A video to restore some faith in humanity:

Rescuers in Sumy saved five tiny puppies while fighting with fire in a building. Look at their mom all worried.

Thankfully, the pups are fine. They were given back to their mom.

📹: SESU

More quangos, more wokery & less accountability; new Labour will be even worse than New Labour.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

A brilliant article on the moral cowardice of those who only changed their position once it was unavoidably obvious they’d been wrong all along unherd.com/2024/04/the-ca…

Labour frontbenchers who voted against our nuclear deterrent:

Starmer’s number 2
Shadow Foreign Secretary
Shadow Transport Secretary
Shadow Financial Secretary
Shadow Economic Secretary
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
Shadow Prisons Minister

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The theoretical tax gap is at the lowest ever - nearly half that The Labour Party left in 2010.

If Rachel’s plan yielded in entirety (it can’t and wouldn’t), it would fund the NHS for TEN DAYS.

More pie in the sky to fill huge spending gaps.

Yup, really dire. V poor report. Again, IMHO, the only reason it got picked up as a news item by the BBC News (UK) was because it peddles a defeatist, declinist view of the UK.

Not a single original idea in it.

If the purpose of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office isn't to support the national…

Not sure what's worse, ignorance of our history or blind belief in international institutions overruling our democracy.

Genuinely curious as to why this important story didn't appear in the BBC News (World) BBC News (UK) BBC Radio 4 Today Evan Davis Sarah Montague. Maybe it got a mention somewhere? But I didn't see it online and when I typed in the story, not a single BBC reference came up. Happy to be corrected.…

V bad news.

Well done for going Greg Hands. We need to get that trade flowing - sooner the better - and help #Ukraine defend itself against fascism.

Yup

The UK has become the world’s fourth largest exporter thanks to a boost in services, fresh trade figures have shown.
cityam.com/services-trade…

Oh puleese, James Landale. There was nothing original in this weak, short document. It was yet another report belittling the UK. It's neither radical, thoughtful nor frankly coherent.

Looks like the dental plan is starting to have positive effects - the map below shows dentists taking on adult NHS patients in January (left) and now (right). Lots more are taking on new patients - particularly in shire and coastal areas.

Today, the basic state pension will increase by £900 as part of the Triple Lock guarantee.

We will always back British pensioners.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Just read the UCL Policy Lab report into foreign policy; very underwhelming. There are a few interesting if unoriginal ideas in it, but they are hidden beneath cliched and negative thinking.

First, to describe the #UK as a mid-size power is nonsense &…