Sian Grzeszczyk Melbourne March 14, 2026 The Chief of the Air Staff has warned that control of the air today is "harder to achieve and easier to lose than at any time in modern history". Air Chief Marshal Harv Smyth delivered a frank speech to delegates at RUSI's Combat Air Conference in which he discussed the challenges facing the Royal Air Force. "As of the last two weeks, welcome to the new era where RAF bases are once again attacked from the air," he said, referring to th

Alain Tolhurst March 14, 2026 A government intervention to protect energy bills from the impact of the Iran war risks being "staggeringly expensive", a leading economist has said. Paul Johnson, a former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, said Whitehall had not carried out the necessary work to produce a more "targeted" scheme than the support made available to households in 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Johnson, now a senior adviser at the

Russell Yorkshire March 12, 2026 Dear Prime Minister, Dear Justice Secretary, We’re going to keep this simple. Not because the British public can’t grasp legal reform — but because if you start dismantling jury trials in the name of “efficiency,” it helps if the explanation fits on the back of a bus ticket. You say the courts are clogged. True. You say there’s a backlog. Also true. And your solution is… reduce the involvement of juries. Ah yes. When the engine misfires, remov

Jim Chimirie March 10, 2026 The Workshop of the World Chose to Close Britain invented the industrial age. It mined the coal, smelted the steel, built the ships and laid the pipes. It did not inherit these capabilities from a more productive civilisation. It created them. Britain did not lose its industrial base. It dismissed it. There is a difference, and it matters, because one is tragedy and the other is a choice. Britain invented the industrial age. It mined the coal, smel

Jim Chimirie March 8, 2026 The Flag of Your Country Is a Tool of Hate. Worrying About Immigration Is Terrorism. Welcome to Starmer's Britain. A leaked government document describes the Union Jack as a potential tool of hate used to exclude and intimidate. A Prevent training course hosted on the government's own website classifies concern about mass migration as a subcategory of extreme right-wing terrorist ideology, sitting alongside white supremacism and neo-Nazism. An Islam

Russell Yorkshire March 7, 2026 This country hasn’t been run into the ground by one government. It’s been a 25-year relay race of incompetence, with each new lot grabbing the baton and sprinting enthusiastically in the wrong direction. Armed forces? Cut to the bone. Police? Cut to the bone. Energy security? Sacrificed on the altar of political fashion. For decades we sat on oil and gas in the North Sea that could power the country and keep bills down. What did our political g

Daniel Martin March 3, 2026 MPs will receive an inflation-busting 5 per cent pay increase because of “abuse and intimidation” and rising case work, the expenses watchdog has said. Their £93,904 annual salary will increase to £98,599 from April and reach £110,000 by the end of the decade. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) said the pay rise reflected increases in constituency case work and the abuse MPs received on the job. The watchdog said it would also

Russell Yorkshire February 3, 2026 When the Waiting List “Falls” but the Lie Gets Bigger. Isn’t it miraculous how NHS waiting lists are suddenly “coming down”… while patients are still waiting just as long — or longer? Almost like nothing’s been fixed at all. Almost like the problem’s just been hidden. Because paying hospitals to “validate” waiting lists isn’t healthcare reform — it’s accounting theatre. Patients aren’t being treated. They’re being deleted. Reclassified. Retu

Jim Chimirie February 3, 2026. The wrong people, in the wrong numbers, in the wrong place. Solitude is suspect. Pubs are "problematic." Dogs are a "barrier." Englishness itself is quietly reframed as a form of hostility." There is a new belief taking hold among Britain's institutions, and it is as dangerous as it is dishonest. The countryside, we are told, is "too white." Not green. Not rural. Not historic. White. And therefore a problem to be fixed. This is not satire. It is

KJM Today January 29, 2026 Good morning everyone, and thank you all for coming. So, shall we talk about what has been going on over the past few days? At a time when NATO is under threat. At a time when we were trying to stop Labour surrendering British territory in the Chagos Islands. At a time when we were fighting to save Britain’s hospitality industry. What were other parties doing? Psychodrama. The Labour Party scheming to bring in a new contender to challenge the Prime