This is an utterly farcical state of affairs - the ONS are now unable to produce accurate jobs, trade, inflation or retail sales figures! It's nothing short of a disgrace. They *literally* have one job, and are failing at almost every aspect of it.

Work hard, save, buy a home, work harder to pay off mortgage so you can afford to retire and enjoy being at home and wallop 👋 in the face from Labour. It’s not billionaires in Knightsbrige penthouses that have homes worth over £500k it’s normal family homes, especially in the

Hearing rumours from a number of sources about a behind-the-scenes struggle between Labour’s Treasury Team and Civil Servants at the ONS - delayed July retail figures, for example, said to be ‘terrible’ and ‘so bad they can’t be right’.

Britain seems to be entering new territory. The atmosphere is something new and unusual to many of us. Has the soft 'Lebanonisation' of our country begun? My essay (no paywall). 👇 paulembery.com/p/shaking-the-…

Rachel Reeves is on course to deliver a Healey 1976-style crisis in late 2025 or 26. Like Healey, she has massively boosted public spending, borrowing and taxes - fuelling both demand-pull and cost-push inflation. Unless policies are reversed we are heading for an economic crash!

Property values rise broadly in line with inflation. Often there’s been no real gain. And now you could be taxed on the notional increase when you’ve barely just kept pace with inflation. 🤯

Shifting the Overton Window means introducing the idea of Leaving the EU and then doing it. Next it will mean introducing the idea of leaving the EHRC and then doing it. And then it will mean introducing the idea of ending Mass Uncontrolled Immigration and then doing it.

And unlike 1976, our debt to GDP ratio is almost 100%, and an IMF bailout is not even possible...

Rachel Reeves is preparing the ground for the extinction of the middle class telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/2…

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association up to £50,000. Time is running out following Imperial War Museums’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

Local councils hosting the most "dispersal asylum accommodation" aka HMOs: 1. Glasgow 2. Belfast 3. Liverpool 4. Coventry 5. Birmingham 6. Sandwell 7. Nottingham 8. Cardiff 9. Wigan 10. Leicester Home Office data, this morning ht Karl Williams

As with more complex and costly driving tests, the new regulations on older drivers are not really about "saving lives". They're yet another sneaky way of "nudging" people off the roads to advance the climate lockdowns agenda. telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer…

I would like to know the name of any academic who has signed this or any other citation justice pledge. Because then I’ll know their work will be of no scholarly value, and can be safely ignored.

Imagine a situation whereby many academics argued fervently that the primary purpose of their work was activism for the Reform Party, and most of their teaching and research were engineered solely towards this end, excluding any dissenting views. We have the equivalent.

“Inflation is taxation without legislation.” — Milton Friedman

The BBC calls a male neo-Nazi ‘she’, because their absolutist belief in gender identity ideology means any man - rapist, voyeur, terrorist, murderer or paedophile - must be described as a woman the moment he says he’s one. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Rachel is now planning to attack the 25% tax free pension lump sum During the election Labour promised not to do this, saying "The ability to withdraw 25% of your pension as tax-free lump sum is a permanent feature of the tax system & Labour are not planning to change this" 1/2

Can you see what’s happening? People are blaming each other for the state of the economy: - Rich v poor - Old v young But they’re ignoring the real issue: There’s a huge problem and its root cause is the fact that our money system is broken. The £ in your pocket today is

Settlement grants — with entitlement to benefits, social housing, free NHS — are the highest since 2011. It takes 5 years to get, so these people came before 2021. Since then net migration is 3.4m. We must change the rules or settlement will soar. The costs will cripple us.

Agreed! The most important journalistic story of our age and most reporters and editors did not want to go near it. Those who did were lambasted, attacked, cancelled and blocked.