21-year-old Saudi national Almunthir Daqamah has been charged with attempted murder after a campus safety officer at Surrey University was shot with a crossbow. He was also charged with possession of an offensive weapon, two counts of possession of a bladed article and possession of Class B drugs…
The former Surrey student is set to appear at Guildford Magistrates’ Court this morning. The campus safety officer is in a stable condition in hospital…
The Chief Superintendent of Surrey Police said: “We know how concerning this incident is, both for the university community and for local residents here in Guildford, and our officers are working at pace to establish the full circumstances of what occurred. There is nothing to suggest this incident is terror-related and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with it. We continue to work closely with the university and at this time, I would ask people to refrain from speculating online to preserve the integrity of the investigation. If you have any information that could assist our enquiries, please contact us directly.” Another day…
Britain’s largest retailers have cut nearly 18,000 jobs over the past year according to Bloomberg. You’ll never guess what they blame…
Higher taxes and wages under Labour have squeezed supermarkets – Tesco’s headcount is down by almost 5,000 in the last financial year. Sainsbury’s, John Lewis, and Kingfisher (B&Q) each saw average employee counts fall by around 3,000…
The industry is blaming 2024’s rise in employer national insurance contributions and the higher minimum wage (raised again in April). M&S chairman Archie Norman said the regulatory environment has rarely been less friendly to growth with a substantially increased tax burden plus stricter packaging, recycling, and food safety rules. Over one million 16-24-year-olds are not in employment, education, or training…
A report by the Public Accounts Committee of MPs has blasted the government for failing to say what the asylum system is “trying to achieve, or how success would be judged.” Despite all the talk…
The asylum system was found to cost the Home Office and MoJ around £4.9 billion in 2024-25 (including £2.7 billion on accommodation), with claims hitting 100,600 in the year to December 2025. More than double the 2019 figure…
The government announced an “entirely new asylum model” in November 2025, aiming to cut spending by £1 billion a year by 2028-29 with a new Home Office asylum group and cross-government board. The committee found no explanation of how these will work in practice or what the system is collectively trying to achieve…
MPs said that poor and fragmented data remains a massive barrier because there is no single reliable view of cases, basic figures like absconder numbers are unavailable, and some staff still work off individual spreadsheets despite the move to the “Atlas” system.
Appeal hearings are now taking around 60 weeks. 41% of a January 2023 sample viewed by the PAC remained in limbo…
The promised 10-year accommodation strategy is still unpublished. The Home Office also admitted it does not count everyone out of the country, so cannot say with certainty how many failed asylum seekers remain. Going about as well as expected…
David Lammy has said the question of replacing Starmer is not coming up in Makerfield among voters. All the Starmer loyalists are still pretending this is a regular by-election…
Lammy told Times Radio he was in the constituency:
“Of course I support Andy Burnham to become the Member of Parliament for Makerfield. He’s running against Reform, a candidate that’s got vile views and admits to being sexist. And I was up there campaigning for him. I hope to be up there again in a few days’ time. Of course I want Andy Burnham to win…
Keir Starmer has been absolutely clear. He got a mandate from the British people two years ago to be the prime minister. There can only be one prime minister. He has my full support and loyalty. I happen to believe loyalty is a very good attribute to have in politics. And I will be supporting him until he no longer wants to continue to lead the Labour Party. And he’s absolutely determined to see out his mandate.”
There is little photographic evidence of all these Cabinet ministers going up to Makerfield because Team Burnham thinks they are unhelpful. Lammy is reflecting the Starmer loyalist reality in his comments there – hinting at the reality that Starmer will likely stand down if challenged by Burnham…
Burnham finally said on Question Time last night: “I think Wes Streeting seems to have launched a leadership contest, so if that is running, I would seek to join it.” Can’t ignore the contest forever…
Nigel Farage is breaking a semi-silence in the aftermath of Henry Nowak’s murder. He spoke to Sky News Australia this afternoon…
Among other things he said of the BBC and their subsequent apology: “What they were saying was Nigel’s urging the white working class to go out and set fire to things; that’s what they tried to do.” ‘White cold rage’…
He accused mainstream politicians of attacking him instead of addressing the problems: “Any riots that go on, they want to blame the whole thing on me rather than dealing with the absolute cause of the problem… it’s the same playbook happening again and again and again … the British public are getting angrier and angrier that nothing is being done.” Farage said it was the same with Southport…
Kemi Badenoch – who has attacked Farage’s response to the murder – met Nowak’s family this morning and said:
“They have asked that we work across political parties and religions to rebuild trust in the police. That trust has been broken because of what happened, and I agree with them on that… We must also be prepared to examine, carefully and seriously, religious practices or exemptions that permit the carrying of dangerous weapons in public, and other activities that are not conducive to the public good. We also need to examine where the law needs to change.”
Starmer is due to meet them as well…
Speaking on the Sky News Electoral Dysfunction podcast, which she still appears on, co-host Harriet Harman said:
“Well, I’m just a bit suspicious about disappearing messages because the question is in my mind, ‘why do you put disappearing messages on?’ And I find it very odd if I’m wanting to track back a conversation I’ve had with somebody and the messages have all gone and I can’t remember what I said, let alone what they said because they’ve disappeared the message.
And why would you disappear the message unless you’ve got something to hide? I think if you are doing messages because you’re a government minister, you should be accountable for those and those ought to be available to be put in the public domain, to be in the public records, to be subject to freedom of information…
if I had my way, they would not have disappearing messages that would not be allowed if you were going to communicate with other colleagues in government about government business then you should have proper messages and they should not be disappearing.“
Harman was brought into Downing Street with a new top adviser job last month along with Gordon Brown to stabilise Starmer’s government after the locals. Starmer himself was confirmed this week to have disappearing WhatsApp messages enabled…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”