United Kingdom
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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October 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
In the United Kingdom, the powers that be have discovered the advantages of consanguinity: The [National Health Service] has been urged to apologise for publishing guidance extolling the benefits of first-cousin marriage despite the increased risk of birth defects. Guidance published last week by the NHS England’s Genomics Education Programme says first-cousin marriage is linked to “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages”. So, have Englishmen suddenly started marrying
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September 29, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Not just a tweet, but an anti-Hamas tweet. In the U.K., freedom of speech is fast becoming a thing of the past. From the Telegraph: Pete North, 47, was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence on Thursday night over a meme that he posted on X. *** The image, which Mr North posted on X in August, depicted a Palestine flag with the text: “F— Palestine. F— Hamas.
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September 29, 2025 — Bill Glahn
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has floated the idea of a mandatory national digital ID for British citizens. The BBC reports, Starmer says people will not be able to work in UK without digital ID. Starmer touts the idea as a way of combatting illegal immigrants in the workforce. Here in America, we supposedly have measures to “verify” eligibility to work. But we see examples (Iowa, Minnesota) of illegal aliens
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September 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
On Saturday, a huge crowd turned out for a “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London. It was led by Tommy Robinson, and Elon Musk appeared via video link. The crowd also honored Charlie Kirk. Official estimates put the crowd between 100,000 and 150,000. I am no expert on crowd size, but it looked much bigger than that. Some partisans claimed it was as many as three million. English and United
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September 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
From the Babylon Bee: In what political analysts described as a historic turning point for Western Civilization, Great Britain announced a “Reverse Crusade” where they invite Muslims to come and destroy England. With the original Crusades of the Britons journeying to the Middle East to free the Holy Land from Islamic rule long in the past, UK leaders said it was time to wipe the slate clean and turn the
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