then moved into No 10 under various PMs – but all that shows is that there is a career ladder in Right-wing public policy. But what of Resolution and the NEF? Resolution’s agenda is unambiguous – inequality is the problem that underlies virtually all others in Britain and tackling it must be the number one task of a progressive government. Higher taxes on wealth, the Resolution thinking goes, is an essential tool for achieving this desideratum. Resolution and the £50m endowment backing it from Sir Clive Cowdery, the insurance tycoon, has certainly turbocharged this argument within Labour. The think tank’s research underpins much Labour thinking on these matters... Other than on the wilder shores of Greenery, there has been a broad consensus in British politics that growth is a good thing. The debate has been not about whether we want growth, but how to achieve this laudable aim. The NEF was set up to go against this consensus, arguing that it is a vestige of – that dreaded word – neo-liberal thinking... Its message since then has been relentless: Neoliberalism is to blame for all the world’s ills and our leaders need to get over their obsession with growth. The relentless onward march of the state has done nothing to dim that delusion. You might think that recent governments have been rather good at neglecting the imperative of growth, but not good enough to please the NEF and its panjandrums. They want us all to enjoy a three-day week and to take life at a slower pace. The fact that Burnham bangs on about the 1980s wrong turn and the all-pervading influence of neoliberalism perhaps indicates the extent of NEF influence. The NEF had a budget last year of nearly £5m and 43 staff; in contrast, the IEA spent just over £2m and employed 20... Expect to hear much more from NEF in the coming years of the Burnham premiership. If growth fails to materialise, you may even start to hear the claim that this is all part of the 10-year sustainable new economic plan."
Don’t weaponise Gaza, military chiefs warn Streeting - "Wes Streeting “politicised national security” with his public rebuke of Israel’s actions in Gaza, senior military commanders and special-forces veterans have said. The Defence Secretary launched a pointed attack against Israel last week, accusing it of “falling short” of British military standards in the war with its neighbours. The remarks angered veterans, prompting a group of high-profile Armed Forces figures to go on the offensive, accusing Mr Streeting of “failing to grasp the danger” the UK was facing."
Our politicians are addicted to social media. It’s making them stupid
Rayner accused of misleading public with CV - "Ms Rayner is the latest in a line of Labour Cabinet ministers to face scrutiny over their CVs, including Rachel Reeves, the former chancellor, and Jonathan Reynolds, the Business Secretary."
Melissa Chen on X - "American friends have been asking about the new British PM. Sure maybe he'll fix some things on the economic front but I don't think it bodes well at all that he hired the former director of "Hope Not Hate" as his Director of Political Strategy in No. 10. To contextualize this, imagine if the democratic nominee hires the head of the SPLC to run his political strategy or domestic policy in the White House. Hope Not Hate is part of the countering hate NGO industrial complex that claims to pursue the goal of fighting "extremism.” In reality it’s a Labour-aligned smear machine that treats millions of ordinary voters as the enemy. Under Matthew McGregor’s watch and beyond, they jumped into by-elections to hammer Reform UK candidates, then crowed about “breaking” them. Their 2026 “State of Hate” report lumps Reform in with Holocaust denial and Nazi terrorism, then immediately hits you with a fundraising pitch: “Donate to Stop Reform UK.” The pattern is to pathologize the opposition, fundraise off the panic, rinse, repeat. McGregor later joined the board of Reprieve, the outfit that campaigns to bring back ISIS brides and brands citizenship-stripping as “fundamentally racist” because it mostly hits people with foreign ties. This is the person hired to advise the new PM on strategy, extremism, and national security. These people are part of the activist blob who spent years branding mainstream concerns about immigration, crime, and free speech as “hate” and "far-right," and marshaled enormous state resources to make sure that legitimate concerns of the population never cause a problem for them politically. Tl;dr: UK is still screwed"
Ihsan Horani on X - "A new poll finds ALMOST 50 PERCENT of Britons want UK ties with Sudan's military government reduced or severed over Muslim Brotherhood influence. 33 percent say reduce engagement unless the SAF cuts Islamist links. 17 percent say cut ties entirely. 52 percent have no confidence in Britain's asylum screening process to identify applicants linked to armed groups. Only 5 percent are confident. The poll was commissioned by Muslims Against Anti-Semitism and Christianophobia. A Muslim-led human rights organisation. Their head Ghanem Nuseibeh was precise: "The problem the British public feels is how extremists like the Muslim Brotherhood exploit the immigration system to undermine Muslim communities in Britain." Read that again. A Muslim organisation saying the Brotherhood exploits Muslim communities. Not a right wing think tank. Not a tabloid. A Muslim human rights charity. The British public has understood the problem clearly. It is the government that has not. Starmer's successor inherits a country where half the population wants Brotherhood-linked diplomatic ties severed and barely anyone trusts the asylum system to keep Islamist networks out."
