The Scottish National Party has admitted using AI for an image of its leader John Swinney in Edinburgh. Online disinformation is rampant on the left…
Eagle-eyed observers spotted that the signs held by Swinney’s activist friends have classic AI signs. Not being legible chiefly among them…
An SNP spokesman said: “In order to highlight the message that the SNP wants to lower your bills, while the other parties are trying to stop us, our picture was edited quickly to enhance the billboard image which was obscured by bright sunlight. The people in the picture are 100 per cent real.” These are the people who want to control all of the internet to manage facts by the way…
New figures released by the Office for National Statistics show Britain lost 148.8 million working days to sickness absence. That is 9.8 million more than 2019…
The ONS reports: “The sickness absence rate was 2.9% for public sector employees and 1.7% for those working in the private sector. Compared with 2024, the sickness absence rate for the public sector remained unchanged, while there was a 0.1 percentage point decrease in the private sector.” The private sector is now back to where it was pre-pandemic…
Part-time sickness absence rose 0.2% while full-time was flat. The gap is now 0.9%. The Employment Rights Bill is about to extend rights to flexible and part-time workers…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has knocked down suggestions that the White House would back Argentina’s claim to the Falklands. He told The Sun last night that the leaked Pentagon memo floating support for Argentina’s ambition was “just an email”:
“It was just an email. People are getting overexcited by an email. It was just an email with some ideas.”
The Falklands are safe…
The memo suggested punishing Britain for Starmer blocking US bombers from Diego Garcia in the first days of the Iran war. It conveniently surfaced on the eve of the King’s State Visit. A visit which looks to have smoothed things over nicely…
New research shows that Britain raises more tax from wealth than any country in the OECD. More than Spain, Norway and Switzerland – the three European countries that have a stated wealth tax…
A huge number of countries have tried and abandoned wealth taxes. Even the leftist ones…
Even online tax commentator Dan Neidle, a member of the Labour Party who sat on its most senior disciplinary body until last year, backed the report:
“The UK’s greatest problems are anaemic economic growth and a lack of supply of housing. An annual wealth tax offers no solution to either, and risks actively hindering the growth we desperately need. This paper does an important job of shifting the debate: if we want to tackle inequality, the answer isn’t an unworkable new tax; it’s building homes and letting more people build wealth of their own.”
The Institute of Economic Affairs’ new report today shows that wealth inequality is lower than at almost any point in the last century with the wealthiest 1% owning 22%. The EU average is 25% and in the US it is 35%…
The report, by Dr Kristian Niemietz, finds that the UK’s unusually high taxes on asset ownership, asset transfers, capital gains, and income derived from assets sets it against international peers. Has anyone told Zack Polanski or is he too busy posting videos about Greta’s Gaza flotilla?
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Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has defended the two officers who apprehended the knife-wielding terror suspect in Golders Green, after Zack Polanski retweeted a ridiculous claim yesterday that they had used excessive force to bring him down. Two heroes having to deal with a clown like Polanski suggesting they hadn’t done their job properly…
Rowley told Times Radio this morning:
“I need officers to feel they’ve got public confidence when they’re doing things like that. Of course there’s always going to be inaccuracies and nonsense on social media, but I think when somebody influential puts something out there which is incorrect and can undermine the confidence of my officers to protect Londoners, they need to see that I’m supporting them to give them that confidence to carry on and do their job.”
Asked if he was “interfering in politics”, Rowley said “I’m not intervening in politics. He was intervening in operational policing”…
Hacks at the Financial Times are in open dispute with management after being asked to come into the office four days a week. Apparently there is “no compelling case” to be at their desks for more than three…
Members of the FT’s union have unanimously voted to initiate the paper’s dispute procedure after managing editor Tobias Buck emailed staff with the dreaded proposals. According to the Guardian, the FT chapel of the National Union of Journalists held a “fiery meeting” with Buck to push the issue. The buck stops here…
The FT chapel said in an email to its members:
“The FT chapel believes that the edict comes at a time when, more than ever, our coverage depends on the goodwill and flexibility of editorial staff. [This has resulted] in efforts that have contributed to high productivity, audience engagement and profit.”
The union’s nuclear option is to ballot for strike action. They haven’t pulled that trigger – yet…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”
