United Kingdom
February 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
I’m not kidding. From Fox News last week, Spain legalizes up to 500,000 undocumented migrants, sparking backlash. The socialist prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, heads a minority government propped up by the nation’s separatist parties. His party finished second in the 2023 election, behind the conservative People’s Party. The socialists lagged the conservatives in the popular vote by more than 340,000. Sanchez is not going to allow that to
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December 29, 2025 — John Hinderaker
In terms of the laws of physics and economics, hybrid vehicles make much more sense than pure battery-powered cars. And unlike EVs, they have found a viable market niche. But data from the U.K. suggest that hybrids are unusually dangerous. From the London Times: “Fatal crash risk ‘three times higher’ in hybrid cars than petrol.” Motorists in hybrid cars are substantially more likely to die in road collisions than those
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December 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Our extremely sensitive British cousins have struck a blow for humanity. Or, rather, for lobsterdom: “Boiling live lobsters to be banned under animal rights reforms.” In its animal welfare strategy, published on Monday, the government said that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method”, while also setting out new farming standards and banning trail hunting. The strategy, which sets out a series of protections for pets, farmed animals and
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December 15, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From SkyNews, UK’s ‘sons and daughters’ need to be ready to fight, amid growing Russian threat, says head of armed forces. Why? They report, There is a growing risk that Russia could attack the UK, and the nation’s “sons and daughters” need to be ready to fight, the head of Britain’s armed forces has said. The whole thing brings to mind the classic Marx Brothers’ film Duck Soup (1933). Groucho
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December 6, 2025 — John Hinderaker
From London, another story about disgusting protesters: “‘Tax the rich’ activists vandalise Crown Jewels with crumble and custard.” Police arrested four people after officers rushed to the Tower following reports of an incident shortly before 10am. They found that food had been thrown onto a case containing the State Crown, which is used at coronations and state openings of Parliament. A group calling itself Take Back Power staged the attack,
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November 30, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Britain’s Office for National Statistics has answered an interesting question, as posed by the London Times: “How many households give more than they take from the state?” The answer explains a lot about contemporary political life: Putting the numbers together reveals something stark. Nearly two thirds of households take more from the state than they pay into it. This chart tells the story. The ONS analysis included indirect as well
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November 27, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Daily Mail, Keir Starmer wriggled today as he was accused of ‘misleading’ the public over Labour’s tax plans. The PM was repeatedly challenged over whether he deserved the ‘trust’ of the British people in a bruising interview after the Budget. In bad-tempered clashes with Sky News’ Beth Rigby, Sir Keir struggled to justify the latest huge tax raid. Commentator Richard Fernandez noted on Twitter (X), Like Lucy
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November 22, 2025 — Bill Glahn
The BBC reports, Is time running out for BBC chair Samir Shah after latest resignation? Details, Shumeet Banerji is not a household name. In the three years, 10 months and 14 days that he spent on the BBC board, Banerji kept his thoughts on BBC matters firmly out of the public domain. Now he is making headlines. His resignation is the latest blow to the corporation, and it looks timed
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November 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Chinese penetration of Western countries has been going for a while. In the U.K., they are getting worried about it: MPs and members of the House of Lords have been warned by MI5 that they face a significant risk of espionage from the Chinese state. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons Speaker, has circulated a new “espionage alert” issued by the security services. In a message to MPs, Hoyle said Chinese
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November 16, 2025 — Bill Glahn
I would suggest, for a place to start, stop calling them “asylum seekers.” From BBC News, Illegal migration is “tearing the country apart”, the home secretary has said, as she prepares to unveil major plans to overhaul asylum policy. New measures set to be announced by Shabana Mahmood on Monday will include people granted asylum needing to wait 20 years before they can apply to settle permanently. I wish her
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November 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
President Trump has gotten an apology from the BBC for their mis-editing of his January 6, 2021, speech, but he says that isn’t good enough: President Trump said he would sue the BBC next week for between $1 billion and $5 billion after the corporation apologised for a misleading edit of his speech on January 6, 2021, but declined to pay damages. Trump said he planned to speak with Sir
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November 10, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Daily Mail, Trump threatens legal action against the BBC as defiant chair Samir Shah fails to apologise to him and insists corporation is NOT institutionally biased. Shah is the chairman of the BBC’s corporate board. He has not resigned in the affair over fraudulent editing of a Trump 1/6/2021 speech. Detail, Mr. Trump has fired off a legal letter after it emerged Panorama had selectively edited his
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November 2, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Sun, TRAIN BLOODBATH Huntingdon stabbing LIVE: British man, 32, treated as sole suspect – as ‘heroic’ member of train staff fights for life. Details, In an update this evening cops confirmed a 32-year-old British national, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the bloody rampage, is now being treated as the only suspect. You may recall that another, unnamed 35-year-old man described as being of
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November 1, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From SkyNews UK, Two men have been arrested by armed officers after multiple people were stabbed on a train. The train was stopped at Huntingdon station, in Cambridgeshire, after police were called at around 7.40pm on Saturday. British Transport Police said 10 people have been taken to hospital, while Cambridgeshire Police said a “large-scale response” was deployed by the East of England Ambulance Service. “Large-scale” in this instance must not
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October 30, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Pretty much every calculation you have ever seen relating to “green” energy–cost estimates, productivity claims, and so on–has been wrong. “Green” energy really is a scam, as President Trump says. It is consistently sold on the basis of fake science. The latest case in point comes from Great Britain, via the Telegraph: “Miliband admits wind power less reliable than expected.” The Government has slashed forecasts for the amount of electricity
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October 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Ukraine war has destroyed Europe’s complacency and restored a sense of urgency to national defense. This has been manifested in many ways. Today’s London Times reports on one significant instance, relating to Britain’s undersea cables. While this particular issue is specific to that country, I have little doubt that we in the U.S. face similar infrastructure issues: Defence grandees have secretly warned the prime minister that he is running
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October 2, 2025 — Bill Glahn
A terrorist attack occurred in Manchester, England, this morning against a local synagogue. Here is a widely shared photo of the perpetrator, From the U.K. Daily Mail, referring to the above photo, This is the terrorist with a suspected suicide belt who killed at least two people outside a Manchester synagogue before being shot by police. A car was driven into a crowd and a man stabbed at 9.31am on
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