Islamophobia!
Corrupted Kingdom by Michael Barrington: 4-star review - "Corruption, according to Robert Barrington, can be identified using a simple four-step test: “Do they have entrusted power? Have they abused it? Is there private gain? And does this harm the public interest?” Barrington is a professor of anti-corruption practice at the University of Sussex and the former head of Transparency International UK... In Corrupted Kingdom: Britain’s Disappearing Integrity – and How We Can Get It Back, Barrington surveys how the country is run, from politics to the police, capitalism to chumocracy. Britain, he suggests, risks tipping into minor African republic territory. That is no glib suggestion: he cites a conversation with a London-based Nigerian banker who tells him: “I used to think that Nigeria and the UK would gradually come closer regarding levels of corruption. I was right, but not in the way I thought. In fact, it’s the UK coming closer to Nigeria, not the other way round.” If that doesn’t make you wince, you’re probably not very British. ion Lucy Denyer Show biography Lucy Denyer Published 04 August 2026 7:15am BST 305 Michelle Mone Baroness Michelle Mone became embroiled in the PPE Medpro scandal after the company secured more than £200m in government contracts Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire Michelle Mone, you may remember, was elevated to the House of Lords in 2015 as a reward for her “entrepreneurial spirit”. Having impressed David Cameron with her skill at selling underwear, the new baroness went on to outdo herself during the Covid-19 pandemic, when PPE Medpro, a company with which she and her husband, Doug Barrowman, were involved, was awarded government contracts worth more than £200m to supply protective equipment for NHS workers. Of course, it depends what you mean by “entrepreneurial spirit”. Mone initially denied that she would benefit financially from the deals (she later admitted she had) and denied using her status as a peer to lobby for the contracts. She and Barrowman threatened legal action against media organisations that reported these allegations. Worse still, much of the PPE supplied was deemed unusable. Last October, PPE Medpro was ordered by the High Court to repay £122m, but two months later it entered administration. The public purse is unlikely to recover the money. Mone and Barrowman remain under investigation by the National Crime Agency. Corruption, according to Robert Barrington, can be identified using a simple four-step test: “Do they have entrusted power? Have they abused it? Is there private gain? And does this harm the public interest?” Barrington is a professor of anti-corruption practice at the University of Sussex and the former head of Transparency International UK, so he is well placed to judge. Mone’s conduct, in his view, comes pretty close “to ticking the four boxes”. But the bigger question raised by his new book is whether a bad apple can ever be separated from the barrel it helps to rot. In Corrupted Kingdom: Britain’s Disappearing Integrity – and How We Can Get It Back, Barrington surveys how the country is run, from politics to the police, capitalism to chumocracy. Britain, he suggests, risks tipping into minor African republic territory. That is no glib suggestion: he cites a conversation with a London-based Nigerian banker who tells him: “I used to think that Nigeria and the UK would gradually come closer regarding levels of corruption. I was right, but not in the way I thought. In fact, it’s the UK coming closer to Nigeria, not the other way round.” If that doesn’t make you wince, you’re probably not very British. Our instinct to wince at such a comparison is, in Barrington’s view, part of the problem. Britain likes to imagine its corruption as a special case: less worrisome and more natural, the result of our “elite educational system, dominant financial services sector, rigid class structure and colonial legacy”. Take someone such as Ben Elliot, the Queen’s nephew, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party, and co-founder of a “concierge” business that provides exclusive services to wealthy clients (at one point, including members of the Russian elite). He has been accused of using his connections to introduce Conservative donors to the Royal family. A cynic might call that “corruption”, but it is entirely within the rules. It is far subtler and less venal than what you see in, say, Mexico, where it is routine to pay the police to avoid a penalty, or India, where candidates for the police academy can pay for advance sight of the test papers... t becomes increasingly clear that Britain is at serious risk of the seven pathways to corruption Barrington identifies: the failure of public services; the decline of the public-service ethos; the rise of organised crime; the easy flow of corrupt capital; societal inequality and disillusionment; strategic corruption by states such as Russia; and the threat of state capture through a period of illiberal democracy."
