The front and back covers of 2025 Defense of Japan Pamphlet & White Paper, released today by Japan's Ministry of Defense.

This has already cost everyone in Britain around £100 each because civil servants are apparently literally only capable of efficiently using up tax money for immigration.

To put the £7bn of secret Afghan costs into perspective: -Total social care overspend that’s bankrupting councils: £564m -Money raised from inheritance tax on farms £520m -Cuts to the Met this year £450m -Cuts to the armed forces £500m We can’t keep doing this.

It’s fascinating how people who use ChatGPT to write for them are unaware or incapable of realizing that it’s obvious that is what they are doing

"We've lied to you about how many people we were bringing to Britain and how much we were spending, then gagged anyone who found out about it." I feel like this sort of official state disinformation might be more damaging to public trust in politics than social media posts.

Interesting how these extraordinary powers were not used to build emergency prisons, instead we emptied cells due to ‘crowding’ putting the British public in direct danger. Funny how the duty of care doesn’t exist there, the threat of danger isn’t strong enough to override the

In news that will surprise absolutely no one: The UK government will subsidize solar and wind producers longer from the next renewable auction: the fixed-price so-called contracts-for-difference (CfD) will be now for 20 years, rather than 15 years. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68766d6e…

The truth is that the UK Government has a non-public / hidden balance sheet for certain spending Long noted by Public Accounts Committee which has reported on it More should be done to improve scrutiny on this It is used too often to hide policy failures not for good reason

The afghans the government resettled weren’t included in ONS migration data. They state they’re resettling 24k collaborators, but they’re entitled to bring a wife and any kids under 18. The average afghan family has 5 kids, so the real number is probably closer to 140k

Still trying to process the Afghan story. If you are a productive, diligent, orderly & law-abiding Briton, the fundamental fact to remember about British politics is that, objectively speaking, the people in charge hate you and want you to suffer.

The tories got a 4 month superinjuction while they arranged an airlift, it was Labour that expanded the scheme. They blew a £7 billion secret hole in the budget and then spent the next few months gouging the public to pay for it & gagging journalists or MPs from talking about it

Adam Wren Not something I've seen remarked on yet. I'm not sure how you'd even describe a system that reacts to blackmail / threats by throwing open the gates and then letting the blackmailer in specifically. Not the biggest story here, but certainly a chaser. Remarkable.

Maybe the real utility monster was the secret Afghans we picked up along the way

And of course this was reported purely through the lens of "plucky Afghans let down by government blunders" Radio 4 this morning at least reported on the secrecy angle. BBC TV news now pure lobotomy fodder

the NHS waiting lists are radicalising the afghans wow

“A previous charge of criminal damage that recklessly endangered life was dropped."

There was a lot of mad stuff, the pinnacle of which might be a former Prime Minister demanding we re-invade without the Americans

A gov statement from this week actually confirmed that a majority of those brought in on phase 2 of the scheme came via Pakistan and thanked (!!) the Pakistani govt for their help - the Pakistani govt is currently deporting Afghans en masse, that’s partly why they’ve come

We need to have some mechanism whereby we can strip ILR from these people. You should not get to stay here after doing something like this