Reassuringly European: we will discuss the war after the weekend, with breaks for lunch, wine and nude sunbathing.

John Simons has resigned from government, deciding to stop being "a distraction" on a Saturday afternoon while the world is distracted by Iran... newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

The Royal Navy currently has 3 full Admirals, 10 Vice Admirals, 25 Rear Admirals. Which is roughly 2 for every major surface combat ship

There are 55,000 civil servants on top of 175,000 active service men & we wonder where all the cash goes. Sack the lot and let the armed forces buy the kit they want.. unfortunately this is replicated across everything we do. Regulation,civil servants & blockers. The U.K. defence

WOW‼️The brilliant Trevor Phillips says Labour are SABOTAGING the grooming gang inquiry — because they don't wanna lose Muslim votes or admit the abuse happened under Labour-run councils. "They're downplaying the intersection of race and sexual predation for their own gain.” 🇬🇧

DOUGLAS MURRAY | "The Prime Minister speaks as though he is a man of far greater significance than he is..." It saddens me that this is the case, but in fact Britain’s role in the world is so diminished that nobody any longer believes that the British are somehow leading the way

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It is laughable that the Foreign Secretary says that no country should outsource its foreign policy and act in the national interest. And yet she speaks with fork tongue. What about giving away the Chagos islands? What about giving away our trade policy to the EU? Outrageously

The Royal Navy is like the wine cellar of Christ Church, Oxford. Never out of port.

Mel Stride Conservatives No, axe net zero instead (or as well). Axing the whole fraudulent edifice of net zero would be worth far, far, far more to British families, and to industry, and to farmers and to national security, and at net zero cost to the exchequer (Dale Vince and Drax would complain

An extremely grim sight to watch Labour MPs vote to remove trial by jury because the whips told them to, after a debate in which expertise& learning were laughed at. This form of governance, the ill-intentioned leading the ill-informed, is sadly our future spectator.com/article/david-…

If bartenders can go to jail for over-serving alcohol to someone who then kills another person, judges should go to jail for releasing criminals who do the same.

LETTS: Sir Keir is like foxglove...slowing pulses to perilous levels dailymail.co.uk/columnists/art…

The Spectator “When you adopt the regulatory framework of a foreign power…and when you have no seat at the table where the rules are made…you have chosen powerless subordination…” Wait ‘til Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 finds out about the Windsor Framework which he cheerled for… Conservatives

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Britain abolished slavery in Ghana, in the teeth of resistance by the Ashanti. Britain, indeed, stamped out slavery worldwide. This is the thanks we get. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science... The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312

India wants to dominate the Indian Ocean. Delhi is keen to play a key role in helping Mauritius conduct surveillance and monitor the EEZ around #Chagos, especially given that the islands are 2,200km from Mauritius. UK was played The Lowy Institute Modern Royal Navy lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…