Reform back on top as Burnham bounce falls flat
Wes Streeting donations linked to ‘Crypto King’ fraudster - "Wes Streeting was bankrolled by a think tank linked to one of the world’s most notorious fraudsters, The Telegraph can disclose. Mr Streeting, who is now the Defence Secretary, accepted £37,500 in donations from Labour for the Long Term (LLT) over 2022 and 2023 despite significant concerns among some senior figures in the party over the source of the funds. Just one month before LLT made its first donation, its founder, David Lawrence, had accepted a £500,000 gift from Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced American cryptocurrency billionaire, who was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in jail for fraud after stealing billions of dollars from his customers."
Damn Nigel Farage!
Labour is letting hard-Left teaching unions take control of Britain’s classrooms - "They didn’t like the removal of Left-wing council control over local schools; and they couldn’t stand that power was being placed into the hands of pioneering free schools and academies. That Powell name-checked Gove in her criticisms of the Tory reforms will not have been a coincidence. To this day, he remains a bogeyman among the more radical parts of the teaching profession. A cynic might say that this is because he sought to raise standards in all schools, and give parents a greater say over how their children were taught. This was bound to have exposed poor teaching. It’s no coincidence that Labour quickly abandoned Ofsted’s one-word rating system on taking power – a long-standing union demand. But there is also an ideological dimension to the teaching unions’ positions. They have long opposed the traditional “knowledge-based” approach that many of Gove’s new schools pursued, which tends to see strong discipline as a prerequisite for learning. Boiled down, this emphasises the need to learn hard facts, on the basis that children can only advance if they understand the context in which a subject is being discussed. The opposing progressive view has its roots all the way back in Rousseau, who believed that children were corrupted by the teaching of traditional knowledge. He argued that, by filling a child with facts and societal norms, you stifle their creativity. This thinking bled into the theories of people such as John Dewey, one of the champions of progressive educational dogma. Dewey’s ideas remain influential within much of progressive educational thinking today, despite the clear evidence of the value for students of a knowledge-based approach... Left-wing activists in the education world have moved beyond their opposition to the Tories’ structural reforms and indeed their championing of a “knowledge-based” curriculum. Increasingly, they are questioning the whole concept of excellence – and certainly the measures required to deliver it. Accountability itself is an offensive concept to the teaching unions. Phonics, multiplication tests, SATs at the end of primary school, GCSE results in league tables – in short, anything that puts pressure to achieve results on their members – are all potentially on the chopping block. Recent examples of state-school achievement after embracing the Goveite model also perhaps ought to be nervous. Left-wing hostility to the educational marvel Michaela – founded and run by Katharine Birbalsingh – is well documented. They hate her for her unashamedly “small c” conservative views and the strict approach of that school, and are enraged by Michaela’s phenomenal success. The Left is taking aim at other schools that prioritise discipline, accusing them of leaving pupils traumatised."
Spelling tests are ‘draconian’, new Education Secretary claimed - "The new Education Secretary opposed “draconian” spelling tests for primary school pupils, arguing teachers should focus on “creativity” instead. Lucy Powell, one of Andy Burnham’s closest allies, criticised the “ridiculous” assessments when she was a Labour backbencher, claiming they were being used to “micro-manage” children. She also suggested that secondary school pupils in England should not have to do the same “handful of GCSEs” – currently English language, maths and science – or risk failing because of “a couple of things” they spell incorrectly. The comments, from an interview in 2019, emerged shortly after Ms Powell was mocked by the Tories for her own spelling and grammar in a social media post celebrating her new role"
When student performance falls, this will be due to Conservative "underfunding"
