Earlier this week, two major taxpayer-funded charities – the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (which received £1.4 million from the government between 2020 and 2023) – were exposed for funnelling £300,000 into the left-wing censorship outfit, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). This is the same CCDH that’s been waging war on free speech, proudly vowing to “kill Musk’s Twitter”…
CCDH, founded by No10 Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney, masquerades as an “anti-hate” group but operates as a blunt tool of censorship, silencing anyone it dislikes. Not content with funding just one free speech suppressor, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation also bankrolls Stop Funding Hate—another activist mob bullying companies into pulling ads from X. Those behind these taxpayer-funded charities aren’t only bashing Musk either…
Bankrolling censorship crusaders, Musk and Trump-bashers isn’t the best use of taxpayer cash…
Farage is in Deans Yard, Westminster, this afternoon to deliver a press conference about some local elections being delayed, which include Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Thurrock, Surrey, East and West Sussex, Hampshire and Isle of Wight . Nigel’s fighting back agianst the “5.5 million votes being cancelled”, which could heavily hamper Reform’s electoral momentum…
🚨DICTATORS CANCEL ELECTIONS 🚨
FARAGE RESPONDS TO 5.5 MILLION VOTES BEING CANCELLED https://t.co/Bo3VPqL26y
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) February 5, 2025
The OBR delivered its official growth forecast to Rachel Reeves last night. If it goes the way of every other forecast the Chancellor is operating with much less ‘headroom’ than she anticipated. Reeves’ reaction? Organise a party…
After sitting dutifully next to Starmer at PMQs Downing Street dobbed Reeves in by telling journalists she was present at Starmer’s lockdown meeting with Leonie Mellinger. On an unrelated note Guido hears the Chancellor is throwing a party next Tuesday ahead of her birthday on the 13th. The ditty is set to be held in No 11 and all cabinet ministers have been invited. Who will show face?
Milei’s spokesman has today announced that Argentina will pull out of the WHO. Following Trump’s lead…
He says this is because of “deep differences regarding health management especially during the pandemic” and that the WHO’s management put Argentina under “certain countries’ political influence.” Argentina currently contributes 0.71% of the WHO’s budget. About $50 million…
Over in the UK Labour is increasing funding to the body to the tune of hundreds of millions. Naturally…
The Chagos surrender deal is in complete chaos. Yesterday the Mauritian PM announced he had managed to get significant additional concessions out of the UK government on Chagos. Ramgoolam said the new deal he had managed to get frontloaded payments from the UK and linked them to inflation, as well as imposing the requirement for a Mauritian veto on any possible 40-year extension on the UK’s lease of Diego Garcia. Trigger complete panic mode in Whitehall…
Downing Street refused to comment on the possibility that the UK could now pay £18 billion to hand over Chagos – the FCDO then put out a punchy statement overnight saying Ramgoolam’s claims were “entirely inaccurate and misleading.” Starmer defended the deal at PMQs by suggesting that there was some secret national security reason for handing the base of which Badenoch hadn’t bothered to apprise herself. At a subsequent briefing it was clarified this related to the advisory ICJ ruling – no detail was provided on whether there was new legal advice since Labour came to power. Cameron saw the advice and killed the deal…
Now the Mauritians have issued a communique, no doubt under pressure from panicking officials in the UK, clarifying Ramgoolam’s grandstanding. It claims “Mauritius has never said that the financial package in the agreement between Mauritius and the UK on the Chagos Archipelago had doubled” and new negotiations “have clarified and firmed up the unequivocal understanding that any extension would need to have the consent of Mauritius and the UK.“ A partial rollback…
In the meantime government insiders are finally starting to brief against the deal itself after realising how bad it looks and are pointing the finger at international law-obsessed Richard Hermer. The Chagos deal has become a constantly exploding catherine wheel – all while the actual decision sits with Team Trump over in DC. You have to laugh…
Read the Mauritian communique below:
Continue reading “Chagos Deal Thrown Into Chaos As Mauritius Rolls Back on Payment Claims”
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”